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I think this got downvoted due to the way you describe it.

My experience with HN is that it's a very hard-edged, no-shit crowd. People here expect things to be described with simple, crisp language, no jargon (especially not computer/science/technology terms with precise meanings), and a minimum of hand-waving. It's a bit hard on the ego, but it'll make you a better communicator.

In the first sentence of your post, you described your thing as a "social operating system" or something like this -- this immediately sets off my bullshit alarm. "Operating system" is a very specific thing to software people, but for whatever reason, non-technical people love using this term to talk about something perceived to be big and complicated.

In general, try to cut the fat. If it's a library of software components you're making, say that. If it's a Ruby gem, or an app, or some kind of a specification, just describe it for what it is. You don't gain much here trying to hype it up.

Other things I notice:

- You say you can "override" -- how? Using what?

- What is a "social app", anyway? Aren't all apps "social" today? This descriptor (social) adds very little value. Github, facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin, could all be considered "social" apps.

- "Social" is a very overused buzzword in SF. Everyone here is building bullshit "social" companies and all the devs here get like 10 job ads/day for some dumb social network for cats.

- Again, "interoperate". How? Via a REST API? Server-side includes? Be specific.

- Don't say "it's come a long way". Stop telling. Show.

- "Decentralized". Again, what does this mean? It can be hosted anywhere? The software is widely distributed? What is a "distributed network"? Aren't all networks "distributed"?
Only if you ignore less populous countries (and that data is quite out of date too). In a more complete and more recent list [1], Australia is 44th!

A UN report from last year [2] only has data from 2008 as well, so it seems difficult to make an up-to-date comparison.

In [3] there's a 2007 list including overweight as well as obese. Australia is 21st.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

[2] http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3300e/i3300e.pdf

[3] http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-fo...
I am 47 years old now and started to change my profession from Mechanical engineering to IT at the age of 29 years

As a failed entrepreneur in India i came to Singapore as a Mechanical engineer in 2006 and observed that IT was paying far better salary than mechanical and immediately went back to India after i had got my permanent residency for a 3 months study and came back and got a job in IT by telling my Hiring Manager to give me any salary for 3 months and if i am able to deliver give me good salary and was able to deliver.

Once i entered IT field i grew to senior project manager and spent too much time managing other developers and got hit by the start-up bug in 2008.

Unfortunately even though i was very technical, i did not have any programming experience and had to pick up everything by starting again.

If i can pick up again at 41 you can definitely pick up programming at 28.

The addictive part of programming is the problem solving aspect and the boring part is the actual writing (validation, idiot proofing, re-factoring) of good programs.

If you spend more time on the Problem solving aspects of programming, you will be able to learn more faster. Ex. Since you are working in construction, does your company require any useful information to be captured in a database using a website which they are currently doing in excel. Solve these types of problems and your skill will improve.

Find a problem to solve and solve it yourself by programming you will find it is faster and more interesting and you will persevere and ultimately succeed.

The problem gives you focus and solving the problem will give you skill.
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I did as you suggested with Tokyo and that is indeed impressive. People walking everywhere. One-way streets really do make a ton of sense for cities.
"probability of getting arrested and beaten by the local police, and the average cost of bribing officials/administrative workers" - I don't know where this is coming from. I've lived in Sofia for 6 years, never been arrested or beaten or bribed anyone.
I've used Network Solutions, NameCheap, Gandi, and a handful of specific ccTLD registrars. I never had any problems with any of them and I wouldn't worry about what you chose too much.

That being said, I like using Gandi knowing they support (financially or otherwise) many amazing open source projects and organizations. Those that stand out to me include Debian, EFF, and CC, but I recommend you take a look at the full list[0] on their website. They also take a strong stance against SOPA[1] (and clones) and prominently display their no bullshit stance[2] on their website and merchandise.

There's also a bit of a bonus if you're slightly tech savvy because you can often find their devs on Freenode at #gandi-mail or #gandi-hosting, though it's not advertised and there's no guarantee.

[0] https://www.gandi.net/supports/

[1] http://www.gandibar.net/post/2011/12/23/Gandi-s-Opposition-t...

[2] https://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit
For sure. I just meant that if you prefer bluer light, you can get that with CFLs, but they can't give you the 'softer' light that we're used to from incandescents, while LEDs can (if that's your preference).
Wow, that is intense. Way beyond what I'd call "sufficient" exercise though!
Sorta.
Children don't form any memory of their early years because knowledge only makes sense in context of other knowledge. Synapses have to have something meaningful to connect to. Children don't have knowledge, so it's difficult to form new memories in their minds because there's nothing in their minds to connect the new memories to.

