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Ah, providing it at the terminal level does make more sense (that was probably obvious to anyone with any familiarity with the basics of Unix terminals, sorry), and now that I hear it I'm not surprised it already exists :)

In that case, I guess this functionality would be implemented similarly to the example you mentioned of stopping the client from sending every keystroke at a password prompt, right? It seems like it would be strange for ssh to send the 'toggle echo' signals to the client, but not the 'toggle canonical mode' signals (which the client could also handle in a useful way).
What I Learned as an Oompa Loompa
I sold almost all of them, being a penniless student. And yes, I regret it.
Whydontyoudo.it
Oops, I just lost my progress by pressing Backspace… you might want to save the progress in local or session storage.

I like the humor of the machine but I arrived at the tests about conditional but couldn't remember the command to ask for a key. A way to get back to what I've seen could be nice.
Why can’t Microsoft get their products right on the first try?
What would be a good start would be portable and reliable snapshots with differencing managed by the kernel. Some filesystems offer this capability but it is not available to us in this particular circumstance.
It's not officially O'Reilly, but it's at OATV, hosted by Renee there, and Dale Dougherty will be there.
Not everybody is a rational, utility-maximizing machine. This "something" has less substance than a durable good but may provide a great deal of subjective value.

And, as for myself, rather than questioning the value of such an education in the first place, I consider it a problem that this it's as expensive as it is.

I also consider myself lucky that my passions and desires happen to align with -- or are at least complimentary with -- my economic interests.
I don't think it would make that much difference. The corn industry is subsidized by the govt anyway, so i am pretty sure corn syrup would still be cheaper.
Oh. See that's another game design decision.

Nothing prevents you from typing:

unlock @door, <action to get the key>

But when doing user testing, lots of non-coders got stuck at this point. It's clearer to them when things happen one after the other.

So, if I can find a good way to teach them that when you do a(b(c))) first, b is called first, then a with the return value of b - without making a lenghty tutorial-type explanation, I'll do it.

In the meantime, this'll do :)
This site says "sleep debt", I see "hours spent awake and productive". :)
OP here! I just noticed that they are not really contrasting, and maybe I'm mildly colorblind!
I liked it. The first questions was harder than the actual programming quizes, which maybe wasn't the goal.

I can't wait for part two!

Edit; I found a few bugs, commands like "print" and "open" does what window.print() and window.open() does. Is this intentional?
If Chrome was involved, it aggressively refuses to use anything but the whitelisted fingerprints and will notify Google if MITM is detected for any high profile hosts.
How to Boost Your Internet Security with DNSCrypt
Very entertaining! Is it aiming to be an intro tool for programming? I think it would work well as one.

Maybe literals (specifically strings) could be introduced a little more somehow.

Maybe @xzoor should have a more obvious human name like @jeff (since it's rather similar to @door)

At one point I forgot a method name, and couldn't scroll back to find it, I don't think it should be a test of memory (unless that's exactly what it is and in which case I deserve all the abuse my robot overloads can give)
Primary looks blue to me. I find it a bit strange that you would call one distinct colour another colour, as we're taught to label them as children, so generally colour blind people only trip up on edge cases as it doesn't matter what you see, you've learned to associate a shade with a label.

Your eyes must be more messed up than mine; are you talking about the top Primary or the lower Primary, because I can kinda understand with the lower, but I'd be suprised if anyone with a decent monitor couldn't tell the top colours apart and call them by name, extreme cases being the exception.
> This means that its absorption rates and effect on the glycemic index are different from HFCS.

They aren't. The enzyme sucrase is needed to break it down but it cuts through sucrose like a hot knife through butter.

Scientists have already studied this and found sucrose and HFCS have basically equivalent responses in "blood glucose, insulin, leptin, ghrelin, and appetite."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17234503
Similarly, I was issued a stern warning for sleeping 7.999 hours each night. The danger of losing "0 hours" of sleep over the course of a year was quite alarming to discover.

