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On an unrelated note - Mir Publishers, font and size of the book made me reminisce about a book that I had on physics problems by Irodov. Quite a fun book it was :)

[1] https://archive.org/details/IrodovProblemsInGeneralPhysics
yeah I think I could figure out how to do it by reading a bunch of documentation, set up some scripts to do it, whenever I have to do it take longer than necessary until I had done it enough times that I had it as one of my remembered functions, and basically perform subpar on doing this thing. Which I guess is the author's point.
The use case just from the demo on the first page looks reasonable: you're on an airplane (or a train or in a car far from civilization) and you want to look at your travel itinerary/hotel's address/see the check-in time. Granted, it's pretty narrow, but not out of the realm of possibility.
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There seems to be an issue with its lowercase "g" (Sublime Text 3 on Windows 7): http://i.imgur.com/CWCcR60.png
The advantage of THC / CBD is that they have comparatively benign side effects and even help the side effects of chemo and radiation. That being said, there's a lot of pie-in-the-sky stuff around weed and I wouldn't take it too seriously other than a quality of life thing. However, CBD especially is pretty harmless so if you can get your hands on it I doubt it would hurt. I recommended it for my grandfather who has some sort of late stage brain tumor due to lack of side effects, but he elected to forego any treatment not related to quality of life so I don't have any first hand anecdote to share. I think there is a CBD clinical trial but I'm not aware of anything very scientific outside of in vitro or animal studies. If you PM me I can put you in touch with some researchers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GIDDaF26zE
Many people here have taken selfies with the cars as they've spotted them around town.
I share your opinion. In agile teams, it is important to do things that work. If a team owns a stack sucessfully, there is no need to change that. But if the environment changes (e.g. growth), the team may decide to split / specialise in order to ensure that the business goal is not in danger. There is no silver bullet.
So it impairs your acuity to negative signals from others while high. This is not interesting - it's kinda obvious. It would have been much more worrying if it continued long term.
Ask HN: Are My Launch Goals Too Crazy or Not Crazy Enough?
I have 2 questions.

First question. I'm planning on launching my bootstrapped social app on iOS in September and wanted to share my goals for the first couple of months and get opinions on whether the goals are too crazy or not crazy enough?

End of 1st Week = 25,000 Downloads Reached.

End of 1st Month = 100,000 Downloads Reached.

End of 1st Month = Hit 10,000 DAU.

End of 2nd Month = 250,000 Downloads Reached.

End of 2nd Month = Break into Top 20 in Music Category at least once.

The app will be free and the initial marketing budget is $10,000. I plan to hit these goals by running a targeted Facebook Mobile App Install Ads campaign, running a Cross-Promotion campaign using http://Taqdaq.com, a Twitter Mobile Install campaign, hitting social media as hard as I can, and reaching out to the relevant members of the press who cover this type of app.

Second question. If some or all of those goals are achieved, are those numbers that would interest any Angels in today's climate? Thanks!
Devops may be a lame buzzword, but most interesting problems cross traditional boundaries. As a dev becomes more senior and wants to become more valuable, they'll take it upon themselves to learn more about the other domains they interact with. The next step is they'll start trying to take on these cross domain problems that become apparent at this point. What I've seen is that when devs stick to straight coding, the products they work on tend to be less successful and their careers tend to be less than they should be.
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Interesting article. CORBA is still hanging around in Avid's EuCon protocol for controlling audio applications. Not always that reliable (but hard to say where the blame lies there).
Missing elements of Google anlaytics?
What are the missing elements in Google analytics ? Which feature users would be ready to pay for in analytics?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1498136.
Those working on other standards should take heed.
A lot of startups only think in terms of "hey let's make a simple app/website and let AWS do all the work!".

They don't realize how deep computing and computer science truly are. Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Databases, Compilers and Languages, etc. etc. all require a deep knowledge of CS.

Pretty much anything you use or build on was developed because of years and years of CS study or PhDs. When you use something like Google Maps, Chrome, iOS, Linux, AWS, Facebook (yes even Facebook), etc. it is because of the work of CS grads and professors over a long period.

Do you want to have deep knowledge of various systems and truly solve problems or just want to hack out another webapp or mobile app? Maybe that defines the difference between a CS major and "just-another-dev"
Profit over safety, probable corruption in commercial and governmental organisations and a chemical explosion that will probably screw over local residents.

SNAFU
Here's some info that might be interesting to you, altbeit it is not helpful for the original poster: I used to work at GSI (center for heavy ion research in Germany) and the heavy ion irradiation method developed there can alleviate some of the problems with treatment (primarily the roots problem).

