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Look, I was born, raised and spent most of my life in the country government of which considered themselves the one and only source of what is good and what is bad for 70 years. Actively punishing people for disobedience for "greater good". This great experiment came at the price of just a few tens of millions dead people, besides other things. And it didn't end well - country, being one of the superpowers of the world, basically disappeared overnight.

Since then, when I hear "greater good" I feel an urge to kill (only half joking here). And "requiring the source code" sounds pretty much like "greater good" for me. If I'm releasing the code, then I'm releasing it. If I think that some asshole, who invented the best smartphone on the planet, will use it for his own profit and if I feel pain thinking so, I'm not going to release it.
Releasing source code and attaching a piece of political agenda to is is not a coding activity, it's a specific kind of political activity - a political propaganda. "When I hear the word propaganda I'm reaching for the gun".
"Culture Fit" is just code for "You don't seem to care about what we care about, and you don't work as hard as us, and we're not sure but you may just not be as intelligent/creative/inspired/ambitious as us, or whatever, but we think your salary and the overhead of dealing with you could be spent more productively on someone else."
In my computer engineering class of 250 students, there was only one girl (the class of one year prior had 0 girls) - and this was after aggressive affirmative action programs to attract more girls.

Honestly I just felt sorry for the poor gal, she always seemed very embarrassed being the only girl in the class, as if she made the wrong choice by being there or something.

It often made me wonder, should school administration be actively thinking of the social dynamics that play out with this kind of imbalance? You're going to have a few frustrated boys in a situation like this... and a few exhausted gals (they have to say 'no' often). What do you do, if you're in that hot seat. Do you worry about these things, or do you keep trying to admit new students purely on a merit basis?
Go to blackhat and network.

Security people who are coders is a sweet spot.
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When someone is a real producer the culture fit thing seems to go by the wayside. I recall times at a new job where I say to someone "What's the deal with Wayne?" and the answer I get back is "Wayne can rock the nimrod like no one else, we would fall apart if Wayne were hit by a bus, so we just ignore Wayne's weird and off-putting behavior, and so should you."
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My experience is a bit different. First, my high school was profoundly hypocritical, allowing teachers unfettered access while forcing students to deal with a firewall -- I know this because one of the ways we discovered to defeat the firewall was to give your computer an IP address in the range assigned to the teachers' computers. Second, the punishments are neither appropriate nor acceptable in many cases, with suspensions, ludicrous bans on even touching school computers, and other draconian measures being doled out for things such as modifying boot scripts to display a message (my own pride and joy from middle school).

Finally, the censorship is not limited, at least not by any definition I would use. You yourself said that your school's firewall blocked a website that had the word "games" in it. I have seen hackaday.com blocked for having words like "hack" in it. When I was a kid these firewalls would also block websites that had the word "vagina," "penis," "breasts," "semen," "nipples," and so forth appear enough times -- like, say, a medical website. This article mentions a ban on streaming music and social media. The blacklist is so long I have to wonder why they do not just switch to a whitelist, or why they even bother with Internet access at all.

Even if the censorship were limited, I cannot see how it would be justified. Suppose only hardcore pornography were blocked -- how is that acceptable? Would it not be better to punish students caught watching pornography at school by having them write a lengthy essay about the history and politics of pornography (and wouldn't the ability access at least one pornography website be necessary?)? If the goal is education shouldn't the focus be on educating, rather than on trying to shield students from the world? Consider the flip side of this: as a kid I was once sent to a summer program for programming, and one of the other students was caught installing back orifice on the computers. His punishment was to explain the software to everyone, along with the ethics of installing it without permission.
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Can anyone put this in terms like 100100 Petabytes or something? Or is the number so large that it really isn't conceivable at this point?

I'll admit that I don't understand the problem completely, but isn't this assuming the absolute maximum with little consideration of actual technology limits? How much does it change when we consider the limits of technology and our ability to store it on said technology?
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IT is a Washington Post story about universities in the U.S. -- but okay, change the currency, doesn't matter.
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Yeah, I'd prefer C++ as well. He does say the the language may change though.
The solution: just use fucking books.

Yes, they're heavy and a pain to drag around, but do you seriously have a better idea? They're infinitely versatile and aren't scared of getting tossed around.

iPads as an educational tool has to be the most ridiculous attempt yet at "digitalizing" education.

There's a little-known Steve Jobs video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q82weiAJmaA) where he says that computers and technology are absolutely no substitute for an environment that promotes curiosity and a thirst to learn.

Also, books don't cause eyestrain, they have insanely fast refresh rates, and you can flip to any one section quickly and easily without tearing your eyes out.
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You need to realize that the size of most types in C have been perverted by history. When possible, it's best to use the few types that are unambiguous in all of C89, LLP64 and LP64.

