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have you seen the food in the cafeteria? also did you know that they'll do your laundry here, and also every smart person who went to school with you works down the hall? oh yeah, and you can bring your dog to work? did I mention the food?
It seems really silly to me that all manufacturers don't do this. If amazon can do it on a $189 kindle and google can do it on a $300 laptop, surely ford or Hyundai could do it on a $15000 car. There's no reason a data link should be a premium feature.
It's definitely just a standard lots-of-bits. Every bit of information is needed, lose one and the whole test will be wrong. For current wavefront exponents, like 2^60,000,000-1, save files are around 8 MB, or ~60M bits -- exactly what you'd expect.

Also Prime95 doesn't use GMP, its code is all hand-coded assembly, optimized specifically for the LL test and x86 architecture, written by one very dedicated George Woltman.
>Most developers hardly ever actually do anything legitimately hard in their day-to-day work.

I might agree with that in an absolute sense. But if we're going to talk about percentiles, and relative to the human population, very few people (percentage-wise) can even do the "easy, boring" part of programming you're referring to.
The Roadster's basic chassis engineering was lifted from the Elise, but I believe most of the parts were custom. All the body panels certainly were.
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Cable companies have no incentive to offer gigabit internet
MS for one is not
I attended this hackathon.

The biggest problem in these hackathons is that it's more about the pitching than the product.

At this particular one, they even told us, worry about the UI and the pitch, don't worry about the backend.

I've been to 5 hackthons total, including 2 Techcrunch disrupts, 2 angelhacks, 1 startup weekends. What I realize is that the winners aren't the best hacks, they are the best pitches, some people only demo their hacks for 2-3 seconds and it's questionable that it even works.

If the business person pitches well, and you have a good designer, you probably win.
Please, why does everyone have to make up their own currency? I'm perfectly content with using dollars. Facebook Credits, Microsoft Points, etc... how do these do anything but confuse and corner the consumer?

Edit: Yes, I realize you're still able to use credit cards. For now. :)
That's what I was thinking, but then the water would stagnate, go green, and be a potential source of mosquitos. So someone will want to change it.

The fix would obviously be to make a little bit of the water be drained away whenever a coffee was made, but then it would need refilling and you're back to a situation where you might as well just have 2 containers and disconnected from the water supply.
I'm not sure if I'm just experiencing the higher side of things, but these numbers seem low, or outdated. Friends at several of these companies have been paid on average, about $1,000 or so more than reported here for internships, excluding stipends for travel/living.

Other industries are catching up too. Several of the US investment banks have been paying their interns around the same range, with some going much higher. Lenard Green & Co (leonardgreen.com) is apparently paying at least one intern 140 pro-rated for the summer.

Disclaimer: this may be hearsay and completely false, but these sources have little reason to lie.
It concerns me that Go has apparently built up such a community of people who insist that there aren't any problems here and you just need to learn the Go way to do it, which nobody quite knows yet, and doesn't quite meet the bill when demonstrated, and seems to require an awful lot of copy & paste boilerplate even so. I don't think that solution addresses my concern, which is that I want to be able to take a channel, and return a modified channel. You can't do that by "wrapping behind an interface", because once you return anything other than another channel you've lost, because you can't "select" on anything other than a channel. You can't say "Oh, I'll wrap the select behind something", because there's no way to compose two selects together; if I want to select on this channel and that channel I must have them both in hand, as channels. So if I want to factor out a particular strategy for managing input on channels, it's just impossible as it stands now; the type system is sufficiently limiting that we can see that that is impossible to write such functionality.

(I haven't gotten around to coding this yet, since I've been taking a break, but the actual solution I'm planning is like this:

in the library;
func DoSomethingGeneric (interface{}) (interface{}) {
blah blah blah lots of reflect probably
return newThingy
}

in the module using the code:
func DoSomethingSpecific (Thing) (Thing) {
return DoSomethingGeneric(Thing).(Thing)
}
}

I'd make it correct by construction, but that's annoying. Annoying is bad at scale, it means people do the lazy thing instead of the right thing.)

Further, I don't see any way to abstract out the pattern that you do have in hand; you wrote it, and if you want to stick a new type into it, you'll have to write quite a bit of code again.

It's too soon for the community to be this dogmatic about how Go has an answer to everything, when it plainly doesn't. And let me underline this: I'm not complaining that it doesn't have an answer to everything; it's young. I'm complaining that it's too early to be so dogmatic. This is the biggest turn off to me about the developing community.

