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Fork You Growl Interview with Perry Metzger
Growl, the open source notifier service for Mac OSX is now selling in the AppStore for $1.99. The OSS version having been left to rot with OSX Lion related bugs. Fear not! Perry Metzger stepped up and forked Growl, fixed its bugs, and released it all for free. OSS++
I'm an admin who deals with a very large number of mail flow patterns. Everything from multiple versions of Domino to all incarnations of Exchange, all the major Unix flavors Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail as well as most major anti-spam vendors. I can say that most of the people I deal with who have switched to the Microsoft Cloud have been less than happy. Just an anecdote for you if you reconsider the switch.
That implies that living at all costs is the "smart" thing to do.
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The Gingrich Congress, not Clinton, controlled spending and gets most of the credit for the improved budget situation. That plus tax revenue from a massive tech bubble.
We really don't know how much Apple charges for their hardware because they bundle their software with it, and they don't tell us how much the software costs either.

If we assume Windows and OS X took similar developer efforts, the smaller market for OS X means it is going to cost a lot more than Windows in order to recoup the costs of development. That is simple economics. Looking to iOS, it has a much larger market and Apple's mobile devices are quite competitive price wise, which supports the software cost factor.

You might find a higher sticker price on a Mac, but it is a pretty safe assumption that the added cost is to get you into OS X. Which just so happens to be the only reason why you would consider purchasing a Mac in the first place.
Parts of this have much broader relevance than just game development.
Nobody takes him seriously. He is just a Christian apologist who wraps it up with quantum who haa.
It would be nice to have an online version somehow. Maybe a HN thread or start a reddit?
Dollars do not pay interest and even risk free debt does (due to consumption time preference)
> It should be pointed out that Bell's inequalities only rule out the existence of classical hidden variables being able to explain quantum effects

No, Bell's inequality rules out all local hidden variables, whether those variables are generated deterministically or not. Bell's inequality does not say anything about the existence of intrinsic randomness in the universe; it says something about locality.

(Of course, the fact that quantum mechanics is intrinsically random as far as we can tell made it conceptually very difficult to formulate the correct inequality, although the math was simple. That's why the original EPR paper couldn't quite nail down what was so weird about QM, even though they were on the right track. It was an astounding feat by John Bell.)
This just isn't the case.

The show was supposed to portray TS in a good light, and even the Davids are taken back by this reaction.

As one of our investors (in the interest of full disclosure), Tisch is awesome. He's always looking out for the best for his companies, either as personal investments or TS companies. I'm also sure none of the TS companies would say the program was a net negative, rather than a net positive.

As for the mentoring aspect, what Bloomberg didn't show is that the entire 1st month of TS is spent with 40-60 mentor meetings so you find the best mentors for your company. Tisch and Cohen are there to keep you on track from an investor's perspective, but they heavily rely on their mentors to keep you on track.
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Why do I need an app for this? I swear some of these apps are solving problems that simply don't exist.

I speed dial Eastland Car Service in Brooklyn and call it a night (excuse the pun.)

*Ring*
"Eastland."
"Can I have a car to the Moon please?"
"5 minutes."
Click.

3 minutes later it's waiting for you.

Edit: Funny story, once I was picked up by a brand new Porsche Cayenne. Pretty good for an $8 cab.
You say fear-mongering, but the paper itself made most of the claims, and used linking Skype ID -> BitTorrent usage as an example.

I would be more inclined to call this fear-mongering if the paper itself only said that the researchers linked Skype ID -> IP and then TorrentFreak editorialized that by claiming this was a threat to BitTorrent users (even though the original paper never -- or barely -- mentioned BitTorrent).
Anyone up for organizing one out here in the Bay Area for the same weekend (or the near future, if Nov. 12th is too last minute)?

I have an iPhone app I've been trying to finish for a while now, but real life keeps getting in the way. This would be the perfect final push to get it over the goal line.
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Is it more useful to talk about "Total US debt" than "US government debt"? When I first read your comment, I thought you were making the point that the article was misleading because it was using a fraction of GDP as a measure, when it in fact the main feature graph is measured in trillions of dollars.

