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Kohana 3 is not a rewrite of CI. it was written from scratch.

Kohana also has the worst documentation in the world. Seriously. It has very clear comments in its source code, though.
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Astrophysicist shows why it takes so long to board a plane
>I don't know if I write 'best practice' python or django but it's about x6 less code than in PHP.

Just curious... Surely you mean django vs php (not zend or some other framework - which _would_ have been the fair comparison.
or when someone comes up with a newer more politically correct term!

I prefer writing
Sex: Yes, please
Hi, I've got a few questions:

What are the challenges you're looking to tackle next for the product?

Are you looking to expand beyond tablets and iPhone to desktop?

Are there any plans for an API?

What resources from CNN (besides money) are going to be useful for moving Zite forward?

How long are the founders locked into staying?
What are some other software companies that share a similar philosophy?
Has the Fed been funded by US T-Bills auctions since 2008?
Who is the shareholder of the Fed? has it been funded by US T-Bills auctions since 2008?
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Yes, it's written from scratch--which is why I said "essentially". It's a full rewrite into what is still not very idiomatic PHP5.1, and I can't really recommend using a non-5.3 framework given the improvements in expressivity and flexibility that came with 5.3.
Self-promotion with zero content.
Do you have a source for this? I think it's pretty cool and I'm wondering if there's a reasonably centralized place for other states' formats as well.
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I want to know who the "VoIP Offensive Linemen" are. Actually, a lot of the nicknames on that board are pretty funny, and for the most part would make great band names.
I'm unclear why you replied to me, because you didn't say anything meaningful.

I did not say you couldn't build web applications if you were a jerkass who was cavalier with the security of his users' data. I said you shouldn't.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that google shares a similar philosophy in a few ways.
I should run that on the Israeli population census - which has been illegally leaked several times [1].

The ZIP codes in Israel are per-street, not city. Given Israel's population of just under 8M, I believe a very high percentage (95% <) of unique people can be found.

[1] - http://blog.y3xz.com/post/7846661044/data-mining-the-israeli...
Can we see a demonstration feed?
October 8th is actually in the top 100 of birthdates by frequency of births, according to the best data table I have seen on the subject.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/business/20leonhardt-table...

Of course February 29th is dead last in frequency. Most early October birthdays are above the median in frequency.
This article rings very true to me. I applied to YC in Summer 2010 with two fellow grad students I picked by sending out a "founders wanted" email, then meeting each of them for lunch. We got invited to interview, but weren't accepted. So we went with another accelerator, Betaspring, and proceeded to fall apart almost immediately.

The biggest problem was that we didn't really have a template for making decisions. Up to that point, our only goal had been getting into an accelerator, which we somehow expected to solve all our problems. And I'd already decided that I'd rather lead a startup than get a PhD, so I was very focused on that goal, while they were more focused on schoolwork. So the way decisions were made before the summer was that I'd say "I did some research, and think we should do this" and they'd say "OK." It was very unilateral. Once we started working together full-time, though, that wasn't tenable, and there was a very fine line I had to walk, to provide both autonomy and a sense of direction. And we never could come to an arrangement that made everyone happy.

That's not to say that I would have been more successful as a single founder—I had pretty minimal dev experience at the time—but there's a very good reason that one of the YC application questions is "Please tell us about an interesting project, preferably outside of class or work, that two or more of you created together." If you don't have a good answer for that, my advice is to hold off on doing YC and just figure out something substantial that you can build together.
This is a cool application of GPS radio occultation. For a simple overview, see:

http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/~kursinsk/GPS_RO_overview.htm

The same idea has recently been used to improve weather forecasts for a few years now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_meteorology).

Differences in atmospheric gas density affect the propagation speed of the GPS radio signal. Peering thru the edge of the atmosphere at the constellation of GPS transmitters allows you to get a bunch of density/temperature profiles in a way that's immune to some instrumental artifacts of other instruments.

One of the inventors of the idea formed a company to cooperatively launch small satellites to do these retrievals:

http://geooptics.com/?page_id=35
Yet the assumption that all models require an ID is a fallacy. I was generating reports unique to the day, therefore a simple Date field was adequate as an index/ID. I don't know about other ORMs but when working directly with the SQL it'd be no issue.

I hold out that it's a problem in the design of ActiveRecord to assume that there will always be a primary key. That said, if I can just tell the model "identify yourself by this key" WITHOUT setting it as the primary key I would be happy.
Was there ever anyone who naturally spoke like Spock?
It's even worse than just a Soundex of your last name, the entire number is derived off your name and DOB.

http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_shared.html
Wow, this is a great idea. I have seen this tech before (well similar) in japanese restaurants around my area but the problem is the functionality was very limited and the user interface blowed. This however looks very nice to use. I think the main thing the restaurant owners who adopt this technology need to get a grasp of his how to properly integrate this with their customer service staff.

