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> but that implies a movement away from stock standard core [...] never [etc.]

I wouldn't have said anything if I didn't disagree very strongly with these sentiments (see below about growing your own CSP/etc, and later about Coro in particular.) But first, about Node: let's not look at Node (unless you really want to, but as long as you understand it has nothing to do with my comment.) Problems with JS are usually founded on people complaining they don't like callbacks (translation: "Go is better because I like it better"—in which case please dispense with the cognitive dissonance and just be honest and say as much♯) and are inapplicable to other most other languages regardless.

♯Edit: That's not necessarily directed specifically at you, but people often vilify every aspect of things they don't like. I'm not convinced that's what you're trying to say about JS.

I don't view concurrency as this mysterious thing, if you know CSP you can write it in any language, usually fairly naturally. In languages like JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, you can even make it look like it was already part of the language, tucking away calls to the scheduler so the user doesn't need to write them explicitly (heck, you can do that part in C... but... don't), like in Go (save for pure-computation loops, also just like in Go.) All Go really does over the general case is adding implicit calls to the scheduler (not nicely possible in some languages) and treats the scheduler as a second-class primitive feature.

To go on about a unified implementation reaches my ears much like an argument that you'd better use `for` loops and never `map`s (guess what you can't do in Go.)

I wasn't going to bring this up, but since you're familiar with Perl you will be less likely to assume limitations. The lib is Coro. People do use it, but it is controversial because of #dramaintheperlcommunity (#whatelseisnews.) I don't know how popular it is overall, but if popularity is an issue for you let me know because it's a stupid argument to get into and I don't want to have it without realizing it. People rarely pay attention to concurrency anyway, but it's been around forever.

It is not a parallel library, for which I am thankful. (It's not incompatible with parallelism, and importantly: it doesn't make Go's mistakes in that area.) It amounts to a scheduler, facilities for spawning coroutines, wrappers to make calling the scheduler implicit (eg. at IO points), do async IO and every single thing you would need to make Perl automatically do the things Go automatically does. It will look exactly like Perl with Go's concurrency model, in broad strokes you do the same things, in the fine details you use Perl modules and methods and a new keyword or two.
The Secretly Pregnant Founder
HelloWorldApp copyright
I was turned off by having to establish a relationship before evaluating the service.
I think the point is they don't bother to provide any actionable feedback at all. Just prove some more assumptions k thx.
> However, you will lose the 2.3 users, who still hold a ton of market share.

Like with all massive ecosystems, change in the android world takes time. Google is addressing the problem and solutions, like instituting a required theme, are rolling out.

Give it a year, maybe a year and a half, and the need to support 2.3 will be much less pressing.
This is an interesting illustration of the GNU coding standards:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Semantics.html

(as others have noted, the program actually doing something here is bash: it attempts to dynamically allocate as much memory as it can to store the output of 'yes no'. Hopefully the author discovers ulimit.)
Probably your main drive.
Government approves T-Mobile + MetroPCS merger, believes in LTE heaven
Acquia's response: https://www.acquia.com/blog/cold-truth-about-cold-call
It sounds like the drink is made from natural sources, so it probably contains compounds that he isn't aware of. The risk (and the value of the experimental results) would probably be higher if he had found a way to isolate the compounds in the drink so he could enumerate the exact chemical composition.

If there is a risk, it is that his diet is potentially more homogenous than a typical diet, and doesn't include anything from some class of foods that nearly everyone on a more heterogeneous diet eats occasionally.
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
...
$ echo $[263/-1]
-263

What is it "supposed" (failure case) to do?
or straight peruvians simply use a different search engine for their porn.
Indeed, and if you want to stick to the command line... Use `mail` and script away.
Earphones, or rather speakers, are fascinating things. How simple they are in comparison to the many technological leaps necessary to recreate visual input.

(We still don't have decent displays; all of them are flat, and most of them look terrible)
Or try this -- http://git.zx2c4.com/memory-hemlock/tree/slow-death.c

It picks a random device on your system -- ram, video, bios, etc -- and writes a random number of random bytes into it and then sleeps for a random amount of time.

Last one standing lives.
I was a sysop for the University of Florida CS department once upon a time. It was always fun when students first learned about fork(). This post reminded me of that.
Does RESS affect info architecture design?
Does RESS mean Information Architects will need to work more closely with developers to explore possible optimization paths?

It seems without architectural planning, RESS could go wrong. Sounds mighty technical for an IA, but a lot of responsibility for a Dev! Are there any examples of dev/design teams doing this right?

NOTE: RESS (Responsive Design + Server Side Components) is the practice of swapping out or optimizing parts of a responsive website/app conditionally based on user agent detection.
He's only been doing it for approximate 6 weeks, so I wouldn't expect to see a significant change in his appearance just yet.

