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It enriched me to learn what memset was. I love hacker news, but I wouldn't mind a few more posts that contain some code.
Sorta on topic but it's on my mind tonight so here it goes:

If someone has experience with integrating their application with Blackboard I'd be interested in hearing about it. My sales people are telling me that people really want our product to integrate with Blackboard (without defining what that means).

How do people go about doing that? Are there consultants who just do that kind of thing?

It seems like the most interesting part of these services is the 3rd party integration capabilities.
I'd beg to differ that Apple doesn't have logos for some of their products. For example:

iTunes - http://www.google.com/images?q=itunes+logo
Garageband - http://www.google.com/images?q=garageband+logo

But not all certainly - http://www.google.com/images?q=iPad
This is a good question, and I actually just added a footnote yesterday to address it. The deal is that, when doing test-driven development, you often bounce back and forth between test and application code, like this:

it "should be successful" do
get :new
response.should be_success
end

Then

def new

end

Next you'd add a test for what the 'new' action actually does, and then get the 'new' action to do it.

In a book, interleaving the test and application code like this is rather cumbersome. The real payoff to this approach will be in the upcoming screencast series (http://www.railstutorial.org/screencasts), which will allow me to interleave the tests and application code much more finely. Together with Autotest continuous testing and Growl notifications, the screencasts will show just how addictive TDD can be.

I should probably motivate this practice better in the book, because it is counter-intuitive. In fact, I thought this technique was crazy when I first saw it. (The same goes for TDD in general.) But it's amazing how much easier it is to get started on a method when the first step is "make sure the method is there". Indeed, such tests aren't really designed to make the application better-tested; they're designed to help the programmer stay in the zone.

That being said, there probably are some places where such fine-grained tests aren't worth the trouble, or might even be confusing. I'm about to embark on a Rails 3 update of the book, so I'll keep my eye out for tests that should be removed. If you have any suggestions for tests that should be on the chopping block, please let me know (http://www.railstutorial.org/feedback).
Thank you for giving me nightmares.
only works in the US. amazon payments would another one but US only as well. both insist in a US bank account
Because the data may not have replicated to the other nodes yet. As the parent comment noted, you could synchronously write to all replica nodes, but thats a big performance penalty and not partition tolerant.
These were the 2 things I noticed when reading it.
"The company has previously raised $8 million over two rounds, but has been in beta until now."

This seems idiotic. They should have had a restriction on what kind of startups (i.e. only angel funded or bootstrapped) could win the prize. Except of course, if it was just a giant techcrunch publicity stunt.

Giving $50k to this company is about as disruptive as, well, sliced cheese.
Poe's Law is a staple in just about every religion/philosophy forum I've ever visited, especially when a new poster comes along.

It's easy to come across as suspiciously Poe-like on the Internet. Double credit to Colbert for pulling it off on TV.
I was being sarcastic. The intended message was empiricist, not libertarian. I've been getting absurdly wild karma swings from this comment, and I'm worried now that the upvotes are all coming from people who think smoking is safe.
Not all that sure. However I do know that it's pretty low on the list of things that are likely to kill me in the event of a car crash.

If I want to optimize for the minimization of my small yet non-negligible chance of dying in a car crash I'd gain a much larger effect by trading in my current car for a Volvo rather than removing my dash-mounted iPad. I'd get an even better effect by improving my driving habits; not listening to music while driving, never ever exceeding the speed limit and only driving when absolutely necessary.

But sometimes we trade off safety for convenience.
Indeed I am! Sign up for an email notification at http://www.railstutorial.org/screencasts :-)
and it does not apply to liberal ideas, does it?
Remember PETA sent this thing to catch flies when Obama killed a fly on air with his bare hand? I'd say it's joke, but it's on their website: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/06/obama_and_the_f.php
I'm amazed that Betterment got so much love, it's nothing more than a cynical attempt to convince the unwitting that ETFs and Treasuries are just savings accounts with higher returns. I would think the more appropriate response would be to tip off the SEC to their marketing materials, not give them a runner-up reward.
There is still no real foreseeable replacement for Microsoft Office (web apps just aren't full replacements yet, and won't be for the foreseeable future), so if that doesn't get rewritten in .Net (which also won't happen in the foreseeable future), we'll have Win32 code around for some time yet.
Total misrepresentation.

