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> CoffeeScript won't solve the problem since it is still ultimately limited by Node.js' async libraries.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. .net 4.5 is coming out with an await and async keywords which will basically signal to the compiler that method should be re-written to an asynchronous. So for the example you gave, if the await keyword was available in coffeescript, you could just write:

await console.log(user.referrer.name);

And the coffeescript compiler could then re-write callback style.
Interestingly, the chat session where the name "ruby" was chosen has been saved for posterity: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... (and the HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2954764).
Yeah that's what I meant. Generate a new address for each payment.
The constitution, founders' philosophies, and other axiomatic ideas of government are a major part of how people are indoctrinated into the system throughout their schooling. Emphasizing a simple logical framework encourages them to identify with a fundamental soundness in the process despite the realities of the resulting utterly dysfunctional system. The constitution delusion continues in adulthood, with one generally either thinking that the "deviation" (ie outright contradiction) is necessary "interpretation" for the modern world OR thinking that constitutional law just isn't being followed hard enough, and as soon as the courts get around to making correct decisions we'll see some "real change". Modern day USG is clearly not bound by any sort of controlling law, document, or even the electoral process; but lacking any mechanism of change, cognitive dissonance is the only thing most people have.

(PS. Run through the Bill of Rights and count how many amendments could even possibly be in effect. I count three.)
Put options? On Bitcoins?? Who is going to be the counter party to those options?

The reason why options work is because there are clearinghouses that will guarantee the transaction. Without a regulated clearinghouse, you're subjecting yourself to counterparty risk, which as we discovered in 2008, is a significant risk especially during market crashes.
Conan O'Brien 'Resigns' as Mashable CEO
Did Facebook remove whatever page this was pointing to?
>> How about deciding what's best for now

What is best now is not necessarily what is best for everyone. The constitution prevents mob rule. Is a filter that allows changes at a very slow rate so that we do not screw ourselves or some other minority at the heat of the moment.
How would you change Samsung's Galaxy Nexus?
You can make an argument that we should be contemplating changing our constitution, but what I read you saying was: "How about you just do whatever you want, instead of trying to actually follow the law?"
Please go find those ten. I'll wait here.

Actually, you have to go find twenty, since I'll just add RIPA.

Sorry, thirty: Terrorism Act 2000, even predates the 9/11 hysteria.

No, forty: Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001

Fifty: Terrorism Act 2006

England still has an established church. I'll be nice and just count that as one, so... Sixty...

Not all of our rights are as respected as they should be, but if you had any actual knowledge of US history, you'd realize that without our written constitution, we would have ten repressive laws for every one in the UK. It is only thanks to that constitution and the powers of our courts that we have any remaining freedom at all.
Most of these lotteries date from the late 80s/early 90s and there isn't a lot of profit in updating them.

I went to some talks about the database design for the UK lottery where they admitted they didn't think it would be so popular and so hadn't really considered sharding.

They also were surprised that the number weren't uniformly distributed. They assumed numbers would be picked totally randomly while the first win was all numbers that could be birthdays and so there was an unusual number of winners and it took several days to work out how many.
Interesting newsstory. Dr Lustig was also features on Science Friday a few months ago -- http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201202172

One concern of the doctor's that's somewhat glossed over is how fructose, unlike other sugars, is metabolized in the liver. His gripe here is partly with the glut of sugar in our diet, and partly how all of the sugars in a food product are lumped together on the nutrition label as "sugar", with no distinction between the different molecules.
NT 3.5/3.51 was released prior to win95. It still had the old win3.11 look, but it had preemptive multitasking and protected virtual memory spaces.

I was excited about it as you were about os/2 apparently. And even as good as it's compatibility was it still didn't take off until winxp (3 versions later). So I think all the os/2 conspiracies need to be taken with a grain of salt when the slow NT adoption shows that os/2's biggest problem was probably corporate inertia.
Take an existing example Django demo app, and make it better. Change its look, add functionality, refactor it, change the back end, whatever "better" means to you at the moment.

