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I think the error here may be the comma after "Magnetic"; Morse's telegraph system, e.g., was commonly known as "the electro-magnetic telegraph" (earlier, less successful, telegraph systems were electrical but not electromagnetic) and the first company that commercialized his invention was called the Magnetic Telegraph Company.

The effect of operating an electromagnet at a distance seems to have been thought of as "magnetic" more than "electrical"; see e.g. at http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/56/62/case.html comments from Morse and his contemporaries like "If I can succeed in working a magnet ten miles, I can go around the globe" and "The chief anxiety ... was to ascertain the utmost limits at which he, Morse, could work or move a lever by magnetic power".

It seems plausible to me that even by 1912 the term "magnetic telegraph" might have been in use to distinguish the electromagnetic telegraph from other earlier sorts of telegraph.

(Note 1: the above is based on a small amount of web searching and may be full of errors. Note 2: it appears that in fact other people developed electromagnetic telegraphs before Morse -- e.g., a chap called Schilling in Russia in 1832 -- but Morse is the one commonly thought of as inventing it, and is surely the answer the examiners were looking for.)
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It happens to all of us to go through a terrible 3g connection and in some cases you don't have signal and other issues start to emerge.

Personally I've been in a similar experience and decided not to go through one like this again. I found out that a sieve can help you create a mini satellite and boost the signal as well as many other cool tricks that I listed in this article.
Impressive or not in a metrics oriented world putting a number on anything, no matter how feeble, is a significant advantage. Mix in all the hyperbole and scare-mongering about illegal immigrants, human traffickers and of course terrorists and you have a pretty unassailable position when justifying the program and expense. Alternative arguments on where the money would better spent are dead on arrival.
"Remember the days in college when you learned all about the big Oh!'s and re-implemented all these sort-algorithms for the hundredth time? If you are a web developer like me, chances are you never had to touch a single one of these algorithms ever again." +1

It's a good start, but when the window is shrunk, the result isn't as impressive.
The Minimum Viable Analysis
Once, I decided to do a project by using basic SQL libraries, let's say this includes PDO as it's almost a standard.

Then I thought, why would I use OOP (as PDO can only do that) if my project is not that big? I would not use PDO if I don't have a bigger project.

But. If I have a bigger project, why would I use basic stuff like PDO and not some ORM library?
No upvote from me... tired of seeing articles like this. You're too busy to actually tell us what it is.. but you're not too busy to tweet, debunk others theories, or give comments teasing people with small details.

I'm worn out.. don't care anymore. You keep it.
Maybe Chromium is blocking the redirection to cloudfront, where the images are hosted? I had to tell Firefox's RequestPolicy, to let these requests pass...
I am personally very happy with your explanation and I completely understand where you are coming from. Apple usually comes up with very elegant UX solutions and sometimes it's just impossible (read, insanely hard) to figure out something different and better at the same time. If it was my duty I'd have come up with the same kind of switchboard design.

However, you didn't comment on the mouse icon. Maybe the inspiration from OS X's in this particular (and very minor) case went overboard. I think that things like this give lots of ammunition to naysayers and people who are destructively critic in nature.

Maybe it would be a good idea to make sure there are no isolated UI elements (like icons) that draw a high amount of verbatim visual inspiration from Apple's. ;-)
Use http://hnnotify.com/. It works pretty well, except when you submit a popular link and get fifty e-mails.
It's only a very light, high level overview (so not one for experienced MRI hackers) but I recorded a 30 minute screencast with Pat a few months ago touring the MRI codebase: http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-mri-code-walk-tour-6020.html
Free markets don't solve every problem. There is such a thing as the price of anarchy. I agree that Crony capitalism is bad too, but free markets aren't the only way to introduce accountability into a system. The problem with healthcare is the large number of inherent perverse incentives.

For example, if you don't regulate the quality of healthcare, then it is quite easy to make money selling bad quality services. Many people are gullible and some die needlessly from being sold "cures" that do nothing. People with cancer are a great target, because the real treatments are so unpleasant.

Medical research requires a lot of expensive equipment. You could have a lot of government funding research - but academia has its problems. Academic research isn't always very focused and efficient, it doesn't always bridge the gap between theoretical and practical. Otherwise you have to provide incentives, which usually means patents. However, if you have patents on new drugs, then that grants a de facto monopoly on that treatment. The drug company that is the sole supplier of the medication that can save your life has an unsettling amount of market power. How do you solve this problem? Do you think in a truly free market, groups of people who were sick would band together and fund research into their cure? That would be a very slow process. The capital to find a cure should raised as quickly as possible to save as many lives as possible. To do that, you have to have expected future returns from people who aren't sick yet.

