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I understand why people choose the JVM, I'm sure it gets people up and running very quickly, and maybe if you're an enterprise java programmer then getting set up on the latest cool JVM based language is quite easy. But speaking as a Python/JS/.Net guy who once spent a few evenings trying to build something in Scala, the JVM just seems so painful to use.

I lost hours trying to set up Maven to download one library and build my project. All the documentation pages seemed to point to other documentation pages. I ended up trying to download about 30 jars manually, but the versions seemed to clash. I am convinced that the best thing a programming language can to do improve adoption is not to create a JVM version, but to create a package management system like pip/npm/NuGet.
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So propaganda against children is OK, but for children is not? If people say what makes them happy, what is wrong with that? It doesn't imply that it would work for everyone, but it implies that it might work for some other people, too.

Why don't those unhappy parents give up their kids for adoption?
Try it in all the languages.
3 Ways to Customize Solr 4
This seems to imply it can't be fixed (if it can, why do you assume the worst now?). If it is something that can't be fixed, what's the point of your bringing it up?
That's not true. The Windows 8 Pro "System Builder" license is the same price as 7 Pro, not "more expensive than ever." The upgrade is only $40 for the next two months, going up to $70 in February, which is the cheapest its ever been. So, they took more than a couple dollars off the price. Happy?

I'm still having the hardest time understanding why you seem to be so angry about this, of all things to focus on about Windows 8.
Are online backup companies ripping you off?
It seems like sites like this are becoming more popular, or at least the idea of them is. This is the second one I've seen recently, the other is http://www.codewa.rs/, this one looks interesting since it's for more languages than just javascript. Regardless it defiantly looks like fun, can't wait till the real version is released.
My recollection of his work is nothing but vague memories at this point, so there's a good chance I'm completely off in my assessment.
The logo is unfortunate. Looks like he's flipping everyone off.
I dunno, some women can be pretty hairy upper lip....
Isn't that still about buying?
> OK. Let me put it across in a different way then: Why should a person with no or little experience be allowed to take a job which could potentially be used by someone who is a citizen?

How is this different from an American marrying a foreigner who then receives green card and can work wherever? He/she may not have any experience and yet will take over someone else's job. On one hand we have a person with expertise that is in high demand on the other hand we have a citizen who just happened to be born on the USA soil, why should we treat their families differently? Especially that we have confirmed that the former is an asset to the economy.
The Real Startup Curves
Well, and has Kickstarter considered the impact on people not trusting the information provided? Have they considered that this may ruin their business?
Collaborative Fund • WillWorkFor is a collaboration
This plays too much into the dumb Republicans stereotype to be believable. "We-ell, if I'm not usin' as much 'lectricity as Jimmy down the road, I must be missin' out on the 'Murican dream!" It's hard to believe that this mentality is prevalent enough in any group to affect overall energy consumption meaningfully.

I could believe that a few people who are in the "below average use" bucket might take these reports as a confirmation that they can relax their energy conservation efforts, but I can't believe that any meaningful number of people would actively increase their usage to "catch up" to their neighbors.
That's one way to look at it but you are skewing towards a certain demographic by putting up a whole pile of demands before the application process has even begun that rules out a large portion of the potential applicants.

The net effect of that is that you will find in your pool of applicants a dis-proportionally high number of young single males and single females from a limited geographic region.

Whether that is cause or effect isn't really all that important, it's just a fact and if that increases the chances for success of the companies you fund then so much the better.
Is Entrepreneurship Better with a Social Mission? - Business Insider
One of the biggest fears when the Star Wars program was launched was if it actually succeeded, there would be little hesitation by the military to be more aggressive since they would then believe they could survive reprisals.
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There has been a lot of blogs comparing elasticsearch to solr but I haven't seen anything yet that compares how they can be extended. This blog is about how Java developers can subclass solr classes in order to enhance its search capabilities. Is elasticsearch designed in such a way as to accommodate that kind of customization?
It's Smalltalk, not SmallTalk.

I would hate to live in a world in which people do functional programming because they heard on a forum somewhere that it is the future, rather than because they understand the benefits and tradeoffs and have chosen functional programming intentionally. The problems you're describing aren't universally relevant.

I strongly doubt that the big programming languages of the future are going to be as homogeneous as the big languages of the past.
Probably depends more on the stocks of the resellers and where you are ordering from.
You're confusing cost with price.

The cost is $1000 - $2000 per household.

The price of your mobile plan may be $1000+ for 2 years.
The cost of your mobile plan is probably $300 for the handset, and $100 for the service.

