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I've seen this type of idea come up elsewhere, though I don't recall the exact specifics. I don't think it really works. What you want is based not just on expertise but also on trust (of a sort that has to run both ways -- not just you trusting them) and that is based on community and familiarity. I recognize your name as someone who is a meaningful, regular (polite and well-behaved) contributor and thus a legitimate member of the community. And I don't participate that much and don't pay as much attention to names as I probably should. If I recognize you and think you are a decent person, odds are very high others here do too. You might try checking profiles to find out who is in New York or check HN Office Hours or other HN related resources.

My long standing experience on the Internet is that very intellectual sites like HN which do a decent job of fostering community are The Place To Go for stuff like this, even when it is "off topic". HN is probably your best bet for getting what you need -- or, more accurately, the members of HN are probably your best bet, as the competence here runs fairly high and your name is known. Since this site isn't designed or intended to act as a forum in the same way a lot of discussion boards are, you just may have to be a little creative in tapping into this network.

Again: Today is just about the worst day possible to pursue this. I think only Christmas would be worse. This entire four day weekend may be slow as this is the biggest travel holiday of the year. So you have four days to do some research and thinking and figure out how best to tap into what you need.

Best of luck.
Thanks, now I understand why all these websites still haven't answered my signing up for beta, 3 months ago.
I have one and I really like it, it's beautiful to use. I haven't used Android enough to compare it against, but having used an iPhone quite a bit, I think they're pretty even. iPhone is ahead on the the number and breadth of apps, but WP7 is better integrated (between contacts/facebook/pictures/twitter etc).

Regarding the voice commands, I've only ever used them to try them out (and results were patchy, maybe my South African accent), I couldn't imagine ever using them in everyday use, so I'm not too fussed about Siri (although it looks amazing from a tech point of view).
These meshnet projects are interesting, and I wish them well.

But... we (democratic republic countries) already have governmental structures that allow for changing laws. Let's just organize and change the laws.

Aside from the industry-paid demagogues' rhetoric of 'STEALING' on the internet, we have to objectively think about this problem. We, the public, define the laws. We define what 'stealing' is. If a majority of the population is violating the so-called law, and it's hard to identify the specific victims of the law or even particular damages, then it's probably not a useful law anymore. Instead of jumping into a subversive massive campaign to overthrow the existing system, let's just use the tools that have been created to deal with these types of situations.

The simple fact is that the Internet and digital content has dramatically changed the way that intellectual property works, and the laws haven't kept up.
What makes you think that IPC is the dominating cost?? It's usually network or disk bandwidth, not IPC. And once you scale past one machine, you can't avoid network chatter by definition.
But will he/she be as confident to examine all pull requests and discus them to length as you were? ;-)
Buddy I was a Marine for over ten years and spent years in combat zones. There is a difference between bluntness/honesty and disrespect/rudeness, and I am well acquainted with what that line looks like.
You either love it or hate it. The tech crowd seems to be more towards a hate level due to certain expectations. Overall, >95% of readers using an Onswipe experience opt to keep it the default.
Thanks for all of your contributions. Hopefully it will live on in your absence.

Out of curiosity (and as a user of Django-nonrel), what are you using at your start-up?
You can't build the kind of robustness that we enjoy today out of commodity hardware.

And that's not needed either. The purpose is communicating with each other in cases that the government brought down or is heavily filtering the internet (like happens in Egypt, Libia, etc), or in case of a disaster. It doesn't have to be as fast, or robust as the internet. 56k is plenty enough if you just want to send messages or small photos.

And in places no internet connectivity exists at all, it's better than nothing. We're just very, very spoiled.
And I was an Army Soldier in Afghanistan. That has nothing to do with any of this. It's clear your feathers are easily ruffled. I'd work on that.
One thing missed in a big way by this article and other newbies when it comes to (static) functional programming is the centrality of types. It really is what makes ml-derived languages special and it's a shame it's not promoted to non-functional programmers more. Most of your work is related to specifying your types, the rest falls into place naturally, and is why you can think and write code elegantly (and is super fun).
There are many shill accounts on the likes of AFF, it wouldn't surprise me if Badoo had them too.
Trippy may have turned out to be useful. Turns out I "know" two people on Facebook who may have the knowledge.

Of course, they might not, since locals don't always know about hotels and the like, but it's a start.

