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Because moneta is not new at all, look at the commit dates :-) It only seems to have made it to HN because someone resurfaced it on Reddit recently.

I asked wycats about this and he said he plans to do some serious reworking on it soon.
Dogpatch is an awesome space. I've worked out of there for awhile now, even did a code competition there last year for the RailsRumble.

The Hackers and Founders meetup is fun. I went to the first one that happened at DPL. The keg is a nice touch to the DPL events.
I found the SitePoint book "The Principles of Beautiful Web Design" (http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Beautiful-Web-Design/dp/097...) to be very informative as well. It's a great introduction to a lot of different aspects of design that programmers generally don't think about when trying to mimic more professionally-designed sites. I read it two years ago, and it was a bit easier to digest at the time because most of the designs presented still felt current.

However, keep in mind that while the designs presented in many of these resources may look outdated, the principles behind them are solid. Tastes and trends may change, but running through a few Photoshop tutorials will get you up to speed on the execution of the latest styles. More importantly though, design basics such as readability, whitespace, proximity, alignment, proportion, color, texture, etc are timeless. If you can distill those important aspects from the materials you're reading, you'll be much better off in the long run than if you just try to copy techniques from whatever the most modern resource currently is.
This is a political diatribe. While I agree with most of it, it does not belong on HN.

Flagged.
You appear to be claiming to know more than 'shit'. A such, your suggestions are undoubtedly welcome.
I would love to get a hold of that book, but it seems to be unavailable from your link. I cannot find it anywhere else, would you happen to have another link? If you have it yourself, could you please upload it?
I think the ad blocker slogan is unofficially 'I'm an idiot who thinks that web sites and content appears magically without the creators requiring or deserving ad revenue for their work'
Regarding the center: It's not further east. Dubai is setting itself up as the place for the rich from that axis to come and chill out. Hong Kong is just a sea port, Singapore has no wish to have 3rd world citizens in there and Shanghai is just a playground for young french men.

The new center of the 3rd world is in the UAE.
I absolutely love the mechanics of that game. First of all it's a blast. But the cool part is that the game mechanics themselves ensure that everybody is safe. The minnows want to stay underwater to win the game, which is a secondary goal to wanting to breathe. And the sharks want to get the minnows to the surface to win the game. So fight it out as much as you want, but the minnows have to TRY to not breathe.
When chinese travel to other countries, they tend to create chinatowns. They don't mix with the local population so much - look at Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa, etc.
I wonder if someday the US will decide to be a leader in human rights and citizen's rights again?
Also, re: tuning parameters. You can use them, in some circumstances.

For tokyo in particular, it assumes tch. It'd be a 1-2 line fix to add in support for tcb or tcf. I don't know enough about Tokyo to test it, however.

Also, you can use tcb with Tyrant, which Moneta supports.
Yeah sorry realised that after I posted when I tested the link but unfortunately you can not edit links apparently.
The following is from a blog that no longer exists, except in my Google Reader archive. Its author worked in a flavor factory that produced Coke:

"I’ll explain why Pepsi sucks so bad, yet somehow manages to win taste tests. If you take Coke and Pepsi side by side in a blind test, Pepsi will win. This is because the bad taste of Pepsi cumulates from several sips (it is an aftertaste effect). So even though I hate Pepsi, I can take a sip or two and enjoy it. After half a can, I’m grossed out. Coke on the other hand tastes good no matter how much you drink, because its aftertaste is the same as its, uh… during taste. Thus, Coke is also better for mixing (who likes rum and Pepsi? Anyone?) because its taste is a constant. People who are expert tasters can tell Pepsi is garbage from sip one. But mortals like you and I fall for the trick, allowing Pepsi to claim that it wins taste tests."
I never said the Chinese were there to exploit Africa.

I said they were there for resources, and I'm not sure how you can take issue with that given that China is currently scouring the globe for resources to fuel their manufacturing and ensure stability. You'll also notice that China's investments are all geared towards resources.

I actually happen to think that the Chinese model of "buying/investing to get stuff they want" is much better for all involved than the Western model of "political meddling and misplaced aid" and so I'm slightly confused by why you've ignored the fairly reasonable statement I've made and given me a lecture on something I already believe.
Tetris effect
Wall street is one of the largest recipients of government support, via cheap money from the Federal Reserve, bailouts

Not something I support. Basic science is an example of a real public good. "The financial system not collapsing" was only a demagogic pseudo-public good.

No everything the often corrupt US government does is a public good but that hardly proves research is not a public good. The private sector's willingness to facilitate said corrupt government actions doesn't make me believe said private sector would produce more public benefit if a state functions were fully dismembered into it.

