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The text is:

"I use git and github a lot and have very few complaints, and yet I
have failed to see the use of gists.

- What is wrong with standard repo + README?
- No way of converting a standard repo into a "gist" repo.

When I work on a code project, even some random one-off script, I
track its evolution in a git repo. So if it doesn't naturally belong
in an existing repo, I create a new repo. As soon as I have something
that I don't want to lose, I'll make an initial commit. The commands
involved are near instantaneous and they bring huge benefits.

Now, I want to share this script. Can I turn my repo into a gist? No,
I don't believe so.

So what is the workflow?

1. Start work
2. Get to a point you want to share with others, without ever having committed
3. Use web UI to create gist
4. Paste work into gist and save
5. Edit, paste, iterate

or

1. Decide to start project
2. Use web UI to create gist
3. Clone gist repo
4. Rename it so it's not just a large integer
5. Start work
6. Commit and push gist to remote

I don't hear much criticism of gists so hopefully I am missing
something. But at the moment it seems to me that if you want history,
use a normal git repo. And if you don't want history, use a paste
buffer with no versioning features"
This is a good point. Your grandparent's original distinction was that 1+1=2, just as 2^1=2, follows from a definition while 0^0=1 is immediately defined. However, the parent's still valid point was clearly that even the plus operator is in the larger sense just as arbitrary as the definition of 0^0, concurring with the overall theme of this thread that mathematics ultimately gives no credibility to intuition.
I wish they'd link the VMWare VMs for other OSes... They're available under the Linux option iirc, which works fine for windows/mac.
Bored is a positive feeling. Specially in 2014. I would love to get bored on summer afternoons.
Yes free software and open source can be adopted by those to the right of the political spectrum. Is this surprising, how?

Perhaps it's because we think that FOSS is free like socialism. I think it's more free as in free market. Perhaps it's because those in power have defended certain corporations in anti competitive practices and patents etc - but this is not really a political issue, more like corruption.

I work with open data - and one of the things we see in this field is that proprietary software likes it, a lot. It means that there's loads of great data to run on the software. And free software is used by commercial companies also.
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European Parliament passes net neutrality law
Cheers Bryan, that's a great one of your talks and thanks for the interesting licensing comedy.
I'd like to see similar script for blackboards (greenboards?).
Lisp has a lot of syntax complexity that lies hidden under the covers. Sure, symbolic expressions appear regular and uniform but macros are often radically different from functions in syntax, despite looking otherwise identical in application. A big offender in this regard is the loop macro.
I'm talking these two steps, not page precompilation:

1. Proxy generation (castle) -> IL

2. IL -> Native.
I had a Commodore 64-SX that fell off an office when they upgraded to 286s... Good times. There was an easy way to get composite out from it, but I never managed to.
You mean JavaFX. That works with web start :)

You can do ClickOnce and WPF as well if you want.

I rather like these solutions. I've built several of both.
We still use one for autonomous vehicle monitoring (it talks to a packet radio) because it's easy to read in the sun, and quick to type commands on.
Also of interest is that posts about the identity of Satoshi have been removed from Hacker News because it is not tech news, or relevant.
From my experience, much of an ASP.NET web app's start time is not so much the JIT-ing but before that, when the ASP.NET runtime compiles pages/views (aspx/cshtml etc) into *.cs then DLLs. Pre-compiling can mitigate this.

Larger EF models can have quite an impact.

Also if you use New Relic, it can seriously affect startup time too.
So what is a feature of asm.js that is not in JS?
Also, if you have a "stop loss" orders then I think it is worth cancelling them. I'm not sure if they are smart enough to pick up on splits.
"Establishing everything clearly makes our Person easier to debug but harder to change."

I think that the line above from this article highlights a certain difference between massive, corporate projects and (initially) smaller hackathon projects. In my experience so far, the large corporations tend to prefer the statically typed languages, eg, C#, Java, etc, and all of the hackathons I've attended have been dominated by javascript, python, and the like. The large companies tend to also have lots of documentation and specifications surrounding each project - often even before a single line of code is written. These companies rely on the correctness of their design to not excessively change in the near future of development. In comparison, hacakthon projects, while often just or more successful, instead take great advantage from the fluidity provided by dynamic typing, allowing them to rapidly create totally new revisions of their object structure.
Looks like Marvin supports Readmill cloud? http://blog.marvinapp.com/post/69175405146 (I have yet to try though, and it's an old announcement.)
Unfortunately it isn't good right now. It's pretty much IE only in practice. It might become good eventually but it's not there yet.
Why do I need Javascript to display a simple image? Here is the direct link:

http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Int...
Great. Would it be possible to add interactivity to this map.

