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This overseas reblog of a pop science blog which co-blogged a piece from @beckyoskin working for a blogring does not pass the smell test. At the very least, the headline is garbage.

There is no link to the source (here: http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/3/1/63/pdf), no supporting material presented, it makes some odd claims starting with "ants prefer to live on active faults" (this paper says nothing about that - it's talking about ants that happen to be found in a geologically interesting faulting area) and ends up with "ants can predict earthquakes". Which then goes up to the headline.

Stop stop stop stop stop.

This paper is a decent exploration of performing day+night video analysis to describe above-ground ant behavior over large periods. The rest of it seems reaching and improbable, but I don't have the background to comment on any of the math or geology presented.
They seem to only have one data point (2009-09-10).
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That sounds very cool! Although the rationalization for it sounds rather contrived - to me at least any of these explanation would sound at least as plausible:
1) The sudden vertical movement may cause a predator that is used to tracking its prey horizontally to lose sight of the specific animal in the flock, thus making it harder to run it down.
2) Statistically, the jump may prove to evade a certain percentage of pounces from the predator, that happen to coincide with it.
3) The split second of "rest" while in the air allows the muscles to "recharge" enough energy to enable another small sprint, thus giving the antelope a lifeline.
4) "Look, I could just as well be kicking you in the head if you get too close"
>Any company can just buy an Xbox or a ping-pong table

Yes, but you also have to have a culture that lets you use them. My office has both and yet, they never get used. If you try to use them during the day, you're told it's too much of a distraction and you should get back to work. You pretty much have to wait until the boss goes home for the day.
Be a "yes man" while you bide your time and look for something else.

People like that rarely change. By confronting them, you'll only force them to worsen their behaviour in defence at which point they might condemn or criticise you unfairly, leaving you with a lower opinion of yourself undeservedly. You also run the risk of having your reputation harmed.

So for your own happiness, no matter how tempting, generally it's better to avoid confrontation with the ones that don't have the willingness or capacity to change.
Indeed, social media isn't as efficient at directly converting advertising dollars to revenue as paid search. But it is a very important way to do branding, and branding can be a very powerful way to indirectly convert advertising dollars to revenue.
Don't know if this is a dumb question: but would it be possible for a good party to use the same method to get admin access and install rate-limiting login plugins on all of these insecure WordPress blogs? Seems like that would be badass.
> It doesn't matter if the users get points, dollars or karma for downloading stuff.

So you're a OK with pay-for-downloads but not botnets?

Is there really a difference?
Gosh darn it! This should had been my thread. I told you (anigbrowl) about reading the "two sleep" and then forwarding you the email. I can't believe it is the number 1 thread.
Well, I didn't type this in the original post, but I should clarify: When the question of "tell me what is wrong with this idea" - I specifically make the point of being the one to ask the question.

If you make the discussion directed toward the manager/team leader, then the conversation is much easier.

Again, the team needs to put all their irons in the fire to forge a decision. The plan/ideas of the team is the metal to be forged. The fire is the funding and backing for the project. The hammer is the effort of the executing team and the tongs are the skill of the overall project management.
Desalinization is extremely expensive to the point that we can't yet rely on salt water.

The water crisis affects developing nations who can and will be taken advantage of (referred to here as slavery). As the article explains, as water continues to be a scarce resource there becomes more and more power in controlling it.

I think wars over oil are bad but the ethical questions around water are significantly more fundamental.
Real innocent people are jailed. I don't mind we to be reminded about this, no matter how many times.
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On older Wordpress installs (pre-3.0 I believe), you couldn't change the username of the first user from "admin" when setting up a blog, and you had to manually change it later. Yes, it was stupid.
I left my earlier job mostly because I was bored. All the other reasons are just seasoning on that huge reason. I'm not sure if HR could've done anything, short of promoting me to upper management.
If you want to indicate a time zone you shouldn't just use the offsets - they're ambiguous in that several different time zones can have the same offset at any point in time.

Better (IMO) to use the zoneinfo ID, e.g. "Europe/London" - along with the offset as well, in case the local time is ambiguous in that time zone due to a daylight saving transition.
I don't know the numbers but I'm not sure using 2008 data gives a fair picture. If the ROA of Barclays would have been consistently so much lower than that of GSK, the capital would simply gradually move to GSK. Banks are not allowed to borrow money, their creditors want to lend them money. (Presumably because TBTF lending is perceived to be a safer business than risky development of pharmaceuticals.)
See this post for an explanation why it isn't a good idea: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/benevolent_wor...
This is true, but it’s also important to realise that Forth is not the only direction. ;)

It’s been a while since I wrote this article, and there are a number of things it doesn’t address, such as the practical concerns you mention. It’s much the same issue as comes up when dealing with large assembly projects, or dynamically typed ones for that matter. Knowing what’s going on can be difficult to discern without a deep understanding of the overall system, and bugs have a tendency to hide in obscure places.

