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Ask HN: How many hackers are also fighters?
While I was at a Dog Brothers Martial Arts training camp last weekend I noticed that almost 70% (roughly) of the people there were involved in the IT industry in some way. Most of the people I talked to were programmers of some kind.

I'd be interested to see what the percentage is the other way. A lot of the martial artists I have met have been programmers, how many programmers are also martial artists?
. . . but it's copyrighted, so you're not allowed to tell anyone.
I am having the same problem on the European (Dutch) store as well when I followed the link to computers bought on the Apple store itself.

When I follow the link for computers bought via a reseller it works without a problem.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

I think you still have a few orders of magnitude to go before that becomes a real problem.
This bug has been there for years. So I don't think they'll fix it all that fast.

They use floats for everything, not ints.
This is clearly a floating point precision problem. It happens when are no bits small enough on the mantissa to express the difference between the two values.

Check out: http://www.google.com/search?q=999999999999999+*+1 this overflows into the next integer as well.
Google allows you to mark some parts of your profile private, so that sounds like an expectation of privacy to me.
Once a site of mine on Google Sites accidentally got suspended, but I still could use Adsense with the same account.
Please clarify. (IANAL, and so) this isn't entirely clear. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#GP... http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#GP...
The thing about 4chan is that there's no order. That means not even chaos is an absolute must. Pictures of transsexuals and underage girls and people covered in fecal matter go alongside programming jokes, debates about Obama, and discussions of existentialism. This was closer to the latter.

I don't go on 4chan often - once or twice a year at most - but when I do, it's to get that completely random mix of things all at once. Every time, I come away with 3-4 things I didn't know/hadn't thought of before. This was one of the things I found this time.
English connectives are difficult for me, but I understand your point. Again, I don't think they would be willing to move. Would that be a problem?
although you might be undervaluaing the PR you get from winning or possibly even just participating in the contest. may or may not re-balance the equation, but its still something of value not necessarily being considered.
Because it looks cool, when it is in fact an utterly unremarkable case of insufficient precision/float vs double.

But if you're not a programmer you don't know a float from a double, and it just looks so neat and funny that google screwed up.

And because it's so funny it showed up on 4Chan, then on reddit and now here too.
Just by abolishing legal tender, you just killed the federal reserve's power on the economy. Some sort of market currency will naturally arise to be the gold standard of the economy.

Personally, I am betting on gold. If people used gold in the past, than it is probably still a good currency in the modern age.
It's often misused. Along with orthogonal.
i used to be a professional martial artist until i killed my knees. now i fence.
Actually, multiple studies mentioned in the thread I linked to did examine daily runners. The 32,000 person study, in particular, divided participants up into quite a few different activity levels. At the higher end were daily runners. I can't link to the actual study, since it's behind a pay-wall.

Here's a report on a study that monitored over 100,000 people:

Paul Williams, Ph.D., author of the study, found that men who ran two or more marathons per year were 41 percent less likely to suffer from high blood pressure, 32 percent less likely to have high cholesterol, and 87 percent less likely to be diabetic than non-marathoners. Those who ran only one marathon every two to five years also had significantly lower risk for these conditions than non-marathoners.

The benefits of running marathons were largely independent of total number of miles run per year by participants, indicating that isolated distance running bouts in preparation for marathons may have been effective in decreasing risk of disease. Even runners who didn't run marathons - those who included longer runs as part of their usual exercise routines - were less likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140104.php

Here's a different piece on how regular hour-long runs stimulate neurogenesis and memory improvements in middle aged humans:

http://www.dana.org/news/brainwork/detail.aspx?id=7374

Distance running is one of the most beneficial things you can do for yourself. Racing marathons is also fine, with sufficient training.
A very good article. I'm just getting into games now, and seeing lots of small simplified examples like this is exactly what I need to improve my intuitional understanding.
Drill. Like "drill down".

It seems that trepanation might be a good response to someone using this word.

