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I really don't understand the hate for Big Bang - is it because I'm British? I think the characters are actually quite sympathetically drawn. Sure, it's not as sophisticated - it's just a very straight sitcom - but it's still funny, has some relatively intelligent references, and Jim Parsons' acting is often outstanding.
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Extra dependency that I buy. But narrowing filter for hiring? Seriously? Any web developer should be able to pick up any of these templating languages (as well as CSS preprocessors such as less, sass etc) in less than a day.
Fair enough. The enums themselves aren't a problem; they just seem symptomatic of a pile-on-more-stuff mentality.
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Note also /usr/include/sys/queue.h for intrusive lists.
Nerdiness is evolution. Flowers are colorful and fancy to attract bees. Transparent terminals are colourful and fancy to attract hackers (aka users).
Even as someone who hasn't done any real work in such languages, your statement strikes me as viscerally true. Those features are an obvious boon for reliability.
Yes, but specialized server installations where multi-core CPUs have one process sitting on one core are still "real" loads. They're just specialized and not the common case.
There is no public discussion, poll, or even a heads up. When a user asked about it, he was effectively told, "There will be no communication about this change."

Although there is an IRC channel, a discussion mailing list, and mentioned elsewhere in this comments page, there was a poll of some sort. And half a dozen duplicate bug reports with comments already in bugzilla.

Advising users, no matter how technical they are, to dig through system internals or devote the time and energy to become core contributors of Gnome so they can have the blessed power to ask that something they depend on not be removed for "maintainability" (really, someone's OCD sense of elegance) is actively hostile to those users.

Stuff changes, you can't absolve yourself of the need to deal with it changing just by waving the 'user' or 'busy' cards. If you depend on a feature, don't just go moving entirely to a new version with no way to revert, without testing that the feature is still there. What if it was present, but had a bug and didn't work on your system? Would you go to the developers and demand they consult you before having bugs because you depend on it?
Best first two comments ever, though.
If your front end is simple, perhaps. But if you're constructing complex webapps with tests etc. then this stuff comes in very useful.
Only looking for explanations. Really super grateful that Jasper_ added some, but it’s still not entirely clear.
Picasa Photo Viewer, when the image is downloaded then opened using this program, doesn't show anything over just the first block (top left).
Did you read up until the part of the Fourier series post that is just calculus? There's some linear algebra stuff at first, but it's just an overview intended for someone who is mathematically inclined.
Retailers segment their customers' trips to the store in much the same way a tech company segments use cases. So-called "stock-up trips," typically conducted after the first payday of each month, are when customers go to the stores to -- as the name implies -- stock up on groceries and supplies for the coming two weeks. "Fill-in" trips are ad hoc trips to grab specific items or meet needs that have emerged since the stock-up trip. A second stock-up trip typically happens around the second payday of the month. And so forth.

Shopping behavior -- particularly shopping behavior among segments of the population living paycheck to paycheck -- follows very predictable patterns like these, often by necessity.

Now, let's put this into practice. I'm managing a regional grocery chain. Let's say it's Kroger in the Midwest. I want to win customers' share of wallet on the payday stock-up trip, so they'll go to my store instead of a competitor's (let's call that competitor Meijer). I'll time my sale accordingly on key items (often these are "price indicator" items that signal price superiority over other competitors in the area). Meijer will be timing its sale the same way, and so a lot of game theory and competitive intel will come into play here. But this is why grocery items and household necessities are cheaper at these big chains two weeks out of the month.
I think he's rejecting DVCSes in general; note that he said he tried git and has rejected it for bad merging:

> so I naturally stuck them in a git repository and pushed to my personal git server. But then, how do I deal with synching my work and home machines? I guess I'll manually merge changes... Yeah, that lasted about 10 minutes.

(Now me personally, I read that and go 'how is git unable to handle the merges, isn't that the point of git', but presumably he has a good reason to waste all this time looking at alternatives.)
I think, he wants to match the case when x == y. You can do that too.

let y = 5 in

match x with
1 -> print "my string"
| 2 | 3 -> print "2,3"
| z when z = y -> print y
I spent almost a decade in DC and knew many political, legal, and technology reporters. For the most part, they often don't know what they're talking about. They have no background in the subject, no training or study in the subject, and rarely do any research on their own.

The worst/laziest literally copy and paste from their "trusted sources" instead of writing it on their own.. which is even worse when that source is a press release or otherwise manicured statement.
Yeah. I just finished a 50 page research paper on it, so it is pretty fresh in my mind. I was surprised to find that it wasn't a greater killer. Yes, it is fast and lethal, but it did not account for most of the deaths.

