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This is wrong as well. VMware standard and distributed virtual switch is in hypervisor kernel.
Maybe, but you're still walking around with a porn phone in your pocket or next to your ear, marking you out to everyone in the know as the sort of person who is so into internet porn that they're willing to invest money in a device that makes getting internet porn even easier than it already is.
I can see the benefit over WebSockets since it establishes a schema/API for sending/receiving messages. However, I'm not seeing the benefit over server-sent events along with AJAX POSTs for any data you want to submit. And both work over regular ports (80/443), whereas it looks like MQTT is out-of-band.
I had no idea there was so much interest in home automation software, though ironically Ive considered writing my own more than once.

I think this is the root cause of the proliferation of automation software; everybody wants to write their own, and doesn't know about everything else that already exists :-).
There's plenty of space in the universe. What makes you think future generations will even want to stay on this planet?
I've done a bit of carpentry around my house. Since I live in Sweden I always use the metric system.

For me the focus on division by three is a bit strange. Sure I sometimes need to divide by three, but I also need to divide by five, or two or seven. I guess the thing is that our building standards are expressed in the metric system, so it makes sense thinking about them in terms of meters or centimeters. US building standards are expressed in the imperial system, so it makes sense to think about them in feet and inches.

Why would I want a unit that's 1/60th of a meter when I have a perfect 1/100th of a meter? A third of a meter is 33.3cm, working with wood you don't need more precision than that, if the decimal sign makes it difficult to do calculations, just step it up to 333mm.

I'm not a carpenter by trade but I guess that a professional carpenter here learns quite well how to divide by three even in metric. I see this argument popup every time there's a discussion about using the metric system in the US and I find it weak. For me this argument only sounds like "but it's hard to learn something new".

I'm sure there are pros and cons with both the metric and the imperial system, but in the globalized world we live in, the fact that The Rest Of The World uses the metric system should be a pretty convincing argument to use it in the US as well. I mean after all, The Rest Of The World has accepted English (in one form or the other) as the Lingua Franca in order to make communication across borders easier. You don't see us whine about stuff like "but in Swedish I can much more succinctly express that it's my paternal or maternal grandparent I'm talking about, so I don't want to use English".
So what type of software developer / hacker are you? What kind of company do you work for? How did you start off in the industry? What new technologies do you want to learn next?

I've been developing software for a living since 2000, and before that I was working in IT since about 1995. I started out doing a lot of network admin (Netware 3.1 anybody?) and AS/400 operations stuff while I was still in school. I dabbled in programming when I was a kid (8-9-10'ish or so) but we never had a PC in my home, so I never got deep into programming until college. I took a programming class in college about 1992 and was immediately hooked. I bought a copy of Herbert Schildt's Teach Yourself C, downloaded a shareware C compiler from somewhere, acquired a cheap PC and have basically never looked back.

Over my career I've mainly worked in Java, with some C/C++ before that, and now do a lot of Java and Groovy stuff. I've also worked with Visual Basic a bit a long time ago, and with Python a bit circa 2008-2009 or so. More recently I have some ambition to learn R, Prolog, Go, Clojure, Scala, Julia and a handful of other stuff that's on my "learn one day" list.

What kind of company do I work for? By day I work for Open Software Integrators[1], a boutique professional services firm in Durham NC, where we focus on helping companies apply "Big Data" technologies. One of my most recent projects was building a Hadoop data warehouse for a big pharma company that was doing some really cool stuff that I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to talk about (non-disclosure agreements and what-not).

By night and weekend I work on a startup called Fogbeam Labs[2]. We are focused on applying Semantic Web tech, social networking, machine learning and related tech to create a kick-ass Open Source organizational knowledge management / collaboration system.

And like (many|most|some|???) hackers, I am also generally interested in tech beyond programming. I am a member of the local hackerspace in Durham[3], and I dabble in various things there. I've been learning to do some embedded / microcontroller stuff with Arduino, rPi, Beaglebones, etc., building electronic circuits from discrete components, started on building a coil-gun (but have kinda let that go dormant lately), and I have a goal to build a Mantis PCB mill at some point. I'd also like to build a 3D printer (maybe a rep-rap) someday.

I did dabble in the "black hat" hacking scene a bit back in the mid 90's, but was really more into phone phreaking stuff. My claim to fame from that phase of my life is that me and a couple of friends had admin level access to a phone switch owned by the local telco (I think it was a DMS-100) for a while. But by the late 90's I was getting into my professional career and it was becoming obvious that playing in that world was a fast path to either jail or at least a big hit to my career so I dropped out of that scene pretty much completely. I mean, yeah, I still read 2600 and Phrack every now and again, but that's about it.

[1]: http://www.osintegrators.com

[2]: http://www.fogbeam.com

[3]: http://www.splatspace.org
I think this deals with your main premise of the nebulous 'room'.

From the paper Demographic Consequences of Defeating Aging.

'Moreover, if some members of society reject to use new anti-aging technologies for some religious or any other reasons (inconvenience, non-compliance, fear of side effects, costs, etc.), then the total population size may even decrease over time. Thus, even in the case of the most radical life extension scenario, population growth could be relatively slow and may not necessarily lead to overpopulation. Therefore, the real concerns should be placed not on the threat of catastrophic population consequences (overpopulation), but rather on such potential obstacles to a success of biomedical war on aging, as scientific, organizational, and financial limitations.'

Full paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192186/
Ah, well, you're the best kind of correct. IBM even have instructions for it.

I'll counter with the Ferranti Orion (1959) which had mixed-base operations (primarily for £sd accounting).
MyDecadeTV: A set of nostalgic TV simulators that let you channel-surf the past
A set of projects I created to honor the pop culture memories of decades past. Basically, each site aspires to simulate the vintage experience of channel-surfing on a TV from a particular era. While you watch, you can also filter your selection by category and year.
Temperature is a weird one, and shows the difference between 'metric' and 'SI unit'. Fahrenheit is neither, and for me is far from intuitive. Celsius is a metric unit, but it's not the SI unit, which is Kelvin.

Celsius certainly makes more sense on the human scale than the other two - the general public is familiar with 'water freezes' and 'water boils' - but it's a neat example of a metric unit not being the SI unit.
I can't speak for everyone, but you're probably getting downvoted for being so condescending.
If you can hide some larger hardware, I'd say go with DMX-512. I wrote an open source library for Linux for speaking DMX-512 over an FTDI USB-to-RS-485 adapter[0], and (shameless plug) have some automation hardware of my own[1] that supports DMX-512 using that library.

It's possible to buy a decent quality 4ch DMX dimmer for ~$30 per channel, and you get instantaneous response rather than the terrible lag of most consumer home automation products.

[0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmx485/files/

[1] http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/products/automation_controller....
What are the "terms of reference"?
And what the heck happened to the post?
Here is the link :)

http://www.mydecadetv.com
Answer pertaining to Web Consultants, Web Programmers (freelance and agency) etc.

Short answer: Higher Perceived Value.

Long Answer: It is easier for most people to understand the value added by web programmers. Most businesses that hire web programmers/agencies measure the outcome as either a) new revenue generated or b) savings from more efficient processes.

There is another possibility that plays out in conjunction with this - i.e. Marketing. In general I have seen web programmers to be a tad better at marketing, both personal and professional.
Considering how advanced it was compared to other BASICs of the time, I'd say it would be like a sophisticated IDE and Python or Ruby built-in into the OS.
To say 800 a day (worldwide) is willfully misleading

It's catchy and that's the intension of the author (she wants to be heard). There are so many things to put this number into context.

800 a day, oh that's like 3 Jumbo's full of woman crashing each day. I mean woman... how unfair is that...

