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I think the time was probably in 1970. While you have a much larger audience today, and computers have kicked the artistic potential of individuals into overdrive, I think the main factor in a healthy arts economy is a wealthy society.

The America of the 70s hit around its peak wealth per person - it has been going down ever since. I don't think the advances in artist productivity trump the fact people make significantly less money than before, and buying art of any form (including entertainment) is still a luxury.

Hopefully the best is yet to come - if we can get a fabricated / automated food revolution, and automated housing, and automated raw materials mining / gathering in the next few decades, besides the fact most people won't have non STEM / artistic / law / business work to do, there would be more luxurious wealth to go around.

I guess it could go either in the direction of everyone goes destitute as a concentrated few own the automated means of production, or government intervention means everyone has the lower tiers of the hierarchy needs covered without straining oneself, leaving everything else to creative pursuits.
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What "dumb" cable did you have in mind?

Because once you accept Lighting as the connector, there is no "dumb". You have USB and this is where you have to start. You don't get DVI/HDMI signals, analog audio, or anything else.
According to Wikipedia MHL allows proprietary connectors, and MHL-through-microUSB is most often done with 5 pins. Lightning is 8 pins + shield, so it would have been possible for Apple to put HDMI signalling inside the devices, and get native 1080p/60 out.

However, MHL-through-Lightning might have prevented the AV adaptor having a daisy chained lightning socket of it's own. Maybe that's why Apple jumped through these hoops.
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Coding allows me to be hugely creative. It is a power tool. Ok, you can be creative with drawing. However the value of working software is often a lot bigger than a drawing.

He is right be creative. But coding and being creative go hand in hand.
unfortunately kid science centers... aren't science museums

What rubbish. Just because they're not tailored for tertiary-educated engineers doesn't mean they're not science museums.

The comparison of 'art' vs 'science' museums is a load of horseshit anyway - museums are one of the places you go to art is formally presented. They're not where you go to formally present science or engineering.
As a recent CS grad who had around $20k of debt (and 16k of that is now paid off 9 months later) the terms are not generous. I had to take subsidized stafford loans each year just to qualify for my state grant, since it was supposed to be "needs based". My last loan is only 3.5% interest though, so I'm taking my time on it.

The other poster covers it in greater detail, but after 6 months they expect payments, and deferring them only lasts so long (and I don't know how long).

And you can't ever get rid of them.

The answer still isn't to bail everyone out. It just perpetuates the problem. If higher education is to be a for profit business (at least in many cases) you can't create artificial lending markets like student loans, it just causes the absurd bubble that has popped up in the US. It should be flat "heres the cost, go try to get a loan for it" like you would a car or house. When the government starts handing out free money no questions asked with a repayment plan, schools just pile that on top of their tuition fees as profit.

It doesn't hurt that we really should be looking to having online certifications for either free (MIT courses, etc) or extremely low cost. While the K-12 years also have a function as day care, hopefully adults don't require that cost, and stuffing them into giant brick buildings often thousands of miles away for months on end is really inefficient.
Maybe a dedicated vm for anything that requires java would be safer these days. :/
Give discounts for HN karma, if this post ends up helping you.

Not sure if that's a good idea, though, because karma is supposed to have no tangible value. It's just an idea.
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After careful parsing of Apple's specs languag, I now believe that mirroring from sub 1080P devices (iPad mini, iPhone, iPod touch) is limited to 1600x900 but that 1080P video playback works (presumably without lame encode artifacts). It appears full size iPads will mirror 1080P.

It makes sense...
I find it odd that the title says "Science Explains...", but then the main reference is to another blog post[1], which itself does a much better job at quoting and referencing scientific information...

[1]http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-we-have-our-best-ideas-in-the-...
People upvote him because they trust him. He's got a track record of being reasonable.
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As they say，beauty is the exercise for our heart, it keeps us healthy. I will try to learn drawing this year, I want to understand/enjoy beauty more.

Throughout the whole process of my education, to create beautiful things is of least importance in people's eyes, I think that was sad.
"Clojure because they're functional and on the JVM"

In addition to that I'd add:

- Clojure because it's a Lisp dialect (and if you've never learned any Lisp, then it's good to add that to your skillset too)

- Clojure because it also targets other runtime, like say browsers JavaScript engine. ClojureScript looks really interesting and I'm sure we'll some very interesting things in ClojureScript very soon

- Clojure because it has STM

Now honestly between Clojure and Haskell I'd say that you should really learn both.

