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> many of our societal "vices" could be responses to this lack of purpose

I forget who said it, but one author noted that purpose is as spiritually important as air. Without it, we break down.

How much of the Western world is built on grasping for the Next Big Thing? The entire consumer culture is predicated on this! And this consumer mindset gets reflected in the workforce. But if you think about it, it quickly boils down to the same dull need: the need to dominate, consume, and self-aggrandize.

These motives are exceedingly poor, and we consistently select leaders who exhibit them, often with terrible consequences.
If you look at how a parachute is packed, and how it unfolds when deployed, what you described is definitely not the simpler explanation preferred by Occam's razor.
Unless you access the "direct" link via Facebook or Twitter. In which case you are redirected to the standard page
> Technically it is not a meteorite until it impacts with the Earth's surface, therefore this object may actually be a meteoroid.

Not quite. Before entering Earth's atmosphere, it's a meteoroid. While passing through the atmosphere, it's a meteor. After landing, it's a meteorite.

http://www.livescience.com/27183-asteroid-meteorite-meteor-m...
Yeah, it's kind of surprising how few people realize the police are also a lost-and-found. Just give it to the police and let it be their problem.
To impose any view on others is bad a priori, no matter what the view is.
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Assuming the user is hitting their nearest CloudFlare location, this should be less of an issue.
Too bad that Ted Nelson has shut down all attempts of hackers to create working software that uses ZigZag data structures.

It is a sad story. It is an infuriating story.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/233#comment-1715

http://www.nongnu.org/gzz/
Absolutely the Lab Time. Being able to watch a developer talk about something live is arguably the same live or later on video, but then being able to go and sit with them afterward and ask questions is invaluable. I gained more from 20 minutes with two different engineers last year than sitting through most of the sessions.
Mike Judge and his co-creator were doing some research for the show about 2 years ago, and stopped by our office in SOMA (San Francisco). We were telling them about open source, meet ups, editors, and stuff like that. Here are some clips of it:

Here's him asking about ruby: http://www.tout.com/m/t0x6dh
judge drawing on one of our desks: http://www.tout.com/m/q8ppc1
here's the full stream: http://www.tout.com/hashtags/MikeJudgeToutHQ
While this algorithm could suffer from a large false positive problem, that issue could also work to his advantage when implemented as a "find similar images to this", which was addressed later in the article.
I'm goin be watchin you bro. You speak too much truth.
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Weird... ISTR hearing something like this a long time ago.

Edit: Nevermind, just saw the date on the article.
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Of course it's more than possible that I'm jumping to wishful conclusions! But in previous years they either showed app icons, or any difference in icon size could be attributed to distance (i.e. the implication being the icons were all the same size, but different distances away).

Anyway, we'll know soon enough.
The recommendation to reduce salt intake is simply wrong People craving salt is the sense of taste working as it should, in a world of salt-deficient people.
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I think it's about split between ALIAS and ANAME at the different providers.

DNSMadeEasy -> ANAME
DNSimple -> ALIAS
EasyDNS -> ANAME
PointDNS -> ALIAS
dHash seems like a fast algorithm. So, one could search for potential collisions quickly with dHash, and then run a more complex and expensive algorithm on those matches to refine the results.
Have you tried Alt+F4?
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Replace slaves with robots and machines, and that's pretty much the world I'd like to live on. Maybe Platonic state is not that far away after all.
That's one way to look at it. I'm not disagreeing with it, but another way to look at it would be - any work that puts food on the table is work with purpose and dignity. Yet another (self centric?) way to look at it would be - if the job that I am doing helps me grow intellectually, emotionally etc then it is good work (regardless of whether it is useful to others/society or not).

May be these questions would be more important in the future, where most of the boring/mundane jobs would be left to the robots. Then people can spend more time to work on things they like, and less time to work for money.
And the one you can buy on iTunes or Amazon. And yet they still pirate.

Worrying about pirates is counterproductive. Some might do it because it's easier, but I remain convinced that most do it because it's free. Trying to attract them is a sucker's game.
Absolutely.

I was building an enterprise app doing multiple simultaneous asynchronous HTTP calls, but was running into issues where certain connections would just die outright. The problem was that the dying connections seemed non-deterministic, which obviously made it very difficult to debug.

I spent most of the week before WWDC trying to debug the issue (to no avail), but since WWDC was coming up (and since I was already registered), I made sure to set aside some time to go to the Framework labs to see if I can get some help.

I went the first day it was open... and was able to talk to the Apple engineer who actually built the Foundation httpClient class. I sat down with him for about 20 min, where we actually went over my code, and he was able to explain what I was doing incorrectly.

20 minutes. And it was fixed.

