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I like this - really looking forward to a full featured google services replacement coming out of them.
> Bulletin board system gains nothing from "single page application" style architecture, it is a collection of documents, stick with it.

Saying Nothing is to be gained is going a bit far. This is an interesting experiment, with some novelty, that will be iterated upon. I presume that the bugs will also be fixed.
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Do you have a partner that agrees with that lifestyle? That is where my asceticism runs aground.
Since it's probably faster than supercomputers of the time: lease its computing power for money
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how much do you think other high-end smartphones actually cost?

iphone 5s 32GB: $US749
samsung galaxy s5: ~$us800
etc
HealthKit is about quantified self. Aggregating data from services like runkeeper, garmin, mapmyfitness, nike+, withings, myfitnesspal, fitbit, jawbone and all the others. Apple is also clever in the way that they release this api first, making all these provides use their api first, before they release their own iWatch which likekly will have sensors to contribute to healthkit.
I've done a lot of work in human longevity estimates. I strongly recommend you think of your life planning as lasting 60 years after college. If you think you can work twenty and live for forty off that, well for you.

There is a demographic shift and a lot of things are going to be different in 30 years. Plan for life-long learning and be able to be valuable in a changing environment. My 2c.
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I've been thinking about the same thing!
Yes, I found the latest post quotes to be rather distracting. There is no context for the posts (not even thread name), so it's all wasted space for me. Maybe it would be more useful to show something like recently commented threads and maybe a preview of latest posts in that thread if you hover. Some other issues for me:

* The usernames do not appear next to the avatars in the posts, and generally users are identified by avatar rather than username. This is very confusing, especially since avatars can change, and it's hard to distinguish faces in images that small.

* Along the same lines, icons are used all over the place instead of text. I find this annoying, as the icons are not self-explanatory, and I have to hover over every little icon in order to understand what I can do. For example, I had no idea what the "topics" and "posts" icons meant before hovering. Similarly, there is no reason to use text in the navigation bar (add an icon next to the text if you must). To be fair, the icons have the advantage of taking up less space on mobile.

* The styling was a bit jarring to me, with the high contrast and lack of strong borders between elements. The whole purpose of going to a forum is to read a lot of text, so it makes sense to use more neutral background colors. Of course, this can be customized I'm sure, so this is more feedback on the demo site rather than the platform.

But overall the implementation seemed solid, and I can see this eventually becoming a nice BB platform.

Edit: this is all based on https://community.nodebb.org/.
Who would have expected that? Maybe this can be a userfriendlier alternative to Chromium? All that is missing: opensource it.
As a Seattle resident I've found the OneBusAway app extremely useful, it's never been off by more than a couple minutes. Getting widespread realtime transit info into a mainstream app like gmaps could be a complete game-changer for public transit.
If Google remembers whom it has forgotten, has it complied with the ECJ?
Your association with being fat and driving is idiotic. A commute to work on a bike is not an intense activity so it's still very easy for overweight people to do. About 1/5 of the bikers I see (South Bay) are overweight. 95% of them I see commuting are not exerting themselves so they aren't getting meaningful exercise.
Oh wow. This is awesome.

And here I am sitting here, with little x86 asm and z80 asm knowledge, reversing windows binaries and messing with Pokémon arbitrary code execution exploits. (optimizing my payloads for the 8F/"ws m" exploit is fun though!)

Been meaning to learn ARM asm for some time, but haven't got around to it.
Most of the PCN I ride on isn't converted from streets. Usually, it's part of a park or a sidewalk. So it's pretty much like biking on a sidewalk, including having to dodge pedestrians who zig zag around while staring at their phones.
Perhaps, strawman would be a better characteristic of your post as you were trying to distort the argument of other party.

And no, it doesn't seem strange to me that people are pushing women to learn coding. Coding skills provide great income, stability, mobility and independence. So yeah, thanks Google and others, who are trying to get more women in coding and increase their quality of life.
Is it not the case that Norway and dark places have a far higher suicide rate?

Not really. Norway has roughly the same rate is the US and quite a bit lower than France (but quite a bit higher than Spain). The whole darkness leads to suicide is largely a myth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
Well I'll show them how it works in the cloud...
So has Ryan North @ Dinosaur Comics!
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He didn't say it replaces biking. He implied that it replaces the need for bike lanes.

I can see that as being plausible, assuming self-driving cars become required. We won't need bike lanes to provide safety for cyclists then because the self-driving cars will be good at not running into cyclists.
My issue is with the top level design used (aside from the fact we seemed to have pushed it over).

The root, https://community.nodebb.org/, is a Pininterest/Google+/other tiling

Each of these forums is ultra-old-school BB threaded style conversations. It's a very weird mix of old and new ideas that doesn't work for me.