With a little less teasing: ignoring issues with assuming that humans are physiologically identical, the assessment could stand to be more sensitive to the significance of deviations from the proposed norm.
> the distribution of their sum

Exactly. But the page defines the CLT as referring to:

"the mean of a sufficiently large number of independent random variables ..."

So it talks about the mean and then illustrates the sum, just as you are, which is confusing. I spent several minutes puzzling about how the mean of variables between zero and 1 could be 5, for example.

Now, I suppose you will say, the distribution of the mean is just the distribution of the sum, normalized, and this ought to be obvious to anybody with half a brain, but if this page is meant to help people trying to learn this stuff understand it, it would be better if it was accurate and not directly confusing with its language.
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the way i understand it, from the inpatient side of things, the medicare payment structure is structured so that for each hospitalization, you're paid a certain amount, known as a DRG. Therefore, the hospital is incentivized to boot you out as soon as possible.

C diff infections (for which fecal transplants apparently look extremely promising), cause extended hospitalization, eating into the DRG, and therefore, reducing overall reimbursements.

So fecal transplants aren't as disadvantaged as you might think.

With this whole incentives thing - the incentives of the insurance company (to pay as little as possible) do play a role in all of this.
Nice reply Cardeck, echoes my sentiments exactly, in my reply to MGirdleys post.I should have asked you if your interested in being a co-founder lol!! I dont understand why there is so much hostility between tech and idea/biz folk, whose got the bigger b*lls etc

I think being an "idea" person is about knowing the market your going in, understanding your application and development in that market, the sales, finance etc
Remember often what you go onto develop will not be used by tech guys so you also perhaps need an outside looking in perspective...but maybe I'm just saying that as the "idea" person
So store 12 month's supply, Or 18 or 24 months. And buy options to buy from a few other countries that we can exercise if need be.
> The legacy API was mostly used just internally

I find that amazing. I think every app I've ever worked on or built with Heroku has tied into the API in one way or another. It's one of your best features.
Are you sure?

"plans are to install on-site grid storage to make them self-reliant with their own energy supply"
Is this a programming language?

Why not use a programming language?
Oh heck yeah. For some reason fonts are often set too large and they spill out of their boxes leaving no left margin, and zooming out one step fixes this. I wonder if it has something to do with this machine's retina display?
> It's the same molecules.

No, its not. Sucrose is a molecule. Fructose is a different molecule. Glucose is another different molecule.

> Like everyone else has noted, 1 sucrose molecule = 1 glucose + 1 sucrose.

You mean 1 sucrose molecule is broken down at the first stage of its metabolism into 1 glucose and 1 fructose, rather than sucrose being an infinitely recursive combination of 1 glucose + 1 sucrose.

> The proportion of glucose to fructos is just slightly different in HFCS vs table sugar (55/42 or 42/53, versus 50/50).

Yes, the proportion of fructose to glucose in HFCS is higher than than the fixed 1:1 ratio that sucrose is broken down into (the exact amount varies, because HFCS isn't a fixed ratio). Since fructose and glucose have different effects (one notable difference is that there is at least some indication that fructose doesn't trigger the body's mechanisms for satiety while glucose does), this can be significant.
Well of course my statement becomes untrue when you qualify it by saying "in addition to Obamacare if they desire it." I am talking about uninsured, the majority of our patients. Perhaps I could have added the word "uninsured" to my sentence:

uninsured patients will no longer be able to pay out of pocket for medical care

That said your statement is very optimistic that the uninsured/underinsured patients who we cater to will not only be able to afford insurance in the future but be able to pay out of pocket for healthcare "if they desire". It is more like if they can afford it, which they cannot which is why they are uninsured now. Keep in mind many primary care copays are $50-$100 under existing insurance plans, which is going to be very difficult for these patients to pay under any circumstance, but especially in light of their new found insurance expense (maybe even an additional government penalty expense). At least now an uninsured can come to us and get antibiotics for $30 ($20 1st month payment and $10 to see the ARNP or PA).
Thank you. This one is relevant too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Sleep_debt
When I worked at USDA, it was noted that it likely would have led to cheaper biofuels in the United States to the extent that such extensive legislation and tax breaks wouldn't have been needed to jumpstart ethanol in the US.

