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I heard about this recently on smodcast (podcast featuring Kevin Smith and his producer Scott Mosier), their reenactment was hilarious and I heartily recommend it - http://smodcast.com/episodes/true-tales-of-canadian-heroism/
> you can see Groovy as "Java without semicolons"

Only a very small subset of Groovy is used by the typical Gradle build script, the very subset of Groovy that's least like Java. What part of this build script from the linked article bears any resemblance to Java?...

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'application'

sourceCompatibility = '1.8'
mainClassName = 'jmodern.Main'

repositories {
mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
compile 'com.google.guava:guava:17.0'
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11' // A dependency for a test framework.
}

run {
systemProperty 'jmodern.name', 'Jack'
}

javadoc.options {
docletpath = configurations.markdownDoclet.files.asType(List) // gradle should relly make this simpler
doclet = "ch.raffael.doclets.pegdown.PegdownDoclet"
addStringOption("parse-timeout", "10")
}

run {
jvmArgs "-javaagent:${configurations.quasar.iterator().next()}" // gradle should make this simpler, too
}
Looks like the deadline was yesterday (April 30).
Node v0.10.27 (Stable)
We should make people program without Firebug every now and then and so they can experience the pain we went through.
The NDA says that it's an agreement between Id, on behalf of Zenimax, and Luckey (Occulus)
A few months ago I asked you why you don't do remote work. I followed up with an email. I realize you're busy, but still I would have appreciated an answer, since you asked me to send you an email anyway.
A big problem is keeping people in school instead of letting them go work to support their families. Can technology solve this? Maybe. Perhaps when an ed-tech company wants to test the effectiveness of their product, maybe they could pay students in developing countries to test their products instead of dropping out of school. This might be cheaper than doing similar research in developed countries.

Education research could happen in developing nations instead of developed countries. If the alternative is no education or jobs that are dangerous, this approach might make a lot of sense.
it's the unlimited plan (I'll update that page)

with the free plan you can schedule up to 5 tweets and 5 facebook status at a time
My CNC machines aren't so easy to update.
XP is 13 years old, but a viable alternative is only 5 years old; Windows 7 only came out in 2009. For many industries, replacements are measured in decades.
Ah yes, The Fundemental Failure Mode Theorem[0] at work: Complex systems usually operate in failure mode.

Or, "That's why I'm skeptical of people who look at some catastrophic failure of a complex system and say, "Wow, the odds of this happening are astronomical. Five different safety systems had to fail simultaneously!" What they don't realize is that one or two of those systems are failing all the time, and it's up to the other three systems to prevent the failure from turning into a disaster." [1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#System_failure

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/04/16/83984...
I'm looking at the service tiers and I've got to wonder what use is putting google access in a tier? You use google to find other things, and if those things aren't in your package... Which brings me to small, personal web sites. What happens to them? In what tier do they belong?

Also: what about spammers? Will they have to pay for access? That would almost be worth it.
A Billion Words: Today's language modeling standard should be higher
Sprinklr, Showered In Money, Plans IPO – Will go public in Q2 2015
No idea in particular, but willing to experiment with the idea of cofounding something remotely (even if it is a side project of sorts).

Why? I want to challenge the notion that building something remotely cannot be done at all.

Skills: product, web development, marketing, analysis.

You'd probably work well with me if you're solving an idea normal people face and not something high-tech (eg. nanotech).

Ideas and discussions welcome.
Facebook app gives glimpse into life with dementia
Facebook is free! (So long as you're comfortable being the product.) I know, I'll create a new account with another service and then pay them to delete my history. Never mind that now yet another company, this time one without an obvious privacy policy, potentially has access to my personal info.
So pay them. There, that's cleared up.
I went from Java to Scala and am back to Java 8, and couldn't be happier with my choice. We are also using the latest Spring 4 framework which plays well with Java 8.

A lot of the Spring + Java haters haven't really looked at
all the improvements have happened to both Spring and Java recently, either that or they just like to bounce off what they read online without any actual experience.

It's a solid stack for a backend, and I have built the whole platform on in without a hitch.
This might be of interest to you:

https://github.com/gilesjb/copalis.sql
Five Lessons from Kaggle's Event Recommendation Engine Challenge
Hard to imagine why normal people think tech is out of touch...
I've always hated the notion of "We pay you some small amount to own you 24/7."

