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Yes, and they could even rent you the modem to use with the service! /sarcasm

That's basically an ISP. You pay someone to make sure you stay connected. Then they become corrupt and try to find new ways to make more money on the deal.
You've let your vitriol get in the way of fact-checking.

Found at the bottom of http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ :

"Created by <a href=http://gabrielecirulli.com/>Gabriele Cirulli.</a> Based on <a href=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224>1024 by Veewo Studio</a> and conceptually similar to <a href=http://asherv.com/threes/>Threes by Asher Vollmer.</a>"

[Please ignore the idiot URLifier.]
They don't use Amazon for streaming videos.
sorry,I just want join your talk,but my english is not good.
That's a variable the moderator can tune as well. We actually ended up setting the limit at 5 when we launched, which I don't think inconvenienced anyone.
Hey there. Employee at Famo.us here. This URL wasn't meant for public distribution, but that's beside the point. We're officially launching on the 9th, and I can only hope we change your opinion of "Famo.us as vaporware" then and onwards.

Ultimately, the proof is in the product. I'm just excited to share with you what we think is some pretty sweet technology. If we convince (or don't convince) you, let me know. david@famo.us
"I really like JavaScript" might be a compelling personal narrative, but it makes a pretty uninteresting submission to Hacker News :(
"six months of Rails and JS" sounds like the average HN reader. There's probably someone building a Saas with a REST-api for converting text betwen upper and lower case. Join them, post the link here and get your 10 remaining minutes of fame.
The initial result is that gangs will go around stealing in masses by force and sell it for profit, as you pointed out - the demand need to be there, the basic social infrastructure need to be there. Look at china, it's exploding with cellphones because the society is catching up to modern advances. I think there is better ways to do good in the world rather than force a technology, like food, water and shelter. There are +800 million that are starving, fix that first!
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The article criticizes the standard of evidence provided for mainstream diet advice, and yet they provide absolutely no evidence for their claim that the really important factor is eating natural, unprocessed food.
In case you don't read to the bottom, this is pretty good advice: "avoid processed food".

I don't really understand why in the year 2014 there is still so much conflicting thought around diet. You'd think we'd have a better handle on it by now.

I don't find statement like this very compelling: "there is no convincing evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease". Does that leave open the door for "there is evidence that saturated fats contribute to heart disease"?
"This is why there are fights right now between Netflix and Internet service providers. The fight comes down to this: Who's going to pay to keep the videos running smoothly? Will it be Netflix, which is sending all the data? Or companies like Time Warner, whose customers, like Rachel, are demanding it?"

Rachel pays Time Warner for her broadband connection to get her data from anywhere on the internet, as was sold to her by Time Warner which is the current day technology that is expected of broadband network access. Time Warner built their network upon receiving many tax breaks for their prime market position.

Rachel pays Netflix for the content that comes through the network.

The system is correctly setup except one minor flaw, if Time Warner doesn't want to pay for it then a competitor can't offer the same service or get the same funding and breaks they did to compete.

The broadband companies are lethargic dinosaurs, hopefully network access will go right over their heads (even if by Zuckerberg drones), when wires aren't needed we can release them.
I think they do:
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix/
Actually the app copying goes: Threes -> 1024 -> 2048
When Stack Overflow recently released the new top bar no one could figure out the Inbox icon. I guess office desks don't have inboxes anymore, either. I'm really curious what the next one to go will be. The standard trash can??
For the sake of everyone in your family, please back up everything in multiple places. That's awesome to have a snapshot of the culinary history of your family in digital format. When the time is right, share all the recipes!
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"As you can see we need to pull the string for 77.09Hz :)"

What does that mean?

Edit: 329.63 (desired) - 252.54 (actual) = 77.09

I was confused because the frequency/magnitude plot had the maximum-magnitude frequency in the title. Perhaps that point should be labeled instead.
WTF ?? This argument is so ridiculous. "ISP" stands for Internet Service Provider as in, an entity that provides an internet service (and maintains the necessary infrastructure). That is why people pay them.
Not to mention the fact that the ISPs got $200 billion from the gov't in order to provide said infrastructure.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...
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Similarly, ergot poisoning used to be called "witchcraft".

Anyone with half a brain should understand that Big Pharma is just trying to cover up the existence of witches. Clearly all this "medical" stuff is bullshit, especially anything that has anything to do with the mind.

Oh, and brain damage from syphilis is another interesting one. Once upon a time we still understood that some people just go crazy with age. Now doctors are trying to spread this bullshit about how a sexually transmitted virus can destroy your brain- just proof that the doctors are being paid of by the Church, I say.
Different needs call for different stacks. We've moved a lot of our systems to node.js for reasons outlined in this article but at the same time Go makes more sense for mission critical infrastructure at scale where performance matters.
Honestly, does a context switch exist for switching between frontend JS and backend Go? I am not trying to tout my own horn here, but I don't have problems with that.

