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I think the 3x sibling would just be "td+td+td". I could be wrong about that though, I haven't tried it out. Might have to, I find it very interesting.
I do not think anyone is suggesting that he goes in and fixed it himself, but it is up to him to ensure there are processes in place to make sure this does not happen.
I know it's wrong, you'll have to kill me to make me stop using SQL.

I wish I still had the article from 2009 - 2010 which said that SQL is too difficult and other things like that.

Anyway, this is what I was talking about when I originally replied.
You are making a lot of weird assumptions. I do have surroundings appropriate to me, and a circle of peers who have a value system I find interesting, etc, etc.

What I am talking about is what I perceive to be the mindset of a great many young people entering the working world today. This has nothing to do with where I hang out (indeed, I avoid stuff like that, actively!) YC Demo Day, I went to because I didn't have the full picture of what it was like. Now that I know, I have not gone back.
Ask HN: Getting started in server programming
Some background: I have written a reasonbly successful iPhone puzzle game, which I have converted into HTML 5. I would like to put it up on the net. This would require a simple server where users can log in, and their progress is saved. (note - the game does not communicate in 'real time')

While I consider myself a competent Java, C++, Python... algorithms programmer, server/web programming has always scared me. I hear about SQL injections, XSS attacks, password leaks, servers crashing when websites get popular, noSQL, etc.

Given I am starting from scratch, what's the best thing to learn to make simple, efficient and safe servers, to serve webpages and JSON?
And then I guess the question is, if I avoid stuff like this, why am I posting on Hacker News? I guess the answer is that Hacker News used to be more in the vein of things I liked, but recently is too full of "be a man and launch your me-too web service" kinds of things. To which you might say I should stop reading this site, and to that I would likely agree.
Comparably, the French have L'Académie Française. Stuffed to the roof with curmudgeons who reject all foreign influences -- even from other Francophonic countries.

There's cases where Swiss French (counting), Quebecois French (conjugation of many verbs) etc is more logical or more consistent, but the changes are rejected as foreign by the Académie.
The puppet theater continues.

However, one thing caught my eye:

"10-year Treasury notes declined 15 basis points to 2.79 percent."

That's one of the lowest real interest rates for the public debt for a major country in long term economic history. It won't last forever.

Of course, not sure we want to emulate the other country with debt at those levels (Japan and the lost decade).
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Oh well, at least Robots can't commit suicide.
Yes. Read Mastering Regular Expressions.
So you're saying startups should be A/B testing their coming soon landing pages. That sounds like good advice. I'd be surprised if that feature were not on the todo list of the LaunchRock guys...
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Uh...making myself essential at my day job and working on my technology based startup concept at night. Unless it's TEOTWAKI, not seeing those fundamental needs being reduced.

Candidly, if it is the TEOTWAKI in the US, what makes you think the rest of the world will be much better?

(I'm thinking of Gremlins II - "we're advising our clients to go long canned food and shotguns")
It seems to choke if you have a hyphen in your username.
Also useful for keeping up with the current trends in nun fashion! Thanks for the reminder to renew my subscription.
There are two stories on this currently posted to HN, this one, and the one at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827861

I have no idea which will get the discussion, if either, but it might be worth trying to make sure any discussion doesn't get unnecessarily split.
There are two stories on this currently posted to HN, this one, and the one at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827882

I have no idea which will get the discussion, if either, but it might be worth trying to make sure any discussion doesn't get unnecessarily split.

As I type this, the other submission has a useful comment.
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I'm sorry this happened to you. I rode this train to its last stop as well. When I was 20 I got sick, tested positive for mono, had recurring strep, monstrous fatigue (sleeping 14-15 hours per day), brutal headaches, spiraling depression... you know the list.

I was treated for depression (with drugs) which did help, and antibiotics for the strangely recurring strep-like diseases and a few other misc things I don't remember. It took about a year and a half to really feel all the way better. I had to drop out of that year of school and go back later.

It sucked huge, but no one ever suggested that my fatigue or depression was "in my head". I guess I was damn lucky.
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I hadn't noticed that those [scribd] things were links! I thought it just meant that the link was to a PDF.
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Voxels are a (family of) data structures. Your complaint is about the use of a rendering method that blows them up into large cubes, which is like saying that using a large, pixelated typeface changes the meaning of text.
As a counter example, Perl is well-known for having a huge base of libraries via CPAN, but the signal to noise ratio is very low.

Sturgeon's Law applies so its no good picking on just Perl libraries here!

There are few libraries that have any quality and a general lack of consistency and interoperability between them with the notable exception of packages like Moose.

