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I'm a little confused about this as an assignment to a variable. Is that because of the 'return' omission referred to below? If all function f did was return x, I could see how this works with a 'return' prepended.

But if this expression is a line in a larger function, and is intended to reset the value of argument x if no other value is passed in for it, does this really act as an assigment to x? Because I sort of read this expression as evaluating to some value -- the passed value for x, or a [] -- but does this assign that value to the argument x? Or must it be x = [expression]
>"We have a bubble in education, like we had a bubble in housing...everybody believed you had to have a house, they'd pay whatever it took," says Thiel. "Today, everybody believes that we need to go to college, and people will pay -- whatever it takes."

And now we have a bubble in technology, and investors need naive kids churning out products so they can catch lightning in a bottle. And they'll pay whatever it takes.
The vast majority of dev workstations in the real world have far less than 8 cores and 32 GB of memory. Also it's not about "bloat" in some abstrance sense, I've found, but rather about the noticeably slower interactivity, the mysterious delays, the mysterious crashes, and the overwhelming surplus of unnecessary visual/cognitive vomit occupying the screen real estate at any time. Oh and Byzantine IDE configuration option panels. And the always-harder-to-automate nature of GUI interfaces. And the local drive bias. And every other "feature" they add that you're supposed to appreciate as some new gift from the gods turns out to be something you could already do, for free, on the command-line or with a vi/emacs-style terminal-friendly UI. I have a lot of experience working in both paradigms and I know which one I've found to be better. I think the last fast/simple/non-crashy/non-visual-vomit IDE I experienced was TurboC in the early 90's. It's been mostly downhill ever since.

I think a lot of shops that think they need 200 developers, and thus it's easier to get Java than Python developers and thus should use Java, etc., may have made a base assumption after which all following deductions are dependent. If instead of starting with assumption you need 200 developers you instead think we only want a few smart/elite developers, then you can have a smaller total headcount, a less enterprisey tech stack, and less mindless process and makework. I've seen and heard of small teams that run circles around large bloated enterprise shops for just these kinds of factors.

Also I guarantee you that in the vast majority of real world programming situations needed by large companies the software is mostly not CPU-bound but rather IO-bound, and any greenfield or maintenance development is mostly bug-bound or developer-hour-and-quality-availability-bound and bureaucracy-bound. CPU time is cheap and lots of ways to parallelize, defer and cache. Software developers are not cheap. Well, worse software developers can be "cheaper" superficially but end up being more expensive due to being slower, dumber or less knowledgable of implementation options, and needing much more of them. CEO salaries and their royal court are extremely NOT cheap.
In all of Apple's iPhone promotional images the time is always set to around 9:40 (sometimes I've seen 9:41/42). I'm not sure the reason behind it, but obviously in this case it doesn't look like it's smiling. Does anyone know the explanation for this?
In my mind, LiveJournal (April 1999) is the first really successful "social network". And as far as I can tell, it's the oldest one of any particular significance that still operates.
That makes no sense whatsoever. There are a few websites which do request it, and the header will do no harm to the ones that don't. So Chrome users will be unable to use that feature (going to be?) supported by Twitter, for example.

Did Google web properties use WebGL, NaCl etc. before Chrome supported them?
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Most real paradigm shifts happen outside the mainstream though.
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If a habit shows up on your today list, it will send a reminder. So for a 3-5 frequency, it will send it on the third day (and fourth/fifth if you don't complete it). I think that's the most intuitive approach, but maybe we'll find a spot on the website to make it more apparent.

Appreciate the the kind words!
Poetry can be an emergent property.
As is always the case, disk I/O rather sucks for performance. On the other hand, Postgres's I/O scheduling -- while far from state of the art compared to proprietary databases -- is probably better than leaving it to the operating system entirely, particularly for writing.

500,000 small hstores should perform just fine. We have tables with millions or quite possibly billions of not-entirely trivially sized hstores sitting around on a pretty unremarkable machine with a few indexes.

