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The thing is that these things are called 'entrenching tools', searching for that gives more results. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenching_tool - the pictures there don't look like they have serrated edges to serve as a saw, but there are plenty on e.g. Ebay that do. I know I used to sell the folding model, with serrated edge, 15 years ago in the military surplus stored I worked at.
Well... As long as they are really good at making planes, I'd be fine too.
Which bit are you questioning - making it to half the speed of light (I believe that is entirely possible) or the relative speed being more than the speed of light?

If it is the latter; it's perfectly possible. Ultimately it is just mathematics - as pointed out on Wikipedia apparent "FTL" travel is allowed by most models.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
Works on my G1 Android. Nice! The mouse demo doesn't tho, which is not surprising.
Beautiful site. How do you provide subscription based payments?
Not could have, should have. He was a journalist which means he should have a subpoena.
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Well he was a journalist which should have gave him rights against stuff like this (protect sources etc). They took ALL his computers, not just stuff related to the stolen iPhone, again breaking the law that is meant to protect sources.

And if I recall when the story first broke, Apple did not admit it was their prototype until the pictures and story came out.
Hey thanks for the comments. So Paypal handle the payments at the moment. Not ideal - but 1) people trust and recognise the Paypal brand 2) it's great for startups because there isn't any investment needed to set it up or integrate it. But you lose out when it comes to the 3.9% they take on the payments. Long term I will probably end up using CheddarGetter or similar.
When I first saw this title I thought it would be talking about cage homes, e.g.:
http://www.theedgeproperty.com/global-market-watch/2840-rent...

I was happily surprised to find something much cooler.
As of the writing of this post your site is impossibly slow or dead.
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Dutch shovels, they're known as in the outdoorsy subcultures in the UK, probably because at one point some supplier like Millett's bought up a job lot of them from Dutch army surplus, and that's what everyone bought.

For some reason olive oil in spray bottles is known as "Portuguese sunblock".
I see they're already preparing for WW IV. The Shovel War.
how is this any different from any other army's entrenching tools? Yes there are a few extras added to it but it is not in any way more ingenious than what's already available elsewhere.
The expansion is accelerating though
The first part, making it to half the speed of light.

With massless particles is of course possible.
My physics is a bit rusty so I can't really argue on this matter :)
After seeing the quality (or lack) thereof of people who have nonetheless graduated from medical school, I see no point in having any kind of license.

Of course, people who practice medicine should not be allowed to claim that they have a degree from such or such university unless they do (just as food labeled organic has to be organic), but that would be fraud, and we don't need a separate requirement for that.
Seems ok for me? Since posting this the site has experienced a lot of traffic because it's popping up on lots of feeds so maybe try again in a bit. But I'm not having any problems. I'll see if I can boost resources a little.
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They forgot to show in the video that you could of course kill people with that shovel.
You also forget the other factor, startups fail often.
It is on HTTPS, maybe that is why?
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I am not a native English speaker, I might not get the feel of your domain name right. Having the word bubble in your name doesn't really convey trust to me. Do native speakers feel the same?
Puffy. I like Tim's writing, but only when he has something to say. Recent submissions of his to HN have not fallen into this category.
Ahh yes... the whole site is on HTTPS.

I'm not sure what the best approach is for the SSL. It looks good when people go to the site and see the seal, they know its a secure site. But it can slow things down. I could make it so that only the actual logged in interface, and the signup page are secure. What do you think?
Seems like it needs more data. I found 0 reviews for a company as big as Adobe.
Peter, we need to talk.

http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html

"combinations()" is a built in. No need to re-implement it. Also, nested [... for ... for ... for] is silly. Just use "product()", documented on the same page.

[''.join(card) for card in product('123', 'RGP', '@O=', 'OSD')]

They say that six months after learning the itertools module, people give up on Python for Lisp. Which would be hilarious, in your case.
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Design looks great, though on the home page your two buttons are competing for attention. Ideally, have just a single button there. Or make one larger than the other. I think the homepage is too light to excite a potential customer. Also, somehow I have hard time distinguishing it from other invoicing apps. Maybe you would want to answer why is it different?

A small typo in your testimonial. Spelling of definitely here -> "definately switching to this"
Sure, but that assumes they have ads or ad providers for your region. What if they don't? Then who pays for it?

Just a guess, really.
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I hope the lawsuit succeeds and Sony learns a lesson.

