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> Wow, ML syntax is actually better than OCaml. It's a shame the former was used as a base for F#.

I prefer this:

http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/code/1/ray...

to this:

http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/code/1/ray...
I can relate. My wife and 2 toddlers were 12 hours away for 4 months while I did an accelerator this Summer. I saw them about a week a month.

Guys like us are in the minority. A lot of people told me I'm nuts for putting my family on the back burner to chase this dream. I told myself I wasn't going to let work come ahead of them, but yeah, I put them on the back burner for 4 months. At times it felt nuts. My kids are growing up fast and I'm working 18 hours a day across the country. Some days, it took immense amounts of willpower to not jump on a plane and dip out.

I used the military analogy with my wife when she complained. Hell, how many guys went over to Afghanistan for months without seeing their families? A lot of them never came back. A ton more risk, for what? Priority boarding and discounts on oil changes? (I have a ton of respect for those guys, and no, they don't do it for perks or respect.) Compared to that, I'd say the upside of this opportunity is what they call once in a lifetime.

But in reality, a lot of those folks didn't really have better options. I could make a good living as a developer if I wanted to. If I'm honest, doing this startup thing with a family requires me to be pretty selfish most of the time. But selfish in a good, weird way - working 80 hours a week so someday I don't have to work 40, so I can take my wife and kids to Hawaii for the summer someday, or whatever.

Luckily for us, the experience of the accelerator was worth every pain point. It probably only gets harder from here. Now I'm back with the family, with a (soon to be) funded company, and will have to make those tough juggling decisions on a daily basis. It's all about finding boundaries and balance.

Off to pick my kids up from daycare...
Huxely's mechanisms of Soma, infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis feel less real.

Marijuana legalization is Soma. We don't need as many workers any more, and pot will help to keep the drones passive.
https://github.com/DyCI/dyci-main do same thing and available before.This guy just added little bit on it and saying its my work.Clap for dyci
Can you point out to any practical examples where this has happened? The article in question demonstrates the market working well, I would say. Your hypothetical scenario goes against what we observed happen. I think it's reasonable to ask for an example or two in this case.

Personally, I don't think your scenario will play out in real life. Competitors will appear when it is profitable for them to appear. Sure, there's a start-up cost (as with most forms of business), and this cost must be included when calculating profitability. But that doesn't change the fact that they will appear when it's profitable, it only increases the profit margin required for a profitable investment.

Bottom line: a competitor will not appear until it can produce a commodity more cheaply than the market. And this is exactly what we want.
http://www.hhmi.org/news/new-microscope-collects-dynamic-ima...

http://vimeo.com/user33367262/videos/
Some of you might remember when I posted this as a bookmarklet, but we've gone ahead and added its own newsreader/social news network as well! There's also a native client for Android which I've been using for a few months now and I'm absolutely in love with it - BART commutes are a lot more pleasant now.

It's all open source, and I'd love for any feedback or contributions you have! Thanks!

https://github.com/Miserlou/Glance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499549
So feeding starving kids is charitable work, but speaking about your religion at the same time makes it non-charitable?
Seen this comment on that article. Kind of sad really; what we're turning into.

"that law has me, and plenty others in the greater Houston area, really ticked off. There were several very active (although small and not well funded) charities that were recently shut down due to this nonsense. Church groups that would fix food in their kitchens and take it to the homeless were stopped because they didn't have a commercial kitchen and all the permits that came with it; other groups would get together in their homes and cook meals, and got shut down for the same reasons. It's absolutely ridiculous to turn good samaritans in to criminals, but that's exactly what we do every time a new law is created as a knee jerk reaction to some recent event. How about we LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE? sorry /endrant"
Something I realized only recently regarding Brave New World and 1984: the former is a criticism of its own society, that is, Western commercialism, capitalism, entertainment, and escapism. The latter is a criticism of the other society, that is, Soviet Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist Communism.

From the point of view that criticism of your own enemy is often far easier to swallow than criticism of yourself, it isn't quite so surprising that 1984 is the more popular and better-known work.

Both are tremendously prescient.

As noted elsewhere in comments, Neil Postman, particularly Amusing Ourselves to Death, continues Huxley's critique. Postman himself is very strongly influenced by (and studied under) Marshall McLuhan. You'll also find this theme in Jason Benlevi's Too Much Magic, and other more recent works.
Beards are possible for only half of society.
Beards that look good are possible for even fewer people. ;)
Life is Struggle.

“Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. Though I did lay it down at the beginning that consciousness is the greatest misfortune for man, yet I know man prizes it and would not give it up for any satisfaction.”[0]

http://dostoyevsky.thefreelibrary.com/Notes-from-the-Undergr...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499255 since we don't need two of these on the front page.
Tobacco use is scientifically an addiction[0]. It is not merely classified as one. So your concerns are baseless.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_dependence
I guess it depends on what you mean by 'works' -- I was able to view my facebook profile, click on links, visit other profiles, and even view a few entries on my news feed. Same with Twitter -- profile, news feed, a few other pages. Posting is broken, certainly, but to do that on Facebook I could click on "switch to our mobile site".
No, it isn't. We don't place trust in corporations to bypass laws because they are taking care of their workers; we require corporations to follow laws in case they don't.

What would happen to you if your company flew you to Mumbai, set you up in an apartment and arranged for you to go to an office, and then went bankrupt before they could get you home?

You'd be responsible for airfare home, and that might or might not be a hardship for you.

Now consider the opposite case, with people from India being paid $1.21 an hour in SF. Can they even afford airfare home? Unlikely.
would this work with CHAIN? a bitcoin api
You can continue using a bowl as a mobile speaker, or you could get this device
That seems remarkably impractical, and it would probably draw a lot of attention.
"If you can't track progress on a community or individual scale you can't tell whether or not your efforts are working"

Unfortunately, this is not a field for experimentation. People whose job is to take care of others can suggest this line of thinking, but to me, the problem is not to justify and pay those helping but to solve the underline problem. It is easy to say one thing and mean another. What are you fighting for? Your job, your career, your research, or do you really care <bold> beyong your own interest <bold> for the well being of all those people who are really suffering?
That's how we get in trouble - by rehashing other people's experience. Everyone has his own unique way to rehash, and the further we are all removed from the facts the further we diverge from each other, driven apart by our own biases.

On a relate note - I found that most startup advice is useless, because people who are giving that advise try to summarize their experience (at best) or someone else's experience (at worst), and they inevitably leave out important caveats. Add in some narrative fallacy and it gets completely ruined. If you listen long enough you will find equally convincing, but completely opposing startup advice on any subject. For that reason I only ever listen to first-hand accounts of what happened, not to any "life lessons", "lessons learned", "10 things that every startup should do" etc.
For some reason there is this myth propagating across SV that less sleep = more productivity... the fact is that if you get half the sleep you are supposed to, your work is not going to be 1/2 as good. It is going to be 1/100ths as good. Not a great position to have your "life's work" in.

That said, I admire this guy and his tenacity to work hard and smart.

As you can tell, I read a lot of DHH's stuff :), particularly this talk: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2351
This is unfortunate for German, but not a big deal for most other-language speakers, I think. I could of course be off, but as an English-speaking American who's likely a bit more knowledgable about WWII than average, the unfortunateness of "NS" has never crossed my mind before and I'd have never even known about the issue with "KZ" if it hadn't been mentioned here.

Anyway, it seems an odd request to make of an apparently Polish person.
Chiptunes are great for programming. Check out fantomenk.

https://soundcloud.com/fantomenk/cpu-mood-2010

https://soundcloud.com/fantomenk/dischipo-2009

https://soundcloud.com/fantomenk/fantomenk-playing-with-powe...
If an Indian visits US for a short term, he or she will typically paid their normal Indian salary plus a "per diem" in US + accommodation. A decent company will put you up in a reasonable hotel and pay $70/day in a city like Chicago, maybe $100/day in a city like New York. The per diem money is neither taxable in US nor in India - if someone is "working" in US, they need to paid US wages and also pay taxes in US.
A lot of work in computing is actually being done in other departments, for instance I work in Population Health at Oxford and my department is heading up the new Big Data Institute. A lot of work on AI, machine learning, big data, and related fields is being undertaken in bio-medical, physical science and engineering based departments as well as in the CS department itself.
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You don't have to grow a beard, you can just put a fake beard on. I can't imagine it looking more ridiculous than the linked modifications, even for a woman.
The blog post is hardly self-eulogizing. It's written as advice to other people who are going to try to do two non-trivial things at once and maintain a balance. You decide to pick on only one of the hard things, act as if the writer only mentioned that one thing, and then act as if the writer asked for praise for doing the one hard thing.

