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I can't understand why the writer is reacting so much to the comic. Sure, it uses blunt language, but is the writer related to Edison distantly or his childhood hero or something?

Unlimited wireless electricity, among other Tesla's inventions are still mind boggling 100 years later. He drove a car with an electric engine, powered wirelessly, over 100 years ago.*

What have we done since?

From a more day to day perspective:

- Marconi's patents for inventing radio were overturned in Tesla's prior invention of radio.

- Inventor of Lasers

- Remote Control

I think we've gotten over the light bulb. Still, the disposable lightbulb sells and sells, a testament to Edison's business mind.

Based on the number, and staggering impact of each of Tesla's inventions, I don't believe Edison could spell Tesla on his best day; especially where it camee to innovation and creating things that hadn't existed before, let alone imagined.

The main question about Edison vs Tesla is, why no one knows who Tesla is even though he was at least an equal to Edison, if not arguably more.

* There's some argument about this occurring but there are also media reports that exist.
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Billionaire douchebag renounces US citizenship to save 3% on taxes
Wicker Dining – Is This the Furniture You Need?
Whether you have just moved into a new home or you plan to fully decorate your home, you need to take everything into consideration. It all starts with the build and the color of your walls, but this is probably the less significant part.
I wonder if it's this Verizon Remote Diagnostics tool that started getting loaded onto a few phone models a couple months ago.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/verizon-updates-revolutio...
It takes time for a startup to develop and refine the message and brand that it wants to communicate.

While that unique brand and vision is unclear and unrefined, the closet substitute likely to be "right" is the average of what everyone else is doing.
Why Shutting Airports Is Not the Best Way to Halt a Global Flu Pandemic
Nobody with the actual skillset to design and implement a programming language would consider, for example, merging vectors and dictionaries into some kind of mutated frankenarray.

Actually, JavaScript and Lua have merged vectors and Dictionaries.
Dr. Gray was someone who worked at the core, conceptual level of computer science and brought it to application-level form. He gave a speech at a conference I attended, and I recall him so naturally gifted and the ease with which he understood technology. He was just on a higher plane than most everyone else.

RIP, Dr. Gray. And best wishes to his family and friends for peace and closure.
I love participating in game jams. For those who haven't heard, a game jam is an event where you have a limited number of time (maybe 48 or 72 hours) to develop a game.

One of my favorites to participate in is Ludum Dare. This past LD, I used HTML5 to develop my game. It was the first major project in which I used Javascript and Canvas, and the code could've been better, but I managed to quickly develop and prototype a game I'm proud of within 72 hours[1].

The biggest issue with HTML5 isn't the speed of development, but rather the fact that it's not a mature technology yet. I still haven't ironed out some issues with sound and resource loading that works consistently between Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

[1] http://ekun.nukenine.com/two/game.html
could you provide a sample sentence that shows this? I don't get the same impression.
Randomness doesn't come from the Heisenburg uncertainty principle, it comes from the Born rule.

(and by the way, all this talk of randomness mainly applies to the copenhagen interpretation. Other interpretations, like many-worlds, do not really have 'randomness', though the meaning of the born rule in such an interpretation is unclear)
In my experience (5 HTML5 games), I haven't had many problems with cross browser compatibility. Chrome, FF, Safari and IE9 and work surprisingly consistently, at least with the methods I'm using... If I were to dig deeper into audio in my games, yeah I'd have to play with it a bit (though there are existing audio shims).
The DE0 Nano dev board is $86 on digikey.
So, do you know accept that there is a biological difference between men and women? It seems that you do. But now you claim that we have to "beat biology" to eliminate the differences. Bravo! You are twisting and turning, pulling random arguments out of your hat as you see fit. What is your background? I would be more than surprised if it was technical.

What about this angle: given that men are apparently quite superior to women when it comes to abstract thinking, then why don't we do our best to improve male performance even more? By the time women will have caught up (if ever), we've probably lost a few centuries of progress. This concept is called "opportunity costs." I am not sure it's taught in Gender Studies.

Note that I'm playing devil's advocate to make you realize how incredibly shady your argument is.
It is unforutnately a rarity. The N1 looked like the ultimate awesome machine but it failed miserably :(
Oh, I'm sorry, when you said "only" on your first post I thought you meant "only", not "more". But of course people are more interested on getting children interested in engineering. I don't see your point. Do you want your kids to be plumbers making a minimum salary and having unstable jobs?
Show HN: Collaborative image/video mind map goodness
At $2500 it looks terrifyingly serious
And they are going to offer virtual linux servers, which you can customize all you want.

This is great, because Amazon could use some competition, and tying everything to .NET did not make Azure a relevant competitor for many domains.

