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> You must be under 25

Great to see you fall to personal attacks in attempt of proving your point. You are wrong btw...

The point I'm making and the point you're missing is that any regulations/legislation is not going to change anything overnight. It will take years, no matter what it done. Perhaps longer with legislation due to the speed of government.

A slowly rolled out, 5-8 year legislated plan is a lot worse than a slowly ramped up 5-8 year private business competition and proliferation.

When businesses compete, the consumer wins. When businesses get regulated but still have no competition, the consumer loses. You seem to be completely glossing over this very important point. We need more competition -- not more regulation.

One does not simply regulate their way into competition.

> At one time, the USPS did mostly one thing, delivering first class mail and they did it really well, to anywhere in the US for like 10 cents

There are realities here you are not addressing. Dramatic increase in gasoline prices -- dramatic decrease in volume of mail, to name a few. This is why the USPS system is struggling today, and the reason they've been allowed to mostly "go private". The old system was also heavily subsidized by the US Gov't, which isn't happening anymore.

If you look at package mail transport (since only USPS can deliver letters to mailboxes), the competition is fierce between USPS, FedEX and UPS. Often times, UPS/FedEX are a lot cheaper to send a package through. (I know because I work for an distribution company w/ warehouse). We've seen some initiatives from USPS to recapture the package shipment market since they went privatish with their "if it fits, it ships campaign", but they still have a long ways to go. This is a great example where private companies in competition have way outbeat the regulated portions in the same industry.

You're "we should regulate today to save tomorrow" attitude holds no water here. Contrary, we should develop today to save tomorrow; develop more competition.
"such as the fact that their paper is published in a philosophy journal, and the guy having a history degree instead of a physics degree."

"-- argument from authority, very unscientific. If an unemployed poodle shaver publishes a replicable experiment, it is science."

Not only is it an unscientific argument, it's just wrong. The guy did his undergraduate and masters in physics, then switched to history of science for his doctorate because he realized that nobody was going to fund what he wanted to work on and he needed a job. He also works with other physicists who do have doctorates in physics.
So they can retire a complete feature, reducing complexity.
You might be interested to learn that so far since the major deregulation wave in electric utilities over the past 20 years or so, no one has been able to show any real pricing benefits for the end consumer.

Certain industries are inherently slanted towards a monopoly, and a regulated monopoly is often preferable to an attempt at forcing market conditions. The two industries aren't the same, and I think electric/gas utilities are significantly more inclined towards a natural monopoly, but it is important to realize what situation we currently have, rather than applying an idealized narrative.
What's unrealistic about this is the idea that you'd ever, under any circumstances, give 100% of yourself to your children. That's not a grown-up perspective on parenthood.
I think that would depend on how it is marketed. If they clearly state that it's a novel effect and that it's really likely that it will turn out to be a measurement error, then nobody can accuse them of being dishonest.
Simultaneously running a safe browser and an unsafe browser and hoping you never open a link in the wrong one seems fraught with peril.
And even if you’re successful, your new partners will be heavily involved in just about every decision that concerns strategy and direction.

This sounds like the best reason of all to avoid VC. I don't know about you, but I don't need some wannabe who think he/she is a brilliant strategist, but who knows nothing about our business, our market(s), our technology, our mission, our values, or anything else, coming in and trying to dictate our strategy. As far as I'm concerned, all I would really want from a VC would be money, and - if they actually have useful connections - some introductions / emails / phone calls to help us get in the door with prospective customers. But strategy? Thanks, but no thanks. That's the founding team's job, IMO.
Is that Microsoft's "Pointer Events" that Google has decided not to support?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google...
I think your old boss's meaning was pretty much the opposite -- 10 years of deep experience in a field can be much better than 10 years spent hopping around from job to job across fields. Applied to programming, this would be something like "I want someone who has been doing ML for 10 years, not someone who has been hopping from hot trend to hot trend every year and just now happens to be doing ML".
var and = require('101/and');

and(true, false); // false

and(true, true); // true

I'm not convinced that there's a real need for that. Anyone else have a good use for something like that? Looks like it doesn't even take more than two arguments
By the way, it'd be seriously cool to find a good tutorial about gdb. I've been using it for years, but just the basic operations...
If you want, contact me at corey@sofetch.io, and we can talk about how far along you are? If the platform is 50%+ finished, we may be able to take it on, knock it out, and consume a hefty % of equity.

I run sofetch.io, we build and design web and mobile apps.
Wow - def one of the best Show HN's I've seen in months. Using it now for several of my accounts.

