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Speaking of Sublime Text (2), I find that it has a lot of the features that Light Table is supposed to have. I can work with an abstracted view of file heirarchy (need to find a file? Shift+Cmd+P and then type anything - the fuzzy search beats wildcards any day). Need to find a function? Cmd+P and then type what you need.

Maybe in some version of ST2, they will add the ability to see documentation in an overlay when you mouseover a method (or maybe someone will write a Python plugin to do that). This editor already seems to be a long way towards the goals of Light Table.
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The "Deutsches Museum" in Munich, Germany has got a permanent outdoor exhibit exactly of this kind. Some pictures are here: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstellungen/naturwissenscha...
You have to walk more than 4 kilometers from the sun to the "edge" of our solar systems. It's a great thing to educate children or a school class.
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I've been using a 15" MBP for a little over a year. I added an aftermarket OCZ Vertex 3 SSD since it was faster and cheaper than what was available from Apple at the time (not sure if they've expanded their options) and some after-market RAM for price reasons. I've found it to be the best machine for my use. I've got Mac software (I do a lot of front-end graphics design work), and Windows when I want it (via Parallels) and enough of a Linux/Unix feel for my purposes with terminal-based stuff.

If I had to replace it, I'd get another MBP ... new ones are due out soon .... likely before June, so wait if you can if that's what you decide to buy.
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Twitter evokes short bursts of speech, Flickr evokes light and movies, Google evokes size.
I want to encourage developers to write about their projects
There's always the chance that the drone was "lost" deliberately, in order to give the Iranians something useless to waste a lot of time on, or to deliberately mislead them on the true capabilities of the device.
Isn't this what Webhooks was all about? I remember they were all the rage a while back but I haven't seen much more adoption since then.

I'd love to be proven wrong though.
Yeah; I still work on some of it occasionally. There are parts where I know something new, and of course it has its share of hacks and corner cases, but it's good code.
Sort of -- but not in the same sense that the .NET CLR is MS's own VM, with its own unique bytecode (MSIL code).

Dalvik compiles ("dexes") Java bytecode (most of which, except for Android-specific libraries, would run on any JVM) down to Dalvik 'bytecode'.

It's honestly not that different from what the MSVM tried to do. The main difference, it seems to me, between the MS/Sun lawsuit over the MSVM, and the Google/Oracle suit, is that 1) Google did implement the entire JDK -- they simply added more proprietary libraries that can't run on a conventional JVM and 2) MS had a binding agreement with Sun.

If Google wins (and for the record I'm on their side of this completely), my question is -- does that mean Microsoft didn't need that license agreement with Sun to begin with -- the one signed in 1996 that eventually caused the downfall of J++/MSVM, and the birth of .NET?

That would be an interesting turn.
It's cool but the arrow keys to switch between players is weird. Your next tasks should be to code a simple AI to play against, which is trivial for pong.

You should also set up some 2 player controls, like arrow keys for the right player and a\s for the left player and add a menu screen to select between one and 2 player modes.
Must I remind you that the FSF wrote the fucking Gnu Compiler Collection? It made available a high quality compiler for free (both meanings), and used the GPL to keep it that way. It had a great impact on the expectation we now have for language implementations (namely, they should be free).

Linux is traditionally build with GCC if that's count for anything. The fact is, these days, it's quite hard for Free Software to escape GCC. LLVM didn't take over the world yet.

Richard Stallman may be ugly[1], old, and asocial, but he's not irrelevant.

[1] You'd be surprised how much it counts. Compared to him, Linus is hot.
Defined as a percentage of the whole, there are a very small number of people in the world that can competently code. And I didn't say having an idea makes you a business dude, I said business dudes with ideas, hopefully you can see the distinction.
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Chinese credit card and Alipay transactions are irreversible, though Alibaba buyers can opt to use the Aliexpress escrow service. I think the U.S. will eventually need to stop babying the consumer. To some extent this is already happening, with banks refusing to be liable for small and medium business losses from online banking trojans. Obviously the bank can't be liable if a business loses money due to embezzlement, and its a thin line since a banking trojan would be perfect cover for an insider embezzlement scheme.

Its pretty clear that Paypal's data mining for fraud detection, which used to be considered cutting-edge and allowed them to dominate the market, now has an extremely high false positive rate that only gives too many honest merchants a reason to leave.
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Plus two hours getting to and waiting at the airport.
From what I've seen of the software/web world technical means just that: technical.

This includes but is not limited to Programmers, Operations, and even your Sales Engineers. I've seen Operations guys who understand technology orders of magnitude better than programmers at the same company.

