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It's funny how Mr Paul Graham is projecting his own 'Nerd'iness and unattractiveness to the opposite sex on the whole tech / intelligent / scientific community.

Of course, Nerds are, and will always be unpopular because, all said and done, men and women are primitively hard-wired to be attacted to physical characteristics and as such, the football player, who works out and stays in shape and can go longer in bed than the Nerds will always win.

Sorry PG, don't take it so personally. I am sure you eventually got laid.
To "refresh" your Firefox user profile, open the about:support and click the "Refresh" button. It should preserve your tabs, bookmarks, and saved passwords but will lose your installed add-ons (so note which add-ons you have now that you will want to re-install).
The image is did not produce anything on google image search.

magic I. See_abeach,-yes.-I explore daylight
What's the red thing in the upper-left?
They are more like standards documents for people. They are often thought to be unambiguous, but they frequently end up with multiple competing interpretations.
Service Workers allow content to be downloaded in the background and to be made offline.

In practice, service workers seem to mostly be drive-by installs of forms of hostile code. Look at "about:serviceworkers" in Firefox to see what's running. Did you ask for any of those? I have, excluding sites where I have a login:

* https://www.youtube.com, https://plus.google.com I've never signed into Youtube, or Google, on this machine, but have watched YouTube videos.

* https://www.bajajfinserv.in - A financial service in India. I was checking out something from Wikipedia, and this drive-by installed.

* https://www.theguardian.com - I've read their site, but do not have a login.

* https://weather.com - checked weather, don't have a login.

* https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net - No idea what this is. Going there returns XML with "<Message>Access denied.</Message><Details>Anonymous users does not have storage.objects.list access to bucket itchio.</Details>".

* https://fee.org - "Foundation for Economic Education", a right-wing think tank. Does a drive-by install for any home page access.
> Makes me wonder if there is a market for a release notes platform for keeping customer up to date

There apparently is, we use https://headwayapp.co/ for that.
A volunteer reverse engineering project being only 3 years behind a gigantic corporation is actually pretty impressive.
It wouldn't be draining money, since public schools would get money per-student just like private schools do (conversely, why does the local public school get to count private-school students in its catchment area?). And you're assuming that it's possible to make all public schools good, which from what I can tell is roughly impossible to do given American political realities.
Trump bans agencies from 'providing updates on social media or to reporters'
"crashes immediately upon launching"

But there was a screenshot of the main menu on Wine! Maybe it was some experimental branch of Wine or something.
On a simple level, RICE scoring can help: https://blog.intercom.com/rice-simple-prioritization-for-pro...
This brings me back to the early days of my Linux usage. I've always been fascinated by this project.

My very nerdy dream has always been to try to contribute to it somehow. How hard is it to get in to the community?
Some big colleges in the US are banning vaping on school grounds (indoors and outdoors). I think it's a reasonable rule to have for a hospital or laboratory, where the environment needs to be as controlled and contaminant-free as possible. Nicotine being fundamentally bad? Unstable batteries? That does seem a bit kneejerk, and unsubstantiated. Some airplanes or confined environments ban heavy perfume, out of respect for people with asthma and sinus issues. This is a much more justifiable reason IMHO. Either way, banning it outdoors seems a bit far... it seems like less work to equate vaping with smoking, instead of actually treating it as its own thing.
Lack of sleep gives me headaches. Sometimes (but not always), 3D movies do too. They're always more fatiguing than 2D movies, at the very least.

> At the risk of channeling $STEREOTYPICAL_MOM, are people who'd ask that of you really your friends?

They don't know, because I don't tell them. Otherwise, they'd bend over backwards to accommodate me, which would make me more uncomfortable than the physical pain does.
Ask HN: Has anyone used Gust Launch?
(https://launch.gust.com)
Don't most lossy codecs make use of compressed sensing?
Depends on the game. Some run better on Windows, some on Wine. You need to check for specific titles with this kind of question.

I've seen multiple sources claiming that CoD2 and WoW run with better FPS on Wine for example.
Half of the USA will reject anything but free market, pull your self up by your bootstraps, capitalism as "Socialism".
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Depending on destination, you might need to change buses several times, which is of course inconvenient.

OTOH, booking a busride far in advance might mitigate this. Also different price-levels could mitigate this to some extent. I'm not sure if it would be sufficient, though.
Tag&Rename [1], a still maintained Windows-only shareware excellent at tagging music. Occasional use, Linux equivalents suck in various ways, it's perfectly configured to my needs, and works perfectly in Wine so why change it :)

[1] http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm

EDIT: thanks for the Linux alternative suggestions everyone! I have (had) mostly the same complaints about ExFalso / Puddletag / EasyTAG as the ones I posted below about Picard (never tried Beets though). But most importantly, given this olde windows tool has been working fantastic for years, I don't see any reason to migrate my config and trust and habits :)
It sounds like the surf to me.
Well, it's a skin on the rocket that will make it big. While they generally say that Elixir runs on top of the Erlang VM there happens to be a big fat Erlang/OTP layer in-between which Elixir and its libraries make full use of. This is just smart of course but not mentioning doesn't paint the whole picture.
I think that's where Scala shines. I don't know if you have tried it, but it solves a bunch of the problem you enumerate with Java & C.