> int64_t is a much nicer type than "long long".

Yes, except that "long long" has been part of the standard for longer. in64_t was part of C99 but is tricky to include in software up to the mid 2000's due to slow adoption of the standard.

You can use "long long" without headers in most C compilers from the last 20 years. int64_t when present is usually just a typedef to "long long". Keep it simple.

> "int" makes some sense. Word-size of the machine.

Except that it isn't. That was its original intent but for historical reasons, it is a 32 bit integer in almost all cases now, regardless of machine word size.
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Wow...I'm speechless. You guys are awesome for looking at my site, and jalan (whoever you may be), thank you for posting a link to my site on HN!

If you have any suggestions for templates that you'd like to see added to the mix, feel free to let me know.

Thank you again guys, you're all so awesome!
The remarkable thing that this explanation doesn't really explore in depth is that the maximum information (~entropy) contained in a region scales according to its boundary area rather than to its volume. That means that "maximum information per unit volume" drops precipitously with size.[1]

Just for example, this allows you to calculate an ultimate limit on Moore's law of only ~800 years, for any possible computer functioning within the bounds of the observable universe. As sketched below[1], the observable universe can hold only about 10^123 bits of information. Processors currently contain about 10^9 transistors (each of which has to be doing computations with an independent bit of information to be useful), a factor of 10^114 less. If Moore's law claims that this number doubles every 2 years, that means it grows by a factor of 10^3 every 20. And 20x(114/3) is about 760 years. (A more detailed calculation carried out in a paper by Krauss and Starkman at http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404510 came up with a limit of about 600 years.) That's almost frighteningly soon.

[1] As the link says, for a cubic centimeter (cc) of volume, the maximum entropy is about 10^66 bits. But if you consider a cubic meter instead, you find it can hold at most 10^70 bits, which comes out to 10^64 bits per cc! For a cubic kilometer you get 10^76 bits, which is only 10^61 bits per cc. If the solar system has radius ~10^13 m, it could hold at most 10^96 bits, or 10^51 bits/cc. And the whole observable universe (with radius ~5x10^26 m) could hold at most 2.5x10^123 bits, or 10^38 bits/cc. That's remarkably less than the direct one cc calculation! This behavior is exceedingly non-intuitive, at least to me.
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>> "Having EEGs in every classroom in America would engage students in science and technology in a way not previously possible in the field of neuroscience."

If we could just get kids to learn the fundamentals I would be happy. For example, should we show EEGs instead of ohms law?
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I agree it's a very tough situation for everyone involved, and there seems to be no good short term solution to this issue. The only thing that can be done is to create long term interest in Computer Science among girls and to support the decision of those girls who've already decided to try CS.

What's interesting at my school is that there are more girls even in Electrical Engineering than in CS.

So this means that CS truly has the most messed up girl/guy ratio probably out of ANY major at my school (it's a huge state school too)

As a guy it's frustrating because it creates a barrier to easily meeting girls in your major, an advantage that many other people have. I can rarely work on my school assignments with girls, or talk about common classes with girls, or anything similar to that kind of interaction that should exist within each major.

Sure, I'll make 6 figures guaranteed when I graduate, but at what cost? I really do love what I do though so the passion for that encompasses all. Yet at the same time it'd be foolish to ignore issues like this and pretend they're not a problem, because they definitely are.
It's highly doubtful the example mentioned (checked brain waves after an injury) is something EMT's are dying to have available in a portable format. Checking brain waves regularly as part of triage of head injury by an EMT is unlikely, imo. Less technical triage methods work fine.

Other than perhaps some use in doctors without borders, the only really useful brain activity that could be recorded with anything close to $30 worth of tech would be during sleep.

I had a few sleep studies several years ago; the electrodes were really not comfortable because of all of the wires. If that $30 sensor could be hooked to an iPhone and came with 8-10 reusable wireless electrodes (though hopefully it would only take 2-4) that were comfortable to wear while sleeping- and in the morning it could give me the amount of time in each stage of sleep- that might sell.
Why do the people in the US care less about privacy then in Germany?
"TPP organizers are going to incredible lengths to lock citizens out of these negotiations—when talks recently took place in Vancouver, Canada’s trade ministry instituted what amounted to a media blackout, even refusing to tell journalists in which part of town the talks were taking place. TPP documents are top secret—unless you’re one of just 600 big industry lobbyists invited to take part."

[1] http://www.straight.com/news/402631/big-medias-push-extreme-...

