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You guys don't really know him. He is humble ... you literally see him walking around campus grabbing lunch at Bytes cafe etc. I walked into his office once and chatted with him one or twice -- only recently found out he had made any money. Secondly, I don't know if preventing people from receiving exorbitant amounts of money they did nothing to earn is "screwing them" ... it might in fact be really good for them.
Not having medical treatment and not having access to education are very real third world problems.

Despite what the media show in their humanitarian segments, the third world is vast, and third world problems are not just of the kind: no access to water, famine and/or civil war.
> Where is your blog at?

I don't have a blog yet, I was thinking of opening a blog and then write those posts... :)
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Because Wordpress is an awesome blogging platform?
I'm also a "so-proud rails-guy", and only recently switched from Wordpress to static site generated with Jekyll.
That's good too, but you have to have some way to tame big entities, like mega-corps, that have much more power than any independent government.

For example, mega-corp says to the citizens of indi-govr1: "hey, guys, you give me 100% tax break, and the ability to use materials bad for the environment in my factory, or I take my business in another indi-govr".

Without some framework so that such things cannot happen in ANY indi-govr, you are at the mercy of mega-corps...
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What the? If you write it down, it's a bad password. Make it a pass phrase, make it long. And possibly store it in an encrypted password database, protected by a master pass phrase.
Yes.

But there is nothing like those in programming, math, painting, etc.

And even if it where, goto wouldn't be one of them.
I have the same concern but I'm sure a lot of Ubuntu developer are heavy Emacs users, they must have worked out a way to conciliate the two.
One thing that might have saved the Titanic would have been to steer directly into the iceberg, bow-on. That way, only one compartment (the front one) would have been damaged), allowing it to stay afloat.
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You seem to be saying: "be peaceful". That is all well and good, but it is all theory, not very practical. It is like if you want to be happy, try to be happy. It is a cyclical argument.

I'm sorry to be bit critical here, but your comment sounded slightly as a self-help type of advice (which sounds very good but doesn't usually work -- it is addicting but didn't help a lot of people I know). What would really help someone are some concrete, practical steps.

If person knew how to be peaceful, happy, content, wouldn't s/he already be peaceful, happy and content?
Ah, Bitcoin. Security amateur hour. Again.

Seriously, trusting ~$200 000 to the security of a general-purpose VPS provider? With no failsafes of any kind? Ever notice how real banks don't do that? Even if you don't want to build your own data center, you could at least chat with http://www.thebunker.net/colocation/ or another properly-paranoid data center.

At least these guys didn't leave all their Bitcoins on this machine...
"software applications are not so often interested in in-database aggregation"

Applications that used to be desktops apps are now moving to the web, and these "cloud applications" are prime use-cases for NoSQL. Apps like Gmail, Google Docs, Dropbox are cases where a NoSQL might be a better fit than SQL, the same way Word.exe doesn't use SQL internally, instead it uses linked lists and hashmaps [1].

"In my experience this is what 99% of business support apps are doing."

Business apps are the original, killer use-case for SQL, and here NoSQL makes less sense, I agree.

[1] Some apps like Firefox started using SQLite for local storage, a technical decision I don't agree with.
There is time for everything in the life we are living today. Its a life issue and we all are given chances in life. Its not once a sinner always a sinner.......we learn by our past mistakes. Its his chance.............
Some of them think hhhungry sounds too muscular for them...they suggest us to name the product as cute as "Instagram".
I can only sympathize, I'm on the end of a 3-year product development cycle myself and it hasn't always been easy.

Some tips from my own experience:

1. Focus more on all the positive things that will happen when you succeed than thinking of all the bad things that will happen if you dont. It's easy to imagine all kinds of worst case scenarios, especially when your plagued by a a little doubt. Try to have faith and power through

2. Exercise! Trite as it might sound exercise is really important for mental well being and can lift your spirits if you're feeling down

3. Surround yourself with people that give you energy. Now I'm not saying you should only socialize with sycophants and yay-sayers but some people can be a real drain on a persons motivation.

4. Embrace "the fear". So things are hard, you're not sure you going succeed. On the other hand, you can probably look back at similar times in your life which now seems like exciting learning experiences. Realize that you're in the middle of one of those and chose be excited about it.

4. Don't let other people bring you down. Those who says it can't be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it. Some good ideas are only evident in hindsight so don't listen too much to the naysayers.

5. Get some perspective, even if things can seem bad and insurmountable I'm sure we all can imagine people who do everything for the same oppurtunity or people with far worse problems.

