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I saw him speak last night, and he had what looked like a Thinkpad X60 -- http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/ibm-lenovo-thinkpad-x60-c...
Not really. I've never worked for a giant corporation...
A programming language is not a natural language. The quote refers to Hoon specifically.
"Anyway, perhaps we are all missing the underlying point - an overly complicated solution (to an otherwise straightforward problem) has been the received wisdom for decades, and a re-think from fundamentals is almost definitely worth the effort."

I don't know that the solution is overly complicated or that the problem is straightforward. Think of every human being as their own little Y Combinator startup -- everybody is their own little Me, Inc. Or Me, LLC. Whatever. Most people follow SOME version of "outsource everything that isn't a core competency." Like, it varies a lot from person to person -- some people go to McDonalds, some people are making their own meals from ingredients picked up at the local farmer's market, but very few people (not even most farmers) are fully self-sufficient farm-to-table for most of their meals.

So as a result of this, most people don't think of their computer in terms of it being a computer. And that's the most obviously computer computer they interact with! There's all sorts of even more abstracted away computers they deal with -- smartphones, cloud computers, etc. Most people don't care about computers, and don't in and of themselves want computers. They want to do things like "write a document," "share some family pictures with friends and relatives," "play a video game," so on and so forth. For those people, not only don't they CARE about HOW the computer is accomplishing those things, they get very upset whenever they see the wizard behind the curtain. They want all of those things abstracted away from them. From the point of the view of the most typical use case, trying to make computers easier to use by making sure the specification fits on a t-shirt seems to be rather besides the point.
Maybe they lit the pieces of sulphur that were attached by strings to the birds before they released them.
+1. I've never really worked outside of startups and there's always somebody who needs an engineer even if it's pseudo temporary.
I looked for a startup job specifically because pg says joining a startup is the next best thing, and then managed to join a growth stage startup. What's changed from doing a startup is I no longer have to think about if the company will survive in x months and I am just focusing on the technical side of things. My days have become easier and I get more positive outcomes each day, but in the long run, I feel like I have to get back in the game.
He noted that its a hard thing to keep up with because you have to keep exactly on schedule or you will mess everything up and then you just end up sleeping for a day.

That sounds like one of those excuses people make for something that doesn't really work.
Protip: You might want to add more options. I, for one find many more things annoying. This is only a start.

BTW FYI i think ur css is broken coz i tried to load this site on my old palm pilot and there was definitely 3 pixels off somewhere.
Sixsense solves positional tracking for Mobile VR [video]
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that all my LED lights were controlled. I have a Hue setup, so I have 3 lights that I have controlled rather crudely with their software. I have a light switch that will turn on the front light from dusk till dawn, I just need time to install it.
It sounds rather fun flying experimental rocket ships. I'd give it a bash if I was any good at that stuff and they'd have me.
I can only speak for myself, but I Hackintosh because I need more computrons than I can get in a retina MBP or a Mac mini and I'm not paying $5K for a Mac Pro. My desktop (a Nehalem i7 with a Radeon HD6870) is still competitive with every Mac they field, aside from that Pro, and I paid about a grand for it three years ago.

Even aside from the lack of basically essential applications like Photoshop and Illustrator, I'd rather invest a little effort making OS X work than work every day in a Linux environment. The desktop experience, be it GNOME or KDE or XFCE, is at best lukewarm and usually leaves me asking in vain why this software hates me and wants me to waste my time.
Well put. Its just like iOS--developers are happier if most people are running the latest version. Less version-fragmentation. The "less adopted" variants of Windows are a problem for development and testing. It might make sense to only support/test XP, 7, and 10--but what a mess that is.
Sure, we're programmed to have sex. But gay people are programmed to have gay sex, which doesn't result in children.

Some people have a parental instinct. Many people, including me, don't.
I just want to run OSX in a VM.
While I was working on my own (small) startup, I took a contract at a job search engine in 2004, called Indeed.com. I ended up joining as employee #1, and stopped working on my own startup about a year later. Fast forward to 2012, Indeed.com was acquired for a cool billion. After that, I started Searchify.com (still going), and I'm currently living in Argentina, traveling through Patagonia at the moment.
Naive question: why is a will so important?
Data Science Applied to Halloween Candy
Mindfulness applies most of all to activity, so it is apart from meditation. Being mindful is a way of doing things and attending those things and the doing instead of wandering in a way that might interfere with fully conscious action.
I just usually use http://vfrmap.com/ but for those unfamiliar with the charts and even for those who are, this probably provides an interesting and easier breakdown.
My overnight usage is around 300W, so if I remember correctly, it were things like fridge, computers/NAS, wifi router + cable modem, a few clocks, and small hot water heater for tea (I would have gotten rid of this one, but my wife insisted on it, it burns about 40W when it's not boiling water actively).
Of course. I had registered algorithm.zone and was waiting for the DNS to propagate. It works now.

