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You're right. We're learning that we need to probably revisit some of how we present ourselves. To be fair, though, we did do some extensive user testing through several different methods. And interestingly, people generally always liked our site and us better, thought we were more trustworthy, and were more likely to try it when there were lots of friendly dinos and colors on the page than when it was a more traditional "professional" site. Of course, not everyone did, and the HN demographic probably falls into that not everyone, but we can't appeal to everyone no matter what we do, so we went with what made us happy and what our research said had the largest reach. There are still lots of areas for us to improve (this is the first people have really been seeing our site with no context, and the first press we have gotten, so we're learning), but that's why we went the way we did.
Well said. Also, binary protocol could easily be added on top of HTTP, a kind of "smart-gzip" which would encode (known) HTTP to binary codes. That could make parsing faster while keeping the evolvability of the protocol intact.
Exactly. I personally know 3 different people who have multiple side projects where they record, mix, and produce amazing music, from their homes. It's much harder to stand out when so many people have great music.
So, how did you get here?
What do you mean by this? How should the passport details be saved? I always enter the details when buying flights outside Schengen area, and this far haven't found it painful in any way.
I've lived in the Inter-mountain West. I enjoyed the weather, but it is brutal, and right now they're having the sixteen-year drought the article mentions. That's bad weather.

New England doesn't have hurricanes, droughts, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, or massive forest fires. But the cold is serious. So many people move to the Sun Belt because of it.

All of the places I mentioned have substantial population growth because of their weather. In the Carolinas there are lots of Northerners who move down to Florida, discover how much the Summers suck here, then move back up as far as there. They call them Halfbacks.
Yep. It's still very new.
No, the previous poster said at most the album must be mediocre. It's possible the album is really great, but they place an exceptionally high value on the publicity.
Don't hate the player when he didn't even want to play. Hate the game.

It's a prisoner's dilemma. Either you lobby politicians, or somebody else lobbies the politicians and locks you out.
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Good point. But I think they are banking on necessity being the mother of invention, since they are running out of water.
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> Vaguely imagining a completely unpowered electronic lock, and a handheld 'key' that I guess would contain a fairly beefy battery

That's a good idea, actually. I dunno about this technology specifically, but there are wireless power standards that can transmit more power, e.g. Qi can provide 5W at a up to 4cm according to Wikipedia. That should be plenty suitable for a lock I'd think.

It'd be even cooler if cell phones could transmit power wirelessly, but AFAIK phones with inductive charging hardware can only receive. If they added the ability to transmit, suddenly your phone's battery could become a sort of universal power source for talking to various passive devices like locks and stuff.

Though, this is slightly different from what's described in the article. If I'm understanding it correctly, this thing is harvesting its power from a standard RFID signal, so you don't need any special power transmission hardware. No way would you be able to get enough power out of it to power any kind of mechanical actuator for a lock.
It might be a case of diving deeper to find the bands that appeal to a metal fan. The Wall Street Journal (of all places!) had an article on The Weird Global Appeal Of Heavy Metal, the rise of metal in places like Indonesia, Chile, Brazil:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-weird-global-appeal-of-heavy...

And then you've got the heavy metal bands in Iran that are far more hardcore, facing jail time or execution for their music:

http://www.metalinjection.net/metal-crimes/iranian-musicians...

I've personally started listening to a lot of German bands - Rammstein helped lead me to Oomph, Unheilig, Eisbrecher, Donots and others. It feels great to love bands that have had #1 albums overseas, and yet hardly anyone has heard of them where I live.
I thought this was a cool idea, and so I just signed up, but I was so alarmed by the process that I made an HN account to address this here.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you drop people into randomly assigned groups of people who live within a certain distance without giving the user a chance to screen that group for people they already may know and need to avoid?

This is such an obvious potential problem that it didn't occur to me that your service wouldn't account for it. In my case it's at least not a dangerous situation, although I'm betting the other person in my new group is really not going to be pleased to get this particular notification email. But I imagine overlap will be a problem, particularly when your userbase is still small.

I have to ask--are there any women working at your company? Anyone over 25?

This may seem like a nuisance question to you, but for many women I know (and for myself), the inability to screen potential groups is an immediate dealbreaker. It's a safety issue at it's most extreme, but it's also just common sense. For many women this is an absolute dealbreaker in a way men might not understand.
Thanks for the suggestion! That's a good one. The other word I'm thinking about is "limitless" to suggest the flexibility and the open developer platform.

