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>Has anyone used all of the HTML5 tags in anger? I've tried a couple of times to build something fully "semantic".

Don't. Just use what you need and be pragmatic.

The biggest proponents of semantic markup have been web designers, people that had no idea what semantic meant until they were told by hack W3C people.

They tend to oversell the value of semantic markup, because they feel it makes them sound more intelligent and can help upsell their design offerings.

In real life, nobody cares for semantic markup. Not Google (the main search engine that matters), nor browsers, and of course, not the clients. And as real life experiments with assistive technologies have shown, not even screen readers benefit that much from semantic markup or care about it.

As for seperation of code and content and re-use -- that's what JSON, DBs, REST APIs etc are for. You are not supposed to reuse your HTML as is in other domains.

It's mostly a snake oil business, based on an idea that sounds good in theory, but it's more trouble than is worth.

And it has even less relevance nowadays, when web pages turn into web apps. What's a semantic "web app"? Why do we need semantics here, for something that in the native world we've always done with presentation code, from Interface Builder to Visual Studio?
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Part of the NSA's job is securing the United States cyber infrastructure, and the people tasked in that job take it just as seriously as the collection part. They sponsored SELinux, and their security guides are quite good:

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configura...
As I understand it there are several 'schools' of economics which use different models and which council different responses to the recent financial crisis - sometimes completely opposite responses.

I'd be more inclined to consider economics a science if, of the multiple contradictory models, all but one had been falsified.

Personally I don't consider social sciences to be real sciences for the same reason. If you want to say economics is a social science I would agree with that.
Nothing... when running 2005 software. But due to Gates's Law you probably don't want to run 2013 software on 2005 hardware.
I don't understand why stories like this are being flagged down.

This story has 55 points and is 3 hours ago and is on the second page, but a story with 45 points from 7 hours ago is on the homepage.
Yes, that is a fantastic explanation. My coworker immediately got it, and was simultaneously blown away by the concept of "arity."

Please keep it up.

One area you may be interested in: I've recently been playing around with Incanter (a library for data analysis, similar to R or Python Pandas).

There is a distinct lack of tutorials for using it, and the documentation isn't exactly friendly....

The reason I mention it is because I think data analysis is a place where Clojure absolutely shines, and someone with your expertise could probably work it into useful examples.
>In the case of suing former employees, it also sends a clear message to existing employees.

Yes, but I'm not sure "run" is the message an you want to send to your employees.
I don't know very many people that became good drivers by reading a car manual or a book at drivers ed.

I'd argue the best way to learn how to drive, is to drive. Almost everybody I know started out driving that way, on a safe road somewhere or in a parking lot, with their parents or similar. Not by reading a book about it.
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Incredible that they've found a way to fund the attendance costs for everyone from travel to food.

On a sidenote, lot's of awesome stuff coming out of Ann Arbor. Rapt.fm was born at a Startup Weekend there (http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/05/rapt-fm-beta-public-launch/).
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Giving children a voice. Being a Heat Start teacher I can tell you that it is EXTREMELY important. Instead of just making sounds or cry when Billy kicked or pushed him the child says, "Stop I don't like that." Changes a person from being a victim to being an advocate for themselves. If everyone could learn how to express their emotions into words we would never have Jerry Springer Show.

Words are better than fists.
One year of shit you have to do now will save you a decade of shit you have to do later.

It is entirely worth it to finish those 30 hours.
Even after 9/11, with all the screening, the TSA stop about 20 to 30 guns every week. I don't know how many they miss.

(http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/08/tsa-week-in-review-44-firearms.h...)

They also find grenades. While most of them are inert or replica some of them are live.

I imagine that pre 911 things were easier.
Interpreting the data that way assumes everyone is equal, which I think most would agree is not true in the real world. There are a lot of factors that prevent people from graduating, or even attending in the first place, that also seem related to what employers look for in the work place (determination, natural ability, etc).

What does the data look like if you limit the set exclusively to those who are fully capable of graduating from college?
Telling someone with "Impostor Syndrome" to "act like you've made it, because you have" is like telling someone with severe clinical depression they "just need to cheer up."
I don't know a single person that I would call driven (much less insanely driven) that has been a failure.

I know some very driven people that I don't consider terribly bright who I thought for sure would be failures who have ended up owning and running successful businesses.

On the other hand, I know quite a few master degree level people and above who would be homeless if not for the generosity of others. It seems like more and more people are substituting schooling for real work.
People get details wrong all the time in eyewitness reports.

