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So, it turns out that going by the responses to @neLrivVK's question that this opinion of yours is in not in any way controversial. In fact I think it would be a great topic to have a poll about but first we'd need to agree on what to put in the poll :) Straw poll suggests that at least 50% say, "stay the course but tweak knowledge".

Of the tech that the OP listed two things are _not_ hipster.js front end libraries or frameworks, and I wish I had mentioned them in my other response below.

1) Bootstrap: This is a huge productivity boost for CSS. You get a responsive layouts, a standard way to do grid layouts and it papers over browser differences and compensates for older browsers. OP says they don't use much CSS, that really doesn't cut the mustard in 2016. And, hey, Bootstrap is made by those guys at Twitter† (not 3 20-year-olds in a coffee shop as you so amusingly put it!) so they probably know a thing or two about UI layout and design. I'd be interested to know what % of websites now use Bootstrap or something inspired by it. Bootstrap was released as open-source in August 2011, it'll be 5-years-old tech this year.

2) jQuery: This is a huge productivity boost for JS. Of course you can use that hipster tool Vanilla JS (http://vanilla-js.com/) but jQuery is so concise, the syntax and semantics are well thought out, again papers over browser differences. You can chain operations together. The way it does selectors is brilliant. John Resig basically had some sort of divine inspiration. That fact that he was 14(?) at the time of writing it... well... that's how one learns to be humble in life. Sure raw JS is going to blow jQuery out of the water perf-wise but going by what OP says, dev time is what we're optimizing for here, jQuery will be plenty fast. It's used* on what, ~ 70%..90% of websites? I'm surprised a version of it isn't built into browsers yet. jQuery is 2006 tech, it's a decade old this year. (Also released as open-source in August, hmm).

† and Angular is Google tech, React is Facebook tech, Rails is 37signals tech but all have have huge open-source communities.

* http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript
I think this is mostly true for all successful companies, not just startups. You are looking to hire for the company and not for a particular position. Hire for talent and let them grow with the product/domain/technology.
I spent ages making the LSR (Layer Source Representation) icons for my new Apple TV game, so I wanted a way to reuse them on the web when promoting it. I couldn't find a solution, so I had a go at making one.

It's a work in progress, and I'm sure it will require tweaking, because I approximated the right movements by eye. It's created as a HTML5 Canvas component, and motion is with mouse movement on desktop, device orientation on mobile or animated. Currently has a few settings for turning on/off shadows, zoom, rounded corners, resizing but more to come.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. It's also my first Open Source Javascript project.
One would think services like Spotify would help, but they only make the music more accessible, they don't help you find it. I don't have pro and only ads I hear (besides the spotify ones that are trying to annoy you into paying) are ones from Universal Music.
Remember that your corpus must consist of a very wide range of scenarios. PGO, unsurprisingly, shares some pitfalls with supervised learning. Too few scenarios and your binary will excel at those scenarios but do terribly at others.
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For me visual programming adapts quite nicely to many FP concepts.

I can easily imagine some graphical tool similar to digital circuits design, where the basic build modulus are the lambda calculus basis.
Meteor is great for side-projects, finding a good job as a Meteor developer can be hard - maybe make some research first if there're any job offers in Your area if You are thinking about going full-time with Meteor.
That will be very popular with the users of your browser.
That's a great way of putting it that I'm not sure I've heard before. Thanks!
Kinda seems like it is mentioned. I can't believe they wouldn't try to upsell you to the that.
My kids aren't that old yet, but "interesting" is a still a good description. The world through the eyes of a 3 year old is pretty comical.

Dinosaurs? the best thing in the world. We don't have enough toys, books, and videos even available to us to satisfy. Toy tools? he's "fixing" everything. Usually with brute force. Toy pliers broke, so toy saw was tried and found to be a far superior tool for everything. It is a better hammer, better wedge, better saw, and better chisel than any other piece of plastic in his arsenal.

Then again, the level of intelligence is hilariously lacking. I mean, he's 3, what do you expect? Either way, you have to choose your activities carefully so that you can watch them without becoming a sleep-deprived under-stimulated zombie.
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NZBDash, Home server monitoring and usenet monitoring
Hi,
I am the creator of NZBDash (https://github.com/tidusjar/NZBDash). The aim of NZBDash is to have one centralised easy to use dashboard that will link up Usenet monitoring; so your news readers (E.g. NZBGet, SabNzbd) and also any information about your usenet automation programs (CouchPotato, Sonarr etc). It also is going to provide monitoring information, you are able to set up HDD disk space alerts, CPU threshold alerts and possibly even windows event viewer alerts, if an event gets written to the windows event viewer, you can alert on that.

We are still early in development at the moment but things are starting to move along nicely since we have just had another developer join the team.

