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No need to be condescending, I was genuinely curious.

At first glance, the two languages seem similar, but not as much as Clojure is to CL (or any other lisp).
I just wanted to say that "jash kenas" is solid gold and I hope he uses it as a gaming handle.
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I think quadcopter construction is a joke. Very cute, but not serious.

Despite having awesome computers and software for decades, construction costs are not going down. While some technology can be very helpful (cheap walkie-talkies are a boon to constructing a large building quickly), they haven't change the cost curve dramatically.
Right now, if we look at just music, there are some people in music because they love it and it's their life. There are many more people who are there because if they make it they'll have insane amounts of money. But pretty much no one can do it for free because everyone has to buy food.

If there were no more money and no more bartering, only the first group would stay in music and they wouldn't need to be paid for it because they wouldn't need money.

I expect things like real TV would go away because that kind of stuff is mostly to push advertisement and without money what would you be advertising?
Nice. I been looking for something like this: clean and simple...
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Your comment presents just one way of thinking:

Who want's to miss 10-15 years of her life anyway ? All the personal projects, travels, parties"

Life as an individual is just one way to live your life. There are a multitude of others - as a family (with children), as a partner, as a mentor, a dropout, a radical - having children will close some doors, but open many others. It isn't correct to assume there is one correct path.

So it must be a project that you should be able to justify, a rational decision. Show me your decision grid, advantages/drawbacks

It is probably sacrilegious to say so on HN, but not every decision in life can or should be calibrated on the basis of pure logic with a positive and negative column. It is (of course) eminently sensible to think about what kind of life you could provide for a child, but there is also a sense in which having a child is an adventure into the unknown - In the same way you wouldn't review crime statistics for every country in the world and decide to only travel to the safest spots.

What is the point at the individual level ?

Companionship, fun, adventure, challenge and delight all spring to mind.

Pushing another human in an already overcrowded planet

I thought you said that we don't act at the species level ?
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And even better if people stopped writing stylesheets that created unreadable pages on small screens. It's not that hard to write CSS that makes your site readable on any size screen. A page with no CSS works fine. If your text gets too small on a phone, you've added CSS that breaks it.
"But of course, what do I know? I'm 'only a man'."

Your ignorance is nothing to do with your gender. Please don't hide behind it. I know you intend it to be ironic in some way, but I rather suspect that you actually DON'T have any decent thought behind this tripe and are using some ridiculous pretense of gender-war as an excuse.
Why only make things better for humans? There are other things one could be doing to improve the lot of life on Earth, and it doesn't have to involve startups or anything to do with the economy.

For instance, everyone can plant trees. Over one lifetime they can amount to an entire forest, especially if you take reproduction into account. One forest creates stupidly huge amounts of value (non-monetary, I would say) that countless forms of life will benefit from for decades or even centuries to come.

That sort of thing should not be neglected.
I've used his product which I would rate as phenomenally good. Especially their Guar Gum.
Regulations protecting workers rights are not 'Big Government running the show.'

The US and many governments of Western Europe are supposed to be governments of the people. Why shouldn't the government work for the peoples interests?
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It is on Techcrunch, actually: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/25/body-hacks-building-abody-h...

But you're absolutely right about the taboos in society. If you're interested, this is an interview with me on Inc about my and my team's battle to make https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/ happen. Every obstacle an entrepreneur with a tech startup encounters - have a tech startup dealing with sex, triple them. http://www.inc.com/chris-beier-and-daniel-wolfman/venture-ca...
Never was there a comment I agreed more with on HN
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My company (MyClean) is looking for an outsourced or freelance developer. We're running a LAMP stack on our new site (not pushed live yet) and looking for someone to take over on a part-time basis as we roll out improvements. Location agnostic.
> If you have to "market" it, especially with a lot of ad hominem namecalling...maybe it's not science.

I'll note that you will never be wheeled into a nuclear-magnetic resonance machine for imaging, because "OMG it's nuclear!"

They were rebranded from NMR to MRI simply because of resistance to the word "nuclear". [If you don't think that NMR/MRI is "science", then perhaps you can take it up with the Nobel physics committee.]