The pipeline on flu vaccines look very promising, and IMO, we will have an effective universal vaccine within ten years. The next generation of vaccines can be made by bacteria or other methods that do not require 1 egg for 1 vaccine. This makes them cheaper, much faster to produce, and easier to distribute.

One test that amazed me was Inovio used a unmatched vaccine on the 1918 Flu with lethal dose in mice. All the controls died but none of the vaccinated.
Several terminals are my IDE. The font and the transparent background are my theme. If you're staring at terminals for 4 to 8 hours-a-day a good combination of font, text colors, and background keep the text from floating away on your burned-in retina.
granted Tesla is a US company so you are probably right, but on the international market trucks are not relevant. SUVs are though!
Transparent terminals are awesome. With the right amount of transparency it can get a very cool background while still being readable.
No, It would be like replacing Gopher with HTTP. Gopher was fantastic, and well adopted (for it's time, at least in the Mid-West) but then Tim Berners-Lee came along with a better solution that people ended up using.
That is something of a false choice (no offense to your Mom) unless you Mom currently drives a BMW 5 series sedan.

This question : "Of the things that Tesla is good for NOW (not in 5 or 10 years) what features does it have that the general public cares about that will drive sales?"

Is what is leading your thinking astray. The model S isn't designed for the "general public" any more than the BMW 5 series is designed for the "general public". A better question is this "How much of the $85,000 sport sedan market can Tesla capture with this offering?" And the answer to that question is "quite a bit."

Now since that is a pretty high margin business to be in (they are luxury cars after all) the follow on question is can they use the profits from that market to enter the $40,000 sport sedan market? Or the $40,000 small truck market? or any of a number of lower price points.

I think the answer is yes (of course), and I think that the challenge of those more cost effective markets are that people become more skeptical of 'new' cars and want 'established' cars. Which is why Lexus and Acura started with luxury cars and moved down market rather than the other way.
So the chance that I'm God is 1/2? Cool.
There is a Tesla store, in the mall right down the hall from the apple store my brother works. It looks like an apple store but with really big ithings.
> Replacing Bitcoin now would be like trying to replace gold with platinum or replace HTTP. It's not going to happen, no matter what technical advantages another currency has. Bitcoin has critical mass. Sorry. Game over.

There's some real cognitive dissonance if you think that bitcoin has a chance against fiat but no currency could take on bitcoin.
Same in Chrome Version 26.0.1410.63 (Ubuntu 12.04)
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No. The math notation that is used across all branches of mathematics is consistent and unambiguous (the notation of formal logic, naive set theory, etc). The only ambiguity typically comes from traversing different branches of the discipline, which is inevitable considering how many branches there are and how deep they go.

Furthermore, mathematics is all about communication. The language of mathematics exists to codify concepts so that they can be talked about concisely. Being able to say 'group' instead of 'set with an associative binary operation with identities' is essential if you want to be able to build on top of that concept without taking an hour to read one theorem.

The handicap in communication isn't on the mathematics end, it's on your end. You seem to expect them to be able to explain structures to you that took years of work to build by using the same language that you use to talk about sports or social events. The reality is that you are not the target audience of their communication, and they are okay with that. You should be too.

The weirdest assertion that you made is that high-level programming languages ought to be as close as possible to human languages. The two categories of languages exist to communicate fundamentally and widely different groups of concepts. Words represent categories of analogous concepts, and the relevant categories in human life are nothing like the relevant categories in programming. In Haskell, 'functor', 'applicative functor', and 'monad' are highly relevant categories. They pop up everywhere and can be leveraged with great benefit. In human life these concepts are far less common, and thus do not merit words in the common vernacular. Were we to use a programming language modeled on English, we would miss the benefit of these abstractions, trading them for categories like 'dog' and 'car' which have very little practical use in typical programming.
I feel awkward just watching it. But hey, if it's fun more power to them.
Does anyone else find it strange that the page containing this video also has a "send anonymous tip" link, which claims "we don't track anything, not even your ip address."

And of course the headline "modern media is often wrong, vapid, and easy to manipulate" is a little more sensational (and click generating) than, say, "Ryan Holiday claims some media outlets have biased incentives"

