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> Bellard, born in 1972, began practicing his own coding techniques first on a TI-59 scientific calculator, at the beginning of the ‘80s.

I wonder how many people have started their programming experience on a TI calculator. I had the same way in with a TI-85.
LibreOffice 4: A new, better open-source office suite
If you change "minutes" to "minute", it seems to work.
The OP did get misled but I'm not so sure it's jus Amazon making things up. Given the international boundaries involved here it is not a huge stretch to say that the initial rep was mistaken.
Identity providers: The voucher business
The "About" page shows a few choice selected ones at the bottom. I like the artist who expresses an opinion of the payout rate for the task set before them!
+1 for switching because it's prettier. I like Trello, but man, it's really ugly …
I can't wait till the day I can have my self driving car drive me to work while I read a book and when it drops me off it goes to recharge it's battery, pick up my family from work or school and maybe when it's not in use I can rent it out as a cab.
One issue with keeping a safe distance is that doing so means you travel slower than nearly everyone around you on the highway, since the space you leave in front of you is viewed as an invitation to merge ahead of you, meaning you have to slow a bit to open to a safe distance again, which prompts someone else to jump into the "empty" space...

However, I suppose a safe distance for an autocar should be considerably smaller than for a human-driven car, since the start of braking would be essentially instantaneous.
By the flash crash, you mean that market event where something went wrong for 20 minutes (due to a human error), but the system recovered all by itself before the end of the day (thanks primarily to electronic systems)?

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/flash_crash_flash_in_...

That event which was exciting if you were an HFT, but which you can't actually find in a daily stock chart?

I'm hoping that self driving cars will be as robust as our electronic trading systems.
Introducing Squarespace Note
If you have Ford's version of OnStar, then yes you do and they lock the damn car down.

Amazon has control over the devices they sell you. They seem to use this power to purge books from your device. They could be a bit more helpful and lock the device and provide law enforcement the information. Asking for a warrant or other court order is just making an economic decision not a moral one.
It would be helpful to quote the title to which you refer, in case it gets changed and other readers have no idea what you're talking about.
Bear in mind there's no network because the environment it is running it doesn't have a network available to it. Especially at the time that came out, all you could count on was XMLHTTPRequest, and that would require some sort of server proxy, etc. etc., not really the point. I'm sure that if a network was reasonably available, jsLinux would have it.
What's taking you so long?
> Okay, you go to the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT and tell them that they are all quacks.

Why would I do that? They study the brain, not the mind -- they're neuroscientists, not psychologists.

> As for us "having no idea how the brain works", we certainly know something about how it works.

Yes, and that is why the reliable core of tested psychological theory prevented the Recovered Memory Therapy fiasco of the 1990s, prevented Facilitated Communications from ever getting off the ground, and prevented the introduction of Asperger Syndrome into psychological clinics, only to be removed later after its dubious standing became obvious to everyone. But ... that's not what happened. There is no reliable core of tested theory in psychology, as a result of which there are no constraints on what clinical psychologists can say or do. This is not true in any other field that the public believes is scientific.

> We don't know enough about it yet to give much direction to clinical psychologists at the moment ...

Yes, and when psychology can do that, it will finally have the right to call itself a science. But it's more likely that psychology will be replaced by neuroscience, a process that is already underway.

> But your requirement that science must provide explanation is not correct.

On the contrary, that is a basic requirement for science. If I offer a description, someone else can offer a different description and there's no basis for choosing between them, as with the Ptolemaic and Copernican views of the heavens. But if I offer a testable explanation (orbits must conserve energy) then one of the prior descriptions must be abandoned. That is how one identifies science.

> you apparently know nothing at all about cognitive psychology.

That's your argument? If I am called to serve on a jury in a murder trial, do I have to be a murderer to qualify? No, all I need to do is be competent to evaluate evidence.

The same rules apply here. All one need do is read the psychological literature and look for the classic identifiers of science to see that psychology is not a functioning science.
Microsoft Surface Pro shows off its inner ultrabook
Idaho Mega-Loads Why are we allowing this?
Most of the points apply to entrepreneurs in the US as well. Personally, we found that a California S-Corp worked while we were bootstrapping, and we always had the option of converting to a C-Corp when required.

Also, don't forget to file your taxes. Corp taxes are due at a different time than personal taxes.
> A Monad is an object whose methods return monads.

This is exceptionally wrong.
does HP count? 41-CV (there's an iphone app for it!)
JQuery Nested - Gap free, multi column grid layout
My failing was explained to me that since I was a "Senior Engineer(tm)" I was supposed to arrive at google an expert in all their technologies so I could be a successful generalist and finish my starter project (in a brand new unfamiliar field to me) in <2 weeks.

