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Offtopic - I envy you guys so much for having HN meetups, I think I am the only Brazilian that reads HN (very unlikely), because nobody answers me about a Brazilian one.
What a neat idea! Having food together is the best way to socialize anyway, time flies and you have something to do, no awkward silences :)

Maybe this is something to market to the airbnb userbase?

Serving food to strangers for a fee is bound to raise some eyebrows though, this time not from jealous hotel operators but from the people that lord over food safety and cleanliness in commercial settings, especially if you also serve alcohol.
Very impressive and ambitious UI, lots of great attention to detail. Click-and-drag selection highlighting in particular. Here's some observations about the interface whilst I was exploring. This is Chrome/Ubuntu.

On the document search page:

* Double-click to open isn't intuitive for me on a website. Had a few puzzled seconds wondering how to open a document.

* Middle-click to open is broken.

* If I try to do a drag selection starting over a thumbnail, it doesn't work.

* The browser right-click context menu isn't always suppressed, and completely obscures your custom menu. Maybe float it to the left of the cursor so both are visible?

* Seems like the thumbnail/list view switcher buttons are the wrong way round.

* If I select multiple documents then click download, nothing happens. Either grey out the option, or add zip downloading.

* Selecting 'view pages' when in thumbnail view breaks the layout.

* The 'Page x of x' navigation at the bottom is non standard without being any more useful. Found it annoying having to actually type in the page I wanted to go to. Duplicating the pagination nav at the top of the page would be nice.

* Left-hand document list is well thought out, like that the scrollwheel works, but it still feels a bit awkward. Not sure why.

* 'Entities' seems too specific to describe what are essentially tags. Caused a bit of confusion. Phone numbers and 'terms' are not entities.

* The 'Log In' button is a bit out of context next to the other buttons. Maybe move it to the top right next to your logo?

* As the document links are taking me off-site, I'd like the statusbar url to still appear on hover.

* Found myself focusing the search box just so the text was dark enough to read.

Document viewer:

* The document sidebar might be better on the left. Having it on the right breaks Fitt's law for the scrollbar.

* Arrow key and spacebar scrolling doesn't work on document load. You have to click to focus the document first.

* The document page navigation might be better in the top bar, rather than the sidebar. Having it in the sidebar gave me the false expectation of sidebar content that changed related to the page I was on.

* The 'Pages' thumbnail view only seems to show up for some documents.

* The zoom level I set for the 'Pages' view also changes the zoom level for the 'Document' view. So I can't easily browse with tiny thumbnails but fullsize documents.

* Annotation UI is great, very intuitive. The restrained use of colour on the rest of the site really pays off, that yellow is hard to miss.

* With two notes parallel to each other cause their markers to overlap, example:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/29627-cosa-letter-on-...

* From the 'notes' view I should be able to click on the passage in the note to get back to its original document context.
Check http://www.apple.com/mac/ in a webkit-based browser (safari, chrome, etc) and click applications or server
The article misses out the worst effects of rich people: they fund politicians. See Domhoff on Who Rules America.
Facebook's new security method: Can you beat it by Googling the names?
Either that, or the objC gc isn't ready for a phone-constrained environment yet. Android seems to manage OK, but they put in a lot more up-front work into making it viable there.
It sucks that this is being removed. All of the other browsers have it and so many websites have supported it. By removing it from easy access you discourage the use of an open standard. It is not just about who clicks on it. It is about who supports it. RSS is used by all kinds of applications and services and anything that discourages its easy usage makes the web a less open place. I can not imagine that there is a significant amount of code to make this work and I don't see how it is causing a reduction in the usage of Firefox. It definitely does not impact workflow but actually improves it. If Firefox is following the road of the bean counter then I think it is time to move on.
I personally don't care, but if I had to pick, I would want a scientist that was technically proficient, flexible in their thinking, and was able to explain the current way of thinking to a level acceptable to his peers. That'd be it.

As far as personal beliefs, if I had to pick, I'd want a guy who had the craziest damn personal beliefs I could find. Perhaps involving the Great Pumpkin, or tiny elves that live in the forest and come out at night.

Why? Because science is not orthodoxy. That is, science is always provisional and always open to change. Some jerk who "just knows" that string theory is right is the last guy I want looking at string theory. Give it to the guy who reads palms and is waiting for the Xanians to arrive in their spaceships after the eclipse.

There is an assumption here, that having some sort of faith would preclude being able to do your job. It's not true -- or rather, it's being inflexible that prevents you from doing your job as a scientist. People are marvelous creatures. They can be hard-headed and inflexible in an infinite number of ways, most of which do not involve some formal belief system. As a for-instance, I imagine many people would think that believing in Intelligent Design would be a disqualifier for studying cosmology. And they would stubbornly resist changing their mind to the contrary. This is exactly the kind of inflexibility you need to watch out for. If you already know where you're going to end up, there's not much point in taking the journey.

