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I am kind of moderately anti-vax, but reading the article makes me feel this is worth a shot because of this:

Previous attempts to control the spread of CDV into wild populations focused on stopping the virus at the presumed source—domestic dogs. Unfortunately, research now shows that top predators are probably contracting CDV from smaller wild animals that act as intermediaries. The simplest solution, then—ensuring that humans vaccinate their pets—may no longer be an effective option.

Edit: So admitting to being moderately anit-vax is adequate reason for being downvoted to hell, even though it was given as a qualifier to strengthen my statement that this plan to vaccinate big cats sounds like it has merit.

Wow.
There are quiet versions of Matias switches, but they are all clicky, which we explicitly don't want because even quiet clicky switches are loud and because of the associated fatigue. Our switch is quiet and non-clicky, which up until now hasn't existed in the Matias line.

I'm not sure I understand your question about wanting money. As much as it would be great to give them away for free, the reality is that it cost us money to produce them and it will cost us money to ship them. We're running this campaign in order to simplify the logistics of offering our extra keys to other people.

Regarding custom key caps, another commentator was correct in saying that we're milling entirely custom shapes from raw materials (aluminum in our case).

As for the circulation of Cherry MX Reds, I could only find them available in small quantities for what seemed to be very high prices, when I could find them in stock at all. The Cherry MX is a great line of switches, but Cherry is doing a poor job of helping people (well, me at least) make new products.

I haven't noticed the Matias switches being super wobbly, but I also don't have a full keyboard built yet. I'll keep an eye out for this.
Professional services partnerships have been around a long time. This is pretty well trod ground for law firms and medical practices. I don't understand why we'd need to reinvent the wheel here.
Actually, this story makes me want to defend the teacher here.

Seems to me that this grading regime was explained beforehand and was a fair way of assessing your spelling and comprehension. Your complaint seems to be that you think the spelling should be a smaller proportion of the grade. While I agree with that, this appears to be a case of the teacher valuing skills differently not (as with so many other anecdotes being posted here) a case of the teacher not evaluating students fairly.
Yes, I know how to program.

To answer your question, I learned enough to be able to do a few small things (Agree... schooling it is at this point) it opened my eyes as to what could be done, and I took off doing some projects.

Soon enough, I started finding the holes in my knowledge, and started filling them in. I have been at this for years, and expect to be doing it indefinitely. There may be a point education begins, I'm not sure there should be a point at which it ends....

I have had to go back and systematically study some things (as one would in school)... but it means so much more when it is for purpose, and the information is retained. And I'm selective. Time is not an infinite resource. I practice lazy loading. I have long since stopped trying to cram my head full of irrelevant facts or skills that don't make the world any better. If there is a framework or language I think offers some advantages, I learn it if I feel cost vs. benefit is there. Otherwise I take brief measure and make a mental note of existence in case I need it later. I have learned a lot like this and don't generally get lost in the weeds...

I believe that this is how _real_ education occurs. Or rather, that this is the method by which knowledge becomes more than theory and a living skill that allows one to produce something. Not knocking classroom education. Some is certainly needed. But I thought this article was spot on.
My experiences in military boarding school were positive. Difficult and character-building, but positive. I doubt any school experience could be 'slump free' all the time. In any case I hope you can find the good in the experience.
Much obliged urs2102.

Whole lot more work between here and there - glad you could be a part of it with us.
It's the Windows 8 problem -- trying to make one UI that works equally well on the entire spectrum of form factors.

In Netflix's case their UI is designed for tablets, and it really really shows anywhere else. On a phone, the big cover images take up so much real estate that paging through lots of results is slow. On a TV or computer monitor, it feels weird because it's designed around touchscreen interactions like flicking, which you can't do elegantly with a remote control or XBox controller.

Microsoft seems to have finally figured out that "one UI to rule them all" is a pipe dream; maybe Netflix eventually will too.
The concern isn't that the pace of breaking changes will mean Rust breaks sem-versioning but that the duration between Rust 1x and 2x will be short. In practice, it doesn't make a difference what number is assigned to a release if the major stability turns out to be short.

