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How about "click here to claim your credit now -- but don't worry; if you don't, or if you miss this message, you'll still get your credit automatically applied in 30 days." It combines both approaches, and adds an element of "act now to get it even sooner!"
I don't craft mines but it looks like the active 'wire' bits are not voxels like most other things in Minecraft, but instead are painted on 2d surfaces yea? Please elaborate!
Only about half of American teenagers end up in college.
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Yet you're getting bombarded with spam. Not to mention, Facebook accounts are very easy to create. So I don't see that either.
Like a hackatron but for construction.
Mine, too, although I usually do my escaping/encoding in the template itself, so it becomes:

<?= h($name) ?>

Which isn't that terrible.

The PHP developers don't make this easy though, as "short tags" are officially recommended to be disabled, so to write portable PHP you'd have to do

<?php= h($name) ?>

Every time, which adds visual noise that gets worse the more tags you write.
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I (at the risk of getting horribly off-topic) attribute this to Rails' origins, namely a team that moved to Ruby from PHP, and brought too much PHP with them. Not to take a position on PHP itself, but it's a very different language, and what makes sense in PHP can be very ugly in Ruby.

Huge, ugly string evals (just one of the horrors lurking in the Rails codebase; their copious abuse of BasicObject comes to mind) are bad enough, but the code-generating is responsible for most Rails applications, too. The inherent ugliness of generating application code from templates in Ruby is one thing, but it would be ugly in any object-oriented language: you use inheritance, and defer to the superclass (or, in languages that have mixins or prototypical inheritance, you add a class/exemplar to defer to). You don't take the behavior you expect these objects to exhibit, stuff it into a template, and write a script that fills in the blanks and dumps the result into a file. It's automated copy-paste, an optimized version of something that was a bad idea to begin with.

(I've heard good things about Rails 3.0, but I've not looked. My heart has been broken too many times, and I don't see Yehuda Katz as substantially more insightful than DHH.)
When I was in high school, I was hassled a lot by a bully, who enjoyed showing off to the (largely female) class by bullying me. He also had the nasty habit of grabbing and crushing the testicles of other boys when cornered.

One particularly bad day, after school, I went home, got a baseball bat (and ball, in case I was stopped by cops). Took a sidekick, went back to school, and looked for the bully. He ran back onto school grounds (I wasn't going to risk a suspension by going into school with a weapon), but I made sure that a few people in class knew I was looking for him. When I went into school the next day I got a grovelling apology from him, and was never bullied again. I was surprised by how well it worked.

Looking back more than a decade, I cannot believe how incredibly foolish I was, but it convinced me that bullies are most effectively stopped by the most primitive means.
The history behind this actually goes the other way if I remember correctly; it was unclear for a time whether or not this sort of thing was allowed. The standard was modified so that Duff's device would be legal code after it was being used.
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Write it for a system that doesn't have a terminal (or a character mode.) A Super Nintendo (65c816 CPU with the most thoroughly-tested emulators on the planet), say.
And yet people seems to have a problem when I suggest that we freeze these little nazis out, or that we remind people that these are cancer machines.

You are dealing with the same kind of bullies you were dealing with in grade school, cept they have grow up now and now don't even have to feel sorry for what they do.

Edit: to prove my point the first two replies to this tells me that I am wrong and cite sources - this isn't a science debate, this is politics.
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I don't recognise the current Rails codebase from this comment.

There's certainly nothing incomprehensible about it if you grok common Ruby metaprogramming idioms. I wish the idea of "Ruby magic" would die in flames!
You can sign up only using a phone number.

http://m.facebook.com/r.php
It's worth noting that in California schools, any fighting (even in self-defense) results in expulsion.
it isn't about process, it is about people. As Steve Jobs put it : "A players hire A players, B players hire C players."

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
I. HATE. PHP. TEMPLATING. ENGINES.

Back when php was relatively new (2002 - 2003), our company hired a few php developers to build several ecommerce solutions. They swore up and down at the time that smarty and pear would get the job done faster and better.

Long story short, after implementing the solution rather quickly we spent more money deleting giant gobs of lame templating code and re-writing the rest of code in very lean php than we did on the original project.

Never again will I use any templating engine on top of a scripting language. It's actually a written core requirement for any new project I contract ("no lame templating engines").

Templating junk can also make it more difficult to get lean standards-compliant html that you need for reliable javascript behavior.

