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Just as deliberate practice and focus help you work much better at your job and other pursuits, deliberate, focused leisure will get you much more for your time spent. If you are a heavy TV watcher, you might not be fully rested with 50 free hours per week. If you exercise and do restorative, creative things that are complementary to your day job, you might be able to recharge in very little time.

A lot also depends on the quality of your sleep. If you sleep well, you'll have more time for recreative leisure and also perform better/reduce energy dissipation at your job.
There's something that needs to be said about political beliefs that stomp on the very fiber of my being.

Sure. I would work with these people and execute what I need to do. But knowing what they believe in and the extent of which they would act to remove/restrict rights that I should have ultimately will prevent me from wanting to get to know them, to interact with them beyond a strictly professional capacity.

From experience, that doesn't go well - over time, it gets exhausting. Your company culture gets built up with walls between people because there's no trust.

So yes, having a difference of opinion/belief/diversity is important. But at the same time, there are certain core values that need to be stood for.
How important is 24/7 support when you startup?
In my experience "image beats text" is a really common result of an AB test. For an encore, I'd suggest testing an image of a (smiling) person in that same space.
> Vigilante justice frequently ensnares innocents - the other posts in this thread demonstrate this in spades, and makes wrongful convictions in the US criminal justice system look like a drop in the bucket.

Any country that has an incarceration rate 5-10x higher than most other countries ("civilized" or not), I'd be real hesitant to call their wrongful convictions a "drop in a bucket".

I'd be in agreement with that argument if it were any other country. Still, vigilante justice is (of course) not a solution for the US because if that became commonplace, it'd be even worse. Less incarcerations, but you may not like what they'd get replaced with.
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It is working fine for me. I wanted to know how the application works. I mean there should be HTTP requests going to the server, but I don't find any. The same is the case with the other browser where I am viewing the code.
Freenode indeed :)
1. Each node is paired with nodes that are "alike", and bandwidth is considered. You should only be paired with other nodes that have bandwidth similar to you.

2. Restoring backups takes a while. It's just the way it is. But the client should be smart enough to get prioritized data first -- if you need to open a picture, it should fetch that first, so you can open it right away.

3. Files are broken apart and stored in chunks, so "growing size of files" is irrelevant.

4. The probability of your data being lost doesn't increase over time. The node is constantly checking the status of your backups. If a chunk is missing over a long period of time, it will back it up again. Redundancy is only part of the solution -- some missing chunks are recoverable through erasure encoding (like in the article you mentioned). Your node backs up to hundreds of other nodes, reducing risk of failure. Think of having 200 drives in an array instead of 7.

5. The article is somewhat FUD. Making projections for 2019 based on hardware speed where we're at now? Many embedded devices are already replacing ARM processors with dual core intel. As data sizes increase, our processing power will also increase.
It's unfortunate, but this may be too little too late for Runescape. After Jagex was slowly bought by VCs company decisions became less about the experience for the player and more about the bottom dollar.

Maybe this will be enough to bring back some of their lost subscribers, but who knows.
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There's an add at the bottom. Something like "If you like "blah blah", try it on IE..."
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Why was my previous comment modded down? Haiku is no more Unix-based than Windows, i.e. they both have support for POSIX, but that's about it. BeOS was designed to leave behind the cruft from older systems, not build upon it.
He got whacked because he was being dismissive of people's objection to a business decision.

He compared the business decision to engineering limitations (vacuums need AC out of plugs, mobile phones need cell towers in range), and was snide about people objecting to the business decision to have a console that only works when it is connected to the internet.

He wasn't having open an honest dialog, and he wasn't conducting that dialog politely.

I think most folks on HN know of some marginalized political philosophies such as anarchism or libertarianism. These political philosophies aren't popular, but there are polite and intellectually rigorous ways of discussing them, and there are immature and inconsiderate ways of discussing them.

You can discuss marginalized or unpopular things without being an asshole. But Orth was discussing them while being an asshole, and was doing it as a representative of Microsoft.
Is that the sound of a thousand startups adding puppies to their homepages instead of running proper A/B tests?
Oh, I didn't realize this was a contest to see who could be the most sanctimonious.

The video calls attention to the fact that women often focus on their flaws more than their positive features. If you find a lie in there somewhere, it's because you're judging it on the criteria of something it isn't trying to be, which says nothing about anyone or anything other than yourself.
Not strictly true - https://secure.runescape.com/m=weblogin/loginform.ws?mod=www
The underlying data structure of Space is an associate array, like in PHP.

