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This is an old article, already discussed on HN. For those interested in previous discussions, here are the links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=515684

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899
IIRC, another thing which keeps processes open is database access.

I'm not sure, but I think that with Apache + Django, you get something like: Apache gets request, gives it to Django, Django asks MySQL for a value, waits, waits, waits (taking up lots of memory, but not too much CPU, but your host charges for RAM), waits a little more, gets a value from MySQL, puts it in a template, hands the response to Apache, which then sends the response to the client.
I, too, randomly chose a topic (building water tanks from bamboo and food-grade plastic film), and its image links were broken. Kind of worrying for the future.
RubyGems' Gem Activation is Changing
Quite an annoying article - creating conflict for the sake of it?

StackExchange and Quora are only very superficially similar. StackExchange is very specifically about asking questions that have definitive answers, and getting those answers.

Quora is a question-based social network discussion site.

Not the same thing at all.
I haven't read that particular book. I pointed out Feynman's magnets because they were a bit of a recurring joke on reddit (I refuse to use the word meme) and found ironic redditors fell in the same trap.

On a margin note, the best book I've read about explaining modern physics to the layman is this: http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Physics-Albert-Einstein/dp/0...
I enjoyed reading the article, and I wouldn't have found it if it wasn't here on HN. If it shouldn't be here (according to the HN community) it wouldn't be sitting at the top of the news page.
You managed to turn a simple feature request into subtle anti-gay propaganda, whether you meant it or not.
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I agree about 31 but not necessarily about zebra or pi. A reasonably meaningful metric is compressibility of the sequence, or how short code could produce it. Although that just opens a different can of worms, it could be argued that 31,41 is better solution than the one given in answer in OP which is better than pi or zebra.
Too bad they won't ask about manhole covers anymore. I figured that one out on my own a long, long time ago. (free points!)

P.S. If you know why they make them round, then do you know why they don't make them triangular? ;)
Another thing that's better about reading on iPad versus a laptop or desktop LCD screen is that you can hold it almost any angle. To me, that's the best advantage. I read and write a lot on my iPad, and being able to sit with it at a more comfortable angle is a huge advantage to me. It definitely feels better on my eyes after looking at a desktop monitor for hours. That'd be subjective, though, but my experience is that the iPad feels easier on my eyes.

That said, I'm not sure if it's better on your neck versus a standard laptop in your lap. My neck hurts if I'm using a netbook on my lap too long, so I'm always using it at a desk or table. It never feels that bad typing in my lap on iPad, though.
I only want the windows visible that are relevant to the task. That usually means one window - possible two. I want everything else invisible including bits of my desktop peeking through the edges. It's all just clutter.

How on earth you work with Twitter always visible onscreen I don't know. Do you get anything done!?
Awesome; this question has been a thorn in my side for so long. It's great to get a clear picture of it!
I've often wondered how long it would take us to rebuild computers from scratch, in case of a world catastrophe (nuclear war, zombie invasion...). Of course, we would have other, more urgent needs (food, shelter, healthcare...), but it's an interesting thought experiment.

I use a computer every day, but I wouldn't know where to start to rebuild one from scratch. There are books like "Linux from scratch", but it is far from enough: we would need to "re-invent" electricity, silicon, assembly languages, operating systems... With the division of labour, nobody has the knowledge to build all this.

I think it would take centuries to re-create what we have now. The cool thing is, we wouldn't need to care about backward compatibility / legacy apps, and we could skip C++ and immediately standardize on Lisp ;)
I'm still using the now moribund Python on Netbeans as my day to day IDE.

I'd love someone to pick that project up too. I recall someone looked into it and decided it was too big a job.

Shame because it's 90% there and definitely usable in it's current state.
The iPad have more quality screen that almost all laptops, but if your eyes get tired, maybe you need to change your environment too.

The eyes are very complex, there are a lot of things you can do to improve:

1)use lights to illuminate the room, sounds stupid but your environment needs to have the same luminosity than your screens, because when you glaze at it it needs accommodation of the eyes.

2) Adjust the screen global luminosity, refer to 1.

