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>I don't see why tragedy should stop us from thinking rationally about the situation.

I don't see why thinking rationally would entail talking without any sensitivity and humanity -- which is what I complained about, not the "thinking rationally" part itself.

>The machine I have in Sydney pings 60ms to MIT on average.

Doesn't 60ms sound quite bad as the optimal average one can have?

>Are the cables made of magic unicorn hair that doesn't break?

No, just that buildings are make of scientific structural construction that endures and absorbs earthquake pressure.

As for the cables, that's an easier problem to solve, and it will be more localized.
Absolute silence, as in not even white noise? I used to live in Brazil where families often leave the TV on in the other room just in order to have noise. My version of that is to have the fan on in the summer, maybe some instrumental music playing lowly anytime, or leaving the back door open to where I can hear the birds.
I live in a school ,so I get sharp voices of pupils yelling in the schoolyard(300+ kids) almost all day(I live in the second floor). I got used to it.

But friends staying at my place often ask me how I can bear that noise. I guess i developped some kind of noise filter.
Don't bother, people will just say X is better than Scala here. They don't know the amount of research done by Odersky on generics and why Scala can not be easily beaten in this area at least.
I prefer 4′33″ by John Cage as background music.
3 people critically injured after nor Cal quake
And regardless of it being a luxury (which I agree with), do you prefer NYC or Iceland? Or both, but not strictly one or the other?
6.0 quake jolts Bay Area; largest to hit area since 1989
and 45 minutes outside any US major/minor city you can buy a cheap/er house on a plot of land and have the best of all words.

i get tired of the over-romanticization of taking a given personal quality and taking it beyond the extreme.

you could just say you want a house a little ways out that's nice and quiet, but that has to become "living in Japan".

Japan.
Get them Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, which will take about six weeks. The form you want is a W-7.

You can probably file the 409a elections and fill in the SSN of "non-resident alien; W-7 pending" if that is time-sensitive.
I think you meant 'inferior'.
Speaking descriptively, not normatively, it just seems the industry is moving towards easier, not safer. yes, including PHP, but also python and ruby.

I think the trade-off is that safer requires more upfront design, and is more viscous (harder to change). Whereas industry seems to get better end-results, with less design and faster iteration (i.e. so-called extreme programming). What's the point goes the argument of getting the wrong thing perfectly correct?. Added to this is the relative unpopularity of safer languages like SML etc.

Statically typed languages (Java etc) are mainly popular more because of performance, not safety.

So... I predict easier will continue to beat safer... in terms of popularity.
The math in "a lot of math" and the soup in "souped-up linear classifiers" are really not stuff to be casually swept under the carpet :) They still remain one of the best off-the-shelf learners one can use (look at "An Empirical Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms" by Rich Caruana et al).
Can somebody make a git based wiki. PLEASE.
Ugh. No 2.7 support
California is a big place and Silicon Valley occupies a very small portion of it. Today's earthquake has had very little, if any, effect here; so that's not the reason your traffic is being rerouted. I didn't even feel the quake, trains are still running, it's life as normal unless you live in Napa Valley (north of Silicon Valley).
I suspect it may have something to do with the sensory processing dial on introverts being a little jacked up. You may find this paper interesting: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409988/

This bit rings true for me at least:

"We present evidences that support the existance of key neural connectivity between the [highly sensitive trait], higher sensory processing sensitivity, introversion, ectomorphism and creativity... [these] people may process, at the same time, larger amounts of sensory information than usual, making this trait an excellent model to pick up subtle environmental details and cues. However, they feel easily worn out, overwhelmed and exhausted because they sense every single detail while interacting with their environment.[3,4] To recover from such attainable sensory overload, these individuals require more quiet time daily to be alone, as well as additional longer sleep times than those without the HS trait."
> Not if the phone is out of battery.

Bad argument. Any remote control can run out of battery.
"There's a polite fiction that things outside one's own bubble don't exist"

I've seen this (via documentaries) where Japanese rail service is involved, and how even speaking on one's cell phone is considered rude. Even more so, when something negative happens to someone near you, how pretending to not see it is the norm. Another thing I heard is that if a guy gives a girl a cat-call, if she responds negatively, she's leading him on in a sense (causing further interaction). There are other examples, such as stopping a thief running away from the scene of a crime, etc.
I've noticed several problems recurring in Gutenberg ebooks. Mistakes in the words per se are rare, but:

* substitutes for characters missing from ASCII (e.g. L for £, no proper dashes)

* incorrectly delimited chapter heads (e.g.:

*CHAPTER 11: THE GREAT*
BOONDOGGLE George Boondoggle sat on his lawn...

instead of

*CHAPTER 11: THE GREAT BOONDOGGLE*
George Boondoggle sat on his lawn...)

* footnotes appearing in the middle of a page (based on the pagination of the original print edition, perhaps)

* missing italics, underlines, etc.

* ASCII-fied equations and diagrams

These do not detract from PG's original goal of being an archive of plain text, and suffice to provide scholars of the 22nd century a good view of what was written in the 19th, but they do detract from the experience of somebody who just wants to read Anna Karenina for fun. (Especially if they are a typography nerd like me)
I think that poster is saying that Swift's generics are not as good as C++'s, and even more not as good as Scala's.

"Miles away" is ambiguous, but I think it's "miles behind" in this context, given its proximity to "even" and "let alone."
Kiwiirc admin here. We actually have a few options for networks to solve the issues you mention. We can use WEBIRC to have the network show the users correct hostname or the users IP in hex form as the username/ident. For either of these options IRC network admins can enable them at will.

Due to the limited IPv4 addresses now available we can't be using many source address for users, while IPv6 causes further questions such as what do we do for idents as they don't fit as IPv4 addresses do, and what can be done for an IPv6 user connecting to an IPv4 network?

While WEBIRC solves all the issues it does mean IRC networks must trust kiwiirc with setting user hostnames - something some networks don't want to allow making it impossible for us to set user hostnames correctly. It's an issue without a real solution at the moment.

A large part is letting IRC admins know about the options kiwiirc provides to work around the issues, unfortunately many ban all kiwiirc users causing headaches for everyone instead of looking into the options.
I think he meant algorithms with certain guarantee to be "not wrong". Say, "right with high probability" or "within a constant factor from the optimal" etc.
Many heuristic does not have any guarantee(unless someone proves it).
No. A heuristic is a rough guess, without any guarantees how close you get to the right answer, or what the odds are that the answer to an arbitrary input is correct. Heuristics are useful to guide a search in the right direction, but by themselves they don't solve a problem like an algorithm does.
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Interesting, I'll have to read that study. I've heard of this in introverts, and agree with it, that's one reason we don't like nightclubs…sensory overload.
How about gitit

https://github.com/jgm/gitit

It's actually pretty darn great.
It's notable that in all the recent 'diversity' announcements made by tech companies, none of them (AFAIK) have studied the age range of their employees. The subject seems to be ignored by them.
Ignoring neighbors mowing their lawn/working on their houses and kids playing outside:

I'm working from home and have two kids below the age of 2. What is this silence thing you're talking about and should I try and look for it?

More seriously: While I do live somewhere 'silent' right now, that's more or less a workaround, an arrangement with some facts of life. I prefer living in a lively city (last place was one of Germany's biggest cities w/ around a million people), in a central place.

I felt most comfortable in that very city, living as a single right next to two well-known concert locations and with lots of nightlife around. Second place: Living in Tel Aviv, which seems to compare itself with NYC as another city that never sleeps.

No noise - impossible. I'd probably turn on a radio or start humming stuff (and believe me, that's not a good idea..) if I'd ever be stuck in _real_ silence.
My problem with both languages is that you can count apples like that. If it can be done, it will be done.
If these states supported voluntary instead of FORCED vaccinations I think this topic wouldn't be an issue.
Swift enums and Scala case classes both attempt to emulate ML/Haskell Algebraic Data Types. In the design goal there they both are identical.

Swift's enums are a more faithful translation than Scala's case classes (since case classes are more ambitiously/granularly typed, and this leads to some weakness [0]). Right now they're a little broken, though, since recursive enums lead to compiler bugs (here's are a few of my attempts to fight this: [1], [2]).

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25330359/what-are-the-pro...

[1] http://tel.github.io/2014/07/30/immutable_enumeration_in_swi...

[2] http://tel.github.io/2014/07/27/calkin-wilf-in-swift/
Like Gollum? https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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I definitely enjoy some quiet time now and again - however I'm working from home at the moment and do enjoy the sounds of kids playing outside, they're laughing and shouting at each other. I can hear the odd airplane and helicopter as well. The volume is determined greatly by whether the windows are open or not but I tend to leave them open as the fresh air seems to make the apartment more sanitary.

At night sometimes there are parties and loud music is played - it doesn't bother me as I don't find it that difficult to sleep. Not really a huge amount of traffic in the apartment complex I live in as it's quite far down the docklands in Dublin, Ireland. I reckon when I'm older (50+) I might be less attracted to the hustle and bustle of city living.
> Aw, but what about utterly fast to develop in, utterly awesome at concurrency, utterly easy for ruby/python/dynamic-language devs to pick up and gain huge performance boosts, utterly easy to get in to the ecosystem, and utterly simple to use?

I've been working in Go for the last three months and I've come to see most of these as false. Concurrency and improved performance are arguable, but simplicity of use and ease coming from a dynamic background have not been my experience. I feel like I'm writing in Pascal again. Code that would be trivial for me to parameterize and isolate into a function in a dynamic language (or heck, in Java) becomes an exercise in frustration, usually ending in copy-paste. The official stance of the language appears to be PRY (Please Repeat Yourself) rather than DRY, boilerplate is on the order of writing Java.