Edit: added "demo."
There is some evidence that great memory comes at the cost of other functions like creativity. However, that may simply be because people with poor memory spend more time grasping at straws.
Why is this on HackerNews? It doesn't belong here at all. People whine every time things change.
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When I saw that this was about UI/UX, I was a little confused; I was expecting something about a Singleton, or a factory or something. Still a really cool read!
Still up for me. Here's a screenshot if you can't view it. http://i.imgur.com/SCpKd.png
That seems about right:
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/uploads/2010/07/coca-cola-la...
I personally would not want a builder to home build a home with my money without a time and cost estimate. This is not about startups or established companies. If you don;t know what needs to happen for your vision to come to fruition and how much it is going to cost then you are leaving a lot chance.

I just don't get why people are always complaining about estimates.
I'm going to write the following with the caveat that there are plenty of idiots who like to put words in the founding father's mouth, not realizing how divided they actually were post revolution:

Our Constitution is fundamentally built on the belief of individual freedom and equality of man in a "state of nature" (John Locke) and that the Bill of Rights builds on Locke's theories as to how the government should protect property and create Justice (The preamble to the Constitution, which also throws back to the Declaration).

The whole argument between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans was about the balance of natural freedoms and government impediment of those freedoms. The culmination of these arguments (an argument which eventually led to the Civil War) boiled into the supreme court and led to the concept of judicial review, which lays the ground work for legal precedent.

So, we're obsessed with precedent and the founding fathers not necessarily because of what we think they wanted, but because every legal argument stems from the belief that man is, and of right ought to be, free and independent. The Constitution forms the basis of the social contract of free and independent people. The Constitution can be changed and we have done so some 27 times. However, every argument fundamentally stems from the original point of view that all men are created equal.

It's not about interpreting the words of "a couple of guys" from 200 years ago. It's about whether or not our government has broken the social contract. The idea of "equality" itself has been a moving target in America, from land-owners to the Civil Rights movement. We are a country born out of tyranny, you know... It's fair to say that fear of tyranny is embedded in our culture and our laws.
Reading this review - and others - I was reminded of Ralph Peters essay 'Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States'

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/Parameters/Articles/98spr...

Which doesn't really explain 'why' but does set out in concise form 'what failure looks like'.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=java+repl
Galifanakis as the Woz himself (not much look alike, but still... )
You probably mean Justin Long.
I launched two movie/tv related websites:

http://checkafilm.com - search for a film by title and see an aggregate review summary about the movie and any content advisories it might have.

http://tmfdb.org - a bookmarklet for automatically muting profanity in Hulu videos for a more "family-friendly" experience.

Both are open-source - https://github.com/jacobwg/checkafilm and https://github.com/jacobwg/tmfdb.org/tree/master/script
It's not. If you have a jailbroken iPhone there is an a mod you can download to enable a morse code keyboard.
http://iditdahtext.com/iDitDahText.html

At this point however I became so used to the virtual keyboard on my iPhone that I doubt I would get any speed increases by switching to morse code. The only reason why it would be more convenient is to ensure typing accuracy when not looking at the phone.
Sneider later tweeted that he’s been hearing the film will follow Jobs’ story up until his return to Apple in the ’90s, but won’t focus on his later years. Production is scheduled to begin in May.

What a waste. This story has been chronicled in countless ways. The latter years are those that need new perspective.

The Sony-Sorkin piece will likely be watching everyone involved looking for potential reprisals.
You dropped out of college because of a "ridiculous emphasis on calculus" yet you are able to track and form opinions on the quality of "algorithms teaching in top universities"? I doubt it.
Richard Stallman to launch his own fashion line
You've certainly come to the right community! Read Hacker News daily as a supplement to your programming self-study and you'll inevitably come across some great resources.

http://stackoverflow.com is your friend, and http://github.com is useful whether you have code to store there yourself or not.
To me what you described looks like classic description of any big company not any one company in general.

The founders ideals are torn to shreds the moment the management layers begin to take control. Management by leadership either works only on paper or there are very few people who follow it.

Most managers rank only by following methods. The most competent guy is always seen as a threat. Promotions and rewards are given to guys who can polish their boots and offer a degree of allegiance to them. And a guy who is capable of growing and doing something on himself gets kicked in the teeth. Nepotism, partiality and biased behavior are extremely common in management layers.

This is not restricted to one company alone.
The Constitution is the supreme law of our land.

