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This article seems to be anti-establishment for the sake of being anti-establishment.

Intentionally "broken" English can be fun and cute and equally valid and expressive as standard English - if not for the adoption of it - but I don't see much that actually improves on more standard English, in a more-or-less objective way. An improvement might be to promote a gender-neutral pronoun ('they' for example) and disambiguating "you" when it is unclear if you are talking about singular you, personal you or 'general' you.

Or maybe this is totally unrelated to what the author is talking about.
this is indeed true, however with POSSE instead of PESOS you can still post new content if the external services are down, and your copy is the first copy which existed, meaning you can link to it from syndicated copies, which enables all kinds of cool stuff like http://indiewebcamp.com/original-post-discovery
Fish[1] sort of has this built in. I explained more in another comment[2].

[1] http://fishshell.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043719
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> If your life raft is sinking, do you try to patch it, or do you throw someone overboard? Your instinctual answer says a lot about the type of person you are.

Nobody is being thrown overboard. The article is just pointing out that it may not necessarily be catastrophic if population growth slows or even reverses for a time. We're all just speculating, whether you agree or disagree.

In support of the article, slower population growth would reduce resource consumption. Rampant population growth would speed up the resource depletion process. As certain crucial resources become more scarce, conflict is likely to follow. It'd only be a matter of time before large scale war followed, perhaps leading to an extinction event.

There are definite positives and negatives to slowing growth rates, but I think there are probably more positives if we're talking about a gradual slowing (as opposed to a sudden tanking). We can do a lot more with a lot less today. Many of us don't need massive families anymore, and that's OK.
Please provide links to these providers you speak of.
Fire your co-founder at the second failure - always - no regrets. You might then remain friends - the alternative is not worth exploring (or living through).
Supposedly the best way to promote your project is write a blog. In order to promote your blog, you need to comment other folks' blogs or be a guest blogger on another popular blog.

Granted I haven't got the chance to start yet.
No lonely, no focus. No focus, no productivity.

Programmers are a different creature from other people. But enjoy.
The ridiculous part is trying to slap him with 35 years in prison (worse than murder in many cases) when the victim, JSTOR, chose not to even press charges.
cloudflare do not cache html/php/etc stuff and as a result all these request still going to the hosting server, sometimes killing it.
And we call that poetry.
I'm willing to wager that future historians (combing, perhaps, through ancient metal disks found in strange sort of mausoleum in Utah) are going to be greatly annoyed at deciphering communications from current times.

One of the annoying side-effects of memes (doge, le, whatever the next thing from 4chan is) is that they put very heavy context into whatever uses them--they shade the meaning in a very particular way, and once you are lacking that context it becomes very hard to pull out meaningful information.
There is always justifications for racism. 3 people helping someone out before the U.S had even declared war on Japan doesn't really seem like a very good reason to intern native americans, does it?
AFAIK, it worked for https://bing.com. It was enabled for https://www.bing.com.
Really nice, well done. I had similar half-finished attempts some years back, but it was never as slick as this.
TIOBE is such a farce. Logo is ranked 21 in popularity this month.
I think there is an increasing tendency to try to allow the infection to resolve itself, even when it is bacterial.
I don't have anything against jQuery per se, but part of the idea behind a client-side framework, or so at least I had gathered in my usual imperfect fashion, was to relieve the developer of the need for a bunch of hand-written DOM-fiddling code, by both attending flawlessly to the common cases and giving the developer flexibility enough to handle the rest as and when it's necessary to do so.

That's the point I'm making: I prefer, inasmuch as possible, not to do manual DOM manipulation at all, which renders your question somewhat moot.

Perhaps it's different for someone who hasn't written that kind of code enough times to grow thoroughly tired of it, but I have written it that many times, and I am therefore very much open to the suggestion that there's value in a framework which handles the great bulk of such cases automatically, and in so doing gives me more time and effort to spend on whatever project I'm actually working on. Angular, in particular, I've found to be quite good for this; Riot.js, on the other hand, not only doesn't bother with it at all, but takes what I consider to be an unduly snobbish attitude toward the whole concept.

For a tiny chat app that's designed to be embedded in third-party pages, I can see some sense in taking the lightweight microframework-style approach. But when its developer and its devotees promulgate it as the prescription for every problem, while denigrating much more capable and general-purpose solutions as "bloated" and casting veiled aspersions upon the competence of the developers who employ them? That's a real problem, and I strongly misdoubt I am the only one to think so.

No doubt Riot.js is quite useful in a specific subset of cases, albeit only those closely similar to the one in which it found its origin. But this sort of behavior, on the part of those who already have a stake in it, can only make it less likely that anyone who doesn't have a stake will decide they want one.

