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>exist even on HN

The fallacy is in believing the forums you participate in are, for some reason, not "second-tier".
When I'm asked these questions I either provide a solution in Haskell or Erlang to highlight how dumb of a dick waving contest they are and/or I cite the PhD research that went into the thing they're now taking for granted as being "obvious".

I once asked an interviewer who claimed to be a distributed systems engineer to write out the fast paxos protocol or sketch out the operations and structure of a DVVset. They had no idea what I was talking about. Should they have been fired on the spot?

I can "code", and I still reject the premise and supposed utility of these dumb assessment methods on the grounds that I know they're dumb, I know they don't work, and I know this because I bothered to dig into the research on the subject of proficiency assessment.

Also, knowing space-time complexity isn't even remotely useful by itself. It's much more valuable to also understand average and worst case complexity, and how they impact a given use case, but when I ask the interviewers about this, they almost never know the answers, and they clearly don't think they're unfit for their own job, so which one of us is right?
It would be awesome a future where you can hack your own bioreactors at home with bacterias to grow whatever you want! But it could be very dangerous too and create new potential pathogens.. this could make the war of antibiotics even harder.
There is a reason proprietary backends would always be necessary.

Hardware companies are very touchy about the patents, and not publishing an ISA-related work may often be the only way to protect from the trolls.

Such companies would often encourage (privately or publicly) clean room 3rd party backends, and I'm pretty sure that the one we're discussing here is exactly of this kind. But they would be scared to death to allow any of their employees to even send a tiny patch to a compiler backend, if it could expose some microarchitecture knowledge that was not published.
But in original author's interview recaps, it's pretty evident that he's NOT comfortable "generalizing his ability to new situations". A BFS is not a super exotic, highly specialized algorithm. It's pretty much a bread-and-butter application of general principles (linear search of children + storing away hypotheses for later).
Berkeley did the maths for you: http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/thermal/tpteacher/jokes/...

(notice the word 'jokes' in the URL, but it's pretty well done)
Voted AutoMicroFarm and Siris Rooms cos they both are stuff I see more than 100 million people easily needing. Including myself.

Personally, I think Pinboard should definitely do YC but not via this channel. He can easily get in if he applies. Let the space be given to those who need it more.
"is" in language can often mean "is a subset of", I was using the term that way. Whilst you are right that "=>" disclaims any philosophical relationship, the proof covers all definitions of "cause" that one might reasonably come up with. So "you can't conclude A => B" implies (with probability 1) that "you can't conclude A causes B":

The proof only defines "causation" as some event "a" for which "P(c|a) = 1". This is the same property that "=>" has in propositional logic, and there is no implication of philosophical causation here either. But the proof still works, as a consequence of its definitions.

So in other words, the proof says: if causation causes correlation then P(a|c) > P(a) (i.e. correlation is evidence of causation) but we can't say causation is definitely true (P(a) = 1), however you want to define "causes" as long as it has the property that P(c|a) = 1.
I want to like Rust, and in the abstract I do, but every time I dive in the concepts have too much complexity for me to get going, and this post reinforces that.

It's not that I couldn't eventually grok Rust, it's that I don't have time to given that it's not part of my day job. I really hope that Rust leads to some of the same features being expressed in a more intuitive way by a subsequent language.
Hitting your children is illegal in Germany, though. That's where this woman is living.
I disagree, because I believe human rights exist.
When you are building a home, you are not building it for the next two years, you are building it for the next 20 to 25 years. You need to think about the availability of your "SmartHome" appliance/system in 20 years. This is why you should use a standard based system at the hardware level which can have a gateway (with an open source option and open protocols) to a kind of "interaction system" (voice, tablet, whatever). The interaction system can change faster (for 10 years we did not had tablets) but you can still address the hardware built in the house. After hours of research, the only option at the moment is KNX with 100's of suppliers of hardware and many "interaction systems" both pure hardware (switch) and software. Software is both open and closed source.

From the security point of view, you can have the complete home automation system disconnected from the internet/local network and have it to work only with hardwired panels/switches.

[0]: https://knx.org/
200k un-minified is huge!
Ask HN: My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do now?
For context: The project is a PC-hardware recommender (https://www.pc-kombo.de). It looks at benchmarks and tries to find the best combination for the budget, for the parts where there are no benchmarks (hdds, case, …) it relies on reviews and finally coded heuristics (=my judgement). It's a side-project, I have a job (salaried PhD-student, finishing this year).

The jump from 0 to some monthly income was a really big thing and took a long time. Then everything moved fast for a moment, but now it did not evolve much in a while, and I'm not sure what to do. I see some options, but they also seem blocked.

