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Yes look in this one first: all_ze_scripts.min.js (8mb).
You mean datalog?

(You don't need to be recursion free. Just restrict your recursion very carefully.)
Gawker Founder Suspects a Common Financer Behind Lawsuits
Unless they publish them they don't pay them directly, they do give them very favorable terms.
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Youtube has an auto-generated transcript feature. In the video description, click More->Transcript.

Edit: actually don't use the YouTube transcripts, there's a human-curated transcript here http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/peter-thi...
PS Happy to have a discussion via email. (Address is in my profile.)
You say you started learning at 9 -- I started much later and regret it -- why not get others started sooner?
What's wrong, exactly, with people saying something is bad and shouldn't be done, when they think it is bad and shouldn't be done?
“Three Great Articles on Poverty, and Why I Disagree with All of Them”
So tell me again what is so special about Ivey league schools? I don't know about other states, but there are a good colleges in Ga which would have been much cheaper and less stressful and still could have landed them a good job.

One of the students were from GA.
do you need 40ghz with 32 cores or 2 cores at 1.5ghz and the garantee of full control?

for personal computing, I'd take the later
That's much better than just assuming people are too stupid to know how things work and using that as an excuse to force immutable defaults on them that are favorable to our business model.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the average Japanese elementary school student will spend a significant amount of time over the next 60-110 years using computers (approximately 99.8% of their waking hours.)

When I was 8 in 1984, they didn't think we were too dumb to learn BASIC and Logo. I wonder what happened to make kids so stupid since then?
I'd love for this to be true, but my sense is that it isn't.

Regarding non-competes: they have enough teeth in IL for a claim against you to be difficult to dismiss, which is pretty much all the teeth they need. Lawsuits are riotously expensive.

Regarding side-project IP: even in California: I'd read everything 'DannyBee has to say in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11484852

(DannyBee is, among other things, an IP lawyer).
TextEdit is RTF by default - I wonder if you can include control characters to screw with that? I use Sublime/Atom since those are plaintext by default.
Here’s your cocktail, shaken and stirred with AI
Considering how long English has been mandatory and what the average level of English proficiency actually is, it might be a little too early to be overly optimistic. The potential is there, but it will depend mostly on the execution and based on current experience I wouldn't expect too much.
Sounds like you are you are running out of USB resources it's your hardware not the OS.
Try disabling XHCI this happens quite often when you have allot of USB 2.0 devices plugged in into USB 3.0 only chipset.
Balancing them out between the chipsets that provide the USB ports (most motherboards have 2-3 additional USB hosts besides the PCH) can also sometimes solve it.
A better solution is usually bundling the non-USB 3.0 devices on a dedicated hub.
As an employee at an enterprise that often asks SaaS companies for on-prem solutions... this is very on point. That said, we do pay a lot.
I too like Sinatra but in my time writing Rails for both my day job(s) as well as various consulting gigs, I inevitably see Sinatra apps that start out with the best of intentions but always end up being just a shitty, hand-rolled version of Rails.
Have used the google translate app with a camera to translate Japanese menus, museum cards, etc. It wasn't perfect, but considering there are three separate 'alphabets' for it to handle it was pretty amazing.
We had mandatory programming in france 30 years ago it did not create a generation of little geniuses.
The Craziest Black Market in Russia: Dissertations
No one is forced to go to a private college and rack up debt. Go to a state college. Most students could probably go to a junior college their first two years close to home and transfer. I always laughed seeing people thousands in debt getting a comp Sci degree making no more than me - a graduate of an unremarkable state school.
If you can think of a better way to fund science, let's hear it. There's no funding pathway that is clear of humans, and it is humans who exercise their preferences in funding paths.

BTW we just detected gravity waves, which opens up the first new way of perceiving the universe since Galileo. And we can't really explain about 95% of the known mass-energy of the universe. Oh, and we just figured out a way to custom-edit genomes.

Science is doing just fine right now.
It's more accurate to say that some types are propositions. More precisely, a type is a proposition if and only if any two inhabitants of it are equal.
The World Is a Messy,Lousy Place
This story is like the reverse of Viva La Vida - Coldplay.
Crisis Comms and Social Media Management
Idont think it will make any difference at all. Do you think people have an appreciation for Geography or History even though they all had exposure to it during school? Most of the time it aint the case.
This does make a lot of sense and I thought about it and is verifiably a series of true statements and rhetorical questions that drive home a point that is correct. However, it is totally unrelated to the development of a product that took 10 years to create. They brought in a team and made a halfway decent attempt at HBO Go before killing hte project(shelving it), they then revitalized it and ultimately launched a total piece of shit project.