3)If you can, like on linux, change your window theme to a dark one, so light contrast do not fatigue your eyes, something like this will do:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Atolm?content=136789

4)Change your browser default background and text foreground colors at night(background of 90% web pages use to be white, with so much bright areas, better bright on dark than dark on write). It will look bad at first but your eyes will improve a lot.
A different account of Forth, which convinced me at least to stay away from it:
http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi...
Absolutely this. I got by somehow and then had to re-guess my way through it all over again just recently.

My other major pain is the app review process, mostly due to a short-tempered, impatient ex-boss I must add, but the waits can be horrendous. I can wait a week to be rejected over a 10 second fix that then takes a further week to get in. Alas, no one but Apple can help with this one.

Oh - and one that hopefully doesn't apply to many others: we had a particularly vicious competitor who rallied his chums and gave our apps 1 star reviews. They even used their real names. That didn't help much!
Nope, that was exactly what I was expecting too.
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For techies, the font is also an important decision.
With Han typography we have:

Song(CN)/Ming(TW)/Mincho(JP) ≍ Serif
Hei(CN)/Gothic(JP) ≍ Sans
Kai ≍ Script

Personally I use WenQuanYi Zen Hei
http://wenq.org/enindex.cgi
Yeah, I was talking to Hilary Mason at FOWA and she mentioned this.

ImEveryone (my own site) uses it to, but we're not quite bitly sized.
"You have 2 supposedly unbreakable light bulbs and a 100-floor building. Using fewest possible drops, determine how much of an impact this type of light bulb can withstand. (i.e. it can withstand a drop from 17th floor, but breaks from the 18th).
Note that the ever-popular binary search will give you a worst case of 50 drops. You should be able to do it with under 20."

Maybe there's something I don't understand, because my reaction to that question was "lolwut?"

In that scenario, with a binary search you drop from the 50th, 25th, 13th, 19th, 16th, 17th and 18th floors.

By my back of the postage stamp calculations you need to do (log N) + 1 drops...

My question: how did they get a number of 50 for binary search??? Is it because you're limited to 2 failures? And by 'binary search' they mean something like start at floor 2 and drop, if it is still intact go to floor 4 and then drop it, if it breaks you don't know about floor 3, so you have to use the remaining one to check that. That's not binary search, that's linear.

To do it in 20 or less drops you could drop it from the 20th floor, and if it smashes, go to floor 1 and start going up in increments of 1. Otherwise go to floor 39 and drop it (etc). But that makes me think it is not the best for that starting number, we can do better. Just pull out the good old (n^2 + n)/2 formula again and the first one in that progression that ticks over the 100 threshold is 14. So we drop it at floor 14 first, if it breaks then start from floor 1 and go up. Otherwise go up 13 floors and repeat...

Our major floor increments are 14, 27, 39, 50, 60, 69, 77, 84, 90, 95, 99.

I'm not sure if there is a better solution, if you have one, feel free to chip in. :D
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1068715 for a lot of discussion on this.
Recently, I think we've learnt that HBGary.* aren't actually very good at anything, no?
No. good wrong answers are just as valuable in seeing your thought processes in action.

This, of course, assumes a good interviewer. If you're dealing with HR-type people then you're screwed anyway unless you play buzzword-bingo.
I'm pretty sure a triangular one can fall down its hole if tilted properly.
> This is an incredible power. The power to effectively drain the bank account of every customer who has ever done business with you.

And in the case of EA/Mythic Entertainment / Warhammer Online, this has happened last year
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-430817

(billing past and present customers multiple times, sometimes incurring huge overdraft fees and leaving some stranded without access to money over a weekend as the banks would block their debit cards)
I see. I think people are being too sensitive.
> There's no reverse sexism at play here, just good old
> fashioned regular sexism, where a commenter assumed that
> the author of something insightful was a man.

No sexism there. Given the number of men in science vs. that of women it is pretty safe bet probability-wise.

> This attitude (and your response to it) goes a long way
> to explaining why computerland is such a sausage party.

It explains absolutely nothing. Girls not going to some field because of the attitude of people they don't know because they are not in the field yet?
And "sausage party" deserves a flag, imho.
That is begging the question -- it moves the "I am totally winging this because it makes me feel superior" from the "prefer 'elegant' answers" to "prefer 'elegant' languages for writing compressed descriptions of problems".

