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Hey I work as an engineer for a web startup in palo alto pretty close to stanford. I have worked across the entire stack. Honestly, I don't think any particular choice for a framework/language is going to matter much. You should choose whatever you feel the most comfortable with or have the most experience with. Also, why do you feel compelled to rewrite it? The time you spend rewriting it might be better spent on customer development, marketing, etc. You can contact me at andmahn1@g​mail.com if you want to meet up in palo alto.
It probably just means prostate cancer represents a tiny portion of mortality, so even a significant difference appears tiny and within the bounds of error. Remember, the finding is not "no difference" but "failed to find a difference". Statistics does not ever prove "no difference".
I think you need to take a closer look at poverty in your country, dude. Maybe you're abstracted away from it, but it's not a fairy tale.
I talk on Skype with my customers a lot (it has a phone number). Few months ago I installed MP3 Skype recorder plugin, so now all my conversations automatically recorded.

It definitely helps to listen to these conversations and fix umms/ehs, incorrect pronunciation (Russian accent) etc.
I doubt it. If you relied on all-cause mortality for every study, you'd never get out of phase I trials.
Many programmers educated in the OOP days don't know the term "structured programming". I once interviewed someone who called a Pascal-like language "functional". We hired him anyway.
Please. The difference in terseness and clarity is made up almost entirely of the lenths of the symbol names:

template<class I, class C> void sort(I a, I b, C cmp);

Now, the concepts aren't 1:1; Haskell for obvious reasons doesn't represent the idea of operating on storage directly, so you can't have an iterator and need to return a "new" list. C++ makes you write out the types you are parametrizing instead of getting it implicitly. And there are no doubt some really good arguments why Haskell is terser and clearer than C++.

But this isn't one of them. Come on.
>> Our population is not growing as quickly in the developed world as it is elsewhere, but it is still assuredly growing. It always will grow, as long as we are human and there is enough food to allow it.

This is inaccurate. The population across significant swaths of the developed world are no longer increasing. Take Germany, Japan or Italy - all of whose populations are in fact decreasing - even after taking into account immigration statistics. If population migrations were static, this would also hold true across most of Western Europe.

>> I am advocating that some people must starve to death because it is more humane

I'm sure you regard yourself as a bold forward thinker. You're sadly mistaken.
Are you processing data using 4000 threads? Do you have access to a cluster? Otherwise it seems counter-productive. BTW, Python has great facilities (IPython.parallel) for doing parallel and distributed computing. It is also pretty good at number crunching using Numpy.
You call it handwavey, I call it first hand experience. I'm not here to analyze why society seems to operate in this way, I'm here to state the unfortunately obvious state of the field. Blame it on television, stereotypes, biology, the stigma of the tech fields... I don't care. The fact of the matter is that CS/CE doesn't seem to be something that a significantly large portion of women actually enjoy.
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This entire argument is just stupidity. Nobody disputes that there have ALREADY been tens of thousands of these electronic devices left on in the past year with no noticeable interference. No expert (and your friend that heard someone say they saw some interference once doesn't count) seriously believes there is any way these could cause significant interference.

But the government has to mandate the most expensive testing program known to man because nobody in a position of decision making is allowed to consider any reasons why an iPad might be different than a raygun or a Van de Graaff generator or a live tiger.
The average gamer is ~36 years old [citation needed].
This kind of rationalization from Gruber and most other people here would seem rather silly to anyone who knows a thing or two about how the cell phone industry actually works.

If a major carrier wanted stock ICS on all their phones, that's exactly what they would get, and manufacturers like Samsung and LG would trip over themselves to be the first to make it happen.

Virtually all of the software you see on your phone is there because your carrier wanted it there. Any software that's missing is missing because your carrier wanted it removed. It has nothing to do with Samsung; it's not their decision. Their only goal is to make the carrier happy.

All that prime shelf space that Samsung currently enjoys depends entirely on meeting the carriers' precise specifications, and that includes all future software updates. Manufacturers compete with each other for that precious shelf space, and will do whatever the carrier wants to get it.
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Ask HN: recommend a used server model with interesting features
I've recently been looking at used servers from up to 15 years ago that I would never have been able to afford at the time they came out and seen how affordable they are. Is there any hardware that doesn't have decent emulators that would be worth owning in 2012? And by "worth owning" I mean valuable in the sense that it provides some functionality that you just can't get with the latest and greatest consumer hardware, or would otherwise still be very expensive. Also I should mention that I don't want to spend a fortune on electricity or contain screaming fan noise, although if it generates a lot of heat, I suppose I could use it as a heater in the winter.

