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Well, you can start with all the functional languages that automatically are able to do these things you're talking about, like Haskell and so on. You can argue they aren't 'developer friendly' but you never defined that term to begin with, and people are certainly productive with those languages (developer friendly compared to what? Go is certainly not the most accessible language)

But in terms of more 'mass market' languages, C++ and C# both have incredibly robust generics that can be used to do real, no-foolin' functional programming, though doing it in C++ certainly takes a lot more effort and leans on modern libraries - closures are a comparatively recent introduction to the language. You've also got 'mass market' functional languages like F# to have fun with.

Then there are the more fun options, like writing your functional code in Lua or Python and running it in a high-performance runtime like LuaJIT/PyPy to get fairly competitive performance without even needing explicit typing or built-in 'generics'.
Here's what I think is missing from this kickstarter (and was a huge part of the Veronica Mars kickstarter success) -- you can't pay a reasonable amount of money and get the final product.

I realize he probably can't sell advance tickets (beyond special cases like opening night) but how about, say, the DVD/Bluray/iTunes/Amazon version when it becomes available. I'm not a huge Zach Braff fan, but I liked Scrubs a lot, and I enjoyed Garden State. I would totally pay $20 to get the production diary + digital version when it becomes available.

Personally, I think the "pay me to make this movie/tv series and if I get the money I will deliver it to you" model is the future for a lot of entertainment (especially for known quantities like -- say -- the people who produced Stargate SG-1). The inefficiency of paying a network to speculatively create and back TV shows based on guesstimated potential advertising revenue and a tiny chance of a massive payoff if the show is a hit is horrendous.
While this quick, it is very dirty. There are basic problems like the dragging the slider competes for position with the playhead. It is mostly broken on tablets, etc.

Quick and dirty HTML5 video players are a bad idea. If you want "quick and decent" just use the native playback controls.
I don't think this is a true, learning new tech is skill. Back when I was an undergrad there was a class that basically switched languages once a week after each homework assignment and every 2-3 weeks it switched paradigm (procedural, OO, functional, logic/declarative, etc). The idea was that the tech being used doesn't matter, just the understanding of the theory and the skill to learn new tech. Anecdotally, every time I switch tech now as a professional, I feel I get better at it, faster. Learning itself is a skill to be learned.
In fairness, his medical school helped him to study part time while he played rugby - but hey, there's no need to dilute a great achievement.
A lot of what keeps regular Joes away from bitcoin is its complexity and the difficulty of keeping your funds secure. If PayPal were to make the most secure, easiest-to-use bitcoin wallet, they could profit greatly from it and also provide something that doesn't really exist anywhere yet.

All PayPal does right now is help you get dollars from point A to point B, and in the process they take a cut. They could do the same thing with bitcoin. I don't think it would be competition with bitcoin, it would be promoting it to mutual benefit.

I would be afraid of them providing this service without allowing you to export your data, however, which seems like the kind of thing PayPal might like to do. If your bitcoins were trapped in their system you're always in danger of having your account frozen as has been a problem up to now. Part of the purpose of bitcoin is to be able to avoid that, so I'd hate for PayPal to bring that whole problem to the bitcoin world.

But if they approach it properly, bitcoin could be a great opportunity for PayPal, instead of a threat.
I like the idea, but there absolutely has to be some sort of indicator that you're interested in recording this convo (and the less invasive the better). How about linking it to calendar events, and/or locations? Facial rec could be an indicator for recording when you hit Glass integration.
Perhaps you could elaborate on this. I do agree that the title and video give slightly more credit than is due based on the current state of fluid dynamics knowledge. However do you mean your group is searching for closed-form solutions to NS or are you generating approximate numerical solutions (CFD)?
Oh, you haven't the slightest.

