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I saw tptacek recommend your HN comments here:

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/292100038367277056

I just read a bunch of your comments and I agree with his assessment. You seem smart and interesting and apparently work in Manhattan. If you'd ever like to get a beer after work and shoot the shit about whatever I always like meeting interesting folks who are outside of my normal sphere of existence. My contact info is in my HN profile. Hopefully you will actually see this.
This seems to promote a really toxic idea that women are only happy with/attracted to 'alpha' men, and that as the husband you're solely responsible for keeping her happy. If you're 'gaming' your wife, I definitely don't think you're doing it right. It's fine to be assertive and not fall into the 'try to make the other person happy all the time' trap, but you can let them know that's what's wrong, rather than hiding it and trying to engineer your reactions.

It's kind of ironic, you went from trying to fulfill all her demands, to trying to guess her subconscious desires, and working to fulfill those instead. Either way, you're changing yourself to suit her, you're doing all the work. It sounds like you might have low self-esteem if you describe yourself as an 'uninteresting housepet'.
I agree with this but it shows an even bigger problem in my mind. It seems to me that the author has decided that employees attempting to automate bureaucratic tasks is worse than just doing it himself. This seems like a wildly inefficient way to manage. Maybe I'm missing something though.

For example, regarding the time sheets, if I could write a quick script that automates the process of filling it out (correctly) in three hours and it would have taken me twenty minutes to fill it out by hand, what's the problem? after only nine weeks I have earned back that three hours in productive time. If I were to distribute it to the entire team of fifteen people and they each take a similar amount of time to fill out the sheets then we are already ahead.
I've been to this website a few times and I've never gotten past the loading throbber.
Sure. It's all fun and games for the prosecutor until someone fights back.
The pay at McDonald's in Williston is around $18/hour starting. Kids keep leaving for the fields, though, because if they have a skill, they can make twice as much.

It's not without problems, though. Public school teachers in Dickinson are being bunked in community housing because the rent has skyrocketed. Most people will building skills aren't building houses, either, so many of these men working the fields are living in their trucks or in temporary housing or in RVs at Walmarts.
> 4Gb/s, 10k requests per second, 2,000 nodes, 3 datacenters, 180TB and 8.5 billion requests. Design, deploy, dismantle in 583 days to elect the President. #madops – Scott VanDenPlas, Obama for America IT team

That's impressive. Glad that tech is on the Democratic side.

But then again change, liberalism, progress, technology and innovation are all leftist tenets - so it isn't so surprising.

Here's hoping to another tech assisted Republican defeat in 2016. May the morons stay out of power - least they screw us all once again.
iOS 6 adds a lot of goodies for devs. I find it hard to blame devs of apps that move to 6.0. A jailbreak sure would be nice! =) Wait for 6.1 (remember 6.1 beta 4 expires soon!).
Maybe the TSA can help solve our nation's persistent public transit shortage by revealing previously unknown transportation solutions.
Excellent write-up, thank you for sharing.
Or, you know, we could just stop spazzing out in reaction to vanishingly-rare events. You can't shrink-wrap the world.
My thoughts on why C is effective:

Simple. An average C programmer can easily learn 90% of the language and use 80% on a daily basis. So C programmers can understand each other generally well. Although different projects usually have different styles, they are very minor differences.

Assembler friendly. You can link C code and assembler together with negligible overhead. Almost every performance demanding project has its busiest part written in assembler. Even though sometimes C is lack of a certain construct that you require, you can always implement it in assembler and connect it with C code (longjmp as a good example). Using assembler may seem to be contradictory to the first point, but remember only a handful of people need to work at such a low level, other people just use the C interfaces.

Reusable. C has a huge set of robust and portable libraries. Their authors are proven to be surprisingly disciplined.

However, we have to admit writing good C code is very hard. And I can see that less and less people will use it going forward. Steve Jobs' "trucks and cars" metaphor applies here too.
"while a violation of the law"

