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Sorry for being off topic, but I have a writeLaTex feature request/question.

There's only one thing about writeLaTex that convinced me to stop using the service (which I used while learning LaTeX) and to start doing all editing locally. This is the behavior when the connection is lost/dropped momentarily. The red bar appears at the top of the screen, but I'm still able to type, only to have my typing disappear a few seconds later and the cursor reset to the top of the input box. This is incredibly annoying even when it only happens once every 15 minutes. It seems like this could be fixed very easily (just store what I'm typing locally and then sync it to your servers).

Also, this isn't so much a complaint but a feature request: I'd be much less paranoid about writeLaTeX going down when I need to print/access a major report or something if there was a way to automatically save files locally. This could be done using the Dropbox or Google Drive APIs. For an example of these feature, you can try editing a file in Dropbox with https://draftin.com/ .

Thanks a ton, besides these warts I love the product!
Again, no, because in practice you won't even entertain those marginal exits: they will have no upside for you. They are foreclosed upon financially. Your return on investment isn't merely reduced in those cases; it is practically eliminated.
You honestly can't compare the command prompt to anything else on windows.

It's an absolute travesty, nothing works in the command prompt. None of the normal windows text functions works (ctrl-c, ctrl-x, ctrl-v, ctrl-z, ctrl-shift-left/right to copy, mouse copy or selection commands). Copy and Paste especially is an absolute travesty (although it's muscle memory to me these days) and I honestly don't know why they haven't fixed it yet.

That and not being able to resize the window too. Nothing more frustrating than running a long running command and then the output wraps so it's unreadable, and you can't resize the screen. And the mouse screen resize simply doesn't work, you have to go through the whole rigmarole with the buffer size.

It's simply a complete pile of shit. That they consistently bring it out is bizarre. They didn't even bother to fix it for powershell, which essentially just makes powershell a vast pile of crap as an exploration tool.

As you can tell, the whole situation frustrates me a lot, it's a tool I use daily and that they leave it in such an abysmal state is frustrating.

So don't judge windows shortcuts by it's console, for some reason they stubbornly refuse to upgrade it to behave like the sane text editor it should be.
Know of a place where we can read up on the foreigner's prison? Seems like an interesting environment
Its largely cultural, and unfortunately I can never give you a complete context behind these issues. Being a parent of a girl child is difficult in India. Right from birth you will face constant discrimination, every single part of the society will make all attempts to keep your child the weaker gender.

These days its still a lot better. A few decades back, the society would have big problems with as simple a thing like teaching a girl how to read/write. Then came the society's opposition towards women working. That's how backward these people are.
You were running a token ring network in 2001? Whoa.

I had almost the same setup at a public (non-magnetic) school. No Pascal though - all C++ on NT. I'm not sure if I had the 'average experience' or not. I suspect not.
Whatever happened to putting sandbags in the back of the truck? When I lived in Buffalo, that was the preferred method of adding extra weight in the winter. Bonus: free sand in case you got stuck somewhere :-D

On the flip side: how will the ever present salt affect the aluminum body?
It's not flippant. There have been criminal charges brought against people sharing photos of topless underage kids obtained via Snapchat. This is not something Snapchat wants to have lying around. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/ten-boys-arrested-for...
More importantly, all encryption keys are either fixed or stored directly alongside ciphertext.

The cryptography in this system seems to be 100% cosmetic, so I'm not sure things like ECB mode or absence of MAC really matter.

EDITED for clarity.
This. And what about the honest guy whose career was trampled so this guy could get the professorship?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966453

Number 20 on the front page, 241 comments and counting.
This question is so naive and it's loved by the lazy because it lets them indulge the fantasy of either telling their boss to get stuffed and getting paid for doing very little (lifestyle biz), or getting paid millions and never have to work again (exit).

I really dislike this question and I tend to distance myself from entrepreneurs having these kinds of conversations. Even if you want to exit early or have lifestyle, it's an unhealthy way of thinking about entrepreneurship.

How do you think Steve Jobs would have answered this question?
My daily todo list is http://1-3-5.com (set as homepage)
The night before I like to prioritize items and think about what major, medium, and smalls tasks there are going to be.

For larger projects, I prefer Trello (https://trello.com).
It's so good on so many levels.

