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I don't understand all the hate this article is generating, it's just a basic case of the 'easier to ask forgiveness than permission' vs 'look before you leap' styles.

PHP warnings are a debugging tool, not a substitute for exceptions. Suppressing them is not the equivalent of a catching and ignoring an exception.

Putting locks everywhere in a futile attempt to prevent the filesystem from changing under you is futile. It's fundamentally an external i/o device out of your program's control. It is never safe or reasonable to infer from the result of one filesystem operation that a subsequent one will not fail.
Not only goes to jail, but is also executed. However, by some highly unlikely circumstance, the execution doesn't work, so then the hero gets carte blanche to enact revenge on the parties that set him up due to "double jeopardy."
In 2029, when we are still not able to 'upload our brains' into a computer, I will come back here specifically to call bullshit.
Worth remembering some things here:

* The US is thought by some economists to have an artificially high infant mortality because the US is more rigorous about reporting live births than other countries which might write up the same events as stillbirths.

* Outcomes in the US for chronic serious illnesses are at or near the top of the rankings.

* Life expectancy figures in the US are anchored down by suicides and, more importantly, traffic fatalities, which the US leads the world in. While that's not something we should be OK with, it's also a direct consequence of the vast land mass and wide population dispersal in the US.
Also, the exact same event can take place in two different countries, but be classified called "live birth, dead baby" in the US and "stillbirth" in another country. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality#Measuring_IMR
How about a reference to the research?
Why not have Watson learn both Urban Dictionary and Miss Manners? Seems a shame to have it lose the UD knowledge.
Having been a university student and knowing the types who circle around on campuses, they'd just beat it out of you.
US health care is amazing for rich people, and terrible for the rest. On average, it is lousy.
I am more interested as to how they "..scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory." - is it trivial to just delete something learned by AI?
When you saw the headline did you honestly believe that these new banknotes were going to become the currency for all of Europe, and not the set of countries that actually shares a currency?
they outsource the manufacturing of the iPhone don't they?
I attended Starter League (formerly Code Academy) in Chicago last fall and I'm in my mid-30s with the exact same background as you. The development part was the easiest and like Keith said you will pick it up very quickly. The toughest part was juggling my full-time job (longer story) and family responsibilities. I was one of the oldest, but not the oldest. Not getting to hang out and build more meaningful relationships with the rest of the class due to other work and family obligations was the hardest part for me. It was a tremendous experience and I would recommend it if you are up for it. Your commitments may not be the same as mine were, but I would be happy to let you know more if you are interested.
I don't think robots will ever be completely autonomous. There will always be Skynet or a central data center which feeds information and controls each machine. Otherwise, things could potentially get out of hand if machines are intelligent enough and all indicators indicate that they very well will be within the next 100 years if not less.
Line by line, my disagreements:

- You don't need cookbooks. The internet is better in terms of 'MVK', and the best cookbook is the one you make yourself.

- Get rid of half of the pots and the dutch oven. Cast iron is indeed the greatest.

- A stand mixer is nice, but by no means is it Minimum Viable.

- If you insist on getting a mixing bowl that isn't a regular bowl, don't get three of them.

- Ditch the whisk.

- Saying an ice cream maker is part of an MVK is like saying cool t-shirts is part of a startup's MVP.

That being said, I really like this article.
A tar pit if you're trying to master it, but not necessarily so hard to get started with.
The way I'd see this working is:

- You pay me $5K
- I do the thing
- In N months, I license the software to you for M months as payment for the $5L
- You spend $3K and decide it's worth it
- Formal agreement

Not bad at all.

My only reservation: how do I know that $3K + you = worthwhile for me? How do I know that you are good at acquiring customers?

This is actually my main problem (acquiring customers).
I personally don't think his identity is relevant to all HN, but it's definitely something that's going to be revealed to the selected candidate/project because of the legal implication.
The US isn't the only country in the world where business and software dev happens. US$ 5k is ~2 months a good developer salary over here in Brazil, it's a pretty decent amount for one month of work.

Most importantly, 99% of ideas are valued at $0.
Next, feed Watson the corpus of /b/.
Keep in mind though, like makeshifthoop said, price changes (and even more so, in app-purchases) can have another huge effect on total "profiters" -- some top grossing apps are actually free and rely on in-app
the quote in the article is "This post lays out the Minimum Viable Kitchen (MVK) for creating gourmet food." - I'm guessing it is equivalent to "the Minimum Viable Garage for race car teams".
The only part he got right imo is the one most people get wrong; knives. Lots of my friends have tons of them, I have 3, a good chefs knife and a good flexible knife for boning and filleting and then a throwaway paring knife (ie it is so cheap that if I feel like it's not sharpening up well after a few months I throw it away).
Lots of other stuff I've never had... I mean an ice cream making as minimum? And a stand mixer? Elbow grease costs nothing, as someone probably rightly once said.