-- You are right in the one point, I should have said above, "contrary to the article, public research provides a public good".
Most Dangerous Drugs
Well, yes and no. Resource allocation is a hard problem. Wall Street's problems are of implementation, not design.
I couldn't get through Pirsig either. Unlike you, though, I have no compunction about not finishing a book; it's not my job to be interested in it.

Re Dan Brown: since you feel that way, I recommend the hilarious review of it that Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell did for the BBC. Make sure to watch to the end!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9ByyMd_qDA
Actually it is you who are in the wrong here, though the voters on this thread don't seem to realize it. The guy you're arguing with was an early Google employee. He knows what he's talking about.
I'm perusing his essays and he looks like one heck of an interesting writer. Thanks for the pointer hga.
The question is not whether basic research[1] is good or will it happen[2], the question is, what sort of activity is being crowded out by government money?

You don't even have to go to the government to see the question-ability of the hands-off research bureacracy approach: compare Microsoft Research to Apple's technical efforts, or consider Xerox Park absent a few entrepreneurs to bring their efforts to market.

Research expresses its value in its application, and research funded by private means, for profit or charity, is far more likely to see its result applied to productive ends.

I can't tell you what sort of window for basic research private money would support, but I can tell you that connecting research to a meaningful expression is fundamental to the value of the research, and it would seem, far more likely to happen as a result of private funding.

[1] I'd argue NASA has exactly this sort of 'basic research' nature, in that its efforts pay out in the very long run. Now, this has not prevented them from devolving into what is essentially an inefficient, bureaucratic jobs program for the aerospace industry.

[2] The talk makes the point that basic research in math, science, &c. was funded long before government intervention, as a result of economic activity.
Pepsi seems very dry to me – which works for wine but not exactly for sugar water. That dryness is very hard to notice if you only take a sip.
A DC-Motor with optical feedback sounds like a pretty good option. They are also much cheaper, are they not?

Would I be able to control such a motor appropriately with a standard board like the arduino? Imagine I were moving 2kg 30centimers, and I want this to react as a human hand would (same speed, start time), would this even be possible?
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This is exactly my problem. I can look at the picture and see the information, but how do I figure out if that motor will do what I want it to do without buying it and programming it?

I need to move 2kg through space in a natural manner - is there any series of numbers I can apply that will allow me tell if that motor would be suitable for this?
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed in this post, but I'm not sure it's on-topic for HN. If it gets killed here though, I hope it finds wide circulation elsewhere. People need to see this stuff.
> Don't use Adobe Photoshop

I'll disagree and say that Photoshop is faster and simpler, why? Because I'm better with it.

Use whatever graphics program you're best with.

First of all if you're only using gradients and layer effects like multiple borders most of that stuff can be done with CSS now.

The links below are for buttons and shapes but you can apply those effects to anything:

http://blog.anomalyinnovations.com/2010/03/creating-a-realis...

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/build-...

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/quick-...

Also photoshop is just as competent at saving images with those effects if you convert it to a smart object and rasterize it first.
The Agnostic Cartographer (Google Maps and international politics)
The book was written 20 years ago, before the C99 spec was released. main() was acceptable but discouraged in C89, which is why -Wall (or more precisely -Wimplicit-int) displays a warning. It's disallowed by the C99 spec and will always give you a warning.
Clarification request: I don't have one of these phones, but have friends who do. Are the OTA updates installed automatically, or do they need to take some action (e.g. run a software update app or the like)?
API-cache is a convenient caching layer that works on top of Moneta:

http://github.com/mloughran/api_cache

I use it on multiple sites (to cache http downloads, delicious tags api calls etc). You can start with a simple filesystem store (moneta/basic_file) and move to another store when needed.
You should check out http://dribbble.com/
IronPython is another GIL free Python implementation.
Their twitter feed is good, but there is a lot of stuff that will pop up on there that I've known about for a month already.
This doesn't explain why Coke tastes much, much better in Europe: when I'm traveling I always enjoy Coke. But when I'm back to US I tend to avoid soft drinks entirely - they all taste like gasoline here.

I lived in Texas for a while and I remember people were always looking for Mexican Coke: some gas stations would stock it. It was significantly more expensive, about $2 per bottle, and indeed, it had the taste of the real thing.

Could this dramatic degradation in quality be explained by HFCS alone?
Pure basic research has a very interesting habit of turning out to be useful in the long run.
Call them, tell them what you're making, and ask for a sample. If it doesn't work, "adjust" your story. Most suppliers will gladly ship out a sample if it is likely that you would buy in bulk in the future. Some will gladly ship to hobbyists. Depends on the person you talk to.
The article on rolls: "but if you ignore convention, you can fly them in any airplane, including a Boeing 737"

or a 707:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE&feature=relat...
Mobile devices expanding creativity
This is Bob Hoover (who he mentions) pouring iced tea during a roll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWxuKcD6vE
Way cheaper.