They make up those expectations after the fact, of course. Rather than have the decency to say, "I just don't like you, and don't want you on my team" your manager had to build an objective-looking "performance" case and it sounds like he was a total twat about it.

No one gets anything serious done in the first 2 weeks, and you're not expected to. That's what Codelabs (which are very good, and I wish more companies paid attention to that) are for.

One thing I disliked about the Google environment was that, because it's so hard to have a real accomplishment in your first year, whether you "succeed" depends on others' assessments (i.e. politics). I prefer to be in an environment where, after 3 weeks, I can reach the "so good they can't ignore you" state.

I like high-productivity environments better because I can prove, in the first month, that I'm actually worth a damn. Political issues always exist, but they're less threatening when you've already proven that you're good at what you do.
> Tab vs. spaces will not cause code to break

Well, mixing them can. Python, for example.
That's a good point. For every Flash Crash we've seen, how many human-error market crashes have there been? For every algorithmic auto crash that could ever happen, how many human-error auto crashes have there already been? Just 24 hours ago I had to go pick up my girlfriend from the side of the road after someone swerved into her car after not looking in his mirrors. The complaint that algorithms might cause an unintended car crash so we should continue to only have people behind the wheel rings a bit hollow when people-driven cars is one of the biggest killers in Western society.
They want to maximize performance and installed user base.

A huge installed user base like Android maximizes one variable so much that the other gets a free pass.
Building an Effective Threat Assessment Team
The best theory I heard to date is this -

The moon is getting slowly away from the Earth. If we extrapolate backwards, it's obvious that at some point in dinosaur times it was mere meters away from the Earth surface and that's what kill the dinosaurs - they were knocked off by the moon.
My first thought was "man, I could go to all the pubs without a driver"
While I first fiddled with a Commodore 64, my first program that I could reasonably call non-trivial was on an HP-48G. Well, I'd call it trivial to me today, but it wasn't trivial to me then.

I can't speak to the TI series, but one nifty thing about RPN is that where 80s-style microcomputer BASIC tends to afford spaghetti code, the RPN afforded breaking your program down into functions. If you didn't break it down properly, your program turned into a series of hundreds of DUP DUP + SWAP3 DRAWLN 73 SWAP DUP - DRAWLN 0x838AFE7E8A9E 3 4 108 93 BLITPIX etc etc in an undifferentiated mass. (Those aren't the real opcodes, I've long since forgotten them and won't look them up, but that's sort of trying to compute where to draw two lines then dumping a pixmap to the screen.)
The old docs are tagged in github if you wanted to diff them.
Legal issues put completely to the side for a minute:

You don't enhance your _defense_ by _giving your enemies free access to the weapons_ you develop.

The Linux kernel is a result of technology which is in a completely different class from this weapon component. This Linux kernel enables a platform where people can share ideas, e.g., run businesses of all types. Gun parts do not contribute to the overall improvement in quality of life and happiness, only to a minority of fearful people.
When I read the title, I was also shocked by the word 'confirmed.' Any kind of explanation about dinosaurs explanation should be a theory. We can say 'the new evidence provided support for a theory' but cannot say 'the new evidence confirmed that the theory is the truth.'
I really want the term "kebab-case" to catch on.
A bad programmer will write bad code wether he uses jQuery or not. going pure DOM doesnt make the code better, especially when dealing with browser differences. if you have the time to re-implement all the abstraction needed in order to make your code work on legacy browsers each time you code a DOM related function , good for you , i dont.

the goal of jQuery is not to provide a MVC framework , an AMD framework , or whatever that helps writing modular code. The goal of jQuery IS DOM manipulation and having a single API for every browser out here. And jQuery is a framework not a langage so your argument ( PHP==jQuery because it let's developers write ugly stuff) doesnt stand.
...people, not computers, caused the Great Depression.

Not to mention the flash crash...

http://www.sec.gov/news/studies/2010/marketevents-report.pdf
I would have gone with "Windows" since it was a common term for a UI element at the time.
This. There are a couple of different things people use maps for, but the biggest two are finding out where things are and figuring out routes between two things. Mercator throws the needle all the way toward finding routes between two things, and it is very, very good at that, but this comes at the expense of distorting exact locations and sizes of things.

Perhaps a compromise is possible, whereby Mercator is used when plotting routes between things but some other projection is used when you're looking for isolated points. Let each projection do what it does best.
How are you measuring "most used"?
LTSV - Labeled TSV: Extensible Log Format for Web Servers
The contrast ratio is 5.57:1 well above the 4:5:1 requirement. It seems that they're using Adobe Clean Light ( Helvetica Neue Light as a fallback). This must be the source of your readibility problem. Depending on browser/platform font-weight: 300 can be a huge problem.

