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> The original protest to my comment about Einstein's arithmetic

My protest with that comment about his arithmetic is that it is incorrect.

> You are being disingenuous.

No I am not. I am pointing out that you bringing up your educational level is completely irrelevant to the argument. Your education about Einstein's work has absolutely no bearing on your potential knowledge about his person or arithmetic ability - you are setting yourself up as an authority in a plea to authority. I'd take his sister, Maria's, word about his arithmetic ability over yours - regardless of your degree.

Your degree, profession, hobby, articles and so forth (that you keep bringing up out of context) hold absolutely no authority in that original assertion that you made. Being a theoretical physicist does not make you right about everything, even on matters about the physicists who pioneered fields that you are an expert on.

It is you who is being disingenuous by attempting to diminish other people's intelligence by explaining how you are more intelligent than them by virtue of your talent in physics - I can't fathom any other reason why you would bring up that irrelevant information.

I never said that you are stupid, I said that you are wrong. If you believe that you are right because you are a physicist then you are most certainly a fool (which is still different from stupid).
On the other hand, I would very much like to be able to see what I have in my refrigerator without physically checking it. It doesn't have to automatically order things, it could just generate a shopping list, based on preferences.
From the article:

> Downey appreciated that Musk was not a foul-smelling, fidgety, coder whack job.

Always good to know how the rest of us "coders" are looked upon by Bloomberg, and presumably the average person while they are busy singing Elon Musk's praises.
Maybe we would all do well by closing our terminals, taking a break, and going outside to see what the weather is really like.
Here is another attempt to try and get health care systems to learn how to deal with fallibility. In this case a woman died unnecessarily during a minor operation, however her husband was an airline pilot and he is now trying to teach the UK National Health Service the lessons that airlines learned long ago: http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/05/how-mistakes-can-save-li...
Yes, you are just dreaming.
Poor Internet for poor people: Facebook’s Internet.org is economic racism
Using Monads in C++ to Solve Constraints: 2. The State Monad
It appears to me that it would be useful to provide a platform to share mistakes in an anonymous fashion so that others can learn from them.
The level of complexity introduced by moving the camera AND the scene is remarkable.

Very different from the work of Keith Loutit and Tony Leech
where a stationary camera is key.

http://www.keithloutit.com/
https://vimeo.com/11445353/

Filming everything in motion and then calculating stability is an interesting problem.

Well done to Microsoft and Instagram for attempting it.

edit: fixed links
You basically can't buy a TV these days and NOT connect it to the Internet, as the buggy firmware isn't fixed until long after is sold. Granted, you can use a usb stick and patch it yourself every now and then, much like your car is updated at service (but how long until cars are updated, and hacked, remotely?)
I hope you don't honestly believe the garbage you are spouting, and are just trying to be incendiary on purpose to try to work people up and make a political point. In that case you should simply stop.
Using the keyboard is super creative
> by Bloomberg

I got the impression that was Downey's expectation, not Bloomberg's. People don't smell or fidget in Hollywood..
When did MVP become synonymous with some sort of web/mobile product?
It has the most incarcerated people per capita of any country in the world. That's enough to qualify it as a police state in my mind.
Wow .

Does anyone know which framework they've used to make this ?
I'm using an uncalibrated scale intentionally, as that's exactly what we're doing when we talk about taking two clocks and moving one of them at relativistic speeds. That two identical instruments in different gravitational fields will exhibit different measurements.

With mass this makes sense to us, because we can compare with a constant - we can take the same item with a constant mass and measure it in two different gravities - and because it happens on scales we can perceive. Men bouncing around the moon is a perceivable change. An astronaut coming back from a year on the ISS, being biologically 12.5 seconds younger than if he hadn't gone, is far too glacial for humans to perceive.

Of course, we could just argue that relativity is a myth and the clocks just need to be calibrated.
Annnnd here we go into the Trough of Disillusionment:

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

I'm doing a lot of IoT work in the B2B area, where I think these things are going to pick up a lot of traction before the consumer stuff really takes off.

Part of the problem I see is that the chipmakers, at least the ones still standing after Apple and Samsung took the application processor market away from them, are trying to reassure their investors that IoT is a the new revenue stream they all need to look forward to. Looks like they're finally getting that reality check they needed.

The problem is that IoT isn't just a part in a BOM. It's an entire infrastructure that needs to be in place to support it. Even on the B2B side, I can put a wifi chip into a backend technology demonstration and convince the customer they need it...until I ask them what their plans are to host the data and develop the front-ends. Complete blank stares. There are too many parties involved to design this stuff front to back. Perhaps the first company to sell the chip AND the hosting service as one unified package will make headway here.

This still will mature and prosper...in time. Just not yet.
I could further into the rant, I'm ...stunned by parsing logic crippled as type specific functions.