To a lay reader like myself, it would easily lead to confusion if people talk about different numbers without making the distinction clear. Is there a well known relationship between government debt and private debt? Or is talking up Total US Debt just a distraction from the article, which talks about Government Debt?
Just noticed you're using a single pass of SHA1 (salted) for password storage. Would you be opposed to a patch using a safer password storage mechanism? If not, I'll throw one your way in a couple hours.
WHen you say you strongly disagree; I'd assume you mean about the command line example. My point was more about how simple tools used every day by geeks might be useful to no-techny if made simpler and more accessible.

And when I say terminal, I don't mean it in "bash" or unix prompt.. A total new way to design it with a strong focus on simplicity and AI.
Um, authors going on tours shortly before and after the publication of their books is a pretty age-old tradition. In fact, it may be something mandated in his contract. And guess what, not everyone is you and not everyone was so interested in Jobs that they pre-ordered the book.
Some of us still use (and like) PHP, thank you very much. Nothing wrong with targeting a niche.
I stand corrected. 1999 it is. Thanks for caring about historical accuracy.
I disagree that someone making $26000/year is not contributing to society for many reasons. First, Job != Purpose. There are plenty of people who do a lot for very little money. Maybe they contribute outside of work. Second, how much you make != your contribution to society. There are people making millions that are detrimental to society. Lastly, wages are based on supply and demand. You if you the same thing that millions of other people do you will get paid less. It doesn't matter how important it is.
Great talk.

Simplicity is, of course, key; but a few of his applications of these principles are misguided IMO.

Ex: The "Parens are hard!!" slide. He suggests that parens are "overloaded" in CL/Scheme because they are used to wrap functions, data, and structures all the same. However he completely misses the fact that by representing everything with parens, CL/Scheme remove a lot of complexity in software written in those languages.

AFAIK, the only languages that do macros right are homoiconic. Anything else is too complicated. Just look at Perl 6 and Haskell macros. They require learning special syntax and really crazy semantics. Using them will probably just make your program more difficult to understand.

He also "rails" against testing. He misses the virtues of a proper testing infrastructure in producing reliable software: if you don't test it, how do you know if it works? Because you reasoned about it? How do you know you're reasoning is correct?

True, "guard rail" testing isn't a crutch that will automatically produce reliable software. But I think Rich relies too much on this narrow view of testing to make his point. Testing is good and necessary.

And the jab to the Unix philosophy? ("Let's write parsers!"). Isn't that what we do on the web anyway? AFAIK, HTTP is still a text-based protocol. Any server that speaks the protocol has to parse a string at some point. So what was he getting at there? The Unix philosophy is about simplicity and has a lot to offer in terms of how one can design software to be simple.

Overall though, it's a great talk. I just think that if he wants to get pedantic then he could be a little more thorough and less opinionated. Everything he said about designing simple systems I pretty much agree with, but I think he glosses over some finer points with his own bias of what simplicity means.
People just compare any junk say Dell with the same hardware specs (memory, processor, disk, chipset, etc) to a MBP.

you prove my point. To you computer isn't just a piece of commodity. It IS a status symbol, a thing to revere.

I guess it is the same to me since I write this from my MBP.
The nominal value of the debt is not a good measure because it disregards the fact that the value of a single unit (the dollar) changes over time, and doesn't reflect the difficulty in paying it off (i.e. % of national GDP).

It's also a bit of apples-and-oranges when you compare the nominal debt of one country with another without looking at the differences in GDP between the countries, i.e. the size of each country's economy.
I'm surprised that this landed on the front page. What's the point of benchmarking hello world in the first place? Not to mention that data collected from a single ab run with a fixed concurrency number is not significant in any way.
I've used Uber a couple times in NYC now. Biggest problems for me: It's pricey compared to a normal cab; currently Manhattan-only (for pickups); there's generally a 10-15 minute wait, in which time I generally could've caught a normal cab. But seriously, Uber is fantastic.
Agreed, but we really wanted people to be able to unzip somewhere on their document root and go.

PHP is already installed just about everywhere, and assuming that you already have Apache running it will just work. All that said, we are only using PHP for includes, and it's trivial to switch these out with what ever language you end up using for implantation. In our case it's just replacing include with Rails render partial.
You nailed it! You could consider it a hackfest with an emphasis on finishing something you've been meaning to get around to, just haven't had the time.
You might find a higher sticker price on a Mac, but it is a pretty safe assumption that the added cost is to get you into OS X. Which just so happens to be the only reason why you would consider purchasing a Mac in the first place.

