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Thanks for the encouragement. One of the first places I actually went with my idea was /r/gamedev (https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2ekkeg/im_thinking...) where I got some really useful feedback. The feedback helped me tweak the features I'd listed and understand some of the problems faced which I want to tackle.
What makes you think they are not?
I anyone wants to get into reading Lem and finds Solaris too heavy (dare I say 'boring') I recommend to start with:

- The Invincible

- all of the Pilot Pirx short stories

- all of the Ijon Tichy short stories

- Peace on Earth (the conclusion to Tichy's story)

- Fiasco (the conclusion to Pirx' story)

Also of note is that Lem essentially "invented" Virtual Reality in the mid 60's (he called it Phantomology).
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The conversation needs clarity, not his post. His post was clear, but completely irrelevant to the conversation. Its claim that the "pro-drug crowds" downvoted him was also hostile and inaccurate.

It deserved to be buried.
Then you haven't done a good enough job communicating why it's important. :) My wife was really supportive because she knew it'd be worth it.
To my mind, the biggest thing missing from typeclasses that you get automatically with many OO systems is a sense of persistent identity of objects. Of course Haskell has ways to roll your own, and I'm not sure the decoupling is a bad thing by any means, but it's a difference.
This is an excellent article, and shows why you need to do all the fussy finicky things that you need to.

It touches on two stories of personal interest to me. First, my maternal grandfather spent a fair amount of his time in a silver mine in the blacksmith shop. This was a small enough mine that mining was done with picks, shovels and the like. They would wear out, and need to go to the blacksmith shop to be refurbished. We had an old open coal forge that had been used by the previous owner sitting unused in one of our sheds. Grandpa came by one day to fix up one of his pickaxes. The forge had a blower powered by a hand crank. He first scooped the coal out from the hole in the middle of the bottom of the body of the forge. Then took a coffee can, placed it over the hole, and packed coal around the can, and sprayed water on it. He had me turn the crank as he lit the coal, gently at first, then stronger.

Once the heat was up, he began heating the tip of the axe. As he heated, he told stories of how you heat, then cool the tool. Too much heat could burn the tool. And when to take it out to shape the tool on the anvil. And how there was different types of quenching--water, oil. Depending on what the tool was to be used for.

The other story is that my brother (now retired) was a professional welder and instrument maker. He made instruments for telescopes. As a gift, he once gave me a pair of dice made of aluminum. Not particularly fancy, but he noted that the trick with aluminum is that it will suddenly melt on you without turning red.
Metro 2033 is a good read, I've been reading the German translation, and this still had that specific 'Russian soul' in it which is hard to describe. I was shocked how bad Metro 2034 is though in comparison, and I am not sure whether it was just a very bad German translation or whether the original book was also 'soul-less'.
I've been streaming a second monitor most weekend for the last month on thing ranging from writing blog posts to building iOS apps. The hard thing has always been trying to separate config files & notifications from user-visible streams.

I think it would be interesting to have the stream be text input aware, so that it can showcase the text currently being selected or edited in a way that highlights it better. That and/or either having window specific zooms. I know up-front what the interesting Apps I'll be working in are.

Also, it's a real hassle to keep open a chrome instance to chat, allowing XMPP or IRC would mean I could have a native app for communicating with the streamers.
Backend: Django 1.7, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis.
Running on hetzner root servers in germany.

Frontend: component (https://github.com/componentjs/component) with a lot of custom components, no frameworks.

Using https://codeship.io/ for continuos integration/delivery

Stefan (ChatGrape)
Pure conjecture, use salt liberally: PHP was 'in vogue' in 1998 to the mid 00's, after that a ton of other (and better) options appeared (I say that as a 'PHP guy'). So if you look at younger people you're likely not going to find a very large number of programmers there that will have PHP as their first language of choice. The older ones though might find that their experience with that particular platform will give them an edge over first learning a new stack.

So to complete the guess I think if you focus on the teams with older technical founders you might find some PHP but in the teams with younger technical founders I doubt that that would have a high incidence.
Maybe. On the other hand, Paul Graham has strong views on what great hackers are like, which are likely to color his evaluations of candidate companies. It would be surprising to see a YC company running an Azure/Windows/C#/Visual Studio/TFS stack. And there are good reasons why someone might do so.

http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
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Since you mentioned Django, why not try out Flask?

http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/01/18/python-and-flask-ar...
We started with the GitHub integration but there's a lot more to come. Also see Leo's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312356
Ok let's take this to hand then and write a rational reply.

Every one of us can answer individually only with anecdotes, other than my wife who spent the best part of a decade dealing with drug addicts. They in turn dealt with the police who deal with the problem at the source. There are very few cases of "healthy" drug use, if any out there, at least in the UK as it stands.

