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I have always used the variant where, if I do not make up my mind before the coin lands, I do what the coin says.
yeah i wasn't too fond of the use of non-omakase stuff but i believe that is now resolved

"100% default stack. The 3rd edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial uses the default Rails choices for all relevant technologies, thereby substantially reducing the configuration necessary to get started. The excellent but syntactically heavy RSpec testing framework has been replaced with the default Rails testing stack (MiniTest), making for a much gentler introduction to testing than in previous editions."
Like any MVC platform, there are tools in place to handle the V. If those tools were not used properly, and hacked, then it could indeed result in poor HTML.
Maybe this type of issue would be ideal for a highly curated, online database. At the moment, for instance, I've done a lot of research into biomedical topics, and get pretty much all my info through online pdfs linked to from PubMed.

(Though, of course, most of those have been published in a reputable journal.)

Still, if the content was both checked for being reasonable and also classified well, then this type of online database could possibly provide a lot of value to researchers.
Common practice in elite military units for putting off proper sleep for long periods of time.
Their expectations will probably lag reality, no question. A wise developer would be saving a decent percentage of their paycheck to let them ride out a future downturn. 2008 was not an isolated event - such things happen throughout history (Dutch tulip bulbs in the 17th century, for example), so being prepared is a good idea.

I get that investment money pretty much is the economy in SV presently. But I definitely have major concerns that so much money is being paid for so little.
I'm curious how many of them are tapped? Or would need to be tapped to get total coverage?
This just strikes me as a colossal waste of energy & time. I understand that there may be good profit in doing it, but that doesn't shirk off any of my feelings.
> Sure, null results are meaningless for complex hypotheses ...

If that's true, if a hypothesis is vague enough to resist meaningful testing, then a positive result would be equally meaningless. But I see we are in agreement.
A "basic" concept is one that other concepts improve upon. The popular association with "easy" is not always true.
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This is exactly why you don't go 4 months with non-payment by a client. They stop paying? You stop working. Simple as that, and this whole issue could have been avoided.

On the flip side, as an employer, this is why you should hire slowly and fire quickly. And if you're nontechnical, you better be sure that your contractor knows what they're doing.
Fortunately, G+ has been losing lately.
http://gregorio.stanford.edu/holbrook/CableCosts.html says that cost of undersea cables in the '90s was in the $27k-$56k/km range, with the $27k a bit of an outlier.

Cost estimates for terrestrial cable are harder to come by, and seem depend a lot on things like rights of way (likely not relevant here as a cost), terrain (_very_ relevant), ability to get equipment to the right location, etc. But the numbers I'm seeing on various links from https://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+laying+fiber+optic+c... are in the $20k to $40k range per kilometer (I took the actual numbers I saw and divided by 1.6) about 5-10 years ago. Figure about 1.4x smaller if you want to adjust for inflation to compare to '90s numbers.

All of which is to say that "zillion" in this case is probably a number somewhere between 1 and 4. Give or take; these are all estimates, obviously. Also not clear to me which is faster to lay, by the way, which might matter in terms of deciding which one to do.

Not to mention that the undersea cable might be shorter, offsetting some of the per-km difference in cost, since it's a lot easier to go straight.
Ask HN: Is an ~$80 per month coworking space membership a worthwhile investment?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Dweet doesn't really solve the use case of "I want to connect my hobby app with existing third-party APIs without having to do manual integrations". It's great for home IoT setups, sure, but that's not the main use case I care about.
That's a strange way to put it.

Suppose I'm deadly allergic to all fish and fish-tasting foods. Now someone comes up with a way to cure that, so I can eat fish for the first time. And then they say, "actually, we'd like to see what happens if someone first tastes salmon several years after they first taste haddock", and they offer me a lot of money not to eat salmon for two years. Can I consent to that, even though I don't know what I'm giving up with salmon? What about if I started with no taste at all?

