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I respectfully disagree. I was able to finish an ajax form, including value validation with only a snippet and it's binded scala function. I did not have to create a specific rest API and write up jquery ajax code along with the snippet.
Lift's JS & Jquery support was never meant to replace js and jquery. (don't write up every js feature with lift.) It's meant to eliminate tedious js works that both frontend and backend developers don't want to spend time on.
> The Note fits in a pocket

Maybe in a large man's jeans or trousers but not women's jeans. Even the iPhone 5 doesn't properly fit.
Likewise these articles are easy to dismiss if you're too far into the SV bubble. Maybe you can qualify why this article is meaningless and answer its points instead of waiving it off? Otherwise you seem to have an unexamined prejudice against criticisms of the venture capital community's funding choices.

By the very nature of innovation you can't define what it is just like you can't ever say for certain whether some abstract piece of pure mathematics will ever contribute to engineering or science (as it very often has). However, like mathematicians we can make educated guesses on what IS NOT relevant or innovative, and by extension will never be relevant or innovative. And of course we will be wrong some times.

The very fact that you think there is a "right way" to "measure" innovation makes me think this article is pretty spot on. Innovation isn't a business, it's not a product or a user base, it's not a stock ticker. More often than not, innovation is the result of thousands, if not millions, of man-hours of passionate and extremely intelligent people who care about their work and want to ACHIEVE something that is currently impossible, impractical, or even undesirable. You can't measure or predict this, all you can do is find those passionate, intelligent people (here's where the measurement part sort of comes in) and give them the resources and support to do something great.

The point of the article is that last part is not happening. There are so many passionate and intelligent people in the Valley but almost no one is giving them the chance to do something great.
I don't think it's quite as simple as that, and that you're ignoring all the possible ways it could play out. I saw it explained and performed once on a program where it was a lost wallet of some sort, and if/when the mark did not offer to insert themselves into the transaction, the person who "found" that wallet would explain that they needed to be somewhere soon, but aren't greedy, and would happily split the reward so they don't miss their meeting.

In this case, the mark is helping not only the person who lost the wallet, but also the finder by allowing them to gain some reward money while not actually having to return the found item.

In this case the mark has real reasons the could expect some financial gain:
1) There is an actual task to be accomplished, they must be intermediary for this item and deliver it to the recipient.
2) The recipient may very well be believed to be unavailable for some period, and the mark may feel that the financial loss constitutes during this period is non-zero.
3) There's risk involved, as they must put out some of teir own money for the transaction to take place, even if there is expected return. There will likely be a risk/reward ratio that makes sense internally.

To me that very clearly makes it possibe that the mark is honest and non-greedy and will get taken by the con.

Indeed, the more honest and generous the mark is, the more money the con makes.
I understand and possible agree with the general idea, but I feel that this article takes it way overboard. If you want to talk about coding use statistics relevant to coders, not general statistics.

> Furthermore, some recent college graduates are not faring too well in the job market.

This is not true in my experience for coders. Go to silicon valley and therell be many startups vying to get your attention.

> If you’d like to learn how to code, you don’t need a $150,000 piece of paper to tell you that you can.

That isnt what the paper signifies. It signifies that you have reached at least a certain level of education in the field. More importantly, it signifies this to other people who dont know you at all. Even pg wants to know what school you went to on the yc application. (you might argue that people who drop out still get in, yes, but if they had had that credential, their likelyhood would probably have increased, otherwise, why would yc ask?)
+1. Another ex-professional dev (for +6 years) who left to do Hacker School here.

A lot of the students seem to have at least a few years of experience under their belt but it totally runs the gamut; you'll meet everything from people a few months into the hacking pursuit to people with decades of experience. And yes, it's a staggeringly amazing program. :)
And then the finder miraculously has to be somewhere soon, or is traveling on their way somewhere else, and would happily give up a portion of the reward if they could just be allowed to leave...

At that point, the less greedy the mark, the more they lose.
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There is scarcely one definition you could conceive of which, if honestly applied, would be meaningful. Anyone living in the industrialized world with a shred of self-awareness and a remotely interesting life would have to concede that they themselves would be deserving of such a label, for some reasonable criteria.

Anyone who says otherwise is either BS'ing you, or boring. So there's your predicate: scumbags, and boring people.
What would you recommend for automating website interaction (use a bot to get betting numbers and then log in and automate a bet without any human interaction) some sites use an API (betfair) but some don't.
C strings are performant but place a lot of responsibility on the programmer. C++ strings offer a more accessible, less lightweight but easier to use facility. Rather typically of higher level string abstractions that are standard in non C languages (and which can be constructed as library functions in C), they rely on memory allocation and so will often be less performant.

