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I had the same reaction. I'm pretty put off by the form factor, it's shaped like a slice of Wonderbread.
When I saw the title, I was secretly wishing for a DS Lite-style DS with the 3DS components, but no...

Instead, they make it non-closeable with no hinge. Really, Nintendo?
Zyzz had crazy genetics too AND he roided. I wouldn't call looking like that "easily attainable".

In fact that's one thing I find quite annoying about fitness these days, everyone tries to play down exactly how much work is involved in getting fit, especially if you start from a really bad position (massively over/under weight).

It's hard hard work and saying it's not devalues everyone who has made it.

“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don’t nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.” – Ronnie Coleman
The article distinguishes between what would be technically possible in 2014 and what would be in everyday use, so I think Asimov is being judged against roughly those criteria.

Moving sidewalks: I don't think the airport walkways count. Conveyor belts and escalators were both around long before 1964. The prediction is about where they'd be used.
Rust is still a problem with those little ferrite rings, though.

Depending on the environment you maintain for this device, it can actually be pretty delicate. I have some old (~25 year-old) electric motors, where the magnetic properties of the bigger ferrite rings have been degraded by rust. I guess it probably depends of the quality of the piece.

This means there could be one tiny rusty ring in one of the center planes, and that would effectively result in a bad block that exhibits inconsistent behavior for that single bit. A person would have to test for that. It could be programmed around, and you could still have a fully functional object, minus one byte or word (or bit, depending on how you approach it).

You'd also want to keep it free of dust, since dust CAN be metallic, magnetic and conductive. The item for sale looks like it's been taken care of nicely!
The fact that it took them 2 years to do it with VP8...Both VP8 and Hangouts were launched a long time ago.
"I Have A Dream"
Reporting can be surprisingly complicated. You can allow users to run raw SQL queries, or have a reporting interface that is basically is an SQL query builder behind the scenes, and have extremely powerful reporting abilities. The problem is you might have a user create a query that takes 5 minutes to run, and then refresh the page 15 times killing your db server/s. Many places have a separate DB read replica (or multiple replicas) just to allow this type of reporting run by certain users.

For an environment like shopify (which I've never used, so speculating), their reports are much more likely optimized database queries or views, or even created from specially stored statistics data not from querying raw db tables, with caching or pre-generation at some point. This means there's a lot of thought behind every report, and what's possible with the current db/stats schema. Adding a column to a report might mean modifying the db schema.

The final issue is that user interface complexity goes up as reporting flexibility goes up. A super powerful interface that few people take the time to use is worth less than a limited interface that provides value to more people. The task is attempting to satisfy power users and more complex needs, while providing a very useful default functionality out of the box.
> This reminds me of the beats by Dre headphones.

These are the same price as a standard WASD keyboard. There is no premium for the "Code, by Jeff Atwood" name. Also, they are comparably priced to "Das Keyboard" ($125) which is a comparable product which has been in production for a while.

Finally, if you want a "high-price geek-out" item, look at the "Optimus Popularis" keyboard, only ~$1090!
I'm glad that the author is having a good experience with his sit all day and frequently exercise plan. But his conclusion that standing desks provide very little benefit to your overall health is based on his sample size of one, never actually using a standing desk, and then extrapolating that "result" to the rest of the human race.

The only useful conclusion in this post has nothing to do with standing desks. It is simply that exercise will help you feel good and improve your health.
Thanks! Yea actually that's how it worked at first, it'd just eval your input, but now I'm trying to come up with a better/cleaner solution that doesn't involve writing a mini bashscript interpreter :)
I have a great suggestion for the GNOME desktop: Disable leftward movement of the mouse. Moving left is for losers. Real users only move right, and keep going right until the mouse pointer warps around to the left edge of the screen. Then we can use the "move left" gesture to open up a "motion context menu", where it can show options such as "Move to workspace", or "Move to KDE" and so on.
Javascript. It just displays a red or blue stylus.
Depending on what you mean by the "late '90s" I don't think it was quite that bad, but the budget was still up there. Apache was good enough for most if not all purposes by then, if you really knew what you were doing and your database people collaborated really well you could save 1/2 by using IBM's DB2 (very little independent documentation and lock vs. MVCC concurrency). Of course assuming your VCs bought off on all that.

