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"proud owner of a huge gaming rig"
Maybe you are looking at the wrong OS if you are searching for a gaming rig. I'm probably not the only one choosing Apple products over others because of the OS and not the hardware.
sigh

Functional languages are all about keeping side effects under control so that you can tell what will and what will not change the state of the system. Think of it as incorporating awareness of program state into the type-system of the language.
I wonder if there is room for a site called LiveInNinja.com, which matches 'engineer cofounders' with people who have ideas, and can put someone up for free while they create them...
I couldn't help but think, as the author described his new gaming rig being half the cost of an iMac, two things:

1. Welcome to what we've all figured out ages ago.

2. iMac wasn't meant for gaming. It's always had a mobile GPU in it, and not a very good one at that.
Note that not all countries hold the idea that the U.S. does where something published by the government is not copyrighted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright
Oh. My. God. it's almost here. Snuck up on me! Gotta quickly rewatch the last couple episodes.
Thanks for up-vote, although I expected down-votes for going against what I presumed to be the feeling of the dominant audience. I don't argue that the system is unfair, I just have my fears that in order to get results some very bad mistakes could be committed. In the communist doctrine, in order to get mass support, some populist policies were adopted, like giving free credit to simple people, and (as a consequence) putting them forward, no matter if they were competent or not. So my fear comes from a reality that me along with two older generations had to experience. It's a experience that Americans lack and that obviously makes them prone to repeat bad history. When complimenting someone in political matters, think that your praise may have consequences as it can serve as basis for power claim. When it's about power, the receiving subjects should be (in my book) very, very deserving. Sorry for stretching the limited discussed context to something more.
The problem is that the article has its facts all mixed up and glosses over the central point, which is the difference between a law and a standard. Without getting that point across, this is just publicity for its own sake.
> Standards bodies found a bureaucratic loophole allowing them to make their standards into de facto-law while avoiding that those standards then become part of the public domain

I encounter this kind of wiggling a lot in Germany. What surprises me most is how readily these kinds of explanations are accepted by people, no matter how absurdly complicated they are.
What's silly about it?
I don't know, but to me most of the power of Mathematica is basically the wide-ranging and compatible utilities. Not having to write my own basic math functions, nor spending hours trying to get some C++ package working, is huge.
> Why do crypto people only want there to be a single C implementation of everything?

It doesn't need to be a C implementation, but crypto is very very easy to get wrong.

So never try a new implementation if you don't fully understand existing ones.
The critical current does. Superconductivity is eventually destroyed by magnetic fields, so all superconductors can only carry so much current before they quench and become regular conductors.

But this isn't a superconductor - it's a ballistic conductor. The idea is that it'll ballistically transport electrons with certain energy levels, which is functionally superconductivity (they don't lose energy to the conductor itself). But, since only electrons with a certain energy can enter in the first place, and since the energy levels are defined as a Boltzmann distribution, they still have a resistance which is proportional to the band of electron energies which cannot enter.

So at RT it's great for a CPU, where the problem is you don't want heat being created on the die itself. But it doesn't allow you to do long-distance transmission like we'd like to with regular superconductors (since it would still have a resistance), and the mono-monolecular nature implies it wouldn't scale anyway.
Cool, thank!
By the speed of light and the carrying capacity of the electron "channels".
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Not only is buying an apartment to rent out short term on a full time basis high risk, its probably illegal. This specific post was on HN and we found he was violating his homeowners agreement as well.

It's also a bad idea insurance wise, what if something happens (fire, flood, robbery) and your homeowner's insurance says "we are covering a home, not a friggin unregulated hotel"
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that others feel the same. In much the same way that you are very, very, very tired of seeing this stuff, I'm very, very, very tired of seeing this sort of comment on HN!
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No fun allowed, people. Your software either needs to be practical or intentionally pedagogical.
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Those contracts are pretty expensive though - £40+/month here in the UK.

I spend lots on gadgets, but that feels a lot compared to what you can pay on a SIM only deal in a last generation smartphone.

iOS is starting to feel really dated to me so I recently traded in a few phones and purchased a contract free HTC one, which is really a thing of beauty.
> I have heard that DW is technically considered a kids show in the U.K

I've heard people say that before, but it's incorrect. Doctor Who is categorised as "Drama" and "SciFi & Fantasy". It is pre-watershed (shown before 9pm) so it shouldn't contain anything inappropriate for children, so you could consider it "family viewing".