So Space objects are both hash tables and arrays. For example say you had a variable named account with the space value:

charges
coffee $2.12
soda $1.21
cupcake $2.50

You could access the individual elements of this object like you would a hash table:

account.get('charges soda')
// Returns $1.21

Or like an array:

account.get('charges').get(1)
// Returns $1.21
It's also responsive! Looks great on mobile.
Actually, I might agree with Go here. I agree that most of my regexes are the trivial kind that don't exhibit exponential growth, but that's only because I also control the input to all those regexes. But Go's intended niche appears to be for user-facing server-side programs, and in that environment if you ever run a naive exponential-time regex against user-supplied input you're setting yourself up for a potential DOS attack.
Was fun :) I found a bug. You have a feature that gives you the possibility to do the next shot while your white ball is still moving. Well, if it is the case (you see the stick and can shot) but during that moment the white ball gets in a hole, the game doesn't give it back to you like normally. Sorry for my english, I don't know the English expression for (loose the white ball in a hole) ^^
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V8 JIT-compiles regular expressions.

EDIT: Since apparently someone doesn't believe me: http://blog.chromium.org/2009/02/irregexp-google-chromes-new... ("After optimization we generate native machine code which uses backtracking to try different alternatives.") See also the yarr JIT, which jsc and SpiderMonkey use for regular expressions: http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/JavaScriptCore/y....
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I am seeing some recurrent threads about loneliness and sociability issues among hackers (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5548177).

I would like to know a little about HN users social relations, particularly about friendships.

How many best friends do you have?

How do you talk to them? (telephone, at a bar, at a cafe, at work, home visits, through email, SMS, Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook, etc)
Maybe it's cultural context, but in my book homophobia has nothing to do with legitimate political beliefs. Being conservative has nothing at all to do with bigotry.

Promoting hatred and discrimination towards any group that is part of your (potential) employees and their friends and families would be good reason to fire someone as far as I'm concerned.
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In other words,it make more sense to you, that is the kind of testimony I need to read, Angular.js is simple, I like that, but not always simplicity makes sense, if Ember.js adds more code but it makes more sense then I see your point.
Very proud, indeed. Let me know if you have any thoughts / questions. I'd love this to be a useful tool for people trying to raise money.
I was wondering that same thing. Looking at the accounts infrequent commenting history and then all the responses in this thread seem to point towards that.
I'm making the same decision now. I've used Ember before and it has been a little painful. I'm going to give Angular a try now. It seems most people on Hacker News prefer Angular to Ember.
Great suggestion - would be interesting to put a smiling person against the doggy
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All roads lead to a single URL (aka IP address) so somewhere along the way, you're going to have a single point of failure that does a one to many multiplexing, logically speaking.
The patent office has some curious definitions of originality as well. If you take an existing process and apply it to new technology, that seems to make it novel in their eyes. i was reading through a bunch of digital photography patents a little while ago that don't even pretend originality - they cite 50-year-old patents relating to film photography and literally just add "on a digital camera" or "using a microprocessor" to each claim.
That's a shame. With swig it ought to have been easy to support other languages, but maybe it's too hard to port.
I agree with you in general. There needs to be a common speed for all cars because difference in speed is, I believe, the real cause of danger.

However, there is one common case where the speeding law seems unnecessary at best. I live in Texas. Florida is similar in that there can be large stretches of empty highway. When I travel outside the city there is often very little traffic and very open country. If I can see for a mile and I am the only one out there, why shouldn't I travel at the fastest speed I can manage safely? In the city speeding rarely pays off, what with traffic and traffic controls. On a trip of 200 miles (Austin to Dallas for example) the difference between an average speed of 60 m/hr and 90 m/hr is an hour of travel. It seems wrong that I should be limited in this situation because an 18-wheeler cannot handle more than 60 or 70 safely. Worse is when you have small towns that drop the speed limit to 55 or 45 for a tiny stretch of road when the road does not even go through the town. That kind of speed trap is what angers people, especially when you see an officer blow through with impunity.
It makes sense to fire Orth. No one other than MS employees, a couple console game programmers, and their hired astroturfers wants an "always on" console. Therefore firing him means we're talking about Orth instead of a very unpopular decision by a monopolist.