Nor is that a stated goal here: He simply wants to eat easier, not necessarily lose weight. The ideal experiment would be to completely replace his current food intake, not also reduce it. That would introduce an additional variable for which there is no control.
Why is 3 a ridiculous claim? I agree that there should be evidence presented that the demyelination of MS has been reversed, but why do the words "Cured MS through diet" alone constitute a "ridiculous claim"?
Customer Discovery, Scuttlebutt, and Moon People
Aahhh. In the old days, we used this command just to mess with your workmates.

while :
do
clear > /dev/tty
sleep 5
done
I prefer when people are realistic. Polite and impolite are immaterial.

VC boilerplate is etiquette, which means formalized behavior designed to reduce conflict, but also at the expense of communication. It's not really about politeness, so much as being noncommital both ways.
What I find distracting is the 7 foot tall guy who always decides to stand right in front of me. People recording bits with their cell phones don't bother me. Generally, I don't hold the camera over my head, so that if your view is not blocked by the back of my head, it won't be blocked by my iPhone.

As to how often I go back and watch the clips, that would depend on how much I like the band. If I had been able to record Kate Bush perform in 1979, there was a time in my life when I'd probably watch it every day! I recorded two whole Marina & the Diamonds concerts and a bunch of clips, and I watch them from time to time. Also, 19,131 people on YouTube have watched one of the M&tD concerts my friend and I recorded. As for Kate Nash, I'll definitely watch the clips again, and I have some friends who will want to see them.

I also occasionally go back and watch these clips I took of Sade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqdS-4J1_KY

333 other people have watched it.
Perfect timing! I was thinking of spending a weekend myself for an extension like this. You saved me a much pain, Thanks!

It would be great if you can add the IMDb rating at bottom right corner of the title image, instead of me having to hover on title to see. It kind of gets annoying to check each and every title for ratings.
I'd like to offer the same service free to anyone would like a Code Read but Jeremy's rate is too high/he doesn't have time.

I'd get a lot out of it as I'm building a Javascript static analysis tool - exposure to lots of production code would identify how useful its features would be.

I'm no Jeremy Ashkenas, but:

- I've been writing JS apps since 2009, after I stopped doing AS3 apps with Flex

- Teach Backbone.js, JS and d3 at General Assembly, have given various talks/workshops

- Lead dev on two 10k+ LOC JS apps (for Picklive and Skimlinks) using Backbone.js

- Built 3 game clients for Picklive with JS, on mobile and web

- Built a visual scraper recorder/runner plugin for Chrome for Arachnys

- Contribute to JS open source - shims, Sinon.js, lots of little pull requests

https://github.com/timruffles
@timruffles
Similarly, I've been waiting to see an extended modern version of the iRam Box[0], but it doesn't seem to be coming. The 4GB limit is useless now, but imagine the same with hundreds of gigabytes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM
Having read the criticism the EFF's been pointing at CISPA, I fail to see how they're interpreting the bill to mean that such overreaching is even possible. I want to see what sort of changes the EFF would make to the current bill which would satisfy the privacy concerns they're claiming exist.

I think everyone agrees that companies should be able to describe to the cops what the guy who robbed them looked like, and those companies should be able to tell their customers they've been robbed without getting sued by their shareholders because the ensuing PR fallout tanks the stocks.
or cli via https://github.com/dcadenas/gmail_sender

create ~/.gmail and the post's example is:

gmail -t dbieber@princeton.edu -s "Automate your life: sending emails" -c "Why'd the elephant sit on the marshmallow?"

plus you can have a default receiver and

sha256deep -rl / | gmail

also useful is filtering via https://github.com/antifuchs/gmail-britta
Graphene. Is there anything it can't do?
> Yet every single chef in every single restaurant and every single cook in every single home also optimizes for performance,

No they don't - they often optimise for taste. Some people accidentally get adequate nutrition because they eat so much food, and some of that food is fortified with micronutrients.
I know what `dd` is. I just don't use Linux, so I'm not particularly familiar with the Linux-specific /dev entries. Thanks though.
Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure
Should probably not send the inventor a form letter.
Exactly - the human body is well designed to eat and enjoy a wide variety of foods. Many (most?) of us enjoy eating - when I travel that's one of my main goals - to eat as much different and interesting food as possible.

Why do you think we have all sorts of teeth - canines, incisors, cuspids, etc - not to slurp down some disgusting goo!

As far as sexual intercourse, it may be that a certain percentage of the HN readers don't have to worry about that problem. (That's a joke BTW)
It's not so funny when you do this accidentally, on a 2 TB disk full of user data, on a live production server, at 2AM on a Friday night...

