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Stupid question. Bad hiring process. You should not be in that position.
The article is deprecated and here is why: Not only are we at the beginning of a manufacturing revolution reducing the amount 'rare' materials needed for many applications, we're also now able to recycle materials down to single digit percentages in many cases. The moon's resources are not needed, and even more so in the present deflationary environment where manufacturing inputs are decreasing in cost dramatically. There are arguments for developing lunar transit capabilities, but economics for military or any other application are not among them.
Wow! thanks.. my hate towards JavaScript has been reduced dramatically with this update.
This has been one of the biggest annoyances of debugging Javascript I can think of. Maybe it is rather small to many, but this is a big deal for me and I cannot wait for it to land in the stable version of Chrome (even though I am a Firefox user), I still test in Chrome.
> THAT's what the car companies really fear.

No it's not. Cars today are all basically the same and have been for decades. People aren't buying new cars because the components are failing. Generally it's for a new interior, new technologies e.g. support their new iPhone and lifestyle changes.
There is one more bug I ran into: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/77405-problems-with-ne...

However, actually the BEST use case for Evernote is to store random and not so important notes. And Evernote has the best mobile client. So I'm still using Evernote all the time.

Also, it is amazing there is no startup trying so solve problem Evernote is solving:

- fast mobile client

- easy way to take screenshots, photos, records, hand notes and make annotations

- fast search and OCR

- solid desktop client (can be just some simple HTML editor - nothing fancy)

For me, it is ok to have Dropbox as backend storage (in HTML or whatever).

Is anybody developing something like this?
Most car parts are already commodities anyway though. Example: Toyota and Lexus share almost every single part of the power train, its only the finishings that are different. And most car parts are made by a small number of OEM providers who sell to all the major car companies. Bosch, Denso, and Magna make most of the parts in your car.
That is completely true and I didn't think of it. When first I made the external assets thing, I was thinking of external plugins that were publicly available in places like github. I'll keep only the changes for the story not to confuse anyone and I will update it when something is working, sorry about that.
How to organize an event/conference like the CouchDB Day or JS Unconf
That's a nice idea. I have heard of people developing an intuitive grasp of how a hypercube works via a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional projection of a four dimensional object. It could work just as well for 'quantum weirdness'.
Fine art ? By whose measure? Wealth?
Theater/Opera/Classic music : And how does that resonate with society in 2015? What's the average age of attendees?
I've had some of my best experiences with art/music venues/performing arts far from what wealth has defined as 'quality'.

Constructed buildings? Yes, blue collar people built them as they did most things.

Wealth/Money is an amplifier.. Too much of it and it drowns out the actual signal and turns it to noise. SF has gone full retard and the result is a hollowed vessel of noise .. Much like Manhattan. 'Fine art' as it were
Sorry, your grand statement matter-of-factly dismissing thermodynamic arrow of time needs a much better source than some computer scientist's armchair blog about QM.

I know it's been recently trendy for armchair physicists to post grand philosophical claims about the universe from some vague understandings of Bell's Inequality and/or entanglement, and blurring the line between philosophy of physics with physics. But your casual dismissal of entropic thermodynamic arrow-of-time time in favor of purely increasing entanglement ranks way high on the BS meter.

For context - I have a PhD in experimental condensed-matter physics, and TA'd thermodynamics and statistical mechanics for several years. I left the field of physics many years ago so maybe there were some notable recent developments in quantum information theory that I missed. But I skimmed your linked article and can't take it seriously. Would love a better source of you can provide one, eg peer-reviewed (in a respectable physics journal) or written by an actual career physicist at a reputable institution.
That's probably it's number 1 use case. However, I've seen it used to build million+ user game servers, GUIs, etc. It's general purpose.
Unfortunately S3QL uses MAC-then-encrypt[1], which is pretty strongly discouraged[2]. Very nice there's a detailed writeup on the details in the docs though, wish more projects did that.

1: http://www.rath.org/s3ql-docs/impl_details.html (last paragraph)
2: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-24-encrypt-then-mac....
Please read the Hacker News guidelines and try harder to follow them when commenting on the site. They ask you to remain civil, even when another user is wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Sure. But asking for a company that doesn't race to the bottom doesn't actually help here; you need to prevent the race from occuring in the first place, rather than ask for companies to stop trying to race.
I agree, but looking at the list of software, we know it's not exactly music either hehe.
Well, hopefully first answer will be stack overflow which will address this topic :P Rust community has been hard at work, answering a lot of Rust question. I don't think I've seen many unanswered so far.

