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The article well written. It didn't throw me or make me confused. I simply was bothered by the lack of nuance in regard to mutation. Trillions of pixels have been burned describing pure functions and giving small examples of immutability and recursion. Trees have even been killed.

What makes Chapter 3 of On Lisp or SICP useful is they're Third Acts. They go deeper than pure functions. They're pivotal because that's where we start talking about the messy world where mutation is necessary. It's where we admit that there's a rationale for the way Java works even if it's implementation could stand improvement.

What makes Clojure interesting is the way in which it implements that depth. Lisp went on a journey to Java and was transformed by the experience. Clojure is not just another Lisp - that side of the family has always had shared structure and a propensity for functions. There's `is` and 'testing` and agents and vars and `.` and `..`. JavaScript the good parts is a book. Java the good parts are in Clojure. Clojure is an Act V not an Act I.
Is Apple building a search engine?
Well, not worth it working with these kind of bosses in the first place.
Really like this. There's a bug in the Map element where annotations don't work properly at the world scale. Otherwise awesome. Looking forward to seeing where this goes. One great addition would be a JSON builder or the like that would allow callouts to trusted datasets for dynamic infographics.
Maybe humans are wrong about mirrors and the animals know it isn't them.

Humans can be arrogant in their assumptions about animals.

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” - Douglas Adams, hitchhikers
How do you connect these articles? The Soros funds gave high returns along their life.
There are some other symbols which are (somewhat) common in OS X's shortcut listings but which aren't listed on this page, like Escape, Home, End, Delete... Found them listed here: http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html
The iPod and iTunes existed, and were wildly popular, for years before the iTunes Music Store existed, so no, they weren't using DRM on launch. It's only because there was so much DRM-free media around that the iPod could become popular enough that selling music on iTunes was a vaguely interesting proposition; without that built-in market, the iTMS probably would never have been worthwhile.
Leave it there for a moment. She slaps it, but doesn't scratch at it. Like a high five.
The "shortcat" application recomended seems pretty awesome. Playing around with it now.
I think a healthy sustainable mix for maintaining flow over the long haul is probably something like - 4-5 hours coding, 0-2 hours meeting/collaboration, 1-2 hours email, 2 hours reading/writing, 1 hour lunch
Ask HN/dang: How did the HN update go? What are the changes?
From the outside, it seemed like the HN update went far more quickly
than the planned 1 hour of downtime. I haven't noticed anything
different (so far), so I'm wondering what changes and improvements have
been made? Did the mentioned improvements to /newest get enabled?
It was on our blog: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/push-to-cards/

This is the first time we've done this, so we haven't written a lot about it yet because the feature hasn't actually shipped.

I will also say that the money was more in the theory of lean than actually paying for the development of the feature. We wanted to gain feedback and see if our customers would actually use this feature.
Yeah he's a bad investor..

don't hate mate.
It can be hard to transfer it between animals, pigs for instance don't care about marks on themselves
Nice! You can do something like:

python -c "print 'foo ' * 26" | say -v cellos
Having experienced all three types of judging formats as a hacker, I honestly enjoyed the Demo-athon types the best.

The most exciting part of a hackathon is seeing what other hackers have made and that's almost impossible when you're stuck at your table demoing. Especially if you're a solo hacker or a key member of the team.

The expo-style format may be the most scalable, but there's also a ton of room for improvement. I distinctly remember a hackathon (MHacks maybe?) where none of the sponsor judges came to see my app. Another time I overheard judges prioritized tables that had the most twitter mentions, turning the expo into a social network popularity contest of sorts.

Its exciting to see hackathons trying to solve the demo problem, and I'm really glad someone put together a guide, but I think the ideal judging format has yet to be found.
Didn't BeOS ship with bash and everything?
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> The root of the problem seems to be that major media companies are demanding DRM.

That, combined with the fact that users have not actually opposed DRM. On places like HN there is a strong anti-DRM sentiment, but the average person just doesn't care or isn't willing to make any sacrifices to fight it.

So the problem is a combination of the media companies requiring DRM, and consumers buying DRM'ed content and using DRM-enabled browsers. We can't directly influence the former, but we could certainly affect the latter.
>I find the hysterical arguments against DRM hard to grasp. Accessing various types of IP content is not a human right.

In this sense, nothing is a "human right" per se, not even not being murdered.

Human rights are what we define them to be.

Now you might change your argument to "it's not a serious enough right".

