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This. It's a very good speech, but if I could change one thing about how he speaks it would be to not allow him to use uh / uhm every few words.

He reminds me of Mark Zuckerberg in speech, even the quality of his voice is similar.
Maybe I finally do something with my .io domain (or the countless .com domains I have registered)!

My .io has been hosted on GAE since the start. I wish GAE would support naked domains. http://www.macch.io/
Having a popular open source project is mostly a matter of luck. Most people that use Node don't use it because don't use Node because it's a brilliant platform. People mostly use Node because everyone else uses Node.

Once you're popular, most of the popularity is due to being popular. There's very little a developer can do to make their a "popular".
They have videos showing the regular structure of cracks in Plexiglas (4 cracks and 8 cracks), and a photo of many cracks appearing in what may be automotive glass.

The thing that struck me (no pun intended) is that Plexiglas is a polymer and thus has a more-or-less regular repeating internal structure, while glass is amorphous, with little internal structure. So comparing the crack structure between them after similar impacts probably wouldn't give you the same information about the energy input. Which might be the point, but it appears they're comparing apples & oranges, so lessons learned in glass vs. lessons learned with polymers wouldn't be transferable.

Also - automobile windshield glass is laminated (to prevent shards of broken glass flying around the inside of your car), and there are different materials used for the laminating plastic & adhesive, depending on the "recipe" chosen by the manufacturer. So the crack structure would be different between them, and again, I doubt the lessons are transferable.
>The Big Bang itself posits randomness as the very catalyst.

This is what I mean, you're not even getting the basic right. The Big Bang Theory says nothing about what initiated it. The theory begins microseconds after the initial event that triggered the expansion of the universe. Seriously, look it up. You will be surprised. Also, there is no scientific theory regarding the origin or the initiating event of the Big Bang. This is what I refer to when I say that science says "we don't know".

>I asked you very specifically about the role of randomness as the catalyst vs there being an intelligent impetus.

Here, I'll answer this right now. The question can be broken down to: which is more probable, that a self-catalyzing molecule formed randomly or that an intelligent being created life in the form that we see today (if it were just going to use evolution then that intelligent being brings nothing to the table).

Well, assuming a god-like entity, it would require a near infinite level of complexity, all of which must have come from somewhere. Thus we are making massive assumptions, all of which reduce the probability of this event in proportion.

Now lets consider the self-catalyzing molecule. We know that chains of amino acids form spontaneously. We don't know what such a self-catalyzing molecule would look like, or how many units it would need to do its job. Thus we don't know the probability of it forming spontaneously. But it's certainly less than the probability of an infinitely powerful god-like (from our perspective) creature. Further, lets consider that perhaps the whole of the earth was filled with these building-block molecules, and thus the potential for this unlikely reaction was playing out in millions or billings of locations simultaneously and continuously. I think its pretty clear at this point the relative likelihood of the two events in question. Once the self-replicating molecule formed, the primordial environment would exponentially fill with this molecule, the process of evolution by natural selection takes hold and thus the process of increasing complexity is self-sustaining.

>Sigh. This is tedious.

At least we agree on one thing!
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If you want qualified developers to talk to you, I recommend a sticker that says "PHP Developer" or "I Write Objective C" or whatever as opposed to a generic "I make websites" type slogan. Not only will this weed out the people who just assume you "do computers", but frankly there is a lot of division within the dev community and just because you're sitting over there writing javascript doesn't mean you want to talk to me about EAV databases.
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Not energy, cash. Really, if you have money lying around for R&R, my suggestion is taking the SO somewhere nice for the weekend and completely forgetting you have partners or a startup.
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> Capitalism means a huge chunk of people literally have to be poor, other wise costs rise, inflation goes mental and capitalism fails.

So you are saying it is a zero-sum game? There is no rising tide lifting all boats?

I'm not sure if i believe this. I don't think the tide rises boats as high as people dream about, but to say that more people wouldn't be poor if we were in pre-capitalism days is ridiculous.
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I'm interested in your relation to the territories, if you don't mind me asking?
These are actually three letter words and very common acronyms like mph.io
Yes they are, because existing video codecs are based on 1980s signal processing ideas, and increasingly video starts out as being 3D models that are naturally better suited to a trimesh and textures approach instead.
I wrote about it here: http://epeus.blogspot.com/2013/05/finally-some-progress-in-v...
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The precedent was already set when Google created the concept of gccTLDs with .fm, .nu, .tv, .tk, .ws, etc.
Ah thanks for clarifying. I couldn't find a minified version of aTable on your Github repo so I couldn't double check.