And speaking of assembly, Forth is essentially assembly code for a virtual stack machine. Or an actual stack machine.

I’ve been idly working on a statically typed concatenative language for a long time now, partly because I intend it to be taken seriously sometime in the next decade, but mostly as a learning experience. It’s designed to address many of these concerns—particularly, enabling programmers to focus on data flow by framing it as a functional language. (E.g.: don’t shuffle stacks—use combinators and/or locals.)

However, I continually run into problems with the type system. Typing of concatenative languages is not well researched and is surprisingly difficult. I’m not a type theorist by any means, but at this point I’m probably the world expert on concatenative type systems, simply because there are so few people working on the problem. If anyone would like to help out, I’d love to chat by email (username@gmail).
Ok, nevermind on the siting bit, the paper is drafting on her PHD thesis which presumably supports the argument that these ants mounds correlate with faults.
Ask HN:Dropping your blockbuster product for mediocre ones?
I see Nokia doing this regularly in India.

* Make one great product.
* stop production prematurely and replace with mediocre products.

Can there be any valid reason for doing this??
You might want to check out image streaming.

Summary:a brief daily exercise (10 minutes), which develops visual and verbal thinking.

http://www.winwenger.com/

http://www.winwenger.com/welcomeim.htm
where did you read about that hypothesis? sounds interesting
Like I said, partnerships are on a more even footing than people that just consume the API.

Soundcloud is pretty big too.
True, I was approximating from when I bought in. More like 500%, when I posted above or 700% now.
Can someone comment whether if Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book is still actual today? There are some reviews on amazon, from 1999/2000 mentioning that it is outdated.
I guess some percentage could be still actual, of course. So I'm interested what percentage it is.
I'm still sad dabbledb.com folded up and went to work for twitter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY
Why not GPLv3?
_why's blend of programming with collages remind me of the blend tonke dragt did with children's novels and physics or michael ende's short stories to his father's surrealist paintings or experiments with interactive fiction.

a refreshing sense of adventure. crossing boundaries
This company does outsourcing and the reason that it works for them is a) they are doing it on a small enough scale to keep control of the situation and not let problems fester, and b) they are doing it themselves, not subcontracting to a foreign company with an incentive to cut corners.

Not much new here. And I don`t think their early hiring strategy was all that smart. Canada is full of experienced developers and when a new technology comes along, there are hige numbers of people with enough experience to master it in a month, who would even be willing to work for a bit less in order to get up to speed on the new technology. They are unlikely to be senior developers who have invested themselves in ONLY taking high paying jobs where they can put their expertise to work on day one. But none of this is specific to Canada.

And, in fact, I don't really believe that this company's success has much to do with lower wages. The fact that they made remote development teams work demonstrates that they pay attention to details and that is what breeds success.
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Interesting. Islamic tradition also has a "night prayer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahajjud
If I had to find the repo, I'd use code search. It's pretty handy.
The Twitter Python lady incident led to a high number of Redditors coming to HN. They liked the deep content here and many decided to stay, not yet understanding the rules.
I thought I had read it on Hacker News like a year ago or something. But I just spent 5 minutes Googling, and I can't find it now! argh. Keywords were variations of "early late risers dimorphism predators". I will look a little more later.
Checkout Win Wenger & image streaming.
Use a two-factor auth plugin like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-authenticator/ It works with the Google Authenticator app.

Duo Security is also good: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duo-wordpress/

The WordPress.com team have already announced two-factor auth support for wp.com blogs, and are working on an official solution for wp.org sites: http://macmanx.com/2013/04/12/two-step-authentication-on-wor...
These stories always seem to fit a very nice narrative, using anecdotal evidence to back up what we think sounds right... I would love to see some actual scientific study on this.

I've no doubt that we're not sleeping optimally at the moment with all the artificial light and impositions on our time, but at the same time not everyone sleeps the same way, and just because we sleep differently to how we would naturally do it, doesn't necessarily mean it's worse.

Personally I run best with a good 8-9 hour sleep and a quick 20 minute power nap in the mid afternoon, but other people I know find that more than 6-7 hours sleep exhausts them, or other people who can't stand naps.

