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> Yul Brynner out of Westworld

Dude, I saw that as little kid and it freaked me the hell out. Relentless bald man chased my nightmares for years.

Also, dude! I thought that movie too old / HN too young to remember that sci-fi golden age classic. Thanks for making my day. Although, I worry about bald bad ass chasing me tonight.
Wait, a chat room AND the ability to share NSFW pics? What could go wrong!?!
There's always something kind of magical about real-time sites -- like the Internet is a little less lonely, and there are real people out there.

Very cool!
> 2. They review all your tech before launch / ongoing for a small fee to minimize exposure.

This may be risky actually. Under current law, companies face greater liability if they willfully infringe. Let's say you do a review and find there's a chance that you infringe upon the troll's patent. You decide, nevertheless, that the risk-to-reward here is worth it and go ahead. If you are subsequently sued by the troll, the troll can point to your review and say that because you had prior knowledge of the patent, your infringement was willful. The troll's likelihood of success on this argument will depend on the particulars of the review process, but it does create an additional headache for the defense either way.
I guess markdown is in the list?
Have yet another "me too" - I wrote up writing a FUSE module in Perl in a little more detail than The Fine Article:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/fuzzix/2012/08/fun-with-fuse.htm...

The info should transfer to other FUSE bindings.
So basically this is a porn site... It needs moderation badly!
Wow! Physically superior things are superior.
Washington Post, NY Times, local free weekly. None front to back.
Apple is succeeding in some corporate lands. Surprisingly one of these is healthcare. Think getting a PC user to switch to Mac is hard? Try prying an iPad out of a doctor's hands.

For IT managers, it is similar to consumers and Apple products: once people actually own one, contempt and fear disappear.
music piracy is the biggest issue you will face.
Learning from your own mistakes is effective, but not efficient. Sometimes it's the best you can do, but when you can learn from other people's mistakes instead, that's a lot better.
Chrome can be hidden. That's what I like about it, it has heavy built-in customization.
I'm a little dissapointed to see USVP on the bottom, but overall I think the analysis is pretty accurate. That is to say, it jibes with my gut feelings about things.
Plus it's already been done to death in XML with XSL:FO, which does the job quite nicely. I don't think it'd be too tricky to rig up an XSL:T for the XML format here to produce FO and run that through Apache FOP.

LaTeX is much nicer to hand edit, and if you're not hand editing you may as well use Word or something.
Low-latency notification of Dropbox file changes
Facebook Has A New AI Unit And Is Working On Speech Recognition
Isn't eclim primarily to use Vim as the frontend and Eclipse as the backend? Same idea, slightly different scenario. I used it for linting Java over in sublimelint.

I developed ActualVim using only a VT100 reference ( http://bochs.info/text/vt100.txt ) and `:help netbeans`
From my recollection, the slogan can be attributed to Zuckerberg.
A hacker's journey: from cook to chef (0)
From Iron Chef, we can see a top notch chef is really somebody who can build a project to prepare a feast from start to finish without personal assistance, while cooks usually prepare food according to the recipe. Is that true? A chef not only cook, they can make up a show like an art and inspire other people.

Usually a startup hacker wears many hats. No matter what his professional advantage is, he might be weak in some other areas. For example, he could be a coding king or IT queen, but he is a cook for database administration. He could be a chef database administrator while he is a cook for Linux administration. Do not laugh at cooks, alright? We can always grow to be a chef if we want.

Code is poetry. Who said that? I believe the fundamental difference between a cook and a chef is the not the skills, it is the art of his thinking. No matter if you are an amateur, a hobbyist, a skilled worker, a professional or a chef hacker of coding, you can think of coding as art. Then it wouldn't be to hard to become a chef hacker in every area, even though it does not happen over night.

What is your journey from cook to chef? Your response will help me to share more about the roller coaster kind of experience with the pieces of the details on how to hammer down the nails.