Let me know what you think!
The best example to bring this idea home is $70(~$40 used) Pentium G3258 on ~$30 motherboard. It gets single thread score of 2400, so almost top of the chart. In single core games like World of Tanks (python ...) there is no differenve between this bottom of the barrel CPU and i7

*overclocked to 4.2
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Yeah, it's the Microsoft anti-trust situation all over again, except that all of Silicon Valley has gotten about 10x more sophisticated in terms of legal strategy and political clout.
And just because I like Google (a lot!) and I didn't like Microsoft doesn't change that the technical landscape is becoming analogous.
In the case of Firefox for Android, there is already a rapidly growing blacklist of sites that get their UA spoofed to Chrome.
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BTW, feature detection can be even more identifying (although you need it anyway). IIRC my browser was completely unique at Panopticlick, most likely because I have a rare plugin installed (a handler for byond:// URLs)
It's funny, these threads always devolve into comparisons to modern day pop stars, how none of them compare.

And you're all right, of course, no one could ever compare. He was the best, period, in my mind, and while he may not be in your mind, but his accomplishments and career are undeniable.

But every rock and pop singer today has something from Bowie. Kanye and Gaga found ways to navigate both pop stardom and the art world; bands like Of Montreal incorporated theatricality blended with musicianship in their records and live shows. I could list, so, so many more, from Janelle Monae to St Vincent, but unfortunately I think a list of every rock or pop musician since 1970 would take up significantly more room than I have in this comment box. They created something new using his life and music as inspiration - and that's fine.

Because we like to act as if Bowie is this fount of perfect originality, ideas springing from the ether - and, don't get me wrong, he certainly was inventive - but to ignore his influences is to create a myth. We talk about him as the chameleon, but he never morphed into truly untread ground - he always found what was there, and improved, innovated, found new ways to incorporate it. Young Americans followed Philadelphia soul. "Blackout" followed "Nite Flights". The man operated a goddamn ISP in the late 90s, as another comment mentioned. Blackstar followed experimental jazz and had inspiration from everyone from Kendrick Lamar to James Murphy.

I wouldn't dare to try to distill his life into a single takeaway, as there's far, far too many angles to cover. But here's the lesson that springs to mind first, which, now that I write it, comes out slightly more inspirational-poster than I'd like, but maybe that's okay:

Creative work isn't made in a vacuum, and to try is futile. Embrace what's next, no matter how different, how weird. Keep your eyes forward and your ears and mind open.
you never cut yourself? Parts of my neck were nicked repeatedly in the first month. Most interesting part was that not once did it actually hurt, it was just that sharp.

Still though, the blade price alone makes the effort worth it. Plus I had a few solid months of a feeling of superior manliness, and the glory of using a shaving brush has yet to wear off in the last year and a half. How did I go years without using a shaving brush?
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His influence extended well beyond music. He was the first to make use of Celebrity Bonds. [1] While it's true that Bowie Bonds didn't ending doing very well for investors, the principle behind them is sound. By bringing in investors to share his financial risk, Bowie was able to buy the rights to his songs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_bond
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There's a ton of interesting, adventurous music being made by young people right now but you will never hear it because the music labels still dominate pop music and they've become more conservative than ever.

So don't judge the current generation by what you see in the top 40. Dig around on Bandcamp instead and be amazed.
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I think it would be more valuable to actually define the ! convention, than propose yet another one for side effects.
"If anything labels are more important than ever and music sales are driven by the kind of marketing campaigns that only big records labels can afford."

That's what record companies would like you to think. Counter-example, Milk Records, Melbourne. It's might be a record company but it looks so much like a startup.

- http://messandnoise.com/features/4666617

- http://diymag.com/2015/03/23/courtney-barnett-its-like-turni...
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They had the Monkees back then. We have real artists now. Have things changed so much?
The E6750 is a 2.66Ghz CPU that was introduced in Q3 2007. That means that single core performance went up only 8% per year on average.

Compared to the improvements we made in the decades before that, that's really poor.

I have a i7-2600k (quad core 3.4Ghz, 95W TDP, HT) that was introduced in 2011. Five years later, it still is not significantly slower than recent CPUs by Intel unless they take advantage of new CPU features. It sold for around 250€ back then. Today, for 250€ you can buy an i5-6600k (quad core 3.5Ghz, 91W TDP, no HT).
The only big improvement in the i5-6600k is the GPU (which I don't use).
This should be expanded to include the other majority German-speaking countries, Austria and Switzerland.
This is a wrong-headed question to ask about theoretical physics. People have this idea that you can just say crazy physics things and they might be true, but that's not even close to the case. If you want to reach the level of conjecture, there are some incredibly high hurdles to pass. Your conjecture has to be consistent with both—both general relativity and quantum mechanics, probably the two most experimentally accurate and successful scientific theories in the history of the human race.

