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Dude, I'd love to get Google Fiber even if I had to wait for it. Get cable installed, make sure there's no contract and wait. There's a lot of stuff they have to build first and those of us stuck with crappy cable service will have a hard time feeling bad for you.
Vim scripts are barely even packages! Package managers for operating systems and build dependencies? Certainly. Does everything need package management? Only a small subset of all vim scripts have any dependencies. Tim Pope was the first person I remember introducing a script dependency (tlib) and I thought it was a ridiculous decoration at the time. A good vim plugin should be self-contained, in my opinion.

I recognize that this is really a misgiving I have with the direction Vim is going, towards complexity (plugin managers, multithreaded implementations). NeoVim looks like the final push that makes Vim configuration and operation truly byzantine. Then everybody gets to pick between Emacs and VEmacs.
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Nice interface. I'm trying to get better at very quickly implementing UI's from the ground up (also moving past bootstrap/foundation). What was your approach to making this interface? Did you use a pre-processor? Did you modify an existing framework or generate css output from a photoshop mockup? Thanks.
I have no particular expertise, but I'll just toss this out there: I suspect that the popular modern view that the Earth and our biosphere are "tightly balanced and interwoven" is just wrong. I doubt that any system requiring such careful balancing and sporting such immutable inter-dependencies could have ever come into being through random evolutionary changes. I think rather that the biosphere is incredibly resilient, independent, and that nothing we or anything else does to it short of moving it further from or closer to the sun, stripping its atmosphere, or burning off its water will change its essential nature as a warm, watery rock supporting an incredible diversity of life.
You can't choose your parents, but it's great that you can have fun at bars with yours. Some parents don't approve of all sorts of things (politics, sexual orientation, religion, biracial relationships, etc etc). It's not always about having a frank conversation.
I used to collect old discarded car batteries, pull out the lead cells, and melt them down over the kitchen stove, and then pour them into glasses of water to make 'jewelry'.
What an amazing plot twist it would be if she actually had gone to Asia and ended up faking that she faked the trip.
With option 3′ (old server as proxy) you wouldn't even need a temporary subdomain; just enable proxying and you're good to go.
I love their sense of humor:

> These quadruple models yield reasonably good fits to the data, and are physically possible, which is an improvement over the triple model!
Sorry didn't know it! How do I take this off
Your point is valid, and while I agree there is not strong enough evidence for a causal connection, I think the idea is interesting.

My mother has painted Impressionist-style oil paintings my whole life, and taught painting classes. In her classes, she always tells people to use colors that they don't see ("You need the pink on the water", etc). Once you've painted enough, you learn to realize what colors are in the scene but not quite obvious. You definitely exaggerate the colors ("hint of pink" becomes "pink streaks") while painting in this style, but it also forces you to think harder about what colors your eye actually sees.

So it seems to me that impressionist-style coloring can definitely come from "faking it" (being taught it, and trying hard), but I would definitely believe it could come from tetrachromism, where those small differences stick out to you a lot. It would be fascinating to know if any early impressionists had evidence of being tetrachromatic.
This is actually not too new. I have owned one of their devices for quite a while (a couple of years?) and found this recent press release somewhat surprising.

I originally bought the device because of its advertised Google Voice support. It is the only service I have used with the device. Earlier this year they announced that Google would discontinue XMPP support on May 15 and Google Voice would stop working. Almost 4 months later there has been no interruption in service and they are now re-announcing support. Strange...

No complaints from me though!
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Mathematically, regular expressions are limited in comparison to what are commonly called 'regular expressions' or 'regexes' by programmers. Mathematical regular expressions can be translated into automata, 'Regex style regular expressions' often cannot.

The advantage of mathematical regular expressions is that they terminate in O(n) time based on the length of the input string. The disadvantage is that they lack features like capture groups and look ahead/behind. The important point is that engines like those of Perl or Java are not based on regular expressions in a mathematical sense. This is true of any Regex engine that stores state or backtracks.
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Step 1: Get a real design, and don't just use 100% default Bootstrap.
That would make my point even stronger then. If Wal-Mart makes up far more than 6%, then it's even more important that they support any retail payment system you expect to take off.
A killer feature for this would be IR/night vision with an external camera.

They did a great job with the marketing video for this. Really curious to see where this ends up.
> Are these worth sacrificing control over your editor config?

You're not sacrificing any control. I'll speak only of the ones I know: vundle, neobundle, and vim-plug are using very basic Vim mechanisms to save you the hassle. Appending to &runtimepath is the Vim equivalent of modifying your shell $PATH.

And deferred loading, if you choose to use it (I don't), actually gives you more control over plugin behavior.