But you know, each second ~3 people die _ohhhh noooo_, nobody should die (ever)
Yes, you're right of course. The Earth rotates through 15 arcminutes in 1 minute.
I've been using Lift (https://www.lift.do/), but you may find the UX a bit cluttered for your use case (they're primary a habit tracking app). Nice UI though.
Can America also adapt Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals? Please.
Awesome! I've been wishing for something like this for a long time.

Features I would appreciate:

- filtering out videos not tagged as "music"

- links to the facebook wall post
> What's so hard to understand about that?

Understand what, exactly? Your original post didn't make it at all clear what you were posting about, so I assumed you were attempting to contest the honorific, though, again, for no clear reason. Apologies if I assumed incorrectly, but there wasn't a whole lot of context to go on.
You have some notions to correct.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

Since the late 70's, you could just go into a store, buy a box with disks (appropriate to your machine type) and manuals and run it. Or cartridges - many programs were distributed as ROM cartridges, including BASIC interpreters. Cartridge slots were common in home computers. You could buy Lotus 123 in cartridge for the PC Junior.
This isn't a very novel technique; I didn't see any reference to TEMPEST, which has been known for a long time - no physical contact required, it can be done at a distance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

Here's an unorthodox application of this technique: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/

The most interesting part is that adding noise won't help to mask the signal, even if the signal is much weaker than the noise, since it can still be recovered through processing.
maybe we should just leave aging alone?
I think they said in this video that the model is somewhat similar to Tor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRwArF3BAZk

For something that actually works over Tor (or something very similar), there's Adam Langley's Pond: https://pond.imperialviolet.org/tech.html
A baby unicorn dies every time someone builds an overly complex Excel spreadsheet that should actually be a program.
Victoria, Australia here. About the same, except we can get three or four of those all in the one day. (The running joke is that if you don’t like the weather in Melbourne, wait.)

I’ve lived in both the low and highlands of Papua New Guinea and they have two types of weather: dry and wet. In the lowlands you do not go outside without wearing a hat as the sun will actively try and kill you. When a PNG friend visited us in Melbourne, it was a 30°C day, we were in shorts and t-shirts, he was in jeans and wearing a parka to keep warm.
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> It's the best of the 20 or 30 books we've done.

It should be published.
Please describe the sacred cultural issues around retaining imperial units of measure.
I think to start at the fundamentals end needs a lot of patience but it probably suits those intolerant of magic.

Very well said; I'm one of those people and that's what drove me from Ruby to Haskell - Ruby and its frameworks are all very magical and don't seem to hinge on any common foundation other than the intricate details of Ruby's object model, which is not a satisfactory set of principles, but an arbitrary set of rules.

On the other hand, while Haskell is several times harder for it, it does eventually quench the thirst to connect every new thing I learn with the foundational things I already know (and which are in fact a set of simple rules - lambda calculus).
No the article says they can get the required government CDL in 6 weeks, Passing a CDL test is not much harder than a Reg Test, and many states have had people convicted of working with the schools in a Cash for Licence scams, the larges was in IL a few years back where a good % of all CDL's issued by the state of IL were simply paid for.

It take a hell of alot longer to become a proficient trucker. Long time truckers have nothing but disdain for these 6 week course drivers that are on the road.

I know when my father (who is a trucker) first become a driver I believe it was a 6mo or year long course with longer period as a "driver in training" with the company he was placed in, we was part of a driver team pair with an experienced driver. This was after being a driver for the US Army for 6 years driving a Deuce and half.

Today a Driver take a 6 weeks intro course and then it entrusted with 80,000 pounds going 65mph.... with no additional training.
Yes I do :) xkcd is great, spot on. But it's not much actual content :)
I researched this a bunch at one point. Some of the primary variables are:

* Licensure (e.g. if you have a Hazmat endorsement)
* Route type (Long haul pays a lot more)
* Driver's safety record
* Employment status - Independent contractors who own their own rig vs captive employees
Etc.
The only people I know that can make that level of money is Owner Operators, and while gross my be 80K most of that ends up back in the truck.

