skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What research have you done so far on the current offerings? Do you have a list - presumably there are some on Freshmeat/github/Sourceforge/... somewhere.

Some quick leads:

* http://www.churchaccountingsoftwareguide.com/church-manageme... mentions ChurchTrac, ChurchDB and several others including a couple of user comments.

* http://www.churchcommunitymatters.com/category/chms/ blog posts about "Church Community Builder" the author might be a useful contact; http://www.churchcommunitymatters.com/questions-to-ask-when-... looks particularly pertinent

* http://www.ccmag.com/page/index.php?pageid=16&articleid=... is a review of ChMS from late 2010.

* http://www.churchdb.org/ "Church Info" a ChMS

* http://www.capterra.com/church-management-software directory listing of about 80 (?) different systems with star ratings, reviews and a filtering system

* http://www.christianitytoday.com/cbg/officequip/chmangsoftwa... CT section on ChMS

HTH. Grace and Peace.
Ruhlman's book is great, as is Harold McGees's On Food & Cooking. [1] As a trained chef with a focus in baking and pastry, especially bread making, I'll offer any wisdom I have for anyone who is interested.

[1] http://amzn.to/nzYwo8
actually war is quite profitable for defense companies
What about a throwaway email address to contact you at?
Something that integrates with social networks rather than replaces them could work. Maybe an automated way to setup a Facebook group, G+ Circles, twitter feed, etc. Sort of like a super-blog for churches to make sure everyone gets announcements in a format that's convenient for them.

I've noticed that lots of pastors create a blog, post actively for a few months, and then never post again. 5 years later and there's still a huge link to the defunct blog on the church's website.

My email's jackpirate@gmail
The Address Munging FAQ is an oldie but a goodie.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/munging-address/

It's important not to harm innocent bystanders when altering an email address for posting on the Web.
Why create a link shortener with webhooks?
listen, OK, here is my story, 10 cent version, way back in 1985 or so, sorry if it is a little hazy, I was developing GUI for network management systems for a Big Blue type company. I interviewed with this rinky dink company in, what was then, HQ'ed in Bellevue WA (now they are in Redmond), to work on their top secret "windows" project. Wow, what a POS that thing was at the time. They offered me $10K/yr less than what I was making at the time and this fantastic stock option plan. But hey; all they had going for them at the time was DOS and this crappy windows where the windows could not overlap, wow. They did not stand a chance against Apple who was way ahead of them with the Mac. So I turned them down. That was the smart move on my part? OK, so the moral of the story is this, take chance when you are young, go for it, do what excites you. So what if you fail. Try it, do it, go for it. Do NOT stick with the cushy salary.
I did parlimentary debate in high school, which involves absolutely no research beyond one's general knowledge, and a vast amount of creativity. In college, I tried my hand at policy debate, and found it wearisome. The research was enjoyable, but the motormouth spewing of undigested (and indigestible at that speed) facts seemed pointless. It was also less fun to watch others. So that lasted through two tournaments, then it was back to the computer lab...
So you thought the javascript with statement was evil — I one upped it.
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Check out this site: http://www.livestrong.com/
What are the odds that this happens over the next decade? I'm only asking because I'm not sure where those engineers are going to come from unless we fix immigration laws.
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"vocabulary of the title/premise is a little misguided."

What, "Floating Point Determinism"? Seems like what was discussed in great detail to me. How much more explanation of exactly what he meant are you looking for exactly? Your criticism rings very hollow.
http://www.rheena.com/showthread.php/21248-Ninja-Gaiden-Hurr...
I know they did shady things in the beginning. A lot of businesses have to do that, and many don't stop. That's just how the game works.

As a user, of course you don't have to take it. Just don't buy what they're selling. There's no reason for outrage. Let them scam people dumber than you, and with that money maybe they'll develop something you like.
Completely agree with this. This has nothing to do with closed or open. Its a business and is trying to protect its trademark. We don't have to go into the ethics of it. Fact is everyone is calling their store App Store only after the iOS made it popular. They want to use the term "App Store" because they know that's what people will be looking/Googling for. They should just have gone with close sounding but different name.
Agreed. In my experience, the debaters don't have any conviction at all, just a folio of out-of-context quotes and a strong grasp of technicalities. That said, in an ideal world debate teaches thorough research and rhetorical skills, and I found that learning "flowing," was pretty helpful in other areas of my life.
Good catch. We'll add this note to the list of improvments.
That is,

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Could this type of economic activity by China be characterized as similar to the "New Deal" that the US embarked upon in the 30's? Except in this case China is attempting to stimulate their economy to "keep up" with western society?

