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I think our argument is over 2 separate issues (see below) which is causing confusion. I agree with you that approach and tactics should be malleable. But I maintain that commitment to core beliefs needs to be strong and unwavering.

I'm also impressed by your knowledge of the Civil Rights movement. I'm not sure that it sheds a lot of light on the current argument, but your comments are definitely a good read.
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Thanks for the feedback!

It is primarily aimed at students.
As a basic use-case it is a note taker that provides an easy way to organize school notes.

Beyond that you have access to apps for doing your school work, for example graphing calculator, diagramming (flowcharts..etc) and Sims for teaching science...

The Apps at the moment are just a small sample of possible school related apps that I am building.
They "hide" the sound of it in "I want to hear it working!" link at the bottom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRaFo8pRQSY
> Great science is done by people who are more like Newton and Tesla, not people like you and Edison.

Apart from the fact the "great science" isn't the topic of discussion, on the contrary: in terms of maximum effect on the human race, the "greatest" science is the man of the street who can't be bamboozled by an idea that has no supporting evidence.
It's not dumb if it's broken. What's dumb is that current complicated desktop solutions (whichever you talk about) haven't figured out a better way.

Just because you can get away with doing something poorly, doesn't mean you should.
East Asia to Europe goes through the Suez Canal. There's plenty of data on what goes through the Panama canal. Shoot me and email and I'll hand you a copy of all of my data for you to study.
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Do you have a Ustream channel? A justin.tv following? A webcam, and a dream? Do you want to help invent the next generation of live streaming? Cool. We’re looking for people like you.
Any chance of making the DXF file available for cheap to people with access to their own CNC machines?

Unfortunately, while I am both a geek and a horse-person, I'm not much of a biker. The target audience is small, but hopefully with only 1000 takers needed, you'll meet your goal.
Software idea patents are bad for everyone, except patent lawyers.
Go ships with a tool called gofmt which automatically formats your code to a particular convention. It's expected that you gofmt all code that is released publicly. It also solves more problems than it creates, even if I don't agree with all of its rules.
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Here's to another 30 more!
I have a request: make a "real news" feed, which is only about things that will actually make your life a bit different. Two or three items a week would be a maximum.
Classic use of re-cycled Mid-century Modern Technology: the picture is almost certainly of a Nike Ajax surface-to-air missile (http://sortingoutscience.net/2009/11/02/scientific-tourist-9...), first deployed in 1953.

"Cyberwarfare" is so un-photogenic, they have to use cool looking "Space Age" missiles to get us to realize that we're talking WAR here.
I can't disagree with that Mike. Absolutes have no place in art.
Perhaps it does place oriented OOP poorly, but it actually has an extremely nice logic engine (see core.logic).
Though a rarely brought up fact when discussing self-driving vehicles, planes have been on the right track for the last few decades with autopilot. The automotive industry should take some lessons learned from the government regulatory structure, and avionic makers, and build a system capable of high capacity traffic with extremely low fatality rates.

Issues that we deal with when driving an automobile are amplified 100x when in the cockpit of an aircraft. Traffic is nearly impossible to spot during the day time without someone like an air traffic controller (ATC) telling you about it. Managing a plane in inclement weather is an effort in bravery and extraordinary situational decision making. Crashes, though statistically unlikely to be fatal, can have extreme consequences for both passengers an innocent by-standers. All-in-all, the experience of flying is just plain difficult. There are dozens of controls to handle at any given moment, and even the distractions are amplified (ever tried writing something down while driving? It happens in planes all the time)

So how did we overcome these issues? Regulations and technology. Just looking at the traffic issue, there are rules for which alititude to fly at for which direction and type of flight you are, rules for entering high traffic areas by verifying you have communicated intentions first, rules for what equipment your plane has to have before entering specific high traffic areas, and strict expectations that pilots will be able to control their aircraft to the best of their ability. There is plenty of redundancy in the system as well.

I would venture to say that landing a plane is much more demanding than driving a car, even in the most severe driving conditions, yet we trust autopilots to set the plane down in even the most severe 0 visibility scenarios (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUA3EwKpVM). The technology in vehicles is beginning to make sense to implement in the same way we have it present in airplanes right now, but I would love to see the regulatory structure begin to step up and build a reasonable, redundant, and safe system for driving an driver-less car. Then I can see the world you are describing.
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Great idea! We've defaulted that to be visible on the page. Thanks!
This is one of those "didn't see it coming" technologies that really has the potential to change things. Could this disrupt the bottled water industry? Make it so that water pipes are a thing of the past ("wireless" for water)?