The question is: Do you want to wait around for the state of science education to change (the US still is not metric, despite my 3rd grade teacher's assurances in 1974 that change was imminent) or do you want to choose your words carefully enough that even idiots can get past their religious programming?
What's the significance of jet engines? I'm not an aerospace engineer, but I'm pretty sure the 787 Dreamliner would be rather impressive to a 1982 aircraft designer.

But more relevant to the issue at hand, structural engineering: The height of the tallest building in the world has doubled over just the past decade. I don't know if it's downright unimaginable, but it's very real and significant progress.
It is a nice looking theme but it has the same problem that Metro has: there isn't anything indicating what is clickable and what is not.
Exactly, by default the metro app labelled as desktop feels more like the equivalent of the command prompt in earlier version of Windows than an actual desktop... a power user/administration feature that is shamefully pushed off to the side by the OS hoping you won't notice it.
I'm the author of the blog post. The objective of the post is to ask Kickstarter to provide a more direct way to report either trademark violations or lies (like this guy claiming to be a former manufacturer of Arduino) that might affect the people who fund a project.
The age of the stupid: What about environmental sustainability in IT?
I just discovered this crowdfunded documental about global warming http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/ if you haven't watched it, go do it.

I was wondering my whole weekend... what can we do to help global warming as hackers, devs and entrepreneurs?
They handle uncertainty by delaying the transaction commit. Suppose you commit a transaction and at that moment, the error bar for time (on the server that handles your transaction) is 4 ms. The server will wait 4 ms to tell you the transaction completed. The result is that if two transactions commit near-simultaneously, it's random which will be assigned a lower timestamp, but guaranteed that no one will observe either transaction until after the timestamp at which that transaction is deemed to have committed. Basically, they handle the window of uncertainty by pausing access to the affected rows so that no one can peek into the window.
This analogy makes me wish for a pin.

There has to be some way to breach that membrane.
This seems like a pretty nice tool.
Actually you're wrong. At least one security expert has written up pretty good critiques of why the screening can't actually be doing anything.

Also, there are other ways terrorists could hurt us that would be much easier to exploit than getting on a plane. Why has this never been tried? There is just no reason to believe TSA is doing anything useful. The burden of proof lies with them and their extraordinary claims that they're somehow keeping us safe with their bullshit ineffective procedures.
What's wrong with monticello? Ecosystem is a valid point, but I don't see problems with collaboration and versioning
I think he's referring to the print books.

I buy ebooks from o'reilly; idk why anyone would purchase a technical ebook from Amazon if they weren't forced to.
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Google's ui elements have a slight gradient and border to them giving them the appearance of an actionable element on the page..
This change in Android API drives me nuts. I get plenty of emails where people asking to fix it. I can only say: sorry it is outside of my code :-(
Interesting. I did my CS Master's work on Little Smalltalk, adding a debugger and documentation mostly because it didn't seem like Budd was doing much with it anymore (this was early 90s). Is SmallWorld more feature-complete than Little Smalltalk?
I was intrigued by the opening paragraphs up until she got to:

"Because no matter how many different kinds of public images women see of themselves, they're still limited. They're still largely white, straight upper-middle-class depictions, and they all still identify women as mothers or non-mothers.

American culture can't accept the reality of a woman who does not want to be a mother. It goes against everything we've been taught to think about women and how desperately they want babies. If we're to believe the media and pop culture, women -- even teen girls -- are forever desperate for a baby. It's our greatest desire. "

You cannot assert things like and not provide evidence. This is a gargantuan statement about society that is left totally unsupported. I think this is a very bad habit of people in the humanities and it needs to go away before I take this kind of criticism seriously.
With current insufficient political will to stop global warming, both the Greenland ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet will melt. When Greenland goes, sea levels will rise 20 feet globally. When Antarctica goes, sea levels will rise 200 feet. We need more than an adaptation strategy. We need to curb emissions. Additionally, we will face massive species extinctions, increased ocean acidification, food disruptions and stress on water supplies. Earth moving isn't going to cut it, with all due respect. A focus on adaptation ignores the magnitude of the problem, which in the long term is beyond the power of short-term adaptation to mitigate.
Ask HN: what words would you use to describe your favorite programming language?
A 1 min. survey: http://plwords.herokuapp.com/

Basically, I'd like to build tag clouds for different programming languages such as ruby, scala, java, python, clojure, C, C#, etc. The words would be collectively chosen by hackers themselves (language practitioners, say).

