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Google could've really capitalized on this now if they didn't sit on their asses for years with Google Checkout. They will probably focus more on it now that they've renamed it to Google Wallet and they need it for Android, but it will take a while before it can even touch Paypal.
> It is an unjustifiable waste of expensive people's time and effort/opportunity cost.

I guess you mean (expensive (people's time)) rather than ((expensive people)'s time), but it still doesn't make much sense to me. Why is their time expensive? Because they've got so many other valuable things to do?

I read (though I can't remember the source) a report from one congressman who said that most representatives simply don't have time to read all the bills on which they have to vote. This means that a lot of votes are passed not based on the representative's understanding of them, but based on what the loudest voices tell him or her—an understandable but frightening lacuna, when considering whose the loudest voices are. Isn't anything, even political theatre, valuable if it allows those of us with less political clout nonetheless to wield a louder voice?
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"We're just like service x, but we charge you money!"

There is no way this business model isn't a good idea.
Very interesting project. I notice the site itself is written in Elm; it would be great if we could see the source code for the site, any chance of adding some of it to the examples section?
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The thing is, if SAP did not exist there would still be some piece of crappy software running all those transactions. Maybe it'd be custom, maybe Accenture, whatever. In fact, many (most?) SAP installations are barely recognizable after the customization. And who can even guess what SuccessFactors does besides not make much money.
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In the HN bubble, almost yes.
And apparently Verizon is going to block it on some Android devices they control as well.
> note: if this person cannot help you, they can usually find someone who can

Not according to http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0. Specifically:

> At this point, I asked to speak to a supervisor and was told that “No one above me will talk to you. No one at my level ever makes phone calls. We’re only doing this to help you.”
Exactly. Dictionaries don't always reflect current usage. Take a look at how the Oxford English Dictionary defines "sarcastic": "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark." By that definition, "you're stupid!" is sarcastic.
unjustifiable waste of expensive people's time

You don't actually think all Senators are sitting there listening patiently for 11 days do you?

Would be awesome if they were. That would probably save the country like $25B a day or something.
Box people into two categories "hegels" and "dedels". Define one as being easily affected by other people and the other as not. Go to town writing, collating and finding evidence about the true nature of "dedels".

Some distinctions are a distraction.
It very much is for SEO. My first result for "Kevin Padrick" is http://www.obsidianfinancesucks.com/.
This type of programming is incredibly useful when writing efficient code in low level languages (eg, linear algebra in C). When writing Ruby web apps, though, I haven't found a need yet to think about cache lines or associativity.
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The moderation is lazily-evaluated on-demand. Before today it was just a moderation thunk.
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PayPal lost my trust and my business a long time ago, this is just further demonstration of why.
The TechCrunch article warns that withdrawing too much money from your account can trigger having the account frozen, and recommends withdrawing less at a time. That's what I've not heard of before.

Of course once it's frozen you can't get at the money, that's the whole point of locking down the account. I've experienced it myself, but not with PayPal -- I had over $13,000 held for 6 months.
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Wikipedia notability is also a social construct created by the kind of people who spend their time optimizing for Wikipedia cred, which co-relates with a bunch of stuff that is different from the population at large or, say, HN.
Grandcentral (which was bought by google and is now google voice) had a great feature that when you received a phone call you could record it at any time. That feature was dropped by google. The laws vary by state. The state I used to be in you needed two party consent. The state I am in now only one party has to consent (so you can record your own phone calls in a one party state).

I believe that the same applies to surveillance cameras which is why most of them don't have audio they only have video.

Oh ok, here:

"Recording audio without the persons permission is almost always illegal, that's why our covert cameras don't have microphones. "

http://www.palmvid.com/content/support/legal-information-reg...
This is my project. I agree that the type of link is a little weird. This was added pretty early on in the project and I haven't circled back around to rethink it. I'll try to address your questions:

- Why is text necessary?
Elements are all rectangles that have a uniform set of functions that can be applied to them. Strings are definitely not rectangles, and I think it is important that the type of String and Element are not conflated. In that case what does (++) do when given an Element? It just wouldn't work out.

- Why is text unescaped?
That's pretty much an implementation oversight from when I was first starting the project. Strings should be exactly what you intend to display. I have been meaning to go back through and fix up the underlying string representation, but I just don't have time right now. I have been focusing on the theoretical aspects of reactive programming for my thesis which is my main priority at the moment. Nonetheless, this will be fixed eventually!

