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Ask HN: Pre-hackathon jitters
I'm signed up to go to my first hackathon in Nashville (www.hacknashville.com) this weekend, which I heard about through the Memphis python user group (someone posted it in the google group, though it looks like no one from that group is going). I don't expect to know anyone at the event, have no job, development, or relevant projects to show off, and am a little self-conscious about whether I'll feel really out of place and outpaced. I do have a CS degree and think I'm decent at Python, have a pretty wide (but not necessarily deep) knowledge of other languages, tools, and frameworks, and am generally pretty personable, but am having second thoughts about going.
The event is 'sold' out (it was free, but all the registration spots are full) and there is a waitlist for cancellations, so I should probably let them know ASAP if I'm not going to make it.

Does anyone have any thoughts or words to put me at ease? Or would you suggest giving up the spot to someone better qualified? My goals for going were mainly to network, get some experience working with others on something small in a short period of time, and sharpen my skills, though I'm not looking for a job in the Tennesssee area as I am set to move to Portland in a few weeks.
Hi, I'm from the IBM Research team who worked on this.

The reduction is in total system-wide journey times in passenger-minutes (travel time + expected waiting time). The model makes underlying assumptions on how people arrive at stops to do their trips, and how they choose paths through the network. The wait times are therefore related to frequency of services.

The statistic is also broken down by each route what happens when the changes (new routes or extensions) are implemented. For some routes, you see increase in ridership (on account of better connectivity), and on some you see decreased ridership (since the new routes offer more competitive paths through the network).
And that's OK. Not everyone needs a smartphone, but that wasn't my point. My point was that many people (even tech people) immediately ask this question in a dismissive way before they have even started to think about what this technology can be used for.

I know people who thought smartphones weren't for them, but suddenly they discovered they were easier to use than their old Nokia phone and had QWERTY keyboards so they could write text messages without learning T9. I never imagined that a tablet would be so useful for flying and didn't see a need for one before that.
Mostly assembly, yes. But there was also Forth available, a nice fit for those machines.
In general this law appears to be a force for good, and should throw a bunch of images that the authors don't really care about into the public domain. Should make for an interesting dataset in the future.
I have a ZX-81 (that I built from the kit version) and two TS-2000's in my basement, perhaps if you clustered them, the page could survive the HN effect.

EDIT: Two of them have the 16KB RAM expansion modules if the system is memory limited.
Wouldn't you also have to make a disclaimer for the mostly anti google/ google glass posts you have made?
The default is 1 isn't it? As I pointed out, this will serve the majority of concurrent code.

The best number of processes to use is equal to the parallelism of the solution. Even with highly concurrent problems, this is still most often 1. If you get it wrong performance will suffer. But in practical terms we have more to worry about, and if you're talking to the disk and the network more than you're computing, parallelism will only increase the contention on those resources. The extra processes will consume more CPU without doing any more useful work.

So the default is pretty good.

By the way 1:1 isn't the limit either. Sometimes you will want more. If the problem truly is parallel enough to exceed your CPUs, you may want additional processes anyway. This will keep things up to speed thanks to the host's scheduler which is typically preemptive, unlike Go's. This sometimes works much better if you can pick and choose which routines run on which schedulers, and I'm not sure if Go exposes that.
In the US if you walk into a convenience store, say that you have a knife or gun, and take the money, that's recorded as a violent crime.
In a changing world, you can depend on Microsoft:
"Where you want to go today? Meh, as if we care; we have already decided on that."
If by an "amount of space there actually is" you mean observable Universe, then we can see a pretty darn big chunk of it, considering that the space is mostly empty. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no way of knowing if there is an infinite space outside an observable Universe.
Even then, 40% of _households_ does not have a phone (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/indian-toilet-s...). That is in line with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_..., which states there are about 2 mobile phones for every 3 Indians.

I think it is safe to bet that, among those using public transport, mobile phone ownership will not be higher. Also, of those with a mobile on those buses, mobile phone _usage_, likely, will be higher for the richer ones.
An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD
And also here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/7...
And again:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/7...
Because realistically, "Africa" is most useful to most readers, even on HN.
You should try DrRacket. The book "How to design programs" uses it to get you straight into simple graphics. Both the book and DrRacket are available for free as in beer and speech online.
See for yourself : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baremes_de_l_impot_sur_le_reven...

Now you may not understand french but the table is quite understandable. Fist column the brackets, last column the marginal taxe rate.
I'm still betting it'll be largely impossible to run a standard Linux distro on the device without a massive amount of hacking.

The kernel will no doubt require binary blobs for OpenGL drivers (IIRC it's an OMAP CPU so this is likely) and because they decided they don't like glibc the OpenGL drivers on the device will be a pain to link against. I always find this annoying while hacking on Android devices.
This is a foolish post - sorry to be so blunt.

