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A while back I read a book called Geography of Bliss [1] which covers the authors attempt to find the happiest country in the world (with statistics etc to back it up) and find out what makes it such a happy place. One of the countries covered is Iceland, and the author explores Iceland's notion that you are a failure if you have not experienced failure for yourself. There is (supposedly - since I am taking this knowledge from a book and not first hand experience) no societal qualms about failing at something, and it is highly encouraged to try and find yourself and what you want to do in life - whether you succeed or not. I think having this mentality allows people to try without worrying about how society might perceive them - not that there aren't risk takers out there (obviously this forum is a grand example of plenty of those people), but you also have a big part of society who would look down on failure, even if it's their own kids, and instead of encouraging them, they tell them they have to succeed at everything they do.

Failure is an option, but do what you can to prevent failure. If you've failed, just learn from your experience and let it make you stronger for the future.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Geography-Bliss-Grumps-Search-Happiest...
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There's a ton on his blog that gives you a sense for it. David actually can code - he's self taught, with his formal training coming as a designer - so he's a magical unicorn who can write. (That is to say, right up your alley.)
From what I gather the book isn't about

"how to apply 'hacking' to design"

but rather

"explaining design to people that have the 'hacker' mindset in such a way that it's easier for them to understand".
"Aw, snap" actually seems even less mature than a frowney face.
Do searches of church blogs and facebook pages (example search "missionaries africa site:facebook.com").

Also, pitch it to some of the top christian/theology blogs out there. Since your product is essentially free to setup/host and quite beneficial, I imagine you could get a few to post about it.

Many of the missionaries I know meet with other nearby missionaries monthly or quarterly, so I think the word could spread if you were able to reach the right people.
I agree, but I don't think that the original poster was claiming to have a conclusive picture. He had a few observations from the first two weeks, and I'm arguing that they were valid. Was it a good idea to act on them so quickly? Possibly. In my experience, (nine years of running the same business) intuition is sometimes enough.
A Programmers Life (comic) :)
I tend to like it if the left-hand-side is overwhelmingly the default code-path, or to keep all assignments aligned (ones with caveats then stick out like a sore thumb).

How do you feel then about things like this?

variable = if something
val
else
another_val
end

(insert your personal indentation choice, of course)
I don't think you will ever be in the market targeted by an iPad. Some people (me included) will always need trucks. On the other hand, I can see about 90% of the people around me being able to use and iPad right now to replace their current computer needs.
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Yeah, that's the argument in favor of the other Strang: it's more standard and would allow piggy-backing on the open course. Still, the material is mostly going to overlap.
Google Flight Search vs. Kayak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Indian_anti-corruption_mov...

Quite a big deal; underrated in the west during this Arab spring.
The point isn't to sit and watch a 10-hour coding session. Even if such lengthy things are available, I imagine the most benefit would come from just watching a random 5 minutes of a bunch of different people's styles and learning from their basic approaches.
Google xss?
Agreed, and it's a little strange to mention using airline miles to reduce your costs, but then fly Astraeus which doesn't award miles. There are lots of better ways to "hack" your travel than spending time on the sites he listed.
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I find http://activeadmin.info/ to be a much more effective solution.
Sounds a lot like the much praised Non-Designer's Design Book
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321534042/
Ralph Levien's Inconsolata [1] is the strongest attempt I've yet seen at reproducing the quality of TheSansMono.

[1]: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Amazon marks it as "Optimized for Larger Screens". How bad would it be on a 6" Kindle?
Rails admins can be put into 2 categories- generators, and frameworks.
Generators give you ultimate control to change anything that was generated.
However, a generator works for only what you have at the time you run the generator, and take a lot of work to adapt to changes and additions.
Frameworks adapt well to changes but limit your flexibility. They have their own special API you have to learn, and the API will always be limited.

* Generators - padrino admin, the many rails generators, ?
* Frameworks - rails_admin, ActiveAdmin, admin_assistant

I like Puffer. I view it as exactly the same as admin_assistant, which has more features. admin_assistant is designed for ActiveRecord though, and most of the Puffer functionality works out of the box for Mongoid.

The reason to prefer admin_assistant or Puffer is additional flexibility.

All admins work with fairly well with your existing models. The flexibility issue comes in changing how the controller and views behaved. The advantage of admin_assistant in comparison to rails_admin is that you are in charge of creating the controllers. Your controller inherits default behavior from admin_assistant. The default works well. But when you need customisation that your admin can't provide you can always just override the controller method. You can also achieve something similar to to this with one of the CRUD gems like inheritable_resource and some other techniques for automating the views. But an admin like admin_assistant comes with all that setup, plus some extra goodies like searching built in.
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As a new Mac convert, why would one use this, instead of VirtualBox?
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A horror movie cast attrition where the fish eats to the full attractive people set their own bar mighty low Even so Shark Night 3D Button bothered to show themselves
IOS Boilerplate: A base template for iOS apps
blekko is awesome! only search tool i use...
I assume this is the gist of the "fuel dumping" being referred to: http://upgrd.com/matthew/rip-fuel-dump.html
Snippets on Google Maps: if you can see it, you can share it
I was responding to this:

"I strongly disagree. Google wants us to use its services because at its core is a bunch of engineers that simply want to make the world better."