The takeaway possibly is that minimum viable anything is relative to the expectations of the observer. Also that over-thinking things can lead to excess.
Epic?

http://semi-rad.com/2013/01/everything-is-epic/
Sandboxing in JVM is broken. Server code does not rely on that (most of the time). Sandboxing is inherently insecure. It usually comes with appropriate warnings (ex: Python) and everybody is expected to understand that it is a half measure at best.
"I like how the web-site forgets key details like "where is this course being run?" "Are you accredited?" "What supplies do I need to bring?" "Basic qualifications to start?""

Where is answered on the home page in fairly large typeface. Accredited is a bizarre question... As something that's trying to do something novel in education, you can assume not. Supplies aren't mentioned, but I think it's fairly obvious-- you need a computer. Basic qualifications are answered in the faq.
That's not a valid comparison. "State of the art" facilities are not being argued against, but "health of the populace".

People also used to (maybe still do) fly to Australia for cardiac surgery.

The US may be able to pull in doctors from around the world with salaries that are high (correlating to high healthcare costs), but the regular individuals access to such doctors is limited: if I, talking to my insurance provider in Washington, said I wanted to go to the East Coast and have Dr Oz do my cardiac surgery (leaving aside any, and indeed valid, controversy over him - I was just looking for a notable/famous surgeon), I'm fairly certain they'd balk (and I'm fairly certain because I've worked on software systems that determine such things for insurance providers).
Are we dealing with an uncanny valley situation here? At hfr and high res, are films just short of being good enough in such a way that they are freaky? Will another decade push it over the edge into real-realism and then it comes into it's own?
Considering the very low percentage of IDEAS that turn into valuable companies, especially without the injection of new contacts and business expertise that an incubator might provide this actually seems like an OK deal. If hmexx does 10 of these, there's a very good chance that he'll flush $80K down the crapper and 10 developers will have had a great time building something they care about and learning a TON about what it's like to work full time on something alone. Perhaps some new friendships are forged.

If you know that your idea is THE big idea that can be worth millions, take $5K out of the bank or your retirement fund or sell your car or do anything in your power to come up with 2 months of survival money and do it on your own. If not, have some risk free fun and a great experience building something awesome with hmexx's money.
I assume he was thinking in R$, not dollars, with a slightly <2x exchange rate. Either way, a developer is not going to leave a good paying job like that, if he can just save for a few months and own 100%.
The entire YC team can advise ~66 startups and they have ~14 people which suggests a person can advise 4-5 startups at a YC-level. It's not quite equivalent since YC has the benefit of multiple perspectives though at the cost of increased coordination.

The truth of b & c are completely dependent on who hmexx is.
I have been using flux for years and I definitely notice a difference late at night and early in the morning.

Also, though, I have higher astigmatism and a high prescription and it might be why my eyes feel tired and notice a difference.

Either way this software is not a hallucination and makes a difference for me.
In a top-level comment, the HN participant who kindly submitted the L.A. Times article that opens the thread here notes with regret that the New York Times report

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/health/americans-under-50-...

on the same report provides more detail. The lede paragraph shows the importance of cultural and lifestyle factors rather than health-care-as-such in the mortality and morbidity outcomes:

"Younger Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than their counterparts in other developed countries, with far higher rates of death from guns, car accidents and drug addiction, according to a new analysis of health and longevity in the United States."

Drug addiction in particular is a severe problem in the United States to a degree not seen in (for example) east Asia. The stark historical memory of the Opium Wars imposing Western drug-pushing on east Asian populations makes many countries on the other side of the Pacific Rim very wary of letting young people start drug use. Illicit drugs were all but unknown in the childhood experience of my wife under Taiwan's former military dictatorship. Growing up free of harmful psychoactive substances allows young people clear heads to learn a lot (including learning other languages for international understanding) and to grow up to promote social improvements, such as the steady democratization and upgrades in provision of health care in Taiwan during my adult life.

