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I have a right to disagree. I have a right to put what I want on a web server, at my own expense, without fear of DoS attacks or website defacement.

If anarchy rules, any person group can do those things without fear of reprisal. That's basically what Anonymous does, and that's why they have to be stopped.
>VP8 (which is also slightly better than h.264 at this point)

I'm sorry, but you have been mislead - VP8 is not better than H.264, and comparison you linked is bad for multiple reasons, like not telling the exact encoder settings used, not providing actual video for users to compare and only showing one frame (for all we know, it might be a keyframe on VP8 and it pumped the bitrate up for it and x264 didn't), not providing source for test replication and so on - just read these:

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/458

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/472

I can do a proper comparison between H.264 and VP8 if you or anyone else is interested, though it'll take at least a few hours (I intend to use the park_joy test clip found in derf's test clip collection[1]).

Also, On2 is famous for hyping up their products to heaven and have yet to match their claims, so I remain skeptical about VP9. There's also Xiph working on Daala, but right now it doesn't seem to be much beyond big words.

While I would love an open format to provide better quality than H.264 and even H.265, I wouldn't hold my breath for such a thing.

[1] http://media.xiph.org/video/derf/
Oh that's pretty disappointing that the school will decrease their side of the scholarship budget. :(
I'm amazed I've never seen this get more publicity.

The fact that RMS would tell someone to take a GPLed extension to GPLed code off their website, and never mention they exist, seems fundamentally against the principles of free software. How was this not a controversy of the highest order at the time? I'm amazed I missed it.
The difference would be converting all the places in your code from strlen($string) to $string->length() instead of rewriting it. One may take a few days/weeks to do in an existing app. The other would take months if not years to get out the door, test, and deploy.
I regret using the word "normal". However I am not being a cultural imperialist. Sure, disambiguate where it makes sense. It would make sense for people in Ontario to disambiguate London often. Paris, not so much. There is absolutely no need for disambiguation in an article meant for a wide audience and featuring iconic cityscapes complete with the Eiffel tower etc! The "Paris, France" meme is endemic in North American media but completely absent in the rest of the English speaking world.
Psychiatrists are doctors; they can prescribe medication. Psychologists don't have to be doctors. They don't even have to treat humans. Perhaps they study humans, perhaps they study cats.

The rest of your post is similarly ignorant of the very real harm that can come from ignoring severe and enduring MH problems.

Perhaps Bipolar disorder is over diagnosed. Maybe a small number of people cope well without their meds. Meds do have unpleasant side effects. But most people with psychotic illnesses really need the meds to stay functional.

> And learn how to understand what your body is telling you, rather than treating it like it's some operating table experiment that you'd being graded to poke and prod.

I've talked to people who hear voices. They don't always want the voices to disappear, but they do want some techniques to use so they can know when the voice is just a voice and not real, and so they can cope with some of the negative affects of voices.

Is that what you're saying? If you are, fair enough.

But if you're saying that psychosis is just a different state of being, just a different part of the spectrum of normal and fine, well, you're wrong.
you'd be surprised how many small businesses still have ~10+ year old websites.
But you're almost certainly not comparing the same set of optimizations. If you bring the optimization level of gcc down to the point that it generates code as slow as clang, are the compile times comparable?
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Some examples of said thuggery would not hurt.
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This is a great article. It tells us that people can achieve a lot even when they're medicated and ill.

Old thinking was very much to "protect" people with mental health problems from the stress of the world. But as you know, a bit of stress is fun, exciting, exhilarating.

Modern thinking is that people with MH problems can work, and should work. They might need a bit of help to get jobs, and they might need a bit of help to stay in jobs, and it can be a bit scary for employers and colleagues. But reducing stigma is going reasonably well.
I'm not really sure if this counts a functional programming in C but it does serve as a decent basis for teaching the implementation of functional languages on top of C. As always, the distinction between a library and a whole new language is never quite clear...
You created your account just for this?
Oh, Monty Python. I was racking my brain trying to think of how this is a dig at the programming language.
There's a bit of a difference, though.

For one, there wasn't any viable competition at the time. Your options were GCC, or a commercial compiler. If you actually needed access to the source code of the compiler for any reason, GCC was your only option.

So, when it became clear that the FSF and the community wanted to take GCC in different directions, the obvious choice was to fork GCC. The fork developed far more rapidly than the original, draining developer time (and users, for that matter) from GCC mainline. Basically, at the point where the FSF anointed egcs as the new GCC, the original GCC project was already dead.

Things are a bit different nowadays.

There are already disagreements between what people wanted to do with GCC, and the FSF. Especially around the tool support the article talked about - the FSF are against reorganizing GCC so that parts can be used as a library for political reasons. They were against plugins for the same reason originally. They have been resisting any attempts to clean up or modernize the codebase (they've been doing it, but very slowly, because it takes the steering committee a long time to... erm... steer).