Please see Task::Kensho which is a list of recommended CPAN modules: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Kensho/lib/Task/Kensho.pm
People start lawsuits on all kind of reasons whether they stand a fair chance or not.

I don't care either way, the main point is that we don't have enough information to make any useful conclusions.

It would be nice to at least admit that.
You can build and maintain robots and factories cheaper in China.
I'm fond of SQL, you're either intentionally misinterpreting me or I'm not being clear. Non-relational databases are not about not using SQL, to believe so is dense and willfully ignorant.

I asked for specifics, you didn't provide them. I have to assume you're a troll at this point. I'm done here.
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There have been several ideas lists posted on Hacker News already. Here are a few:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaW...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756270 (post is titled Startup Ideas July 2011)
> Given that AirBnB offered her money and she isn't picking it up or returning their calls, but is talking to reporters, the most plausible explanation is that she's looking to get a huge payday in a lawsuit.

Or she doesn't want "hush" money, or she's feeling scared and hurt.
At least _I_ would read it and try to stay fair. As a matter of fact, I would be very interested because I, myself lack the outside viewpoint and you could give me some new insights - facts I never thought about. I am critical of my own country - but I still like it - and so should you.

What do you think about his "what is OK to be said"-point?
For a competitive perspective, if the labor component is being automated - why should it be cheaper to run a robot factory in China vs. the US?

Only some of the labor is being automated. Humans + robots in China is still cheaper than humans + robots in the US.

I don't see how it is counter productive. China, like most poor countries, needs more wealth. The humans who are replaced by robots are now free to create wealth in other ways (e.g., building stuff Chinese people need rather than stuff westerners don't need). Sounds like a win.
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There's also commenter on HN who rented an illegally listed home http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820644

And the statements from Roomarama that they have encountered similar problems in the article linked from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823039

I'm guessing AirBnB meant "first time a story like this got press" when they said "the incident was the first of its kind"
I definitely recommend the slow and measured approach. Started working on my startup as a side project while still employed at BigCo. Launched, waited until $app_income >= $salary_income, then quit to do it full time. I'd argue the only reason to rush and launch something is if you have or are looking to get funding.
Friday I needed a micro-USB cable. As it happens I wandered into a colleague's office and he had one, but if there hadn't been one available, I'd've been stuck, and it would've been annoying.

Would you use a service that will
help you solve those problems?

It depends. How easy is it to contact? How long does it take? How effective is it? Does it work for everything?

To expand that last point, if it only works 1 time in ten when I call it, the others being "We don't do that," then no, I wouldn't use it.

I don't see how you could make it work, but if it did work, I'd keep its number/URL handy.
Is there any reason why you feel typing "moviemaker" into a search engine SHOULD bring up Microsofts software as the first hit?
ACtually, lingua franca was NOT French. Also known as _sabir_, it was a pidgin language used by the sailors in the Mediterranean (it went extinct in the XIX century). It was a mix of various romance languages and Arabic and Turkish. At first the main romance language mixed was French, then the influence of Spanish and Italian become more notable. The name was coined by the Turks (for whom people speaking romance languages must have looked similar enough to call them all "Franks").
What gets written into a contract, and what a court will uphold, can be two very different things. Lawyers regularly include language in contracts, notices, terms of use etc that they know won't hold up, because it will intimidate a certain percentage of people into not even trying.

The classic example is those signs in parking lots saying "we accept no liability for damage to your car". Well in an unmodified common law jurisdiction, it's a bailee-bailor relationship and they are on the hook for the damage.

Contracts are not like computer programs. They can and do include deliberate bullshit included purely for strategic bluffing purposes.

Of course, IANAL, TINLA.
In France the equivalent is the Académie française. So in French a computer is an Ordinateur, whereas in a lot of other languages it's derived from the English word. A few random examples: German: Computer. Spanish: Computadora. Scots Gaelic: Coimpiutair.

Edit: Oops Jacques beat me too it.
Simple answer - LaunchRock needs to develop more landing page templates to choose from
"Skin in the game" is percent ownership.

