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Yes, they have to make a custom distro.

Currently Ubuntu's Unity in Saucy has big drawbacks for gaming. I just tried last night to play Brutal Legend, to test my new gamepad.

Unity makes the game unable to fully be fullscreen.

The same happens with any Windows game via Wine.

I love Ubuntu for developing stuff, but they need to fix a lot of stuff to compete with Windows in gaming.
If you double tap a link on a desktop you will go to that link 'twice'. If you double tap a link on ios you will zoom to that link. Unless you wait for as long as a double tap takes you won't know if the user meant to zoom or to click the link. This is why there is discussion going on about the default view port and user zoomable content.
I feel like a proud Granddad reading this post. JT was one of my developers at Hashrocket. :)
How do I know if they do? Can it be tested?
Agreed. Besides, behaviorism was abandoned in psychology because it was crazy, not because there's something wrong with reinforcement learning.

It was treating the human mind as a black box trying to pretend we have no insight in human thoughts. It was trying to avoid antropomorphizing people as Morgenbesser put it. In fact, quite the opposite, I'd attribute this blatant idiocy to Popperism. After all, introspection isn't testable or falsifiable in a popperian sense. There's no room for the concept of models in Popperianism. There are just big black box ideas that you test and are falsified or not.
That removes the 300ms delay in Chrome and Firefox. Although you lose pinch zooming too, which can be a nice usability & accessibility feature.
Mollenkopf won't be running Microsoft
That's a great question. We have used 3 different photographers since we first launched and haven't been able to get the quality we wanted. So to cut on our costs, and it was really expensive using photographers + studio + models, we moved to renderings. This allowed us to depict the product as it looks but move the camera around and get the right lighting.
I don't think that's entirely true.

There's plenty of other H.264 products that you can get without directly downloading them. Flash is a close analogy, they pay the flat fee and nearly every desktop in the world uses it. And while some people download Flash direct from Adobe's servers, other's get it indirectly, e.g. pre-installed on computers they buy, or by downloading an installer. And people build apps (including desktop apps) around that functionality.

Cisco is mostly doing this to support WebRTC interoperability with their deployed hardware (which generally means internet access) so they may just be going for the simplest thing for them to do.
One of these things parents typically don't get to do :(

I'm pretty sure I'd join a "48 hours in 30 days" style LD, that could actually work for me. Is anyone aware of anything like that?

edit: Just remembered that there's 1GAM (One Game A Month), which is almost that. Still, I'd prefer a yearly or bi-yearly thing with a lot of traction like LD, and some kind of total time limit.

edit2: What'd be interesting about such a jam is that people would have much more time to think. I don't consider myself less productive when it comes to side projects than before I had kids, I get to think things really through and solve most hard issues while I'm out and about with the little ones.
Great, will probably be buying a new new mattress next month. Great timing :)
They know your location, OS, browser from when you signed up for the list in the first place. You did that online if we're talking about e-mail marketing and not some developer listserv. MailChimp in particular does record geo-ip information at signup, so its features based on recipient location should still work the same.
I bet people losing their bitcoin wallets to an intruder (or indeed any file on their computer) happens less often than credit card theft.
I find competency does not correlate well with level of confidence. Therefore, being confident does not mean incompetence. IMHO, confidence is a state of mind, and competence is a state of being. A lot of people get them mixed up. I know really competent people always think they are inadequate therefore don't even try to ask for the promotion they well deserve, then realize some incompetent guy bloated himself/herself into that position and quit afterwards. It's a shame really.
AdSense revenue doubled so far this month?
Could it be possible to build a more or less comprehensive list of hacker-news-like websites?
Can you see the themes that went to final without logging in?
> All of our development staff are capable of diagnosing these issues and providing suggestions.

I hope you're paying them well, because if they're all crack DBAs on top of being crack developers, they're the proverbial unicorn, and are probably worth $2-3 hundred thousand apiece.
Most of the big and basic scientific projects currently funded would never be funded by private investors.
Is this supposed to be a scientific research paper?

> "The companies selling this product are required by the
Capitalist Science Act of 2012 to identify the hypotheses
in the database (or their negatives) that are necessary for
the product to work as intended. By 2020, the database
contains millions of hypotheses. Of the hypotheses in the
database in 2020, many have a posterior (current belief)
sufficiently close to the prior (set by the initial auction
for that hypothesis) that the money made by the authors who provided evidence for the hypothesis is negligible"

What's up with the citation to the above paragraph:

> "[11] Both the prior (circa 2012) and posterior on Newton’s
Law of Gravity (with appropriate caveats) will be very
close to unity, for example, and the money made by the
authors of database entries adjusting the belief in Newton’s Law of Gravity can be neglected in this example."