Kahneman says that at $60K a year your direct experience of happiness flatlines. But our perception of how happy we are increases with the amount of money we make, far beyond the $60K.

There's two types of happiness, how happy we are and how happy we think we are and the two correlate only at a .5.

The flatlining question is "How happy are you right now?" The question that increases with wealth is "How happy are you?"

Which is a fairer representation of how people understand happiness?
Robotics or AI, while respectable, are not extraordinary. To do extraordinary work, you'll probably have to go into biology, although I'm too uneducated to know which subfield. From afar, computational and synthetic biology look very promising. So if I got rich, that's probably where I'd put my efforts.
That's my feeling on the matter, yes.
Yes, point well taken - I think I was unfair to Mr. Kahneman in how I characterized his statement (my comment really addresses the absolute "Happiness is earning $60,000/year" statement as expressed in the title - which, in my view, is a dubious absolute metric for happiness). Thanks also to timwiseman and merrick33 for pointing this out.
Wonderful! Every day, more and more reasons not to build my own blogging engine.

One wee request? If you've got the inclination, Clojure's a language that's growing fast and is eminently useful: it might be useful to have a highlighting mode for it.

Keep up the good work!
I wasn't suggesting that a single person telling you shut up is as serious as heavy-duty government censorship. I mean, would anyone suggest such a thing?

However, I do think that (e.g.) large media conglomorates have the potential to seriously undermine people's free speech rights. And individuals can undermine each other's free speech rights to a certain extent. (E.g. by explicitly threatening violence.)

I don't know what you mean by the TSA or the EDMD, or why they're supposed to be relevant to this discussion.
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I had the exact same response; although I was confused since he had apparently already been stripped of his passport (or something along those lines).
Thanks for that. You obviously know more about it than I do.

I've said this before to people when discussing this, but where in the hell was the imagination in the Abrahamic religions?

Interesting question. I'm not sure whether to attribute it to ancient Hebrew culture being generally less sophisticated than ancient Greek culture, or whether the Israelites just boxed themselves into a narrative corner by declaring that there was only one god and that he was perfect. It's not easy writing interesting stories when your only character is always right, knows everything and is omnipotent.
For what it's worth I think iTunes on Windows is pretty good if you want all the features it offers. I often see people compare iTunes to much smaller feature-lean applications that suits their needs better. That's not a fantastic argument if you put both applications in front of someone who wants to rip CDs, buy music, download podcasts, arrange their iPhone home screens, manage applications, sync files, etc. VLC or Foobar would be mostly useless to those people (at least without some serious customizations) It really depends what features an individual is looking for.
There's also sysinternals, and many other 3rd parties that produced utilities for windows that were either no brainer useful, or actually did competently what the MS equivalent tools botched.

There are so many things that MS does half-assed, even though it would cost very little more money to do properly (copying files within explorer is one obvious example). On the other hand, they will blow millions upon millions on flashy geegaws that no one uses anyways.
Or if you know exactly what you are looking for you can search subreddits with.

http://www.subreddits.org/
Scientist Infects Himself With a Computer Virus [video]
I love this idea and here's why:

Whenever I go to clean a friend's slow computer its not the malware and spyware thats slowing it down - its all the random QuickCam and digital camera softwares, or the TurboTax updater thats running all the time, or whatever else has accumulated over the years.

Traditional AV programs are too rigid - I want it to uninstall the Dell Photo Loader, even if its not a virus by any traditional definition. Crowd-sourcing the watch list in this way seems like an especially elegant solution to the problem.

If they get this right, I'd recommend it to a lot of people.
I don't get this. I hear it all the time, but how does simply having more money mean that they will win? Is there an assumption that they will try to litigate until the end of time, thus forcing you to pay for a lawyer that whole time?
H L Mencken once defined a wealthy man as one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.
In short, no.

Cross browser open licensed elegant wysiwyg is very weak. Goog has recently rewritten docs...I assume that wysiwyg (layout engine) had much to do with that.

That being said, we get by with tinymce on most modern browsers (safari is a major pain). It has a pretty good API.