http://algorithm.zone
Yeah. You need only look at Android to see the hell that version fragmentation can be for developers.
Seems like this is a better source of the article: http://parasail-programming-language.blogspot.com/2013/04/sy...
http://algorithm.zone
New domain! http://algorithm.zone
it's also worth considering that while existing middlemen are slightly more expensive they also offer strong consumer protections that are totally absent in these alternatives
My heating is natural gas, and I have no AC (SF Bay Area). My electricity bill has decreased, but I'm still trying to figure out how to decrease my natural gas bill, especially during the winter months. My theory is that my furnace and hot water heater are very inefficient, so I'm going to look into replacing those next year.
After a previous failure, my co-founder (and co-brother) and I are moving to the bay area this month, from LA. We're keeping our expenses low and plan to drive for Uber part-time as a way of avoiding day jobs.

Even though I'm married and have a newborn, we're sharing a place and living like (healthy) college students. We've both turned down huge salaries to work together indefinitely.

I love creating products for people. I love solving problems and I love writing code. The stress of a startup feels like a small price to pay to create something great. And I really want to create something great.
Sounds cool! I had a feeling it was Hue. I really wish it was economical to make every switch controllable with something like zigbee but it doesn't seem to make sense even for new construction. Maybe someday...most applications don't need control of every light.

IFTTT can do Hue control, it could help you do control how you'd like https://ifttt.com/hue
> The third time my co-founder died

Wow, don't see that one too often (fortunately)! Was it a kinda-sorta-expected thing (cancer, age, etc) or was it out of the blue?
Could you please explain what being "public domain" adds to it?
How is patagonia? Heard the wifi isn't so abundant there.. Congrats, I hope to make it there one day!
0/3 isn't that bad. Err, yes it is.

If the house is older than the furnace, the problem could also be lack of insulation.
Linux supports a variety of compositing managers (programs that receive pixels from the application and are responsible for actually making the video hardware draw them), and these each have various settings that control how they interact with blanking. I have mine set to sync to vblank and so Chrome animations seem to sync to vblank too. Changing the settings on the fly, though, is implementation dependent, and whatever implements the feature for this website probably doesn't want to bother.

It does work fine on ChromeOS, so it's a "generic Linux" thing, not some specific problem with the Linux kernel itself.
> But that means you really need five variants of the sin function and you need to dynamically dispatch between them based on the current rounding mode.

That would be one way to achieve the behavior you describe, but it is certainly not the only way, nor is it the best. You could, for example, do a computation that produces a result rounded to odd with a few extra bits (independent of the prevailing rounding mode), then rounds that result to the destination precision using the prevailing mode.

This assumes that you really want correct-rounded transcendentals anyway, which at present are sufficiently slow that you might as well dispatch based on rounding mode (despite the herculean efforts of the CRLibm crew). If faithful rounding is all that is required, even simpler methods exist that are extremely performant.
We're about ready to cut the cord, and I've been suspecting our two Dish boxes are huge hogs anyway. We recently got the first results of an audit we signed up for through our provider (Pepco), and we were shocked to see that our usage is well beyond the average. We were pretty shocked considering we have 100% Compact fluorescent bulbs, very new appliances, and we're generally very conscious of our usage. Our dryer is natural gas, as is our furnace and oven. Our central AC unit is ancient, but it was a mild summer and we set it to not be as cool during the day. The only computer on during the day is a Mac mini.

We're convinced something isn't right. I think a kill-a-watt will be a near-future purchase.
I kept creating stuff, learned to code, ended up being on the front page of the website that taught me to code, made a website that was in Time Magazine, and started another startup that is now well funded and growing rapidly.

Just keep making stuff, stay afloat, and manage your mood - stay healthy, stay happy, but PRODUCE AND PUBLISH LOTS OF WORK!
From the article:

"It's definitely air travel. It's not exactly flying."

This phrase has an Alan Kay-ish quality, and was enough to pique my interest. Anyone seriously trying to execute on a project that addresses this concern seems worth following. Who knows, you might even succeed :)
Critical Review of Nir Eyal's “Hooked”
Those comments were genuine. Are we not allowed to share hackernews posts to twitter?
Like the earlier post said, amicus curiae briefs are filed on behalf of people who are not parties to a case. They may have an interest, but it can't be "we're suing/being sued in this particular case." Maybe it's different for employees of a firm, but Google is certainly a party to the case.
That museum is good fun, though extremely touristy. For a really deep dive, be sure to visit the Stasi Museum. The guided tour is excellent. http://www.stasi-museum.de/en/enindex.htm
What happens if try to pet the pretty butterfly? Can I focus the point into someone's heart and make a death ray? Come on, we're all thinking it.
Amazon Whistle Blower: How to Get Away with Posting Amazon Fake Reviews [pdf]
There's no reason to share Hacker News posts you create on Twitter. More relevantly, asking for upvotes is not allowed: https://twitter.com/FindMyMentor/status/531258287962877952
It was the #2 Google result for serial podcast (now bumped to #3 by the guardian article) which drives a lot of traffic.
Thanks, sums it up pretty good.

