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But then in Ruby if you want to you can encapsulate behaviour and your intent in objects instead of types - as concepts become more complex, you may introduce an object which encapsulates the data and provides checked interfaces for it.

I think the idea is that a strong static type system will allow you to describe the constraints idiomatically and concisely, whereas describing them using the usual OOP tools gets overkill very quickly.
Interesting point, I would be intrigued to see how many such companies there are.

The conceptual purpose behind The Unfunded Club was to give prominence, and therefore an avenue for support and recognition.

Drop me an email Rayhan at rafiqomar dot com
Because you want to persuade them? When you speak someone's language, using similar posture, vocabulary, style, and being attentive and tuned into them, they're more likely to react positively and buy what you're selling.

http://lifehacker.com/5894462/use-mirroring-and-matching-to-...
There are blender packages in the ARM debian repository, so you should be able to get it to build on Fedora, too. Another issue is whether it'll run: I think Blender uses OpenGL/GLX for rendering, and I don't know if that works on the RPi. OpenGL ES 2.0 is supposedly supported by the hardware, but I don't know if and how that is supported in Linux userspace, particularly as OpenGL ES is mostly a subset of OpenGL. Software rendering might suffice though.
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> So what is "Tuesday night"?

I agree they should be more specific, but most people would reasonably assume Tuesday night to be Tuesday->Wednesday, as Monday->Tuesday is Tuesday morning.
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This is just a recap my business partner put together of the Birmingham Startup Summit, and it was a great read for me. I didn't get a chance to go, even though we sponsored it, because I was in the hospital. I thought someone else might enjoy it.
Kimsufi was launched to fight against french Dedibox (now online.net), which at the time had lower price than the lowest OVH server. They stayed at the same level as them since then.
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I would consider having any final classes in a standard library to be a failure. One of the pillars of OOP is extensibility.
I'm also confused when they switch to rocket mode do they have a way to "close" the jet engine intakes?
I think your question is too broad. Do you think you could have a top 1% programmer that does HTML, CSS, JavaScript?

Think about this: you hire ten top 1% programmers but two of them have horrible interpersonal skills and they continually argue and don't work well together. Contrast that with hiring ten top 30% coders that work together great. Which team is going to accomplish more?

When I hear stuff about top 10% or top 1% I have a mental image of a coder with an ego complex and for most of the stuff people do these days, that skill level isn't necessary and will likely lead to problems.
Online.net as well.

Companies never pay VAT anyway, usually professional services display mainly prices without it.
A friend at MIT graphics sent this along.

"http://www.ioccc.org/2011/akari/akari.c

Not only is the input program ASCII art, but it can downsample .PPM/.PGM...and also text. In fact, it downsamples itself, into the source code for a C program with reduced functionality. And it can do it 4 times:

http://www.ioccc.org/2011/akari/hint.html
Performance isn’t measured just by the language tools, it depends on the whole stack. It’s quite probable that the Ruby/Rails stack is better suited to high-performance sites simply because it has more installations and the kinks have been worked out.
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FYI, OVH is building a data center in Montreal:

http://www.vincentabry.com/en/ovh-web-hosting-will-install-i...
Amusing, but untrue. I took a (long) while to like the ribbon, but I have to say that I find it a large improvement in usability, and it makes it vastly more likely that I will accept "other than the basic/defaults".

It actively encourages exploration. That's good for some use cases, and it's certainly good for Microsoft.
Ask HN : Is there any open source temporal rating system?
I am building a pairwise match system but want to have player rating based time. Elo or similar algorithms don't designed for this kind of temporal system.
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Seriously. We need to stop up voting any stories from ExtremeTech. What a bunch of garbage.
Could you also use a url shortener to hide your affiliate links? BTW does Facebook preserve Amazon affiliate links?
I also don't see why you would assume Tuesday night to be early on Tuesday.
"Beyond Mach 5.5, the air would still be unusably hot despite the cooling, so the air inlet closes and the engine relies solely on on-board liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuel as in a normal rocket." that's straight from the wiki page.
The speed of question makes it more like RPG than iPG

(*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-propelled_grenade
Maybe you write FP code differently to me, but I'm constantly trying to minimize the complexity of the code, so that it only contains the essential complexity.

I gave a talk on how FP approaches force you to minimize accidental complexity recently, capturing this view, http://code.haskell.org/~dons/talks/padl-keynote-2012-01-24....
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From what I know the cost of cooling and power in Germany are much lower than in the US, Hetzner is also very long-term oriented, the equipment they buy only becomes profitable after running for a couple of years.
I did a light benchmark of their 512MB VPS[1] which is insanely cheap. The only things that change when moving to the 2GB VPS is RAM, hard drive space and total data transfer. The CPU remains a single core and the same speed according to [2]. It's possible there's less contention but you'd need to find a benchmark for the 2GB VPS to know for sure.

