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I know jQuery pretty well as I worked with it a lot until about 1-2 years ago and now I'm working on a product that achieves iOS CoreAnimation levels of performance when performing DOM manipulation. That being said, I don't think people should perform native DOM manipulation directly in any app, only via libraries and frameworks.

jQuery was great. Emphasis on the was. It's monolithic and has become long in the tooth and there are now much much better approaches to DOM manipulation that are now achievable. If you keep doing things the jQuery way you're always going to hit performance issues that cause jitter and jank in a web app. You'll never get buttery smooth, consistent 60fps performance with jQuery approaches. The biggest problems with jQuery is that it makes selecting and updating DOM elements so easy that almost no one caches their DOM pointers and that it doesn't really support performance deferrable atomic updates when performing batch updates on nodes. There are more issues than just that too. The number of layers of indirections that must be calculated through to perform even trivial updates is very wasteful, especially when you consider that many of those layers of indirection are there to support older buggy as hell browsers that only continue to lose market share.

If you want 60fps in your web app, then you need to program to 16.66ms cycles. If any of you updates take more than that, then it blocks the event loop and your FPS drops. Many many operations in jQuery are in the 100+ms territory. Your top framerate at 100ms is a mere 10fps.

When it comes to the DOM it most certainly is not premature optimization. If you think otherwise then you probably haven't built a serious web app on par with the native apps on iOS and Android. With the DOM, you need to code for performance from day 1. Like the turtles, it's abstractions all the way down and with each layer you lose some performance. The DOM is an abstraction that needs to be handled very very careful for it not to become a performance killer.
As a physician (with a BS EE/CS degree which is why I frequent HN), I tire of this argument. If one reads the article carefully, they find that the father Dr. Mark Moy attended excellent public medical school (and lower cost) Univ. of Illinois in Chicago while his son is attending the very expensive (and lower quality) Chicago Medical School (not to be confused with Univ of Chicago School of Medicine).

Many graduating doctors get into big debt because they choose to attend private undergraduate and private medical school. Instead of getting into such huge debt, a fiscally responsible medical student should attend a lower cost, quality public undergraduate school and a public medical school.

For example, in New York State, one could attend one of the SUNY schools or the public part of Cornell (the Agriculture school for instance) undergrad and then SUNY Downstate Medical School where they would get outstanding clinical experience for the approx cost of private undergraduate tuition alone.

It seems odd that Berknanke's son would still be in debt if he had attended both public undergraduate and medical schools and does seem so fiscally prudent on the part of the Fed Chairman and his son.

In addition, IIRC, you can have the military pay for full medical school if you serve for four years as a doctor after you graduate if you are not good enough to get into public medical school.

In summary, for most people who complain of medical school debt in this country, it is really a sign of not being fiscally prudent on their part or of those of their parents.
Have you experimented with typed channels (http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/typed-channels.h...) at all? I've played around with them, and they seem to work pretty well, but don't seem to compose with the other "extensions" (e.g. the FSM one)
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What could you do with a trillion bucks? You could build 20000 miles of high-speed railways. You could purchase, outright, more than 90% of Canada.

I used to think about this a lot when the cost of Bush the Lesser's war was passing a trillion dollars. It eventually ended up costing almost 2 trillion.
And to add to this we are heading into an era of what appears to be declining reimbursements. If not declining, then there certainly have not been increases commensurate with increases in the cost of training.
Students are always told there will be a shortage of primary care physicians. I was told the same in the mid 90's as a student. Just because there's a shortage, however, it does not mean that "increased" demand has resulted in increase reimbursements for primary care physicians. Instead, the trend has been the growth of nurse practicioners and physicians assistants assuming greater responsibilities for care, at a much lower cost.

So if you are medical student now, my advice would to practice, of course, whatever specialty makes you happy, but don't fall for the shortage of primary care providers schtick - if that's the reason you choose primary care, you will be disappointed.
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The problem is the types of sugars (and I should have been more specific about that wrt formula). Infant formulas are loaded with fructose, through HFCS, corn syrup, corn syrup solids, and table sugar[1]. As you point out, those sugars do not exist in breast milk. Give the very different metabolic path fructose takes, and the load it places on the liver, combined with the trend towards obese six month olds, I would say those formulas aren't doing good things to our kids.

My kids are way past breast feeding/formula stage, but if they weren't, I would certainly be watching very closely what ingredients were in the formula if my wife chose not to or couldn't breast feed. I'm sure there are good formulas if you dig a little.

