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It's a huge problem that people that people haven't understood this. For me, it's akin to Apple back in the early days, and to some extent right now, enforcing low bit rate standards on iTunes. They're hinging on enough people not being educated or interested enough to protest. Just because it is possible to get away with this kind of, it really frustrates me because it lowers the standard for the creation and display of art. You may not notice an immediate difference, but you definitely would if they're side by side.

As for the new IMAX screens, not only is it the size of the screen, but the quality of the projector and speaker setup not to mention the actual proportion of the screen as well.

There are only a handful of "true original" IMAX screens. I'm not hating on their brand, I know they've needed to dilute to actually not go bankrupt, but it's important to note that there is a legitimate difference between "large format" (that's the term that's replacing IMAX for legalities sake and so IMAX competitors can be introduced and undercut IMAX licensing fees) and IMAX.

To be totally honest, they're in a lot of trouble as a company and they desperately need to find a way to save their product before competitors like Regals "RPX Experience" ruin them.
" these companies have spent well over 100 million in recent years for propaganda, and a grand total of ONE grant of 200K for scientific research."

Prove it.

Prove they have spent that much on "propaganda" and that they have spent no more than 200k for research.

Now prove that the government has spent more on research, and that ALL of that research was of the "free inquiry" type (Eg: without a required outcome predetermined. Remember government has pressured scientists to reach certain conclusions, and journals have set out a particular hypothesis as fact for all articles, etc. Suppression of scientific inquiry is at a shocking level these days.)

Also, please tell me how much has been spent on propaganda by proponents of AGW.

I know just a few of Obama's and Gore's efforts alone were more than 200M (Obama spends 200M on a week long trip oversease-- every time he's gone overseas to promote the global warming theory he's spent more in propaganda than you claim the whole industry opposing him has.)
As "the Docker guy" I don't want to enter the debate, I will simply try to explain how we approached this problem when designing Docker.

Docker was designed explicitly so you don't have to change the architecture or flow of your application on day one. Rather, we want to provide tools that make your life easier in small ways now, and make it possible to improve your architecture and workflow gradually, and on your terms.

This was a hard-learned lesson from building our previous product (Dotcloud, a Heroku competitor), which did require developers to change everything on day 1. As a result it was simply not possible for many developers to use it.
I'm sorry, but your last statement is idiotic. If they didn't trust them, then why did they use them?
As the T-Shirt says: http://www.headlineshirts.net/its-all-in-the-execution-t-shi...

It's all about the execution. If two people have a great idea the winner will be the one who executed better.

i.e. They scaled better, they used appropriate tools, they had a functioning team, they moved first, they listened to customers, they pivoted and stayed agile, they remained focussed on their goal etc. etc.

On the other hand, some products have network effect, which can make them hard to assail once they've got momentum.

Also don't forget the 10x 'rule' - you need to be 10x better than an existing product if you're doing the same as an established product.

As others have mentioned you may also be attacking different market segments e.g. business/consumer, geographical region, age group, etc.

Come to think of it, aren't there one or two books on the subject ;-)
No, I do not think this should be implemented. The proper way (in addition to server-side validation, of course) is to utilize JavaScript in order to verify the file's size. This solution also allows different maximum sizes for different file types as one example in the discussion shows. Using JavaScript also adds additional flexibility when trying to achieve custom error messages.
In general, I think the HTML specification is getting quite bloated these days, but this is not the place to discuss this.
We would love to provide Java support! I personally did poke at a few tools before launch but didn't do anything final. Which Java tools would you like to see on Code Climate? Findbugs? Any others?
What she/he said.
Wow! I didn't expect to see something from Chesterton.org on the front page of Hacker News.

For those of you who are unfamiliar:

http://www.chesterton.org/who-is-this-guy/

A bunch of G.K. Chesterton's books -- novels and nonfiction -- are in the public domain and can be downloaded at:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/80
People run Redis mostly in Linux-in-a-VM (with Redis being the only "user-serving" process) already, though, no? I would think Redis-as-the-entire-VM would be less to think about, operation-wise, at least if your cloud or data-center templates its VMs with something like EC2 AMIs. You would just launch a "Redis appliance" AMI and move on.

It's a feeling less of maintaining boxes, and more equivalent to paying a Redis-as-a-Service provider.
Yeah, I read Seveneves, then The Martian and many things felt very familiar. I have to say, however, I was very annoyed with the style of The Martian.
What about the reports from the UN IPCC That misrepresented the claims of scientists named in the reports? (To the Scientists protests.)

