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> Perhaps you misread me. I'm claiming that saccharine niceness goes WITH vicious back-stabbing. Because people who are vicious back-stabbers are going to be inclined to overcompensate with niceness.

I don't think we really disagree. I think that if conflict is avoided through saccharine niceness, eventually it will come out as vicious back-stabbing, and vice versa as you've noted. So the two apparent opposites actually go hand-in-hand, they feed each other. But when I say a middle ground I mean something like firm politeness. I don't believe that brutality paired with honesty is a middle ground; it's just an aggressive solution instead of a passive aggressive one.

I think when I say bad at reasoning, I really mean anything that at least partially involves a judgment call. A lot of the scientific process is deciding which experiments to do. Yes, an inability to process emotions is generally going to mean you're suited for working with logic, and as such might excel at proofs, programming, theoretical physics, stuff like that.

But the problem I've noticed is that people's careers often get derailed because of emotional issues: it could be because they're passive, they can't handle anger, they get stepped on or taken advantage of, they have grandiose dreams about their research, they become unwilling to admit they were wrong, etc.
1. I'm thinking of it being connected with Google Play.

2. Once you've increased the scope beyond the apps on the device, work needs to be done to show the most relevant and useful actions.

3. Enabling flows like:

- Take file from one app, edit in another app, save back over the original file

- Take an email attachment, edit / modify in another app, then reply back on the same thread

4. But there is no reason a third party can't come in and make it happen.
>"name missing, it must be provided" then you have failed input validation as that sort of thing should be picked up on much earlier in a request lifecycle IMO.

Why? What is wrong with letting it get picked up where you already have the validation anyways instead of repeating the validation in two different languages?
You can embed public Google+ posts on your site
Oil backed electrical grid? Where do you live exactly?

No one uses oil to generate any significant amount of electricity, most gas turbines are powered by natural gas, since it's cheap and plentiful. Gas turbines are only used to peak load not base load since coal is even cheaper than natural gas.

Most people spend more in fuel getting their groceries home than transporting them to the store. Food miles should be calculated by the distance to the grocery store from your home.
That looks awesome. There's nothing like that left in the UK apart from a company called Greenweld [1] who are a shadow of their former selves.

We get "radio fairs" occasionally which are electronics meccas but even these are dying off.

[1] http://www.greenweld.co.uk/
The only goal of the comparison to string theory was that it's an alternative theory that an educated observer should judge on its own merits. I'm saying that the background of one's introduction to economics should be based in the mainstream, just as one's intro to physics should not be based in mainstream physics vs string theory (saying nothing of how advanced the intro curriculum need be).

My fundamental point is that alternative theories are invaluable and essential, but being conservative and sticking with the mainstream is generally well-advised for beginners. Once you're confident in your grounding in the mainstream, you can approach alternatives with a critical, well-informed eye.
FYI, I didn't click the link to look at flower paintings, so I left. If you're trying to pull people into a tech article, it might help to start off with some text.
Seems that like me, everyone else commenting does not agree with you. Anyway, I'll mention my particular situation: I worked my ass off for 4 years in my previous company, it had it's ups and downs but it was a great experience.

I moved here, it took me 4 months to organize my legal situation in the US. This is, getting a job permit. I knew how long it was going to take in advance, so I decided to take the most out of that time to travel, know the country better and work in "personal projects".

What does "personal projects" mean for a software engineer? In my case was learning and shipping actual products in two new programming languages, participating in a Challenge Post competition, joining every possible NYC meetup and getting to know every possible corner of New York City.

I'm very glad I did that. And I'll do it again.
I took a stab at rewriting your comment so that it still got the point across but lost some of the tone that I felt was overly rude.

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This visualization, while technically impressive, could use a little work.

Comparing values is difficult because I can't see the relative growth between the boxes from year to year, or size of the budget as a whole. I don't quite see how the animation benefits the user, so you may want to scrap it for some sort of differential comparison. I also don't like the delay when I change from year to year. That could be optimized or reduced through the reduction of the animation time.

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Yeah, I know it's kind of snarky of me to correct your entire comment here, but I think our community (yeah I know I haven't had my account here long) is overly focused on criticizing. While all the content of your comment was awesome, it could have been stated in a more polite manner.

I'm not sure how to fix the attitude that crops up in developer communities, all I can think to do is point it out when people may be coming off in way they don't mean to. Which is probably the root cause for this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353957
"Peak" in peak oil, at least as I understand it, refers to "peak rate of extraction." Or at least that's what Wikipedia says.

Re: "peak price" -- the punchline is that demand is almost inelastic!
For one, because the nodes aren't exactly cheap. For two, because the maintenance cost in the meantime is large.
Size matters | Popehat
Kickstart the first tailor-fit, American-made henleys and hoodies
The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst
The Sailors and Their Flying Machines
No; they'd be making homophobic jokes instead.

For example of a gender-swapped situation that made the man in question extremely uncomfortable even without the history and cultural norms that excuse rape, I recommend reading about Jon Hamm's penis: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/jon-hamm-tired-of-jo...
Any idea if it is feasible/plausible/possible for postgresql to return multiple errors instead of just one? The only reason I can see to have to do validation in the app now is so you can report 5 validation errors at once, rather than make the user submit the form and correct one field five times.
I like geodesics but I don't think they are any more practical than a Yurt.

This link is written by somebody with quite a lot of experience with domes. http://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/domebuilders_blues.html
This homebuilt dome might interest you: http://youtu.be/OQu_FaTKkiE?t=4m46s

This guy's a classic: "My name is Jamie, and I have decided to build a giant robot damnit!"
I couldn't figure out what you were talking about until I tried the site in Chrome xD

fwiw it's just a solid gray in the latest Firefox nightly. No idea if that's by design / site bug / FF bug.
Oh man I couldn't agree more. I still refer back to Jimmy Cater's 1977 speech were he warned about our dependency on oil. Not just foreign oil (which a lot of people mistakenly think he said) and yet after 30 years, we're still in the same place.

Pretty depressing if you ask me.

Here's the speech:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-...
It's not an unmixed blessing, considering global warming. And there's nothing preventing people from synthesizing gasoline from other energy sources and atmospheric gases, it's just rather expensive.
Well, the debate often gets off track, but the definition of the term "peak oil" is "when production stops increasing due to market demands and starts decreasing due to geologic control".

In other words, "when does long-term demand outstrip long-term supply?" The concept isn't to blame, it's just misinterpretation of it in the popular media.

At any rate, as you pointed out, the interesting question is "what does rising oil price do to the economy?".
I wonder how many people could make money putting a couple of these in their backyards and renting them out on Airbnb.
It would be very interesting to see the door. Anything I can think off would easier break the structure of the dome or be awkward.
Fertilizer does not come from oil. This is a myth. Natural gas is not an oil-based input.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Inorganic_commercial...
Thanks for a really informative post! You haven't changed my view, exactly, but you've definitely made me more optimistic about the next 3 years.

I guess a lot of this depends on how well NBNCo executes the new vision. Are we steering a speedboat or Clive's Titanic 2?
If the end result is good, then it will be good, no matter what methodology is used. While I can agree with your conclusion, your argument is just another authority argument, and I hate those.

Having said that, I will not use this particular font, because I like others more, not because of the degree his creator has got.
>> the tolerance for bullshit is low

My problem with this is that we often take what's easy and make it into a virtue. It is easy for us (esp. developers) to take the easy way out and decide that one must act the same no matter the context.

The truth is that your audience matters. Outcomes matter. Did the people in the room hear your message in a way that is going to move them closer to fixing the problem? No? Then you lost. (And your brutal honesty is just going to sound like complaining or anticipatory ass-covering.)

There are some organizations and people that are immune to criticism no matter the form. There are many other organizations and people that will accept criticism if it's phrased correctly for the context.
Why not Golang + AngularJS? JS is not the best programming language and on server side we have a choice.
Show HN: "I hate to *, but"... Passive Aggressiveness on HN
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See also:
The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353957

Inspired by:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6354701
This isn't a blog per se. See: http://blog.fogus.me/2013/09/09/read-eval-print-%CE%BBove-v0...
The problem is, the United States is tying its own hands by not allowing the development of newer, safer, more efficient nuclear power plants. If we could, we would be able to retire the older, not-as-safe, less-efficient nuclear power plants - and the price of electricity would go down making it more affordable to use electric cars all while using less fossil fuels!

I'm all for having a cleaner, safer environment. But until people get over their "not in my backyard" emotions, and get rid of harmful environmental regulations, then we are forced to use the technology that that is more harmful to the environment.
While I agree with your general point, there has been some recent work < http://www.defensivejs.com/ > on isolation of javascript from the rest of the DOM/session. What's your take on this kind of static analysis?

Also, if a given, well-known resource could be pinned to a specific hash and third-parties could easily certify that specific hash, would that ameliorate the primary concerns with JS cryptosystems?