The people who fly on BOS-LAX in first class tend to be "important". Similarly the NYC-LAX and NYC-LON flights. DCA even more so. I mean, we saw a very high level Samsung exec as one of the first to post photos in the flight which crashed at SFO recently; not unusual at all.

The quality of intelligence you could get by monitoring first class is why Air France (well, French intelligence) actually installed microphones in the headrests of some of their fleet. Probably wouldn't do this for Orlando to Nashville flights in coach.
> It always returns the same result given the same arguments. This is call "referential transparency" and you can add it to your list of five-dollar programming terms.

> It doesn't cause any side effects, e.g. it doesn't "change the external world" by changing external mutable objects or outputting to i/o.

These have little to do with one another. "sort :: [a] -> [a]" sorts a list, perhaps using quicksort. If you want to randomize the pivots, it's "sort :: [a] -> IO [a]", and everything in your program that sorts things has a different type, even though it produces the same value.
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Another solution is to write the algorithm but avoid the hedge fund - lots of suits, and they take most of the money. You're better off if you trade it yourself.

People work for hedge funds because hedge funds provide mentorship and really powerful tools and lots of data to sift through. We're trying to provide all of those things, for free, at Quantopian. https://www.quantopian.com/ Check out our community (for mentorship), our backtester (very powerful, and open source), and our 11-years of minute-bar data - all for free.
This reminds me of the Azure pricing page:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenar...

It seems like Lob is using a similar flat UI price calculator though they don't have the quantity sliders, which is apparently an oversight as a slider seems to make sense for settings like "number of pages". Their previous pricing was 50 cents per page plus 12 cents per extra page. A 100 page document is therefore $12.38 plus shipping. Under the new pricing the same 100 page document is $96 including shipping. Presumably shipping costs scale logarithmically with number of pages as the cost to ship a 100 page document shouldn't exceed $80, to put it mildly.

I also like Azure's use of the flat selection boxes which operate as radio buttons. You get to see all the options side-by-side as opposed to Lob's site where you have to click on each dropdown to see which options are available.
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I was intrigued by the nextprime() function and had to look it up.

It depends on an isprime() function that in turn relies on the Miller-Rabin test, discussed here: http://primes.utm.edu/prove/prove2_3.html

Interesting that it combines a number of weak, probabilistic tests into a strong test (for n < 1e16)
Actually I think this point is repeated every time.
Maybe I'm missing something, but are there any options for the app? I'd like to disable the haptic feedback.

EDIT: Your welcome email could use a better sender name. My spam filter caught it. Hello is a very good sender name.
Seriously? You could also state "Unemployment literally doubles if you're Black or African American." (http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat07.htm)

The way statistics on unemployment, earnings, etc by degree level are being used is disgraceful. It's correlation does not imply causation at the basest level. It's more likely the higher your social and economic background is, the more college you can afford, and the better job you can get.

I see so many people with tons of student debt for a degree that is useless for finding employment. Unless your profession requires a degree (laywer, doctor...) or you can go for free via grant or wealthy parents, most people would be better off entering the work place or starting in a trade. You can always go back to school when you can afford it.

There are A LOT of college graduates out there asking "Would you like fries with that?" to non-grads.
But do you want something in your arm that lets you identify yourself to Google when you choose so?
Our goal is to get to an LTS release without increasing the surface area of the project. Once the LTS release is out, we'll likely take on critical community projects under our roof and offer first-class support for them. This should start happening in the next couple of months. (Unfortunately until we get to LTS we don't quite have the resources to support new drivers)
It's great to see an amazing product like RethinkDB move so quickly and improve so much. Since I've been experimenting with it, the performance has improved dramatically.

RethinkDB + Docker is a great setup for me and has made upgrading between versions of RethinkDB less painful, and when combined with tinc, clustering is really easy as well (DigitalOcean, where I'm experimenting with RethinkDB, doesn't support Amazon VPC-like functionality and only recently added support for a private network in one region).
I completely disagree. In my experience, the most knowledgeable people are the ones who are genuinely interested and curious and crave more knowledge, no matter what. You could convince them that they were the most knowledgeable person in the world, and that wouldn't prevent them from learning more.
That's great advice. Fixed, thank you.
A lot of the apps that you know and love wouldn't be possible without performance improvements. Of course customers won't notice the improvement directly, they'll notice in new software capability they previously didn't have.
Commence the HN Apple circlejerk once again.
I recently posted a small example showing how to construct a magic square of odd degree using a surprisingly simple algorithm called De la Loubère (or sometimes also the Siamese method), with Python:

http://cjauvin.blogspot.ca/2013/09/siamese-dream.html
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A video that demonstrates the collaborative workflow between two people would probably highlight the differentiating value proposition more as well.
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For your workload a columnar store will always outperform a row-based store (like RethinkDB). Rethink does work for analytics, but it can never compete with columnar stores (like Vertica, etc.) on the workloads those systems are good at.
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Intel getting to ARM's power envelope and cost won't help them though. They already did the Razr i which I think shows people won't buy something just because it's Intel. Once Intel scales down to match ARM it has lost all of the things that make it "Intel", and so what's the point? If they compete directly with ARM they're going to lose because they have more to lose.
Faster Than Light is a great game. Worth more than the average price by itself.
The title of the article is skewing everything. He's making an observation on the environments individuals are in. The gist, surround yourself with competent people or goto an institution that will help you find people to do this. This is what college is. A place to find like minded people.

Ignore the rest.
Just as soon as someone adds vax, sh4, m88k and hppa backends...
Name one software package (not a game), released in 2012-13, that would not work on a midrange 2005 desktop.
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>I can't really see how your code or queries could cause mysql or apache to gradually slow down and then speed up...

Actually, we've ascertained that it is not the code or queries that cause this per se, but it is the traffic patterns - human visitors + SE crawlers... at times, there are (natural) traffic bursts and that's when the server starts choking.

apache/mysql - stock distros, with some config tweaks, mainly in my.cnf.

>what happens if you just kill one or the other?

Good call. Actually, restarting just apache does the trick most of the times. What we suspect is, abrupt flooding in http requests causes MySQL to slow down which causes http requests to get queued up and finally choke the service.
iotop can show you some of that, but doesn't let you drill down quite so far. It's a step in the right direction though.
Wow, it's pretty realtime. I signed in immediately after creating my account, and it said I need to confirm my email. I clicked the link in the email and a new tab opened, but my existing tab refreshed as soon as that link opened, taking me right to my dashboard. I've never had that experience with any other website.
Oh.

Well, in that case look up Debian's OpenSSL from a few years ago.
Average price was currently $3.90 which is really really low.
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Actually, most Chromebooks are Intel-based and ARM based ones are relatively recent
Aescetic Narcissism takes many forms, but once you start to recognize it for what it is (empty), creating value as a means of life becomes some sort of Art. From nothing, something.

I don't think Conan gets the point here, much. This is all about 'how to overcome ones weakness', but the question is still left lacking: to what end does it matter?

What matters, is: The User

If you don't have someone else agreeing with you that the widget is a widget and can be used to do blah, whether that widget is a meme, a joke, something electronic, physical, or whatever, then there isn't any chance for the Ideation to Perpetuate.

Without another human being agreeing that you are the value you assign to something, or that the value 'is', there isn't any value. Everything that leads up to that point in time in the universe is merely a shadow, reflection, or bump towards what has to happen: at least one other person has to agree with you, what is, is.

It may be true that one has to push hard to overcome the more base and banal afflictions upon the entrepreneurial spirit, but it simply does not matter if you have at least found one, then another, then many, to agree with you on subject 'x'.

I think that there is much to be said of the cult of the entrepreneur, but the word itself is merely an introduction to economy, at and of scale. If you really consider yourself an entrepreneur, but don't have a single user of something you have created, I don't think it matters who, or what you think you are.
>More interactions between novices, intermediates and experts make it possible to identify experts.

Is there evidence for this? It seems unlikely to me.

My experience with non-experts with a little knowledge (including myself) is that they massively discount the difference between what they know and what the experts they encounter know. They know that they know less, but they don't have any foundation to understand how much less.
When I was in a local electronics shop a few weeks ago, they already had x86 chromebooks (along with the ARM Samsung version). So what's the news here?
Yes, event the Louvre has a giftshop.
Indeed, it's a simple and challenging little sucker, too. But a word of warning: It will make you feel like you're doing well for a while, then curbstomp you with zero warning. There's no saving/loading, and if you die, you start back at square 1.

It definitely feels awesome if/when you finally beat it, but be careful with this game if you tend to throw things when angered.
This is insane!

Last year they had an entire floor in a massive building dedicated to sleeping hackers!!
Current ARM memory systems are terrible compared to what you find on even medium scale x86 chips. There's going to have to be a LOT of investment here before you'll see ARM approach the scale of large (or even medium) iron.
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This was almost painful to read, mostly because I've been through the same kind of interview many times. It is also amusing that another comment here is assuming that you were the interviewer in this example, when you were actually the interviewee.

