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> That, seriously, 99% of the population will never, ever, accomplish in their entire lifetime.

Yes, they do. All the Microsoft Office formats (DOCX, XLSX, etc.), all the OpenOffice formats, all the iWork formats, ePub, Safari extensions, Chrome extensions, JAR files, and countless other general public-facing formats are exactly that: loose collections of files that contain an index file (or multiple index files) and are combined using zip. People by and large don't seem to have a problem dealing with them: transfers, edits, and other operations are seamless to regular users.

> What if PDF only used linked resources, no one would even know what PDF was by now if that were the case.

Many PDFs do, in fact, rely on this capability.[1] It's generally transparent to the user.

> You could of course do all that with single encapsulated file as well...

No, you couldn't. You'd have to transfer the entire file to determine what's changed. That's the the definition and principle benefit of encapsulation: one file gets transferred at once instead of many in piecemeal.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Conten...
Good point baha_man, that's a fair comment. It was just one of a number of studies available that seem to highlight this.
Assumptions:
Stock Interest Rate: 7.5%
Bond Interest Rate: 4%
Inflation: 3.5%

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At some point you should reread what you wrote and decide where in that message you became patronising/bullying.
Very informative post...
I can't wait for that to happen, I learned Emacs for the sake of CL development... I was actually thinking of learning Clojure just to check out LT.
I think GP comment was referring to the JVM 'runtime'. which, to me, is less of a complication than the Python scenario.

On that note, Python packaging/deployment/repeatability is still a disaster. If you have code with dependencies on compiled C extensions, there are few good ways to deal with this in prod.

In summary, I think a lot of us find the idea of monolithic binaries appealing (perhaps even to an irrational degree, speaking for myself) because of issues suffered in the past. :)
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>I doubt this is so. Lots of consumer software ends up being I/O bound, not CPU bound - even if they were completely rewritten to be crazy-parallel, you wouldn't notice.

So for these programs it wouldn't matter either way.

>Then there's stuff like parsing data

How many states can you be in exactly? You can be in a CDATA, you can be in a quoted attribute, you can be in a tag, you can be between tags. Most other states are very local such as ampersand declarator ( &l ) , tagname started ( <it ), etc. You could process a text snippet for all of the more global possibilities at the same time (or just chance it and throw your guess out if you are wrong).

I suppose you are right about compresssion and crypto.
When everything starts to fall apart for your business model of milking your customers for all they're worth and outsourcing all you can to cheap countries, have Carrie Underwood sing and make geeky movies about boys playing with atoms.
I don't quite see how this is a new thing though, as there was a hack of the Wii U literally on launch day.
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/threads/511978-WiiU-Running...!
So the title should be "Wii U has been hacked again, better".
The US is a massively policed society. As an Australia, I expect to see a police car about once a month. In France, where I have lived for the last 10 years, it might be more like 1-2 times a week. In the US (based on a few weeks holidays that included rural/small town/big cities), I saw multiple police cars every day. I saw two violent arrests in those few weeks, which was the same as I had seen in my life up to that point.

Now maybe I was just unlucky, but Washington DC, and rural Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania are hardly considered hotspots of trouble (well, maybe DC, but I was in the nice parts of town!)
in that they're both on the internet.

i believe that's about it, though.
The blogger referred to in this article, Mr. Money Mustache, adresses this interpretation of the word "retired". (In this case we are unfortunately down to arguing semantics). If you take "retired" to imply "don't have to work on anything for the sake of making money ever again" rather than go to the spa every day, it sounds like your goals are more or less in line with the goals of this article.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/13/mr-money-mustache-...

This is something I see a lot in people who don't have a very creative nature (unlike yourself obviously). A lot of people appear to need someone telling them what to do all day, or they'll just stare at the wall all day and be miserable. I imagine for these people, financial independence could be a curse rather than a blessing. But assuming you are able to come up with rewarding ways to spend your time, I can't really imagine an existence that is more rewarding than being able to spend your effort and creative energy on whatever you want.
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Filter out people who want to experiment and are interested in experience, send them to prison, all you have left is population who excels at repetition.
Profit.
The goal for me is to not to have to worry too much about money - build up assets (saving, investments) at a sensible rate and enjoy life. The most utterly miserable people I've known personally either had no money (and therefore had to spend a lot of time worrying about it) or actually had plenty money but spent all of the time worrying about spending anything at all and therefore made themselves equally as miserable as people who actually had no money.

