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Investment banks use a lot of lisp, Haskell, and Smalltalk I believe. They were also heavy objective C users before that was a common thing.
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I've received a feedback that people want a copy to clipboard button, I'm against it just because there's no way to do it today without flash.
what do you guys think?
Good point! I checked, and it turns out that it is not written in any law passed by congress that the NSA is explicitly empowered to extort congressmen for its own ends. So, yeah, that guy is just crazy for suggesting such a thing.
Looks like there's a work-in-progress NES emulator based on cl-6502 in there as well: https://github.com/redline6561/famiclom
My experience with Google Game Services
http://isync.sourceforge.net/

isync, now mbsync but still called isync in the ubuntu repositories, may do what you want. It's a command line utility, you may be able to set up a cron job.

I've never used it. My impression is that a) it was originally an imap to local maildir sync, but b) you could sync remote imap to local imap.
The article is alltoo true. Engelbart's work was an enormous influence on my own. But when I gave credit to him in conference papers, and business proposals I was pulled aside and told that it wasn't a good idea to tie yourself too closely to Engelbart because he was viewed as being too "out there". I always had the same reply. "Have you actually /read/ and of Englebart's papers?" In almost every case the answer was no. And when they did answer yes, it was always along the lines, "well all he was talking about was hypertext which is the same as the Web." Silicon Valley loves to talk about changing the world, but that's largely bullshit. Engelbart is far from the only genius that is being ignored today who will never get funded. You can make obscene amounts of money building another photo sharing or dating app, but try to work on an important problem and you'll starve to death.
If anyone has bitdefender installed, it may block websockets from communicating with the server.
If you don't receive a url when adding a file, check your websockets status here: http://websocketstest.com/
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Yes I know that India is working hard in making thorium reactors. Also, many of the nuclear plants in India use some percentage of thorium like 4 thorium with 12 uranium to make a bundle. I hope thorium reactors soon. It will be very useful.
I don't think people realize that we're standing on the shoulders of giants when we use most of this current technology.

The processor, for example, has a 5,000 page technical reference manual[1]. That's just describing how to use the chip. It doesn't go into detail about how each part works internally. But to the layman it's just a 2cm^2 chip so how complicated can it be?

Everyone wants the sausage but nobody wants to learn (or even know) what goes into it.

[1] http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/IMX6DQ...
Good point, I never thought of it like that.
This scares the hell out of me. The idea of "overclocking" our brains by electrical stimulation is very new and we have no idea of the long-term effects of this. People who are desperate for an edge are the likely market and I suspect they'll be less likely to consider the risks.

Are there side-effects? Is there a small percentage of the population who will react badly? Are there long-term effects? I don't believe we yet know the answer to any of these things.

I'm all for the advance of technology, but this seems wrong.
If the files I'm sending would be huge, which for me they never are, and if I'm inside a LAN then I can use a file server for that. It would also be a directory for those files.

I think there's something in your product, but it doesn't have any selling points for me. Even if you make it as good as Dropbox or any other service, I won't change. For that, you need to be better than existing solutions.

Either be better or be different. Generic user facing file sharing - been there, done that.
Client side solutions can do even more tracking because there is no browser sandbox. And for example the µTorrent client has ads in it which are probably tracked.
I add my public key to my gravatar image. The page I made to do this is here http://kybernetikos.github.io/VisualSecrecy/
The "qualified buyer" requirement is interesting. I understand the intent but wonder how it would work in practice. The linked blog post suggests using a program that needs to be modified and submitted to inquire. A qualifying test like that seems too easy to cheat. I imagine the modified program would quickly become available online for anyone who cares to look.

What tests could you design to verify a hackers proficiency and acknowledgement of the product's quirkiness that's practical to verify but can't easily be cheated?

Perhaps when you initiate an inquiry you could be given a unique function that makes a set of randomly generated non-destructive transformations to a string. Your task is to submit a string that will be transformed by that function into your email address. If not your email address then the output string "I will not ask Bunnie for help, I will fix problems myself and share my fixes"
I don't mean to blame parents (if it happened to me my reaction would be similar to yours), I can certainly see how it can happen to people. But with parental controls built into the system and quite regular billing/receipts from Apple it seems like something a parent could spot quickly and prevent from happening again. My negative attitude is mostly towards the stories I've read in the news of parents who didn't notice until thousands of dollars had been billed to them over a couple of months.
2 (up to 18) gigs from Dropbox free. Google Drive 15 gig free. For team of 15, Dropbox offers $2000/year for unlimited storage.

Like djim said, storage space and bandwidth are non-issues.

