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> Some times I feel even seriously guilty wasting so much energy thinking/reading about it.

It's your energy, so if you find it worthwhile then that's all that matters.

I sometimes feel the same way regarding my passion for computer science, when there are so many immediate problems in the world (energy production, food/wealth/opportunity distribution, war, etc.).

The good news is that you're having such guilty thoughts at all; that makes you more conscientious than if you didn't! You're also devoting that energy to a meaningful topic, compared to cultural norms like sports, celebrities, fashion, etc.

If you feel like there's nothing to show for your efforts, maybe you could try writing down some of your thoughts. They wouldn't have to be "correct", as long as they're intellectually honest; that would provide a progression of ideas, offer insight into the learning process, etc. and maybe you can look back over them to either find inspiration in ideas you'd forgotten, or be able to look at your old questions and know that you've found answers to some of them.
Running Google Closure compiler in the browser: Live demo
Personal use just means you can't give the downloaded video to somebody else, you can't buy a giant projector and turn your house into a movie theater, that sort of thing.
I think the maintainer has a point in saying that the `man 4 random` page should have been updated if its giving wrong advice. I just checked and on my system that manpage still says all that wrong stuff about /dev/urandom. Why is it still unchanged?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle
20% for $50,000 (aka seed), but shortly after with no improvements buyout for $30M? Sounds more like a marketing stunt.
Ox: The flat-pack off-road truck which could revolutionize African transport
This happened to me at Citrix. I had to bring in more ram to put in the computer because it was just unbearable to run Visual Studio. Some places don't give a crap, you just throw more people at the problem.
We don't have enough information to really say if the $30mm buyout was a good offer. Maybe there were some ridiculous strings attached to it. It could be a very good decision his parents helped him on.
You realize that your quoted article – referring to one of the many possible kinds of biofuel – actually refutes you…?
At 14, I barely could decipher if I enjoyed playing video games more than masturbating. I doubt a 14 year old knows anything about life long dreams.
IANAL but..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law...

I have personally been working at a company where we had a problem with this. We were providing reviews of companies' websites, and therefore had to use their name and trademark. It was tricky legal ground for us to do this and we were challenged a few times.
While I totally understand what you're saying and agree with you, I've had 2 of the 85W Mac power adapters replaced out of warranty (2012 rMBP). I'm a "road warrior", travel around 250k miles / year, probably pack / unpack my computer 4-8 times per day, and I'm good about winding/unwinding the power cord, but it's just not designed for that kind of wear & tear.

I think I've gotten replacements because I've been able to show the electrical arcing that takes place (for anyone reading this who doesn't know what electrical arcing is, look it up). Between the nice spark, the sound and especially the smell, employees are pretty damn quick to replace the part. (I did have an employee initially try to just replace part of it, and when I showed him how the problem remained, I just walked over and grabbed a new one off the shelf and told him "I'll just take this." He scanned it and off I went.)

FWIW, the problem I'm talking about is the little 2-prong AC adapter that slides on to the main power "brick". On an 85W model at least, all that weight is borne and supported by the connection, and the torque (or maybe I should be using a term like "lever" or "moment", I don't recall my physics very well) is too much over time.

Last comment - generally I just take Shoe Goo and goop it over the weak strain relief where the cord emerges from the brick. Sure, I don't look cool, but that part of the power supply doesn't fail.
It's very unusual for girls, probably because it literally means "male" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beau).

1 in 1,589 boys (http://www.babynamescience.com/baby-name/Beau-boy)

1 in 235,542 girls (http://www.babynamescience.com/baby-name/Beau-girl)
A bit of reflection - If I were in the same situation as the girl was, I would have named the baby and left it there. Hmm.. No wonder how many opportunities I am missing every day.
On Quora a vending machine operator commented: "It’s a design, not a utility, patent which have less stringent requirements for granting.

His idea is not new, things like aspirin and bandaids have been sold through vending machines for decades. What is unique about his system is that its dedicated to first aid and medical supplies and its interface with the customer is exclusively via a touchscreen. You can’t see the product through a window." [1]

Maybe there's something unique to the interface, though I see nothing in this little video interview that strikes me as earth-shattering [2].

It is also entirely likely that this is another case of 'child genius myth-makery' like we've seen so many times before. Remember the 72MM high school kid trading hoax? [3]

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-did-Taylor-Rosenthal-get-a-patent-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmxkUxEr81w

[3] http://observer.com/2014/12/exclusive-new-york-mags-boy-geni...
Hmm it still doesn't answer the issue of emerging civilizations, we have been sending quite a bit of signals to outer space unintentionally and we still do, and while those signals aren't powerful enough or directed enough for communication they can still be somewhat picked up.