Aim to maximise happiness, after all "you're a long time dead".
So what are the other two ideas?
This just shows that you have no chance of survival in this situation! It happens so quick.
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This also gets around the being bored and missing out on life argument. If you want to fund your around the world trip, get a contracting gig for a few weeks or months, and use the money from that without having to worry about it.
Unfortunately, due to doing PHP professionally in a horrible legacy codebase, the answer is usually "Doing it at all". Sigh.
> A house for the kids.

Psst, make them create their own wealth.... When you go they can fight over yours.
Of course. There is a growing number of companies that will happily look at LinkedIn and personal websites, but the vast majority of companies have HR employees that will insist on a CV in Word or PDF format for an interview.
The idea to "retire" and live like a rat is somehow not convincing for me. I have over $100k in savings and probably could retire on it in India or Eastern Europe (i.e. Ukraine has $6k gdp). But that would be dishonest to use word retire in that case. To take it to another extreme to put my point across: You retire at young age because you can live comfortable not because you can live in India on $1 a day.

I'll work till I can. And retire when I can't anymore.

What is dude going to do when he gets - God forbid - a cancer and $100k in the copayment bills alone? Did he save for his kids education? I mean who is he kidding?
Thanks for the clarification! In this case, I'm ok with retiring tomorrow :)
We used to fill pencil cases up with gas and squirt across a bunsen burner when no-one was looking. Worse you'd get would be a dentention.
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Enigma makes it easy to search public data from over 100,000 sources
If used properly, this could be a massively helpful tool.
If you are certain that the returns on any investment will be very low during the next 20 years, presumably you could make a lot of money by using some sort of long-term options strategy. Why won't you just do that? (I'd actually strongly advise against this, I'm just attempting to prove a point).

There is no way of knowing what the future will hold other than attempting to extrapolate from the past. Besides, if the future is going to be as poor as you seem to expect, you're screwed regardless of how you position yourself.
There were plenty people at the lower levels of the Nazi regime who were put in trial if they were considered to have committed crimes (e.g. concentration camp guards).
This is an interesting point ... and I'm not sure the author of the original post understood it to this level. Mister Money Mustache's actual words are: "take your annual spending, and multiply it by somewhere between 20 and 50" (as a basis for a savings target)

The key there is "annual spending". One might naively assume that the author is still aiming for the 25x savings amount based on his annual spending prior to deciding on this "retire at 39" plan. I know I sure as hell did at first.

However, I see no way to do that based on the Savings Rate vs. Working Years Until Retirement chart that's presented in the post. The last line item "Savings Rate: 100%, Years: Zero" can only work if you're doing what derefr points out: continuing to live at that same spending rate for the remaining years of your life.

Only by saving 100% (and thus spending 0%) could you retire instantly at any time, since you have no costs - so it wouldn't matter how much you saved.

This doesn't mean the article is invalid. The author may truly understand how much of a permanent life change is involved. The trial run at 1 year may be an attempt to see how well he could live the rest of his life at a spending rate close to 1/3rd what he's accustom to. ... But reading it more and more, I'm not sure that's the case.
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Looks like you only read the title, which is admittedly wrong for the article. He's not mainly asking for a LAYERED file format, but rather one that can include disparate types of image data (bitmap AND vector, for example).

I thought we already had this in MPEG-4.
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An attack on the innocent is paradoxical to what it means to be an American. It should never be the American way. Instead of better ways to kill, maim, and torture, the U.S. should be finding ways to stop the killing and maiming, and find ways of peace.
Sick of hearing about this, it needs sorted one way or another!
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I think most of us agree that good ideas are solving problems. So could it be that cigarettes, Pinterest and Vine solve problems?

Maybe they do. Cigarettes are solving the problem of easy nicotine intake to release stress.

I think (not sure) a lot of successful new-media companies are solving the "low self-esteem" problem a lot of people cope with these days. They act like a drug.

But ofcourse a better way is to solve the source of the problems: remove stress from society, change culture in a way that we can become who we are (whole).
Correction. Inflation in the US about 10%. Unless, of course, you believe everything what the Government says.
Saw this in the Guardian[1], their app[2] looks really interesting. Anyone here know a little about how they could make the remote redaction work? Obviously you could just take a screenshot before the sender retracts the message?

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/30/redact-app-...
[2] http://www.redactapp.com/
Of course types and structures are useful but why do I need it in my database as well as in my app ? That's one reason databases like MongoDB have become popular because you can deal exclusively with your domain model and treat the database like an object store.

So you still have everything structured but not have to worry about annoying migrations.
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Too many people getting burned by jumping into a platform.
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Cigarettes dont relieve stress, they induce it, the stress smoking relieves is craving a cigarette, people who dont smoke dont have that craving.