1. http://wordsofwilliams.com/what-ingredients-are-in-infant-fo... I couldn't find an ingredients list on Similac's website.
Wow, 300000 dollars for the new one, they are not getting cheaper. We had a talk with them once because we specialize in networks/groups of robots, but with that price tag it wasn't straightforward to go that route in our opinion.

I am curious how many they sold! I hope they will fare well, because it's a fantastic product.
"Even if they believed that Rehtaeh Parsons had been raped"

She was under the age of consent, legally there is zero doubt it was rape. Edit: Apparently under Canadian law it may not have been statutory rape.

Edit: Also, apparently she was vomiting whilst being assaulted[1]. I'd like to meet the lawyer who could convince a jury that consent was given.

[1] "One of the boys snapped a picture on his mobile phone of Rehtaeh vomiting while allegedly being assaulted."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-search-for-...
What about the people that drop out of school or residency? Not everyone is going to make it through.
I don't think DDG qualifies as a small search engine. It may not have the same user base as Google, but its not small. Though I have never seen usage metrics, and am probably wrong. I do think that a flat search engine does not work anymore. People have been moved from an unlimited web experience to a social network controlled web experience. Meaning that a lot of search these days is done through walled gardens. Been pondering the problem for a while now. Anyhow, search has changed so much that its actually pretty difficult to offer something better. I can't define better because I can't define search that well. Anyone have any ideas?
Right on. Thanks for checking it out! I'm looking forward to getting more of the features that power users look for in the launcher so we can widen our potential audience.
In other words, you'd like people to review how well the software fulfills its intended purpose. Which tends to be a pretty good way to judge software -- judge the purpose separately, or let people judge it for themselves, as they will anyway.
"I say 10 friendly phone calls from the federal government could get 90 percent of the Internet shut down in this country inside of an hour."

While we're talking about crazy things that would never happen... the US could have relentlessly nuked the Soviets after Japan immediately post WW2 (by rushing the further development of lots of more nukes) and ruled the planet for a few hundred years with an iron fist by threatening to obliterate any nation that even thought about acquiring nukes or related tech.

That didn't happen either, because it'd have been insane.

The US Govt. couldn't shut down 90% of the Internet in the US because it can't afford to do so, both due to the extraordinary outrage and financial costs involved. Aka it'd be insane to do it, and would be like committing political suicide for the politicians that desperately cling to power.

Lots of stupid things are possible, so what. The US Govt. could have shut down the Internet in 1995 too. And they could go on a murderous rampage with mini nukes targeting each metro in the nation. That's about as likely as the Feds shutting down the golden goose.
Yeah, cooling and heating are both just a change in heat energy, which would be the same for either except cooling is more difficult because you are lowering entropy locally, whereas heating you are just increasing entropy... at least that's how it seems to me.

On the other hand geothermal is free for the most part (to use, not installation of course).
No she wasn't. Do you even understand Canadian law? The age of consent is 14, if the other partner is within 5 years of age. Her classmates at the party would have been, presumably, within 5 years of age.

Source: http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/dept-min/clp/faq.html
"The Criminal Code provides "close in age" or "peer group" exceptions.

For example, a 14 or 15 year old can consent to sexual activity with a partner as long as the partner is less than five years older and there is no relationship of trust, authority or dependency or any other exploitation of the young person."

Edit to address your Edit: Because after having a lot of drinks at a party ('drunk'), and then having what could be considered strenuous physical activity (i.e. sex) would not induce vomiting if it wasn't rape, right? Look, I'm not at all condoning what the 4 male youth have done, but let's still use logic in our discussions.

Further Edit: Also I just want to add, unlike other Commonwealth Nations (e.g. Britain), the Canadian legal system does NOT allow extra charges to be tacked on while the legal proceedings are in motion. So before the RCMP and Crown Prosecutors initiate prosecutorial charges, they need to be relatively certain that they have enough evidence to win as they stand currently. They can't just say "Hey, I charge you with X with evidence Y, Z. Let's go to court." Then 5 days later say "and also A with evidence B, C."
I don't know how it works elsewhere, but in New Zealand at least, power going each way is metered separately.

Power is sold to the electric company at a much lower rate than the power that is bought from the electric company.

So you might buy power for 27c/kwh and sell it for 3c/kwh.
Mobile commerce is more than just app purchases: Mobile economy to hit $66B
annualizing and combining the app purchase, mCommerce and travel booking estimates of the three firms produces a combined estimate of a mobile economy of $66 billion in 2013, excluding smartphone and tablet hardware.
I think we might have different definitions of living in the middle of nowhere. If you live in the middle of nowhere, how are you supposed to get contracting work?

