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I don't want to use Scala. Why is that so hard to understand? Scala has existed for long time now. I've had a chance to look at it. I don't like it and I don't want to use it. I'm still waiting for a better Java. A better Java. Scala, I'm just not into you. Can you accept that?
I think jekyll or nanoc had a "run in background and watch this dir for changes" mode, you could sync its output dir with dropbox.

EDIT: if they don't, you could always do it pretty easily with inotify and a bash script (inotify-tools on ubuntu I think)
you're not being "forced" to. simply don't tag that person.
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Wow, not what I was expecting. Ten thousand words to tell a story of how the @ symbol was chosen for use in email, a story most of us could probably have guessed. I was expecting to learn the origin of the symbol itself.

Even the author seems to recognize a failure to address the origins, closing with:

How, though, how did the ‘@’ symbol find its way onto the keyboard of Ray Tomlinson’s ASR-33 teletype and so pass into internet history? Moreoever, where did it come from in the first place?

In case anyone is curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign
Wish I have seen this last week :).
Had to pay 250 bucks to a CA. I tried filing through the income tax website before that.. it looked okay, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops before getting it right. Also, it looked too flaky so didn't dare to go with e-filing..
I'm sure this has probably been discussed before but I can't find any relevant threads.

Could an ongoing reverse sting a la Barry Cooper [1] be staged to produce a lot of false positives? I imagine few hundred lawsuits against individuals confident of their own innocence could start to curb their profits a little.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHmP_KtmcB4
Agreed. I don't see how this solves a real problem other than just another way to write the code, which, I guess, is the whole point of this update.
That's a great critique of the CSA, but it's not really legally relevant. No court would convict for possession of endogenous DMT, and then that would be the precedent.

Or to put it more simply, you're innocent until proven guilty. Felon means conviction.
The last time I bought something at Radio Shack (probably a battery), they asked me for my phone number, then made an issue out of it when I would not give it.

I haven't been back.
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Because of course, 'real' hackers write everything in C ! The right tool for the... huh.
Ikiwiki is awesome, but very little is obvious from the documentation;)

Good luck with your project.
Not really. All the salaried employees have to file the returns. Every year this time, it will be a cash festival for CAs and non-CAs who charge around 150-250 to get it done. Of course, it might look like less but if you consider the volumes and throw in word of mouth + a few posters around IT offices, it might work out.
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Whoever wrote this just pulled it from their rear and has never coded in their life.
I wasn't thinking of judging articles by the reputation of the authors. Instead, I was thinking of judging the value of reviews by the reputation of the reviewers.

I think that's actually pretty similar to what we're doing now. Articles accepted by journals of high reputation get a high reputation, and the journals select high-reputation individuals to do reviews. A good distributed reputation algorithm could perform essentially the same function. Leaving review open to anyone could help preserve net objectivity even if some individual reviewers are biased.

But anonymity could be accomplished by releasing articles initially with a timestamp and a digital signature by a new public key. After review, the authors could reveal that they have the matching private key.
I'm sure people were asking the same thing when the printing press was invented.

I don't see the pen going anywhere. There are many times where it is easier and faster to jot down notes or sketch out ideas on a pad of paper instead of messing around with a computer/tablet/whatever.

Also fountain pens are delightful to write with. There is one in my pocket wherever I go.
You could ask Marco Arment for a copy of http://www.marco.org/secondcrack

It sounds like it does what you want, except for the part about being a binary, and he says he intends to open source it soon anyway.
What do you do when two people have the same real name? Also, I personally only think remembering everyone's last names, in an area of society where you hardly ever use them, becomes infeasible once you scroll through your address book and find 15-20 people named "Michael" (this is the case in my phone): it is often much more valuable to name people to include their context.

(Which, I might say, is another "myth of names" to add to patio11's list: "the list of names someone goes by is objective and transitive"; I might think of that person as "that Steve from Hacker News", when other people call him "Steve Johanson", "Stevey", or even "stivox".)
Hyde does that, well the run in the background and recompile as you make changes part.
The story is definitely interesting enough (and also told well enough) for those ten thousand words and, as you seem to realize yourself, this is a two-part essay. What you want to be told will be told in the second part.