Let's hope this brings the prices down. Amazon has had a huge profit margin, that people were willing to put up with, simply because no other party offered quite the same flexibility and scale.
The book that comes from (originally Systemantics, now The Systems Bible), is well worth reading, a blend of wise and hilarious. It's one of those books you keep lending to people and then wonder where the hell your copy went.
The electric car story appears to be an urban legend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_electric_car
This could also read "to save 100 million USD on taxes". Given the universal hatred displayed for IRS on the Internets, I'm led to think this is called "envy in distilled form."
I think the biggest thing I learned to improve fps was drawing items to a canvas to use later in drawImage. Especially with svg, rather than draw the svg each time, on load I draw them all to 'subcanvases' and then pass that as the parameter for drawImage.
I didn't read the gp comment as racist. He was just pointing out that there are dry cleaners and food store owners that are doing well.

(I haven't been to the U.S., are all dry cleaners foreign?)
OK. Until now it's has been a discussion. Now instead of discussing my arguments, you are just attacking me and what I say. I thought you had a better understanding of fallacies.
Canvas is not the only option. I'm currently developing a racing game where you can build your own race track in HTML5 with my colleagues for our final university project and we don't use canvas at all.

The whole game is built upon SVG, CSS3 (transform3d) and CoffeeScript and it works pretty fine, even on the iPad which is also the target platform. The limiting factor with this combination is the number of DOM elements. We are currently considering to render our racing tracks as a single image so we can remove the several SVG paths we currently use for this.

If you want to take a look you can find the source on GitHub[1] or play the game[2]. Currently only Chrome and iPad are supported. But that's only because we haven't added all vendor prefixes yet.

[1] https://github.com/stravid/slotcars
[2] http://slotcars.herokuapp.com/
I think you're hung-up on the integrated webserver that ships with PHP 5.4.

All a "server" is, is a daemon that listens on a port. That's what it does. And it uses LibEvent thus the "node" comparisons.

Though I agree with whomever said that it would be better to compare this to Tornado.
I created a server-less distributed network composed by PHP daemons some years ago, it was really fun seeing them linking, automatically discovering new nodes and distributing a task among the available nodes.

We chose PHP because it was the only technology supported in the company, who didn't want to invest on consultancy, research, just do it now, you know.

It was fun, but eventually PHP bad memory management became the main issue, so we were restarting daemons that would crash at random times, often in the middle of some tasks, other times while idle.

Today, I would never create a new project like that using PHP, it doesn't make sense. PHP is great for templating, scripting, and there are some nice frameworks for the classic web applications. However each language has some limitations, an engineer should know much better than that.
You Can’t Be the Victim as an Entrepreneur
I kind of wish there were explicit bold,italic, and bold/italic versions.
Google is fundamentally different from Facebook because they solved a really hard problem really well and then found an excellent way of monetizing their solution. People still use Google today largely because it works better than the other options out there. Further, the other options are worse not because the others aren't trying hard enough or spending enough on search.

To me, Google falls squarely in the disruptive and hard category. I mean no disrespect to Zuckerburg, but there's a reason Google was founded by two Stanford PhD students and not a bunch of bored undergrads.
Ask HN: Where do I fit as a non-programmer in the tech world?
Currently I'm working as an "Analyst" at a small (~15 person) software company where I'm doing a good portion of the non-programmer tasks. I file bug reports, test software changes, create demos, write scripts for our frontend, do some customer training, write the first cut of documentation for our tech writer, and handle customer support.

There's no real growth for me in this company because of the size so I've started to look elsewhere.

The question I've been struggling with is: How do I market myself? Where do I go from here? What would this job title translate to in another software company?

I do have a bit of scripting acumen but I wouldn't consider myself a programmer at all, nor would I want a programmer position. I've looked at training to become a DBA since I took a DB course in undergrad and enjoyed it, but I'm not sure where to start their either. Oracle University, O'Reilly School of Technology, Community college, Ed2Go? There are a ton of options out there.

I've enjoyed reading hacker news and I find the readership here to be very intelligent and helpful. So that being said, any ideas?
You'd be surprised how much money plumbers make. Check this out:

"Americans want and need working pipes, just like they want and need their trash collected every few days — sanitation being another service always in demand by consumers and not always in demand by job-seekers, and typically pretty well paying as a result.
That said, a plumber's earnings vary widely depending on the region in which they work and whether a plumber owns a business that employs others. Journeymen in cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston are in higher demand and command higher prices — up to about $250,000 a year."[1]

It's a respectable profession that pays well. Yet, it apparently enjoys lower status than software engineering, which is why feminists don't claim that plumbing needs more women. Do you know see how disreputable this argument is? The feminists are about the status of office jobs, and couldn't care less about equality.

[1]http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1851673,00.ht...
I'm glad the writer enjoyed taking the piss out of The Oatmeal, but serious articles responding to a mostly-tongue-in-cheek webcomic seem to have missed the point.