And as far as performance/concurrency go, it's not particularly competitive with other languages that've made focused efforts on either/both.

I'll say that I've found the built-in package management nice (cross my fingers, haven't hit any of the rumored version conflict issues yet), but I can't think of much else nice to say.
Really cool. May try to make something like this for jCommander.
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I am guilty of trying to teach myself many things, with varying degrees of success. I'd also say that I have divergent ideas (and theories) and that you're right on about that. In fact, if I had to point to a single best reason for preferring silence, it's this.
I happen to agree with you; just pointing out what I thought OP meant.
Switching is hard, especially if you're coming from Vim and don't have any pre-existing familiarity with Lisp. I know nothing about Haskell and barely more than that about Vim, but I do know quite a fair bit about Emacs and Lisp, and I would be interested in an opportunity to work with someone who's trying to switch; between someone who knows what Haskell and its associated ecosystem should be doing, and me who knows how to make Emacs do what's necessary for said ecosystem to behave itself properly, I expect we could end up with a pretty smooth process for Haskellers interested in making the jump to Emacs.

(Oh, and parenthetically, I would mention that rebinding your Caps Lock key to an additional Control key helps a lot with the pinky situation. Sure, you still work that finger harder than you do with a modal editor, but you no longer have to cramp your hand to do so, and after a little while getting used to it -- I advise disabling the "real" Control key, or rebinding it to do nothing but emit a nasty noise -- you no longer think about it at all.)
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In my experiences playing with Swift it has roughly two design goals—make a modern feeling ObjC and jam it into ML/Haskell ADTs. Almost every moment of using the language feels like a tug-of-war between those two sides.

I'm personally hugely excited about this in the same way I was hugely excited about this feeling in Scala. I don't think FP and OO ought to stay on their own side of the fence—I think they're mutually useful.

But I think the OO in Swift goes way too far in order to have ObjC compatibility (perhaps).

I think that perhaps the biggest challenge that Swift falls the furthest on is managing combining immutable and mutable code. `let` and `var` are very thin veneers and it's easy to have things "change underneath you" even while writing a lot of let-like code.

I think this is mainly driven by the highly mutability-dependent ObjC bindings Swift must support in order to be useful to Apple. I also think it's a bit tragic.

My hope is that this being the early days for Swift its influence will drive more immutability through these APIs as they evolve.
I've found that these types of apps are a really good way to teach Markdown to non-programmer types at tech companies, ie: marketing, sales, etc.

Especially when they want to write things in MSWord that you have to end up getting into your application.
Susskind's is much shorter and goes into very little detail. It's really intended to give you a foundation for learning physics, while Feynmann's is meant to teach you lots of physics.
There's no need to restart Emacs for a trivial config change; you just M-x eval-buffer RET and go on about your business, and I've opened a pull request with a patch which updates the document to reflect that fact. (You do still want to restart after something like a major package update, because not every module author is good about making sure that his code can be initialized more than once per session, and the patch reflects that fact as well.)
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Clever.

However, it is not for any command line program. It works only for python programs that use argument parser. Though, one can write a python argument parser around a cli to make it work.
I built a rig with my son using a 65 inch Fresnel lens we harvested from an old rear projection TV. It could easily produce 2,000 degrees F under ideal conditions. Focal length was about three fee.

A 2x4 passed through the focal point would catch on fire pretty much instantly (as quickly as one could count to one).

We successfully fried an egg (more like instantly scorched an egg) by bouncing the beam pre-focal point off a high quality front surface mirror (also harvested from the TV) and focused it onto the bottom of a cast iron skillet.

Anyhow, the realization was that this thing was incredibly inconvenient and also dangerous to use. We built it into an articulated wooden frame with the explicit idea of being able to track the sun. Power output peaked and dropped off very quickly and was near useless during low-horizon times. You had to be super aware of where the focal point was at all times or risk a very serious accident. This is an obvious point but you don't fully comprehend how serious a point this is until you start setting wood on fire instantly. Even putting the thing away for the day we had to be sure to rotate it 90 degrees so that the sun hit the edge of the lens. Even then, we threw a black cloth over it just to make sure. This thing could set your house on fire in a fraction of a second.

We ended up destroying it after playing with it for a month or so. Just too dangerous to be around and pretty much useless for anything practical. After a while you get tired of demonstrating how quickly you can set a piece of wood on fire.

A long intro to say the following.

Neat trick by this student and a fantastic learning experience I am sure. Kudo's should be given. Kids learn tons of stuff doing off the wall scientific experiments like this one. In practical terms though, well, it isn't practical at all. But, who cares, this is about learning and on that point it is absolutely brilliant.