I also don't understand how exactly such treaty would be negotiated given the distance and luminal or subluminal communication speeds in a relativistic universe.

I'm still of the opinion that the best answer to "where's everyone" is that while life isn't rate, intelligent life is, and technological intelligence is even rare at least at any given moment, and it's quite likely that there are sufficient great filters ahead of any civilization that evolves to make any coexistence of technological civilizations within a given galaxy a rarity.

Life spawned on earth virtually the second it cooled down but it took it 3.5-3.8 bln years to develop a life form capable of even basic space travel, a lot of things can happen within a period if nearly 4 bln years and a lot of things have happened on earth where almost all life (and possibly all life) have been erased.

Add to that the possibility that earth just happen to form around the time that life was started to be possible in our own galaxy as the younger Milky Way could have been too violent even around the galactic rim for complex life to evolve due to the constant star formation and death and you give even more credence to the fact that we can be first, rare, and doomed all at the same time.

I find overall the notion that "we aren't special" to be a slight logical fallacy, it is quite possible that both our universe and earth are very special that doesn't mean that they were created or we are in a simulation it just means that they are special and we live in a special time in the universe where the various constants are favorable for not only atoms to develop but for live to evolve and we are in a special part of the universe or even in a special part of our own galaxy and if not in a special location possibly in a special time.

Saying that earth isn't special and hence life is everywhere with a sample of one is like saying that winning the lottery isn't special from a sample of one, saying that earth and the sun are average and if they were special statistically we wouldn't be here also holds very little merit because while statistics do not take sides but if they would not have played "in our favor" we wouldn't be here discussing them in the first place.
Because Linux man pages are sometimes dumb. I can give you a more precise answer but I don't think it will improve the thread.

You should, however, take my word for it. Or, better yet, take Daniel Bernstein's word for it. Take Adam Langley's implied word for it (he's behind crypto/rand in Go). Take Thomas Pornin's word for. You can take Thomas Pornin's word on almost anything! Take Filippo Valsorda's word for it. Or Thomas Huhn's.

The man page is wrong. Should it be fixed? Yes, it should be fixed. But, no excuses. You can't introduce security problems out of obstinacy about man pages.
Very provocative!
Worth noting that $40k is greater than the median income in the UK, so this would be enough for an awful lot of people.
40k would get you a nice house and a decent living for the rest of your life in my State/Country. On top of that you could still work, so this math is already suspect depending on your needs.
We can't condone any solution that depends on userspace PRNGs like OpenSSL instead of the kernel's CSPRNG.

There are probably worse examples of userspace PRNGs that attempt to be cryptographically secure than what OpenSSL provides, but we wrote this to encourage good habits. Reliance on OpenSSL's PRNG is definitely not a good habit to get into.

The "General Requirements for Inclusion" section is our basic evaluation criteria. Cross-platform APIs that wrap the operating system's CSPRNG aren't that difficult. See https://github.com/cryptosphere/sysrandom/blob/master/ext/sy...
Perhaps it's not purely about the money to him. If he's spending every minute outside of school working on this business, there's a great chance that he just likes the work and doesn't want to have to find something new to work on.
If that is true, I believe that falls under fraud when a company is publicly traded. No idea when privately owned!
Maybe they let him decide for himself how he wanted to approach it?
> I was not apart of the decision to uninvite Douglas Crockford to Nodevember

Quite literally, the quoted sentence means "I was part of the decision". From the rest of the article, I think the poster has a serious grammatical error.

"a part" != "apart".

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/apart
Why not create life forms? Why not create an AI? Why create a simulation at all? In my opinion, the best argument for why is entertainment. The originator of a simulation of the universe this nuanced probably has existence on full autopilot, what is left but recreation? You could think of the universe like minecraft (the best selling PC game of all time, btw) raised to some ridiculous power.
I'm sorry but ultra elites testing out sterilization gene modification is very unnerving. It feels too much like a trial run for their Malthusian answer to global warming.
You would be surprised then by how snooty some musicians are about gear.

You don't have a vetted guitar, amplifier, mixer or a microphone? Yep.

That said, they sometimes have a point.
Wow, that's pretty awesome. The car first aid kit is not a thing in America (at least, I've never heard of it - there may be regional regulations in the colder parts of the country), and I think that while businesses are required to have first aid kits, they only have to render aid in severe cases (e.g., I can't walk in and ask for a bandaid because I got a papercut.)