By little example is basically the strcpy() standard facility. Maybe a better example would be a construct that (roughly) could replace memcpy();

while( n-- )
*dst++ = *src++;

This sort of thing just appeals to me as being simple and obvious computing - there's no cleverness to it - and certainly no need to break it down exhaustively to understand it. I think whether this sort of thing appeals might have something to do with prior experience - in my case as an engineer and assembly language programmer;

The equivalent to my memcpy() snippet on the original x86 machines was simply this;

rep movsb

Put the count in cx, the source ptr in si, the dest ptr in di and the REP prefix will repeat the MOVE STRING BYTE instruction and decrementing cx each time until it hits zero.
For anyone interested, here's a version that highlights the original poster in comment threads: https://github.com/killerbat00/HackerNew
And those numbers are being posted using ajax or something else (updating in real time)
> Hunters and gatherers weren't obese. We are. By irrefutable inference, some lifestyle difference explains this

Yeah and that difference is the sheer abundance of cheap calories. People can and did get fat when eating too many calories of Paleo (easily possible if you overemphasize the fatty meats and sweeter fruits), people can and did lean out on breads and junk-food by simply consuming fewer calories than they expended over a prolonged period.

I have no axe to grind here, I'd say I myself eat 99% Paleo 99% of the time, save for the occasional brownie. Otherwise it's meats, vegs, fruits for me. But that's just my personal taste, and for body-fat storage or lack of it, consuming in excess of your energy expenditure surely must account for most of the most of it.
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If he really wants to be anonymous I suggest you research more the Namecheap situation, ask them questions about how private they really are, etc. And if they are in US, doesn't that mean they are subject to the Patriot Act and national security letters, too?

This doesn't necessarily mean a foreign domain registrar would be much more private either. At the end of the day it will depend how good their relationship with US is. But there might be some countries like Iceland or others who care more about this. I mean if you really want to be extreme about this and not take any chances.
They do have a different set of norms, but probably more due to the academic culture. The first email was sent at BBN a company that was part of ARPANET, along with governmental organizations as well as the universities.
I'm not sure that's really an improvement. One of the nice things about Silicon Valley is that ideas that are laughed at elsewhere are taken seriously here. And a lot of the time, the people doing the laughing end up eating their words later.

Remember that the search engine market was crowded and considered a commodity backwater when Google entered it; all the smart money was betting on portals. The cloud storage market was crowded and considered a commodity backwater when DropBox entered it. The PC market was crowded and full of hobbyists and also-rans when Apple entered it. In each case, they did things enough better than everyone else that everyone forgot that there'd ever been competitors.
It means that a connection to the real world is not needed for mathematics to exist. Another way of saying "predicated in" would be to say "based in" or "required by."
I agree. I can also concentrate and focus better at night. There is also the sense of urgency that you want to finish what you are working on for you to be able to sleep.
That's just one interpretation. The font in and of itself conveys nothing. It does not convey seriousness or non-seriousness. That's simply _your_ opinion. If people like the font, they should use it. The people who bash it for the sake of bashing are wasting this planet's air doing so.
Cool! I'll submit mine when it's ready. Right now, I'm just starting developing it.
Sounds interesting, for those who don't know its from "The Phantom Tollbooth" book:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4684236
Actually the resident deans aren't complaining at all. They don't have tenure, and so they could be terminated if they spoke out against administrative policy. It's the professors who are complaining.
It's not a straw man if the views being ascribed to the movement at large are the views being conveyed by the movement at large. If you were to try to learn about the paleo diet from the perspective of someone who had never heard of it, you would find views that align quite closely with the views that Zuk is critiquing. Look at the Google results. The fact that your interpretation of the paleo "concept" does not square with those views does not make her critique a straw man.
Can't say something like "(which doubters are free to research themselves)" and follow it up with a claim like "many pre-Agricultural societies had (and have, actually) far lower rates of the so-called "diseases of civilizations."

Actually you shouldn't even want to as there's a certain problem with gathering data on populations that lived 10,000 years ago with a geographically dispersed sample size of ... oh, I don't know, single digits?
Everything is always "stupid" until it's not. Another search engine? Pffft.....dumbest. idea. ever.

Another ad network based on keywords...pssshhh....that'll never get anywhere.

A file storage service to allow you to share files between computers? Ugghh...been there...done that.