Regarding the question of who gets to open hospitals and operating rooms - I can easily believe there is crony capitalism going on. However, this is something that should be regulated and controlled. Having hospitals open and close like regular businesses is not a good thing. If a restaurant is poorly managed, customers realise it from the quality of the food and the business fails because they lose customers. If a hospital is poorly managed, people can die. The negative market pressures in healthcare involve actual human suffering and death. It's not going to be much comfort if your dying act is posting a poor review of a hospital that lost your paperwork, misdiagnosed you or did the wrong surgery.
This is the paper referenced in the bitcointalk thread: http://www.scribd.com/doc/131955288/Randomly-Failed-The-Stat....
See section 5.4 for Bouncy Castle: Weaknesses/Quality of Entropy Collectors.
There is not wrong with admiring heros, and I personally feel that any entrepreneur who changes the world and helps humanity as much as Musk has in just 10 years deserves to be called a hero.

"Let's start a rocket company in effort to ensure the survivability of humanity." (something that only super-power are currently able to do)

"Let's start an electric car company (and solar panel company) in effort to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels." (since other car companies are barely trying)

Then to have the resources and perseverance to actually make these very difficult goals a reality is outstanding.

Gates is doing something similar with his Thorium reactor research. Hopefully that will be another game changer.

The Google co-founders have been doing similar projects for the past 10 years. Even if it does make them tons of money it's still admirable to give awesome software and hardware to the world at cost or free.
Please place spaces after , : and - and reduce the width of the text. It's very hard to read this way.
That's an idea I've actually seen done but executed poorly many times.

What they got right this time is adding the shadow around the image making it easy to distinguish from the background, and blurring it so heavily that none of the detail is distracting.

Very nicely done.
Since import statements do not allow you to specify versions, you have to keep track of which commits of a particular project you trust. I am pretty sure that this problem will be solved, but it currently isn't.

Go forces everybody to use green master policy. Every library is expected to have green master and stable API. If you need to change API of your Go library, you must create new repository.
It would remove the current Catch-22 situation where they can be shown to be here illegally but can't be deported due to lack of a passport indicating their country of origin.

I don't know whether the problem is big enough to warrant this step though.
Agreed about tired of hearing speculation but he has only mentioned it a handful of times and said he would publish a paper/plans in August of this year (now).

It's pretty amazing that a vague futuristic concept can generate so much publicity.
A lot of people are on an in-between plan, having cancelled the dialup portion but kept the online service through a cheaper plan. AOL made that free in 2006, but only if you notice and change your billing.

My parents had AOL dialup in the '90s, and when they got cable broadband around 2001 or 2002, they switched to AOL's $10/mo bring-your-own-access version, because they wanted to keep their email addresses and some stuff they used in AOL's client at the time. AOL made that free in 2006, but didn't switch you automatically: you had to call up and ask to switch to the free plan, which had become identical to the pay plan except for the $10/mo fee. I'm sure many people are still paying that $10/mo, either because they don't know the free plan exists, or don't realize it's identical.
I end up with some of the photos ending up behind other photos. Firefox 23 here.
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It's almost but not quite entirely like the philips ambilight concept. I like it.
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Perhaps Professor Cocking should have read James Lovelock's "Gaia: A new look at life on earth" first.

"The day came for the tropical trial at the field station in Northern Queensland. A culture of P. eegarii was without ceremony sprayed in diluted form upon a small patch of experimental rice paddy. But here the bacterium forsook its contrived marriage with the cereal plants {40} and formed a more exciting but adulterous union with a tough and self-sufficient blue-green alga growing on the water surface of the paddy field. They grew happily together, doubling in numbers every twenty minutes in the warm tropical environment, the air and soil providing all they needed. Small predatory organisms would normally have ensured a check on such a development, but this combination was not to be stopped. Its capacity to gather phosphorus rendered the environment barren for everything else.

Within hours, the rice paddy and those around it took on the appearance of a ripe duck pond covered with lurid iridescent green scum. It was realized that something had gone badly wrong and the scientists soon uncovered the association of P. eegarii and the alga. Foreseeing the dangers with rare promptness, they arranged that the entire paddy area and the water channels leading from it be treated with a biocide and the growth destroyed.

That night, Dr Eeger and his Australian colleagues went late to bed, tired and worried. The dawn fulfilled their worst fears. The new bloom, like some living verdigris, covered the surface of a small stream a mile away from the paddies and only a few miles from the sea. Again, every agent of destruction was applied wherever the new organism might have travelled. The director of the Queensland station tried desperately but in vain to persuade the government to evacuate the area at once and use a hydrogen bomb to sterilize it before the spread was beyond all possibility of control.