Did you read a different blog post?
I made a Hacker News room, if nothing else so that people can test an actual room when they see this comment thread.

http://imgur.com/Jl3siZt
Your attitude allows existing rights to be eroded, circumscribed, or eliminated entirely by manipulating the colloquially accepted definitions of dictionary words.

An arm is a weapon. The right to bear arms is the right to carry weapons.

If you would like to redefine "arms" to exclude certain types of weaponry, surely you have no problems redefining "speech" to include making cash payments to political campaigns and to exclude publishing written content to the Internet? Or perhaps you would like to redefine "unreasonable search and seizure" to exclude the collection, retention, and analysis of all packet headers and unencrypted content transmitted across the public networks? Or maybe a "speedy and public trial" will take place in secret, using secret evidence, without the assistance of counsel, by the military, at Guantanamo Bay.

Consider that you may be part of the problem.

The existence of nuclear, chemical, biological, electromagnetic, and radioactivity weapons demand that the amendment guaranteeing the right to bear arms be amended, not reinterpreted or ignored. They are, unequivocally, arms. And those arms are arguably too dangerous for any single individual to own or control without restriction. Saying they are not "arms" is simply a lie for political expediency, and undermines the rule of law and the constitutional system of government.

Our collective unwillingness to revise old laws to make them more applicable to current conditions has led to patches and workarounds of dubious worth, and to some people equating fully automatic rifles with nuclear bombs. The "ongoing debate" generates ambiguity, which is exploited by political parasites to our detriment. We cannot afford to endlessly argue. It can be settled conclusively, to be reconsidered later, whenever progress demands it.

All we need to agree upon is exactly what sorts of arms are too dangerous for a randomly selected individual to possess, and apply that standard equally to all people, including those with badges or rank insignia.
As a real full-stack engineer, I see more job postings for front-end than full-stack. And most of the full stack postings I see are for Ruby, which I don't have a lot of experience with, and Java, which I'd rather not do.

And JavaScript, of course. Usually these are titled "JavaScript Developer" but they really mean "CoffeeScript Developer" and no thanks.

All of the opinionating is really to say it only makes sense if it's what you want to do. I happen to like programming (including JavaScript) so I do back and front end. If you don't like JavaScript don't do front end because it can and will get complex, and JavaScript doesn't help you manage complexity.

That said, if your plan is to work on web applications, the more JavaScript you know, the more valuable you'll be (in theory) to your employer/client.

tl;dr maybe
> For comparison more people in the US watched an football game than read a book for fun last year.

Not sure this is the case. Pew pegs the percentage of Americans who read a book last year at 77% [http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-decl...], and the Super Bowl drew 111 million viewers [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-bowl-2014-ratings-set-new-...]. I'd guess the number of people who watched a football game but not the Super Bowl last year isn't totally insignificant, but probably not huge (and I'm skeptical that the ratings aren't maybe a little inflated).
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I don't blame Apple for this. Remember it wasn't till 2008 that the App Store launched because developers were not satisfied by creating web apps.

Secondly, the concept of being able to link directly to parts of an app via a URL already exists in Android. Maybe Apple just needs to play catch up there?
What do you think of Midori as a daily browser (assuming you didn't apt-get something else)?

I think it's a decent browser, it's only drawback is it's single-threaded.
I hate to be this person, but this is HN, not /r/childfree.

The vast majority of people choose to have a family life, and it's not easy. It doesn't mean people should be celebrated for their choices, but it does mean that discussions about the pros, cons, and ways to make it work/ways it doesn't work are relevant for a lot of people.
Completely agree that VCs and others should not be pushing for this to be the norm. Not only because it's unhealthy but also because it discourages a talented and mature group of people from attempting to create great things.

I kind of wonder if the current startup scene of chatty app clones and services for asshats etc. is partially a result of the startup landscape being oversaturated with individuals who meet the young, kidless and immature crowd precisely because they're the only ones who are perceived as being capable to "give what it takes" to start a startup...
I researched TorCoin. I feel like I know a fair amount
about Tor and BitCoin.

What worries me most about Tor is that people do not
realize how trivially an exit relay can MITM your traffic.
The value proposition of Tor is NOT keeping all your traffic
safe. It's anonymizing your traffic from end to end, so
that nobody who sees your data knows both where it came from
and where it's going. They can still see the data itself.