In my opinion, what I do outside of work hours is mine and mine alone. I always make sure I state that explicitly and modify any contract that tries to do otherwise.
My last "visionary episode" occurred a couple of weeks before the Higgs was confirmed, and the Higgs field featured very prominently in the visions. Compare this to how the Higgs must also have featured very prominently in the waking consciousnesses of the scientists working on it at the time, perhaps even in some of their dreams. But the way it appeared in their consciousness is considered more useful, and for a given set of values, it is.

Western industrial society loves the states of consciousness that are good for doing work and making money. It's pretty friendly towards drunkenness. It grudgingly and indifferently tolerates the states that are good for making popular music. It is terrified of pretty much all the others.

I refuse to use the word 'psychosis' because it is so disparaging. The visionary state itself was indescribably wonderful. The physical effects of not eating or sleeping for the duration were bad, but temporary and fairly easy to fix. The subsequent reactions of others, including and especially so-called professionals, were devastating and made my life a living nightmare for about 9 months.

I'm currently reading Trials of the Visionary Mind by psychiatrist John Weir Perry. His views match my experience. I feel the stigma in Western society around non ordinary states is extremely damaging. It may be good for "the machine" or whatever you want to call it, but I know for sure it is very damaging to the lives of affected individuals, and I don't think it's good for society at large.
But that loses the whole point of doing it on HN.

This idea is somewhat cool in that if there were a few people who interested me, I could scan their comment history (or might recognize the username) to get a sense of their style of interaction, thinking, passions, etc..

A throwaway account means there's none of that; and unfortunately, it also means there's no way to distinguish you from someone who read an article and is posting their inflated self-description on HN along with 219 other places.

I'd be curious to see a trial run, but I don't have very high hopes.
You have completely ignored the author's central point: that the movement toward privacy also makes you criminally suspect.
Why not just use light table?
If you need Internet Explorer updates for those you are using them wrong.
Dependency Injection in Ember.js – First Steps
'Hügel' is just the german word for 'hill'. There's no such word as 'Hugel' in german, the dots over the 'u' make it an Umlaut and all the difference in pronunciation between 'hügel' and 'hoogle'. The pronunciation of 'hoogle' in english and 'hugel' in german is the same.
You read it on The Guardian; a news service, not a Q&A website.
You could use DeleteItLater to prevent Buffer Overflow.

Sorry, I'll show myself out.
The agreement is between ZeniMax/id and Palmer Luckey (id and ZeniMax are functionally the same entity here, so I think you might be confused on that part of it).

Palmer Luckey is the founder of Oculus and for all intents and purposes at the time this was signed, Luckey was Oculus.
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And I think Microsoft actually stopped selling Windows XP one year later, in October 2010.
That's the deadline for the Fellowship. The deadline for applications for the Hackers In Residence is May 20th.

See here: http://significancelabs.org/hackers/
This pretty much says it all...

"Oculus uses zero lines of code that I wrote while under contract to Zenimax."

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/462000400996921344
I can certainly understand why Carmack left. Doesn't sound like his kind of company.
Visualizing sidechains and the aggregate losses of unspent transaction outputs
Driving mode for smart phones
Similar to Airplane Mode, how about Driving Mode?

Something akin to iOS Do Not Disturb, you would set a speed threshold beyond which notifications are silenced - i.e.: >= 25 km/hr, phone effectively silences itself. Slow down again, notifications come back on.

This feature would include the option to explicitly disable Driving Mode if you are, for instance, on a train or in a taxi.

Thoughts?
Overlap seen in genes altered in schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability
'Heartbreaking' Video Of Final Moments Aboard Korean Ferry
>>not they are meant to.
Yes that my point
The real problem is that people confuse psychology with science.
Lost Curiosities: Torpedoes and Player Pianos
It's definitely icky. I don't sign those things anymore, but then I don't get paid enough to. I do wonder how these negotiations go though for someone at Carmack's level. These contracts aren't compulsory... Carmack apparently understood that enough to work out an exclusion for Armadillo... and certainly there's a price at which I'd happily sign one of those agreements (though I can't imagine anyone paying it), so it's not clear to me yet which side of this I'd fall on, despite really despising those kinds of employment contracts.
I am basing my comment on the Java One talk about Java 8 lambdas implementation on the Oracle JVM.

I assume other certified JVMs would follow similar design approaches.
Got any links on that? Sounds interesting. Does that calculate its dynamic properties or something?
I work at a telco. We just upgraded to Win 7 last week, and even then, more that 40% of machines are still not done, and likely won't be until late in the 3rd quarter.

