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I think the US faces some distinctive problems - in particular, the rest of the world has not seen the same kind of collapse of quality local reporting that lies behind the Bell, CA example he gives.
It means Norway found oil and gas.
Really like the integration with TFL - commute times are a really handy bit of info.
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Why doesn't he do the right thing and simply resign his position?

He won't be getting much out of his remaining 'brothers and sisters' after stabbing a few hundred of them in the back, a new person would at least have a somewhat clean slate to work from and maybe some hope of turning things around.

When this guy calls you his brother or sister it's time to invest in body armor.
That headline makes me cringe. Media is the plural of medium, they do things, they don't does things.
And incidentally, that's one of the primary findings of the FCC's Information Needs of Communities report: http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities

National media is more or less fine. Local and state reporting has all but disappeared.
Sounds like Friedman stopped at the first 'why' instead of going to the usual 5+.
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Your original statement was "the maternity grant (until yanked by the government) was used to buy designer gear for the mother, ..."

That it's happened at least once, I have no doubt. But I think you mean to use the phrase "was used to buy" to mean that it happens often enough to base a policy decision upon.

The useful questions are "how often does it happen?" and more importantly "did yanking the policy lead to overall improved infant mortality rates?"

Those cannot be answered by "sitting outside ASDA [in Feltham or Hounslow] for a bit." As an extreme example, even if 100% of the people in those two places immediately pop into an off-license, use the money to buy liquor, walk outside, and pour it down the drain, you would need to see if that pattern is the same across the country.

In this extreme example, it might be that 0% of the rest of the country misuses their funds. There are 254,00 people in the London Borough of Hounslow. There are 62 million people in the United Kingdom. If no one else misused those funds, then an overall misuse rate of 0.4% across the entire country is rather good, and the appropriate policy decision would be to understand what is special about Hounslow and how that one region might be improved.

Thus, doing as you suggest would not provide sufficient information to establish an answer for my first question, much less my second.

While you write "Some things are blatantly obvious if you peel your eyes occasionally and observe humanity.", it's very hard to "peel your eyes" and see things when you aren't there.

How many cases of infant mortality have you seen?
You can run the full-stack inside a container. eg. run Red Hat or CentOS inside Ubuntu. The process inside LXC / Docker is unaware it's inside a container. You can have 100 processes all think they're binding to a given port, which simplifies things within the container. This is why docker images work so well: they can be fired up and use the same configuration no matter how many instances you create. LXC = jail on steroids.
I'm sorry, but since your comment is entirely unsupported by a citation explaining philosophical fallacies or similar, your criticism remains unsupported, and hence it's not the job of the person you're responding to to satisfy your demand.

What a vicious circle we create by demanding citations for any claim.
To use your analogy, because starting with "WATER FLOWS DOWNHILL" and trying to work out how much energy a dam in the river could generate leads to flooded villages.

1) Modelling the higher level phenomena is really, really hard to do at anything other than a basic level. We could just build formal logic systems, but we don't want to have to put all the information in there ourselves, so they've got to learn it somehow.

2) You've got to get the concepts into the AI to start with, we're still trying to work out how to tell the difference between objects in images.

3) It is being done, it just doesn't sound as sexy and so you don't hear as much in mainstream news.

4) It may have fewer short term benefits.

5) Biology has a working example we can try and steal.
Lol... Locked by paywall. The news may be interesting but I'm not interested in paying for a website i may not see ever again.
I get an additional speed in Linux and Linux appears to be honest in file copy operations than Windows, which appears clever.
Windows based activities are no match in Linux, especially in setting up the system. I spent quite some time in finding the right location for .vimrc, so I can change some trivial behavior .
Fair enough. That matches with my experience, actually, just wanted to make sure I understand. Transparency is one of the things I think I've managed to have in place at GrantTree, and I'd hate to lose it by an avoidable mistake.
Hi, the creator here! :) You have many good points, and the main point I want to address is: why let people buy it already? I have thought quite a lot about that, so here are some of my reasons for releasing early:

- Why not sell it? What do I lose? :) Many people might not buy it now, but some actually have, and that's great! I think this post might also have been an inspiration: https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/your-minimum-viable-prod...

- I had been working on it as a side project for quite some time, and the feedback of friends can only go so far. Getting honest feedback from strangers, both good and bad, is a great motivator to spend even more time on Skycraft. But even more so, the best feedback and motivator is having people actually buy your game. It is incredibly motivating to have someone else than your mom buy your product because they like what they're seeing, and it pushes me to spend more time, knowing I have customers I cannot let down.

