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You mean like the forced government coercion that enables land ownership? Would managing development of farmland work best through voluntary non-profits?
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Lean Analytics - Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz

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did you port ncurses using emscripten? This could enable bringing a large portion of GNU over to the browser as a cloud-based app. Stallman's nightmare, in other words.
Do you use a sheet and a mattress pad on top of the mattress?
How can a person claim to suffer from impostor syndrome?
Note that the chrome change from the OP is specifically so that you don't have to sacrifice pinch-zoom to get rid of the 300ms delay.
It's going to suck for all those scientists when they realise their "evidence" is just false data fed to their brains in vats, though.

(Or, more generally, this "quack philosophy" is trying to get us to think about what knowledge is, and you can't understand how science works without thinking about the concept of knowledge).
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I didn't actually exclude that as a possibility: the existence of non-profits is indeed part of a capitalist system.

But, I don't think a huge depth or breadth of science gets done that way.

A democratic government should seek to fund science through taxes, if that's what you're asking, yes: we collect taxes to benefit society and science provides an efficient benefit.
>Mr. Gates didn't say that non-fiction is always better for learning about the world.

Of course he didn't, he said something worse. The literal quote from Bill Gates is: "But I read mostly nonfiction because I always want to learn more about how the world works".

The immediate conclusion that you can take from that is "if you want to learn more about how the world works, then don't read fiction". It's the assumption that fiction has value only as entertainment.

I'll give you just one example of the opposite. If you want to learn how people in the past thought and viewed the world, then an excellent way is reading the popular fiction of that time. Bonus points if you get to know how they read it.

>Sorry, but it does. Easily testable hypothesis; go to the NY Times Bestsellers lists and compare, book-for-book, what can be "learned" from each (as most of us understand "learning").

Sorry, but if you get to redefine things in order to suit your argument (the word learn), then you are right by default and there can't be any discussion. I won't follow you there.

I know there are excellent non-fiction books that teach you lots of things. But the reverse is true, there are garbage non-fiction books that teach you nothing.

For example: read "Confessions of a Heiress" by Paris Hilton. It's non-fiction, so by your logic, you will surely learn more about the world reading that than something like "1984" by George Orwell, right? Give me a break.
>> all foam mattresses deform to some degree

So do spring mattresses, by the way, and aren't they the most common type?
How do you compare with IKEA mattresses? They always seem fairly priced to me.
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The view in desktop often fails when the site uses a mobile-specific url.

That creates a problem that is hard for the browser to deal with cleanly.
What a beautifully designed site. Do you have a designer on staff?
White House to preserve controversial policy on NSA, Cyber Command leadership
I don't know anything in iOS development and I have a basic knowledge of how Android works (I'm a web dev), but is this something that Android handles really well with intents?
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Because pouring hot asphalt over snow melts it?
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You can follow all of that information (and more) here:

http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/
I am dissapointed by most scifi because I have such high expectations for it. So I have started to look to other genres that offer better quality on average.
That is partially what was done.
Other than increasing the buffer size, he did a partition on the data.
Together with the buffer size increase, if he created another table using the "archive" engine and kept pruning the data form the `domain` table to this archive table he would achieve the same thing with persistance.

All in all, it was a very nice solution and use case for the memory table! :)
No serious funding for scientific research would be accomplished this way.

>"rather than using the force of gov't to coerce every citizen into paying for it"

Oh please. If we're living a capitalist society, we have to realize that citizens are not incentivized to give a significant portion of their money for the improvement of society, so it's time to stop treating things as though free markets will come in and inevitably save the day without government intervention. Specifically, talking about medical research, there is no incentive for me or any other citizen to fund leukemia research, or heart disease research, and I certainly don't donate money to both causes on a regular enough basis to provide enough monetary support for this research. Unless we rethink our current economic model, this is just not a possibility.
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> Nope, patents are purely a governmental construct.

Exactly. They are a government construct to enable the capitalization of science.

(Note: the fact that it's a government construct does not contradict anything I said.)
Grandparent poster has since clarified his question (he was talking about liquidation preferences and multiples). But yeah, back in the day, tranched rounds with company performance targets were not unusual. In fact, they're still practiced today -- typically by big corporate investors, as opposed to angels or VCs.

My personal opinion is that performance targets specifically, if not tranched payments in general, are bad for all concerned. Ostensibly they cover some downside for the investor, but startup investing is abot maximizing upside, not covering downside per se. At their worst, tranches and targets hold the company hostage to goals that are often arbitrary, and are almost always gamed accordingly. As a result, you have a company that is checking boxes and focusing on its arbitrary numbers, and you've got investors who don't realize they're creating perverse incentives. Also, it's basically impossible to run any variant of the Lean Startup methodology when under the gun of performance-based tranches.

