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Keeping this in the context of devices like a pacemaker, do you really believe that an open-source development model would be safer for the people who depend on it than a closed-source model? Do you expect them to flash custom ROMs to the pacemaker that keeps them alive if it turns out there may be a problem with them, instead of going to the hospital to get the thing replaced?
The image search appears slightly better than Google, at least for the queries I've tried so far.
OK here it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/
I have been after a site that does what A Meal for Me does for so long - thanks!

It would be nice if it would tell me if there are other recipes with the same ingredients, rather than just taking me back to the beginning when I click "Not your taste? Try again", but apart from that it's fantastic.

By the way, the "get in touch" link at the end needs a "mailto:" bit - it's a 404 currently.
You either write to the underlying C API or you use ObjC.
This is a ransom, not a business model...
Agreed that reading old science stuff is fascinating. When I was researching The Geek Atlas I read a lot of original scientific papers and reports. Some of the best are the lectures given by Nobel Prize winners. For example, Chadwick's 1935 lecture on the discovery of the neutron is great: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/193...
> In the UK dentistry is not covered by the National Health Service. (More accurately it can be but the vast majority of dentists opt out.)

I don't know about the whole country, but in the cities I've lived in recently it's been no problem to get NHS dental care, at least for the basics. I guess I can't fault your words technically, but I think "In the UK dentistry is covered by the National Health Service" would be at least as accurate as your version.
Most of the heroes of our time do things that are probably not worth it financially, but do it to set things right for future generations. I'm sure Martin Luther King was well aware that he'd probably be assassinated for attempting to bring equality to the african americans, but he stood up for what he believed in. I feel like most people these days would rather live a happy passive life, than rock the boat to help future generations.
> I am referring to the call and apply functions which allow the user to set the scope of the functions during the function call.

Ah yes, so it is indeed about `this` and its dynamic scoping.

I can't say I'm much fond of it, I'd rather have correctly bound methods (à la python) and actual, optional dynamic scoping when needed (à la Common Lisp)

> Very true, but I'd really like to know why you would put JS in the same class as Fortran and Cobol.

I don't, I'm just saying being able to do "a lot" with a language does not mean the language is good in and of itself, and Fortran and Cobol are good examples of that: few under 50 will try and defend them (as opposed to PHP, an unmitigated disaster of a language which still finds defenders), and there are fucktons of code written in these languages and still running.
When you're over 30, you'll find that the world has become a mechanism for the sole purpose of making you feel old :)

I agree that the Spaceventure demo isn't all that impressive in itself. But if you screw your rose-and-blue-colored space glasses on tight, it's not difficult to imagine what it might feel like to play a new Space Quest game in the browser.

(Edit: the comments by the Q42 guys reveal that this prototype was just an idea a week ago. From that point of view, it's very impressive what they managed to build in such a short time!)
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You're not going to see an OSS app that competes in the professional printing world unless it's sponsored by someone with deep pockets. It simply is not practical for lone hackers, no matter how talented, to crank out code that produces the correct results for graphics professionals without having hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of esoteric equipment to run tests (and debug) on. You'll waste thousands of dollars in film/paper alone just testing your feature set on a single model of imagesetter. This is one of Adobe's strengths: massive familiarity with high-end graphics output devices.
It's easier to constrain your objects in the same language they're written in. Say I have an object where my constraint is that either fielda is set, or fieldb and fieldc are set, but not both (ignoring for the moment that that's a stupid object to have). I can trivially enforce that in a constructor, but it would take me quite a while to work out how to express that in SQL, if it's even possible.
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You know, that's funny. Reading The Facebook Effect, that was actually Facebook's first major revenue source. Such a "sponsorship" type of deal from Apple whereby they could access users. Apple was their sugar daddy for a while at the beginning.
In that same vein:

It was the company's responsibility (too) that there was no database backup when he wiped it.