Why does `strscpy_truncate(dst,src,count)` exist at all ? it seem like a generic buffer/array `take(dst,src,count)`. And how problematic would be to use a compiled regex to parse "major:minor", or proper logic by seeking for ':' and read before after that point.
https://github.com/schachmat/wego/issues
This is a great insight, and describes some of the projects I've worked on exactly. I think a fix to these two problems is to hire great developers that you can trust, and give them much bigger tasks. I find that the management breaks things up into too small of tasks so that they can measure it, which creates a bottom up approach, and that's just not how good software works. I prefer the top down approach, which means design the code from a high level (architecture, components, overall structure) then drill down and build the different parts.
No, in this case, it just means preferring GCM. If a browser comes along that only does CBC, the server will pick CBC.
The guy in the article has only experienced it on Haswell. However, that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist elsewhere.
Looks like they custom rolled a bunch of custom stuff on top of Node, if that's what you're referring to.
Shutting Down Social Photo Download
Bureaucracy Isn’t Inevitable – How Airbnb Beat It
Yes. Absolutely. The library includes a blob() function for converting a watermarked image to a blob for use with FormData. The site has a demo that does just this for uploading to S3. Any browser supporting File API, FormData, and typed arrays should have no problems. IE 10 is the earliest IE that supports these APIs out of the box, but there are polyfills for IE9. The other modern browsers have supported these APIs for a while now.
Badass: Making TEAMS Awesome
Uber Seattle systems crash has its drivers uneasy
This looks awesome, but I have to apparently use Sunrise to use it. Anyone using Sunrise and have any information? The homepage has 0 info, nothing. I'm not keen on sharing my google account with it until I learn more.
>> 253523 scripts published

That's quite a large repository. Do they have collaborations with schools and organizations helping kids code?
Mine used to get me to stand next to him on the edge of cliffs labelled unsafe.
Victory be damned! =P

Keeping the species alive is better than not. Now, we try to figure out humane farming, if we want to
Great piece that shows ramifications of not having net neutrality not only in India, but around the world.
Encrypto – Encrypt your files before sending them to friends or coworkers
VBA is the counterexample. A lot of people who wouldn't usually think of themselves as programmers used it - sometimes still use it - to hack together useful scripts and processors.

Ironically, it's not particularly accessible or simple. It's certainly more complicated than 80s-style BASIC.

And the number of VBA users compared to the number of Office users is not huge.

Even so - VBA proves that if you make a development tool accessible enough and obviously useful enough at least some non-programmers will start writing code for it.

The challenge for something like Eve is usefulness. What's the user benefit? To date I'm not seeing one - which doesn't mean there isn't one, just that so far it's not obvious to me.

I can certainly understand a vision that makes technology of all kinds far more accessible and responsive. But asking users to make their own code probably isn't the answer there - I think it's more likely to be some kind of contextual inference/AI/NLP system that's smart enough to make good guesses about what users want and handles the low level stuff for them.
The government is our proxy for things like this. That's why we have one.
They aren't the only ones producing crap on the web.
A self-organizing thousand-robot swarm (2014)
Microsoft Finally Has a Great Idea, but No One Cares
Highest order indeed. There is even a very neat scientific article that compares the call graph of the Linux kernel with the "call graph" of the E. Coli genome. The E Coli genome has incredible amounts of copy-paste and legacy code :)

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/05/03/linux-vers...

http://www.pnas.org/content/107/20/9186.full
Bill Gates: 50 Years of Warren’s Wisdom
Call for papers is now open for hack.lu 2015
Hehe, more suited to my chaotic (yet very mild) local weather. A pictograph doesn't show the forecaster's confidence in what it portrays.
So you down vote and make a statement that is the opposite of the announcement with nothing to back up your claim on this post or the other post stating this isn't the real world situation?
Ask HN: How much money is acceptable for a startup to spend Pre-Revenue?
It seems that many founders raise millions by overvaluing their startups without proving that their business model works. Secrect and Fab.com come to mind. They make bank, cash out and close shop.

I just read this post and this startup seems to be spending all the dollars they have left in order to prove the business model. They have less then 4 months left. Is this too crazy?
http://startuplabs.com/blog/why-do-we-spend-so-much-money-pre-revenue/

Mark Suster has a pretty good post about this topic here: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/09/28/what-is-the-right-burn-rate-at-a-startup-company/

He says to be very careful about ever dipping below 6 months of cash in the bank.

Question for all of you: How much money is acceptable for a startup to spend Pre-Revenue?
It somewhat looks like better and flatter version of scratch by mit.
Very interesting! So the language looks similar to Scratch and Blockly, but targeted to mobile web. I would like to see a comparison overview.

