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He sneaks a bit of sophist elision in here:

In the end, facts – not unfounded claims – will determine the outcome of the suit filed against us. We will vigorously defend our reputation and are confident we will prevail.

Non-sequitur: reputations are composed of more than facts. Not only that, but if you gloss right over it, he appears to be placing these sentences next to each other for two slimy (I say) reasons: that the reader will connect "prevail" with "the outcome of the suit," a connection the words don't support, and also that even if they lose the suit, their reputation will be successfully defended. Kind of a weird point to feel you have to make, and a bit of a dogwhistle to their partners and clients.
As a former contributor to Box2DX, I'm impressed with your knowledge of the state of Box2D ports, did you contribute to one of them?
> where there is no disconnecting from the web of surveillance.

When you look at what has happened with mobile phone cameras and police brutality, it seems that this kind of tech does more active good than it does passive harm.
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Davy -

I've been futzing around a lot with Hadoop since you last mentioned this on here and haven't been doing much SQL work. Any news on the development front? Anything new I should take a look at?
ActionScript running directly in the browser could be interesting. It has some cruft (much of it shared with JS due to the ECMAScript heritage), and the ECMAScript lineage leads to some weird features (e.g., typically its class-based inheritance is used, but it does include prototype inheritance), but it's not a bad language.
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I think you're underrating just how cool things look in first person sometimes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZA-57h64kE
Good point. I should have mentioned we weren't scraping Fandango itself though (we were using another source). So more so, how did they know that we didnt have a license to display these showtimes. How did they know we were scraping and not just displaying legitimately. Sure they knew we didn't have a license to display their link, but I don't see how that alone would lead them to the other conclusion. If that makes sense...
Agreed, I am all for making exercise a habit (and get grumpy when something makes me miss a workout, so I need to be better at simply making it a near top priority). That said, please don't buy bottled water every day. Get a reusable bottle, it's cheaper and much better for our oceans.
I'd still stand by the opinion that the browser in GBA is the same level of complexity as GBA in browser. They're interpreters of some code essentially (one of GBA roms, the other of html/js). There is of course a different human complexity of "how hard would it be to implement"... but if we're adding JS engine to the mix, the browser may be actually harder.

With classes / prototypes (sorry for wibbly wobbly explanation, my CS is not good enough to use the proper terms, which probably exist out there), you can pretend there's a "behaves like" relationship. To simulate a prototype using a class you have to build the freely accessible dictionary and initialisation/cloning semantics level inside of the class.

To simulate classes using a prototype... that depends on your definition of a class. Dynamic dispatch is already there, encapsulation too, subtypes just need a field specifying the name and cloning the right prototype, inheritance is on by default. Self-referencing is usually in there too.

So in my opinion classes can be substituted by prototypes in a large number of cases. Classes however need another layer on top to act like prototypes. So prototypes look like more primitive than classes and classes look like a special-cased version of prototypes. Then again, it's late here, so maybe I missed something obvious...
Are there any scientific studies to back the common meme of "Fitness is a cornerstone of success"

The ways exercise benefits the brain was discussed on HN before multiple times.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620529
How Exercise Fuels the Brain (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3047554
How Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

A search for 'exercise brain' returns many more results. Now it's up to 'is improving your brain function cornerstone to success?'
I agree that the default level (6) for xz probably errs too much on favoring file size over speed. My tests with compression levels 1-2 do indeed show modestly improved size and speed performance relative to single-threaded bzip2.

The fact remains, however, that I can't seem to find a simple way to install a parallelized version of xz. Perhaps I'll post an issue in the Github issue tracker for pixz and see if we can't resolve that. :)
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/ looked pretty much like that. The implementation treated RAM as a cache of the disk, IIRC. This seems like a better way to live than Unix, to me, but you can't say it hasn't been tried.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store
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You're definitely right about that.

Probably the biggest inefficiency with all the ports is that they don't pool vectors. In the C++ version, vectors are often on the stack, which is way more efficient. In JS, it creates large numbers of temporary vectors that must be garbage collected.