I say this having worked for a startup that accepted big corporate money on a tranch-based system with performance goals. Total headache for all concerned.
Maybe people would pay for live (really live) music.
Amazing how this gets downvoted. I was on the order page thinking "man it would be so awesome if I could just send them Bitcoin for this instead of having to link in my new credit card to PayPal". Yesterday Coinbase gets $25 million in funding supposedly able to make this trivial for merchants and vendors. Today another startup gets funding. HN supposedly the startup community has great animosity towards the one and not the other. Hilarious.
ok makes sense. a file hash might fix that and save google some bandwidth but i imagine they do not want to break tracking completely for now...
Obviously I'm not Brendan or Chris Peterson, but I see there being two meanings of "works best in Firefox/Chrome": one of which is "Chrome/Firefox has a faster implementation of the standards" (which is what all browsers strive for—for the Web to "work best" in their browser), and the other of which is "Firefox/Chrome has a faster nonstandard implementation of X and there is a worse, standards-based fallback for browsers that don't support this vendor-specific extension", which is what I read Brendan's frustration as relevant to.
How would anyone know it was not official until Google said it wasn't meant to be released?
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Ask HN: How can I help your business grow?
Seriously.

I’ve been teaching myself digital marketing, “growth hacking”, conversion rate optimization, etc.

I want to help some startups grow.

When I was 18 I worked with a VC firm as a junior analyst. Then I helped some of their companies with growth related work and was hooked.

I’ve started a few decent businesses, and have helped some startup grow and reach their P/M fit, or at least try to reach P/M fit.

I’m still on the “inexperienced” side, but I’d love to get some of that stuff people yearn for in “experience”.

So here’s your chance. I’ll help your startup grow for waaayyy less than anyone else. I’m talking like $25.

No, I’m not an expert. I will not make your company the next Facebook.

But I will put in real effort and generate real results, with or without a marketing budget.

Drop me an email at bpindulic@gmail.com if you want to make a friend, grow your business, share tips or tell me how stupid this post is. I love all feedback :)

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Ideally you can deploy FTTN/VDSL without replacing anything, you'd have to get fiber out to these places otherwise, and often enough here (the US) its aerial cable.

Like I'd said in my original post, most of the places that would get fiber as part of an FTTN deployment have no fiber at all right now, so even getting the fiber into those areas is important to the later deployment of FTTP.

With pair bonding VDSL has the potential of more than 25 mbps - plus the speeds they can pull out of copper over less that 1000m loops is quite promising, and continues to improve.
Assurance contracts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contracts

Example: you start a project on something like kickstarter, people contribute the amount of money they like. Then after the project reaches its goal, the research starts. If goal isn't reached then people get their money back.
Or you can get rid of this uncharitable list altogether and replace it with something like 'with a mandate to balance complex trade-offs between technological constraints and competing user, web page, and web application designer needs'.
I'm a little confused... the InnoDB table and memory table had the same data, but the InnoDB table was larger (at least twice as large, I presume)?
Foam mattresses tend to deform and stay deformed after only a few years of use; the foam just doesn't re-expand all the way. Spring mattresses are warranted against more than minor deformation, not just defects at the time of purchase. If you buy a name-brand (Serta, Stearns & Foster, etc) mattress and after 5 years it's sagging 4" In the middle, you make a warranty claim and get a new mattress.
> The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible.

What if the chemical reactions that our intelligence depends on somehow allow for computations using real numbers? We wouldn’t be able to reproduce these processes with our means of computation then.
That's why capitalist science is a stupid idea in the first place, but it's still how the current system works. Corporations like artificial scarcity, so stuff can be owned, capitalized and exploited for profit.
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Of course no true Scotsman would write a class like RectangleCollectionColorPickerFactory.
Thanks! Yes, all our design and development is being done in-house.
I mean more generally, if you ask someone if they are good at something or if they say they are good at something you probably don't gain much actual information (even if all the participants are acting in good faith...).
I've had the Sleep Innovations mattress on my list to buy for a while (http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Innovations-SureTemp-Mattress-Wa...). Any differences between the two that you'd like to highlight or comment on?
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Oh, and the right way for Alice and Bob to prove to each other that the holders of their public keys both know the secret password is to use an Augmented PAKE [1] (Password Authenticated Key Exchange) protocol, replacing the password with Scrypt( Concatenate(Alice's public key, Bob's public key), Password ). (The concatenation of the public keys is used for the Scrypt salt.) That way, at the successful conclusion of the Augmented PAKE exchange, Alice and Bob haven't proved to each other knowledge of the password, but rather have tied the proof to their two public keys, and each can be assured that the holder of the other public key knows the password. If there's later a flaw found in the Augmented PAKE algorithm you choose that leaks the "password" used for the Augmented PAKE protocol, at least you've only leaked a memory-hard password hash of the real Password.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_agre...