I have noticed that government agents are relatively quick to assign blame when there has been no conviction. The charges were filed & ultimately dropped, so there has been no determination by the government that this was a violation of the law. I've been a victim of this myself. When launching the first online notary service, the CA secretary of state published an erroneous notice that we had committed a crime. When we spoke with their office, they indicated that there was no evidence of any crime. It ultimately took 2 years, and the threat of a lawsuit, to remove the false statements.
After checking out The Gig City site, I noticed that your company won last year's GigTank. It seems like a great opportunity, and I will probably apply as a student. What advice would you give me (in terms of if I were to get accepted)?
Ah ok. I looked at it and noticed it didn't sync when changes were done. Incron should work in theory, but I haven't tried it. The lack of a headless gdrive client for linux & the fact that I still use windows on a few systems is why I still use dropbox. Was just curious how well it worked in practice
Hmm, try removing from working memory (don't delete the app!) and reopening to see if that fixes it. May be having a hard time loading the site.
but what the hell is the point of that if the url redirects to another url? do they really want to track people copy-pasting urls into email/ims? if so, why not use goo.gl?
Sony announces $1.1 billion sale and lease-back deal for its US head office
Especially when readily solvable problems like obesity and drunk driving kill exponentially more every year. But hey, that's how social fear and hysteria works.
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Come now. The interns weren't given nice computers, but they were still liked. And FWIW, the only real problem with Chromebook as corporate dumb terminal is the tiny screen resolution.
And is there a way to create other stuff like this? It would be neat to be able to draw some simple thing with your mouse on a canvas and then have it generate an equation that makes it.
I think your whole argument is based on the false assumption that you have to paginate after you've done everything else. If you have a well-normalized database, any decently complex query will involve a bunch of joins. If your sort is keyed on one or two fields in one table, why not sort and filter that table and join the result to the others? Admittedly I'm a bit of a DB novice, and perhaps you can speed the join up better by indexing, but it seems like to get 50 rows from two 1000 row tables, it makes more sense to filter 50 rows, then join, rather than the other way around.

If you're keeping the result server-side, how are you storing it between requests in a stateless context like a web app? If I ask for page 1, and you get all the pages, do you cache them server-side? That would add a ton of complexity. I suspect your app is sending the first n rows to the client and throwing the rest away.
So which is more likely: that C and C++ are the best languages ever developed for the kinds of programs they are used for, or that they were just in the right place at the right time?

Or, they're better than any alternative for certain domains and the people that choose C++ know about Lisp, Haskell, Scala, Ocaml etc and still decide to use it despite its shortcomings?

It's a simple question - if Lisp really is superior for these kinds of apps then why isn't there some small, nimble team out there kicking ass with it?
I don't think finding a formula in general would be hard; I'd imagine there's a pretty easy method akin to fourier or Taylor series for arbitrary parametric shapes. But doing so in a compact formula doesn't feel like a trivial problem.
We have plenty of use for it, but nowhere to put the abundance.

Natural gas might as well be free in ND. Half a million homes is all of ND. For reference, I have a 104-year-old, drafty as hell ~2200 square foot home in Fargo, where I pay about $50/month for gas. I heat my home, my water and cook with natural gas. Our average winter temp is about 12 degrees F. I pay more for city garbage, sewage and other city services per month than I pay for gas.

The issue is how in the hell do you export it? You have to run billions of dollars of lines out, when gas is a fraction of the value as the oil. Also, the boom is a recent phenomena. This is going to take a long time before we build out the infrastructure.
Transfers are only permitted to destinations that are externally verified, though. Except penny stocks pump dump scam purchases.
"What about Pascal?"

The type system, and control flow structures, were more strict and allowed less "abuse" (flexibility) than C. Strings were fixed-length arrays of chars, which was also less flexible than strings in C. Also people felt the begin-end block syntax less fashionable than C's {}.

Take a look at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
> I've been through these things dozens of times... I don't see what the big deal is with these scanners.

* They are unnecessary
* They are a forced indignity
* They are security theater
* They should be unconstitutional
* They are a huge waste of money

Why is it even necessary to ask your question? Do you realize that they feel up your junk if you (doublespeak) "opt-out"? As kids, these are things we thought Soviet Russia did to their people.
Shrug. Being assertive is what it's about. Any long term relationship is going to require maintenance/effort.

you're changing yourself to suit her

Working out or wearing a suit or getting a good job or listening to a marriage counselor or acting more assertive are all examples of "changing yourself to suit her/women". Working out, for example, is the opposite of "just being yourself". Given that you will be doing this, the key is to spend time on actions that get results.

The key premise is that men are attracted to beautiful women just as women are attracted to high-status/confident/alpha men. The first half of that sentence is not controversial to articulate; the last half is where there's a conflict. According to society women should instead want men who are caring, sensitive listeners. Try that yourself and compare that to their response to an assertive leader who gives clear directions. That's all that "alpha" is; it really is an empirically large difference.
Would love to see a concrete example of where this helped out. What's going on that's so complex under the hood?
I think these reasons are unreasonable. The requirement seems to be for a wireframing app with exactly the features he wants, no features he doesn't want, and no interface to make that possible. Maybe the problem is that wireframing is work, and he doesn't like doing it.
This reminds me of this clever creation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppers_self-referential_formul...
moqups.com
It is a possibility that he was just embarrassed. I would be..
"Massive undertaking" => "Moar funding please!"
The issue is primarily that mineral rights were sold years ago to acquire the natural gas and coal in the region. We always knew there was oil in Bakken (never this much, though) but couldn't extract it until fracking came along.

