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What should the unary + operator do except for type coercion into a number? Or are you saying it should only work on strings?

It just doesn't seem like something that would happen accidentally, there's no reason to put + on something unless you are explicitly trying to coerce it into a number. It's not like unary minus where -x; could have some other semantic meaning for something that is already a number and you make a mistake and give it an array (which javascript has, and I think is a much more likely source of error than the unary plus).
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Bonferroni correction is an extremely conservative correction, which loses significance very quickly. Depending on the relation between the hypothesises, and the relative magnitude of the significance levels, much better methods are available, such as bootstrap step-downs.

But in general, it's good to make people aware how quickly you are doing multiple comparisons and how it invalidates the significance levels completely.

Corresponding xkcd, which really explains it brilliantly: http://xkcd.com/882/
Looks good. I can't see the video right now but are you looking at /humans.txt? Might contain useful info.
Thank you, didn't know this!

Code updated.
Nearly 40% Of Facebook Use Is From Mobile Apps
"What actually happened was that very few people subscribed, and immediately began posting the latest sources publicly (as permitted under the GPL), which resulted in Sveasoft threatening them with legal action, issuing C&Ds to anyone involved, and inserting more and more complicated tracking tokens and other booby-traps in the code."

Exactly point point. This is why you can't run a viable business selling GNU software.
Despite Attacks, Klout Is Poised To Boost its Influence
I'm not sure I agree. The author seems to be comparing Red Hat with Ubuntu Desktop. That's not really a good comparison to make. Ubuntu Desktop is geared towards home and small-network settings. For larger deployments, Canonical recommends Ubuntu LTS, which has a 3-year support guarantee and a 2-year release cycle. I don't think that's too far removed from Red Hat's release cycles.
if you can handle your amount of mail, set up spf and working rdns records for your sending domain, implement dkim and use returnpath. no need for an esp if you don't need advanced reporting and campaign management features...

i'm a deliverability manager for an european esp...
Disclosure: I work at Zipline Games building out our cloud platform. We also have a cross platform game engine that lets you develop in lua. The engine is focused on mobile games so it runs on android, iOs and Chrome native client.

The cloud portion would make an excellent compliment to this since we host a mongo database for you, allow you to write and run your own lua code so you can develop your backend logic in the same language you build your game in. We also provide a set of RESTfull services for common game needs.

Check it out at http://getmoai.com/
Another troll/crowd-pleasing post from Thom Holwerda.
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MIT Student Engineers The Unicycle You Never Knew You Wanted
It's a shame, they don't seem to support .ws domains. Any suggestions on a place that does?
Have you tried looking at the github repo, here: https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc the latest commit on that was in November 2011
Complacency made Latam what it is today. I'm sure SUP would love everyone to think that way: less hassle for them, no benefit for anyone (except for those who learn how to "make things happen" - aka "steal"), which (coincidently) had zero issues with the reimbursement process
Monsanto's claim in that case was that they had informed him the previous year that part of his field was contaminated, and he responded by intentionally planting seeds from the crops they had told him were Roundup Ready. They never tried to claim that somebody who accidentally gets their plants owes them money.

(And before anybody accuses me of being a Monsanto fanboy or something: I really don't care about this issue. I just decided to actually do some research after reading like 10 different rants against Monsanto in one day, and I found that although Monsanto sound like dicks, people still seem to feel the need to exaggerate.)
It was already prod ready in my opinion. I think this release is more of a "polish" thing since some people are timid to run "0.20" code in prod.
But the article has a perfectly good point to make. That it's couched in the usual rivalry terms is unfortunate, but hey, that's the way of the world.

It's legitimate to say that Android will be the driving force for commoditizing smartphones, however. iOS will not be that force, and I think that's fine. That has never been Apple's goal, and it shows. It's like saying Mercedes won't drive commoditization of the latest feature in their car (e.g., HUDs or auto-parallel-parking). No, that'll be a smaller company. Mercedes is in charge of being up front putting it in to begin with for the people willing to pay more to get it. Once it's become cheaper, Ford can then integrate it in their upper lines, and then their mid-levels, and then it becomes a standard feature for pretty much all cars.

Similarly, Apple basically rewrote the book on smartphone UIs. There is very little you can say to truly countermand that. They may not be the 100% originators of all of the ideas, but the iPhone was the first phone of its kind. Android followed along, and started out expensive, then got cheaper, and now they're moving towards ultra-cheap smartphones running Android. Same evolution. The products have different purposes and different targets, that's all.