Which leads me to the amusing possibility that Ryan Holiday did not actually do those things, but is manipulating the media into thinking he did, which of course would prove his point.
He span for me, but only when we were on the last two bullets, which was about the same time I was spinning.
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It shows on the iPad in Mobile Safari but loads and fills out slowly in a grid of squares in rows and columns of 3 or 4 (I forget). It took about 15 seconds in all to render. Fascinating nonetheless and I learnt something.
That's British humour. His previous work included a bunch of priests - one eager, one dopey, one very drunk. It's not three copies of Joseph Gordon Levitt.
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Tesla is an incredibly innovative company and I'd bet a lot that they'll be hugely successful in the long run. However I have to warn people on HN against interpreting the recent stock rises (from ~30 to 80) of TSLA as public faith in the company. What happened was a "short squeeze". At one point ~45% of TSLA stock was short, and as the price rose the investors with short positions were forced to buy long in order to cover. The buying drove the price even further up and caused an even bigger "squeeze" on those with short positions. This pattern leads to the astronomical rise you saw. Of course there was a real boost from the good earnings report which caused a 15+ point gain but a lot of the intermediate gain was due to the short squeeze.
Something tells me they'll find a way to say that electric trucks would be bad for small business.
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You overestimate the ad-writing and interviewing skills of companies.
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Yes, the VERY best way to make money with a legitimate hair regrowth tonic is though a website. P&G would never be interested in selling something so niche.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is the only thing that matters.
The protocols for space walks are also very similar to deep sea divers. The suits have an internal air pressure lower than the space station (for many good reasons). In order to avoid getting symptoms similar to the bends, they have to spend several hours pre-breathing pure oxygen etc. This means they can't just put on a suit and go outside in an emergency - it takes planning and time.
No problem, glad to help! I think the app is going to do really well if it's as simple as it looks.

I also maybe have only one fake design bone in my body, I'm trying to learn as I go, much like you all :)
There was a US version of the IT Crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNPj3jXhzgw
This is a bit philosophical: how would you know that you're finished, and that it's time to move on?
I have seen those too. Do people really enforce these?
Something that worked for me: in January I decided that 2013 will be the year of finishing things. I made a list of everything unfinished, and at this point I'm down 3, with 3rd thing just finished 2 days ago. Feels great.
Spinning the cylinder is also bad for the revolver's timing and cylinder stop/cylinder flutes. So, the odds of pissing off the gun's owner are near 100%, even if you don't end up dead.
No, they are absolutely not (and reception of a transaction is not confirmation). Zero confirmation transactions rely on the default behavior of bitcoind, which is not protocol enforced. There is a patch that adds replace-for-fee, and market dynamics will pressure miners to adopt it.
Is it me or has comments 19-24 been deleted? I'm guessing that's where the Mueller response used to be, but I don't see anything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5691086

Same URL but without the dupe-eluding # tacked on the end.
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Did you read TFA, specifically the part about Freicoin?

http://freico.in/
Well, it is optional, in the sense that there's a provided syntax which doesn't require it. (The namedtuple-esque one.)
On the notice board in my local supermarket, there are about 10 man and a van business cards pinned on. I'd probably call the one with the cutest logo.
Hyperdex looks good, but I'm personally a tad alarmed by them including transactions only as a proprietary plugin at undetermined cost.
Why does it matter how long it took you to make your first application? And why do you care what others think about that?
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Well, I don't hate it. Its a funny show. What you must understand is that is it not a show for nerds, but for regular people. The IT crowd is for nerds. Otherwise you would not understand the humour. Take for example the episode where Jen is fooled into thinking a black box with a blinking red light is "the internet". Everyone believes her, because he is the head of IT (which itself is quite funny, given how she is clueless about IT, something many IT managers have in common). Watch the episode.
On the other hand, BBT humour seems to be about nerds. But look at the main characters. A somewhat functional genius (sheldon) with the social skills of a rock, a socially shy astronomer (or is it cosmologist?), an engineer (portrayed as being smart but puny and weak), and Leonard which is the bond that ties nerds between normals (his relationship with Penny portrays this). He constantly explains the context of the situation or of the characters. And let's not forget the comic book shop owner ( I forget his name). He is portrayed as a weak loser who has no other option in life. All of them stereotypes. Real to some extent, but stereotypes.
You know it's finished when you are dead.
(A bit rough interpretation of Sartre?)
Silverlock by John Myers Myers - a fantasy novel written in 1949 with hundreds (maybe thousands) of allusions to mythology, history, and classic literature. It's a lot of fun.
Why hasn't HN fixed this?
> Half a tank is better. Less weight means better gas mileage.

Half a tank is the weight of a child (gas weighs ~0.7kg/L). The mileage improvement is pretty much non-existent. Your repeated trips to gas stations probably waste more gas than this retarded scheme saves, even ignoring the time wasted.
It's a part of it.
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This is a good article. One can read about Bezier curves in a lot of places. I took a Computer Graphics course a long time ago and every so often I get introduced to a new graphics programming framework that provides some ways to draw Bezier curves. But I think the real trick is how to choose the curves to approximate a certain drawing. In this article the author provides an approximation for a Picaso drawing. I wish he would have detailed how he chose the curves that he did. He promises to describe an algorithm in the next article. Can't wait for it.
I once posted an "Ask HN" about this and it was soon killed.

