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Sorry! As consolation, I’ll tell you the following (totally obvious unless you understand floating-point, in which case it is shocking) little lemma I happened upon the other day: assuming default rounding, the result of x+x+x+x is exact.

And please do write your next blog post anyway, I love this sort of thing =)
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Which plugin are you referring to? I was able to try Save the Day, Polycraft, and Score Rush [1] w/o installing anything.

[1] http://news.turbulenz.com/post/49430669886/turbulenz-engine-...
You don't. You can run https://turbulenz.com/games/polycraft/ in a modern browser without any plugins. The plugin only exists as fallback for older browsers.
We use dashboard.io internally at 500startups - https://dashboard.io/ (Paul Singh's latest startup), and it's quite effective. It has multiple inner networks on the same network (like founders, mentors and staff inside the bigger 500startups network), discussions, events and private messaging. Highly recommended
I hate titles, sure, it does look more fancy. Besides, you can have frontend only applications written in javascript. Would that make me just a 'UI Developer'? I can go on and on, but just stick with a title that explains your skills the best. I can't stick a label on myself. I dabble in a lot of fields.

I don't disagree with all of your points however. People should just make up their own title that fit them best.
Unfortunately we don't have a great track record of taking care of the commons. Communal ownership almost always leads to neglect of the owned thing - parks have paid employees to take care of them, so (sometimes, if there's enough money thrown at it) they stay clean.

Likewise, your criticism of private ownership is too extreme. The vast majority of landlords take excellent care of their properties for example. Others take the right amount of care so that the place isn't great, but can be rented for less. Some landlords let a place decay until it's unsafe, but that's usually when incentives are set up that its in their best interests to do so. Such incentives are the opposite of private property rights and are usually in the form of rent controls, etc, where you can raise rent only when you drive tenants out, or its not profitable to use a property as housing and the only way to change its use is through its destruction.

On the flip side, the example of privately owned waterways is a terrible one, because there's no way to avoid the communal, commons nature of the ecosystem. And companies might have a use for the lake or river (disposal of toxic waste) that is counter to the common interest, as you rightly point out. Then they poison everyone.

So: communal ownership. Suboptimal but we're stuck with it in many situations, so we need to implement it as effectively as we can.
Oh wow. My bad.

I meant to say "Disco ball necklace". I helped at a 70s themed charity event and ended up taking some home the weekend before the hurricane.

In the first picture you can see it, but here is a picture of a box of them.

http://distilleryimage5.s3.amazonaws.com/63d4661a4fb911e2aa5...

Related: do people "wear disco balls" like that where you are from?!
EU antitrust laws aren't against monopolys per se, but against using the power of a monopoly to gain an advantage in a new market. So, Microsoft wasn't fined for having a 95% of the PC market, but for trying to leverage that share to force its competition in the internet field out of the market. Apple tablets were born with the app store and conquered (created?) the tablet market, so, no problem.It'd have been different if they allowed people to install apps from anywhere and afterwards restricted them to the app store.
So, I think microsoft would be in big trouble in the EU if they tried to shut Steam out of the market by disabling third party software on windows.
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That's absolutely not the case, I just tried their games with all plugins disabled in Chrome and it works perfectly. This looks like a great engine!
Been mining for months now, did not know some of those details, great videos.
I've wonder if the videos aren't a dangerous way to subject yourself to biases. It's well known for example that people judge attractive people more positively. The same probably goes for a good presentation style. Now I'm sure that being attractive or being a good presenter have some predictive value on startup success simply because everybody has these biases, also the people the startup will later make deals with or otherwise interact with. But assuming that the application judges have the same level of bias as the rest of us, since there are many other factors besides attractiveness or presentation style, the bias would be bigger than its predictive value. It would perhaps be an interesting experiment blank out the names of the applicants and to let half of the judges read a transcript of the video instead of watching the video itself, and see if the judgements are different.
Galaxy doesn't require Zookeeper (it's an optional dependency). And Galaxy isn't there just to support Quasar/Pulsar. It's there to support a distributed, concurrent, consistent in-memory database. Actors are just part of the story.

To simplify, Quasar/Pulsar + Galaxy is, in Erlang parlance, like Erlang + Mnesia or Erlang + Riak (only with a consistent database that assists in parallelization)
"Is it simply slang for not taking oneself too seriously?"

That kind of works actually. I'll see if I can get it to stick, haha.
Why we don't have these things in the EU? Because guy who would build them would be penalized 75% on income in France. Socialism is like a cancer - bad cells in the body feeding on the good ones. Making Chinese competitive factor this much stronger.

