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Well, both.

I think that we need mind-blowing sudoku solvers where Alonzo-Church-oriented minds shows the more Turing-Machine-inclined fellas what kind of terseness you can achieve with functional programmming (simple problems are the best to explain features of a programming paradigm), and I also believe that we need webservers that go beyond 10k simultaneous connections while still being simple and maintanable and modular (i.e., real life functional programming).

I just find that that thread shows perfectly how the functional programming folks perceive themselves as not having a real killer application for what they believe is a paradigm that suits a certain class of problems like a glove. "Haskell is the language that everybody talks about [like I am doing here :-)], but nobody uses" said Simon Peyton-Jones. There are only a few industrial applications of FP, I am thinking of the trading firm Jane Street and the security company galois.com . It didn't take off yet, I'd say.

But I don't want this thread to replicate that troll -- i.e. becaming an Emacs Vs Vim kind of discussion. I just believe that the thread linked above well reflects a situation deeply rooted in the programming community.
I quite like the touchlight feature where you could shine light on your iPad camera at different angles to adjust lighting. 9.99 was a steal really, though I'm not getting it.
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That documentary showed pretty well that the MPAA is harsher on films with gay themes, but it wasn't convincing in other areas. There's a good reason that sexual content is more likely to lead to a stricter rating than violent content: parents believe their kids are more likely to emulate the sexual content. When I was a teenager, I, for one, copied a lot more sex moves from films I'd seen than I did karate moves.
I agree that some of these services can be tedious to use. I think that's part of the reason I'm curious about the potential benefits of dedicated use. In other words, are the specific numbers important enough to warrant the investment of time it takes to track your habits with such granularity?
There is also an American version of the story. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Kasherin...

I quiet like the feel of opening an Israeli bottle and drinking the first cup. Sad to say I have not found a similar Coca-Cola experience anywhere else in the world.
Maybe he had just that morning cut a larger check for some other cause he WAS interested in, and hence when you came asking he would have preferred not to give at all but he gave $10 because he respected you.
hasbara bla bla bla.
you read thrice as many anti Israel pieces then pro ones.
very few intelligent people comprehend the situation and knee jerk reactions are almost unanimously anti Israel
I think this is handled by bayesian logic.
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It's duck typing for sentience.
That's just so much effort to plant those things. Isn't that what Facebook and specially crafted SMS messages are for?

Now they can save money and go up another order of magnitude in the amount they track!

Would you be particularly concerned with wasting your time with low-tech lojacking when so many other avenues of surveillance are around the corner? Isn't it better to direct your efforts to be ahead of the curve?
NY police is snooping on people "just" for being Muslim[1] (I put Muslim in quotes just in case you think that in and of itself supicious)

So, you don't need to associate with the hypothetical drug barrons & foreign agents: you just need to know a Muslim.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/police-spying-new-y...
Perhaps, but there's a threshold below which it just isn't profitable to code apps. Contrary to other developers reports, I haven't found that my net revenue is independent of unit price. And, as much as I'd like to play the philanthrope, I'm not rich enough to work for free.
> If you really believe in what you're doing, wouldn't you want it to be accessible to as many people as possible?

I don't think this is a real issue. Small developers love their apps and want people to have them, but are seldom filthy rich.

The equivalent of luxury goods are the crappy EA Tetris apps that people buy on the App Store for the name alone, and I doubt anyone involved in their production believes in what they do.

On the other hand, I really miss student discounts on the Mac App Store :(
You don't get my point. The author claims that he does all that because he is an introvert which is not the case at all. Introverts do not try so hard to make themselves generally available. It's a choice.

There's a certain ring to being an introvert lately I think? Maybe it's the new chic? A revival of teenage angst? In any case call a spade a spade.
The PDF linked at the bottom is a little more palatable.

http://gav.brokentrain.net/projects/vimtips/vimtips.pdf
Man, this is gonna be a really tough sell.

The computer is where people do their real work.

The iPad is where people do casual consumption, games, or yes, perhaps some photography, but mostly instagram-level, meant for casual sharing. Instagram is perfect for this device. Quick, easy, looks good, simple to share.

This tablet version of Photoshop is both wayyyyyyy more complicated than instagram and wayyyyyyy less useful than the full Photoshop application.

As a power Photoshop user, I have no need nor desire for this product. I simply cannot imagine my wife, who has no image-editing skills, using this over instagram or an instagram-type app. So who is this for exactly?
Even last year when I spent a while in the top 5 in dev tools, I wasn't netting more than $25 per day.