It will be the company's responsibility when the referred employee hears about this and has a diminished reputation of the company. Will it bite them in the ass? Probably. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next month, maybe in a year when things get hectic and the referred employee sees no reason to be loyal to these guys...
The quote doesn't make it an allegation, that's right. The other parts do ("[...] that he has advocated for truly awful practices"). That "fact" is not part of the question and as such can only be refuted by invalidating the whole comment, not by answering the question (I hope that makes sense). A real (fair) question would have been something like "Here's a quote - what do you think about it?". Besides, again, it's not the right occasion.
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I can answer 2 and 3

2. Apache maintains a list of which compilers support what. http://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C%2B%2B0xCompilerSupport

3. The auto keyword isn't supposed to be magic. Rather it's for catching complex types that aren't easily to discover, such as the returns of template functions and iterators, and making it easier on the programmer by not forcing the typing out of long types. The type is resolved at runtime (as best as I am able to tell) and can help clean up some of the messiness of template programming.
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I'm a programmer and I constantly find myself using a small collection of the same keyboard shortcuts all the time, I would really like a mobile app which when the mobile is plugged into the pc would then provide me with a few buttons on the mobile which i could then program with multi keyboard presses, eg, i press a single touch button on the mobile and it presses cntr+tab for switching windows etc

Anyone want to take up the challenge, I'd be happy to spend up to £5 on something like this and I imagine quite a few other programmers would as well
His reasoning is bogus. For his C equivalent, he writes:

> There are only two states. Not initialised object/memory where all the bets are off and the structure can contain random data.

He can get exactly the same effect by mimicking fstream interface: use constructors and destructors as they were meant to and introduce bool operator! to check whether the object has been successfully initialized.

In this scenario, only destructor needs to know about the "fail-constructed" state. Other methods don't need to implement the state-machine; calling them on "fail-constructed" object would be undefined, exactly as in his C version (e.g., calling foo_bar without calling foo_init and checking that it succeeded)!
To answer my own question, articles and downloads all point to the IBM website, and the first lesson teaches you to "Get started with Hadoop-based data analytics on IBM Cloud" so it's clearly IBM pushing for their BigData solution based on Hadoop.
Of course it's complex. The template system is Turing complete!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189172/c-templates-turing...
If this is new functionality re recent 'How I Attacked Myself...'[1] then Amazon is fast.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890328
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"We also have our board designs complete, and have already been through several initial board revisions. Once funded we'll submit our boards to production..."

They claim to have some board designs of their own (I guess in addition to the off the shelf sensors). They should emphasize what they're bringing to the table that's new and exciting and not spend quite so much time describing the hardware you can already buy elsewhere.
I think the HBO situation is better in Europe, probably because they were not so hyped in Europe, and they and not that many people are using it.
It's not nutty, it's what hacker news does.

After getting down-voted a certain amount you get hell-banned. Your posts are still posted, except only people with "show dead" enabled see them.

Before that however you just get throttled and the site loads more slowly.
Not C++ compilers tho' - the issue is not the ABI, it's the name mangling. Tho' I believe Clang and GCC have decided to use the same convention, ICC might not have (and that by all accounts is a great compiler).
> Nobody is going to pay for me to see their cat picture

Famous last words.
FWIW, this is running on Moodle, a very popular e-learning platform.
While you're post is indeed lengthy, it twists the facts a little bit.

1.) They did not reply in a timely manor. They did not honor their self imposed SLA of 24 hours response time.
2.) They threatened him that more mails from him would get him marked as a spammer so he should shut up.
3.) Although they told him repeatedly that he needs not do do anything to get his money back, they did not give the money back into his bank account in the end.
It is almost worse that they paid up. The message I receive is that they will try to screw people over, but if to gets too hot they will pay up and desperately try to cover their butts. It shows them to be fundamentally dishonest at their core. Imagine being a customer. I wouldn't want to be one. I now know that if there is a problem it will be my fault, until they get too much bad publicity.

Im glad the guy got his money, but it only makes the business look worse, IMHO.
For 'auto'/magic:

There's a looooot of material about pro and contra arguments, if you look at C#'s type inference.

Replace

auto x = ...

with

var x = ...

and you can read a good amount of arguments about the benefits and (potential) downsides, and where people deem it useful and clear or where brittle and questionable.
The argument you're making was discussed at length when this feature was first introduced. I think it applies 100% here as well.
The mobile app I want to see is one that:

using the camera, from a photo, does OCR and searches for same / similar code on-line

OCR is a hard problem, but its fairly constrained when we use fixed-width fonts in IDEs etc generally; this is finally within the realms of solvable on modern smartphones
4-5 years to astronauts from the first experimental supply delivery sounds reasonable. Remember that we are re-tooling our entire space economy to work sustainably.