Apparently even government MPs (Canada) do not have access to the documents, but 600 lobbyists do. Wow can it be any more underhanded.
Calling libel suits the "tactic of snakes" doesn't really help out since libel is an actual thing that can severely damage a person's reputation.
The US dollar IS the world currency if you round up from about 65%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reserve_currencies.svg

Financial institutions buy dollars and sell the others when there is the slightest panic. Chinese buy Argentinean wine with US dollars. The USD holds a unique title, an exorbitant privilege.

Furthermore, money operates outside of the law very often -- even dollars -- just look at criminal activities, both low-brow and complicated, e.g. off-shore accounts.
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And then of course, the conversation turns to poor people using cheap cars to get there. And for once this is a "relatively" good deal for the poor, because the savings on car price more than make up for the difference in fuel costs for quite a distance (given that you can easily get a car $20k cheaper than a new efficient car.

Needless to say, this must be stopped ! "Not" because it makes life possible for a huge swath of poor people, that's not the problem. It pollutes ! "We" can't park anymore (because unlike poor people we don't arrive at work at 6am). "We" must stimulate public transport usage (without, of course, using it ourselves). Not that public transport even passes through the places where you'd live if you didn't have money, but who cares about that ?

The cycle continues.
I think you've got the whole thing backwards. We'll probably get the technology we need to build serious cities in Antartica FROM the attempt to colonize Mars.

Colonizing Mars is completely irrational, correct. But so was going to space in the first place, so was sailing around the Earth, so was any sort of flight.

It boils down to what motivates and excites people. What makes the future a compelling, interesting one.
I think the gist of their provocative title is that "the end" used to be a screen.

With their product, the "the end" is now hardware/devices/etc.
the alternative is never wasting the electricity

Well: don't discard unused what you can profitably exploit. That is: you get more utility from the storage than it costs you to get it. Net energy on storage will always be less than the input, but so long as it's either net positive or you get some highly useful form of energy out (food, liquid fuels, chemical feedstocks), it's worthwhile.

storage density issues I said "some". Compressed / liquified H2 is viable for some uses. Including flight. Remember, the alternative isn't existing fossil-fueled heavier-than-air craft, but airships and other "unconventional" fuels.

Aircraft fuels are being addressed by biofuels

If there were any level of success from these efforts I'd expect them to be touted to the stars. Pretty much every pilot project I've heard of (one big one in the US Midwest over the past year or so) has been exceptionally quiet/muted. The costs are going to be very high, and I'm expecting roughly $1000/bbl, translating likely to $50/gallon fuel. At 40 passenger miles to the gallon, a transcontinental (3000 mile) flight would run you $3750 in fuel charges alone.

Conventional freight rail "moves 1 ton of goods 100 miles on 1 gallon of gasoline". Assuming 180# per person, that's about 1100 miles per person per gallon, or 2.7 gallons for a transcontinental trip ($135 in fuel costs at $50/gallon). I'd expect that passenger rail achieves only a fraction of the efficiency of freight (lower packing densities, more stops, etc.). Turns out it's quite a bit less according to methodology applied to Amtrak. Roughly 55 passenger miles/gallon, a high of 80 pmg during WWII given higher utilization rates:
http://www.railway-technical.com/US-fuel-paper.shtml

This could likely be improved by reducing amenity cars (lounge, dining, observation). And it's frankly not much better than a personal automobile with 2 or more occupants.

However: trains offer one significant advantage over aircraft. They can be electrically powered. Which frees them from dependence on (increasingly rare and expensive) liquid fuels. With conventional (<80mph), "higher speed" (<125 mph), or "high speed" rail (150 - 220 mph), power consumption is around 50-95 kWh/passenger km (todo: convert to mpg equivalent), with loading factor (how many seats are filled) being a key determinant. At 350 kph, a non-stop transcontinental trip would be roughly 14 hours (adding in stops and dwell time would increase this, though if kept to a minimum, not by much). Hardly as convenient as the 5-6 hours presently attainable, but you'd have more space and amenities, as well as the option to embark and debark directly in city centers. An overnight service could be feasible: leave at 6pm, arrive at 5am (heading west) or 11 am (heading east). Stagger service a bit -- you could depart at 4pm for east-bound and 8pm for west-bound service to make arrivals more convenient.
The only thing that I know off that might be similar is the Freedombox.

https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/
Security was and remains an important goal for digital cash. Anonymity in digital cash is a security matter (in fact, anonymity in general is a security matter), and it can be formally defined and a system can be proved to achieve it (not different than other cryptographic security notions). It is also the case the anonymity was not the only security goal; protection against double-spending was equally if not more important, and in systems that support offline transactions there is the notion of protection against "frame ups" i.e. ensuring that the bank cannot produce a proof of double spending if the double spending did not occur.
Coca leaves dont get you "stoned" though, only the refined stuff. Neither do I agree that most populations spend their days "stoned". Indigenous tribes that drink ayahusca for instance only use in rituals. The natives from north america didnt smoked tobacco all day either.