Yes I do indeed want drugs to remain forbidden for everyone because the population is generally irresponsible and illogical and will quite happily smoke, drink and destroy each other. That's just the human race; at least 25% of it is self-destructive and the rest of us really want to protect our position. There's nothing wrong wit that. If the Westborough Baptist Church moved in next door, you'd be pissed off right? Well I don't really want my taxes taken and applied to addiction care or rehabilitation that is unnecessary. I want it to be applied to general healthcare to help me through my life.

I'm entitled to think that and vote for it - that's a democracy.

Regarding Portugal, that's quoted a lot but the fact is, if you read into it that they haven't legalised drugs at all. They have introduced possession limits at which point you are prosecuted. Selling drugs is still illegal. That's not blanket legalisation - that's a soundbite used by the pro-drug lobby, so stop quoting that horse shit.

For reference, HN decided I'd posted too much otherwise I'd have replied directly.

Mushrooms may have helped people but that's where recreational drug use and the medical sciences diverge. Anecdotes from the former and studies from the latter so it's little hypocritical saying what I'm saying is an anecdote and ending on one.

I have no problem with medical research being done and former recreational drugs being provided but only after someone has done an unbiased medical study and trialled it to the same standards as other medicines.
this law however, is to protect consumers. it prevents taxis from charging multiple people for the same ride (as separate fares). this law actually makes sense and should stay in place.
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Stop selling so hard. Use your regular voice.
Both of those companies have been around long enough to remember the hell caused by there being a bunch of competing codecs in the 90s before the two main bodies that make video standards agreed to go the same direction. Google is the new kid that wants them to try something they have already watch fail again.
I concur wholeheartedly. I've watched people code on streams during game jams and even then I was quickly bored to tears. Most coding is even less exciting than coding games.

Some tasks just aren't well suited to streaming, and coding is one of them.
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Also remember the 128GB microSD.

This new 512GB SD could be useful for 4K video and that kind of stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Adapter-SDSDQUAN-128G-G4A-Newe...
Drugs are much less of a coin flip when you are aware of the risks going into using them. The 12yo who destroyed his life probably had no idea what he was getting into. Dealers will also commonly give younger people laced drugs because they can't tell the difference - it's entirely possible that he got pot laced with PCP (it's hard to sell PCP, and at low doses it's similar to pot) or another drug.

A well researched individual who is curious about LSD will know that LSD can trigger schizophrenia in people who are genetically predisposed for schizophrenia. If you aren't genetically disposed to schizophrenia, LSD is not going to cause schizophrenia. Greater amounts of studies and scientific research into drugs like this increase our knowledge and make their informed usage much less risky.
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Twitch uses IRC for their chat, what platform are you streaming on / using?
As someone who used to work at Critical Mention I can speak a little bit to this. The infrastructure was set up about 9-10 years ago and initially involved one very dedicated engineer driving around the country installing DVR's at the different affiliate stations in almost all (if not all) 210 DMA's. These DVR's would "phone" in with video, as well as close captioning text to the datacenters. Over the course of the last 10 years the stack has changed a few times, but more recently the real time processing occurred as a series of Python lookups queued in Rabbit MQ. The resultant data (Close captioning text as well as Schedule, Demographic, Affiliate) information was indexed in a full text search cluster. Creating a searchable set of all TV video across 90 days is an engineering feat in and of itself. That being said I don't think any companies have been able to mine the data, summarize or aggregate it in any way that can be truly beneficial to a brand.
I don't agree. Popular but legacy chips can have updated tools where new but conservative chips can have odd software packaging.

Moreover, embedded development is conservative by nature and I know a lot of teams which prefers to run projects on known hardware when possible, even if we have to suffer of the tooling.

Also, don't forget the licencing. We already have to downgrade our targeted platform because we couldn't afford to pay the whole tooling where OSS was only compatible with the previous version.
Actually doing research to back your arguments up isn't a game of 20 questions. Facts aren't talismans.
I've had this mentioned a few times that video is perhaps not the best medium to share something like a live coding session. I can understand that and I've got some interesting ideas to play with around alternatives at some point.

I think in terms of a devv.tv MVP it'll probably be video embed to begin with though.
Beware of romanticizing of the past by the older generation, who will be good at remembering their own relatively trouble free lives while ignoring the hardships that others endured.

Poland had a ton of things that were very very wrong, look no further than the SB and their victims. The fact that 98% of a nation experienced no significant hardships does not detract from that at all.

It is very well possible to have a totalitarian dictatorship in which everybody has a job and there is food on the table and an outward appearance of relative prosperity, but totally rotten underneath.

Poland did not have a 'benevolent socialist system' by any measure.

