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I wouldn't even know where to begin with an API. I'm brand new to developing, so that could be a ways away.. unless it's pretty straightforward?
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I think it might be a way from them to put some pressure to the SEC.

1. GS is taxpayer subsidize (To Big To Fail) company. As they're a bank holding company, they can tap funds from the Feds at a very low rate. Because of this, they can make deals with an enormous amount of risk, and not care. If it fails, and cash is needed, just tap the funds.

2. The contract between GS and investors, explicitly says that GS can sell their stake on Facebook without informing investor. A clear sign of the risk associated with the deal. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-06/goldman-sachs-discl...

3. The SEC can't do nothing about this. There's no law that prohibits GS to do this. Instead, SEC is looking for an alternative to block the deal, as the 500 investor limit: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/facebook-and-the-500-...

4. GS takes advantage of the media attention to the case says it will limit investments to foreign clients. It's like saying: hey, the SEC is trying to block the deal at all costs, so instead, we won't support american investors and give priority to foreigners as the international community is more open to investment and risk taking.
Depends how you wrote the application and such I've never written an API but I've consumed enough of them to know that you should try and comply with OAuth as its implemented in libraries.
That's a great idea and would segway nicely into porting this as a google chrome app. Any tips for storing notes locally? Haven't looked into it just yet.
If I recall correctly the tour begins with an abacus.
A good step in the right direction. I look forward to similar treatment to the ticket system to provide real workflow and field customization would shore up one of the largest gaps in their product. If they combined distributed version control, tickets, wiki, and HTML5 offline browser capabilities, Github would be close to the perfect CM tool.
I'm not sure that you should rely on that as a rule.

Some sea snakes (at least in Australia) are venomous. Also, snakes (including venomous ones that might normally live out of the water) can swim and in flooded regions would be forced to do just that. The red bellied black snake isn't as dangerous as the inland taipan or eastern brown, but it does like water.
Ask HN: Review my weekend project, a free RSS to email service (feedserf.com)
This weekend I was hacking on a new project, a RSS to email service (inspired by a recent post here on HN). The first version is now online, and I'd like to ask everyone interested to give it a try and to kindly share feedback.

http://www.feedserf.com

I chose Python as programming language and Google's AppEngine as hosting platform (my first encounter with AppEngine, and I really like it). The service is free and the code is open source (hosted on https://github.com/metachris/feedmailer, released under the AGPL). I know the user interface could definitely need some love. If you have ideas let me know!
Liver is just by blood type. The main thing is that different regions of the country have longer or shorter waiting lists.
Not in Brisbane, but one of the other flooded towns: http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/979/168030177790121739415...
White pavement is a real issue on a human scale, more than a white roof. It's true, we don't spend a lot of time looking at roofs, and where people congregate in large numbers, roofs tend to be flatter and more out of view.

Pavement, on the other hand, is visible everywhere people are and you do look at it all the time when you're outside in a city. Regardless of the heat, a dark road/footpath is easier on the eyes than a light one. Concrete roads on hot, sunny days require either squinting or sunglasses as all that lovely light gets reflected into your eyes.

Not to mention that concrete roads and footpaths are less pleasant to use in general.
Ex-PM assisting with flood clean-up. Compare with Bush response.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqTnJK3uEi8
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Clickable:

- http://www.feedserf.com

- https://github.com/metachris/feedmailer
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Brillaint! I guess I can't think of everything. On my todo list now :)
My suburb was only one away from Fairfield, which got fucked, but I was perfectly fine except for a loss of telecommunications at one point.

There is a fairly active meetup community in Australia... I know there's a Hackerspace, a Functional Programming group, a LUG, Alt.Net Sydney, there's a Brisbane Hackerspace group # #hsbne on Hackerspace...
Profiling is a fair game, right?

https://img.skitch.com/20110118-egpetjh52gwnsxr9ct2g8bxtad.p...

Gives a deep insight on what contributes slowdown to new twitter.