I don't believe it's shown on CBBC (the children's BBC channel), for example.
Mostly for the sweet spot between fast and pure-memory (e.g. Memcached) versus slower and high-integrity (e.g. MySQL). It works great for something like a page counter, where you want to write a lot, but don't care too much if you lost a few writes.

I know other people use it as their primary database or, on the other end of the spectrum, as an in-memory replacement...it can be configured optimally for those settings too.
Great see projects like these, specially from Brazil.
I think that jokes and seriousness are not mutually exclusive.

I made a small joke at the end of my comment not because I thought sending someone to the gulag is funny, but because speaking of serious stuff doesn't need to be all dark and serious, if you know what I mean.

Never been to NK but from what I read, it seems like we would have made the world a favor if we'd invaded NK instead of Iraq (I know it's not practical and NK's invasion would be much, much harder than Iraq).
By the way, isn't the "famous scene" from "War Games", not "The hunt for Red October", isn't it?
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Ah, I see. Thanks for the correction!
Pretty much for anything that I want to store to a database but is too costly do to write every time I update. For example, I use Redis store counters for things and then batch process them storing to Postgres.
I guess, thanks. golergka linked to authors site which doesn't: http://nojsgame.majorov.su/
I doubt with all those layers you'd be "generating" for only 2 minutes ...
You're still missing the point. It's a cool demo.

We're hackers. We're supposed to like things such as obfuscated c competitions and 5k demos!
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Awesome, the bonus is the this is perhaps the lightest JS game that I have seen in a while.
Summary: I am a gamer, I use Windows 8 to play game. See my super-cheap awesome gaming beast.

Maybe I am completely misunderstanding where HN is.
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You can also get too specific - http://www.virtsync.com - I've only made $1000, but it was only a few day's work.
Um...first-world problems?
Please, send us the URL.
Absolutely! I agree, it's a sliding scale and either extreme is probably unproductive when finding a market for tech solutions.
It's fine, it's just the nature of reading words on a screen with no other context. I don't disagree with your sentiment at all I guess the thought of this turning into a complete "look how stupid they are haha" thread made me slightly uneasy is all.
And this one is actually technically interesting.
I didn't click the link, it sounds too much like an advert.

But i if i did i suspect that i'd find one weird trick that doctors hate.
This is the ONLY useful comment in this whole thread. Thanks :P
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a duck.

Once a 'safety standard' is incorporated into a law, it becomes the law. At this point, it should be made freely available just like any other law. If it is important that some standards body get paid for their effort, then the gov't should pay at the time of transaction (when the standard is incorporated).

It's a bit rich to levy a tax on people (fee to see the law), when the people have no representation or input into the creation of the law. This goes against long established norms.

The US Constitutions forbids the federal government from copyrighting laws, the principle being that free people should be able to freely see the laws that govern them.
I once had someone sign up for an electronic voicemail service with my email address. I was getting all their voicemail, including once about 50 in the space of an afternoon from a clearly distressed client of theirs. It took a very long email chain with customer service explaining that I couldn't log in to the account to change the email address because I didn't have the password and the account wasn't mine. A similar thing happened with a Playstation Network account.

Web developers: Please make sure to include a "Didn't sign up for this? Click here to disable/unsubscribe" option in sign up emails, rather than assuming that the person receiving the email is the correct person who knows the password.
Ha-ha, I may be older than you, I remember when COBOL was the forever language and VSAM the forever DB.
If you have to take it anywhere, it isn't passive.
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Dashboards and aggregate data are a great use case for redis. Usually you have expensive calculations in these interfaces. Caching in redis is easy and really fast.
And no one is using them because simplification of any complex subject has limits. And when you pass those limits your tool, theory or conjuncture becomes either incomplete or obsolete. So the professionals avoid your tool spending their time on a worthy one (objective-c) and amateurs are too confused on how to use properly it anyway.
Looks pretty decent. Some suggestions:

1) The accent on the screencast is a bit heavy. No disrespect. But I'd suggest getting a professional voice over.

2) Don't use the word "bottom". Something about the pronunciation made me think of something else. Edit: maybe I am being childish early in the morning. Feel free to ignore this suggestion like all the rest :-p

3) Why are you visualizing such a tiny dataset? I had suspicions this would be slow for a large dataset. E.g. 1K or 1K rows.

4) Why do I have to refresh the page to see new data? Why not a refresh button.

5) Do you not offer functionality to change color, etc. of the visualizations?

6) You don't show how to connect to ones database. A lot of people disable remote access to their DB. Will this work for them?

Some tech question:

1) I liked the drag and drop functionality. What framework are you using?

2) Are you using D3 for visualizations?

