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I live in Los Angeles. My routine is very routine, but I like it that way.

Morning weekday routine: Get up, exercise, eat breakfast, shoot some arrows (hence the username), go to work

At work hobbies: Table tennis, and we have a crew that does calisthenics at the park below work

Night: Come home, chill with wife, sleep

Weekends: Archery in the morning, gym with the wife in the afternoon, usually go to dinner in the evening.

I used to have more hobbies, but I found that the routine is liberating in a strange way. I don't have to think about what I need to do, I just do the same things week in week out and try to get really good at them.
A shower with traditional knobs, and a sensor of some kind. The first time you use it, you set the temperature/pressure with the knobs. After that: You step in, the shower detects you, and automatically uses your previous temperature/pressure. The sensor could use facial recognition, or a footprint scanner, or a fingerprint scanner, etc.
Agree entirely. However from an architectural POV, Asp.net has always been a pile of crap because everything is abstract classes and sealed ones at that. Virtually impossible to reliably test. Interfaces? Never! Even System.Web.Abstractions stinks.

Having written a view engine, security frameworks, NH session management stuff, 100+ complicated controllers, action filters galore and thrown it into MVC I've come to not appreciate it very much.

And don't get me started on Razor. Buffered rendering for layouts (bye bye RAM), batshit source, obtuse and non orthogonal syntax, poor runtime integration, absolutely no separation of logic and code.

I'm ready to move on.

Edit: just to add, I'm really liking Java's design by committee approach these days. It's incredibly clear that you need a lot of opinions to build a correct and well engineered solution. With .Net in general, it's served up to customers ike a soup kitchen. Occasionally we're left without soup though (WF3, Silverlight, early EF versions, WCF fragmentation, razor and so forth). The majority of the praise comes from people subjected to WebForms for years or even Telerik circa 2006 at the worst.
http://www.globalincome.org/English/BI-worldwide.html points to various projects. I think I was specifically thinking of the BIG project in Namibia
XNA was quite far from what Unity is. Unity gives you a full engine, whereas XNA was a framework and you had to build the engine yourself. It was a great little library, but it was painful for unskilled software developers (myself at the time) to use it compared to Unity's WYSIWYG and property lists you could modify, not to mention all of the things that came with Unity that you'd have to build custom in XNA.

That's not to say Unity is better, it was just easier to use.
I find it interesting that some of the best audiophile education I got was on torrent sites. The scum of the earth apparently think hard about Laplace transforms
How far does this go?

Is it wrong of me to mow my own yard? Is it wrong of me to not eat out every day? Is it wrong of me to check the selection at the local Goodwill before buying clothes new? Is it wrong of me to not donate what I earn above the median to charity (or alternately, to not spend that amount on buying frivolous-to-me low-skill things)?
I don't think a security researcher would waste his time hitting the space bar to try and crack in. They'd probably look for other, more sophisticated vectors, simply because the probability of such a crude attack working is very low.

In this case, inexplicably, it worked.

Given the kid's history of interesting discoveries, I'd say this is legit. It's not very sophisticated, but it sure is effective. If your father was someone trained to probe for problems, if you'd grown up with that sort of encouragement, you'd probably try the same thing at your own level of ability.

Props to the kid!
@bmull you might want to check out what we are doing in the space @http://www.informion.com - we are essentially using relevance as a key driver for engagement.

Would love to connect @ritwiktewari
Are the HFTs actually marketmaking, though? Lewis is accusing them of front-running transactions that were already possible, driving up the price slightly of transactions that were already going to happen based on telegraphed intent. This is different from what an actual market maker does, which is provide a counterparty for all transactions and hedge their resulting risk, in exchange for the spread.

EDIT: Perhaps this is just a small piece of what HFTs do, and maybe it's limited to a few bad actors, but being blown out of proportion by the book?
AngularJS may be complicated to learn, but I found it so much easier than the alternatives (Ember and Backbone).

To be fair, though, Backbone isn't trying to do as much as Angular. And Ember is just crazy. I Know people swear by it, but I am not smart enough to use it.
> Direct feeds are available to anyone who wishes to purchase them.

Out of curiosity, how much does a direct feed cost, and is there a practical limit to the number of simultaneous buyers (for example, physical server space in a data center)?
You are nitpicking specifics that don't actually change what I'm saying while completely ignoring the crux of my point.
Hey Callmeed. Thanks for the note. We've actually debated this back and forth a little bit. Right now we (admittedly) have a ton of stuff on the front page, we didn't want to clutter it too much. We'll re-evalute this based on your suggestions and might make some updates today.
TrueCar sounds like a great idea (the dealership system is horrible).

But we just used TrueCar when shopping for a new car and instantly got spammy, sleazy emails and phone calls from dealers before even completing the process (which we never did).

