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One reason is I think topics drop off too fast. I know there is a flame ramp-up algorithm or whatever it is called when a large number of comments is added. But I think that needs to be refined. If there a large number of longer and highly upvoted comment that thread should stay up higher.

Say just recently there was an interesting thread comparing Erlang and Go concurrency and thread safety. There were interesting in-depth comments about schedulers and whatnot. Seemingly a good number of upvotes, yet before the end of the day the story was gone.

So I think people do want to discuss things more and it needs to be fixed.

Well I guess another way is to embrace this and just re-post other blogs and reactions and then in the thread post links to previous comments (as in "wait, you probably want to read the story from yesterday before commenting here..."), kind of idea.
I hate LinkedIn. It's a terrible, cluttered mess of a website. It's shady as all hell. Their mobile app is unusable.

And yet, just by having a profile that's even vaguely up to date, I get job offers left and right. Most of them are complete crap, but I was also contacted by a recruiter for one of the big four on there. I filter all the email to a separate folder where it can rot eternally, and I page through the messages on LinkedIn every few weeks to see if there's anything interesting.
I wish i could actually read his article and not a review of it.
Indeed.

I am also not aware of how climate change could lead to human extinction.
So there are a lot of interesting things that come with being the largest economy on the planet. Not the least of which is pricing power over the other economies. There is also the ability to project force. In a number of analyses of WWII what "won" it for the allies was the US economy, and the ability for that economy to out produce war material than the axis powers combined.

Not that we would, but should the US and China engage in endless WW2 style battles of attrition, the larger economy wins that engagement. Because at the end of the day the ability to replace assets trumps any initial tactical advantage.

A number of well respected economists have debated the 'reality' of the Chinese economy and the UN has tried to get a qualitative measure that avoids over reliance on government supplied numbers.

There is always the possibility that China will stumble again, unable to balance its form of governance against its population's outrage, but if it does not, well its going to be able to push around more people without being overly concerned about the US being able to pressure others to resist. The way that works is as follows.

Country A taunts country B, country C tells country D to push back on them or their relationship with C will be in jeopardy, maybe C tells D, E, F, and G to make a fuss. They comply because they are economically dependent on C. Country A backs down. B is grateful. But if country C taunts country B, and Country A doesn't have the influence to get anyone else to push back on that taunting. Country C gets its way. How those scenarios play out is very dependent on the relative sizes of Country A's economy and Country C's economy. Politicians are particularly afraid of biting the hand that trades with them.
The implication is that most institutions suffer from this disadvantage, and saying "Ivy League" is a shorthand for that proposition, since it is assumed (correctly or not) that Ivy League universities are at least as good as most other educational institutions.
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How long until Facebook releases a photo app with Anonymous Login as its central feature?
School systems should definitively make use of spaced repitition. It’s like a slap in science’s face not making use of the insight that people forget at an exponentially decreasing rate (which is known as the Ebbinghaus curve [1] since 1885 (!)).

The only attempt I know of that goes into that direction is BrainRush [2], a startup by one of the developers of the Pong game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

[2] http://www.brainrush.com/
Yes, but the problem is that it's not a good idiom either, for the reasons explained:

It's based on a broken metaphor, and it doesn't reflect how things work on software.

They could have at least said "they made just another blog engine".
A random search on AirBnB for a date in December shows me about 900 "Entire Place" rentals available. I'm not saying that all those would definitely be long-term rentals in the city, but I have a hard time believing that there are about a thousand empty apartments/houses that would otherwise just be sitting empty were there not the lucrative AirBnB market.
Coffee shops need a different license to make food to ensure that they have a safe, hygienic food prep area. Hotels are subject to health regulations as well. Hotels are also supposed to collect guest taxes that I'm guessing many (most? all?) AirBnB hosts weren't collecting. ie, they were not playing by the same rules as everyone else, which is anti-competitive.

The neighbors should get a say in whether you're running a hotel out of your house/condo, because there are externalities involved. For example, if the condo next door to you hosts hundreds of people per year they're more likely to get bedbugs, which can require fumigating the entire building. I'm sure we can come up with some more if you try.