- The possibility of doing Skycraft as my summer job. By releasing before summer I could check to see if there was enough interest that I could possibly spend my summer working on Skycraft instead of my usual tech consultancy internship. And there was definitely enough interest! It's not like I've even made enough money to cover even one week of consultancy pay, but the response I have gotten on Skycraft has made this two of the coolest weeks I have ever had, so it was a no-brainer to spend my summer on it.

As for the point about Minecraft's progress vs Skycraft: Notch is a very experienced game programmer, and he has a lot of "tricks up his sleeves". If I remember correctly from his blog, he already had some NPC's from an unfinished game that he could sort of dump in there. And the same is might be true for a lot of other stuff, like collision detection and networking.

As for me: I'm first and foremost a web developer, who has a passion for games, and recently started making them :) So there should really be no surprise Notch was faster, in fact, it would be a real shame if he wasn't!

Oh, and I've had exams for the last two weeks, with the last one finishing today. Expect a lot more coming in the following weeks! :)
Have you gone through the tutorial? If not, I suggest doing that. From there, once you have a solid base knowledge, you will be able to more easily understand the documentation and use other sources for more technical problems. As far as whether you should outsource it - how much database work does involve? It really depends on what your goals are, and whether you have time, or money. I suggest asking your technical question on stackoverflow.com if you haven't already, it's a much more fitting place to get help on that sort of thing.
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Since he is your co-founder (and you accepted him as such), shouldn't you trust him with the source code?
Since he is also a front-end developer, shouldn't he already have access to the code base? :)

If you can't trust your co-founder with the code base, then I wouldn't even think of co-founding the business with him. Maybe you should re-evaluate that first.
It doesn't (yet one example of why C isn't the best systems programming language), but the concepts of C (raw memory, pointers, flat buffers), map onto underlying concepts pretty clearly.

Now that said, a lot of other things (anything dealing with asynchronous programming) don't map onto C that well at all, and other languages do a much better job at solving some conceptual problems.

But that is why languages like LISP and Haskel are taught, so that even when one is stuck working in the C ghetto, higher level concepts and more abstract coding patterns can still be brought to bear to solve problems. :)
Interesting that the health system in Finland has the concept of paid 'luxury' options. In the UK NHS that would be considered anathema.
Reference counted pointers may very well be going away. See comments below. TL;DR they totally suck in multi-threaded settings.
Definitely in the NHS it would, but there's always the option of opting-out to the private system.

That's very much all-or-nothing though.
Same idea with source
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In Portugal, it's the same for most 'grants'. The day after they are payed, there are more drunks in the streets (Wife works in an ambulance, calls for drunk people laying in the floor are 3-4 times more in the days following pay than in the rest of the month)
Oh the comments here from readers commenting the comments on the linked description of scientific research that has researched how comments on description of scientific research influences the readers understanding of the sciende in question is gon b gud.
Ask HN: Do you always FULLY understand the code you are working with?
I wonder if other devs have the same problem as me: i am extremely uncomfortable doing work on code i dont FULLY understand and grasp. Mostly this is due to lack of time, something needs to be fixed urgently, something needs to be extended, etc. I can still get my work done, but as i said, i feel not very good about it (simply put: i hate it).

Is this just me or are other devs experiencing the same?
??

"Hey Bob, glad you could join the team! Here's a big cardboard box to sleep in, it should fit under your desk nicely. You'll find a couple of onesies in there, some shampoo and shower gel, toothbrush, toothpaste etc. You'll never need to leave the office again!"

"Oh, and don't worry about that 'I'm sleeping in a coffin' feeling, it goes away after a couple of weeks"
> But it wasn’t. The A-bombs were quite unusual. They were extraordinary weapons, and would have required extraordinary justifications to use on the military, let alone on civilians.

They were extraordinary weapons, but as the article points out: The bombing campaigns were not, other than in doing the damage with much fewer bombs. Japan had seen similar levels of destruction in dozens of cities that summer, and was running out of larger undamaged cities.

With that context, they should require extraordinary justification to use, but no more so than the previous months of firebombing, and the focusing on the use of a nuclear bomb vs. "just" the fire bombing is detracting from the issue of how much of that overall bombing should have been acceptable and how much of it was necessary or served much purpose.

I don't want to excuse the A-bombs, but the article does make a compelling argument that they were not qualitatively different in the suffering caused.
Yes indeed.

Philosophical note:

1. I think things that are desirable are easy to offer citations for because there is a motivation to promote the desirable.

