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It is idiotic that undefined isn't a reserved keyword. But add that to the list of bad JavaScript design decisions.
It’s official, the Visual F# project has moved from Codeplex to GitHub
> I'm wondering what can be gained by discussing this exact email again?

More publicity for the discussion. I didn't see the email the first time and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I think there are probably far more people who will create crap content for financial reward than there are people who will create quality content for donations.
The Go blog: errors are values
And people are just unfeeling automata whose only value is to maximize their game theoretic outcomes. /s
I'd be interested in speaking with you. You have the experience I need for my early stage, funded startup:

www.jobville.co

BTW, where are you located?
>and, of course you received some anonymous downvotes, -have my upvote while we wait for dang and the rest of the team to come up with a good solution.

LOL! That's truly funny, and thanks for your upvote. Yeah, it seems that someone(s) are randomly going about and downvoting my comments everywhere. They apparently have no sense of irony and are consuming their own valuable (or, apparently not-so-valuable) time hunting down a random, anonymous person's comments (mine) to (I suppose) "punish" me for some transgression known only to them. Apparently, they take themselves (along with their little mouse-clicks and my meaningless karma score) very seriously. That this is happening on a site called Hacker News (full of conformist hackers?) is even more ironic.

In any case, I think all of your definitions of "mild correction" are as effective and more constructive without the downvotes, and they further encourage discussion on what is effectively a venue for exactly that. But, again, I'll also agree that the supplementary comments with the downvotes are 100% better than downvotes alone.
>> I can't see it becoming a product as in "makes money" or "attracts investors" without compromising the slow-web spirit.

We're on the same page there. Still it would be nice to find a way to make enough to cover the server costs without fucking up the site.

The notion of upvoting thoughts is a recurring theme in this discussion, so I'm bumping that to the top of the todo list. Again, thanks for the input, it's very much appreciated.
Thanks! It's a really fun problem space to work in.

As I mentioned, this work was borne out of my frustration from writing a bunch of touch handlers (taking days/weeks for the tricky ones, to get all the weird wobbles out, and do the right thing with momentum in pagers, etc). I could have saved a bunch of time if I'd had something like this earlier! :).
Interesting metaphor. The difficult part in it is that there isn't just one store manager. There's not one person running the inventory system. We are all in those roles, while also being our own customers.

I have some ideas how I would correctly manage this store if I were in charge because I don't care about turning a profit. I just want to ensure that I and my family can go shopping there 5, 15, or 100 years later. However, I have no idea how I would manage a store when you have 7 billion other store managers. Some of which are seeking to turn a profit, some of which are looking to sell, some of which hate various sociopolitical groups and want them to disappear (and aren't afraid to break a few eggs to get their way), some of which just want to see it burn down for the laughs, some that just want to take the goods without paying, etc. Yes, obviously it's a training issue, but holy shit the sheer enormity of it all.
You know, in case you are working on any competing BASIC for some hot new microcomputer coming into the market later this year.
Not quite building off of your current system, but I've long wanted a service where I could log-in and be approved to participate anonymously in conversations that are still somewhat moderated. "?&%$#?#$&?", you ask.

There are a lot of sites that I participate in that allow you to rate and flag other users (e.g. HN). I actually really like this ability. But frequently I want to make many posts to such site, but I don't really want all my comments to be able to be tied together

For example, there's an HN post about BFE, Idaho and I mention that's my hometown. In another post, it's relevant to the conversation, so I mention I'm Italian. In another post it becomes clear that I have extensive professional experience in underwater basket weaving. Put these three facts together and they can quickly undermine any anonymity (i.e. I'm the only Italian born in BFE, Idaho that has a career in underwater basket weaving).

So having a log-on system that allows me to be held accountable (i.e. If I make a comment on HN that gets downvoted, my HN rating still goes down) but where I can still be anonymous (i.e. no one can aggregate my comments). From a service perspective, I'm thinking of something like a Disqus plug-in architecture where I could log-in to the primary service, and only that service would ever know that I'm a singular entity. That service would provide an api that other sites could use set and grab general reputation data.

For example, I log into Service as 'yaddayadda'. I navigate to HN, and log-in. The Service reports to HN that I'm an authorized user currently known as 2051013165142 (new, random user id each time I visit HN). HN polls the Service API for my current user id. The Service reports back that my identity has earned a total of X HN submission up votes, Y HN comment up votes, and Z HN downvotes. HN can then do what it does to calculate my reputation. When I subsequently make a submission or comment and am rated, HN reports those points back to the Service, which aggregates them into 'yaddayadda's' HN totals.
I think HTTP/2 should have opportunistic encryption support, as per https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2015JanMar....

As things stand, HTTP/2 is not done in compliance with RFC 7258 / BCP 188, because it doesn't do anything for the independent sites that cannot deploy the `https://` address scheme for compatibility reasons.