(N.B. This isn't meant to be a knock-down argument against your position. I disagree with your position, and this is an argument against it, but it's not my true rejection. My true rejection is along the lines of "you have no right to tell people what they can and can't agree to", but I don't care to get into that.)
First, I never wrote that "most" of the money is reinvested in the Valley. I wrote that "a lot of the money is invested back into the Valley." Need evidence? Take a look at any of the increasingly common million-dollar seed stage party rounds and who the investors are. It's not cattle ranchers from Texas.

As for the financial services industry ("Wall Street"), this doesn't exist in a separate bubble. Who led Uber's recent $1.2 billion round? Fidelity. Who else participated? Blackrock and Wellington Management.
An EMR that physicians like more than iPhones
They have also seen a 78% increase in stock price over the past year so maybe using Facebook shareholders as an example isn't the best way to make your point
Make everyone use C99 standard integers for various data types so that people can stop trying to "detect" what type to use in a horrible autotools script.
Revitalizing Abercrombie and Fitch: three things we would do
Someone: An app that sends messages through strangers' bodies
Your Cellphone Company Says Your Location Info Is Private. Think Again
Haha - I thought you might enjoy the end. Thanks for taking a look!
I'm still blown away that most of the banks I do business with send URLs in emails. I once tried to explain why this was a bad idea to a customer service rep. What a waste of time.
I think it's economical right now, but ceases to be economical the second new hardware comes out and the difficulty goes up. So they have to pay for this pretty quickly.
Would anyone really consider AppEngine successful? I hear so many support horror stories, only one poorly supported open source project to try to move off to without recoding to different APIs, and the price is ridiculous compared to other cloud providers...
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PLOS ONE explicitly accepts null results as long as they're methodologically sound.
I agree with you. I wrote a very simple HTTP server in C once to learn more about threading. The thing is, I want to become better with Go and it has a lot of stuff baked into the language. There is a seemingly infinite amount of other things I could write though.
What the accidental poster child for tech’s gender gap really wants
> versus the OP's solution (or the solution above)

Would that solution be "multiply by the number of children and divide by ten"? Let's see:

n n * 7 / 10
---------------
0 0
1 0
2 1
3 2
4 2
5 3
6 4
7 4
8 5
9 6

Not a very desirable distribution. But then, the OP could have established this fact before posting.

> ... you're calling people who are trying to point out the trade-off "morons", that's why you're getting downvoted.

No, I am being downvoted because I'm right. Being right is simply rude, but being right about something trivially proven is beyond the pale.
The Rise and Fall of Open GL ES
I do try and scan through Github every now and then but even then don't feel comfortable if I am still new to the language. But giving back to open source is always a good thing to try out.
This is good to hear. I'm glad to see RSpec removed. A better example site than a microblog would be an even better step in the right direction. Learning to program via building social website clones needs to stop. I've called out all the Developer Bootcamps that do that kind of teaching, too.
A lightweight code review tool that works with GitHub
So, erm, what does that buy us?

I'm just an engineer, so I'm not sure I see the utility in any of that--sorry to sound closed-minded, but am genuinely curious.
It's not "rigged" if no one can actually sell out at the inflated price.
Was thinking the same thing. Especially with financial charts, it saves a lot of time eyeballing and guessing. Sure, you can look at the data source for the raw values, but I'd rather just hover my mouse over the points.
How do they handle it when cables cross over each other and they need to do repair on the one on the bottom?
Maybe I should explain.

One cannot reasonably say that "what is a probability?" doesn't have a good answer without having read at least the first two chapters of "Probability Theory: the Logic of Science".

I don't want to enter a Frequentist/Bayesian debate, where I'm right and the Frequentists are insane. But the views presented on this book didn't really surprise or enlighten me¹. Instead, I was more like "of course, why the fuss?" Many of the claims in this book really did felt obvious.

