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Can I repeat the plea made yesterday on this forum to slow up with these constant "Obama this" and "Obama that" postings?

If the content is relevant to the focus of HN then well and good but otherwise the postings are cluttering up the 'new' page and making the site look too much like Reddit ;)
I guess that sort of works... but php is still serverside. Anyone doing web dev must learn javascript, but not necessarily php. Javascript would probably be competing with actionscript or any other client-side plugin stuff.
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Yeah, it's strange how only 2 years ago or so, both ruby and javascript scored rock bottom on Alioth Shootout, with javascript scoring 4 times slower than ruby, and ruby 3 times slower than python. Two years later and there's 7 interpreters for ruby and 4 for javascript.
Not to burst your bubble, but a lot of people write their blogs in a word processor.. then just c+p it into WordPress.
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Great! That's awesome! (Although it's true that CC-BY isn't really intended for software, it's open-source and IIRC GPL-compatible, so it's plenty good enough for me. The 4-clause BSD license recommended by the other poster is not GPL-compatible.)

AVRs are these fun little cheap microcontrollers; the Arduinos and Chalkroaches, among other things, use them. Writing enough code to drive a couple of on-board UARTs and switch between some real-time processes on an ATMega AVR would be a thing to do in an evening or a week, not three months. So three months to do the same thing due to the unnecessary complexities of PC hardware is kind of depressing! It's a little less depressing if you were only working on it, like, 8 hours a week or something.
Maybe you are at the point now that you can implement any application in any language without ever running into problems, writing every library routine you ever need from scratch, porting the compiler/runtime to a new platform if you need to, and you also have complete mastery over your application area, say aeronautical engineering or bioinformatics, able to solve any problem in code without ever speaking to another living soul.

If so, my hat is off to you my friend. But that's not me, after 15 years as a professional and two degrees, and I'll wager that's not anyone else reading this either. In my experience, the community around a language trumps all other factors for getting stuff done.
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Technically, it doesn't seem very challenging at all. This is the perfect usage case for caching. The feeds aren't user specific, are they?

If not user specific: user requests feed for xyz.com: try to pull from cache. If there's a miss grab the feed from xyz.com, store to cache, and serve (be sure to set cache to expire in however often is necessary). If cache hit, you're done!

You can throw in extras, like make the cache semi fault tolerant by storing the latest feed to a DB. If your cache ever dies, then you can grab from DB to refill the cache.

Beyond that, it's just logging views and subscriptions to feeds.

Am I missing something? I don't actually use feedburner...
From the API docs:

"If authentication credentials are provided, the rate limit status for the authenticating user is returned. Otherwise, the rate limit status for the requester's IP address is returned."

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#ratelimits...

Remember that the 20,000 calls are for GET requests. POST requests don't count towards that number.
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This is really useful to everyone exploring their APIs. I just found that the visualizations can render unicoded bangla text, which I had assumed wouldn't work since it didn't work in the charts api.

edit: Bangla is only working where they're using svg. Still broken in the bitmaps. Does anyone know where to file bug reports?
So does that mean an authenticated user of an application can have up to 20,000 GET requests per hour?
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There's some enthusiasm for Groovy here, tho' we've not (yet) done any production work with it. I guess my main fear is that it's a dead-end like Cold Fusion, I don't feel it really has a critical mass behind it. What sort of work are people doing with it?
I assure you, you can do dumb things and still have a lot of Twitter followers. For example, you have 400+ followers and advise people to use target="_blank."
Weird. I was just thinking that XKCD has become much too conservative in its geek humor; often, I sigh when reading XKCD because it's become so close to speaking to "laypeople" (abstruse goose does a slightly better job). Then again, the only people I associate with at the moment are academics, as I'm in grad school.
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The point is this:

If you run into issues, you need to be able to solve them. If the language is well documented, you can use that. If there are tons of books on the language, you can pick up a book.

I'd say asking the community is usually a last resort. Ever asked the PHP or Javascript community questions? Most of them have no idea. They'll give you terrible, often incorrect answers. Ever asked the Java community? Most will recommend you use XML to create a FactoryFactoryGenerator pattern on Jetty using enterprise beans. Ask the lisp community? They'll burn your house down for assuming you're worthy of asking them a question.

Obviously these are generalizations, and I'm sure there are some great javascript,php,java,lisp etc communities around.

Choosing the language based on the community amounts to just following the other sheep, rather than taking an unbiased decision about which language best fits the job required based on factors including libraries available, books, maintainability, ease of hiring people in later etc etc

Also I'd say communities like this (Hacker news) are far more valuable than specific language communities.
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I would like to save stories without upvoting them. It'd be even nicer to be able to bookmark individual comments.
I think it means that the 20,000 requests is for the user/IP that requested white-listing, rather than all the users of that app. I might be wrong though...
I want to "follow" people. Color user names a different color of those I care about.

Also, potentially add a bit of text next to those usernames (their startup/locale)
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which isn't alot really... if you had 2000 users :)
"how it works" is a bit convoluted. Perhaps distinguish between advertiser, publisher and job seeker and explain how your service helps them. The design in general is not as clean as it could be, and the font-sizes on the first page seems random. Maybe you could emphasize important parts and leave out less important ones.

The links in your widgets seem to be broken "post a job" and the image-link end up on the start page, not shure this is intentional.

Apart from design, I think the idea is neat. I am not shure how your payout compares to regular advertisement, but the posibility of a large profit might convince a lot of people to put your widgets on their page.
Very true.

