skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pelamis had an astounding technical success in taming the power of ocean waves. This is incredibly difficult because storm waves have a great power which invariably destroyed earlier wave generators. One of the great ideas of the Pelamis engineers was to make a device which couples to short waves and is less affected by the force of stronger long waves, diving under them.

Here's a link describing the company:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelamis_Wave_Power

And here is a video showing one of their devices - a 500 kW wave energy converter feeding electricity into the grid near the coast of Portugal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYzocwUfpNg

It is a picture that always gives me hope that mankind will make it....

Why is wave energy generation so important?

Power from the wind is intermittent as the wind comes and goes, and it is very expensive to store electricity. Wave power provides another source that originally comes from the wind but is temporally and spatially decoupled from it. Ocean waves travel wide distances and can be harvested at the shore or, by the design Pelamis created, in the open ocean. Ocean waves can form a significant component of your future energy supply.

Wave energy converters already have seen a rapid development. Wave power generators from Pelamis have a maximum size of 750 kW - it took wind energy companies decades to build generators that large
Who's the Google engineering genius behind ultrasonic pairing?
You live in a different culture. What works in your culture may not work in another culture. I don't think you quite understand the concept of income inequality.
Unless it is sarcasm, you are wrong. Just look at PHP and you'll see how wrong you are.
Even if this does work, all it validates (measures) is the accuracy of guessing outcome. It does not (as mentioned via reference to global score) actually measure what the best odds for likelyhood are.

The system also does not account for new entry in to the surgical field, nor doctors changing in skill and accuracy over time (the data doesn't have aging parameters).
I don't think I argued that - but that the amount of economic options available to individuals should not be deduced from comparing GDP or such. I think in eastern europe most countries are still civilized enough to offer basic medical care without insurance?

Any way, I have no local knowledge of either issue ... I'm located in northern europe.
Hacker News Like Website for French Readers: Le Journal Du Pirate
yep some times all you can do is help manage the situation to the members best advantage or get say a final written warning down graded to a verbal informal one.
Downvotes :)? I would like to see you try land to the moon using Aristotle rather than the mechanics formulated by Newton...
I've used Photoshop as a presentation tool recently - it's surprisingly good.
Do you plan to have implementation of DJB's curves/primitives?
Better in the short, medium and long run.

The current situation of people sitting at their desks for 8 hours solid a day has been shown to reduce life expectancy. Then there is the proven benefits of walking 30 minutes a day and the psychological benefits of Vitamin D exposure.

Campus cafeterias/food delivery should actually be gotten rid of.
Uhm,
the later is exactly how I started programming :D
To predict where is something, I use an hierarchical folder system to organise my documents based on GTD [1]. The initial investment (file renaming) pays off on the long run.

[1] https://github.com/we-build-dreams/folder-system
It speaks volumes that it is up to the executive whether to prosecute former executives.
But not so much for interplanetary trajectories :)
Looks great, and glad to see that removing the jQuery dependency is on your todo list!
The one who works at Apple might experience more smugness.
> What works in your culture may not work in another culture.

Here, if you are not performing you are being sent away. So you have to perform in order to keep your job. Obviously, being able to perform beyond a certain age does not work in the US according to you.

Thank God the other massive part of US is not composed of people like yourself. If US doesn't understand the need of hard work (Okies and the Dust Bowl simply pops in my mind) that I don't know what other country does.

You and all of the people giving me negative feedback are in no way representative to US I believe.
This isn't someone sharing their experience publicly, but a copy-paste from Microsoft's internal mailing list, see the note at the top:

The following has been making the rounds on just about every internal email list I belong to in Microsoft. Here it is to share a little insight with the rest of the world. Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company. Google is not. Any peek is a good peek.

So those are Microsoft employees upset about public airing of only semi-public laundry. I wouldn't mind if i wrote something like this and someone put it online, but i can see that someone else might.
Prospect coves pretty much any job in technology/science not just telecoms.
Assuming this is what you're referring to when you mention shared terms of employment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Li...
That is true for union-shops. There is a hell of a difference between paying a union to negotiate on your behalf and paying a union to come up with relevant courses for your speciality and paying a union to lend you a lawyer.
This also works on win32 under mingw32. I forked and added support for it: https://github.com/joebo/c4/blob/master/c4x86.c
Whether it's true or not, that's how employers choose employees.
LibreOffice is now using OpenGL in the VCL, for things like gradient rendering, etc.
Given I'm an Australian, I'm merely pointing out to you that as you don't live in the U.S., it's very presumptuous for you to know what happens in a society you don't live in.

Basically your response confirms it. You really don't know what you are talking about.
But to pay that amount for prospect membership you on 50% more than median salary for the UK.

