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> Yes, compared to today's scripting, languages, C++ is hard (but not impossible) to use. There are no soft, rounded edges to protect rash programmers who make incorrect assumptions. Basically, C++ makes us stop and really think about what we are asking the computer to do. It makes us evaluate data structures, types and how we use those things.

To me it looks like you're talking about C, rather than C++.

C++ always makes me stop and think how the compiler will react to certain code, and how it is supposed to behave with regards to the ISO standard(s). Actually reading the standard usually makes things worse (again, for me), so I'd choose python anytime.

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He's solved the traveling salesman problem in Log(n) time.
Seems like they wanted to build a brand overnight and then give up when it didn't happen.
I've never even heard of them, personally. Is there more to the story than what was in the post?
The answer given is not even wrong.

The statement "I have two children, one of whom is a son born on a Tuesday" is semantically ambiguous. It can mean (1) "I have two children, and the quantity of them who are males born on a Tuesday is exactly one", (2) "I have two children, at least one of whom is a male born on a Tuesday", or even (3) "I have two children, and the maximum quantity of males born on the same Tuesday is one".
"How are you going to negotiate salary after begging for a job for three months?"

That was my problem with the article as well. It puts you in a position of weakness/subservience. Most people will take advantage.

My resume is a PDF document, black background with orange borders and text. The pages advance like PowerPoint slides. The headings are Who I am, What I know, What I've done. The whole thing reads like a story. In the very first section, Who I am, I tell them that I'm evolution's gift to humanity. I carry that same playful, yet knowledgeable attitude into the interview.

I sent it out once last year, and I'm at that job typing this now. My boss is quite a character, so he likes that sort of thing. I'll be sending it out to some companies this week, and see what happens.
> But since the boy could be either the younger or the older child, the analysis is more subtle. Devlin started by listing the children’s sexes in the order of their birth

Personally, when I read that I could spot the error. For lazy people (tl;dr types) ... order doesn't matter as you're not given any info about that order.

So given 2 children, there are only 3 possibilities ...

boy, boy
girl, girl
boy, girl

So if you're told one of them is a boy ...

boy, girl
boy, boy

And that's it ... a 50% probability that both children are boys.
I can get a bit foul mouthed at times, when talking to recalcitrant equipment... err, myself. I have to watch that, a bit, as other people can come to think I have "attitude", particularly in today's HR-dominated "three monkeys" culture. But it works for me -- vents a bit of frustration and gets me motivated to make useful changes when I might otherwise hesitate and get lost in an overcomplexity of "what-if's".
Hulu's player is Flash based, so theoretically an iDevice with Flash wouldn't need a Hulu App.
I guess because only a small minority can earn a living as a musician.
The dog picture spoils it all, or was that the point? Basically, prove you are a good dog, and you'll be hired?
60 Days at a Startup
Well, if He's not the one demostrating P = NP or P != NP, some other will have to take the token. That's life. Anyway, Knuth is a great hacker, having my respect and admiration.
Yep, github price are pretty high. Even the most basic plan, which I use for my own purpose, kind of cost a lot. I think it's something like 12/month for a couple of meg and 3 repositories with 1 collaborator.

I think it's a way to encourage open source.. while thinking that if you're a business, you can easily afford the 100$.
That's a shame. Looks like they didn't take it very seriously though.
I'm sorry to sound so down on your argument, but I just don't see the evidence that this is anything specific to Bluehost.

You say that up to .03% of their customers may be affected, at the upper bound.

You very well might be right, but .03% really isn't a big enough number that I'd feel comfortable delcaring that Bluehost "Got Hacked", and it looks pitifully small to write a followup declaring that they're "Lying about it"

Those are very strong words, and so so far, you don't have much to back it up.

You might very well be right, and there very well by a problem endemic to Bluehost customers, but so far, I'm just not seeing it.

Further, saying that you contacted them via Linked-in is particularly weak.
Seriously? That's akin to Gizmodo's telephone call to Apple HQ. A token effort at best.

I hate to say it, since you've been a member of HN for over a year, and I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it really does sound like you're grandstanding here.

I've run hosting companies before- .03 percent of customers being infected with something, while really unfortunate, doesn't necessarily indicate anything by itself.

When you're dealing with that many customers, it's entirely possible that .03% just had really bad passwords that worms could guess, or that they all used a bad formmail script, or any number of other things.

I don't use Bluehost, and I've never heard of them before today. I have no affiliation with them, or with you, and I do sincerely hope that things clear up for the affected users... But You're really blowing this up out of proportion.
Right now, Bluehost's side looks a lot more reasonable than yours.
Somewhere in my book collection is H2O - A biography of Water, by Phillip Ball, one of the Nature editors.