"What is a probability?" does have a good answer. Anyone saying otherwise should probably look at it, and explain why it's not good. I personally don't expect strong counter-arguments. (And if one throws me the problem of priors again, I'll crush him under the sheer weight of the hidden priors we can find in Frequentist methods.)

[1] With one big exception: the consistency proofs. I didn't know we could derive Probability Theory from so few axioms.
This based on ksp knowledge, so take it with a grain of salt. Typically when you launch a constellation of satellites you want them to all have the same SMA so that they have the same period. Since this one is significantly off it's going to drift relative to the rest of the constellation and isn't likely to provide a useful signal.
Exactly. Customer satisfaction is the last thing on Keurig's mind right now. I think we all know how this will play out if they don't wise up.
Maybe I need to invest a little more time into it. I agree with you that the docking keyboard shortcuts are far less powerful in windows. In practice however, this limitation doesnt really become an issue for me. Maybe it is because I have tunnel vision but 2 programs per monitor with a quick means of switching things around hasnt left me wishing I could have 3,4+ programs per monitor
From the perspective of taking renminbi and converting it in to something that can be sold with dollars -- it doesn't need to be economical.
I must say, that argument is better than what I had expected anyone to come up with - but I'm still utterly unconvinced.

For example, it would pretty much follow from your argument that we would have to force affected people to undergo surgery, as they could not possibly give informed consent to staying blind.

You don't need first-hand experience with something in order to make an informed decision. Someone who has a haptic understanding of sharpness and an understanding of the finiteness of their life and of the general economical power of 10 m USD and possibly even an interest in philosophical questions surrounding perception [...] should very well be able to make an informed decision whether they think it's worth it for them.

People also don't really know what it's like to live on a space station until they've been there, and yet astronauts very well are able to consent to being brought up there. Or for that matter, we allow people to never have that experience instead of forcing them to become astronauts, even though they can't value the experience (supposedly).

Some decisions in life are difficult, but we absolutely do routinely allow people to make difficult decisions, and I think that's the right thing to do.
Move over Amazon, Google reveals it's own delivery drones
More inefficient than producing and maintaining paper currency? Than mining actual gold?

They really are just throwing tons of electricity and hardware at "nothing", but if this kind of activity helps replace the current inefficient systems of currency, then I'm all for it.
That's a great example, as well. Although it gets even worse when you realize what kind of government they're under. I mean, it's almost a dictatorship. It's all just a big pitty over another.
Iran’s Great, Dying Salt Lake
Why do you say Fed conspiracy theories when all he's saying is that the Fed can't keep up the zero-interest charade forever?
Intel Core i7-5690X “Haswell-E” reviewed in depth
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Being able to trademark common phrases and then sue people for using them seems to me like a ridiculous thing to try and do, so the system seems to be working here. I certainly can't see this as a problem of small businesses not being able to protect their IP. It looks more like someone trying to adapt the patent troll business model to trademarks.
That would probably require almost as much fuel as sending a new one and obviously the ISS doesn't have that fuel on board.
anyone have any idea what happens to user experience when one of these guys breaks? is it a big deal? what about islands who are surviving off of one cable connection?
> The discovery of supersymmetric particles would also be extremely shocking to me, since my institution is heavily involved in CERN LHC experiments, and I haven't heard any hints of a discovery yet.

Why does an absence of evidence imply that the arrival of evidence would be shocking? They're doing the experiment because they already believe things are this way and they're trying to get evidence to confirm it. If they disconfirmed it, that'd be surprising.
In the long run it doesn't make much sense at all. [0]

[0]http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/how-many-bitcoins-does-...
Already been talked about on HN. Estimated around $190K profit per month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163934
>Would that solution be "multiply by the number of children and divide by ten"

No; his/her solution is: If 0-9 couldn't be divided evenly among the kids present, leftover digits would result in a re-roll, exactly as I said above.