The justification for removal of the functionality is absolutely ludicrous. It's wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start...
Thanks for the feedback, I'll fix the typo. Let me know if you think that Project Bubble's home page is any more exciting. I have spent a lot longer on that one (from a marketing angle): http://projectbubble.com
It doesn't really have any connotations for me in this context. Obviously, if it were to do with investments, 'bubble' would be an odd choice. In the context of invoices I don't think it really means anything.
One common FB business model is to first create a free, hopefully popular Facebook application. Once you have an audience or a substantial userbase, you direct those users to a more powerful version of the application on your own website - specifically, a paid version.

In other words you use facebook to build popularity then redirect that popularity to a more traditional paid web app.
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I don't think you should keep the HTTPS in default. It really slows down the speed of the site, maybe just keep it on payment and login page.
No, glacier ice is blue for the same reason the ocean is blue; ice absorbs similar wavelengths to liquid water.
lol - someone downvoted you. The decorum here at HN is just ridiculous lately. I cannot begin to imagine why someone would downvote you but whatever...
Looks good.

I think it would be a good to put the "pricing" button after "take a tour" and "try it free". Right now you need to look hard to find it. :)
SSL is very resource intensive. I can understand wanting to show security on the homepage but you should definitely turn it off for the site tour and other pages like TOS.
The question doesn't really mean anything. Space (and time) and attributes/characteristics/features of our universe. So there is no "outside" (multiverse models aside). Likewise you cannot ask what was "before" the big bang, as time only came in to existence with the big bang.
So I could write an app that would get me information about my friends friends that I can't access?
It's about time the ratings agencies started rating debt accurately. EU states have some very serious debt problems.
edit

I thought that Sony never stated this was standard functionality. But it seems I was very wrong:

http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html

So I must agree this is not fair...
> the law that is meant to protect sources

IANAL. Nor do I know all about journalists' rights v. police procedures, but I am puzzled at all the press and online discussion about "protecting sources":

Seems to me that journalists should be able to protect sources of * information * - which is different than protecting sources of * stolen property† *

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†or "stolen-ish" - whatever Calif calls found property that is supposed to lead to legitimate attempts to return it to rightful owner.
I am super scared of Chinese military now, because they can use their shovels to open cans of Spam.

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But choosing forces you to lose something that you may have originally bought the console because of. Don't upgrade and you can't play any new games. Do upgrade and you lose Linux. Not really fair is it?
Looks very interesting. I am (slowly!) building a site on the weekends in a similar (non-competitive) area. Do you plan to develop an API?
It's entirely possible he wrote this before itertools existed. Like in the IAQ where he says things like:

"Better to stick with x += 1, which was added in Python 2.0. "

( http://norvig.com/python-iaq.html )
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Yup, building the API and the iPhone app at the moment. Should be ready soon.
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Agreed, I thought this would be a cool css / js tooltip effect or something.
I've seen moderately serious folk play. They will recognize multiple sets simultaneously and either go for the one closest to them or the one with three cards tightly clustered. And they move fast! Watching them play is like watching a mathematically inclined cobra fight.
I run a site entirely on SSL using a Redline 3250. It's literally a 30-minute setup -- the server does not know that it is running a secure site.

Listed for $35,000 in 2003 - bought mine on EBay for $200.
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy: "dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe"
At least Apple doesn't charge you $80 to change your desktop background on a netbook

On the other hand, they do charge you $99 an year for the privilege of putting code you wrote on a device you own.
Also discussed in: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1303598
Likewise you cannot ask what was "before" the big bang, as time only came in to existence with the big bang.

If there were ever a reason not to like cosmology, it's statements like that.
Ratings agencies must be the most easily forgiven part of the financial system. Why do the markets still move on their advise given that they were proved completely falable less than 12 months ago!
Ask HN: Design patterns resources for functional languages? (inc JavaScript)
I'm growing frustrated with the design patterns commonly used for creating JavaScript applications, there seems to be a lot of focus on replicating code reuse patterns from traditional OOP languages (e.g. classical inheritance and MVC), these just don't feel like they take advantage of JS's streangths. Pro JavaScript Design Patterns http://apress.com/book/view/159059908x doesn't have enough depth for my liking.

I often think that a more functional approach leads to more expressive and concise code (having worked with Erlang a reasonable amount), particularly coupled with some sort of state machine and using the prototype chains to make application wide changes.

