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Honestly, I expect the rich to just buy a damn therapist rather than complain to the rest of us. They have enough money to pay someone to care, but they yap to us and expect it for free.
Google Docs isn't even in the same league as MS Office. GDocs is basically slow, web-running (I mean that as an insult), glorified Markdown editor that saves your data in an unknown format somewhere you can't access directly.

About the "features average person needs" remember that users adapt their workflows to the featuers you give them and make do, not the other way around. Give them more, they'll use more.
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I have rarely read things that were that much wrong. Just because the code can be represented as a data structure, or just because the compiler is written in its own language, that doesn't make a language homoiconic.
Ask HN: Help us find a conference for mathematics and art in the US?
I'm trying to help an artist find a conference or other venue to exhibit some art work he developed which relate to tesselations (objects which cover or tile the plane, similar to to some of M. C. Escher's work).

I've found the Bridges Conference (http://www.bridgesmathart.org/), which is running in Finland in 2016 but we are also interested in smaller conferences, particularly those held in the US.

The medium is linoleum and other floor covering textiles, rugs, carpets, etc. so we are also interested in conferences specific to these materials; so far the ones I've found focus on installation and other industrial uses rather than art and mathematics.

Thanks in advance.
This is exactly the kind of media that needs to exist to help turn the tide of the irrational fear of marijuana. Good job!
Locke (film). Teehee.
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See also got-dmz or atlassian bamboo's gatekeeper feature. Team city has something similar too. Surprised the guy who wrote bors hadn't seen more examples, I have seen the idea come up over and over again (and strongly support it).
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Sorry for the typo, I meant Git-DMZ. Damned auto-incorrect.
This is difficult to listen to, but that is how it is. We can see this as a meat-grinder or you can see as living organism shunning its weak-cells either way, this is how world works and there are people who went bankrupt because they have run companies like their families, and their workers could not help them to survive beyond a point. Netflix adds value, to its customers but for what ever weird reason or hypocrisy of me, I have cancelled my Netflix subscription. Well, I used their rule of thumb, Is Netflix really critical for my well being? No. Sayonara Netflix. I have moved one.
You're right. I'm positive that every time a large company acquires a small one, it's because of their community and IP. Code is easily rewritten, and startups aren't making breakthroughs in algorithms. It's not like microsoft didn't have engineers capable of making a minecraft clone. They didn't have the rights to do so.
Just yesterday three people in my family needed all of five minutes (if not more) to find the button to log in to web.de webmail interface. They have a homepage bursting with pictures and videos and all kinds of news junk you really don't care about, but they do an incredibly good job of hiding what you actually need. That's why I hate web interfaces.
I learnt this from looking at code for old 3d engines, where you have to first make up your matrix functions, but then also unroll them for optimising stuff like rotations round a single axis.
I looked into that private unemployment insurance/disability plan a few years ago, and I couldn't get the numbers to work, maybe it's changed? That private insurance was doable for my father generation 25 years ago, but most of those companies(especially the ones who offered convalescent care) right now are in dire straights. They don't offer the safety net they used to? (I would name your insurance company--if your really feel they offed you a fair plan?).

I know way too many former Programmers who are in dire need of a good government safety net, even in these boom times. This profession has so many variables that scream out for good government safety nets--it's almost laughable: A low barrier to entry?(It's getting easier to learn this stuff monthly.), No unionization. A workplace that's constantly chuning. A really high level of failed companies. Eager workers who will work for free, and I probally forget a lot?

My point is I know way too many former Programmers. Some are even homeless. In fact, in my world, know two homeless individuals personally; they are both former Programmers. One played a big role in Word Star. Everything seems fine in the good times, but when the money gets tight/person gets older--it seems to get ugly. More ugly than pretty much any profession I can think of? All that The Fountainhead thinking kinda works in your twenties-thirties, but the world looks so much crueler after 45--at least for me? There's more than a few things I said/believed in my twenties that I wish I could take back. Basically, I wasen't as slick as I thought?

I do hope that monetization really changed the game, and these companies are becoming more mainstream? But mainstream is not mainstream anymore? I know very few professions that aren't in a remodel, or complete take down? It's about survival, the balance sheet, and a few guys at the top who are literally making a killing. To the guys at the top who aren't spreading it around, read The Price of Privlage, by Madeline Levine. Zero in on the sections about happiness and wealth. It's an eye opener! Even from a someone like myself--who never felt sorry for the wealthy?
I don't know about neuroscience in particular, but most professions have a code of ethics that forbids you from working in an area where you're not professionally qualified. This specifically addresses the gray area between incompetence and fraud.
Drugs, maybe. But some activities can't (like extortion or Tax evasion)
The EFF blog post was also posted to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10133669
I'd pay a reasonable (household if that's possible) fee out of principle, my family watches LOTS of youtube, we don't even watch cable, young kids watch a huge amount of content creator videos on youtube.
>>Are you more interested in getting a cheap flashable router than in air safety?