In fact, IPCC reports-- which are not science but political propaganda-- are the sum total of "science" that AGW proponents rely on when making their political claims (And their claim that "Science" agrees with them, which they think justifies calling anyone who disagrees with the hypothesis by the epithet of "denier")
I will dial back the sarcasm.
The same folks were on HN a while back attempting to justify their poor decisions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9642186
This is exactly what I like about git and don't like about Mercurial: keeping book about which was what does not matter IMO, and complicates (automatic) reasoning (e.g. bisect) about the development process. What does matter is that concurrent development took place, and that's exactly what git's commit DAG represents.
Maybe good to describe the group somewhere. But great idea.
It's your call man. As another poster mentioned, it really is all in the execution. If you don't believe you can compete and out-execute on some worthwhile dimension, then give up.

Otherwise quit second guessing yourself and get back to work.
Indeed. It's got some really great one liners, the kind of stuff that is a bit lower brow, but makes me so giddy I have to read it aloud. If you don't believe me:

http://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/04/neal-stephenson-zodiac....
First it was called "Global Warming", then when the planet cooled after the end of the local solar cycle they started calling it "Climate Change" -- because you can't deny the climate changes. And anyone who disagrees with AGW is labeled a "denier".

I think that even AGW proponents know the science is not on their side-- they just don't care, because they want more government power over the economy.

Demonizing a substance created by your very breath easily leads to pretty much the ultimate in tyrannical power.
It probably won't be too significant, but the only way to be sure is to try it.
Not surprised. I'm still very confused why someone would use a web browser built by a company that has a business plan based on shrinking the web.
Hey Guyz, from where I can download the HN software/theme?
Home Automation Is Collapsing into a Trough of Disillusionment
Perhaps we can help educate employers by bringing an X-Box with Guitar Hero to interviews. When the inevitable "why did you bring that to the interview?" comes up, we fire it up and reply with "well, your advert did mention wanting a rock star..."

He's a juke box hero, got stars in his eyes

Yeah, juke box hero, got stars in his eyes

(http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/foreigner/jukeboxhero.html)

:-D
My sentiment exactly. If I wrote this post, it would have been titled "Considered harmful" Essays Considered Boring
I spent a long time pondering the premise of the subsequent planetary bombardment. Would the moon fragments really bang into one another the way they do in the book? Would it lead to massive fragmentation and ultimately the aforementioned bombardment?
"The government" ?

There are over 40 developed countries whose governments fund scientific research.

Several of them have heads of state who would love to find evidence against AGW: Canada and Australia come to mind. Angela Merkel would love to find evidence that the coal mining way of life in East Germany isn't a problem. (But she knows not to fight against scientific evidence.)

Our own government had a republican president not so long ago.

Again, if there was any avenue of scientific research that could find evidence against AGW, there would be money to fund it, be it from governments or corporations. Deniers have spent over 100M on propaganda in recent years. That's a lot of money that could have gone towards research if there was any to be done.

There was exactly one attempt to do that, with the grant given to Richard Muller at Berkeley. That blew up in the denier's faces, and they're never doing that again.

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"When you resort to calling people who disagree with your hypothesis "deniers" then..."

I am calling them deniers because they have ample funds with which to find evidence for their case, and they are refraining from doing so.

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"Thanks for conceding that there are 40 governments putting money"

I did not say "40 governments putting money into the other side." I said "40 governments funding science." And as I pointed out, the governments of Australia and Canada would love to find evidence against AGW. And yet government funded scientists in both countries continue to find evidence for it. Our own government under George W. Bush would have loved to find evidence against AGW. And yet our scientists in NASA, NOAA, and academia, were finding evidence for it the entire time.
The most recent chats should have a higher z-index.
It said "races" in the original version. It has been edited.
For every such example you can come up with, there are a dozen examples of scientists you guys consider to be pro AGW who have made similar errors. For instance, this comes nothing close to impeaching his work like ClimateGate did for Mann. (And yet proponents still use the Mann data.)

Notice that your argument is not science, but demonization.

Meanwhile every projection and prediction your side has made has failed to come to pass. And this has been going on for 20+ years!
It's humorous that what you just said goes exactly opposite to the blog post, which talks about how docker is designed to do everything completely differently because current methods "don't scale".

Keep up the good work on docker though, it seems to be getting some good traction so far! I'm personally wondering if it's more fashion based traction though, and someone will be inventing the next "docker, but more buzzword" before long.
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It's a binary encoding of a WebAssembly AST. It's not JavaScript, though it lives in the same universe.
If we're going to talk Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday is tremendous fun, though I can't recommend it without an ethical dilemma nor say what the dilemma is without spoiling the whole thing.

What's the best Father Brown mystery? I've been meaning to try one for years.
I think you misunderstood what that bullet point is trying to say. It IS "Postgres-Q-L". That bullet point is talking about someone theoretically thinking that the name is logically two parts: "Postgres" and "QL". When really it's "Postgres" and "SQL" and the middle S is elided.
"Prove they have spent that much on "propaganda" and that they have spent no more than 200k for research."