It wasn't fun. I really wish we didn't give them any information. So I don't have high hopes for this business succeeding.

What really needs to happen is that people need to be able to just buy a car like they buy everything else without salespeople in the middle. Why can't I buy a new car from the manufacturer straight from their website? Seeing all the trouble Tesla is having fighting the dealership model is discouraging...hopefully it will improve, I'm just not sure TrueCar is the answer.
>> Cycling is actually not that healthy.

As someone who works out regularly but never cycles, this seems difficult to believe. Surely the cardiovascular benefits outweigh any negatives from "muscle shortening" (first I've heard of this) compared to no activity.

Unless your point is "some types of exercise are better than cycling" in which case, sure.
Most immersive experience I've had on the internet so far, the added videos & interviews absolutely made it.
"Paddy Murphy"

theres no way this is real, right?
Most pure opinion-pieces on the controversy du jour—as opposed to actual news—don't count as on-topic for HN.
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(Thank you for your concern.) How would one prove this claim wrong? There is signal in current mortality and morbidity statistics about how long the individuals now alive will last before they die off. Is anyone interpreting this signal from official medical reports any differently from Vaupel and Christensen? Both Vaupel and Christensen are very well respected demographers (as Vaupel's publication in Nature should adequately suggest to readers familiar with the scientific literature). Paul Graham has a great essay online titled "How to Disagree"[1] and I invite you to apply those steps in any thread on Hacker News where you see a factual claim with which you disagree (as I think I have seen you do in countless thoughtful earlier comments that have been posted here from your keyboard).

If you have a better source for this claim, please present it. Otherwise, stop posting it.

What you seem to be objecting to here is not the factual statement (you have not suggested any reason to doubt the factual statement, and haven't cited anyone who works in demography) but rather the strikingly concrete way in which the statement was made. But that manner of making the statement was chosen by Vaupel (in agreement with Christensen, whose works on the topic I have also read) and I'm just passing on the ideas of recognized experts whose published papers on the topic look plausible to me and look especially plausible to demography researchers on human aging I know locally. I learned about the papers of these two authors from local researchers who sometimes collaborate with Vaupel and Christensen (especially Christensen).

It shouldn't be objectionable here on Hacker News to pass on user-readable citations to published scientific literature that looks plausible to other scientists with a basis of knowledge in the subject. You are asking me to change my overt behavior as one Hacker News participant among thousands. Where in the Hacker News guidelines[2] do you find a problem with behavior like mine here? Hacker News seems very tolerant of predictions of the future, and indeed some of the favorite topics here revolve around predictions of the future.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

[2] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you are interested in this, you may find one of my Lisp implementation interesting too. It's implemented less than 1k lines of heavily-commented C, but it even supports a macro system and copying GC in addition to the common features you would usually see in small Lisps.

https://github.com/rui314/minilisp
Except that they wouldn't have any incentive to drop poorer countries vs. charging them the same price as everyone else. Moreover, it is highly unlikely that the profit maximizing price in the wealthiest country would be the profit maximizing price if set uniformly across all countries. If uniform pricing was enforced then the profit maximizing uniform price would be closer to the average.

The existing system creates a de facto subsidy for healthcare in other countries by the insured in the United States. If you feel for the plight of people in those countries then feel free to enact a de jure subsidy which doesn't have the side effect of bankrupting the poor in this country.
There's a team of us who got gifted a Slack instance, as we're building on the released assets and partial source code of Tiny Speck's previous project (an MMO called Glitch). It's seriously amazing, supporting us as a volunteer group brilliantly, with full searchable logs, long-form "devlog" posts, inline images, and integration with the other systems we use.

I don't think it's got much to do with Wave at all, but it's seriously awesome for many use cases.
Google Maps on the iPad is just a mapping facility for me and not a navigational tool.

I share the same frustration and instead deleted the app and used the website instead. Google does not need to know my home location.

The same app also asks me to logon with my Google account - persistently. There is no option to say 'stop fucking asking'. The Google Maps for iOS team is obviously a bunch of brogrammers without kids, cos if they weren't they'd realise that a common use case for an iPad is a family shared device. Hence, I don't want to login with my account, and I don't really want anyone else from my family to either.

To annoy me further the app already knows my google account name. How? I thought these iOS apps were sandboxed?

Sorry rant over. It pisses me off that I have to make a decision between privacy and convenience. Such is life.
2048 on Hex board (really good version) iOS, Android. Free, no Ads.
That's just the name that the original founding coder (vinced from the bitcointalk forums) chose and nobody has wanted or bothered to change it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6017.msg88356#msg883...

Some chose to refer to it as the dot-bit project as well.

