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I don't think this is necessarily something to put on Peterson. Over the years, the Vikings have added more offensive weapons, notably a better receiving core and aquarterback. With Brett Favre there this year, the Vikings had a passing threat that was lacking with Tavaris Jackson, so Peterson wasn't relied on as much to run the offense (This is similar in San Diego with LT - his role is reduced now that Philip Rivers has become a better qb). I also think that defenses are more prepared for him than in previous years, when he was first breaking out on the scene.
Does the CurrentCost unit have to be attached at the meter or can it be hooked up to the breaker box?
I look at them as the same thing. In either case there is a modification that is going to take place to correct the issue. To error is human and in 17 years of software development I have never come across a project that didn't have both mistakes and bugs in it.
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I don't think a verbal promise like this would legally allow anyone to pull the plug, although I don't really know. Can any lawyers comment on this?
What’s going on in the net lately
I’m never really good at writing news post, but with all the burning hot topics lately, I just can’t turn away from it anymore.
Around 92 I was forced into a required class for basic computers. I didn't pay much attention, but got A's as it was covering topics I already knew well. What I did learn from that class was from the students as I noticed many were just downright afrid of the machines and would only do what the teacher said.

There was no sense of play and the fear of "Blowing something up" was always there and I wondered how anybody could learn with that kind of fear.

I can understand getting frustrated but fear of the machine was baffling but I got a good glimpse on how "regular" people reacted to technology.
No, Xbox has largest market share in the gamer community period, with > 25 million units shipped worldwide. And they will be profitable overall on their gaming unit by the time this console generation is over (2015?).

Nintendo is operating in a different market. They are a toy company, first and foremost. And it's better, conceptually, to think about the Wii and DS as toys. They have a completely different audience - and completely different revenue model. People buy toys for a short-term entertainment value, or novelty - and then the novelty wears off.

This describes the Wii exactly - people buy one, they play a game or two, or maybe Wii fit, and that's it. You aren't seeing serious time spent with it - and the tie ratio demonstrates that.

BTW - I think I'd classify Guitar Hero / Rock Band as toys, too. Hence the horrible sales numbers this season - people are sick of this particular kind of toy.
Somehow I don't think that learning how to operate a unique proprietary user interface(iPad) will help people to operate a real desktop computer. While it may temporary help to boost users self confidence in using a computer it will only serve as a fallback after the inevetable frustrations with a full UI.

What is realy apsent from the mind of older generations is the idea that computers are just tools, albeit imensly powerfull ones, and as with all tools we need time and especially motivation to learn how to use them.

Personally, I don't give a damm how my car works but I had to learn how to use it to get form one place to another and it would certainly be much harder to do it if every other car had a radically diferent set of controlls.
I've seen one Pythonista troll the ruby-talk mailing list. I have no idea whether any Rubyists troll Python's main community venue -- but if there are any, I'm pretty sure they're probably Rails people, which really have their own, separate community.
Thanks Dave.

What I'm hearing (and feel free to correct me) is that the gain over Ruby is not as much about additional expressiveness as it is about providing this expressiveness with equivalent performance to that of in-built language operators. That's fair.

I've used Lisp quite a bit (in fact, I did almost all of my first significant programming in Scheme) and even with that background, I've never bought the claim that Lisp gives you some huge practical syntactical/semantic gain over Ruby's already extremely expressive and extensible syntax. I guess I was hoping to be swayed.

N.B. apotheon's comment sums up my perspective perfectly.
When was the last time the acted the 800lb gorilla? When then yanked one publisher's books from their book store? Or when they refused to approve Google Voice for Windows?

Microsoft has been thoroughly declawed by the antitrust suite - all the energetic and ruthlessly effective people who were driving company forward have left Microsoft about 10 years ago when they realized they can't use their favorite set of tools anymore. This is why Microsoft hasn't been changing the world in the last 10 years, in a good or bad way.
Chicago based. Another founder is temporarily in SF for the next couple of months.
Sounds like didn't read the linked info either.

For Maemo, see earlier on Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1090855
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this. By keeping the function definition near the route instead of just defining a name, I feel that it's much, much cleaner.

> I doubt that we've used a disjoint set of web libraries,

I guess I mis-spoke slightly. I meant assigning a function to a route, because I consider that (in this case) it's an anonymous function to be an irrelevant detail. Basically, to me

get "/hello", hello
def hello
puts "hello"
end

to be the as clear or less clear than the way Sinatra does it. Rails and Zend (the two frameworks I've used the most) put that 'def hello' in another file, elsewhere.

