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Because it has mechanisms in place to make server side driven templates feel like they are client side for most use cases. I carefully included "such as rails" because I'm not saying only rails can do it.

I can't speak for other frameworks but rails has turbolinks and also seamlessly handles the ability to send back pre-compiled html results to the client as a response to an xhr.

Basically you get the best of both worlds and it's all unobtrusive so all of your content is crawlable and you get a great user experience without having to do hacks or extra work.
I am from Europe, don't know why you're trying to be a smartass. I lived in most of them.Who said everything is crap in this article/comments?

You know what, forget about it. I'm not gonna argue with an arrogant dumbass.
What's wrong with line (or area) charts to chart values that change over time?
You say the question is whether it contribute more. Obviously it does not, but that's not the question. The question is what produces the best community on the site.

That's a good question, but it's not the question I posed.

I agree that vapid positivity is easy to ignore.

Sniping is arguably worse than "+1" back-patting for the community overall, but I was asking whether vapid positivity was adding any benefit to anyone, or is it simply a lesser or different kind of bad.

As someone else pointed out, individually these sorts of three-word comments do not contribute to the discussion. In the aggregate, though, both the good and bad may have real value, at least to whomever is behind the product under discussion.

It's a weird situation because no single comment of that form provides discussion space for a response (other than perhaps meta-comments about superficial commenting) but as a whole they may drive some useful observations.
You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet...

http://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg
I say a vocal minority. I do not think these people are representative of the larger community. And I do point out that it's "my guess" so I don't see a problem with that comment. Or is speculation forbidden?
Not educated in robotics, but certainly interested in them and reading more about what it takes to be educated in robotics.
I use a TCP client written by another UIC math professor and sed for most of my scraping needs.

Can you or anyone give me an example, _that is likely to be seen on any website_, that you believe cannot be solved with sed but can be solved with XPath?

The example at the URL you given above appears to have a target CSV file as its only requirement.

I routinely use HTTP pipelining and sed/tr to produce CSV files from websites.

As for R, I'm more curious about its database and analytics capabilities.

How does it stack up to kdb+?
That's my favourite game to play on Hacker News. I wish there was a Hacker News Enhancement Suite so I could keep track of them.
Could you write (or reference) blog posts of that general set up? Sounds interesting.
It's a useful statistic, particularly as it places a minimum bound on the land area requirements. In fact most renewables (solar, wind, biomass, wave, tidal power) can be translated into land-use requirements: so many kW/m^2 or MW/hectare. Useful conversion: 1 kW/m^2 is about the average insolation at Earth's surface, which translates to 10 MW/hectare, or 1 GW/km^2.

Knowing that 1% of the incident sunlight on Britain would provide the nation's energy requirements, and that solar cell efficiency is 20%, means that Britain could be energy self-sufficient with 5% of its land-area covered with PV cells. The land area of the UK is about 229 million km^2, so roughly 11.5 million km^2. Knowing what the material requirements per m^2 for perovskite solar cells would give us a first-order bounds check on how viable the technology might be for this application.

The challenges for solar are not just cost (of which installation and infrastructure costs are a significant component), but substrate abundance and, unmentioned by this article, storage.

Still, it seems an interesting development.
I know only what I read in the linked-to article. I don't how important the $20 earnings per share is to IBM, that they might let off profitable groups solely to make that goal. Hence "alleged."

But "insufficiently profitable" and "dead weight" are not synonymous, just like "maximizing profit" and "greedy bastard" are not synonymous. The first of each pair are economics terms, the second are social terms.

To turn your question around, would you rather put your capital towards products with 85% margin or 75%? Does your choice of one make the other by definition a dead weight?
I've read it several places, but don't know the exact source of the information. It's mentioned in this article on the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/27/how-does-a...
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It does but as a secondary sense. I still find the criticism voiced wanting.
Thank you for pointing this out. I typed out a reply earlier to this effect, but deleted it. Fighting the same fight on Twitter.
Probably recruiting through their crypto challenges and CTF.
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a favorite song of mine by kool keith comes to mind: "i don't believe you" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc5cOohfHhA ).

the world's largest cpu manufacturer, which also happens to be based in the US, _not_ having NSA-mandated backdoors is entirely out-of-the-question. even if the cpus are not backdoored, you can bet all the NIC firmware "happen" to have a remote update path enabled, despite it not having a legitimate application in non-development environments.

intel is tre-owned and always has been.
Why Pond and not Textsecure? (I know they share some protocol).
Backed. Sharp and satirical idea for a game. Reminds me of Papers Please and Closure.
They idea is similar to Closure also.
Surely you could graph the numbers that the RNG output and see if it's random or not, no?

