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Made a super simple responsive boilerplate that will accomodate 99% of responsive websites. Set your config variables in the LESS file and your good to go. Just put up a demo as well.
Except a child's benefit to society is quite large. A newborn is probably currently predicted to generate $1 million worth of economic benefit overall. (Actual numbers are hard to get perfect given the variance)
>The language designers have not ruled out generics, and are fully open to providing them at some point. The issue is that they have yet to find an implementation that fits within the language design goals.

That's the party line. And I, for one, don't believe that.

Go has been going for what, 3 years? And a couple more internally IIRC. And not only they came up with nothing with regard to generics as of now, there's also no research or initiative has been started that anybody knows of.

So how exactly are they supposed to "find an implementation that fits within the language design goals"? By some kind of satori?
It'd be far cooler than the conspiracy theories and assumption of malice that mediate poor and rich relations right now.
After college (see my top-level reply) I became the same way for some years. I eventually came to realize that a lot of my books truly no longer held any value to me, and I would almost certainly never open them again. I've managed to clear out about 10-15% of my collection, which actually did marvels for making the place look tidier.

Of course, I'm also continuing to buy more books, so, um...

Maybe someday I'll come to like ebooks just as much, but so far I'm not counting on it.
This reminds me of the time I lived in a van and took odd jobs to pay off credit card debt. Oh wait, that never happened...but it will if I find a publisher to give me a large advance for the book I write about.
Not sure how inotify is different from while+stat?
I get this error when I visit the page:

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Yeah, if this is your thinking you should just stay away from Kickstarter. It’s not for you and that’s ok – but please, please don’t change the way Kickstarter is by your stuffy insistence that it has to be something it is not. Just, please stay away from it and let people have their fun.
>What is the relevance of Dunning-Kruger?

In that it's not wise to put people using other languages (such as Java etc) as "lesser programmers", just because you think you're so much better for using something else.

People tend to overestimate their smarts -- and those kind of inane comments about whole language ecosystems are not exactly signs of brightness.
Compressed Features for Machine Learning
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The UI may initially take some time, but not any more than learning how to use a pencil the first time. Glass feels unlike anything you've used before because it is. That said, my experience at Google I/O, I figured out how to use it very quickly and I thought the interface was intuitive as I navigated. Using the touchpad on Glass is more like using a smartphone before touchscreens. It feels a little disconnected in that it is indirect control, but when Blackberries only had a jog wheel, millions of users had no problem using those devices.

Given that Glass doesn't have a launcher like most Android devices, the real challenge will be in actively using Glass. Passive use, whereby you are connected to applications using the Mirror API, means that you just receive notifications pushed by remote services, and if you don't respond to a card, it just gets pushed down the stack. You can navigate backwards to find those cards again, but just as you don't respond to every Facebook post, you can just let them flush out and choose to ignore it.

The two problems that have to be resolved, are how do you control "native" applications, built using the GDK, and how do you control the flood of extraneous information when you might subscribe to tens or hundreds of services that send you messages through the Mirror API.

While you can control what notifications you receive, it would be very easy to subscribe to "important" services and still feel overwhelmed by notifications that aren't particularly interesting just so that you do receive the notifications that you do care about. Culling this stream into something more useful is where some of the AI research may also pay off. It is a difficult balance to figure out today, but as this tech evolves, I have no doubt this problem can be solved too.
We definitely used what you mentioned as a starting point. There are some changes, hopefully for the better, but it should in time provide all the same functionality in a more public and formal way. We definitely love that people were excited and motivated enough to reverse-engineer things as you did, so we hope this makes it easier on you and more accessible to others.
M7 slow release earthquake under Wellington
I find it odd, and sad that you've been "down voted", because people are pushing an ideological agenda and not reality:

http://www.badscience.net/category/big-pharma/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Pharma-companies-mislead-patient...

There are serious issues with the current models used by Corporations <> Science, and I'd expected HN to be a little more rational.

Bottom line: if $ is at stake, of course "rational actors" will fudge their lines to prevent losses. It's not rocket science.

Now - I've included a couple of decent links, to extremely well researched and honest analysis. If I get down-voted, I feel that HN has lost the spirit that drove most early coders.

A =! A is not an objectivist philosophy, it's Logic, and what code is based upon. Ideology can go take a flying leap, this is Science.
I am not surprised, I have seen slowdowns of 40%. NUMA leads to an annoying bimodal timing, where some runs are fast and others slow.
If Tesla-class ranges are accepted, I'd think further battery density advances would translate into fewer batteries/lower-weight, rather than maintaining weight and adding additional range. Particularly if charging speed is also advancing, there wouldn't seem to be any call to increase the range beyond what's acceptable. (And using fewer cells would further-advance the charging-time-per-unit-range numbers)

Better to optimize the things people don't like (total charge time) or the things you don't like (high cost of batteries), than to further improve a thing people find acceptable (range).