Civilians standing alone do not stand a chance against the combined arms of a standing army. Does not matter if they all have guns or not. What counts is explosives, range, airpower - oh and the idea that one side has their families to worry about.

There was armed resistance to the rounding up - look at the warsaw ghetto. [1] This was armed civilians fighting an invading army, which took a huge German effort to subdue.
But they did subdue it - in a way horrifically reminiscent of the US in Fallujah. (No I am not comparing US Army in Iraq to Nazis. But watch the footage on both events and then try to not worry)

If you think that the right to bear arms is there to stop tyranny, you should expand it to the right to bear Semtex, armoured vehicles and aircraft. That is why Afghanistan and Iraq were / are such a mess - the other side is fighting back with real weapons, not pop guns. Armies are frightened of other armies. Not armed civilians.

Oh, and the rise of UAVs is going to make the next insurgency a very different prospect.

Add in to this mix the basic human desire to think it is all going to go away, and no-one is that crazy. There is a story of a village running from the massacres in Rwanda, and they reach a river, and only one teenager crosses, the rest think they will be safe. The teenager is the only one left to tell the story.

Look at it this way - Hitler started small, targetting the
criminals and the undesirables. Have you taken up arms to overthrown the White House now that Cuba is used for torture? What is your trigger point ? How do you find out that there are death camps? Warsaw happened because they rounded up Jews into one place before shipping them out. The Nazis learnt from that. Evil has analysts too.

What is the difference? It is not the grunts in the army. It is the need to have enlightened people in government. If we cant have that we will make do with sane politicans.
The insane ones are harder to spot. You know Nixon used to end dinner chat at the white house with the line, "I could walk out of here and 45 minutes later, 500 million people would be dead?"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto
Looks pretty cool, but can anyone explain why this is so slow?

Is it this slow even if only one person is using it at a time?
He is obviously concerned to keep his good name.

Assuming he can back up his narrative with facts in court, I cannot imagine Opera has a leg to stand on. If he followed up the conversation with the CEO with a clear email, then there is documentation in place. That the CEO hasn't responded should have no bearing, as an oral agreement is considered as binding as a contract in Norway.
President Obama praises Mars rovers, US science in speech
Hey i'm not claiming it's a better place to live in. The point is, businesses are mobile nowadays and europe is doing everything it can to scare them away.
Total anonymization vs Bitcoin “pseudonymous”
This is what recent versions of GitHub for Windows does by default. There are definitely advantages to merge commits, the biggest one being that force-undoing an unwanted merge commit is as straightforward as resetting to the first parent of the merge commit.
I think this hUMA/HSA is a value proposition and not meant for high-end graphics or GPGPU, which can easily stream through GBs of data very quickly (high end cards have > 4 GB on card). Even Haswell strikes me as a value product; everything great until your problem doesn't fit into your cache.

The transparent memory hierarchy is still quite expensive, and there are lots of performance benefits, at least at the high end, to managing it yourself.
Sounds like a cross browser issue, the fixed bar has a red background for me, Chrome, W8.
Some important points about Switzerland:

* Switzerland constitutes an organized state militia in which the government obligates its citizens to undergo military weapons training with annual reserve training until age 30.

* Citizens in the militia are required to possess and maintain weapons, but the use and storage of those weapons - and particularly their ammunition - is very tightly regulated (e.g. ammunition sold at a shooting range must be used there).

* Citizens who decide to keep their weapons after their reserve obligations are complete must have a licence.

* Citizens who want to purchase a gun must get a permit to do so. To get a permit, you must have a clean criminal record and pass a psychological screening. (Single shot rifles do not require a permit.)

* The sale of automatic and selective-fire weapons is forbidden. (It is possible to buy one with a special permit from the police.)

In short, Swiss gun laws are based on the idea that citizens may be called on to defend the country from attack; whereas American gun laws are based on the idea that citizens may have to defend themselves from their own government.

The rules that govern responsible gun ownership and use in Switzerland would never be accepted in the United States by 2nd Amendment maximalists or the politicians they have intimidated.

One more thing: despite the stricture of Swiss gun laws, Switzerland still has a firearms-related death rate - 3.84 per 100,000 - that is on the high end of liberal democracies; one-third the American rate and almost double the Canadian rate.
It did work for me, one page at a time. Which makes sense because I don't think this server can do multithreading.
Developers dive in to create a wealth of autism apps
could you use something like this to make an anonymous bitcoin protocol?
Ugh ... that edge card connector and the RAM's vertical orientation was horrible. I tore mine out of the original case, found a real (mechanical) keyboard, built a better power supply and added a weed-eater style battery. I could move it around (unpowered) for quite a while before it lost it's memory and there were several times I took it to the local TSUG without having to reload the program I wanted to show off.