I'm getting quite OK with Clojure. Now I definitely need to find the time to learn Haskell...
It's really depressing to see so many comments about HTML in this thread. Seriously... who cares?
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The argument's fine, given the usual caveats about the validity of its assumptions - I'm more concerned that the author's writing off mathematics as a "conventional skill" by conflating it with mechanization, and it's certainly not his fault. (I'm very aware of this - just about to be passed through the GI tract of high school, and there's nothing like poring through boiled down revision guides to make you feel miserable about what you're doing with your life.) In fact, I'm convinced the problem of attempting to convey a high-level appreciation of the sciences and mathematics is intractable, given the pressure we already put on the education system. And it's a pity - we'd all like to say that we're far better off investing in giving a kid a grand unified appreciation of what a mind can do (the arts bleed into rhetoric bleed into mathematical formalism and so on and so forth). (Un)fortunately, self-motivation seems to be a prerequisite.

But the argument works both ways: I've seen, for that matter, just as many people going through my school's art program end up still inarticulate about what their art means (you can make a cogent argument that art doesn't have to mean anything, but I haven't seen anyone take that tasty intellectual biscuit) or even what they appreciate in the subject.

So I find it annoying to claim that art is inherently special because it is something inherently better to occupy the mind with - it's true by observation, but there was nothing much to observe in the first place.
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The easy fix would be to make non-governmental student loans the same as every other class of loan: able to be discharged in bankruptcy. This would really cut back on the market, but probably not eliminate it.
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I don't think my parents were concerned for me by the time MySpace was a thing, though I do remember them talking to me and my sister about being careful in chat rooms on AOL back in the day.
It can work though.

It's a long-shot to try and get your bosses job though. Aim higher or sideways.

This is a better method than others in the thread.
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Although I didn't cite any stats (google "art market booming" if interested) it's not an opinion. There has been an art boom over the past decades, and there are more artists making a lot more money than ever before. Certainly more than in the 1970s.
I think it's the case that Facebook has just gotten that big. Also, it doesn't have terrible custom backgrounds like MySpace. To the extent that they can avoid that, I think they'll be ok. There's probably a few other things they should focus on too...
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I think that most people are contesting whether or not Bush should have won the Florida electoral votes, which would have changed the election, no?
Have you tried underscore.py? It's not quite pointfree but it's a step in that direction.
Yeah, I meant vulnerable. My bad. :-)

Thanks for the correction.
a science center is different from a science museum. i didn't say this difference was dependent on the formality of presentation.
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I'd guess the aim is to make drones illegal, rather than actually prevent them from flying (ie. make the law, but don't enforce it). At zero cost to the state, this will mean any evidence gathered by a civilian drone will be illegally obtained and so inadmissible in court.
Intermittent fasting. I do a variant called "Cheat Mode".

Here's how it works, on a biothermodynamic level:

you eat less.
I particularly took notice of this:

>Dr. Dean, a co-researcher, said the findings left no doubt in his mind that many German citizens, despite the frequent claims of ignorance after the war, must have known about the widespread existence of the Nazi camps at the time.

>“You literally could not go anywhere in Germany without running into forced labor camps, P.O.W. camps, concentration camps,” he said. “They were everywhere.”

We all know that the allies were almost oblivious to these concentration camps during the war.[1] I would be surprised to learn that the allies did not have agents, spies or informants stationed in Germany during the war. How did these people also fail to notice what - according to Dr Dean - would have been obvious?

Even 40'000+ sites takes few people to pull off in a country of over 50 millions. It was a very different time, and as the parent correctly points out, people accepted genocide, torture and blatant racism. Not just in Germany, but everywhere.

A lot of people seem to think that it is something inherently German that made the Holocaust so terrible, but truth be, any other country could have fallen victim to the same propaganda had their situation been similar.

That being said, I still find the Second World War rather uninteresting.

[1] Although, as their progressing through German held Europe moved forward, the true picture began to emerge.
It's crazy, what he has shown puts him clearly in the top 5% of developers. Such a waste to see him working in a grocery store.
I haven't worked at Yahoo in years, but I'd be very surprised if they shut down Answers. It was the most successful new product launch they had in a very long time, and it looks like it's still thriving today (take a look at the Answers homepage - there are several new questions being posted per minute!)

Compare to the products mentioned in the blog post, most if which I hadn't even heard of. Why would Yahoo continue to run a message board product when they also have the much more popular Yahoo Groups?
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I am open to giving discounts to anyone that is willing to take a chance on me right now even though I'm in a serious bind. I appreciate anything I can get. Thanks for the suggestion.
To be fair I doubt it's mine - but I fully agree - one could use energy or rather work efficency as a proxy for economic wealth.

