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Agreed, their proposal was out of this world. Never seen a company pour that much time and effort into a presentation before.
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A solid JS library for statistical computing is definitely long overdue. After skimming through it, JStat seems to only show some trivial examples, and it doesn't seem to be designed for being extended.

What I would really like to see some day is a JS library that extends D3 for graphics and controlling DOM events, that has a good standard library for common statistics (and that is easy to extend), and ideally a possibility to delegate computationally intensive tasks to C (perhaps FFI through Node.js?)
Hah. You silly young'uns. The internet has always been represented by a cloud. If his server is attached to the internet, it's part of said cloud.
Curiosity is loaded with sensors, these can be used to draw conclusions they weren't designed for. Here's an admittedly absurd example: if Curiosity's cameras recorded a Martian puppy running around it, scientists would almost certainly consider that conclusive evidence for life.
You haven't really been on the Internet unless you've weathered at least one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm ;)
I always love these stories, because everyone pretends to be a materials science engineer in the comments.
I finally got mine in the mail yesterday. I ordered it 9 months ago from RS Electronics. I've heard from other hackers here that they ordered theirs from other companies and had much faster turnaround time.

By the time I got mine, my interest had significantly waned.
I believe this is the relevant quote from the linked page:

> The proposal may feature a retheming of http://docs.python.org but need not do so.

IMO Python documentation actually looks very nice now (not sure if anything was written about that redesign). I hope very much that readability and clear looks won't be compromised. =) Docs may deserve some improvement from navigation standpoint, but this would require more than pure stylesheet update.
> In London we simply don't have space

That's what they all say. I am sure some said the same in Paris before the recently build cycle lanes. Cars and other stuff can give more space to other means of transportation. If needed, just crush some old constructions, it will give work to those who need it and it will give an axe to grind to those who need it.
Your comment is wrong from beginning to end.

Normal window glass is Mohs hardness 5.5 or so, as is unhardened steel (your fork and pocketknife); hardened steel (e.g. a metal file) is more like 6.5. That means you can scratch regular steel with glass and vice versa, with some difficulty. (Try it. I just did.) Brass (your key) is around 3 or 4, so it won't scratch glass.

There are lots of things with Mohs hardness above 5.5, including most common metals (except brass, aluminum, copper) and most rocks.

Sand is almost never made up of glass particles. It's often made up of crystalline quartz (Mohs hardness 7) which can scratch regular glass easily. Gorilla Glass has Mohs hardness of about 9, so quartz won't scratch it.
I agree. I looked at the wireframes in the proposals first and was very impressed. Once I saw the actual screenshots with the gradients and the dark color scheme, it no longer looked like such a big step forward.

That ebay page is pretty slick.
What you're describing is know as the Dunning-Kruger effect explained in Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (1999).
Cached version (thanks github pages): http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/
Thanks for checking out Mocktails.

1. Yes, the grid toggle is not working. It's a bug. Thanks for bringing this to my notice.

2. We haven't thought about the specifics of a free plan yet, but I'm pretty sure we won't be paywalling specific features (except for collaboration maybe).
Was surprised to not see "Hacker News Enhancement Suite" on the list. It does some of what those 5 do.
Measuring the shared RAM usage of a process
And a cached copy: http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/
...there are written laws about cycling on the road. They're mostly ignored. In most states in the US, cyclists are required to follow all rules that an auto is required to follow.
So did I. It's excellent.
http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/
Do not know exactly whom you were addressing but we'll be implementing this in a future release. Thanks!
Is that how you'll see the image? Doubled? And won't this backlit display have a negative impact on your eyesight in the long term, being so close and all?
Yes. I highlight text more with a mouse and do more scrolling on a trackpad.
A more visual Google search results?
Twice I've dropped my un-cased iPhone 4s from a height of around 1 meter onto a solid tiled floor, and to my surprise not even a scratch.

Maybe I just got lucky, but in my limited experience, the case is not needed to protect the glass.
This is the sort of question that keeps NASA scientists up at nights. It's a fundamentally tough problem to tackle, especially with just a rover full of instruments and experiments. You can try to design the experiment such that you can show that it's the presence of external samples which show signs of biological activity and not the parts of the machinery itself (e.g. comparing results with and without an external sample present, comparing different samples, etc.) but even that isn't foolproof.

Keep in mind that for unmanned "life detection" missions a spacecraft would not just be constructed in a clean-room but all of its components (as well as the whole vehicle) would be extensively sterilized (at 112 deg. C for about 30 hours, for example). Additionally, the vehicle would be extensively swabbed throughout assembly to search for any amount of biological contamination.