> You own your vimfiles

This is emacs mentality. I don't want to own (read: maintain) the plugins I use. If I find a bug, I send a PR upstream so others can benefit. If the bug is unforgivable I uninstall the plugin. (You can also pin to a specific SHA).
This shouldn't be that surprising. 1989 was the lowest year for unemplyment in the '80s after several years of high growth.

The US economy is still recovering from the 2007 crash.
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I agree, but all the little coffee shops and convenience stores are more likely to adopt a new payment scheme if it becomes ubiquitous, and for that, it has to be adopted by the Wal-Marts and Best Buys of the world.
fn bugs me as well.

fun would have been better:
- ML heritage for named functions (fn was anon)
- muscle memory with the leading part of javascript function
- the other abbreviations take the leading part of the word
> Next up: 99 days without hackernews :)

I'll bet you that will be a lot harder to do than breaking with facebook. So far I haven't managed.
Very cool project: I've done this a number of times where I just need a simple bug fix in a jar without source.

Question for the author: why is this a ruby script wrapping a python library rather than a full-Java app?
> This is emacs mentality.

I think that plugin managers (further complexity in editor configuration) are Emacs mentality. See, ELPA. The approach I'm describing is how people maintained their vimfiles before plugin managers became popular.

New Vim users are told to use a plugin manager now if they want to install other users' scripts, and I believe that is a flawed approach to configuring a lightweight editor like Vim.
The irony(?) for me is that I'm a UK ex-pat (who has paid the UK license fee in the UK this year) living in Singapore. But my Singaporean ISP "helpfully" provides VPN connections so that I'm a local in foreign countries (so that I can use Pandora, for instance 'in New York'). So... I'm overseas, but I share all the problems of the UK residents, who are, understandably, also miffed.

PS: Having looked at the video (via the wayback machine) - is it the Sleeper that I'm reminded of? I'm getting deja vu with some 70s SciFi spoof...
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There's no rule that says the biosphere has to be resilient in every dimension we might push on it. If the biosphere has been stressed in a particular way and life (animal and mammalian life, specifically) rebounded, that does not mean the biosphere is resilient to any other kind of stressor, and it's only mostly assured that it's resilient to that particular one because of empirical evidence. We don't have models accurate enough to confirm your suspicions about the hardiness of the biosphere. There may be an attractor to current life-supporting conditions even under a broad range of stressors, but if human progress is adding an additional stressor (that we may not even recognize), we could be screwed.
That part is presumably easy enough, but it won't matter if you can't convince Wal-Mart to spend an extra $X per reader across every checkout aisle in their massive network of stores.
You are assuming things go well and not taking into account human nature.
Don't know all the details of the service but you probably could also have used haproxy causing no changes on the production servers (change server to proxy).

First install and configure haproxy to forward eerything to your existentiële environment. Change dns to the haproxy box. Add the new server to haproxy and remove the current one. Move DNS from haproxy to new server.
Crisply.com solves it with machine learning.
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The Koinify team are great guys doing great work. Glad to see them launched and moving on up.
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Name dropping does not mean a thing and I doubt they developed ALL the tools and IDEs for Siemens' industrial systems. If they did, then they would be wise not to mention the numerous SCADA faults found in Siemens control systems. There is absolutely no way you would roll out a system like that and have every industrial product line using it. So I am little puzzled by your claim.

The thing about these systems is they attempt to prevent you from shooting your own foot by not letting you aim. Some operations (such as erasing and writing flash) require you to do dangerous things like relocating code to SRAM and running from there while your flash operation completes. The details of each platform vary: ARM code is generated in a position dependent fashion; MSP430 is not.

I am certainly not calling C the end-all be all, but it's a tough system to beat. You could convince managers that mbedder may be the way to go, but it would be an absolute boondoggle to get existing engineers to use it. (They couldn't even convince the Park-o-matic folks to rewrite their code to use it). To a "C simpleton" like me, I would not call mbedder obviously better.
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I did the whole single .vim in git before switching to a script manager and I consider it a huge improvement.

- It's easier to install a new plugin, no more unzipping and copying files manually.

- The files from different plugins don't get mixed up together anymore

- which mean is also easier to remove one

- and also no file name conflict.

- If I have a bug somewhere it's easier to disable each plugins temporarily to find which one cause it.

