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I wonder if mobile web is really ready. I think on mobile, people prefer the fullness that comes with native apps, including UI features like back/undo on Android, which is maybe why 37 Signals, once a staunch advocate of mobile web apps, decided to release native versions of their app after a few years. In default mobile browsers, the back button is not the same thing as "undo" in Android.
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Well, thousands anyway.
> Something of the same spirit of annunciation has greeted the performance of Jason Segel, who is being talked about as an Academy Award contender for his portrayal of Wallace as a skeptical, ambitious, modest, hyper-self-conscious, depressive, and fundamentally generous figure of genius. Segel deserves acclaim for a performance that is as revelatory of the unexpected depths of this hitherto bro-centric actor as it is of Wallace’s self-effacing fascination.

Anyone else find this propose hard to follow? I ducked out after that paragraph. I'm struggling to figure out what's being said. Maybe it only makes sense to people who already know what this is all about.
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Looks like they are not worried about taxes ever becoming simpler. Intuit has spent about $11.5 million on federal lobbying in the past few years to kill bills that would have simplified taxes. [1]

[1] http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-...
s/abcent/absent/

s/your going/you're going/ (or for style reasons perhaps s/your going to/you will/ )

There are some weird capitalization issues, too (e.g. "Simple, Easy to use", e.g. "Slack integration" in a list where every other entry is all-words-capitalized)

I'd suggest that in general, your copy feels a little choppy to me, and if/when you start making a little money, I'd pay someone to fix it up.

HTH
It's also a bizarre and somewhat grotesque thing to brag about. I've always been more impressed with successful people who sleep as much as they like because they can afford it, or because they get done in eight hours what sleep-deprived suckers manage in sixteen.
So the title of this link is from the title of the email. That in turn is a quote from Larry Wall, who do not seem to be present in the story at all.
Doesn't say in the article but I assume they are keeping Mint? Desktop apps like Quicken (and the similar Microsoft Money) were dead to me the minute that came on the scene (almost 9 years ago at this point).
What are the costs of using hydro energy storage in places not affected by the drought, and just sending the energy over transmission lines? Obviously this results in substantial loss along the lines, but those costs might be very acceptable stop-gaps if droughts are sufficiently rare. I just have no idea what the orders of magnitude are.
It's almost better. It's good for automating some system administration tasks. It's not so good for text processing; there are a number of traps and mis-steps. The object pipelines are great, but have to be held in memory (you can't pipe an intermediate state to disk). By default text output wraps at the terminal width even if you're writing to a file, which is just stupid and inconvenient for further automatic processing.

In order to write a script, you first have to change your system security settings.

More subtly, because it's comparatively new it's not very dogfooded and there isn't a rich source of examples. UNIX systems usually have lots of shell scripts in /etc for you to learn from.
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Over and over Thiel cites wages, mean wages, stagnating during the period while Andreessen counters with GDP growing. Both are true. Women entered the broader workforce en masse. Wages were down because of oversupply of labor, nearly doubling the workforce without doubling consumption.

Thiel really comes off dishonest, trying to make a big deal that it wasn't just median wages, mean wages stagnated--as if that proves it wasn't just a change in wealth distribution.

In actuality, there was a change in wealth distribution and median wages fell and mean wages stagnated, and the economy still grew because "wages" ignores people who aren't employed (or seeking employment?), and a hell of a lot more people became employeed during the time period. Really one of the most frustrating talks I've watched.
More on Polari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

I grew up listening to recordings of "Round the Horne" in the UK, which included two characters Julian & Sandy that chatted a little in Polari during their sketches. A bunch of Polari words and phrases have migrated into general UK slang — so it's not really a case of dying out… more migrating and changing — as languages & dialects often do.
> Millions

There are not millions of doomsday preppers in the US. And their obsession is not representative of public will or sentiment.

The comment you're replying to said:
>Not many people fear of chaos in the USA and not because they have the best firewall

So you seem to be saying that if the US had a Great Firewall the nutjobs who spend half their salary on underground bunkers and armament wouldn't. That's a pretty silly argument.
I've been using the Android app by Manuel Maly for a while and can recommend it. It's available on FDroid: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=HN&fdid=com.... or Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly...
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NOP is most certainly a NOP on modern x86 CPUs. Yes, the encoding matches what would be XCHG EAX,EAX (or AX,AX or RAX,RAX) but it hasn't been that for quite some time as it could create a pipeline stall waiting for [RE]AX to be ready for the following instruction.