Well, when Bob found sort_by and a weird partial_cmp he should have paused there and look at docs if he understood nothing. In case of Python he is rightly to blame Python for silently doing stuff for him that he doesn't like.

It's like a speed bump. If you go fast over a speed-bump, ignoring it, you suffer the consequences. It's different than a dark unlit road that just has a sign THIS WAY.
Using a set & objects is a better idea for that purpose than arrays.
It's not just a question of definitions: I wouldn't characterize reference counting as "striking a bargain" at all. RC is just a form of garbage collection, and in its atomic form (like in Swift) it has serious downsides relative to tracing GC. Reference counting helps latency (important in mobile, which is why Apple's choice is defensible) but it pays enormous costs in throughput when compared with tracing (not to mention the problem of cycles), so much so that tracing is usually considered the superior approach unless you have special requirements. Rust's approach of manual memory management is designed to eliminate the tradeoff by allowing prompt reclamation without all the overhead of managing reference counts, which is why it's in a separate category entirely.
The same argument applies to allowing multiple (positional) parameters.

The solution is the same: named return values, with object restructuring.
While that's certainly part of the dynamic, the overall picture is more nuanced. New tech became available - smartphones and tablets as well as much more performant laptops - that replaced desktop purchases. Every two years a new laptop/tablet/smartphone is purchased, if not less.
When computing went "social", I expected that women would play a much larger role. That didn't happen. The "social" companies are dominated by men.
At least he can back up his claims with science.
While electricity is "not a source of energy", it does have the two fold benefit of being continuously generated, ans having widely available infrastructure. Hydrogen, while being 91% present in the universe, has only trace amount naturally occuring on earth. So to get it we can chop is off methane (a fossil fuel and already great energy store in it's own right), blast h20 with electricity (which could be fed directly into batteries with minimal loss) or biomass fermentation. http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_production.html

When you couple the lack of availability, lack of infrastructure, and inefficiency of production, you are left with a tiny element that is difficult to store and extremely combustable.

It just doesn't make sense vs electricity and batteries.
http://ruby-doc.org//core-1.8.7/Kernel.html#method-i-caller

https://github.com/banister/method_source
This may be true for some people but a lot of people I know buy a car when the old one falls apart.
I do, but if Dropbox deleted a file, it would be deleted off the synced backup too, unless I get something with infinite version history.
What's the difference? I'm familiar with (and endorse) the Julian Barbour "time capsule" interpretation of time, and I just read the link. It cites the exact same facts, and provides the same explanations, that I do when demonstrating that the arrow of time is thermodynamic (ie time slices can only contain memories of "pastward" states as Gary Drescher puts it).

The QM explanation is not contrary; it's just a special case of the thermodynamic explanation; entanglement is one way entropy can increase, but it happens in the classical world too, which also has time symmetric laws.

So in what sense is someone erring when they call it a thermodynamic arrow of time?
What is Survivorship Bias
No, it answers the letter of the request, not the spirit of it.

And if you think that's good enough (consumers won't), then just change the request to "I'd like a hot pizza in the next hour, because I'm hungry now and have an appointment".
,$s/is\ not/is/g
My Credit Card company doesn't do text based concierge service. I would have to call them. The making a phone call is the bit I don't like. I haven't used the service so I have no idea what to expect with regards to storing details etc.

The landing page for Magic shows me exactly what I could expect, and it's based on SMS.

What's not to follow?
It's extremely simple. Even if you don't know Rust, this code should be readable: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv/blob/master/src/index...

Basically, it writes a 64 bit byte offset (big endian) for the start of each record. The very last byte is then the total number of records. (I forget why I'm doing this, since the count should be computable from the size of the index file.) The "start of each record" means "if you point a CSV parser at this byte offset, then it will successfully read a record."

So when you want to read record `i`, seek the index to byte offset `i * 8`, read 8 bytes (big endian) into a 64 bit integer, then seek to that byte offset in your CSV data.

If the CSV data changes, then you're in trouble. One easy way to handle it (which isn't bulletproof) is to check the last modified times of the index and the CSV file and regenerate the index (or refuse to use it with an error).
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> Among individuals in a society, busyness—or the feeling of busyness—seems to be an important factor in well-being.

