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Well, I think it's worth finding out just for the sake of knowing.

But as a cautionary tale, yeah it still matters. Say you meet some guy planning on taking this same "adventure", you show him Into the Wild, he says "no problem, I've been hunting and trapping for 10 years, no way I'll starve".

People who just think "It's a bad idea in general, I don't need to know exactly how he died" were probably not in any danger of making the same mistake. If you want to convince people on the fence, you need specifics.
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I wanted to say this too - Whatsapp has made a HUGEimpact on the world. It's completely changed how I interact with my friends and family, massively for the better. Pretty much everywhere other than the US it has completely replaced SMS for most people.
wow nice tool!
That is one vindictive grad student.
As a young european the printer message "Please insert letter", or something similar, always confused the hell out of me when printing certain PDFs. Letter? What letter?
Well I meant that in regard to which JVMs people actually use...not what are theoretically possible.
It's kind of how people are scared of dying in plane crashes but not in car crashes - the illusion of control. One easily imagines doing something to avoid a car death but not a plane one.

I think the same applies here: Death by starvation feels easier to avoid to a layman wilderness expert: forage more, hunt effectively, conserve supplies better, etc.

But death via an obscure chemical even while in possession of a book on edible seeds...that's scary and much more likely to give one reservations about their confidence.
For what it's worth, I am in BizSpark and I have found using the Ubuntu VPSs to be totally hassle free. One question: on AWS, I used to use cron jobs to take snapshots of Postgres, etc. data stores and stuff them in S3 as an ad hoc twice a day backup. Is there something similar on Azure?
I agree in the broad strokes. But the only way to this utopia is stepwise. I hope this Go kit is one of those steps.
Which is a different issue than the quality of care. Again, we have some of highest (if not the highest) cancer survival rates in the world, and you're apparently more worried about if he will have to declare bankruptcy.

His son living is just slightly more important and with the ACA the chance of him having to declare bankruptcy is significantly decreased.
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Looks nice. I also recommend taking a look at http://visjs.org (no affiliation, other than a happy user).
I wish Sam Altman wouldn't talk so authoritatively in his essays. He comes off as an obnoxious, arrogant ass.

He sold Loopt and won PG's praise, but it doesn't follow that he has definitive answers the topics he writes about.

The simpler explanation is that he won PG's praise because he is a master imitator. He writes very much like PG, and I think PG saw a lot of himself in Sam, so he promoted him to YC president or whatever he is.
How is this different than CVE? I guess it would be descriptions/samples of malware in addition to just vulnerabilities?
It's not snotty to be skeptical, but it is snotty to be "skeptical" because the theory comes from an amateur, and to go on about "highly technical and complicated" etc. That's pure appeal to authority, the error of which is amply demonstrated by the fact that one of Clausen's own papers got through peer review with the exact same mistake. Hopefully he has learned to address the science, instead of the source or the publication process, next time.
Isn't JanOS just a fork of Firefox OS?
> Individual chips used in the hardware can cost multiple thousands of dollars each.

and 10 years ago, the compute power of a QC i7 would have tens of thousands of dollars.
As King of Sun III, yes I am forcefully "volunteering" my subjects to do the work. Archives can remain as-is. Everything new shall use the new system. Doing otherwise incurs penalty. If you don't use the new system, you will get pain treatments and possible death. /humour
It would be nice if they were forced to unlock your bootloader on request too. I would love to install Cyanogen mod on my Verizon Galaxy S4 but it is impossible to do so as the bootloader is completely locked down with no recourse.
I think that truth is getting lost in your abstractions. You are comparing the human feeling of something being "meaningful" to the idea of nutrition, which is a general concept of how the food we ingest affects our overall health.

Nutrition is a complex and multi-dimensional idea. If there is a food that makes most people healthy but kills other people because of an allergy, is that food "nutritious", in a universal sense? And it's tied into another complicated abstraction: the idea of health. If a person is addicted to a drug but functional, is it more "healthy" for them to stay on the drug indefinitely or is it more healthy for them to go through a potentially horrible withdrawal period to get off it?

The abstractions of "nutrition" and "health" are complicated and ultimately based in our experience, just like the idea of "meaningfulness." And while you could make an argument that certain statements would be universally agreed by everyone in all circumstances (like "eating an apple is more nutritious than eating a rock"), that is far from being able to say that the general ideas of nutrition or health are universal or absolute.
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>Though commercial airplanes are fairly safe private planes are little better than cars.

I think per mile, commercial planes is about 2x as safe as cars -- not that much better as believed.
> Go has another advantage over Scala (and any other JVM langauge), which also happens to be it's killer feature - green threads, the ability to write non-blocking concurrent code in a synchronous style without callbacks.

