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I get it, but it feels like fighting nonsense with more nonsense though.

Regardless, while I'll grant that most of his assertions are at least true as presented, some of those are questionable - specifically, and maybe I'm the outlier, but I've always thought that the Heroku page was downright ugly, and I much prefer the AppEngine homepage.
No love for intercal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL Hmm. piet is missing too. http://www.retas.de/thomas/computer/programs/useless/piet/in...
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> He points out the ridiculousness of anti air missiles being installed in random flats

No, if that was his message, the post would be three words long ("Lunacy on stilts"). This is pure, unfiltered tabloid FUD:

> If one of those things is ever fired, either in anger or by accident, it'll shower white-hot supersonic shrapnel across the extremely crowded residential heart of a city.

As multiple comments courteously point out, that scenario has exactly zero grounding in reality.
Hi there - I'm a PythonAnywhere developer. We're working on getting SSH access supported, it's a bit tricky but we have it working in the lab so we should get it live reasonably soon.
I remember trying Ruby out years ago and being turned off by a REPL I couldn't understand (Python's REPL was excellent) and a lot of Perlisms in the syntax (e.g: sigil support, regexps built-into syntax). Going back from indentation based syntax was also a minus.

More recently, when I looked at Ruby, I was somewhat turned off by the use of code blocks as a building block, rather than lexically scoped functions. I find functions simpler to compose and reason about than code-blocks, and found it peculiar that functions were expressed on top of blocks.
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Well the point is to combat the ideal that python applications are ugly. It may be nonsense but that isn't a prequisite in forming opinions in people's minds.
Taken right from the Wikipedia page: "Kingdom:	Animalia." I'd say that pretty much clinches it!
"Time too valuable" and "too important" seem like synonyms to me.

Both are ways of arguing that you should be exempt from certain tasks that the rest of society / your group is not.
PythonAnywhere developer here - sorry about that. we discovered just the other day that our recent site redesign (which was in part to better support iPads) makes the ICS browser very unhappy, so I guess that's what your phone has? We'll get it fixed ASAP. It should work just fine on Honeycomb and earlier.
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Lion takes a good 3-5 minutes to start up from cold to having restored my windows, due to all the disk thrashing it does loading all the programs back up at once. I get the feeling it doesn't often respect my choice of not opening the windows, so I get to sit there and watch it grind away opening programs I probably don't want it to open as that's the reason I rebooted in the first place.
Thanks for the update. I am eager to use it. :)
>Stop solving problems that don't exist for most people. Build apps that people will use. Do big things that address 98% of users. These guys clearly have dev chops that I admire, so don't waste them on a project like this.

I know this site was originally called start-up news, but going to a site branded "hacker" news and seeing a post like this creates something of a LMFAO experience.

Please read your own post over again, and if you somehow don't see the irony in telling a group of people who at this point almost certainly qualify as hackers to stop working on a project they love on a site called hacker news, I suggest revisiting the published literature laying out what a 'hacker' is. (Starting with Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution if you haven't read it yet.)
That sounds like a great idea! Drop us a line at developers@pythonanywhere.com and let's talk about what would be involved.
iOS has always had multi-tasking. That only one app was allowed to be displayed at a time is separate from whether or not it was a multi-tasking OS.
By extension, developer time is too expensive to be wasted on long lunch breaks, socialization with co-workers, or toasting your bagel in the morning rather than eating it untoasted.

Basic hygiene/workspace maintenance is everyone's job. There are people who specialize, of course (the cleaning staff; if you have them, developers aren't scrubbing toilets and steam cleaning carpets, of course), but it takes literally 5 seconds to rinse a dish and put it in the dishwasher, the act of which improves the entire workspace and contributes to overall order in the environment. If you don't have a dishwasher, it might take upwards of 30 seconds to wash your plate, dry it, and put it away.

Developers are actually in a unique position where they can do their job while doing other things; much of a developer's job involves thinking through problems, and menial physical tasks are actually a pretty great way to get your brain engaged on the problems.
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Happy to elaborate.

Here's the way NOT to do it: Bingo Card Creator has a single users table with a role attribute. Setting role to "admin" makes your account into me. This is dangerous because it increases the damage someone can do with other attacks -- if, for example, I was bitten by the (common to Rails applications) vulnerability of letting users' profile pages reassign roles on update due to a mass assignment vulnerability, that would cough up everything my web app can do. WordPress has the same pattern, which means any of the (historically quite common) ways to convince WP that the logged in user is_admin() mean you can go to town on the software. This is made more problematic because, as noted, WordPress gives admins arbitrary code execution.

