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I would write something like this:

function handler(yes, no) {
return function (err, data) {
if (data) {
yes(err, data);
}
else {
no(err, data);
}
}
}

function get() {
function done(err, data) {

// do something with data

}
function db() {
asynchronousDb.query("SELECT * fomr something where id = 3244", done);
}
asynchronousCache.get("id:3244", handler(done, db));
}
I realize it'll take a huge effort.
I don't believe making the "framework" is consulting work. I don't mind giving the framework away for free with some common/possibly popular workflow schemes, showing it's potential and then whoever wants to can be hired for developing schemes for those who can't make them themselves. Or another more likely scenario, people could make their own schemes fitted for themselves, giving them the option to share it with others if they want to.

The framework would be modular. Sure, no two projects are actually exactly the same but there is a whole lot of overlapping, repetitive, unnecessary, tasks.

I'm not saying you lock into forever using whatever name convention you're using.

It's my first time ever proposing to work with strangers on the internet. I don't have a whole lot of experience with it so I can't really come out with every angle of the final product before anyone asks. (You might think you're asking but you're not, you're saying "You are an incompetent "idea man" who just came up with something you assume is unique and now you want a developer as your pet slave". Instead of saying things like "Nor have you outlined...", you could say "But how do you plan to deal with...").

I imagine folder structure being defined in Finder, the whole concept of the framework is based on the idea that all apps are great at their own thing, so Finder being the core of navigating through folders and finding files it would be logical. While the framework running in the background, Finder could get some extra toggle buttons or drop down menu in the toolbar to let you select what the folder should have of attributes "Like this should be where the XX of the project goes". Could use color labels to make it faster to distinguis between the different folders if one didn't find them hideous.
Depending on what'd you were developing cache flushing would obviously be handled different, who ever developed the scheme for that workflow would decide how it should be done. Someone likes to do it with changing filenames of the files you've edited. The workflow application would handle this, make sure where ever those files where included in the rest of your project their reference would be updated, and the browser you were using would be redirected to the new url. This would mean that your source files would have to be copied into a the deployment folder.

People are creative and resourceful and if you let them taste something great you should expect some of them to crave for more. I'm not saying the framework should have schemes (one computer is not limited to having a single scheme either) that fit perfectly for everyone but if you'd provide a few and show how smooth it can be I don't doubt that some people will want to roll their own.
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Being bias doesn't necessitate being unfair, we all have biases. It just means, all things being equal I'm not pro Node.
I like these new hosted services for mobile apps, and believe this niche has huge potential for growth and monetization.

First these services need to convince users to be able to trust them -- to be in for the long run, and to do their job well. For me this assurance is missing on fukime.com -- who are they, why can I trust them and the quality of their product? Which is where I feel parse.com is one big step ahead -- being in the YC batch and having raised more than $1M makes me believe they are all in for it, and that they actually what they are doing!

Sidenote: I find it annoying to be asked to social share in order to get three others to sign up, as a prerequesite for getting into the beta (after entering my email).
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"Black Hat" refers to the security conference, currently happening in Vegas.
> My favorite work music is anything that I've heard enough that my brain is resonating with it instead of listening for details.

Same for me. I have a Grooveshark "work" playlist that I've been adding songs to for the last 2 years or so. Here it is: http://grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Work/57992001

I find music that has no lyrics and has a slower tempo to be the least distracting when working. This includes genres such as post-rock, trip-hop, launge, ambiental.
Nice. Much better.
Fortunately it is very difficult to pull of an attack with a medical device since you need to know the exact make and model and then find a way to exploit it.
I've managed to hard-crash a generic infusion pump via its "output only, entirely isolated and secure" serial connection.

Not wireless, and at least the Oh God I'm Broken buzzer worked, but still.
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VIruses will kill the cell anyway. This kills it before the virus has a chance to reproduce. Or do I have that wrong?
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If it's actually the problem of locating chessmen you're addressing and you're getting on to special modifications then you'd just use a board with sensors and code carrying pieces.

If you want only to modify the chessmen and not the board then I'm sure some transponder could be fitted and the table could have 3 receivers removably fixed to it that could triangulate their positions.