And this is coming from someone who has used Node.js for multiple startups in the past 2.5 years.
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I worked on the design of the desktop Facebook News Feed. Just posted a response to the article here: https://medium.com/p/ed75a0ee7641

Actually, the older version of the design we tested would have been positive for revenue had we shipped it. But there were a number of other issues that made it harder for people to use (which also resulted in them liking it less.)
Is't too rude for you to say that?
I'm hopeful that Transcriptic[0] will be able to make a dent.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/aws-for-life-science-with-4...
The whole system runs on AWS but most videos are watched in the last mile from edge caching hosted closer to the viewer.

Bandwidth providers should be happy companies want to edge cache and take strain off the larger network and provide better customer experiences.
> When the so called "free market" fails

Anyone who blames US Internet issues (or pretty much any other issue in the US) should just go and try to start a competing business and see what happens. I think you'd find that "free" is one of the last words you'd use to describe the industry.
no. Netflix uses aws for serving html, and other relatively low bandwidth content. But media bits are not served from aws.
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The self-interventions you've discussed in the past aren't at all comparable to, say, inducing hypothermia... and if they were so easy a cure for CF then I'm not sure that pleading bias against housewives with one weird trick would really serve to explain why remotely plausible cures to CF aren't in broader trials.
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If you and a prospective partner are interested in doing this remotely, try using Screenhero. Many users have found it's the best way to code together remotely.

Disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders of Screenhero :)
Kind of like automobiles, which are widely owned by private individuals.
Well maybe it would be worth trying Meteor for you.

I've tried something similar, that is Rails + Ember.js, and I find using Meteor.js easier.
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The second half reads a lot like "I can write everything in Javascript so why would I need another language"
You should really look into a version of Word called 6.0 for Windows and Mac. Thankfully, Excel 6.0 was skipped for the Mac.
Hows that working for Yahoo now?

Pretty well, considering they are still around more than a decade after they stopped being "cool". They're not trendy in tech circles, they are just a business that makes money.

Yahoo and Facebook are time-wasters... Time-wasters are basically unprofitable

Yeah, unprofitable to the tune of $600 million a year. That's Yahoo's net profit last year.

I swear to god, the blindness of people to anything that's not hip right now is amazing. People assume because they personally stopped caring about something that it must have failed.
Good choice! I'm looking for funding for my startup, how do i get in touch :)
I just want to let you know that I did my entire masters thesis/project using Octave (sound signal processing). Please keep up the good work. :)
Oh, i thought you were going to say "Mail-order brides," which for some reason they don't let you do.
Not as stupid as the people recommending that OTHER people give up their freedom to marry to make a political point that nobody should have the right to marry.
People will tailor their comments to please the endorsers that be. We will be turning inward mentally, and we will never know how much.

This might be the goal.

YC has been fairly heavily criticized for comments on certain topics which don't toe the party line. Mitigating such comments may be beneficial for YC (the business) in order to avoid negative publicity and attacks from powerful adversaries looking to score a symbolic victory [1]. Remember "The [mis]Information" interview with PG?

Discussions of such topics are mostly a distraction from what most of us come here for anyway, so it likely would not hurt HN much, particularly if it is turned on in sensitive threads only. In my view banning such topics would be a better solution, but I'm aware that HN has been attacked by critics for the soft ban (which pushes such stories down quickly), so this might be the best compromise for the business.

(It's important to remember that YC is a business and HN is just advertising for the business.)

[1] YC is a good target for such a symbolic victory since they are weak supporters of the cause and are unlikely to fight back too strongly but are also highly visible.
but what is "work"? Seems to hit the point of 'make conform'
https://web.archive.org/web/20140310210707/http://gabrieleci...
Holy cow is this ever true:

But one group of commuters report enjoying themselves. These are people who travel under their own steam [...] They walk. They run. They ride bicycles.

Completely matches my experience, and it's astonishing how strong the effect is.
My question is, how slow is the specializer? It is portrayed as very fast, but it looks like it's doing a significant fraction of a real compiler's work.

Then again, if it's mostly used at program installation time, who cares?
It happened www.lifehacker.com a few years ago.

But I think they really made it worst after the updated UI, I never got back there.
The first three complaints addressed are far too common for how ridiculous and unfounded they are, and it's nice to see them addressed head-on.

The fourth is simply confusing. If you're not sharing code between the client and the server, you're missing something big (though he does say it might just be the projects he's on).