You basically either have to support the whole pre-1.2 TLS and forget about http://, or you cannot have any TLS at all.
Obama Wields More Power Than King George III
Lots of news organizations have bent over backwards to not reprint any of the images in the middle of their reporting of the images.
Apple Granted a Patent for a Superior GoPro-like Camera System
No... DANE doesn't cede control to world governments.

<insert-standard-many-hundred-line-exchange-between-you-and-I-that-has-happened-in-other-HN-threads-here>

DANE can work perfectly fine with the existing CA system to provide another way of verifying that the correct TLS certificate (or CA) is being used. Or... it can be used with a completely different trust anchor or TLS certificate that you control. Your choice.

But you and I will just have to disagree on this topic. Your dislike of DNSSEC is well-known, as is my support for it.
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Use PortAudio for sound (MIT license), Qt for the GUI and various OS dependent abstractions (threads, mutexes, etc.) - LGPL. If you don't like the OpenGL wrapper from Qt, go with FreeGLUT (MIT) or SDL (zlib license).
I totally appreciate freedom of speech; but do find it tasteless and tactless to behave heedlessly to demonstrate this gift of civilized nations, in the wake of such a tragedy and in light of the multitude of faiths that lost their lives during the last few days.

I highly recommend Scott Long's piece
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/why-i-am-not-charlie
(extra points for reading it all), regarding the incident and it's aftermath; and implore us all to reexamine reflexive Acts of Solidarity and the Right of Free Speech in a pluralistic civilized society
The Anti-Technology Movement: Past and Present
I'm sure you're right there are some tax consequences; I'm definitely not an accountant, though.

In a friendly situation if the company is in good shape, there are probably lots of options, including some sort of buyback to get enough cash for the taxes, or finding an investor who'd like the shares. If the company isn't doing as well as advertised, those possiblities are probably harder to get sorted.
These are awesome. Would be cool to see more docs on the constraints themselves, if possible
That too looks a decent machine. I toyed with building my own and got in touch with a few suppliers of CNC threaded drive rods. Some of the prices of these units seem pretty reasonable and probably a better bet in terms of price that going completely DIY. As for the G-code, that is going to be the hardest part for me too I think. I was wondering if Google Sketchup with https://sites.google.com/site/sketchuptogcode/ might be an easy route in to the scene?
The scam aspect has nothing to do with the valuations or how much the author's startup is actually worth, or whether the deal 'fell through'.

It's the blatant dishonesty of the Googlers making the approach that is inexcusable.
No, we support phk for fighting evil corporate proposals that don't take into account anyone else's interests.
The Sieg X2 is not a milling machine. It's a drill press with an X-Y table. Milling machines have spindles built to handle heavy side loads without loss of positional accuracy. Drill presses do not. On many drill presses, if you run the spindle all the way down, you can wobble it slightly with your hand. On a mill, the spindle will not move when you try that. The spindle bearings and heavier construction required are why a mill costs much more than a drill press.

There are also CNC routers. These are for wood, some plastics, and maybe machining aluminum sheet. Those are cheaper than real milling machines. However, ignore anything that tries to use a Dremel tool; you'll just burn out Dremel tools. Bottom of the line for a CNC router motor is something like a $99 Bosch router. Here's a startup that has a low-end CNC router for about $1000: https://www.inventables.com/technologies/desktop-3d-carving-...

Here's an overview of low-end desktop mills:

http://makezine.com/2014/03/20/desktop-mill-roundup/

The Pocket NC, if they ship it, looks interesting - that's the first 5-axis mill for hobbyists. You'll need very advanced software to run that thing.

Many serious home machinists get a Sherline mill. (http://www.sherline.com/prices.htm) They have a good reputation, but it's about $2K for a rather small CNC mill. There are lots of small CNC machines on Alibaba, but quality is unknown.

If there's a TechShop near you, get a membership and use their CNC mills and routers. You'll get better results than with any of the low-end machines.
My take from the article was that Ford popularized the idea. I definitely don't know enough about history to make a case either way, but at the very least the wikipedia article did not contradict it.

It doesn't seem too far fetched to me that Ford's cutting daily work hours would have made a huge impact if only because it brought the idea to the public's eyes. At the very least it wouldn't surprise me if only because it wouldn't be the first time I read about Ford's influence on setting trends for working.
Get involved.

Evangelize.

Side project.
'The Martian' and Software Development
Consider a professional that helps people get organized. A house cleaner can help you with some of these, like how often to dust or vacuum. A professional organizer (that you work well with) could help you with more of them, like creating systems that help keep track of documents or organizing your food containers. Check out highly rated people on yelp or get a referral from a friend or national professional organization.
This is awesome. I've had so many interesting conversations with friends who work in the webcam modeling industry about the possibilities of technology. And, we're beginning to get past the stigma of sex toys for men, so the potential market is roughly doubling in size over the next few years (in addition to the increasing openness about sex and sexuality providing further increases in market size). It really is a fascinating industry that I've considered stepping into for years.

