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This should not be on the front page.
It really depends on the videocard I guess.

I just tried both Crome and FF with a million particles, and they feel roughly the same.
The more effort I put into an answer on StackOverflow the less I get back. This question for example drives me crazy (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18885347/is-there-an-imag...): I have no idea why it was upvoted 6 times in 48 views and no clue why my answer was upvoted 9 times. I wonder if there's like some network of people who upvote thing to give people a lot of reputation points?
I've also seen people memorize a random seed that produces FizzBuzz procedurally, then use it as the basis for their program.

Also, I don't think I could write a z80 emulator on a whiteboard ;)
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That's really not true though, at least from my experience!

In the AFD that is exampled here, the only sources offered were of the form of blogs and forum posts etc. Wikipedia has quite clear and explicit rules against those sorts of sources (for establishing notability) for very well explained reasons.

I've always been a bit rolly-eyes at situations like this...

Niche wikis are easy to start and can be well-maintained. I bet a programming wiki would be well serviced with a bit of effort.

Wikipedia is a general purpose encyclopaedia that has rules designed to cover lots of content, but in such a way as to try and ensure it is as accurate and non-fancrufty as possible. Sometimes notable topics get pushed out on technicalities, sometimes fancruft sneaks in. It's an imperfect system, but in general there is a lot of information there.

Unfortunately there is a perception that Wikipedia is the place to be; and individuals with no investment other than to mention (I'm avoiding the word promote because of the connotations) their favourite topic pop their content in expecting it to be fine.

It's a little like the old forum ettiquette of the 90's - you didn't hope into a forum and start posting about your new programming language without first checking the forum rules to see if it was okay.

The Wikimedia Community is also a great curator for niche Wikis (see Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, Wiktionary et al.). They recently took on a couple of travel wiki communities.

The programming community is dedicated, large, and relatively well educated - there is no reason a Programming Wiki wouldn't work. It would, however, take time and effort for a group to bootstrap - and unfortunately Wikipedia is not the way to sidestep that leg work.

(speaking as a long term editor with several featured articles; so hence biased!)
Nice! I cleaned it up a little, shortened it down, got it down from 7 to 4 for loops. It is inspired by yours of course!

https://gist.github.com/euank/7206859
How would those look overlaid with poverty/education? Are poor eating habits and smoking significant factors in heart disease and cancer overall?
I am very surprised that the number of people who opt out of the trial week is only 5% -- clearly it's working for the company, but personally I'd be hard-pressed to give up a week's vacation time.

Still, if you were to do such a work-trial program, I can't imagine a better way to do it than this.
for some reason I clicked through thinking it was about f#
> I consider myself to be a reasonably good js developer, but the internals of AngularJS are overwhelmingly non-approachable.

Same here. I'm just getting up to speed with Angular. I spent the past weekend developing a web-app to manage our internal test-process. I like it a lot, I managed to create an incredibly complex and interactive web-app in two days.

Well, I say I like it a lot, I like the idea a lot: data driven mark-up, separation of concerns, etc.

However when it goes wrong it's incredibly difficult to step through the Angular code to work out what on earth is the cause of the issue.

It took me several hours of poking around trying to get this tree-view directive to work:

http://ngmodules.org/modules/angular.treeview

First to try and work out why the directive wasn't being initialised, then why the parameters were coming through with different names of the properties compared to what the original source expected (ngTreeModel rather than treeModel for example). Then, why on the inner elements of the tree the properties coming through were named as expected!

So exasperated I head over to the documentation for directives, and, yeah, horrible... incredibly dry and terse.

I never quite got to the bottom of the issue, and have deferred working it out until I know Angular a bit more (var treeId = attrs.ngTreeId || attrs.treeId).

But I can't deny that this thing is incredibly powerful, so I think it's worth persevering with. But yeah, some better docs and up-to-date examples would be very, very welcome.

EDIT:

I remember reading this a few months back. Now I get it...

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2439-My-Experience-With-Angular...
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If a company I worked at implemented this, and I knew about it, I'd quit. Despite the tagline about nobody liking micromanaging (not to mention being micromanaged), this is software that explicitly encourages micromanaging.

None of the metrics they track are directly tied to productivity, they're just ways for managers who don't trust their employees to be Big Brother with fewer uncomfortable personal interactions.
I'm sure you're aware this isn't Reddit. Are you saying that HN has become so diluted that it's become another Reddit? (But you might be right unfortunately).
Why It’s Illegal To Use Milk Crates For Anything Besides Milk
Religion will be banned.
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^Not a useful comment, as it tells nothing new or insightful, so please don't post this type of comment in the future.
Survival of the unfittest
Social isolation? Three of the bluest states are Ca, Ny, Il, with the biggest cities.
Love this idea. At a low cost, you humanize your product to your users, you provide people a chance to "do the right thing", you absolve people of their subterfuge, and you increase the chance of conversion. Even if only a small percentage of users do this, that's still a small percentage who weren't paying you before. Brilliant - I hope it works out for you.
Pretty sure this is wrong. For example, what about the case where k=n? Then the lazy evaluation will have to fully sort the list before it can determine the kth element, resulting in an O(n log n) algorithm.