And somehow makes it even more magical than when you read the docs.
As I mentioned, the things that made a huge dent were things like the PS3 that I had on all the time and my Xeon server. Those were just burning a ridiculous amount of electricity and I had no idea until I measured it. I basically stopped using those and that accounted for a large amount of my electricity reduction, since those were specifically pushing me into the higher tiers of rates. I also had the advantage of choosing new appliances for my house, so I went with things that were as energy efficient as I could muster, and my dryer, water heater, furnace, oven are all natural gas.

With regards to your media server, it depends on where you live and if you have a tiered system like I do in CA. 60W = 525 kWh per year. In CA, Tier 4 rates are 0.32/kWh, so it would cost about $170/year to run that server, if you hit that tier. So depending on your overall usage, it could make a decent impact on your electricity bill, especially if it was that specific appliance that was pushing you into a new tier.
This sentence made me laugh more than it should have. Or maybe exactly as much as it should have, given that I spent a year drawing a Tarot deck that riffs on the Crowley/Harris Thoth...
You say that you understand people risking their lives "for country". I don't understand that.

There are lots of motivations in life and nationalism is only one reason. Personally, I don't think nationalism is good for motivating people towards more than warfare. I would argue that even the Apollo Program wasn't motivated by nationalism (it merely exploited nationalism for budget and attention) – its real motivation was true to the George Mallory explanation for risking his life climbing Everest: because it's there.

I do understand doing things to reach the edge of space because its there. For the engineering interest. To change people's perspective about what is difficult and what is easy. To make people look towards space instead of towards their borders and flags.

People have stopped thinking that progress can be made in space. Virgin Galactic and other commercial space companies are trying to change that. Sending rich people to space is simply a funding model.
A detailed report showing the trail of how sellers are colluding to trick and game the Amazon review system in a nefarious and deceitful ways. Buyer beware...

My question is how are these sellers getting away with it?? Open to discussion and enlightment.
ftfy: "You're Wrong"
oh yeah? you have a repo I can check out?
Nevermind the fact that the parent post believes its possible to quantify "exactly the right level of ambition," the poster believes that the only people that should be "allowed" to comment on whether or not something is too ambitious should be people that are currently undertaking ambitious projects themselves.

This smacks of privilege. Not everyone is or can be in a position to pursue ambitious projects. To say that these people should be barred from commentary is ridiculous.
Can you do that live and passthrough the audio?
> Very popular without a big marketing campaign. [...] That would be my definition of viral (or the way I perceive that word being commonly used today).

Really? From my perception of how the word is commonly used, anything whose popularity is being driven by a marketing campaign is about as unviral as it gets.
Got it thanks for clearing that up.
VMWare has been capable of that for a long time, although not publicly.
> but somehow I can't imagine those types of folks gaining an appreciable number of followers

Uri Geller for example did. There are still people today that refuse to accept that he's a fraud.
I have LEDs everywhere where I used to have incandescent. I put in recessed LED lights in the kitchen and a couple of other rooms where there were no lights previously. My Hue lights are only in a couple of rooms and the front door.

The reason why I keep them on late into the night is for security purposes. The timing of my lights stay the same, whether I'm at home or not at home, so there is no definable lighting signature to use to figure out if I'm not at home or not.
I'm just wondering if it will run on TempleOS.
Thanks mathattack on the reply. What you're saying is true.
One more reason for the local community to own the last mile: more control over such devices.
It is a great deal more flexible having concurrency constructs built as library features as opposed to baked into the language. If the constructs provided don't make the same performance tradeoffs that your use case demands, you can build your own. These can provide safe, statically verified APIs by leveraging Rust's ownership and lifetime semantics.

Unfortunately channel selection and futures are still pretty raw at the moment (it remains to be seen if it will be ready for 1.0), but other constructs such as threads, channels and mutexes are looking pretty strong for 1.0.
Seriously, I did not understand this article. Hype.
A quick explanation of my downvote: You seem to be mistaking "I know the answer" for "everybody should know the answer".

You could have written basically the same reply, but starting out with, "Hey, those are good questions. Because of my time in the academic world, I happen to know some of the answers. Let me see if I can help."