It’s one part of a two-part essay. I’m really unable to understand why you seem to believe that one part of a two-part issue should include everything you expect from the whole essay.
I have no problem whatsoever with a law that criminalizes stealing arrowheads, or other artifacts, from archaeological sites. I have no problem with laws that prohibit poisoning water, dumping chemicals, killing endangered species, or other environmental crimes. So, if this is proliferation, please sign me up for more. I know that these things were not crimes fifty years ago, but we are better off now for having these laws. Sure, there are some stupid ones, like the Smokey Bear thing, but come on--has anyone been charged with that law?
Because its me. If you have a picture of me and want to link it to my profile information then I think it would be reasonable for me to know you have that picture. There is obvious benefit for me to have that picture shared with me and aware that it exists instead of it being hidden away in your private collection.

Tagging is sharing. I see tagging as creating a link between the photo and my google+ profile. Maybe there should be a second option of labeling my name but not linking to my profile and thus keeping the label private, which is odd but seems more like what you want.
Thinking about it, wouldn't a user who doesn't want to give his/her real name be less valuable to an advertiser?
Not really. As you say - you can behave differently to different people. That doesn't change your person - it only changes what facet of your person is obvious to others. So the "true self" concept actually is very agreeable with the "facets of me" concept.

It's also similar to the difference between "private" and "public" life - My coworkers have no particular interest or value in knowing how I bring out my trash, but the way that I do does not violate the consistency with the way that I behave at work.
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He was also a major contributor to one of the best books on MySQL. The one that Monty worked on.

The guy knows databases, period.
Not even my passport has it right. My "real name" is ridiculously long and formal, and I refuse to use it. Luckily my shortened name passes. Unfortunately it collides with a famous futbol star, so you never know what will happen.
Could you be an API Evangelist?
Oh be quiet, secret Color employee. The problem is not with him. He's talking from a business standpoint about the friction for the average user. That's a REAL problem, and it's not his fault for lacking enthusiasm to use it. Besides he got nothing to lose.. it's not like it's a dealbreaker for his life.. Unfortunately, Color has a lot more at stake when they can't make users love their product. The good life down the drain...
I was more surprised that at no point in the article is it referred to as an "ampersat." I was under the impression that was the name of the symbol. A quick Google search seems to indicate that's the case, too. But I'm far from a typography expert or symbologist. Does anyone know if that is the official name for the character?
Thanks for your response.

This venture is my life until it fails which hopefully won't be the case. However, I know the statistics of success are not on my side especially if I don't launch with the right ingredients.

The idea is a tried one, but there is no one successful platform that has done it right in my opinion. It is a "stuff to do" in a particular location type of thing but with a niche market and a different slant taken on. It won't be messy, and it will basically bring the characteristics and culture of certain areas to virtual life. Listed businesses will pay.

I must update the site daily (having a CMS built for me to edit), but it will be expanding to other areas at a rapid rate. This is the reason I feel the need to bring on a programmer and give that person stock in the company. I just don't know exactly what I am looking for in that person.
What led you to klib? Looks interesting . . . given the fasta/fastq format parser in the source code base, we can guess that super high performance/low memory footprint development is pretty critical for the klib author.

The macro-oriented dev stuff is kind of new to me, but I'm sadly years away from writing C.
That's a terrible article.

Here's a physorg link: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-hk-physicists-photons.ht...

Here's the abstract: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v106/i24/e243602
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I think it is more of a managing expectations issue. Consider another situation: you pay me $25 via check. I can now debit your bank account for $100,000. Surprised? "Don't write checks." doesn't quite cover it, does it?

P.S. Don't write checks.
He's aware of that. His response was mainly aimed at the Google-apologist above.
Your move, Mr. Cutts.
The laws are poorly written if they don't differentiate between criminal intent versus perfectly reasonable ignorance.
Because good parenting can never lead to kids doing coke? Let's just agree to disagree on that one.
Given the source of the story this is more about reducing corporate regulations than supporting personal rights.
'Official', in this context, can only mean 'sanctioned by a standards body', which isn't a deciding factor in how words actually get used in a living language.

In short, it's a word if it gets used as one.
Yes, well I know that now that I lost the contents of a project directory. Live and learn.
> For one, the path argument comes before any options or flags.

Actually, it does conform to unix conventions:

find [OPTIONS] [PATHS] [EXPRESSION]

Where options are "-PLHDO" in the GNU version. The elements of EXPRESSION may be introduced by a dash, but they're not really options. Together, they specify a little program to evaluate on every path. The program could have easily taken the form 'type f a name foo' instead of '-type f -a -name foo'. The only issue would be recognizing the end of PATHS arguments and the beginning of EXPRESSION arguments...perhaps that's why the dash is used? It does seem like OPTIONS EXPRESSION [--] PATHS would be easier and less ambiguous to parse.

