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Arg, read the books. Don't wait for the TV version. There is so much more to enjoy in the longer format.
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Reminds me of an even more reabable coffeescript example posted a year ago on HN: http://willbailey.name/conway/docs/conway.html
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LEDs are DC. What I've observed in certain applications, particularly LED taillights/brake lights, is a flicker pattern which I suspect is either an AC/DC conversion artifact, or a brightness regulation. I find it quite distracting.

It's also fairly well known that LED's response to voltage variation is fast enough to be of concern in highly secure data environments. Demonstrations have been made of reading line signal from modems, and even Ethernet and other high-bandwidth networking equipment status/indicator lights.
Citation needed. It's not common knowledge that business-only guys frequented the Homebrew club and were hired into engineering groups in the 60s.
But collecting tabs is how the web works. You follow article after article, until all the questions are closed, marked for later reading, or you run out of time.

Oh, and removing the comments? Dude!

If you wanted to improve HN, make the comments and linked site accessible at once, so people don't have to jump from one to the other.
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The "athletics fee" at UF covers student athletic facilities - gyms, tennis courts, etcetera - rather than sports teams.
Hah - came here to same the same.

Bezos and Amazon are among the four super-powers of the internet for good reason. I imagine they've run cost/benefit analysis and found the ROI of investing and focusing on any their new frontiers (AWS, Kindle, etc...) to outweigh the ROI of a redesign at this point.

But funny all the same :)
Sure emotional intelligence may be more important than most of us realize (the theory of mind, the ability to "read" other people's thoughts, sometimes also more cynically called Machiavellian intelligence, is thought by some to be the primary driver behind the development of sentience in humans), but I was developing the following thought experiment:

Suppose bottlenose dolphins have an uncanny ability to "read minds" and interpret thoughts and emotions of other bottlenose dolphins (but only of individuals of their own species -- not of porpoises, humans, etc.) to the same or even better extent than we humans can read minds of other humans, but due to the accidental specifics of their bodily layout and environment (no limbs with which to grasp and manipulate objects, unsuitable environment for the use of fire) are unable to develop any semblance of technology. What would those "super-dolphins" look like to us? I have a feeling they would still look a lot like dolphins, and we, without some very specific/expensive/targeted research, probably would have never even realize that we are living right next to some "super-intelligent" animals.
If I was Dalton (PicPlz) I would have been fine with my investor exercising their pro-rata rights in another investment, even it had become competitive. It's not ideal, but I don't think it's unethical. I'd be much more concerned about them sharing information, so there would have be a discussion about that.
The writer didn't mention any drive of his own except to work at a company whose products he liked, but didn't learn about the company culture before joining.

If you want a great job, you have to take responsibility for making it great. If you don't take that responsibility, blaming the employer won't help. The company had a strategy long before you joined you can learn about before joining. If you didn't learn about it before joining, how can you complain about it?

The email to the VP he closed with didn't help the company. He just vented. Who wants a petulant employee?

We can learn from his experience to find out before joining a team if we can create the environment for ourselves we want, then to do so.
Right. So they're cutting the department that has graduate students, researchers with NSF Career Awards and ACM fellowships, and brings in lots of money in research grants.
You could re-implement erlang in C++, but then you'd end up with erlang again. Why not just use erlang in the first place?

I don't believe it is possible to do real concurrency on the JVM, without rewriting key parts of the JVM.
Is this standard of ethics amongst VC firms the exception or the rule? A lot of news and comments paint VC firms in a bad light but this story seems to suggest that strong ethics are still alive and well.
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Is that the effect of Corexit?
The federal government forces Florida to spend billions on Medicaid. Mandatory Medicaid increases are driving education cuts in budgets in nearly every state.

"Governments’ general support for higher education 25 years ago was nearly 50 percent greater than state spending on Medicaid. That relationship has now flipped: Medicaid spending is about 50 percent greater than support for higher education. If higher education’s share of state budgets had remained constant instead of being crowded out by rising Medicaid costs, it would be getting some $30 billion more than it receives today, or more than $2,000 per student."
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From the guidelines:

> You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.