Don't use templating to junk up your code. You've been warned.
Pre-war America, starting with Harvard, invented college admissions departments as a way to keep Jews out. Before so-called holistic criteria to find "balanced" students, when they just looked at academics, Jewish students were outcompeting the Protestants who "should" have had the majority at Harvard.

The groups in favor change but the system, the self-serving rhetoric justifying it, and the empire of lies which protect it continue virtually unchanged to the present day.
Now Facebook will have no excuse not to allow exporting of friends email address... well they will probably think of something else.

I doubt they could kill GMail, if there is one thing Google is good at is, fast and efficient interfaces, it may not be pretty, but who cares, it's an email client.
And so Facebook offers a switch: "only accept mail from friends and sites I've liked".

If you've got a popular walled garden, making the jungle outside even scarier, and thus forcing a stronger commitment to the tended 'inside', can be good business.
> It's sort of embarrassing this is the number one story on hacker news. Especially since it's 6 weeks old and was already posted before, and mostly seems fabricated.

I'm as surprised as you are that it's #1 on HN - I posted it to my blog for my readers, I didn't think it'd get submitted as a top level post or rise up the frontpage.

That said, everything on my end is real - I was quoting another author who said he was bullied quite badly, and his story sounds true but I can't confirm that.

> It reads like some fat kid ender's game revenge fantasy.

Eh, there's no need to be nasty, that doesn't add to the conversation. The entry is all true. Plenty of people here know me, I can run my schools and dates by someone if anyone really cares. Good luck to you.
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You know that roughly half the population carry their phones around in Tab sized bags don't you? I know this isn't the kind of thing your average tech journalist would care about or mention (similarly that resistive screens work well with long nails) but there you go.

By the way, the Tab isn't the only device that plays Flash, I hear that some phones have this ability too. Not that this weakens your point, it actually strengthens it. Just thought it was a bit weird to highlight an entirely common feature as if it was somehow a USP for the Tab. An unwitting Apple bias perhaps?
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> Facebook could integrate with every other service and app under the sun, and users would not require to input information (any more then their Facebook uri) to register for anything.

Facebook has done exactly this, and there's been quite a bit of backlash, with some discussion on this site itself.
Correct. They can only be placed on the top of voxels, but they can propagate forward and up. I.e. you can build "stair wires" but not "column wires".
Likely Steve Jobs has a 7" iPad prototype on his desk now... He can throw out a few remarks to try to stear people away from that size until Apple has that size in the market.
looking at the api, you can also do a number of "pages" within a single html page, and just have it cycle through those when you click links (much like jqtouch worked).

While it is kind of slow to load each page with ajax, I do like that they have made that easy to implement, as it was rather difficult to do with jqtouch.
I take issue with the bad science involved in saying that terahertz radiation causes cancer. Terahertz radiation is very low energy, far too low to ionize DNA the way that UV rays do.

If they're using actual X-rays, that's another thing entirely.
Email addresses can be spoofed.
I don't know if there is a single government agency more universally reviled than the TSA. I cannot think of a single person who supports this, and yet it happens.

Unbelievable.
Great article from an experienced guy. My two favourite advices :

- "No project is ever simple" : when somebody asks you to solve a simple problem, it really often turns out to be bigger than foreseen.

- "Set a duration of how long you think it should take to solve a problem" : do not spend too much time thinking alone on a problem before searching for help, either on internet or by your colleagues/peers.
After a spell at Bell-Labs working on Plan9 (his Mothra web browser is my favourite HTML2 renderer), Duff is now at Pixar.
Bytes add up over time.

I don't know anything about this feature in particular, there may in fact be a great reason for including it in the core but I do agree that in principle, anything not core should be in a different module. Nice to haves are just that, no point making people download them if they are unlikely to be used.

That said, jQuery is still awesome.
It's being put into 'The Social Network 2: Return of the Lawsuits' as I write.
I feel they are doing that demeaning of a body search to coerce others into going though the scanners.

That's exactly what they're doing. There was a recent article (sorry, no citation) where supposedly the TSA agents said that the more complete pat down is designed to encourage people to stick to the scanners. Lesser of two evils, at it were.

At least there's a choice, of sorts. Hands-off scanner or hands-on pat down. It'd be crazy if the pat down wasn't able to reveal the same items the scanner can, so it makes sense to me, and I'd definitely choose the scanner (I went through one of the trial ones in 2009 and it was quite interesting, though I had no idea what it was at the time).
> copious abuse of BasicObject

Used a total of 4 times in the 2.3.10 codebase.

