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Almost every sentence you wrote is wrong...

All regulation is not "bad" or you must be totally ignorant on the history of regulation in the US and having some regulation does not mean being "heavily regulated".

Nothing that has been regulated has ever done better then the free market? One example you give, the USPS is certainly not becoming better because of being privatized. You must be under 25... 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. It WAS THE MODEL for the rest of the world. Now? They raise first class postage like every six months and keep entering into more deals with direct marketers to distribute even more junk mail to us. Not better...

Hey, totally government controlled nor a "free market" is going to be the answer. Any solution will take time and one thing we can't do right now is end Net Neutrality which will only make things worse. I have said this like 10x now in this thread...
reducing the mass of something by relativistic acceleration is easy, especially if that something is electrons. Keeping in mind that magnetism itself is exactly a relativistic effect of reducing the charge density of electrons.

Although such an effect should be about 10^-35 of "what you could get from electromagnetism".
Oh, I didn't mean to criticize either of those languages, just to point out that SV developers are a tiny, tiny minority among the software community, and their early adopter style is not shared by the industry at large. Switching programming languages carries immense costs (probably in the billions of dollars across the industry), and companies make it only when the benefits are dramatic and incontrovertible. Most companies wouldn't even consider switching a programming language more than once in a decade, and some would only consider such a switch every 15 years or so.
Not true in the embedded world. Remote gab will use tag commands, which are fascinating. Basically it's a whole different world. Processors have dedicated hardware support for debugging, far beyond traps and exceptions.
Trunkster: Zipperless Luggage with GPS + Battery + Scale
I agree with much of what ianamartin said. Google is unlike most big companies in that it thinks 10 to 20 years out (but pays scant attention to short-term strategies). Their problem as I see it is not to have great products in 10 years but to build a bridge from here-and-now to the 10-year mark. Clearly, their ad model is fading in significance. Ad spends are shifting (rapidly) from classic PPC search ads to timeline ads (on FB, TWTR, Pinterest, and other "timeline providers") and "native" content ads. In the meantime, Google has suffered a lack of focus, spreading itself rather thinly over a large surface area of products and projects that haven't become big moneymakers. Its efforts in social media (Google+) have brought mixed success. With the decline of classic PPC search ads, the SEO value of Google+ has become moot. Google is attempting to compete with Amazon in cloud services but is unlikely to get further than "also-ran" status.

Over the short term, Google will remain profitable, but whether it can build a bridge to a future of driverless cars, etc., is less certain.

$0.02
This approach is what chess pedagogue, Dan Heisman, would call "hope chess." Which is in contrast to the superior approach of full calculations.
Be careful stripping the wires...
IIRC, Netflix uses a no plugin mode in Safari on Yosemite.
I have some thoughts on 2 and 3.

2. I wholly support helping underrepresented minorities in tech because I believe in fairness. But anytime gender or race is involved, then the topic is political by definition. I follow the White House on twitter and a ton of their tweets are about equal pay. Both Romney and McCain addressed this issue during their campaigns and were criticized for their responses.

Yes, it is a political tool. But just because politicians are involved does not make it a gimmick.

3. I agree that the ideal scenario is for tech to be one of the career choices. The problem is people are pushed away from certain fields. Coming to the US to work on a H1B is made easier because many Indians and Chinese have done it before us. Having people who look like me achieve something is a great self confidence boost and motivator. Unfortunately, other minorities groups do not have this benefit.

Perhaps Neil deGrasse Tyson can explain it better than me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inz1sdhsMCU
If I understand correctly, that would be under the theoretical assumption that you can perform computations on numbers that require infinitely many bits (or at least, likely, exponentially many bits) to represent in constant time, which is an assumption that you are not just generally allowed to make.
It's amazing that so many embedded processors do this now. Back in the day, you needed to use a special-purpose processor (which had extra pinouts) to do this as part of an in-circuit emulator.
Android drone tracks you by computer vision
If both sides can agree on an arbitrator, you don't need to have anything be binding, they can just agree to arbitration.

Binding arbitration clauses that just say both sides have to agree on an arbitrator aren't really a thing. That would be an 'agreement to agree' which in some jurisdictions is even void, because it's impossible to sue anyone over a breach of it. (Whose breach is it when two parties couldn't agree an arbitrator? Well, both, and neither).