The first half of the book is general background on the weirdness and uniqueness of water compared to other liquids of its class, but the latter part of the book is directly purely at explaining and dismissing a lot of the claims presented in Homeopathy.

I'm not certain if he was directly involved with the disclaimers surrounding the original article, but it wouldn't surprise me, given the vehemence in his later writing.

Amazon Link (hopefully non-referral, unless google has tricked me): http://www.amazon.co.uk/H2O-Biography-Water-Philip-Ball/dp/0...
The languages are just too complex, too terse, and absolutely full of academic shitheaddery. I mean, seriously, what the hell.

(Where "seriously" and "hell" are links to the Haskell and O'Caml language documentation.)

God oh god I wish every language I used could be specified as precisely as the Haskell example. I didn't bother figuring out what the notation meant, but if I used Haskell, I could afford the time to understand it. Seriously, Perl and C++ have equivalent complexities; you just aren't expected to understand them. Experienced programmers steer clear of unfamiliar constructs, which works well enough, but it would be so much nicer to actually understand stuff.
The clue is in the title I think. This will be a standard profile page aimed at business users (a bit like LinkedIn) - OR perhaps just a connections site for people. Your average web user will not use a service named 'Google Me' as a social networking tool like Facebook. If this supposed site/project is happening that is.
Bloomberg: Verizon Wireless Said to Start Offering IPhone in January
You've posted this already
Someone should stick that up in the headline. If we're going to do it for the good news about YC companies, we should do it for the not so good news, too.

I'm assuming there was something else happening behind the scenes to cause both founders to jump ship so quickly. They made a very strong (positive!) impression on me with their rhetoric and claims here as well as over in a Reddit AMA they did (http://www.reddit.com/r/iama/comments/bwrew). I'm surprised to hear they fizzled so quickly after all the big talk.
Summary: Pixels are image samples, where the sampling methodology is undefined. Many people assume a square area per sample, probably because it's the easiest interpolation to make, but the author prefers point samples, which are easiest to do math on.

The correctest interpretation depends on the sampling device, which has often been something like gaussian for optics, and representation, which has typically been ignored as complicated. Ironically, modern technology uses (to my understanding) rectangular spaced subpixels in both sampling and representation, which are still not square but much closer.

Since technologies change and pixel density is high, the point-sample interpretation is both useful and reasonable, but I would caution against it until we all have retina displays and 4 megapixel digital cameras.
Empowering India's Poor with Information
I wasn't aware Hulu was that defensive of it's content as to block it based on what device is running the browser. That's crazy.
I'd say you're wrong. I have a couple co-workers that watch a lot of TV and they're very excited about this offering (minus the ads, which is ridiculous for a service you're paying for). I think more people will buy into this than you believe.

The co-workers in question are female non-techs, so perhaps it is a demographic thing.
At least we're allowed to comment on this YC company story. I still can't get comfortable with the no-comments-allowed YC stories here on HN.
Hulu launches Hulu Plus
Seriously, are you gonna do Oracle DBA duties for $50k a year at a university or $100k a year in industry?

In my experience, the administrators making $50k in academia would be making precisely $0 in industry. Unlike academia, industry cares about getting things done.
Ask HN: Best software companies to work for in London? 
Having read Derek Sivers excelent article about How to get hired, I would really love to give this method a chance; however, after much soul searching, I could not name one company in London, whos core competency really lies within software. Seeing how I've been living here for 5 years now, I found this revalation both alarming, and shocking.

I must be wrong.

Hackers of London: can you really name a product company in London whos livelihood depends on their ability to build&market their software?

Addendum: no, design companies do not count; neither consultancies.
Posted anonymously for reasons obvious.
Ask HN: How do you organize your physical documents at home?
I have lots of paper for taxes, receipts, statements, bills, letters, brochures. currently they are just tucked into various folders ad-hoc and put into a cabinet in no particular order.

Any tips or experience on how to sort things and keep them organized?
PayPal has a "micropayment" option where the transaction fee is only $0.05.

https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/

This changes the equation at the low end ($1 and $2 transaction sizes) and makes PayPal come up extremely favorably when compared to the merchant account.

I understand the point of this site is actively encourage people to switch away from PayPal, but in the interest of fairness, it would be nice if the author factored in the micropayment rate when you move the slider to $1.
Yolink's Next Step Search Pulls Info from Behind Links and Inside Docs
OK, after watching the video I think I grok the basic idea.

