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It is very hard to scroll the images on ipad given scroll focus implementation the site has - it jumps the focus to the same image or the one after the next.
> A lot of people hate the concept of an heir running around with money he/she didn't earn

I don't hate the concept either, but IMHO complaining that one would only receive $500M of unearned money instead of the $1B anticipated just makes the would-be recipient look like an asshole.

Most people in the world would probably be satisfied to receive a few thousand dollars of unearned money. $1M and they'd be set for life in most parts of the world. Anything above that is just gravy.
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Ask HN: How do you influence a group where there's a lot of big talkers?
You want to organize your group to do something. There's 15 people in this group - each with equal voting power. Three of them are loud big talkers who sound utterly confident in their ideas except the ideas they have are very bad. The rest of the group seem to be ready to choose them to lead.

Your a quiet talker who likes verifying an idea to see if there's a chance it will work. Nobody is paying attention to you and the three loud talkers are always interrupting you.

Most of the other members of the group are just those who'll follow whoever is in charge but they get to choose who is in charge.

What do you do?
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Are you suggesting the U.S. government which is currently over 15 trillion dollars in debt and climbing would be better at planing for people's retirement? Because all evidence points to the contrary (for example if there is a surplus in social security taxes they spend the money on other stuff instead of saving or investing it). In fact one of the reasons it's so hard to save for retirement these days is because interest rates are being kept insanely low by government policy in order to support the ballooning debt.

What ever happened to spending less and saving more, and since when did having to move into a smaller house and spend less extravagantly in retirement become some horrible hardship that required collective intervention?
there is a source field on the upload form..
The beauty of US-style propaganda is it isn't done through state organs, but by covert infiltration of private organizations. Elements of propaganda are introduced this way into otherwise legitimate content. The propaganda exists as a parasite on a host of legitimacy and ends up being unwittingly spread by citizens themselves. By influencing popular media, the propaganda elements influence the tone of culture.
I'm not saying what did or didn't happen but enough flags will kick something off of the front page reasonably quickly, it's not necessarily mods or admins.
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> I've been thinking for a while that Lua and especially LuaJIT are so good that there might exist a strategy to do an end run around vendors and get LuaJIT into browsers as (initially) a plug-in. It's possible that there's a killer app waiting to be written that could run well in LuaJIT (but not JS) and that this could drive installation of such a plug-in.

Please don't create yet another plugin. Plugins are bad for the web, they fragment it and if they end up de-facto standards that causes many problems too.

> It's possible that there's a killer app waiting to be written that could run well in LuaJIT (but not JS) and that this could drive installation of such a plug-in.

If you think there is something that needs improving in the web platform, contributing to that would be the best thing. If you have such a killer app that does not run well enough in current JS engines, you can contribute to one of the three open source JS engines to make it able to run your killer app.
The world is almost certainly deterministic. Either that, or the cosmos is rolling dice in quantum mechanics wave collapse. It's hard to see how any sort of mystical "free will" can come out of a random number generator. We are all just very complex computer programs running on meat machines.

These revelations make the common mystical use of the term "free will" rather meaningless. What could it possibly amount to? That you have a different mind living in your "soul" that makes your real decisions for you, while your physical brain is just some sort of fancy transceiver?

That's rather doubtful, if you ask me. On the other hand, the notion of "free will" that no one is holding a gun to your head still stands.

On the philosophical issue of whom to hold responsible for intelligent computer programs gone terribly wrong, I'm not sure that there is any real answer to that question. What should be clear, however, is that society has a right to defend itself against such rogue entities and to disincentivize such entities from doing bad things.

What should also be clear, however, is that there is no moral good to increasing the suffering of people (i.e., intelligent programs) just because they happened to get saddled with a bum program.
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Yup that's because the scroll events are triggered as soon as the scrolling is done. We'll find a fix for that though. Thanks for your feedback!
Insurance-linked savings are popular ways of saving in many countries, and annuities are also common.
Speaking of correlation, it would be interesting to see if there is one between the publication of these two WSJ articles and the sales of standing desks.
It is completely irrelevant how the world would be if everyone did X, since it will never happen. The only benefit of not using patents is a righteous feeling.

It would be much better if everyone who choose to not use patents would instead use patents to earn more money, and use this extra money to lobby their governments to change the laws. It will have a drastically higher ROI.
Have you ever A/B tested picodollar pricing agains full dollar pricing?
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Berlin isn't a great place to hire developers:

1) Employees get lots more legal rights in Germany compared to the US. I don't know if this is the case among startups but certainly at larger german companies I've seen the programmers are unionized. So when you don't get that next round of funding and are forced to reduce headcount you'll pretty much have to fire the employees in the US office before you can fire the ones in the Berlin office.

2) Berlin in particular has a talent crunch, there aren't enough developers for the companies already there. Many of the top-tier developers are drawn to Frankfurt where the large companies are based (i.e where the money is). Many tech companies in Berlin resort to importing developers from elsewhere in the EU.
Now this is interesting. I've had an RSS reader/platform on the backburner for a while, and was considering a similar revshare concept. It seems like a really great idea, especially for a new platform. Nothing like direct financial incentive to attract third-party devs.
> The school he's looking at doesn't offer a BS in Math, but it does offer other BSes.

Sounds similar to UC Berkeley. The do offer BSes, but not in math.

Here are some majors that offer only BA, not BS:

math, applied math, physics, earth and planetary sciences,
molecular and cell biology, astrophysics

Here are some majors that offer only BS, not BA:

chemical engineering, nutritional science,
molecular environmental biology, molecular
toxicology, business administration,
engineering

And here are some that offer both:

chemistry, computer science, environmental sciences

The reason the latter three offer both is that you can take these from two different colleges. You can get your computer science degree, for instance, from the College of Engineering, in which case it is a BS, or from the College of Letters and Science, in which case it is a BA.

There are also schools where the only difference between the BA and BS is in the requirements for electives outside your major. For instance, I recall one school where a BA required a certain number of units in a foreign language. The BA and BS required the same total number of units and the same required courses in the major--the BA simply required that you include in your electives a foreign language.

There are even schools where the requirements for BA and BS are exactly the same. When you fill out the form where you tell them how you want your name spelled on your diploma, you also check a box to say whether you want it to be a BA or BS.

When interviewing a candidate, you really should place no stock whatsoever in BA vs. BS, unless you know that his school offers both and you know the differences between them. There are just too many exceptions to make any kind of generalization about the two that won't give too high of a misclassification risk.
I made my own standing desk and I've been using it for a year now. I won't go back because just by doing that, I have more energy through the day. Who cares what the flip-flopping WSJ keeps saying.
I'm thinking the different models will work for some classes/ students, and not for others.

I just signed up for the "Fantasy and Science Fiction" class on Coursera. The professor seems to be intelligent and well-spoken. And the traditional lecture style works for me because I'll be listening while at work, and won't be able to have the video onscreen.

On the other hand, the intro video for the physics class on Udacity seems very engaging. The teacher is moving about, showing experiments, and will be travelling around the world, interviewing experts while teaching the class.

It makes me think about the evolution of writing from the stage to the screen. When actors were confined to a stage, dialogue was just between a few people sitting in a static scene - actions were kept to a minimum. The story was divided into distinct acts for set changes. With modern films, actors perform complex actions while speaking, we can have close-ups to show details, video and audio tracks can be separated, we can jump from a living room to Space battle and back again in a couple of seconds.

Udacity seems to have made that realisation - that they're not confined to that single medium shot of the desk. They can make material more engaging, incorporate other media, props; instantly change locations, or teach through visual demonstration rather than speech.

I'm not very technical, but I did try the AI class - it felt a little dumbed down to me so I lost interest.

It will be interesting to see what other websites and services people come up with to add value to online education. I'm thinking of things like:

* Study group sites: people meet in cafes or libraries to go through class materials together. To work on class projects, or build business ideas together. You could have people with complimentary knowledge meeting up to collaborate on projects.

* Career guidance: You could do a test to determine what your strengths and interests are, and the site would give you career and education options - then select courses for you to complete with certification.

* Education portfolio: A student may want to have a collection of their best essays and projects to demonstrate their knowledge to gain employment or an internship.

* Research projects: There could be a site which shows the premise of student's research topics. Labs or real-world universities could headhunt people with promising ideas.

Actually, what I really want out of these online universities is an archive of endangered courses. A lot of people seem to want pure technical skills at the moment. But there are so many niche courses in the arts and humanities which are difficult to maintain in real-world universities, and lot of them go extinct.