E.g. I am now in China, checking some website hosted in France. Can it tell me the usual routes? Could it trace route real time and show me which one was chosen?
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More than likely plex streaming, like roku has.
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hi there. i'm the management behind btcd, an alternative full node bitcoin implementation, and i can say that it is very unlikely the original code is the product of a single person. additionally, the amount of work that must have gone into testing and setting the myriad constants for bitcoin is huge, far more than a single person is capable of in a few-year period.

i won't share all the magic but consider this: have you noticed how there are big and little endian flips littered throughout the code, especially in the script code? do you think that a single dev would just arbitrarily assign endianness throughout the code, then have the script code be big endian?
sorry, search didn't work for me and hacker news didn't redirect to the existing link
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I didn't read the article but the part you quoted is basic economics. If some currency has usage but a limited supply - even if it's just cigarettes in a prison - its price will go up. When this happens, it gives a hurdle rate on spending. If relatively few cigarettes are making it into a prison, but there is no other convenient form of currency, you might well hold off trading some of yours because it will be worth more in a couple of weeks. Gold certainly can suffer from this effect and is a main reason that growth was unlocked when paper got off a 100% gold standard: if the economy needed money, you no longer had to mine it.

This is NOT a normative statement, just a fact. Bitcoin spending is going to be curtailed (fact) by a limit on the speed of increase of the money supply, just as spending is spurred (fact) by easy credit and inflation.

(Inflation for a fact spurs spending, because if inflation is 7%, then holding onto money costs you 7% per year, whereas spending it on anything can let you retain that value.)

These are not normative statements but completely uncontroversial (and intuitive) economics.
Yes and no. We ship our views as content as we have a custom UI front end that isn't razor or asp.net. The startup time for us is compiling NH proxies and the fact that our bin dir is huge:

http://imgur.com/EyjR5WH

It takes forever for the JIT to actually compile all code paths in these assemblies.

There's no PDBs in there either. Our domain and NH maps consume 42Mb of that to give you an idea.
Google Chrome. Sends your every keypress straight to Google.
This is something I can't get my head round. I have a NAS which I sometimes stream stuff from my xbox 360 from. With chromecast do I need any other device for that to work. Or does it go NAS > Phone/Laptop > Chromecast. Or NAS > Chromecast.
I disagree. While the original is far more comprehensive and interactive, this map is a superior visual summary for the same reason the original London tube map was so revolutionary - it allows you to see the layout of the network without geography getting in the way (not an obvious thing to do at the time). I for one, despite having looked at many such cable maps, have never managed to grasp the actual topology of the internet.

Here's a pre-schematic London tube map:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Tube_map_...
No its quite correct, especially holds true for other sciences such as Biology and Chemistry
Visibility: visible undoes visibility: hidden
I would email info@ycombinator.com and ask for permission to resubmit it. I'm sure it was just a misunderstanding.
That looks pretty nice, as controllers go, and better priced than e.g. the most recent DualShock.

Seeing that it's Bluetooth, I hope support for it trickles into mainstream Linux.
OK, so are you saying that compiling the language's runtime environment, including the GC, to asm.js would not be efficient enough? That makes sense.

I guess I was hoping that there may be some way to compile the runtime such that the GC wouldn't need to be compiled, and the GC of whatever is interpreting the asm.js code (e.g. SpiderMonkey) could be used instead.
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I like this better: http://www.submarinecablemap.com
We will have to conquer some land with access to the sea to appear on a map of submarine internet cables, I'm afraid ;)
We can just define exp as:

exp(x) = 1 + x/1! + x*x/2! + x*x*x/3! + ...
It was just an example to clarify the criticism of "cryptocurrencies waste energy". It would be up to the cryptocurrency advocates to show such a function.

On the plus side, the problem does not necessarily be "proportional to D", in fact, finding a better function would be incentivized. Since the computer cycles would produce a "real" value (curing cancer), the upper limit for these coins would be the amount of money society would spend on a cancer treatment.

/speculation
I wonder why Sweden is not listed as a surveillance country. Also the connections to Sweden looks odd since I think there are direct cables to the UK for instance.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defence_Radio_Establis...
Uhm, anything that is part of a definition follows from that definition.

`A and B implies A' and so on.

In the end a function, in the mathematical sense, is just a long (possibly infinite) table of `from' and `to' values. We could argue that one definition of ^ is more or less complex than another, for some definition of complexity, but I'm not sure which would win, and if it would be useful.
It never stops to amaze me - what does have Europe that other places don't?

...anyway, I'm just glad and thankful to be born in Europe!
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The thing is, everyone has their opinions. It just happens that his donation was revealed.

Ok, suppose a new guy comes along, he could have donated a million dollars to ... I don't know .. an even worse cause. How would you know?

That's why we have laws and protections against each other's opinions (however imperfect they may be).
Can anyone recommend a really good book on mathematics that demonstrates the "beauty" of it? I'd love to really learn and understand about Fast Fourier Transforms and the like, but any book I have is from my old college days and is just so bloody tedious.