The ISS was extended "to 2020 via the NASA Authorization Act of 2010" [1].

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/facilitie...
Or he meant, "this is a literally perfect example of what the phrase "comparing apples to oranges" represents."

You know, I think that's what he actually meant. In fact, you knew that to and so did everyone else.
It turns out the header file actually has a pretty nice explanation of the algorithm:

http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/ui/gfx/color_analysis....
What I learned earlier this year is that tech recruiters get paid a flat fee for their services, plus a percentage of the recruitee's salary after some vesting period, usually 6 months. From what I heard, that percentage was between 15-25 percent.

Consider that the average programmer's salary is above 60k. 15% of that is 9k, plus the flat fee. The company has already gotten roughly 10k out of this referral transaction. It's not just an incentive to build a strong team...it's how much they'd have to pay if there were no employee referral program at all.
The engineer came off very combative and threatening from the start. After just 3 emails, he publishes a one sided case with the sole purpose of instigating an internet witch hunt.

Based on such an aggressive attitude from the get-go, it seems likely there is significant history between Misu and the guy that we don't know about.

Misu surely doesn't look good in this case, but neither does he. A lot of employers will think twice about hiring a guy who is so quick to publicize a disagreement.
I have no idea if this is what is happening to you, but see SlowBan on this page:

(http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...)
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If someone's able to make a decent case as to why rms being out of the picture makes the world a better place, they should totally be able to say that if it's their opinion. If they're just being a dick then yes, that will be annoying.
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After having read his reasons of why he wont be my tech co-founder I'm almost sure I don't want him as a co-founder neither.

You are only in it for the money: If you can make 60k in 6 months consulting, than do that. I can't pay that much, I can't even pay myself that much. And if your only contribution to the next FB is only worth 60k you aren't good enough.

You undervalue me / overvalue yourself: 50 % of equity aren't enough? I invest the same amount of time (which, by the way, also means money to me. Without a start-up I would make 90k a year as a employee...). A start is like a child, you know? 50-50 if it wasn't in-vitro.

I don't know you: Who are you? Well, we just met...

You are replaceable: Since you don't know the industry I want to develop a new product for I can take about just any developer. As an employee you may fit but not as aco-founder.

I haven't proven myself: That's why I want to do a start-up. Proving yourself in business in a big corp means becoming a middle pointy haired manager. I'm not going to be one, hence my missing entrepreneur track record.

You aren't passionate about it: I am, you not. Well, it is all about passion so we may just not match in this particular endeavour.

Disclaimer: I don't even belief half of what I just wrote. Whoever finds irony can keep it :-)!

Seriously, If you approach a future partner-in-crime like that nobody can help you anymore. Everything is to late and you REALLY are bad in business. But if you put any non-technical guy (general question: do you consider mech. engineers as non-technical, too? If yes, I don't like you anymore ;-)) in that category you aren't much better. And if you are that good that you don't need the a idea / business guy why don#t you just go ahead yourself?

I already wrote things like that before, I'll repeat it now: You are looking for a person you will spend more time during the next couple of years than you own wife. Be carefull about who you pick, it is hard. Every party is risking the same, time, money, career. Youare in this together, so respect youself. And damn it, value your collegues! Respect them, as a professional AND a person. That's one of the reasons lot of peopla start start-ups, a lack of respect as an employee. And respect goes both ways.

Mind that, if you don't the only thing you will be is cocky first and business or tech second.

EDIT: In y erlier post (http://martingryner.com/how-i-screwed-up-my-first-business-m...) he wrote that: "Technology wont solve all your problems", I think he is right about that.
Facebook does, they have subscriptions now. You can allow people to subscribe to you and then they will see your stuff without you seeing theirs (like Twitter). Maybe they don't publicise the feature enough, but as you can see it is quite widely used: http://www.facebook.com/zuck/subscribers
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There's more previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3927891
This statement in the article really upset me, and I'd like HN to let me know if I'm over reacting:

"at a time when constitutional arguments for states’ rights are gaining traction, this disagreement over the lowly menhaden could be grounds for questioning the constitutionality of the federal government’s power to interfere with the state of Virginia and its ability to manage its own natural resources."

