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Good idea! Let's dok it so I'll not forget :)
It's quite popular because while it has large amount of weird quirks (usually specific to silicon revision / configuration) it still works and in many cases better than other comparable chipsets.
Great article from Vianney , easy to read, easy to understand
> They've built up brands people trust

TL;DR: No they didn't. Academics did, and publishers will wither away because they add no value and have relatively little power over the academics upon which they are parasites. I then break the law.

Certainly in computer science, it is not the publishers who have not built up brands people trust (except ACM and possibly IEEE). Academics forming program committees and organising the conferences have built up the trusted brands.

Now, in the past, it made sense to get a publisher to produce paper proceedings for attendees and distribute proceedings to libraries.

However, now publishers make very little contribution to conferences – attendees all pay a significant fee to attend. The programme committee and referees are not paid. The authors produce digital works (and the referees do minor proof reading, not the publisher). Paper copies are often not distributed. I've not been on a programme committee, but I'm pretty sure publishers are adding no value whatsoever.

The reason this hasn't withered away already is that all universities pay for access to all publishers so academics don't really see it as a problem; it's easier to just stick to the status quo when it's not your rights being violated.

But eventually, conference organisers will realise they can just tell Elsvier or Springer or even the IEEE and ACM to get stuffed†. They'll then put the proceedings on arxiv or some other free place (hell, just torrent them) and merrily continue doing everything else exactly the same sans publisher.

Civil disobedience time: http://robinmessage.com/wwv07.pdf is a conference paper I wrote. In order to participate in that conference, I was coerced into giving my copyright to Elsvier. Note they did nothing to make it happen; it was my work, and the work of the organising committee and referees. But I no longer own the copyright to that paper, and so probably broke the law posting it here.

† Interestingly, apparently all publicly funded UK research will soon be required to be published somewhere open access, in direct violation of the requirements of most publishers. So academics have a fun question to answer: don't publish anywhere good, or break the law?
> Most of the Surface reviews have spoken poorly about the device

Ohh so this is what happens when all the pro Microsoft news gets flagged off from the frontpage. That aside, the Surface reviews have been fairly mixed, from biased journalist on both sides to Jeff Atwood seems to either hate it or love it. I like to think of it as a niche product (that is still in beta) than a competition to Ipad or the Ultrabooks.
I'm not sure I follow, can you elaborate? I think something similar could be done in CL, although some of the design decisions might be different because Clojure has nice map literals and function metadata.
Do you think your measure of 'happy' changes as well too? It's hard for me to compare my measure of 'happiness' at 22 vs 19 (even when I was 22) because so much was changing in my life at that point. I'm not suggesting you're 'wrong' in your feelings, but for many people, that age period brings about a lot of changes anyway, so comparing 'happy' levels even a few years apart is not a precise science.
You have to compare the worry over potentially losing investments to the worry of not having any investments or rainy day fund at all and being totally at the capricious mercy of an often cruel and arbitrary economy with a minimal safety net.
So, why exactly can't you do that right now?
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My mistake, I assumed a link to Quora wouldn't bombard you with a registration request, it's been a while since I've registered.
Was this a Patch competitor?
As much as I am working my butt off right now, if I don't get rich then it wouldn't have been worth it. When I do get rich, and for some reason I find it wasn't worth the sacrifices, then I will lie to myself about it. Humans have an amazing capacity for denial.
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Joshua Foer memorized it in 1:40 (US record at that time). I'm not sure how an average person can do it in less than a minute.
I used it frequently--it was my main source of news about my neighborhood. Everyblock created a great forum for neighbors to come together and discuss issues pertinent to their part of the city.
Tuition inflation?
At first I didn't have an assembler on the Apple ][ so I wrote a horrible Applesoft tool that would calculate jumps and do a little bit of what a real assembler does. Later I used something called BigMac, I think. I didn't understand macros at all, though, until years later.
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This is an important philosophical question: should humans become better at communicating in machine-parseable ways, or should machines become better at parsing human communication?
> This guy has it good, doubt he'll ever find a job with that kind of attitude.

These comments sadden me. I work with Ken at dotcloud and can tell you he is one of the most humble and easy to deal with colleagues I've ever had.

Have you never been contacted repeatedly, almost to the point of harassment, by a recruiter who wouldn't take no for an answer, yet could not be bothered with even the most basic research about you?