Don't get creative and start rolling your own zero-knowledge proof of passwords here. It's really easy to get wrong. Use a very-well peer-reviewed Augmented PAKE algorithm.

THE NAIVE WRONG WAY for Alice to prove to Bob that she knows the Password (but might look good at first glance) is for Alice to send to Bob HMAC(Password, Alice's Public Key) because then if Bob doesn't know Password, he can still start bruit-forcing guesses without further interaction with Alice. On average, it will take the Stasi an afternoon to bruit-force Password after pretending once to be Bob, and after that they can impersonate Alice when talking to Bob. It's very unlikely Alice will ever mention to Bob the one failed authentication, and nearly impossible that she'll mention it within the window of time they have before the Stasi bruit-force the password.

Use an Augmented PAKE instead of a balanced PAKE, because you should use an Augmented PAKE for users to authenticate themselves to you, and that way you can share one implementation for both purposes and expose yourself to half the potential bugs. With a Balanced PAKE, if an attacker gets read-only access to your server's password store, they could immediately authenticate themselves to your service and upload more public keys as the user. An Augmented PAKE in this case would slow down an attacker by forcing the attacker to bruit-force the passwords, and would completely save the 1% of your users who use passwords with 80 or more bits of entropy.
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Double-tap to auto-zoom seems like a misfeature anyways. Wasting a useful gesture like that on a somewhat-redundant action seems odd. A 2-finger tap gesture would've made more sense since it would be related to the pinch-operation.
That's not how it works. There's no single "global optimum" that lifeforms are evolving towards; there's no final hilltop; there's no intent. This notion of "Evolutionary Teleology" is how we get things like X-Men (which I enjoy for the record, it's not like X-Men is taught in biology class). If there were some global optimum, we'd all have eyesight like Legolas and the color-pallete of a Mantis-Shrimp, instead of a blind spot in the center of our retina.

Evolution just happens, and it is what it is. E.g. Natural Selection didn't "optimize" giraffes so they could reach leaves. Natural Selection is simply a way of explaining that some giraffes had long necks, some had short, and the shorter just happened to die out. Similarly, NBA players didn't "evolve" to play basketball. Some people are tall, and some are short, and the short people just didn't make the cut. "Select" != "Optimize". Evolution is better thought of as a historical accident. We're talking monkeys on a flying rock.
Congratulations on this. After sleeping for many years with a mat on the floor, it always seemed insane when people spend thousands on mattresses. Kudos for a minimal affordable mattress. If we replace our $200 foam queen mattress we will definitely go with yours.
This is a really excellent article.

Here's an article that goes into a lot of the law that is relevant to the investigative techniques mentioned: http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/107/4/kerr.pdf. Note: the article makes a case in support of the third party doctrine, which justifies many of those investigative techniques, but is very well-researched and presents a pretty balanced view of what the law is in addition to defending that status quo.
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My role within our DBA group is that of devops exactly (after spending a year as a line DBA).

Given that background I still think that the topic of databases is just too deep for a generalist. I know a lot about the MySQL database (and a little about PostgreSQL), enough to write failover software, automate deployments, write guardian crons which slap down problematic queries & pre-emptively, automate backups, do vip failover and haproxy configuration... and I still have to go to my boss for most of the hard questions.

His knowledge encapsulates 12 years of working with and around MySQL, and it's proven invaluable to our customers. Knowing when to force certain optimizations, how to make subqueries run O(1) vs O(n), how to rebuild a complete database from binary logs, how to configure MySQL to work with SSD caches... these problems don't come up often, but when they do, not having a DBA available to you means contracting out to one at exorbitant rates.

It's the difference between a few minutes of downtime when the proverbial dung hits the fan, versus a few hours or days.
I don't think this it is the fault of patent law that companies do not fund basic research. I think is it just the fact that it is very hard to profit from basic research, fundamentally. If anything, patent law (for all its faults) at least tries to create some incentives.
The problem is not Amazon nor is it the Post Office, it is FedEx. Using the Post Office to deliver the last mile makes sense, but you have to get the package to the local Post Office in a timely way. FedEx seems to treat "smartpost" packages as low priority.
These complaints are ridiculous. Of course philosophy is going to deal primarily with philosophical discussions, and not with scientific ones, that's the job of science!

If you're trying to claim that only scientific ideas are worth entertaining, then the problem is that that claim itself is not scientific.

