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Maybe I haven't had that phase yet but I tend to believe it occurs when there isn't a finite plan for how everything will work. You start creating abstract classes with the intention that it will do this or that or even whatchamacallit!

When you have a strong idea about the direction of the project then you start creating less branches that lead no where.
Completely agree. I assume that's coming. It's another obvious use of Circles.
having perfect SAT scores

Having perfect SAT scores, that is literally at the peak of the scoring scale on all test sections, is still quite rare.

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/SAT-Percen...

All students with perfect SAT scores could fit comfortably into the entering class of just one of the eight Ivy League colleges, with none left over for MIT, Stanford, Caltech, or any of the other seven Ivy League colleges.

The mathematical consequence of this (by the pigeonhole principle) is that all elite colleges, without exception, admit many students who missed questions on the SAT. Caltech is almost the only college with a small enough entering class to have a possible chance of having a majority of enrolled students with literally perfect SAT scores. The interquartile score ranges reported for the most recent first-year class at Caltech

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...

show that even Caltech has to enroll a majority of new students who missed questions on the SAT.

I am of course fully agreed that a strong application to colleges that selective includes not only high test scores and high grades in challenging subjects, but also involvement in some meaningful extracurricular activity.
You don't have to have a "who cares about Windows?" attitude to write programs that don't work on Windows; all you have to have is a "want to make the best use of Unix" attitude.
Mass transit mostly fails to avoid all the same things you mentioned; to the extent it doesn't (trains) it exaggerates the other problems (drops you off far from your destination). Also, half the problems you mentioned go away with driverless cars.

So, no, I disagree entirely.
I'm actually surprised so many people read it.

I switched to the tab, said "Ouch, my eyes," and left.

FWIW, I went back and took a screenshot, it currently looks like this for me: http://jlarocco.com/crap/ouch_my_eyes.jpg
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Are you saying that we should not be able to affect other voters' opinions?

I thought that a major reason for the 1st Amendment was to allow for us to stand up on soap boxes and pontificate to anyone willing to listen.
Susceptibility to addictive games is what makes us human - if you changed that in us, we wouldn't even be monkeys anymore. Would we be recognizable at all?

So yeah, maybe technical society is a nonviable evolutionary pathway in the long run. Why should I care?
Re: (hence why iPhone apps are .99)

Note also that Apple batch up purchases to squeeze every last cent out of the charging process.

Have you looked at Dwolla's under $10 is free offer? As a UK guy, I haven't looked into it much yet so it may not be appropriate.

Best of luck with your endeavour.
That picture, which is shown much too often, is a perfect illustration only of selection bias.

Going through past tablets and choosing the ones that were not black rectangles proves nothing except that some tablets did not look like the ipad. Some tablets now also don't look like the ipad.
> In code review if you have an interface and only one implementation I'd make you remove the interface

which changes the contract from "this component will accept and work with anything implementing this interface" to "this component will accept and work with anything of this class or inheriting from this class". And without multiple inheritance ... Do you feel the difference?
Wow, what is up with those share buttons at the end of each post? Just in case nobody else is seeing this, they start off cramped together and when moused over they break apart in a very fluid animation.

Yes it looks nice, but it moves the button from under the cursor! And then just as bad, the cursor doesn't change to a hand to show it's an interact-able object.

Is this just me? Am I alone in seeing this or thinking that this is bad UX?
Except that the "primary" queue doesn't feed into the shortest register queue, it feeds into the register queue that the person at the front of the primary queue anticipates will empty the fastest. That's the premise that underlies the whole article: people get in the line they predict will move the fastest, and everyone uses different variables and judgment to make that prediction. Those variables and those predictions don't show up when your model is based on distributions.

The register queues are not independent, but they are not related as simply as you say.
I mentioned the mini git tutorial

I am a MS fan and I use msysgit on Windows.

My point being, git now has good enough implementation on Windows and the team should have taken the time to learn it, as in this context, it doesn't look good that they are ignorant of git.
I just tested it calling to my cellphone from Colombia. It worked like a charm. I'll definitely use this in a future project whenever I need it!
Yes they do

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...

The US has the means to destroy it if they choose to - the Iranians can't stop a cruise missile or a stealth bomber. It was a political calculation NOT to destroy it.
Every study shows

I would appreciate citations to any study you can cite for interested readers here. There seem to be quite a few comments on this issue in this subthread, so let's all check sources together.
Compared to Vista -> 7, very few upgraded from XP to Vista. I think Vista's market share topped out at just 17 or 18%, compared to XP's 80%+. Windows 7 is now around 35%.

