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Ah man, one of those right-libertarian/anarcho-capitalist types. Don't worry, most of these people change their belief system once they take an elementary economics class. I know I did :)
Unironically agreed.
On Firefox, about:config is a great feature: if you know what you're doing, you can tweak any setting that's tweakable.

That said, I do wish they'd make it a bit more organised than a long list of tersely named options; perhaps a tree view like many other apps' settings use.

The idea of providing good defaults, and that of providing rich configuration options, are not necessarily opposites.
I did, and appreciated the results.

As I am leery of long term complications, I limit my current usage to when I'm feeling down and not-productive. This time centers around the dark times of the year, and I estimate that I self-medicate with nicotine gum for about 4 weeks total a year.
Having known several economists, I've always wondered why these guys aren't rich, or at least better off than they are.

Economists understand the theories behind money and wealth creation much better than us but--as far as I've seen--they aren't richer than average university-educated people.
I always liked this short about the anthropomorphized life of a plastic bag, in which he's just the narrator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5hAj9rB9_g
Uber uses the model where you offer someone the work, you set the price, but they have control whether they do the work, and how the work gets done.

I suspect Uber does not conform to either employee or contractor arrangements under current law. The employee/contractor line is blurry enough as it is.
But that's a different problem altogether. That goes beyond what people mean by "merit".

Yes, people only hiring people for whom they feel affinity is somewhat of an issue. I say somewhat, because it can be problematic working with people who understand things differently --say working with people who have a union attitude vs people who have a work at will attitude.

So, I understand the "I'd have beer with them" kind of thing even though it does bother me. I don't drink beer and I'm not into peer dynamics. But I understand why people might be into that.

That said, merit typically means not hiring someone just because they're friends, family, owed a favor, seniority, strict ethnic affinity (which happened and happens in lots of immigrant communities, of old and new), belong to some specific group, etc.
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Yeah good point, Elixir is not just Erlang with a different syntax. It has streams, macros and a few other nice things. I believe Jose Valim likes to emphasise that point as well.

Now I personally prefer Erlang's syntax. I like that it is different because I know semantically stuff behaves differently. I would be more confused and disturbed by it if it looked like Java for example. I also like the immutable variables aspect..

However at the end of the day I am very happy to see Elixir grow. It really has one of the friendliest and most welcoming community. It will hopefully bring more people to the BEAM VM ecosystem.
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What you want is Space Engine [en.spaceengine.org/]. Also a sandbox. Allows you to fly from star to star, galaxy to galaxy, with billions of planets, nebulae, black holes, clusters, etc. to choose from.

As an example: tonight I had a few minutes to kill so I visited a small desert (Mars-like) planet with a thin ring located in an orbit around dual stars located in a globular cluster. By day, one sun rose and then another. Absolutely scorching the broad plains and distant mountains. Night eventually fell and the sky was burning with the crimson light of the thousands of red giants in the cluster and the brilliant white light of the galactic center. The light was broken slightly by the silhouette of the rings' arc overhead. Was quite beautiful.
My favorite feature of Universe Sandbox is completely silly. It's the light pulse. You can send out a pulse at the speed of light and watch it expand and overtake other bodies.

It's really nifty for visualizing just how slow light speed really is in a cosmic sense.
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Hey,

How does this comply with SoundCloud's API Terms of Use? https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/terms-of-use

More specifically:

> Unacceptable Use

> use of the SoundCloud® API to aggregate and stream User Content from multiple users into an on demand listening service;

I've built similar things in the past (https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension), but using SoundCloud's API for such a project always seemed off-limits from a TOS perspective.
Ask HN: How to measure QA in a startup?
We have a web-app and a QA engineer who's helping to ensure we don't ship outages and we know about severe regressions. (We're not aiming for pixel-perfect at the moment, but for good enough.) She's doing that by building up a Selenium suite that catches regressions just fine, spec-driven testing for new features and exploratory testing for the unexpected.

How can I give her a sense of “a job well done”? I can and do /tell/ her, cuz she's doing great, but I'd like to do better, and /show/ her: Here's how we've been doing, and this has improved in the last weeks; you're doing great.

We sat together to think about this, and came up with collecting those numbers per week:

* #severe bugs (bugs in our core functionality that are encountered by customers for whom there are no workarounds)
* #reported bugs (reported by customers)
* #caught severe bugs (bugs found in staging that hold up deployment — basically bugs in above “severe” category that we caught before they went live)

If those numbers are looking good, she feels she's doing a great job.

How are you doing that? Do you have better ideas to measure the success and progress of QA in a startup?
Yeah, that's just the fund for claims from employees.
That's incorrect. Institutional money almost entirely controls GM. Along with the union.