"Green threads", per se, aren't an advantage. M:N threads are potentially an advantage, since they allow both hardware parallelism and concurrency with a greater degree than the degree of hardware parallelism without the overhead of native threads for each concurrent task.

OTOH, nothing stops either JVM implementations (when compared to the underlying platform) or JVM languages (when compared to the JVM itself) from using an M:N threading model.

> Yes, I am sure Scala has some "leaky abstraction" over what are essentially just callbacks, as does Java, but it's not quite the same.

Green threads (whether 1:N or M:N) are a (potentially leaky) abstraction over what are essentially callbacks, too (while a well-designed green thread implementation can avoid this for code written entirely in the language, for calls linked code written in other languages that isn't specifically aware of and designed to cooperate with the green thread implementation, there is the risk of actions which block the underlying native thread, which will then block all green threads that are running on the same native thread.)
The closest I've gotten to that simple 80's computer experience is imaginary computers in Minecraft mods. Not exactly real-world applicable, but still a lot of fun. They're Lua scriptable with a simplified notion of networking and robots.

OpenComputers is a bit more interesting than ComputerCraft, but it also turns the initial construction process into a giant multi-stepped resource-intensive pain. Recommend playing in creative mode if anybody's curious to just take a quick look.
Oh drag I'm so going to miss those sketchy website in foreign countries that were doing this for me prior.
I'd have to disagree.

Individual doctors don't make purchasing decisions, but they do make prescribing decisions which drive sales. They are the key stakeholder when it comes to pharmaceutical marketing. They may not be buying lunches in the UK, but sale reps are getting time with doctors and talking up their products.
You have to reach escape velocity to get out of earth, so you can't be that slow.

Also, the distances are so great that "travelling slowly" is not very convenient anyway.
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Weight loss is rarely the primary goal of FMT and its efficacy

He didn't say it was the primary goal. In fact, the way I read it it was a side effect.
It went from $5 to $5-$10 in the time it took the link to load. And per month is not forever.

Anyway, my cable company's customer support reps are friendly enough. All the frustration comes when I cannot get whatever it is I want or effectively get the issue solved. No third party is going to be a bigger pain in the ads for $10 than I am by nature.

So I really don't see the value proposition.
If you found 'Into The Wild' interesting, make sure to checkout 'Into Thin Air' from the same author. It's about a summit attempt of Everest that went awry and is awesome.

Edit: come to think of it, I've read pretty much everything that Jon Krakauer has written. The guy's grocery lists are probably well thought out and have a compelling narrative.
These are good points but I would disagree specifically that other nations want "a more equal world". My take is that they want to wear the crown next, not share it.
Agreed. My hope is that we don't stop at this, however, we continue to push forward. Too many times we build the beginning of something great but never see it through to the end.
Indians in Uganda controlled something like a quarter of the economy while being only 1% of the population. That was one of the main reasons they were expelled from Uganda. I find the Philippines number pretty remarkable not so much for the Chinese success but that the non-chinese allowed the situation to continue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda
Maybe the indie game world need an incubator, like YC.

There are a few groups and companies that are attempting this with various success. Afaik, the most successful version of this is Indie Fund (http://indie-fund.com/), but it's not an incubator in the same way YC is, it's more like an indie game angel investor or VC.

Joystick Labs attempted to follow the startup incubator model for indie games and failed. http://www.gamefounders.com/ Appears to be an active game incubator that follows something close to the YC model.

A couple of game developers including Yetizen and Firehose Games have started incubators.
Are you suggesting to throw away a decade of front-end engineering in favour of writing things in Clojure/ClojureScript? What's gonna happen next time a new language comes up in ten years? Rewrite everything?

People (at least the ones I talk/work with) do understand the value of lisp. And I myself am a defender of that Hiccup-style syntax (https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/2932) and a huge Cljs fan. But judging from this comment and previous, it seems that you underestimate the value of getting work done in an already established environment.
Not really. Moreover, as far as I know there really isn't a good story around shipping dependencies in binary format rather than source code (as Maven repositories do by default).

It is fine to assume the availability of source code when you're working on tiny web microservices... and you're only depending on things like Gorilla, or whatever the leading Sinatra-clone is this week. However, a typical "enterprise" project has numerous proprietary dependencies for which the vendor doesn't want to ship source code.

It will be interesting to see whether the Go community eventually adapts to fit enterprise culture, whether enterprise culture adapts to fit Go's model, or whether the two worlds never really come together at all.
would the adjustment of 'most employment is inherently slavery' satisfy your pedanticism? economic enslavement is ubiquitous and not at all how it must be.
If they end up having to scrub today, the moon will be in the way for a while (this satellite is actually going out well past the orbit of the Moon) and the next launch window wouldn't be until the 20th.

