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Natural units are nice, but they are completely impractical for dealing with normal Mirkowskian space. I.e., how do I explain to someone who cannot view me how tall I am? Our normal unit system is nice because it's phenomenological, and maybe inconvenient.
The suicide rate amongst Foxconn workers is dramatically lower than that of China overall.

Most of the population of China are peasant farmers, living in huts with no running water or electricity. A factory dormitory looks pretty unpleasant to us, but for most of the people living in them it's a big step up.

Do you have a better idea for how to lift 800,000,000 people out of poverty?
I think the problem is that it won't work for all people. The system actually seems to work well for the average person. However, a country like the USA, can benefit from attracting these kind of people (Investors, Infrastructure, Big companies, Networks...) and it seems like it's already doing so to some extent.
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Plenty of flaws and mistaken assumptions in the other points too.
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RoR is clearly a better language

I'm not sure if you made a mistake here, but RoR is a framework. Ruby is a language. RoR shouldn't be compared to PHP. If anything, it should be compared to one of the many PHP frameworks out there.

I agree that there are a great deal of jobs for PHP, but I disagree that "It's where the jobs are." There are a great deal of jobs around for RoR.
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That's so funny because I always loved getting the answer wrong. I could get full credit for explaining possible sources of error, versus having to develop a well-established analysis independently. You'd think more students would think this way.
It doesn't for me. I have to click on the page first to make them work. OS X 10.6.7 / Safari 5.0.5 here (basically the newest thing you can get from Apple).
Not everyone over 30 has a wife, kids, 2 cars, is in debt up to their eyeballs, and lives downtown San Francisco.

I'm over 30, single, own a home, and am bootstrapping a software/consulting business. Between income from my business, savings, and profits in the stock market (I day trade on the side) I have almost unlimited runway. I don't have to pander to investors and I have the time to really sink my teeth into some hard problems. The crazy thing is when I do the math at the end of the year, I'm not even that far behind where I'd be if I had a day job and I'm still just getting started. What risk?
"Now I understand different project needs translates to different languages"

This is much less true than you'd think when you're talking about languages of the same class, like Ruby and PHP. (Sorry, Ruby; I didn't mean it that way.) And when your goals are vague ("social networking site.")

The ease of setting up PHP will retard your progress towards understanding the web stack in greater depth, Which is something you'll need to do if you want to become a good web developer. Setting up Python or Ruby with Apache isn't as difficult as you would think it is, given how often the ease of setting up PHP is cited as a reason to use it.

You'll learn better habits and practices from the Ruby or Python communities than the PHP community.
I think the OP is saying the 37s will measure the "success" of this deal on what Sortfolio becomes, not on how much they can make on the transaction. Ergo, if they believe a buyer has the chops to purchase Sortfolio and build it out different markets, they may select that buyer over one that (for example) wants to purchase it for more money and simply shut it down.

I'm not taking an opinion personally, but that's my take on the comment.
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"They released a statement via YouTube last month saying that while the group's organizers had not stolen the data, it was possible some members of the group were involved in the matter."

Just about anyone could claim to be part of "Anonymous" and submit a video saying just about anything. If you can't verify something, you probably shouldn't be including it in the news.
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I take issue with your use of "prove a negative". http://departments.bloomu.edu/philosophy/pages/content/hales... The Problem of Induction is something different.

Let's all just be good Bayesians now and drop the argument of what is proof, what is evidence, what are tenable beliefs given X evidence, etc. It's a solved issue if anyone cares about being correct.
We don't write 1's and 0's. Programming is an abstraction. But we still need to pick and choose what abstractions we use and where. Do the benefits of that abstraction outweigh the problems it creates? In the case of HAML (and ECS, grrr...) I don't think it does.
I'm excited to try Scala for Android development but haven't had the time to figure out a new build system, etc. I hope it'll eventually be integrated into Intellij IDEA.
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Great point! I'd forgotten that about SASS.
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Some remarkable stats on how much it's taken to get SpaceX off the ground. Apparently only $800million in total development costs since they were founded, and that includes infrastructure and dev costs for Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule.
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I have been reading HN for long time. I like the idea of comments rating. However, now that it's removed, it's really making me nervous (I'm not sure why). I just want to know the comments' vote.