Very interesting that thinking of this problem in terms of flexibility and creative thinking (the key elements to move science forward) turns up a completely different answer than thinking about it in terms of "what's most likely correct?" which is an interesting question but not germane. All you're checking with that "does this guy believe what most of us do?" is whether or not most other scientists think this guy is a good guesser, ie, he agrees with them. That's a bit too much popularity contest and groupthink for me.
I have all of those with my credit union in the US. Heck, every bill I pay using online bill pay gives me rewards points typical to what using a CC would do. This includes paying bills where the credit union ends up mailing a physical cashiers check.

All of the above with no charges, although they may have a requirement to have direct deposit set up.
Yes, I claim no originality. I just find it useful to insert mid-rant, because it lightens my tone (and tests who's listening / reading!).
I'm not even a very social person, but I think this is a great idea. If I'm bored sometime, I might just try it.
Read this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

If you believe more wealth is coming from "lying bribing cheating stealing murderous" behavior, then I'm guessing you don't actually know many people succeeding at a high level financially. They tend to have the same human flaws most of us have about being expedient or nasty sometimes, but actually tend to be less that way than people not succeeding as much.

It's really hard to get far by screwing people. Everyone has conflicts, but people getting wealthy in a place like modern USA are doing it much more by building and serving, not lying/cheating/stealing/killing/etc.
This is exactly what I'm doing for my startup and have found it works really well. Although I have to say it helps to have even a small network of contacts who can direct work your way. It's easy to burn through a lot of time just looking for freelance work.
How much damage would it actually cause if you hit a real tooth? Dentists polish people's teeth all the time with fast spinny tools.
How Lack of Common Sense Costs Businesses Thousands
Yeah, though "underground restaurants" have been steadily growing in popularity nonetheless. A British example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/10/undergrou...

I also watched a Jamie Oliver documentary series about food in the US and he managed to wangle his way into similar places in a few US cities (mostly oriented around Mexican food).
UrRobot's Robii hides a multitouch projector in his circus tent [video]
Someone needs to build this for dating.
This security was the roadblock used in Tunisia to stop the ISP (ie govt) from using the vast number of passwords it had intercepted.
removing the RSS icon
Sho (a Matlab-like environment for IronPython)
Any kind of fancy formatting is bad because it takes effort to keep it maintained and so it creates a reluctance to change that code. It also creates an illusion of correctness through looking good.
When you advertise online using a public service it's not very underground any more.
A friend of mine bought one for his grandma, and she absolutely loves it. The big feature for her was that the buttons were big enough for her to see and push accurately. Works great for that use case.
Ask HN: What are the problems of each Web Language?
I don't want to ask what is good about each language because everywhere you look each language is the best in some way. I want to know why each language is terrible and by Web Languages I mean those which are mature for Web Development, such as: PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl and any others you can think of.
Yeah it's a little confusing. Those are actually the YC alumni that will be speaking to female founders
And why do unions have a pretty bad name?[in the USA] I would argue that it is in large part due to ceaseless anti-union propaganda by the rich and their minions.
I read throught it full of hope and expectations, Then saw the date. 2007. the NBL was said to show up within two years. Another lesson to a) check the sources. b) remember to be wary of the "I see the future" types of article.
Thanks ryan.

This does bring up an interesting concept though we can look into... The ability to disable the work order functionality.

Thanks Dan :), and if you ever want go w/ us, just hit me up and we can work a special price up for you for your contribution
- Lee
No, that is an XSS exploitation (juxtapose: prevention) cheat sheet.
Ah that's great. I'm definitely slanted because of my experience in California, where earthquake regulations basically mean no masonry construction ever, and very rarely anything other than wood framing for residential houses.
Orthodoxy, in all ways seems to plague people. Plus you get that employee who has the unorthodox beliefs and you know you've got someone whose had to think about them. Someone whose had to overcome the inertia and social pressure for conformity.

In business, repeating what others have done is not nearly as profitable is discovering something new. This could be new technology, but it can also come from understanding the market in a way that others did not see.

Groupon could have been done in 1998 or 2003. It is not technically all that complex, but the different perspective on the market created massive value.
37signals want their design back.

Edit: Come on, the site design is a rip off of the product site of i.a. http://backpackit.com/
I am organizing a distribution package. I believe it could take up to 4-6 weeks (sorry).
Online reviews fix that. 200 times "hated the landlord, terrible service" says a lot.
Marc Bodnick Leaves Elevation to Become Quora’s CFO
Huh? Having a great headline for normal people generally means it's a crappy headline for tech people. Regardless, tech people have non-technical friends/relatives that they might send this to.