As you usually end up paying for the customer edge device with connection/first year costs with internet, then you can remove the cost of your handset from the comparison.
Expecting and planning for failure is definitely a good system to use for losing weight and exercise. Tim Ferris's famous slow carb diet (which has me down 50lbs this year) is based on one day a week breaking the habit and allowing yourself to not feel guilty about it. That was a big factor for me being consistent on the diet plan. I knew if I eat bad today, guilt, but if I eat bad in 3 days, pleasure.

Exercise is a great habit building tool because when you start off, you can really only get better. 30 minutes working out can turn into an hour can turn into 2 hours. And you start to enjoy it more as you go along and learn new things.

Reading is also a good habit to build on. I had an english teacher in high school that would assign 5-10 pages of reading every night. It made the class discussions meaningful because instead of expecting people to be in the habit of reading 50 pages of a book/night he knew he had to build the habit to read. The rest of my teachers expected us to be readers, and didn't focus at all on the habit building side of it.
Well that's a nice panel.
I think some of those aren't bad. It seems like a few of those points are things that you maybe had a hard time coping with or know someone who has and so now you're saying this is a negative consequence of schooling.

Learning to self-censor is a good thing. It doesn't mean you stop thinking independently, it just means you learn what's appropriate to say to whom, and how, and when, and where, etc. This isn't necessarily a bad thing and is an important part of developing as a person. We can't go around saying "hi, I think you're fat" when we meet someone overweight and then applaud it because self-censorship is bad. Kinda lame example but you know what I mean.

Trying to be normal and fit in is also an important part of growing up. Because I don't know any better, this point makes it sound like you're promoting non-conformity for the sake of non-conformity. You can be normal and still be unique. We live in the real world and learning how to choose groups to be accepted by and subsequently fitting in with them is an essential skill all humans need to learn. I personally am lacking in that skill so I have lots of awkward social interactions at work and other places. It's not a good thing and I wish I did learn to be normal. I can still be myself when its appropriate but sometimes you there's nothing wrong with just fitting in.

Learning how to handle teasing (regardless of whether you are being teased or doing the teasing) is, once again, an important part of developing as a person.

These three points you list are not negatives of schooling at all and they are just as prevalent outside of an educational environment as they are within one. Furthermore, being exposed to these things and subsequently learning how to cope with them makes you a more well rounded person. People who don't go through these experiences and don't develop these social skills will have a harder time out in the real world than those who have. It's my personal belief that people who tend to spend lots of time online (particularly the stereotypical nerd gamers and coders) have a hard time socially partially because they have avoided situations where they would have to learn to self-censor, be teased, tease someone else, trying to fit it. There are other factors but learning how to get through these challenges would probably help them a bit.

Now, you do make some good point about second-rate materials. The belief that exams measure knowledge is also highly debatable and probably false too, I'll grant you that. That said, the rest of your points sound more like a rejection of authority than anything that's detrimental to people. There's nothing wrong to deferring to authority. We live in a civilized society and there's a structure to it. The key is learning when its justified to stand up to authority. I can see you're coming from a sincere place but I just can't get behind you on this. It seems more like you're ant-authority for the sake of being anti-authority and nothing more.
Gamesmanship? [1] As made famous in the old film School for Scoundrels? It's a very funny book if you get hold of a copy.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practice-Gamesmanship-Winning-Actual...

//edit// Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamesmanship
I actually would prefer a stay-at-home mom. The wife's job is creating a lot of stress. Women who work tend to be in a foul mood (just my experience anyway).
Group Based Leader Follower Control
Yup, human emotion reduced down to a one bit status in a field. Thanks, HN!
The issue is the owner of the trademark "arduino" wants the wording changed on the project to avoid confusion. If this is a simple misunderstanding why is the project owner being unresponsive? I am sure the project owner's contact info is up to date with Kickstarter since he is expecting a +$150k wire transfer from them.
Top-down and bottom-up thinking
Financial journalism isn't the most impressive thing in the world but one assumes that if he were selling the company rather than giving it away, the article would have mentioned that.

This "maybe I'm just cynical" line of thought reminds me of the comments that some people make about Bill Gates or Warren Buffett giving their inheritances to charity. Think of the tax advantages to the dead for disposing of their wealth this way!

Well, okay... if this is your idea of underhanded, it's hard to know what to say about it...
You might think that, you'd be wrong. I know what a relative minor is, I play guitar daily. I can play up and down the circle of fifths/fourths and improvise endlessly over the harmonized major/minor scale playing right through the changes. None of that knowledge helps decipher the purpose or meaning of the instructions you gave.

I'll try and walk through it.

> If "major" then switch to the relative minor, or vice versa.

OK, home chord is Em, so we'll use G major.

> Go Round the circle of fifths or the circLe of fourths either direction, but stay on whichever side of "major/minor."

OK, that's C or D given G as the starting point.

> Go up or down the scale, staying on whichever side of "major/minor."