But in that case, I'd argue that the issue of open access to cultural artifacts, even if it's Ben Stiller and not Plato or the Principia Mathematica, is quite serious matter.
Chris saw that too a while ago. thanks for linking. We should have mentioned it in the post.
Bitcoin has plenty of reason to exist, even if it never replaces federal reserve notes (and it probably won't): low-fee international transfers, a hedge against volatile local currencies, and micro-payments/micro-donations.
Curious as to why nobody mentioned the travel expenses for multiple trips to New York. I somewhat sarcastically asked on Designer News why multiple trips were required for a simple poster design, to which Cameron responded (for anyone else curious):

"Research. But yes, I could have done that via Google. There's a special amount of knowledge, however, that comes from studying the architecture and stone in person, speaking with type designers familiar with the history in which it was built, etc."
To me the most purposeful usage would be for custom environment deployment in the same way I might use Chef or Puppet. That is far from the intended purpose of Linux Containers, and Docker may not be standardized application of LXC, but earns many points for me with its usage of git and if you are rolling your own webapps in troves and have limited resources it is nice to compartmentalize/modularize/automate your dev/deployment stacks. Especially when you are working with different clients that all have slightly different dev stack requirements it is nice to share resources while remaining isolated.

edit: I have not used containers with amazon web services but it is really nice to have on my VPS as virtualization and even paravirtualization are not typically an option.
You can't be serious. I've worked many "Java Enterprise shop" and not only are they not burdered by >100k lines of spring xml lines but they are very sensible with what they test. the smartest ones mock nothing, the ones with younger developers tend to mock more.

Please HN, stop with the obviously inexperience and occasionally laughable (due to ridiculousness) "Java" claims.
I have always wondered about such mirror experiments. If an animal became aware of the spot on the forehead, has this aninimal known previously the spot was not there before? How an animal who does not use a mirror on a regular basis would be become aware of the spot? What if the spot was there from the birth? Would it mean they have been using some sort of natural mirrors like water reflection to look at themselves?
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The lack of transparency explains most of this.

Investors expect the Hedge Funds to have some inside info.

For example, I've heard some hedge funds have "friends" who are staffers for congressmen. It's quite profitable to know what laws will change before everyone else does.

The investors may be recognizing that hedge funds are profiting from political corruption, & choose to look away from the ugliness & pay the fees in order to get in on the deals.
I would love to hear from someone who took (and completed) this class with no prior experience in Scala or FP.
What exactly are you arguing with and why are you telling me to stop thinking things? That sounds rude.

I don't disagree with any of the statements you have just made, and nothing I said in my previous comment contradicts that - so why the attitude?
Sure. Most of woodworking is measurement of rectangles. That's pretty much my entire day in CSS. Instead of pixel pushing I push inches. Woodworking even has it's own box model. When I make a cut on a table saw I need to account for Kerf, which is the part of the wood being stripped away. It's like a border 1px on my box :)

The rest is just basic design. If you know how to arrange a web layout, you'll find designing furniture much more fun.

Probably the reason I like it most is the permanence. Although sites I've designed for the web have lasted decades at this point, none of them keep the actual design for a year or two. When I build something in wood it's going to be like that forever. The only thing I can do is repaint it.
> DRM doesn't affect casual or non causal piracy - this was already discussed at length in the past here. Because once DRM is broken, piracy occurs using those DRM-stripped copies. I.e. it takes one pirate to break it in order for others to never deal with it. Therefore it doesn't lower piracy rate

Many who would casually pirate (or who would pirate without even realizing they were pirating) do not know about those DRM-stripped copies.
Sure. The short answer is that HN's goal is intellectual curiosity, so that's what we optimize for.

Optimizing means trading other things away. One thing we're willing to trade away–if it's a clear win for quality–is fidelity to the original submission. HN's focus should always be on the content, and the details of the original submission are of little interest compared to the subject at hand.

Was this particular change a clear win for quality? Well, the new link was better, as was the related subthread, which even included the author of the content, who even served on the relevant IEEE committee, and who was even game to politely bandy about design decisions with strangers superciliously claiming (in the internet's own special way) that he and his colleagues had done their work badly. It's pretty hard to get higher quality than that.

HN isn't a purist's kind of place. Our goal to make the front page and the threads as interesting and substantive as possible. We change a lot of things to serve that principle. If we knew how to serve it better, we'd happily break more crockery.

Someone (perhaps a purist!) will object that terms like "quality", "interesting", and "substantive" have no precise definitions and are in the eye of the beholder. True, but (a) they're not arbitrary either, (b) the alternatives suck, and (c) someone has to make the calls. We don't get them all right, but we do try hard to correct mistakes, and I'll defend the principle any day.
Personally, I was surprised that there is not a command line interface to OS X's Notification system. Seems like it would be handy for long running batch jobs.
Thanks! We have it in a backlog, actually: import from XLS, Google Spreadsheets or custom URL.
A CDN is a route, is my contention. Its value is being closer to the user.

