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Theres nothing that anyone can say or do to make it "better" for the Meyers but if you know them, please reach out to them periodically over the next year or so and just let them talk. Whatever you do, don't say "if there's anything you need..." because everyone says that and most don't mean it and if they did they wouldn't expect you to ask for the help in the first place. In fact, you don't need to say anything. Just listen.

Source: I lost my 3 y/o daughter to cancer as well. It's every parents worst nightmare and the ensuing darkness that comes over you after losing a child has got to be the deepest sort of depression there is. I had an easier time going to war, losing friends, and re-integrating into society with severe PTSD than I did dealing with the first year after Layla died.

If you know the Meyers, please, just be a presence and let them draw off a little bit of emotional energy from time to time.
No, I ran the code through an optimizer and checked "remove last semicolon".
Couldn't you also argue that borrowing a book at all instead of buying it harms the market for the book?
Pediatric Caner (Number one killer of US children ) Research Funding SUCKS - In 2012 88% of peds research grants are denied due to insufficient funding. http://www.stbaldricks.org/blog/post/now-is-the-time-to-conq...

How about less then 1% from American Cancer Society go to peds Research

How about 4% of Federal dollars for cancer research goes to peds cancer research

Vast majority of organizations give for the care and expenses BUT NOT to fund peds cancer research.

Good organizations: St Baldricks, Children's Cancer Research Foundation, Alex's Lemonade Stand, and other's if they state Research is a certain percentage if not it is pennies to the dollar.
so, I'm a little confused here - more than a year ago, the Gnome Project picked Javascript as its primary dev language and it was linked here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5169599)

That entire thread is around how Javascript is a bad paradigm for desktop. But, this entire thread is how amazing javascript is going to be for OSX.

Let me add that the JS programming model of Gnome is what powers http://extensions.gnome.org - and I have my own extensions in there. Also (and correct me if I'm wrong) the "GObject Introspection" mechanism is fairly analogous to OSA.

So, is there a underlying technical or implementation issue that makes it good on OSX and bad on Gnome ? use case? technology ? OSA ?
Cool. I've been bitten by RabbitMQ before. When are you going to give cassandra the jepsen treatment?
are you using a custom PHP framework to get your bootstrap below 20ms ? would like to hear more about your stack setup to get that kind of performance
I'm willing to take the rep hit...but I have to ask... there have been other threads that loss has been indicated...in all cases...it sucks...why is this one trending more than others?

this forum sees legacy individuals passing on, near by contributors passing on, and in instances like this one, a young life taken from us. i don't mean to be harsh or question, but given the community losses, i've seen long term contributors to technology relegated to the dustbin where stories like this are in the top couple for some time.

It all sucks, but the "dynamics" cause me concern.
The core of the issue (if any) is that historically, the patent system is inextricably tied into the free-market/laissez-faire economic system, which for all its flaws, did create the world as we know it for the last ~ 200 to 300 years which led to an exponential rise in technological development - a unique phase started in the Western world, where now some of the 'successful and well-developed' countries in the Eastern world (e.g. Japan, South Korea, Singapore) have incorporated into their respective systems.

From Stallman's article which did show up here:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

"Patent law was intended to promote the publication of useful ideas, at the price of giving the one who publishes an idea a temporary monopoly over it—a price that may be worth paying in some fields and not in others."

The real question is does all software patents come in the last part of the aforesaid sentence: ".....—a price that may be worth paying in some fields and not in others."