> No, I am being downvoted because I'm right

Are you? This is math we're talking about, right and wrong are very precisely defined. For the sake of discussion, can you repeat the question you claim to have the right/correct solution to, and your answer?
This has been flooding the news in the Boston/Mass area for a while. The fact that the employees (both ground level and managers) had this level of organization and persistence without having a union speaks volumes about both the people that work there and how much Arthur T. is respected.
Wait, I saw this movie called "Gravity" where the heroine used a fire extinguisher to propel herself through space and went all over the place. It was easy. Maybe the ISS folks should try that to get the the satellites! ;-)
This isn't even a software mistake. This is just a business risk error. The analogy I would apply is: If you've contracted a house to be built, you should make sure professional inspectors sign off on each critical stage before the next one proceeds, so you don't end up with a good house on top of a bad foundation.
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I did a bit of amateur sleuthing(googling) out of curiosity. First, let's lay out the hard facts:

1. The work-for-hire occurred at least two years ago. This would peg the time frame at roughly early-mid 2012.

2. Pigeonly started out as Fotopigeon, the photo sending portion of the company. Telepigeon was added at a much later date.

3. Pigeonly applied to the YCombinator Summer 2012 batch, but was rejected [1].

4. Pigeonly entered the NewMe Accelerator as part of their Spring 2013 batch[2]. The equity stake that NewMe took was 4%[3]. Crunchbase lists the intial investment date at October 2012[7]

5. Pigeonly also received a $20000 investment in December 2012 from FIU AVCC as well as $10000 in services from New Frontier Nomads to build out a MVP[4].

6. Frederick Hutson is placed in a work-release program in September 2011 and is released in March 2012[5].

7. Hutson's budget prior to December 2012 was a minimum of $2500[5].

8. From the article: "From the halfway house, he did not have any money, so he persuaded the photo company to do some coding for free." [5]

9. The developer claims Pigeonly fell behind on payments[6].

Now for the assumptions/conclusions:

A. From #2 and #5 we can conclude that that the codebase in question is not in use today.

B. Prior to October 2012, based upon #3, #4, #6 and #7, we can assume that the total amount of funding Pigeonly had was not substantially more than $X000.

C. From #8, interpreting the identity of "the photo company" is impossible, but if we assume that it is the developer, then D follows.

D. From #8, initial coding occurs while Hutson is in the work-release program ("halfway house"), pegging the date at some time between September 2011 and March 2012 (from #6)

E. From B and D, it seems that #9 is plausible, if not probable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jparkside
[2] http://www.newmeaccelerator.com/2013/02/04/spring-2013-start...
[3] http://www.f6s.com/profile/38508
[4] http://avcc2012.fiu.edu/ (second image on the carousel)
[5] http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/idea-mans-latest-...
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227225
[7] http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pigeonly
I'm not sure why you're grouping entanglement in with the multiverse.

One of those is a theoretical idea for reducing the Solomonoff complexity of the universe with no clear experimental implications. The other is an integral component of how we predicted and explain experimentally confirmed phenomena like violations of Bell's inequalities, the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester, quantum cryptography, and quantum teleportation.
> But I definitely have major concerns that so much money is being paid for so little.

Not enough people think about this. The ease with which multi-million dollar valuations are obtained in the Valley is incredible. Heck, Y Combinator, which offers a six figure valuation to entrepreneurs, many of whom have no real-world experience and nothing more than an idea, is considered a "bad deal" by many.

Outside of the Valley, the market is more like Shark Tank, where you'll struggle to get anywhere close to a million-dollar valuation without real traction (read: revenue and profit).

Silicon Valley's easy money supports a lot of high-paying jobs. If entrepreneurs in the Valley didn't have the ability to raise six and seven figures of capital so easily, and without giving up 100% of their businesses, there would be a lot fewer developers with a year or two of Ruby on Rails experience making $120,000/year.
Can you explain how they went about just pulling the term sheet even after you guys signed it? Sort of in a nebulous situation with our own investors right now and would appreciate chatting with someone with a similar experience.