:)
At first read I thought the headline meant that 25% of consumer traffic was going to IPv6 sites, which seems impossibly high. But the article says "This reflects the fact that IPv6 is part of Verizon’s rollout of LTE". Does that mean IPv6 is all just internal in Verizon's network and invisible to consumers? If I have an LTE iPhone on Verizon, is it even capable of talking to an IPv6 site?

Related, from links in the article: Google has a graph showing that over 1% of their users now have IPv6 available. http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html
The NFL scores correlate well to skill vs talent positions.

It's also worth mentioning that the O-line often has the largest cognitive overhead during a game, as they have to memorize and execute complex blocking schemes, work together to enact subtle feints, read/pick up blitzes/additional rushers, all while fending off an equally large and quick defensive tackle. The center can also override the quarterback's play calls (under certain offenses) if he notices a defensive shift or audible.

It's definitely possible to win a Super Bowl without a star quarterback, wide receiver or running back, but nigh upon impossible to win it with a weak front line.
My 2c: HN is full of geeks. Bitcoin appeals to geeks.
aren't bitcoin transactions irreversible, making it incompatible with PayPal general policies?
If "different result each time" (i.e. non-determinism) is the expected result, then you're not expecting a different result.
Darkest Secret? More like an open secret. It has not yet affected me, as I am quite old enough yet. But I have seen in in large corporations. It's bad management, very sad, and would be almost impossible to prove in a law suit.

It's also why I will definitely try to transition to either entrepreneurship or contracting before I hit 40.
We're doing the same thing on our docs pages - it's really a good way to figure out places where you need to improve.

And I hope they publish it as a client-side library as the article hints at. We needed a solutions like this recently, but had to write our own that connects to our Zendesk.

I was surprised that I found none of the customer support services that support this kind of simple feedback. In general, customer support tools need to up their game regarding client-side integration.
I wish number two was available on Amazon without the preinstalled crapware called windows eight. Having that POS on also means that the motherboard is infected with microsoft's encryption key, making it hard to put a real OS on it - Linux.
I disagree. Games like Uncharted 3 have had much more sophisticated water simulations where water is an active part of the environment. Another example would be Hydrophobia. Crysis 3 is pretty much just slapping a heightmap onto a water surface, but it's no surprise that they take the easy route there since water is not an integral part of the experience in anyway. Crysis 3 is about shootin' men and robots that look like men, not about interacting with physically simulated water.

Here are slides from a presentation about Uncharted 3's water:

http://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2012/slides/1_Visual...

I believe they've talked elsewhere about the complexity of the water sims they did for areas that involved boats and an ocean you could swim through, but I don't have a link handy.
I totally agree. It makes a great work philosophy, but it doesn't guarantee or necessarily affect results at a given employer. There are too many unrelated factors that aren't being controlled for.

Is your company going through expansion or is it shrinking? You can work terribly hard on a sinking ship and still wind up with a lower salary and worse position than the average at your age.

Staying with the same firm in IT that long may be luck or it may even be harmful with the wrong employer.
Artistic water simulation and scientific/engineering fluid simulation tend to be mutually exclusive in that they optimize for different objectives. Typically, a solution in one domain is ill-suited for the other. For instance, the "Stable Fluids" trick leads to desirable artistic properties (fluid behavior more closely matches stage direction = active energy input) at the expense of systematic inaccuracy (total energy is biased downward) that would be undesirable in an engineering context.

If this technique worked equally well in both domains it would go from "impressive" to "miracle". In the meantime, we can certainly applaud it for the things it does do well!
Bank regulation isn't worth the paper it's printed on. The contracts reflect the culture, and if the culture is rotten the benefits will be the same.
The color is also not right. But the animation seems almost flawless otherwise.
Maybe I do not understand this particular Kickstarter (and the economics/dynamics of movie-making, among other things), but I did not find 'revenue', 'profit sharing' or other related words/phrases anywhere on the page, or in this HN discussion. I've seen the rewards column, and though I'd like to add 'indie movie producer' to my resume, I don't see any prospective returns for what is essentially a risky investment (term used loosely).