I hope that obtained results will be somewhat representative of the language communities, without aiming at conducting a serious experiment though.

Later, I'd like to see if people agree for a given PL. Also, if hackers easily recognize PLs when facing a given tag cloud obtained through the survey. Provided I'm able to collect enough data, I'll update the website with results (including generated tag clouds).

Thanks!
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These are some pretty silly examples. What would you do with another Jupiter? Do you really think that 100 years from now the 1% will be devoting all their resources to buying their own Jupiter?

There are still lots of reasons we need capitalism. As long as humanity has to clean toilets and take out the trash there will be people who will be willing to pay to not have to do that. But at some point we will have illuminated every single one of those tasks. At that point the gain we get from the rat race vs what it costs us will flip and people will be ready to trash the system. We're not there by a long shot even if people from centuries ago would have thought we are. I'm not saying this will happen in my lifetime or the lifetime of my great grand kids. But I'm confident it will happen eventually.
(I'm not talking unions, just about the article). That' what they're suppose to be. What we see happening all around us is government working for special interest. And as your government they have one huge advantage over corporations: They can force you to accept a single product or solution.
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Funny enough, the form elements look better on Win8/IE10
One thing I'm interested in seeing with my new LED bulbs is the potential failure modes.

If an incandescent or CFL goes - it's done for. But a quick check of my LED bulbs shows 22 emitting diodes. When it fails, is it more likely that the controlling circuitry goes or that an individual diode goes and it carries on at slightly reduced output? I'm waiting to see, but they've already outlasted the average lightbulb in my house by a long way - so I don't know how long I'll have to wait to verify.
> Some cited the boredom of stay-at-home momism. Many complained of partners who didn't shoulder their share of child care responsibilities.

I don't have kids yet, but when and if that will happen I'll try to make sure that the mother of my kids won't ruin her career and her sense of self-worth by becoming a stay-at-home-mother. That's how I grew up, with both my parents having full-time jobs, if it was good enough for me as a kid seeing my parents happy and all I hope it will be good enough for my children.
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because we believe that being on jvm will be smalltalk to a wider audience and over time we can leverage the concurrency libraries, profiling libraries etc etc etc that the jvm has to offer and build a smalltalk for the future.

we share the same goals as pharo, just a different idea of how to get there.
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The significance is that I have friends in the aerospace industry and from talking to them, I've learned that technological progress in this area has been much much slower than in IC fabrication. Would a 1982 aircraft designer be impressed with a 787? Sure. There have been a bunch of incremental improvements. But those improvements are on the order of 1%/year rather than Moore's law.

My point is that if you're spending all your time dealing with Moore's law, it may not occur to you that Moore's law doesn't apply anywhere else.

The height of the tallest building in the world has doubled over just the past decade. I don't know if it's downright unimaginable, but it's very real and significant progress.

Really? What technological innovations in structural engineering were needed? It seems to me that construction costs are not falling very significantly and that a handful of very tall buildings has more to do with the infusion of cash to isolated areas where land is (relatively) cheap than it does with major advances in structural engineering.
Personally, I've always thought Smalltalk's problem was the exact opposite: it tried to be a portion of the OS but not quite enough. I'd like to see a Smalltalk that took some tips from Erlang.
Word of warning, this definitely did NOT work as well as in the video for me. I can not get any models to lay flat on my hardwood floor, or anywhere for that matter. Pretty disappointing.
Caplan's empirical results certainly don't rule out effects from extremely non-standard (e.g., Polgar) parenting techniques. Then again, the anecdotal results of the Polgar family are also quite consistent with his thesis.

Laszlo Polgar and his wife are both obsessively ambitious and quite intelligent, and Laszlo even obsesses about chess. Caplan's thesis suggests that if raised by others, the Polgar girls might merely have picked up poker or math rather than chess.

If I recall Caplan's book correctly, "technical vs liberal arts" is suggested by twin studies to be primarily genetically determined. The separately raised twin of a civil engineer is far more likely to be an electrical engineer than to work in HR, for example.

