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Any idea what geolocation method they're using here? It got my city spot-on when usual IP geolocators put me elsewhere.
Truth is, most of the things I know about the world in general and programming in particular is due to procrastination and rabbit-holing. Big chunks of my understanding of physics come from randomly reading stuff on Wikipedia while procrastinating in high school. I discovered HN and learned Lisp when shying away from doing an university project in PHP, which in result got me a job in Erlang and also led to being widely recognized at the university as 'the Lisp guy'. Here I discovered pg's essays and LessWrong, both of which helped me grow, and many other things. I owe much of who I am now to rabbit-holing. And also being a person who always has three solution candidates to any problem in 30 seconds ("you know, there was this startup/library/tool featured on HN last month...") is a result of that random learning.

I do sometimes feel that it's not the optimal way of learning things. I try to find the balance between random-walking and systematized learning, but one thing I'm sure of, it's that the optimum is not on the side of formal education, at least not for me.

After trying, again and again, to force and fit myself into 'the System' of traditional, formalized learning I discovered that it is almost impossible for me, and it always have been. Learning what I'm told to learn for sake of tests and exams just repells me, causing almost physical pain. So I'm not trying to force myself anymore, I decided to do what I have to do with minimum effort, and spend the rest of the time learning what I want, the way I want, and allowing myself time for rabbit-holing and procrastinating.
True. That's why I've started using a variant of Autofocus[1] (a task system, much simpler than GTD) and am intending to try Pomodoro.

Ultimately when you see the various things you need to do on a list, your intuitive mind automatically prioritises certain things over others. That's how you can reduce yak shaving and bikeshedding; by attacking tasks with shorter 'dependency chains' and higher urgency.

[1] http://lifehacker.com/5151111/autofocus-is-a-single-paper+ba...
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Congrats! Is there a premium version you can charge for?
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Or adding a new statement to Tcl:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/917
How well do you know the Sutras?

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
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There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
People need to decide if they're staying on top of things or trying to get to the bottom of something.

Yes, I stole that from Donald Knuth.

http://lifehacker.com/398112/neo+amish-drop-outs-eschew-emai...

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Let's take that.

What a prison startup would look like?
They're about 20 days early with this announcement.

This is like seeing a re-run of the broadcast.com sale.
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Thanks! No premium version is planned. We have another little idea to monetize, but need a bit more traction first... ;)
Also, don't miss the Cisco report this was based on (linked in the article): http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/...
Given that law enforcement officers are permitted to initiate physical force in mandating attendance, perhaps they could also involuntarily medicate students with mood altering stimulants to accomplish this? It might make them better off later. However since we have extinguished all opportunities available to the individual unseen from our limited perspective, by forcing choice of the benefit that was seen, it is not epistemologically possible for us to know. We must instead confine ourselves to a discussion of the means and processes by which these ends are realized. This includes discussion of whether individuals have the right to initiate force against others to achieve ends, and whether they are able to delegate rights they do not have to agencies of enforcement via nonmagical means.
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If your university sucks, switch to another. Or pursue starting up a new one.

I realize that you aren't saying that your university sucks, the point is that you can change it, it is subject to competition and cannot use possibly lethal force to compel you. My argument would be that with time, since the university is subjected to competition, it will get better or perish (or the whole industry gets "disrupted"). If you have an environment where things are subjected to competition, those government-like institutions will get better. Albeit slowly. Thus the opposition of the large government, since the large government will very effectively hinder hopes of such environment, at least in a libertarian opinion.

It's not that the government-like institutions aren't a problem, but the large government is the bigger problem.

A side note: It is my understanding that one of the aims of the seastanding stuff is to provide more competition between governments.

Another side note because maybe some don't know it: there are major differences in opinion inside groups of people who identify as libertarian in what is an acceptable scope of government, or if it should indeed exist at all (the extreme). Thus the "libertarian opinion" I used is a misnomer.
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If life in prison for a first-time nonviolent drug offense was not considered cruel and unusual, what luck would you have?
Just to create an analogy for people not familiar with Chinese web, imagine if there were 2 Youtube's in the US who were both far ahead of the competition but neck-and-neck with each other... and then one-day one acquired the other.

The deal is that big. Youku/Tudou is now THE video site of China's 1.6billion+ population.
I consider this to be based on their idea, that scientific inventions will change humanity on large scale, like space travel, etc, and small things will not have time yet to catch up. While in reality small things change fast, and we are still missing large scale changes.

There is for example the Cyberpunk genre (starting from eighties) which predicts things much better. There are much less large scale inventions in that, and a lot of smaller, human life style changing things that were got right. Cyberpunk also started after the world took direction towards the current form of capitalism, and the utopian ideas originating from before sound strange today.
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I would have liked to see how easy it is to add a new statement to pypy for comparison's sake.
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Boost MPL provides similar things with its type_list (more on the practical side though). But as far as I know, it's not yet C++11, so the overall syntax is a bit more clumsy.
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This has been my main complaint with the Autonomous Vehicles class ran by Udacity I've done thus far. I don't think 30 minutes of video lecture per week can cover close to what an actual college class can. I ended up having to read ~2 hours on Kalman filters after completing the homework to get to a point where I actually felt like I understood the topic as well as I would in an actual class.
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Does anyone have any insight into this problem at all?
Doing exactly that has led to the US being in exactly the position it's in. Clearly it's not working.