The reason I don't like these threaded conversations is once they go beyond a certain length, the only people who read or post to them are those that participated in the start of thread. It's just a way of having a public conversation. For anyone coming in later they need the question and the final answer - SO.

This isn't really news, there's a reason StackOverflow works, it's brutal quality filtering. I think a lot of people would still love to see a decent OS SO clone. OSQA is just dead. http://www.question2answer.org/ is the only active one I'm aware of.
At least on the Kindle Fire tablets, it is possible to disable the proxy.
Don't worry about it most complex circuits these days are in chips so not even electrical engineers know much about how to build one.

Unless you build chips for a living it's very unlikely you could build anything to the level of a laptop from today not to mention you need to build the lab/clean room to manufacture the chips.

Technically if you know how the chip worked you could reproduce it with 1975 tech but it would be as large as hell.

The best thing you could do is guide their research in the right direction since you already know the way and you could get them there quicker.
>Falbo proposes that at big intersections bike lanes should have their own signals to synchronize movement.

I'm not sure if this is the same in the US, but at least here (UK), cyclists are extremely infamous for ignoring traffic lights, to the frustration and occasional fear of both pedestrians and drivers alike.

In the case of a car, they always have to use extreme caution when a cyclist is coming up to a junction as there's probably a 50% chance they will blast straight through a red light without slowing, and if you hit them, you're going to be the one they expect people to blame. In the case of a pedestrian, you always have to look out for ones who do similar things at crossings, in addition to treating the pavement as a cycle lane in roads without a dedicated lane.

I know that both represent a minority (albeit a large one) and I personally know many responsible cyclists, but I think perception of cycling in general (and so concessions made) won't change until the irresponsible ones are a thing of the past.
I've said this before on here, but online advertising is incredibly dumb. If you consider all the info Google and Facebook have on me, it's a really sad state of affairs.

I bought a new bicycle and religiously researched this topic and consumed a ton of cycling videos. What ads do I see on YouTube? Cars. I don't have a driver's license.

I once bought a NI Maschine Midi Controller. YouTube then showed me video ads for the NI Maschine Midi Controller for over a year after the purchase. Great business for Google, not so much for Native Instruments.

During a vacation in South Korea, I had logged into Facebook to post a picture. Facebook then showed me Korean ads in Hangul for over a month after my return. They have all the info on me, where I was born, what language I speak, where I live, where I work. Hilariously bad.

And so on.
This reminds me of Atwood's Discourse. I don't know if there's anything broken with old forums. They don't have the whizbang features, but it's nice to not load a gimmicky JavaScript UI that adds no value to what is essentially a way to post and read messages.
Yeah, I love that problem. If you want the maximum effect with the minimum effort, introducing the printing press would be a good move. However, technological change isn't really sufficient -- to do the most good, you'd need to have a strong grasp of economics, politics, medicine, the sciences, and (of course) most fields of technology.
Assuming we are not being silly and

A. Pre loading the laptop with data. (A book on how to make a laptop has more value than a laptop, so this isn't allowed)

B. Diverting from the question ie you obviously have total amnesia other than how to use the laptop.

Trying to beat going to a superpower and selling it to them. They couldn't fab the silicon for generations still I guess but they probably would get amazing ideas.

Also the software would be copyright free and advanced. The C compiler I assume would have some cool incites. Similarly if they know it's from the future(?) they could just accept standards without screwing around.

You might be able to use it to pawn the stock-market. Hire a mathematician. Since we are not being silly and using current information I'm unsure if mathematicians back then could just use addition processing power to make money? This might not work.

You could crack a lot of encryption for years, a good black hat team might be able to monetize this.

Spitballing - Easy to photoshop(gimp)images, blackmail ability? Illegal and easily caught so.... Use it on the stockmarket? Guess this is kinda possible today, possible to even print it back then?

I'd guess most value is in the algorithms on it. Patient troll your way to m/billions.
DES is still well beyond the reach of one guy with a laptop, entire bitcoin network is roughly what you need to bruteforce DES in few minutes.
I'm an EE and can confirm this. An EE who does something other than microelectronics can generally understand how those circuits work, but is generally unable to design a non-trivial one.
This is awesome, especially the two-way sync with iCloud is really neat if you want to use it on devices with no iCloud support.
Everytime I see an arxiv.org link, I must think about Grigori Perelman [0].

This dude is awesome. Lives at his mom's, proofed the Poincaré conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize Problems [1], posted his results to arxiv.org, and doesn't want any recognition.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems
This weekend I game mastered a Cthulhu adventure where the characters are caught up in a plot to bring an entire airplane full of technology back through time to the 40s... :D

If you knew you were traveling back in time the most useful thing you'd bring there isn't the laptop with its capabilities but of course the information on it would be world-changing.

