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Another egghead uni prof who's spent his life getting a paycheck from the gov telling us what's wrong with capitalism that he's never participated in.

If shareholders (ie owners) want short term leadership, that's what they get. No one is forcing you to sell your shares every time the stock price moves. Buy and hold.
The reason I can say that is that Ruby was already tried and rejected as a first-class language for Mac development

Yes, but iOS apps tend to be much simpler and broader in scope than desktop apps. Ruby is a much better fit for this kind of small-scale development.
"he has violated his oath of office, to protect and defend the United States Constitution."

And there it is, plainly stated.
One random thing I liked doing with a compositing window manager is to put a music video behind my browser window, and then reduce the opacity of the browser slightly. That way I can read, and watch a video at the same time :)
"""What do you expect from a Facebook 'killer'?"""

I expect him to be some disturbed individual targeting Facebook users, befriending them, and them sending them messages to lure them somewhere where he kills them and/or makes unspeakable things to them.
So you say that the real world is mostly made from legal definitions?

I would wonder what that would mean for string theory.
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Not a mathematician, but some references I found after goolging a bit:

[1] "The meaning of Ramanujam now and for the future", George E. Andrews. http://www.math.psu.edu/andrews/pdf/274.pdf

[2] "The Ramanujam Journal", http://www.springer.com/mathematics/numbers/journal/11139

Quote from the conclusion of [1]:

In his Presidential address to the London Mathematical Society in 1936, G. N. Watson spoke movingly of his emotional response to Ramanujan's achievements. I close by quoting his last few paragraphs [54; p. 80]:

"The study of Ramanujan's work and of the problems to which it gives rise inevitably recalls to mind Lame's remark that, when reading Hermite's papers on modular functions, \on a la chair de poule." I would express my own attitude with more prolixity by saying that such a formula as:

<snipped formula>

gives me a thrill which is indistinguishable from the thrill which I feel when I enter the Sagrestia Nuova of the Capelle Medicee and see before me the austere beauty of the four statues representing Day, Night, Evening, and Dawn which Michelangelo has set over the tombs of Guiliano de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. Ramanujan's discovery of the mock theta functions makes it obvious that his skill and ingenuity did not desert him at the oncoming of his untimely end. As much as any of his earlier work, the mock theta functions are an achievement sucient to cause his name to be held in lasting remembrance"

To me, it's interesting that a community where fairly easy to build web-applications are called transformative and disruptive also has two out of thirteen comments critical of Ramanujam's impact.
Actually, it's very much not about SOPA and all about GoDaddy. All this hate for GD has been simmering underground and has just been waiting to explode. Even before SOPA people been have been talking about leaving GoDaddy.
Streaming data into Backbone.js collections
Absolutely. Enough articles are written on the topic of abstracting layers of your application away from each other (data access, view, service, etc) but rarely do we hear about the importance of abstracting your application from 3rd party libraries and services.
at narag,

yes that's part of our model from the very start, privacy privacy and privacy! i would be happy to share the first look with my fellow HN users :) cheers!

to the person below,

yes, there are a lot of things we acknowledge and i mentioned it as well, well it was a bit vague of me to say we want suggestions, so let me rephrase it

we are looking for suggestions that would not come easily to someone's mind, something on a advanced level.

as for the dislike button, the one reason it does not exist on facebook, is that it raises concerns about hurting others easily. it would lead to a lot of negative vibes, and lot of people will hate to have a dislike button.

simply putting it, you don't need to tell someone you dislike the way they look, just don't praise them and your message is heard in a way that doesn't hurt their feelings.

yet, its possible to have a dislike button in a limited environment, like you can dislike a Bill like SOPA, you can dislike a public figure(they are public figures because majority of people like them already), you can dislike a faminine or disease.. or can dislike something as simple as 'waking up early in the morning' :P

to the 3rd respondent:

yes hoping is a good thing that some good change will come about, but if its around the corner, we need to have the wit to recognize our hero that we have been waiting for .
just saying.

ps: no offense taken.

Note: i posted this hear, because i feel HN is a place where good minds collaborate, and i believe in the old saying and fact " gold is found underground "

looking forward to more replies ^^
YC's record is a lot closer to 1% than 100% of getting huge homerun hits.

By your logic, this implies that in the best possible circumstances (YC), you're not going to get above a few percent chance a priori of a huge success if you work like crazy.

