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In practice, just because RAM doesn't show on the list of compatible modules in the motherboard manual doesn't mean it won't work. We're thankfully past the Athlon XP days! I've generally had luck just making sure all the specs match.

Edit: Although, if RAM is listed on the Pangoly site that is in the approved list, that should be indicated somehow, as it's guaranteed to be compatible.
Apparently vaginas and rockets are opposites. Maybe because rockets = penises. Who knows.
Especially #8.
Offer HN: Free Use of Agricultural Land 30 miles Northwest of Chicago
We own 13 acres of ag-zoned land just outside of Chicago. We have access to an adjacent 70 acres. I am offering free use of the land for anyone who has an interesting project that requires land and proximity suburban/urban environment--and wifi network.

The land is located 35-miles from downtown Chicago and 25 miles from O'Hare airport. It's smack-dab in the middle of suburbia and there is a Menards within walking distance. http://goo.gl/6tjC8g

If the idea is interesting enough, I'll even build you a shed or a cabin (out of 2x4s; nothing fancy).

The land will include the following amenities, all of which is available at no cost (for really cool projects).

--well water (within reason)
--septic field
--electricity (within reason)
--wifi
--fenced and unfenced acreage

Starting next year, there will be bees, flowers, goats, chickens, dogs, and alpaca on the land. And very likely a mini-donkey, to keep the coyotes at bay.

Feel free to suggest anything you actually want to implement. Or just suggest ideas that others may want to run with. Other than providing power and internet, I don't have the time to help with anything else.

Some ideas my wife and I have come up with:

--real-life Farmville with wifi robots
--tiny, automated combines
--experimental wind turbine development
--cubesat ground stations (not really ag-related, but still cool)
--goat-milking bots

This is no strings attached. We just want to encourage really interesting technical-agricultural projects. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
I currently live in Colorado and judging by the 3000 people that showed up the the Denver DrupalCon, you should be able to find work here.
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That's fair. Both games were a bit ephemeral regarding their themes (which were numerous), but it certainly isn't fair to say they're derivative because they "tackled Ayn Rand".
I haven't tried it yet, but oh my I've been waiting ages for you guys to add this feature! I'm sure it wasn't easy.

For context, the merging of emails threads in Gmail would at times make Streak unusable. This should be a big boost to Streak usability!

I also notice you guys added a "reminder" feature - effectively putting you head-on with Boomerang (which I currently pay for).

I have Streak, YesWare and Boomerang installed in my Gmail. It's too many add-ons for my liking. Boomerang, although the only one I currently pay for, seems to be the one that will have to go.
Here's the extensive discussion of the original report:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035735
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most campuses do not have narrow, unavoidable choke points as gathering places to distribute pamphlets/flyers. in fact, the popular locations are often intentionally chosen to be large plazas.

you have the choice to walk around them and avoid this "gauntlet".
I think (and I implied) that non-violence is a necessary, not sufficient condition for non-shooting.

And I haven't frankly seen much evidence that 2nd amendment is effective deterrent. First, it's a bit of a fantasy - in the U.S., you hardly see gun owners among the revolutionaries. For a good reason - it's a bit naive to expect people go with handguns against tanks or drones. And U.S. government seems pretty oppressive compared to many countries which don't have equivalent of 2nd amendment.

Second, most people consider violent revolutionaries to be terrorists (e.g. compare how we view Unabomber and Martin Luther King), which actually supports the theory. The same is actually true in islamic countries - for example here: http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/07/01/concerns-about-islamic-e...
If pressure or force is applied, then yes that would server justice.

But this case is not about a woman that got pressured or forced to dislike the case. Her objective, and her statements has so far been very clear on that point. We have to actually admit that a woman can, as a person, disagree with the decision of the prosecutor.

A child sexual abuse is distinctly different in that a child is normal not held to be able to make that decision. We assume that either the family or the state will do it for them. I strongly object bunching together women and children as individuals that need to have their decision been made by someone else, as that reeks of old-style sexism.
The video in the background is over the top but this is a cool service. I don't see what the other commenter is trying to say about "not guaranteeing the fare" since you are getting all the pricing information to calculate from either the taxi company or the local rates decided by law.
This is an old page, but convinced me years ago to go with ECC memory whenever I build a new machine.

http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html

He hasn't updated is build in a while, though.
http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html
..and why downvotes ? What's wrong in asking for referral ? HN is such a racist community.
That was the purpose of the Constitution, to make the entire country a free-speech zone.

Really? I imagine you'd be rather annoyed if I forced my way into your home to express my views to the contrary, or even serenaded you with my opinions from beneath your bedroom window.

