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Hi can you explain what you mean - great post but dont quite understand your last paragraph...
No, this is correct. It's the Debian stable repository + a supplementary Crunchbang repo.
Good idea. The API doesn't support all the lists (edit: and logged-in state) properly yet, and when we fix that, it should be natural to include both variants of /saved.
And? Every country spies on every other country, it would be stupid not to. And of course they say they don't.

I thought the snowden stuff was about spying on citizens. Countries spying on each other is quite normal and nothing to get concerned over.

If you don't catch a country spying on you that's when you should worry.
> fiddled

So did lots. Three people managed to automate, one even non-trivial. Also, it's mass produced from metal master: on a vinyl album release of Jack White 'Lazaretto' (with rotating angel by Tristan Duke of MIT Media Lab)

Here's a long youtube playlist of scratch-holo: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60100E8F3572CEB1

Still nobody has found one etched on pre-Columbian pottery glaze. Or Egyptian scrying mirrors! :)
Bell Labs finds combining IP and optical transport can improve network efficiency
Joint annotation of chromatin state and chromatin conformation reveals
Facebook’s site integrity rules are written in Haskell (using Haxl: https://github.com/facebook/haxl) and are deployed every few minutes.
1% (assuming no dilution) of $100M exit is $1M. Assuming you should be making around $200K for a senior position in NYC, subtract $90K and you're out $110K a year for your equity.

Multiply 5 years till the exit and that's $550K you've forgone for your $1M exit. If you adjust for risk (i.e. the company doesn't sell for $100M or completely collapses) this is a terrible investment.

If you were to take the $550K you would have made had your salary been in line and invested it in fairly safe vehicles you could come out just the same with much less risk.
It also seems weird to focus on longevity when there are so many low hanging fruit that strike people down before they've had a chance to enjoy a long life.

My aunt just died in her early 40s of cancer. Maybe one can argue that there's already enough money flowing into cancer research, ok, how about parasites, tuberculosis, malaria, the more general problem of drug resistance in infectious diseases? While we're being bold how about research into the causes of and solutions to violent behavior?

There's really some truth in advertising in calling this the "Palo Alto prize" as its impetus is clearly not really to make the world a better place or to solve serious problems affecting many millions (billions?) of people but to assuage the minds of the privileged class of soft-livers sitting in their suburban pleasure dome agonizing about the slow encroachment of inevitability.
As an aside, I find it interesting how wide the range of open source project web page designs is. Even for really nice widely-used projects, you see official home pages that range from a markdown file on GitHub to this, which looks like a tech startup's landing page.
No I'm not trolling. Glassdoor, angelist, etc. are poor indicators of compensation. You shouldn't base what you make from what someone else self-reports as their salary on the internet. But to address your point, here are a few that are approaching and or exceeding $200k in just salary (all exceed $200k after bonuses).

- http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Staff-Software-Engine...

- http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Sales-Manager-New-Yor...

- http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Software-Engineer-IV-...

- http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Staff-Site-Reliabilit...

And those are just at Google. If you think those are high then I'd recommend checking out some of the financial giants employing quants on wall street.
Right? Instead of discussing the rest of the content of the slides, let's all discuss one slide.

Out of context these comments read like they're in response to a poorly written article with an inflammatory title like "Why GitHub sucks".
They seriously need to rework the visuals of the status page:
http://i.imgur.com/hQEkIzI.png

It's bad UI design at best, and deceiving at worst.

Also, even with a clear, honest red icon it's still heavily tilted towards showing greens, since only the current day is visible.

I think something like this is more honest:
https://basecamp.com/uptime

(obviously would need tailoring since AWS run multiple services)
Why does Proof of Stake not work in your opinion?
Slight digression, but speaking of fake smiles...I'm reminded of a quiz on the BBC website called Spot the Fake Smile.

There are 20 short clips of people smiling. Can you spot which ones are fake and which ones are genuine? (The test takes about 10 mins)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/
"Making any less than $200k in NYC pretty much guarantees roommates."

That's complete bullshit.
There's no accounting for taste... If anything I would say Delaware's climate is better. Sure they get an occasional snow, but it actually gets warm enough in summer to wear shorts, and they don't have so much fog...

Also when it's sunny many people like to go to the beach and swim in the ocean. For water temps above 62 F, don't go to SF.
Seems like the author is falling into his own trap by having a bias for determinacy. For the same reason he states that observing a blurry photograph does not make the thing blurry, observing classical mechanics as deterministic does not make the world deterministic. Yet he has a bias for determinism simply because it is what he sees, comprehends, and is familiar with.

First, he brushes away the many world's interpretation, which I believe has superceeded the CI in popularity now. It addresses pretty much all of the issues he has with CI including collapse, obersvation mysticism. It even addresses Einstein's issues with CI in that God no longer plays dice.

