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Ask HN: What is your entertainment setup?
Designing & maintaining systems, building interfaces, implementing algorithms or just writing code for no particular reason are lots of fun - we all know that. But every now and then it feels great to just relax on the couch while watching a good movie or catching up on your favourite TV show.

Some of the best hardware/software people read this forum, so I was wondering - what is your entertainment setup like? HD streamers, TV + Audio gear, costs/benefits, recommendations, tips and anything else you can think of.
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I'm skeptical. There are a lot of bullshit free-energy and reactionless drive "inventors" who exhibit the same pattern. Super secretive and paranoid that the traditional scientific review process will steal their invention, will only allow third parties to experiment under very controlled conditions, etc, won't produce working patents, etc. Remember Dean Drive?

I often think they either known they're peddling something bogus and are straight out charlatans, or they actually really believed in what they have, but are too afraid of it being debunked.

Science and secrecy don't go together. A material with twice the melting point of tantalum halfnium carbide sounds like an ablative heat shield to me.
Conferences often offer "student tickets" at a much lower rate and I think these "girl tickets" should be thought about and handled in a similar fashion. Certain groups are allowed to attend conferences at a lower rate because they might not otherwise and it is advantageous to the conference or industry that they do.

Instead of calling them "girl tickets" they should perhaps be called "women in tech" tickets or the conference should partner with one or more women in tech groups and name the tickets after them (i.e. PyCon could offer PyLadies tickets.) Conferences could even use membership in the women in tech groups as a way of certifying that people deserve the discounts similar to how a student ticket might require proving that one attends a university.

(These are just some ideas; one problem may be that some women in tech groups may also allow males to join, although it could be enough of a hurdle to prevent abuse.)
I'm sure he didn't plan to die.
Instead of starting with methods, start from interfaces. An interface is an object along with a collection of functions that have the same object as one of their parameters. It's a whole lot easier to implement if that special parameter is always in the same position.

Methods are useful for implementing interfaces and for avoiding namespace clutter; otherwise they're equivalent to functions.

I have no idea how you get from multimethods to interfaces.
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AAA games can be ported from Windows to Linux in a matter of days if they already work well in Wine. When they don't, extending Wine to make them work is vastly cheaper than you probably think.
Good luck with that. I worked in the editorial department and most of the copy edits were outsourced. There's a house style guide that's loosely followed at best, and other than that, this is what potential authors get for direction: http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/intro.csp

That page hasn't changed or really been updated in a few years. Sigh. Moved on to greener pastures...
Way back in the early days of Internet, there were pictures of some fellows who moved all the furniture out of their dorm room, got a sheet of heavy-duty waterproof plastic big enough to cover the floor and three feet up the walls, and ran a hose from the bathroom...
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University used to be a place to further one's intellect and expand one's mind. Now they are a sausage factory where one is barcoded and hopes to be sold for a pretty penny.

When the ancient Greeks created the foundations of modern mathematics and philosophy by drawing with a stick in the sand, they weren't looking to "totally pwn the quant market with this new algo brocrates!"

This article asks the wrong question. Ask instead, "Why does modern Western society place no value on learning that cannot be instantly monetized?"
The edge cases are enormous - smartphones aren't always running on the same time, and their internet connection delays might be different (one on WiFi, the other on Edge) so syncing time would be difficult. One might give a location based on GPS, the other just the nearest telephone pole. Or maybe none at all, or the wrong one (it happens), or different poles. If you get only 1 bump every 10 seconds it would be easy, but Bump's market probably like to hang out at social events, making it harder to figure out time-wise which bumps are which.

I can go on, but if you can't imagine it being difficult, then your imagination needs work!

I think the hard part of their patented algorithm would be to use data from the accelerometer - basically the only thing that can be 'trusted' - to match bumps up through the unique bumping signature/characteristics. Actually - since it's patented it should be public record, so we could go look it up.
Yes, India does occasionally "render" alleged terrorists. But usually from bordering and smaller countries like Nepal.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-30/india...

http://syednazakat.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/the-inside-story...

Of course it is nowhere near the reach of the US, so yes, your overall point is still valid.

But I fear we're conflating two different issues here - Internet surveillance and illegal rendering. Just because some countries may not be doing the latter doesn't mean we as users should be blase about the former.
What do you mean? There are plenty of WD40-work-a-likes on the market.

Additionally, the ingredients to WD40 are on Wikipedia[1] and Wired had a mass spectroscopy done and published even more precise details[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40#Formulation

[2] http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/st_w...
My experience shows it is measurable, but indeed since it is very varied for some workouts it may be months since you repeat exactly the same one. But eventually you do, and individual exercises are repeated much more frequently, so you can see your progress in basic exercises easier than in full combined workouts.
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http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\forall\alpha.(K_1^1[\al...