What I'm saying is you're right, some editor obviously didn't read the guideline properly. Even if "Light Table - My goal" were somehow gratuitously editorial, the title of the blog post is a horrible choice to replace it.
Andreessen Horowitz did the only ethical and logical thing it could do. It was in a tough spot, so it did the thing that wouldn't violate its implicit agreements with Kevin and Dalton.

I don't think either side is complaining, and I doubt Andreessen's LPs are either.

Can we put this matter to bed now?
Two months sounds unrealistic to ship a polished game, even though Unity is a very productive platform.

I've done a GDC demo in Unity in one month with a team of about 7. It was a good concept demo, but not polished enough to release as a product.

I also shipped a Unity game in about 2 months, doing all the programming and art, with predictable results. The game-play needs polish, and let's not even talk about the visuals.

Games really do benefit from iteration. In some sense, this is the danger of trying to schedule a game project. It's a great way to build some life-less me too game. Often the most successful new games have had schedule disasters that forced almost complete re-writes.
I have to wonder how many of the people ordering the 64MiB image are doing it just to have a place to spam Twitter from.
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It's amazing that a one man company(Apple) can make such a huge impact with so many people.
Why is that? Why wouldn't they take the money if someone wants to license their software and host a private Q&A site? The FAQ doesn't give a reason.
All the departments share strong overlap in required (undergraduate) coursework however. And the department being cut is the one that is responsible for teaching these courses (OS, Data Structures, etc etc).
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I agree with this statement. If someone invested in my service and something else who competed with mines, this doesn't represent an ethical problem, but just that the investor is interested in the field in general.
agreed. for those of us who feel that gmail is a necessary evil this definitely helps ease the pain. I just wish I could pay for a commercial service or install a server-side app that had similar functionality.

the default settings in the new gmail design are really bad. at least the gmail team should have some kind of migration wizard that allows users to easily figure out to configure the settings to make the new design work as well as possible for them.

thanks again for the guide!
Among the general public, possibly, but that's also true of mathematics. Among scientists, it looks like it's going the other way to me, approaching math and statistics as something that many people need to know at least a little of. Even over the past decade there's been a significant shift. In the early 2000s, most bioinformatics research was done by biologists in collaboration with computer scientists, with the biologists providing only the biology side of things. Today, it's increasingly common for biologists to be expected to understand and work with the tech side as well. At the very least, if you're a younger researcher working in a data-heavy area (and maybe even if you aren't that young), people expect you to be able to write some Python, interface with SciPy, and navigate matplotlib.
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Does anyone know of any active chat-rooms, irc or such that people use for finding work-mates? I have been looking for some days now but I just cannot seem to find people that are enthusiastic about doing things. I have programmed 2-3 sites this weekend but I loose interest because I am alone doing things.

So where do you go for this kind of things? The internet should be easy to find, it is huuge. But still I cannot seem to find anything.
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I just finished watching the last one. Pretty good I would recommend watching it. I had it as background-noise / split-screen on my laptop.
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So when faced with a sticky situation, he does what he thinks is ethically right, then makes $78,000,000 (with six zeros). If someone can't step back and evaluate that situation for what it is, they have a serious issue with perspective.
I'm sure you're also facing some problems finding folks to move due to the high cost of living in Northern California.

I've been open to moving out there for jobs, but based on what I've seen, the salaries aren't high enough to offset the tremendous cost of housing. Especially for those who come with families and school age children.
The plume was located more than a kilometer below the surface. I don't think Corexit sprayed on the surface would reach that far down the water column. "Crystal clear" is more likely to be a result of high dilution. Just like groundwater is not a river of water under the ground (it's actually rock with a bit of water filling the cracks), an oil plume is not a river of oil in the sea.
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> The athletics draw no resources from education, but how can this be so?

Because athletics raises its own money.

> Instead of increasing the budget of athletics, why can't the education budget be increased instead?

The increased budget for athletics is coming from the money that athletics raises.

Where is the money for the education budget coming from?
I haven't been around much of late, so I am not sure what you really mean, but I am someone who has previously suggested that it is better for someone to explain why they did X rather than speak in terms of "why you should do X". I think if it is done well, it is a more informative and useful position to take. It helps the audience decide if this would help them or not and leaves it to the individual to determine if this is their cup of tea. If the author states they are ADHD or six foot tall or gay or whatever and talks about how that made this particular solution a better answer for them, I can decide for myself if I have enough in common with them to consider giving it a try.

