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Environments are intentionally not first class: that particular dynamic feature really sabotages optimization and can generally be worked around (e.g. instead of letting the full environment escape, expose a closure that mutates only what must be mutated).

Julia has optional type annotations, but this doesn't mean that code without types is dynamic while code with types is static – all code is dynamic, the type annotations just limit the set of types that values can have. It's a subtle but important distinction.
> Bitcoin-like digital currency system called Liberty Reserve

No, it's really not. That's about analogous to "absinthe-like drink called Coca-Cola."

Can the Bitcoin Foundation sue for defamation?
They are all still marked as beta.
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The problem in SF is there is no middle class or family housing being built. All these fancy new buildings going up are high margin 4k/mo rent and some percentage of section 8. There's nothing going up even in the range of 1800-2800 1 or 2BR places.

What would probably be reasonable is 1400/mo studio, 2000/mo 1BR, 2800/mo 2BR. What would be ideal is more like 1200/mo, 1700/mo, 2400/mo respectively. Yeah, that's still expensive, but it's a newer building and hopefully older buildings would be around 80% of that. But that's not going to happen.

Some additional policies like penalizing companies for letting new places be unrented for some amount of time, or allowing developers to (temporarily) displace SRO occupants while they demolish and rebuild higher density buildings in the Tenderloin could possibly help change behaviors towards increasing the supply of more modest housing, but that's not going to happen any time soon. In the meantime, the city is fine letting people do what they want at top as long as it benefits the people at the bottom, with no plans to do anything for people in between.
And I think we can both agree that this first post was a colossal failure.

Sorry to say, but that's pretty accurate. The author doesn't appear to have anything to say.
The $ is only for splicing expressions into quoted code. Normal code that isn't doing metaprogramming doesn't have any sigils in it. So, no, not really channeling Perl.
Clicking through to their "API" page, their any-carrier functionality seems quite primitive. Basically, you tell them which IP addresses to expect SIP connections from. That's it.
Man, this is so disappointing that everyone shits on you for this post. Just like most negative internet forums, you end up with one person putting themselves out there and telling about their experience and then 100 people criticizing everything about it (and plenty of stuff they made up about it).

Anyhow, I think your root sentiment is valid (that most people are only limited by what they believe they can accomplish). Most people take offense to the "little effort" part, but I believe that if you through pure will power accomplish something you thought you would NEVER accomplish, that's "little effort". Most people would probably be surprised by their progress in something if they just put their heads down and worked at it.
It's iOS-Astigmatism!

Get rid of the blurry?
Aren't you Polish?

Ugly? They can't be uglier than, say, an FSO or a Dacia :) .

Slow? Many cars are slower than a Prius (I drive a Renault Twingo). See also http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130725164108AA...

Expensive? Yes. That's the dealbreaker for me, otherwise I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
With the new transpilers, I don't think that's as much of a problem so long as one stays to modern (IE9+) browsers. (Let's see if this really comes true, but I know a few node.js types are anticipating this.)

In the domain I'm in (internal enterprise cough) I find that most people are expected to be full stack. On the other hand, these tend to be more simple UIs in general, so the front end knowledge isn't as vital (cue 'good' full stack developer comments...)
Any in specific? Or just any replacement for lavabit?
Uh, The Power of Now starts off with something about quantum entanglement "proving" that we're all one with each other.
Except not at all. This has a very different look and feel.

Everything with a modern design is not a copy of Metro. Windows wasn't the first to do flat designs, and most designs (like this) that people say look like metro don't resemble it.
If they chose any time to update the iWork suite, then it should be now. iWork for Mac hasn't seen an update since 2009, and both iOS and OS X are very different landscapes since then.
For the record, this is the same graph after moving my Drupal based blog from Media Temple to Linode. Nothing else changed. So yes, hosting can make that magnitude of a difference. http://i.imgur.com/8esmvJS.png
A coworker of mine's dad worked on the XC-142 tiltrotor in the early 60's, which has some wild control-mixing between two completely disparate modes of flight. So for example, differential prop pitch is yaw in conventional mode, but roll in "helicopter" mode, and the two modes could be mixed between.

The V-22 Osprey does this with digital computers. The XC-142 did it with analog mechanical computers.

EDIT: One thing about the XC-142 and other tiltrotors, was that they could operate like a normal aircraft but they had ridiculous amounts of power for their weight to enable lifting in vertical mode, which made them "take off like a jackrabbit" in conventional mode. So much so, a couple of pilots tried to beat the F-4 Phantom's zoom climb record in one! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-84#Testing
All of the proceeds are going to charity (unless you choose to do the humble tip)
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HIB is getting out of touch. I talked to a developer whose game have been in HIB once, he said he didn't really received any notable amount of money anyway.
True, I just thought it was amusing.
Some of these games are Origin-only, and aren't on Steam.
Compass is not a course. It's not a strategy product, it's a mathematical modeling tool for inputting statistics and forecasting different scenarios. (Fact: It's a spreadsheet.)