What the author is referring to is slightly different and imho he badly expresses it. Being able to use the internet and an iPhone is not technical that is just internet savvy.
Technical = Coder goes hand in hand with the narrow definition of 'startup' that's commonly used here. It's not meant to discount other engineering abilities, it's just a bit of jargon one needs to adapt to.
Food for thought: That means whether an arbitrary c++ program compiles reduces to the halting problem.

I would wager that for the vast majority of real situations you'd be better off writing that in the primary language and either bundling the precomputed result when you package your application or running it at runtime.

I'm sure there is a small class of trivial exceptions, but no non-trivial ones.
There's a F.P. Walter translation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" which is both modern and donated to Project Gutenberg.

The North American Jules Verne Society has a list of works, a determination of which are the best translations, and links to Amazon here: http://www.najvs.org/works/index.shtml
> Macro is okay. Procedure is not okay. Break is a procedure.

Why do you believe this to matter? Smalltalk's signaling and exception handling (both `catch` and `finally` equivalent) uses regular messages and blocks (with hooks into the interpreter obviously). What value do you see in making special syntax things which need not be so, ease of "optimizations" (such as compiling a block to a jump)?
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> I am assuming java here, so i will refer to classes instead of functions for my examples.

This particular difference makes this part of the comparison meaningless. Functions and classes don't operate at the same level of granularity. Thinking classes vs thinking functions can produce very very different code, especially if your classes are assignment happy, and your functions avoid side effects. Plus, you wouldn't search the same way. In a class setting, one would search for data to process, while in a function setting, one would seek to process data.
The Arab Spring.
I have nothing against reading Huffington Post for entertainment or opinion pieces, but it's hardly a source for anything relevant to hacking(in the HN sense) or startups. I come here to see news that doesn't make the headlines of major media outlets. I probably shouldn't have commented on the article that I didn't want to see on HN, but I felt I should contribute if I was going to criticize.
Hi, I've noticed that ezcrypt has started out started out on github but hasn't gotten past the first readme. Can anything be done to help it be fully published?
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Older Amazon.com screengrabs can be found here: http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/2004/07/amazoncom-logo-...
Another example: Chrome page pre-loading from links on a page. Great if you have 100Mbit at your desk, sucky if you share a DSL in your office with 10 other people.
Google group thread is ugly, code is not highlighted.
This move will make life easier.
Would you ask a girl or guy [with whom you have an established non-sexual relationship] out for the first time over text message? Or ask someone to marry you? Would you break up with them over SMS? For the sake of your happiness, I'd hope the answer is "No." The potential for miscommunication is much higher once you add delay and limit expression to words and emoticons.

Now think of how such an approach to communication might harm your prospects of establishing connections and managing relationships with potential business partners.
Audiobooks & podcasts are my most used mode of learning. I generally take a walk while listening to the talk. Its a little exercise and learning at the same time.
- Maintaining a regular route helps you focus.
- make sure the entire route is safer
I actually miss old-fashioned web design. These old pages look like text, and not much else. But most of what I want to do online is text; I want to read and write. The simplicity is actually an aid to clarity.
From the article: "It is as though we have all put ourselves on cable news."

This sums up my first thought when I read the headline. Perhaps the underlying societal problem is that many hold in contempt ideas too complex for sound bite summarization? So, changes in the ways we converse are merely a symptom of this underlying change? How many times have you watched a televised interview or sat in a meeting as someone was explaining an idea and become angered when the speaker was interrupted -- not to clarify, but to change the topic? I find myself saying in my head, "Let him speak!" I have no problem with others silencing some babbling fool, but to shut someone up simply because the idea at hand requires nuanced explanation severely limits the spectrum of ideas we ever will be able to consider.

Perhaps, much like when people don't stand up and say something when another makes a bigoted joke, those of us sitting silently are partially to blame? I often say, "I'd really like to hear more about what Suzy thinks!", but only "often" in that I do so much more frequently than others. What would it take in, say, a company (or even department) to establish via social proof that those opposing complex thought simply because it is complex are the unacceptable ones?
When did the S2 come out?
I think John Cleese does pretty good job corroborating the phenomenon in this speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V...
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Yes, he'll need a non-technical person to teach him when to use then, and when to use than. Believe it or not, that's very important and they are different words with different meanings. Perhaps an English/PR major or a well-rounded MBA to cover all the non-technical stuff a business needs.
Definitely. Thanks.