CDNs are a good thing. But they are networks like any other, the difference being that the nodes are smart enough for to re-request data they already have. CDN nodes should be understood as caching routers.

Being closer to the user – the CDN’s value – rests in having a better position vis-à-vis the last-mile network. A better position vis-à-vis the last-mile network is what Netflix bought.
After 3 decades of deregulation[1] and the 2008 financial crisis which caused a world-wide meltdown... Still asking these kind of questions is naive, stupid but most of all dangerous[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freefall:_America,_Free_Markets...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17krugman.html
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The only unclear thinking is you stating that Google is nothing more than a word index. That is plainly a delusion.

Or are you arguing that anyone who operates a word index can do no wrong?
The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices.

One thing that's always seemed odd to me is that the DRM use case is presented as a battle with "content providers" on one side and everyone else on the other, but aren't these content providers also users? Do they also consume DRM'd content, and if so, are they perfectly fine with the restrictions? Do those who devise DRM schemes not realise that they may also be the ones who will have these schemes imposed on them?
Why are people attacking Mozilla? Go after the real culprits in this fiasco (you know who they are), not the reluctant consenter. Kick up a fuss with users of the competing browsers. It's still possible to salvage something from this.
Copy and paste support mostly.
Apologies, I was referring to the cancer becoming immune.
I think an animal capable of self recognition may still fail the mirror test if visual sense is not their primary window to the world.

Take a hypothetical example, say we were presented with a non-visual smell mirror, would we pay it any attention, let alone recognize or identify ourselves in it ? Highly unlikely, on the other hand an animal like scent-hound might find such a thing interesting.
I mentioned this in the second paragraph. Like I said, I'd be surprised if that helps mark times that much in practice. For minor collections in a generational GC you're typically doing a Cheney scan, so it's very unlikely to matter as you're copying the whole live region of the semispace anyhow. For major collections on tenured objects, in theory it could help, but again I'm skeptical that it will affect mark performance that much, because compaction does an excellent job of mitigating the cache effects. (It's impossible to accurately measure this stuff right now, as the fact that Go's GC is much more immature than the HotSpot GC will skew the numbers.)
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Yes this is what I was curious about. As happy and excited I am for the breakthrough, I'm also nervous about the repercussions of it.
One of the reasons Mountain view is a good test bed is the comparative absence of weather.

The LIDAR system the car relies on doesn't work in rain, snow, or fog. Also, it would have a lot of trouble with the massive changes to roads and driving patterns caused by seasonal snow accumulation in the mid-west and north east.
How would one construct a smell mirror?
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I have one. It's the best monitor I've ever used. And I've went through a lot of monitors, including the 4K Dells.

Maybe it isn't an issue on OSX, but with a 4K 32" fonts were too small unless I upped the DPI in Windows, which resulted in blurry text/icons. Many apps aren't DPI aware in Windows.

Compared to running the UP3214Q at 125% DPI, I'd also say the total desktop real estate is similar to the 34UM95.

Also, this LG has the best matte coating I've ever seen on a display. Completely unobtrusive. It looks semi-glossy but is still effective at cutting out reflections. My old 3008WFP had such a strong anti-glare coating that it gave off a noticeable grainy/ sparkle effect on solid color BGs. The UP3214Q was much better in this regard, though I still wished the coating was lighter.

I also really, really like 21:9 for gaming (FPS are amazing to play on this thing). I don't really care about 4K anymore, at least not until a higher-res 21:9 display comes out and Windows handles DPI scaling better.
TFA sez the app was "originally written for the Elastic Beanstalk Python environment". Running on docker is certainly more portable than being customized for Elastic Beanstalk. However, this particular app also uses SNS and DynamoDB. If the app is using that stuff, it isn't likely to leave AWS.
Cats have much better long-range vision than short-range. Long range they are probably better than you think. Short of about a foot they don't really focus at all, and rely on their whiskers. Like most predators they key in on movement. Taken together I think these features explain the behavior you've seen.
5. Areas that are often covered in deep snow. If "curbs" are defined as the raised area next to the street that you can't drive over, then the curbs change from one day to the next, jutting far out into the lane. And the number of lanes also changes - two lane roads often become one lane, either due to lack of room between the snow piles or because drivers on some roads spontaneously form a single file down center of what used to be two lanes.
If you present a code with ten dots, he will probably say it is bad code. But he won't invoke law of demeter. That's the point I think.

Is like invoking SRP. Fuck that. When you are experienced, you develop a sense on delineating responsabilities in a way that fits your application.