A local jeweler designed what he called a "winky board" and sold it to thousands of TS owners. It provided an AGC for both the audio input and audio output as well as shaping circuits to eliminate noise from the signal. This little board actually made storing programs on cassettes reliable.

Ah ... memories!

EDIT: It was a Winky Board - There are references here:

- ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/technical-docs/SinclairHardwareFactSheet.txt

- http://forum.tlienhard.com/TS1000/www.ts1000.us/cgi-bin/yabb...
The point is that any given Japanese individual would have been perfectly justified in defending their self with a gun, versus being put into internment.

Jews having guns in Germany would not have stopped Hitler due to their relatively small numbers, but it would have been completely proper for them all to defend themselves instead of having their families sent to slaughter.

If a dozen people are coming to attack my home, I'll probably lose that fight, but it doesn't mean I won't attempt to defend myself with a gun if I can rather than just capitulate to their brutality.

Of course there's also a drastic difference between Hitler and Stalin's gulags vs the Japanese internment camps. While a complete violation of their rights, there was never any consideration toward committing genocide against the Japanese in the camps.
> When entrepreneurs move to Berlin to work on their companies

I'd say you have a real problem if that happens. Germany is pretty entrepreneur unfriendly (source: I'm an entrepreneur in Germany) and if your country is even worse ... well.
Agreed.

If you really choose to control your Facebook privacy, you can do it but then the engagement experience becomes very limited. Facebook gives you controls but then it's given in a manner that it becomes a choice between use it or not use it.
Brandeis Magazine has rare Beatles photographs
The legos to make that cost $100? Wow.
Do providers of other browsers that use tabs have some sort of licensing deal with Opera? Seems like they are suing over trade secrets based on Firefox tabs?

Why are they suing the guy and not Mozilla, why are there no lawsuits against other companies that provide browsers?

Feels like a FU-cause-we-can type of deal.
dont forget Spud!
http://d116.com/spud/
See http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi... as well
In general, if you have a metric shitload of money, you own them.

If you're a normal person, you're on your own. Copyright really only seems to be effective if you've got a team of lawyers.
>There are many hidden taxes such as 'social security insurance payed by employer'.

He's taking about hidden taxes such as this one, which is paid by the employer, so many French people I've talked to about it seem to think it's somehow magically not money out of their pocket.
Fab on track for 300M, Acquisition, and Opens Retail
Interesting, I'd not seen that before thanks. Not clear to me if I can actually buy one yet, there contact page doesn't list the 64bit servers which is weird. Anyway I've pinged them for more information would be interested in playing with one.
Apple's Jony Ive Said To Be Bringing The Flat Design Fad To iOS 7
A Responsible Programmer
Hand weapons for the purposes of civilian self-defense, yes (they wouldn't be "guns" except in the loosest of senses).

"Set phasers to stun" and all that; a nice idea, but way beyond the foreseeable future.
Tech This Week [video]
Mongo in Azure VM: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/common-tasks/...
"Access to" and "owning it oneself" are not necessarily equivalent. If a household of seven has a single cell phone, seven people have "access to" a cell phone.
The size of the error resistance coding you'll need will quickly dominate the size of your data. Also the argument is a probabilistic one. It's not that certain data will be recoverable, only that there may be a non-zero probability that some data may be recoverable.
There is a reason for which there have been no big French or European company founded after WW2 (1945).

So, the following don't count?

Bouygues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouygues) founded in 1952. Large conglomerate with 130,000 employees world wide.

Capgemini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgemini) founded in 1967. One of the largest IT consulting firms in the world.

Carrefour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour) founded in 1958. It is the second largest retail group in the world.

JCDecaux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCDecaux) founded in 1964. The largest outdoor advertising firm in the world.

Sodexo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodexo) founded in 1966. One of the largest food service companies in the world.

etc.
I applaud the article for not using the word "Atlantis" once.
Ask HN: Review my startup - www.FollowProSports.com
A couple of weeks ago I was watching The Masters tournament and started compiling a Twitter list of the top 100 PGA Tour pros. I created a test webpage and added the widget to it. That was interesting watching the tour pros comment before and after their rounds, but I soon found myself wanting more information. I added two more widgets beside the first, one to follow the hashtag #TheMasters and a second for the hashtag #Augusta. Now I was getting the tour pros input alongside the fans. What a way to watch the tournament!

Recently configured similar pages to follow MLB pros and games, the NFL Draft, UFC 159 and the NBA Playoffs.

The site is still a work in progress, but I'd like to get some feedback on the idea, the layout and any other insight you care to offer.

Thanks!
I don't think it's very likely app stores will change their terms in the direction of complying with the GPL.