I used to really love maths when I was younger but it got beaten out of me by endless repetition and "now do Questions 1 - 50" tedium.

Now I get scared whenever I see the "summation" symbol.
Only last weekend I was at a talk by Professor Elemental, who makes a living doing the kind of niche hip-hop that could simply not have existed ten or twenty years ago. You've got to remember that in the old days many people spent years unemployed or working low-end part-time jobs trying and failing to break into the music industry; there may be fewer superstars making millions these days, but there're vastly more people who, while they may be earning close to minimum wage, are now able to work full-time doing what they love, and I think the quality and variety of modern music reflects that.

I think a lot of the great artists we look back on were more egalitarian than the "high art" of today. Beethoven's late quartets may have been commissioned by a prince for an enormous sum, but he took the time to do the piano arrangement himself so that commoners would hear the correct version. Shakespeare wrote for rich and poor together. Last year I went to an exhibition of Kuniyoshi's works, now regarded as great art - and they were woodblock-printed, stamped out and sold to ordinary folk for the same price as a bowl of noodles.
btw.

license: Apache License 2
Indonesia currently have a very big "relationship" with twitter as more people are getting smartphones everyday.

And getting stuck in traffic would contribute to a lot of tweeting. FYI, Indonesian more people access YouTube from phones than other countries compared to the pc web version, at least in South East Asia.
I'm usually more frustrated by the restrictions imposed by apps. Can't copy-paste, can't adjust text size, can't export the list of stories read or archive them, can't apply my own filters, can't use it on my desktop, etc.

For example, I can't use Circa, due to [1]. With email, this kind of stupid restrictions just don't exist. Though I agree that email is not the best platform for this activity: I prefer RSS/Atom.

[1] http://circa.helpshift.com/a/circa-news/?s=general&f=why-isn...
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It's funny; that's how I feel a lot of the time. It seems like so much of my life is reacting to whatever is next on my "priority list". I miss the days when I was younger and had the afternoon with nothin to do.

I feel like righ now I would want to relax and do nothing, but I know tat if I had the oppertunity I would get bored, but from the boredness I would start doing something interesting and creative.
Can you give an example of a defect that the type system catched? You said typos but that's something JSLint would catch as well so not sure if it's a strong argument.
If the web will solely consist of static .jpegs then yes: designers will rule the web. However at the moment our webpages are interactive and starting to be adaptive and accessible as well. We also might have some data on the backend that need to be manipulated in the UI. And theres also performance. I don't think there is a way to expose all these to designers without requiring them to code and actually have an understanding beyond design.

> 3D artists have modeling and animation software that they can manipulate directly

And nowadays they also have to start worrying about the physical properties of those models.

Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG4QuTe8aUw

It appears to me that this article generally doesn't want to understand the difference between print and web.
Technolibertarians, Mozilla and boycotts
wait too much word. I mean compared to other countries, a bigger portion of Indonesian people access YouTube through their phones than "traditional" computers
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I wish to 3d print the GRiD case, find a monochrome orange/black LCD, fit some arm board into it and marry it. Maybe bunny huang open mobo ..

ps: There was one listed on a local 'craigslist' for a few bucks, I missed it by a few days, it was deeply saddening.
Ask HN: Does Facebook only paying $1 salary break minimum wage rules?
Having a debate over coffee with someone on this today and was wondering. In theory, does Facebook (and others company's who do this with key people) only paying Mark Zuckerberg a $1 salary break minimum wage rules?
>> Verifiable offline transactions with no centralization? Can you link to some?

Nope, because they all have centralisation, as I said, the thrashing is the tradeoff!
I think partly because the free market tends to be very money-driven, whilst FOSS doesn't. But, in general, it's no surprise that some members of the community have pretty right-wing views, and not necessarily much of a problem, beyond the wider implications. In this particular case, it's fodder for those wishing to attack Eich, and possibly more reason for those concerned about Mozilla's working environment and how it will be affected. Personally, I don't think there will be any direct impact on life at Mozilla, and the products it produces are hardly about to start being politicised, but it's more of a general concern that companies and CEOs convey some kind of authority, and views such as his might be lent credence as a result.
I think this is because developers tend to have fairly fast computers, and simply don't realize that their program is slow on old hardware.

But does this happen with Zed? For me it works well even on old pentium4 desktop.
> Providers of internet access to end-users shall not discriminate between functionally equivalent services and applications.

This means they can still throttle torrents, right?
That idea might imply that future Google's, using its old self definition are going to play an increasingly critical role in human progress.
These are great news, I am a big supporter for net neutrality, however I am a bit concerned about one small detail:

>“Net neutrality” means the principle according to which all internet traffic is treated equally, without discrimination, restriction or interference, independently of its sender, recipient, type, content, device, service or application.