The only reason I bring this up is that I really don't often see flamewars between Mercedes drivers and Ford drivers. I suppose this might be because car companies differentiate tiers by brand, while in the case of Android, there are both high-end and low-end Android phones that are marketed under the exact same name, and these will obviously provide a different experience.
I made that point in another thread as well, if you stick to the meat and gravy of JavaScript you just don't hit on these nuances of the languadge. I am generally not a fan of clever programming tricks or "magic code" and if you are then JavaScript becomes a tempest, but if you are using it to glue interfaces together, build some widgets and manage events you just don't get into the ugly side of JavaScript, it's not my favorite languadge but it get's the job done and it is efficient as far as development effort goes.
"I'm even more excited about seeing a $25 mobile device that has access to a killer web browser and endless mobile apps, and watching that device appear in the hands of a billion school children over the next 10 years."

I would be excited to see that too. Can anyone point me towards such a device?

"What Nokia did for the mobile phone, Android is doing for the smartphone."

I don't see how, because Nokia is a hardware manufacturer who actually makes phones, and Android is just an operating system. It seems to me the hard part of getting to the $25 unlocked price point is the hardware, not the OS. Android is not even the only open-source phone operating system--how about Meego, created by (aptly) Nokia, and hosted by the nonprofit Linux Foundation?

Android is a cool product, but I have a hard time swallowing the self-congratulatory posturing. So far Android has not done a single thing for the 3rd world poor. As far as I can tell, so far all it has done is provided the skeleton for a bunch of proprietary implementations by first-world hardware manufacturers and mobile operators.
Great points. The company I work with operates production thermoforming machines to produce plastic containers. Each machine produces over 12,000 units every single hour, 24 hours a day -- that's over 2 million every week, with only one or two labor hours per machine-hour. And our machines are not even that big or modern; if we were to replace them with new machines, we could easily scale to three times that much per machine-hour. Technologies such as this help us design a prototype to validate a product for a customer before building molds, but it would never be an actual production process. Not until it can produce three products per second while matching the low weights per part.

Our tool room already is much smaller than it was twenty years ago, while producing more molds, thanks to the wonders of CNC machines.
>If you are a programmer, you could write code, but you shouldn’t execute it

I'm not sure I understand - why shouldn't I execute what I wrote? Isn't it like a musician not listening to what is he playing?
This is both worrying and unnecessary. As the responses point out, entries are dated to prevent claiming safe harbor after the fact and people don't DMCA sites that no longer exist.

However, I fear that it will likely be allowed simply because it allows them to collect more fees. I certainly don't know that for sure by any means, but if I had to bet on it, well...
Monetary reward could destroy intrinsic motivation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Da Vinci made amazing discoveries and is revered as a polymath because he took ideas from one field and applied them to another.

Such a great insight.

The disciplines I would like to master in this life are:

1.) Riding in the barrel of a wave with a kite and surfboard.
2.) Building a truly great company that makes people happier.
3.) Raising a family with an amazing woman.

I have enjoyed pursuing the first two of those goals with very limited but fulfilling success. The third goal is a bit alien at the moment!
Like shooting ducks in a barrel
GoDaddy faces boycott over SOPA anti-piracy law support
I often find myself troubleshooting applications for which I know little about, or that I don't have to troubleshoot often enough (fortunately). I don't want to have to look what fields are available in the log to prepare the proper format string with the fields that I want because... I do not know what I want.

I want to go to "/var/log/application" or whatever place the application stores its logs, and cat/tail whatever it is there and seems remotely related to the problem at hand.

This is one of the reasons it is painful to troubleshoot problems in Windows using PowerShell, where what you suggested is more or less what needs to be done to parse the event log in a more intelligent way that filtering stuff using the Event Viewer.

This shows in the speed and efficiency in solving issues with unix vs. windows systems.

But you can say that's just my anecdotal evidence.
Stephen Hawking seeks help to make his voice heard
.NET is very pragmatic as far as job opportunities go (I'll leave it for the zealots to dither about "startup" jobs vs "enterprise" jobs).

I'm hit up multiple times a week with emails or calls from recruiters wondering if I'm available or know anybody that is.

You may as well start off in MVC3, but the fundamentals between 2 and 3 are the same so learning using content targeted at 2 will carry over to 3.

