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Ask HN: Place to hack in Barcelona
Hi fellow HNers,

as i will spend a couple of days in Barcelona next week, I was wondering if anyone here who is from that area has a suggestion were i could sit down during the day and get some work done. Desks at Coworking spaces seem to be a bit on the expensive side (30 EUR per day) and i find Cafes to distracting, so maybe there is some cool public place with free wifi ?
Doesnt necessarily have to be free but 30 EUR per day is too much ;)

TA in advance
I use this to track the ships my sister works on. Awesome resource :)
I think open source makes a lot of sense for research. I'm actually surprised researchers don't publish that much source code.
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I know, but I was thinking they are going to port NaCl to Android to make their games cross-platform.
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We already have Paver[1] in this space. It has task dependencies, can replace distutils, is used at Mozilla.

[1] http://paver.github.com/paver/
The text-shadow trick is really clever. I think a "progressive" version could be pretty cool. Just tried throwing that together real quick by changing the blur radius in 0.5px increment. Needs some fine tuning (shadow color perhaps), but you get the idea: https://img.skitch.com/20120309-c323134j8wm7nc34pudf9r2nri.p...
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Well in that case I'm quite honored to be in the same category as Knuth regardless of what category that might be. :)
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What are the classes of problems that interest you? What is the standing of C++ in the communities involved in solving these problems? For example, if you are interested in HPC, graphics programming or systems programming, and would like to pursue these areas professionally, then not knowing C++ may pose a problem.
It's an insightful explanation - the structure of funds, expectations of LPs, common practices in the industry, and reputation concerns lead to some incentives that are logical for a VC to follow, but perhaps inoptimum.
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Likewise on an Android. Made for difficult reading.
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Scattered thoughts:

Nice idea. I stuck with Phonegap in the past, because I cared more about portability (including desktop/open web HTML) than features or profits for my little Set playalike game 3qual.

Which has a larger audience for games that fit the limitations (low power 2-D?): Java plus HTML5 plus Flash plus Android, or iOS? Or Windows/Metro?

If Google is serious about growing the N in playN, integrate with phonegap or equivalent to get onto iPhone and Windows Mobile too.

Does the GWT/Java replace HTML/JS/CSS (which would be a step backwards IMO) or host HTML/etc for UI? Or developer's choice?
Oracle is written in C.
Looks OK but I liked the other one better :(. I can quite pinpoint what is wrong but I was very confused when the interface suddenly changed (I was actively browsing my dropbox when it happened), it felt as somehow the page didn't complete loading or that I was looking at a mobile version of the website.

One thing that did specifically irk me is that I could no longer see the file sizes of the different files. As someone who occasionally needs to micromanage certain files to save up space that was disappointing.
A cynic would say that's by design.
I don't immediately see why it would be putting arbitrary data in front of the vtable unless it's done by a person. Do you have any ideas?
> Being able to have non-techies run Fabric tasks is definitely a goal that's passed me fleetingly in the night.

Isn't that equipping monkeys with guns? We all know what happens when you do that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AabGdnTxqD0
The text:

From	Linus Torvalds <>
Date	Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:40:26 -0800
Subject	Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
> Keeping compatibility is easy enough that it looks like it is worth
> doing, but maintaining 30+ years of backwards compatibility

Stop right there.

This is *not* about some arbitrary "30-year backwards compatibility".

This is about your patch BREAKING EXISTING BINARIES.

So stop the f*&^ing around already. The patch was shown to be broken,
stop making excuses, and stop blathering.

End of story. Binary compatibility is more important than *any* of
your patches. If you continue to argue anything else or making
excuses, I'm going to ask people to just ignore your patches entirely.

Seriously. Binary compatibility is *so* important that I do not want
to have anything to do with kernel developers who don't understand
that importance. If you continue to pooh-pooh the issue, you only show
yourself to be unreliable. Don't do it.

Dammit, I'm continually surprised by the *idiots* out there that don't
understand that binary compatibility is one of the absolute top
priorities. The *only* reason for an OS kernel existing in the first
place is to serve user-space. The kernel has no relevance on its own.
Breaking existing binaries - and then not acknowledging how horribly
bad that was - is just about the *worst* offense any kernel developer
can do.