(The server was part of a MogileFS cluster so there were multiple copies of the data online. There was no data loss, not even any downtime. Still, it was scary as hell, and I spent all Saturday in the data center restoring the box.)
I don't think that maps fallout is fairly characterized as "bunch of bloggers were pissed".

Look how iPhone vs. Android sentiment changed over time.

At first the majority opinion was that Android was capable but slow and unpolished.

Around 4.0, the majority opinion was that Android was getting closer to iPhone but not quite there.

The most recent sentiments are: Android is starting to outclass iPhone in some important areas (Maps, Google Now).

Obviously, it won't suddenly cause everyone to stop buying iPhones and start buying Androids, but if things continue, the tide will turn.

Simply stated: Google is out-executing Apple on software. Press, bloggers and everyone else are noticing that and people do care about what The Verge writes or that people like MG Siegler go from "Android is crap" to "Android is really, really good".

So yes, things like Maps and Google Now are important and hard to re-create by a company like Samsung (or any company, period). That keeps Samsung (at least for now) from forking Android and trying to squeeze even more revenue out of it for themselves.

Google's future control of Android will depend on how many important and hard-to-recreate pieces they can implement, and given that they are cloud services company first, they are well positioned to execute on that.
I'll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours... Apps, that is
I shared some similar sentiments about owning things in previously submission. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5364482)

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To each his own for me. Having less didn't allow me to enjoy or experience special things that having more somehow prevented from experiencing as the author would describe. In fact, having more was way better than having less for me.

Last 5 years, I moved around to various cities Canada and US every 4 to 8 months or so going to school and working on internships. By necessity, I had to pack light, really light. No car obviously. I was a poor student. I had only one furniture, a bed, and I got that only after I started to have lady friends over. Before that, I slept in sleeping bag for months. I had very few cloths and only thing I had extra were my underwear and socks. And I guess only thing of value I carried around was my Macbook. I didn't even have a smart phone until this last month. I used cheap Huawei prepaid phone drug dealers use as their second phone. I probably had a little more stuff than an average homeless person in that I had a roof over where I slept.

It was definately an "experience" alright. I had ended the life of plentifuly that I took granted in high school, and went onto a subsistence living by the North American standard of extreme minimalism for 5 years. Sure, I learned to inspect what my true needs were and had a good discipline to spend on things I needed, not wanted. However, was that learning worth 5 years of discomfort and annoyance?

Since January this year, I finally decided to settle. I was done with school and I found a good roommate to share furnitures and kitchenwares with. I had a lot of fun decorating my room, living room and kitchen. It's been awesome since then. I felt so much more comfortable with things around.

To put it bluntly, there wasn't anything romantic about living with less stuff. I haven't experienced or felt different things that you would not feel through living with plenty of things.
Also agreed here. I started really getting into programming on rails, and really regret it. The only reason I made it through was because I was an intern full time and had the guidance of a bunch of really smart people available the entire day.

I'm going to write a post about this specifically soon. I feel like it's this insane craze that rails is the way to go for people that don't know a single thing about programming, and it makes me sad that 99% of these people will end up dropping it because of this misguided notion.
You're right, but sadly this innovation, if it works, has the potential to make the problem worse. Human population, like any population of any organism, will grow logistically approaching some limiting factor. If we don't like a world in which 10B people are limited by agricultural capacity, we'd like a world in which 100B people are limited by something else even less.

The solution is to find cultural limits lower than our agricultural limits. It's possible that we've already done this, and we won't know it until all of Africa undergoes the demographic transition. (Please note: by cultural limits I mean things like changing family norms rather than forced sterilization, resource-motivated warfare, and other such monstrous practices.)
For anyone wants to read it you can find the full text here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3523/text
Nailed it. It's a way to extend an invitation with minimal vulnerability.

I wouldn't agree that it's necessarily "for cowards," probably because I tend to employ similar strategies.

When I recognize it in communication from someone else, I understand where that person is coming from and consider the message delivered. It's kind of a fun game, striking that balance between nonchalance and making your intentions clear.
How exactly are you measuring "complexity" or "organization" such that you reached this conclusion?
As in which aspects, let's say in your case?
FWIW, the electricity rate for me (near Tokyo) is about ¥25/kWh (so approx $0.25/kWh with current exchange rates).
how did you end up doing this accidentally?
"I was a little worried it was going to kill me, but decided it was for science and quickly downed the whole thing." sounds familiar ;)
In Los Angeles, their rate is right about 200% of what I pay today to clean a 2 bed/2 bath. I'd really want to try this, but it's tough to justify THAT much of an increase.