I have never seen any arguments over the name.

namecoin == nmc == dot-bit
Super nice website & really cool product. Congrats
This brings back memories of when I wrote a lot of DSP code. The architecture I was on had a decent C compiler, but it wouldn't correctly take advantage of some of the special instructions. By rewriting a viterbi decoder in assembly to take advantage of their special subtract-compare-branch instructions, I recall getting a huge performance increase. But the compiler did a decent job at optimizing for multiply-accumulate instructions especially if you gave it the right hints with pragmas.
Also because iOS development is, in my subjective, biased opinion, much less of a pain than Android development.
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If you think I'm a dork, or too much of a Michael Lewis hater, I encourage people to read this Amazon review, which gets into a lot of interesting small details Lewis got wrong:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3PJO6KJGRMWUE/ref=cm_cr_pr_vie...
My opinion of where Wave went wrong is that it was completely non-extensible past a couple of fairly limited extension points. You couldn't build brand new real-time applications on top of Wave.

What they should've done was simply expose their real-time technology stack, then let people create documents backed by whatever (sandboxed) Javascript they want. When you open a wave, the Wave client would download the relevant Javascript, then use that to generate the user interface for the document, while managing the complexities of operational transforms and federation itself.
I should have said "allegedly" :) I wasn't making a statement that they do/don't, just that those actions are what are considered the evil behavior.
I would suggest that they are only 14 years old right now, so none of them have made it to 100 yet. The truth will be know in 86 years, perhaps sooner.
Leave generic irish names out of this :P ;)
I don't think it's fair to say "privately held belief." He supported a campaign to change public laws. What society can we have when there are no reasonable limits on how people can judge and prosecute you for your attempts to change public law?
"bio-hacking": is this what we call genetic engineering now?
Actually the team that cloned "Dolly" the sheep in the 90s was making sheep-goat chimeras in the 80s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%E2%80%93goat_chimera
One thing that many of Silicon Vally people fail to understand is that, data is expensive. For many people who have Android phones, it's not the user experience or quality of the OS. It's just that they have no data plan or their data plan is limited. So don't expect them to download your app over LTE or tweet left and right.

This is more true in developing countries. People buy expensive Android phones but they don't pay for data. Because it's even more expensive than the phone. If you say a phone lives for two year, it's easy to do the math and see a regular data plan is two to three time more expensive than an Android phone.
This reminds me in some ways of John Graves. He wrote novels, most famously Goodbye To A River, but for long periods of time, he would build stone walls and houses on his farm. The physicality seemed to allow his mind time to work on the novels. I find that gardening does the same for me and refreshes me for technical work.

People are commenting that this steals a job from someone more deserving but it's not a zero sum game. By keeping his sanity through his personal way of staying grounded, he can spend more energy on his startup which very will might result in more jobs being created. This increases the benefits to the world more than letting someone else deliver bagels.
Cycling is health in so far as it is more exercise and fresh air than a majority of the population gets ever. Cycling too much has its side effect as does just about everything in life.
They absolutely do not use the same language. Where did you see that?

>Notice that it didn't say, "Academics disregard the chemical balance explanation because it lacks evidentiary support."

A lack of explicit critique in a rephrasing on wikipedia should not be used as evidence.

The cited article for that sentence (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/516262) is from 2005 and includes the following:

> Numerous studies to identify reproducible changes in neurotransmitter levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of clinically depressed patients, or to induce or correct depression by manipulating brain serotonin levels, were inconclusive and fraught with methodological limitations.

> Gordon McCarter, PhD, an assistant professor of biological sciences at the College of Pharmacy of Touro University in Vallejo, California, agreed that the evidence for an "imbalance" in neurotransmitters causing depression is "circumstantial" and "more and more tenuous." He noted the dearth of studies showing any measurable difference in serotonin or norepinephrine between depressed patients and controls

> "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders does not list serotonin as a cause of any mental disorder; it is simply one neurotransmitter that continues to be investigated. And the prescribing information for the SSRIs does not claim that their mechanism of action is to correct a chemical imbalance, although this is exactly what the advertisements claim."

> "We suspect that many consumers believe the serotonin theory to be more scientifically based than it is, and that they might have chosen an alternative approach to their distress if they were fully informed.
The countries "popping out the most babies" first and foremost have poverty, lack of education, and high infant mortality in common.

Perhaps we should shut down our education systems, health systems and welfare, and tax anyone outside the "1 percent" into poverty in the name of procreation.

(just in case, this being the internet and all: that's sarcasm)
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He can proclaim himself to be whatever he likes, but money speaks and a thousand bucks to prop 8 is a pretty regressive act.
Thank you :)

It is close enough to the goal I might just tinker with it this weekend.
If the 20% figure you gave was accurate for a particular site, then your conclusion would be absolutely correct. That particular site shouldn't have done a fixed-width 960px layout.