EDIT: I mean, that's on 3GHz 4GB RAM machine. No wonder it freezes slower computers.
wait a second though, nobody's adopted it yet. so i'd rephrase: Illustrates how much tech 'journalism'adoption is driven by hype and bandwagon behaviour ...
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Why not learn one or two really well in that time instead?
except without any money!
My sister manages mosquito control in Victoria. She says the post-flood mosquito management in QLD is going to be quite a challenge. However, she also claims that mosquito management is going to be nowhere near as big of a project as the upcoming bunyip control efforts.
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New ticket system is what github needs for sure.
What a great idea, amazing you managed to fit 4 of them in juggling everything else, very jealous of you.
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It's worth noting that Kevin Rudd lives in Brisbane. And he ended up in hospital after wading through the waters with cuts on his feet.
I appreciate the support!

Just looked at Shifd - I'm surprised I didn't come across that one in my search for the perfect tool. It's got a pretty nice interface and features.
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I love scipy, ... except for zero based indexing. I might not be as bright as some, but I hated always figuring out "If I have a set of ten items, the index is from 0 to 9". Zero indexing is also NOT how real math is written in textbooks. C uses zero indexing because DOES describe byte offsets really well. In octave/ matlab the for looops are a lot easier to think about.

All in all, octave is quickly becoming a very viable alternative to Matlab.
The concept is that Pocket (the app) is a could-based version of an actual pocket. Just like you would keep everything in your physical pocket, you can keep thoughts and ideas in your digital Pocket. I veered away from a name involving "note" because I didn't want to limit the app to only notes - eventually users will be able to save photos, videos, bookmarks, etc. I've got some grand ideas in mind =]
here's a bug open at chrome : http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=69777
but the issue is at twitter really. I noticed it a few days ago too, and chrome didn't update.
My partner - Dustin has used the service to book a room in HK for few nights. The website is very simple to use, the concepts of the service are explained very well, and this service IS VERY useful. A brilliant concept and good execution. Good luck.
I've been so involved with the technology and design side of things that I totally skimped on that stuff. To be honest, I really didn't expect the app to be received as well as it has been, so I guess I should probably start filling in the gaps.
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An App Store is not a library any more than your local Borders is. At least the copy of the book that's in the library was bought and paid for somewhere along the way.
Racket is a Scheme

"Racket is still a dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. The tools developed by PLT will continue to support R5RS, R6RS, the old mzscheme environment, Typed Scheme, and more. At the same time, instead of having to say “PLT's main variant of Scheme,” programmers can now simply say “Racket” to refer to the specific descendant of Scheme that powers PLT's languages and libraries."

Reference : http://racket-lang.org/new-name.html
Registered. ;)
This is precisely why I believe almost all of these experiments are flawed.

You begin with the assumption (based on nothing other than a general feeling of human specialness) that "For all we know, dogs responses to human emotions, gestures, and nonverbal cues are a completely autonomic behavior". Considering that we discover all kinds of animals are smarter than we thought with each passing experiment, the burden of proof should lie with you. The limitations appear to be our experiments.

We do not start with this assumption when dealing with human beings. The safe assumption is that animals have their own desires, goals, ambitions, and purposes for existence. Since we have significant trouble understanding them or communicating with them (even though we know that within their own species they communicate perfectly well with each other), we might start from a less biased viewpoint.

As for jellyfish, I don't know. But I do know that we've approached it from the wrong angle. Asking how many words a jellyfish can respond to and then determining whether or not it is intelligent is a surefire way to create a lousy experiment.

BTW, Europeans used to do the same sorts of experiments with people from other countries and civilizations. They knew that white Anglo Saxons were the best and brightest so they looked for evidence to prove it. Africans clearly hadn't invented guns or the printing press so they determined that they had a lower level of intelligence. It's just as ridiculous a methodology when you're talking about studying animals.
Already done, and now waiting to see how they go with the Victorian flooding!
>In other words, you are saying African-American culture is the sole reason for all the problems blacks face in the U.S?

Let me reword it a little and say I believe African-American culture is the sole reason for the additional problems blacks face in the U.S. today. You're never going to convince me blacks looking for an education or a job have a tougher time in 2010 than they did in 1960.

The destruction of the black family is the reason the numbers are so appalling today. Black people, more than any other demographic, are having children out of wedlock. Whitey isn't to blame for that. Black boys grow up without fathers in greater numbers and then, predictably, fail in greater numbers when it's time to become men. Somehow that cycle needs to be broken, but the break is going to have to come from within the black community. No amount of well-intentioned intervention from white liberals and government is going to be enough.
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that GCC is written in sexprs? For OCaml, a more relevant suggestion might be Camlp4. What I'm describing is the need for a language in which to write the compiler for the compiler's source code, so that the compiler's source code can be both high-level enough, and statically typed.

