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However, blasting unseen opponents' ears with louder and longer unpleasant noise is reality.
I don't think you ARE missing anything. From my reading, the gains are obtained by pre-computing the string concatenation a single time (rather than while rendering) for all cases in which it can be.

It's similar to moving something from runtime to compiletime (although those distinctions don't quite apply).
I agree, but providers (especially recently) have been notoriously poor with pricing. I don't see them making an effort unless the entire industry is forced to reduce costs (which it should, hopefully soon!).
I want to submit more reviews! Can I do that without having to submit another site?
At a glance, it seems like some of those are available on infoq.com. infoq still has some problems but all in all it's a lot better. And it even offers MP3 downloads of some talks, which I've made extensive use of.
"Piracy" or more broadly unauthorized copying, which are hard to distinguish from each other using hard facts... are about convenience as well as free speech; I know I buy large expensive tools for storing data, and I see a lot of pictures of shelves stuffed with cheap plastic discs on reddit, discs that are easy to lose and yet each cost $35 for a variety of reasons, and one of those reasons is so that you can get paid for bringing me quality content.

Obviously it's not a short path from point A to point B.

I also know that as a computer enthusiast, I spent a lot of time learning to copy things that your camp would prefer I didn't copy, so that I don't have to keep collections of cheap (disposable) plastic discs. That's a huge investment too, and if the effort is duplicated... well, in the free software community especially we don't like duplicated effort. Can't someone else do it?

Then I pay for these pipes (again from my perspective: your camp) and it's really a lot simpler downloading from the cloud than making a large investment in plastic discs and time and labor spent on copying. Furthermore, according to the DMCA, if I did buy the media and try to consolidate it in accordance with fair use, long accepted as a measure in place for free speech, I am still breaking the law because of the anti-copying measures that I need to break in order to do it, which is directly illegal today. So why not just download?

... you won't get paid. That's why.

I want you to get paid, but I don't want you to dictate my viewing schedule or media organization, and I also don't want to pay for thousands of channels I won't watch just to get three or four I care about, once or twice a week... hope that you can see how your side are not really making it any easier for me to enjoy your work in relative comfort and with the benefit of modern technology.

Quite sure this can be somehow solved by using bitcoins...
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A few questions (which are potentially issues) for this study:

- Doesn't this essentially test short-term reaction to a stimulus? This study doesn't simulate effects after doing this behavior for months, but 3 days. There's always the chance of a dropoff in effect here

- Would one potential factor here be that the 'violent' games were very immediate twitch-based? And the non-violent games were all essentially racing? Racing games you're penalized frequently for harsh and sharp reactions, and rewarded for getting a smooth flow going and discipline (or at least this is how I play Gran Turismo). In FPS games, you're rewarded for a short, fast and harsh reaction to input stimulus.

- I would be interested to see the comparison of these games and violent/non-violent non-interactive things (movies).

- While it might have blown the 'cover' of the experiment, would it be possible to give the testers some other written test on moral-based decision making before/after?
I really like the idea of TypeScript. Very close to Javascript, future-proof (ES6 classes) and sane compiler support.
What Chutzpah you've got, born in US has the right to be a citizen of the settler state but natives cannot return and you want us all to support your Judeo-supremacist terrorist state?

Take your hasbara somewhere else. Saudi, China etc are not settler states which deny equal rights to their people of certain race or ethnicity or religion, and they don't get $3 billion in aid from US for 7 million people of a preferred race only. Israeli apartheid regime gets more aid than sub-Saharan Africa and entire Latin America combined. Saudi, China etc haven't violated dozens or UN resolutions and don't get US diplomatic shielding for their war crimes. They are criticised for their brutal actions and so should Israeli terror be criticised. Stop demanding special treatment for your settler state. You can talk when you give equal rights to Palestinians, when you give the natives the right to return, at least the same rights as a US-born settler, if not more because they are the rightful owners of their land.
More correctly, electronics is having a glamour moment. VC money has poured into hardware for a long time, if hardware is more broadly defined to include semiconductors, biotech, etc. There's also quite a few VCs with solid experience in those areas and hardware is all many of them do.
It has a business purpose and the business it serves makes good money. As someone else said, is this thought experiment about monetizing some other forum "similar"* to HN or a thought experiment about monetizing this forum? Because monetizing this forum would likely be counterproductive to Y-Combinator's business goals, which HN currently serves.

* "Similar" is in quotes because I believe the life blood of HN is that it serves Y-Combinator's business goals and is not merely a forum. I think that is why no one can seem to replicate it or seriously "compete" with it.
The latter, he's an emulation enthusiast.

There's some 3DS people trying to get a Chinese firm to do it, and they want $20,000 just to image the chip. No actual modification work.

