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You'd be surprised. I know quite a few people still using 2.x They (we?) come from an era where you don't upgrade just because there's an upgrade available - you make changes when you're affected by a bug, or something important to you quits working.
Because, of course, taxi drivers exist solely to serve you and might not have been going in the opposite direction of the airport.
Eyewire - play a 3D game in your browser and help scientists at MIT map neurons
You should change your appstore name to "Worqshop, a github client for iPhone" then you will show up in iOS spotlight searches for github
TodoMVC: A node.js + MongoDb adventure
Welcome to the NZBMatrix.

I don't care who you are, if you see an agent, you do what the rest of us do. You run. You run your ass off.
Does this support organizations?
For those who note that this is not literally true, here's the weaker version that's both true and useful:

'What could I have done to make the situation better?'

Almost all situations are influenceable.
Because it's going to be extremely hot.
yeah i agree. make the backend lightweight and modular so it can be swapped out as needed
And why is it on the front page??
iOS port of $1 Gesture Recognizer
Other than show hn, I would recommend other communities focused around your idea. Subreddits and other forums are a good start, especially ones you already frequent as then you're more likely to be seen as a friend offering a cool tool rather than some guy pushing his 'thing'.
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How is remote management for these systems? I'm a big Mac fan, but for server infrastructure I've often wondered if Software Update and related things could be more trouble than it's worth.
I'm actually on the brink of getting into amateur robotics... I just bought "Robotic Explorations: Hands on Introduction to Engineering" (http://www.amazon.com/Robotic-Explorations-Hands-On-Introduc...), and am planning on getting a HandyBoard kit.

I was wondering if there are any K'Nex or LEGO Technic kits that are particularly well-suited for this type of endeavor? I have found plenty of kits to build a wide variety of vehicles, but it's hard to anticipate what will comprise a good assortment of build pieces for a more free-flow introductory robotics project.

Any thoughts or advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Awesome project, by the way :)
Thanks - yes, the insurance company did offer a free year of this service. I will be signing up for it.
Most modern Linux distros use systemd now, which is a pretty good unified platform for starting services.

I don't quite understand the other points; you can certainly develop on Linux and there are lots of mature monitoring options.

The trick with auto-updates is, you're getting everything from the package manager. This forces you to keep everything up to date, not just some notion of the 'core system', which is what you're getting from Mac update. Of course, you have to have some discipline and stage major updates in a testing area before you actually update production servers, but I think you'll find key packages like OpenSSL should probably be kept up-to-date.

Personally, I maintain a system which consists of about 30 CentOS servers; not large by any means. But things like upgrades and monitoring are a non-issue; we test updates before we apply them, and we use Nagios for monitoring.

As someone downthread pointed out, you can get a SuperMicro 1U server with a hell of a lot more horsepower than a Mac Mini for an equivalent price; the motivation for Mac servers seems to be almost exclusively to test and build Mac-specific software. I'd be curious to know what your specific application is that motivates this?
Oh, what science deals with it then? What experimental evidence is that this thing you do is right as opposed to another? What models are made, what predictions do they make? Are they good at predicting wrong from right?

Is it wrong to steal? Is it wrong to steal to feed yourself when you are starving?
Is it wrong to lie? Is it wrong to lie to a known murderer that was asking about your friends whereabouts, knowing that he will hurt him?
What if we have no free will, but we behave better when we are lied about it? Should the system lie about nature of our decisions? What else should system (i.e. state, school, college...) lie us about?

Science is good when there is objective reality underlying its assumptions. When there isn't any strong objective reality it kinda doesn't work as well.
I think we must be operating with very different definitions of science. In so far as a humanities scholar employs scientific methods, I am happy to call him a scientist.

> Here's a Greek manuscript. There's a lacuna in the text. What is the most likely correct emendation? If you use a statistical method to answer, explain how you compiled your corpus of comparisons.

This lacuna is going to be filled using scientific thinking employed by the humanities scholar doing the. He is going to make comparisons to other documents and to other knowledge about the period, language, etc. That is to have some hypotheses about the lacuna, he is going to gather data, and then he is going to analyze that data in the context of the lacuna and propose solutions.

As has been pointed out, there are existing computational systems that do this kind of work. There is a long history of work on this kind of problem from information theory and cryptography.

> Oh my yes, just like football and gourmet cooking are worth doing. Besides which, your science labs are going to need industrial designers and lawyers, and at least a couple historians of science to warn you away from past methodological errors. Which means you also need at least a few scholars of rhetoric, fine arts, philology, general history and archaeology to train them.

I did not make my point clearly. Let me make it again: if your methodology does not produce parsimonious models of the world that can be used to make accurate predictions, then what is the point of doing it? If you cannot produce testable claims of fact about the world, what is the point in doing it?