As far as training, Pluralsight was mentioned in another comment below, it's an excellent resource and well worth the subscription fee for it's breadth of content. In addition tekpub.com offers training vids in MVC. Both Pluralsight and tekpub offer videos that go beyond .NET into things like javascript, jquery, Android dev, iOS, CSS etc...
N-Control dismisses marketing consultant, discounts PS3 Avenger pre-orders
I concur, but do have to clarify(as in another comment) that those corporations are mostly using ASP.NET Web Forms and only now slowly moving to ASP.NET MVC.
This is a canny business decision by HTC. The main problem with Android device manufacturers has been lack of continuing software support. Making an unlockable bootloader allows HTC to free itself from an long-term support commitment while simultaneously silencing the very critics that were pushing for that commitment in the first place.
"tormenting"? I suspect auto-correct had something to do with this.
I was giving up on Android, if HTC keeps this policy in the future, I'll be giving up only on other brands. What is the point of having a smartphone (pocket computer?), if you can't make it work like you want.
Sweet. I'm currently looking for a new job, so this will definitely help me evaluate potential companies. Thanks a ton. :)

Edit : Single gripe to an otherwise very cool project. When I click on HB, and switch to another tab to look up the names of the people, it closes out HB for that tab I was on so I have to go through clicking again. Any chance you can get this to persist and maybe add some google anchors to the entities HB provides?
Figure 1 above provides an insight into the relationship between teacher salaries and pupil outcomes, showing a clear statistical association between higher relative teachers’ pay and higher standardised pupil scores across countries.

Aaaah! Correlation again being confused with causation. Omitted variable bias!
"The iPhone is heralded as the most revolutionary mobile phone in human history, but the cold and harsh truth is that for all the cheering and punditry, the iPhone's impact on the world is negligible."

Don't care for Android vs. iPhone arguments but lets at least admit that iPhone was a significant catalyst that moved forward the smartphone movement initially at the least. Androids would probably still exist if Apple never put out the iPhone but the iPhone has certainly been one of the biggest influences on Android's development not to mention the entire mobile industry. In that regard I see the author's statement as pretty narrow. Its like saying Unix had no impact on computing because Microsoft had the lion's share.
I've been trying, but no one supports domain transfers on .de.
I'd keep an int flag, initialized to zero. The sighandler sets the flag. The flag is checked (and reset) on entry to newCoin().

Not exactly pretty, but using signals to trigger to produce reports isn't exactly pretty either.

Unfortunately, signals are often abused in this manner. Not a big deal for such for this small piece of software, but in larger systems this kind of abuse can cause very hard to fix bugs.
That awesome little data collector we all carry around in our pockets…
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How 4G LTE actually works
> HTC is committed to listening to users and delivering customer satisfaction [but] the behavior of your device might be altered including specific absorption rate (SAR) values.

Translation:

Look, you guys asked for this, so we're giving it to you, but it's probably going to fry your brain. Enjoy.
The Y-combinator allows an anonymous function to call itself, that is, it allows anonymous function recursion.

I have just started out in my coding journey so I can appreciate but not fully understand what that means. With enough work, I hope that changes.
Why couldn't they have used the Inferno OS for their VM?

Code reuse at Google is huge.

So what were their reasons for not choosing it?

Apologies if this has been asked and answered.
The question was more of an open one, of what's seen as allowable and what's not. My post wasn't intended to be a snitch, it was more of a reference other posts/responses about the same service.

I for one didn't see a problem in the repost. The format is different (the other really only showed up under "ask", and this is on the main page), and badger said they removed the invite only, which is definitely a milestone on releasing a product. I'm glad they reposted without 'SOPA' in the title; I for one was starting to ignore that word on HN.

Congratulations to Badger for creating a new registrar. I'm sure there were a lot of hurdles to jump through.
Strange, worked when I posted it. Maybe somebody is making changes on a live system - bad practice.
The phases of the moon are about 29½ days long.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon and see the synodic period (quoted to a tenth of a second even though full moon to full moon can vary by about ¼ day either way).)
I appreciate that Dan's able to "retire" shows that aren't working or lose interest, but he keeps them online and available for those who are interested. TWiT did get repetitive and too much like a personality-cult circle-jerk and... too long. Haven't really been able to watch it much.

"Back to Work" and "Latest in Paleo" most certainly have secured themselves a spot in my gPodder.
Agreed.

Working with hadoop a few years ago was a pain in the ass, what really made it ready (at least for me) was the packaging done by Cloudera.
I think it's extremely unfair to place Android anywhere on the left side of this scale.

And I didn't place Android on the left - farther right in fact. That and I was limiting what can be on the scale to Mobile platforms - so licenses or Windows for instance do not belong there.
But "far" for most small frame cameras or at any smallesh aperture is infinity as far as focus is concerned, or just use the hyperfocal distance. It is only close shots where you need to focus, and even then it is not as much as people think.