You need access to machines and tools worth millions. Hobbyist level techniques like nitric acid and etchand sand to stain the ROMs just doesn't work even at SNES-era complexity.

It could be done for less in bulk, the issue is supply and demand. Very, very few people paying for this kind of work combined with wild costs for equipment.
I imagine the success of the rasperrypi and other all-in-ones is scaring the arduino people.

Look, I'm the perfect demographic for arduino, but I never bought one. I just don't want to have to buy tons of shields, ribbon cables, lcd displays, etc to get a basic device that I can have some fun with. Its also a little intimidating for beginners.

>but why the extra sensors?

Why not? We're talking a minimal amount of money added to the board. You can always get the vanilla arduino if you want one.
First up, my initial comment was a bit harsh. Sorry. Should have been phrased more like a question.

Here's what I was imagining: I've worked with 30" monitors in the past and I found that there was a trade off between what I could view at one time vs panning my eyes around. I can entirely take in a 15" mbp at about arms length, but I have to move my head slightly to see from bottom corner to opposite top corner on a 30".

I'm guessing a 55" inch screen is about the size of 12 mbp screens in a 3x4 block (based on the size of my 55" tv). At about 3' away I would only ever be able to see about 1/3 max. Multiple that by 2 screens and my chin would swivel from shoulder to shoulder to see two of them.

More screen real estate is better in general, I just can't imagine it's comfortable to work with so much space I need to move around to see it all.
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But what niche does that fill that iOS doesn't?

> * Clean UI - The WebOS UI is very clean an uncluttered. I find it pleasing to look at and it's easy to use.

The WebOS UI is clean compared to Android, but years behind iOS. I was excited to try WebOS when I got a discounted TouchPad last year, but really disliked how unpolished the entire thing felt. Text selection was abysmal. Actions were often hidden in menus. Animation was not smooth or coherent. Cards is a cool concept, but I don't think it improves usability significantly (at least not significantly more than four-finger swipe).

> * System-wide Mute - When I go to a meeting or other environment I need a full system-wide mute. On Android I'll turn down the sound only to have an annoying notification sound go off in a meeting because notification volume is still at 100%.

Again, not an issue on iOS. Couldn't this be fixed with an app in Android (honest question, people always talk bout everything being replaceable in Android).

> * "Home button" - switches to card view and shows the application launcher. This means that a single button works for 1) closing apps, 2) switching apps, 3) launching apps.

This is largely the same in iOS, but the priorities are different - 1 click to launch new apps, two clicks to switch/close apps.

I put CM9 on my TouchPad because development was stagnating on the TouchPad and I was really surprised how B-grade the entire experience is - even compared to WebOS. An iPad is fast, consistent, clean, and works out of the box. Besides cost, I really don't see what people like about _using_ WebOS or Android over iOS (philosophically I understand, pragmatically, I just can't get there).
Poor Haxe. A pretty good project that just can't seem to generate widespread excitement. Probably because syntax is too close to AS3.
I'm not the author, I just posted this article to HN.

I have no idea why it wasn't released. Sorry!
I was speaking generally. I obviously don't think that there should be no privacy but I do think that free and limitless access to public information is an ideal of the hacker community. I consider books, music and movies as a kind of information.
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My initial reaction was similar, but after the elaboration it's just poor writing.

The "competitive reaction time task" had them competing against no-one, and told they won about half the games. During play, they could decide how much to punish the opponent (through controlling the volume of some unpleasant noises) when the opponent lost.

So, they assume that choosing to inflict more unpleasantness on your opponent when it doesn't make a difference in game or out means you're a more violent person. That doesn't seem perfect, necessarily, but it's clearly a much better measurement than "if you have fast reflexes you are a violent person".
Since it's fiction, would it be ok if all villains were one specific ethnicity throughout all video games which had people in them?

Would it be ok if all the 'good people' were another entirely different ethnicity?

Could we project that to movies and TV shows as well? Would under-representing minorities in TV/movies be okay because it's fiction (barring reality shows, sports and news)?

I think the issue is more nuanced than "it's fiction, therefore it has no impact on real life". What the connection is and how much the influence is, I don't know. But I don't think one can say there is no bleeding through whatsoever.
Matt is much younger than I am. I would love to see "time capsules" of my earliest programming efforts, but they were many years and many systems ago, and I no longer have the source.* Something like Github did not exist when I began programming.

* - with the notable exception of a couple of things that I printed out on paper. Things stored electronically are now inaccessible on 5.25" floppy disks stuck somewhere in my attic. But a few things printed out on paper still survive.
Like the concept. Just submitted 4 reviews and haven't got one back for my site after 15 mins. Any way of shortening the queue to provide a quicker reward for my critiques would be awesome. It'd also be nice to see your site's screenshot to know what people are looking at when they review my site.
I need a terms and conditions link. I want to submit my company's website but I want an assurance that the feedback won't be visible by the general public; i.e. through a google search for "example.com review" or something. and Ts and Cs page or data policy would clear that up. As it stands, I'm reluctant to use this service.
'very few people....compared to' is equivalent to 'fewer' - it's a relative term.