- Why (link :: String -> String -> String)?
My thought when I designed it this way was that part of what it means to be a string includes styling (bold, italic, etc.). Following this idea, this would have to be true of characters as well, so (head (link "/" "Elm")) would give you a character that is a link. I honestly think that's a little weird. I,ve gotten questions about this before, and I'm not exactly sure what the right answer is. The other option is to include an intermediate type of strings that does include style information, but then you need to lift normal strings up to this type to do concatenation (unpleasant). Doing this right is going to be really hard, and I haven't given it the time to really figure it out. I'll probably include ways to use markdown (or HTML) which will alleviate some of these issues. If you have suggestions on this topic I'd be interested to hear. It's harder than it looks :P

Also, let me stress that this project is VERY young, so there are still many kinks to be worked out. There is no download available now. With upcoming thesis deadlines, I probably won't have one up until spring of next year at the earliest. Thank you for your interest! I'm working as fast as I can!
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Thank you :) No download yet though. With thesis deadlines, it will be ready in spring at the earliest.
Careful, people might accuse you of being a right-wing conspiracy theorist, even if you do present evidence that Google is becoming the new Microsoft.
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Interesting stuff! Seems like it's heavily inspired from haskell (great!) Good luck and have fun in your thesis.
There were real competitors when PayPal was a younger company, but a lot of them went out of business because they didn't solve the fraud problem. It wasn't just a matter of adoption. PayPal hemorrhaged millions to fraud before they created the technical and people systems to make it manageable.
This is almost as disturbing to me as the original announcement—make a prominent post saying that you're working on the problem, let it get lots of attention, and then (apparently) ignore the issue. Well, it didn't work very well for AirBnB (http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/airbnb-nightmare...), and hopefully it won't work for Paypal, either.
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"it is designed and explicitly documented to run on an as-yet nonexistent virtual machine"

http://code.google.com/p/dart/wiki/Building#Building_the_sta...
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Maybe at the leading edge, but I joined a death-march project in 2004, then left another one in 2008.

And I believe that many young programmers are still being thrown onto late projects.

I'd really love to believe that UML is dead, but can it really be true? cite?
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Moral of the story: get your issue frontpaged on HN or Reddit and someone will fix it
If Google is evil, just fork Chrome. It's called Chromium. Chrome is not 100% proprietary. Nacl is open source.
Isn't it funny how the rabbit hole just keeps going?
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I don't really think the second paragraph matters so much. If he is saying "bloggers aren't 'the media'" or that you essentially have to be employed by a big name media agency in order to get protections, that is a big deal.

He could have easily said that she is part of the media, but that the law doesn't protect those in the media from these types of lawsuits. Reading the law, I think blogging does fall into the category that gives it protection, even if those protections wouldn't have made a difference in this case.
Wait, wait, wait.

Because a platform is near-native performance, is cross platform and may run in a virtual machine, they are becoming Microsoft and locking people in? WHAT? (Beyond the absurdity of leaping to that conclusion, it's an open spec and the main implementation is open source. I understand that alternative implementations are needed for "open spec" to have significant meaning, but still).

That and the last set of bullet points are all true. Just like Google... except without the near native performance of NaCl. Which is why it was created. To be just like the rest of the HTML/JS stack. They're trying to get to actual "Web 2.0" (bleck), where Dart and NaCl are viable additions to the traditional stack. I see no reason why this is nefarious.

RE this whole conspiracy (not mocking it by calling it that...) and the Android connection especially... that's what I've been assuming and hoping for from day one. Portable LLVM bytecode is another step in that direction as well. I'm excited.
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I really like this idea. I took a look at the Javascript output of the compiler, and noticed that effectively every statement of the program would result in a function nested within the function created by the last N statements. Since Javascript doesn't have tail call optimization, the browser will complain at some point when the stack overflows.

Contrived, I know, but it looks like in Firefox 8 that happens at around 39k.
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Green, for example, is considered by many to be nicer than Blue - not just better value, but nicer ignoring price.

I would agree with that. I prefer JW Gold to either, however.
I don't get how NaCl can be a tool for controlling content, when it's easy to convert an NaCl app into a native app that can be downloaded and run at will. You can't really have Microsoft-style dominance over a platform when users can leave you as soon as they are slightly annoyed.

Not to mention that NaCl is open source BSD-license, so, yeah.
If you don't think this is a major problem with web services, you must have either not been around long, or don't use many of them.
My mistake; omit the paragraph and continue reading.
I think Microsoft really missed a good bet by not embracing NaCl years ago. They have a huge preexisting native codebase. Probably a plurality of their development teams are native code-focused. Their customers employ hundreds of thousands of native developers and probably billions of lines of native code. C/C++ is such an inescapable part of their ecosystem that after almost a decade of selling C#/.NET as the future, they're increasingly proselytizing for the benefits of native code and C++11 in particular.

They could have leveraged all of this by buying in to NaCl and putting it into IE. Hard to see how Google says no, and once Microsoft has that level of commitment to the technology, they'd get a strong say in its evolution. As a multi-vendor standard with an open source implementation, NaCl could have gotten real traction, and suddenly every C++ developer inside Microsoft and working for their customers has a path to the web for existing code that's slightly more plausible than rewriting everything in JavaScript and hoping the VMs get faster without also killing your laptop's battery (unlikely, I think).
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Thank you! And yes, that has been a really good way to test the language out. I don't want to add it to the examples because I use some internal-only functions to make it work nicely. It's also not terribly instructive. You can see it at (http://elm-lang.org/edit/Elm.elm) if you really want. Due to some implementation issues with Element sizing and some Element abstractions, there is some suboptimal stuff in there, but I am working on it. It should be shorter and prettier when the language and implementation gets more mature.

