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Yeah, it's Middle Earth's Bible, which is part of the reason why I disagree with its existence. Some argued that elder Tolkien would not have published his notes and thoughts in that form, and it dilutes Tolkien's published works of their artistic value.
Third party modules like this one of the things that make AngularJS awesome.

I put together http://ngmodules.org/ as a searchable repository of Angular Modules. Hopefully people will find some useful libraries through it.
I live in Bulgaria - here is usual to have 70-100Mbps for 20 euro in the big cities.
OnStar + Siri for Shopping. http://helpping.co

Shopping at Target / Walmart / Safeway / etc. and can't find what you're looking for? or just have a question about a product? or just need some help?

Press a button. Talk to a person. Get your problem resolved. Quick. Easy. Simple.
To borrow a term from TV, it's a "premise movie", the counterpart to a premise pilot, which doesn't work as a regular episode, but as the set-up for the rest of the show.
I'm interested in anecdotes.

Are these long term relationships? I've seen cases where the guy seems to want to rush into marriage quickly and the woman backs away, but never an LTR with the roles tilted that way.
I seriously do not understand his problem. I don't like LotR either, but its
cultural impact is huge and it does in no way devalue the gigantic literary
work that Tolkien has created. Idiotic copyright lawsuits won't change reality,
either.
For billable Rails consultants he is in the ballpark. Anonymous offshore developers are not 1:1 substitutable with boutique Rails consultants.
Why, you can set up an instance to someone's number that you can use to send messages to that person.
Good point. People here see clients as if they were sitting on a stack. Just going through them one at a time. FIFO. But thats not the way to treat people. Clients are human beings, they want to be taken care of and understood. Some of them are easier to understand than others, but at the end of the day, everybody wants the same thing. They just want to find someone who will listen, take them seriously, and be there when shit hits the fan. I always keep in touch with clients, and make an effort to send them business. For example, I did a project for a startup who has a great product. From one of my ads on HN, I got contacted to do some engineering work. But hey, my client's product can do what this other person needs at a fraction of the cost. So I advised the person inquiring and got him in touch with the client. They were able to agree on terms. My client made a huge sale. The prospect saved thousands of dollars. And I was able to expand my network with another happy person.
Hard to judge baggage or anything of someone's character based on an online profile... especially when you're creating an image that you want to be seen as. When I was single I went on PoF to test the waters (pun intended) and it was easy to meet women and I had a few fun experiences.

I haven't tried any of them in years, but I don't know how you evolve the model from where it is. There are few social situations where you find a favorable girl to guy ratio except for a college campus.
Raising a child is a rather huge responsibility. How is it not "massive baggage"? Oh, and how is it misogynistic? A single male with a child has the same responsibilities as a woman.
"Judging from web traffic", what web traffic? What do you mean?
I'm sorry, but I think Christopher Tolkien is a pretentious cunt who has wasted his life squeezing the last drops out of his father's writing career. He should have spent his life creating original material rather than fussing endlessly over someone else's creative output.

I think he owes Peter Jackson an apology for pissing on the greatest thing to have happened to the Tolkien books in many decades.

What a whiny asshole.
Note that 8k/mo is calamitously low for a solo consultant. It's a good W2 wage for a full time employee with benefits at a contracting firm, but it's about half of where a consultant should be rate-wise.
I think they're just doing that to get good publicity (oh Free doesn't show ads on internet? I think I'll sign-up at that ISP!) and also to piss off youtube.

They will turn it off by default in a couple weeks/month for sure. Mark my words.
Here's an example of how ATS makes a C API safer, similar to the API in the K&R example (it deals with memory/string copying):
http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2012/08/30/safer-handling-of-c-...

ATS provides all the low level hackery that C can do but allows more information to be encoded in types to ensure that is safe. It also provides high level features from functional programming languages like higher order functions, pattern matching, etc.
We launched a physical product - inspired by the AirBNB cereal box story: The WordBiLLY.

http://www.WordBiLLY.com

What's a WordBiLLY?
They are custom-crafted Word Sculptures of your favorite Word/City/Name or Quote.
We also make Twitter ID signs - swag for the home and/or office.

We manufacture each BiLLY here in the United States and hand-finish the pieces in our garage before shipping (yes! an American garage company!)

WordBiLLY is a design company focused on creating modern specialty goods in the area of lifestyle products.
We are a couple of college seniors at UNCC in Charlotte, NC and we launched this product in the summer of 2012 to pay for our technology startup.

Would love to hear feedback/ product ideas!
Results may be correlated with effort if you consider a single person. However, in real life, you're usually competing with someone else.

