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What minecraft needs is a way to speed up the game. There have been quite a few people who have made calculators and "electronic" components, which would be a lot more cooler if they could work faster.
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Here's my experience.

I was on FounderDating for at least a couple months last year actively looking. (I am speaking from a tech cofounder perspective.) During that time, a few emails were exchanged with a few prospects and a couple Skype chats were made too. But nothing came about from it.

Then instead of waiting any longer I decided to go ahead myself and just keep an eye out as I go. Soon afterward I serendipitously found another startup doing something similar to what I was trying. I contacted them just to exchange ideas. Turns out they were looking for a CTO. So here I am now.

My takeaway is that these are not magic bullets. They are one of many available channels in a co-founder search. The only thing that works is that you need to be "out there" looking. Both on- and offline.
Definitely would use this
Yes, I could see value in this
I don't care one way or the other
No, probably would not use this
Absolutely Not - Don't waste your time
Or maybe part of it is an intentional implementation? If HN is interested in monetization (or at least, boosting YC-affiliated companies), maybe the change is to allow job ads at the top position...and this change in code broke the linear decay model.

OT: I don't see why job ads shouldn't be at the top...in fact, I'd almost prefer that, in the way that Reddit anchors ads to the top...so that user who don't care can quickly get used to the top item being a job ad...as opposed to having to filter out job ad vs. posting in the rest of the list.

OTOH, that would make it difficult to figure out how to let job ads slide off of the page via linear decay, if the policy was to affix job ads at the top and show them nowhere else (aside from the jobs link).
The point is their unusual ranking at the top, as users can't vote on these links.
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If one of these random cars gets into an accident and you're hurt, who pays for your medical care?
The link to `Thierry Nicola's post about his use of React` is broken FYI
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It's obviously not the only rule. "What people find interesting" is like a minimum height requirement, not an "anything goes" rule, or else we would be 100% cats.

Many communities get taken down by meta-discussion. HN has been very hostile to it in the past, with some good reason, but also to detriment, as the readers and the moderators lose empathy for each other. 'dang comments are doing well to lessen that divide.

(FWIW, I think this topic is a good discussion. I didn't upvote but I'm very parsimonious with my story upvotes since I don't have a downvote button.)
A variety of websites can do it. See http://www.seaplus.com/mainmenu.php and/or search "freighter travel".

It costs more than you might think, partly because meals are included.
This popped up recently and seems to be updated regularly: https://gorails.com/
Comcast training materials require a "sell" phase, even in support calls
Ah, don't worry about that, working 18 hours a day you'll hardly remember the commute!
OK, I forgot about this. Will keep it in mind next time. However, in my defense, meta posts are a regular occurrence on HN, one every few weeks or so.
You missed Think OS. Great intro to systems, definitely recommended for weekend reading!

Think OS: http://greenteapress.com/thinkos/
Is Mailbox (for Mac) the last email client you ever need?
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To be honest, every buyer should push you on cost, otherwise they aren't doing a good job of representing their company. I push you on cost, you give me a break, my company makes more money. No harm in trying either, since most sellers aren't going to walk away from a deal just because you said it was too expensive.

It doesn't necessarily mean anything about whether your pricing is correct.
What makes you think I didn't read it?

That was exactly my point in answering it: the fact that there is another, already existing, way to effect the same thing, doesn't negate the fact that police often demands whatever they can get away with, even if its superfluous.

It's just another capability to block phones that they can have, and if they can have it without needing to even ask a telco to do it for them, even the better.
This is my reqctioe to every Mathematica blog post.

They nerd to write posts that walk through how a beginner could learn to do this stuff without a 15-year career at Mathematica, or it's all sizzle and no steak.
Except that 'spelling' is a bounded problem. There aren't going to be more words in the dictionary, at least not orders more, any time soon. 'Scaling as the word list grows' is meaningless. So the only definition of 'faster' that matters is the one they used.
Though it appears to be booming, virtually every country these days does similar things to the NSA and the US, usually less effectively but possibly less snowdened so you can't tell; it's also possible that some countries might simply pass everything on to the US as well. Basically you are picking between varying and possibly unknown evils.
It's a bug. We'll fix it.