PS: It's $\LaTeX$, using $word$ is always wrong. And axis labes x and y should be in math italics.

Anyway it's just plain ugly, different fonts, formulae jumping from baseline etc. Use mathjax
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I remember the Dean Drive. Does anyone else remember the Dean Drive?
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Gabe is scared of Valve being like Netscape when Internet Explorer came out. If he'd really care about linux, he would have started this years ago.
I can't exactly speak for the entire Europe, but in Poland almost everybody has a Visa PayPass card, and you can pay with them pretty much everywhere now. It is also not uncommon to see someone pay with his NFC-enabled phone.
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Indeed, the OP made money in a market which governments are desperate to prop up and make sure keeps rising and seems to think "that was easy, anyone can do it!" which is a terribly takeaway message.

Also, it all builds toward plugging a book which raises my sceptical eye just a little.
> * Encouraging companies to host data directly in Brazil, so their privacy laws can be enforced for their citizens.

And it would allow them to collect data of their own citizens much easier. Because, ya know, it's just America is a totalitarian boogie-man. All other countries are bunch of human rights loving, tree hugging fluffy bunnies.
Every single one of those old PDFs, especially OCRs, are full of errors, now corrected in this edition. There's a long history of errata, old and recent, and in which editions they were corrected, at feynmanlectures.info
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Well, that's because a lot of people use SO as either "do my homework for me" or "I'm too lazy to RTFM, please read it for me" kind of site. But under the pile of this manure, real content is still there, real people with knowledge still answer real questions. But I admit it has become harder to contribute - even in areas that I have considerable knowledge, most questions aren't either interesting or worth the time, and those that are I'd be missing since I can't keep up with the inflow of low-value questions. I wonder if SO has any ideas how to fix it...
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That's what I was thinking, about the paddles. Five minutes by motorboat in clear weather ought to be at least manageable even if the motor's out and the weather's terrible, so long as you've got paddles.
Go Brazil!
The balkanization of the internet is inevitable, now that we have two push forces towards that, a strong desire to stay away from other countries intelligence agencies and copyright.
Yes, let's look to the British to tell us how a country should keep to its borders, handle international relations, balance domestic surveillance/privacy concerns, run fair and impartial international trials, and teach us about India.
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No. A woman with a normal ticket just missed out on a discount that they could have gotten (either because they didn't know about it or by choice.) Same thing happens if you're a student but you buy a full-price ticket.
Wow, we should probably rewrite the Linux kernel into this thing, it's blazing fast, and close to the metal too.
Good point. Especially since his Amazon affiliate code is tacked onto the end of the URL.
You could add Mozilla's position:sticky attribute :P
Ooh - human cooking fat! Just wrote that down as a dystopian short story idea.

Yes, I eventually realized you were not talking about melting down muffin tops.
>>> have your questions closed because existing members like to taunt newbies

I don't think anybody likes to taunt newbies. However, people that donate their time to SO want their time to be used efficiently, and usually fixing badly written question is not the most efficient use of one's expert knowledge and time. People want common investment - you invest in good question, they invest in good answer, everybody wins. Of course, newbies may not know what "good question" is, and experts may have seen so many bad questions over their tenure that their temper has been worn thin, thus sometimes misunderstandings happen. But I think approaching it with understanding that it is a common investment, and asker has to invest first to get their investment back with sizeable profit of a good answer may be helpful here.
Maybe gender parity in a conference could help improve gender parity in industry?

It could make sense for boy tickets (perhaps with a better name) to exist in conferences in women-dominated fields, but it would be up to each conference to decide if gender parity is something they want and if they want to encourage it in this way.
> break from US-centric Internet

This is in part what the delegates tried to accomplish during the "infamous" ITU summit last year. But Google et al launched a major FUD campaign to Save the Internet, when in reality it was to save American interests and keep control over the net.
Keyboard smashing is surprisingly predictable by the views of what I smash when a program ask for entropy. You have the center row over represented with a lot of asd clustered (old gamer hehe)
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The gulf islands in BC are beautiful and much nicer in terms of climate. The San Juan islands are the southern tip of the gulf islands. Similar prices.
It's unwise to presume you're talking to an idiot. I am well aware of the meaning of 'gender' within feminist literature. Obviously, that is not what I was objecting to. My irritation is with the current commonplace usage of the word as a simple synonym for sex.

