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> If you don't think the fact that Louis CK is Mexican but everyone thinks he's American plays into why and how his comedy works, we can agree to disagree. :)

So how does his audience being ignorant of something, aid him in his comedy? How can it help him if people don't know of it?

Assume that they think he is a white American - then he looks like a typical white guy, making racist jokes (presumably, I've never seen them). The fact that he's really Mexican is not known to most people, so people will just think of him as a typical white American.
> Due to advances in human rights and standard of living, having or not having children is now decoupled from being or not being single.

But standard of living is not decoupled from being single or not, especially when kids are in the picture.
Alleged Google Glass attack victim accused of recording neighbors
Incentives that apply perfectly to rational actors have a pretty poor track record of influencing human behavior in the desired way.
Jesse Jackson to take on tech's lack of diversity
That requires adding the page to the home screen.
I am probably older than you, but I am not cynical, I am just not a person with his head in the sand.

My experience and wisdom is what made me thrive for this long, I am far from cynical, I am in fact a happy person. :-)
Facebook's New 'DeepFace' Program Is Just As Creepy As It Sounds
Except not even slightly accurate. The MotoActv is not primarily a smartwatch, it's a fitness device first. It's meant for active audiences who want a watch while they excercise, hence the Actv part of the name.

The Moto360, which looks absolutely nothing like the MotoActv (seriously, where the hell are you getting that they're repackaging an existing watch under a new name? They're completely different) is meant for an entirely different market, has completely different features, and probably features none of the same internals as the MotoActv.

They are two watches, with completely different functions, with completely different UIs, meant for completely different people. The only similarity is that they're both made by Motorola but even that's a stretch because the Motorola of today (I'm referring to Motorola, a Google company) is nothing like Motorola of 2 years ago, when the MotoActv was released.
> Also, how long before cryptocurrency miners use these to gain step function over current gpus.

I can't imagine these ever being cheaper than ASICs.
The source of the desperation, I believe, is not correctly presumed by yourself. But the combination of both is possible. And I believe a force to be reckoned with.
Did anyone ever figure out what happened to HN's nickb?
There is this thread here that never got resolved:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=991147

I ask because I know him and also never figured out what happened.
I'm referring to the statement itself, not the person.
They'd have to either sacrifice yield or sacrifice FP32 units.

Also, if they put FP64 support in their gaming cards they wouldn't be able to charge scientists and engineers extra.
Isn't that what these pesky "regulations" are? You know - "laws".
> Would it be ok for the police to come into your home, no proper warrant other than a "general warrant", like the writ of assistance for which Americans rebelled against UK, and take your stuff, as long as they promise to not look through it?

Wrong question. Would it be okay for the police to come into your home, not touch anything, but just write down a list of everything they see? What if they did this without the bodily intrusion?

It is arguable whether or not the Fourth covers this. There are legitimate legal arguments that can be made for its legality. You might not agree with those arguments, and you might not find them convincing, but you can't dismiss them just because you don't like it. You have to argue that property is, in fact, being seized (which I'd disagree with you on). You have to argue that "search" is sufficient to meet the standard of the Fourth. And so on.

If anything, this is one of the most striking examples of how we have to bend over backwards in order to fit 21st century morals and ethics to codes written 200 years ago.
Even more, the classic concept of married couples having kids is now in the minority.

At least for me, local statistics show that the majority of children are born to unmarried parents; and only ~65% of school-age children are raised by both parents. So it's not even a case for exceptions, but a socially accepted, very common phenomenon.
“This is a clever stunt, but we prefer Vulpeck’s earlier albums,” said Spotify spokesman Graham James. “'Sleepify' seems derivative of John Cage’s work.”

I don't think they care, at this stage anyway. And probably never -- it doesn't scale as well as click fraud.
> and that the benefit outweighs any negative side effects.

Exactly. That's what I meant.
To be fair, family problems (kid is sick, picking up Junior from soccer practice) are much more likely to be excused absences than other lifestyle problems (I have a date the night before, chores are piling up, I have roommate issues).
Thanks for making this, this looks really really good!

I'm a backend guy beginning to venture into front-end stuff (recently picked up JS for a Node project at work), and the extensive documentation is incredibly helpful for newcomers like myself.

PS: I'd be very interested in some performance comparisons with Om and Vue.
It's an additional point. People are allowed to do that.
It's not affected on Debian/Ubuntu, check --with-debug flag.
Contrary view, based on research:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/10/us-usa-investment-...

http://phys.org/news/2014-03-investors-good-looking-male-ent...
We have blanket regulations, in addition to laws such as these, because when you're sick from those radium elixirs, you don't want to have to be spending time and money suing your pharmacist on top of it. (Or searching for a class action, for that matter.) We also have them because there's a point past which enforcing individual violations is much too inefficient.
Not stupid at all. Laws/Rules can get.... messy.