Hstore's storage format is probably not tuned as carefully (it's basically text) as bson, and yet its indexing can be richer (GIN/GiST). Binary formats can be overrated, though, especially when the amount of meta-information is quite or people use them with strings. However, it's an interesting area of optimization that I think will happen because document storage in Postgres has become something people are actually using now.
On Microsoft scales, very little. Particularly as a share of the project's overall branding and marketing spend.
Who's the long-haired dude in that picture?
Does the average plumber make more than the average college graduate? That is the real question. If it's even close, especially after accounting for student loans, that is an indictment of the current higher ed system.
The limited-run exhibit "Passages" in Atlanta shows a portion of a Gutenberg Bible right next to an oriental printed text from 700-something. I just saw it yesterday. Fantastic exhibit, if you have the chance see it before ends.
Well, I also agree, but I'd like to just add something to your small comment on consumers vs. producers. In this case, I don't think it's necessarily consumers vs. producers, but the divide among the consumers. Those consumers who can consume some particular piece of content in a way they understand it well, vs. the consumers who merely are looking for the tl;dr.
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Sassy, streetwise Max works two jobs just to get by, one of which is waiting tables during the night shift at the retro-hip Williamsburg Diner. Sophisticated Caroline is an uptown trust fund princess who's having a run of bad luck that forces her to reluctantly give waitressing a shot...
You have to realize colleges are businesses too. They are in it to make money. They need higher student counts in order to rake in cash. Anyone else trying to tell you otherwise, is a salesman.

My university did this 4 years ago because they needed a large influx of students to start paying off loans for new buildings etc... SAT score requirements were super low. No application essay required or test that needed to be taken. Our school went from 15k to 36k within 4 years where each student is paying on average 3k a semester. Do the math, the amount of cash going in is disgusting. Not to mention grants.

Anecdotes aside, I completely agree that high school has failed due to lovely legislation, etc... And parents should also be held liable for their children's behavior and education. Each generation's children should be more educated than the former.
I would add, write with awareness of standards, best-practices and portability; all of which is often possible through use of code that is minimal due to its heavy use of standard libraries.
Does it? I think the Manning link gives you access to whatever you have, but generally, when I've bought pre-releases from Amazon, I have to wait until the book is finished to get anything...
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is there a good emacs-mode for python that gives interactive development of the same level as inferior-lisp[1]? the python-modes i've seen only let you re-execute a file, but not a buffer or expression.

inferior-lisp makes all the problems bpython is trying to solve, irrelevant.

[1] example: http://vimeo.com/22798433 (4 mins)
It's utter first-world utopian horseshit to propose this kind of thinking, of all things, as a response to today's unemployment problems. It's like you don't even realize that there are third world migrant workers picking our fruit because every single one of those unemployed college graduates is, to put it bluntly, too spoiled and decadent to do the work. Or that the lifestyle of those unemployed college graduates is made possible by armies of Chinese factory workers.

I don't mean this as a personal attack on anyone. Frankly, I'm probably too spoiled and decadent to pick fruit all day too. But I'm willing to admit that's a weakness on my part, and I'm uncomfortable living in a world where I have to rest my weight on the backs of those who will gladly and happily do what I'm either incapable of or unwilling to do.

The one saving grace for us is that if we depend on people who do things we can't or won't do, then we can climb up the value chain and make them depend on us doing things they can't or won't do. Decadent as it may be to sit in an air-conditioned office and make stupid iPhone games for other spoiled, decadent first worlders to play, at least that guy living in the Foxconn dormitory and assembling iPhones all day might be grateful to us for making sure he still has work. I'm sure the guys who made "Angry Birds" boosted demand just enough to buy a few weeks breakfast, lunch, and dinner for maybe a couple thousand Chinese factory workers.

Pretending there isn't enough work out there and hence we should pay people to do nothing is just an excuse for cultural laziness. I can't imagine any social justice in subsidizing first-world people to contribute nothing and continue to live off the backs of third-world workers. Once those Chinese factory workers and Mexican fruit pickers are out of work because we can replace them with robots, then we can talk.
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I'm Christian, unless you're gay.

http://www.danoah.com/2011/11/im-christian-unless-youre-gay....

The blog post by itself is absolutely amazing, but the followups are what really make it. Link to them after the blog post on the last page.
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Marriage does not imply "monopoly on each others sexual-ability" (unless you mean marriage in strictly christian terms, for example), this is up to the partners to decide.
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Serious question:

Why should I get started with Node.js?

I've monkeyed around but don't get it. Maybe I just don't encounter a need for it when building websites for clients. Dunno.
The explanation I've heard is that they were trying to hit the time the iPhone was introduced on the Keynote screenshots. Not sure if they still do that or if it's mostly tradition now.
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Social Networks Killed the Content Providers 
Rather than just add a link to my blog with the full article I'd like to really get some feedback on this idea.

Here are the main points:

1. Today's social networks are simply fancy content aggregators.

2. Today's content providers have no standard way to syndicate their content while maintaining some level of control on how that content gets shared.

3. I'm introducing the concept of a Personal Digital Asset (PDA) as a potential tool in dealing with content syndication and sharing controls.