Simple sexprs describing a tree aren't strongly typed enough.
I just want to let you know that I accidentally downvoted you. I meant to upvote you, as I think your point is a valid one, but my thumbs are too fat for my iPhone. Sorry.
I think R is good for packaging up complex code involving categorical data and shipping it. It is also better at data management.

Octave/ matlab is more graceful at handling complex matrix manipulations than R, but poor at categorical data or data management.

If you want to write your own algorithms, use Octave. If you want access to libraries, use R.

(I personally find R ugly and matlab pretty.)
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No sweat. Have you tried http://ihackernews.com?
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How can you tell? All I can find on the website that even comes close to explaining what it is/does is:

"CompanyLine is fundamentally improving the way companies communicate."

and the even less helpful:

"CompanyLine enables conversations that solve real business problems."

What does that even mean?
> Numpy becomes very nice when you need to do some more general-purpose coding along with your numerical stuff though.

Once you get used to "cell arrays" and "structs" and "struct arrays", you can do most anything in Octave that you can in Python, but the weirdness of those syntaxes is quite off putting for a lot of coders.
If cubes for software engineers are such a bad idea why does Google (so I've heard) swear by them?
What's your best source for music news?
What it really is is a hold-over idea that humans have some innate specialness.

Animals are just doing tricks. Humans who learn to play a sport aren't.

Animals are just doing it for the food. You go to work every day, why?

It's worth noting that this has been an idea that has less evidence to back it up all the time. This idea will eventually be disproven, but in the meantime, there are an awful lot of people emotionally invested in this specialness being true.
Yup. I remember buying a 200 Mhz Pentium 1 (pro?) w/ MMX back in the day. 3dfx made the improvement in 3d graphics kind of moot, but it was there.
Estimated Joel Test score for facebook: about 5 out of 12.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
Because Google isn't perfect. Is that a good enough reason?
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Yes, I did. Or, alternatively, all consonants.
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It loos good, but it's missing the ability to check my comments for responses. HN really needs to implement reddit's orangereds.
More water or just no dam to save them from the worst of it?
from what I could read, it won't be as bad. However any floods in any region is a disaster and shouldn't be played down.
Notifo. That's how I'm responding within a couple seconds of your posts :)
I'm not sure of how big the bids are so far but have you thought of open sourcing it?! The traffic is exhibiting decay as time goes by and only would be a while before it hits the graveyard. Might as well give others a chance to learn something from this project and tweak it to their ideas and relaunch it in some form.

just my 0.02$
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I recall Intellij Idea IDE had some pretty decent protection. They used an "encrypting" class loader (of the xor variety), and also encrypted all their resource files. I have a lot of respect for the lengths they went to, though i'm not sure how much it benefitted them really.
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yeah mozzies are a bigger risk to health than snakes or sharks.

A brown snake in the water will climb in a house to take refuge, not to attack. they're just trying to get out of the water, just like cockroaches piling up on traffic lights.
I cannot hear anything when coding. My coworkers learned if they needed a question answered to tap me on the shoulder and wait while my brain loaded Japanese from disk, since coding pages it out.
2. You're definitely right about this. Before I ever started developing the app, the number one feature in my mind was always SMS capabilities. I'm not really sure why I haven't made this more prominent. Regarding the validation code - that's just there because I'm still on the free developer plan with Twilio. I guess I want to build up the SMS features a bit more before I step out of developer mode.

3. Already in the pipeline. Will be an awesome feature, I believe.

4. Pondering this, but it's a toughie. Trying to keep things simple, uncluttered, and easy to use while adding more features is one of the most difficult challenges I have faced.

The design and interface are completely original. What you're seeing is about the 4th major rendition over the past 2 months. As I am writing code I keep striving to make Pocket better and better (visually) and I'm pretty happy with where it's at now. We'll see how long it takes me to get bored =]

As for the authentication, I rolled my own (with the help of some tutorials) but I believe its pretty similar to authlogic. I'm sure I can add a password reset feature, but I just haven't had a chance to look into it yet.

