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I totally agree where full-time development is concerned. And it's the sort of thing macro languages and so on tend to build in.

There are lot of people that might need to do a bit more programming - more elaborate than what a spreadsheet easily allows, but which doesn't justify becoming/hiring a pro. I was surprised to find last year that there are programming languages designed specifically for knitting, for example.
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That's simply not true. Yes you have to be smart and know which Python libraries can block (typically those that do their network calls in C, or those that do disk I/O). In practice however this is not a difficult task. After writing several major projects with gevent, all of which make several thousands of network requests per minute, I have to say that it's a pleasure to use. Not magic, but very useful. I have written non-trivial apps with Twisted, and dabbled with Tornado. Gevent avoids all of the "inside out" coding in an elegant way.
A lot of the danger with heroin stems from it being illegal. There's no steady supply, and no way to tell how strong it is. Many of the heroin deaths are from addicts going cold turkey for a while, and/or getting something much stronger than they're used to, and overdosing.
Back in AF, pilots in training would be obsessed with their iPhones playing X-Plane. It actually is a fantastic simulator considering that many of these pilots could very possibly be flying your commercial jet someday :) My buddy who went the cargo AF pilot route is a heavy iPhone user, but I guess the rest of the military doesn't consider the AF a real branch and call it the "Air Farce." The AF is going towards the UAV route, so pilots in the service are less and less.
I fought this same issue with Routesy, my SF iPhone app, in 2009. Getting agencies to be smart about making data open is a challenge, but a lot of cities are coming around.

Once agencies realize that they can not make a killing off apps and that they're better off having developers make great apps that increase ridership by making the systems less awful to ride, everybody wins.

If you're curious about the story of my battle and how I had to get a lawyer involved to get Apple to let my app back into the store, check this out: http://sfappeal.com/news/2009/06/who-owns-sfmta-arrival-data...
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"Consider how many people are stuck in cages for no good reason over this. If some organization other than the government were kidnapping that many people, solving that problem would be a high priority."

Consider how much money the government is stealing from its citizens for no good reason. If some organization other than the government were doing this, solving the problem would be high priority..

The reason it's not high priority is because those people knowingly used an illegal substance and got caught. I also think you are over-estimating the amount of causal drug users in prison.
Good point.

The only thing violent about farmville is how zynga relentlessly pursues your email list and real life dollars in exchange for worthless worthless digital items for your farm.

Zynga does do a bit of charity awareness and fundraisers in the game (the Haiti Earthquake relief fund, for example) but the best way to get blocked from everyone's news feed is to post a bunch of farmville stuff on your profile.
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does anyone have any ideas to take advantage of git other than source code management?
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Seems to me that putting giant efforts into things like Classic and Rosetta prolonged the ability for developers to move over before dropping legacy support. The other options would be:

a) support the legacy systems forever.
b) don't support them at all.

Option A leads to a Windows-esque environment where support for older platforms actively holds back development and innovation for newer ones. Option B kills everyone's existing apps. Neither of those sounds like a very developer-friendly or even user-friendly option.

Frankly, the fact that they built those at all shows that they're willing to go the extra mile to make sure that their developers have the heads up to upgrade their applications before breaking them entirely.
You say "That was the single exception".

You also wrote '[I] then sent him a "no, seriously" message on Facebook from his account including the fun fact about his music choices.'

Viewing a person's music choices and sending them a message about them is a total violation of privacy. Or do you just attribute that to being another exception?
> Democracy is too important to be limited to just citizens.

The founding fathers and US Constitution beg to differ on that point. In fact, franchise was initially limited to a subset of the citizenry. We have a representative republic, not mob rule.
Is that giving them too little credit? I mean, it's only been six months, and they have a quarter of a million dollars. Not quitting, in those circumstances, is not exactly heroic.

The hype isn't what makes them less capable as a team, their code does. That's the thing about people's response to the code, it was symbolic of their capabilities, and as such, people are rightly critical of whether they'll be the ones to pull this off, especially when others have been working on this problem for years now.

