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Hey guys! I am excited to share this project that I developed using AngularJS. IRMFT (I Remember My First Time) is a website which aims to collect the stories and recollections of various life experiences, from the first time you chugged beer, to the first car you bought, and of course the first time you had sex. I would love to get HN's feedback!
Richard branson was talking about doing this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-branson-supersonic-pl...
Emacs also has that preview feature when you move the highlighter to a selection. However, I feel it annoying because screen keeps changing while I narrow to a file or a set of files, and luckily it is off by default.

How about other thing? Like switch between source and header files without configuring anything? Or Jump to any file I see instantly, even without full filepath and you only have just a name and without typing the filename? http://tuhdo.github.io/static/helm-projectile/helm-projectil...

Can it do powerful automatic indentation: https://github.com/Bruce-Connor/aggressive-indent-mode. It does not only indent the current line, but the whole Semantic context around your cursor. Demos inside the homepage.

Beautiful compile output: http://tuhdo.github.io/static/c-ide/compilation-compile.gif

Open man page for symbol at cursor: http://tuhdo.github.io/static/part3/helm-man-woman.gif

Emacs can save any arbitrary window layout and restore it later. You can even have workspace in Emacs, each can store a set of window layouts (i.e. one for debugging, one for reading doc, one for just source code...), can be saved as a bookmark and later restore in future session. In Emacs, you can bookmark everything, even a git commit.
The reason that not much changes between a 4 hour flight and an 8 hour flight is that the journey adds about 2 hours on each end, making it a 8 hour vs. 12 hour journey. (1 hour to the airport and 1 hour at the airport).

Urban transit systems and airport security/boarding procedures will need to get a lot more efficient before supersonic flight will be commercially viable.
I really don't get most of these kinds of questions on web forms - sex, name, title. I think that except for legal purposes, where it's necessary to provide your legal name/sex/whatever, you should only have a field called "how should we address you" and nothing else.
Someone should investigate. Whatever he is doing, it can't be legal. That money is coming out of someone else's pocket.
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Yeah, it looks like the entire legislative approach is wrong and doing more harm than good. It'd be nice to see more focus on education and building up knowledge. Perhaps even a well designed website (including first-class mobile support) that we could link drug users to that describe the effects in an easy to search and digest format. If people want to do stupid things to themselves, let them.

We've found that legalizing marijuana has so far been helpful. I just hope it's not the last step.
I love living in the future! :-)
A college intern could debug that problem. It's a non-issue.
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Hydrogen? How are they storing that efficiently?
"Ruby is the ultimate in object-oriented languages,"

There is this small thing called smalltalk.

With that said, claiming Ruby is the ultimate 'enlightenment language' is a little mindboggling. I vote for javascript ;-)

That said, it is a great article. Matt Might writes very well and has a lot of insight. Fwiw he doesn't include Ruby in his list of advanced languages, but does call it a 'hot' language.
I'm pretty sure I mouse as quickly as anybody. It's just that the difference between 17 ms per frame and 33 ms per frame on my system only affects the smoothness of animations. There's no perceptible lag no matter how quickly I move things around.
A related problem (from an academic standpoint) is what to do with the size of the transgender population. If it is .3% of the entire population, then there is a temptation to say that the other 99.7% is cisgender (which, depending on definitions, may be accurate). However, this does not consider the questions of what percent of those 99.7% would also be cisgender if they suddenly changed genders.
Valgrind doesn't do integer overflow checking. In general, it's not even possible to add such checks via binary translation, as on two's complement systems most unsigned and signed operations are compiled to the same machine instruction.
I respectfully disagree: most corporations offer 2 to 3 % increase for a good year end review. In other words, stay in line, and we'll match inflation. Consequently, you'll often find the new hire for a given job title making just as much as the guy that has been there for 5 years.

In contrast, you often only get a "real" raise when you change positions, or if your employer genuinely fears your chances in the current job market - for the moment. But then the problem with that is when the job market tanks, management will look to adjust the salaries of those they had to pay a premium to keep, usually by making it unbearable for them to stay.

Not every place is this volatile, but some are.
There is a minority that are interested in novelty for its own ends. But you're right, most people that buy these things would be safer and happier with well-known, illegal drugs.
Correct, especially with the added time of getting to, from and through the airports.

Some materials about a short-lived Hindenburg airship (http://www.retronaut.com/2011/04/inside-the-hindenburg-in-co...) mention its travel time between Europe and North America to be 40+ hours. I wonder, if they were available today, would there be a demand for this type of travel? For me the choice between a seat in 8 hour flight or a comfortable cabin in 40 hour is often not in favour of speed.
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Yes, all those single-letter names are just ordinary variables that you can overwrite. Doing so is nearly always a terrible idea.

