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It is quite unfortunate that OP is getting upvoted. He has hijacked the discussion by completely redefining yoga. Yoga might have meant all those spiritual aspects you've outlined, but as practised here in the USA and even in India, none of those aspects are even remotely brought to bear. I have been taught yoga formally in India both as a kid ( in most CBSE middle schools, you are auto-enrolled in 1 hour of yoga per week ) and as an adult. Swami Vivekananda was mentioned not even in passing.

> To understand Yoga in its essence I would advice you to read Swami Vivekananda's complete works.

Yeah and likewise to understand Computer Scienmce in its essence I would advice you to read D.E. Knuth's complete works and not profess to know any CS until you memorize each and every algorithm in TAOCP! You see how ridiculous that sounds ? That's the whole problem. Yoga a few centuries ago might have meant what you said, but as practised today, in the here and now, simply means acrobatic gym sessions with contortions paid for by your montly paycheck. Its unfortunate, but that's what it is.

Bringing in Kipling into this discussion is hugely ironic considering how much of a royal prick he was in his attitude towards Indians ( Kipling's transparently racist portrayals of Indian characters in Kim and Gunga Din, among others )

The Times article is about genuine medical risks posed by spinal twists and headstands, which are, unfortunately becoming more and more commonplace as sedentary officegoers frequent yoga studios to add some yoga to their fitness regimen. None of those people are remotely interested in karmayoga or nyanayoga - they just want to learn the asanas.

Asanas minus Yoga is not yoga.

But that's the reality of today. Learning shirasasana without learning its spiritual yogic root is akin to calling yourself a programmer and not knowing what a red-black tree is. But guess what, most programmers today don't know what a red-black tree is. That's sad, but its also a reality and we have to deal with reality as it exists, not based on Kipling's delusional rants. There are hundreds of actual people with actual broken ribs who desperately want to learn matsyasana and don't give a flying f--- who gautama buddha or ramakrishna paramahamsa or swami vivekananda was. That's just the way it is.
As someone who's been building major production applications on GAE for the last three years (and on traditional stacks for the decade prior), it's obvious that you haven't even cracked the manual.

GAE is not perfect but it's a much faster environment to develop on than IaaS services like EC2. I spend 100% of my time developing features and 0% of my time developing infrastructure. "DevOps" isn't even a job description in my present company.

It is true that there are occasionally some components (eg large memory indexes) that need to be "outsourced" to other parts of the cloud. It's trivial to do, but we judge each very carefully because of the added operational load.
What's up with the downvotes? I was just commenting that dreadnot uses twitter bootstrap.
Joel is heavily involved in StackOverflow.com and the whole StackExchange universe, so it's likely he has a good handle on support costs for hosted products. Fog Creek also offers a hosted version of FogBugz (free, I think, to students and open source developers) so that's more experience in support costs and issues.
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I'm generally against copyright infringement/intellectual property theft. I guess I was just trying to say I want more legal services like this.

You have some great points. I haven't had a chance to use spotify.
Learn you some Erlang is a web site, not an ebook, and apparently the author can't help us get it in PDF or kindle form for legal reasons. (http://learnyousomeerlang.com/faq) Yet he/she does hint that there is a kindle version out there. Here is what looks like the most likely candidate to me - I will try it out on the kindle later this afternoon. (https://github.com/igstan/learn-you-some-erlang-kindle#readm...)
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It's of concern to us because we like the parts of Iranian society you mention, and we'd like them to succeed. This action will most likely harm them.
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Ask HN: What if SOPA passes?
We've talked about how to stop SOPA from passing.

But what measures are you taking now to make sure that, even if it passes, you have access to an open Internet?

Will you use the Firefox alternate DNS plugins? Will you route your traffic over TOR? Have you archived TOR and its documentation in case you do need it?

What preparations should we, as a community, take to counteract SOPA? Should countermeasure software be stored in a private torrent tracker that won't likely be blocked?

Tell me your strategies for the worst case. What will you do if SOPA passes?
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I find Trello to be confusing at first because there are too many elements in the screen. Not to mention the real-time update kind of steal away your focus to "hey.. something just got updated in my screen"

PS: No, I did not downvote you. Although, reading the praise with Steve Jobs-like phrases (a.k.a typical marketer style talk, exaggerating a tiny thing as if they were the gold) tend to irk me a bit toward most North Americans.
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There is a race going on at the moment for the collaboration space. The likes of Asana.com & Do.com are attempting to solve similar problems. The rules look like this:

- make your product web based & free
- get users, worry about revenue later
- keep it horizontal as much as possible

Maybe this is all part of the new long term bottom up strategy for getting into Enterprises?