I probably would've had to spend at least another week banging my head against a wall, and even then, it might not have gotten fixed correctly.

Given any reasonable hourly rate, that single one-on-one alone already paid for the entire conference.

IMO, if you're going to just hobnob and go to the keynote and sessions, then yes, your money is probably going to be better spent elsewhere, especially since all the sessions are available online, and because most of the after-parties and networking events all throughout SF/SOMA don't require you to register for WWDC.

But if you have projects you are actively working on and are encountering issues or anticipate that you will be encountering issues that will be time consuming to debug on your own, then if you spend some or most of your time in the labs, WWDC is absolutely invaluable.
There's quite a bit of a difference between being a writer, and being a surgeon/emergency doctor/fireman. Writer's don't work 12 hour shifts, don't do physically hard work, and aren't killed by their jobs.
Well, it's certainly not an exact copy of the old website; I remember that it had ASCII art of the "mascot" in the source. This one doesn't. Which is an odd difference; the new "owners" appear to be a little less cute about it.
Generally it has been unpopular with Cuban exiles, Cuban activists, and others in support of a free economy and free speech for Cubans. Recently there has been movement since power was transitioned to Raul that has had Cuba experiment with more economic freedoms[1]. Opinion has indeed evolved to want to open relations with Cuba in an effort to continue that trend[2]. (h/t dragonwriter for report) But even with that, there's along way to go for the Cuban people.[3]*

The people who actually live there who saw the transition have been generally supportive of US intervention in Cuba. They have been supremely disappointed in the US for their failures in their interventions (Bay of Pigs disaster, agreeing to never invade and bring down Castro, ineffective sanctions, etc.).

As you can imagine, most of the people who live there now have grown up with texts that describe the embargo in such a way that there is no way to see it as a response to the government in Cuba. The way people paint the full picture is privately through discussions, private texts, and secret communications back and forth with extended family in Miami. I hope that helps you make more sense of what conclusions can be drawn by the people there.

Not sure if your final comment was a snide attempt at saying I'm missing depth on this issue, but this issue is quite important to me and my family and one we are pretty intimate with.

If you've read carefully, you'll know I'm not arguing a solution, but simply giving you an important perspective that was surprisingly lacking for such a lengthy original post. But hey, hasn't the Internet taught me anything?

Ok, back to work now!

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/14/opinion/la-ed-cuba15...
[2] http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/2014cubap...
[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-cubans-freedom-re...

*EDITED to add link and clarify
In design or quality?

I commented on an image I posted once. I was horrified to find that you had to individually expand each child comment. Doesn't allow for much discussion.
20 is awesome. The US requires none, most employers give 5-10 days (salary positions or professionals).
While I'm a huge proponent of patient autonomy and knowledge, it's really, really, really a bad idea to perform fecal microbiota transplantations at home, without medical equipment or training, and with an unvetted donor. I do hope that FMTs become an accepted part of medical practice -- the clinical results are more than encouraging -- but this kind of experimentation could go bad pretty fast.
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Is this statement meant to be as ironic as it is? You're telling us that we must unquestioningly accept that telling people to unquestioningly accept our opinions is bad.
I was a little curious how this could be, so I checked around and came across this:

"We can't legally include Java 8 tools in an Eclipse release before Java 8 itself is released. Based on the current java 8 release date estimate, we would be able to include support in the Luna (4.4.0) release."[0]

And since the release date was 2014/3/18 [1] I really can't see why there would be much complaining, if any.

[0] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=380190#c8

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=java+8+release+date
Their "target audience" isn't you or anyone else who is worried about the technical terminology in a comedy show.

(It's not me, either, but I've seen this show live and don't need to see it again.)
intellij is good all in all, but then if you want to edit php, you have to use its sibling product; phpstorm

furthermore, netbeans can recognize various amount of extension and can even format your codes nicely with alt + shift + f

and i only use intellij when i want to deploy mobile application onto android...eclipse really dam buggy with the deployment
These data could help support (or debunk) a theory I posted about "industry hubs" having a negative effect on gender diversity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456449
Crazy to think that all it would have taken is a few redditors to downvote that post and it would have been hidden and never seen.

Right place, right time perhaps.
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AWS Route 53 aliases aren't ANAME/ALIAS -- they appear to only let you point a record at an AWS address, not any arbitrary IP. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Finally a lottery. Hope this works out better for everyone. See you there... Maybe.
Anyone who is looking for something to run it on could take a look at Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): How to build one in your basement [1]. The build took one guy four years and a lot of wire-wrap. A fascinating and quite awe-inspiring piece of work.