As children, our first memories are vitally important because they are quite literally building the foundation for every memory that will come thereafter.
> Why can't we just admit that some people are born with certain genetic traits that allow them to excel in certain fields?

Because throughout all of world history there are many examples of people taking that logic too far in order to consider certain races, certain sexes, and people from certain lands as inherently mentally inferior, and in the worst case, exterminating them in the form of a proposed "solution" to the "problem".

People strongly hesitate around this sort of talk for a reason.
A great resource is PicoCTF, which, although designed for high schoolers, is a pretty good way to get into the scene: https://picoctf.com

(It was from PicoCTF that I went from knowing nearly nothing about security to qualifying for a competition in New York to qualifying for a competition in Korea to obtaining an internship in a computer security lab -- thanks once again, CMU! Even if I'm working at your rivals now...)
The discussion here sort of disheartens me. Does it mean that I will be what I was born with? I would like to believe otherwise as it gives hope to achieve greatness, in spite of it not being in my genes.
I was once at a conference in Galveston, Texas. I and some other scientists, mostly from Europe got hungry at 23:00 or so. We walked to the nearby Danny's or Wendy's but it was closed. When we walked away we saw that the drive through was open so we walked in. Strangely, nobody answered at the pole where you talk to the person. Then a car came up, we stepped aside, and someone started talking! So we walked to the car and said, hey that's nice, we thought nobody was there?... And the guy went nuts over that we were trying to steal his order or something... Wow... we stepped back a bit and when he drove on we followed him to the window where we, just as the car left, saw a woman screaming at us that "there is a camera on you!!!" While she smashed the window shut we tried to tell her: "But we have money we just want to eat?"

It was one of the strangest experiences in my life. Later on I realized it was quite a bit threatening as well.

Later we heard from another colleague that he was questioned by police in a not-so-friendly way about what he was doing (he was walking along the road to check out the beach.) During the trip I took after the conference I saw a drive-through ATM and a drive-through pharmacy. And I spoke to a guy who had been to a drive through funeral!

I guess it explains a bit why Google Now doesn't work for me (here in the Netherlands), it keeps pushing me into either public transport or my car while almost all traveling I do is combination of biking, walking and public transport.

I once had a student from Bulgaria, for her it was normal to walk to school for more than an hour. That would be considered strange here as well although biking for an hour to school is certainly not unheard of (for kids).
Malpractice insurance in the USA accounts for <2% of our medical expenditures [1]. If you ask any doctor they'll tell you it's responsible for our price overruns, but that's because it's a cost that is directly visible to them not because it actually accounts for a large fraction of the excessive cost of our care. Less charitably, we should also note that it's a self-serving argument, and although MDs are typically good people that mean well they aren't immune from the human tendency to base our beliefs on the "maximum convenience principle" :)

[1] http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/justice/hs.xsl/8686.htm
Did you guys change your name from Pwnies? Too bad, I liked that name :(

Glad to see you're still actively developing this, though -- I've used it more than once :)
In South Africa, most homes are built with little consideration of cold weather, since the winters are relatively mild. Problem is that draughts and poor insulation in winter then result in significant spiking energy usage.
You're neglecting to consider an important difference between Twitter and Healthcare.gov, which is that they have completely different usage patterns. Even if we assume Twitter and Healthcare.gov serve the same number of users, the engineering and scalability challenges of Twitter far outweigh those of Healthcare.gov. Active Twitter users engage with the platform daily, often simultaneously with millions of other users, and expect state changes to propagate across the platform immediately. Healthcare.gov, on the other hand, barely even has a concept of "active" users. For the most part, each user only engages with the website once at sign up, and then periodically thereafter. Users do not have an expectation of immediate propagation of state change. As long as the site works, nobody cares how long it takes for the accounting system to update.

My point is that you're comparing apples and oranges. Equating raw user numbers alone is not a fair comparison, because that's not what causes the engineering problems that make Twitter hard to scale. It's the usage patterns of those users that create the challenges.

Healthcare.gov is one step up from a static website, and customers rarely engage with it throughout their lifecycle. It's absurd to suggest that developing it should cost anywhere near the same as developing Twitter.
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It's not like suburban living is going to go away. The problem is that there is nothing like what the author describes in the US right now. You have what you want, but it'd be nice if there were something for those of us who don't want that. I think there is plenty of room for both.

> See, I grew up in a city and experienced that. And it was ok. But I like this better. I wonder if there is an element of that -- rejecting the places we grew up and deciding the opposite environment is better for it. I imagine a lot of people in US grew up in the suburbs and many now feel attracted to the city.