2. Conversely, things that are not desirably are not researched by people who do not desire the result.

So the citation is moot if either way it is biased. If you ever read any medical papers, they are a fine example. Look at the efficacy of Seroxat/Paroxetine for a fine example. GSK papers = utterly wonder drug. Independent researchers = suicide pills.

Which is where we stand on everything more complicated than basic scientific issues.

Applying that to my point, there is nothing citable as the result is probably not politically desirable.

It's all "in my humble opinion".
Interesting.

The fact that people get (strongly) influenced by comments by non-experts is not new and definitely not limited to science. The same holds true (though to a smaller extent) with TV.

Here in France, news shows will typically interview random people on the street on whatever subject they are discussing (politics, science, culture...) and air the 15-20 sec answers to millions of viewers. These people have no particular knowledge but their reaction/opinion is shown at the same level as that of a field expert. Thus conveying far too much weight to their opinion and hurting viewers' understanding.
I've been taught to estimate in logarithmic units, i.e. 1 h, 2 h, 4 h, 8 h (i.e. 1 d), 2 d, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month
The shanghai one is based on German Transrapid technology, the JR-Maglev is based on their own technology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR%E2%80%93Maglev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train
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That's not entirely the point. Most of the news we've seen here during the past years are about people breaking into these apps' (sometimes improperly secured) servers and then suddenly having access to all this private data about millions of users.
And yet, here I am on the comments page.
> What? Since when was the last time C++ ever produced external symbols readable by anyone else?

It is called COM and since Vista most new Win32 APIS are actually COM based.

WinRT is also COM based.

> Until then - C is still the lingua franca for native development.

Not on Microsoft world. If they continue on the same route, your favorite language needs to speak COM.
No, but in the UK there is a wind of judgemental tabloid nastiness in this area. Lies like this are made up daily, based on a very small minority, and huge chunks of people are tarred with the same brush.

So, yeah, where is the research?

Well, there is none, because apart from tabloid smearing lies, there is none.

What is "obvious" is how nasty people are in the UK towards the poor working classes, who are under constant attack.
Why should it be mere nostalgia? The typesetting on PDFs is typically far higher quality than on web pages.
Quite right, it happens all around. It sometimes makes me think if the ultimate mission of media is disinformation.
Sounds like you may benefit from an NDA with a non-compete clause. These will give you a contract stating that your co-founder will keep your code secret and not use it to compete against you if the relationship turns sour in the future.

Links for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause
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I agree entirely.

I did not state it was citable or sound, but an observation.

The observation/hypothesis is valuable as it's the starting point for a discussion.

Presenting the extreme is disingenuous.

The answer to the correctness of my argument is neither yes or no - it is simply mu.
Quick tip for those who can’t attend WWDC next week
They have to defend their trademark, not their copyright.
I'm not entirely clear on this yet, but it sounds like it could be very useful for load-testing a particular service I'm working on. Testing the service requires a series of directories to be present for each client. It sounds like this docker+busybox combination could be used for this.
> And confirm people will pay $X for it before you spend two years of your life and your life savings and your parents' savings and your friends' savings.

Which you can't fully do until you or someone else is offering it.

> Payment from real live users/clients/customers is external validation too.

Which you can't do until you have something to offer.

What you can do is this:

1) What is the problem you are trying to solve?

2) How annoying is that problem? The more annoying the better.

3) What is minimally needed to solve the problem?

I think if you focus on that process, on building minimalistic solutions and then trying to get customers who can help you take things further, that this can work. However, I don't think you can effectively do market research on something that doesn't exist yet.
It almost seems to be a "marketing" "strategy", designed to re-ignite interest.
(citation needed)

Reporting is awful everywhere and at any scale.

Media's job is no longer to spread information, but to create opinion. They're not mass informative media, they're mass propaganda tools.

That's why they lack quality: their goal is fulfilled even if their quality as informative media is very low.
I can't go on trusting someone straightaway.
He is a front end guy, but heavily investing time in learning python and sys admin stuff.

He appears genuine to me, but still, one should be cautious and keep in mind and think for future, if something goes wrong, precautionary measures should be in place.

It will take some more time, and some sort of litmus test to validate if he is trustworthy. All that glitters is not gold, right?
msvcrt.dll is not an OS API library, Kernel32.dll is.
Sorry, but you are simply trotting out right wing UK tabloid lies. Please stop it. As a Brit, I find you and your lies crass and offensive. You see what you chose to see, and assume it applies to all. Mean while, you are Mr Perfect, right?

You and your attitude disgust me.