However, more than likely the focus will not be on an unmanned life detection mission but rather on a sample return mission (which would be optimized to try to find samples containing life) or on a manned mission (which would also likely entail sample return). In either case there would be a considerable amount of research resources available to study any samples of Martian life, should it be found, and bring to bear instruments or tests which would unambiguously show it to be of a different origin to Earth life.
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I LOVE attachments.me! I have it set up to automatically store attachments from certain folks to a dropbox folder. I only wish it worked with MailPlane...
I have one, and it's NOTHING like the image - if it hadn't have been a gift I would have returned it.

I'll give you that it looks cool and other cyclists see it and like it, but as soon as a car with bright headlights comes anywhere near you it disappears... It has no practical use in helping keep cars at bay.

I'd also agree with some comments above that drivers are looking a few feet up, not at the road.

I find 3 LED lights the best for the rear - one at bottom of seatpost, one on my back and one on my helmet - can easily be seen from all angles - where as a single seat mounted can be hidden for a range of reasons.

From the front a Cree T6 from ebay is stupidly bright - keep it aimed at the road. Great for off roading and city riding.
but what goes on inside of MySQL, or other applications for that matter, has nothing to do with the consistency of the disk image.

All you can do is instruct MySQL to pause, flush all its write buffers, and then take a snapshot of FS, then move it on. But this procedure has nothing to do with whether or not it runs under, say, VmWare or not. It has anything to do with does this particular disk volume supports FS snapshoting.

The next question is - what use of that snapshot when your system crashes and you got lost all the changes made since the last snapshot? How a VMWare helps you here?

Now consider what a bottleneck naively virtualized (represented as a file in a host system) disk volumes become, when I/O operations on, say, your DB's physical (transaction) log got interfered by I/O operations of your syslog daemon, or whatever other activity is going on.

In a database world the solution is about decoupling, partitioning and avoiding any I/O sharing possible. So, virtualization is just another layer of complexity which makes everything less predictable and controllable.
The overuse of gradients really makes the website look cheap and like a malware website.

The highlighted gray navigation link on hover doesn't contrast at all with the blues.

On the other hand, disregarding the color scheme and gaudy gradients, the layout is solid. Clear separation of hierarchies and relationships will make for an easy to navigate website.
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There are the same arguments to be made here for a lack of relevance to humans as in the case of hydra:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/11/investigating-the...

Or lobsters, for that matter, but much more so for these tiny organisms with potent regenerative capacities.
Just to inform you that this is now implemented.
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Hacker News law of Betteridge's law of headlines: If the headline is applicable Betteridge's Law will always be mentioned.
Well, I don't really think 15px would look terribly wide, so rather than unnecessary complexity by expanding on hover, might as well always have it at that width. And you are absolutely correct that we cannot implement every single feature request. We'll most definitely be letting our users decide on uservoice.
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There's some odd execution-level details I noticed also: all the big grey buttons for downloads look pre-pressed because they use a dark-to-light gradient which makes them look beveled in. In case the designers have never actually seen a physical button in real life before, buttons pop out and need a light-to-dark gradient indicating that light is hitting the top of the button.

I wrote a blog entry on this topic awhile back: http://flyosity.com/design/making-rounded-rectangles-look-gr...
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They have pretty much returned all capital to external investors at his point and operate as a prop-trading shop now. They have done very well.
Excellent presentation from divio, would highly recommend to check it out, especially for designers or those who work with designers. The wireframes_design.pdf, referenced from the presentation, apparently is also available: http://redesign.python.org/assets/wireframes_design.pdf
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I select text to copy/paste to Twitter. So frustrating that there's no comparable CTRL/CMD + C, CTRL/CMD + V commands on Android.
" A search engine doesn't discriminate in what content it indexes."

That is incorrect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard

Tubetrooper certainly discriminates.
Thanks that's nice to hear.

Not in the cards for me. Technically still under non-compete, but even if that weren't the case at this point I am connected to so many other hosting providers that I'd rather just support them in doing the right things and work on other stuff. Right now I run a startup accelerator and am spending my time as a full time seed stage investor.

What's your beef with the Rackspace service right now? As far as 'big' providers, besides the obvious AWS and Rackpsace, you should also consider SoftLayer and Joyent, and depending on what you are doing the PaaS providers are all getting pretty solid now - Heroku, AppFog, DotCloud, GAE even Azure (node is a first class citizen on Azure now).