[1] http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/
Could have been. Although a comment or a printf kept the code working, and removing that line broke the line above it. Next compiler release fixed it. It was just odd and a lesson in compilers are not perfect.
The iPhone 4 was announced at WWDC, so I'm a little hopeful.
Fairly certain that most people would disagree with "any work that puts food on the table is work with purpose and dignity." Easy examples come to mind: prostitution, arms dealing, etc.

The thing about usefulness to society is that we just don't need everyone to be useful anymore. Society will continue on perfectly fine even if half of the population contributes nothing at all, because of technology.

The future is not so far away anymore, and societal change is very slow. These are the kind of questions we need to be thinking about now.
A spoiled generation of tech observers yearn for Apple innovations on-demand
That said, Apple's "return" compensation in terms of giveaway gifts and the like is a bit... stingy. Especially given how unbelievable Apple's profits have been of late.

WWDC giveaway: A $40 jacket that says "14" on it.
Google I/O giveaway: $1449 Chromebook pixel.

So much for loyalty.
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Lottery! I think this is much better... The server issues of recent years have been pretty annoying. See you there. Maybe.
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A new Wu-tang album is truly an event, and deserves to be treated as such.
You can bypass the scheduler by binding processes to processors. Some runtimes do this -- and sometimes get much worse performance as a result. My colleagues and I have seen many programs that think they know better than the OS do much worse for trying.
https://code.google.com/p/virtualagc/source/browse/trunk/Lum...

That article calls out this line (among others). I wonder what the actual story behind this comment was. I'm sure it's not as bad as, "I'm just putting this in temporarily and we should fix it before it goes to Mars". It probably means something else.

Anyone have any idea?
I don't understand the point of this article. Isn't this widely known by ... everyone?
Sorry about that I didn't see your reply! Because I have to use phone it's challenging to type out all I did. While I achieved it, I wouldn't say it's sensible or easy!

Anyway, you have to turn off c++, c++ exceptions, security checks in compiler options. In linker set the entry point to main and turn off error reporting. From there it's finding the right lib which is dependent on arch, etc.

To be honest it's not worth doing. I only knew of it because I had to patch a vs2010 exe to run on windows 2000.
If you look closely at it, there's not much there - it's actually easy to understand - defines a variant struct and an bunch of accessors to the different types within the embedded union. He prefers short names, and finally years later, java recommends short variable names for lambdas too!
Sure, but hiding large order flow wasn't invented with the rise of HFT.

It has always been the case that a market maker could look at orders coming in and bet that it was the tip of a large order flow and thereby adjust the prices he was offering. It's just that gut instinct, good ole boy networks, and luck have been replaced with network infrastructure, systematic engineering and analytics.
> Helping Castro's controlled economy before giving control of the government and said economy back to its people is unpopular.

Not with the American people it doesn't seem to be [1].

[1] http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/2014cubap...
This is pretty fascinating, but I'm not looking forward to the conversation I'm eventually going to have to have with one of my fit friends about putting some of his poop in my butt so I can lose weight.
No, you can't "buy all the bitcoin you want" - it's simply not true. Look, Facebook's acquisition of Whatsapp included $4B in cash. If Whatsapp had said, "but you need to pay us in bitcoin, we'll set the price at the current trading price", then too bad, Facebook couldn't have said yes, because it would be impossible to source that many bitcoins. The total value of all bitcoins in existence is $5B today, and I doubt it could buy up 3/4 of them, including ones that were lost or refused to sell, for any amount of money. Just as there is no amount of money (in any currency) I could give you that you could spend to get 95% of all the dollars in existence into one room to give to someone - because some people will hold out. You just can't get them all. Stores, banks, the rest of the economy, everyone uses dollars. You can't just get 95% of the ones in existence. More precisely, it is "impossible" to get 95% of all dollars into one room. A hundred trillion dollars' worth of other currency and values of various kinds wouldn't come close to letting you buy up 95% of all dollars in existence - at any price.

And there are a LOT of dollars in existence.

There are comparatively VERY few bitcoins in existence.

So this simple example shows that it is absolutely false that you can buy all the bitcoins you want. If Facebook announced that it needed $4B in bitcoins at today's price, then most people would instantly start hoarding it, the price would jump to $10,000 per bitcoin, and ordinary people would be unable to buy it at any price.
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> While passing through the atmosphere, it's a meteor.

Just to be an absurdly pedantic, it's actually only the flash of light that is the meteor and not the rock itself.

http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/answer.php.id=22&ca...
Digital Apollo is a great read.
Last paragraph:

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world,

Never noticed their PR lines like that. A little extreme?
Your pointing out a trivial error that didn't significantly impact the intelligibility of my comment adds absolutely nothing to the conversation except demonstrating that you have superior English skills to mine (which I suspect was entirely the point).