I don't doubt that the people working at google want to make the world better and work on cool software. I don't think that is the primary motivation of google as a company.
Heard good things about Stanford iPhone courses on iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/institution/stanford/id384228265
I was learning programming, when people used to code in Pascal, and C++ was a King. There was no PHP, there was no other crazy stuff... And when we heard about Java, everybody laugh... Now. I'm Java/C#/PHP/AS developer... And this is so easy comparing to old times. U have to spend over one year in a IDE, over one year in specific API environment to learn it, learn, how to use it and, most important - to make any evaluation. And... You are complaining because U have different colours in IDE? Because U have to download something, and set some preferences? Or U have to wait for something few minutes? C'mon guys, U are developing apps, U are NOT hairdressing! It must be hard and must be difficult. And if this is very hard, then U can be very proud!!
This is a dangerous game however; the flip-side is that the airline has more potential profit to lose by not having google to sell their flights for them.
The disk subsystem can fail in software, just just hardware.
Don't miss out on the hacker spirit of David getting this book published chronicled in his blog eg

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-the-book/

All instructive reading in bending a system to work for you, getting things done, and building a business.

PS - Congrats David, I'll take the fact that Amazon went from "19 in stock" to "13 in stock" in the time it took me to order as a good sign :)
When I was looking at it, I felt like it should be something like, "Find the airports that matter". It's easy to say and it's what I actually want you to find for me. I don't care if you're finding airports I've never heard of or if you're finding the ones that are hard to find. I just don't.
More Google Umbono details. It arose from 20% time.
No, I fully agree with the GP, but I certainly could see myself "in the market".

The hardware is perfectly capable of what I would need to use it for. However, the software unnecessarily cripples it. I don't see why I shouldn't be able to get a piece of hardware because other people don't want to use the software that I use.

Remove the artificial limitations and I'd buy one no problem. "Not in the target audience" be damned.
yes. or i assume that 8 will have the same feature 7 does, in that on next boot it will give you a "windows has recovered from a serious error, would you like to go online to search for a solution" dialog.
Somehow, I missed the original HN post, but I like the service as it serves a vastly ignored market (I've also been a fan of Causes since they started).

As far as pricing is concerned, it sounds like it might be best represented on a graph (donations vs. donations less fees).

Also, I'm curious about pointing people to Hover when they want their own domains: is there an affiliate relationship there? I didn't get too far into the 'help' section, but who is going to help with DNS settings? Is that something Bellstrike will provide support for?
The information about AA is not quite true. No status gives you automatic upgrades. Having Platinum status gets you the ability to upgrade domestic flights with "stickers" (which you earn by flying and can buy), but it's all space-available. You won't know if you're in first class perhaps until everyone has boarded and they are closing the gate. You get no official upgrades on international flights except the cash + miles upgrade. If you get the next status up (100,000 miles required), then you start getting the real benefits. You get unlimited free domestic upgrades (space-available, of course), and you get 8 systemwide upgrades that you can apply to any ticket to upgrade to the next class of service for free (space-available). It's nice if you buy a cheap business class ticket ($1000 half-round trip to London, for example) and upgrade to first class. (But of course, business and first on American are not nearly as nice as business and first on Cathay or BA, and your AA status gets you nothing there.)

Anyway, if you want to go the elite status route, you can't be a price comparer. You have to value the benefits you'll get with your status over saving $100 on your next flight. Because 33,000 miles on United, 33,000 miles on Delta, and 33,000 miles on American gets you pretty much nothing. But 100,000 on one of those gets you quite a lot. (I personally lean towards the Oneworld airlines because AA chose good partners. Even if you are flying on AA, you can still use BA's lounge. And they are very nice. Cathay's lounge in Hong Kong is also amazing. Shower rooms, nap rooms, etc. Great way to kill a layover after a 15 hour overnight flight :)
Mixpanel: We're hiring and here's where we're at.
Hi HN,

Mixpanel today is a real-time analytics platform that can do extremely complex data analysis for businesses on the web. Our vision is to help the world learn from its data.

Here's where we're at:

- We're not huge. We're 6 full-time engineers with interns. You don't need to carry the risk of being employee #1 though.

- We mostly write Python, Javascript, and C.