Edit: Maybe that's why there is a 200% guarantee? Oh, and I notice there are two people, not one, but ultimately if the end product is the same…?
I think it'll wake a lot of people up to the information they're giving out to friends, but I think it's a very different thing than what this article outlines.
> I certainly don't want to rain on some new visionary's parade,

so stop.
Reminds me of a rich-guy I knew who liked to travel light. For some trips he wouldn't pack stuff. Instead he'd obtain new clothes at his destination, wear them while there, and then simply leave them behind. No muss. No fuss. No clutter.
I'm traveling the world and living on $40 a day. I have a $300 netbook, an iPhone 4S which i could live without because it isn't unlocked so it is just an mp3 player, and a $70 kindle. No you don't have to be rich to live a minimalist life style. You have to be vigilant about it. For food I am living frugally, making lentil soup or pasta. These things don't require much room.

All the things that I own at this point in time fall into at least one of these three categories.

1. Help me reach goals or aspirations (computer, camera)

2. Make my life simpler and safer (Water bottle, Telephone, multi-tool, clothes, accessories)

3. Provide or improve an experience (kindle, speakers/headphones)

The one thing these three categories share is function. Everything you own should have function and it should be consistently used/appreciated.

Here is to a life, instead of bought, lived.
BrowserLab is shutting down
To be fair, with the baggage charges on some budget airlines and the price of clothes in some places this can be the economical way.
Google slapped with largest fine in US history for violation of Internet Privacy
Since we are on this particular topic, let's brainstorm some of the things we can do to get a list of close friends. I have a few from Facebook.

- access the friends list api, particularly the close friends list from Facebook. Since Facebook didn't disclose how they come up with that list, it seems pretty accurate to me.

- look through photos with people who are tagged together with you. These people must be the people you hang out quite often since you take photos together with them. It should works on Instagram too.

- tags in status update. People who usually tag you/you tag should be people who are close to you. This should work on Facebook or Twitter.

Any better ideas than these?
> they're in USA and/or Europe, but I live in China. So I want to know some basic information.

your best bet is https://groups.google.com/group/diybio - there are some people from China and all over the world.

You can find other groups here: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/groups

Even if you're in high school, you can still join or build your own lab. Don't let school get in the way of your work.
> being stupid help solve BIG problems.

Many new things were invented by people who had no idea how large the problems were when they started.
Seeing how trigger happy and bat-shit insane US laws are regarding cyber-crimes, I wouldn't risk it.

You kill someone, you get 5 years.

You hack something you get 10 years PER COUNT.

Pffff.
I would agree with the author that living with less may not be as applicable to his particular situation.

However, I don't believe the original article, which he is criticizing, was ever targeted at those with lower incomes. In fact, it is quite clear in the second paragraph of _Living With Less_ that the author is writing for the benefit of other better off folks like himself.

It's a common pitfall to buy more and more stuff as you become more and more wealthy and there is merit to the advice that if you are doing well enough, you should focus on living with less. It will help you stay nimble and focused and will probably help you maintain your trajectory and find true happiness to compliment your wealth.
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I should note that the Sennheiser MX400 headphones in question are a $10 unit. Definitely not the worst you can get for the price, but by no means high-end units. Just something to keep in mind when thinking about this.
I'd say chrome apps in html/js
> Sundar will do a tremendous job doubling down on Android as we work to push the ecosystem forward

This is really incongruous. You don't move a project from having a dedicated top level manager to being one-of-many under someone else as a way of "doubling down" on it (what an awful expression). It makes no sense, if Google sees Android has having future in its own right as one of Google's top priorities, that they put it under management with somebody with so many other priorities.

I can only conclude that either a) Sundar is a temporary replacement while they locate someone of Andy's stature as a replacement to lead Android in its own right or b) Google has charted somewhere far in the future that Android will get folded, substantially merged or otherwise share some kind of significant synergy with the other projects that Sundar Pichai is in charge of.

I find b) quite worrying because it signals an end to the (healthy) competitive tension that Google promoted internally where both Android and ChromeOS were pursued as independent ventures and "may the best man win" would determine the outcome. I also find it worrying because no matter how they spin it, I don't see how this can not seem like a blow to the esteem of the Android team - they've effectively been taken over by another division, effectively falling down one step in the company ladder. To have that happen after establishing one of the most incredible technology success stories in history - I can't imagine how deflating that would be to the team members. I hope Android doesn't lose a lot of talent from this. A huge amount is going to depend on how well Sundar Pichai handles this transition.
Wonder if they looked into acquiring, or partnering with, Minefold (https://minefold.com/) to do this for them
> public services here are generally bad here..

Traffic is also pretty insane/random, at least here in São Paulo. There are routes that are notoriously unpredictable.