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I cannot possibly imagine the chaos if the 5 million people who use the Hong Kong MTR every day suddenly started using cars.

That's because you haven't thought through what it's going to be like when those cars aren't driven by humans.
While everything you say is possibly true, the original statement was that C didn't bring anything good. I believe the evidence of it's usage disagrees with that statement.

Also, on optimization, I don't know exactly what you mean by that. I assume you mean b/c it's got a lot of undefined behavior. There is so much optimization going on in tools like LLVM that I question it's accuracy.

Anyway, I agree that there are more pleasurable and portable languages (and now just as performant/lightweight with Rust).
The Battle.net 2 protocol is almost entirely Protobuf based and the protos can be recreated from the HS decompiled code or the Diablo 3 in-executable protobins.

https://github.com/hearthsim/hs-proto

https://github.com/hearthsim/proto-extractor
Hair cutting is a huge market, your idea sounds novel, and you seem like you have the insight and know-how to invent a disruptive tool. If the results of your machine are comparable to Great Clips, and the cost is reasonable, and the device is simple to operate, you could conceivably eclipse Flowbee's market share within 4 or 5 years. On the other hand, if the quality is worse than a below average haircut and the variety of the available cuts is small, and the device is clumsy to use -- then until you fix those issues (which could take many years I would imagine) attracting customers and investors might be difficult (That is, unless you know a secret I do not.)

So with safety. An automated cutting machine that operates on human heads might be a significant legal liability. Your engineering would need to nail the tolerances just so to minimize the risk of injury. But you have thought of that. I trust you will test your machine on cheap wigs and mannequin heads before you give yourself that crew cut.

In this space there appear to be 1 patent (http://www.google.com/patents/US4602542) and several patent applications (e.g. http://www.google.com/patents/US20140137714, http://www.google.com/patents/WO2013096572A1, http://www.google.com/patents/WO2015063651A1, http://www.google.com/patents/WO2015067484A1). Don't let this deter you. Just be aware there might be legal claims on your invention.

In 2010 a Japanese company called Robo-Chop planned to open a robot barbershop in a UK mall (http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/6242617.Hair_cutting_ro...). I can find no relevant search results about them today. It might be useful to know what happened to Robo-Chop.

Enough pragmatism. I respect your idea and ambition, and it sounds like you know what you are doing. Good luck on your MVP/Beta.
I didn't read the document at [1]. Is it based on the idea that self-driving cars won't operate under coordinated supervision, and will behave just like cars driven by humans?

Because if it is, it isn't worth the space it takes up on the Internet. Self-driving cars won't be any more vulnerable to gridlock than trains are.

And none of this stuff is going to happen "overnight," especially in Seattle.
The Internet's Great War: An Interview with the Author of 'Empires of EVE'
This seems like one of the few US based healthcare ideas that will cross international borders easily. The US healthcare world is surprisingly insular but the efficacy of medical devices is the same no matter your GOS co ordinates.

If you can track device and patient outcome directly, that's amazing. But it sounds fraught

If you are "just" converting trial data to accessible format, that's great too but does seem more ... Going to get taken over by the FDA in about five years.

But even if the FDA don't buy you but just replace you, it's worth doing for the value in those intervening years

Good luck
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Only if you have trouble distinguishing Appalachia from the South.
Love your ideas. I also had the same idea that a single elected body would serve us better. The existing parties would never go for it. What we need is to break down our existing parties into reasonable pieces, have one house, and have that house elect the president.

Another idea, Western oregon, Western Washington, and British Columnia should be combined into one state, or maybe their own country. We are pretty similar.
This could be quite cool if technologically feasible, do you have a prototype or how far along is it?
Funny, to me it was an indicator of her age (ie when she started using the Internet). I have the same reaction to articles on blogger. I associate Medium with minimalist know-it-all bearded fixie hipster programmers (under 35). :p Still better then the SV(u)btle peeps (but less exclusive, by invitation only peeps, let's keep it classy!).
The page looks about right. The interesting part here is the module bundling, not the UI.

edit:
this is the markup on the demo
<body>
Webpack Boilerplate
</body>
I think it's because players have to download an old version of WoW in order to play. This is a full game download and includes artwork and music IP content. Not to mention it means there is no need to pay a monthly fee to Blizzard.

Blizzard is fully in their right to shut it down, but it's unfortunate the current state of things.

This is not about getting around paying for WoW. Vanilla WoW is practically abandoned-ware. Blizzard has been clear they have no plans to launch a Vanilla server, and they don't even seem sympathetic to the idea. There is content and gameplay in Vanilla that you cannot experience in the current version of WoW. There are many old school players who have fond memories of Vanilla (including me), and we have no way to get our nostalgia fix other than a server like Nostalrius.