I was suggesting to you, to take a jocular example, that if you know that astrology does not work, then it is not worth doing, even if it is your only method of making predictions.

Your point about industrial designers and lawyers is a non sequitur in this context. I am talking about methods of discovery and methods of testing knowledge claims.

As to psychoanalysis, the reason I brought it up is that it is still rampant in large parts the humanities: intellectual history, comparative literature, and English the chief problem fields.
Nah, I was trying to see if it's really a f-up, a marketing scheme or a mix of the two. Maybe demand is really unexpectedly high.
Wow. Thank you very much!
In many ways Tandy were the Apple of their day in terms of sales strategies. Not only did they sell systems soup-to-nuts, but they also controlled the retail channel (Radio Shack locations nationwide) and attempted to monopolize service and repair, both things we recognize from the modern Apple model.

My dad still sometimes recounts the story of how he bought a TRS-80, and found that the screws holding the case together were sealed in place with Glyptal. When he wanted to upgrade the system he drilled through the Glyptal to get at the screws, and then placed a few stern calls to Tandy HQ in Fort Worth, admonishing them that once a computer was sold, it belonged to the consumer and the manufacturer had no right to prevent the consumer from repairing or modifying it himself if he so chose.

Tandy listened, and future TRS-80 models were sold without the Glyptal on the screws. Which means, I guess, that some things HAVE changed after all...
I understand the idea of treating them like pixels, so if a fan dies or a NIC card dies, no problem, just stop using that Mini. But what about memory corruption or other issues that are more difficult to detect? Normally server hardware has things like ECC memory to prevent these issues, but in this case a Mini with bad RAM could intermittently corrupt data for some time before it's noticed (if ever).
Yep. A hell of a lot of commenters here seem to think the OP is simply about taking up an unhealthy mindset on your worldview of events.

But it's not about the initial worldview (i.e the title of the post), but how it enables you to view things, and act on them, in consequence.

Striving to take more action on the things you care about is practically never a bad things, and that's what Derek is wanting to achieve, not single-handedly shoulder the entire world's problems by claiming himself the sole contributor of all of its events.
Need advise about new Christmas game on Android. You can help to make it better.
Hey, we're PlanemoSTD, mobile game development studio from cold Russia. Christmas is near and inspired we developed a "Snowball" game using unity3d ... but it is a bit far from ideal )

What about graphics, sound, gameplay ? We would appreciate very much any reviews about our project, wishes, criticism.

Link to screenshot from game: http://i.imgur.com/3wokq.jpg

Apk file with the game itself: http://www.mediafire.com/?zg32022gbx42q9e
Interesting concept. Worth trying :)
Quick bit of feedback, make the titles on your links/books/etc clickable. It wasn't obvious at the beginning that you wanted me to click the image instead of the title. Everyone has their preference, I just prefer to click titles instead of images.
Psy will make millions this year, but not from YouTube
How could she be so dim? She's a singer and she's going to sing while she's here. Of course they are going to prick up their ears when they hear that.
This is especially useful for people like me who are focused on attempting to give college students the resources to understand what the first steps they should take when considering founding a company are.

When I was first starting off, I was completely lost. Then a fantastic mentor told me to take 2 days off and read every essay by Paul Graham, and it gave me some direction. This is perfect for that.
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Call it what you like, it is still inhumane.
I say both if possible. Little UI thing but I agree. There's no amount of clickable that's really bad in something like this.
Awesome ...
My point was more basic: current nutritional thinking does not and cannot make any claims about a food type which doesn't yet exist, and food is not good or bad simply because it belongs to a certain category like "natural". (That said, thanks for the link.)
The prosecution is required to share all evidence they have with the defense before a trial.
REgarding splitting the power using the hack described, 160 melted minis and a halon cloud coming up.

You should have a talk with your power cord provider. You should be using cables that can handle at least 4 amps in anything with a 110v plug on it. I don't think you can buy one smaller than 18ga and those are good for 10 amps. Remember, you have to handle enough current to blow the breaker if something goes wrong (unless you are British and have your own fuse in the plug).
If you have an invite you're able to play in Australia. I don't own an Android but a couple of my friends are playing already. There was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the game too but I can't seem to locate the link at the moment.
Thanks... let me know if you have feedback or bug reports :)
Site doesn't seem to be browsable on my iPad? Was trying to check out anything besides the main page and I couldn't.
I disliked the wording of the code of conduct and have tried a few times writing up what I wanted to say and haven't been able to. This is the perfect response for why I don't like the current wording of the CoC.

In spirit it is good idea but they rushed into it and didn't do enough discussion about it before approving the current one.

I was also witness to the one eyed snake board member and to me I thought it was funny and didn't think he was doing any harm but now that the PSF is taking a stance against these types of actions, will the rules hold up against their own?
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The mindset isn't simply about seeing yourself as the sole cause of all your problems, and going crazy there after.

