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I really feel like this is a regional thing. At the high school I went to, the football team played second fiddle to the soccer team, but in general, unless you bought your own equipment, you were still playing with helmets, uniforms, and other equipment that was somewhat fecund. There were plenty of times that players sat because of grades or disciplinary actions, and the football players were no more prestigious than the Frisbee golf club.

Sports were treated as "just another club," and while their budget was obviously larger than other clubs (some larger than others), I don't think they were anything near the stories we hear about the southern states who can't afford text books but have football stadiums that rival some colleges.

Schools need a healthy balance between education and personal development, and I think that sports go a long way towards personal development, whether they be team sports or individual sports.
Are the monoliths dieing?
With all of the criticism of Java and C++ of late, I would ask that not necessarily that they are dying, but are they being set aside for smaller complimentary and agile tools? Seems as if there is too much being asked or expected as they become lumbering beasts that are easily tripped or circumvented. Of course this is likely true for smaller entities, however will the corporate setting ever catch on?
I'm a student studying cs and would be happy to donate some dev time to any of your web projects.

edit: How would we proceed?
There are lots of cool things, easiest way to get started on the peripheral side is to buy a TI Dev kit "Cow Bell" http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2541dk-sensor?DCMP=blestack_ota&HQS... , its pretty cool. Temperature sensor, Magnetometer, Humidity, Pressure etc. you will have to flash it to support HID instead of GATT.
I install everything from source. Except for thing like desktop environments, building from source is a non-issue on modern hardware. It also gives me some confidence in the binary compatibility of the packages I have installed.

For installing:

pushd /usr/ports/*/$PACKAGE ; sudo make install clean && popd

For upgrading (ports):

sudo portsnap fetch update ; sudo portmaster -ad

(In reality, portsnap is run nightly).

A quick read - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/po...

I use FreeBSD on a desktop at home and for a personal web server. I'm not performing large scale deployments (but if I were, I'd probably write a port for my application, define my dependencies, and install it just like anything else).
Just an opinion and maybe even wrong. If you really care about performance you (must) care about control and you, in most extreme way, want C not C++.
Wait. Did the front page of HN just link me to a Chrome Butt Plugin?
Are you implying that web browsers and Operating Systems are places that would be better off with garbage collection?
Sorry! The schedule is so tight as it is, we just can't make it: http://withouttheirpermission.com/tour-dates but please consider coming to the Ann Arbor event or the Brand Camp event I'm doing in Detroit.
Ok, sweet, so we just need to tell game developers to start packaging additional processors with their games.

You need to get out more, you've completely lost perspective.
Bluetooth low energy yes, but I'm not sure it's fully available to applications. iBeacon is more specific and dedicated to location calculation (it's part of core location)
>> Does the iPhone have the best hardware? No.

Really? I'd argue that this is still the best on a shrinking list of reasons to get an iPhone.
It's very hard to enjoy something you are forced to memorized. The things I remember in the long term I deemed important enough to keep with me. I would even say things that were drilled in me I rebelled against.
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Any industry runs on Excel I guess.

I work in aeronautics and everyone who works on a computer maintains some Excel spreadsheets. It's everywhere but so few people know how to use formula, pivot tables, etc, that it has become a real competitive advantage to master them.
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I think there is definitely an opportunity to help companies understand their GA data, but our company Keen IO is proof that Big Data is not too fat for startups. We're finding a big opportunity in helping developers build custom analytics backends and white-labeled analytics. We've found the big bucks are made supporting customers with truly big data challenges. We can provide the scalability and reliability that would be arduous and expensive for them to build in-house.
On the online store the gold ones are the only ones showing that they're now shipping in October rather than 7-10 days. I ordered my space gray one last night and got 1-3 days.
It's interesting that the author concludes that school sports are over-emphasized over club and travel teams (just to be clear, I think there are a lot of good points in the article). I played sports in high school, as did my brother and sister. My experience (and my understanding of a lot of the West Coast) was almost the opposite. Our high school soccer season was considered almost like the offseason compared to the club season, which required way more time and travel, and was also the path to college recruitment. My sister's experience with volleyball was the same. In basketball and baseball, AAU and travel teams take up much more time than school sports, most of which actually have some limits on when practice can occur (we couldn't have anything on Sundays related to school sports, but club had no such rules). Football is the only exception to this, in my experience. Maybe the East Coast is different, but when I was growing up and going through the recruiting process, school sports didn't take up nearly as much of my attention.
I presume that to use "connecting to domain" feature a restaurant owner would need to alter DNS records, which does represent an extra hurdle.