The difference between Win 8 and WP7 is cost, and the huge Windows ecosystem. MS is trying to bring some of that ecosystem over to mobile apps with the whole Metro/Windows Store thing. Hopefully it pans out.
Encrypting with ROT13 does not cause you to be not defaming the company, either legally or ethically. (Encrypting with SHA-1 might, but I wouldn't bet your out-of-court settlement on it. IANALATINLA.)
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Essentially, google's strategy seems to be that, anytime users finds a way to access content from non-google application, google will either acquire that app or build a competitor. Google is trying to become the web .
> Microsoft has made a good gesture

When on the other hand they are poisoning the Android/Linux ecosystem with FUD, patent extortion and the like. While I would prefer the discussion to stay civil and technical, Microsoft is consistently earning every snark they are receiving, and then some.
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IMEC reports 10-nm RRAM cell - shows the potential to replace NAND flash memory.
Super sad :(

Go Hokies!
Perceived fairness is very hard to quantify objectively. Is it fair if there are queues for people buying less than X items? If there are queues for people not paying cash? For frequent flyers? That you, by sheer misfortune, end up in the slow queue three times in a row? Should pensioners wait for people having work to do? Should fit people make room for the elderly? To what extent? Etc.

Instead, I think you should do the math; it will teach you that the probability that a given queue is slow is smaller than the probability that, given a person in a queue, that person is in a slow queue.

So, you spend more time in slow queues than in fast ones. Once you know that, train yourself to accept it.
It's an ANSI-standard PDMI cable. David McLauchlan of Microsoft chaired the PDMI committee.

Anyone copying the no strain relief cables should be shot, though. I appear to have lost the charging cable for my Galaxy Tab, so I can't check that right now.

EDIT: Found them. The cables that came with my Tab have strain relievers. They're hard to see, but they're there. Point for Samsung.
IBM Watson team is focused on medical data mining now. Training IBM Watson just for Jeopardy took over 7 years. They are struggling how to make Watson learn faster. It's not the CPU or RAM limitations. There are a lot of custom pipeline building that needs to happen. Medical data is usually behind firewalls, password protected. Even medical books and articles are not easily accessible. There is no place for side projects.
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If that's all that happened, there wouldn't be any investigation.

WOW!!!!

Maybe you didn't mean it the way it sounds. But the way I'm reading this, you seem to be saying, "there's no reason for a trial. If you were innocent, the police wouldn't have arrested you". Saying that is a great way to get out jury duty, but it's no way to run a judicial system.
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As seen on HN... :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290007
I was a market research for a couple of years, and 1,25$ per completed survey is cheap if you don't manage your own panel database.

We paid around 3.50$ per respondent (french speaking adults in Quebec) and it was significantly more for specific attributes. We used GMI for our samples. Phones survey were more expensive, something like 0.25$/question/respondent.
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Microsoft can no longer command high prices for its tablet OS because it lacks incumbency and vertical integration.

The net result is her competitors are driving MS towards a cliff of zero or low margin OS and inexpensive apps.

If you look at Windows 8 carefully, the ARM version will not run desktop mode. This gives it some protection that a tablet manufacturer adding on a $20 keyboard turns a tablet into a replacement OS. However, as more applications become metro-fied, its margins will be totally fried.

This is why Microsoft is pinning its hopes on the server. Azure and various cloud services and tight developer tooling might make up for the lost revenue.
Excellent. Thank you, and I apologize for the harshness of my original comment. Was honestly just trying to be helpful.
"Estimates the traffic of a given website or blog, and calculates the income of this website, not the profit, assuming this website is only using advertising programs or similar affiliate programs to make money"

It is using revenue per page view (RPM) = $0.0015/pageview.
This is a follow-up to: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3094562
Post your resume on craigslist, even for areas outside where you live (such as the SF Bay area / Silicon Valley), this is how I got one of my early "gigs" that was an hourly part-time job working remotely. Its good to do this if you don't have a lot of opportunities in your area, such as if you live in smaller town / city rather than a large metro area. Once you get that first paying gig / job, the rest should come easier, from then on emphasize your work experience as generally companies want people with some paid experience.
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Jesus Christ. Can we stop all this "PHP Sucks" nonsense? We get it, a language like ruby is better for you. And hell, there's not much of an argument against how PHP looks; Ruby and Python, to me, look much much nicer.