Can you comment on that -- possibly entirely incorrect -- concern I have about Rust's development? Are we going to see Rust 2.x popping up in six months?
My guess:

1) Microsoft made Windows too damn fragile. Installing the app means that setup.exe will write all over the hard drive, and uninstall was never easy. Web didn't required install/uninstall.

2) Windows programs, with a few notable exceptions, were/are butt ugly. Web started as an ugly abomination, but designers catched up quickly. Web applications, even then, on slow connections, often provided more pleasant experience.

Web app on mobile today doesn't have the same luxury - native app install/uninstall is painless; native applications are better integrated and most of the time handle unstable connections better; good native apps are beautiful and often have superior usability compared to web apps.
Ok sorry, I misused the term "pointer arithmetic" then. I think I was referring to memory indirection and the like. I find "ref" and "->" less cryptic than "&" and "*".
I always like finding stuff like this. Imgur has a really good ascii art job advert that shows up in the JS console.
The complaints are not necessarily directed at individual people who rationally choose careers in finance over other vocations, given the system they live in. The complaints are to a large extent over the fact that our society has been set up this way, with the goal of perhaps trying to change that so that people would feel less incentive/need to abandon science, mathematics, etc., for finance (in multiple senses!).
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Coops should distribute dividends on a equal basis or its not a real coop.

Not all coops have flat pay structures either your mistaking profit share with pay.
This a problem in first tier cities even in the US. It's not only the IPO crowd driving up prices in SF, NYC, etc. But these foreign investors --the IPO people get the flack from displaced communities, but foreign investment contributes its own good share of this new housing shortage... It's begun to affect second tier cities like Minneapolis, Austin, etc.
Shooting a commercial can cost a million bucks. If you want prime advertising slots, it might cost from a few hundred grand up to a million for a 30 second spot. Print and online advertising is cheaper, of course, but I don't think their advertising budget is unreasonable considering how large a company they are and how difficult it may be to get new subscribers.
It works just fine. Well until there is a loss of confidence anyway.
Note that this behavior is already default in mobile web frameworks such as jQuery Mobile.
I like the idea of setting the mood in the space to attract different types of users. Good suggestion!
I wasn't trying to deprecate him. He was obviously super talented and it was a privilege for a nobody like me to work with someone of this caliber. But my point is that we should be careful with 'cults of personality'.
Limited liability and with a coop everyone is a member not just the few partners at the top.

I should say there is normally a probation period for new employees before they become members
This site's entire purpose seems to be about showing what people carry with them every day, yet the pictures are small and hard to distinguish, and they don't even offer an explanation of what the product is, why the person carries it, why they chose that product or what they use it for. Does anyone know of any similar sites that go into the products that people use and why? I'd love to read that much more than whatever this is.
Since we're manufacturing the key caps ourselves, it's actually a much cheaper way to go for us.
Am I the only one who finds finding something on Netflix to watch increasingly difficult, and contradictory to what they say in that piece. My experience is mostly using Roku (a spinoff from Netflix) and Android.

For example if I watch a WWII documentary, then they feel the need to recommend every one they have, for a long time. Oh and "watch" means "seen more than a second or two of", so you get all this crud even if you didn't like it.

Perhaps the biggest sin is showing me stuff I have already watched, outside of the "watch again section". My home screen is mostly things I have seen, and I have to keep scrolling past to see if there is anything interesting deeper in the sections.

It is especially annoying that there is no "do not show this again". My home screen is a collection of content I have already seen, or do not want to see. It makes Netflix look dumb and is very user hostile.

Most amusing is that they don't provide a way of finding content that you want to watch now. For example you would like to watch something funny and light for the next half hour, or a date night movie. Sometimes those categories randomly show up on the screen, but usually not.

I'd go on, but the overall vibe is a very dumb experience of recommendations that I don't want, no useful content exploration, and it feels like I watch stuff despite them, rather than because of them. Maybe I should cancel my account again.
I would not give $100k to anyone who didn't pay me and didn't tell me until after I had done the work.