So my questions are:

1. In reality is utilizing this feature a real hurdle?

2. Any other way to do this w/o mangling DNS records?
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I had the golden n64 controller that came with the gold Ocarina of Time cartridge. That was probably the last time I felt special because of a paint job. This is just people wanting to show they have the new and not the old like others have said.
Setting aside the validity of this comparison, keep in mind that Go is coming out of Google, a place where running on 1000 cores is dinky.

(Note: I work for Google, but on open-source server software.)
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Using GC in C++ is rather simple, just use a GC-powered allocator and you don't need to call `delete` anymore. But GC just doesn't matter so much. Many forget-to-delete or delete-too-early problems can be solved by memory analyzers. There are actually very few bugs that adding a GC can solve.
>> "Pit bulls/boxers are basically free at any dog shelter."

True but you have to feed them.
Its also completely subjective to call other languages more powerful or elegant. For example, I think Haskell's lambda is less elegant than C++'s.
I was also homeschooled for the most part (k-4, 6-10, then college) and consider myself an excellent speller. For my fifth grade year, I went to a private school where I competed in a spelling bee and won at the school level, then at the state level against other private schools for my grade level. I have never found spelling to be deficient among the homeschoolers I know - quite the opposite in fact.
We had that going for a while too and it worked well. Someone with a SQL knowledge would write the query and then hand it off to the people with the read only SQL accounts. The issue we ended up running into is that the schema ended up evolving quite a bit so the queries became outdated and gave incorrect results. Then we had to have a process to centralize the queries and turn them into maintained views that could then be used as a the bases for the queries.
Has anyone tried to setup ownclod on their pi? How is the performance?
In many (perhaps most) areas of the US, school team sports serve to represent a geographical area and its community in much the same way as professional team sports. From an anthropological point of view, this is hardly negative or surprising.

If sports don't serve this purpose in Europe, there must be something else that brings small local communities together there?
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I fully recognize that Neal Stephenson isn't my bitch[1], and if he wants to work on a new video game that frankly I am neither physically fit enough nor coordinated enough to ever want to play, that's his absolute right. That said, if it doesn't work out, and that causes him to go back to writing novels (preferably solo, no offense to the rest of the Mongoliad team), that's a positive outcome from my point of view.

[1] http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.htm...
Not really. In order to get in most places you need first/last/cleaning deposit and good credit. For that you need a job. But to get a job you need a permanent address, a place to get clean everyday, and fresh clothes everyday. But to have those you need a place to live. While it's true that "digital nomads" choose to be homeless, that is more often not the case. I went the digital nomad route and found myself in a hole that was hard to get out of. At least I still had a car to sleep in and a laptop. Showers were a big problem. The best solution is to join a 24 hour gym.
Isn't that kind of like Power Pivot?
Govt. healthcare exchange software wrongly calculating prices for people
Touché. Instantly new big data FREE for YOUR pivot might have done the trick, though.
Yet another reason to avoid Texas. Sadly I live here. I think our politicians probably go elsewhere for medical care.
I'm quite sure they manufactured fewer gold iPhones. It's a win-win. They get to test out the market for a new color before making a ton of them, and this now helps to create the perception of exclusivity around the phone.
Even every 5 minutes would be great. Or even every 30 seconds. Microsecond latencies don't do much for investing; it's all about trading. Trading (or speculation) even has value so long as it's pulling information from the future to the present. That's the value it provides. If it's pulling the now plus 1ms future to now, I can't see that providing a lot of value.
OP here: in case anyone has suggestions, this is also on GitHub: https://github.com/JonHMChan/bento/tree/gh-pages

Would love your feedback!
The "Navigation" app has always been part of Maps, specifically the turn-by-turn navigation features. This hasn't changed with the latest Maps. In this turn-by-turn navigation mode, the screen stays on, just like older versions.
Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope? [C++]
I just have to quote Pike's comments:

"Early in the rollout of Go I was told by someone that he could not imagine working in a language without generic types. As I have reported elsewhere, I found that an odd remark.

"To be fair he was probably saying in his own way that he really liked what the STL does for him in C++. For the purpose of argument, though, let's take his claim at face value.

"What it says is that he finds writing containers like lists of ints and maps of strings an unbearable burden. I find that an odd claim. I spend very little of my programming time struggling with those issues, even in languages without generic types.

"But more important, what it says is that types are the way to lift that burden. Types. Not polymorphic functions or language primitives or helpers of other kinds, but types."

1. STL != generic types.

2. Lists of ints and maps of strings are hardly an unbearable burden; everyone and their dogs have been doing those in C for decades. But "string" is a poor universal data type. "int" is even worse. On the other hand, if "lists of ints and maps of strings" is your benchmark, you'll likely never understand that.

