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> I'm not making personal attacks.

Yes, you are. You're naming persons and attacking them without the least grounds for doing so (and in a particularly puerile way). That's not ok here.

There's another problem: the over-the-top diatribes you routinely post to HN. The grandiosity of their claims is matched only by their lack of evidence. That takes the signal/noise ratio past dismal.

Everybody lapses sometimes. We don't moderate accounts for that. But bringing a megaphone to every street corner and blasting the community with apocalyptic rhetoric is incompatible with substantive, civil discussion, which is what this site is for. Worse, the content of this rhetoric seems to be imaginary. It sounds authoritative, but on a closer look, there's simply nothing backing it up.

Your technical comments are fine, as are most of your miscellaneous comments, so you obviously know how to use this site well. But these demagogic comments are, in aggregate, an abuse of HN.

When you have evidence for the claims you're making, please say what it is from now on. When you don't, then please make different claims for which you do. Factual comments are ok, of course, as are statements of personal experience.
I did a site search on Google and it has been pasted on their forums a few times now. The following thread quotes what appears to be the first mention: http://liberland.org/en/forum/?threadID=2120825992553118a8c4... (CTRL-F roman94)

I surmise from the other posts in the thread that a troll signed up with the username "admin" and posted that; the post no longer appears to be extant. Note, of course, the disclaimer on top of the board:

> Purpose of this forum is to allow communication between registered users on Liberland.org. Liberland officials don't make statements in this forum. Entries pretending to be official statements are all fake.
I guess it depends roughly on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. (A micron is a micrometre, which is a thousandth of a millimetre.)
Sigh, another website with a custom hacked document viewer that doesn't work on today's very popular small screens. So much effort poured into building systems that work worse then the platform default.
alright, i don't see any city from the country with the most tea consumption [0]. add istanbul to the list please. i'm in.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tea_consum...
ITT: No one offering to mentor.
I work for a company that designs CMOS sensors and the notion of a poster-sized sensor made me chuckle :-)

We do have a sensor bigger than my iPhone and that thing is a monster.
it should be clear to the pragmatic that the people who have more money to spend should receive more attention.

This is a matter of culture and not a natural law. You could just as easily say that people with more money have more time to wait.
Won't that $61M figure get slashed by a tremendous amount once they achieve re-usability?
alt-. (Alt-period) is a good shortcut to keep in mind. On first press, it inputs the last arg from the previous command. If you press alt-. again, it inputs the last arg from the previous-to-previous command. And so on.
and then used to prove css is turning complete

http://eli.fox-epste.in/rule110-full.html
Original article is poorly titled. The DirectX Toolkit (a collection of DX utilities and wrappers) is on Github. That is nice. If the DirectX SDK was on Github, that would be major news.
I've been reading through your responses and agree generally with your perspective on this issue (I say this as someone who has dealt with varying levels of depression behaviorally and chemically, both on my own and with professional assistance). But I'm curious about your fundamental position on the "physical theory", which seems to imply there's a real distinction between physical processes and emotional processes, and that sadness, extreme or not, is non-physical. Sadness is not some ephemeral phantasm that floats beyond the body. It's a cognitive/neurological response to external stimuli. It's a biological event. My personal opinion is that controlling your brain with chemicals should be a last resort, because in many cases you can achieve similar results with relative consistency by addressing underlying social problems. While more labor-intensive, achieving satisfaction without drugs is liberating.

But I don't think normal emotions are categorically distinct from medicalized emotional states: both are chemical or electrical processes. It seems you disagree. Am I misinterpreting your position?
Ah, yes, and not allowing deleting files or changing permissions and so on would give you security without ever getting in the way. Silly me.
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This piece is a disturbing study of some of Assange's mental pathologies. As a sympathetic party and partially informed observer, I greatly enjoyed reading O'Hagan's writing about Assange's outlook and concerns. I laughed; I cringed; I would read it again.
I'm originally from Seattle and now live in SF. I agree there are a lot of people in SF building silly "toys" and there are investors foolish or desperate enough to give them money. I know it can be annoying but I just try to ignore that noise because it has no real impact on my projects.

I don't think the poser situation is necessarily much better in Seattle. There are definitely a lot of posers as well who are working on a startup because it's a cool thing to do. They go around talking about it without much to show. They just aren't successful in raising millions because there is not an abundance of VC money up there.

You run into posers more often in SF simply because a huge portion of the population is in tech. If there majority are posers, it's likely you'll run into a poser. In Seattle, a small portion of the population is in tech, and usually they'll be someone who works at Microsoft or Amazon. The portion who are in tech startups is super small. Despite SF having this culture of applauding people building silly things on product hunt, there definitely are a lot of people building real things of value and their numbers dwarf those in Seattle simply because again, the population in tech in SF is way larger.
Just came here to say the same thing. Looks like a bunch of wrappers and helpers and sample code, but not the actual SDK.
Interesting. What is the computational cost (space+time) of this rule when used as a random number generator? Is this practical?
Bad submission naming aside, I am loving the direction Microsoft is taking lately.

