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Yeah, I should...

BTW, do you guys feel like its OK to an eBay seller to omit details like this (that would probably prevent the sale/lower the value) ?

The seller probably knew about this but never mentioned it, made it seem like a perfect machine. I traded the MBP for an 20" iMac.
When I used it, it cut ~25% of the LoC off my project. And it only took about an hour to learn because the documentation is so damn good. On the usefulness scale, I'd put it next to jQuery and backbone.js.
And all the not-so-fancy ones. When books on automated trading appear in the "Personal Investment" section at Borders, which they do now, you know the prime time of the idea is probably in the past.
No joke. http://www.guidewire.com/our_customers lists some companies that are using the Guidewire insurance products in production. These products are all built in a combination of Java and Gosu (or GScript, as it used to be called).

[I don't work for Guidewire - I worked for an insurance company that evaluated several insurance claims packages, including Guidewire's.]
Apple has the weirdest communication strategy ever. CEO comments via alleged emails to customers? Bizarre.
I find it a little odd that an open source project seems so opaque. Maybe I'm missing something, but there seems to be no concrete news on Android 2.3. This article says that Nexus one devices will get 2.3 in the next few days. However, TechCrunch doesn't have anything under their "android" tag talking about 2.3 before that (http://techcrunch.com/tag/android/). One would think there would be a better flow of information - that it would be easier to follow this. It's one of the most widely used open source projects and yet the best we have are rumors on it.

I'm not criticizing Google or anyone, but it just seems weird that something that is so high profile and open-source barely has rumor-level information available about its development.
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The biggest problem was that (other than the redundant power supply and 1U size) the Mac Pro was a much better value. It is a lot easier to buy storage for the Mac Pro.
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Another problem is what happens when a legitimate client is using an unreliable network link. A certain proportion of requests will result in the server advancing the counter, but the connection being broken before the new cookie is received by the client. This will result in the client being logged out, even without an attacker.
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Two words: Apple Store
Would it be possible to form a US corporation, of which you are the sole employee/contractor in order to sell in the app store?
The most interesting part of the post for me was that how these totally non-useful apps had a lot of downloads and how the only meaningul one had a fraction of the others. (OK, one can say that the virtual drum is also a meaningful one.) I mean no offense at all, as (unlike with the post from a few days ago with the 4-hour work-week iphone guys) these apps are free and of course anyone is free to sell or buy anything.

However it tells a lot about this market. I mean the newly found smart phone market. People run to buy and download totally meaningless apps most of which could have been done (and probably has been done) on other smart phone platforms (or plain j2me) at least 5 years ago. But this is just a small market disturbance, now as iphone opened the eyes of a lot of people that these gadgets are not merely (or mainly...) phones they download every stupid app. But this will go away soon.
You can use an ad provider such as AdMob or Mobclix, and integration into your app is pretty straightforward.

Some services also support dynamic allocation between multiple ad networks. This is useful if you want a higher-paying ad network to serve ads most of the time, and defer to other networks if an ad is not available. Mobclix supports this, as well as the AdWhirl library.
If I called you, you'd have no idea I was using Google Voice. If you called me you'd know because GV will ask you who you are, but that's an option I chose to enable.
My brother's approach is tangential to this. He uses Visual Studio to write his code and to lay out his forms (using his VS language of choice) and then crunches the result through a program that outputs the Java code. Again a work in progress but it has already been put to practical use.
In Florida, I think it's something that will be fixed as time goes on. Right now, florida is home to several very large universities (Orlando has University of Central Florida, which is quite large now), but these colleges basically did not exist until sometime quite recently (the past 30 years maybe?). Right now they are going through a period of large growth, so I think that while the older generation mostly did not go to college, the current generation will be going to college in increasing numbers.

Additionally, while Florida is still mostly known for its gigantic tourism industry, there are newer industries popping up throughout central florida. Biotech is quite large in Orlando, and additionally optics is quite big throughout central florida (Tampa and Orlando).

So I think in the future, the trend will be towards more education in florida.
The compute density of the XServe was just too low, everyone else had double the number of sockets/U.
I believe there's also a way to rent designer handbags.
Indeed. 22M € is not a lot of money compared to ongoing handset development tracks within Nokia that will keep the market flooded with Symbian devices for the next few years, even if nobody particularly wants them in 2012.

(Nokia has recently introduced new devices with Symbian S60 3rd Edition -- that was their cutting-edge smartphone OS in 2006! They run a slow-moving ship...)