In two days the algal bloom had started to spread into the coastal waters, and by then it was too late. Within a week the green stain was clearly visible to airline passengers flying six miles above the Gulf of Carpentaria. Within six months more than half of the ocean and most of the land surfaces were covered with a thick green slime which fed voraciously on the dead trees and animal life decaying beneath it."

EDIT: Added full title of the book.
Thank you for the blog post. Very interesting and good lessons to learn in there.
Well, that behavior is not surprising or anything. Many other languages have some kind of concept of a class instance variable (such as Python).
No, I know you didn't - but it could have been taken that way, just chose not too. "People" falls under "weasel words" and is a handy debate tactic for framing your opponent's argument without overtly doing so.

Anyway - I see your point. I too worry that we're a) septembering and b) potentially balkanising on lines that this community shouldn't be balkanised upon.

I just try to take the optimistic view that HN'ers are collectively wise and mature enough to not get put out by internet bar fights, and to see them for what they are, without losing the signal.
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The title/header is from HTML. The nicest thing is not the lack of HTML but the lack of an image. The picture is entirely painted by CSS.
That's legit. You can definitely tweak a Windows app to run well in Wine. I'd love for every game to have a Linux version but the market is tiny and most of these indie studios are maybe 3 people max working on the game. I don't think Linux users have a realistic expectation if they are strictly waiting for Linux native versions without paying to support this. Despite the brilliant art that is this game, I'm pretty sure Lucas Pope was looking to make some money off it.
It's going to be interesting to revisit techempower's benchmarks when this comes out. http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Do you know for a fact that the Steam version is DRM'ed?
You should have a little bit more patience. Today is the day - August 12 - when all the plans will be made public and open sourced.

Citation: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/356776740409974785
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Show HN: Accountability Group for Solopreneurs
I just finished putting together a Google+ group (Entrepreneur Accountability Group) for solopreneurs to get together and discuss what they are doing. It is open to anyone just starting out or if they have been doing it a while and are trying to take it to the next level. The only requirement is participation. Let me know what you think.
He's probably using social security and medicare more than defense. The chance that he gets sick or unemployed is probably a lot larger than the chance that the US gets attacked or significantly threatened.

Knowing that you're covered in case anything goes wrong is enough to make the taxes worth it.
Eh... what exactly is "lightweight" about your threads?

As far as I see you still use the same, standard JVM threads everyone uses, combined with a thread pool.

What am I missing?
Great post with gorgeous results. The service is really very nice too! Fantastic work.

Question: will you ever implement profiles or permanent galleries?
Thanks for the actual date.. That would have been a great detail to put in the article.
What? They're not uncommon for servers or high-performance workstations - Xeon dual/quad socket are very common.

I've seen close to 250% speed increases with NUMA-aware code (and tying thread affinity down) - writing things so the code's aware of where the memory is and targets thread jobs to cores on sockets that have that memory already can significantly reduces memory traffic over the QPI links, which if you don't do (with AVX instructions trying to do 8 floats per clock with IB) systems tend to just be memory-starved, as they can't feed data to processors fast enough from main memory. Especially with Xeons, as the pre-fetchers are so aggressive.
I created this webapp to allow users to easily upload videos without having to create an account. It's still in the development stages and currently only supports mp4, webm, and ogg videos, but I would really appreciate some feedback.
You don't need a book -- just follow the KISS principle and you'll be all right.

IMHO a system that is able to keep its data in plain-text json or CSS files stands a better chance of success than one that stuffs it into proprietary databases and weird binary formats.

Mind you, it always depends on the nature of the data and the skillset of the team. Like most things, the easiest and simplest path is not a universal absolute, but heavily contingent upon circumstance.

Perhaps if you could provide more details of your particular problem, I could provide more detailed help....
Re: applications for automatic differentiation, there's a list of applications here: http://www.autodiff.org/?module=Applications. That's a list for the approach generally though, not the Haskell version.
It's completely not the same story. NYT's "unnamed government official" claims much more than any other story explicitly claimed before. Have you tried to comprehend and compare? Guardian was able to show that UK services collect everything it goes through their nodes, nobody up to 8.8.2013 was able to say so about US, especially not that all the data are automatically searched through, including those of US citizens, theoretically protected by the Constitution.
btw this breaks zoom.
"The procedure entry point strlen could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll" - got this from the Lachs0r's "latest" when testing on Windows XP SP3 (which is still officially supported). What Windows is targeted?
OO subtyping is hard to reason about formally in formal systems _in general_.
Introversion != Lack of social skills.

Keep talking and meeting new people, get better at socializing. Being introverted just means you prefer not to have to socialize some (or most) of the time, it doesn't mean you have to be bad at talking to people.