Because that shows that they don't understand what the whole *point*
of the kernel was after all. We're not masturbating around with some
research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole
and only point was to make a *usable* system. It's why it's not some
crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.

Really.

Linus
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I understand it's not for every purpose (and I have no stake in if you use it or not), but it can be metaprogrammed and extended with C. I'm not really a programmer in my day job though, I use it mainly for automation of things I don't want to do by hand.
It is the startup-as-job interview. Technical success (at least as an "artist portfolio" for engineers), but business failure (relative to the rather high standard of a Facebook engineer income, and which wouldn't necessarily be failure in any other context! The only losers are paying customers and investors.)

I wonder how investors feel about aquihires like this. Do they structure term sheets to guarantee a payout if the founders abandon ship for a payday at a new job?
Perhaps they use some kind of right-to-left fastcall convention. Or maybe they are just unconventional, putting "this" at the end of the parameter list, hence ending up in different registers or the stack depending on the number of arguments?
And link to editor: http://adityab.github.com/Awwation/svg-editor.html
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1) It's spelled iPad.
2) It's not officially called iPad 3, just 'the new iPad'.
Interesting, but at this stage the only functionality it provides is tasks discovery and argument passing.

What I would like to see is some facility to aid with writing meaningful tasks that execute system utilities or perform work on remote servers over ssh.

The Web API is also a nice concept, but I would prefer a control panel over Fabric-like tool rather than a dependency that I have to install on every target host.
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Yes, Go suffers from this, and badly too since its GC has to stop all threads due to data sharing. Rust fares better here, since its GC is per-thread.
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With something like friendfeed there may be IP issues that may force a buyout, but what about cases (like TeachStreet/Amazon) where the acquirer may prefer to just hire and pay the engineering / management talent, and not pay a chunk to the investors? Do investors have any recourse? Will they change the way they write term sheets to protect themselves in the future
I think innovation is baked into your assumption, which doesn't necessarily hold true.

On a separate note Video games are some of the best laboratories we have to allow us to test economics - and iirc papers have been done to test and learn from these environments. I doubt I can dig any up, if I can, I will post it.
Startup world, Y U SUCK AT MOTIVATE?
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Oh, I understand that. The "search" feature of reddit is just so underwhelming that it doesn't even really feel like a feature. It feels like it's just a temporary kludge.

External sites are so much more useful it's crazy. Google lets me search comments and I can search in subreddits using "site:reddit.com/r/subname foo". Tineye + Karmadecay lets me even search for threads about an image or gif.
The site is down, the content is (at least for me) not available in google cache, so I suppose it's the same for others as well.

And yet it's the top story on HN right now. When do we start giving tl;dr's for the headlines?

[EDIT] managed to find a mirror. This mail in the thread gives a bit more context: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1203.1/00446....
Hah. I came here to post, "This makes far too much sense, are we sure Congress really passed this?"
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I'm not convinced that we are a vocal minority when it comes to piracy. I think that many, many people act in the way described in his post. And that more do so every day.
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Up here (and since you posted 0minutes ago, I imagine a refresh or two would fix it for you)
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Copy/paste from a reddit comment mirroring the content:

From Linus Torvalds <> Date Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:40:26 -0800 Subject Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com wrote:

Keeping compatibility is easy enough that it looks like it is worth doing, but maintaining 30+ years of backwards compatibility

Stop right there.

This is not about some arbitrary "30-year backwards compatibility".

This is about your patch BREAKING EXISTING BINARIES.

So stop the f*&ing around already. The patch was shown to be broken, stop making excuses, and stop blathering.

End of story. Binary compatibility is more important than any of your patches. If you continue to argue anything else or making excuses, I'm going to ask people to just ignore your patches entirely.

Seriously. Binary compatibility is so important that I do not want to have anything to do with kernel developers who don't understand that importance. If you continue to pooh-pooh the issue, you only show yourself to be unreliable. Don't do it.