I wonder if he'll write an article next about how working from home doesn't actually destroy our abilities of communication and continence.
Thanks, I've edited my original comment to reflect my reasons. Have a great day!
Problem is , how do you define an "asshole".
I know a few people I consider complete a-holes but they seem to be very popular with everyone else.

Likewise I know a few people who are disliked because they have a number of weird personality traits but I don't take offense to them at all.
I do, and that's why I can demonstrate to you how poorly constructed your arguments are.
Ask HN: Landing page design
Last week I asked for feedback on my landing page.

OLD: http://www.appynote.com/index-old.php

After seriously taking to heart the feedback from this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3953543

Ladies & Gents [probably mostly Gents:)]

I present the NEW & IMPROVED:

http://www.appynote.com/

Verdict?
From the article: "Furthermore, Monmouth has committed to provide free Wi-Fi throughout the town, making them the first location in the entire nation to do so and making it possible for visitors to edit articles on the fly."
There is a great biography of Edison which was very eye opening to me - I did not realize how many patents he held or how many other inventions and innovations on other work he had made beyond the longer burning commercial lightbulb. http://refer.ly/a09m

Just in case you don't read the book, there is a story where they first got the lightbulb to burn for a long time... I think it was 30-something hours. And they just stayed awake sitting there in amazement watching it burn until it burned out. I feel like that awe is so in the spirit of today's modern startups when we first launch or discover something. When they "launched" the new lightbulb they strung them up all over the yard of Edison's house, and people came driving up at night for the event and it was like magic. I would give anything to have seen that.

I think its really cool that he improved on other people's inventions, helping make things like the telegraph and typewriter into practical, affordable, useful tools that lots of people could buy. That might not be as grand as making brand new things, but it has a huge impact on human life. He also created the phonograph, the first idea of "records" (wax scrolls) and did a ton of work on early motion pictures. The list just goes on and on, learn about him, you'll be surprised to find that what they taught you in school was just surface-level and there is really so much more there.
I guess, it's subjective to a degree. There probably is a slight grey area. But on the whole, I think its the "generally" recognised a-holes. i.e. some-one most would describe as an a-hole.
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I highly recommend Inconsolata:

http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Inconsolata
I would argue that "not a plugin" and "not controlled by a single corporation" are more than "irrelevant". Here's a few reasons:

- Want to port your game to a new platform (game console? embedded device?) - just get webkit/mozilla/<your favorite open source browser> to compile. Although this is no small task, in many cases it can be easier and way faster than rewriting the code for an entire game. not to mention this mandates one port per console, rather than one port per game per console. N^2->N time savings :D

- Not being controlled by a single corporation is incredibly important. Take iphone games: want to update your game to use some newly released feature of the sdk? Get ready for 1+ weeks of waiting for approval. Notice a low-level bug in the sdk? ha-ha, have fun talking to Apple's technical support. These are the obvious reasons, there are a million-and-one examples as to how limited access can slow down - and even halts - the game development process.

That's all I have time for now, I'll try and think of some more later

Edit: too/to
I don't tolerate a-holes who think I have to hand out a pussy pass to female developers.
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Let me preface this with a full disclosure:
I've also waded into the depths of many of the PHP APIs that the OP has used to produce this project. I've created a general-purpose PHP daemon library (http://shaneharter.github.com/PHP-Daemon/).

There is no question that the PHP implementation of these APIs (think: Socket, SystemV, POSIX, etc) is very underwhelming compared to something you'd get in Python, Java, or nearly any language. And it's partly because of that that I felt it would be irresponsible for me not to include a disclaimer at the top of my github readme:

For many reasons PHP is not an optimal language choice for creating servers or daemons. I created this library so if you must use PHP for these things, you can do it with ease and produce great results. But if you have the choice, Java, Python, Ruby, etc, are all better suited for this.

So that being said:

With a general-purpose daemon library, there's a 3rd use-case to what you described: People who need to create daemons/servers/etc that use a large existing codebase: maybe it needs to share the 80 models that run your primary website. Maybe you've written a large domain-specific library. That sort of thing.

While it's a little more difficult for me to apply those reasons to a Tornado port, I'd like to hear from the developers first before I dismissed their work.
"The United Kingdom remains the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Streak_%28missile%29

:-(
La Diligencia
Afiche de La Diligencia, película clásica dirigidad por John Ford
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think so. http://www.charlierose.com/view/clip/12125
If you look at the paragraph sample on the webfonts[1] page. you will see it. Also, you could type words like 'flow' or 'follow' into the sample box to see it next to other fonts. This really highlights the extra space on the 'l' glyph.