Modern business software is faced with two competing forces: bulletproof integrity and responsive interaction. Making your application bulletproof requires that business rules are evaluated on the server, but making it responsive requires those same rules to be evaluated on the client. Think about credit card validation: it's infuriating to wait for a round-trip to the server just to discover you've mistyped your number, but that doesn't mean the server can simply trust the client.

At the moment Node.js + browser JavaScript provides the only solution I know which allows you to write your business rules once and only once. Anything else is crufty.
I believe the author meant between frameworks, patterns and compilation styles. To a lesser extent syntax (that's probably the most visible but least painful).

To be honest, I'm not sure what that point was about I still feel a context switch going from server side node js in my apis and apps to client side angular / backbone. They are just different beasts.

Unless he does a lot of the node in the browser thing?

I dont know how you would avoid the context switch. There is, I guess, a chance the author is seeing that as an obvious but actually nonissue stemming from his other complaint (which I agree with) the tool chain.

The npm and friends tool chain is absolutely bliss to work with from a web developers point of view. While it is all doable with other more traditional build tools like ant or make there is something awesome about every part of your stack being in a single scripting language.

While right tool for the right job is still valid its amazing what has been accomplished in the ecosystem against all odds from javascripts initial debut..
Yes, because it got slammed. It doesn't take very much to slam a t1.micro when you're forking a CGI script on every page load...
The bitstream format, at least for Xilinx, is not that obscure. Actually was documented in an old application note.
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It's a very interesting contrast of experiences. When I eat a steak I'm not hungry for a long time afterward (whereas a muffin doesn't sate nearly as well). It makes me wonder what causes such a variance between people with regards to how they experience food.
My parents didn't want me on ADHD meds - which is hysterical because my father very obviously has undiagnosed symptoms of ADHD too - so I didn't get any and had to rely solely on behavioral techniques and societal pressure until I picked my own damn therapist. Me at 16 in college with dinky checklists compared to me at 25 right now with the same checklists and Adderall is like night and day.

As much as I love my parents, I occasionally get angry when I think about what could have been compared to what happened because they didn't like the idea of me being on drugs (like I wasn't on other drugs). Not missed opportunities that were impossible to begin with, but a lot of reachable goals and dreams I had that I tried working my ass off towards and it just wasn't happening because I spent just as much time struggling with myself as I did working towards said goals. I'm trying to play catchup still, years later. I suspect there are some goals that I will never be able to do anything about now because there was some age/time component to it.

Speaking of other drugs, there are plenty of them - yes, maybe even "dealt" by "drug dealer" doctors that are actually terrible - that significantly improve quality of life. Drugs are not inherently bad. It's a constant balance of whether or not the tradeoffs are worth it, that's all. Like right now I'm juggling 6-7 different meds and their side effects to fix my bronchitis+asthma right now because I do not want to end up in the ER or worse, dead. Is that so terrible? Am I a drug addict for not wanting to suffer when I have a choice to not suffer? Even if you want to label me as such, what, are you a firm believer in survival of the fittest? Because if we can keep people from suffering and dying, I would do it. Screw that fittest bullshit.
Perhaps you missed the part where he was talking about apprenticing?
No, I'm not tired or easily winded. My health has improved.
Well, you're right. That sounds awesome.

Is there a good reason gimp doesn't support that? You make it sound like common sense.
I think I can see both sides. If all meaningful stats you are collecting are going down, I think something is definitely wrong. There are basically three options:

1. Fix/revert the update so that those stats increase again. This is probably the easiest/quickest option, especially the revert, but it obviously sucks to have "wasted" time on the updates.

2. Collect new/more stats that you deem meaningful and see if those have increased. This is the one that I like best from the perspective of a lowly programmer who worked hard on the updates, because it provides the possibility that even though existing stats have worsened, the updates are still empirically better. Of course, it's hard to figure out what new stats to look for, and whether or not to deem them truly meaningful. An oversimplified example would be if all you're looking at is ad conversions, maybe you should start looking at user retention as well, because even if ad conversions decrease, a large increase in retention can in the long (or even short) run lead to more revenue.

3. Ignore the numbers on the prediction that the numbers will increase over time. This one is also appealing, but will and probably should be rejected by management.

Something that also needs to be recognized is that "significantly more modern and easier to use" is a subjective claim, and is not necessarily "better" for whatever definition of "better" the company is using.
It seems like a lot of flame wars could be prevented without a pending comment feature, or at least a watered down one.

If a comment is particularly offensive/offtopic, it is already downvoted, eventually greyingout. To prevent flame wars, the reply button could simply be disabled on those comments, or in comment threads with high vote volatility (high numbers of up and down votes on parent comment). Vote volatility could indicate a flamebait worthy topic, and the reply depth could be limited based on the volatility.