The article is being a little unclear when it says "cannot use". You can use literally any variable name in R if you really want to. If the name you want is already a reserved word (e.g. "for", "else", "function"), or if it is not a syntactically valid token (e.g. '@!":%$>"@;'), then you just have to enclose it in backquotes. So the following is valid R:

`for` <- 1:5
`function` <- 5:1
`TRUE` <- `for` / `function`
`@!":%$>"@;` <- `TRUE`^2
print(`@!":%$>"@;`)
Came here to say the same thing. And note that you're "burning" 400MW of energy in the heat exchanger (transferring it to the helium) at some point you have to re-cool that helium back to liquid) if you outgas the helium you are a net loss because helium has a limited supply. Doing it with hydrogen doesn't get nearly the thermal mass. So it is a really really cool engine, but it remains to be seen how practical it can be.

The second thing, consider the experience from the SR-71. To stay light and still be able to withstand the frictional heating of the air at mach 5 requires some pretty exotic materials. And matching thermal properties for materials at mach 5 vs sub mach. Covering the whole thing in thermal tiles adds weight which comes out of the payload.

To me, adding on the possibility that it could be some sort of Mach 5 super airliner, suggests that the practicalities of it as an SSTO platform are perhaps not nearly so compelling as once thought. Fortunately they were not talking about the multi-gigawatt ground lasers to boil hydrogen. That idea, while nominally physically possible, is impractical to imagine the rest of the world being "ok" with.
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The problem is, that the same cultural stupidity that sees us pass new laws banning the newest designer drugs, is also the one that sees us banning relatively harmless and well-understood substances that have been used by humans for tens of thousands of years. And, I don't think it's possible to rhetorically separate the two in a way the public can digest.

That is not to say you can't draw a logical distinction between the two that supports banning or strictly regulating the production and sale of one, while leaving the other alone - in fact I would say you've got a good start on doing that already. However, the distinction is subtle, and will be totally lost on a population that has had anti-drug propaganda shoved down its throat by the state for the last four or five generations. Any nuance in your argument will be seized on by drug warriors to justify banning the sale of e.g. marijuana or peyote, etc., and bring offenders into to the ever-growing all-consuming all-powerful prison complex.
Can't see the future, but probably yes. You probably want to take a look to the several financial statistics oriented packages available in R.

This environment is... how to describe it? "often wild horse, sometimes donkey"

Can be very (very!) defiant sometimes and have some well known issues with very big objects and small memory machines (is easily linkable with databases so this is a minor trouble)... but is also much rewarding.

I think that any hour that you spend on R will be worth it, just don't be a masochist, buy or borrow a couple of good introductory books, read some manuals and internet links like the former and, when you have some practice and wish to improve, one of the best ways is to remember the repositories, install some packages of your interest with

R> install.packages("packagename")

And take a look to as many R-code of those as you can.

Highly recommended. Try it.
'Designer' drugs are produced in well-equipped modern labs, for the most part in China. Most of them are more complex to synthesise than illegal drugs and aren't coming out of some kitchen chem lab, but a well equipped industrial setup. In their country of origin the business seems legal so they come under no scrutiny.
Aren't the nitrites in bacon still bad? Not sure why though on the atomic level?
To be clear, I'm not making the case that humans aren't "meant" to be in space. I'm referring to the practical obstacles to us both getting to space and surviving there for more than short periods, which is orders of magnitude more difficult thermodynamically relative to airplanes.

If someday we can create enclosed self-sustaining ecosystems in space, maybe I'll eat my words, but as it is, we have to send along huge fixed quantities of bio-support materials, using an exponential proportion of fuel (thanks to the tyranny of the Rocket Equation). It simply doesn't scale. And that's to say nothing of the prospect of decades-long interstellar journeys, or living off-planet permanently.
This is a killer idea! Looking forward to seeing where it goes... will be as helpful, if not more, than ERC has been for me while searching for answers.
Why do we expect that anything as complex as gender to break out into nice neat categories? We really should move on from the obsession of putting labels on people and get on with helping everyone to feel happy with who they are.
Do you even have a product with users? Your question is pretty typical of a beginner who hasn't much experience building stuff for people. What you're asking doesn't matter when you're a 2 man team. Literally nobody cares about your title at this point.
He insists that specifically a mayfly, which does walk on only four of its legs, only ever using the other two to grip during mating, only has four legs, while discussing the locomotion of walking. Which seems fair. If legs are for walking, mayfly do only have four legs.
Are the video lectures of this available somewhere?
Do you understand what "anecdotal" means? You're using yourself and your company to extrapolate to the entire industry. One of the reasons why companies recruit overseas is because they don't want to pay US market salaries. This has been discussed over and over again here on HN with regard to the H-1B visa and the use of foreign engineers and developers, because of the difficulty for "handcuffed" H-1B holders to transfer to other companies:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/silicon-valley-h...

http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-...

http://www.ifpte.org/news/details/Obama-Administration-propo...

Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel, et al. have been caught red-handed in illegal collusion in order to keep US engineer salaries suppressed. Knowing this, why would anyone find it hard to believe they would turn to foreign talent to effect the same goal?
> You can generate the Python code off from the AST, but it dosnt always imply the resulting Python code is runable.

I believe this is incorrect. Can you show an example of a valid abstract syntax tree that could not be represented in the grammar of the original language?
The Tyrannosaurus Rex had an incredible run and made mincemeat of uncountable prey animals. But evolutionary dead ends are permanent no matter how successful past performance may have been.

I just got a new tablet a couple weeks ago that, on certain tasks, is actually more powerful than my last full desktop computer. From loading off of disk, to compute to final rendering, it's giving me more FPS than my quad-core intel 2.4Ghz system with $350 graphics card was giving me a couple years ago. It's not only kind of crazy that something that can fit into my coat pocket can do that, but it's doing it at some tiny fraction of the power consumption. If I hook it up to an HMDI cable it can drive a nice monitor, and I know it supports a USB keyboard and mouse (and a wireless controller), it basically can replace my desktop for most uses.

Between iOS and Android, there's 3 or 4 million applications, from productivity to music authoring. Heck, I have a terminal emulator on my tablet that comes complete with ssh so I can effectively do what I do most of my work day anyway.

At this point, I'm counting the days till my OS X and Windows desktops are mere emulated apps, or running off of a spare intel compatible core on the SoC.

Intel is going to be a classic case of not realizing they're on the way out, and then suddenly their out of business -- patent portfolio scattered to the winds (and AMD on life-support keeping alive legacy corporate systems that haven't transitioned to something else).

About the only way they can "fix" this is for Wintel tablets to find the right feature/price mix and suddenly take off in sales, and then translate that somehow into smartphones. But it's unclear if the new Microsoft is as willing to toss money at that problem to make it happen as the old one, without such a partner intel is in trouble.
technically speaking he's living there (Russia?) to protect himself from "our" government (USA), the one with the NSA and CIA, the latter of which our own Senate has now showed was torturing human beings not convicted of any crime.
First I thought this was talking about population problems as a social science project, then it turns out just talking about cloud as is?
Enlightenment comes from exposure to alternate paradigms and being forced out of your comfort zone. When you must do without, you will learn, and you will be ready to rely on alternate approaches to problems. Example: I thought I understood the importance of decoupling policy from implementation, but Haskell reminds me frequently that I often overlook this detail when hacking. Rather than tying the side effects (send this HTTP request) to the algorithm that produces what I need to send, I should split them apart, and have a tiny bit of glue code for them both.

It's also worth examining and trying out a particular language community's values to see if they mesh with yours. I found it hard to stay with the Ruby community because of certain stances that are made concerning program design. Everything seems tailored for easy, rather than simple.

I learned a lot from Ruby, but I never found the metaprogramming/DSL creation to be particularly inspiring. I've made some pretty wacky/cool stuff with it, I just got bored with it ultimately -- it felt like it was piling more things on for people to learn, rather than actually abstracting things away.
That nothing ever stays the same. You can't assume the company or project you are working on will remain the same. Management comes and goes, good people come and go. In the end, what matters are your relationships outside of work. Even then, those can change (but not as much). Sometimes the people you don't see that often can be important in your life.
Given that Lego is not an acronym (it's a mangled contraction), there's no particular rule to say that this one brand name gets special treatment. For example, we don't use CHANEL for Chanel, despite their trademark always being in capitals.
Nice, with the conditional operator and a single return it's even terser:

bool is_safe_to_add_ints( int a, int b ) {
return b < 0
? a >= INT_MIN - b
: a <= INT_MAX - b;
}
This is an interesting question to consider. Would you want to change back to your former gender if by magic you woke up tomorrow the oposite gender to who you are today? I am male and have no desire to be female, but if I were to wake up tomorrow in a female body I am not sure I would go to the effort to change to male.
Good news! Got the job that I was most hoping to get, and it came with a 7.5% raise. Win win!
I'm talking about the definition of "health." "Health" isn't a precise term.
17 year old Marines are some of the most efficient killing machines on the planet. It's why we used them in WW2. Brown was 18.

Youth alone isn't relevant. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacklyn_H._Lucas#Marine_Corps_s...
The 80/20 rule for storage systems
Interesting interview with the synthesizer of MXE here:

http://www.vice.com/read/interview-with-ketamine-chemist-704...
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I didn't say it was the ultimate enlightenment language, I said it was the ultimate object-oriented language. There's no such thing as an ultimate approach to enlightenment.