I think the best takeaway from this article is that we definitely need better sleep research.
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Don't forget transmission costs too since not everywhere is by the coast. I live in a California coastal town that has spent 20 years just to come up with a project plan. They are currently doing an environmental review because it turns out that pumping concentrated brine back into the ocean can have detrimental effects. Read all about it at http://www.scwd2desal.org/

There are other problems too. For example my city has had excellent success in water conservation. However the fixed costs of the water infrastructure haven't changed so they have to keep increasing the water rates as consumption decreases, in order to maintain revenue covering the costs. (Arguably the fixed cost of the bill should be higher and the consumption charge should be lower to better reflect reality but that falls hardest on the poorer households and would discourage conservation by the larger consumers.)

I also recall reading somewhere about other unexpected consequences of conservation - sewage pipes had significantly reduced lifespans because effluent was more concentrated resulting in greater corrosion.
> Office 4.3/95/97 had a hidden Doom-like gamed called "The Hall of Tortured Souls".

Wouldn't that be Access?
Well, I don't know if those 3 points made are to be taken seriously. I despise laziness and I don't think you can justify it in any form.
That often happens to me also, except I feel absolutely shit while awake. I'm very awake, and not tired, but my mind races so uncontrollably it's almost painful. My brain also decides to consider every problem in life from the worst possible perspective.
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I cant see how Kaggle is good for the data scientist (but I can certainly see how it is good for the hiring companies). It seems like the design spec work. I find it horendous that people do work for a company and most of them never get paid for it. It is disgusting. The top #1 in Kaggle according to the article only got paid 6 times. Lets put it into perspective. Companies that wanted web developers stopped hiring them and started using a similar service, in which, everyone would create a version of the application, with only the frontend available for other contestants, in order to foster competition. Then the company chose the best one and only the winning team would get paid. This is capitalism at its worst, and long-term it is severely harmful. In a modern work-rights aware society this should be illegal, spec work that is... At least the communities should critic it in my opinion and not embrace it.
his post only emphasizes on one point: CHEAPER. He himself acknowledges there are more talented and experienced people in Canada but he won't hire them.
There is a process called image streaming that is similar to what you are doing. This involves closing your eyes and describing aloud to another person or recording device the images that you are experiencing.

The key is the combination of verbal description and visual thinking, as the two together are very powerful.
> Patent trolls suck. But with out patents there is no incentive for innovation.

Tell it to Larry and Sergei.

Without patents, where would they be?

My guess is, just about where they are now. Plus a compounded increment for not having to pay patent lawyers along the way!
In our company we had a team of Moscow developers. It did not work out because the person who was supposed to manage them was not doing that. We took the work in house. But this is not an outsourcing sob story. To do the work, we had added developers to our Vancouver team, and hired a second developer in Seattle. At the same time we added people in Virginia and added a second developer in Portsmouth England. This is one team of developers in 4 cities. At the same time we added a separate team in Spain, and yet another separate team of 40 people in Thailand.

It works, because we have good managers who pay attention to making it work. Good managers who are not looking for shortcuts and who encourage all developers in the company to be self-driven professionals who provide value to the business.

This is how to make remote teams work. Sofware craftsmanship etc.
no. i think satoshi nakamoto is from the old world, while _why is from the new world. but both are from a similar generational background and from the 80s hacker culture. these mavericks geniuses are rare but exist in more subcultures (music, religion, magick, skeptics, science, cryptography)
> 20 years ago, a lot of people would have owned a Nintendo system or similar, which had all the things you discussed and more.

This is still the case for consoles nowadays. But as much as I find it regrettable, there is a big difference between a single-purpose device like a game console and a general-purpose computing device like a smartphone.

> The PC was theoretically an open system, but Microsoft was doing their best to close it up with business measures that were about as effective as these technological measures are today.

Microsoft's famous abuses of its position have been sanctioned (not that it did poor Netscape any good, obviously...). It's a valid comparison with the AppGratis situation, where the corporation does not tolerate competition, but there never was the kind of full-spectrum filtering and mandatory corporate approval you see from all players in the smartphone space.
How did you come up with such a weird name, it's harder to pronounce than anything: http://spreedly.com/
I don't believe that's a correct interpretation of the AGPL. It's intent is to extend the idea of "User right to run" the software to services (like eg a web server or a web app) -- in other words -- say you make a webmail system, release it under the AGPL. Users of your webmail system would then be entitled to the source, just as users of a GPLed mail program would be entitled to the source (under the GPL).

The basic idea is to avoid someone taking something like a web server, heavily build on it, and set up a big service running it -- but not providing the modifications back to the users of the service (and eg: leaving them "out in the cold" if the service shuts down). Or in this case -- if you fork pinry, that's fine -- but your users are entitled to the source and your modifications (note your users not everyone).