A number of people have asked me what I used to generate the documentation. The truth is I didn't use any. I just hand-coded the whole HTML doc in Emacs using zencoding-mode. Styled it with bootstrap. The header serif font is a Mac font called Hoefler Text. The code editor is codemirror. That's it. The reason I do this is because I find pretty much all the documentation generators out there very lacking in layout controls. I could use Sphinx but I'll have to end up customizing the hell out of the default themes anyway. Might as well do it the basic way.

The API docs however is generated using JSDuck.
Really nice work, you guys.

Also, nice timing. I recently posted a hobby project to HN that is very similar :)

http://www.nicediff.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5599229

The ribbon support within word itself is great. The ability to link to specific sections of the diff is also a handy feature.
It takes more time than that if you've never done it before. You have to set up DNS, set up the host's networking and firewall, configure and restart your network service, test the service (all this assuming you don't need a tunnel broker).

I don't think it's difficult to do at all, but the onus on the admin to figure it out (and the fact that IPv4 works just fine) means nobody ends up doing it.
It's harder than that to hide what server you're using. And keeping such a secret is barely worth it. You can test for characteristics or exploits of all the common servers easily. And it's pretty hard to hide all implementation details. At a glance through the source I can see it's using .axd files and microsoft webforms ajax with a specific version.
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No need to waste a week weeding through bids, when the whole job could be done by then.

Outsourcing is supposed to save you time, bidding wastes your valuable time.
That's awesome! Tavis's emacs setup is amazing!
I've been using it for jobboard.io for around 8 months and have only had one customer ask me about it. To be fair I don't know how many people are NOT using me because they don't get the domain and are simply moving on. In the long run I don't think it's an issue as most people CNAME their own custom domain for their job boards anyways.
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That's excellent that your team spent that much time on content. That's how it should be. My experience has been the amateurs do exactly the opposite.
One benefit may be that contractors won't be in a race to the bottom, so they won't feel like they should half-ass it.

On one of the other websites, they seem to want to install a spyware on your computer so the employers can see what you are doing at any given moment. I doubt a great coder would put up with that (I'm merely good and I wouldn't) and the odds of finding one there are lower. On the other hand, I think a great coder would be more likely to freelance on a site that has consistent work which they don't need to fight over.

So that's my speculation.
There is always nano.

I use ST2 when working on large, involved python projects or latex files. If I have a small file, vim or nano is sufficient to pound out the changes.
If it is decoded in Javascript on the browser (so... source code), can't we figure out how to decode and encode the codec fairly easily?

Or would using the codec still be a copyright violation even if it is reverse engineered?
It's two different kinds of markets. I'm sure those emails work well for big companies that can never hope to have a personal connection with their customers. That's not most of us on Hacker News.

For everyone running educational blogs or small SaaS applications you can make all your interactions and training feel much more personal.

Though you shouldn't definitely test it.
It's a blink comparator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_comparator
the depression in the Apple logo

Well, that's one problem I won't have to worry about. :-)
There are less than 40 three letter word domains names available now. http://andio.herokuapp.com
I've been shot with a BB gun a few times (late 80s, early 90s). Now, the way the law is that would be prison time for the shooter in NJ.
sound interesting! I don't like being dependent on disqus, too. Can you show how, please?
And today's Beanie Babies?

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{non itunes, outside Google-Play, non walled-garden apps}?

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Sounds like good advice. I'd invest the time to do that, if I had an actual problem with getting too many unsolicited / spam phone calls. But it just doesn't happen at the moment. If I get bored one day, maybe I'll take the time to switch it over.
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Sad and a little bit worried about this. While I will still use Fireworks for years after it's death (assuming I can), I'm not so sure what the path is for designers like me who use Fireworks for complete web design.

Unlike most here in this thread, I don't use FW for wireframing, prototyping or simple UI design. It's been our primary design for complete web/ui design tool for over a decade.

Let's hope Adobe comes to their senses.
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IIS still defaults to adding 'served by ASP.Net' as a 'x-powered-by'. Something I again often forget to remove. And certain versions of MVC you have to jump through hoops to remove their x-aspnetmvc-version. And on top of that you can often tell by just looking at which js files have been included. Is it using MS js files? Yes, then it's 99% IIS with ASP.Net.

So that's not what I, or I would think any reasonable developer, would considered even a vague security concern as an experienced developer with exposure to a few different frameworks can often tell the platform, and thus the probable server, by just looking at the HTML.