I'll just leave this link here, you can research the SB and Jaruzelski on your own good time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Popie%C5%82uszko
This looks awesome, one thing though: "All code is stored in XML files". I'm not sure I see the advantage of this, what else is stored in the XML other than the code and why can't it be stored on its own?
That is a solved problem and has been for well over a hundred years the F&C investment trust started in 1868!

And there are plenty of very low cost index trackers.

For a VC to make this sort of request is troubling as it indicates that they have very little knowledge on how investing works.
There are a number of factors at play.

One is the demand for ivory and other products derived from endangered animals, much of it driven by new wealth in China (but also elsewhere).

Another is the lack of economic opportunity throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. As I recently realized doing the maths, Kenya's electrical generation amounts to about 37 watts per person. That's enough to run a typical laptop, maybe. With projected wind potential of up to 1 GW, wind could supply over 2/3 of total present generating capacity in the country. A gigawatt is about the size of a large coal or nuclear plant. More: http://redd.it/2dm7b0

And there's corruption and the lack of resources in policing wildlife refuges and reserves. I'm watching the opening episode of Years of Living Dangerously, one storyline follows a similar history evolving in Indonesia with palm-oil plantations taking over virgin equatorial rainforest with nominally protected status. Over 80% of the "protected" forest is described as destroyed or degraded by slash-and-burn, conversion to farmland, logging, or other activities (17,000 hectare remain of 85,000 hectare total).

The pressures of people, industrialization, economic growth, and other factors on the planet are unsustainable and have been recognized by many in the ecological and other communities for decades. General awareness is only slowly starting to leak out.
Are there any startups using Java (not JVM) based web stacks (not backend or API endpoints). Any comments/experiences would be welcome !
Or maybe they're onto something...
Love this bit:

The likelihood that PHP is being used is strongly anti-correlated with company quality.
I don't see how that's an obvious argument either. Psilocybin isn't being used here as a substitute for nicotine so it shouldn't be compared to it as such.

It's being administered once as part of an intensive CBT program. MAPS et al have done studies that have shown psilocybin and other hallucinogenic substances can accelerate change in people's thought processes. Addiction is one of many possible uses for these substances, administered in a controlled environment under medical supervision and guidance.
I like SailsJS a lot but didn't have the chance to experiment it on a real project. How well does it scale ?
Every couple of years we seem to have to re-learn the lessons from the VHS versus BetaMax wars.
OTR is something a lot of people use and trust. It also makes it easier for users to use our service with third-party clients later that already support OTR. Plausible deniability might not be very important for companies, I agree.
We are also looking into other protocols, for the same reasons TextSecure decided to modify OTR: both parties need to be online to exchange keys.

Stefan (ChatGrape)
I've been using twitch.tv, but found the IRC to be unreliable. I tried multiple IRC clients and they disconnect and reconnect regularly, and often miss messages which appear on the website.
That 'simpler lifestyle' only works until they force something that you can't abide by, and by that point it's too late. Personally I can't even tolerate that there's only one hardware manufacturer and one source of software. That never ends well for consumers.
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"Use what you know" and "use what the people around you know" are at least pretty good answers to the question of what platform to use.

Joel Spolsky had some interesting things to say here:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html
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If you look at established companies that have reasonable valuations, and look at what they do, it's completely insane.

There are large airlines, major oil companies, major media companies...at one point I worked for the world's largest private R&D organization, who also happened to manage most of the DOE National Lab system and is barely worth this much.

The value these companies seem to have appears to have almost nothing to do with their business fundamentals, and everything to do with how much somebody is willing to pay for a pretty egg.
Really neat! Why did you have to shutdown the website?

Edit: I'm referring to the customer research website you guys made, mentioned in the post.
Excellent article. I worked in fusion years ago and I even learned a few things about the politics of the ITER team that I did not know.

The comparison with Apollo or the Manhattan Project always comes up when discussing ITER. I truly hope that when it all comes together, that it is more of a Manhattan than an Apollo. The difference being, that once we built one atomic bomb, we kept building more and more and now it seems we may never be rid of them. Whereas with Apollo, we harnessed the political will to land on the Moon (multiple times even!) but once the political will dropped away, so did the path to the Moon, because Saturn Vs don't come cheap. If ITER ignites, but does not result in a path to cheaper, commercial use of fusion energy, then the next few generations may be in the same position with regards to fusion energy as my generation has been to space exploration.

This is why I tend to fall in Bob Hirsch's camp with regards to the faster, cheaper, smaller development of multiple fusion reactor concepts. Imagine if instead of developing the Saturn V for Apollo, that NASA had gone for many concepts from big rockets (e.g. Saturn V) to air launches (e.g. Pegasus) to suborbital balloons (e.g. JP aerospace) to space guns (e.g. HARP). Sure, the Russians would probably have beaten us to the Moon, but if a cheaper alternative to space launch had been found back when it was a national priority, we might have a Moonbase today.