Whereas an equally intelligent person working reasonable hours on the side when appropriate has a decent chance of making a profitable lifestyle business in the millions without the possibility burnout and debt.
Also Italy, not only for soft drugs. Europe is very liberal on drugs compared to US or Asia generally.
I think you may have valid criticisms, but were out of line to call mhartl a man of "no real ethics, a sociopath, dangerous, self-serving, and someone to distance yourself from." I have only exchanged emails briefly, regarding his book, and he is nothing short of an honest, well-intentioned, and generous man.

Let's avoid the attacks and keep the conversation civil.
The idea of "drug tourists" is absurd. The worst of the illicit drug addicts can barely take care of themselves. They choose drugs over food and showers. They can't hold jobs and resort to crime to feed their habits. Access to drugs isn't their problem else they wouldn't have become addicts in the first place. They aren't going to spend their money to travel to Portugal even if they can afford it.
Interesting to read about this on the same day I read an article about Google's infamously challenging interview process. (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020455230457711...)

Clearly something doesn't add up (though it could be as simple as the non-engineers don't get as much scrutiny. Shouldn't Google want the world's best sales reps too?)
You can easily dig around for more sources, but I've attached the wiki link, which has some information about fuel usage and many other uses. From what I can remember it's about as viable as biofuels from corn (maybe a bit better) but still not really production quality. Hemp's biggest advantage is the strength of it's fibers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
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Teachers should only marry teachers? Nurses should only marry nurses? It doesn't work in the "other" direction, why should it work in this? (Remember, gender disparities entirely as strong as computer science exist in the other direction; people just don't angst about them as much.)

I'd present an alternate point of view, as someone who has been married to not-a-programmer for 11 years now... passion != monomania. You probably ought to have something other than programming you can talk about and incorporate into a relationship. I won't quite say monomania is "bad", but it isn't without costs, and certainly ancient wisdom has expounded the benefits of being a well-rounded person for a very, very long time. It's not wrong.
There is a patch in master to support both Debian and Mac OS X. OS X doesn't use GNU sed which was the source of the problem.
Hemp as fuel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Fuel
I'm not familiar with Belgium, only the US, but why do you resent the way college teaches?

There is some busywork and some BS up front, but if you suck it up, pay your dues and prove to your professors that you're good (I'm assuming you're good), then it quickly turns into not-BS, provided you're at a decent college.
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A lot of the biggest opposition to pot legalization measures is the pharma industry (#1 lobbyers in the US, in terms of money spent). In many ways marijuana is a better alternative than prescription pills for pain and other medical treatment.
Exactly! Where's the XNOR button, google?
I think the 'no women in tech' issue affects us personally a lot more than we let on. Writers can marry readers and speakers and thinkers, artists can marry people who appreciate art, entrepreneurs can make the business a family endeavor, but engineers are usually out of luck.

While I agree with your basic sentiment that "the no women in tech" thing does limit social opportunities in that regard, that isn't what you say in your closing sentence. Your closing sentence is a great deal more sweeping and I think it's inaccurate.

In circles I have hung out in at various times, referring to the husband as "in house tech support" was bragging rights. In my experience, an awful lot of men who can't get a date are so sure no woman would want _________ that they make it absolutely impossible to tell them "Uh, actually, I'm real into men like that". They put women in a position where admitting you actually think they are attractive and all/most of the things they are listing about themselves as negatives are viewed as positives gets spun into "god what a loser. who would do her?" It becomes a case of "I wouldn't join any club that would have me" type thing. Furthermore, I typically shy away from trying to give people a clue who clearly need one when posting on public forums because it puts me in danger of having it misinterpreted as an invitation and being mobbed by unwanted attention. I mention that only to suggest that statements like that tend to become self-fulfilling, self-reinforcing prophecy.

(For the record: I am currently celibate for medical reasons and not looking for a relationship. Please don't (anyone) tempt me to go into stomach-churning details about why you (plural) don't want to hit that. Thanks.)
Thanks for the corrections and opinions on the article. For someone just getting into Ubuntu and Linux, these are the basics from my perspective. While best practices are always disputed in I.T., I appreciate the continued discussion.
how about

"Kylix Weekly"

Kylix is the ancient food vessel used by greeks.
Weekly goes well with it.

the name is unique, the use of 'x' to end it is synonymous with our generations preference to end things with 'Z' as in "zee" , etc

hope it helps
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St Lucia a small country in the Caribbean with 161k inhabitants has had 2 nobel price laureates.

http://www.stlucianobellaureates.org/

This is quite impressive, but is more representative of how good the British system was at educating elites throughout the realm through their system of excellent local grammar schools feeding into the UK university system.

This hasn't translated so much to entrepreneurial success yet. Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean tend to come from the poorer less educated ranks or as immigrants. The successful intellectuals become European style public intellectuals or work in government.