I realize that extraction rates are probably slow right now, but imagine this technology n years from now.
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Thanks for posting this! Glad you like it.
Recruiter here, worked for a bunch of the "bigger" tech companies and now I focus on startups. The biggest problem I see, over and over again is this:

People assume recruiting isn't important, they focus on building a great product, etc. It is only once they get to the point a light seems to turn on that they will need to hire more people to execute the idea they're working on that they actually do anything about recruiting, and by then it is usually a bit too late. The last company I worked for had a recruiter for awhile, let them go and had someone who wasn't really qualified to be recruiting handling things. They hadn't really hired anyone in 8 months. When I came in they had this idea that we would be hiring people from day 1, but that's really not how it works. The process takes some time, so not addressing a need that takes time until the exact second you need it seems to be the biggest problem to me.

Oh and all those contract recruiters, fuck those guys.
But never compromise on productivity
You know, if there's one thing I hate, it's a set of rigid coding conventions. They're the joy of the petty and officious and the bane of people who just want to get things done. This isn't an excuse to get rid of them altogether. It's an argument for not taking coding conventions so seriously.
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> If the employer didn't have to pay those 31% to the government, he would have paid them to you, and you would have been taxed on them.

It's unlikely the employer would pay you more. You negotiated and expect 10,000 SEK. Yes, the employer knows it'll cost 13,000, but you only get 10,000. So if there's no employer tax, you'll still likely get 10,000, but now the employer can hire another person using the money that's freed up, or invest in some other ways.
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There's a lot of times that I'm watching something on YouTube that's broadcast live (like presidential debates) when I wish there was a less corporate, ad infested version where it was available. I think a P2P solution for events like this would be really cool. I've seen BitTorrent live evolve over the last few years and it's really beginning to mature. It still hasn't seen a swarm at that kind of scale, though.
"in terms of maximum effect on the human race, the "greatest" science is the man of the street who can't be bamboozled by an idea that has no supporting evidence."

That's a rather grandiose claim. Where's your supporting evidence?
It depends on your target audience. We did our app in english and it didn't catch on in Sweden before we translated it to Swedish.
Oh, OK. I guess I haven't known any of those.
"Jacques has rejected that hypothesis for other reasons."

Specifically, due to a specific statement that it is not an evacuated tube.
You know what's really awesome about this Modal? Unlike built-in one, this one works on iPhone without issues! Long window scrolls just fine. You just made me so happy :) Definitely using in something I am currently working on. Thanks!
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Man, how can they ask me to choose!
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My read is that the coating doesn't need a manufactured flow (after all, the beetle that inspired it doesn't) put it's very possible they'll make a bottle with a surface that requires it, say, a conch shell.
I do not believe we want such a system even if it were possible.

Many things involve context (it is illegal to murder someone, but a killing in the context of self-defense is often not murder). Even where context is not explicitly recognized by the law, we want judgment and discretion to exist (speeding because you are drag racing is very different than speeding to a hospital with a bleeding passenger.)
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I love everything this guy says, too bad its wrong :-)

In the medium case its fine, you'll get folks who write code using a 'common' coding style and for the most part switching between them will be not too difficult. I've observed over the years that a noticeable number of bugs will be introduced by people who didn't read the code correctly.

The place it will go off the rails is when you hire 'that guy' (and it always seems to be a guy) who writes lots of code, and it works, but for reasons that only he understands he only writes it on one line. He likes every function to have its own line, that way he can just use the 'down line' command to get to the next function. And he doesn't really comment anything except sometimes in the middle he'll start a comment between the code that does something and code that doesn't. And someone will have a problem and it will be in this guy's code and they will come to you because they can't read that code and they aren't going to check anything in like that.

At this point a number of entirely predictable things happen. Let's name the players, "Crazy Coder" (CC) who has the bizarre style, "New Guy" (NG) who is asked to fix a bug in CC's code, and "Manager Guy" (MG) the person responsible, ultimately, for all the code.

First there is a blow up when NG takes CC's code, runs it through a pretty printer and reformats it into something they can read, fixes it, and then checks it in. CC has a huge fit that their code has been made "unreadble" by NG and they go back, rewrite all the code that had been reformatted including the NG bug fix, except they won't quite get what NG was fixing and so CC's version of NG's fix won't actually fix the problem. Now NG will be have their bug re-opened because their fix doesn't work.

Now typical escalations are NG assigns the bug to CC since CC won't tolerate his code changes. NG will reformat a big chunk of CC's code just to piss him off. CC will rewrite chunks of the system to invalidate previous fixes by NG and others.

Now as the outlier, MG might want to tell CC to 'change' their coding style to something a bit more standard. They won't. They will insist either there is a coding style or there isn't, if there isn't then there isn't a problem, if there is then everyone has to follow it. And the coding style dilemma will be served up front and center.