The commenter you're responding to does not even understand the problem if he thinks science can solve it, as others have pointed out.
> channel more money into basic science

This has been already experimentally proven to be false. I have several friends in the basic Biology research and they have mentioned several times that companies explicitly fund only the applied research where they can reap the fruits early and not in 10 or so years.
Looks pretty good, the messaging is very much like Everlane.
The Innodb table right now has about 9 million records and is 8GB in size (4GB index size). The memory table has a subset of the same data - 1.2 million records and is 276MB in size.
I still use a WinPhone7 phone and many of these "mobile" sites are completely broken on WP7 IE - they frequenetly have images or boxes that extend outside the bounds of the fixed-width area and don't allow me to zoom out or pan right to see the whole thing.
Can't disagree with this. 2-finger tap to zoom to content. If only we could go back in time…
Have a look at some articles on philosophy of science. You might not like them, but contemporary philosophy is very much engaged with scientific practice: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html.

Or, for that matter, look at Hillary Putnam. Notice that he was a rather accomplished mathematician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Putnam#Mathematics_and.... I believe he also had an extensive knowledge of physics, though I don't think he had any discoveries in the field.

(Edited to be a little nicer).
Ludum Dare has been so much fun over the years. We've been doing it for 2 years now, and have had mixed success :-)

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/13/playcanvas-is-in/

But we've created some awesome little games (and some less awesome ones) but always learned and pushed our platform forward that bit.

2yrs ago, http://apps.playcanvas.com/dave/alone/latest

1.5yr ago, http://apps.playcanvas.com/dave/tiny_world/latest

6m ago, http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/mondrian/ld48

6m ago, http://apps.playcanvas.com/dave/minimal/ld48
Looks great. Haven't had time to try it out yet, but looking forward to it.
I'll just go down the list and try to hit each item.

Counter-Strike: All versions are already linux supported.

Half-Life 2: Most are ported, the game engine is ported to linux.

Team Fortress 2: Ported to linux.

Left 4 Dead 2: Used as the original test bed of steam for linux [1], I'm unware of if it has been ported.

Portal 2: Game Engine Ported, unaware of game's state.

Natural Selection 2: Developer has plans too, but game engine needs Direct3D layer. Claims it can be over come. [2]

Bioshock Infinite: Has no plans to be ported to linux, but has been ported to mac [3].

Civ V: Apparently supports PC/Mac/Linux/Unix according to its amazon page.

Serious Same BFE: Ported.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Can run in linux via wine [4] if you trust that source, seems sketchy. But the publisher isn't linux friendly. [5] or maybe it is [6]. We don't know for sure, this is a developping story.

Metro LL: Is ported.

DiRT3: Uses Games for Windows Live. There's a few non-legal hacks to get it working but nothing offical.

BoardLands 2: Unreal Supports Linux [7], but there are no developer statements

A:tDD: Ported

Skyrim: Is actually Unsupported by their Developers (they've moved on to other projects). So porting it now seems unlikely. [8]

At this point we can say Controller =/= Linux Support.

[1] http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/

[2] http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/spark-engine-questions-and-answ...

[3] http://forums.2k.com/showthread.php?221791-Please-port-Biosh...

[4] http://community.callofduty.com/thread/200382760#.UqstR7TyRH...

[5] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU0MTA

[6] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU0MjE

[7] http://www.unrealengine.com/licensing/faq/

[8] http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/8469626270...
With this feature implemented in stable branch of chrome and Chrome apps for android going stable in january 14, a lot of android.ios development will shift to making chrome apps that run on mobile.
Yep, I constantly have to delete jj at the end of emails. The cool thing about this port is that mapping seems to work. Naturally the first thing I tried was :inoremap jj <esc>, which I don't think works in codemirror + vim plugin.
Well, does not really apply to my current job, but when I'm very interested in a project, if I don't put lots of hours towards it I can't produce anything more (or have fun in any other activity).
Sounds like you have a sysadmin with mad interview skills. ;)

Sorry to hear it, either way.
We bought a VI-Spring mattress last year.

Part of the conditions of the satisfaction guarantee is that you have to have certification that you lay on the appropriate demonstration mattress for at least 30 minutes.

I don't see that listed here but it's in our hard-copy, and the retailer emphasised it before purchase:

http://www.vispring.com/our-promises/guaranteed
You can actually disable tab delay all together in Chrome Beta. Go to about:flags and enable "Disable tap delay".
Keep in mind that your us-east-1a is not necessarily the same as someone else's us-east-1a as they randomly assign the names to reduce the effect of everyone congregating in us-east-1a because it sounds like the best one.
This is excellent. Previously developers had to choose between their mobile site feeling snappy and supporting pinch-zooming. Now we can have both, and I can go back to being annoyed with developers who disable pinch-to-zoom.
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When does tailing someone in Google's Ingress become stalking?
They will probably base of Debian testing with custom backports.