Similarly the reply button could be pulled when two users are chaining long reply threads alone.

Perhaps with higher levels of karma, the reply thread depth is relaxed for those particular users.

Modifying reply access should prevent flame wars, but if there is still a desire to police the content more, then I think a "flag" button is more effective. If enough people flag your post (regardless of your karma), it could be placed in a type of quarantine area and then be pending until someone with the karma privileges decides to moderate it back in or not. I believe this is what reddit does, though the comments must be approved by mods rather than users.
It took me a while to realize that you work at Facebook. Maybe add a sentence or two about that on top of the article?
From what I can tell, edge caching occurs on AWS as well.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/06/announcing-zuul-edge-ser...

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/01/ephemeral-volatile-cachi...
Will Android become the AWS of Internet of Things?
Instead of answering what you are looking for, let me try to give some leads.

For few minutes, try to disconnect yourself from facebook, mobile, etc. Grab a coffee or your favorite drink. See what are the things that you wished would've been better. Lemme give some random thoughts.

1. oh, my brother always forgets to buy fruits on friday. may be i should write small webapp which will take list of things to buy and reminds him on friday morning.
2. I love, when my friends playing cricket every weekend. May be we should record all the good pics/scores and record them somewhere, so that it will be a good thing to look at later.
3. I am always running out of money. may be i should record what i am spending on and get a report of it at the end of week/month, so that i can plan my expenditure accordingly.

remember, that every thing that needs to be built, requires few idle minutes to think about the problem, write down the things we want, design(how-it-should-look) it, code(make-it-work) it (Code is always the last and the most exiting thing!)

Hope you got some idea.

Now go have some fun !
I don't really see much of a difference. If a company must make money to continue to exist, then I think it's reasonable to say that company "exists to make money." Of course, that doesn't mean is exists only to make money.
Any reference on working with lights on vs off? I've seen 1 or 2 people do that in office. I've been told that lack of ambient light might cause more strain. Is there any study supporting what you've said?
Currently my most downvoted post, even though it is factually accurate and contains no opinion.
For 95% of their user base Outlook for Mac is also at feature parity.

I've been using it in enterprise for years and never found a missing feature.
I also have no interest in using Yahoo, but my (Japanese) wife loves using the Japanese-language version to browse news, etc. I wonder if they are making most of their money in Japan.
My third grade teacher apparently had every boy in her class tested. As a boy, and frankly as a boy who was independent, mouthy and unlikely to do work in school unless I wanted to, I'm glad I had great parents and a great pediatrician. My pediatrician had my parents and teacher run an experiment: my mom would choose a pill with active ingredient or a pill with nothing in it, and my teacher, without knowing which I took that day, would record notes on my behavior. Turns out, no correlation between the two.

I don't doubt there are people in this world for who ADHD is a real thing. But I think we are too quick in the modern age to drug without thinking. Parents demand antibiotics for illnesses which are just small bugs... guess what, now we are having problems with drug resistant bacteria. Lawmakers, administrators, and teachers (in that order) want to turn classrooms in to machines which churn out educated people like clockwork. Turns out, humans are animals, not machines, so we load everybody with some stimulants to make children just sit still.

I'm not anti-medicine in any way. I have personally seen Ritalin work on a friend who actually had ADHD growing up. And I have also seen another friend buy Vyvanse illegally so he could study for 15 hours a day. I believe in prescription drugs. I just don't always believe in the prescription.
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No. They would write the kind of software we used to write back in the days when all computers are like that and we traded away everything else for machine efficiency because we had no choice: clumsy, feature impoverished, riddled with arbitrary limits that trip you up at the worst possible moment, fundamentally insecure, hard to use and generally crap.
Some good comments here that I feel like implementing

@ColonelPanic001 : dark cube, overhead lights off, monitor at minimum brightness

@jisaacstone : large monitor, big font, keep it far away. Relax instead of leaning in toward the screen. I am often mentally tired at the end of day but no eye strain.

@a8da6b0c91d : get sunlight

@xbonez : try http://justgetflux.com/

@djb_hackernews : Personal experience on why taking timely care is important
Yes, OP is rude but he is also trying to teach the youngster a lesson, that Rails and JS is nothing. Don't believe the hype or the cult of PG.
A friend of mine lives in a large apartment building next to the Loop in Chicago. The building was unable to negotiate a competitive plan so they went with satellite. Clearly the local market has failed when satellite offers a better package.
i eat at 8a, 11a, 3p and 7p every day.

doesn't matter what i eat.

i'm never hungry.

and i'm an athlete who eats a caloric deficit.
It is so gratifying to hypothesize your existence, and then, like a high-energy particle, here you are. (Hypothesized here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484795)
Native applications do layout and engines such as Qt are single threaded.