Any one have any ideas?

So far, I've explored LISP machines, PDP's, VAXen, Alphas and IBM Mainframes through emulation and I'm pretty satisfied with the emulators.
There's a time, a sad time, when up and comers ping on the radar of their heroes and find them to not be the men they imagined.

It shouldn't diminish the respect they have for their heroes, but it is the sign that they should now move out from behind them and chart their own course...except now they are on their own...there is nobody to guide them.
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This is why I love NoScript. Viewed it no problems and easily saw what you were doing. Pretty clever trick, thank you.
where are you getting your numbers from. I am not an accountant for NASA but they sound extremely low!
"Modern medicine" is in the stone ages due to the profit motive. Cure stops all income while "treatment" keeps the money coming in.
Teenagers' speech still sounds exactly like that.

:-)
I do this. Vim + tmux rocks.

One tip that Works For Me (tm) is to map the rarely-used function keys to pane and window selection commands (I hate multi-key commands :))

I've got F1/F2 mapped to cycle through panes, and F3/F4 to cycle through windows, F5/F6 to split windows, F7/F8 to resize panes, and F9 to open a new window.

Also, I always run my tmux terminal fullscreen and without the menubar.

YMMV.
I spoke no Spanish when I got here and have survived so far. Seems you know more than me! Chileans don't speak much English - maybe 5% of them are bilingual?

They want to see startups that will target the world eventually...could say US/UK are starting points.

No talks are mandatory to attend, but you need to give or organize a bunch. Maybe 5-10% of my time.

You get a work visa for 1 year. Expected to stay for 7 months. You can try to get a permanent residency after 1 year
Not to push the issue, but Go's standard libraries are fairly decent for being minimal and are dead simple to use. The docs have a good mix of examples and quickly parseable information.
Define "repressive" and "unstable".

US has the highest incarceration rate.

US caused the recent global financial crisis.
From the link you posted:

"last month, the American Cancer Society urged more caution in using the test"

It's a very sad state of affairs when a test that unambiguously offers some statistical utility (speaking as a Bayesian, any test is useful if we do the right things with the results, this is quite literally a provable theorem of decision theory) is potentially problematic because we aren't properly evaluating what to do when we get the results. I can't blame patients here, they're not the experts; it's doctors (and perhaps more fairly, the entire medical research industry) that need to wise the fuck up and realize that they're acting as statistical dilettantes in a field where they're putting patients lives at risk because they don't understand math very well.

Yes, even a test that only detects ~3% of cancers should be useful; but this requires that doctors completely understand what it means both to see a positive and a negative result, and don't overreact when they see either one.

If this was a matter of just weighing the costs of having tests done versus the benefits of getting the results, it would be one thing. But it's not. People actually end up suffering and spending great amounts of money just because they did "the right thing" and had tests run, and then listened to the doctors' advice afterwards.

Once more with feeling: after discounting for the cost of the test, there is no test that should be of negative value for a rational agent to take. The results should always be used in a way that, in general, increases the welfare of the people taking the test.

If this is not the case in medicine, then they're doing something seriously wrong mathematically speaking, and this is a very bad thing that should be a high priority to fix.
Gorilla's mux adds much more capable and advanced routing. It's really nice to use it with subroutes, etc. Again, dead simple partly because it's designed well and partly because Go makes it easy to build.

http://gorilla-web.appspot.com/pkg/gorilla/mux/

If you want something more lightweight (Gorilla's not "heavy" by any means) there is pat (formerly pat.go)

https://github.com/bmizerany/pat
"It’s a fundamental principle of ecology that an increase in food production causes an increase in population."

"Fundamental principles" are still less fundamental than facts. The facts are clear. It is possible for large human populations to be both abundantly fed and reproduce at less than replacement rates, and the trend is strongly in the direction of sub-replacement growth. This is true of groups that comprise multiple billions of humans, and the connection between wealth and sub-replacement rates is pretty clear.

