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Just from the perspective of mapping sentence meanings to bash commands, that's a difficult thing to do. But going beyond that, I think there are issues having to do with the ambiguity of language that just aren't solvable, period.

Take your example: "Show me all my files, including my hidden ones". That, to me, should show all the files on the entire system where I am the owner. Even as someone who ostensibly knows some bash, you missed that you dropped some pieces of data which are relevant in bash terms. "my" indicates ownership, and nowhere in your sentence did you say to limit the function to the current directory. If you're making that mistake as an experienced user, what hope does a beginner have?

`ls -a` actually encodes a fairly complex query, which only becomes apparent when you attempt to really nail down what it does in a natural language. To produce `ls -a`, you would really have to type something like "List the names of all the files, folders, and symbolic links in the current directory that are visible to the current user." You could, of course, start making assumptions about certain parts of this, similar to how `ls` does, but then you get into users guessing which part of the sentences they can elide (why wouldn't we assume that "List the names of the files, folders, and symbolic links in the current directory" wouldn't show us all the files, folders, and symbolic links?). At that point, the user must learn the idiosyncrasies of which exact sentence they have to type in to get what they want: i.e. when they have to say "all", when saying "my" matters instead of saying "the", etc. At that point the natural language stuff is no longer a learning tool, it's a separate, very complicated thing for the student to learn in addition to what they are trying to learn.

As another example of this: if you're willing to accept some ambiguity, why did you choose `ls -a` instead of `find .`? Recognizing that `ls -a` and `find .` do very different things.

To summarize: I don't think it's a bad idea, just an impossible one. :)
You could try at http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/
My opinion, ensuring zero overhead and zero boilerplate code for calling external libraries will solve the SIMD problem. Anything worth vectorizing will be written in C/assembly.
And that's my point. You get to pick how you judge them, and you do. You don't hire cheaters, I don't hire judgers. To each his own.
I'm just injecting some alternative thought here but I think one major question that needs to be asked about the health of the economy is:

"How much of the weighted average person's day is that person spending on survival".

I don't see how slow shift to a 60-hour instead of a 40-hour work week is indicative of a healthy economy but I could be wrong. To me it seems that survival is taking more and more time when it should be taking less and less if the economy were actually growing. This is probably just a "correction" but I think we will be seeing more and more of these here soon. I've been looking at the robotics industry and I can see them going into full public view within the next decade. The results will be interesting.
I have been using Think or Swim since before TD Ameritrade bought them, and it's pretty great. The charts in my opinion are the best that I've found, highly customizable, and feature rich.

You can trade all types of securities as well. And it's very easy. The mobile app is also top notch.
I keep telling myself it will go away. I hope the next trend is not a derivative of this though.
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>> 0% interest rate for several years is not healthy
> That's not healthy or unhealthy. It's just a thing.

I agree with you generally, but this response is a little silly. What does "it's just a thing" even mean? Given that there's no ironclad economic consensus on this question yet, it's more comfortable to not spend too much time sitting on the ZLB. Now that doesn't suggest anything specific about what costs should be incurred to get away from the ZLB[1], but all else held equal, it's not unreasonable to suggest that staying near zero for so long is a bit more uncomfortable than having a bit of a buffer to lower rates.

[1]i.e., I'm not taking the oft-heard position that we need to do what it takes to raise rates NOW before it's too late
From what I see in movies, intestines are fairly stretchy. Do you measure without tension? How does one do that? Under 1g tension? What if that turns out to make a difference because Japanese intestines are longer but harder to stretch?

Also, do you correct for body length, for body volume, or for neither?

Because of that, it probably is best to do it double-blind. That would make the experiment a lot more expensive.

It seems a sure-fire road to a Nobel prize (of the Ig variety), though, so why hasn't this been done yet?
Not only John Carmack but Mathias Felleisen in one thread? How cool is that!?

I had the same impressions as Carmack, I think, about the suitability of the DrRacket environment for young programmers. It's nice seeing that it can work for young, motivated programmers.
There will always be imbalances where needs are not met, but to posit that most women use sex as a tool to manipulate men that are less than perfect doesn't sit well with me.

First, don't get so hung up on "perfect". I think the poster intended it to mean "passing some standard", presumably a high one, and possibly one they themselves are unable to meet. Their word choice just wasn't very good.

As for the rest, it doesn't have to sit well with you: it's simply the way things have been in any culture where we expect long-term relationships and especially any culture where you have heredity concerns. Consider the stigma around, for example, "being a slut"--a great deal (if not the majority) of which is perpetuated by women against other women, from mothers warning their daughters, and so on!