YC had to invest in a lot of startups that didn't get as far as AirBnB to end up owning ~6% of an AirBnB.
What if, say, facebook thinks that more users will be pissed off by offering the transexual option? Or if someone who gives orders is too religious. Or that they don't deem it important. My point is: they are to decide what is in their best interest - given their resources, given their beliefs.
Agreed on all counts. As for the backgrounding stuff, though, don't worry too much, as with a local binder, services become little more than classes running in the background. The ickiness from all that AIDL stuff I've found to not be particularly necessary, as you won't have other applications needing to access your service, typically. Exporting content providers to other apps doesn't seem to be particularly useful, anyways, unless you're Facebook or OEM, where apps might reasonably expect to find the content provider or service they're looking for.
What am I missing? Code is data. Fix a Boolean circuit for a universal interpreter unrolled to whatever depth is needed. Send your program code and its input as the data payload and have it passed to the circuit.
"It may come as a surprise to you". Which part of this sentence is about compassion and not about self-righteousness?
Moreover, Interface Builder's file format is quite literally a serialized version of the class constructed at runtime, as configured in Interface Builder. What can be done in IB can also be done in code, which is more than I can say for Android's xml.
I tried finding software on OS X, and I could find many pieces of software by searching for them in the App Store application. Also, the app store seems to combine download and install with marketing, as it was heavily promoting OS X Lion at the time of my visit.

I also learned that OS X Lion solves the problem where after a reboot your program state is gone, something that Bill Gates was also complaining about.

OS X Lion costs 24 euros and that, among other things, is why Apple is eating their lunch (but I do like Visual Studio and .NET).
My understanding is that the particular scaling problem of twitter is high fanout through subscriptions. Receiving 7k messages per second and storing them in a database is actually fairly straightforward.
We have plenty of useful information.

You've just decided that the source's word is no good when nothing she's said has been disputed by any party. If you ignore her because you don't like what she has to say, then yeah, you wouldn't have "enough information to make any useful conclusions."
My dear Bill, how have you been this century?

Please consider making a true light and modular Windows OS. I cannot do simple things like Alt-Tab on Windows 7.

I beg you, create a streamlined Windows XP-like OS that allows full functionality based on a modular approach. I'd also like to know what all the programs and services are running (am I running adware/malware/virus or is this vital etc). And not Windows 7 starter.

Something like XPLite but created by Microsoft!

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> revenue represents how much any capitalist society truly values a contribution

No, because humans aren't rational actors.

Gambling? Addiction? Ignorance? Exploiting bugs in the firmware isn't the same as adding social value.

You can't really answer ethical or moral questions by just appealing to Econ 101 dogma.

I do agree, though, that it's important to realize that other people like things that I may not like.
Promotional videos from a company involved with Foxconn robots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa8qCj1oQn0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTpvIc0Zd2E

And another asking if they'll still need humans (spoiler: no):

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjMyMTMzMzk2.html

One more blurry one:

http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/51887552-1635296834.html
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"...which are now mainly conducted by workers, said Gou at a workers' dance party Friday night."

Wow, talk about a dick move. I wonder how he spun that.
You realize this email discussion dates from 2003, right?
Why Should You Buy Wine Online?
There are two main choices for buying wine online. You can buy from a winery or you can buy from many online wine merchants. If you know exactly what kind of wine you want buying from a specific winery is a good option. There are two downsides of buying from a winery. The winery will only have brands that they make themselves. The other downside is that they usually want some kind of a minimum order. You might have to buy ten or twenty total number of bottles before they will take your order.
Which suggests a scheme where Knuth could be paid a one time fee of (say) $50k, then be asked to issue 0.02c cheques for each bug found.
I agree with prpon. Your site gives a craigslist feel. Not even a wiki feel.

Look at one of your similar competitors: http://www.flickr.com/ They have a calls to action as you scroll down with a final "Still not convinced? Take the Flickr Tour!".

If I refer a friend to your website, what are they going to do? They'll act confused as there's no steps or where to start. In fact, they see all these categories and get overwhelmed. I then noticed there's step-by-step instructions but it's surrounded by all those hyperlinks. You need to emphasise it more. Take a note of Flickr.

So you're appealing to designers or people with creativity? Your website doesn't look creative. Look up website inspirations. Copy a few websites that you like, then try creating your own.

SEO issue, why are you redirecting to /o/pictures as main directory? It should always be http://ookaboo.com/ in URL if I go to it. You will encounter issues as well future linking issues if people bookmark it and you didn't sufficiently re-direct it due to a backend or some kind of change.
I wanted to emphasized your comment. The ultimate goal of a startup is to create value (and its closest proxy i.e. money). The savvy entrepreneur will design a system in an "ecological " environnement that is part business, social, cultural... His startup is only a tiny part of that dynamical system. And he must take into account a incredible amount of fast moving details and/or have luck.
But of all those parts the most important one is the idea. Not because in itself it's a special idea but because, a good idea, is a summary of an incredible amount of experience. To use an analogy, formulae in maths and science are beautiful not just because of their elegance but also because of all the thought process that engendered them and all the implications they have.
IMHO an idea is the single most important value proposition of a startup and the part that need the most work.
Oh, hey, bad news: even if you don't drink juice, never have any sugar, and spend all your time counting calories -- you're still going to die at some point. Sorry, had to ruin the whole health obsession parade here.

