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>I find it intriguing HN readers don't consider it important, actually.

Understanding dreams (and consciousness) is really tied to understanding the human brain. I would consider that, in general, to be one of the questions of science, not dreaming specifically.

After all, is the phenomenon of dreams that much more interesting than, say, the phenomenon of memories and recollection, or emotional experience, or learning, or anything else brain-related?
Hah! I'm imagining Jony trying to model the calendar app in styrofoam on his workbench.
Well, shoot! There goes that idea... It's like Xerox. No one calls them anything else.
This looks like a really great tool.
+1 I love Intents in Android, and am these days disappointed with OSs that don't have a similar feature.
In general, Nashville seems poised to be a sleeper tech city. Cheapish (especially surrounding areas), lots of money (personal and business), liberalish, well located. Though crime rates leave something to be desired and it can be a bit backwards/old South sometimes.
Great question. I suspect that any references would not be immediately useful. The collapse would be slow and chaotic, we'd probably go through something like the dark ages, and then rebuild partly on salvaged historical references and mostly on immediate need and ingenuity.
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The importance of unique bitcoin payment addresses is overstated. What Baidu is doing is fine, in my opinion, if their transaction volume is low.

I think it is perfectly safe to have a single address and for someone to say "Hey, I just sent 66.32 btc to your payment address."

In the one-in-a-thousand chance that someone else claims to have sent that money as well, you can just ask the sender to sign a message with the source address' private key.

Still, I agree long term you'd save yourself extra work by setting up separate payment addresses.
A quick translation of the Baidu Jiasule press release:

"As a cutting-edge IT guy and a professional webmaster, what else can showcase our difference? The answer is that we have Bitcoin!

Bitcoin, as a new electronic and digital currency, is being accepted internationally. It's also used in daily lives. You can use Bitcoin buy a cup of coffee, or easily convert it to cash. But in China, Bitcoin is still a fairly new thing. Today, we have a good news: from today, we are starting to officially accept Bitcoin as a payment method. You can use Bitcoin to buy all Baidu Jiasule services. Baidu Jiasule as an innovator in the Internet industry, is now the first cloud service provider to accept Bitcoin and give everyone a better payment method and experience."
Actually, I think anyone who reads a single article and takes it for truth is a fool. If something peaks your interest then you need to research more, there are different truths based on your perspective (exactly as you have pointed out).

Newspapers are too much of a propaganda machine, with the ease of the internet research is only a click away and you can make up your own mind.
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Here's a youtube demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2tcMPCcnt8
I have other friends that have low Karma points and can upvote. Its definitely not a Karma threshold.
> Sometimes I joke around and say "Let the kids work first then have them go to school". I would love to see such a program that did that.

Not quite a 1:1 mapping, but the co-op program at the University of Waterloo has students alternate 4-month paid work terms with 4-month school terms over the course of five years.
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There is a particularly interesting subset of Petri Nets -- (Extended) Free Choice Petri Nets that I actually fell in love with. If someone is interested in learning about them one of the best books on the subject is available here: http://www7.in.tum.de/~esparza/bookfc.html

There are some limitations of the model, but the theory is still fascinating (especially the duality property of Well-Formed PNs).
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What license is this released under?
It works, even when you "pivot" to implementing a completely different product before billing!

How I Made $4000 Selling A Product I Didn't Have

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6514305
Grand Theft Afghanistan
I have spent time in India, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Mexico. I have definitely seen poverty.
Tommy - creator here. I'd love any ideas about how the app can help you exchange and remember names better - but to start, it indexes by Time and by Location, so you if you remember where and/or when you met somebody, this can help you remember them!

I built it for myself, but some friends helped me make it into something anyone can use. Looking forward to the feedback!

ANDROID USERS - if you like the concept id love to hear from you, if it seems people want it I'd love to make an Android version
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I know it doesnt work because I click upvote and it doesnt assign any points while a friend sitting right next to me could do the same thing and assign points. Both he and I have under 100 Karma points
3 Ways Apple Innovates [video]
Thank you for putting the license in the zipfile. We've had to avoid using certain fonts because it wasn't possible to identify the license.

Can you please put another file with a link back to your website and the request to donate to the International Justice Mission if used?
I use Newsstand for one magazine[0], purely because the digital version of the magazine is so well done I subscribed on the spot after reading the first digital issue, and renewed again last month. It's not just as good as the paper copy, it's (IMHO) better.

Every other iPad magazine I've tried? Not worth the bother, but that's the publisher's fault, not Apple's. I buy some one-off issues because I'd rather not have a paper copy taking up space, but that's it. I dislike having to have an app in Newsstand just for each these, so that's something Apple could maybe improve.