I'd also love to see stats, I couldn't find any.
Metafilter is equally as good.
That's about the right amount of time for reality to imitate parody.
Even then, it would be better than the status quo — you'd need physical access to my phone to access my Apple account, preventing the kind of remote attacks that were made famous recently.
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So this monkey walks into IKEA....
And you'd make the game completely unplayable for everyone that doesn't live in a big city. A lot of people don't seem to realize that unless you're in a densely populated area with a lot of history, there is really no choice but to drive.
Ah, I checked when it was first posted but it seems to be better now. It was probably the site itself and not the screenshot functionality that was the problem.

As suggested in another reply, linking via iframe would still be a nice option to have when submitting.
I'd be very leery of running any unofficial two factor authentication. Heck, even 1Password urged their users to wait out the initial Dropbox TFA rollout.

http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/08/27/dropbox-two-step-authen...
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Ditto on Mountain Lion.
I would love if cloud providers offered SSD options for their full range of boxes.

For example, to be able to get a Linode at only a fraction more of the cost (say, a 10% premium) with the disk being SSD (and obviously reduced capacity compared to HDD).

I have seen the current offerings but found them to either be too costly (AWS, only one of the the largest instances), or too onerous (ssdnodes.com whose base products aren't aligned with the costs elsewhere, and to move all of your hosts to be near your SSD powered database is a big task when I only seek a little task).

I was even considering co-locating as the most cost-effective way to get SSDs when providers still massively overprice them. It all feels a bit like the RAM scam a decade ago when they'd charge you near the cost of the RAM every 2 months. Again though... co-location fell into the onerous class of actions.

Right now, pragmatically I stay with HDD and Linode.

But Linode should look at my $500 per month account and be well aware that as soon as I see a competitor offer SSD nodes at a cost-competitive point that offsets the burden to move... I'll be gone.
I'm not an economist, so this is layman speculation, but it seems that taxing corporate money would encourage the company to re-invest it more quickly. Some have said that reducing corporate taxes (and increasing taxes on money when it actually goes to people) would provide more money to create jobs/grow the business. Wouldn't there also be a reduced incentive re-invest the money?
thank you both, but I think I failed to express myself: what I meant to ask is: how is this better than other xml based templates, such as wicket, TAL, Kid, Genshi etc.

I would be led to understand, given your comments, that Heist does not allow control structures in the templates, but looking at some snap code[0] it would seem iteration is right there. Which makes sense I guess.

Or am I missing something, and there is a fundamental difference between Heist's

<posts:reverseChronological>
<a href="${post:url}">stuff</a>
</posts:reverseChronological>

and, say, Genshi's

<a py:for="post in reverseChronological" href="${post:url}">stuff</a>

Is the difference, and thus your preference, in the fact that posts:reverseChronological works more like a function call taking the content as argument, rather than a "classic" loop?

[0] https://github.com/snapframework/snap-website/blob/master/bl...
And the only way to prohibit reckless driving is to kill freedom of travel, and the only way to prevent murder is to kill freedom of association, right?

You are thinking in binary. Binary models underfit the real world.
What are your recommendations?

The advantage is that you can easily ping other developers, comment, and reference other topics.
Just wanted to let someone know that after I press "Create" I get an overlay that says "Connecting" and it appears to be stuck there, since it never connects. Developer console has an error "Failed to load resource" on this URL http://www.recitethis.com:8901/socket.io/1/?t=1355166704000 My quote was "I dream beyond my means"

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The Relooper is good enough that the lack of goto isn't an issue in a practical sense these days.
Is elm-server just another web server or does it serve up elm files directly?

PS - this project looks really great! It makes me interested in web dev again.
I think so, but I am biased (lead dev and designer :P)

The entire site is written in Elm (excluding the code editor which relies on CodeMirror). If you click the "View Page Source" in the top right corner of every page, you can see the full source for it.

For example: http://elm-lang.org/edit/Examples.elm

Here's the [full source for the website](https://github.com/evancz/elm-lang.org/tree/master/public) and a [game of Pong](http://elm-lang.org/blog/games-in-elm/part-0/Making-Pong.htm...).
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"Use large block writes and small block reads"

Yep. Write amplification is a big deal on SSDs and gets worse due to their internal garbage collection, if you give them a high-entropy write pattern. This is not a problem though, with TokuDB. See our "advantage 3" here: http://www.tokutek.com/2012/09/three-ways-that-fractal-tree-...
The funny thing is that you didn't make any genuine arguments in the prior post to refute, just several non-arguments and vague complaints like "manifestly obviously just rationalisation".

followed by:

There is no benefit in IP except to the holder of the state-granted monopoly, and perhaps the politicians who get MAFIAA money.