So on the consumer end, as far as consumers are taxpayers, it would have meant paying for zero support programs instead of two. If you want to go out on a limb, cheaper ethanol leads to cheaper petrol due to a substitution effect, so potentially it would have made all food products marginally cheaper thanks to lower shipping costs.

The linked article is a good one though. It is a funny subject to bring up in the bureaucracy because as economists, we all knew the harm it did, but as bureaucrats, we also knew that the policy wasn't going anywhere.
Yeah HFCS is just fine... except for the heavy metal contamination[1].

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...
Thats kind of the problem with the stretch goals. It just makes the development even more difficult and the wait longer a lot of the times because more money doesn't always mean you can work faster.
http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ has been doing this for ages, with inotify on Linux and kqueue on BSD. It's already packaged and available - indeed, often required - on many distributions. Facebook has done some neat stuff here, but providing a portable file-change-notification library isn't novel.
Um, we can consume 10x as much per capita as the Chinese because we produce 10x as much per capita as the Chinese. And we could produce (and hence, consume) even more if we wasted less effort on making war and propping up inefficient old industries.
To people outside of the US, $20 might be a substantial amount of money.

Saying "It's just $20" could, to them, be same as saying "It's just $1 000" to you.
The @xzoor and @door similarity is a fair point - although @xzoor has a kind of emotional sensibility to me, I don't know if could change it. @portal would work for the door, though ;)

Non-human names are kinda voluntary. It's a hostile universe, ruled by machines. You're the underdog. You're survining through your coding abilites only. The fight back only begins with Episode 2 (covering subjects like 'cryptography' / 'security').

About forgetting method names etc: Episode 2 (and updated Episode 1) should definitely have a backlog - your previous responses. That's gotta be the top requested feature.
The amount of money a startup raises shouldn’t be the only metric of respect
I like it - but I'd worry about wheather it'd be useful warning oncoming traffic, and if not, how we'll it'd perform in the presence of another more traditional headlight.

Still a spiffy idea.
It is not pronounced Jif it is pronounced Gif.
Cool, so you're being kind of disingenuous in your arguments by ignoring my underlying point (SSL does not do these things) and my disclaimers (JS crypto has huge, real problems, I'm not an advocate for it), and instead just replying so you can invite moxie and tptacek to circlejerk on twitter apparently: https://twitter.com/marshray/status/340239501446217728

Instead of make more comments for you to take out of context and condescendingly straw-man, I'm going to withdraw from this effort.
There were a lot of problems with that study. You can read about them here: http://examine.com/faq/is-hfcs-high-fructose-corn-syrup-wors...
I'm colorblind (probably deuteranomalia; red-green problems) and I can't see any problem. In the simulated daltonism version Success and Warning are probably even more different than in original ones (but Warning seems a little greenish).

Does anyone with impaired color vision actually have any problem?

It's completely different with plots using red and green (especially red-green gradient). Don't do it ever - or at least not when showing results to anyone who you don't know to have proper color vision. Orange and blue are much better.
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"strongest technical teams in silicon valley history"?

So much for the guys who invented the silicon transistor, the microprocessor. the Macintosh team must have been small fries.
Is there an API reference? I don't remember how to ask a guard for a key, and apparently it's not guard.askKey.

edit: Ahh, got it. The @key was already given to me (was this specified somewhere?), so the guard didn't support askKey. I wonder if there's a more appropriate response than not having the method, but I'm not sure what it would be.
Are HN comments broken for everyone?
They come up as blank pages for me. I realize that if they are indeed broken for everyone that no one will be able to comment here :)
is it me or this new projects sounds a lot like Rogue Legacy?
> Specifically, when the new law goes into full effect, patients will no longer be able to pay out of pocket for medical care.