I am not David of course, but I have participated in some discussions with him, and we think very much alike on these topics, I think what I say above is right.

Going to switch to myself now: When people invoke SRP a priori they sometimes end up with one class == one method in a theoretical a priori way.

I don't think that works. It goes in the reverse direction. SRP is inferred, it emerges, it is not applied as if it was a logical proposition.
Well, the title is a bit pompous and takes too much for granted.

That said, I respect Mr. Marchioni, especially for his last quote in the article. I feel the same way, even though I'm not able to create a Google-level search engine :-)
That's true; I would have loved to have found a source that provided speed by municipality rather than country which as you point out here (and earlier) is subject to density. Barring additional evidence, I concede the point.
>Without DRM, you take the DVD and stick it into a DVD player that ignores "unskippable" labels, and jump straight to the movie.

>With DRM, there is no licensed player that can do this

So, enforcing some rules (via DRM) to the player manufacturing, content provider makes my experience worse as a consumer.

Again, I am a consumer, what is the advantages of DRM for me? So manufacturer must enforce me watching ads?
One reason the article didn't mention is that investors want their portfolio managers to be highly incentivised. If a hedge fund manager is paid 2% of the AUM after growth and 20% of the profits each year, then they have a golden opportunity.

Incentives for traditional mutual fund management are not as exciting and to the investor, the actual performance is almost an afterthought compared to the initial asset allocation decision.
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That makes no sense to me. If someone television or production company wants DRM on their website, sure, it's their right. Who's forcing me to put DRM on my site if I don't want to? DRM is an option, it's not like someone's pointing a gun at your router telling you "go visit drmwebsite.com or else."

I obviously fail to grasp why DRM is so bad, or its importance. I just can't fathom why everyone thinks it's so sinister. I mean, don't get me wrong, it coukd be annoying as fuck, but just don't visit that website? I don't do things that make me unhappy.

Also, the point some people are making about distribution channels, I would like to point out that we, people who frequent HN, are sometimes too idealistic, which is good, but can be a fallacy sometimes (at least I belive so).

Imagine you're Paramount, you spent years working on a movie, and you want the product of your hard labour (and that of thousands of your employees, probably) to be distributed the way you want and how you want it. I think that's fair. Yes, there's still gonna be piracy (and I thank God for that), but DRM gives them that option to protect themselves against it, if only at least legally. If someone is so horrendously against DRM, then they don't have to watch your movie? I find the whole affair as simple as that.
Also for any hubot fans out there, we commissioned one of our makers to create a statue of him for GitHub. http://www.custommade.com/model-of-hubot/by/impressiveprotot...
I absolutely agree with Doug. The key is prestige. Our approach to that is to turn peer review itself into a measurable research output -- see our recent partnership with PeerJ for an example (http://blog.publons.com/post/85660504608/publons-partners-wi...)
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Great list. I'd also like to suggest this small plugin which allows you to rearrange your windows on your screen as you would in Windows 7/8 with the snap to feature:
http://most-advantageous.com/window-keys/
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Heard about this on All Things Considered this week: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/13/310399325/a-spoon...
I respect your opinion and am sorry you didn't understand my initial comment.

Best.
Install this:

https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier

Add this to your .bashrc:

function notify {
terminal-notifier -title "$1" -message "$2"
}
Interesting article. It says that he gets a salary of $3,000. This comes out to be about 2100 EUR. I am not familiar with the cost of living in Italy but it doesn't sound much?
Do you think that the likes of Disney and Sony care? If the ad network is down, they're not getting paid for that view, anyway.
Eh, at the end of the day, there are thousands of ways to go around it, so why implement it in the first place?

People pay for things that are good, easy to pay for, are appropriately priced, and not a burden or expense more than they see it worth (has to deal with pricing and roadblocks). DRM, and poor delivery services are usually those roadblocks.
I fit your criteria. I really enjoyed this class; I felt like there was a good balance between Scala-specific features and conventions, and a more general overview of the functional programming way of thinking. The programming assignments were surprisingly involved for an online class.

Since I can't learn anything from lectures unless I force myself to pay attention by taking detailed notes, I took detailed notes. You can find them at the link below, although I make no guarantees about their correctness. (Note that they may also spoil the answers to some of the impromptu in-lecture quizzes.)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uk54kbCIKUx8eX2vJsX591ss...
Your question is about metered versus "unlimited, but not really" billing. With "unlimited, but not really" billing, you get throttled or cut off, but under a metered billing scheme heavy end-users pay more for the traffic generated as a result of their requests.
There's a similar account in "Farmer Boy", one of the Little House series, of an American Indian running a surprisingly fast mile versus horses at a county fair.
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