I could be wrong about that, though.
I'm using an apple "magic mouse" right now, and while yes, it is capable of right clicking, the surface is still a single piece. This causes more than a few misclicks for me. A mouse designed with separate surfaces for each button doesn't have the same problem. They begrudgingly added a right click, and their 'design over all else' philosophy has made it an inferior product.
In this case, that's far from true. Many people have contributed correct documentation. Whoever is in charge of these things continually rejects it because of their mistaken beliefs about PRNGs.
We may just be not-intelligent-enough. Why go visit the smart apes, when everybody else is an energy-being chilling in a white hole?
This looks like C. Why do you call it "C/C++"? It could just as well be C/ObjC, right?
This is a fake marketing story. I guess her mother is the website owner, at least the website's about page suggests so in Chinese.
What's wrong with random numbers in Linux?
As DigotalOcean is already very developer friendly, it's great to see it becoming startup friendly in a financial/mentoring fashion.
on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244061

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Donald Knuth speaks about his life [video]
Please change the title to something else.
How did the officer have the legal right to pull you over? Why, because you broke the law as it is codified. Google haven't codified anything, and actively allow apps to do what they selectively disallow on only certain apps.

I'm surprised you can't see the difference!
A 14 year old can't sign a contract, so how does he own a business? I don't doubt he's done all the work, and I've nothing but admiration for him, but there's no way this is the complete picture.
Looks to me like a big difference is that Quill is HTML/DOM-oriented, whereas ProseMirror has a generic document model that is format-agnostic and allows custom parsing/serialization.
They have a /dev/random interface which (literally) randomly blocks, disrupting programs, and a man page that instructs the Ruby community to use /dev/random and not /dev/urandom.
The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse
> Instead you get to have one idea that your stuck with whether or not it makes 100k even.

Six Flags ordered 100 machines putting him at 550,000 revenue for a single customer. As more momentum picks up and they pull in more customers, he'll be well over 30m revenue in a few years time. Smart move from this kid. Bill Gates didn't get his wealth by selling out at the first offer, regardless of his age.
I believe they are referring to the Gulf Stream current stopping, which would indeed make much of north-west Europe colder.
> Rosenthal sketched a design and consulted with his parents, both of whom work in the medical industry.

> By December, he had a working prototype and had acquired a patent.

Parents did all of the work, and are using their kid for marketing purposes. Look at all this free press! Buyout offer doesn't exist. Pretty good marketing plan but I think the business idea is stupid.
Silly people who don't understand that furniture can be loaned or leased.

Maybe you won't get something cutting edge in economics, but definitely very good still.
Ok a precision argument I understand. But the number of states will grow geometrically. And also, we use multiple words to create larger numbers all the time in simulation. I'm not sure how important this is at all.
Serious question: Is there any research in how far will nature be able to adapt? For example, if the permafrost melts, wouldn't that enable growth of CO2 absorbing plants in those areas?

I found this article that says the predicted CO2 levels will increase plant growth: http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/effects-of-...
>If the future of work is bliss, we still need to know when to put it down and pick up something else, whether it’s family game night, hockey league, or just being with nature—happiness simply for the sake of it.

I will do this once I can stop worrying about earning enough to afford a house, kids, and family health insurance while also saving enough to theoretically have a meager retirement.

The writer, Stephanie Buck, sounds like a pretty out of touch California kid with rich parents. Her other writing and Instragram reinforce this. Self-shaming about staying in on News Years at the decrepit age of 28 with her husband, oh the horror and embarrassment. Now look at my thousands of photos of exotic expensive vacations while I write about the American working class trying too hard.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

http://james-iry.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and...
If you read the statistics cited in your usnews article you'll see they aren't disagreeing with me. According to them the issue is that there are lots of people who are "neither employed nor actively looking for work".

That's what I'm saying too, in addition to the fact that many folks could find work if we didn't illegalize the work they would do (e.g. hair braiding, selling tacos). There are many reasons why people don't work today, but being replaced by machines is not one of them. So whatever solutions we implement today should reflect the problem of today: useful work isn't getting done.

If we ever reach the future where I have a Robo-Maid and where Robo-Burger-Flipper is more than just a gimmick, then we can come up with a solution tailored to tomorrow's problems.

Similarly, if you are fat eat less. If you are underweight eat more. An obese person eating more because some day they might be underweight is really just making excuses for gluttony.
> If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

> That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.