Our business model will definitely have tipping and probably attract more creative people, but we'll slowly be adding more and more financial features to allow people to use money however they typically need to in a community structure, whether that's buying items, crowdfunding, paying for entry to an event, donating to people, putting rewards out for information, selling merchandise, and a whole bunch of other things. Hopefully as we do that, it'll start appealing to an even wider base as they'll be able to do all the things they want to on Imzy rather than using a combination of forums, Facebook, Slack, Paypal, Meetup, IndieGoGo, etc.

We'll probably leave invitation-only status and open things up a little later in the summer, but we want to make sure we establish a good tone for engagement and get our technology and features good enough before we do that.
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Well, you do need to seed /dev/urandom with sufficient entropy. Hardware random number generators work here. After it's seeded, my only concern would be backtracking resistence, but haveged(8) works well here.
This is true. The first step in any relationship is establishing goodwill or even just lack of malevolence (which if it's romantic and you're pursuing women is extremely important). Everything else comes after. People want to talk openly about themselves, but not unilaterally.
In my opinion its more about being comfortable in your own skin.

It is ok to have insecurities. Everyone does. I am sure there are a tonne of women out there that would love you for who you are.

"Especially with other Men" sounds like you are trying to compete too much with other guys at least in your head. So stop trying to do things just so that you can "pound your chest".

For me reading books boosts my "manly power and confidence" and my girlfriend loves me for it. I have a mighty phobia of bugs so she is in charge of taking care of that. I guess she is the "man" of the house.

Point being don't beat yourself too much over it just because one girl didn't love you and told you that. It is OK and very very common.
Maybe there are just more and more people with each generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
This is not a new sentiment, and maybe nothing to worry about:

"It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation."

― Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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"The biggest and scariest issue is that all of these celebrities are going completely unreplaced."

Isn't this good?
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Actually, that's exactly what HTTP 2.0 is :) They're keeping the exact same message semantics, while changing the encoding to binary and also changing the network transfer part.

I'd be a little concerned about fixing it in place, but it's perhaps possible that HTTP is done evolving, and this will be a win. HTTP has gotten so much usage far beyond its original intent.

As an aside, I chafe against the implicit assumption in your message that binary is more space-efficient than text. :) Compressed text and binary formats are the same size (e.g. JSON vs protocol buffers), and compression is almost free these days in terms of CPU.

And sometimes uncompressed text is SMALLER than binary, i.e. in the case of encoding numbers. Many data sets have lots of zeros and small numbers, and it takes 1-3 bytes to encode a zero in text ("0", "0,", "0.0") while it takes 4-8 bytes to encode in most binary formats. A CSV file vs. a memory dump of the same numbers can show this.

Numbers encoded as ASCII is a built-in "varint" format, which shouldn't be underestimated.
>People who would be fine with that might just as easily steal a bike for themselves

This isn't true. I know several people that don't care much about buying things with a shady history but would never steal anything themselves. The logic was something like, "Would you still accept a $20 bill if it had been stolen at some point since it was printed?"
For that matter, it starts to make me wonder whether someone could do what Microsoft have done but in reverse on Linux! In other words, implement a translation layer that translate ntdll.dll function calls to corresponding kernel syscalls, then work backwards implementing each of the user mode subsystems. Maybe WINE has done this already?

I thought that was what WINE did. WINE = WINE Is Not an Emulator.
You are probably choosing the wrong people to be friends with. And yeah, doing things for people doesn't work in the same way that being the errant boy for the girl you liked in elementary or high school didn't work either.
These are services run by other companies, and unless you have a written payed for contract with them, they have no reason to "fix" your issue. You are the one developing a tool that uses their platform, so you are responsible to make sure it works. This is also a known "issue" with twitter so expecting it to magically not happen is not going to end well. You are basically playing roulette with the cloud company, hopping they will not change or limit your access. At least thats how I look at all these cloud services.
One point missed by this article (but mentioned by another commenter) is that it's not enough to just want more friends. It's not even enough to meet another person who also wants friends. What keeps friends together is perceived mutual exchange of value - it sounds callous, but I challenge anyone to describe a friendship that lasted where either party believed they derived no value.