Nearly all of these toys only provide pieces of the puzzle, though. There is no connectivity across smart toys from different manufacturers, there are rarely multiple components allowing male-female play remotely, there's a haphazard approach to the existing industries in this space (i.e. there are "toy + movie" products, but there is no standard for it, as far as I know). I feel like the industry hasn't learned the lessons taught by PC standardization: Being able to use one manufacturer's software with another manufacturer's hardware on yet another manufacturer's platform leads to a much bigger market than a vertically integrated thing. (I think.)
"Robert Crumb is considered by many to be the single best cartoonist America has ever produced."

Most [in]famous, yes. But he couldn't draw realistic figures until something like two decades into his career.
Crumb said, "“I don’t have the courage to make an insulting cartoon of Muhammed.”

That's the way I felt. I wonder how I would feel if I was in my twenties though? It weird. I haven't taken Gods name in vane since I had a bar of Ivory soap shoved in my mouth. (yes--it used to be that way.) I still don't go to church, but I respect the God I was thought to fear, and love. I can't comment on other people's religion. I just know that
until I started to think for myself their was not much of a line between religion/reality. I feel uncomfortable writing this post. I guess because I'm scared of another attack?
Okay, it looks interesting, but what on earth is this talking about?

> Unprecedented Computing Power

> A network of 4 computers with 100X the processing power of legacy devices drives advanced software intelligence. TextBlade runs for a month with advanced Bluetooth Low Energy, and fast-charges on any USB port in just minutes, without cords of any kind. [...]

Huh?
If that's your take on dating then I feel very sorry for you.
>>liquid nitrogen is ~700x denser than gaseous nitrogen.

One of the coolest LN2 tricks we used to do at our physics demo days took advantage of this - making bubbles the 'fun way'. Take a big pot of boiling water and add some dish soap. Wearing your protective gear, dump a few liters of LN2 into the water/soap mixture, and see it explosively create 700x its volume in bubbles!

Here's someone doing something similar (he uses room-temp water, not hot, so the bubbles come out 'frozen')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ZAoHxhihU

On your comment about displacing air - in my actual research (when we weren't making LN2 bubbles) we used alot of Liquid Helium (for reference, LN2 at 77K is about 1/4th room temperature, while LHe at 4.2K is 1/70th room temperature). We'd often have superconducting magnet running with fields up to 10T, which IIRC required nearly 100A of current in the freakishly-thin superconducting magnet wire which was submerged in the bottom of the LHe bath in the cryostat. It's possible that the magnet could 'quench' where part of it goes 'normal', immediately heating up due to the huge current, causing more of the magnet to go normal, causing more heating, which eventually boils off all the LHe, releasing HUGE quantities of He gas into the room. Even something simple like transferring LHe from the storage dewar to our cryostat, or cooling down a cryostat the first time, releases huge amount of He gas into the room. I was glad we had an oxygen meter in the lab (which I demanded our adviser buy, she didn't want to waste the money on it at first).
I looked all over the website and I still have no idea what ind.ie is or makes. They develop a product called "Heartbeat"? That lets you share things with people? Am I the only one completely baffled by this website?
Hawking would love it, it's dildos all the way down.
And again, I see a magic "$50,000" crowdfunding.

I wish people would stop this. It sets the expectation that "$50K is enough to produce a consumer product" when it's almost never enough.

At about $10/hour that's only 5,000 labor hours. That's roughly 1 year for 2 people solely on labor alone. No software, no hardware, no molds, no 3D prints, no customer support, no packaging, no documentation, etc.

I know that there is a balance between an amount that can get funded, but in my charitable moments I believe the reason for so many hardware failures is that people don't ask for the amount they actually need.

(Side note: In my less charitable moments, I posit that people keep the amount below $100K because it isn't worth taking someone to court over that amount.)
The worst thing about all of this is that there has never been a good reason to push through anything as HTTP/2 at this time. The key innovation of spdy wasn't any of the technical aspects of the protocol itself, but the fact that it was making good on the idea that protocol upgrade is a feasible prospect.

Formalizing and standardizing the means by which we can upgrade to spdy now, and later to http/1.2 or /2 (beyond the lipservice paid to the idea in the HTTP/1.1 RFCs), would have done a great service to the evolution of the web. It also would have allowed a reasonable time for other alternatives to spdy to show up, rather than a standardization timeline that was so ridiculously narrow as to allow only one possible alternative to have enough experience in the wild to succeed.