Whoever thinks free speech impinges on safety is confused.

Again, it depends. Suppose that I and a crowd of my friends are dead against spodek, and wish to run all the spodeks out out of town? It's easy to be absolutist about free speech if you don't anticipate being the object's of a mob's hatred.

Now, I'm not endorsing the colleges' position here, which I think has become absurdly restrictive in many cases. But I've seen many absolutist 'defenders of free speech' tip over into shouting down their opponents, and I don't care for ochlocracy any more than I care for institutional authoritarianism.
Quick nitpick: all the links on the bottom (with the exception of the "Code by Shawn" link) appear to be non-operational.
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Perhaps (in line with the opening comment) having a formidable foe that activates real fears and buried pain would no longer be amusing.

Indeed, perhaps it is concealment and forgetting that we long for by playing video games where thousands of zombies are slain.
Way better return than that. Assuming they've invested $20k in each company so far (and not including current batch with the new investments but that's fair as there is no return from that) then they've invested $14MM or so for 6% of founders common stock. All that really matters is their ownership of the biggest companies, which will have raised a lot of money, but lets assume they got diluted 2/3rds and own 2% of airbnb/dropbox (I have little feel for how accurate that assumption is). Then the portfolio is worth about $600MM. That's an astonishing 40x return, and it's probably way better than that as we aren't seeing the full returns yet especially from the recent batches (a fairer analysis might be to only include companies 5 years old or something). The analysis I'd really like to see is a cohort analysis showing mean valuation by batch over time, but this might be misleading due to changing market conditions.
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Looks like they'll get a 4th billion dollar company with machine zone if this round closes: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/16/newest-hit-game-maker...
I buy grab-bag boxes of scifi books from ebay. I can't possibly read them all. There's nothing rational about it :-)
For a point of contrast:

I attend the College of William and Mary in Virginia. In 2009, the College dropped its speech codes and became one of the most free-speech-friendly schools in the US. This has its ups and downs (in my opinion, mostly ups).

We have a fairly diverse studentry, but I haven't seen that many people with incredibly strong opinions. Most people (myself included) don't really regularly say or do things that would fall under PC speech codes. That said, I do know a few activist types, and they relish the freedom they have at the College. I've known people who go to DC to participate in protests on the weekends, people who write articles on why the "government has failed its mandate to protect our right to privacy" or "how the liberal media uses misleading language to paint climate change as something that's actually happening" (obviously different people). We've got EFF activists, marijuana legalization activists, sexual health activists, hard-line family-values conservatives -- basically, what should be the regular college gamut. It's a shame that appears to be contingent on a free-speech policy that is relatively extreme.

Free speech also has its downsides. Earlier this year, we made state and national news when a fraternity member distributed this extremely misogynistic letter, that various headlines describe as "The most hideous thing I've ever read"[1] and "vomit-inducing"[2]. We drew censures from practically everyone, and many people I talked to around that time wanted the College to boot the offending fraternity. The College, of course, did no such thing, and the fraternity voluntarily suspended operations (there could have been some under-the-table coercion there, but I doubt it).

Anyway, the point is, if colleges allow free speech, they must also stand by while some vile, vile things get published. All communities result in emergent standards of discourse and systems of self-governance when those standards are violated (after all, the backlash from that letter was strongest in the student community), and these systems dull the effects of those vile things, but they affect the community regardless. I personally think the benefits outweigh the costs.

[1] http://www.bustle.com/articles/14437-sigma-chi-frat-brothers...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/fraternity-brother-...
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These "free speech" zones would make sense if they were just zones in which you greater rights to speech, such as being overly aggressive. You would not be disturbing the peace by being loud and obnoxious in the one area set aside for being loud and obnoxious.

In actuality the "free speech" just your basic constitutional right to speech and outside of the zone your rights were curtailed by a state actor.
Seems like they could just announce removals 30 days in advance which would give you plenty of time to finish a normal book. They could also stop new downloads of a book during this or a shorter period to prevent people from starting a book without time to finish it. To those that havent started the book, it would just appear that its already been removed from availability. Some kind of a warning of how much longer it will be available on the device would also be helpful as long as its not intrusive.
That must have been lost in translation, because the quoted part which got "leaked" to newspapers had the word "half-asleep" in them. The alternative would be that the news papers edited the direct quotes of the woman. I do however find that unlikely.

If I have to speculate, I would think that the prosecutor makes no distinction between half-asleep and asleep. It easier just to leave that part to the courts.
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I recently used AirBnB for the first time, and I gotta say I agree with the sentiment here and I think calling it nauseating is excessively negative.