Certainly it's had that effect on me! -- I was quite interested in Riot.js when it first appeared on HN a few months ago, but that initial interest quickly cooled when I saw how the developer behaves toward his critics. The choice to use any framework, but especially any of the relatively new Javascript ones, implies almost of necessity that the developer so choosing must participate in the community around that framework -- and a community led by someone, who behaves as I've seen the Riot.js developer do, is no community in which I desire to take part. Of course it is that developer's prerogative to behave as he does -- but it is equally the prerogative of anyone else to decide that interacting with someone, who has such an unpleasant attitude toward anyone not unreservedly laudatory of his work, is best avoided.

That's precisely the decision I made upon reviewing the original Riot.js thread on HN, and this latest article from the Riot.js developer, in which he arguably outright lies both about the drawbacks of his competition and the benefits of his own entry in the great framework shootout, only reinforces that decision -- and, again, I much misdoubt I'm the only one.
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FWIW I very nearly navigated away from this page and immediately dismissed it. I should be able to scroll no matter where my cursor is.
Never write comments that re-state the implementation.

# Try to read the configuration file.

If this wasn't already obvious without the comment, then the code is a mess. Tidy the code up instead of painting over the problem with comments.
So according to media today, Apple is losing ground to Samsung brand and Samsung is losing profits to Apple: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-06/samsung-profit-miss...
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Yes, just the standard "affiliate program" link in the footer of the site, and one in the footer of the app for existing customers -- https://www.improvely.com/affiliates

ShareASale manages all the details (tracking referrals, cutting checks, filing 1099s at the end of the year) for a share of the commission.

Recruiting affiliates who will make an effort to promote the product is the hard part. They don't just show up. It's like any other kind of business development work -- you have to find the people it makes sense to partner with, convince them it's worthwhile, and provide the resources needed to make the partnership successful.
I saw this on twitter, and was confused.
(Twitter removed the HTTPS in the url it shows... so now it makes sense.)
Human IRBs are all hung up on informed consent.
This is indeed Vitalik's project, you can read the whitepaper on his website: http://vitalik.ca/ethereum.html
Why do (some) people still assume that anything coming out of China and Russia must be bad and viewed with suspicion?

How about LIBOR rigging? Or traffic lane closures to spite political opponents? If anything you could argue manipulation in the US and Europe is far more sophisticated than China. For example, there's manipulation in plain sight: focus on the U-3 unemployment number rather than the U-6, never mention the labor participation rate where 92 million people in the US have given up looking for work.

And look at the news in the UK newspapers today:

The corruption of Britain: UK’s key institutions infiltrated by criminals

Secret report shows how organised crime infiltrated judicial system as well as police with prison service and HM Revenue & Customs also compromised.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-corruptio...
No, sw guys does not live in the dark ages and if you're saying about debugging waveforms by 'value at any point in time' that means for me that is you who need to change his place in history.
I'm more hw guy than sw but I see the problem here, debugging is not "show me all points at which foo ==" so you have no idea what are you talking about.
It's worth considering the value of IP to a business like twitter. Fundamentally the mechanics of twitter are exceedingly simple - especially when you consider the complexity of apps like Facebook and Google+.

They key difference between Twitter and a would-be competitor is scale (and that's why the actual mechanics are not simple at all), but you don't get to that scale on the strength of technology alone. More importantly, once you're at that scale you become exceedingly hard to dethrone, for primarily non-technical reasons.

That is why Twitter can afford to be extremely generous when it comes to releasing IP. Of course they don't have either, so thanks Twitter!
While I agree the best option is for them to part ways I dont agree the co-founder should be fired. I've seen many situations like this with two sides to the story and while i'm not criticising the OP he/she hasnt cited any of their own short comings that could be contributing to this problem.
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finally my neighbour cannot see what i bing ! huh ?
Why doesn't Google get a star under: "Tells users about government
data requests"? they invented the transparency report.

I don't see how twitter (for example) has anywhere near a an extensive report as Google's: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
Something that annoys me about how the NSA scandal is treated even here on HN is the extreme self-centric approach. Not all 300 million US-citizens are identifiable by looking at word choice, since not all of them are native speakers. The 6.7 billion other people on the planet aren't native speakers either, and probably can't be traced as easily or even be located in the wrong place (my non-native English was located in New Jersey according to the test page they mentioned).

Now that the EFF, Doctorw etc. have started their thedaywefightback.org, where they recommend putting up quotes from Benjamin Franklin and call spying "unamerican". When Obama told us that the US "are only spying on foreigners" there was almost no reaction to be found in the US media (while the rest of the world was rightfully pissed).