"Could you drill down into my data set and shift some paradigms?" "Yes, and while I'm at it, I'll equalize your humours." WHIRR "Indeed."
Yet it's being remarked upon.

Perhaps it's not a unique case - icey's link explained the cause, which incidentally I hadn't known before posting this - but it's still one that's perhaps worth a conversation for some people.
I agree that the fed should be abolished, but this article is so terribly written (and presented) that it hurts its cause more than it helps.

This thing is thirteen pages of somewhat irrelevant and nitpicky history, ad hominem attacks on dead guys ("George Miller ... sounds like an early version of Al Gore") and CCR lyrics.

Why not start with a well-written, focused argument that fits on printed page?
That's not a proof by any definition of the word I understand. Imagining something does not prove the existence (or otherwise) of that thing.
[edit] but a 10th century bishop writing 77 years after the end of the 10th century is still noteworthy :o)
"Mr. Bernanke must have felt like his head was spinning like a top while Ron Paul gave him a tutorial in basic economics."

Yeah, I'm sure the world's foremost economist just took a lesson on economics from a doctor.

This is really just another hack job article.
I think as programmers our interpreter must be hard-wired between our brain and our mouths. We more easily recognize when our speech is ambiguous and spend less time communicating unnecessarily.
Yes, that is a racist idea

Yes, I would not want to get into that argument.

No, that doesn't prove you should never address ideas with racist overtones...

Thank you...
Actually, I don't make any advertising revenue off my surkan.com blog. I just want to have a central location for the links to all the articles I write. This particular article was originally posted at NetworkWorld (where I am a blog contributor), but I want to be consistent in always only pointing to links at my primary surkan.com site, even if the original article I wrote was elsewhere.
That would explain it quite nicely, the decimal64 implementation of the ieee floating point data tops out at 16 digits.

edit: actually, it doesn't, the input above is 15 digits long.
This is NOT your standard social networking site
Exactly.

Frankly, the dude couldn't have been very smart if he didn't realize that you could replace the word "God" with any word you want in that "proof" and thus establish that it exists. This type of spot checking is important, and any competent mathematician or logician is expected to have worked out the limits of any new method to see if there's potential for ridiculous results to be "proven" as a result.

The only interesting part of this is pinning down exactly where the logic fails. And even that is not very interesting, because it devolves into bickering over definitions: what exactly do we mean by "great"? Couldn't we imagine a thing whose "greatness" depends on its non-existence? ("Greatest non-existent entity" would result in some ridiculousness if you tried to apply this proof to it) What does "exist" mean? Mario and Luigi "exist" in a sense, even if they are fictional, and a good case could be made that they are, indeed, the greatest video game characters of all time (okay, maybe not Luigi :) ), despite their real world "non-existence". And so on...the end result being that we've neither proved nor illuminated anything at all, except that our original phrasing was too vague to mean anything.

But I'll give the philosophers this: they give the rest of us a great deal of evidence that you can prove very little about the actual world without actually referring to it to test your assumptions: they've been trying for several millenia, yet have accomplished all but nothing.
But thanks on the fact you think it is fit!
ok thank you!
http://www.newsguide.us/art-entertainment/movies/Todd-DiRobe...
Yeah I hear you on the knees. I managed to give myself severe tendinitis in both knees about 1 1/2 years ago, luckily I was able to slowly get rid of the pain and get my strength back, but it's been a long road.

Do you enjoy fencing? Do you think a lot of the footwork stuff would be useful in other martial arts? I've been wanting to try it for a long time now...
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don't downvote without explaining why you disagree! It's a creative task for which a monetary prize was extremely effective.
Gmail search certainly works. It just doesn't have every feature.

It's not "completely broken," but no hits for a query of "zag" in an email that contains "zagg" comes uncomfortably close to "doesn't work." (FWIW, I use gmail and haven't had any huge problems with search, although I have had to do way more work to find something than I would expect given that it's from Google).