Let's say we're comparing two employees: X works hard 80 hours a week; Y works only 40 hours a week and takes long lunches. But somehow, Y still ends up producing more results of a better quality. A rational manager should pay Y more than X, since it's only the end results that are of value to the company.
Allow me to clarify that the reminding of Herbert that Tolkien triggers for me is not based upon the quality of the work -- and I think you and I are going to agree on how bad Herbert's is -- it's only the territorial and overbearing defense of a creation not his own, often with ill effect.

In both cases, I wonder if we'd be better off had forward progress in the canon died with the author.
>Attractive women are being wooed all the time and that's not going to change.

Right. High-status men and very attractive women get a lot of attention, and everyone else is often vying for the attention of those two groups.

The other "problem" with online dating mirrors regular dating: different people have different priorities. Some want relationships, some want hookups, some don't know, and many if not most conceal their "true" intentions. Having dating online before, I've seen the whole gamut.
If you weren't able to get a date from any of those sites then maybe the problem is you?
I'm in the minority; I enjoyed The Hobbit even fully aware it suffered from First Film Syndrome. (Just had a thought: Peter Jackson should film Dune next, so he can annoy two posthumous estates.)

I didn't know there were 3 films, so I was so annoyed at the ending that I went back and read The Hobbit. And you know what? The movie is actually a pretty good adaptation.

somewhat <SPOILER ALERT>:

The battle of five armies, which will show up in the last movie is likely to be much more epic than the book, based on Jackson's renditions of other battles of Middle Earth.

</SPOILER ALERT>

I would go one step further: Peter Jackson's adaptation has been nothing short of fantastic. He's been pretty faithful to the LoTR story, but his movies have sparked interest in Tolkein's universe among those who would have never known about it otherwise. None of my friends would even consider reading the Hobbit or LoTR, but they've all seen and enjoyed the movies. (A tiny minority even tried reading the book). Now, its something that we enjoy talking about over many afternoons
http://smash.ly -- In the about.me/flavors.me space where you create a profile, but in our case we integrate your content in a feed. The idea was spawned by the fact that so many of us have personal domain names that always get outdated, so we built something that uses content you're already creating to make your personal website looking fresh. Here are a couple sample profiles:

http://smash.ly/matt
http://degroat.net/

email: chris --at-- degroat.net
There are over 30,000 jobs listed on SimplyHired with "Java" in the title.
http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobs/list/t-java
Rust may be more successful but at this time ATS is a better C replacement. Mainly because Rust is currently tied to a runtime and garbage collector. But also because ATS has better features for describing the API boundaries when calling into C and back (ie. FFI).

Rust will grow into these areas I'm sure because Mozilla will need them for Servo and safer programming.
Yes, I've heard that argument as well, and felt it myself to some extent. Not to torture the analogy too much, but one thing to note about the Mona Lisa is the amount of discussion, debate, and research that has gone into questions such as "what location does the background represent?" and "who is this lady, anyway?". Literally hundreds of years have gone into an analysis of that painting, and posthumously publishing Tolkiens background notes almost guarantees that the legacy of his work will be treated very differently. That said, Tolkiens works exist at an interesting cusp in the course of human history, as we are transitioning from a dearth of contextual clues surrounding works of art, to an extreme excess. Nothing is sacred, but such is the way of things today...
did you take that as part of a pharmD. or MD?
Scott Aaronson summarizes it well when he says, of papers that have signs of being by 'cranks' --

> If I read all such papers, I wouldn't have time for anything else. [1]

Crank papers often take a long time to read, by virtue of some combination of (i) using non-standard notation and terminology, (ii) lack of familiarity with the established literature, (iii) tortured writing style.

If you claim to have proved a big new result, and you don't already have the credentials that will ensure you get taken seriously, then it is up to you to write in such a way that makes it easy for other academics to verify your work. Part of being an academic is interacting with other academics.

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304
The validity of a mathematical proof depends on a few very precise rules that can be checked by a computer, so I think it's interesting that we still rely so much on humans for the verification of mathematical proofs. As the article points out it's clearly problematic.
There are always services like tastebuds.fm. Online dating via the medium of your music profile. Obviously it suits a particular demographic, but that's probably the best way for dating sites to work.
true that. Say, if you wanted to modify a page on Wikiproof titled "Goldback conjecture" you have to first summarize your approach, with a tree diagram of subtheorems, and at least provide a few proofs of those subtheorems that are original, and of course, citations for those that aren't. Wikipedia for original work! It'll be fun to maintain, considering that it'll be like allowing advertisements on Wikipedia.
I doubt the author meant "cryogenics" literally.
Sure there's all sorts of alternatives but that's not the point of this article or the outrage.
Everything that you code can be tied to an algorithm since an algorithm by definition is a step by step instructions to do something.

data structures for web developers ? Plenty. Heck for any developers. Think about lists, maps, dictionaries, hash tables etc. They are data structures aren't they ?
Sounding like a human will add more value than removing every word you can. Unless, of course your target audience isn't human or doesn't like to read human generated text (a trait that everyone seems to aquire while in front of a UNIX system).