Is it possible that you make an option? That is we enable it from the settings page. I think other HNers would like to see it back.
The choice comes from whether a person exposes themselves to ideas that don't conform to their world view.
Right, that was the part I did understand :-) What I didn't get was why the parent comment was disappointed that Google didn't choose SCTP over SPDY, since no either-or choice is required here. Couldn't SPDY be run over SCTP as well (leaving aside the problems with SCTP that you brought up in your previous comment), albeit with some redundant functionality?
I was about to cry but didn't happen. I've been in this position before and I've had tears rolling down. But not this time. I have learned and I know that it's not as simple as taking things for granted or not. Those that are running to their wives and kids right now are just emotionally hijacked by the rush of whatever neurotransmitter is triggered in this situations. Tomorrow it will be different and a week from now even more. And that's OK. Life goes on and we have to explore other things, pursue new goals; and if we're wise enough, we'll find a way to find peace within ourselves.
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Is there any information about what constitutes deliberate practice in math? Clearly the article takes serious umbrage with problem sets.
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if hints to the jit are important here, why aren't they going to be important in other places too? is numpy really so unusual? or is every performance-critical library going to end up in rpython?

and sorry if thinking for myself rather than blindly trusting others offends you.
They're speaking to their shareholders with the same words.
This is actually exactly the reason I love my CS courses as opposed to, say, trig
> Phew. And there I was thinking I was rotting my brain with such things. :)

I would like to point out that because one person has managed to be productive with that kind of habit doesn't mean it isn't harmful.
+1 for Detroit. Do it on either side of DEMF and I'm definitely in.
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Who at Intel thinks type set at 12px is legible?
plus you don't always get anywhere near capacity. I could never get above about 100k/s (am based in the UK which might have an impact).
> there are things that the government will have to do to get us to where we need to be...

Namely: recognize that, in imposing a double cost on anyone seeking private education, it is stifling entrepreneurship in education (where it is sorely needed) and step out of the game entirely.
> Ultimately, more Scala used means more modern Android development. One would assume that Google would have a vested interested in at least aiding the Boston Android’s project, but they have yet to send a representative to a meet-up thus far.

I find this to be a pretty naive statement. I've never once thought of Scala on Android as being anywhere near official, and I don't see why Google would jump on the chance to officially support it. Now, having a Googler show up of their own volition - that's a different matter altogether. Maybe there just aren't any interested Googlers in the area?
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In fact, it makes it just as hard as it is for the regulars whose S is getting D'ed to access their servers. They have no clue what happened.
Asking friends about git GUIs I found out a strong correlation between not using a GUI for git and not using proper commits[1]. I feel sad when I hear the words "Oh, I just commit everything!"

[1] By proper commit I mean one where you have a proper commit message per file (or group of files) per purpose and not just a commit message for all the changes you made during your daily work hours.
Probably not. I wouldn't simply discount something.

For example, for a long time people assumed that black swans didn't exist. Hence the term "black swan event."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

The world was flat for centuries. The earth was the center of the universe. The atom was indivisible. Nothing escapes a black hole. That's true, right? Nothing existed before the Big Bang? We pretty much knew everything about physics that we needed to know until Einstein came along. I would pretty much question everything.
This post is a great example of what I dislike about Ruby culture, making a big deal out of pretty simple stuff. At least the article didn't mention DSLs.

This SASS thing, it seems interesting… I'm a Scheme programmer. I'd like something like it. After about forty-five minutes of hacking, I came up with this:

https://gist.github.com/956113

It lets you write code like this:

(make-css
'(("body.loading"
(font-size "12px")
(color "#fff")
(" ul#sidenav"
(" li"
(blah "blah"))))))

And generates output like this:

body.loading { font-size: 12px; color: #fff; }
body.loading ul#sidenav li { blah: blah; }

I agree with the guy's point though: SASS is different from HAML in that it actually does something conceptually useful, viz. it introduces a scope-like concept to CSS.
I'm not sure that PHP still has the best support. It's true that there are lots of PHP books, but the number is overwhelming and confusing.

RoR has got few resources but they are well done. There are good tutorials and books about RoR. There are good add-ons. And also not a large % of its' developers are just 2 month programmers.

I don't see how the quantity in PHP helps.
There have been a couple of job postings; is this the same position posted a couple of times, or are you just hiring a bunch of people?