Second, they've experimentally disproven local hidden variable theory in a quantum interaction like entanglement via disproving bells inequality. In other words scientists have already considered there might be hidden particles and properties at play affecting quantum interactions and they have disproven their existence.
It's almost at the point where the combination of 10X, standard 'senior' developer role and salary is a contradiction in terms. There are some highly talented developers doing very senior roles on teams, some founding their own businesses and a large number doing contract work. Very few 10X'ers value themselves at below 2x and almost no companies have structures that allow them to play double an average developer salary for talent.
This is some scary shit!

JavaScript is a mainstream language. That means average people like myself can be very productive with it. It is easy to learn and it's easy to find people who can maintain JS code.

But it seems you need to be an academic in programming languages just to figure out what these new features do, and why they are needed.
I'm afraid that the rapid development will make it harder to learn the language. And will introduce a lot of pitfalls and edge cases.

Or maybe I'm just afraid of change!?
This article starts to touch on something profound but then mostly skims over an in-depth discussion with reasoning.

At its core, this is really about human social response and compelled social behavior. The article could be about "bitchy resting face" or tipping, or any other form of compelled social niceity and it could delve into the same topics.

People see certain social cues, and they interpret them based on past experience. People who smile at you, and talk in a certain frequency range, and use certain words, must be nice and want to help you. Anyone who owns a business wants all customers to feel that emotion whenever they associate with your business, and implicit social contracts evolve that basically codify that.

It's like "The Game" in some respects. There are certain social cues / responses that most people have internalized so deeply that they're barely aware they respond to them. Most people interpret offhand compliments from a person with apparent detatched interest as intriguing. They interpret questions about them as interest. Easy smiles as confidence. Ect...

With the aforementioned tipping, it's a similar mechanism that reinforces certain behavior in wait staff. In a sense, it's a way that those with money can compel behavior from those that don't. An aspect of the symbolic power that wealth effectively represents.

Anyhow, lunch arrived, so I'm done, and I'll have to make that very choice in a few moments.
This video allowed me to understand it better, it truly is a elegant design:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmHpSyTsfm0
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Many of the people arguing that quantum physics undermines logic are physicists who understand QM as well as anyone. For example, Lawrence Krauss often suggests that theistic arguments based on classical logic are undermined by QM (which shows that reality isn't "logical").

The idea that QM is deeply weird, counterintuitive, challenging, profound, etc., is one that's relentlessly pumped out by the physics PR machine. In other words, physicists are fine with physicists making wild philosophical speculations about QM; they just don't want anyone else to join the party. Well, it doesn't work like that. Either this stuff has philosophical implications or it doesn't. And if it does, those are fair game for philosophers to comment on. (And sure, some of these philosophers don't always know as much about the physics as they should, but their ignorance in this respect is usually nothing in comparison to modern physicists' ignorance of philosophy.)
A pittance? That's a bit of an exaggeration. NYC isn't quite as expensive as you're making it out to be. And the Uber driver pay numbers were debunked [1]. I know people living on their own in NYC with far less than $200k income.

But yes, she could certainly make more money elsewhere.

1. https://medium.com/@felixsalmon/how-well-uberx-pays-part-2-c...

EDIT: and FYI the median income in NYC is $51k per http://project.wnyc.org/median-income-nabes/
Fine, I’ll Go Build My Own Disassembler, with BlackJack
It's a wiki page, but it's also a book [1]. I have an actual paper copy, and I would highly recommend it. I've seen several of the authors give talks, most were good. Kevlin Henney (the Editor) was particularly so.

However I shall also treat the data from your deep experience with all due reverence.

1] http://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Programmer-Should-Know/dp...
"advanced" purely-functional.
Does -advanced- actually means something?.
The call trick is no longer necessary in x64. It supports addressing relative to instruction pointer, so you can do

lea rdi, [rip+23]
Confusing but not an oxymoron. From the point of view of the ICE the transmission is CVT because the road speed can vary (thanks to the electric motors) whilst keeping the ICE running in the same speed band.
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I don't know why people find it so tempting to compare brains and computers. Maybe because it seems like computers are figuring things out? But they aren't, they're just scooting numbers around and adding and whatnot. They're Cadillac calculators. Anyone can understand what a computer does, but we might never understand what a brain does. I try to be scientifically-minded and am not prone to mysticism, but consciousness is basically magic. I think it's likely we'll make an artificial brain that works about like ours do, without having any idea why consciousness shows up out of nowhere to make use of it.

You say it takes a supercomputer to match a brain, but a $1 processor will easily beat a human if the task is to add a bunch of numbers, or even just to carefully do something over and over.

