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That's interesting. I've had problems with dry eyes with contacts, and took that as a reason not to do eye surgery for fear of making the problem permanently present even when not wearing contacts because dry eyes is one of the side effects. So perhaps I should reevaluate.
Lisp isn't really the only attempt to work with the lambda calculus.

Look at Haskell, Agda, and others, which are based on an a slightly extended form of LC. I doubt anyone would claim that these extensions are "hairy".
Sencha Touch doesn't suck - it actually works as advertised and has a company that does seem to care about its customers behind it. There's also numerous other HTML5 Mobile UI's libraries he could have tried like Lungo or even JQuery Mobile for example.
I find it hard to believe that there are many devs out there who are interested in search yet have never heard of Solr.
>Had they denied him boarding, perhaps it would have been a bad business/PR decision,

That's exactly what they did and that's exactly what happened.

>but there almost certainly wouldn't have been any legal liability for the airline.

Legal liability is the least of their worries today. It's a PR nightmare. People all over the world think they're thin-skinned bullies.
> You can't say Mc Donald's sucks and eat a burger from them (that would be hypocrisy).

Would it? I would have thought that saying "nobody should ever eat at mcdonald's" and then eating there would be, but what's wrong with acknowledging that something sucks and doing it anyway, presumably because it's the least bad option at the time?
Everyone in this comments thread seems to be comparing LASIK to contact lenses and glasses but what about orthokeratology (overnight lenses)? Does anyone here have experience with it? The idea sounds appealing but there's comparatively little information about it.
> prescription swimming goggles

And this is how you over-nerd nerds, ladies and gentlemen :)
Top Gear did exactly that (partially in jest): http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OmS-YTL02pY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
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There are ferries.
Return, Glasgow to London, 1/10/13-8/10/13
Cheapest tickets.

Train: £126.70

Easyjet: £72.98

You may be right though - I didn't spend much time researching this at all; I just did a couple of web searches: easyjet and trainline.
The real reason is, all the solar cell numbers are fake. Its dark around here (and everywhere else) an average of 50% of the time. In space, its bright (brighter than on the ground) around 90% of the time.

Terrestrial solar cells MUST account for this when comparing efficiencies. So this new cell is 23% efficient, versus 46% if deployed orbitally, before accounting for the increased solar intensity in space.

Elon Musk is famously quoted as criticizing space-based solar plants because of the supposed inefficiencies in transmitting power to the ground. Somehow he missed this massive difference due to the unavoidable daily 'terrestrial eclipse' e.g. night. Also he failed to consider social/political costs (securing land rights near where the power is needed, the ecological impact of killing millions of acres of vegetation etc) but he's good at ignoring that it appears, recall the HyperLoop plan.
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I really like this service, since they have this data anyway it's great it's offered reciprocally. In fact I enable location history which takes it to the next step, though it seems to be a battery killer.
It can be pretty serious. Especially as a tool for consumers to voice their concerns or disapproval of corporations. That can do some damage.
That's not really capturing the nuance of the situation.

It's not like he said "Easyjet sucks", he said, referring to a nearby passenger, "Flight delayed 90min. Soldier going to miss last connection & @easyjet refusing to help pay for him to get to Portsmouth. Get right into em!"

That's just commentary. He'd already bought the ticket; he was already at the airport; he wasn't being hypocritical.

He's a lecturer in Internet law and has a couple of thousand followers on twitter. This is more like the earlier story about the hearing impaired Delta passenger who happened to be a social media consultant than it is Steven Fry's comments.

In fact, you've taken Steven Fry's comments completely out of context too. Leiser wasn't tweeting because he was offended.

In fact, when Fry made this comment in 2006 it was in the context of religion and blasphemy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnSByCb8lqY
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I fully agree. I gave my grandmother (born in 1941) a computer running Ubuntu 9.10 in 2009. Ever since then I've only had to fix things three times, I think, twice because of hardware failures and once because an update broke her Desktop. She's on 12.10 now, without me playing any part in the upgrading process, without her breaking her workflow.
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Using C++ professionally for a while now (College, grad school, embedded sw) the best two complete IDEs I've found are SlickEdit (Cross platform) and Visual studio. If you've not tried SlickEdit I definitely suggest it (They have a trial).