The contents you can expect are:

- How to set up a vanilla WordPress environment
- Are you ready for the distributed computing?
etc.
Piracy is obviously an issue. And we (mods) will of course delete all files that might bring volafile in legal trouble.
Talking about 4chan, I really love how this site seems to be a mix of some kind of IRC and imageboard.
It's also bringing back memories of some DC++ rooms I used to visit when it was the best way to share files.
This is truly outrageous, in at least 2 ways: (1) that a modern government would ask its citizens to do this and (2) that the citizens who are doctors would go along.

Name names: get the state boards to pull their licenses, because that's what these torturers deserve.

This is also a punishment worse than the crime, by the way.
And I was just wondering what ScalaCheck would be good for. Registered for this class a while back glad that it started.
Cory Doctorow: Collective Action (The Magnificent Seven Business Model)
There's also Chicken Scheme.

While maybe not as tiny as Lua, it is designed to be embeddable out of the box.

The FFI is very simple.
> After the rise of Hitler, Haber – who had become a rich industrialist – was expelled from Germany because he came from a Jewish family

There is some disagreement over whether he was forced out or left on his own.

Some sources say the Nazis were willing to overlook his Jewish background and let him stay and work on weapons (Haber had converted to Christianity long before the Nazis came to power).

For instance, the bio at the Nobel Prize site says that he resigned because the Nazi race laws required most of his staff to resign, and he would not go along with that. [1]

[1] http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1...
Room Hacking: How I hacked my room hunt in SF
> You can look at cyclomatic complexity and reusability (both wins for pure functions).

Yes, those are both wins for pure functions. But even there you need an asterisk, because side effects do have their place - the fact of the matter is, the primary task of most real-world software can be summed up as "manipulating mutable state". In light of that I don't think you can necessarily jump from the observation that there are many situations where pure functions are easier to work with than impure ones to the conclusion that pure functions are inherently more maintainable.

But even if that were granted for the sake of argument, it's not much of a win for Haskell. The ability to create pure functions is a feature of every language that has been invented during the lifetime of probably every person reading this post, and therefore not really a differentiating feature of Haskell.

Nor is lack of ability to create impure functions a feature that can be claimed of Haskell, because that simply isn't true. Haskell's real differentiator in that department is just that you've got to jump through hoops to do it. And if your business rules are inherently impure, then it's not clear to me how a language that tries to ghettoize impurity makes them easier to implement.
There is a lot of discussion of the propagation of publishing blocks and reacting to the publication of a competing block. In this strategy, the 'selfish' pool could take a probabilistic approach, and simply hold on to their private block for "a while" based on the probability of someone else providing the competing block (obviously still publishing instantly if a competing block is found).

This means they still get some advantage, in a time lead over the general network, but they balance out some of the costs and risks of waiting. They will get their lucky block-ahead of the network less often, but perhaps it is a better strategy. Fascinating stuff.
Goodness I just saw your comment. I don't know how to upvote? Does this news list work like reddit?
What's funny to me is that if we're gonna go hunt down the source, we can even make Jesus a data point when he pointed out you treat each other with love and love will free us all.
OmniGraffle Pro 6: Diagramming tool gets a facelift
Kind of depends on how you interpret it. Many developers over think and feature creep. When I see Get Shit Done I'm thinking about doing what needs to be done now instead of working on solutions to problems that haven't happened yet.
Haskell is really not much more strongly typed than Java, or even C++ (although it's much less liberal with letting you cast than either of those languages). Just like those languages, if a function has been declared to use types a, b and c, then you'd better supply types a, b, and c as arguments. This is the same. The only real extension that I can see is the ability to create functions which accept or return arbitrary types, like `foo :: a -> [a]`, which isn't an option in Java or C++ without some hackery. Of course there are type classes and algebraic data types and other things as well, but I don't think they really make the language "more strongly typed," just more expressive in their types.