China owns GM about as much as they own Apple. Guess what, America imports Chinese-made Apple phones. It's no different.
What about Google domains?
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The Hyperloop also can only exist with government cooperation. Stringing together such a technology across multiple state (or nation) boundaries will require much more collaborative effort than the Eisenhower administration's Interstate system.
Why do Facebook's metrics matter when talking about Twitter? Just because Facebook and Twitter are both social networking sites does not mean they are comparable.

Twitter should not have gone public, or at least not at the valuation it did. I think those who invested just wanted to ride Facebook's coattails, assuming that a new "social networking" bubble could be created and investing in any such company would be an easy buck. Surprise! You actually need to evaluate a company's individual merits, rather than expecting that any Silicon Valley IPO is a guaranteed windfall success.

And how in the world does Twitter have 4300 employees? The product should be sustainable with less than 10% of that.
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Because it is ... ?

How do we know pg's account is used by a real person, or dang's, maybe they are all aliens, or robots, who knows...
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> I wrote it to be close to what the hardware does

Your code is quite clean, but I'm not sure I'd say the rendering code is all that close to what the hardware does.

For instance, the hardware does sprite rendering in 3 distinct phases (sprite list is scanned for sprites on the current line and the first 20/16 are recorded somewhere, the non-cached half of each of those 20/16 sprites is read and then up to 40/32 tiles worth of pixel data is drawn to the line buffer.

Background layer rendering is a bit different too. The VDP actually renders an extra 2 columns worth of background data (so 42 or 34 total) to enable fine scrolling. Rendering takes place 2 columns at a time to what I believe is a 32 pixel ring buffer. The data in the ring buffer is composited with the data in the sprite line buffer as it's output to the display. The "window bug" is just a consequence of the 2 column coarse scroll granularity and the fact that it literally replaces the Plane A draws to the ring buffer.

This is not intended as a criticism of your code. If you're only going for scanline granularity, most of the above is of little consequence (apart from the window bug) and would only add complexity. That said, I think my emulator, BlastEm[0], is probably a better reference for low-level VDP behavior as it has access slot granularity and mirrors the behavior above pretty closely. The code has gotten a bit messy though. There's also Exodus[1], which has a quite heavily commented VDP core (a bit too heavily for my taste, but I imagine others may disagree).

[0] http://rhope.retrodev.com/files/blastem.html
[1] https://bitbucket.org/exodusemulator/exodus

EDIT: Fixed typo "line scrolling" should have ready "fine scrolling in the 3rd paragraph.
Give https://www.packet.net/ a try. They are relatively new (about 2 years old), but are solid and having very nice APIs.
Now that white kids are suffering...
or your arrogance is showing and you think you know better than the user what they want

IMHO that's what Apple has mostly been about: telling users what they want. Their success shows that it may not be a bad business strategy, but it's definitely not for everyone. I definitely notice there's a culture of conformity around Apple, which is especially ironic considering some of its early ads and the slogan "Think Different" --- "Don't Think" might be a better fit for today's Apple.
A man from Toronto writing a 10-minute perl module from a pub? This sounds like a Wheat Sheaf sort of affair.
Exactly. Often people try to guilt me into not be behind my computer so much because 'there is so much more'. I know there is much more but I don't enjoy that as much as coding. And that has been the case for the past 32 years. From the moment I wrote my first lines of code behind my father his luggable (1) I knew this was what I wanted to do and I never got bored of it. Do what you enjoy indeed.

(1) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Co...
> JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation , not Python Object Notation.

That does not mean it shouldn't be used anywhere else.
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I know a few who fit this description. They have very cogent reasons as to why that describes the group, but not themselves as individuals. It gets meta.
Why is a business checking account so difficult? Seems like "I have $1000 (or 10k) to place in my shiny new account" would be enough to mollify them?
I’ve been vaping for a year or so, because I like the effects of nicotine, but can’t stand smoking cigarettes.

Caffeine makes me more effective at focusing on the mundane parts of programming, but it makes it more difficult to actually reason through problems.

Nicotine doesn’t interfere with my reasoning as much, though the body high can be a distraction. Also, I still have to go outside to vape, because even if it’s not as bothersome as smoke, I’m not sure my coworkers would appreciate me blowing clouds all over the office.

I take breaks occasionally, for periods of 1–3 weeks. Cravings last a few days and they’re slightly worse than caffeine.

It’s also just a bit of geeky fun to experiment with building your own setup. I’ve never had such an intuitive understanding of electricity before. :)
Top Gun, combined with an improbable series of events, is the reason my older brother was never a fighter pilot.

