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>While it is true that dictatorship, blind eyes and cruelty are the embodiment of these issues, religion is the sword that is wielded. Each year the west makes more progress in what I would consider the eventual realization that religion has no place in our society. We make the mistake of relenting that religion is used for moral guidance – when nations with higher atheism are the ones with the least problems. Tolerance of intolerance is not the moral high ground.

Communist Russia, anyone?

I think that to stamp out people's exploitation of each other, we must unite, not divide. Religion is as much about culture as it is about power. Suddenly telling people that their culture is no longer accepted and that they should convert or get the fk out is exactly what Christianity did in a lot of places. It's almost funny how being against something usually makes people repeat that very thing themselves.
From a language level, Clay offers a lot of features over plain old C: strong typing, type parameters, polymorphism, etc. All of the additional features map onto the machine in a very specific way, giving you the same kind of control that structs, arrays, etc. do in C. It doesn't force garbage collection on you. You can even call external C functions by simply declaring them, similar to how you would do it in C itself.

Clay seems to have a lot of potential in the systems programming space. The language is still in a bit of flux, but it's the first C alternative that still has me excited after using it (which can't be said for C++, D, Go, or Rust).

The folks in #clay on freenode are very friendly and helpful. You can tell that they've been keeping up with advances in PLT but that they also understand the kinds of low-level things systems programmers need to do.
Apple has been successful so far with a very careful strategy: they focus on just a few markets at a time, only enter new markets if they have a big competitive advantage in those markets and only release new products if those products are a big improvement on the prior status quo.

If they were to spread management attention more thinly by starting separate divisions to do the sorts of entirely unrelated things you describe, Apple could easily turn into IBM or Microsoft. At its heart, Apple is a small company. The main way Apple helps all those other industries is by training engineers to think in the Apple way who then go off and found start-ups of their own. And by making lots of millionaires to fund those start-ups.

(Apple's also investing in some of those industries as a customer. For instance, they invest in "green energy" by buying solar panels for its new HQ building.)
look, Python's audience isn't Haskell's audience, and all these scary words like "curring", "incremental binding", "just like haskell", "left association" aren't things that most Python people care about. the article makes this stuff look like voodoo which is frustrating because functional programming doesn't have to be voodoo.

currying is really really easy and everyday python programmers probably do it on accident.

def divisible(n, x): return n % x == 0

def divisors(n):
possible_divisors = range(2, int(sqrt(n))+1)
return filter(lambda x: divisible(n, x), possible_divisors) # OMG curry !

assert divisors(24) == [2, 3, 4]
From user reviews:

"This app is awesome! It makes my phone free of ads. I get spoiled with it. I now ever have to buy an app that only offers no more ads because of this app."

"Pretty much turns free apps into their premium ad free counterparts! ..."

Please keep in mind that ...

(1) Developers in many countries are not yet able to sell Android apps on Google Play store. Ad revenue may be their only source of revenue.

(2) Android users already have a reputation (well-deserved or not) for preferring free apps, or for pirating paid ones (more so than on other platforms). This is another reason some apps on Android are ad-supported, even when the developer could choose sell them. (A well-known example is Angry Birds). If blocking ads becomes a common practice, this will make the Android platform less attractive for developers who seek to make a living from their apps.
Huh. This is not my field, so I am hesitant to comment in detail. However, a few things quickly strike me as troubling about the original paper:

* The work is based on "a new applied point of view on infinite and infinitesimal numbers", the cited source of which is six papers by the same author as the current one. Apparently, nobody else has chosen to work on it.

* The postulates behind this method include the statement that "We shall not tell what are the mathematical objects we deal with", and because of this, "such concepts as bijection, numerable and continuum sets, cardinal and ordinal numbers cannot be used in this paper". In other words, the author is knowingly setting aside most of what I consider to be the essential features of mathematics.

* I have serious doubts that results or concepts that boil down to "infinity minus three" or "infinity times 8/9" would prove to be robust if you considered different infinite sequences with the same limit. I haven't looked up the author's other papers on the subject, but I don't see any evidence that he has addressed this issue.

* This paper (and several of the earlier ones) was apparently published in the journal "Chaos, Solitons, & Fractals" in a 2009 volume. You may recognize that title from recent discussions of Elsevier: a scandal unfolded in 2008-9 where the journal's editor, El Naschie, was found to have published hundreds of his own papers (whose merit has been questioned) and accused of poor editorial standards.[1] It may or may not be meaningful that the current paper's first four references are all to El Naschie's work.

