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Asm.js is still JavaScript. You can do all kinds of things that JavaScript can't do by itself if you call native code with a plug in. That's the difference. No plugin. No installation.
Thanks espeed, the links were especially helpful.

I'm looking forward to Fulgora, sounds great!
If they don't, this[1] is the result.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5449154
Heroku Postgres is now a standalone product (You can purchase postgres databases without a heroku app) so they won't change the URI for a database out from under you.
>no, we weren't enticed with company-paid meals, but we also weren't required to work limitless overtime.

I.e exchange your little precious time in this world for some token BS "handout", that's pre-calculated in your pay expenses anyway.
We are talking here at such high level abstractions and with stack of presuppositions that it's difficult for me to figure out just where to even begin explaining my point and i question if i even should.

If one doesn't know of a 'sure fire winning strategy' (== strong form inefficient market hypothesis ?) ( or just statistically useful may be good enough ) one should not participate in the market in most forms ( which market, participate how ). I've heard it compared to a poker game where if you don't know who the sucker is it's probably you.

The general public is misinformed about the markets and gets consistently fleeced yet keeps getting pulled in by dreams of easy money - akin to a lottery.

Markets have defined purposes (theoretical, practical, legal) and serve them accordingly. Enriching 'gullible, ungrateful clients' is not the primary purpose. EMH is a useful explanation to the clients why they got fleeced, and i don't want to disprove it.

It takes a lot of work to figure out how the lottery works and how to consistently game it. It's just a job.
> Or maybe it's just because it feels good [to dump you at the drop of a hat]

Stopped reading. Wtf is this?
> ... I'm one who also thinks that the only true science is mathematics.

I happen to agree philosophically, but I have been in a number of debates on this topic in which the empirical nature of science, and the requirement for perpetual falsifiability of scientific theories by new evidence, was used to argue that mathematics isn't really science as strictly defined.

After due consideration, I have been forced to the conclusion that, if perpetual falsifiability and an empirical basis are required for science, then mathematics is in a category all its own.

Having said that, I still regard mathematics as the purest "science":

http://xkcd.com/435/
I think she'd say she does, because it's part of (for her) the experience of owning a horse. She also did that for pay as a teenager, so maybe it helps her feel young, too.

I think what you mean is that no on would miss it if horses didn't shit, and I think you're right about that.

I think we underestimate, though, the value to people of belonging and participating, socially. Many activities people don't like, on their own, become neutral or even enjoyable as part of something else, like mucking stalls.

Everything is contextual, and there's no objective, independent-of-context answer to the value or worth some thing or activity is going to have to someone.
For the standalones we give more warning, sure. But not for the ones attached to apps.
I don't play SC, nor am I interested in the app, but I have to say... your site is GORGEOUS.
Listen to Justin: don't get a cheap acoustic. His reasoning is totally sound. Acoustic guitars are a lot harder to make than electrics and require much more hand craftsmanship, and cheap ones are really hard to play. If you can't afford a good acoustic, take his advice and get a cheap electric. A cheap, unplayable acoustic guitar will just frustrate you, and you'll quit playing.

How can you tell a cheapo acoustic from others? The main thing is the action. You should be able to easily play a barre chord at the 12th fret, and open E and the fretted E (on the 12th fret) should be in tune. The neck should have a uniform playability and there shouldn't be any dead spots when you play all over the neck, and no fret buzz. Forget about fancy abalone or mother-of-pearl inlays and elaborate finishes. Pick up the guitar and hold it right up to your face and look in the soundhole at the inside of the guitar. If you see any glue oozing between the joints inside it's sloppy and cheap workmanship, pass on it and get another guitar. The inside should be clean and dry. You shouldn't buy any instrument sight-unseen, before you can play it first or (if you are a beginner) get another player to check out for you.

It's a lot easier to find a playable AND cheap electric, like Justin recommends. But if you want an acoustic, spending more money is really, really worth it. There's something at every price point, but once you get around $2k (depends on make/model and YMMV) you start getting into good quality.
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All true. Like I said, getting a cheap, toy guitar is only going to frustrate you. It might even frustrate a kid, and you'll be tempted to stop playing. What you want are two things: 1. Easy to play all over the fretboard, and 2. Stays in tune.
There are multiple hackathons depending on where you live (some are online also) and what you are interested in. Some that are interesting and in many cities include NodeCopter (node.js and drones) and the startup related ones - AngelHack and Startup Weekend.