Another problem is elasticity; do your architecture correctly and AWS will allow you to quickly scale. Otherwise you tend to buy too much or too little hardware, either of which can kill or damage you.

By then the web was quite useful for finding technical answers; obviously not as good as today, but still very useful.
Introducing Buffer for Google+: The easiest way to post to your Google+ Page
As the OP has mentioned, this is the Indian government's response to Novartis. Here is the background:

1. In April, India's Supreme Court denied Novartis' patent application for its cancer drug Glivec. They reasoned that Novartis was "evergreening" the drug, and thus did not deserve a patent for a new drug - http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-02/news...

2. Novartis complained, naturally - http://www.novartis.com/newsroom/media-releases/en/2013/1689...

[Edited: a couple of typos]
Autechre was the first thing I thought about when I read your post :)

I was thinking more about hooking up a deck to an arduino and sending the "skip track" command at 20hz, or something like that. Record, chop, loop, and you're away.
Mine wasn't; after a while every time I set it down, little broken cores would rain down. They apparently decay over time.
...thus pissing off everyone using Hangouts for tech support to people who are only ever going to have Internet Explorer installed. Thanks a bunch, Google.

I really want to crack some skulls together over the state of video compression codecs and OS support. Same thing happened with all the circle-jerking about HTML5 video - Flash had AS STANDARD a bunch of useful codecs (eg. Screen Video) for which there is no HTML5 good replacement if you want to do a lossless screencast.
Minimum Viable Product: Build, Measure, Repeat
yes. we will remember to make it more intuitive. Thank you for your interest!
The underlying logical concept has a much longer history than even the existence of IT... or cargo cults for that matter. Look up the "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" logical fallacy, which cargo cults are a manifestation of.
Agree, and a map also provides an "at a glance" assurance that I'm getting a transformed array of the same size. For loops take longer to discern what they're doing just because they could be doing almost anything, including early exit.
ASICMiner does run its own mine: http://asicminercharts.com/
Or, you could focus on creating a great service instead of being an ass.
Show HN: Highlighting Efforts of Creation from Hacker News
Really? We must surf different parts of YouTube. I saw it quite frequently, especially around music, video-game related things, and a few different vloggers.

Edit: that said, I didn't actually click them. I just saw them.
Both sides have glass surfaces.
>>I think strength, and willingness to work hard are quite sufficient qualifications for that job.

No,

He will likely be asked about and made to solve pointless problems related to the chemistry behind the chemicals somehow related to brick making.
As well as the audiophile-pleasing sound on those planes.
I obsess over these pedantic differences too and I'm <30 so don't feel too bad. repeatedly pitches 3.5" floppies onto your lawn

NERD SHAME EDIT: It's been a while... 3.5"
This works when asking someone else, but how about asking oneself?

I try to come up with some objective metric. "I think I'm fast, how does my 50 yard dash compare?" "I think I'm smart, how were my grades? And standardized test scores?" Even still, the smartest amongst us have the best ability to lie to ourselves. Everyone thinks they're in the top half, and most in the top quartile.
Having started companies in both 2000 and 2012, I just don't think this is true. It was easy to put something in front of users in 2000 for less than $1000. We started with a $20/month shared host, PHP and MySql, and easily scaled to hundreds of thousands of users just by renting some dedicated machines. Google, Yahoo, ViaWeb, Facebook, and Ebay all started the same way. Yes, there were crazy $2M funded startups that bought Sun hardware and Oracle software, but this was absolutely not required.

Many parts of startups today are harder. Users' expectations for design and functionality is much higher. The internet was also much smaller in 2000, which made startups like Google possible.

