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A truly good writer can not only write well, but can mimic the writing of great writers. This guy is a great writer.

Also--that whole thing is hilarious.
(I'm Australian)

"Just stating facts, guys," Lekha began, as we scribbled notes, "Australia is known as the dumbest continent. Literally, college was unknown there until recently. So speak slowly." Next to me, a young man in a turban wrote No college in his notebook.

I can't comment on the dumbest continent thing, but it is true that the Indian accent often sounds very fast to Australians.

"Australians drink constantly," Lekha continued. "If you call on a Friday night, they'll be smashed—every time."

lol.

"Oh, and don't attempt to make small talk with them about their pets, okay? They can be quite touchy about animals."

WTF?? Where did they get this from? Can anyone explain the source for this?
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Hi Rob! Long time no see; how are you?

Termite is not intended for compiling Go, but rather for large projects that use C++, Java, etc, and especially for projects that cannot use DistCC. In particular, a large project that uses DEX comes to mind, but I imagine there are others.

It's also a spin-off of my FUSE library in Go: I was looking for something that really needs FUSE to be effective, and a language that supports concurrency and networking so easily as Go is awesome for building a distributed system.

I'm surprised at the attention it got (25 followers on github); I had intended to write an official announcement only after I reached a serious milestone (eg. compiling the linux kernel in a few seconds.)

As for the name, I was thinking of a social insect in Brazil; maybe I should change the name to Cupim.
Maybe it can generalize to, "things you've never been part of all seem the same, while things you're personally involved in all seem unique."
I like the design, but the ads interrupt it, so maybe move those off to the margins. Other than that? Excellent!
why are you asking for the user's location? you know it already.

http://goingtorain.com/
The Kinect only relies on Prime Sense in the form of their hardware. All the algorithms and software are entirely developed by MS Research. This point is made more clear by the fact that Microsoft didn't acquire exclusive rights from Prime Sense but is instead banking on the superiority of their algorithms.

I've played around with the Kinect, and without Microsoft's code, all you really get from the hardware is a depth image (think an RGB image with distance from camera for each pixel instead of intensity). Everything else is developed by Microsoft, and it is not an easy feat.

Prime Sense developed their own software for pose detection and tracking, but it is inferior to the XBox360 implementation.
Yes: http://www.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-upda...

If you are a admin for a large site, this is useful: http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer...
> There's more to fear from all the security cameras that blanket our cities than from an artist trying to make a point (or non-point).

Nitpick: His being an artist isn't relevant here. What he is doing isn't a work of art. It seems like somehow the article's headline is making it seem like art is being censored which isn't the case.
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A healthy amount of the writing of the world still begins life in a word processor.

Any string born of this heritage is likely to have single and double (curved) quotation marks. OpenOffice, Word, Pages – they all do it and are expected to.

For that reason, I consider them to be reasonably present in ordinary string data.
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Browser error messages and warning dialogs about POST data and mixed encrypted and un-encrypted data are worse than useless.

Browsers need to be silent by default regarding things that users are not equipped to make decisions about.
mine was -2, now it is 0, see, it pays to be a lazy slob
The DOM + Javascript manipulations of it. Specifically the zillion ways.

Replaced with something else. Just about anything else, so long as it's a single clear standard.
I find Google Tasks unusable, along with many other task management tools, simply because of the lack of ability to assign a task to someone else. Manymoon is probably the closest I've come to nirvana, and even still it was sorely lacking for being an on-demand tool.
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I've like SRV records to work correctly. So URLs could be

http://example.com

https://example.com

ftp://example.com

skype://example.com

mail://example.com

and the correct servers (or aliases) would get pointed to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
> to use it under fair use we should include a copyright disclaimer.

Reusing copyrighted images most likely doesn't count as "fair use".
Yeap: that kind of money are dangerous for a start up.
We have become a society obsessed with bureaucracy. We worship it.
I completely disagree. Read what you just posted... you got to the test and answered the questions. That means you read through the entire privacy policy. If any other policy would have been linked here, you would have skimmed it and moved on to the next front page HN link. The "game" design entices people to read, and is a very smart way to get people to read boring stuff.
The machines are wiped automatically at night. The cost to apple to remove his software is no greater than what they do anyway...
So who will guard the guards? I fail to see any oversight whatsoever. Ohh and look who these 6 major ISPs are. TimeWarner Cable sounds like they may have a few copyrights laying around... Major conflicts of interest? You bet.

And what does this mean for the thousands of coffee shops, book stores, and other wi-fi hotspots which dynamically assign ip addresses? Most likely: nothing pleasant.

