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Well done, you've noticed a tremendous character flaw and now you can strive to correct it.

Honestly, how are you going to live life if any reminder of pop culture can distract you from a serious subject? And how are you going to interact with people if noticing such a thing (even if it's tremendously obvious) makes you feel the need to shout about it? Best to knock it on the head now.
It is such a huge relief for me. I read HN mainly on my phone and it has always been a painful experience to manually zoom in for each page. I can't wait for a truly optimized stylesheet but this is great in the meantime.
The author says they max out at 1.25 GB/s. That's a long way from the theoretical max when it comes to even DDR3.

It's possible they are bound by the SSD speed.

I can't find much on AWS SSD max speeds.
For all things mainstream ddg is perfect. As soon as you dig on the sides it's very frustrating.
Proficiency and mastery come from deliberate practice. Work is often different.

I'm a programmer, which I consider a pretty high skilled job, and I'm losing my fucking time in my day job. Granted, I need to practice the craft to keep up. But there is a point where I should stop and just learn. I would learn much faster if I could just use 20% of my work time learning. And no, I can't do it on the weekends. This would be overwork, and I have a life.

Doctors are quite special: they deal with several cases a day. They encounter various situations, and their personal experience is by itself statistically significant. To them, more work will mean more data, and better trained instincts.

Programmers often work on less than 1 project a year. At that scale, personal experience is mere anecdotal evidence. More work will just mean some more anecdotal evidence. That's not nearly enough data to feed our instinct. Simply put, working full time is a suboptimal way to learn.

Now that I think of it, I bet even doctors would benefit from stepping back, and do some directed learning instead of just treating patients.
The name "TextBlade" is eerily reminiscent of the phone from Nathan Barley (the Wasp T12 Speechtool: http://www.trashbat.co.ck/t12/index.html)
To be fair, the HN mobile experience is terrible.
Startpage (https://startpage.com) does the Google proxying, not Ixquick. If you like the results of Ixquick though, that's even better than sending things to Google.

Also, their redesign is the first in a while that I actually prefer over the old one. Aside from the hamburger menu (and, yecch, sort-of-half-floating title bar) it's much better,
If they had to choose between you and somebody with no programming experience, who do you think they would hire? If they hired you both, do you think you'd get the same salary?

Answers are obv: (1) you (2) no - so your skills are not valued at $0.
In most cases where I made cancellations of a service, they disconnected immediately. Let's say that I had a subscription of cable broadband, and I have already paid till the 30th of June. I call them up on 18th of June and ask for a cancellation - then the cancellation happens by 19th of June whereas any deposit paid gets refunded a few weeks later. This sort of situations has happened to me multiple times in India. I am glad that RBI is looking out for us. The additional regulation is a minor cost of doing business, and those who can't afford that cost should not be in business at all. Given that there are multiple SaaS companies running successfully in and out of India - some serving purely Indian clients - the rant of the OP is absolutely baseless.

Thank you RBI.
Sure why not? The team at YCombinator are very good at getting ideas into commercial reality. If they agree that you have a great idea, then you'll get massive support.
Afaik, the Synology apps are not open source.
Can you explain the gag, for those of us who do not include HTML & CSS in our area of expertise?

I see that the font changes to serif, when the text is scrolled. Is that funny? How does this HTML work?
Doesn't help if eg you have multiple reference platforms - many open source projects support a range of platforms (eg OSX, Linux, Windows) - much harder than in house software that has a standard platform. You really have to stage commits then.
I don't think HN cares particularly about its page rank.
> Because certain people used to evade tax by purchasing goods directly with their Paypal balance. So, instead of catching the tax evaders the RBI found it easier to ban the whole thing.

PayPal wasn't helping in catching certain people either - or wasn't willing to come under the ambit of Indian banking/taxation rules. Besides how do you think one can "catch" certain people without actually enforcing some rules that companies agree to follow?

You can work around it by asking a card processor to generate a bill every month and send it to the customer for an online payment - that's how ISPs do it. I am sure you know this.

> Even big companies like Uber had to recently discontinue Credit card purchases because of these inane credit card policies of RBI

Really?

Flipkart does it, Amazon does it, Ola does it. Every damn company out there can do it but somehow Uber was/is unable to do it, right? Why? Because they didn't want to implement or go through the extra level of security added to every credit card transaction (either online - iPin or OTP, or off-line - PIN). That's one of the best security features RBI has introduced and I believe every country should have such additional plastic money security layers.