I have moved on from WoW and have no interest in the current game, but I would enjoy experiencing Vanilla again, just like I enjoy playing old SNES RPGs, listening to 80's music, or reading the same books or watching the same movies over and over. With other forms of media you can do that, but not here. I understand the legal reasons, but still, it's unfortunate.

I see this as another new and lamentable consequence of things moving to the cloud. I find similarities here with the Nest/Google fiasco. It used to be you could buy something and it was yours, completely, forever, to do with whatever you want. Now, not as much.
Since about 1980, only 10 states have been potential swing states. So those 10 get most of the attention (Ohio, Florida). We'd be far better off with direct vote for the prez.

I want to make house of rep elections be fore an entire state too, this is one of the few ways to break gerrymandering.
Really, according to government & the fed unemployment is pretty close to it's lowest in 10 years :

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE

Likewise, what are these people who can't find jobs doing ? They're not asking for unemployment benefits ...

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/IC4WSA
The comparison between Wildstar and Vanilla WoW is a complete misnomer.

I played both Nostalrius and Wildstar extensively and the two were nowhere close in terms of scale, depth of world, community, lore, or any other metric you can think of really. The boss mechanics, housing, and soundtrack were great but the game was incredibly lackluster otherwise. Lore had some potential with the Drusera arc being interesting.

As for the bad: PvP balance was a trainwreck. Quests were meaningless as you'd get 30 at once and blow through each on in a couple minutes. Rep grind rewards were poorly balanced. Instances offered little reason to run them repeatedly and relied too much on the interrupt mechanic. The world was much less atmospheric barring some neat zones like Farside that you had no reason to return to after leveling through. Itemization was dull with no interesting items or stats. No secondary professions. No cosmetic pets. Instanced zones. I could go on and on but that touches on most of the major issues.

Oh, and while I love addons they needed to be more careful with just how powerful they could be within their poorly planned economy. I coded an autocrafter for the Architect profession in the first couple days and basically botted (legally) $1500 worth of currency @CREDD rates in a single week. Fun for me but rather unhealthy for the economy itself.
A compounding issue is that not all kids are made for higher ed. Some just don't have the aptitude, but the conduit towards vocational schools isn't there as it probably was long ago (we don't have the hauptschule/gymnasium system).

Unfortunately, such a system in the US would quickly run into trouble as schools would quickly get accused of funneling 'good' students one way and 'bad' students the other way and there would be accusations of unconscious bias of one type or another.

So we only have the "go to college/university" recommendation, for everyone, even students who clearly don't have the aptitude and would do better in a vocational school.
The Internet of bricks
You can abstract in your code using a Provider pattern but if this product can provide it out of the box along with the other features I wouldn't spend time on coding the Abstraction.
Thanks for your response! The references cited in your literature overview seems to focus on neuro feedback for ADHD, which is a great market. I remember reading recently that pediatric ADHD is on the rise and that it's super underdiagnosed - I'd imagine an effective diagnosis+management solution in this specific space to be extremely lucrative.

Also, I don't know if you'll get this from others, but simply saying "mental health" made me immediately think of depression and related issues. My suggestion would be to refine your problem and solution statement to narrowly talk about your initial target segment (ADHD, autism, etc.) of the broader mental health space.

Good luck to your team!
Good questions, I have tried to answer them as simple and complete as possible.

1) I wrote my first API in 1998 to connect field agent laptops to DARPA's web interface for incident management. Been building distributed systems and APIS for private enterprise ever since. Unfortunately, this my first publicly available product.

2) A combination of things, lots of questions here. Major versioning will control access to new features or structural changes in features. Bugs will be patched as often and quickly as possible in a minor release. Obscure documentation problem will be blogged about and then linked into the BW docs. Registered users will receive communication about all the aforementioned items via email or inline in the BW dashboard as notifications.

3) No, at this time we will to support upstream API caching.

4) There are many subsystems involved in BW. Our core is written in NodeJS.

5) Every upstream API endpoint is tracked by BW, we keep audit and metric logs. Each endpoint that requires authentication will interact with Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io) for requesting and storing credentials.

6) There are multiple layers of security with BW.
- SSL, to secure the wire
- Network (public/private), the only publicly exposed system is the proxy. The proxy is responsible for all traffic in/out of BW.
- App Token, All upstream API calls including BW services and 3rd party API services require authentication to the proxy using an app token. The app token is unique to each app you run on BW and using ACL security will allow access to only the services provisioned for that app (data, email, storage, user auth).
- User Authentication/ACL, every BW account is secured from one another using ACL security. Audit logs are maintained for all requests made in BW.
- Endpoint Security, as mentioned above if you are connecting to an upstream API endpoint that requires a token then BW will use Vault.