I believe it's city. The webpage graphics say "City of San Diego" in several places, and the County of San Diego has it's own website - http://sdcounty.ca.gov - it's zoning ordinances may be found here. http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/pds/zoning/index.html

Hope that helps!
Don't care. I would be ok with a watch without a second hand and the slight sub-second delay of eInk for displaying notifications. And a lack of color too. Especially if it meant that I got 10x the battery life (which it would).
Code for app is available on my github; might be a bug or two left to fix. https://github.com/graemeboy/Javascript-website-crawler-with...
Why does everyone go crazy about the timex weekender? Am I the only person that thinks it looks like a dollar store watch for children?
At Spotify royalty rates it's cheap publicity.
>services that they wouldn't choose in the absence of legislation

1.are you saying that taxicabs can be abolished as nobody would use them?

2. any business activity (ie. activity generating revenue stream) would rely on some government services, like, for example, road maintenance in this case. You drive more and thus cause more wear and tear on the roads, and this increase in your driving brings you additional revenue - seems to fair to tax such a revenue. Driving more you increase congestion which government [suppose to] spend money to solve. Being involved in frequent business transactions you'd probably have higher probability for the need for other government services - police, courts.
The problem you get into instantly with that is: unfriendly according to whom (which bureaucratic panel?), and deciding whether the benefit outweighs the negatives according to whom?

You make it sound like it's a scientific process. Once you hand it over to a political system, that goes out the window. See: New Jersey / Tesla for a nice recent demonstration.
Send me an email through the site with your email, and I can give you a json file of the stats. It just wouldn't be practical to keep it up as a reachable endpoint - too costly
Great blog! No content, no menu, but Disqus comments. This dude is the perfect person to be evaluating growth/scale of companies as a Stark Raving VC, but who for all his money can't hire an intern to make a static blog work.

If it was something that wasn't important to the author, like the last episode of some TV show, OK, but this whole taxi thing seems like a big deal. Treat the medium with respect if you care that much.
This isn't a problem that good savings can't solve. If it's too hard to come up with savings, the cost of having a family of three is probably too high.

I'm not denigrating families of three, I'm criticizing the way current costs and benefits of Western governments make it too expensive for responsible people to have decent-sized families.
This is a satire article.
The above sentiment leans towards labeling any who dare possess a pocket constitution as potential terrorists, which is absurd.

Yes, that's exactly the author's point.

Seriously, is the article supposed to be a joke?

No, it's a criticism of Baker's point of view that the limits of intelligence can't be discussed because it would help those it's trying to surveil.
Hey! I run MonthlyBoxer.com and we're doing fulfillment for Mod. Would you be willing to pay an extra $10 for shipping each way? If so, I can talk to Jon and Marshall about it. It's not any harder on my end, and I think their shop can handle variable pricing for different countries.
Open Source NeuroScience Startup
It's both true and false. The same reason movies still use light panes, make up etc etc. You don't want random pure reality[1].

[1] no really, you don't.
Thinkpad, W series preferably. My W350 is running Wheezy without any issues.
Can Thinking Change Reality
I don't work in sales, but in marketing - probably 70% of my work calls would be to colleagues/clients, the rest to external people (e.g. Companies we spend marketing $ with).

For example, off the top of my head I have 8 hours of normally-scheduled conference calls (before anything ad-hoc) with my main client each week - they're a big company, the people I work with there are based in offices in England, Ireland (2 locations), Holland, France (2)... and then less frequent contact with other offices in the US (mainly) and random regional offices occasionally such as Sweden and Greece in the last couple of weeks. Phone calls are really pretty important in terms of what we do with each other. (I also travel around Europe a fair bit, but that doesn't make up for day to day communications).

But I also spend a fair bit of time talking to friends and family too, I guess that's partly due to needs (I don't have long calls with people who live down the road from me) and partly just a personal preference thing (also use Skype, SMS and email, which and how much of which depends on the person).
What have they removed from the standard library? Just curious.
They should have showed the car moving. You'd have seen the reflection slide up the hood in the raytraced demo.

It takes A LOT of work and planning to get light and shadow correct in a raster setting. Most AAA games don't bother. Raytracing makes it easy to get them right, which will make all the difference in the world.
> Checked exceptions

It always bothered me that Java forces me to explicitly handle/rethrow exceptions, yet happily overflows my ints without batting an eyelid.
I think you can get an old feature phone for $10 these days
It's impossible it can run anything on its own, its an accessory, that's the point.