Actually, according to numerous people I respect on this (Ted T'so comes to mind): no.

It's apparently possible to compromise an RNG in such a way that its output appears to be random -- unless you're aware of the secret.
Losing/Firing Forstall, Maps V1 regression, IOS 7 instability, Apple Applications regression/Stalls (Aperture falling further and further behind LightRoom, latest rev of iWorks lost a bunch of features), John Browett bizarre hiring.

Every leader has their share of Missteps, and Cook has had his.
Hah, that basically does some it up. This post isn't very front page worthy as it has zero content with the exception of emacs being more extensible. The author should have given some specific examples about which things Emacs can do that others like Sublime (and others) can't. In the end, use whatever editor makes you the most productive.
You're right. It must've been another Python style guide I somehow remembered that from.

From what I can tell this is kind of a point of contention among many developers; there are lots of debates when Googling that particular line.
A sequence of digits take from pi or e would be randomly distributed but completely deterministic.
Do you believe morality is universal or relative?
I remember "older" // "elderly" Japanese folks volunteering themselves as available to help deal with Fukushima, along the lines of "What to I care of radiation, I'm old and have already had children? I want to still contribute, call me up". I wonder about this as a source of labor for demolition.
There's an interesting study on gender differences in competitiveness in a patriarchal vs. matrilineal society ( http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs... )

The gist of it being that in the former males are much more competitive, and in the latter, females are. While there are of course real physiological differences between men and women, don't discount out of hand the effect culture has as well.

There don't need to be "meetings where men gather to conspire to keep women down" for a society to have a significant biasing effect.
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This rises a question in me: What did we do for Chernobyl? It was decades ago, so most of this technology didn't exists yet. Or it was not nearly as bad as Fukushima?
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My own custom stylesheet:

* { cursor:auto !important }
a { cursor:pointer !important }
a * { cursor:pointer !important }

Another reason not to use Chrome beyond tree-style tabs.
Proved! Oh the irony.
That's 10 guys (and one cup).
I think this one is pretty okay to resolve some of the difficulties:

http://curatedhnhiring.com/

It seems to have filters in place to find the right type of work (like remote, h1b, etc).

What I'm curious to know is whether we can get a hold of this guys code and extend it even more (like use openstreetmap, etc.)

Okay the code is available!

https://github.com/perspectivezoom/curated-hn-hiring

It looks to be written in Node and was last updated in November. A majority of the work is done (scraping, etc.) so we could just build on top of it now.
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I think it is an ideal, yes. But there are other ideals it needs to be balanced against. For everyone to have equal opportunities, everyone would have to be equal, or in other words, everyone would have to be the same. Even if that were possible, it wouldn't be worth losing our diversity. (And as I mentioned above, while giving everyone equal opportunities despite their differences might be more fair to them, it could be less fair to others involved, like the startup investor.)

My point was that we need to recognize these situations where our ideals conflict, so that we can decide what balance we prefer. It seems like by accepting 'discrimination' based on intelligence or athletic ability, we are recognizing that the value of having the most skilled people doing certain jobs outweighs the unfairness to the less skilled applicants, who may work just as hard, but have no control over their innate characteristics. On the other hand, while it may be true that a person with a family has less time or energy to devote to work than a single person, or a male with a baby has more time than a female with a baby, we have decided that gender equality and the right to have a family outweigh the unfairness to the investor who would ideally take all information into account when choosing an investment. I think that's totally reasonable, but it is helpful to recognize that that is what we're doing, rather than simply making statements like "sexism is wrong", without thinking about it any further. (Because we will eventually run into a situation where our initial reaction doesn't turn out to match with our core values, and it would be good to recognize and correct that.)
I feel like if we want to start addressing inequality in education, we have to start with private grade schools. In particular, I think that private high schools and grade schools should be stopped, and everyone should be forced to use the public system.

Private schools let the wealthiest, most influential people take their children out of the system, and so have no motivation to fix the system. Meanwhile the people who are least able to fix the system are left stuck with it. Take NYC as a great example of this - extremely high incomes, $45k/year private schools, and some of the worst public schools in America.

