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A lot of possibilities, but... this one for example.

To find a real way to erradicate zebra mussel and other invasive species, thus releasing about 120 billions currently billed to citizens in damages each year. The initial investment returned (saved) in the next 9 years plus 80 billions of cash, and 120 billions extra created from thin air each year to spend in caprices since there and forever.

Is not a simple task at all of course, but the reward is big.
All I've been doing is explaining why I don't find hyperbole particularly interesting as a communication style.

I don't think further back and forth on this is going to do anyone any good, sorry I came accross as an internet asshole.
Here's the thing: Most of us who are perplexed are actually perplexed because is was something you used to be able to do trivially and then a new standard came along and made it unreasonably hard for about 15 years. An eternity in software development. Entire generations of paradigms have come and gone in the time it's taken for CSS to fill this gap.

That will never stop being perplexing, no matter how many new models they throw on top to try to fix it.
They are still permanent, you likely don't walk out of CIA black sites and have any kind of normal life again. If PTSD affects volunteer soldiers badly enough to require long term treatment what does being subjected to repeated torture designed by unethical psychologists and MDs do to somebody.
You're better off walking if you're in a hurry anyway. You'll get to your destination just as fast as the VTA will take you there.
Indeed I have non-TABular data and yet I should use TABle-cell? I'll just stick with the actual <table> then. cleaner. But the real problem is "use divs". plural. so already breaking the #container_of_container cruft rule. I'd rather write some javascript with overly nested callbacks and leave the html clean. thanks.
yes sorry 100Mb not 100MB
If it weren't for ANZAC they would have sent all their troops to Europe again, leaving none to fight the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.

First defeat of Japanese troops in the Pacific was by Australian troops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Milne_Bay
Some of the best samples are from Google - https://developer.android.com/samples . They are some of the best examples of how to program Android, especially in terms of keeping to best practices and avoiding now-deprecated techniques.

The quality of Fossdroid/Fdroid apps are hit and miss - some are good, some not. I should know, some of my ports to Android are on it ( http://fossdroid.com/a/truly-creative-live-wallpaper.html ) where I'm still very nervous that critical sections survived my port safely.
> This month is long term use of antipsychotics on Schizophrenics: maybe these drugs affect the long term quality of life?

So does untreated schizophrenia.
I used a Linux program called byzanz. The bash alias I use to record gif screencasts is here:

https://github.com/amontalenti/home/blob/master/.bash_aliase...
The naive representation that you're pointing at would indeed be very slow. Better representations examine the language of the problem as you describe it and then build efficient factor graph representations of your problem and do message passing simulation (see Factorie).
He wants to defend Marx but there is no defense, so he does something to attack me instead. It's a classic disinformation tactic.

I don't know that for certain, maybe he's just actually curious, that's why I just answered his question instead of saying this to him.
It's notable that Evan sent it to Lynton. Perhaps the board was leaning on Evan about something and forwarding this piece was a quick way for Evan to quiet them. I'd have a hard time imaging Evan wasn't any less critical of Noto's rigor than the readers here ...
A better notepad solution.Get away from your iPhone unappealing notepad app
They make money by selling ads to other mobile startups, which in turn are funded by venture capital because of the revenue they can make selling ads to mobile startups... uh oh.
> But mobile monetizes better which is rare….a key question here is why does mobile monetize better?

I can answer this -> people don't realize ads on mobile are actually ads. FB's recent change of reducing FB Pages exposure on the News Feed affects this big time. For example, if I like Nike and I receive an ad for new shoes, I probably (1) didn't remember I actually "liked" Nike and/or (2) think this is just Nike updating a post on their Page. Regardless, because I like Nike, I don't care since the ad is relevant. FB actually does a fantastic job of providing relevant ads that most people would assume are simply their favorite brands giving them an update. Furthermore, when it comes to conversions for mobile apps install from FB ads, the friction is so low (click "Install Now" on FB, Click "Get" on the iTunes store), that the conversions (and cost per conversion) are impressively high.

A bit of background - I've been running a bunch of campaigns on FB recently for an e-commerce site which is not mobile optimized. Our conversion (both clicks and purchases) from mobile massively trumps the desktop.
Some games (even in singleplayer) host a "local server" and environment information is passed to that. If you're making a networked game it makes sense as you'd be creating the server anyway, decoupling is nice and less codebase to manage.

Steam's Source games, UT do this, if you open up the console and scroll up you can see the local server initializing.
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You're kidding yourself if that is what you believe. Even pure heroin is still extremely dangerous.