When I woke up on my first night in AirBnb I thought I was in my apartment for a moment. It felt like home. This was a great feeling-- here I am in the middle of a foreign land where I know nothing and don't speak the language, but when I go back to my place at the end of the night I feel at home.
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That argument can easily be extended to cover other opinions. For example, you're enjoying a quiet meal and discussing your religious viewpoint with a companion, but the manager takes offense and demands you leave the restaurant and take your unacceptable opinions with you.

It's not that I disagree with you, just pointing out that mechanstic applications of the rules can easily be subverted or lead to unexpected/unwanted results.
"Meritocracy" is often the idealized thing we like to call the American economy, but it is far from that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgSEwjAeno
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To me, "digital" means binary electronics. These objects are very analog.
That was my first thought as well. If the author's not currently working on such a product, they should absolutely get on it.
You'd have to explain a bit more on what you've seen that leads you to that conclusion.

I think the trend is really only displayed by VCs--consider what is getting funded and talked about (social apps, me-too secret messaging, analytics platforms) and what isn't (medical software for informatics and analytics, robotics, clean energy).

Additionally, there is a lot of double-speak being thrown around by people that should, theoretically, "know better". Andreessen is a smart guy (and slung actual code back at Netscape), for example, but a lot of what he says recently is so clearly pandering to his own business interests that it's hard to respect him for his technical ability.

In short, America is as much of a meritocracy as it has ever been--which is cold comfort for students of history.
I could also have done (provided I just needed side effects, not values) -

calling_func() ->
Val = interface(fun() -> ... end);

interface(Func) ->
...//Do stuff to calculate vars
do_work1();
Func();
do_work2(Var1, Var2, ...);

to achieve the same effect, depending on how I want the interface to behave. I could also keep all existing calls working if my language supports multiple function arities, with

interface() -> interface(fun() -> pass; end)

or similar. The thing that closures give you, that I love, is that utility. I can minimally touch a function to inject entire chunks of functionality, without having to do major re-architecturing.
That was something that stood out for me in Alexis' statement.
At a $30 billion market cap, that's $10m per employee. I think that number alone is enough to indicate that YC isn't creating jobs as much as it is deriving value from software killing jobs. (They'd phrase it better, but any software making things easier, faster, etc will require less brainpower/ employees.)
The counter to this is either talk about the bubble making all valuations ridiculous, or that these companies are currently pretty small; If they grow to create or lead new industries, jobs will likely be created, and market-cap-per-employee numbers fall.
Now I get it. Thanks :)
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I remember reading a study that suggested that having a mobile library with onboard printer to print your request instead of a paper loan, would work out cheaper. Each library loan approximately worked out to be about £6. Libraries aren't really free.

Now I'd personally prefer any book or text over the wire, to spending over £4 getting to my local library, where the seating is crap, and I can't hold a cup of coffee.
On a related note, there is also Charva which is somewhat similar.

http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/index.html
Wow, what do you do for a living that you can travel so much?
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A bit surprised F# was not even mentioned. I guess they are hardcore meta-programming users?
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What stops me from re-licencing under my company's proprietary license, then suing the original author for copyright? (It appears this "license" allows implicit re-assignment of copyright).

Not to mention, this "license" was not written by a lawyer, but rather a software developer. I'm no lawyer, and I'm confident any license I can make up would be shredded by real lawyers.

Furthermore -- the codebase in question above, does not include the optional "No Warranty" clause, which means his software implicitly must be fit for use... and if it breaks something, he can be held liable.

While I agree with the spirit and intent of this license, it really isn't a real license and is easily mis-used by even those who do wish to treat it as real.

So, this license appears to be really a joke-license... not a serious one... and I still maintain the codebase's author should pick a real license if the intentions are to allow universal use.
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More powerful? No. But they are still better in some ways:

* No DRM. I have been burnt several times by PC games on this front.

* No viruses or malware to worry about

* Far fewer updates to install and in general less maintenance

* Warranty - if I build a PC myself and it breaks, I need to fix it (I recognise that for more technical users and/or people with more time, it's a plus that you can fix a PC yourself - but that isn't everyone)

* Compatibility. It's hardly rare to run into issues if you try to play a PC game on launch date, and often graphics card driver updates fix some games and break others.

* Noise and size (it's hard to make a small quiet and powerful PC on a budget)

* Peripherals - there is a standardized set that "just works" for a console. On the PC, maybe half of my Steam library supports my controller out of the box.