This is something I would pay for!

One thing I would like to see is the ability to put my own RSS feeds in there.

5 stars.
"nobody was going to fund what he wanted to work on and he needed a job."

That's very logical -- it's incredibly hard to fund anything speculative.

My underlying point is that being honestly wrong doesn't make you a pseudoscientist, and should not result in character assassination or claims of being a fraud or a quack. That sort of thing contributes to a climate of dogmatism and extreme risk aversion in science that more or less guarantees that nothing new will ever be discovered.
With magnetic bearings in vacuum and superconductor for the coil the only energy loses would be the ones that this theory predicts due to mass fluctuations I think?

So either it does nothing and stays where it is, or it converts energy into movement at 100% efficiency?
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Synbiota Raises Over $3M Dollars
I can't find the research study now but there was one done in Sweden which concluded that in countries with more economic freedom to choose careers women choose non-STEM careers unlike India and Pakistan where careers are still largely motivated by economic incentives.
This is probably impossible to do, but it would be very interesting to contrast these anecdotes with anecdotes from women who could have become technology startup founders, but didn't for some reason.

YC's stories are awesome and these entrepreneurs will serve as important role models for young women. They unfortunately contain a "survivor bias" though, and there may be many other hidden factors preventing other potential female entrepreneurs from following in their footsteps.

I don't mean this as a criticism at all though. This effort by YC is a tremendous first step and for the sake of my daughter and young girls everywhere, I hope they continue.

EDIT: I'd love to hear the sentiment behind the downvotes. Hopefully I didn't come across critical of YC's effort here; that wasn't my intention at all. This is an important issue and I suspect the stories of those who were deterred are just as informative as those who have gotten this far.
Well, I don't disagree with any of that. I wrote my comments in a bad mood and they came out harsher than I wish they had. I'm just thinking that if I was the author of dbus, I wouldn't engage the noise on HN. It was an honest question and I got an honest reply, and that's great.

Hey, all I did in my comment was to quote from the spec. My complaint (well, one of them) is that it's a "binary" protocol but it requires parsing just like an ascii protocol, it encodes data as ascii values and it even embeds a full ascii protocol in the auth sequence. (not to mention XML for reflection with an embedded type DSL in attributes, ...)
Actually the whole idea is based on general relativity.
Also, another option is BlankStore [1]. it appears as if development has stopped and Raccoon may be a better option at this point, but it still works for me on 4.4.4 and gives me pretty consistent access straight from my phone, save for paid apps.

[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715375
>I'm not aware of any large ISP that has throttles or bandwidth caps (comcast has a supposed 300GB cap but has never to this day enforced it).

Then you haven't been paying attention[1]. I live in one of these areas, and have already been getting 1-2 robocalls a day this month about my data usage. They're calling it a "trial", but the costs are very real, and it's all in place to go national when people here don't complain enough. If I go over in the next two months, I will start getting hit with that charge.

[1] https://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/data-...
You're right, it doesn't. Think a little harder.
> 200 bucks for us to say he's cool

There are trusted free certificates as well, like the ones from StartSSL.

> if a bank pays 10,000 bucks for a really cool verification, they get a giant green pulsating URL badge

Yeah, $10 000 and legal documentation proving that they are exactly the same legal entity as the one stated on the certificated. All verified by a provider that's been deemed trustworthy by your browser's developers.

Finally, if a certificate is self-signed, it generally should be a large warning to most users: the certificate was made by an unknown entity, and anybody may be intercepting the comunication. Power-users understand when self-signed CAs are used, but they don't get scared of red warnings either, so that's not an issue.
I really don't understand why anyone would want to use this.
CQRS – A Step-by-Step Guide to the Flow of a Typical Application
Interesting. I've thought about this exact topic before and I think his point shouldn't be dismissed so lightly.

What got me thinking about this was an occasion (years ago) when I read a proof in which I didn't understand the jump from one assertion to the next one. It occurred to me then that the atomicity in these proofs (on which the entire structure stands) boils down to steps which are considered to be obvious. However "obvious" is a relative term, not an absolute one. So, at least as most proofs are concerned (and most proofs are not machine generated), his point is valid.

As for systems like Metamath - how rigorous are the proofs that the software is bug free ?