By the way, the EU-funded Symbian-centric research project is aimed at embedded devices. I don't think it will produce anything that benefits handsets much...

Some research kids in Eindhoven and Helsinki will manage to load Symbian onto some kitchen gadget, connect it to a vacuum cleaner over Bluetooth, and the result will be presented as "Euro-Home 3.0: Vision of an interconnected domicile" at some Symbian conference in 2015. Everyone involved will be pleased with such concrete outcome from this ambitiously forward-looking international research project.
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How did you get users? Did you do any promotion or marketing? Or did you just upload to the android market with a 'build it and they will come' attitude?
A 1U server generally doesn't make any sense in the home.
CSRF protection should be implemented even if your entire site is protected by SSL.

Also, I didn't say "just as dangerous", I said "just dangerous"
I've tried to accomplish a REST API + JS client on a few of my projects, but where I get hung up is session handling.

What I've ended up doing is writing the REST backend and writing the presentation layer in something light, like flask or sinatra, just for session handling.
Worth a read for the vector maths interpretation:

I could calculate the vectors for all of my notes and use something like the k-means algorithm to find semantically-related clusters of notes.

If you're familiar with information retrieval techniques, there's probably nothing new here, but eye-opening if you're rusty like me.
I agree, this does appear to be the trend. Google also has indexing support for AJAX pages (http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/index.html) so it's not hard to make a single-page app that is indexable by Google. My concern is that we are building all of this on top of HTTP, which wasn't really meant to be used this way, and there's bound to be some caveats from that. One potential pitfall I can think of is cookie management - the JavaScript APIs to manipulate cookies is very poorly defined easy to make mistakes while using. I think this is doable but we need to tread softly to make sure that we don't introduce new classes of vulnerabilities.
It's interesting that WP Stats is the least popular app. Even simple Big Red Button ("Don't push this button" app) beats it!

Actually it's a bit sad to see that market is more favorable to some "cool" simple apps rather to useful, but more complex.
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The team must be so agile they didn't proof-read it.
I think it would be possible but this is not my current business model anyway. Apps I make may do much more as free with ads in it (I do not consider changing it until google add my country to the list...).
It would be interesting to see how your profits may differ if you were able to sell the apps on the Android Marketplace (without ads). I've been leery about trying ad-based monetization, but it looks like it is working fairly well for you.
They're "irrelevant" if people can easily switch to a similarly-priced competitor and have everything keep on working as it did before.

If anything should be, bandwidth should be commodity.
> Everyone involved will be pleased with such concrete outcome from this ambitiously forward-looking international research project.

How I wished you weren't 100% spot on with that.
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At least http://xkcd.com/426/ has plenty of implementations, including http://cannonerd.wordpress.com/the-tablet-of-adventure/
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Ask HN: Do you look down on startups that use a template?
I'm thinking of using a specific template from ThemeForest. It's really nice looking, and I've personally never seen it before, but I'm sure some other have, and I'd hate for that fact to damage the perception of my startup.

Do you guys think less of a company that uses a template you recognize for their site?
Hrm. I wonder if you'd be allowed to take a 3-d printer with a portable power source and feedstock onto an airplane.
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As far as I can tell, Tarsnap is only for archives, it doesn't give you random-access, mountable-as-a-filesystem style convenience. For backups, Tarsnap is definitely the correct architecture, for syncing, not so much.
Unfortunately this is standard operating procedure for Android. The source is open, but the development process is not.
Some people used to put shoulder straps on them to carry them to LAN parties.
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Frankly, the Xserve was not an innovative product. When it was PowerPC based, the performance/power ratio was actually quite good, thus the supercomputer built with them. After the Intel switch, that really went away, and their hardware was no longer that much different from something you would buy from HP or Dell.

I'm betting this will go one of a few different ways:

- Apple will allow OS X Server on a small number of validated hardware platforms and/or virtualization environments.

- Apple will focus on HA clustering in it's software. This is already available to some extent with certain portions of their software stack, but this is often dependent on coherent storage (Xsan) which isn't available without a large fibre channel outlay, which rules out the Mac Mini Server.

- I doubt Apple will get rid of OS X Server as some are suggesting. It's implemented as a package that installs over OS X client, and is quite easy/efficient to install and admin. At worst, they'd likely open source more of it and let people roll their own (currently many of OS X Server's individual components are available on http://www.macosforge.org/ )
One word: Kilts.
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It may well not be that much money. But why should the EU put in money there? Imagine it in the hands of a Y-Cominator type fund aimed at embedded OS development instead.

