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Pay to play. That's how it worked in every industry so far,internet was a "freak" that need to be locked up according to some. Unfortunatly this model will be the future of the ISP business...
You mean all dynamic languages are Lisp?
Great point, it really is taboo, and it's great to have companies that embrace the capacity to admin "I don't know". You seem to understand how to hire effectively.
Push messages to other users phones around you. There is no need to sign up, and you won't have to constantly refresh to see if any new messages have be sent - you will get notified!

What do you guys think of the idea? Any feedback would be appreciated :)
In related news, people are working on light-field display: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109515
Definitely terrifying and exhilarating. Thanks for commenting - always fun to hear how other devs start out, sometimes similar, sometimes way different.
It said "All you have to do is just write." so I started typing something and it didn't do anything.
We've already got TweetFTP: https://github.com/NYTimes/tweetftp
The presence of some quirks isn't the issue. Of course every programming language has some.

PHP and JavaScript, however, have unjustifiable quirks with some of their most basic functionality. We're talking about stuff as basic as their comparison operators being quite broken, for example. That's where the problem is. Furthermore, the fact that these issues have been around for well over a decade or more without being properly addressed just makes the situation even worse.

Compared to other mainstream languages like C, C++, Java, C#, Python, Ruby and even Perl, both PHP and JavaScript are quite inferior in many critical ways. Perhaps things will improve over time, but we really haven't seen that happen so far.

So let's not pretend that they're "good" just to be politically correct or to try to avoid offending anyone. PHP and JavaScript aren't good languages, and they won't really improve until their communities admit that there are some very serious issues, and then commit to getting them resolved properly and rapidly.
Plus, what about all the services that every major site relies on?

Example: Stripe.com, on Alexa's rankings, is #1,331 in the US. Does that mean every site that uses Stripe is broken, even if you pay for access to the main site?
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in a walking vs. driving lifestyle, you don't just double your walking, you more than likely 10X your walking. 20X on an exceptionally busy day.

i live in LA but my 'moves' app tells me that when traveling to walking cities, on a busy day i burn 600+ calories walking. at home it's around 100. sometimes less. this is quantified via GPS and an understanding of human biology. if you choose not to believe this, you're picking another fight entirely.

a delta of 500 calories a day combined with eating just a little less, or of healthier foods is rapid weight loss. it's why people can easily lose weight on a vacation to europe or asia.
Don't assume that just because an account is new that the person behind the account hasn't been reading the site for years.
I'm a smaller city guy myself. Vietnam has a number of beach towns with very good quality of life and low living costs. It does help a lot to learn a bit of the language though.
Yup, if you're heating your house incandescents just lessen heating load.

However, if you're cooling your house incandescents are a triple whammy as AC isn't nearly as efficient as heating.
Had you previously lived in more equatorial climes? Temperature preference really is about what you're used to. Some years ago when I visited India in January/February, my friends' relatives in Rajasthan were shivering in sweaters and coats while my friend and I were perfectly comfortable in short sleeves.
Using Rails requires Ruby, and arguably the PHP ecosystem is stronger than the Ruby ecosystem.
So the USF enhances network effects, which is a great influencer of value.

Just how much more valuable is a social device/service/product that can access 100% of the population instead of just 80% or 90%?

Not all transfers of value are in cash form. I reside in a "condoland" that used to be a railway switching yard. The railway didn't pay for the land, they just sat on it for a century and sold it for $$$ to a developer. A riskfree windfall to a private company at my expense then and my expense now.

The infrastructure build allowances for telecoms are not any different.

For these reasons, I'm skeptical of anything that governments tender away except on a lease basis, whether it be land, spectrum, infrastructure corridors, etc.
I came to the comments to see if somebody could explain what this thing is about. Seems like I'm not the only one not getting it...

Feedback for the author: your marketing copy needs to explain clearly what your product does.
Wrong - walking, or any sort of physical activity, reactivates your metabolism. If you go from 0 to 1 hour of walking per day, your metabolism would burn way more than 100 calories.
I think we have different ideas of what a government procurer's job is. It's not a government employees job to craft a bid in order to prevent specific private companies from being able to apply. Saying you want a staff of 10 FTEs because $ILLOGICAL_REASON is still illogical but certainly not the least illogical thing in the government procurement process, for sure. Saying you want a staff of 10 FTEs because $FAVORED_COMPANY has 12 and $COMPETITOR has 8 is absolutely corruption. Short of envelopes full of cash I don't know how you get more corrupt than that.

And to your earlier comment, you are assuming both

> your company can deliver on time and in budget, with little fuss

and

> your competitors are known to underbid, over-promise, deliver very late or never and discuss endlessly over contractual fine language when they start failing.