Anyone have a link to a published paper?
This is from Microsoft Research so I would expect there to be one, eventually, relating this to similar efforts.
Back in the day, one way to 'protect' images online was to table/div-ize them. This is apparently still a thing for email and web ads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4442041
Attorney-client privilege isn't a Constitutional right, it's just an evidentiary privilege. And it can be lost by disclosure to third parties. Moreover, you're glossing over the fact that much of the information held by third parties doesn't fit within any conception of "your papers and effects." Even if we assume that your Google Docs are covered, what about information like your facebook friends? Those database records linking you to other facebook users aren't your documents, they're Facebook's.
I'd be really curious to hear feedback from anyone that has used this. I'm currently using dspam and still deal with a lot of spam hitting my inbox.
Thank you for posting this...surgery is one of the few professions that I think about, and then think, "Nope, no way, not even in the wildest dreams in an alternative universe, that I could ever be a surgeon"...but I get the sense that so much pride is tied up into the skill of a surgeon, such that mechanical ability and intuition are almost inextricable. I have no problem with the assertion that a human expert is needed to make decisions as the cuts are being made. But it's astonishing to me that so much of the success of surgery relies on a near-superhuman ability of muscle control and focus, an ability that surely declines with age, even as the surgeon's wisdom and experience grows. I would love to read more about "autopilot"-type advances in medicine (though too much of the coverage focuses on, "Will robots replace your doctor?" rather than man-and-machine working together)
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This is one of the best "terminal weather apps" I have seen. Love the ASCII art.
Agreed, subtle, but instant queasiness. Not a pleasant video to watch.
There's also an excellent old BBC dramatisation of this - and a few other good dystopian sci-fi's as part of the same strand called "Out of the Unknown". "Level Seven" and "Tunnel Under the World" are especially memorable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Unknown
In addition to what others said -- it gives the ability of someone with no financial history the ability to get a loan. I would be very fortunate, my parents are both capable and willing to cosign a loan with me -- but there are a lot of people not in that position. This is another way of "evening the playing field" a bit. Otherwise unless your parents or someone related to you had good financial standing and were willing to cosign for your loan you'd have no shot at getting one.
How can you ever know what is dangerous or not for the user to do? Get some humility.

That's exactly the mindset that put us in this horrible situation. People would start warning against bad crypto much sooner if the consequences weren't as bad as browsers made them. We could even have warnings against plain HTTP already if browser security wasn't this radical.
If we're going to put large amounts of complexity into the kernel, then why not use a pool allocator to manage string allocations? Pool allocators are low-level enough that they you can understand what's happening when they go wrong (unlike complex GCs), but make string handling code very simple.

Example code using a pool allocator I wrote about 15 years ago:
http://git.annexia.org/?p=rws.git;a=blob;f=process_rq.c;h=a0...
Who has said that planned obsolescence is not involved? Genesis 6:3 talks e.g. of a 120 year life span.
> It seems these days that everybody not only wants to be able to do anything they want, but no matter how outlandish, annoying, or potentially dangerous, it needs to be socially accepted.

Like being a woman or having treated mental illnesses. I now remember why I keep coming to this website, it's just hilarious.
Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications
Sure, but if the "right to privacy" doesn't come from the 4th amendment, where does it come from? The 9th amendment says that the Bill of Rights is not the only source of rights. But it is not by itself a source of rights.
Open Source does not = Free of Cost.

Anyone can use the MIT or GPL and charge for services and it is actually encouraged by RMS.
Indeed. Debian is one OS which is affected by this, because they shipped an outdated version of NSS (the crypto library used by Chrome) which does the suboptimal path generation.

Yesterday, the latest version of NSS was finally uploaded to Debian Unstable, fixing the problem there, but Debian Stable is still affected, and will be until it's updated either through a security update or a stable point release. I plan to agitate for this if necessary.

Here's the relevant Debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774195
haha that's evil AND genious!!

public class OhLord {
public static void main(String[] args){
free: {
I: want: to: break free;
}
System.out.println("yeah!");
}
}
My roommate swears that checking the posting a few times can raise the price. Is the number of clicks/views on a posting taken into account when prices are changed daily?
>> "I have to apparently use Sunrise to use it."

Meet seems to be part of the Sunrise app. However you can receive and respond to invites without using Sunrise. You can get a better overview of the app here [1] than on the homepage.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.sunrise.and...