The first wood burner must have halved the energy needed to keep warm - probably the best investment society made ever.

Of course energy efficiency as a metric Must make bankers even less useful to society than we think :-)
But this one uses trendy colors and has a ".io" domain! Who cares if it contains less information!
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Thankyou for the appreciation and the link but I already applied in January. Please list what other programs you found.

Besides, targeting new grads exclusively is sometimes advantageous for a growing startup. Like being more willing to learn a new system (since they don't know an old system-easier to mentor). Also, more willing to move to lessor known tech hubs after graduation (Portland, Raleigh, Austin, etc).

The last part is what I think is important for a startup. New grad salaries can be around 50-80,000 a year from what I hear while rent is approaching 3,000 a month in SF. Speciality and experience alone may not make a great programmer. Alot of great programmers I know often have side projects they do in college (or in my case, being in both CS research and in a graduate class hopefully includes me in that category).
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> museums are one of the places you go to art is formally presented. They're not where you go to formally present science or engineering.

Although generally true, there's the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the Air & Space Museum and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. All these examples present something other than art works.
Now if they could shut down Yahoo! Answers so that its useless Q/As stop showing up in Google results that would be perfect.
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It's how our politicians do business here in Illinois...

http://www.salon.com/2008/12/09/blagojevich_complaint/
You may be surprised at how open the local Costco warehouse manager would be to someone running a Satay stand outside the warehouse. They are always looking for stuff like this that will surprise and delight their customers.
It makes a lot of sense to me now. The adapter is tied to iOS's supported video formats. If it will play on the device, it will play on the adapter. The downside being that mirrored content has to go through the not-awesome encoder (at least on the A5). Using the same optimized software stack and shared SoC logic probably eliminates a bunch of headaches and saves money.

If it really works like that it's kind of brilliant. Future devices will have better mirroring output due to better hardware encoders (I haven't scrutinized the mirrored output from an A6, it may already be a lot better than the output pictured in the post). It ought to work with every Lightning device. The only question is future video format support, but since it's limited to 1080P it's probably future proof enough.
Really? I will totally check this out. Thank you.
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I know it's for a simpler core language, but LuaJIT is quite a shoestring project too, with one main developer. Yet LuaJIT posts impressively fast results, even though Lua makes no distinction between objects and hash tables. In this and other ways, Lua can be compared to Javascript...but it does have a fast, high-quality JIT implementation, despite not a ton of money or even mindshare. I'm curious why you think this is (or if you think the facts are different).

P.S.: "hash_set" in the slides should be "hash_map."
What do you mean by "compensate"? Having a co-founder will always boost your chances vs. being a single founder, no matter what.

But obviously single founders do get into YC because they're strong in other areas.
Haskell also has STM.
Some time in 2007 I went to an Apple event in Scottsdale Arizona. I am a network engineer/system administrator, and my organization was about 50/50 Mac/Windows. We spend somewhere between $200-600K a year on Apple products for employees. I seem to remember that this was shortly before Apple killed off their XServe products, but I could be mistaken about the timing.

There was a break in the presentation, after which I decided I was going to bail. I took my phone, a Blackberry at the time, out of my pocket as I exited the door so that I could check if anything was going on at work.

As I took those first few steps outside, I accidentally dropped my phone.

It wasn't one of those gentle drops. In the process of trying to catch it before it hit the ground, I ended up pushing it with even greater velocity downwards. It hit the concrete pretty hard and a mix of phone, battery cover, and battery went skittering across the concrete walkway.

Three Apple Store employees were sitting outside, also on break. My phone had gone flying right past their feet.

"Oooh!" they said with a wince.

Then one of them said, "Don't worry everyone! It wasn't a IPhone!"

And they laughed.

And that was it. I picked up the parts of my phone, took at a look at the damage, put it back together, and walked away.

There was no offer of help or concern, but they thought it was pretty funny.

Fortunately, the phone survived pretty well off. There really wasn't anything more than minor scratches, despite how I had practically thrown the phone against the concrete.

Ironically, had it been an IPhone (or any modern touchscreen phone), it would have probably been destroyed. I ended up destroying the screen on my Nexus One a year or two later with a much less violent drop.

And, I'm afraid to say, most of my other experiences with Apple store employees here in Arizona has been pretty similar. We regularly have our helpdesk staff go in to pick up parts and do repair runs and I've had to call up our regular Apple rep and comment on bad attitudes, poor service, and outright rejection of service on in-warranty breakages for whatever reason-of-the-day they could make up.