I'd love to get your opinion on this wacky idea I had on a lazy Sunday afternoon!

http://www.lanceramoth.com/blog/2012/05/social-networks-killed-the-content-providers
I'm glad you know so much about this, but don't let your knowledge prevent you from doing the right thing. All I know is that Givewell seems extremely thorough, and holistic in their thoroughness. If there were a major effect such as the one you describe (warlords looting villages for bed nets), I expect that Givewell would recognize it and incorporate it into their estimates of cost-effectiveness for charities. Givewell is really very good. (If you want evidence for this, read some of their in-depth charity analyses and see how many factors they consider.)

And if the effect of warlords looting villages for their bed nets is not large enough to make a significant negative impact on the charity's effectiveness, then it still seems like one of the best possible uses of money to do good in the world.
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> I've always wondered why anyone would want to join Starfleet?

Boredom. Hooking up with aliens. To get away from disliked family and hometown. Status. Desire for structure and order in their lives. Patriotism. Family tradition. Basically the reasons people join the military today.
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While I applaud the effort, I do not understand the motivation. When I want to develop something, I use a desktop or a notebook, and I'm never away from one long enough that I would have no choice but to work on a mobile device.
I patched python-mode to do this (also did something similar for node and a few other interpreters). Main thing is to add a "py-execute-line" routine and a few others as wrappers around the file execution code. If there's interest, might post as open source.

EDIT: here is a snippet

(defun py-execute-line (&optional async)
"Send the current line to the inferior python process using py-execute-region."
(interactive "P")
(save-excursion
(end-of-line)
(let ((end (point)))
(beginning-of-line)
(py-execute-region (point) end async)))
)

That's the py-execute-line function, which is sending code to py-execute-region defined in python-mode (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~python-mode-devs/python-mode/py...).

For some reason the default python mode in emacs is python.el rather than python-mode.el. So you probably want to start by using python-mode.
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Yes it does. The term, in origin, is not a topic that discrimination applies too. It merely means that in our civilisation lawful sexual intercourse is viewed to be legal through an agreement in between the husband and wife, provided it meets our sexual morales (you can't marry many relatives). Thus, he owns the legal rights for his sexual intercourse to be considered lawful. Unlike in other civilisations, for example the Mazdakian, where women were property of the state in a communist regime. Allowing legal sexual relations on a temporary basis when state condition were met. Where a man could be having legal sexual intercourse with both a mother and daughter for a few weeks. Part of the motive was that it was seen unfair that regular citizens didn't have access to the king's harems to do as they desire. Obviously, this was extremely discriminatory against women and viewed them all as only sexual objects. This is one of the greatest achievements of Abrahamic religion that such doctrines are long ago abolished.

To stress that this was the type of ownership implied. Never has it been legal right for a husband to allow a third party to have sexual intercourse with his wife, at the third party's pleasure. Despite this being the simplistic understanding of the term "his wife" may imply this.

If you want to understand terms in it's simplistic understanding, then I think you better worry about terms like sunrise/sunset.
This looks very nice, but you'll notice the Arabic unicode sample is rendering left-to-right, as almost all terminals currently are. I haven't seen any terminal beyond right-to-left specific ones that support proper Arabic yet :/
"No, there's no evidence to support my worry."

OK, thanks.
You're not denying consent, you're sending some non-standard bytes to their server which will be lost as soon as the request is processed. Without legislation, do not track is just an honor system.
I had the same problem with context as well. The first thing I searched for was 'onions', as I thought it was a food recipe website.
The really weird thing for me at the end of the "See how it works" video is the "A new research experience for students" message.
"If airplanes are to re-connect with their potential customers- or their potential to society- they desperately need an update."

Wait, what? Airplane travel is thriving more than ever. Passenger rail is dying, the FAA is forecasting a >4x increase in the number of general aviation pilots in the next 20 years [1], and it's increasingly more affordable for the upper middle class to fly charted jets [2].

[1] http://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation/aerospace_forecast...

[2] http://jetsuite.com/suitedeal
In case you're wondering about patents in space like I was...

35 U.S.C. 105 Inventions in outer space.

(a) Any invention made, used, or sold in outer space on a space object or component thereof under the jurisdiction or control of the United States shall be considered to be made, used or sold within the United States for the purposes of this title, except with respect to any space object or component thereof that is specifically identified and otherwise provided for by an international agreement to which the United States is a party, or with respect to any space object or component thereof that is carried on the registry of a foreign state in accordance with the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space.

