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I think what he's saying is that he won't rebuild the Millenium Falcon, that the pieces will get scattered and used for other stuff. That's how it goes in our house. The set gets built very quickly, and just as quickly is dismantled and used for bigger, more creative projects.

Wait -- no I see that he won't hack it. I wonder why not??
I can't tell you how much I wish there existed a site that allowed for programmers to work for non-profits easily. There are often times when I have downtime but I am too burnt out to work on my own projects and I just want a change of pace. I feel like most non-profits could greatly benefit from developers and designers helping them either with their web presence or to help with efficiency.

Recently I helped a national Fraternity, not my own, with tracking and recording tweets using a certain hashtag over the span of 40 days. Their method prior to me was copy + pasting the tweets that they liked from twitter (Using twitter search) in a word document. Using open source tools like phirehose I was able to help them record and track 5K+ tweets and export the data into something they could use. Helping out with this was very rewarding and I had a ton of fun. I wish their were more opportunities like this. The problem was I had to contact them, they had no idea that there were people even out their that could do that let alone do it for free.

I hope that in a few days I see a "Show HN: Weekend project- NonProfitCoding.com" (The domain is open, I just don't have the time to work on something like that right now) on the front page because I would defiantly join.
Yes, they must be. I think Free Software is cool, and I am not upset that Google pays people to write it. I resisted using Chromium for a long time because I thought the Firefox folks were "fighting the good fight". But honestly, their software engineering practices suck compared to Google's and their product is, as a result, not as good. The great thing about freedom is that you can use both. Or you can take the good features from Chromium and put them in Firefox. Or you can make your own web browser.

You can also advertise it on Google as much as you want; they sell ads to pretty much everyone (including themselves).

In the end, I don't feel like Google is wronging me.
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To me, "intuitive explanation" means short enough to understand quickly. Brevity is powerful. 17,000 words introducing someone to an unknown concept is mentally exhausting.
That cops-and-robbers LEGO advent calendar is pretty weird.

I still have this guy hanging on my tree:
http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/1627-1.jpg
On one side, apple evil, on the other side google evil. No wonder people are getting so worked up when they choose sides.
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Ah yes, all the Perl special variables! I actually did get scoffed at at work for using "use english" (while taking care it didn't affect regexps).
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The BrikCrate has changed how my kids approach Lego. It was completely "build the set, forget about it" prior to installing it. Now they build like crazy in free form. http://www.brikcrate.com/

Our daughter enjoys building too.
this is exactly the point, unless merchants actually display the discount you receive vs using a credit card then it doesn't matter. More than likely merchants will swallow the profits, and consumers won't see the benefit. I earn quite a bit from rewards points as well, the difference in monetary savings vs credit cards would have to be proportional.
Even if you can, it will take time, waste energy, leave uncertainty, and only the lawyers benefit. The fee people are forced to pay is an insurance policy to prevent all that hassle.
> We need more women scientists

Are you a scientist?
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We've tried a few different times, & still trying to get it right. Would love your thoughts on the UI of the "my feeds" section at http://genjuice.com.
Paypal, and other companies, have a pretty good handle on fraud now. They can aggressively hire security engineers from the industry.
It is essentially a line of credit, sort of a cross between a term and demand loan I would guess (without more details of repayment terms). Many banks have something similar, only it's called "overdraft protection".

Of course, as someone else has commented, with good money management, you don't need this.
Find a charge card (not a credit card) that has an annual fee of less than $36 and a late fee of $5 or less. Now consider that Dwolla charges less to merchants as well.
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Well, we can speculate on the reasons, but I've rented maybe a dozen apartments, some from individuals and some from management companies, and none of them has ever offered to take credit cards.
I've noticed that some of new Lego sets have very specific pieces. Not really the kind you can mix and match between sets as in the 'old days'.
Thank you for saying what I was just about to say. The real point here is that there is that no reason, for a responsible consumer (ie: someone who isn't running into debt each month), to use this 'service'. Since it is tailored to people who have good credit, I don't see how this is going to be popular at all.
This is actually illegal in NY, but most gas stations do it anyway.
My question to merchants would be..

Would you actually risk sales at not offering credit card payments and only offering dwolla? With companies like square they make the entire process incredibly easy.

Would you actually list two different prices on all your items or services based on paying with credit card vs dwolla, or would you just standardize and swallow the 3% or whatever it is ?
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Screw the other people, I can relate and I know many other people who can too. Some people think it's better to tie someone onto a hospital bed and medicate them so they don't commit suicide, and then they call suicide a selfish act.

