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That's not necessarily true. I've found more edge cases and odd behaviour from Rails in a project that's always been 3.0+ and never used 2-style conventions than I ever found in, say, the .NET libraries.

"Magic" is definitely a problem when it comes to debugging, but eliminating magic isn't a silver bullet for making code easier to reason about, particularly when there's errors. Rails still, almost without exception, throws obscure errors that give no indication to what actually may have gone wrong, and there's still quite a lot of magic left that can behave in odd ways in ActiveRecord.
But your odds of winning increase dramatically when you go from holding zero tickets to one.
Thanks - yes I thought it was an old idea (might even be older - but I can't find anything).
Sorry I wasn't more specific.

It is

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I wish them success as well, but I don't except speedy results...
Look at your own experience, the building phase in the design phase. We will (almost) never get a complete spec before hand because people are in charge and people change their minds. The sad reality is that building something with developers is often a faster, cheaper way to discover what is actually needed. Most people cannot tell you what they want until it is right in front of them and even then the response is usually, "Not this".
I would use it if you didn't change the css, and didn't make share the rightmost link. Also, that "block this guy" popup is really pervasive when you're just roaming around with the mouse. Other than that, really nice work!
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Very neat demo! Works in Firefox 12 as well, but the rendering is not quite as smooth as in Chrome.
I would say the stupidity here is any modern OS still having case sensitive file systems.
For a moment I considered buying the ad space on the final page of the demo just to capitalize on the blip of traffic you'll be seeing today.

The space is 175x125, which is not a size I have a creative ready for. I've never seen a space that size before. Any reason for the nonstandard dimensions?
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We have regulations here in the US also (I had my house rebuilt 10 years ago and recently turned an outdoor deck into an indoor office). But our regulations are primarily safety-related. The wiring must be safe, the pipes plumbed so that drains drain and vents vent, and so on. They don't really inspect the quality of the craftsmanship. If your wall is not load-bearing, they care very little at all about how it is built. The tiles aligning? Your problem.

So, here anyway, it is also safety which triggers the regulations.
Looks nice. I'd quite like to see a poll with the various alternative HN themes to see what most people are using.
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This is definitely a cool demo.

One detail I noticed that might be worth adjusting is that I assumed clicking on the "Flip" box on the right side of the page would actually flip the page.

So from a usability perspective if you were actually implementing this on a real site, a popup when you click on that explaining how to swipe/drag the page over could be helpful since this is a new style of changing pages not everyone would expect? Or just make clicking on that button actually flip the page, although that kind of ruins the point of the design.
A quick survey of the literature seems to indicate that gambling activity (including lottery play) is positively correlated with income.

If it was a tax on the poor and undereducated, the correlation should be negative, yet the first three articles I found on the matter said it's positive, and that income is the strongest determinant of gambling activity.
> just that if money is really all you can think of in a job, some companies are more OK with that and others prefer passion, and it's good that people suited for one kind don't end up at the other.

You seem to imply it's either passion or compensation which looks like a false dichotomy to me. Lots of people have passion for their work but still they're smart enough to avoid companies who treat the passion like a weakness to exploit so that they can pay lower wages.
To me, Mojang's margins just don't pass the sniff test. It seems they should be much higher. I assume they have done whatever accounting tricks possible to reduce their profit (I'm not suggesting anything untoward, mind).
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Well, the could refuse to resell access to their network, and hope that all of their competitors do likewise.

But that risks either one of their competitors doing the selling (and then they lose custom to that competitor), or being sued for cartel behaviour if all of the companies do likewise.
Alexstra [sic] has positioned themselves to get acquired in the next 24 months ... without an acquisition Alekstra plans on running an IPO and becoming a stand-alone operator by the first half of 2014, offering services to both business customers and consumers.

So "disrupting the global wireless industry" (as the article proclaims in both its headline and its lede) is Alekstra's backup plan?