And controlling it with an arduino is no problem. You've got to main options for the sensor - either an optical tracker that is pointed at the shaft and detects the presence of a striped/marked point which appears once every revolution, or the (cheaper but just as reliable, really) solution of an iR sender/receiver pair monitoring the turning of something (imagine a motor shaft turning a fan. The iR pair would be positioned perpendicular to the fan blades, each time a blade crosses the path of the iR, a signal is generated).

iR is cheaper.

An arduino (or just about any other microcontroller) has an operating frequency way over the rotational speed of the motor. Both optical and iR sensors can easily handle the relatively-slow rotational speed of the shaft. I've used an MC68k from, what, 20 or 30 year old production lines(?) to pull this off. The code is dead simple, just connect the iR/optical output to a counter (which comes built-in in several of the arduino input ports) (you'll need to run it through an inverter first, if you're doing the iR approach) and then loop over the count until it's moved as far as you need it to.

The human hand isn't crazy fast the way you're thinking. If you've ever seen a stepper motor snap from one position to another, that is real acceleration. Basic DC motors typically have lower acceleration than that - their acceleration and speed will vary greatly depending on the model chosen.

2KG is not a light weight. I would have recommended the stepper approach, but you'll need motors about the size of your fist running at 12V and a relatively high current to rotate an object of that size. Basic statics says that the farther away from the point of rotation a weight is applied, the stronger its force. You've got 2KG distributed (I assume) evenly across the 30cm surface, it's going to be quite the weight to turn against gravity, so stepper motors are out.

Servos, which are basically your run-of-the-mill DC motors with their own close-lood feedback system will work. But you'll have better luck with the larger variety of DC motors available online or in your local electronics store.
why do you want more ram?
This has always puzzled me. Why does it seem that the vast majority of philosophers love to stray away from plain, clear, specific definitions and step-by-step, verifiable logic? Why is it that people can't be more like Hume or Feynman? Maybe they think that complex ideas can only be explained in a nebulous, vague manner? Every time I read an overgeneralization such as "subject <A> is <x>", especially when the author does not seem to be a scholar in the subject, I cringe. (I'm talking about the obvious need for "guide books". In some cases it's helpful to know the background and such, but many of these books are almost a paragraph by paragraph analysis.)
Yup. Not everyone realizes how much flavor the various sweeteners add to a drink, aside from sweetness. That's one of the reasons it's so hard to develop a decent artificial sweetener - there are lots of "sweet" chemicals, but not many have a good flavor.
sugar versus corn syrup
There's also much more awareness about flavors on the continent than in the US. The greater relative persistence of traditional food processing methods in Europe and the greater preponderance of industrialized food production in the US mean that industrial food manufacturers can simply get away with more in the US. The population here has been more conditioned to accept it.

I find that much the same is true with sensitivity to micro-pulse within rhythm. A large portion of the North American public hasn't a clue such a thing exists. Heck, a lot of North Americans don't understand how to clap in time on the downbeat! (Unfortunately, you can also find the same cluelessnes in Europe pretty easily as well. The counterpart cluefulness is much easier to find there, though.)
s/Opinion/Informed Opinion

I'm tired of people lacking any historical clue spouting off their opinions. Take a listen to http://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.blogspot.com/ or http://dancarlin.com/.

Personally, news (spoken and written) should be providing facts and context, then ending with opinion and reasoning, preferably from people with multiple informed opinions and done in a civilized manner. Done right, it could be entertaining, but then again I love history.
This place sure has turned into a haven for down-voting jerk-offs. Not like I care about my stupid points or whatever, but voting down non-inflammatory and non-useless comments without commenting yourself is poor form. If you want the comment sections on HN to be totally worthless a la several other sites I can think of, keep up the good work.
Either than or the water - Coke has been running campaigns that it is still their original 100 year old recipe (in Europe) so I highly doubt they have changed it, just to piss of the US ('cept the sugar thing) ,
Nice, that's exactly the info I want to hear. By the way, I need to also measure the position of the object being turned. That is, I was intending for my robot to have two modes - training mode and execution mode, so your DC suggestion makes it even better.

Thing is - I don't want to skimp on the positioning logic - I need it pretty accurate in space (sub millimeter) and in time. Overshooting the target is fine, I'll correct it with one of those algorithms.