In the standard idiom,

smallest = head . sort

we're only looking for the case of k=1, so we can do it in O(n) time.

Note that if you used a lazy BST, then you could probably still get the last element in O(n) run time, but your example code doesn't do that. AFAIK, no standard library routine exists for this.
This is absolutely sluggish in firefox 24, but runs like butter in chrome. Does anyone have a similar experience?

It looks like New Yorkers look both way when they cross the street.
Why don't we send her home - permanently. For a democrat, she's practically a law-n-order, big brother republican.
I really like this idea, and Weebly seems to be doing everything to make it as easy on the applicant as possible.

Outside of financial compensation, though, I hope that companies that do this are very flexible on the scheduling of the week of work.

I know that it would be difficult to take a week off of work at the wrong time without burning too many bridges. I try to give my company plenty of notice on vacation (months sometimes) so that they can plan ahead for my absence. It's a two way street, since they try and give me plenty notice for when I'm absolutely necessary. Most interview processes I've been through would not have that flexibility.
You could say that my comment was abuse, bullying, or passive aggressive sniping, but it isn't ad hominem, because I didn't say he was wrong. :-) The bio was presented without comment.

But, since you (didn't) ask, I thought the essay was pretentious. The other essays I read on the site felt that way too. The frequent touting of vague credentials, the complex writing style, and even the styling "D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr." all serve to paint a picture of someone who's smart but not entirely confident in himself. I'd encourage the writer to stop hiding behind his words, tell more simple stories about his own experiences, and draw fewer grandiose conclusions. Let the point make itself.

For more about the difference between ad hominem and abuse, read this incredibly awesome essay that I found years ago and have kept bookmarked all this time, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to whip it out. Thank you for providing that opportunity.

"The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy." http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html
Ugh... So suddenly I'm the least productive because I send out the least e-mails and make the least number of modifications. Yeah, I don't like these trackers.
And yet another instance of Godwin's law being invoked. What do Nazis have to do with this topic? None. Please don't post this type of comment in the future.
FWIW, this is Weebly, not Sequoia.
Rubinius seeks to modernize, not bury, the Ruby language
This is a fascinating tool you've put together. One can look at all sorts of interesting contrasts and/or patterns from it.

One that I found interesting is that Washington and Florida have among the lowest rates for the flu, on complete opposite corners of the map and with what most would say are very different climates.

I was also surprised that the flu kills more per 100,000 than alcohol, firearms, or vehicles. It doesn't seem to get the press that those others do.
> Requiring that posts stay on topic isn't censorship.

Censorship is exactly what it is. I understand it's an emotionally or ethically charged term for some, but there is no doubt about what they're doing:

"to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable"

We all understand that there are terms of service. They're enforcing them via censorship. Whether it's the censorship or the ToS that the censorship is meant to serve which are particularly objectionable is a pretty uninteresting argument.
Interesting concept. Aesthetically pleasing. Certainly looks like this information would get the attention of managers.

That said, this is comparable to creating a "tournament structure" within the company. Where top and bottom performers are more visible.

There are some really interesting findings on this structure in labor economics lit. One finding is that it leads to higher rates of sabotage and cheating.

I would also worry that this structure could alienate those who work in... Different ways. I worry that this would encourage people to work in ways that helped their metrics.

Certainly a cool product. But I hope it's not used in an office I ever work in.
That was the one that jumped out at me too. Unintentional humor for the win. I particularly enjoyed "trivially".
I was of course generalizing -- by "Googling", I meant everything from reading StackOverflow to browsing GitHub to looking at the docs.

That being said, I'm not quite sure where that 30% figure comes from. Whose code am I reading? Why am I reading it?