You could cut out the middle man and just pay yourself. Anyway 3% isn't a controlling interest and you are entirely dependent on their goodwill in any liquidity event.
> As such, we are actively curating our service rather than carrying as many titles as we can.

I hope this is true. Because the quality of content that has been added to Netflix over the past year has mostly been god awful. A lot of the movies that have been added are not even D-grade quality. They are straight to video dreck.

On top of the bad movies there's been reams and reams of awful reality shows as well.

When I first signed up for Netflix they had full libraries of HBO and Showtime shows. NBC shows. Movies that people actually went to see in theaters.

I understand that having HBO and Showtime's libraries is going to be hard now that those companies are pursuing their own subscription services. But that doesn't mean Netflix needs to resort to the crap it's been adding lately.

Honestly, if things don't improve in 2015 there's a good chance I'll cancel my Netflix subscription.
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Perhaps the reason is not the necessity to rhyme, but to be popular; being prolix might be a deterrent to popularity.

Even if so, I find the conclusion unexpected, as Shakespeare not only had a wide popularity in his day, but also coined many new words into the English language.
If anyone is interested in anecdotal data [0][1] regarding sentence length for equivalent meaning, I have to use both French and English every day, alternating between them (spoken and written) all the time. English is almost always shorter than French, which is more verbose. I am used to "thinking" in whatever language I'm using to talk/write and have noticed many times that I'm a bit slower in French, even if it's technically my native language. It might also be that French seems to have more alternatives to say the same thing in different ways, but that could just be just me.

[0] C'est presque toujours plus long en français qu'en anglais.
[1] It's almost always shorter in English than in French.
Congratulations to them. I've worked with their developer evangelism team a bit and they always bring their A-game. The company really seems to understand how to engage the community and they have a very solid and easy to use product.
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maybe they should read the books instead of selling them.
uh, well. they're still a private company, so we'll find out when they file. that's kind of the point of an IPO filing.
I quite liked this article for associating Twilio's success with strategic decisions to treat developers as customers with particular implications for evangelism and growth. This approach isn't obvious because of the pressure to tie tool adoption to large-sized recurring enterprise contracts, often losing the individual developer as the engine of that model.

Also note, Twilio brilliantly dances between concerted efforts in grassroots developer campaigns such as hackathons while bringing down tier 1 enterprise contracts at the same time. This is awesome and not easily done. Developers are smart and ultra-wary of hackathons as thinly veiled API marketing attempts.

Over the past year, I've pitched a developer API startup to countless VCs, many of them top tier, and Twilio has almost always come up as a point of reference from the other side of the table. In many, many cases, the VCs will have passed on Twilio, not liking either the developer tool or enabling tech aspect of the company, and are now face-palming a bit...Only a bit...show me a VC that will wholeheartedly admit to making a mistake ;)

Overall, the venture sentiment towards developer tools is definitely shifting. A year from now I expect to see quite a lot more activity in financing this space, albeit, in domains that largely coincide with VC comfort zones. Twilio offers communications and telephony, which is a market a lot of folks are comfortable in, compared to education, health, government, or creative industries.
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YC companies have been particularly bad at this in my experience. At least 5 times I have replied to job postings on HN, sending my resume and completing puzzles correctly, and not once have I even gotten an acknowledgement. I would love a "sod off" email from a YC company after applying. At the very least, an autoresponder.
1. If a customer is looking for books, they're probably not going to be looking in the code.

2. If someone is looking in the code, they're probably ready for books beyond "HTML & CSS".

3. The urls aren't hyperlinked, so readers have to copy-paste.

4. The two books I bothered to copy-paste both report, "Not in our warehouse". One of them further reports that "We can order it, but could take up to 3 weeks". The big-A can have it to me in 3 days, two of which are the weekend.
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> - working overtime is no substitute for bad planning

I feel like I know what you mean, but this one feels off to me. I think you mean, "working overtime is no substitute for good planning." As in, working overtime is a consequence of bad planning (not always, but an indicator at least).
I followed this a few weeks ago:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/create-reset-re...