As I said, the why is still an interesting question.

You are simply wrong. There is no reason why we must starve anyone to death in the forseeable future.

You may note I'm not providing citations. This is because I would contend this is in the class of commonly known fact. We have periodic debates arising in the media about what to do about the fact that neither we nor many other countries can sustain our planned social spending in the face of ever-slowing reproduction rates. This is not stuff that has been hiding out on obscure corners of academic journals, it's on the evening news.

On a similar vein, this is why I don't spend much time listening to people moan about how uniquely evil humans are. Humans are the uniquely moral animal. It is in fact an ecological principle that species will reproduce to consume all available food, and it is a unique characteristic of humans that we can choose not to. (So I do understand how easy it is to make that mistake.) We are not unique in utilizing our ability to raze ecosystems, we are unique in our ability not to use abilities we have, and unique in trying to fix them up after we learn better. We are not unique in our capacity for violence, we are unique in our capacity for peace, and so on.
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Of all the speculation I've heard, my favorite is this bit of dreaming from TheNextWeb:

"Then there is the chance that Apple has decided to do something insanely revolutionary with its cash: figure out a factory template that will allow it, and other tech companies, to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.. This is right up CEO Tim Cook’s alley, as COO, he completely reinvented Apple’s manufacturing and supply chain. It also fits with the legacy of Steve Jobs’ vision of the NeXT factory, making products on U.S. soil."

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/03/19/acquire-reward-or-rev...
Not joking, but yes a horrible example that's already been pointed out.
We're already working on that. See http://substance.io/michael/columnist

To be open sourced soon.

And try out: http://columnist.devseed.com
> Do you have a reliable source on this?

Yes- it's called the Federal Budget. When the US continually runs a deficit and prints money to make up the difference, that cash goes into the economy without any real output in GDP. That causes currency devaluation, and in turn, inflation.

Towards the end of 2008, $700 billion dollars were injected into the economy while the US was in the midst of running a multi-trillion dollar deficit. Taxes weren't raised, so that money came (an continues to come) from thin air. There is virtually no chance inflation does not steadily increase in the coming years. I can confidently say that because I see no reason to believe that there will either be a sudden burst in GDP to increase tax revenues, a reduction in spending, or an increase in tax rates sufficient to make up the difference. Remember, economic effects tend to lag. The mortgage crisis occurred after several years of irresponsible borrowing and lending.
>> What we lack is not employment, but a way of fairly distributing the bounty we have generated through our technologies, and a way of creating meaning in a world that has already produced far too much stuff.

Sounds like a campaign speech writer for Obama. Regardless any other analogies, everyone needs to pull their fair share unless they either already have (elderly or injured or medically incapable) or have enough wealth to hire those of us who are willing to pull our fair share.

In the latter case, workers don't need Union boss thugs to protect us from you; we just need your respect.
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PG once wrote:

"I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it"

Here I am, helping… by not letting him get away with saying stupider stuff than he has in the past.

I am not looking for a "well-researched exposition in this area." I'm looking for an essay that states baldly things such as "They're certainly inferior to the written word as a source of ideas." to actually back it up with some cogent argument.

That's not all that much to ask.

Also: Hm... But I think today's social-psych/cognitive research is better than what Aristotle says. That implies that social psych cognitive research backs up what pg wrote, and of course, it does not.
i truly believe go contributes negative work to society. it's basically C/C++/Java/C# with syntactic sugar except it's different enough to get bored programmers to waste their precious time reporting all their code.

if you want to learn a new language, actually learn a new language. learn a language that's actually breaking the mold in terms of how we communicate with computers. think at a higher abstraction level than dynamic dispatch and composable objects and subroutines, that stuff is already more than 40 years old.

http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_l...
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Unless taking the test has a cost in and of itself -- such as if it requires surgery, so that the risk of something going wrong during testing might outweigh the information gained if the condition being tested for is rare.
It could work if you uses a Super Hydropholic membrane around the outer hull...
Links on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_hydrophilicity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhydrophobicity

It could just collect water into it, and using natural gravity it would accumulate @ the bottom where you could then, simply collect/filter it, and use it to run a HHO generator which who essentially fill the aircraft/dirigible, and power it, simultaneously...

