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This is anything but minimalist.

Why do I need a slower plugin manager that requires editing .vimrc to enable/disable plugins, when a couple of simple shell commands is faster and less error prone?

vimenable() { mv $VIM_DISABLED/$1 $VIM_BUNDLE }
vimdisable() { mv $VIM_BUNDLE/$1 $VIM_DISABLED }
vimupdate() { for p in $VIM_BUNDLE/*; do (cd $p; git pull); done }

The dependent plugin support is interesting but until all the plugins include a standard dependency spec, I have to do it manually anyway.
Oh maybe we this isn't clear enough in the post, but we shut down our photo-sharing-tool (didn't work out - no retention). The "customer research" tool was only build for our photo-sharing-tool to find photographers.
Also of interest is that birds have little oil droplets, often colored, as part of their visual set up. There are five different known types of color-filtering oil droplets (a sixth that is transparent) but it doesn't appear every bird has all of them.

I'm no bird sight expert but it's suggested here [0] that a particular bird may have 8 effective color receptors (5 cones, 3 cone-droplet pairs) for a huge number of colors humans can't see. Diagrams of the receptors themselves can be found at the wiki [1].

[0] - http://watchingtheworldwakeup.blogspot.com/2008/11/mountain-...
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_vision#Light_perception
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The thing is, the woman doesn't seem to perceive new colors that other people do not; the colors others don't see are being aliased to familiar colors like "pink", and "red". (When she says "do you see that pink", is it a pink that we could see elsewhere? Or some color that we have no concept of, but which she relates to pinkness.)

I'd be curious if she still sees the same thing in a digital image of the scene, or does the RGB system destroy it.
Sure, that might happen.
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That's precisely why we should be bigger advocates of public transit than we are.
Thank you for saying this, it's exactly what I've been thinking since the start.
Reading the new list of Y-Combinator “Requests for Startups”, the Financial Services request really resonated with me.

Probably the best investing advice for people is really straightforward; you need to start saving now in order to reap the benefits when you retire.

A set of simple questions, such as your age, whether or not you are contributing to a 401k, and your net worth would probably get you 90% of the way there; from that information alone, most investing advice would follow based of basic mortality statistics, historical stock market performance, and the average retirement age.

The hard part is to start putting money away; that is, to start saving a significant portion of your savings and investing them in the market.

One way to do that might be to make it a one-time decision. What if there was a site where in order to sign-up you were required to setup direct deposit to special investing account? The investing account would, in turn, take a percentage of your salary, and invest it in age-appropriate index funds. The remainder would be re-deposited into a person’s local checking account. That way, it would feel like you only had the net amount that ends up in your checking account, and the invested amount would be removed before you had a chance to contemplate spending it.

A setup like this is something that someone could easily do for themselves using a discount broker, but a site that would more or less make it a one-time decision could be really helpful, because it would remove much of anxiety and education that a person typically has to go through to get this right.
Surely a country capable of a one child policy must be capable of a no ivory policy?
I was just answering the grand-parent question.

Could you link the comparison ? Can't find it with simple searches.

About the "Go is boring" thing, I also tend to think of Go as a boring language... but no more than C or Java. I feel it more like a "new but not so much" effect which I found it disappointing. By no mean it imply that's not a practical and useful language. In the end, the project and the code-base count more than the language itself.
Software product development and the building block analogy
> in the Long Island area

Long Island City is right across the river from Manhattan. It's technically on the Island, but for most people Long Island = Suffolk and Nassau, not Brooklyn and Queens.
I think that Marx had more of an impact. Or the Hite Report, or even the Kinsey Report.
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Cars affect other people: car accidents are a significant cause of death and injury; pollution from cars is a significant cause of death and injury.

Should cars be banned?
While this was once a problem, your information is like 6 months out of date. The mods have been pretty good at balancing "informative" and "close to the original submission". pg even said that the way the rules were being interpreted weren't the way they were originally intended.
I spent a year in a relationship between SF and LA, which meant a lot of driving up and down the state. I almost always had one or two people sharing the ride with me who I found on Craigslist. Given that at least some of these people could have driven themselves but didn't feel like it and just wanted to split gas money, why in the world is this illegal??
A classic psychology study -- it discovers traits that successful, mentally healthy people have in common, but without being able to explain why those traits might be important, or uncover any cause-effect relationships that might exist.

Not having an explanation, only a description, means that the detected traits are mere correlations, neither causes nor effects. Like most such studies, the conclusion is that people are happy because they're in relationships -- or is it that people are in relationships because they're happy? Or is it that an unexamined variable, such as one or more genetic traits, produces a person who is both happy and in a relationship?

Psychology can't tell us. But it can certainly pretend to.