I wonder why it took Ballmer getting out for a "developers developers developers" philosophy to actually be adopted.
I agree mostly but not completely; most people with opinions on interracial marriages at least claim to have some fact and/or reasoning behind them. I definitely agree agree that the truth of statements is notionally independent of the speaker. But in practice the truth of particular statements correlates well enough with things like the speaker's experience that we can use it as a handy evaluative heuristic.

E.g., when a programmer and a manager both make statements about the technical merit of a particular approach, I will in practice be more likely to trust the programmer. Or if a real scientist and a bible-thumping young-earth creationist make assertions about the history of life on earth, I'm more likely to trust the scientist. This is a necessary heuristic for getting much done in the real world; we just don't each have time for evaluating all claims from first principles.

But again, social policy is mainly determined by things that, in your construction, are opinion, not fact. So it would seem by your own model the sort of scientific give and take we are both fond of is mainly irrelevant to how mere opinions, and therefore our societies, get shaped with regard to social justice for groups who are currently disfavored by majority opinion.
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The article isn't poorly titled - the submission is. The blog is titled "DirectX and Games for Windows".
Short answer: serendipity.

As others have said, if you are _actively_ looking for a mentor, you are wasting your time.
More Older Adults Are Becoming Inventors
The problem with this kind of safety nets is that it may break scripts that rely on this to work.
Breaking up Google because its influence on the internet is largest? Absurd. Reasoning like a doomsday prophet is silly. So is jumping to solutions without understanding the problem. The problem is potential for abuse of power. But, so far no indications of such behavior were found, indeed the opposite is true, Google is quite respectable. Accusing them with this in mind seems malicious and raises the real question - why would someone do that? The reason of course is that Google quality is hard to complete with which prompts many shady parties to resort dirty tactics. This isn't about equality for all, it's about reducing Google's competitive advantage. Coca cola is the most valuable brand, and it's nearly impossible for new beverage companies to complete. Surely you would not think that restricting coke's areas of operation, breaking it up, or making it reveal its secret recipe is justifiable. Yet, this is precisely what France is advocating.
>The answer is "real identity."

Oh boy here we go. Anybody who's ever followed a Drudge link to a news site that uses Facebook comments knows that isn't true.

The Internet is inherently toxic. Right now we're all like Marie Curie fascinated by this glowing thing we found but eventually we'll figure out that although you can do amazing things with it prolonged exposure will kill you.
I imagine they would want separate tiers to deal with collisions. "Yes this is my name" is different from "yes I am that well known person." In short, you'd still want to distinguish between a famous no-talent ass-clown and a random office worker of the same name.

(And I'll admit it, I mainly posted this comment so I could make the Office Space joke.)
Hardly qualifies as an article. It's what, 4 paragraphs?

The funny thing is that I remember an article on Microsoft in the late 90s where the author predicted MS' demise would come due to its arrogance. In particular, because an interview subject at MS didn't respond to voicemails.

It's easy to look at a company that's coming under regulatory scrutiny, accuse them of arrogance, and then smugly nod your head when the regulators impose sanctions.
It's really quite simple. I'm on an anti-account binge, and have been for a while.

Primarily, I just hate accounts. I have hundreds of them man. It's absurd. I don't bother trying to log in to most of them any more, if it's not a service I use every day I go directly to recovering the username and password, because I'll never get it in the three or five or 10 tries I'm allowed before the account is locked/they start giving me captchas. Often enough, that system breaks, and then I'm left having to email admins and beg them to help. That's always a fun coin to toss.

So I don't make 'em any more, unless I literally have to. Quite seriously, the only new account I recall opening in the last two years is with the Australian government, because it was mandatory to do my tax return via that system. Maybe there's one or two others, I don't know. e: I remember the other one, it's this one! tada, own goal!

I'm currently locked out of the government system, because their secret question/answer system didn't like my answers. I have to call them during business hours to fix it. I moved to another country recently, so that's going to be cheap and stuff.

Secondarily, I'm starting to critique peoples use of accounts. Lots of people implement a username/password system when they don't need it, because it's easy to do so. As a developer myself, I am taking a stand against lazy development.

Maybe I don't fully grasp your product (I'll be honest, the instant I saw "sign up now" my shutters went down), but it seems like a graphical docker container configuration management tool is less effective as a web app than a desktop app, and doesn't need an account system either way.