I guess it's possible to work 100% remotely, but in my experience most companies would like to meet you at least once before hiring you. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not easy as someone in college (unless you want to go the hire-me-for-a-dollar-or-two oDesk/... way, but in that case the experience isn't likely to help you land a good job).
I believe the first two were injected into our culture through a lot of marketing dollars paid by the companies selling formula. I find it odd that people could believe food companies could do better in 40 years than nature did in millions of years of evolution or God did in designing people (take your pick, breast milk still seems arguably better).

One of my kids was raised on formula, the others had it to augment breast milk. I don't think there is anything wrong with using formula, but I do think the majority of the inexpensive formula out there isn't much different that giving your baby liquified lucky charms.
They didn't share it. They sold it. Big difference.
Right - but I am not asking whether you personally find imperialism as logical conclusion.

I am asking if you understand the difference between point A and B?
"I think that part of their success is because China a non-religious tyranny."

China's tyranny is religious. Their religion is called "communism", is not that people in China is free to believe what they want.

If you go to China you will see that family is very strong there, altars for dead family members are in lots of houses.
Well, that's basically what private care ownership did to private streetcar and bus companies in the first half of the 20th century. Many of today's "public transit" agencies started life as bailouts (takeovers, the only reasonable kind of bailout) of private companies who could not compete with the car.
Well the former is an interesting thought experiment, but very much yes to the latter (at minimum, there would be value in a "book viewer" program that embeds a code runner).
If I told you I lived on a dirt road for the majority of my life, would that classify as "middle of nowhere?" :)

You raise a good point, while many places want to meet you in person, I've gained freelancing clients from a Skype chat. In person is great, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't go after clients just because you can't meet with them.
I have never been closer to India than San Diego, and most of the persons of Indian descent I know speak with either a Midwestern or a Mid-Atlantic accent. Evidently the point has been made about American entitlement, so I'll pass on that.

In general it seems to take a couple of generations of security for any given elite to look around and decide that it has obligations. In an American context, think of the Rockefellers, Harrimans, and Kennedys.
You don't need a team to do that. I do that myself and launch a successful micro-startup every 4-5 iterations. But, what you need is a good marketer, which I dont' see you mentioning.

Anyhow, good luck to you all. Go and build the next big thing.
It is only by reinventing the wheel that progress is made. Do you want an internet that is still mostly jQuery-based in 5-10 years? Ya know, "640K ought to be enough for anybody."

jQuery made sense before you had somewhat sane module systems like CommonJS+Browserify and Require.js and accompanying build systems.

To keep using a monolithic library that includes kitchens sinks from 2006 when much better approaches exist in 2013 is asinine. I'm really happy that many engineers from the worlds of Python, C, Ruby, Java, Clojure, Haskell, etc. are all crossing over more and more into JavaScript over the past 3 years or so. 90% of all the progress I've seen in the JavaScript work has come from outsiders that show up in the world of JavaScript and DOM and think to themselves "WTF is this shit?!?1 How in the hell have these guys gone almost 18 years without a proper module system and package system"?" and then proceed to code up solutions in JavaScript that provide them the comforts and niceties that they are used to from other programming environments.

I'm primarily a JavaScript developer and I'm very thankful for all the outsiders improving our ecosystem because most of the people in the JavaScript work gave up long ago by not looking beyond jQuery.

Alan Kay said it best when he uttered, "They have no idea where [their culture came from] — and the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs."
Not sure how the list was "ranked", anyone know?
Good list anyway.
This algorithm seems incredibly arbitrary and fails to account for the complexity of diction or sophistication of content of the post. (Obviously, this is incredibly difficult and computationally-intensive, and is likely untenable for a simple Chrome app, but applying such a narrow and draconian algorithm that reduces such complex facets of pedagogy and language into a calculus comprised only of sentence size and syllabic length does not help in weeding HN of poor-quality content.)

Moreover, I'm not sure as to why I would want to rid HN of "8th Grade Content" in the first place. I'm fine with terse sentences and pedestrian word choice so long as the actual content of the post is of value to the conversation.
"In response, I've reduced my power usage"

Perhaps those green power policies aren't so poor after all.
> edit: I hope it's obvious, but multiple people can be "at fault" and the person who stole the bitcoins is more "at fault" than the victim here.

Of course. The initial point I was trying to rebuke was

> what happened is your own fault entirely

Which isn't just a slip of the tongue. It's an explicit declaration that the blame is 100% on the victim.
According to Canadian laws, and the laws of many other societies, even accusing a juvenile of a criminal offense is essentially considered punishment since it will color their future regardless of whether or not they are acquitted. That is one of many reasons why we have separate legal frameworks for juvenile offenders.

So, assuming the police have one set of suspects, and they are all juveniles under the law and a lack of sufficient evidence, this is nothing more than a mob's attempt to railroad the accused.