Busyness keeps your mind off things you'd rather not deal with.

When things slow down, you are forced to look at yourself, which often shows you just how insignificant and miserable you really are, and how repetitive, ultimately pointless, and totally egotistical everything in your life is/was (not to mention all the mistakes you've made and all the opportunities you let go).

But when you are constantly preoccupied with work, entertainment, ideologies, conflicts/resolutions, problems/solutions, identity building, validation, success, social status, drugs/sex/food, going out, having lots of options and avenues, etc, you tend to feel otherwise - as you are operating in a mode that is somewhat oblivious to the mess your inner core really is.
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This is awesome! If there's one area that still needs a lot of work in the js world I think its exception messages. Its hard to believe its 2015 and its still so hard get clean stack traces for your minified js in production since you can't source map it there.

I wonder how large js apps handle production debugging and error reporting on all browsers? The last time I tried window.onerror it had decent support but not comprehensive support across browsers. Maybe its just me but this seems like a problem really needing to be solved, especially as js apps get bigger and bigger.
Are you claiming that this is false:

"He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers."
Sony has lost faith in mobile. What went wrong?
I could try Crashplan again. When I attempted it before, it never successfully synced, despite hours spent emailing system reports back and forth with their support reps.

I would pay Backblaze double if they kept past versions.
Thank you for your words, it's what I found lacking by using it in different projects. If you are using Picnic in some projects, I'd love to see it in action (:
I think it's a state of being. Pleasure and pain are temporary feelings. Perhaps it's achieved differently by different people. I don't care how other people achieve it or even if it's irrelevant to their goals. To me, happiness is freedom from stress and control of my own time. It really is that simple, and money buys it. Others may not be like that, but I am. As someone who nearly has enough money to live the rest of my life without stress or need of a job of any kind, I can say I have gotten happier and happier every day that I've gotten closer. In the next year or two I should be totally free and happy to live the rest of my life without a worry in the world. Perhaps in 5 years I'll report back on how I'm doing.
Are you serious ? There are what a dozen operating systems in the world.

There are probably tens of thousands of companies who are using Java for business applications. Java and to a lesser extent .Net run pretty much everything in the enterprise.
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605002

This doesn't discuss the arrow-of-time directly, but it's a pretty straightforward corollary.
Chemistry is often seen as a "softer" science out of the others on the list with supposedly more work/life balance. That was how it was explained to me as a woman when I declared that I was going to study electrical engineering in college. A lot of people tried to steer me towards chemical engineering but I was horrible at chemistry and my interests were more aligned with electrical engineering so I stuck with it.
Same here, except with CoffeeScript.
Someone should try it, but it seems unlikely if V8 is generating the error message. Dev Tools loads the source maps and as far as I know, V8 doesn't know about them.
First, I get a roomba, and now this...

For those of you who argue that the US standard of living hasn't improved since the 70s: How do you defend your position in the face of this overwhelming counter-evidence?
Soon Debian could be the first OS with reproducible builds
Thanks for the pointers! I'll definitely be playing with these :)
> Remember that inequality was huge way before the industrial revolution. You know how feudalism worked, right? A few dozen filthy-rich noble families + 99% of population in abject misery, was the rule for most of Europe in the best part of the previous couple millennia.

I'm going to ask for a source on this, because this smacks of hyperbole or at least ignorance. It seems that when you refer to feudalism [1], you may mean manorialism [2] and more specifically the institution of serfdom [3]. First, I am not arguing that the life of a serf was in any way ideal. They were the lowest caste of society and were afforded very little in the way of self determination, but they were not wholly without legal protections and rights, they were often paid a wage for their labour or could at the very least pay their debts directly with their labour, and it was generally in the direct interest of their lord to uphold their end of the contract by providing compensation, protection, court hearings, and facilities for processing and storing the food produced on their lands.

While it would obviously have made for an extremely poor life had one been born on land held by a cruel or careless lord I wouldn't say that living and working in a workhouse [4] or mill would have been much better, at least as a serf you would have a right to live with your family in a hovel and work a portion of the land for your own benefit. 12 hour days in a dark, loud, and extremely dangerous textile mill and going home to an equally dark, loud, and stinking tenement room shared with a dozen other people sounds more like abject misery to me.