So binding arbitration clauses either specify an arbitrator in the contract or allow one of the parties (guess which) to choose at runtime. The slack one is the former, it specifies one called 'JAMS ADR'.
Every time I saw a project management tool I instantly want to compare it to redmine which is based on Ruby. I failed to see obvious advantages from Phabricator yet.
thanks,

regarding your feedback, I don't see any shadow in FF! The CSS is not mine, and there's indeed a `text-shadow` set for the text so I've removed it. Let me know if it's still bad, and maybe which browser you're using
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It's a tragedy that ptrace is being portrayed as anything other than an entirely regrettable artifact of history. It's a terrible, terrible interface -- one of the worst in all of Unix, really (and yes, I understand the gravity of that claim). This is reminding me that I really need to write that blog post that excoriates ptrace -- and explain how frustrations with ptrace informed the development of /proc[1][2].

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/eschrock/2004/06/25/a-brief-history-...

[2] http://illumos.org/man/4/proc
You don't, by design. You improve the browser to expose the functionality you need with a sandboxed API, or you communicate with a separate program that runs entirely outside the browser.

If you want to support a pen or stylus, you add a pen/stylus API to Chrome.
So, a change in the movement (flux) inside a capacitor is the key? A "flux capacitor" you say?
I may be a bit dense, but your comment doesn't seem to relate to the article I just read. Is this the wrong thread or am I missing something?

EDIT: I have to be missing something. Half the comments here talk about arbitration, but that word doesn't appear once in the blog post. Was it edited?
I have been interested in OCaml for a while, and this is a nice piece. One question, though - some of the examples start like this:

- :

Is that the prompt from the OCaml REPL (does OCaml have a REPL)?

EDIT: I think I misread things - it's the output from the examples that has the "- :" prefix, so I'm guessing it is REPL output.
The outsourcing companies (Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant etc) would have to be banned from getting H1-Bs as well for this to happen. American companies usually hire Indians who are here for a Masters in CS degree and there aren't that many of them.
How do I get downvote access? I'm jelly.
The bureaucracy at NASA is stifling. Slicing up a relatively small budget (compared to spending on finance, defense, and everything other than science) means that the majority of dream research is simply not undertaken.

If the barriers to funding were (sensibly) removed, academia, and institutions like NASA, would flourish - and we'd see huge leaps forward for humanity.
Eric Mill's excellent post about Slack's new arbitration clause was just merged into this thread by the moderators. Here is the URL:

https://konklone.com/post/slack-is-now-forcing-users-into-ar...

The post is titled "Slack is now forcing users into arbitration and that is terrible." I highly recommend reading it, as there's no mention of the arbitration ToS change in Slack's own blog post.

Edit: Also worth reading the ongoing conversation between Stewart Butterfield (Slack CEO) and Konklone on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stewart/status/536975596920635393
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They have an experimental setup that spits out some data. That data goes against the theory of general relativity. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The article also sets off various other pseudoscience alarm bells, 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. But that goes against the naive rebellious spirit of HN that dictates that anybody can overthrow fundamental physics with an experimental setup in his basement, so downvote away!
Very true. Companies are so willing to give their data away to the cloud, be it email and chat (Google Apps, Slack) or source code (GitHub, Bitbucket). Companies are getting cheaper to run, but that comes at a cost of leaking data to 3rd party companies. Rarely do new companies have the data infrastructure to keep everything internal.
Yeah - I actually need to add a lot of new functionality and change the language, so it might take me a while longer. Still pretty cool. Refactoring can be fun.
If you would have looked at two more Wikipedia articles you would have known the following:

Integer factorization is likely not an NP-complete problem at all. It is suspected (but not proven) not to be in the class of NP-complete problems. There is no reason to believe that an NP-complete problem solver can factorize integers in polynomial time.

Contrary to this machine it has been shown that quantum computers can solve the integer factorization problem in polynomial time through Shor's algorithm. But quantum computers are not known to be able to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time.

Even quantum computers are far off factoring the RSA numbers because of the practicalities of the real world. The current world record Shor's algorithm computation is finding that 15 = 3 x 5.
OO vs. FP
> basically all modern distros shipping SELinux as default.

No on ArchLinux, Gentoo, and apparently, not on Debian.

I also remember that the default settings were not sane on older versions of Fedora (this may have since changed): sshd would get killed by selinux because of some "violation". I never managed to understand what it was, and since sshd is kind of critical, I disabled SELinux so I could be sure not to lose access to that machine.

The added problem regarding SELinux is that most user's have no idea how it works, and there's no "short" explanation for it. Even after reading the entire wikipedia article, I'm left scratching my head wondering how it work or how one would use it.

OTOH, file modes, for example , are explained in a single paragraph, and is something extremely easy to understand.
You're right and my comment was only directed to the topic at hand which is a stereotypical male profession. Naturally other professions may need a different solution to their problem.

Regardless I don't think this is something that is going to be resolved anytime soon.
Thanks! I'll look into that.