You, the user of the tool, make the judgments about what the numbers mean to you. Not Jaana.

The expertise required to solve the problem is not about making business judgments, but getting the math required to crunch the numbers right (and build a spreadsheet without bugs).

This exchange proves part of Jaana's point -- her copywriting needs further work. :)

It looks like you're conflating me with people who run classes on how to create & sell internet marketing products. That's not even remotely what I do. No worries, I'm not offended, just want to set the record straight.
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While Origin is by no means an indie developer, kudos to them for donating all of their proceeds to charity.

Also, it's hard to find these games on a Steam sale for this cheap. I could get one, maybe two for what I just paid for the bundle.

edit: It appears that even if they use Origin (blarg), many can still be installed with Steam:

- Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
- Dead Space 1
- Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
- Mirror's Edge
- Medal of Honor

(from http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/125...)
This appears to be built in/for a market where SMS is ubiquitous in a way that the internet isn't.
I know it's not quite the same, but MacBooks do have sudden motion sensors.

See the "smackbook": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQTTPr9Rw
I think you mis-interpreted what I meant. I don't think the article glorified this technology and that toward the last half it offered a balanced viewpoint. Regardless, I don't think we quite have to hit the panic button yet, but if we don't start actually improving our world by inventing technology to protect our human rights, they'll be gone before we even have a chance to really panic.
They allude to just that in the article. DPR is not the founder of SilkRoad.
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What I meant was that in both cases there is essentially one gear, but I see you're point. CVT can be thought of as infinitely many gear ratios and the Leaf's is only one. I updated the article, so hopefully it's more clear.
I have built similar tools for a couple clients in the past and received interest in making it into a product based on a demo on our site. I invested some time in making that happen and am looking for people to beta test so I can add additional database connectivity and work out any bugs.

Any thoughts on the landing page or how to drive traffic would be greatly appreciated.
This is neat, but 3/152 is not uncommon enough for me to convict, I think, if it's entirely on this evidence.
I just ordered a pair. They look sweet. Like the Warby Parker of gym shorts.
In the US, patents expire after 20 years, so I doubt that patents have much to do with Steinway's value in today's market. (IANAL)
Actually, a lot of laptops including Macs do have an accelerometer. They use it to detect possible impacts and park the hard drive heads. Probably will be going away with SSDs.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1935
As far I know MacBooks without SSD have a chip that can detect movement. Once the chip detects movement that is too fast it will turn off the hard disk to avoid damage. This chip can also be used with a C API.
Honest question: What depth ? All i see is flat all around.
Co-founder here - thanks for the well wishes, 6thSigma. We've seen people significantly improve their quality of life once they find a solution for hearing loss, but most people are reluctant to go out and find one, because they're expensive, time consuming to get, and stigmatized. We're really hoping to solve these issues with our app and upcoming hardware product.
This will likely come with OS X Mavericks, which will introduce a Maps app
The price is still humble. I agree, I'd like to see more indie and DRM-free stuff, but this is still similar in form (if not the same).
> over 100 patents, many of which are over 100 years old

Isn't the maximum "term of patent" 20 years or less?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent
Edit: not sure how I missed this, but EA isn't getting any money from this sale.

It's still humble because you can pay as little as you want for the bundle. And most bundles give you a Steam code if you give more than $1, this one gives you an Origin code. If DRM makes the bundle worth less to you, pay less.
You've received a lot of criticism for that comment, but, considering myself as having a very bad memory, i'm grateful that you posted it

Thanks. Just to dig the hole deeper for myself - I used to have a terrible time falling asleep when I was younger.

For the past 20 years though I sleep like a baby every night. If I wake up in the middle of the night (normally due to one of my 3 children or my wife), I fall back asleep with no problem.

Honestly the only thing I did differently was I managed to convince myself that I am a great sleeper. I found the thing that was keeping me up nights was worrying about how much sleep I was going to eke out that night.

I'm sure someone will now say how arrogant and smug I am because they have a disorder that causes them to smack themselves in the face every 10 seconds which makes good sleep impossible.

i already have a preconception that i'll forget about everything if i don't write it down.

