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1. Didn't really want to mention the product on the page.

2. We merge in the ecommerce platform with the payment processor. We really just process payments so we can control the whole experience, but if you have your own gateway you can just plug the api keys in. Most ecommerce platforms require you to go signup with a 3rd party payment gateway, and the quick hack for most people is to go with paypal.

Our focus is really on the ecommerce side. eJunkies lame. 1shoppingcart's lame. Yeah a few others have poped up this year (quixly & gumroad) they just really validate the need. If you don't need a fully fledged frontend store your options are pretty limited.
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I agree with you, and came in here to post that exact quote. It's a really frightening misunderstanding of education and the problems it actually faces, as well as "scaling."

But how is your alma mater supposed to maintain it's size if it does that? And if it doesn't maintain it size, that means it's cutting jobs, at least temporarily. And if it's perceived as shrinking, just that very fact will be damning to it's application process, and so starts the slow rotation around the drain.

While I agree most things should be based on providing value, to the extent that most American entities are focused mostly on size, it's kind of too late (or at the very least a lot more complicated than you are making it).

To me this is the anecdote of the larger problem in our economy: we've completely overextended ourselves, and created a lot of unnecessary jobs. But now that we've done so, cutting back is also bad. So what do we do? I mean besides grin and bear it.

(This is a serious question - as an HN voice of wisdom, how about some advice.)
Could you help me better understand the theory that circumcision results from female privilege?

It doesn't result from female privilege, it is considered a non-issue and discounted because of female privilege. There is plenty of evidence to support that, including the fact that FGM is considered a larger issue although it has effectively been eliminated in the west.

Consider this, if a father wanted to have his newborn daughters' clitoral hood removed because he didn't like the way it looked, he would be rightly ignored. If a mother wants to have her newborn son circumcised because she doesn't like the way uncut penises look, he will be circumcised. No matter how you want to slice it, both are genital mutilations. The difference is, one is ridiculous, uncommon and illegal, and the other is ridiculous, common, legal, and widespread.

Female genital mutilation is pretty explicitly about controlling female sexuality in a way that makes women more obedient male property.

It does happen almost exclusively in Islamic areas, and some religious leaders do mandate it, so I'm not too sure about that. In any case, religion is a poor reason to justify mutilation. Circumcision was performed on male slaves to make them "less likely to rape white women", so I also am not too sure about the underlying reason for male circumcision. Both practices seem kind of barbaric.

Circumcision, though, seems to be a religious thing from a very patriarchal culture. The modern justification for which is hygiene and/or health, and sometimes it's definitely medically necessary.

The hygiene and health arguments are bogus, and have been proven to be bogus. If women were having parts of sexual organs removed for "hygiene" reasons, it would not continue for a moment.

So I'm not seeing how circumcision is evidence of a gender power differential.

The fact that nobody questions male circumcision which is forced on over 50% of males born in the United States today, while FGM, which is much less widespread largely occurring only in Africa and the middle east, garners considerable attention provides evidence of a power differential. It clearly shows that male health issues are undervalued, even in relation to obscure female issues, reinforcing the matriarchal view that men are inherently less valuable than women.
Oh, I agree, and we're actually talking about the same thing. We're just defining the word culture with different scopes. My scope was, approximately, "anything about C++ that you really need to know to write idiomatic C++ code and interact productively with your C++ coworkers and community, but which you didn't learn from that Introduction to C++ for Lisp Nerds book that you skimmed last weekend."

Clearly not a hard-and-fast definition. The more "proper" scope of the word culture is, of course, ultimately a giant philosophical issue which I intend to blithely handwave away. ;)

(I suppose one could try to argue that all of C++ is a cultural artifact, and C and assembly for that matter, but sooner or later you'll reach the Turing machine, which if you chip away at it you'll soon discover is just the tip of an iceberg which consists of all of mathematics, and then folks like Plato will turn up on the battlefield looking for a fight and holy cow, look at the time, gotta run.)
I use my e-mail which has a contact list :)
It seems like you got downvoted but you're pretty much on the dot. The people I go out drinking on long nights with are friends and we're all fairly honest. A lot of nights that I go out with non-friends, those people are either taking care of the tab or I've decided to take care of it. The first impression created by pulling out an drink-accounting app will probably not be a good one.
I think it was actually a forum thread where the guy publicly showed his learning by posting a lot of his pictures as he kept practicing. Don't have the link off the top of my head though.
It's totally true that it takes time for your idioms to catch up with the capability of the syntax. Maybe the big (and common) mistake the parent is talking about, though, is assuming that because a given programmer knows Blub but doesn't know Blam (generic language with some semantics either not supported, under-supported, or not often used in Blub), they will find the concepts in Blam strange and difficult to adapt to. They may already be familiar with a similar concept or even writing something like Blam-flavored Blub.