The best use is typically just getting notifications. So you can see SMSes, IMs, whatnot. The fact is that 90% of the time it's more important to have read a message than to reply to it. It also saves you the trouble of having to remember to read something when you notice you've gotten a message but you can't check it just now 'cause you are busy with something else. That alone is a huge use case. Sure, it doesn't apply to everyone, but it applies to enough people that it justifies the product.

And ultimately it is just a product not a way of life being imposed on humanity. If it doesn't work for you then don't use it. If you don't like sailing you don't have to buy a sail boat, but you also don't have to decry their existence either.
I personally wouldn't call that 'dumping work', but parents with young kids do require more days off due to sickness, because you're off also on days when you're okay but your kids are sick.

Anecdotally, they also seem to get sick more (kindergartens as vectors for spreading flu? sleep-deprivation lowered immunity? just guessing), but the first part is obviously true.
Ever hear about the mafia and RICO laws? It is 100% legal to listen to phone conversations with a warrant. If you have evidence of wholesale FBI phone call collection and eavesdropping I'd love to see it.
I'm curious if the generated JS files will have Source Maps to trace back runtime issues to the C# code.
We've yet to train any adorable animals to do the scanning for us :(
According to a recent podcast I listened to[1] about a blind Software user, it seemed like there is a lot of issues with the current generation of Screen Readers. This includes issues with JS.

1.http://hanselminutes.com/413/im-a-blind-software-technician-...
That's not capitalism, that's greed. Sadly, many of the greedy are hiding behind the banner of capitalism, but don't be confused.
The most important economic chart
I hate to be that guy, but.... the website doesn't work on Chrome on Android. I see just empty page and some pictures.
I was hoping for a pen that simultaneously puts ink on the page and also tracks exactly what you write/draw and uploads it every minute or so. It'd probably be too difficult to do that with a tactile sensor, so perhaps a tiny camera could be used instead?

I assume neither of those are very practical at the moment, otherwise a company would've tried it already.
Does your website pass the 3-second test?
Are application programmers interested in energy consumption issues?
Nowadays, energy efficiency is becoming a key software design consideration where the energy consumption is closely related to battery lifetime.<p>But are application programmers interested in software energy consumption? If so, (ii) how they are dealing with energy consumption issues?

This paper tries to find an answer: gustavopinto.github.io/lost+found/msr.pdf
Raytracing is just one tool in a bag of necessary algorithms. For instance, there's no obvious way to extend raytracing to offer indirect lighting—all existing algorithms offer some form of tradeoff. Furthermore, many effects are flat out a pain to render with raytracing: displacement mapping, subsurface scattering, anti-aliasing, and scenes where both speed of rendering and dynamic geometry are needed. All of those require substantial thought and are non-trivial to implement.

And don't forget non-realistic graphics.

The problems of rendering are unlikely to become inherently easier—I don't think raytracing will ever be "end all of graphics". And while "every singly animated movie" might be raytraced to some extent, it's highly unlikely any of them use pure raytracing to achieve the effect.
You know I'm not sure I completely agree on this point. As someone that's lived in both the Java and Ruby worlds for a long time I'd say that in a many number of cases you're right. The "shiny object" syndrome is much less of a factor in the Java world and things like backward compatibility are engrained in the culture which manifests itself in the various open source projects. In the ruby world things are simpler to get started with and the surface area of a project is usually smaller and fairly easy to get integrated compared to Java. But ruby projects tend to "rot" much more quickly and aren't nearly as strict about compatibility. That's probably because Rails, the biggest reason for ruby's popularity, is very much about breaking compatibility without a second thought if it means improving the framework. But I've also seen some really well written and tested ruby gems in my time, compared to some java projects... and visa versa.
I ask because I know him

Do you know him as in you have met him in person, and know the real-world name he has besides his screenname? I hardly know anyone on Hacker News on that basis.

Not fully on this subject, but found in a thread linked from another tread I just looked up about nickb, it's interesting to look at Paul Graham's comments from 2251 days ago[1] about why he didn't want Hacker News to grow too big.

"It's a combination of motives: I want there to be a site that's like Reddit used to be; I want a real application to drive the design of Arc; and it's good advertising for YC.

"All three are best satisfied by a medium-size site with good quality links and comments, so I am definitely not hoping News.YC becomes the next Digg."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100182
My, at times perceived, 'neglecting' of past jobs in favor of being available for my wife and son is the very reason my wage has tripled and I'm now doing the work I love. Getting let go from two jobs were the best things to happen to my career AND my dreams of starting a start-up. If it wasn't for the focus that having a family to provide for, and build a future for, I personally would not have the ambition to take the risks and work and push myself like I have. I wouldn't be a programmer and I wouldn't still have the vision of the company and future I intend to create.