Zach Braff is a very successful TV/movie star, does he seriously not have $2m of his own to make this movie just the way he likes it? Like others, is this crowd-funding exercise also mostly for 'social proof'?

Thanks to all who reply.
Yeah, what you're referring to is the fact that surface tension is not scale invariant. In other words: dew can only be made of smallish droplets, not large ones.

I think the reason you see that is that they don't really simulate surface tension, but use a rather crude trick [0]. My uneducated guess is that in oder to achieve water that looks ok at small scales they would have to increase the size of the particles to the point it doesn't look smooth anymore.

[0] equation (14) of http://mmacklin.com/pbf_sig_preprint.pdf
The author is the guy who wrote the "Wisdom of Crowds" book.
Good stuff! Here's few more..

Should there be one check to ensure that the site works at least somehow if javascript is disabled?

Also, there could be one check to ensure that the pages can be printed.
> Second, from the comments by employees on this thread, and the CEO's statement from the article, they are spreading themselves too thin by aiming to be the so-called "Apple" of genomics. Apple didn't start by trying to control the "full-stack", and it wouldn't be Apple if it did.

Counsyl started out using a third party lab to process the samples. The founders had a vision of being a pure software company. It turned out that the outside labs they tried all had terrible quality control and we had to re-test samples more often than not. That's totally unacceptable for the stakes of a pre-pregnancy genetic test. So they decided to run a lab in-house and it has been one of the best decisions made in the history of Counsyl. We have an amazing statistical process control team making sure that everything performs as expected. Control plates are constantly moving through our pipeline to catch any mishaps, and we are automating as much as we can in the lab, both to scale and to eliminate human error. We have no known false positives or false negatives, and we've found errors in the 1000 genome project's data (expect a publication about that sometime in the future).

> Third, any company that has Steven Pinker and Henry Louis Gates as advisors, at this stage, seems to be aiming at the wrong things: media exposure and political/legal maneuvering (Our test requires a doctor's prescription) as opposed to making something people want.

Pinker has been an advisor for many years, long before we left stealth mode. (I believe this to be the case with most of our advisors, but I only know for sure about Pinker because I'm a fan.) We have been operating silently since 2010 and have only just now lifted the veil. The test requires a prescription because of the state of health regulation in the US. We give medically actionable information so we're required to get a prescription.
I just checked whatismyipv6.com from my LTE Verizon phone and it returned an IPv6 address. The site itself can be access from IPv4 as well but it will inform you if this happens.
I feel the same. I don't know where i would be as a programmer if I didn't open up the code to libraries and look around. Reading through this thread I seem to be the odd one out, but generally after about a week of working with a library i skip the documentation and go straight to the source. Even more so on libraries that fake their documentation by auto-generating it from doc comments. Why would i want to read documentation generated from the source when I could just read the source and comments, having twice as much info? Additionally many projects documentation only gets to the level of 'why do i want to use this' and not the nitty gritty details. Those details are in the code, and thats where I tend to look first on any project I'm familiar with.

I should add that i work with interpreted languages, so going from my code to library code is literally just a key combo that looks at the token under the cursor, finds it in ctags, and goes there. It takes a fraction of a second to be looking at the code.
Nerd appeal is one part but there's also a gold rush mentality among part of the HN audience and Bitcoin feeds into that.
You assert "Apple fans can ramble all they want about how everything is simple and easy" without evidence.

This is incorrect. For example, many pro-Apple commenters have discussed how the "home" button on iOS devices is a horror show of modality which performs about at least five different actions.