Of course, I know that is beyond the current funding apparatus which sits on this type of money in the EU, but maybe it is time we change that.
I allows Steve to say informal and brash things while maintaining plausible deniability.

Also, it's fun.
So you think because he can turn around and buy something else with the dollars he just got, he's not taking a risk by passing through an actively devaluing currency?
One good thing about JS and a REST backend: there will finally be widespread separation of UI and domain!
Perhaps, but the idea that a comparison of a contract hourly rate for a short-term project vs. a salary is in any way, shape or form apples-to-apples is absurd. That doesn't stop some people with no elementary business sense from failing to realise it, though.
As someone who is moving to the US and will be paid, in part, in restricted stock, I am now wondering if I'm going to get a tax bill with that stock...
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Quite well, actually. States with "shall issue"[1] laws have seen a significant reduction in violent crimes. I believe Florida is the one with the longest data.

Much like the repeal of the national 55mph speed limit, the arguments against were all FUD. Neither resulted in bloodbaths.

[1] A law which requires the state to issue a permit to carry a concealed weapon, except under specific disqualifying circumstances, which the state bears the onus showing.
There is only one thing on the list that is not completely obvious -- dmoz still matters. Is it possible? Sure, it's a valuable list of sites touched by a lot of care and bureaucracy, but does anybody who wasn't online 10 years ago know about it?
Well actually, I did end up writing Lisp on top of Javascript this way: http://github.com/spencertipping/caterwaul.

The basic mechanism is to call f.toString() on some function, then construct a new one the way you want it using either eval() (for non-IE browsers), or new Function(code) (for all browsers). Caterwaul leverages this by implementing a JS parser, defining a macro syntax, and letting you determine how the code gets rewritten. (So you can do things like let[x = 5] in x + 1, which is valid JS to begin with but nobody would ever use it :) )
No, they are not becoming irrelevant. Frameworks add significant value on the front end as well -- the easiest example is templating, which is a) not natively supported in HTML b) hard to fake with CSS/Javascript and c) virtually required for productivity, consistency, and maintainability.

I suppose one could theoretically fake this by using a script to spit out static HTML served by Apache, but then the combination of Apache and your script is morally equivalent to a server-side web framework.

Session management. Cookies. Sitewide functionality. Asset packing. SSL. Debugging/development tools. Tests. etc, etc, etc, etc
"say you have a large client that is not tech savvy in the least" -> You present to them in person.

I'm not a big believer in the "let the client choose between options" approach in any case.
Something has to be done. This has continued to get worse at least every year. We can't sit back and justify why we don't need to do anything.

This thing even has serious health issues associated with it. You know Doctors stand behind lead shielding when they give X-rays, right? And I bet most doctors give less than 40 X-rays a day, but this thing has at least 40 times the radiation of an X-ray. Is dying of cancer convenient enough for you?
Granting someone an RSU doesn't put a financial burden on them to exercise. Also, if you leave a company, you often have a short period (90 days) to exercise any vested options.

If you have 100,000 options at $1/share then you would have to pay $100,000 to exercise if you want to quit. That's often enough to discourage employees from leaving.

With RSUs or restricted stock, you lose some of that implicit lock-in (as I understand it). There may be a way to re-create the lock-in with RSUs, but certainly not with restricted stock.

For reference, OpenDNS did the reverse and gave out restricted stock for our first 3.5 years of being in business and then moved to giving out option grants.
If using this for reports, and you need CSS too, consider MPDF instead. It is the only one I found that follows pagebreak CSS attributes.
On the other hand, video tapes released from Sudan of terrorists in intense training to increase their payload capacity for rectally delivered explosives could become an overnight internet sensation.
Yes. But it may be worth the trade off in time and effort saved. Plus, for what it's worth, I'm a pretentious dick.
Should it go down again - there's a mirror at http://bieh.net.nyud.net/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/
How would you know if they used Google Voice? It's not visible to the call's recipient.
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I think it's an imperfect solution, though it might still be solid. It depends on your reduction strategy (basically breaking associativity). If you do a fold-left, then you'll accumulate such high relevance that you'll quickly start discarding every word in the right-hand data set. On the other hand, if you binary-split the folding process you're more likely to be OK.