Let's also remember that at this point, they're not a startup, they're an open source project, and we should judge them as such. And with open source, the only thing that matters is code.
Doesn't this kind of fast charging although severely reduce the life of the battery? It sounds like a solution made for gas stations to transition to. Most people wouldn't mind waiting 6 minutes to fill up their car, it takes most people 3-5 minutes already to fill a tank.
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I've built something along these lines, Object Shell: http://geophile.com/osh, (GPL license). Object Shell provides for piping of python objects between commands. For example,

bash-3.2$ osh ls -f ^ select 'f: f.size > 20000' $
('./.DS_Store',)
('./.psql_history',)
('./backup.log',)
('./loljack.jpg',)

osh invokes the interpreter. ls is osh's ls command. The -f flag restricts the ls command to files. ^ is the osh pipe character, so the list of files in the current directory is piped to the next command. select filters out objects that don't pass the predicate, in this case, that file.size > 20000. $ renders output (using python's str()).

osh also does database access, e.g.

osh sql "select * from my_table" $

and remote access. E.g., to run the same query on every node of a cluster named foobar:

osh @foobar [ sql "select count(*) from my_table" ] $

Piping python tuples between commands and then operating on them from the command line is really handy.

Object Shell also has a python API, e.g.

#!/usr/bin/python

from osh.api import *

osh(remote('foobar',
sql("select count(*) from my_table")),
out())
Well said. I wanted to write the same concept, but you are more eloquent. There is an interesting effect when you have a company, the kids seem to pick up the business skills by osmosis. My children constantly surprise me with how much they know about my company.
If a job posting to work at a Pixar server farm is anything to go by, they actually use Linux for their films.
I suggest Python. PHP is okay enough for web applications, but suboptimal for just about anything else. C is certainly worth learning, but can be challenging to use. Python is a pretty good language to learn with, and is perfectly usable for real projects.
I've heard $500k to $2m per tech employee is fairly "normal" if it is just a talent acquisition. Based on what one person told me drunk at a bar. Take it with some salt.
Education + Legalization + Excessive Regulation.

Just make sure all the dangerous stuff can only be administered in licensed venues by trained professionals.

Make users fill out a 12 page disclaimer before they are served. Make sure that the centers are decorated as tastefully as the average welfare office.

The hardcore addicts will flock to the centers, which will kill the street trade. But casual users and people looking to experiment won't bother; and they won't be able to find street dealers, as the dealers can't make a profit off the addicts anymore.
They aren't that direct. Look at least an inch deep beyond the surface, What they do, whom they support. For example, in the Oakland mayor race among the 2 front runners, one favors more police cuts vs. cuts in public programs (like after school, etc...) while the other would cut 180 degrees differently. Question: whom the union supports? Hint: whose policies would allow for higher yield and harvesting of more inmates? Bonus question: why would the union support anybody in the Oakland mayoral race?
Because the people drawn to drug tourism are more irresponsible, shallow, and opportunistic than your average tourist. Not always, sometimes not outrageously so, but in general. If you've been to Amsterdam, you might have noticed this, as I did.
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Friedman also conceived of income tax withholding and what he called the "negative income tax," now known as EITC. It does not surprise me that he would advocate Monetary Mischief as well.

The QE arguments are an example of magical thinking. Incomes are falling, so increment some numbers in the memory of a computer and that will fix it. Never mind the realities of Human Action.

Real incomes rise when people become more productive, and that happens when they have more and better tools (capital) at their disposal and more incentive to produce. No one achieves that by printing Monopoly money.

"Each dollar the Fed prints has less oomph." Yes, they are pushing on a string, and those dollars do not impress me. To those who feast at the government trough, may you eat dollars!
Good point - it's become the de-facto way of communicating client capabilities to the server.
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"Legalization should go hand-in-hand with education and healthcare reform. If you get those elements right, you'll have a much more functioning society. Fewer drunk drivers, fewer overdoses, and no drug cartels to speak of."

What healthcare reform? Are we going to pay for the health care of addicts now? If you become an addict you should have to also deal with the consequences. Education should concentrate on telling kids not to touch drugs because most likely, they will fuck up their life. Pot may not be chemically addicting or as harmful as cigarettes, but it ruins your ambition and can be even worse for kids or even younger adults that should be figuring out what they want to do in life.

I also don't think it will get rid of the drug cartels. They will just have a legal way of funding their operations. It will only make it easier for them to make money.
> The people in prison aren't your daily pot smoker. They are dealers[....]