You can see where I am going.
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That's just a stupid Americanism.[1] You don't need to do a bunch of wrong things to learn what's wrong. You learn what's right and wrong because your parents tell you what's right and wrong, and society and school socializes you to teach you what's right and wrong. If you get to 14 and need to scare someone like this to learn what's right and wrong, you're either defective or your parents and teachers have failed at their jobs. More likely, you know it's wrong and you just don't care.

[1] I'm an American and love America, but we elevate apologizing for bad things kids do (because we don't have the stomach to properly discipline them) to an art form.
It's a campaign by golden frog. One of my friends saw them at SXSW: http://www.goldenfrog.com/dumptruck
Interesting is that the "Don't panic" is localized for the viewer. In my case in Bulgarian.
> > the colon vastly improves readability

> We have gofmt for that :)

Er, what? gofmt doesn't improve the readability of declarations at all... [there's really not much it can do]
The social problem wasn't labor at all. Workers are easy to hire if you've got the money and can make money back off the result. Hell, the economy needs more and better-paying jobs anyway, right?

The social problem is that putting in infrastructure requires making deals with property-owners and municipalities. I'm getting this from people who've worked for ISPs and other such enterprises: the biggest problem with new infrastructure businesses is getting cities and towns to agree to let you construct overhead poles (which "ruin the view") or tear up the ground under their streets (which closes whole blocks of road for a while).

In many cases, the money can be made back, the labor is workable, the invention is workable, but the right-of-way on private and public property is uneconomical to obtain.
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The battle of which mobile device will over enterprise deployments is still on going. I think Android will win though Microsoft has a strong position. I don't see a winner yet because of one question:

Which vendor has the best support?

By support I mean someone to call when something breaks. Or when you need to code out custom widgets. Or when a device is buggy and needs to be replaced. Microsoft has been traditionally good in this area. Apple kind of sucks at it. Android is starting to build out an ecosystem but the customizability is all there.
I was disappointed with the article, because the title led be to believe, that there is some college that will teach Go in their classes.
Well thanks for being a jerk about it, but it's not like I'm doing nothing with my life. I'm just so far choosing lines of work that keep me out of infrastructure negotiations with municipalities, and I'm only 23. We'll see.
Douglas Adams is the only author I've come across who has used recursion in fiction.

"in short, all the paraphernalia common to all restaurants where little expense has been spared to give the impression that no expense has been spared."

The man was a litterary genius.
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Nice to see progess! I used this extension for over a year.

I've since switched to HN Enhancement Suite because it fixes my biggest gripe: horizontal scrolling in comment threads. I just tried this out and it doesn't fix this. I'd love to switch back, perhaps if I get time I'll submit a pull request.
Depends on what you are using it for e.g. renting TV shows or for cut scenes in video games.

They also reserved the right to start charging for free videos (you remember when Apple fought against the MPEG-LA when they tried that with AAC audio codec, right?). They only made that permanently free a few months after WebM was announced.
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This is a bad idea. "Some people have food allergies" is nowhere near reason enough for the federal government to require such labeling, if it would even have the authority to do so. Something like this would just end up hurting operators of small restaurants.
Read the article. They aren't clever enough to do that, they just get their users to install the software for them.
http://google.co.uk works for me.
I haven't read the book, but the review made it sound like Zuk was both attacking Paleo as a concept by pointing out that evolution can actually happen on pretty short timescales and so the idea that we need to eat what paleolithic people ate is logically flawed, and also attacking Paleo as practiced by pointing out its practitioners' misconceptions regarding the diet of paleolithic humans.
I was a hardware engineer for four years when I applied for hacker school. I was working for one of the major microcontroller manufacturers. I quit my job as soon as I was accepted. I was looking for a way to get into the software world, and am very grateful that I found hacker school. I learned more in those three months than I could have ever imagined. I'm now working with an amazing team in NY on some very challenging machine learning applications. Looking back, it was one of the best decisions of my life.
If you sell software with features that could only reasonably used for illegal activitities, such as sending you the creditcard number someone is entering, then: a resounding YES! Also if you advertise features for illegal use, even if they could be used for legal things.
Your subscription form rejects my perfectly valid email address with "This email address looks fake or invalid. Please enter a real email address." Just FYI.
Except if you live in EU :)
Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
The Galaxy Notes are more expensive than iPads...
It doesn't have html comments either ;-)
I doubt that a warning will cause any harm to small restaurants, specially when they are losing business with the rising allergic consumer community. If you want proof for this and children dying from these problems, here is the link from Stanford's research: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/can-a-radical-new...
This ignores that the bar for Harvard has been set higher though.
This will be handy for https://starthq.com - a web app directory I launched the other week.