I would presume there would be some retraining also such as how to handle technical failures during an order (what to say and how to still keep it streamlined through old manual methods) but if all that stuff is sorted this looks great !

I mean playing games when your waiting and nutritional information is great. I do that tim ferris diet and knowing if something has sugar or the forbidden ingredients in them would be good to know. Also it would provide important info to people with allergies to nuts and other similar kinds of foods.
This is a troll, and someone's jealous of Tim or doesn't like him, or doesn't want him CEO. Or someone's trying to be funny. Either way I can't see much merit in the exercise.
You ever played Weiqi? (Otherwise known as Go).

Unlike chess, stones don't move once played. They can only be captured. On a 19x19 board, you have to balance short-term gains with long-term gains. Since there are no left-right or top-bottom orientations, you often have to reimagine where you draw the lines of territory as you play. Sometimes, you can kill your shapes by playing too many stones. Better players can see where things will go, identify "dead shapes," and stop wasting time trying to rescue them. Sometimes you trade off bad moves for bigger gains. Sometimes you simply have to work with mistakes you made in the early game.

This is very much like writing code and getting it to market. You're trying to build something despite disruptive opposition even as the clock winds down.
As an aside here, what you can do is have your GPL code load a non-GPL DLL. I've seen that before. (Very frustrating when you're trying to understand how the custom GDB works).
Steve Jobs, the problem solver
There are many similarities, but the nature of the products each produces introduces some differences. Valve creates occasional monolithic products that depend heavily on art direction and experience design. Google produces a complex, interconnected system where Everything Must Scale.
Nasty situation to be in. I would suggest talking to him in a friendly way and just outlining everything you said here. If he's not a dick, he should be happy to award you some equity. It's not fair to have 50% but you should get something.

Getting a lawyer involved immediately really escalates the situation and can make things quite hostile. I would only suggest it as a last resort.
The message HP is passing is very confusing.
Problem is that 'rewrite later' never happens because you're always busy. Setting up safeguards to protect against common attacks is quick enough that it can be done upfront. Efficiency and scaling can usually wait, though figure it out ahead of time if possible.
NASA to begin sending data with lasers.
"GPS might at first seem like an unlikely source for nuclear test detection." Actually, it makes total sense. So much sense that the creators of GPS put sensors in the satellites to do this...

"GPS satellites carry a set of nuclear detonation detectors consisting of an optical sensor (Y-sensor), an X-ray sensor, a dosimeter, and an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sensor (W-sensor), that form a major portion of the United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
not anymore

Server:	10.12.96.240
Address:	10.12.96.240#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	willneverwork.com
Address: 68.178.232.100

No. It wasn't me.
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As you said, some people work at companies that mandate its use - they have no choice. While that's happening, it needs to be considered.
That's interesting, considering Google is trying to get me to give them my phone number. puts on a tin foil hat
Hah, funny you should mention that. We just launched our service that does pretty well the same thing, but uses Dropbox: http://www.pixelstew.com

There are a few other people entering this space too, I think it will be crowded in coming months.
I have some storage experience and I can tell you that Dropbox is not a new idea at all. Even AOL had something like this. I'm also convinced that they didn't win because of simplicity. However, Dropbox just delivered what they promised.

It was amazing for me to watch companies in "cloud storage" space just not delivering. Their servers were down, clients were using 99% of CPU, etc. Yes it is ok that service has some bugs but these companies were adding features (mobile app, integration who knows what) before even making basic stuff working.

Just look Google Docs. Why they cannot just make that "documents" don't intermittently disappear (you get 404 but after retry they are back) before they change interface. Why? I really don't know.
Cool! Glad to see more people entering this space, it's really validating for us and for you I'm sure too. We just launched our service that is very similar, but uses Dropbox as a back end: http://www.pixelstew.com

Nice design, my only complaint is the blurry video.

Edit: Also, your video is WAY long. You need to make it more succinct. People aren't going to stay engaged for 4 minutes.
Sorry HN, my little VPS couldn't handle you! I've reconfigured Apache and splurged on some more RAM. Should be good now.
Looks great - designers desperately need a better solution for versioning. My thoughts on existing options:

- Dropbox isn't great because (as far as I know) you don't get to leave messages as you do with Git/SVN commits.

- Git isn't great because (as far as I know) it's not so easy to quickly compare a whole history of iterations

- I haven't looked at hosted options for a few months, but they've always seemed to be expensive.