As for code-generation, I think you misunderstand their role in Rails. Can I ask you, in your editor of choice do you have any kind of snippet/template functionality (e.g. yas for emacs)? Same deal.
My friends' baby boy had one at about 2 weeks old.

I know, the horror, the horror etc.
Of course, unwinding! Thanks
1 fantastic developer would often be worth '15 really good developers'.
I've heard just increasing the size of the cache can have noticeable impact. So much so that they're going to increase the default (or maybe already have in the latest versions).
Does anyone have any decent info on which free mail service is the most popular? I know a fair amount of people use any mixture of hotmail, gmail and yahoo. Perhaps 'killing gmail' isn't as big as killing hotmail/live/badabingmail.
First they came for the area Wiccans...
I have the same question. While there were fights between some girls in the high school I went to, all the abuse I dealt with was entirely verbal/social.

No one ever tried to lay a hand on me, so if I'd started anything, it would've been me looking like the 'bad guy'. And somewhere along the way I'd already internalized that as a 'good girl' disappointing authority was the worst thing I could possibly do.

I tried ignoring. I tried preemptively mocking myself to take the wind out of their sails. Nothing really stopped it. I got really lucky that my high school had a surprisingly large 'smart kid' group (6 National Merit scholars in my graduating class of 330) and eventually I was able to keep a large enough peer group to just not have to interact with most of the kids that bullied me.

But despite my small close circle of friends, I still graduated high school feeling like an outcast. Our entire AP history class once deemed me a 'neo-nazi' because I made a comment about the biased language in some video we watched. We had studied rhetoric only a few weeks before in English, and I was wondering why the video seemed to pulling so many of the tricks we'd just learned about in order to make the holocaust look like a bad thing. It seemed unnecessary (in my innocent mind I was thinking, 'Aren't the raw facts enough to convince anyone?').

My one offhand comment (literally just the words, 'That video sure used a lot of biased language.') turned into a full-scale mocking by everyone in the classroom except my two friends (who stayed silent). The teacher never actually joined in the mocking, but he stood by while it happened, encouraged the 'debate' to last longer, and even laughed at some of the hurtful comments made to me by the other students.
My my.. I'm surprised how the company lasted so long.

I still remember using Yahoo! for my searches in the beginning. But that was just for 2 years. Since 2002, I got hooked to Google and have never looked back.

As @variety states above, the company does not have an identity any more and the infographic depicts that.

Real depressing...
A lot of things are cancer machines. Including our earth and solar system. I certainly hope they continue to test these devices and analyze the risks, but I'm not feeling too scared by things like this:

The UK Health Protection Agency has completed an analysis of the X-ray dose from Backscatter scanners and has written that the dose is extremely low and "about the same as people receive from background radiation in an hour".

Flying itself exposes you to significant levels of radiation in any case (compared to being on the ground). They even have to reroute flights due to it sometimes.

Dr Robert J. Barish, an expert in aviation related radiation, even claims the average minute spent in flight exposes you to the same level of radiation as a single full body scan. Given the different types of scan available, though, this strikes me as only a vague estimation at best.
If you have a lot of tabs open this may not be a good idea. The OS may end up paging more often - especially when switching to and from the browser. This causes uncomfortable wait times while the harddisk thrashes.
Marco doesn't have any comments enabled, which is a shame. He seems quite difficult to make contact with.

I'd say start with the dark default image. If you're starting Instapaper in a poorly lit environment in dark mode it'll be more disrupting to your night sight to have a bright starting image than if you start in normal mode and have a dark starting image.

Are splash screens cheesy? That's a personal convention, but screwing with someone's night sight for a particular use case focused on it being dark is probably far worse.

I use dark mode during the day on Instapaper Pro, I just prefer it and find it easier on the eyes.
I really appreciate this reply, but I do think that the sermon on the mount stands on its own, without religion being involved. There are situations in which being the better man means stepping aside.
They are voxels, they just have very specific placement rules. They take up a full block but can't be stacked.

There's also the fact that the wires transmit information only 15 tiles. It's possible to build repeaters though, but those repeaters have some lag and take up space.

The hardest part are the memory cells. A single bit, even in the optimal configuration, takes up 3x3x2 blocks.
If you want to meet other people and attend (tech) events and such I would suggest Bangalore. It is not called the silicon valley of India for no reason.

Of course I am biased.