Best of luck!
Seems a bit too Adobe/MS biased.
I'm not actually interested in Mathematica itself. I just know it can do lots of things that the free CASes can't.

I currently work on Octave because there's so much Matlab code out there that needs to be liberated. Is it the same case with Mathematica code? Are people able to easily take their code from Mathematica and run it in Mathics?
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I don't disagree with you. However, the problem arises when said company decides to stick everyone in a big room and says "go forth and collaborate." Before having my office moved into an open floor plan, we still had plenty of face-to-face conversations. Meetings, hallway talks, getting up and walking to another's office, and phone calls were still an option when email wasn't.

Taken as a whole, I think programmers realize that email is a tool like any other- it has its uses, and its times when it should not be used. I feel the same could be said for group settings- there are times it makes sense, and there are times when it doesn't. I'll never understand the tendency of corporations to say "This methodology is good in this particular set of variables, therefor we will use it 100% of the time for every situation."
Ha-ha, quote further! "They don't test their code at all (and instead run through tests manually..". Actually, I meant to mention that as another sign of cultdom: the verb "test" now means "automated test". Manually testing does not count, nor do any of the other ways we can get to correctnes without TDD.
Sorry, but you are. In any business you have two functions (among others) - production and distribution. What you've suggested is that you want to pay more for production and less for distribution. Further, what I've suggested is that there is a widespread assumption that distribution is in fact "cheap" - when it's not.

Is the market currently efficient? That's another debate.
You certainly could do that among your friends. Heck, there are a number of resources for magic card databases with high resolution scans.

However, it would be very frowned upon in public play and downright "illegal" in tournaments.
We use mercurial.
For anything that is not a small fix we branch it off.
It is extremely easy, and if that doesnt work you just kill that branch and you don't worry about anything.
If you are a team of 12 then branching is definetely easier than having everyone constantly pushing into the live system
I immediately thought of Crimson Tide (Denzel Washington & Gene Hackman), but War Games is definitely a memorable one. "Turn your key, sir!"
It's http://crawlspa.com.

I'm interested if anyone has any rules of thumb along the lines of "well, I didn't get a), b) or c), so I'm not going to invest any more time in this".
I up-voted because I've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of auth requests as I browse websites. In most cases the website authors are just trying to be helpful, but the bar is pretty high for me to sign up for push notifications. For most websites, I prefer to get email, if anything at all. Push notifications are the kind of thing I'm only going to use for transactional matters.

The problem (for me) is that no one seems to be able to run a push service without abusing it. I can't sign up for weather alerts without being bombarded with useless information, much less a Mac news-site.
As a matter of fact, there is one (sort of...)

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Yes, and the Raspberry Pi is not designed for them. There is no reason it should cater to everyone, it's designed for those who aren't experienced with programming, hacking and reverse engineering so they can start on their learning experience without a large financial barrier to entry.
Granted I am reading between the lines, but I think the OP was indeed concerned that this great new team he found was not a member of the TDD cult. As i just threaded separately, they equated testing with automated testing, and that set of my cult alarm.
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@pg: Your blog would be MUCH more readable if you made this change:

<font size="4" face="verdana" style="line-height: 2em">

Right now, a great sadness comes over me when I think about reading one of your articles :-)
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The other side of the argument is that the more people that are creating/working with and disseminating/peer reviewing crypto projects, the better we will be educated on crypto collectively.

An example is web technology: plenty people have made plenty html/css/js mistakes in the past but there is also an overwhelming amount of evolving best practices on this topic, no doubt because of the mistakes made before. If all we do is decry crypto is hard, don't roll your own, then no one would be learning anything, and cryptography will be left to the a few select mathematicians and organisations that are referred to with acronyms.

It should be: crypto is hard, learn it and experiment with it, share your thoughts, and don't roll your own for critical applications.

Edit: clarity of argument in my example and grammar
I would probably click the one without the price (thinking I was getting a price list for free) Then get really annoyed to find it was trying to charge me $2.

increase click rate? ... yes

increase conversion rate ? inconclusive

I bet they have the conversion result numbers but they either contradicted the story, or were weak results that showed the A/B test wasn't actually useful in this case
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Hi! Friendly native English speaker here. Just a tip, your posts read as very disjointed because you are using the comma so often! You can think of the comma as representing a pause in speech. Re-read your post, taking a pause every time you encounter a comma and you'll see how disjointed it feels. You are making good points, but I found your posts difficult to read because of this issue.
Maybe, but that 'fluorine' part is cause for concern (http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won...: "The latest addition to the long list of chemicals that I never hope to encounter takes us back to the wonderful world of fluorine chemistry. I'm always struck by how much work has taken place in that field, how long ago some of it was first done, and how many violently hideous compounds have been carefully studied.")