If you're after any specific benchmarks give me a yell and I'll see if I can provide one for you.

[1]: http://smerity.com/articles/2012/hetzner.html

[2]: http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/VServer/en#Which_clock_spee...

Edit: Came across a review of VQ19 (2GB VPS) vs EQ4 @ http://code.google.com/p/catz/wiki/DedicatedOrVPS
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how would a nominally different string type be better than wrapping the string ?

I mean I understand why having a Name, ZipCode or UUID stringish class helps ensure program correctness, I do not understand (out of ignorance) how it would improve your code vs a wrapper.
The raisin d'être for mining asteroids is that it's cheaper than mining the moon...
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How common DRAM errors are is very unclear. The numbers in that paper are astronomically high, but other sources have published numbers that are 30x or 100,000x or literally 10,000,000x lower.

See this Stanford ee380 talk: http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/100922-ee3...

The part about DRAM errors is about 57 minutes in.

Abstract here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100922.html

Also, AFAIK most hosting providers don't even have ECC ram as an option for servers, e.g. Amazon.
Sounds like you would rather sit down and have a talk with him than to access his facebook account.
It's amusing that in a thread about the advantages of Haskell, immutability is being identified as the largest failure a language has made.

I don't think immutable Strings are a bad idea but I do think it's unfortunate that Java:

- Made Strings immutable, used them everywhere, and only later worked out that perhaps CharSequence would have been better in a lot of places.

- Didn't provide a sensible way to handle Object extensions
Seems to be a US only feature, got nothing in Sweden. The first hit (there are no ads) for "självmord" (suicide in Swedish) is a site offering a guide "for those who have tired of life...and want knowledge about how to end your life in a good way". So no quite the same...
RSS is how I read hacker news. RSS is excellent.
I appreciate the comments from cheaters at the end. I run an online game, and the last one sounds like the majority of emails I get when I ban someone, although the people I ban are less articulate.

Banning paying players is the worst. I wish there was a nice happy solution to the problem of cheaters, but I don't know of one.
It's the BBC, they're explicitly not allowed to by their charter.
*raison d'être
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I think its worth exploring this concept. I wouldn't mind living under an AI controlled meritocracy ;). I don't care if an AI or a person is running a city as long as they are good at their job and they make sensible balanced decisions that are in the best interest of the people. If that's a machine intelligence then so be it, I for one welcome our IBM supercomputer super controller overlords.
When going hypersonic, lack of heat is of least concern ;-)

Icing occurs around plane parts where air at ambient temperature is further cooled, for example by pressure drop. As it is the case in throttle body of piston engine.

Here incomming air is highly compressed -- and thus heated up -- due to impacting plane parts at hypersonic velocities.
It works with amzn.to. Haven't really tried it with anything else; I just pinned an item that was available at Amazon, and I preferred to use my own referral on it. I don't intend to make a business out of posting on Pinterest.
RAM allocation is the baseline for determining monthly pricing and their product page specifically mentions DDR3 RAM, which generally costs 50% the price of DDR2 RAM.
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Well, these things are matters of opinion. Personally I'm happy with the new user interface. I find it works fine. (I did switch the buttons from icons back to text - credit to them for providing that option.)

As for the world's simplest homepage, that was the reason I switched from AltaVista to Google in the first place. I only started noticing the better search results after I switched to avoid the clutter.
What stops us from building autonomobiles for garbage collection?
An anecdote I didn't include in this post - not only did I have to follow Yehuda Katz during the lightning talks, but my mic died just as I started. A bad combination for the first time talking in front of that large a group of people.

One selfish reason I wrote this is to have more participation in the Toronto Ruby Brigade. If you're from Toronto, and want to help, let me know at @ryanbrunner. We'd love a hand.
Why are they complaining so much? If it works DARPA, SpaceX, VirginGalactic, ESA and NASA will pay more than you can ever spend. When they didn't get the attention of these guys so far, there is probably a mayor catch.

Edit:

What i mean is this part:

> To succeed, it needs to capture a healthy slice of the market for satellite launches. That's the biggest potential earner. But to do that, it must prove viable.

The story from the garage and share of satellite launches, that doesn't sound like a plan. That sounds like someone who want's to be like NASA, there was nothing in the article about reducing costs and LEO or anything business related.

> He intervenes. "Not 'could'," he says. "It's not 'Skylon could make space travel easier'. It's 'Skylon will make space travel easier'."

