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Michael Seibel founded two YC companies: Justin.tv and Socialcam
In the Human Brain, Size Really Isn’t Everything
Beyond the Turing Machine
People want to write the same app once: not one version for iOS, another for Android and third for something else. JavaScript seems moving towards that. Qt/QML is another choice that is available now but Qt has its own problems.

You should choose the right tool for the job - that's it. That's neither stupid, lazy or complacent.
It's a term for "I'm going to fight you."
I'd heartily recommend the book version of The Peter Principle. A lot of people are probably familiar with its namesake principle, but the book goes into a lot more detail about what the implications of it are and wider concepts of useless and destructive employee patterns.
What are "real numbers"? A horribly misnamed fiction. Nearly all of them cannot be represented with a finite amount of information. I strenuously object to naming an uncountable set "real" when only a countable subset (measure 0 of the full set) can be worked with in any way at all.

We need to stop venerating the "real" numbers and start focusing on sets that are actually usable.
Oh sure, I don't necessarily disagree with you, I was just trying to point out that Barrosso's comments are somewhat one-eyed and far from the final word on the matter.
That seems like an odd strategy to me; like "no really, you can do it look these other black people did it"--as i would expect the merits/benefits of programming itself to be the main motivating factors. Perhaps I am underestimating the amount of self-imposed race-based limiting factors; which makes me sad and surprised. On the one hand I want to say, "please focus on the fact that they can do anything they want; and this is a great thing to do"--and on the other, if showing them African American's doing it will be significant toward getting some of them into programming; then by all means.

I have no idea about yc; but you might find this answer on quora useful: http://www.quora.com/Who-are-some-notable-African-American-f...
does it matter that I'm not using JRuby?
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It's not just about the wallet, it's about respect and the lizard brain telling you that if you don't get it back, you're allowing said a_hole to win.

I would be extremely likely to resort to violence if I felt that the official channels would not help. I guess I'm a caveman in that way.
"child being forced" and "children wrapped in a block"...hahaha...that was a good laugh.
I believe Scotland receives money from the uk which they would not if they separate. A similar situation for Quebec and Canada.
Snowden himself disagrees with you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Career
What do you mean not there? I have Moto G with Chromium based WebView NOW.
The criticism is with the name, not the features tested.
This is actually one of the things that made me not apply. So I'd be curios what people came up with.
We will improve this side as well.
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Animating 12 hours of crowdsourced weather on Christmas over North America
"Anyone with an internet business taking your comment at face value will find herself ranking not in the top 20, no matter how good their content."

... which is a direct indictment of google and their (as you put it) ineffective search results. If the best content is not being served based on its merit, the search results are bad.

A very good explanation for this is that optimizing for good search results and optimizing for high ad clicks from searchers are two different things, and you can't do both. Therefore the price of optimizing for search-ad-revenue is less than optimal results and the unintended consequence is a side-game that parasites play called "SEO". I mean parasite in the nicest possible sense and I think it's an apt description.

"Please reconsider your tone, or realize you do not add anything of value to the debate, or to the many online business owners on HN."

I'm not here for the business owners - I came for the hackers.
You could grow algae in clear tubes across 15 square miles of the Mohave desert and not consume a single acre of arable farmland.
The key bit? Those songs were number two-hundred-and-something and number four-hundred-and-something.

There's a lot of value to doing one of something every day.

I'm busy working on terrible music. If I do a few hundred, I might suck less too.
Nice site! It seems like the initial instructions don't show up in Firefox though. The drawing still works.
Like others have already pointed out, the light was green and it simply indicated that you shouldn't start crossing because there is a countdown going. The countdown helps you see if you can make it. If there are 2 seconds left and you need to cross 4 lanes, you are not making it. If there are 30 seconds left and you need to cross 2 lanes, and you can walk at a brisk pace, doesn't sound that unsafe to me...

That said, the reason they want to crack down on that is they are treating these as gaps for cars to turn (mostly right), instead of heaving either a separate arrow for turning or changing the pedestrian light behavior to allow for a non-flashing red. Basically, instead of spending money to promote public health, they are "taxing" the public through citations.

There are similar examples of these tactics with cars as well. Remember, LA has a serious budget problem: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/18/local/la-me-ln-posit...

The positive news from that article is that they are "only" expecting to be lose "between $153 million and $242 million"...
The article is very sparse on details, but they set up a good conceptual framework for post-classical computing.
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Contracts in a deflationary currency can and will account for the deflationary nature of the currency. For instance if the real interest rate you wanna charge someone is 10% and currency is deflating at the rate of 5% then you'd charge the individual 4.5% interest rate.
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I too made a tree. Happy holidays
Yes I did (some nut want to patent syntax highlighting). And then I thought it would be amusing to try to see what would have led to the headline meaning what I had expected it to mean. Apparently you people have no sense of humor. :)
That's one thing I've noticed as well. There's certainly cheaper office space and cheaper living in other parts of LA, but somehow cost of living seems to have an inverse relationship with startups, with the biggest hubs being Silicon Valley/SF, NYC, and Boston.
This is an area where the downvotes are just waiting to crush you...but as per usual, I disagree with the premise that these guys have done something wrong.