If you or anyone else have suggestions on an attractive way to incorporate them, I'd appreciate it.
i guess we need to find a better way to get visitors attention... any ideas apreciated!
Varies, I know most of Asia and Europe got it before USA. But the official release was in April 2011.
This is one frustration with Paypal however once you are verified it is a breeze to use. Given the high volume of online fraud, proper verification has to happen.
I believe it was and it was a clear signal from a certain influential clique in the US defense establishment -- where [did] Leon work before? -- to the Israelis that USA will not allow any nation to dictate its strategic posture or present it a fait accompli.
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It's not just hiring. It's also market. After the 3rd photo sharing app, or the 3rd chat app, or the 5th Angry-Birds look-alike, noone really cares. Too many options, too many products, and consumers can't adopt them all.
Yes, what's to stop someone posting:
"Hey guys we need $100,000 to make $awesome_thing" then once/if you raise the money paying someone on eLance $300 to crank out some POS that technically ticks the boxes?
Over AIM, sure, though not with a random name I pulled out of a hat or something. I think I've had most of my "heavy" conversations over IM, even with people I regularly speak to in person. It just lends itself better to that, imo, and greatly increases real conversation while reducing the risk of miscommunication. I'm not sure what the strange condescension is in the "for your sake", there. It's a kind of conversation. Perhaps it doesn't work for you, or you aren't very fluent in it. But between pairs of people who're used to it and who both "get it", it has plenty of nuances; it's not some strange caricature of exchanging telegrams with smileys in them. There are definitely people where it does feel like that, and I don't have real conversations with those people over IM, because it's just not their thing.

Same with a phone really; with some people phone conversations work well, and with others they work very poorly. I personally rank IM above phone in the nuance and avoidance of miscommunication department, so I would never want to have serious discussions with a risk of miscommunication over a phone. They're in a weird uncanny-valley place imo, but they do work for other people from what I can tell.

I don't use text/SMS a lot, so don't have a strong opinion on how that works. For people who have smartphone interfaces to SMS it seems it would be similar to a text chat, but I wouldn't want to venture a conclusion without knowing more.
There are many many comments from people who watch the Light Table video, which is clearly written in a Lisp, and come away thinking that it'll work for their Javas, Pythons, or C#s. Yet, it is not at all clear to me that Light Table is an appropriate IDE for languages that are not functional and are not homoiconic.

I don't think it is entirely Chris's responsibility for dispelling Java developers of this crazy notion that Light Table is for them, and it might hurt the fundraising effort; but would you really want to be funded by people who have no real grasp of what you're building?
How is this news? It's been announced March 23rd.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/google...
Congratulations Fizzadar! I think your refresh was the once that pushed the site over HN's limit :-)

I'm going to try using a different server to fact the data as a proxy which will then get stored to a database. I need to look around and see if HN has published any query limits so I can schedule the fact accordingly.

Thanks for looking and for your excellent feedback!
and we already double sized the blocks... now it's basically 8x8... no zoom was efficient when an L block was taking up only 4 pixels... :)
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chrome is best... we didn't dig too deep why safari doesn't play it well.
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The juxtaposition of toddlers and the "DARPA" logo is not jarring, given the benefits DARPA has produced for humanity due in part to its unleashed creativity, but certainly 'weird' given the context of its mission statement.
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hmm... let me know if you find it. we thought it was our idea... thanks!
What I'm saying is that it is intuitive for most people that for the situations in our lives that really matter most to us and the relationships we form, we know to be present in person, and fully engaged with our undivided attention. Then, it's not too far of a logical stretch to realize how such an approach is not unique to romantic relationships, allowing you to have a more effective impact on your business relationships as well.
Where did I say there aren't people who would pay for this? I said he couldn't make a killing. Depending on the price-point... if he offered it at $500, there's probably a market of 25 people. $300, probably 50. $150, probably a couple hundred. I've owned about 20 headphone amps over the years that cost between $50 - $2500. Some of these amps have serial numbers in the double digits, many hand-built PTP tube amps, and the designers tend to be pretty transparent about the numbers sold, as many are headphone enthusiasts themselves and they come from the DIY-world then transition into small businesses. Very few of the small shops make anywhere close to a killing - most are just barely making a living doing what they love. There have been tons of Kickstarter-esque pre-orders threads on head-fi, where a well-known designer has a goal of selling something like 100-500 amps before beginning production and offers early-bird discounts. Usually the product in question changes the game in some way whether it comes to sonics/power/battery life/portability (if we're talking about portables).