3. If you can confuse polymorphic functions, language primitives, or "helpers of other kinds" with types, you're probably doing something wrong. (Polymorphic functions, disjoint from types? I think I get what he's saying, but I need to ponder it some more.)
I think a much better frame to look at this comes off of the recent article posted up on Hacker News in the past week or so. This was the interview about the scarcity trap: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/13/b...

The question is, is by watching the youtube videos or clicking on the apps for bitcoins, giving enough return? Or is it really a case of being inside a "tunnel" and there are more effective means?

If there are more effective means, does this person necessarily want to live better? We can't assume that someone who is homeless "wants" to be homeless (not unless you talk to that person and observe that person), though we can say that the choices he is make is likely to keep him in a scarcity trap that results in being homeless.
Crap! Thanks for the heads up, do you have any idea how we could fix that?
Really, you're trading execution speed for productivity, not "BS for BS" when you use these so-called "web languages". In some cases, there are other concerns such as memory usage or software environment (e.g. trying installing a Java program on a system than doesn't allow JIT compilations).

Some problems can scale out, but only if latency between nodes is low enough and bandwidth is high enough. For example, an MMO server would not function as well if there was a 50 msec ping between nodes. You may or may not have control over that depending on what cloud service you use.

These are real concerns and should not be trivialized as "BS for BS" or "throw more virtualized CPU cores at it". Every problem is different; it should be studied and the best solution for the problem applied.
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value of a bitcoin has and will [double] again

If this were certain it would have already happened.
I think a lot people who are doing (successful) distributed web apps - are learning that performance actually does matter - and it can be painful to optimise poor architectural decisions.

People who 5 years ago were sermonising to me on premature optimisation are now telling me they're rewriting something in a faster language or how many millisecs they've saved using some new profiling snake oil they've just bought.

(whilst my background is in assembler/C, I now prefer to use prematurely optimised Ruby where possible just for the maintainability and the magic)
Just a nit, but BLE and Bluetooth 4 are not the same thing. The Bluetooth SIG has made complete mess of the situation. The Bluetooth 4 specification defines both BLE and Bluetooth "Classic" which use different radios. You can label something Bluetooth 4 when implementing only one of the modes or both.

The marks you need to look for are Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth Smart Ready. Bluetooth Smart is reserved for devices that only implement the BLE radio and this is what you'll see on things like FitBits, etc. The Bluetooth Smart Ready is reserved for devices that implement both Bluetooth Classic and BLE. The iPhone 4S+ is Smart Ready, Android 4.3 will be Smart Ready, etc.

Like I said, a complete branding disaster.
And now there will be extra demand created as word gets out about this one model being scarce.
With thousands of hedge fund PhDs all trying their damndest to exploit the market, adding delay will change the game but not eliminate it.

Only by when the market is efficient (in the technical economic sense) is it non-exploitable by smart guys. Efficient markets require all players to be rational, so not in this world.
Thanks that's awesome feedback!
There are real needs (hedging, especially if your portfolio has options) to know instantly what prices your actions get executed at.

There are problems with the low latency trading, and some unscrupulous behavior, but it's not entirely bad. In general the low latency guys do provide liquidity, and tighten bid-offer spreads.
That's encouraging, thank you!
New ZeroMQ 4 does strong encryption and perfect forward security
Any laptop = fancy laptop, in my opinion. But it doesn't change my original point.
I used this UI for the first time the other day and actually liked it a lot. I found it quick and easy to get the time I needed to specify.
> If sports don't serve this purpose in Europe, there must be something else that brings small local communities together there?

Adult sports serve that purpose. Children play sports because competition is good, and because fitness is good.
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It's a point I've never really considered before. With some of these projects they are accepting angel size funding with consumer expectations - e.g. Consumers don't care if your pivot actually works and makes money they care about what they paid for.

Are there examples of kickstarters attempting to pivot?
It also says he gets donations.
You should play the demo, it hits just about all the goals they set out for their prototype. It isn't perfect and I can beat the AI 9 times out of ten using a really cheap tactic, but if I limit the cheese the game works pretty well and introduces some concepts I wish other games would copy (best sword fighting sim on the market).

The problem here is that aren't good at PR. This update could have been, we did a great job and shipped the product we promised (which by all measures they did), but instead they choose to announce that their product isn't good enough and that they would keep trying.

