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How A Dog Has Lived For Eleven Thousand Years–In Other Dogs
I have this:

;; schedule starting of Emacs server after everything else is loaded (5 min
;; *should* be anough for startup :))
(run-at-time "5 min" nil 'server-start)

in my .emacs - this way I get both a window and a "daemon" server for use with emacsclient. I think it dies if the first frame is closed, though.
"Run a Crowdfund Campaign Like a Horserace (And Why  You Should)"
I dance into my pediatricians office to get my kids vaccinated.

Then we get some shots.

Then we do another dance, which has an accompanying song entitled "I just extended you lifespan!"

We also talk about how we're going to get more vaccinations before our next trip because the India has crazy mosquitos and Costa Rica could have bad water.

Vaccinations are wondrous. It isn't that much work to get your expectations to match.
"What is life?" by Schrodinger
Computers do not play chess well. They play chess badly, but incredibly fast. Deep Blue was capable of analyzing 200 million board positions a second, but it could be defeated regularly (if not a majority of the time) by a human being. I'm pretty sure Kasparov wasn't calculating 200 million board positions in his head!

Pick a harder problem - the game of Go. Computers have only recently been able to beat a reasonably talented child or inexperienced adult at the game. When the data set becomes too large to brute-force (Go has many more possibilities than chess), computers can't hold a candle to human intuition.

Sure, it's possible that at some point, computers will be able to produce better results than humans at some surprising real-world tasks. But that doesn't mean computers will do them well. Doing it well versus doing it very fast are two entirely different things. If you can't understand the distinction, you can't understand where humans will continue to outperform computers.
Hacker crackdown been going on since the late 80s http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown

I remember when I came home from school to find cops going through my room demanding to know where I kept my copy of the cellular hackers bible because I had told somebody on fidonet I had it and it was deemed forbidden knowledge
Someone should give him Dogecoin. Seriously, this is what internet currency is for. I should pay to see this stuff. Amazing.
If we're boxing, or another adversarial match, though wouldn't you become suspicious if I was seemingly unaware that you were behind me?

This isn't a "suprise! we're here to check up on things" this is something the kidnappers should be expecting and planning for (what else do they think will happen).
What do you mean by "JavaScript plugin"?
The irony is not lost on me, we have a saying in the Netherlands "the carpenters doors are the creakiest".
Also we don't use them all the time yet even for customers, this blog post (and an accompanying internal training next week) is meant to remedy that.
Google Chrome Can Listen To Your Conversations
I want to address one of the books in the Amazon link. 3D game programming FOR KIDS looks overwhelming even to me. The kid me would have looked a few pages and fell right asleep. I understand it isn't for the same age range as Linda's book but wow. This is the problem getting kids to stick with it. My manager talks about his kids just not sticking with programming. They go to classes and want to build things, but it is easier to play games than actually build them. Which is more valuable skill? Looking at the mockup images of Linda's book, it seems to bring kids real life scenarios with a programming ideology which is fantastic.
San Francisco Eviction Protests
More then happy to give you the full details on how we've set this up: the vaccine is being developed by Flow Pharma Inc. Instead of setting up our own 501(c)3, we setup a fiscal sponsorship agreement with Until There's A Cure, a leading HIV/AIDS focused 501(c)3. We are operating the project as a non profit even though our entity type is technically a corp. In other words we are obligated to follow 501(c)3 rules and regulations, and we are obligated to give our vaccine away for free regardless of our entity type. The primary reason we did this is because its much better to work with a well established 501(c)3 that has team members who can help provide validation and support then to start from scratch on your own. It is also much faster to do this then setup your own 501(c)3.
Don't worry, we've still got the "Bitcoin is inherently deflationary and incentivises hoarding" talking point.
Google doesn't care about any of this, otherwise it would have been fixed in 2010. But if you really want to add them their e-mail addresses are:

vicg@google.com
page@google.com

The calendar is going to be replaced by Timely, the next generation version (more feature-rich then the current one) Bigtop will replace the GMail interface.
Ask HN: Do you cold call?
For your service, do you reach out to potential customers without any referral or lead? If you do, how well does it work? Do you have any advice?
Thanks and exactly - we hope this can help anyone managing a big network of customers/prospects/collegues.
Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify
This looks like a great project!