I'm not talking about stock prices or anything that foolish - since your time travel event would make the future from that point on uncertain again - but imagine someone bringing Wikipedia back to the seventies. Or better yet, research papers and engineering documents!

Personally, if I was unexpectedly transported into the seventies with my laptop, the amount of useful information would probably be limited. But even the (comparatively) few things on it could change the world dramatically. The most pressing concern would be data durability though, so the first order of business should be moving the data off the device onto contemporary media.

It would probably take drastically longer to offload/convert the files than the expected time-to-failure of the hard drives though, I'm guessing at least one order of magnitude longer.
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Exactly right. For a web forum I'd stick to mature, free options built in Python or Ruby. Node.js stuff is great for those who want to use it, but not me, I'd use DjangoBB. Look at this thing of beauty http://support.djangobb.org/.
This post stinks of advertising to me. Or the worst form of Node.js bandwagoning if it isn't- so I hope it is viral advertising.

Not to mention this thing is a pure, pre-ejected abortion of design. https://community.nodebb.org/ I'm not sure who these web designers think they're fooling with this crap.
The "modern web" looks full of hipster goons who would have also cooked up the ribbon interface. I'll stick to my minimalism, black text on white backgrounds, usable forums, and not reinventing the blink tag.

I think with nodeBB we can safely say, NEXT!
Sounds like a good idea on the surface of it, but I think most Google Glass owners would probably take it off during a movie in the cinema. It would probably feel slightly distracting with such a big screen in front of you. Glass does sit a bit above your right eye, but not to the extent that it's completely unnoticeable.
I wouldn't call a 10 minute car ride a 'crop drive'. That's a pretty good commute.

Cost incurred by one car of maintaining the road is essentially negligible. The majority of road damage comes from heavy vehicles or weather. Additionally it's interesting you want to 'charge for externalities' when it's actually the cyclists getting a free ride in this category. License fees and gasoline taxes contribute to road funding. Nothing related to cycling does.

I agree with parking, but only if it costs something. If the office already has it, you not using it will not likely save the company any money by refusing to use it.

The only externality you might not be paying enough for to drive to work is the gas filling (assuming non electric). However, the numbers regarding the impact of CO2 are mostly just made up from sums of imagined future or previous natural disasters that can't be directly linked to CO2 emissions.
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Ask HN: How to engage users?
Hi HN,

I built a website to gather (all) online learning resources (ambitious, I know), and over the past few months 2,200 users signed up, but almost nobody participates. I'm sure every user has at least a link to contribute to the website, and I made it easy for people to share their resources.

How do I get my users to engage more ? What advice do you have ?
Yes, I was a bit too harsh. My point is that discussion forum is almost completly just a collection of documents. Traditional web pages serve that structure really well.
Because paying $700 for the privilege of being able to buy more stuff from amazon is really awesome, right?

I don't use any such services, but I know google give a lot of free storage. Apple give some too, as do Microsoft, even...
I find them terribly constricting. If you don't conform to the constraints that are forced upon you by the ecosystem and the device then you are at the mercy of the ecosystem and the device and this is nothing but bad news when you hit a problem or need to do something free-form.

I too used Google Calendar, but it's terribly complicated to enter an event in on an Android device accurately, the web interface is clunky and the sync isn't reliable if you're in a poor reception area. Same with evernote and any notetaking software (google keep as well). It's impossible to take notes on the fly quickly without observing the device otherwise you end up listing garbage and missing the stuff going on in front of you. Then occasionally you might find a picture says a thousand words - which you're instantly stuffed with. Your focus is 80% on the machine and 20% on the problem when notetaking on a computer of any description.

I carry a little notebook (3 for £1 in Tiger here in the UK) and a mechanical pencil (doesn't need sharpening and has a rubber - Rotring Tikky box of 10 for £11.99 on ebay) for notetaking.

As for scheduling, I know what is when (don't underestimate the power of thinking about this rather than contracting it out) and for navigation, I'll scribble out a diagram before I leave of where I'm going. Gotta use that geography GCSE for something.