I don't blame people using the GPL either (except possibly people that use it for libraries), nor people that publish apps on the various stores, I was just clarifying a point.
I work in France and I'm still trying to wrap my head around the 35-hour rule. I've only worked PMEs (<50 empl.) so I don't know how big companies manage, once you get over 50 different rules kick in.

* General salaries are sort of trapped outside the big cities. You can work 35-hours but don't expect any pay raises. I think the avg salary is around 1500€/mo. I would say most people have built there lives around the 35-hour week and even though it's not an upper limit anymore I haven't noticed an uptick in working hours.

* There are so many things wrong in the French economy you can't really site a single source. Sluggish economy, automation, globalisation, all play a part. Do remember that after 35 hours that extra time is voluntary, as Apple is finding out. A smart manager wouldn't build a work schedule around 40 hours knowing the workers can legally walk off at 35.

* Startup culture was much harder in the past. Where would you live? No property owner would rent you a flat because you don't have a "real" job. Bankruptcy was devastating, that 040 code. And then you have the social charges. The government wanted you to pay your pension, insurance, and the other social charges, in advance. Imagine what it costs to create a startup? Now imagine having to pay an entire year of taxes before you can sign your first customer. And the other thing was bureaucracy, lots of it.

The government tried to make inroads on the tax charges by allowing them to be delayed for 2 years. And a lot of companies failed at 2 years for this reason.[1]

[1] this was told to me by a political activist friend.
Huh, I've heard only good things about the startup scene in Berlin. What are some of the main issues from your perspective, if you don't mind elaborating?
As I wrote there is lot of hidden stuff such as taxes payed by employer plus social and health insurance. I don't care how it is called officially. It is calculated as percentage from income and one may go to jail for not paying it. There are also non-income taxes such as 60 percent VAT on petrol.

I am not French (Czech living in Ireland), so I dont know what is situation exactly, but I bet it is not much different. In Czech Republic I payed about 55% tax from my 1500 euro/month salary (bellow average for Prague).

From wiki you linked:
> Taxes paid by employers on wages, namely social contributions, are not considered as taxes by the French central government.
Not expensive compared to London, really?
I live in London, it is expensive, but the salaries are better here, more than compensating for the cost of living.
There's a great quote by Teller on that:

"You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produced 500 live cockroaches from a top hat on the desk of talk-show host David Letterman. To prepare this took weeks. We hired an entomologist who provided slow-moving, camera-friendly cockroaches (the kind from under your stove don’t hang around for close-ups) and taught us to pick the bugs up without screaming like preadolescent girls. Then we built a secret compartment out of foam-core (one of the few materials cockroaches can’t cling to) and worked out a devious routine for sneaking the compartment into the hat. More trouble than the trick was worth? To you, probably. But not to magicians."

From: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Teller-Reveals-Hi...
I'm very confused. I work entirely from private feature branches; I use GitHub pull requests to manage merging those into master, but never touch master myself.

Does this fit into the above workflow at all, or is it only for those who are working off master or sharing branches with other developers?

(I usually follow something approximating this flow: http://julio-ody.tumblr.com/post/31694093196/working-remotel...)
Thank you for this! It totally reminds me of Feynman's spinning plates story:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html
Unless this breaks valid C++ code, I don't see how they need care too much about fixing it, especially since that would break existing code.
seems standard. visual studio releases are years behind each other so they're not going to fix anything that's not critical.
Chinese are one of the worst. But does US even wishes to get into that category. Ranking doesn't matter here, but belonging to that category is.
I wish there were more things like the for C/C++ and backend developers like myself.
Why not "Ivory Coast Bus Routes Redrawn using Cell-Phone Data" ?

As someone living in an African country I find this headline beyond ridiculous. If this was in Lebanon would we be reading "Asian Bus Routes Redrawn using Cell-Phone Data"?
I suppose the incrementing index on A tags could have been for ordering links for tab navigation for those who were navigating websites via keyboard.
It is not based on normal tabs (which Opera was first to introduce to a browser). Well actually we don't know the specific yet but the blog post says "a Mozilla employee presents among others a feature named Search Tabs".
Is anyone else slightly annoyed that there is no imagery to show this data on a map? That's all I was actually looking for when I clicked the link. Had a quick look for it and can't see anything. Can anyone else help with a link for the lazy?
Not true. If you code and solve problems at work, and fail spectacularly, you don't want to try and solve more problems. The brain is very good at generalizing stimuli: having your code compile is like a programmer's own little Skinner box. So if you can find problems in other domains and solve them, you'll still enjoy programming and solving problems.

I do agree that you need some successes at work, though. If you were doing really well in private, but everything at work was going wrong that would cause problems.
For anyone else that don't know what a ZX81 is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81