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I don't care about the point. I've dabbled in Haskell myself. I just hate the preaching, especially when it's unsubstantiated.
"The prototypical entrepreneur is highly risk-seeking to the point of irrationality. A simple cost-benefit analysis would dissuade most people from traveling down this path; yet, the entrepreneur is an entrepreneur because of the risk involved."

If that is his understanding of Taleb's book, then he has misread it completely.

Taleb says the best approach is a dumbell strategy, combining conservative choices with convex options whose downside risk is fixed or finite but whose upside is unlimited.
Not for me but for a friend who has 2 years experience in networking and system maintenance, likes to gets his hands dirty, and really enjoys learning new things (and has the resulting paper work to show for it).

My email is in my profile if you are interested.
I remember characters in Victorian novels sending dinner invitations out with the morning mail. Not only would the guests arrive, but there'd actually be a reply accepting the invitation.

Granted, that was within London, where at that time mail was delivered 12 (!) times per day.
I noticed people are downvoting my posts instead of the posts participating in the tangent of vague pedantry. What does the vague pedantry contribute to the discussion that my calling it out (in the same useless, non-specific way) doesn't?
Well, it's an excellent metric of measuring the worth of a product for the only "market segment" that matters to us. That is, us.

Second, intentional coverage just goes with the domain for a flights application. Are Americans supposed to just switch back and forth to some competitor for non domestic flights?
How about a bar-coded stamp that costs a couple of bucks? If the recipient agrees that the mail is valuable, he can scan it and a refund will be issued to the sender. If it's junk....
I think it's a great idea and I have been using a service very similar to this for a little while now - http://cannon.fm/ . So, good news? This seems to be a market with an established set of users who want a solution to this problem. Keep up the good work!!
First you're telling me that pharmaceuticals aren't employing a lot of scientists, and now you're telling me that they are. I'm not sure where you're going with this.

I think "relatively little" (as opposed to "very little" or "none") is a fair characterization of what you said.
I don't like the idea of AI and a computer in everything I own. Who stores/owns all that information? It also seems like a completely unnecessary security risk(people spying on you by hacking into your fridge :P).

The solution is a lot simpler, don't make me use a computer for everything. I can open my car with my key, Pay using money(or even a bank or credit card).

Twitter in you're car and Apps on the fridge only exist because of the App hype. I don't think they will last.
I suspect the answer to your first question is available based on what happened from 1991 to 1993. I've been around long enough now too to believe that relying on the exhaustion of fossil fuels is no longer the answer. Interestingly Sandy hitting New York City may have done more for the global warming cause than any other event.
If you're already familiar with SQL (which your average C# programmer likely is), select/where/aggregate look familiar to you, so less of a mental leap to understand them. And being able to say 'it's like in-line SQL!' makes Linq more acceptable to pointy-haired-bosses at the same time.
sigh... Yet another simple plugin which needs jQuery for something which could be done in vanilla JS and still need less LOC.

Tim: A better approach would be to iterate through all children and find the maximum using elem.offset(Height|Width).

Then create a new <style> in the head for your plugin if it doesn't exist and append a new rule like:

style.innerHTML += '#' + (elem.id || (elem.id = 'eq' + (Date.now() % 1e9))) + '>*{' + equalize + ':' + val + '}';

If you don't like this you could still use elem.style.(width|height) (and maybe even detach the container beforehand to prevent unnecessary reflows), which will be faster and doesn't require a 90KB lib.
This is using the IPython Notebook [1], which uses Python by default, but can use various %magic commands to run R.

[1] http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook
I personally called this effect 'Bandwagon Threshold Theory' (as in, once a critical mass jumps on the bandwagon, everyone else follows). Didn't know about 'Hundredth monkey effect' until today.
A limited capacity lite version is there
As you read the article, little reader badges pop up. Cute.
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I can't help but see the irony in the fact that the Rails community is slowly moving back to app directories similar to those we found in Java's Spring and others. I guess people from the Enterprise world had a point.
You might be thinking about Wakari: http://continuum.io/blog/introducing-wakari

Wakari is much more than just "IPython notebook in the cloud"; however, we do have great support for it. For instance, we have just recently enabled a feature which lets you host & share your IPython notebooks: http://continuum.io/blog/ipython-notebook-sharing-in-wakari

Right now Wakari is in closed beta, meaning you have to register and we manually approve accounts (which we do very quickly).
Human intelligence 'peaked thousands of years ago ...'
Don't get me wrong I don't buy in to any of this, but while people, like say the last POTUS, say publicly that they believe in god, talk to god and are guided on policy by god, and that's seen as a plus point to a lot of voters, then I fail to see why astrology gets put down as some thing less credible. If anything, astrology is a bit less dangerous, since its little more than empty cold reading, etc.