Thanks.
You're still complaining that other people are pursuing a product marketing / sales strategy at your expense. Your objection to this perfectly normal state of affairs might lead one to infer that you're suggesting indie game developers had an informal agreement to set a minimum price for their products* or some nonsense like that... as if such a thing would even be achievable in the current indie game sales environment.

(* http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/1.html )
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I think it would be slightly more consistent to re-use the multi-line quite like Python does:

var foo = /* Hello there
How are you? */;

But less typing is good too.
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The xml stuff is more the exception than the rule. They've moved away from that approach. Whether to keep it at all has been discussed quite a bit. It would be more fair to look at the newer code in the collection framework to paint what is considered "best practice" by the creators of Scala.
Does anyone know what the rationale was for choosing this instead of printf or python3-style interpolation (where you explicitly specify the variables to be interpolated)?
Not sure if you really want that. ;) I can be hard to convince once I've made up my mind and I still don't know if that's good or bad.
I guess you could do that, make the objects hollow. But that will obliterate the "low hanging" advantages of voxels such as destructable terrains, being able to cut things in pieces, realistic physics simulation etc...
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It's syntactic sugar for string concatenation. The same bugs would happen today if you were concatenating strings. I don't see the problem, honestly.
This depends on the situation. I would rather be a good driver than a lucky driver.

For success in general, I would rather be lucky. The thing about luck is that it's a word which conceals a lot of behind the scenes action. We create our own luck and that creation often involves a lot of flailing around. That's something many "good" people may avoid, and that may be holding them back.
The humble bundles and steam sales got me back into gaming, and moreover, into buying instead of stealing. And into sending games as presents.

But, apparently, my attention and money is no good to indie game developers because I'm not willing to shovel $50 bills at them.
Python's string formatting is different though– it doesn't automatically have access to the variables in the current scope. You have to explicitly pass in the variables that you want to include, which seems to me like a cleaner way of doing things.
Somehow you have to get those values into the String, though. How do you propose doing it? Seems to me you can either concatenate Strings ("hello "+name) or interpolate ("hello #{name}")? Interpolating actually looks cleaner to me.

Or of course create_string("hello $1", name) or something like that.
The answer to my question is that the proof derives an identity, so you need to reverse the steps to get back from there.
No, 5% are opting to remove it. You have no idea how many are leaving in frustration, and how many don't know how to turn this thing off. I can assure you 95% of people aren't "opting" to keep it.
Well that same thing also wouldn't hurt me either but I'm not Coca Cola. That's what I'm talking about. No one cares about small businesses or startups at all. If you're a company that no one even searches for on Google Places this doesn't apply to you.

It is a fact that these things happen and whether it's harmful or not it isn't right and it's the reason for these policies.
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We use Django at Chartbeat.
Let's imagine that some big corporation invented a way to produce free energy, and at the same time, they also influenced current laws to ensure that their patents would never expire.

Would we build all sorts of back-channel technological methods to use these patents anyway so that we may avoid jail and fines? Or, would we simply say, "hey - sorry the idea of 100 year patents just doesn't make sense any more. We're changing the law."
The main problem with most sites on the iPad and even more so on the iPhone/other phones is that with font is too small and the text doesn't use the full browser width. (Zooming means you have to constantly swipe left and right). [FYI I have perfect eyesight AFAIK]

I don't want a new UI, just people to fix their sites for the above.
I'm pretty sure there are more than six people who'd treat you like that in NYC.
There are billions of possible projects out there whose expected value has zero correlation with the amount of work that goes into them. This is why I'm not spending a million man-hours building a ziggurat in my back yard.

Paying for an app based on effort going into making it is nonsense. An app should be paid for based on the value it provides. If it could have provided that same value with less effort, it probably should have.

Now, if you want to complain that it's hard to charge based on the value the app will provide, I'd believe you! It's still very, very hard to provide users with information which will let them evaluate your product and determine that it is, in fact, a quality product worth paying lots of money for.
I can assure you they are. Beyond the opting out, we also look at things like bounce rate and other metrics.
Thanks for the feedback. To be honest I haven't really grasped all the ins and outs of functional programming yet so tried to ignore it as a first step. From what I've seen so far, I do like how much all the typing takes care of itself.
My problem with these things (and I'm not picking on this particular article, just on introduction to functional programming articles in general) is that they always tell you how awesomely easy it is to make lists, or calculate the fibonacci sequence, two things I never have to do in the office.

What I want to know is whether functional programming languages would help me to write UIs better than C# does, to create XML documents from data, to retrieve data from web APIs and then display the results, etc.