For example, if you're using the accounts for saving flow setups, could that not be done with a combination of URL parameters (encoding customer specific data like IP addresses) and page ID's to a key-value database (with the benefit of data de-duplication), thus allowing me to save my work with a simple ctrl-d to bookmark it? As a side benefit, I can share it just by emailing it to people.

Hey, maybe I'm wrong, maybe your system really does need accounts, but I'm still not going to make one. I have to draw the line somewhere if I want this endless account sprawl to end.
I'm no particular fan of Cuomo or Sony, but it's unfair to imply this is illegal or even uncommon behavior.
I'm personally waiting eagerly for filesystems that let me roll back my mistakes.
You don't "get a mentor."

You develop a relationship with a person who has more experience than you do, and over time, that person may become a mentor to you. And I say may, because if the person you're working with determines that you don't provide any value to the relationship, they won't be that willing to help you for long.

I say this from experience - lots of people want me to mentor them, and I've had quite a few that, once they got their first job, they just disappeared.

I'm a lot more picky about which college students I mentor now.
I am, as well, but not because of the tubes themselves, anymore. The reason I haven't given up my tube amps is because the quality of the non-tube amps generally sucks. The reason seems to be that DSP-equipped amps with tube simulation are trying to address two problems instead of just one. One of the problems they are trying to address is the high cost of tube amps. The other is simulating a tube sound without tubes. I believe the first part of the equation is where things are going wrong.

A cheap amp and speaker with a DSP simulated tube sound being run through it will still sound like a cheap amp and speaker. There may be high end manufacturers making high quality guitar amps with emulation, but I'm unaware of them. They haven't been present in the music store on any occasion I've gone in to select a new amp.

The brands I'm aware of doing "tube emulation" in amps are brands I would never buy, at any cost. Behringer, Line 6 (and this is considered one of the good ones, honestly, and they do sound better than most, but are still cheaply constructed), Tech21 (again, decent, but not high end). All pretty shitty amps that happen to have a modeling DSP stuck in front.

I just did some googling, and it seems Roland is out front on making a reasonably high quality modeling combo amp (GA112). I'd be willing to bet that sounds as good as a real tube amp in the same price range, because the old JC120 combo was a great solid state combo amp...Roland knows how to make a high quality solid state amp, and they were on the front line of amp modeling. Of course, it also costs as much as a real mid-range tube amp, at ~$500.

I suspect there's a lot of cargo culting going on, as well. Guitarist knows their favorite recordings were made with tube amps, so they want a tube amp. So, any manufacturer wanting to make amps that are sought after, will make them tube amps, despite the many negatives to tube amps (requirement to bias them, requirement to periodically replace tubes, temperature sensitivity, etc.).

In short: We're probably buying into a superstitious belief that tube amps sound better than a modeling amp of similar quality. The only problem is we can't readily find many modeling amps of similar quality because they're targeted toward a price-conscious market and so they've cut corners everywhere and not just on the lack of tube preamp and amp circuits.
Ah, I'm with you. Thanks.
Shortly followed by "fistfights with strangers."
tarsnap forces you to type "No Tomorrow" when you try to delete all your backup. Something like that would be great.
I'm curious as to whether or not people here have actually experienced severe depression. From my own experience it does seem obvious that depression is extreme sadness. The experience is a more extreme version of what you feel during grief. That doesn't mean that depression is always caused by an obvious trigger such as a death of a loved one, or that it is easy to fix. (In fact, sometimes grief can turn into depression that feeds on itself).

IMO most cases of depression are caused by life events. That opinion is based on seeing a number of people close to me suffer from it, and recover. Generally it is not entirely obvious to the person what is causing the depression, but looking closely at their life usually pins down a cause. Generally it is something along the lines of working in a job that you don't like, being in a relationship that isn't working, excessive stress/burnout, or not having a purpose in life, or some combination of these factors.
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Nice work. You don’t need a solid Dyson sphere of that size, just IR mirrors or Fresnel lenses (these could down to a molecule in thickness) to direct the IR energy into collectors. I would imagine that it would be more efficient to have multiple shells of Dyson spheres with each capturing the waste heat of its immediate inner shell.

I read through the original paper and the lowest object temperature they were able to detect was around 150˚K. Any Dyson sphere dumping that amount of energy would be pretty inefficient.
Glad I got a vote down for answering a question when the article listed out this items. Hacker News can be very encouraging.
Tiger Jump
Rule 30 is how Mathematica generates random numbers:

And in Mathematica--ever since it was first released--Random[Integer] has generated 0's and 1's using exactly the rule 30 cellular automaton.

