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They're notices, not warnings. They can be disabled via a simple call to the error_reporting function.

I fundamentally disagree with you though. For me, notices are very useful for identifying typos and other coding mistakes that can lead to incorrect behavior.

Consider the following lines of code:

$user_info = array(
'id' => 1,
'username' => 'nbpoole',
'is_guess' => false
);

if (!$user_info['is_guest'])
{
echo 'Member stuff';
}

When I run that script with error_reporting set to E_ALL, I get an "undefined index" notice pointing me to the line where I do the comparison: at that point, I can track down where in my code I misspelled the word guest. Without the notice, I might not immediately realize that the 'is_guest' index was mis-spelled somewhere.
"Obviously, there is a massive chicken and egg problem"

Yeah tell me about it! I got written up on lifehacker[1] and I received quite a few emails and comments (some on the page and some not) basically saying "but it won't work unless everyone signs up!!1".

The funny thing is that if everyone who said that to me had told their friends, the chicken/egg problem would probably have been sold.

My standard response when people tell me something I've built has a chicken/egg problem is "right, so how many people have YOU told about it?"

[1]http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/09/sms-my-ride-lets-you-wa...
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Yeah, I'll second that. I was pretty intimidated knowing that people on HN are so much more efficient than me. That in turn motivated me, so I'm kind of disappointed that these didn't actually take 2 days of work. Still, some weekend projects are pretty motivating regardless of how long they took.
This is the one thing that's holding me back. I'm happy enough to switch to IMAP clients and whatnot, but setting up my own Postfix/Dovecot in a VM that's got a decent antispam setup is somewhat prohibitive. I wish there was a simple, preconfigured Linode (/whatever alternative you prefer) appliance for email - there's a real market for one currently, and I'd happily hand my cash over.
For what it's worth, the article doesn't claim "zero maintenance"— in fact it explicitly says "apart from a bit of turbine servicing now and then."

Now whether that's still a wildly optimistic claim is up for grabs.
To be fair, I don't think Matt should be expected to respond to every complaint about Google on HN. Nobody appointed him the official Google spokesperson on HN, he's just another visitor here. Google is a huge corporation and AFAIK, Matt has nothing to do with Google+.
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I /hope/ Ayush's PAN info in the video is fake :)

In my opinion, your prices are too low on the higher end. A normal tax return preparer charges something like Rs 250 (negotiable, particularly on bulk deals) to around Rs 500 for a simple ITR-1/ITR-2 return. For people who require audited returns, It would be an order of magnitude more. I take it you don't do those :)

Either way, best of luck!
60% was a plant factor, meaning that the 200 MW plant output will be 200 * .6 when averaged over the course of a year, presumably because some turbines will be down for maintenance some of the time, and the temperature difference will be less at times, so it can't always put out maximum power.

And there will be transmission line outages some times too.

60% has nothing to do with the efficiency of the transfer of energy.

He says in the video coal plants run 80% plant factor, nuclear plants would be even higher, probably putting out over 90% of their rated power.
Desert environments are extremely good at preserving things, particularly technological devices.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mojave,+CA&hl=en&ll=35...

The above link shows an aircraft storage facility in Mojave, California. There are a number of such facilities in the US, and many more worldwide. It was discovered some decades ago that you can leave a plane in the desert for years at a time, and when you come back to it there's very little maintenance that has to be done to make them airworthy again.

There was a story that I read a few months ago that I sadly can't find a link to at the moment. Some years back during one war or another, there was a plane that had engine problems. If I remember correctly, this was in northern Africa. The crew radioed that they were coming back to base, but they never made it. They were flying over a desert area.

A lot of years went by, and some prospectors working for an oil company were driving around the desert looking for places to drill and they came across the wreck of the plane.

The tail of the plane had broken off during the crash, but otherwise the plane was in excellent condition. There was still fuel in the tanks and the batteries were still charged. The oil guys were even able to turn on the lights and get the engines to turn over (might be wrong about that, but I think I remember that). If the tail hadn't broken, they likely could have been able to fly it out of there with not so much work.

So anyway, putting stuff in the desert isn't no maintenance, but it is low maintenance.

I do agree with your assessment about the greenhouse. Deserts are already pretty hot and plants don't grow well there. I don't think 2-3x the temp will be a big improvement.
Of course there should be a law against taking artifacts from archaeologic sites and laws against disturbing the sites by digging. These sites should be posted though, much the same private land is posted "no hunting". Instead of throwing the law out, require that the onus be on the site owner to inform people that the site is, in fact, protected.
The Arizona tower will be a staggering 800 metres or so tall - just 30 meters
shorter than the colossal Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest
man-made structure.