This is why work that relies only on description isn't science. Science requires testable, falsifiable explanations.

Further reading: http://arachnoid.com/science_of_mind
I'm impressed with the responsiveness on the iPad, it feels like a native app!
+1 to Gombrowicz (Ferdydurke). I've never read it but I watched a theatre play. Trans-Atlantyk (also from Gombrowicz) is also a very good read.
I think prediction APIs are a joke at this time.

The assumption here is that the hard part is running an SVM or a deep network or random forest or something like that.

The hard part is really defining the problem, cleaning the data, figuring out the features and parameter tuning the system. This involves building models many times, and if (i) the clock is running on the algo, and (ii) you don't know enough to implement the algo, you stay safely on the wrong side of the commercialization valley of death.
Good points. In the 3rd edition of Topgrading I offer definitions of A, B, C across many competencies, but early in the book I say that the simplest way to think of A, B, C Players is high performer, adequate, low performer. I've asked 6,500 executives (in Topgrading Interviews) to characterize the teams they inherited and ended up with and they easily relate to high perfumer, adequate, low performer ... and the long explanation of "top 10%% can be avoided. These 3 categories work for executives or part time stockers. That said, over time companies get better and better "calibrated" and the requirements become stiffer; therefore, in 2014 clients think back to their designations 3 years ago and now put a higher percentage in the lower categories ... because is does take time/experience to accurately rate someone. Hope this helps!
I can recommend Kir Bulychov and his funny stories about Great Guslar (fictional city somewhere in USSR that was frequently visited by aliens). I'm not sure, however, if this has been translated to english.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kir_Bulychov
This is very good. I think it's designed to be an Adobe Fireworks replacement. Great stuff!
Well, also California is probably the most regulated state.
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I think it's because Google is trying to avoid patents, libx264 doesn't.
Although, reading the tone of the article it would seem that they aren't focusing on places like Craigslist, zimride, etc.
Google it dude :p
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Certainly! The compression is handy when you have it. This is why check-in comments like "Fixed bug #1234" are really frustrating. The link to the bug is nice, but out of a list of 10 similar comments, I need to find the one that say, turned on the security. I need the compression.

That said, sometimes my goal isn't "find it quick", it's "understand it fully". Perhaps we'll figure out ways to understand the video in fast forward, make visualization of code change timelines, that sort of thing.

But I think it's interesting to start with all the raw data and figure it out from there.
The interviewer was right.
I can imagine you'd feel a little more under the microscope so may be either prone to errors or may be so wary of errors you'll be overly cautious. Either way I think that'd be something which would perhaps disappear once you'd been streaming for a while and realised no one was really judging you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP8#History

> In March 2013, MPEG LA announced that it had dropped its effort to form a VP8 patent pool after reaching an agreement with Google to license the patents that it alleges "may be essential" for VP8 implementation, and granted Google the right to sub-license these patents to any third-party user of VP8 or VP9.[26][27] This deal has cleared the way for possible MPEG standardisation as its royalty-free internet video codec, after Google submitted VP8 to the MPEG committee in January 2013.
Also, this story is about treating addiction with psilocybin.

Perhaps it could be used to treat opiate addiction.
Mailchimp?
Facebook?
Saying php cant be used at a good startup is a bit like saying you can't start a good company over 35.
As opposed to all of those other languages that lend themselves so well to the task?

Since tricorders will most likely run linux, by default, they will have lots of C.
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Maybe they've never heard of Eclipse.
This test went around at work a while ago. At the time, I worked with a number of artists.

Many people got very different results depending on the monitor they were using.
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Clearly the cracks are starting to show.

If the drivers create the value/provide the service and Uber is facilitating that by taking a share, it has to make sense for the value-creator/service provider to continue the relationship. If Uber erodes that margin, the drivers will leave.

Eventually Uber has to change to benefit their service providers and act a little more ethically. The drivers know of their underhanded ways with dealing with Lyft and eventually the public will.

I am an immigrant, I drove a black car in NYC(many years ago), my cousin drives one now. He is none too happy with the UberX situation right now.

Uber should consider the plight of the drivers and not their 100X VC overlords. Nobody ever got rich driving a cab, why victimize the drivers?

"Because we can?"

"We are making the market more efficient"

"Frictionless"

It is just at the expense of the drivers. That's your friction point.

Hard working people just want a fair shot, not to be exploited.

Instead of a billion-dollar pay day, why not just a little human decency.
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This needs to stop, and it needs to stop immediately. Native scrolling has a lot more considerations than any of your designer will ever put into your website.