The moral constitution and all that should be outraged at closed gardens and monopolist providers and assymetry in the market between a couple providers and a lot of consumers blah blah. Its not a "do no evil" company, and firing him is pretty small potatoes compared to their other issues. You're dealing with a criminal organization. Don't bother busting Al Capone for jaywalking, or in this case firing a crony.
Give him a break! Commenting on HN using an iPhone while driving is hard enough and now you want him to proofread?
There are already at least hundreds of bitcoin lotteries and casinos, most of which are probably scams (see bitcointalk.org forums). How do you plan to differentiate?
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Agreed. Having laws that _everyone_ breaks is worse than useless, as it encourages a disregard for the law and resentment towards enforcement officers, as well as leaving lots of room for unequal enforcement.
From my experience of working in both large corporations and small start up companies, it's generally frowned upon to even discuss political matters no matter what side of the isle you sit on. The very reasons you cite is the main reason this is something you simply keep to yourself, period.

Likewise, most companies I've worked for don't engage in overtly political events so they don't self select out any candidates based solely on religious or political reasons.
"I don't speak for my employer" is equivalent to "Don't think of pink elephants"

By all means, continue NOT speaking for your employer.
Anonymous and Wikileaks might get ahold of Google’s entire email database and start publishing stuff.

Speaking of which ... is there any tool to swipe clean an Gmail inbox? Due to to the recent changes I finally got ready to switch over to my old pop3s. I plan on slowly fading out my Gmal account, so I would start by deleting all the past mails, etc. Any recommended way to do this?
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Anyone come across PCBmodE? Make pretty (and functional) boards.

http://boldport.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/introducing-pcbmode.h...
While the line isn't sharp, I would distinguish somewhat between older BUGS like languages, where the underlying analogy is typically a directed graph, and more recent probabilistic programming languages like Church, where the underlying analogy is an execution trace. The excitement around this newer form of probabilistic programming comes from the fact that they really are programming languages. Unlike BUGS, they inherit all the flexibility, composability, and encapsulation of the underlying language. Inference is viewed as sampling execution traces, so the connection with a programming language is quite tight.
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AFAIK, the intellectual property rights are owned by a Japanese company called Access.

The IP isn't needed anymore. There's only one key feature holding back the first beta release, and that's a stable set of package management tools. Every other key component is in place.
Can someone familiar with law (and international law) comment on this? How likely is it that high ranking officials will be held accountable for this?
Does it make a difference what the position of the person who's views you disagree with holds? I can sort of understand saying "I don't want to work to make our CEO richer because he will spend the money promoting causes I hate".

But what about co-workers or subordinates? Would you be disturbed because the guy who cleans the floor holds controversial views?
Also bear in mind that employees will leave and be replaced with new ones who may be very different people.

Once you get past a certain size of company you're never going to get people who don't disagree on some divisive issue, whether it be gay marriage, gun rights or abortion. The test of your company culture is how well it can deal with that unless you want to start asking people political questions at interview (is these even allowed?).
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Mason's question was about multiple URLs. IOW, "why does basecamp.37signals.com share a load balancer with campfire.37signals.com?"

It's usually for cost reasons. Hardware load balancers are expensive, and the job they do isn't especially computationally expensive, so it's generally accepted to host multiple VIPs on a single load balancer.

Looking at it the other way, being 100% down on one LB might be preferable to being 50% down when a single LB out of two fails. The alternative gives you twice as many chances for failure, even though each chance is half as "bad". Common-mode failure mechanisms would of course still bring you entirely down. (Bad config by a human being the most common cause.)
I hope not.. If it takes more than a couple of minutes for you to figure out how to plug in a cable, I would wonder why google let you in the building
Exactly. They're saying women are beautiful as they are (or more specifically, more beautiful than they think), not that Dove's product (soap) makes them more beautiful. I don't think or expect our community at large to appreciate this distinction, but it's an important one and definitely not "more of the same" for this kind of gender-specific marketing.
This is a classic case of a submission title taking liberties with the meaning of the article it links.

This submission's title: "New lithium-ion battery 2000 times more powerful, recharges 1000 times faster"

The actual title: "New lithium-ion battery design that’s 2,000 times more powerful, recharges 1,000 times faster"

The missing word is "design", a word that is crucial to the meaning of the article. The article discusses a design for a battery, not a battery. How important is that? Here's the last sentence in the linked article:

"For this to occur, though, the University of Illinois will first have to prove that their technology scales to larger battery sizes, and that the production process isn’t prohibitively expensive for commercial production."

It's a design, not a battery.

The solution to this problem, as I have pointed out many times before, is to copy the article's title, do not invent your own.
Love this post. If we want an open and transparent world, which we are headed toward at breakneck speed, we need to ALLOW AND ACCEPT when people are stupid, say racist things when they were 15, say harmful things on Twitter, insult people and generally be the asses that people are at times. It isn't endorsement, it is a readjustment of cultural norms - these are some more Internet growing pains for everybody.

