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That's very different from Javascript (and from the untyped-language mainstream) but is it really "horrible"?

The type-checker will give a very clear warning if it catches you putting a non-bool in a conditional context. And make no mistake: the type checker is an important part of the Dart development process.

(One downside of this is that it does push you to working in the -- Eclipse-derived -- DartEditor, which isn't always a wonderful experience. However, the type checker is exposed and available, and there's nothing to prevent it being tightly integrated into other editors or IDEs.)
How I Learned to Work a Room
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Yes, but those magazines could be delivering iPhone adverts. Or tempting iPhone owners with galaxy S5 adverts.

The could have articles (you know, incitements to spend money disguised as articles) on "how an iPhone gal could date an Android-using guy". You can't stop vapid, consumerist magazines from being vapid and consumerist, but they seem to be missing a trick with their target audience.
> we've built a more-or-less clone of LevelDB in Java, with a similar goal of extracting more performance on high-powered servers (and better integration with our Java codebase).

This sounds quite interesting; have you considered open-sourcing it?
It's like what people say about Facebook, Google etc - if the service is free (or like here heavily subsidised), you're not the user, you're the product.
Invest some of that million in bitcoin and you will have a non-trivial chance of being rich in 5-10 years.
Yes, I have to agree that the pricing is very misleading. How many startups have 8 servers? I would have though that 2-4 is more like the norm, in which case the price is more like $50 - $100 per server
I worked for a mobile/online payments company in 2011, and the industry has huge potential for disruption. The transaction volume is so high that even a slice of a slice means huge returns. Cross one border and the regulatory/compliance landscape changes dramatically too.

The winners in this space are typically those who can get the most device manufacturers, banks, visa/mc/amex, and merchants to play nice.
Not to mention refusing an app, then ripping off the idea:

http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Accused+of+Ripping+Off+Develo...
We have an employee whose last name is Null (2010)
I get it that your stack is 5 KVMs -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch -- but what does "P" stand for? Are you a 5 KVM Person? Wow, impressive! Multitask much? ;)
Coming from someone living paycheck to paycheck - a million dollars is extremely rich. You could do with counselling to find the root cause of your current depression. Don't make any big decisions until you're in therapy, you'll probably end up regretting them.

A million dollars in savings isn't rich, good lord.. that's rich!
I'm in the UK, and had a NFC "smart tag" on the phone I threw away a year ago. Never bothered getting a new tag for my new phone. Maybe when I next upgrade my phone and get one with built in NFC.
Came expecting http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx, was disappointed...
What are you talking about? Please clarify your position.
As posted above, this is a tech magazine: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=t3+magazine&tbm=isch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T3_(magazine)

If somebody is making "The mistake of assuming technology magazines have male only readers" and it is everybody who works for or with the tech magazine in question
> enable automatic memory management

enable OPTIONAL automatic memory management. The problem is it does not enforce it.

I've never heard of a place that forbade STL, templates or such since 2005 or so. But it's not like STL or templates help; It's RAII that does. And there's no way to enforce RAII, so a stl::list<char * > is not any better at protecting you from use after free than char * x[] is.
Where innovations go to die (or what Snapchat would risk by saying “I do”)
Can a fractal be NSFW? Apparently so..
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"I really cannot see this being adopted. how are you going to slip this thing past the cervix and pubic bone?"

This is a typical HN top comment dismissal. It works with corks, it works with his basic prototype, it works with medical training dummies and it works with the 30 Argentinian women in live births but a comment dismissing it as being impossible is the top HN comment. Unbelievable.
Yes, but it's just an ego thing.
Thank you. Explanations from people like Mariana Mazzucato are getting increasingly hard to ignore, with reviews in places like The Economist and FT. (http://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_invest...)

Previously, it was common knowledge among the left, like Chomsky. (http://books.google.com/books?id=3VtILDSrZ7wC&pg=PA173&lpg=P...) Economic ideology is the religion of the age, where people are unable to see clear answers.
Money spend is almost irrelevant and comparing it to cosmetics is mostly pointless. Especially when that annual number doesn't even cover the cost of a single major tech purchase.

Time invested in researching purchase and how much they cared about purchasing decisions in each area would be far more relevant.

Also why do women have to be treated like mindless drones that have to be protected from evil magazines? Critics really need to start giving them more credit.

"The endless pages of thin flawless models make young women frown critically at themselves in the mirror"

Mens magazines are full of muscled up sports stars, if I read them I'm pretty certain it wouldn't make me get all upset when I look in the mirror.

People are not stupid
Thanks. I close the pathfinder page the moment i saw "Reading time" over the article.
> I can't speak for the US but some of the top 'mens' magazines in the UK are disgraceful. FHM, Loaded, Nuts...

Loaded and Nuts are 'lad mags' - 15 to 25. They're not for grown up men.