Its a fine day when not only do corporations wield ridiculous power of lawmakers, but can form agreements tantamount to monopoly power. Net neutrality? Good luck with that.
But it was fun wasn't it?
I'd like to be able to browse my favorite sites with a browser as secure, stable and responsive as Emacs or Vim

-- even if this stable/responsive browser is unable to run 3-D immersive games and other desktop-like software

-- and even if this browser does not run Javascript very well. (Of course this last part would work only if my favorite sites do not rely heavily on Javascript, which is currently the case.)
Children normally find it easier to adapt to new things. E.g. "Hole in the Wall" experiments: http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm

Related TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_educa...
There are many dialects of BASIC and many old ones on old micro-computers had poor features like GOTO or 2-character variable names...

Nevertheless, for as long as you do grow out of it and move on... Why not! Don't forget to move on, that's important.

It's possible to find really old books with like scientific/financial calculations in BASIC, but don't get under the illusion that you can easily do anything "practical". For play/practice, go ahead! But please do move on it you keep at it.
When you visit a webpage to consume some content, such as a written article, a picture, or a video, that should be the main focal-point of whatever you're doing, and nothing else should be allowed to interrupt or delay you from consuming it. This includes pop-up/hover dialog boxes, advertisements which waist your time, webpages animating their skeleton while you're trying to read now-moving text, grouped-content unnecessarily split across multiple pages, etc...

All of these things annoy users, and introduce inefficiency to the entire internet race. How many trillions of seconds are lost every year because of this? Do you think in 2050 people will put up with 30 second commercials before watching a 1 minute Hulu clip?

Obviously a lot of these things exist to fund websites, and getting rid of them would destroy business models. There needs to be a way to de-annoy the internet, and compensate content providers for lost revenue.

The number of solutions are plenty, but finding the best one will be tricky. It would have to be adopted by most of the internet to succeed, after-all.

One idea might be to bill at the ISP-level. Each client pays ~$100/mo (made up number), where $50 of that goes to the ISP, and the other $50 goes into a bucket. Pending on what websites you visit online, and for how long, they earn a certain percentage of that bucket and get paid at the end of the month. Users who only want to pay $50/mo get the annoying internet.

How would you do it?
The cartoons make me feel much more at ease.

I particularly felt more at ease when selling my information to 3rd parties is presented as "Sharing". What nice folks over at Zynga, their just like my Uncle Jim who runs a real farm.
Apparently now all posts by user NY_USA_Hacker are within a few hours automatically marked as "dead". Someone at HN really does NOT like NY_USA_Hacker!

The shame is on HN and Paul. As the HN community figures this out, the 'community' of HN will fall. Paul is playing fast and loose with objectivity and open discussion.
I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy.

Here is my futuristic view of how this can be used, you walk into a Starbucks, it recognizes you, even if this is your first time entering this specific Starbucks, and you say the usual. Your coffee is ordered knowing your 'usual' at Starbucks. Your identity is already confirmed so payment is a breeze, perhaps a pin for extra security. Just a funky idea of what I could see sometime from now.
For typography, yes.

For many blogs in the hacker community, source code snippets inside <code> tags can also be given "smart quotes", which completely breaks any strings that may be present.

You forget that Wordpress is used for many people outside of the writing community. When writing, and if the writer cares about having their word properly typeset, then the author can do so themselves. Wordpress tries to be smart about it, and covert them, but many people do not care about such features. The developers, however, do.

Also, may I remind everyone, downvotes on HN are not for disagreement, they are for factually incorrect statements.
The lack of collaboration functionality continues to be a weird oversight.
That book is also good; and the Black Swan grew out of a section within it.
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Unpolite yes, but not enough to warrant a visit from the Secret Service.
URL as only one word(alphabets) no use of dots, slashes and other funky characters, like while you want to go to google you simply type
google
Web Development. HTML and CSS weren't meant to do the things they are being used to now..
yes! that was the original convention on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET.
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Yes. Use an Android device with Chrome. Most users are stuck with whatever came from the phone. iPhone far outperforms in terms of % upgrades.

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
Yeah, your game sucks. Now make people play it.
Google pays $140 Million a year to Firefox to be the search default. Given the choice, I believe they would prefer to keep the $140 Million and just have people use Chrome.
Mozilla ex-CEO John Lilly like "Hitler and the Downfall of Firefox"?
I could be wrong, don't remember for sure, but I believe photo laws state that even on private property, where there is no expectation of property, you must only cease when asked to leave. You can still keep photos taken prior to being asked to leave.

