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I have one. I don't work with my hands, but I'm clumsy; it's already a little scratched. Oh well.

I also have problems with the gesture, though for some reason it doesn't really bother me.

I have the opposite experience with rudeness...I feel like a subtle glance is just way, way less disruptive than pulling out your phone. I keep my notifications (both phone & watch) pretty dialed back, so it's mostly just when someone is directly messaging me that I get a notification. Before, I just couldn't keep myself from pulling out my phone and seeing what was up, and then at that point usually saying 'excuse me' and taking a moment to respond, even if it wasn't urgent. Now, I just glance at it, see it isn't urgent, and reply later.

I also find it helps me from accidentally slipping into my phone in group social situations, since I have zero excuse to pull it out in the first place.

I think it has a lot of potential overall as a device, but besides the issues you brought up, there are other frustrating things about it: Siri is ungodly slow (why can't this be natively recognized on device like my mac?). Replying to a message with voice or emoji is a ridiculously cumbersome process. You can't reply with more than a single emoji, which makes your responses seem overly curt and rude. Shipping with os1.0 apps (where all the computation is on the phone) means almost all 3rd party apps are terrible. &c.

I feel Apple has gotten away a bit from their 'do few things well' core (classic example: original iPhone shipping w/o copy and paste or 3rd party apps), and fallen into the temptation of 'do lots of things so-so'.
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Well, fortunately, it does!

We currently support Ruby, and in the next three months we'll have Javaland and Python and Node.

Right now most of our data is oriented around patch releases, so it can vary, but in near future we'll be reducing that distance.
People think they are being more precise by saying "EST," but, quick, are we in daylight savings time now, or out of it?

It turns out we are, and I don't meant to suggest that GP didn't know this. But what if we weren't in daylight savings time, and GP said "EST"? Would we have to change an hour?

I highly recommend just saying "Eastern Time."
You may want to rethink the pricing. I have several server variants that I effectively clone in different datacenters across my deployment. Since the base images are static I would really only need to run the agent on n servers (where n is the number of server variants that I have) to ensure that my entire deployment is protected.

I'm not sure if you would consider this unethical. I would probably feel differently about the pricing if it were tiered levels related to the entire size of the deployment (e.g.: 1-50 servers: $x/mo, 50-250 servers: $y/mo, 250+ servers: $z/mo).
Even if I had quit my name would have been on the patent. I'm interested in hearing how I could have stopped it once the process started.
This was on Product Hunt last week, haven't gotten a chance to play with it yet but looks really cool - http://www.producthunt.com/tech/cymbal-2
Also they describe the table "These are mostly unconfirmed exoplanets discovered by the NASA Kepler mission (Kepler Candidates from the NASA Exoplanet Archive). Those already confirmed are listed by their Kepler name in the table above." So looks like it is going to get moved up to the confirmed table?
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Both of these devices probably are better, at least at this time. However, the Apple Watch is a general purpose device that over time should prove to be more useful, especially as the hardware improves in future versions.
I'd take it as a proxy for surface gravity. They can't exactly say what the mean surface gravity is, because they don't know how much variation there is in altitude, and whether the exoplanet has a sea level.

Even so, giving a rough estimate of mean surface gravity would make the tables more accessible to non-experts.
Yeah, the reactor went prompt-critical, which is pretty much the worst thing that could possibly happen. In the reactor normally there's two classes of neutrons present - "prompt", which are emitted directly from fission, and "delayed", which are secondary neutron emissions from decay of fission byproducts.

Prompt neutrons are emitted on a very very short timescale and so if the power were controlled solely by them it'd be impossible to control a reactor because any change in the control rod position would cause an extremely rapid change in the power. Instead, reactors are designed to be subcritical considering only prompt neutrons and then be made critical via the remaining delayed neutrons. This extends the reactor period (time it takes for the power to change by a factor of exp(1)) from milliseconds to minutes.

However, if there isn't enough control material in the core that the proportion of prompt neutrons is enough to make the reactor critical by itself then it goes "prompt critical" and exactly what happens in the article occurs. Reactors are supposed to be operated with enough margin that this won't ever happen (which isn't that difficult), but it sounds like they were deliberately operating right on the limit, which scares me.
Based on the headline, I expected the site to return the name of a TV series based on a search of subtitles. i.e., "shootin some bball outside of the school"

For me, "find" implies search, while "discover" implies recommendation.
> Even in the case of coal, which is an awful fuel for a variety of reasons, at least you're dispersing a known quantity of radioactive material and we can plan around that or set long term expectations.