If it were a serious security concern MS would have patched the header by now! Instead they've added even more with MVC.

So are there any other reasons? Or is Troy just wrong in this instance?
I've been tracking three letter word .io domain names for almost 2 years now and there has definitely been a recent spike in registrations.
I've noticed that a lot of these logos make claims about fraud protection/insurance with respect to the security certificates they provide (presumably the certificates, at least this is especially the case when you buy an SSL cert from a vendor). Isn't that coverage, in fact, usually limited to the scope provided by the vendor? That is to say, you're covered if something bad happens on their (the certificate provider's) end. If somebody manages to break the encryption outright (practically impossible) or the certificate authority is compromised, revealing your info (more likely, but still not common, and they hopefully have a disaster plan to mitigate this). What's most likely is that the website you're dealing with that has the logo presents the biggest security risk to you, the customer, on its own. This website, I'm guessing and please somebody if you can elaborate on this, probably isn't covered under these 100k+ policies, yes?
Is there a real confirmation on this or is this all based on that tweet and the 7 responses below it?

"People were telling me about it," isn't a good enough source for me.
This is disingenuous. Just because other actors outside the US were involved, does not mean that US citizens shouldn't take action and hold their own government accountable for it's actions.

The US asked/pressured/coerced (depending on viewpoint) the NZ government into doing it. The action US citizens can take is to get our government to not do such things on the world stage - particularly w.r.t. enforcing US laws outside of US jurisdictions.
I don't know how to feel about this. I've commented many times before, warning others about the .io domain and the consequences they'll face with ranking on Google. Now that won't be a problem. But let's face it, .io will never be as 'accepted' as .com by Billy Customer, and now squatters have a reason to go buying them all up, so good luck grabbing one for a techie startup or niche.
API docs for backgrid are fantastic. Looks like the docs are generated using JSDuck: https://github.com/senchalabs/jsduck.
I've started sticking testimonials in my Readme's. https://github.com/n8/multi_fetch_fragments and https://github.com/n8/cohort_me

It's hard to split test these if they are working, but these two projects have gotten a lot more visibility than other open source stuff I've put out.

Over an over again I see social proof have profound effects on getting people's attention.
San Francisco is much less dense than Brooklyn, the Bronx, and even Queens.
Bombermine is more fun.
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I don't know if there's been a lot of rigorous academic research on the topic or not, but there have been a handful of articles in the pop business press, talking about the connection between being "CEO material" and displaying the traits of a psychopath. For example:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/06/14/why-som...
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> If you aren't following the scientific method[1] and are just skipping straight to the "lets see what happens" step, are you really doing science? or are you just blowing things up?

So nothing before the 17th century was science?

> is it worth worrying about the signal sent to aspiring "school massacre-ists" by saying "You can get away with blowing stuff up at school as long as you say it's for science."

No it is not worth worrying about that signal, just like it isn't worth abolishing free speech to get anything remotely looking like bomb making instructions off the internet. Cut your nose to spite your face.
I've always thought the .io is much better than .co
.co seems too much like a miss-spelling of .com
also for organization projects we can allow anybody on the team to edit and post directly from github's web interface.
It's simple as in there are no moving parts, but if it's not machined to the proper specifications the gun will be unreliable. The market failed for years trying to make the lower out of things such as carbon fiber instead of regular cast metal.
You leave out the part where the USSR and other centrally planned economies had to balance linear systems of billions of variables by hand (and rudimentary computers). And where they had to invent from scratch an ideal allocation of goods and services, which tended to represent what was best for the Soviet state and its bureaucrats at the expense of consumer goods and entrepreneurial capital.

People react to incentives. In the Soviet Union, "they pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work": although workers certainly received money in exchange for labor, increasing the amount of money you had did not typically increase the goods and services available to you, as the price system was so messed up that real prices were measured in waiting times and political favors.

A basic income avoids that trap because it leverages the distributed computation of the market to set prices. People will still be at least as entrepreneurial as they are now, because there's the opportunity for huge, outsized profits for both the entrepreneur and the provider of capital.

Also note that most salary workers nowadays make far in excess (typically 50k+) of what the minimum income would provide (on the order of 10k). Most of us here could work for a year, survive on what the minimum income would provide, and then have enough savings left over for nearly another decade at minimum income levels. But we don't do that, because we want more, and that wouldn't change with a minimum income.
> Isn't the joke on the guy posting the (impossible) job?