As for JNE not being a GOTO, it most certainly is. It just so happens to only happen under certain circumstances (along with the other conditional jumps, and yes, that's how they are described). Compare:

IF X <= 45 GOTO THERE

with

CMP EAX,45
JLE THERE

Not much of a difference if you ask me. Also, the LOOP instruction is more of a FOR loop than a DO/WHILE, as the ECX register is decremented as part of the instruction.

And let me assure you, when writing assembly, you almost always use labels. A disassembly will show you the absolute/relative address because that's all it has to go by.
This was it, thanks

http://hnrss.org/newest?link=comments
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The systemd battle's a lost cause I think. Pity, 'cos upstart was a reasonable implementation of the concept and vastly superior to init shell scripts. At least it's not Windows Server.

(TODO: pointy-clicky interface to systemd)
It's also been suggested he put intentional flaws into his designs to foil warlords who tried to build his machines.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/11/1039379883809.html
Ask HN: The effect of Cell phone tower placement near house
We are residing in some rural place in India.Near by our house, there is a cellular phone tower placed around 20 feet away. There are lot of families around the radius of that cell phone tower placement.The people who living near to that area are lacking in education.So, my primary dubious thing about this particular cell phone tower placement is,

Would it cause any trouble to the people for their children down to the line of upcoming years?

What are the preliminary steps to be taken to live there? How can be made sure that we are in safe side?

Please advise us on your thoughts which will be helpful to take some initiatives(right decision) for these people. We will be very grateful.
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Meanwhile I've had two companies attempt to get employees to try to use this. If I can/want to deal with coworkers in person, I will. If I can't/don't want to, I've got real-time tools to do it. Where does this fit in? It's one more layer of crap to get in between me and getting my work done.
I'm a happy user of many web-based services, but why would anyone give all their personal financial data to single company? Ok, the success of Mint proves me wrong, I just don't get it.

It's not only that they can use your data to build and sell a profile, there is a realistic chance that the data gets leaked.
Wait, I may be misunderstanding your comment, but are you saying you support censorship by the Chinese government on the basis of some paternalistic "those dang Chinese can't handle themselves and start a-killin' if they get to know too much, so it's better to keep them in the dark"?

Also, when quoting large blocks of text it is usually helpful to source that quote.
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I don't care much for json data in tables, but I would really like to use aggregate functions returning json to create hierarchical results from queries with multiple levels of aggregation.
Fantastic book, I just finished it and the 2nd one and I highly recommend it. The translation is very well done, and the perspective so unique :), it isn't very often you get to read sci fi from a Chinese perspective.
That's great! IIRC, OpenCL can calculate automatically the local workgroup sizes so you only have to provide the global size.
HN is like a semicolon
Hm, okay.

From what I gather on education the work of an individual teacher is the far most important factor when comparing outcomes. I.e. if one compares "average" student bodies with varying backgrounds within the same cultural contexts and one is taught by an encouraging teacher and the other by a non-engaging and non-encouraging type I would bet the former group would usually provide better learning results. I fail to see how IQ measurements would help in this when the key to is to get teachers to be engaged and encouraging - and, non-discriminating.

From this point of view there seems to be little value in using any "population average IQ" scores to guide educational policies when the best approach is always to empower the individual teacher to be empowering and encouraging. The corollary to this view that massive government control of teaching through massive testing etc. is kinda pointless beyond setting certain national targets for the minimum body of knowledge to teach. And, that the quality of the teachers is the most important deciding factor.

Extremely low IQ that would warrant special assistance is another thing entirely, of course.
> Is this provably safe?

No.
This is pretty neat, and I hope it will get networking support soon. I've also been keeping track of the NodeJS "equivalents", and am looking forward to being able to use ClojureScript at the CLI...
Gigster has a pretty extensive blog post about the cost of various app projects here: http://blog.trygigster.com/mvp-costs/

According to them, of the 13 most popular apps they develop, "the median MVP price is $10,800 for iOS. For Android the median price is $8,640. The price to develop a web app is typically about the same as developing the app for Android."
My laptop is even vibrating to the touch from the sound.

I'm typing on a cat!
I'd recommend at least adding contact info into the 'about' section of your profile. Right now you have none. (The email field is only shown to admins).
you cannot go wrong copying postgresql.
> terrible at technology and leadership

While I'm not suggesting that he's not successful in many ways, he's also been (and still is) quite bad at these two things.

On the technology front, the terribleness that immediately comes to mind are the Fire Phone, Prime Instant Video's UI, Amazon's UI in general, their godawful search, and so on.