That said, I wouldn't want to build any business plan that assumes the existence of dedicated charging stations simply because I don't see how they survive long-term.

Dedicated gas stations exist because fuel storage is a large-enough consideration and pumping a fast-enough endeavor that it just makes sense to make fuel pumps a destination in-and-of-themselves.

But if charging stations are a bit of additional electrical work to wire up a handful of spots and charging is going to take a bit of time, why wouldn't every already-viable roadside diner, attraction or hotel just add a few spots (and then a few more, and then a few more...)?

And if you're getting a bit of charge from every other stop you make on a road trip (for snacks, restrooms, meals, attractions, overnights, etc) who needs a 30 minute purgatory at a dedicated charging station?

Even if you needed a charge, choosing a destination that happened to have a charger would seem a more optimal move than choosing a charging station and then hoping it has a destination attached.
thanks for pointing this point. I updated the document.
Yeah, this is just a cycle. Just wait for a year or two and skeuomorphic design will be back.
Sure. And he's a very determined individual. I mean, did you hear about the time he lived in a van to keep grad school financially within his reach?

The statistics definitely don't play out in a vacuum... His kind of determinism holds far more bearing on his successes (financial or otherwise) than any degree (liberal arts or otherwise) ever could alone.

Also, don't ever forget the power of defining your own terms for success. I mean, it's pretty hard to fail when you're successful by definition. Although sadly it's nowhere near as easy to do as it sounds...
On "polygamy": I have seen a nice gender-neutral term on LessWrong: "polyamory".
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The guidelines ask submissions to use the page's title. Moderators often change them to conform. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Dissolution of State
Loved Disgaea but I feel like the endgame is too repetitive and boring. Like, in one of the games, if you wanna go to the penguin world you're looking at like 150+ hours of grinding. It's not World of Warcraft you know?

So I guess I'm looking for depth, but not depth for the sake of depth, more like real continuous flow. I liked Disgaea a lot though back in the day.
New Elasto Material Available for 3D Printing
It would be nice because I (and I suspect many others) like to see how many others voted a comment up. I actually don't think I need any other reason than that.
This is cross-platform, which inotify isn't. Also, isn't inotify pretty low-level? It looks like FB has consolidated common inotify helper code into a reusable daemon.
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Your snark is unwarranted. While+stat in a loop is a poll loop in userspace, inotify is a push mechanism in kernel space.

My point was that the additional functionality of this significantly-sized package beyond running inotify+md5+make in a shell script was unclear.
Yes, I agree with your disclaimer re: blog post comments in general.

Thought it might be if not proof, maybe indicative: he specifically asked for comments on that blog post. And according to the parent, those comments were well reasoned and by a high expert on the field -- they would at least deserve a reply.
If he means formula in that narrow a sense, then his larger point is mistaken. Most of being a good doctor is not reducible to formulas either, but that doesn't prevent medical schools from working.

Only a small fraction of what humans learn consists of formulas in the narrow sense. And an even smaller fraction of the most valuable things they learn.
Ugh... yeah it's bad.

Nodejs? Solving stuff that erlang have solved.

The only approach I like is use a backend language to create a RESTful server to server data. And let clientside javascript mvc handle the layout and looks.

Don't let me get started on those javascript people that think MongoDB and noSQL is going to replace SQL.
In addition to UNIXgod's comment, I can refer you to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X

There you will find:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_sys...

"... Apple Inc.'s iOS and Mac OS X, with its Darwin base including a large amount of code derived from FreeBSD."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

"Darwin is an open source POSIX-compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000."
Brain Food Dump - Sites I read that helped me transform myself
"polygamy" is already gender neutral; the gender-specific forms are polygyny (having more than one wife) and polyandry (having more than one husband).
Sorry for the trouble, working on getting it back up.
Livestream: Kickstarting Your Game
McDonalds Creates Highest Calorie Menu Item Ever.
I've had the same experiences myself before with a broken ankle, major surgery on my skull, various minor conditions which have been sorted rapidly.

That doesn't excuse one case of gross incompetence though.

And incompetence is rife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Hospital_scandal
How Youtube Monetization Works, and Why It's Failing Me [video]
I think it is. For any product you are going have a range of prices. $15k cars exist... but people still buy $150k cars. So just because Honda gets an EV Fit onto market doesn't mean Tesla missed any mark. If they become the Apple of the EV market, then there is no missed mark.
There are only two worth considering (SASS and LESS) and only one worth using: SASS.
I'm having a little trouble making sense of this:

"For example, bigtable beneﬁts from cache sharing and would prefer 100 % remote accesses to 50% remote. Search-frontend prefers spreading the threads to multiple caches to reduce cache contention and thus also prefers 100 % remote accesses to 50% remote."