BTW If you want to experience India, the real incredible India, you may want to roam across the country avoiding the cities. If you are doing this, don't always expect reliable internet connectivity.
I would imagine being on a different continent helped tremendously. South America was pretty much untouched too.
The IRS? http://www.irs.gov/. Perhaps. But this stuff is really egregious. I am not looking forward to my next flight. These new rules are really making me question whether or not I want to fly. Obviously, I won't say I will never fly again but this will really make me think about whether or not I really have to.
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Facebook is not as strong because I don't need to check-in
with Facebook when I go somewhere.

You know, there are way more people than you in the world.
"killer" is journalistic shorthand for "rival", they just want the conflict and the attendant pageviews, they don't care who wins or who is likely to win.
Google AppEngine is really an interesting platform to use for a startup.
Have been noticing a lot of people here in HN use it for theirs.
Actually, I find the entire escalation of TSA to be both fascinating, in a kind of 'what will they think of next' as well as in a practical manner. Eventually the security theater will get _so_ intense, that it will result in enhanced security of flights.

Makes me think of the scanners in "Total Recall"

And yes, I get the whole "Give Up Liberty for a bit of safety, Deserve neither" argument. Though, I'm guessing some might argue that Airplane flights today are safer than they were in the 80s, and continue to get safer even _past_ the fact that people can't get into the Pilots Cabin, and passengers know they have to fight back in the event of a hijacking...
“He started at one leg and then ran his hand up to my crotch.

He? That seems.... wrong.

I am fairly certain TSA policies, and indeed various laws, require a female officer to perform the pat down (on a woman). Unless my information is out of date they broke a number of their own rules there, so I would file an official complaint (and potentially a molestation charge).
"Back at Pixar" might be more accurate. Though I think when he was there the first time it was still part of Lucasfilm. That's where he invented the Device. He's been at Pixar since 1996.
Why are there no bullies responding to this thread? Is HN really so one-sided that nobody that was a bully hangs around here?
For you: The Pros and Cons of Moving Back to India http://labnol.org/?p=18133
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Is that even possible? Can you sign up to Facebook without having an email address?
These new policies should improve TSA recruiting efforts, at least among the pedophile fraction of the population.

Anyone who thinks these stories are exaggerated should check out this collection. The consistency is impressive:

http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/
I'd be very interested to see stats on this, but my money is on yahoo.
Despite their decline in the US and Europe, they are massively dominant in Asia in search, shopping and mail.
Twilio has been a dream for SMS implementation, though I don't think they are appropriate if you need SMS outside Canada / the US at the moment. Their customer service is quite nice, too.

Words cannot describe how crazy I think picking a platform based on $10 of costs for development is, by the way.
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Now, I am against these machines and such actions myself.

But "little Nazi's" is just Godwins law (i.e. a silly thing to say) and "cancer machines" is the typical climate of fear nonsense we are trying to resist from the TSA.

So yeh, people probably have a problem not with the sentiment but with the language you use :)

Seriously, c'mon.
If you read through this collection of accounts, an opposite sex patdown-partner does not seem uncommon:

http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/
If you're manually managing your ram, then something is very broken.
i wonder how the TSA employees feel about doing this?

what kind of person would apply for such a job, knowing this was one of the duties?

how is this not state-sponsored sexual assault?

... definitely trying to avoid the usa for the foreseeable future. too fucked up.
I'm a UofT student, and it's the same here. There's nothing particularly bothersome about having a lot of students from Korea and China. There's not even really much to get used to. Yeah, there are asians. So what?

The parents in the article claim that the asian students beat them out, but honestly, it was really easy to get into this university. I had terrible grades in my first two years of high school, and for the most part I was rejected by (good) US colleges (probably also because I didn't have my green card). I was even forced to apply later than students in Canada, because I did not go to an Ontario high school and had to fill in a different form with a later submission date. All these things would seem to be disadvantages, and I didn't figure on getting accepted at all. And yet I got into UofT (and Waterloo). It's remarkably easy to get into a university like this -- possibly because you're only allowed to apply to three Ontario universities -- and I don't buy the parents' arguments at all. More likely their kids got terrible grades, and that's nobody else's fault.

Honestly I can't believe we're even having this discussion. The last time I heard about fears of Chinese immigration was in history class.
Can you back this up please? The science says Omega3 is not worth it:
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My point exactly - the reason I use these things are that they _work_. Not on hn, maybe, but in the real world.

And I don't give any amount of fecal matter that people are scared, I just don't want them to trample on other peoples rights.
Right - I'm skeptical that using a RAM disk like this has a benefit on any current OS.

The idea of a RAM disk being quicker than a real disk -- when memory is backed by the file system, and the file system has a cache in front of it -- sounds a lot like 1975 programming: http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes