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Maybe it's just me, but credit cards seem pretty old fashion.

I mean, could you imagine someone inventing a payment technology today that required you to give away your secret password to each and every person who needed to bill you? It's no wonder there is so much money lost to fraud.

I think companies like Dwolla are the real future, even if Dwolla itself fails. The tokens they issue for payments are only good for a certain amount to a certain recipient. Recipient gets hacked? Sign in to Dwolla and expire that token, simple as that.

Also CC fees are absolutely astronomical, we've just gotten used to paying them. We really need a future where money transfer is not controlled by a few private interests that are capturing 3% of everything.
Not a blog post, but a great 3 minute video about beginnings from zeFrank. I put the mp3 on my player so when I need a bit of inspiration to kick off something I get it going.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlCVwxoL_g
I have had good experiences with ipython inside virtualenv, what's the problem?
Use a trackball if you have problems with mice destroying your tendons.
Well, on etymologic grounds, "gaol" is closer to French (goale, while the pronunciation is different) than the Old English equivalent (gaylle, gaille, gaile) - so jail is somewhat closer to the Old English, in form and pronunciation.
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I am really excited for the day when Stripe will be available in Australia (if ever). Is anyone aware of any stripe competitors that are available for use in Australia?
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I would love to get somebody familiar with these two approaches (and their ease of integration with broader Hadoop) to provide some quick pros and cons...
Btrfs is getting the love.
And soon after, a team of experimentalists the world over set about proving him right. People rarely remember the experimentalists, the guys who go through all the hard work of providing the evidence to the theorists.

See: Michelson and Morley, Eddington, and others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity
Mongoose is great and should be also checked out.

To get this paradigm shift and the entire experience with Node, NoSQL and especially Node in combination with Mongo the Native Driver is essential:

Mongoose is great and basically an ORM (or they call it ODM, Object Document Mapper) which forces you for good reasons to do a little more preparations like doing a scheme and so on. Point is that's highly recommended as migrations are with SQL counterparts but the point is for the 90% of the projects you start you do not know:

- Will you ever finish the project?

- Will the project ever be deployed?

- Will you ever get heavy traffic and traction?

Often especially with private side projects you just play around and try. Client projects most of the times never reach web scale (and if they reach refactoring and optimizing is easy). Then, most important is is just to get started and the Native Driver is then the best choice because it totally rewires your brain. No scheme, just start. Want another field? Just save another key to this document (=record). Want a join to give users multiple options in a field? Just use an array. Want to save pictures in the DB and not in the filesystem with creating some file organization script, just put them in Mongo with GridFS too (which is fast btw). Let's not forget that Mongos JS interface and JSON data structure are very close to JS and do not feel low level, so native driver isn\t a low lewel driver, it basically provides the original Mongo JS interface which is very convenient and not low lewel at all. You don't have validations but as soon as you need them switch to Mongoose or write them yourself.

To get a proper db model and architecture it's definitely better to a design nice relational data model, use SQL, do migrations and if performance required, put some NoSQL or Redis in between (or whatever). BUT: this is all work and even with Rails where migrations are kind of easy, it is work beforehand and you have to plan a godd structure. This often prevents you just from starting and with the native driver you just start and in ridiculously many cases a plain document orientated data model is fully sufficient and even for those which would require rather a RDBMS this can be tweaked. Performance should never be a problem.

Point is: the classic approach with SQL, data models, mapping, ORMs is good but prevents you from just starting, "sketching" you program and getting out of the door. Latter is more fun and gets things done. Maybe later you have to refactor when a project is successful. But this is easier than doing all projects always in a structured and formal manner. And even if you will use Mongoose all the time it is good that you experienced once the Native Driver, that you know this thing exists and using Mongo with its native interface is as easy as using a toy.
Probably not worth complaining about, though... Once you've minimised the ribbons Explorer won't have any more chrome than it did in Windows 7.
Yes, I know. I was only correcting the ridiculous tangent, not referring to the actual headline.
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The arguments for the Thiel Fellows to pursue this opportunity and the current debate for the overall college "bubble" have little in common. While they touch on a similar subject of (not) going to college, I don't see how a very narrow fund for 20 of the brightest and most capable teens in America has anything to do with the current status quo for the average young person who is going to college. I think they're very separate debates and it's too bad that the conversation has been sidetracked in this way.
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Nice MVP with critical mass reached.
They seem to have a mobile app, as per the screenshot on their homepage. Besides a certificate error, it seems to work fine.

https://m.chains.cc/
I have to say that I feel like this discussion often gets bogged down by thinking about language semantics and how that may help/hinder learning and development as a programmer.

For most people who want to learn to code they've experienced or seen something that has excited them in some way. This could be anything from a website, an iphone game, an error on their bank statement, or the tessellated feature on the side of a building. Someone who is excited by the visual feedback of a Processing app may not be excited by the simple high-level magic you can do with NLTK, or the funny things that you can do to a webpage in the developer's console.

That said, I've been following Processing since it's early betas and I think it's a fantastic first programming language -- not just because of the mechanics and ease of use -- but the fact that there is a giant community that fosters and encourages exploration in a way that humans can understand.
Take the single worst case possible and act as if this is normal = FUD

It is easy to spot this: if the article implies even in a slight degree that you'll die if you use a web service, it is FUD
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You seem to imply that this is not a well-written C code. Why do you feel this way?
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Who cares if it's open to XSS? Does the site have a cookie you care about?

If it's truly anonymous, then it doesn't matter if someone forges your cookie.
I've been looking forward to a proper editor with GitHub integration, if only for writing notes and documentation into a git repo. (PlainText is great for doing so to Dropbox, but I miss the power of git.)

Downside, trying Worqshop out and it crashes as soon as I enter my credentials when creating a new project. Consistently. I really hope this gets fixed quickly. (I'm on a 3rd gen iPad, the "new" one, and am using a bluetooth keyboard. Edit: though it crashes without the keyboard on, too. Fully up-to-date and everything.)
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I think the suggestion was to use the sans-serif for the heading. This makes sense because you're not writing "Today" — that's part of the interface. Same as you're not writing "May 2012" on the calendar.
Buying and trying now. I'm hopeful. I've been thinking that this is an app that clearly needs to happen and (while I'm glad you're charging less) I'd easily pay $99 for if it was perfect.

If this is good, I'm going to buy a bluetooth keyboard for the iPad tomorrow.
Last week they made a post to Building Windows 8 and deleted it shortly after. It had a few caps of the new style in it. Here's one I dug out of my cache: http://imgur.com/hvvQZ

It looks sort of like a hybrid of Whistler and Aero styles. It's nice enough (though I've always liked the Whistler style) but not exactly a massive improvement over Aero.

>>> Harris has relatively little to say beyond describing the Aero as having the "appearance of highly rendered glass, light sources, reflections, and other graphically complex textures." But he does add this: "This style of simulating faux-realistic materials...looks dated and cheesy now, but at the time, it was very much en vogue."<<<

To be honest I didn't think Aero had dated all that badly. Is this just a way of framing Apple software (which is known for that stuff) as dated and cheesy? Or is he making a valid point here?
Ok, strictly speaking, YC companies would just post the jobs as regular submissions, and the job posting category came in part to shut off commenting. The point remains the same though.
How long have you lived in Australia? I have never seen "tire" used here before.
The X32 ABI is interesting. Who'd have thought this many years after 64 bit becoming mainstream, (and decades after it becoming mainstream on servers) something like this would be needed.
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still have to agree with tim_sw, I am amazed startups looking at 5 month window decide to take company retreats (maybe we are talking only 2-3 people?)
Something that rubs me the wrong way as a language perfectionist ... "Work out" should be two words to match the others ("Post", "Drink", etc.).

Love the handwriting font, calendar view, and streak badges!
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I'm sure Howard's laptop had more than just code on it.

Which brings me to my next point: If you use a laptop, do regular backups of the contents. And keep those backups in a separate location from the laptop.

This is the 3rd story I can remember reading about people getting their laptop stolen. And I know someone who had their laptop stolen recently, I was even in the room where it happened while it happened. (I was doing something else and didn't notice it's absence.)

When it happens, the backups will be your only consolation.

(And any tracking technologies you may have at work.)
Here are some question for PG (or any of the YC partners):

How many of the YC founders are college dropouts?

How many of the YC founders that had successful (by whatever definition you'd like) exits were college dropouts?

And lastly, how do you feel about college education in general? Do you agree with Thiel, that it is not a good use of time and money? Is college education a big factor when choosing companies for YC?
It's like real-time reddit.. its be fun, but probably hard to make constructive, lol

I like it, and envy the fact you could just create this on a whim over a weekend. I wish I had that kind of discipline when it comes to some of my spontaneous ideas!
Thank you very much. That's definitely the study I was referring to.