To sum up: spdy should have been standardized as spdy, not http/2, and the mechanism for protocol upgrade that it brought to the table should have been standardized separately in order to make it so when http/2 was actually ready, we'd be able to move to it.
as a founder, the most striking thing about your post is that you haven't defined or communicated what you role you actually want.

you need to figure that out, ask for it, and if you don't get it, leave.
Why would you feel the need to lie and say 'I need to check with my family', rather than just tell the truth with something like 'I need time to consider whether that suits me."?
Mandatory encryption is theater
One BIG reason to start your own company but never ever become an employee at a startup.

EDIT: The only benefit of working at startup (and a significant one) is to learn how startups work. If thats taken away from you then there is no point in risking your career.
Chevy Volt can now go 50 miles on electric battery alone
In my experience, what other people thought you communicated and what you thought communicated are often very far apart. Its an amazing thing, Humans are so good at communication but also so bad. I know with my significant other multiple times we have both got upset with each other for actions/inaction that we thought we had communicated with the other, when either we hadnt or hadnt clearly. We have been together for 10 years, and it still happens.

Communication is possibly the hardest thing to get right between two people, because it seems so effortless.
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Gathering what people are saying is relatively easy. Figuring out the meaning accurately is extremely difficult, and as you add longer text the difficulty grows.

Something like Siri wasn't developed in a void, the technology behind it took quite a long time, with many millions of dollars, and that is only aimed at "understanding" short sentences.

What you're asking for might cost a pretty penny to develop, it isn't just a "one guy in a basement for a long weekend" type of concept, it is a legitimately hard Computer Science problem with no easy outs.

If you were able to scan social media and extract WHAT people are talking about then it is definitely a monetizable idea. However from zero through to profit is a very long ride.

Maybe contact the NSA and try to negotiate re-using their in-house technology?
This article seems to be confusing muslims with arabs. Charlie Hebdo is only attacking religions, not arabs as an ethnic group. White catholics have been mocked, too, more than any other religion if you look closely at the history of that journal ; but, of course, attacks against catholicism often go unnoticed because, well, this is so common in France (and catholic extremists haven't murdered journalists for a very long time).
In Soviet Russia, device roots you!
What if we mostly have the power to only destroy?

Burning coal (or burning a building) is quite many orders of magnitude easier than doing the reverse.

It's just entropy.
The USG controls .com, .net, and .org. The government of Libya controls .ly. DNSSEC puts cryptographic key material under the influence of the DNS. "No it doesn't" isn't a rebuttal to that.
I've been feeling for a while now, software developers need agents.

I only talk to one recruiter. If I want a particular job I know is going I will direct him to it and he will handle any side lining from other recruiters.

Works a treat.
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Bitcoin Jesus Roger Ver Talks About US Not Letting Him Back In
I recommend reading the articles linked elsewhere in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879948

A lot of this is C compiler writers using the spec to perform counterintuitive "optimizations" (with dubious performance value), and forgetting that they're writing software for C programmers to use, not trying to win a pedantry war with them.
We're a relatively new startup (jut.io). At this point our focus is much more on creating good content, getting our voice right etc. Our main distribution vehicles are those we control - twitter, fb, linkedin, etc.

We have begun to do things like guest posts and think about hacker news as a potential distribution vehicle. I suspect as we get closer to operating "at scale" we will have the exact challenge you describe - distribution becomes more important to move the needle for content marketing.
In the vicinity of $500.
Nope. You made a statement you knew to be unsupported. Their lack of documentation doesn't change that at all. If you tried the app you would know that you are actually wrong.
Honest question: if you don't have cookies, then where do you keep your state?
Thanks!. For now the source of the examples is the best reference (and is commented with the intent of the constraints):

https://github.com/iamralpht/iamralpht.github.io/tree/master...

I will do some proper documentation and package Slalom up as a library in the future.
I can't help to be amazed with what they're pulling off. First of all, the game prototype looks amazing, although it may be one of those forever-early-access games, because it can't be just a game. Then you see how Blender widgets are used. Wow. Then you see how he's imitating UE4 Blueprints, again, wow.

But then the reality kicks in. Shouldn't you be making a game?
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> What is needed are large scale strikes with a few simple demands, but it won't happen because people are too afraid of being cut loose and losing what little security they have.

Exactly. Productivity has more than doubled since 1970. That means we have 50% fewer jobs.

We have a labor glut; striking in that environment isn't going to happen.
Ephemeral give you extremely high IOPS for no additional cost. It's perfect if you don't need a ton of disk space. A great example is Graphite. Very high IOPS requirement but (usually) a low disk space requirement (assuming you configure relatively low retention) The c3.2xlarge boxes are great for that.

The equivalent on EBS on the other hand will cost you an extra $250/mo or so in addition to your server cost. And you will cap out at 4000 IOPS.