Our lizard brains aggressively pre-filter potential friends by estimating expected value add. One property that contributes to perceived value is scarcity, and this leads to a sort of counterintuitive result: it may be easier to make friends if you don't really want or need them (or at least you appear that way). If you are self-reliant, happy, and occupied most of the time, your time and attention are scarce (from the perspective of others). This signals value and makes others want to be your friend. Obviously, this doesn't mean you should be constantly unavailable. But it does mean that being constantly available to hang out, talk, do favors, etc. will probably make you less desirable as a friend.
I love the answers here. My system is pretty simple. I keep a list on Evernote every time I find a new resource to learn from. I only consider the resource (usually an online course/book) is going to help me be better at my job or help with a current hobby project. Then when I am bored at home later looking for something to do, I can refer back to this list and pick up from there. Usually, I find these resources when I am looking through Stackoverflow for answers. If I find I don't understand something or judge a Stackoverflow answer, I would find a Lynda.com course or something similar to add to the list.
I can and will blame both. Not all companies lobby, not all companies have the resources to effectively do so, yet small to mid size companies continue to turn a profit. The argument that large companies have to do so just because they can is ludicrous.
Strange. I had the opposite experience.

I made more friends in NYC in 2 years than real friends in SF in 4. That's not to blame people, because hey, it takes two to tango and my behavior sabotaged my own success. But even though I am in tech, I still never felt comfortable in the monoculture of SF than while in NY.
The world doesn't leave people behind. People choose to stay focused on the past for what ever reason.

It's a very personal responsibility to feel relevant as the world changes, and it's assuredly more work than staying with the familiar.
I don't know about processes or mindset; I think it's mostly a matter of hiring real Engineers and letting them do real Engineering on your backend. That's a cultural problem, though, on an organizational level: if you run everything in the "20-somethings burning midnight oil to ship" mode, the experienced Engineers don't want to join you. You'd have to shift your culture into one that has room for them (like e.g. Facebook is continuing to attempt to do with the Engineers from Whatsapp.)
I don't see how that makes any difference. Could you expand?
When I was really young I lived in a small town and things were tight financially for most people. I guess helping each other when someone needed something was a not some virtuous thing but rather a form of currency. Hey, can you help wire the electric to the shack in the back yard. Sure, can your daughter watch my boys tonight. And, it continues like this.

I disagree. I think there is a reasonable expectation that someone who is a contractor who consistently asks for large favors to help for a couple hour to put up blinds.

I don't need friends.What we see in movies and the media is a myth, once again, an unobtainable expectation.
Day trading is similar. I have even read poker books to help with my day trading. There are tons of knowledge-of-self and life lessons within both.

In this case, I think we have both variance and a cycle. Given the age range of many bigger than life stars, the current cycle is just gearing up. Within that cycle we will have clustering and variance.
Intuitively this seems like an obvious result of the network effect. (edit: I'm not intending to belittle anyone here and I apologise if it may seem that way).

Axiomatically, socially the sum of two humans is greater than the two humans apart.

And large cities, with metros, many villages that melt into one, employment opportunity, talks, bars, etc, are the embodiment of what it means to be social (with some exceptions - community feel being an important one).

In the UK this is at the forefront of politics - it is obvious to anyone that the country is governed as 'London plus appendages'. The rail and road networks are basically built around the capital. Most public transport subsidies go to the capital. The important (in a status sense, not in an absolute sense) businesses are headquartered there.
>and not everyone enjoys philosophizing over "deep" conversation topics.

Then what are you agreeing with? The GP is specifically looking for people that do. If he/she didn't want intelligent conversations, he/she wouldn't have complained about not being able to find intelligent friends.
I've been using re2c lately and it's really great. It's this gem from the 90's that not a lot of people know about; I encountered it in the Ninja build system, where they were concerned about parsing megabytes of text very quickly.

It basically generates a bunch of gotos from readable regexes.

http://re2c.org/

One thing I haven't explored is "push vs pull" scanners. It's basically the same thing as threads vs. async, so it could be really useful for async servers. Normal scanners will pull data in when needed, but if you pass -f, it can apparently have data pushed upon it.

I guess Ragel can be used easily like this since Mongrel is async (?)
How is this a failure? The old boarding pass contained advertisements too, and actually much more of them. The requirement for ads was clearly addressed in the article:

Section 4: Promotional space

A large part of Ryanair’s revenue is generated by
ancillary income, so allowing for ad space was an
important business requirement.