Patents and copyright provide small businesses or inventors the means to monetize their innovation for a time. I don't see what's wrong with that. It could stand being reformed, like almost everything in American civil life...institutions are broken all over...but holding this small group of ira glass look-a-likes responsible for the larger system being broken is kind of lame.

They made something wonderful, they should be able to be rewarded under the terms of the law. Don't like the law? Take that up in the political process.

At this point usually everyone says that the political process is irreparably broken and the Republic is lost. If you think that's the case...I don't know...just kill yourself. There's nothing you can do and everything, everywhere, is bad. Woe is me. Oh. Oh, woe is me.
But "interlocutor" is just fine and dandy. Why I use that in conversations with my 5 year old niece all the time:

"Now, now even if your teacher wasn't your intended interlocutrix when you called Josh 'Mr. Poopy Pants' she still was right to tell you to not be mean to him."
I'm seeing a 302 now.
http://imgur.com/yOWhanl
Just to follow up on this, what checksums do offer is a way to verify that the file you have locally matches the remote file.
> My understanding of a line is that it is delimited by two points, but does not contain any points.

A line is (or can be viewed as) an infinite set of points.

> To elaborate, no point could be "on" a line because a point has no extension, whereas a line does.

That seems to be a consequence of an unusual definition of "on".
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Yes, GitHub calls them repositories, but, even on its home page, also calls them projects (https://github.com: "Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects.")

Looking at http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=GitHub..., that also seems to be common terminology.

Also, both URL and title of the article (http://www.takipiblog.com/2013/12/26/the-top-100-most-popula...) do talk of projects.

Before GitHub (and, to a lesser extent, SourceForge), you would not find stuff such as https://github.com/Dub4ek/Scala_Ex (one 20 line file, called Week1ExerSizes.sc (sic)) in the same places as, say, the gcc or NCSA Telnet sources.
"Also, ChromeOS and FirefoxOS are browser's so of course they have a vested interest in making their apps in HTML / JS"

Isn't that the point of those platforms?
Your argument is more philosophical than mathematical. Lines are traditionally defined as the set of all points which satisfy some critera. In this case, a line is precisely made up of points.
Stackoverflow is a good place to get fast answers to emacs questions. By the way I use IDE's like PHP Storm, Intelli-J and Eclipse in conjunction with emacs. Switching between the two depending on the task. Sorry you decided emacs wasn't for you but it doesn't have to be an either/or. Use the best tool for the job at hand.
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"McAfee said [it] would not be able to reference Snowden in any activity," a spokeswoman for Bletchley Park said.

Bletchley park really does not know which way its bread is buttered, otherwise it would not risk toxic bullshit like this.
Then why not better train, screen, and pay the parole officers? These people seem to be a key part of the system which would be overseeing people who have a high chance to commit a crime. The parole officers should definitely try to fairly assess the parolee's life circumstances and try to best assist them in finding a job and crime-free life in normal society.

I've heard stories of parole officers being hard on parolees but the parolees were also thankful because it forced them to turn their lives around.

40% seems very high but the people who sentence and lock-up parolees who violate their parole are likely much better equipped and trained to judge the parolees.

Just my 2 cents.
I think new entrants to the space have no idea how hard it is to take on amazon here. Microsoft are getting a clue fairly rapidly, Google seem to have just decided to cede the space.
>You cannot go to authorities with "he called me a butt."

Depends on the country. You very much can in mine, for "public insult".
The new Expo rail also helps SM/Silicon Beach be much more of the hub. The SM deal included a bike path that connects to existing SM bike paths, taking you all the way to the beach. From there, you can very safely bike all the way to Manhattan Beach and beyond (the path runs along the beach without any cars). Your only point of exposure to cars is transitioning from Marina del Rey to Playa del Rey.

All-in-all, the beach cities are awesome, but costs easily compete with the best of SF, especially if you like the newer, more modern stuff closer to the beach...
Just in practice, I think. I like the principle; I just think it's working incorrectly at the moment.
I am a developer/hacker who spent 6 months in prison about a decade ago.

They had a room of old broken computers that were donated and I offered to fix them up in exchange for increased library privileges. Normally inmates could only visit the library once a week and check out two books, but I read about 4 books a day during my time there.

I fixed up the computers and supported them once they got a teacher, read my books, helped people with grammar in their appeal letters, and stayed out of trouble.

