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I can't imagine withholding from my children the type of experience I had in public school. For 8 hours a day I was away from home, among dozens of people my age. I had access to a pretty good library, far better than my small town's public library. I played a school-owned bassoon (these would typically cost over $3000) in our concert band, learned bass drum for marching band, got to go on band trips. I learned leadership and co-operation with a variety of different types of people--ranging from straight-A Mormon girls to poor white kids to Mexican wanna-be gangsters--in class, in band (especially during band camp), and as the eventual captain of the cross country team. I took cooking courses, got to make nitrocellulose in our reasonably well-outfitted science department, dissected pigs, and build my own cluster as an independent study project. All in the public school of my little town of 2,000 people, with around 60 in my graduating class.

Classes did not challenge me, but I buckled down, listened to lecture, did my homework in class, and read when there was nothing else to do. As everyone here is so fond of stating, if you're "too smart for school" you can teach yourself in the evenings or even during class--but don't rob your child of the opportunity to try new things, meet people, and for god's sake GET OUT OF THE FUCKING HOUSE FOR A WHILE.
Just FYI, TripLingo has been featured on Mashable, TNW, RWW, etc., and each of those posts generated between 200-1k tweets. Problem is, most of them are just bots that auto-tweet stuff from those sites. Probably got 10-15 legit tweets off of each. But be wary of tweets off of sites like that, I doubt anyone legit follows the people auto-tweeting.

Which isn't to say we didn't see a lot of traffic from those articles, just not from Twitter.
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The "CAT5 was more than up to the job" comment with the source http://www.cat-5-cable-company.com/faq-cat6-gigabit.html seems foolish. Didn't the author just go through the hassle of future devices requiring more bandwidth than his existing network could handle?

If I was to install an Ethernet network, it would almost certainly be CAT6. It nearly doubles the speed, ensures compatibility with Gigabit Ethernet, is fully backwards compatible, and is future-resistant. The 30% price bump (based on a quick check of Monoprice bulk cable, not sure what the increase is after connectors/stranded/Gigabit components) is much less than the price bump down the line trying to upgrade an existing installation.
> making you rethink your async patterns.

Call me crazy, but I don't consider forcing users to manually transform their code into hard-to-read continuation passing form much of a language innovation.

> node.js created a new world to work with JS, making it more powerful.

Sure, it gave it a new environment to run in, but it didn't make the language any more powerful than applets made Java the language more innovative.
I think CSS is fine for documents. Your style rules will be pretty simple and consistent.

The problem is when you try to shoehorn an application onto HTML. Then I agree, CSS is an abomination. I have taken a liking to using Javascript widgets that manage their own styles, inspired by the OpenStep view model. But then I start to question why use the browser at all?
Can't wait to get my hands on it.

At the same time I'm a bit afraid to be disappointed. All programming languages suck.
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There isn't.

jwz mentions that he was unsuccessful lobbying the release of the 3.0 source.[1] For the purposes of this discussion (since you only ask about the browser here), according to Brendan, 4 was like 3.[2] Seibel mentions there that Brendan says he tried to get it released, too. The big rewrite that everybody talks about is Gecko (under the stewardship of Gessner, I think), when 5 got ditched and the next release jumped to 6. It's still listed on the MXR homepage (under Classic). Then, ho-ho, there came another new flavor at the genesis of Firefox proper, Aviary, which is also indexed on MXR. I don't know what sets it apart from pre-Aviary besides that it ditched the old XPInstall stuff. (Yeah, XPIs still exist, but most people don't realize that's not XPInstall anymore. That's the new-ish "toolkit" install system.)

1. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/

2. http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/two-rewrites-red...
Let me ask you, what's your favourite programming language at the moment?
They can be sued on (largely bogus) patent claims regardless of language/toolset. Even if they completely wrote their own language and implemented every feature from scratch, that doesn't give them any meaningful patent protection.
No proven benefits?

Not exactly a surprise for a language whose announcement has only just been announced.
It's not deleted - it's still live over at TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/not-leaving-quietly/
15,000 people paid for these apps? Must be desperate, gullible, rich, or a combination of the above.
Another issue may be related to the FDA. It is my understanding that raw milk (unpasteurized) imparts a different flavor/texture to the cheese. I guess we have laws against cheese made with raw milk.

I am not a cheese maker, I've merely read this on food blogs.
the great American discovery of Greek yogurt.

