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Disclaimer 1: The other posts of me in this thread show that I'm in support of going fast.

Disclaimer 2: English is not my native language and I very well might miss something in your chain of thoughts.

With that out of the way, this is what I read in your last paragraph: You take offense with (?) the idea that the average person shouldn't need (a number of/this kind of/as much as) speed limits. You then jump back to the comparison to murder and seem to say (my words) that: "Since he's not running around and killing people he obviously understands that it's morally wrong and rational for us to agree upon not doing that sort of thing. Some people still do that nevertheless. We need laws to protect us from others"

Now I think the 'morally wrong' part doesn't translate to driving here. I'm not sure how to parse the rest: I'd rather agree on driving safely than on driving slower than X. Safe is hard to define for a complex thing like driving. You already rely on the common sense of other people anyway (Do they drink/do drugs and drive? Do they use their mobile/search cigarettes in the back of the car while driving? Are their tires in a good shape or flat like those of a formula 1 car? Do they reduce their speed according to the situation, not just the signs - think fog, rain, snow? Are they able to judge their own ability to drive in general - think granny w/ limited vision).

The speed is already variable (legally only in the downward direction right now) and you're relying on other people to notice and understand that if you're taking part in that game called traffic. The question whether it's not okay to go faster than the speed on the sign allows you to _in the right situation_ is a real one and doesn't necessarily lead to reckless driving and mayhem on the roads.

Edit: Erm - I agree that the line of reasoning of the original article is .. unfortunate. No questions about that.
In a way, it is a really perfect picture though. It's a nice plain cup of nice plain black coffee, no visible writing or advertising, no clutter, nice background with a gradient.
Yep! What I like about html is how predictable its limitations make it. I can visit a decade old website created by a 14-year old and have the smoothest user experience imaginable. Everything behaves the way you'd expect it.

Javascript is more powerful, but that also means more power to screw up. Sometimes the results are amazing (like Gmail) - but more often than not it just ends up confusing and frustrating, with vital parts of the UI hidden behind a clusterfuck of menus and widgets.
one can use the ipad with a real keyboard.
An interesting detail to add: at least one mental health expert has told me that meditating on a regular basis can be a very powerful tool for fighting depressions and other psychological issues; the number of patients suffering from those issues amongst people who have been meditating for years seem to be extremely low.

Now a question for all you hackers: how to get started on meditating without running into the arms of some obscure cults and sects? And pointers?
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I would say 3 weeks could reasonably be described as "roughly 1-2 weeks", but another week would be pushing it. Either way OP should assume the worse and constantly be looking for other jobs in the meantime.
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I find myself more and more joyful to be contained within Apple's walled garden every passing day.
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You think Donald Knuth has made a career for himself out of being able to right 'bug free code'?

Really?

He's made a career for himself out of being an extremely creative computer scientist and writing outstandingly scholarly books about programming. Far from marketing himself as producing bug-free code, he has published articles entirely devoted to the history of bugs found in his software.

(As for the bits that turn TeX into LaTeX, no one is making a career out of claiming that they are bug free -- for the simple reason that no one thinks they are.)
What is Bodhisattva work? Is it the idea that by meditating, you're making the world a better place?
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Multitasking is the best way to create more time. For example, you can easily save few minutes on your morning coffee if you put the water on the stove first and then go brushing your teeth. The water will be boiling when you done with tooth brushing and your coffee will be ready in few seconds instead of minutes.
333 bytes is enough to send plenty of information, like your favorite apps and how long you used them. Consider something like: "com.android.browser:1.4h;1-800-HI-THERE:2.3min", which is only 47 bytes.
I thought of Steve Mann's "eye tap"
Ask HN: Are ergonomic keyboards really useful?
Are ergonomic keyboard really useful? What is your opinion on Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard?

I would really appreciate if you could share your experience.
It will be interesting to see if they are able to progressively scale up the resolution while still ensuring that you can actually see out of the lens.

As cool as this is, though, I'm more interested in having them figure out more ways of restoring vision rather than augmenting it. For purely selfish reasons, I'm especially interested in retina replacement, which is being worked on (they've been able to create new retinas using embryonic stem cells), but I haven't heard of any studies having started yet to actually swap out damaged retinas with the new ones.
They really need to start teaching "the Internet" in law school. When you try to suppress something, a bunch of anonymous people will step in to make sure the information is spread far and wide. If you just let something go, there probably won't be much damage to your business.

Oh wait, lawyers are paid to send letters, not to minimize the reputation damage to their clients. Now I know why this comes up all the time.
10% of what the other team spent.
No ads? No photos? No like button?