I can't parse this, Don't adjust your beliefs based on the fictional database? caveats to Newton's Law of Gravity? I don't understand.

This doesn't seem rational or scientific. It seems more like a narrative or personal exposition. Can anyone point out a hypothesis or any science here?
How will this differ from say, Learn Python the Hard Way or codecademy?
> What's Google's motivation for this?

Possibly, to get you to use more of their advertising services, which is in-line with lots of their recent changes (like removing all organic shopping results in favor of paid listings, and adding e-mail ads to Gmail's promotion tab).

Prior to this change, a dozen or so of Google's competitors offered e-mail remarketing. That's where you insert an image into your marketing mails to set a cookie in the recipient's browser when they open the mail, then you can later advertise to that person across the web. For example, you could show banners on the NY Times site advertising your Black Friday sales only to people that opened your Black Friday sale preview e-mail.

With Google proxying images, regardless of cache/deduplication policy, only Google can sell e-mail remarketing to Gmail users now. They already sell web remarketing through AdWords/DoubleClick. That means companies advertising with Google's competitors will have to move money to Google.
Congratulations on your success. I really enjoy reading your story and looking at the web site. Are you guys self-funded? I'm curious about the first few mattresses and orders. Would love to read a longer and detailed article if not a little to the text. Thank you.

-V.
How I find cheap airfare with an open destination
We just released the king size and want to collect some feedback on it before posting to Amazon.

Amazon is really limiting when it comes to communication with our customers. This is a major pain point for us for that channel.
If I end up participating this will be my first full LD. I've taken part in a miniLD before and did well, though the big names involved in the main one is a little intimidating.
Property rights are anathema to government construct. The state typically allows illusory property rights, but ultimately can and will defy these and treat them as a non-absolute concept.

For instance, you are your own property, but the state defies this by extorting taxation from you. They defy you, and therefore your property in order to gain value from your work.

Your work is also a result of your time, expertise and effort, therefore your property. So already tax defies your property rights in two different ways.
Not for us. Our developers built an API and tool chain to self service.
Throw an email up in your profile and I would be willing, sounds pretty cool!
A better solution, is just to increase your innodb buffer size, you will get virtually same performance as the 'memory' table once all the data is in memory. Plus all the data will be persisted.

This is an old, but still very useful script for helping to suggest what settings to tweak: https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-buffer-pool.ht...
What advice do you have to someone who wants to do something similar, and in particular, what advice do you have on choosing a product to sell?
There is another point here, one I think even more important and more disconcerting.

Google released an entire feature of their Android OS BY ACCIDENT. W...T...F?! How do you release a feature "by accident?" By having awful quality control? How does that make me feel about the rest of their Android OS now?

Either this, or they're lying through their teeth in an effort to cover up. In either case, it's evil.
[Disclaimer: This is just an opinion.]

I think a large part of this has to do with cultural attitude, and how projecting yourself as unnecessarily positive pays off in American culture. I bet most of the studies in that paper were done in the US, or at least in the West, and would have shown different results in a different culture.

In the US, saying something like "Oh yeah, I want to be pretty good at it, maybe a bit better than average." is considered a recipe for failure. Every parent seems to think that their kid is special, top of the class, Ivy League material with perfect scores everywhere.

As a result, you get a large number of peoplewho self-assess overly highly, amongst whom there are a few competent people. Also, with the tendency to not actually describe people at their appropriate level, there tends to be a sort of arms race with people evaluating themselves higher and higher. So an 'average' person becomes 'wonderful', and a 'good' person becomes 'stratospheric'.
Outside of being a single parent†, you can still do these things. It just takes an understanding partner.

† I'm sure there are ways as a single parent, but that's beside the point.
There are blog posts with the tallies of previous voting rounds, you could search for them if you really don't want to log in. If plan on participating, however, you're going to need an account anyway so I don't see a reason why you wouldn't. If you just want to see what the theme is going to be, just watch the front page and you'll find out together with the rest of us.
No previous experience. It was sort of random how we came to mattresses. It came out of a discussion we were having on a lunch break in downtown Palo Alto. I was raging about a bed I had just bought for $3,000+ and wasn't satisfied with the comfort.

It started from there.
I wonder how Dunning-Kruger effect impacts entrepreneurs/Startups.
I contend that the founders need to exhibit certain amount of Dunning-Kruger at the initial stages. Otherwise how would one take on any large impossible goals venturing into unknown domains. But when they start exploring and getting into thick of things, they become less and less susceptible to this effect as they get feedback from the system and put in efforts to improve their skills.
Only because the state monopolises such projects through taxation, regulation, licensing laws etc.