Code Complete? really, just read Weinberg

'twas just a quick copy and paste from my fortune file. Although as far as I'm concerned there ain't nothing wrong with Code Complete.
The Production of Law, Security, and Arbitration in the Free Market
When the Golden Gate Bridge was being built, the ferry companies (who would be put out of business by the bridge) tried to sue the bridge to death with something like 2000 trivial lawsuits. While each of these was easily defeated, the only thing that stopped the ferry companies was that the local populace boycotted the ferries until they stopped the lawsuits.

So yes, it's been done before, is probably being done now, and will happen again. You can counter-sue trivial lawsuits to make the plaintiff go away (and stop filing suits against you), but it takes some work and laying out some money to lawyers.
Doesn't anyone hack for fun anymore?
This is all about runners vs non-exercisers. Again, the literature on strength training and sprint work indicates major benefits not gained from long distance running. I doubt there are any distance running health benefits compared to benefits from short distance running and/or walking.

Comparing non-exercisers to marathon runners is irrelevant. I repeat: marathons inflict measurable physiological damage. A fit person who got fit by means other than long distance running would not have this damage.

There is a much greater volume of clinical research oriented around treadmills and distance running in general because it is very easy to quantify and study. This does not by consequence recommend distance running.
wtf?

You can't say PHP is as pretty as scheme when ("false"==0) evaluates to true. It just can't happen.

And if you think I'm some lisp dude slagging PHP, I wrote a PHP framework and work with the garbage everyday.

http://getheavy.info/
Hacker News haiku:

Should one write about nature

or technology?
yeah, i still have knee problems with things like running for more than 15 minutes. they're better now, but i doubt they'll ever be "good".

i definitely enjoy it, for a lot of reasons. been doing it for a while now. the transition from what i was doing to fencing was pretty smooth because of the established general body kinesthetics and concepts you've probably picked up along the way. they translate well. it doesn't make you automatically awesome, but it helps you become competent quickly.
This is a contest not a paid job. You are volunteering your time on something with a possibility of getting something in return.

I suppose you don't do anything for fun, just code for money?
I think I could have done without those mental images, thank you.
I'm constantly confused at people who think NYC is scary.

- It has one of the lowest crime rates of large cities in the USA.

- It has wonderfully documented public transportation (hell, even your iPhone can give you subway/bus directions now)

- OK, so the drivers suck. And the cabbies yell at each other all the time.

- Well, on second thought, the hipsters make the city pretty scary...

- And I suppose it'd be scary if you're afraid of people and traffic.

(I say this as a short white dude living in what was, up until about 5 years ago, the most dangerous neighborhood in Brooklyn - and about 3 blocks away from a stretch along Knickerbocker Ave that, similarly up until about 5 years ago, had the highest murder rate in the city.. and while I'm not stupid enough to walk around with my beyerdynamics on and my head in the clouds... been there two years and haven't been mugged)
My team built http://operatorapp.com/

It's only open for a demo at the moment. We don't have an easy way for people to set up their own accounts because it has to go through twilio. We plan to keep working on it after the competition is over.
I won the contest (with a project I had already built and was paid for) and won the netbook (which I love) but it didn't get me much PR. Granted, I wasn't selling anything or promoting a service, but the traffic increase to my blog was negligible.
The name is similar to Kongregate, but not as memorable.
The man was one of the greatest writers (the greatest? Seriously, if anyone knows a better or comparable writer of non-fiction I'd like to read him or her) of modern times but he also suffered from serious mental illness that overwhelmed him for the years. His death was not rational, as much as his writing sometimes make it seem like it.
That's great! I always find it really interesting how much of the basics from one martial art can be applied to another. It seems to me that a lot of times the differences are in the details.

What did you fight when you were doing it professionally?
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Why is it illegal to build European-style cities? (I'm not familiar with US planning legislation)
I liked the first page design.