As another commenter posted above: see how you feel about "Anonymous justice" when you are in their cross-hairs.
I think I'd filter by phrases such as "orders of magnitude" if the rest of the comment doesn't talk about different kinds of memory access or any other technical subject ("The days when I get up before 6 AM I am orders of magnitude more productive"). It would be more of a cliché filter than inaneness-filter, though.
I really wish there was actual competition to the US but there is not. I can make an argument and cite findings that show that China is more free than Europe but it is still patently false. What is the EU equivalent of NASA, Apple, Google, SpaceX etc. Competition is good for all, pretending is not.
Neat. I'm working on a system and API for question type (factoid, polar, description, etc.) prediction and polar question answering (polar questions are 'yes-or-no' questions; Wolfram Alpha doesn't attempt these). Let me know if you are interested.
It's not so smooth for me. :(
Aurora Borealis visible in Northern US tonight
And if they publicly accused someone of it, it would be wrong. But the article explicitly states that they didn't announce anything publicly, and only claim to have gathered evidence and requested the investigation to be reopened.
Sure you can save plenty of money going to a public school. But even though $100,000 is less than $350,000, it is still a huge amount of money. Even more once you consider that doctor's have to undergo a residency after med school in which they barely earn minimum wage.
Taking a look at things from society's perspective, society decided that individuals should privately own for-profit businesses because, for a large subset of society's needs, that is the most efficient way to produce these needs. In that sense, capitalism as it exists is meant to serve society. It merely works out that the incentive to maximize profit in this system _approximately_ aligns with society's interest in acquiring goods at minimum cost---that is, if certain conditions, such as adequate competition, are met.

Of course this isn't the only reasonable perspective, but it certainly isn't false.
When I've gone through periods like that I've found that something as simple as going for a walk every day really helps to lift my mood and increase my productivity.

Sometimes I feel like there's so much to do and so much pressure that I couldn't possibly spare half an hour away from it but I can guarantee that I'll get less done and feel less happy on the days that I don't go out for some fresh air and exercise.
Goodbye Cruel WordPress...
A few months ago I hung up my Wordpress-plugin shingle, ending 6 years supporting an open source plugin that never quite hit the big time. For a while, I hoped to turn it into a business. Make enough money to kick off a career in independent s/w development. But that was never to be. Monetizing a WordPress plugin is HARD. I know some manage to do it - more power to them, because I never managed much more than beer money.

Sell docs? "This plugin looks ok, but you have to buy documentation!! Why do I have to pay to find out how to use this crappy s/w?"

Sell add-ons? "This plugin is crippled. Why should I have to pay to get something that actually works!"

Sell support? "I can't believe the developer is asking for money to answer a simple question."

Sell dev services? "You want how much to develop an WP-Amazon-clone? I can hire a team from India for a fraction of that!"

And there's the rub. If you can't make money to compensate time away from family, shouldn't you be compensated with a little positive karma? I've worked on other projects and interaction with the OS community is mostly positive. The harshest form of criticism is someone forking your project, going in another direction. There's usually no recrimination in bug reports. On the other hand, the Wordpress review system? Broken. After an email-altercation with a competing plugin dev (who thought negative comments about his plugin were at my instigation - they weren't), my plugin rating went from an average of 4.5 to 1.5, when around 30 1-star ratings appeared in a week. A bit suspicious? Even when Automattic changed the rating system to require reviews, I don't think it's made a huge difference. They should have added a bug report system, rather than using their substandard forum.

With a community that borders on toxic, primitive project hosting, APIs that make it difficult to develop professional software (unit testing, anyone?), after 6 years, it's good bye WordPress. I'm not sorry to leave.
You should be using http://example.com
That's because a million bucks in the Bay Area will only buy you a 900 sq. ft. bungalow on the brink of collapse. A millionaire stopped being remarkable quite a while back.
What you have created is clearly A Very Bad Idea. A readable sentence isn't necessarily inane. And this gem really makes me laugh "Conversely, some of the most inane comments of all can escape this filter by not using any punctuation (the script will read it as one long sentence)."

But I think that is perhaps beside the point: congrats on writing your first Chrome extension!
I'm in VA and planning to head out to Leesburg unless someone in the area knows of a better location to try to catch the display.
I think anything with less than 1% market share qualifies as small.

I disagree about the flat search engine being outdated. I hate all the social crap, videos, and local listings the big search engines shove down your throat. I've heard a lot of other people voice the same concerns.
> Btw , Salman Khan (the actor) is facing jail time.

For a crime he committed over a decade ago, right? You think that's justice?