Regardless of your opinion (and mine) you should A/B test your headline to maximize the traffic/attention you are getting.
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For someone who isn't in the Java trenches, what is new or notable in this post that hasn't been discussed previously? What interesting new phenomena is in play? What can I expect to pique my intellectual curiosity?
What the fuck man? You've got balls of steel.
Not mentioned, but reddit use embedly -- thought that might be... interesting?

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/04/now-this-is-how-you-pitch-you...
Everything coming out of the SABR community (SABR=society of american baseball researchers) says that high school stats are 99.9% worthless. The reasons are many, but mainly it's the following: inconsistent contexts (fields, opponents, level of play) and small sample size. Most analysis suggests a full season (~700 plate appearances) isn't really enough for a hitter; h.s. seasons are generally around 100AB.
I'm surprised to see Dawkins get this so wrong. I suspect holding opposing beliefs about a thing is quite common.
I've heard that Apple still maintains WebObjects for Objective-C for the iTunes Store (and for Radar).
Something I've wondered for a while: how does the strategy pattern differ from just passing a function pointer?
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First time I've heard this take on a Zeno's paradox (I had to wikipedia it to find out it was a Zeno's paradox). I've always known it from the Meg Ryan movie I.Q. in the scene where Ed tries to cover the distance to Catherine by moving half the distance each time. I find it kind of amusing that at 27 this is the first time hearing a take on the Tortoise and Achilles for something math related I learned a long time ago from pop culture instead.
Every business has these kinds of customers. Hopefully your only plan for dealing with them is not to make it more difficult for all of your customers to contact you, including the 99% who never bother you.
Spreading the word is probably the best way to support the project, thanks for asking. Buying a paperback results in a few bucks royalty for me - which is nice - but will never pay for my time on this (not the point anyway).

I have two proof copies sitting here on my desk - the code does not look fuzzy to me, but as you allude, LuLu subcontracts to local printers and paperbacks may vary by region.
Thanks, that's the exact expected use case. You don't need to host your static sites on servers that you might want to move/decommission in the future, you can just host them all on one GAE instance for free.
IANAL, but wouldn't the correct analogy actually be a website placing a "need help?" button on their page? Which is of course common.
"But since the punch card went out of fashion a while ago and bits are nearly free (screen width otoh is not) it doesn't hurt to name all your variables descriptively."

The bits are free but there's still a mental cost to reading them.

I once rigorously used long-names for everything. But now, I'm working on an algorithm where the operations are what matter, short names actually help me grasp everything at once. As you say, these would be short local variable. Having i, j, k be the standard indexing variable can make some situations clearer.
> Clearly, this gay person is choosing to discriminate based on religion.

Not really. It's a subtle difference, but it's more like discriminating against someone for being a jerk. Or perhaps insensitive.

a) If the person wasn't religious but said the same thing, one might discriminate the same way. (Therefore showing it wasn't because of religion)

b) Alternatively, if someone was religious, but wasn't judgmental, presumably you wouldn't have a problem with them.
Wrong article.. You meant to comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2143977
I don't believe nested functions like you're using there are valid C. They're a nonstandard extension that some compilers implement because they're so handy. So this basically illustrates that C gets closer Lisp's usability when you add Lispy features to it.
Doesn't the RSS icon in Firefox only show up when an RSS feed is present? Has Mozilla corrected their stats for that? https://heatmap.mozillalabs.com/mozmetrics/?os=all&color... Maybe it was only clicked by 7.3% of the users but 10% of the users went to a site that had an RSS feed available.
"getting wealthy in a place like modern USA are doing it much more by building and serving, not lying/cheating/stealing/killing/etc."

Perhaps you are not aware of a little insignificant place called Washington.

I really wonder just how many really rich and powerful people there are in the US (or even the world) who did not have to horse trade with that little town.

And what was it that they traded, I wonder? Yes, I'm sure it was all on the up and up, and nothing illegal or immoral was done.

Everyone gets rich through their own hard work, blood, sweat, and tears. And no one else gets hurt in the process.

And don't even get me started on the violence inherent in the system that makes so much "wealth building" possible.
If 99% of your value is in the base product and 1% is in the advanced features, most people will chooses the cheapest plan available.

My customers don't care about ssl or extra storage so they'll always choose the cheaper plan. But if the basic plan was +$10 what percentage would still buy it?
Out of the box it seems very speedatingesque. While amazingly fun if you have a good group, one bad guest might ruin the night for the rest of the group. If this takes off, then awesome - a new way to meet people. However I think that the grubwithus guys are going to hit quite a few social hurdles along the way.
Quora monetization strategy: Promoted Questions paid and supported by Businesses? Freemium, survey monkey style? What other monetization models could they leverage?
Should `the Internet make a anti-parked domain law`?
Would you vote YES or NO on a set of rules that would expire a unused and not-human parked domain after some days?
Adsense doesnt have phone support and significant money changes hands there.
Your question is ill-posed. None of these languages are inherently terrible. Terrible languages don't appear in lists like this.