Sounding like a human will make people read more of your message than simply making it brief, and understand it better. Also, it will make people like it more.

But that doesn't means that you should apologize. You must give all your messages the same personality, and some kinds of personality just don't apologize...
My feelings, too. I can understand why Sam feels it's worth $125k, based on the amount of hours he put into it, but a potential buyer will (most likely) evaluate this as buying a business -- and from that perspective the price looks really steep. You'd need to grow the business 10x just to break even.

That being said, there might be someone out there who's been contemplating building a task app business, and this would give them a really nice head start, product-wise. Or, perhaps it would make sense for a larger company (OmniGroup? Panic?) who can devote substantial marketing resources to it.

Nonetheless, I wish him the best of luck. He's a likeable guy and has obviously put a ton of love into this product -- it would be nice to see him enjoy some monetary return on his efforts.
Well, considering that Amgen could only reproduce 11% of "landmark" papers in cancer research, peer review is missing a lot. See
"Drug development: Raise standards for preclinical cancer research"
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a...

And some of the scientists insisted on non-disclosure agreement before agreeing to help Amgen reproduce published results, which proves most papers don't publish nearly enough details to reproduce main results.

Peer review is a social organization that necessarily never lives up to its ideals. At top journals such as Science, Nature, Cell, editors also consider PR values, popularity of topics, exclusivity. It is standard practice to obtain prior favorable impression by contacting editors before formally submitting manuscripts at these places. There are different standards of peer review; consortium such as ENCODE and TCGA have a different track for their papers.
Sure, but then you quickly run into the issue of, "That depends what you mean by 'rule'."
Apparently height hasn't changed much since the dawn of man, but it has increased significantly (about 10cm!) in the past 150 years, due to better nutrition, but it's levelling off. It may thus be said that height is not seen as a genetic advantage in itself , but as a signal of better nutrition (although a few centuries is a short time for such a preference to be genetically selected for)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-are-we-...
If the Wikipedia page is correct then British publisher Tony Faber offered $1 million dollars if a proof was submitted before April 2002.

And according to this article it was submitted in March 2002.

So how come this guy didn't come forward to collect the prize ?
http://meople.net lets you gather all your friends information flows in one place with ease and never lost the track.
I can't think of any missing features that we have run into. We have used it mostly for collaborating database designs. Can't wait to see what you guys have in store!
We all know what high ethical standards the movie industry adheres to. The lawyers they hire must be experts in these accounting shenanigans
Well, there is something to this. If I were single, I'd want to be pretty cautious myself. That said, I think not wanting to make a mistake, and not wanting to make a decision, are two different things. If you're with someone who wants to get married, there comes a point where you should make up your mind one way or the other.
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The record recently set by Hollywood did not pertain to the industry as a whole (which is what you assert). It pertained only to box office revenue, which is simply one source of income among many relied on by producers to recoup the costs of their productions.

Moreover, the 'record' isn't really a record at all, in that it's measured in dollars that haven't been adjusted for inflation. The moment you start comparing apples and apples, it turns out that Hollywood's best year at the box office was 2002.

As an aside, those familiar with the development of digital video, the practice of DVD ripping, and the infrastructure for online exchange, will recognize 2003 as the point where pirating movies switched from a theoretical possibility to a technologically feasible proposition.
I'd like to talk about this from the other side of the table - the interviewee. I think interviewing is broken but I really don't know the answer how to fix it so I have to just "play the game". I'm pretty good at "playing the game" but I am feeling the same level of interview burnout while looking for work as interviewers do looking for candidates and I can't help but think it hurts the industry overall as engineers don't look for new jobs just to avoid the hazing process of interviewing.

Without trying to sound like I'm bragging, I consider myself a senior level, talented engineer. Recently, however, the startup I have been working at ran out of funds and I have been pounding the pavement looking for work. The problem is that I don't feel like any interview I have been doing, or for that matter, have ever done, is really a measure of how good I am as an engineer. It's more a stamina test to see how well I can be tortured and hazed and it makes me reluctant to take on more interviews. Most interviews are about being quizzed on the minutae of a language or about solving a programming quiz in 60 seconds while the interviewer critiques thought of every line. I just don't see how these interviews are actually filtering out bad candidates or measuring good candidates. They are measuring how someone performs in a very specific, non-realistic situation that does not emulate how every day work would occur. The worst example of this are the horrible SHL/Brainbench tests that seem to measure memorization more than skill. I do quite well on those silly tests, but I'm not sure they really measured anything accurately.