Hah. I have friends who rave about Greek yogurt, but not a one of them doesn't drown it in fruit, sugar and honey first.
Still without whitespaces, i have to look at the python heatmap a little differently..
The fact that we can use a hammer doesn't mean everything is a nail. Languages and programming paradigms profoundly influence the way we think about solving problems. How can it be wrong to explore new paradigms? My concern is not them introducing a new language, but whether it is radical and innovative enough.
I think it's both that, and the overall convenience of mobile. In the past, you would think, "hey, I can bet on that!" and then you usually aren't near a computer (or a casino). Now you always have your phone with you
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The interface is an absolute joy to use. I was initialy taken aback by the (large) size of everything, but it makes it surprisingly fun. I love some of the smaller details; the way 'powered-off' Tasks are greyed out for example.

Can you share any info on your stack?
darn, I thought it was all the assets too.
IMO social policy should focus on the average case, but with easy-to-access exceptions dealing with the best and worst cases. Society is done a great disservice if gifted students are prevented from reaching their potential (thus preventing them from being as beneficial to society as they could) for the sake of the potential dropouts.
I completely agree with your ethos here - my only question is: how scalable is this?

Its fine for the odd customer, but what if your user-base suddenly changes by a couple of orders of magnitude?
C# hasn't just improved itself considerably, C# put pressure on Java to improve as well.

That's why I welcome the creation of any and all new languages. I don't need to be on the cutting edge and try to learn all of them, I can wait until the early adopters see value in them and then learn from the things that work.
I think that's correct about Chrome. If you want to see the "current" source, the Web Inspector is the way to go.
Thanks for taking the time to give that input. It's a valid point about how well we're communicating on the site. My blog post completely aside, I am still genuinely interested in the question I asked in the HN post.
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Nifty idea, but it needs to export to .ics or some other widely accepted calendar format. Also, have you considered implementing this as a Facebook app? That's where most of my non-work event invitations show up. Also, it looks like you could do the functionality client-side in Javascript, which would reduce server load at scale. Still, though, definitely a step forward for people who work block schedules.
This blog, and the blog it is sourced on, are both based on this NY Magazine article, where the graph is sized to fit on a screen and not fuzzy: http://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/patriot-act/
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You've just illustrated why I will never again take a job as a K-12 teacher in the US. In other countries? Maybe. But not in the US. And you've missed my point. It's not about earning respect (of course you have to do that-- as does anyone in any job), it's about occupational respect starting on the first day of school. This thread shows how little of that there is left for teachers in the U.S. I fail to be surprised that young people find a different profession where respect is a given, like software development.
Interesting. I've been hearing a lot of ads for this thing called 'iHeartRadio' on the actual radio for a while now. Mostly it was to advertise some concert in Las Vegas - http://www.iheartradio.com/cc-common/iheartradio-music-festi...

I had no idea this sort of service was associated with it.
This single requirement will stop me from trying their app. I have never, nor will I ever, use my FB login for another companies service. If that's the only way to log in, I won't bother using the service.
That was my thought exactly. Clicked over, saw it required facebook, closed the page immediately.
> If this had been built as a webapp, I'd be using it right now. :/

You should ask for a refund.
That's brilliant! Nicely done.
I'd just like to note how fun the book Starting Forth is. It's a bit like The Little Lisper in that it's entertaining (there are comics), but thicker, with a fuller treatment of the material.
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I agree; but still, next time, I'll have my satire sensors on full alert. (I can't promise I won't rant about it though).
The family have PCs - but they are running windows, and anti-virus and firewalls and their cable company internet subscription - if the kid messes them up the family is annoyed.
http://www.businessinsider.com/arrington-told-a-room-full-of...
The best part about the title is that if you remove the words former and writer the title works for any TC post as well. It appears the young Padiwan has learned much from his master.
Wait a moment Lars Bak and Gilad Bracha? I really like Gilad Brachas newspeak language. I really like people who can make good Jits.

- Gilad Bracha was working on a way to run Newspeak in the browser.

- Newspeak is a bad name because Newspeak is a bad thing, when I read Newspeak I think "bad". The could mean that if google would want to support it they would maybe change the name.