Thanks!
Yes because an English dictionary is a historical record of how English speakers and writers use words and phrases making no judgement as to their 'correctness' or whether an audience of current English speakers would understand you were you to use them.

The purpose of a dictionary is to aid you in understanding the meaning any English speaker or writer is trying to convey independent of the time period or location, not to dictate valid and invalid words. Some words might be dropped from abridged dictionaries when they fall out of popularity but in 'The English Dictionary' (which doesn't really exist but is approximated by dictionaries like Oxford's) words are added but never removed.

This is different, than say, the mission of L'Académie française which is to act as a language regulator and maintain the official vocabulary and grammar of French.
Page 4 summarizes all that really needs to be said here: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf

Knight didn't have a proper risk system. A correct risk system is a dead-man switch. There is just no way to place this many erroneous orders and get them filled. Capital Limits Exceeded: Full Shutdown. Risk System Crashes: Full shutdown. Heartbeat fails: Full shutdown.

Better to have a paranoid risk system than a rouge strategy.

The real flaw wasn't legacy code, it was straight-up laziness. This really isn't rocket-science.
The man who recorded, tamed, and sold nature sounds to America
That's a good point. The makers of dictionaries have always sought catalogue language rather than create it. That's what Samuel Johnson set out to do. Without dictionaries we certainly would have lost a lot of words from our collective knowledge along the way.

Sesquiedalian seems to have been popping up since the 1600s.

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/176752?redirectedFrom=sesquipe...
I help admin a local org's website. We cross post to our site, meetup.com, and our facebook page. Each sucks in its own special way. I wouldn't expect a non-tech to figure this crap out.
Show HN: EasyWrite- Write clearly using only 1,000 commonly used words
Metric Embedding, Hyperbolic Space, and Social Networks [pdf]
OK, I'll be the one asking this question:

Are you planning on compensating the people who participate in this experiment in any way.

Here's the point: YC will be receiving a massive amount of help in filtering and vetting dozens or hundreds of potential companies to fund. Once funded, they might fail but they can also be huge successes. YC stands to make millions, tens or hundreds of millions (or better if the starts align).

So, you got a bunch of smart people to use their time and intellect to act as filters for your investment. What do they get in return?

The fair approach would be to give them some ownership. Even a single share would have meaning.
Wait so where are you on the diesel yes/no question
> Student loans are the only legal way to sell yourself into "debt slavery"[0] in the United States.

Do you mean that student loans are the only legal way to attain a loan whose collateral is your future earnings potential? Because if so that's very wrong.
Yes that is a good point.

So the idea here is not to match "Everything". Choose your field of interest (Movies, Hobbies, Sports, Politics, Art, Travel, etc etc). Here I assume that people don't talk about only Football (for instance) when they are on a date with someone. However I agree that people may not (now that I think of it) talk about everything in public, but it is not impossible to co-relate persona based on past history of interactions.

If We allow only 64 male and 64 female at first they all have no choice but to see all others ( even there the profiles are nearer to you, if they are a good match )
This could be cool if the "401L" would have the proper tax incentives around it as well. I think there is very small tax incentive to repay student loans now. How does that work exactly?

Now if Employers add matching as a benefit that could be a cool perk. It seems like Employers stopped doing 401K matching lately. Did they stop and why?
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Read my blog post on this if interested: http://www.deekshith.in/2016/04/easy-write-intro.html
Let me know your feedback.
Thanks :)
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Legally they might be within their right, but cases like this really demonstrate to me that there ought to be some legal concept of abandonware when a product is substantially modified from its original state.

What precedent does it set that you have no legal right to retain access to software in the form that you've paid for it? If Gabe Newell went insane tomorrow and fired all employees then shipped patches making all Valve titles unplayable is there really no legal recourse for the people who bought those games? This is a case of the law being behind the technological realities in my opinion.

(and yes I know there's probably some EULA cop-out about how you don't own the client and merely paid for a temporary license to it or blah blah blah)
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The pervasive bias that envelops us all
I think this kind of goes both ways.

I've had instances where if I reveal my technical experience with the usual way I speak about such things - I get cold/rude service. This happened at one of those AT&T storefronts, Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, and at more than a few Apple Stores. I don't try to be intimidating, but I do want to inform the person "helping" me if I can...

I've gotten into the habit of adopting a slower speech with a slight drawl in an effort to appear more relatable and honest about my intentions. It takes some patience as I have to describe my problem 'in a circle' and without a larger vocabulary. However, I don't get treated like sheltered upper-class and people seem to want to help me rather than avoid me.

I've also avoid sounding like the stereotypical homosexual. Just the "accent" makes some people freak out and say I'm 'shoving it in their face'. I'm looking at you Aunt Marlene. I reserve the lisp for Vegas and Chippendales.