Yes, it's about an American agency is spying, but it's spying on everybody and not only US citizens want to do something against that. It's sad, that the people raving about how great the internet is are missing this chance to use _global_ outrage to keep it what it is supposed to be: A free communication channel for people all over the world. Not just Americans.

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Nice page and explanation (though you'll need your own domain)...I'll have to echo what notastartup said...this is probably a textbook case of when not to go on a hacker binge and the concept of "there's a time for everything"... A. Because of the timing of your finals, and B. the idea you have, while useful and well-thought out, is one that is going to take some time to gain traction. Quantified-self is important, but not that many people get it, or would know what to do with it.

Even if your intention was to go all into tech, it probably would've been better to just spend your off hours on this project, and keep your focus into med school....even if you had no intention of ever being a doctor. Because this:

"Use this iPhone app built by a doctor!"

sounds better than:

"Use this new iPhone app!"

You probably didn't want this to turn into a discussion of life choices, but that's the tradeoff you make when you use a title that is meant to generate interest like that...

(note: since you're only a second year student, it's probably not that bad to quit now, if that's what you really want to do)

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edit: that said, the medical profession is in great need of doctors who grok what you do. Even if this app doesn't become the kind of hit that lets you quit med school, you'll obviously have talents and resources not available to the standard doctor.

As Atul Gawande said:

"If you count something you find interesting, you will learn something interesting."

http://books.google.com/books?id=DepE_UwgkSQC&lpg=PA255&ots=...
Too late, voice of wisdom, too late!
I agreed with you until the part about entrepreneurship being a means to a goal. To me, entrepreneurship is the goal. Live in the now, not the future. Enjoy the process, etc.
A fertility rate of 1.4 is not a slowing of growth. It means population is shrinking. If you think of individuals as net negative for society, you probably think this is a good thing. I do not.

Fewer people means fewer ideas. Resource consumption is a problem with our current technological base - but it has ALWAYS been a problem, and a solution has always been developed that results in higher overall quality of life. Agriculture was the technology that allowed more than a few hundred thousand humans to live on the planet. Humanity has a pretty good track record of coming up with the next tech in plenty of time.

Panglossian? Maybe. But I'd rather be Pangloss (syphilis and all) than a misanthrope like Ehrlich or Malthus.
So assassinating ex-Nazi torturers is kosher but not ex-Imperial Japan Army torturers, coercing Korean women as sex slaves for the Japanese army, massacring an entire Chinese city, conducting live human experiments with germs and chemicals?
Still don't understand if it's supposed to be pronounced as dog, doggie, dougue. But perhaps that's the point? Either way I've had quite enough of it.
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Ask HN: How to prepare a tech interview without a formal CS education?
I basically learned hacking sites and apps through hackathons, and just imitating and googling the heck outta stuff.

I build primarily my websites through JavaScript/HTML/CSS - with PHP - also UI/UX/Ideation - since I only know those, thats what I would be tested in to explain.

The interview would be an algorithm problem, judging how I think and what frameworks I am most familiar with, how I put them together to build a stack, and how comfortable I am in communicating it.

So not sure how to decipher what the above meant, and what/how I should prepare before this interview. Any advice/suggestion or what I should do? (What would be stack or framework in this case, Jquery, Chocolatechip.js?)

Thanks.

* Note its more of a Front-End Product Developer role - and the tech interview is to see that I won't get stump on dealing with technical problems.
I don't know if the Etherium people are looking for comments, but here are a few.

I think that Dagger has serious issues. First, the spec is buggy: the text says that eight bottom-level nodes are hashed together, but the pseudocode only uses four. Second, it does not require 512MB per thread; it requires 512MB of write-once, read-many-times memory, shared by all threads; this property seems to be asking for a rather large ASIC (or a smaller ASIC backed by some multi-port SRAM) to have a huge advantage.

Also, what's up with the choice of secp256k1? It's at least less likely to be backdoored by evil choice of parameters than, say, P-256, but there are many better choices out there (e.g. curve25519 or some of its larger variants). Those better variants have the big advantage (especially in this application) of having faster verification operations.

(The fastest-to-verify option would probably be plain ol' RSA, but signatures are rather large.)
Bing used to be hosted by Akamai, looks like they switched over their own edge network.

Also, https://bing.com just redirected to plain http, now you can actually search over https like with Google and DDG.
https://www.howsmyssl.com/s/about.html#tls-vs-ssl
Some jurisdictions have something called, by various names, the "Jury Verdict Reporter". If you see people in the Clerk's office (not federal) with laptops, they are copying information off of the case dockets. First instance state tribunals (however they are called) rarely publish their decisions. Some federal district court opinions are published.
I dislike Medium disabling pinchzoom for mobile devices (user-scalable="no"). I have no idea why they think this is a good idea.
Haha, I've given the outsourcing thing a shot on a couple of projects before—it's never worked out, and it's actually the reason I started learning to program.