If it has to be camera based but you're going to modify them men could you just give them all different coloured hats.
I've never seen codes that make the price go up but I have seen codes that are incompatible with corporate rate codes. For example, Hertz gives an American Express corporate rate but sometimes coupons require a different corporate rate (like AAA) and the coupon + new rate is actually a worse deal than just the original corporate rate.
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No, tofu tastes like nothing unless you saturate it with marinade or something.

Courgette actually has flavour. But just like white mushrooms, they'll be (nearly) flavourless chunks if you just throw them in a sauce and practically boil them instead of frying.

You need to fry them, get them just slightly brown on the edges to get the flavour out.

I had some off the BBQ yesterday and I was amazed how delicious they were. Cut them in long strips, bit of olive oil, and grill them. Season with a tiny bit of pepper and salt.

Then, maybe your courgettes are flavourless, it can very well be. It's like that with tomatoes over here, and then I get to Italy and mmm
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This is an old friend, but given the discussion over here ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2849388

... I thought it was worth re-submitting.

Last submitted 19 months ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017708

Much discussion, some worth reading.
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similar successful project of a robot playing chess naturally:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ0Hx04KFCg
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I'm not sure if most people are aware, but Google has a blog post that covers most of this quite well: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2011/02/freedom-to-be...

Peter Steiner’s iconic “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon may have been drawn in jest--but his point was deadly serious, as recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have shown
..

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Attribution can be very important, but pseudonyms and anonymity are also an established part of many cultures -- for good reason.
..

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When it comes to Google services, we support three types of use: unidentified, pseudonymous and identified. And each mode has its own particular user benefits.
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While some of our products will be better suited to just one or two of those modes, depending on what they’re designed to do, we believe all three modes have a home at Google.
Ask HN:what is the best way to use Dropbox as version control
i was searching the net without any good answer.
how can i use version control with drop box?
Strictly speaking, yes. But it's the good kind (TM).
Re-read the comment. It discusses exactly what you are proposing.
I don't think even the crazies here (Australia) bother lobbying against needle programs anymore.

Injecting rooms are a different story though...
Cool, thanks! I whipped this up the night after the talk so there are probably some kind of inefficient parts in the interest of getting it released quickly. I'll get right on that.
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The total cost for the plaintiff is the $631,100 listed in the article, plus their own legal fees. Obviously the owners of the company are lawyers, so that screws up the numbers a little, but let's say their own legal fees were $370,000. That is really only 2 or 3 lawyer salaries for a year so it is probably a safe bet.

They might be making a decent cash flow off previous settlements, but a million dollars is still significant. The article made it sound like their previous settlements are in the low 5 figures. If you are making $50k per settlement, and spending $1 million per court case, it only takes 1 in 20 actually calling your bluff to make it a losing proposition.
I had two colleagues who done LYAH and one who attacked a program with type level programming without LYAH (because of LYAH non-existense at the moment).

The first two didn't asked me or my colleague about anything type system related too often. After month or so of on-off work on his project one of them finished a complex translator from CPU description into VHDL.

The one who studied Haskell without LYAH did asked us. I attribute it to complexity of program he worked on.

My experience allows me to remain confirmed that proper exposure to Haskell type system greatly lessen associated burden.

I should note that we didn't encounter many errors in our Haskell code. Much less than in code in Java or C#.
Privacy is great, no doubt about it, but a company has a right to offer services under their own terms. They constructed their business model with a profit goal in mind, and they determined what it would take to reach that profit. Now, I'm not saying it's particularly fair to those who want to participate but feel they cannot due to the limitations placed on their privacy, but that's life. Sometimes it's unfair. If it makes you feel better to complain about it on the Internet then go right ahead. In the meantime there are many other who simply didn't sign up for the service.
To add a second million to the first 1M is hard exhausting labor (lower rich achievers according to the article, in some real business sector), but to gain another 5-10M on any 100M already available is inevitable for the Top 0.01 on Wall Street.

I guess I understand this. (You express the idea as economies of scale, higher quality investment vehicles, and their professional management).

If this is true and OK to be as a situation, than in some pure math sense - relative velocity of financial growth compared to efforts to gain it - it seems that a tiny historically established minority of a super-rich guys and families (mostly in the banking and investment) will always be far, far ahead in money wealth.