You also dismiss arcane and obscure actions too easily. There is nothing wrong with providing an obscure action as a "keyboard accelerator" so long as there is also an obvious way to perform the same action too. You're examples of "double-tap the home button" and "shake to undo" are good examples where this principle is not obeyed: there is no simple alternative and is, as you say, a UI compromise.
How Reddit became a national scapegoat
Bitcoin is more than a currency, it's also a massive, international, and reliable transaction network. Furthermore it isn't tied to any individual entity (government or corporation) so there is value in its impartiality and lack of restrictions on senders or recipients.
PhysX is aimed at running on current generation 'consumer grade' gaming hardware, so think a GPU you can get for $200 (if not less). It works out of the box on all of NVIDIA's modern graphics cards.

Of course, you do have the problem of what to do when the water sim uses up all the available GPU compute power and bandwidth - not much left to render, in that case...
Does anyone here know what technology stack this is implemented in/with/on?
Paypal already encourages you to use your bank account instead of a credit card. Paypal is not Visa/mastercard. They have to make their money in addition to whatever the credit card is making. It only makes sense they look at bitcoin as a method for frictionless digital payment.
Is there a reason screen resolution doesn't seem to be listed almost anywhere anymore? I mean, any reason other than all laptops today seem to only offer 1366x768?

Does anyone know of a sub $700 laptop that offers anything above 1366x768?
Approximate solutions are found computationally.

Non-trivial closed-form solutions are hopeless. Existence of solutions is a little less hopeless. Existence of solutions over small time horizons has been proven. This is all in three space dimensions.

There is a theorem stating that if global-time solutions exist and are unique, then computationally computed approximate solutions are 'good'. Moreover, they get better as you refine the computational domain.
How far we've gone. First RTFB, then RTFM, now RTFS/C. What's next? RTF{Minds Of The People Who Wrote The Code}?
In Mac OS 8, the simple finder was not a kids mode. It was, as I recall, and Wikipedia confirms:

"Simple Finder, an option which reduces Finder menus to basic operations, in order to avoid overwhelming new users."

I don't know about Mac OS X, a Mac OS X Tiger guide suggests that "The Simple Finder would be fine for most kindergartners, if it allowed them to delete the files they created. In its current state, it is almost worthless. It should not be confused with the far more valuable Simple Finder UI that was introduced in Mac OS 8."
Cool stuff, but the viscosity seemed a bit off (especially noticeable when the glass walls were shot out towards the end), and waves seemed to hold their shape for a bit too long. I wonder how hard that'll be to tweak.
I'll be surprised if medi-vac choppers don't have units to get someone's body in and chilled during transport to increase the odds of survival in the next few years.

The days I regret having only a technical background and not going off to be a pararescue apprentice.... sigh
Really? The color's not right? Not all liquids are the same color. Hell, not all water is the same color. But the GP is right when the water doesn't wet anything, it's kinda eerie.

EDIT: Having said that, water simulation is HARD.
Givers vs. Takers: The Surprising Truth about Who Gets Ahead
As long as it's closed source, I have only your assurance that you don't have keys.

I doubt you or your cofounders set out to deceive users or spy on them, but there are many, many government-related reasons to lie to your users about privacy. The government can be very persuasive that way.
Cloud Provider cuts price to help build spaceships to Mars
It sounds like they see it as a way to get money into paypal. That is, it's no different than a bank deposit. In other words, an easy way to transfer BTC->USD ("funding instrument"). What they'll then do is dump the BTC they get on the market.

Not a bad idea, but it seems they're thinking too small.
Minor correction: 51 year olds were 15 when the Apple ][ came out, not 18.

And they had seen computers, just not personal computers. Exhibits showing line printers printing ASCII (or, more likely, EBCDIC) art were fairly common views. Any technically inclined kid in a rich country would have seen one (touching is something else)

Also, I don't think we have fewer good low-level programmers; they just get lost in a sea of glue-blocks-together experts (that, by the way, has its place, too)
From what I can gather the traffic figures reported by the ipv6 launch site (25% for Verizon Wireless) are traffic in/out of the various ASNs listed. So it is in fact 25% of Verizon Wireless's customer traffic is over IPv6 to IPv6 enabled content.