For example, I'd love to extend the version for the US by adding newegg as a vendor. But the Usage Terms of its referral program are batshit crazy. The consequence by signing it were for me to have to pay them $20k dollars whenever they want, they'd just have to claim a problem with following their terms. I'd have no defense, nor the money.

I could also expand to other EU-countries. But I think the monthly work required to keep the database up to date would go over the time budget I have for this project. Maybe if I built that in a very robust way – but my tries to do that for Germany all only improved the situation, there is naturally always still manual work to do… Maybe that should be done anyway, I'm leaning towards it.

Maybe I could just make it more known in Germany somehow? Or maybe the site just needs to be improved gradually and would then grow by itself? Maybe (probably) there are other options I miss?

I'd love to hear some advice.
"It was late, so he ended up flying the F-100."
It is pretty long for most of the people. Unless you're a pro diver of course.
What gave you the impression of light-weightedness though? My understanding was that Angular 2 is aiming at being a fully featured (and thus heavy) framework.
Those comments sound a little stereotypical and xenophobic
People will always assign priority to problems depending on how much of it they are personally experiencing.

(With the notable exception of Hollywood celebrities desperately searching for a purpose in life)
Any ETA on that? I would be huge.
They probably (hopefully) have the data that says showing a top performing article more than once in a scroll feed is a net positive for page views.
Spanish are the loudest Europeans.
Are they not? Many tanks can traverse rivers driving on bottom with special attachment to the main hatch. Leopard 2 does that.
Decades ago there was the Boeing/Airbus fight over government spending in the aerospace industry.

Boeing was angry that Airbus got cheap credi backed by or from the government, Airbus was angry because Boeing got all the military money from the government.
I am learning the non-biological libcello, and thought the same thing, but the title goes on to say 'for living cells'.

I guess since the Cello for cells uses Verilog, you could write a libcello-based C-program to do the same. Cello-cello ;)

As I get older, the whole 'the universe is a big computer' thing has gone from 'what a whacko concept', to 'those parallels are interesting', to 'OMG, I am just a bit!'. Real life is stranger than fiction. Amazing.
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Please accept that definitions change over time, and it doesn't help if you're complaining about your definition being stuck in the past. The global narrative moves on regardless.
Python, Scala, OCaml, Nim, Haskell and more all have asynchronous operations for I/O - it's not something that is a JS only thing
Using DNS is the start of the flaw.
If your core temperature drops, it's probably because you're losing heat faster than you can generate it. That kind of points to how effective this could be in the limit of being nearly fatal - If you can lose more heat than your body can produce, you're surely doing a pretty good job of burning calories!

Yes, I agree we're far from perfect at conserving heat. We're optimized for other conflicting purposes instead. We don't even have fur.
You can backup to (and restore from) iCloud, but then again WhatsApp (the company) does not have the data then.
I don't quite buy it. Opinion polls should be a pretty risk-free way to talk about your real preferences. If people are afraid to expose their controversial views as a checkbox on an anonymous form, why aren't they afraid to do so in the voting booth too?
Cadwolf looks like the kid of platform that's dearly needed to ensure the integrity of modern science, but I really, really want such a thing to be open source.
That expression can indicate respect. That's how it appears to me in this context, not as abuse.
Expansion leads to cooling. Additionally the freezing point will lower with lower pressure.
I think given that, it is reasonable for local jurisdictions to act as they see fit.
I've been taking cold showers for years, it gives such a good kick in the morning it's MUCH more efficient than coffee to get you from that lethargic state you can get in the morning to full-speed. Oh and if you had a heavy evening the night before, it's also a good way to remove the potential lingering headache you woke up with :-)

It does take a little willpower to get in, but the 'cold' effect lasts about a second; I no longer even have the unrestrained strong shiver I use to have due to the thermal shock.

Oh, and even in really cold water, I can stay there for quite a while, wash my hair etc. The sign that I've been there too long is when the top of my feet start to hurt a little.

Once you get out, metabolism is at full speed and you'll pretty quickly feel very, very warm (while staying outwardly cold for a while).

Only downside I know of is that I'll sometime feel too warm when I get in the office, as the metabolism goes overboard a bit.