I do think there's some fascinating organic/analog vs digital thing going on. Humans took a weird evolutionary branch, got weirdly smart, and lit the technology bomb. Now it looks like our bioslime will give rise to intelligent machines that won't have our frailties or evolutionary baggage, for whom a thousand years is no big deal, who can actually reach the stars if they want to. Ever more complicated kinds of life, using the previous kind of life as a stepping stone.
Sure, you abuse the new syntax to make unreadable code, but most people will probably use it to abbreviate much of the syntax noise that plagues Javascript today.
How do network cards fail? Simply as if you cut the link? Or can you see error counters increasing and sporadic frame loss that gets worse over time?
you're european, so you can make instant-friends with europeans quite easily.

i'm american, and i can make instant friends with americans. i did it throughout my 20s when traveling here in the US and overseas. in fact i've done it all over 4 continents now. this doesn't seem to be a racial or cultural trait. some people are friendly, some aren't.

perhaps the fact that you describe yourself as 'gloomy' is the reason americans do not find it easy to befriend you even after a few drinks.
> Gunshot at 0:57

Lol, editing cut.

http://youtu.be/XUy8lELWhJg?t=34s

The really anomalous thing is the big 60/120Hz pulse at 0:37, click above. I was shooting out front of the house, and I reviewed the whole video while standing there, and found the 120Hz. WTF!? It had to be EM, there'd been no audio like that while filming. Was I painted by a uWave beam?

I'm right near airports, also a couple miles north of a Boeing mil black project building. But radar is clicks, not 120Hz. And it sounds like changing PWM during the pulse.
You should try looking at larger companies. I've seen salaries above $200k in the south bay for mid-level programmers.
In short: Crunchbang is/was Debian with a customized Openbox window manager instead of using Gnome/KDE/XFCE/etc. Crunchbang++ will probably continue the tradition.
I'm honestly not seeing this. Perhaps it's where I live, but I have a double major in econ/computer science and graduate degrees in each of those fields, and I've rarely seen any job ads that wanted expertise in both...
"Don't you have faith that we'll be successful?"

To which the answer is: "The success of this company will depend much more on management's strategies and the vagaries of the market than on the code that I write. Besides, you're not sharing your financials and other private business information with me, so I have no basis for guessing whether the company will be successful or what the value of the equity you're offering me will be. And in any case, I need to be able to pay my rent and other expenses regardless of whether the company is successful or not. So I'm expecting to receive a competitive salary."
Couldn't they become Crunchbang its project maintainers instead and adopting the existing product, brand and community?
The other replies above have failed to mention the single important bit: it's a Debian-based distro that uses _Openbox window manager_. See http://crunchbang.org/
Amazing. Just tried it with scissors and a CD case. Got a proof-of-concept working :).
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I tried to take the test—but the fifth time I pressed "next" it gave me a 404.

The key to faking a real smile is in wrinkling the eyes.
The JVM is awesome for long running programs with minimal memory constraints. For transient programs, not so much.
Tesla already sells only a minority of their cars in California, so those certificates are not that much of a help. It's much more important, for example, that the Model S has a nice margin.
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Those aren't being forced to smile, which is the context here.
Your instincts are right; it's worth a skip. The article is both poorly written and largely obtuse.

Its subject argues that promoting self-esteem leads to narcissism, and therefore is undesirable, while never fully grasping the obvious: that narcissism, despite appearances, is an artifact of low self-esteem.
Thanks for the list! I'm gonna play around with this concept, seeing that I just managed to etch my first letter on a CD case.
Is this the same gearing setup used by the Chevy Volt?
So did lots.

Three people managed to automate, one even non-trivial. Also, it's mass produced from metal master: on a vinyl album release of Jack White 'Lazaretto' (with rotating angel by Tristan Duke of MIT Media Lab)

Here's a long youtube scratch-holo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60100E8F3572CEB1
Still nobody has found one etched on pre-Columbian pottery glaze. Or Egyptian scrying mirrors! :)
Nope, in fact you can scan in staging or Dev too, by using Bifrost: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/developer/bifrost
It depends. If you have a large enough team on a project that you can shield someone from math oriented and efficiency sensitive tasks as well as the planning in place to do it then the math heavy analysis isn't needed. Many start-ups have teams of 1-2 working on entire web apps and need everyone to be able to take on any task. Many people without the math background end up writing n^3 solutions to O(n) problems in code that gets executed at high frequency. The core value of those math skills isn't their explicit use, it's the training the brain gets in writing efficient algorithms and having knowledge of how hard certain problems are. Even in CRUD apps I've often seen requirements that are equivalent to NP-hard problems on large data sets, and I've been able to discuss the efficiency tradeoffs allowing the business team to redesign features when they weren't happy with performance. Without the math background, we'd see build it, put it in production and when the data gets large enough cry about performance and lose users waiting forever for a page to load.