This may very well be the case in other examples of this going on, but I can assure you neither point was true in my case (but is obviously specific to me, the plural of anecdote is not data, etc).
Not saying I disagree. I don't think people should be looking at GAAP vs. Non-GAAP if they don't understand that one vs. the other doesn't make the company more or less profitable. My point is it helps better understand the company from an operational perspective when very high SBC or D&A can significantly distort actual expenses.
Hmm. That Q8/Q9 current source being duplicated into two mirrors in separate stages (Q17/Q18 and Q19/Q20) seems quite pointless in a discrete amplifier. In a realistic discrete amplifier, even if you still used the two mirrors, you'd program them separately with just a resistor. The two stages do not require identical currents. I suspect this usage has to do with what's easier to fabricate on silicon.

In the VBE multiplier around Q16, I would add a potentiometer to adjust the quiescent through the output stage, even though the `41 of course has no such thing.
We have a feature issue tracking UEFI in Mirage, but noone's written the bootloader code yet: https://github.com/mirage/mirage/issues/187

Interestingly, it looks like the easiest way to support Azure...
This is absolutely incorrect. The cellular companies spend tens of billions a year in building their networks.
It looks like Amazon can save a good amount of money by providing this no-rush shipping to prime members. The real cost of expedited 2-day shipping would be way less than the benefits Amazon will get through reduced congestion in their warehouses. $1 restrictive benefit they provide seems way smaller than the benefits Amazon would get. Nice move.
Ah, it's a cross between Twitter and tumblr. Looks to have a stream of threaded conversations
The ECMAScript spec might be a bad example, simply because Annotated ES5 is so good. http://es5.github.io/
It's too bad to see that your comment was voted down. It's a legitimate question, deserving of an answer.

It isn't the late 1990s any longer. Perl and PHP aren't the only viable options available for web development. We have more alternatives now than ever before.

It was one thing when a team chose to use PHP because it was all that their preferred hosting provider supported, for instance, but those days are long gone. There really is very little reason to use PHP these days, especially for new development.
Don't give them any ideas. Now they're just going to not sell you an "internet" package at all, just "pinternet" packages to evade the FCC's rules and regulations on what the internet is supposed to be.
Mostly because if you're trying to do this kind of thing, you're trying to maximize activity per frontage so that there are enough people on the street to enliven it. If you have public right-of-way on both the front and back of the buildings, you've doubled the frontage without increasing the activity, so the place is only half as alive. In the very center, you might be able to do it; as it gets toward the edges, you need all the activity you can get.
The plate is omitted but the painting mentioned (The Garden of Earthly Delights) is something to look at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights
"Lytro’s Illum Is a Camera for Serious Photographers"

Meh, not really. I mean, it is interesting, but the title isn't really correct and also not justified by anything written in the full article.

I'm a fairly serious hobbyist photo-taker and while the Lytro appeals to my geeky experimental side it has some major issues for use in "serious photography":

While being able to refocus the image is nice, no matter where you set focus the sharpness is pretty shitty relative to nice, sharp modern conventional sensor/lens combos. The images I've seen from the Illum are better in this regard than the previous oddly shaped box camera Lytro released, but still quite a bit off of conventional digital cameras.

4 megapixels, while perfectly fine for web-based images (though with the acceleration in adoption of HighDPI displays, even this is changing), is seriously limiting if you intend to make prints much larger than a 4x6", especially if you also have to crop at all.

Also, while the Canon 70-200mm is ~$2500 as noted in the article, Tamron makes an f/2.8 70-200mm that is for all practical purposes just as good for $1,400 which is less than the price of the Lytro even if you add in the cost of a used older low-end APS-C DSLR body (and even an older low-end DSLRs will have many more megapixels and overall image quality at HighDPI or print sizes) to go with it.

I still find the Illum (and light-field photography in general) interesting from a tech perspective and and would probably buy one to fuck around with if they cost like $400, but in the price range the Lytro retails for I would recommend anyone "serious" about photography pick up the Sony A7 with the 28-70mm kit lens. You won't be able to refocus or perspective shift the images, but the images will be sooo much nicer and more flexible if you intend to print or display them at very high resolutions.

I really wish I could be more positive about the camera because I want to see where light-field photography ends up down the road if it is pursued, but the $1,600 price really puts it in an odd place where it is too much (for most of us) to buy as a toy but too limited to buy as a serious piece of photography gear.
If you have any kind of heat other than electric you by default have two kinds since you can always fall back on electric.
Two decades? My experience is LED bulbs last about a year.
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What are the issues with applying this to a video camera instead? That seems like a more interesting use case.
I am pretty sure this is satire.
what UV?
I highly recommend reading "Brain that changes itself" by Norman Doidge. I have no idea how good lumosity games really are, but you can improve your cognition doing such "puzzles" if they are designed well.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Brain-That-Changes-Itself/dp/01431...
I want to see someone create an algorithm that automatically arranges fixed point-to-point wireless connections, with a weekly re-aim window to account for new/dropped subscribers and to route heavy traffic sources and sinks.