- Easier to update a plugin

- My modification to my .vim don't get mixed up with the upstream updates from the plugins. If I want to modify a plugin I just fork it (and try to have my modification merged)

- In fact I don't really have a .vim anymore, I put everything in my .vimrc which is a nicer to read centralized location. If some part become too big I just refactor it in a separate module that I install with the manager.
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Yeah, it's just that the vertical is much more than enough to kill you (more than the energy from jumping off the top of the building), so the horizontal is kind of irrelevant.
Their wrist watch looks as interesting - http://www.withings.com/activite/en-US

† absolutely unusable page design though
I both read the book and watched the clooney movie and I liked both of them. The key to enjoying movie adaptations is to imagine they're two completely separate stories that just happen to have certain names in common.
That's the second time in a week that I come across that statement on HN. You'd be surprised how the rest of the world views lies of omission, hint: not kindly.
That's something rare on the web these days.

Too often, all textual content is optimized for shares, search engines, and algorithms.

Reading fiction that makes a point is a happy surprise.

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Speaking of which: I now realize that today's web spiders are completely ignorant of fiction. You can't write a piece of fiction without algorithms interpreting your work literally.
It is huge at UNC, where I do to school, is it popular at other colleges and universities now?
Yep, thanks for clarifying, I was talking about the jumping portion.
Fakebooks still persist these days in the shape and form of PDF torrents of songbooks. Just go on Amazon and search for your artists (e.g., Adele/White Stripes/Eric Clapton) and chances there is an official songbook for their albums and corresponding seeded torrent. With YouTube version/lessons of the songs and PDF of the song tabulature, someone can learn to play a lot of classic's and modern songs. I should also add, Eric Clapton shouldn't get mad as that's exactly what he did back in his teenage days (source: "Clapton" autobiography), playing back to the blues greats on his recorder and replicating their songs exactly without paying any royalty.
Wow, what a sweet product. And boy do they know how to market it, "feels like driving in the future."
Agreed, it doesn't mean those things. But I think that when we say we'll be "screwed" it doesn't necessarily mean the earth will be fundamentally different after the screwing is completed. The dinosaurs got screwed, and so did the Neanderthals, and in the end all that did was make room for us, the latest species about whom the Earth cares not at all.
> towards complexity (plugin managers, multithreaded implementations). NeoVim looks like the final push that makes Vim configuration and operation truly byzantine

There's nothing simple about the Vim source, but Neovim has cut it in half, and modularized it. The Neovim strategy is similar in spirit to a microkernel, or shell tools: let the Vim core operate on inputs, and let external tools (GUIs, plugins) operate on the outputs. Like `find . | grep -v foo | sort` involves three self-contained, well-defined tools.
She would loose the credit for the project if the school found out though.
Single-person households are included in the family calculations.

So is the difference between older and younger families or between two-person and one-person households? Depending on the definition of household (flatmates?), I'd guess there are more young one-person households nowadays than 30 years ago.

You can't even correct for it. Because people who would get married early today are also different than people who would 30 years ago. For example, more religious.

Among families of all ages, those with more education tend to earn more than those with less. But that differential appears to be shrinking.

As more and more marginal college students are accepted?

I am very sceptical about stats like that. College graduates from 30 years ago are not the same in many other regards as today. Households headed by a young person today are not the same as those 30 years ago. This goes double for the US who accepted tens of millions of immigrants in the meantime.

http://cafehayek.com/2013/11/when-facts-arent-facts.html
Great report, very useful!
I used often DoceboLMS for project about the training of my employees, and I have always been satisfied in terms of productivity and scalability.
Thank you for the share.
This series is a formula - the cars are the same specification. Innovation comes from when there is a rule book with sufficient amount of room for people to do their own thing. Where are the options with this series for contestants to evolve anything? Even if they could, how would that 'transform' formula 1? Not even the driver market is really set to change in F1 due to this formula.
Strip aside the green-washing and this formula has very little to do with 'saving the world', evolving electric cars or 'transforming' F1. Sure it is worth giving a go, however, many motorsports fans want to see a series where teams really can innovate with power plants, aerodynamics, suspension and every other aspect pertinent to performance. Only with such a series will we have truly evolutionary leaps in automotive technology that can benefit road cars and other formulae.
Oh I think he gets those ideas, but as can be gathered from his characters, he doesn't think people will go for it. And the spacers in 2312 are pretty transhumanist I'd say.
http://www.hudwayapp.com/ Free application without any hardware. What are you guys trying to prove here. I didn't get your point.
Works, but my MBA 2013 i5 shooted up to 98C. :o
Don't just look at salary comparison. You have to consider cost of living and this area is one of the most expensive to live. The salary high in part because of this. Ultimately it might be a wash compared to what you make in Germany relative to what your expenses are there.
This is because our society has conflated education with acquiring skills which can be used to create value. What do we tell our young people? “Get good grades, so you can go to college, get a degree, and get a good job.”

Now, don't get me wrong: being well educated has many benefits to both society as a whole and to any given individual. A great education is a wonderful thing to acquire and very valuable.