Yes, I do not fly, have no interest in flying and could care less if the entire aviation industry went bankrupt. I stopped flying the day the TSA took over the airports.

Freedom is more important to me than Flying.
although they married quite some years after YC was founded
I actually object a little bit to the claim that matrices are representations of linear transformations. No, matrices are just two-dimensional arrays of numbers. If you then define a specific 'mutliplication' operation on those arrays, and a mapping from linear functions to matrices, it turns out that that multiplication operation is isomorphic to function application. That's neat! But it doesn't mean that that is what matrices are.

If you came up with an isomorphism from matrices to a domain where it made sense to define a different multiplication operation - like maybe placewise multiplication, where

[a b] * [e f] = [ae bf]
[c d] [g h] [cg dh]

then that would be just as valid, but it wouldn't change what matrices 'are'. In fact, because you know how to map matrices to linear functions, it would let you describe an operation to combine two linear functions in a new way and that might lead to some new insight about linear algebra!

It's like how, in school you were taught that you can't multiply vectors together. Yet, in shader languages, it turns out that it's really useful to be able to multiply two vectors just by multiplying each component ([a,b][c,d]=[ab,cd]), so they define that as a valid operation.
W3C supports me: http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contr...
Full article: http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/say-what-/4440210/...
Yep restaurant cooks/chefs are predominantly male. I was talking more about the greasy spoon cafes, which tend to have predominantly female staff. I gather tip sharing is the norm in UK for the kind of restaurant where people do tipping e.g. pizza houses upward.
How was it at your first startup? Different, I guess?

If so, do you think your "normal weekend" is mostly related to one of the following points, all of them, or something else entirely?

a) wealthy enough, not needing to make it work to put food on the table

b) old enough to have priorities shifted

c) easier circumstances (like reputation, network of colleagues etc.)
However in reality manufacturers will do what ever is cheapest for them under the regulation, not what allows for the most freedom

So under this rule they will simply make the entire appliance non-flashable as it will be the cheapest way to comply with the regulation.
I rarely put comments on the same line as my code, usually that makes the line too long (I try to stay in the 80 char margin). If I want to specifically annotate that one line, I'll insert a comment line right above it.
You mentioned money five times in two sentences. This is in a conversation about a person trying to talk about feelings.
At the risk of sounding really stupid, What is the crowning achievement of psychology ? What gives this field the legitimacy that it enjoys ?
Umm, no. Such laws legitimize prohibition (by definition) and represent and form public opinion and can thus be harmful even if they are loosely enforced.
People aren't paying attention to what this is for. It's to prevent people from modifying RF devices, transmitters, from operating at power levels and frequencies, or other technical things, from interfering with other devices and outside the bounds of their intention. It's to protect devices from interference that was prevalent in the days when radio was first invented, and for decades afterwards.

This is a good thing.
>What an interesting (and long) history

Although I care about open-source licenses and about ncurses, I couldn't get interested in OP because the author failed to explain why anyone should care about the long string of facts. Why did the author write it? Was one of the reasons to publicize misbehavior by one of his 'dramatis personae'? I can't tell.
What do you mean by a self-help thing?
Show HN: SeqEase – Easing for linear videos or image sequences
It seems like the move would be to try and spin off a netflix like service for videos > 15 minutes. Curate and invest in quality content and then charge for it. Google is the search engine of choice for most of the world and the lowest common denomenator when you type yourfav.newartist into your search bar because it is direct, frictionless and free. When Chris Sacca tried to monetize sports/content at youtube/google video they spent millions on a ~$200 dollar return.

Tough to charge for what has already been free. Interesting move.
Which can also be seen in the fact that the general consensus on startup-news is often the opposite of what the actual hackers, for example those who are in the CCC, think.
I was sorry to read this.

From my perspective, this comment broadly captures what is so tragic for me about his situation and the potential pitfalls of isolation-by-riches: the apparent fact that the majority of people discount a wealthy man's cry for help (read "willingness to be vulnerable"), dehumanising him and robbing him of an opportunity to heal - whether through therapy, community, or some other significant life change.
It has been 15 years since I've lived in Chicago, so it must have changed. At the time from the cab companies I heard about per-shift leases and drivers were very focused on making the nut, that being the amount to pay for the car's use that (12-hour) shift. But I could see why cab companies would force a shift to longer commitments, as the drivers were pretty strategic about only picking up shifts where they were sure to make money. Great for drivers, but that could leave a lot of cabs sitting idle. And now that you mention it, I recall a few drivers who owned their own cab/medallion, and would time-share it with a couple of driver buddies; they were much more focused on maximizing road time. So I think I was too hasty above.