The entire mythos surrounding virginity and monogamous relationships and whatnot hinges on the notion that women control the supply of sex, that men voluntarily prostrate themselves to obtain that sex, that men punish other men who take it by force (because, frankly, women are ill-equipped by mother nature to do so), that men need to know that their children (historically and especially the eldest male) are in fact theirs (something hard before paternity tests and so a piece of the slut-shaming puzzle), and so on.

To deny that women are at least somewhat shrewd and discerning in their sexual exploits is patronizing.
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"My institution has a morality clause in all contracts."

I don't understand this. What is this? Is such a thing legally enforceable? Do people have the chutzpah to put this in serious contracts, or is this some kind of whacky church or the like? I know that in the UK just putting something in a contract doesn't actually make it legally enforceable, but does something like this fly in whichever state in the US this woman is in?
I also used to write about marriage law policy, encouraging traditional
marriage for the good of children. My institution has a morality clause in
all contracts.

another family values fundie now whining for empathy when she made a career out of not having it for others? Cue the world's smallest violin.

This isn't some private person who got caught up in an affair; this is a person who spent her life hurting others because of how they had sex or choices they made of which she didn't approve (not that it was ever her business), so it's awesome to have a little turnabout.
Despite driving the same exact route every day, it has saved my bacon when it snows, routing me around accidents. Same for construction, it answers the question "is the construction zone going to make me 2 minutes or 15 minutes behind my usual schedule?"

I don't use it every day though, so I do wish it was one easy tap away from the lock screen if I see an unexpected slowdown (that's about as far as I can manage without actively looking at my phone).
It was refreshing to see such a well-written and clear-to-understand article in a domain far outside my expertise. It's amazing to see the lowering of the looking-doing latency in the higher leagues.

The one thing they seem to need to nail down better is the impact of hours-per-week. Quoting "Older players do report playing fewer hours per week". It wasn't clear to me if that could account for the delay in look-see action instead of just age.
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It's an interesting period. On one hand, even though the complexity of the app has grown a lot, so have the tools and libraries which are available.

Another important aspect of doing it alone is the ability to market your software.
If you're not interested in that too much and don't have a spouse or friend who can take care of promoting, selling, customer support, etc, then it's difficult to make a living with it.

And of course, the competition is fierce and getting stronger every day.
Kids are growing up with computers and devices and they write code.
I've just spent 30 minutes playing a 10-year old's game (John Carmak's son, btw :) ).

Then there's always the 'open source' way - you start solo and then people join you.

My life as a solo programmer has been in ups and downs - making money while working full time as a programmer and then going solo and spending all my savings on experimental projects which so far haven't been commercially successful.

Now I have to take a job again and be a 'team player'...
it's not just violating her beliefs

it's violating her beliefs when they became inconvenient, after spending her life shitting on others who didn't believe the same as she used to
Whatever you do dont sell
> The Spotify client on linux is a beta application made by some developers for themselves because they wanted it. Spotify released it because they are a fairly decent company and why not?

That still doesn't detract from the point that I'm making: normal people will have a lot more troubling transitioning to Linux as opposed to OSX (or even Windows - if coming from OSX). Linux GUI apps just aren't very polished compared to Windows or OSX.

> Many of us use it but we should not regard it as a mainstream offering

Why not? It is being offered by Spotify itself even though it's labeled as 'beta'. It's also branded as a Spotify app and not as a 3rd party client.

> (In spite of this I find Spotify on Linux to work better than Spotify on Mac.)

That's different from my experience. Spotify for Linux didn't even display properly for me. When I scrolled up and down, there's always tearing. At least you gave a reason for your down vote, even though I don't find it valid just because we disagree.
Rust has inline assembly these days. Between that and approaches like this, I certainly hope using FFI for performance won't always be necessary.
> DrRacket feels closer to old-school personal computers where you felt like you were in command of the machine.

This motivates the design of my Scheme IDE, Glass Table [https://github.com/bitwize/glasstable], which is modelled on old-school micro BASICs (notably from Microsoft).

GT is implemented as a series of hooks into the REPL, which listen to all typed input for variable, procedure, or macro definitions and log them in a "workspace" which can then be saved as a Scheme file. Individual definitions in the workspace can then be edited with an inferior editor (or, if you are working from inside emacs, with emacsclient).

Not to take anything away from DrRacket of course. Any programming tool that puts direct, immediate command of the machine at your fingertips is a good thing.
True, I will update that, thanks.
Also, Cassava, a food first domesticated 10,000 years ago and a current staple for over 'half a billion people', is toxic (Cyanide) unless processed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava#Food_use_processing_an...
He undermines his own argument right out of the gate. When he shows the part about which number should be used for the last element in the range there's still two valid choices, you could choose to stop at 3 with the understanding that the element to the right of that is the last element to be selected, or to stop at 4 with the understanding that in this context your indexing is "special" and you're actually selecting the element to the left of the index.
They should say, right on the landing page, what command line.