This is actually not as strange as it might seem. Google/Bing/Facebook/Youtube/Netflix/Wikipedia and the iTunes store are all available over IPv6. These properties represent a significant portion of typical mobile device traffic. That 11% of the remaining Alexa top 1000 properties are IPv6 enabled doesn't hurt either. Lastly, practically 100% of VZW's LTE customers are using handsets and operating systems that support IPv6 so they don't have the issues Comcast has with ancient home routers and modems stopping people from using the v6 service that is provided.
Agreed, it was an amazing experience for me in 2011, and I'd love to go back but really cannot afford both the ticket and travel/lodging now.

Apply and worry more about funding your travel once you get accepted.
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Targeting the Enterprise? Think Again.
Step 1: Determine the physiological process that causes the brain to go into a safing mode during severe/near death trauma.

Step 2: Figure out how to duplicate it with either environmental (temperature) or chemical (compound) factors.
I'm responding to the original article. This should have been clear to you by the fact that my comment was at the root?

I don't disagree with your thoughts on the difference between scenarios where a bad verb is chosen as a shortcut and scenarios where a bad verb is the only way to do something. However, that still isn't relevant to my core point, which is that the iPhone has been and continues to be a place where important actions can only be performed with poorly chosen, confusing, undiscoverable verbs.

This is hardly unique to Apple, to be sure, but again, I was responding to the original article's smug assertion.
I noticed that too; seems like it might be a matter of making the particles smaller.
It comes down the needs of the employer. Since technology evolves so quickly, it's hard to find someone with many years experience in trendy languages. Experienced developers bring additional soft skills that are hard to quantify and hiring staff often have no idea they even need them until after the fact. It's easy to just think this guy is willing to do the same for half the price.

More experienced developers bring additional soft
> map[rhubarb]bool is how Go does sets

Actually, you should use map[rhubarb]struct{} since a struct{} requires no storage. You can test membership with this:

_, ok := m[strawberryRhubarb]
The price relative to other currencies deflates as long as demand rises. The total number of Bitcoins inflates (at a decreasing rate) for the next 100+ years.
I have heard that about Far Cry too, but even as a fan of all of the FC games, I really cant see why people say that. I'm not saying the AI is bad or sub par, just that I'm ignorant!!! To be fair though, I don't play that many games, so I don't really have much to compare to.
Fox bans the sale of unlicensed Jayne hats from Firefly
Roee here, creator of the report. That's very good feedback. We'll add it to the next report.
> In Postgres for example there is just so much arcane configuration that needs to be done before you can start writing code.

Not really.

> All that extra guff should be an add on option for "enterprise users".

It may not be right for whatever toy project you are doing, but that doesn't mean that it isn't right for the baseline of a product that does what Postgres is intended to do.

> Why not just the database functionality on its own, stripped of all the complex surrounding bits?

The things you call "complex surrounding bits" are part of the core functionality of a RDBMS server.

> ave you ever experienced the pain of configuring pg_hba.conf?

I've made changes to pg_hba.conf, though for simple development against a default install I usually don't have to. I never found it painful.

> Or trying to work out the right user access control to your database entities and then keep it all ok when the database setup needs to be changed?

Never had any problem with that. If you don't have really complex security needs -- and especially for the kind of development where its sensible to consider application-managed security rather as an alternative to DB managed security -- its straightforward. You can just create a user for the application, and create a database in the cluster owned by that user, and bam, you're done.

For more complex cases, sure, its more work, but then the work is inherent in the more complex cases, not a product of the DB features.
Minor point...there is this thing called "inflation". It's real. If your salary doesn't go up every year by at least 1-3%, your buying power gets lower and you are effectively getting poorer.
The future of world education?
Online, institutional or absent?
There is a difference between knowing how to do something and thinking it's a good idea.

Obviously if you need to look at your code for pragmatic purposes, that's fine; but if reading third-party code becomes your modus operandi, you just might be using crappy libraries.