For reference, that's a main part of our major product (servee.com) so I've dine a fair amount of research
I met a chain smoking guy with lung cancer. He was not happy.
I used to complain about iTunes on Windows, but you just need a modern machine. Now that I have an new i7-920 overclocked to 4GHz, with 12 GB of ram, iTunes responds usually under a second, as long as I'm not running anything else of course.
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yes, how well have .cm's sold?
It exists under the Develop menu in Safari already. Also, there's no way Apple is going to do this, it's preposterous.
I blame the web for understanding (writing?) English as good as I do. I dabbled along in school, getting a lot of Cs, being not really all that bad but also not really all that great in my English classes. Then came the web.

The German speaking part of the web to me seemed utterly boring, nearly all of the interesting stuff was happening on English websites. The cool thing was that I could just read English, certainly with some difficulty at first, but something I learned in school actually proved to be useful in the real world. I read quite a lot on the web and suddenly something snapped. I never again had to learn anything for my English classes again, no vocabulary, no grammar and the As just kept rolling in. Writing essays, reading texts and discussing them was fun. (I even managed to get a Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English [1] – grade A – without any preparation on my part.)

It’s the strangest thing – I started to ‘feel’ English like I ‘feel’ German. Constructing sentences with the right grammar turned from a painstaking conscious process into something automatic and unconscious. That’s not entirely a good thing, though. I cannot feel something I don’t care about and I really don’t care about commas, which is why I suck at placing commas in English as well as in German.

Besides commas there are also other problems with this method of learning. Since I just stopped rote learning of vocabulary at some point and picked up words as I read more and more on the web my vocabulary is extremely detailed when it comes to some topics and lacking when it comes to other topics. It’s basically badly deformed. Don’t try to talk with me about food or cooking. I bet that only a few trips to supermarkets in English speaking countries could correct that but I have regrettably never been to any such supermarket.

Now, three years after I left school, I also really fear for my ability to speak English. In school we spoke English five days a week for at least thirty minutes every day. I feel like preserving this ability is really hard. Listening, conversely, is no problem. I watch tons of English stuff on the web and at this point understand pretty much everything you could throw at me.

Ah, and I should maybe mention that writing comments here is my humble attempt to preserve my writing abilities.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_in_Advanced_English
This is just so wrong. Go play Karateka instead!
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Not just windows standards, computing standards in general. It seems impossible to find where you have to go to run an action, whereas in almost any other app I've used, the developer puts it where it is contextually relevant. iTunes on windows, I swear, they deliberately put things in the wrong place, the thinking being that this will turn people off windows?
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There are always reports of astronomical sales in the initial grab, but the hype always fades when people realise that there's no real value from the domains.
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That sounds about right. From about 1999-2004, I didn't negotiate salaries. I told potential employers that I wanted exactly 60K. The question was how many hours a week I would have to work to earn it.
The winner was 22 hours.

I only changed this tactic when I had kids. Because that changes everything.
Thanks! Glad you like it. :-)
COGS + shipping + logistics

Also, founders' time, which is probably the most costly part.
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(N.B. For those who don't know, PolyTeXnic is the markup system (built on top of LaTeX) used to produce the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book.)

There's a lot of prepwork to be done before PolyTeXnic is ready for release—among other things, I want to write some good documentation first, which IMHO is important for an open-source project but takes a lot of time—so it won't be available soon(ish). More like eventually(ish). :-)
Felix Dennis

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1084093.ece
I very much doubt he's joking. It's actually subtly insulting that you think he is. Marilyn vos Savant, for one, agrees with that idea. Not that she has any credentials other than being smart, but there's really no better credential than that for weighing in on this topic, as it's not a matter of expertise but one's assumptions about what's important. Like her, I favor the gradual unforced adoption of a single global language, and English seems the best bet at this point. I think what we lose in diversity we more than gain in standardization.

Perhaps more controversially, I happen to think English is objectively the best[1] natural language currently available for this role. It's got by far the biggest vocabulary and is by implication the most expressive. Ayn Rand's native language was Russian, she was fluent in several other languages, and she wrote that English gave her the most freedom and power of expression.