There are smarter ways to do this for y'alls own software, by the way. Probably the gold standard is:

+ keep the admin functionality in an entirely separate application at admin.example.com rather than example.com/admin/

+ enforce a strict access policy to the admin application at the network level. Probably the most straightforward is firewalling the admin app from the outside world -- the only way to get to it would be e.g. VPNing into the local network.

That would probably not be a viable option for WordPress, but you're free to not have the security of your businesses informed by WordPress' hard requirement that anybody be able to install the software within 5 minutes and have it work magically.
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Hi all. This is my first HN question, so lets see how it goes. I am a software programmer. I can manage well with a compiler, a unix computer, and a web browser. However, I have only a basic understanding of computer hardware.

I have an idea for a small project. I want to build a small, low power, computer that I can program to record simple real-world events (i.e. a door opened) and send messages to either my phone or a networked server. The component doesnt have to be general purpose or re-progammable, it could just start by flashing an led or something simple. I think that building this will give me a really good idea of what are the minimal components it takes to hook something up to the internet or just power a small machine.

I know logic gates and remember vaguely finite state machines from school. I am wondering where this community would suggest I start. Thanks.
The more complex offshore structures take a lot of expert human effort and other capital costs to setup. To make them worthwhile requires a certain level of revenue, so it is usually only suited to medium-to-large sized businesses.

Apple and the other large companies can afford to keep the profit offshore. They are still paying full rates of tax on the revenue and profits they need to keep their businesses running.

When Apple pays a dividend, they will do it by paying full US tax rates on the dividend. Thus these tax structures are biased towards big companies only because they can afford to defer payments.

That said, all the knowledge that you need to setup a similar structure for a small business is available online and has become a lot cheaper. If you are accepting credit card payments you can setup in an offshore nation with a business registration, a bank account and a merchant account for a few thousand dollars.
Remember this article sometimes back on HN
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/filesha...

I specially liked the idea of printing food. Not the glorious goal of ending world hunger(still need the ingredients right?) - but the fact that I won't have to drag my ass to kitchen. Write a cron job, that'll download recipe and print food!
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It's probably my non-native English then. I didn't realize it's such a common wording, thanks for pointing out. Just sounded a bit odd.

By controversy I mean the matter of Django transition to GitHub that IIRC was a subject for discussions for a long time.
You still have the challenge of choosing a base system. Remember we are base 10 simply because of biology. Our alien friends may be on a different number base because they have 7 fingers.
That, I 100% understand. I didn't mean to imply that somebody didn't need to respond, it just makes me sad that somebody did have to.
There's no 30 second rule for sampling - IIRC the limit to sampling is how many people you want to negotiate a composition credit with. That's why newer music that uses popular samples usually just sounds like an annoying remake of a song that was good enough already. This creates an image in the public mind that people who sample aren't very creative at all, just turning up the bass and shouting over old songs.

During the golden age of rap (aka the only reason rap entered worldwide mass consciousness), the music would be stitched together from half a dozen or more manipulated and overlaid samples of songs, often of sub-second length. After a few high profile lawsuits, rap was neutered into the type of party pop where it would be considered notable that samples were less than 30 seconds.

Listening to, for example, a Bomb Squad produced song from the era, you could have previously been familiar with every single song that went into the production, yet be hard put to spot more than one or two.

I'd liken the situation to trying to write a program in a world where there's a billion libraries that you can use, but for each one you have to share 25% to 75% of the profit from the program with the owner of the library. In addition, these billion libraries would be criss-crossed with a million patents, assuring that you can't simply reimplement the functionality without running into the same problem.

</why I stopped listening to rap in 1995>
"Google is losing control of Android"

Wasn't that always the whole point?
I'll admit that I TL;DRd around the middle, but I have trouble believing that the Kindle's customized Android OS is the driving factor in its initial market success.

It's much more likely to be the fact that it is supported by Amazon's ecosystem (which is alluded to as a comparison to Apple) and the fact that it debuted at an unheard of price ($200) for quality tablets, and ended up really pushing the market price of tablets in general down.
That collection of best practices can hardly be considered as "UTF-8 Everywhere Manifesto" as it focuses on Windows and C++. It's good, but I'd rather see more manifesto like document for all cases on a domain like that.
These structures only defer taxes. They will eventually be paid somewhere. Surprised there was no mention of the recent large Apple dividend, which will require that cash to be repatriated to the USA.