It would automatically avoid interference by ensuring that links are never overlapping (eg: receiving an unintended sender's signal), but ensuring links are either parallel or perpendicular.
I love this technology and it is fascinating as hell, but as a photographer it leaves me absolutely cold. I just cannot seem to find a good reason to use it other than the simple novelty one feels when first navigating one of the photos. That doesn't remain novel for long, and the contrived compositions that make the best use of the technology tend to reflect a lack of what, in my own opinion, goes into a good photograph. The results of the camera are simply not compelling to me.
Maybe John Oliver will do another segment on it. That last one was quite good.

Hehe, dingo.
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I found this out the hard way one winter.

Without looking into specifics I decided that a couple of small well placed space heaters (in rooms with traffic) might save electricity over the whole house heat pump.

I had 3 small space heaters that ran most of the day and night and I turned the heat pump down to 50. I was wrong. My electric bill was higher than just running the heat pump, and most of the house was cold most of the time.
That's why I said "presumably", and only referring to posting on HN, specifically (i.e. could have had previous accounts).

This is very subjective, but I find people who (again, presumably) haven't been involved in a community who all of a sudden start right off the mark by posting in that community with a phrases like "HN hipsters", to be rude.
I wish someone would make a serious successor to SimCity - an actual simulator that modeled theories from the field of urban planning and allowed people to experiment with different layouts, policies, etc. This would be a very different piece of software from the vanity building placing games on the market today, and something much more in line with Will Wright's original vision.
IIRC, Ng told me the team is working on it but the amount of storage and processing necessary is pretty massive.
If death comes for everything, does it matter what we kill?
That's some serious voodoo economics. If connecting rural consumers generated network benefits that outweighed the cost of connecting them, then telecoms would do it without any government programs. As it is, all USF does is shift money from certain telecom customers to other telecom customers, in a way that almost certainly generates a net deadweight loss.

> For these reasons, I'm skeptical of anything that governments tender away except on a lease basis, whether it be land, spectrum, infrastructure corridors, etc.

It's impossible to talk about all of the things local governments have done in one breath, but by and large, it's hard to argue that their efforts have been a net benefit for the telecom companies. Read a typical cable franchise agreement. There's no handouts of land or rights of way, just random money grabs for public services (public access TV, etc), and requirements to build out to unprofitable low-income or low-density areas.
Any sort of physical activity is better than nothing. I gained some weight in the first month and a half after moving to the San Francisco (blame startup lunch and having no time to look for of a gym for that.) All I needed to adjust to drop the extra pounds was walk home every night. It's a longish walk (about 45 minutes) without a terrible difficulty level (not going through any of the hilliest areas), and yet that was more than enough to keep me fit and happy.

Sure, walking alone won't make you gain a lot of muscle or incredibly performant in aerobic exercise, but it's definitely way better than just sitting on your ass all day and driving/shuttling home every day.
RE the lens, yeah, it's worth pointing out that these are much higher performing optically and intended for use on full frame or APS-C size sensors. Rather a different animal.
A friend of mine has been complaining about his rental's warped kitchen floor and mold (or the fact that mold forms easily). His windows are mostly painted shut. Can you elaborate on this? What kind of a dehumidifier should he look at?
Number one link on Hacker News is an article stuffed full of Amazon affiliate links for personal heating products. Something isn't right.
1. quit
2. or moonlight

in general, it doesnt matter what i'm doing, but i'm going to put at least 100% into something, whether's it's something menial like raking leaves or having a service scale to a billion requests a day, and note that my 100% is going to be 120% for most. this is a behavior that needs to be nurtured, and quite frankly a bit of your integrity on the line here.
Dreamhost is great for domains, and has a beautiful ecosystem for everything else. Also the referral program is amazing. I get like $10 a month because I referred someone once.
Express has been a community project for a while. Of course little will change, but this is not how open-source is supposed to work. Only in nodejs land...
Sorry, that's total nonsense. Far more of the Internet depends on C, C++, or some mix of the two. Software written in them runs the networking gear, the servers, and the clients that are critical to the Internet's existence.

And keep in mind that the major JavaScript implementations today are all built using C and/or C++ in one way or another. So pretty much anywhere that JavaScript is being used, then C and C++ are being used, too.
> A robot should always assume the person might suddenly enter the street regardless of body language or other clues and drive at speeds that allow safe stopping if that occurs.

> A person driving should do the same.