> Also, what is the point of the '-print' option? Pretty much every other utility prints results to stdout by default.

find does print to stdout by default. Perhaps -print was added later to distinguish the default mode from -print0, which is common when pairing with xargs.

> I welcome any historical context or clarification if my expectations are in fact flawed.

I was kind of hoping the recently rehabilitated UNIX 1972 sources would shed some light on your questions. Unfortunately, find is present but only as a PDP-11 executable [1].

[1] http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/source/browse/#svn%2Ftru...
I hope you read more of the article than the first paragraph and realized they were not at an archeological site and did not steal any arrowheads, they were merely looking for them as a father and son hobby. No arrowheads were found, but the act of merely looking is criminal, which they were not aware of.
I recently had a "Google+ Chatroulette" session with a few friends through gphangouts.com. It was fun, but most of the participants weren't interested in taking part and just watched us talking. Between 70 and 80 people joined the hangout, half of those either had their camera disabled or had no camera at all. We managed to have only one conversation with a stranger that lasted over 5 minutes.
There's a workaround on the mailing list:
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/06017...
C Drive for OS and program installs.
D Drive for Music, Pictures and all general life files except those on
F drive for films, ISOs and other large media files.

The goal for the future will be that C drive could be formatted for OS reinstalls with minimal data loss, beyond the backup of user profile folders to another drive.

Beyond that, files are organised for ease of backup: 'Pictures' for images, 'Music', 'Written work' etc.

Ease of navigation is achieved through the copious use of shortcuts.
I guess once you are hooked the vaccine can be challenging and lead to overdose.

But if you take this before getting hooked, it can just register in your mind that coke isn't fun and there is no high.

It's like my relationship with cigerettes. First few times I took it I was really nervous I would get hooked. Ultimately I found little joy from smoking. So I'm not much of a smoker but I'll average 5-10/cigarettes a month from social situations. My rule is that I can never buy cigs or smoke them at my will since it will mean I'm lusting for it. On the other hand if a friend offers one occasionally, I can smoke it.
I think don't rely at all, just add it to the set of things you include when thinking about the issues. The book is awesome because it added so many dimensions to consider that I never had before.
"I believe I know why: Shame and guilt consume energy, subtracting energy from our will to resist temptation. Pride, on the other hand, gives energy, allocating more energy to the willpower to resist." This sounds like complete bollocks.
If you think of a social site as a party, the rules you set create the environment. And to be fair to Google what makes Facebook good to a degree is that people are anchored to a real identity — this prevents flame wars and all sorts of other noise. Honestly part of the spam problem on Twitter is the ability to setup a fake profile via robot and start spamming everyone within seconds -- fake IDs also are part of what made MySpace feel like a collection of misfits (not that that in itself is a bad thing, but it doesn't lend itself to marketing to a broader audience).

So yes I'd expect Google to want you to be real -- on the other hand that may give room for Twitter or someone new to do something more interesting. Just don't expect said site to be mainstream if you're using 4chan rules for your party!
Perhaps "secretive unit" was in reference to "Amazon doesn't disclose AWS results"? Still seems rather odd, though.
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As much as I want to laugh (and maybe even cry) at this, it does bring up a good point. Not so much in the content, but the fact that it exists in the first place.

I imagine that for almost everyone on HN the "revelation" of this article is comically obvious. However, I have had countless clients who were interested in testing the waters for hosting or HPC work and were committed to sinking a lot of cash into in-house machines up front. I almost always suggest experimenting with AWS and then moving on from there. More than 1/2 of the time I get a bug-eyed look, not because they are skeptical of AWS, they just have no idea what it is.
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> There is plenty of practical philosophy. A healthy dose of theory of computation..

Is theory of computation actually philosophy? Last time I checked it was a CS discipline.
XCode 4's default compiler is /usr/bin/gcc, which is gcc-llvm.

Erlang does compile on Lion if you use gcc 4.2.1 instead (it's installed at /usr/bin/gcc-4.2, or use something like homebrew with the --use-gcc option)
Me too.

All I need is the following: a command that will take a marked-up file, and generate a beautiful HTML out of it. It will support multiple files, and automatically link to the next/previous/etc. (using the filename as the date/time stamp). And maybe provide a sidebar with the 10 most recent blogs (or something like that). It will support embedding of media (images, youtube, etc.). And finally: a decent spam-resistant commenting system.