One thing I have concluded: If you put yourself out there, someone won't like it. And will likely be very vocal about it. AKA you can't please all of the people all of the time.
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its still too new to do that, but the httparchive.org will allow us to do that about the current web in the futre.
Thiel is missing the point. The point is that you need to pay people enough so that money ceases to be a factor.

For certain people money is not a factor so it doesn't matter whether it pay them $1 or $1MM. To others $150k is just enough money to live very comfortably but not enough to do nothing.

Buffett once commented, "I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing".
And yet companies (and I'm going through this with my employer right now!) refuse to consider remote workers. Working in the bay area is kind of a shitty deal: evaluated economically, it's probably a better bet to live in the midwest where $200k instead of $600k buys you a decent home.
Microsoft was actually trying – and they would keep developing IE until they released version 6, after which they stopped development, leaving the Web to stagnate.

Uhh, apparently I just dreamed that IE7-10 existed. I must have been dreaming that Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari existed to keep the web from stagnating. It's a shame that whole web thing isn't around anymore, I'd love to see some foolish commentary on it.
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That preschool shit does sound terrifying.

My question is: why? Are NYC public schools really that bad? (I have no idea, but I thought there were some good districts.) Or is the insanity just a product of it being hard to get them into top colleges coming from New York and not being prep? Because there's a solution, which is to have them move to Montana during their senior year.
I'll agree with that. The scientific data sets are only going to get bigger.
A sidenote, but over the top of that Steve Yegge post is an ad:

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Made me snigger, anyway...
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I remember snobbishly (but silently) deriding the designs of Geocities (and later Myspace) sites.

Now I dearly miss the messy and delightful variety of all that amateur self expression.
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If you want to get into logical parlance, it isn't a straw man, it's reductio ad absurdum. That is, you take somebody's reasoning and apply it to a different situation that illustrates the problems in the reasoning more clearly.

In this case, your thinking appears to be, "I can accomplish the same thing in C++, so why use Erlang?" My point is that an assembly programmer might just as well say, "I can accomplish the same thing in assembly, so why use C++?" The answer is that it's a lot easier and more natural to write OO code in C++ than it is to use, say, assembler macros. The fact that something is possible is less interesting than how simple and well-supported it is.

Again, I'm not saying your choice is necessarily wrong. For your use case, it might have been right. The benefits of using a language with pervasive and highly developed support for the paradigm might not outweigh the benefits of using C++ for you. But that reflects more on your personal circumstances than on the benefits of Erlang in general.
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funding Kevin to compete with Dalton would be a violation of the original implicit commitment we made to Dalton—to not fund competitors to PicPlz.

This is very interesting. Is this common practice among VCs? PG has said that they don't reject YC aspirants simply because they're building something that competes directly with another YC company: The way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing.[1]

For some reason, I assumed this practice extended to VCs as well.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
I actually understand where they're coming from. As xanadohnt said, in the grand scheme of life annoyances, this might seem to be of little consequence. i.e., big picture, this is nothing. But most of us here are programmers; we tend to be proud of our ability to zero in on the small things. :)
Microsoft waited 5 years (Aug 2001 to Oct 2006) to release IE7. Having defeated Netscape, they basically rested on their laurels and did nothing. Only with the spectre of Firefox did they start even trying again, and only in the last year or so have those efforts even been worthwhile.
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> So in a sense, the huge body of mathematics underlying probability has already failed us at this basic juncture because we cannot speak of how random one particular outcome of an experiment is.

This reminds me of the 'Is 14 a random number?' debate.

Part of the problem, though, is that we have terminology that is horribly misleading.

First, a random variable is neither random nor a variable. They're not variables, because they're functions that yield non-deterministic values - a huge distinction. You can't have a random number - the idea itself doesn't make any sense.

Second, the definition of 'random' is itself problematic - or at least contested. Randomness implies probability, but probability can be defined in two different (and incompatible) ways, one of which is essentially the inverse of the other. Ironically, the one that Keynes proved back in 1921 to be logically inconsistent is the one that is more commonly used today (probably because it is more intuitive and mathematically convenient... even if it is almost always incorrect!).