The only stress I felt was from being thrown into an environment with totally alien social structures and ways of interaction. I was a upper-middle-class white kid who had learned to talk logically out of situations, and most of my peers in prison were people who grew up in settings where the only way to solve disagreements was with intimidation or actual violence.

Once I learned that I should give a little to intimidation so the other party feels in control and powerful, but refuse to be totally controlled because the other party wouldn't risk their early release dates to beat up someone for no good reason, then I did well. It also helped to be able to pay off the local gang leader once a week with a pint of ice cream from the commissary. Protection was relatively inexpensive, all things considered.

The library was outdated, but there were enough books on physics for me to refresh my understanding and my friends and family ordered books for delivery for me on a regular basis. I discovered a life-long love of Mark Twain, especially the book he wrote about Joan of Arc.

6 Months seemed to crawl by and was full of home-sickness. Then, all of a sudden, it was over. After that, the world seemed a lot more magical for a few months. Everything was brighter and more colorful than I remembered. There was such joy in being able to listen to a CD or eat chinese food.

All in all, it wasn't a terrible experience. It was very interesting sociologically and a good experience for me to see how a different ecosystem worked. I also got to eat a balanced diet and exercised. I was in marvelous shape back then. I wouldn't recommend it or anything, but if you go with the right mentality, you can make the most of it.

The obvious downside is that prison sticks to you for the rest of your life. It takes several months to stop walking without your hands behind your back or saying "Sir" all the time. Also, the stigma of having a criminal record sticks to you forever. Even now, in my middle 30's, it's nearly impossible for me to get a tech job even though my felonious history was from when I was a teenager. You pretty much have to resign yourself to the fact that you'll work at 50% of the salary as your peers or have to make your own future by starting your own companies and projects.
Mygola launches "locals" to help travellers get authentic local experiences.
Somewhat off topic from the article, but are there any similar tools that work with TeX files?
It's not entirely clear from that entry whether he worked directly for the CIA or through a subcontractor - which, I think, is a distinguishing point Nrsolis was trying to make. Any other sources that indicate he worked directly for the CIA?
Anarchists should have found a name for their movement that did not mean, based on the root words, "without power" or "without government," which is not what they preach.

Libertarian anarchists have been right to claim "anarchism" as their own, since that actually is what they preach.
> the real dough lies in Software as a Service (SaaS) and what Ellison called a “highly differentiated” Platform as a Service (PaaS) that will provide it Oracle-like margins on enterprise applications.

I call bullshit. No one is making "Oracle-like margins on enterprise applications" in the cloud...yet...not anytime soon in this competitive market.

This is the opportunity in IaaS/PaaS as I see it: every large company in the world typically outsources their operations systems infrastructure. Here's an example - a company based in Europe that does €7b in revenue. Let's call them Big, Co. They have a myriad of technology partners - Oracle, SAP, HP, IBM...you name it, they have it. Anyway, one of their partners, Atos, provides infrastructure services for them based in Austria. So, let's say the CIO decides that the HR department is going to use SAP HCM to support HR. Some manager at some level calls up Atos and says "Alright we need 6 HP ProLiant servers, Oracle 10g installed on 3 of them, and SAP HCM installed". This process takes months. To everyone in the web world who's unfamiliar with enterprise - this is the equivalent of installing a LAMP stack on EC2. So you can see the disparity between the two (months vs minutes). The problem is - none of the enterprise technologies (Oracle 10g or HP ProLiant blades for example) are sold as commodities...they're "professional" and "enterprise grade". So here's the opportunity - do what Amazon did for the web in the enterprise. So, let's say you want SAP HCM, well that's simple, have support spin you up a server with a pre-installed set of technologies (like a LAMP stack!) and then let some implementation managers go and install it. Here are the problems for Oracle (and pretty much anyone at this point):

1- Cross-platform ecosystem is shit when it comes to APIs (integration is normally much bigger of a challenge than the implementation itself)

2- Oracle isn't good at integrating all of it's "parts". They have a strong hardware/OS company (Sun), a strong db brand (oracle), and very strong best in breed software (Peoplesoft, etc), but they've been working in silos their whole lives. It isn't their strong point to do integration (just as SAP has been abysmal at acquisitions)

3- The margins absolutely suck in SaaS. Look at Salesforce, Workday, Amazon, etc. They are all negative or razor thin. Oracle and SAP are used to 85% gross margin on software. This will take a lot to gut (mainly from stockholders)
It does sound a bit high, but to produce a pound of grain it takes about 150 gallons of water, and assuming about 1/2 pound of food eaten every 2 days it is about right.
Yep, they're anarchists, working on achieving their organic certification from the government.
I did not realize that Oracle was in this much trouble. In my experience companies that are circling the drain put out press releases that say "Hey <leader of some technology that is hip> we're going to take away all your business with our version of your same technology that we just figured out how to build, sort of." Stepping into this mess is not something the Oracle organization has the DNA for.