[1] http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php#...
What Google Users Think About Privacy, Search Neutrality, & Google’s Competitors
> ...basically your argument is actually an argument FOR self driving cars.

Hah, yeah it kind of ended up being that way didn't it? :) Even though I don't feel I was arguing against them in the first place.
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Nivi, so true that friction must be lessened all along the startup path in order to advance the greater good; however, that friction is embodied by people and their vested interests in promulgating the obstacles to startups.

I believe the way forward is a coordinated effort to help shine greater light on the visions, struggles, failures and successes of entrepreneurs and their startups - at the community, statewide and nationwide levels. Normal people simply must be more aware of the cycle of starting a business, all of the challenges it entails, and how citizens are ultimately the only ones who have the power to demand that their representatives, agencies and even corporations do what is necessary to not only allow, but encourage and shepherd young businesses. It is ultimately in our fellow citizens’ best interest to actively insist on not only removing obstacles but also adding rules and actions that are focused on helping broaden and lengthen the runway for all startups.

The reason friction is so high for startups is akin to the reason our political system is hopelessly broken, in that lobbyists have bought and packaged 80% of politicians' votes, with utter disregard for any aspirations to address the greater good of the average American. Entrenched companies and the agencies and services that cater to and profit from them have no interest in allowing healthy competition, unless forced to do so through public outcry.

Thankfully, AngelList, the JOBS Act, Startup America Partnership and many others factors are quickly leveling the playing field and giving normal Americans much more transparency and access into the world of startups and their crucial, integral and growing part to play in the future of our economy.
According to the editorial: "Salaries in computer- and math-related fields for workers with a college degree rose only 4.5 percent between 2000 and 2011. If these skills are so valuable and in such short supply, salaries should at least keep pace with the tech companies’ profits, which have exploded."

This is where a citation would be helpful. I might click through to Mr Eisenbrey's website a little later to see if I can find one.

"And I know many startups that are eager to get visas for people they want to hire, and would have zero interest in having employees that felt trapped at their company."

I agree. I think that there are two alternate universes to the H1B. Many of the good startups and large company have no interest in this kind of power over other people's lives - they use the system because it's the only way to get someone they think is talented into the country. They are often shocked to hear about the extent of the abuse in the underbelly of this visa. There seems to be universal agreement that the best approach would be to provide the visa or green card directly to the immigrant, with full mobility. Many of the easily circumvented protections (such as the prevailing wage requirement) would be unnecessary if the worker is allowed to quit his or her job without jeopardizing residency rights. If 90% of PhD grads who want to stay are finding a way to do so through a patchwork of (somewhat indentured) work visas anyway, why not just grant them direct residency rights? Unfortunately, there is so much bitter disagreement on other issues that it is hard to make progress on the areas of common ground.

On another front - I have linked in the past to a RAND study concluding that the American aversion to PhD programs "in science" is rational and market driven.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

This paper convinced me that we probably shouldn't base public policy on the notion of a general shortage of scientists. I'm not saying we shouldn't grant residency rights (I actually think we should place a greater emphasis on skilled immigration in general), I just don't think we should do so on the notion that there is a shortage in these fields, as the evidence doesn't support that claim.

The RAND study lumps together such diverse fields that it may not be useful in evaluating the needs of high tech employers (computer science may have as much in common with marine biology as it does with non-science humanities fields in terms of the overall job market). However the recent Senate proposal isn't about the narrow band of degrees related to silicon valley, it is for all grad degrees in "STEM", so in this case, I think the data in the RAND report is relevant here.
TI-82 here. I made small applications to do my 7th grade algebra homework. They took longer to make than just doing the homework, but I enjoyed automation.
Watch this video instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0...
thx to this comment, i created now a fluid-app for me with eggtimer.com! there is always a time when u need one (and ur too lazy to ask siri to do it ;) )

but now i would love to have a option on fluid, that ask me for parameter when it starts, so i can set the timeframe when i start the "app"
Orange & Alcatel lay down the fastest Internet (400G/sec) from Paris to Lyon
We have some "whois" jobs which should alert us in the initial period. We'll be working on this though if the site gains traction.
I have used Ubuntu since 2008. I have seen it grown increasingly more user friendly over the years. I have always been impressed with it's stability and would never go back to running Windows. If you want something that is easier on your equipment then this is a great option.
> There are a lot of those kind of people, from all walks of life. They're just not on HN.