Smalltalk's nice, but Ruby's nicer. There's a reason one's more popular than the other.
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> Besides the fact that sending humans vs sending robots isn't a zero sum game

This is a good point. I'm certainly not advocating against humans going to space; I just think sending robots is a vastly better long-term ROI. And whether it's a hundred years away or ten thousand, someday a form of intelligent life will exist on this planet that is much better equipped (if not actively designed) to seek its destiny in the stars.
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Can you say the equipment that is needed?
As I pointed out in my comment quite clearly, I'm perfectly aware of that, but the Russian government is a lot worse than the US government - which I also pointed out quite clearly.

Strange reason to downvote me twice (whoever did it) because they didn't understand my comment, but I've come to expect that from HN so nothing surprises me.
Nitpick: Cicero was murdered on 7 December 43 BC. Julius Caesar wasn't deified until 1 January 42 BC, several weeks later.
I had created a 100/100/100 and all config perfect test page a while back. It's here:
https://fancyssl.hboeck.de/

However you probably can't see it because almost no browser is capable :-) The description is here:
https://fancynossl.hboeck.de/

(some info probably outdated, but still gets the all-100%-rating)
Looking at his profile it might be http://www.fairtutor.com/
On the other hand, there is a chance that the estimates may undershoot. Identifying as transgender is difficult for many people because of the stigma involved. There are also costs; costs for HRT and surgery if you go that route,the cost of replacing old clothes with new clothes, the possibility of emotional costs if friends or relatives do not support. Also, there is anxiety, and one might have fears like, "what if I don't pass?" I think a lot of transgender individuals may not come out or delay coming out for these reasons.

Then there is also the challenge of lack of information. I grew up in a Christian, conservative environment. I attended a catholic school where genders were rigidly segregated. So the idea of "biological sex = gender" was ingrained in me. I did not even hear the term "transgender" for the first time until 1.5 years ago.
I think the difficulty in audio engineering is in the fact that audio and music in particular are such cultural constructions. Take a modern dance track back a thousand years and it wouldn't be a hit; it would probably get you killed as a witch. No wonder Autotune is so hard to get "right".

When you find the loudest frequency and map it to a note, it is most definitely the note in question (in the mathematical sense). But cultural and stylistic expectations of the human brain might not agree with the math.

That's why I think somewhat surprisingly audio engineering will be a human career as long as music will be a human art. You can't say that about many automatable professions.
Good point on Cicero's political affiliations. I'm sure that must have greatly influenced much of his writing.

I'm curious if you are at all familiar with the theories Micheal Hoffman discusses at his website egodeath.com

His ideas are extremely difficult to summarize, but they are of great relevance to the issues we are discussing (Eleusis, Egyptian mysteries, Roman state religion, Plato, myths, mysticism, etc)

http://egodeath.com/emperorworshipjesusfigure.htm

http://egodeath.com/index.html#_Myth-Religion_and_Mystic

http://egodeath.com/#_Entheogen_Diminishment_Fallacies_1

This intro page is his attempt at explaining his theory in broad terms:
http://egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm

He would probably answer your question "Why did they keep knowledge from groups of people, if not to keep them in the dark as a means of controlling them?" by saying that, while political control was, of course, a real thing in those times, the original function of mystery cults was actually to initiate participants into true knowledge of the transcendent through the use of ritual and entheogenic drugs.

You also might find this interesting:
http://csp.org/experience/experience.html

Have you had a unity/mystical/transcendent type experience with chemicals or other methods?
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Agreed, in fact at our company it's the opposite: engineers mostly don't want to manage, and director level managers keep trying to push us into the positions. For the managers we do have we are mostly thankful that someone is willing to do that thankless job and sacrifice their coding time :-)
That's a bit of a straw man argument. Nobody's claiming that we can't; rather that to accomplish many of our goals, having a human as the physical actuator is a bad choice. Robots have the potential to perform nearly any given mission better than their human counterparts.

That was not the case during the development of ships, automobiles, or flight. The alternatives to those were "don't fly/explore/travel fast", not "have a machine do it for us". It's a different question. Increasingly even on Earth, satellites and drones explore our planet, not explorers with hiking boots. The same analogy applies to many kinds of space exploration.

On the other side of the coin: Sentiment is what drives resources to fund our exploratory efforts, and we like seeing humans do things. Additionally, the goal of colonization requires human presence nearly by definition.

The longer-term question is whether we'll change that definition, or continue to require the presence of biological humans to consider a planet effectively colonized. That may not always be the case: if a given planet can protect our collective civilization from extinction, does it matter whether that's secured by human actuators versus robotic ones?
Wrath? If you charge me a fee for driving a bus to your address, I will stop driving there. Do you fear me?
I dislike people, specifically, stupid people. I loved my last year working remotely. No dealing with stupid people is an amazing plus.

If you are a talker, you might it harder seeing only a handful of people each week. (Family, friends, service industry workers.)