There may be a perfectly harmless way to make this at industrial scale, but I would not bet on it.
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Regarding your last paragraph, the operation plans for conflict with north korea are sumarized on wikipedia.

They essentially predict the north of south korea would be overrun, following artillary bombardment around the border / later Seol.

Then the remaining south must hold until marines from the mainland US and Japan can arrive, and then there would be a long and costly war to push back into NK (which the US would win, providing public oppinion held).

There is some evidence that in that sort of situation, China would invade North Korea, taking the northern third of the country. This could help the US, or create wider conflict, depending on how it played out.

Iraq and Afganistan were not wars on the same scale as Vietnam or WW2. NK probably would be. We can all hope it doesn't happen.
Which is totally not the case here. The law mandates certain actions. If you're certified to comply with the standard, then you're in compliance with the law, however you can be in compliance with the law without implementing the standard - you just carry the burden of proof.
I've seen it used for prototyping, proving and equation simplification in the simulation space, but then those algorithms were converted to C++ for production use.

MATLAB can also be used in this fashion: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/
CFEngine due to its maturity (in its 3rd generation and is based on science (promise theory)), portability (it's written in C so it can work on any UNIX-like system, even old or small) and power and flexibility.

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Get over it. They are successful without TDD. It is extremely possible, and then one does not have to slave over a hundred lines of tests when one decides to write ten lines of code. TDD has its place, but it is a relatively small place (and then, yes, it is worth its weight in gold -- I do it often).
Is ctrl+ really that hard to do?
Yeah, but wasn't this sold as something qualitatively new?
No, considered murder is a thought crime. Attempted murder involves actions.
That's not true.

Passive income doesn't just happen. What the author is asking is simple: I've written a thing that could bring me passive income. Now, how do I finish the investment so that it gains the momentum it needs to roll on its own?
Toothpaste manufacture must be nearly impossible then.
Is there a pay-per-install affiliate program involved here?
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This was around 2.5 years ago and even then it was impractical as people were mining with GPUs which pushed the difficulty up too much. Now we have had ASIC devices for most of this year and the difficulty has gone up an insane amount, so the practicality of using this is even less.

It is important to note that the JS method on that website will use CPU only, so it will be a) noticeable (especially on laptops and mobile devices) b) several orders of magnitude too slow c) not worth the 2 minutes to implement
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I think it's a pretty cool idea but I'd really be really concerned as an end user that you're not just going to take my $50 and walk.

I'm sure you don't have that intention at all but you're basically asking people to hand over $50 to a dude in a street and then come back 1-6 months later to collect it.

You should incorporate some type of escrow service and explain to people that their money is safe there.

Also I'd be curious to see how many people don't just lie to get their money back.
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I think this is right on.

I'd like to add a bit of a corollary -- people tend to like products that fit immediate and specific needs because they reduce the effort, mental or otherwise, associated with coming to grips with the product (you may have been going here anyways with your comment about friction).

We use things for a lot of different reasons, ranging from "my boss told me to" to "I saw it on TV" to "it can help me track my running better." All of these reasons get someone over their initial reluctance and get them to try something. Having a specific product (I can track my running) offers a quicker path to get over this reluctance than a more generic pitch (we have a system that tracks anything! If you spend some effort on it, it can even track your running).
Automated testing is not necessary TDD.
They do not. They show a few really basic gross revenue/transaction bits, but not really anything useful.
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Er, don't patents have to be novel? Surely you could claim prior invention?
It's pointlessly different from the syntax everything else uses.
Agreed, there is a serious tone here that people should take in understanding how NK conducts itself. My interest here was just the data and a sincere explanation that there was no hacking involved or needed.

Purpose of this wasn't to mock. It was to show that the world really did pay attention to NK. Kim Jong Il dying was a big thing. Guessing it made some people hopeful, some nervous. What's probably sure is that the nuclear test definitely made people nervous. With this data, measurably so.

In my job I regularly evaluate whether to publish something, and it's never a light decision. Though this is a private item, I sat on it for a year and debated posting it monthly. Dozens of edits later, and the data kept nagging at me - so it's now out and done.
The fonts on that page are nearly unreadable on Chrome for Windows.
This has gone too far now.
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Excellent! Looking forward to it :) I think the time-based checks are still relevant as well. The way I see it, Webhooks track added or changed dependencies during active development and the time-based checks make sure the project doesn't get stale.