To be clear, software design is hard and sometimes you need to iterate. However, you are HBO so we can assume that you are either incompetent or just DGAF. Either way, GO floundered for the next halfish decade as an utter piece of shit totally eclipsed by for profit pirating sites doing a 10x better job delivering the content someone ripped from a box and then put online into native media players they wrote themselves that bury 2-3 layers if iframes into the page so they can still try and serve ads...this was a 10x better experience than HBO go. You had to find your cable password and go through an insane experience of finding passwords and cookie failures to get the privelege of a horrible search, viewing and quality experience.

After a decade, HBO licensed technology from a completely independent party and now has halfway decent UX/UI. So I do not feel perfectly qualified to speculate on how your hair progressed because I don't know you. However, I would say that if you spend 1 decade avidly working on an application which would prove to be core to your business had it been successful, and then you ultimately just end up leasing one...well yeah you're fucking dead. I mean what does HBO do?

It buys content and sells it. So they just lost the decade head start to build a distribution platform for that.

> But they develop their own original programming!

Everyone was thinking that. Correct, they mostly buy scripts and fund projects that have been pitched to them. Sure they do some stuff, but it would be a lot easier for netflix to buy the people (or the process) of developing the few shows HBO actually has a hand in creating (rather than simply buying and funding a pilot) than HBO has of recreating Netflix.

So HBO is dead. Hulu is somewhat dead, I suspect due to the ties with legacy rent-collectors it will not "die" but just rebrand and be a slightly less horrible version of itself.

tl;dr

> Did it take me decades to grow hair, or did I grow it years ago and merely continue to have hair on my head to this day?

Humans grow hair at a semi average rate of 0.5 inches a year. So if you were a typical human, unless you hair is over 60inches long then the hair is from new growth < 1 decade old.
But mental illness can have all sorts of causes. I don't think it's crazy to suggest that meditation itself could in rare cases be one of them. Or suppose the person never meditated and lived and died with a latent mental illness that never actually manifested. Could they be said to have a mental illness at all?
It's not nearly as difficult to create 3D content as you're suggesting, though.

Not to go all "appeal to expert" here but I've been 3D modeling since the mid-90s. My company is deep into 3D rendering, scanning and content generation. Creating something in 3D is trivial. Creating something that looks like something with accurate scale, correct UV mapping and polygon normalizing is a highly technical skill which increases in difficulty logistically.

It takes our expert modeling team at the absolute fastest, 1 hour to build a single 3D model of a small 5 foot long sofa, without baked textures or high quality detail. Compare that to lighting and taking a photograph of the same sofa in a studio. Actually this is an interesting comparison because we have worked so heavily on this particular problem.

I know how Z-Brush works. All I can say is that it is not how you create content for VR/AR - it's not high enough precision and it's really only suited for "organic" 3D modeling. Characters? Sure. Environments, engineered objects, interfaces? Absolutely not.

No the point is, "content" as generated today - by your average Joe in the form of 2D images and text, or by retailers/designers in the form of 2D product pictures, is trivial to produce and takes marginal skill. The content of AR is 3D. Your average Joe cant produce it at all, most retailers/designers have no clue how they would start, and those who do know can't find enough 3D modelers to keep up with demand.
Why close the window when you can hide what you did?

echo hacked > hacked.txt; echo -ne '\033[1F\033[2K'
echo innocent
I've met a bunch of people on HN that I've gone on to do stuff with. Patrick McKenzie, one of my current business partners, is just the most obvious example.
If you want to suggest that and not sound crazy, cite something suggesting the possibility.
This is a subject near and dear to my heart, albeit from the "enterprise" side of the table, not the scrappy startup side.

I've spent a non-trivial amount of effort trying to convince software companies to spin an on-premise version of their software. Sometimes with success, and sometimes not. I understand that it's quite attractive to rely on AWS or GCE abstractions to the point where it would be nearly impossible to break it apart for installation on my boxes, but it seems like it's leaving quite a lot of money on the table.

There are perfectly valid reasons to require on-premise applications: in-house interpretation of regulatory requirements, protection of intellectual property, etc.

Of course, I have a right to ask and they have a right to say no, but I wish more companies would consider making an on-premise solution. (Slack, I'm looking in your direction. Please come take the money I'm currently giving to Atlassian.)
My brother bought one and it made me realize that he could probably pass as a lesbian.
That transcript system doesn't recognize sentence breaks.

Theil speaks in run-on sentences, so it's not entirely the transcription system's fault.
http://www.penisland.net
The proof of concept didn't work for me. I highlighted the text, right-clicked and clicked "copy". I thought it was just broken or not hooking the on-copy properly.

Then I realized that the reason I was doing that instead of ctrl-c is all the times that web sites break ctrl-c. I literally have gotten used to highlighting, right-clicking, and clicking copy, for a "clean" copy :) I wasn't even aware I was doing this.