After some time in the Marines followed by a number of years of commercial aviation, my brother decided to become a fighter pilot. As he had never gone to college, he went to a state school to meet the minimum requirements for acceptance -- which at the time was an Associate degree with a certain minimum grade point average.

As he was doing this later in life, he had just enough time to finish his degree and submit his paperwork for the program before a birthday would disqualify him. That May, Top Gun came out. The effect on interest in the program was so strong that they raised the grade point requirement to get in.

My brother wasn't always the best student but he had worked very hard on his degree and had the required grade point with room to spare. Now here's where it gets stupid -- after finals at the end of the year he found out that one professor had given him a failing grade, which under the new grade point requirements would disqualify him.

A phone call revealed that there was a mix up with a student with a similar name -- but at that point the professor was traveling abroad and wouldn't be able to fix the issue until after the holidays, and, unfortunately, after my brother's birthday.

My father, who had been a naval aviator himself, took my brother to D.C. to visit some old friends to try to rectify the situation. He was told that enrollment had spiked to the point where even they couldn't help.
I see no problem with using any drugs as a step-down. But what is happening is Pharma is lobbying state governments to employ suboxone as a long term maintenance solution.
This section is particularly useful to me:

http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#mentalhealth

Thanks!
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Fyi Display Link devices (which are used to dock a laptop to two monitors via a single usb cable) do not support color calibration, so flux does not work.

Found out after purchasing a usb docking station. Still fairly happy with the purchase though. Display Link is actively releasing new drivers so there is hope.
Check out the documentary 0.Casino Jack and the United Stats of Money read up on jack Abramoff. It certainly appears that he was living in a fantasy world created from pulp cold war fiction novels and he was not alone.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540814/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_6
Yes those Soviet era maps were military and classified.

They only ended up in popular circulation after a quick retreat, fuckup and corruption that happened when the Soviet forced retreated from the Baltic states.

I've heard even US militaryused(uses?) some of those maps for parts of Africa or used then initially in Afghanistan. As nobody else has bothered much to go and cross reference and built detailed maps of those regions in that much detail.
> it'd be a fool's errand to treat models like this as having to say anything about real-world policy

Then what kind of models should have something to say about policy? Simulations tend to emulate the observed phenomena of economies much better than traditional systems-of-equations models.

> There's no way I can encode a dynamic disequilibrating market process in this

Have you tried? There are plenty of easy examples in complex systems literature. We could probably find a simple non-linear mechanism to add to Norvig's model to make the equilibrium unstable. He's already got a bit of randomness, so the two combined would create dynamic disequilibrium. One of my favorite additions would be the possibility of catastrophic loss. Check out what happens to the dynamics when a transaction periodically results in the loss of all assets involved.

> Capital accumulation is far too dynamic a process to lead to rich-get-richer outcomes

That's a strange sort of statement. Are you saying this rich-get-richer phenomenon is an illusion or that because we can observe some counter examples one shouldn't make the rich-get-richer claim despite the general tendency? If the latter, that's like saying the stock market doesn't exhibit momentum because it sometimes changes direction.
or perhaps they don't want to live in SV? Tokyo's pretty nice
Article states that users generating content aren't interested in money. Wrong. Users have to sell through bandcamp because for some reason, SC hasn't provided a market place.

Article states how artists like Skrillex made a name for themselves but posting remixes of famous songs on SC. SC now removed remixes, citing copyright infringement, even on legal, commissioned remixes. SC flags your song if the title contains a famous artist's name or song title even if your song didn't actually sample the famous song. After 3 strikes, your account is banned, all fans and followers lost.

Smart artists are leaving SC in droves.

SC is hosting music from major labels. Users pay nothing to listen. How are they making money? The only users that pay are the artists uploading their own work. Yet those artists have no way to make money on SC. SC has sponsored tracks inserted into listeners feed. That doesn't pay the bills. Also, the promoted track is not based on the user's taste so they mostly hear songs they hate.
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USA didn't sell at a profit. But the loss was $10.5B to save (according to the article) 1.2M jobs, and saved $34.5B in tax losses. Even if you ignore the saved tax income, thats less than $9,000 per job saved.

So the bailout was probably _still_ a net positive for the US.
Hadn't read that Wired article before - thanks for sharing. Wow! The Soviet maps are beautiful and accurate (not something you can say about many other Soviet legacies), a real historical treasure trove.
Plenty are. But economists, like mathematicians and programmers, have 2 choices - work in the banking/finance industry, or in academia.
Ask HN: Would you share your health care costs?
Only in health care can you agree to pay for a service and have no idea how much you are going to pay for it until a few weeks later when the bill hits. Would you be willing to share your health care costs anonymously? So that way, the next time you would need care, you could look it up and not be hit with a sticker shock.
Wouldn't it prevent people writing GPL2 software from using it, as the anti-tivoization would not be GPL2 no additional restrictions clause friendly? See the GPL FAQ compatibility chart [1], bottom left. The case I'm thinking of is where if you fork somebody else's GPL2 project and don't expect to be able to ask them to relicense (e.g. code from a company that no longer exists).