The explosion in seed deals seems much more driven by the funding landscape, the rise of mobile and the social web, and cultural recognition of startups like Facebook.
It's a free service. They do what they want with it.
I think supporting the Open Source codec is a good thing.
edit: also from the article(First Paragraph)
"The H.264 plugin will still be supported for browsers that do not support VP8: IE (of course), Safari, and older mobile clients."
So... there's that.
No worries, unsupported platforms will fallback to the plugin: http://gigaom.com/2013/08/28/hangouts-hd-vp8-webrtc/
If the screens on this were the same size as the 3DS XL I'd be way more interested:

Its two screens are the same size as those of the original 3DS, smaller than those on the Nintendo 3DS XL.

http://kotaku.com/introducing-the-nintendo-2ds-no-thats-not-...

I think the form factor and the fact that the buttons are positioned beside the top screen could make it a little less comfortable to hold since you can't perch it on top of your palm.
What Companies are Using Redis?
Scientists achieve human brain-to-brain interface
This is mentioned in the article, and the author comments that most people will have made up their minds and stopped reading by the time Carlson's article stops being negative.
So happy about this although I wish it was a clamshell. I've really been wanting to play a few of the 3DS games, specifically the new Pokemon and Mario games they're releasing but the 3D screen is completely unappealing to me.
I thought about the N-Gage, I'd say it's a close call. At least N-Gage had the excuse that it was trying to be a phone at the same time and had competing design goals, but they also improved over a lot of the flaws less than a year later with the QD. (And Nintendo improved the GBA with the SP and the DS fat with the DS Lite.) Now 10 years later Nintendo is stepping backwards... Mono speaker on a gaming device in 2013, seriously? There's also so little symmetry, at least the N-Gage has taco-symmetry...
Please, don't use periodic table to visualize anything by elements. For elements it works great and is one of the most beautiful and useful visualization ever created (as it's form is related to fundamental relation between elements).

For everything else (unless having a similar structure to elements), it's awful, misleading and pointless. If I see such I am always wondering, is it: a tasteless designer, wannabe data scientist who know no other visualizations, or a science ignorant having no clue why Mendeleev's table is structured in that particular way, or a salesman wanting to give it extra legit and make it sound more fundamental.

Just please, don't.

Hint: just group things, in their own structure.
If the design were that time consuming, then scanning/printing a copy of the original to ~2mm tolerances (which some of the better scanners and printers can achieve) will still be out of tolerance. Do this with a precise mechanical part and it'll wear out or break faster, or impair performance, etc. So just taking a scan will be inadequate and the "pirate" would have to reproduce the tolerances of the engineered part. Which would also take a really long time.

And arguably, how do you determine artistic value except by what people are willing to pay? What will you do, upload the CAD file to the cloud to determine if it is near enough to any registered works of art? What tolerances will be used to determine "fair use" or "derivative work" statuses?

I'm just trying to point out that physical DRM is nuts. If I BOUGHT a figurine and wanted to duplicate it, then nothing should stop me from doing so. (First-Sale Doctrine[1] in the US protects physical ownership.) But distributing said plans for a product, copyrighted/trademarked ones, is wrong. So you hit distribution, not the product-owner's rights.

That's just my 2¢.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Unity 3D introduces new 2D tools
Gotta appreciate the comedic effort at least. I'm curious what happens at 50,000 signatures. I hope it's some internal policy at WMO for naming extreme storms they're exploiting and not just an arbitrary number
What I forsee is some developers wanting to ignore the 3D capabilities. "I have two sets of consoles, one with 3D and the other without. Ditch the 3D!"

I probably won't happen because Nintendo is known to force the developers to use their gimmicks, but most of them are probably thinking about it.

I would also like some information about the hardware. Will it have the same processor and/or GPU? The 3d effect spends some resources, so will there be games that run better in the 2DS than on the 3DS?
Why does the service impose a mandatory expiration date on selfies? There are candid photos of me that I didn't like at the time but now (and some of this is just plain old bei familiar with them) are amusing and valuable to me.