Anyway, thanks for the discussion. We've apparently boiled it down to taste, so it's a good thing there are multiple languages, I guess.
He certainly can't send messages as complicated as that, but if I only had one bit to flip, I would be flipping it as much as possible to get someone's attention.

That said, he probably did the correct thing by simply answering their questions. That shows that "someone is home" better than flipping his bit randomly.
I'd start at http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/ and his actual papers, not what a reporter writes. :)
That looks to me like a variant of Apps Hungarian, encoding variable use. When you say you don't like Hungarian, do you mean more specifically that silly Systems Hungarian that encodes concrete data type?
The drop-off from year 1 to year 2 can largely be attributed to defenses having had a year to figure out how to stop him. His first year he had some huge games simply because defenses weren't prepared for a rookie to come in and dominate like he did.

Year 2 to year 3 is a little misleading because he got a new quarterback and a new offense, resulting in his rushing numbers being diluted a bit. Note that if you add in his 10.1 yard receiving average, his yards per touch are actually up from last year.
By increasing your hourly rate you naturally start with higher expectations from your client. In the same respect the expectations I put on myself are higher, and I see this as a way to strengthen my output by intensifying my effort.
As a former physicist, I find it hard to ignore just how inaccurate the graph is...
I did not mean to imply that Lisp's notation itself was against common sense - just that the article made a very good common-sense point about its expressiveness coming at a price that's often not worth paying, relative to the advantages it gives you over languages with less expressive but more goal-oriented syntax.
He-he. I see we have a nice group of recovering 'softies here, yours truly included (I left in October 2009). We should create a support group or something. :-)
I love Ruby. I don't really like Python as much (Python and I have irreconcilable philosophical and code-formatting differences). I was not offended.

I was, however, saddened by the fact that almost every single time I've seen a Pythonista talk about how nice Pythonistas are, the comment has included a dig at people who use other languages like that. The probability seems to run in the 90%+ range.
> It's especially visible in the world of package management software. Nearly all come as a package: their own format, their own repos, their own scripts, and the command-line interface. I still don't understand why there's neither single packages' format, nor scripts cannot be reused, and everyone reinvents the wheel on daily basis.

People aren't 'reinventing' the wheel constantly. There are only two major package management structures (deb/rpm) and there are even tools to translate between them, IIRC. Why 'their own repos?' Because if they make design decisions that are incompatible with the current repository, they have to host their own. It's not like Ubuntu and Debian are mutually exclusive as far as repositories go. Ubuntu pulls over a 'snapshot' of Debian's unstable repository, applying patches where they need to and/or see fit. There are probably plenty of packages in Ubuntu that are unchanged from what they were in the Debian Unstable repository.

I'm sure it's the same with Ubuntu-based distros like Mint. They probably pull over a snapshot of the Ubuntu repos, make their modifications and it becomes their next revision of Mint.

> Bazaar

Bzr has its own set of headaches. I haven't used it extensively, but IIRC they use revision numbers on commits that are only valid locally, which I think is a big no-no. Especially with people coming from other version control systems that use the revision number as the canonical pointer to a specific revision.
Hence the name, which is Greek for "Second Law".
Modelling the cooling effects of reflective roofing in cities
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Graphene transistors promise 100GHz speeds
Try actually reading what was said, instead of rephrasing it according to some internal narrative.
We've explored analyzing the impact that coaches bring to teams and athletes and have found some interesting results.

The big problem though, is that with the NFL at least, there are just wayyyyy too many coaches a player touches and that makes it hard to model to a degree.
Great questions srik..

1. Mobile is a huge item on our to-do list.

2. Students will always have access to a free version of the site to manage their assignments, courses, files, and other aspects of their classes.

3. This is another big task that we'll be developing in the next iteration.

4. There is no current grade sharing as of right now. Students can only see his or her own grades, and teachers can only see grades for their students in the teacher's respective courses.

5. Working on it

Adding third party login support isn't something we've discussed in detail, but it's a great idea and may be incorporated at some point.
There're a bunch of cultural features that tend to prevent internal competition at Google:

Everybody has access to (nearly) all source code. The single repository means that you can dig in to find & fix problems in any Google product, regardless of your position in the org chart. And if someone invents a feature that you want to use, you can just grab it, like the appearance of Wonder Wheel on YouTube.