May I suggest trying to get Sharefest popular within a niche? You may have to adapt to that particular niche, but I think it'll help you a lot.
I was an early adopter of Python somewhere along about v1.x. Loved it. Used my usual technique of implementing a sizable task that I knew well---parsing PGN (Portable Game Notation) a widely used format for recording chess games in digital form. I've done it in every language I've learned. This is an approach that I recommend to anyone in your position. The second thing to do is build your reference library; easier today than before. The third thing to do is find a community of fellow travelers. Were the language Perl, then something like Perl Monks comes to mind. Part of your education lies in the search for all 3---so get to it grasshopper :)
And the YC-backed start-up, Upverter: http://upverter.com/
What Is the Most Surprising Result in Mathematics?
My thinking is that a good job with pay appropriate to the area is better in a high-cost area than in a low-cost area. The reason being is that part of your pay goes towards housing which eventually means a mortgage.

Once you decide to retire you can cash out that mortgage. A modest house in the bay area is still a million dollar house. A modest house in vegas is a $200K house. $1M in hand gives you a lot more flexibility than $200K.
Watching the video was worth it for realizing when you'd want the second argument of iter()
I wonder if people would pay $10 a year. Because then that's potentially $40m a year income.
I'm flattered. :)
For some reason many folks want distance from anything JVM related.
While I kind of agree with your point it's worth noting that Adblock Plus can still disable the non-intrusive adverts (in fact the second that you can't do that a new Adblock Plus will appear).

The ethics of disabling advertising and non-intrusive advertising are another thing entirely.
CityCenter heavily contrasted with Hsieh's plan in the text of the article.
I've been stalled out on that for a month or two. The PPU has been quite tricky. I'll probably take inspiration from [nesemu1](http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/kuvat/programming_examples/nesem...) for the next rewrite.

Related (with screenshot!): http://blog.redlinernotes.com/posts/So-Close-and-Yet-So-Far....

If I can wind up with a NES emulator that is "fast enough" and 2500 lines of code instead of 75,000 (Fceux) or 150,000 (Nestopia) then I'll be happy.
I would find it very beautiful if we could get away with only integers, for example a large number of interacting state machines. This way we could get rid of the complex ideas like space and time (if you manage to convince your brain that there is no need to embed a net of state machines in space and that they have to change state over time).
I just plug a cheap Windows laptop directly into my LCD TV.

That way I get more than just video. I can use the full operating system to do anything at all.
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Was this link submitted by a bot or something? Why is the exclamation mark missing from the title?
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Ask HN: How do you plan for your digital projects upon your death?
Hi hackers,

Quick question: what will you do of your projets once you die?

This is no innocent question, as i've been thinking about this for a while (digitaldeathguide.com), but this was for let's say less technology sensitive workers.

But for hackers, digital nomads, and e-citizens, that's a tad more sensitive.

I'm not speaking about your bank nor your phone contract. Let's be more personal. What will you do about your side projects, businesses, code, photos, accounts ?

Cheers!
Few good reasons why you should bootstrap your business
All that fakery is the strip - the strip is for tourists, not locals.
Some would say that it has already happened. Germany's behavior of pushing austerity everywhere and depressing German wages has played and still plays a significant role in causing and prolonging the economic depression that a number of countries in the south of the Eurozone are currently in.

It's not in-your-face as a war is, but does that really matter for the people who suffer from it?
Funny you mention it as basic usability. The story on the home page with most points is about usability and they explicitly recommend using undos instead of confirmations: http://goodui.org/#8
That looks really interesting, thanks.
Me too! Common Lisp actually was intended for system programming historically, back from when Lisp Machines had a shot at ruling the world. Consequently, there is quite nice support for low-level programming.
Did someone hack your account? Because that level of irony just can't be so easily lost.
The title needs changed. As has been mentioned in other comments Google is just streaming the live coverage of this and doesn't have much (if anything) to do with the project.
It's obviously case by case. Some cities have better bang for your buck. Here's one report from Forbes.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2012/07/09/the-cities...

Also really depends on what you want. Cheap house or great nightlife? Great schools or rock climbing?
Well, I am not sure if epo is a troll but he does have a point. If you give the original comment a quick read it sounds like gibberish. The language is very 'heavy' like in academic papers. Academic papers to me are a big turn off and I hardly understand what they say most of the time. It also shows how little of academia reaches the common programmers - they are largely inaccessible. (compare number of papers to numbers that actually end up in real software)
This is a very important point. Democracy is really lacking at a European level, and a large part of that is that the Parliament has almost no real power.