What makes Haskell a little challenging in the beginning is its currying, which means you don't need to call a function with all of its stated arguments, and the fact that function application associates to the left; i.e. that `f x y` is the same as `(f x) y`, NOT `f (x y)`, which is closer to how it would be in, say, Ruby or CoffeeScript. There are very good reasons for this, but it does take some getting used to. Currying and associativity rules are responsible for a lot of seemingly incomprehensible type errors. You get better at avoiding them as time goes on. I feel that the weirdness of reading Haskell DSLs, like Parsec, which often make heavy use of customized operators, or do-notation, is an extension of these issues, since most of the difficulty comes from trying to figure out how the types propagate through what amounts to be long, complicated chains of function applications.
I really don't want to be defending the target company, but it's only unethical if its unproductive. My point is that the article doesn't actually claim any data or anecdotes where someone actually went there and determined if it was productive or not.

I mean, I would never go for that conference, and it sounds like a bad deal to me. The article comes off like witch-hunting, though.

Paying to be in the "top 50" is pretty odd, but maybe they mean "the top 50 startups, based on them having enough cash to waste some on being called 'top 50'". Call me cynical, but that fits right in with my impression of east coast VC, which this company seems to be based in.
The video instantly recalled me this scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs60aWyLrnI

I wonder if our real robots could do such thing with a pencil.
I wrote it in OS X. I'm not sure where you see "doesn't work in OS X". I said it doesn't work in Windows.

Quoting the docs: "it's likely to only work in Linux and OS X for the near future"

It works out of the box for me in Mavericks. It would actually have a worse time running if you managed to use MacVim on the backend, because it scrapes the status and command lines from terminal output.
Right, I don't think the scientific method captures the competitive timing aspects of the wider OODA framework.
And the infrastructure and regulations to administer an airbnb license just pop out of the ground magically?
And default background image of Dennis Rodman high-fiving Kim Jong-un!!!
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Companies usually have to grow to a particular size before they're able to negotiate preferential treatment. Even so, I don't believe most industries are less competitive because of regulatory capture. Purely competitive markets are a mathematical abstraction.

The ENDA isn't about accommodation discrimination (buses, hotels, etc.), though, it's about employment discrimination. Discriminating against potential customers is obviously bad business, and the competitive benefit for not discriminating might be decisive. Even so, government action was effective in almost entirely eliminating that form of discrimination (to the extent that when it occurs, it's seen as a throwback and an outrage).

The barriers to entry for operating a bus service would be enormous even without government regulation. The initial capital outlay is substantial, and established firms would be likely to have lucrative exclusive contracts with businesses. Potential riders would take a long time to trust a new bus service, and it would have to operate at a considerable loss for quite some time to build up a reputation.
I just saw some sick stuff there which can't be unseen. :'(
> By the way, its true name is "negative feedback control".

No. That's like saying a car's true name is muffler.

Bode along with Harold Black, Harry Nyquist, all contributed parts to control theory while at Bell.

Boyd incorporated their work to formulate OODA, which is a distinct thing and very much his invention.
What do Instant Cake Mixes have to do with Travel Planning Products
Yeah DC++ and i2hub were both awesome. Both got my internet privileges taken away for a year by my university for internet misuse. Good times.
Apparently the fact that I had "rewritten something for performance" was viewed as an inherently bad thing to do regardless of the rationale or benefit. That's because some smart guy once said it was "the root of all evil," and everyone believes smart guys who are quoted a lot.

I really have a pet peeve about cargo cult thinking in general. Concepts and ideas have context. To me it's a sure sign that I'm dealing with an impostor who does not actually understand their subject. Yet another reason losing that job was a blessing in disguise.
REM0TE possible from Europe?
modernizr + css-remunit polyfills and you can start using rem today. :)
Oh, Owen, you'll always be the young and dashing Digg guy in my heart.
I want to see that now.
The problem here is that any piece of legislation in this category with a "in theory at least" clause against discrimination will become meaningless. This type of legislation must be mandatory, or at the very least subjected to individual exemptions based on centrally negotiated agreements.
I'm still waiting for the hard AI we where promised was 10 years away 40 years ago.