It's not that people are bad for using private schools - it's hard to take a moral stance when your children are the cost (I will certainly send my future kids to private school). But by having an easy out, it lets people avoid fixing the system.
> when the price of dogecoin goes up they get behind "doge to the moon"

I don't see how this is incompatible with it being "all for fun." People cheer for sports teams they've bet on, and that's "all for fun." They're not investing in it in a way you'd invest in stocks and bonds; they're just gambling in the same way you'd do at a casino.
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Competent spies, criminals, and computer hackers don't leave a lot of evidence. I'd say that's a pretty good measure of competence at those activities. Flatly refusing to entertain the possibility that something like this might happen without solid proof is just as bad as mindlessly believing every fantastical nutter hypothesis without question. It may even be worse because those people don't sound crazy, but historically they've been wrong as often as the obvious loons.
I was expecting something different, although the part about desperation rings true.. My "Dear Recruiters" letter would beg them to just Google me, or look at my LinkedIn... something, anything, spend 10 seconds to find out that I have a great job at a huge company... then think twice about sending me a lead for a short-term contract opportunity using a technology I haven't touched in years at a no-name company in some other random state.
Excellent point.

I should have written, "The considerations underlying this law may be similar to a very different common law tort"... which don't help us predict outcomes in individual cases, might just shed some light on how, if it did survive any First Amendment challenge, how that would happen.

In practice there are enormous differences. And even the First Amendment challenge would be complicated by this being a criminal statute and not having an out for the public interest.

I'm less sure about the effect of criminalizing the collection of information instead of its dissemination. I'm more unsure whether animal cruelty is public interest by default, just don't know the animal rights cases. But, eh, Ninth Circuit, you're probably right, Idaho may have a tough shot.
Basically, we just covered Chernobyl with concrete and left it alone. As long as nobody goes near it, it's not doing any harm.

According to the article, for political reasons, Japan wants to dismantle Fukushima, instead of simply neutralizing it, covering it up with concrete, and walling it off for a few decades before the cleanup happens. This is where the challenge comes from.
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What's so strange about that? Being comfortable and efficient with key bindings is crucial to programming.
Not unless you don't believe giving the NSA a backdoor but no one else constitutes compromising security.
In Australia we just have more regulation and standards on what gets to call itself a university and so is allowed to offer "commonwealth supported" courses. There are still "University of Phoenix" type places around but because they can't call themselves a university they don't trick many people (they mostly prey on foreign students).

In our system the government sets prices and directly pays the education provider for "commonwealth supported places". The student has to repay the government only a part of that cost, and it is indexed to inflation and you don't have to make repayments until your income is around ~$50,000 AUD.

As an outside I think Americas two big problems with higher education is the lack of national standards, which is feed by your student loan system.
It is estimated that in its existence the observable universe has performed no more than 10^120 operations on no more than 10^90 bits. Thus I believe the universe itself does not have the computational capacity to compute each one of the partitions of 10^5. As we are part of the universe, neither do we.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm referring to the obviously comedic comments about the Hungarian Pengo, not the computation that Fredrik reports having completed. Apparently the Pengo project is not only ill-advised, but actually impossible.
I'm not sure how generalizable it is, but Denmark has a fairly strong split between the "proper" universities, which are all state-funded and tuition-free, and private "academies", which may be for-profit or nonprofit, and don't have degree-issuing rights. The for-profit ones typically teach vocational programs. Some of these are reasonably well respected, but as a result of not being able to offer degrees, they tend to compete more on the skills gained than on the certificate. For example they will want to be able to argue that if you spend time/money there, by the time you're done you'll be a skilled 3d animator with a portfolio to prove it. So these are relatively unregulated besides not being able to issue degrees (they can issue private certificates). They also don't receive state support, and students don't receive state financial aid.

There are a few weird in-between things. For example the National Film School is very well respected and mostly publicly funded, but doesn't issue degrees, because historically it grew out of the film production scene and doesn't see itself as "academic" (nowadays they could probably gain degree-granting rights, but it's become a point of principle that they're a "film school", not a "university").
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> they're also under more scrutiny vis-à-vis Chrome (which would be effective even if it were not open source).

Chrome is not open source. Chromium is, but they are not the same.
(Disclaimer: I'm a dev, not a cryptographer)

Take this example: the output of a cryptographically secure pseudo random number generator (CSPRNG) cannot be determined without knowing it's seed(s) (the initial seed and, optionally, additional seeds if/when re-seeding is done).

Any CSPRNG must pass the "next bit" test or it is not a CSPRNG: the probability of the next bit being 1 is 0.5 (the probability of it being 0 is 0.5 too of course).