Thanks for all of the kind words. The support here on HN is incredibly motivating and encouraging!
Since a software download isn´t tangible, it seems to make the library illustration make more sense.
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The great danger in the fight against piracy is that it's so damn interesting. You can spend months playing cat and mouse with the people trying to crack your schemes, ratcheting up the complexity to insane levels, and every time you come up with a new scheme and get it working you'll feel like a million bucks because you Won(tm).

But the people on the other side feel the same way, there are more of them, and in reality, they're not actually hurting your business as badly as your delusions tell you they are - none of them were ever going to buy your shit anyway.

Add features, improve your design, fix bugs, or tweak your shitty description and screen shots in the app store (which, in my experience, will affect sales for most apps more than the first three factors put together). Literally any time that you devote to copy protection is wasted, unless you're Angry Birds (and even then I'm not sure) you're not reaching anywhere near a high enough percentage of the people that would happily pay for your product to worry about the ones that would rather just take it.
All great ideas (and fixes)- will be implemented as soon as possible. I appreciate the feedback! So much knowledge and advice here on Hacker News, gotta love it :)
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IF OP had removed all whitespace and used since letter variables he could have squeezed the javascript down to almost nothing too. Personally, I think it's a bigger achievement to write something that other people can look at and actually understand what is going on.
Because random spans don't get hinted, and to click the link, I have to actually reach for my mouse. a and form elements are clickable. Everything else is just plain text.

In this case, the "edit" link looks exactly like a link (inline element with underlining and a different color when you hover over it), but it's a span instead. Why invent your own tags when they already exist? All you do is break things for people that aren't you. Follow the standards and everything will work for everyone. Make up your own, and you can only ensure that what you test works.
This is really stupid. I already can't rate movies I've seen from an iPad and now I can't add movies, either? The whole point of having a mobile web site is to let me do this kind of thing on the go at the point when a friend asks me if I have seen such-and-such movie!
It would be easier to learn a new language if I could fit it into my day job. My current idea is to try to find small throw-away tasks to do in different languages. For example, last week I joined StackOverFlow and tried to solve a small task by asking the same question for two different languages (elisp, Haskell).

Elisp: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4640040/how-can-i-generat...

Haskell: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4640953/how-can-i-generat...

In the future, when I need something done quickly I won't always "reach" for Perl because I'll have a better starting point. Not that there's anything wrong with Perl. I just want a few more tools in my arsenal.

If I few people joined in, we might end up with a few breadcrumbs to make it easier for everyone to get started.
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It did work for me using de|en
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Worked on both Chromium 8.0.552 and Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04. Flash issues probably?
I built this to help me find the perfect music for working out (mainly jogging)
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No, FF3.
If you have any questions or tips, please let me know. I'm constantly looking to improve the site. I'm thinking of expanding it beyond just music and into all things jogging (or exercise).
Not for the way I intended the question: imagine for example that I'm a Google stockholder.
Brett is doing really impressive work and is on to something big with CompanyLine, IMO.
When I first got my iPod Touch and was looking for applications, I started asking around to friends who had Touches and iPhones to find applications. I found the people who could recommend me the best selection of applications were those who had pirated a lot of applications, as they had tried the most. I based my applications I bought mostly on 3 friends with jailbroken phones with a plethora of applications.
I think Wylie's masterclasses are being reconstructed by the Royal Institution for their (the masterclasses) 30 year anniversary. This is of some interest to me, since Wylie is a Ph.D. ancestor of mine.
Btw I took this really bad video, but it gives a sense of the atmosphere there. (I was busy, my iphone in the other hand)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBa7K22XyM4
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Holy shit. Not a small one either.
It's all fake. However that went on national TV and we all had a good laugh. We never saw that presenter girl again, after she insisted that was shot in Brisbane.
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Yep, having an English CEO apologize in English for something that happened in Japan is of course going to be controversial.
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Well for starters, the alternative of giving everyone a private office is really really expensive. Especially if you're also (like me) a believer in the idea that offices should have windows. I had my own windowless office for a year or so, and it was a really depressing environment in which to work -- I much prefer my current two-person office with a view.

The other point is that while an individual programmer might be more productive when he's alone in a room, a group might be more productive if they're all in the same room together. No point in having everyone write twice as much code per day if the code no longer fits together and nobody has any idea what everybody else is doing.

How much of a programmer's time is actually spent sitting down in full-on focus mode belting out lines of code?
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