I used a binary split and due to the sparseness of the data (and the uninsightfulness of my algorithm) didn't run into too many spurious drop cases. But the implementation I posted is very basic and shows my lack of background in NLP-related pursuits -- I'm lucky it did anything useful at all :)
That's a different argument, you imply that Symbian will be around because of that finance. I've pointed out this is not the case. To put this in perspective a commonly known metric is that when Nokia paid 264M Euros for Symbian that, that value was the cost of two years worth of phone releases (dev. cost wise).

On this argument I suppose it depends if you automatically dislike "big guv'munt" and resent the funding, think it could be done different or for some reason think Symbian is a bad focus for this cash. Who knows.
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I have always struggled with the tax consequences combined with the high volatility and lack of liquidity in receiving equity in a start up type of company, with the confusion of the tax laws around it. I don't mind paying more in taxes if I can delay the issuance of stock (in the RSU scenario), but I have a hard time paying taxes up front on something as volatile and illiquid as stock in a start up company. Hopefully the RSU scenario will get tested and more accountants / lawyers will be more comfortable with this scenario.
Are you a designer type? I'm wondering if designers would look down on it more than developers, since my target audience consists more of developers.
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Are you building for your peers or your customers?
I don't see why anyone would think this to be impossible. Neglecting friction, a vehicle can travel at an arbitrarily high speed without requiring energy input. Proof by gedanken construction: construct a vehicle with an arbitrarily large collapsible wind turbine. Generate and store electricity while at rest, for say 1 minute. Collapse & store wind turbine, and use stored electricity to drive at ludicrous speed for 9 minutes. QED.
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Is this supposed to be a rhetorical question? If so, then I'm not sure of your point, and if not, then I'm obviously building for my customers. I don't want to lose any customers by not being taken seriously for using a template.
Switching from base 10 to base 12 makes a lot of sense
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I think it's fine, unless you're targeting visual designers.
Go with $2 bills at $3 w/ free shipping. Some people would order it just to have $2 bill.
A better version I heard changed 'mosquito' to 'mountain goat'. Since both characters are from the same domain, people start thinking about (more) reasonable solutions and get blindsided harder by the math reference!
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Just a small announce on HN, and the site is down.

Why does most blog software fail at simple tasks like delivering static content? Apart from comments and quick corrections, blog articles _are_ nothing more than static content. And I'd be happy to not see any comments due to high server load, as long as I can read the article.
use·ful

1. being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect: a useful member of society.

2. of practical use, as for doing work; producing material results; supplying common needs: the useful arts; useful work.

Seems to me that his definition is spot on.
Crazy? maybe just a bit, but the idea is great.
VS is one of the best IDEs out there. I would certainly give it a go. Two questions: will it have intelisense and a debugger?

Good luck!
This whole separation of UI and domain is the kind of Ivory Tower academic nonsense perpetuated by the DDD folks and many, many others.

Nowhere is this virulent plague more endemic than in the Java world. As the joke goes, the Java programmer's response to any problem is to add just one more layer of abstraction.

And I say this as a Java programmer of some 10+ years experience so please don't take it as mindless Java bashing.

As Joel (the classic Joel of old) would say: all abstractions are leaky. To add my own editorial: the less hand-wringing and self-flagellation about the purity of the uberlanguage, uberframework or uberarchitecture, the better.
The article frames Milgram's results as if there is some previously undiscovered optimism in his results. In reality, there is none. A better headline would have been:
"Only half of Milgram's subjects told him to take a hike".

That means the other half could be persuaded (because the certainly did not do this out of their own initiative) to administer lethal electric shocks to another human being. Compliance is a bitch.
maybe so, but I was pretty shocked at how many people went unlocked with the iphone 4 (it's sold unlocked in canada).
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That lasted 25 minutes and 6 upvotes before being password protected.
> a culture of hero-worship of dissenters and free-thinkers.

But those heros are now "offical" heroes. They are not the disruptors and terrorists the possibly were back in the day. So many grow up with the idea that heroes are
"heroes" if you learn about them in school, or if they are wearing the badge and obidiently "do their job".
Someone describe it for those that arrived after the 6 upvotes.
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Mr Buffett may have prior art on that.
Thanks!

I have actually been crawling HN restricted by PG's "a couple of pages per minute" limitation for the past three weeks. This is far more convenient.
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Oh yes! Those are the two biggest reasons that I love VS.
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There are tools for templating with Javascript, for example https://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl

I can imagine that's not so good for search engines.