You ascribe the conflation to writers who "..don't understand the full complexity of the word." I also attribute it to pretentiousness (gender sounds more "academic") and a good dose of prudishness (sex sounds dirty.)
That is a valid question. Why rebuild Detroit when there are other cities who are in much better shape financially and structurally. There are abandoned towns all over the mid-west and west coast. They were abandoned when the gold ran out, when the trains bypassed them, when the interstate was built. Detroit, AFAICT, is a manufacturing town in an era where manufacturing is no longer being done. At least not by humans. Robots don't care where they are situated (in the city or in the desert) and don't pay taxes.
Why can't Microsoft slam Apple with style?
Oh I know your type... My countrymen never fail to embarrass me.

Brazil the world leader in creating the nag-a-lot-people. </irony>
Failure #7: The Founder needs to STFU:

Your customers at the end of the day define your business, because they spend the money that enables you to continue. While you believe you have great thoughts, as a commercial entity you do not have the luxury of such things because the market speaks louder than your own ego.

I like Tim, a lot, but at the end of the day he vainly spoke as O'Reilly media and not as Tim (a guy who has some smart things to say but is independent from a company) and that has an impact. If Gates spoke as MS HMFIC about vaccinations he would get roasted in the market, but Tim never divorced himself from the company and thus made the company suffer for his own personal conceits. If you're a sole propietorship then you can afford such luxury, but Tim had a larger vision for the company yet confused himself with that vision.
While it is true that all countries will salivate at the opportunity to setup a surveillance apparatus that is made efficient by technology, our only hope is to safeguard our online lives by demanding policy change. Any technical safeguards that we may enact are easily subverted by government agencies showing up at our door step and shipping us to limbo.
It's scarcely believable that the author (who is also the submitter) is making statements like the following:

"Now suppose you go into the bank and say “hey, can I borrow $90k to buy this house, and I’ll put down $10k?” If you have decent credit, you’ll get the loan easily."

"So you end up making a profit of let’s say $110k – $100k = $10k on your $10k investment. Cha-ching $10k became $20k, a 100% return on investment."

less than 5 years after the worst financial crash since the great depression caused exactly by that exact line of reasoning by millions of people. This is a guy who claims to have learned "a lot about .... investing."

More than likely it's all affiliate/SEO spam for the book he's flogging in the post. And we've all (including myself) made it worse by commenting on the post here I'm sure.
Hi, I just sent you an e-mail :)
Discounts could make sense because of the evidence that women tend to be paid less than men, but that would have to be handled with a ton of tact - I don't know how I'd do it.

I've also seen these forms of practical support from conferences that want to encourage participation from women:

* Enacting a harassment policy and/or code of conduct to provide a signal that the organizers care about maintaining a healthy conference environment, which can help women feel more comfortable attending (see http://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/conference-policies/).

* Helping make arrangements for childcare, such as setting up inexpensive group childcare for children of attendees, since women tend to have more responsibility for children than men do.

* Offering advising for qualified people interested in submitting talks who don't have much speaking experience, or having lightning talk opportunities for less-experienced speakers, to help fix the self-reinforcing cycle of few women speakers at conferences.

And pleasantly enough, those policies also benefit attendees of all genders and support other kinds of diversity as well.
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Why is all real estaste risky? A good apartment in a historic stone buikding in SF will be worth a lot no matter what, even if the whole USA crash and burn USSR-style. Because the supply is limited.

A house in suburbia? Not so sure.

That's your main take-away from economic disasters.
Not having something robust sorted out for your invention to survive your death by the time you're 78 years of age? That's bad planning. Or, perhaps, being a scrooge.
Keys are arbitrary data (you pass in pointer to data and length in bytes), so you can use anything that makes sense for you as keys.
The term is "key/value".

http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-did-slash-become...
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I do focus better at night, but realized it was a bad trade off because you have to get early later afterwards.
I switched my schedule instead and work really early in the morning now.
I love it because you don't have the "oh f* it's 4am already" if you wake up at 4.
This sounds an awful lot like Firepaste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hurtubise#Firepaste

There seems to be a common trend among these types of inventors that border on paranoia, eccentricity and at the same time, accidental brilliance.
I've gone through picking embedded key-value store, too.

What really concerns me is why never in benchmarks they perform on already filled database (like, 14G, 28G, 60G)? Because "add 100k random keys into an empty database" is very different from "add 100k random keys into a large database". And that is where more novel algorythms start to shine.

Yes, read speed of leveldb (and, i assume, sophia) with its fancy sst's is lower than of plain old b-trees or hashtables (kctree/kchash), but it is still high enough for most tasks. Write performance of kc* (and btree-based libraries in general) is, however, unacceptable, at least on hard drives, and even with a reasonable-sized database (~90% of RAM) it degrades to a couple of random write per IOPs (so, 200-300 writes per second on a consumer-grade HDD, or up to 1000 on a 2x10k sas hdd in raid-0, if i remember correctly)

It may be reasonable to use kc* on SSD, but i did not test that.
Agreed! The programmers in the top IT companies of India may have good skills, but over all the skill-level is very poor.