So let's be clear what the report tells us: health outcomes in the United States often fare poorly compared to the health outcomes in other countries approximately as rich. But the challenges to health in the United States sometimes differ in ways that reflect long-standing differences in United States culture that still need to be nudged in healthier directions.

AFTER EDIT: There has been some hand-waving (without specific deep links) about OECD health statistics in this thread. In fact, the United States does not fare as badly in comparison to other OECD countries

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/factbook-2011-en/12/01/01...

as some of the statements in this thread have suggested. The decline in all-cause mortality at all age ranges during my lifetime in the United States

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

has been steady, so people in general in the United States are living longer, healthier lives than ever before in history.
This might be true, but my daughter (13) uses Gimp to draw. But then again, she might be an expert because she is recording a 'Lets draw Mangas' thread on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhMwfWFG5GI
Both, actually. The API is too slow to use live for this app.
I like the 50-50 split (although another poster's suggestion of 49/51 makes sense to me as well, a clear owner of the project if they need to split up). He's not giving you a job offer. He's giving you investment money to make a project, and promises of royalties after he has marketed it.

Think of it this way: would you have made $8000 in a month or two without his investment? Would you have potential for continuing income on that project afterwards? If the answer is yes, then this isn't the deal for you. If the answer is no, then what's the harm? If you're in position to negotiate this as a deal breaker, you're likely in position to find something more flexible. If you're unemployed and want some money while you work on a project you've been dying to work on, you've just come out ahead. There are plenty of job offers for freelance/contract programming that don't offer 50% royalties, or royalties at all.
A surgery can involve a lot of resources, they tend to have long wait times. For comparison, this article from 2007 says the average wait for a surgery in canada is 4.5 months:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2007/10/15/waittimes-fra...
Ditch the whisk? A whisk is perfect for controlled aeration of a substance. A fork lacks the necessary dispersion area. What else would you suggest using to cream whites or eggs that is in his list (if you're also getting rid of the stand mixer)?
Part of it is having to change the color schemes you code in to pay nice with the tints applied to the screen.

You can also change the color of the tint based on the type of lighting you have in your room (halogen, tungsten, fluorescent, etc) which makes a difference.

Still, it just might not be for you :)
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I'm not much of a rails guy - but I'll remember to look you up when I decide it's time to move back :)
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Please watch the video. The reference to "French" in this thread refers to Anne Coulié, Curator of Greek ceramics of the Musée du Louvre, 41 seconds into the video.
According to their note, all personal data records will be destroyed: https://www.facebook.com/notes/votizen/votizen-and-causes-ar...
Partly, but since Barrett has a firm policy of not selling to jurisdictions like California that ban civilian use of .50 BMG only so much. It's also intended to be a superior alternative for the non-material sniping role,
Mostly just that IBM's Watson is so very different then google search. That said you are right, there isn't much of my point that isn't invalidated when you include the ability to exchange data through the internet. Not everyone needs a Watson at home for it to be personable either, they just need IBM to save their personal settings, etc.

I suppose I was just imagining a world where everyone has their own Watson at home and not served through the web.
I suspect mostly it's your high medication and food.

Too much "low fat" stuff being shipped around as "healthy" alternatives, when they are filled with sugar, instead of healthy fat.
Good list and good read but nowhere close to MVK.

$25 for a cutting board? A $40 digital scale is overkill.

True MVP/MVK should be using stuff that's truly necessary. ie: A knife honer - just use the bottom of a ceramic bowl - worked for chefs for millennium.
Interesting to note that DemandAPlan had gotten 80k or so signatures on a similar call to action, but when the tech community got involved in pushing the Sandy Hook card, it really took off.
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I can attest to this. It's exactly why I don't use it on my work laptop but can't live without f.lux at home.

Granted, I use and like warm lighting at home. I wonder what would be the effect in a house/room that uses daylight lighting.
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Note to future self: we can probably neutralize indefinitely any malicious AI by directing it to start consuming tvtropes.com.
Then why do you care if they do it through their corporation?
PG made it rain? I just checked https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/ and clearly he hasn't yet. Noone has.
4. The plasticity of a human child's brain is far greater than that of an adolescent or an adult. And humans have among the most protracted childhoods in the animal kingdom.
This article is horribly titled (not the HN one, the article's actual title). The full quote from the article (Minimum Viable Kitchen (MVK) for creating gourmet food) would have been better.