The depressing thing is that this interviewer probably went back to HR (if the company even had an HR department) and told them that you didn't know anything about basic sets (whatever that means).

The interviewer's line of questioning amounted to guess what number I'm thinking of that is between 1 and 100.
A big part of the game is played before the matter is even played out in the court system. This part is much less expensive.

It's one thing to be threatened with a lawsuit, but it's another matter once the paperwork is filed.

When I was hit with a revenge suit during the first bubble, the single, asset-free me had a different reaction than some of my peers who had families and much more to lose.

There's a lot of psychological warfare going on. When a process server shows up at your doorstep and serves papers to your spouse at your partially-paid-for house, things take a turn. Any sense of righteous defiance you might have starts to waver at this point.

The plaintiff in my situation got a lot for the 20-30K they probably spent on suing us. Without going to court, they shut down an entire company and made over a half-dozen people unemployed -- edit: while making them pay for their own legal fees too --. And they got the satisfaction of a "moral" victory for chump change. Never mind that most of their claims were bunk.

So, in a nutshell, it's not always about going to court.
While you're correct, the celeron processor was about as good as they got -- which won't take you very far on OSX
"Consider the final product to be your perk."

That's how crowd-funding needs to be done, in my opinion. I don't care about little knick knacks - I want my monetary support to actually better the product, not be spent on useless items.
To be fair to Mike he does say "Nothing is a cure all". I agree with your point though. Different people have this condition at different degrees and there is no such thing as a catch all solution. Some people need mantras and some people need medicine or whatever else it takes to help them make it day by day.
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> If you look at who was seated right next to the terrorists it reads as a who's who of foreign owned, telecommunication surveillance companies involved in fiber optics, digital communications and caspian sea oil interests.

...and actors, politicians' wives and other public figures and businessmen. Lots of rich people. The kind of people who you might expect to find flying first class on a commuter flight.
It'll be an interesting fight with Intel's Silvermont Atom, which finally gets out of order execution.

Intel claims that dual-core Silvermont chips can outperform quad-core ARM chips by a factor of 1.6 when power draw is similar. Intel also says Silvermont can draw 2.4 times less power when delivering similar performance as the quad-core, ARM-based competition.
FEZ! Awesome! I've been waiting for this game for so long.
You can buy this for Mark of the Ninja alone - it is gameplay-wise really great and a very artistic game.
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It says it has a better battery life, I'm just going by the submission.
I've seen evidence to the contrary. CS guys who get mega-bonuses based on fund performance. And no they don't even work on HFT.
More often than not, executives/companies think they're doing you a favor by giving you a job, even the ones who pretend to care about their employees.
Mark of the Ninja is an awesome game, well worth whatever you chose to pay for a bundle.
omg lol i can control my cat piki with this. oh wait she died.
That they are releasing new ones.
It means that some people can be successful thus. Some people also win the lottery. For the rest of us, it's wise to have a backup plan that offers some mitigation of downside risk.
All the games support Linux this time! Really looking forward to playing Fez and FTL.
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Reminds me of Silent Running.
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Education. Health care. Music. Three industries within which I would never try a startup due to such twisted incentives and resistance. Much respect to those who do try even when they know the odds.
Agree 100%. I had the misfortune to run across someone who took great pleasure in bullying people with his lawyers, a profoundly dishonest and unpleasant person. It's hard to overstate how damaging these people can be. Ever since then, I've made a point of doing public record searches on people to check if they have a history of suing people, which has enabled me to dodge a couple bullets since then.
Battery energy density is improving at about 7% per year. (http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1074183_how-much-and-how...). After 10 years, that's a 97% improvement. If one of the new battery technologies becomes feasible with all of the new investment in battery research, there could be a much bigger jump in energy density before then.
> You could convince them that they were the most knowledgeable person in the world

I agree. I'm just saying that the challenging part (especially for those with impostor syndrome) is actually being able to convince them they are the most knowledgeable person in the world.
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I don't really understand the, "crusty, old language," argument either. C++ became an ISO-certified specification in 1998 which is roughly around the same time that CL became an ANSI standardized language. We still use C in many systems for very valid reasons.

However unlike the C++ and ANSI C standards, the CL specification left room for programmers to extend the language as they need it. Instead of waiting for decades of expensive committee debates and meetings as you do with C/C++/ECMAScript/etc the programmers using the language in the field can go ahead and add the features they need and implementors can fill the gaps between new OSs and hardware. How is that bad?
"Children"? Who refers to 18-22 year old men and women as children? The terminally condescending?