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Almost all of the vegetables and cereals we eat appeared after great modifications to the wild species less than 10 thousand years.

How the body evolved to that? Were they natural?
Good question, same goes for Nations, what makes a nation ? Waves are naturel, but how fast change is felt as breaking or losing its 'soul' ?
This is nonsense. "Loló" is the street version of "lança-perfume", it comes from way back in the first decades of the 20th century and it is almost a trademark of the "old timers" carnival parties. Check http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lança-perfume (in Portuguese) for more of the story of this drug.
Edit: they've fixed this now.

I'm not joking, click on it and try to pay. It shows an invoice of ($5,000), a.k.a. $5000 negative dollars. I didn't enter real payment information to see what happens next because of really idiotic interpretations of what constitutes "hacking", but it is a really bad design choice on their part that took me about half a second to find.

Founder, if you're reading this: was this an in-house build or did you outsource this?
LinkedIn, Yahoo, Genentech and EA also have buses. Other smaller companies also contract out Bauer's (http://www.bauersit.com/) to provide shuttle services as well. I'm not saying this adds up, but there are other companies participating.
Piwik _gives_ you all those bells and whistles, and is 100% open-source and self-hosted.

http://piwik.org/
As somebody who works in HFT I want to personally thank you, and people like you, for what you do. Making money would be so much harder without you.
A nice example of exponential growth.

There isn't really much to this simulation and I still find myself upgrading things all the time. I guess humans really like seeing numbers go up.
Aren't you saying "I don't care how you feel" to everyone choosing to engage with the world less directly/personally and more removed/technologically?
There are assumptions here.

>Earning money is very inefficient - You have all your costs of education, of finding a job, of getting to work and the biggest one - the taxes you pay.

In the states you're forced to attend school until a certain age, you can also skip grades if you're ahead of the pack. Finishing high school / college might relate to long term potential income, but that's statistics. For instance, I was selling online gold for a few months and easily made what my first full-time job was in half the time.

>Just go to work less, have less money, and you'll magically have more time - and in fact it will be more time that if you tried to earn/spend money to "buy" that time.

While this is likely to be true, think about what money affords. It's the ability to have experiences easier, with less stress financially. Seeing plays, movies, traveling, dining at famous restaurants. This will depend on what a person wants to do with their time and what they enjoy, but money makes some of these experiences accessible or cuts down on time needed. Think about traveling to certain countries. People have made trips never using planes, but the time it takes is magnitudes longer (again, maybe some people rather boat the entire way).
If you're willing to work with a service that you're paying for AND that penalizes you for erroneous bounces, that's kind of your problem.
Can someone explain the benefit of this over using a list in redis and using a blocking pop. Only thing I can think of is that it uses HTTP so you may be able to get around some port restrictions in your infrastructure, but that is probably a very uncommon case.
A lot of the time (certainly in my work) the requirements are incomplete / vague enough, that it is easier just to build a prototype and work from there. As such tests will just require two or three times as much code, and there is a fair likely hood that they will be thrown way afterwards.

I know this does not fit waterfall or TTD / agile methodology, but I am certain that there is a very large percentage of IT workers that have to work this way.
Nice interface. :)
Every time I read something like this about Perl, I'm amazed at how much it got right.
> the universe as a whole is skewed in the forward direction, because its past endpoint was highly ordered, and its future endpoint is highly disordered.

This is highly misleading. The arrow of time is not thermodynamic, it's quantum. It's defined by increased entanglement, not increased entropy.

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
Ask HN: “Competition is for losers”, but it seems YC investments ignore this
Take EventJoy for example - at a glance, it seems like they're niche. Event registration. You've likely never heard of an event registration company before unless you're in the industry or have hosted an event. It seems like it would be a very small subset of web development available, but then you look at a this[1] and it's obvious that there are literally dozens upon dozens of companies offering very similar services.

It seems like there are very few YC companies that are even close to being unique, so I don't understand why they are pushing this as being so important.

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-mobile-event-apps-for-conferences-and-corporate-events
While true, had Ada or Modula-3 became widespread instead of C++, we would be discussing about logical errors nowadays, not about pointer misuses.
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If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice
Collecting data from YOUR website - costs time/money.
Google Analytics is FREE and low cost time/money to install.

It's true the data is there and we can get to it... but this takes some foresight that having installed analytics does not require. e.g. a few months after the original apache logs have rotated - you realize it would be nice to know how many mobile safari users are coming to your site vs chrome android users... because you're trying to determine the impact of releasing that next feature that requires webrtc. You can add the analysis to future traffic and give it a few extra weeks but wouldn't it be nice to know right now?