It seems that while the JS community advocates JS's functional abilities there is very little in the way of how to structure and implement large applications with these techniques. The Good Parts is the best I've found so far http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748

I've been rereading my Erlang books to gain a better insight into design for large FP apps. I've also ordered "The Little Schemer" and "Purely Functional Data Structures" by Chris Okasaki for a bit more FP knowledge.

Can anyone recommend anything else, particularly if it would relate to building UI based JavaScript Apps?
Well, it looks like not many people were aware of these entrenching tools.
As does most of the western world.
Of course you are assuming that there are not 3 million active and current users of their products. If you consider that many people have multiple user accounts on 37signals products (and that they count free but active users too) it is not unreasonable.
I don't understand the economics here.

You still have to pay Authorize.net (or whatever gateway) and then ontop of that have a monthly fee to Chargify....

Surely better to drop a one-off development cost on software to sit in Chargify's place, bespoke to your site...
That site even use https to serve images. Btw, Ask HN: I'm planning to setup a site hosted in linode540/slicehost512 and serve all but images/css/js in https, and expecting about 5k-10k page views a day. Will that slicehost/linode instance be enough?
Very nice design. A few thoughts:

1. Your testimonials would be better with names, I think.

2. I would like to see some data-export options, just so I know that I wouldn't have to start again entirely if I stopped liking your product.

3. Your pricing page says "We offer a free plan to get you started, then a paid plan that has all the features and no limitations for a tiny $5 per month". This is a little confusing, because you're also offering me a free trial to get me started. Your free version distracts a little from your paid product, which is already very good value. Do you need a free version? Consider dropping the free version entirely, or dropping it from the signup options, so that I get started on a free trial of the full product, but can switch down to the free one if I like. I'm guessing it'll be easier to get people to pay to keep using features than to pay to use ones they haven't used yet and don't know they need (which would happen on the free plan route).
You can buy similar tools on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.ca/New-Folding-Camp-Army-Shovel-Tool-Entrenc...
The question contains a hidden assumption: "Everything that expands, must expand into something else." This assumption seems obvious because everything that we can directly observe has this property. But this does not make it automatically true for the universe.
You just need to stick it out. There's always a set there somewhere.
Our very first investment agreement (3i as main investor with a local VC doing the legwork) had a table of equations defining various things that would effect how much founders and option holders would get in the event of an exit. Working out what these actually meant was non-trivial and we argued strongly against them - no luck.

Ironically when we went public we made a chunk of money from the very ratchet agreements we had argued so vigorously against (combined with help from the taxman).
Site looks lovely.
If you can work out how to tell when an invoice is paid through the system (without trusting the user to tick off the invoice as paid) I would suggest offering the service with no sign-up cost and charge a % of the paid invoices.

There's a reason most every payment site does it this way :)
This semester I was in school full-time and working on my startup part-time with co-founders. That was a huge mistake. As much as it was fun, the only time where I got major progress done was during vacations, when I should've been focusing on the assignments thrust upon me by my studies. Since I was focusing more on my startup, rather than my classes, my grades ended up not being as good as they could have been.

Luckily, for the next 8 months I get to focus 100% on my startup; I won't have to choose between a mediocre grade and a mediocre product. I'll have the energy and resources to create a great product.
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It is clearly a combination of grog and ogle.
How is finding something that someone lost make it "stolen property?" If I find a $20 bill on the sidewalk, am I stealing it if I pick it up?
> time only came in to existence with the big bang

My brains segfaults imagining that there was a time where time didn't exist...
Two things make them powerful:

- The vast amount of people that simply believe the opinions published by the agencies and consider those the absolute truth

- originators of policies that requires ratings to be put on several financial products before being allowed to be bought by certain institutions, which glorifies the agencie's opinions as the absolute truth
Hey. Yeah that's an option. Last month we helped our users create over $50,000 in invoices (thats invoices that were paid), so a percentage would be an interesting idea. :)
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Hey thanks.
1) Yup, ok will put those in.
2) There is already data export for everything.
3) You are 100% right and I need to sort this out.

Thanks for your helpful feedback.
I could see this working well for a small number of teenagers, especially in programming. However, the vast majority of teenagers' help isn't worth anything near minimum wage.
To me - its quite astonishing that the Ratings Agencies still hold so much sway , given that they have been thoroughly discredited in the last 2 years.