Bottom line, certainly some regulations exist for protectionist reasons, but you're wrong in assuming that protectionism is the only reason for regulation. AirBnB and others should be subject to a reasonable level of regulation. It's unfortunate, but that's the cost of living in close quarters with lots of other people.
I want to see the App Links for the apps in their service, the Pinterest and Spotify links would be nice to have access too. Pinterest is notorious for being closed off, only recently opening open an API. Will the list be open?
Possibly because antibiotic resistance is seemingly imminent, and global warming is only a threat over a much longer timeframe. I can't say definitively whether this accurately reflects reality, but intuitively it makes sense for people to feel this way.
absolutely. As a sales tool, it could not be replaced. Being able to find decision makers, or review people's experience before calls and meetings is crucial.
Those are all ways to allay the yellow flag, yes, and in an exhaustive search you'd easily pass the tests. But you still raise the flag/concern in a lot of cases. And if the evaluation is perfunctory, everyone with a yellow flag might get cut for ease.

It probably hurts candidates at least a little on the average over the long term, even when they have everything you've mentioned.
sometimes i think the USA be better off it was split into different countries. Just sucks having massive federal laws that blanket the entire country even though conditions are way different.
I have to nitpick because it's important. seldo said, "I expect candidates to make themselves available to the <proxy> I've chosen to predict performance."
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That was the intent of the jab -- you could say it about any place that 'teaches' math.
Can you cite about that worst case scenario? All that I've heard of global warming consequences is a metre or two rise in sea level, flooding of the related areas + changes in agriculture (currently fertile areas suffer, but northern countries may even increase fertility) i.e., a major pain, but nothing near extinction or civilization ending. It would happen slowly enough (over a century) and require some migration further inland (or infrastructure megaprojects - we can have cities below sea-level, see Netherlands for example), but in the long term we would have the same quality of life, just for a smaller global population due to agricultural changes.

Antibiotic resistance, on the other hand, kills our wellbeing and lifespan by making common medical procedures/surgeries impossible, and does so permanently.
Agree with Todd's general setup. CPM's on display ads are in a death spiral thanks to a glut of inventory and programmatic buying/targeting options.

Particularly for a tutorial site I would consider paid, clearly marked sponsored tutorials that you produce and keep full editorial control over. In moderation it can work well and still have educational value for readers and drive results for advertisers way beyond any display ads, and significantly more revenue for you.
Full disclosure I handle direct ad sales for publishers with this exact same model at TechCrowds.com (including representing a few BuySellAds publishers)
Why are people downvoting this?

Other than the unnecessary "WTH?" at the start, this is a thoughtful and considered response. Is it just the sentiment that is unpopular?
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Really it's a step backwards from Android if you overspecify to the point of saying the exact target app (which Android does support, but shouldn't generally be used between applications).

The whole point is to allow different apps to be swapped without the others needing to change. All this does is tie everything too closely together, and more likely than not to Facebook.
IANAL, but I think this is more a political comment: the motivation for the upcoming patent bill was (partially) that existing law is too troll-friendly and needs to be fixed; but if the SC has clarified the existing law to be less troll-friendly, then it's not as important to reform the law.

I'm reminded of an Atlantic article I recently read about the Warren Court in the 60s---by deciding one case on extremely narrow procedural grounds rather than on the merits, the court left a "this needs to be fixed" motivation that gave political room for the Civil Rights Act.
You can make this far faster by changing the data representation. You can represent S as a bit string so that if the i'th bit is 0 then S[i] = 1 and if the i'th bit is 1 then S[i] = -1. Lets call that bit string A. You can represent F as two bit strings B,C. If the i'th bit in B is 0 then F[i] = 0. If the i'th bit of B is 1 then if the i'th bit of C is 0 then F[i] = 1 else F[i] = -1. Now the whole thing can be expressed as parity((A & B) ^ C). The parity of a bit string can be computed efficiently with bit twiddling as well. Now the entire computation is in registers, no arrays required. The random generation is also much simpler, since we only need to generate random bit strings B,C and this is already directly what random generators give us. I wouldn't be surprised if this is 1000x faster than his Python.
You're right, I wasn't careful. Without precomputing F, the speedup is only around 7x.
Uff, that's really unfortunate when the adblock block the name of your company.
p.s. I found I had to use 'data.crossref.org' instead of 'dx.doi.org' when I scripted it (python + requests). Not sure why exactly (doi was redirecting to crossref anyway).
very cool, just forwarded this to some of my editor/writer friends
You aren't enough of a special hipster snowflake to ironically not use popular job networking services.
Unfortunately, not that I can find.

I'd love to expand this concept and do full window manager integration with tmux/screen, actually.

I can't see any problems with having a bottom-tabbed UI with nice tmux keybindings - "C-a 0" to go over to Chrome, quick split of current X view with "C-a %', etc would be phenomenal.