In the end, a lot of decisions end up being take on the flip of a coin. Its this just an over complicated coin toss?
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The IPython notebook came after the SAGE notebook, but it seems to be gaining popularity faster in the broader scientific Python community. (The SAGE community tends to be more oriented towards pure math.) SAGE is a very powerful system and introduced many cool things very early on, but it definitely is a bit of its own island in the scientific python landscape. I don't know if that's because of the licensing (it's GPL) or the software distribution logistics or what.
There was a quote in Ruby Rogues podcast which said that "Ruby people use factories a lot, they just don't call them like that"
>I've been here for 6+ years and while much of the time the discussions can be insightful, many other times you get people who are overly aggressive and downright mean because they're either unable to control their jealousy or throw away all decency for the pursuit of Truth and Accuracy.

For me, plain stupid I can cope with, but the worst offenders are the seemingly benign types, that go passive-aggressive on you.
> Rather than all monkeys mysteriously learning the skill it was noted that it was predominantly younger monkeys that learned the skill from the older monkeys through observational learning, which is widespread in the animal kingdom;[5] older monkeys who did not know how to wash tended not to learn. As the older monkeys died and younger monkeys were born the proportion of washers naturally increased. The time span between observations was in the order of years.

So, why is this supposed to be interesting?
PiCloud has been around for years and has been presented at conferences and whatnot. Raspberry Pis are only a year or two old.
I consider the "run the treadmill by choice", "want leisure time - take it, loser" attitude is actively poisonous to quality of your life in the long run.

The median result - you'll end up alone and not very much successful.
Part of the problem we face is that local gov't uses real-estate as a tax base. So these awesome $750 dollar houses would be a huge monkey wrench for municipalities unless usa pass amendment allowing financnial wealth tax.
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You have to think about the target demographic. The guys at The Verge are probably targeting those with faster computers, faster internet connections. Google is targeting everyone.
Please, tell us about the issue so we can judge ourselves.

Otherwise, this is just an unsupported accusation against Gruber -- which is ironic in this particular thread.

How do we know he "continued to write and be wrong about it" rather than being you who was wrong about it all along, or that both of you were right in a different way?
Another shity CSS framework that doesn't do anything better than adding code overhead to your project. Go ahead people use Bootstrap everywhere then wonder why your product fails in the market. It's better to write some clean, yet minimal CSS than use any kind of framework for CSS. Do you need responsive designs? Just use @media at the end of your CSS file to restyle some of the elements for different screen widths or just hide them. That's all you have to do!
I spent the downtime trying to figure out how to use Jade without the documentation available -- the docs are in the readme.md on the Github repo. It was only later that I realized that the docs were also available through npm (https://npmjs.org/package/jade), but it was an interesting experience nonetheless.
Rejection Therapy [1] is what I would think a perfect example of antifragility in the wild. [2] People learn to manage their anxiety in stressful social situations and become more resilient to rejection after playing for awhile. Entrepreneurs like Jia Jiang even leverage rejections to launch and grow their startups. [3]

[1] http://rejectiontherapy.com

[2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/healt...

[3] http://www.entresting.com/blog/100-days-of-rejection-therapy...
I think the link is interesting exactly because of this discrediting.

I've heard of the effect before, thinking it was interesting but unlikely. However, I never knew that it was 'offically' discredited.
What hosting should you use for a personal blog/website?
I'm looking into getting some hosting for a personal website where I'd like to have a blog and a wiki.
My questions are:

Whats the deal with free web hosts? Are they trustworthy?

What are some good hosts in the UK?

Is there something like a web host comparison website?

What can should I expect to pay?

Any experiences, lessons learnt from the past?
We use a very similar set up in a large Node.js app I'm working on. It works very well for the most part, but we're definitely still figuring out the best way to split things up.

For example, say we want to work with a 'user' model, and we need to do basic CRUD stuff. One argument would say that we should have a module for each action: creating users (registering, hashing password, sending out welcome email, etc.), deleting users (cleaning up their data, removing them from the db), and for authentication, profile updates, and so on. The downside to this is that we end up with a dependence on the underlying data structure across lots of modules. If we want to change the property 'username' to 'login', or something more complex, we have a lot of modules to change. We also need to understand how a user is created before we can understand how they are updated or deleted, which means we need to have the CreateUser module in our head while we're working on UpdateUser or DeleteUser.

Perhaps this problem is worse in our set up because we have only very thin 'models', which are basically just Mongoose wrappers around MongoDB, and so our UpdateUser models is still quite heavily coupled to our database.