[0]https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/white-dwarf/id539505817?mt=8
objc.io issue 4 actually demonstrates one of the issues with Core Data: if you check the code, you see that it is not modeling the domain, instead it is encoding interactions with the database. Sigh.
In the case of Lithuania, can't it be attributed to mostly ethnic Russians leaving for Russia?

But I got to admit, the curve is impressive http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+lithuania
True. Those are both examples of problems where a string map using user supplied strings as keys would be the best solution to the problem.
This is interesting to me. I went to a college in North Dakota and most of the kids worked full-time jobs and took loans out in order to get their education. They often told me this is what their parents did and expected them to do the same. They've worked hard their whole lives, what's working 30 hours a week and paying off your tuition in the meantime? For many of them, it was a walk in the park.

I had to do the same thing. My parents were only able to afford two years, the rest was on me. I got some partial academic scholarships which helped, but I had to bust my ass to go, and it made it that much more fulfilling. Nothing makes you feel better than being able to tell someone in an interview that you worked and paid your own way through college without the aid of your parents.

There are a ton of options available to smart kids. Also, don't kid yourself that you need to go to an Ivy League school for an education. My roommates all got jobs at large companies and two of them were chosen over Ivy league grads. They both came from a state college engineering program.

If you really want to go, then go. There's SO MANY opportunities out there which weren't around when I was coming out of high school. Two year technical degrees can get you a $50-60K a year job. There's code schools, online colleges, and other avenues you can explore. Hell, maybe you don't want to be a programmer - there's a HUGE deficit of skilled labor right now. I have a brother in law who's a welder who makes a low six figure salary because his job is in such high demand right now.

Don't let life get you down. If you're driven and want to succeed, then go out and do it. There's no many less barriers today then there were 10 years ago.
"...most of the dropouts happened during the really easy stuff..."

Isn't that what you'd expect? If the 'easy' stuff was too hard why bother continuing once you know you're out of your depth.
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That's a joke, with minification these days what's the point in being so concise and confusing.

Bad from an API design point of view and bad that the tutorial felt it didn't need some explination.
Relevant Carl Sagan: "Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact." (http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199601/carl-sagan?pa...)
No. You can not compare a period after privatesation and other social, political and economic changes directly with now. The fact is that there was less political elitism and state power in russia but it increased a lot.

If you have small political elite you will never have stable growth. You might not get stable growth under a more broader politcal system (socialist india was relativly democratic) but much more likly.

See these two books, one from a economist perspective, on from a politcal sienctist perspecitve (both considered top people in the field):

- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

- Dictator's Handbook

The both tell the same story with diffrent words, or maybe one would better say diffrent but overlapping parts of the same story.
That's not entirely true.

There's a lot of annoying paperwork, but it was something I was able to file on my own on a shitty internet connection as a teenager growing up in Bangladesh who with just my dad's 1040s.

All of the Ivys I got into offered to cover 100% of my cost of education. If you're poor and smart, they give you a shot.
Or any conversation that intersects the "two countries separated by a common language" thing.

Or any sort of joke.
Why I will never ever go back to the United States.
Well no, not really. How do you know a user has paid? Sure there might be a 1BTC transaction in the last 5 minutes, but is it the user who has just paid or somebody else who hasn't contacted you yet? Such simple issues are made simple by just using Bitcoin the way it was intended.
What about mommy's little start up? This seems like most of the start-ups I've come to know. Daddy, the non-technical co-founder just throws in some DNA and management and slaps his name all over the product. Mommy, the technical co-founder and lead engineer, does most of the work and doesn't get any recognition.
I know HTML and CSS and tried out the product. I found it so fun I wanted to go through all the lessons, plus I learned some new HTML 5 tricks I had glossed over.
It seems like a monthly quota of flags would make more sense than a lifetime quota.

There again, this is not my site.
Yeah I've wondered about that. I've flagged some BS political stories too and wondered if I was endangering my flagging privileges by disagreeing. I don't really care, but interesting to know.
Neat. I'd like to see as many games and tools like this to exist as possible.

An alternative is to also turn your kids loose on Spacechem:

http://www.spacechemthegame.com/

Though Spacechem isn't for really young kids, and isn't "cute". However, you'll learn some basic concepts of programming, including basic sequencing of actions, resource management (time and space), and even thread coordination.
Found in the zip file:

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
I don't see it as so much a free-rider issue because health care costs in this country are ridiculously, astronomically high, and the reason is definitely not the free-riders, it's the greedy-ass corporations being deliberately obtuse about pricing so as to extract as much cash from the system as they can before we shut them down.