[1]http://www.google.com/webfonts
نتيجة انتخابات الرئاسه جميع محافاظات مصر 2012
I was measured at 113, but they probably caught me on a bad night :)

It is truly amazing the difference, not only in wakefulness but in attitude and ability to intellectually focus that a good night's sleep brings.
I hope they're getting a mandate to build gifting / ecommerce transactions into a revenue stream for Facebook whatever way they can. Bring back Free Gifts / FB Gifts with a vengeance. One-click purchase of products advertised in the sidebar!

And congrats again Ben, Lee, and the whole Karma team. They're going to do great things with the resources of FB.
No need to attack the author here -- most likely, he is writing this article because of the glaring factual inaccuracies in Inman's comic. He brings a reasonable perspective where The Oatmeal did not.
Nikola Tesla: Unique Genius or a Model for Everyone?
How does someone mistakenly choose mongo for a job fit for redis?
Belleza Americana
Afiche de Belleza Americana, drama cinematográfico estadounidense dirigido por Sam Mendes.
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Lazy function parameters using C++11 lambdas
Right, but while it is clear that the comic about working from home was for humor, some people have taken the comic about Tesla vs Edison as fact.
This is not a blank statement:

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...

Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3820431
I thought the success of Bell's Theorem suggested that certain processes (radioactive decay) are "fundamentally random" in that there isn't a latent state variable which is causal on the process.
4 Ways A Company Can Own A Market - From Peter Thiel's CS183
I feel that the error the compiler will find will more than make up for the very few seconds it would take to compile a game like Nick vs. Bus. I also don't think the single corporation and plugin points makes a direct difference to game development (I would argue it does if you had to buy expensive tools just to develop for Flash or HTML5.)

My personal opinion is still that Flash is a better platform for games, at least right at the moment. I have nothing against HTML5, although I'm not a big fan of JS as a programming language. Undoubtedly ads and such should move to HTML5/JS. I'm still not convinced about it for games yet.
That Wikipedia page is obviously the work of an Edison fanboy. Or some electric industry astroturfer covering up the truth about unlimited free energy from space.
This blog post is ludicrous. Seriously, how bloated does your head have to be to insert your own quotes in your blog articles? Check this out:

"There is nothing, in software engineering that can’t be done by other “non-genius” programmers. Further no one developer is greater than a community of developers. - Coding Ninja"

Are you so sure about it? A million mediocre mathematicians couldn't have achieved what Grigori Perelman did, and a million of mediocre developers couldn't have produced the tools we use nowadays. There is absolutely no evidence that a community of average guys could have come up with something like LIPS or Smalltalk. If you claim otherwise, then please mention ONE example. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants, and only a myopic cretin would deny the staggering impact they have on all our lives and our profession.

For further reading, dear OP, check out this post by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
Agreed. HTML5 audio is definitely a complete mess, you need shims and fallbacks if you even want to consider using it... but for the present (e.g., on modern browsers+devices), canvas seems to be the winner in terms of write-once, run-anywhere for games and animations that look great and run smooth. And since it is an open standard, we can look for other devices (smart tv's, game consoles, car dashboards... okay perhaps that is dangerous) to support it in the not-so-distant future.
Or
"Those with the most ability to flee do so"
"America becomes even more like Europe"

I'll never understand why some people think the 1% will sit still while they fleece them.
Really? I don't quite understand how you're using "tongue-in-cheek" here, but I didn't take the article to be sarcastic at all. I'm not an avid reader of the comic, but it reads to me like someone who's a passionate fan of Tesla, making a sincere argument for Tesla's importance relative to Edison (and further, making an argument against revering Edison at all), and then going so far as to thank him.

I don't know enough about it to have a position on who's more correct, but the fact that it's a webcomic, and therefor somehow "unserious," doesn't imply that the author doesn't believe what he's saying. If the point is being missed, if it's not that Tesla is an overlooked genius who deserved, and deserves, more admiration, what is the point, exactly?
The Oatmeal is a comic. He's supposed to be humorous, not "reasonable."

I don't think OP was "attacking" the author. Seemed like a reasonable critique.
Tesla did not invent Unlimted wireless electricity. He got low efficiency wireless power transfer working, but never worked out that inducing a current acts as a drain on the source aka you can use a high tension power line to light a few light bulbs just fine but the power company can measure the drain on the line. IMO, his problem was he was getting such low efficiency transfers that the drain was not obvious.

PS: If you still think his idea of charging the ionosphere could work, watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhZvyGtMrk But, you can see people walking around the field prevents the bulbs from lighting up. Just, ignore the audio on this as they don't know what their talking about.
My view is that of Copenhagen interpretation. where this randomness is also not the part of objective reality.

Many-worlds interpretation is even more extreme and less proven than view that reality is by nature random
SaferWeb: Injects in Various Ruby Websites Through Regexp
I want it to be fixed. Documenting doesn't fix the vulnerability.