> I really don't think it's about customer security (since the rest of the world seems fine with it)

No, rest of the world isn't fine with it. And even if they are (let's assume for argument's sake) doesn't mean India should be too. Especially since seeing the minimal level of surveillance (it's a different devil altogether), policing, awareness and infrastructure to support these measure India has. So? India should let the fraud, thefts carry on till it catches up in infrastructure? I don't think so.

> Now what can we do about it?

First, imho, stop thinking on the lines that - these changes were made just to antagonize you "Startup people" and were not actually meant for consumer security, because they were and I as a, consumer, feel safe as hell having the ability to clear transactions with a PIN that only I know and a criminal can't do shit even if he/she has my credit card number, Exp date, and even CVV # - ridiculously all that is required to clear a transaction in many countries in of "rest of world" - esp. online. India is a huge nation and saying that credit card penetration is low might be the understatement of the century. People from all kinds of social, educational backgrounds are starting to use plastic money and they need these "ridiculous" security measure (just like I do).

Now, yes implementation is not as it should have been or isn't ideal, but try to see the limitations and maybe come up with an idea and suggest it to the proper authority. Maybe collaborate with other founders and try to reach the RBI head - heard he is a very genuine and reasonable guy. But remember you should go with a plan and not a rant!
>>I had a professor who told the class that if they ever wrote a sorting algorithm professionally, they should be fired.

Not many out of the box libraries would have find N min out of a stream/iterator...draw the moving median, moving min/max and so on. You won't find a red/black tree with linked next nodes to do the task efficiently. So sometimes there is that.
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That's a very interesting point that you're making. Especially when you look at recent events with critical infrastructure software, and the numerous people who were surprised to see how underfunded those developers were. After the paltry sums donated to some of these small projects from companies that make billions thanks in part to their software, one has to wonder how much they value open source software's intrinsic libre value, or just the pure monetary value.
Yeah. Unfortunately asciidoc isn't as popular as markdown and the ecosystem is small. I never paid much attention to asciidoc until I read this blog post - https://medium.com/@chacon/living-the-future-of-technical-wr... and realized that I have experienced many of the same frustrations with markdown. I tried out asciidoc and became a convert :)

For live preview of asciidoc there are some options - http://asciidoctor.org/docs/editing-asciidoc-with-live-previ.... Among them Atom with live preview works really well.
A little late to the party, but I would like to ask:

is there still some research going on in the areas of psychology and programming? Not AI, but how the state of the programmers mind affects collaboration, the quality of the code and the general outcome of projects?

Any hints and links would be very appreciated, thanks!

Have a nice sunday!
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!s works too. Quite nice. I'm building my own "search engine" to use in place of DDG[0]... we'll see how far that gets.

[0]: As in, it impersonates DDG so I can use it on my phone when I am on local wifi, but DDG when I'm not—my raspberry pi is both a DNS and HTTP(S) server.
If you read HN on an iOS device check out http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/

Hands down the best way to read HN mobile
These are all entirely reasonable points. I do take some exception with the "now". Has it ever not been the case?

Cold fusion. Real AI. Hotels in space. Nuclear powered cars and kitchen equipment. Self-guided cars by the 1990s. Robots as personal valets. Those are part of a long list of unrealistic expectations in the last century.

(Okay, I think there's one non-reasonable point: I don't think the faster-than-light neutrino publication from OPERA was oversold sizzle.)
Great comment. I am not sure why you personally don't support these bans. Of course, they need to be gradually lifted as and when business becomes more mature in this country; however, for reasons you have best illustrated, they should stay and be lifted on a case to case basis, also based on demonstrably good behaviour from the companies. There is absolutely no evidence to support that consumer protections leads to bad business outcomes - in fact, companies innovate to provide good service while complying with regulations (e.g. cash on delivery).
The distinction between introvert and extrovert is shallow psychology. They are sometimes used condescendingly by angsty individuals at either side of the imaginary spectrum. The truth isn't even that most people fall somewhere in between. There is no gray area, because these matters are not black and white. Their use leads to generalization and over-simplification of delicate subject matter. Introvert vs. extrovert is _always_ a sledgehammer where a scalpel is required.

A getting-things-done approach to people, ie.
"utilizing", can be dangerous. I think that those who've got it already get it, and those who don't will learn a mindset that doesn't make them better.

EDIT: I'd like to see this article rewritten without retortion to a false dichotomy, because it has some good take-aways.
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There are three problems with HN mobile:

1: the vote buttons

2: long unbroken text isn't wrapped or hidden which forces a weird zoom

3: on chrome on iOS the text entry box is a single line. They keyboard takes half the screen, the "previous item" "next item" and "close keyboard" menu takes up a huge amount of space, and the address bar takes a quarter of the screen which leaves a space for about two lines of text. This isn't something HN can fix.