GA is nice because it lets you avoid the investment in time/money and you can still go back and look at historical data points you might not have imagined being useful before...

I think in this way sampling is really not a big deal... if it is you're right - absolute right. collect the data points that require this level of accuracy yourself... but I don't think if you need that level of accuracy early on you're focusing on the right things...
Social cohesion is one possible one. For example, if you lived in a small community where the police officers knew you personally since childhood you would, on average, be less likely to be harassed by police.
That wasn't what I was expecting but cool nonetheless. I remember @canada's first tweet and wondered why it took so long.
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Quite I said as much and got down voted for my pains
"Hi, currently writing a book on the subject and I'm doing a bit of research myself."

"trying to force tests in a non-test-focused environment, where the business does not understand the meaning and/or the value of testing can be poisonous to us and the business itself"

Sorry to be a bit negative, bit it sound like you have a conclusion that you want to reach before you have done your research. That's not really how research should work. Research should be done and conclusions reached afterwards.
Why not? If they're going to go to all the trouble to "Internet enable" a refrigerator, surely they can include yearly certificate changes as part of their maintenance plan.
"a reflexive offering"

I was never under fire when I was in the reserves, or overseas, but it angers me anyway when people thank me for my service because it feels like "my bad".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=My+bad

"A way of admitting a mistake, and apologizing for that mistake, without actually apologizing."

aka something like "sorry for sending you there to die for nothing, but F you I said thanks so that makes us even" Its especially biting when someone I know to be a neocon tries to thank me. No, more like F you.
I guess a better way to phrase it is: "you can feel however you want".

As long as you realize that brooding and feeling some type of negative way is a net negative on human civilization. You could think about the lives that people must live that they're using their phones that much. Maybe pressures they face at work that force them to constantly be available, or difficulty meeting friends with adult schedules so they have to try to fit in conversation when they can.
No doubt Piwik is great but again it's not as easy to setup or maintain as google analytics... GA is easy and free but there's costs in that you might get sampled data if you're doing high volume of traffic... okay but there is also cost in self hosting when you're doing high volume of traffic... no free lunch applies..
The problem is how much safe is safe in these discussions.

Rusts thread's safety is always brought up as part of the whole memory safety model and it is a very good goal to achieve.

However, if we were free of the typical C style memory corruption brought upon the world of computing, there would be a lot of more safer applications.

Even if those applications wouldn't be thread safe.
> because it has been made clear by Crimea and Donbass...

I'm sorry, but all of this is pure Kremlin propaganda. You can't blame nazism on a nation that has people of various ethnicities (including Russian) fighting in its Army and the National Guard, and has people of various ethnicities (including Russian) in positions of power, including the elected officials (Poroshenko himself is of mixed origin, as well as Yatsenyuk). Why, even some of the protesters who died on the Maidan ("Nebesnaya Sotnya") were not ethnic Ukrainians (they were Russian and Armenian). The whole nazi scare is just propagandistic nonsense.

> Girkin provided the focus point for the nationalists forces....

Please watch his interviews. He's literally saying that if it wasn't for his involvement, there would be peace all over Donbass. "I started the war which is still raging on."

I'm sorry, but the rest of your posts is just propaganda, which I'm not going to even try to refute. If you really believe in what you're saying, consider visiting Kiev and seeing for yourself that there's absolutely no ethnic tension. In fact, there's unity: Ukrainians, Russians, Tatars, Armenians, Georgians - you name it - all consider themselves Ukrainians trying to fight off a military aggression as one nation.
OP changed it, there wasn't one before.
I'm using Java to process over a trillion files under 3 days. Sometimes its the programmer skills, not the language itself that should be blamed about performance.
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Does increasing entanglement explain the second law of thermodynamics?
A joke I always had was that startups always have the "we do it so you don't have to" headline. Applies so perfectly here!

Still, looks like a very nice idea, might try it if I ever need something :)
It adds value, just not for the consumer or user. Note that I didn't say owner as this internet of thing is actually the internet of someone else's things, typically the manufacturer. Think apple devices meets with giving away ownership and control of your data to a third party provider, the current obvious is facebook.

All this seem to be the logical next step in the evolution of corporation trying to exploit the internet for their own needs and turn it into a massive surveillance tool. Something that started quite a while ago on the day advertising invited itself to the party.
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Except that, unfortunately, Carpenter gave a wrong solution, showing that he's somebody who likes to write complex code for the purpose of showing off, but he's not particularly interested in understanding the requirements. It would have been enough for Christine to say:

"Ok, let's try your code. I'll read out a list of moves and you'll show me how it works"

and the fact that the code doesn't work would have become obvious.
> "be here" in the moment

Weasel words.