Skylon, makes space travel easier. Now on Kickstarter.
if it's a refinement of an existing law, then remove the existing law, and put this one in. don't add layer upon inscrutable layer.
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You need to open a message. There will be a icon showing something toaster-like with a down-arrow in it, a roughly octagonal surrounding an exlamation mark, a trash can, a pull-down button with a folder, and a pull-down button with a label.

Two of those icons make no sense at all (the toaster with down arrow for archive, and the octagon for spam). One makes no sense in the context of Gmail. It turns out that it is actually for manipulating tags just like the adjacent pull-down menu.

The trash can is pretty good though.
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Search: "tilt" for example. I have seen this about 2 years ago and it was really cool. This effect is just iteration on the same idea ...
How to fund a Startup.
Because this guy has a finished prototype ready for production, as opposed to all the other game projects that don't even have something designed?
If CISPA is passed, we, the citizens of the Internet, need to take broad and quick action to protect ourselves from the affronts of these aging, bloated government bodies.

Tor has proven to be compromised. Almost every forum on the Internet has its handful of sock puppets. What can we do to ensure that our future is free, secure, and anonymous?
Ya know, I bet there's a way you could have disagreed with him without attacking him personally.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I use excel every week or so and I grumble at that stupid ribbon every time.

I _was_ a proficient excel user once upon a time but now I feel like I'm trying to cook in my kitchen after some "organization expert" came in and moved all my stuff.

IMO, life is too short to have to re-learn stuff you already know.
You're probably right ... it was likely a good-natured joke. However, I see the elite school bias happen a lot in tech. When you're a young person trying to get that first job, etc., it really stabs you in the heart. The idea of signaling is reasonable but taking it to the extreme is just plain stupid. Peter jokes about the poor family with a big mortgage ... that isn't a sob story ... a lot of people have that or worse. My folks immigrated to the west with very little. I went to the best school (not Stanford) I could afford and tried to make the best of it. And I know for sure that I'm not the only one like that. All I ask is that we don't take these things as innocent jokes. It is just another form of discrimination ... we should point that out every time we see it.
I agree. It's always great to see a for-profit company that also provides a real, tangible benefit to society.
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Hi, I am really interested in how to sell your first rounds... Like I got an offer for my startup from a ex boss he wanted to give me $300k for 30% of the company, valuing it in $1.000.000

I don't think this is a good deal 30% seams a lot, but as I don't know a lot about how the other companies are doing I am quite lost.

Anybody have some experience to share ? how much did you give from your company for you first investor ?
I actually find the redesign quite nice. I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it when I first switched to it, I "temporarily reverted back" which helped me "map" the old functionality to the new. Stuff the blogger is ranting about are all easily "fixed" back to the old look and style, but he hasn't gone to the trouble of looking. In fact, the 2nd comment on site tells you how. The demarkation thing, I haven't used the default theme ever since additional ones were available, I see his point but just adding a background solves that. There is also new functionality for display density, i used the one which reverted to the old look.

But at least they have provided the functionality to go back to an old style look (albeit i had to dig around a bit and the average user may struggle, GMail settings are not the most user friendly IMO). I very rarely use it, but I still struggle with the ribbon style menu in MS Office, and that's been around for years!
Ask HN: Who owns the asteroids?
Startup like Planetary Resources is trying to mine the asteroids. My question is, who owns them?

Won't mining them affect gravitational forces applied by them - that could lead to disasters?

If a company is able to mine the moon, should it be allowed to drill a hole in it or even permanently destroy it?
If anyone's interested in this library and uses knockout, I wrote a simple binding for a buddy using it. It's not the best, but it's a decent start.

https://github.com/stoodder/knockout-raty
Purchased an EX 4S (32gb ram non-ecc) the other day from Hetzner, been running extremely smooth. They got it rigged up in about 2-4 hours. Installed Xen to run my own little VPS farm and it's dirt cheap compared to all the VPS providers out there, and more performant as well since you actually own the underlying hardware.

Just noticed they also added "1 Gigabit-Port" under "Additional Options" at only 39 EUR, along with an additional 15TB bandwidth increase (You get 100Mbit by default), and only 6.90 EUR for additional TB's of traffic. Pretty sweet if you're doing some kind of video/stream hosting. Of course it has it's downsides compared to S3 but when you compare pricing in "TB" to S3, you'll see how redonk the S3 pricing is. Now, if only Hetzner was also located in the US and Asia that would complete me.
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Depends on what you mean by Lisp. If you are just referring to "a lisp" I would start looking into Clojure (http://clojure.org) and some of the frameworks around that. I don't know of any "Rails" equivalent... but you can get close using:

Leinengen: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen for dependency management and project bootstrapping, development, REPL stuff.