So my guess is:
Dart is Newspeak that runs on the browser and on the server and it gets support by google.
The chart at the bottom of the page pegs US manufacturing employees as costing $32.26/hour in 2008.
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I've been using the iHeart Radio iPhone app for a while and like it well enough, and I stream my local Clear Channel station over the web a lot (Mix 94.5 out of Lexington, KY - I live about a mile out of range to actually get it clearly on the radio). I could see myself using this quite a bit, but the "you must Like us on Facebook" thing is a real turn-off for me, so for now I think I'll stick to what I've got.
Something that has helped us, a little more in the e-commerce space, but listing your phone number definately drives business. We are bootstrapped, but let the number forward to our cells. All three partners pick up the phone, gives good connections with customers and allows us to do a good pitch and eleviate doubts.
I got a new Macbook pro today and that was the second thing I did to it, after installing Chrome
I find it not such a dangerous attitude, especially in the context of American educational failure and the relative success of Asian education.
There is always a point, even if it isn't immediately obvious. People are curious and inventive and wonderful - they will surprise you! Just because you can't see somebody immediately being able to build this board, doesn't mean that the knowledge your work contains isn't useful, or won't be useful in the future.

Besides, you have no reason not to. Couldn't hurt, right? And it would make the open hardware community promote you even more.

Please seriously consider doing this. :)
If you want to view the current HTML source in Firefox you can use Ctrl+A and then right-click > "View Selection Source".

I think it's more a question of what do you expect to see when you "View Source". For example, I have messed around with document.write a lot and it's pretty obvious to me that, if I use view source then it's going to give me the source and any changes done to it my document.write/open/close.
In this case since document.write is used after HTML parsing has been completed it replaces the whole page and thus makes view source rather pointless.
There is an excellent podcast with Gilad Bracha on Newspeak at se-radio:

http://www.se-radio.net/2009/07/episode-140-newspeak-and-plu...

It was one of the most memorable and interesting podcasts that I have ever heard. Newspeak will likely remain one of those languages that I really want to learn, but won't find the time for.

Considering the speakers, I'm actually very interested in what Dart is like.
What's funny is that you cite one survey when there are many surveys, with estimates wildly different from each other, while calling my rhetoric slanted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

The two highest estimates, if you read their Wikipedia entries, are heavily criticized by peer reviewers.

The actual death rates according to the CIA World Factbook, just to give you a comparison:

USA: http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=us&v=26

Iraq: http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=iz&v=26

Iraq isn't a war zone as many of you who have never visited might think.
Class has absolutely nothing to do with the use, or non-use, of profanity. And there are absolutely plenty of times when using profanity in a professional setting is fine... IMNSHO, it should be used more. Most people are too god-damned concerned with image and "political correctness" bullshit. Some candor, emotion, and openness is much appreciated by many people.
I've been reading Gilad Bracha's blog for a while. He believes the future belongs to languages that compile to javascript.
>http://www.slate.com/id/2302949/

Why is it that you don't think of this as propaganda? At what point does a person expressing their opinion become a mouthpiece? The answer is not so simple as "when they are paid for it," because belonging to a viewpoint is not so simple as being given money.

>Really? Where are my millions of dollars? Where is my government-issued sockpuppet management software?

What is the source of your ideas? Do you really think you have any special provenance on fact?

>That's not exactly the same as two neighbors having a chat.

It is _exactly_ the same. The battlefield is over the opinions held in people's hearts and minds. Once a viewpoint owns a man, it doesn't matter whether that purchase was made with cash, with returned loyalty, with loudness, with calls to idealism, with calls to righteousness, or even with calls to "fact" (perhaps the most laughable--fact's provenance as 'truth' makes it the most important to manipulate and therefore the most manipulated).

You are owned wholesale by your viewpoints because they define who you are. You were _purchased_, and while it might matter to _you_ what coin was used, you are simply _not cynical enough_ if you think you haven't been manipulated.

You say "where is my government-issued sockpuppet management software," but the fact is that you are providing arguments that are very much sockpuppet arguments: the soundbytes we've all heard that don't end in a workable solution, which provoke exactly the generic irrelevant soundbytes that we've also all heard before ("You people who know absolutely nothing about the US's role in Iraq or elsewhere, while calling US soldiers baby killers or propagandists").

Maybe your software doesn't come from the government, but it sure as hell comes from somewhere, and I don't get the feeling that you know where.
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Maybe it's my age (currently 23) But Zagat has a good reputation and critical mass?

I know Zagat as that magazine that fast food places brag about getting high ratings from (KFC ran commercials for a while claiming a #1 rating from them).
What gets me is the option-click that hides the window you're moving away from. Does anyone know how to disable that?
Yeah, there's a funny "tragedy of the commons"-like dynamic going on here. While it may be a rational decision for each individual parent to hassle their kids' teachers for every possible issue, the cumulative effect is that those that can get another job will leave because their job is made so unpleasant, ultimately defeating the goals of all those parents.
Talk about burning bridges and ruining a reputation.

Burning bridges isn't always a bad thing. And sometimes doing so enhances your reputation, rather than ruining it.