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There are plenty of 2-in-1 Windows laptops where the tablet is completely detachable from the keyboard. Some are very popular, like the Asus Transformer T100 wiht a 10.1inch screen. (Yes, Asus launched an Android version years ago.)

There are other Windows laptops where the screen folds back to provide a slightly heavier tablet, like the Lenovo Yoga 2 series and the HP11 x360.

Windows 8.1 tablets can support USB keyboards and full-size screens. Hook them up to a expanison hub and they can support multiple screens. I wouldn't recommend one as a desktop replacement, but then, I wouldn't recommend a MacBook Air as a desktop replacement either.
> A second example are the simplelock locks once prevalent in the kernel. These locks, which were really macros which expanded to nothing, were introduced long before the kernel was actually capable of multiprocessor operation in a case of premature optimism. When SMP support was finally added, intervening code changes meant that many of the lock and unlock operations were incorrectly placed.

This is a good example for that code that is neither used nor tested is useless.
Does "post PC era" even have a meaning to anyone other than tech pundits? Is tablet hardware really better, or do people just prefer the software experience? In a world of commodity hardware that distinction is quite important. People will buy an IPad because it is easy to use and will reject the Windows 8 laptop because it is hard to use and ignore the practicality of the hardware.
And if you want an infinitely scaling image, you could even use an SVG.
> There is no shortage of cheats and frauds in India.

I would argue any place can have cheats. That's why you can reverse and dispute card transactions if they are fraudulent.
I've been a sponsor at multiple hackathons and have seen how the staff and facilities are already stretched to the limit.

It's unclear from the article how or if they prioritized local people, but from this:
"In the end, we accepted 708 students ... Combining these numbers with students from the University of Pennsylvania, we anticipate 1200 hackers will be joining us this fall."

it sounds as if there was a major effort to get local kids involved.

(and it's unspecified of the 70% rejection rate, how many of those were UPenn students, how many were in the greater Philadelphia area, how many within easy driving distance (say, DC to NYC), and how many were further away)
I tried evernote for a while, but the main road block was the lack of good import/export/sync features.

If it's just for lightweight note taking, text apps using dropbox as a backend allow more versatility.

If I'm going to enter important information or thing I want to keep around a long time, I'll need to be able to do backups, move the data around and batch process if needed.

Regarding data management, Evernote feels more like a pretty walled garden than an efficient warehouse. Right now I feel a folder and files vased approach with a dropbox like sync service is the sweet spot, and I use a set of apps like tagspaces or simplenote on top of that to ease specific use cases like text editing, browsing or searching.
was the ad at the bottom of the page really necessary...?
I feel long term I can't support the policies but short term they are absolutely fine.
Or anything else it seems. As in, I'm making my own search engine that can redirect to Google and http://10.0.1.42/?q=google+whatever will do it too. What really confuses me is that people will still try to link to Google results in forums and it might say that (which could get really confusing).

Quick test of that: https://www.google.com/search?q=google

Yeah, the box shows up if I click that in Firefox, even in private browsing. You'd think they could make it show up on the homepage when clicked from Yahoo, which most Firefox people would probably do if their default got changed. But anyone who uses DDG probably did it on purpose.
Can't speak for other OSes but OS X constantly phones home to Cupertino, sometimes not even using encryption, thus leaking data when you're booked into a public Wifi.

I literally spent weeks last year grepping the entire Mavericks base installation for hardcoded URLs, domain names and IP addresses and setting up entries in /etc/hosts and NAT rules to hardwire that stuff to 127.0.0.1. I also had to disable lots of LaunchServices/Agents to get the OS to shut up. Can put this up on Github if there is interest. It's only for Mavericks though, couldn't be bothered to upgrade to Yosemite as long as there are security updates for Mavericks.