Coding style requirements become the lesser of two evils.
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I, for one, still oppose putting these "horseless carriages" on our roadways! The dangers of these contraptions are far from understood!
I was pondering this further and it would actually be conceivable with a bit of natural language processing and machine learning to build a 'verdict machine', maybe a Watson type of thing.

You would input legal documents, contracts and laws to 'program' the machine, It would read these legal documents and compile them into legal tests that depend on case facts.

Then when you needed to judge a case, you would enter the facts or fact probabilities about the case in the machine. It would then generate a verdict and tell you which legal tests passed or failed to arrive at the verdict.

Even it it was just used as support to help courts untangle cases or for law student as an educational tool, it could be a useful machine.

Here is the kicker: All contracts and laws are actually software code for this machine.
Almost two mins of video without the sound of the product (where the product is the sound generated by the device)?
jgrahamc already posted it here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815658
It's an ID, not an authentication token. If it helps, you can think of it as a username, not a password. It has to be transmitted in the clear or you wouldn't even know who you're talking about.
If I see someone riding a bike with one of these things attached to it, I'll call the police. I find it unacceptable for people to make lots of noise for no good reason.

Try doing this at night in a residential neighborhood, you'll find out soon enough what people think of this 'invention'.
I would imagine that it covers the sort of disciplinary offences where one's commanding officer can impose some form of punishment or official reprimand without there needing to be a court martial. The US equivalent would be, I think, a Nonjudicial Punishment or Article 15.

Purely as an FYI, what Americans would refer to as a court-martial would also be a court-martial in the UK.
Could you before? I was under the impression that the shell is the window manager, Mutter.
"If you want to prevent the background page from scrolling (see demo for example) you must wrap the page contents in a <div class="page-container">.
The reason for doing this instead of just simply setting overflow: hidden when a modal is open is to avoid having the page shift as a result of the scrollbar appearing/disappearing."

There's a solution available which avoids wrap and page shift too. Take a look at: https://github.com/atirip/bodyscrollkiller.js
They are occupying the West Bank. I would have said Palestine, but I was using the words of the OP.
Let me be the first to say:
I don't get it, why is this a thing and why is there an entire company built around this product? Which apparently requires I screw a coconut to a self made device and then put it on the front of my bike.

Is this just satire of modern startups or are things actually this ridiculous?
As someone who is currently refactoring a giant mess, this is a terrible article.

The problems are myriad:

- we have people mixing camelCase and underscores

- we have tab indents and four space indents, and eight space indents

- program state is all stored in one giant struct, making the code impossible to reuse

- methods are giant, rambling monsters with at least 6 levels of indentation

Coding style is important, is what I'm saying.
Very interesting and thought provoking.

If you've not been, I highly recommend a trip to Panama City to checkout the canal - it's simply mind blowing watching a super tanker go through the locks.

Do you have any data on the number of container ships that move through the canal that are simply moving from one US coast to the other?
> There are really 2 arguments...Unwavering belief and unwavering actions.

This is what I was trying to get across, but you expressed it much more concisely than I.
By this logic I could punch you in the face and steal your phone and it would be completely righteous because you didn't defend it well enough.

What is the point of civilisation if it fails to prevent suffering?
Are you not experiencing any minor issues to solve for yourself?
I'm sorry but no. You can't go wrong with PEP8 for Python and JSHint or something similar for Javascript. Neither of those standards are that rigid and there are tools for most major editors that highlight non-conforming lines as you're coding. Please, put semicolons at the end of your statements.
Maybe they can't. But it's nice that the functionality exists so that I can make that decision for myself.
In what ways is this different from existing dehumidifiers? Form-factor and energy-efficiency I assume, but do they otherwise do the same thing?
"Most proxies, most notably Squid up through version 3.0, do not cache resources with a "?" in their URL even if a Cache-control: public header is present in the response. To enable proxy caching for these resources, remove query strings from references to static resources, and instead encode the parameters into the file names themselves."

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/cach...
I don't think that this is what he is doing but this definitely crossed my mind over the past few weeks. It's pretty awesome how inspiring a person like Elon could be. A year ago, the general public and geek community didn't really talk all that much about alternative modes of transportation. Now, all because of Musk, everyone is all of a sudden trying to come with a new idea.
I find the best solution is as minimal a framework as possible with full featured libraries. Avoid the temptation to let a big framework choose your orm, forms library, routing, etc. just because decisions are stressful or complicated.

