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@wycats has already mentioned [0] that Ember Data is supposed to hit RC status at the same time Ember.js launches, which should be by the end of this month (August 2013).

[0]: http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/future-planning-roadmap-of-embe...
> Sex is the great eradicator of meaning. And we all want our sex to mean something. Hence the difficulty of being a human being.

This sounds like some real corn-fed bullshit.
Does a smartphone count?
Introducing HanSON: JSON for Humans
First of all, I'm not disturbed by the app, I could care less what people (married or otherwise) do in their time. What I'm pointing out here is a failure in conveying the purpose of this whole venture, you don't cater to people who are searching for quick hookups talking about long-term relationships. If they decided to put that in there I surely hope there's a reason beyond just throwing words at a website without thinking and I highly doubt it was to cater to the very narrow niche of open couples. Also if you think you can just shrug off media's accusation of moral corruption and whatnot with a smartass attitude you're very naive and you fail to account to a whole series of fiascos that have sunk many a business before.
I am so gratified that someone made this.
[editable] Procedurally Generated Fantasy Planet in WebGL
Learning the meaning behind words
Right, so you are describing what Kuhn termed the period of "normal science": theory in hand, collect new facts, fit facts to theory, repeat.

HOWEVER, that theory-in-hand rests on an earlier paradigm shift, where previously anomalous observations were re-integrated via some new conceptual framework that better accounted for all observations, not merely the conformed ones that scientists had focused on in the prior period of normal science.

So yeah, perhaps in the day-in, day-out existence of professional scientists, most work is fitting facts to theory. However, that theory exists because facts come first, because at some point in the past, mounting factual evidence overwhelmed the theoretical biases of an earlier generation.

Do I really need to spell this out for the HN crowd? For you, who reference Kuhn?
4. Cover executive compensation increases.

In all seriousness, CSCO should regain today's 10% after hours loss within a month after investors realize cutting 10% of their staff will greatly reduce operating expenditure.
From the Ken Perlin blog: http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=12842 .
The car sharing aspect of robocars isn't as exciting as people hope
Interview with Serval Project (mobile phone mesh) founder
Why doesn't iCloud support encrypted email?
I can understand why gmail wants cleartext of your emails, but Apple's not an advertising company. What do they care if your email archive is searchable? Even then, you could do something like lastpass and deliver an encrypted block of, say, all subject lines, and let the browser handle the decryption, no?
Nifty! I presume this is running on a Linux kernel? How much memory does node use? I would think that kernel + JS VM would chew up quite a bit of your 32 MB of RAM.
Chox: Streaming Chat for Real Conversations
Thoughts on the water fast?
woman here. this rings true. i have a female friend who did online dating, with the specific purpose of finding short term encounters. i would say she is an 8 on every guy's scale, a 10 on most. she went after very physically fit and intelligent guys, messaged them, never got a reply back.
What reader are you using that offers de-duping?
I don't want to "enable" you to drink even more or to drink more, comfortably, but regarding the dehydration. . .interspersing water with the alcohol helps with that. . .at least for me, for social drinking.
> you don't cater to people who are searching for quick hookups talking about long-term relationships

Yes, you can. But it's a niche, of people who are in open relationships.
This is overblown. You don't need to track the entire internet to realize that a fraudster is using proxy.
As much as people detest Origin, they really forget how awful Steam was and sometimes continues to be. I just launched the Desktop application, and it literally took 30 seconds to become usable. About 30x slower than a browser takes. I can't speak for Origin, but the market could use some competition, and it will also hopefully drive the DRM schemes to become more open, at which point we can ultimately build a non-centralized platform.
Bustle.com: the worst case of mansplaining…ever.
True, but this either has to be done by paid union labor 50 feet off the ground near 1 tor vacuum or by a heck of a robot. The union guys will be certified up the wazoo and paid to match that and persnickety about it. The robot will be and engineering marvel and a hell of a good idea.

I mention in another reply that Mr. Musk also has plans that involve vacuum differences and not a lot of wiggle room. On a trip to Mars a robot hull fixing machine would sure be nice to have.
That's exactly how I feel about powerlifting. Once you get to a certain level, the attention to detail, specificity, and focus you need to progress are great analogues to other areas such as programming or entrepreneurship. It's become my personal meditation time where I disconnect from everything else and focus intensely on optimization and improvement.

If anyone is interested, this book has given me a vastly different perspective on things like exercise (or in parent's case, martial arts): http://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Keys-Success-Long-Term-Fulfill...
When put in that perspective, I think exercise would greatly appeal to most hackers.
It's actually 'standard temperature and pressure'.
Python is typically more like 40x slower than C, not 400x.