And no you can't disable everything unproductive on a smartphone. I tried it and my device slowly switched all the features back on again. I decided that the following process should apply:

1. Start with what you need.

2. Add what you want.

Point 1 turned out to be a dumbphone (calls and SMS) and 2 never materialised.
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I would create short simple demonstrations of all the patentable stuff. I'd apply for as many patents as I could. This would either make Them decide that software patents are not valid; or I'd be granted all the patents and I'd put them in the public domain.
But how would you attempt to lessen the death toll, if you told people you would most likely be ignored or locked up in a loony bin
I guess the name is understandable since it is an implementation of a protocol in Haskell. But I wonder if the day Haskell becomes a mainstream language is the day when few of the apps and such built with Haskell aren't play on words or references to Haskell terminology. :)
A few years back I used the binary from the Scheme website [1], worked relatively well.

I've heard of others using DrRacket too, but I haven't used it myself.

[1] - http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/
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Apple, Microsoft, and Google are hardly paragons of ethical behaviour, sure, but they also aren't Amazon. Not to mention that at least with Android you can install your own ROM, which can be google-free if you want.
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Because they are using node and they were needing to implement a chat feature?
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> No falsification is happening, just new profs need new theories for publication.

Much like macroeconomics, the problem with falsifying our hypotheses in the field is that you can't just build a culture in the laboratory. Even worse, there's no such thing as a control group: everything is observing everything and trying to self-modify to copy the good ideas of others, all the time.
In Norway you have no sun half of the year.

The other half you have more sun than in Spain.

The main problem in Norway are bone cracking because serious vitamin D deficit. They make children eat pills for that.

It is a great business for fracture specialists. :-D
Well, it's basically just Chromium, so I doubt it would ever be more user-friendly, and effectively it is open-sourced.
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It's not so easy to use "person X, who had attempted suicide multiple times, left a note blaming her successful suicide on a prank played on her three days prior" to conclude that the problem was the prank. What do you think the odds are that she would have killed herself anyway?

Just to be clear, I don't endorse prank calling at all; I'm glad it's a dying "art". But the death of Jacintha Saldanha isn't evidence for anything more than "people who are determined to mess up their own lives, can".
> It would probably take drastically longer to offload the files than the expected time-to-failure of the hard drives though, I'm guessing at least one order of magnitude longer, maybe two.

They'd McGuyver it somehow. Display the information and take photographs? Synch a cine-camera to a screen paging through information? While simultaneously squirting information out a port.
Is there really any reason to use Javascript as a layout engine for what is really a traditional forum that we've been doing in HTML/CSS since the dawn of the web? Frankly, it feels slow and clunky to load, as each component loads individually and re-positions everything else. Page switching feels horribly slow as well.

This is a case of single-page-appification of something that really isn't an app at heart, but is simply a content-centric website.
The merchant may be liable - but the minimum wage clerk...?
I'm more asking as in debugger integration with versioning system (p4, git, etc.) - Say you've got a crashdump, and was able to track it down to some specific source code release - now you should've also saved the intermediate generated files somewhere - but this means that these might have to go back in p4/git/svn/etc. or find alternative place for them... Generating them again won't be the same.

Similar problem is with say Qt's generated moc_Xxx source, Ui_xxx source, etc. files - unless you make the effort of storing these generated files somewhere you might have problems debugger later.

This is in general my "arrgh" against code generation, and "aargh" is not against it - it's simply when you had forgot to keep the files somewhere and the crashdump snaps fingers at you...
Ah, right, thanks for the clarification.
"(3) security audited said source;"

You mean found the default credentials? That doesn't take much.
A lot of these new style forums confuse the hell out of me. I miss the good days of Invision Power Board. Discourse is the only one I've liked so far.
php is ok for this type of work. Unsexy as it is, I think it's better than Java. For running a simple poller, gathering a metric, with the JVM you get one of two (poor) scenarios: either a slow starting short lived poller process, or a long lived memory hungry long lived process. Neither is acceptable for this use case.
>the burden of proof always lies with the driver of the car, not the bicyclist.

Are there Russia-level[1] dashcam ownership rates, by any chance? That would certainly happen if you had any such law in Britain, because many cyclists are infamously reckless.

[1]Sure most people have seen all the 'crazy Russian dashcam' videos, but if not, just have a search on Youtube. In Russia, everyone has a dashcam because otherwise, insurance will try to wriggle out of paying out in an accident, plus people like to jump in front of cars, get hit, then try to sue the driver.
I'm mostly interested in that because I have a custom scraper script pulling data from my bank on a Raspberry Pi at home, adding two way sync would make it super useful.
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Not so sure about that. I don't have a degree, and (almost) every company I've worked for (includes engineering roles at EDS, Microsoft and Nokia) said in their job specs that they absolutely require degrees. I ignore that requirement and let my resume speak for me. It works.
There's nothing inherently wrong with right on red; it's a massive fuel saving. The only issue is if it's allowed without stopping first.
"Languages have positive network externalities":

http://www.welton.it/articles/programming_language_economics
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