Get Enterprise users using your product, get them to bring it in the Enterprise door and further down the line find a way to monetize.

It will be interesting to see who comes out on top. I see a lot more innovation to come in this space.
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Paying member here. Its truly a wonderful service that I hope survives, despite these legal challenges. Their value for me is in their 'long tail' catalog, with lesser known or foreign bands.
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My guess is that the effort of blacklisting them is going to cost you far more than the false positives will. Not to mention a less swift experience for your users.

Unless of course you are the admin for http://www.faceboo.com/
One could buy them, but now that label would be pissing off all the rest and a liability. Unless they all bought a portion, but that will never happen.
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I'd rather have a Emacs on JavaScript; with a possibility to be run from the browser. (Yes I know, that'd mean rewriting everything. Not the end of the world, it'll be fun time.)
http://click-bloggers.blogspot.com/2009/07/6-free-ways-to-do...
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And we're all missing the point again. Libraries are about books. I go to libraries to borrow books, to read books and generally get access to books other than Dan Brown and Harry Potter. That stuff is more than adequately supplied by the market: if I want mass-market paperbacks, I can get them used on Amazon for a penny plus shipping, much less than the cost of a bus ticket/train ticket/driving to the library. But more obscure stuff, out-of-print stuff, that's the value of libraries. And giving free (well, subsidised/low-cost) access to everyone who wants that is the value of libraries.

I've got a Kindle. I use it as a place for storing personal documents, pretty much exclusively. Almost everything I read is not an e-book in any format. Almost everything on my bookshelves is not available as an e-book in any format.

The long tail of books are not e-books and probably won't be for a long time. The point of libraries is exactly to ensure there isn't an information divide in society. Science, philosophy, literature, history, languages: these shouldn't be the preserve of people who can afford to buy the books or attend college or jump through the hoops needed to access research libraries.

And it's all very well telling people to go use the Internet. What are they gonna do, look it up on Wikipedia? Fine, and where are the people who write Wikipedia going to get access to the books to write the Wikipedia articles? And what happens when they get to the end of the Wikipedia article and want to read more? It's the same with adult education: the government tell us that we need to become "lifelong learners" to survive in the current economy. How exactly are we to do that when adult education courses are closing and libraries are closing?

A working programmer friend of mine wanted to do A-level in mathematics. He could only find one place in London that offers an adults course. To get into universities, students are more and more expected to have read outside their curriculum. Getting rid of libraries makes it so only the rich kids can get access to the books. And the only answer we can give them: go buy a Kindle.

If education is the road to a better life, we sure as hell need to make sure the road is kept in good repair.
APD looks like it was abandoned in 2004.
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His support for this claim is that he predicted the rise of "Linux in the cloud"?
I think it's worth pointing out that physical yoga, much like any sort of physical exercise, can damage the body. Yet, if you're young and in good physical condition, it can strengthen your body a lot. The article has a strong point: lots of people shouldn't be doing these intense exercises.

I took three months to train in Shaolin Kung Fu, near the Shaolin Temple in China about two years back. I trained for 7-9 hours a day, 6 days a week. I ate over 5,000 calories a day, and ended up losing 16 pounds by the end (and I was decently fit to begin with).

The stretching was intense and almost made me cry, I cut myself with swords, bruised myself with meteor hammers, and even lashed my own flesh with whips (by mistake, of course). Yet, I easily doubled my explosive strength, multiplied my endurance by fifteen times, and even managed to learn to throw a sewing needle through glass.

Everything has a downside if you do it wrong, but you're not supposed to do it wrong.
Has anyone seen Teambox's beta? It looks very similar to Trello's UI. Who was first though?
I know. I already subscribed to the feed.
Syntax errors could use a bit of help. I know Ruby and haven't made an obvious error, so it'd be nice to see some kind of exception/description rather than "try again".
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Ask HN: Replacement for Dropbox / network drive? 
We're a 5 person startup and have been using dropbox for as a sort of adhoc file storage. Need something a bit more suited for professional purposes now. In the old days, we would have just got a company server and a set up a network drive. People have been suggesting Huddle or Sugarsync. Any opinions / comments / suggestions etc? Thanks! Dave
I tried this before, but the quoting is a nightmare.
Thats a really great question.

The main reason is because the other labels would still want to sue.