"Do it as late as possible" is the motto when upgrading your machines doesn't earn more income.
It just seems like one of those "maybe I shouldn't do this query" moments. Requiring something other than just a TLD should be a basic check.
Because of Android moving to gradle I would say.
Good question! And I have to first say that I haven't used light table a lot. But from my experience Light Table has what I will call REPL based interactivity. You choose which sections of code to have compiled and then evaluated in the browser environment.

This is different from the the experience of just saving a file and having the behavior change. But you can probably integrate this workflow into Light Table quite easily. Well actually you can use figwheel inside Light Table and have both repl based and file based interactivity. Pretty cool.

I also think that the Light Table interactivity for javascript is not REPL based but I would call file based. But the dominant javascript programming paradigm in javascript is imperative and thus very brittle when working with live coding.
Why would you need to update your CNC machine anyway? Surely such a device is locked down and wouldn't fall prey to the kinds of vulnerabilities a corporate PC would. Presumably you're referring to the fact your CNC machine is setup to be operated remotely? The risk of someone accessing your CNC machine is probably lesser than that of someone infiltrating a corporate network and wreaking havoc on files, stealing information and credentials.
For closed systems I think there is no need to upgrade.

What is the harm of not upgrading, what is the worst thing that can happen?

Of course, this is for a system that is not connected to the outside world.
Yeah but kind of expensive... I believe the best combination would be a small telescope to learn the basics of the sky and then if you want to go deep, rent the iTelescope service.
>This feature would include the option to explicitly disable Driving Mode if you are, for instance, on a train or in a taxi.

I feel like the same people that need driving mode would be the same people that would just turn that off. It doesn't work.
> Right now (at least for Android), Gradle is a colossal waste of time due to lacking features, extremely slow execution and myriad of bugs which will eat away productive time on project

Are the sparse features, slow executes, and bugginess due to Gradle or due to the scripting language it uses? www.gradle.org/overview says they will happily support any community effort to create additional build script engines for Gradle. The Gradle developers had better do it themselves because after the Groovy++ fiasco, noone's going to put work into building something related to the Groovy ecosystem when it's likely to be skuttled and/or stolen later on.
> However, whether we like it or not, the evidence is overwhelming that money is extremely effective in garnering votes and winning elections.

Actually there is very little evidence that more money correlates with more electoral success. For example the Sunlight Foundation found that outside spending had no discernible impact on election outcomes in 2012. And that was after the Citizens United ruling.

In politics there is an "ante"--an amount of money necessary to run a basic credible campaign--but beyond that, more money does not necessarily get you anything.
> Undoubtedly it is one of the best versions of Windows ever put out

It might be better to say "most successful," not "best."
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Is there a "news" element to this link (since the name of this site is "Hacker News")?

Otherwise, it's an interesting story and it makes a good lesson, but I've been hearing it, now, for almost twenty years...
New data suggest the Chinese economy is bigger than previously thought
Large bank here. our Win7 upgrade is mostly done, but still ongoing.
One Man Circus
Well, maybe you should try a Kickstarter campaign and see how it goes... I'm sure you have to invest a bit to create a video and all, but I'm sure it will be a successful campaign.
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China uses metric. Just wait a decade or two...
We had checks signed before the beta version was done. That was good validation. We reached that point by a lot of footwork and following the methods (not exactly, but in a general sense) of Steve Blank.
The article is fine, but what I really like is the chart. Excellent visualization of GDP vs GDPPP.
Having spent 5 years doing production C++, I don't believe you basically.

All that shit that sucked in 2005 about C++ is still in there. It's just up to your discipline to not use it.

Do you trust your coworkers enough?
I would agree with that; my sister has a nice touchscreen laptop (~$1000) and she uses it for watching movies, tv shows, etc; mostly media based uses. She loves it and uses it all the time, so I would agree with you that it does depend on what the user will be using it for. Myself, as a programmer, and programming being what I primarily use my laptop for, I would find it unnecessary and I wouldn't pay extra to have it.
Completely agree that driving can work just as well for generating insights. Whether I'm walking or driving, I've found the key for me is to force my mind to be active. An easy way to do that is having a clear intention in mind when I set out - like a problem I want to solve or a situation I want to analyze.
What are the use-cases for something like this?

I'm really curious because for me personally, if I were to delete something later then my opinion is that I shouldn't have posted it in the first place. Of course typos and mistakes happen but I feel like those things can't really be scheduled.