Sorry, HN, this is the first time I have had to post here like this. But I cannot let this "person" get away with such garbage. Not here.
I'm in the 1st 1/3, but not the 2nd.
I dont think the media "gets it wrong", although they do endemically, I think that media is reflective of ourselves.

If we dont see a threat, we dont react. If we dont see a threat the media wont react to it either.

This can operate in reverse, if we see a threat but the govt tells us its not a threat, the media will try to soothe our anxiety.

Maybe what the media fears is being drowned out by the mill of a thousand voices, none of which have any credibility, and so they follow the "dont throw pearls to swine" rule of not getting in the way and wasting their breath.

In the world of Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Jesse Ventura, Rand Paul, who wants to hear facts?

The "media" as we call it, is adjusting to the ability of our collective digestive tract to consume what they have to say.

And their adjustment is to say screw it. Its just (expletive ommitted)
Not only in France. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI (2min English language satire)
Their actions can be necessary, and still war crimes and/or abhorrent. These are not mutually exclusive.

We can be grateful for the outcome and many sacrifices and still speculate about whether or not specific actions were necessary and justifiable.

And we can actually recognise the atrocities committed by the Japanese military and question actions by the allies at the same time.

It is understandable that a lot of decisions were taken that had horrible outcomes, and that many of them were taken in good faith and probably the only viable decisions despite how atrocious they might seem in retrospect. That does not mean we should just gloss over everything.
This is true, but if I was going to be employee 3 or 4 for a startup that wasn't concerned about cash position going forward, that would be a red flag too.
And by making the distinction of working class are you not contributing to that bias? I treat all people as classless.

The people described by myself are not bound by class, but by attitude and morals. There is no class distinction involved.

The problem is not specific to one traditional "class".

The whole "tabloid smearing lies" drivel is another form of enforced division by promoting classes of reading.

This sort of stuff annoys me.

(for reference I have never purchased a newspaper and rarely even bother to look at the news unless it's technology related)
The idea of including an async API (not an implementation) in the standard library is that it will enable compatibility by having twisted/tornado/gevent/etc. implement this interface, and async libraries to conform to this interface. It's trying to solve the same problem you identify. (Personally I'm not terribly hopeful that it will work, but what would you suggest?)
The *craft name might be temporary, I haven't really decided yet. But at this point, it just gives people the right association, because the gameplay is so similar to Minecraft :)

As for my scummyness: Didn't Notch do a somewhat similar thing with Infiniminer? Didn't he build on it, make it better/different, and charge for it early? Just because it isn't much more than Minecraft right now, doesn't mean it won't be in the future. And there are some big differences already, like the theme of the world, the block size, and the technology. Hopefully, in time I'll get to show how big an impact all three can have on a game! :)

As for Notch, I couldn't agree more with you: He is a very valuable member of the dev community, and someone I have an incredible respect for.
That's interesting because I looked at the title and assumed almost the direct opposite to you. I assumed that I would read the article and find something uplifting and happy about babies in Finland. And something interesting about cardboard boxes in Nordic climates.

I visited Iceland years ago and observed that babies were often left outside in prams (rugged up and only during the day) and it turns out that the locals believe that it's quite healthy to do so.

Reading about this more recently shows that this isn't unique and a lot of cultures in colder climates do this.
I guess part of the one-off nature is that post-op sterilization isn't cost effective; perhaps you simply can't remove the bits of the previous patient from the tool cheaply enough or without degrading it in some way) to justify not just opening another one.

Another point is that this tool (to take an example) offers one huge advantage over a scalpel; it will make both cuts simultaneously, reducing the margin of error. I wouldn't want to hear "Well, we messed up taking the first piece, so we need to do it again on the other side". It HAS to be right first time.
Even if Skycraft were just a Minecraft clone there would be a ton of cool things you could do because it's WebGL: Giving your friends a link they can click to join or spectate your world. Embed your world in your blog. Crossplatform... But Skycraft won't be just a Minecraft clone. Hopefully I'll get to show you that later this summer! :)
+1 for the page design, if anything else.
Do you mean the private room? That wasn't a luxury option, I should have been more clear on that :-). All rooms are private, and though we got lucky and got one that was slightly larger than the others it didn't cost extra. I think the small fee they impose is simply meant to encourage people not to overstay.
the American people, who want the media to rally around officials in times of crisis

Bah. Speak for yourself, Atlantic Magazine. (Especially during manufactured crises...)
Why would you have a co-founder onboard whom you didn't trust with your codebase?

It sounds like you either don't want a co-founder and just need a front-end contractor or you need embrace him/her as a co-founder and share your codebase.