It's a poor assumption that novelty-factor is high on the list of an audiophile. As cool as this design is, what it does does not add any functionality or utility to the amp. At the extreme upper end sure novelty may become more of a factor. But even when you get to kilobuck amps the component and labor costs are still quite high, ie. the designer of a $5000 amp usually has $2500 sunk into the amp, and he might sell a dozen of them. And to do that, the company has to have a ton of cachet in the industry.

There is a very large and active community around headphone audio if you're interested in this field... in excess of a quarter million members with about 10M posts - http://www.head-fi.org/. I've been an active member there for over 7 years and into this hobby for over a decade. I've hosted a meet with about 30 members w/ almost $100k in equipment. I personally have owned over $20k in equipment over the years. I think I can speak with some authority on this.
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Vogue Spain caught stealing from Instagram User/Street Photographer
Now public apology on the feed, cited as a "mistake." http://instagr.am/p/Ju8A7as02f/
Walking out the door with someone's stuff is not a "mistake," it's theft. Same deal.
A group of students at my school are working on a high efficiency vehicle. They currently get 733 miles per gallon of gasoline. They are working towards an upcoming competition, where the winner usually gets around 2000 miles per gallon. These are vehicles which hold a driver. Alternatives just aren't anywhere near that efficient yet, and so it's difficult to provide compelling reasons to switch.
Single page link for those who would prefer to read the article whole instead of split up into seven parts:

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/content/view/print...
we all die?

ok, sorry :-)
Fascinating! In the US lottery is a tax collection, but in China tax collection is a lottery.
Near death, (maybe) explained?
Probably going to implement by next week depending on how busy I am, but I'll be adding:

-Ability to pay certain tenants utilities

-Emailing

-And any layout / UX changes that makes sense based on critique.

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But anywho, I made this site because I'm going to be moving in with a bunch of people who I'd rather not connect with on Facebook yet I still want to stay in contact with.

I added the anonymous feature too because previous roommies were too scared to confront other roommates who were too loud + obnoxious. I don't know how effective it'll be but we'll see.

Also, I wanted to play around with CSS + twitter's bootstrap:

The template that i used for the bootstrap theme was from here: http://bootswatch.com/
Well, your first sentence is simply a prejudice that is true only for some people, so the logical conclusion clearly doesn't follow. :)

But it's not clear to me when we started talking about business relationships. That's not what either the article or my comment are about, is it? I don't really have an opinion on how to best run a business; the whole remote-work versus in-office work debate is a large, separate debate.
I'm verified(bank account linked on a 10 year + old account) but have recently had eBay payments held for 21 days because apparently only selling things once or twice a year on eBay is too infrequent for Paypal, I wouldn't call this a breeze....

edit: check this previous article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/your-money/ebay-policy-lea... or this summary http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y12/m03/i12/s02
In the end, I think the author just sounds jealous ( ~_~)-p

I've never been comfortable with accusing others of jealousy when they criticize behavior that potentially hits too close to home.

The author has a point. If you add enough perks that your employees never have to leave the office or worse, are only friends with other people at your company, it can create an insular environment which is not conducive to being responsive to changing behaviors and attitudes that happen outside your bubble.

Now, the creation of that bubble doesn't necessarily require perks and it won't necessarily form if there are a lot of perks, but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking they don't exist and companies like Google, whose HQ is physically segmented from outside distractions (like a city) and whose employees' social circles seem to be heavily work-related, isn't in an insular bubble right now.
> This is to ensure that customers always ask for receipts, so that stores always enter everything into the register (which goes into the store's tax filing).

It's fairly easy for a store to use a register that has nothing to do with the store's tax filing.

Receipt matching would defeat that, but only if stores submitted their receipts.

However, you can use customer receipts to estimate a store's revenue, but that has nothing to do with whether or not a register is involved.
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Exactly. The notion that a name should be transparent -- that its linguistic meaning should make the product obvious -- is a myth. Google, Apple, Nike, Lexus and McDonald's are all brands where the name bears no resemblance to the product or even industry they represent. The product gives meaning to the name, not the other way around.
If you're lucky it'll have some amazing cable lacework[1] holding the various bundles together. Sometimes I've thought that the insides are actually better looking than the case. It's a shame that it's dying out in favour of cable-ties and velcro, although the effort involved in both learning the skill and creating/reworking bundles means it's seldom the most economical approach.

I think it still lives on in some Ham radio groups teaching materials and standards though, as well as niche environments or reliability critical applications like (aero-)space

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing
It's definitely easier to get angry at someone and express it via email and say stuff you wouldn't normally say face to face or via the phone.

This is just my anecdote however, no studies to back it up.
That's why I said you might want to "warm your cache" before making new images public.