6. Adopt an attitude of every mistake being an learning opportunity. Don't be angry at yourself for making them. Be glad that it didn't take you longer to find out your mistake and glad that youre wiser for it
Thanks zerop! we added your idea on http://www.facebook.com/questions/356536851036409
It's still the same. The new Start screen doesn't explicitly show a search box, but it'll start searching as soon as you type something.
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Nice share, thanks. Always easier to understand something with visualization.
Merci gbog! I added it on the website.
HardyLeug, thank you so much for your great ideas! I added on the facebook vote site. http://www.facebook.com/questions/356536851036409
> Clang might have been a gcc fork

I feel the most fundamental motivating factor for the llvm project was Clang.

The gcc code generator could be improved, but is fundamentally usable for all things it needs to be used for. But the static analysis that Apple wants to do really is fundamentally incomparable with gcc.
First off I find the NoSQL term in itself very strange. How can you say anything intelligent about "everything that is not using SQL as a query language"? Its like talking about NoJava, instead of talking about Ruby.

Only it's not like that, because SQL is a well defined way of thinking at problems, not just a particular implementation of it.

So, NoSQL is like saying NonFunctional. Or NonImperative. Or NoRegister VMs, etc...
Ask HN: What's the best way to implement an OpenID server?
I want to implement an OpenID server in a Ruby on Rails marketplace app to provide single sign-on functionality, similar to the Google Apps marketplace. Just to be clear, I want to build a server, not a consumer of OpenID.

The official Ruby library is on Github - https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid, but there have been no recent commits there. The last one was 2 years ago. It's the same story with Python and PHP.

Is anyone using these libraries? Are there any actively maintained alternatives?

Edit: I've posted the question on SO, if you prefer to answer there - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9530904/whats-the-best-way-to-implement-an-openid-server-prererably-ruby
That pretty much nails it: "You quite simply can't change the world in a couple of years without doing more than most people do in a lifetime."

Don't be depressed boss. Cheer up, and fly out to Himalayas for a small break. You'll get all the peace of mind hereand flip be ready to flip back again with full swing!
Aside from all the issues that plague bitcoin, what would be a more secure way of 'touching' the wallet.dat file?

Keep in mind that:

1) IO is expensive

2) the file will not be encrypted

3) the file will/should not be hosted on the same machine

4) the file will be accessed in excess of 1,000,000 times a day; maybe more.

The only thing I can think to do is do all the transactions with imaginary bitcoins until the end of the day then, at night, push all the transfers; almost like banks do.
> from such causes beyond the direct and exclusive control of Linode.com.

But isn't access to the customer service portal under direct and exclusive control of Linode.com?
Looks great, but no FF 10 support?
"Surround yourself with beautiful women; it's hard to get sad around beautiful women."

If this was true there would be no depression in Hollywood. This is not the case.
Thanks kiwidrew!! I added it.
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It doesn't trigger the HUD if you type a key sequence but it's quite easy to activate it nonetheless.

Anyway, the command below is all that's needed to disable it.

gconftool-2 -s /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/show_hud -t string ''

You can also take the scenic route and use CCSM.
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makes the currency safe from inflation

There's an economic myth that inflexible supply of a commodity gives that commodity when treated as money, stability. It does not, as looking at this graph of US inflation/deflation time shows (1944 is when the dollar stopped being gold convertible):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Historical_Inflation_An...

A few points:

1. The money supply around a currency not only contains the mined/minted instances of that currency, but also liquid currency-denominated assets, like customer bank balances. So money supply is not necessarily bounded.

2. Inflation/deflation can be considered measures of the change in demand for the currency. In times of deflation, holding money is valuable because it becomes more valuable.

3. From the above graph, you see that during the gold standard, inflation tended to be mostly balanced out by deflation in the long-term, so long-term inflation was low. But in the short term, prices were very unstable as inflation jumped all over the place, and far more unstable even than fiat money in the past three turbulent years that we've seen.

4. From the point of view of an economy, inflation and deflation are not symmetric; because of the value of sitting on money during periods of deflation, savers do not tend to invest their money but move money from investments to cash savings. This undermines economic activity. But in an economy with a rich range of investment opportunities, moderate inflation does not penalise acquisition of money and does encourage investment.

If you want a non-performing store of value and don't mind big fluctuations in value, gold is there and we know how to secure gold rather well. Bitcoins are another non-performing store of value with far more drastic fluctuations in value, and securing it involves the double vulnerability: physical security of storage media, information security of computations involving bitcoins. And it is much easier to accidentally lose bitcoins than gold, pirate tales notwithstanding.
2 pages maximum. I'll forgive you if a recruiter has bastardised your CV when they send it on to me.