EDIT: Making instead of Make
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It's still several months away from being released.
But OS X does look the same as it did years ago, unlike Windows which went through five looks (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8). It's not as if Adium has any design elements that could possibly age - it's a standard OS window with a customisable HTML message list.

Edit: I just realised that I have hidden the ugly message window toolbar. I'm not sure if it aged though - I already hated it on OS X 10.4 (when I disabled and then forgot about it).
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They are also not really visibly working on issues like these:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=222558
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=134837

Basically, each font in each size uses some handles in a renderer. At 10000 handles, the tab renderer dies. They have a font cache but never clear it.
When enough render processes together use too many GDI handles, the whole Windows desktop breaks down.
I'm not sure punching people in the face or kicking them in the back counts as "freedom of expression".
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Great article! I think i will try this approach on labeled EMG signals.
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No, just stay indebted to China forever. Don't be competitve, God forbid. Just be nice to flowers and stuff.

Sorry dude, that's not how the greatness of this nation was build. We got lazy, demanding and needy. All financed by China. Which by now gets us by the balls. They own our debt, mind you.
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Yes, just make sure to use the gtk-oxygen theme with the right font for GTK+ apps.
The engine uses WebGL. If your browser supports WebGL you are good to go, if not, we have a plugin that allows you to still play the game.
I intend of doing that, but at least at the start, I'd like to have some reliable (albeit small) revenue stream
Last week I read a comment on Hacker News and then decided to build this project. We had a lot of fun building it.

The comment I read was on the squaresend launch thread. Someone suggested that there is a need for a form building tool with less features.

We have this 2500 form templates created mostly by our users. JotForm Instant let's you pick any form template, add your email address to the URL and voila! You have a form that can send emails to you.

I'd love hear your comments and suggestions.
Thay may not complain directly, but they may start disliking you, stop associating with you etc.
Or you do what Thatcher did in the UK. You require all factories that need water from rivers to have their water input below their waste water output. As all factories need really clean water, this would force them to install top of the line waste water plants. That's how you deal with it efficiently.
Surprised me - so sharing - Great Andriod app
Lots of discussion last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5634600
Yours is an interesting situation. Without public funding, in my opinion you have no moral obligation to provide free (as in beer) access to your software. Indeed, the greater social benefit (if there's a binary choice between nothing being published and there being a paper but no free (as in beer) source code), is gained by you publishing a description of the work. Others can then at least benefit from your theoretical advances. To directly answer your first question: I don't think there are any ethical limits on what you can charge (but there are economic ones).

Which outcome is better for overall scientific progress depends entirely on what your software does, how large the need for it is, etc. However, one thing that is almost certainly true is that providing free (all senses) access to the software will maximise the social benefit. So if you can find a model that allows you to profit whilst still doing this, I encourage you to do so (see last point).

If I were in your situation I would say the issue of whether or not to publish is economic: publishing a paper about the software will bring it to the attention of the scientific community. That should lead to increased custom for you, provided the software is good and priced appropriately. An example of this is Robert Edgar of http://www.drive5.com. He has written several pieces of software which have really advanced computational biology, especially USEARCH. He makes the 32-bit version available freely, and there's a ~$800 per machine license for the 64-bit version. He also makes some tools available freely. This mixed model seems to have performed very well for him, as he is very widely cited which gets him a high profile and many large bioinformatics institutions buy licenses for his software.

Again, whether publishing open access is a good idea depends on which journal you publish in, how many people will benefit from learning of your advances, etc.

Since you say all the people who have paid for your software are for-profits, you could consider an unrestricted academic license with a paid commercial license (similar to all the baseclear products: http://www.baseclear.com/landingpages/basetools-a-wide-range...).
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> Merge all those together, serving up 80 separate assets is insane. Isn't it?

That's what happens by default when using the asset pipeline when in the "development" environment, it's supposed to ease debugging and works well when only including a few JS files. In "production" all the files would be merged into 1.

There is a flag "config.assets.debug = true" in the "development.rb" file, switching that to "false" will output just one file.
You're wrong - they absolutely DO need it.

As an example, here is an itemized breakdown of why my project NEEDS a $100,000 investment.

$2000 - Back wages and small debt (past year)

$4000 - burn rate of founders (1 yr)

$1500 - equipment and hosting (1 yr)

$7000 - outsourced labor (1 yr)

$85500 - necessary because you are not interested in a $12.5K investment, even if we are the next Google. Therefore, this is added to convince you to invest in the company. This portion will simply remain on the books.

The last portion is necessary because you, the investor, would not take a $15K investments seriously. That's why we need a $100K investment.