I hope one of these sites reaches out to professors who are no longer teaching, and get all of their coursework online. I want to have entire courses on, say, a small tribe in Papua New Guinea, concepts of gender and sexuality in some fallen civilisation.

And I also want to have courses from different cultures and languages subtitled with English - bush survival knowledge of indigenous Australians; or old Japanese art techniques.
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If removing the safety net would fix things, why were they ever broken enough for the safety net to be put in place in the first place?

You're assuming that's the reason it was put there in the first place. I don't think that's the case. Before modern politics, it was as effective to solicit voters with promises of free goodies as it is now to solicit corporations.

I don't particularly want any of that back -- it would limit my mobility and flexibility, and I don't want to stay in one place forever

(Not sure I know what you're arguing here, so forgive me if I've misinterpreted your point) You should be allowed to make that choice. Forcing people to "come together and find common solutions that protect us all from risk" (read: implement more taxes, have gov't take care of us) eliminates much of that choice. Not only long term choice, but the sort of short term choice you seem to be talking about (mobility and flexibility). Head over to Europe to see. High taxes, incredible benefits, and a system that makes it nearly impossible to fire workers (even private workers), makes finding work very, very difficult. Unemployment for those under 24 is over 50% in Spain and Greece, and not much better in most other EU countries.
Neat.

You and I will have a very similar story. The only difference is that I started working as a full-time web developer at my university after I was already taking classes here... I got the job a couple of weeks after my 30th birthday.
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The problem is with the pricing. As someone else mentioned, they wanted to take the fight to the Kindle Fire and hence started at $200. I get that.

However, I still think that Google could have taken control, and released it's own hardware (although the Nexus 7 is an Asus tablet first shown at CES ... mostly) with some profit($249 as the starting price) built into the equation, and still sold boatloads.
LPTHW is excellent, although if you are interested in doing something with videos and the structure of a course, Udacity does use python, and their courses are available whenever you want. You could do CS 101 with him there (even after finishing LPTHW).

Also, you are awesome.
Sorry, I was writing this on the go. You are obviously right.
That's nice that she likes it. What makes it rubbish is that it's generally far less intricate, with far fewer separate pieces and far fewer assembly steps. These things are what makes lego so neat. What you have here is rubbish lego, with a picture of a flower on. Great.
These studies on sitting on completely overblown. One of the most consistent findings that holds true across all cultures is that the more years of schooling people have, the longer they live. If sitting was really all bad for you, this wouldn't be the case since not only is schooling a highly sedentary activity, but people with more schooling are also much more likely to have sedentary jobs.
it's possible to use a code formatter to expand a minified file

If you go to that length you can just as well use a decompiler, no difference.
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As an end-user of these services will I be able to identify which developers should receive my payment?

For instance if I run two apps that use their service - a game that I play every few days and a social aggregator that runs in the background all day long but that I generally I would like to define that the game is more "important" to me in terms of dollars than the app is. Perhaps the game is worth 90% of my payment and the app 5% and some random service that I tried and abandoned should get the other 5%
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His goal was obviously to wreak as much havoc as possible and he used guns; I'm not sure how it follows that if he didn't have access to guns he would have done just as much damage.

Also I don't know what the point is of arguing about how easy it would be to buy guns on a hypothetical black market, but I imagine it would be much closer to (I imagine) trying to hire a hitman than buy pot: you have to have connections, and if you don't you'll probably hire an FBI agent.
I've used numpy a little and I enjoyed it and it performed ok, but is python really a good choice for writing this kind of code? I'm really genuinely interested.
So the proposal is that I make more money if I make the best stuff...I like it...I just think that you have to define what "best" means pretty early or else I, as a developer, will come up with my own definition of "best" and it will probably look similar to my usage statistics...
when you need to inline C code, then you use ctypes.
it seems to be a common idea to use "whatever is the most fancy latest funny lib" because it's necessarily better. (and some older well known libs which are useful but may also be rather slow)

Obviously, it's often not better, as the author mention.

In my experience with python, a lot of functions are directly mapped to C code and those are nearly as fast as well written C code.
Some others are calling python code in between, and those are obviously much slower.

That's the main thing to know when you want speed. So if you start using fancy python classes and other crap on top, it's going to be slower and slower, and if it's code that's called a lot, it's going to hurt hard.