The 200K went to Richard Muller at Berkeley. I challenge you to find any other money. As for the $100M, here's $80M from one source, (freres Koch). The remaining $20M takes a bit more googling.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-an...

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I love how I'm being challenged to prove a negative. If you can find any grant besides the Berkeley BEST grant, you will have disproved it. Go ahead and try.

And BTW, I have no downvotes. I've been "too fasted" myself.
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The polyfill is slower.
Do what is easiest for you.

1. Merging vs Rebasing

Open source projects should stick with Merging over cherry-picking and rebasing especially if you want others to contribute. Unless you feel fine doing all of the rebasing and cherry-picking for them. Otherwise, good luck gathering a large enough pool of people to contribute. Simplicity always wins here.

2. GitFlow vs X

Once again do what is good for your company and the people around you. If you have a lot of developers having multiple branches is actually /beneficial/ as Master is considered ALWAYS working. Develop branch contains things that are ready to ship, and only things that are READY TO SHIP. So if your feature isn't ready yet, it can't go to develop, and it won't hit master. Your features are done in other branches.

3. Rewriting history

Never do this. Seriously, it will come to bite you in the ass.

4. Have fun.

Arguing is for people who don't get shit done.
Well I'm definitely interested in this thing. The website should probably have more information about the robot though, and the problem it's intended to solve. Like, is this robot intended to replace humans planting trees? Is the intention to make it autonomous? If not, is there an efficiency increase as opposed to using a human?
IMAX apologizes to Ars for its trademark retraction demand
We've seen huge gains from making the system as realtime as possible. Consider a new user who hasn't followed anyone yet--each new follow is super helpful in informing the recommendation system.
It doesn't yet exist. The specifications haven't been written, these are high-level design documents.
If you don't have problems keeping your different environments in sync then perhaps there isn't any benefit for you. For whatever reason using docker (after trying a couple of other workflows with varying degrees of success) has solved that problem for me without being much of a pain at all.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/jim_buckmaster

http://www.craigslist.org/about/teambios

dang check out all these craigslist guys.
I've never given any thought on who runs this platform.
Cryptonomicon was my first contact with Stephenson, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It also opened my eyes to WW2 crypto and a whole lot of other very interesting things!
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This seems backwards. If I have JS source and the identifiers take up 10% of it, then symbol renaming and mangling can shrink my code size by something less than 10%.

If we shrink that other 90%, so that the formerly 10% is now 80%, renaming becomes more attractive.

This doesn't hold if people have a fixed problem with a fixed solution and fixed constraints... but problems and solutions grow.
> Some people exercise [...] Some people reduce energy consumption [...] There are no other options.

There is at least one other way besides exercise to expend energy: cold exposure.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/does-glo...
Someone has always built what you're building. The only real question is do you know who they are. It's actually a great exercise to find the last founder (or two) who tried to execute your idea and figure out why they failed. Very often it's timing so it will make a lot of sense to try again if you think the world has changed in a way that will make your idea succeed this time.
Oh man, you went right for my knees with this one.
http://cl.ly/image/3a3t2O2M2H1W

Not a sign up flow I haven’t seen improved by a giant dinosaur. :) Anyway, great first moment on that email. So many people waste that moment. What I love more than Godzilla is the giant call to action Sign In button. No confusion what to do next there.

Next step, I don’t love so much.
http://cl.ly/image/3H2X1U380v3J

I’m trying to reply to someone. You make me confirm my email…Okay. I get through that hurdle and then bam, another door. Fill up my profile. You're a big tease. I think I’m done and you make me fill out another form.

I’m like five, ten, i don’t know how many clicks in just to reply to this first person. I’ve seen worse and if you didn’t show me an ancient fighting monster from my childhood, I might have given up sooner. What I noticed, however, was all you needed was my name to reply.

Here’s a suggestion: Ask for my name after I reply to the person. You got my email so you can bother me to fill out the rest later. More importantly, get my comment or reply to this person. It’s a miracle you got me back to the site…those email confirmation flows really kill conversion/engagement rates. Don’t squander that.

That all being said, you’ve got good people making it through the flow. These discussions are pretty good, especially in the startup dedicated questions:

https://volley.works/topic/Startups

Excited to see where this goes next. Thanks for sharing!
This place is only going to hand out Masters degrees in 'technology innovation.' It's goal is to be a diploma mill for people Microsoft wants to bring over from China because there is a higher H1B cap for people with masters degrees. Obviously, people trying to get a real graduate degree will go to a top 100 school where actual research is going on.
Emterpreter is just a binary encoding of asm.js to improve startup times. It's a bit of a hack.