On another note, just how big a part of your traction an traffic has StarCraft 2 (and to some degree Street Fighter IV and other competetive videogames, tournaments and personal streams) been for Justin.tv?

It's also interesting to see all the big StarCraft 2-streamers move to justin.tv from livestream and ustream, so you must be doing something very, very well.
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This looks more like my expenses.
commenting on the linguistics here. the reason why this is confusing is that you refer to the way Google did it. transparent behaviour means accountable behaviour.

if you had instead said that "the transparent implementation was a problem for me" people would have been less confused.
Not long enough, it feels like it's 5 - 10 minutes.

What's the benefit of doing it like that rather than a page=x or offset=x?
They are even better than the "get perpendicular" video by Hitachi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xPvD0Z9kz8
If one actually reads 'Zen Mind: Beginner's Mind' it should be abundantly clear that enlightenment can come to anyone at any age. That said the primary reason why the 30 year old is not over the hill is that he or she can still see the 60 year old just short of the summit (and neither can see that there are an endless number of summits to come...)
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For me, the quality of dribbble has declined a lot the last couple of months. (Your theories are as good as mine.)

The good artists seem fewer and farther between, and where I would also have looked to dribbble before, it just feels like yet another social link to add to your digital CV rather than a place companies trawl for talent.
I feel like I'm in the minority here but rote practice has a role, just like playing scales or dribbling a basketball does. It lets you ingrain into your muscle memory the foundation-level skills. Once you're able to multiply arbitrary two digit numbers in your head or dribble a ball without really thinking about it, it frees you for when you're thinking about higher level problems.
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If SPDY were designed to run (only) over SCTP, presumably the redundant functionality wouldn't have been designed in the first place, saving Google's time and yielding a more elegant protocol. At least that's my interpretation.
Essential missing detail: what are the "loser" person's other opportunities? It's one thing if they're sitting around playing video games all day long and squandering their life. It's an entirely different thing if they're already doing relatively well at something else.

The point is that opportunity cost makes a huge difference in the final analysis. The friend with no college degree and no programming skill had very little to lose from the start. But if the "loser" friend is earning a substantial salary and stock options somewhere, the barrier to risky speculative bets is correspondingly higher.
Phew, for a second there, I thought the 9 year old made an iOS game himself.
Hey, I just replied to what the poster submitted. Sure rails is a platform and ruby is the languge. My arguement still holds, PHP has far more support and ruby is a better language. Same goes for platforms, PHP has far more options and ruby has few.
IMO PHP wins because it has more resources. But as a languge i like ruby better.
As for jobs, I didn't say there were none for rails/ruby, just that there are far more for php.
I think this is actually about 3000 years old--it's called the Socratic method of teaching. Yes, there were no textbooks to "read ahead" back then, but Socrates drew on the "textbook" of lived experience.
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Why is this a fundamental feature of message queues any more than of other things?

(you can make a data structure which makes memory explode, for instance lists:seq(1, 123456789123456), you can make a program which makes memory explode, for instance by growing the stack enough. Why is a message queue special?)
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The sample has more than two pages: http://exceptionalruby.com/exceptional-ruby-sample.pdf
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Sal Khan also did Computer Science. Programming fans are already in capable hands.
Yup, on OSX I do this:

export GIT_EDITOR='mvim -f -c"au VimLeave * !open -a Terminal"'

It nicely returns focus to the terminal window that launched MacVim (i.e. Gvim for OSX) after you save and close the commit message.
So what? There's a long history of <link> elements being used for such things, along with the http-equiv attribute for <meta> elements.
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My company recently switched to Disqus as a test on some of our sites. So far we're happy. The mobile version needs some work including their app but overall good. I don't like Facebook and their attitude towards their users so we won't be using Facebook comments.
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Is it the case, as I have seen suggested elsewhere, that the wifi-only model has a slower CPU?
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I got hung up on the "complex" part, but maybe I just underestimate my own skills. ;)
Could you please give details about how this broke? What's special about your school internet connection? I tried hard to make SPDY upgrade not break anything and we've had very few reports of problems so I'm very interested in what when wrong in your case.
did Google order manufacturing of the device? did Google order printing of the manuals and the box? did Google stack the boxed up devices onto palettes and ship them out to shops? Is it called the Google Xoom?
No no no no. All of the above are Motorola, and more. It's a Motorola product which uses hardware and software components from probably dozens of suppliers. One of those suppliers is Google. They may have supplied a shitty component, but Motorola shipped the device instead of saying "this isn't ready, don't ship it".