The biggest, and by far the most profitable Man's Magazine is Men's health. It has a little tech, lots of workout/fitness stuff, a lot of diet stuff, and some fashion.

(not sure if FHM still exists so can't comment there)
Europe is a big place, with around 50 countries... 6 months won't begin to scratch the surface.
Nice work, but I find it a bit disappointing that the first thing I see on a "CSS-only" site is a big warning from NoScript. I think this site would make its point more clear if it didn't contain any JavsScript, even though it's just for Google Analytics.
Also, there is a small possibility that most of the world will one day use SnapChat, making it hugely profitable. Since the Hyperloop is tied to a specific physical location, this is not really a possibility. I guess investors are betting that software businesses are easier to scale than "hardware" / construction businesses.
Javascript is the only language you can run on the browser (Dart doesn't change that).

So if Javascript is "GOTO" then dart is: "function NotGoTo() { GOTO; }"
US spying scandal starting to hurt big tech firms' sales in China
Yeah, but women and men view the world differently. In general women place more emphasis on aesthetic things, whereas guys are more into fixing things / how they work. I am sure there are loads of counter examples, but as a general thing it quite easy to see.
Weird coincidence: I found this yesterday and spent the afternoon compiling it up on my work machine, where I'm forced to use Cygwin for lack of anything better. Open up HN this morning and it's on the front page!

Anyway, these steps worked fine for me and I didn't even get any complaints at the autogen stage. It took about 40 minutes to get everything compiled and installed, which I didn't think was too bad on my ancient work machine.
I know it's a tech magazine. I'm just somewhat flummoxed what the attractive busty woman on the front of every magazine has to do with iPhones or whatever.
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Does that mean advertising for technology doesn't work? Samsung would like a word with you, if that's the case...

While you're right that yes, tech is less frequent and higher ticket, it's worth huge money, and advertising is useful for the majority of buyers (not HN readers basically)
I built this! It uses responsive design to give both desktop & mobile users a good experience, and it degrades gracefully for users without JavaScript. I built it in Rails with the Google Maps & Food Standards Agency APIs, along with a lot of CoffeeScript.

I need to add more reviews of places, and more links, but I've been working on it for too long without it being live so I put it live earlier this week.
fashion magazines do not make woman a woman just like woodworking magazines do not make man a man.

Geek culture is a niche and it is more healthy to deal with it as such, promote stars female and otherwise.

I am sick of people being divisive on this issue, we have women coders that like to put make up on and look pretty. However I also have friends, dudes and dudettes who don't really care about tech beyond very easily usable iPhone. Brandishing fact that magazines don't give adverts about iPhones is much like saying that woodworking magazines that do not give adverts about family cars with automatic everything(IMO). iPhone is the easiest phone to use compared to older dial a number phones so I am not sure where argument stands here.

As well fashion industry stands by itself as far as I know it and they don't really care to change their ways just because they say so.(re: movie: Devil wears prada).

If I subscribe to woodworking or mechanics magazine, I am not sure I'd care to see adverts for game boy or Playstation.

Given that I am all for women in technology - however I think that making the rest of the world think(like general purpose womens magazines) is presumptuous that people are into nerdy stuff and computing.

my 2c.
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> go to your bank, withdraw a large sum of money, walk to the shop

I was speaking about frilly credit card features that force us to play a complicated game where we pay more for stuff and then get some money back by signing up for the right "reward" card or collecting points or miles or whatever.

Obviously, I'm not suggesting that everything should be cash. Electronic payment systems (credit/debit cards, wire transfer, Paypal, hopefully Bitcoin) are essential of course. (Often badly implemented, but essential.)
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And how the pause button is... nothing, just to remove target from the start button.
Any merchant can easily refuse it. They won't know what it is ahead of time. And many merchants have systems where they have to pay a (much) higher fee for certain credit cards (cough AmEx). So, even though they could accept them with their plan, they purposely don't. They don't know what the heck this unbranded thing with no logos are, so they'll just tell you to use something else.
To argue the devil's advocate position: Fashion and Beauty, on the other hand, are seen as celebrations of femininity that put women on a pedastal, the center of attention, and on a higher tier of social power and rank. Gadgets - either kitchen or electronic - however desirable are seemingly out of place in this context, as they are ultimately ultilitarian.
1950 called. They want their worldview back.
I think a mean analysis would have been more useful here.
its one of those things... micro optimisation becomes the big one once you do enough algorithm optimisation. even the humble memory copy becomes faster from prefetching and clever use of registers... and actually making the algorithm theoretically worse. :P

also, note that it is possible to remove the magic from your magic number with some thought about latency, the size and alignment of your data etc. fetching a cache line takes a fairly predictable amount of cycles.

opposite to the prefetch is the non temporal read/writes where you don't pollute cache to prevent big one off copies from damaging the performance of other code...
Also, tech doesn't have the same "market it like crazy, and rely on massive margins" philosophy.