I am pretty sure that the new law requires most people to purchase medical insurance (with some exceptions that are covered by existing/expanded safety net systems like Medicaid), and subsidizes some medical insurance purchases, but I'd be very interested in a citation to the supposed prohibition on patients purchasing medical care directly. (Now, there are certainly deductible limits which may limit the amount patients may be required by insurers to pay out of pocket for things which are otherwise within the scope of the coverage of the insurance they have, but that's a very different thing than being prohibited to pay out of pocket.)
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I was like you until i try Angular ...

Having an entire data driven view save loads of time,trust me. You can have complexe nested objects, and you dont have to worry about how the view will be updated. Change a value in the object , and the view updates. And Angular works very well with jquery plugins once you get the directive thing.

I still use Backbone for "brochure" sites and campains though, when i port old Flash sites to HTML5.
I once pointed out, to a former grad school roommate, a big fat general relativity textbook sitting on my bookshelf. I said that even though I didn't use it any more and had forgotten its contents, it was hard for me to throw it out. "Of course not!" he replied, "It's the only proof you have that ever knew any of that stuff."

It's gone now. I've gotten rid of most of my textbooks, but I still retain a sampling for sentimental reasons.
Another Silly Startup Analogy
It's my notes I regret throwing out.

The books, I could replace on Amazon or eBay if I chose.
I moved from the Dallas area to the Seattle area and I've had AC everywhere I've lived (except the first place). Sure I've had to install it in one case, but it's not that expensive compared to the benefit if you're used to AC.

Also, I think Seattle wins on weather too, but I lived in the southern heat for a very long time so maybe my perspective is warped.
Who cares what crapware is on the machine? You can wipe it out and install whatever free OS you like. I would argue that your test case isn't particularly relevant any more.
The industry rag is "Embedded" ( http://www.embedded.com/ ) which replaced the print version published as "Embedded Systems Programming". There used to be three to four pages of "Help Wanted" ads near the back of each issue and that was the best place to find embedded systems jobs. The reality is that most job boards have these listings now (and they're usually cross-listed) but you often have to search for embedded related topics to find them. Try PIC, Microchip, ARM, uC, uP, etc.
Got this: EEM: Object NaN has no method 'toLowerCase' - Try again. :-)
Hmm, weird. I can only reply to you by going to the comments section (of HN, not this thread), clicking your name, viewing all your comments, and then hitting reply from there. But I can't see threads.
Yep, I keep HN itself one click higher in fact. I don't think I zoom any other sites... just this one.
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answer 1

EEM: raw.toLowerCase is not a function - Try again.
> future proof DESKTOP OS

This is something I obsess over.

Use minimalist software that you are fairly confident that you could fix or recreate in another environment if necessary; for example, don't use gnome-screensaver but instead use slock. Where possible, use software suites where being future-proof is a first-class priority; for example, wherever possible use TeXLive. Consider something standards complaint with a rabid user-base over alternatives; for example, use Vim instead of Kwrite. (In fact, take a list of the packages in the current Ubuntu livecd, and the packages in the current Kubuntu livecd. XOR the lists. The result is a list of software you should not spent time building skills in if you don't want your skills to become obsolete in 5 years.)

Where you are not confident that you can pick something that meets any of these suggestions, pick the simplest software that you don't have to customize and that you will miss the least. For example, don't roll your own X window manager and don't use BerylFusion after setting three dozen options. Use firefox or chrome, but don't marry yourself to a combination of two dozen highly specialized extensions.

In an effort to future-proof my computer experience I follow these self-imposed restrictions. Additionally, I have a strict whitelist of software that I am willing to configure: zsh, vim, tmux, elinks (only because I could bare to lose it. It is not future-proof), urxvt (very begrudgingly, I only set my font and background color), and Awesome (very very very begrudgingly. The only configuration of it that I am willing to do is set my terminal to urxvt.) Any other software I use "as is", with the expectation that it could be obsolete and abandoned tomorrow.