Sure, it can be hard to read because you can write the same thing in tens of different ways and some people abuse it, but if you don't and your team does not, you end up with a beautiful code base.
I don't remember nerds or unpopular kids being any smarter than the popular kids and for the most part it was the other way around.
The beauty is you can contribute in any way. If you're a web designer, you can help with their site. If you're a technical writer, you can help improve documentation. You don't need to contribute to the core codebase to contribute to the project at large.
BTW if you find you need multiple versions of Wine for better compatibility with different apps (and probably even if you don't), PlayOnLinux is also a great tool.
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Actually it makes perfect sense.

It has the nazi connotations (Edelweiss being a Germanic name for flower that grows in the German speaking countries --including Germany--, and being modeled after Austrian/German folksongs, the lyric "Bless my homeland forever", the impassionate delivery, etc) and the anti-nazi connotations (from its function in The Sound of Music).

Here's an article examining it in this context:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/ede...
Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder. I'm glad I'm not in high school any more. After high school I found there's a bigger pool of people, and I can read a math book for fun (as an example) without people looking down on me for it.

In fact, I know people who do the same thing. It's great. We respect each other.
> I think the "more cores == faster" benefit is overstated.

I find it is not. But of course the right tool for the right job. Multiplying matrices as a single batch process is probably not going to work very well. But I saw it works exceptionally for highly concurrent workload.

This is not just "I ran a quick benchmarks on my laptop and then extrapolated by using an multiplier". Distributed systems work funny and they don't scale linearly. Sometimes a very fast, small sequential program will hit a wall and barf on itself when faced with multiple concurrent requests.

The other secret sauce is not multi-core capability but process isolation. The reason is this: a large distributed system is only as useful / practical as it is fault tolerant. It doesn't matter if you run hand tunes assembly routine and process 1M requests per second, then it crashes every day and you have hours of debugging and downtime. The average throughput or uptime will be pretty bad.

This is one key insight into what makes Erlang (and Elixir) a good tool for distributed systems - fault tolerance is built into the core of the platform.
It's not hard to imagine a search engine which matches mechanical descriptions of parts to a proposed design automatically. Just draw roughly what you need, punch in the specs, and let the expert-system provide a least-cost bill-of-materials which comes nearest the ratings + a list of custom parts.
iTunes, OCRing PDFs.
Unreal Engine also does it right:

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-14-release...
Yo! I even worked on a software project for automation once upon a time.

Main thing IMHO is that the industry uses a lot of hardware that has payback periods of decades. Nobody's going to spend money on high-end new automated gear unless they have high confidence that there's going to be enough business in the next few years/decades to pay it off. The offshore operators tend to buy in first, both because they have the capital, and because the cost and risk of keeping more people offshore is so much higher. Land operators tend to get this kind of stuff at a trickle.

The headcounts will fall, but not as much or as fast as some would have us think, both for that reason, and because this stuff is hard to get right. The project that I worked on mostly put more people on the rig just to keep all of the stuff running. There were only a handful of rigs in the field with enough automatic hardware to use our system in the first place.
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> Most of developers have figured out how to do concurrency and parallelism with mutable state and locks.

Based on my experience of almost a decade in the embedded/safety space, this isn't true. Based on my experience as an end user of software on computers, phones, and tablets, I'm also not inspired by the crashes and performance snags I see. Even when it's safe, it's often slower than necessary thanks to unneeded locks by being too conservative (or due to refactorings which made the locks unnecessary but still present).

I agree it's not too hard. But it requires more thought and deliberation to make concurrent code in C/C++/Java than in Erlang than most developers seem willing to commit to the task. Paired with the built-in features of OTP to the Erlang platform, it beats the stock distribution of many other languages for reliability/safety of concurrent code. Those depending on external libraries can never seem to agree on just which one to use. It's too faddish to be reliable for maintenance over the next decade or five.
>My only issue is that it's never really warm enough to swim, though you can if you don't mind cold water

Surely there's indoor swimming pools you can go to. In that climate, it seems to be stupid to even bother building an outdoor swimming pool.

Of course, if you're talking about the ocean/sound, there's not much you can do there, but I never hear people in the Northeast complaining about it rarely being warm enough to swim at the beach. I doubt the water's ever warm in Maine either.
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Paramecia manage to do quite a lot without any brains at all [1]. They do have microtubules though [2].

[1] https://www.ebiomedia.com/the-biology-classics-paramecium-be...