I guess maybe having it permanently turning on during evening hours to prevent any lasting drunk tweets/posts - but it's the internet, once it's up there and embarrassing it's probably everywhere else too.
4 stages of writing longform, and interface ramifications
A bit confusing, but as near as I can tell, the contention is:

1) Id software claims they own the work Carmack did while working for them unless an exception had been made in his contract.

2) An agreement was signed between Id and Oculus saying Id retained ownership of the work they owned.

This story contains a copy of the agreement, and a quick skim indicates it says what Re/code claims it does. IF Id owned Carmack's work on VR, then it would seem they still do so, and Oculus does not (ie, point 2 is correct).

The question that isn't answered here is, well, does Id own Carmack's work? The fact that Carmack's contract apparently had a specific exclusion for Armadillo Aerospace, but did not have one for Oculus is very suggestive (why negotiate any exceptions unless exceptions are indeed needed?), but not dispositive. Seems like the real dispute is going to end up being between Id and Carmack; Oculus is kind of a bystander.

If I was advising Carmack, I'd strongly suggest he engage a lawyer. He's probably getting legal advice from Oculus's counsel right now, but there's a long, long, LONG history of people getting screwed over by their employer's lawyer (who works for the employer, not for the employee, and has no duty to offer legal advice in the employee's interest!). Tweeting that Oculus doesn't use any code written while Carmack was at Id is all well and good, but it's got nothing to do with the core issue. I'd hate to see Carmack accidentally admit to something that'll screw him over later.
I don't know anything specific about the details of any of Carmack's contracts; but certainly when signing them you have a lot more leverage to carve out exclusions when some other company actively wants to buy "you" and your company than you do later when it is clear to everyone that you're on the way out the door.

Armadillo was started way before ZeniMax acquired id (thus easy to foresee needing a documented exclusion), whereas Oculus VR wasn't even a thing until a few years after that was a done deal.
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This joke was reused from an earlier tweet on the subject that had went viral.

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/461912155143831552
Thanks for all your comments. I think you are right the issue is not with which language to code it's the way to get a product people wants.
If you don't mind. I got another question (from your experience) how to get/interact with users to understand what they want before to start build something let's say MVP?
The pilot (or co-pilot), I don't recall, was also an Air Cadet at that airfield, which is how he knew that it was there, a good long strip, and well maintained.
Agreed. On top of which XML has no capacity for logic, barring an incredibly contrived construct.
I read that to mean his previous Club Penguin apps did that.
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A similarly interesting incident happened with another Canadian airline -- Air Transat Flight 236[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
Though I don't know all of the specifics of this case, there is more to consider than whether or not code was used. Certain types of algorithms, concepts, processes, etc. are possibly protectable and could fall under question.

That being said, my sense is that Zenimax is having a bit of regret for not investing early and are trying alternative methods to get "their share".
For months, autofilling doesn't work on Mac. Neither on stable, nor on development releases. Firefox and Chrome complain about browser signature.
Aaron Levie’s run of bad timing may ultimately cost Box its IPO moment
Protected intersections for bicyclists
Hugelkultur sounds like in-situ composting to me, but with a tremendous amount of physical effort and machinery. Not easy for the average home owner to do.

> Besides, isn't this much better use of the wood than hauling it to the dump, or chipping it,

Chipping wood to make it into mulch and then spreading it over your garden beds also helps to retain moisture in the soil.

> or putting it in those big city bins for yard waste?

Cities recycle yard waste into mulch or compost that residents can use in their garden beds for much the same purpose: nourish the soil with organic matter and help it retain moisture.
For those who don't want to click on the link to the image that Tripsy tweeted out the story is: Techcrunch wrote an article with the headline: "MakeSpace, The Dropbox For Physical Storage, Packs Up $8 Million Led By Upfront Ventures" to which they Tweeted at Techcrunch, "the #startup you call the "Dropbox for physical storage" is actually just what most people call storage. "

I think his highlights just how disconnected some people have become from reality. We don't refer to our home phones as, "The Skype for real telephones"
What's the difference? Fellowship is for CEO of a social enterprise, Hackers is for CTOs?
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When Evidence Backfires
So... a camera app for recording with a full-frame codec with low-res so that speed & filesize are kept low?
Great name & domain. Excited to try this, but I can't imagine the IQ being worth keeping.
>No IPv6, no custom kernels, no own OS installs.

Don't need it. I used to build my own kernels and blah blah blah years ago, but where I'm at now in life, it doesn't come up.