Apple does do some marketing, but it's not like they sell a phone for ten times what it costs to build. Software is a little different - B2B relies on direct sales.

Games are probably the closest thing you'll find to fashion and cosmetics. I guess you could compare fashion magazines to gaming magazines.
Why are you stuck with ESR?
> Arguably, there is nothing more important for a human being as an sentient organism than an endorphin fix obtained from various sources: love, surprise, food, etc.

On one hand, the balance of values is more complex than "there is nothing more important than the endorphin fix that allows you to translate your values into pleasures for your brain". Hookers and weed give you ten times the endorphin fix Snapchat gives you, and yet there aren't too many people who would eagerly applaud investment in that.

So no, I don't think that I am intellectually dishonest in claiming that the umpteenth incremental improvement over a photo sharing app significantly improves people's lives. Snapchat isn't shaping the form of future communication, it doesn't bring people closer together any closer than IRC already does, it's not encouraging communities anymore than a dinner conversation is. It just makes sexting somewhat trendier, and twenty years from now we will look upon Snapchat the same way that we now look at elm.

On the other hand, Snapchat is not the same as "the messaging apps". I'm not claiming messaging applications in general are useless; I'm claiming that Snapchat is just a slightly trendier one. The money that were invested in it, while creating financial profit in the short term, are hardly used for any significant impact. Some people will end up with fuller pockets, big deal.
Pretty much every major US bank has committed to rolling out EMV by middle of 2015.
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That was far more likely to be a meteorite impact: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2285/did-the-aum-sh...
Women's magazines ignore technology and demean women

The editors of these titles are disporportionately Women.
Linux Voice - New crowd funded Linux magazine from ex employess of Linux Format.
I promise it hasn't, but I'm curious to see what you're talking about. Link?
Exactly. Hell, I (as a upper middle class young male) get annoyed when trying to find a tech magazine on the shelves. Hidden amongst a dozen other things, and usually a terrible selection. Sigh... Not that it matters, my favourite magazine (Atomic MPC) that I subbed to for 5 years folded into PC Authority :(
That was exactly the same in Europe. Yet the bank pushed EMV hard.

And the EMV transition has been going on behind the scenes in the US for years too, so expect to start getting cards with a chip as your cards expire over the next couple of years.
The language here of "working on a room" is a little bit unnerving, but he's right. If you want to meet new people and have interesting conversations, I've had similar experiences like this which I've enjoyed.

Furthermore, interrupting a conversation at an event like the one he describes with the question, "so what are we talking about?" after you've gotten their attention is a good way to find something to talk about, too, which isn't just the standard, "so what do you do?"
Could you explain the brilliance of prototypes? Prototypes in JavaScript are pretty awful, but I've never been sure if that's just the JavaScript implementation (for instance, the lack of a good way to clone an object makes using prototypes in JS more painful than it needs to be), or the concept of prototypes more generally.
Depends. And in my experience, that's all pretty bollocks.
Everyone sucks at networking the first few times, and public speaking the first few times, and presentations the first few times. The exact technique you use to get over that initial bump is probably not as important as just trying it a few times..
I am close to 40 and I still like boobs and toilet humour. I don't buy these mags, because I find them pretty repetitive, having read them in my 20's.
But is technology just geek culture? I don't think so, and I believe that's the OP's point
I take comfort in the fact that we can only destroy ourselves, not the planet.
The problem I see with Snapchat is that:

a) currently no revenue, I imagine it is harder to monetize Snapchat than Facebook et al. But it is not my area of expertise so I can give them the benefit of the doubt that they can monetize it.

b) They are one lawsuit away from blowing up. I can see a future where they get hit with a child porn lawsuit or something similar. I assume they have good lawyers but it is still a rather significant risk.

I think it was a mistake not to take one of those billion dollar deals but I have been wrong before. If they can monetize their service and avoid lawsuits it could become huge.
Did you have a low GPA by any chance? In academia, this is considered a black mark :(

Honestly, I think you dodged a bullet. Academia isn't that magical (CS PhD here). I think you get a better education reading Hacker News some days.
I think "I don't know" can be a perfectly acceptable answer. It's certainly preferable to awkward grasping at straws. I don't expect even a great candidate to answer every question. Sometimes questions are simple probes to find bounds of knowledge and experience.

I know a lot about game development. I've shipped quite a few games. I've worked on PC, consoles, iOS, gameplay, engines, clients, game servers, and more. I've never worked on the server backend infrastructure, graphics programmer, nor have I used Unity3D.

