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Comedy is in the ear of the beholder. I have had far more meaningful laughs (whatever the heck that means) at WTF then at comedy bang bang. I would say download both of them, they are totally different things.
Not sure about you, but I would be happy to not have USA values anything near my countries in Europe.
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I moved from CA (Palo Alto and San Diego) to Austin in August to start my PhD at UT. Austin is pretty good in the sense that it's probably the best possible city you could live in that's in middle America.

That said, it's not California. The people in Texas are generally just plain rude and self-centered. There is a lot of "get out of my way" attitude, both metaphorically in how people interact in conversation, and literally on the roadways. It's also landlocked, and I miss the ocean terribly.

I'm here purely because the CS department at UT Austin is the best in the world for my area of research (Evolutionary Algorithms and Neural Networks). However, in a couple of years when my class requirements are done, I'm planning on finishing my dissertation research remotely from a coastal city.

There really is nothing at all I can imagine Austin has to offer me that is worth staying here over SF, SD, or even the east coast like NYC or DC. Maybe I just don't get it.
Just to be clear, I am not entirely hostile to the idea here. I just think that there are plenty of cases where generating high quality printed content or the like doesn't work with it and templating is a lot cleaner in those environments. And when your application already requires templating for a reason like that, adding an entirely different way of handling another output format adds needless complexity.

One of the useful applications of dools' ideas is that you could have a mockup which included lorem ipsums or other dummy text. This would make it easier for web developers to test layout.

OTOH, as I say, I am not at all convinced that it is a net win for programs that generate multiple formats of output./
Compiling new Android systems requires 16 gigabytes of RAM at compile time. Trying to compile it with 6 gigabytes will end up swapping so much that the system becomes unusable. I have 12 gigabytes and it's a bit slow and painful.

I have no idea why it takes so much memory and I consider it to be somewhat a problem. However, it's not a problem I can do anything about but I still have to live with it daily and get my job done.

Linux has excellent caching for I/O operations, so having more memory makes things faster, so even if something does not explicitly need the RAM, having it there will make thing s go faster.
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Immigrants inherently contribute to American society in the following ways:

1. They pay taxes.

2. They spend their money on goods and services supplied by American businesses.

That constitutes contribution to American society. If anything, immigrants should be actively sought.
Hacker News is like KAOS, we don't do: gripes about voting or dududu (humor) here (regardless of how worthy the gripe or funny the humor is.)
Some ideas for promoting the app:

Try to get linked from an official web site, whatever the equivalent of this is:
http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/Mobile_Device_Schedules.ht...

That may require navigating some bureaucracy, but it may be surprisingly easy.

Also, try handing out fliers with QR codes or placing stickers somewhere where train riders with Android phones are.

You could also possibly leave Foursquare tips at every train station that you have access to. Hope this helps. :)
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I know it's a lot harder to repeat experiments in biology than in particle physics - I said that in my post.

Just because someone uses weasel words ("possible") doesn't change the end result: It's a wrong result.

I'm not blaming them - I understand better results are not possible. But it doesn't change the fact that a tremendous number of results are wrong.

It doesn't help that they often search for very subtle results. "It helps, but only a little." It also doesn't help that everyone responds differently to things. It makes the research very hard.

Anyway, I was just explaining why p95 is not accepted anywhere else except biology - biology just doesn't have any other choice. They don't prefer such low results.
On top of that, Facebook tries to surface interesting aspects of the passively shared information. If multiple friends read the same article, Facebook will tell me. If someone visits my profile, they can see what music I've been listening to for the past month.

There is a such thing as having too much shared information to deal with, but Facebook filters it and presents it in a way that I find useful.
Aren't subdomains considered separate domains for the same-origin policy?
A small point, but something that is really nice. At the end of the form where you enter your email address, the sign up to his mailing list is checked no by default. I switched it to yes partially because of that.
We can tighten up patent criteria as well.

But the point is.... if any medical device could license any patent (doesn't matter what patent it is) for no more than 5% of manufacturer->distributor sales price, there would still be reason to fight bogus patents, but prices would drop because you'd only get 5% of manufacturing royalties for 20 years, not 20 years of monopoly rights.
Why can't you use that type of code in your frontend?

Stored procedures make it much harder to understand the code since you can't just read the query - you have to find the stored procedure and check it there. (And be realistic - no one has perfect documentation.)

And heaven forbid you have to change the query - now you need to make sure no one else is using it, and you end up with tons of versions of similar stored procedures, not all in use, and many that could be combined.