I have an old 1930s folding medium format camera that has two focus settings, people and landscape (and two apertures, sunny and cloudy) and it works fine...
I'm not sure about that. Doctors get paid a lot, but if you talk to them very few cite money as the reason they continue to practice medicine. I think increasing the compensation granted teachers could pull in talented folks who would make good teachers but also have other things that they like to do and are good at.
Hard to argue with anything Ebert says in that article. As a kid I loved going to the theater. I tried to see a movie every time I had a free weekend.

However, these days going to the movie theater gives me an immense amount of anxiety. Despite the cost going up, my moviegoing peers seem to care less and less about actually watching the movie they paid to see. If it's not blinding cell phone screens, it's people talking way too loud and way too often.

As a result there are very few movies I'm not willing to wait for watching it in my own home.

Plus, most of the movies I hear about are ridiculous sequels or odd sounding takes on old properties. A Battleship movie? Really?
Never heard of humans.txt before but it sure looks interesting.
I guess... and of course I defer to Ebert on all things cinematic... but these are all critiques you could have leveled with equal force in 2002. There've been good years in the preceding decade.

Except for 3D. But how much of an effect is 3D having? Most movies aren't 3D.

I'll say this: I went to see Super 8 at an old 60's-70's style theater in the far-out suburbs, one almost identical to the ones I saw movies in when I was a kid. No stadium seating. Simple seats. No cupholders. Massive screen. Minimal concessions. Maybe it was just the movie I was seeing --- like how watching South Park on your computer enhances the experience --- but it was awesome.

Ultimately, my bet is that the problem with theaters is simple: for the core market (the family of four that wants blockbuster mainstream product), the substitutes are just too good now. Mainstream consumers have, relative to 1995, spectacular home theater setups, and diverse options for feeding content to them. Is it any wonder theaters suffer?
Making a simple change of $size = pow(2, 16); to $size = 65535 removes the issue entirely.

Inserting 65535 evil elements took 0.030333042144775 seconds
Inserting 65535 good elements took 0.020994901657104 seconds
I just hope that the poor of the world don't end up with a $180 phone bill like I have to deal with in order to have mobile web access. Sadly, in some countries that would be almost 6 months' income.
I found this not just to be useful for people researching potential competitors or partners from a startup perspective, but it's also useful for someone who's researching a potential employer. It provided a fairly accurate snapshot of my current employer for example.

It might be nice if Honeybadger could also provide links to sources for further reading. Basically a "Google it for me" feature that would save a few more clicks and keystrokes.

If it gets good enough, maybe it could work as a freemium service, should you decide to go that far. But I'm impressed with what you've put together so far.
Ok, I know it's cool to make snarky comments about Microsoft, but what Microsoft has managed to achieve with Windows during the 90s was a truly historic leap. They created incredibly accessible OS that could be used by the masses even without any previous computer experience. And to give credit to Microsoft marketing, they sold this product so well that they had over 90% of market share. It's debatable whether that's a good thing or not. But if it weren't for Windows 3.1, 95, and 98, I am pretty sure millions of people wouldn't have purchased their first computer for years to come during the 90s.
> What is the point of having a smartphone (pocket computer?), if you can't make it work like you want?

Ask yourself the same thing about a car. Or a toaster.

The point for most people is to have it work as designed and not have to think about it.
maybe he tried to say "torrenting"?
Good to know. I thought the major problem was that the console hypervisors don't allow arbitrary code execution, which made JIT difficult if not impossible on those platforms.

In any case is there any serious benefit to using JIT over static compilation on fixed targets like the 360 and PS3?
How To Come Up With A Startup Idea (And Change Your Outlook On The World)
One quibble, in 2002 people weren't texting like mad on their bright white 4+ inch smartphone displays.
Is it just me, or does that table look like

req.sig = (intended significance)/(#hypoth)

? Which is kind of a simpler formula.

Edit: Following your link, the table you listed is indeed of the Bonferroni correction, and the formula is as I stated. The formula you stated is actually of the Sidak correction, which "is often confused with the Bonferroni correction", according to your link.
> 5. Competition from other forms of delivery.

This is by far the biggest reason.

All of my peers own Netflix streaming accounts and watch most of their movies this way.
It looks like Traffic section will not be available as I'm over the quota limit from compete.com. Major bummer. Anyone know of any other free alternatives out there to get traffic stats about sites?