Thanks for your time.
There's also the self-driving car which drastically reduces the number of cars required to replace the existing fleet.
I’m also going to suppose that in order to find truth, the basic prerequisite is that you, as a researcher, have to be brutally honest – first and foremost, with yourself and about the quality of your own work. Here one immediately encounters a contradiction, as such honesty appears to have a very minor role in many people’s agendas. Very quickly after your initiation in the academic world, you learn that being “too honest” about your work is a bad thing and that stating your research’s shortcomings “too openly” is a big faux pas. Instead, you are taught to “sell” your work, to worry about your “image”, and to be strategic in your vocabulary and where you use it.

contrast with the article and discussion at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353957
Some of the current generation of sims (FSX, DCS) focus on "clickable cockpits" where you can operate basically the entire thing via a HOTAS and your mouse, flipping switches and turning knobs. While playing DCS I actually rarely touch the keyboard and move it completely out of the way.

The current head tracking solutions like TrackIR actually make it pretty hard to flip switches on the sides of the cockpit because they drastically exaggerate your head movements.

So I could see Oculus Rift working pretty okay for these. For the ones where I'd still need a keyboard, I could probably hit the right key most of the time without looking, or so I'd like to think.
Sure, but that assumes we already know how to build the fire escape, how much it costs, how long it takes, and what it's supposed to look like.
personally ( = db amateur) I like this a lot: https://code.google.com/p/sqlyog/downloads/list
Made in NY
And your point is? It was wrong, anti-competitive, and anti-consumer then. It's the same now. It's just being done by a different company that doesn't have a monopoly (thanks to Android).
I ordered a polo as part of their Kickstarter launch and really like it!
We were just noting the same about poverty in San Francisco.
Congrats! Stoked for the new line, loved the first [Kickstarter] package.
Coroutines as a Basis for UI Programming
Fonts often take months, if not years to design.

There are blogs dedicated to the process that help you learn about the process and decisions being made.

For example:

http://ilovetypography.com/2009/12/15/font-design-vesper-typ...

http://ilovetypography.com/2010/10/10/the-making-of-acorde-2...
Killer - we aim to please.

The question is.. was it lagoon blue? :)
But also, I have encountered several people who considered themselves to be just honest all the while implying that the person they tried to help was stupid and beneath them, lazy and so on. If there is no close relationship between the two it will lead to misunderstandings and a very bad work environment very soon.

It's impossible (for most of us) to switch this context-reading off, therefore be very careful to use neutral language and emphasize what is not implied if it could be understood that way (unless you do try to tell the person they're stupid - of course you shouldn't lie).

I've had a team break up over this. One teammember used languange he thought was just honest, but managed to insult and demotivate everyone else by making them feel ignorant in everything they did.

TL;DR: It's good to be open and honest, but make sure subtext is not negative (you cannot have no subtext); unless maybe the person you're talking to knows you respect them anyway.
Just updated the site with more API's. Check it out.
Lightweight session management library for .NET
Made even better by the fact that "viscous" is one of my favorite words.
Programs that fit in a tweet
erm, it's time to at least start finding out!
I'm sorry. I don't like it.
I think you missed the biggest reason, social lock-in. If all my friends are in XYZ app I will go their to share photos, check-in etc.
There is one thing I always like to mention with the usual peak oil math (and resultant fear/glee concerning "the end of civilization" and such).

The traditional "Hubbert curve" shows exponential growth and decline in a any particular region of oil production. Peak oil theorists generally extend this to a world exponential peak/decline (the article doesn't directly say but it take the "we have to plan for the peak" position).

The exponential growth part makes sense because traditional oil of the ground is a really, "high quality", high efficient energy source (whatever the externalities).

The exponential decline at a given location make sense because the supply winds quickly replaced by some other even cheaper source.

But the thing is that since these aspect explain the shape of the Hubbert curve locally, these is no reason to expect the global decline shape to have any resemblance to the rise shape. Oil today is a efficient meaning you get a lot more energy out than you put in. We're already moving to less efficient, more costly forms of extract and the price has marginally increase.

There's no reason a-priori to think that any cliff would be involved with oil production peaking. Production gets harder, prices go up, consumption declines, technology produces relatively more at the higher rate, iterate a number of times and there you are. It's worth saying that shale oil is arguably much less energy efficient than traditional production but it is still efficient to get a profitable product to market (and does involve the, uh, transformation of a large land area).

The main reason to put effort into alternatives to oil is the externalities - especially since pricier oil is going to involve more energy and environmental impact in its extraction. THAT is quite arguably a crisis but unfortunately for people worried about these problem, there's no going to be a "peak point" where oil isn't practical from a purely economic standpoint.
Yes, it is possible to entrust a company which will take care of that remotely. I believe most international debt collection agencies work this way. It doesn't matter where you are. Let's say you are a French company and you sell to Japan. You don't know Japanese. You go to a big collection firm, you are served in French, but the particular collector is sitting in Tokyo, knows the law there, the language, and finds the debtor and gets the money for you.

Usually there would be a small set-up fee ($50-100) and commission fee for successfully collected moneyes (8-25%, depends on the debtor's country).