And maybe even gaining momentum. There are many economical studies and observations that a certain wealth spread between the Top Richest and the rest is increasing, at a macroeconomic level. Is this good or bad?

A quote from the article: "... the American dream of striking it rich is merely a well-marketed fantasy that keeps the bottom 99.5% hoping for better and prevents social and political instability."

If so - are the CEOs/founders/owners of Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Virgin Group, (you name it, any other huge real business success story), merely some outlying points WITHIN the TOP 0.01? How big is the amassed wealth of such iconic entrepreneurs compared to those that in a clan-wise manner are into banking/investment/real estate/government contracts (and the related politics)? And to what extent the financial wealth as evaluation of the former depends on the latter?

I don't have answers to the questions I've raised - perhaps it would be interesting for somebody to research and see the whole picture.
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This is for wireless communication to/from the device and not operating it from the control panel. For critical incidents paramedics would use their own tools (glucometer & needle).
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I don't like the preachy tone but I like the way you disassembled your own argument in the side note there :-)

To avoid misunderstanding, I'm a fan of functional programming too. But the intersection of the MapReduce framework and map&reduce of Scheme and Haskell is mostly in the name and in some core math concepts that are ageless (predate programming and lambda calculus).
Thanks for the clarification. I hate it when I fall for this stuff.
On the raising side, you're absolutely right. A custom URL scheme generally captures what you want to do (i.e. the intent) not how.

On the handling side, however, on iOS there are limitations that I think make them qualitatively different:

- only one application can handle any given URL scheme

- no mechanism (other than Apple apps win) for choosing between apps that want to handle a URL scheme

- no notion of optionally handling a URL scheme based on its contents (which enables very useful filter-like behavior)

- no notion of "returning" to whatever raised the request (there are schemes to hack around this, but they are limited and brittle)

- built-in support for carrying general payloads (rather than having to encode them in a URL)
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See, that's exactly the problem. The intrinsic value of anything - in this case, gold - relies on agreement of the scarcity. Truthfully, we don't know the scarcity of gold, or the amount that exists. We have only educated guesses.

Controlling the monetary supply with "paper" currency (which is an inaccurate term, "digital" currency is the reality) is much more stable and controllable. The US Government says they have $50,000,000,000,000, and the global economic capital markets either agree or don't agree.
> If there was an Open Source printer and reference design for the cartridges, reputable manufacturers could build those printers and cartridges and reputable retailers could import them without fear of legal battles for a fraction of the price. Most importantly, an Open Source designed cartridge would almost certainly be designed from the ground up to be easy to refill at home.

Which apparently happens by magic.

> Open Source Hardware creates a unique ecosystem. It is naturally competitive, pushing prices down on consumables and making sure that people pay for build and print quality rather than brands.

Right. That's the theory anyway, but "for some reason" (I'm sure somebody'll find a nice conspiracy theory) there's pretty much no open-source consumer hardware.

The question is this: what's the incentive? What's the incentive for a designer to create open-source hardware (open-source software requires time and a box worth a few dozens to hundred bucks, but that's pretty much it. Open-source hardware also requires potentially expensive machines and a serious investment in materials), and what's the incentive for a "reputable manufacturer" when he already makes money hand over fist with "proprietary" hardware? Why would that manufacturer (whether he's currently legit or counterfeit) drive his whole business (especially consumables) into the ground?
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hmm let me guess (and there's a hint in the article) ... us patents ? A quick research gives about 3757 patents concerning laser printing : http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec... . Apart from the fact that there are still efforts to be made to have the same kind of "open source" activity in the hardware world imho.
This is more a patent thing than anything to do with open source. Remove the stupid patents, get some competition.
Printing is unreasonably expensive.

Huh? One can buy a laser printer for under $100, and print hundreds of pages with the included cartridge.

Also, the logic in this post would equally well apply to computers, cars, houses, pacemakers :-), whatever.