Edit: Fixed. Sorry! This was a side-effect of a change I made foolishly late last night. I forgot that jobs
aren't ranked the way stories are, so the code that normally
pushes them down was temporarily disabled. There wasn't any (intended) change to how job posts work.
The California state legislature is bound to respecting the Bill Of Rights. This is well-established under the 14th Amendment.
Yeah I don't think that's going to happen...mainly because that would greatly reduce the value to the ad-purchaser...they're interested in hiring someone, not igniting one of the various archetypical debates about startup culture.

And also, it would greatly increase the burden on HN moderators, and in such a way that it would be a lose-lose situation when it comes to credibility. If you allow comments, you allow the possibility of not just well-intentioned debate, but trolling (thanks to HN's generous account-creation policy)...which means, heavy-handed moderation at certain points. Which would you prefer: across-the-board, default policy of not allowing direct comments...or HN mods constantly having to justify the removal/downmodding of trollish comments against endless conflict-of-interest accusations?
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Native speakers of English will say "one point one mile from XXX", so I'm not sure a [sic] is warranted there. It's weird and inconsistent, but welcome to English.

You can Caltrain from Santa Clara or something and ride your bike the remaining 1.1 mile if you feel like it. Doesn't sound too terrible, as bay area commutes go.

(You know the world is fucked up when an apartment in Manhattan is cheaper than an apartment in Mountain View though! Though Mountain View does have nicer weather. And mountains to view, if you have a telescope.)
looks pretty cool. let's see how the market responds. just to mention: I'm not quite a fan of their new commercials. hope they change that.
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I see things like this talked about as an illustration of harassment, but I also wonder, do the men who do this get away with it from time to time? We only find out about it when someone gets caught or exposed.
Surely the only answer possible to this is we don't know because we've not been everywhere?
My biggest gripe about Rails are the model validations and DB adapters.

As someone coming from Django, I hate that I have to explicitly define db related validations and catch exceptions thrown by postgres instead of it just being handled by AR with the DB adapter based on the database constraints.

I love how Django handles that and I hope this finds its way into Rails one day.
I know PHP-bashing isn't particularly creative nor nice, but I wasn't surprised when I saw the word-analysis at the end there :)

That said, I don't think the findings for C was shocking either.

You're not going to be writing kernel-modules in Clojure. It's going to be some sort of C. And the chances of it involving hardware (performant code or not) is significantly higher than other non-systems languages.
I've read arguments that CISC now has a speed advantage because its denser instruction encoding is more friendly on the cache. If true, then ARM's RISC instruction set would hold it back from ever competing with x86 on speed.
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looks like users of PHP are most offensive when given to choice of words to hate the language and users of mathematica are least offensive ! Funny but not unexpected

clojure users seem very happy with what they use!

On the mutual mentions java users have near zero mention of haskell?
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yes thats right, fixed now!
Yes, things like sum() can work on partitions. :)

"Window functions" refer to something a little different... specifically to functions like row_number() and rank() that refer to the position/ordering of rows inside a partition.
Opener was an example of a potentially ambiguous word. That may be why the superlative -er is not allowed. The noun-forming -er prevails over the adjective-forming -er.
That all depends on what you consider a significant speed up. For small values of N constant factors will usually dominate. In this case, they mention that lookup time is independent of dictionary size, so the "N" in question is actually a combination of the word size and the edit distance, both relatively small quantities.
I like to think of it as the speed of information. The quickest any information can move from point A to point B is c. (Even if those points are themselves moving.)

The universe can expand faster than c because there is not actually any information moving between the center and the perimeter.
Wow, I was searching for exactly this kind of framework to build a little Pomodoro clock to run in a Tmux window. Thanks so much for this!
This is really cool. I wonder how the "buzzfactor" of Haskell would measure up against Idris.
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I sent patches in for curl about 10 years ago to switch from select to poll to get around the 1024 FD limit (which was a problem for multi-threaded servers that handled many sockets).
Apologies, I thought you were continuing the original discussion of how Airplane Mode could provide a loophole.

Anyway, the system doesn't have to be perfect. If you significantly raise the barrier to turning stolen phones into cash, you'll significantly reduce the rate of theft.
Don't beat yourself up over it. It's fixed now. You done good.
Arm licensing fees are about 1% - 2%, so these new chips would be less than $0.98?
A romance of a single dimension: linear git history in practice
A peeve, but also a positive: A job ad which does not thoroughly think out the initial questions a potential applicant may have is cut in half (arbitrary) by any potential applicant. Likewise a multitude of other simple factors.