The story linked to is important: You really can make a lasting impression on a customer that they will never forget, positive or negative.

I will never forget the way three Apple Store employees laughed at me as I dropped my phone.
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Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple
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Right. So, why is this news-worthy?
Don't get an Aeron.

1) They're overpriced. You can get an equivalently ergonomic chair for $100.

2) The Aeron chair was never actually designed for ergonomics. It was designed for style. It's a really common misconception that the Aeron chair was designed to be perfectly ergonomic. [1]

It goes without saying that the most ergonomic chair is going to be one which you modify (by adding various supports / strap-ons) to fit your body.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b41770712....
A youtube clip would have done just fine. You can pause that if you need a slower pace. Scrolling is very slow here (and I'm using Google's own Chrome on mainstream hardware), and it's never clear where I should stop scrolling to view the page. I don't get the fuzz about scrolling websites.
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Seems I'm not the only one who found that interesting :)
Microsoft AppFest draws 10,000 student developers across India
Nice font, kernel.org

http://i.snag.gy/05FuX.jpg

I always love websites with custom fonts that don't render correctly. When I see a website with great typography, most of the time it turns out to be Georgia or Arial, or sometimes even Timew New Roman (which his a good font, but simply overused). I've yet to see a custom font that reads better than correctly applied default fonts.
This article is long on opinion and short on actual facts.
Although I believe you can get great chairs for less than $1,000, keep in mind that this is your spine we're talking about. If spending $1,000 prevents you from having to go through $50,000+ surgery and/or physical therapy in the future and significantly improves your quality of life when you're 70 years old, I call that a wise investment.

The same goes for mattresses. You spend 1/3 of your entire life on these things. You should be spending top dollar for the best mattress you can find on the planet.
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>> If you read the right sources a majority of seo advice is correct.

That's a contradiction. If you have to read the right sources, then by definition the majority of advice is not correct.
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Here in Australia, the Federal Government will cover the costs of your Tertiary Education (namely, Uni fees) under a scheme known as 'Commonwealth Supported Places' for most Tertiary Education places that have applied to be a part of it.

Universities usually charge in the neighbourhood of $800-1900 per subject, however many students simply put on HELP/HECS debt (and will pay it back later. Much later.)

You pay it back before when you start earning above a certain threshold, you must start paying it back, along with tax. Currently, that threshold is $44K per year and above. Similar to the UK, you pay a base rate + the consumer price index (read: inflation) for that financial year. There is NO interest rate (as such) whatsoever.

As part of the tax system, you have to declare to your employer that you have CSP/HELP/HECS debt and they usually take this into account when its payday.

You are then paid your gross amount -tax -CSP/HELP/HECS debt.

There are plenty of people who can take north of 20-25 years to pay off a full, 3-year degree of their choice.

If anyone is interested:

http://studyassist.gov.au/sites/studyassist/helppayingmyfees...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education_fees_in_Aust...
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>And if they hadn't, people would be confused about whether something's supposed to be a pointer or an array.

Not that they aren' confused between pointers and arrays now.
Binary of babel
I call "linkbait"
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You are the second person bringing up DR in this post for reasons having nothing to do with DR himself.

The "post" part is about who posted it to HN, not about who wrote the article.
> ...expected to fail from time to time, but fail gracefully, in a way that doesn't threaten to shut down the economy's ability...

How's that regulated graceful fail working for ya? Seems like it broke down completely a few years back in the home credit sector. Instead, we had too-big-to-fail, socialized downside supporting privatized risk-taking, huge gov't bailouts, and not a single wrist effectively slapped.

The truth is, it is very, very difficult if not impossible to regulate commerce in a way that is fair and has a limited set of intended consequences. Any time you regulate, you are telling willing parties they may not transact business on their preferred terms. By doing that, you take the rational actor out of the picture, and replace it with a hypothetical rational agent made up by some bureaucrat who generally makes up arbitrary rules under pressure from vested interests.
This little Gimp plugin will get you the old shortcuts back:

http://www.shallowsky.com/software/gimp-save/
"What about when Google rolled out universal search only after buying YouTube?"

Because the technology wasn't built then? Google had a video platform before they owned Youtube, you know.
My favorite Fugitive workflow is:

1. git blame
2. move to the blame window and hit 'o' to open the commit
3. discover that the line in question was merely moved not created by this commit, then move to the --- line in the diff and hit 'o' to open the previous version of the file.
4. repeat from step 1

It's a few more steps than `git log -S` but it provides a different kind of flexibility. You can trace all manner of historic code migrations even without a common search term.