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Why should children be excluded from the digital revolution? Why should us nerds be the only ones who can use the fruits of technology? This "Plastic toys are more fun than anything computerized" idea is ludditism dressed up to pretend to be concerned with children's interests. Why do you need email? Isn't pen & paper enough? What would a woman want with an education, aren't they just going to be mothers and have no need for it? Etc. This sort of conservatism and rationing I just don't buy.
Why can't I learn what 42 floors is without putting in my email? Really annoying.
If you read Adam Smith, he has a more nuanced view of individual gain for social good when it comes to corporations and the elite. For example, I think he has a more pragmatic view of when free markets deliver benefits, vs assuming that free markets always (eventually?) optimize for the overall social good.

http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=4677
I can grok the book, but I can't read it like it's a vampire novel and remember anything useful... hence the reason to sign up and have something of a schedule to follow.
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I think lean methodology goes best with this. What matters in initial stages is working prototype, validation and then MVP. Most of the initial time is supposed to be dedicated to this than spending it with operations.
Cool idea. I immediately tried "boobs" and was not disappointed.
Modular arithmetic is probably one of the coolest subjects we covered in high school, but we didn't spend enough time on it. I actually learned all about it from reading Simon Singh's The Code Book in sixth grade--it's a great introduction to cryptography and covers the basics of modular arithmetic to introduce RSA.

Towards the end of high school, I decided to play around with graphing equations as colors. I came up with a bunch of cool patterns including pretty much all of the ones in the article--the easiest way to make a function well-behaved across a color channel is to make it mod 255. Playing around with different functions this way is really fun; I suggest everybody try it.

If you want to draw pictures like this but don't want to write your own program for this, you can use mine: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tikhon/draw.
This seems dangerous... People are going to walk into cars/people/poles etc
The WSJ did a good job compiling these. There's a lot of business-speak, but it's facinating to see their claims.
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Beware that there is no consensus that this is a good thing.

From Daniel Bernstein(qmail creator) at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf

"I have become convinced that this “principle of least privilege” is fundamentally wrong. Minimizing privilege might reduce the damage done by some security holes but almost never ﬁxes the holes. Minimizing privilege is not the same as minimizing the amount of trusted code, does not have the same beneﬁts as minimizing the amount of trusted code, and does not move us any closer to a secure computer system."
How do you get notified of replies to your HN comments?
It's really distracting to continuously reload the threads?id=username webpage after I've added a comment, but if someone replies, I do want to know within a reasonable period of time. It seems like Notifo provided a way to get notified of that kind of activity, but from all reports, Notifo is in the process of shutting down. Are there any other services, browser, extensions, hacks, etc?
Daydreaming about jQuery Mobile and the WebAPI
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I use cherokee in production and I can vouch for its performance and stability. It's so good that I'm giving it a pass for the enforced web UI configuration.
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That's actually a good question. The lack of buffer overflow vulnerabilities does make interpreted languages safer to a point. Still anything that listens on an open port shouldn't run as root, there are still plenty of vulnerabilities besides buffer overflows out there.
i'm curious as to how their "core working memory" theory jibes with work showing that chess grandmasters could remember complex chess configurations if they were configurations that could occur in real chess games, but with random board placement they could do no better than ordinary people.

Is it that certain people who look at numbers more are able to construct patterns in digits where others wouldn't, but may not be able to do the same with a sequence of pictures or words.

My point, I don't think they've done enough to disentangle potential dependences.
It keeps competitors out. Many governments do this. Keeps jobs and profits local, for the most part.
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I believe -- unscientifically -- that sometimes high intelligence or high ability, can be detriments to greatness.

I often see things that I think were done in a half-assed manner that are quite successful. I see people shipping things that I would never ship, and being successful at it. I'm not talking about spending inordinate amounts of time to get every pixel right (Though Apple may be a contrary example to my thesis here) ... I'm talking about spending an extra %1-%5 of time to make your site not be butt ugly.

I think PlentyOfFish.com is probably good example. He focused on different things and was a huge success. Its still ugly now, but it used to be, and for many years, was totally butt ugly.

Sometimes people of very average intelligence but great social skills do really well. Downright dumb people with the right personality -- e.g. the jocks who are now venture capitalists-- do better than smarter people.

This is an ongoing debate between my cofounder and I. Normally, my cofounder is the one putting forth this thesis.. the claim being that we're too smart to be successful. (Not in an arrogant way, there are lots of smarter people I know.) But I am starting to think my cofounder may be right. For instance, I do tend to over engineer, over optimize, and under execute.

So, our personal motivational theme these days is "just ship it". Can't fight the desire to make it not be crap, but we're shipping more.

PS-- another example of this is thinking you've got a key functionality right, because you're smart, you "know" this is the right way to do it, and then focusing on optimizing in other areas. So, you ship a game that looks gorgeous but has poor gameplay, or you completely miss the mark on the way your customers want to use your product because most people are not like you (because most people are average and you're not.) etc.
Totally agreed.

> Nor is it to say that it's impossible for a person with an average I.Q. to, say, earn a Ph.D. in physics

I know few physics PhDs that are above average. Earning a degree has a lot more to do with grit than talent. Making real breakthroughs in science... that's a different thing.
You can still apprentice and then take the bar in California, without attending law school, and that hasn't seemed to do anything positive for the price of legal services in that state.

Winston presupposes that increasing supply will decrease costs, but he fails to understand that it's not the ABA that's limiting supply. The DOJ smacked them down in the 1990s for trying to limit supply--the accredit law schools as quickly as people can open them up.

Rather, what limits supply is how many students Harvard, Yale, etc, are willing to enroll. Big firms hire almost exclusively from the top 15-20 national schools, plus the very top students at the regional schools. The limitation in supply of those people drives the firms' cost structures. And people keep bringing their business to these firms because they're afraid of losing litigation or screwing up a deal and are willing to pay for the abstract comfort of the credentials.
That's utterly different. When someone says "use the bathroom," my unconscious brain doesn't automatically substitute it with "take a shit" in the parsing process, which is what happens with bleeped swearwords on TV and with f*ck style censorship on the page.

"Go to the bathroom" and "take a shit" are completely separate phrases, they don't even necessarily refer to the same activity. It's not even really a euphemism.
At a glance, it looks like Webkit is more successful than Gecko, simply because it powers more browsers and because Gecko has virtually no footprint in mobile browsing.

We can obviously go round-and-round all day on which is the better engine. I'm only saying that Webkit was a successful project for Apple. I'm not sure how productive it is to second-guess it.

(I didn't downvote you).
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That reminds of Google's strategy with Chrome. But just like Chrome, even if they don't pursue to be the most popular party, they might just get there if the other parties keep shooting themselves in the foot with laws like SOPA.
Another tribute to the age of over-share.
They're popular in the CNC world, yes. For instance, the recently Kickstarter-funded MyDIYCNC project also natively interfaces through the parallel port; Stephen McGloughlin, who's behind the project, is building an USB interface for it from scratch.

The main issue seems to be the timing with controlling... parallel i/o lines. From http://www.cnccookbook.com/CCBreakoutBoards.htm :

While there are boards the purport to simulate a parallel port with a USB connection, most of them don't work for CNC applications. The reason is that they are not high enough performance to maintain the exact timing relationships needed to produce a clean pulse train to control multiple servos or steppers.
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I think the usual complaint isn't that everybody should have gotten a cs/engineering degree but that they shouldn't complain and demonize the system if they got a trivial degree.
It's perfectly normal to want some closure, so don't think you're stepping on anyone's toes. Your plans are important too! Something like this would work:

"Hey there,

I interviewed with B three weeks ago and was told to expect a response within 1-2 weeks. I'm still interested in working for XX, and I'm wondering if you were also interested in moving forward to any subsequent interviewing steps.

(close with a nice pleasantry, thank them for their time)"

Be polite, brief, and straightforward, and you're more likely to get an answer.
CloudFoundry manages the application lifecycle of AppFog apps (deployment, binding to services, etc.) What you see in the open source CloudFoundry project is what we run on our servers, with minor changes in our private repo that are specific to our product (e.g. billing).

We are now in our private beta program. Signing up at http://appfog.com/ places your email in our beta list, which we create accounts for regularly and often.

We will announce paid subscription plans very soon, so stay tuned for the details.
Have you tried Pydev for Eclipse?
Or the iPad. A lot of people thought it was a silly name in the beginning. But now the product itself became so popular, that they take the name for granted.
Do you mind sharing what are you using/doing to benchmark that? cheers
"I’d say 92.2% is much more 'significant' than 7.8%, at least in terms of practical meaning!"

That's really not how it works. Consider that in cycling roughly 95% of your energy comes from your aerobic system and only 5% of your energy comes from your anaerobic system. So does that make your aerobic system more important than your anaerobic system? Yes and no. If you want to win the race then at some point you are going to have to break out of the peloton and sprint past everyone, so really it's going to be the quality of your anaerobic system that determines who wins a large percentage of the time. So you can't really judge how important each variable is just by looking at the size of its contribution to the end goal.
I expect if for an article talking about the history of development effort, for sure.
> The Pirate Party needs to broaden its audience if they'd like to gain more seats faster and change that name.