I'm a latecomer to the Ruby game, and have done a lot of PHP and JavaScript over the last 10 years (though those are far from the only languages I know and have worked in). It's been funny to see what kind of assumptions that means other devs make about what Ruby concepts are going to be big steps for me. I was told by some people that blocks would be a revelation and that metaclass manipulation would melt my brain. But blocks map pretty directly to the familiar concept of passing around functions, and metaclass hacking onto things present in Perl and JavaScript that I'd sometimes wished I'd had in PHP.

Similarly, Haskell and Erlang -- while significantly different from the languages I've used most of my professional life -- both feel pretty familiar after a long-ago stay in the land of Prolog.

I understand the impulse to assume you know something about a developer from the languages they claim proficiency in -- and the impulse to assume that devs who don't know the languages your revelations have come in haven't had those revelations. Generally, for example, I don't think particularly well of a lot of my fellow PHP devs. But when it comes time to make serious judgments like hiring, rather than asking them which languages they know, I want to look at whether they understand certain semantics at a language-independent level, I want to know what they like about the languages they know, what they'd add to the language if they could, and what they'd take away.
Stripe's beautiful.

I covered it in a comment above. We're an ecommerce platform for micro merchants, we just handle payments (for those who want us to) so we can provide a seamless experience.

Here's the reply.

"We merge in the ecommerce platform with the payment processor. We really just process payments so we can control the whole experience, but if you have your own gateway you can just plug the api keys in. Most ecommerce platforms require you to go signup with a 3rd party payment gateway, and the quick hack for most people is to go with paypal.
Our focus is really on the ecommerce side. eJunkies lame. 1shoppingcart's lame. Yeah a few others have poped up this year (quixly & gumroad) they just really validate the need. If you don't need a fully fledged frontend store your options are pretty limited."
Square's going after a trillion dollar industry, ecommerce is a drop in the bucket.
> C-y in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-kill, instead of
isearch-yank-line.

Thank you.

> New commands `count-words-region’ and `count-words’.

No more M-| wc? Another thanks.

In general, I'm really glad to see the Emacs developers standardizing and catering to the rest of the world - a lot of these things are things that annoy me subconsciously or consciously, but not enough to figure out how to fix in my .emacs.
It's an underwhelming landing page. I agree.

Our vision and what we want to do over the next few years is what wakes us up in the morning.
The most exciting part is at the end:

Code can now use lexical scoping by default instead of dynamic scoping. The `lexical-binding’ variable lets code use lexical scoping for local variables. It is typically set via file-local variables, in which case it applies to all the code in that file.
Keep in mind I had nothing to do with the submission to hn. My original plan was to randomly have the CrunchFund folks stumble onto the page themselves.
Speaking as a long time KDE user, having "the one true path" really isn't their style...

But they do have compatible devices:

http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Devices

and installation instructions for a variety of builds:

http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Installation
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I regret I have but one upvote to give to your comment. :)

Instead I'll add this:

"Whenever I interview a candidate I always work in some variation of a very simple question: 'How would you change your favorite programming language to make it better?'

"I don’t really care what the answer is (that is, I don’t mind if we disagree). However, I care very much that people think critically about the tools that they use and love."

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/04/26/my-favorite-interview-questi...
Adding tests for bug fixes doesnt necessarily help when your code is in that state. I think you are better off looking for coverage on tests, and trying to write specs eg formalize the parser as mentioned. Probably a lot of tests now are from previous bugs, but the code has drifted and they have not been maintained.
Only the rights holder would have the legal right to download a copy of the works, as far as I know. The RIAA certainly doesn't have the rights to movies so that's out of the question and it seems highly likely that actually downloading or uploading any of these works wouldn't be necessary for the police to investigate any crime.
We're not targeting big head merchants (shopify style merchants). We're targeting micro merchants, the long tail of ecommerce; think the blogger who's still using ejunkie and paypal to sell online, or the kickstarter style sellers who just have one product and need a quick simple way to sell it.
How is the C++ binary interoperability between different gcc versions, or other compilers?