A great site is listing many hackathons is: http://www.hackathon.io/
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I have always admired Blender in general, and interfacing it it to load molecular structures like this is genius. I hope it's the first of many such explorations. Although I'm not a biologist this is cool enough that I would install blender again just to have fun with making neat images.
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If a bug takes 5 days to solve, it's a bug that needed 5 days solving it. If you've not had to spend 5 days on one since Uni you're a lucky man, I didn't for years then I've had quite a few appear over the last 18 months.
What's the difference between Mozilla deciding to bundle Asm.js with Firefox vs. Google deciding to bundle WebCL and WebGL with Chrome?
Also check out http://localhackathons.com/.
This was my immediate reaction. Pain experiments, as described in the article, are a necessary "evil" in many animal experiments. Human trials have the same conditions, with both the pain of treatment and the suffering of being in the "control" group and having false hopes; however, participants have consented to the experiment.

We empathize much more strongly with animals that behave in human ways. Couple this with the "cuteness factor," which I use to mean that we are sensitive and protective of things that we find to be cute (babies, kittens, Yoda, puppies, etc.) and we have a very irrational, visceral response to the idea of torturing cute, smart, affectionate, best-dog-I-ever-had, animals.

It's not inherently bad but it clouds our judgment on what is right and wrong in terms of our treatment of these animals and the ends that justify this treatment. We (as a species) kill and eat whales, which most of the developed world has agreed to be unacceptable.

I don't know if this is moving in a "Rats of NIMH" or "Planet of the Apes" direction, but the philosophical ramifications of sentience are likely to be explored as a result of this type of "improvement".

We have a huge body of sci-fi, speculation, religion, and thought-experiments regarding sentient non-human forms, including what defines "life" and "personhood". It will be an interesting test of humanity to see how we deal with any positive results of this type of exploration.
This looks interesting but doesn't appear to have been updated in a year and a half unfortunately.
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I don't know if they're poorly argued. I found the Nobel Prize statistics and the study from the Northwestern professor fairly compelling myself. (Link from the article: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones-ben/htm/Ag...).
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If an employer has 20 employees, the biggest reason for that is that she can't do labour the equivalent of 21 persons herself. Work is simply things that need to be done; whether your boss finds your type of work fulfilling, or you find it fulfilling, is coincidental to that fact.

It doesn't help that our western culture largely connotes any kind of work with drudgery and pain. I had a task to play a certain computer game in order to get myself acquainted with the mechanics and the feel of the game. It's a fun game; I assumed beforehand because I've played similar games before. But I didn't get around to doing it until two weeks later. Why? Because it was work.
I had a feeling of coziness and was reminded of human cohesion looking at what I presumed to be millions of people coming together to sleep at the same time preparing for the next day. It seemed so peaceful.
I'm not trying to get involved with defining what a hackathon is (or isn't), but I do know that Startup Weekend (www.startupweekend.org) has been hosting events that have prizes and winners for quite some time now.
Instead of two hemispheres, split your brain into quadrants with high bandwidth and referential locality for task memory.

Also, try to figure out a way to harness hormonal "intelligence" for general purpose cognition.
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Doesn't every human activity with a large dependence on knowledge and experience get better with age?
You should add support for watching Starcraft streams on twitch.
James does a good job of articulating why promises are such a useful abstraction, especially in JavaScript land. I've been working on a project recently that relies heavily on coordinating many asynchronously-populated values, and I don't even want to think about what the code would look like if we were wrangling callbacks manually.

We actually extracted our promises implementation from the work we've been doing, and released it as RSVP.js[1]. While other JavaScript promises libraries are great, we specifically designed RSVP.js to be a lightweight primitive that can be embedded and used by other libraries. Effectively, it implements only what's needed to pass the Promises/A+ spec[2]. For a comparison of RSVP.js with other promises-based JavaScript asynchrony libraries, see this previous discussion on Hacker News[3].

1: https://github.com/tildeio/rsvp.js

2: https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4661620
Been to design-a-thon's (same, same but different) and haven't met anyone there to win, people enjoy working on a problem with others. There were prizes, but more as tokens, not anything worth shouting about.
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Boudin's bread is decent, but not great, the soup is mediocre. There are lots of Boudin cafes around, most of them are much more conveniently located than Fisherman's Wharf. They even have them in Southern California, including Disneyland which is 400 miles from San Francisco.

As for bread, my favorite is Acme Bread. They have a retail location at the Ferry Building. If you are going to the Ferry Building you might as well go on Saturday for the big farmer's market, which is the most touristy of the farmer's markets in SF, but the stuff there is still really good.