If you really want to philosophise over this, I'd even suggest that ultimately one can't really prove anything. At most, you can believe some assertion is correct to the degree you trust your senses, memory and logic - but I'll stop before this devolves into metaphysics...
Basically: fund this idea if you want the 7mm future device to happen because at this moment the dye sub printer looks superior. Some dye sub printers have the ink and the paper together in one cartridge. If not, then you can have multiple paper size -- think stickers. While larger than a smartphone, they can have a comparable footprint to a 7" tablet, for eg. compare the Canon CP 910 at 178 x 128 x 60.5 mm to a Nexus 7 tablet at 198.5 x 120 x 10.45 mm.
OCaml has an extremely predictable memory usage. Part III of Real World OCaml covers this is great detail[1]

GC pauses haven't hurt us really. We usually just spawn a ton of processes so if one process pauses a bit to GC we won't notice.

The module system is awesome. It's something i plan to cover next time I find the time to extend the article.

[1] https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/pt03.html
I didn't downvote you, but you allude to vague advantages that women get over men, ignoring the fact that, well, all evidence is that we (men) are the privileged class.

Studies have shown that, as a man, I'm less likely to be interrupted in meetings, more likely to have my opinion listened to, will likely have a higher salary, and will less likely be driven out by an oppressive environment.

White male Christians think they're the most oppressed group. Studies typically find otherwise, though. If you want to argue that women have the advantage, you're going to need to provide some good evidence. Extraordinary claims, y'know?
Hey dude I'm on your side on this issue, I wholeheartedly see everything you say. By saying "why complain" my target was those dictatorship-practising web instances and the thing is to remind them that nothing's irreplecable, particularly on the Internet.
> This accomplishes Node in the enterprise, I guess?

It accomplishes node sitting on zLinux which can connect to your transactional systems (where the unimportant stuff like multibillion dollar financials live) over hipersockets. Not as sexy as twitter, but probably lets you make more money.

> Where can we find rockstar mainframe programmers?

All over the place. If your value of rockstar involves "dealing with massive financial transaction workloads by being able to drop into assembler on an as-needed basis while keeping forty years of business logic and code in your head." Which isn't as sexy as continually throwing things away because SQUIRREL, I guess.
So the opportunity cost is not developing a drug and stuffing the money into a mattress. Sounds like a good trade-off.
The grey boxes are the input to the REPL. You should be able to just copy paste the contents of any of the boxes. The green boxes are the output of the REPL.
Technical debt: What it is and why you should care
Add new String(...) and new Boolean(...) to the is-(boolean|object|string) test cases for surprising fun, OP, then check out Object.prototype.toString.call(...).
Well, the people buying would probably be those who were interested in buying iron beams to start with, then saw some guy selling them at the price of a wood beam.
I did not understand the sentence that way even after reading multiple times but that seems to make sense now. I must have been too biased when reading it before. Thank you for pointing this out.
I submitted it with the title "Wikimedia has completed its migration from Bugzilla to Phabricator".
I'd be interested in picking one up so I can print little pictures of my niece (and future nieces and nephews) on the fly for their enjoyment, but Dec 2015 is just a bit further away than I'd like.

Happy to pick one up when they're out for realsies though, hope you reach your funding goal!
This is fundamentally a "biological sciences are eating everything" piece - that we can explain all of the human experience through a bunch of biochemical reactions in our grey matter, and thus working on philosophy in other ways (making models and assertions experientially) is no longer a valid way to get to truth.

I'd argue that doing a biochemical reverse engineering of even one person's brains is impractical, and more likely to tell you about their food or companionship preferences than anything profound.

Just like newtonian mechanics is still useful in the age of quantum mechanics, classical philosophy and religion is still valuable, well tested, and empirically useful, even if it isn't verifiably true, as making a verifiable answer is far beyond (and likely will remain far beyond) our current capabilities.
Some positive discussion: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/11/24/the_cost_of_... http://lifescivc.com/2014/11/a-billion-here-a-billion-there-...
It's a great project to teach yourself something but I don't really see why people might want to use this over lodash/underscore?

For example, `exists` function can not really help with undeclared variables. At the end of day you have to use `typeof something !== 'undefined'`. I don't really understand what this library is trying to solve
As for systems like Metamath - how rigorous are the proofs that the software is bug free ?

The formal system itself is transparently simple. You can easily verify the proofs by hand. Also the system has been reimplemented in several languages.
Show HN: T160K - crowdfunding for culture in Africa
Hi HN,

I'm pleased to announce our new social purpose startup T160K https://t160k.org, and would love to have your honest feedback!

We just launched the platform a few days ago and I would really appreciate having some new eyes and perspectives on the site that are unbiased by working so closely with it.