A rigorous program expressing the sequences to which "pi" and "zebra" are the next answers takes only 0 bits and 1 bits respectively to compress in Patio11, a pedantic language created purely for the purpose of this post. It is far more rigorous than either English or C-style pseudocode, has a well-defined grammar, and could have an interpreter written in any common programming language that would fit on the side of a business card.

I stick with the original contention: any problem of this nature is about either identifying birds of a feather or lording one's intellectual superiority over the candidate.
Sacrificing the Open Web with H.264
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Ah, if we could download it directly in haml... :)
I believe PayPal Website Payments Pro is just a payment gateway and merchant account in one. The customer never knows PayPal are involved, it's all handled on your site and via their API.

Whereas Google and Amazon's services are exactly like PayPal's traditional service, where your customers are redirected to their site to make payment. I don't think either of them provide a payment-gateway like service.
If I were given questions like these, I would politely refuse to answer them explaining they have nothing to do with the important things a typical software developer does.

Having a solid portfolio of past successful projects to demonstrate your abilities (including participation in a open source development) is way safer than being able to solve artificial problems.
Oldie http://hebig.org/blog/003029.php
Rdio and Spotify side-by-side interface comparison
Operational Risk Comprises More than Just Security
>Companies that make a product that's fun to use, but have never earned a dime from me and probably never will.

> Members: Facebook, Twitter, and Pandora.

Hm, that's not true. Facebook, Twitter, and Pandora probably have made a dime off you if you've been using or posting to them. It's called ads -- and your attention is the product they sell.
The article is mostly trolling.
I've been thinking that the iPod Touch is a kind of weird market segment for a while, yet it's been selling strongly.

They're basically aiming for people to young or poor to get an iPhone, a market that the ever decreasing price of Android phones should start to eat into, as will a low price iPhone if recent rumors are to be believed, to the point of it being an evolutionary dead end.

I hadn't considered the impact of iPhone being carrier locked in the US. I wonder how this will impact sales and development interest from Apple.
Funny how housing wasn't a bubble.

What was the old troll again, making fun of the way the press was rah-rahing the housing bubble? Oh yeah..

"It's a new paradigm, and everybody who doesn't buy, now, will be priced out forever. Anybody who does buy will be rewarded with a lifetime of riches, as their property will continue its 30% yearly price increase.

Renters, and anybody born in a future generation, will not be able to afford a $10,000,000 starter home in 15 years. They will live in tent cities, and Hondas.

This asset bubble is different than all of the others - it will never slow down, or pop. The gains are permanent."
>I love, love, love Pandora. I listen to it nearly every single day over my 3G connection on my iPad. [...] Who is subscribing to ad-free Pandora? You don't even look at the site when you're listening to music. Who cares if there are ads on it?

I think if he really listened to Pandora every day, he would have noticed that there are frequent audio ads between songs.
It's condescending, belittling and sarcastic IMHO.

Judge things on their merit. Seeing posts upvoted simply because they're made by females is sad.
It's hard to deny his influence when I was able to picture the same woman almost perfectly.
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This, along with the JSONloops stuff, inspired me to finally download and play around with node. I would definitely be interested in a more in depth tutorial, specifically more on setting up mongodb and connecting mongoose and on how to break controllers out from the main app.js file.
Who are these people you are talking about?
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If I secretly admire a person, I would've been stalking her profile very regularly already. This app is not too useful to me personally.
Ask HN: Please Review WhereMyFriends.Be (Google Maps/Facebook mashup)
Hey HN,

We are the same students that released FavoriteThing.Me last week and we're back with another creation: http://wheremyfriends.be

This started as a very crude mash-up of the Facebook and Google Maps APIs that I put together one night after class. Then @ajaymehta and @dshipper saw it while in my room and we thought it would be a cool weekend project!

Basically it allows you to login with your Facebook and see a map with all of your friends on it based on their current location. We are using Google Maps' Latest Javascript API to geocode and place friends that we get from Facebook connect to show people just how worldly they are :)

We ran into some Google API rate limits, but fixed it by storing some of the geocoding data locally on our MySQL DB. We will learn MongoDB next.

We are also currently asking for permissions to publish to users' walls and are posting as soon as the map has finished loading. What do you guys think about this from a design standpoint? We are trying to balance increasing our virality with friction logging-in and potential user annoyance since we're posting on their wall (only once though).

This was meant to be something simple to create but really fun for users to play around with.