I'd also remind people about HN user aristus' Lauren Ipsum book (http://www.laurenipsum.org/) for kids. Every one you buy he donates one to schools, etc.
I don't know that "minimum guaranteed income" has a precise meaning, but it's worth noting that "Guaranteed Minimum Income" and "Basic Income" are different things, and that the Canadian experiment called "Mincome" was a Basic Income program.
We were planning on connecting to SalesForce, but would love to hear if anyone out there has systems they'd like to use with Contastic.
I agree with the sentiment here, but please don't argue that boys benefit from this by having the chance to be obedient little utilities.
I've heard it's actually being considered to move org-mode and eshell into packages, provided the release process can be ammended to generate releases which include packages by default.
I've lost access to my paid apps for the past 2 months (ongoing). According to Google Support, it's an issue affecting accounts used on rooted devices; that account will get a 403 error whenever attempting to download/update/use a paid app. Support's suggested "temp fix" was to make a new account. There are no refunds, no credit for apps lost, and no ETA on when the bug will be resolved.
They are a Sprint MVNO, so you can just check Sprint's map.
The author and I like Julia for nearly opposite reasons. (I write Julia for the language geek reasons. The power of homoiconicity is amazing for writing static analysis in the language you're analyzing.) It's really cool that Julia can appeal to people with nearly opposing priorities tho. :)

I'm looking forward to giving the workshop at UChicago. It'll be my third time presenting an Intro to Julia workshop.
Interestingly, skilled animal workers haven't been replaced by machines. Example: service dogs (also, hunting and herding dogs).

When the animal's advantage over humans is sheer strength and endurance, machines usually work better. But when their advantages are senses and intelligence, they still outperform machines.
I guess I'm thinking about things in terms of Kerckhoff's principle. If your success is related to secrecy of your plan, then it seems very fragile.
I have been at times vocal in opposition to the type of companies that YC has funded in the past few batches, as the possibility of them improving life quality for people that actually need the improvement seemed quite small, largely based on a prospect of trickle down technology, which turns out to be as likely as trickle down economics, in that it rarely trickles out of San Francisco. Not saying those start-ups were easy, or not worth doing, as doing any start-up is by nature incredibly hard, and following your passion is always worth doing. But, YC's prominent role seemed ideal for doing something more, and it just didn't come.

I'll be equally vocal in support now. Watsi was the first sign of light, Immunity Project the second. This is what needs support, what needs money and hype. Realistically it won't get as much money as it needs, but with someone like YC pushing nonprofits like this, it's a huge step in the right direction. I can't wait to see the other nonprofits.

I know I sound like a bitter communist (is there any other kind?), but this really feels like an island of reason in the bubbly ocean of SF. Good luck to this batch.
To be fair, there's also Python+NumPy and R in that space, not just Matlab. Besides the "tinker with LLVM" thing, what does Julia offer that Python (or Cython for speed)+NumPy does not?
I dunno - I think we were safer with dedicated airmen manning Minuteman silo switches. Morale dropped after the PALs were installed. They disrespected the whole idea - entered a launch code of 0000-0000. Still they knew they'd become administrators (alcoholism, spousal- and drug-abuse etc) and not the last link in the chain preventing nuclear war. How was that an improvement?
I use the hyperbolic case because it should still be allowed--even a kinder "I'm sorry, but I can't leave with you until you've got a warrant" can trigger a "Are you resisting? taze taze taze" event, as we've seen elsewhere. There is no assurance, no safety net, no hope in the system for common sense--and that's before you even take into account informal departmental policies (HPD: "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.", Denver PD: "We get up early to beat the crowds").
Thanks! We wish there were more people like you. :)

So, what is it about Coinpunk that you feel is most valuable?
Also make sure all your plugins are byte-compiled, this can shorten loading time significantly. Not a problem for elpa/package.el plugins, but I have quite a few plugins managed manually (I'm still not using el-get, shame on me) and the way I byte compile them all at once is to place a cursor on a directory with them in dired and issuing:

C-0 M-x byte-recompile-directory

The C-0 prefix arg causes it to recompile everything without asking for confirmation for every file.
Ask HN: Resources to learn JavaScript in 2014?
I have played around with Javascript for years. You know the basic stuff. Heck, I even wrote a Basketball scoreboard back in 2004 using plain javascript (the code will probably give you nightmares if I share it). But most of that was using google, w3schools etc. I really want to learn the fundamentals again. Fundamentals of Javascript, not a framework or library. So yes, I have access to Jquery and what not, but want to learn javascript and nothing else. What would you experts recommend in 2014 ?
You seem to be hung up on comparisons between things that have vastly different magnitudes or severities. The effort to get bitcoin widely accepted as a currency is "a struggle". The Indian independence movement was a struggle.

Are these two struggles similar in severity, importance, or necessity? No, of course not. Do they need to be, in order to reference that quote? No, of course not.

Why is it not necessary that these two situations be equivalent, or even similar, in that respect? Because he was not saying that the effort to get bitcoin widely accepted is as important as Indian independence.
There is a built in profiler: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/profile/.

It's also possible to run Julia with some of Intel's advanced profiling tools like VTune:

http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/blog/477490/ju...