Brief example of something that drove me to adopt this sort of attitude: I used to use Amarok to play all of music, and got very used to my setup. Amarok 2 came and wrecked everything, completely erasing all the mental effort I had put into Amarok over the years. Upset by this, I decided that life would be simpler if I just wrote my own very simple xmms2 client that I would never change out from under myself. This worked great for about two years until the breaking changes to xmms2 (requiring me to make changes to my client every few months) wore me down. Now I just use mplayer, a shell, and standard unix utilities. Even if I have to swap out mplayer I am confident I will never have to change my workflow again on a unix-like computer with keyboard.
Seattle is closer to Hawaii. I've found Seattle to have acceptable sun by spending a few weeks out of the year vacationing to Hawaii or California. Summer in Seattle is so much better than Summer in Texas; it's the rainy winter that you have to break up.
How can you say with a straight face, "There is low inflation risk since the production of coins is algorithmically limited and has a cap at 21 million." Inflation is "A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money." Meaning, one bitcoin has less purchasing power than it used to. The purchasing power of Bitcoins plummeted recently, and everyone knows it.

"Payments are irreversible (there are no chargebacks), so there is a reduced risk of payment fraud." If I'm not mistaken, many people use intermediates like mtgox that don't actually keep your money in bitcoins. Meaning, they reserve the right to reverse payments, and have done so on several occasions. You can argue this is not an inherent problem in Bitcoins, but if many (most?) users are susceptible to the problem, I think you're remiss to gloss it over.

"Payments can be made without identification." But they're only pseudo-anonymous. It's possible to track a bitcoin from me, to you, to someone else.

"Satoshi Nakamoto," I think it's crazy to not mention that Nakamoto is not a real person.

You mention Scarcity, but not divisibility. There are 100 million satoshis per Bitcoin.

"Bitcoin's primary use so far has been to facilitate illegal activities such as drug dealing and money laundering." This is a strong assertion without evidence.
I'm glad GOG is getting some publicity. I much prefer them to Steam. The Steam client has always been clunky to me on all three supported platforms. I also don't like the social aspect. GOG gives me a downloadable game for easy transfer, gives me the ability to log in and re-download, their customer service is superb and it's pretty cheap. Come to think of it, I'd be more than willing to pay over the standard $10 for their games.
Brainfuck: esolangs as art
For one example of this look at http://jenkins-ci.org/. They use blue for successful builds and red for unsuccessful builds.
Nice idea, the start was a little bumpy though because it wasn't really clear what I was supposed to do (answer with the word answer xxx, answer 'xxx' or just xxx). For a non-programmer this would be a bit of a leap perhaps. The first puzzles didn't really feel at all connected to the rest of the game to me (questions about ineffable things).

It'd be nice if the program initially responded to more english words, to make the initial interaction more fun.

At one point I got stuck because '' was expected around a value but this wasn't obvious from the previous steps.

The use of @ before predefined variables doesn't really seem necessary.

Allowing users to add variables is a nice touch

Chrome sometimes took cmd-return to mean open a new browser tab, not sure why.
That is definitely true for Seattle as well (Seattle prices are more like LA than Texas). House prices in Texas are very low. I do miss that about Texas.
'guard' is just a placeholder. Try typing

key = @xzoor.askKey(@door)
Memory gaffe leaves Aussie bank accounts open to theft
yep. i don't think i have the right background to answer this. is this based on a book or something from nerd culture?
I'd love a way to turn off the voice. As neat as it is, there's a noticeable pause on each new instruction, relative to the length of the instruction, where I assume it's busy synthesizing the audio it's about to play.
Yeah, it was my placeholder. I was being told that @xzoor didn't have an askKey method, because it looks like he only does on the one level where you're told to ask him for it.
http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Meritocracy-Classics-Organization...
You're the one who brought morals into the conversation. The original statement is 100% correct: torrents do work just fine. Their morality was not mentioned until your reply.