Of course, web sites can hook right-clicks. It would be funny if they threw up a fake context menu matching the default context menu of the browser and operating you're using, but with evil versions of commands :)

I don't disable or modify javascript, so with that addition it would have tricked me.
I think it greatly depends on the comprehension level of the teachers. I can't imagine they're going to turn every teacher into a competent programmer overnight, nor will they lure an infinite number of competent programmers into the teaching profession.
Anecdotally, I've heard Feds talk about how it's the actually spoken and posted (but never emailed, obviously) policy that you should never send an email that can't be printed on the front page of the Washington Post.

Do we really want our public servants spending all of their time thinking about whether using "whom" incorrectly will get them crucified by some blogger?
I imagine there is always going to be some waste. Even the military is notorious for unused equipment, toilet seats costing thousands, etc.
> So, yes the article did cover what you wanted them to.

Not as I read it. In the article, "psychotic break" was used in the context of being caused by meditation instead of by an underlying mental illness.

The second example gets closer to addressing the point I was making, but it's still just listing a possible risk for people who already have psychiatric problems.

What I wanted the article to cover is the far more likely explanation: That 1 in 4 people who meditate will experience some level of mental illness in any given year — but not because of meditation.

Of course, "meditation madness" is a much sexier premise.
So it math. Most find it boring, but some of them will eventually find their way back to it, and discover that they can be pretty good at it.

It is not going to be work for everyone, but will definitely attract more people to this area.
I mistyped as well, I meant to say incubating as well.
> How to effectively google

Sounds good

> how to bring up a terminal, ssh to another machine

Uhh, even as a developer I barely ever feel I need to do this (and frankly, I do this quite often).

Being able to ssh into another machine is extremely low on the list of things to learn before being proficient.
Laravel Angular Admin
https://github.com/silverbux/laravel-angular-admin

Laravel + Angularjs + Bootstrap + AdminLTE binded by Gulp workflow Admin Dashboard Boilerplate. Plus Oauth and JWT authentication on the side.
"weren't doing your job right" and "had no intention to" are hugely subjective. Anyone with an axe to grind could go through your information and find whatever they need to twist the apparent meaning to prove that you weren't doing your job "right" and had no intention to. It's really easy to take information out of context and make it appear to mean something it doesn't.
Ask HN: What is the future of Swift?
Where do you see the Swift programming language headed in the immediate and/or long term future?
Maybe add some projects.
I honestly thought this was satire for the first half of the article. When did working on SaaS products exempt people from understanding how to deliver software? Should we just remove the first [S] from SaaS?

I see this attitude a ton in conversations with startups. A founder describes their whiz-bang thing, a question comes up about how this works in larger environments, usually followed by a mumbled reply about virtual appliances. Virtual appliances (and to some extent, docker containers) are not the solution, for so many reason, I might run out of space in the comment field listing them. The short version: OS updates, security updates, networking issues, customer-side diagnostics, size, and support for the customer's specific virtualization platform. Docker is great if your customers all use docker and you have the update process sorted out, but that is probably a small fraction of your total market.

In other words, build actual installable software that runs on some set of supported operating systems. Make a DEB, an RPM, maybe an MSI. Build an installer. Have a nifty splash screen. Add desktop links. Don't lose revenue because you can't be bothered to figure out omnibus, nullsoft, or bitrock.

If you are building software, keep in mind that customer environments are insane and should be treated as hostile. Every bit of your software and packaging needs to be paranoid, defensive, and respond well to failures. When something goes wrong, customers are not your QA team (you have one, right?). Don't make them run a thousand commands for you. Build actual diagnostic features into the product. Some organizations (hint: they have lots of money), don't let your icky code talk to the internet. Offline activation, offline updates, and offline diagnostics are super important to counting these folks as customers.
I know how Z-Brush works. All I can say is that it is not how you create content for VR/AR - it's not high enough precision and it's really only suited for "organic" 3D modeling. Characters? Sure. Environments, engineered objects, interfaces? Absolutely not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPf1V-_Z6E8#t=33m34s

I appreciate how much thought and effort you've put into your replies. It's reciprocated. But I think at this point we should agree to disagree.
Don't forget the alt text of a 1×1 px image.
Death of a Programming Language Dilettante
Serious question; have you never written an inappropriate-for-publishing-in-a-newspaper email? I'm genuinely curious how many people filter 100% of their emails for printability (I know I've done the "ctrl+R wtf ctrl+enter" before).

Also, keep in mind that you won't see emails from a given person which don't match the FOIA search criteria. The likelihood of getting a nonrepresentative sample is therefore proportionally increased.
China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works
Trust, word of mouth from people who used the service before. 2FA a must.