For my iPad port of one of my Flash games (written in Haxe, so it was actually being translated back into C++), I spent quite a few days profiling the places that were vectors were being created the most, and modifying them to use a pool.

Then some verification code in debug mode checked that there was never a dead vector being written to or read from.

In pathological places with tons of collisions, that got the speed from 2 fps to 30.
Why not cluster one dimension at a time? K-means will meaningfully cluster for 2 of these dimensions and fail for the other 998. Measure how good the separation is and stick with the best X dimensions.
There's not much to it. It was a few years back at one of the annual Space Congress events (http://www.spacecongress.org/ ). I was working for an aerospace museum and was tasked with picking up some of our VIPs at the airport and taking them to their hotel and then to our museum. Most of them had met at previous events, and treated each other like old friends. Two of them (IIRC, Dirk Frimout and Yury Usachev) got into an extended discussion about places they'd visited in my hometown. I don't quite know how to communicate how normal it all seemed -- as if they were family members talking about childhood, rather than members of opposite sides of what had been a bitter rivalry.

If you ever have a chance to talk to an astronaut or cosmonaut, don't pass it up. They are all incredibly brilliant people.
Hmm, good question.

Two cars: probably 50 in one and 20 in the other.
iMac including internal/external peripherals: 10?
2 iDevices: 8 more (CPU, touch controller, GSM modules?)
My kitchen probably has 10-20 in various appliances.
Kids toys and video games: probably 40-50.
Cameras: 4-5
Almost every SD card has an ARM core, so 30 more there.
TV sets, Sat decoder, DVR: another 10?

I'd say 200 easily. I'd guess most households are somewhere around this number.
That's what Ecmascript 4 was.
Since when have most companies or people affiliated with companies disclosed the fact in the title of the submission to HN? I hardly see how this is misleading, the opening paragraph discloses the fact he works for Parse.
On OS X it's merely `purge`.
The most important lesson I learned the hard way was not prioritizing things correctly. At one point in my relationship I was working obscene hours to get a project done by a certain deadline. The timeline was completely unreasonable - and my employer just as much. Sadly, I take my work seriously and will do anything I can to get things launched on time and this sadly involved plenty of late nights in the office just to come home and continue to work after dinner and even pulling an all nighter. This had serious repercussions on my health, my literal sanity and worst of all on my relationship. I have since left that job and have learned that prioritizing your life like this article states is extremely important, and you will be happier staying organized.
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The problem is a growing business won't initially understand where the real technical requirements are.

At first, Parse seems like a strategic investment because you don't need IT maintenance on the server, application deployment could be as simple as FTPing static files to a shared host, and all technical aspects of maintaining a database, backups, restores, reboots, DNS and maintenance is attractive to the weekend hacker - or a small scrappy start-up.

The problem is as traction sets in, feature usage and load comes as a total surprise. This is why iteration is fundamental to design.

Overnight a Parse user will need to run backend jobs on the data. Then what? Because the application execution exists within the context of the browser, separate tooling would be necessary. Or what if we needed to access this data from backend infrastructure in real-time?

My point is business demands are demands because the situation calls for it - not because it is planned.

While for most client-centric CRUD type management apps this works great. Its Paas-Rails for scrappy users coming from PHP.

Most web applications worth the web-space they are printed on does something special, or does something simple at great scale.

Access to the data, an IT-based SLA or other guarantees only further positions the business as an IT service provider. My impression of the product was it was targeted for developers and small shops as an application platform with crazy-easy deployment and management. Ultimately the aim is cost reduction in infrastructure IT. I get it.

But any long-lasting business with the momentum built into the plays of most internet companies will outgrow the current version of Parse faster than I believe the growth could be practically followed. That said - proving me wrong would be worth a lot of money.

Anyway - that was the thought process behind that comment. I wasn't trying to be harsh, but if you ask me this oversight is too fatal to ignore.
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The other way to look at it is "resign yourself to doing it." It's amazing how easy thing become when you just decide they must happen. I made the decision that I don't go to work until I've gone for a jog in the morning and it's amazing how much easier/enjoyable it becomes.