Does anyone know if this exists in some form already?
These links don't preserve intent for users who don't already have the app, due to the App Store's and Google Play's problems with attributing app downloads.

My company, Tapstream, fixes this by pairing our attribution platform with a deep link redirector - users who have the app already are deep linked, and users who don't have the app are sent to the App Store.

Then, once the new user installs the app, the app receives a callback with the user's source and any query string parameters on the original link. Docs: https://tapstream.com/developer/deferred-deep-links/
Thank you for posting this. I don't understand how climate change denialism is such a popular opinion among people who _should_ know better.
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I agree. Originally, LinkedIn filled the role of a professional, non-shady, social network. I could trust them with my data because they were serious, professional and no-nonsense. If they don't want to fill that role any more, perhaps some other site should.
Yeah, but the creation of more is pretty much a given.
There is no per-key adjustment in equal temperament. Equal temperament assigns an exact pitch (frequency) to each note, regardless of what key, chord, or interval the note is in. These weird frets are intended to make each note on the guitar play the exact pitch that is assigned to it by equal temperament, because normal straight frets cannot do that.
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This is great. As an iOS developer this lowers the barrier of entry for people to try out your app.
How about this one:

.some-css-rule { padding-left:50px; padding-right:50px; margin-left:50px; margin-right:50px; }

I run into examples like this a lot and have yet to find an elegant way to deal with it. Honestly, I'd like to see if there's a simple solution.

I find that I spend a lot of time in my editor crafting regular expressions to do clever replacements and I've yet to get so good at it that it doesn't distract me from my editing.
Poor communities and cultures in the USA have been eating the cheaper, undesirable cuts of meat for a long time. Pig and chicken feet, turkey necks, beef tails, intestines, carp and catfish.
I appreciate your point of view, but this is just supposition. As far as I know, there have been no actual studies done related to the effect of independent rentals using the Airbnb model on neighborhoods.

My own opinion is that property owners have the ability to do what they will with that property up to the limits of established laws. This means that with no existing laws to prevent action, those actions are allowable.

Based on that opinion, and unless some studies are done that factually demonstrate negative impacts on neighborhoods, no pre-emptive laws should be passed restricting this activity.
I have the same 'new' rice cooker. You have a button to turn it on and a button to launch the cooking. I don't see what's complicated about it.

(The other buttons are for brown rice and delay cooking start. Pretty useful too even if I never use them).
And better to say that! This article seems to confirm that Khan Academy is teaching to university standards. The problem is, that almost all institutions teach the mechanics -- or at least, almost all teachers. If this particular professor teaches to the novel application level, wonderful. But a significant percentage of his peers do not.
If you dig a little you can find several articles detailing LinkedIn's odd/scary ability to connect people having no discernible connection but a good reason to think there could/should be.
So we need to make it another 50-100 year range so we can just replace it with robots?
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Perhaps the solution is that the host must have the property as their primary residence. This implies they spend over half of the year at that property.
Additionally, Facebook knows which apps you are using anonymously, which could have problematic implications when incorporated with Graph Search.
> There is a greater scientific consensus on the origins of anthropogenic climate change than there is on the origins of many common diseases.

You are misrepresenting my statement. I specifically referred to consequences, not origins.
Why is this shady? If I intentionally click on a link to an app, why would I not want that link to open the App Store?
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I thought the implication in "reinventing the wheel" in software was that the current de-facto implementation obviously got it perfectly right, so trying to improve on that would just be absurd. Of course, i'm sure people were saying that when someone decided what the world needed was a better Movable Type.

And to go all the way down the pedantic rabbithole, there's never been software which is elegant or utilitarian enough to be worthy of considering a "wheel" in that regard.
Isn't the issue that we don't want to share information with Facebook?
I've seen integration tests that, because of the particular path thru the code, trigger multiple bugs that more or less canceled each other out.
Here's the Firefox bug about implementing (or not) setImmediate:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686201
I like the summary in the last paragraph: find out who you are, then either quit, innovate, or hold your horses.
You're right. This needs to change as well.
$118 is pretty low, frankly.
There's a very good documentary about bacteriophages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6sZ7E9Hh-Y

It's history is muddied, mainly because of money & politics.
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So, what you're saying is, it's like starcraft, and he who mines more minerals wins.
Enjoy it while it lasts.

US will eventually have to raise taxes on poor and middle class - following in the EU's footsteps.
Actually, I did that and even provided a non-paywall link myself (although it doesn't appear to be working for everyone).