If you know of a company driver making 80K a year let me know the name of that company
If you do end up finding a way to make a break up with non-technical founders go smoothly, without them running your name through the mud or threatening to blackmail you, then please do let us know. Not sure it's possible.
The best NBA team will beat the worst NBA team with extremely high probability. Much higher than the probability that the best MLB team beats the worst MLB team. For example, when the San Antonio Spurs played the New Orleans Pelicans on March 25, the average odds implied a probability of around 96%[1]; when the Texas Rangers played the Minnesota Twins on August 31 2013, the implied win probability was around 75%[2]. I think that your system would probably score basketball much higher than baseball (if I had to make a guess, there are probably 5-6 90% spans between high school basketball and NBA basketball, and 3-4 spans between high school baseball and MLB baseball), implying that basketball is a harder sport.

It would certainly be a very interesting metric, and one I would love to see calculated more formally. That said, I'm not sure it captures the intuition of "hardest game" that effectively. To be the best at a game depends primarily on the number of people who play it at the elite level and the time investment they put in, combined with the importance of natural talent. Suppose there were a game which had even longer chains than go, such as if each player always defeated the next stronger player with 90% probability, and there were 1000 players who played recreationally. We wouldn't think of this as a particularly hard game, because to be an elite player at the game, all you'd have to do is take it on with a professional level of commitment and you'd quickly move up in the ranks. So the difficulty of a game at elite levels must at some point include a hefty weighting of popularity and commercial appeal. As to the importance of natural talent in this idea, you simply can't play in the NBA if you are 5'0", and having such a physical limitation would tend to increase what people perceive of as the difficulty of the game. If there were a board game that required a 150 IQ to even understand the rules, people would definitely call it a very difficult game.

1: http://www.oddsportal.com/basketball/usa/nba/san-antonio-spu... using the highest odds and converting to probability, which is equivalent to the "best bid-offer spread"

2: http://www.oddsportal.com/baseball/usa/mlb-2013/texas-ranger...
A big downside is that it seems like this would make spam harder to block. (Intuitive claim, I'm not familiar with the technical details.) It also seems like it has the disadvantage of chicken-and-egg adoption before it's a useful service.

So here's a possible solution to both problems at once: I've always liked the idea of disincentivizing spam by charging a micropayment per email. So include a tiny bitcoin payment encoded into each layer of the doll to reward the intermediary, and you'll simultaneously provide an incentive for participation in the network (payment for participating) while simultaneously discouraging frivolous emails (since you now have to pay per spam message.) Obviously you'd make the charge small enough to not matter to most people for daily use (<$0.01) but I assume any nonzero price would hurt spammers badly.

You'd have to prevent intermediaries from decoding all the layers and taking the full payment, but presumably the Dark Mail folks have a solution for this already. Otherwise otherwise anyone in the middle could decrypt all the layers and read the contents of the email, and Dark Mail wouldn't work at all.

Or maybe I'm missing something. (Decent chance of that, since all I'm going on is a Time article and I'm not a security guru.)
> But it didn't stick because there's absolutely no point—it doesn't improve anything, it's just churn.

This is pretty much it, though I'd throw on that Europeans acting like they're morally superior for using metric as their native measuring system (and that Americans are intellectually slovenly for not) certainly doesn't do many favors for the cause of metricization in the U.S.
They pay $1.10 per mile in my area plus gas.
No, you're perfectly right. And while HP may be up to date right now, it'll be out of date next month and it will keep getting more and more obsolete until the next release in a year or so.
> A person who spent his life producing guns

Explosives.

>G. W. Bush run for it and came 2nd!

You don't "run for it", and the information about who "came second" is never released, so I don't know where you heard this, but it's not true.

Not that I disagree with your point about the Peace and to a lesser extent Literature prizes being horrendously politicised.