There's a clearly-defined process for changing it (it's been done 27 times, in fact). "Deciding what's best for now" inevitably leads to abuses, or so many of us see it (who gets to "decide" what's "best"?)

"Interpret the words of a couple of guys 200 years ago as a gospel about how the internet should work?

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

That still works for me. What problems do you see with it?
IANAL but I think you would be liable. Newspapers get sued all the time for printing things that aren't true. The reasoning is that you have conscious control over what you say.

So in your example, a Tumblr blogger could get sued, but Tumblr would not be. The provision in the Communications Decency Act was intended to shield internet service providers like AOL. Before the Act passed, let's say AOL had reviewers looking over comments and removing some of them. Someone could then turn around and sue AOL by saying, "Hey look, your reviewers let this comment stand and it's defamatory!" Whereas if AOL had taken a more hands off stance, they might have have better off legally. Congress put in the provision to encourage internet providers to police their content without fear of legal repercussions. It's sort of like how Good Samaritan laws protect people who try to help accident victims.
This should be an exhibit in a museum of modern art.

It gives people a taste of the "post-PC" world we are evolving towards. And there are some deeper stuff, too.
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What's your problem? Apparently from all your submissions and comments you are really fascinated by IQ and Race stuff, besides politics, and you just bring the topic each time you can.

You always create flamewars with people that disagrees with you, this is not Digg if you're old enough to know what this mean.

I also have my motives to believe that you're not a psychometrist, population geneticist or whatever could and that you're probably someone sitting your ass in class each day at Uni.

I am jewish and it always sad to see people acting this way, like you, saying they are jewish.

You probably never read the Shas, as the majority of American jews are not brought up in a religious environment, but Rabbi Shimom ben Gamaliel used to say that the best thing for a man is silence. You can learn a couple of things with the Bavli, what about giving it a try?
Have you considered building it on top of go? Or is it more of a "Julia seems cool I wonder if it's good for this" type idea? Just wondering, because I'm thinking of doing the same thing once I get familiar with the golang environment.
I'm from the US. In my youth, I would discuss politics with just about anyone under almost any circumstances. Tonight, I admit to having had a few drinks, and understand this may be an admission of apathy to all the wrong internet strangers...

However, I just want you as a PERSON to know that at least one other human out in the void that is the United States agrees completely with you.

When I think of people like Joe Lieberman still having a job in 2012, and then realize that he and others like him are continually elected by people who buy from me, work with me, and live with me because on some level they want(??) people like this in office............

Words are incapable of describing my sadness, anger, and eventual apathy towards the process.
Probably the default.
I think it's missing an option for a minor in CS.
To fake a lottery ticket for posting online, it'd be much easier just to print a fake ticket and then photograph it. I suppose, however, that the purpose of doing it digitally is to practice skills and "because I can."

To fake a lottery ticket for claiming a prize ... well, that'd be fraudulent and would result in loss of freedom for quite some time.
I spent 5 years in a Computer Science & Engineering degree before I dropped out due to not having passed a single maths/calculus course (50% of the credit). I passed all the computing courses, I just don't have the head (and patience) for maths.

Contrary to many reports here, I found my time at uni quite rewarding. My professors had ties to local businesses (Ericsson/Sony Mobile) keeping the coursework relevant (one course actually covered programming in a team. 8 hours solid every Monday working in a team competing with other teams against a "customer", using XP methodology, pair programming, source control, the whole hog). I learned things in algorithms courses, optimizing compilers courses, networking (build an HTTP server device from MAC up), circuits (build a programmable computer on a breadboard starting with just a pile of transistors and working up, including all the boolean logic/karnaugh maps)

The only course that was out of date was web programming. Seemed like it was from the late 90's, teaching neural networks and agents and things.
node.js isn't a web-specific technology either. It is an event processing framework, like EventMachine on Ruby or Twisted on Python. And then PHP and VB are programming languages, while the other two are only frameworks atop other languages.

Beyond them all being tools programmers use, it is tough to draw any real commonality between them.
I often hear people complaining about "corporate politics". What do people think that really means? As if you won't have politics in your startup, with your V.Cs, clients, partners and competitors.

Everything in business is politics if you cannot handle your co-worker jockeying for position prior to performance reviews, good luck dealing with a partner or investor who wants to edge you out of your startup.