I have also had Apple employees at MacWorld tell me that since I was a far drive from their campus labs that I could always go to an Apple Store and install and test my software. I am sure this is not an officially endorsed thing, but it is something many people are suggested to do.

Many many youtube videos in the past have hit near meme status for a short time at least being made entirely in an Apple Store. At least half a million views or so. Apple has never C&D'd these performances.

I see the points people are making, but I have to be honest, were it my idea, I would never have thought I would have had a computer taken from me for it. More like simply asked to stop.

PhotoBooth does not delete images, they all end up rather hidden in the camera roll. Anyone can go in there and upload them to any site they desire.

How do sites like "pics of my ex gf" and "pics of random strangers" etc become allowed if this is not? In both those examples, the person the photo was taken of did not consent. There are a million adult'ish sites that take photo submissions.
IMO it’s not bad that Wordpress auto-educates quotes, it’s that it does it even within code blocks. Which is inexcusable, for precisely the reason you mention.

Markdown + SmartyPants are a better solution IMO. (And you can install WP plugins that do this and that disable Wordpress’ default quote educator.)
This reminds me of "Build one to throw away; you're going to do it anyway."
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Some people just don't have the need for a computer, I don't see why that would be a problem if they are happy with how they're life is going without it.
Good news, but too bad there aren't small EC2 instances yet.
Worst piece of design ever done
Age of Conan
Multiplayer games Age of Conan adapted from the novel by Robert E. Howard with the same title. Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures games tell the adventures of Conan in Hyborian kingdoms. Interestingly this game, players can create characters according to his imagination, the player can choose from four characters are playable races. Characters in Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures is registered to a unique user account on a particular online server, with characters created on one server can not be played on the other.
Good tutorial. I recommend checking out this version http://jqfundamentals.com/book/ which is basically a prettier version of the home page. Weird that it isn't linked to from the home page.
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Back in 1999, a computer scientist at Cornell University began monitoring the way that the Windows NT 4.0 operating system used files. What he found was astonishing.

About 80 per cent of all files that NT creates are either over-written or deleted within 5 seconds of being born.

Today, Ragib Hasan and Randal Burns at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore say this ought to give programmers pause for thought. Deleting data requires energy, which means that a substantial fraction of a computer system’s energy budget is currently devoted to creating and then almost immediately scrubbing data.

And if the wasted energy weren’t bad enough, computer memory has a limited life span. Flash memory, for example, has a lifespan of 100,000 cycles. So cycling it needlessly brings the inevitable breakdown closer.
I think differently. Normal C loop codes are hard to optimize using SIMD as the context and it's freedom can be the limiting factor.

But in python, the vector operations are normally programmed using simple array semantics. For example in NumPy:

>>> a = array( [2,3,4] )
>>> b = array( [2,3,4] )
>>> a+b
[4,6,8]

These can be easily converted into SIMD operations.

It's matter of time before PyPy's new NumPy implementation take traction and make simply beautiful optimizing JITs using that.
I found myself making decisions based on things other than attractiveness alone.

This might be better done w/ unknown stock photos. But I realize it's really just an exercise in programming.
I think it might be a good idea to do pairwise comparison instead.
Funny that this old UNIX approach is coming back. Using that I work (for every windows) and it's nice.
What 4500 video streams look like...
I chuckled at the name--good choice.
This guy doesn't really get it. I assume he's talking about "high transaction volume" when he's talking about scalability. Anyone who knows anything about scaling to high transaction volumes knows that it's not SQL that gets in the way, it's ACID. Transactions don't scale regardless of whether they're implemented in a SQL database or a NoSQL database. This guy's VoltDB project is still shackled by ACID properties, and I don't really see the advantage of it over using MySQL with the in-memory storage engine.

tl;dr -- a lot of NoSQL ("NewSQL!?") information is FUD.
The mobile webview is what made it essential for me.
You are indeed NAL.
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He's improved, but still has a long way to go. A lot of "Um's" and "Ah's" in his presentations. Watch a pro like Seth Godin and you'll likely see 0 in any talk he gives.
Just wait until this happens and it's not an artist who did it. Everyone here saying it's no big deal will do a 180. It's not his intent but his actions.
Not entirely surprising really. Zynga makes no secret [1] of the fact that they don't actually design anything. They are very clear about the practice of copying [2] whatever is popular, slapping their own name onto it and peddling it off as their own.

And to top it all off, they then proceed to sue [3] the pants off of anyone trying to do the same.