No, considering the poster's name is "AlanT"!
Here's the link to the researchers' paper on arXiv.org
http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0305
The hard part has always been getting the fissionables.

The only country that's ever had a problem getting their first nuke to go boom as expected is North Korea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test), and they may have gotten their act together in their second try 3 years later (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_North_Korean_Nuclear_Test; the lack of detected radionuclides after it makes one wonder).
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Well that's the first time I've seen someone say "can't be asked". Is that a regional variant or a minor error or what?
>Convenience turns out to be a pretty big contributing factor in how many people do something!

This is anti-American propaganda. All those mass shooters, they would have just found another way.
Yes, if this calculator [1] is any reasonable approximation.

1: http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
You just don't understand freedom man.
The NPR story is from a few months ago. Were they so open about it before it was widely known? Perhaps they were, but when the NPR story came out in February there was a lot of (perhaps not totally accurate) other reporting about how groundbreaking it was for them to have a hit album "with no help from a label."
A true mathematician; nadam only cares that a solution exists.
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There was an article in the NYT recently about companies exploiting underpaid interns in non-software engineering fields. One of the sentences said that the dream employee the companies were looking for were "Triple 22s" - 22 year olds willing to work 22 hours a day for $22k. So its not just software engineering.
That is not a figure of speech, just something silly to say, which adds nothing.
I love the quote from @msuster
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To set an example and encourage IPv6 adoption. Many people think IPv6 is going to fizzle, and as justification they point to the currently low adoption rate of IPv6. I'm very afraid this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy and we will be stuck with a future where home users are forced to use carrier-grade NAT and even web site operators may have a hard time getting new IP addresses. I want to avoid that future if at all possible, so I do everything I can to encourage IPv6 adoption today. There may be no short-term benefit but helping IPv6 adoption has substantial long-term benefits.
Ah, ReGIS graphics. Sometimes the past comes and taps you on the shoulder.

You mentioned the VK100 as the original ReGIS graphics terminal which I'm fairly sure is correct. It might be worth mentioning that terminal's more familiar name, the "GIGI". It actually came out a fair bit sooner, certainly earlier than '85. I'm pretty sure I was working in a lab stuffed full of them in '82, '83 at the latest.

They were a pretty fun terminal to work with. Among other things, they supported the ability to upload bitmap fonts. A friend of mine put together a "Rogue Font" which put those terminals in demand in our lab for playing "rogue". I did a multi-terminal chess board system for them.

ReGIS was supported in later DEC terminals, the VT-240, VT-300 etc. By that time I was working in the TBU's (Terminal Business Unit) QA group which was '85 and on. That was the same era that DEC released their first PostScript based printer (the LPS-40) not too long after the Apple LaserWriter came out. It was a fun time for early computer graphics.
what is "large amounts"?
I would say if there is a lesson at all - that it's helpful to be on friendly terms with several of the Silicon Valley elite before you start your company. Not taking away from Instagram being a great app, but it was catapulted towards success due to the founders personal connections.
As a community we need to get away from [making shit up]. If we don't know, we don't know, and we need to say it.

All too often, when we do say it, managers just get annoyed and demand it be done by an arbitrary deadline; since we don't know how long it will take, we're not in a position to justify why it will take longer than that arbitrary deadline. The decision gets made either by "this is when it's needed" or "make up something so he'll stop pestering us", the date gets etched in stone, the particular scenario is forgotten, and when the date is missed everyone looks bad and gets annoyed.

Managers need to know how long things will take. Fair enough, there's more to most projects than just development, and it all must be scheduled to come together in a sensible workable timeframe.

The problem is it's still a fast-changing discipline, with the unknowns dominating the knowns. The biggest known is construction time: most disciplines have a construction/distribution period long enough that it can cover/buffer for variation in the design phase; in software, the construction/distribution period is nigh unto instant (compilation), so design can't hide behind any other phase. It's all design, usually entailing something significant designers have never dealt with before. It's not, say, a bridge where all the basic materials & mechanisms are well understood, predictable, and have a long construction period which can run parallel to at least some of the design phase.
I was indeed, thanks.
Heh, nearly 80GB... and that's with mostly testing out the queries on the smaller publicdata:samples.github_timeline dataset.
Hm, I wouldn't call safety a feeling at all.

I'll stipulate it and give some more thought to your position in that context. It definitely colors things a bit; I'm not sure whether it legitimately changes things.

On the flip-side, would you feel differently if the attribute being discussed was clearly not a feeling?

"I don't like guns and I think the fewer people have them, the shorter we are", or some such.