I wonder, what it would take to have another ratings agency ? Is this simply a case of Market Incumbency ?
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Having it in firefox and chrome would encourage a lot more development around it. As it stands I don't think people would want to invest to much past experimentation in taking advantage of a feature that is only present in chrome.
It seemed to me that the market had already begun to move against Greece. If credit agencies don't reflect the lack of political momentum (and a plan to pay creditors) then agencies loose their credibility.

I doubt that S&P acts in an isolated manner, and is part a political play and can be influenced by other organisations, economic reports and political moves. This may even be a mechanism to sell the bailout to the German electorate.
We had similar tool in finnish army. The only difference was that when used as a pick against frozen ground it quickly fell apart. I wonder how this fares against such a hard material.
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Doesn't this article explicitly point out a rather horrible Windows flaw, or maybe flaws?

First, having an "extension" as a separate part of the file name has some bad consequences: you have to treat a file name as several parts.

Second, having the file name (.exe, .bat. and some others) make a file executable or not. This seems to have contributed to Windows' malware plague by making it easy to fool people into running things.

Third, confusing the application associated with a file and the file's internal layout seems like an unwarranted step, and this confusion is what the article under discussion deals with, no?
Umm, no.

When you blow up a balloon, the volume of rubber remains the same, but the area gets larger-- because it expands into open space.

When the universe expands, the volume of matter remains the same, but the area.....um, what? Expands into open space? That can't be right.

So, if the universe is getting larger, like a balloon, where is it going?

Oh, so it's not really like a balloon, then.
I like it a lot! My only nitpick is on the pricing page: "yearly price." I prefer using "annual" instead of "yearly," but I don't know if that's a cultural thing ;)
If it is true for matter, and the universe is the sum total of all existent matter, why wouldn't it be true for the universe?

Put another way: "Expands into something else" is what "expands" means.
I've asked him about this, here is his reply:

"[...] about itertools -- I guess I got the impression that itertools is deprecated in 3.0, or at least that Guido doesn't much like it, so I have stayed away from it. And itertools.combinations is only in 2.6, so I think I will leave things as is, for those still stuck in 2.5."
Hi-res uploads? Has any site successfully sustained a "free" model while serving hi-res photos? Or do you just mean just during the upload process -- photos scaled down permanently and the originals discarded?
There's a bunch of Set solvers online (like http://www.stevenolte.com/set/set.html ) for when you get really stuck.

Also, http://3e.org/set/ is great for practice.
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It slices, it dices, it opens cans, bottles and jars; but wait there's more; you can also use it as an axe, can your shovel do THIS, I don't think so! So call now, operators are standing by.

Repeat above sentence with different features, repeatedly. Until someone buys every last shovel you have in stock.
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All that S&P has done is to say that Greek debt is junk; but surely Greek debt can't in reality be junkier today than it was last week just because S&P says so?

Ermm, actually it can, because yesterday the probability of a bailout by Germany was different that it is today. S&P in this case is merely reporting what is.
Which means what, exactly? That the steering committee forced a judge to sign a search warrant without first presenting probable cause? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's not what steering committees do.

Does it mean that no one on the steering committee should be allowed report a crime and avail themselves of the services of the force?
Jon Stewart does comedy, not news :)
It's definitely a more mainstream audience but The Daily Show, popular by cable TV standards, only gets about ~1 million viewers per episode or 10% the number of people who bought an iPhone in Q2 2010, or about 1% of the people who own an iPhone/Touch since its launch. So I guess my point is we're still talking about a very small audience.
In the latest installment of "Things thousands of people have said about working at Google already" Tim tells us that Google us unlike other businesses because people who work there know lots of things that they don't make public straight away.

Next week Tim discusses why Google lunches are so great.
Onesuite fax service has a sending feature. What you have is the receiving only service, the fax basic. Onesuite Fax Plus has both receiving and sending feature.
Exactly the same as it would take to create a new news organization, I expect.

I mean, we're all reading this as if the BBC is a "credit rating agency" of news, free from any vested interest or political bias, but of course that's not true: the BBC has a history of attacking financial institutions. It didn't create the problems in Northern Rock's business of course, but it is largely responsible for there being a run on that bank and it collapsing (the depositors were never actually in any risk due to government guarantees to all savers).
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Or, pick another college. I attended a school in the City University of New York system. When I started it cost around $700 a year (yes, you read correctly). By the end, even with a massive increase in tuition (by percentage), it cost around $1400. I worked part-time all the way through, lived at home and went off to graduate school debt free. I also got an excellent education. State by state and city by city, I'm sure the quality of public colleges varies, but many local systems are quite good.