I keep thinking maybe I'm just spoiled by Haskell or something, then I remember; I can do this in every other language I know in one way or another. In the dynamic languages, it's not any more type safe than anything else, but it works. In the stronger languages, I can get this done. Only Go has has a type system that is strongly typed, but forces me to bypass the system to get it done. (Perhaps C, though that's contingent on so many things it's hard to construct a fair comparison. One must first build a fair amount of structure to even approximate the problem I'm having with Go here.) And it's not like I'm a stranger to programming under very strong restrictions. I like Haskell.

(Also, I am aware that "the community" who is saying this is not everybody; those who are not should probably work on telling those people to tone it down a bit. And broadly speaking, I actually do like Go; this conversation is focusing on my two biggest pain points and is not representative of my full opinion.)
Apple is into Hardware and Software, Oracle is now into Hardware. Some exec at MSFT has seen how good a user experience you can give if you control the entire cycle from hardware to software.

If they entered the Hardware market directly, they compromise Windows - for example companies would distribute Linux with their machines more openly and they could lose the "XXX recommends WinX". So they could do this indirectly by owning Dell privately and pulling the puppet strings.

Secondly if you want to run a massively parallel search engine like bing - you need a lot of hardware. They would probably seat a specialised hardware team at Dell and take the machines at cost.
Looks like it's an issue with the particular version of Proxima Nova that's being @font-face embedded.

I don't notice those problems with the version of Proxima Nova served up from TypeKit.
Yes. But you should notice how we don't blame machine no. X for not doing it's job correctly (aka having buggy programs run on it) - it does exactly what it was supposed to do.

No - we blame the programmer/hardware manufacturer for screwing things up - which in the case of humans is the environment and genes.
Exec's designer (of the current redesigned site) here -

Nice job! Very impressive how quickly you got this up given that we released it just this morning. I like the typography and alignment you have, and putting the live feed on the landing page is a very interesting idea. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
The #1 way to save hackathons is to stop offering cash prizes to winners. That way people who are coming to the events to make money will stop showing up, and people who show up won't worry too much about winning, and the people who are there for fun/exploration/friendship/camaraderie will be able to build and enjoy whatever they came for. Compare the quality of hackathons with massive prizes in cash or funding (i.e. AngelHack) to those without (i.e. StartupWeekend) and you'll see a dramatic difference.

GroupMe is an outlier, it was a great story for Twilio but it was a huge surprise. We never ever ever sponsored or organized hackathons with outcomes like that as a goal, even after it happened.

People alway asked me why Twilio has always supported building "toys" in our hackathons, contests, etc. - and it is simple. Often in their free developers want to build toys, play, explore, be free to make a mess - and we want to make them happy, and associate being happy with using Twilio. And maybe they'll go back to their day jobs and think of us when a problem we can solve crops up. Sponsors should focus less on getting PR hits and shiny hacks, and more on giving what hackathon attendees want, and the events will be good. Organizers should seriously consider whether sponsors are adding value, and whether the prizes they offer are worth the trade-off.
My problem with this kind of absolute determinism is that it reduces everything to pointlessness. So much so that you can't really stick with the idea for any length of time. For example, from your top post:

"You know what I always find so hilarious. How people always seem to qualify luck - even when they show us how lucky they have actually been. ..."

What's so funny about it? Their fallacies are predetermined anyway. (Tangent: how can you call it luck, coming from this perspective?)

So it seems to me a particularly useless line of thought. I'm not saying you can't indulge in it for kicks, but doesn't provide any useful input to behavior.
My previous workplace had someone attempt to cook a ribeye steak in the toaster oven.

It actually worked, but management was angry the third time he pulled it and set a flat no-meat-cooking policy on the toaster oven (enforced via clipart signs).
The coffee snob in me wants to say that for a nasty automatic machine like that, putting water in the bean hopper and breaking it is probably a good thing! Seriously, used commercial machines are fairly cheap and will make a far superior coffee which is worth twenty seconds of work.