The lack of empathy in the responses to your post is actually pretty sick, the best thing you can do for someone who is depressed is to try to understand, to listen to them, and to help them relax.

I think people sometimes forget what it feels like to be depressed, and how great the need to not be depressed can be.

I also find it hard to believe that some people live their life without at least considering suicide once. It doesn't mean I think it's near the best answer to life, but it's a lot better then some other things people do in life, and I think people have the right to decide what happens with their life.

If I may suggest something, you should go read Alan Watts' "The Wisdom of Insecurity". He was a very influential man who thought that some ideas in Zen Buddhism could be used as very powerful forms of psychotherapy, and on a more personal note I've found that some of the ideas in that book have helped me feel very peaceful and at home in the worst of my times.

It's the only book of his I've read so far, but it was really great (and short) and I plan on reading more. In 'The Wisdom of Insecurity' he talks about how too much people compare their present with their expectations of an impossible future, and with a misrepresented past. He talks a bit about God and religion, but I don't think it was so much a religious book as it was a book about a way of life.

For some extra Hacker News cred he liked to discuss about cybernetics, semantics, quantum physics, and sex. Seriously, if you ever contemplate suicide or even just feel inadequate then go to a library on a Saturday, and get the book; you can easily read it in a day and I think it'll make you feel better.
Josh's problem is with the way MG put it. He framed it as "Mercedes vs Honda". There's a strong, implicit class implication there.

If you took price out of the equation and just looked at the two products, the comparison may be apt, but Josh is staring the price matter in the face and calling foul. I can't say I blame him. I drive a luxury brand car, but I cringe a little bit when people ask me what I drive because I'm concious of the fact that people associate brand, value, and quality.

A better analogy might have been artwork. Some people will look at the Mona Lisa and see a painting of a plain woman. Others look at it and see one of the greatest paintings ever created. But like Josh points out, the world is not black & white. Some will see the quality of the Mona Lisa, but will not care. They may like other styles better. They may prefer work from an entirely generation.

Josh is opposed creating class warfare out of device functionality. In my view, MG's assessment of iOS as "more polished" is true, and I happen to place a high value on that polish, but I understand that I trade other aspects of the device in order to obtain that polish. Others won't make that same choice. Others won't see the polish at all. That doesn't make those people better or worse than me. It only makes them different.
I had to do some work with TCL in grad school and hated it quite a bit.
Are you capable of realizing that your comment is unhelpful and does nothing to advance the conversation?
Truly. The saddest thing about these posts is that some segment of the HN population thinks they are worth reading.
Not highlighting is a browser bug. Searching in SVG highlights the results for me.
Woo way to go, Steve! I'm certainly looking forward to having a non-suck place to go for javascript libraries.
I think the key is to remind you kids that once you've built something according to the instructions and you're bored, it's time to take it apart and build something else. I remember playing with a lot of LEGO kits when I was a kid, and I always did this. It's true that, like coloring books, building from kits discourages creativity. But that's easy to fix with something called parenting. Let the instructions be an inspiration, not a prescription.

(And, it's not a bad skill to be able to follow instructions. I hear people on forums like HN complaining about how difficult it is to build IKEA furniture. If they played with LEGO when they were a kid, they'd probably be able to build their bookshelf too :)
The best predictor of a long exchange being good is the number of intermediate questions asked and answered in it.
I think he forgot you can now order whatever LEGO piece you are looking for online.

So basically LEGO tries to sell to people who will not hack on the LEGO with very cool models but provides formidable tools if you want to hack your own LEGO.

You can even submit your own models if I'm correct.
> so Debian gets to count them as descendants because Ubuntu is based off Debian.

Ubuntu is not only based on Debian, it still regularly merges in packages from Debian.

They should make some kind of distinction between a release that is based off of the parent, but then goes its own way, vs a release that IS the parent + additions. The relationship is much closer.

And actually it goes the other way too - debian tries to merge changes from ubunto back into it. (They have a tool that automatically compares them and suggests merges.)
Honestly, this sounds horrifying. Yahoo (which everyone uses as a "poster child" of Silicon Valley company losing people) is orders of magnitude better than this in terms of projects, management, compensation and getting rid of bozos. E.g., your performance reviews (after which you get raises) are done by other programmers, your immediate manager (and his manager) are programmers, there is a career path for programmers (with compensation and responsibility to match management), etc...

You really should consider going elsewhere: I can show you places within a five mile radius of Downtown Mountain View (or SOMA, or The Mission in San Francisco, if you don't like suburbs) that not only do all that (that is the bare minimum) but also, e.g., write production code in Haskell (or whatever else that you're interested in).
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People like to put their mouth where their money is more than they like to put their money where their mouth is. Tech partisanship is largely because of this -- if you dropped a serious chuck of both your time and money on a product, and there's a competing product, you want to defend your critical thinking skills by asserting that the product you bought is better than the other. The more insecure about it you are, the harder you defend.

Also, if you're in the media, it always pays to stir the pot. Always.
For me personally I like vertical feeds arranged in rows, it helps to visually separate the items in peoples minds. There is long standing association with row = new item, column = data for row item. This goes back even further than computers and into pure mathematics, so it is culturally engrained. Honestly even if you made each box an banner image style rectangle that took up the three positions and kept it the same height, i would probably be more usable that current form. In saying that, design wise it does look nice, but you are going against some pretty engrained HCI and Human Factors.
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Even the most rudimentary trolls use car analogies to summon little tempests. It's right up there with religion and Hitler.
Microsoft Mixes Social Networking With Search
Looks to me that the name is not taken. Do you want to try again and ping me if you have any problems?
As I once wrote here, Gruber and MG are not columnists or even pundits. They are simply Apple evangelists. They preach a faith-based approach to Apple's superiority where no amount of evidence can sway them.

Josh's description is dead accurate, but those of us who have been paying attention have known this for a long time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3068516
VladRussian, if you're reading this, you've been hellbanned. You just commented on this story an hour ago, so I figure maybe you'll pop back in here and see my message.

You probably don't know me, but you are someone whose name I recognize, and whose comments I've enjoyed over the past 2 or so years. Very sorry to see this happen to you, and for no apparent reason that I can tell. Maybe you'll get reinstated, or maybe you'll leave for greener pastures -- but either way thanks for trying to make this place a little better.
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A single main.py file might actually be more maintainable than a dozen files that try to hide many levels of abstraction. Certainly things need to be separated into files, but just enough to keep the project simple.

And when you're in the business of "getting shit done", most of the time delivering the feature is much more important than writing "clean code".
http://www.ftrain.com/nanolaw.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551436

Googled lawsuit settle father daughter "short story"

I actually wanted to read this again recently so thanks for thinking of it.
Got one of the castle themed products for a friend. The LEGO approved story:
"The Dragon Knights have captured the fair princess and locked her in their tower. The King’s brave Knight sets forth to rescue her, but the tower is heavily fortified and well defended. Can he break through the iron gate and past the catapult to free her?"

I think my friend decided to retheme as an S&M brothel.
But it does with pointers in C:

int foo = 0, bar = 0;
*(cond ? &foo : &bar) = 8;
Agree 100%. This is earnest advice. It may seem like a snarky quip, but it's not. This is dead serious:

Never use a car analogy. Never.

Cars are too intimate. This is especially endemic to American culture. Too many people identify with their car. You may intend to contrast the horsepower of one car to another, but the reader will inevitable contrast the values most dear to them. "A coupe versus a saloon! HOW DARE YOU!?!?!"
Also if you do this check out:

http://opensnp.org/
http://opensnp.wordpress.com/
http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2011/11/opensnp-wins-plosmendeley...
I'm guessing not much enthusiasm then for the idea...
> Why is Paypal's IPN Terrible? becuase it's terribly complicated and poorly documented.

Hardly. It's an HTTP POST to a script. What could be easier to handle? Read the mc_gross and item_number and update your database. If you want to verify the POST came from PayPal and not someone else that found your secret URL, then you change one variable in the POST data and send it back to PayPal to get a verification response.

My PayPal scripts are a couple lines of code. Any competent coder could write and test an IPN script in half an hour... even without reading the docs! Just use the sandbox to send a test POST, look at what you get and write the code to update your DB using the appropriate variables.

An IPN handler is a lot less code than integrating any real payment gateway I've used... and PayPal's IPN was easier to handle than Amazon Payments' or Google Checkouts' equivalents.

> I'll give you a good reason for not using paypal... paypal freezes accounts all the time, for reasons as simple as 'you made too much money too fast'.

So do all payment processors ever in all the history of credit card payments as consumer instruments. This is not a PayPal issue. The only reason you hear this about PayPal is because these businesses didn't try anyone else.