That's the literal view of Derek's post, and it's completely naive one.

The opposite view is just as unhealthy - seeing yourself as the constant victim; it will equally get you nowhere. Civers is not a dumb enough guy to advocate either of these extremes.

It's about creating a mindset that enables you take to take more action in dealing with your own problems. Expanding your own view of your sphere of influence to its maximum potential.

TL;DR - the view isn't solely about anyone's fault, or some strategy of how to dole out blame; it's about maximising your own ability to make a difference.
I don't quite get it either.

Could you use something like Org mode in Emacs? Org mode has a sort of personal wiki feel. Everything is stored as text and you can export your files as HTML.
I am as well
Even for a keyboard? Huh, good to know.
OTOH, this summer while crossing the canadian border in Madawaska (ME) to enter the US, I was "stopped".

For some reason the US immigration officier in Puerto Rico had forgotten to add a date to my entry stamp. I was stopped for this technicality, and while getting some paperwork for me in my car the custom officers found I had prescription drugs.

I was worried, but for no reason at all - they figured out the mistake that happened in PR, and checked the drugs official prescriptions matched (antibiotics and some pretty stong painkillers), and then I was cleared to go with a smile.

TL;DR : the US custom officer were friendly and efficient, and fixed a mistake.

I wouldn't dream of that happening in Europe, or (god help me) the UK.
This is exactly what we did. I bought a mini, replaced the hd with a 128gb SSD and then maxed the ram out at 16gb and installed CentOS on it. The machine works great and if we start getting a lot of traffic, I'll just get another one and move postgres off onto that.

At some point if the need arises, I'd love to look into getting a thunderbolt nas for the db storage. That would be fun.
(entirely speculative)

They may be doing it precisely for that purpose.

Risk systems generally working on scoring mechanism, if the £1 transaction was enough to push you over the threshold then your cards may well be on the borderline for "this card might be stolen".

Google might be using it to test if the card is a borderline "stolen card" case because they want to be extra cautious about who they ship phones to.
Wow github is slow at present. The latest script is also at:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py
Free speech is granted to ensure that oppression can be beaten by language, not to permit people to use language to systemically oppress.
My doctor told me outright "people like you do not get well. Symptom management is the name of the game." When I improved anyway, he expressed no curiosity. He scheduled me fewer and fewer appointments and indicated other patients were more in need of his services than I was.

It is routine that when patients with CF decline, their doctor makes zero effort to reverse the decline. Their decline is blamed on their genes. One doctor who did make real effort had a track record of helping people with CF improve. People used to travel very long distances to see him. Last I heard, he is now retired. But it is the norm in the medical community to tell people with CF, in essence, "Do not even bother to try. You are doomed anyway." even though all evidence supports the idea that this is not true.
This.

This is what's wrong with hacker news.

Between everyone single person calling themselves entrepreneur/guru/hacker/etc just for making some horrifically unoriginal website about "business" or some 5-line jquery magic and the "I'm an entrepreneur starting an entrepreneur school for entrepreneurs" HN as become unreadable...
Reading this made me feel like building my own keyboard. Maybe use a little dvorak on it...
Thanks!
Ask HN: How would you design a car in 2013?
In the 80's, when steam, electric, and gasoline powered vehicles competed for dominance, gasoline powered cars won arguably because it had the greatest combination of power and convenience.

Also, the form factor of the automobile evolved over time around the gasoline engine.

In 2013 however I am almost 100% certain that the gasoline engine will not win if the playing field were level again.

My question is: If the automobile was invented in 2013:

1. What would be the most efficient, eco-friendy and convenient way to power this car?

2. How might the form factor of the automobile evolve around this energy source?

Lets ignore politics and bureaucracy for now, and talk only in terms of technological possibility.
What I wish I could do is capture Flash audio (or any audio) streams with my Mac. All I want is to listen to the audio-only content with an audio player when I'm out driving or jogging, etc. Audio-only content that has to be played off a web page usually runs into the contradiction that if I'm in a position to click buttons on my web browser (not driving, for example), I'm in a position to do my REAL work and have no time to listen to the audio. I'll go to the web page, see whatever ads they may have, but then I'd like to be able to "scrape" the audio stream into a file so I don't have to sit there staring at a static web page the whole time I'm listening.
Awesome. That's what I was going for :)
NYC taxi drivers have been known to turn down fares that head to locations that aren't necessarily as profitable/are out of high-profit areas.
Do you know this guy? Internet Explorer
Make it cheap (200$) and make it run all my Steam games and I'll buy one.
I was really excited, and played avidly for a few days, but quickly grew tired of it. It sounds like its a lot more fun in more densely populated areas so that could be my problem.
Perfect missed that - you're right it is hard to work out as it is. Oh and yea, we wanted to see if it was useful before we made it look pretty. UI is next on the list. Thanks guys :)
Not her fault. A lot of people make this mistake; a coworker of mine was driving down into the states (from Canada) to run a training course for a company. The customs officials asked him what his business was in the states, and the sentence he replied with happened to contain the word "work."