Passing arrays by reference really just isn't that big of an issue in practice. We tend to write both non-mutating and mutating versions of most array functions, distinguished by whether they end in ! or not. Typical development procedure is to write an algorithm using non-mutating APIs and get that right; then you figure out where argument copying is slowing things down (using e.g. the built-in profiler) and modify the code to avoid copying, sometimes by simply adding a ! or sometimes by pre-allocating some work array and using a mutating function on it. Compare this with a similar scenario in Matlab where there simply is no straightforward way to avoid copying – if the JIT is clever enough to avoid copying you're in luck, but often it's not that smart and you're forced to live with the copying or drop into C.
With respect to national security, it's very clear that our elected representatives are split into two groups: a handful that know what is going on and all the rest that are kept in the dark. There is no way that the members of Congress kept in the dark can possibly represent the interests of their constituents on these issues. This alone should be very worrying to everyone. I would imagine that most Americans were under the impression that being elected to Congress came with it the right to know a lot more about what is going on with respect to national security than they actually do. I never would have guessed that there we effectively have a praetorian class within Congress.

A few questions arise from this situation:

(1) What percentage of Congress is kept in the dark on these issues?

(2) Are there any other areas besides surveillance and national security over which Congress governs which is also operating with a few that know and many that are in the dark? I'm not talking about issues where a member of congress is willingly unaware because they don't educate themselves or read the bills and reports related to that area, but where the Congress person does not even have permission to view the information.

(3) Are there any provisions in place to prevent or at least mitigate a revolving door between the committees and the agencies they are supposed to provide oversight over?

Out of curiosity, how does a member of the house or senate get on the Intelligence Subcommittee? Do the members of the committee choose who gets to join? Does the process allow for those who are likely to dissent or have an adversarial position to join the committee?
Part of it is their acquisition cycle, whihc has picked up again in 2013. Buy out, consolidate, then look for more. Anyways i've met tech staff who were laid off there and had new jobs with a week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Cisco_S...
Data Goes Supernova
If you're being picky please THINK before blurting. It says life could involve CELLS. Which is plural. Which points towards multi-cellular and NOT single-cellular organisms. Also look at definitions of cell. All of which imply cell as being a smaller unit of a LARGER whole. As for your utterly stupid question of why compare it to a cell: BECAUSE they are the basic units of which larger life forms are generally composed.
Peru Unveils Plan to Use Solar Panels to Provide Electricity to 2 Million People
It's in 'private beta', I think.
This article's advice creates the same kind of terrible, derivative "feature" companies that simply exist to get acquired, rather than really breaking new ground.

There's gems in there, but lots of bad, bad advice.
Many transgendered people consider "tranny" a slur.
Well, the guessing probability is the logarithm of the min-entropy, not the Shannon entropy.
As for Shannon entropy, it's impossible to get SE with our current code generation because there will always be a small difference from theoretical limit. When the length of our codes get bigger the Shannon entropy/uniformly distribution model breaks down and the Guesswork time isn't as long as we once thought.
>>It assumes, incorrectly, that anonymous sex is something that appeals to a large majority of women.

I don't have any citations handy, but in several gender studies classes back in college, I learned about research that has shown that most women actually have fantasies about hooking up with complete strangers. Where it gets complicated is that these fantasies almost never reflect actual desire, but rather serve as a way to enable certain feelings in the woman: excited, wanted, dominated, etc. This is why romance novels almost never describe the physical traits of the male character and focus overwhelmingly on how he acts and how he makes the female protagonist feel. It's also why men can almost never relate to such novels even when they read them.
> A drink before bed to me is like the inverse of waking up and drinking coffee.

I find that weird. My sleep is completely wrecked if I have something to drink beforehand - I'll go to sleep fine, but the sleep is always fitful and I don't feel rested in the morning.
The original 747-100 /was/ spacious on international flights, the upper deck had a lounge and a piano. This wasn't due to some bygone era where passengers weren't treated like cattle, it was due to the underpowered JT9D-3A engines.

Without sufficient power, the airlines lowered the amount of allowed weight on allowed on international flights and thus the seats had better spacing. Later models starting form the -200 model had more powerful engines so they crammed in more passengers - both in coach and in first class.
Yep, and transphobia too. All around, it's a nasty comment.
From the fundraising document:

Our target audience is sexually active people with smartphones/tablets, who are using dating services, watching porn, buying pleasure products and escort services.

What could be more appealing than the prospect of hooking up with a random stranger who's active on half a dozen dating services, frequents porn sites, has a closet full of sex toys and, when all else fails, doesn't mind paying for a little affection? Sounds like the man/woman every attractive, sane person is looking for a quick romp with!
Looks nice. I'm going to see if I can fit it into a Laravel 4 project.
I think the "most women" mindset is where things start to go wrong with analyses of sex. I think that there are enough people out there (men and women both) that "large enough" subsets exist to make things like this work.