Currently I'm piping evdev (ie /dev/input/event*) events through a WebSocket for use in my own personal apps/experiments on Linux. I'd love to see browser pen support though... maybe something could be added to Touch Events? It's just such a nice, precise form of input.
I don't see where your comment addresses my sentiment that childcare is more of an issue for women than men? It seems to be talking about the risks of having childcare through an employer, which is valid (like healthcare) but a different aspect of the topic.
I never had access to the low-level part of embedded systems, although I did my PhD on embedded systems debugging in an embedded system company! what I saw was what was running on the PC and communicating with the JTAG external interface (basically, a `gdbserver` implementation). At that level, that was nothing more than ptrace. Under that, I can't say!
The changes to the Terms of Service (linked from the blog post) include a new binding arbitration clause.
Chromium can use Chrome's flash. Unfortunately, it's not distributed separately from Chrome. This is how Arch LInux pulls it out: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ch/chromium-pepper-flash/...
Yes you can, I do it on gentoo.
Piccolo is a neat little plotter/drawing robot that's open hardware: http://www.piccolo.cc/

Unfortunately it seems nobody offers a full kit, so you'll have to gather materials yourself. It looks like it'll take four or five orders... ponoko for the laser cut parts, seeed studio for the pcb, hobby king for motors, and so on. Also not sure it fulfills the "build on top of that" requirement either, though after it is built you could spend lots of time learning programming to make it draw cool things. Think LOGO with an actual pen!
Only if you consider computers to be people. Human languages are for communicating with humans. Programming languages are for communicating with computers.

For example, this week I've been hanging out on a couple of open-source project IRC channels. People aren't talking to each other in Python or Java on those channels.
how do you imagine this would work?
I upvoted because you make a good point, but others are likely downvoting you because starting with "No." tends to shut down discussions instead of feeding them.
Nicely executed, although no use to me since I don't live in the US (and am pretty proficient at finding travel options anyway). Impressed that you have bus and train options in there even though you make far more if they pay for the flights, but would suggest an option to exclude bus and train journeys which are four or more hours longer than the equivalent flight is a good idea for those who don't like long travels, if only to cut average search time. In future car hire providers offering 1 way travel (and affiliate relationships) should be a consideration too.

Would suggest that allowing a little more flexibility on duration (e.g. minimum and maximum time spent per place) might be worthwhile although I realise it makes the calculation a lot more complex.

More straightforwardly, I would suggest highlighting the start and finish dates above the full itinerary data with "earlier" and "later" options so if the "about three months" search suggests a result which is just a few days too early/later you can rerun a similarly broad search which will ensure you return the week before/after if not earlier/later. That would be much better than having to rerun the search with a quite specific date in mind.
It would benefit immigrants too if the immigration process were structured in a way that didn't relegate them to serfs to a single company.
> IBM wheels in a Z then students compete in a set of instructions and if student is precise; which is the key element of a mainframer they will get everything from iPads to instant graduate intake at one of IBMs customers on a high six figure salary.

Sounds fun!
But that's just a Chrome-only solution again, requiring you to use a different method for each browser. A plugin at least gives you a few ones in one solution.
Phabricator is way better if most of your users are readonly. It's also more actively developed and is a bit faster.
It might have happened between when I'd originally registered and the present. It does make sense as SourceForge was providing free FTP uploads for binaries at the time and the automated tools to handle abuse were pretty poor. Lots of folks were looking to abuse it for bandwidth and malware distribution. The tools are better now, which is one reason Github finally added binary releases last year.
I've been looking for something that's both useful for me personally to check out the current work available and that works as an employer. I think this is it.

It's incredibly difficult as an employer to convey exactly what the job will involve. Unless you're hiring a direct replacement of somebody you likely won't know what it is they'll be working on. Equally, as a developer, it's easy to see a job spec as a pack of lies, which they often are, and it can be hard to break into a slightly different role. A recruiter's aim is to fill the jobs their clients are paying them to fill and not to advance careers of candidates. I believe this [will] solve the problems in the current recruitment industry from the perspective of both invested parties.

I fully expect this to stir the waters of technical recruitment, so best of luck to you both.
Haha! I really like this as a quote.
I find webgl to be completely unusable on linux; I have one box with a radeon and another with an nvidia. The nvidia one kind-of-sort-of works.

I had to completely turn off accelerated rendering in chromium on the radeon box, or I would get extreme display corruption on even on non webgl pages.
# let x = 5;;
val x : int = 5
#

that's what the REPL looks like on my end
I wasn't suggesting that Devlin was ignoring them, I was responding to my comment's parent that mathematicians he knows are ignorant of them, which I tried to make clear by saying "those mathematicians".
Looks like another thread was merged here.
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Try to crowd fund this and you'll bring out hordes and hordes of Skeptic Movement Skeptics who will scream "con man!" and "pseudoscience!" and do everything they can to sabotage the campaign. Kickstarter would probably start getting e-mail campaign letters to de-list his account for fraud, etc.