Let me see if I've got this straight:

* bigtable benefits from scheduling related threads on the same cpu so they can share a cache, I'm guessing because multiple threads work on the same data simultaneously

* search benefits from having its threads spread over many cpus, probably because the threads are unrelated to each other and not sharing data, so they like to have their own caches

I'm not sure I understand how this relates to NUMA, or why remote accesses are ever a good thing. Maybe it requires a more sophisticated understanding of computer architecture than what I have.
InstaGut?
Yeah, but arguably not as non-idiomatic as letting panics cross package boundaries. So long as you keep it all in your package I don't imagine very many people will mind if you use them a tad liberally (use them for things that are not truly exceptional).

I think most people who are bothered by Go's error handling are really just bothered by cross-package panics not being idiomatic (and thank god they aren't).
Using puppet as a poor man's PKI
Mockup Prototyping / Wireframing Utility Roundup 2013
Agree with this. The risk should be very minimal that they can't, at the very least, ship the game as expected.

Whether they can make it a success is a different kind of risk.
CNET Founder Minor Files for Bankruptcy After Selling Art
I choose Scala over Go but I don't think I would be doing system programming with Scala.

I'd choose Ada or Rust over Go.

For concurrency I'd choose Erlang or Rust over Go.

If it's Node.js or Go. I guess I'll choose Go.
If we're going to get into metaphor then I'd like to point out that running a garbage collector on top of another garbage collector is a bit like driving a car on a treadmill mounted on a truck. ;)
Good point.

>Having a kid is very robust against something like hyperinflation, lol.

While I don't know what the statistics are I don't like the idea of having children in part because of the assumption that they would want to help care for you later in life.

As much as I like and dislike my parents I'd sooner move to the otherside of the world than help them though old age.
Since they haven't been real successful at automating a combine (a bit of a simpler problem), I figure the plow and the expertise needed to drive one is a ways off.
Why high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar in US
All the pedestrian crossing buttons in NYC (I assume other places as well) have been disabled since all the lights are run together by algorithms now.
Hardware Summer Camp - Attendee Application
Dart is a Programming Language like wise with Go.

I don't get where he'sshe's going with his/her post though...
Wow, impressive story! Thank you
I think you mean "hard to overestimate". "Hard to underestimate" would mean you'd have to have an extremely low estimation to have your estimate be lower than the actual, i.e., that the actual amount of power is quite small. If these orgs have a surprisingly large amount of power, it would be very easy to underestimate.
This comment looked interesting but was a little tricky to track down, so here it is in its entirety:

http://huntgatherlove.com/node/693#comment-476489235

The rest of his comments (click his name) are all similarly interesting.
I think people are using the term "flat" to mean something other than just "flat-looking", non-rounded, non-glossy buttons. I actually prefer a term Microsoft popularized: "authentically digital". It means not pretending to be a physical button when it's just a patch of touchscreen, for example. But it doesn't just mean "flat-looking" which is pretty confusing!
Server Sales Are Down As Cloud Apps Abound
Since Dropbox is 509'ing, can someone who's downloaded the photos mirror them somewhere like imgur instead?
Unicorn rawk: Kick GC out of the band
If you have issues, feedback, ideas, etc: https://github.com/rackerlabs/devsite/issues - I'll work on them as best I can!
Curiously, even though compilation is indeed near real-time in Firefox, the rendering of the model itself is really jaggy (when rotating). This is not the case with Chrome, where it renders smoothly.

For reference, I'm using 2012 MBA with Firefox 23.0a2 (2013-05-30) (clean profile, just to be sure) and Chrome 27.0.1453.93.
I haven't paid anyone yet because no attack has yet met the conditions. As others have noted, a valid SSL certificate is required for this to work.

Moxie suggested that I acquire a certificate for a similar domain to meet that requirement but that doesn't meet either the normal definition of valid (If a show requires a valid ticket to be shown at the entrance, will one from last night do?). He did claim that producing a forged certificate is possible and I have no reason to doubt him. However, he noted that he nor anyone else would produce one for a reward of this amount.

We were still corresponding when he made the tweet in question. I ultimately asked him if he believed that a certificate to another domain was a valid certificate and his reply didn't address that point but discussed instead why he and tptacek are frustrated by these kind of contests.

I'm sorry I seem to have offended you.
Happy to answer questions here guys - I'm one of the organizers.
Okay - the problem is ownership. When you rent a car in Hertz you know that you cannot modify the vehicle and must return it. So is with the library book you borrow.

But if Subaru tell you that you cannot tune aftermarket your Subaru or you must drive it only on Subaru approved roads in California (but not Nevada) it is stupid.