When EVERYTHING we say is attached to a megaphone, people either start to say a lot less or we need to accept a lot more. Personally I want to accept more and not be self-muzzled. I think we have to go in that direction, if no other reason than to accommodate that poor generation that grew up online and have a whole embarrassing history attached to their future lives before anyone understood that their history will no longer fade away from sight.

If one off-the-cuff personal comment can get you fired from a job, does that mean it should prevent you from getting hired too? Ever again? It is an easy decision to fire someone in the 5 seconds of Internet heat that these sorts of things can generate, but we need to consider what that is costing us all.
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At one point in my career I had two job offers on the table - my wife was helping me decide, and when she saw that one of the companies had a dog on their site, she said I had to work for them. In the end, I did accept that job offer for my own reasons - but it's interesting how the emotional response is to the cuteness factor.

Coincidently I now work at a company with currently 4 dogs in the office.
Would be interesting to see puppy vs kitten results.
> he will spend the money promoting causes I hate

> you're never going to get people who don't disagree on some divisive issue

I'm not sure you appreciate how deeply these issues affect the people they're about. It's not just talking points for everybody.
Right, because principals related to OOP would clearly be useful to COBOL running legacy systems and remembering marketing acronyms are indicative of how much a programmer is going to waste time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising

(to elaborate for the downvote-debbies: there is an entire industry designed around getting users to use your product based on ideas such as this, and this link is one place to learn more about that)
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I'd like to see tests between that dog, and a person, or a group of people. Having images generally will help with conversion rates, but what kind of images would produce a better result? And for what kind of services?
>The media did that with the Atlanta bombing and it destroyed a guy's life.

The media? No the FBI did that. "The media" ought to have known better, and still hasn't learned better.
Why not use the potentially exponential algorithm initially and timeout and fall back to the linear case if the sometimes-quick one has taken longer than the linear one would have? At most a 2x slowdown for complex cases, and substantial speedup for the simple ones.
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> will prevent me from wanting to get to know them, to interact with them beyond a strictly professional capacity.

And you have thus wasted an opportunity to educate them in the error of their ways.
That's not necessarily true. You can have more than one IP address serving the same hostname, and they'll get approximately round-robinned. The usual thing would be for these IP addresses to be on different machines. If you `dig www.google.com` you'll see an example.
How about Knockout?
i wonder if it simply has to do with the fact that there was AN image there ? Maybe verify by putting something not as cute - say an ORC or something like that? and something neutral like a fruit?
I've been working on a BTC Raffle site also although I'm targeting lower fees and plan on making it provably fair.

Good job.
I think that is an aspect of the problem outlined in the article.
It's easy enough to keep the discourse at work fairly light when it comes to political issues. But in a world where everyone follows each other on social media it becomes harder to separate. So you find out that the nice pleasant guy you sit next to at lunch has "liked" a ton of neo-nazi groups.
> The problem is that it's seriously hard to improve meaningfully on Unix.

From a more technical perspective, there are a number of things that Unix isn't great at. I'm confining myself here to commonalities between OSX (a BSD) and Linux, as I'm not an OS expert...

* characters for everything

* file abstraction doesn't really work 100% as an abstraction.

* based around C

* huge barrier between code and data.

* abysmal permissions model (read/write/execute/sticky/etc)... SELinux and facls slightly fix this, at the cost of UX.

* monolithic kernel

* interface designed for teletype machines, not graphic displays.

* textual interface mixes control and data planes

* limited APIs for threading/fibers/etc.

There is an old and somewhat out of date book called the Unix Haters Handbook. It's worth a read.

Plan 9 needs to be thought of as a "Unix evolution", not a different OS.

For a perspective on what would be different and possibly better, you will need to look at z/OS, Windows NT, QNX, L4, Wind River, Mac OS <= 9, Genera, and a few of the other more lesser known operating systems.
I plan to work on a web application in the near future for a friend's small DJing business and I wanted to use Ember but heard that it was a bit obtuse to get into the first time. Definitely bookmarking this. Much appreciated.
Well, if you have a single point of failure, even if it's a load balancer, you've done something wrong.
I think it's not fascism to refuse to work with/for people whose polics are aimed at concretely restricting your civil liberties, in a way that might have affected your day-to-day life for the rest of your life.
I would be honestly surprised if deleting messages from your gmail account actually removed them permanently from Google's databases.
It's simple, they didn't let their developers run free and are paid too little. You have to pay the creators of wealth in order to get wealth in return.