In SF I've certainly never heard a driver complain about a contract with the cab company or minimum hours, and given the number of complaints they have when you get them rolling, I figure I would have heard. But I'll ask next I get the chance. And the complaints about dispatchers have gone down dramatically now that cabbies have other ways of getting passengers. Flywheel in particular is a big winner for everybody, and I wish some taxi commission had been forward-thinking enough to force a whole city into a universal dispatch with a clean API.
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A great tool for this is pex: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex
A desktop Access app is extremely often damn near perfect imho, except for the negative connotation - in my experience, a web app with comparable usability to an access app is typically considered "fcking awesome, but if it is actually an Access app, you'd get laughed out of the room.

The last time I looked at online Access apps, it was a bit of a joke....like ya, you could put individual forms up, but extremely limited functionality, has this changed? (This isn't surprising, making it completely portable would be extremely technically difficult, but has MS somewhat accomplished this?)
Convenience is the main point of automation; the only thing convenient about manual operation is that it provides a convenient job for someone, who finds it inconvenient to be replaced.

I don't think there was ever any genuine concern about automation bringing inconvenience (other than maybe some ineffective forms of automation: "strawman automation").

"I mostly like the idea of a machine that lets you just throw in your dirty clothes and punch some buttons, but won't that do away with the sheer convenience of washing clothes by hand?"

Doesn't compute.
I wonder if eventually in the future it would be possible to tap into the hot spots, and use the heat as a source of geothermal energy. This would also have the advantage of gradually cooling down the volcano and preventing another eruption.
Assuming that a special-purpose tool services a given need better than a general-purpose tool, the only reason to prefer the general tool is because the market for that service may not be sufficiently large to bear the cost of supporting a specialized tool. But in a niche whose market is perpetually growing, the preferred tools will become more and more specialized over time and sticking with a general solution will become less and less competitive. A shrinking market may experience the opposite effect. Regardless of whether Jai is a useful tool, the question of whether to pursue specialized tools for game development depends on where you see market demand for those tools heading in the next decade.
If you want to jail offenders then there has to be a law or regulation for that. This is that regulation.

How does this harm society? Imagine your wifi router becoming useless cause your neighbor decides to modify his and boost his output which overpowers yours. Plus adding additional frequencies that render your wireless phone useless.
Planned economies are not inherently unable to direct said effect. They just have a harder time reallocating resources from failing enterprises because of the political nature of resource allocation.

Look at a large corporation like IBM some floundering business units persist for decades because of the internal political cost of ending them when economically it is the prudent thing to do.
The wonder of freeze-drying time.
Ask HN: Would you use private p2p cloud?
Hi! I'm right now at startup weekend. We have this idea of giving all benefits of private cloud, but without the need of investing into infrastructure.

We want to synchronize all files directly between devices without the need to upload to external servers.

Let me know what you think about it!
Yeah this is a super common experience among people I talk to. For me, it was not wanting any headers or page numbers on my title page. (I ended up making two separate documents to get around it)
Yeah, exactly.

My experiences were around looking for a quality ORM, job scheduler, and web framework - things like korma and ring exist - but they lack a large amount of features compared to equivalents found in /most other/ languages.

I came to the conclusion that Clojure is an acceptable way to call Java SDKs if you want a bit higher Java velocity AND Lisp fits your brain already, but I'd rather pick up Scala or Groovy instead for that purpose.

Libs in pure clojure, for which I tried dozens, were usually incomplete and error-prone even if they were community favorites, which I attribute in part to the fact that it's a small circle of developers using it, and the language is still newish.
Matrices are axes. Vectors, or points, side by side. It wasn't until graduate school, after years of math and OpenGL that What that meant really sunk in and I really got how and why matrix ops are made of dot products.

The article is right in my case, I didn't learn the intuitive understanding at first, and it could have been taught that way. It is also well written, for people that know math, but I also feel like the article describes math using more math, and that the point could be better made with a picture or two. There's something about just seeing the correspondence between matrix rows, or columns, and the axes of a space, or transform, that finally helped it all sink in for me.
Emotion is ingrained reason through the process of evolution. For example, we feel disgust seeing an open wound because apes who didn't care got infected and died. The ones who learned to stay away, through reasoning their observations, later on abstracted it to the emotion of disgust, rather than spending energy to reason it out every time.

Similarly, a good fragrance could easily be a bad fragrance to an alien. Maybe, because good fragrances are associated with eatables, our mind categorised it to be a "good" fragrance.