But instead you had to be a dick. That's undeniably fun, but contempt for people asking reasonable questions doesn't make them smarter; it just stops them from asking questions.
Yes, lack of insulation is definitely a problem for me. I currently have no insulation (including the attic because of a rat problem that was there before I moved in). I do have wireless temperature sensors in various rooms to try to figure out how my house reacts to various weather, and I'm not sure how much adding insulation will actually help me, vs the cost of injecting insulation into the walls, etc. I'm probably going to get attic insulation before summer next year though, but to be honest, the temperature didn't get too crazy this year, despite several days of 90-100 degree weather, so I'm a bit skeptical.
vacuum cleaner, washer, dryer and dish washer must be big consumers too.
If that's true, then he picked very well. The X60 is pretty close to being my all time favorite kit. It's easier to carry around and packs more kick than an older Atom (certainly with Linux). I can see why he would choose it.

I actually haven't heard of LibreBoot before. Seems like a very ambitious project, but fits perfectly with RMS' beliefs http://www.libreboot.org/
'Foodini' machine lets you print edible burgers, pizza
If you get the Samsung screen replacement, you won't get any image retention. Although there is a trade off, the Samsung screens have more yellow whites and the contrast is less (I remember black being as black as the bevel with the LG screen). I wish I could've won the lottery and gotten one of those LGs without any retention.
Sometimes it's not even obscure OS/browser combinations--I've seen sites that were clearly designed on a Mac and never tested on Windows, because the text is completely unreadable on Windows 7 in any browser. I'm all for web fonts, but designers have to test them across at least the major platforms.
8 months since I stopped working on the failed startup. Learnt how to code in Ruby on Rails by building small side projects in the evenings/weekends & also worked full time in the last 8 months. Going to start working on something again from this week. Life has brought me back to where I was before - but with a few lessons learnt, better skills & more humility than last time.
If you have kids then you get to specify somewhat how you want them to be raised.

Regardless, it is believed that you owe it to the people you leave behind to be clear with your intentions. People dying intestate is a massive drain on society, and it often brings out the worst in people.

Of course, the opposing argument is "yeah but I'll be dead so what do I care?" and to be honest it's hard to argue with this.

If I may give a couple of my own personal reasons:

1) It's not that hard. My first one was written at a "Will Writing Party" where no-one had kids, so we all just either left everything to our partner or to be divided up among our siblings. One guy had neither so his estate was bequeathed to his parents, and if they were no longer alive to everyone in attendance at the party (except one poor person who was to be the witness and therefore excluded from being recipient to the estate). For most of us the will we wrote at that party served us until we married.

2) It forces you to think about "the end." Stephen Covey first highlighted the importance of "beginning with the end in mind," and it's something that everyone just puts out of their mind as long as they are able.

Also in my case, I married someone for their child-raising skills rather than their ability to climb the corporate ladder (not that these are mutually exclusive), and sitting down to rewrite a will forced me to think about the added cost of term life insurance because I was taking her prime marrying years from her, and I don't want to leave her unable to remarry and only suited for unskilled labor with no cushion. My wife is also a basket case with investments so you can have some say in that regard too.

3) It forms evidence if you have to show proof of your commitment to someone. In my case our respective wills formed part of the evidence when applying for my wife's visa.
I went and lived in a monastery for a little over a year. Then started something new. Couldn't stay away for long.
That's irrelevant because it is illegal to go above 400ft with a model aircraft, which is before the zones balloon out any anyway. It's like saying being illegal once over or twice over matters.
"Amazon does check your [...] MAC address"

How, perchance, does Amazon manage _that_ feat, exactly?
Republicans Are Only Sometimes the Party of Uber
Just last month, there was an win32k update for which the Win8.0 version failed to install on machines that was in-place upgraded. Only the Win8.0 (aka NT 6.2) version had the problem.
Show HN: Opportunist Chef, kickstarts his mission to feed the world
Portland, OR (USA)November 8th, 2014 — Chef Steven Ferneding is an explorer turned esteemed chef who is hungry for change, his mission: to feed the world.

Chef Steven Ferneding has launched a Kickstarter project with the hopes of raising $10,000.00 to start his own television show called Trading Dishes. Trading Dishes will feature Chef Steven Ferneding as he travels the globe to the worlds most interesting climates, as he measures the impact of environmental destruction, at the level of the dining room table. Chef Ferneding will take you on an adventure of a lifetime, as he explores different culture’s local ingredients and teaches the world unique and nutritious ways to bring communities together. “We are currently trying to raise $10,000 to film the pilot for this series, with your support we can feed the world, one dish at a time” states Chef Ferneding.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2007145999/trading-dishes
Doing a startup with a sibling, that's always intrigued me. I've thought about talking to my brother about it a few times. Just feels like it might be incurring too much risk to the personal relationship. What is your experience of that aspect of doing a startup like?

Kudos got knowing what you want and going for it.
It doesn't have hardware video acceleration, unfortunately.
Perhaps a naive question but... what is this useful for?
Malware Analysis Using Visualization (2013) [pdf]
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2007145999/trading-dish...