For all intents and purposes, traffic from Exit -> Internet
is plaintext. The relay operator can MITM it. Tor is only
safer than a VPN or proxy because the exit relay does not
know your identity. It can still access the data you
transfer through it. [4]

Anyone can start a Tor exit relay, and setting up a MITM
proxy on it is trivial. Siphoning bitcoin transactions
is equally trivial. Just listen for the proper traffic patterns.

You should not be transferring any business-critical
data over Tor. It's a great tool for protecting your
identity, but not your data.

With HTTPS, you're relatively safer, since you'll get
an alert if a relay is MITM'ing you and modifying the
certificate. But with plain HTTP, you won't even
know when you're getting MITM'd.

More Resources:

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/34804/how-safe-i...

[2] https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/mitm (includes links to research papers)

[3] https://www.petsymposium.org/2014/papers/Winter.pdf

[4] Emphasis on "for all intents and purposes." Not a true
statement universally.
Take any unfortunate combination that rings a bell in the us and american people will have the same problem. Something slightly sexual and racy, especially.
I think it's been fixed now.
Agreed. Annotated code with long-form explanations on the side (instead of annoying comments which clutter up the code itself) is a huge help to aiding my understanding. I hope one day that IDEs will incorporate a code commenting system with clickable 'overview comments' which expand into broader side bar descriptions, making the code shorter and more readable yet at the same time better documented.
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> How much, per user, does it really cost to run a social network now? Not much.

How much, per user, does it cost to run a social network? Not much.

How much, per user, does it cost to run a social network at scale? Quite a bit more.
I think one problem is that it's actually a lot more expensive to build an interactive application-style site that works with well with javascript disabled. So sure, rich companies like Github, Twitter, and Facebook can (and I think should) invest in making things work relatively well. But a less rich company is faced with a choice between giving up that interactivity or committing to it. Most people have gotten used to the interaction patterns of javascript-heavy sites, so giving it up can put a company at a UX disadvantage, with no real pay-off, because it is very uncommon for people to turn off javascript. On the further end of the scale are applications like Google's inbox, which are largely designed around interactivity of the sort you need javascript to achieve, and are never going to work any other way (though it's very silly that it requires Chrome).
Kind of annoying that it's mobile- and apple-only.
Er, that's just not true, as proven over and over by people fooling Touch ID with images of a fingerprint.
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We'll be watching this lecture and lecture 10 next tuesday in San Francisco http://www.meetup.com/Ycombinators-Stanford-lectures/events/...
Do you use gmail? any other webapps? Those are heavy JS, even if not 100% JS.
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Mandrake made Linux exciting immediately w/o having to do Slackware-like config file nightmares.
Not Google? Shut up and take my money
Indeed, it's almost like they fell onto the wrong Path.
Ironically, he's also making a strong argument for legislation. Inadvertently, of course. But if the point being demonstrated here is that reasoned arguments based on years of experience and plenty of data in areas where the problem is strongly pronounced have no persuasive effect whatsoever, involving the law may—in fact—be necessary.

Mindless and even well-intentioned behavior can have as much to do with socially adverse consequences as actual malice or recklessness. The more closely you connect law and morality, the harder it becomes to accept this. But that doesn't change the reality that it's possible for lots of individually well-intentioned choices to add up badly.
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Also, a little known fact is that 1984 is essentially a remake of a 1924 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin "We".
Why did you need to create a throwaway account for this comment?
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note to self, check if site is on hacker news front page before purging stale caches!
You could always just build one version that is capable of rendering either server-side or client-side. React.js and other similar frameworks (that do diff-based updates) work well with this, or at least better than frameworks where the state changes are discretely coded.

The react-rails gem is capable of doing server-side rendering out of the box:
https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails
Millenials are actually much more optimistic and prone to idealism (as represented by volunteerism rates) than other generations: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/10/millennials-con...
> WODI (not WOBI) didn't exist when we started Real World OCaml, and we developed OPAM along the way.

Yeah, I was on the phone and did not check the right name. Thanks for the correction.

It is just that the work laptops I carry around are Windows based, so it was a bit limiting in that sense.

In spite of that, the book is quite good and I really enjoyed reading it.

> We've also started putting Windows support in place via Appveyor

Thanks for the heads up.

> In general, help porting packages to Windows is very welcome from interested parties.

Agreed, but on my specific case given that work is on the JVM/.NET ecosystems I am limited on time availability.

But at least now I can already give a better update on the current status.

Congratulations on the work that you guys are doing.