One piece of feedback I've received is that people prefer to use a native mobile app if one is available, so the plan is to include links to app stores on the app pages. Unfortunately, none of the app stores offer APIs for retrieving apps based on keywords.
You totally got it. Apparently not many others did, my bad. Thanks for your comment.
It's not even the Paleolithic that had a 'better' diet; sugar production in industrial quantities didn't happen until the 19th century and High Fructose Corn Syrup [1] didn't become a staple of the human diet until the second half of the 20th century.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup
What is your point? Why do you feel the need to share this?
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I met the love of my life and the mother of my child in college.

The problem with these articles and the types of comments on sites such as HN is that people neglect the fact that college is an experience, and a highly subjective one at that. Too often do technocrats forget that college isn't simply an investment, but for many, it is also a consumption good, and THAT IS OK.

Sure, college isn't necessarily going to make you the best programmer in the world. But, if one looks past the facade of a pure investment brought upon by our economy and media, there lies a rich experience in diversity and the exposure to the liberty of choice (at least in America).
Who are these mythical 14 year old boys that are supposed to have developed 'enough' of a sense of morality? To paraphrase The Virgin Suicides: obviously Dr., you never were a 14 year old boy.
> Cavemen didn't have that luxury.

Do we know that? I thought there was some research indicating the hunter-gatherer societies actually had to devote rather little (comparative) time to gathering sustenance.[1]

Is there some research I should be aware of that refutes this, or at least asserts more information as to a likelihood one way or the other?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
I don't understand your comment. The entire article is about why "relying on intuition and physical experience" just wasn't good enough -- how the difficulties inherent in 19th-century style mathematics forced mathematicians to evolve towards a modern modern style.

Algebra and number theory are both heavily reliant on modern mathematical thinking. Abstract algebra is practically the defining example of it.

How does one create Mathematica and Maple without modern mathematical thinking? Indeed, formal logic is rather closely involved in computing generally.

How does a precollege mathematics system that is based on a 19th century style of mathematics pay more attention to 19th century style mathematics?

I find your confident dismissal of modern mathematics to be vexing and oddly misaimed.
Pretty much same way as if someone would peep at my Grandmother disturbing her and left something disturbing on her doorstep or teased her any other way.

Actually I'd feel bit better because in computer scenario I would know what to do help her.
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Haven't spend tens of thousands, but I have a similar experience.

I use pairnic.com for registration and dns. I don't know if their customer service is good or bad because I've never needed it, but I suspect it's excellent.

I use fastmail.fm for both SMTP and IMAP. I've never needed their customer service, it just works.

I don't use my gmail account, but I keep it in part for a backup SMTP, although I've seen gmail SMTP go down and I've never seen fastmail go down. I suppose they must have and I just wasn't doing anything active at the time.
They want to interact with them because they feel alone and this is as far as their ability to handle social interactions go.

It used to be that such people would eventually develop the skills to interact with adult society, but hey why do all that work when you can just put a hacked copy of Sims 3 on pirate bay.

It makes me want to counter hack them (which wouldn't be very difficult) but I won't, because it would be illegal (and would potentially cause harm to third party).
I think that was intentional. You can see some of the same pattern in the 2000s movie (most of the setting was decent but just look at the Vogons)
This was a very interesting read, especially the part about the internal workings of Typesafe (a bit concerning too).
I don't get the nasty comments on his blog, it's clearly a self aware piece poking fun at it's own sense of superiority. If he really had things the way he wanted them, he wouldn't need to be there in the first place.

And on top of that, it's brilliantly poetic.
If the DHS gets into cybersecurity, that's about the level of the people they hire for airport security...
If they were obese it's because they had a caloric surplus (I doubt it).

The laws of thermodynamics applied then, as they do now.
... or a court ordered them to do this.
Not really. There's a pretty clear connection between insulin levels and weight gain. Spiking your insulin levels by eating carbohydrates will effect how calories are used for many if not all people.
The "plenty of time" of time argument only shows that Cordain's reasoning is not bulletproof -- it doesn't refute it. Just because it's possible to adapt to a new condition doesn't mean we will, or that our adaptation will be complete. Lactase persistence may be evidence of evolution in a relatively short time, but by the same token lactose intolerance is evidence of its failure.

So while it's a fair point of criticism of the paleo argument, it's not enough to dismiss it. If you find a flaw in the proof of a theorem, you have not disproved the theorem.
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