I think it's a perfectly valid licence, and appropriate for stuff like this, where you could take pinry, set it up as a service, slap some ads on it, and make money off of the value created by pinry's authors. Nothing wrong with that. But if you find and fix bugs, those fixes have to be contributed back to at least your users (which then again are free to redistribute them under the AGPL, making it likely that they find their way back to the original project).
http://www.wordfence.com/ here. Implemented it ever since I started noticing these attacks.
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I don't think you'll find much argument around here.
I'm still not sure why they care so much about HTML5? They say you can put apps on iOS, Android , Windows etc well there is nothing new about that but where does Intel HTML5 come in the picture?
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I think they are just jumping on HTML5 bandwagon without any clue.
Indeed a massive pain. I've been getting alerts from dreamhost regarding increased memory usage. I have http://www.wordfence.com/ installed and my blocklist only increases.
It is time for every Wordpress user to consider to switch to Octopress. Static sites have no attack vector, don't need security updates and are faster out of the box. Octopress has importers for many blogging systems including Wordpress:

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/blog-migrations

P.S.: I have migrated a few days ago myself from Posterous to Octopress. It was a piece of cake.
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I am prepared to bet folding money that only software-sy types like us consider this a viable option. For everyone else it will seem like an unnecessary complication.
He must not have heard about 'Play' Framework. Java beats python any day when it comes to performance etc.
Well, it's a book excerpt (like everything on this site) so chances are there's a lot more in the book's bibliography, or that the concept is developed in greater detail later in the excerpted work.
Has this tactic worked for you previously?
I've also noticed an increase in spam comments and trackbacks that akismet doesn't catch. Is this possibly related? At least on two occasions I've noticed the ip address of a spam comment match against an attempted login.
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There are two kinds of laziness. Rank laziness (aka "goldbricking", to use an outdated term) doesn't really have much use. But there's also virtuous laziness, which is the desire to do work in the most efficient way possible. People who work like that often tend to be assets because they invent all of the stuff that leads to everything running smoothly and with a minimal amount of effort.
The horror. And the bravery :)
Given how vastly different lengths the night have depending on how far North/South you go, that might be so but it's a solution that won't for for a whole lot of people without artificially simulating a shorter night.
"As for the breakdown of the fees, it's $8,450 for the initial case... and the other $37,650.25 all stems from Carreon's crazy fight against attorney fees."

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One of the reasons why I'll turn down the inside light in the evening.
Quit.

I don't believe any manager behaving like that is doing it without his/her full consent and awareness of the situation, and its effect on the lives of his team. Do you really want to make such person successful by sacrificing your health and happiness?
Saw it on Twitter and had to submit, y'all are pretty cool.
You meant Arrows
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not that is matters, but will say this again: how about making http://www.lighttable.com/ readable/usable on something else than 1280px+ screens in a room with optimally tweaked ambiental lighting! Lots of peoples read websites on cheap Android tablets, outside, in full sunlight, you know! (The same used to apply to chris-granger.com and thankfully it's been fixed, but the design-mantra for the whole Lighttable project still seems to be "ugly grays, bad contrast and flat-everything to the point of annoying your eyes out"!)
It's called Loop Invariant Code Motion, and it's why jsperf benchmarks are mostly inaccurate. A smart JIT can hoist all the 'work' in a benchmark out of the benchmark loop and only run it once.
I don't want to make armchair diagnoses, but based on my own experiences it's worth seeing someone about that if it's happening frequently.
Here it is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620742
Static site generators require a lot of sacrifices:

What about non-technical users? Multi-author blogs? Idiot-proof extensibility? Updates from phones and tablets? Huge sites with thousands of posts? Editorial and review systems? Access to thousands of cheap or free themes?

The ideal static site user is in a pretty privileged group. Most WordPress users would be better off securing WordPress and using a caching plugin that gives them the benefits of a powerful, dynamic platform while serving static files with automatic serverside compilation: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
Right now there are no trading fees on Mt.Gox until tomorrow. This probably gave (a) the guys with automated trading bots a field day to tweak their algorithms and (b) Mt.Gox a chance to take advantage of this to see if they can handle the increased load in trading.

My guess is that there's going to be a last minute scramble to buy before the trading fees get reintroduced probably pushing the price up a bit. When trading fees go in there might be slightly less liquidity, compared to yesterday and today.

Entirely speculative on my part, but plausible anyway.
This is a very interesting article!!!! I have been living alone for few months now.. My sleeping schedule starts to split into two equal halves of sleep!! I usually feel soo good after the second sleep.