[2] http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/invertebrates/micr...
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There's a road on the right hand side - you can see cars driving by.
I was thinking maybe it was part of a chip bag. Then you could run that fancy subpixel-motion sound extraction algorithm on it pretty easily (fitting with "See What Cannot Be Heard").

But the timecodes are probably a more likely thing...
> These areas boast an abundance of mid-rise, open-floor plan, historic buildings that create street-level interaction, where people and ideas can combine and recombine to form new innovations and startup companies.

Historic office buildings are anything but open-floor plan-based. Open-floor plans suck for startups because the square footage is usually immense, which means you can't rent office space cheaply. That's why early stage startups these days end up working in accelerators where they can share space, if they're operating out of commercial space at all. Where startups operate with large open floor plans, it's because they've migrated to cheap areas with lots of supply and low demand, namely vacant industrial areas. But those are becoming scarce within cities.

The image of startups in open floor plans is really an artifact of necessity, with rationalizations after-the-fact for why they might be better. And in any event, anybody who has worked in the 1970s and 1980s era single-story office buildings in Silicon Valley knows that the layouts were typically neither totally open nor closed, but had spaces with varying qualities.

I have a small (2-3 person max) private office in an historic building in San Francisco's Financial District. Since the building was constructed in 1890, it's been principally occupied by professionals--doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, etc--who don't typically have many employees, if any. Over the past 5 years I've increasingly seen more tech startups here and it's really ideal for them because they can rent just enough space for what they need. And while the building management has leased a few floors in their entirety to some businesses (a securities trading firm, a game company, a law firm), they seem committed to keeping most of their space in a more traditional[1] layout.

And I'm really thankful for that commitment because I hate open-floor layouts. I like having my own, truly private space that isn't subleased from a larger office. These types of buildings are a rarity. I don't have to walk past any other desk (other than the security desk downstairs) coming to or leaving from my office. I don't have to worry about questions about why I come at noon one day and don't leave until noon the next day (all-night hacking session), nobody knows if I'm taking a nap, doing my taxes, etc. Not that I'd be offended by such questions, it's just that real privacy makes for a much less stressful and more productive environment for me, and I imagine many other people. At the same time, I really benefit from my work space and home space being separate.

[1] Very traditional, I should say, given that large open floor plans started in the 1950s. One of the earliest modernist skyscrapers in the now archetypal International Style--open floors, glass curtain walls, highly segregated service areas--the Crown Zellerbach Building, is one block from here, built in 1959. It's just a completely different architectural style internally. Night & day.
Very much so but there are some commercial companies that have been contributing to the project as well.
Possibly related to the big '5' that appears on the savethedate.foo site after entering the latlong?

If you take out the other text, we're left with "._,-.-". Removing the comma leaves us with 5 characters "._-.-" Morse code?
Nice thought, but as the article states, car manufacturers do not want their cars to be recognizable as autonomous, because others might take advantage.
>There is a whole loathsome, solipsistic genre like this. E.g. novels about wealthy privileged young authors living in Brooklyn struggling to find meaning in their lives, written by---you guessed it---wealthy privileged young authors living in Brooklyn struggling to find meaning in their lives.

Sounds like "The Great Gatsby". Or art in general: isn't the author supposed to write for what they know and from the point they stand, even if they are "wealthy, privileged and young"?
Obviously said "program" must be a server that services independent requests. I mean, not obviously, but if you work in telecom, web, etc. that's pretty much all programs you see.
What are the shortcomings you find in Picard?
All the major new additions in the iOS 10.3 and macOS 10.12.4 betas
And long lines at the grocery store are an artifact of the city.

The walk to my grocery store is under 5 minutes. I shop every other day because I can shop before 7AM. But if I had to shop later than 7AM, I would only go once a week, because the lines grow too long.
The crop circle after the first clue also shows us a number: '5'
finally~ But I would prefer if background tabs didn't pre-load at all.
FactCheck.net vs. PropOrNot: Why we are more credible
> Consequently, all the proofs were correct, but they failed to model Java correctly and missed this bug.

David Byrne repeating "Same as it ever was" comes to mind ... ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU )
Those weren't footnotes. My point was that you were completely mischaracterizing the core nature of the problem.
I'm communicating just fine, you just seem to have no education. I suggest going back to school.
At the time even the US loved Nazi Germany and Hitler.
With Firefox you just open a new one and start typing part of the title or url and it finds the tab.