I've had apps in the iPad "what's hot" music app list many times but they're still only bringing chicken scratch compared to what I could have made consulting instead. The handful of home runs you hear about obscure the fact that for 99% of us the best way to make money in the app store is to charge by the hour for writing them for someone else.
This is pretty much an ad for the author's software, but it got me thinking about the most defining factor of procrastination: importance of a task. How can one define what is really important?

For example, I've been working on a project for a few months, with hopes that it might become a steady source of income after it gains some traction. However, in the meantime I need to work as a freelancer, and I'm always facing the dilemma: which is more important for me. Is it my freelance work which pays for rent and alimony? Or is it working on my project which has a possibility (but not certainty in any way) of a large return in a future? Or is it spending time with my young sons? Or is it spending time with my friends, whom I don't have that many any more? Whatever I do of these things, it seems that other stuff is way important and I should be doing that instead...
I stand corrected, I hadn't thought about js requests
>If their contributions help everyone equally, their genes will not rise in frequency within the overall population, and hence, the mutations are failures, genetically speaking.

Mutations? Shuffling a deck of cards doesn't "mutate" any cards in the deck, but you will also never get the same sequence twice. I think you are mixing things up a bit about how our genes work from generation to generation.

I think that must just be an opinion. It falls short of observing everything relevant to what our genes, and what we as individuals and as species are "winning" for. It might work to say such a thing on the meta scale, but it just doesnt work to say that about someone whose DNA is undoubtedly fully represented in his/her extended family, et al. For instance, my opinion of what I would call a genetic failure would be one which persists continually without ever contributing to the greater human intellect.

It's also worth noting that we have little knowledge of genes anyways, but that might fall on deaf ears.

tl;dr Someone who is a long-living nobel prize winner is IMHO, a genetic success, regardless of procreation.
Previous submission with extensive discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624203
More people drink Pepsi. The minority who drink Coke, drink enough of it to sell more syrup than Pepsi.
I disagree. I was one of the “six active users” of Infogami before it was shuttered, so perhaps I have a unique perspective…

If Markdown were just a single language, then sure, it’d be nice to have a more precise specification, and a cleaner Word-of-God implementation. But with all the slightly different implementations that now exist, Markdown has become less a language and more a language family. It’s just not useful to talk about standardisation, because it isn’t possible now, and we can’t go back to 2005 when it might’ve been.

Besides, the Daring Fireball implementation is hairy only because it’s designed to “just work”. The handling of “special” cases is the very thing that made the original Markdown so user-friendly and tolerant to variation. That is what Markdown is all about, and why it has become so popular in the first place.

More than a language, it’s a culture—a culture of getting things done without worrying about all the details of formatting. And that, I think, is the point of the article.
Synergy+ could really use some more core developers. It's quite difficult targeting so many architectures at such a low level.
If somebody would write an article in nazi germany about how the jews dont get the food and the electricity they wanted than that would be an anti-nazi article. however that doesnt mean is annoying or factual wrong.
> It would seem that the tasted of Coke is affected as much by its branding as by its recipe!

There was an interesting experiment where some researchers put subjects inside an MRI machine, and then fed them two samples of cola. Sometimes both drinks were anonymous, and sometimes the drink was labelled as Pepsi or Coca-Cola, while the other was anonymous but actually the same drink. When the drinks were anonymous, people seemed to like both equally, but when told what the drinks were, people tended to prefer Coca-Cola over the anonymous drunk. Even more interestingly, when people were told they were drinking Coca-Cola, extra bits of their brain lit up, specifically memory and cognitive control, which suggests that when you think you're drinking Coca-Cola, it's not just the immediate sensation of drinking the coke that affects how much you enjoy it, but also the effect of all of that marketing that makes your brain think "Mmmm, Coca-Cola is delicious!"

http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/briefs/mentalhealth/h...
I would be more interested in his reasons to abandon Synergy.

>But all good things come to an end. Especially the free ones.

Why? For the past few years my desktop has been running very successfully on Open Source software. (With some blobs like flash that are just needed for legacy compatibility)
I don't see that changing in the near or far future.

> I have had to stop using Synergy. Setting up this free, open-source app is a black art,

I remember when I was trying synergy. I opened the manual and thought "that is quite complicated" and quickly found quicksynergy (there are probably other equally fit GUIs). It's a bit counter intuitive what IPs to put where but after that it's just putting an IP or hostname in on each PC and click a button...
That's much less "black magic" and didn't take me more than 5 minutes...

> and when CBS replaced my PC with a MacBook, giving me two-Mac setup (which, I admit, is extravagant), I couldn't get Synergy to work anymore.

So what was the error?