- We have over 200+ servers.

- We handle thousands of requests a second. This is up from 10-15 requests a second during Y Combinator

- We wrote our own database in-house that can process 300M events in real-time. Ultimately, we found that nothing fit our needs and were glad to have built this. We have just started to build products on top of it that push the fold of analytics.

- Our front-end team is top notch. We're building a framework to make building products on front-end much faster. It's surprisingly more difficult than it seems.

- We care a lot about design. Not every piece of enterprise software has to be ugly.

- The market leaders: Omniture, Unica, Webtrends, and Coremetrics are stagnating under the people that bought them late last year. We really are taking their business.

- We're in San Francisco (2nd & Howard)

- We have a beautiful office: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4426180253_21043a8ab9_b.jpg

- We pay for relocation

- We can transfer H1Bs

- We do benefits

- We pay market

- Meaningful equity

- We think the next 5 engineers will truly be the core engineering team at Mixpanel.

- We're not looking to get acquired. It's go big or go home.

- We're funded by Max Levchin, Sequoia Capital, Michael Birch, and Keith Rabois

If you're interested, please apply: http://mixpanel.com/jobs/

Sincerely,

Suhail (suhail@mixpanel.com), Founder
Windows 8 Preview. What's new and what's cool?
Um.... scraped it.
The problem isn't just the power or closed ecosystem, it's the form-factor. Try typing in code, or even just shell commands, with any soft keyboard. Unfortunately, we need too many symbols for it to work.

So the real problem is building a mobile computer on which you can quickly enter text and symbols. I'm currently building a prototype of a folding tablet, about the size of a novel, that allows touch-typing. As your fingers grasp it and hold onto the back, they naturally fall on the home row of a split keyboard. Haven't actually gotten it together but will post pictures and an ergonomic explanation when I do.
I would really recommend against using MacFUSE if you're not using Lion. I've had MacFUSE hang my system on a daily basis until I figured out the problem.
Monetizing something isn't the only reason to do it. And you're right too; just because you started something doesn't mean you have to finish it either.

That said, I don't know if any of the travel sites or airlines offer any affiliate programs, but that could be an easy way to monetize your site. Show users the best airport options on your end with pricing from your affiliate sites and bounce them to the airline/travel site with your affiliate code in tow if they click on the flight.

As for the idea, I've personally wasted some time scouring for airports on Google maps and then looking up the rates on various travel sites. Sounds like your site could have saved me some time for sure.
Thanks! But CRAP! Don't want them to run out.
I don't get it. What are the advantages of using this instead of WebKit's Developer Tools or FireBug?
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Bookmarking on social bookmarking sites serve many benefits that can be very beneficial to a Web. Let's discuss the each benefit with example
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I think the problem is that the things NASA wants to send into orbit are much larger than what the commercial space industry is planning to send into orbit. That's why NASA is taking the lead and building a vehicle specifically designed for large loads rather than people or satellites.
It is true it is a security risk, and it is true the gfx driver culture is not a culture of security.

Security risks can be overcome. The implementation can overcome risk, as Chrome and Firefox's secure implementations prove. So the fact the risk exists is not a complete justification for not supporting the feature at all.

Given that it conflicts with Microsoft's strategy anyway, the conclusion is the security concerns are used as an excuse rather than a reason.
Yeah microsoft does that lot , but here they could have said directly as Amazon, instead they were like , biggest online retailer of books , why ?
The proposed payload for the NASA SLS is 64,000kg-120,000kg while the Falcon 9 is 10,450 kg. The proposed payload for the Falcon Heavy is 53,000 kg.

So to match 1 SLS launch you are looking at 6-12 Falcon 9s (which have flown) or 2-3 Falcon Heavy launches (which have not flown).

I don't think it's a stretch to say that using Space X would be significantly cheaper to get the same weight up there because the design work is already done. You probably would want to use the Falcon Heavy because you don't want to piece together 10 different things, but that is just 3 Falcon 9s strapped together which I can't imagine is as expensive as designing a new launch vehicle from scratch.

You are absolutely right that at this point NASA needs to get out of the launching game. Use the tax money for payloads whether that is a manned mission or robots.
From the description: "The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work—and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels..."

It's pretty clear what he means by "Hacker" and why he used it.
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> Symbian’s share has fallen by 16.1% while Android’s has risen by 16.2%. ... Apple’s iOS (20.3% up 1.2%) ... RIM Blackberry (9.4% up 1.5%) and Microsoft (6.7% down 4.8%)

The other changes in market share are all under 2% (except MS which is -4.8%)- Looks like new smartphone users are choosing Android while the existing ones who are switching are choosing iOS.
This is really more of an issue with how universities value the research, I think. Most of the time, there isn't a very clear immediate business benefit, so they're willing to part with the IP for very little money.