It's that combination of a) blind persistence and b) disregard for the actual person that defines truly spammy recruiters, and which obviously drives Ken crazy. I don't blame him for trying to stem the flow. If anything I would like to find out if this new anti-spam tool actually works :)
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> By the time you are 18 you are either a happy person or not. Sorry.

I agreed with everything until your last sentence, which I can tell from personal experience is not true :)
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The quantifier of 18 is not really accurate, although I agree with the general sentiment.

For many (most?) people, 18 is simply the start of the journey. That journey may be short or it may take decades, but the idea that you are somehow static after a certain age is certainly something coming from a very young mind.
If the closet was off-limits, then the charge should have been a simple trespassing, given that doing the same thing from a publicly accessible ethernet socket would have been completely legal.

He was only using the closet, because MIT was trying to singlehandedly change the terms of access to to the database to prevent the hoovering up of the info.

It's like getting arrested at a lunch buffet for eating too fast, or too much.
So where to from here Adrian?

Do you know whether the current team is staying on at NBC or are they looking for new gigs?

And it'd be interesting to hear what you and the other founders have been working on as well.
I don't think it's that simple. It's possible that you don't like what your life has become, but still wouldn't give your money away because that would make you even more unhappy. It's a nice problem to have, but we shouldn't trivialize the human psychology, just try to understand it. Nobody is completely rational, and even if part of them is rational, they will always have an emotional part. Choosing to be childless for instance, is pretty much the rational choice for many people, but that doesn't mean that would make them happy.
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two questions: is it easy to get started? is it easy to customize according to my needs in advanced later stages?
it says so right on the box:

"curaqion is a monthly curation of high quality answers from fascinating topics and questions on Quora."
Nice post but the guy completely forgot to say that over a certain level of richness you start to stop worryng about work.

That for most people here means probably to work even more, but just coding what they believe is significant, when you feel with the right energy, and not what the current company / job believes it is.

I believe there is a significant amount of people that every day wake up and go make something they believe it is useless, just to pay the bills. Richness can stop this massive personal sacrifice.

Clarification: As you can guess I'm very happy with my current job, the problem is, I wrote useless code for many years when I started to pay my bills as a programmer.
Later I created companies and I was able to escape the sadness of writing useless code. However the fear of returning into this condition is always present, especially with a loan that I used to purchase a new house, children, and so forth.
What graphs let you do that multimethods and/or protocols/records don't?
Interesting relevant article:
http://blog.garrytan.com/tenth-grade-tech-trends-my-survey-d...

And its HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027306

I performed a few Google searches on Snapchat. I was very surprised to see the fanaticism around it being used by young people for Sexting alone. The above article paints a much different picture.
I'm not holding my breath. There is no way that home 3D printers will be able to maintain the same manufacturing tolerances as the LEGO factories, definitely not within the next 5 years.
That is one interpretation. However, given Android and Apple's proven ability to execute, I suspect this feature was never productized because it's not mainstream enough to matter. They looked at it, and shelved it. Even BlackBerry didn't do it, and their new phone is chock full of cool stuff. Personally, I think even "non mainstream" is too generous; it's a Hail Mary feature.

That said, if Canonical can subsist on a fraction of 1.74% Linux market share (as measured by browser usage), perhaps they can subsist on a fraction of that in the mobile phone market, too.
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The thing Im noticing with the sets these days is that overall, there are a lot more tiny pieces, variations on a 1x1 or a 1x1 flat, round, or light or something. That can really drive the piece count up on a set. I was just looking at the Fire Plane that my 6 yr old got yesterday (yay, birthday, 5 presents, 3 lego sets), and it's got a ton of little pieces to be the water that fills the plane's hold.

(Also, Compare the Tower Bridge @ 4k pieces for $250, vs the Death Star at 3k pieces for $400, though there's some licensing difference there as well)
Thanks. Yes we know ql.io.
from our knowledge ql.io is more for server side API scripting, focused on data.

With webshell, we are more focused on services execution, as for client side as server side.

For example we enable custom HTML views for GoogleMaps, Google Chart, Twitter feeds or other APIs.

The main difference is that we combine all kind of APIs.
We also made a platform on top of the language.

This plaform enables to re-use each script as a new REST/JSON API by other developers, thanks our file system designed as a kind of "Github for APIs."
So I'm paraphrasing David Byrne's argument here.

But when Rosa Parks sat down on the bus that day, she was sitting in the black section. When the white section filled up, she was asked to move back some more and she refused. The police were called. They came and arrested her. She understood during this whole time that she would face prosecution and punishment, but she was doing what she believed was right. She fought the punishment in a very public way, and she became a symbol of the overall struggle through that.