The title was a bit hyperbolic—I was only working on it during my evenings, and a lot of it was Thanksgiving/Winter breaks, so finals went fine (P=MD anyway!). I don't regret the amount of time I put into it, and hopefully I'll figure out the product/market fit soon!
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"Product developer" as in... what? That could be anything from CAD to supply chain to full-stack to front-end. What does the company do/what is your actual role/responsibilities?
Maybe this post will make you realize you gotta do what you have to do so that it doesn't become too late.
I recently started using light table. You shouldn't need to install leiningen, just open up light table, hit ctrl/cmd - space, and type instarepl. select the option to open a new instarepl, and it should start writing without any additional setup.
wow really who DOES NOT support HTTPS nowdays Bing is late. My Website even has HTTPs
More Front-End. Thanks for clarification.
That's just nitpicking. Twitter is considered a top tech company to work for in SV, IMO. Their hiring standards are no different than Google's or Facebook's.
It's pretty bad that this whole patents are evil moniker/sentiment has risen in the past few years. Seems to be great for page views!

Not everyone with a patent is a troll, rather many are the little guy who were not able to win the race because A) they don't have enough resources or B) they couldn't rally enough troops to get behind them.

Thus a patent is a way to stake a claim and protect their invention. If it's worth something then others will copy it and due to sheer luck make it a success. While you the inventor are left with an empty bag and oh a patent that you can try and use to be rewarded for your invention.
In short, don't build a product for people who know what they need, find people who need something and build a product for them.
Sounds fair enough. Though in my defense opt out isnt just "I disagree", its I disagree because of the method by which I am automatically signed up for an additional feature which I disagree with.

1. This was not a feature that I originally signed up for, and increases the possibility of irritating/trivial items to be sent to me, I have a spam filter for things like this and in general would rather not mark google as spam, they send me a good number of other things which I do find useful (which seems to be an abuse of the "trust" however thin that I have with them).

2. My private email is perceived as somewhat sacrosanct even though it is an obvious federated system. A somewhat apt analogy is my home address, while some people could definitely find it through various means and communication happens all the time by parties I do not want to send me mail, I do not give it nor do I invite strangers to approach it, and I especially dont like it when a friend of a friend gives out my address to strangers.

3. In general, opt-out features of social networks are by design an anti-feature meant to drive more engagement for them, and has little to no perceived benefit to me. (Yes you can say facebook does it, and that is why I dont have a facebook account)

Better?
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In this instance, the outcome is still desirable. If isolating fairly across all variables (and there are several at play!) means that higher company performance is tightly correlated to having a diverse leadership team, it's a competitive benefit to take advantage of that correlation. I doubt we could ever truly prove causation in this instance.
In the disruptive innovation sense they might be called an overserved or unsatisfied non-consumer.[1] (Whereas an underserved segment might be more in need of sustaining innovation where the current products don't meet all of their needs, but they need all of the current features.)

[1] http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4300.html
And how much of IPO money is going back to open source ?
I've done most of my development work in F# over the past few years. Most of that was on Windows, but I've done some cross-platform work using F# on Mono (on FreeBSD and Linux).

Overall, Mono isn't as fast as the .NET CLR on Windows, but it has improved greatly over the past few years (since Xamarin took over development from Novell and hired a team of full-time developers); in fact, a couple of months ago I saw a post here on HN about an HFT firm who'd built their trading stack on Mono.

As for F#, it's usually quite speedy, whether you run it on Windows or Mono (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.)
Should we not be bending these cold, standardized, "agreed-upon meanings and relationships" anyway? Is that not what the great English authors have done?

Also, the title for this article is god-awful. All of the meme plugs make his point hard to understand, not easier. There is tremendous distinction between stupid quips that can be dropped anywhere and creative use of the English language. The author seems quite fond of the former.
Hey, thanks for your comments! I have a teaser page at http://quanti.me, I just like Medium as a blogging platform and thought it might be useful for this.

You're right, I'm mildly regretting the title, but school is my number one priority and I intend on obtaining my MD. My main interest is in radiology, which is a tech heavy field, and I hope that my background in technology will help me push medicine toward the innovation it needs.

I really do appreciate you taking the time to talk about life choices though, as unintended as it was.
I'd say "find people who don't know they're doing something inefficiently, and build a simple, straight-forward product that gives them a more productive workflow."
Morally, yes there's a huge difference. In terms of long-term economic, technological, and societal impact? Not really.