As an engineer, I didn't even think of designers providing images... I'm more on the other end of write the server, hack out a UI, work with decently competent front end folk to make it nice.

So, I would reduce some of the emphasis on the linking part. People understand linking and it's not an area that differentiates you - basic html/imagemap can be mastered by kids.

If it were my stuff... I'd make the mock video more about a few characters rather than the tech. Here's developer,designer,ceo,investor and here's how they use my tool to get something done, so you could focus on how it tightens the feedback loop which seems to be your goal.

I think production quality was fine, but I've got a pronounced substance over style attitude.
Ah, I didn't catch that. :)
Yay, frontpage!

This would be a great opportunity for HN'ers from DC to self-identify. There aren't many (any?) of us.
There must be some backstory -- out of money, irreconcilable founder differences, etc. -- which will only come out if the principals want it to. Without that, speculating on their "boredom" or "impatience" or "seriousness" is unfair.
Signup requires an email address and password, but a fake email address is ok. There is no validation necessary, its only for retrieving a lost password.

Then why require it?
Those are just job advertisements, and I still think it's a mistake, as the comments would be a great place to ask for questions/clarification that might benefit others and keep the same questions from being repeated in private email.
Let me recap:

* One of the two cofounders was on his honeymoon for the month of May, right after launch.

* The other cofounder had difficulty managing everything on his own.

* Cofounder comes back from the honeymoon and decides to leave for good.

* Remaining cofounder doesn't want to run it on his own.

In my past life, I've been both of these guys and frankly, it is hard to blame either. If the passion somehow died for honeymooning-cofounder, you can't expect him to give his very best on this startup. On the other hand, if your cofounder leaves, you have very little incentive to do everything on your own. Part of working with a cofounder is each person doing what the other most probably dislikes (usually biz vs. tech). What's the fun if you have to get better pricing AND write efficient code? Most people like one or the other.

I think the take-away from this and my own life examples is to start small, not try to get too much publicity early on, work on finishing the product before making promises, and most importantly, be honest to yourself and your cofounder.
And going back into the world analogous to having a cold shower. How much is undone?
How do you hold your Nokia? (Nokia's lessons to Apple)
Indeed, but it points out one thing by glaring omission: while Canada may well need entrepreneurs, why would entrepreneurs need Canada?

More specifically entrepreneurs need a good environment in which to do their thing and as this article mentions, but only a bit, Canada just doesn't provide that environment.

Heck, I had no idea until it was reversed that foreign startup investment was impractical due to needless red tape. That fact and Canada's long delay in fixing it tells you rather a lot.

Also telling are the three suggestions for improvement which are all top-down, governmental sort of things.

BTW, how many top universities in Canada are private vs. public?
Actually, there are many of us: http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-NOVA-DC

130 so far and growing. 25 attended the last meetup (last week).
7 Apps to Keep You Fit
When it comes to exercise, just getting around to doing it can be a challenge, but once you overcome the discipline hurdle, doing it right can be just as tough. If you don’t have a plan when you start your workout, whatever it might be, it can be easy to waste a lot of time and not actually accomplish much with time.
A Closer Look at SeaMicro's Technology
How Data Travels Over A Wireless Network
Exactly. It still hasn't come completely to pass, but Om Malik made a good point about social networks being "Just a feature." http://gigaom.com/2007/02/05/are-social-networks-just-a-feat...

Eventually "social networking" like features will be ubiquitous and your social graph will be federated across many different sites using standard protocols. Facebook won't be anything special, but just another portal (view) into your social network experience. Unless they try to remain a "walled garden" in which case they'll be nothing, eventually.
Extreme statistical anomalies in Research 2000 polls
I find this incredibly hard to believe, even allowing for the 'average daily use of 3.4 tablets' to encompass large doses over 3 or 4 nights of clubbing. But rising to ~25/day? Such a claim needs supplementary evidence to be credible.

Besides the logistical questions of where he found sufficient money for this or indeed any time to eat, the report that he felt like he was still on ecstasy for several months after he halted consumption doesn't ring true. MDMA's effect basically comes from causing the brain to dump its reserves of serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. These need replenishing, and almost every ecstasy user I've ever known reported 'hangover Tuesday' following consumption on a Saturday night (the ones that didn't tailored diet and vitamin intake to offset the effects).