Noir: http://webnoir.org/ A web framework

Korma: http://sqlkorma.com/ A database access API

Just start by grabbing Leiningen and go from there.

Don't forget there is also ClojureScript (https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript) so you can even write your client-side code in Clojure also (compiles to JavaScript).
The line "You cant just ban them because...It is also a violation of the human privacy rights." has particularly brightened up my afternoon!
Given where we are now, why not go-lang?
Do you have a source on Amazon not using ECC?
The Ribbon UI is one of the best improvements to Office in years.
The belief that there are bigger piles of cash waiting at the end of the "next" Facebook/Zynga/Instagram rainbow than those waiting for the "first autonomobile". Which is to say nothing of the legal (liability) and political (jobs) barriers to autonomobiles.

Generally, the perception (real or imagined) is that hardware can't be as profitable as software.
It's very very hard to take a company seriously that persistently have ridiculously lame bugs in their code and systems.

For example Windows Azure suffered outages in February because the programmers did not anticipate a leap year happening.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/02/29/microsoft-...
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Ask HN: Startup idea but possible conflict of interest?
I've been working with a client in a niche area on their website.

My fulltime work with them is coming to an end and I'm thinking about what to do next. One idea I had on observing them trying to help customers, is the lack of a focused review website. Their company is listed on several generic review sites but other competitors aren't, making it hard for customers to compare.

My idea is to setup a focused review website for the niche industry.

The problem: according to the client, its been tried before and failed due to conflicts of interests, mainly a competitor would setup a review site and tweak it in their favour.

Now, I would love to do this startup idea but how do I approach this? (I genuinely don't want to make a biased review website). Do I be honest about my past and try to prove the website isn't biased? or do I not mention it and distance myself from the industry? or should I steer clear?
Ask HN: Adsense a/c disabled with more than $200K to be paid. Can you help?
Hacker News please advise me. My company has been using Google Adsense for the last couple of years and has done business worth more than $200K before. Today morning I received an email saying the account was disabled for "posing a risk of invalid activity". The thing is the website that had generated the recent revenue totaling 100K was http://younews.in and it has been having a tremendous traffic surge since last month thanks to Facebook open-graph.

Am not sure if this triggered something. But we had a check issued last year in 2011 for $127K for advertising income from our other sites, which we had lost and had a re-issue and havent yet encashed. Now according to their policy even this amount is to be forfeited. Along with the 20k or something that had accumulated before Younews had adsense implemented and the traffic surged.

I have read on the internet many stories of similar instances like the one that became famous on Hackernews about Hatchlings.com Their appeal and response from customer support is pathetic as many of you would know. I am really at a loss now.

I want your advise on what to do, whom to talk to and if possible some person whom I can contact at Google and have a word.

Thank you :(
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"Mining the Moon" as in digging holes there is not the same as picking up the pieces of a crashed metal mountain. Anyway, forget that. Put the asteroid in Earth's orbit and work from there. What about the value of a new moon that could be used as a gigantic station?
If you use two different cards and some playing around with X.org you can get the nVidia drivers to play nice with 3 monitors.

Granted, it might be the most difficult configuration I've ever tried to figure out on *nix and I'm not trying to shoot you down, but for anyone reading your comment it's not actually "impossible".
ban them for an exponentially increasing time period?

as long as they are clearly notified "you have been banned for 3 months, cheat again it will be 9" it'd do the same job surely?
I am absolutely floored. The sun rises in the west and sets in the east. My Congressman (Schiff) did something right. I will reward him with small campaign contribution and a thank-you letter.
It sounded delicious though :-)
What subjects are you talking about there? What is it's format?
A class being final means that you can't derive from it in Java, not that instances of the class are immutable.
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it degrades to select / option boxes. The demo page sucks, but I have used this and it works fine without javascript.
OT, but I love the sketches. Are they pen/paper or (I suspect) a sketching app?
The best standards are those which have been taken from real-world implementations. In other words, the way you get a good standard is to ratify a de facto one.
You do know that there's a difference between vector displays and raster displays, right?
I and several of my clients use quite a few of those and I'm very happy with the performance. IO performance is very good (especially for a virtualized system) for example apt-get update / upgrade takes less time on one of those than it does on a dedicated root server of mine (Core i7 Quad, 8 GB Ram, 7.2 kRPM SATA).

Any other specific questions?
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I wish the lamba stuff would finally land in Xcode. I think of all the features in C++11 that's going to change the way I write C++ code the most.
I was not able to find Amazon declaring that they don't, but neither do they say anywhere that they do. For example they describe the hardware specs here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ If they did have ECC RAM it is unlikely that they would keep it secret, especially given that ECC RAM can be twice as expensive.
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