Of course that was not the point of the article. But he spent so much time explaining how he wouldn't buy the other application because it was too expensive I wondered why he didn't take that time to research why synergy didn't work or what GUI to use to make setting it up easy.
But I still wasn't ready to part with my $50 for this little utility when the price point in my head was $0. And when there's so much great stuff in the App Store for $4.99.

This is exactly the problem with the app store. People have an idea in their heads of what an app is worth, no matter how much work it took to produce it. Price is completely decoupled from cost and from sales volume. This is like saying a Lamborghini and a Kia should both cost $9999 because they're cars.

Ultimately this is going to lead to a ton of low quality junk in the market. A quick perusal of the top 50 selling apps suggests we're already there.
I find it not strange, but terrible. With the ratio of sales from iPad 2 : iPad 1, it is clear that Apple has little incentive to optimize their OS for older devices at all. I remember how the iPad seemed to FLY on iOS3.2, and now on iOS5, I have to start turning off features so the lag doesn't make me regret the purchase altogether.

The best thing we can say about Planned Obsolescence is that the devices we throw away get smaller every year.
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I am more inclined to think the customers may be right and this app is not worth $50 to them. There are competing free products, but also competing work flows like using Dropbox to move documents between your two laptops depending why you are using two. The guy has clearly thought about this a fair amount.

There is apparent oversupply of app developers who seem to think they will make money but the evidence is very few will build sustainable businesses while the rest just help Apple out by adding diversity.
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Show HN: I built a app for my mother
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Borivali railway station had 6 platforms in this manner physically.
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Then we got platform 7 and 8 which made it like this.
8 7 1
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So a person staying in Borivali East who would board a train going to platform 8 or platform 7 will have to walk the full length of 7 or 8 then climb steps or use subway all the way from 1 to 6. Certain people liked platform 7 and 8 as this was closer to catching a bus or rick or just close to their home. Either way it was both good and bad.

The problem was the railway folks started announcing this when the train arrives at Malad or Kandivali, two stations before Borivali, even though the schedule is really fixed and does not change frequently. My mother travels everyday from Borivali-Dadar-Borivali for her job. It would be very irritating for her to get down at Malad or Kandivali, if a particular train would go to platform 7 or 8, as she has health issues esp. knee joints. We are dealing with rush to first board a train and then a rush to get down one station before your destination, too much to ask for from a women approaching 50 in my opinion. So I built this for her. I built a mobile app for her nokia phone. I coded a quick html/js page which I transferred on her phone via usb cable and then just opened it in the browser. It does not need internet. Now she's using it and suggested that I should put this up as few more people might find it useful. So here it is Borivali platform 7 and 8 app. I hope you find it useful.
A big problem is the ecosystem too. Since most people either use Photoshop or a cracked Photoshop, it's almost impossible to replace it as the industry standard. I hope Adobe will keep improving their DRM to the point where cracks stops working, that'd be the best thing to ever happen to Paint.NET and GIMP.
Mobile will dramatically change the world because smart phones will be the first computer which billions of people around the world will own. It's largely just getting started because prices for entry level smart phones are dropping but still not quite cheap enough that they are within the reach of most people. This trend will be interesting for quite a long time and game changing apps will be both global and local. In other words, an app which is highly beneficial for farmers in x region of Africa may be unhelpful to farmers in x region of S. America because of differences in language, culture and the ways in which these economies run in each of these regions.
From my own 40 yo point of view, you can be energetic at 20, 40 or 60 all the same. The difference is of priorities. At 20, you may be eager to build your career; at 35, to take care of your children; etc. Every intelligent person can keep up with new stuff all the same; loving to learn is more a character than age thing.

Now an important differentiator may be health. You'll find more 60 yo in bad health than 20 yo, and bad health definitely take a huge toll on efficacy and dynamism.
I clicked reply so I could tell you why I disagreed with what you wrote. I take pride in my work but have not been too concerned with the clock. Your implication that this just means I don't care about the outcome felt like a slap in the face.

But then the more I thought, the more I realized you were right. Regardless of how much pride I take in my work and how much effort I put in, if I care about the outcome, I have to monitor my progress regularly. I have not been doing it for one of the most important projects of my life and thanks to you, I will start now.
And you are a sanctimonious twat.
You've obviously know very little about the motivation of Go then...
1. Read The Innovator's Dilemma.