It doesn't seem worth it to me.

I use stored procedures for data reduction - I want to keep the data in the database, and process it before sending it out. (Saves bandwidth vs doing it in the front end, and often it's faster too.)

But that's it. Using stored procedures just to wrap ordinary queries is a terrible (but very common) idea. (I am aware that it saves time on generating a query plan, but usually that's a case of premature optimization.)

And using it to enforce code policies? Way overkill.
In other words, automated "now playing" scripts are as annoying and useless on social media as they were on irc and and instant messengers.
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These are great points, and I certainly agree that some convention is required in template development to ensure "less brittleness". I think it's simple enough to do this with ids and classes, though, and even when it does break, the time it takes to fix it is going to have a pretty trivial impact on your overall project because the problem is solvable, quite simply and without much hunting around, by one person without the need to communicate with anyone else on the team.

Regarding the logic issue, I don't think you'd realistically end up with an intractable number of logic variations. If you have extra links that are there when the moderator is logged in, they should be there in any template with that structural element in it and then removed if the person logged in isn't a moderator.

Granted, though, I have to put my money where my mouth is and port one of my existing applications over to using this methodology (which is, in fact, what I plan to do so the proof the pudding will be in the eating).

Regarding the issue of "viewing the template without a server" - in the case of Fragmentify, all the frontend dev needs is the standard apache/php that ships with OSX. This is considerably less complex than having an entire framework/application environment installed and kept current. That being said, however, the way in which templates arrive at the "animator" is not the animator's problem. Dreamweaver lets you edit common assets and then exports head-to-foot complete HTML files in a ZIP, so just use that. So long as the "animotor" has complete HTML files to work with, that's all that matters.
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Where AI has consistently failed is creating a real thinking machine that can reason and adapt. That's not what we're building today though.

The problem is to many peoples jobs are to easy and highly specialized. They don't require strong AI - just good enough "dumb" algorithms, and we're getting really good at those. Doing paperwork by strict specifications. Driving a truck from point A to B. Assemble a circuitboard from a blueprint. As long as you keep a handful of humans in the loop incase something unexpected happens, this is all stuff robots can do today.
I revolutionized as well the templating 3 years ago with pure.js... This one is an intentional xslt for json.

The result is a thin ~400 followers on http://github.com/pure/pure, we use it for our web app, and I get regular thanks emails. Even some copycats appeared.

Nothing changed. Server power is still wasted sending HTML to idle terminals using a markup/logic soup like we do since 1995.

A pretty useless fight, but at least I'm happy I tried.
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Volvo has a anti driver distraction system, so your phone won't ring when you are executing turns, or near a school.

The usual navigation aids come to mind such as traffic reports.

Other useful things might be Siri-like reminder to buy milk on the way home, or ask you why you haven't picked up your kids from school.
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Looks good. Thinks will start to pick up by themselves once you have a few reviews and download stats are shown on the market page. When I submitted one app, even though it was having downloads (it had a server-side component so I knew from traffic), the stats on the market page and publish page didn't update for nearly two weeks!
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Sure that having more RAM won't make things slower. But for most uses cases SSD compensates for lack of RAM, as swapping becomes reasonably fast.

You need to swap our more than 200 MB per second to saturate SSD in MacBook Air, it is hard to produce that much of non-garbage data.
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Instead of points 3 & 4 you could replace it with... 3. Load SQL module from CPAN.

Something like SQL::Abstract (https://metacpan.org/module/SQL::Abstract) or Fey (https://metacpan.org/module/Fey) would slot in easy for most tasks like this:

use SQL::Abstract;
my $sql = SQL::Abstract->new;

$dbh->do( $sql->delete("my_table") );
"That said, it's not California. The people in Texas are generally just plain rude and self-centered."

No offense, but that might be the most backward thing I've ever heard. Have you seen LA or SF? I feel like you might live in a one or two person bubble. Honestly, where are you hanging out in Austin?
That reasoning neglects the bias towards papers with interesting results, which leads to a much higher rate of false reports in hot journals.
ars: I don't know if we have reached max depth or if it is just a waiting period. The major issues are:

1) Testability. you can write test cases against a stored proc. You cannot write test cases against a SQL query embedded in the middle of a function in another programming language.

2) Single point of control. You can have one function that runs the stored proc there and check properly for SQL injection, ensuring that everything is free of SQL injection as far as front-to-backend is concerned (and in Pg, that only leaves SQL injection issues in dynamic SQL which can be searched for and audited separately).

So that's why not to put it there.