(someone currently giving up)
Don't worry, I know who you are :-) Hi!

I believe that there's an oldschool party in Northern Germany every summer, too: http://nordlicht.demoparty.info/

That said, I won't be able to make it to Outline myself, unfortunately.
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That, and the page is designed so most people will click the "Accept & Download" button without even reading the top-level permission requests.

It's got the title and button at the top, taking up a large chunk of space (1/3rd on my Nexus 4), and then a vague list of - to most users - technical-sounding "stuff".

My guess is a large majority of users never look past the button.
Well, India has a millionaire population the same size as the entire United Kingdom. But that still leaves over a billion in poverty.
The real inflation in the US currently is about 10%:

"Using the government's old methodology from 1980 - before politicians started to monkey with the formula - he calculates the real inflation rate is north of 10%."

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article33502.html

BMW are up 20% year-to-year. Food is up. Medical expenses and insurance are up much more than 10% on average. All the necessities are 10% up or more. Again, if you use the US Government formula of calculating inflation from the Reagan years, we have 10% inflation right now. They lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, no problem with lying about the real inflation rate. If you live in the US, it would be really very, very intellectually dishonest to say that inflation in the US is below 3% today.
what opinions?
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The type of bottle in question can be seen in this video: http://www.wtsp.com/news/reporter/article/312878/79/Teen-gir...

Words fail me! The top of that flimsy little bottle would pop off if she filled it with grape juice and shook hard. "Possession of a weapon" indeed!
Tort reform in Texas HIGHLY limits the payout on a wrongful death lawsuit. It'd barely be a dent in a days business for the plant.
> Absent funding agencies and journals insisting on code release and the moral argument of reproducibility, what incentives would help convince code authors to release their software?

Impact Factor?
-> Patrick Vandewalle, "Code Sharing Is Associated with Research Impact in Image Processing", CiSE 2012
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2012.63

It could also be the pressure of colleagues who, as anonymous reviewers, would always ask for the code whenever a paper depends on computation. Journal policies will not switch to REQUIRING the code anytime soon, but peer-review can add some pressure.
I don't know how popular their client is but I have a HD7970 which is not bad at all (enough to run any currently released game on full settings) and when I don't game I let it mine which gives me about $0.5 - $0.75 a day.

I'm in it for the women tho not the money.
I hope she didn't use more than 4 ounces of chemicals otherwise it would be a WMD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction#Crim...
When people talk about retiring early, "retiring" usually doesn't mean the same as when you talk about it in the traditional context (ie. sitting on the porch all day). I can't speak for others, but for me this kind of article is about establishing enough financial security to not have to work every day if I don't want to. Not necessarily quitting my job just because I can, but knowing that I could without significantly affecting my quality of life.
> A house for the kids.

Could mean a house big enough to support the family.. a studio wont do the job and to support the average family of 4 you'd need at least 3 bedrooms, maybe 2 of they are both large but that gets into other issues..
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Even if all vendors deviate, it's still easier to interoperate, since at least some of the structure is transparent.
With MongoDB/Mongoose there absolutely are types and structures. Schemas have structure and types for their fields, all of which can be enforced, validated and brought together for non-trivial querying. Just because its DO/NoSQL doesn't mean there's no structure.

http://mongoosejs.com/docs/schematypes.html
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Might be a "drano bomb":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaiCdX1XWc
And the middle class takes it in the ass.
and my point is that smoking should not be legal, carrying weapons should not be legal, pot should not be legal.

Drinking is difficult because there are reported health benefits as well and most of the world does not drink to excess.

You may think that doing those things in your own home, with your own body is nobody's business but yours. That, however, is naive. Let's say you overdose on cocaine or you get lung cancer from smoking, that is not a burden only you will carry, that is a burden on society.

Money spent on your treatment could be better spent elsewhere. This isn't about personal freedoms, it's about being a responsible member of society and unfortunately talking about it on the personal scale is totally different to talking about it on a national scale.
Exactly. A lot of people have no idea how it really works -- the "noisy" members of the community have a lot of control over how things are run since they can have someone fired/impeached for not kowtowing to every crazy knee-jerk demand.
This reminds me of a very similar idea from Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870329320457610...