My wife doesn't understand how I do it, she calls me 'glaconman' (french version of iceman) since I'm definitely not getting any cuddles for the next 20 minutes or so -- but well, it does work very well for me...
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The problem I see that in this case "evolving" looks suspiciously like running in circles without going anywhere.
Most everybody does not include Italy in "Western" Europe. Italy is "South Europe", along with Spain, Portugal, Greece etc. Heck, even the European Commission divides Europe into West (fr, be, nl, uk, de), North (se, no, fi, baltics), South (es, it, pt, gr, cy) and East (the rest) in many of their policy studies. I have never been involved in any policy work where Italy was considered 'Western Europe' (part of 'the West', yes, but that's from a global perspective).
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The homepage of this website is currently encouraging "natural" correction of myopia via slightly incorrect prescription and intentional straining. Most of the evidence I'm aware of (see references in e.g. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140513-do-glasses-weaken-y...) concludes that this makes things worse. My reaction to such things (especially when focussed on natural methods) tends to be distrusting objectivity.
Is package.json webscale?
Gresham Dollar seems to be wishful-thinking-as-a-service:

> by the time we've succeeded (which I call the transition date), GD will have supplanted USD as the primary currency that people use. If we succeed, the investors won't care about USD anymore. If we fail, as with any investment, investors will lose their money anyway.

Supplanting the USD - the world's premier reserve currency - with a private currency is just not going to happen. So the whole scheme amounts to providing basic income via continuing bilking of VC investors.
Those numbers seem very peculiar:

> Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process.

I think it's muddling food calories (which are really mislabelled kilocalories) and temperature calories (which aren't). So that 16 should be 16000.

This is why you do this in joules!
I can see the point of an observation and science platform, but not colonization. What resources would be available that would be worth the cost? Maybe you could manufacture rocket fuel, water and other useful materials from the atmosphere? I'd be interested to see a proposal on that front otherwise it's a bit pointless.
I can see the point of an observation and science platform, but not colonization. What resources would be available that would be worth the cost? Maybe you could manufacture rocket fuel, water and other useful materials from the atmosphere? I'd be interested to see a proposal on that front otherwise it's a bit pointless because you'd be so completely dependent on outside support.
Funny how programming is likely to be one of the first white collar jobs to be automated.
One thing that interests me about Angular 2 a bit more than React is the web components support.

With web components finally going native (surprisingly, led by Safari!), will Angular 2 see any big speedups, and will the size of the hello world app come down (200k is kind of huge)?

Also, I've seen a few tutorials on using Angular 2 with Polymer, but it seems complex. Is Google working on making these work together better? Will I be able to create Angular 2 web components and use them with Polymer web components?
Beware the impossible smart contract
Maybe I missed it but where is the necessity for using such an old airplane for doing what they're doing?
I think that in almost every European country, beating the kids is ilegal
I find this a valid assessment of Node and JS.
And schools, and... that list goes on and on.

Schools are particularly nasty because bad public schools make private schools more effective at giving an advantage in life.
Am I missing something, why there is so little attention to this?

Because if this is not revolutionary, I don't know, what else deserves the term ...

Sure, it seems not to be working perfect, yet, with "only" 45 of 60 "programms" working in a actual cell, but it just sounds amazing to me.
But I don't know much about verilog or genetics in general, so I actually might miss out some huge limitations ... but it still seems like a great success, with so many potential applications ...
I mean actual programming like you're used to, but you don't target silicon, but a living cell!
(and a cell can reproduce itself ...)

It probably still takes great knowledge of genetics and cell structure in general, to make something that works ... but I think, I start learning that now.
Congrats on the RC.
Helsinki-based Jolla has raises $12M to further develop its mobile OS Sailfish
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I am a contractor, and having moved countries most of my references and connections are now moot. Always been in the top 20% of my colleague pool and confident enough in my skills outside of brainshops like google et al.

It seems in London (my new home) job hunting is heavily weighted towards algorithm tests and whiteboard questions. If I give myself this summer off with a 3 hour a day study window, what is the most effective thing I can do purely to game interview skills.
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But apparently that HEPA filter is nothing like the Tesla filter. I believe I saw a comparison where the Tesla filter blocked something like 100x smaller particles than your typical vacuum cleaner HEPA.
Death threats against specific individuals and incitements to revolt against illegal and oppressive regimes are entirely different things, and you well know it.

Could you please specify precisely that which I should not be doing? I wish to abide by all of HN's rules for participation.
> Moreover, it will also clean the air outside your car, making things better for those around you.

I'm very sceptical that this is the case outside of an enclosed bubble.
This is rather like arguing if Christianity is a homogeneous or diverse religion. The answer is "yes".

In the US, views on race are very different in Alaska or Hawaii than in Alabama or Puerto Rico.

The US also has discrimination issues between different whites. For example, in the US you can be "White non-Hispanic" vs. "White Hispanic". While less common than in my youth, the US also has slurs and stereotypes about US-born whites based on their family's historical culture. This lead to expressions like "dumb Swede", the stereotype of the Irish cop on the beat, and many ethnic slurs, including those concerning white Jews.