Dammit, I'm continually surprised by the idiots out there that don't understand that binary compatibility is one of the absolute top priorities. The only reason for an OS kernel existing in the first place is to serve user-space. The kernel has no relevance on its own. Breaking existing binaries - and then not acknowledging how horribly bad that was - is just about the worst offense any kernel developer can do.

Because that shows that they don't understand what the whole point of the kernel was after all. We're not masturbating around with some research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole and only point was to make a usable system. It's why it's not some crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.

Really.

Linus
So about $5k then? That is an incredibly cheap ad buy.
What it reads:

*
From	Linus Torvalds <>
Date	Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:40:26 -0800
Subject	Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
> Keeping compatibility is easy enough that it looks like it is worth
> doing, but maintaining 30+ years of backwards compatibility

Stop right there.

This is not about some arbitrary "30-year backwards compatibility".

This is about your patch BREAKING EXISTING BINARIES.

So stop the f&^ing around already. The patch was shown to be broken,
stop making excuses, and stop blathering.

End of story. Binary compatibility is more important than any* of
your patches. If you continue to argue anything else or making
excuses, I'm going to ask people to just ignore your patches entirely.

Seriously. Binary compatibility is so important that I do not want
to have anything to do with kernel developers who don't understand
that importance. If you continue to pooh-pooh the issue, you only show
yourself to be unreliable. Don't do it.

Dammit, I'm continually surprised by the idiots out there that don't
understand that binary compatibility is one of the absolute top
priorities. The only reason for an OS kernel existing in the first
place is to serve user-space. The kernel has no relevance on its own.
Breaking existing binaries - and then not acknowledging how horribly
bad that was - is just about the worst offense any kernel developer
can do.

Because that shows that they don't understand what the whole point
of the kernel was after all. We're not masturbating around with some
research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole
and only point was to make a usable system. It's why it's not some
crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.

Really.

Linus
Is this the same? http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1203.1/00491....
Read some hacker/cracker zines from the late 80's/early 90's (Phrack, 2600, etc being the well known ones) and you'll quickly gain a deep perspective on the pace of computing/IT security advancement over the decades. Stuxnet and Duqu will suddenly appear to be a minor revisions of 20 year old technology/techniques. You'll see code for polymorphic engines written in TurboPascal suddenly break out into obscured x86 assembler interrupt handlers. Detailed analysis of reverse engineering efforts against "packed" code on foreign and obscure architectures. And the word "cyber" used in all seriousness.

It is quite amusing to see how many old ideas from the dawn of computing have been reinvented multiple times over the years.
wait, it's back up. but yeah, this is a mirror.
Angry Birds in Space, a win for popularizing understanding physics, but a loss for understanding biology.
It does Flash, and you can still deploy AIR apps on iOS, so I assume this is targetting iOS too.
... more of a Lambda Knight writing his own lisp ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Lambda_Calculus
you can enable showdead, bravura posted the whole content, but the comment is dead. Not sure why

edit: also ttt_ and father posted it and got auto killed.
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Linus has it.
It seems like only yesterday Wine 1.0 was released!

Well, it was 1360 yesterdays: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=220164
Big Content will never get on board with this, but independent content creators are beginning to figure it out (Louis C.K., Jim Gaffigan). As it becomes cheaper and cheaper to self-distribute, more artists will be able to cut out the corporate middle men and make more money while lowering prices.
On the other hand, that was 769 days ago.

Edit: Just realized you might be pointing this out to help the interested reader, I first assumed you were reprimanding for reposting.
We must have different goals for our choice of indentation style: my goal is to minimize lines of code while preserving readability.

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initially detracts from readability, but in my experience with the new style, readability goes back up to very close to where it was as I get used to the new style.)
Mirror of text from his email (Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) is under heavy load):

From Linus Torvalds <> Date Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:40:26 -0800 Subject Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com wrote:

> Keeping compatibility is easy enough that it looks like it is worth doing, but maintaining 30+ years of backwards compatibility

Stop right there.

This is not about some arbitrary "30-year backwards compatibility".

This is about your patch BREAKING EXISTING BINARIES.

So stop the f*&ing around already. The patch was shown to be broken, stop making excuses, and stop blathering.