Regardless of any contractual obligations, I think it's pretty obvious that future customers would be wary of SpaceX if they were to intentionally delay a paying customer's payload for a completely optional test, unrelated to the mission that was paid for.
>Your body is immensely complex, can rid itself of toxins, pathogens, and other invaders ... but is not able to discard excess calories it doesn't need? To the point of making you sick and immobile?

>That makes sense to you? That our body doesn't have a regulation mechanism?

It's so new of a concept, that evolution hasn't had to select for it for more than a few generations, while 99.9999999% of your evolution has favored gathering as many calories as possible.
I'm just getting a whitepage with "SF Life" title, fwiw, which is triggering a massive irony reaction. ;)

"Why don't people scale a little before posting a Show HN", I always wonder...
> i think you are taking it too literally.

If you're making a spectrum between "taking something literally" and "accepting something as a throwaway comment", and saying I went too far in taking something seriously or literally:

I'm looking at the /effects/ that word has on its readers. The author (are you the author? hi) doesn't /intend/ those things I said in my grandparent post. But the effect is (in my estimation) the author looks unconfident in his hobby. And the secondary effects are: people are /less/ likely to feel invited to join in. I would prefer the author invite me into his hobby by confidently showing me how cool it is.

(I'm stating my preference in order to make my point understood; I understand the author didn't ask for it.)
Good point and one of the reasons for using standard "forms" in many businesses. They telegraph "this is the way it's done" even to the extent by having fill in the blank sections. (Rental lease is an example of this). Once again not always appropriate but in many (not all) cases gives a customer less to think about.
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As someone who spent more than half of his life in China, I'd have to agree with you, at least from an anecdotal perspective. Trust is hard to build in China. A lot of people care about making money but people scarcely think about creating value for the society. Wealth is synonymous with consumption. The worst part I think, is the 1) social stability is valued over social mobility 2) individuality is shunned rather than celebrated.

In America people are encouraged to pursue your desire, the mentality of "not giving a fuck" and do what you love is admired and regarded as a sign of courage. In China someone who questions the conventions is deemed as social outcast. People in China are more concerned with the appearance (having face) than trying to be innately satisfied.

Things may have changed over the last decade. But I think China still faces this tremendous cultural problem, despite the development growth.
Dan Abramov is a very knowledgeable React person, so it's not just random finger wagging. It's a shared sentiment in the React development team. Virtual DOM didn't enable React's component composition. Unidirectional data flow also has nothing to do with a virtual DOM.
I did, hence my ability to quote very specific stats from it. I will admit that 1) my article reading skills are not strong and 2) I was hurried this morning.
Is this open source?

I would love to play with this
There are some Comcast resellers around here that do basically that. The problem is that they still have to go through the same BS that you do, and often can't answer your questions without a "I'll call comcast and get back to you about that". So when something goes wrong, now you have to deal with somebody who is just trying to translate for a comcast rep. Kind of a pain.
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This is a problem I've been looking for an optimal solution for a while.
When I want to draw out a technical schema of a design (typically for a webapp example, controllers talking to views talking to databases), I don't have a very efficient clean program to do so.

What do you use?
Man, that page needs a "What is Nexus?" link. I can't really tell what it is.. I guess some sort of central repo for packages?

What go has is Godep (https://github.com/tools/godep) which with a single command can copy all your project's dependencies into your repo. from there on out, the dependencies are just part of source control like anything else, so you don't have to open up your build machine to the external internet, for example.
>>Based on what you interpret as an implicit acceptance of slavery in comments on HN, which I guess you just sort of assume must be made by mostly white Americans?<<

Occam's razor says that it probably is white Americans.

I'm guessing here but maybe one of the reasons why white Americans gets so defensive and angry when this comes up could be that they feel they are being attacked and so they respond by trying to point to other instances where this happened. I grant you, that does not mean that people believe that slavery was OK but if so you should not try to excuse it.

Slavery existed in my own country, Mexico, and it was wrong. It was wrong then and it is wrong now. No excuses. To believe otherwise means that you should not object if other people try to enslave you or people you love. If I'm wrong then correct the error in my logic. I'm willing to learn.

I'm not sure if this is too simplistic or not but whenever you are unsure about whether something is OK or not simply imagine you are the one on the receiving end. If without lying to yourself you still think it is OK then maybe it is OK.

I seriously doubt anybody would make excuses for slavery with a straight face if they were the slaves, regardless of the era.

And now I feel like I'm being patronizing; sorry for that, not my intention.
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I was never a C64 hacker, my first computer was an Atari ST. It sparked my interest and lead me towards buying a 486 some years later.

I open with that because I could very well be wrong...... But surely at the time the C64 had a "weird architecture" and some proprietary blobs?

I do think that loading desktop linux onto an R-Pi results in a different kind of experience to a kid firing up a C64 and finding themselves at a basic prompt. However, it's pretty easy set up an R-Pi so that you're greeted by something similar.....