I had a cousin visit me from England, and he had to get a bread bowl, he thought that's what we ate here. The reality is the burritos are much more San Francisco than bread bowls. The Mission style burrito was popularized here, and has come to be what a lot of people around the world think of as burritos. And people all over Northern California eat them on a regular basis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_burrito

If someone wants a bread bowl they should certainly get one. I just think it's sad that people visiting San Francisco feel their experience won't be complete without a bread bowl. There is so much great food in San Francisco, so many things that make this city special, bread bowls are just not one of them.
Standups are a symptom of a failing software engineering disease called 'Agile', which is the real toxin to the system of all healthy developers.
> were recruited and received course credit for participation

I think it is ironic that a research into morality was conducting by coercing student participants into the research. In academic courses, it is common for students and lecturers to benchmark students (and award final grades) based the rank of students ordered by marks, and so giving students marks for something is also punishing students who don't get the marks.

Getting research participation by threatening a punishment such as a loss of rank in the class for those who don't participate is coercive, and it casts both the researchers and UCSD (and its human ethics committee) in bad light.

Coercive research is also less likely to be accurate - in this case, it brings up the alternative explanation that the science words prompted students to think about their courses, which might be the sole reason they are participating in the study, putting them into exam mentality so they give the answers they think they are 'supposed' to give.
A 45-90 minute meeting with 12 people doesn't even sound good in theory. I know defenses of agile can run into "no true scotsman" territory, but that is pretty objectively not agile.

Your last paragraph explains why you have to be committed to doing it right. It's easy to do it wrong, and it becomes worse than doing nothing. But if your complaint is that doing it right is hard or that you need management buy-in, that's different than it doesn't work in practice.
I don't know if that is necessarily true. There is a different kind of joy that comes out of jobs like that. I worked at LensCrafters making glasses in college. Making glasses is not that much different from flipping burgers or picking up garbage cans. After a finite amount of time there's nothing more to be learned and it's just a matter of cranking them out. But I found the job very enjoyable. It was a rather zen-like experience, and the shifts would just fly by.
> They ask nonsensical questions such as "Do you believe in science?"

Why is it nonsensical? Scientific method is a human invention, you can either believe in it, or not. The notion that a theory producing verifiable predictions is "true" is pure fiat. And then there's the whole idea that scientific discoveries, like laws of physics, are universal. Plenty of things to believe in.
Ignoring the heteronormativity here, there are far more single women on the east coast (especially NYC) than men. It's the opposite on the west coast.
In this particular case, it has less to do with racism/antisemitism and more with conspiracy paranoia.
I don't know which country are you in, but in the US the unions is nowhere near apolitical and apathetic. The unions such as NEA and SEIU are among the most prolific political donors and most powerful lobbies, and routinely engage in both local and national politics, and any politician who wants to take on them takes huge risk.
See e.g.: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list_stfed.php?order=A

>>>> blacks and women worked effectively under different laws,

You know that many labor measures - like minimal wages, etc. - were taken - with wide support of unions - to exclude blacks from labor markets, and at the time were openly acknowledged as such?
See e.g.: http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/03/06/ma...
I think part of the problem here is that there are so many Hackathons around nowadays, it's hard to attract attention to your hackathon, and attendees. This is even worse for the for-profit ones rather than the more social affairs. As a result they seem to have chosen to focus on prizes and big money as their core marketing angle. This raises the stakes and makes it far more about pursuing the dollars for many participants.

I've seen people pitching their startup idea in the one minute presentation for the hackathon, thinking that this is the best way to launch a company (spoiler alert: it's not!). Yes there have been some nice positive stories coming from projects that started at hackathons, but that's the exception.

I love hackathons. I have a couple of buddies and we go to every TechCrunch hackathon, and some of the others from time to time. We do it because it's fun. We love the social aspect of it. We don't go expecting to win. We go because we enjoy it.

I like the little side prizes $x free services for the best on Y platfom; a free iPad for the best using Z platform. But when it's become about $50,000 grand prizes, and places in unproven incubators/accelerators I think we risk destoying the atmosphere of hackathons. We'll drive away the social participants and it'll just be competitive hackathoners, and when they realize it's not the best way to achieve their startup goals they'll move on...

Let's just go back to fun hackathons, like the old TechCrunch ones used to be. Good food, social activities, fun atmosphere, lots of vendors and partners to teach us about their APIs and perhaps a few side prizes that are nice-to-wins but don't have people thinking this will make or break their startup.
Taylor makes great guitars for most people. Sure, not everybody is going to like them (esp. Martin freaks), but they are high-quality and playable, which is why they're so popular.
I find that the current society (for the lack of a better name) have a HUGE problem with finding a partner (online or otherwise), as what we perceive as the "common" ways are terrible.

The "Hollywood myth" that we all have our soul mate is the one that gets into everywhere, but there are more. The idea that attraction is always at first sight, for example. That going to bars and huge parties is a good way of finding someone (they are highly inconvenient places to talk to strangers) The pressure that makes that a rejection is a tremendous deal. The whole male / female "expected behaviour". Tons of behaviour that can be misinterpreted as good or bad, for almost random reasons...

From my point of view, is almost like if we don't want people to be engaged! I feel that, some time ago, there were channels where your family or others try to help in (or force) the process, including things like arranged marriages, balls or strong courtship rules... Of course, that's all extreme from our point of view, but right now we are basically getting a teenager influenced by tons of books, TV and movies that are not-exactly-telling-the-truth and creating unrealistic expectations, and push them out of the door, saying "there you go, go figure out for yourself!"

I don't know what is the solution (if there is one), but right now the whole process of searching someone feels like extremely inefficient to me...
Plenty of science exists with questionable morals. E.g. military science
I have always worked on the principle that entrepreneurs have 1000 ideas, choosing which idea to work on is the challenge.

I presume YC attracts a certain target audience of generally 'people who build things.' . Wonder did YC without an idea change the target audience?
The problem is that Silicon Valley has been flooded in recent years by people who watched The Social Network and took it literally, believing this is how startups are done. This Hollywood fake version of a startup has become the model for so many folks trying to do real startups. I believe Baudrillard should be compulsory reading for entrepreneurs.
Reading back, i actually agree with you on most points. It just seems that you're searching for some sort of 'fairness' in a 'system' where it doesn't really exist.

Just would like to add a distinction that EMH seems to hold from a retail clients perspective, but does not hold from a systematic / structural side.

Markets are structurally exploitable. For example it is (generally) illegal for an institution to front run clients' orders, however it is ok if you are just a trader and know probable (not necessarily sure fire) locations of large orders and front run them.
A $300 Fender acoustic is going to frustrate a beginner. They're crap, with low QC. A beginner would be better off getting a playable electric or waiting until they can spend around $1500-$2k and get themselves a playable acoustic.
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Correlation is not causation.

C'mon people..
Why don't they just give away prizes randomly in a raffle at the end?

Teams can still win, but losing a contest that has no prize is seldom as stinging.
10-20 yr old volvos are cheap and reliable. You excluded European cars for scientific or cultural reasons?
> If foo takes many arguments we add more arrows, i.e. foo :: a -> b -> c
> means that foo takes two arguments of types a and b and returns something of
> type c.

Nitpick alert: since everything is curried in Haskell, it's actually more like `foo takes an argument a and returns a function that takes one b and returns one c`.

Other than that teeny thing, this article is awesome, and I fully agree. Promises are an excellent thing, and while I'm just getting going with large amounts of JavaScript, they seem far superior to me.
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I will probably get torn down by the HN crowd for this one, but I think the best one around is still the TechCrunch hosted one annually at Disrupt. If you've never been to one that's a great starting point, and it's free - I am a skeptic of the new trend of for-profit hackathons with entry fees, personally.

I still think that's a good starting point.

The Startup Digest is a good source of information on upcoming Hackathons.
Same here. And I wonder with such adversarial approach to (work) relationships why his (work) relationships look bad? Try it in any other relationship - try building a friendship or romantic relationship on the premise that the other party wants to exploit you and then dump you at the first opportunity - and see how well it works out. Even if the job is not something you dreamt of - and that happens in life - the adversarial approach is more likely to make it suck than otherwise. There are bad relationships, there are abusive relationships - but no reason to approach to any (work) relationship from the start expecting it to be the sucky one.
No rule 30?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the intent of PG making it EITHER comment or url to stop people from doing this.
I should probably say "scrum" where I say "agile" above. I would edit but I'm on my phone.
It's not that common. I don't know what's she's talking about. There's exaggerations, but very little "charity fraud."
A nice electric, yeah. But not a nice acoustic. He's right that (give or take a few hundred) $2k is about the threshold for a playable acoustic that has good action and isn't going to make you cry. $400 doesn't buy much acoustic guitar at all these days.