Just something to think about...
The telltale sign of classicism in modern America is how the upper middle classes continue to put up with inflated college tuition fees. They're basically paying to keep the lower classes out.
Out of curiosity - what does that quote mean?

As in, both in this context, and originally?
Read this, been through this and thought about this .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444810 What do you guys think ?
Counter-commute? or reverse commute? Shouldn't Kirkland->Seattle still be the 'normal' commute direction?
Tagged add, optionally with overflow trapping, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC
This was inspired by Smalltalk on a RISC and added explicitly for Lisp and Smalltalk. Also in support of this, trapping on unaligned loads.
Well, yeah, there's that. Downtown Bellevue -> I-90 has been a parking lot for ages. Even in the late 90s when I last lived there. Even at 3pm. Always 10min to go 3mi.
> C got popular because it allowed low-level code to be implemented in something higher-level than assembler and moderately portably too (machines back then where as lot more dissimilar than today). It's hard to disassociate C from Unix, the former making the latter easy to port. A symbiotic relationship.

You mean like Burroughs was doing with Extended Algol in 1961 for its Burroughs B5500 system, implemented with zero lines of Assembly, while offering all the features for memory safety that C designers deemed too hard to implement?

Archeology of systems programming languages is great to dismitify the magic aura C seems to have gained in the last 20 years with the raise of FOSS.
What kind of shows?
I felt compelled to create an account because of this misconception (not really your comment, just within the whole thread) that mass transit isn't already automated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_operation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...

Metros in most major cities already have trains that drive themselves. There may be a driver, but all they do is open and close the doors. Some systems (like Vancouver) don't have drivers at all.
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As described this seems like it would be really difficult to implement.

Why not a kinect peripheral that tracks a networked hair trimmer. Depending on the position of the trimmer, it turns on/off to avoid overcutting.

I cut my own hair sometimes with an adjustable trimmer, and the hardest part is getting the length right at the back of your head.
the U.S.A. does not have debtors' prison

While true in theory, this may not be true in practice. There are several loopholes, one main one being that failure to pay fees and penalties assessed by the justice system itself can be a criminal offense. In some states a significant percentage (as high as 20%) of current prisoners are being held for failing to pay these LFO's (Legal Financial Obligations).

Here are a couple ACLU reports about the practice:

In for a Penny:
The Rise of America’s New Debtors’ Prisons

https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/InForAPenny_web.pdf

Modern Day Debtors Prisons:
The Ways Court-Imposed Debts Punish
People for Being Poor

https://aclu-wa.org/sites/default/files/attachments/Modern%2...
> Advance preparation, combined with extensive testing and contingency plans, meant that we were ready when things went [slightly wrong] and were able to minimize the impact on customers.

Following that link provided some interesting reading (for a mundane error report, at least): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine-downt...

TIL that even Google have datacenter fluctuations they can't figure out. It's nice that they quietly make this info publicly available, and also nice that I've now discovered where to find it :)
This sounds like an interesting mix between a ToDo list and a wiki, and it would help set up repeatable processes in an organization. Is my understanding correct?

With the task tracking space being as crowded as it is, you will need to start with a (probably small) group of users who are really desperate for your product. Who will be these initial target users, and what make-shift solutions have you seen them use right now to satisfy the need for a programmable todo list?
(impending anecdote) - this is something I noticed when I lived in the south for a while. More people tended to think before they spoke which would result in cleaner, less runny conversations compared to the typical word diarrhea I was accustomed to sifting through growing up in the Northwest. It was actually quite nice to deal with after a short adjustment period for me to discard my knee jerk reaction of assuming the heat fried everyone's brains.
IBM did.

After Assembly, IBM used mostly Modula-2 and PL/M to write their mainframe OSes, e.g. OS/400, migrating the code slowly to C++ afterwards.

Also OS research at DEC and Compaq was done in Modula-2+, which gave birth to Modula-3.
This seems like an ultra-basic question (sorry). On the VectorBlox/orca github page, it mentions that the core takes ~2,000 LUT4s. Are those numbers apples-to-apples with the 22,320 LEs given for the Cyclone IV board mentioned earlier[1]?

If so, then (naively) could one pack ~10 on that single FPGA? Or does the 'packing overhead' become a big problem? Or does the design use more (say) multiply units pro-rata, so that they become the limiting factor?

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/451
Futility? It looks like an improvement on the original:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"free thoughts and doings" sounds clearer that "liberty", which could mean almost anything - did it have no prisons? I guess they really meant freedom from England's control, which isn't quite free thoughts and doings - that goes to show how poorly worded the original was.
Zippy self driving meal delivery robots, in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444797