There's an alternative - Clang / LLVM, which is built around that kind of tool support, has less niche stuff to get in the way, cleaner, simpler codebase, no legacy stuff. A good few GCC developers have jumped behind that instead, rather than trying to work against the FSF, and Clang isn't having the kind of problems attracting new developers that GCC is.

At this point, it does look like GCC is in trouble. The problem is that there might not be anything that anyone can do about it. As with all large projects with a long history, GCC has a hell of a lot of inertia, and it would take massive effort to shift the direction of the whole project, and make the changes that need to be made, especially considering that they can't just stop and spend a couple of years refactoring (which would definitely kill GCC).
What you are 'worth' is different to every employer as they all have a unique combination of requirements + expectations.

All you can do is find out what the range of $$ people are getting paid for comparable roles and see where you sitting on the line, then figure out if you are happy with your $$ in relation.

Go and talk to recruitment agents. You don't need to tell them where you are currently working, just what you do.

Part of their job is to know what people are worth.
i bet you think whatever language you use makes your balls bigger , but not your brain obviously, because you dont know what PHP is and how it is used everyday by million of businesses. In fact you must be a noob, only noobs talk like that.
Articles which insults the FSF/GPLv3 seem to always get very highly voted on ycombinator. I read phoronix and I hadn't noticed a FSF-bias.

On the other hand, the stories also all seem true. There really is a serious problem with being attached to the FSF being a liability, and RMS really has held GCC back, and is (in my opinion) the main reason clang/llvm has been able to move ahead in some areas (in particular tool support), where for years RMS explicitly rejected any patch which would make gcc "tool-friendly".
How about a Twitter client that in a non-internet situation can just share locally and then when anyone gets internet access it auto-pushes the tweets out. Logistics / permissions are complicated I realize, but a 'layer' on top of Twitter would be ideal.
> I don't get the negativity in this thread.

Bill Gates is bringing a lot of assumptions with him that tacitly validate the incumbent political, social, and economic regimes. I think a lot of us would prefer that Gates do something revolutionary with his money rather than something evolutionary.

First and foremost, the BMGF needs to consider overall-quality of life, not just specific, narrow measurements. It is only within this context that the big problems can be defined, and the correct measurements determined. It may very well be that improved infant mortality and education outcomes are not linked to overall improved quality of life. This might seem counter-intuitive, but it's easy to think of scenarios where this is the case.

Anecdotally, the thing that seems to improve people's quality of life is reducing the risk that they'll win the "you're life is ruined!" lottery. You can win this lottery in ways that are hard to prevent, like disease, accident, or natural disaster. You can win this lottery politically: surprise, the FBI, CIA, or Carmen Ortiz has decided to ruin your life.

Contrast this with what the BMGF is doing. They seem to be focusing on another goal, which is to give more people a life that can be ruined. E.g. a baby that lives is going to have a chance at life. A child who's educated is going to have a better chance at life. Noble indeed. But I have to wonder of that time and money would not be better spent helping those who manage to "naturally" obtain a life avoid winning the your life is now ruined lottery.
Don't put anything false or ambiguous on your resume. It's a disservice to yourself. I hate to phrase it this way, but your integrity is your brand.

Being able to accomplish things is so rare -- if you have that ability, the simple truth will suffice.
Read the source code to MediaWiki some time. You can say a lot about MediaWiki, Wikipedia and PHP, but at least MediaWiki is PHP done right (if such a thing is possible).
/r/mildlyinteresting seems to have adopted a HN look-and-feel today.
If you don't mind living in the outerboroughs, taking the subway every day, and having roommates, this should be easy.

When I was 18 - 22 (2007 - 2010), I saved over 10k making about 30k-40k a year in 4 years in NYC. I was also paying off about 6k in student loans at the time, going out drinking about once a week, splurging on clothing every once in a while, and eating out a lot.

I lived in Queens (Astoria and Sunnyside, in my case, though I could have found cheaper if I was okay with a sketchier area) for about $900 a month with roommates and commuted by train. I had an expensive (NYSC) gym membership, a cell phone, and a social life. I enjoyed what NYC had to offer.

To be honest, every time I hear someone say that NYC is too expensive for them and they can barely make ends meet, I look at their lifestyle and see immediate room for improvement: They refuse to live outside of Manhattan, they go out 3-4X a week compared to my 1, they insist on going to the most expensive, trendy places that were recently featured in XYZ magazine, whereas I enjoy eating out at the neighborhood Thai place and grabbing drinks from my neighborhood bar. They insist that they "need" to buy new clothes every few weeks for some reason, whereas I would splurge once every few months.