What is unfair is that an international shareholder in Apple stock only gets their dividend after US taxes are paid and is then hit again with their local taxes.
Yes absolutely. Both Windows and OSX/iTunes have existing desktop/tv mediacenter lock-in they can take advantage of to secure (imprison) new customers. Android doesn't have such a firm grip on its users. The strongest lock-in Google has is their online services like Gmail, Docs etc and even there it's really easy to export everything and use it on a different platform (which ironically is why i am a Google fanboy). I don't know whether Chrome OS/GoogleTV will become a viable platform to allow Android users to easily extend their mobile computing onto the desktop and tv or maybe another Linux distro will steal that opportunity (I recently saw Canonical demontrate some pretty seamless transitioning between Android and Ubuntu). Both Microsoft and Apple are moving towards the cloud with many of their services so maybe that's where the war will be fought, but I don't know if I see the whole app ecosystems moving along with them.
It is not hypocrisy.

Say in the NFL a group of players started advocating for a change in rules. Say, they want a rule where a player must be evaluated and sit out of a game after taking so many hits of so many g forces to the head.

If certain teams decide to implement the rules unilaterally it would put them at a disadvantage. The rules have to change for everyone for it to make sense. It is perfectly reasonable for a team or player to advocate for a rule change without acting as if that rule is in place without a hint of hypocrisy.
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Everyone thinks you mean cartridges with filament in them. Yes, you might be able to print new empty cartridges.
it looks more like an acid bath for dissolving the support material. It printed out with a white support structure, and in the end they list the volume of support material used for the structure.
Yep. I think if anything, the hacked version of Android is a drawback to the Fire. I know that I find the lack of the Google apps, and the 'real' Android market quite annoying. I suppose 'ordinary user' types of people probably don't notice as much, but I still see it hard for even a giant like Amazon to overcome the momentum behind the 'real' Android.
My mistake, there is a small fraction of the highway system which is not paid for by user fees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Fina...

There is a pretty simple solution to this problem - raise user fees until the system is revenue neutral.

As for "soft power", could you define that in a less vague manner? Are you asserting that dead Iraqis somehow benefit Apple?

And again, I'll note you keep harping on a few cheap, useful items, while ignoring the fact that the vast majority of spending is merely redistribution from the young to the old which doesn't benefit Apple at all.
It ought to be possible to deal with that by enumerating each possible digit. And then showing a representation of some kind of fundamental concept like PI/TAU that's easy to make a diagram of. Each side shows their digits and their representation and at that point we can determine conversions between the bases.
Because it's automatically stored? Google is still comprised of humans who make mistakes, sometimes horrible ones.

Because they were in a pretty bad position once they found out what was happening? I can see an "Oh sh-, we broke the law" moment happening at the highest levels of the organization.
Check out some of the others like makerbot to see them without the proprietary drawbacks.
I'm more of a reader too, but these videos are very different. Give it a try to a non-introductory video. They have quizzes and you need to follow with the material and even do some coding.
Adding features to a solution can require to change market positioning
Thanks for your response. The Rails example was on the tip of my tongue as I hit "reply", but I couldn't remember it.
To be clear, I chose this outcome. I am good with mathematics but not the mathematics usually needed as a data scientist and I have relatively little interest in investing the time to learn. Being a data scientist is a great job for some people but probably not what I would choose even if I was a developer again.

There is a continuum of skill balances; some people are more "data" than "scientist" and vice versa. The most useful balance varies from job to job. There are plenty of opportunities for people that have strong skills standing up clusters even if you have relatively weak analysis and model building skills. I would not dissuade anyone from becoming a data scientist, it will pay very well for the foreseeable future, but the skill set requires real effort to acquire. At a small company there is likely opportunity to learn the trade by coming at it from the infrastructure side of things.

It is a young enough area that it should be pretty easy for talented individuals to invent a career if they apply themselves.
The only Ivy Bridge chips that are out are engineering samples. It's good that people are bringing it up, but this is likely just a beta thing. Maybe they wanted to be able to remove the IHS...or maybe they didn't want people to know the final overclocked performance characteristics for some reason.
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-3 points? Ha ha, HN, humorless as always.

The joke, here, of which there are two, is that of course you can't print another cartridge. You'd spend 5kg of plastic to print a 4.9kg cartridge.