You could also email me at me@dchuk.com if you'd prefer.
Scientists found the origins of the Ebola outbreak
This reminds me of a quote by Richard Feynman:

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds
Daniel Abadi's PACELC addresses exactly this: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/abadi-pacelc.pdf

By separating the behavior under failure (Consistency or Availability) and the behavior without failures (Consistency or Latency), PACELC clearly communicates that these are different tradeoffs.
Please don't use car analogy with someone who is in auto technology sector.

Two years without any auditing is a mistake of the founder, if your car is in the shop for two years for massive amount of work you will go there to check it out. And you better bring a friend who knows about cars if you don't have a clue.

I will give you a better analogy, you go to a random mechanic leave the car there for two years without checking on it. You have no clue about the problem or the car.

Then you finally get the car out and decide to bring it to another mechanic. What will happen in 99% of the cases is the mechanic will talk shit about the previous shop and find every little thing that's not 'up to code'. The coolant hoses (that were not part of the original job) are old now after sitting for two years. Oops.

You still have no clue about anything. So you hire your own mechanic who you think has a clue (but you can't gauge that) to do the 'fixes' and he tells you 'it's great now!'. Bullshit.

This is common in tons of other industries. With programming it's harder to tell what 'shit code' is. Especially when you have 2 year timeline working with a framework that changed significantly within that timeline.

Furthermore, you are missing my point. He does not have A level team to rewrite software. Let's not pretend the magical rewrite is a super car here, not with his team.

> He shouldn't have to. When someone says they can write you some code for money, they should be able sort everything out for you.

Again, missing the point. How do you know everybody else is not feeing him bullshit? If you don't know something, don't wait two years to get third party audit on a TWO YEAR OLD code.

Overall, I don't think you know what you are talking about either. You might think you do just like the founder but you are not fit to run a technology company.
Is Everyone a Little Bit Racist?
I am not saying it is the case, but awareness does not imply memorization (which, if you think about it, is terrifying). See, for example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683150/
Facebook has revenue, so it's sort of immaterial to the Snapchat discussion... at least in the short term.

Yet in the long term I'm not so sure. Facebook's revenue is built on doing things that cannibalize the value of their platform-- annoying ads, creepy surveillance, even creeper "experiments" on their users, etc. That's making them decidedly uncool. Network effects are holding their popularity high for now, but while network effects are powerful they are not unstoppable. Things can "tilt" at any time.

I think that's why Facebook is acquiring things like Oculus. If they're to become the next Yahoo they want to make sure they've invested in some other properties. That of course is why there's still a Yahoo-- the core Yahoo brand is almost worthless.
> Do you disagree with any of the following statements, and if yes, where and why?

Okay. I usually expect people to locate the errors in their own thinking, but in this case, I'll make an exception. Here's one of the suggestions: "multiply the last digit by the number of children and divide by ten". Let's see how this works out:

n n * 7 / 10
----------------
0 0
1 0
2 1
3 2
4 2
5 3
6 4
7 4
8 5
9 6

The OP could have tested his suggestion before posting. I certainly would have.

I'm going to avoid your straw men, with this exception:

> you argue that the non-uniformness of your solution is not relevant in practice

I never said that. I said that the error could be minimized. But consider my test of the the alternative listed above. The error inherent with a relatively small number of children and a relatively large original number, say, 0 - 59, is a smaller error than the proposed alternative.
Try unwandering it? Count from 1 upwards and restart every time your mind wanders off the counting.
> You don't want to modulo. You want to multiply the last digit by the number of children and divide by ten.

Let's see how this turns out:

n n * 7 / 10
--------------
0 0
1 0
2 1
3 2
4 2
5 3
6 4
7 4
8 5
9 6

It's the same for most other numbers of children. Thanks for playing, no cigar.
"Turn-by-turn directions"

One of the reasons Im guessing it doesnt have this is because the Google Maps API prohibits building turn-by-turn applications quite directly. If only they trusted OSM, they could have this up and running pretty quickly.