Additionally, they have an interesting blog post here describing whether they are an IDE or editor here:

http://blog.slickedit.com/2007/08/editor-or-ide/

tl;dr SlickEdit has no built in compiler or debugger. It's other IDE level support is fantastic though and it was perfect for embedded development work where you're building from the command line (Which you can connect to the SlickEdit Project) and debugging using GDB.
Keratoconus is one of the reasons I haven’t had LASIK myself; the process itself weakens the cornea, and when it’s weak already it can lead to serious complications.
So far I've seen a few comments criticizing Mayday, because of claims that "it should just work, like Apple". In fact, Apple offers free "setup" service at an Apple Store when you buy your device, and 90 days of unlimited phone support once you leave the store[1]. Plus the free Genius Bar appointments, even after you're well out of your warranty period.

Mayday is really fascinating, because it seems like Amazon's attempt to adapt the Genius Bar to their business model. You can argue that having enough tech support people to cover the feature might get expensive, but I could see it having a 'ring-back' notification, where you ask for help, and then your tablet will notify you when a support person is ready. Compared to the cost of having a bunch of flagship retail stores (staffed by a bunch of greater than minimum wage "Geniuses", governed by whatever local labour laws apply), I guess we'll have to wait and see which approach proves more cost effective.

1. http://www.apple.com/retail/personalsetup/
Vagrant, Docker and Ansible. WTF?
Box of worms with a cat, doc brown.

Good luck with that.
A few years ago, I think around iPhone 4, there were many patents about touchscreen tactile feedback. Some thought it would be what Jobs wanted as the main new thing for the iP4 but it wasn't, and since it fell off the radar or maybe I'm not looking deep enough.
Well, I do swim around coral reefs sometimes, which I wanted to be able to see.
Doesn't this constant use of GPS drain the battery?

On every Android-based smartphone I've had ( two! ) I've only enabled GPS and network-derived location when I need to navigate, otherwise the phone shuts-off in a few hours.
What an amazing coincidence, I started learning Python last week and was trying my hands on PyDev. Yesterday when I saw this news, I immediately downloaded PyCharm and now I am loving it.
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Compared to when? What about comparing their current prices to before low cost flights were popular.

I'm flying to Western Europe, with baggage and an extra legroom seat for £120 return. I think that's superb value for money.
I'll probably keep it up for a few weeks, so feel free to share it around.
If a consumer has parity with a service provider it may be hypocritical to both publicly criticize and use the service. However, when a service provider has leverage over the market; e.g. Microsoft 10 years ago; there is no hypocrisy.
Completely agree. You're better off just having a second screen like the Nintendo DS.
Thing A requires gasoline and a starter motor to get you to places. Thing B doesn't require gasoline or a starter motor to get you to places. One is a superset of the other, therefore a bicycle is better than a car no matter what the semantics.

Are you serious?

The point is that tablet computers get used in different scenarios from desktop PCs and in different scenarios from physical mixing boards. Pick a device designed for your scenario, then complain if it's not fit for purpose. You're not going to have a mixing board on the train with you and you're not going to use a tablet to do a live mix at a dimly lit concert.
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OK, so I guess this is just normal and somehow wearing glasses actually changes your vision by removing those artifacts.
This is so much fun to look at after you've just gotten back from a trip overseas, thanks for the link.
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This is infantile, I don't want to see this type of content here.

A low level company manager making a stupid decision, an entitled journalist trying to drum up controversy using his position and the squawks of Twitter responding have no place in 'hacker news' or 'news' in general.
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I think this is wrong. Take for instance the task of classifying images. You can train a RBN with backprop (after contrastive divergence alg) to correctly classify images. In the process it has automagically determined properties of the image which allow it to perform the classification. These properties are combinations of pixel elements. So it has in effect determined how to solve a problem without your input. In a similar way, solving a set of simultaneous equations using any of a huge array of mechanical mathematical techniques is also solving a problem which you do not personally know how to solve. you could even consider using a Library of code as solving a problem you do not know how to solve...
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It depends on what kind of startup it is, B2B/B2C or an agency. When startups hire a marketer, they/we usually expect you to be jack of all trades and master of everything in marketing. Apart from what you have mentioned, content marketing/creation skills are also a nice to have.
>Linux is the best shot at a granny proof OS in 2013

No, it's not. Been following the "dream" since 1998. Then it was "a matter of 1-2 years" to "be ready for the desktop", nay, to conquer it.

Since then, the same three responses always come up:

1) "Well, I already use it for MY desktop, so there". Doesn't matter, you are an outlier. We're talking people at large here.

2) "Well, I installed it for my Dad and he goes along just fine". Sorry, a non-user with a friend to install Linux for him (and perhaps admin it) not representative of casual users.

3) Normal users are like "grannies" and "moms" (slightly sexist description which they use to mean: they do very little stuff with their PCs, like browse the web and check their email). Well, not really.