Your solution isn't so simple when you provide pure heroin to an addict who gets behind the wheel and kills a family coming home from dinner. The devil, as always, is in the details - maybe some aspects of that sort of plan will work in a small country like Switzerlend, but in somewhere like the US, there are just too many practical barriers to a plan like that working. Hell, we can't control our drunk driving problem - there is just no way free heroin for addicts is going to work at scale.
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They also put the troops on the wrong beach.
Pronounce what?
Hmm...I didn't have any problems with it in Chrome.
Take headless browsers with a pinch of salt. They are not a replacement for a real browser. Don't be surprised when it renders or behaves differently from a real browser.

Did they fix the memory leak issues in PhantomJS? Take a look at the issues and consistently you will find people having trouble rendering a complete site.

Creating a headless browser is really taking a real browser on Xvfb. You have the support of a billion dollar company supporting and updating their browser, you reap the benefits of being able to run it headlessly. The drawbacks of this method is often overstated, 'oh my run a fat browser process AND X display? ok grandpa' but the real hidden problem with PhantomJS is understated 'why does my phantomjs process balloon in memory and cpu usage and crash, I can render the website fine in my browser'.

Standalone headless browsers are good for hacks but I wouldn't rely on it.
In feed ads are intuitively more engaging than banner ads. Your focus is specifically on the content of the feed with everything else a destraction.

Provided Facebook can match up the ads to the before/after feed content it would make sense that they would do well from it.
I met a longtime game dev at a reasonably well-reputed game company talk about how they did something similar where they did a message passing architecture between threads in a single process, and how this also helped contain old code that people were afraid to touch while allowing newer practices and refactoring to happen in other regions.
Some amounts of laziness are normal, but excessive amounts are not. Mental disorders are much more common than you think, and probably could have been easily solved with early intervention (but you know the education and mental health system in America isn't that great...).

But anyways, they don't get a free ride especially in Puritanical America.
eh, you are probably right. does that make me a bad person?
:) I've always enjoyed looking through your React HN site as well insin. It's very well done, kudos. Glad to see you continue to iterate on it.
> If they're not in the tutorial, examples, or reference, you don't even know they exist. If you use the header file for documentation, and internal methods are grouped together beneath the terse comment "internal methods," then why are you calling them?

Autocomplete is a thing. Even if there is a big comment explicitly saying not to use a function, if it doesn't show up in the autocomplete window someone will inevitable use the function anyway (and sometimes even if it does).
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In my view the purpose of const/protected/internal/static etc is not so much to prevent mistakes by myself or others, but to embed in my code a 'living documentation', enforced by the compiler.

If I mark a method as internal, that means I intend it for reuse within the library but don't expect it to be used by any external caller, which means another developer can come along and make changes to it without needing to worry about anything outside the library (short of those in C# using [InternalsVisibleTo] or similar, which hopefully is restricted heavily to obvious test projects).

By decorating my code appropriately, I don't need to write comments most of the time, which means I don't run the risk or filling my code with out-of-date or poorly understood annotations that become useless almost as soon as I finish writing them.
It's good at what it was originally designed for: flowable text documents. And, honestly, it's come a long way since its early days. Used to be much worse.
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Hacker News loads in milliseconds because the content is generated on the server and insanely optimized. It's different architecture. Optimized server side page loads will always load faster than client size AJAX API calls + page 2x page rendering.

Of course Angular doesn't make sense for a site like HN but this is just a demonstration of what's possible with a site we're all familiar with.

A real world example of Angular is when you're working with HIPAA complaint applications which depend on 3rd party data storage sites, such as http://TrueVault.com. None of the patient information is stored on the application server. Instead, it makes client side API requests to the TrueVault storage and updates the page with the data.

Yes, Angular doesn't make sense for a majority of the websites in existence but it does work well for certain applications.
You would be able to do it with Selenium, which drives a real browser not a fake one.
I interviewed with a couple of these companies and, in addition to requiring an intense travel schedule, I think I would have found the work very boring. It was mostly ETL and custom systems integration.
There are a number of natural experiments that researchers have used to examine this question:

[1]A study looking at the performance of Korean-American adopted children relative to their siblings: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10894

[2]The impact of various welfare programs on student achievement: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208322/
Static also allows the compiler to make better optimizations, knowing that nothing outside of the current compilation unit will ever use it.

Const also allows the compiler to optimize better with the knowledge that the called function won't perform any writes to the object state.

Access modifiers give you a way to separate out functions that can be called externally vs those that shouldn't. The API doc generator won't know which is which unless you mark these correctly. You use access modifiers to show intended use and keep things clean, not to lock someone out. Same goes for internal classes.
Have you seriously never actually used one of those apps e.g. Candy Crush or Clash of Clans ?