Note: I've got 2 original R-Pi's and my R-Pi 2 arrived today. I also have a 1 year old girl who I hope to one day get excited about the kinds of things that these wonderful devices enable me to do play with.
The white ones are also brighter. 750 lumens for white versus ~500 lumens (at 3000K color temperature) for color changing.

Roughly speaking, they're equivalent to 60W and 40W incandescents, respectively.
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> BMI is pretty accurate for heights that were common in 19th century Belgium. It assumes that people's weights ought to go up as the square of their height but as Galileo pointed out back in the day you would expect a person's weight to go up as the cube of their height.

My understanding is that BMI doesn't "assume" anything about what weight "should" do, its instead a measure which has been empirically shown to have a useful (though rather loose) correlation to risks related to various health conditions, particularly cardiovascular conditions. (Mostly, AIUI, it serves as a proxy for a host of other measures, which together are more accurate but more involved to gather.)

The cube-of-height scaling you refer to is what you would expect if taller people were exactly like smaller people but linearly scaled equally in all dimensions -- but that's neither empirically what taller people are built like nor are taller people whose weight relates to that of shorter people that way on average as healthy in the areas BMI is used a risk measure for as the shorter people.
It's not a "crutch", it's an "alternative". Couching it in negative terms isn't really fair.

While I prefer writing regexes, a regex DSL isn't fundamentally better or worse, just different. In addition, it allows non-computer people to write, or at least specify, regexes in a way that makes more sense to non-developers.
If any non-lawyers are interested in what a well-executed agreement with commentary looks like, I highly recommend The LSTA's Complete Credit Agreement Guide, which covers an industry-group standard loan securitization agreement. It's 600 pages. There are others, like commentaries to the ISDA Master agreements, but they're niche and very, very expensive.

For lawyers interested in what a masterfully annotated computer program looks like, have a look at Donald Knuth's "literate programs". If you've a uni library nearby, have a peek at his Computers & Typesetting. It's gorgeous stuff. Great pictures, too!
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That was my first reaction: the title could be better rephrased "I can't figure out how space flight will be safer than modern aviation". I'll eat my hat if that turns out to be true.

But, we're going to run out of steam with technology at some point. In this modern world it feels like progress is the only constant, but eventually, we're actually going to run up against physical limits and figure out optimal configurations of atoms for particular tasks.

In other words, we're on an S curve, but it looks very exponential from our perspective.

Of course, I'd be shocked if the optimal configuration of atoms for launching humans in to space ever has a fatality, without being caused by some kind of event that also wipes out earth in the process.
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Kudos for sharing this.

Only caveat: I've sold SaaS to large enterprises (like AT&T, Coke, etc.) for ten years, and unfortunately most of them insisted that we use THEIR template, which was a huge pain point for us.
Sorry, I meant the code for this .app specifically
No one has a pile of money. That's the point. Many people come up with theories on how to beat the market by using some novel theory or algorithm. These people generally have not successfully tested these theories (and made the aforementioned piles of money).

(This is why I follow patio11. Reading his tweets and HN comments is not unlike unpacking a particularly obtuse if-else-if statement block. Difficult, but rewarding!)
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"Update: And it's gone. If you've opened the page, don't hit refresh — trust us. According to a statement from Netflix (via CNBC), this early tease was caused by a 'bug in the system.'"
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-whoosh-

I was joking.
Here's a braindead simple idea for how to get a startup going: 1. Don't hire anyone else until you're making money.

I mean, how easy is that? It's not flipping rocket science.
MirageOS is useful for creating single-purpose appliances. That fits well with how the cloud is used today (where you typically end up with one service/app per VM anyway). The autoscaling piece is only one aspect and is only in the early stages, so you shouldn't dwell on it.

The overview page and the ASPLOS paper (linked upthread) and the ACM article [1] will help explain the benefits and trade-offs of the unikernel approach. Other people have also started using unikernels so you can read about their experiences too [2].

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628

[2] http://amirchaudhry.com/unikernels-for-everyone/
How peculiar. I've also been noticing in my classes that Libre office is outputting files that are mangled when opened with MS office.

I'm not sure if its an Open source fail or MS up to their usual tricks again.
Is anyone building a copy of that to sell to other people besides Facebook?

Similar to how you can buy a Backblaze Pod ( https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/ ) from http://www.45drives.com/
Amazon.com fails to connect with 256 bit cipher
In the latest firefox, go to about:config and turn off all 128 bit ciphers. Then try logging into your amazon.com store account. Does this fail for you as well?
> We now pay more for less data than we did 3 years ago.

This is this to show all Canadians how much better out plans our than Verizon! Remember, vote "No" on Verizon come election day! /s