At this point I have to assume it is a feature, not a bug, so it's hard to fault people who take advantage of it.
Of course, our main goal right now is to add a larger variety of jobs, but we had to make sure the core functionality was in place.

Filters are in the pipeline, but without variety, there is nothing to filter.

We'll be working hard to add a larger database and variety of jobs in the next few weeks / months.

Thanks!
I am not musical. This is a resource someone else suggested to me years ago to add to a small homeschooling site I run. It is listed on my site as a math resource. I thought math+music might appeal to some niche of the geek crowd, even though I am tone deaf and can't really appreciate it.
"How much of the $85,000 sport sedan market can Tesla capture with this offering?" And the answer to that question is "quite a bit."

I can only speak for myself but will add also my observation of other car buyers over the years.

The noise a vehicle makes matters. The fact that the Tesla makes no noise is a drawback to me and I suspect others in this category. I like the feedback and noise that an engine makes. (Think Harley Davidson and how that sounds and how that's a positive to buyers of that vehicle).

I don't have links or research to back this up. Just what I feel is the case.

Also one of the reason people buy cars in this category is because of things you can't put your finger on performance wise. It's a luxury product and there is a certain amount of head baggage that makes it attractive to you. There are people who won't buy anything but a 911 (no boxster, no cayman etc.) because it isn't the car they dreamed about as a kid (that of course will change with the aging population I'm just pointing it out behaviorally.)

That said it would be interesting to know of the buyers of the Tesla what car they owned before that car.
It felt like I was watching The Soup.
Maybe, but you had some great ideas on UI.

Plus it's hard to continue to look at things objectively when you've been staring at it for the past 6 months! :)
You've heard of the expression about leading a horse to water, right? At some point, if the horse won't drink, you take it out back and shoot it. It's no good to you if it can't feed itself.
http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ They have a nice one in Hillview (near the VMware offices and the 280 exit to the VC row on Sand Hill; it's amusing to be bled in both places...), and one in Menlo Park, and one in Mountain View on the "wrong" side of ECR.

To donate platelets, you have to do a test for cytomegalovirus (I have no idea what this is, but am negative), and I think a few other minor things. The big issues are all the standard (over?)conservative blood safety issues from the Red Cross/etc. -- heterosexual forever, not in the UK more than a minimum amount of time, no tattoos in the past year, etc. The hard one for me was travel -- it's a year ban for malarial countries.

I used to donate whole blood, but I'm A+, so there's not a huge demand. I did "whole warm fresh blood" transfusions a few times in war zones when the hospital ran out (since I was specialized IT support staff and not really needed for the emergency, but was in the hospital already). Apparently for trauma the new gold standard is WFB vs. component therapy, but outside of the military and maybe sports, it's hard to have a population of healthy pre-screened donors who will donate quickly.
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I am the primary programmer behind Freicoin (and the one quoted in the article). I would be happy to answer your questions.

Regarding the presence of alternatives, that is in fact the entire point. Money that you do not need liquid and at hand for cash flow purposes should be invested or spent. That keeps the monetary supply moving at a high and near-constant velocity. It also creates a marketplace for credit as people are in need of investment opportunities which do better than demurrage.

It's a little confusing, but what we're trying to do is to separate the medium-of-exchange from the store-of-value: two very different purposes for money that are naturally at odds with each other.
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Frankly, if you have to subsidize it then it wasn't good for business. The government could set the example by moving their fleets to electric, establishing standards for charging and the like.

Get school buses electrified, one county near me puts up some incredible numbers, nearly seventy thousand miles a day. http://www.cobbk12.org/centraloffice/Transportation/

Businesses will move to what works, see how some have moved to natural gas as its more cost efficient. Same will happen with electrics. Don't be so free with money we don't have.
Why only ones derived from Bitcoin? There were cryptographic currencies before Bitcoin, right?
I agree. Changing titles decreases the quality of the submission since they are almost always uninformative and mundane compared to the originally submitted titles. And this thread is case in point.

Edit: I'm tempted to write a bot that will catch title changes and post the original title as a comment in the thread automatically.
Don't you mean 'biding my time'? Anyway, good luck!
I'm an undergraduate student pretty much in the same place where you are - good knowledge of WordPress, HTML&CSS, need to learn JavaScript. I'm at a European university right now and from my experience - what they teach you there barely touches reality, it's a lot of theory, very unpractical.

Really considering dropping out, at least until I really feel the urge to come back. If I find out later that it was a good idea not to drop out - good. If I see that the UNI knowledge is vital for a successful career prospect - even better, I'll come back motivated to learn.
Right now, most people would already pay less for electricity than they do for gasoline. Theres (presumably) less need for constant servicing or oil refills, because an AC induction motor is such a ridiculously simple beast.