Kingston Beta http://kingstonbeta.com/ is trying to change this culture by getting some of the extremely smart people in the Caribbean to focus on startups. I hope the best for them.

What I'm trying to say here is that education is not the only thing needed. Israel as he mentions has great universities, but it also has a completely different mentality to the mentality found in the middle classes in Latin America including Chile.

As a matter of fact many of the big success stories in China such as Wenzhou is founded on pure entrepreneurial spirit and has nothing to do with education:

http://reason.com/archives/2011/11/15/chinas-black-market-ci...

And that is exactly the point of Startup Chile. It is trying to change the mentality not of Chilean startups themselves (they are already on the program), but rather Chileans as a whole. The investors will come when the successful startups emerge. And don't count on local investors.

Local investors who have made too much money easily in an unrelated field are not good news. In Chile as he says it's from natural resources like copper.

We are fighting with this here in Miami as well. The local investors are not sophisticated enough to deal with early stage tech startups, yet there is plenty of money here. Much of the money made here was in real estate, hospitality and banking. Most people in the local startup scene are not looking for local money for that reason.

Morten Lund had a rant a few months ago in Danish http://lundxy.com/2011/08/i-have-to-get-it-our-in-danish-sor... about the Danish investors. It's much for the same reason, but with a special northern European twist. The Danish investment funds have virtually no former entrepreneurs on their boards. They consist of CEO's of large companies, trade union bosses and representatives from local government. All people used to easy money who haven't got a clue about entrepreneurship. Which is pretty much how you could describe the country as a whole.
There is a big downside to getting it done by companies like Monsanto (or tobacco companies as mentioned in another thread below) - Insane public opposition. Drugs and their users are already perceived to be "morally bad". Club them with a company that people don't like for similar reasons and you have a solution that will never see the light of day.
I hope people realize that what Portugal is doing only puts all drugs in a similar legal category to alcohol during its "prohibition" in the United States. This solves none of the supply side issues and their current laws are surely still contributing to a miserable and violent black market.

What we have instead here in the United States (and attempt to force onto other countries) is a view that all use is abuse, regardless of any reasoning, even medicinal use. We can't even grow it for research or non-drug uses because of federal agencies that want to continue this for as long as possible. Today I can buy marijuana at retail stores here in Michigan. There is no violence associated with buying it from people who just grew it in their house and brought it there to sell to me.
Parts are word for word identical. In school, this would be rightly be called plagiarism and probably get you in a lot of trouble. Not the point here, obviously, but sloppy nonetheless.
Are you sure? I'm using Nightly 12.0a1, and it is very slow (1-2fps). It's still smooth in Chrome, though.
I believe in all positive freedoms that do not lead to negative externalities, irrespective of whatever legal or moral prescriptions happen to be in current fashion.

The perennial dilemma with the American War on Drugs is that it continues an obviously failed policy that shatters lives of petty users indiscriminately while encouraging more violence by preventing stable economic cooperative forces from arising and instead enabling tribal warfare violence on a massive scale with modern weapons. This is wasteful, stupid and crass, tantamount to direct slavery and genocide in all but name.

Furthermore, this unnecessary, very expensive incarceration of users robs an individual of their productive capacity in addition to discounting their tax revenue generation potential as well. Petty adjudication should exist along a gradual continuum of tough empathy with a sliding-scale matching productive elevation with greater freedoms and dialing back by infraction according to severity. This approach pervades many parts of Europe to great success. This is in stark contrast to arbitrary surprise, zero-tolerance, mechanically insanity that continues to infect cruel, unusual and more than doubly punishment to all those ensnared.

Is it for profit of schadenfreude, fattening hegemonies, military industry or profuse inaction that these travesties are allowed by you and I right now to continue throwing lives into this cosmic sausage-grinder?
Old article. The old discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738462
Should I quit college to pursue my dream?

No don't do it, unless you've been diagnosed with a fatal disease that will shorten your life span to a few months, I don't see the reason to hurry.

>* building my own startup (eBay competitor)

If you think your startup will be able to compete with eBay today it's likely that it will be able to compete withy eBay in a few years. They are an established company after all they are very likely to purse a stable business model. You could start actively working in your prototype in your free time, so that when you start your startup you have a stable code base and you don't have to code like mad. Have you calculated how much it will cost you to fund this startup, do you have enough savings to last until you are profitable. The legal aspect is something you should also think about although I don't really know what legal problems there could be but. Just don't make any dumb decision now like having kids or getting married, postpone this for later and you can rack up some savings for your future projects. If you think your location could affect your plans if you have a degree and try hard enough, I am sure you could get a job in the US and eventually be on your way to open a startup there (?).