I could have saved a lot more during those 4 years if I were eating ramen every night, sure, but I put life enjoyment above my monetary nest egg. Even now, as a working student, I will not stoop to eating PB&J and Ramen as my only sources of nutrition. I live outside of NYC now, live on 15k, and still don't feel that I lack for anything. I think a lot of people don't keep track of their spending as well as they purport.
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I'm sorry about your nephew. But I'd like to tell you that actually cancer treatment has gotten better:

http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Documents/AboutUs/Newsroom/Livin...

The situation isn't great and that report highlights the problems. And rare cancers are not going to attract research effort until the common ones are solved. But fundamental research is what is required. And I believe that rich philanthropists are going to remain an essential part in funding that research.
I emphatically disagree with the "overwhelming judgement of science" when it comes to this issue. And I'm thoroughly disgusted by the profiteering that accompanies the global warming campaign. Let's see who is in denial 20 years from now.

Permalink For Great Justice: http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1990/to
I'm not against theories, but if race filtering was their goal, they seemed to have failed. Moreso when you consider the cost of the effort... so I'm not going for it.

And urban blacks (and many urban people, period) are often poor. A business might want cheap land to create a suburban work area. Prices go up, poor people move out. It doesn't have to be racial.
This is not a cyclic dependency graph!!! This is a syntax for copying vertices, nothing else. It creates a DAG of three vertices and two edges, but uses only one step definition to do so. It automatically replicates the step definition as needed. It could be extremely easy to reproduce in Drake:

fix_names()
...

_ <- $[in] [method:fix_names]
_ <- _ [method:fix_names]
$[out] <- _ [method:fix_names]

Is there any difference between Bpipe's version and Drake's version that I am failing to see?

> I'm much more interested in getting my job done than being pure about things.

It's funny coming from someone who I have been BEGGING for examples but getting abstract philosophical reasoning in return.

I repeat. Give me an example. So far you haven't given me one example of what Bpipe can do that Drake couldn't do in the same way or better, and yet you continue claiming philosophical differences.

If we concentrate on examples and discuss how they would work, whether there are differences, and what these differences are, I guarantee you, we'll make progress. But then again, I'm repeating myself.

Artem.
Have you answered the three big questions of validating an idea?
1. Who is the target market?
2. What problem does this solve?
3. How will you make money?
Have you ever considered that your advice to parents should have been applied to your college experience?

A college education in which you go to class, study, and do assignments is not worth $50K. College lets you do a lot more than that, and it sounds like you robbed yourself of a great four years.
Too bad that most attention to schizophrenia has been on "positive" symptoms (delusions, hallucinations), not so much on the negative ones (lack of motivation, flat affect, withdrawal). The latter are more debilitating in the long term, even if those who experience them are less likely to end up in the news.
So everyone should stop throwing around this 35 number... because it was 2. ?
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Like I wrote, I'm basically paraphrasing form a Tony Robbins audiobook I read 10 years ago. I don't remember which one.

Sorry!
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Typically models like that are a way to get small groups using the software which then functions as lead generation for an enterprise salesforce.
Plus, who wants to go to a job where they think you're somebody else? Being who you really are is the ultimate perk.
I would recommend that you rethink/refactor your authentication choices.

From a usability perspective it is kind of a pain to be required to login with two separate accounts to use a service.

I recommend that instead of using google accounts at all, you just use the oauth authentication api from DropBox: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/start/authentication#pyth...

You should be able to achieve the same thing you're doing now with google+dropbox with just dropbox.
I had this roommate in uni with the loudest alarm clock. One day, he hit snooze in the neighborhood of the lower double digits while I was trying to sleep. Hacker fix: turn off the circuit breaker to the room. Sleep ensues.
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Seriously? It's the weekend, things are slow, we get some less VC/startup-related news. It's nice, it's funny, the community found it interesting enough to vote for it. Go away if you don't like it.
It's theoretically possible to copy the code from Clang to GCC, but the FSF wants the copyright, so it doesn't seams to be very probable. Another problem is that the license of GCC is more restrictive, so I think that most of the people would continue to work in the Clang.

It's possible to fork the code, but it's more difficult to fork the community. It's the problem that the BDFL have to solve to survive.
And those sites became large because people could get them up and running quickly which is what made PHP a popular language. Hobbyist programmers made it what it is, and many of those hobbyist programmers went on to build big companies... Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Mullenweg, just to name a few.
I am beyond disgusted with every negative poster in this thread. I have never met or heard of anybody so horrible, awful, and heartless that they would condemn one of the wealthiest people in the world for giving away his entire fortune and retirement to try and save the lives of millions of people.