I hear this all the time, and no one can tell me exactly what it means.

Like, burying my nose in a book is certainly not "being here" or "living in the moment," but that's probably a sanctioned activity to people who say stuff like this.
Because it's seamless when you want takeout. And instacart when you want groceries. And something else when you want office supplies. And a fourth thing to make dinner reservations...
Well right. But my description of the experience still stands. It doesn't seem like an improvement.
I'm saying the inverse, I think. The person in the article has a good point, and we shouldn't tolerate 'tough luck' as the response.

Someone in their phone clearly doesn't have the bandwidth to care how I feel about their engagement with our reality. I've watched teenagers literally shake their friends to try to get them out of their phones to answer a question on which Jamba Juice they wanted. That behavior is irritating because it mutes my ability to state my feelings to that individual.

Obviously I don't talk to everyone I see in the world, but given a significant amount of people run around with their nose in their phone all the time, it can affect how someone who isn't in their phone views the world. Less people engage in conversation, less people 'see' you on the street, less people are 'aware' you exist, etc. It's a real problem and SF is the epicenter of it because a) this is where it all gets built and b) it's part of the tech culture.
Give me a break really? How about just saying "Thank you" and moving on. The article gives legitimate substance to why but yours just seems petty.
I think the crux of the issue is that, since about WWII, all the wars this country has been involved with were wars of choice, not of necessity. It makes sense to thank a World War II veteran for their service because, if it wasn't for their service, we would all be speaking Japanese. With an Iraq veteran, what exactly are you thanking them for? That war didn't really accomplish anything for the people back home, except maybe stabilize oil prices.
I think the question is "what is the cost" of the more novel rust safety features? In my experience, the cost is pretty high.

When you set Rust next to, e.g. swift, swift is phenominally more productive and similarly performant. And it is also quite safe (relative to C) without having all of the Rust safety features that make me want to kill the borrow checker with a rusty spoon.

I really wish Rust walked back on the more esoteric forms of safety (like thread safety, which you can't really verify anyway, you just promise the compiler that it's safe) and it tried to drive a bargain like Swift.

Rust really isn't satisfied to adopt the safety features that are "fairly low effort", it wants to break new ground without really measuring developer cost (hard to do since it's not widely used). That's really my issue with it.
Lower inflation favors those with lots of capital parked in low productivity growth, high output sectors like resource extraction (oil, logging and mining). It makes it harder for sectors with intense R&D and complicated LoB like aerospace and other tech.

A good sampling of some big national success stories exist over the last half century or more where inflation was over 4% where economies grew and diversified much faster than the US in the same period. Up to a point, inflation alone is not a very insightful indicator of economic health. Lots of other factors have to be compared, too.
Last summer in Kansas, a 9-year-old was loving his Little Free Library until at least two residents proved that some people will complain about anything no matter how harmless and city officials pushed the boundaries of literal-mindedness:

The problem is that there aren't consequences for people that harassed this little kid. There aren't consequences for the busybody, no-do-gooders or the city councilmen.

This also reminds me that there aren't consequences for prosecuting attorneys that go after people on very shady evidence.

Checks and Balances are out of wack these days. I would hope that the citizens of that kids town would stigmatize those folks that harassed the 9-year-old and they vote out the bums that shut down this kids little library.

But this is what happens when you let government bureaucrats regulate so much of our lives. You get what you vote for.
Looks like I stumbled upon a bug? There is a job listing by a company Hedo for junior iOS Dev. But when I clik on it it throws 404.

http://remoteok.io/startups/hedo

I manually added special character, é (don't know what's it called), as shown in company name and now it works:

http://remoteok.io/startups/hédo

So may be bug is related to how you are handling unicode/special characters, in database and URL mapping
Looking forward to the day I can start calling televisions "telescreens" as they "anonymously" record their environment (unless, of course, the NSA gives Samsung a blanket warrant).
Well, for one time only, you can convert all (make a little converter) existing groff to markdown and then stop supporting groff at all.
No, it's beautiful. Being a Python programmer it took me a long time to appreciate the power to do things like this. Learning Elisp, Smalltalk, Io and JavaScript (well) certainly helped.

Also, of course you can scope such a change however you want, for example to a single block (and with threadlocals it's going to be mostly safe).
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But existing pages would be served with the already existing groff, right? Software doesn't rot, so the existing software will continue to work in the future.
>Excel destroys any csv file upon saving.