I purposely write nothing down temporarily. I deal with CUSIPs at work a lot and I will purposely memorize them for short time periods instead of copying/pasting them because I find the more I do it, the better I am at it.
Gotta hand it to EA, this is a great way to increase their Origin install base.
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Relevant to business? No. Common courtesy requires not mis-gendering people though.
note: the above was a simplification / based on my understand of HTT cpus as of about 2008. apparently things got more complicated in the last 5 years :D The bottom line remains that HTT can cause slowdown in some cases and you should benchmark with it turned off as well.
If I remember correctly, they carry more fuel than they need in the first stage as a safety reserve, and the plan is to use that reserve fuel to land the stage. So they actually don't pay an extra weight cost, they simply make use of margin they were including anyway. If they end up having to use their safety margin, then the rocket can't land, but in the majority of flights where things run smoothly, they get to land it.
Right, it's a cost-benefit analysis for the company. Why does Google have a dentist on its campus? So employees don't need to take the day off to visit the dentist; they can just take a break from the normal workday and then come right back.
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Thanks Muraiki - we'd love to hear what your friend thinks of the app.
Well, yes, about his development of chemical weapons. Also believed he did something good. And in the end, his family was exterminated with similar chemicals that he invented.

In the similar vein, Mr. Karp ponders loss of privacy at the end. By the very tools he helped to develop.
MacBooks have had accelerometers since the titanium Powerbooks.

They were used to park the hard drive heads in the case of sudden movement.
Taking a lower-paid job can reduce your salary once you get back to your primary field. Workers have legitimate reasons to treat wages as sticky.
I lived in SF 2011-2012, and have lived in NYC since then. Let me tell ya, my cost of living now in Manhattan is substantially lower than what it was in SF.

NYC isn't cheap, but it isn't quite the level of insanity as San Francisco.
Yes. By the time the $200k or $300k price of fuel becomes most of your cost, you are already in the realm of Sci-fi!
This is not true. MacBooks all have a Sudden Motion Sensor which has an API that will give you live accelerometer data. Here's a quick list of apps/games that use it:

http://modmyi.com/forums/mac-gaming/800715-sudden-motion-sen...

And here's an open-source Obj-C library to get the data:

http://www.suitable.com/tools/smslib.html

To access the data via JavaScript you can just listen for the "deviceorientation" event.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4378435/how-to-access-acc...
HIB is more about exposure than revenue. Hopefully, the exposure will lead to increased revenue on future endeavors.
In addition, there was a recent study that said when women write fake names on their test papers before they take math tests, they do better! [1] This suggests not only do gender expectations influence performance, but one's own assessment of one's identity has an influence on performance!

Maybe that's why some people have multiple personalities - one is good at math, one at geography, one at programming ;)

[1]http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/07/if-women-a...
I think that's a fair point for sure. You don't want to do 40 questions flows with this. But we've seen really good success with flows of 5-10 questions, even with recipients who have limited literacy and technical know how. But yes, there are of course limits and you have to be sensitive to your users. Really every context and use case is so unique it is hard to even give guidelines there.
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I think this was always sort of known, though. Wasn't it?

Also, it's probably more accurate to say "if you use Email, you have no legitimate expectation of privacy."
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I don't understand why people are complaining about the Humble Bundles lack of indieness and humbleness now. They have been very popular for a good amount of time, voiding its ability to call itself humble. Even though they popularized themselves through indie games, the humble bundle chose not to restrict itself to just indie games. You also have the weekly sales, which also adds to their delivering of non-indie games.

And from an average user standpoint, it seams odd that people are complaining about inexpensive games.
(S)he just asked about creating an account, not about paying LinkedIn. You can still create an account for free.

Yes, that would most likely be a good idea... most recruiters and HR people check LinkedIn these days.
You should absolutely have a LinkedIn account and begin to build the network. Just don't PAY for your LinkedIn account.
That reminds me of the Enigma machines in WWII: The thing was set up such that a given letter in plaintext could not end up as that same letter in cyphertext. This was supposedly to add security, but it turned out not only to be a weakness, but one that was critical in breaking the code.

That one makes sense, in a way: If you see a S in cyphertext, you know the plaintext did not have an S in that position. That eliminates 4% of all possible plaintexts, and by extension 4% of all private keys. That's kind of a metric ass-ton of entropy you just lost right there, for every single character.