Children are startups. They are practices for startups. They entail commitment, chaos, emotional chaos, growth and faith and all that effort and sweat and tears and you don't have a clue as to how they are going to turn out until many many years and tears into the project. And even then it's still a guess as to where things will go.

And, at the end of the day, every innovator and humanity builder was a kid. Even if my startup doesn't go where I hope it will, I've got eggs in more than one basket. :)
Gremlin.js: Throw a thousand monkeys at your page
Here's some context - http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/10/02/eff-the-fourth-amendmen...
> Also, if they put FP64 support in their gaming cards they wouldn't be able to charge scientists and engineers extra.

Bingo. Not many entertainment problems demand such precision. Why not charge more for it?
I think you're being disingenuous. The author never said Microsoft was a Seattle based company. He said they're a "local employer" - which they are. He referred to Microsoft having seattle-based employees. Microsoft is obviously a Seattle area employer. When you have 42,940 employees in Puget Sound, you're a Seattle employer. It's a perfectly valid reference.
I thought he was joking at first, as in satire that shows how silly the rest of the "secret laws" are (like NYC's classified FOI system).
Well said. nothing to add. Perfect play.
> there's no law of the universe that says that "disruption" is a good thing, and there certainly isn't any clean way to weigh the interests of one big established industry with those of a large, successful, wealthy competitor industry.

There's something fairly close to a law which says that disruption is a good thing. Industries can only be disrupted by entrants that provide products that consumers prefer, so we have almost-a-law: disruption is a preferable-to-consumers thing. There a few cases where that's not socially desirable (I suppose crack replacing cocaine would be an example) but those are exceptional enough that I think we ought to regard disruption as presumed good unless shown otherwise.

Similarly, a decent heuristic for choosing whose interests to consider out of an established industry and a competitor is to let consumers choose which one is better. Of course this can be difficult for those in the established industry, but we're in a society-wide Prisoner's Dilemma over this, and a useful function of government would be making sure we all cooperate. Letting consumers choose the best companies is cooperation; protecting your own industry is defection. I'd be better off if my job and income were guaranteed, but I'd be worse off if everyone else got the same deal.
Would be fun if this relegated traditional GPUs to being used only for mining cryptocurrency.
It would be cool if someone made a VM for development only, on which you could run x86_64 assembly, and get sensible error messages.
There is an interesting lesson here writ small: How do old-line rent seekers, even where their industries are tiny compared to the technology industry and the investors behind it, continue to give the nerds wedgies?

Why didn't we tell the DRM people where to stick it? The business of selling recorded performances is teeny tiny compared to the 1.5 billion programmable devices per year, the routers, the fiber, the software, etc. of the tech industry. And yet we are led by the nose.

If we figure out what makes taxi companies powerful, maybe we can rip the DRM out of our devices.
Never had a problem with slf4j on top of log4j. By the way, I use DEBUG in development and INFO in production. The ratio of logging messages between the two levels is about 1 for 50. Definitely an useful feature on top of System.out.println. I also change log levels for certain packages because some libraries are too verbose.

Why are you so bitter ?
Authority is also the right word:

Authority: 3. • a person with extensive or specialized knowledge about a subject; an expert: she was an authority on the stock market.

From the Oxford American Dictionary

It's this meaning of the word authority used in Appeal to Authority: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Me neither, but I imagine he's a blast at parties..
It's not insane to do something you want to do.
There is no military threat that can touch US territory.

The threat our intelligence community is trying to guard against is not military. It's the threat of a terrorist attack. Our elected representatives have repeatedly authorized the intelligence community to do various things to try to prevent such an attack. (Not to mention our military.) That includes authorizing various forms of secrecy.

You may not agree with all that, but the remedy is to elect different representatives, who have been clearly informed by the voters that preventing a terrorist attack is now lower priority, so it's OK to spend a lot less money on it. And of course, those same voters would have to agree not to complain to the government if the drastic reduction in spending resulted in an attack happening that could have been prevented if spending on intel had been higher.

The fundamental problem is that we want two things: freedom, and safety. But you can't have unlimited amounts of both; there's always a tradeoff.

would that create an existential threat to the US, or not?

The problem is that nobody knows unless they've seen the information that would be released, and once you've released it, you can't take it back. So nobody is going to run this experiment.
Anyone have issues using Tweetdeck on Firefox 28?

I get a scripting error, and it won't load it!
Doh! Just when you think you've found all the editing mistakes :)
Why was it replaced with "#if 1" instead of just deleting the entire "if/end" delimiters? Won't that always evaluate to true?
> I just find it harder to jump into a project with heavy reliance on global events

Harder than what?
It's a self-limiting hack which squeals the friction between musicians and the new techno-gatekeepers.
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