The problem comes from a couple of things: First, many farmers rent land. It's the renters who are pissed. Second, those land owners that sold their rights years before fracking lost out quite a bit to what mineral rights are going for now that we can frack the oil out.
The Pentagon (Finally) Gets Real About Secure Software
Uh, over 1000 people have been killed by guns since Sandy Hook a month ago [1]

That's not a rare event - it's just distributed far apart enough in the news and localized to the point where you purposely do not notice.

I think it would be a great service if every national news program would open with a list of the names of everyone killed by guns and drunk drivers, every day. It would only take a minute but if you did it every day, people would start to get a hint.

PBS News closes with all the people (mostly teenagers and twenty-somethings) killed in the military every night, it could be like that.

1. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/1...
How old are you?

I lived on roughly the same salary the first year I lived in SF. I was 24 at the time, and it was fine because I was working non-stop and didn't have much of a life, but I wouldn't want to do it again for long periods of time.
I default to JS off everywhere, then decide on a case-by-case basis if a site should be white-listed permanently, allowed to run javascript temporarily, or not allowed. Doing this allows me to prohibit all the various tracking snippets (as many as 10 at large media sites) while still allowing me to use the web quite effectively (in a non-RMS way).
I was treated poorly by them a few years back. They demanded a current ID, which I didn't have. The whole reason I was taking the train was because my drivers license had expired and I was waiting for the new one.

You didn't use to have to produce ID to travel inside your own country, shame it's come to this.
I'm female and have never posted a comment. Until now.
Yes, in the case of splines you have this by definition.[1] If you want a algorithm for generating formulas from pixel graphics ( with nice properties), then you can

1. Separate the graphics into distinct line segments.
2. Take from each line segments a few points and do a (cubic) interpolation of the line segment.
3. Cut the line segment into two half, and redo 2. if you are not satisfied by the lines.

If you look at the formula, then you will see that something quite similar happens. The formula is always a sum of several sines, times two Heavyside step functions. [2]
The trick here is, that the product of two Heavyside functions will give you a function that is one for some interval and zero otherwise. Effectively switching off the part of the sum outside of the interval. And the sum of sines is essentially a Fourier transform of the line drawn.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_%28mathematics%29

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function
Chrome supports offline apps.
The Apple Dilemma: Marketshare or Margins
I find this pretty interesting. It is basically using Erlang as an OS on top of Xen. http://erlangonxen.org/

Haskell had a similar project but I can't remember what it was called.
No Man.
There's no magic. Terms of the form X(t) * th(t-a) * th(b-t) mean "draw X(t), t going from a to b". X(t) is a primitive trigonometric arc, th(t) is a step function. Gluing together arcs simply meaning defining terms over successive [a,b] intervals and adding them.
Here are tons more 'person curves': http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=person+curve

They can be created in Mathematica: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17704/how-to-...
1. The dark theme doesn't sit well with me. Particularly, the grey on dark grey is grating.

2. The buttons on the sidebar are atrocious.

3. The header bar is much too thick.

4. The font is inordinately small. This might be an idiosyncrasy of mine, but I think a larger font would be preferable.

5. This incorporates all of the intangibles that are significant but difficult to articulate: the app doesn't feel like an app. Rather, it feels like a webpage both aesthetically and functionally. I'm not sure how to describe it, but the app doesn't feel right.
Tizen - new Android competitor
It depends on where you are in western ND. Ranching is a big industry there. Much of the alfalfa and oats are grown to sustain the ranching. The "farms" as you'd more traditionally think of them are more to the central and eastern portion of the state, where wheat, soy, canola and some corn is grown. As you get toward the Red River, you'll find a lot of sugar beets, too.
I've had Google give them to me if I sign up for Adwords for a new project but end up not using it for a few weeks.

They usually give me a code for $100 dollars free.
PSY curve vs Ellen DeGeneres curve

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PSY%20curve%20vs%20Elle...
Since the API you're using is hosted on App Engine, it won't be accessible from China. App Engine is blocked by the Great Firewall.
When you are crushed, broke, and in jail what are ya gonna do, sue?