As to changing the query.... I only use databases which come with transactional DDL so that's not an issue as long as inputs and outputs don't change. If the inputs and outputs have to change, we can handle that too with transactional DDL and the fact that we make the interfaces discoverable. In this case, we'd

BEGIN;

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS foo_bar(...);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo_bar(...)...;

COMMENT ON FUNCTION foo_bar(...) IS $$...$$;

COMMIT;

Because of the way Pg works this shouldn't really cause issues for currently running queries.

As for finding the right function, since these are all called on a declarative interface so you know what the function name is quickly, and so it is a matter of quickly finding it in a directory of SQL files.

As for testability, don't underrate this. You can insert data, run your tests, and roll back. So for example for our 1099-MISC and INT handling, we run more than 40 tests on a pre-written data set that we can run without ever committing to production and which will never conflict with production data (and therefore does not lock other users out). That's approx. 20 tests per sproc there.
This is called the Phrasebook pattern and was probably being pushed as best practise until ORM's took hold.

* http://ootips.org/yonat/patterns/phrasebook.html

* http://www.perl.com/pub/2002/10/22/phrasebook.html

* https://metacpan.org/module/Data::Phrasebook::SQL
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It's worth noting that a lot of the dates mentioned in this article are far from the scholarly consensus on the matter; to take one example, the attribution of the Puranas to Vyasa is roughly similar to the attribution of the Pentateuch to Moses; it's not a reliable foundation for dating the texts (which most scholars place far later than 1000BCE.)

Similarly, the claim that Pythagoras was acquainted with the Upanishads is not historically attested; there's some fascinating work (by McEvilley) on cultural diffusion between the Ancient Greek and Ancient Indian worlds, but much of it is conjectural, and there's no "smoking gun" to support blanket statements of the type "Pythagoras read the Upanishads."

Finally, in my reading of the secondary literature, most scholars reverse the chronology in the statement "Philosophical formulations concerning Shunya - i.e. emptiness or the void may have facilitated in the introduction of the concept of zero." The consensus seems to be the opposite-- that the concept of zero in mathematics appears to have influenced the philosophical formulations around emptiness.
Templating by manipulating the DOM is one of those bad ideas that just keeps on turning up. At first glance it seems like a eureka-moment flash of purity, but the practical realities of it are pretty horrible.

For any change to the page more complex than tweaking copy or maybe changing an element (a ul to an ol for example) you'll have to update both the HTML and the DOM manipulation code - killing your separation of concerns.

Even worse, you have to have a complete understanding of how what the DOM manipulation code does before you can edit any of the HTML at all - otherwise you might accidentally kill the page by changing the order of two seemingly unimportant elements, or deleting an unused div.

You'll also be forced to make all sorts of compromises in your markup to accommodate the templating layer, which will drive your front-end engineers crazy.

Finally, there are extremely useful aspects of regular template languages (like template inheritance and includes) which don't map at all neatly to a DOM manipulation engine - so you'll probably have to compromise on those and end up inventing your own weird attribute-driven template engine.

I'd suggest approaching this idea with caution. There's a reason most popular template engines are designed the way they are: practicality beats purity.
I've been doing exactly that in my more recent projects, and it works extremely well for simpler views/shallow DOMS.

But it turns into write-only code pretty fast when you have tons of callbacks flying around for highly interactive elements.
It's because lawyers understand how very, very, very bad things can get when you put people without an intimate understanding of the functioning of the law in-charge of overseeing it. Using lawyers is just very bad.
It's not necessarily grep's responsibility to normalize strings. They could very well stipulate that it is the responsibility of the user to make sure the both the input and the search expression are already normalized. That way, the normalization could be done by a separate program, resulting in the reusability and separation of concerns that is The Unix Way.
I always get entertained reading the latest stories about templates and the latest innovations on how to make web sites work, and how (language x) is so old now, and everyone should use (language y) because it's more logical. I built my own custom CMS in 2008 and have been slowly improving it, and to this day I have a full dynamic site working on less than 600 lines of PHP, HTML and JavaScript. No JQuery, no need for a dozen includes, or keeping up to date on the latest patches of 12 different code bases. Yet the site keeps chugging along, even got to the front page of HN without any issue handling the load, while some sites mysteriously go down, but it's never the developer's fault, they just had a problem with their backend db server, or forgot a critical patch, or ne of their libraries didn't behave well with another library under heavy load...