Mr Swartz on the other hand was trying to be anonymous about his actions while he was doing them. Even though he was affiliated with Harvard and Harvard had access to JSTOR, but traveled to MIT specifically to use their network for this. He started taking the documents by WiFi, and when that was blocked, he found a closet in the basement to plug his laptop and external hard drive into. His program was designed to download the document slowly, to avoid being so obvious to be caught. He snuck in and out of MIT each day to swap hard drives, sometimes hiding his face from cameras. Much of what he did during this time was trying to avoid being caught. When caught, he gave back the data immediately and agreed never to release it. He was quiet about his legal struggle over the 2 years, not really pounding the drum to try to get attention to the injustice. Didn't blog about the case specifics, didn't do media interviews. Apparently he was trying to keep quiet about it not to upset the prosecutor. He was trying to convince prosecutors to drop the case entirely.

It's a subtle point perhaps, but Byrne is saying Swartz was not prepared for the consequences of his actions whereas other people fighting injustice usually are. After his arrest, he was not fighting publicly to rally support for what he did, but rather just trying everything he could to avoid prosecution.

I wonder if Swartz would have said he regretted the whole JSTOR incident before he died. Certainly Rosa Parks would not have regretted refusing to move seats, even if she landed in jail from it.
I'm inclined to think that hard cases are the way to go, based on the fact that my motorcycle helmet is hard. But I would like to see some scientific data if any is available. It's hard to get though, given that the nature of the experiment involves testing $600 items to destruction, repeatedly.
I could be wrong, but - I thought Oracle did release the entire project, but they didn't move quick enough for the Libre Office devs who wanted it right away.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/oracle-gives-openoffic...
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Yes, when I was a child I played Star Wars using any brick compatible with the idea of a ship, transformers with some moveable pieces. The branding is bad because children think that to make a star wars ship you need a specific lego package instead of roughly creating something from the available tools (hacker mind)
It's not insanely hard; it just takes some practice. The gist of what you'd do is:

* Assign a word to each card. For example, the three of spades might be "pancakes", but I think people usually have some sort of digit-to-sound mapping (eg. three would be "s", spades would be "s", giving "sauce" or something).

* To memorize the deck of cards, visualize a series of events involving the words you've chosen for the cards, interacting with each other in series.

I use this technique to memorize grocery lists sometimes. If your list with "marshmallows, tomatoes, sour cream", you could imagine:

* Walk up to the store. The doors open and millions of marshmallows pour out.

* A 20-foot-wide tomato falls out of the sky and flattens all the marshmallows

* You cut the top off the tomato and it's full of sour cream

* and so on.

Visual memory is a lot more durable than short-term memory (eg queen-of-spades, 3-of-hearts, ...). This kind of pattern is /really/ easy to remember. Building up the effortless associations from cards to trigger words, however, takes a lot of time.
I'm interested in how this compares to other languages with reference implementations. Is ruby the odd one out here, not providing a formal grammar, or is that the norm?

Ruby has a stated design goal of making developers happy. As far as I'm aware, it hasn't been designed to be easily parsed.

I, as an end user (i.e. programmer), prefer it this way. If ease of parsing is important for you, maybe you should use something like LISP.
While I agree with the quoted part, custom fonts aren't necessarily problematic. But you have to make sure it renders well and doesn't delay the page.
downloading it now. the video looked good.

great idea - super simple and mirrors the fun kids have with the real thing - except they won't lose the pieces.
So if I want hyperlocal news, is there anyone right now doing that?
I'm trying to get what all excitement is about. "We have put functions and data in the same graph-like data-structure because Clojure is so cool"?)
That's how I see it too. The article seemed to focus on, yeah you can buy more stuff but stuff doesn't make you happy. Yeah, we know that, what money really buys you is the freedom to pursue your own goals and not be slave to someone else's. Especially if your goals are things that are not "profitable" in the pecuniary sense, pursuing them full time is just not an option when you need to eat.
One of the necessary features of a forum going forward is a notification system.

I ported a vBulletin forum to a custom Rails app, and rolling a notification system is THE feature that inspired me. Meanwhile, on a conventional vBulletin forum, you're arduously making the rounds to see if anyone is even responding to you. It's hilarious.

Definitely one of the things that Discourse gets right!
It looks interesting, but none of the videos work. I'm viewing the site from my phone.
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Congratulations Vianney! Great post. Way to represent the French Meteor community :)
Since you cannot get your lost time back, it certainly is theft (of services).