More info: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/10/10/profiling-j...
Thanks for the link, but that study was very soon after the change and ignores the issue of whether vaccine effectiveness was the same (as history appears to be showing it was not). And that is the point. A small reduction of minor reported adverse effects for a large reduction of immunization effectiveness is usually not counted as a good trade-off by epidemiologists.
That sounds like a regular failed battery, which happens pretty often in all devices. Is it more common in the iPhone 5?
As long as he hasn't hurt me or mine, what's it matter?

That same logic puts the friends of drone operators in a strange place, right? They kill civilians too.
There are some good Russian movies that are somewhat unknown to the Western public. For example, I wonder if any of you have seen these:

Georgiy Daneliya. "Kin-dza-dza!" (1986) [1]

Larisa Shepitko. "The Ascent" (1977) [2]

Leonid Maryagin. "Public enemy - Bukharin" (1990) [3]

Aleksey German. "Twenty Days Without War" (1977) [4]

Aleksey German. "Khrustalyov, My Car!" (1998) [5]

Stanislav Rostotskiy. "A zori zdes tikhie" (1972) [6]

Mikhail Kalatozov. "True Friends" (1954) [7]

Mikhail Kozakov. "Pokrov Gates" (1982) [8]

Georgiy Daneliya. "Osenniy marafon" (1979) [9]

Elem Klimov. "Come and See" (1985) [10]

Victor Ginzburg. "Generation П" (2011) [11]

Sergei Gerasimov. "The Journalist" (1967) [12]

(this one is Polish) Juliusz Machulski. "Sexmission" (1984) [13]

(also Polish) Krzysztof Kieslowski. "The Decalogue" (1989) [14]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075404/

[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100891/

[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074447/

[5] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156701/

[6] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068161/

[7] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047650/

[8] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083465/

[9] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079679/

[10] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/

[11] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459748/

[12] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062524/

[13] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/

[14] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092337/
tldr:

> residential service

> 'I have a full rack and run servers'

> 'Well, that's against our ToS.'

> 'he said I would need to switch to the business service.'
> houkouonchi has been providing friends and family a personal VPN, video streaming, and peer-to-peer file service—running a rack of seven servers with 209TB of raw storage in his house
Nitpicky language question - it seems to me there is a difference between "intrinsically, there is no harm in X" and "there is no intrinsic harm in X," where the former would strictly be "it is intrinsic to X that no harm in it." I assume you mean the latter?
On IRC we get a steady stream of confused users (in both the #emacs and #clojure channels) who added melpa because some library recommended it in their readme and they didn't realize it would cause every package they use to also pull from the unstable branch. It is a huge support headache.

However, these days I only very rarely find packages that aren't available on Marmalade. When I do, it's usually enough to ask the maintainer nicely and they start publishing to Marmalade; it's not a difficult process by any means.
Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard
Yup I have this exact problem.

Sometimes waiting a few minutes and trying to turn it on again works.
what's the benefit of this? performance?
I rather see that as a point in favor of the Luddite Fallacy not a counterargument. The US horse population has crashed from 21 million in 1900 to 3 million in 1960.(PDF warning) (http://www.americanequestrian.com/pdf/US-Equine-Demographics...) If the human population fell to 15% of its current level because of unemployment, it would probably be pretty unpleasnt for a while.
Why not use maven or gradle to build your Go projects?

Need a mature build tool? Then use one and stop complaining.

http://support.thoughtworks.com/entries/20074167-Using-Maven...
Electric Cars & Solar: Will They Make Gasoline & Utilities Obsolete?
Awesome. Thanks for the note about version 1.1 of the standard. Wasn't aware nonces and hashing were added.
Interestingly, TigerDirect appears to be unreachable for me (from Europe):

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.tigerdirect.com/" on this server.

Reference #18.56bd7a5c.1390506110.4cf7baee
That said, what's your bus factor like?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
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If you don't like what we're doing, that's cool too. I'd love to hear what you think we can do to improve.
I tend to agree with you about tools. I have yet to meet a language feature that's more important than library availability, profiling, autocompletion, documentation, debugging, etc. Then again, I don't face the script/C/CUDA choice everyday (most of his detractors on this thread don't either, I'd be willing to bet) so his circumstances are probably different enough to justify a different priority list. His argument might be perfectly valid for the HPC community which is a powerful constituency among academic programmers.

However, he did address library availability, and that argument resonates with me. I've never met a FFI I didn't come to loathe. I've had java, ruby, and python FFI libraries fail to satisfy my needs despite half a dozen bugfixes between them. What this man says about having to write wrappers, despite abundant and loud promises to the contrary, is completely true. You don't have to wander far off the beaten path before a typical FFI goes belly-up. POD structs usually suffice (Sure, we support POD structs! Oh, you want to nest them / align them / make arrays of them / have them hold pointers / ...? We don't support that "yet". Worse: they support it but it's buggy.). Heavens help you if your argument has (gasp) an initializer or one of the arguments is a reference. Maybe things have changed in the last ~5 years, but I doubt it.