After ten hours of sitting in a room he was turned back, and we had to fly someone else down to teach the course. Moral: when you're asked why you're visiting a country, do NOT reply with anything that could be (intentionally) misinterpreted as "to find work."
Agree, but it does debunk the suspicion of artificially constrained supply. Phones are too hot and cycle too quickly to string out sales.
Tips For Traveling Across Europe
Your reply suggests that critics of philosophy must necessarily be ignorant. Great depth of thought there.
I just came back from another 2-hour session of ingress in my local town (≈ 10 minute bus ride from my home to the area with lots of portals). That’s the third 2-hour session this weekend, after another one on Thursday :).

I definitely like the game, it’s fun to play, especially with friends. When playing together, you can achieve much more: set up stronger portals, bring down enemy portals quicker, etc.

I noticed that people are getting to know each other via the game.

Also, Ingress is the reason for the most time I’ve spent outside (apart from traveling) in the last decade. My friends share this experience.

Before anyone asks: unfortunately I don’t have any invites to hand out.
perfect, now there's no need to buy a gaming PC.
Sizzle for life.
Confirmed: No More Instagram Photos Inside of Twitter
Recursive Folder Thumbnails in Windows 8
UNIX community opposition to presentation methods other than text mode.
I used to work at a company where capturing flash video and audio streams was a regular part of our work. You're not going to like the answer.

You basically have to proxy everything through a proxy that can be given a command or otherwise instructed to capture the top 3 or 4 streams from the website. From there you can either dumbly accept the largest one or start checking byte headers.
If you look at the picture carefully, it's clearly 4 minis in 1RU. The problem isn't that. The power draw and heat generated will be ridiculous. You'll pay big $$$ to keep them running 24/7.
Is this true in Sweden (the setting of this story)?
Why not X11 + xpdf?

Ugly but works.
Aaaand you beat me to my smartass comment... well played.
X-chromosome inactivation is actually consistent with X-linked "recessive" conditions, but it's a little tricky, and the wikipedia page doesn't really explain it. Basically, X-linked phenotypes aren't dominant/recessive in the same way as the others. Usually, dominance takes place between chromosome pairs within each cell. However, with X-chromosome inactivation, dominance takes place between cells. For example, women who are labeled "carriers" for colorblindness actually are colorblind in half of the cells in their eyes, but the other half are sufficient to perceive color almost as well as non-carriers.
I left my job in order to finish getting well. I was working at a desk job but the building was in an industrial park, surrounded by factories. Given how expensive and debilitating my condition is via conventional treatments, it makes no sense, financial or otherwise, to pursue an income source which keeps me ill.

My first priority should be, and is, my health.
Tools for a non-technical co-founder (over 150 and counting :)
These days HTML is the most reasonable approach to anything involving
fonts and images and interaction. It's not as beautifully direct as REBOL,
and being trapped in a browser is somewhere between limiting and annoying,
but the visual toolkit is there, and it's ubiquitous. (For the record, I
would have solved the "list all the filenames..." problem by generating
HTML, but firing up a browser to display the result is a heavy-handed
solution.)

I know it's Microsoft-only, but I think XAML is an attempt to solve exactly this problem. It's a declarative UI description language, but without some of the legacy baggage of HTML.
Obligatory riddle:

"What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?"

A: "Banch-Tarski Banach-Tarski"
My company has an API to do that but it works on Windows:
http://www.nektra.com/products/deviare-api-hook-windows/
I guess the issue here is that it's illegal for the taxis to pass up fares based on where the passenger is going. The fact that it happened 5 times in a row is telling. The taxi industry is the exact group fighting for more regulations in order to keep companies like Uber from competing, but they don't want to follow the regulations currently in place. Experiencing things like this really helps show that the transportation industry is ripe for being disrupted and that companies like Uber are making serious inroads.
Q: What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?

A: Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski.

I did my undergraduate project on the question of finitely-additive, isometry-invariant measures that extend the Lebesgue Measure and which are defined on all possible bounded subsets of R^n.

And yes, that's relevant. There is (perhaps surprisingly) such a measure on R,and there is such a measure on R^2, but the Banach-Tarski "paradox" shows that there is no such measure on R^3 (and therefore trivially, R^n for n>3).

For contrast, we'd usually like to have a measure that's countably additive, but there is a simple construction (albeit using the axiom of choice) that shows such an object is impossible.

This has, by the way, been submitted and discussed several times in the past. In case you're interested in reading other descriptions, and previous discussions, you can find some of them here:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=banach+tars...