P.S. I would recommend using it :) It's a fantastic calendar app.
While we are on the topic of A-grade security: The article might want to point out that using standard DHE is preferable to ECDHE if you can handle the additional CPU load. The problem with ECDHE is that all currently TLS-approved curves need to be considered unreliable. This will change if 'draft-irtf-cfrg-curves-02' is accepted and Curve25519 and Ed448-Goldilocks become part of the standard.
Snake Rewind
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Considerations for Content Strategy Development
Always wondered why after surfing the water didn't drain out of my sinus until I bent over to pick something up. Thanks for the insight!
thanks.. appreciate it..
Any company worth its salt and isn't cash strapped would have an rnd/skunkworks arm, this has been the case since the 1900s.
This paper describes some aspects of the system:
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/189242/pldi097-burckhardt...
I agree. Evolution is overrated, let's go back to BBS.
>Why the extra effort on the GNU Project's part to create Guix?

There are a couple reasons:

1) We believe that unifying the entire system using a general purpose programming language that allows for the creation of embedded domain specific languages (Scheme) is better than using a domain specific language (the Nix language) and a multitude of other languages behind it (C++, Perl, Python, Bash). Our build scripts and client side code is written in Scheme. Our package and system services are written in Scheme. Our init system is written in Scheme. Our initial RAM disk is written in Scheme. This allows us to have good interoperability and reuse a lot of code in different places.

2) We are committed to providing a fully free GNU/Linux distro as defined by the FSF. NixOS includes proprietary some components.

>What are the advantages over just adopting Nix?

I think that our user and programming interfaces are better. We give more care to making sure package test suites pass and we don't use pre-built binaries from third parties (no blobs, no pre-built minified JavaScript, etc). We have really nice Emacs integration. It's nice to have a system that is fully free by default.

>Doesn't this mean that everything the Nix project packages has to be repackaged for Guix, and vice-versa?

Yes.

With that said, I need to mention that I think Nix is great. Really great. I just like the Guix implementation and philosophy more. Hope this helps.
A Range of Reactions to Airline’s Removal of Autistic Child
Idk, i use this kind of thing before I go out to see if I have to prepare better. "oh look it's getting colder, I better not go in shorts", "oh look it's actually pretty cold despite how sunny it looks"
I can feel that it makes me happy but makes my wife sad because I'm thinking only about academic stuffs and not giving her time. I wouldn't want research career at the cost of relationship.
Stuff like this concerns me. If a company I'm interested in solicits me for a phone call and the position is a much more senior level than I've had in the past, or is of a more demanding skillset than I have experience with, I feel like I am not only wasting both of our time, but hurting my chances if something more on my grade becomes available in the future. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to outright refuse, would I?
Mom Claims She, Daughter with Autism Were Kicked Off United Flight
Expecting people to get training to have a nuanced reaction to symbols used in security is a lost cause for web browsing. The mystique of the web is long gone. Its an every person thing now and reduced to binary decisions.

Web browser developers need to make some decisions to make clear what is safe, probably safe, and an threat. Lumping wrong, but probably safe things in with threats means that users will ignore threats. Look at the history of Windows and users just clicking dialogue boxes without reading.
> I don't know how it works in Cali but in most other places if the landlord shares the property (like they themselves are also a tenant) they can be as discriminating as they want.

That's not how it works in California (whether or not it is how it works in some other places); there are limited exceptions for taking on a single boarder and roommate situations, which are described in the page linked from the post you responded to, under the heading "Limited exceptions for single rooms and roommates".
[feature request] What about the inability to selectively serialize memory and put it into sperm / egg? I mean, I get human long term memory is probably relatively new and gene serialization is as old as time, but it would be incredibly helpful if we could serialize even a little bit of our memories and experiences into our next generation. It would avoid tons of repeat learning every generation needs to figure out (e.g. don't touch fire, don't lick electrical sockets, don't shit in your bed, reading, writing, riding a bike, monads, etc.), and allow us to focus on higher level things like cracking Navier Stokes or unlocking immortality.
The key relationships that female founders lack
No, it's an attribute of time itself, not mechanical clock issues. I _highly_ recommend the book "About Time"

http://www.amazon.com/About-Time-Einsteins-Unfinished-Revolu...
It's funny to me when people try to predict where either the success or failure of a whole concept will come from and when it is supposed to happen. Nobody really knows what IoT is yet.

The exact same thing happened in the early days of the web. People thought search wasn't a big deal; they thought people would buy ice online; they thought that the web should be completely overhauled and replaced with binary executables that we could all browse. When it all collapsed the first time, a lot of people thought that the promise of the web was over.

IoT is in roughly the same place that the web was in the early 90s. I'm hesitant to say this is a trough of disappointment, because I don't think that enough of the key technologies have emerged yet that are going to make connected things an actual convenience to people.

I think the problems that skeptics see actually could be problems, but it really is to early too tell. The problems they see could be problems or they could simply be gaps that haven't been filled yet.
Pipedrive Raises $9M in Series A Funding
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If you tunnel somewhere, it doesn't matter (to how your ISP can treat it) if you send IPv4 or IPv6 over your tunnel