The follow-up experiments you mention, where the coping strategies are taught, sound extremely interesting. Hopefully us info-addicts are not already too old to develop such "effective attentional control systems."

I installed focus.py this weekend (after seeing it here on HN), and am looking forward to some productivity gains. It was months ago that I read "Self-discipline in 10 days" (probably also on an HN recommendation). The key take-away (which I keep reminding myself) was that self-discipline is a skill that is learned and practiced, a muscle which is strengthened through exercise.
Right. What happens to the rest of America? Not everyone can be a Theil fellow.
Why wouldn't it clearly be the operator in that case then? Its impossible for even the most responsible of people to foresee what will happen for someone driving their car.
I cannot comment on the merits of either as a first language, since I don't know Processing and Python was not my first language (although it was really easy to pick up for me), but I do wonder why people think learning stuff should be easy these days. Almost anything worth doing is going to be difficult.
"more common on Wall Street"

It's common with both.

"For example, everything I've read is that Facebook does not overwork their employees in the course of normal business."

This isn't what I've heard at all..from people working there now. These companies don't say you are required to work past 40 hours. However, it's part of the culture.

This is most likely because they hire right out of college and the employees have no obligations, which allow them to make work their life.
Can someone explain to me why it isn't always the operator of the vehicle who is liable for death/destruction caused by their operation? Unless the brake lines were severed intentionally or the vehicle was provably neglected, then it would seem to me that the ultimate responsibility is on the driver who causes the accident- not the owner of the car or the company that facilitated the rental.
A lot of the links I've seen people post in this thread are the kind of stuff I used to see a lot more on HN. Sure, I enjoy the HTML5/Rails/Python/(insert buzzword) posts, but it's too bad that a lot of new HN members will miss out on awesome posts with titles like "it's not about the idea" or "just ship it" etc.
Is default support for dynamic graphics switching (~bumblebee) meant to be implemented as part of the kernel or the graphics driver?
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What the Windows ecosystem needs isn't a focus on UI, what it needs is a new set of APIs that obliterate older software and removes this insistence on backwards compatibility. I think that such a move could potentially be leveraged by Microsoft towards a massive development gold rush for new applications.
What capability did she, or anyone have, to determine that this individual was a reckless driver? Given a lineup of 10 people, can you tell who is a reckless driver in 30 seconds or less without giving them a through skills test and psychological evaluation?
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The ribbon in Windows Explorer is minimized by default.
Let me start by saying that the notion that XSS can only be used to harvest cookies is a very common misconception.
The truth is that, with XSS, any action a user may do on the vulnerable site (that doesn't require a password) can be mimicked.

With an XSS vector in the board title (meaning the JavaScript would be injected into the page listing all boards) it would be possible to force all visitors to participate in a DDoS attack against this site. If I'm not mistaken, it would be possible to force the participation in a DDoS against ANY site. I'm fairly certain that cross-site ajax works fine in modern browsers, but without cookies to prevent abuse- cookies are not necessary for DDoS.

Edit/Note: This does mean that any site could force visitors to participate in a DDoS attack. What prevents this from becoming common is the number of visitors required for a DDoS attack to succeed.

This would probably not work on this site because the number of users is only ~6000. I don't know how many users would actually be required to dent a typical site. I do know that "Anonymous" recently used a client side DDoS tool on a large number of users.

Edit 2: In light of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000301, I'll point out that XSS could result in the forced posting of illegal content, as well.
My bad. I should have mentioned search results page. But Google was known was clean search results page. It looks little mess now.
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Agreed.

Add these on to Web interfaces, which are increasingly (hullo, Google?) trending toward persistent, non-scrollable header/footer elements, and I'll find myself on websites in which perhaps 25% of my screen is available for my present task.

And that's using an interface which already minimizes browser and desktop GUI intrusions (Firefox/Vimperator and WindowMaker).
Looks like Imgur is over capacity. Could you rehost the images somewhere like Minus ?
This is a fair point -- if vocational school were more widely promoted, there would be more people with vocational training and the wages would go down. However, I still think it would settle into a reasonable level of compensation, and regardless, there will always be a base level of demand to be met as long as we keep using electricity and indoor plumbing.
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This is a good clarification.