The self-reports of someone with such measurable impairment, even consistent reports separated by a long period, are not a reliable metric. The physicians don't even tell us what his body weight is or was, which might yield some clue about base tolerance. What of his liver and kidneys, which should show some response to such an enormous metabolic load? And what of this estimate of 40,000 over the lifetime of his consumption? They talk of 'further escalation to an average of 25 tablets daily over the next 4 years,' (emphasis added) but the 40k total would require him to have sustained that 25/day intake over the same period. Whether this ambiguity is the result of skimpy reporting or a poor grasp of statistics I can't tell, but having reread the letter several times now I'm left with more questions than answers.

It's clear that Mr. A took an absurd quantity of drugs and is now severely impaired. But this report seems like a bid for notoriety rather than a contribution to clinical knowledge. It's like finding some tall tale of a giant catfish in the Journal of Aquatic Biology.
It has to be full flash (at least for right now). Flash on Android doesn't work:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/flash-10-1-for-android-be...
the lesson here is: Don't make jokes on the internet unless you've thoroughly researched the 'facts' of your 'joke'.
You can't mean that. There are four possibilities:

Older child boy, younger child boy
Older child boy, younger child girl
Older child girl, younger child boy
Older child girl, younger child girl

Of those only one is precluded by saying (at least) one child is a boy.
> Who I am, I tell them that I'm evolution's gift to humanity.

Kind of like appendicitis and back pain?
If someone is really good at what he does, he would not waste his time doing whatever the author suggests
You pay for cable/satellite TV, ads and everything. Personally, the streaming internet TV thing won't be really interesting until it's standardized on open formats and APIs, and I can use 3rd party browsing, playback and DVR software with it.
I'd love to take a look at this, if nothing else than to see a resume with a twist. Do you mind? Email is in the profile
Many stadiums are funded with municipal funds that come from tourism and hotel taxes.
That's a popular point to harp on but I think that Linux desktop environments are just fine for usability. There are a few quirks (like "Unmount, Eject, Safely Remove" in GNOME), and frankly it's surprising that they haven't been ironed out, but for the most part I think that Linux is just as friendly as anything else.

The real problems with Linux are much lower-level -- its vital desktop infrastructure has been ignored for too long. Look at X; there is a concerted effort to change it now, but rather late to the game if you ask me, and it still is very neglected for how important it is and all the work that's left to be done on it. Sound is the same way, and other vital components for desktop.
>Catching the bus actually makes things cheaper for you, no need for parking, insurance, gas, cars, etc...

Where do you live? Here the standard bus fare is £1.3 per journey. Travel to work alone would set us back at least 900 per year (I think more); though you can get about 1 journey in 30 free if you buy a season ticket (cashflow - argh!). Then there's weekly shopping trips - it's actually 2 journeys to our nearest supermarket as the bus routes aren't good, makes it cheaper to order delivery. I've walked carrying backpacks and baby before but it's a very big hill on the way back.

We have to run a large car for work; wholesale stockists, deliveries, trips to venues all with equipment and materials. Given this basic cost is already in place then there is no way that we can make using the bus cheaper than the marginal cost of an additional car journey. Same goes for trains. Internal flights with budget airlines can be cheaper than driving.

Even without having to run a car already it's quite a close call wrt buses - we had no car for a year, then got a scooter for a year (cheaper than buses and more versatile), then a van, now we have a family ...

After our last car died and before we got a loan (family, yay!) through for the next car we took a trip out for a special meal by bus. It would have been 2 journeys ( it was 1.20 then, 6*1.20 = 7.20) but we walked the 30mins into town with our 4yo; journey time 2 hours to our nearest Frankie & Benny's. Of course I had to carry the lad most of the way home afterwards.

Buses often annoy me as they whizz past me almost empty on my walk home (which follows the bus route) taunting me to spend the value of tomorrow's lunch.
This isn't a permanent problem. Working on it...
Huh, I think it's time to learn something.

I can write C code to reverse a linked list, or discuss the asymptotic efficiency of a bunch of data structures in my sleep... but I clearly don't have enough experience with threading if I had to google what a "condition variable" was, or had to make sure my intuitive notions about cooperative and preemptive multitasking were right.

Always nice to be reminded that you don't actually know anything.
Hulu reps have been quoted before saying it's because of licensing restrictions related to the content on other devices than PCs.

Having played around with it (I hacked together a gnash+ffmpeg port that's just sufficient to run Hulu on my own iPhone), they just have some logic in their flash scripts to prevent playing on unlicensed platforms. And in order to prevent direct linking to the FLVs, they use some obfuscating logic -- namely, they give you a string + a key and have you perform an AES-style operation using the two locally to get a time-expiring key to the file you want to play. They change the obfuscating pattern just often enough to make it annoying if you were, say, trying to keep up a Boxee script or update an AppStore application.
The about slug in your profile doesn't make any sense.