If you have a very specific problem that you need to solve, it may be that one language or another is an especially bad choice. But in general all of them work. Indeed, the four which you cite are more similar than different.

Many people would agree that C++ is a relatively poor choice of language for most "web development" projects, and yet there are many fine web-based systems built in C++. The original Amazon.com was written in C++ and it didn't exactly fail:

http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture
> The way we're headed, religious belief is becoming more and more fringe

Any references?
It's official, Android 3.0 uses hardware rendering for the UI
I am starred on this bug and it was changed to status released today.

Make android use the GPU (if available) for UI and browsing.

Status: Released

Closed: Today

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914
http://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/...
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50,000 seems like a lot of URLs, especially if an app centralized and can cache its calls to Embedly. $20/month seems more than reasonable for this number of URLs.
For kids? Or for computer scientists who are looking for their dogma in children's book form? It's humorous, yes, but I don't see a child understanding the concepts behind it when presented in this form.
Ask HN: Disbursement / Payout Systems
I am currently working at a young startup and we are looking into ways to make payouts to consumers. I thought I would ask the HN network if there is anything out there other than

* Paypal

* Amazon Payments

* Amazon On Demand Gift Cards

Also if any of you have any general advice or stories to tell, I would love to hear them.
Congrats, looks great!
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3D movies and the human eye
The Not $0.99 Method - the DIY Alternative for Indie [e]Books, Comics
Err Ok... you have a point to make but it is not what you think it is. :) It has nothing to do with Java Programmers. It has everything to do with premature optimization and implantation of Design Patters for the sake of Implementing a Design Pattern ... for more information on what I am trying to get at please read Refactoring to Patterns [http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=013265119X]
Great idea. Suggestion: for me location matters more than date so maybe add a map view?
It's pretty spot-on for JS...
> The way we're headed, religious belief is becoming more and more fringe.

Not really https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Demographics_... but even if it was so, at which point is it OK to discriminate against people holding fringe views?
That seems like the exception in the US though.

In the UK using cheques for anything is the rare exception. The plan is to phase them out within a few years, but already hardly anyone uses them any more.
Scala would be a fucking awesome mainstream language.
I'd like to get more of a sense of why it took you 2 years... is anyone using it yet? A blog post on your process would be great. 2 years seems like a long time (assuming you don't have a bunch of customers already using it).
This is why I shouldn't come on the Internet in the morning, I simply cannot parse words correctly. Sorry.
Robert Cialdini's work also has some examples - http://www.influenceatwork.com/
FCC's rules to protect Internet access spark claims of violations
Sure, that's fine, those are pretty close to universal.

It would actually be less readable if you suddenly started to use long names for loop variables and such.
Nice catch. I just grepped the text and can see what you mean. I've logged an issue for it: https://github.com/jbrownlee/CleverAlgorithms/issues#issue/1...
Intel Technology Will Eliminate Zero-Day Threats
I've always liked the Yahoo Answers 'Points system' approach. Surely Quora could find a way to monetize using virtual goods & in-app transactions.
That's a nice simple explanation of the points-free style, thanks!

But still, I don't feel like this approach would become useful unless/until you reached the point that it could condense a two-line formula into one line (ei, five or six applications further).

I strong suspect that in that case you'd have the kind of formula you only grasp at a glance after you'd working with it intensively for a while.

And this gets into the realm of "write only code" - code too compressed for anyone but it's original author to approach.
Was going to say the same thing, At least get your stuff showing more than a blank page- Sheesh.
I tried this a few weeks ago in Chicago and it was great. One of my favorite parts is that we didn't have to worry about splitting up the bill. I'd love to set up grubwith.us's open only to my friends. Paying in advance also eliminates the flake factor.

This will probably change as I say this: but women outnumbered men 2 to 1 in the dinner I attended (8 & 4). What other social startup has an early adopter profile like that?
Even early stabs at x-bar theory indicate that natural languages are highly homoiconic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory
At the bottom of the Product Description, it has pagecount in parentheses (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004K1F9KG/ref=docs-os-doi_... says (34 pages))
There are situations where it really helps though. If you have a series of operations that are unique enough not to be handled by a loop but that change in subtle ways making the changes stand out is an easy way to verify that you're doing it right.
One minor suggestion. Make it easier to get to documentcloud.org/public from documentcloud.org ... the marketing copy on the home page is a bit distracting and it's WAY more compelling to just see the documents.

I'm a huge fan of backbone.js and underscore.js. Fantastic work.