[1]: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/zynga-ceo-to-employees-st...
[2]: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-zynga-is-just-like-micros...
[3]: http://www.google.nl/search?q=zynga+lawsuits
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Thanks for the link to Solarized. I had never heard of it before, but I'm now trying it out for Textmate.
New clickjacking attacks expose your Gmail messages & Facebook/Twitter identity
Very good point. But - in a large enough project (I am talking more than 5 developers), especially with work being done offshore, there will be mediocre or inexperienced developers. I think having a framework like Spring is helpful.
This tells me a lot about what you think is attractive. To be honest, only 2 of the celebrities were ones I would consider to be on the attractive side of the coin.

Currently, gaunt looking women, are considered "attractive". Many of these women are extremely thin or have unusual bone structure.

Megan Fox and Olivia Wilde, for instance, are really unattractive women. (I personally like Olivia Wilde quite a bit as an actress, and bear no ill will against Megan Fox)

There are a huge variety of women out there, and from my perspective, you've presented a list consisting only of a narrow range of the spectrum.

No offense intended, this is meant to be honest feedback.
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Based on the fact that this is a federal investigation and the warrant specified Title 18 Section 1030, this has nothing to do with the rights of the people in the photos. I also don't think the potential charges have anything to do with wiretapping or capturing any data. It's all about unauthorized access to Apple's computers. It's a federal case not because of anything actually crossing state lines but because the computers are connected to the internet and therefore could potentially be involved in interstate commerce.

I think it's really important that people understand how easily you can cross that line and end up in deep legal trouble. What's the legal difference between this and if I walked into an Apple store and installed my latest iPad app on a few display models?
Yikes. This looks like exactly the kind of patchwork hack (in the "kludge" sense of the word) that keeps later on biting people in the ass over and over and over again.

So let's say you have a job for which FreeBSD + EC2 is the right answer (or you just really like FreeBSD + EC2), so you make use of this, and then it works for a while and works well so you begin to build some kind of infrastructure on it, and even though you're paying extra for it, you don't mind because it works.

The FreeBSD project in the meanwhile gets a little pressure off of their Xen paravirtualization efforts, which bothers people that would like to use FreeBSD under Xen not-on-EC2, but maybe that's not a big deal.

Eventually Amazon changes something, since this is exploiting a not-officially-supported "feature", and the whole mess stops working. People who were relying on FreeBSD-on-EC2 are hosed, and they're probably not a big enough market for Amazon to care very much about (although Amazon does have better support than most companies their size, so maybe they'd do something about it), FreeBSD still has poor Xen support, and everybody's standing around with their pants down.

Not very good long-term thinking.

Nice hack though. But I think you'd have to be a little wet-behind-the-ears to build much on it.

(Much love to FreeBSD, not trolling, etc. etc.)
Does HackerNews have an Official policy for promoting YC Companies?
Joel Spolsky wrote something that comes close, sans the threat:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
I noticed a few minutes ago that Loopt had a post on the front page, but it didn't have any points nor did it have a submitter.

See the screenshot [link] for reference.
The article raises an interesting question for aspiring tech entrepreneurs and web application developers. What is the <strike>best</strike> right database technology for my web application? It probably depends, but I'm interested to hear what technologies people are using, for what purpose, and the decision process. Any takers?
Indeed. But sometimes you need "magic". If you have a developer that is working on a specific part of an application, building business logic that does not require her to know how MQ transactions are handled, or which database drivers are used, using a DI framework like Spring or Guice may help. These frameworks may add some overhead, but they also make unit testing, documentation and reduce code complexity of business logic.

I guess it depends on the team you are working with. If you have solid, experienced engineers who understand the business domain, using Spring may not be relevant. But if you have a team that have different levels of skills and experience, a framework that abstracts away some of the underlying complexity is useful.

If you are building a real time trading system, you probably don't want to use Spring because you want to control each and every component. But for most other projects it can be useful.

Btw - your link mentions TDD. What tools did you use? (just out of curiousity..)
He had to do a twitter townhall because El Jefe couldn't get a G+ invite :-|
Maybe C++ hasn’t jumped the shark after all
Turn off all of that domain parking and domain sampling nonsense. If you're going to grab a domain and keep it from everyone else on the net who could use it from doing so, you should bloody well pay full price for it every year.
Doesn't this practice violate the 1994 consent decree with the FTC? The linked article states that MS could only charge computer manufacturers if MS software was installed. I guess the decree must have expired, because it seems that the Android OS situation directly applies.

BTW, fascinating article, thx! At the time, all of the MS anti-trust stuff seemed so distant, but given the current tech landscape, it seems to have taken on much greater importance.
Seems like a whole lot of technology solving a problem I don't think many people have.
This is not new or news. I've been using this for years. As one commenter noted, this has been around since 2009.
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