I remember seeing an article many years ago about using a folded-up t-shirt as a first-pass filter and then simple clear two liter plastic bottles left under the sun for 24 hours to make water safe to drink. People would fill these bottles with t-shirt-filtered water and either place them on a table outside or on the roof for a day. They'd rotate sets of plastic bottles for a continuous supply of safe drinking water. I couldn't think of anything simpler, cheaper or more effective.

Here's on version of that:

http://www.sodis.ch/methode/anwendung/index_EN
The volume knob on the rack based system shouldn't require a screwdriver though.
Ask HN: Are there any Swift compilers for JVM?
Swift- the new programming language from Apple shares a lot with Groovy, a JVM language.

Are there any ongoing work to use Swift to write code that run in a JVM?
Very cool!
Does anything similar exist for Android ?
I would love to use some bash scripts but I don't find the terminal editors I tried practical.
I live in a large Swedish city, and as a side-effect of my apartment being well-isolated from the cold during winter, it is also very silent. I do enjoy having access to near complete silence, to the point that I have avoided mechanical clocks and computer hardware that makes any significant noise. That said, I often play music or open the doors to my balconies as I find that my hearing wants to be stimulated while I work.

As it was brought up in another post, I am also an introvert and find myself being overloaded with impressions occasionally. Being able to retreat to a silent apartment is of great help with this.
Obviously Tokyo would be pretty low on anyone's list if they're seeking peace and quiet.

However, I think Japan, and some european countries with good high speed rail, can indeed offer viable "living close to nature" scenarios - you can be quite far away from the big cities but still be within an hour by train. I have actually been semi-seriously considering buying a place in Karuizawa - a beautiful small town in Nagano prefecture, yet you can be at tokyo station in 45 minutes. There's also some lovely, quiet small towns along the akita shinkansen line.

Best of both worlds! And internet is ubiquitous, fast and cheap.
Here in Switzerland it's usually pretty quiet, but Sunday is exceptional. No work is allowed - no cutting your grass, no washing your car, etc. The museums are open, and it's also a hiking day (Saturday too).
Really like the Q&A about delivery :)
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Yes. Calculus was basically invented to solve physics problems.
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I also work from home and I think that's why I'm not 100% crazy about all silence, all the time. As mentioned in one of my comments here, I get a lot of my noise needs while doing things in public that require minimal social interaction. And when I want a "normal" experience, I go out with someone from my small group of friends.

I agree with the age thing. You know how a young person can be an "old soul"? I'm probably not that but I do think I may have been born an old person. Being young-ish, I'm attracted to city-life exactly because it gives me that choice, between being at home in relative quiet and seeing lots of people out and about.
Where are you located/incorporated? Your pre-revenue income taxes (state/local/federal) will be zero, but you may have to pay franchise taxes or moral equivalents to them. In California that would be about $800 a year or so.

I don't have a recommendation for an accountant, as the only ones I talk to did not need me to tell them to Charge More, but if I can give you two desiderata for finding them: a) you want someone who is at least technically aware enough to understand the broad strokes of the business you're in and work with e.g. SaaS that you use to communicate and b) you want someone who proactively identifies improvements to your business rather than someone who is just a really expensive UI to a Quickbooks instance.
because the hype begins to slow down
Then what languages or virtual machines uses reference counting and is performant in a muti-core context?

:-)
That, I didn't know. I like that there's a hiking day.

In Brazil, on holidays (and sometimes Sundays), cities tend to turn into ghost towns so it's a similar end result.
If it's not conscious, it isn't a distraction. Also, not all artists work in quiet rooms.

For example, Basquiat had the news on, music, movies, etc while painting and Stephen gave up on looking for a quiet room and so wrote Carrie with a desk in the living room and two small children to help take care of.

There is no connection between thought and silence except in folklore, really.
Cheap labour from kids too young to realise how much they're ripped off, and how badly the company is treating them. The bizarre glamour of making games attracts enough suckers to the big production-line, conveyor-belt studios that there's no need to pay well or treat the staff well.

People with experience tend to know what their time is worth, and tend to tell the boss to shove it when he's taking the piss, and can see past the glamour.
Apps generally use the Android WebView widget that will contain an out of date, vulnerable version of WebKit.

And when running Firefox, compromising the browser will yield an easy whole device compromise since the OS won't provide an extra layer of security.
Nah, I think it's really just a fetish for those looking for inspiration. Kind of like that whole myth about how drugs boost creativity.
You can have deterministic destruction in GC enabled languages.
Really pretty neat especially if your tool might be used by less technical folks. I can't count the number of times people in our engineering department have given non-technical people in our company a command line tool because its easier than adding a GUI, be it native or web. I think this will come in handy in those cases.
Lawmakers redefined the meaning of download to "download and permanently store". They don't see "download and only hold in application cache for a limited time" as download.