The second joke is that while you could conceivably print a cartridge housing, and fill it with counterfeit filament, it still wouldn't work. This because Cube uses the same business model as HP or Stratasys (I assume) where the printer's cheap, but the cartridges are expensive. Both HP and Stratasys use cartridges with chips in them that keep track of how much filament's been used, and it's probably too much to hope that Cube cartridges will be as easy to hack[1] as Stratasys cartridges. A $5 cryptocard chip more than pays for itself if it doubles your profit margin, and if the printer phones home, it'll be real hard to break the scheme.

1: http://haveblue.org/?p=938
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Well, that's weird. Mine's a 2009 model and I sorely regret installing Lion on it. The thing absolutely crawls.
Not only that, they need to provide some better examples of what you can do with it. Looking at the examples shown on their home page, i.e. bracelets, toys, etc. I am wondering why I would pay $1,300 for this device instead of buying those same things for $1/dozen down at the "Everything For A Dollar" shop.
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Something created existence...

No. That is absolutely not self-evident. In fact, if something created existence, that would require an entity that operates outside of our current understanding of physics. What evidence do we have for this theory? Why assume it was something that created existence? Maybe there are more laws of physics to be discovered. Perhaps these laws will very neatly explain many characteristic of our universe. There are infinite other possible explanations. The religious idea that a creator was cause of our existence is unsupported by anything other than religious texts, and this idea is clearly not the sole possible explanation for the origins of the universe.

So in short, no, the existence of a creator is not self-evident. If you use religion to answers such questions which are unanswered with our current knowledge of the universe, then you are being irrational, not analytical. Before we understood that our planet rotates around the sun, there were numerous supernatural explanations. At the time, it was thought to be unknowable. But a few hundred years later, we realize that: 1) the answer to this question is knowable, and 2) the answer now seems trivial, almost obvious.

Modern theists, like modern rationalists, are likely to accept that ancient religious doctrine is silly and false. Does a god pull the sun across the sky in his chariot each day? No! That's ridiculous. Most modern theists reject these outdated theological ideas. They have reduced their belief structure to one god; atheists just go one further. It's the obvious next step in our civilizations movement out of antiquity and towards enlightenment.

The modern religious person either ignores science and all of the evidence, or sits at the edge of our current universal knowledge and posits that the limitations of our current scientific knowledge must be explained by the supernatural. Fortunately, history will prove the religious wrong. Our current epistemological and ontological questions are no exception.
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thx for this. also, good use of comic sans.
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I guess you have to use iTunes to sync your iPhone, so use Android. You don't have to thank me.
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I completely disagree with the article author's premise that Google must "regain control" of Android.

The whole idea (according to the author) is that the strategy of open-sourcing Android would serve as a platform for offering other Google services around all these other devices in an effort to compete with Apple. I doubt that was Google's plan, but if it was, what a phenomenally bad plan.

My favorite statement: "Google could take full control of Android, by not releasing future versions to open source and changing licensing terms."

Yeah, that would be a great way to compete with iOS -- by restricting access to future versions of the software? What nonsense.

Any manufacturer building on Android was not doing so to become a lackey for Google services, plain and simple. Hence, Samsung and Amazon. The fact that those two companies are now dominating the distribution numbers for Android devices doesn't make Android less successful or endangered -- it only promotes it. And that's good for Google.

Again, I doubt Google is thinking about Android along these lines. However, I'd sure like to be in the room to hear the Android team respond to this author.
This comment is amusing because network admins at google have been in trouble for abusing their access to harass and stalk underage girls.

http://gawker.com/5638874/david-barksdale-wasnt-googles-firs...
Custom-made adapters, connectors, interfaces.

Think of situations where there are lots of varieties in the two interface points,creating enough combinations to make production of all of them economically infeasible. You can combine two "ends" and print a custom part.
The problem is that a lot of people think it's a good idea because they are ignorant fucktards and believe any spiel that comes out of the media terror promoters.

this may sound horrible, but I genuinely hope someone innocent gets injured or killed by the security forces and everyone jumps on it. it's about time it all came to a head.
While I don't remember how difficult it got, I know I loved Typing of the Dead. Orbs the old "House of the Dead" game, but users a keyboard instead of a light gun! Of course, good luck finding a legit copy...
Please change the link to pull back all pages at the same time:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/automobiles/before-flying...
You may want to have a look at the git mailing list. Instead of using something like githubs pull requests, all changes are exchanged through the mailinglist. As a result, you have really expressive commit messages. I am a big fan of that development model as you can read the whole discussion about a single line change within the commit message.

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git

edit: with "git send-email master..origin" all your commits will be send as seperated emails to someone you choose. Afterwards, the receiver can easily get the commits from his mbox via "git am".