The disclaimer is I work where I can be into the office a little later in case I have a late night. But the main point is once you convince yourself you're going no matter what, suddenly your lizard brain has a hard time saying no.
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I wrote a post last year on my sleep ritual, this is actually a key part of me being able to do the morning routine. I'm still following it almost identically to how I describe in the article: http://joel.is/post/5303723252/creating-a-sleep-ritual
I'm actually using iron worker for some of my projects. They are awesome :)

But you will still need python/php/etc to process the file upload, as shown in the linked article itself.
I believe that the suit alleges that she was passed over for promotion several times - if that's so, then the opportunity cost of filing suit may be smaller than your scenario would indicate.
@viraptor (i can't reply directly to messages sometimes for some reason. is it a karma thing?) , So, what you are saying is that if you want to simulate A in B, but B needs an abstraction layer to simulate A, while A can simulate B more directly and naturally, that makes A more primative? So then does that mean that C is more Primitive than Assembler?
Odd, I had no problem reading your comment. It also has an unusual clean-ness.

Maybe period-less sentences are the future Throughout history english has already had many typological changes From a DRY stand-point capitalization and periods contain the same information payload Eliminating one of them would thus be good software engineering Right?
I've been very tempted to raise a fund several times.

I worry that I would find being a VC painful. It seems to involve saying "no" to a lot of people, and that's not what I like doing.
This is exactly the case. I didn't sit down and decide that I would do the routine exactly as I have it in place right now, that developed over time. I started simply with an exercise habit. Over time, I've been able to build on it as each component has become so habitual that I don't think about it.
Nice, it sure needs one.
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After using a few of these services, I realize why they're so useless: you never have a flow. You're interacting with a changing team, with huge time delays (hours in reality) in between request and response. In my experience it would be better placing the same email text in a search engine. Maybe they've cracked this nut though.

I can't help but wonder, why go so far out of their core competency? Maybe they've invested in a support team and hope to generate ROI? It just doesn't seem to make sense from a focus perspective.
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This might be a big boost for the website resale business though. Today if I want to buy or sell a website I have to handle a messy handoff of server infrastructure but if it's all front end + parse it's trivial.

I expect to see an uptick of traffic on exchanges like Flippa as a result of this.
These are questions users ask - that you need to work around
CoffeeScript makes the exact same claim, right on their front page (emphasis mine):

"The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, passes through JavaScript Lint without warnings, will work in every JavaScript runtime, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten JavaScript."

This is not absurd at all, it has been a proposition made by many languages in the past regarding their target. In fact it's kind of the whole point of an optimizing compiler. Whether its C being turned into better ASM than you'd write by hand, or CoffeeScript being turned into better JavaScript than you'd write by hand, the basic idea is the same. Of course you could theoretically just write the better ASM/JavaScript/whatever yourself, but the point is that usually how to do so is not obvious or not worth your time. If the average programmer's output ends up more performant with your compiler, then the claim is fair.
Isn't it the "microsoft xbox"? I mean, everyone knows it's microsoft's (and it's printed on the game boxes)... No?
Very neat and clean UI! Would definitely look nice on LastPass.
I would like to see Flyash you mentioned in the readme as soon as possible. For a monitor system, it is a crucial part.
It seems you are confusing a number of things. I suggest you read this Wikipedia article, it should answer most of your questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_language
Militant secularism is it's own belief system. They're as pushy about their beliefs as the well-dressed folks who knock on my door with "information" pamphlets...
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How is this a workflow engine rather than an interpretation of a *nix daemon?

I think this is a good implementation of a Python program, but there's - from what I've personally seen - a tremendous opportunity for an affordable, flexible workflow engine (that's not based on Microsoft SharePoint).
As a Christian hacker, I find it annoying^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H interesting your implication that belief in Evolution (and by extension in all scientific discoveries and methods) precludes people from participation in Christian faith and community (or any religious experience, for the matter).

I think you have in mind a very vocal minority of Christians. Most of us would not even consider taking every sentence in the Bible in a literal sense, if not for the debate with those minorities.