My personal hypotheses are: 1) the subset of women who want to have casual encounters regularly is small; 2) the subset who want to have casual encounters sometimes is very large; 3) if you can reduce friction and stigma significantly then you can activate a modest size subset of women who want a casual encounter now.

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When I lived in NYC, I found happy casual consensual sex through Nerve / CL / OkCupid on the same day I looked about 50% of the time I was interested (between 5-10 successes and some awkwardness but no failures).
The article stated some comments had been deleted, not the whole AMA.
THIS. I quit drinking a few years ago and it was the hardest time of my life. Not because, I was having booze withdrawl, but because I didn't know how to be a person.

Most of my interactions with other people involved getting obliterated so I was never able to really by myself around other people.

First become a real person and develop a healthy coping mechanism for stress. THEN, maybe, think about getting your drink on.

If you drink too early in life and too often you might become a complete social retard like I did.
I certainly agree with your comment about sleep. For me, I generally lump sleep in with my exercise because I've been strict about getting a minimum of 7 hours of preferably uninterrupted sleep in order to maximize recovery from exertion. The sleep and exercise combined work wonders to clear out the stress of the day. And while I feel exhausted after a workout, it's more of a calm, peaceful, and cleansing exhaustion.
Does SpaceX document all their tests publicly? Or are we just seeing the successful ones? (If they've all been successful ones, will we see unsuccessful ones if they come in the future?)
> you trust in everything turning out alright. This has no relationship to the real world.

I have tried the opposite: 100% serious balls to the wall control freak & pessimism and mistrust of "everything turning out alright". I'm sad to report that that approach is no good.

I'm starting to think a decent dose of naive "it'll turn out alright" is useful.
It'll back onto "shallow" factors anyways. Even on "traditional" dating sites the vast, vast, vast majority of messaging occurs based almost entirely on looks.

Websites that market themselves as soulmate-finding services haven't solved this, I highly doubt a hookup site is going to do it.
The NOAD reports it under "informal", had it been a slur it would've been under "vulgar". I actually check the dictionary before posting any given comment.
>when did the straight of Taiwan stop being a nuclear tipping point?

This is always what bothers me about any discussion of the modern US military. It seems like every "war game" or scenario is half baked, where US forces go head to head against a similarly artificial Chinese or Iranian or PRNK force. The winner of the scenario wins the war, and peace is restored to the universe.

So 1: What is the scenario where two nuclear powers engage each other directly that does not end in nuclear war?

2: What non-nuclear nation has the capability to engage the US in conventional warfare after a flurry of cruise missiles and drone strikes? A lot of good an air force will do Iran if it's destroyed on the tarmac.
Mine's mousey https://identicons.github.com/tel.png
The $9.99 to request sex is an interesting way to fix the supply and demand problem of women and men. For $9.99, you can request sex from as many females as possible, without any guarantee that any of them will say yes. This will inevitably lead to a lot of unsatisfied buyers.
That argument is a cop out, because I can apply it to lots of other things that node does do.

Why is the "string" implementation part of Node, and not something that everybody can choose to implement with their own microlibrary? Because strings are something that need to pass between modules all the time, and interoperability dictates that we should all pass the same kind of strings.

Likewise, exceptions flow between modules. They are necessarily part of the interface that other people's code will expose to yours. That's why Exception is part of Node, and that's why it's Node's responsibility to give us constructs to deal with those exceptions cleanly. It tries to do so, with try/catch/finally (which only works on purely synchronous code), and Domains (which can work with asynchronous code, but only if all your dependencies are careful to also use Domains to clean up their references, which most don't).
I suppose if I were to undertake it, all I would need is time (i.e., some savings) to produce a rough first version. To really build it, the help of other engineers on the back-end, especially to implement job matching algorithms. I'm mostly into UI.

Getting users would be a whole other challenge. I can see the web/tech crowd adopting something for its superior UX, but then you're up against Github, which provides far more utilitarian value and accomplishes a bit of the professional social networking in one fell swoop. When it comes to everybody else, I think that business partnerships, marketing, and sales are key. That's more help needed.

I think it's totally viable, I'm just not in the position to do it. I hope somebody is.
What mental exercises do you find effective at improving memorization, and what would you recommend to a beginner?
I honestly have no idea whether 1% is good or bad, but which depends on a lot of factors:

What's the chance that this company is going to make it? 1% of nothing is nothing.
If they make it, how big are they going to be? 1% of $1 million isn't all that much either. But if they get bigger than that, it very quickly becomes very worthwhile.

How much salary do you get? Equity can make up for low salary, but if your salary is okay, any equity is bonus.
Privacy For Cops
> Such a large cell on earth is an 'outlier'

Indeed, specifically a huge one. Making it huge, by earth standards.