I want to apologize for these next two words. It's completely out of character for me, and they might get me banned from Hacker News, and that's fine with me. If you are reading this, and you are one of the aforementioned negative posters, I have only two words for you, and I say them from the deepest part of my heart:

edit: redacted. Moment of rage. You can guess what the words are.
The Quirky CEO was on Jay Leno's show last night. Interesting.
What exactly is the point of this? Surely a recent i7 or two outperforms these by a mile for similar cash outlay?
> "College lets you do a lot more than that

Let me guess, thats an euphemism for "getting laid".
"...albeit a cryptic one..."

And I'm saying "Many," dude. "Many."

Where are you getting "ignorance" etc? I'm not espousing universals here. I'm not at all saying it's black or white. I too am speaking in generalization which can be subject to counterexample.

Read. May I add some color to my writing? Gosh.

If you're going to start throwing out "your wrong," I must ask you to read. Read.

And we're talking about schizophrenia. Why am I being charged with opinions that I haven't even expressed on psychosis? I'm not here to discuss the whole range of psychosis.
I don't understand your point. I don't doubt for a minute there is a list of places as long as your arm also named Paris (or London, or Berlin or whatever). Consider the following scenario, you are shooting an action movie and you have a scene setting shot, a panoramic Paris flyover, complete with the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel tower etc. etc. Do you think adding a "Paris, France" annotation shows respect for the intelligence of your audience ? Or not ?
This is neat. But. If this took off, and was actually being used by people...

...and the authorities, or any other attacker, wanted to disrupt the system -- they could just put all sorts of devices in the area distributing an incredibly high volume of spammy messages. As you circulated and downloaded messages from other nearby devices over bluetooth -- the legit messages from good actors would be overwhelmed by the spam messages, taking up all your storage space and making it hard to notice the legit messages.

I was thinking about this, but then read this thread, and it occurs to me there may be some solution involving crypto, whitelisting certain signatures as 'known good actors', or even a web of trust thing. But yeah, that also could compromize the desired anonymity.

And it's also probably true not to bother designing for a hypothetical problem/attack, the actual problem/attack will be subtly different. Still, I see a lot of these systems that are _really neat_ tricks, but seem to me like they would break down if they actually became popular, they work only as neat tricks.

But yeah, I also really like the idea of private person-to-person (or person-to-known-group) encrypted messages -- they could even be distributed over participating third parties devices right? Author walks by person X, who's device picks it up but can't actually read it, and later hands it off to person Y, one of the intended recipients, who can read it. I'm not sure if that would end up actually being useful or not, but it would be NEAT.
If you click Terminate, I believe Amazon deletes the default EBS drive generated when you started the instance as well as any instance storage.
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> I'm not sure how anyone can take RMS, and by extension the FSF that he controls, seriously anymore.

Well, if it makes you feel any better (or, alternatively, worse, I guess, in which case I apologize :(), I do (to be explicit: take RMS seriously). I didn't in 2002, which is part of why I can pull these examples do quickly: I considered Stallman an extremist and I found his definition of "freedom" confusing. I often had to cite these various email exchanges.

However, over the course of the last ten years of being a developer of open-source tools, I've entirely reversed my opinion. I have found myself more and more frustrated with the attitudes people take towards open source contributors, and I have seen the licenses on my open work become more and more defensive against these abuses (sometimes even using AGPL).

In fact, this whole Apple/Clang debacle was one of the things that pushed me over: this only became "a thing" when gcc moved to GPL3, and seems mostly about Apple wanting to maintain and expand a fully-closed ecosystem, not about technological advantages. In my opinion, the "great GPL purge" of Mac OS X is going to lead to some dire consequences on computing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990
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I find tuples and lists incredibly flexible, and I often get dirty looks from experienced devs in a particular language for not using their preferred methodology. For example, I end up creating hashes instead of new classes in Perl. Tuples in Python. I like to think it's a convenient abstraction, because I can use them in nearly any language - even C, sort of, with structs.
Doers it matter who is solving problems, so long as problems are getting solved?

In a few years it will be billionaire Chinese who are solving big problems. What will be the negative attribute for that? Lots of people from all places around the world are solving problems for all of us. If Muhammad Yunus had not been local to Bangladesh, would he be some kind of villain? Is it bad that he's male? Would it have been better had he been a woman (most microloans are lend to women, since they appear more dependable and have greater need)?
Returning accurate search result counts (i.e. "give me an exhaustive list of all pages that match this query") is at cross purposes to the main search problem (i.e. "give me the best ten pages for this query"). For the former, you want to be exhaustive, for the latter, you want to cut every corner you can to get results back as quickly as possible. Google optimizes for the latter at the expense of the former. Basically, don't put too much stock in any of the numbers you get back from Google.
CamperBob2 gets it. You're playing with a straw man and a neologism.
The man deserves his money back, and the prosecutor needs run out of town on a rail (if not imprisoned) for corruption.

It sucks we have to pay, sure, but I'd much rather the man get his money back than not.