Now why can't they all just buy grooveshark together? Because we have anti-trust laws that prevent them from working together like that.

So why don't they just work with grooveshark to get the licensing deals they want and capitalize on the huge userbase? Because the labels see it in their best interest to keep this grey area dangerous to enter. If they struck up a deal with grooveshark more people might get into the game seeking to grab the music industry by the balls and that's not what the RIAA wants. They want a firm grasp on everyone elses.
I work in music, with a lot of indie labels and musicians, and for once the ENTIRE industry is inline on something. Grooveshark has been actively hostile to artists requesting their music be removed from the service, their terms are unfriendly and their staff is rude, and if even a fraction of the allegations against their management are true they should be held personally accountable.

Everyone in this industry understands playing fast and loose with regulations but Grooveshark repeatedly crossed the line and has made only hollow attempts at seeing artists compensated. For once this isn't RIAA greed, it's acceptable and appropriate action.
I totally like your simplistic design, the one that inside the Macbook Air on the picture. Just signed up with my email, waiting for invitation now.
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Well, Oracle is more prevalent in big enterprise. But if you look at the equations at the end of the article, a mysql/postgres DBA costs probably 80-90% of the Oracle DBA. The licensing costs are less, but the hardware cost for the big-iron and big-SAN to run the RDBMS is pretty much the same.
Check out Chromes web app store's game section. There are some amazing games being built with html5/js.
In many towns libraries serve as a default community center. I get daily emails with all of the events happening in my small town and I would say at least half of those are at the local library.

What you're saying is true, of course. But that over looks a great deal of value that libraries provide -- it's more than just bound paper on shelves.
Somewhat entertaining example:

A company I worked for briefly that services the UK had its sales team in Canada, and its customer service team in India. Not saying Indians are stupid of course, but labor is certainly cheaper there, as compared to Canada.
Maybe your Opera has an identity crisis, mine doesn't.
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you can use Divvy on Mac OS X. I use it for managing windows with the keyboard.
I didn't know that by programming, I was playing tennis.
I've gotten that one a few times, and I always write something that only contains the string 'Fizz' once and 'Buzz' once (i.e., doesn't say 'FizzBuzz' separately, just uses the same logic to print 'Fizz' and 'Buzz' both), because I figured that was partly the point; otherwise it would be "print 'Zarples' for both multiples". I've been told that it's the first time the interviewer saw it done that way, and now I see several replies here that also would take no modification to use 'Zarples' instead of 'FizzBuzz'.

No point to this, I guess, other than that even something as simplistic as this is open to interpretation.
And I'm still baffled that people like you are insisting that

a) this is a problem with piracy, and not - for the umpteenth time now - the brokenness of distribution as a business model in the face of a world where copying is virtually costless. It's not my problem if people still cling to it and are unwilling to adapt.

b) that copying something is stealing (or "ripping someone off"). It's stupid, it's wrong, and most of all it is dishonest. At least call it what it unfortunately is: copyright infringement. I have made it a personal rule to not take anyone serious who calls copying "stealing", as it shows either a total lack of understanding of the matter or deliberate deception.
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Nearly every epiphany comes with the help of other people -- either by direct instruction or observation.
I was reading 'Artifical Life' by Levey recently and after reading about reversible cellular automata I thought that might be an interesting way of doing encryption/compression of images. Take the source image as the result of the automation and move backwards until a simpler image results, in the case of compression.
he gives his feedback and says that he would pay for it. the article talks about not charging for trello until you have a large user base. it seems like good feedback from a user, so i'm not sure that i agree with you.
There is nothing stopping libraries from offering Kindle versions of eBooks. I work for the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System in the IT dept. and we do offer Kindle books. The problem, like every thing else, is that it costs money. The more proprietary eBook formats you have the higher the cost there is to stock another format for a particular book. Implementing Kindle support was also way more problematic then offering ePubs and audio books so not every library system will have the ability (or money) to do so...

Personally, I think it's not really the demise of the Public Library but more the demise of our society due to the lack of proper priorities.
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What if you just exchange regrets for not having tried for regrets for having tried?

I don't regret it a lot, it was only a year wasted and some good still came of it, but I regret going to grad school for my Master's. If I hadn't gone, I might have regretted that instead, but is that worse?
I don't get where the article makes this assumption:

"It's easy to see why. A grid with 7 clues cannot have a unique answer because the two missing digits can always be interchanged in any solution."

let's say these are your 7 clues:
(row 1)
123 456 7

the article suggests that IF there is a full solution with
123 456 789
then there is a full solution with
123 456 798

but what guarantees that the second (or first) of these 9 clues don't lead to an "impossible" scenario, so that only one of the two is actually possible to solve?