The bigger health threat from coal is not radioactivity, but general degradation in air quality that is hazardous to human health. This is a not only high risk but guaranteed phenomenon with very high impact. Deaths due to nuclear accidents are generally estimated to be several orders of magnitude less than those due to coal in terms of deaths/KWH [1]. Even if we assume that these figures are off by 10000%, nuclear is still drastically safer than coal, even in the countries that have laws like the US's Clean Air Act which "plan around" the pollution of coal (let alone places like China with no such regulation). We have so much leeway here that we can add nuclear accidents becoming 5x more common per plant to the 10000% error and still be competitive with coal.

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...
For the past 10 months or so I've interned with these two. To say that these guys are not your traditional VC's would be a huge understatement. These episodes do an amazing job of capturing how goofy and approachable Jonathon and Brett are. Their personalities couldn't complement each other more.
> snap is open source

But Google now lays claim over its copyright which gives them the right to sell it or take it down completely. But thankfully - if you have an old version - they can't retroactively change the license. However - that won't stop Google from sending DMCA takedowns if it gets big enough.

> so this example is a non-issue

It's a huge issue - when people and companies don't even understand the terms of the GPL [1] copyright and licenses could make a huge impact. Yes - someone can fork it and call it pans and make all sorts of awesome changes - but that's horrible for software development. Now there are 2 different versions with different features - I would rather one project that completely works than 2 similar projects that kind of works.

> the author didn't care

The other contributors did - and that's equally important. I would not want to piss off the people who are contributing code to my project. Once other people start contributing code - a good open source project should respect the opinions and comments of the community.

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/85c03a289fe56c67636ed6...
I've never imagined the RPI cluster to be taken seriously for production purpose. It only serves two purposes; education and developmental staging. For those two, you have a real hardware cluster that serves you superbly showing every nature you can experience with big-ass datacenter cluster.
What's missing? https://developer.apple.com/healthkit/
No, it isn't. Look at their budget[1]; very little money enters or leaves the office. The billions collected in the patent and trademark process are all spent on the patent and trademark process.

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fy16pbr.p...
Try grepping your lib directory sometime. In fact, let me do it for you, on a relatively clean install:

time, benchmark, irb, pry, rubygems, resolv, erb, rake, open-uri, debug, rack, cgi/util, optparse, getoptlong, bundler, activesupport, actionpack, activemodel, erubis, slim, haml, sass, sequel, roda, nokogiri, rugged, faraday, mime-types, thor, test-unit, tzinfo, mail, ffi
>> But just like the other devices, the watch will start small and expand from here.

If you asked futurists how the iphone will 10 years on - they would have predicted a lot of what we have today - because it's based on clear technological trends - moore's law, cheaper/smaller sensors, etc and reasonable use cases - i.e. mobile gaming, mobile info.

But when reading about the potential of the watch, either you hear not so exciting uses(like a remote control for all your smart home devices, instead of a phone), or crazy predictions that's hard to see how get to technologically(the watch will have a small projector, the watch will detect an incoming heart attack).

And even with those crazy projections - it's not clear at all whether those technologies, if they work, would be preferably implemented in a watch.

On the other hand, Apple is great at marketing, so who knows ?
> horrifying and error-prone programming model, both hard to write and hard to reason about.

I don't remember where I read this, but I heard that the basic Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is written with office workers in mind first. That is, Word isn't written for authors, Excel isn't written for database managers/big data specialists, and PowerPoint isn't written for motivational speakers.

I think the idea of the basic Office Suite is that a user could grasp the basic functionality of the software without having to undergo any training. Second to that, tools and other functionality for those with specific needs (e.g. pseudo-database functionality, basic data visualization in Excel) could use the software where the project was small enough. Excel was given great programming features without a proper programming language to support it.

This isn't to say that these programs are not feature packed or bad. They're kitchen sinks that want to make everyone happy.
Huh? Isn't having a competing taxi hailing app the definition of competitiveness?
You may want to update the post with this conclusion - it makes the entire article click for me!
>I would probably feel differently about the pricing if it were tiered levels (e.g.: 1-50 servers: $x/mo, 50-250 servers: $y/mo, 250+ servers: $z/mo).

Ya, that's fair and a good suggestion. I think we may very well end up doing something like that. We're still trying to figure out what kind of model best suits the server fleets people have.