This is revealed in grayed out text under a login/signup dialog when you click on Start.
You either need microstepping or servo motors with encoder feedback. Microstepping drives like [0] are buttery smooth.

[0] http://www.geckodrive.com/gm215-step-motor-motion-controller...
You really need to pick better terminology here, because "begging" and "taking" both have unfortunate additional connotations that are throwing people off from whatever point you think you're making.

I kinda figured you were looking at a distinction similar to inbound/outbound marketing, but your example elsewhere of taking somebody out to dinner vs. asking them directly is just bad.
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Weighted by what?
And this is why JavaScript's `lastIndexOf` method gets it wrong, wrong, wrong. (`"foo".lastIndexOf("o", 2)` yields 2, whereas I, and probably a lot of other people, would expect it to be 1, with the search starting at the space between element 1 and 2)
If the problem is to smooth to input data coming from the Wacom device you can try using a low pass butterworth filter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterworth_filter

I have used this to good effect for smoothing head tracker data.
This approach troubles me deeply. A graduate of IBM's program who doesn't get picked up by IBM is probably SOL. As opposed to a graduate of a traditional four-year BS in CS program.
It's expected for Internet-based services that make their living on advertising. It is not expected for my operating system.
> The urban areas in the South are few and far between, yet there is an overwhelming number of poor obese people.

I often drive from middle GA to Raleigh, NC to visit friends by way of state and US highways, rather than the interstate system. The number of poor or low population towns I pass through is quite high. In a similar vein to businesses not wanting to set up shop in poor, crime-ridden urban communities, it's just not economically sound to set up a full-featured grocery store in these small, poor towns.
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Microsoft has already raised our suspicions by offering Windows 10 upgrades for free. As a result, we're perfectly primed to believe the worst about these updates.

Microsoft needs to do something convincing to reassure it's users or Windows 10 will likely become synonymous with "Big Brother" regardless of what's actually going on.

To reiterate, we're leaving territory in which it would have been reasonable to "do nothing and hope it all blows over". MS needs to respond quickly or they're going to have another dud release on their hands, in spite of giving it away for free.
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This got me thinking - is it possible to develop a profitable long-term investment strategy that takes advantage of stock market dips?

For example, say I have $1000 to invest every month. I'll take that $1000 and put $500 into an index fund and $500 into a savings account. Then, once the market dips 10% from its previous high, all the accumulated money in the savings accounts is invested over 4 weeks.

I made a simple google doc to back-test the strategy 5 years on the DJIA. It's very rudimentary, but I'd love to see if anyone tries a different approach.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18-2rBonJPPlg8n6YkpAj...
Very nice work! Wasn't the GIF I was expecting but that one is a simulation with the NASA images texture mapped on (https://vimeo.com/136223988).

I've been using ImageMagick to make GIFs recently and it's great. Only tricky bit is cropping. If anyone wants to pick up from the end of your article then I wrote up a guide on my blog: https://unop.uk/dev/make-animated-gifs-with-imagemagick
C and D are unarguably true, though.
Most of them did (including the anonymous woman in the article), but they had to pay for the service somehow and ended up using credit cards tracable to their identity. It's pretty easy to make a fake email address, much harder to pay for something anonymously.
vim is available, and if you know how to use it, it doesn't seem to know what text editor you're using. At least, that was my experience.

But I'll also agree that the edit bash_profile stuff was repetitive. I might have preferred something in there about symbolic links or ownership and permissions.
You won't get a stable site2site ipsec tunnel for long. That's why you have to Register your vpn vor go mpls.
Probably, but the news is quite full of "zero discussion" parents, plus we are talking about reports that now go to schools with those pesky zero tolerance policies.
The idea behind this was that since 40% of women leave engineering in the middle of their careers (1), the site encourages women to get remote work in tech by showcasing their side projects. The goal is to decrease the amount of women leaving tech. Also, on a related note, we need women to stay in engineering in order to launch the next generation of startups (2).

(1) http://www.studyofwork.com/files/2011/03/NSF_Women-Full-Repo...
(2) http://readwrite.com/2010/02/20/you-cant-launch-next-generat...
Well, depends which country you live in.

In British English, the first floor is the first above the ground.

In American English, the first floor is the ground.
Exactly! It's happened in the past. Inflation starts to creep up, but the economy is still lagging. The Fed is then stuck between reining in inflation and potentially stunting future growth. Pull back too late and you end up with the Carter years: mediocre growth and an inflation in the teens.
This is priceless.

So it may be that the only thing that really separates AM from its hackers, is the leaking of data?