However, as someone who was a webmaster in 2007, I can tell you that the 20% figure was not even close to true for my particular sites. Other webmasters I knew told me the same.

So I'd say that this, like all things in web design, admits of no hard-and-fast rule. Rather, the answer is "it depends." In 2007, it depended on what your analytics were telling you. Most sites nowadays have a strong business need to support phone-size displays, but even today, not every single site does.
There are three types of programmers...
Close to 1000 people saw my own article on the subject in the 5 minutes it survived the front page. Enough people to carry on a discussion if they were inclined to do so. I'm not too bothered by it.
But does this matter when you can connect to Wi-Fi via your phone?
Kill CarMax. Decentralize it.

The sheer number of resources one dealership consumes boggles my mind: all the people, the mechanics, the land, the land, the land, oh, and the other acres of land.
> Cat • cannot speak or program

A caption for a picture from chapter 5, preceding a look at the grammar of Doge - DogeLisp anyone?
I think it is just the nature of the market mechanism i.e. the rules of the game. Since markets are continuous there is going to be competition. Tick sizes means that participants have to compete on speed rather than price. It seems to me that competition and continuous markets are maybe the best way to keep prices aligned across markets. And, just maybe, the best way to keep costs low for retail traders.
I did the exact same thing. I typically don't make "me too" replies, but I hope the extra data point is helpful in this case. Great idea, this looks like something I'd be interested in using sometime in the future.
Tack spider traps and booby trapped documents to the long list of scientific publishing problems.
Poker is not a "table" game anymore
It may have been, and I like to laugh too. As with any optimization problem, there are tradeoffs. It's not that you're against the things that get traded away; you're for them. But you're for something else more, if you can't have both.

In HN's case, we're optimizing for signal/noise ratio. The trouble with humor on HN is not that it's bad, but that—if you have a lot of it—you also get a lot of noise. There actually is a genre of humor that does well on HN; you might call it high-signal humor. It's rare, but it exists. This comment wasn't that.

There are other places to get internet humor, like Reddit comment threads. When I read those I'm astonished at how good they are at what they do. HN is never going to be that, and we shouldn't allow an imitation of it to detract from our core.
Hacking != Engineering
Roll20 looks interesting, not sure how well it would work for our mix of "play-by-mail" and video sessions.

I'll have a look (and at Trello too) -- but I lean towards something I can self-host if I am to make the effort of dragging the rest of the group away from g+/hangouts in the first place.
"There are some bad apples, but there are also many who genuinely believe that they are doing a service for the market."

Believing they are doing a service and actually doing a service are two different things. I agree it's important not to tar the latter of your two cases with the brush reserved for the former, but that doesn't mean sparing them entirely. It simply means selecting a more appropriate brush.

While malicious intent and clueless idiocy may be different from a moral perspective, they're indistinguishable in terms of effect. In either case, it falls to the law to limit these effects. Between the lack of ethics and the general ignorance, both types lack the ability to restrain themselves from harming others, not to mention the institutions we all rely on.
Look at the cash flows from operations. This is a big indicator of whether the core business is profitable. I have not looked at Amazon, but non-cash write-off usually play a significant role in lowering net income.

If you operations are sucking up cash, then the sustainability of the business depends on ability to inject new cash from somewhere else.
Wait, aren't data plans equally expensive all across the board? I don't think I've ever seen an Android user in the US with no data plan.
Hey Chad,

Thanks for the note. Yeah you're right. We'll make the update to clarify that. We had it as "saved" before, but that didn't seem to make sense. Still trying to find the right wording, but we'll update it today or over the weekend most likely. Thank you!
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I wonder what it tastes like. I love the taste of lamb but cannot stand the taste (and smell!) of goat meat even though it's a delicacy where I'm from.
Check out Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, for a novel about exactly that - http://www.robinsloan.com/penumbra/
> Also, how do you filter out non-serious buyers, especially for performance vehicles

I cannot emphasize the importance of this. I have a 2005 Lotus Elise that I would love to part with, but I'm really, really nervous about an inexperienced driver blowing the clutch or just coming over for a joyride.
> There are, for example, plenty of highly productive Perl and Haskell programmers. Those languages are notorious for the gobs of arcane syntax.

I don't see anything arcane about Haskell's syntax. There are no surprises in vanilla\* Haskell syntax - no cruft in the syntax of expressions, no complicated syntactic sugar, you can see what is and isn't an infix function at a glance, same with type constructors (capital letters), etc.

What might be arcane is some peoples use of user-defined infix operators. But I don't know if I would lump that in with ''Haskell's syntax'', since that isn't part of the grammar of the language. But YMV.

\* I can't speak for GHC extensions or template Haskell
I doubt he was talking about precious metals...
Eh? Isn't the github repo for the engine source only? AFAIK the editor would still be closed source.
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