I was the happiest when I got homework assignments as my tech prescreen or was asked to walk through examples of my own code with their engineering team. I feel these are less stress on the interviewee because it is code you are familiar with and are a closer exemplar of what goes every day at work.

Or maybe I'm just a wimp.
I just have started a blog about my first internet startup. It’ll provide an inside look, starting from day 0. I would be pleased if you follow me on twitter: @ptck_s
Computers aren't some magical machines that instantly understand what we mean.

At some point somebody has to write the code to implement those 'rules'. Which then opens up exactly the same problems (if not more) than if you just verified by hand.
I love Go for many of the same reasons as the author. Go's fantastic performance doesn’t' hurt either. :)

These micro-benchmarks match what I have seen in the real world:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-...
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"Things snowball after that."

"The people on those threads often sound like they can't wait to get away from their customers."

Great point obviously. Some people are bad business people plain and simple.

A good business person is totally separate from a good programmer or a good anything.

A good business person knows how to make a buck and most certainly knows how to treat a customer (or a lead, see below) and how to encourage more business.

An actual email from a contractor we found (who paid adsense for the lead this was for a joomla upgrade we were looking into as a favor) after a back and forth string of similar conversations:

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"Honestly, their site is completely outdated. Whoever built it put no love into the project. For what they do and the audience they are trying to target, they need a more professional image. Additionally, their content is NOT content. It is images that Google cannot detect. No one can find them on the net if they were looking for such a company because Google can't read images of text. Their security is at risk as well. We found at least two weak areas that were patched with the upgraded versions.

Tell them we would do the complete rebuild/design for $10,000 if they provide all content in text format."
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We weren't the people who did the site and we weren't the people who embedded graphics and while the points are valid the tone and the approach is way off. I mean how did this person know that the person writing to them wasn't the fuck up? Ooops.
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You make a good case, and I don't disagree.
Please elaborate. I find it difficult to believe that the problem you are hinting at would be a showstopper because there already exist computer systems for verifying mathematical proofs to standards of rigor acceptable by mainstream mathematicians.
I wish the younger tolkiens were not such artistic snobs and would produce more material for my role playing games- both computer and pen and paper. Moar contentz already.
I guess if you're a literary art-snob you retire to France and criticise and rarely produce. Pity
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I think people hating on The Hobbit were just mad they ran out of popcorn before the third act. It's a valid criticism that the film does run a little long to not have a definite conclusion.
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It means put all of these potential solutions in a folder so that future generations (who may have been technology) can easily find them.
If Google is three companies, two of them are clearly not carrying their weight! Unless things have changed significantly since February of last year, Google remains the least diversified of the major tech companies: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-google-is-th...
It's silly that the 3G models don't do voice calls. You could easily do calls using the speaker and, more privately, using a (BT) headset. It's great to be able to use the device while calling instead of holding it to your head like a neanderthal.

I still don't know what the (or my personal) sweet spot for phone size will be. You're trading off essential attributes either way you go. 7" might be an interesting spot if you want to "have" a tablet device and a phone device but don't want to have to own both.

Stashing it is a problem though. I can't imagine lugging it around in my front pockets. Back pockets might work better but are easily stealable and (the bigger issue) you have to sit on your phonetablet all the time. Cargo pants work, but aren't fashionable, and I imagine (from lugging beer^Wwater) that the weight distribution is annoying. Biking clothes have a bigger pocket in the small of your back, and having never worn one, I think that's just about perfect. Or you could do it like Peter Molyneux: http://youtu.be/o6-grRsTupA?t=9m35s
This looks great based on my quick perusal. I'd be very surprised if the notes could teach these subjects to anyone who didn't have significant prior exposure. The notes seem better suited for reviewing and contextualizing material you already know rather well. My favorite book of this type is Shafarevich's Basic Notions of Algebra.

The stated prerequisites are also more advanced than the submission title implies. At my university we didn't have a dedicated course in complex analysis until our third semester, and that was in Denmark, where students will study nothing but mathematics from day one. In the American system where even mathematics majors have a mixed course of study for their first several years, it's not unusual for rigorous complex analysis to be a final year subject. Even Harvard's infamous Math 55b second-semester honors course only treats complex analysis very superficially.
i actually meant an archive of papers where mathematicians from the future could try to improve or dig gems out of (using computerized theorem provers or just pen and paper). Papers like ramanujan's notebooks or this guy's proof of Goldbach. But freezing brains could be worth thinking about --- maybe a crowdsourced fund like kickstarter to freeze society's favorite brains.
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