Got me a 8.1 ISO, installed with a volume key.
I understand the author's point-of-view on this, but disabling line numbers sounds like something that should be user-controllable. Right now it feels like a misfeature, whereas "we don't implement line numbers by default, but if you want them, do this and that and you can have them" would feel way more like a good feature to have.
Maybe it's just me. But one thing about linear (live) broadcasts -- and this also applies to an extent to live radio vs. mp3's -- is that there is just something engaging about watching a program that you know other people, at that moment, are also watching.

It's also missed when watching a show that you DVR'ed, after the fact -- like the series finale to Lost, or the Super Bowl.

If/when live broadcasts are completely a thing of the past, I think this sense of engagement will be lost forever, and people won't even realize what they're missing out on.

In a way, it's sort of like watching someone play a video game live on Twitch vs. watching it on Youtube.

Does anyone else know and also feel this sense I'm talking about?
The radioactive material in this case is contained within the tungsten ball.

It would emit few harmful radiations, as the metal absorbs them and converts them to heat, but most importantly it would leave no radioactive isotopes behind since these byproducts stay in the ball. As the ball approaches the core, the tungsten would finally start melting, and what remains of the radioactive elements would be released deep in the mantle.

In fact, as the paper mentioned, this has been proposed as a way to safely dispose of nuclear waste material.
Typically in a mobile app I'm flick scrolling at speed through lists. So the maximum distance travelled per frame is pretty high.
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That's not enough. You need the knowledge of "the organizer will ALWAYS open a door that contains a goat" to draw the conclusion of the article. That knowledge is implicitly assumed. I have shown that by assuming a different knowledge - in this case, the organizer only opens the door that contains a goat when you choose the door that contains the car - you can end up with different probabilities.

I don't have an IQ of 200+ nor do I have a PhD in math, but I'm pretty certain that the probabilities in this problem are unknown unless you know the behavior of the organizer in EVERY situation, not in one particular case.
This was kicked around on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507566

TL;DR - rough-guess numbers say the entire Netflix library can fit on 24TB, and would cost (content + hardware pricing) around $2500 per copy.
We have no current timeline for a 2.0. It certainly will not be on the order of months, I would prefer on the order of a decade, I'd bet on the order of years.

Furthermore, and this is speculation, since again, we haven't talked about it as a group, but I wouldn't imagine a Rust 2.0 where it's like breaking changes are today. I would imagine a very long period of deprecations, a nice upgrade path, and all that jazz. Nobody likes when the entire world changes out from under them all at once, and sudden, massive changes are something we're trying to avoid with the release train model.
Most desktops are far overpowered for the (relatively) trivial computing tasks they are used for. As a result the relatively poorer performance of the webapps most people use desktops for is masked to a large degree, where it's even relevant.
I wonder when they are going to close down their DVD division.
From the Quartz article that Slate piece gets almost all its info in:

> Almost all smartphone owners use apps, and a “staggering 42% of all app time spent on smartphones occurs on the individual’s single most used app,” comScore reports.

http://qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero-app...

I'm not sure that this is evidence that people don't want apps. They just don't want a LOT of them. The ones they DO want, they want very badly.
what if you have an mvp, you are gettin feedbacks from paying users, and you are trying to make them happy. what is this processed called formally and where would it be on the startup map?
The unfortunate part with regard to your wish is that Dr. McBride is a professional punmaker who was poached by Strathclyde for his side hobby in theoretical computer science.
Wow, I feel like a pro (think filters but to make like, real art).
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On any given day, the chances of success for a startup are tiny, infinitesimal even, but I think this co-op idea could actually be viable.

It needs, however, to add something else to the mix other than just an easily readable manifesto. It needs to have a portfolio, and it needs to offer governance and evidence of good financial and operational conduct, which is what corps look for when assessing risk and on-boarding a new specialist supplier.

The fact that you are only looking for developers makes me think there is much you haven't thought about yet :-)