Google has a strong ethos of "If it's broke, fix it", regardless of the org chart or assigned responsibilities. It's usually mentioned to you as a Noogler, but what really reinforces it is the reaction you get when you actually fix something broken. In a lot of companies, there'd be a bunch of "Who is this guy and why is he mucking with our code?" recriminations (if you can even get access to the code). In Google there's a "thanks for doing this" and sometimes a peer bonus.

Code reviews help a lot, somewhat paradoxically. When all code is reviewed, you lose the fear that you'll break somebody else's code with your fix. You make your fix, send it off, and if there're problems they'll have you fix them in the review. If it conflicts with the overall goals of the project, they'll just deny your patch.

In a system without code reviews, chances are that you'll break something by contributing to a project that you don't really know about. And once enough people have broken things, the company institutes code ownership policies that mean you can't fix things in other products.

There's also 20% time, as someone else mentioned. And the combination of free meals and pretty fluid inter-project mobility. It's likely that your teammates have worked on other projects before, with people who are now in wildly different areas of the company.

Finally, there's just the difference in growth rates between the two companies. Everybody at Google has more work than they can reasonably do. If somebody else does the work, it just means you can go home early this week, and there'll be plenty of other things to accomplish next week. If you spend 3 months writing a dialog box in Windows, though, and somebody makes that feature obsolete...well, that rather sucks.
I'm trying to create a lab somewhat like this, but actually as a co-operative living situation. The idea is that a huge proportion of the environmental footprint people have comes from their homes, transportation, work, and materials. If a collection of green entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers are then living together under that one roof, then they can use that home as a prototype for the new technologies, products, methodologies, and ways of thinking and living for a future green society. From there, we can spin them out into the world, through journalism or as actual products.

----

The main problem with such incubators is that the big ideas are a tiny part of the game. Execution really matters; at least for me, my inventions have to work at scale! I have ideas for technologies and businesses which altogether could supply trillions of dollars worth of market need; but supplying this first million is still going to be a long slog, and that will require focus.
Use an Accountability Partner to stay on track
I stand corrected -- it used to be that Symbian was just the OS and lower layers, and Nokia had S60 UI etc., Ericsson had UIQ. But I guess this changed a few (2?) years back when Nokia bought a bigger part of Symbian?
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The Xbox / Xbox 360 has absolutely changed the nature of online gaming. They've done more to make it accessible than ever before: The ease and transparency of playing games with your friends (voice chat, the party system), the introduction of matchmaking in Halo 2 (a huge leap from the 'choose a server' system in the past), achievements, etc, all presented with a unified interface across games.

Both the PS3 and Steam have adopted their innovations - they've become the defacto standard for online gaming.
Hey, author here. I don't usually comment on my own articles on HN, but this comment was one of the more negative ones I've seen here.

A lot of us here on Hacker News (formerly Startup News) are working on startups. One of the biggest challenges facing startups is finding the determination to work hard during the long initial period where you might see very few fruits from your labors. Personally, I like to read pg's "How Not to Die" frequently (http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html). It was in this light that I wrote the article. I submitted it to HN and apparently it struck a chord with a lot of readers here, and they upvoted it.

Not every article on HN is going to appeal to every reader. Perhaps you're not working on a startup, so this article doesn't really apply to you. Maybe my next one will. Recognize that not all HN readers are in the same situation in life; enjoy the articles that apply directly to your situation, and read the others to give you perspective on the lives of your fellow HNers.
I've walked by that store for years and until today didn't realize that it wasn't a store that sells cupcakes. I'm kinda glad too, that would have been weird.
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No follow the paid link - not just the 'Ads By the Lounge part' (as keltex mentioned) & add meta descriptions. Meta KWs don't mean much (if anything), but Google will often use your meta descriptions in their results.
Not being USian, I have no idea who Adrian Peterson is, no idea what a running back is and no idea why they might fumble or what that might mean.

So no, at least not analytics for sports that don't really exist outside the US. Data on Cycling or Motorsport would interest me.
Well, I don't think those people would even buy such a device. Only people that are aware of their energy usage and actively want to reduce it would want a device like this.

Of course if they got a deal with an energy supplier and got this installed for free in all houses it'd be a different matter entirely.
Quote:

"Take the transmitter and its sensor jaw to your mains meter; select the thick round wire from the meter that leads to your house. Ensure there is room around the wire for the jaw to encircle the wire and put the clamp around the wire."
Actually, as another poster points out, it's hard to fully mask outgoing network traffic unless you control the hub/router as well.
> Does 'Rube' have a negative connotation attached to it?