The therapy consists of irradiation with heavy ions, which have two important helpful characteristics: a) they cause more severe cell damage, making therapy of some radiation-resistant tumors possible, and b) their damage is extremely localized in a so-called Bragg-peak, which means you don't have to destroy every cell on the path to the tumor.

Since it is a beam of charged particles, magnets are used to rasterize the tumor, irradiating only the exact tumor location and very little healthy tissue.

Unfortunately, a massive fuckup in the German health system has led to a situation in which there is currently one center that treats patients (HIT in Heidelberg), one completed center that can't go into operation (!) and there will be no new centers built for a few years to come.

The center in Heidelberg is understandably overrun with patients and only young, healty patients with inoperable brain tumors are treated (the precise localization of the cell damage allows for irradiation of tumors close to the eye or the brain-stem).

http://www.ro-journal.com/content/9/1/88
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Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771558.
I came to Mac OS recently from Linux and while I like Menlo, I found myself quickly going back to Inconsolata[1], which is really great for long coding hours, and works especially well for me with the dark solarized color scheme.

[1]: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
> I can understand the concept of ceasing to exist. I have not had anyone be able to explain to me why that makes that person so afraid, other than the fact that it just does.

Hard to explain (surprising to even have to explain), but it seems worth a shot. Consider a degenerative mental disease like Alzheimer's; does the idea of suffering from that, or someone in your family suffering from that, bother you? Why? If the disease robbed you/them of all sense of self, including any part of you/them that would be bothered by it, does that mean there's no harm done because you/they are no longer aware of it? Assuming you find that concept as horrific as I do, then a more permanent loss of any "sense of self" should be quite analogous.

Both are horrifying atrocities. Both need to stop. And I don't understand how the latter can seem any less horrific than the former. Yet far more attention is paid to the former, while a hundred and fifty thousand people die every day.

> You're talking about interacting with other people in happiness for eternity. I specifically said "forever on this earth", not "forever, period". I don't think you can achieve what you're talking about on this earth. We've had centuries of modern civilization to figure out how to stop both large-scale wars and petty relationship spats, and it's debatable whether we'll reach a level that has no pain. Yes, we've gotten better, especially if you read some of the literature on the topic, but age-old problems remain and I find no reason to think that they'll one day disappear.

Fixing mortality is one of many things that needs to happen. Given all the time in the world, I'm quite confident we can fix the various lesser problems (and next to mortality, everything is a lesser problem). Fixing scarcity would go a long way. AI (or something very much like it) seems like the surest path, though it requires a great deal of care to get right.

And I don't see why we should be limited to "this earth", or "this universe" if it turns out there are others. Forever is a very long time.

I have hope. And more importantly, I'm working towards those goals.

> I actually deal with my worries about this issue in a comment below. I think people go about this subject very selfishly without thinking of the greater consequences.

If you're referring to your comment about economic disparity making longevity a privilege: probably, but not for long. It's too important not to make universally available. And to be explicitly clear: I don't think anyone should die; I'm not just worried about myself or those I care about (though I'd be lying if I said I didn't care about them more). But I think it's entirely possible to build a world in which nobody dies.

That itself may lead to problems, but they'll be problems worth having and worth solving, and we'll have plenty of time to solve them.
They provide infrastructure, so they're no more liable than a phone company when you commit fraud over the phone.
In the UK, each company must file an Annual Return with Companies House. The Annual Return includes a full list of the company's shareholders, along with how many shares they have. The information is public:
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Does infogreffe.fr have a similar thing?
Good reading. What I take away from these stories is that... Work or no work, family or no family, one way or another, people who are willing to put the effort to implement an idea into a 'startup', always find a way.
I agree - perhaps there should be an option to control where and if you want to have the vertical and horizontal lines?
Honestly it looks idiotic. No wonder the current generation can't even use Google properly.

I've learned programming just fine with an old Basic book. We should stop treating our children like clueless morons.
I saw Nike in the list and instantaneous knew this site talk bullshit... those fortune guys got green/brainwashed.
A professional has a cohort of other patients to compare you against and they can rank the severity of your symptoms against everyone else they see.

People who self diagnose can't do that.

Most MH diagnostic criteria have a bunch of words that sound like everyday English but which are jargon words with specific meaning (although the ADHD criteria are better than, eg, Borderline PD).

It's a trope that people with symptoms will self-diagnose with some terrible illness when they have a bit of a cold. This is true in mental illness.
Two things:

1) The developer would just say - no, instead I'm not going to use IPSec, and I'm going to bootstrap this myself with TLS. I'm going to push complexity UP the stack, not requiring esoteric network hardware to do this.