Emotion is a mechanism developed by the brain to not spend energy reasoning things out every time. We understand this today and hence decide that emotion is a bias in the scientific method, but since we are humans and emotional by evolution/definition, we prove that bias did not occur by providing data for the experiment to be reproducible.

However, the evolutionary reason for the development of a particular emotion might not exist anymore. We now know that urine is sterile and no longer need to be disgusted. There are many tribes that have learned this and although the natural emotion of disgust might kick in, they still use it for its antiseptic properties to heal wounds. Many hindus drink cow urine.
If it changes and you haven't taken the software update yet the lists will differ.
This is where technical regulations meet with real world implementation. To have a "locked down" radio will increase the cause of the Appliance, computers and other devices. Manufacturers will take the cheapest way to implement these regulations, the cheapest way will be to lock down the entire device. An example of this is the Lenovo WiFi White lists in BIOS, there are other ways for Lenovo to comply with the regulation but it is cheaper to simply only allow approved wifi modules instead of implement a more costly solution

So while the rules may not directly ban custom firmware, that will be the implementation result of these regulations. less than 1% of consumers ever customize their devices so if a manufacturer even has to Spend $0.01 more per device to enable the ability to customize they will not do it.
It is for the who,e organization. No you don't have to checkout the whole repo, you can check out a filtered portion, usually a sub folder or two. You can also do a shallow checkout without history.

There are compelling benefits to pulling from repo once, packaging, whether that means zipping, just putting code in a folder or putting it into a docker image, then promoting that "build" everywhere. Including running your integration, acceptance, and manual tests on it.

As soon as we started doing that we found benefits even for our Ruby code that is also a pretty much copy and paste deploy. It turns out there were differences in how UTF8 was ha fled by default on Ubuntu vs OSX. We ran into the same thing a few years back with some system clock behavior that behaved differently on our dev macs and Linux. All works the same in our docker images.

Of course we do see stronger benefits with our compiled code, and if all of your code is interpreted the. Maybe it is t worth it in your case, but I have certainly benefitted from it in my small shop of less than 10 devs so it isn't just something for huge companies.
Imagine (and be terrified of) your neighbor sneaking over at night and smothering you with a pillow. Let's ban pillows! Bonus: the ban will stop those vicious pillow fights.
And at the same time it locks down devices where radio and processor are connected – you won’t be able to modify the software on some Android devices at all anymore.

This is NOT acceptable.

Punishing people for sending on illegal frequencies: Okay.

Restricting what people can do with devices they paid for: NOT OKAY.
Years ago, when CB radio was all the craze, manufacturers would publish manuals with amplifiers tell you NOT to move a certain wire to a certain place because it would change the frequency or boost the power beyond the legal limits of CB operation. This caused all kinds of havoc on those airwaves until the FCC clamped down on them. So, yes they can do that.
Why were you taught that you can't multiply vectors together? Aren't there two ways to "multiply" vectors–dot and cross?
I've seen this happen before, but only very rarely and refreshing would always fix it. Does refreshing not work for you?
Thanks for the warning. I was really hoping to see Halo or Quake or something, because in my experience practicing these games in a casual-competitive way, I hit a performance ceiling. In high school I played Halo nearly every day, and a bright friend of mine, who didn't even own the game, was a surprisingly good player for his limited experience.

On a similar note, I once read that reaction time and IQ are correlated (not sure how strongly), which is interesting because you might expect motor functions like that to be orthogonal to higher-order cognitive abilities.
Those of Arab decent are incapable of being American's?
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Why is restricting a device from interfering with emergency bands or bands used for medical devices unacceptable?
Most people would consider feeling isolated and alone trivial?

Good to know.
If you're talking about a good type system, sure. The type system in Go is frankly terrible at describing the kinds of invariants and reuse we care about.

I'd dare say that diaylizer (Elixir's optional but easy to use type system) would lead to more maintainable code than Go's forced type system in the long run.
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hi, author of those slides here, I actually mention this during the talk, that the talk is over-emphesizing the awesome point to take a point across. It definately is not a technique to use everywhere, so I agree with you.

It works for some kind of projects and i was motiviated for this talk, because I saw so many projects using manyrepos in cases where it may not fit very well.
And Farrell isn’t convinced another super-eruption will happen at all. “The system might be dying,” he said. “The Yellowstone hot spot is moving into thicker, colder continental crust. And it takes a lot more energy to burn through that crust than it did the thinner crust that it’s been burning through for the last 17 million years.”

I wonder what imaging we will be able to see in the years ahead.
Exactly. There's no reason we couldn't use, say, R^4 for the same purposes, but a 2x2 matrix is just a more convenient structure.