That distinction has become meaningless. Anyone who gets caught with more than the "intent to distribute" threshold (which apparently isn't a lot) is simply presumed to be a dealer.
A lot more people and money are looking for coke, I'm not so sure it's easier.
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I spent about a week there for a conference. Yeah there's definitely the gleaming bits, but the city also has little India, and the Arab district. They're a bit more teeming and chaotic, I found. Overall the place was definitely a touch soulless, but it's not quite as extreme as these articles going around make out. It was more fun than I expected. The food sure is good, too.
The way it seems counter-intuitive to me is that I think of each loop iteration as containing a fresh variable, and not the same variable being re-assigned to over and over again.
Technically, I guess you could, but this would be a quite a long way from what Git is good at - text files. Git does a bunch of compression of changes that works well for text, and doesn't work at all for binary files. Your pulls and pushes will be very large.

This is probably possible, but not a very good idea.
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> "a web application to drag the construction industry into the 21st century"

Given the effects of the current economic cycle on construction, I'm somewhat dubious regarding the marketability of SaaS because it is a recurring overhead expense...and minimizing overhead is one reason faxes are so popular (the others are traditions of craft, computerphobia, and the ability of office staff to triage faxes more easily than emails).

In my experience in the US, businesses in the construction industry are as invested in technology as other companies of comparable size in other industries (IT excluded). Those firms with high volumes of faxes often have hardware capable of document management and many firms utilize it.

I'm not sure that I see a clear market segment for a web app because tech savvy contractors already have tools and methods, and the others aren't because they can't or won't spend time and money to obtain digital tools and learn them.

For construction companies, the key issues are book keeping and scheduling. In my opinion, faxing is not a 1.0 requirement.

Good Luck.
"That distinction has become meaningless. Anyone who gets caught with more than the "intent to distribute" threshold (which apparently isn't a lot) is simply presumed to be a dealer."

It's more than just quantity:

"Anyway, several things can determine intent, including quantity. Other factors might include quality, packaging, what type of area the person was in and the time of day."

http://forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php?77095-Intent...

If you are by yourself or with a few friends smoking a joint, the cops won't really bother you.
That's a weird definition of freedom.
You can check here, http://alternativeto.net/software/dropio/
Developers are mostly irrelevant in this calculus to Apple: it's what the user sees that matters. They put out Classic and Rosetta not to help developers — they were with both very clear: the train is pulling out of the station, you'd better get on board with the new thing immediately or you're dead — but to help users have something to run on the new systems. Get users buying new systems, developers will follow... especially when essentially forced to.
What are the best books for pyhton, I have started reading How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, is it good enough or should I start with some other book?
P.S. I know pyhton, but want to further improve my skills in it.
I'd go with C. The fact that it's challenging is exactly why you should learn it at this stage.

Many of my generation went Basic -> Assembly, and PHP -> C is not a dissimilar sequence.
Reading The Pragmatic Programmer helped me a lot with the problem-approaching aspect of things, but then I didn't pick it up until I was moderately comfortable with PHP. (I'm not a FT programmer so my learning process tends to be s-l-o-w w/o many opportunities for practice.)

I'd definitely be interested to see two different programmers write up their approach to a given problem. Something like this would be an excellent monthly blog post.
The labelling that you've chosen "pro-business, anti-tax, anti-worker rights" is politics itself.

The economists are more accurately characterized by 'anti-distortion'. The amount of distortion that should be accepted (for instance, to protect the disabled) is a matter of politics, but the article only addresses consensus issues.
I don't think you can edit an application you submitted before the deadline.
Ask HN: Is it useful to ask HN to "review my startup"?
I've seen plenty of ask HNs for review.

On the plus side, you get feedback, as opposed to the deathly silence of the Internet.

On the minus side, asking people to populate the web with criticism of your efforts seems the opposite of marketing triumph. Transparent, open to feedback, good. Getting ripped in public, not good.

What sayest thou?
You don't get it.

Open apps can't get on the iPhone because Apple disallows it.

Apple is pulling it out, they control what software can or cannot get in. There's no way for anyone to install anything (legally, and without hassle) on the iTouch devices without Apple's permission.
Haven't we already put an end to this "PHP is crap" line of thinking? Every language has its good and bad. Any dev worth his salt should be able to understand it, rather than attaching blind faith and getting tied to one specific language or technology.
You pay people less than 50k/mo?
"Look at the history of opium as well."