In practical terms that's not going to happen as Pirates wouldn't be able to agree on a new name.

> It comes off as a gimmick.

It didn't to Berliners two months ago -- Pirates got 9% of the vote.
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Also along these lines are the directory stack manipulation commands: "pushd", "popd", and "dirs" -- along with some related environment variables.
Did you feel there was actually any benefit between your day to day life? I'd suppose that the benefit would be different person to person due to what they do in their average day but am still curious.
> Are these people so upset by the word that their brains fail to parse it when one vowel is obscured?

I used to date a girl who did not like swearing. She would correct me if I used fuck or some other swear word. It's not that she was a prude; she was quite adventurous in bed and the sex was great, but she just had a problem with these words. Knowing that someone like her could be a reader of what I'm writing, I'd disguise the word.

Think of it like a weaker form of rot-13 encoding...
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In my experience, nothing helps you change a muscle-memory habit as much as instant negative feedback. It doesn't help to remember 2 seconds after you did it, because then you've already told your brain "this works", and you can only go through so many "oh right, I wasn't supposed to do that" moments before you become demotivated.

When I first started using Emacs, I removed the arrow keys from my keyboard to force me to get used to C-(fbnp) and to this day, when I fiddle with my bindings, I still use that technique, though I'm slightly more sophisticated about it now:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-+") (lambda () (interactive) (message "Use C-x C-+ instead.")))
I'm a big fan of Hobo (http://hobocentral.net).

Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers of Hobo. But I got into that position after I fell in love with it.

Hobo isn't primarily an admin interface, it's designed for rapid development of CRUD+state machine apps. In essence you start your app with an "admin" style interface and iterate until you get your full app. You can of course also add an additional scoped admin interface.
One has to fix the prime example of regulatory capture that is the CRTC. This can be achieved by either changing the current management or drafting more legislation.
Is moving the print head in 3 axis the best approach? I'd imagine moving the print head in x and y and leaving z to the build surface easier.
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Even if you do they won't tell you anything more than is on the website. Contact jaf12duke if you want details at this time (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3188969 )
Sure, but since this is talking a lot about who contributed how much to Webkit i would expect at least a note.

Especially since the reason for Webkit being open source could be that KHTML is LGPL. I doubt i'd be open source if KHTML were BSD/MIT style licensed. But that's just my opinion.
I'm right there with you, if by meta you mean "pathetic." That their editorial policy has been turned in on itself is no Jamesonian wormhole.
I've never understood why in many western industrialized countries telecommunications has not been regulated the same as sewage, roads, electricity, etc. It is a vital piece of infrastructure in the 21st century and it should be the responsibility of the government to manage such infrastructure.
Maybe I am missing something but lots of these ideas seem pretty poor?
Here's a calculator for founder equity split:
http://foundrs.com/calculator/index.php

(I think its faster than reading the whole QA session linked to in the original post.)
It's bash too.
I agree with you that business cards are a prerequisite for talking to anyone you don't already know well about your startup. "We don't have cards yet" sends a very strong negative signal.
As a law student I think the article misses a few points.

1) The case method is a great way to teach concepts. Working with hypotheticals and seeing how rules interact is extremely useful, and something I greatly missed in my engineering education where I spent 4 years just watching some TA do derivations on the board.

2) Schools don't teach outdated law as the article seems to imply. Sure you read some old cases in the process, but some of the basic areas of the law haven't changed that much! To take the example of Hadley v. Baxendale used in the article, it was true in 1850 that damages for breach of contract are limited to those that were foreseeable by the parties, and it's still true today! When I took contracts, our book started with Hadley, but went on to describe several cases that arose in the dispute between Texaco and Pennzoil when they were both trying to acquire Getty.

3) Law school doesn't leave you any more unprepared to practice law as engineering school leaves you to practice engineering. Indeed, law school does a much better job teaching you to "think like a practicing lawyer" than engineering school does to teach you to "think like a practicing engineer." The problem is that a lot of the courses that teach you lawyering skills are elective, and people would rather take "law and social change" or something fluffy like that. At our school we have extensive clinic offerings, and my friends and I are doing everything from poking around in a Superfund site to helping defend criminals. And the professors aren't all eggheads. My tax ethics and business associations professors are partners at local law firms, my telecom and environmental law professors practiced in the field for years before coming to teach, my clinic professor was general counsel at a major corporation, etc.
I highly suspect your observations are a result of cognitive bias. You are much more likely to remember the degree of a programmer if it's something incongruous, so it's the philosophy degrees that stand out in a sea of CS degrees.