We'll be keeping the first server free, and probably have a not for profit tier.
(Without changing my name.)
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Why did he file a patent in the first place?
Should be 오 at the end there
to cherry-pick a tiny part of your comment:

> What happens when more people than expected get pregnant in your space colony?

i'm assuming "more than expected" means "too many people to support given the circumstances". the answer of what to do in this situation is pretty obvious if there are no other options -- do a necessary unpleasant thing: abort the pregnancies or have a few other people volunteer to die [0].

people have figured this out in other societies. for example, people on the isolated island of Tikopia developed a society that was able to self-regulate population [1].

to be clear: i do not think this sounds like a wonderful state of affairs. but if you are in such a situation, and there are no other options left, what else can you do?

to get back to the more general point -- sure, it seems like a reasonable idea to have a colony on another planet, if we can figure out a way to do that sustainably and resiliently, to reduce risk if we "lose" the Earth somehow. But let's think that through: how hard would it be to establish a colony on another planet that could support itself, and recover/flourish, without external support, in a scenario where the Earth was lost? Probably pretty hard! I guess it depends upon the scenario. If some virus kills off the human population of a planet without otherwise doing too much damage, maybe it is possible to re-settle it, which allows some of the people from your colony a chance at restarting life in a kinder environment. If somehow you lose the whole ecosystem on earth that supports human life, then perhaps resettlement is not an option. Then there are risks that might wipe out both earth and the colony in one hit [2].

[0] edit: or, maybe in this hypothetical future technologically advanced spaceship society people have figured out contraception and family planning and this is situation that will not happen.

[1] https://expandyourbrain.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/we-the-tiko...

[2] e.g. a really lucky close shot from a gamma ray burst? some kind of coordinated multi-planet misanthropic terrorist plot?
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96.58% Similar to Veronica Mars. Not sure if top words is a good metric here.
Likely off-topic, but Nasa's site feels very weird to me. Like it think I'm on a tablet. Everything is huge. And I'm on a 1920x1080 laptop using Chrome.

Okay, to make this slightly on-topic now, I am excited to hear about the discovery in about an hour and a half. Even if it was a 1.00 on the similarity scale, I'm more interested in finding out how habitable it would be for earth-like life.
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+1 for Python. You're probably aware of a company called Sonatype that does something like this during the dev process. Their business is growing fast. As far as I know nobody is doing this in production. I think you've found a nice niche that has a lot of potential. Good luck.
> Can you specify?

One thing that always gets brought up is the datatypes API. I never got to experience it first-hand (as my username suggests, I'm more of a C64 guy). But the idea is that different types of media are handled independent of applications.

So something like Deluxe Paint could load a PNG by asking WarpPNG.datatype to parse the PNG file and return an IFF (the default data format for audio & video on AmigaOS). If it wanted to display the PNG without modifying it, Deluxe Paint could tell WarpPNG.datatype to display the file at (X,Y) at (Width, Height) and it would get rendered without any special code being added to the application.

This future-proofed applications. Imagine if Photoshop, Chrome, Preview, and Pages could all work with webp images as soon as you added a library and it registered itself to handle "pictures".
The Go language is already successful. Clickbait headlines can't undo that.
>A hashed password is only mine and the universe's secret.

You always have to leave a little room for the holy spirit.
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Technically, you don't have to tip ever. It's just a dick move not to.
What is the impractical consequences if you sold a photo booth kiosk and had to give the recipient the source code for the internal software? I would assume that photo booth kiosks producers got their money from selling the physical kiosk and competition on the internal kiosk software is going be at best an minor advantage. Management software or similar could still be proprietary, through competitors could make management software that is compatible with those kiosks, which is a good thing in my book.

Customers of the kiosks however have no such right to source code, since they don't receive any copies of the software from using it. You enter, you insert a coin/cc, and out comes a photo and maybe a code which allow you to download the image to your phone. Neither is "copies" of the kiosk internal software so the license doesn't involve them.
Free PDF for learning Korean: http://www.koreanfromzero.com/

I've heard a lot of good things for the author's other series Japanese From Zero.
Do you mean transition from specific spreadsheets you would already have for that task? Or in a wider sense, e.g. as a company - gradually transition from using spreadsheets to using applications for some of the tasks?
Or better yet, UTC or GMT since probably more people in the world know their offset relative to that, than EST.
Yes I do. Since Apache Spark is chewing up memory like nothing, I cannot spare any portion of 1G mem for something else. This could lead to a shorter lifespan of SD cards though.
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If you agree that "it's a debatable distinction" then you probably shouldn't then just baldly assert that taking one side in that debate amounts to "ignorance, or... fearmongering".
Yeah, you're right I guess.
Hackers are very poor predictors of commercial success, if not the opposite.