So that's that. It's income, and part of keeping the costs down. I don't mind as long as I can hide them by folding the paper.
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Ah, in the paper he says that he's not actually talking about free will. That makes it less confusing. But I still think he's making much too strong a connection between Knightian unpredictability and free will. I don't see any reason at all to think that the former is a necessary condition for the latter, and he doesn't really attempt to argue the point. (He promises that he's going to argue it in section 2.5, but then section 2.5 ends up only talking about problems of personal identity.)
I think the point is to allow Linux binaries to be used without a recompile, which saves MS most of the cost of maintaining binaries for it.
Not enough police to do something against every crime, so they have to decide which ones they handle and bike crimes often are not the ones which are taken. There's a simple solution, but it involves taxpayer money (which is usually frowned upon here): Hire more police.
>Whenever I have a paper boarding pass I always fold it into my password so this is a great improvement.

I'm unclear about what you mean. Would you mind to clarify, please?

Edit: What HN users choose to downvote sometimes bewilders me...
The thing about talking to people online is that you can use the medium to agree to meet up in person as well.
I've never flown with an American company, but I have flown quite a bit with a few here in Europe, particularly Norwegian and they use a digital boarding pass that I add to the Wallet app on my iPhone. It's super convenient and really nice.
It certainly doesn't seem to have provoked anything particularly interesting in the way of responses.
Because that's how RyanAir can afford to chafe their customers cheaper prices than many other airlines. Every ad you remove is an increase in the price of the airfare. Passengers on a budget airline are generally likely to make the trade for lower prices.
> a traditionally hairy problem in UNIX programming: how to wait for two different types of events (signals and file descriptors) at the same time.

I've always thought one of the weak points of POSIX was that the event sources were not unified. Imho, is a pity the relevant committee didn't work towards a clean solution in the mean time.
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This is like the guy who doubts global warming because it's 30C outside.
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I know, but 32-bit OS/2 was the era most of the unethical stuff that attacked OS/2 was done by MS for example.
In British Columbia there is organized bike theft. The police caught a group of thieves who had rented a cube van and driven up to whistler from Vancouver and stolen half a dozen bikes. One of the bikes was a police "bait bike" with a tracking device. The Mounties care!

http://globalnews.ca/news/785241/bait-bike-leads-whistler-po...
That's given early in the article, but requires arbitrary precision arithmetic:

Another method is to find a closed form for the solution of the recurrence relation. This leads to the real-valued formula: Fib(n)=(ϕn+1−ψn+1)/5‾√)
where ϕ=(1+5‾√)/2 and ψ=(1−5‾√)/2. The practical flaw in this method is that it requires arbitrary precision real-valued arithmetic, but it works for small n.
A lot has changed in 50years. Number, size, accuracy of weapon impacts. Farming's reliance on mechanization, pesticides, fertilizer. Way more food is manufactured/processed. How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit. Transportation changes, trucking vs rail. I'm not sure but the general push for efficiency, JIT warehousing, I wonder if our food stocks on hand is the same. Also, I'm guessing the fall of USSR, rise of Terrorism as new bugaboo. I wonder how much study, effort, and prepardness USA government has put into full scale nuclear war "defense" of late.

Population increase.
Doesn't wash. If replication attempts are subject to publication bias, we are still better off because the subsequent meta-analyses overcome sampling error better and are able to show publication bias using funnel plots or other techniques like p-uniform, and sometimes can even correct the bias to give you a less biased and more accurate estimate. In contrast, you cannot show publication bias for a particular novel result nor can you easily correct for it. So given the choice between 5 studies on a single hypothesis (all afflicted by publication bias) and 5 studies on 5 hypotheses (with publication bias), you are better off in the former scenario. (In the latter scenario, you could try to use informative priors estimated from field-wide demonstrations of publication bias, but at least so far, this is an extremely unpopular approach.)
I was an active WP editor for a couple of years before I gave up on it. If you're editing highly technical or boring stuff, it's going to be mostly fine. Anything that a normal person has an opinion on is a nightmare.

WP is a giant turf war. Whoever has the most time to piss down the hole of uselessness wins, which means that minority viewpoints (meaning viewpoints that are held by a minority of WP's editors and admins, not necessarily viewpoints that are held by a minority of WP's readers) are not fairly represented, despite WP's obsession with "NPOV", and anyone who can afford a PR company has their page professionally managed to keep it as on-message as possible.