Whether it is sufficient to give the EU Parliament real power is questionable, but if the EU is to become a proper democracy, then giving real power to the parliament is at least necessary.
When part of your system becomes flawed (part or whole), the whole can be attacked. Thus, adding more deterministic behavior doesn't add more randomness (i.e. more safety). Generally, when crypto falls down, it falls somewhat gracefully (i.e. there are a class of known attacks under certain particular situations.) As Crypto is an on-going war between those creating the security and those trying to break it, expect to have to change your crypto over time.
The making of Nintendo's Star Fox for the SNES
I wouldn't let it break your heart though. You can't expect every single young person to live up to your own unrealized ideals.

In any case, this really has nothing to do with Microsoft developers. Using open source tech doesn't automatically make one a great liberator or anything.
The point is that there are more real numbers than possible finite descriptions, so some real numbers must be indescribable.

Related (and more precisely defined) concepts include (non)definable and (non)computable numbers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_number and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number respectively.
it is a good thing when the country's growing. It creates additional tensions in the case of recession.
core python programming and core python application programming are two good (not free and a bit old) intermediate python books.

Think complexity is a free python book on algorithms and science.

Python 3 Object Oriented Programming is a very good book (not free) on OOP.
As a long time fellow traveler in the land of Literate Programming, I must ask how you created the document---by hand or with tools and if tools, which ones?
FWIW, SoCal imports vastly more water than Vegas does. Practically all the agriculture in SoCal would disappear without the imported water.
there is also marketing value. features that may rarely get used but many potential customers won't give your product a second glance if you don't have them.
Side note: possibly for a project/homework involving online reputation management. While in college, we were also tasked with doing something very similar for an international competition.
Given this and the overall tone of the request for 'help', I'd caution everyone familiar with NLP to be wary of actually giving a fully coded solution.
What you describe has to do with mathematical constructivism[0], and also with the Axiom of Choice, and it's really complicated (to me, I'm not a mathematician, and I only sort-of get it).

You may have heard about the Banach-Tarski paradox[1], which tells you that if you assume "Real numbers" are actually reality, and the Axiom of Choice, you can divide a sphere into five pieces (one of which is just a point) and rearrange them into two spheres of the same volume.

Obviously you can't do that in reality. This is the point where it gets really complex and I won't fill in the details as I understand them, because they are probably wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller also wrote some ideas on this constructivism (or something a lot like it), basically advocating against the set of "Real Numbers" as an accurate depiction of reality. For instance if you make a 1m x 1m square out of a real material. The sides of that square will have N atoms, and the number of atoms (and how far they are apart, which is a property of the material used) is really what describes the length. This is a whole number. But according to geometry math, the diagonal of this square has a length of sqrt(2) metres, or sqrt(2) * N atoms. That can't be because you can't have an irrational number of atoms. Then what is really going on suddenly depends on how these atoms are packed inside the square, and again, it gets really complex and that's where my understanding (of both atomic physics and mathematical constructivism) stops.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(mathematics)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach-Tarski_paradox
I understand what your are saying yet I can't help but feel that you guys are being a bit unreasonable. You know what would be a dick move? If they killed the open source version and sued the current users of the open source license with some ridiculous patent claim. That would be a genuinely dickish move worthy of an evil empire such as Oracle. Yet they are doing exactly the opposite of that.
reminds me of the berry paradox

from wikipedia: "an expression like 'the smallest positive integer not definable in fewer than twelve words' (note that this defining phrase has fewer than twelve words)"
I don't have a linkable source. I heard it directly from an industry insider and apparently no one seems to have talked about it publicly. :(

I guess you'll just have to take it with a grain of salt.
You realize ASP.NET MVC is substantially different than ASP.NET, right?

From a coding perspective it is completely different and worlds better.
That magic actually comes courtesy of [SnabbSwitch](https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/wiki), latest project of the inimitable Luke Gorrie. Luke is also publishing SnabbSwitch semi-regularly as a [readable program](http://blog.lukego.com/blog/2012/10/24/readable-programs/).

Basically, you write markdown comments in the code and there is a Makefile that uses awk and sed to grab them out, cat some things together and pass it to an awesome LaTeX stylesheet written by Pete Kazmier. See: https://github.com/redline6561/cl-6502/tree/master/src/doc and the Makefile in the parent directory.
Sounds like CPP is great at generating that one PDF. I'd have just had it do that long before I rewrote the whole app.
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Au contraire, I've found underground parking lots to be cool. Much cooler than their above ground cousins.

You see, I live in a country that gets very hot during summers. The ambient goes to 45 easily. And the only sensible solution is to park some place where the sun rays cannot (a) directly hit your car because that would cause the car to become uncomfortably hot (b) cannot be reflected through to your car via multiple other surfaces (e.g. other cars, walls, etc).