Loose coupling, loose coupling, loose coupling!
I guess the airflow is to make it more efficient. In high humidities, you can easily collect 1 liter potable water with a 3m2 plastic sheet, a clean recipient, a hole in the ground and some sunlight, or just hot weather. It's an old survival trick. His apparatus is a kind of upgrade.
Well, here's mine: http://www.hackerreads.com/
Exactly -- (1) you are getting direct feedback, which shows interest and engagement (2) that feedback is pointing in the direction you were already going; shortest path, meet straight line. The main thing is not to put TOO much stock in these requests as people will often ask for many things they wouldn't actually pay for.
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This seems like a very useful tool for people who cannot afford big servers.
I should think that the coconut halves slap together.
This might be true, but the atmosphere is also very good at reabsorbing water. Especially if humidity levels would be lower than normal.
see, i don't think i am "fighting windmills", as you can guess, and here's why. the implication of having to change passwords due to this photo is that the only thing between an outsider and the inside was a password. my original comment was that no one had yet questioned the viability of passwords. not a one! so far it has just been "oh, i would have gotten shitcanned for that, lucky him he's a royal" and "oops!" no one on the esteemed HN had spoken up that holy crap passwords.

while my job in infosec isn't related to AAA i know that better stuff exists and that it's in budget and applicable here. i offered some ideas, you offer up criticisms, but i'm still wondering how no one had spoken up about the crappiness of it being 2012 and we still rely on passwords.

just a few days ago this link was posted here:

http://kod.ozgurcakmak.com.tr/passwords-do-we-really-need-to...

and also this one from wired:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password...

given all the breaches in the past 2 years by lulzsec and relatives you'd expect a bigger outcry here. nope, not yet.

you honestly think this is the best we have? i sure don't.

here's some (i imagine) better COTS stuff out there: http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey/
No, that's bunk. A more accurate representation is that my house is built on a plot of land that your ancestors had thousands of years ago. Your mates tell you that you can live there, so you come in and beat me up and kick me out and destroy all my shit. When I then try break back in, you shoot me and my family.
That's a pretty good example, but why is description even a modal? It looks so content rich, seems like it deserves the full screen.
This is fantastic, I will definately be replacing my bootstrap modal code to use your library. This would be great if this got committed into bootstrap.
They have another video on the website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRaFo8pRQSY&feature=play...
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The reason stock market is considered zero sum is not because it's literally zero sum. It's a well understood and highly competitive market, where most gains come from other players in the market.
As always you bring great insight into this, but what your reply does not mention is that the average laymen knows none of this.

Having such a law on the books means that a boss, computer service provider, etc. could show a laymen this law, even let them look up the law themselves and then threaten to have someone prosecuted for things which may be proper (or at least not illegal). The person being threatened would be able to verify that the law was real and without having a lawyer to explain the full situation may feel they are in a very bad bargaining position for whatever demands the other side makes.

As the court said, "We shouldn't have to live at the mercy of the local prosecutor" but neither should people without lawyers have to live at the mercy of those who could use such a law to threaten prosecution for negotiating purposes.
It's amazing how different Northern VA people are, to the point they don't want to be associated with the southern half of the state. It doesn't really seem to be a North vs. South attitude either, it's more of an intellectual vs good-ol-values battle.

It seems like that's the main reason why where I live in Southern VA has all of about 2 tech companies and zero startups, and Blacksburg (right next door) even being home to the state's largest technical universities has very limited startup activity.
Native Iowan, here. And my first post, long-time lurker.

I sincerely believe your "anti-intellectual" comment to be misguided and uninformed. For a quick and entertaining rebuttal, I'd direct you to this NPR youtube video titled "Iowa Nice": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZZ6JD0g9Y

If you'd rather not watch the clip, here are a few things you might not have known about Iowa that may cause you to revise your previous assumption (or not, and they may/may not be extrapolated to other midwest communities):

- Iowa has voted Democratic in 5 out of 6 presidential elections (now 6 out of 7).
- Iowa was the second (or third) state to legalize gay marriage.
- First woman lawyer in the US emanated from Iowa.
- 4 out 5 Iowans live in cities.
- Des Moines was ranked 1st richest metropolitan area and 2nd happiest in the country (not sure by what metric or source here, my apologies)

I feel pretty good about the intellectual capacity of my neighbors.

Disclaimer: I've lived outside the state for 4 years now, primarily in Chicago and now South Florida. If the weather was nicer, I'd consider making it my permanent home.
I meant that even though you appeared to be confusing refresh rate with frame rate, and certainly higher refresh rates made things look a lot better on old CRTs, higher frame rates than the max 60 fps possible on today's average LCDs* actually make a difference as well.

*(only "3D-capable" LCDs run at 120 Hz or 240 Hz and are therefore capable of actually showing more than 60 frames per second).