Good job descriptions are... descriptive, and one that isn't is one easily dismissed.

Take away: If it if full of fuzz, avoid it, or ask huge amounts of questions.
I've also paid for it, recently.
Basically you're suggesting a six-monthly release cycle is used (like Ubuntu). Maybe not all that many changes, but a shiny new release to talk about every 6 months.
I was having a similar discussion with a friend of mine.

When I was a teenager, I wrote small C projects, then I discovered the world of OS development and set myself to write a minimal operating system from scratch. It was an amazing experience, with a lot of head-scratching, hours spent debugging weird hardware issues, reading other people's code and just churning out badly engineered (but working) code.

Now, 10 years after, after playing with Haskell, OCaml, Scheme, learning about best practices, variants, typeclasses, static vs dynamic typing and data structures, every time I set myself to write something more than 100 lines I just get stuck: which language is best for the job? How should I refactor this to be more clear and concise?

My programming life definitely got worse (as a C/Python programmer) after I discovered variants and the Option/Either monads.

As I said to him, ignorance is bliss.
I also spent 3 days with Sandi Metz courtesy of my company, and it sounds like we went through the same training course.

I was underwhelmed by the course. Sandi Metz is a big name in the Ruby community. I expected her to show us some cool stuff -- stuff I didn't know you could do in Ruby. Generating "99 Bottles of Beer" doesn't fit that description.

One thing that threw me off was that during the class, she had an assistant with her whom she would sometimes ask for syntax help. Maybe I'm being too critical, but this gave me a bad feeling. Imagine sitting in calculus class, and your professor asks his teaching assistant how to do long division. Kind of like that.
Why are no one using JSP, by the way? Isn't it a better, more secure direct competitor to PHP?
Personally, I'm totally ok with more prominent job postings from affiliated startups. As long as there aren't, say, more than 3 posts at a time I'm fine with them sitting at the top of the front page.
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There was a question: Is Webix worth buying?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7352142
I should say that I've used webix in one of the projects and found it really fast and handy. I could build cool interfaces in several lines of code. Moreover, is support lots of events.
I think that horse has pretty much sailed from the barn ever since Paul Graham, founder of YC, announced he was going to create Hacker News, and put it as a subdomain of "ycombinator.com"
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Unlikely to be alive
lyft is dirtier
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I've written an explanation here: https://medium.com/@dengorbachev/6a03fd709168

What do you think about the idea in general?

Also, what's the best place to discuss such ideas?
The Trouble with Statistical Story Telling
The people saying "the price is too high" are not customers. They are prospects.

Pricing is one tool for qualifying prospects. If the product does not really solve the customer's problems then the price is almost always too high because the product is not intended for them.

Unfortunately, finding and qualifying leads is hard work and lowering the price and wishfully thinking that this will lead to a satisfied customer is easier, at least psychologically and in the moment.

The serious fisher keeps some fish and throw others back. Indeed they don't try to set the hook for the wrong nibble.
To be fair, you could use emacs to order coffee.

Or any other programmable text editor, Atom, Sublime to name two
good article, thanks. What are the prices usually like on these wholesale markets, can you give some examples to get a sense of what the retail margins could be like?

Then shipping - containers? Costs? I have a feeling a lot of Chinese ebay retailers (the ones who ship from the UK, probably have a warehouse here) don't pay import duty/taxes - how do they get around it?
For people who've switched from Sublime to Atom, what are some of the things you miss/prefer from Sublime, and vice versa?
It seems to me like there would be a strong merit to this TLD, with all of the APIs being published today.
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I'm not sure if it's in the cards or whatever, but I'd love a better way of dealing with the preferences. I find opening up the "default preferences" and "user preferences" separately and copy-pasting or whatever to be pretty inconvenient. I don't mind that it's JSON, but it could easily be improved (maybe something where the two files are merged and when you modify preferences it uses context-specific "text completion" to show available options, with the default highlighted).
This reminds me of a little theory in microbiology, that is that every species exists in every place. For example, if you were to build an alkaline lake in the middle of nowhere (where no alkaline lakes exists), it wouldn't take long before specific species of bacteria would colonize that lake.
SAAS Pricing discussion that isn't around an obscene price point appears to come down to two issues:

- The sense that someone wants a deal

- Perceived fairness of the pricing

If you want to hold firm on your pricing, I'd try to cut a functionality deal (e.g. "we'll allow X more of Y at this cost") to get reciprocity and fulfill the "get a deal" side of things, and then demonstrate the fairness in positive terms (e.g. "We provide 24 hour support and constant monitoring of your swizzle." rather than "This is a niche product, so we have to charge a lot or we'll go out of business.")

