carljoseph's comments

Very interesting demo. Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to parse Winograd schemas[0] correctly

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge

The definition of a second isn't based on the Earth's motion, but some natural phenomena like you recommended. "The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom." [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-one-arri...

It's essentially built up of a chain or ladder. From parallax measurements to cepheid variables to supernova. This might give a good introduction http://www.iop.org/resources/topic/archive/cosmic/

Oh and there's a part 2 here https://gooroo.io/GoorooTHINK/Article/16306/Is-Math-Broken-i...

That's just simply not correct - scientific endeavour and the scientific method is an ongoing prospect. You never actually solve anything, instead you refine the parameters in which a given solution is deemed correct.

Newton "solved" the equations of gravity, Einstein "solved" them too, and now quantum mechanics is "solving" them yet again. None are wrong, but also none of them make the problem solved.

The idea of a "solved problem" in science is a dangerous one IMHO.

I'd be interested in seeing something like this.

Interesting how this is the case, because that was one of the key goals of the site when they were first building it.

I listened to Joel and Jeff talk about it in their early podcasts when they were first building the site. To be the definitive answer for a question requires that the answer be able to change and evolve over time as new information becomes available.

I'm definitely not agreeing with that article's perspective, just thought it provided a contrasting point of view. Not sure my comment deserved a downvote though (ouch!) :)

That's definitely a good point about the journals not adding enough value. I think it's clear they've placed themselves into a bit of a position where they hold most of the cards and that really does need to change.

Whilst I feel this is a step in the right direction, some have already argued[0] that it goes too far and sets up the wrong incentives.

[0] http://www.digitopoly.org/2014/11/24/the-gates-foundations-o...

Where is this video you speak of?

I may be jumping to conclusions here, but I wonder if depression was part of the issue for Robin Williams.

In our industry or technology, depression, burnout, mental illness are all areas I don't feel we deal with very well.

Haven't had a chance to look into the C++ data as yet. According to the jobs data analysed, a "C++ Developer" earns around $86k (USD) on average [0].

As for "C", it sits quite close to C# and Java, but is certainly not ahead of JavaScript. It's in that leaders group though.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the original post.

[0] https://msgooroo.com/browse/career/CPlusPlus-Developer

How do the find the portrait vs landscape orientation works for you? Any change in productivity between the two?

I had a team-mate who swore by having one monitor in portrait mode where he kept his word/specs/reading whilst he worked primarily on the landscape monitor. Seemed to work for him.

This is pretty much true. You could replace our sun with a black hole of the same mass, and nothing would change in terms of planet's orbits.

The image of a black hole "sucking" things in like a vacuum cleaner is hugely incorrect. I think this perception comes about from the funnel image we often see representing black holes.

The Sunday Assembly [0] might be of interest. I've only read of it recently but it's an interesting idea. Church for the atheists.

[0] http://sundayassembly.com/

Interesting. Thanks very much for the explanation.

The Nature paper mentions that past simulations were unable to create the current population of disk galaxies (e.g. Andromeda, Milky Way).

They say "The culprit was an angular momentum deficit leading to too high central concentrations, overly massive bulges and unrealistic rotation curves." [0]

Any idea why these older sims wouldn't create the correct angular momentum in late-type galaxies?

[0] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7499/full/nature1...

Fantastic idea, and I must say, I do love your engagement here on all the feedback being given. Sounds like you've got quite a well thought out and developed product.

My money would be on starting a kickstarter or something like that with a few niche markets. The pillow case idea is a simple one as are camping/travel outlets. This will give you proof that your product can sell.

Next step really depends on whether you want to get involved in ongoing manufacturing and marketing, or work more in the background by licensing your technology to others.

Glad to hear that you have patent pending on this too - the last thing you want is to license your product to someone and then have them copy it and move you out.

Good luck with it.

Here's the HN thread of his infosuicide: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106

A decent Slate article about his disappearance: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/...

Anyone else use to get a design and put it through the Fireworks chopper? You'd draw where you wanted your table rows and cells to be and it would chop up the image and give you a lovely HTML table to display it all.

Was awful!