2) I think this is a bug. The fact that the underlying devices don't have easy to understand semantics is problematic. I think that if an interested developer had a program that requires MPLSoIPSEC, they would consider it, read the relevant RFCs, and then read Junos's documentation and give up - because it's locked down.
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Why didn't it work out?
Non-techie people? You mean people who don't know what to do when presented with the following choice...

"Personalize your speech, typing, and inking input by sending contacts and calendar details, along with other associated input data to Microsoft"... ON / OFF

Are you suggesting that successfully comprehending the above requires technical knowledge?

I'm not defending MS for whatever Windows 10 privacy issues they're over-stepping, but what they're doing is nothing more than playing catch-up with the other tech giants.

MS should explain each option with a "learn more" link that goes into details. Beyond that, anyone who has a non-rooted Android or iPhone is sending a lot more data back to Apple and "trusted partners" than is made known or transparent.
No competition isn't true, at least for Europe where I know Norwegian are using "Row 44" as can be seen in this report from CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/business/2012/11/15/bus...

The difference between them, which also could explain the AOL-like speeds with Gogo, is that Row 44 used a satelite dish whilst Gogo communicates with ground radio towers. The obvious advantage of Row 44's approach, which is also highlighted in the video, is that by using satellites you can continue providing internet over remote areas and oceans.
The article seems all over the place. For example I think the conclusion

"""This is why we see so many developers that can't pass FizzBuzz: they never really had to write any code."""

Doesn't really follow from the previous parts. DevOps is not the reason for this nor is the full stack developer trend.

The author also seems to start from an implied base premise that developers wouldn't do devops/fullstack if they had a choice. I disagree with that. Many developers are very interested in understanding the implications of their code better (more DBA skills help a ton for example) and quite a few gasp actually enjoy devops or understanding the entire product from start to finish at least on some level (full stack).

The benefits of DevOps also seem to be completely ignored. It's precisely the fact that common development best practices are integrated with sysadmin, dba etc. knowhow which makes it useful. It's not just "let the dev be a sysadmin in a pinch". It's systematically improve things by automating them (following development best practices instead of the hacked together bash script approach).

DevOps and fullstack dev are conflated throughout the entire article in a strange way which makes it kind of hard to argue.
Looks pretty cool, though it is a pretty daunting task to convince all gem developers to test/make their gems compatible.

Perhaps this could make http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/08/11/what-its-like-to-come-bac... easier ;)
Your reply only makes sense if reading that took the other students 30 minutes was taking jschwartzi 12 hours. It's not normal to be constrained for time (in any way that matters) while reading textbooks. And if ability to read really was a problem, I'd expect it to show up in English, where the great majority of the work consists of reading, much more than in math, where reading the textbook isn't common at all.
Lots of reflows on Opera Mini.
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This article is based off Bloomberg's original piece, "Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies" (http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gogo-airplane-wireles...). Would likely be better to update the link to that one.
Isn't that exactly what tabulate has been doing very well for a while? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate

Note the variety of formats: 'ascii', but also html, latex & co.
PrettyTable is an established library which does the same: https://code.google.com/p/prettytable/
JetBlue has a similar satellite-based service in the US.
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Finnished the book Blindsight four days ago.
Fascinating read.
No it's a scientific fact now
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsSjh5TTqI
I rarely fly economy but the two Norwegian flights I've been on both had very good wifi (not very fast, but certainly reliable).

Definitely a much better experience than with gogo.

It's a sad thing that one of the worst airlines in Europe has the best wifi.

(I'm really curious as to how my 5k euro emirates 1st class ticket can't cover the expenses for working wifi... I can even shower on the plane for gods sake)
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Wes Craven was a master of horror and a brilliant director. Nightmare on elmstreet is definitly among the most frightning horror film ever seen and ranks at the same spot than Halloween in the movies that made horror matter as an artistic form. he was an author and an artist from the brilliant "the last house on the left" till the end of his carreer.
Michael Wolf's photos have been on HN a few times, but here's a sampling from his own site: http://photomichaelwolf.com/#architecture-of-densitiy/1
I love imgix to death, really the only web service I use daily that constantly amazes me.

I've been using them for a few clients now and it's been a fundamental shift in how we think about media management in the CMS. Rolling out new features with different image size requirements using existing media doesn't require us doing anything other than changing a few parameters in the URL. Before, we'd have to run processing tasks on a fleet of EC2 instances and wait a few days.

We compared a few similar services, but none of them really got the flow right like Imgix does. Some require you to setup the parameters beforehand or define everything in their web interface or via a REST api. And quality wise, none of them are near as good as Imgix.

I can't sing their praises high enough honestly.
Cool!