Is there any reason why this can't be constructed to be 831 meters tall to edge out the Burj Dubai?
This is exactly what PHP does. Yes, it issues you a notice, not a warning, not an exception. And it does not break execution. Just set your error_reporting variable to a lower level, and you won't get the Notice at all.
I will give you 3 quick points :
1) target NRIs and their tax questions. You will not find any more eager paying customers than NRIs who can get help with their taxes and also help in filing .
Search the forums and you will will hundreds of queries and questions . Leverage those to come with a custom product offering for them
2) Get some Branding : you will need some solid reputation or word of mouth for people to come to you. Explore tie ups.
3) Get some white hackers to test your site. There is nothing more important than convincing people that they can trust you with important financial data.
Have your sites "worked on" thoroughly. :-)

I can give more but not for free ;-)

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Please pay attention. The original author claimed philosophy students are subsidizing electron microscopes. I disagreed with this claim. You agree with me that the science grants are subsidizing the rest of the university, rather than the other way around.

Second, your completely illogical reasoning ignores a basic fact that universities are a proven model of getting research done at a much lower rate than companies...

If it's proven, then perhaps you could provide some proof?
Im not sure about Lion, but OSX comes with built in apache server. Goto System Preferences > Sharing > Web Sharing
Yes we just need to travel back in time to just after the beginning of the universe to use it. Oh, and it's also a long way away.
Noah's pretty active on HN (at least reading), so I expect he'll chime in soon.
Disappointing to see AppSumo using people's photos without permission.
The company most similar to Google in hiring bias is early Oracle. In the mid-1980s they were hiring every Stanford graduate they could get hold of.
The bad experiences stem from the fact that handing someone a check is literally handing them your bank account, and asking them to only withdraw as much as you wrote on it. There's essentially no protection except in the form of after-the-fact insurance to get you some of your money back in some situations.

Which is similar to credit cards and debit cards, really. Sure, with CCs you can do a charge-back - but that's just a form of insurance. If the person who got your money withdrew it and left, the CC company would be left paying out of pocket (hence the large interest rates).

It's ass-backwards. Since the internet appeared, banks should have been giving us ways to safeguard against this - for example, fixed-value transactions with a unique key. But we've got essentially nothing.
A good written article about all the facets of the lighting industry including some cost analysis. Two things I found missing.
One is the LEP (Light Emitting Plasma), which is a also a very promising lighting technology, but not often covered in the media.
Another point I think crucial for LED is the possible control capability compared to fluorescent technology. With smart detection and bi or tri-level light output settings for LED light solutions at the current 100lm/W show savings at e.g parking is up to 60% alone.
If anyone was curious about the funding for this (I was), EnviroMission has a press release on their site [1]. "The Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) has taken a call option to purchase the first of two EnviroMission 200MW Solar Tower power stations planned for development in La Paz County, Arizona." It does seem odd, though, that they are building these in Arizona when California has its own deserts.

[1] http://www.enviromission.com.au/EVM/Company/ShowPage.aspx/PD...
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Indeed, Apache is included.
Excellent stuff, and I definitely believe that retaining some childhood wonder and immaturity is vital to happiness. If you mature and pretend to know everything, then where is the wonder and discovery in everyday life? How do you sustain happiness without belief that every day holds bright new colors and experiences?

I've never really looked at Picasso's art with any diligence or perseverance, but I have definitely been inspired by the picture in that post, to go download some of his cubist nudes and use them as screen backgrounds.

I'm sure Picasso would be happy to see people using him as an inspiration to creativity.
It's valid. Those people keep quitting, or they keep being filtered out by the hiring process.
I think that Burj Khalifa (formerly known as Burj Dubai) should be the tallest for economic reasons. The Arizona tower is simply infrastructure, so its goals are to produce the most energy for the least cost. Adding 31 meters may upset the cost/benefit ratio. Dubai, on the other hand, is a tourist destination, and having the tallest building in the world is good marketing.
This is pretty clear copyright infringement. Whoever took the picture owns the copyright.

Being a public figure would matter if this were a first amendment free speech issue, but it's not. It's just a plain violation of the Lanham Act, both due to the copyright infringement (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq) and because of the false advertising claim (15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1)(B)) you could make because of the impression that the person endorses the ad (but I'm not a lawyer, for the record). So no, it's not legal, and illegal acts should not be allowed by any company's terms of service.

It's also ironic given how Facebook got its start (i.e. Facemash), which was by misusing photos copyrighted by Harvard.
"This move goes against Google's supposed philosophy of controlled sharing within circles."

This is exactly in keeping with google's philosophy. When the pictures are public, google can use them for advertising. Google+ was created to mine date to sell ads against. Why do you think Larry tied the bonuses this year to performance in social?
Government IT.