To me, when a migratory fish's population can be directly linked to one location, and that population has an effect on out-of-state fish and bird populations, then it is no longer that state's own natural resources.
This could be taken as a surprise display of intelligence by a non-human species or it could be interpreted as a testament to our arrogance in thinking that we are so far above the rest of nature. Almost every attribute traditionally thought to be uniquely human has been observed in other species. I think that the lesson here is that our furry, four legged and submersible co-habitants deserve more respect.
The point he makes is that in the long term, getting locked into a single vendor isn't worth a slightly better user experience.
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Dear Hacker News citizen,

I am currently creating a launcher app for iPhone, similar to Launch Center by App Cubby http://appcubby.com/launch-center/.

I am having trouble launching few apps on my iPhone with the launcher app that I am developing.

Is there any way to make sure my launcher app with launch every possible apps?

I asked my friend and he said that I must gather all of the URL schemes of all existing iPhone apps, is that true?

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Nobody's saying they wouldn't just reflash it at the hospital. Replacing a pacemaker requires surgery, which is why they're externally programmable in the first place.
> It's not really HBO's fault that Game of Thrones is pirated so much. It's the fault of the entire ecosystem.

It's the fault of the entire ecosystem that a company is targeted by pirates when it chooses to make a small number of high-quality TV shows with excellent production value and put them behind an expensive paywall only available to people with cable TV subscriptions?

I mean, I understand the rationale of HBO in accepting the cost of piracy in order to maintain a lucrative symbiosis with cable affiliates. But I'm sure they recognize that in doing so they cause a significant amount of piracy, and it harms everyone in the TV business, not just HBO.

There's basically two driving forces behind piracy. One is price, but there is a good argument to be made that people who pirate because they couldn't otherwise afford to pay otherwise don't actually affect the bottom line very much. The other is universality. Ten dollars a month to a usenet provider or VPN service will give access to every single major movie, TV show, and album within a few days of release. It comes in multiple DRM-free formats, and can be played basically anywhere.

So long as piracy has a distinct service and price advantage over HBO, they are encouraging piracy. And the worst part for TV producers is that there is a negative network effect: once someone spends the opportunity cost to pirate Game of Thrones, the marginal cost of pirating something else goes way down, and services that do compete favorably with piracy from a service perspective like Netflix and iTunes suffer as well.
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The spirit in this is just great, I really mean that!

Edit: I realy have been serious about it. Apologies if you could have taken the comment as sarcasm, it wasn't.
As the article says and as a lot of people including me keep repeating: I would pay practically ANY amount for movies & shows I want to see. I live in the EU and you have to struggle to see shows like Game of Thrones legally (basically, fly to the US or wait forever). That's not an option. Worldwide (!) distribution at the same time (!) for an amount they make a profit on would be fine with me and I know many others. It's not about money; it's about that the world has changed; people have instant worldwide communication (via Facebook for instance) about the unfolding of, for instance, this series, yet the viewing is not worldwide. In the olden days, you didn't know about your friends in the US and what they watched, so you didn't mind waiting a year for a series to get on local tv. Hell, you probably didn't even know the series existed until it aired. As long as this is not changed, people will keep downloading as there is no alternative.
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I think this theme of "we implemented BASIC Interpreter / Firebase feature / Mixpanel analytics on the plane / street car/ Caltrain" is overused.
I could have sworn I heard this guy talking about how the TV model is great, because the whole distribution channel is outsourced through affiliates who are licensed the content... and then talk about how with the Internet, most content is licensed through distributors, but their advantage is that they don't license the content, so they own the entire experience.

I don't get why everyone is saying he is so rational/logical. Seems like he is talking out of both sides of his mouth.
This is very cool -- I love that we're seeing more and more open source work on making web game engines that are not Flash. Stuff like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope were very cool, and it's good to see more frameworks and libraries for taking some of the effort out of it and making it more mass-market.

One thing that excites me especially is that a simple game creation engine in the browser might be a great chance to excite kids about programming with a very low barrier to entry.