Currently we are in the reverse dongle situation- in the 90s you need that dongle so your software (OrCAD back then) can work. Now is the opposite - you may like the hardware but we actively prevent you for using it with other software.

The problem comes from the fact that modern devices are general purpose PCs in ultra small factors. You couldn't change nokia 3310 OS back then, but you needed not because the thing was a phonebook with antenna. But nowadays with so much of your life stored in the smartphone the idea that someone has higher privileges/easier access to your data than you is between repulsive and frightening.
> proposes is a veritable shitton of work

Perhaps I missed something in the post, but I don't see a "shitton" of work there.

The first step is easily a one weekend (if not one day) project. None of what was described is particularly difficult, complicated, or labor intensive. I wonder if people are making assumptions about all sorts of fancy extras that the post doesn't mention being included.

That's the time for pure code-work. Thinking/design/testing will eat up more time, but not that much more time. As described it's a pretty reasonable weekend project to last a couple months.
Which I'm really OK with. Any of the people I immediately know who are having children will be getting the benefit of my tax dollars to pay for their mistake, as they cannot do so themselves.

So sure, they may think the same about myself, however I'm not costing the taxpayers money with my shitty decisions.
I like reading these analyses, although I'm afraid headlines like this oversimplify things and give off the wrong impression. There isn't anything inherently wrong with NUMA, it just isn't useful in this situation.

No technology is a 'silver bullet'. Every workload has a different set of considerations that require a different set of technology to optimize.
It's a good thought, but I think it makes more sense to add Superchargers to existing service stations. I wouldn't be surprised if that's their plan going forward.

Here are two of the three on the East Coast right now: http://goo.gl/oWSbW. It's located on I-95, the busiest highway on the East Coast. There are two separate service areas, one on each side of the highway, both identical, and both with Superchargers. There's a Mobil gas station, 3 or 4 fast food restaurants, restrooms, and a convenience store.
IIRC FF still doesn't use vsync for requestAnimationFrame so that could cause rotating to look less smooth.
Libelous and/or slanderous content wouldn't be made any more or less illegal by having or not having identifiable brands in stock photography.

Despite the reactionary comments in this thread, we're not in a corporatist dystopia where it's against the law to publish a photograph of a ubiquitous consumer device.
The pendulum of design always has swung between fits of over-design to stark minimalism throughout modern history (the last 300 years or so).

There's a happy place to be found between skuemoprhic and flat. Flat is hitting the reset button. If everything were flat, the internet would not be better for it.

The best parts of "Flat" aren't the graphical elements but the close attention to functionality and interaction.
I'm not sure about the rest of your life, but I would wait a few years to decide. It's going to take a while for you to adjust from what's important inside school to what's important to you in "real life", and then you can make a better decision about which books might actually help you.
I'm not familiar with this research, but it's possible that sequential accesses to memory would lead to prefetching, in which case going half-local half-remote could actually lead to a slowdown versus all-remote. Another hypothesis is if the memory ends up having to be migrated from one cpu cache to the other, then back. It's better if it's always in the remote cache than if it's getting flipped between the two.

I'm pretty sure it goes without saying that 100% local is always better, assuming you're not trading anything else away (like accessible CPU on other nodes).
That might make certain kinds of medical care cheaper, sure, but what will be the value to the average person? Are they going to live a longer, healthier live because a CT scan costs $500 instead of $5,000? I don't think that's really the bottleneck. For your average person, what's gating quality of life at older ages is things like bad knees, bad backs, etc. Are we going to see cheap, convenient, safe, knee replacement by the time I hit 60 (30 year from now)? Considering that 30 year ago was 1983, and old peoples' knees are just as bad today as they were then, I'm not optimistic.
We are probably the biggest user of a Double being the first to get beta access and having a co-founders (drolnitzky) remote. At one point early in the beta, we were bigger user than every other user combined.

Having a double has been one of the best boons to our productivity. I personally spend most of my team working with drolnitzky and this is the best thing that has happened to me professionally. It's like having him in the same room. The meetings are much easier, discussion is impromptu, asking a question doesn't require getting on skype, asking for permission etc.

Double is one of those things that you think you don't need but if you have remote team members, it becomes the most indispensable tool.

I can't say enough good things about Double. It's an amazing amazing thing.
It's clear Kickstarter has failed in trying to convince people that "Kickstarter is not a store".

* "I would order this..."
* "I wouldn't be interested in purchasing..."
* "I often buy things [from Kickstarter] in the hundreds..."
* "I have no intention of actually buying a printer..."
Going on 3 hours at the top of HN, soon to be the #1 stock photo site. Nothing but MacBook Air pictures.
Traditional build systems are all dependency algorithms. The interesting thing here is that they run a service to track file modifications so it's not necessary to stat() the entire hard drive to find out what has changed, so you can do incremental rebuilds very cheaply.