On the leadership front... well... there are all these accusations of an awful workplace culture stemming from the top man.
Love this. Even though it doesn't sound 100% real, it's still just such a relaxing sound, it may well become be go to work music.
I must shamelessly plug my own ClojureCL library for doing this sort of programming from Clojure.

http://clojurecl.uncomplicate.org
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> "Most keyboards that have an "Fn" key do not allow you to remap it in any way…"

I just got the Vortex Poker 3 which lets you remap (and bind to macros) almost anything, and it's working out great so far.
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The article links to another on "gene drives" that use CRISPR to spread genes far more quickly through populations.[0] Cities of the Red Night?

>ANIMALS typically have two versions of any given gene stored on two different chomosomes—basically large DNA molecules—and the two versions can have important differences. Offspring normally inherit only one of each pair of chromosomes from each parent, and thus each version of the gene typically gets into only half of them. Technologies like CRISPR make it possible to break this rule with something called a gene drive—a gene that uses gene-editing techniques to copy itself from one chromosome to the other, so that whichever chromosome the offspring inherit they get the same version. The same will then apply to their offspring, too (see diagram).

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21661801-giving-bits-...
Use whatever you want. I go with ractive,page.js for routing , delorean for flux,jquery and various small libs here and there so you can change them.
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Thanks for the advice. I'm a product manager at tech company. Here's my blog: http://www.taigeair.com/
There's one mistake on your statements. It's at Beiyou U that Fang Binxing get all those things dones.
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Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to drive 4K display?
I have a 4K display but none of my computers (late 2013 MacMini, 2014 MBA, Lenovo T410) can drive it. Wondering if there's something decent for low $$$ just to push enough pixels out.
I thought the very first phrase of the article described what the article is about, so the writer could reasonably assume that those continuing past the first paragraph have some background knowledge of Wallace, and some interest in the interplay between a journalist and a novelist in a high-stakes interview. That first paragraph acts like a filter in that sense.

The second paragraph that you quote struck me as basically expressing surprise that the professional actor who has previously made money in fairly formulaic entertainment films can, in fact, act rather well in a more complex role. Then the paragraph asks us to consider the role of the actor playing the journalist David Lipsky, and the rest of the OA focuses on the journalist's behaviour and motivations. I agree that the writing is a little mannered and I had to read that paragraph twice to fully grok what the point being made was.

I found the article as a whole of interest because it lead me to Lipsky's book, written years later, but based on the interview held over the five days in 1996. Lipsky's book is criticised in one of the Amazon reviews as being 'transcripts of the tapes' instead of being edited or reflected on. This immediately interested me so I've just bought a copy. I have an interest in interviews and transcripts and have read a little Wallace.

I also found out about Janet Malcolm's book about the relationship between the journalist and the interviewee which looks interesting for future reading.

Granted some previous knowledge of the novelist will help but Wallace has been mentioned here before lots of times and many here have read his novels so probably relevant to some on HN.

Finally, I have been thinking about how many interview tapes must be lurking in boxes in the cupboards of journalists, and how many projected articles have been spiked over the years. There is a home for almost any substantial work on the Web somewhere surely?
Updated version from 2011 Aug:

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/spectrum_wal...
Demos has been requiring mid-high range machines with discrete GPUs (after '97).
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I agree, people shouldn't really try to enjoy their hobbies. They should just do what everybody tells them.

Imagine if a bank were to accidently mistake your OTP implementation as a viable product. Oh, the humanity.
In general, this is a very valuable lesson in software. it's easy to wish but often a wish is very different than a need. with limited resource, each move much gain you some real advantage, like in chess.

In this particular case, I am bit more reserved : why not ask a (well-known) contractor ? I am pretty sure pg just have to ask to get tens of high caliber lisp hacker proposals.
Dev here. So surprised to hear my cat purring a lot this morning, and then realised it was featured on HN today! :) To celebrate this, the Cat Purr IAP on myNoise's iOS App has been set to Tier 0, so you can all enjoy the same sound on your iOS device for free as well! (https://itunes.apple.com/be/app/mynoise/id813099896?mt=8)
You can listen to Round the Horne and The Navy Lark today on BBC iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7q4l/episodes/player

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bfvkd/episodes/player

Liverpool's Maritime Museum has an insightful exhibit on gay life at sea; the exhibit includes a section on the polari:

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/floor-plan...
This looks nice, but in a company that requires us to use a very clunky (but improving!) ADP site to actually file a time sheet and manage/request time off, this would just be an extra step on top of steps we already need to take.
Off-peak time for California is probably also off-peak time for anywhere else that can buy electricity from California. If they don't have the option of storage, they do try sell excess capacity, to the extent that other markets are willing to pay for it. They say this in TFA:

"The first tool currently available is to find electricity generators to submit bids to reduce their output, Greenlee said. If that doesn't work, then there's an effort to export the electricity elsewhere — often at negative prices, which means power generators pay someone to take their electricity."