But if you must, I like the idea of a bean container that must be removed to be filled. Better than warning labels (that people will ignore) or putting a picture of a bean there or something.
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"Wisdom of the crowds" is a very specific phenomenon. It specifically depends on people not being able to talk to each other, as one of the four requirements, which is not true in this case. (Another requirement is that it be quantitative.)
They have a MTV office if we want to get technical. But I guess I should say west coast.
They have to be outdated.
That logic doesn't really apply world population. Or infant mortality rates. Or anything else that increases due to a change in underlying situation rather than random fluctuation.
Hey these are awesome ideas! Haven't changed the plan yet, still noodling over it all. I agree with your points. We're treating this as more of a prototype / MVP / test the waters. I think we're going to proceed with the free plan (similar to your idea), and in meantime (in the SHORT meantime) reach out to charities and some big stars to see about seeding / cross promotion.
No. But it does mean you can do two tasks in a day if one of them doesn't require a lot of concentration or mental effort, e.g. four hours programming and four hours gardening.
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I was shocked to learn the extent of shorting Tesla stock -- Yahoo Finance reports 52% of float (as of Jan 15 2013). That's more than Groupon and Overstock! I suppose it could give the stock some pop if they can pull it off, as those shorts will scramble to cover.
> [William Shockley's] mother had lived there [Santa Clara Valley] for years - and land prices where cheap.

Just goes to show how random things like these are. A random physicist, comes home, starts a small silicon chip shop, and accidentally helps cause what you see in Silicon Valley today.

Reminds me of this: http://vimeo.com/52268132#t=824
I expect we'll eventually see a new bitcoin instance for items and gold in an MMORPG. Actually it seems to me that bitcoin could govern more than that: basically any random event ("you made a wooden shield") could go into the blockchain.
Seems pretty offficially supported in this blog post from Nov 2012
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/announcin...

and the associated drive SDK for publishing web content https://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site
Load the beans from underneath using a detachable tray with a mesh inlay which will is used to pull the beans in.

(If you must go all out, put a bob that opens a trap in the bottom of the tray so they can't get the water near the machine if they try to fill the tray with it.)
Is Exec getting out of "tasks"? The two tabs being "Cleaning" and "Errands" makes me wonder.
I don't see how this is very disruptive. What are the benefits of proprietary currency? That is, other than locking in your users to spending their money only on your marketplace?
So how would one short bitcoin?
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People actually emulate a ton of games not available on virtual console. In fact, emulation is a pretty popular way for people to play fan translations of games that were never released in english (tales of phantasia, radical dreamers, etc.).

It's true that there are plenty of folks who pirate chrono trigger via emulation but there are also plenty who want to play the more obscure titles out there.
One other thought. Be sure you really think this through. People will try to scam you.

For example, you might want to state that the reward will be paid in three monthly chunks starting thirty days after the contest closes.

Why? Someone can easily put $3,000 on a credit card to win and then reverse the charges on you five days later. The installment payment approach will not prevent all fraud, it's just one idea to at least filter out some of it. Check with credit card companies/PayPal before you do anything.

It might be intelligent to install other limits as well. Again, take your time to think it through.
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coinbase.com is actually a Ycombinator start-up!

So if you have problems with them, you know just were to bitch about it. I kid. I kid.

Joking aside, I've only had great experiences with the folks over at Coinbase.
I almost missed your ML pun. To the uninitiated, ML was the first language supporting parametric polymorphism around 1976.

What is interesting about Go's subtype polymorphism is that it is structurally subtyped.. so A is a subtype of B if it fits the description of B, it does not need to explicitly declare that it "supports" or "implements" B.
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or rather than having real beans, have fake beans at the bottom. I'm assuming that at some point the real beans in the reservoir would go off
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I believe you were sitting at your desk pressing keys for sixteen hours a day. I also believe you believe you were accomplishing more than you would have at your desk for six hours a day.

It's been shown what actually happens in such a scenario is that your judgment quickly becomes impaired to the point where you are no longer capable of judging how impaired you are; it's the equivalent of being permanently drunk. To be sure, you can still press keys. If the work you're given is far enough below your peak ability, you may even eventually blunder your way into a solution. (Or you may not; last I checked, the failure rate of software projects is still several tens of percent, and stupid hours feature prominently in most of the failures.) But the calendar time to get your job done is longer, not shorter, than it would have been with an intelligent schedule. Degrading yourself like that is nothing to be proud of, and it does nothing but harm to your work as well as yourself.
It's not logic. It's a heuristic. Furthermore world population growth is currently stalling.
Cool. Why did you decide to do this in node rather than a shell script with du?
How many of you are over 25 years old?
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I /really/ hope Playframework guys see this. Their "community" is a google group and "search for 'play-framework' on StackExchange!".

Drives me bonkers. Hell, a reddit forum would be better!