[1] Assuming we can agree that a concept such as "best" can exist and we don't degenerate into nihilistic pseudo-philosophical examinations of first principles.
Yes. In the US, there are a couple of sites. The one that I can think of right off-hand is https://www.fbo.gov/.

There is also a book called Winning Government Contracts by Malcolm Parvey & Deborah Alston. ISBN: 978-1-56414-975-6
Happiness as a function of wealth represents a sigmoid function. This function is different for people (you could go around and define the coefficients in some stupid analogy).

The second derivative is the most important. Where that hits its peak is where you can define "financial freedom," and where it hits its trough is where you can define "fuck you money."
I don't fully understand the question : why is Windows C++ different than C++ on other operating systems?

C++ is great. I really like the control it gives one over initialization at construction and scoped destruction. It's pretty safe these days too give pointers aren't highly involved (shared_ptr, stl containers instead).
The real question to me is : why in the world are y'all still using C? C++ is just as fast if you don't jump the shark.
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These questions are very important, and there are people working on them. Check out the Singularity Institute. The biggest fear would be that we create an intelligent system that doesn't care about humans - for instance giving humans the same moral value we give to grass.
I don't think it's hand-wavy. I think you're upset about something else related to Cassandra that perhaps you read recently -- not tlack's comment. Suggesting it would make more sense to compare an in-memory data store to another in-memory data store would be a more interesting comparison seems a perfectly valid suggestion.

"This is so silly. Wait -- hand wavy -- that's right, nothing can be compared to Cassandra but pure love itself."

C'mon, man. That doesn't further discussion. That sort of statement serves only to incite anger.
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Second vote for Clojure, though a generic Liap dialect ought to get you halfway there.
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I've never seen it applied to liberal ideas but I'm sure it's possible. Part of the problem is that English speakers (and Americans) are far enough to the right of the rest of the world that you can actually find earnest and serious proponents of far-left ideas that, to English speakers, are absolutely insane.
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"I think the key to the $60K happiness threshold is that it represents being in the top 20% income bracket."

And another caveat (financially), to those who live in regions where the housing bubble has not yet popped, is: did you buy a house before the bubble started?

In most of Canada (and Australia and a few other places) where the bubble is still thriving, the #1 most important financial issue for 95+% of people is, did you own a house before ~2001. If not, you can be in the top 10% of earners, and you can only "afford" to buy a house equivalent to those in the top 30-40% who got in pre-2001.

In major cities in Canada, $500k will get you an "ok" cookie cutter in the suburbs, if you're lucky. In the US, where the bubble has burst, $500k will, in most places, get you what seems like a mansion.
Debatable in the US, once the Bush dividend tax cuts expire next yr.
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It's a self-calibrating means of criticism. Those for whom the shoe fits will wear it and kick back.
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"He noted there have been no discussions with Microsoft to license Windows CE, the operating system designed for handheld devices, settop boxes, and other non-PC products."

is my favorite line.
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I looked into it...he's a little high for just flat cost, but there is a lot of labor I didn't account for:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1382563
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can you provide references for #2?

I'm not the OP, but Matt Ridley's book The Rational Optimist, just released a few days ago, has much more on this. Selection here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000142405274870369180457525...
Apparently his technique does not give one a particularly subtle grasp of nuance when writing blog post titles.
You only asked for non-FP languages, not non-FP languages with the JVM as a target. There's a Lua implementation for the JVM called kahlua. It appears to be in a fairly early stage of development and may not be fast or suitable for production use. As far as I know, there is not a D compiler for the JVM.

Groovy appears to be potentially as fast as Java. It can call Java easily, which means you always have the option to rewrite something that's too slow in Java itself.
How prescient as Java and it's derivatives are probably the biggest danger to apple.
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Ask HN: Domain dynamics?
Should the home page of a domain be a portfolio or should it be a blog? I have a really short and sweet domain (reggi.com) and I don't know what to do with it. Should I use subdomains like this? http://portfolio.site.com/ and http://blog.site.com/ . Should I use root folders like this? http://site.com/portfolio/ and http://site.com/blog/ . Examples would be nice!!

Is the best way to do this with multiple wordpress installs or is there a better way?