I'm bit afraid, that if C++ is used more and more on the system level (BeOS, OSX drivers) you won't be able safely any other compiler, than the one being provided, and that one might be a bit behind.

Then again, probably nothing to worry about...
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In VC pitches the bio slide should come first
Only Intel Atom devices? No ARM? Mips?
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as per the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Distribution via the web is much easier. Telling people to install a .exe usually scares them, but pretty much everybody can go to a web page. And you don't have to worry about updates.
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Very interesting. Now prove you're not a troll.
'Semantic Desktop' Technology - WTF?
Also got confused by the name Plasma and the Zii Plaszma (with z) for Zii EGG and others (man, that device sucked balls)
Not going to happen until the college experience ceases to be ingrained in the American Dream.
I'm inclined to agree. I read the whole post, and found myself sort of agreeing with it, since I have been bitten by random browser specific (and not just IE!) quirks, and I can sort of understand having difficulty getting to know JavaScript if you're not used to it. Then I got to this line:

> Take a look at the CSS in step 2 of the Lightbox example. Are you kidding me? There’s no way in hell any of that follows logically.

And the other shoe dropped. I took a look at the example step referenced, and it was all very straightforward to me. I realize that this was because I'm already familiar with CSS, but I can't imagine it would take a motivated learner more than a couple minutes to learn what was going on in the code listed.

Programming in general is about always learning new things. The industry is always evolving and if you get complacent, you'll get left behind. This shouldn't be news to anyone, but if your reaction to hearing it for the first time is "that's too hard, I don't want to do that", then maybe you should go work on your carpentry skills.
gcc implements the C++ ABI Intel specified for IA64 (perhaps the best thing to come out of the Itanium era) for a bunch of years now, which is generally viewed as sane and also followed by other modern C++ compilers, e.g. clang.
"Isn't that actually illegal to ask as part of a job interview?"

I was never asked about children during a formal job interview, but instead as an intern during a conversation about whether to hire me on a more permanent basis.
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Certainly a level of hypocrisy is present in all human beings but doctors smoking seems to be a bit out of place with the rest. Wouldn't regularly committing a crime in your day-to-day life preclude you from also being an effective police officer? That is, a doctor smoking doesn't have any real repercussions other than that they're not following their own advice. The law enforcement officer, however, violating the law seems to be not disobeying his own advice, but disobeying the rules that we as society have set forth. In effect, his actions impact his ability to act as an enforcer of the law. The doctor simply gives advice, the patient can always choose to ignore it with no external repercussions. By committing crimes, it seems that the officer is actually negligent in his duties and unfit for holding his office.

By the way, this isn't a statement about the occurrence, merely a statement about what ought to be (i.e., is vs. ought). If you were simply saying that it's not uncommon for humans to be hypocritical, I completely agree with that.
Note that you entirely ignore my actual point, which is that you have taken a discussion about sexism and male privilege and tried to make it about you and your concerns as a guy. And that your behavior is common enough that somebody took the time to include it in a guide of lame responses to discussions of privilege. Do you see what's wrong with that?

I don't subscribe to the view that bringing female privilege into a discussion about male privilege is somehow off limits. It's the reverse side of the same coin. If women are victims because of male privilege, than men are victims because of female privilege. You cannot examine one without the other. I too can publish a guide saying that anyone that makes obvious arguments against my reasoning is "lame", but that does not make it so. It is simply a tactic to steer the discussion and prevent the other side from ever being explored.

Refusing to examine both sides of an issue is narrow. Shouting down anyone that dares examine the flip side with soft-minded reasoning is pathetic. It is evidence of a weak argument, which is characteristic of feminism. This faulty logic is how we have arrived at female-only health clubs while women were suing and legislating male-only golf clubs out of existence.
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Yes! College is also about learning to work together, learning to form opinions and learning that there are many different opinions out there.
Slow compared to what? Numpy (or equivalent) or optimized fortran?
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What they cut here was JavaFX Script, in favour of a Java API that can be used from any of the JVM languages. As http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracle-discontinue-javafx points out, this makes it more like Apache Pivot.
These are pretty helpful, especially for those of us who aren’t designers or don’t have them at beck and call. Favicons are a good example, as well as the little progress spinners.
I liked that too. That is the dominant factor here. In the first example the four arrays blow away 4 lines of the cache none of them stay resident, in the second example two of the four arrays stay in cache during the copy. The effects can be quite large.

At Network Appliance there is a guy there who understands cache effects inside and out. File systems it turns our are particularly sensitive to them because 'pointer chasing' (the essence of file system traversal) is often a very cache expensive event.
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On the very few occasions I go out in groups large enough to make getting a round in difficult, we'll either go separate, break into smaller rounds, or just put a certain amount into the kitty at the start of the night.

Plus, in a large round, who can ever remember what everyone ordered and put it into an app?

Nice looking and all that, but there's no problem here to be solved by an app.
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I don't think they are making it that much better. They are making it nice looking.

They charge a ridiculous rate? 2.75% for swiped and 3.5% for virtual terminal. That is more than double what typical rates go for swiped and cnp transactions.

So the more volume you do the more you lose to them, for what, a fancy card swiper? I get it maybe if you are a small mobile vendor at a place with no connectivity, but once you have a brick and mortar I think you are probably better off doing a regular setup since those percentages eat into your margins.
Those are used for hacking, though, or for more advanced usage. The syntax is to discourage trivial use.
Does Zuckerberg disagree that the effect would be something like this?
I think your core assumption - that "US citizens are always in the know - is optimistic (here's a survey to whet your thinking - http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/). I think most Americans reading this site are, but we're not exactly a majority. There's a whole lot of people who don't live in the top-thirty cities in the country and don't have the time to spend a few hours a day reading up on politics. And even those who do, certainly don't have the background to have an informed opinion on everything that Government deals with. To pick an example at random, could you deliver informed comments and votes on issues relating to the work of the Bureau of Land Management in southern Utah, and how their grazing policies affect farmers? I know I couldn't.

The bottom line is that governing is hard, and doing is adequately requires a lot of knowledge about a lot of different things. Pick the Senate committee with the least-interesting sounding name - for me, that'd be the Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation or the Joint Committee on Printing - and try and watch a video feed of it in session for a few hours...the amount of things they have to deal with is amazingly broad, and way beyond the ability of any one person to capture (hence the importance of having a class of professional political staffers).

It's a similar reason why I'm in favor - generally - of lobbying. Is the way it's done now right? Not at all. But is there room in a well-run government for external subject matter experts with agendas? Certainly.

Lastly, I just don't think direct democracy works especially well. Check out California for the canonical example of what happens when you let people vote on complex issues in isolation of one another, with the information dumbed-down to target people who are willing to only budget an hour of their time per week on thinking about politics. Complex issues with national and international repercussions should be debated and decided by people who can study them in-depth and who represent a cross-section of the population, as opposed to those with the economic freedom to pick one or two to become involved with - I'm not saying that we have this now, but it's more what we need than a platform where OWS/Tea Party crowds can overwhelm a web vote on something.
No reason why you couldn't that I can see. If you have Android or Linux drivers for it (ARM). I found (find? since I still have it) pretty slow with respect to UI actions and so its not something I could adopt as an everyday tablet but the keyboard thing was pretty cool (and still is). However with the keyboard attached its effectively an ARM based laptop.
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I ran these tests using Python 2.2.1 on a 433MHz PII Celeron under FreeBSD 4.9.

Hmm. I assume that the methods discussed in the link are should still be valid for Python 3.x?
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No, that's specificity (an entirely different beast, and one that can be considerably harder to work with). Inheritance would be styles for a P tag applying to a child I tag.
Research is incredibly important. It focuses on creating knowledge, even in areas that aren't currently profitable.

Without research, a university is little more than a larger version of high school. Research was by far the most challenging and rewarding portion of my college education, and I cannot fathom why anyone would want to end research.
return ''.join(`num` for num in xrange(loop_count))

is better than

return ''.join([`num` for num in xrange(loop_count)])
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Do you go out and drink much? Seems nice but in the night life the last thing people are going to be doing is using an app to find out the cost of the drinks, then adding them in. Understand its hard enough to get a drink in crowded bars, it may help with costs, but that person may look like a cheapass with his little app. _Hey everyone my app says I didnt drink those beers and its off 50 cents, can I have the costs again to every drink i bought to I can add them into my app..... If I didnt buy a certain drink I just tell the waiter, I didnt drink that and they take it off.