Reading both the article and the company's website, I am concerned about Alekstra's chances:

- their website does not contain clear information about who they are and what they do

- the article seems to suggest that they help companies lower their mobile bills, which seems significantly different than becoming a virtual network operator

- the article claims that they have several companies as customers, including McDonald's. Looking at the references page of Alekstra's website, this seems to be McDonald's Oy, McD's Finnish subsidiary.

Looking at an earlier article by Bloomberg - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-02/alekstra-plans-to-s... - it looks like Alekstra hopes to make money by lowering roaming charges on international calls by routing them through their own network. This is vastly different from lowering the price of domestic calling and data, which (at least in the United States) I think most consumers care about.
The relatively recent Apple valuation proves irrevocably that those devices could've came in helluva cheaper than they did and are.

I'm not denying the pinnacle acchievements and innovations at Apple here. I'm denying they're in it for the "computer accesibility and development of the world".
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I visit HN once or twice a day to skim the top 30 headlines for anything that looks interesting; I may click on two or three.

More of the interesting content I read comes from RSS feeds of particular blogs built up over time and, these days, Google+. Now I've built up some circles that match my interests I get a stream that's not too noisy, mute those I never want to see again, and browse the rest. The quality of conversation seems generally high on the posts I like. (I only visit Twitter now to reply to a tweet picked up through RSS.)

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Hey, thanks for the feedback!

I wonder why the filter popup is showing a lot for you, it should only appear if you hover over the 'x' symbol on the far right - this should be out of the way for most browsing.
Read the paper; HTM's don't seem to do better than other object recognition algorithms at recognizing shapes, especially because there are visual properties it ignores (curvature, global topological properties, etc.) The accuracy for the picture datasets are only 60-70%. What's interesting about HTM is its generality. I can't judge whether it would be good for the Grok prediction engine, but I know more about image recognition and you definitely don't want to use it for that.
The day that any other company is even able to remotely make such a down to earth note and yet so prosaic the negative comments will make sense.
Same suggestion. I like the overall improvements but please don't force the styling. Make it as an option that users can check to disable default styling of HN.
This is my HN for Chrome http://imgur.com/dPcjC

Given my default sans font is set to Droid Sans, all I needed to do was simply zoom-in (Ctrl ++) twice and chrome keep it this way between log-ins and recently between machines as well.
thanks Colin, Can you please tell me the email ID on which to send the query? Thanks very much for your help, I can't find a contact us section here.
I've been playing with something like this too. What I really want brought over from the Reddit Enhancement Suite is the ability to hide posts and to see updated comment counts.
The same option is available on my American Apple ID.

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Reachable by opening my account in iTunes, then clicking the 'Edit' button next to 'Payment Information'.
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They opted out from scheme as a whole.

This is reflected by the name change.

http://www.racket-lang.org/new-name.html
I guess when you spend most of every week finding horrible security flaws, most of them remotely triggerable (since those are the ones clients care most about) it's hard to get too riled up about about an egregious log file hygiene issue that affects only a tiny minority of OSX users.

Or, differently: do you really think that people who can run commands in your Terminal window can't already take control of the OS X kernel?

Also: I object to being designated HN's "resident security expert", and I didn't put my comment at the top of this thread.
As someone who is currently working in an organization that doesn't offer me that sort of fulfillment, I'd love to be working for Apple and receiving that on day 1.

Not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, fewer of us will be successful entrepreneurs. If we are going to work for someone else, it's nice to be able to do something we can be proud of. I imagine that working for Apple makes that possible.
Because software is nowhere near as mature as machines - give it a few decades and the process will be very automated, for sure. Even now you can build simple apps with drag-n-drop, and you can make your computer do anything you want using automation tools like Automate/WinAutomation.

Also, the whole post is a big subscribe link for me when NoScript is enabled (pretty smart, actually, if it's not a bug).
"Some choice quotes from his Google+ post: 'The lottery is not a tax on people who are bad at math. It's trading a little bit of expected-value for a lot of variance.'"