Quote: I spent some time working in the television industry, and I learned a technique that writers use. It's called "the bad version." When you feel that a plot solution exists, but you can't yet imagine it, you describe instead a bad version that has no purpose other than stimulating the other writers to imagine a better version.
The day Apple goes to Flat UI is the last day I will own an apple product
These rumours that Apple is going to FlatUI on iOS under Jony Ive are completely preposterous. But if it does happen, Ill jump off iOS and OS X as fast as I possibly can.
>Of course types and structures are useful but why do I need it in my database as well as in my app ?

Do you write bug free code 100% of the time? I'm pretty good, but I definitely don't. And when there are bugs in my code, I'm grateful for a RDBMS with enforced referential integrity.

I've also had to work on projects where the initial codebase was scrapped all together. When that's happened I've found having the data in clearly defined columns and relationships immensely useful.
I'm not sure where you are, but... be sure to wear a lot of layers of clothes with at least one all-black layer on the finals day.

Seriously. I hope that you'll see this in time!
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In many neighborhoods I've been in in NYC, McDonalds was easily the cleanest and highest quality restaurant within convenient distance. It smokes most non-gourmet/artisinal establishments.
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This is however the sort of thing SQLite already does for you.
Classy. Interning at a company and having not been there for 9 months (see above) obviously counts for nothing.

For what it's worth, I disagree with Path and Me1000's arguments. Doesn't mean us here at HN should be attacking him or ignoring his points because of that, nor does it mean that doxing him is acceptable.

Really disappointed with HN in this thread :/
This EXACT same thing happened to me.
I had some liquid Nitrogen for a science experiment at school, put it in a 20oz Coke bottle.
Of course that's not something you do without knowing mostly what will happen, as I suspect was also the case with this girl.
I took it to the bathroom (somewhere with no objects or people to damage) and it exploded, making a bit of noise.

I was expelled and charged with the same sorts of felony charges - constructing a bomb, detonating a bomb at a school, etc.
With a small bit of lawyering the charges were reduced to one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct for making a loud noise. For that I was able to get "diversion" (like a lighter form of probation for juveniles), just some community service and drug testing, and could have my record sealed at 18.
I was not, however, able to successfully appeal my expulsion.

I hope that this girl will be able to get a similar outcome and not end up as a felon because of this silliness.

This was in the middle of my 10th grade year. My next two and a half years doing home schooling and at the only private school in the city that would take me were terrific, I am very glad my life took a turn the way it did.
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Is Homomorphic Encryption really a step forward?
... or aren't we supposed to work on schemes to better and more easily move computation to data?

Asking for a friend...
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IBM Research: How to move an atom
I wonder , when building a HW product what embedded platform people here use for manufacturing ? Arduino/Mbed/plain microcontroller?

And if you use arduino , how do you manage the need to release object files (according to the arduino license) ?
Nice acronym, I use that stack + Redis. Need to find something else starting with E then I can brag about the MEANER stack.
Yeah. Only after several people in the first thread figured out that their antivirus software had been detecting the miner for much longer than 48 hours, and one of them contacted the pool used to confirm how much had actually been made, though.
The MongoDB/AngularJS combination is really good enough on its own that you can shove most Language+Toolkits in there and have something together real fast I have use the following and its worked great each time

MongoDB + Flask + Angular + Python
MongoDB + Play + Angular + Scala
What about using an ORM? In Symfony2 for instance, we only think about objects, and they are magically mapped into MySQL or PostgreSQL tables by Doctrine2.
your phone has both, specially the microphone is always with you in possible working condition, if not the camera that could be blinded in your pocket.
Mixing random household chemicals without knowing what they'll do?

Oh, I have no doubt she was just trying something out, but it's hardly guaranteed to be harmless. Worst case, you might mix something like bleach and ammonia, and kill half the school.

Can't tell without further details, but the fact that she was surprised is scary. I wouldn't expel her, though, just give her a long and serious talking-to.
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Not really that is still as good/bad as .PSD is because of the nature of what the file is used for. They are both primarily containers for unfinished works and are designed to hold a lot of detail without so much regard for size and portability. Of course the .XCF format is open but not good enough for a simple viewer or even a web browser. Some file format based on SQLite will probably be more viable as a cross platform image format that is extensible beyond any one software developer limiting it. Kind of like HTML.
Failed both times, only mirrored the splash page and not the forums.
The real problem with this MEAN stack for any real project is maintainability in 5 years time. You can almost guarantee that within 2 years, this stack will be semi-unsupported in favor of a newer JS library, with all the current devs and support on this stack jumping ship to better versions.

That said, this is a very awesome stack to use for hackathons and short projects or prototypes.
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I don't think "quirks" is the right word for tail calling and homoiconicity, and those are powerful features that I miss in practical situations all the time in lesser languages.