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You say it's cheaper, then use the example of a $2000 apartment which is an insane amount to pay for housing. Then you (correctly) note that the cheap places are actually really far (and annoying) commutes. BART stations are much cleaner than NYC subway stations, I find the trips much more pleasant.

Your startup could also be in SF (not MV) saving you the commute, have you thought about that?

Eating fast food <$7 will quickly make you feel pretty unhealthy in NY. All that greasy pizza and chinese food. You're also not conveniently not including tax (which is high in NY) and tip. Real sustainable eating will cost double that in NY.

Good, healthy, cheap food in SF is pretty common, it's the lifestyle there.

> Door to door will typically take him ~35 minutes.

Bull. Maybe if he jumps out of his building, sprints to the stop, and the subway car just happens to be waiting for him the moment you get there. The fact is that if you work late into the night, the cars come less frequently, especially to/from places outside of Manhattan. You have to factor in average wait time (since NY Subways still don't track subway cars like any other good transit system). My closest subway stops would also be closed for days or weeks at a time randomly for upkeep. Don't forget that, during rush hour, you stand in a sardine can with a hundred other people.

Also, NY culture is a consumption culture. Even if you can possibly scrape by with less, you're in a culture that actively goes out and pays huge amounts for drinks at bars, measures class by where you live and places you shop, and you'll invariable end up paying some or a lot of money for cabs because of closed subway routes or maybe you just get sick of the dirty, cold subway.

I've done startups in both areas for years. I notice that people in New York justify the low quality of life by claiming the best possible aspect of something is the norm. It's not the norm. 35 minute commutes from Brooklyn, $2-$6 appetizers (who measures food costs in terms of appetizers??). $1000/mo one-bedrooms and 7-minute commutes have 0 correlation in NY.
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The halting problem doesn't mean that you can't prove that some programs halt. It just means that you can't prove whether every program halts (or doesn't). If I write a program:

int main () { return 0; }

I can easily prove that it will halt. There are some classes of programs that provably halt, and some classes that provably don't. Proving that a program halts doesn't mean anything about solving the halting problem, and it doesn't say anything about the Turing-completeness of the language.
I don't know anything about TFP personally or whether it's the best tool for this job

To say that you don't know anything about it while claiming it will solve our problems is ... dishonest at best.

And you misunderstand the halting problem - you can perfectly well write never-ending programs in a non-Turing complete language. The only difference is that you can tell whether an arbitrary program ends or not.

I don't think that you understand the implications of the halting problem. You are claiming that use of a Turing incomplete language will make automated verification of programs possible, and that this automated verification will save us from web pages doing things that we do not want. I will suggest that any solid academic would not think highly of your argument.

Here's a simple experiment that might help you understand an important flaw in your argument. Determining the range of a short program takes a small amount of time, a longer program takes longer. TPS is a restricted language which allows for programs of any length, as long as they will eventually halt. If I write a huge, complex program, and it will take forever minus a day to halt, how long do you think it will take to verify? Spoiler Alert! Longer than you will wait for a web page to load.

The way that we use computers as society is not very academic. If you want to build a web browser that doesn't browse the web, you will find yourself quite lonely.
Exactly right. The premise that this technology would be integrated into cars is ridiculous, and my guess is it was added by the "journalist". This technology would most likely be used in places where feeds of concentrated CO2 are already available, such as coal power plants, water treatment, waste management, compositing, etc., and the fuel would be sent off to be distributed through fuel stations just as it is now.

The only impact this might possibly have on automobile design would be to try to recuperate the carbon from the exhaust using some of the power generated from the combustion to convert the exhaust CO2 into formic acid, to be exchanged for fuel in the next refueling. My guess is it's not going to pay to do that though.
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> There is really a market for enterprise grade devices...

Not really. Who wants to carry two communication devices? Everyone already has an iPhone, or an Android. Do I really want another one? Who is this mythical consumer who ONLY wants business communication on a device? They don't exist.

If your product doesn't appeal to consumers for their personal needs... they aren't going to go out of their way to use it for their business needs.
In that case Mickey Mouse is already protected as a trademark. The real question isn't if Mickey is protected, but if Steamboat Willie is protected from now until the end of time.
Javascript makes networking CPU bound ...
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> The engine works by allowing developers to use special interfaces and a high-performance scripting language called KL for performance critical parts of the code

I haven't looked into it, but this suggests it's not actually JavaScript (as the title implies) but rather some new language that gets the speed boost.
That's a charming premise, but it doesn't really work out in reality.
I'd prefer to end up in the private sector. A masters in bioinformatics would be interesting... what universities have good programs for that? Are they very competitive to get into? Would it be reasonable for me to attempt a bioinformatics masters with zero non-self-taught knowledge of biology past high school?
Oddly enough I went to this on my mobile phone and the site looked broken because the logo that is on the left is square in the middle of the screen. Irony?
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>but RIM seems to be afraid to throw away the old.