"Only two languages"? What do you even mean by that? San Francisco has Chinese language TV broadcasts, and of course Chinatown. There are 40,000+ Hmong in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. A radio station I used to listen to had shows in Navajo. Hawaiian is an official language in Hawaii. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States :

> Tagalog and Vietnamese have over one million speakers each in the United States, almost entirely within recent immigrant populations. Both languages, along with the varieties of Chinese (mostly Cantonese, Taishanese, and Standard Mandarin), Japanese, and Korean, are now used in elections in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington. ... The state government of Louisiana offers services and documents in French,
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill
Catholic religion has been the founding religion of the medieval Europe . I hope that I don't have to remind you that , in ancient times, kings were crowned by Popes in France and UK. All other variations of Christian religions were created as a result of struggle powers. In the 14-15th centuries Italians were leading innovators and bankers from Florence were lending money to England and France kings. Back in that time the most common Language in business Europe was a derivation of Italian. Italy is one of the foundation of Western Europe, both historically and culturally. Denying this is ignoring history.

P.S: I guess that children in Italy were running and screaming quite a lot also at the time...
How does utiliz differ from the existing offerings in this space? (uswitch, gocompare, etc)?
My personal opinion...

* It's pretty bare bones at the moment. Work on making it visually appealing, letting people know what the site does, language detection, mobile friendly etc.

* Concentrate on your home market - for now. Do coffee-shop testing with new users to understand how they expect the site to work.

* Expand into other Amazon countries. You have .com - so why not .co.uk, .it, etc? Should be a simple way to test the markets.

* Perhaps look at recommend accessories / peripherals / laptops. Might be a useful way to drive revenue upwards.

* Talk to an accountant to make sure you're paying the right amount of tax :-)

Best of luck.
Programming is already highly automated. What is higher level languages and advanced IDEs if not automating a lot of tedious tasks that programmers used to be forced to do manually?
Help wanted, There are a few easy to implement tasks here if anyone is interested in getting involved.

https://github.com/rogeralsing/gam/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A...
And they aren't. US government does not pay a dime for the marginal production of Tesla cars.
This is awesome. Did you feel like Go is good enough for the task? I've always thought its lack of expresiveness make it very unsuitable for compilers and all kinds of pattern-matching/tree-representation-based code (opposite to e.g. Haskell/OCaml)
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If you had a lot of bitcoins and needed a good excuse for how you got them, convincing people you're Satoshi would be one non-taxable way to do it.
Unfortunately I think the Judge does not understand the context here, users of whatsapp will simply use another messaging app - the role of a messaging app is not to store users conversations but relay them.

Any messaging app that actively stores conversations, and then turns them over to anyone when requested will simply not be used by the public (or if it is, it won't be for very long).
Yep. There are effects that lead to some cooling, but it's not as dramatic as sometimes assumed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_exposure#Ebullism.2C_hyp...
The cost and pain of developing software is approximately zero compared to the operational cost of maintaining it over time

not my quote
It is just text records, I doubt it will take hundreds of millions, even at whatsapp levels
The protest is the accomplishment, usually. Although I've no real idea what we're protesting here other than startup culture per se.
If this article is true, it paints a concerning picture. I don't want to research libraries, understand the pros and cons of them, run into problems, then switch to another library, and so on. I want there to be a default that works out of the box for the majority of use cases. There can be alternatives, as long as there's a default that works out of the box for most people and most use cases.
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Wouldn't this be better in a blog post than as an HN comment? It seems interesting enough - but at least personally I would prefer that the HN comment thread is a discussion of the topic, rather than marketing of another product.
Now a single city in germany is ~europe~...
> I mean WTF is bugging you?

Not the OP, but having to write four lines of code instead of one does not look that good. Less is more. Code bloat should be called out.
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Wouldn't you be able to maintain a home in Prague PLUS another home in southern Europe somewhere for less money than it would take to maintain one home in the Bay Area? Of course, that depends on you being able to work in a location-independent way...
splitting the load through multiple node processes is fine for simple usecases and in general you're fine if you do mostly IO stuff.

But there are usecases that have to crunch numbers or do other CPU intensive algorithms that can be parallelized on the algorithm level. This is where node.js just falls apart. Additionally, if an algorithm requires quite much memory (multiple gigs), node.js performs very poorly.

Most companies that do actual CPU intensive work have services written in other languages to handle this, and "we're using node!" mostly means that they just serve results or do other IO-Tasks with node. But not the actual work.
I mainly work with eukaryotes, so I don't know much microbio aside from generating vectors. Do we actually know enough about bacteria for this to work? I can see it working for a small number of elements (anti-biotic resistance, promoter sites, cloned genes). But not for any behavior more complex than that?
it is not mathemical strategies but just bare visualisation
Please make this accessible! (contrast ratio of 2.1 falls below WCAG)

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