Keep the conversations short and to the point ("if you are explaining, you are losing") and don't be afraid to cut bad customers loose. If they haggle around price too much they are not likely to be a good customer and will probably cost a lot in support with a high probability of canceling anyway.

Good luck.
also, here in denver, most uber drivers are also lyft drivers. i.e. drivers keep both apps running to increase their chances of getting a request.
I think the thing I find most objectionable about Uber's behaviour is that they're already winning anyway. They don't even need to do this kind of thing, and punching down never looks pretty.
Valuations are about the best possible future. In that future , nobody uses a car but uses UBER to order a personal or a shared car(automated or manual). 17 Billion is nothing for that.
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It is actually my trackpad not the iPad that uses two finger scroll. I assumed they were the same, and I guess I don't really notice how I scroll on the iPad. I am sure a two-finger scroll will work, but it is not the native recommendation like I though.

The native iOS answer is actually if the finger is static for a certain time interval then it is a click, but if it begins moving immediately then it is a scroll (swipe).
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A great book which cleared a lot of my concepts about OS back in school. Re-read is due!
Not this native speaker of English. That's just weird. Its '1.1 miles', '2 and a half gallons' and '0.5 seconds' thank you.
A great guy. More interesting readings on his website (research papers, etc.:
http://allendowney.com/
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Using async to avoid race conditions due to multiple threads was great 15-20 years ago when single CPU machines ruled, but now you need multiple threads or processes for concurrency. Using multiple processes is usually not an option due to lack of any shared state (and if you're trying to share state across processes you should probably just use threads).
While it is true that the threat from governments and criminals is nearly universal to some extent, you are missing the fact that the US has orders of magnitude more spying capabilities than other countries. A limited budget limits capabilities in ways that don't scale linearly. Some countries are far below the threshold of implementing any of the pervasive monitoring and analysis programs the NSA has got.
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A Life acceleration algorithm would help with that, but each cell would still require 4Tb of storage (though that storage could be shared by all cells, II think).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
>looks like users of PHP are most offensive when given to choice of words to hate the language (...)

PHP offers a wealth of creative possibilities in that regard which other languages seem to lack ;)
There is also "But How Do It Know?" by J Clark Scott. It's good for beginners.

http://www.amazon.com/But-How-Know-Principles-Computers/dp/0...
x86 doesn’t really have a dense instruction encoding. The old un-prefixed scalar instructions are dense, but they do much less work per instruction than SSE or AVX instructions, which have two or three byte prefixes (four with AVX-512). arm64 instructions are all four bytes, for comparison.

The upshot is that simple scalar code tends to be somewhat more compact on x86, and tuned vector code (likely to be found in perf-critical routines that are CPU-bound) tends to be somewhat more compact on arm.

More to the point, loop buffers and µop caches on the last couple generations of processors make encoding density mostly irrelevant to performance (though occasional pathological examples do still exist).
Having dealt with many of the dozens of hybrid platforms, I can assure you that most are slow, poorly integrated, and end up with hard-to-solve UX bugs in any complex application. This is because most of them are based upon producing Javascript and HTML5 with only a few native features.

I know that Apple doesn't want Android versions of their own applications, but there is no excuse why we have to have a discussion about Android first or Apple first for startups if the hybrid solutions were actually sufficient. In practice, there is always a tradeoff.

Also, Apple likes to write SDK features which break their security model that only they may use in their own apps.
>Surprised by the hate

What hate? You seem to take this pretty personally. For what it's worth, the post you're replying to was a reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian. Your post contained interesting information though, so I'm sort of glad you missed the joke.
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Inert gas, if you can get it. I'm not sure about the legalities of Halon these days, but ordinary CO2 would work, and in compressed cylinders you can store quite a lot of it in a small space. Given that we're assuming there's burning plastic you'd hope any firefighters are using respirators already, so just flood the area with CO2, deprive the fire of oxygen and there you go. CO2 is heavier than air so would naturally fill the ship, though whether you could avoid getting oxygen to the other levels I don't know. Maybe put a big tarp over the top of the ship? :P.