The question 'Is 14 a random number' doesn't really make any sense. 14 cannot be a random number; it can only be a number drawn from a random distribution. That may seem like it simply begs the question, but in fact, this subtle shift is incredibly important - determining whether a number was drawn from a random distribution is much easier to frame in terms of probability, and probability, not randomness, is the language of statistics.

Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where the two definitions of probability yield widely different answers. You could tell me that the answer is undefined, in almost exactly the same way that division-by-zero is undefined in mathematics. Or you could construct a model over all possible distributions of numbers, the probabilities associated with each of those distributions, and integrate accordingly to yield some (probably computationally unfeasible) functional answer.

In this school of thought, we can speak of how 'random' a particular outcome is - we're essentially partitioning the (potentially infinite) universe of functions f such that our value v is in the range of f into two categories: one designated as 'random' and the other designated as 'not random'. Then, we are determining the probability that our value was generated from one of the former, as opposed to the latter.

Either one would be correct ways of answering this second question, but neither one addresses the first question, which is essentially nonsensical. (Well, I guess the answer is 'no, 14 is not a random number, because a number cannot be random', but that's a bit of a cop-out!).
No, I didn't pass the test. Mainly because I gave up 10 questions in because the CSM couldn't be bothered to put more than one question on a page, and the site's innumerable ads and Meebo bar made each pageload seem like an eternity.

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It is most likely an "effect" of the concentration not being high enough to be visible to the human eye, because if I'm reading the article correctly they're referring to a natural crude oil plume.

It turns out there's a lot more going on in the Gulf than the few tiny, tiny little holes poked in it by us.
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> the benefits of the concurrency model described in the original article can probably be achieved in peoples' existing/preferred dev env.

No, they can't. This has been well explained elsewhere. You'd have to rework the language/dev environment down to at least the C level if not assembly.

>It's easier and faster to look into that then to throw what you have under the bus for erlang.

No, it is slower and harder.

People think Erlang is difficult simply because the syntax is weird. Spend a couple weeks learning it and you'll be up to speed.

I think people are scared off by the syntax and so are trying to rationalize that they don't really need erlang.

It is possible to replicate erlang elsewhere, but you'd have to replicate erlang. You can't just add a library to ruby and get it.
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You can hack up something similar with the idleTimer plugin, modified by Paul Irish.

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This is a statement I appreciate (and that I personally agree with) but that is, well, rational. When things get real, rationality is often forgotten.

It would be easy to take the opposite position if you were to consider that an investment is usually (or supposedly) a product of the investor's passion for your particular business, not necessarily the field it belongs to. It can be seen as the investor saying "we're with you on this, and we'll fight your competition by your side". It's a matter of perspective, and in this case, it is easy to see things from both sides.

All this being said, I love Dalton's honesty, and Ben's post. A ton of ink was used to cover this matter, but the fact is, everyone's happy here.
Mentioning the pigeonhole principle by name might have been useful. It almost got defined here...
My gripe is the same as the overwhelming majority of people in my industry: that given unlimited resources, in your wildest dreams you couldn't imagine a less hospitable place for cryptographic integrity than the DOM.

Some people are of the opinion that the usefulness of being able to do crypto in people's browsers outweighs exactly how inhospitable it is. I don't share this opinion.

In most circumstances, something bad might be preferable to nothing at all. I think crypto is one of the rare exceptions where "bad" is actually worse than none.

My alternative suggestions are conservative: PGP and TLS

These suggestions aren't particularly exciting, however, so people keep looking for other, newer, ones.

I'm actually in the small minority of security people who don't think it's feasible to discourage people from trying to muck around with crypto. It's like sitting a kid in front of a television,handing them a video game controller, and then telling them not to play video games.

Crypto is an attractive nuisance. It also seems like it answers a lot of our problems (it actually answers far less than we think, and just creates new ones in their place), so people naturally are inclined to experiment with it.

So I hope someday to be wrong about crypto in the browser, because it'd be great. But right now, it's sort of like trying to fancy up a glory hole.