If you want something that feels really VPS-y that is run by a Slicehost-style team, Linode is a definitely a solid option (mentioning them first since this is their thread). I also am a fan of DigitalOcean (they went through our accelerator and I've spent a lot of time with them), and 6sync is run by Mario Danic who was a super active early Slicehost community member.
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Same here. Best HN extension ever.
If we want to get anecdotal I used my iPhone 4 from launch with no bumper (even after I got the free one). I even dropped the phone three feet directly on it's top left corner and only the dented the metal band.
Not much going on in terms of FF addons. Did I miss anything for HN?
There is a flag to unblacklist your graphics driver in chrome. I have had to use it when experimenting with WebGL.

Go to chrome://flags and enable Override software rendering list.
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Here's a python script to do much the same thing:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py
Now you know how the bushmen feel.
Here are the extensions for those who don't want to load Slideshare (it's kind of heavy on slow connections):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tldr/ohmamcbkcmfal...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackerface/daljeje...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-hotkey...

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I don't think Curiosity can specifically detect what kind of organic compound it is.
True, but then they would have to know your home IP number which the login-spam bots won't.

I always make sure I have some access to a network KVM or remote console for my servers so I would be able to unblock myself.
You didn't really add any arguments -- why doesn't it matter, why is it not imortant? I think specific how-tos are useful, regardless of whether it's about making things work or making them fast, because there are often countless things that could conceivably go wrong, and a specific how-to can be as succinct as possible for a given set of circumstances.

If I just want to mess around with a platform, I might not care about that, and I might prefer to read a dozen more abstract how-tos and guides to get in-depth knowledge about a topic. But usually, I don't want to be troubleshooting (or optimising) Wifi USB hardware, and it absolutely does matter whether you're using a RPi or an old laptop, in fact it matters whether you're using a Rev. A or a Rev B RPi. A generic guide to installing node.js on the RPi would have been much less straightforward than the specific one I had available.

And the difference is way more pronounced when you're trying to get intrepid newbies interested in your platform.
Can't nobody get nothing right. Plastic is too cheap and flimsy, glass is too heavy and fragile. Maybe the optimal solution is what Apple's doing now with the mostly-aluminum (or should I say, aluminium) back.

That being said, seems like the author of this story was just incredibly unlucky. The unfortunate thing is, if your phone had a defect in the glass, you could never convince the manufacturer to replace it under warranty, since they'd just assume you dropped it.
Is the proper term subterranean or submartian in this case?
Biella is, among other things, a really sweet person, and I look forward to reading her book. I was confused when I saw the title of this submission because it sounds like something that just happened, not something that happened several years ago.
I rather suspect that the NL number plated vehicles are simply driving on the (for them) incorrect side of the road. I find it difficult myself when I visit the UK (annually) to keep proper distances on the wrong (again, for me) side of the car/road.
I don't know where he works or the company's circumstances, but in most cases, only a small tech start up that values youth over experience (or is on a shoestring budget) will appoint someone in their early 20s to an executive-level position.
This is 15 years old.
People are incredibly clumsy with phones.

Which seems like a pretty good argument for not wrapping them in glass.

Too often in technology we build things that are fragile, and then blame the user when she breaks them. Tools should be designed to work with the user as they are, rather than as we would wish them to be.
I agree that select-causes-action in the NYT site is bad design, I'm not sure that select-then-take-action-affects-selected is bad design. In the later, it is the normal, expected way to take actions on a subset of the text. Sure, they could add a "reply - selected" button or dropdown option, but that would be a bit kludgey, and people would complain about the complicated/bloated UI.
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It's missing my favorite, std::(unordered_)map::operator[]

map<int,int> a;
cout << a[11] << endl;
cout << a.size() << endl;

This works fine and has well defined behavior: it will print '0' followed by '1' since the middle line actually inserts a {key=11, value=0}.

This is a landmine I think every journeyman c++ programmer steps on a few times.
But he's right, the current Python website looks a lot better than some other websites coughPHPcoughGocough

My 2 cents, I really like Nodejs's website. Closer to Python, I'm really digging the websites for the Pocoo packages (Flask, Jinja2 etc).
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I saw that this interview was written about a woman and I knew comments like those were coming. HN is greatly disappointing to me sometimes :(
> and the flashing mode needs to be between 60 and 240 flashes per minute (which it may do, but doesn't say).

There's a thing I never understood about bike lights - why people use flashing lights? They are distracting like hell, and could probably cause some serious discomfort for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

EDIT:

http://speakingupanyway.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/flashing-li...
I had relatively little trouble from cars with German, French, Italian or Spanish number plates.
Added to my cache: http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/
Most phones will usually survive such a drop. It all depends on how it lands. Phones with a glass back have double the number of ways that they can break when they fall, but it's still less likely to break than not. Drop it enough times and it will eventually break.