One more note, working for a corporation can provide a technical person with a lot opportunity not available at a startup and vice-versa. For instance, at a startup you will not likely get the valuable and lucrative experience removing and replacing a mainframe application that has been a core business system for 30 years. There are hundreds of companies out there at this very minute who are spending hundreds of millions attempting (and struggling with) this very feat. So while RoR and Django developers are a dime a dozen, others are building a skill that commands a premium at fortune 1000 companies across the nation and builds relationships with Sr. Architects, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs to boot.
"... Some background I'm a business student, but I want to be able to build out cool webapps. ..."

Can I suggest coming at this from another angle. Instead of looking at this as learning a language. Pick a problem you currently have and "try" solve it while learning a language at the same time. Then look back and review the code after you finish and start a new problem.

read: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=learning+pr...
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That's pretty much a legal requirement since you can't require a degree for programming.
Seems like they're not doing too well at their purpose then.
Design evaluation and quantitative analysis based on analytics are part of what designers do to validate design decisions (identifying bottlenecks in task-driven applications, optimizing Ui and user flows to increase conversion rates, etc). These techniques are part of a beta or post-launch iterative design process.

Your point about Hurley having entrepreneurial skills above his particular profession applies to technical founders as well (or any founder for that matter), not just designers. Unless you think that just by having the skills to do programming at early stages of a startup can alone make for a good founder in the long run.

Even for products that don't have an UI at all there are many aspects of the customer experience that will require conscious design efforts to give you a competitive edge. A designer perspective can bring creative and fresh solutions to many types of business challenges due to overlaps with Marketing and business strategy. Integrating behavioral economics principles to your business through design can have a huge impact on marketing and sales regardless of what your product or service is about.

Design DOES mean business, and the fact that it is recognized more every day is a prove of that. I would have Ives as my cofounder and not just because he can design great products, but because he can design a great company. He also has an amazing networking, I bet.

This myope perspective about design is probably the main reason why companies and startups can't get experienced designers to join.
I had a Newton that I was given in 2000 after a relative's company decommissioned them (a medical services company that had rolled out hundreds of them to home healthcare nurses). Frankly, it seemed pretty amazing even then. The built-in character recognition wasn't very good, but Graffiti on the Newton did work quite nicely.

Then, when I first got an iPod Touch (3rd gen), I tried out the notes app and hit delete, and was delighted to see the EXACT same animation for throwing the doc away as the Newton used. iOS definitely has several things that were influenced by the Newton OS.
I would go with:
Bio PHD > MD > Masters in Nutrition
Will look into it.

There is also the elephant in the room with this subject, which is when you look which cultures might be at risk from collapse in the future. Or perhaps I have just read Snowcrash too many times.
Face.com Brings Facial Recognition to the Masses
I think that a math degree is pretty much always a boon, since in just about every field, they need people who are good in math, but most people who don't have a math degree are scared of serious math. (Physics, EE, and other engineering degrees, not including CS, probably don't count in the being scared of math category, so for those fields, having a math degree may not be as much of a boon.)
Sounds like you guys should have gone to technical school or majored in CIS or something. Learning how to use version control is not in the scope of a Computer Science curriculum.
Can they ever really stop us? We'll use every possible measure aka toe to make the Internet free. Just ask the guys at silk road
There was a fantastic site for learning Chinese that had you draw the word shapes and compared them to the correct form, but I didn't bookmark it, and never managed to track it down again. Anyone?
Could you elaborate on this a bit? I'm curious.
No, the story was saying that sugar is a hell of a lot worse than fat.
Same boat here. I've really only skimmed 'Think Complexity: http://greenteapress.com/complexity/index.html but it looks like a nice, digestible introduction to a broad range of topics. If you want to get more (way more) in-depth, have a look at 'Mathematics for Computer Science': http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring12/mcsfull.pdf
Why tablets aren't for me
Just as a history major might make a better newspaper writer than a journalism major, a math or science major might make a better programmer than a CS major. It's possible for a CS major to graduate knowing something about the craft and culture of CS, without comprehending a purpose; just as a journalism major knows how to write, but may not know what to write.

Not knocking CS or journalism. But the best teams in both industries are made of a mix of disciplines.