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Tom
Countries with lower levels of economic development often have the highest ratios of female engineers and wealthier countries often have the lowest ratios.

One explanation is once you're free to do whatever you want and you don't have to worry about expectations or putting food on the table so much, the influence of subtle innate genetic preferences actually become much more apparent in some ways.

However, this explanation goes against the rules of the western view that predominates, that the gender ratio of fewer women in some area (but often not when there are fewer men in some area) mean is proof in point that women are being harmed and should be given assistance.

If discrimination causes the difference, why do countries like Iran or Saudi Arabia have around the highest ratios of female engineers and countries like the Netherlands or Norway around the lowest?
Reminds me I need to get back to working on my VAX-11/730. Nethack isn't going to play itself...
I think people here aren't getting what this is. It looks like it transfers the image from the phone to a polaroid film cartridge optically. It's basically a smartphone version of a Daylab enlarger.

Which is super-bleeding-cool, because there aren't many important moving parts not provided by the smartphone or the film cartridge. It's not a scanner and a printer. The only way to beam an image to it over bluetooth would be to embed a smartphone screen and backlight into it, which I gather it is not doing. It's taking an analog "contact print."
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In my experience the phrase has the meaning that twic described.
Yay, taking quotes out of context!

She became "ninety-nine percent convinced." She started out skeptical until she investigated it thoroughly.

"Sitting in peer-reviewed literature" only applies to "something obviously wrong with it." He's saying that, if there's a flaw, it must be subtle. That's not saying "therefore it must be right" but merely that there are no obvious flaws.

And for space industry investment, I really don't see the problem here regardless of the context. Imagine, for a moment, that this was a completely legitimate thing that failed to attract any investment. Why would he not say those exact words? If this is something that could be said both by a kook and a legitimate scientist working on a legitimate theory, does that not mean the statement has no deciding power?
My six-year-old enjoys games on the Atari 800 I cleaned up for a collection 10 years ago. Lots of this stuff is pretty timeless.
You should check out these things called "rockets" that have been doing that for many decades now.
Have you looked into AppNexus?
I think the point is a bit moot. Since it’s just JavaScript, you can put pretty much any logic in a React component just like you could also put any kind of logic in an PHP template or inside a view in iOS.
Medium open sources its data visualization tool
For a dynamic library you need to ensure your source will work with the version range the package manager allows to be installed. Which may or may not be the most up to date version.

Subtle things in dynamic linking may break applications when dependency versions are changed.

Static linking lets you bundle whatever version is known to work, including the most up to date versions.
I don't think your last sentence is a at all true.

all cultural, mutable, consensus based concepts are more easily learned as a child

There are many "hobbies" that have a cultural component. It helps to learn these earlier, because it removes cognitive overhead during later studies. But its simply not true that children are better at learning everything. They are hard-wired for language tho. Plenty of other things they are un/der developed for.
How launching on Android brought a flood of iOS users
OP was asking about `Chrome apps`
If you look at the decision-makers in media outlets--printed, TV, radio, or Internet--you'll find the majority are male.

Men still run the narrative. Just some of us are realizing that the narrative should support equality.
Programming languages are absolutely for communicating with humans. Source comments are just one trivial proof of that.
Yeah, this is awesome... If gcc or the linux kernel compiled in 10 seconds, the world would be a better place.
Seriously, Redmine is your standard? It has to be one of the clunkiest, slowest and all around uncomfortable project management tools out there. We use it at our place of work, and out of 30+ developers, only a handful of people are content with it.
anyone can make an arrest, but campus police et al can't shoot you legally as the government police can, they can't call in other branches of government like swat or air support or even the military, they can't take you to jail, after an arrest they need to call the real police. There's a big difference between campus police which are benign and the regular government police. sometimes (as at UC Davis) the campus police get ahead of themselves and start acting like the real police, but thankfully they can be reigned in, unlike the real cops who can do whatever they want and get away with it.
> He's also excited about the prospect of most math papers publishing machine-checked proofs.

Apparently the feels he can't be sure of the correctness of his own papers without machine checked proofs anymore, and he's a Fields medal winner:

I now do my mathematics with a proof assistant and do not have to worry
all the time about mistakes in my arguments or about how to convince
others that my arguments are correct.

But I think that the sense of urgency that pushed me to hurry with the
program remains. Sooner or later computer proof assistants will become
the norm, but the longer this process takes the more misery associated
with mistakes and with unnecessary self-verification the practitioners of the
field will have to endure

(from this http://www.math.ias.edu/~vladimir/Site3/Univalent_Foundation...)