2. Tablets are the future. If Adobe doesn't make a photoshop for the iPad, someone else will and Adobe will go out of business.
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"Israel is suppressing this technology..."
that statement exactly shows the problem with this post. this is a complex political problem that has nothing to do with the technology. in fact Israel has made huge investments in solar technology. you don't have to agree with Israeli politics. as an Israeli,I rarely do either, but this post is one in a long list of demonizing and biased posts that just make the situation worse for us left wing Israelis who genuinely want a solution
I was born in Amsterdam and didnt understand this conflict, after seeing numerous documentaries i have an understanding what is going on. Basically zionists believe they are the chosen ones and that all other are inferiour. They believe the land is destined to them. Whatever the UN says.
If you think about it this is a similar ideology than the naxis. And in fact the same methods are used. I recommend everybody to watch the documentaryovie '5 broken cameras'

http://newsterrorist.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/picture-compar...
I assume they are talking about garbage on the curb, where it is pretty well established that they can do this.
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That's not correct, there's a coca cola concentrate plant in Ireland, Singapore and many others around the world.
This is from 2006, 6 years ago. If you work at Google maybe you can say more about your experience.

But what I know for sure it's not like that necessarily anymore, since I talked to many people about their interviews at google and I know some googlers as well that confirmed what I said (which is the reason I wrote it).
Even when I talked to google myself, it was for an individual group, not the entire company (in my case, unlike my friends, it wasn't a software engineer position, though).

Also, and I can tell you this with 1000% certainty, even though they like to say sometimes the opposite, the people I know told me that Google instead has hired more commonly than you can think people that are sub-standard, it's not the normal usual thing, but it has indeed happened.

Also, the recruiters I met, had no clue about what a person with a certain specific Resume could have done in the company. They told me that they often decide whether or not to commit about trying to get a person interviewed based on if they believe they will get hired for a specific position (since that is how they get paid), not necessarily based on who they think is a good general candidate.

Now, I'm not saying that this is a rule, but even if you look at the positions posted now on the company website, they are so detailed and specific that it would make no sense to interview a person at the company level.

It can happen at the new grad level, but I doubt it happens on a common basis. I could be wrong, but I just speak by what I heard first hand.

Of course if with project you mean a specific individual project than I agree, but the company now it's rather big, there is many organizations and stuff that probably don't even know what the others do (still comments from Googlers). This is quite normal since Google can be compared to a campus, in any University nowadays you can be in the same department and do research in a field that is completely unknown to the person sitting next to you in the office since they might work on a different field and it takes years to actually start understanding something about it.
Sorry for flaming. But please watch the documentary I mentioned.
I am an introvert. When I moved in with my girlfriend, it was really difficult, because she couldn't understand I need some time alone, just using the laptop, tablet... But now we have both adapted to each others needs, and it works out pretty well. The biggest change for me is that I am now an early riser. Never was before for longer periods of time.
Your numbers seem to assume that being homosexual means you will have 0 children, which I doubt always is and has been the case.

I also wonder about the 10% figure.
You think you understand the conflict because...you watched a documentary on it? This is an incredibly complex situation. If you think you understand it without even reading the standard literature, then you are probably fooling yourself.
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Show HN: App for learning how to write Japanese
I'm a long time lurker that recently quit my job to work on my own projects, a lot due to the inspiration from Hacker News.

Now I have published my first serious project, an app for learning how to write Japanese characters. It's the app I always wanted but couldn't find when I was studying. It tries to be simple to use, you just start the quiz and go with the flow. There's no need to plan and manage your studies, and it uses spaced repetition for better retention.

There's a promo page with more details up at http://www.kanjibyhand.com.

It's only for Android so far. The free version includes hiragana and katakana:

https://market.android.com/details?id=se.tokotoko.android.kanabyhand

The paid version includes (a lot of) kanji:

https://market.android.com/details?id=se.tokotoko.android.kanjibyhand

I'd be grateful for any comments or ideas for how to market this app!
But he wanted the world to know that there was a Kira. His ambition was to be the God of the world. He could anonymously send instructions to the world to do what he wanted only if people knew there was a Kira.
Slightly off-topic, but the topic of the story made me think about GPS navigation devices. Not a big deal, but slightly annoying.
He also calls Lisp "unsafe", and "LISP". Not good signs.
> It complicates the system to have to maintain a balanced internal ecology; look at the probiotic yogurts out there to see how often it gets out of whack in the real world.

Probiotic yogurts are mostly marketing as far as any research I've seen in metagenomics. I'm unaware of any scientific evidence that eating Activa gives you anything more than expensive poop. However, legitimate medical probiotic treatments tend to be the result of mucking with gut flora, for example, in other ways, such as taking antibiotics (I'm thinking of stool transplants for C. diff which is a fairly simple, disgusting, and effective treatment). But my point is really, how much does it complicate the system because I don't think anyone is aware of a working alternative so this could be the simplest solution to get all of the functionality we need.
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