My guess is, your proof works by a qualitatively similar principle: Restricting the keyspace, no matter how trivially, gives the attacker information. And encryption is all about magnifying information.
After getting caught. The fact is that the business they're in and the technology they're developing will continue to push them to do questionable things. They rely on large contracts with government and big corporations. They will have to judge (secretly) whether the use of their technology is moral or not. Do you think they will turn down hundreds of millions because their technology is being used for questionable moral purposes?
This was already debunked here today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6212171
This thing is dead in the water, IMO. I just tried to contribute (more than enough to get a phone) and discovered a Paypal account is required. (Over my dead body.) I would have been glad to contribute via any of several credit cards I hold. Do NOT understand why that was not an option.
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In the keynote, they mentioned redoing the entire iWork suite later in the Fall.
Well come on, it's a little more complicated than that. Where you live is not just a simple commodity to you, it's your home. Having lived through the complete gentrification (Disneyfication) of Manhattan I found that, despite being of the Liberal bent, it was hard to see old neighborhoods disappear, look around at nice neighborhoods and realize a good percentage of the apartments are owned by people who are in them only a few days a year, and watch as the interesting fringe stuff (i.e. The Hat) was replaced by the interesting mega-expensive stuff (i.e. Per Se.) It feels bad to become an outcast in your own land, even though that kind of thing does not come into play in Liberal thought.

I don't think that some people asking for some other solution than pure supply-and-demand is untoward. Understanding how they feel: that their home (meaning both the place they live in and their neighborhood) might be more important to them than most other things. There's a certain amount of suffering we cause them with our exercise of simple capitalism. While we can't measure pain in dollars and cents, that doesn't mean we shouldn't care about it. Not everything should be measured in dollars and capitalism is not the only moral system, nor is it inevitable.

I don't have answers (well, actually, I have plenty of opinions on answers but none that are radically different than any other answers already given) but I also don't think that the brou-ha-ha is useless: it's always useful to have these discussions. The end result of this kind of public pressure is often compromise.
This is one of the most fascinating article that has come out in recent times.
I've lived both, and honestly, for me personally at least, getting away from tech people is the greener side.

Meeting a lot of people who share your field and passions is really cool. For a little while. Then you realize you can't get away from it - everyone works in tech. You go to a party and end up talking about tech esoterica. You go to a bar and end up talking about tech esoterica. You sit down for a cup of coffee and end up talking about tech esoterica.

It's exhausting after a while. Personally I'm much happier now in a city where there is a substantial tech presence I can seek out, but I can just as easily get away from.
If you are struggling to pin an ideology on an enterprise like the Silk Road, consider ways in which our current rate of technological/scientific progress has been shaped and guided by the responsible use of psychedelics in the 20th century. Check out the relationships that Francis Crick, Kary Mullis, Steve Jobs and Kiyoshi Izumi had with these fascinating compounds to start. From there it is not difficult for one to rationally assert that Silk Road (and Roberts) are critical facilitators - spurring innovation by furnishing those that might conceptualize the future with a powerful means to do so.
In any event, I hope we all learned something from this. :)
Parachutes are really hard to get right. John Carmack knows a lot more about rocketry than (almost?) anyone on this board (definitely more than me), and he has had them fail multiple times.
It is great that it's all going to charity, and as you said, kudos to Origin for that. I just don't like the direction Humble is going. I want them to be a place I can go to find interesting Indie games I might not have heard of before.
Huge thanks from our entire team for including Watsi in this bundle. We're smiling from ear to ear thinking about the patients whose lives will be changed because of it.
I'm asking you to be rigorous with your claims. And there's nothing wrong with being pedantic.

If you can't respond to questions without getting defensive, please grow up.
I doubt it hurts to create a standard free LinkedIn account, it's still useful for networking, putting a resume on the web (well, there's advantages and disadvantages to that), etc.

But I agree with Nick Corcodilos, which is almost a tautology, he's by far the best author I've ever found on these subjects. One of the best things you can do for yourself in the long run is to read the appropriate stuff on his http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/ site, and you might want to sign up for his weekly newsletter, the July 23rd one was on this topic, and previous ones and/or items on the site have generally and specifically covered job boards.

His general specific advice for getting a job is not so relevant until you, say, get some of those internships or otherwise get the experience necessary to make a good case to an employer that you can do the job, but it's all worth reading. It's also very well written.

While you're at it, read his "Death by Lethal Reputation" essay and avoid what it talks about.
Hi @j_baker tl;dr -> Cloud telephony platform consists of 3 main components - 1. Technology, 2. Infra/Ops 3. Carriers. Until now we and other providers have offered APIs which bundled all three together. This is good for folks who are just getting started, as customers want to get the best pricing and direct access to carrier when they start to grow. Just like how one can get own merchant accounts with Payment gateways.

Today's announcement means we basically allow you to use all 3 components from us, or just use us for Technology and Infra and bring your own carriers. Rest of the details in the post. let me know if you have any other questions :D
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