So playing the G, C, or D scale over an E minor progression. G makes sense, same scale as Em; C or D... don't even parse for me. I don't think of chords and scales as separate, changing the scale changes the underlying chords I'd play under them, thus changing the key to something other than Em.

> So for example, a tune set with E minor, G major, A major should work.

What? Nothing you just said would lead me to think A major would work over an Em progression. G major, sure, obvious, it's the relative major of Em and just another name for G major scale, but A... why A, you haven't explained that above, your example doesn't match what the instructions seem to say.
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C[ompendium] of I[ncompetence] A[ssembled] in one pdf - this volume is a lifetime's collection of "what not to do's". Gives me the heebie-jeebies, especially the note on how to ruin a file. Jeez.

It is so difficult to build things, but so easy to destroy them.
I'd be worried about much more than 20ns. Someone email the ntp list not to long ago asking about getting nano-second resolution time, and one of the responses pointed out that light travels about a foot in a second. So do you want the time on this side of the room, or that side?
I could not do that. When I go to the gym, I work out really hard, and it's not healthy do to that every day. Whenever I try to do that, I will fall ill quite soon (maybe due to overtraining) - everybody has her own upper limit of stress the body can cope with, and exercise is stress by definition - no pain, no gain! :)
I remember reading a while ago that Google was working on something that was "like wifi, but better". I wonder if this is related?
Yes, the Government Can Still Spy on Your Digital Life (for Now)
I'd never noticed that it looked like that at a smaller size.

As you can see; he isn't: http://www.redline.st/image/duke-large-404.png

Gives me more impetus to come up with a better logo though.
I'm pretty sure Jeff specifically builds his machines for low energy use. He's written about that before. Keeping device batteries "topped off" doesn't use much energy, either.

More likely is that Jeff's house is poorly insulated relative to his neighbors. Or that the "average" presented is extremely skewed and not actually representative. (Is Jeff's house actually <1200 sq ft?) It might be interesting to see how many households get reports indicating that they are "above average".
Are you thinking of Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook?

http://www.amazon.com/Dogberts-Top-Secret-Management-Handboo...
Very cute.

Two thoughts-

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I might suggest that if you're encouraging people to study/memorize the names for YC interviews, you provide a downloadable/clippable version, that they can paste into standard flashcard tools.

2- You're loading Zepto externally through cloudflare, but calling it as an inline script. This is causing an issue where Zepto can't initialize, as the external JS hasn't loaded yet. There are a number of ways to fix this, but it renders the site unusable in chrome for me (Although it works in other browsers)
is there some kind of surgery?

Yes it's call vaginoplasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginoplasty . There's also one for penises, phalloplasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalloplasty

do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?

Some trans people who get genital (or "bottom") surgery report increased sensitivity, compared to before. Modern surgery is getting better all the time.
Bad judgment can happen on either side.

Being cash flow positive means you can survive for as long as you want and you don't have to depend so much on investments, which are a ticking time bomb. Investments should be taken for quick growth, but if you depend on investments for survival, or if you don't actually need quick growth, then you're fucked.
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Thanks, I'll definitely try posting!
Thanks! Will reach out soon.
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> It's interesting to see that the creators of BigTable and the early proponents of eventual consistency have invested the last 4.5 years building a system that adds back strong consistency guarantees.

I think it's a large misconception that these are competing ideas. They're not. They just represent different use cases: search results don't need to be consistent within seconds of events. Customer information, however, does.
Drag down from the top to 'close' an app.
Yeah well science sometimes is surprising, otherwise, why even bother to do it? I am tempted, but I'll resist for now to google for the article.

Must resist... :-/

Edit: damn it... Luckily it was the second hit http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...
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> #!/bin/bash

If there's nothing bash-specific you may wish to use "#!/bin/sh" (or "#!/usr/bin/env bash" if bash is required.)
OwnCloud Closes $2.5M Second Seed Round, Led By General Catalyst Partners
>So you're stating that most PHP programmers are mediocre programmers?

So, you are responding to a strawman because you just like to argue? Try reading my post again, I didn't say anything about PHP programmers.
WiFi saturates quickly. Throw a few dozen users in the same airport lounge and watch as everybody throws their phones against the wall in frustration.

Handoff between hotspots is also pretty crappy. I can walk and talk from one end of the terminal to the other on 3G/4G. On WiFi if I'm not sitting still I'm going to lose my connection fairly soon.

WiFi really is only good for one thing in a public space context: someone sitting down.
Does anyone know if an 'official' entity is being referred to by the term United Nations on page 2? I suppose it could've been close enough to the end of the war that the wheels were already in motion for the UN..
What political process allows you to demolish all those houses without an impossible political deadlock about compensation land rights etc?

Eminent domain. See, for example, Kelo vs New London, which held that the government can even take property and give it to another private party if they feel like it.