One of the things I was taught about CVs is don't put down your job responsibilities, put down what you achieved. For example, in my last role, I was responsible for debt recovery in the company so instead of saying:

"Managed a team of 4 paralegals with responsibility for debt recovery across the group"; I said:

"Created a debt recovery team of 4 paralegals and put in place processes to standardise debt recovery across group achieving X days reduction in DSO and recovered over £XXXXXX in legal costs and interest"
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I didn't see this in the post, but I can't help but stress the importance of exercise to help fight depression; I think it's better than any drug.
Whilst I'm sure all these suggestions may help to some extent, none of them address the underlying issues. This isn't something that can be cured by vitamin pills or bike rides. The only solution is a complete lifestyle change which the author admits he can't make at the minute.

My worry is that well meant suggestions like the above may sound flippant to someone in the depths of depression (I'd frankly be upset if I told someone I was depressed and they told me to get a massage). I guess the best short-term suggestion is just to talk to someone about it.

Good luck to both the poster and anyone else going through similar troubles.
You're thinking of a hardware security module (HSM). These are standard for e.g. certificate authorities. To the best of my knowledge, they have never been used by bitcoin outfits, but that is certainly possible, in principle.

Of course, sane people don't mix HSMs and VMs.
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Applications that used to be desktops apps are now moving to the web, and these "cloud applications" are prime use-cases for NoSQL. Apps like Gmail, Google Docs, Dropbox are cases where a NoSQL might be a better fit than SQL

I don't see anything in Gmail and Google Docs data usage needs that make NoSQL a better fit for them --only the need to scale with no sharing etc.

(OTOH Dropbox might fit the case, they only need some hierarchical store a la filesystem, with versioning).

the same way Word.exe doesn't use SQL internally, instead it uses linked lists and hashmaps

Yes, but Word.exe internally deals with just ONE document and it's data structures, does not manage metadata for many documents and does not have to provide aggregated info on them. That would be Windows Explorer, that manages many .docs. And that one, MS did have a plan to make more SQL-like.
That was my first thought, a perfectly decent piece of news turned into a fanboi rant

('cos of course we all know Apple follows existing standards rather than making their own up)
A guy once hacked the SecondLife auction system and they closed his account:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragg_v._Linden_Lab

I don't recall the details, but I think there was another case (in a Starwars MMO?) where the hacker "got a way with it" and build a house for the money. His buzzer plays the games theme-music :)
"People in SV are not afraid to fail. In fact, having failed before is considered a great quality. If you haven’t failed, you’re either inexperienced or suspicious. Startups try, fail, try again, pivot, fail and try again."

I think aside from maybe regulation, this is the biggest issue that Germany has and it's also the same one that Japan faces. The fear of failure and losing face. I'm not even sure that you can change this short of a few decades.
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Photoshop gives you much more than 20% over GIMP. Photoshop is light years ahead of anything else out there and only getting more so (see latest sneak of deblurring photos).
Depends. If you mean a tiling window manager for Win32 windows, then no -- old Windows apps continue to run as the always did, as overlapping windows within one desktop "space".

The new WinRT APIs and Metro UI offer some variations on tiling windows, however. (They don't support overlapping windows at all; apps are launched full-screen but can be tiled with others within some specific design limits.)
so easy said than done, I was once depressed and tears were the order of the day. I kept on convincing myself that i will be better but all was in vain. Everything you try, nothing comes out well, when you try to sleep all you see is the end of the world. Its rely a trying moment But thanks God I feel better now
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That was a very simple example to explain which problem do/end is trying to solve. We also need to consider how your changes would fit with if/else, if/elsif/else and other macros like case/switch.

That said, please join #elixir-lang on freenode and I would love to talk with you about your suggestions. Maybe we can figure out some improvements?
Stop drinking and any recreational drugs immediately.

You need to be having fun doing your startup or you won't be able to succeed and should do something else. So if you're spending most of your time writing code, try to make it fun again. If you can't then I recommend the following:

Go and get a physical job for a few months, preferably somewhere rural. It will remind you what real hard work is like, get you physically fit and give you the satisfaction of having achieved something tangible at the end of your day. Come back when you're ready.
Just did that, thanks for the suggestion.
Not yet. Hoping to change this situation around June/July this year.
I'm excited about people finally taking the leap and ditching HTML/CSS for web applications. It's ridiculous that we have to hack around a model that was designed for documents in order to write the kinds of interactive applications people expect today.