What limits good content to 1995?
and keypresses too?
I think the case is not that people knowing Scala are unable to see the problems of the language (e. g. scala.Enumeration).

The thing is that people knowing the language can easily tell apart people who never seriously tried using the language from those who did, because the complains of the first group are so much different from the other group.
I want one with facial recognition software. Never have that nervous moment again when you have to do introductions and you are just not quite so sure about your old acquaintances name.
Maybe I overlooked, but is there support for "super.method()" or something along those lines?
We need a better, open, ways of connecting people on the 'old' web.
...I tended to scan the lane to the right for cars with foreign license plates. These had an immensely increased probability to switch lanes at 120-130 km/h when I was approaching on an otherwise safe/clear/free lane with 220-230 km/h.

Hah! That was me you were braking for.

Never realised that that's dangerous. Thanks for the heads-up!
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Thanks for the clarification on that. It's kind of funny, as I haven't really paid much attention to that side of things as (1) I haven't had anything fail within 30 days... yet; and (2) I would have just assumed that they were trying to make out like they were being helpful about it, if that makes sense. Put another way, I would have assumed that it was easier to just go straight to the manufacturer anyway, despite how painful that can be.
I don't see how Haskell or Scala are better in mathematical abstractions. I guess it would be equally easier (or even much easier) to abstract away this kind of thing in clojure, you could generate all the checking that you would get in Haskell/Scala. The only real diffrence I see is the compiletime checking, right?
> The market for search is mature. Everyone has their search engine of choice.

In 1997, everybody knew that search engine market was mature and centered around AltaVista.
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I think the reason why Scala is often used for these niche applications is that:

A) The language doesn't fall apart as soon as you try something not imagined by the original language creators.

B) Pushing the boundaries actually returns useful results.

C) Java isn't able to solve the given task or at least not productively.

That doesn't make Scala a non-general-purpose language.
Probably the majority out there is using Scala as a better Java and is perfectly happy with it.
An average like that takes into account many people hardly using their phone so there is nothing much to report, or using it in a bursty manner so there is nothing to report most of the week but plenty at the weekend.

The "150m devices" claim is rather vague too. It will no doubt include devices that are no longer in use, like when a dating site claims to have X million members without mentioning the fact that all but a few thousand of them haven't logged in for many months - they can truthfully claim such devices have the software installed but that will skew the average bytes/device/day taken from the released figures downwards.

A rule of marketing (which includes selling the company to prospective employees if they are looking for them on linkedin): Never lie when you can selectively use honest statistics instead.
How are the Horowhenua Library Trust meant to know when the US trademark is issued? I can't imagine they're keeping an extremely close eye on all the trademarks being issued over there.
But Duck Duck Go doesn’t do anything significantly different, or significantly better — as in 10x better.

I disagree. Here are three things that make DDG 10x better for my use case:

1. Providing a common interface for searching API docs. For example, "!jquery live", or "!rails validate".

2. The 0-click box, which frequently gives me the answer I need without having to go any further.

3. Privileging of official sites. This is especially helpful for sites whose domain one couldn't easily guess.
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That but with nice metadata associated with them. Imagine Rapportive in real life. That would be incredibly useful.
Consider this method signature:

def map[B, That](f: A => B)(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[Repr, B, That]): That

All this complexity to allow for automatic conversions (the following will return a Set[String]) ...

BitSet(1, 2, 3).map { _.toString + "!" }

In a dynamic language, the signature of map is simply this: (a → b) → [a] → [b]

The big difference is that the language doesn't care about types "a" and "b" until runtime. You're the one that cares about it, only on a need-to-know basis. Hence the implicit conversions become explicit (although conversions are less necessary) and code correctness is guarded by unit tests, which you need with Scala anyway. Also, the implementation of "map" in a dynamic language is something that a junior developer can come up with.

So the biggest problems I have with Scala:

1) it is not readable
2) it separates developers in two camps:
library designers and users
3) it does not provide clear benefits
over dynamic languages (Haskell does)
Walmart doesn't typically do sales. What they do do is force vendors to drop prices every year. Can anyone on the inside confirm if they inflict this on Apple (who probably get around it with yearly refreshes) or if Apple is strong enough to tell them to FO with that.
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Happens to also be the simplest and nicest explanation of Gödel's theorem I've ever seen—I was expecting such a thing to come from a mathematician's lips, not an actor's :)
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Even if the Actors are better, generally people still build programmes with lots of mutability. If don't start to build your application with concurrency in mind you will end up with problems later. With clojure you can be pretty sure that everything is threadsafe by deafault.