They aren't going to say that they're abandoning the current platform, they'd Osborne themselves if they did. That doesn't mean that the company isn't throwing all of it's efforts into next year's phone.

Apple sold a lot of bondi blue iMacs before OS X was ready, they wouldn't have survived to ship OSX if they hadn't.
So its like a cython for javascript?
Perfect, another nail in flash's coffin.
I don't know anybody who thinks that
Can you imagine editing Wikipedia without sight?
The color of the envelope does not change the message it contains. The only difference between what I write to you online and what I would say to you in person is one of detail and quality, as I have more opportunity online to compose. The problem of rudeness and insults is not due to any inherent flaw of the Internet itself, but rather due to the fact that most children aren't taught that anonymity, although a necessity, is not for the purpose of becoming unaccountable.

"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority ... It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation -- and their ideas from suppression -- at the hand of an intolerant society."

http://groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20051007151046741 (The First Amendment Right to Anonymous Speech - Delaware Supreme Court Ruling in John Doe No. 1 v. Cahill)(2005-OCT-15)
i true that. as a relatively new mac user i felt response time better on windows.
also this blog post is missing any numbers... so it's just author's subjective feelings?
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This seems like a non-starter to me:

The Fabric Engine core and language bindings are made
available as open source under the AGPL v3 license, with
commercial licensing options available on request and
paid-for support options for developers. Version 1.0 is
available to download from the company's site.

Personally, I'd say "screw it", and use V8.
They need not be heuristic. It is possible to formally prove things about programs in Turing-complete languages.
> Silver bullet = Modifying and controlling your diet and exercising.

It would be a silver bullet if people could do it. The fact that most people cannot do it shows it's not a silver bullet.

People know a bunch of stuff[1] is bad for them. They may only know the abstract ('this is bad') and not the concrete ('this will raise my risk of $DISEASE by X% which means I have a 1 in Y chance of dying from $DISEASE before the age of 75') - but more information doesn't seem to make any difference.

A method to help people change their behaviour would be a significant advance.

[1] smoking; drinking to excess; drinking and driving; certain drug use; etc etc.
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Try Vegas. You can get a luxury 1 bedroom high rise condo on the strip for $1,500/month. Off strip a great 1 bedroom is $800-900 and it comes with an attached garage. The entire Vegas valley is only about 20 miles in diameter so you are never far from anywhere. Commute times are short and off strip, traffic is not bad at all.

$65,000 in Vegas buys you the same quality of life as $100,000 in SF.
So web2py introduces new members to __builtins__? Coming from a general Python programmer with no "vested interest" I have to say that isn't the best of ideas. len/dict/list are builtins because they are part of the language. They can be assumed to be present in any Python program. Teaching people that these web2py objects are available globally w/o importing them is setting a false expectation. This is pretty much monkey patching even if you aren't overriding stuff. Generally a no-no in the Python community.

With great power comes great responsibility.
I guess the real question is whether or not it really needs to be more attractive?
I find myself holding my phone against my ear occasionally to see if I can hear the drive spinning. I feel like a fool every time when I remember there are no moving parts, but if my Zune would hang, or my iPod before that, I could tell if it was hung or if it was just crunching away.

That's one thing I really miss since I went to using an Ubuntu HP Touchpad instead of a laptop, there's no flashing hard drive indicator to let me know if it's still working or if it's just hung.
I wrote something similar to this, but I use pushState so that it can be bookmarked. It creates some ugly urls, but it works.

Have you considered using pushState to achieve the same purpose?
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Consider that "A Game of Thrones" was published 16 years ago, but its sales only really started taking off last year. I feel like it would be a shame if George R. R. Martin, who is still alive and writing the series, was getting absolutely nothing from this surge of interest.

Some creative works simply take a while to get going in the culture. I don't think we should punish creative folks who are, for lack of a better term, "ahead of their time." Obviously this concept could be taken to an absurd extreme, but I would argue that 25 years is better than 14. It's at least closer to the duration of a full human generation.
Right, so an alternative approach is to require all client-side scripts that your browser downloads to come with a proof of safety. This requires extra work for each script. Which can be avoided if the script language was non-Turing complete instead, and you had a general-purpose code analyzer on your machine.
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I remember when Gmail first came out to the public with a whopping 1GB of email storage, 50-100 times what the competitors were offering[1]. It was a great, streamlined mail experience that users flocked to immediately, leaving Yahoo Mail and Hotmail in the dust.