If I were the Nobel committee then each year I'd give the Nobel Peace Prize to a random civilian somewhere in the world who minds his own damn business.
Toxins That Threaten Our Brains
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It used to be considered a pretty good job, from what my father tells me. I believe what it boiled down to was, the pay was good, given that the qualifications are low.
Well, people don't for the most part look forward to 40 degree days - this is warmer than body temperature, so you have to engage in some form of cooling. Going to the beach is one form of cooling :) Avoid being outside, drink lots of fluids, AC if you can, anything, really. Construction workers generally stop work around 36, from memory. Conversely, people here will tell stories about the crazy British neighbour who is out doing the gardening in a singlet when it's only 10 degrees.

Here in Melbourne we'll have several 40-degree days each summer, and the only large city with more that I'm aware of is Phoenix. There are heaps of large cities that are warmer in general, but they don't peak quite as high. Record is 46.2, set a few years ago. Not a pleasant day, especially since it was after a few similar days...
The right way to disprove "Nothing other than correlation implies causation." would be to find one causation whose existance we know from something other than causation.

But you won't find it. Think about any causation. Now ask yourself why we now that it exists. The answer will always be correlation.
We just did some benchmarks on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146536
Hmmm, why are we still talking about truck drivers exactly?

The trucking industry is about to tank hard. Mercedes demo'd its first driverless truck a couple of weeks ago (!). Yes, there will be specialists drivers sure and niche companies. But the day of the interstate road train will be done shortly.

The biggest new niche in my mind will be vehicle security. These trucks will be flying solo across the nation - unmanned. How will these trucks be fitted out against good ol' fashioned highway robbers in remote areas that are barely on the grid?

Fun times ahead.

(!). http://www.caradvice.com.au/295713/self-driving-mercedes-ben...
Why does it get out of date? Can't you just cabal install any newer library that you want? Is it that you can't update GHC in it?
There are many people who think that way too, but I think fred_durst seems to genuinely be more concerned about the effects on society.

When I was considering careers, I concluded that there are 3 world-changing scientific problems: aging, neuroscience (understanding the brain and cognitive enhancement), and AI. Interestingly, they're all intertwined.

Best of luck. Personally I think AI will come before a cure for aging. In some ways, I view my work as a fallback, in case AI doesn't come fast enough.

The societal stakes for AI are also much higher.
> Biology has evolved to use spikes (across many different species). Perhaps evolution didn't get the memo that non-spiking convolutional neural networks is the only architecture worth building.

I think this is representative of a lot of AI now. This chip doesn't obviously improve the state of the art on an arbitrary (but standard) benchmark, so LeCun dismisses it. That type of attitude strikes me as over fitting for an arbitrary benchmark (a local optimum) and missing the bigger picture. This chip (and line of research) could help identify how the brain works (which may very well also unlock strong AI).
Fair enough.

Related: Do you agree or disagree that the "good for them! btw, our product..." is not an issue on HN?
> Many mathematicians will tell you that Nobel omitted mathematics from his
> prizes to spite the Swedish mathematician Gosta Mittag-Leffler, a rival

The one I heard, as a math undergrad, was that a mathematician took Nobel's wife to the limit in the horizontal plane.
It's a fairly neutral statement - some mathematicians (I'm not even stating my opinion) apparently think that some other prize might have the status of "the Nobel Prize". I mean, that's the whole fucking point of the post - to make a note of the fact that this other prize might not be the most prestigious prize in some people's eyes, that some other prize might have the same level of prestige. Not to diminish to the Fields Medal, but to add a somewhat relevant factoid to the thread, considering that the article was so focused on the Nobel prize-like status of the Fields Medal. But of course since this is a somewhat typical Web forum, people have to assume the worst intent and try to snipe it, forcing me to belabor the original point which only needed one sentence to express.
The agricultural revolution that wasn't
Yes, why should people solve problems they have themselves in ways that disagree with our aesthetic?