If you want high variance, wouldn't you then want to make high-risk investments in the stock market? I'm not very knowledgeable on the subject, but my understanding is that the expected value rises with increased variance on the stock market, rather than decreasing.
I find it odd that the writer spent 99% of article refuting their own argument.
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Be honest. We're talking about a place that can't judge you in an interview. If you had the chance to work for 20% more being someone who mattered (since they can't shop around), but they had no way to differentiate you from people worth less than 15 dollars an hour (non-coders pretending to be coders), you wouldn't accept an 8-hour "interview" doing something small but useful for them for 300 dollars? The up-shot is you would start working the next day at your 'monopoly rate', versus going through rounds and rounds of interviews at all sorts of other companies. Those other companies have tech ways of giving you interesting problems and being competitive. These guys just have money to throw at you. (But no way to differentiate you from non-coders).

I guess I'm not thinking about an all-tech shop (like a web startup) so much as a business that needs a specialized dev and has no one technical enough to judge them on board.
This is not as much of a burden as would first appear. The vast majority of Flash files (except those that rely exclusively on actionscript for rendering) are based on as relatively small set of primitives/instructions: place object, move object, show frame, etc. When new features were added typically a new instruction was introduced. Only very rarely was an existing instruction modified for example PlaceObject2 being extended to include optional event handlers for movie clips.

A big problem with all things Flash-related is that Adobe was rather half-hearted in its commitment to making Flash open so the documentation was never quite as polished as it could be. Another problem which probably the source of the frustration in the original post is that functionality was added rather than existing code upgraded. That probably meant that the existing code along with all the warts was left untouched rather than run the risk of making breaking changes.

The "interesting stuff like jumps past the end of function" were I think attempts at obfuscation since decompiling flash files and actipnscript is not very difficult. Another example was to append actionscript byte-codes at the end of a table used for strings and amend the length of the table to hide the code. The following actionscript byte-codes could then add jump into this hidden code which would hopefully but not successfully confuse the decompilers.
Maybe its just me, I'm always moving the mouse around and selecting stuff while I read. Just so that this post isn't useless, the reason I complained about the css is that I think the light orange bg with black fg is easier on the eyes. I liked that you increased the titles' sizes but the rest of the links are still very small! I browse hn with 150% zoom full-time so having good sized titles and small sized other links or just really oversized everything is kinda crappy!
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Maybe not $10M but it has happened. http://www.pressherald.com/news/Secret-Santa-drops-100-bills...
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I would say OOP for OOP's sake became a lot more common with the increase in popularity of Java. The euphoria of automatic memory management vanished with the increasing complexity of design patterns.

In most of the cases they are applied for any scenario that even slightly resembles a design pattern, with most of the energy expended in fitting the scenario into a pattern than to find the correct solution.
Not so. Your odds of winning are immeasureably different. What's the difference between an empty glass and one that's 0.000006% full of water?
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The principle of reversibility states that light will follow exactly the same path if its direction of travel is reversed."
I added support for you and submitted it to github :)
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Investing five bucks into a lottery ticket is much easier than investing five bucks into high risk stocks.
My point was the product is geared towards the immature, and his being immature for so many years gives him an advantage in understanding both the product and his target audience. Yes you could train a mature person to think like a college kid, and maybe they could even hearken back to their college days for reference, but the times they are a-changin' and what's been considered cool for the past decade won't be next decade. Thus my point was: will Zuck be able to keep up with what's cool as he gets old and out of touch? My opinion is that being mature is actually a detriment here.
Yeah I think you missed it. "Answering this simple question requires knowing everything. The whole execution history of foo. The whole codebase. You name it, you have to keep it in your head."

Here's the thing about OOADP (Note I didn't just use OOP): it gives you a simple methodology to solve problems and know where to put stuff. You don't know everything, because the assumption is that the codebase is going too big to know everything. But what you _do_ know is where things go; an organization of nouns. Good large projects have a design theme that's easy to understand and gives you the mental tools to reason about which pieces need your attention at any one time. OOP is all about working on little pieces at a time and not worrying about knowing everything.