The sheer level of organization and determination to build all these assets only to have them go uninhabited surely means that there are very conscious decisions being made at very high levels.

I suppose capitalism keeps this kind of stuff from happening in the US, since no one is going to put their own money on the line when no one is going to buy. But the flip-side of that argument could be made in that Freddie and Fanny (Government backed entities) were formed to entice the American public to finance and build the American dream home. And we see what happened over the past few years...

Those of you that are Economics or Econ/Poly Sci type folks... what is the reasoning for this type of Government behavior? I'm curious as to why China would embark on such a quest.
Given that the number of children one has is inversely correlated with 'intelligence'

This is very likely untrue, according to thorough statisticians and professional geneticists.

http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Genes-Success-Professiona...

If you have a citation for professionally published research on the point I would be happy to look it up. More good information about the subject can be found at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige...

for readers who would like to look up the facts.
Not having enough engineers is not a new problem. They'll come from wherever they're coming from now.

Note: I'm not saying immigration is any less broken.
Fair enough critique of Mint. What Mint did for me was track all of my different incoming and outgoing money and display them in the a very pretty, intuitive and easy to understand way. You are correct that the product I'm describing is a lot more complex than Mint.com. The comparison I made was based purely on the fact that the visualization mint gives me transformed my financial life in the way I would hope this product would transform my eating life.

Also, the product you described is interesting but it has serveral problems. One, it's going to be more expensive than doing the shopping on my own and keeping cost down of my food budget is one of my primary goals. Two, being able to shop locally at Farmer's markets, etc... is going to be important for a lot of users including myself.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback. You do make some good points about Mint and why it's not a 1 to 1 comparison.
New Nation, New Challenges
That could just be Socrates' (well, really Plato's) somewhat sophistic portrayal of them. The Sophists were a sort of combination of academics, scientists, philosophers, politicians, and lawyers. So they got a fair share of distain.

I'm guessing that calling someone a "Sophist" was like calling them an "academic". Even people who are academics themselves will do it, to try and drum up a bit of street cred.
Thanks. I am familiar with livestrong and it is definitely a super valuable resource. Not quite the smooth drag and drop simplify my life product that I'm envisioning but certainly a fantastic resource for working towards a healthy life.
2 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2708798
Been trying to get on Google+ for a few days now, today it finally worked.
When Go is involved, it is better to compare the 64bit compilers which are the ones used by almost everyone:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...

Go is already faster than Java in half of the benchmarks, and uses dramatically less memory.

Of the benchmarks where Java wins, at least one (regexp-dna) is not related to the language at all and only to the regexp implementation, the one used there is a toy, Russ Cox already has written a much better high-performance regexp implementation based on re2 for Go which should replace the existing one very soon.
DailyBurn does have a lot of what I'm desiring. I might have to give it a go. I've heard a lot about it but figured it was a lot more about exercise with some healthy eating built in rather than managing my food life. Maybe it has some of the tools I'm wanting.
Sean Parker on organizing FB beyond lists (2010)
Just look at the source code for Quake. There is a solution in there, and it's about running the simulation on only one computer that computer makes the final decision on how soft body physics affects gameplay. Use the fast path for all non affective physics and send a sync once in a while for affective physics.

Also, you can run your simulation on integer math that does have deterministic results. Incidentally it's probably how the universe works too. Quantum physics specifies that units (quanta) are not infinitely divisible. Even frequency of light shouldn't be infinitely divisible if you consider the quanta of time to be the speed of light over the planck length.

All you need to do is send definite updates on object locations frequently enough that the error is not significant enough to be noticeable by players. In network game play the overriding error problems stem from network lag rather than FP divergence. For the most part it does not matter that your player is .001 millimeter from where they should be.

Everyone who has sniped in Team Fortress knows that you have to lead your target a little for 'lag'. Ostensibly this is because the bullet takes time to travel, but realistically probably stems from lag.

In all honesty just write the game using whatever running on whatever and if it looks realistic it's probably good enough. If you really can't solve the problem find a guy in creative to augment your story line to match the weirdness in your physics simulation.
This is another area where Go prefers pragmatism over everything else.
They're just warnings. I got the same ones but it still created a perfectly good executable. (you kind of have to assume warnings with obfuscated code :)
Cool. Thanks for the feedback. The way I'm envisioning this product working would be super slick. Also, super expensive to build. :) I'm sure someone will do it sometime if there really is a demand for it.
A piece of information becomes "news" when it brings a level of surprise (or other emotions) to the recipient. Sun rising from the east is never a news but it would be in the headlines if it ever decided to not do so.