If they failed to disclose to nerve, are they any less guilty than Impact team?

Assuming they did commit some crime (breaking in, or with the data) would the results of the hack be admissible in court? Or would it be fruit of a poison tree?
Ask HN: How do I convince my boss that we don't need to support Chrome 14?
I work for a small, early stage startup. Our main product is a consumer-facing website targeted at US consumers only.

I'm a web developer there. Our director of engineering is a C++ guy with 0 web dev experience. However, he is in charge of all the developers and setting our engineering roadmap.

Anyway, he is very stubborn about supporting as old versions of browsers as possible. He is of the opinion that all old or poor people use old browsers and by not supporting them we will be losing customers. No amount of browser statistics will change his mind. He keeps saying things to the gist of "real software should be cross-platform", etc.

I proposed we only support IE9+, Chrome 36+ and Firefox 30+ because those were the only versions we found to still have marginal usage in the US..and I can maybe understand IE8 for people with old computers, but Chrome and Firefox self-update now adays..

He completely rejected my proposal and insists on supporting Chrome 14, Firefox 17, etc.

I think he's smart enough to change his mind if presented with the right arguments, but right now Idk what those would be..

So HN, what arguments or data can I present to our director of engineering to get him to change his mind?
I don't think inline assembly solves the problem. If I optimize any worthwhile problem, I would be smart to do it in a way that is accessible from every modern language.
I find this fascinating given that kids are exposed to things like the iPads which are purely graphical
The choice to sign up for the contract isn't really a choice. It's the de facto standard in many kinds of jobs, people are essentially forced into it like people are forced to give their employer their IP, sign a noncompete, etc. The alternative is to not have a job, which isn't an alternative for most. The only way to fight back against it is to regulate it back into the stone age where it belongs.

edit: in fact I think we need a kind of regulation that prohibits firings/requirements based on things which aren't explicitly necessarily to complete the tasks associated with a job -- to prevent the current moral disaster that is employer ownership of their employees' private lives as well as bowing to social media witch hunts against anyone who dares utter a sentence which contradicts the social justice orthodoxy which are becoming more and more prevalent.
As a recruiter, I'd agree that many are terrible, and you're correct that many got into recruiting because it is an easy industry to enter. Recruiting firms pay commission-based comp packages, so the risk to a bad hire is rather low. Give them a phone extension and a computer, maybe a premium LinkedIn account, and they're off. Lots of C students in recruiting.

A recruiter's listings are somewhat important, but not as important as their knowledge of the market. A recruiter could have a weak contingency relationship with all the best companies in town, but if they don't understand something as basic as the market value of each candidate (not to mention a host of other things) they are doing their candidates a disservice.

Good recruiters usually have good listings because hiring companies tend to disengage from recruiting agencies that don't act ethically.
Automatically spying on kids without their knowledge if their parents upgrade the computer to Windows 10... seems reasonable to you?
There sure are a lot of them ...

Does anybody have experience with wysiwyg.js? http://wysiwygjs.github.io/
Which "appetite suppressant" did you use? I wasn't even aware there's a class of drugs / pills / additives with that title.

Can you also say where you started before losing those 100 pounds?
Damn it, I'm CC.

"Switching the C to a T in risk individuals turned off IRX3 and IRX5, restored thermogenesis to non-risk levels, and switched off lipid storage genes."

Hurry up CRISPR-CAS9. Need this fixed!
I don't have to, actually.

People who enter into monogamous relationships can get one set of "this is what counts as honesty" rules w.r.t. what they owe their spouses (i.e. don't cheat).

People who are born into and live in repressive regimes can get a different set of "this is what counts as honesty" (i.e. some law is unjust and therefore can be broken).

Funnily enough, though, sometimes I do hear of people breaking laws that makes me think they're less trustworthy, too. Like a guy I know who wants to try and get a handicapped parking placard even though he isn't handicapped. You know, those spots are supposed to be for people who really can't walk that far, and he wants to try and grab one because of the convenience. That's a trivial example, and dumb, but when I hear that I think, there's a guy who wants to rip off the system in a small way, but one that could hurt people who actually need it.

So it's not like "here is one conception of honesty that I have to apply everywhere, mechanically and without human reasoning." Human life is more nuanced than that.
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As an older gamer, maybe it's time to start thinking about a "Champions" or "Seniors" leagues :D
The difference is that Amazon gives out stock. IBM didn't for software engineers when I was there a few years back. My base salary at Amazon is the same as it was at IBM. However including stock my total compensation at Amazon is 2-3 times what it was at IBM.
What would be the best option if one only cares about an API?
In the video it's being driven at 1/8th step. I'm considering switching to two servo motors and using a polar system.

The problem is I need it to also be fast enough to fee lag free for the artist.