What is the most arduino compatible and accurate measurement method that will handle both use-cases? I should be able to use it both to control my DC motor, and also to record the position of the wheel being turned, even when the motor is switched off?
My point was that they aren't importing legacy data at all if they aren't showing old stuff. Just start writing the new ones to the new DB, right?
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Foundation Trilogy -Isaac Asimov

The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society of Pickup Artists - Neil Strauss

The Law - Frédéric Bastiat

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein

Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Katie Hafner & John Markoff

It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book - Paul Arden

Are ones that stand out. I'm sure a lot of other books helped shape my worldview though, especially ones I read as a kid. The "Tom Swift Jr." adventures, the "Three Investigators" stories, the "Nancy Drew" and "The Hardy Boys" ones, and those "Encyclopedia Brown" books all stand out in my memory as probably being influential. And later in life, I'd say Dean Koontz' work has had something of an impact.
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Good thing I'm using GCC then! Thanks Mahmud!
I'm unlikely to buy bulk later. You sure that they will give me a free motor just because I ask for it? Sounds...too good to be true :)
Every time I use Twitter, it is malfunctioning in a very noticeable and bizarre new way. I don't care about scale, how difficult it is to be twitter, etc - I would not take their word about any technical matter without a tsp of salt.
Because feedback in that form is generally worthless. It's like going to a meet-up and tossing around your idea. You'll get a LOT of 'feedback' all of it as completely worthless as what your thinking already.

The whole idea behind a MVP is to get worthwhile feedback about the product. Feedback in the form of customers actions. Will people actually buy this? Will they respond to what I'm doing? Can I get traction?

None of those things can be answered with a submission form on a landing page.

I have long agreed with the author here. While there are answers to be found in dry testing... it takes a prototype to really solicit any truly meaningful answers about a product. At least in my experience.
Not sure if that applies to Pepsi Max, which is awesome.
I'm reading this now. Things like this remind me of why I love the Internet. So much great knowledge, freely available for everyone. It boggles the imagination sometimes.

Also, another book that some HN'ers might find interesting is this one:

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html
I used to call it the "falling sand effect" cause it happened to me after playinmg those flash falling sand games...
Good spot. We've fixed it. Thanks, George.
What really bothers me about this article is that at no point are there actually any eight year-olds. It's one thing to say "An eight year-old could understand this", and another to have a loose transcript of an actual conversation, à la "Explaining REST to my Wife" ( http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife ) or "The Socratic Method", where the author teaches binary to third graders ( http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html )
I don't see why it is irrational to wish that a general purpose programming language be able to run data intensive, parallel server code. It's not exactly asking for HTML to be modified so you can write signal processing code in it.

The sad thing is that a Python + C combination would actually be _more_ suitable for the task than any of the JVM based language implementations, because the JVM has the unfortunate feature of eating memory like crazy due to the lack of structured value types.

This type of application is all about conserving memory. The core data structures must be extremely tight. But they make up only like 5% of the code. So Python + C would be way superior to Java for something like Cassandra if it wasn't for the GIL.

I guess I have to practice meditation for a few years so I can one day be as relaxed about these things as you are ;-)
This sounds like a very healthy legal environment for innovation! Combine this with a good educational system (in at least one region or city) and a favorable tax structure, and Brazil will have the makings of an economic revolution.
"The prototype is nearly done."

you're still pretty early in the project's lifecycle. software projects generally move fastest and have the least difficult challenges early on, as a general rule, in my experience. once you have a lot of users, and legacy dependencies, and have to work right on N platforms, and handle edge cases, and be performant, and the codebase becomes so big you no longer remember all the details, and maybe a few years have passed since you were working on it full-time, etc., then you'll find that velocity and agility decreases.
When I was a kid, I would just walk around reading books all the time. And I was also the youngest kid in my grade, so I was quite small. I was kind of a smart aleck. It was a recipe for disaster. I'd get called every name in the book and beaten up. That was my schooling experience.

- Elon Musk
and is there a name for that?

In Clojure its preduce, I believe (for parallel reduce; in Intel Threading Building Blocks its called parallel_reduce).
In my experience, many non-trivial autoconf-based applications don't cross compile without patching.

The problem is that most people have to extend things with their own tests and disregard cross-compiling (by assuming that the build machine is the same as the target machine).
I started building a site that works kind of like that. It is essentially a reddit clone that will rank articles by how likely you are to vote them up. I put it on hold and decided to first build a product that users would pay for. But I would still like to build this site someday, or use it if someone else builds it first.
I feel like I am just seeing a re-hash of some of the most commonly linked domains here.
There do seem to be more of those, but deserving posts usually have these reversed in a little while. At least, that is my experience. YMMV.
Remember Crystal Pepsi?
Usually the way you mitigate risk is by pooling it. That can be done voluntarily, you know.
Large Hadron Collider: Touring the physics frontier