So you're left with:

- Trying to remember to incrementally increase filenames (Website01.psd, Website02.psd etc) - still leaving out memorable 'commit messages'.

- Saving the files with memorable 'commit messages' in the filename (Website_WideSidebar.psd, Website_NarrowSidebar.psd). Janky.

- Grouping all of your layers and duplicating the entire site for different iterations, turning on and off those groups to see previous work. Or using Layer Comps. Still janky.

- What I do in Illustrator (infinite canvas makes it easier than in Photoshop) - duplicating the artboard for each iteration, leaving a 'post-it note' to myself on the corner of each iteration. So I get the 'commit messages' and the ability quickly see all iterations at once. A recent example:
http://c.jongold.in/1z452Y402o3V3s2d0r2W

I'd agree with the previous criticism about the video being too long - I'm sure you're aware of that though.

The pressing issue in versioning for me is being able to leave and view 'commit messages'/comments as simply as I can with Git - they're more meaningful to me that viewing solely by date. If you add that I think you'll have a great product.
Steve Jobs' biological father wants to finally meet son
Always a sad story. I once advised Xilinx on the huge danger of open sourcing the information needed to program their chips, that danger being that thousands of hobbiests might design their chips into designs and their fabs would not be able to keep up.

It is very hard in the chip business, which is usually not filled with much if any software expertise, to explain that the 5 - 10 engineers who 'sit around and do nothing but write software' are the source of your volume. Its easy to see a sales guy + design win = volume. Its easy to see price action + distributor buying = volume. Its extremely hard to measure free software + random designs = volume equation. When I talked with an Atmel FAE who had been with the product since the mid-90's said that Atmels original GCC commitment was simply to avoid going out of business. A "last ditch" attempt to get some business from the 'hobbyist' market.

It is hard to explain to someone that 'hobbyists' are often engineers in their 'day' jobs at some big corporation and if they start using parts in their 'hobby' and get comfortable with them they will bring them into their 'day' job when an opportunity presents itself. Why this is hard to understand I don't know, but it sure seems to be.
Institutional investors demand greater private equity transparency
Using the tools at USPS.com, I could find examples where ZIP+4 was unique down to just 6 apartments in a dense neighborhood. Just type in a street name with lots of apartment buildings on it.
Dump the TIPS man.
YC is definitely still a startup. Otherwise, they would have replaced that frickin' chili by now.
So no more online banking? Everyone's accounts are in danger.
Haunted old hotels where guests pay to stay for microseconds
For those curious to read it, it's an open-letter from one Seattleite to another (Kenji to Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz).

The most hilarious job application I've read in a while. Worth a read.
I would say gender should be irrelevant too ...
I doubt his sincerity if he is more worried about Jobs thinking of him after his fortunes than having the chance to finally meet him.

Edit: This totally reminds me of Departures http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1069238/
If the data is accurate enough to detect a kiloton blast deep underground, what about conventional weapons on the surface? Could this be used to detect and track the use conventional explosives deep inside the territory of oppressive regimes?
I've killed a potentially great startup by trying to get the "code perfect"
Gender is a bit of a stretch, if technically changeable. I don't know much on the subject but I would wager that the proportion of people who have changed gender is not statistically significant enough to change the 87% figure.
Ask HN: Fast vs. perfect, semantic front-end code for MVP?
Just wondering where web designers/front-end developers draw the line between quickly prototyping code for their startup (perhaps using something like Twitter's Bootstrap framework), and having long-lasting, semantic code that won't need to be written in the short term?

This is my first startup and I'm finding it difficult to know when work is 'good enough' rather than obsessing on the details as is customary when freelancing.
Did anyone actually think this was far fetched? I thought this guy was being totally serious, and it is the most likely event, actually discussed in the article.
To some people, that big TV with pictures in it is called a computer. To you, it's probably a monitor. Are they just as right as you are?
This Guy Just Sold A Personalized Magazine-Making App To CNN For Millions
Did Google certificate forgers hit hundreds more sites?
Hard to say without seeing your code and knowing the tech you work with, but I'd assume a lot more than £20k. Is that one and a half years of coding, or one and a half years since graduating?
Whats ur contribution at Facebook Comunity Building?
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Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29#Technolog...

"Dropbox uses Amazon's S3 storage system to store the files"
That's interesting, I did not know that.

The approach in the article is in fact quite novel, though.

They're actually detecting the shock wave in the atmosphere. Not even something "easy" like the seismic shock wave.
Yeah I'm very confused. Is HP in or out?
Apple and the Art of Business
Though there's also a plus side. I assume that world consumption of resources will go down, since one person not born in a developed country is equivalent to probably 2+ not born in a developing country.
Don't forget $99/year developer program. That's would offset quite a few app sales as well.