Here's a great lecture on this question of "well don't we need experiments? Is this all crazy physics conjecture?"

http://www.cornell.edu/video/nima-arkani-hamed-philosophy-of...

Black holes are the phenomena where quantum mechanics and gravity collide most intensely, and even theories of black hole physics compatible with both GR and QM are major achievements.

Edit: Although I agree the article is fairly opaque.
The "50s to the 90s"--which is so laughably general, that's four generations of music, if not more--had The Beatles and David Bowie and it also had The Monkees and Men Without Hats. We have the artists who it's funny to make fun of, like Bieber, and we have Jack White, we have Kanye West, we have Radiohead--and we had David Bowie, he's a modern artist today, have you listened to Blackstar, which openly tips its cap to Kendrick Lamar?

Twenty years from now, Bowie and Kanye will be spoken of in the same breath (and sure, that happens today, but that's by the people who pay attention), and that's fine. Great work is done today just as much, if not more, as it was in the past, and you're being That Guy and you should never, ever, ever be That Guy.
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RIP David. An amazing creative mind
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Not to mention that the i7-2600k sold for around 250€ whereas the i7-6700k costs more than 370€!

Nowadays for 250€ you can only buy a i5-6600k which is around 25% faster than the i7-2600k in single core performance, but slightly slower in multi core performance due to lack of HT.

Only the GPU inside these new CPUs has improved greatly.
> This article is deeply flawed... change in wages != change in standard of living.

Measuring "standard of living" is a very hard problem. At least they're being clear about their definition, so I can judge the correlations they find for myself.
What's the difference between asm.js and WebAssembly?

"The initial implementation of WebAssembly support in browsers will be based on asm.js and PNaCl". PNaCl? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js

So is WebAssembly mere an asm.js v2 where all browser vendors agreed on a standard?
Yes, that's exactly correct. Debian's tutorials are less generally useful because, to serve the specific goal of keeping Debian's packages high quality, they obscure what you can do behind what Debian thinks you should.
-itz too, I think
It is hard to convince those traditional countries to join since they have a strong sense of protectionism. Japan and Korea are also facing some difficulties from their citizens.
I've been traveling all over the world and all I hear everywhere I go is crap American top 40 pop music. Like I said there's a ton of interesting stuff going on outside their purview but they control the conversation right now.
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a system that simulates some process or system is not the process or system it simulates.

Just take writing programs: Can we simulate the process of writing programs? Could we create a system that writes and compiles programs? What about writing programs which contain errors? Could that system recognize the errors in those programs it wrote and correct the errors? could it write programs and then optimize those programs? Or rewrite the programs to make them more efficient or tweak them to do other tasks? Does "simulation" actually help us create a computer that can write programs at all? If so, how?

If you know how to write a program that can write and optimize programs, Google will hire you tomorrow! And it can't be that hard. It's just combining ascii characters together into combinations based on some rules...

Error making is the essence of actual learning, because it is a component of comprehension. Simulation, automata theory, mathematics itself, do not address issues of comprehension or error recognition. How can a computer system make, recognize, and correct errors? Errors do not actually "exist". Errors are things we apprehend but which have no obvious physical counterpart.

We do some simulation of atoms, but it is laughably inefficient. Think about the simulations we do to figure out protein folding. Protein folding is going on in every neuron with each synaptic firing. Protein folding not performed by a rule or an extrinsic function, but is an intrinsic process of the molecule itself. For instance, how do a few molecules of LSD produce such an incredible change in actual experience? How would you go about simulating psychedelic phenomena? How would you go about simulating wave lengths of light as colors? How would you simulate colors (as in dreams or imagination) without the corresponding wavelengths of light? How would you simulate what sound is?

We can certainly produce and record vibrations with speakers and microphones attached to computers. But what is the experience of sound? when you hear someone's voice in your head, what is that? it's not a vibration, it's not a string of ascii characters, it's not a wav file.

What you experience looks easy because experiences occur effortlessly to you. Now try to write a program that can be aware of something, that can think about something, that has experiences. That is Searle's point, our computers have no experiences at all.