Today everything is done on-line, so you don't have to actually be there.

No standard template, sorry ;) Everything depends on the country/state. Btw that's what lawyers are for :) Over here it's 14% a year by the law itself, you don't have to mention it in your contract/agreement, but also you can agree on more/less. However it cannot be 1000%, because it's against the Civil Code. In some countries you can also collect the "collection costs". In some other you cannot. No simple answer.
I feel the exact same way about global warming.
Sure, it's Docker days on HN, all the cool guys are using Docker, but that's the guide everyone who had ever went to see what Docker is must have seen. Sorry for being harsh, but why submit it with a deceptive title?

Personally, I found this tutorial being a bit frustrating due to implementation limits. Particularly, because it's just type-correct-substring instead of achieve-the-result. For example, "docker search tut" fails and pasting text's limited to C-v. (However, I was surprised C-r worked. Neat!)
The oil business does not get disrupted by 3 kids in an apartment with $20K.

If you want to open an oil field or a refinery you need billions of dollars and a financial projection that says the oil will stay at $X dollars for at least Y years.

Since most people aren't convinced that oil will stay at $110 dollars for the foreseeable future they'd rather not risk billions of dollars.

If you can accurately predict oil prices stop reading hacker news and open a commodities account.
Not that I know, you get a single PGResult which may be in an error state and have a bunch of error fields set. I don't think there is a way to get multiple errors out of it.

But I'd suggest asking on the mailing list about the possibility of getting multiple errors in the future. Not sure that makes sense from the database's point of view though, they're not "validation" issues as far as it's concerned they're integrity errors, a query is putting the db in an invalid state and thus rejected. Because the state is invalid, I'm not sure how the db would progress to get more errors.
Please read the post. My post is essentially a response to the many problems of building domes.
That's what I meant. Having Google on your resume opens up doors many doors when you leave - it would be hard NOT to find offers or connections once people know you're an ex-Googler. I don't imagine this to be the case if you leave a lesser known or respected company.

edit: oh, you were replying to a deleted comment
agreed. setup a repo.

also, it would be nice if you would allow more than one wrapper per api.
Microsoft have released not-ready operating systems to developers in the past, clearly marked as such. This is obviously desirable when developers will need to do additional work to ensure their applications are compatible.
Congrats! I was in on the kickstarter. Great company with a vision for men's clothing I can get behind.
Good points. The problem with creating this is that it would need system level access for each OS, I think. Adding these kind of intents into Windows or OSX would be easy enough, and adding them into browsers should be possible too (Firefox, at least, would be open to it). I can't see how you'd ever get this added into iOS. Google is unlikely to extend intents in this way for Android as it would break backwards compatibility also.

I think the technical challenge may be too great for current gen OSes and browsers? Perhaps we will see a system like this arise on the 'next battlefield', whatever that might be.

Here's hoping someone works it out. The system itself is not that difficult to understand or to implement, it's the logistics of it that would be difficult and (by definition) need a lot more collaboration between corps than currently.

Web Intents [1] are a push in this direction, but adoption is extremely slow and does not look like it is going to take place.

[1] http://webintents.org/
Yes, it has the cars of one scuderia, Williams F1.

And Euro Truck Simulator 2 has Rift support!

The whole spectrum of wheeled vehicles is covered by the Rift.
Can someone please change `wity' to `with' in the title?

This critique is well written and was interesting for me to read, having just finished my PhD a few months ago. I can relate to a number of the issues he raised. However, I must take issue with his point (8). While I think it certainly is important to make sure that academics contribute back to larger society in some capacity, I think it is a bit premature to conclude that this means turning the focus towards more applied work. There are simply too many examples of basic research with seemingly no value to anything of practical interest that turn out to be very value in industry and medicine some years down the road to dismiss incubation of purely theoretical work offhand. I think this fact is more or less appreciated by society at large, and they are very happy to support Edward Witten and Terry Tao and so forth, with the understanding that it is a long term investment with some large expected return. Of course these return have long tails, so most results will be useless, but that is beside the point if you are interested in total returns.

EDIT: typos
"Most simply, peak oil is about rates, not amounts."

See also, Arithmetic, Population, and Energy, wherein Dr. Albert Bartlett comments on the inability of most people to reason about concrete examples of exponential growth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vII-GxsrR2c
Not only that, but the U.S. Embassy in Belarus does not process immigration visas, nor has it for several years...

http://minsk.usembassy.gov/non-immigrant_visas.html
Front-end criticism: You guys need to beautify your pages a little. White-space/line-spacing is kinda off, making poor readability and/or not looking very professional.

That page looks like this under Ubuntu Chrome:
http://i.imgur.com/Vr1y8Cf.png