How are you actually arguing with this point? Is it just because this is the internet and fingertips are a renewable resource?
validate_uniqueness is a system that is completely broken once you have more than 1 ruby process running against the same database. It just can't work the way you want it to.

You must add constraints to the database and handle the resulting exceptions to ensure unique values.

They really need to kill validate_uniqueness since it is so totally broken
The actual link to the facebook page this spreads from is here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Osama-is-Dead-Watch-the-Video/...

Apparently people do actually copy the javascript and paste it into the URL bar, effectively getting past cross-domain xhr restrictions.

This looks like another interesting case of "why johnny can't notice security risks". How does one mitigate something like this other than expecting users to be knowledgeable?
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Link? I also would like to see Resig do JS targeted screencasts covering concepts like closures and prototyping.
you should put contact info in your HN profile page! I would love to follow up with you privately on this.
I believe the most elegant solution is still

:markdown
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Sure, but there are an infinite number of propositions that you might want to consider if you're determined to not discount anything for which there is no evidence. For example, you may want to seriously consider the possibilities that danilocampos enumerated above, i.e. all-powerful rhinoceros, etc. After all, why should anyone discount those theories?
Why not today? Why not now?

I had the exact same feeling when my friend died in a car wreck. The trick to living life to its fullest is to tease out the beauty in every moment.
According to other sources that have been linked on HN the passwords were hashed, and the credit cards where encrypted in a seperate database[0].

0: I have not found information on how secure the encryption was
More so, it's not a very good business to be in. The same functionality at a much, much higher profit margin is in smart phones, and that's where you want to put your effort because it has such a higher rate of return.
doesn't heart kinda solve the cyclic "who restarts who thing". I think heart (if enabled) sits there until the erlang process exits, restarts the erlang vm, which in turn also brings up an instance of heart. yeah, complicated and not perfect, but it works.
I'd have to think there would be some aid provided by 37s in the changeover process. If nothing else, the service will still reflect 37s in some way in the periods following the change in ownership.

I also think the value that 37s is giving SF is being somewhat overestimated. The revenues are going to be tied in with the amount of people looking for designers. As long as the stream of good customers does not dry out, the site will continue to do very well. At this point, how many customers are being brought in because of 37s? I don't know, but that would be something I'd have to get a better idea of before considering a purchase. I think SF has already gotten all the value from the 37s name that it can, or at least is close to that point. Early on, being a 37s product had tremendous SEO, linking, social news, etc. value. That stuff is already built into the product, so the 37s value is mostly limited to drawing in new customers. I couldn't imagine that value being so high that it's going to significantly effect revenues on it's own.
Regarding the Delphi position, recently I have seen a post in a LinkedIn group where a developer from Belgium said he could not find a single Delphi developer in his country.
Almost all answers to the post were "you should consider hiring remote people"
I have a 10-month-old son, and I also didn't get kids at all until he was born (and honestly, it was until he was about 4 or 5 months old until I really got it). But I think it's unfair to say having kids makes you a more complete person. Without a doubt, it makes you a different person, but I firmly believe it's possible to live an equally fulfilling life without ever having kids.

Having kids essentially just drastically reorganizes your priorities, some for the better and some for the worse. I think the moral of the article that was linked to was to spend more (and hopefully most) of your time doing what makes you happy. Whether that is creating something out of your genes or out of your mind matters not.
Oh, sorry, I was ambiguous: I mean he has a BS in engineering and computer science. He's currently doing some casts on number theory, so he might very well already be on his way to touch on general computer science.

I think your suggestions are only going to be a part of the Academy far away in the future when all the basics are in order. When you watch a video, you usually have the necessary prerequisite knowledge for the material available as other Khan Academy videos. I think Khan approaches computer science the same way.
I'd disagree - HAML adds syntax sugar. While it can be considered bad (there are some very valid criticisms), it certainly can't be considered conceptually useless.
The same way you get it out of cus?
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$400 dollars a month for said tiny studio? How about learn to pick up after yourself and pay someone $50 to clean the bathroom and dust once a month.
There's a video on the site of the conference talk that spawned the book, if that helps.
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