A knee-jerk reaction to throw out the baby out with the bathwater by abolishing the whole patent system may not be the right solution here.
> but it demonstrates that the partition tolerant mode from the page you just linked is not actually

I was talking about the part about picking a response to a partition detection event. In this case "ignore" (see "Recommendations" section), instead of "auto-heal" or "minority-pause".
The Apple thing only works on 10.10 (which most people reading this wouldn't be using currently), so I am saying that there is an option for earlier systems. Cycript actually doesn't work on 10.10 right now (well, it does, but it is frustrating to use as you have to keep saying this. before global variavles) due to a change made in JacaScriptCore that I am unhappy with (talked to some people at Apple, filed a bug with WebMit, and am checking with a friend of mine on the ECMAScript committee), but I have a reasonable workaround I can use for non-Cydget use and for Cydget crazy one-off Substrate hacks are fair game, so I should have everything fixed soon for a new release.
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Those tests were done with mirrored queues:

"We’ll be using durable, triple-mirrored writes across our five-node cluster"
A bit meta. That was a really well-explained description of a non-trivial problem. I wish there was (or I knew of) a curated collection of bloggers that wrote this well about software.
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We're working on massively reducing the cost of the scientific chemicals and supplies for cancer researchers.

We are up against a couple number of entrenched public companies like Sigma-Aldrich and Thermo Fisher.

Couple of examples:

Greiner CELLSTAR® serological pipette, 10 mL
$27 v. $106.60

http://store.p212121.com/serological-pipettes/

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/p7615?lang...

TCEP HCl
$89 vs. $365

http://store.p212121.com/TCEP-HCl/

http://www.piercenet.com/product/tcep-hcl
You need to look into using HA queues (ie. mirroring) and ensure you are using a client that properly supports consumer cancel notifications and are actually processing them correctly.

There is also significant TCP/IP and RabbitMQ tuning that can be done to make fail-over much faster etc.

I have used RabbitMQ for years and though it's not perfect if you do try something else you will quickly understand that it's still so far ahead of the competition.

Best of luck!
That's fascinating. Kind of makes me want to practice lucid dreaming now. Makes a lot of sense though, with regards to how rested you felt after giving up lucid dreaming. Writing complex algorithms in your dreams does not sound restful.
Presumably running clustered configuration on a public VM hosting provider is not a recommended configuration.

Kernel lockups lasting minutes at a time seems like a serious issue a lot of software might have problems with.

Have you tried federation of shovel modes?
Jeez the amount of time I spent on E2 in high school and college was stunning. So many open tabs as I followed those links. Even wrote an app to find the "shortest distance" between two randomly selected ideas.
Because the father is a tech luminary, and it's normal to be more emotional about the loss of children.
I hope that when people see this sort of things they also realize how many anonymous kids die every single day :|
The unfortunate reality for RabbitMQ is about 99.99% of the problems people have with it (assuming they are using it as a queue) is that they either a) are using a bad/incomplete client or b) aren't using the HA features correctly or c) are doing all of that but then aren't checking for failure states (CCN etc) properly so their application isn't responsive enough in failure conditions.
Halfway through the post, I had to stop reading. This is so heart breaking. As a parent, you start feeling guilty of being helpless when your child is suffering. May God give strength to the family in these tough times.
Historically, clearly so. But since 2010 there has been a "General License" for exporting "Personal Communication Services" technology (essentially based on the idea that individuals' communication weakens the government's hold on society, or, as OFAC put it, "are a vital tool for change").

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/D...

I don't know how the General License applies to cryptographic technology in particular. Paging Collin Anderson...
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>Nowhere was it stated the coin was 100% guaranteed to be fair.

I agree completely.

>You are missing the point of my original example.

No I wasn't. I was just stating the possible scenarios (of which yours was one) so that others reading could glean the point a little more easily. Perhaps I failed in this regard, but I certainly understood what you were trying to convey.

>My point was you can estimate the probability of a hypothesis by looking at the data. E.g. is it a fair or biased coin, and see how many times it came up heads or tails. Or are female named hurricanes more likely to kill than male ones or not?