You see, he needs more money to try to boost the signal and further test the effect. But since the effect is novel and controversial, attempting to raise such money means he's a con man and invites comparisons to that e-Cat dude from Bologna.

If I were him I would avoid publicity outside the scientific community simply to avoid the character assassination. I'd work with interested other scientists and publish in obscure journals until I could either find the flaw my measurements or generate data so unambiguous that it overcomes the howling.
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Here are some ideas . . . (some are probably more advanced for 6 year olds . . . but will give you ideas for the future).

magnatiles, squares and triangles that snap together to make buildings and other structures, high quality and all kids love them. (they are pricey but this is one of the best toys we ever bought, now at target).
http://www.amazon.com/Magna-Tiles%C2%AE-Clear-Colors-100-Pie...

Legos in general . . . are great. Mixels are popular now and give you a lot of creative options to combine them.

Consider lego mindstorms a little advance for 6 but something you could build projects on together. (check out the Lego Jr. FLL program and FLL robotics competitions for kids).

The snap circuit sets are fun, again something you can do together initially.

html/css is always fun for kids, get them a domain and hosting and start teaching the basics.

There are lots of great how things work books out there and lots of great documentaries on netflix.

Create a water board . . . get a square piece of plywood and attach tubes, containers and help them set it up to flow top to bottom (great fun in the summer).
I hate to be this guy, but learning FP techniques that aren't available in my day to day language isn't terribly exciting. I want to see a short term benefit, so JS or Java focused articles and books are golden for me.
Yes. If you Google "slack ycombinator", you'll see the original title in the results (as of 12:26 PST). Edit: also, as another commenter said, it was merged.
Enlightening... does anyone know if you can turn on/off the backlight of a single key on a macbook pro/air keyboard?
That is how it works.
"It’s worth repeating – Compliance Exports are not retroactive and do not apply to past private conversations before the feature is enabled."
Which has left us more capable of remembering other things, right?
True, but, that is not the issue. While both men and women are indeed needed for baby-making, the burden of child care falls disproportionately on women in our society. So, male founders with young children can reasonably expect their child to be cared for by their partner while they dedicate all of their time to YC. But, the same cannot be said of potential female founders. It is not sexist to recognize this unfortunate state of affairs and suggest that child care support be considered an issue particularly important to women.

Thus, since YC expects their founders to spend most of their waking hours working on their start-up, they need to provide adequate child care support, if they want to have women with children among their founders (at least, those who are not already extremely rich and can afford the outrageous child care rates in SF).
15 Find known tools to be insufficient

That's always been a big driver for my learning. If I could do the job with the tools I already know, my drive to learn new tools is somewhat diminished.
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In the US, document discovery for litigation typically falls on the defendant. So a company that's being sued is required under the law to produce relevant business records and communications. If it's hard to access such "documents" en masse and export them for legal review, then businesses which must deal with nontrivial litigation requirements (the threshold is often right around the $1B/annual revenue mark) will not use the system.

In the EU, things are a bit different and employees have a limited right to privacy when using corporate systems. Not so much in the US, though.
Wow, I can't believe these were merged... one is talking about flaws in an arbitration clause and the other is a press release from the company... and they choose the fluff press release.

It makes these comments not make sense, and buries the real issue.
Is this for real? Hope op reaches the goal :P
This kind of monitoring may be normal in BigCorps but it's definitely not part of startup culture.

I'm also irritated by the mindset that considers this kind of institutionalized snooping a good thing ("INABILITY to retrieve this data is BAD").
Author here, semantic doesn't refer to the misappropriation of the word "semantic" by developers as "adherence to W3C specification", but instead a reference to linguistic semantics, particularly Montague grammar and compositionality.

This is not a topic that you can very easily introduce, so mostly I prefer to convince others of the library's usefulness rather than getting into a philosophical debate nobody enjoys (or benefits from) about 'the nature of meaning'.
The issue is that if you're going to be doing FP, you'll want to use a language in which it's not just possible, but natural and happens without an uphill battle. Similarly, if you're just trying to learn the concepts, you're going to have a lot of noise distracting you if you use a language like JS, etc in which FP concepts are quite unnatural to express.
"The quest for a reactionless space drive"? That's the article's URL slug, though not its title.
"Well respected experts" can also say BS, especially for new approaches they don't like and/or understand.
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This whole thread is based on OP's need for GWT Chrome extension to develop his company's webapp. So presumably OP can have a old Chrome version just for web development and a separate browser for his regular browsing needs. I doubt OP will get pwned by his own company's internal development site.