This isn't exactly true, although I understand why people think it is. The problem is that when you "open" a csv file in Excel it guesses what type the fields are and sets that datatype for the column. This will frequently mangle the data when written back to a file as you noted.

However you can "import" the csv file using the wizard and that allows you to set all of the options, including datatype. Setting this to 'text' seems to prevent Excel from mangling the data.

I tend to use a combination of CSVKit, which seems plenty fast for my usage, and Excel when dealing with csv files.
>Emerging in its place is the mostly white, male-dominated, monied monoculture of the tech industry and there appears no end in sight.

It's weird to flinch at reading this. What am I, a racist? But this sentence just isn't true for me. I mean, sure, as the demographic majority there are a lot of white people in tech, but my experience just hasn't been "mostly white". At some meetings I've been the only white guy in the room: how much more diverse do we need to get, exactly?

What is the case where I work is that white people are far more likely to live in San Francisco, whereas the nonwhite immigrants seem to be a little more responsible and live in places like Fremont, Dublin, and Sunnyvale, and tolerate 90 minute commutes to do so. Which is not an aspect of the tech boom that a publication like The Guardian would ever emphasize, because a story about entrenched old hipsters making life difficult for people from Bombay who worked themselves to the bone just to get into the country -- that just doesn't fit the prevailing narrative -- nor does the fact that they're doing so to preserve a culture famous mostly for its reputation among America's majority demographic.

I mean, I'm not gonna deny that being white gives some tech workers (like me) an unfair advantage in life, which also happens to be true in roughly every single other American industry, but I've been exasperated by this enough to point out that the people opposing expansion are generally shortsighted hypocrites -- bring on the evictions, so that the nonwhites who comprise 75% of my scrum team can live in the city where they work, maybe.

And I'd like to apologize apostrophically for stealing my coworkers' right to represent themselves.
Ask HN: What do you wish you knew in your early twenties?
I ask this question to people in my life who, by my standards, "made it". It's usually a person who successfully sold his startup, is leading research field expert or otherwise distinguished in his career (e.g. a president of huge corporation).

The question is vague for a reason - to not bias the person. I am interested to hear about everything: technical, financial, social, professional, etc. My thesis is that while we cannot look forward in time (well, not yet) it is easy to look backwards and connect the dots. Hence, I ask this question to learn what's ahead and get prepared for it now.

There are few things that usually come up, for example: be humble, work backwards from end-goal, hard work is basis for most things, it's often worth scarifying short term goals for a longer term pay-off, learn to appreciate simple things in life.

So, HN audience, what do you wish you knew in your early twenties? It would also be great if you could tell how old are you, where you are now, how long it took you to get there and how.
Happiness is a metric of internal success.

Money is a metric of external success.

If money (i.e. the external, material success) played no part and it was all about time you could just retire to a cabin in the forest to have all the time and none of the money till the day you die. That's because you already have time and you get more every day.

But happiness and money aren't necessary orthogonal. If you're unhappy then money can't make you happy but if you're happy, money can amplify that and make you more happy.

Money first gives you more options to do what you want but ultimately it gives you power. And power gives you leverage to change the world: first your own world and then the whole world. In other words, with money, you can do more and you're happier for that.

However, that doesn't work if you don't know what you want and you only want things to become happy.

You first need to be happy with what you have in order to be in the position where you can want more. Then you can use money the right way, almost as a beam of power to change things around. But in order to be equipped to do that you need to be on clear yourself: you already need to be happy not because of money, and you can no longer need the money to validate yourself at that point. You must have had accepted who you are because if you haven't, you can't be happy either.
You can always spot these vets at airports. They are the ones who aren't rushing to the gate for pre-boarding.

I knew one at school (2006) who really hated being thanked because he really didn't feel he was doing anything for his country. He had a sick kid. His only reason for serving in the army was his daughter's medical care. He saw the thanks, more specifically accepting the thanks, as a sort of lie. For him it was a job, a very good job. He openly admitted to being a mercenary. I think that actually protected him from some of doublethink: he was under no illusions about why he was fighting.

I also met a Vietnam vet once who stayed away from any vet activities. He wasn't damaged. As a pilot he enjoyed the war and hated how everyone made assumptions about his experiences. He hadn't been shot down, or even shot at. Accepting the empty "thanks" felt like validating misconceptions.
Is this just a US thing? I wasn't aware of this being a thing in the UK for example.

To the contrary, they are treated with respect as professional soldiers doing the job they signed up, and are paid to do.

Can anyone else pitch in with relation to their own countries?
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