For personal random things that need to get done, the whiteboard on my fridge is unbeatable.
My wife and I are in for the lifestyle/long term. 3 years back, we'd decided to move out of the city into a more rural area to start building a farm business. We've built up a herd of about 50-60 dairy goats in that time, as well as produced some of best pasture raised chicken, ducks and eggs you'll find. We've just finished all our approvals and licensing to start building and operating a cheese making facility on the farm, hopefully due to start operation this spring. My exit plans aren't for another 15-20 years or so, at which point I figuring farming will've taken its toll on my body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Avoid_Huge_Ships
My mentor in the business and long-time friend quit tech altogether and now farms in North Dakota. He is incredibly talented, but after over 10 years working on computers, he gave it all up for a simpler life working the field. Being a smart man, he's very successful at that too. From my perspective, I'd say he's much happier and truly enjoys life.
Valve publications: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/publications.html
There are powerful new APIs available to developers that are only available on newer versions of OSX.
Was expecting one of those generic yes/no sites, a la http://istherejava0day.com/
There is one really strong reason to take VC funding: to eliminate all personal financial risk. See, personal financial difficulty is pure poison and if you can eliminate the risk of it entirely, then go ahead and work with a VC to do so.

If your deal with the VC is going to allow you to move seamlessly from your day job to paying yourself enough to cover your living expenses (say, $10k per month) running a not-yet-profitable business, then take it and feel no shame. Yes, the VC is now your boss, but that's OK because you have the security of a typical job.

Right now, though, the VCs only want to work with people who are already showing traction and don't need them. That's their prerogative, but that means that almost no one they want to work with should be working with them. If you don't need VC, then don't take it. It really is the capital of last resort.

What you should never do is let VCs in to your bootstrapped business where you already took personal financial risk for over a year. You've put a lot on the line, while they're taking no break from their cushy $500k++ jobs. It's only fair, given that comparison of conditions, that they should be in the outer darkness.
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Trello.

First it was scraps of paper with multi-item lists of various nature - from things fixed in the next release, to known issues, to feature requests, to random stuff with nothing in common. Then I moved to using Inkscape and it worked well, but moving items between the lists and archiving them was a hassle. There were also no search and generally it's just a vector editor, so it was a stop-gap measure. Then I thought of writing my own system, even drafted the spec only to realize that I was looking at replicating Trello. So Trello it was. It's not perfect, I would change few things about the UI and certainly re-style it, but it is surprisingly good as is.

That said I still use scraps of paper as it's the fastest option of them all.
> Ah Moore's Law. It explains everything.

He never said that Moore's Law explains everything. He simply said that Hendy's Law explains why phones will soon has 39-megapixel cameras. Since the Nokia Lumia 1020 is available today with a 41-megapixel sensor, I do not find this to be farfetched.

Facebook and Instagram will depend not on Moore's Law, but on availability of bandwidth and cost of storage. To argue against Moore's Law for Facebook is to argue against a strawman. The article did not make that connection -- you did.

In 2005, would you have predicted that Youtube would never carry 1080p videos? I mean, back then, Blu-ray and HD-DVD were still battling it out for dominance of the next-generation disc market.
The condition it lists in your example is "Rape trauma syndrome" - that would be an acceptable medical diagnosis as it is the trauma associated with being raped (and medical support and intervention could be necessary to deal with this). The rape itself is not a medical condition, and I think that definition listed makes that clear.

I still would not like the idea of a list of rape trauma victims being sold as that almost by definition would add to the trauma they have suffered if they knew this happened.
Welcome to The Console Living Room
This is from 2009/2010, and I came across it after re-playing L4D2 in the wake of its one-day-giveaway by Valve. It's aimed at graphics devs but has a lot of interesting insight about visual design and perception, procedural generation techniques, and how to simplify in general.

The last few slides are pretty great, showing how they render the gaping internal zombie wounds in a computationally efficient way. Some fun bullet points: "Culling a torso as easy as culling an arm"..."1.5x as expensive...156x the number of ways to die"

If you've ever played the game, the graphic touches are so well done you just take it for granted. But it's interesting to see how important they were to the developers, especially to serve as visual feedback to emphasize the power of certain weapons. That's not an option for most realistic shooters, or at least it seems the ratings board is more approving of gibbing zombies than human baddies.
This still gets Python wrong. It wasn't a reaction to Perl at all.
I think this depends on whether you're looking at funding from a business-centric or founder-centric perspective. The business-centric contention is that you should only seek funding once you have a business idea that all your analyses show would be immensely profitable except for your company's lack of money, since otherwise you're adding unnecessary risk.

Founder-centric organizations like Y Combinator (I've never been funded by Y Combinator so please correct me if I'm wrong with this assessment) seem to have different dynamics and motivations. Instead of investing in the business, they invest in the people much like a college -- realize they are going to screw up from their inexperience, but give them angel-level amounts of money, latitude to pivot, and world-class networking opportunities and help.
> We produce a succession of nested intervals. For a given algebraic, eventually every interval will not include it. That means that no algebraic is in more than finitely many intervals

Going back over the post -- this number only "exists" because of the least upper bound axiom.