So far, with the traditional media, only limited amount of news could be served within the fixed number of pages or fixed hours of operation. With the wide adoption of digital media, there is no such limitation any more.

So the idea presented in this article is what I would call the long tail of news. Rather than covering just the most surprising news for specific audience, you cover all the news that might be surprising to at-least someone. Compilation of long tail news and the presentation of it to the recipients in an efficient manner is the needed innovation.
Tl;dr:

FP operations can be non deterministic across different systems, architectures and compilers unless you take great care, and know exactly what you are doing. This is widely applicable in multiplayer game programming.
> Those headed for the top get lured away before going that far with formalized training

I am by no means someone "heading for the top" and maybe this was just an oddity. But for me PhD was one of the most unstructured things I have ever done. There was little that could be called "formalized training".

For most part you was left to your own devices. There were long to medium term milestones that needed to be hit. But that was about it.

If you needed to learn something new for your work, you just did it on your own using whatever learning methods suited you. Sometimes there were classes that could help. But for the most part, by the time you are actually in to your research, there wouldn't be many classes that are suitable for you anyway. At least one of my lab mates lived the autodidact's dream ;) [Even me to some extent, now that I think about it]

"Formality" was required only when writing out research. (This was technical field; you need the precision)

Anyway just a note.
Run some FP calculations on an AMD CPU and then an Intel CPU you'll get slightly different results. In 3D rendering for movies they use all the same CPU because otherwise you get weird colorspace distortions between frames.
Same thing as Dubai: A sprawling ghost-megacity.
I have some experience and it can definitely be done but it is not as easy these gurus claim. Many of them have only made money teaching other people how to make money online. Lately it's become even harder because Google, MSN and now Facebook are unlikely to approve your ads if you are a first timer selling a pure information product--mostly because information marketers took their craft to a whole new level and got into the habit of repackaging freely available content (or books whose copyright had expired) and reselling it. Between 2003 and 2009 some people minted millions doing this in what was then known as "Get Cash From Google Program"!
You know that not all VMs are the same right? The Dalvik VM is completely different than the JVM.
Also, Google happens to have a pretty important Java platform of its own on which it might like Go to run.
Short term success, medium term worsening of the problem, long term no change.
> I think its somewhat naive to think that it won't be hard to surpass the JVM.

Go already surpasses the JVM in many areas, for example it has magnitude orders lower memory usage, and even in performance it already beats it in quite a few benchmarks, see:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...

And this is without the simple optimizations that are coming soon to Go, and even after that Go still will be able to improve performance greatly without too much effort.
True Blood Season 4 Episode 3
how are you today? hopefully in good health, just as my days in will provide information about your favorite films, entitled True Blood which is now served until the season 4 episode 3 again with a title (If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin '?) which will be aired 07/10/11.
Eric Schmidt: You Don’t Know It’s A Bubble Until The Bubble Ends
News of the World Publishes Final Issue After Phone-Hacking
When people inquire about the len() function it is mainly because it is (or at least looks like) a global function rather than an object method. In short, people wonder why you have to call len(x) instead of x.len(). This is a valid concern seeing that Python's standard library is, by and large, object oriented (c.f. string methods like "upper" or list methods like "append" or file methods like "read").

Neither the article nor your comment has a good explanation of why that is so. The article only harps on about why it's good that it's not called length() or getLength() or size() or getSize(), implying that len() is somehow the god-given name for this feature. And the fallback mechanism you refer to could just as well be implemented if len() was a method of the root class (object) rather than a global method.

I like Python a lot but this is one that I never quite understood and I believe there isn't really a good reason for it, I think it was just a historical accident. Might as well admit it rather than trying to come up with half baked justifications after the fact.
Those examples look awesome! Has anyone used this who can comment?
WolframAlpha does print all the digits (which makes sense, since it's their core business):
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2^1000
Ask HN: Why is HN SOOOO freaking slow?
The load times on HN are ridiculously high for me, are you experiencing the same thing?
There's not actually that much difference, once you take into account factors like holiday allowance (in the UK you typically get 25 days vs 10 in the the US) the difference is only about 10% - well with the yearly variance of the exchange rate.

in 2008 when the GBPUSD rate was around 2 (versus the 1.6 it is now), salaries in the UK were substantially higher than those in the US.