Standard merchant account application asks you your estimated gross monthly volume and average ticket size. If your actual volume deviates from this significantly ("you made to much money too fast") they will freeze your account until they can re-evaluate the processing risk.

> I'm not risking my whole business just to use paypal.

Those stories you see on the front page of HN would've played out the same if they did the same things with a different processor. It's not using PayPal that risked their whole business, it's not informing their processor before launching a product that would change their volume and ticket size, not informing their processor before collecting thousands of charity donations without being a charity, not informing their processor before selling tens of thousands of preorders for an indie game that doesn't exist, etc. The risk would be there when you do any of these things no matter who you use to process the payments.
I just bought a couple of the Builders of Tomorrow Set #6177. All regular pieces, no tie-in or specialist parts. Expand with a couple of specific sets for the minifigs or custom pieces and you are set. If you are lucky enough to live near a Lego store you can also expand the collection using the wall of bricks.

I've never liked the Lego kits (even as a kid) for the reasons already mentioned. You build them once and then the (building) creativity is gone. Give me a pile of 4x2 bricks any day.
"The Verge are incentivised to make Android seem interesting and competitive"

I think as it currently stands, it IS interesting and competitve. I don't want to begin a flame war. Merely saying the Galaxy Nexus vs. iPhone 4S matchup is pretty damn close. It really boils down to which philosophy you agree with. But don't call them "second-rate", because they are not.
Take a look at modern Lego kits - this is no longer really possible. Half of the pieces are now completely custom pieces that will only ever fit in one way. Gone are the Lego kits where just about all the pieces will recycle into your future creations.
Music and software piracy are not patent violations. They are copyright violations. It's a completely different issue.
I don't think they're evil so much as just catering to modern society. Legos are from an era where way more people built, fixed, and tinkered with things. Nowadays what do you do when your computer, phone, dishwashers, tv, etc. breaks? Take it to get repaired or get a new one. No tinkering, no opening it up to see how it works before you throw it away, none of that. So rather than thinking Lego is to blame for this attitude, I think Lego is just following their market. And can you really blame a company for wanting to stay afloat instead of following a shrinking breed of people and a idealistic mindset into the grave?
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Does LEGO have some sort of patent on "legos"? In other words are other companies allowed to build similar kits?
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working now, thanks
You are not silly for where you bashed capitalism but instead for ignoring 2000 years of history disproving you thesis that communal property can work.
I'd say that Josh is reading class warfare into an analogy that doesn't mean anything of the sort. Maybe there is a better analogy, but in an opinion piece the author is entitled to use his poetic license.

As far as the Mercedes-Honda analogy I think it is very appropriate. It's not that Mercedes are more expensive, it's that they are made with much more attention to detail, and higher quality fit and finish.

Besides, isn't the Galaxy Nexus more expensive?? I don't get the class warfare accusation.

MG's post has nothing to do with "device functionality". Your last paragraph basically summarises MG's argument, so I guess you agree with him, and just don't like the analogy. I think Josh is making a mountain out of a mole-hill.
Awesome work, looks good so far.
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We just have three enormous rubbermaid bins with lids. Half the fun is searching for the right piece, and possibly finding an old lollypop stuck to it. The sound of kid hands pawing through a vat of legos is awesome.
What would be awesome of you is to generate a .js instead of a zip.

For example I could include <script src="jspkg.org/coffeescript/xregexp/.../.js"> and it would make a single .js file with all the dependencies sorted out.

If you could make it work with npm packages that would be even more awesome :)
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I read the cited quote, "Unfortunately, the system still lacks much of the fine polish that iOS users enjoy. The majority of Android users will probably think such criticism is bullshit, but that has always been the case. I imagine it’s probably hard for a Mercedes owner to describe to a Honda owner how attention to detail makes their driving experience better when both machines get them from point A to point B. As a Honda owner myself, I’m not sure I would buy it — I’d have to experience it to understand it, I imagine. And most Android lovers are not going to spend enough time with iOS to fully appreciate the differences."

And realized it sounded best when read with the Comic Book Guy voice, and anything that sounds appropriate with that voice is a bit snooty.
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I am good at the telephony back-end, VoIP, sysadmin and I suck at web development. So you should be a kickass developer with awesome UI skills!

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I admit we have not considered the idea of one image per row, and it's definitely worth testing because it gives each content item more space for a stronger excerpt. Thanks for this!