And aren't there forum/mailing list hybrid that allows people to interact through web or email? even THAT would be better!
I've experienced that at other hackathons too. Fake click throughs using photoshop drawn screenshots beat out actual mobile applications with backends. I stopped going to hackathons after a powerpoint beat out my hack. It was a cool idea but the only execution was drawing some pictures. 24 hours to draw pictures. Yup.
Rackspace ripped me off.
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Nope, only a 16 minute preview. :(
It's quite difficult to decipher what Cloudiff is initially, so at the very least there's some work to be done there.

However, I think it definitely has legs. I've been waiting for a unified Domain management panel, let alone one for cloud servers. I can see myself logging in first-thing every morning, casting an eye over statistics and notifications.

Isotope could be used nicely here, but each page of the app has a totally different layout and structure, and as such I find it distracting.

I appreciate it's in early stages, but for a Foundation styled site it's very cluttered. In general it feels messy.

I'd imagine the point of Cloudiff is to get server information fast, so after the leg work of consolidating the cloud service APIs and connecting them to Cloudiff, you're solving a design and UI problem. The inconsistent layout, dodgy icons, and distracting isotope plugin, don't help to solve it.

I'll keep an eye on it. I like the idea.
Yeah, I expected a discussion on the relative merits of the different exec calls and some new proposal that the author thought would be better in some way.

I got a slideshow of something on a background of raspberries.
Oh this is so much macho posturing.

Have you ever worked for the government or a corporation?
I can easily envisage some people putting water in the bean hopper simply because they couldn't find anywhere else to put it.
I was going to post something on their site, but apparently you have to have enough karma to give a response now.

Use a removable side-loading bean cartridge. The bottom of the cartridge would be mesh, the top open. There would be a spring-loaded door on the side of the cartridge that the machine would open once inserted (or it could be opened via a "lock" lever for a pure mechanical solution) so that beans could flow out. This way it could never be loaded with water, and the beans would stay fresh since once inserted the cartridge would be sealed on top and bottom by the rest of the machine.
I tend to agree that large cash prizes and thinking that hacks == startups is a recipe for trouble. That said, I sit on the more cynical side of the fence and I'm still not comfortable ruling out prizes all together. I'd like to see an event where people were rewarded for embracing the hacker spirit though (most helpful, best use of new tech, most common problem solved, etc).
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Surely something like this + heroku + a deal with godaddy would make it even better and easier.
It seems that some of these problems could be solved through voice commands, which the Model S supposedly has. I'm not familiar with the functionality, though.
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Louis Kang and Eric Liu have the same pictures.

Also on a side note, having a text description of the Kairos society complimenting the video might be useful for those such as myself who don't have the time or means of watching videos.

Looks pretty sharp though, hope it works for you.
I like the idea of bitcoins but I do not understand what the purpose of a btc ETP would be? It seems that an ETP would have all the risk associated with buying BTC but none of the benefits. I'm a finance noob so this is not criticism, I'm curious.
Relevant: The Royal Canadian Mint recently invented MintChip, a fully digital crypto-currency where private keys are stored in integrated circuit chips in micro sd cards (for smartphones/tablets) and USB dongles (for computers).

They say it is able to be exchanged online AND offline fully anonymously. The details on that are yet to be released.

This makes Canada the first country in the world to explore a fully electronic currency.

http://mintchipchallenge.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip
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We'd be happy to look into what happened. If you'd like us to, please email help@rackspace.com with your account info and details about the experience that you're referencing. Thanks.
For the past few years, I've had this idea of creating some kind of hackerspace. The number one rule(s) would be: You must build something original. Or you must be learning how to build things. Software, hardware... whatever. If you don't make then you are not welcome.

I've never been to a hackathon, but I wonder if this is the problem when the author says "They exploit developers."
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The great-grandparent comment said that the market (specifically stop-loss orders) ought to work the way you thought the grandparent comment said it did work. The grandparent comment, to which you replied, actually described what would happen if the market worked the way it had been proposed to work. You are correct about how the market actually does work, and my comment explains why it works that way.
It is hard to learn. But once you learn it, not that hard to do CRUD day to day. When you have to learn some new framework/library it gets harder again.
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Read a little more closely: the machine in question has a direct water line but people still occasionally put water in the bean compartment.

My theory: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175098
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Since the false water container on top isn't going to be used anyway, what about just filling it with something hostile to microbes, like dilute hydrogen peroxide? If you wanted to get really fancy, you could even add a couple lines marked "max" and "min" and add some plumbing to make the fluid level vary between them.
For omniauth/rails people out there, we found this to work.

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}
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Nothing about how anybody other than yourself perceives your work?
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