End of story. Binary compatibility is more important than any of your patches. If you continue to argue anything else or making excuses, I'm going to ask people to just ignore your patches entirely.

Seriously. Binary compatibility is so important that I do not want to have anything to do with kernel developers who don't understand that importance. If you continue to pooh-pooh the issue, you only show yourself to be unreliable. Don't do it.

Dammit, I'm continually surprised by the idiots out there that don't understand that binary compatibility is one of the absolute top priorities. The only reason for an OS kernel existing in the first place is to serve user-space. The kernel has no relevance on its own. Breaking existing binaries - and then not acknowledging how horribly bad that was - is just about the worst offense any kernel developer can do.

Because that shows that they don't understand what the whole point of the kernel was after all. We're not masturbating around with some research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole and only point was to make a usable system. It's why it's not some crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.

Really.

Linus
Yes, lemming's comment is sarcastic.
> preventing the industry from marketing space-based games not making physicists laugh

I don't hear anyone laughing.

:-D
I reckon that "drug induced microkernel" was a stab at Tanenbaum :-)
True, at least geeks generally have specific qualms with the content industries like DRM etc and most of us believe that there needs to be some sustainable way of financing these works.

For most people the attitude is closer to "I can get it for free so I'll take it shrug"
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Yes, let's care about sound in space. Because the rest of Star Wars et al is completely true to the laws of physics.
He didnt create a market - left to normal dynamics in video games, the resources would have been distributed normally, probably more efficiently on average as well.

Check WoW out for example - the analysis on the spreads, ideal prices to sell ores, gold, are at OCD levels of accuracy.

Addons scan the auction house for undervalued goods, undertake pricing strategies, hold historical data on those goods and allow people to know whether an item is under or over valued.

Websites are dedicated to identifying prices across all the servers and that leads to people doing cross server arbitrage.

He didn't improve the market, he just made a monopoly. A pretty cool one at that.
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Does this freedom extend to buying and selling shares on secondary markets, or only for fundraising.

Imagine the fun of manipulating competition by heavy trading in secondary market shares of tiny companies...
People are doing this - iirc the economist who did research on everquest for a lark, realized that the ingame economy was actually outperforming some third world countries.

Other research has continued on this as well - pretty sure game theory systems have been tested here.

Its always been a hope of mine that at some point, blizzard open sources their trading and economy data for people in the academic community.

The best labs to test human group behavior to changing incentives is probably video games. They've already established that in a world where everyone is created equal, you end up with only a small fraction cornering most of the resources/gold.
I love Instapaper. It was one of the first apps I got for the iPhone and its got a permanent place on my iPad dock.

I think Readability could be the best thing that happened for users of Instapaper.

The competition is forcing him to do things he wouldn't have done earlier.
Apart from fonts issue he addresses here, he also recently upgraded the bookmarklet to support paging - a pretty big feature he had put off with justification for some time now (http://www.marco.org/2011/07/19/siracusa-multipage)
Geeks tend to have more philosophical differences with things like DRM.

But real people get annoyed with them the first time it hits them (like UBISofts DRM servers going down, or realising they can't take their Kindle books to a different book reader).
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It was originally shown off as ForPlay at Google I/O '11. Here is a video of the talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sbusEUz5w

I'm really glad they changed the framework name too =D
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This is a wonderful apologia for the needy/homely lifestyle... conserving energy for something important.

And the flipside of course: pity on the extravagant, wild, dress up and party lifestyle: a way to comfort yourself if you don't have anything deeply rewarding to do.
Ahead of the curve? Other Lisps stopped using commas half a century ago.
He may well have a point, but from the wording on that page he appears to be riding it out rather than jumping ship.

That's pretty lax, IMHO. People/companies who don't care about you will mess you around as much as you let them - there's a balance to be had between the one-off hassle of ditching a problem supplier and the ongoing hassle caused by putting up with them. For something as important as your site being reachable, it's a no-brainer.

[copy-pasted note: Yes, I know I'm hell-banned. I'm quite happy ranting at the tiny minority who read all comments. It's more for my benefit anyway. I should probably blog.]