Sure. You have 24 hours a day of free time, a law library, and nothing to lose.
I think there is a difference in terms of having fullstack developers versus polyglot developers or a polyglot team. To me, and it seems like in this article, polyglot means using various comparable languages that operate at the same or overlapping parts of the stack - so not Ruby versus Node.js, but Ruby versus PHP.
A bit more on receiver operating characteristic curves
Right. The whole registration revocation was in their system with the car I was driving was because of an insurance lapse on the owner's part that was already taken care of, but either hadn't registered in their bullshit system yet or had and he just saw fit to fuck with me. Either way, too much power is entrusted to these people; from the federal to municipal, gov't is rife with grade A stupidity and abusiveness.
Uh, nearly 1000 people have been killed by guns since Sandy Hook a month ago.

Sigh. We're done here.
Does anyone have a link to the actual leaked script? Can't seem to find on that page (it's scrolling all over the place :)
I have to explain this difference to my dad about once a week.

Can't we just start calling javascript awesomescript?
The NFL isn't a mode of transportation. The car you drove to the stadium is. The TSA is clearly there to ensure no terrorists board your car with you.
Most of them were suicides, which really shouldn't count in this statistic.
The trick is that we use the same original object at the same address in memory and overwrite what class it thinks it is (as opposed to wrapping it). So in a way it becomes a proxy to itself.
Malfunctioning is one thing, working as designed and still exposing people is another.
This seems like an image that could easily be created with the Pen Tool in Photoshop. Which, if I understand correctly, is a sequence of Bezier curves[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve
In the east, there's a ton of tech. Microsoft's second largest campus is in Fargo, and with that comes a lot of satellite companies (vendors, consultancies, etc). There's also nano tech and a ton of biotech here. UND in Grand Forks is well-regarded in the region for its aerospace program, and there are plenty of opportunities in that field. In the last 20 years or so ND has gone from largely agriculture-based to fairly well-diversified between ag, tech and natural resources.

If you're thinking of moving here, though, let me tell you that anything anyone tells you about the winter is truly unimaginable. You need to actually experience -30 degrees to understand it.
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Don't pay $19 for a disgruntled ex-girlfriend; I'll give you mine for free.
We were talking about the costs of AppCode not any program offered by Apple.
>MAC is one piece of evidence. without the other evidence, the charges would probably be worthless.

The trouble is that the other evidence can be just as spurious and circumstantial. It's the selection bias problem: You do a hundred thousand things in the process of downloading a journal article and fifteen of them are "suspicious" but those are the fifteen they present to a jury when trying to convict you.
"even senior execs have a hard time getting that kind of change past middle"
How many were obtained illegally? How many were suicides?

How many more people died from more preventable causes?

Sound bites are sound bites are sound bites.
Might be accidental, can be a real pain if you develop media tech (and don't personally run adblock yourself).
One example that comes to mind: we have a networking layer that prioritizes some HTTP requests over others. For example, we seed our cache by firing off requests for the next 30 days, but at a low priority. There was a bug in this layer where request initiation could block the main thread while unrelated work was finishing.

Another example: we used the "HOOKSHOT_TAG" macro to tag objects related to rendering different days in Cue (today, yesterday, tomorrow). This makes the thread activity graph use different colors for time spent on those objects. This helped make obvious a few edge cases where some rendering/processing for a day that was not on screen was done before the day that was.
For Industrial, Medical Systems: Bugs Run In The Family
Starter League (Rails class) Week 2 experience
Why is no one targeting music that advocates gun violence? Video games and movies are pretty obviously works of fiction. Some rap music, for example, advocates murdering real people in real situations
PSY curve vs Ellen DeGeneres curve vs Batman curve
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=PSY+curve+vs+Ellen+DeGe...
Note: it's still 'parametric' but no longer 'person' (in Wolfram Common properties frame).
Here are all the "person curve" possibilities

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=person+curve&lk=2
When that happens, I'm immediately printing off several high-capacity mags out of principle, and I don't even own a firearm (thought about it, but I don't have time to go to a range so the liability isn't worth it for me).

While I understand the intent of the law, it's a totally impractical way to solve the problem. It sounds like the majority of weapons used in violent crimes are obtained illegally so it will do little to deter criminal activities; meanwhile, it increases the liability around owning a 3d printer.
Delivering all email from staging to a group email address
Hey, thanks! I'm eager to see what you make. :)
I actually read your comment as a strong case for ECMAScript being the most correct. Certainly more than the name of one particular implementation of the language standard.

Browsers all implement HTML differently, but we're happy to refer to it by the name of the standard.
I appreciate your criticism, there will be a light theme option in 1.1
Isn't the proper question "how many deaths happened in other countries of the same population density" ?

Because I assure you, it's lower in the UK, Japan, etc.

You cannot just say "oh well what can you do, it's the price we pay to have our toys".
Maybe have a look at this: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/preview.html?draft/46249/0...

Which may be how they did it.