I have legally had a one-word name for decades. SS card. Driver license. On credit cards I fake a first initial, same with other DB-enslaved contexts.

Some time after the DHS was invented, SS changed their database systems. Where the SS used to list me as "myname," now I'm listed as "#unk myname."

Since my SS record no longer matched my driver license, when I went to renew my license I was refused, because the DHS tells the states that DL must match SS. That took weeks to sort out, but I did finally get my DL properly renewed, after they found the employee that knew how the DB system works.

Government IT.
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This will be an interesting project. Having lived in Las Vegas for a few years I can certainly see how they expect it to work. However planting grass inside the greenhouse seems a bit much.

The plant will be limited by how much heat can be put into the air inside the 'greenhouse' and overall it will be interesting to see how the feed in replacement cool air without creating dust storms and sucking up birds and what not. I don't suppose someone with Mathematica can build up the spreadsheet using the perfect gas law and the air convection to see if their claims are close. 200MW is 200 sq kilometers of surface area at a nominal solar insolation of 1KW/meter but with an efficency of 10 - 15% and an actual insolation in AZ nearer 800W/m2 that is 1.6M sq kilometers of surface area for 15% conversion rate.

I'm wondering if they have the math they did posted somewhere.
This is why I refuse to participate in patenting software.

I've written code for people who wanted to patent it as part of a device, and whilst I can't necessarily stop them, I can definitely refuse to assist in salting the ground for those that come after me.

Obviously, like nuclear weapons, if you don't have patents, then you are vulnerable, and the World is a harsh place. It's difficult to see how the process of patenting, then squatting on code that anyone could write, can be resolved.
This is not the first time that AppSumo has run an ad with a person's likeness. When a public figure has a fan page, I think it's safe to say that it's fair game (per Facebook's TOS) for Facebook advertisers to target fans of that person. I get targeted ads for authors and bands all the time that use a similar tactic. It's actually not that different from someone buying a Google ad using your name. I think what was jarring to Battelle was that he thought that AppSumo was targeting his friends, and not his "fans".
The mountain would also provide unwanted shade.
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The Google+ honeymoon is over
Addressing some other points.

About date: In our user testing, date time format of type DD/MM/YYYY was not obvious to a very layman user. If we gave an example, that translated well for most people. Maybe I should add a date time picker.

Support: Will highlight support method. Good idea.

Goal is not to be just a pretty offering. :-)

I cut everything which contributed to an increase in the download size. Speed and small page size has been my driving focus for the UX. I'll look how to optimize on webfonts usage.
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I'm sure we'll hear from Noah soon enough...
I think its disingenuous to say that.

People are not comparing SpaceX of today to NASA of 30 years ago.

They're comparing contemporary NASA to contemporary SpaceX and finding NASA is lacking.
Just to get a clearer sense, how does a footer help? I am a design newbie. :)
I'm pretty sure that was part of the plot from The Mummy? :)

In any case, desert is great for preserving stuff in terms of low humidity (ie things don't rot). Not so good for preserving stuff in terms of them getting sand blasted. Especially in AZ where winds routinely hit 100mph+ during gusts and 60mph during windstorms. Not to mention the haboobs.

Also, the prototype of this tower in Spain figured out that the plastics they were using were "not durable enough". I would imagine that means they disintegrated? I'm wondering what they're planning on building this thing out of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#First_Proto...
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You could use that as a fully-general counterargument against government outsourcing of anything. Does it apply here?
While I would love them to bring the array functions more into line with other OO langauges, the entire language is not structured around that concept, so you would be in essence writing a whole new language.

Because almost all the modern PHP frameworks use arrays to pass data, the short-array syntax makes viewing multi-dimensional arrays much easier, and thus will hopefully result in less bugs.

Example:

$this->link('My Link', array('names'=> array('a', 'b', 'c'), 'values'=> array('a1', 'a2', 'a3') ) );

becomes:

$this->link('My Link', ['names'=> ['a', 'b', 'c'], 'values'=> ['a1', 'a2', 'a3'] ]);

Just removing the word array makes the code much easier to read, especially when you have deeply nested arrays.
Actually we are starting to get requests for higher-end cases.