Sorry for the plug, but this gawk program does something similar:

https://github.com/joepvd/table

Field splitting can be defined with all of (g)awks possibilities. Features different styles, among which unicode table borders.
As well as being inflammatory and belittling, his reasoning in this area also fails to question the status quo, and realise that maybe a form DevOps is a path to a better outcome.

It is the case, that in many organisations, the roles down the bottom of his totem pole are less skilled than the top.

There are point-and-click DBAs and Server Admins and release managers who don't have the base skills to write software. But they're rarely very good at the roles they're doing.

I have a bunch of issues with what a lot of organisations do under the banner of "DevOps", but part of what it is trying to do is bring engineering solutions to those layers "down the totem pole".

I want DBAs that invest in reliable, repeatable, automated processes. And that means I want them to be able to build working software. And similarly with the other roles he mentions.

Now, generally speaking, you'll get more useful work from a system admin who just follows the procedure they were given, than you will for a developer who does likewise. But, if you can do it, you will get plenty of value from hiring people with some engineering skills/training into all those roles.

The counter examples are the system admin who takes 2 weeks to setup a new server because it's all done by hand every time. Or the release team who buys fancy "automation software" to automate a broken process because they don't understand the process well enough to build a working solution. Or the operations team that just reboots the server when it's broken because they don't have access to people with skills to diagnose the problem. Or the QA team that builds automated testing tools that are completely unmaintainable because no one in the team has a background in software engineering.

The totem pole hurts because

- it (often) treats the people at the bottom quite poorly.

- as a consequence it discourages good people from taking roles "at the bottom".

- which leads those teams to produce far-from-optimal solutions. Not (necessarily) for lack of effort, just because they don't have the skills + training to build the optimal solutions.

(Obviously, as your Mozilla example shows, some organisations manage to escape that trap)

If you need to hire less qualified/skilled people, then you're probably better off putting them into the roles that are "at the bottom" of this supposed totem pole, but if you can fill all the roles with solid engineers then you'll reap rewards from it.
As someone dealing with ADD but (for legal reasons) can no longer get any Adderall (which is what I had as a kid to help out), does anyone have recommendations on alternative solutions that they've found to help?
To my mind the whole point of DevOps is to make the developers "get it" by making them feel the pain when they get things wrong. Developers make decisions about the system every day, so it pays for them to understand how it is maintained and operated.
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I have tried to use Norwegian`s wifi multiple times and i has never been good. It usually works fine in the beginning of the flight. But the latency gets higher and higher as the flight progresses, and is usually unusable for anything after a while.

(And i cannot say that i like that they inject content in webpages either)
Not only that but it has detailed exploded diagrams of levers, trackballs, steering wheels, gear shifts etc. that include how and where the potentiometers and momentary switches are connected. This is a goldmine for anyone looking to home brew arcade controls.
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"Trojan horse" - I get the impression that it's kind of a fashion to be overly paranoid about simple products (doesn't matter is it Google made or not). At least in media - you toaster will get ALL your information and send it somewhere.

And there's no serious debate on real threats - like government surveillance in such media.
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Survivor bias...
You can bribe your colleagues by showing them how cleanly it handles LaTeX documents and METAPOST figures, in case they use METAPOST for their technical drawings. :) And the clean target leaves everything you need to send your file to an editor (i.e. it does not remove bibliography files, index, and figures, which are removed by a more powerful realclean command.)
I never tried to argue the industry wasn't subsidised (and am a bit perplexed at attracting downvotes for posting a neutral clarification of the legislative changes?), but it's fair to say that plenty of energy firms were objecting about the unanticipated abolition of the Climate Change Levy exemption, not least Drax who saw their earnings forecast hslved.
"Gamification". And get me right here: not dumbifying.

I used to depend on the pomodoro technique and a other hacks like "autofocus" etc.

Basically techniques that allow you to set targets that you can easily and provably reach even if that target is just work-on-this-and-nothing-else-for-x-minutes-and-make-a-check.

Edit: and deadlines. Maybe another reason why the pomodoro technique works so well.
Oh yeah. Startups try to hire me outright all the time for below market salary when I could land in a bracket $250-380k at Google, Twitter, wherever. If they are, I say "I'm flattered but I have other plans." I laugh them out the door if they're not clients. I'd rather build something other people think is great, even if it's not imminently gigabuck-scale, with my own two hands (and whomever else I can rope in with equity and a fun vibe) than build someone else's vision at a discount.

Equal equity among initial founders or it's a nonstarter. Avoid the PHB enterprise single founder chief whom treats everyone as employees to be managed and hoards equity... that sort of shop will get angels and mentors and bleed them dry.