This scrolling feels god-awful on a high speed trackpad AND a free-scroll mousewheel. Awful. Congratulations on giving a stupidly bad first impression, guys.
Max earnings growth is almost impossible to predict with any kind of accuracy. The analysis is basically # of PoS on the planet * avg. current earnings per PoS and that becomes some mythological possible upper bound, or some other nonsensical analysis. Even if they're doubling earnings every year, exponential growth never lasts, yet valuations will reflect some kind of continuous exponential growth into infinity.

The point is, even if Square hit some kind of real P/E that made them a $6bil company, they wouldn't be doing anything nearly as impressive or substantial as actual companies who are today worth $6bil.
Dutch hope metal shards will lead them to missile that hit MH17
And they'll blame technology. Uber/Lyft will probably try to litigate against autonomous vehicles.
Convenience is a huge driver for consumers, when it's available to them.
Well, I would strongly agree with the Kapuściński recommendation, but while we're going off-topic with great Polish writers, let me suggest that readers re-visit Joseph Conrad.

Re-reading Heart of Darkness as an adult was a totally different experience from the forced read of it as a child.

I also really enjoyed Conrad's Nostromo, a true masterpiece.
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I take offense with the last sentence in that article: "Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem."

This simply can't be true. Lem did have a great imagination, coupled with huge talents as a writer. You could say that he was a writer with the greatest imagination.

In a world consisting of 7 billion people, it is very likely there are people out there that have much better and much more accurate imaginations, perhaps people who are correctly predicting detailed outcomes for the next 50 or 100 years.

The problem is that they are not great communicators.
Yeah, I guess maybe it's good for knocking things together quickly but a bit generic looking for your masterpiece.
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This was a wonderful post, thank you for taking the time to share it!

One question—I thought aluminum was really reactive with oxygen, and normally ever piece of it we see is coated with a thin film of the oxide. Does this present any special issues when heating it up to melt it?
http://avc.com/2014/03/the-bubble-question/

Fred Wilson explains it pretty well here.
Inventing something new here, shitty ELI5: Hey, someone bought all of the product we have (bonds), and buys all of the product we can think of having. What are we going to do with all this money? Grow more or spend it on a huge party.
let's meet at 2pm tomorrow - automatically adds a calendar event.

How does that pan out when 2pm is not good for the other person?

"Hey Greg, let's meet at 2pm tomorrow."

"Sure, great. Wait, I have that code review starting 1:45, so 2pm is not a good time. Shall we meet at, say, 11am instead?"

"No, 11am is not good for me. Let's meet around noon tomorrow?"

"Got to pick up the kid at noon but I'll be back at work around 12:30pm. Can we meet over lunch at 12:30pm? I am free till the code review starts."

"OK, let's meet at 12:45 then."

"Cool!"

Does this add five calendar events to the calendars of both the people in the conversation?
What does that mean to DRM laws, and Patent laws in the EU. What does trade have to do with those laws?? Every country in EU needs to enforce it? Has it come to that already?
Autism:acceptance not just awareness
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I'm not sure how to describe it, I got 25... I could see the variances, in the tiles that looked "off" but wasn't always sure which direction to split to... I finally got frustrated and hit score. :-(
Interesting. It says it doubles night vision ability, but night vision goggles/scopes give 10000x - 50000x amplification. If the scales are comparable and doubles means 2x, then these eye drops seem nearly useless — but of course the scales may not be at all comparable.
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Almost any piece of writing more permanent than a shopping list is enhanced by the addition of a date.

For all the reasons cited by the OP I'd like to endorse the idea.

And don't make it half-date either. It's even more infuriating seeing something is written on "May 1st" with no year!
Appreciate the insight and feedback. There's been some really great discussion in this submission about the pros and cons of live streaming code but this is a real deep dive into what the future could hold and it's great to see people have the same positive attitude I have.
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Does Pelevin count as sci-fi? Omon-Ra?
I really appreciate your succinct criticism of my points, you didn't need to qualify with anything but "you have been doing C for too long." I consider that a compliment.

Ask my clients how much of a problem I am and then ask them how many problems I solve. And no, I don't solve them all with C.
Can you point to any SaaS best practices in this area? One example I read was that Everpix sold IP to finance the development of tools for data archive/export, before winding down. It would be instructive to survey wind-down scenarios.
Square is replacing hundreds of incumbent POS vendors & is growing quickly

Is it, though? I haven't seen many new POS terminals in a long time.
"Don't waste time where it matters!"