Take the browser and cut the cruft of HTML and CSS: what you're left with is a cross-platform JavaScript runtime with high quality graphics, audio, and networking libraries with a built in database. There's no reason such an environment couldn't compete with "native" applications.

Once WebGL and the audio APIs are supported on mobile devices with two or more cores things are going to get very fun.
A good idea there, okay lets what about those who are less fortunate to have internet connections. What do you suggest.
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The option exists since the earlier versions of Chrome for Mac but is disabled. Is this intentional? Is it a technical limitation? It is really strange to have a visible disabled option for almost two years now.
Read again: it says "$1 trillion to operate a fleet of 2,443 F-35 fighter jets over the next 50 years."

One F-35 does not cost a trillion, all 2443 planes over 50 years will cost 1 trillion, including the development cost.

Your headline sucks.
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I totally agree. That this is easier said than done goes without saying it. But trust me, meditation (Yoga) in ambiance of the Himalayas works wonders like a magical potion. Even Steve Jobs turned to the space of this place during his absolute lows.
What if the person had a $100,000 worth of cash in his coat pocket -- would you reimburse that, too?
I code and math all day in my job. Then I go home, lock and load (possibly crack open a beer), and code and math all evening a few days a week.
That sounds like something that only works in theory. Hitting it perfectly frontal is nearly impossible, and then it'll continue to rub on one of the sides after the first impact.

Also remember that much of the crew thought the Titanic was unsinkable (at least that's what popular books and movies suggest...), so an attempt to hit it frontally in order to provide more damage seems quite far off.
Actually, the articles by this one particular author are noticeably worse than others on the site.

Even aside from the slant, the headline trumpets over 200%, while a x2.5 speedup is actually a 150% improvement. And that is only the interpreter part. The article itself mentions that overall speedup is only "double digit" i.e. roughly 10-15%.
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Dear Rackspace: why are you so bloody expensive?
Saw this on ShopForCloud.com's blog, which seems to suggest that the Rackspace cloud is very expensive: http://blog.shopforcloud.com/2012/02/holy-cow-rackspace-uk-cloud-would-be.html

So I'm just wondering if anyone from HN uses the Rackspace cloud, and if so why?

This old HN post mentioned that performance was better on Rackspace, anyone experienced that? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2448812
Point 1 isn't really debatable in my opinion, you make work, you back it up and if someone deletes it off your server you just move it back on. Bitcoins by design don't allow you to recover them.

Point 2, back in the day when currency was backed by gold reserves would you have said the coins and notes people had were also worthless? As they are not 'sold' yet into gold?

Also I don't say a project on your disk has no value, a project on your disk has worth, the amount it's worth is how much someone will pay for it. Because the project on your disk doesn't really abide by any fixed standards you will probably find it's quite difficult to sell it.
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I'm not sure why we should restore these species, just like this insect. What is the driving force behind reintroducing them? Should we also reintroduce the mammoth when we have the tech to do so? Why?
Good advice. 2 pages is ideal but in some cases there is enough relevant info to warrant more than that, particularly if you've led a reasonably accomplished career.

An honest list of languages & tech and an honest appraisal of your skill level in each. (Don't include things like mongoDB because it's a hot-topic and you've read the wiki page.)

A list of your accomplishments.

A list of personal work that's relevant to your interests & chosen career path (always link to your work).

Lists are great, mainly because no-one see's the value in reading purple prose about how you are a dynamic and self-motivated individual.
I must be around that here in Germany, but my life quality is so insanely high that I can't complain. And if I become unemployed, go back to education, or become sick, it'll make zero difference to my living quality.
I wasn't asking for links to youtube. I was asking for (a) links to Kim explicitly requesting people to upload copyrighted material in bad faith and (b) the point at which the law states that asking for things to be uploaded in bad faith means you should be jailed/have a site taken down.

To the best of my knowledge many sites like Youtube actually go beyond the DMCA in trying to empower media companies to manage there content.
In the UK, if you fail, its pretty much game over. You get black listed and pretty much, that's the end of it. If you fail and go bankrupt, then set up again, you are almost seen as a fraudulent criminal. In the US, it seems to me that you can try and fail as much as you like, as long as you keep trying and don't get criminal. Trying seems to be enough to get some level of respect. It is absolutely one of the things the US does so much better than here in the UK, possibly all of Europe.

(I'm normally critical of the US, so its nice to take the opportunity to offer praise!!!)
Think about this, not every depression have medication. Walk into any drugstore with complains about depression. what will they recommend,"sedatives" to enable you to have good sleep. To my concern this is not the solution.