I grant you my experience with them is dated (they were a huge part of the NetApp push into data base markets) but they were all about the 'added value option' and high touch management / maintenance. Not something cloud compute is about.

To my way of thinking it seems like step one here, would seem be build a PUE < 1.05 data center with 10MW of provisioned power. Have they done that?
The "point on the number line" definition has always been non-rigourous. It is meant to imply the intuition that real numbers are what we typically think of as "numbers", notably that they extend to infinity, are ordered, and are dense (for any two distinct real numbers, there exists a real number between them). Of course from a rigorous perspective, this does not even suggest a difference between the reals and the rationals.

The line you are talking about in the rest of your post seems to be an 'unrelated' object that is used in geometry. I am not familiar with the formal definition of line that is used in geometry, but one way of defining a line is as the set of all points which satisfy "y=mx+b", for a given (m,b). A line segment would be the above definition with restrictions on the domain: x_0<x<x_f.
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Where are you going to get the water from?

If it's seawater, how are you going to return it to the ocean. You can't dump salt water on land -- it poisons the soil. Even freshwater evaporating in dry climates leads to salinization.

What's that going to cost you in energy inputs (pumping costs)?

Though the thought occurs to me that the Salton Sea in southern California might make a possibly suitable grow region.
Not to be incisive, but I think startup founders are extremely poor role models. Of those I've met, most have been very narcissistic and self-serving (successful ones and failures alike). Plus, I'd wager that those who aspire to be 'startup founders' are putting the cart before the horse.

If black highly intelligent role models are who you're after - Neil Tyson exhibits all of qualities that a kid of any race/creed/religion should aspire to have.

source: I'm a jew and I love Neil.
Are there any good examples of mobile apps made with JS?
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I'm not sure if you're misremembering the Amiga flicker-fixer but the FF converted the 15KHz interlaced display of the Amiga to 30KHz (VGA style). It was the 15KHz interlace flickering that was noticeable, not the upgraded 30KHz signal from the FF.
and the cycle will repeat. all those vacancies arising from the departure of disgruntled employees, being filled by new employees, disgruntled elsewhere, but soon to be disgruntled at the new shop, because the shop will never change.

Management must always believe themselves to be infallible, and beyond the reproach of the rank and file. Employees who vote with their feet are 'disloyal'. Why is that? The fundamental power imbalance in the employer/employee relationship.

You're always lucky if you can find somebody who worked for a place that's hiring and can find out their opinion. Places can't fill open positions for a reason. Sometimes it's because they just won't pay. But other times, it's because they've garnered a reputation as not being a particularly good place to work. They'll just end up lowering their standards until they attract somebody in their hiring range, and then (mis)treat them just as they did their predecessor, until they too leave.

and in their managerial meetings, they'll complain about the workers.
You'd have to convert your gems over - you need jruby gems rather than standard ones, but apparently most gems are ported.

You can read up here for more:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/moving-an-existing-rai...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151595/jruby-on-rails-vs-...

So it's not just a 5 second thing, but if you have a bit of time and need performance it's something you can try.
The choice of hardware is quite strange. Should be fun to check the results on normal hardware though.
Assuming it doesn't lead to a wave of lawsuits and general anti-consumer behavior as Oracle tries all means at its considerable ($11b profit, $39b cash) disposal to 'compete.'
Can you say more on : "Google seem to have just decided to cede the space." ?

My take on it was that Google's pride in their own engineering would not let them do that. They seem to be in it for the long haul here.
Things that are perfectly legal and acceptable in some areas may be heavily frowned upon in others. The law can't take into account best practices for each group, it has to be broadly applicable for the entirety of the population. In that regard, it doesn't sound like IA has done anything illegal or even anything that should be illegal.

What can be done, however, if you disapprove of their actions is to do exactly what the OP is doing. Calling them out, shaming them to a group that might feel similarly. Likewise, if one of my friends is being a jerk, I can choose not to be friends with him and also tell my other friends what he did that irritated me. Hitting on my girlfriend is not illegal, but it's not acceptable in my social circle either.

Not everything needs to be illegal, sometimes it can just be immoral to a certain audience.
You can however have a static function pointer to a virtual function (although it wouldn't be a template, it could be part of a template). They do in fact work like virtual functions still. So that particular thing could exist, and be useful, and probably does exist somewhere in boost.
Being able to "see yourself" in a certain position, or discovering that a particular avenue for success is "culturally acceptable" is definitive in breaking the mold and helping young minorities expand their horizons. In short, race matters when considering positive role models, Penguin's efforts should be applauded.
Intel releases updated Android features for its cross-platform HTML5 IDE