Normally this wouldn't be so bad but a bunch of reporters are looking for the story "Don't Trust Kickstarter" and the update fit that narrative.
Cool. I was working on simulating turing machines in excel last year and got an a^ib^i acceptor working but never finished creating a full universal turing machine. https://github.com/Jonahss/Spreadsheets-Without-Macros

I create a circular dependency and set Microsoft excel to evaluate circular dependencies through one iteration. Every time you tell it to calculate, it steps through another clock cycle. This way I got a cool animated tapehead.
Can someone share his/her view on what made Ghost go up to £196,362 out of £25,000 goal on Kickstarter?
The way to navigate around it was not to announce accidentally that you were going to stop supporting the operating system that was on the vast majority of the phones that you were currently trying to convince people to buy, in favor of an operating system that you hadn't even developed a phone for yet.

Letting Symbian die the slow natural death that it deserved while introducing Winphones on the high-end/mid-market would have been the logical way to go. Elop was the iceberg.
> Excel is super powerful, but I loathe that power. It leads to people doing a ton of amazing, great work in Excel that's super impressive... that no on else can replicate.

More than "replicate", I think the problem is no one else -- and, with enough time and complexity, not even the originator -- can maintain it, which results in Excel often being a vehicle for low-initiation-cost and rapidly-rising-maintenance-cost tools (which, in effect, often end up as straightjackets as no one wants to bear the cost of starting over, or the cost of updating, so business processes end up getting constrained by the tool rather than the tool adapting to processes.)
Exactly my point, I'd like to post something on Excel as the real and ultimate data tool soon.
The need for binary updates is certainly understandable, and was a reasonably common complaint. Binary updates have now largely become a "solved problem" on FreeBSD, through freebsd-update (ca. 2007, for the base system) and pkgng (ca. today, for third party software).
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In 1.75 to 3.5 billion years? Not for long?
Except PA suck, Alsa suck less than PA, and OSSv4 is hated by kernel devs and is hard as fuck to install. (yet on some of my machines audio only "just work" if I install OSSv4 :/)
Mostly for my own curiosity, I looked at total domestic auto sales when Tucker was producing as compared to today to get a proportion of sales for each company.

Tucker closed in 1949, when about 7mm cars were sold in the US annually. [1] So Tucker's 51 cars produced, out of 7mm total leaves them with a .0007% market share.

Tesla sold 2,650 cars in the US in 2012 [2], while there were 14.5mm total sold [3]. Tesla therefore had a .018% market share.

Tesla is at least 25x the company Tucker was!

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_automobile_industry_in...

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Sales_and_markets

[3] - http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2013/01/10/u-s-auto-sales-hit-...
I'm kind of torn. Played HS sports. And I agree 100% with what you're saying. The US glorifies athletics in an unbalanced way. To quote Bill James

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2011/03/shak...

Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills—better than we are, really, at almost anything else

However, the US is pretty darn successful. And considering sports is such a big part of the cultural fabric I have to wonder if sports doesn't have something to do with that success?

Specifically, to throw out a hypothesis ... it would be that there are benefits to the dog eat dog competitiveness that sports teaches.
If all trades are executing at the same time, what do you gain by knowing prices at finer intervals than that? The things you are hedging against would operate the same way.
Someone near you is living on <$1/day.

Oh yeah? Running $0 worth of income through a SNAP benefits calculator tells me that an individual with no job is entitled to $200/month. That's one anti-poverty program that blows past your <$1/day by almost an order of magnitude.
Monopoly? there is nothing stopping any other company from competing, I mean, they got BING...
>> because you don't earn a living wage on minimum wage

Are you saying minimum wage is not already high enough to live on?
I agree with sambeau on this one. I have come to like the go way of doing things: it's extremely simple, doesn't take much thought, and after a little while is very easy to read.
I'm not a C++ guy, but I will say the most interesting thing about Go to me is that it's a smallish, clean, staticly-typed language that gives a great day-to-day development experience. It also comes with a lot of nice tools for formatting code, documentation, dependency management, etc.

Switching from Ruby or PHP is pretty easy because you get the same (or better) developer experience with excellent performance and nice built-in libs. For writing web services, Go is pretty much ready to roll out of the box.

I think writing Go is fun. I'm not sure that it matters why other programmers do or don't like Go. I think it's great.
I'm not talking about how it was meant, I'm talking about the actual words. As a reader, "the Domain Name Market" is a singular term that refers to the entire sector of business and economy concerned with domain names. Amazon is the "dominant player" in online retail, but they do not own it, and someone who somehow acquired Amazon could never be said to have bought the online retail market unless you were writing clickbait.
I don't know why you bothered to provide a link and no commentary. This proves that people have attempted it, not that it is common nor that it produces equivalent results. I'm well aware that for some games, it can work "ok". Let me know when you get uncompressed 2K video at 60 FPS and <16 msec input response.
To restate, C++ programmers are doing C++ because they are trapped in a corner world where they must suffer for speed. Go's architects think they've got a band of problems where ... you just don't have to suffer so much. "no, me, I still need to suffer?"