However, that is not the case at all with digital copying, where the original owner of the data is not deprived of anything. That is the real point - the idea of property is inextricably related to scarcity, which doesn't exist in the digital realm.
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people also lie, when you just sent a sex picture and they ask you if you juste sent that, I'm incline to think you will say you didn't.

Personally i don't trust their stats, it's lower than the average for text messages, which really does not make any sense to me.
Agreed -- in fact, it's hard to find a book or other instruction manual that describes how to build something cool, without it requiring a bunch of "special" pieces.

Also, I'm not sure what's happened, but I've noticed color variations in the standard bricks: yellow bricks that look washed out compared to other yellow bricks. It's a real bummer when trying to create a consistently colored model.

While my son loves the Star Wars and City sets, I encourage him to use the standard bricks (I buy 'em in bulk) to build what he wants and to help him learn how to come up with creative solutions given the "constraints" of standard "generic" bricks.
I agree. I think there may be a dimension that's missing that isn't accurately captures in weight/pieces. I remember the Lego castles of old being large - the ones I see today in shops for $70 are like one piece of a wall.

OTOH, it might be that I was physically smaller when I made those memories, so they just seem smaller today.
It's not a special way of writing two.
It was a way of getting identical bit patterns for IEEE floats on all platforms.

Until recently, most compilers would do host arithmetic and then convert it to target bit pattern. You would get within epsilon equal values, but not always the same bit pattern.

Now all these compilers use multiprecision float libraries (either MPFR or custom-written), so the bit patterns will always come out the same.
As such, there is no need for the explicit bit patterns anymore, so they just use "2.0".
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Absolutely. The article does not include the cost of alienation and serfdom into its calculus.

How much would you pay for freedom?
Ask HN: Is speeding up to pass the Yellow traffic light an "optimum" strategy? 
I think I am good driver just like any average driver but I always stop at the yellow light if I can. I in fact enjoy red lights because it helps me to relax , be in the now and get out of autopilot mode. But I see many people speed up at the yellow light to be on the "other side" and avoid the fate of waiting for a minute or more at the red light. Many times my friends complain that I don't speed up at the yellow lights.<p>So the question is, is it possible that speeding up yellow lights does not gain any time savings? that it is not the optimum strategy ? Its just our brain's impulse to prematurely optimize the task at hand ?
Can it be proved mathematically if its true or false?
Apple issued its shares a long time ago, when it needed capital to fund projects/research etc.
Stockholders own a part of the company.

The only reason he sues is that he doesn't own enough stock to get enough votes.
Did they not have ads? Because "free with ads" supports most of the internet, and I don't think anyone can tell which things they should rely on and which they can't.

I mean, once they were bought by NBC, they din't seem any less dependable than MSNBC or such.
Your second reason is an interesting one. Winning the lottery may be nice, but I don't think it would impact my level of happiness in a big way. The confidence I'd get from selling my company for millions of dollars, that's another thing entirely. That's something I strive for.
I would have, if they had my city. I remember checking back several times, and they never did.
"...especially with a loan that I used to purchase a new house, children, and so forth"

You used a loan to purchase children?! That is horrible!
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We could make a HackerNews group on goodreads.

Edit: created: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/94469-hackernews
The OP seems to think most people want to get rich because they think it will make them happy, and he may be right. But in my life, most of the decisions I've made with my happiness in mind have had the side effect of reducing my income -- going to music school, leaving my day job, choosing to spend time with my girlfriend instead of getting in 8 billable hours every day.

That being said, I've recently made the decision to become, if not rich, at least well off enough that I have money to spare. My parents are aging and deeply in debt, my younger sister is sick (as she has been her whole life) and will never be able to support herself or hold down a job to give her health insurance. And I'd like to have kids and give them as many opportunities as I had.

It's not about happiness for me, per se. I've been given certain gifts, and I think I can use them to provide for my people. I think that's my responsibility.
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What's wrong with hedonism? Or am I misreading what you're saying.
this assumes the startup in question has some sort of control over the situation. I bet that isn't always the case. I'm sure ideally everyblock would have liked to wind things down a little less abruptly, but sometimes, reality sucks.
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Except that Tim Cook has said on shareholder calls that they have more cash than they know what to do with. At that point they should distribute more to shareholders.
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Again, I mentioned that it wasn't screened (necessarily) for completeness or 'fun' - just that it wasn't malware disguised as a product.