If Julia's intimate connection with LLVM makes it practical to implement a better FFI or hybridize FFI + wrapper code when necessary, it will have a very valuable advantage over python for purposes of scientific computing. Maybe even enough to displace it in the long run.

EDIT: By "hybridize" I mean that the ability to embed asm,C,C++ in Julia with the same ease that you can embed asm in C/C++ would be a KILLER feature.
From what I read, they already have one developed.
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My golden rule, never ever put any personal information on the web especially on google. If possible, don't even use your real name.
As for customize-option, if you don't want options to clobber you main init file you can do this:

(setq custom-file "~/.emacs.d/custom.el")
(load custom-file)

It's good for version control and for separating manual changes from customizations.
>For example, when you build a bridge, there's a clear, objective line of quality somewhere above

She isn't building a bridge, she's writing a story for children. The failure point is that nobody likes her story and therefore it doesn't sell. That's the absolute worst thing that can happen. Not a single child will be so critically scarred from her story that they never learn programming. Yet it may resonate for some.

There is no point to critique when the downside is so unbelievably inconsequential and the plus side is beneficial to a person, other than simply being an ass.
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Sure, go ahead :).

I'll put link to and/or a screenshot of your project somewhere in the Nyan Mode page/readme, as you wrote it was inspired by a comment about Nyan Mode ;).
No. The truth is that you're being overly defensive.

> I'm excited about this book. Even if I wasn't, I honestly can't imagine anything bad/wrong coming out of its existence.

So we should all make smiley faces and exclamation marks and ZOMG children will learn coding because "nothing bad can come out of its existence"?

> (a) the OP asks for it

Oh I'm sorry, I'll never criticise anything ever again if OP doesn't ask for it!

> (b) we can actually put our eyes/ears/fingers on the product in question.

Dude/Dudette, that is literally the Kickstarter model. Are you saying a page explaining things about the book, with a video is just there for fun? Maybe I should give every kickstarter some money because hey, nothing bad/wrong can come out of their existence and I'm not allowed to criticise it since I can't put my ears/fingers on the product in question.

> Instead of "I hope they cover loops", we get "she is odd in front of a camera" and "too many alarm bells".

It'll be a pretty boring Maths book if all they cover are integers, strings and variables.

And yes, she did look odd in front of the camera. And I'm allowed to say that in this comment. Because she created it and put it up on Kickstarter. You want universal acceptance and love? I got some bad news for you...

And btw, the video was actually bad. Sorry.

> And BTW, I'm all for picking apart "insufferably pompous SV culture"–in fact, I'd love to make some spoof startup videos doing exactly that. That's just not what I'm seeing here.

I see a lot of pompousness in this post too. Lets be reasonable. It's a freaking children's book. The author is a well established member of the development community and works for one of the most well known programming tutorial website. One can presume that they would have the time and money to start working on a book which has lots of drawings. People were writing books before Kickstarter existed you know.

But of course, how dare I criticise anything about those cute drawings. Think of the Children!
I don't get it. So if things are not fun we don't do them?

Is someone claiming they love to dance to the doctor to see their child in pain?

I have a newborn. He has been upset, in pain, and sick in his first 6 months - we always try to do what is best for him, our family, his health, and public health. Dancing or allowing his discomfort to heavily bias our decisions never even remotely occurred to us.
How to be ultra-productive
Yeah it's funny that the author has a dig at lisp and then is amazed by something Common Lisp has had for eons
If it were me, it would be because the visual prices fluctuate on the site. If you put some stuff in your cart, wait a day, and find out the price went up by the equivalent of $100, it doesn't make the retailer look good.
Saiku as an Accelerating Tool for Web Reports Development
So... was this customer under the impression that the data plan was literally unlimited?
Migrating users to the new product
Well, they're changing...

Honestly, for years watching them sell stuff and gradually back out it's looked like they were dying. Now it's very clear that they are making a gigantic bet on Watson and Watson like technologies. That's exciting.
An EEG That Fits Inside Your Ear
Upward Mobility Has Not Declined, Study Says
Exactly!

I had a 1991-issued book called “Professor Fortran's Encyclopaedia“ in my childhood. It introduced me to computers, modems, viruses and even several BASIC commands in the form of a comic book with funny characters:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Энциклопедия_профессора_Фортран...

I did not learn programming from it (it contained no actual code other than a “hello world”), but it fired up my imagination and introduced me to computery things. I didn't get to have an actual computer until five years later, but when I finally got it, I got into programming immediately.

This kind of books is extremely underrepresented and I believe very valuable.