Some users are like that -- mainly older people. But most users are not, and as they spend more time with their PCs they become even less so. They would at some point want to: edit video from their compact camera, play a (specific, popular) game, create a presentation and share it, etc etc. As soon as they try a lot of those things, they find out that Linux doesn't cut it 100%.
We're not too far from a time when every Granny grew up in a highly technical age where basic digital competency is as assured as knowing how to tie shoelaces. Hopefully then we can stop the over emphasis on providing systems for the least technically capable.
I had quite bad vision and had wavefront LASIK as well. I was told my large pupils and bad vision wouldn't be a problem "with the newest techniques," but on the morning of the surgery after I'd psyched myself up they dropped a special waiver in my lap.

I'm generally happy with it; it's a bit of a miracle. But my eyes are often fuzzy in the morning, they stream tears when it's windy (and they're correspondingly dry afterward), I see halos, and most distressingly my night vision and contrast are worse. I notice "floaters" a lot more, which can be really annoying. I also wonder what I've forfeited in future correction possibilities. So it's really a mixed bag.

When I go in for tests they claim I have 20/20 vision, but that test is very limited, and due to issues above I simply cannot see as well as a person with 20/20 vision (though I can see better than many people who don't bother to wear glasses).

To be honest, I quickly took for granted the miraculous "waking up and being able to see." The main reason I got the surgery is I couldn't decide what style of glasses to get, and I hated what they were doing to my nose bridge, and finally I wanted to try something transformative for my life, which it hasn't really been, though it has certainly made it a bit simpler.
IMHO This isn't about the law so much as it is about catastrophic social media screw ups. It's the second Internet / social media storm about an airline in 24 hours.
Assuming that a second-hand report of an in-house "town hall" speech by an EA executive is true.

re: China sales figures, the idea that far more money can be extracted from Android users by going "free-to-play" seems to me more disturbing than encouraging. Gaming is going to seriously suck IMO if everything goes that way.
Interesting issue with the halo. I started getting that when I developed astigmatism -- I wonder if that is a common experience.
Why does it matter? You can't even notice it's java except having to have it on your system. And why is having it a bad thing? The security issues are the browser plugin, not the JVM.
What is special about grannies is that they are almost certain to not have grown up with this type of technology.
Because it is legal doesn't make it right (I have no idea whether it is or not). Hopefully a lot of people will read that news and decide to boycott them.
You're trying to invent an argument based on depth of specificity, when both are equally valid.

The title was fixed.
Wouldn't that just favor apps that push trivial updates once a week that either do nothing, or just add bloat to software that already fulfilled its purpose quite well?

Personally, I like the idea that if I release an app that's actually feature complete and relatively free of bugs, it should be favorably ranked and not biased against due to it not being "new".

A great example of this is ConnectBot, which is a great ssh client for android. I can't remember if I've ever seen an update for it in the years I've been using it. Does this mean it should be ranked lower than JuiceSSH just because Juice is newer / has updated about once a month since it released? I'd say no.

Then again, I'm not a fan of the proposal of TFA for this same reason. Frankly, I think the store already gives us the tools to make our own decision by letting us filter by our device and by the current version.
Its some law of product ecosystems - a device will pop up to fill every niche across the range, at $50 intervals. Not a bad thing; you just have to pick and choose to tile together a set that works for you.
This might be a good time to point out the differences between startup incubators that work and those that work politically.

Political organizations do things to create political impact. In their terms, a successful startup incubator would have a big building, be designed by a great architect, have funding for hundreds of teams at a time, get funding in memorable ways, and have lots of press-worthy events. In short, whatever it takes to look good on television. Political organizations do things for political reasons.

From what little we know, actually effective incubators emphasize failure, exist in a culture of mutual support, are part of a larger technically-inclined ecosystem, nurture small teams, and exist as a really low-key, ongoing creative chaos of conversations and contacts. In short, little and somewhat trivial non-press worthy things that accumulate when added together. This is why things like difficulty to start a business, or hire/fire employees, get mentioned so often. It's not that any one thing is a deal-killer, it's that a few dozen pains in the ass will destroy all the myriad low level contributors you need for a good startup ecosystem to work. It all adds up.

My goal here isn't to criticize the effort, simply to point out the difference between things that are newsworthy and things that might actually make a difference. I wish these Paris guys the best of luck in the world. Here's hoping they can work through whatever obstacles they find.
I have been to OpenWorld once. I did attend the keynote, but I did not imagine that my employer paid my way specifically for that, and I would not have imagined that I was shirking my duty by attending it.
Yea there are times when I think gee "I'm so happy to be above the ground and vertical." Then I get an irritating email and well that thought flees.
If you are cleared for check in and then the airline denies boarding, you have a set of rights and the airline is required to inform you of those rights. [0]

There is very heavy regulation regarding flight, and thankfully so.