This is a cool side project and I hate to do a serious critique of it...but since the OP decided to go the pithy Medium essay route, I'll take it he's sincere about thinking these this through. Here's my critique: the world doesn't need a constant stream of the ordinary. Ignoring the damage of enviousness, many FB users suffer from just spending too much time being interested in other people's lives...and that's just the highlights. What mental appetite or capacity do we have to consume all the mundane moments too?
The original title, which you can still see in the URL, is "marissa_mayer_controversy_what_the_negative_coverage_gets_wrong". I wonder why they changed it?
Hahaha if it's in the repo then we DO have problems...

Although presumably someone who could write there could just corrupt a package everyone already has?
OmgArch - ideas?
This sounds awesome. I've spent a lot of time digging around in the records at 30 Chambers and it is really hard to comprehend how much historical stuff is lying around in decaying pages.

Even just something as simple as showing an OSM with all the historical election districts / assembly districts over time for each census/election as map layers would visually convey to someone looking at an address what would otherwise take a decent amount of time to look up.

The NYC Dept. of Records has all the tax lot photos from the 1940 and 1980 canvas, so you could even build up a historical "street view" for the 5 boroughs. I've always found it annoying that they keep this data locked up and charge a decent sum for each photo. It is something that a decent microfilm scanner could make quick work of, but I don't know if they have plans to liberate all of that image data as part of the open data efforts.
Surprising and disappointing that the best methods were only barely over 50% correlation with performance on the job.

That's probably about the best we could expect, as job-seeking behavior when a candidate desires a job is different from job-doing behavior over the long term after someone is hired and knows more about the company. The appalling thing is that companies still use procedures (personal unstructured interviews, "personality" tests, and in Europe even handwriting analysis) that are demonstrably much worse than that, rather than the work-sample tests and general cognitive ability tests that at least give companies their best chance to hire workers who will do well on the job.
Alex Polvi Explains CoreOS (OS for Docker)
These aren't that rare. You can buy yourself a single board for significantly less:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=ferri...
Go for it! You would not repent it for sure :)
What are the main differences/annoyances you've noticed with Fastmail?

Do you happen to know if they support "undo send"? i.e. where you can configure a 30-second delay before the email is actually sent, so if you think of something right after you hit 'send' you can edit it. That happens to me a lot, so I like that feature.
My 2 cents, I was considering a 3DS but was put off by the 3D not the price. I'll be buying this.
Ask HN: Best editor theme for screencasts? (dark on light or reverse)
I am wondering if anyone knows of studies that show which kind of theme (dark font on white background or light font on dark background) is best to do programming screencasts; ideally the studies should have looked at the link between theme choice and comprehension/retention. I noticed that basic editors (e.g. notepad[++], crimson on windows, textedit on mac, etc.) have a white background as default (or only available theme) which may influence programmer's preferences. (For many years, I stuck with white backgrounds until I stumbled upon SublimeText Twilight light on dark theme which is now my preferred theme and which I would prefer to see in screencasts ... but may not be the best choice.)
'Which isn't many, but it might have been critical to those 4.'

Well yeah. But you can say that for nearly any feature of program. I don't see this as a big deal.
Exactly...most of the countries with really high taxes are the most stable financially for example.
Fascinating article. I like their perspective and that the app is getting some traction. The whole notion of romanticism vs. realism is an interesting one.
NYPD Designates Mosques as Terrorism Organizations
I'm one of the co-founders of Dev Bootcamp, although I'm no longer involved day-to-day. What it means to "learn to program" is nebulous. As you pointed out, a person regurgitating things they've seen is able to "program" in some sense.