Used namesilo and route53 for awhile now, happy customer.
It's also suggestive that human grandparents are famously concerned with the well-being of their grandchildren. This is, I think, about as near to a cultural constant as there is. Yeah, there's probably some weird culture where grandparents don't get involved, but I can't think of one offhand. Certainly it's true for all the European and Asian cultures with which I'm familiar.

I can't think of another species where grandparents take a special interest in their grandchildren (as opposed to, say, a generic interest in the young of the herd as a whole). Are there any?
I highly recommend Make-a-lisp for anyone interested in a superficial understanding of writing a compiler. It's a very guided tour, but touches on a lot of very interesting parts of parsing, code generation, and optimization.

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md
"I had 28 hours to either come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars that I didn’t have to save half of my stock, or I could sign the agreement as-is and avoid losing half of my already-diminished stake"

Can anyone unpack this statement a bit more? What is "already diminished stake" in reference to? Is this saying that Github made some kind of offer that would let him keep half his vested options without putting any money up, like converting them to NSOs or something?

I'd really like to understand how companies handle exits like this. Certainly it's a valid perspective that employees are entitled to 100% of their vested options. But, devil's advocate: There is also the counterpoint that pre-IPO valuations are very high and based on special terms given to private investors, so maybe there is a rationale to negotiating a discount on pre-IPO exits.

I would like to understand if Github acted out of good faith here to any degree, i.e. where they were not contractually obligated to.

I also understand Holman noted he hasn't "made a dime" from the company outside his salary, which would be completely f'd up. But it's unclear to me whether that's merely in reference to liquidity or if he actually walked away with no stock. It sounds like he did walk away with some stock as a result of a negotiated agreement with Github.
DICOM Image Support, Convert EMF to PDF and Import Image to PSD Layer Using .NET
This new release of Aspose.Imaging for .NET 3.5.0 adds support for DICOM image and support for EMF format. This release allows bluring an image and import image to PSD layer. Support to apply correction filters on images has also been incorporated in this release. There are some important enhancements, such as Process of digital signing of assembly has been improved, Processing of PSD file has been improved, DXF to PDF conversion, JPG to JPG2000 format conversion process and Processing of YCBCR format have been improved.
Nerding out with Bezier Curves
I feel like this will be controversial to this thread but what about companies that do match SV wages? I am sure there are several in all these cities, there are many in Chicago.

it is super difficult to find the talented candidates that are passionate, curious and are down for solving complex issues at the seniority we want to higher at.

Maybe I am wrong to think its not a salary thing, the market doesn't currently have / isn't pulling in enough talent to feed the demand.

Do the HN economists think if the salaries were raised 20% in a market it would correct the problem?
I think this is cool, but as an aside, what is up with the influx of css libraries on HN? Nothing against them, but there has been 1 or 2 in the top spot for the last few days.
I think this is cool, but as an aside, what is up with the influx of css libraries on HN? Nothing against them, but there has been 1 or 2 in the top spot for the last few days.

edit: Including this ~3-4 in the last 5 days. Not staggering, just seems like a disproportionate to the usual amount as they are all just variations on pretty similar themes. Not to disparage creators, and I thought the CSS purge resources were awesome. Just an observation.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=.css&sort=byPopularity&prefix&...
> nor representative of Java as used outside enterprise development.

It isn't? I've turned down a couple of sweet gigs, at times when I really needed the comfort of work-group structure and maybe even a pay check, because I assumed that (based on my reading) it was all like that. I knew from history, back in the days when it was called Oak that it was a pretty delightful language. Then WS-* and Enterprise OO happened, and I assumed that's where it all went...
I would guess that request came from FBI agents thinking like criminals. One can imagine criminals using the biometric database as an early-warning system for fleeing the country, or for vetting accomplices. Wanted: safe-cracker whose prints are not in the FBI database. Must provide recent screenshot.
Web demo doesn't seem to work (latest chrome).

And this sentence doesn't seem to be totally correct: Get activation code for 1 more month Iris usage for $10.

Maybe it should be: Get activation code for 1 more month OF Iris usage for $10.

But what is strange is that it says "1 MORE month". IMO.

And the bolding of every other word on this page is ugly and annoying https://iristech.co/licensing/
They're not destroyed because the prints aren't just used to determine if the person has committed a crime in the past; they're used in case a crime is committed in the future, and the only evidence for the criminal's identity is fingerprints collected from the scene. Without the records, every potential suspect would have to be fingerprinted again. I'd rather have my prints on file and be automatically cleared of suspicion than have the police show up at my door to bring me in for prints and questioning, especially if there is a high-profile crime (involving children, for example) and the media are digging around the lives of every suspect.