All things considered, I've found the schema described in this article is better than any alternatives that we've tried. Perhaps we're just floating at the equilibrium point where either more or less abstraction would make the code more complicated. Certainly we refactor as soon as we can when a single module gets too complex. As always, pragmatism rules.
It all comes down to testing to me. If the dev is writing a test first, questions about where things go are answered pretty quickly. If the tests become painful or awkward, you're probably doing too much in the code.

I think the common Rails response to painful tests is to stop testing. I've heard talk of the "diminishing returns" of testing, or debates of what deserves to be tested. I was once responsible for maintaining many Rails 3 apps that I did not write, and the story was all the same: Either there were no tests, or there were simple tests around simple logic, or there were simple tests covering one or two paths through some really complex logic. Once they felt the pain from their tests, they just stopped writing tests. What else are they going to do... challenge the "Rails Way?"

And this is the community that is supposedly known for their testing. Having used Sinatra or Rails for almost all of my web work for a while, let me tell you: The state of testing in the common Rails app is no different than I've seen anywhere else.
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MVC framework is just a delivery mechanism and your business logic should be outside of it. Your business logic should have no idea about web, console, controllers and routes, it should contain information only about your domain objects and rules. You should be able to extract your application logic and make it available on console, web or mobile just by changing the delivery mechanism.
This is the original explanation from http://cleancoders.com (Bob Martin's website) http://www.cleancoders.com/codecast/clean-code-episode-7/sho...
If you needed to ask, that means you haven't thought it through. If you made a $100k decision without thinking it through, then yes, you are crazy.
The "Hundreth Monkey" makes an even stronger claim. It claims that after a threshold is reached then everybody will have a certain knowledge or behavior, even if they have NEVER heard of it before. Supposedly, once a critical mass of monkeys on an island learned to wash sweet potatoes then monkeys on a neighboring island who had no contact with the first set started washing their sweet potatoes. Essentially, they all jumped on the bandwagon without knowing the bandwagon was even there.

It is, of course, hogwash. Never been reproduced to my knowledge. It is often used by hippy sorts to explain how they are going to change the world's behavior.
In all honesty, the quality of Indian news articles has been so low in the last few months that when I opened the page (after seeing such a ridiculous title) and saw the URL, I immediately closed the page.
Pulling down URLs to images would be a really cool and useful addition. Good work though, looks great - will probably end up using this at some point.
GitHub's Issues system is pretty undervalued as a workflow/project management system. Especially once you learn to use milestones regularly.

It also lets you tack on collaborators to share the blame and responsibility. :)

Of course, you could well argue that it's a problem that it doesn't have the push, alert, and geofencing capabilities that make to-do services great to have.
I find this article to be insulting.

First of all let me be the first to note that the author of the piece has acted exactly as a Scorpio would, with a lot of venom, a premise built upon a lie, and a surprise that would surely kill his enemy.

Scorpios are not to be trusted! :)

Just kidding, sort of.
I'm sort of surprised by this too. Perhaps it comes down to titles and time of day? Most of the posts I've had hit the front page get >20k hits the first day, but I also word my titles carefully (no linkbait, but make it catchy) and time the submissions when I know that the maximum number of people will see them.
Do you know of a highly successful startup or company doing this? i.e. Same logic with different delivery mechanisms and no hassles whatsoever?
Only for iOS? Not yet available for android ... Strange!!
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That's unrelated, read the wikipedia article more closely... It states that after a certain number of monkeys learnt the skill, monkeys from _other_ islands immediately picked up. This means that the theorists thought that cognitive knowledge could travel by other means that just teach/learn relationship.
I recently applied for a job and they sent me this test and another personality test. I wasn't sure what to make of it, but is there any way to politely decline wasting 30 minutes of my life to taking a test that I refuse to take on the ethical grounds that this is pure bunk? I guess it is a great way to filter out people I wouldn't want to work for, but I wonder if refusing to take the test is somehow a litmus.

When legitimate knowledge exams are found "discriminatory" by judges across America, shouldn't it be time to look at these so-called, non-scientific tests and ask if they aren't discriminatory against what, exactly? Wouldn't it be egregious if it were more likely that women or Latinos often fall into one of the "no hire, no promote" letters? That last is stupid hypothetical, but something has to get the madness to stop.
Surely it's all relative? Sure, 20,000 people in a day might not be a lot when compared to 'total people using the internet every day' or even 'total people looking at HN every day' but it's a huge number when compared to 'total people looking at my blog on an average day'.
Okay, I agree these actually are good use cases ;)

And thank you for contributing the module as open source.
But isn't that the point?