Oh and another thing a lot of people don't know: The OS stores Wifi passwords in EFI boot variables. This is used for Internet Recovery. So if your device is stolen or just lent to someone else, consider your Wifi passwords compromised, regardless if the disk was encrypted.
Why is an HP Stream (for example) not a cheap replacement for a 10-inch netbook? It's a lot faster, has better graphics, has a better screen resolution, and actually costs less.
I use ownCloud and plain old text editor.

ownCloud has an Android client (it's not free on Google Play but you can build it from source code yourself), and Android text editors are easy to find.
I wonder if a small handheld keyboard could work? So that you could prop up the tablet and then lean back to type.
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<i>That the world would keep on turning if you weren’t doing that thing you do 9-5?</i>

Sorry for the off-topic, but is it normal to work from 9am to 5pm?
Does this mean people have no lunch time, or they work "only" 7 hours?
> Extroverts tend to prefer to think on their feet; openly sharing their half formed thoughts knowing that their ideas will finish molding themselves through the process of talking. Introverts, however, prefer to think their thoughts through to completion in their heads before verbally sharing their ideas with others

Yes, this distinction exists: between those more inclined to involve others quickly and share thoughts openly - thinking publicly, and those who prefer to think privately. I'm an extremely public thinker which can be frustrating, peculiar (, and impressive) for some people.

A good (fictional) example of a public thinker would be House (MD.) who often just used other people as props for thinking out-loud, was confident in everything he said regardless of whether it was well thought out or not: preferring to fail quickly rather than spend time getting to the truth.

Most examples of 'truth-seeking' however, in fiction are portrayed in the reverse: unlike sherlock on who House is based, columbo/poirot/etc. are all fairly private people who don't give much away (and indeed, in columbos case, deliberate hide what he thinks) until they have the full picture.

It doesn't need to be dressed up in knowingly-phrased half-baked pop psych, and I dont think it has anything to do with extra/intro-version, at least, very little.
The majority of my data work for the last dozen or so years has been via SQL and I am only concerned with sorting from a performance perspective, larger hardware (read minis and mainframes) usually have fully developed databases so the real work is done by the OS/db engine.

It then becomes a game of ensuring adequate access paths and the like and using a query analyzer to see if what you put in executes as you like. I am more than amazed at the tricks a good query engine can pull but readily take advice it offers when a new index/access path is required.

Since this covers the sorting the next issue is, making sure the project requests are asking for the right data. A lot of time we gain efficiency by analyzing what they want and making their request better fit that (see Bob, you really didn't need that million record request when all you wanted were this set here)
I did try the demos in the New Opera browser witch is as close as "browsers like Chrome" you can get. But it didn't work.
What happens when the majority of people can't phrase or spell what you've just written, having played video games all their lives? An Idiocracy kind of deal, something else, you think?

"Paternalism"...
Java supports exotic reference types like weak references. These require close integration with the GC, and Go doesn't support them, so Go's GC can't be used to implement them.
The thing about normality is that if a number is normal, it will contain all books not only for a given encoding of a book, but for any given encoding of any book. That is true only for normal sequences, of which pi is assumed to be an example.
hacking and money are not mutually exclusive. just like music doesn't automatically suck once it's mainstream.

Case in point:

The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers. In reality, hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done. Like most things, it can be used for good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I’ve met tend to be idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the world.

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo.

Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once. To support this, we have built a testing framework that at any given time can try out thousands of versions of Facebook. We have the words “Done is better than perfect” painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always keep shipping.

Hacking is also an inherently hands-on and active discipline. Instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works. There’s a hacker mantra that you’ll hear a lot around Facebook offices: “Code wins arguments.”

Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic. Hackers believe that the best idea and implementation should always win — not the person who is best at lobbying for an idea or the person who manages the most people.

To encourage this approach, every few months we have a hackathon, where everyone builds prototypes for new ideas they have. At the end, the whole team gets together and looks at everything that has been built. Many of our most successful products came out of hackathons, including Timeline, chat, video, our mobile development framework and some of our most important infrastructure like the HipHop compiler.

-Mark Zuckerberg in his letter to investors at the FB IPO.
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In the same way that mathematicians seldom solve quadratic equations, programmers seldom implement sorting algorithms. They are still a hugely important building block, and if you don't know how they work you will have little hope of creating good algorithms for situations when the off-the-shelf libraries can't help you anymore. Loads of programmers don't aspire to technically challenging work though and they will likely do fine, every now and then littering with accidentally quadratic code.
>Given that there are multiple SaaS companies running successfully in and out of India - some serving purely Indian clients - the rant of the OP is absolutely baseless.

While I agree that this is RBI looking out for us, its not completely right to say that SaaS companies in India are not facing issues. Companies like Zoho are not able to target Indian companies because they can't invoke subscription billing.
There is an ongoing gag of using Comic Sans to hassle people that complain about fonts.

This gag rewards people who read more than the first couple of lines before bouncing just because of the ugly font.
This is a URL shortening service. The actual link is http://www.wired.com/2015/03/warren-robinett-adventure/ .
The header is broken on iPad I'm afraid for certain longer usernames when logged in.