Anyway, what's missing from your self-righteous spiel is that not everyone has access to a mentor who can show them the way out of poverty - and the first part of the battle is even knowing it's possible. Overall, it's a far more complex issue than you paint it to be.

Do you think that there would be more prisoners in Africa if all of the rapists and murderers were somehow instantly apprehended tried and convicted? This article making the USA look like it has the most criminals is a bit misleading.

Africa is a big place, much, much bigger than the US and with far more people and varied cultures. But it doesn't really matter, because you're bottom-feeding. The US should be compared to its contemporaries, rather than the worst possible example that can be found.
Ironically, I've been pretty happy that Firefox on Android has been raising a video-viewing Intent, since I like the option to use one of my locally-installed video players. I hope they'll keep an option to do that even after they've integrated support for system codecs.
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So we procrastinate because we're intelligent? This should massage every hackers ego on Hacker News :) "Ah, I see, it is because I'm smart that I can't get things done. It's not that bad after all". To me it seems that most people procrastinate, whether they're are intelligent or not.
Congrats! Some feedback concerning the UI:
* The speech bubble contrast should be higher.
* The "tick" and "close" rounded buttons are aliased?! The icons are too sharp.
* The button to start a chat and the title "illico" do not seem to be aligned.
* Somehow, the title "illico" alone is not strictly centered :/

PS: how to write a decent-looking list on Hacker News comments? :/
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The title is a clickbait, sure to grab the attention of fanboys.

Really? I was actually interested in reading about what/why you were moving back/staying with windows. Since you started the first line with that kind of nonsense, I clicked back and posted this to warn others.
And the reason the smart person decided Goto was bad has little relevance on programming today - he showed that Goto made it harder to prove, mathematically, that a program was correct.

When was the last time someone proved a program correct?
Man, do I hate that ridiculously complicated certificate system. I wonder how many first-timers don't recognize this as a bug and in frustration think "This is ridiculous, let me try again tomorrow".
Thank you, this will go into our next iteration :)
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If I may be a bit provocative: why spend all that energy and time if you're not sure you can make money with it?
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Every corporation is a separate legal entity, but since nobody has defined whether "Sony" means "Sony Corporation" or "Sony Group" (which is headed by Sony Corporation) then that's kind of a moot point.
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Wrong in what?
Hello David this is a good question - we are absolutely positive we can make money with illico, but as I wrote above we need more traction (like x10 more).
They made their position. Obviously, no one except them (and possibly Opera) cares enough about the problems they pointed out with h.264. There's no point is fighting a lost battle and lose most of their user-base over it.
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If you use Unix time, you don't have to care:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

"Unix time, (...) is (...) defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of Thursday, January 1, 1970 (...) not counting leap seconds"
Europe had a governance model where infrastructure investments didn't end up on Swiss bank accounts.

The point here is to figure out a way to fix logistics in a way that individual entrepreneurs can do it.
Or Forth.

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi...

my mind was immediately blown away by the following passage right at the top of system.fth, the part of pForth implemented in Forth on top of the C interpreter:

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( That was the definition for the comment word. )
( Now we can add comments to what we are doing! )
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x10 sounds absolutely doable when looking at what you already have! Keep it up!
You don't remember what the original argumentation was. Firefox is free, Mozilla can't afford the patent licensing, that's all. If you own a h.264 license and want to use it with your software, feel free. By buying a phone or windows 7 you get the license to use a h.264 codec. Microsoft already brought support to Firefox ( http://www.osnews.com/story/24137/Microsoft_Brings_H264_to_F... ), now it's happening on Android. It's one thing to promote open standards - that's great and Firefox is doing that with WebM - but it's another thing to completely disregard existing capabilities and put the user back in the stone age of the internet.
Play! is one the best things that has happened to java in the last 10 years!

From the post I understood that she was pissed because they did not accept her fix on testing the app from the IDE.

The second point was that there is a bug in the framework that they could not find... it seems though as the bug is in their application. (concurrent modification of a Map is a problem in java not Play!)

It's a pity to give up such a great framework for silly reasons.

Every time I have to switch to another framework (especially jsf) I want to shoot myself.

Anyway... good luck finding another good java framework.
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It's a cool building, but I was a little less thrilled when I read about their tech. It's true that an isothermal process is a reversible process, and isothermal air compression is therefore a great way to get high efficiencies, but compressed air just doesn't seem like it will scale well. The work formula for isothermal compression of an ideal gas is:

W = - ∫ P dV = - n R T ∫ dV / V = P₀ V₀ ln(P₁ / P₀).