Also, a programmer's having a CS degree is much less likely to come up. You note his degree--which is similar to so many others--and don't think of it again, unless, perhaps his performance is poor. Poor performance doesn't match what you expect--or, more likely, what you think others expect--of a CS major, so you remember that it was a CS major that wasn't particularly good.
I haven't used RailsAdmin yet, but from your analysis, I would feel hesitant to suggest people start of with it.

I found working with ActiveAdmin to be very straightforward, and it sounds like getting the equivalent of RailsAdmin up and running may take an extra 30 minutes.

The big win after those 30 minutes is that you have a flexible admin module that you can continue to tweak / improve where necessary.

ActiveAdmin feels like the solution with the smallest chance of painting yourself into a corner and therefore seems like the best recommendation of the both.

Even if you would have to invest 2 extra days into ActiveAdmin compared to RailsAdmin, I'd say the flexibility is definitely worth it.

Bonus tip:
ActiveAdmin is in heavy development, and the documentation tends to lag behind a bit. I've found the github issues for the project to be a great source of information though.
This comment finally coherently explained to me why a carrot farmer who first farmed some land (after murdering the commie Indians who lived there beforehand) gets to own mineral rights in the volume created by extending a cone from the surface of his carrot patch to the center of the earth. Thanks!
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I'm actually wondering if it'd be possible to get this to work over 3G without jailbreaking. Can somebody smarter than me tell me if this would work:

- Installing root CA.
- Setting up the proxy on ec2 instance.
- Setting up a custom DNS server on that instance, to override the Siri domain.
- Setting up the iPhone to use that DNS server, or if not possible, setting it up to use a VPN and through the custom DNS.

And the end result is a Siri that always works and that you can use to run code on an ec2 instance. You'd be able to hook it up to third parties APIs, like Twitter or Facebook.
Agreed. A sample page or two would help me decide if I'd buy this. As of right now, however, I wouldn't spend a dime on it as nearly everything on the page is useless to a Python newbie who's interested in game programming like me.
If you like kittens, placekitten does that:

http://placekitten.com/
> 78 backers for $499 or more

Wow! A true kick-start.
The 'help' command is exactly what you're looking for -- e.g., 'help disown' will describe the 'disown' command. Definitely beats searching the entire bash man page for the command you want (which is what I did for far too long, until I found out about 'help').
> Canada has BY FAR the most expensive cell phone rates in the world. New Zealand is 19th according to this list.

Technically, the graph is not about rates though, it's about average bill. So countries with higher prices who don't use cells much (on population averages) would have a "better" ranking than countries with lower prices where cell phone use is ubiquitous and permanent.

> Canada plans are almost always regional, so to call another city, even one nearby is a long distance call.

The fuck? The concept of "long-distance" call still exists in canada? I'm shocked.
Exactly. It seems like it was written for kids. After all, who would run around in the city looking at their mobile phones?
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One of the things that I hate about journalists is they often don't see that their commentary has no relation to what the source is saying:

"He adds that intellectual ability - the trait that an I.Q. score reflects - turns out not to be that important. 'Once someone has reached an I.Q. of somewhere around 120,' he writes, 'having additional I.Q. points doesn't seem to translate into any measureable real-world advantage.'"

Yes, IQ isn't that important. Once you're in the top 10% in terms of IQ, it's really just about hard work!
It's pretty much muscle memory for me.

I tried to learn vim for a while after a particularly bad bout of emacs pinky, but I couldn't get any of <whatever vim has instead of major modes> to work, and that was pretty much a non-starter.
Now you've got me interested, wonder how something improves "git add -p". Will check it out.
They did it because they made motor insurance mandatory and it would be unfair to force someone to have something that the market didn't have to provide.

In europe it's essentially impossible for anyone under 21 to get insurance ( without tricks like being listed on parent's cover ) even though the law says you can drive at 17. Typical rates for liability-only on a 17 year old are $10K/year

Imagine living in a rural part of BC where work and shopping is 20 miles away and the insurance companies all charge $10K for drivers under 21.

Yes it's unfair that as a middle age driver I pay 2-3x as much as I would in europe in order to cover a west vancouver millionaire's kid in a ferrari. But it's also unfair that I'm paying for elementary schools for someone else's kid or subsidizing somebody else's cancer treatment.
Which according to reports has the benefit of being maintainable.

GNU screen, which I love and use to obscene extents daily, has an exceptionally hairy codebase. That said, I've got to get my tmux on and learn how to do screen equivalents with it....

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/is-tmux-the-gnu-...