(b) Any invention made, used, or sold in outer space on a space object or component thereof that is carried on the registry of a foreign state in accordance with the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, shall be considered to be made, used, or sold within the United States for the purposes of this title if specifically so agreed in an international agreement between the United States and the state of registry.
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No, it's not lighttable, it's real working software that you can buy/use now, not slideware. Kudos to you.
I don't think the critical challenge here is how to design a small sexy "innovative" plane. I think the elephant in the room (I love metaphors) is solving the problem of (1) who we allow to pilot them, and/or (2) whether they can be designed to fly in a fail-safe manner. For those folks who've experienced on a daily basis what the average herp-derp car driver is like, you should, I hope, shudder to think what it would be like if there were millions of those kinds of folks flying small planes around you.

In other words, in a world where everybody has a plane we probably want "planes on rails". Whether physically-enforced or software-enforced.
TIL that since 2008, Philips doesn't market its own products in North America, but lets Funai do it instead. http://www.funaiworld.com/pressroom/2008/080409.html
Stores don't track my payments if I pay in cash and give them no identifying information (some local businesses, that I trust and want to support, I will join their rewards program that allows them to track me). I don't have a credit card, so they can't track me. My bank can only track me when I pay with my debit card, which I don't do often.

The thing is, in the offline world, you can control much better who's tracking you. And this is why people get upset at CCTV cameras too; while you can see the people around you who are observing you, and choose to modify you're behavior by whether someone's around or who is around, CCTV means that you may be observed, recorded, and tracked at any time without consent.
sites which declare they support Do Not Track as a spec but in actuality do not support any of the features of the spec in a meaningful way

Seems that it's like P3P[0], in that it causes problems for developers but in no way keeps a company from asserting things that they don't actually follow, and there's no way to verify that they are.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
IMO they get at least 5x of their 10x by using a diesel engine, vs. a jet (inefficient at a range of powers) or avgas (expensive fuel, old designs, inefficient). Just putting a diesel SMA, Thielert, Deltahawk, etc. engine into a Cessna 172 would give you substantial fuel economy and cost savings vs. 100LL. 100LL is also taxed, while Jet-A (which a diesel can burn) has no excise taxes by international treaty (there are some other taxes, especially in the US). It's maybe 2x fuel economy improvement and 2.5x on per-BTU cost savings.

So, it's actually kind of plausible -- the problem is the diesel aviation engines have been VERY slow in coming to market. The main market so far has been non certified use (military UAVs), where eliminating 100LL from the supply chain has huge savings on top of performance.
Some research already points to this being the case. iirc, they tracked the subjects from childhood to adulthood and the results showed that self-discipline was the prime differentiating factor displayed by successful subjects (no citation, sorry).
I believe the MECOP program at Oregon State sets a floor of $16. 40 hours a week * 4 weeks gives you $2560.

I've been told almost all get more which is good because that seems quite low.
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Google also said they would drop H.264 support from Chrome, but we're still waiting.
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It is weird seeing Germans contrasted with Anglo-saxon, since both the Angles and Saxons were German tribes originally. I guess there has been a lot of 'water under the bridge' since then.
Here, "married" is a past participle, and the headline is in the passive voice. Headlines from Google News analogous to this post's title:

-Sleep apnea linked to cancer in latest studies
-Falcon 9 countdown aborted in last second before launch
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Plead HN: Please build a startup glossary
An important and glaring problem is that it is very difficult for me to explain what I'm doing to my mom. Startup Lawyer has the start of a glossary (http://startuplawyer.com/startup-law-glossary) but a lot of the definitions are missing. In true Hacker News fashion, we should solve this with a webapp.

I'm thinking:

* A freeform glossary with basic, starting definitions filled in by a handful of trusted volunteers.

* Instead of simply being a wiki (which will lead to rampant spam), registered users can propose new terms and updated definitions to terms.

* Proposed changes (diffs) are listed under each definition and voted up/down, like Stack Overflow. Eventually proposed terms/changes are applied if they reach enough votes.

* Markdown and links to other sites are allowed, but links use rel=nofollow

* A good, SEO-able and paste-friendly URL structure, like startupglossary.io/convertible-note

* Open-source and hosted on Heroku, of course ;)
Hmm... Somebody could presumably bake it into chromium
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"you are expressing your desire to not be tracked."

Yes. And I think this is important. For example, for cases brought by the FTC, class actions, and other litigation it might be useful.

If a company ignores the Header sent by the user and tracks her anyway, then one could argue the company too has expressed an intent.

The Header is machine readable like any other. A server can parse it and take a specific action based on its presence or absence. Arguably it does have technical merit.
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