And one non-technical aspect which isn't a concern for everyone, but is for many:

* My friends are all on [XBox Live|PSN] and I want to play with them

My stance? I game on PC, PS3, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, 3DS, iPad, and occasionally on an Android phone. They're all great in their own way. I wouldn't say any of them was better than all of the others on all axes I care about - but if pushed to have just one, I would pick the PC.
Adding this a bit late for it to be an edit, but I'd add that I think it's unfair for employers to have open-source work as a de-facto requirement if they don't contribute to open-source themselves. Open source is also a chance for you to see how the company's existing employees comport themselves, how they work through problems, and what kind of day-to-day problems they're working to solve.
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It seems to be a fairly common occurrence in Indians who learned English as a second language (and I would guess other ethnic groups as well).
People "drowning you out" is not a limit on your free speech, It only limits you right to be heard. A private website is like a private restaurant, you are free to speak, but If people don't like what you say the owner is free to demand that you leave.
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I'm rather disappointed that whenever the topic of bullying comes up, everyone seems to just extrapolate from their own experiences and assume that all bullying everywhere is identical. Or worse, claim that anything that doesn't match their experiences "isn't real bullying". I think the broad lack of agreement among people's accounts should make it pretty obvious that not all bullies are the same.

Personally, I found ignoring the few bullies I encountered in school to be pretty effective, but I'm also aware that what I experienced was pretty tame compared to some stories I've heard.
For my part, I think it is pretty clear that Assange acted like a total asshole, whether or not he did anything that amounts to a crime. But at the same time, the whole case stinks enough that one does not need to like Assange, to find it peculiar. One does not even need to think he's innocent.

I don't particularly think it is likely the US is involved. I think a more likely scenario is that Marianne Ny - the prosecutor - wanted to use this case for her own goals, and set an example with Assange, and underestimated how his fear of the US would mess the whole thing up.

And from what we've seen so far, the case seems shaky at best: A he-says / she-says where in the case of a trial, the prosecutors may be unable to even produce a signed statement from one of the women; will face a lot of questions regarding the multiple procedural violations; will have to explain the womens attitude to Assange after the alleged offences and so on. The chance of conviction is tiny even without those problems.
From random anecdotal observations, the median outcome is that the startup fails and the founding team splits up to do other things. These things are the typical things that intelligent high-achievers do - engineers at other tech companies, PMs, biz dev. I see a disproportionate number working on their own ideas or joining other YC startups that are doing well.
I've used Haskell to build JavaScript tools and analyses[0], among other things[1], and have been using OCaml for the past nine months to develop a software-defined networking controller called frenetic[2]. Off the top of my head, here are a few areas where OCaml has an edge on Haskell:

1. The module system. OCaml's module system is a language in and of itself. It not only allows you to define modules that export certain identifiers and types, it also allows you to write functors, which are essentially functions in the module language that can take a module as an argument and produce a new module as a result. This is a great way of reusing code in a project as well as defining external APIs in a general but natural way. OCaml's module system the closest I've seen to realizing the dream of building software by taking some modules from here or there and composing them together.

2. Mutation. Unlike Haskell, OCaml allows mutation. Specifically, OCaml allows value mutation in certain contexts, while both Haskell and OCaml do not allow variable mutation. What this means is that in both languages, if you have an identifier, you cannot change the value that the identifier points to; you can only shadow the identifier with a new binding. But in OCaml, you can declare certain fields of your types to be mutable. You can also wrap values in a "box" which allows you get the same feel that you would out of variable mutation. While in general it's a good idea to limit your use of mutation, sometimes you know it's ok and you just want to do it. OCaml lets you do that, but it requires you to be explicit about it rather than just letting you do it willy-nilly.

3. gdb-able. If you know how to use gdb (and even valgrind I believe), you can use it to debug your OCaml programs. If you try and use these tools with Haskell, you will get nothing but nonsense until you learn how to read the matrix. This fact by itself for some people will make OCaml a candidate for systems programming over Haskell.

4. Subtyping. Certain features of OCaml's type system allow you to do subtyping, complete with type variable annotations to indicate covariance or contravariance. This is a feature that Haskell's type system does not have, so in a sense this is a strength of OCaml. However in my experience, this feature of the type system is hard to use and reason about, and I've seen little (maybe no?) code in the wild that takes advantage of it, with the exception of some simple inference the type system can do in this respect related to polymorphic variants[3].

All that being said, Haskell's still my hobby language of choice. But for building real systems, I'm warming to idea of OCaml as a viable candidate language.

[0]: http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/plt/dl/adsafety/v1/

[1]: https://github.com/seliopou/typo

[2]: https://github.com/frenetic-lang/frenetic

[3]: https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/variants.html#polymorp...