These posts beside some hand waving never actually attack the meat of the issue, don't predict the demise of something unless you know what is going to kill it.
At that point, you're not even playing the same game, so how can you claim you've won?
Exposure to air. The higher, the windier, the farther the spores get.
Marxism was quite a clever philosophy for its time but it remains rooted in the 19th century because its adherents are so doctrinaire that they're unwilling to revise its tenets in the face of new information.
It is more of a contract. The library author is stating this package was developed against these dependencies and versions. It is known to work well in these cases.

This does not mean it will not compile. In fact often the fix is simply for the author or developer to relax the version bounds and everything will be fine.

Lastly, many of these issues arise not because of a direct dependency but an indirect one. The problem is that GHC will not allow you to depend on two packages which themselves depend on different versions of the same package. Once this is fixed, along with sandboxing, will eliminate the vast majority of the cabal hell problem.
Nice post! You mentioned that you implemented this wrapper for backups. Apart from creating a virtual file system for sandboxing perhaps, isn't this generally slower? Maybe I am not getting the exact purpose of this task.
Twitter: Don't Worry, But IBM Might Sue Us
I've only tried it in store, so my opinion may change after using it for a while.

From the time I spent with it, it feels like a touch screen phone with a keyboard, which isn't what BB is _about_. Without the trackpad, you're forced to touch the screen, and use the keyboard only for typing. That's a big no-no for me, as I completely avoid touching the screen on my Bold. I guess it just comes down to individual preference.

That being said, I will still probably get the Q10 when my contract expires.
It won't do the word "computer" either, though it does do "compute".
Was it really 5B saved as opposed to enabling the creation of 5B that would not have otherwise been created?
How can we be guaranteed the people responsible for approving Bitcoin's pull requests are responsible and unselfish?

In theory, what is the worst thing that could happen if a "selfish" version of Bitcoin was released?
Sometimes when reality distortion bubbles collide they pop.
What an interesting idea, I can't help but visualize Zangermarsh[1] :-) Interesting question about what it might gain evolutionarily by being tall, perhaps more moisture exposure but as others have pointed out fungal mats get that by just being wide and covering a lot of area. Of course if you were competing with a fungal mat being tall might be one strategy.

[1] Its a World of Warcraft zone
If a win is defined as conditions A + B + C, and you only complete A and C, can you win?
Not in its entirety. Private discrimination continued well after the Jim Crow laws were overturned.
If I could just stop loving you: anti-love biotechnology and the ethics ...
No it's like saying kids cheat on a test because they look at somebody else's test and didn't get caught. They're certainly able to do it and nobody stopped them, right?
I bet robots can win arm wrestling as well!
Have you seen https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors and block cursor mode in Vim (ctrl+v)?
Show HN: Parkour: Hadoop MapReduce in idiomatic Clojure
Show HN: Marketplace for programmers that have contributed to open source
There's no reason they couldn't implement the wave spec in this right?
>> NP-complete is essentially shorthand for belonging to a class of problems that are computationally very hard

That is actually incorrect, and is a common and serious misunderstanding of beginners. NP-complete problems are not hard to solve (e.g. via brute force). They are however very hard to solve efficiently (i.e. in polynomial time).
Beambot's link below is informative. Turns out this is actually an astoundingly versatile multifunction hand; the three fingers can each oppose each other and are fast enough to dribble a ping-pong ball 10 times a second, precise enough to use tweezers to pick up a singe grain of rice, and agile enough to throw a cell phone in the air and catch it with fingertips.