If I say: "Don't forget to brush your two teeth with your toothbrush." You will understand what the "twos" mean. A computer has no comprehension of to, too, two, 11, or 2. It's not just too hard for a computer to do, it's a categorically different problem. To get a better understanding of these problems you could read about qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia. and then wonder how you could get a computer to see magenta. And then wonder how you could get it to like Pink (the singer).
I am a 21st century artist: I made an app to deal with a personal tragedy
I created My Day Todos, as something that could help me in my recovery from a bad injury. I have summarised the background and my reasons to build this app here(http://goo.gl/PhtocQ). I have released both paid(https://goo.gl/zv3d6s) and a free version(https://goo.gl/j6pmOH) of the app. Give it a go and let me know if you have any feedback. Ohh and I also released an open-source repo, Html5StarterAppWithSwift(https://goo.gl/rVBzei) as a part of building this app
I know that this is completely off topic, but for the sake of argument, let's imagine that we are thirty years into the future, we have invented efficient teleportation and have colonized mars. What do you think the government should do to encourage family ties to remain strong when loved ones are living on another planet?
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I agree, although I think it should be done by a tool separate from the compiler. Purely because I'd have a stable compiler first and more code = more bugs.
The core argument against this would, I guess, be simply that someone else would sell it cheaper. Insurance is extremely easy to switch and there are multiple people offering it. Everyone has to buy it, so there's definitely a huge market, and it's not a monopoly.

> What's to keep them from selling you tsunami-insurance at Japanese or Californian rates, even though you live in Minnesota?

Nothing, but if people are paying way over the odds for it, why wouldn't someone else come in and sell it cheaper?

> So if private companies can't be held to a profit margin, is the answer state-issued insurance?

Quite possibly, but how palatable this is depends on the distribution of the thing you're insuring. Healthcare, for example, is something that seems to work pretty well being state funded. Helicopter insurance might draw more ire.

Cars are a hard one here (UK). They're not universally owned or needed, but are common. And then what type of insurance? Just third party for free? Well then there's still the same issue with all the other options.

> How do we stop this? I think the answer is to simply not allow this level of personalization.

I think ensuring that your data is not held by a single insurer but owned by you is important, not a lack of any data. This should come with the ability to migrate your driving data between insurers, so that anyone can quickly get a quote from any insurer. Otherwise you have a lock-in problem where competing insurers don't know enough about each others customers to be able to offer decent quotes.
Sadly I have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with most of these scenarios. I don't even work in IT..
What kind of geek are you? Nerd, Badass, or Hacker?
Bazinga!

My geek lifestyle is Programmer and I love it. And you? ツ

I'm actually 43, enterprise architect... huh, really, geek you said???

Ok, on my spare time, probably like a lot of 40s, I've always wanted to do something fun, you know, like when I was a young intro maker on Amiga. I tried a few stuff, learning Swift and starting often too huge projects while having a life. But then I decided to focus on just getting real fun. That's why, last year, I started developing Geekey, a custom keyboard entirely made for "Geeks" (like me?). At start, it was just a leetspeak helper app... then I couldn't resist to do more and feel the pain with iOS keyboard (cr)API.

Last november, we launched. On ProductHunt mostly. I probably need to write a longer story post on Medium. We'll see. In the meantime, I'd love to get HackerNews community feedback on the app itself and listen to your crazy suggestions as we're already working on next release.

Geekey is a kind of "geek swiss knife". It brings pretty cool fonts in any of your apps like a ŋıƈɛ ɱɛʂʂąɠɛ, Crazy Text Effects like uʍop-ǝpısdn ƃuıʇıɹʍ, Kaomojis (‿), leetspeak, URL/HTML/BAse64 encoders, Photos as ASCII art, International/Dvorak layouts.....

Wanna try and give feedback? You can try it right now for free on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/geekey/id955821631

Or look to http://geekey.io to know more.

Feel free to ask anything (technical or personal).
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Even if I don't have a record player any more I still have that on vynil. This sucks.
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This is an object of contention between my current ladyfriend and I. How did you guys work it out? She likes to go to bed by 10pm and I am a stay up and code till 2am kinda guy. She comes and yells at me about it.
Your sadness is completely justified. As John Donne observed nearly 400 years ago, "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."
One answer is that the market forces tend to funnel all increases in income to landowners as rent.

This is partially a result of Americans choosing to consume more housing than citizens of peer nations or, indeed, Americans historically. The size of the average owned American home doubled since 1950. You can save a substantial amount of money if you're willing to live like a 2015 Japanese salaryman or a 1950 American middle class family, but the modal American considers that standard of living "poverty" and is unwilling to accept it.

Another layer is that big houses gate access to good school districts, which is a very, very deep can of worms.
It might not be clear, but here's an application to generate cities 'procedurally' using data flow operators

https://youtu.be/PDrALvAqsaI?t=254

The possibilities of this 'paradigm' are pretty unbouded and not tied to the usual programming data types.
I do not think that the opinion of mandatory braces is wrong - in a language that does have braces.

If not for anything else, then for the fact that yi{ will _always_ yank the current block for me. Omitting braces will ruin this.
I was going to reply to you by saying that Youtube audio quality is affected by video quality, but apparently that hasn't been the case anymore since 2013. The more you know!

http://www.h3xed.com/web-and-internet/youtube-audio-quality-...