Maybe I am misunderstanding the article.

Turning to what you say:
"Suppose there is a unique 15-clue solution. Then add another clue by adding any number from the unique solution. The solution must still be unique (because it contains the 15 clues), so we now have a unique 16-clue solution, which is impossible."

Can you elaborate on why a unique 16-clue solution is impossible?
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Nice move if what they want is for all of Grooveshark users worldwide start downloading music again when they manage to shut it down.
I agree somewhat, but would shorten that to: "pay attention to the whys when you learn the hows."
Unfortunately, I have had some problems with Bloc's website every time I've tried to use it. This example took 3 minutes to load the initial page. Earlier today I was running through some Ruby code tutorials, and it got hung up on evaluating the code. Their site runs pretty quick, until it doesn't.

I don't know if it's just under heavy load every time I try to use it (admittedly only when it's on the front page of Hacker News, but it's seemingly always on the front page) or if I'm doing something wrong. Love the site, hate the performance.
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A bit off topic, but relevant to the suggestions in this post: a few of my friends are finding it more effective with Google to use a flat file structure rather than the highly nested folder trees that are usually recommended. Anyone have any thoughts/experience with this?
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Your comment doesn't respond to what he said. He said that without WIP limits, you don't have kanban, while you responded to a statement that kanban is only task boards plus WIP.

The two are not equivalent. It is as if I said that without polite discourse you don't have a productive debate, and someone else called me an idiot for claiming that good manners and threaded comments are all HN needs.

Automagic WIP limits may not be necessary for imlementing kanban, but that's a deign debate, not a what-is-kanban debate. You may have a good point about whether WIP limits are necessary for a good "implementing kanban" application.
Anybody else surprised Google hasn't used it's huge piles of cash to get exclusive content for it's TV offering?
I think you have great points but I don't believe they sufficiently support the doomsday freak-out I'm witnessing.

DNS blacklisting is already happening in the US and all over the world (ICE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_En... and DNSBL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSBL). I admit we are already on a slippery slope here with blacklisting, but I think most of your DNS comments could be attributed to failures in the design of DNS (and CDNs) themselves. If you want trust, security, and prevention from censorship (as I do too), DNS is not your answer. I hope namecoin better address these issues (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Namecoin).

If you are scared of censorship, don't rely on infrastructure that is owned by parties you don't trust.

SOPA supporters must know this will not stop piracy (the bill is contradictorily named, I know), but surely, it would minimize the piracy and counterfeiting that effects the non-tech-savvy American masses. And I truly believe that is their intent.

Personally, I don't think we should be legislating the Internet at all, but we've already started, and although future legislation on this slippery slope could be devastating, this bill seems to be fairly neutered. Good issues are being brought up with the discussion of SOPA, but SOPA itself is not the end of the internet.
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I was with him until he mentioned that this is included in a real library and is intended for use... Why would you ever use this in your scripts? Why not any other sane language with normal quoting rules?
I disagree. I think WIP really needs to be a built in concept of a kanban app. The thing about WIP is it points out bottle necks and problems in your process quickly and concisely. It's pretty common for teams to go over WIP, and do it willingly, to allow the red flag the system produces to point out to the rest of the team the problem.

If you have to mentally keep track of WIP, inside each team member's head, you lose pretty much all of that.
There have been several other HN threads on this topic, as well, if you (original poster) want to have a look for them.
After using it for a month our entire studio has switched over to Trello as our main form of data organization. It replaces Basecamp for clients, plots our marketing calendar, and gives an overview of every deliverable's stage of completion.

Every single day people say out loud, "I'm so glad for Trello.". It is a remarkable product that our team is madly in love with.
Unless Apple's writing a very lucrative check upfront, I fail to see how the EPL would go for this. Apple TV (or Google TV, or any other TV platform) still doesn't have anywhere the reach of good old-fashioned cable. I'd understand a steaming partnership, but full rights would be suicide on the EPL's part (though very profitable for Apple while it lasts)
For browser-based authentication I use lastpass.

For servers, encryption keys, or really anything I want to keep safe but available to myself, I use Emacs, Org-Mode with org-crypt, and Dropbox. Any Org-Mode header tagged with :crypt: will be encrypted against my gnupg key.