So, no, you cannot graph the output of a CSPRNG and see if it's random or not. Because by their very definition outputs of CSPRNG look random.

Yet CSPRNGs are fully deterministic.

Now that is another topic but... The NSA may have an history of also backdooring CSPRNG (Dual_EC_DRBG comes to mind) ^ ^
The two incidents are completely different: Chernobyl's reactor exploded (iirc, the graphite moderator caught fire); Fukushima melted down, which is essentially when the fuel gets so hot (due to lack of cooling, which the Tsunami took out) that it melts through the bottom of the reactor containment vessel.
So a 'professional journalist' with an iPhone didn't think to make a video of the self deleting, or take a photo of the tall American?

I call BS.
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Okay this one is hilarious.

I especially liked the box "This question is intentionally left blank"
Funnily enough, last week I released an Android app that does a similar (although not quite as cool) thing:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hughesoft....

The main motivation was to be able to get through light content more quickly, but I've noticed my general reading speed has increased too. For a lot of content I'm pretty comfortable at 500wpm using the app.
In her FAQ, she confuses a unit and overstates things 1000x (literally, 1000x). It's people scaring themselves with the numbers they get from magic boxes, not news.
I believe he's MinorThreat aka Chris Lamprecht, which means his sentence wasn't for his computer related crimes oddly enough.
I second this. If you're in the business to crank out apps for the purpose of a bread and butter bottom line with more than one person working on the project, IB is the way to go. Otherwise, there's a ton of value in doing it by hand.
But what you're describing isn't an economic problem but a political one. Dissemination of information is also a political issue, but I don't recall governments, at least in the West, fighting the internet as such. What you call "bottling up", others might call "protecting the innocent". There is no economic need for regulation-free currencies, unless you claim that regulation hinders the economy, which, again, is a political stance because the definition of what the economy is and what's good for it is subject to personal values.

Let's imagine that some cryptocurrency becomes so prevalent that it replaces the national currency. The government just lost a very powerful tool in directing the economy towards desirable political goals. Suppose the citizens of a country decide that they'd rather have more equality than a higher average standard of living. That's a very reasonable wish, I think. With a government-controlled currency, the government might decide to devalue the currency to reduce imports. With an unregulated currency, the government loses one of the most powerful tools of achieving its goals.

In the US, government is treated with levels of suspicion uncommon in the rest of the Western world. That's not necessarily bad, but it is a peculiarly American trait. In many countries, reducing the power of government can be seen as reducing the power of the population to make collective decisions for the benefit of the people. It puts the fate of the economy in the hands of an indifferent "market". I'm just trying to show that just as you see a need for cryptocurrencies, someone else could claim that there is a very strong need for cryptocurrencies to disappear, or, at least, become regulated.

Of course, there might well be a strong desire for regulation-free currencies, just as there's a strong desire for drugs and prostitution. But that doesn't mean there's a need for them (maybe there is, but it requires evidence).
Why go so far? 1% of Americans are in prison or some form of detention. But yeah, they do no count.
This is mostly just quackery and non-science, they keep repeating the same old stuff that the government is keeping us in the dark, and that the health effects of Fukushima is far greater than it actually is.
Yup, the moving parts were tricky, in a fun way.
Very interesting video - a law professor and a police officer explain how to deal with law enforcement in the US, mostly by not saying very much. I learned a lot watching it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I don't like Emacs. Emacs key-bindings are neither ergonomic nor do they make any sense in any way. They are barely consitent across modes, only if you are lucky. They are the way they are because they are old. And old people don't like change. Emacs has also several other problems. It lacks multi threading, the cursor can not be moved off screen. Autocomplete for C-like languages is a mess and really inferior to everything else I used. Compared to all other Lisp dialects, Elisp is the worst. It is not only by far the slowest, it also lacks essential features like namespaces. And then there is complete clusterfuck of conflicting "modes" and the lack of disposition to cooperate and unify within the community.

The reason why I'm so upset is, if you are a newcomer and look at Emacs what you see at first glance on the outside is basically total crap. But then people tell you that the learning curve is high and everything is awesome if you just learn.

Well my experience was, the more I learned the more crap appeared. One layer of crap after the other. Luckily everything could somehow be fixed with a lot of configuration and scripts. But the points I mention above are the lowest layer which can not be fixed with just a bunch of lines of Lisp like in the previous layers. So even at the core Emacs is crap.
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