But complaints about its technological capability are completely false. It's super easy and simple to learn, and even a HTMl/CSS guy like me is able to build pretty powerful, dynamic websites and simple apps with WordPress and (gasp!) PHP.

Before you start shitting on PHP, realize that
a) you're arguing over a programming language lol
b) it's been around for a long time and thus has a huge community, good documentation, lots of books and resources, and comes preinstalled on a lot of servers, etc,
c) great applications like MailChimp, Wikipedia, Digg, and FaceBook use PHP extensively
d) the learning curve is low
e) yeah, it is ugly. But its easiness to learn got me into quasi-programming with WordPress, and since seeing .rb files I've begun to get curious about ruby. But the basic programming knowledge is there from PHP experience and facilitates learning other languages.

Sorry, it's just frustrating to see people making fun of a language and criticizing the people who work with it.
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There's also a good chance that after the lawyer was first stonewalled, he saw a bigger lawsuit opportunity down the road if it persisted. And it did. I still expect civil action against the government to be on the way.
Sweet application - is that using canvas to render? What do you do for browsers without canvas support?
Nice idea. Good luck.
Steven, I'm sorry about that. I'm working on making it more readable. Thanks for understanding.
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I'm sure I'm not the only one suffering with this, and I'm sure others have perhaps experimented with ways to rally up that final blast of energy to "just get it done"?

Anyone have any advice to contribute? The weight of this silly project is hanging over me more and more with each passing day... can feel patience running out with everyone. help :/
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I don't believe this a drone, this is a drone mockup or its a drone we've not seen before.

First off the colors are wrong, the coating on an RQ170 is black/grey its not painted because painting it changes its radar reflection signature.

Second we don't see the bottom of the drone, if we did there would be either landing gear (if they managed to get it to actually land, or a scraped up bottom) According to Lockheed the drone lands when it runs out of gas and it does so with the landing gear retracted to avoid damage.

We don't see any armaments, where are the two hellfire missiles it keeps in its belly?

The shape of the motor nacelles is wrong. At least they aren't the same as every other photo of the RQ170.

Not sure what the game here is, but what this video shows is not an RQ170, of that I am certain.
A dynamic language that is 100-1000x slower (http://stronglytypedblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/java-vs-scala-...) does not equal Java plus closures and a few other syntactic niceties. You would have been much more accurate referencing Xtend, Kotlin, Gosu, or Ceylon.
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Exactly.

If one were to apply principles of Tao, it would be to yield. Give the stick pusher nothing to push.
I'm trying to see an old version of this website (hall.com) using archive.org, but I got an error message because http://hall.com/robots.txt is blocking it:
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What do you mean? Using Python you can just place the library direction in the working directory of your script. I don't see how this library is different from any other library for other languages.
"First of all, I love your take-action attitude. That's probably the most important key to success."

Thanks!

"Instead of working on these random niche adsense sites, why don't you work on building a site around a topic you're actually interested in? Build great quality content, build an email list, build applications that help your target audience."

That idea came on my mind while I was making my 'random niche adsense site'.But I thought that I don't have enough experience,knowledge,etc to build something like that.So i decided to start making small niche adsense sites.

But that is definitely something I will work on in near future (in my spare time)

Thanks for advice!
Scala is a very different beast from Java. It has all that you mentioned, to be sure, but it also has a lot more.

You should check out Gosu[1], which is a language that does exactly what you say without adding complexity or being as different from Java as Scala.

[1]: http://gosu-lang.org
That's an unbelievable price for a four-character domain.
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The advantage of using accessors is that your implementation can switch between static properties and computed properties and the consumers of your API don't have to know which is which. This is called the uniform access principle and ends up being extremely useful.

For example, imagine you have an Store object that saves the tax rate:

Store = SC.Object.create({
taxRate: 0.0895
});

Since this is a static value, I don't technically have to use an accessor. But imagine my state implements a tax holiday, and so for one day per year, the tax rate is different. In Amber, this is a simple change:

taxRate: function() {
if (this.get('isTaxHoliday')) {
return 0;
}
return 0.0895;
}.property()

Instead of trawling my codebase to references for this property and changing them to method invocations, because everything goes through get(), I know the change will be transparent. It's this transparency that leads to very maintainable web apps.

Some people object to the extra method invocation, but I think the expressiveness it gets you is worth it. As soon as proxies land in JavaScript, we'll add support for them so you can use the dot notation and still get the same functionality.
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Thanks kloncks, we feel fortunate.
It looks like PDMI is just the Apple Dock Connector standardized.
Now it works. Much better :)
Serious question. This article seems to be about censorship and the First Amendment. The opening paragraph equates this to a magazine being shut down and the printing presses seized. But I don't think this hip-hop blog was saying something the government wanted to stop. I don't get why the prevalent "bad thing" the government did is being called censorship.