Any/all feedback would be great, and if you want to see the code we're releasing it on GitHub soon (after we sleep for 2 hrs and go to class).

[UPDATE] Our Facebook connect was down for several minutes because somehow our app was deleted from the Facebook developers page. We had to create a new Facebook app and change our config file. Should be up now. Sorry everyone!
Thanks!
I think you need to take a look at this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2237789
Please, please, don't anyone follow the link to "Drive: the surprising truth about motivation" and think "Woah! I'll submit that to HN" - and then submit it.

Please, don't. It's been submitted many times before.
I did > 8 interviews with Google and never encountered anything resembling manhole/ping-pong ball problems; this was more than two years ago and my friends who've interviewed since haven't mentioned them either.

Still, limiting the number of interviews to 5 or so is at the very least a positive step towards reducing the chance of people meeting someone from what steve yegge calls their "interview anti-loop" (see: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...; short version - sets of interviewers whose favourite subjects/questions happen to not overlap with your particular specialities, and will therefore have a much dimmer view of your talents than differently focused colleagues).

Also, a problem with many many interviews is it's even harder for a candidate who has been given no significant post-rejection feedback to figure out what needed improvement or where you weren't a good fit; I'm reduced to speculating that maybe number 7 was a bit iffy? Or maybe 4 and 7?
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It wouldn't take centuries and the division of labor isn't worse than that you don't need more than 6 or so people with the right skills to build the equivalent of a 1985 computer.

The problem is that they would get killed once the security of the world (police and the military) disappear and humanity decent into chaos.
BBC World News podcast, at least from last April.

Google it.
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By the time the status changes it's probably too late for a significant number of cases, whereby 2 weeks later the status is 'in relationship' again.

However, there's probably some worthwhile activity in monitoring wall posts from ex's in the period running up to the status change?

Humans are completely unpredictable mind... haha :)
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A fun app but really is this the "kind" of choice we want to make? I'm worried about these forward-focused apps mean to privacy in the long term.
Recent discussion with so many good links I am not yet done reading them all:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239281
One of the exciting things about underground currencies like Bitcoin is a freedom to experiment with new banking techniques, impossible to implement with "real money" like dollars because of the regulations and paperwork. While technically bitcoin et al may fall under guidelines for foreign currencies, the likelihood of enforcement is very low, unless btc gets serious mainstream traction (i.e., in your dreams).

Our current banking platforms are horribly obsolete and disjointed. In the day of ecommerce everyone wants an online store and needs a merchant account. A good demo banking platform with btc can light the way.
I think therefore I exist.
I like tablets, so your logic axiom is proven false.

Why do I love tablets?

I like having a computer I can move with, I can jump with, that is lean and lightweight.

I like using my computer in my car with GPS, and tablets are awesome here.

I like rotating the screen because reading is better in portrait mode. I read a lot.

I like using my fingers and hands to interact with my computer.

I love being able to draw and take notes on the screen directly(soon tablets will be able to do this as the touch resolution increases).

Of course if Windows, or better Ubuntu and Mac worked on tablets I will love it even more. Eventually is going to happen, what do you think MacOSX lion is aimed for? They are quietly paving the road for that integration in the future.
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And "sausage party" deserves a flag, imho.

I honestly cannot wait for the many articles explaining how to make one in pure CSS.
The problem with niche open-source products is that you won't find enough developers to pick up development for free after they are abandoned by the original authors.

So, unless some company steps in to sponsor this and/or users start financing this somehow, there is a high chance that the module becomes less functional with every major release if API changes are introduced.

I work fulltime on a NetBeans Platform application (for a 3rd party, not Oracle) and I know the internals of the NetBeans community but I am still waiting to see a nice community hand-over of an open-source project/module.

The way I see it the limitation seems to be mostly economical -- developers need to eat too but developers are also the least likely to pay for tools.
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> the lack of backlight makes it harder to read (esp. since I'm reading at night, and don't want to have a light on

You'll have to admit that this is a very particular use case though.
that test is quite funny considering maintaining an irc connection needs you to respond with a pong from pings, and xmpp doesnt
Even if the lightbulbs are breakable I think you would need a maximum of (2√n)-1 drops - i.e. go up in increments of √n then when it breaks work forward from the previous drop.