You might find a higher sticker price on a Gucci, but it is a pretty safe assumption that the added cost is to get you into Gucci. Which just so happens to be the only reason why you would consider purchasing a Gucci in the first place.
There was also a detailed answer related to this a few days ago on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/Why-did-Steve-Jobs-choose-no...

EDIT: Please see the link to the answer comment below, which I hadn't seen until now. As always, a grain of salt and all that...
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When you work with people you could at least respect their right to make their own mistakes and to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is that those degrees don't mean anything in most professions. They are used by those with the degree to get more money and used by the employers to pay less to those that don't have them. I know in my profession I have worked to MIT grads that are just a stupid as those with no degree.
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Many jobs require a degree.

Those jobs that only require you to wear a suit don't care what the degree is in.

Now if your future job only depends on your grade - not the subject which would you choose? Studying maths/physics/etc for 4years or doing psychology/media studies/american studies.
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Perfect timing as I'm planning to use Redis for the first time soon and this is going to be a great resource for best practices. Thanks, Antirez!

Speaking of best practices, putting serialized objects into the database (as you're doing with the comment objects) is usually considered an anti-pattern in the SQL world. Could you briefly explain (beyond what you said in the Readme) why you've used this approach for comments, but not for, say, news objects? Was this decision solely made to work around anticipated performance/memory bottlenecks and if so, what are the trade-offs, and are there any rules of thumb for making the same decision for object types in other applications?
Somewhat ironic for McCain to say so: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/03/john-mccains-tw...
Very true, but then we wouldn't be able to transition to a vacation site for weekend getaways in Finland if things go south…
>but whatever happens either (a) I'll find out eventually or (b) it'll happen after I'm dead anyway

It's not your main point, but I think you're leaving out an important option: (c) you can choose to be intimately involved in making the future turn out a certain way.

The best reason to think and write about the future is so that we can decide what future we want to create for ourselves. Then, as someone with the ability to write code, you can go out and create those very things.
Hey, why even buy a luxurious PC? Just throw some parts together and install Linux. There couldn't possibly be any reason to choose a difference operating systems except status, right?
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It's an example of a fairly typical XSS hole in the HTML an advertiser has provided. It just felt worth posting about because the sites involved are high profile. Shows that even the big players don't always watch their inputs.
Sorry Andy, the Future Is Voice Dictation
Statistics like this just encourage people to spend lots of money on useless degrees that will take a long time to pay off. (I know some of these people.) I doubt a philosophy degree will get you more money anywhere other than as a philosophy professor.
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I would say that strong AI could appear sooner than otherwise with faster hardware. This is because, the earliest algorithms for strong AI are likely to be flawed and imperfect. These imperfections can be compensated for by faster processing. Think of the earlier chess playing algorithms. Although Deep Blue was able to defeat Gary Kasparov, the algorithms themselves were relatively primitive compared to modern chess playing algorithms; although they achieved their goals, they did it with more computation than was necessary due to the algorithms being more brute-force orientated. As the algorithms got more sophisticated, the computational hardware needs decreased.

Faster hardware also allows you to get by without fully understanding how the strong AI algorithms work by using evolutionary methods. You use brute force evolution to evolve algorithms that are even more efficient than their parents. Some people might frown upon using evolution to create AI but that's what was used to create human intelligence so why not use evolution guided by humans to create machine intelligence?
It's incredible to see cities that still do this. It means the investment goes into the medallion, the cabs can be crappy and the drivers don't get a fair return (the medallion owner does).

There are plenty of examples of cities that have abandoned the monopoly approach to supply and price of taxis. One example is every city and town across New Zealand.

Here's what it looks like:
The entry price for a new cab is low - a decent car that passes muster with regular inspections, a clean sheet for the driver and so on. There are no huge fees.

There are a lot more cabs than before deregulation (2 to 3 times). The difference is that even after a major event you can still catch a cab. That in turn means you are less likely to drive, as you know you can get a cab safely, and so those extra cabs get used.

There are a large range of cab companies - from unmarked 'limos' to branded Corporate Cabs, large regional players and then a host of cheap and cheerful players. My favorite right now is Green Cabs, which has a 100% hybrid fleet and charges less - as they save 30-70% on gasoline versus the v6 powered monster cars the traditional cab companies have.