You're right that I probably didn't read it carefully enough but there's no particular reason why the intervals need share any elements (e.g. [0,0.5) [0.5,1]) or contain their boundary points -- we got division and < from the rationals without violating anyone's intuition.

Personally, I've always found these arguments unsatisfying. The proof is of the "existence" of something but in the end we have no idea what it looks like -- is it >0.5? No clue. And the proof relies on an existence axiom that seems contrived. (I guess at heart I'm a constructivist.) The desire for "completeness" flows from a false intuition of the nature of the world -- the surface of this table is a "continuum" right? But it turns out not to be. In contrast, I really liked the discussion of the Reals linked yesterday which sidetracked into a robust description of the Reals with infinitesimals (and infinites) and no, I repeat no, least upper bound axiom.
> How do you think Steve Jobs would have answered this question?

Err... you talk about naive, and then cite an outlier amongst outliers?

I'm not Steve Jobs - I'm much more average, and I've made my peace with that. I think I can eke out a niche for myself where I can live comfortably though, so focusing on that makes much more sense to me than trying to ape someone who lived a very different life from mine. As far as I know the only thing I have in common with Jobs is having resided in Oregon.
It's not about what you want, it's about what they want.
5k budget for website
$5k budget for www.swine.ly - give me your craziest ideas for what the website should be. This is entirely just for fun. Not looking to create a business.
This sounds interesting to me as I have been doing leangains for a little over 2 years now (although not strict). I would love to hear more about your project and maybe I could even provide assistance in some form.
Ode to Ubuntu (An Ubuntu Poem)
That picture of Obama is 18x25, not 16x20.
20 years is just a SWAG for when computational resources will be so abundant that the scariest level of analysis will be routine. Today it's simply not practical to determine automatically everyone appearing in a given random photo or video. Facebook vastly simplifies the problem (by narrowing the search scope tremendously), but there's a lot of content elsewhere.

For example, consider identifying people by the way they walk, the clothes they tend to wear, their body build, etc. That sort of thing makes witness protection efforts practically useless, for example. The sheer amount and detail of information that could become available will enable things that we can't even remotely imagine today, but ultimately the biggest change will be loss of anonymity at every level and loss of privacy.
Looking it up, it seems to have been a him, actually. Johan Persson, the leader of the group of parliamentary members for Folkpartiet.

http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&...
The point is we do not see the results of these "honest" people.
Yeah; we were running borland turbo c++ 3.0! how modern; wow!

It was actually pretty great: we didn't have to go through learning a new IDE (we were using turbo pascal the previous year). We didn't have to learn weird GUI stuff. We just focused on the curriculum.
It's been good practice for years now to place static assets on a separate domain to reduce cookie traffic. In some cases, the website owner can't control which cookies are set on the root domain (e.g., Google Analytics sets cookies on the root, not on the subdomain the page is served from).

Doesn't sharing the root domain (jgc.org in this case) partially negate this advantage?
Yea, sandbags are the preferred method. Problem is, there are quite a few people that still think having a truck makes you impervious to poor driving conditions...and they skip the sandbags.

All metals will corrode in the presence of salts. Though aluminum does not exhibit rusting like steel does, it will develop a chalky film and pitting in the metal surface when exposed to salt for long periods. I believe that this is aluminium oxide.

Some reading: http://www.boatingmag.com/how-to/maintenance/protecting-alum...
Really cool project. Older, simpler, unixes are surprisingly relevant for undergrad-level learning.

It reminds me of my OS class in my undergrad days. We skipped a few bits by using the JVM to get a few things for free, but we still had to write (as groups of 3-5 people) an entire unix-like, complete with user-space programs, messaging systems, etc.

Definitely one of the most valuable classes I took for my degree.
Okay I'll do the math, if we look at a chart we can find that most human heads fit within the measurements of 6.5 inches wide, and 9.4 inches tall [1]. That fits nicely within the 8x10 inch standard size for photographs that is common, so assuming we display these images at the maximum resolution human eyes can discern [2](somewhere <300 pixels per square inch) that means that in order for you to display a human head life-sized at 'visually flawless' resolution only requires an image with a resolution of 2400x3000 pixels.

I can see the appeal of life-sized photos on social networking sites in the future. Group photos could benefit from being larger than that to include multiple people at life-size, but I'm unsure of how a resolution greater than 2400x3000 would be useful for a profile picture at this point.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/HeadAnthr...