I am sure there are more such people. Can you please point to some that you know of?. It is inspiring to read bios/accomplishments of such super productive programmers.
yeah - just like that Knuth guy - total waste...
Why bother with all that trouble of renting it out as a cab? Instead, be the person who rents the cab.
Some might see this as a bit negative - I take that in a positive way - I have maybe another 20 years of brain power left. Since the last 20 years were not nearly as productive as Bellard's I shall endeavour to calm down, and make the next 20 count.
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/kuvat/programming_examples/nesem...
You get 1 point just after registering, and 2 more with tweet and like buttons. So you can get a free domain without giving away yours.
2) Register a new account.
3) Repeat.
Solved Facebook bug was redirecting users from integrated sites
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@ediggs Because VCs are lazy. Lemming effect: scared missing on next big thing, so they all plough into the same start-up
Doesn't anyone see the irony here? TBBT makes a lot of jokes about how vociferously nerds will argue over their chosen entertainment. This entire thread is basically playing out a TBBT punchline about TBBT punchlines.

It's not a nerd vs. cool people thing, it's just a mature thing: acting superior because your chosen 30 minute tv comedy is better than another one is pointless.
Elitism over entertainment is ridiculous on its face.
This is an excellent point. There are enough engineers out there who reach a certain stage in their life (kids, family, bored of stupid "benefits" like xbox, free lunches and worthless stock options) basically say fuck you, pay me. It is not that startups can't find people at any price, it is just that really really good people could work on your interesting problem but they could also work on another interesting problem that pays them a market rate.

> Currently these "lotteries" are unwilling or unable to increase their payouts. Unless you can create a glut of customers/engineers that are somehow constrained from starting their own lotteries, I don't see why the lack of engineers willing to work at startups would change.

I don't know whether you made this point unknowingly or not: However, the whole deal with the way an H1B is designed right now is that it is close to impossible to start your own lottery. You have to sponsor your own visa which the way nascent startups work is close to impossible.
Why not lynch him? If we're going to do mob rule, we should do it right, no? Pitchforks and torches and all.
via email (anonymous): "From my experience only the best European investors that have the confidence to go first, so you need to find the combo of the right firm and the right partner if you dont want to get stuck in a waiting game."

Feel free to chime on Quora too: https://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/Companies-are-unfundab...
I think it needs to be able to flash the favicon, when you have several tabs open, you can't see the title change.
The article is really no better than its link-bait title would suggest. If you read it, you'll have a nagging feeling all along that you're not going to learn anything, and that feeling will be confirmed when you get to the end:

“The ability to ask for advice, and assimilate it correctly is the single most important thing you’ll have to do in your business life.”

“I can tell you how I made a million dollars. The real question is: how are you going to?”

“And that, you’re going to have to figure out for yourself.”
A couple of flaws with this:
1. After being forced to type it in once, I would remember the password in the scrambled form
2. Cutting off active thought processes during mid-thought would cause certain ideas to be lost
3. If you work for an employer who expects you to work constantly, they are going to complain when you very clearly sit in front of a locked screen periodically.
I noticed the same thing. Since other people are disagreeing, this may depend on platform or device
This is actually like JSON, but with better parse-ability and aggregate-ability by UNIX commands.
>Such things always made me question why they bothered mandating having GPS in "dumb phones" in the first place. Obviously there's other reasons, but none that seem to help consumers.

The main purpose of GPS in dumbphones (and one which clearly is intended to help consumers) was to fulfill the enhanced 911 mandate so your geographic location can be transmitted to dispatchers when you dial 911.
As explained almost everywhere, losing your job under an H1B visa is a huge pain.

The brightest student in my class is working for Microsoft on an H1B. He's relatively happy and he's managed to "switch jobs" within Microsoft, but he's unable to leave.

That's not a great way to encourage the best and brightest. I know this guy would be awesome for several Silicon Valley startups for example, but he literally has to stay in Microsoft or another high-stability company.

No idea if he would get a Green Card as a person of extraordinary ability, I believe him to be, but don't know the requisites.

My country has FAR less stringent requirements (yet we're not really a talent destination :) ).
Music hacks: guitar effects, and an electronic tuner
Move to city with public transit and live your dream.
As long as the car can pass the tests set out for humans, there really shouldn't be need for government involvement. We already have defined standards that we find acceptable. It is not like humans are perfect and the machine has to match that, though I do hope that the machines can exceed those existing expectations.
Strongly disagree on the ALSA comment. PulseAudio is the primary cause for most latency in Linux audio. I've written sound playback and recording code in ALSA and achieved low latency without difficulty. I wouldn't wish PulseAudio on my worst enemy.
If anyone is interested in some of the algorithms behind this technology, then I highly recommend Sebastian Thrun's "Artificial Intelligence for Robotics" course on Udacity [1]. He makes unintuitive probabilistic methods easily understandable. I'm not aware of a better source for getting a basic understanding of complex methods like Kalman filters and particle filters [2][3]. I had never even heard of a "histogram filter" until recently reviewing this material, and it's a perfect solution for a problem that I currently have.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/cs373

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_filter