After nearly 20 years of on and off living in Italy and Europe, I'm still pretty happy with denser cities. I like being able to walk to the basics, even though we're now in the Italian version of a suburb. We have kids, and as a consequence, use the car more. But we still ride the tram downtown every now and then, and often walk over to the grocery store or park.
No. The regulatory body here in Canada, the CRTC, ruled that internet can not be sold from one ISP to another based on usage, only based on speed.

So we have a however many Gbit link, and we pay $x/month for that whether we saturate it the entire time, or it sits idle.
Why won't the FAA let students fly drones?
I actually don't know how the companies feel about it, I am not part of the discussions being had, I just hear about them after the fact.

I know we're under very strict conditions that we're not even allowed to say we even have local caches, much less who we have caches for.
I grew up pretty much in the European countryside, and now live in the city. I'm sure there's some sort of "I want to live differently from my parents" mechanic at work.
You should also try going through MIT's online course on algorithms based on CLR:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
If AWS is so overpriced, why isn't Amazon profitable? Colo is only cheap if you have cheap sysadmins and have a very predictable non-decreasing long-term compute need.
You are spot on, Nginx+HHVM is really fast. I am an early adopter of HHVM (since Dez 2012) and it really shines on sites with thousends of requests per seconds. I heard PHP 5.5+ on Nginx (FPM) is fast as well.

And I prefer PHP as I can code websites without the need of frameworks (PHP is "the framework") with a C/C++ like syntax. The idea of libraries is much older than frameworks, and in the end libraries are so much more flexible IMHO.
Hi dangayle, the calculation is a little bit slow for now.
It takes about 15 sec against 500x500 images in my environment, and here's an issue ticket for the speed improvement.
https://github.com/fbessho/PyPoi/issues/12

I'm not sure how many sec is acceptable for you though.
If you've done some analysis on it, it would be great if you can comment on the issue ticket (or even better if you can raise a pull request against it!).
If we wanted to build the ideal city and cost weren't a concern, we could really expand on the use of underground for transportation. The best cities for humans tend to have great subway systems, but in theory we could do a lot more. Basically all parking and most arterial roads could be underground, leaving above-ground an almost-entirely pedestrian paradise. Sure, driving in an endless tunnel doesn't sound terribly pleasant, but the idea is to get people from A to B efficiently, then out of the car. Unfortunately building this kind of infrastructure under existing cities would be prohibitively expensive.

Under a new town you might be able to do it much more cheaply (which isn't to say cheaply in an absolute sense), but of course the economic incentive isn't there at that point.

That said, with services like Uber, and much more so, driverless vehicles, hopefully the desire to bring a car along wherever we go will begin to ebb in the near future, making the narrow street vision described here much less of a compromise. I imagine those times when you need a car to get somewhere, spending some of the time weaving around through carts and pedestrians would be much less frustrating if you can kick back and read a book while it's happening. Even more though, there would be less concern of servicing parking for these sorts of regions, so you could still have a few arterial roads to get in and out, far less wasted parking space, and no need to build underground mazes to accomplish it.
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Because it still doesn't explain what is driving the aptitude. It's sort of like how multiverse theories of the universe attribute the values of various constants to random chance. It may be the case, but it's only interesting as theory insofar as it generates experiments, and we're just not there yet with our understanding of genetics and neuropsychology (but I suspect we will end up there).
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Battambang is a great place, one my favorite places to spend time in Cambodia.
Yes, but even if you were to build a tunnel from Lithgow to Emu Plains (on the Western edge of existing Sydney), there's still another 40-50km (as the crow flies) before you reach central Sydney.
Yeah, it's everywhere. Hasn't helped with housing prices any, though. I currently live in Somerville and I do love it (it's weird enough for me), but I wouldn't mind living closer to everything.
For further reading - this is concerning the new FAA policy published recently that is currently in a public comment period. See this post and video by the AMA for a good overview: http://www.modelaircraft.org/aboutama/AMAInterpretiveRuleRes...
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I wonder if there's a financial explanation for the timing. Do acquisitions pad some kind of investor vanity metric?
I wouldn't be so sure. I believe the Melbourne->Sydney route is one of the busiest in the world for planes.

Even if the train follow the existing highway it would do pretty well - it's almost entirely straight and flat.
I don't know... I grew up in a city and I live in a city now. Suburbia too me, is basically like Florida... You go there to grow old and die.
aka 'Nobody got fired for hiring IBM'.
> Even if we assume Twitter and Healthcare.gov serve the same number of users, the engineering and scalability challenges of Twitter far outweigh those of Healthcare.gov.