Yes, I completely agree.
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But aren't these like $1.99 through NameCheap?
And I also made a jQuery plugin to make it easier to understand the code and also use it on websites. http://projects.milankragujevic.com/jquery.jspy/
It's history that goes /way/ back to the circuit-switched phone call days, and monopoly behavior. Here's my take on it:

To stop the high-priced no-progress monopoly behavior of the old AT&T in the long-distance telephone market AT&T essentially owned, the US sued AT&T, resulting in a consent decree settlement in 1984 where AT&T divested itself of 70% of its assets in order to retain its then-highly-profitable long distance business and its Western Electric switchgear business [1].

Competition was opened in long distance; prices and eventually profits went to commodity levels. Switchgear too; Western Electric gear was very expensive; competitors such as Nortel [2] and Digital Switch Corp (later DSC) [3] flourished for a while then crashed in 2001 as fiber and competition made long distance so cheap.

Meanwhile, the local telcos remained monopolies and thrived, merged, and eventually one of them (SBC) bought out several others and the old AT&T while others became Verizon.

But before all that consolidation (and the telecom crash [4]), the local "Bells" (telcos) argued for a return to enter the coveted Long Distance market. They don't have that for regulated landline service, which itself is now dying.

Long story short: Beware a monopoly if you're a customer, consolidate to become a monopoly and complain of regulations if you want to control a market.

EDIT: Moved to proper position as a reply

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel

[3] http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/dsc-communi....

[4] http://www.economist.com/node/1234711
I have seen this argument before: what you're missing is that pediatric cancer, terrible as it is, is far rarer than other cancer types.

Pediatric cancer is exceptionally rare. The ACS figures[1] for this year estimate 1,350 childhood cancer deaths out of 585,720 total deaths, or 0.2%. The prime driver for cancer research fund allocation is incidence rate. You are far more likely to develop cancer aged 20-40 than you are aged 0-20. 12% of all women will develop invasive breast cancer at some point in their lives.

I am not saying there isn't an argument for increasing pediatric cancer research: the question is whether a disease that has a very low incidence rate should get extra funding at the expense of a disease with a comparatively high one. I don't know the answer, and I don't pretend to. I do think cancer research funding is a very complicated matter, and inevitably one group of people is going to end up angry and upset at the expense of another.

[1]: http://www.cancer.org/research/cancerfactsstatistics/cancerf...
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I'd like to hear more of the story of how mesh supposedly avoids surveillance. I talked to a few people working on mesh projects (not Open Garden) who readily admitted that a spy node could join the mesh and monitor user traffic (even apart from the possibility of passive wireless monitoring).

Does "secret web" here just mean "normally within your own city and not using someone else's faraway data center as an intermediary"? Or is there a stronger privacy claim? I don't see one in the Forbes story.
I thought meyerweb sounded familiar -- thanks. He had the most fantastic demos on his site which I studied while trying to understand CSS some 8-10 years ago. I'm saddened to hear this tragedy has happened to him and his family.
1) yes, you can sue the government or contractors fir patent infringement.

2) the government can issue secret patents

IANAL, but I was a government contractor for many years.
Not sure how important this feature is to actual users. Seems like a waste of resources. But it's Apple so I'm sure they have a good reason
Also in Austria, or most anywhere in western europe for this matter (might be different in a couple of renownedly monolingual countries like Italy or France but definitelly anywhere in the map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic-speaking_Europe).
No other mouse gives me the same trouble. Its the mouse not me.

It's not because I don't know how to use the three sea shells.
> The brain can basically simulate the rendering equation in real time (or trick yourself into thinking it is, which is the same thing really.)

I always wonder about this. It occurs to me that it may seem to perfectly real because the brain is able to reproduce all, or close to all, of the features it would use to try to classify that object in real life, which would lead to it seeming like a 100% match, or 100% real.

I guess you could think of it as passing a dataset back into a machine learning algorithm that was just trained using that dataset.

It also makes me wonder what would happen if you try to conjure a specific animal or place that you know a little about, but are fuzzy details. Would you brain feel like "yup. this is the thing because it's absolutely everything I know about the thing; it's perfect" or would it have problems?