Its obvious they had functional societies, which isnt possible when people spend all day using psycoactives, like Europe on heroin or Asia on opium days.
Hi. I made Start Bootstrap. I agree that Wrap Bootstrap offers much better finished products than my tool. The purpose of my tool is to start with a somewhat blank slate.

Buying a template is like buying a finished painting and sticking it in a custom frame. Building a site from scratch is like painting your own painting.

Start Bootstrap is kind of like getting a paint-by-number. Some of the work is done, and the elements are there for you. If you want, you can just use the default styles and make it look okay, but if you're a bit more experienced as a painter you can make it look even better by adding some of your own style.

I definitely think that if you're looking for a nice, clean, completed template then head over to http://wrapbootstrap.com and check out their selection! If you're looking for something a bit more barebones, then http://startbootstrap.com is built for you! :)
Every time I see a thing about the internet of things, I get a little excited, but then they don't really show exciting examples of what you should do with it. Outside of Lockitron and Nest, I am unimpressed with what's come out so far. But it's tough. The field seems so expansive that most people get overwhelmed with possibilities, but few bare any fruit. For my part, I've only had one decent idea in the space. I'd love to see a robot that cooks food for me while I'm commuting home. Possibly like a Zojirushi rice cooker that I can program to make stuff at a certain time, but with more flexibility and a web API.
Libel suits (or threats of them) where there isn't actually something that most reasonable people would consider libel is the tactic of snakes. It is nothing more than a specific case of SLAPP.

Furthermore, I would loosely file "warning somebody about libel suits where there realistically is no chance of one occurring" under "'concern' trolling". Even if what @geuis said was libel (and to be clear, it isn't), there is fuck-all probability that he will become entangled in a libel lawsuit over it. Nobody but the deranged give a shit what random semi-anonymous nobodies with no influence or credibility say about them on the internet.
This practice is actually illegal in Germany.
Boost is stuff that everyone wants to use but can't because they're forced to use an old or broken compiler that isn't capable of building real C++0x/C++2011 code. It's a staging ground. How else are you going to use std::bind or std::thread et. al. with visual c++ 2005?

Also, there are plenty of nice modules in boost that just don't belong in the standard library. ASIO is quite nice, but it has io_service implementations that are platform dependent. Statechart is pretty good, but it isn't the only state machine implementation in Boost and neither is clearly better than the other. Spirit has it's uses, but does it belong in the standard library?
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> How I'm going to suddenly become more employable than someone with years of experience. Haven't quite figured this one out.

Well, you'll be asking for lower salaries than them for a few years, so that'll help. :D
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> in every case where we let someone go, that person has gone on to work on things that they are more passionate about and where they have excelled and been happier at.

Ok, I believed it until then. B.S. No way he knows that. Plenty of unmotivated developers out there. It is not all roses when you get fired, even for a boss that "understands your pain and wants what's best for you". The fact is- if you fire someone, you want to feel like you are doing them a favor. Well, you aren't. You likely made a hiring mistake, and your mistake as a manager is going on that person's permanent record. It may be 80-90% their fault, but the employer shares in the blame for failure. Admit you fucked up, and try to help the person if you can. Then improve your hiring and early evaluation process.
This is exactly the purpose of Start Bootstrap. It takes out some of the leg work, but is still just a starting point or reference tool.

Thanks for viewing my site, you're totally cool!
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Here are my constraints

- <16 hours time from start to finish

- the game will be simple

-- probably one mechanic,

-- no physics beyond simple harmonic motion,

-- 2d

-- definitely not more complicated than "bubble spinner"<p>Advice is much appreciated!
I just open sublime/notepad when I want to have an super fast plain text editor. Usually when I want to remove formatting or when I write an email I accidentally do not want to send.
A few times I got flamed on this site for complaining that the average HNer can't have reasonable discussions about C. I think the comment that the OpenBSD team should just #include <linux/types.h> pretty well shows that I was right. :-)
For the longest time I was wondering how they were fitting node.js in 32 MB RAM when V8 uses something like 256 MB of RAM. I'd never have expected cross-compiling to Lua bytecode.
I agree that they fill different needs and there's definitely room for both. I think a good addition to http://startbootstrap.com would be a few preconfigured palettes that will work with the templates.
Why compile JS to Lua bytecode rather than just using Lua directly? Lua is very similar to JS, except without a lot of JS's warts.
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I'm getting a valid cert.

http://i.imgur.com/FQ4Yb94.png
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I think the appeal is that web developers won't need to learn another language in order to do embedded development. That's another barrier to entry to embedded development lowered.