Angular isn't your run-of-the-mill framework. They've reimagined almost everything. That's fine (and for the most part, I like what they've done) -- but documentation is incredibly important.
state names on hover would be helpful
I'd like to take a step back and recognize that the computer landscape is really good right now. We have 3 major pc options that all provide a very good baseline experience, and fill different niches effectively. It's at the point where if someone asks me for a computer recommendation and they don't have any needs besides the most basic, I wont make them a recommendation because whatever you buy will satisfy your basic needs.
Because we'd have to wait til 2018.
Are the targeted customers managers or team members or?
Why do they need to know what others are working on?
Why are they interrupting each other to know what they are working on?
Is Peak going to help reduce interruptions or create more questions from people?
Sure, I agree. Not all markets meet the concept of 'free'. But distrokid is competing in a market that is pretty close (helping musicians distribute music to services).
>That ignores the back ends to the back end. E.g. an IRS system

Just make sure your component won't fail. Perhaps offer other departments help with sharding, be that consulting or paying for servers. Give a friendly error message that the other system has gone down, but your data is saved and will be resumed automatically upon next visit. Maybe retry later and email people when it succeeds.

>an IRS system that might be able to handle a million people with query/response transactions would almost certainly need different strategies to scale up 100 times.

I don't see why it would. Sort by name or SSN and do a roughly-even split across your servers.
> Is it only me, or is California suspiciously low in almost every single category?

Well, its the second best overall, but "almost every single category"?
1. Heart, it is on the low side but near the middle of the pack;

2. Cancer, it is one of the best;

3. Respiratory, it is on the low side but not very low;

4. Stroke it is near the middle of the pack;

5. Accident it is fairly low;

6. Alzheimer's its is significantly worse than average;

7. Diabetes it is near the middle of the pack;

8. Nephritis it is quite low;

9. Influenza it is a bit worse than average, but near the middle;

10. Drug it is slightly better than average;

11. Suicide it is a little better than average;

12. Motor vehicle it is quite low but far from the best;

13. Firearms it is quite low but far from the best;

14. Alcohol it is notably worse than average;

15. Parkinson's it is a little better than average;

16. Homicide it is a hair better than average;

17. HIV it is better than average but far from the best.

No, I don't think that counts as "suspiciously low in almost every single category".
Unrelated, but this is the first time I've seen blog post on SequoiaCap.com. Can't help but think they were inspired by YC/HN (and the design seems inspired by Medium.com).

I love it and hope more companies like Sequoia publish useful content for entrepreneurs, whatever the medium -- their own site, or wherever.
Yes, micromanaging your team sucks. And this is the perfect tool for micromanaging your team. Good job.
Completely unrelated, but are you the same Sir Cmpwn who posts on cemetech.net?
Your email isn't visible... (you need to put it in the About field if you want other users to see it.)
Ask HN: What are some startups you actually use and respect?
I'm curious if there are really great startups we're overlooking out there.
We had 3-ish in my high school class and as far as I know, they all went into super nerd science and/or developed/expressed psychiatric issues.

Considering that some fellow classmates (who were smart enough to be in class with the scary smart) and I regularly gritch to each other that people want to engage in discussion but refuse to read long emails or otherwise educate themselves about the topics at hand, I can only imagine how annoying it must be for the scary-smart to slow down to deal with an average life or professional conversation about meaty topics where facts and reasoning are involved.
> I use Windows exclusively and wouldn't touch SkyDrive because it didn't have clients for other operating systems.

I don't understand your point. If you only use Windows what is holding you back from using SkyDrive? (Except that it is US hosted and you must assume all that data is public, but Dropbox is no different there.)
> Having said that, no homepage mention may be turning away the honest users who might genuinely be unable to afford it.

That reminds me of Airbrake.io, whose lowest-cost pricing plan was higher than I wanted to spend on a toy site I made recently. On my phone I can't find the text on their site, but in small print on the pricing page it said something like "or, we have a developer plan, which is free for one site and one user."

It was exactly what I was looking for, and I wish there were more ultra barebones plans available for otherwise-paid services.
> which has the bigger audience?

What is the most accessible creative occupation? Writing? STEM fields? Or drawing? We could draw before the written word existed. We could write before we created more abstracted languages like modern symbolic math.

I think the end game is to include high resolution, precise, accurate stylus input, a'la Wacom technology or something like it.

I cry a little every time I see a Microsoft product with Wacom built in and an equivalent Apple product without it. What I'd really like is something like a Surface 2 running Ubuntu or SuSE, but with an Apple-worthy battery life.
Came here to post this. No, seriously, exactly this. That was my favorite quote out of the entire comments!

FTP with curlftpfs and SVN/CVS isn't "trivial" to 99.9% of the population!

It's the same reason that sites like SlashDot were filled with all sorts of reasons why the iPad would never work. Why would you use that?!? You could do the same thing with ______.

Yes, you could. But you won't.
By far my favorite kind of speedrun to watch is a non-TAS with commentary. Often, these runs are done by teams. There's typically one player who is good at executing, and then you might have someone responsible for planning the route through the game, and another person responsible for researching glitches and how they can be used most efficiently, etc.