I'm betting a whole lot of people have more respect for Carol Bartz today, than they had yesterday, exactly because she spoke her mind, and showed some emotion and cut through the "PC" crap. At the very least, I know I do.
Its not as if TechCrunch is above the tabloid crap. Look at this story, and every past TC drama, as evidence.
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Awesome stuff. I've added the calendar format to the list of features.
As a regular caltrain commuter, I use the iCaltrain app and thus far, I havent had any issues with it. Can you explain how your app is better ?
Is there a way to disable that awful grey-blue void at the top of every webpage in Safari, that the bounce-scroll resorts to on an overshot?
I wonder if structured web programming is to conventional web programming as structured programming is to GOTO-style programming.

If this is the case, it is more or less like Hacker News, or Seaside using continuations in web programming.

If so, I'm interested to know how they overcome the mismatch between the statelessness of the web and stateful continuations. How are we going to permalink, for example?
Thanks for your reply. I'd been looking at the FAQ and it seemed like there wasn't much redundancy built in - not wishing ill of you at all.
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Ask HN: Can we get an option to "undead" comments?
It doesn't happen too often, but sometimes I see a comment that's dead which is really a very good comment. Often, I look at the history of the user to guess why it might be dead, and they have an active history of other good comments, so it's quite surprising. I assume they are false positives hit by a spam filter.

It seems like an easy fix would be to wire up an "undead" button to resuscitate dead comments (at least ones that were killed by an automatic filter.) If a handful of high-karma accounts undead a comment, then we can put it back. Abuse should be unlikely and easy to identify as such.

This seems like it would be an improvement over the status quo of either taking no action, or having someone else repost the comment with a note, which happens occasionally, but which is redundant and allocates karma incorrectly.

Here's the example that prompted this submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2975387 This was the most informational comment in the thread, so it's a shame that many people can't see it.
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It's not like in startups founders sit in a closed room and "envision" strategy and plan, then come out and hand it over to their minions to implement.

Startupping is a creative process in which all levels of company should participate, good ideas might very well have come from below ranks.

He mentions he didn't get founder's stock though, so that kinda answers your question.
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This lets the kids have their own PC to work on without any risk of screwing up the family PC, and at a trivial cost.

Installing programming tools on whatever PC the parents may have is not a reliable, trivial, or consistent process. Parents will be upset if it somehow the installation screws up the home computer.

And yes, for some households with limited income, they may have enough money for an HDTV _or_ a PC, but not both - and most households will have opted for the HDTV before the need for an adequate PC for classwork became an issue.
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The person being interviewed addresses that in his first response: “Well, you could either consider me the first employee or a co-founder depending upon how you want to think about it."

So he's not claiming to be one; and if you look at the headline of the article it says "first employee".
I already mentioned below that I thought your site was nicely done. But you didn't answer my questions directly which makes me a bit wary.

My questions aren't site security questions per se, they deal more with the business of your site. Also, my questions are blunt, but not disrespectful, so don't be offended.

1) How do I trust you? How do I know you're not going to run away with all my money? Who are you?

Registered brokerage accounts have segregated funds, so that brokerages can't get access to my money in case the brokerage goes under. You are saying everything is in one giant account. In the case you suffer a catastrophic loss, how do I know my money is safe? Also, how do I know you're not Madoff and won't run away with all the money?

2) How are you affording the ability to margin people's accounts? Where are you getting the money?

3) You say you check for margin requirements every 5 seconds? If I were a market manipulator, I would wait for the order book on BTC to thin out, then I would massively short the markets. This would hopefully trigger massive margin calls on your end, and forced liquidation. Since the order book is thin, I would probably be able to cover at rock bottom prices. Also, presumably you (the site) would suffer tremendous losses.

How do you protect your customers from this?
Doesn't Google already do local ratings on pretty much everything?
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Ask HN: What do you consider too long for a domain address?
HNers,

I've been looking for a good domain name for my recent project. After going through all my top ideas (noticing that they are taken and put to no use), I'm starting to play around with words to find something good (after all a good name is important, right?!).

However, it appears that all of the names that i am finding are long, or at least I think that they are long. So I have a few questions as I am sure a lot of you have had to deal with something similar.

1)What's considered too long of a domain name?

2)When it comes to domain name length and quality(witty, catchy, meaningful), which do you sacrifice for the other?

3)What do you look for in a name, anyways? Wit? Catchiness? Meaning?

Thanks!
The Photo filter battle commences...
I can tell you that the _real programmers_ which eventually will be called in to expand on your work will hate you. But don't let that discourage you. Happy hacking