The article is kind of mis-representing the purpose of the system: it wasn't built to store energy from renewables, but rather, to even out demand spikes on the grid. Losing a system like this just means that they've lost a tool for managing fluctuations on a short-term basis. They have to resort to selling excess power at low-demand times (possibly at a loss), or disconnecting generators in order to keep the grid stable. They'll do whatever is most cost-efficient, but both options are probably inferior to the storage system. A big ol' capacitor like this gives the grid manager an extra margin of safety before having to do something drastic to keep things stable.
Your words are matching with PG's Growth.

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
wesabe[0] can supposedly by run on your own server; not sure if there are any forks that are useful/updated, and have never tried it myself.

I'm with you. Can't figure out how millions of people just give away every piece of information about themselves with hardly a second thought (financial data -> mint; phonebook -> whatsapp=facebook; mail -> gmail=google; etc.)

[0] https://github.com/wesabe
We were looking at using these kids of tools, but having your internal corporate communication hosted on an external site which you have little control over wasn't really something we wanted to do.

We ended up developing our own system which ended up a bit similar to Slack. Of interest to the crowd here, the server side is implemented in Common Lisp. We'll release it as open source as soon as we've cleaned it up a bit.

I have an externally available demo system, but I don't want to reveal the URL to it publicly right now since it runs on the smallest possible Google Cloud instance. If anyone is interested in testing it, send a private message to me, or wait until we release it.
Ask HN: Video Chat Webapp – How should I start making one?
Hello all!

I want to create an app where newcomers can book and have video chat with professionals to learn skills/language. I am new to programming and have basic HTML/JS, Python, C++ knowledge.

I don't know what I don't know.How should I start creating the chat backend?

Throwaway account because of copyright ownership clause by employer.
Ask HN: How does malloc work in a multithreaded environment?
Does the typical malloc (for x86-64 platform and Linux OS) naively lock a mutex at the beginning and release it when done, or does it lock a mutex in a more clever way at a finer level, so that lock contention is reduced? If it indeed does it the second way, how does it do it?
The reason why that code fails is explained by gcc's unique_ptr implementation:

/// Primary template of default_delete, used by unique_ptr
template<typename _Tp>
struct default_delete
{
...
void
operator()(_Tp* __ptr) const
{
static_assert(!is_void<_Tp>::value,
"can't delete pointer to incomplete type");
static_assert(sizeof(_Tp)>0,
"can't delete pointer to incomplete type");
delete __ptr;
}
};

Basically, invoking "operator delete" on a pointer to an incomplete type (aka opaque pointer) is usually undefined. Calling "operator new" on an incomplete type is not possible (because its size is 0). Since unique_ptr deals with allocation/deallocation, and doesn't just copy pointer values around, it's not fully comparable to a plain pointer.

nice_byte proposed a good solution: if you can, abstract the new/delete logic to another file, in which the complete type of "Gadget" is known.
I agree with you, it doesn't sound as real as I wished it to be. Cat Purr was a request of many early myNoise users. At beginning, I kept explaining all the reasons why the myNoise sound player was not designed for playing a cat purr (it was initially designed to play random-phase and flat spectrum noises such as white noise and rain) and why I wouldn't implement a cat purr. Then, I gave up and programmed it, just to stop people asking :D It is not the myNoise sound I am the most proud of, but it seems that people like it (or the concept).
I'm a product manager for a 16 person team. I define the requirements for our products (http://www.staffsquared.com, http://www.fundipedia.com), check to ensure they're produced to the highest quality holding our developers and testers to account, and ensure that our product dev is aligned with our sales and marketing efforts.

I feel your experience of the PMs is specific to that of a billion dollar company with more resources and A star employees than most companies could ever dream of. In smaller companies that enjoy revenue in the millions per annum, I can assure you that a good PM is a fundamental contributor to success.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, you can't write off all PMs. It's all about context, and perhaps in your world PMs are garbage, but in smaller teams they're absolutely essential.
Is there any good write-ups on how pumped hydro has responded to the new reality of cheap noontime solar power? Naively it would seem that they could double their effectiveness by running two pump-discharge cycles per day.
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You can get charged just for dropping someone off at the airport? Wow.
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Ok, so i've got another question : why didn't general relativity raise the same kind of debate about its "interpretation" ?

It does have its share of counter intuitive predictions ( twin paradox), new concept that are difficult to grasp ( relation between acceleration and time clock), yet i've never heard a physisict starting its general relativity course saying things like "you won't understand it, and neither do i" ( which is what feynman did in this video, and he isn't the first professor i saw doing this).
...and, co-incidentally, there's also available at the moment a documentary about Julian and Sandy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jwhr