The underground section of the parking lots perfectly suit this criteria, even though it's technically the same building with under-and-over ground parking facilities. If you're wondering where I'm talking about, it's the parking lot at the Bahrain City Center. (One can hope that very few people residing in Bahrain read hackernews, and my supposedly secret strategy doesn't leak out to everyone).

What I could do would be to take actual thermometric readings over the course of this summer for underground vs. above-ground parking spots.
This reminds me of Coffin Hotels in William Gibson's Neuromancer somehow...
If you don't mind spending money, phpstorm is the way to go. It's faster than netbeans and has a big company behind with custom support.
He made 2 mistakes. Had more than 30 years and never wrote rockstar ninja on his resume.
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Respectfully, the ratio of "papers to systems" has less to do with communication and more to do with tenure and promotion. Most professors couldn't care less if their papers are implemented, or even read.
You know nothing of Microsoft technologies that have been used for the last half decade and more then.

I have an MCSD certification in VB6 but literally nothing of that helps with their modern dev environments. In fact knowing VB6 hurt the process of learning the new stuff.
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Venezuela sells oil to the US. There isn't an embargo like with Cuba.
Can you defer loading the Flash until the user clicks the "copy" button? Or just load one of the tiny Flash shims that are invisible, discussion at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/400212/how-to-copy-to-the...
Is there a provably better way, though? I think this was basically the premise of the original question: Given that there is doubt about the safety of some PRNG scheme, is there a proven way to combine multiple PRNG scheme with the property that the resulting PRNG is at least as secure as the most secure "input" PRNG?

If there is such a better way, then please provide more information - links and such.
Studies using TDCS for neuroscience research in human subjects are relatively common and current research suggests TDCS is safe. The long-term effects of TDCS are somewhat less well-known, although there are several studies of TDCS for depression that suggest that it is effective and well-tolerated. OTOH, manufacture of TDCS devices for non-clinical purposes is unregulated AFAIK, and a poorly designed device could deliver more current than it claims to.
Venezuela, Bolivia offer asylum to U.S. intel leaker Snowden
I'm enjoying 'Data Structures and Algorithms using Python'[1]

Coming from a C++ background, I felt uncomfortable using python as more than a glue/scripting language, because the way resources are managed is treated very magically in most tutorials.

Say I want to use the OpenCV library to fling matrices and images around, it's hard to be confident of what the runtime is going to do with the data without having a really good handle on what mechanisms python has for dealing with data. Which is what this book is about.

As useful as they are for interviews, classic algorithms and data structures are probably not a big part of most peoples work, but understanding how they can be done in python helps you to make assumptions and use libraries in smart ways!

Most of all, it's fun and well written, for an algorithms book. It's more about python than algorithms, so if you were student wanting to learn algorithms, this book is better[2].

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Data-Structures-Algorithms-Using-Pyt...
[2]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Algorithms-T-Cormen/dp/...
Excellent article. If you like this sort of thing, you may enjoy Busy Beaver numbers, my favorite treatment of which is the essay "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?"

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
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No -- Facebook's PHP code is translated to C++ by HipHop and compiled into a monolithic binary, and Cassandra has largely been deprecated in favor of HBase.
Concrete is radioactive, I'm reminded of this fact when I go into a concrete parkhouse and feel the heat, and I don't particularly care if its hot due to radiation or hot due to heat energy from cars being stored - either way, the darn places are uncomfortable and I avoid them.

I'm not particularly bothered if I'm "wrong", its just a cute thing to say .. "oh, its so radioactive in here, lets get out.."
Yes! I read that article years ago and was absolutely captivated!
Why does that scare you? The commenter made an honest disclosure of a relevant activity, indicating that they have strong feelings about the subject. Discouraging such disclosures doesn't prevent parties from having strong feelings, but rather may encourage them to conceal their motivations. People can have feelings, and still maintain honesty in their arguments. Expecting everyone to have a detached objectiveness might be ideal (or might not), but is an unrealistic expectation; entirely impractical in a public debate.
When I tell many people that I do my research in infinite combinatorial games, they immediately assume that my research is more impressive[0] than my officemate's research dealing with finite combinatorics. I always move quickly to correct them: dealing with infinity often has the effect of making mathematics easier, and unfairly "trivializes" distinctly difficult problems. After all, in my work, 2^100 is "just finite", even though that many milliseconds would compose over 40 quintillion years.

To your point, I don't know the answer of whether the universe is finitely describable or not. But I certainly know it's easier to abstract many small aspects of the universe with an approximation by an "infinite model" than to deal with the ridiculously large finite numbers involved.

[0] if more useless
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This is why they need a child/guest/multiuser mode so people can hand their phones to children and guests without fear of this kind of shit happening. You can get it on android tablets now, but it needs to be everywhere.