It is not an optional line item: without it, we do not get the investment. It is crucial.
Oh, haha ok. My startup had the word "social" in it, so I think some not-so-subtle jabbing is probably deserved.

Appreciate you checking out the post! (and thanks for filling me in on the joke)
Well, the more I think about it, the more see that being a "dork" or a "douche" is not the problem here:

The problem is that it's a disguised projection of power onto others.

The user is implicitely saying to people around him:

"I can film you and you can't/don't/won't - I can show this to the whole Internet whenever I feel like it. In other words, I control your behavior."

So, Google basically wants you to suck up to the tag line: "Get more power, at the cost of the people around you."

In this context, physical aggression kind of begins sounding plausible, actually...
Writing is not inferior when it hosts a subject being studied. To quote your example, yes, lyrics would be preferred to a song if the meaning is being studied, script would be prefered to movie if dialogues are being studied.

Atleast in the current context, books are faster to reread compared to rewinding a video, which can break your flow.
OP here. Full disclaimer - I work at SOS Children and this is one of our projects. It's a selection of Wikipedia articles which are child friendly and aligned with the UK national curriculum. There have been several releases since the first in 2005, and this is our biggest yet.

There's an online version and we also distribute offline copies (previously DVDs, this time it's too big, so USB sticks) for use in developing countries around the world. Impact is hard to estimate, but we think there are at least 5M active users around the world.

Direct link to test site: http://schools-wikipedia-test.soschildren.org/

Pulling articles from Wikipedia and tidying them up for our use is a moving target, so we're still ironing out some formatting issues. If you have some time to spare visit an article on your favourite topic and let us know if you spot anything weird going on.

Happy to discuss any of the tech aspects if anyone's interested.
Given that in the long term the cost of mining bitcoin is in the ballpark of the electricity cost of the proof-of-work (in that being cheaper encourages more people to mine and more expensive means mining would run a loss). You could effectively outsource the cost of the proof of work by having bitcoin validated email. Send a fraction of a bitcoin with an email to let it past.

If email clients maintained the wallets you wouldn't need to even worry about the cost if you had a balance of in/out mail. You could still white list anyone you want to email for free. A cost of $0.001 per message would have very little impact on regular users. A botnet would still need to get the funds somewhere to bulk send, if they cracked the mail programs internal wallet they could drain that and send a small number of emails, but beyond that they'd need funds, and quite frankly if they could get at the wallets they'd just take the money direct.

It raises an interesting question. what is the value to a spammer of an individual email? The return from advertising/scams/phishing/whatever divided by the number of emails sent. It's got to be tiny.
What kind of font rendering does Ubuntu uses? I'm on Arch and freetype-infinality rendering is incredibe eye candy.
Founders with breakout successes get the best terms ever now; that is true. On the other hand, investors have more power to fuck with founders' careers (even years after the venture dissolves), and founders who fail are more desperate to get back into conventional careers due to the disgustingly high housing prices that exist now. Venkat talks about the old-school serial entrepreneur: the 10x hustler who learned a little bit from each failure and finally had a huge hit on his 5th attempt (usually around age 40, at which point he'd be unfundable by contemporary VC-istan standards).

That person is gone now. In contemporary VC-istan, no one gets a 3rd startup, thanks to the collusive and almost certainly illegal reputation economy that exists there. You might get a second shot if you come back to your VC bosses with your tail between your legs.

That's because VCs have set themselves up as the executives of the first post-modern company: VC-istan. "Entrepreneurs" are hustling project managers. The investor/founder separation exists to hide the Effort Thermocline (the level at which jobs become easier with increasing rank, not harder) because it exists between two companies, with a distinct power relationship of one over the other.

Hell, most VCs won't even talk to you if you were lack-of-fit for a regular corporate job. They want to fund banker kids who did Analyst -> Private Equity. (This is the MBA stereotype, but it's the 2nd tier of those who do MBAs. The top tier skip MBA school and become parasitic PEtards two years early.) True hustlers and technologists are second-class citizens; they work too hard and don't have the social polish to exploit "just like me" chickenhawking of their backers.
Is • one of the four operations +, -, * , /?

For -, x-x-x-x is -2x, representable if there is no overflow, and obtained with only exact steps.

For +, the result is 4x, again representable. The second and third operations do not seem like they are going to be exact but the error might just compensate. Should this be studied by case analysis on the last bit of the significand?

For * and /, I just don't see it.
OK, so here's something weird ...
You may not hear from me for a while now. I've found that I can log in to HN while in Private Browsing mode, but not while in normal mode. Even getting the password recovery message, clicking the link, resetting my password, doesn't help.

There are times when I really, really hate computers. All they do is get in the way of the work I actually want to be accomplishing.