When I logged in, that design disappeared.

Can't get back to first page anymore :( Oh, some global site error :(
Copyright licenses grant rights to other people. They don't restrict the owner's rights. As the owner of copyrights on your code, you are allowed to distribute it in any way you want.

This is part of copyright law. The GPL has nothing to do with it.
A plausible takeaway from his observations is:

Americans are impressed by European cities, because we don't live in cities in general.
And Europeans aren't impressed by American cities, because even a good city is par for the course in Europe; hardly deserving of a transcontinental flight.

But I'm not seeing anything to justify his "Suburbia, Fuck Yeah!" conclusion. The author's celebration of the suburbs ignores every cost to living there. Easiest example: you have to drive everywhere. That is a huge cost in and of itself, primarily to the lower to middle class people he figures are so much better off in the suburbs. And the lack of sane zoning in the suburbs also winds up ghetto-izing lower income neighborhoods, multiplying their social problems.
Oh, visual glitches on left menu when you scroll your tweets with mouse (ff 3.5.2)
First, I live and code in Germany, where you can’t place things into the public domain without already being dead for a long time.

Is that true? In Germany you're forbidden to make stuff and give it away?
I mean "politics" in the sense that the MIT license is concise, unlike the GPL.
I used to fight Aikido but now it is hard to find time for it since I work far (and by far I mean 2h30 each trip). Also, I recently suffered an accident (read, nearly broke my feet) that left me with a permanent damaged tendon on my left feet, rendering me unable to kneel down properly, which rules out the Shi-ko exercises that are paramount on the practice of Aikido.

And yes, I miss it. Every day. Martial Arts is not called 'Art' without a reason and I like to agree with pg that hacking is more closely related to the artistic field than the engineering one.
:) Enjoy!

http://lesswrong.com/lw/r9/quantum_mechanics_and_personal_id...
When I did ju-jitsu in university, everyone there studied physics, chemistry, engineering or computer science.

I found it slightly surprising at the time, but I suppose the arts and humanities students had better things to do.
Rats run compulsively if given access to an exercise wheel.

"Rats offered wheels are known to steadily increase their use of them over time, said Kanarek, whose study appeared in the August issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience."
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So I revamped my entire website as per the advice I got here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679608

The site address is: http://mikesandmegs.com

Please let me know what you think about it, and I can adjust the site accordingly.
I Didn't Miss Many Websites When I Was Away On Vacation
ruby-doc really should have this. Maybe if jamesbritt sees these comments he can let us know what's up.

Here's a decent source for ruby 1.9 docs, though:

http://railsapi.com/doc/ruby-v1.9/
Get drunk, I guess.
I can tell you how i found mine.

During highschool I had a friend who was always a design focused guy. He was good at painting, drawing sketching, it was a natural ability

We went to uni together also and i did a CS degree whilst he did a general science degree.At uni he did a few CS subjects and did a few electives that involved drawin, painting sketching.

After uni we went our seperate ways for a while but when i started my startup i needed a designer. I had someone in mind but my first choice had other things going on so he wasnt available.

I called my mate who i knew from highschool. I called him because i knew he had a general great eye for design, i knew he could code cause he did a few of CS classes but i wasnt sure if he could use the design tools such as photoshope, dreamweaver etc.

It took him about 6 - 8 weeks to get through the technicalities of photoshope and various other tools but after he learnt the tricks he was off.

I noticed all he needed to learn was how to use photoshope and he knew exactly what he needed to earn cause he could already see what he wanted to achieve in the design.

Now i dont know what i would do without him cause he can dabble in the JS code related to UI actions and events also.

I guess my point is maybe you need to look for someone with great design skills but not necessarily web experience. Possibly you could try the arts department or even the architectural departments of universities as there may be some hidden talent in those areas.

I know that my design guy did a few courses from those faculties also.
I use the WTFPL when I'm feeling silly, otherwise, I use BSD, which is basically MIT anyway.