This sounds odd to me (not a native speaker). Waste time where it doesn't matter, instead?
In case someone argues about parallel updates, you could do something along the lines of "parallel git pull < ls $VIM_BUNDLE". I'm nowhere near convinced to switch, especially because I keep my vim plugin space small.
I wonder if there were any kids who immediately took the one cookie and then went on to other things.
Vanilla js is not that hard when you have thing like document.queryselect or you're building trivial web apps. Sadly when you're building enterprise grade software and you have to support things like Internet Explorer 7 it makes a lot more sense to use a framework like angular than vanilla js.
Since I didn't say anything about Hobby Lobby at all, I don't think I'm the one doing conflating.
Wait, which blog systems don't automatically display a time stamp with each post?

Wordpress, Blogger, and Tumblr have been displaying time stamps on default themes since the beginning (although some require the user to mouse-over a truncated time-stamp, which is annoying but a compromise).
> DRM in HTML5 means that you don't need Flash/Silverlight to play Netflix, etc. Which means that you can support video more easily.

You still need a closed-source DRM module, as a replacement for Flash or Silverlight. It doesn't make it any easier in that respect. It does provide a standard API between such DRM modules, though.

But yes, this is good for Google, as it does own one such DRM module (Widevine). So Google can push its own DRM and does not need to rely on third parties like Flash or Silverlight.
I think you're reading the last sentence too literally which is probably not the way it was meant to be read. Instead it is simply a compliment to the author.

And if you really want to be pedantic then please also note that the sentence does not say "more accurate", it says "better". This can mean many things: more entertaining, more inspiring, and yes, also more accurate. But because "better" is rather vague, I don't think it's very fair to criticize it as irrational.
The funny thing about an MITM is that you can track down where it happens...
This is exactly what I've been looking for in a Vim plugin manager.

1. Loading plugins as needed! I've been doing this manually in my Vim config, but this makes it way easier.
2. Custom dir names for plugins! I think I opened up an issue on Vundle a few years ago asking for this (I think) but this has it out of the box.
3. Install hooks! I can't even describe how happy this makes me.

I'll probably install this next time I'm at my Linux box.
I disagree, this is really fast and totally rivals a native app. What are you computer specs and what browser are you using?
I think that's what happened with sex and Catholicism (the cockroach method).
Do you think caffeine should be illegal?
taking exception maybe more proportionate to the claim rather than taking offense
It's great to hear people want to stream!

The sensitive information issue is certainly a valid concern and something I'd be worried about personally too when streaming. I'm not sure how we'd solve this in the long term, initially though it'd probably just be down to streamer education.
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And put the date at the top, so we know how old the article is before we read it!
> * Cool device? Now you need to convince (read pay) Adobe or Microsoft to port Flash/Silverlight to it or develop a native app and make it non-horrible e.g. for Netflix users to find and use.

This is still true with EME. EME is just an API, you still need the closed-source proprietary DRM module itself, the CDM. You would need to convince/pay one of the very short list of such modules to port it to your device, and you would need to do so with a module that the content creators support.

The same is true for the other things in that list. EME simply does not even try to solve those problems - it just provides a standard HTML5 API to what remains a closed-source proprietary DRM module. There are very few companies with such modules - Adobe, Microsoft, and Google are the prominent ones. Without partnering with at least one of those, you can't bring DRM'd content using EME to a new device.
Why not? Pelevin and Vonnegut are in the same boat.
Perhaps they could just use some chlorophyll-infused fluid in the goggles themselves to reduce the power/electronics needed (and reduce the cost).
I just tried it for a few simple operations on a 1.3GHz laptop from 2006 (which is running and IDE that's indexing in the background), and this app was still instantly responsive. Very nice work indeed.
If psilocybin can be used to get people to stop smoking, drinking, or using heroin, it could seriously reduce healthcare costs.

People in the drug underground use it to treat OCD and depression. I've heard of people saying they use it once or twice a year to "stop worrying so much" or "to get my head straight." What kind of addictive drug motivates people to want to break the law annually to take a drug just one time?
The radiolab episode about colors talks about tetrachromats and some other very interesting stuff, worth a listen:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/211119-colors/
Yes, you still need the closed module - but all it does is decoding, which means that it's much smaller than Flash/Silverlight.

I wish the video companies didn't insist on it, but if we need to have something to keep them happy, I'd rather it was a simple decoder than a whole plugin runtime.
Do you disagree with the core dump on my hard drive? Firefox 31 ESR, Atom N450, 1G of RAM. Gimp for instance runs pretty smooth (although there are much faster still options if you don't need all the features); I use it a lot.
Your post captures the problem much better than the linked article.

I would summarize the problem as being that the result is tautological, but the gloss of mathematics gives it the appearance of not being tautological.

If people said "diverse teams are better because people from different backgrounds are good at solving different kids of problems" then that would be accurate, but leave room for debate about whether then assumption is true. If they say "diverse teams are mathematically proven to be better", this would be inaccurate, but give great ammunition to argue that science supports progressive views.