Recently my girlfriend was in a similar situation (minus the tweets) with easyjet, and she's currently pursuing compensation through the EU [1].

If anything like this happens to you: know your rights!

[0] http://www.airpassengerrights.eu/en/denied-boarding.html

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/passengers/air/doc/comp...
The Play store (version 4.3.11) does this too, actually. There's an options dropdown under All Reviews that lets you filter by only the current version and/or your device.
"pay for an OS he doesn't need."

Pay for an os HE? doesn't need. I know the hn community isn't exactly sensitive to gender and age issues but come on. Why is the consumer he? Especially when we are speaking about this mythical "granny."
This was just my experience, but after using stock Android on a phone and a tablet for about a year, I found the Kindle Fire HD basically unusable when I tried it out. I couldn't get it to do anything I wanted. It felt like a thoroughly crippled OS to me. You can only use Amazon's tiny app store (you can get around this but it's not very secure).

And as other commenters have pointed out, the Nexus 7 seems thinner too.
He doesn't seems to be liked by politicians ; neither does he seems to be fond of them.
Does anyone have information on what type of system could be setup using photovoltaics across a similar 3500 acre site? While its obvious not all the acreage is used for mirrors I am curious as to difference is possible output.

Output is expected at 392mw. I found a few acreage references for coal/gas plants but their output many times one of these plants. One solar plant I found is 25mw using about 250 acres.

Just trying to understand the land use efficiency versus other solutions. Fossil fuel plants do not count usage of road/rail in their size calculations nor the size of the source of their fuels. (coal mines/pits/etc)
Step 2 definitely counts for something, because "grannies and moms" aren't exactly buying bare bones PCs and installing Windows on them from scratch either.
That's not a problem because good boys and girls come visit their grandparents more often than their linux computer need fixing.
No, but the fact that you could walk through them was.
That's the joke! So many companies essentially put up a page like that and submit it to HN.
As a current example, the EU decided that airlines operating in Europe would have to pay a carbon tax, to be spent on fighting climate change. The US government made it illegal for american airlines to pay that tax. It's currently suspended by the EU.
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A void method that returns a value? How on earth did this coffeeshop compile?
By that logic, vt100 apps used by banks in those green terminals have fabulous UI. Users familiar with the UI are blazing fast on terminal apps. The discoverability is near zero, though.
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Network derived location does not represent a meaningful extra power draw. GPS involves a separate radio system (rx only, admittedly) and is only active when something actually requests your location...
No. I don't think Linux (Ubuntu et al) is or will become so in the next 5 years (FWIW I use Linux both at home and at work).

But a Chromebook is - and I'm speaking with years of experience observing my grandfather's use of a computer. Chromebooks are hard to screw up. You kill one? Replace it and get all the settings back. No viruses. No antiviruses (worse than viruses, usually). It just works. And the price is very low too.
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Ivanpah is steam, not salt (in salt plants, the storage system is a large component of the cost).

It's not quite as simple as which area is the biggest cost component; in my experience everything adds up. You see that giant structure next to the tower? That's an air-cooled condenser, much more expensive than a wet-cooling tower, but doesn't use any water. Wouldn't surprise me if that one component cost >$50m.

For the record, power towers have been around since at least the 1980s; the technology isn't super novel, but it's all in the cost reductions since then.
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Why not scrape Alexa's list of the top 500? -- http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/News As a side note, not to ruin your party or anything, but over the years a handful of HN users have made news aggregators as side projects and none of them have really gone anywhere. You might want to think about putting your effort into something else. Google News is a pretty sweet product.
"In 1995 I quit my regular job as senior web engineer for Time-Warner and became a consultant developing interactive content for the World-Wide Web, which was still a pretty new thing at the time."

I am confused the person stated that they were a senior web engineer but quit to work on a new thing the WWW. How can you be a senior web engineer for something brand new?

Just nitpicking...
Do solar sites ever use mirrors and PV panels, in combination?
How good is your vision now? I imagine with that severe sight problems, they weren't able to fix it completely?
Maybe you're experiencing some residual anger from 10 years ago because Microsoft is nowhere near a monopoly anymore.

You can buy a laptop loaded with Linux from Best Buy or Dell. Most creative professionals I know own Mac OS X laptops including myself. The Samsung Chromebook is the #1 sellng laptop on Amazon (or was a few months ago).

Now if only IE would go in a corner and die...
Hopefully they'll fix this in the next GTA patch.