The beginnings of improvement in personal rights and freedoms began more so with Magdeburg rights [5] and town law, providing an alternative for serfs who were able or fortunate enough to exchange their tenure, buy out of it, or simply flee it for life in a town. That was as early as the 10th century. Things improved even more during the Renaissance and after the Black Death which resulted in an increase in the value of labour and saw the decline of serfdom in Western Europe.

I would argue that a deterioration in living conditions for skilled labourers brought on by the industrial revolution [6] and the end of the open field system [7] resulted in a greater necessity to organize to avoid further deprivation. Also, peasant revolts were not unheard of [6] and often began in the villages that formed the centre of life on the manor estate.

The life of a serf was far from pastoral but the change in living conditions from the late Roman Empire up to the modern era has not followed a constant upward trend and even today our society is quite capable of reaching local minima.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manorialism
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_rights
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_field_system
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peasant_revolts
Use a query string to run an unminified version in prod.
This has been covered ad naueseum. There are plenty of situations where both the C/C++ and Java sides of the fence will beat each other in benchmarks. Especially if you have average developers programming both platforms.
This is an interesting idea, but I'd be curious to know what kinds of innovations in car functionality are possible. Also, assuming that you're referring to a kind of planned obsolescence, how can a company convince you to replace the entire vehicle if the moving parts are working fine?

If the computer is broken, replace the computer. Update the self-driving software over the internet. Why would you need to replace the whole car?

Unless, of course, a company tries to integrate points of failure all throughout the body, so that "replacing the computer" of the car or what have you becomes impossible due to the delicate electronic parts. Call me an optimist but at the price of cars today I don't think anyone but the super rich are gullible or decadent enough to fall for something like that instead of a cheaper, more reliable modular alternative. Unless the price of a brand new car becomes similar to that of a new phone, I don't think that future is very likely.
Can it throw an exception when we're using a js library that isn't cool anymore?
There's no need to use a macro: you can abstract over different kinds of sortable collections using a trait. (That said, there's no real reason to generalize IMO: by far the most common case is sorting slices.)
Sprawl is problematic for a number of reasons.

Environmental - a great deal of land is taking out of either agricultural usage or natural usage for sprawl. Large amounts of water are used on lawns.

Economic - Some people can't afford cars or motorcycles, but cars and motorcycles are the only practical way to get around most sprawling cities and towns

Safety - Cars are a dangerous way to get around. They kill half a million people a year. They also make roads even more dangerous for other users, like walkers or people on bicycles.

Social - Social isolation from a lack of interaction with neighbours is a large problem, and being spread out makes it harder to see other people. This is particularly true if you're elderly, can't drive, and don't have other ways of making social connections.

That's just a few. Not every place needs to be the City of London or Manhattan, but there are smarter ways to make suburbs.
> "They need to re-design their website so it doesn't look like it was slapped together in 10 minutes and add an about page so we know who they are."

It's interesting the contrast of first impressions. HN is often fortunate to receive a behind the scenes look into projects. Here we have a first-hand discussion with the creators commenting and answering questions, such as their previous businesses [1] and general updates [2], which helps us gauge the business more than perhaps a general user encountering the site. From the top-rated posts it also appears many here are so used to typical design choices that there's an appreciation for the more straight-forward approach.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087931

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9088208
He's willing to pay someone $5/month too when I think he doesn't even pay for Evernote. If he did his ticket would have been picked up in 24 hours and they would have suggested he check note history.
> "solar physicist, Dr. Willie Soon "

You mean "aeronautics engineer".
Women make up about 50% of undergrad chemistry degrees. On the other hand, they make less than 20% of physics/math degrees (engineering funnels). I don't have any real idea why women are so low in math and physics, but I suspect you'd have to look back much further in time.
the average car ownership time is somewhere around 6 years[1]. It feels like 3-year leases are becoming more and more common so I wouldn't be surprised to see this number drop significantly in the future.

[1] http://www.kbb.com/car-news/all-the-latest/average-length-of...)
Honestly, I wouldn't have responded to your second message at all if I was them. You seem like the exact kind of customer I wouldn't care to have. Not worth the headache.
I had the urge to write a book on how to price software ( http://TapRun.com/pricing ). Writing it was somewhat fun. Editing it was unadulterated torture.

I stuck it on my website, and it's selling (though much slower than I'd like). Still, it's something that will bring in passive income going forward, and now I can claim to be an expert in something.
yeah 90% of my trips might be short, but i'm not going to go and rent a separate car when I do need a long trip