There are already examples of private investment achieving in these areas despite all of the above. I think private enterprise will eventually take over, but it will be a long battle.
> for every extra person that opens an email the picture is coming from google's cache and thus the open is not counted

Each e-mail has a unique image URL; Google has to make a request for each individual mail even if they're caching images.
I'd rather be an understanding partner myself and not ask for this. We have two small kids though, I imagine it's manageable with just one.
I thought I was suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect, but it turns out that I am just a moron.
So to be clear, as long as the content attribute contains "width=device-width", regardless of what comes after it, the 300ms is removed in those browsers?
> The idea that a database is a special beast that requires special keepers is a holdover from a dark age.

As are most databases (which are 10-20 years old).

Compared to a webserver, a DB is significantly more complicated, and significantly more important to your average business. Nginx takes a nosedive or performs poorly, and nobody really cares. Your DB takes seconds to respond to basic queries, and your entire business suffers.

I'm guessing you've yet to be bitten by DB performance issues that couldn't be resolve by adding indexes or basic query profiling. I'm glad to hear it, because it's not fun to have to set aside your day job and dive beneath that.
I wish I could check this out but for some reason Websense thinks this is social networking. Ill save it for home =/
Omitting mouse & touch events, a tap goes: pointerdown, pointerup, click.

A double tap goes: pointerdown, pointercancel.

If the pointerdown event does event.preventDefault, it goes pointerdown, pointerdown.

The double-tap prevents the click. Preventing default in the pointerdown prevents the double-tap and also the click.
Then how do you know that the evidence is very strong? You'd have to have strong evidence that the evidence is strong, ad infinitum. That was essentially Plato's definition of knowledge, "justified true belief." Then a guy named Gettier came around and showed that you can have strong evidence supporting a belief, and still be wrong. Then a guy named Nozick[1] came along and provided his own definition of knowledge, and that brings us up to the early 1980's.

There's an entire branch of philosophy dedicated to figuring out exactly what "knowledge" is, Epistemology. The "brain in the vat" problem has be considered in context[2].

[1]http://www.iep.utm.edu/nozick/#H3
[2]http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/
Lucene models documents as a collection of fields, each with a textual value.

http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_0_0/core/org/apache/lucene/d...

At search time you can use the default field or specify the fields to be searched:

http://lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html#F...
That's a good explanation, the page was really confusing when you're not familiar with how it's done. Also, there's a clock ticking now, counting time to when the theme is revealed.

It's currently at around 10 hours 40 minutes, which makes me feel some pain for Notch since I'm in his timezone (Stockholm, Sweden).

It's 16:18 in the afternoon here now, so the reveal is at 03:00 in the night. Not my peak hour for programming. :)
I do appreciate your appreciation.
Are you a bit hard of thinking?
Stop trolling random kids on the internet, Morpheus. Come to bed and

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Sysadmin has mostly turned into opsdev.

Not in places large enough to value loose coupling (e.g., if keeping your servers running comes out of a different budget than improving your applications).
NASA is a government agency, in the UK we're bound to a part of the EU known as the European Space Agency, they aren't subject to the same laws and regulations, let alone taxes as well as all the normal rules of competitive business that privately owned enterprises are.

They've utilised their monopoly of force in order to contract themselves to these responsibilities. Most likely in order to use the glory to justify their existence.
>> The economic structure of basic science is currently socialist,

> Yes, but increasingly less so.

IMO opinion the real problem isn't that basic science is becoming less publicly available as much as it's becoming less basic, and really less science also.

If "capitalist science" meaning holding scientists to the same production quotas that Frederick Taylor gave steel workers, then above and beyond the problems seen with steel workers, there's the additional problem that bad science drives out good since it's easier to produce.
Kudos for bootstrapping and being lean about this. Even cooler that you think 90% of people won't buy it without physically touching it and you STILL started online!

Site looks great, photos are excellent, product looks great based on all that. Having bought 2 new mattresses in the past 2 years, I know how shitty the mattress buying experience is.

Good luck to you, definitely rooting for ya!
"Basic science is currently a socialist enterprise, funded
by the taxpayer, with the results available to society at
large."

One current problem is that this is that the results are not always available to society at large; I've seen a lot of stories on HN about attempts to change that.

"Since the benefits of scientific advances
are consumed by everyone, no individual has a strong financial incentive to invest in basic research."

Related to this point, patent law causes companies to focus more on efforts that lead to patentable inventions, and therefore away from basic science, which is unpatentable.
Their videos require registration but the docs do not.
Hanlon's Razor probably applies here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
That's modern philosophy for you. It's the guys who believe they're excluded from science and regurgitate unscientific discussions ad nauseam.
Maybe we'll do a more in depth blog post about that. We are self funded entirely.