At what range? If you assume someone could always jump out in front of you, and that running them down will always be unacceptable, you'll be doing a handful of miles an hour whenever there are humans around. In practice I doubt too many people are in favour of taking safety to that extreme.
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It isn't clear how useful the salty taste would be to dolphins anyway. Wouldn't everything in their environment taste salty, to pretty much the same extent?
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Read up some articles from Coinbase or Bitpay. You can also contant Bitpay with any questions you may have and I'm sure they'll be able to help you. Also feel free to ask me anything, as well, and I'll try to help you out.
I'm surprised Facebook and Twitter weren't willing to front (some) of the cost just to get their user counts up and first-mover advantage. Crudely, each Twitter user is worth $100 to the company. Double that for Facebook.

But I guess free is better, if they can get it. They'll consider paying in subsequent iterations.
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Made me wonder about a Twitter-style social network where you were the only human, and you knew it. Those that gradually followed and interacted with you were all bots mimicking humans, but for once not spamming or with an ulterior motive. Your content would never be seen by anyone else.

The bots would arrive to compliment, question and challenge you.

Would people care that they weren't real? Outside of the friends we know on Twitter now, do we know which of the rest are definitely real anyway?

Sounds a bit crazy, but just wondering if people will reach a point where they interact with bots and don't care if they give them what they want in terms of attention and validation.
All the reflection and abuse of mixins are pretty worthy of hate.
Wonder if the link to that delete page works for paying users.
I think that depends on the grade. In more hilly terrains... I think walking might burn more.

I remember reading a LOOONG time ago, that a person will burn a lot more if their metro stop is Lamarck-Caulaincourt than they will if their metro stop is Odeon. So I could see walking around ... say ... Duke University probably burning a lot more than walking around Rice University. And walking around the University of Wisconsin at Madison all day will be a workout unto itself most likely.

I don't think it is just... if you're walking you are not exercising. I think it really depends where you are walking at. Maybe even depends on if you have a backpack or heavy side bag as well. I'm not sure you can make a hard and fast rule.
I'm talking about utility supplied natural gas vs truck delivered liquid propane in the U.S. I'm pretty sure the natural gas is consistently cheaper (frequently to the tune of 50%, my experience of it is in northern areas where the propane trucks are busy all winter).
And they don't need to worry about torrents and piracy and all that hassle. Can see that appealing greatly to big media companies and the politicians they're in with.
I like the advertising strategy - one unobtrusive ad for everyone, for a whole week. The free charity ads are a nice touch too.

It's either going to stick in your head out of persistence (perhaps subconsciously) or get mentally blocked (though I'd bet on the former).
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> The presence of some quirks isn't the issue. Of course every programming language has some.

It is a very weird argument that often comes up when discussing programming languages - "Lang X is weird/stupid in some ways, but no language is perfect, so it's fine and there is no reason to call it out."

So, because nothing is perfect (almost by definition), it apparently isn't a big deal that some things are weird/dumb/broken. And let's also just muddy the waters by implying that, since all languages have imperfections, talking about some other language's imperfections is just being pointlessly selective (even though one of the languages imperfections are much more horrible).

It's just overall a non-argument. Maybe the point is to come off as being "above" the opposite camp (which are: mindless language bashers). But it's about as intellectually stimulating as mindless language bashing: it doesn't take much intellectual curiosity or rigour to bash a language, and neither does being perfectly neutral and non-offensive by throwing around platitudes like "no language is perfect", "choose the right tool for the job", etc.
I think this confirms what a lot of us intrinsically felt: Some people are just better at certain things than others. Jeff Bezos came to this realization while he was in college:

"Intent on becoming a theoretical physicist and following the likes of Einstein and Hawking, he discovered that although he was one of the top 25 students in his honors physics program, he wasn't smart enough to compete with the handful of real geniuses around him. 'I looked around the room,' Bezos recalls, 'and it was clear to me that there were three people in the class who were much, much better at it than I was, and it was much, much easier for them. It was really sort of a startling insight, that there were these people whose brains were wired differently.' The pragmatic Bezos switched his major to computer science and committed himself to starting and running his own business." [1]

[1] http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/bezos_pr.html
> I don't know how people's desires can be "wasteful".

In a world where people paid for the true cost of their energy use, this argument might fly. But in most of the world today, this isn't the case, not by a long shot.

If you heated to "summer inside the house" and bought high-quality carbon offsets corresponding to your increased energy use, I think most people wouldn't call that "wasteful". "Warm" might be the adjective I'd use. :)
This is likely mitigated somewhat if you have good natural light sources. The warmer it is, the less you need to run artificial lights (assuming a "normal" sleep schedule.)

Not to say that it makes sense, but still.