--Thomas Jefferson
Even AACS on bluray discs can have multiple different copies of some parts of the video to watermark different sets of device keys. I know footage from theaters can be watermarked too, so I'd be very surprised if this distribution method didn't also have some kind of identification.
Tensor and Quaternion, actually.
cliffnotes?
> You have to be careful using other people's implementations, because certain operations are anticommutative, so sign conventions and operand ordering matters a lot more. For instance, choosing whether K is defined as e3 * e1 rather than e1 * e3 depends on whether your base vectors square to 1 or -1.

Sure. For my implementation I thought a lot about how to deal with signatures and stuff. It's technically easy but making it simple and elegant is not obvious. I first thought about defining a @signature array, but then it occurred to me that it's much simpler to create two infinite spaces : one euclidean and one anti-euclidean. Later I've learned that Hestenes and others have considered this as well, they called it the mother of all geometric algebras, or universal geometric algebra[1]. Conveniently, Perl 6 deals with infinite lists very well, so it was very appropriate.

So in my implementation, @e[$i]² is +1 for all $i. If you want vectors with negative squares, use the @ē basis.

With geometric algebra, there are indeed several ways to represent quaternions. In fact there are several ways to represent complex numbers as well. I don't think it's a pitfall. As long as notations are clear and simple, it should be fine, I think.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_geometric_algebra
I feel like I've used it all - apps, plaintext, files+dirs, taskwarrior, ad hoc paper, bullet journal, org mode. I've used org mode many times over several years, but it only clicked for me as a system when I recently started using its capture templates and agenda views. If org-mode could be described as a system built on Emacs, it feels to me like task management with custom capture templates and custom agenda views is sort of a system built on org-mode. That probably makes it sound unnecessarily complicated, but it's actually extremely simple, fast, and reliable. I'm still using Apple's Reminders to remind me at 0900, 1245, and 1600 to actually check in with my system, but the system itself is working beautifully.
Feedback:
After clicking the link, editing the url to find the real site, clicking everything, I still don't know what this is besides something that has to do with music and collaboration.

Suggestion: let a friend (or a professional tester) try out your site and listen carefully to their comments, before you go boosting, and frustrate a lot of people that probably will not bother again.

A serious tester would probably have told you that you are missing info on the site.
The Myth of “Macroeconomics”
The media block has a small micro inside the controls the HSM. It runs on an internal back-up battery. If the unit is opened, or tampered with then it wipes all the keys. That module is FIPS certified against intrusion.
What about B-52s, T-38s, and come to think of it, isn't the F-16 pushing 40?
Fair enough, I did not realize there was a different concept called that in trademark law.

I still don't understand why you think it's absurd that he would assert such a defense, though. The article you linked clearly states that nominative use is actually encouraged by US trademark law. It seems a no brainer that you'd be able to specify the platform that your product works with.
MaxPlat Changes Homepage Due to User Feedback
I haven't used built-in bookmarks for years. If I really want to bookmark something, it goes in Pocket or Pinboard.

Browser history search via the address bar is much faster than searching through bookmark folders for a particular page. Even nicer with Vimium where I can just hit "o" and search for what I want. For everything else, I just Google.
>But Beau doesn't know which names are the most popular on her website, and she's "happy about that".

This could go hilariously wrong. Her algorithm attempts to match names with personality traits. Some personality traits will be more popular than others, therefore some names will be more popular. Depending on exactly how it's all weighted, some names may be heavily biased towards or against. Without feedback and adjustment to maintain a sensible distribution she could well end up naming every third baby the same thing. Without anyone ever noticing until the next census.

Which gives me an idea for a website! "namemybabyaliceorbob.com"
This is the key point, in the case that there is a fire on board (one of the likely possibilities with MH370) you want to be able to disable the offending circuit immediately. If that happened to be your transponder, so be it...the transponder really adds no value to the plane in terms of its ability to stay in the air, so disabling it and extinguishing the fire is the key priority over giving ATC the ability to identify you on radar via the transponder.
We can just eat code, right?
> decide up front what the value is to you

That's the tricky part ;)
Enough experience to have the skills required; this is not a junior position. No, we do not offer visa sponsorship.

(Both of these questions are answered on the AngelList page linked from the original post.)
A vending machine? I don't understand how its new at all.
The standard for trademark infringement is "likelihood of confusion", which is why "Cleaner for Facebook" passed muster at Apple.
> The plan was simple yet ambitious:

> One month to set up a new business (rent a kitchen, hire a chef, hire motorbike drivers, create the menu, design logo, website, build mobile app for drivers, build first version of the routing algorithm plus complete all the legal and admin paperwork).

So... they opened a delivery restaurant with its own app?