Hearing these people discuss their craft, and hearing the dynamics between their interactions (personal and practical) is fascinating. The best example I know of this is the ingx24 speedrun of Majora's Mask: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85k0fo1qnyo

Humans are amazing animals. The fact that this level and coordination is possible even when the stakes are, ultimately, pretty pointless, is a testament to that.
Why are bringing Einstein into this? That has nothing to do with the original topic. Your post also contains quite a number of inaccuracies and self-observations. Ethics is power? You can try expanding upon that a bit next time you post a comment similar to that.
Good way to weed out people with personal commitments such as families.
That was my thought. Especially with a family, vacation time is too important to spend working. While everything they pay for and do is nice, I wouldn't be willing to give it up to try and get a job. (Just one job, that is. If I really wanted to leave, I might spend some vacation time interviewing at many places, but 1 place for 1 week seems a little reckless in that circumstance.)
Some recent research suggests the primary factor is "residential instability":

"Put another way, the very traits associated with the West (and romanticized in American culture)—individualism and independence, stoicism and solitude—may also have deeply negative implications for its people."

http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/newsroom-content/...
The article explicitly mention that this is not the case. If anything, it poses the question of how much genetic engineering is too much.

And about betting randomness... I recall sometime reading about this certain ethnic group, which is taboo to single out and which has a disproportionate amount of Nobel prize winners (amongst other interesting features). The work describe how this people had both, compared to baseline population, higher than average IQ and higher than average propensity to some rare autoimmune disease that affects the brain. It turns out they had a higher incidence of several genetic mutations that each individually made you smarter (thus adaptive), but when found in the same individual made him sick.

Now, extrapolate this to a bunch of helicopter parents, micromanaging optimization to this or that characteristics in their own kids genotype. To me it sounds to much like a bunch of script kiddies merging commits to an arcane, critical, undocumented legacy system.
I agree. This product is mislabeled. It doesn't help you avoid micromanaging - it allows you to do so efficiently.

I think we can agree that this would be useful in low skill jobs. But would be perceived as insulting at most respectable companies who respect their employees.
"any Ultrabook with a bigger screen or better keyboard is a better tool"

Actually, the device that gets you creating in the way most comfortable for one's self is the better tool. You also skipped over the "take notes, and draw diagrams" -- pen computing there.
Do you know how much money you can save with a programmable thermostat? We took a good 25% off our gas central-heating bill by having one fitted.
Planets will be the new nations, teleportation will be the new transportation, and engineers will still be in demand.
> At least a good 30% of your time should involve reading code. In any framework.

Understand that not every developer has a good knowledge of these frameworks. Understanding the DOM, browser-specific JS stuff are not piece of cake. Hence documentation is super crucial to have.

This is like asking every developers to read Linux kernel video driver when their video driver crashed.
20$/year is really cheap for unlimited uploads on itunes. I'm from France does it work here too? Do you even need a referal program ? You dont need to do that.
Its either going to be above or below average in every category, whether they are related or not. With enough categories, its going to be similarly situated across several of them no in any case.

Is it suspicious that Texas sits right in the middle in most categories?
Could be.

This suggests that farmers are concentrated in a central strip: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/0...

The map top right here indicates correlation with population density, as you suggested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_populati...

And the first map on this US history page suggests those areas were late to the state party. Would that have had a strong impact? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1...
There are several things at play here. First, the iPad mini didn't exist last year, and it is a lower margin product by design.

Second, is this is really key, is that they started deferring more revenue because they are starting to give software away for free.

They guided for 36.5-37.5% margin in the next quarter and the stock tanked $30 after hours because the street wanted 37-38%. They then explained that they are going to defer an extra 900Mil of revenue on Mac and iOS because of moving the software to free. Without that, the revenue range would have been higher and the margin guide would have been closer to 38.5%. So they beat expectations for revenue, margin, and profit both this quarter and in guidance for next quarter, yet the stock tanked on release.

Once they mentioned this in the conference call, the stock regained all the losses and actually was up after hours for a bit. Now it's back down, but only slightly. I suspect just because more people are looking at the headlines and not reading or listening to the whole call.

Now, overall the margins are still lower this quarter than they were last quarter, but I don't see that as a huge problem. They changed the product mix. They had higher total revenue, large growth in total iPhone sales, and guided to revenue and profit growth for next quarter. They are still in pretty good shape. Oh and they have 150 bil in cash.
Somewhat, but multiplicative. Wifi requires a good deal more power to begin with, and the high power state of wifi is one of the biggest drains on battery life (after the screen).
So if I spend an hour at my desk with a pen on paper while I sketch out a few pages of notes, designing a new system before I implement it, I'm unproductive?

No thanks.
What happens when the candidate works for a competitor?