The last piece is in many start-ups I've seen the programming team will own or co-own Analytics because of a lack of statistics skills on the business team. Again with a small team not having a solid math and stats background has huge implications on the data analysis portion of roles.
Ask HN: How hard would it be to allow 120 character titles?
Hacker News currently limits submission titles to 80 characters. Brevity is often good, but I've found 80 characters painfully short more than a few times -- especially for science articles. I can't imagine that it would be technically difficult and I don't think we're likely to see any major increase in title abuse (Reddit-style editorializing in the title, for example) since the HN community is pretty ruthless about flagging submissions if they see a problem.
I really really wish this didn't have to be the case. Legally, in order for us to show you results, we have to verify you have authorization / own the site. Part of doing that is to make you register. If we could show results without making you register and verify, we would, but we'd be on very very shaky legal ground if we did, for obvious reasons.
Actually, trees grow faster and sequester more carbon the older they get: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140115132740.ht...
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When first investigating Bitcoin in 2011 I was highly concerned with it's energy consumption for the sake of crunching arbitrary calculations. It's a huge waste of natural resources.

This is one of the main reasons I have been a big supporter of Peercoin. Peercoin eliminates the need for massive energy consumption and dedicated server farms. Both of these features will be very important in the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peercoin

Bitcoin is a huge innovation, but it can be considered the first major crypto-currency. In the long-run, alternate solutions like Peercoin will play a larger role in the market.

Full disclosure: I have investments in both Bitcoin and Peercoin.
What if your job didn’t control your life? Radical wisdom from Ricardo Semler
>The reason YC companies are offering salaries like that is because people accept them.

But they've also been claiming that they're not getting enough qualified applicants and positions are going unfilled, which suggests that either there truly are not enough engineers to go around, or these salaries aren't high enough to attract them.
I must say the image is genius: plugs into that Sex Pistols photocopy fanzine punk meme we had in the UK possibly a little before corenominal's time.
Which you can manufacture them with solar energy if you start storing A LOT of them now.
But don't expect a machine that does lots of random IO, like a database, to have 1-2% SSD wear after two years.

It rather depends upon the database, no? A 512GB Samsung 850 Pro would last 29 years with 100GB of writes a day in a horrendous, worst case 3x write amplification scenario. Very, very few databases write more than 100GB of data a day, and most are magnitudes less.
So this[1] post recently made its way across the HN front page, which I found serendipitous given my current side project. There's nothing terribly groundbreaking in my language— everything in it is basically taken from Ruby, Scheme, or Python— but I certainly learned a lot making it, and maybe some of y'all will find something of interest in it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040029
Ask HN: Lobste.rs invite?
Hi guys,
does anyone have, by any chance, an invite for lobste.rs?
Looks like www.amazon.co.uk is down globally: http://wheresitup.com/results/54e0f3148c3dcf081e26dbf5

Not one successful request. Mostly no response, some 405 "Method not allowed".
The per country break down can be found here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/165269/worldwide-employees-engage...

Notably, Syria is at the bottom of the list with 0% of their worker being "actively engaged" in their jobs.
Okay, so Google, and financial quant jobs that require a specialized degree.
Look ma no metaprogramming
I'm kind of with Gate's with this one. Work on alleviating pain and suffering we can cure today? Maybe work on making
the process of death less painful. My fathers death was beyond painful. He had good insurance, and under the care of Hospice? It's like they sent him home and didn't give him enough medication. When the doctor says, "Sorry--I can't do anything. Look into getting your affairs in order.". You shouldn't need to ask a doctor for more Pallitive care medications? You should be able write your own scripts. No
wonder people commit suicide when diagnosed with a disease--even a manageable one? It's not always clinical depression.
I think about a guy I knew who was given a few months; He went right to the streets to buy herioin. He felt it was easier than waiting until a doctor who felt his pain/anxiety warranted a script? My best friend died of COPD, and something else. That something else was never diagnosed. He
was racked with pain until he died in his sleep. I did take him to one of the best pain clinics in San Franciso. He got in my car and said, "They don't prescribe pain pills?" "They
offered to cut some nerve?" I still don't get it. Yes, people abuse the system, but look beyond your stereotypes and
alleviate the pain that's sitting in front of you? It's just
going to get worse now that politicians are looking into prescription drug abuse. It's fine and dandy until you are the one seeking real relief from misery?

Happy Sunday-
OpenMP is for parallelisation, not concurrency. OpenMP is designed for embarrassingly parallel loops that you typically encounter in numeric code, where parallelization is as simple as tagging a for loop with a pragma and (if necessary) marking variables that should be synchronized and/or critical sections.

E.g. you can make the libsvm library parellalized and scale up to many cores by adding two pragma statements.

I have a Go package that attempts to bring some of this functionality to Go [1]. But it's definitely not the same as having OpenMP.

[1] http://godoc.org/github.com/danieldk/par
Not a Startup
Took me a bit to understand that the four "planet" gears are connected by a ring (faint shadow in the animation, better shown on mouse-over), which is where the combustion engine pumps power.