It has a lot of problems, but so does every paradigm. I've become a huge functional programming fan over the last couple of years, but I can tell you very frankly that nothing beats OOAD. Nothing. It is a gift from the gods. It allows you to take any problem and make it trivial. Large amounts of wiring will be required.

The thing here is that as you start generalizing OOP, you being making this bastard thing that is part OOP and part FP. Or your codebase runs off the rails and becomes a hodgepodge of junk. Or you enter into the "Kingdom of Nouns". The ways to screw up are legion.

Dependency issues are also a freaking nightmare in OOP. That's why OOP and some sort of TDD go hand-in-hand.

I'm mostly with the author, but I don't think he understands the full extent of what he's talking about. OOP (and TDD) is a great tool for large, complex, shared codebases. Even though I'm a huge fan of FP, I remain very skeptical that it can scale well to 100+ developer efforts. I think to truly criticize something like this, you should know both how it's awesome and how it sucks, not just how it sucks.
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The features are nice but can you make it look more like the Georgify extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...
I like how the content is centered with Georgify.
Merged and pushed to Chrome webstore ;-)

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This works surprising well on my iPad. Nice work.

But, I hope this doesn't mean I'll see more of this on websites. It reminds me of OnSwipe, which almost always results in me immediately hitting the back button (if my browser doesn't crash first).

A don't want novelty UIs. I've never had a problem reading a 'non-tablet-optimized' article on my iPad.
I don't think "snake oil" is the right paradigm here. In ML/AI, lots of honest researchers are wrong; being a scientist who's wrong doesn't make you a criminal.

That said: Hawkins' principles are very different both from what the brain does, and from what the state of the art in machine learning does. My impression is that HTM's attempt to be too general and assume too little about the problem.

For vision in particular, most successful computer vision algorithms (as well as what we know about the visual cortex's mechanisms) make extensive use of information related to the fact that the image is an image. That is: edges are probably more likely to be continuous than broken; locally constant curvature is more likely than not; textures and colors usually continue over the surface of an object; objects occlude other objects; etc. Brains and effective computer vision algorithms hard-code a lot of information about the nature of the problem they're solving. Hawkins wants to bypass that, and I think it's probably too ambitious an aspiration.

Then again, if he makes it, more power to him.

I don't think we should be prejudiced against someone who comes from the tech industry and wrote a popular book. It's certainly not "snake oil" -- it seems to be a good-faith attempt to solve an important problem. I think the odds are against it working, but that's not a moral condemnation.
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> I've drunk the Kool-Aid just like many of you.

There's a difference between drinking the Kool-Aid and knowing why people drink the Kool-Aid
The styling is really only the tip of this extension :-)
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You're contradicting yourself. Your first statement indicated that their pricing meant that they weren't making computers accessible to everyday people. Now you're just attacking their motives (that you can't really know).
On the contrary, what he really misses is the "self-documenting nature" of Objective-C source code. And when it comes to functions, the four bits of documentation that are more important than any other are:

1) the order (or names) of its arguments (how to call it)

2) the types of its arguments (what to feed it)

3) the type of its return value(s) (what to expect)

4) whether the function maintains referential transparency (whether it plays nice with the rest of your program)

Relying on type inference in the function signature abandons two of these and forces the casual reader to manually infer the manner in which the function may be safely used. Of course, in this position, one may always opt to use a documentation generation tool (doxygen, rdoc, javadoc, etc.)--however, when it comes to this, our code can no longer be considered to be self-documenting.
I look forward to seeing articles on Moore's work; I did not have the pleasure of knowing him.

In the meantime, this headline had me a little confused, thinking of the chip designer Chuck Moore who was Forth's creator. It doesn't seem that this is the same Moore. Just FYI :)