I may have a bias because of my background, but I absolutely don't agree. Twitter is a very busy service, a planet-scale multi-way messaging bus isn't trivial by any means, but that part is still a relatively well defined, small in scope, engineering problem and something a small team of talented engineers could tackle. That's probably the easiest part to account for.

Healthcare.gov on the other hand is gigantic in scope and faces many ill-defined problems; "integrate" with 50 states and various other administrations and insurance providers and so on to deal with, all of which are a moving target.

In my experience the cost of having things poorly defined is something like 100x having something well-defined, and increasing scope is a lot more costly than increasing scale.
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$2500 for Dec/2013 (close enough to 2014) http://rebrickable.com - reuse your LEGO pieces to build other cool stuff. Not exactly passive yet, but maybe one day.
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There is a reason there are a lot of them

But are there? I mean, worldwide? Seems to me that there actually aren't that many, they're just concentrated.

Some people like the hustle and bustle and meeting new people every minute. Others like a life of semi-solitude and private pursuits. The attraction of controlling what happens on your own patch of dirt is so strong it has to be inbuilt.

But are you actually more alone in the suburbs? I mean, except for the airgap that makes up for the shitty sound proofing that american homes seem to have, you're still surrounded by neighbors.

What we do here in my corner of Europe when we want to control our patch of dirt and be more isolated is that we buy a house in the countryside. This [1] is isolated, not a cul-de-sac with six houses.

[1] http://casa.brick7-pt.com/media/pt/93001_93100/93081_50beb62...
Or there is more than one physical effect in play: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8112118 -- there's air movement as well as heat, because your house is not a sealed box.
You should have a look at the literature on capability security, especially http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/duals/myths.html

There was hardly any computer security in the 1950s: it was before time sharing and networking. Your cynicism is over-done.
The average customer may not understand that when he buys the Twitter package, that she/he is not be able to open external resources on any Twitter feed. Watching the Youtube video your friend posted with a Tweet - not possible. This limitation will make such a package unattractive.

Another reason for why these offers will fail is status. If you bought such a package, you better not tell your peers, because it lowers your status among them. Well, your peers will know it anyway, because you cannot just open this Youtube video they posted on their Facebook timeline. This is a bigger issue with Sprint's targeted customer: poor people and kids.

It would be a good strategy, if Sprint compensates these offerings by also offering an instant access choice. If a customer with a Facebook package opens an external resource, she/he shall see a page where she/he can buy 24h Internet access for less than $2.

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If providers stop offering "undiscriminated" Internet access, others will fill this gap with new "Real Internet Access".
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I like this idea. We're currently in the middle of migrating to a new application system for the next round of applications, but it seems like a reasonable feature to add afterward.
PHP 6 was originally started back on 2005 with a very clear and well advertised set of features. Many of those have been merged into 5.x releases except for the largest item which involved improved unicode handling, which has been dropped entirely.

I'd rather see them skip ahead to 7 than to try to re-write the existing definition of PHP 6.
I'm not even kidding, we are probably just as lazy except it manifests as "I can't be arsed driving" so we take the simplest route and walk for short distances.
The github page for the book has a makefile that creates a pdf of the book.

The book was written for both computer and pdf, so you should really build the PDF from the code to get the parts of the text that have been altered for print. If you just PDF the html, you end up with some weird things from the interactive parts.

You can find the build targets here: https://github.com/marijnh/Eloquent-JavaScript/blob/master/M...
I agree completely. I would love to be able to sit outside and code on my laptop, but the glossy Macbook air screen makes this almost impossible. I would pay good money for a barebones, development only laptop with an e-ink monitor.

For what it's worth, some people have hacked around with the Kindle to try to make this a reality, but as you say, the refresh rate is the bottleneck. [1]

[1] http://www.ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/
> @Schrodinger When's a good time to get my cat?

:) The comments are not bad, either.
Fahrenheit, seriously?:(

Good concept though.
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While I agree with your points, I feel as if its not unreasonable to do this on a small scale where some of it benifts areas around it.
Same in Helsinki/Finland - district heating (hot water radiators) for most of the city. Even data centre heat is recycled in this way :)
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Off the top of my head there are 2 major differences between e-ink and non e-ink displays that could potentially explain differences in comfort level for prolonged use:

- Non e-ink displays have a refresh rate, therefore continuous "activity" on the screen. People can have different sensitivities to this.

- Non e-ink displays tend to have higher contrast and/or brightness. This would normally be considered an advantage, but again perhaps not for prolonged use.

I don't need scientific papers to tell me I find e-ink more comfortable or not, it becomes very quickly apparent when I try to read a book on a tablet. Obviously you have a different perception, that does not invalidate mine.
So if you forget to open the windows often enough, you suffocate? :-)
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