Collecting water from the air itself...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposphere

Program the damn thing to track weather patterns, along with the usual air-pressure & humidity patterns.

You could essentially, fly through clouds to absorb the water, or just keep flying within specific patterns along with the humidity patterns of the EARTH.

If you wanted to do it the cheap hacker-way, and small scale...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7uGJGvo9w&feature=rela...

http://hackaday.com/2007/12/27/24c3-build-your-own-uav/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain-X

A small jar HHO generator which would then feed a micro-engine(like in a R/C car) powering an electrical generator which would feed power to the HHO generator. This is already being done commercially.

Solar is a way better way then combustion in the end but, its the closest thing to a TYPE-2 civilization WE will see...

;-)
So, a developer likes that list of things and it fits their project. Your comment offers nothing as a counter to choosing Go in such a situation. Your comment literally brings nothing to the discussion except a tl;dr for anyone who chose to not read it (if you didn't, go read it)

I mean, if I want to write a cross platform websocket server signaling server for PeerConnection, what would you recommend that will let me write a statically typed server in 80 lines of code that's all standard libraries? (edit: Websockets was moved to a `go install`able package recently)
whoa the power of wolfram alpha is amazing.
I think they value domains of the language you're searching, right? Or is that just a consequence of the websites in that domain being in the language that you're searching?
The burden of proof is on you. It's your essay. Furthermore, I didn't state that I disagreed… I merely asked you to explain your reasoning. Argument isn't a case of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." You either have a case to make, or you don't. You either have a good reason to hold an opinion, or you don't.

And, as jeremymcanally pointed out, you switched from "good ideas being most of writing well" to asking me to show you writing from an author who didn't know what he was talking about.

That is a pretty epic switcheroo.
>making everyone walk on egg shells based on conjecture just makes things uncomfortable for everyone

Yes, I agree completely, and the unhelpful comment left by 'Bill' on her page served to 'shut her up', rather I wish he would ask a question, seek for more details which could lead to a genuine understanding from all sides. It is encouraging to me that you understand the core issue here: not that there are problems but we don't know how to talk about them.
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Well they already did buy a flash maker, Anobit. That said, Anobit is fabless just like PA Semi was.

If I am not mistaken, there were reports that Apple provided at least some of the capital for both Samsung's upcoming fab in Texas and the newly opened Foxconn factory in Brazil. I guess they have decided it doesn't (yet?) make sense to own manufacturing facilities outright, but they seem to be making actual investments in their manufacturing partners rather than just purchasing services. I would say that is indeed further evidence of a tendency toward vertical integration.
I have'nt managed enough time yet to familiarize myself with Go, but the little that I have glanced at, it seems a nice enough language for scientific computation. The syntax and semantics of arrays are nice and binding to C is purportedly simple. Ease of binding with Fortran would have been nice too. So I find it a bit strange that I never hear of Go in the context of array based computation, that is the stuff people use Numpy, MATLAB, J, K for.

Is there any particular reason for that or is it just that not many have got around to doing it.

A type-inferred language with first class functions, with strong support for parallelism, and good support for arrays and slicing seems a really sweet deal. Throw in SIMD and it is already very compelling. Is anything wrong with the picture that I am missing. Performance issues ?
So because it's not revolutionary, it is actually harmful? Sorry, I don't follow at all. Even if it's "better" than C/C++/Java/C# [1], then it's a positive contribution.

[1] I think it's silly to imply that languages are "better" than one another. Some are more apt for certain projects and some have different feature sets that appeal to certain people. Certainly it seems unrealistic to absolutely call a language useless, especially given the points in this articl.
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That would be the best use of their cash. but not the most capital efficient. Wall Street won't like it.
No, C gives you control. I have a syscall (bind(), say) that takes or returns a polymorphic array via a pointer. How many "system" languages represent something like a C pointer cast or union type with clear storage semantics? Or I want to write a code generator for my fancy new language interpreter and need to call mmap() to get an executable range. How many "system" languages let me call into that memory with native syntax?

What you're describing is the difficulty in understanding what the guarantees of control are that you get form your compiler (and yes, that's a much more involved issue than simply reading a language spec). Yeah, C is hard. But the fact that you don't understand how the optimizer works (or how to read the generated assembly) isn't the work of an "illusion", it's just your own inexperience.