I remember one jokey comment that low pay in prospect terms means some one who isn't paying any higher rate tax :-)
what tricks can I use to not get denied on C.C.
My first programming platform was basic on the Casio FX-702P, I remember reading the manual and realising what programming was all about... oh the sense of wonder and possibility on a 9 year-old. The peak of my achievement was a version of E.T. for it (my cousin had an Atari 2600 and to my little brain that was a pretty cool game). I saved my programs by writing them down on a notebook, as my dad never got any peripherals for it...
Set yourself up as a consultant, read Patio11 for tips and don't worry about growing old. Heck it pays better than working regular and you get to have more than one client.
This guy's mother made a terrible and selfish choice :(, I feel terrible for him
Not necessarily.

The one bit of actual research I was able to do (in the late '70s) was in a lab that had serendipitously discovered a new iron scavenging mechanism in E. Coli. If you put it in a sufficiently iron poor environment (e.g. all the glassware was treated with HCL and then bathed for days in deionized water) it would synthesize a previously unknown iron binding protein and grab what it could.

So we shouldn't assume this is the only way many bacteria can get iron, but it's perhaps worth checking out. And a focus on iron in general might be a fruitful approach.
No, it isn't Mozilla, it's created and maintained by a member of the community.
Yeah and the popularity of the Sopranos showed tacit approval of the American mobsters.
>Now you seem to be claiming that the disparity in crime rates is caused by some complex combination of things.

Not just me. Sociologists also.

>Can you clearly state what that combination is

* Emphasis on extreme individualism (everyone for himself, or at best, his family) that destroys community bonds (that in other places serve to provide assistance to the individual, guidance etc).

* Extremely materialistic societal views, where the official national "dream" is about making loads of money.

(to prevent easy rebuttals: almost everywhere people would like to make loads of money, the difference is in how is this accepted / embedded in the collective psyche. E.g. in Japan, for an example, collaboration and being a part of something bigger is prioritized instead of "making it", whereas in some European countries an overt desire for money would be considered tacky).

In the US this also goes with the idea that those that didn't made it are "losers" -- and that they also only have themselves to blame ("didn't try enough" etc), something that's not the sentiment in other countries.

* People that have a history of little over a century of being "free" from slavery (with all that means for their chances of inheriting family fortune accrued over the years, access to good education etc), and little over 50 years of not being officially seggregated, while still being unoficially and covertly seggregated, denied jobs, targeted by police etc because of they color.

* Lack of "safety nets", a bad social services system, and a widespread contempt about the people making use of what exists (coupons, etc).

* Lack of proper education and cultural awareness in inner city schools. Those kids are mostly left to fail.

And other things besides.

>and what evidence would prove your views wrong?

Observing places with the same general conditions as described above which do not have elevated crime levels.

For example France's example with the "banlieues" is a similar case, with similar output.

>Or are your views not even wrong?*

I find this uncalled for, not to mention insulting.
There isn't a STEM shortage, STEMs are just expensive. If you don't have enough STEMs you can steal them from another company by paying more. If your company cannot afford the labor it will die, STEM or not.
Have you done research on this? If not, I'd recommend it - you will probably find it encouraging.

A surprising amount of the people at the top of their fields - particularly creative fields - actually don't do the 24/7 thing.

Sleep and breaks tend to feature quite heavily.
I'd need to look into the code as I couldn't find a live demo to quickly noodle with, but my first thought was to add a border radius or some sort of blur filter to make it more spotlight-like? :)
"psychedelics had always been that they were illegal not because it troubles anyone that you have visions but because there is something about them that casts doubts on the validity of reality."

No. Psychedelics are illegal because they make you want to run in front of an oncoming bus because its headlights sound like tchaikovsky and the wind tastes like blueberries.
Thanks sir! At the beginning I tried to implement the lib only with the Dom api, but was a little painful because isn't very agile and tedious... so I ended with the jQuery dependency, thing that I want to remove in the future.
Jack Bauer is supposed to be the good guy; good guys aren't supposed to use torture, yet he does.

I don't know about other shows, did "good guys" use torture ? Were they able to walk away without any problems ?
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> Kudos to any kid that makes anything in basic.

Relevant: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033318/black-annex-is-the-be...

Homepage of this (incomplete) game: http://www.blackannex.net/
But what will happen to those endearingly terrible attempts at comment translation??
Personally, I think qbittorrent is a better general suggestion.

http://www.qbittorrent.org/
> Perhaps that's a bias from being in the USA?

That can't be the case for me.
I appreciate your thoughtful response. Though I don't think it's a size thing, I think it's about culture and priorities, and being beholden to stock holders and profits; having no loyalty for the employees (or likely customers) that got you to where you are.

Some people / companies believe that the only way to get ahead is by screwing someone else over; either out of some money, or out of a job, or what have you. That's just a shitty way to do business, and a clear sign of lack of respect or appreciation.