See how that works?
There have been many attempts with Node on embedded systems. Nodejs seems to work on as low as 10MiB.
I had issues with the controls that appear during a phone call. I've been an iPhone user since day 1, but the borderless buttons made me hesitate and hunt around for the button I actually wanted to press. Apple fixed this in Beta 4 or 5 and I feel much better about it.

I still find the Repeat/Shuffle buttons confusing in Music.app and I hope they gets fixed before GM.
How would limiting the the supply of men increase the chance of women finding the "right" one?

I also don't understand how a non-gender-neutral solution is ironic. I can hardly think of any solution to a gender problem that is "neutral". You don't fix gender imbalance with gender neutral methods.

Actually forbidding men to spam copy and paste messages to every woman could elevate the experience for women.
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The site 500's unless you leave off the /en/ from the URL. (It's posted in the article as http://getpure/en/ though.) Someone misconfigured something. I commented about this, but then someone else downvoted me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6214711
Yeah, the problem with basic cable is that you get only the basic cable channels. There is no great way to sever, say, HBO and Showtime from ESPN-XYZ, etc.
I prefer to use self hosted autoresponders using a 3rd parties SMTP service (like Sendgrid or Amazon SES). Much cheaper and just as reliable (you pay 1 cent per 1000 emails sent, no pay-per-user-per-month).

You'll need to spend $XXX on a self hosted autoresponder first though, Interspire or arpReach are good.
Usually that's an indication that the specific mathematical property that you're proving is not what we mean when we say 'secure'.
Well, my point is that the macroscopic properties of an atom are the result of a quite complicated dependency on the orbital configuration. It's not like the orbitals are legos which you just clunk together to form the atom -- "stick in 4s^2 and you get conductivity, and throw in a 2p^5 for that nice deep red color".

The detailed set of rules that give these results is called quantum mechanics. We have a pretty good idea of the general equation to describe an atomic system (although it's still just an approximation), but we actually don't have closed-form mathematical solutions for many-body systems. The best we can do (except for case of hydrogen, and maybe helium) is to make a numerical simulation, which is what the authors in the article did.

You see, if you throw in even one different electronic orbit, you're liable to radically change the results. If the ingredients are complicated (hundreds of relativistic+quantum-mechanical particles), you're going to get complicated results! By way of analogy, consider how genes encode lifeforms: flip a few CGAT bits and you get cancer; flip some other bits and maybe you'd get some disease resistance.

As to your point about the range of variation -- this is perhaps one of my favorite reasons to study physics! To paraphrase JD Jackson, "Coulomb's law is experimentally known to hold for over 25 orders of magnitude in length scale!" But consider this; the masses involved in the periodic table cover two decades; does this perturb you? The wavelengths of light emitted by a star cover many of orders of magnitude; is that a problem?

(posting as alt because I left noprocrast on)
Another guess. . .which I hate on principle. . .if their quarterly profits, even if great, have been below analysts' expectations, Wall Street will urge them to cut costs. . .and they will.
How are you processing the sound?

Enabling the algorithm significantly reduces sibliance, and alot of details in the upper mids disappear. Drums and guitar attacks in particular. Not especially pleasing. I tried playing with the equalizer presets, and they didn't seem to exhibit the same artifacts.

Then again, I'm hardly your target audience, and I was demoing on very revealing studio headphones. I'm gonna give it a shot on my commute tomorrow with earbuds. I'm guessing it improves clarity on vocals quite a bit.
It's not. You can't judge these services as you would in the real world, these are online/app services, think about chat-roulette: you can't use the thing without seeing someone whipping his penis in front of you. These kind of services tend to have an 80% of male populace and generally speaking, gender aside, a whole lot of leeway for abuse, not least of which is lying about your sexual preferences, and before you know it the service is polluted with false profiles and girls that are actually men.
I accidentally downvoted you. You're right.
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I'm not sure what the big deal is. Clearly you aren't that interested in the games in the first place, and it's not really an Origin issue.

Steam has some pretty shitty policies as well, like the fact that you can no longer log in on multiple computers. This means you can't play two different games on the same account. Working backwards from the days when if you bought two games, two people could play them simultaneously.
From the title I expected the CPU to actually run JavaScript, like a certain decades old computer (of which name I can't recall).
What the NSA’s Massive Org Chart (Probably) Looks Like
Buying Battles in the War on Twitter Spam
I think the problem here is that people are so eager to jump at someone’s throat that stop short of reading a whole comment. As I said I doubt they would cater to a niche so cramped as that of open couples, that would be suicidal business-wise. Maybe you’re all caught up with Californication or whatever it is that gets pushed on cable TV these days, that you fail to distinguish reality from fiction.
What do you mean? I've only heard "corn-fed" used figuratively in the Midwestern United States to refer to people who live where corn is produced.