When sometimes, some code needs to be fast and there's no functions that call C code directly, ctypes work just fine.

Now there are some libraries which are well made (performance wise), but that's not the norm. It's actually pretty damn rare in my experience.
Almost all of the radio buttons needs to be toggle buttons.

I sometimes take the bus, sometimes my bicycle. I sometimes show up at work before 7 and sometimes after nine. I spend more time eating, but only because the company also provides breakfast. I code/hang out here both before and after dinner. My sleep schedule is as fucked as you can imagine, sometime it is less than 5, sometimes more than 10 and from time to time I work all night.

Which goes to say that I have no clue what a normal day would look like for me.
You're assuming that's the reason it was put there in the first place. I don't think that's the case.

I'm not sure how one could read much about what conditions were like in industrialized countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and not think that's the case. Conditions were really shitty for workers and the poor for some decades. People literally used to die in the street due to lack of health care; die on the job due to nothing even approximating a concern for workplace safety; die of cold due to no heating; die of hunger due to not being able to buy or steal enough bread; etc. Much of Manhattan was full of tenement slums with high mortality rates.

Head over to Europe to see. High taxes, incredible benefits, and a system that makes it nearly impossible to fire workers (even private workers), makes finding work very, very difficult.

"Europe" does not really have one system. The best examples of social-democratic European countries are probably the Scandinavian countries, which do not generally make it hard to fire workers. In Denmark, at least, it is exceptionally easy to fire workers. But there is also a strong safety net, which is the tradeoff: it's easy to fire workers, but they won't be on the street if they get fired. A similar pro-market-but-pro-services mindset is seen in other sectors of the economy. For example, the transit system is paid for largely by taxes, but privately run by contractors who bid for the right to operate it, unlike the publicly-run U.S. transit systems.

The basic model is high tax but high flexibility. I think that actually increases freedom and individual choice considerably compared to the American model. For example, in Denmark, people who were born with congenital heart defects have the freedom to start a technology company. In the United States they do not, because employer-tied health insurance means they must work for a large employer with a group health plan (unless they're very wealthy).
But does not fragmentaion drive innovation (mutation -> evolution)?

If the only progress that occurs are incremental improvements to existing platforms, then the web is in "maintenance mode".
Another tip: if you ever find a Wikipedia article, change the "en" to "simple" and you'll often get a much simpler explanation. More useful on math and science stuff than anything else, but for example: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protoc...
I think the bug itself is rare. A lot of people have at least few times in their lives reasons and desire to kill someone but they don't do it. Of course I agree that there are people who can kill and manage to live the whole life without doing it or just doing it without braking the law.
They're not startups.
I do not think that the whole patent issue is one of scale. It's one of
principle. Nothing and no one should be allowed to own ideas, formulas,
algorithms, genes or molecular arrangements.

Besides - and I've argued this countless times in the past - most medical
research is already funded by the government. So it's not like innovations in
medicine would suddenly grind to a halt. Maybe we'd see less useless shit like
the newest "Anti-Aging" creme or other complete wastes of money.

Here's another fun fact: only about 15% of the income of the big pharma concerns
actually goes into research. Most of it goes to advertisement. How in all hell
is that a good use of money?

Furthermore, this system incentivices the utterly wrong things, and this remains
my strongest argument against patents especially in pharma. You aren't
encouraged to find cures, things that stop the cause of a sickness. The most
profitable way is to find treatments for symptoms, which bind the patient to
your meds, often for a long time, possibly until death. The best example would
quite likely be AIDS. This is nothing less than completely, totally,
absolutely, irredeemably and unexcusably fucked up.
Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps
So do you really believe that the whole secrecy thing is just so Steve Jobs could surprise Apple employees at WWDC?

I believe sir you are suffering from choice-supportive bias.
The difference with English is that the more sophisticated vocabulary is Romantic in origin, meaning that if an American wants to advance past a basic level of German proficiency, he'll have to spend a lot of time memorizing words.
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I think this is a bad idea. It's hard enough to come up with a business plan that is successful for yourself, you can't possibly come up with one that will be successful for all 3rd parties as well. Central Planning is never a good idea. In this particular instance you've set it up so that having users use 3rd party clients/services takes money away from you, disincentivizing you from treating 3rd parties well.