Yes they are free. But they gamified in app purchases extremely well. I know of CEOs and accountants who have dropped $50-100 on games like this who have never touched a computer game before. It's pretty amazing to see.

It is a "fad" in the same way that Nintendo, Blizzard, Valve etc are fads.
This is a demo project that works with a site we're all familiar with.

Angular is a good tool for web apps that have information stored on 3rd party websites that have to be called via client side API requests.
I agree. I see many papers there that I would be interested in reading or at least bookmarking for reference.
Exactly. This battle ended islam as a political entity, and ended the war between muslims and the west that had existed for a millenium by that point. It was an event that would be comparable to nuking Mecca would be today.
It's an example of a site that we're all familiar with. It's not trying to showcase speed, it's trying to showcase the technology in general.
I have ADHD and I have always performed better in school during sports seasons. I was undiagnosed through college and used a variety of techniques including exercise to focus on school work.

I prefer tactile sports such as football and rugby. Running is very boring, as are repetitive sports like throwing (I threw hammer and disc). Softball was always too slow paced for me. I'd be caught staring into space in the outfield.

I think ADHD was not as big an issue when jobs/daily life involved more physical labor and tactile experiences. Nowadays most "important" jobs consist of sitting in front of a computer for eight hours. That doesn't do any favors for us ADHD folks. I know medication has made a world of difference for me. I don't think I'd be able to handle a 9-to-5 programming job without it.
On (b), in addition to total capacity (kWh) you also need to have the battery system designed for quite high transient discharge rates (kW). A typical American suburban house pulls well under 2 kW on average, but can have transient usage spikes in the range of 15-25 kW or so, depending on the house. It's doable, just requires an even more oversized/expensive system.

An alternative could be to avoid simultaneous usage of the major appliances (A/C, electric oven, vacuum, washer/dryer, tea kettle, etc.), of course. That would probably require a mixture of behavioral changes and changes to the A/C system. For example a house with multiple A/C units (window units or upstairs/downstairs) could have them wired so they don't kick on simultaneously.
this reminds me of the time they removed the vulcan cannon during the start of vietnam war because they thought the days of dog fighting was over because of missiles.

Then their jets started falling left and right and they ended up installing it back again.
Very rarely is spinning your own distributed consensus algorithm or compression algorithm something useful, let alone required.
Seriously ?

This wasn't some formal document from the office of the CFO. It was a quick, brief analysis between individuals that normally would have never been made public. And we don't know the circumstances that day. He could have been writing this in a car on the way to the airport or a million other scenarios.

It's hilarious people commenting on spelling, grammar and the light detail as though every email they've ever sent is Shakespearan in its quality.
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Heard of flexbox, it's nice but here's one thing I haven't been able to do with it:

Center a bunch boxes in a row and have overflowing boxes show up on the next row to the left or right. Doesn't work, it will center the next row as well.

I haven't found a non JS solution to this yet.
1. Take open source library built on a fake browser

2. Write a wrapper around it claim its good as a real browser.

3. Plug company name

4. Profit ??
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This is most definitely not a counter example. Melbourne is almost 200 years old, it is very young compared to the European cities being cited. You also point out how the city was rough until someone decided to do something about it 20 years ago.

The OP I assume would refer to NYC as a 'fast growing city' (around 400 years old) compared to somewhere like London or Madrid which have both been there for over 2,000 years.
Yeah, it's obnoxious when people get up-in-arms about specifics. But, you have to admit that it's correct. Why use explicit tables when you can use style overrides to get the look you want and your HTML markup is more meaningful to robots?
I've mostly used MongoDB in mostly-read, and in a replica set... that said, if I needed to support pure scale, I'd be more inclined to reach for Cassandra. If I only needed mid-range replication, I'm more inclined to look at RethinkDB or ElasticSearch at this point. In fact the project I'm working on now is using ElasticSearch.

All of that said, you have to take a research paper funded by a database company (Datastax is backing Cassandra) with a grain of salt. Not to mention, that most people reach for MongoDB because it has some flexibility, and is a natural fit for many programming models. Beyond this, setting up a replica set with MongoDB was far easier than with any other database I've had to do the same with... Though I'd say getting setup with RethinkDB is nicer, but there's no automated failover option yet.
At least you can do horizontal alignment by throwing in the towel and using <div align='center'>.