WebAssembly is a whole new language.
Fibers are fine as an idea. But all the C++ implementations I'm aware of require the programmer to mark up their code for cooperative scheduling. That's a non-starter for me.
http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs
In an office setting, this is definitely more convenient than "Siri, remind me in 1 hour to grab some coffee" :)
Coming up with different phrasings of the exact same concept per book is potentially more expensive in terms of suspension of disbelief.

"Why is she taking a whole paragraph to say, 'Plane change maneuvers are expensive'?"
Since all computers eventually get hacked (this is the new axiom for this century), how does this system handle someone stealing the private keys securing an identity?

Does it have a way of recovering from that? Because if not it's pretty much useless.
Ah. I didn't think of it that way. Good point.
I think the future is something like prefabricated / disposable / immutable(ish) infrastructure. Stop managing servers, start managing your service.

Containers are a big part of that - they made the idea more palatable and usable. But if you're doing this BECAUSE of Docker and containers and PaaS being cool, rather than the benefits of disposability and prefabrication in enabling stable / predictable scale out , availability, and change management of your bits, you've probably already lost.

Netflix arguably started this cloud-native wave. They still use VMs.
Speaking of remittances and mobile, you can top up a Chinese mobile account from London. No idea how the fees are though.
this seems relevant: http://markpneyer.me/2015/01/27/this-robots-dream/
Yeah I was taught in VHDL but my prof acknowledged that it's mainly because it's better as an educational tool. He argued that it's easier to go from VHDL to Verilog after learning the strict practices, and that it leads to just better programming practices in the industry
Given the choice of getting either both an equivalent of John Carmack and a completely overconfident, unskilled CS dropout on my team or getting neither, I know which I'd prefer. A great hire is worth far more than the cost of accepting a bad hire.

Even in the case the bad hire were completely untrainable and never managed to get anything past a code review, paying two salaries for the output of one Carmack-like outlier is still a bargain.
I just downloaded the RSS data and wrote an R script to find the trend. It's fun to play with the numbers yourself and get an idea of the only hard temperature numbers we have.

The web allowed me to get the data in a matter of seconds.

https://gist.github.com/merpnderp/91646625546cba7a1e70
Yeah, sorry, there's a big gap between what was written and "default mode of social interaction".

Teasing can be a default mode of social interaction, but there's a vast gap between saying that teasing can be okay and saying that it should be a default mode of social interaction.

Your claim that they are the same is nonsense.

There's no doubt that some people try to excuse unacceptable behavior by claiming they were teasing.

There's also no doubt that teasing can be done in a way that does not have negative impacts.

The same is true of many things in the office. Asking someone to lunch can be a good way to form a positive bond with them or it can be a non-professional actionable move.

If a person asks you to stop talking to them in a certain manner or about a certain topic, you should, just like if someone asks you to stop inviting them to lunch, you should.

However, you'd never suggest that no one should ever ask a co-worker to join him/her for lunch, would you?

Thus, your position is only valid if you belief that all teasing is harmful. That's simply not supportable, regardless of your experience.
Thanks for all the feedback !
Great article, thanks for the share! I wrote a piece in the same spirit this week: ZEN-RRNN - On Meditation & Machines: https://medium.com/@samim/zen-rrnn-on-meditation-machines-bb...
With microservices, what you seek is what you get
>Stevem This sysadmin does not exist.

Useful bio.
When you resort to calling people who disagree with your hypothesis "deniers" then you've given up any pretense of believing in science, and as far as I'm concerned, you have admitted your movement is purely political. ( Which is good because the science doesn't support you.)

Thanks for conceding that there are 40 governments putting money into the other side-- which dismisses your absurd claims that industry as more money.
All cities supported under the More tab. We get the data from eventbrite and meetup.com
I love the parable of Chesterton's fence. And I feel it's very, very applicable to a lot of discussion I see here on HN (I feel like the rhetoric around Bitcoin vis a vis the current financial system could do with a good infusion of Chesterton's fence, for example, as could NoSQL/NewSQL databases.)
Does UPS routinely lie about delivery status?
I'm an Amazon Prime customer. Since signing up for Prime, I have found that the package delivery status has become noticeably less reliable. There were always odd seeming revisions to package status when I was using best-effort delivery, but now that I am supposed to get two-day delivery, I find that the status is misreported, indicating my package was delivered when it was not.

Have you noticed a similar drop in quality of status information from UPS and/or Amazon?
The meetup.com api does this weird thing when it doesn't have enough results.
Thanks for the explanation. This was very helpful for cutting though the noise.
this is incredibly fascinating to me, but a huge role of Government ID's is it's association with a record of information re: you, i.e. past criminal history, credit, etc, all of which is kept track of by the government.

For this ID to be legitimately viable, it would need to be able to provide similar access to such information on demand.
Thanks , should be fixed right now had some x-frame problems clearly.
Eventbrite API and Meetup API
That's exactly what I said. Why did I get downvoted?