In short, my impression is that this paper is based on decidedly non-mainstream mathematics, and I see no reason to be excited about its claims or conclusions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Chaos.2C_Solitons_.26_... http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2008/11/chaos-solitons-and-... http://elnaschiewatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/that-hard-to-find... (The archived posts by Baez here are the point; I know nothing about this site itself.)
Not to mention the inherit problem of trying to corner a market. It would be hard to buy the shares back without prices being driven up....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
The reason why I chose the word "semi" was because of a few things:

1) It's not an official form of slavery on paper as in they got bought in exchange of money, but more as a "helper of the house" originally.

2) The said maid does have option: cut ties or report to the police, but they were normally under pressure not to do so (psychologically)

But I won't argue/debate that it is definitely slavery.
It's a different way to do more or less the same thing.

The differences:

* The editor is Vim not Emacs.

* Vim is not able (without unconvincing plugins/hacks) to run a shell in a window so if you need one you are pretty much forced to run it somewhere else. Be it another terminal emulator instance, another terminal emulator window, another terminal emulator split window (like you do), in the same terminal emulator window (juggling with Ctrl+z/fg), another window in tmux/screen, another pane in tmux/screen, etc.

* Yaquake is a GUI app that you can't realistically run on a remote server while tmux is CLI-based. When SSHing, tmux is possibly the closest thing there is to Yaquake.

* Tmux and screen both allow you to attach/detach sessions which makes these tools very useful on remote machines where they are commonly used to launch servers or long running tasks.

* Probably many more…

Note that these are DIFFERENCES. They CAN be benefits, depending on your workflow and needs.

Totally OT. I know about Yaquake since years. I know about Quake since much longer. I know that Yaquake "top-sliding" UX is based on Quake's console since all those years. Yet I've just realized, now, that the "quake" in Yaquake is actually "Quake" and that, for all those years I've pronounced it in a kind of japanese-style "Yakuake". Oh well…
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"...almost on a daily basis I have to deal with some situation that just wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t a woman."

I don't think the issues she lists will be solved by having fewer women in the field. I also don't think these issues are unique to working environments where men (greatly) outnumber women.
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If your intial costs are very high, and that is causing the issue, just wrap people into a contract - maybe 6 months up front (with a 30 day trial) and then you can go month-to-month after that.

It's becoming bad form to charge 'registration fees,' because everyone thinks that with IT you can do all of the paperwork for free. Especially in business-to-business when you're dealing with tightwads quite often.

Figure out what your minimum contract duration to break even (t) would need to be at your current prices. Multiply t * 1.25 and round to the nearest 4 or 6 month interval. That's your new initial minimum contract length.
[I]ncome inequality has been rising at more or less the same rate everywhere in the industrialized world...

The link you cite excludes income from capital gains, which for the wealthiest Americans comprises most of their income and which is taxed at a much lower rate, as Mitt Romney's recent tax disclosure exemplifies.
Hardware-wise, OCR is not as simple to process as QR.
Damn! However it was my wife's birthday, so I probably would not have made it.
No, the companies that designed H.264 aren't really trolls. They actually do R&D and sell real products; patent royalties are relatively minor sources of revenue.
Seems legit to me. I've been writing C++ for years and never had to write a constructor...
I wrote a ruby gem to do this: https://github.com/mmb/plumnailer

The current ranking is simple but I made it pluggable with the idea that it could be improved or there could be multiple implementations.
Would a 1.5% wealth tax / year be worse for you if it replaced both short and long term capital gains? I don't mean to penalize you, but rather combat the type of entrenched mult generational wealth that's really damaging while also removing the need for special 401k/Roth IRA style retirement accounts. It would also increase liquidity by allowing people to buy and sell without concern for the tax implications.
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I can't wait for a DIY version of this. Turning old cd/dvd's into super capacitors.
In C, don't people just allocate a slab of memory for critical paths too?
It's not just that he doesn't say! He explicitly rejects the notion that he ought to say. As far as I'm concerned, that means he's declared to all the world that he is not actually doing mathematics.
We have been using Tender for it, but are most likely going to change because it does not have the functionality that we need.
That's true regarding children, but the difference isn't very large. On the other hand, people who are older tend to make more money and have more children, and people who are more educated tend to make more money and are more likely to marry.
Taking the article at face value, it sounds like they're talking capacitors with an energy density comparable to lithium-ion, and that's on the first try. (Although just looking at the chart it looks more like at least an order of magnitude lower.)