You can pick the car you want when exiting an airport, and there are no monopoly suppliers at airports, though some pay to have better positions. There is no mandate to take the one in front, and people don't.

Prices are set by each company and registered with the government. They cannot change them each day, and they have to apply to all cars. It does mean that some firms are more expensive (nicer cars, better service) and some are cheaper. There are also some that are better for short trips (low flag fall, hugh cost per Km/Mile) and others for longer trips.

We have a market based economy for cabbies, and we as consumers and the cabbies (by the numbers) are much better off.
How can anyone, especially Wall St, credibly argue for free markets when there are mandated monopolies under their noses?
[edited to remove arbitrary attack on right wing]
I imagine this would attract a lot better audience than Startup Weekend, because it implies that you actually were able to get something started on your own.
What you described is pretty much how a standard armed revolution goes, not sure what it has to do with the "civility" of the region as a whole.
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>Why do I need an app for this?

You don't, but it makes the entire stack easier for everybody involved.

I don't live in a NYC, I live in Phoenix, but we have our own problems that necessitate taxicabs (urban sprawl, meaning if I going to beers-with-friends, I'm paying for a cab).

Sitting in the bar and pressing a button on my phone to hail a cab would be awesome.

The management software on the backend finds the closest 5 available drivers, lets them bid on me, and whichever one bids the lowest takes me home.

Honestly, you could take it a step further and do AirBNB for car services. Give me the ability to rate drivers and their cars, and then let drivers bid on me where I get to choose which one takes me home.
I'll concede the point re: on a different plane.

That said, I still believe the claim that the Middle East is "uncivilized" (with the implication that the West is), is awfully arrogant - as if the NATO powers haven't all done far worse, just not as visibly, and far from home.

Reading some of the posts in this thread you'd swear that the mark of a civilized people is how well they can hide their acts of brutal violence, as opposed to simply how much brutal violence they commit.
Are there free Meetup alternatives?
Try no no or use depilatories instead
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No, they're not too many options. (Well, possibly Star, since it's basically a Tag).

Tagging is very different from sharing or liking. It's a feature for organizing specific items (aka posts) for yourself, not for others.
I don't know anybody that took nothing other than math classes for four years of undergrad... and I majored in math, and subsequently went to grad school in it.
We already sell/monetize US visas. You have to invest a few hundred thousand in a US-based business and you get a Visa. I believe the amount is 500,000.
Show me an anti-war republican and I'll show you a failed republican presidential candidate.

Republicans have been the war-party for at least all of the 20th century and the 21st so far.
You are assuming a Perfectly Competitive market for labor, free of structural disparities or external demand/supply shocks. You're also assuming that all employers take Normal Profits without collecting economic rents.
Quite.

I speak here as someone who owns a coffee shop's less profitable cousin, the independent film company.

There are basically two types of people who will start a "cool" company - those who like hanging out in coffee shops, and those who would be making coffee for people whether they were getting paid or not. Those people, in fact, whose happiness is in large part directly related to the percentage of the day they've spent with their hand on the lever of a manual expresso machine. Yes, they exist. No, they're not kidding themselves - that really is what makes them happy.

Discouraging the former from starting a coffee shop is an excellent plan. Speaking as one of the latter (film-making, not coffee), trying to discourage them from starting a coffee shop (or indie film company) is a) probably pointless and b) not a great idea if you actually care about them as a person.

Their passion may wane. They may decide to start other businesses to help their passion business grow (as I've done).

But at the end of the day, people like toast76's brother, me, and a wide variety of other people are GOING to open the damn coffee shop, and if it works, it will make them happier than anything else they could do.

In those cases, you will be better STFUing about how awful an idea it is to open a coffee shop, and instead starting to talk location, accounting, and sales skills...
I thought a much detailed explanation was found in another article that was posted to HN earlier this month [1].

The article referred to a 2008 blog post about that.

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[1] http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-succumbs-to... and HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080176
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However, on most highways the guardrails are only on the dangerous sections.

So sticking with this analogy, we should only need to use testing in the more intricate / complex parts of our code. However, current testing best practice seems to be to test everything possible, thus potentially wasting a lot of time and effort into aspects with a low ROI.

There could be some lesson in this...