Isn't the real story the government put a company out of business for no reason? They took a "top 10" website in a category and shut it down for a year, allowing their competitors an unfair advantage. No due process, no communication, not even a case number. They picked a random company and put it out of business.

I guess that's not protected by the constitution.
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Great, thanks for trying it out!
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I had posted this on another thread too, however, this discussion around Samsung's design "independence" is ridiculous. Unless one is a lawyer, it's fairly obvious that they ripped off Apple's designs, take a look at this link:http://www.reddit.com/tb/kr14a
Love it. How does it "move" though -- so far all I've done is buy stuff? (Investments 'n such).
Well, it's your fault, so I hardly blame them. Why on earth would you tell people to use Google Apps as a personal email service? It's a mallet to a crack a nut. Google Apps is for businesses, it's probably even a little much for SOHO. If people want their own email address, just buy the domain, forward the email to Gmail and use the Send As feature to send from that address.

I really don't have a lot of sympathy for the cat-calls that surrounds Every Single Google Launch when it isn't on Apps straight away. Except if you'd been given weird information from someone who should know better, I suppose.

I would say Google probably should shoulder some of the responsibility for not dissuading the individual users it doesn't want to support with GApps from signing up.
I think more people would give Pure a try if it wasn't advertised primarily as a term rewriting language.

Pure is a dynamically-typed, eager, impure functional language with Haskell-ish syntax. It also has optional type declarations and forced lazy evaluation. "Term rewriting" is the evaluation model.
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They might be doing other things you don't like, but at least give credit where credit is due.

Submitting code upstream to Redis is completely independent of their patent decisions regarding Android. I'm not a fan of their overall stance with respect to FOSS/Linux/Android, and they may be earning the snark there, but not in this case.

These discussions become a lot more valuable when we stop characterizing any organization, especially one as complex as a large corporation, as universally 'good' or 'bad'.
I believe your line of thinking is wrong.. interfaces are meant to act as "interfaces" in the traditional definition of the word, they are for providing an interface between groupings of code (for lack of a better phrase) that are mean to be loosely coupled from one another. They are defining a contract between these groupings so that the one grouping that uses the object implementing the interface doesn't have intimate knowledge of the other grouping of code. For example, if a project uses a 3rd party library, of which only a few features are being used, yet they know they are most likely going to replace this with another 3rd party library at some point, it would make sense to write an interface that wraps around this library. Then, it is easier later on to replace the 3rd party library by simply writing a new implementation wrapper.

I can understand that you don't like candidates not going into detail but I have worked on projects where using interfaces, even if there is not more than one implementation is still best practice as otherwise you are just hard-coupling your dependencies.
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We need more hackers working in niches to disrupt health IMHO. Perhaps our demographic is blinkered to these opportunities.
> My definition of democracy is that everyone gets an equal vote.

So how does it come about that you interpret support for restrictions on political campaigning as an attack on democracy? You can't have it both ways: either democracy is just about giving everyone one vote, in which case nothing wpietri [EDITED to add: or wonderzombie] said can possibly be taken to be at all opposed to it; or it's concerned more broadly with enabling and/or trusting people to vote rationally in the light of the best available information, in which case it's obviously not undemocratic (though it might turn out to be wrong) to want to regulate possible sources of misinformation.

> You haven't addressed my question about where [...] the right to invest money in political speech ought to be curtailed.

Your implicit argument seems to be this: If you can't point to an obviously correct place to draw the line, then no line should be drawn anywhere. I think this argument is hopelessly wrong; there are thousands of cases where you have a continuum with something obviously reasonable at one end, something obviously unacceptable at another, and no obviously correct place to draw a line.

However, here is one proposal that seems reasonable to me: Individuals and corporations can both invest money in political speech, but the amount any individual or any individual corporation is allowed to put in is limited to (some credible estimate of) the largest amount a not-entirely-crazy person on a roughly-median income would be prepared to put in. (The problem with letting corporations run political advertisements isn't that there's something especially evil about corporations; it's that corporations have a colossal amount of money and a great deal to gain or lose from political outcomes, and that their interests are not obviously well aligned with those of the general public. If IBM or General Motors or ExxonMobil can only spend $5k/year on politics, they can't do much harm.)