So until I stumble across the bizarre, magical, unguessable incantation that make HN work again for me, I'm unlikely to post.
Turbulenz, open source html5 game engine
This is a classic problem of trying to be helpful and it's confusing people until they understand the details.

The engine uses HTML5 and WebGL. When the required APIs aren't present it falls back onto a plugin. This is supposed to be helpful for developers because it means the games will work on pretty much all browsers include IE.

But it confuses people because some people think a plugin is required.

So what's better -

1. Not providing the fall back and telling users they need to switch browsers? Good for helping people to understand it doesn't require a plugin, but not great for developers who want everyone to be able to play their game, or

2. Providing the fallback.

Additionally, it's worth noting that the games and engine don't have to provide any plugin support. It is actually the game site application code that is doing the detection and trying to be helpful.

The Turbulenz Engine is an HTML5 / WebGL framework.
I tried calling myself an 'Application Developer' once before, and it lasted about 5 minutes, because I suddenly started receiving requests to build people's iOS/Android app ideas.

I never called myself a back-end developer anyway; if people ask me what I do I just say 'I program computers—and yes, it really is that general'.
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There goes Ryan again.... Crushing it!!
All of which were possible with a phone camera, the only difference with glass is that it's harder to know if the device is recorded.
"serving up 80 separate assets is insane." in production it certainly is, we minify, concatenate and use a CDN. In dev if you concatenate and do not use source maps you compromise your debugging experience.

The "refresh all browsers" is only refreshing browsers pointed at my local dev Discourse instance, youtube is safe. I run a multiple monitor setup, I press a key and see right away the effect of my change.

We use fixtures and fabricators, we test individual classes, we mock and all that jazz. I am totally open to PRs that simplify and streamline our test suite, the point though is that now I am never blocked on my test suite in dev despite a full run taking 3 minutes.
No.

“The border between the server and the client has faded”

So why continue to use distinct job titles? I think ‘web developer’ suffices; the specific skills you can bring will vary from person to person, but you should be fighting against being pigeon-holed, not embracing it by voluntarily saying you belong in one category and not another.
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I think that's a bit of an overstatement, but some people can react similarly like in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDumyGJdLrU (one guy goes around and videotapes people). Of course, I'm not saying that what the guy does is equivalent to wearing Google Glass. Considering that the camera indicator can be disabled, I wouldn't be comfortable around people with Glasses.
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I'm sure we'll be in touch. I suggest you join the mailing list, then you'll be able to track our progress (and you'll be the first to know once we have a working compiler).

Do give my regards to John Reppy, who I haven't seen for about 15 years. As I recall, he was the author of the "new" GC in SML/NJ (in the mid 90s), which was a distinct improvement on the original semi-space collector.
>You can see first hand what happens by looking at large >parts of Europe.

Right, like 15-20% unemployment rates.

>Countries like Norway does not have massive unemployment by >international standard, despite one of the flattest salary >curves in the world.

Because they make gigantic profits on gas and oil. Saying socialism is good because the economy flourishes in Norway is akin to saying monarchy is good because the economy flourishes in Saudi Arabia.

>If I could get a job as a cleaner for what I make as a >software developer, I'd still pick the (much less physically >demanding, and less soul destroying) job as a software >developer.

And if you have no experience what so ever and want to get this first job cleaning for $7/hr you won't stand a chance with minimal pay at $10/hr. Because the employer will get someone experienced instead of you in that price range. So the minimal wage will effectively put you out of the job market. That's why there are so many more unemployed among unskilled young workers than in general population across all age groups. Without the minimal wage law you could get a first job for let's say just $3/hr, then get experience and then get more money as an experienced worker in another job. With minimal wage enforced this is not happening, you stay out of the job market never being able to get this first job.
Before minimal wage law was imposed the unemployment rate among young was the lowest among all group ages. Currently is the highest among all groups ages. This is precisely because of the minimal wage law. Minimal wage was on a political agenda of Unions that lobbied successfuly for it, to actually protect their union members from price competition with young unskilled workers.
Singapore has literally no unemployment among young and has had none for decades. Also has no minimal wage and GDP per capita of over $60K compared to $50k in the US.
And then the whole discussion is really utter nonsense because as long as you can get free labor that's called "internships". So instead of paying minimal wage companies end up paying nothing to guys who could actually make at least these $3/hr. Wouldn't that be better? You see too much regulation completely screwed-up the job market for young unskilled workers. You can get them for minimal wage or for free, but if you want to get them for the market rate it's illegal. That's just plain stupid.
If you're using that lib for commercial purposes and you can't afford the $25/90 then you're Doing It Wrong™
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