[2] http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2010/06/apple-retina...
Not trying to legitimize what is obviously satire, but you could possibly uncrop a printed photo, if the original photo was online, and if it was indexed by Google. Reverse image search win.
The semantics of (), a.k.a. unit, are effectively the same to those of null, and it can be useful to think of it that way. Both null and unit stand for lack of information and are placeholders. The difference is in the implementation details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_type
Consumer cards have multiple monitor outputs too. Frankly, the rest of the stuff is scaremongering. Consumer class GPUs run gaming loads which stress the thermal envelope far more than say, Autodesk or SolidWorks. It's all FUD to sell someone a piece of hardware at 300% margin, and cognitive dissonance from those people who consider themselves "Pros" to have paid for a placebo.

With the exception of NVidia cards with GPGPU tuned architecture (e.g. double precision FP at lower penalty) there is precious little advantage a workstation class GPU has.

It's the same mentality of "no one ever get fired for buying IBM" as if buying the "Pro" version nets you any real advantage.
I had this problem and solved it like so:

* OS X: caps lock -> command
* iTerm: left command (the rebound capslock) -> control

This means in iTerm I need to use the right command key for command shortcuts, but it gives me a convenient control for terminal use. The end result is the same thing as binding caps lock to control on a Linux machine.
Yes, but not due to the traditional Control key positioning. Rather, I switch Tab for Caps Lock.

Since I use bowl-design Kinesis keyboards both at home and at work, the usual position for Caps Lock (where I put Tab) is just a tad bit more comfortable for repeated pinky use.
Zach Klein, one of the founders of Vimeo, spends most of his time in nature. He builds cabins and seems incredibly happy.

From The Startup Kids (http://thestartupkids.com).
I've tried, but:

* Typing speed turned out to rarely be a meaningful limit on my productivity with coding, writing, or general tasks.

* Using a nonstandard layout for my home desktop meant reconfiguring several laptops as well, then still having trouble any time I use any other computer.

Typing speed IS beneficial up to a point, but touch typing on QWERTY is already going to be near or past the point of diminishing returns for many users. It was fun to play with, but not worthwhile to do long-term. (YMMV)
So then the lack of weight won't really be a factor in the snow. The ignorance of some owners will be.
> Simple layman's explanation (from a layman): lenses spread light out a bit as the light passes through, so the red wavelengths hit the sensor in a slightly different spot than the blue wavelengths.

What you've described is chromatic aberration.

Diffraction refers to the spreading of waves around an obstacle -- such as the aperture blades in your camera. No lens need be involved -- you can get diffraction with a pinhole camera.
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I have an aluminum Audi A2, and it's great! The fuel economy is good, and it's perky because of the lightness. Also happens to be one of the most reliable vehicles in it's age group. It drives really well because of the low center of gravity and thoughtful suspension, even if it is narrow and tall on the outside. It's actually a car that has been coherently designed.

http://www.motormobiles.de/motor/a2i.jpg

The model was too expensive to produce and was cancelled by Audi in 2005. No aluminum Audis after that except some sport models. It's sort of a hidden gem.

To an outsider, making a big pickup truck from aluminum is like creating a paperweight out of some expensive lightweight material. Isn't the whole point of a pickup to most people (not all) being imposing and bulky? They even mention the 5000 pound weight in advertising, I assume they try to impress that it weighs a lot.
Transcendental Numbers - Explanation for non-mathematicians
Startup culture in general seems to have forgotten that option.
Nice, I'm glad to hear it. A few months ago a guy named 31minutes who claimed to be an old client of Martin berkhan did an AMA on the leangains subreddit and filled in a bunch of blanks on what we know of the leangains method. As of now we have all the details needed for an app that takes in some of the persons stats and plans caloric and macronutrient needs for their intended goals. My app does this and hooks up to the USDA food database to make planning the diet super easy. The MVP is about ready to launch but soon afterwards I'll need a UX engineer since that's my one weak point.
I think (at least I hope) he was doing irony.
I've seen a similar schism within the programming community. Web culture is of course closely related to Unix culture. The web is really an outgrowth of Unix.

At places like Google, and other web companies, the Unix shell and emacs/vim reign supreme. Most people on HN work at web companies.

I used to work in the game industry, and have referred several coworkers to Google. Invariably they are shocked that people still use emacs and vim, and find / xargs. They are visual people and prefer IDEs. The command line just seems primitive and unproductive. A lot of people with a Java background have a similar reaction. And no, it's not related to the quality of programmer, since James Gosling (who wrote the original emacs I think) had the same reaction to google's tool chain.

I think programmers can roughly be divided into "language people" or "visual people". That is probably true of non-programmers as well. I have taught programming using the terminal and vim at Google, a web company, but I realize that in a different setting, this would be the wrong toolset.

Interestingly, I would expect Unix / verbal culture to be most relevant to librarians. If you were teaching a bunch of technical artists programming, Unix would be inappropriate and almost certainly a disaster.