Dikes/etc, or simply landfill to raise ground level can handle the valuable high density areas. This was already done in Seattle 100 years ago, for example [1].

Migration is also a pretty easy solution to the less densely populated areas. NYC's population declined 10% between 1970 and 1980. Newark NJ's population went down 40% between 1930 and 2010. You think we can't depopulate Long Beach house by house over the next 300 years?

Please recall that 300 years ago, the United States and India were part of the British Empire, the cowpox vaccine was new technology, and the empire of Comancheria [2] was just getting started.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground

[2] Comancheria was an empire spanning Texas, Kansas and New Mexico, and was the major power in that part of the world until the 1870's. Rose and fell in less than 300 years.
One of Britain's richest people was a bum until he was 30 (and he did it all from scratch): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2h_GIP019c .. so you don't have to reconcile. Just be a late bloomer.
Makes sense. It's sad how we need an advertising company to revolutionize the isp industry. They are perfectly content to sit on their laurels and do nothing but receive their profits with the minimum amount of work.
I would love to see this grow, but it really looks like he has most areas covered.

I think the coolest things going on involve value creation both the individual user and the businesses uses the services. I think Klout comes very close here, using their "social currency" to push a modified advertisement medium at individuals.
Wouldn't a lower range simply result in switching happening more often? The amount of time it takes for the actual switching to occur is an attribute of the protocol, not the frequency/nature of the signal.
As someone who's also been in a long-term, committed relationship (12 years) and is not married it is weird to me that people seem to view marriage as the inevitable outcome of coupling. I have similar views as the OP explains below and would add, to me, marriage seems like a great institution when women had no other choice (i.e. no access to education/self-sufficiency). In the modern world, aside from the religious angle, it seems somewhat anachronistic. That said if people are attracted to it they should totally do it, but gazing on people that have made a different choice and asking them to explain themselves, as if marriage were some natural state of affairs, is odd, to me.
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Smalltalk offers things similar to Ruby, in a much more attractive package (imo). The language is smaller and more consistent. That's good enough for me.
Balancing predictability and ambition in startups
FBI uses Twitter, social media to look for securities fraud
'queer' (depending on one's definition) is basically "it's complicated". "Queer" does not imply "lesbian". She might not have ruled out all men.
Redline will be nicely documented. Private methods and interfaces...probably not. It's a smalltalk.
Fake viral privacy notice spreading in Facebook
My wife is pregnant with our first child and here is what we are going through right now:

- Financial budgeting and planning. Our expenses are going to go up by about $1500 (NYC metropolitan area)

- Everyday, we struggle through talking about what we need to buy for the baby, should we do this, should we do that ?

- Are we going to be good parents ? Will our kid turn out ok ?

- We are not going to have any more time for ourselves. Forget those dinner and movie nights out. Forget about socializing outside especially for the first few months ?

- Will I get time to work on my side projects etc. at all ? It is so hard right now and with the baby, it might be even more difficult.

Now, if I had to choose between not having a child so that all the above issues disappear OR having a child, I would go for the child in a heartbeat. The point is that you can always justify why not to want/have kids, but I strongly believe (my opinion) that you will be missing out on one of the greatest gifts of god if you don't have them i.e. children. Just my 2 cents.
Facebook countersues CVG-SAB over its "Want" button
Non-Relational Databases & Key/Value Stores
They would need to make Wi-Fi connections seamless from one hotspot to another, so you don't have to choose another hotspot every 100 meters to make your phone useful. The day we'll be able to do that will be the day Wi-fi will truly start to disrupt the paid 3G/4G wireless model.
I am looking for more information on key value stores. Can someone help?
just for giggles, this is a valid solution:

print """1
2
Fizz
4
Buzz
Fizz
7
...
94
Buzz
Fizz
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Fizz
Buzz"""
Kickstart and preseeding are very useful if you're deploying lots of hosts on bare metal. But in a virtualized environment, why use them instead of building a template AMI and then cloning it?
pg needs a better press photo than the one where he looks surprised at being asked a stupid question.
EBook price war breaks out on Cyber Monday
I ordered mine from http://www.newark.com/ and had it within 2 weeks.
At risk of getting into a political discussion on HN, they are. If Israel is able to shoot down missiles, those that want to hit it with missiles will try to make better missiles, at which point Israel will need to build a better missile defense system.

It strikes me as quite a bit like our anti-air defenses in the cold war, where we kept building weapons to shoot down Russian bombers, so they kept building better bombers. You can see the same thing with insurgent IEDs and US armor in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That said, I'm not sure that it will further destabilize the region. I'm not sure how it could make it worse.
If you read "red tape" as "laws" and "cutting through" as "breaking", it makes a lot more sense.