The way this works is that every time Random[Integer] is called, another step in the cellular automaton evolution is performed, and the value of the cell in the center is returned. But one difference from the picture two pages ago is that for practical reasons the pattern is not allowed to grow wider and wider forever. Instead, it is wrapped around in a region that is a few hundred cells wide.

-- http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-317-text
Hammer is very much like having your entire filesystem in git.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

"HAMMER retains a fine-grained history. The state of the filesystem can be accessed live on 30-60 second boundaries without having to make explicit snapshots, up to a configurable fine-grained retention time.

A convenient undo command is provided for single-file history, diffs, and extractions. Snapshots may be used to access entire directory trees."

edit:

Just now, 10 minutes after posting this, I regretted deleting a file (cabal.sandbox.config) and was able to restore it:

> rm cabal.sandbox.config // oops
> undo -i cabal.sandbox.config
cabal.sandbox.config: ITERATE ENTIRE HISTORY
0x000000010bf2e940 17-Apr-2015 06:50:48
0x0000000112282990 18-Apr-2015 20:36:53
> undo -t 0x0000000112282990 -o cabal.sandbox.config cabal.sandbox.config
I agree. Basically makes me distrust the whole thing inside and out; who knows what other bs engineering practices were used in non visible parts of the stack? Shipping is great, but please don't ship insecure stuff as a product you want customers to use. Please.
Yes and people responding to me didn't read the article either.

> All the features that make Sublime great are also available in Atom, and some extra ones:

Is what I quoted.
>I'd never seen a <map> tag either:

It is always a good idea to learn about old technologies. Probably the most eloquent reasoning why came from Feynman's "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved."

With the exception of the startup I did, I would characterize most of my experience as a developer in life as working with legacy code. It gets a bad reputation, but at the same time I now have a lot of insight.
Ask HN: How do I publish an academic paper after graduating from university?
I would like to write a brief academic paper that builds upon some existing research that I have found, but introduces some (what I think are)new ideas. I would also like to open source some code as part of what I have researched and built. Is it possible to write a paper without an affiliation to a university and how would one go about this?
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A large part of the issue with pricing on Google App Engine (which is the one that still stings for many people) - was that they were building on a relatively proprietary platform.

The advantage of Docker based compute engines is that your lock-in is a lot lower - providers have to compete on price and features without locking customers in.

Where I work, we're always balancing using new AWS features against how hard it would be to migrate out to another provider or take our solutions on-premises.
That's a hard point. What if the micron-nation is inhabited entirely by selfless individuals?
Now run two fetches at the same time, and watch it get the data mysteriously mixed up 0.1% of the time.
And you can launder a lot of money in a soccer field.
He didn't say he was doing anything differently there.
The company I work for designs and sells image sensors. Our largest (custom) sensor is about the size of a phablet phone - not quite large format but it's close.
The mouse is fantastic, I swear by it. It took maybe couple hours to adjust and maybe couple days to be absolutely comfortable with the buttons.
I ended using AutoHotKey to switch function of "middle" and "right" buttons, but that is just my personal preference). Whenever I am forced to use regular mouse somewhere it feels just wrong for my wrist, so unnatural.
The pen is just natural. I wrote with pen all my school...

I can only compare with MS Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse which I only tried briefly and didn't like it at all.

I will definitely buy again the penclic mouse.

It's funny though when I have visitors and they try to do something on my computer.. some people get it more quickly then others, geeks are ok after few minutes, non-geeks usually give up and let me do it :)
I've had various mentors through formal and informal channels such as my university, my workplace, and through friends.

I've found that the mentors I've found informally have been the most valuable.

I've found the app Weave to be actually pretty useful in meeting interesting people. I wouldn't have the mindset of finding a mentor but rather one of sharing ideas with interesting people. A mentor implies a one-way value exchange, whereas my best mentor relationships have been those where we've learned from each other. For example, one person might have first hand experience in raising money while I would have experience in building apps in the current mobile app ecosystem.

My former workplace had a mentor program where senior marketers can be paired with junior marketers. From my experience these formal programs are a bit flakey and I didn't get too much out of it. Same goes for the mentor program at my university.

I've also found going to hackathons to be a good place to find mentors. My background is marketing but I build mobile apps now. I learned a significant amount of my practical programming skills by working with new teammates at hackathons.
>where an echo chamber produces conservative extremism

For a minimum of 90% of HN the following is true: does not support religion as better than non-religion, support a womans right to choose to have an abortion or not, strongly supports the right of gays to marry, supports the rights of transexuals, supports Obama Care.

That is objectively not a hotbed of conservatism.
Like I said, nobody would go to jail because of the data, even when everybody knows it is the real deal. But to prosecute people who analyse the data and publish the findings is going too far, IMO. Nobody is( or should be) prosecuting journalists for publishing the same kind of data, the same goes for everybody else.