Vertical alignment is the real killer.
<table> is content, table-cell: is presentation. Semantic tag use matters because some people are blind and their screen reader will start randomly start talking about some structure that makes zero sense in context
I much prefer the deterministic flex box to the mysterious auto layout, even if you might have to use a container div here and there. I think constraint solving is a fascinating idea, but it always seems to end up involving me setting magic priority numbers with little understanding as to why.
Anyone remember TAB Books? I know they are still around, but that was pretty much it when I was a kid.
The homeless I have known are not their by choice. Yes, out of clinging on to the little dignity they have left, many will call themselfs Outdoorsmen, or Drifters, but they all had a valid reason for being Homeless.

Mental illness--yes.

I have not seen drug abuse as the sole reason for homelessness in my area.

I have seen Buddist monastery kick out 50 year old woman for not earning her keep.(yes, in liberal Marin this happened! She join the monastery when she was 17.)

As to using the system--what system? The one's I know don't see a medi-cal doctor when sick, and when they do, they are stigmatized, "He will probally sell the medication".

They all need dental work.

Yes, they use the Catholic chow hall. That is the system. Section 8 is closed. The one's I know don't even apply for food stamps.

The common denominator among the homeless I know is Lack of Suppport from family members! Most of us have had some rough patches(nervous breakdowns, gaps in employment, addiction issues) and usually have some family member that helps out. These people had no one to turn to.

Oh yea, I have seen family members do horrid things to brother/sister/mother/father. It usually involves manipulation of by a greedy member over Money. The greed in some of these stories is staggering. There is a complete lack of compassion in some families, and then there's the denial. "I had a bad childhood, I owe that women nothing!"
"That kid has leached off of me too long!". "Let her sleep under the house, for now!"

I have head all these quotes. I don't know what causing family members(who could help) appear so indifferent, and in some cases appear to want to make bad situation worse? I can't blame lack of spirituality. Some of the worst offenders show up in church, and synagogue?
and I wonder how the <ul><li> somehow survived unscathed and free from the semantic witch hunt of yore. shouldn't we replace them with:

<div style="display:list-type; type-of-list:unordered">
<div style="display:list-item;">

?
Yeah please don't use phpBB. This is one reason I started the Discourse project.

One thing to consider here is the difference between "help us track our bugs" and "let's build a community around our product". In the long run, the community will be far more valuable than merely acknowledging a feature request or bug report.

There are a lot of bugs and even feature requests that require a fair bit of back and forth discussion, both internal and external, to decide what the best approach is. I like GitHub for straightforward bugs, but it is not great for discussion. And involving your active users / customers in the future of your product, including your own team, is a huge strategic advantage.
The mere fact that the site exists means nothing. Any problems around centering have been completely solved by flex box. If you're targeting obsolete browsers, you're going to have to expect to do some legacy hacks.
5th resubmission. At least this got a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9405692 (2 points, by mfalcon, 37 minutes ago, 1 comment)
Or maybe it is because there are many researchers who have actually studied the data and found that environmental factors play a large role. A summary of some of the research in this area:

http://futureofchildren.org/publications/journals/article/in...
Most games that do non-authoritative peer-to-peer multiplayer ultimately do something similar for singleplayer. Although it may not be as far down the layers as a local socket.

Also, Minecraft uses something vaguely similar, with a separate client and server, with the client and server communicating locally via shared memory (effectively a local socket, but not bothering to bounce through the OS). Though Minecraft's an odd case - they used to not do it this way, and switched to it, and in the process broke a lot of things.
"technical write off" is probably a better term.
Ditto, Minecraft.

Not sure about Supreme Commander but it wouldn't surprise me if it did.
The objection to tables for layout was never on the basis of grid layouts being bad, it was on the basis of separation of concerns.

The primary problem with layout tables was that they involved tightly coupled inlining of your layout rules.
To be clear, static typing is the zenith of of compiler optimizations and in many ways the programming "ideal," however in the context of loosely typed languages (and their OOP abstractions) and I think the author is missing a significant use-case.

Separation of responsibility/decoupling on the service level are good principles to begin with, but in an OOP paradigm where you are defining/exposing classes and methods, these keywords are really useful for grouping functionality when you adhere to "contract-driven development."

When used correctly they help you abstract the interface for your class (ie, the public implementation-agnostic methods that provide interoperability between the service and the program as a whole) and separate it from methods only designed for internal use (within the class itself).

Often times those abstractions are essential (DRY principles) and the class is the proper place to encapsulate them, however you wish to clearly designate that "this method is self-modifying, limited in scope, and does not interact with or is required by any other class in any meaningful way," and for that it's quite useful.
It's actually a consequence of the CSS box model, which makes a lot of other things simpler, and means that figuring out how to position things isn't turing complete or something.

I think the secret is that maybe 10% of CSS writers actually have read more than the bare minimum to getting their layouts to work ( I am not among them, mind you).
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