Being able to socialize is a skill, not a personality. How much you like to do it is what determines if you're extroverted or introverted.
I too have written an "app" for Firefox OS[1]. It was a game I had written for browsers using the HTML5 canvas and porting it to Firefox OS was as easy as 1, 2, 3.

This, for me, is what makes Firefox OS promising - apps are simply HTML pages that work pretty much as computer webapps work.

[1]: http://munchor.tumblr.com/post/46774157520/party-build-for-f...
He's said he hopes to support it, but supporting multiple platforms can be a tall order for a single game developer, and not necessarily something they want to do. A quick visit to the Linux forums of almost any indie game that runs on Linux would put a lot of people off for life; there tend to be a lot of enraged users having trouble with their highly specific Gentoo configuration or whatever.

(For Mac ports, it's usually mostly people who insist on using MacOS 10.6.8 for religious reasons)
You probably can become less introverted with practice if it's something you want, it's hard but not impossible.

How introverted are you ? - web agencies and the like which require client interaction will tend to require more extroverted developers but if you're at a large company working on internal project it tends to be much less of an issue.
Don't forget to include Greece in your list.
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Code is to be taken seriously.

You better commit some unbreakable code while using this.
Does anyone know why functional programming languages are so much favored by research teams over other types of PL ?

That's like asking why algebra is preferred among mathematicians over randomly pushing operators and parentheses around hoping that it will work this time.
As someone who cares about security and privacy, I'd like to know why I'd want to obscure the location of IRC/email traffic.

On IRC I can see that you could come across adversaries on some sketchy irc networks - but, in my case, as just a random developer idling away on freenode (using a host cloak) should I really care that I'm trusting freenode?

And what about email? Is that because your ip will be visible on the mail headers if sent from localhost?

And if you're using a VPN or Tor, aren't you just displacing the trust to those providers?

Another thing I'd like to know is just how much more of a potential target you become once you use the tor network. I speculate that tor has a lot of blackhats fishing for potential targets.
Didn't know about NoFlo before this, previous discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139509

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6144951

The UI looks neat, but the kickstarter video was a mixed bag. Did somebody tell a bunch of people to talk very loudly? Was that the plan to make it "engaging"? Because it did unfortunately have a touch of bro-gramming.*

I'm not sure whether it really is the killer approach to writing software. Where I do see it is in customization. A lot of business logic programming relies on offering flexibility on an intermediary level. Providing the right components for software integrators seems like a very good idea. You'll still need text-based programmers to do the grunt- and architectural work, of course. Because no matter what the fancy graphics convey: Somebody is going to need to sit in front of a screen and type text into an editor.

Finally - all this and no online demo to check out? Am I missing the crucial link?

[Edit] Found this: http://meemoo.org/dataflow/

*Not all of it did - I'm not going to call J Paul Morrison a bro-grammer - but I really don't need people to seem worked up in a video at all. It just seems somewhat artificial, like a comedian dying of laughter from a joke they have already told to hundreds of audiences.
Read "How to make friends and influence people". It'll help.
ZTE phones are coming this friday for $79: http://stores.ebay.com/ztemobileus

This is the phone that was launched in Spain. The Ebay version will be vanilla FxOS, unlocked and upgradable!
Me too, Chrome 28.0.15
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Summarized: "disable images, JS and CSS." That will indeed lead to a faster load...but in many cases, a faster load of unintelligible heap of non-interactive text. Atlhough for purely text-based sites, this may be sufficient, it will break anything else. Not what I'd call "boosting" my experience.
Firstly, it's extremely likely that Cocking has read Lovelock's Gaia.

Secondly, Lovelock made that story up: there is no Dr Eeger nor a P. eegarii. It's a fantastical situation unmatched by anything ever recorded in nature (except cancer, which is exactly what it was supposed to be a metaphor for).

Thirdly, the technology is being extensively tested, and will be more so before it gets regulatory approval.
You probably didn't read it, a quick search on the article will show you the word "privacy" is not even present. Neither in the comment.
Sidenote:

"If your bottom-line is dependent on code, you know the angst of asking a programmer, “How long will {{ insert feature }} take?” You know programmers can jargon-speak their way to your consent and when everything comes crashing down, you are to blame. NoFlo frees your businesses from a labyrinth of text files so you can get-a-grip on what-the-hell-is-going-on!"

Really? Really?

[Post Downvoting] No seriously - If you tell people that NoFlo is the solution to prevent programmers from "jargon-speaking" their way to your doom then... Sorry, that's just a lie with a topping of polarization.

The way to prevent programmers messing up your business is to not hire shit programmers and manage good programmers properly. Not hiring the programmers with the fanciest visualization.
I've been working on this for the last couple weeks, let me know what you think. It's written in Node.JS, served using nginx, and I'm using Redis to store the data.