The thesis statement is also helpful to understand what he is trying to achieve:

I define the Minimum Viable Kitchen as one that can
allow you to create over 75% of the recipes that are
in what I consider to be the best cookbooks for
home chefs.
Not sure how this is different than any other generator run off of compressed air.
Oh no, I think slapping linux on it is the way to go, don't get me wrong :)

But I got stuck with it because I had to do ios dev at some point, so I learned to adapt ...

I hear arch and ubuntu both work great out of the box on macbooks.
zero day means it was first seen in the wild (ie, they just found out about it very recently as well). It takes more than a day or two for even some of the most efficient organizations to find, fix, test and deploy even a critical vulnerability, especially when said organization supports hundreds of different permutations of architecture/os/major level/minor level etc. etc. And oracle is far from the most efficient of organizations.

The reason you normally see fixes deployed when you hear about the bug is because of "responsible disclosure" - details are held until a fix is ready. Those suggesting that oracle won't fix this outside of their normal quarterly patch cycle are off the mark though, surely there will be a (relatively) quick response from them (within a week or two would be my bet).
Nice, any plans to do more with it?
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Using mysql_query is an epic fail condition. Period.
The hyperspec is standard document, not an introduction. It's an invaluable reference you use after you get familiar with the language. I also have emacs set up so that I can look up symbols from within my source, and have the relevant page open up in a w3m window in emacs. I use it constantly and miss the same level of quality and clarity in other language documentation, but you need to get used to it's style and format. If you want to get started with lisp, you go to http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and http://www.cliki.net/

Learning lisp wasn't any more difficult for me than learning any other language. "Practical common lisp" is well written. "Object oriented programming in common lisp" is a well written book as well, "Land of lisp" was fun, and not too bad either.

The core language is extremely well documented and understood. As for the libraries, some of them are well documented, some of them aren't. After the docs for RESTAS started going slightly out of date, I just opened the source and read it all in an afternoon(~600loc), and mostly understood it. I prefer not to have to do that, but claiming it makes it extremely difficult to learn, I don't know, to me it's just an inconvenience, and I have a much better understanding of the framework now, which I couldn't get from just reading docs. And some libraries are so small, I can just figure them all by inspecting the package in slime, and reading the docstrings. Usually there is at least example code. The situation isn't perfect, but it is more than possible to use lisp libraries with great success. Most authors are also pretty approachable on irc or the mailing lists. In other words, I'm a young amateur programmer, who picked common lisp less than two years ago, I'm barely competent as a programmer, and I could figure this all out, why can't expert programmers with years of hacking behind them do the same, I can't understand.

PS as for the ugliness of the hyperspec, I'm happy if it scares away people who get impressed by "modern" design, more than substance and content. I usually read it in text only browsers, and curse docs I can't read well from within emacs. Alt-tabbing to a browser and having to use the mouse while hacking ruins my day :)
they just overwrote every urban dictionary word instances with the string "rainbow".
So Watson still wants to call the query bullshit, but says rainbow instead.
There is a reason scream exists in xdebug. There is a reason it's called scream.
Yes! This was really just to establish the base case -- is randomly 'walking' through all books available interesting?
So what you're saying is that C lets you write it on your own. In fact, and this might sound crazy, but you can do that exact same thing in C++, it's just that people don't because the C++ standard library provides plenty of performant and featureful data structures for you.

Besides, anything the C++ standard template library map does when implementing a red-black tree is exactly what you would need to do if you wrote your own, minus having things like allocators (which are incredibly useful for those that need them). You speak of overhead due to "objects, classes and implicit memory management". Inevitably, any implementation of a data structure of substance in C ends up looking like c++-ified C. Want to create your hashtable? Call hashtable_init and get back a hashtable_t. Want to insert into it? Pass your hashtable_t, a key and a value into hashtable_insert. Even worse, you either have the choice of making all of your data void* in the data structure and casting into and out of your interface or making awful macros to define the various methods and structures for the types you would like to use. It's like you're stubbornly writing C++ in C.
Ok, before we get personal don't use the third world stuff, your telling me you never moan about anything? We don't live in the third world so let's not use that hey.

I NEVER ONCE said it should be fun, but as as I am PAYING for my education I expect a certain level of teaching, by this I mean I should be taught the content and also allowed to explore the content. I feel I am not getting this.

I know this will get down voted but hey ho.
It doesn't matter, his description is still the same kind of nonsense in line with having a VM. I get the feeling that he thought the thing he meant to say is actually the thing he said.
There are definitely alternatives to WebEx, but I often have to join online conferences that I did not organize, which means I don't have a huge say in which platform is used.
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