This is just how it seams to me from afar. I don't know if that is right.
This issue is really why we should have laws: the post argues that speeding is ok because lots of people do it and it doesn't hurt many people. I say that is completely wrong.

Speed kills - Road deaths in the US in 1 month are more than all US terror related deaths in the last 20 years. And just because lots of people do something doesn't make it right.

Do we need speed limits is a different question however - I can imagine a world without speed limits (but severe punishment for any harm done to others equivalent to violent crime, or even sharp knives sticking out of the steering wheel - a sure way to encourage people to drive safely).

Disclaimer: I love driving on the autobahn (but germany still has one of the worst road fatality rates in Europe)
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836920

(Why the Hell am I proving things to trolls? :-( )

Edit: And btw, I even irritated pg by arguing with a troll that was arguing quite similar things as danssig, too... :-)
My thought exactly. The reason being is this map shows exactly what you'd expect to see: states with the largest population stand out. This isn't really that informative. Had it been adjusted we can only assume a different picture might have emerged.
super is a nightmare to emulate and get "right". It has a bunch of weird edge cases you don't really want to think about.

I promote code like

var Cat = Object.make(Animal, {
constructor: function() {
Animal.constructor.apply(this, arguments);
...
},
walk: function() {
Animal.walk.apply(this, arguments);
...
}
});

Now compare:

- Animal.walk.apply(this, arguments);

- this.super.apply(this, arguments);

- this.super.walk.apply(this, arguments);

Using super doesn't fix verbosity, it only fixes hard coupling of Child class name to Super class name.

For the complexities, edge cases and performance penalties a super implementation gives, it's simply not worth fixing this hard coupling.

If you know of a super implementation that _just works_ please [Leave an answer on StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8032566/emulate-super-in-...)
No, the Channel 4 YouTube channel is also not viewable outside the UK.

Pity, that.
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Kind of like the techstars show on bloomberg?
It's not that easy. I live in France, and the taxes you currently pay are far inferior to ours in many cases. We still see the same phenomenon as you do with speeding tickets.

Speeding tickets are a boon for any form of government, just like smoking taxes or any other easily justified tax/ticket for punishing bad habits of the masses. You can't make them disappear by finding another source of revenue, because they represent an opportunity for easy cash that is also politically correct.
Ask HN: Which websites' visual design have inspired you lately?
I'm about to start on the visual design of my latest project, so am looking for some inspiration. Posted here as I guess others might be interested in this too.
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> As stated many times (and also in that same quote), on the iPhone you are forced to ship something as one executable.

On the other hand, yes the executable must be "one". On the other hand you can download stuff (either directly or via DLC). The issue is that while Apple has relaxed their restrictions on bundling interpreters in applications (you can do that), they have not relaxed their restrictions on downloading interpretable code: it's not allowed. So downloading even styles would be verboten, since styles are TeX, and TeX is executable code.
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AltaVista didn't become a verb...

Duck Duck Go can compete, they just need to innovate harder in one direction to get enough space between them and google. And of course that direction needs to have a solid value proposition.
Context: I am an Apple fan, I have been using its products for a little over 20 years

But am I really the only person who finds the Apple Store a wretched experience?

The first time I went into one I was horribly confused - where to I actually pay for stuff? I want some help with a product that I've bought.Can I ask you? I can't. You? No. Oh, I have to visit the Genius bar. Where's the queue for that? Over there? Oh, there is no queue, I have to book online. Or don't I? Who do I ask to find out?

Even when I book a Genius Bar appointment, I'm left dangling. Hello, I'm here for my apointment - do I tell anyone? Do I kinda hang about until the time slot is here? Will I be called forward?

I hate the places.
Having dipped my toes in Scala, and written some Clojure, it seems to me:

If Java is CVS, then Scala is Subversion and Clojure is git.
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I would suggest perhaps swapping the white background of the highlighted box of the signup section and the light brown background of the rest of the page -- the page text is a bit hard to read in its current configuration.
Yeah, the big advantage of Haskell (and Scala) for abstract mathematical code is the compile-time type checking. Normally, I'm extremely happy with dynamic languages, because I make maybe 2 type bugs a year. I mean, it's not that hard to remember whether a variable contains an Employee or a String, and that's all you need for some programs.

But when you're designing a library, and a variable contains the free module over nullable real numbers, then the type checker is your friend. At least I can't keep that stuff straight without lots of help. And Haskell's ability to do compile-time dispatch on the desired return type of a function makes monads cleaner, too.