>It seems your main issue is "resentment against the way college teaches". College is like school - it's badly run, and sucks, but the people who say it sucks are just being losers. Just accept the BS, do whatever it takes to pass (including cheating, if it's the norm) and enjoy learning new stuff.

From my personal experience I can tell you that this is true. To make a long story short, I dropped out of high school on my fourth semester. I stopped putting in the effort to pass the subjects, especially Visual Basic 6 (I hate Microsoft products) and because of this I only approved two subjects. My classmate (another slacker) and I, had to do a project with all the stuff we where supposed to know about VB6, but we didn't even had a fscking clue. That's how much we slacked during classes, I even skipped some. We started doing the project four days before the due date, we where reading and downloading documentation like mad but yet we couldn't manage to finish on time, a day before the due date me and my classmate where discussing the possibility of cheating by buying the project from some older guys that knew VB6. I felt that it was to much fscking trouble and bailed out. Even if we got the project in, we would've had to approve a lot of global exams since could only advance to the next grade with three failed subjects. No joke, I became a NEET for two years in which I spent most of my time reading about Linux and related topics. Just until recently I started going to night school (still not working) to make up for the lost time. If I had worked hard in the beginning or cheated and studied like mad at the end of that semester, I wouldn't be telling this story. I don't regret those two years in which I spent most of my time reading, I regret those two years in which I postponed the BS.
Couldn't agree more. The only way to "win" the war on drugs is to legalize, commercialize, and tax the production. It's a simple matter of economics that as long as demand for these substances is present, there will be producers.
I just checked my home address on OSM. My whole subdivision and the major 4 lane road that goes past it was all build 6+ years ago. None of it exists in OSM. This is a well populated suburb of Atlanta.
I live in Spain and I think in Portugal is the same as here. Drug use is not a crime but it is still an "Administrative Offense". If the police caught's you with a small amount of drugs, they will confiscate them and usually impose a fine, about 300€.
Where do you come up with this crap? Do you know anything about Chile?
I can't talk about making money - but I have a few moderately successful free apps, and one thing I can say is that a lot more people search and stumble on these apps than they would if it was not on the webstore.
tl;dr hacking an unsupported feature (function overloading) into a language that doesn't support it is ugly and/or results in leaky abstractions.
I find it odd that there is no clear "punishment" for voting a law that is clearly unconstitutional. I wouldn't mind if you had to wait for the decision of the Supreme Court if it's unconstitutional or not first, but what then? They still won't suffer any consequence, other than (maybe) stopping them from getting re-elected, if the public even finds out about that.

The media clearly doesn't want to talk about this, so the public would have to find out on its own, and then vote them out.

http://www.businessinsider.com/whys-the-media-shafting-ron-p...
Show HN: An iPad app to teach kids how to program
This app is a graphical programming environment for kids to learn coding by creating animations.

Although we released it to the app store it's still more of a beta version and we would love to solicit feedback from HNers with iPads. To me, programming is something that kids could really enjoy but the obstacles in their way (getting a programming environment, publishing their code, learning syntax) make the barriers to entry unnecessarily high. We're hoping this will be a good first step in overcoming some of that.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278?ls=1&mt=8

Tell me what you think!

Thanks,
Samantha
I didn't read this carefully, but it seems that "hidden" interfaces that pop up during a mouse hover and so on are a main objection.

Well, I must say, that often when using a web app, I expect to have to wait 5 seconds for a reload as I am moving my mouse in for a click (for example, imagine if there is a text link "Rate this page" under the current average rating) -- when, instead, as I hover over it it turns to 5 empty stars immediately, so that I have just saved 5 seconds for a page reload, I am immensely delighted.

Basically, I do agree that hidden interface elements are awful. At the same time, every "second page" that you would normally have to wait for is far better as a 'hidden interface' that pops up right away!

I dare say that when you wireframe out the possible pages of your web app, the very best interface might be having most of those pages right in the main page, just hidden. Report feedback, report a bug, reset your password, all these things that would require a page reload and losing your scrolling in the page and so on, can be brought 5000 ms closer to the user but putting them in right at the point of the click.

So, I do agree that there is nothing as frustrating as a hidden user interface element. However, you can also pleasantly delight your user by bring the 'next page' right there.
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Up for now:

"While Notifo will continue to run in the interim, I encourage you to find alternative methods to accomplish your notification needs."
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Reminds me of Donald's Knuth quote:

"My main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TeX project is that software is hard. It’s harder than anything else I’ve ever had to do."
How to make your new programming language successful
That is unfortunately what most people in the US and Europe think about most countries in Latin America.