What I can say that the priority is not so much teaching them X, Y, or Z framework, but teaching them what it means to "think like a programmer." You might not think that is teachable, but, well, empirically falsifiable. :)

I'd definitely call students who went through DBC "programmers." Many of them remark after graduating that they never realized how little they really knew. At the very least, we get them from unconscious incompetence to the bottom rung of conscious competence.

If all I were doing were teaching folks "cords[sic] from 10 popular tunes" I'd have no interest in doing it at all. Real programmers or bust.

I can't speak for anyone else, of course.
What is the point of this link? NIH is policy, not science. You have failed to provide a single piece of scientific research that chiropractors can properly diagnose and treat kyphosis.

On the other hand, problems with the practice are widely documented: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/may/14/dangers-...
Databases which use MVCC handle (2) - and if they have transactional DDL, then they cover (3). But they don't keep the history permanently. Who wants all that old data?

The one exception to this that i know of is Oracle, which although not fashionable round here, does expose the MVCC log through "flashback queries", where one can simply write "SELECT * FROM USER AS OF TIMESTAMP (SYSTIMESTAMP - INTERVAL '60' MINUTE)":

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28424/adfns_...

I don't know what the logistics of keeping an infinite history are. I do know that an e-commerce system i worked with before kept a few days, and that that saved our bacon on a couple of occasions.
Healthcare: Why does America spend so much, for so little?
I think it's incredibly relevant. Many of the criticisms she's received seem quite gender biased.

Let's see. One of the big ones is "she had a baby." Well, that's something that only a female CEO could do. And she took two weeks of maternity leave for it; no more than many CEOs take for vacation. That entire criticism seems to be "she's a woman", and wouldn't be applied to a male CEO who took a similar length family vacation.

Time claims that she has a "princess problem". Would any male CEO be described the same way? And they go on to say "She is one of only 21 female CEOs in the Fortune 500. Doesn’t she owe it to us to tell us how she got there?" Um, why would she owe anyone anything just because she's a female CEO?

The problem isn't that she's made enemies in the business sense. The problem is that lots of writers and columnists seem to focus more on her gender, and apply criticisms simply because she's female.
Missing the point: a male CEO wouldn't pose in a fashion magazine because that's not how we treat men.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/men-ups-manly-men-in-classic...

See how peculiar it looks?
People use Ivy with ANT because ANT solves part of the SCM issue: build. Ivy gives ANT dependency management.

Many people keep saying that Maven is a bloated software but the Maven core itself is rather small, everything else is a plugin.

Compile Java? Plugin.

Compile Scala? Plugin.

Unit-test runner? Plugin (surefire).

WAR packaging? Plugin.

Run your CSS/JS via YUI Compressor? Plugin.

The reason why occasionally you see ANT TASK inside Maven may have something to do with the situation where there's no Maven plugin for that particular task and there's already an ANT TASK for that particular job so people just call that ANT TASK from within Maven. All these tools can work together nicely.

BTW, executing ANT TASK from inside Maven? that's a Maven plugin.

So Maven does one thing and do it well: orchestrating plugins. Each plugins does one thing and do it well: solve a particular need. It does make Maven look bloated because it gives the illusion that Maven does everything... like your Operating Systems.

When people refer to Apache Maven as a Software Project Management it is because it can also generate a website for that particular module/sub-modules/the whole projects.

Example of generated Maven websites:

http://james.apache.org/

http://maven.apache.org/

So you can put everything under your source control and have them build by maven to generate a complete website + documentation + javadoc + release notes for your modules/libraries/javadoc along with other goodies as well (code-coverage result as part of your project website).

Example of the goodies that the maven site plugin can generate:

1. Display dependencies of your libraries/projects

http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/dependencies...

2. Project reports

http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/project-repo...

- Checkstyle report (does your code violate any coding rules?)

- Cobertura => check the code coverage

- Javadocs => brings you to the API

All the links in project reports are generated by "mvn site" command and the availability depends on whether you install the plugins.
That's true, but somehow Meyer having enemies is newsworthy whereas for any other CEO it's not really remarked.