But then again it might be a scale thing with them and a matter of acquisitions and such too, as you said.

+1 for staying small; or at least growing slowly and carefully. Companies that just spam hire are likely not thinking about how they'll support any given hire for the next few years let alone the rest of their lives.
I love anecdotal data, so I'll share mine: I'm at Microsoft, almost 46, and most of my managers have been younger than me. Nearly all of my reviews have been extremely good; the remainder just good.

It's true that there seems to be a sort of cliff around my age; there are very few people in product development roles over the age of 50. I would attribute that to the way the industry evolved: mine was the first generation that really had the opportunity to grow up with PCs. My first exposure was a programming class in summer school in 1981. The demand for software developers also really exploded in the 1980s. These things combined to make software both more interesting and more compelling as a career than it had been in earlier generations.

EDIT: It's probably also worth pointing out that anyone who'd joined Microsoft before ~1995 and was careful about managing their money could likely have decided to retire by now.
"Seat allocation" doesn't favor rural districts, it favors many districts where you win 51% of the vote over few districts where you win 80%. You'd actually need gerrymandering to reverse this effect if, like today's Democratic party, your voters are concentrated in urban areas that would otherwise be perfectly natural districts to draw.
Apple Is in Big Trouble Over MacBook GPU Issues
I think most of the difference is in the legal frameworks and contracts. Most US electronic payments (ACH) can be disputed for quite some time after the initial transfer.
TPB is useful for comments on torrents, usernames of uploaders, etc - it guards against spammers. This doesn't.
Reminded me of the classic 'stuck in a room' reddit thread

http://www.reddit.com/comments/9x15g/programming_thought_exp...
Yes, in some sense 'eqv? is leaking abstractions.

Lisp is historically less concerned with not exposing implementation details than more modern language traditions. The attitude is: the hacker might need it, throw it in! For example, the ability to compare pointers directly (rather than some expensive traverse-the-whole-datastructure comparison) makes it possible to implement hash-consing, a clever optimization technique.

(It's also no more of an abstraction leak than, say, Python's "is" operator.)
Holy heck, an in-browser demo. I've always wanted to try KnightOS but the TI-Nspire steadfastly refuses to run it.
I also found this analysis of whether ICC jurisdiction applies to be informative: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...
This case goes back to when stack ranking was ruling the company, and managers had to get rid of a certain fraction of employees. That they would tend to choose older ones is no surprise.

Note the system was so perverse managers would, if they could, store up genuinely low performing employees precisely so that they had ones they could sacrifice.
You certainly could replace the memory chip of whatever device you want. Chances are, as long as it has a few necessary components (or code to emulate them) Linux will run pretty well.
data Sexp = Int Int | Nil | Cons Sexp Sexp
megasum Nil = 0
megasum (Int i) = i
megasum (Cons l r) = megasum l + megasum r
Discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8745334
Macroeconomics, supply and demand: the problem for artists is (1) that they are not the slightest bit scarce (2) amateurs can do it too, and do (3) the ensuing macroeconomic race to the bottom (4) the public mostly aren't aesthetes, they just want something good enough to fill their subcultural needs.

So art goes back to being for trust fund babies and people with day jobs. Successful artists need to find a cultural niche and work it.

http://rocknerd.co.uk/2013/09/13/culture-is-not-about-aesthe...
You assume they are always available and always do business with everybody? I had an account with them once, but they declined to reinstate it shutdown the account. I don't know why.

So no, they are not an option for everybody.
Rockbox is also sort of close: http://www.rockbox.org/

I guess it already supports more chips and screen sizes than something aimed at TI calculators would.
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i think you're extremely WRONG. I am also a developer, and I can tell you for FACT i can write better code and be far more interested in my work, and get more done by working less hours every week. Burnout in anything is real even if you LOVE it with all your heart. The mind needs a rest.

I work for a completely profitable studio now that bootstrapped ourselves working <40hrs a week. We work remotely, we have unlimited flex time, 3+ weeks of vacation a year, every holiday.. AND WE MAKE EVERYONE TAKE ALL OF IT. The more time spent away from the grind, the better we all feel when we get back on it. I get excited to get back to work instead of dreading it. The american mentality of work until you fall down is WRONG. When i was in that situation the last few hours of the day was spent trying to just get to the end of the day. Not doing my best development.
Oh, details, details, we never look for them when deciding to give three young children to a psychopath ran family
I grew up with a 386SX , newer than yours but again very outdated when I got it.

I remember going to downtown in bus with my brother to a game store, watching amazing games in catalogs and then going back to home with 40 floppy disks just to figure out that number 38 was broken and after lot of trips to the game store, that the game didn't work on my hardware.