But when we tell our young people, “just get the best grades you can and stick it out until you have a piece of paper”—we shouldn't be surprised when they don't have skills they can trade in the free market for the income they want. (You can argue whether this /should/ be the case, but I'm not arguing what should be, only what reality currently is.)

I was fortunate enough to realize this several years ago, in large part thanks to Hacker News, PG's writings on creating wealth, and Jason Fried's Inc Magazine article on making money [1]. But I only found these resources indirectly because I happened to be excited by programming while in high school—not because my school counselors, parents, or society as a whole was pushing me in this direction.

Living life well requires balancing many things: work, family, learning, hobbies, helping others. I don't have an easy answer to that. But I do think we need to stop glossing over the whole making-money-is-a-skill thing. It's not doing our young people any good. They need to spend their early years both acquiring a great education, and learning marketable skills. And we need to ask them those hard questions before they turn 25, graduate, and suddenly wonder how they're going make it in the real world. Otherwise, the trend outlined in the article will only continue.

[1] http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-busi...
You can always clone/fork the repositories of the plugins you're using. Having moved from a big repo for my .vim + .vimrc to Vundle, I appreciate the possibility of quickly adding and removing packages.
Quick note... your pricing page references discount if signing up by 1-Sep which has already past (unless you meant 1-Sep 2015).
My guess is that there was no formal research process involved at all. It was probably a project for an arts or design course, where a lot of times the more "disruptive" an idea looks, the more encouraged the student is to proceed with it.

That reminds me of a BBC documentary called "But is it art?", where a Goldsmiths, University of London art student, for her final project, went to several art exhibitions, stole objects on display, swallowed them, and then showed them as her art after defecating them.

Source: I'm a Goldsmiths alumnus.
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They do, and ClojureScript (they're responsible for the largest open-source React/Om ClojureScript app, https://github.com/circleci/frontend).

Because of the tech they built to auto-configure projects (and because of circle.yml), they also have statistics on tech usage across companies.
Another interesting take on this in my opinion is that no one recognized the places that she went to. Perhaps people don't realize that interesting destinations exist in their home towns.
Sounds like its something they don't really want to see, and that you have to trick them (even innocently as here) about it.

So why even show it to them in the first place?
Or there is Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTra_(rapid_transit)
To think that it is morally good to sacrifice people's well-being for future generations is a fundamental misunderstanding of morality. It is making a moral "something" out of "nothing."

In that sense it is just like, say, a witch doctor that says you must sacrifice your firstborn child to appease the spirits. Or, for that matter, a Pol Pot who claims that people must be sacrificed for some non-existant, unknowable "good." That is specifically why I referenced Pol Pot.

I wanted a non-religious example, but really any religious or non-religious butcher who clamors for human sacrifice based on a false moral imperative would do.
>I don't know, I'd be pretty worried about my daughter if she were in another continent. I'd want the hotel information, I'd send her extra money. I'd be reading up on news in that area.

She was in university, not 14 years old.
Hi!

I use Rails in my company, which is not a startup anymore, but we are using java in a new venture.

Our stack in this new company is based on spring (spring-boot, spring-data-rest, etc) and angularJs. We are very happy with it. Spring security and spring-data-rest are amazing.

I love Rails with all my heart since it's what we use since 2005, but I have to say I'm impressed by the advances in Java in the last year or two. That said, if you are doing SPAs Java can be more productive than Rails.
This is a somewhat bad idea since it might decrease performance as you are adding a lot of dynamic lookups. A lot of larger codebases actually cache property lookup results to increase performance.
very nice. Could replace a bunch of awk and sed one off scripts floating around on people's harddrives.
I don't really read that from him, more of a wish for a more democratic world and global equality witch he hopes will lead to a prioritization of climate goals.

It might not necessarily be possible in the real world but I don't see him pushing for totalitarian government.
>I don't think doing academic research is a carte-blanch to lie to people.

No, living in a free country is a carte-blanch to lie to people. She isn't doing anything illegal, and she is best to know if it's ok with them or not.
tl,dr: FBI has turned its workstations in some offices into a botnet for their own use.
Super Shuttle is legal, pay per passenger. As are buses.
Ask HN: How do you share&discuss files with groups of people (not your team)?
Another interesting case are ethnic Russians where 20 recurring men and women name (few pre-christian, and some christian) cover the bulk of a population of over 100m. I never found a satisfactory explanation why. What's more interesting is, my client was hiring branches of 20 employees, where you usually end up with 3 Olgas etc in one team, and people don't appear to be confused of who is meant when they say Olga.
> I'm sure there are excellent legal reasons

I can't think of an example.