It's mostly down to currency fluctuations more than any real perception of the worth of software developers.
If this is the kind of thing you're into, check out the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest at http://www.ioccc.org

Some of the submissions are absolutely fiendish. Fabrice Bellard's are particularly interesting, just like all his other work.

See if you can work out what westley.c from 1988 does:

#define _ -F<00||--F-OO--;
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The Firefly Effect - The Secret to Igniting Innovation on Your Team
Quickbooks doesn't just hate Apple users - they hate everyone (and just hate Apple a little more than the rest). As someone who has dealt with their products on both platforms, from a systems or network admin standpoint they all vary between horrid and dismal.

For example, certain versions required that you run as admin (bad security policy), and would update themselves in the background silently. The update would break compatibility with networked files, and was huge. So someone would take the update, the data file then wouldn't work on everyone else's computer until they updated, which would swamp the network and generally cause havoc.

As an alternative, if you're a geek I highly recommend the programs found a http://ledger-cli.org/
How does one go about making stuff like this?
Orchive Beta
I thought it would contain instructions how to make your own personal arduino-based cooking robot.
Does anyone know why there is no official HN feed?
I imagine it requires an absolute mastery of, but also a certain profound contempt for the C language.

If preprocessors were people, the organisers of the IOCCC would be up before the hague.
Nice to see that people are still visting it! Is most of the traffic direct or from search engines?
Looks like it's an ecommerce site specializing in church-related technologies.
I started a new blog at http://church.io where I hope to eventually flesh out some of my ideas about church software.

Thanks so much for your thoughts.

I agree about pastors blogs as well -- I've seen the same phenomenon.
It's interesting, I'll take a look at it more seriously. Thanks for sharing.
Haters Gonna Hate: The Argument Against Fanboys
No, he does not. All he needs is:

./donut

:)
I would be very happy if somebody can send me one too. :) david dot levlista at gmail dot com
And where will the MBAs go?
The gaming is definitely not all Google. I was ripped-off by a scumbag locksmith out of the yellow pages.

Quote was: 60 + hourly. He shows up and does his best to do nothing as long as possible. He only did anything when I demanded his tools to do something - then, it was literally a second. Naturally, he demanded lots of money.
Thank you. I n00bfaced, heh.
From Competition to Collaboration
Ideas like this always reminds me of the old lady who swallowed a fly, which is such a powerful metaphor for almost any time we try to control invasive species.

Creating a demand for a product is a powerful force, but it sure is hard to control once it has been established.

P.S. Here's the link to the cobra effect article from yesterday: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cobra_effect
At my startup (https://www.novus.com/) we've built a financial data viz product using Protovis and D3. Once we've gotten over the initial hurdle of needing to support IE (we don't anymore), SVG graphs are the bomb. They print beautifully and offer virtually endless customization options. If you can code it, you can draw it. Expect easy interop with tools such as jQuery (which makes our graphs interactive) and Tipsy. The latter we use to provide tool tips that show underlying numbers that have gone into drawing any particular graph.
Amazon user feedback may sometimes be useful, though.

Last week, while browsing the Amazon page for Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way", I noticed that the only review was a 2-star review with a comment along the lines of "I haven't read it, but since it's free on the learnpythonthehardway website, don't bother buying it on Amazon!"* I thought this was just wrong to "review" a book like this. Reviews should at least address the content of a book...

I noticed the "0 out of 4 people found this review helpful", and promptly added another "unhelpful" vote. I also decided to "report" the review (first time I clicked this button). When I came back the next day, the review had been removed. I have no idea whether other people reported it too, or whether an Amazon employee manually checked the review. But it sure seems to be effective, and I think it was useful here.

*: I haven't kept a copy of the exact comment.
Lincoln-Douglas is, in many places, mutating to be just like policy debate (kritiks, spreading, reliance on "cards" rather than actual argument).

To solve this problem, the NFL (National Forensic League) created a new form of debate, called Public Forum, that focuses on clear, persuasive rhetoric at the expense of detailed research. And now it is starting to mutate just like Lincoln-Douglas.

I think that fast-talking and reliance on out-of-context quotes is sort of the dominant strategy for any kind of debate. As long as there is a rule than an unrefuted argument stands as true, quantity will inevitably become more important than quality, and the credentials of a source will be more important than what it actually says.

This process doesn't occur when judges are allowed to make their decision based on persuasive speech and rhetoric as much as on logic, but debate judging is already so subjective that this presents a problem for many people.
Good thing some of us are able to refrain from referring to external sources as appeals to authority to legitimize our own arguments, right? :)