You mean the fact that it was legal in China about 500 years ago and it nearly created an entire country of addicts?

Vicodin (another form of heroin) is legal, yet there is still a black market for it.

I would also be interested to see "your reading" where LSD only had "positive benefits".
I don't know. It starts at 6pm. I'll probably stay there till 7.15pm and head towards Match Bar and Grill and should be there before 7.30pm, or skip the Android altogether
I don't have many friends at Facebook, but my several friends at Google are all plenty concerned with nice cars, nice house, meals @ the French Laundry.
Not many people calling them heros here...
"Just make sure all the dangerous stuff can only be administered in licensed venues by trained professionals."

Has that stopped dealers from selling Vicodin? Extacy was also legal at one point and it didn't stop anyone from using it as a club drug.

"The hardcore addicts will flock to the centers, which will kill the street trade. But casual users and people looking to experiment won't bother; and they won't be able to find street dealers, as the dealers can't make a profit off the addicts anymore."

There will always be a black market..even if it's legal. This is because many people won't want to have to go to a doctor...and it will still be the most convenient.

I also would be interested to see how a doctor can ethically give you a prescription for a substance that does absolutely nothing to benefit you.
Plenty of harm would still be done by heroin even if you could eliminate the issues of dosage, purity, and (legal) access. Would making those extrinsic changes that you suggested make being a heroin addict less dangerous? Yes. You'd prevent many of the stochastic events such as overdose, tainted product, and dealer-associated violence.

Would those things make heroin less harmful? In many important ways, no. There are simply some hazards of being a heroin addict that are intrinsic, not extrinsic. I still don't think that a heroin addict, even in the protected situation you're describing, would likely be a top candidate for "Parent of the Year," for example.

Is legal heroin better, on balance, than a rational needle-exchange program and a generous rehab program? I don't know, but I can guarantee that politically coupling that to marijuana legalization would simply kill marijuana legalization.
We use http://www.fusioncharts.com/ on CashBase (http://www.cashbasehq.com/).
It has a JS API but also libraries for most backend languages.

I found it super easy to use after experimenting with Google Charts and jqPlot.

The way a chart looks in FusionCharts is 100% fully customizable.
Pretty good article. For one that works directly with the troops as well as building tools for the R&D department for my company. We are building and showing off tools just like what is explained in this article to try and win contracts just like this.

We are always looking for more things and ways to help the troops out. This article does a good job of actually telling the public what the private sector builds for the troops.
Have you ever looked at Apple's objc_msgSend implementation? It's pretty fast, really.
Well very few people see them, they almost never get on the front page.

Generally this feedback is for stages when people are not marketing yet.
Do you host an unlimited number of 100MB files, indefinitely, for an unlimited number of non-paying users?
Drop.io has very interesting technology; I think it deserved more than a talent acquisition.

Their company had a positioning problem. They built a platform that did something very unique (abstracting the coolest features from XMPP into an HTTP/RESTful API) and yet the takeaway for most people is that it's "a file sharing service."

Had the Drop.io team done a better job communicating their value proposition to developers with clarity and aggressively positioning their service, I think they could have had a big following.
I am not an economist, but I think economists have been doing a lot of catch up lately. Traditional economists have tended to see people as rational agents, whereas more recent behavioral economists are showing how people are pretty universally irrational.

Sure, in an idealized economic simulation we would consider every possibility and only choose the most optimal one. It only stands to reason in such an environment we should remove barriers and maximize choice. But the reality is people are limited and take shortcuts in decision making that traditional economists never even imagined. Those human cognitive limitations need to be seriously considered before jumping to any conclusions about economic policy.
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What is the really rewarding thing for working in Facebook?
That's because the media loves an argument, and politicians love lobbyists...

When most economists see a debate between 'experts' on CNN (or Fox) I'm sure they're shaking their heads and sighing.

Imagine seeing a debate on TV about the merits of Java vs Windows - with the two experts being marketing people from Oracle and Microsoft. The whole thing would be a facepalm for HN readers - except that to an outsider, it would sound like a clash of brilliant minds.
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