A shipping container holds 38.5 m³ according to the Wiki. At atmospheric pressure this would mean P₀ V₀ ~= 1 kWh. Cheap hardware might get you to 10 atm pressure or so -- but let's go crazy and suggest that you could get 100 atm, since it's only logarithmic in P₁ anyway. You would still store less than 5 kWh per shipping container, no? That could run a window-unit air conditioner for about a day, only. If you pay 15 cents per kilowatt hour, you could fill up the shipping container with under $1 of electricity, only. My cell phone battery stores an amp-hour at around 3.5 V, so if the above calculation is right, to store the same amount of energy in 100-atm compressed air you'd need 27 liters of air -- two backpacks or so. I'm saying this to guesstimate that it's about a factor of 1,000 less energy density than modern battery technology -- and that that's a fundamental limitation to the medium.

Given all that, I'm really interested to see how they'll scale compressed air up to handle the sheer amount of energy that they want to store.

(On the other hand, the factor of 1000 might not matter too much: it means that if they can build a shipping container air storage unit cheaper than electronics companies can build a battery the size of three backpacks, they could indeed be cheaper to store energy en masse.)
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I've sent an email to a friend who may have more insight and provided them with a link to your post.
It could well be due to aging, and growing more conservative about these things, but my current thinking is that leaving the most important part of a business - the part about making money - until fairly late in the game is not a good idea. There are certainly counter examples to this (Google, Facebook), but those companies are also outliers. Good luck, in any event, though!
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"Neo Technologies cites several customers, though none of them are household names."

Really? Adobe? Cisco? Deutsche Telecom? I'd say these are.
"middle school-dropout"

Not the words that I'd use to describe someone who starts studying for a degree at the age of 12.
I pretty much stopped reading Mashable when I discovered HN. I probably haven't been on Mashable at all in the last 6 months, as the last I did there was absolutely nothing of value that I hadn't already seen elsewhere.
It seems the word "only" was omitted from your comment.
> If you're emf sensitive, you don't need any scientific study to tell you electrosmog is real.

If you're insane, you don't need any scientific studies to tell you that your feet are made of cheese. You can just tell.
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Wrong about thinking they could do the right thing and get away with it?
Something's really wrong with this article - lack of an economic angle.
Prisons in the US are an enormous private business, with free labor. (i.e. http://www.unicor.gov/about/faqs/top_ten/index.cfm)

Another problem is the silly/cruel "three strikes" laws, which might put someone in jail for life for stealing a loaf of bread out of hunger.
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You don't remember what the original argumentation was. Firefox is free, Mozilla can't afford the patent licensing, that's all.

This is still entirely true (note that "afford" in the above should be read in the "free license" context, not monetary). For the same reason, Chromium has no H264 support. Patented codecs don't mix well with free software. They took a stance here based on their philosophy, that much should have been obvious.

The reasons not to do it with system codecs before are enumerated here:
http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codec...

Most of them still apply, but are simply less important 2 years later. The Windows XP thing was even brought up in the original discussion thread.

put the user back in the stone age of the internet

I would say that's essentially what the current patent legislation is doing. Worth fighting against.
I've moved away from sourcing news through multiple news apps like mashable to consuming all my tech news via a news aggregation app called pulse.
The monetization plan is already there (in details), it's just that we don't want to spend time coding it if we don't have the required traction. Hope this makes more sense?
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I'm shocked that Mashable is perceived to be 8x the value TechCrunch was, when it was acquired by AOL. Either TechCrunch was low-balled, or Mashable's value is over-inflated. I suspect the latter...
How about this? https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_...
I think it's just your battle-scarred self talking from painful experience!

@stangeek - can you not at least test part of your business model at the current level of traffic? Really worth getting those uncertainties out of the way... if only so you can start pivoting towards something workable right away instead of waiting a few more months.
Or BASIC ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Wedge

On a more serious note, the ability to add constructs to the language is not nearly as unique to LISP as Lispers think it is.
Asked to sign in on iphone4s. Quite annoying and uncalled for.
Last year, over a period of a few days, the certificates generated on developer.apple.com suddenly had an expiration date set to the year 2079. Usually the certs only last for 6-12 months. Too bad the certs are also locked to a set of device IDs... or we could have had unlimited code signing ability forever ;) [or until a revoke push]
You're being too hard, and OP seems to be able to chain callbacks properly. He is the author of streamline.js[1], so he must know a thing or two about this.

I actually believe this article is a well-written wrap-up about threads and fibers, as the author explains those in a comprehensible way without diving too much into the internals.

[1]:https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs
This will surely help MPEG LA make their encumbered codec a standard for publishing video on the web. I would rather use a browser that does not support non-free codecs.
No. There is no plan to support H264.

Seriously - there is not decision been taken here. This is just a discussion about gecko on Android, and the implication for Desktop.

Saying "Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs" is just speculation.

Edit: to be clear: I am saying that there's no plan to support H264 on Firefox Desktop.