I, along with many others, derided the $499 price point, and called it stupid. $99 is fantastic, but they've obviously decided against making it a long term viable business for them.

Despite what many others said, I strongly believe these would have sold well at $249-$299, and could have enabled HP to make a play to be a strong outside third, and then possibly a second, in the tablet space.
Not just because this is what I do, mainly, but it's such an important point that it deserves highlighting. Working software is easy. Working maintainable software is harder.
No, it's whomever decided to set the price at $100 who should be fired. This excessive demand shows that they could easily have charged $150 or maybe even $200 for the 16GB version, and still gone through their supply, with less hassle for retailers, and less of a loss.
Let this post be a warning to web entrepreneurs everywhere-- if you take shortcuts like this, your business will get burned at some point in the future. Every single thing you've just said is wrong. Every single thing.

First -- "the chances of that happening is very low." Let this be an education; there are automated toolsets that seek out and exploit known vulnerabilities in software across the entire Internet. If you have a public-facing website, you will get attacked. Period. The chances aren't "very low", they are a certainty. There are also toolsets that are used to do much more low-level scans for things like XSS, SQL injection, etc. These are commonly used by security auditors, but are also used by 13 year old kids who want to compromise your site. Again-- the chances aren't "very low", they are a certainty.

Next -- "...but the priority in any business to make profit first." State attorneys general are very quickly drafting personal privacy laws. I believe Massachusetts and Nevada are leading the way here, whereby any personally-identifiable information is _required_ _by_ _law_ to be held to the same rigorous data protection standards as PCI. If your site is breached, you will get sued, and you will lose.

Following OWASP takes maybe an extra day's worth of time out of a developer-- saying that you're just going to ignore it because hey, what's the worst that could happen -- again, I would ask you to list what you're building, so I can avoid it forever.
And still by far the tallest person in the room. The man is a giant.
I'm not going to jump down your throat on this, because everyone is inexperienced at some point, and you can never know everything, so on one hand your attitude of "just ship" is healthy.

That said, one of the things that (hopefully) comes with experience is knowing when and where to cut corners. Basic security practices are one place where you need to bake your understanding into everything you do from a low level, because security is one of the hardest "features" to retrofit. Also because basic security does not have to be hard. Hell, you can make an informed decision not to use SSL on your login page, but it must be just that, informed.

Unlike the language du jour, security principles are something that will apply to all programming you do for the rest of your life. So, though you may decide not to use trendy framework x, y or z today, failing to learn basic security and apply it consistently will slowly turn you from a young developer with bright ideas and a lot of potential, to a middle-aged hack developer with a defensive chip on his shoulder.
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Why do the cops win? A network of instant communication. If you can't communicate quickly, or at least as fast as your enemies, in many cases you might as well not communicate at all. There are benefits of sneakernets but they don't win on their own.
Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?
I do not believe it does quit it properly on OS X. Even after a fresh reboot, Spotify appeared to be using about 40k/sec outbound bandwith. After I removed it, idle bandwidth dropped to zero.

I also noticed something strange when removing it with CleanMyMac (similar to AppZapper). There's a separate dock icon file for Spotify, and removing it restarted Dock.app. I think that might be to cover up Spotify running in the background somehow.
Where are the black people?
> It's kind of ironic that geeks who were picked/excluded/ostracized in school turn on each other in their adult lives and become snob/hipsters, instead of breaking the cycle.

More human nature than irony, I'd say.
Drug Testing Poor Could be Unconstitutional
Perhaps a 'where are they now' would be interesting for the other guys in the batch.
I love how stanford is doing this for the public -- especially empowering those who really can't afford a degree but really want to enrich their education desires. +1 to Stanford for pushing this and the instructors and TAs who will be dedicating their time to make this happen.

On a side note, I'm deciding to take this class or the ML one. In my line of work, I do believe that the ML class will be more beneficial but the AI one seems way more interesting.
Groupon's PR boss quit before Andrew Mason sent out that company memo
If anything Justin looks even bigger now--like he can twist heads off baby seals.
A downvote on a contributor can be, and frequently is, a vote of disagreement, regardless of how well intentioned and expressed the contributor was.
Spotify's UX is okay, I wouldn't really call it awesome.

I mean it's got all the music player basics (playlists, search, etc), but there are almost no music discovery features and the social stuff is pretty lacking.
Astro Physicist figures out fastest boarding plan
Java founder Gosling leaves Google for startup
That he'll have to pay $5000 or more for?
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Oddly, couldn't get that one to work; got a "Press any key to continue" that never responded.