Being presented with a blue screen in WordPerfect is a minimal interface, but to do anything you have to learn how to use it. You have to learn how to get the menus up and etc.

And while good design is important, and tends to reduce interface clutter, it's also important to let users have easy access to the stuff they need.

Reducing the interface to what users need is a tricky skill, and risks angering power users. (Google dropping + to force inclusion is a notable example.)
I get graphite oxide in an solution (read + water), I put the solution in a normal cd, I wait so it get dry then I put it in a ligthscribe burner.

And I am stucked, the burner don't want to burn my cd, obviously.

I need something to force it to write...
Maybe . . . are you OK with the legal department assuming you are a lazy simpleton if you launch software with any bugs? Especially considering any misfeatures may have been implemented under management's direction?
Rationality in the world is not going to happen all at once: chipping away at the irrational beliefs of people, and educating them in rational thinking is most likely the best way to get there.
Yes, I do realize that, which is why I prefaced my comments with the disclaimer. The point I was trying to make was my opinion that environmental changes due to human activity is now at an irreversible point. The examples of the Lion and Tiger populations highlight that even with much increased awareness, the decline of these species is continuing. This is happening with global warming as well, and I don't know if there is a point at which the awareness actually translates into action.
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Turning tables is important for some restaurants, more so than getting an extra appetiser or dessert.
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Thanks, I'll put that in the to-do list :)
Like arabic of hebrew in real life....;)
Study shows rapid warming on the West Antarctic ice sheet
Ask HN: Where are the famous black programmers?
When people talk of the skewed population for programmers and CS students it always focuses on the man/woman divide.

Why don't we talk about the lack of diversity?
I think this is cute but I would be worried about trolls unless you have it locked down somehow.
no one cares about your race in technology.
It sounds like we've had similar experiences. I converted a handful of ad hoc "state machines" in a telephony system to FA. The original code was loaded with exceptions and special cases (and bugs). Converting to FA required detailed analysis of the existing system to extract the distinct events and states. I used a tool I wrote [1] to generate C state tables and an event loop from a description of the states+events.

While the state machines that came out of the analysis were a big improvement, they still weren't perfect. We came across a few bugs later on. Using a strict representation of the state machines was a huge advantage in debugging and maintenance. When everything is moving through the same event loop, it's easy to add logging in the form "[timestamp] state A: event X -> state B". Adding a new state or event to the machine (to fix a bug or add a new feature) is much easier when everything is in one place.

In a couple of cases, the state machine started to become large and unwieldy. Usually the cause was that there would be a couple of "meta" states: we'd have states A, B, and C, but then we'd need to represent "states B and C when X is true; states A and B when Y is true". Pulling X and Y into a separate machine simplified the parent state machine -- every X and Y moved into the child divides the number of states in the parent by as much as half. Then the parent can inject events into the child, and the child can fire events back to the parent.

[1] http://bstpierre.org/Projects/smc/
Doesn't inflation just encourage a different type of hoarding (ie. in physical assets like real estate or gold)?
It's better for the future of this site and "community" if it didn't become people's goal to get on the front-page, or some such idiotic achievement.
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Hello! Could somebody explain why Bootstrap asks you to write <table class="table"> instead of <table>, or <button class="btn"> instead of <button>? Why not apply the default styling to platform-independent HTML markup?

Thanks!
> Is there any particular reason you are using GitHub issues instead of a more traditional todo list app?

Better support for discussions and tagging/prio?
You can get a private repo or just sort by issues created by yourself, FWIW.
> It states that after a certain number of monkeys learnt the skill, monkeys from _other_ islands immediately picked up.

It also states that this idea was discredited. This part never happened.
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If you enjoy Mark Twain, you might want to take a look at his lesser works and short stories. Some of them are quite good. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1420931210/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

I remember "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "The Million Pound Bank Note" in particular, though it's been a few years since I read them.
The us military already has this. I wonder what would happen if someone brought HAVEQUICK to the contest? I might actually consider doing this to see if it wins.
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"These pristine reflections of our former selves will live on in the tombs of archived data; they will outlive us."

True. However, from what I have seen, most people don't even care what they were like before.

The majority of people are too concerned about their idiot kids and mortgages to contemplate and ponder about life, time, etc. Once you have kids and a mortgage, I doubt you will even care about backing up clayallsopp.com.

Don't take my word for it:

* the anti-war hippy generation.
* the Ayn Rand crowd of the 60s/70s.
* the Springsteen/anti-nuclear generation.
* the Ron Paul generation.

They are all now (or will be) a bunch of yuppies worried about their retirement benefits. They have "better" things to do than to ponder about life, time, etc.
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