But we're used to being disappointed by articles about graphene... Anyone got a reason this isn't as good as it sounds?
Most big open source projects take advantage of crowdsourcing. Firefox and Chrome are two of the bigger examples.
I personally don't mind some subset of our population being extremely rich. They've made sacrifices that I don't care to make or have had luck or skill that I do not have. The ability to become remarkably wealthy is a great liberty, just as the ability to refuse it or share it. I think that any individual should be allowed to accumulate that sort of wealth if they are able to, perhaps to do great things with it that we can not or would not do ourselves.
On the other hand, employee options are actually hurt by dividends since the option holder takes the price hit on their outstanding options, but does not receive the dividend value.
Or even just any Lisp. http://briancarper.net/blog/497/im-turning-into-a-lisp-snob
This question regularly pops up here on HN.

Seems nobody is bold enough to tackle this problem :)
Is the Author is 13 years old. When did he really start programming.? just wondering After 16 years of programming experience still not able to decide which language is best.
At last Settled for C and Common Lisp. But still have Doubts.
As per Personal Experience Both Language is more than enough for me.
Talking about the BBC: sometimes they say stroke instead of slash, which as an American, really confused me the first time I heard it.
It is certainly not possible to do syscalls in "Java". A system call is a special CPU instruction (e.g. INT, SYSENTER) not accessible to or defined in the Java VM specification.

What you do to effect a syscall is to call a JNI function to do the work. JNI is a C (!) API, defined in terms of the C (!) ABI for the platform.

And sure: you can generate native machine code in Java, just as you can in python or bash or even BASIC. But you can't call it.
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First, seriously, go see a therapist before you make any decisions. The fact that this is happening during your freshman year is disgustingly normal - everybody goes through a period of adjustment at this point in their lives, but it's much harder for some (particularly kids who have parents with big expectations).

Second, you'll survive and probably do just fine if you drop out and self-study. Having said that, an ivy league education opens doors. I dropped out my senior year. I'm doing fine financially, but I'm certain that I could have done much more interesting things if I'd stuck it out.

Remember, your education is for you.
"The lack of government funding for a space exploration program makes me as sad and angry as anyone."

Other points are good, but I'd just comment that as with all government spending, where is the justification for the spending. You can be a space loving person, who wants to see more people reach for the stars, but still think that the entire space program should be eliminated. I cannot in good faith justify (legally or morally) any government spending on space exploration, yet I am rooting for Space X and others 100%!
That actually works against the argument of US parity, since our tax system is less progressive than most industrialized nations. If you adjust for taxes, US income inequality would look worse, not better, compared to the rest of the industrialized world.
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Because that was just one segment of the show. The other part of that episode was on "face blindness."
Underdiscussed point: one reason we want such high capacity power storage is that recharging takes hours. Society has internalized long charging times as normal. Would we fuss quite so much about run time if a recharge took seconds instead? (Am thinking cell phones/tablets here, not the dangerously high power issues of recharging a car in one minute flat.)
Slightly O/T, but does anyone else find the reviews for this app a tad, well, suspicious? Virtually all 5* and the wording of the reviews is all very similar.
Amsterdam: no car. Ede (more, well, rural): definetely.
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Get Inspired
Around 2 months ago I wrote this post on HN -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3373042

It told the story of a young man named Harry Moseley who died of brain cancer at the age of 11. In the post Harry's story was told and the sheer power of the internet was shown - how a young boy I'd never met had inspired me. How the internet bought me to his attention, how I used the internet to raise awareness of him and how I used the internet to raise money for his charity.

I shared this story with the HN community and the response I received was overwhelming - many of you donated to his charity, many of you reached out to me via Twitter and Facebook.

I have put this video together (again using a great web app called animoto) to say a big thank you to everyone who has helped us. This includes you. Every single one of you.

It is so inspiring when a community such as HN get together and do good. Watch the video if you can - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Iy82YV21k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

From myself - a big thank you.
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Has anyone looked at the impact of paywalls on revenues? Has it led to an increase in online revenues for those who attempted it?

The problem with the metric used in the article is that it doesn't say much. Was it less online revenues that cause the ratio to drop? Was it an acceleration of people unsubscribing from the paper version? Are print ads now worth less than they used too by impressions?
Whilst on a small scale they are very random, there are some good studies (sadly I don't have the references with me) that show that over large areas, they actually become quite predictable - so this is less of an issue than people think if you have enough coverage
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> Getting good returns from a 100 billion dollar investment is hard.

You don't play with 100B in the same way that you play with 100K.

There are few times when a really compelling buyout opportunity emerges. And it is at those times that you want the warchest. Until then, you need to keep the dry powder.