Do you seriously consider this to be an argument? Because I would classify it as tired cliché.

You enjoy the copyright system and feel entitled to more than you would have earned without it.

What absolute tosh. You know absolutely nothing about me and make such ridiculous statements.

I challenge you to find one showing it aids it.

Ok, after 5 seconds of google:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201211290581.html

I'll hazard a guess that you'll dismiss the report authors as copyright loving MAFIAA apologists though.
I probably should have parsed it better despite formatting.

Still the point probably stands that if you guess how much an Apple TV would cost and look at what you can get for the same money you will probably be impressed by most aspects except possibly the UI.
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That analogy is misleading and you know it. It's more like being unable to buy a washing machine without also buying a dryer, snow blower, quad garage door opener, freezer, golf cart, and thresher attachment. Oh and you can't resell the extra stuff. Oh and you can't loan it out either. You're practically burning money.

Come back when someone invents a washing machine that does only cotton and costs 95% less than a normal washing machine, then patents it and won't let anyone build them. Maybe then you'll see the problem.
Convertible notes are technically debt, and involve a commitment to repay. But the distinction is academic; the debt is a contract liability between the startup and its investors, and if the startup fails, there's nobody to repay.

You can't take a startup convertible note investment and use it to buy Porsches for the same reason you can't do that with an equity investment: it's fraud, and your shareholders/creditors will sue you personally.

One imagines the "founder fight" scenario Graham keeps alluding to is a startup that any outside can see has failed, but the founders can't; people are fighting over the right to continue being paid to work without a boss for X more months.

If you're a founder in this situation, you should know that this is probably the dumbest conceivable fight to get into. Your time is simply much more valuable than a few tens of thousands of dollars. More importantly, any game-changing idea you come up with after the team crackup is now encumbered by the original investors/creditors. Why would you want that? Get out as quickly and cleanly as you can and start over with a clean slate.
Wear patterns and flash are an issue, although rotational drives fail too. There are several answers. When a flash drive fails, you can still read the data. A clustered database and multiple copies of the data, you gain reliability – a server level of RAID. As drives fail, you replace them.

Unlike magnetic disks, SSDs have a tendency to fail at a really predictable rate. So predictably that if you've got two drives of the same model, put them into commission at the same time, and subject them to the same usage patterns, they will probably fail at about the same time. That's a real problem if you're using SSDs in a RAID array, since RAID's increased reliability relies on the assumption that it's very unlikely for two drives to fail at about the same time.

With an SSD, though, once one drive goes there's a decent (perhaps small, but far from negligible) chance that a second drive will go out before you've had a chance to replace the first one. Which makes things complicated, but is much better than the similarly likely scenario that a second SSD fails shortly after you replace the first one. Because then it's possibly happening during the rebuild, and if that happens then it really will bring down the whole RAID array.

That said, if you're careful then that predictability should be a good thing. A good SSD will keep track of wear for you. So all you've got to do is monitor the status of the drives, and replace them before they get too close to their rated lifespan. If you add that extra step you're probably actually improving your RAID's reliability. But if you treat your RAID as if SSDs are just fast HDDs, you're asking for trouble.
How about a single unconstrained text area? Do you really need to break the address up into lots of little bits? If so, why? Because you have different costs / taxes for different states / countries? Fine, have separate fields for those, but otherwise, what's the benefit?
Similar experience here. What's the difference between comments and reviews for that matter? There's an add comment button and an add review button, apparently tied to the same field.

Also got some after-the-fact request to sign up before getting the review of my site I was promised... not too interested in that.
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In your example, Bob should have first asked you to agree that you wouldn't share his idea, or use his idea in a way which would harm Bob's ability to benefit from his idea.

In reality, this is what happens. Aside from the utilitarian argument, there is a moral argument to be had here. You agreed to not make use of Bob's idea, and then you did. You broke your word, and are responsible for the pain you caused Bob.

You might argue that there are scenarios in which you never actually talk to Bob - Bob shows his idea to Tom, and Tom is the one who breaks his word. You're merely getting the idea from Tom, and are as such free from any moral obligation.

However, I would offer you this rhetorical in response: If you are offered goods in such a way that you reasonably know these goods to be gained through deceit or other immoral acts, is your acceptance of those goods (and therefore benefit of the immoral act) a moral act itself?
hey zoba,

are you able to access this URL[0]?

[0] http://www.recitethis.com:8901/socket.io/