Although, I meant 'developers' when I used the term 'hackers'.. The watch is very limited in the amount of freedom that it gives developers, and if you can't attract them, then it's not taking off.

I'm sure Apple knows that a lot better than I do, so let's see how they attack that problem in the future.
I was going to say, Pi isn't really the optimal choice here to begin with. For the same wattage, the Parallela is two orders of magnitude more powerful, but it's a more unusual processor to compute on. The Jetson TK-1 is the other option - an NVIDIA dev board for the Tegra K-1 SoC. It's also not entirely similar to CPU programming, but CUDA GPGPU is a more well-trodden path for HPC.

I don't know of any actual switched-fabric mezzanine cards available for the Parallela. If you have a link I'd be very interested. A similar approach would be to exploit a mini PCI-Express connector like the one on the Jetson. The Jetson also has a daughterboard connector available, but my understanding is that it's proprietary and I don't think NVIDIA offers a switched-fabric card.
I wonder if any of them are working for their online publication "Spiegel Online"[1] as well. It certainly doesn't feel that way, given that spell-checking their articles often already seems like too much work.

EDIT: Quote from the article: "AP: … In the German press, there’s newspapers that are more reliable than others"

I wonder how high "Spiegel Online" ranks in their internal reliability ranking.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de
I think my perception came from the side of submitting products. For the longest time they were hand picked and you had to 'know someone' to get on the site. Which is fine, it's not a public good, the PH team is free to use it as they wish. Nowadays I see so many 'guides' on how to get on PH and how to maximize potential when you do get on PH.
I've had an intern working to set up Bosun and OpenTSDB on an Ubuntu server, from source, for a few weeks now. He's close, but today is his last day.

I'd need to pay someone to professionally set this up for us (so we can easily distribute it with our enterprise software), preferably with just bash scripts. I also need consulting. Like, is it realistic to use a single server for our logging load?

I work for a large multi-national. If you're qualified, and interested, we can engage you to help us out. Contact is in my profile.
Better headline: "I had a bad experience with Go this one time".

I think he's got since great points, but none of them are actual blockers to success- just good feature requests.
If you look at the formulation for the ESI [1], you'll see that the components are mean radius, bulk density, escape velocity and surface temperature (measured in Kelvins).

Mathematically you could zero out one or all of the multiplicands (e.g. with a surface temperature of 0 degrees K) but constraining oneself to the realm of the possible, you'll always have a non-zero ESI.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index#Formula...
Yeah, that's a terrible title. The article's conclusion is less dramatic (to the point of being almost a different topic):

> unless the Go Language moves quickly towards the Gem, npm, or pip model or starts to have a user experience similar to Vagrant’s, I feel like a large number of users might be demotivated by the high entry-level barrier.
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Re-posting my comment on the original blog:
"Hi guys! I am just in love with the new UI. HN is my daily dose for the awesomeness and the new search is the icing on top of the cake! Cheers!"

And seriously this is there since Jan and I stumbled upon this today!
What sets Tolstoy apart is the unmatched description of the human psyche. The characters in Tolstoy's novels are excruciatingly complex. The only author IMHO who has described the human psyche at the same level of depth, adding more drama though, is Dostojevski.
The Apple Watch is not any less resilient than other steel sport watches, the problem is that people that are not used to wearing a watch believe they should be scratch proof (ever seen Spigen make a case for a Speedmaster?), which none of the ones you listed are, even at 250x the price, like the Nautilus (which was never a "sport watch" in the sense that you are using here, by the way). Go diving with a Submariner and it will get scratches and dents and no one will be surprised.
Trolling aside, the linked list patent doesn't cover what we think of as linked lists. We've had this conversation before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8231954

I don't see many folks here who've actually read the claims of this patent and analyzed them for validity. For all we know, this could be a legit difference over the art. But hey, claims are hard, let's go shopping. Or shame people, whatever.

If people want some chance of expert analysis, they should submit this to askpatents.com
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This is so misleading. Even if it turns out to be true, this shouldn't be up here yet.