Rock Paper Scissors is only one trick of many, but of course it's the only one the media is interested in. Oh well.
Unless someone had literally never seen anything on Haskell before, this kind of article adds absolutely nothing new to the discussion. It's all been said before, and more often than not it's been said by FP Complete. It reads like an infomercial, and it's frankly embarrassing reading it.
It's like playing Rock Paper Scissors with my son or step daughter! They never lose. However they don't have a 1ms reaction time...
A March Madness Bracket for Your Interests
CSS selectors are much easier to remember than XPath. Python's BeautifulSoup allows you to select elements with selectors and is very convenient. XPath is a bit more verbose and most people already are familiar with CSS syntax.
Stop making excuses. Learn to comprehend.

Here's the problem

"An ant starts to crawl along a taut rubber rope 1 km long at a speed of 1 cm per second (relative to the rubber it is crawling on).

At the same time, the rope starts to stretch by 1 km per second (so that after 1 second it is 2 km long, after 2 seconds it is 3 km long, etc).

Will the ant ever reach the end of the rope?"

What is so hard and frustrating about figuring this out? If you over think it, blame yourself. This has nothing to do about ants, rubber, gravity, energy, it's a simple question, solving it is not so simple. But if you think of it in a simple form, you can intuitively see that the ant can reach the end of the rope.
Graphene Laser to Probe Superconductivity
The term seems to have been re-defined in the past year, at least in our community.
we don't need to fight against racism and bigotry, because The Market would fix them if we just let it be.

That's not what I said. I said that the way you fight against racism and bigotry is by using market power: as a customer, you refuse to do business with companies that are racist and bigoted, and as an employee, you refuse to work for them. Or, as an entrepreneur, you start a company that is not racist and bigoted, and out-compete the racist and bigoted companies.
What? "Cannot be mistaken for a nuclear missile". Just because they fly differently from traditional ICBMs doesn't mean anyone with an ounce of sense will conclude "Must not have a nuke on board".
This is also a punishment worse than the crime

no, no it's not.

[edit: to clarify, my reading of "this" is to "pull their licenses"; apparently everyone else is reading it otherwise....]
مشاهدة مباراة ريال مدريد ويوفنتوس بث مباشر
I'd say more than a bit. When you have multiple namespaces in your xml it can become so verbose that it's hard to see the signal through the noise. But then, maybe there's a way to reduce that noise in a way that I don't understand.

Long comment short, I agree. CSS selectors are easier to understand and read.
'Sweetie', a computer-generated girl, lures sex predators
Trolls... Trolls everywhere.
You may likely just have exposed the team for being incompetents or purposefully building a bad system for job security.

Either way you become enemy number 1 for the team.

Maybe your changes may have been accepted over time but no one likes someone to come in and tell them how crappy their stuff is.

I know that you didn't do this explicitly but that's the message that comes across.
That you're aware the forum exists tells me you're not an average user of technology. I'd be willing to bet a month's wage that most people reading this post decided on a device in the manner you describe. I submit we are not average users.

When Samsung began their marketing campaign, it wasn't directed at you and I. It had very little to do with the Operating System and more to do with cute features the company had added. See 'bump'. The campaign was directed at average users.
It's not just a start-up culture mentality. I work in a mature business which couldn't be less mature as for a product and project development. "Just Get Shit Done" throws quality and customer focus out of the window. I fight this battle every day.
... except that this legend isn't true:

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/cakemix.asp
Great post, I really enjoyed it. I wish there were more people with your skill set in my realm of expertise...it is amazing how many problems could be solved if they can be identified, classified, and attacked methodically like you just showed (instead of loosey-goosey hand-cobbled code). I can think of a few huge problems (big $$$) in my org that could be optimized really well if we had more people that could understand and apply constraint programming.
In addition to djur's correct observation, there is also the observation that government policies supporting segregation came after people's private desire to segregate, not before; in fact, the government policies came into being in large measure because of people's private desire to segregate.
Glad I didnt take my first offer out of school. This was exactly what that company was about. I knew classmates who took the jobs but left before 6 months.

They were paying 15-20% more for some positions, now I know why. Their motto was hire and fire, most managers were with them for less than 1.5 years and promoted because they were most senior after about year.