For instance, I am really unhappy with padding/margin, so that almost certainly come out. I have a nicer abstraction in mind that should solve HTML's problems with padding/margins/positioning. I can't say it will happen soon, but it's on the way.

P.S. If you want to look at other files, adding 'edit' to an Elm file gives you the source right now. http://elm-lang.org/edit/...
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It seems like everyone wants less security precautions. If a new company does just this and your account gets hacked, are you going to blame the service provider or expect them to take the hit for your lost money?

Paypal does need to make some changes, but many of the people that get their accounts frozen are either transferring lots of money in a short amount of time or are running suspicious businesses (even though they may not be illegal or even unethical).
Great programmers won't learn a lot of things from 'Code complete' but since the question says 'every programmers', I guess it makes sense to have it rank #1.

But talking for me, the most influential book I read is SICP.

But before that, the book that really opened my mind about 'professional programming' was effective C++. I wonder if Scott Meyers read HN.. and what's happening with him. For some reasons, I even remember the name of his dog (Persephone) which one of his book was dedicated!
I'm excited about the potential for NaCl and don't understand a lot of the conclusions that the OP article outlines... but I don't understand what this sentence means or why it would be a bad thing. Isn't LLVM the nonexistent VM? I'm confused as to the context maybe.
Wait wait wait.

Google is going to lock the world into it's "stewardship" with a couple open source projects and the cell phone market?

I can't help but feel that I've just been trolled. Unless someone can better explain this to me.
For the purposes of this discussion, please consider "open spec" to mean "committee and community controlled by interests ultimately subsisting of more than one share pool.", if you follow this definition the majority of Google's "open" efforts fall apart.

For the PNacl bit, I think the tech sounds great, I just think the reason this "arrow" survived Page's recent cull is because they have significant interests in it, and that's what the article is about.
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Ask HN: Academic looking for advice on tech jobs
Halfway through my postdoc in mathematics, I've started to think I might be happier in the tech world. I don't have any formal credentials besides a math PhD, but I've been teaching myself Python in my spare time with rapid success (~75 problems into Project Euler) and will prepare a fair bit more in the next few months. Several questions:

1. What kinds of companies would consider a very unconventional candidate for a summer position? (I'm no longer a student, so I fall outside the stated bounds of most internship programs.) My postdoc runs through the spring of 2013, and I won't leave them in the lurch (in math, postdocs teach as assistant professors), so I'd like to gain some experience next summer before deciding whether to stay or switch careers.

2. What would make me a better job candidate? What languages and programs should I definitely learn? (I've heard some suggestions already, but I don't want to anchor anyone's reply on those.)

3. Will the particulars of my mathematical background help me? I've published a few research papers in the area of harmonic analysis, but they're very much pure math. (I could pick up the applied stuff in signal processing and related fields much faster than most.) How could I find jobs where that's an asset to me?

4. What else should I be doing in this phase of the search? I have several friends with tech jobs giving me advice, but none of them have been in anything quite like my position.

5. Is my current plan realistic? If not, what would you do if you were me?

Thanks.
I moved and haven't been down there in about 8 years now, but at the Home Depot I used to deal with, periodically a representative from DeWalt would stop in and do demos and answer questions about their tools.
See his comment on my comment. He was referring to the Dart VM, which he thought didn't yet exist. And LLVM certainly exists already.
If they are posting with the expectation of receiving a response, they sooner or later notice how many responses they are getting. The usual condition of users "in Coventry" (as one forum I know calls it) or "hellbanned" is that they don't appear to notice, for amazingly long, that they are just talking to themselves.
I guess I don't get the $30 :)
Just kidding.
Well, actually that's true. From Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung (the guy who came up with the terms introvert and extravert):

"But if one is an introvert and the other is an extravert, their different and contradictory standpoints may clash right away... The extravert, for instance, will choose the majority view; the introvert will reject it simply because it's fashionable."

That doesn't sound like shyness at all to me. So yes, the original definition of introversion all along hasn't been shyness.
"Anyone can learn to write code but they will never be a Software Engineer or a Computer Scientist. They won’t be able to design large scale financial systems, search engines or contribute to the next powerful programming language."

I wonder what the author thinks about all of the computer scientists who pioneered the industry before there were universities teaching computer science?
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This is straight-up plagiarism. I've seen this article before, and there's no attribution. He even claims that this list is based on his own life experience! Repugnant.

However, in trying to find the original source, I've found that there are many other people also content to plagiarize this exact article:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Introverts+are+perfectly+co...

Does anyone know who originally wrote this so that we can at least give them credit here on Hacker News?
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At least they remembered K&R.
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