We have a free-rider 'problem' here because of the disgusting prices. I'd gladly buy health care coverage (which I'd never use) if it were about as cheap as my car insurance.
Perhaps it was the reply to the "censorship or accident?" question.
I find it fascinating to compare H2 and Derby source code. First was written by single man, has more features, is more compact and faster. Second was 'designed by committee' and evolved over long period of time.

I would also post link to my project, which is sort of 'Redis in Java', but it would be probably spam.
Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
What I wont do: Use a totally different language to write my tests.
It's a huge company acknowledging start ups and offering them some free services. The free tier is pretty awesome as it is, and they "only" offered a couple more free services on top of that. I don't know, I'm using AWS and I'm not like shitting-my-pants excited but I think it's cool. I'm definitely not going to be a snob about it even if I wasn't using them though.

/doesn't work for amazon, but also didn't/can't downvote you
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Nokia was certainly part of it. Even if they failed with their N-Gage gaming phones, some of the current successful companies like Rovio started around that time. Nokia spent money and convinced some state agencies to do the same. Nokia-effect also bloated CS&E programs in higher education. No direct links can be drawn, but these opportunities to learn must have contributed something towards the current state of mobile gaming industry.

Very active demoscene-culture in the 90's was incubator for the first Finnish gaming companies. For example Remedy (Max Payne, Alan Wake), Futuremark (3DMark), Bugbear (FlatOut, Ridge Racer Unbounded) and Housemarque (Super Stardust, Dead Nation). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

Then there was National Broadcasting Agency (YLE), which in 1985 started a radio program called Silikoni. They even sent BASIC code nationwide via the air waves, which you could tape and then use in your computer. Readers could also send their own programs, which could appear in the program. Over 120 000 listeners nationwide were tuned in 1986. Here's one program (not sure if it is geoblocked, 4.15 should be where the code begins): http://yle.fi/elavaarkisto/artikkelit/silikoni_lahetti_radio...
So I guess when people grow up with these things around...

I suspect that it's also somehow related to Finland being very good with open source projects. For example 1/2 of LAMP stack originating from Finland.
As a user, I like Newsstand a lot. No longer is my personal information being sold by publishers to marketing firms. No longer do I need to trust publishers to be careful with my credit card information. Payments happen automatically, as part of my regular iTunes bills. New issues are downloaded automatically, so I always have something to read when I’m traveling. And on top of that, iPad issues are much cheaper than physical copies.

I do think that publishers need to step up and make better apps, but that’s not a Newsstand issue. They should learn from The Magazine[1], which uses the medium perfectly: issues load in seconds, articles aren’t too long and are accompanied by great retina photos, and the cover icons are legible, even on iPhone.

[1] http://the-magazine.org/
You might get away with "Onesies" if you actually use Gerber brand clothes to make your product. You'd need the Gerber logo tag in the product photo and even then they probably won't like it.

For alternatives you can go with one-piece, (baby)jumpsuit, or rompers. Creepers is the term everyone uses in the UK.

Source - Too much time dealing with this exact naming issue.
I pressed upvote. did it work?
I've also seen them called creepers. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Princess-Creeper-Snapsuit/dp...
Ah! Thank you - I should have opened the file first.
Then you should know enough to see the difference between the poverty these and back in the US. In some of the countries you mentioned some people die because they are poor. In the US, you usually don't die of that poverty. You don't live very well, you struggle to make a living and to eat well, but you don't just disappear and die like that.
Nginx has a patch to store them in memcache, for what it's worth. It's far from ideal, but at least it's not persistent storage.
The standard is still to point clients to a single termination endpoint, and do active/passive cluster, so that there's no need to share the session tickets.

I still believe that using PFS, even with this limitation, is safer than encrypting pre-master keys with a single private key that almost never rotates and is stored on plenty of servers.
Oh, so it does. Did that change a few months ago?
I moved from straight CoreData to ObjectiveRecord and haven't looked back. There are so many excellent solutions[0] out there that make CoreData much easier to use that I can't see much reason to using CoreData directly any more.

[0]:http://nshipster.com/core-data-libraries-and-utilities/
Are you referring to the full Core Data application[1]? Can you give an example of what you mean by "encoding interactions with the database"?

[1] https://github.com/objcio/issue-4-full-core-data-application
None of that requires Newsstand. The article isn't discussing "reading magazines on your iPad" but rather "creating apps that fit into Apple's 'Newsstand' category" which is nearly a completely different thing. The whole point of this article is that you don't need to use Newsstand to get the things you describe, and in fact you're better off not doing so.
Anything that further pushes and supports oEmbed is a great thing. It would be nice to see a list of what providers you support -- I don't want to callback every URL in a blog post or other thing to you, and you probably don't want me doing that either.
> I don't think you can control for genetics, at least not directly.