In addition if we are going to be rigourously accurate I will point out that merriam-webster also has exasperate down as "to make more grievous" as an obsolete meaning and since you seem to be concerned about changing the meaning of words over time we should perhaps allow the obsolete usage here.
it came up here before, but this time is different. It is now free for commercial use and is not restricted with timeouts or expiry.
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Yeah they're missing the <em> </em> around "close" in "a close friend acting as the donor".
Of course scientists are trying to identify the underlying causes of mental illnesses. They're even making a lot of progress, but the brain is just unbelievably complex.

In the meantime, treatments are found by trial and error. Testing whether a drug treats a disease's symptoms can be scientific even if you don't know how the drug actually works.
... or they could just not buy Google.
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I realize this may have been an offhand remark in your post, but your description of North Korea as pharaonic is very interesting and something I hadn't thought about before. Do you have any sources comparing North Korea with the government of ancient Egypt, or is that just a comment on the country being built around one person?
Ditto. Was hoping it was something I could use on my iPad.
Or Android.
He says at 1:20 that the plane is below them the entire time. That was my initial thoughts too, though.
I think the US is still holding a grudge about the little incident with the nuclear missiles, when Che Guevarra tried to convince the Soviets behind the scenes to launch a nuclear preemptive strike against the US...
in a lot of professions it's common to study about up to 10 years before you start working. that's after 12-13 years of school(unless you're a professional athlete

Give three examples. Just graduated doctors get paid while they're doing further study and specialisation, ditto for lawyers and doctoral students mostly get paid, albeit very badly.
This is probably an unpopular opinion but it seems to me that "SV culture" has taken to fetishizing "health hacking" with little to no medical training/background or support. See the recent SV craze with "health informatics hacking". They're putting a shiny, appealing veneer over what amounts to homeopathy and random self-experimentation.

Someone is going to say, "but they have all this data, like this guy from µBiome" -- he's not a doctor, he's not a trained scientist, he's a dude who is shoving fecal extracts from his friend up his bum and hoping the results are positive.
Heh, I remember this from when you posted it on reddit months ago [1]. Glad to see you're the same person and you didn't just take it from them. Very nice script, I've used it before with great success.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/1weqnn/cli_onel...
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Some analysis going on here at least (text in norwegian though): http://norskmeteornettverk.no/wordpress/?p=1329
Haha, WAT?!!
The plane is well below the skydiver (about to land) when the rock passes by. There's no way it came from the plane.
Only if it's progressively encoded (though the decoder can still do fast 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 reductions). Also, low resolution data isn't the same as what you get from a scaling algorithm like ALTIALIAS (though I don't know what that does, probably something like Lanczos).

Plus, you still have to handle other formats like png, and get the same output from the same image.
Can't you just download the php plugin for intellij ultimate?
They keep talking about how lucky he is it missed him, but I almost think the opposite is true: He'd have to have been staggeringly unlucky to have been hit by it.
I agree, and I don't intend to encourage people to be casual about the risks involved. But I'm also concerned about the possibility that this incredible tool will become inaccessible.
Not having any experience with Haskell it's very entertaining to watch him talk about the topic. Even to the point where it seems like learning Haskell is highly rewarding.

On top of that, because he gives examples from "Fashion week", I can watch his presentation with my girlfriend who has absolutely no programming skills whatsoever but thinks it really cool! Gives a bit of perspective that programming isn't only about making boring web-apps. (Of course the game-industry proves programming can be fun, but this shows a different aspect than games.)
I'm no expert, but given the magnitude of the author's deviation from "average", I would have wanted to get several results over time to see typical variance before doing an FMT and trying to reason about the difference.
Because Netbeans and InteliJ were Java 8 ready on the release date?
Oooh, thanks for this! I meant it is unpopular with Cuban exiles and the surrounding community, but I am looking forward to learning more about the current state of opinion from the linked report.
While there is no single right answer here, I think maybe you have stumbled across one of the many possible wrong answers.

If you haven't already figured it out, Mr. Myne represents the owner-investor class, his machine represents future industrial capital, and your solution was to use the government to seize control of the capital.
Looks like they've been using that line in press releases for years: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22best+personal+computers+i...
I disagree. It is an attempt to change the subject from the object level: "is HFT harming society and do we need more transparency or regulation" to the meta level: "if we have to do something about HFT, then why not address X, Y, Z also?".

It's not a legitimate argument because it can be used to derail any conversion that criticizes one particular aspect of society.

It goes without saying that there are moral questions to be raised about facebook acquisitions and compensation in fields outside of finance. But it's not part of this conversation.