As an example, Buffett wouldn't be able to negotiate the really sweet deal with BofA last year (5B, paper profit ~ 2.8B at the onset) without the cash balance.
To your first question: we actually don't own datacenters. We partner with reputable hosters within each country that we go into so that there is already a well known and established company with great infrastructure in place. So, for example, if you US Jelastic in the US, your actual data would be on the Jelastic platform with Servint (our US partner). All of our partners have incredible uptime (Servint has something like 7 9's after their 99.9% uptime) and service.

As far as engineers and such, we are on both sides of the globe, US and Eastern EU, so that we can cover all times zones well.

Not sure about adding a support phone number. I've always had bad experiences when providing that as another option for support, especially in today's hyper connect world. We find that most our users (>12k) prefer the forums, support tickets and Twitter and Facebook.

I do like your idea for a messaging system. I've actually been considering Olarq. I'll most definitely make sure that we talk about this. :)

Thanks for the suggestions!
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Where is the $9 going instead? Is it just not being spent by the advertisers at all, or is it being spent on different kinds of ads?
Thanks for the idea. I'll see if we can't do that today or tomorrow.
This argument seems silly to me. Currying is the name of the technique. Why is that scary? Should he call it something different just to avoid "scaring" feeble programmers who are afraid of new words?
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I'm not sure how it works with board games however I do know that for computer/console games mechanics are not patentable. Tetris is an exception because if you use the same shape blocks then they get you for the artwork. I highly doubt that you can patent drawing in a game form.
slick implementation of vector browser data and client-side analysis in Javascript!
Yes, but my point was from the date they announced to the date they did it, the stock had run up enough to counter that.
Yup, and remember, Google, Apple and Facebook are all afraid that all of the smart talent is starting to build companies instead of coming to work for them, so their recruiting is increasing to deal with that.

To continue the analogy, big companies are women(or men if you prefer) in their early 30s worried they are gonna be alone forever. And you, your partners and they are all stuck in a bar that you can never leave.
I use it when I write Hebrew mixed with English...
I have a dream. A dream of automated freight running under or besides the consumer roads of the future. A dream of roads not being dug up every other week to repair XYZ Utilities dodgy handy work.
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You can already buy flashlights with supercapacitors that have low run times but recharge in seconds, and there is a bus in China that recharges its supercapacitors at every stop. In addition they last for many times more discharge cycles.
A key point here is the tradeoff between energy density (how much energy the battery or capacitor can hold) and power density (how quickly the energy can be released).

I'm not an expert, but just working from the graph in the article, the best energy density they show for the new graphene capacitors is roughly 1/8th the best energy density for lithium-ion batteries. What's interesting is that capacitor has roughly 500x the power density of that battery. Or if you look at a battery tuned for power density (lower-right end of the red arc in the graph), there's a capacitor that can offer 200x or more power density with the same energy density.

More simply: for low-discharge-rate applications, lithium-ion still wins, though the new capacitors may narrow the gap a bit. For high-discharge-rate applications, these capacitors win by a mile. (Ignoring considerations not covered in the chart -- cost, durability, temperature sensitivity, safety, etc.)
Thank you. This is the first time I have seen dividend explained in a matter that makes sense.
Given this, why do we have substandard broadband?
So? To "make company private" you have to buy the outstanding shares. 550B+
I don't disagree with your sentiment at all, but I think in this case it's not a big leap from where he was. Elon Musk has a Physics degree. All the principles are there - math, science, etc. 'Rocket science' is just domain specific knowledge in that arena. For a manager of rocket scientists, that's all he needs. Although he got his money programming code at Paypal, he was a heck of a lot closer to an aerospace engineering background than your average web startup founder today.
A similar implementation to stripe available in Europe would have a lot of fans.
Clickable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Iy82YV21k&feature=youtu...
Wow, I had no idea that the OP was in high school. Kudos to him! His blog entry is close enough to other software dev blogs in quality that I think we can leave his age, identity and personality aside, and talk about what it takes to win people over to a new language.
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Presentation I'm giving this week on vagrant. Feedback welcome. =)
You can get started with 2Checkout or PayPal, get some traction and include multiple gateway support when you are ready to get a merchant account. You could also use a good subscription billing abstraction service to use like ours who do not charge minimums. ;)

Your customer card info stays with PayPal or 2CO and if you are building a business focused product that requires beta with fewer customers initially, you could request them to migrate over in the interim if that is possible.

The place I come from most startups are at a disadvantage with gateways demanding huge upfront fees or yearly minimums and this is one approach that generally works. See Deskaway or VisualWebsiteOptimizer that have built their entire business around 2CO or a combination of 2CO & a local gateway.
Presentation I'm doing on Vagrant this week, feedback welcome.