If I want to add a new tab instead of finding the old I can press shift (IIRC).
At a glance it does sound like a very small potential market which makes me curious as to why YC would fund them. Perhaps there's a belief that the market will grow as these tools lower the barriers to entry (facilitated by GraphQL) for building applications?
MagicI.See_abeach,-yes._Iexploredaylight

we need to convert these to numbers to get the lat/lon of this location.
The idea is that public schools should be made good, the government should not be reducing the use of public schools. A good public schooling system is incredibly important for a functioning democracy, because a functioning democracy relies on a well educated citizenry.
I give you permission to tell your friends that you don't want to risk a headache to spend time with them.
I'm assuming this is out of Walmart Labs? Pretty interesting place! I had no idea they had so many people there. Unless this is referring to something bigger than WalMart Labs.
Ahh thanks. Any idea on the next one? :P

EDIT: Nevermind 3 should be easy for most HNers. Wrote that before I even saw it.
> You're not obliged to pay attention to any of the sequels.

That statement does nothing but detract from the conversation. Of course I'm not obliged to pay attention to any of them. I'm not making the generalization that all sequels are bad.
I think that would help, but in my opinion, Erlang's syntax and overall projected surface has always been its biggest hurdle to wide adoption. You can have the most amazing, powerful language ever, but it still won't receive popular adoption if you're too strange and you can only attract a certain type of highly-skilled senior devs.

I'm not a fan of Elixir's quasi-Ruby syntax — I think something closer to Go or Nim would have served it better — but it's certainly a step in the right direction.

The Erlang toolchain has a ton of ergonomic issues that could have been polished down a long time ago, but haven't been. Erlang simply feels oddly quirky and antiquated for anyone used to modern GNU tools or modern REPLs.

For example: Lack of Readline support (needs rlwrap to be usable, at least on Ubuntu), lack of GNU-style long options, the obnoxious ctrl-C behaviour that doesn't respect Unix conventions and gives you a prompt with confusing options (quick, what's the difference between "abort" and "kill"?) that seem aimed at developers and are completely wrong if you're just a user of an Erlang tool. (Couldn't they have relegated this to USR1 or something instead of INT, like a normal program?) On the server, the epmd process is a thorn in the side of any system administrator. Erlang devs also seem to think that emitting Erlang stack traces is a good replacement for proper English error messages, and if you're not an Erlang dev, you haven't seen stack traces until you've seen the kind of monstrous, obscure, deeply nested contextual dumps that Erlang programs can produce.

And so on. Little things, but important things that can completely kill the joy when you're a potential adopter.

Erlang shouldn't need Elixir to modernize, but there's probably very little incentive within the community to change quirks that they're all used to dealing with by now.

(I encountered similar issues with OCaml, which has many parallels to Erlang: Quirky, odd syntax, antiquated toolchain, etc. Facebook's cleanup effort [1] looks very promising.)

[1] https://facebook.github.io/reason/
Yes, but it's a fictional universe, so you're free to disregard any elements of it that fall outside of your favorite entries into the canon.

If you think that some new works expand the universe in a stupid direction, there's no reason you can't pretend they don't exist and still derive the same meaning from your favorite works.

Disney does this as a matter of policy.
Family of 3, our supermarket was in the groundfloor of our apartment so it was sometimes easier to just run downstairs and grab it then to search through the pantry. You'd be amazed what you can carry once you start doing it regularly. I also, proudly, walked around with those little carts you see little old ladies carry. Damn things are super useful even with a car. Carries 2 cases of beer and produce on top ;-)

The other grocer in our neighbordhood does deliveries. Go shopping as you normally do, at checkout groceries are loaded into a big plastic tote instead of a grocery bag. It's delivered to your door within the hour.

I grew up outside the cities (denser, working class suburbs, not mcmansion-style suburbs) and after city living most of my adult life I can't realistically go back.
Awesome suggestions. Thanks!

- For pricing: sorry about the confusion, I have a pricing section of the home page in progress but didn't want to wait to post this.

- I'm using Twilio and the WebRTC connection is cheap but calling to an outgoing phone line is not. It's a few cents per minute, depending on where I'm calling. I might play with pricing some more but even at $0.25 a call I'm worried about breaking even depending on how long the calls last.

- Social media marketing w/ call credits is a great idea. That goes on the immediate to do list.

- Same with affiliate link and CNAME. Someone has mentioned the CNAME concept before but I somehow didn't understand what they were talking about until you spelled it out that way.

- Status indicator - cool idea. You don't think it will deter people from making the call if they know the person is not available? Or is it better to know beforehand that you're going to voicemail?

Thanks again for the great ideas.
Read Complex Worlds from Simpler Nervous Systems[1] if you want more information on how very complex behavior can emerge from jumping spiders and bees. After reading that book, it seemed to me that AI researchers should focus much more time on duplicating the feats of these simpler animals (in similarly computationally limited contexts) rather than focusing on duplicating extremely high level human faculties like reasoning and even playing Go. I mean, imagine a robot with the intelligence of a parrot or the smartest birds in the corvidae family[2]. I think people would probably be afraid of autonomous robots of this level of intelligence.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/complex-worlds-simpler-nervou...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonian_crow
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