I wonder how this will work in case of malicious attacks, ddos, disruptive requests and packets/connections with the sole purpose of disrupting the normal usage of the net. Blocking these at isp level is not a bad idea, but how deep does this rabbit hole go?
This is very interesting!

It's too bad that none of the sources I could find say anything about how this is going to work.

I hope it is more like traditional USB than Lightning, i.e. somewhat simpler (Lightning puts a lot of complexity inside the cable). In a way, it's a bit sad to lose USB's clean differentiation of host (A) and device (B) ports, but I guess nobody really understood those or cared. Symmetry is simpler.
I'm fairly certain that it would work just like shares.

At the point a company is first created it's shares have zero value and so it's founders pay no tax when they receive them. The fact that they gain value later has no bearing on that situation.

Of course, creating shares at a later point in a companies life (when they may have value) does have tax implications.

Thus, any coins that were mined before there was any value you shouldn't need to pay tax on.
Yeah this is the most important feature in editor.
But did you try zed? it already has this feature.
Well, based on that quote they can throttle what they want - but they have to do it equally across all similar applications. So for example they can't throttle Youtube and not throttle Netflix - they have to throttle both (or neither).
From first reading, this makes it look as if ISPs will be unable to offer eg elevated weighting to specific VoIP traffic unless that's offered by the ISP themselves. I want my VoIP trunks to my exchange to have better QoS than my Skype chats.

I'm not convinced this is a good thing.
> You can have different products using the same name so long as they're not in the same category.

Usually that is taken as meaning categories such as 'beverages' vs 'cars'.

Trying to extend it to saying 'my three-wheeled car product called Ford Focus is in a different category to that four-wheeled one' would be unlikely to succeed

A recent example in the software domain was Python ( cloud services ) versus Python ( the language ). Python cloud services is now called Veber Cloud.
From your one can tell that Windows is really engrained in your workflow. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's sometimes good to open up a bit and acknowledge the weaknesses of a system such that you can use this knowledge for future decisions.

So let me give you examples of why the registry is wrong. Let's say you or a user that you administer has a problem with Complex GUI application - for some reason it won't start anymore. What's your usual solution in Windows? Right, reinstall the thing and hope for the registry being cleaned ine the process. POSIX systems? Delete the config files either in the home folder or globally per app. OSX even has forma and location of these files standardized.

Then again, why even install an app? A userland application should never feel the need of any 'installation'. That's again how it works in OSX, mostly thanks to being registry free.

The main benefit of the Windows way is how registry settings can be pushed with the AD - but there's no reason this couldn't be solved without a registry. Containerization is where I see POSIX going in order to solve this.
Minimalism is but one of many art styles, so I disagree with the goal of achieving perfect simplicity.
Combine this with the Oculus VR and some scenting technology and you've got 3/5 senses involved in visiting a place. The only remaining senses to be covered will be touch and taste. Boy is it a good time to be alive !
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Yes, everyone. From Wikipedia: "Satoshi Nakamoto (中本 哲史[1] Nakamoto Satoshi?) is a person or group of persons that created the Bitcoin protocol"
Because otherwise ordinary people will not have access to BTC and you can't achieve adoption without them.

A Bank has an infrastructure that could make BTC virtually omni-present in the physical world. Any other non-gov institution, would have a hard time setting up an infrastructure in large scale. A bank has also the knowledge to protect herself from bitcoin itself, because (supposedly) understands the financial (and social) ramifications of every choice made AND should be held accountable if things get out of hand.

If UBS (as in the example above) starts accepting BTC transactions, it means that thousands of hundreds of average Joes get instant access to the system. Otherwise, it's just you me and a couple of bleeding edge technophiles.
Well, that depends on your interpretation of "functionally equivalent". Is Youtube functionally equivalent with Netflix?
is that still a thing?

come on, you make it sound like Windows is the only OS that has prerequisites for software?

Last time I checked, yesterday, I wanted to get a file server running on my Debian machine and I had to apt-get install 5 different packages I didn't yet have.

So, yes, that's still a thing, and it always will be. Although afaik since Windows 7 .Net 4 or at least 3.5 should always be there, and 4.5 on Windows 8.
Domain appraisal tools are mostly worthless and could easily be an order of magnitude off the mark. You need to talk to a real domain expert to get a realistic estimate of the value.
I think the EU is getting an amazing amount of work done, if you consider that it consists of 28 nation states which went to war with each other regularly for centuries up to a couple of decades ago...
This will end in tragedy for consumers (and profit in the right pockets), as do all attempts by governments to regulate.

"Introduced by socialists, green and left blocs" -- an immediate huge red flag.

The days of EU internet freedom are coming to an end, once these people start meddling in.
We're probably not done yet in that case!