Of course, I'm not an expert in brains or machine learning, so this is just my wild speculation on my thought.
Thanks for the response. I suppose my concern is simply that chat room conversation around a topic doesn't seem to scale well without some sort of structure for organizing input. What impresses me about Reddit is the scaffold it provides for growing communities. Subreddits organize at the "broad topic" level, with smaller topics of discussion voted on to surface the best ones. Then you have the comment section itself, which is basically the "chat room" of Reddit, but with branching and voting dynamics allowing a million diverging conversations to occur without overwhelming the user.

Chat rooms have a place for small communities, but I fear that they simply don't work for larger ones without more internal structure. But maybe you don't intend Chapp to be a tool for discussions at that scale. Regardless, good luck with your project.
Suggesting "retconning" here makes no sense.

You said the Go team "[designed] the language in public". I pointed out that there's only a small amount of difference between the first public unveiling of Go and its current state, which you can verify for yourself.

You said the Go team "now don't want to admit their errors". I pointed out that we've admitted lots of errors, publicly, which you can verify for yourself.

Your criticisms seem scattershot and just don't make sense.
Of course there are tons of entrepreneurs that have achieved success at ages well beyond 20, but your premise is wrong.

If they've achieved success, who is to say they're past their prime? Prime in what regard? How would you even begin to define "well past their prime"? Your premise contains an immense contradiction: if they've achieved success, they're probably not well past their prime.

Wisdom is far more important than sheer mental speed and uptake, and the proof of that is in the fact that the 20 year old Silicon Valley zillionaire is mostly a myth.

Most famous, successful tech entrepreneurs were closer to 30 or 35 when they got started or hit their stride, than 20.

Based on a lot of historical examples, prime for a tech entrepreneur, is more likely between 10 and 20 years past the age of 20. Stop buying into the bullshit hype about 20 year old entrepreneurs, it's mostly a fraud.

Here's a simple example list (not all from SV, because that's entirely irrelevant):

Paul Graham (31, Viaweb), Jan Koum (33, WhatsApp), Brian Acton (37, WhatsApp), Ev Williams (34, Twitter), Jack Dorsey (33, Square), Elon Musk (32, Tesla), Garrett Camp (30, Uber), Travis Kalanick (32, Uber), Reed Hastings (37), Eric Lefkofsky (39, Groupon), Andrew Mason (29), Reid Hoffman (36, LinkedIn), Jack Ma (35, Alibaba), Jeff Bezos (30), Jerry Sanders (33), Marc Benioff (35), Peter Norton (39), Larry Ellison (33), Mitch Kapor (32), Leonard Bosack (32), Sandy Lerner (29), Gordon Moore (39), Mark Cuban (37), Scott Cook (31), Nolan Bushnell (29), Irwin Jacobs (52), David Duffield (46, PeopleSoft), Thomas Siebel (41, Siebel Systems), John McAfee (42), Gary Hendrix (32, Symantec), Scott McNealy (28), Pierre Omidyar (28), Jim Clark (38 for SGI, and 49 for Netscape), Charles Wang (32, CA), David Packard (27), John Warnock (42, Adobe), Robert Noyce (30 at Fairchild, 41 for Intel), Rod Canion (37, Compaq), Jen-Hsun Huang (30, nVidia), Charles Brewer (36, Mindspring), William Shockley (45), John Walker (32, Autodesk), Halsey Minor (30, CNet), Ashar Aziz (44, FireEye), Kevin O'Connor (36, DoubleClick), Steve Kirsch (38, Infoseek), Michael McNeilly (28, Applied Materials), Richard Egan (43, EMC), Hasso Plattner (28, SAP), Pradeep Sindhu (43, Juniper), Peter Thiel (37, Palantir), Jay Walker (42, priceline.com), Pony Ma (27, Tencent), Robin Li (32, Baidu), Liu Qiangdong (29, JD.com), Lei Jun (40, Xiaomi), Ren Zhengfei (38, Huawei), Arkady Volozh (36, Yandex), Hiroshi Mikitani (34, Rakuten), Morris Chang (56, Taiwan Semi)

And of course Steve Jobs, who I'd say was still in his prime during the last decade of his life, when he was in his 50's (he clearly did his best work at Apple during the iPod / iPhone years). He was 31 when he bought The Graphics Group, and he basically created an entirely new company that became Pixar.