But the OP is talking about breakage due to thermal shock, not to physical shock.
Probably none, I see programmers falling for these every week at work, it's 2012 now.

The C++11 revision didn't change much other than add to the already joyful cursing because now compiler support is even more of an issue than it ever was.
This is not original. This is old...

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/2255234/bike-project...

From 2009: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/Hyperlinks/...
Don't know if anyone is going to read this, but I was reading about ordinal vs. cardinal utility, which are interesting because they seem to correspond to Ranked Choice vs. Approval voting, with the various voting systems simply being a different algorithm of calculating the winner from these.

Anyway, apparently, with "Inter-temporal choice", or, different utility of the same thing measured in different time periods, Cardinal Utility needs to be used.

I wonder if the same applies to grouping utility of different people together in order to get an aggregate. If so, it's an argument for the use of Approval/Score voting as opposed to Ranked choice.

The quote is "Models of utility with several periods, in which people discount future values of utility, need to employ cardinalism in order to have well-behaved utility functions." an appears in the cardinal utility article.
This is exactly what I do. I don't even have to look at the connector
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There's so many things that can go wrong, during the period needed for advanced intelligent life to evolve. Add to that the inherent difficulty of moving between solar systems. Space is vast, and we're not really making that much noise. I don't see a big paradox here?
Wow, that timing is eerie. I just checked the logs and the jspkg sample package.json is from July '11 and the generator is from December '11. Let summer 2011 become known henceforth as The Summer of Package.json.
Is speed really that much of a concern with grep? I typically use :vimgrep inside of vim, not because it's faster (it's orders of magnitude slower due to being interpreted vimscript), but because I hate remembering the differences between pcre/vim/gnu/posix regex syntax.
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Depends on your country's tax system, but one of the advantages of only working one month a year is that you usually fall below most minimum tax brackets. Or at least only get lightly taxed and can reclaim most of it.
I predict that the same people who are the most vocally annoyed at having to continue to support older versions of IE will be the ones who are most vocally annoyed at not being able to support older versions of "Blue".

Disclaimer: Microsoft is my employer, but I know nothing NOTHING! about this plan. HOGAN!
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There's a few where C++11 has rendered the situation far less common, or the advice not-so-good.

For example, the auto_ptr one (advice should be: don't use it).

Or the ones that use raw pointer data members and 'delete' in the destructor (for example, the one about the rule of three). This is still good advice, but needed far, far, far more rarely since we can use shared_ptr and unique_ptr to give proper copy/assignment to internal pointers. C++11 has gotten us to a point where using 'new' or 'delete' keywords, even in constructor/destructors are possible code smells.
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Have you thought about switching over to a kimsufi.ie server? Your $30 will go a lot further and you're not sharing a disk or CPU. I'd only stick with linode if you need the scale-ability.
This is a very good example of UI optimization: http://cdn.kylerush.org/kr/images/contribute-before-after-sc...
Actually, if it were covered, the DMCA would make creating a bump key a crime in of itself. For instance, there was a time that simply linking to a DVD CSS descrambler could get you in legal trouble. But considering the wide spread availability of such things, they don't bother anymore.
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Google doesn't need virtualisation because Google is already deploying a large number of identical nodes which can be easily pulled and replace (i.e. Google's infrastructure is identical to virtualisation, but without the need for it).

Most businesses don't have hundreds of identical servers and services. They have a few dozen very specific or niche ones which need high up-time. This is one area where virtualisation can play a great role.

Another example is someone like a host where they want to distribute resources without any human intervention (e.g. Virtual Private Servers, shared hosting, etc).

All in all you're now starting to see data centres turn into "dumb" hardware farms, with the logical design and deployment being handled up-stream. This even extends to things like networking (routes, switches, etc - all centrally controlled).
It's probably more likely that aliens took his phone, broke it, and placed it back on his counter, than the glass having shattered from thermal shock.

Here is a more likely scenario (that my friend the materials engineer gave me):

Gorilla Glass is made by "stuffing" ions into the empty spaces so that the glass is under very high compressive stress. It's really known as "High ion exchange glass" This in turn, gives it very high compressive strength. However, it does have a significant downside that never gets mentioned:
Shock absorption and scratches can cause later cracks and shattering.
This is just a fact of life. When you place the outer layer under compressive strain, and then begin to compromise part of the outer layer, or begin to stress it, you can eventually cause release of those compressive forces. Once partially compromised, it may seem to be good, but can fail instantly.
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