So, no need of technical savviness, advanced degrees or even high IQ. Millions of average Christians will share your intuition of "common sense".
Great post on the benefits of habit-forming. I've certainly found something similar in my own exercise experiences.

On a more humorous note, the first portion of the piece reminded me of this gem:

"I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. "
The author gives some info[1] on his former video[2], which includes source code[3]. Other types of this video: http://www.rtbot.net/voronoi_fracture

This paper may give some insights and even more digging: http://dilbert.engr.ucdavis.edu/~suku/nem/papers/voronoifrac...

[1] http://bulletphysics.org/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_qVjLGuT6E

[3] http://bulletphysics.org/Bullet/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=...
Amusingly, these are the folks who told me I shouldn't be pursuing this. I don't know who it was I talked to over there, but he was very quick to dismiss me. I have an outstanding trial request with them in any case to poke at it as they seemed the most promising.
These are things everybody here knows. It just helps to read, and reread it, to keep us focused, and get the support from the community, knowing we all have to squeeze 37 hour days into a measly 24.
Isn't that the running joke with string theorists -- if stuff doesn't work out, add another dimension.
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Any invite codes available? Sounds really interesting.
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Cofounder already signed us up, I guess I'm catching up still. I think to do it well, I'd like to get at least 1 or 2 nearby startups at our level participating with us. I'm glad the remote components are there too. Excited to be a part of this.

Also, I'm an Associate Partner at a local VC fund. What else do you suggest for how investors can support or encourage this activity prior to Demo Day? Thanks for watching the comments.
Hopefully they'll be smart enough to actually license the software. I half-suspect they'd do something stupid, like open-source it on the assumption that it would increase the demand for web advertising (since you could just use a tablet or laptop during your commute instead of driving).
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Downloading now to see what it looks like.
I don't edit HTML very much, but when I do, Zen coding helps so much. Especially since all you really need to know is CSS selector formatting.
I don't think latency would be a problem. But it'd be clunky and not very Apple like, given the simplicity of their hardware and that they've spent years arguing that hardware buttons aren't all that great.

Third party gamepads exist for playing iPhone games on the iPhone (via jailbreak or iCade emulation), but they're not very elegant.
@olalonde that's a bit of a cop out, of course I've read that article. That is why I'm baffled by the assertion that prototypes are more primitive than classes. It doesn't add up with the definitions of what amounts to being high level and low level. If you have something more specific to say I suggest you say it, but it's pretty lame to just wave your hands at a wikipedia article and tell me to figure out something that you've obviously got wrong, from my point of view.
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Lastpass.com works for me in IE8, your makeover does not. So what would make me want to recommend it ?

I'm at work, so maybe Lastpass wouldn't be something I would use here anyway.

Edit: I should note that I did eventually open it in Firefox and it looked very sleek.
Just so no one else is confused like I was for a few seconds - it's nothing of the sort. This is one guy's take at "redesigning" a popular site.

In fact, I'd really appreciate if a mod could retitle the site, because "LastPass gets a makeover (kinda)" implies a slight but official makeover, rather than "kinda LastPass" gets a makeover.
thanks! could you tell me which site you tried to install it on? I sent you an email too.
VoltDB makes some similar tradeoffs that allow single sharded SQL to continue to work as expected.

There is actually quite a list of things that are trying to make this work. DBShards, Clustrix, Xeround, and I am sure that isn't all of them.
Trying to help find, attend and share what is exciting lately. The sources are completely open :-) I have facilitated private events and closed groups to share comments and photos. I did this because I believe proper socializing happens in real world and the place you socialize matters a lot.

So far we've had a bumpy ride but I am commited to make it work to build a rather truly social planet!

Thanks @michael_fine!

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Majoring in the minors?

Who actually spends the majority of their time editing html?
simple - fireable offence
Here's the list of official plugins from the Zen Coding team for all supported editors: http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
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Zen Coding is great.

Idiotic headlines are not.

There are hundreds of reasons to hand-code HTML, and this article addresses why one of them is inefficient.