So, the main claim made here is "open source stuff is cheaper". From that, the question "why isn't everything open source?" follows. IMO, that discussion has been beaten to death multiple times.
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Show HN: Mixed martial arts fan site - CombatPicks.com
Combat Picks was built to be a fun tool for MMA fans to make predictions/picks on fights. The site was built by two people (1 design - 1 code) over the course of about a month. I don't have any plans for monetization - we really just built the site as MMA fans to be able to provide a fun service to other people.

http://www.combatpicks.com/

We have lots of improvements in the pipeline - i'd love to hear some feedback/ideas on what we can improve.
Whilst that might be cool technology, I wonder at the user experience and confusion when my mum clicks on the phone icon and all of a sudden this menu appears asking me whether I want to use the phone or skype (obviously I get that the call can be done with either, but mum probably doesn't).
I don't think anybody(or any union for that matter) will stop working just like that. Especially considering the fact that time is equally crucial for them.

A truckers union protest in the UK blocked the supply of petrol for a while.
Good follow-up literature:

- Learn Prolog Now! by Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, and Kristina Striegnitz provides an introduction to Prolog:

http://www.learnprolognow.org/

- Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber provides an introduction to Prolog, and applies it to natural language processing. The book is more difficult than Learn Prolog Now!, but if you enjoy SICP, you will enjoy this book.

http://www.mtome.com/Publications/PNLA/pnla-digital.html

- The Craft of Prolog by Richard O'Keefe is a must to learn writing correct efficient Prolog code. Many eye-openers.

http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Prolog-Logic-Programming/dp/0262...

- Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction by Hassan Ait-Kaci is a thorough overview of David Warren's abstract machine for executing of Prolog code. Since modern Prolog implementations are often based on WAM, it helps in understanding how to design efficient Prolog programs.

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Thanks patio13! OCR and AI actually seem very sexy to me:D If I make a mobile app out of this, I will get my users to take pictures for me! hehe!
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I did a university module in Prolog (for programming intelligent systems). Although I have not used it since, I always remember it fondly. It is a totally different paradigm to the Pythons/Rubies/Cs/Javas and really quite refreshing when you get in to it.

Unfortunately I now struggle to think of a use for it on a day to day basis.
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I just found out about this. Another YC user left a comment with a link to a paper about Gambit the robot: http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/Mobile_Robotics/postscripts/...
There's no conspiracy, it's all in the incentive.

Existing open source software was all pretty much designed to run on existing hardware. Free and open print specifications and interfaces couldn't run on existing hardware, and hardware R&D sort of requires substantial financial investment. It isn't really in the realm of your average hacker in his dimly lit home office at 3AM.

Hopefully the success of projects like Arduino will make free and open hardware standards a thing of the very near future, someday enabling us to develop complex machines using unencumbered hardware standards, but like you pointed out that just isn't today's reality.

The blog post describes an ambitious undertaking, and I think that's a good thing. It really is something that feels long overdue, given how obviously exploitive the current SOHO printing market is currently.
"argued that it would be unlikely that malware writers would tailor their code to exploit flaws in Sophos given that it controls only 10% of the enterprise market"

It seems to be a ridiculous argument to make. This would still not rule out targeted attacks.
Yep, I'm old and jaded. You see me as negative? _shrugs_ . I never said it was impossible, only that it's hard, tedious, boring, and that it goes through well-trodden areas with lots of competition so revenue generation will be hard. Pick one of the sub-tasks and work on it. You'll be happier and with a larger chance of success. Or think of that as a stepping stone to learn more about what's needed for the larger project.

Personally, I think the directory structure layout validation is the most interesting, especially if you can tell it to build your final structure layout. This could include minimization tasks, or automatic image format conversions. Another direction that could go is towards a static site generation tool. But then, I'm a developer.

Your rhetorical style needs work. It's ludicrous to assume that I or anyone else would expect you to have all the details planned beforehand. Neither did I say that you are incompetent. I pointed to that URL for a reason - it's hard to come up with an idea and get developers involved, and that essay gives some of the reasons. Instead, I am pointing out your inexperience and giving advice for the some things you need to distinguish yourself from an "incompetent 'idea man'."

You should also talk a lot less about yourself. Most people don't care enough to read through several paragraphs defending your inexperience to figure out what your point is, the title had little to do with what you wanted from people, and the self-described term "Problem Solver" is another suspicious flag which falls into the "Idea Person" category.
Thanks. Go seems to be easier. I was also thinking to fallback to domino if I can completed the project for a chessboard.
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