It's not a coincidence it holds true from Silicon Valley all the way to China. You can see from the list above, the super successful 20 year old founder myth could hardly be further from reality, it is the extreme exception. It's a shame more young entrepreneurs don't know this.
No, it's not. For example, compare: http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/7861545/show-hn-tubelytics-r...

with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861545

In the hn.premii.com link, the OP's text is shown below the URL. You can see s/he also added the same text as a comment, presumably because after realizing that the text was not displayed on news.ycombinator.com.
In his interview on Mental Floss he states:

"Personally, I like paper and ink better than glowing pixels, but to each his own. Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, I don’t think comics have ever been more widely accepted or taken as seriously as they are now. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money. I’m old enough to find all this unsettling, but the world moves on. All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with."

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-...
I was watching the talk and thinking all the time, Apple just discovered OLE Automation.

Yes, I know that Open Scripting Architecture is also quite old, but having now JavaScript bindings and the types of demos they made, just reminded me of it.
It already exists! Back from the 2013 series. http://aphyr.com/posts/294-call-me-maybe-cassandra/
I was a bit obsessed with that poem (and the fact that it leaked!) in high school.

I still think it was well-done and love the theme of "the mechanism".
Oh Javascript. This has been said so many times before, but why, oh why, has the world converged on this particular language?

Why aren't there saner alternatives to Javascript in browsers? We have so many languages at our disposal, why choose Javascript? Why don't people realize that web programming is not great because of Javascript but despite Javascript?

We are bound to Javascript on the web because browsers, for whatever reason, don't support anything else. But we don't have to make matters worse by dragging this weirdo language unto the rest of the programming world.

But who am I kidding, AppleScript may be one of the few languages actually worse than Javascript.
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I've read somewhere about curious practice of writing down everything you can remember from the dream immediately after waking up (to facilitate the recall keeping your eyes closed was recommended, I think). Maybe you should try that and see what comes out of it!
Rust doesn't require all communication to be done by message passing.

One of the big reasons it's effective in Servo is that it can prove that multiple threads working on a shared, mutable data structure are operating in a safe manner.
I learned a few decades ago that staying out of official supported languages in OS vendors SDKs is opening the doors to extra working hours as you add another layer to the tooling.

So I do it for learning purposes, but for work we just use officially supported languages.
The need for privilege escalation to create the namespace is basically the rub for this sort of thing.

It seems like the main thing that makes true plan9-style namespacing unrealistic is the security implications, since the filesystem is used extensively to control privilege escalation. Whether it's through setuid flags or through /etc/sudoers or /etc/groups, at some point a privileged program (su or sudo) might be running in an unknown or untrusted namespace where the facts visible to that program make a solid case for allowing the escalation.

I'm not sure this tension can ever really be resolved without also adopting a plan9-style out-of-process escalation mechanism. Which is a huge departure from POSIX in and of itself, as far as I know.

I'm really not sure how HURD deals with this, to be honest, or if it does at all.
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For those that can't be bothered:

"The success rate of 95% of the H-2A is on a par with 96.4 percent for the Atlas V of the United States and 94.9 percent for the European Ariane 5"
It was more popular a few years ago.

Back in 2009, Grails was the big theme in many JUGs in Germany.

We even added Groovy support to our JSF internal SDK as a means to buy into the "has Groovy support" checklist.

Nowadays, if it wasn't for Graddle, I guess it would be just maintenance related projects. At least from what I see as JUG talks.