These are things I have a need to do on a daily basis, and I'd like to know if F# is the tool for them, or if I should stick to C# unless I'm writing a list processor or calculation engine.
Yes. That's a clear violation of the FTC guidelines. If you're presenting a review as an independent opinion without disclosing the fact you're making money from it, that's pretty much exactly what the FTC guidelines are designed to tackle.

If you're just providing links without specific endorsement it's probably fine.

Here's an easier read analysis of the FTC guidelines by the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10...
Has hacker news turned into cosmopolitan? This really didn't say much, and said nothing actionable. Might as well been a list of 'people you meet at the office party'
No, this is how the Combine built those force fields that Gordon Freeman can't get through.
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I like your civic-minded approach. But isn't it a bit idealist while the laws are written by the lobbyists of entrenched multi-billion-dollar businesses? I sincerely hope that's not the case in your country but it's definitely the case in mine.

It seems to me it's the (possibility of) technological circumvention itself which renders the laws outdated. If that's true, then the laws will always lag behind to the point of absurdity (as appears to be the case now).

Suing grandmothers, software patents, suing farmers downwind of the pollen of patented plants, etc. Where's the hope of changing those laws which are backed by multi-billion-dollar industries until lobbyists and campaign contributions are banished from our law-making process?
True, but the EFF didn’t get involved in fight against the Digital Economy Act [1]. Local groups can effectively fight against local problems.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010
UI design is not a religion whose tenets are to be followed for their own sakes. It's a practical art. Good UI makes easy things that should be easy, and hard that which should be hard. (E.g.: http://www.zen171398.zen.co.uk/Alien%20Page%206/Ian%20Wingro...) Your mistake is naive optimization of one part of the process.

In this case, the right system would be one that makes it very easy for deletion review to process requests. It would also make sure that only well-formed, well-thought-out deletion requests make it to the deletion reviewers. The UI of that submission process could be made easy, but it's an essentially hard problem. You're supposed to think carefully, come to grips with the careful balance that Wikipedia has struck around deletion, and then submit a reasoned argument.

It's not possible that someone will do that in 1 minute of reading. This is like a submission to an appellate court: you have to know what you're doing or there's no point.
The goal of the article was to raise awareness of some blind spots that smart people face. Just being aware of them is already a good first step. Hacker News is a place where so many smart people hang out and I thought people here will relate to one or more items in the list.
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American law is unusual in that's it globally binding. If you violate an American law while abroad, even if it's legal in the country you committed your actions in, you can still be prosecuted in the US.

It's how Dmitry Sklyarov was prosecuted even though his actions were perfectly legal where he performed them in Russia. More recently foreign nationals involved in operating non-american gambling websites have been arrested while in transit through US territory for violating US anti-gambling law.
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Yes, it's needed. People with less than perfect vision appreciate being able to zoom in on small text to make it more readable.

A few other things that are needed (and work in the non-Onswipe version of pages):

1. Rotating the iPad to landscapes houldn't trigger a choppy relayout that takes five seconds. It should show the exact same content as in portrait mode, zoomed to fill the width of the screen. Users can then decide whether to zoom out and show more content, or stay zoomed in to take advantage of the increased horizontal resolution.

2. The back button should work. Pro tip: If I tap the back button 20 times, and nothing happens until the 20th time, the back button is broken.
I didn't realize they use their own renderer. Pretty neat.

I guess I was thinking that the raycasting approach I've seen used in some of the sparse voxel octree stuff I read wouldn't make sense when you want the blockiness of voxels to actually show up very clearly, plus that it looked like you could achieve the same look using polygon based cubes. Guess I should've done a bit more research.
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T Mobile doesn't work this way. They break out the subsidy of the phone and the data/voice plan as separate line items. I will pay off my brand new Galaxy S2 in 22 months, after which my phone plan will be $15 bucks cheaper a month.
There are still no formal definition of what securing your access means ("moyen de sécurisation").
Which metrics are you using to figure out how many visitors see the link at the bottom of the page, understand what it means, and decide "no, I prefer the Onswipe version of this page"?
Fixed. Thanks. English is not my first language, i'm sure there is a lot more bugs than this one.
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Can I right click on the desktop to change resolution of the screen yet, it's been over 10 years.
Are you sure? There is no light involved
Thank god for the EU court ruling. European national courts tend to be pretty biased against user rights, see Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Good to know that there is a body stopping unfair corporate interests.
I think it's a really good idea that craft coffee lets you order a tasting box.

Maybe that would be something that would give you a higher margin and show users the quality of your service?

Also I think if you subscribe to teapeat it would be great to get access to some associated content.

Either a little video, podcast showing how to brew it, details about it. That would build a great community that keeps coming back to the site which would result in better upselling opportunities.

Currently you get people to sign up and the only time they might come back is to cancel!

Build a community of tea lovers & hold onto them!
"The UX feels slow, choppy, and unnecessary."

While I am glad people are experimenting with new UI metaphors and reading experiences, every product I've seen from Onswipe has been, as you say, slow and choppy. And not just a little slow or a little choppy, I'm talking unusably so, often to the point where it crashes my browser.

I get the impression they aren't testing this stuff at all on the first generation iPad.
Yeh, this. If you want to give me a gift, add a feature to allow me to turn off OnSwipe across every site so they just render normally.
I can't really speak from any experience as I've only just started programming in F# myself, I think for the most part it's not meant to replace the things you mention. The reason I looked into it initially was because of its applicability with mathematical calculations and parallelism. Because of the .Net angle though you can mix and match your projects on Windows systems. Here's a Stack Exchange question about what proficient F# programmers use it for: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/568827/what-areas-of-code...
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All this is not only about ipc. Removing some ipc will give a little speed-up in latency - nice bonus, nothing more.
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My little company (http://www.quietspeculation.com) is growing nicely, to the point that our systems are getting complex. Fast departing are the days where I could manage everything via Google Documents. I've been experimenting with some apps to handle assorted "operational" tasks like taking customer support tickets, internal documentation and content scheduling management. I'm not planning to leave my company any time soon, nor are any of the other essential staff, but I'd like to have everyone's job flawlessly documented in case we lose someone.

I've seen software like Bugzilla and FogBugz for issue tracking, and I plan to play around with those shortly. We currently have Redmine installed as a stopgap for our Wiki project, but I don't much care for it.

Most of the support ticketing software seems straightforward and easy to test. I'm looking for software that will run on my server and will let me easily generate a Wiki of some kind. Emphasis will be on ease of use, since the majority of the other guys aren't as technical as I am. It would be ideal to have a system that handles support ticketing and documentation at once; linking to "knowledge base" articles from within a support ticket seems great, and building a KB article from a support ticket would also be good. Perhaps something with a tag/category system, so that a staffer could just look at all past issues of a similar nature?

I started my biz as a one-man blog, so I didn't go in with any real plans for scalability. It's all been shooting from the hip and hoping I get it right. So far it's all gone right but I want to be proactive and ensure that, in the absence of a current staff member, I can slot someone else into the job with a minimum of fuss.

For reference if it matters, we're a daily publication in the trading card game industry. We produce written content and data-focused analytics to people who make money by buying selling and trading cards. The majority of our support tickets are billing-related, but we occasionally get reader feedback and writing submissions. The majority of our internal documentation revolves around the editorial/content submission process, but internal technical matters are quickly requiring a lot of documentation. I hope some more experienced entrepreneurs can lend their expertise. Thanks!
In a sense I feel building a business is building a moat around your app/technology. Google started with a search engine but gradually expanded to email, spreadsheets, blogging, advertising, etc. Once you got something that is solving a problem, make sure you build defensible products around it to ensure you remain the one solving that problem, and make it harder for others to enter that same area. Otherwise you're in trouble. Because building a rails app is something any geek can do. Building a defensible business is something not any regular Joe can, on the other hand.
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I occasionally run into this "I'm suspicious of Ph.D.s in industry" phenomenon and frankly it's baffling. (disclosure: I am obviously biased by having a Ph.D. and no longer being an academic)

Ph.Ds. in industry create lots of amazing things: UNIX, 747s, airbags, wireless protocols, manufacturing robots, search engines, and logistics optimization systems are just a few that almost everyone depends on every single day (indirectly in some cases). These are not systems that can be designed without a large amount of focused domain knowledge, which is precisely what the Ph.D. entails.

Sure, there are some people with Ph.D.s who are impractical and unsuited for front-line "get things done" work. I can assure you that is an intrinsic personality trait and not something created by intensely focused study on interesting ideas, which is the defining characteristic of the doctorate.
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Isn't Django on app engine turning more towards Google Cloud SQL? Don't mean to be offensive to anyone but Django-app-engine and Django-nonrel has always seemed to be a bit of a stopgap to me for using Django models and admin with app engine.
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