I learned programming much later in a newer hardware, but I learned about files, directories, etc in this machine.
I use the CGP grey / Minute Physics way to do my presentations these days, They have won the evolutionary youtube game in disseminating most knowledge in the shortest period of time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3WrAk52e68

Note: It takes about 1 hour for each minute of video footage, but its worth it.
Maybe an intermediate (or even final) solution could be to make it work using only zepto?
Ask HN: Have you ever built an RCP application? What was your experience?
OH, you mean the webpage.
Including that, yeah. It's a known fact companies have a tendency to form informal syndicates to game the market to their advantage, be it employment or pricing.
this 1000x's.. like everyone else here i taught myself to program when I was a child in QBasic and Pascal so I could make games. I've never made a single game beyond tic-tac-toe when I was a kid. I still love programming though!
For people who have gotten far enough into it(and I would count myself among them) there is a "point of no return" where you're like any other devoted artist - you see designs that have not been made and that you have to make. No amount of money can buy them because they aren't realized in any form yet, and only you can do the work. This is at the core of the artistry emerging from the independent scene these days, although you have to go trawl sites like itch.io and Warp Door and play a sampling of free games to actually see what's out there - the commercial sector isn't going to reward all of that stuff, and this group is drifting inexorably towards Patreon as a funding source.

But there is a dual vision here. The point of no return is not the thing attracting people to the AAA sector, and it isn't even held by the majority of independents, who feel a lot of pressure to think about the bottom line constantly, pander to a perceived audience, and just put out something, anything, that will keep their doors open. You only get past that thought pattern if you've hung on long enough and attained a certain mindset(which I attribute to chance factors, not all of which are necessarily good or healthy). As you outline, a cold industrial-capitalist labor valuation indicates that you get worse payment and conditions in games than equivalent work elsewhere.

No, what gets everyone in there, including younger, more naive me, is some combination of exceptionalism, short-term thinking, or status seeking. Framing life in terms of "it'll be so cool to put these things on the screen" or "I'll be recognized for this work later!" People who feel this way have trouble keeping away from it - they are "working to live," even as the system makes them "live to work." Like any workaholic, they may be escaping from personal issues, and there is a combination of intrinsic empowerment in helping to create a tangible virtual world, and a social power in working on big, impressive geek shibboleths(amaze your friends who said you'd never amount to anything: "I worked on this popular successful game"). The people who break tend to reach a point where they need a more stable situation, they feel disillusioned about the type of works they're making, or they're just burned out from the repetitive aspects.
Why? A bit more than half the company is under 40 and the average age is slightly under 40. Seems like any sort of distribution could yield these sorts of numbers.
Thank you. I wondered what that 'flag' link was for.

I think it should be used to suppress spam and not for suppressing dissent, though.

> Basically, if you are going to make an academic comment on a sensitive topic, you should take more care in how you present it.

Precisely. I see plenty of people in this thread who have a fixed opinion with very little to back it up.

And it is not those who say that there is a measurable (and measured!) difference in intelligence or violence between blacks and whites.

smtddr's post nearby is clearly in that category. The hirhome link is hilarious and would be wonderful as satire if it weren't for Poe's law.
dependency injection isn't needed in RoR, as mocking/stubbing is so simple, and built in (with RSpec, say)... (Same with metrics, they can easily be injected into the entire object tree). Logging sure, you need to write some of that.

There are also arguments for NoSQL dbs as well, some times old knowledge is exactly that.

This doesn't seem to be a compelling example... But alas, I think I've taken this off topic.
Journal Du pirate is powered by the open source engine of the Lobste.rs website. I'm until now really happy with the behaviour of this engine. I only had to internationalize it. I forked the repository and the sources are available at https://github.com/carlchenet/lobsters
A kid in my year at school did the same in 2002/2003. He programmed multiplayer snake, pong and a little top-down tank game that was pretty basic. He'd write these up in various classes and we'd play them multiplayer over the link cables.

He was a really talented programmer but eventually became really weird and drove everybody away, so I have no idea what he's doing now.
Why exactly will you be unworthy for hiring at 38-40??? I am 34 and been absent from programming for 6-7 years for reasons similar to yours. All I can tell you is that I am very hot in the job market.
Stuyvesant HS student nets $72M on the stock market
Have you read the mini-Msft blog? The big problem for msft employees is the up-or-out review system. If you don't make partner, the review process seems designed to kick you out of the company.
I still play Doom at least weekly, and by play I mean really play. And it inspires me to work on my own stuff.

A handful of maps to go through and I've completed plutonia on UV. Next, I'm probably playing Back to Saturn X ep1. It's amazing there's so much new, inspiring stuff for this old game..
Nobody's clean, everybody got that. Can we move on, and aim for the best solution ?
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