On the topic of the overall bubble, I think the main problem is that the demands of the marketplace are not effectively filtered into pressure to select certain majors. Thus you have the current absurd situation where there are as many STEM students as there were 30 years ago, but the number of liberal arts majors has skyrocketed.

Not everyone can work in publishing and theater.

Also, it's a shame how 60 Minutes, a main stream cultural bellwether if there ever was one, eviscerates Thiel. He's one of the few practical visionaries around, and his thesis that the American cultural status quo is indeterminately (rather than determinately) optimistic about the future is bolstered by the treatment they give him.
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The dock has that reflective surface.
Just an analogy - what if you rent your house and the renter happens to be a serial killer and 'uses' the house to murder people, and in one of the acts kills himself. Won't it be ludicrous for the authorities to prosecute the owner ? Unless they can establish that the owner had prior knowledge of the serial killer and rented the house on purpose.

I don't understand how the owner of the car can be held responsible for the damages.
Sure.

http://min.us/m4bajqk5V
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I have to wonder whether the managers using that rationale notice whether compression comes at the cost of efficiency.
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Well i rode MUNI a few days a week for 15 years becuase otherwise I'd get $300/week in parking tickets, but read last month's anecdotal stories in the Chron and Examiner

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Interestingly, it's impossible to watch this on an iPad without paying: all it does it it offers you to install a $4.99 60minutes app...
What I thought was more interesting (Linus noted "Nothing really exciting happened since -rc7...") was the exchange between Linus and Peter Zijlstra, in particular this Linus eruption:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/19/97
Open plans make concentration harder and communication easier

So in other words, all else equal, they reduce the signal to noise ratio.
pygame works well for this.
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Exactly. Before renting anything to anyone should they undergo a 2-day full psychological evaluation to ensure that they are mentally stable, plus a full driving skills assessment? No, that's clearly absurd.

It should be the driver and his estate that is responsible in the end. If that estate does not have enough resources to cover the damages, then... well, shit happens and sometimes there's just no recourse for bad luck.
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You're mixing levels of analysis here. You might as well say, "He didn't vote; he just used some sort of chemical-containing stick to make marks on a thin slice of a tree." Your point about legislation being needed would be stronger without that.
The code that generates the completions [1] and displays them [2] is fairly simple. It uses a mix of scanning for a function's docstring, Python's built-in rlcompleter module [3] to generate the possible identifiers and keywords, its own module scanner for imports [4].

[1] https://bitbucket.org/bobf/bpython/src/2b3fb2cb6500/bpython/...

[2] https://bitbucket.org/bobf/bpython/src/2b3fb2cb6500/bpython/...

[3] http://docs.python.org/library/rlcompleter.html

[4] https://bitbucket.org/bobf/bpython/src/2b3fb2cb6500/bpython/...
Thiel's case seems to be around 2 points: college is overpriced, and the diploma is overrated (specifically the B.A., though this is not mentioned in this interview). Wadhwa consistently seems to be missing the point here in his counterarguments; Thiel is not promoting anti-intellectualism, he's simply bringing light to these issues. Because of rising costs, we can't continue to put education on a pedestal; it needs to be treated like any other paid good or investment.
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I wander if that same train of thought would also apply to something like Lua. Its also a lightweight dynamic language, but it is less warty and even though it doesn't come installed everywhere it is very portable.
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Anyone has a good argument why NOT to use this for every non memory intensive application? I always thought that using 64bit pointers was a waste of memory when not needed and this x32 abi to me seems fantastic since it keeps the several advantages of newer 64bit cpus (more registers for example as mentioned in the article).
When you say 'screwed', how do you mean exactly?
Nice project.

Would post it to reddit.com/r/loseit

That is a community of people losing weight, and your app would really be a hit with them.
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How come no one mentioned Steve Jobs and his commencement speech at Stanford? It is absolutely one of my favorites. I watch it everytime i feel that i could use a dose of motivation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
There is pyprocessing, probably others: http://code.google.com/p/pyprocessing/
Ooh, cool, okay! Thanks! :)
Not too many 'casual' pirates download from usenet. They just go to The Pirate Bay and the comments will always tell you a file is fake before you hit the download link. These fake torrents do exist in large numbers but they're trivial to avoid.
I think there's a free app called GoalMaster that will let you enter a value. It's pretty slick too.
Whether it's rational or not, this makes me like Zuckerberg a lot more. It seems like a good way to keep your head focused on what matters, to marry the same week that your company goes public.