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#gpl-compat-matrix
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> Yes I have and don't lie

You've posted many uncivil comments to Hacker News, and we've asked you not to do this before. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban your account.
Indeed, but it is true that Steam has no indication whatsoever when you download a game (or buy one) whether it's DRM-free or not. It's not explicit in any way.
For anyone interested in Erlang or Elixir, Virding has a great talk on the Erlang VM. It's a good look on how BEAM implements its concurrency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pwlvy3zz9M&feature=youtu.be
The author addresses this towards the end of the piece, arguing that translators would be obliged to preserve the stylistic cues from the original:

> We could go further and ask, Would it really be possible to create an English translation of Homer or the Gospels that fundamentally avoids dialogical cues, or severs them from the other features observed here?
Anyone know if there's something like this for Bandcamp?
I see the same type of problems all the time. f.lux flashes between full blue light and the filter for a few seconds whenever I connect or disconnect my external monitor from my MacBook.
This article is just ludicrous Food Babe-ism. Yes, we do share 98% of our DNA with pigs, we're just another type of animal -- why shouldn't we consume Soylent? Regular food is made from corn, soy, and vegetable oil, the only difference is the way it's prepared. Sheesh.
Yes. Though it was certainly common for consoles to have more than one processor (you usually had a handful of special-purpose cores), eight is pretty excessive.
We appreciate your concern for the integrity of the threads here, but it's against HN's rules to accuse other users of astroturfing without evidence. Asking insinuating questions is just a milder version of accusing, so it's covered by the same rule.

Enthusiastic comments don't count as evidence, especially when the accounts have histories of commenting on lots of other things.
Keep in mind that a lot of their costs are rapidly declining as the stock price goes down. This is the piece of a GAAP earnings statement that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If the market loves what they're doing, and the stock goes up, then what they were paying people suddenly becomes unreasonable, and they get hammered for not controlling costs? I just don't get it.

Anyway, I sold all the shares I could at $51, and then sold everything else at $31, so I clearly didn't feel like the price was worth that, but $12B for the company seems a little low to me. Given current news is likely to be taken as a reason to sell, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see the company get bought. Which I guess could push the stock up a little bit, like it did last week, but it would take months of that to get people's compensation back to where it was with RSUs that were handed out a year ago.
Well if it is off limits then SoundCloud should really hire this guy ASAP. As a new SC user I much prefer desktop clients to web browser applications.
The description of that development process is dangerously reminiscent of an Oatmeal comic panel:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/design_hell/8....

Rumsfeld himself is interesting, though. There's a documentary about him currently on Netflix, directed by Errol Morris: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2390962/

[Comic panel was from http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell ]
I don't think the Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Student Affairs Outreach has any role so pragmatic as aiding in grant preparation. I think they spend most of their time responding to emails and attending meetings about recruitment strategies and whether the college is sufficiently committed to diversity.

I would also say the fact that Ginsberg is not a victim only bolsters his point. He really has nothing to gain by making these statements.
Hmm, then the documentation is to blame for not making the signaling inheritance clear.
The author didn't seem to refute that placebo with some amount of deception could have moderately significant positive effects on subjective diseases such as pain / depression. Not that alternative medicine is ethical due to that, but simply that having a strong doctor/patient relationship may be almost as good as prescribing drugs in some scenarios. Or subjective measuring just sucks and some diseases have to rely on it so the measurement is affected more than the disease.

Objective diseases are a whole other matter.
Ok, we changed the title from "Herbie: A tool to automatically rewrite arithmetic expressions to minimize error" to be closer to what you've said here. If anyone can suggest a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
Many articles regarding the mistreatment of part-time academics have been making their way onto hacker news, and I feel that this isn't really going to change any time soon.

More and more, universities are there to create a "brand image", not provide decent education. This is why there is such an emphasis on administrators, because decent academics just want to learn more and teach, not try to sell you on a whole host of rubbish.

This is why things won't improve. If you have institutions that aim to provide more luxury to their students, so that they have "great college memories", then how do you expect colleges to pay more for better teachers.
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There are ways to allow advertisers to use identity to target logged out users, so it doesn't have to be priced as remnant inventory.
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"Map matching" is the term used in most literature for this function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_matching