Prime case is the Mosaic browser IP and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. All the research was done by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for the university, and when it was completed and released, didn't really bother to try to get anything from it. The university basically sold the rights to an offshoot company for a very small fee-I believe it was under $1 million, and didn't see any money from it after that.
Actually it's my sister that has Crohn's. My wife's brother doesn't have it and neither do I.
Sure, but something that can assemble things in space (as well as raw materials) is going to be heavy and if its heavy its going to need a heavy launcher. Fuel is heavy too. At the end of the day, you need a powerful rocket to do the heavy lifting. NASA doesn't want to turn into an agency that just gives seed money to SpaceX and wants its own heavy human-rated lifter and capsule.

Not to mention, there's political will for NASA to continue being in the launch business and for good reason. SpaceX could land a monopoly on heavy launches and could raise its prices, get bought by a foreign power, go bankrupt, use shoddy designs, or who knows what else.

edit: really -2 moderation? Downvoting for disgreeing now? Wow HN.
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I've had VirtualBox freeze on me a few times in just the last month or so I've tried it, but can't remember any Fusion lock-ups in almost 2 years of use.
You're right. Compromises need to be made in order to keep the iPad efficient in the way it was originally designed and it's pretty unlikely that it will ever become a mobile coding workstation like the GP wants. Why you're being down voted is beyond me.

Is the hardware capable of letting you do coding and what not? Sure. But at the limitation of keeping it appealing to the masses? Probably not.

It's simple. There is more money to be made on the average consumer than the much rarer programmer/power user.

If you don't like that then I guess you should be happy there are alternatives that maybe one day will do what you want. But as it stands, not even Android (the "power user" OS, if you want to even call it that) doesn't even do what you want without rooting it.

Point is, what the GP wants isn't really something we'll see for the time being. Being cranky about it isn't going to change things.
As an employer, I definitely have gone back through older apps and called people back in for another try at a different/same position.
I'm the same as the throwaway later in the thread (forgot my password). Can you please write to me at 5YER414bfi5G@meltmail.com -- it goes straight to my real e-mail address and we can continue from there.
Wait, so composers and lyricists get life+70 years? How long has that been going on?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8759524/Will-copy...
We should really be comparing the Foxconn suicide rate with the suicide rate of employed people in the surrounding area. I suspect that the currently unemployed may up a decent part of the general population suicide rate.
Huh, fascinating. My dilettante translation of the French Wikipedia entry:

"The statute of Jeune Enterprise Innovante (JEI), created in the 2004 budget bill, applies to small to medium businesses (in the EU, that means <250 employees, <50mil turnover, <40mil assets). The businesses must be less than 8 years old with R&D representing at least 15% of their expenses."

The benefits seem ridiculous. The article says they include exemption from revenue tax, payroll tax and an exemption from capital gains tax for associates (investors? not sure if I read that bit right).

Seems like the Wikipedia article might be a bit out of date, though. A French government website had a different list of benefits not including anything about capital gains, but adding an exemption for property tax.

Someone native should probably check my understanding, but it looks like you get a pretty sweet deal if you can convince the French government you're doing R&D.
Another option is http://github.com/jeffrafter/simple_admin

Was originally a modified (ahem, simplified) version of ActiveAdmin, but has grown quite a bit since then.
I couldn't tell you for sure but considering the sections on color theory and layouts, it would seem to be a lot harder to digest the book using a grey-scale screen that reformats the pages. (if that's what the Kindle does, I don't actually have one)
It should probably be noted that this is <1000 lines of CoffeeScript. Impressive nonetheless, thanks for the link :)
Intel and Google join hands on Android development
http://gregschlom.com/post/4555981908/standing-desk
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On my account page, license section, they've put this notice:

"Upgrades for the following products: View 5, Fusion 4, Workstation 8, Site Recovery Manager 5, and vFabric will be available on the licensing portal by the week of 9/19. If you have questions, please contact License support."

So maybe upgrade prices will be available next week.
This is a Different spin than "embrace failure like silicon valley." It is about developing resilience. Recovering from failure can't be taught to kids protected from it.

I recall a conversation post-graduation with a (the?) top student from my high school. He naturally assumed that every parent intervenes on their kids grades, and couldn't believe mine never did. Perhaps this is why the classmates who had the most professional success were the workaholics not quite at the valedictorian level who used bad grades as motivation.

And to those complaining of cliches.... At least they didn't quote the marshmallow story.
Nicer UI, sliders for values etc. It's a lot faster for experimentation, I certainly appreciate it.
Letting users opt-out of a walled garden is hardly much of a "compromise" at all.

And really, that's all you'd need to do to satisfy me.