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The official cheatsheet is great for looking up how particular library functions work. Additionally, you can browse it to get an approximate idea of what the standard library offers. http://clojure.org/cheatsheet

4clojure offers many quiz-style questions designed to introduce various concepts of the language. http://www.4clojure.com/
Call me crazy but imho "most functional set of flatware in the world" will not have 2 forks and 2 spoons.
Hi Paco! Glad your kid likes it. Let me know if you have any song requests, as I'm currently working on song packs for the next update.

I'm missing some Churro Star right about now. :P
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Is there an interesting article by someone who did real research in this area? I'd rather not support Gladwell.
so pissed I missed it
Very cool indeed. I spent about 20 mins messing around and was thoroughly impressed. I typically use Balsamiq Mockups but will have to try this for my next project.
The author quotes Jony Ive on simplicity. There's a great interview he did with the telegraph on simplicity: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9283706/Jonathan...

My favorit quote is "Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple."
Considering how upvoted this post was despite being rambling and extremely deeply nested I think I have to at this point.
Did anyone read "http://www.suttonfruit.com/pics/urea_electrolysis.pdf linked within the article. That's a paper that illustrates direct hydrogen production from urine without electricity (a chemical process)! Making the whole idea a little more plausible.
My favorite thing about this is that it's not focusing on a specific technology. I'm pretty involved with the Python group here in Pittsburgh, but what I really love is doing stuff, not necessarily getting together and talking or sitting while someone else talks. It seems wrong to me somehow to make a particular technology the focus of a group. They're tools! And, honestly, they're pretty similar tools--Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. It'd be like if carpenters had Hammer user groups and Mallet user groups and Maul user groups. Can we just build some shit, please?
really shows what happens when you reduce the friction of collecting money from a lot of people. can't wait to see more of this.
If you're talking about MagicISO, I agree, I couldn't live without it. Windows 8's built in functionality is good, but not quite as good.

Here's the trick to get MagicISO to install correctly on Windows 8:
http://www.windows7hacker.com/index.php/2012/08/how-to-insta...

Just do that first and it should work fine.
"I’m worried about what comes next. Ads while I send email? "
Why is this OK if Google GMail does it?
http://www.suttonfruit.com/pics/urea_electrolysis.pdf
For sure, but I'm pretty sure Apple has been happy with this campaign. Not only did it result in increased iPad sales, it has increased app sales and iAd impressions, from which they get 30% commission.

The #2 iPad paid music app right now is a $10 app! That developer also owns the #1 iPad free music app. If I were him I'd be buying a plane ticket to Hawaii right about now. :-)
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Legalization this is not. It's decriminalization under state law, but that doesn't mean that federal criminal laws go away. The Supreme Court is content to have both laws exist in force, IE, it didn't suggest in Gonzalez vs. Raich that medical marijuana laws are illegal exercises by the state, merely that they don't remove existing federal laws.
The tl;dr of this article is that the author summarizes some really interesting leads on automated letter spacing, but so far hasn't come up with a winner. There are a number of loose ends in there that might be interesting for others to pick up and run with since he's made much of his code available.

Most promising to me is the concept of bubble kerning, which not only appears to work in the limited testing the author does here, but also meshes with my intuition about how to space letters.
For those of you that missed it, I took some video on my iPhone:
http://youtu.be/1Rl1TJG17Wk?t=35s

Way to go Crowdtilt! Looking forward to the next one!
There are a lot of industries where crowdfunding makes the most sense as a payment mechanism. There are always ads in college dorms for package deals on spring break trips to Florida or ski weekends - they will be so much easier to make happen with crowdfunding.

As the activation energy for getting folks together to do fun stuff gets lowered, I'm excited to see what event planning companies start coming up with. Surely there are new party/travel/event offerings that now make business sense thanks to crowdfunding.
> It really does make a difference.

It really doesn't :)

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470
This reeks of pretention and arrogance. It's fairly obvious and intuitive that expensive things are nice and that you should pursue them. However, the overwhelming majority of people have neither the time nor the means to spend hours researching silverware or dropping $50 per set.

Finding and paying for the best of anything requires more time, patience and income than most have. To me, it sounds as though Dustin has way too much time and way too much money, and hasn't a clue how to productively spend either.

Upsetting.
My takeaway was that simplicity = precision, not elimination.
I'd like to see this voted up for discussion. Simply because I think this doesn't sound right.

Always questions abound in this situation:

Why do you have a remote team in the first place?

Who is the remote team, those who are remote to you consider you remote.

I'll give you one rule of thumb. If you have two dislocated teams who have to meet every day, you're probably doing it wrong.
Yelling is rarely the most effective way to communicate.

I would say that it depends on the people involved. I for one would not tolerate being yelled at. I have been yelled at in the past and promptly made it known that if it happened again, I would not longer work for that person (or company).

However, other people (usually yellers themselves) may not have as big an issue with it.
ABBA is a fantastic name for a A/B testing tool. Props to the creators for that name.
I have the completely opposite experience. I find it much more stressful to own things that are high quality and expensive because I tend to worry more about such things. In general, I prefer to buy cheaper things knowing that I can easily afford to lose or break them.

Anecdote: as a kid, I hated going over to some of my relatives' houses - the ones that owned a lot of expensive stuff. They always seemed so stressed out about me breaking something and got pretty angry when it happened. I don't want to become that kind of relative I guess.
I'm really sick of people saying that you shouldn't wear a suit to a career fair. I understand the implication those who say it are trying to make, but it just doesn't work out that way. Any career fair I have been to, especially when it's for students, the kids dressed down are not doing so because they are confident and talented enough to not worry about impressions. Instead, those are the kids who either did not care enough to prepare for it, possibly have a class assignment that requires going or most often, just take themselves too seriously to be a viable candidate.

Also, to recommend that someone dresses down for the few positions that might be okay with that really limits who the student can meet with. While a few companies may be casual and willing to take someone in who didn't put the time into even preparing themselves for the career fair, many companies (including quite a few bigger companies that would be more likely to hire and invest in new talent) would be turned off immediately.
It's never ok to yell at someone.
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Clearly you don't know Jeremie.

His best work has yet to be done.
seems as if npr.org is having an issue with their ssl cert.. or akamai's..

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
and it's natural behavior too. doing stuff as as group requires making sure everybody is financially committed. I think that's the whole value of not collecting the payment until everybody paid/committed.

That's where technology trumps real life. if you collect cash from people, you have to return it.
It's not a theory, it's a hypothesis. Something doesn't become a theory until it can be experimentally tested from which inferences and conclusions can be formed.
Hi, folks, author here. I'd love to answer any questions you may have about JuniorRoute. Even though I just released it yesterday, I believe it could go pretty far to solve some of the challenges the .NET community is facing right now with regards to good Web frameworks.
I think the point is that villagers from those rural areas can generate power the old-fashioned way, by burning fossil fuels.
Whether the race was close has nothing to do with how likely one side was to win. If there are 100 voters and I know with absolute certainty that 51 of them are die-hard republicans and 49 of them are die-hard democrats, I'm probably justified in saying that the republican candidate has some large probability of winning, 90% or something depending on actuarial probability that some of the republicans die etc. But that's a 90% probability of winning by a 51/49 margin. Alternately if there are 10 republicans, 10 democrats, and 80 independents I may have no idea how the independents will vote so AFAIK it's equally likely that either candidate wins. The margin of victory has nothing to do with the probability of the outcome.
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What has been produced so far by groups under this banner? That's the interesting question, to me. Anything you can link us to?
Why are you considering only the unbroken line when theres obviously more than that? The patent is for the entire thing.

Considering just the outline, the nest thermostat is just a circle. Considering just the first ten minutes, Up is a movie about a couple growing old together. This isn't a pick and choose thing.
> Dustin however never touched upon this in his post so doesn't really deserve to have this raised as a point in his defense against the initial criticism.

That isn't what the blog post is about, though. Why should it contain irrelevant details for laypeople?
That actually was what I was talking about, cool I'll grab that for when windows fails (and the magicISO features themselves.) Thanks
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It's so easy to play the cynicism card that everything is pandering to mob rule, but if you listen closely many of Obama's major speeches lay out his governing philosophy. I'm a bit too lazy to dig up exact quotes, but his "you didn't build that" speech is a good example. Also parts of his victory speech just last night, and his DNC acceptance speech. It's actually kind of funny that you say he never lays out his governing philosophy, because one of his biggest criticism was that his speeches are too high level and never delve into specifics. Just goes to show that people will rationalize whatever position they already believe.
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You're ignoring the legalization in Switzerland, which is definitely the most significant change in global marijuana policy in the last two years until last night.
A little common sense seems appropriate here. I think it makes sense to consider 1) how important is the item to you 2) what is the risk if it "fails" and 3) what you can afford

For example I bought a cheap set of flatware from target 20 years ago and it has never once failed me. And what if a fork bent or lost a tine? Not a great risk. I don't really give a shit about flatware. Why on earth would I waste all of the time and money to have the "best" flatware?

My car on the other hand I felt merited some research. I spent a long time researching and comparing. Other items are important to me and I try to buy the best I can afford.

What specific items are important would be different for each person.
Yes, so we should literally buy them from the Museum of Modern Art. What a crock of shit.
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To answer the original question, we offer 2 things beyond the competitors:

More flexibility: You can style elements, and you dont need to use the bootstrap containers (or bootstrap) if you dont want to. This is cool as we've been able to design all of easel inside of easel itself.

Collaboration: A very central part of the design process. You can share designs with your team, create clickable prototypes to test your ideas, and everyone invited can leave comments.

Our goal is to make easel awesome for all your web work in a professional team setting.
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I'm not sure if you're trolling but this, comically, adds nothing.
> It's talking about apps that come with the system, that can't be removed

They can be removed and it's up to the OEM whether they come with the system. I don't recall if a clean install gives you the option to opt out of these apps or not, though.
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> It seems more likely to have precious little to do with the "value" you may or may not "add" to society. The taxes on upscale hotels (business class travelers, Presumably spending $$$) exceed those on cheap ones, etc.

Sure, in the end, it's a tax. No shocker that the better-off pay more.

> Also, perhaps as a counter example: Artists, students, and other creative types are now perhaps more likely to use AirBNB than a Hotel, as a base of working in NYC or SF etc. History evidences (globally) creatives tend to inflate real-estate values far in excess of any economic income they themselves capture from employment (in any major urban center). Viz: Soho, Soma, Shoreditch, Berlin, Brooklyn, Paris pre-war, etc.

I can only speak for Soma, because I've lived there for 5 years. The inflation in real estate has more to do with lack of supply around the whole city, a booming tech economy, its proximity to most people's workplaces, and relatively cheap price per square foot compared to other neighborhoods in the city (not so much anymore). Not sure artists have anything to do with it.
I never understand this. Where are all these unhappy founders?

I'm a startup founder myself and I naturally know many others. This is the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Yes, it's stressful. No, I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Yes, it's a lot of work.

But I can tell you one thing. I wake up every day wanting to do one thing: go to the office and work until midnight. Again, this is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

And every other startup founder that I know is the same way.
Same here, I didn't notice until checking the sports app. I was like wtf, until I realized it was in the app not the OS itself, on an app that makes sense (sports products in the sports app oh nooo) and it was the last thing in the list of big ol' tiles. VLC doesn't have apps, OS functions don't, Office didn't, just the store apps.

Now if they ever do move into my other programs or into the core OS itself i'll have an issue, they aren't really that bad as it stands. (watch video before opening third party programs for instance.) I highly doubt they'll go there though.
What is a good way to determine when your sample size is big enough to to warrant A/B testing?
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Over betting markets as a whole, it's hard to distinguish 'manipulation' from simple 'overconfidence' by a certain side.

The difference between InTrade and Betfair over long periods is the large mystery... though given the lags/fees in getting money in, and the fact the markets aren't that large -- so maximum profits aren't very high -- seem likely to be part of the answer.

There's a reasonable Robin-Hansonian-case to be made that attempts at prediction-market manipulation improve market accuracy over the long term, by increasing the rewards to those taking sides against the manipulator.
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Simplicity

Loving all the great minimally titled posts coming out of sbvtle lately.
> To me, it's rampant materialism to buy random items at Target/Walmart/etc. and replace them often.

OK, but how often do you have to replace spoons or towels?
The author brings up some good points about the potential for arbitrage between prediction markets. But in my experience, intrade has a strong conservative bias. This is more likely a case of people betting on their (incorrect) political convictions as opposed to intentional manipulation.

I remember observing a similar thing around the betting on the supreme court healthcare decision. The odds were 3-4 points more against the legislation on intrade than they were on other sites. The comments were overwhelmingly partisan and conservative. "The Supreme Court will find this unconstitutional because Obama is a socialist."

The idea behind prediction markets is that people will only bet when they know something that the rest of us don't. But we shouldn't underestimate the human ability to convince ourselves that everyone else feels as strongly about an issue as we do.
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At least he was weeded out in the election. For all the faults of our system, it does a decent if imperfect job of trying to keep the loonies out.
Lekan is correct. We've added at least one major product feature every time we've had a hack week. There are also usually a few featurelets each year that start as hack week projects.

When I first started, I worked on Palantir Mobile, which had its origins in 2010 hack week. I was on the Palantir Video team that won last year and Doing It Live this year, both of which have become features under active development.

Hack week is my favorite holiday of the year.
That's a longer term than political success/failure and a different conversation.

I don't think the moral hazard argument holds for the auto industry like it does for banks, and the auto industry is strategically critical to have around and in good health. But there are valid arguments that disagree.
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A very interesting one: "Never take advice from anyone who hasn’t done or isn’t doing what you want to accomplish."
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I think the author is getting at something, but I don't think he articulated his thoughts too well -- or at least not well enough to be analyzed by the HN audience.

To me, it came off as just pure garbage, spewing from a wealthy and/or insane person who cares more about the things he owns than what he actually does with those things, with a means of not necessarily communicating with others, but a way to convince their own self that it's OK to spend many hundreds of dollars on a flatware set.

The type of thinking the author seems to be making an argument for can consume you. You will NEVER be happy if you filter the world like this. Sure, there's a time and place for it, but don't try to convince me that it was "liberating" when you spent $50 or whatever for a fork.
Boy I can't wait for the day when we look at this screenshot and chuckle that it was even needed. My problem with Siri and others is that if I have to look at the screen after every command, it kills away a huge chunk of the benefit. If Siri was a human, it is the equivalent of having the human repeat what he heard every time you made a request to confirm he understood you correctly. That would be annoying. And often just easier to do it yourself.

This is one area there is massive room for innovation. I'd give it a few years before we can say a command like "hey iphone, text mom that I am home" and within seconds, hear back "done!". I'd know with confidence that the right message was sent. Even more importantly, I'd be able to do all this without needing to lift my phone, or have to get closer to the phone or speak too much louder than whispering the request to an assistant.
A single "allow invalid certificate" mistake renders the whole thing useless though.
I think you are not fully realizing the changes the world has undergone in the last twelve years. The convergence of Moore's law, nearly ubiquitous internet connectivity, Google, interaction design, machine intelligence, solid state storage, cheap, precise manufacturing, and hardware/software efficiency that produced something like the iPhone is a monumental human achievement. Think about how it has changed the way you work, the way you travel, the way you learn, the way you communicate, and the way you entertain yourself. Don't know something? Let's google it. I'll pull my microcomputer out of my pocket, connect to this vast
storage of data that comprises nearly every fact that has ever been discovered, query it by keyword, download and render it to a screen that I can manipulate with my fingers as if the things on it were tangible, read/view/watch it, and share it with hundreds or thousands of people instantly.

It was science fiction when I graduated high school at the millennium. Now, people consider it as common as newsprint.
Not sure if this is helpful, but I wrote a long response to The Best: http://blog.chewxy.com/2012/11/08/the-best-really/

In this I raise the point of "the best" being a meaningless measure as we're actively bombarded by lack of information and other factors that make us terrible in making calls on whether something is "the best".

I think it's rather hollow to claim that one wants 'the best' and yet doesn't discount in factors that makes one perceive something as 'the best'
A student asking if a company is hiring full-time engineers is not naive in the slightest. You're writing purely from the perspective that all companies behave exactly like Twilio. In my experience (granted this was a couple of years ago), many companies at career fairs are sometimes looking only for interns. Some are just there for some advertisement, not hiring but still maintaining a relationship with the company.

With regards to the point about Java, rather than looking at just the language, I would think it's more worthwhile to see what a person has built with the tools they have knowledge of, rather than extrapolating that they are unwilling to learn something new.
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I got a similar idea when I saw this link. But I think it would be better to have it as a browser extension that automatically hashes the password/passphrase for you, depending upon the site. Different salt for different website, that changes on the click of a button(to deal with enforced password expiration, or password changes), and maybe a different hashing algorithm for different levels of sites.
Actually...

The Romney campaign is reported to have believed they were winning late into the day yesterday.

Based on what their model was telling them.

Not "faith", but data. A model. Math.

I have a strong suspicion in there's a good book in this election- how one set of Big Data led one team in the right direction, and another set of Big Data led the other team in the wrong direction.

This to me is the absolutely crucial thing to keep in mind. You can have your model and have your data, but that doesn't mean you've picked the right model and the right data.

Not the first time that lesson has been demonstrated, and it won't be the last.
Here's a sample size calculator tool:
http://www.cardinalpath.com/tools/sample-size-calculator-too...

And here's a post that addresses this issue:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3004-ab-testing-tech-note-det...
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