Most of the CS-Engineering graduates, having spent 4 years learning the concepts of CS, still won't be able to write a simple code demonstrating a simple Data Structure after graduation, or a complex loop.

India really needs to improve the basic level of Programming education provided in its common universities.
Interestingly enough, this is exactly what we have been working the past week at the office :) but our solutions are more general (not fixed for a table) because we need the pagination feature for many different controls
Well, the proposal was no better that what the americans are doing. I am not from the US but if I have the choice between being the internet being run by the US or china/russia plus a bunch of other dictatorships I will go with the US (but I still abhor the NSA surveillance).

Of cause, I would prefer a better option where there was a system that was not dominated by any countries but I dont see the ITU proposal as being good for the internet.
Hey everyone, I'm one of the organizers of ng-conf. We appreciate your feedback! Hopefully our genuine intent wasn't lost in our (perhaps clumsy) wording.

Our only goal with this is simple: promote the cause of women in tech. We all work with extremely talented women and recognize their value in our industry. For example where I work (Domo) one of our VP's just won the "Women in Tech" award, which is awesome. We just want the women in the Angular community to know that they're appreciated, needed, and welcome at ng-conf.

To that end, we wanted to make sure that those interested would have a ticket available. Today we sold all our early bird tickets in less than 2 minutes. Next week we are opening up the next round of discounted tickets for the general public. We anticipate these and all other tickets will also sell out quickly. So to succeed in our goal - despite the inevitable statistics - we decided to reserve a number of these tickets for women. This way, women that wanted to attend wouldn't have to worry about the luck of the Eventbrite draw. So the primary benefit is the guarantee (not the discount) of the ticket. We felt that was the least we could do to show our thanks and appreciation.

The pink lanyard does seem a bit silly out of context, we should have explained that idea better. As we've seen with other conferences with limited availability (JSConf, Google I/O, etc.) competition for a ticket can become intense. We didn't want men to buy up all the women's tickets using their significant other's name, or the whole thing would be pointless. We figured if the lanyard was clearly for women, that would deter most abuse of the initiative.

We really do appreciate the feedback on our execution. Let me recap what we're received so far:

- Most generally agree with the idea that getting more women out to ng-conf is a worthwhile initiative.
- Pink lanyards was a terrible idea.
- Some prefer to be referred to as women, not girls. That's understandable. We took our cues from some of the organizations championing this same cause: "Girl Develop It", "Girl's Who Code", "Black Girls Code", "Girls Write Now", etc. In our minds it was "guys and girls", not "boys and girls". Both are valid semantics of the word, but we hear you.

This has been a great learning experience, and it's clear that we need to brainstorm this a bit more. If you have other ideas that accomplish the same goals in a less polarizing fashion we're all ears. Thanks for the positive feedback, we appreciate it. We really want to do this right - it's too important not to. Thanks!

Dave Geddes
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I don't find this a problem at all. What's indeed a problem is that it enforces a wrapper div that you cannot control using this syntax. Furthermore, plugins such as ColVis tend to be inflexible due to that wrapper.
In Europe they are everywhere.

I still use DVD and am starting to have problems, because the new titles at our library are mostly Blueray.
Leverage by retail investors is frowned upon because they can get badly burned and lose a ton of money

NB>Its frowned upon because the lenders can lose money.
>Self-hosting and updating an entire web app is not very realistic these days, but exporting in a ready to deploy site is a feature I'm thinking about. It isn't implemented yet.

Ah, now I get it. That would be a nice feature.

>I don't want this to have a private mode, everything is public.

Is there a preview functionality? If not, that would be an important feature.

>You can't guarantee privacy these days

That's true, but you can still give users a little privacy if you want to. I personally wouldn't want to write on that platform without a drafts/preview folder, but that might just be me.
>what happens when (not if) this favourite disk becomes scratched and unreadable?

Wow, really? I have you know I still own DVDs from 1997! and they work just fine so you might want to dial down the "when not if" argument.

On the flipside, I do have some trouble finding streaming sites that offer their services for that long. Not to mention the fact that these services have recurring payments to use. So excuse me if I and many many others opt to buy our media to own and to be in control of it rather than trusting some company with offering it for god know how little time.

And here is the real kicker: If you own a disk, you have ways to digitize it yourself if you can't be arsed to put a disk in the drive. So it seems to me that I have the better end of the deal compared to someone who just streams everything. Not to mention the fact that not everybody has internet connections that lend itself to stream blu ray quality.