So every time I add a new entry (or modify one), I just run "make" and the rsync with my host.

I'm using WP right now, but it's a pain in the ass. And I'm constantly worried about exploits.
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From the title I would have thought the article would be about personality spreading among people, not about the personality of addicts.
"If you think about it, the dot com bubble never burst."

the NASDAQ went from over 5000 to under 2000. how can this be characterized as anything other than a bubble bursting?
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Creating your own blogging engine... seriously it's not that hard and any good hacker can build their own really well that fits them perfectly.
'Current law provides a range of options to protect society, he says. "It would be horrible if they started repealing laws and taking those options away."'

That's the most disturbing line in the piece to me. Laws used to frustrate, oppress, or even enslave a citizenry are always written under the guise of offering 'options for protection'. Why do we need to wiretap private citizens? To keep private citizens safe of course.

Then, there's laws written to keep large companies like Exxon or WalMart from polluting the environment or mistreating their workers, but prosecutors can't get convictions against their herculean legal teams, so they end up convicting small businesses and private citizens because they're easier targets.

The problem with these laws is not that they criminalize non-criminals, its that the actual criminals aren't impeded by them at all.
I've got a better one: You write a cheque to somebody, and suddenly your bank lets them see your transaction history.

There's a level of control and security one may sacrifice by doing things online, that doesn't mean the information is automatically public, and it definitely doesn't make it OK for Google to treat it in an entirely unexpected way that actually violates ordinary privacy/access control rules.
I brought down a production site by innocently changing some string ops to mb_* string ops. It turns out that they're so slow as to be useless.
I am often disapponted by the inadequacy of modern philosophy of mind to follow recent advances in neuroscience and the brain sciences in general. Many of them have inadequate knowledge of the fields or outright dismiss verified results in order to advance obscure entities such as "qualia", or to promote a dualistic view of the world. Some of them also like to use quantum mechanics as "correlates of consciousness", just because quantum mechanics is hard to understand, or they propose that "consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe". Such things remind more of new-age mumbo-jumbo rather than serious thinking. Generally, their role in the field has not been very constructive, and most neuroscientists quietly ignore them taking a physicalist approach.
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I think this credo is derived from the UNIX toolbox philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do that well. Peter Salus' classic book "A quarter century of UNIX" contains ample information on that philosopy and the people who developed it.
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The best step forward for PHP, in my opinion, would be to deprecate all of those fake-namespaced functions, and start treating instances of built-in types as objects. This would also be the chance to fix all the 'needle/haystack, haystack/needle?' type inconsistencies.

The older functions could still exist for backwards compatibility, but people who want to write clean OO code could use the new style. $anArray->map(function(){}), $aString->pos('cow'), etc.

This would be a big step for PHP, and bringing the language closer to parity with Ruby and Python. Not sure how it works with eager type coercion, but JavaScript does it somehow.
This appears to be covered on the linked site itself:

Octopress is now based on mojombo/jekyll has been completely rewritten from the ground up with a mountain of goodies.

- A semantic HTML5 template

- A Mobile friendly responsive (320 and up) layout (rotate, or resize your browser and see)

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- Easy theming with Compass and Sass

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This will deactivate all keys, including e.g. F5 for refresh. Moreover, mentioning this here won't necesserily get it fixed.

Here's a pull request:
https://github.com/robertkleffner/mariohtml5/pull/3
Feel free to comment / add.
It's part 1 - explaining the history of why we use @. I suspect (the well trailered) part 2 might answer the history of the symbol itself.

I certainly couldn't have guessed the contents of this carefully researched and well written post. Maybe I'm just not in your 'most of us'.
"blog" is both a noun and a verb. In this case, the verb was used as a gerund (noun).
This is my favorite read all week. Thank you! As an "idea writer" with plenty of notebooks around at all times to capture thought fairies, this is a freakin beautiful way to extend that practice and take it to many levels I hadn't even thought about. I will buy this book as thanks to the author and poster-
Cheers-
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

- Ayn Rand
It would be fairly easy to determine whether the antibodies bind to commonly used drugs that are derivatives of cocaine (this is basically what ELISA testing is for, and computer simulations would give you a general idea of whether it would bind or not). I would assume that this sort of testing would have been done prior to it being tested on humans, or at the very least would be done before it enters into common usage.