If you ask me a real question about SQL or database management just about the only answer I can give you is "I don't know". I can't to tell you any differences, pros, or cons related to any javascript library nor any of the now numerous popular databases.
Old, but golden.
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I scratch around at SICP every few months, and generally get stuck because there's a lot of assumption of mathematics knowledge in there that I don't have. But I started to watch the MIT lectures just last weekend. I'll keep at it, sounds like I'm on the right track. Thanks :)
They are not asked to accept a credit card in the case of Coin. They are asked to accept a device that contains an unauthorised reproduction of the mag-stripe contents of a credit card.
So can I open this? Or am I going to blast an enormous self-similar phallus onto my monitor for all my colleagues?
Since I am at work I have to ask... is the content of this NSFW?
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Sorry but that's a pretty throwaway opinion, and potentially offensive, without a study or two to back it up.
Ask HN: How many times have you failed? And Why?
Credit card != debt. Please stop trolling.
Its pretty tame and is pixelated until clicked.
Random, weird rejections with no (or only a vague) explanation are prototypical Steve Jobs Apple. This policy is Steve Jobs Apple incarnate. This is one of the defining characteristics of an Apple under Steve Jobs.

One has to be astonishingly unperceptive to not see this.
>When you say "but without government important initial >research which is costly and unprofitable can't be done"

No that is not what I said at all. If your going to quote somebody quote them correctly. What I did say is that SpaceX wouldn't be possible without NASA. And not to short change SpaceX cause it's an amazing company and they do really cool stuff, it is true that they are building on-top of the tech developed by NASA, and that NASA, in the form of a very large contract to shoot rockets into space also funds (to an large extent) SpaceX. So I don't think you can really argue that point.

To your more general point... You obviously don't like the government, and honestly I don't really either, I agree with you that they are a bunch of bureaucrats and mess up a lot of stuff. But don't let you feelings about the government cloud your vision. As said in the original article for the vast majority of cases Industry does not have the appetite to fund Huge project, i.e. large capital expenditures with very long timelines to pay back the money.

Yes you could come up with cases where industry has, but the majority of these type of project have been funded by the government, and unless we change the rules by which our entire economy operates the government is likely to be the only one to continue to fund them. So rather than just hate the man (if we really want to get these type of things done) we would be better served figuring out how to work with him, or change the quick profit driven model which drives our economy... To me working with the government, as bad as it may sound, is probably an easier task.
Too many parrots and not enough pirates
Am I missing something significant? If my wayward indebted 19 year old (not that I have one of those currently) can get hold of the encrypted key, he can take its money. So I'm putting total trust in the security/honesty of the lawyer or whoever who is storing the protected key. So they might just as well be storing the unprotected private key. I'd rather not put total trust in anyone, but reasonable trust in several (disinterested) people.
I suppose if it was a you-know-what then technically it would be infinitely large (if we're measuring its edges :) )
The pixelised version leaves more to the imagination and ends-up looking more NSFW than the uncensored version.
Of course ultra-high-end!
It's less secure than chip and pin credit cards, but it does require the presence of an object that can execute the right encryption operations with the right private keys, which makes it more secure than easily cloned mag-stripe cards. Because it is less secure, there's typically a low transaction limit (in the UK 15-20 pounds).

And it is about convenience - people are willing to accept the risk for the added convenience.
Train fares vary depending on the time of day. Some cities (London) set a "congestion charge" to vehicles driving in the city centre during the day. Utilities charge industrial (and some residential) customers different amounts based on the time of day.

I'm not quite sure what the parallel's are to Google Books though... (I think we've gone too far down the metaphor rabbit hole)
IMHO you have a comfortable cushion, and some time to make careful, thoughtful decisions. Some professional financial planning could set you up to relieve yourself of some worries. Having done phase 1 (acquiring retirement money), you can take some time and assess what you love in life, or to explore what that means. Phase 2 might be family, or it might be personal growth, or it might be an adventure, or investing, or maybe as simple as a soul-searing eye-widening scary-ass meeting with either Paul Graham or Mark Cuban. Something to consider. Short term, though, the sincere, hopeful recommendations by others here that you look into discreet professional counseling to break your logjam and apparent depression, and to help you make your way from phase 1 to whatever your next phase is, are not wrong. You might need the therapy after meeting with Graham or Cuban. Best wishes for your breakthrough.
It kinda looks like a heavily pixelated gif of dude jerking off with a fleshjack from his POV.
Seems the pallet was chosen specifically to elicit the NSFW characterization. Choose another set of colors and suddenly it's less salacious.
I like to use a familiar set of utilities on Windows. It's not just for software development either. A little while ago I used the Cygwin shell to clean up my downloads folder and it worked like a charm. I also used to have a couple of shell scripts for maintaining my music collection. Spinning up a virtual machine for this kind of stuff seems a little unnecessary, and it seems cumbersome to have to maintain a list of shared folders when I really want my tools to work on whatever directories/mounts Windows has access to.

Even when I do work in a VM, I use a Cygwin terminal and ssh client to connect to it. mintty is fairly amazing.
http://www.happycow.net exists already.