If this leak is true, it will be one of the most underwhelming releases by Google in quite a while. 5GB? That's 2.5 times what Dropbox gives you for free (and they've been giving 2GB away for years), at parity with Amazon Cloud Drive (in 2011), and 1/5th of Microsoft's SkyDrive (25GB).

What happened to the Google that would release products that really rocked the boat?

[1] http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html
It's not much time, but it's better than nothing. You'll get a taste for the field, but that's about it. Start looking now.

If you have another school year before graduation, you should also seriously consider doing some work in a campus biology lab. If you're at a larger school, there will be at least one lab that does computational biology work, and if not...well, it's important to know something about biology. A winter spent in a lab will be a learning experience, either way.

And if you're having trouble getting your foot in the door, here's an easy way to get a gig in a campus lab: work for free. Tell them that you're a CS student interested in computational biology, and that you'll be free, eager labor if they'll let you learn about biology research. It's a time-honored tradition -- nearly everyone in the field gets their start this way.
That and considering that shrink wrapped consumer anti-virus has become paid malware (reports your browsing history, slows down your machine, and renews on your credit card automatically), it is unsurprising that Microsoft provides no-cost anti-virus which is both fast and unobtrusive.
If you want to prove that a complicated function which contains a forbidden line will ever actually execute that line given any input, then yes, the turing-completeness of Javascript makes it difficult to prove that the function is safe, because you can't even prove that it will ever halt, let alone reach a line. But imagine that Javascript were simpler--say, it could only contain the control flow constructs if, !, &&, ||. Then, in order to prove that a complicated function never reaches a forbidden line, you have to solve a 3-SAT problem, which is NP-complete and also impractical to prove for all functions.

The only sure way to prove that a function is safe, turing-complete or not, is to restrict the system calls it can make.

I agree that if you provide domain-specific non-turing complete languages, it's more likely that you will be able to grok it and pull it apart, but it doesn't let you prove that any arbitrary function doesn't reach a line you don't like for all user input.
What is so unattractive about it? I actually like it.
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>It is possible to formally prove things about programs in Turing-complete languages.

But not about arbitrary programs you download from the Internet. For such programs you need to require either that they include a custom proof, or that they're written in a non-Turing complete language so that you can check safety yourself.
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It is unfortunate that, given how important teaching is, we still don't have good ways to evaluate which teachers are good and which are not.
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My favorite explanation of this phenomenon, beyond the visual demonstration, is that lag time reminds the human mind that it is interfacing with a machine.

Because that feels unnatural, it creates fatigue and builds separation between the user and his work.

UI guru Jakob Nielsen has an excellent description of this here:

http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html
In the original comment, I was merely addressing the misunderstanding of the GP regarding the reflection packages constructs.

The interface is your basic (irreducible) disconnected/unbound procedure invocation API, with all the positive/warts associated. I agree that in principle, we have enough information in the reflection data structure to allow a (specific) JVM implementation to provide a non-standard 'method object' feature. Consensus, possibly? (Good question, really. C. Nutter is one to hit with that one.)
An HTTP request has two parts: a resource (URL) and a method. Expressing your method in the resource rather than the, um, method muddles the two.
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I think this blog post might have something to do with it. In it, she mentions that "she heard" that the breach had to do with taxi's and/or a parking garage in NYC.
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The current crop of smaller companies and bootstrappers will evolve in to the next generation's "established" companies. No one is starting a company today with COBOL. How many are starting today with Java? Not rhetorical - I know some are - just wondering how this will play out over time...
Well there's no denying iOS is the king of responsiveness in the mobile sector, but to be honest, I can't really say the same thing on OS X vs Windows 7. I use both on a daily basis and Win7 is definitely the most rock solid OS Microsoft ever put out. For example, when an application crashes Windows just kills it and everything is fine. On OS X when something crashes, you can usually Force Close, but sometimes the process just can't be killed. Also it feels OS X memory management almost requires an SSD nowadays.

There are other things, which makes me like OS X more, but being faster or more stable is not one of them.
Is there some good Python-based blogging system that would be more scalable?
I haven't read that before, but I am wondering if that is related to that specific phenomenon, or rather if it's disrespectful to refer to the king, and say "ass" in the same sentence. Do you remember?
>a better terminal are definitely what got me. Overall I would say the UX is just simply better."