As for Lutheran vs Catholic, it's certainly extremely important - if your kids get it wrong, they will be tortured in hell forever.
Good advice in general, but 50% of total isn't a good rule of thumb for the heap. On boxes with more than 16GB of RAM, this will likely be counterproductive. The exception is if you're using cached filters (facets, filter queries) heavily on a very large index (~10MM+ rows).
Ever heard the aphorism, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"? Your intent is to tap a negative to achieve a positive. Unfortunately, you also reinforce a negative.

Clothing a homeless individual with a rival's garb as a means to insult one's rival reinforces the idea that it is ok to use a homeless person as an instrument of insult. It is not. It is dehumanizing, and treads dangerously close to the line of thinking that leads to projects like Bum Fights [1].

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bum_fights
I see a lot of folks jumping to explain away this article. My opinion is that a lot of the HN crowd believe that they are disruptors, bucking the trends. As a 35 year old married guy in Houston, reading HN tends to give me the idea that if I'm not in my early 20s and willing to drop it all and move to SF and work for at least 1/2 of market rate for a funded company building a social product that focuses on traction as opposed to revenue ... then my ship has sailed. Articles like this are a nice reality check.
> 30 years ago the internet definitely existed.

Oh, now you're being disingenuous. The Internet existed, yes, but a total information revolution has certainly happened within the last 30 years.

> If the best we've gotten out of the 30 years of technological advances in the automotive space is power locks, I think my point is well made. I never said that no advances would occur.

Yeah, that's a bad example. How about the fact that self driving cars, while not commercially available yet, are street legal in two US states? Top of the line cars are available with lane assist and adaptive cruise control which makes them essentially self driving, if not self navigating.

> 30 years ago jet engines were certainly less efficient and less safe, but not by as much as you'd think.

As stated in another comment, I don't know what the obsession with the development of jet engines is. But you're probably right, they probably haven't come a long way.

> And 25+ years ago I actually used a cell phone. My mother worked for Bell Labs.

Again, yes, they existed. In fact, they existed quite a while before that. Here's an article on how some of the poorest people in the world use cell phones: http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2156602...
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Can I be a little harsh? From a developer standpoint, why on earth do we need so many new languages? Learning a new language and waiting for it to improve is a nightmare already. When Go first came out, I was interested in it and I had to make my own modules (which was pretty fun to be honest). But because Go was developed by Google, the project can sustain itself for a very long period of time. I say we have more important things to do: we have many software with broken security. Let's focus on that. Let's improve existing languages' concurrency model. I am NOT trying to say this is useless, because I can't write it myself, but there are better things to do. Read about what Kenneth has to say about Python. We need people to contribute to Python ecosystem by abstracting commonly used libs into more humanane packages.
Huh? I'm not at all suggesting that the budget deficit can/should be solved by tweaking the progressivity of the federal tax system. In fact I'm saying the opposite--it is very hard to solve the budget deficit in that way because what we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
> these people produce and create these forms of entertainment expressly for money

So? Disney produced "John Carter" expressly for money. Microsoft designed the Zune expressly for money. MySpace built their social networking platform expressly for money. Were their rights violated because these products were failures?

No one is guaranteed a positive return on their speculative ventures. People aren't entitled to be rewarded solely for effort, and they don't have the right to attempt to re-engineer other people's affairs in order to secure a higher payoff on their activities.
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I find it hilarious that all of these articles feel they need to explain how to be successful, and how to grow a startup.

Nobody wants to believe that the real secret is absolute determination, dedication, and a lot of hard work. It just can't be that simple!
I actually am suspicious if you are being serious or just trolling, but lets answer anyway.

Lets talk about Google.

Productive in absolutely all possible ways. Cleaner? Yes Safer? Yes. Happier? Happiness can't be a metric because its way too subjective.

Cleaner? People don't need to go to a public library for any question they have; so yes. Also many people used to print before they know they could find anything anytime on the internet; so studying required a lot of printer ink and paper.

More productive? In the term that you search absolutely anything related to your field and you find it instantly; sometimes you don't even have to click the page because the summary already answer your question. The pages saved in cache are awesome feature.

Safer? People relies on their own gut much less than before; instead they do a quick search in Google about how to do something wish usually includes safety recommendations about the task.

I know I am giving Google properties that are part of overall internet; but if a house doesn't have any entering door It is useless doesn't matter how full and complete is inside.