Not sure what my point is, I guess that there's something to be said for keeping it simple, and not chasing new technologies without reason..
Actually their contributions are

1. They pay taxes.
2. They work.

Their spending of money on goods and services is what they take out of the system.
Nigga please? Mental illness? How about, just playing the game to its fullest?

I have been guilty of this kind of behavior in the past. And I can totally relate to Sebastian here. In bureaucracies it is modus operandi for people in the top to count on fear and "decency" of people beneath them to not call out their bullshit.

In a court nobody can afford to comment on the emperors lack of clothes, since they are dependent on the system. But when an outsider comes as Sebastian did in this case - they have no power over him and this outsider has two options. He can walk away and solve his problem for himself - or he can call out the BS (risking some of his reputation on one end). Why? Because he is free of the influence of the court, thats what freedom means. You can be free as soon as you realize that you can do without the system, that you can forge your own system. You don't even need to be an outsider, just realize that freedom of mind is the ultimate freedom and that it cannot be taken away. You can have your body's freedom taken away, you can even get killed. But the freedom of the mind is the ultimate drug, the ultimate intoxication and the ultimate asset. And nobody can take it away.

Like he said, it is about treating people the way they want to be treated. It is also a winning strategy for an iterated prisoners dilemma - you offer cooperation, if they refuse - strike them into the ground.

What happened was that he "offered to save" the publishing industry, he has been around the block, seen other industries - but what he got in response was basically a "STFU NOOB!".

His response was pretty close as to what I would have done. When somebody wants to push me around with low blows, I get really upset. Especially if I am smarter and better prepared than they are. So if they want a dirty game - I will give them a dirty game. Hell I will show them state of the art in dirty.

And thats what Sebastian did.

Kudos to you Mr. Marshall!

p.s.: There is a lot of mental illness in the whole story, but Sebastian is not the one ill. Basically what Seb is doing is called Madman Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory) and it is completely, totally rational.
From the Wikipedia article you cited:
"...Design patents can be invalidated if the design has practical utility..."

Besides that this is a "natural evolution of design" and using key design formulas some known since more than 2000 years (e.g. golden ratio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio), this (practical utility) IMHO is a similar and one of the strongest arguments against these Apple patents here.

The radius of the corners is given from the size of the screen and the width of the bevel, the width of the bevel by the size of an average person's thumb size, the location of the button generally how you hold the tablet and so that you can easily reach it (upright & sideways).
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One thing to keep in mind is that restaurants typically has pretty high fixed costs (rent, power, lights, a minimum number of staff), but moderate-to-low variable costs (food, extra staff). A hot dog - even a vegetarian hot dog - only costs a fraction of what a place like Drew's charges.

As others have pointed out, a GroupOn deal is usually going to be half off the normal price, and they take half of that, leaving 25% for the retailer. That actually is going to cover most (or for some places, all) of cost of the food.

Apparently, Drew's charged $3.69 for a basic beef hotdog (Applegate brand). You can buy them retail for maybe $0.70 each, which is less than 20% the total cost. The bun and condiments are negligible; if Drew's could avoid hiring too many extra staff to handle the GroupOn rush, and if the GroupOn customers were mostly new, and not all regular customers looking for a bargain (both big assumptions) they probably just about broke even on the deal, even getting only 25% of normal revenue per hotdog. Blaming GroupOn is tempting, and it might even be the straw that broke the camel's back, but it's not very plausible.
Sounds like a "legal bribe".

As an extra bonus... With a NZ permanent residency, I believe, one is also permitted to work and reside in Australia; easily the outstanding economy and often top placed in most living standards, job opportunity and economic and political stability surveys. By way of example, Australia's current head of state and head of government are women.

If the USA continues to put up unnecessary barriers for up-and-coming entrepreneurs to stay in and benefit the US, why not take your business ideas elsewhere?

Frankly there are many more places in the world to live and prosper financially. We live in a global economy, so location should not be always of prime importance for a web-based startup, or...?
I've used Klarna once or twice when shopping online. The basic concept doesn't require a lot of details, I should think: You buy something, Klarna sends you an invoice, you pay it just like any other invoice.

I assume failure to pay is handled just like all other consumer debts. First they send you a couple of reminders, then they sell the debt to a debt collection agency.
I started reading the previous rant from the author - the letter to the CBS president - and stopped at the point where he goes ballistic because his 'immediate' payment took six weeks. For a giant corporation to cut a check six weeks sounds pretty immediate to me.

I feel sorry for his agent.
They do the unpleasant jobs most Americans would consider below themselves. They pay taxes. They should expect acceptance and political representation for it.
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