Lot of people who earn income from business and profession would like a quick, friendly UI to get their taxes done. Its hard to design though :)

We aren't supporting auditing yet. We have to figure that out.
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My idea to create a Massive multiplayer Masturbation Simulator. I found myself stuck in private beta for weeks.
I'll put a pricing page up. I can see how its confusing.
This doesn't surprise me in the least, Appsumo is a pretty scummy operation, regardless of how much PR effort they put into cultivating the HN audience.
But doesn't Facebook claim ownership of the copyright if you upload a photo to its site?
For just $2trillion, we could build enough of these to supply power for 300m homes!
I don't know. But it doesn't matter. It's an AppSumo ad.
No, my remarks are fair and well supported: The post praised Skiena's book, and that was a poor move because (1) there are many other sources back to, say, Knuth's TACP, and (2), as I said, the computer science in that book is not good and the good is not computer science and is covered poorly.

In particular, Google is showing that they are far too centered on 'computer science' where they accept low quality material just because it was hijacked from its real origins in various fields of applied mathematics into a book on 'computer science' and poorly presented there.

The post insisted that a candidate needed to know dynamic programming as in Skiena or was not "prepared", and this is sick-o, brain-dead, ignorant, arrogant, destructive nonsense: First, there is nothing serious about dynamic programming in Skiena; Google is not "prepared" in dynamic programming. Next, while I happen to know a lot about dynamic programming, I've never asked about it in interviewing people for computer science positions. One reason I know a lot about dynamic programming is that my Ph.D. dissertation was in stochastic optimal control.

What I didn't say, but which is true, and which I implied, is that the topics in Skiena should not be given so much importance. Or, to be so positive on Skiena's book is to be far too fond of a particular collection of gnats and to forget a herd of elephants.

One way and another, I happen to have a good background in nearly all the topics in that book, usually far deeper than in that book, but in interviewing I would not ask for knowledge of topics from that book. Here Google is making a mistake.

In addition, I did once have a Google interview: It was a disaster. For really brain-dead reasons, they didn't like me. Their worship of C++ as a religion showed that they have a bad interview process which meant that I didn't like them. Good riddance.

That they want their interview process to be so severe indicates both arrogance and ignorance; they should be brought down a few notches.

There is a fundamental problem in such interviewing that apparently Google has not understood: Can't hire a bunch of house painters or people who have just heard about house painting to select someone to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Google's process would definitely filter out any Michelangelo. They'd likely also filter out a Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, or Bill Gates.

In fact, based on a brain-dead religious devotion to C++, their process filtered out someone with expertise in nearly all the topic in Skiena's book much deeper than in the book.

Actually, mostly people who are really good with the better topics in Skiena's book never touch C++!

Google is making mistakes. Their interview process is a symptom, among others, of some serious management problems at Google.
But... 'merica.
Apparently, it does not do what I hoped it would. Assertions are about ownership of an email address, not about control of the private part of a key pair.
"I am not a profile, I am a free man!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zalndXdxriI&NR=1#t=41s
I have a number of former students who do this, and generally they have come up with some clever way to modify their name so that a search on their IRL name will not turn up their FB page, but a glance at the FB name will immediately bring to mind the IRL name. It's a useful tactic for anyone job-hunting, honestly, because as inappropriate as I find it that employers take into account irrelevant outside-of-work behaviour, the fact is that a lot of employers do take into account irrelevant outside-of-work behaviour, and it's a perfectly valid privacy tactic to make oneself less net-stalkable.
Facebook's fly by the seat of your pants "move fast and break things" model is cute and all, but moves like this are going to be their death by 1000 cuts. Unlike Zuckerburg's claim, privacy anxiety is not fleeting, they just had such a monopoly on a desirable service that people were willing to swallow another hit. Unfortunately it drove their customer satisfaction down to the level of cable companies and airlines. I wonder how much longer they're going to be able to keep up such shoddy service now that they have competition.
What have they done that is scummy?
It's so hard to answer really. All people have such differing levels on knowledge and most of the time it's a crazy mix.

If you know nothing about coding you might want to at least learn how to read most basic code, just look up introductions to some programming languages, you'll quickly figure out how it all works on an intuitive level.

Then you could actually go straight ahead and start thinking about your start-up. Based on features you'll have identify technologies you'll need to use and then try to find out how to achieve that functionality using those technologies.
You'll need to be really comfortable with Google. Always look everything up. If getting through one tutorial requires you to open 20 others - so be it.

Too many people are looking for complete introductory texts that will take you through the whole process step by step. It just doesn't work that way.
Books are very tempting for that reason. You can just pick it up and read the whole thing, but well, it feels easy for a reason.
Well, to be a very good software tester you do need to code. I wouldn't have thought this to be controversial. Yeah, there are activities that don't involve programming, like plain manual testing, test planning and management, etc. But test automation and making code testable require programming skills.
Is declaring "Facebook bankruptcy" cool? I thought JB knew about this stuff?
It's actually a GNU C extension to the set of legal identifier characters.
Does everyone have a first name and a last name? Or do you only see people on the list whose names can fit the mold?