The thing about gathering political will is that you have to have a clear target. The dangerous thing in the case of ITER, is that once that target (ignition) is achieved, the political will to do more beyond that goal may not be there. And ITER ignition alone does not answer our energy issues.
> Every one of us can answer individually only with anecdotes

Scientific studies as well.

> They in turn dealt with the police who deal with the problem at the source.

In the United States, this is not the case at all. The police go after black people disproportionately when white people consume drugs at pretty much the same rate.

> There are very few cases of "healthy" drug use, if any out there, at least in the UK as it stands.

No basis/evidence for this belief.

> Well I don't really want my taxes taken and applied to addiction care or rehabilitation that is unnecessary.

Have you considered the possibility that it might be cheaper in the long run to legalize drugs?

> Regarding Portugal, that's quoted a lot but the fact is, if you read into it that they haven't legalised drugs at all.

I specifically said "decriminalization".

> They have introduced possession limits at which point you are prosecuted. Selling drugs is still illegal. That's not blanket legalisation - that's a soundbite used by the pro-drug lobby, so stop quoting that horse shit.

I thought you were writing a rational reply? I nowhere mentioned that Portugal legalized drugs. Decriminalization is, however, a step towards legalization.

And I am going to quote that "horse shit" because, even though it is contrary to your worldview, decriminalization produced many positive effects: http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/23/portugals-drug-experie....

"... less teen drug use, fewer HIV infections, fewer AIDS cases and more drugs seized by law enforcement. Adult drug use rates did slightly increase — but this increase was not greater than that seen in nearby countries that did not change their drug policies. The use of drugs by injection declined."

But that's just horse shit, right?

> Anecdotes from the former and studies from the latter so it's little hypocritical saying what I'm saying is an anecdote and ending on one.

I'm not using anecdotes as the basis for argument for/against drug legalization. I was pointing it out for you to consider since you are.
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The "when possible" in your statement is a caveat large enough to drive a semi through. Professionally I have only done "big" embedded, but I have for example had a rather lengthy signal processing algorithm where sections needed to be implemented one way for most POWER systems and another way for x86-64 systems. The wrong branch cratered performance[1]. There was no way to separate the code the way you describe without implementing it twice.

[1] At the risk of starting a flame war, this situation and those like it have really soured me on the rest of the industry's obsession with "big O" for complexity analysis. I have never found it useful; I always needed to pay attention to the stuff I was supposed to be dropping.
That reminds me of the legendary Nils Provos and his blacksmithing ambitions: http://www.wired.com/2013/02/provos/

His videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mintwart
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I guess we just need to remix it with http://www.hypermasher.com/hyperlapse
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Keep in mind you might have to do some research as to what and where he refers to subjects. Borges loves allusions. Sometimes I got the sensation that he had already figured out concepts and historical characters so well that he then started playing with them, planting them in different (fake/fictional) scenarios and toying with their ideas and toying with the reader. This is why I say he might've done a lot of things in jest. It's hard to see where he drew that line. There's a good example of this, but I won't ruin it for you in case you read that short story.

Anyway, I wanted to comment on something related to your friends not ever mentioning Borges to you. Of course, if your friends tell you they've read Borges, I have no evidence to suggest they are telling the truth or not. And you should probably believe them.

However, there was a time (specifically in Argentina) when Borges was seen as the "in" thing to do. So, you'd get people saying, "Oh yeah, Borges is great, love his stuff". But Borges said most people never actually read his books, they were just a good Christmas gift.

Most people I've met who tell me that have read Borges have really only read a story or two, which is great. This is not a competition. Reading Borges at face value is fun and entertaining. But there is another side to Borges that is extremely complex because of the many hidden references he makes. He almost verges on James Joyce and TS Eliot style of hidden allusions, where every other line is a reference to some esoteric concept that he read in one single out-of-print book. So, yes, I understand why people don't read a lot of him. It's fine. He can be a very difficult writer to read and he requires an infinite amount of patience.

Some Latin American writers have stated that to read Borges, you really need an encylcopaedia by your side to fully appreciate what he is saying. While that might be true, you can still enjoy many of Borges's stories at face value.

The only cautionary note I make is be wary of his goucho/cowboys-and-indians motifs. His mother helped him develop some of these ideas, because it is what she liked and wanted him to write. And, depending on your worldview, Borges's mother is arguably the most important figure in his life (in my very humble opinion), apart from Estela Canto (to whom he dedicated The Aleph).

Have fun.