This is coming from a guy who counted his calories, and still logs his weight every morning, and freaks out if he's not unhealthily skinny. I just ate an apple and now I'm obese (in my mind anyway) and I weigh 79 kg. I used to feel skinny when I weighed 95kg but ran 6.5 miles. Funny, isn't it?
That is what was said. Yes.
It might also be a good way to burn in your infrastructure.

I'm just saying, if you can't get a box collecting email addresses off the ground, your own todo list will take a very long time to finish.
I would be interested in knowing what had been going on in your life during the previous year or so before you got ill.
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"If it weren't for Bill Gates, we might not be having this conversation..."

I hate it when people give Bill Gates and Microsoft credit for whole computer and IT advancements.

We are having this conversation because many many people worked hard on these technologies. Microsoft and Bill Gates are only one of them.

Of course, DOS and Windows accerelated wider adoption of personal computers, but even if they havent, someone other company would've done so.
This is to both you and your parent reply -- have I completely misread statement 3?

'3. If the number of letters in the product's name shares any common factors (besides 1) with the number of letters in the customer's name then the SS is multiplied by 1.5.'

To me, this says that if len(pname) is split into prime factors, and at least one of those is found in the list of prime factors for len(cname), then you multiply your SS by 1.5. The "besides 1" remark is obvious, because 1 is technically a factor for every number. I'm not quite sure how the math pedants come down on that, but this is just common sense.

Negative or positive shouldn't really affect this (I guess it could be construed as "-1" instead of "1" in the factor list, but.. you've really got to bend over backward to make that into a problem), and it's completely not ambiguous. The "besides 1" could not reasonably be taken to mean "besides the first statement", as the two statements deal with very different subject matter.

Am I crazy here? Did I miss something?
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http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=zhiQ <-- LOL

Surely, your traffic acquisition efforts are better spent elsewhere.
The price of a Lion upgrade is pretty much immaterial, as the relevant price of OS X is really bundled into the price of the hardware. You cannot buy a Lion DVD and install it on a non-Mac PC.
Not linear algebra, although the optimization problem can be expressed in terms of linear programming, I think.

I wish you well in caring for your grandmother. That stuff is way more important than programming techniques.
Their Science and Technology section is tabloid-grade garbage. The rest is excellent and way better than what you can find almost anywhere else.
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When Windows was better than the competition, it was winning in the marketplace. Now Google and Apple are better than the competition, so they are winning in the marketplace.

Capitalism is working just fine.

Unlike Microsoft, by contrast, the DMV has no competition and cannot go bankrupt. That's where things start to get very bad.
Their coverage of world politics and other topics is also very good. Only the Science and Technology section is appallingly and depressingly bad.
That's a rather careless reading. The most interesting point, and the one that is the basis for him questioning the report, is that the primes in the report were supposedly taken from a book listing primes up to a particular number. However, given the number of digits in said number there is no way they would fit into a (paper) book or any practical size. Also, Sachs was unable to identify the book used when directly questioned about this. He does not deduce that there is no way someone came up with that on their own, but that it's likely they do understand basic math, just not in the contexts they were tested in.
Being open minded means admitting you don't know everything. Most people (myself included!) need to be frequently reminded that they don't know everything. It hurts, but its good for you in the long run like you say.
There's pluses and minuses to any implementation. I'd guess new emails on top has won out because it makes previews more useful. Dozens of times a day when I get an email I'm able to digest the entire new content of an email from a 2 line preview that fades in and out of excel. Or when I look through my client I can see the first couple lines of each email and quickly find what I'm looking for.
Stuff gets forwarded around, attached to various systems, etc. Having the entire thread, unmodified, has been a lifesaver for me more times than I can remember.
Learn the differences between select/poll/epoll/kqueue. You don't want to waste time using select() when you're intending to handle lots of concurrent clients or use epoll/kqueue when you have a limited number of connections and care about throughput.

For simple servers, I use Ruby + EventMachine[0], but there's also C++ bindings for it.

Since I use Ruby, I'd simply use Mongrel[1] within my server to serve HTTP docs and all my Ruby data structures can be serialized into JSON by just including a json lib and calling #to_json. I'm sure there's similar embeddable HTTP servers and JSON libs for C++.

require 'json'
{:numbers => (1..10).to_a, :foo => 'bar'}.to_json
=> "{\"numbers\":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],\"foo\":\"bar\"}"

[0] https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine/wiki

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongrel_(web_server)
If your initial market for your new, innovative software company is early adopters then you're definitely a part of the problem of people getting burned out by these tactics.