My point is that there has been a rise in paywalled articles being submitted to HN and reaching the front-page, which leads to the inevitable needless exercise of readers hunting out a non-paywall link or hoping someone took the time to post one in the comments.

In certain cases you can't anticipate when a paywall article will be paywalled or not, and I sympathize when that is the case. When it comes to the NYTimes, however, you are almost guaranteed to be submitting an article that will be paywalled for someone so why not make SOME effort to provide a non-paywall version?
Just an aside but it's almost all regulation that limits the supply of housing in SF. There is essentially no lack of land due to our technical ability to stack things vertically.
Idea is, probably, that the more distributed nodes the more in parallel they can do. Useful for lots of frames or large images. Neat idea to put it in a browser, but main trouble with making a production rendering is in implementation details and support for applications and shading networks.
I lost an entire Google account like this. Email, calendar, etc - poof, no explanation, no recourse.
The worst case scenario for both is extinction.
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Ya, I guess I'm thinking of it more from a hosting/cloud perspective, in that even though one user/tenant's site has been hacked, it would be nice not to have to wipe the machine for all other users.
Hehe...the future is now, sort of. We already have robots that can screen large libraries of chemicals against bacteria for antibiotic effectiveness.
I believe that the behavior is undefined, but I haven't checked since iOS 7 came out. The docs used to say it was undefined, and I think people reported that it would pick the app that was most recently installed.
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Does anyone know of an ad network which pays out in Bitcoin but targetted towards general users? Coinurl, a-ads etc have an extremely low CTR because they are targetted to only Bitcoins users.

Are there any plans for popular ad networks to payout in Bitcoin anytime soon?

Another solution would be to use affiliate programmes such as Privateinternetaccess but once again, it would generate a low CTR I would presume.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ICPINT/Resources/270056-1... is the paper they did the article from if that helps.
This regulation is meant to stop people from buying cheap apartments and turning them into makeshift hotels.
Our policy is basically to just never be shady... shady stuff is best left for other folks who enjoy making a quick buck. We just don't deal with shady stuff like this.
> The worst case scenario for global warming is that it's an extinction-level event and civilization ends.

I don't buy that. Beginning of a new dark age with a breakdown of civilization and loss of advancements? Yes. Extinction-level event? No.

> The worst case scenario for antibiotic resistance is that people live with the medical uncertainties our grandparents and great-grandparents lived with.

No, actually the worst case is that the antibiotic period breeds superbugs that are both more virulent and harder to kill than those that came before. Antibiotic resistance comes about because of unintentional selective breeding of bacteria. We don't really know what other traits we are unintentionally selecting for. We could potentially be breeding a wordwide pandemic and not realize it. Which could bring about a new dark age with a breakdown of civilization and loss of advancements.
Yup. Or sheep, bricks, and wood if you're a Catan fan.
Nope. It is what it is: capital-intensive research that is hard and it takes a long time to come up with a molecule that will stop an infection without killing or disabling the patient. That can't be done last minute like in the movies.

FYI: One of the last-ditch antibiotics (I forget the name) has a side-effect of permanently damaging hearing. I have to basically yell at 95 yo grandmother for her to hear me. :)
There have been ads getting through some of the exchanges that automagically open the AppStore or iTunes without you clicking or tapping anything...
Facebook is never going to see that as a problem worth solving.
GoInstant developer here. First thank you for your kind words and thoughtful comment!

We did focus purely on text synchronization as the first step so you are correct cursor positions may be in the wrong spot if you are just moving the cursor around while conflicting text is being inserted/deleted. We do also use a post OT heuristic to place the cursor as the end of a text edit though so the cursor while typing should still look natural. Since cursor position is not included in OT I'm not sure I follow your example where <p>abcd|ef</p> becomes <p>abc123d|</p> though.

This was a tradeoff we made to launch earlier but more core cursor sync support is definitely possible in the future.
Doesn't the OP report mean its too late for this to matter? The bugs already exist.
I have some issues with this ballot proposition, but you take it too far.

The "property owners should be free to do as they please" thing is a good slogan, but it ignores negative externalities. E.g., I shouldn't be able to open up a paper mill or a hog farm in my condo, because the effects of that extend beyond the bounds of my property.

That's why we have zoning, for example. We zone an area residential because many people don't want to live in a commercial zone. Saying, "You can't run a hotel in this neighborhood" is something we already do, so it's not crazy to say, "You also can't use AirBnB to run a hotel-like-thing in this neighborhood."
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