Thank you for the kind words.
Totally failed when I tried backward-delete-word.
I've written compilers in C, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, ML and Lisp; targeting x86, x64, JVM and MSIL. I was maintainer of the Delphi front end at Borland / Embarcadero. Pattern matching isn't just nice; you end up with substantially better typechecking, and doesn't need ugly patterns like visitors with their inverted callback control flow, if you want to decouple e.g. type checking or code generation from your AST classes. Visitors are implicitly closed to extension unless you create very abstract visitors (and I've gone down that path, it's not pleasant) - you lose a big chunk of the extensibility objects give you over ADTs. (I'd prefer to use multimethods, but they are rarely available.)

I think persistent collections, along with nice syntax for updating immutable objects (i.e. cloning with a subset of changed attributes) are more practical than having undo available. Immutable data types remove the burden of worrying about who's going to modify the data type from under you, so it lets you share subgraphs more freely. You don't need to worry as much about coupling, because the things you give your state to can't modify it. A possible alternative is mutable collections with snapshots or freezing, but I think persistent collections are a better approach.
My initial impression of Putnam's argument is that it carefully constructed in order to avoid confronting the crux of the matter. It is reminiscent of how Zeno's 'Achilles and the tortoise' paradox fails to actually consider the time when Achilles catches up with the tortoise.
Property rights are for protecting scarce resources. Intellectual property is not a scarce resource.
Private enterprise is already financing ambitious projects once sought only by state provisions on their own merit. Such as Virgin Galactic

I'd like to open by saying that I have nothing but respect for Virgin Galactic. I still get chills thinking back on watching the SpaceShipOne flight. I also largely agree with your stance.

That being said the argument could be made that all Virgin Galactic is doing is taking all the hard work and science done by the old state funded model and trying to repackage it in a simple cheaper form for "mass marker" consumption. That's not Science, that's business and engineering. And no one would disagree with that fact that Capitalism is great at business and engineering.

Capitalism rocks at taking concepts out of obscure theoretical journals and putting them in a form that affect our daily lives (often for the better), no argument there. I'm somewhat less convinced that capitalism rocks at getting those concepts into those obscure theoretical journals in the first place.
The best developers code well AND fast in my opinion.
The usual argument is that they are, in economic terms, non-rivalrous and non-scarce.
That's great. If you have any other questions feel free to shoot them to me direct jt at tuftandneedle
"The obvious conclusion is that ML simply dominates Java (and C#) as a language. Time to switch."

The obvious conclusion is that any statement that contains the phrase "the obvious conclusion is" is 100% BS, including this one.
In don't believe it did. https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_Northern_Distri...
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, since there are 30 different columns that can be searched on, there are many indexes and the index size for the domains table itself is 4GB. I run this off a 2GB linode, so unless I add a lot more RAM, Innodb is not going to match the memory table speed.
"Most suppliers wouldn't return our phone calls and the ones who did just laughed us out of the room. We had to just keep searching until we found the right people who believed in us."

Would LOVE to see a blog post detailing your experience here with what you learned (you know, in the time you have in between building mattresses, heh). The experience of being rejected multiple times is applicable across so many entrepreneurs journeys.
solr has real time indexing and batch indexing
I have to agree with you being an immigrant.If they have conducted the same study in different cultures,they would have found contradictory results.For example,the over emphasis given to the more experienced and older people may make senior staff over access their ability in a professional setting.
Please do. I'd be very interested to read it. I've always been interested in doing a physical-product type company, but I don't want to take outside investment, and it would be excellent to hear a successful bootstrapping story.
It sounds like you actually have done some benchmarking and understand the places it really is necessary to get to the bare metal. Many forget that most code doesn't have to be that fast (see: premature optimization). Much better to save developer cycles.

Besides, I thought we were talking about server-side JS, where a native CoffeeScript implementation is a completely reasonable proposition.
Good to see some people doing cool things in Tempe, AZ! Best of luck to you and your team, it seems like you have a really great product going!
The analogy would be that those functions are mutually recursive and while mutual recursive functions can be an elegant solution to several problems (state machine, some algorithms)overuse is not a mistake i have seen very often. FP does coerce, or at least very strongly suggests, a very simple program structure. This makes it hard to model some more complex relationships that are easy in OO. Anyway, my point is that FP is indeed different in this regard compared to OO.
Leveraging Twitter for Startups to Find Beta-Testers
And here's the official Codex entry: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.8
As a programmer my understanding of psychology is incompetent. Computers make sense to me, people rarely do.
MWOpenInKit: An attempt to fix iOS third-party app linking
Thanks for pointing out the issues and the valuable feedback. We didn't expect such a great response and hit the throttling limits on our APIs. We are addressing these issues.