If you want to do this in Clojure, see "Typing Haskell in Haskell" http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/thih/ , and whip up some macros that do Hindley-Milner type inference with type classes. And if you do, please e-mail me so I can play with it. :-)
great idea since i am about to setup a jekyll-blog. how do you position calepin: why calepin and not jekyll? and why calepin and not posterous/tumblr/hosted WP?
Everything's unreadable until one learns to read it. This is a classic non-argument that people buy into for reasons I can't comprehend. Is Scala harder to read than other languages? Perhaps, but then just say that.

As Rich Hickey pointed out recently, "I can't read German; does that mean it's unreadable?"
Also, most modern x86 processors can perform single-precision operations twice as fast as double-precision, which helps (and saving memory bandwidth is good too.)

On PPC/ARM, single-precision allows you to use Altivec/NEON, which can give significant performance boosts as well.
I question the basic premise here. iPad is not meant for content creating or document typesetting, it's meant for content consumption.

If you want to do anything that looks remotely like work you don't want to use iDevice for it.
I have a Natural 4000 and love it.

It all depends if you have suffered from RSI. I used to type on a normal laptop keyboard all the time. Then I got pains along the top of my forearms, i.e. RSI. I switched to an 4000 and I haven't had that pain since.

The most important thing to do is be aware of your body. If you get stiff or sore or pains or certain joints/muscles feel tired, that's your body trying to tell you that you are doing something wrong. Listen to your body, adjust how you do things.
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1. That's an edge case for developers. Which I sometimes do at the farm. But doesn't help with average users -- unless they want their average users to be programmers.

2. Easy for Google to copy.

3.This is terrible, pushing brand helps destroy verity on the open web.
>Duck Duck Go doesn’t do anything significantly different

Further to this, Duck Duck Go is targeting people who don't want to be bubbled and tracked, which is completely different to the other search engines.

Having said that, I tried Duck Duck Go for a few weeks and found it wasn't giving me the results I wanted (there's a !bang for Google but that seems a little silly).
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It also contains almost a gigabyte of documentation (in PDF).
I'm male. My field is Forensic Science. It consists of about 80% women. Doesn't matter which lab I go to, or which forensic education program I visit, the percentage stays the same.

Why?

On a daily basis I'm dealing with very violent crimes. Why does this sort of work appeal to women more than men?
>well, that's a lame non-excuse.

Ignorance is a legitimate excuse. I'm getting sick of people spreading this moronic misunderstanding that ignorance is not an excuse. Just recently the police in NYC failed to follow a judge's order out of ignorance. I wonder what excuse they used.

As for why people don't use example.com, if you're signing up for a site that annoyingly makes you put in a password it will check for non-real email addresses so example.com is out.
People should also be aware that meditation, while generally beneficial, does not always have a benign effect on the mind. Look up "meditation induced psychosis".
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Calepin solves two problems with static blog generators:

Complexity. You only need a Dropbox account and some knowledge of Markdown.
Authoring. Dropbox syncs all your devices together so you can write and edit posts anywhere.

I'm not competing with multimedia blogging. Instead I want to focus on essay type writing, or journalists and academics who want to make their writing public. The default theme, when ready, is going to be a front page with only one line per post, broken down by year.
I use a computer for most of the waking day, and started getting bad wrist pain last year. I replaced my work keyboard with the 4000 and the pain went away within days. If you look at how your hands sit when typing, they come in on an angle, and you bend them slightly to suit a rectangular keyboard, the ergonomic keyboards simply leave your wrists at their natural position.

They are very cheap, and a great investment.
So even though more men study maths, there are not more men who are good at maths than women (according to the chart)? That seems a bit depressing or at least disillusioning with respect to higher education. Maybe men are on average worse in math and only by studying more they can keep up with women?
It would at least prevent us forgetting how it's done ;-)

I think it'd be worth, and relatively easy, to operate a rover on the Moon. Remember we don't always know what we should have learned until after we try. This Mars rover is a huge step. Huge steps is someting engineers should learn to avoid.
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So firewall the other 9.
I used to get sore eyes from looking at a computer all day. I went to an optician and they said it's cause by focussing on things that are really close all the time. You must focus on far away every so often (every 10/20 mins) to relax your eye muscles
The 4000 is the best ergonomic keyboard I've used. Microsoft don't get enough credit for their hardware division.
Of course not, it's hyperbole to illustrate the point. In the specific cases of Qmail and TeX, the 'bug free' aspect of it however is overblown and a marketing gimmick. It's not that hard (given enough time) to make something bug free, it's a whole different thing when the software needs to evolve at the same time to meet the (changing and expanding) requirements of actual users.