Then again, so is the WTFPL.

While I don't have any closed source considerations, I also don't really care what happens with my code. If anyone finds it useful, I'm happy.
Hmm, wouldn't it be cool to have a living house?
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Oh, we did that too, we just waited until after training.
This is total bull.

500 / 80 = 6.25x growth in (2020 - 2008) = 12 years.

6.25 ^ (1/12) = 1.165x growth per year or 16.5%, but outsourcing is only growing at ~8%. And it looks like the trend is slowing down.
I built http://www.sharelocally.org/ for RailsRumble (solo), which I plan to open-source. Anyone interested in the concept? I've got a lot more planned I didn't fit in. This was my first rumble and learned a whole lot about exactly how much fits in 48 hours. Can't wait until next year's.
I thought I'd seen this before. A quick search found this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670856

If you're interested in this, you might like to read the discussion there as well. Many points are being re-made.
If memory demand grows slower than Moore's Law, you could put all the graphics memory on-package to save pins.
999 999 999 - 999 999 997 = 2 according to the calculator widget on the Dashboard in OS X 10.5
MS Excel had a similar issue (though probably an unrelated bug) a while back that caused a furor:

http://www.appscout.com/2007/10/excel_bug_exterminated.php

Imagine being the accountant who learned about this too late...
clickable: http://mikesandmegs.com

it looks like a generic turnkey dating website built on top of a standard service. i mean, its branded as and redirects me to passionsearch.com. if thats the url for the website, why not share that one?

i'll add more a little later on.
At least gmail filters out spam better than any other mail client and yes it includes Yahoo Mail.
Systema, Silat, and Xingyi. I've noticed a lot of graduate students in the sciences out rock climbing, too.
New York is the only place in America I have been to so far, and I found it very impressive even though I know London. It's amazing to think about the short time span that it was built in.

Ironically I guess Americans coming to Europe tend to marvel at the long time spans things have been built in ;-)
I've had the same experience. Nearly everyone I train with is highly intelligent and generally fairly level-headed.

I guess the popular perception is kind of the opposite, but I'm glad it doesn't work out that way!
Articulated perfectly! Any time I'm working on a Rails project, and run into odd behaviours, the first thing I'll do is check to see if I'm actually using a Ruby or a Rails method. Most often than not, I'm expecting a "Ruby" way of doing things, but find out I'm actually using the "Rails" version, which does something completely different. If I run into any in the next few hours, I'll post them here :)
Full anonimity, thanks to tilly (separated for better understanding):

builder = function(x){ return function(n){ return x(x)(n); }}
factorial = function(f){ return function(n){ return n==0?1:n*f(f)(n-1);} }
alert(builder(factorial)(8))

One liner, just seed factorial to builder:

r = (function(x){ return function(n){ return x(x)(n); } } (function(f){ return function(n){ return n==0?1:n*f(f)(n-1);} }))(8);
This was supposed to be a really simple example. One could always write the code such that try only gets defined if there's no existing definition.
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That's a good mix, I don't even know what Xingyi is, I'll have to look that up!

I've been doing Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing, Airsoft and I've just started Kali, JKD and DBMA.

I notice a lot of martial artists like rock climbing too... I guess the challenge appeals!
Wait a minute, isn't this an appeal to authority?

Maybe you could substantiate how Ron Paul is wrong?
why do you keep spamming the same site over and over again ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mikecurry
Wow, thanks for some of the awesome tips! re: "If you want fair market you should be at the market, in person, taking long rides to dusty villages like the rest of us".....do you think it would be difficult to find someone local in China I could work with, to visit factories, inspect products, take photos, etc?
Per the site guidelines, and common courtesy, you should link to the actual content, not to a link to a link to the content.

Your site is even worse, it's a no-name blog with a bit.ly link to the final article. Had I come across that randomly I would have probably just hit close or back.