Yes, it does. Rubyists are typically called Rubyists or Ruby hackers if one does not wish to insult them. Calling a Rubyist ia "Rube" would be like calling a Pythonista a "Pyker" (reference to [piker](http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/piker), definition 2).

> Maybe I just haven't participated in enough Python-Ruby flamewars to know all of the 'secret' lingo that's only offensive to you if you are already part of that flamewar culture?

There's nothing "secret" about the insulting character of the term "rube".
Short answer: glitch isn't the right word. There was almost certainly a particle with an extremely high energy. Whether they can measure energies that high is questionable.

Long answer: I'm not familiar with this specific experiment, but I am familiar with ones that try to measure the same thing.

The thing about most of these devices is that they have a sweet spot in which they have the highest accuracy. These detectors have a sweet spot which is a few orders of magnitude below the energy measured here. So there is always the question of how well you can extrapolate.

You'll notice there is no uncertainty quoted on the energy. It would not be unreasonable to expect that uncertainty is at least 1 order of magnitude in each direction. Probably more.

While that might seem like a lot, it's also important to know that the relevant measurement is not the particle's energy, but actually the number of particles above a certain energy. So they don't care so much if the energy measurement is off by a lot, as long as it's really big.
I disagree, I can't get used to the console view in Dev Tools. No statuses are returned for ajax requests you can't easily see post parameters, headers, json formated return data, etc.

Also, in firebug changes in the source are reflected as you type; in chrome dev tools you need to finish editing for it to re-render. It's a small but really annoying thing.
So Microsoft is preventing you from buying copy of Windows 7 and installing Firefox? No? Your anger is misplaced then, should be angry with your IT department that doesn't let you upgrade form a 9 year old OS.
I thought including PHP in that litany of crimes was a little weird, too. I mean . . . PHP actually deserves it.
When I was about 9 or so I became extremely interesting in computers. I wasn't afraid of them....and I broke them over and over usually to the dismay of my family. Now I know how to do advanced things properly...but computers are very fragile and easy to break. This has to change for normal users, the Applet Tablet and Chrome OS are steps in that direction.

People want stable machines that never break no matter what they do. Once we actually get to that point, maybe people will stop being so afraid but we aren't there, their fear comes from experience of things breaking on them.
Is it learned helplessness or learned laziness? My mother can speak 5 different languages but "needed" me to show her how find her "My Documents" after she downloaded email attachments for years. It was amazing how after I stopped helping her with everything immediately ("Ma, I've got to finish this homework" is a remarkably effective retort) that she put in the effort to understand how to use this tool for her purposes.

I think more than anything there just hasn't been a good enough effort to help people get up the first part of the learning curve as they often have no idea where to start and people haven't been taught how to protect themselves, etc.

I agree with the earlier post that software designers have to want to make things simple, but people have to want to learn how to use it.
I owned Peterson, and although he didn't live up to the #1 spot, he did live up to the first round. He was usually the highest scoring player on my team even with 3 fumbles in a game.
There will always be people like that. My grandmother used to live with us as I was growing up, and she was always afraid of technology. She was afraid to touch the electronic thermostat... even though it only had two buttons and just displayed the set temp and the current temp. She was deathly afraid that she would 'break' it.

{edit} On the other hand, you also have people that constantly break things as a result of their own actions, and refuse to change. My friend's sister would be constantly corrupting her external hard drive because she would just yank the plug to remove her laptop from her desk. My friend would fix things and repeatedly tell her not to do that, but it would always happen again.

People are all over the spectrum. There are people that are just downright afraid of new things, and there are people that just take everything for granted (not caring what the consequences of their actions are).
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I like how eventually the AI knows to just go diagonally (with some corrections) through some zigzags. Also pretty impressive just how fast the reactions are, not necessarily from a computational standpoint but from seeing just how slow human reaction is.
No no no, he doesn't exist except in your imagination. When you see him banning people from his forum, you are seeing an external representation of the divide within yourself.
I think the point is the delay, not the briefcase. You came in with it ready, but they didn't know that until starting to ask about salary. Then you hit them with it.
From what I can see, the transactions in ZFS and Transactional NTFS are completely different kind of things. The Transactional NTFS kind are distributed transactions of the kind you normally associate with database server and messaging systems like MQ - so your file IO can enlist in a transaction that touches a lot of different things.

Not saying it is a good idea - abuse of distributed transactions is a terrible thing, but I do think it is fairly innovative.
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