That's my point, really. My conclusion is that these studies are interesting, but the body of evidence isn't scientifically rigorous enough that it should affect policy decisions.
Ah yes, the guy who donated $1000 to Proposition 8.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3793012
Is this on a submission? A poll? A comment? Or something else? Did you reload the page? Can you upvote submissions? Can you vote in a poll?

In short, what have you tried? You're really not giving us much to go on ...

Do you write programs for other people to use? What do you do when they say "It doesn't work!" And give you no further information?
The simulation is separate from the course:

https://www.moocdemic.com/static_pages/about

"MOOCDEMIC is a simulation game of a real world epidemic. It is best played on a mobile device.

"The game is being run in parallel with a Coursera MOOC (massive open online course) entitled: Epidemics - The Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. Although they are being run in parallel, neither requires participation in the other to advance. The MOOCDEMIC game can be played without participating in the online course and vice versa, but in our completely unbiased view, you should totally sign up for the course - it's absolutely free and you won't regret it.

"The thing is, knowing how epidemics unfold might be helpful in the game. And the game will be using actual concepts and terms from epidemiology, which will hopefully help cement ideas in place from the course.

"The game is developed by Marcel Salathé and members of his research group at the Center for Infectious Diseases Dynamics at Penn State University.
"The best companies didn't have political alliances because their product was awesome and they mostly knew it. The second best companies had fantastic political alliances and an okay product / traction."

Political alliances with whom exactly?

"Every guy has thought about starting a dating site."

That one cracked me up.

"If there is no competition you’re probably screwed."

Maybe, but if the second best will be close in quality to the best one in your vertical, you won't have a very valuable company. See Peter Thiel's comments in his PandoMonthly interview.

"It gets harder, not easier"

Can you give some examples? Being able to build a team should make things easier on the founders, as they no longer have to be great at everything. I've seen founders get more relaxed as the business matured.

"All the technology heavy startups wanted to try to somehow outsource their marketing or customer acquisition"

I've seen this a lot and guilty of it myself.
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Looks nice. It's Open Type so thats cool. However, no serious designer would choose this font for production as it is right now though. You dev's would call it 'Aplha' or 'Beta'. It contains only the 'Western' letters and even for that, not most variables. This makes it dangerous to use for your company's branding. Imagine if you want to write an é, ü, î or what not. You can not. So, nice to try a bit but be careful using it for production.

If you wish to compare it to something, have a look at these free fonts: http://www.exljbris.com/ They're free for the Roman, Bold, Heavy, Italic and small caps, but if you want more variables, say a Heavy Italic you pay a small fee.
Rapportive is another app that people might find useful if they have this sort of problem. It is a plugin for gmail that pulls in social media profiles to attach a name to a face when emailing with someone.

http://rapportive.com/
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Hans Riegel, boss of Haribo candy company dies at 90
I have done some work on looking through crime rates before. For example, Dublin and Stuttgart have the same crimes per year per thousand people, but, although Dublin is mostly nice, it has its sketchy areas, and you couldn't pay to get mugged in Stuttgart.

Comparing murders is like comparing the danger of drugs by comparing death rates (big report in the UK a couple of years ago); the long term effect on society of a heroin addict, stealing, disease, impact on family, etc., is so much different than a single healthy kid suddenly dying of a disco biscuit on a Saturday night.
I noticed that with a new user account the upvote arrow disappears when I click it, but if I refresh the page it comes back and you can see that it didn't really upvote.
Technically, I'm asserting that we don't have enough evidence to say one way or another and that we shouldn't let studies like these affect our decisions or worldviews yet.
Great idea -- I will add a list of providers. I will say I support close to 200. If you are interested in that list in the short term, get in touch with me and I'll send you that list :) Contact info is on the page :)

Thanks!
Ummm, since a bit after WWII every emergency room in the country has had to accept and treat anyone who walks in their door (yeah, sometimes games are played to try to shift a patient to another one, but they still end up getting treated somewhere).

If you don't call the patients who do that without any coverage "free riders", I'm not sure what to say.

And obviously this is why we don't have very many horror stories of people denied treatment.

CMS claims otherwise, but there are convincing analyses that Medicare overall shifts costs to others.

And what about the rest of the world forcing drug companies to sell their products as a bit about cost? Our market pays for nearly all new drug development costs ... which of course many want to "fix".
This is the 'Programmed Learning' style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmed_learning). (It's what led me to 'The Little Lisper', in the same series as 'The Reasoned Schemer').

Another excellent example is Engineering Mathematics, by Ken Stroud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Stroud). I used this at college, and have always loved the style: short 'frames' of explanation and examples, with questions leading onto the next frame, building confidence and skill with each bite-sized step.