In my opinion, "a better Terminal" is not a strong premise when it comes to making a general case for one OS's user interface being superior to another's.

[edit] If the comparison was between bash (et al.) and Powershell, then terminal preference would seemingly be based on familiarity rather than the degree to which one can access the OS via the command line.
Why don't more hackers consider Los Angeles? Cheaper and easier to find housing than the bay or NYC hands down, better weather, and plenty of single women who jump at the chance to date guys that aren't actors and/or yoga instructors!

Given, the tech scene in LA isn't great but it's not that far from SF and there are definitely some hackers around UCLA and the Westside.

I love New Yorkers but New York City is a zoo. You're constantly fighting the crowds, the street noise, and there is an extremely high cost of living. Some people thrive in this environment. I however find that my blood pressure rises to unacceptable levels.

In Los Angeles I know plenty of people with a yard and driveway living in nice walkable neighborhoods near the beach or in and around hollywood paying less than $1500-$1700/month.
I don't mean to claim that covers and remixes are any different, merely that the practice is quite prevalent, meaning that tunes penned by various artists 20-50 years ago are still being heard in the charts today, spurring a resurgence in interest in the original.

The same can only be said of a small handful of authors, whose older books lend their names, and occasionally their stories to new films.

I also agree that attribution is right regardless of age; but over time, without a central rights management authority, it could be difficult to assign proper attribution, leading to the potential for copyright trolling akin to the kind of patent trolling we see today. Perhaps instead of expiry, there should be a time immemorial for copyright.
Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of this for Rails?
I'm working on replatforming a desktop application, and have yet to come across a library as sophisticated as OpenFaces for doing a web UI:

http://openfaces.org/

I'm not excited about the idea of using JavaServer Faces, but would be willing to do so to use a library like OpenFaces that looks so very good even in IE7.

Any ideas for similar libraries?
Unless you do client-side encryption (which is impractical unless you want to manually sync your encryption key between your devices), they can't ever issue such a guarantee. Even if Google promised to never examine your data, it could still be subpoenaed.
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Appcoast is a small collective of entrepreneurs and engineers, working on extensions for eBay and bespoke work for Mozilla by day, and working on The Next Big Thing by night. This week we launched our first commercial iOS app.

Pigeonal is an email client for iPhone. Its purpose is to quickly archive (and occasionally mark for follow-up) emails which only need a casual glance, or a quick check, before you file them away (examples: receipts, notifications, reminders).

The app scans your inbox for (currently) 207 different services and displays the results using icons in pigeonholes (a wood texture cupboard).

Q: Why only Gmail and MobileMe/iCloud?
A: We'll roll out general support for IMAP, but it takes a lot of testing. IMAP is hairy.

Q: Can I flag/star an email for follow-up?
A: That will be possible in the next version, flagged email is currently moved to a Follow-Up folder (which also works great, both in Gmail and MobileMe, but some people prefer flagging/starring).

Q: Are you crazy? Asking money for a read-only email client?
A: The read-only feature is a deliberate design choice: it prevents you from being sucked into an email conversation. We ask money for the app because we think it provides value for some people.

Q: Are you storing my email credentials on your servers?
A: No, your email account credentials are only stored on your phone using iOS keychain and are only sent to Gmail or MobileMe/iCloud.

http://www.pigeonal.com/
I had a card compromised two weeks ago. Citi overnighted a new one.
To reply to posts without bothering to understand them is... not worth responding to. I have a PhD in CS from an Ivy League school BTW, so spare me the "solid academic" lecturing.
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Oh, I see. Turing-complete language + certificate of good behavior = non-turing-complete language. Cool :)
I currently have a vm of windows 7 open on my mac with the host file open in notepad. Two lines are selected (as I needed to copy them from time to time). If that window loses focus, the selection stays, but if I click the titlebar to that window, giving it focus again, those two lines are unselected.

There are many many quirks like this in Windows that you only notice once you use a different window manager.
> if it's powerful enough to flex to non-trivial needs (Modern WP, Drupal, Django, CQ, etc), then it's probably going to feel like a bloated/complex mess to a programmer, because of all the nuances in the problem space.

This is a good rule of thumb, but I have found one shining exception, and it is called ProcessWire. If you've never tried it, I highly recommend a look. It's a CMS that essentially offers you a blank slate and a set of simple, powerful tools that let you mold it into something else quite quickly.
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Of course, and then some.