I really wish Twitter had an API more similar to Facebook's FQL system. When I request information from Twitter, there's a lot of excess data that I don't need and don't use, causing unnecessary load on the Twitter servers.
This has always worked for me.

Most of my best new clients have been referrals who were behind schedule at the time and had a freelancer that who had been unable to get the job done so far.
I all cases, I either met their current deadline or missed it by a week, and earned a longterm client who always gives me his projects. In fact I will have to hire someone this year and probably use the services of a freelancer.

Last year I officially decided to cease actively seeking clients.
Doh! I already did the switch a couple of months ago, manually! sigh

But kudos to Evernote for thinking about us! :D
Yeah, this is a problem of their own making. Returning data that ultimately, alot of developers don't need. For example, returning a specific users follower count requires you to GET a huge XML return.... more specific methods required me thinks!
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One of my challenges is educating my market on the differences.

1) A word processor provides spellcheck, grammar check, and some text enrichment aka style checking. My software provides spellcheck, minor grammar things, and very heavy text enrichment. Desktop software comparable to my text enrichment technology retails for $130. My spellchecker also detects homophones (where, were, etc.) which the Firefox spellchecker and the Wordpress spellchecker do not do.

END USER BENEFIT: checks you don't get in a word processor, improvement over the default spellcheck.

2) c+p from a word processor back into Wordpress is cumbersome. Claiming that all people follow this practice is misguided. I agree some people do this and others use standalone blog editors. However I see CMSs bringing in more and more word processor functionality as time goes on. After all, you are editing and producing content in the CMS, these tools should should be available.

END USER BENEFIT: convenience, safety net built into the CMS for those times when writers are too lazy to open a word processor

3) my engine makes it easy to add rules to enforce organizational style guidelines in writing. Imagine you have a corporate blog where many employees are producing content that the public sees. Most organizations worth their salt have a style guide. My software makes it easy to enforce style guidelines. I don't have a rule editor in place for everyone yet but my engine can support this.

END USER BENEFIT: centralized control of style guidelines, ability to enforce style guidelines

Think beyond Wordpress. Any web app with TinyMCE can use my service to embed language checking capabilities as shown in that screenshot.

(note--even though I'm building writing tools, its 6am, I've been up all night, please forgive my sloppy writing style right now)
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There was quite a discussion about this some time ago.

Ask YC: How do you follow YC threads you enjoy?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=396186
That's exactly what we did at ww.com / camarades.com when the collapse of bubble 1.0 forced us to change strategies. Fortunately we had our plan ready to roll when the crunch came, we added a whole slew of (paid) features to the existing service, which remained free (and still is today). This allowed us to offset the drop in advertising revenue.
apologies, I thought it was so old a spoiler alert would not be required. Carelessness on my part for sure, it's just that to me it is like discussing the ending of 'star wars' or 'the french connection'.

Great movie though, The Professional, go see it anyway, in spite of the spoiler and enjoy the music too.
That does not match my experience.

POPFile on my local machine lets more spam through than I'd like, and has a noticeable level of false positives. Same with the bundled spam filters on my mail accounts at Pair and Fastmail. Whatever we're using at work -- some free filter -- is pretty bad too.

I hear good things about Gmail's filter, but it's not quite free. You have to let Google's computers read your mail, store your mail, and show you ads. I use Gmail occasionally, but checking now, there are still a few pieces of spam on the first page of conversations. (I don't see any false positives among the hundreds of messages in the spam folder, but as I don't receive any diverse/important mail there, that's not surprising.)

Are there any other spam filters you recommend?
i wonder why no one mentions Processing as a learning programming language. Its fun and quite capable of doing interesting things. more info at http://processing.org
The reason that this did not work is that it's really the height of stupidity to want to build anything like this in the middle of a unstable region. The same rules apply all over the world - when people are shooting and you are getting pushed out of your home, you really don't want to be testing out new stuff. You want to survive, get some food, educate your children and so on.

It's easy to sit in a comfortable home in the U.S and see this as something that would be great for the people in Darfur, but they don't care about this. They just want some stability in their life, and bringing in new materials and things does not work at such times. They want to work with known quantities.

I find it really sad that there is so much that talented people with energy to spend can do to help so much of the world, and they instead choose to expend their energy on the topics that are being hyped by the newspapers. Such a system would have worked excellently in Kenya or Congo or one of the dusty countries of middle asia, why even consider Darfur for this?

One should not see a charity as a fashion statement or a networking tool, one should spend money and time on things that actually matter and make a difference. Not things that are currently trendy, and which one can excitedly tell friends about.
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gmail is great, but I get many false negatives. Anytime I sign up for a new website the email confirmation email goes to my spam box.
Yes, and yes, and you're wrong about that. Anything else :) ?

To elaborate: Yes, I've actually written an os, yes, bad hardware was my 'standard' in those days (a simple lack of money), imagine a pc built out of parts bolted to an old print-file trolley, more flakey than I care to remember.

A kernel panic in a microkernel presumes a memory or a cpu error, anything else the kernel simply does not deal with so that would lead to driver process issues, not kernel panics.

A faulty memory controller or cpu would lead to a kernel panic because of (apparent) datastructure inconsistencies.

One of the hardest drivers to write (even in a microkernel environment) was an X.25 board that a friend of mine had designed around some comm chip, for one the X.25 spec is pretty convoluted and there were a lot of layers of the protocol to be implemented in a single driver. That thing was an absolute nightmare to debug, other than that most drivers (harddisk controller, network cards, graphic boards) were a walk in the park compared to doing the same under a macro kernel.

Simply telnet in to the machine, start up the vga driver process and run it (under the debugger) until you manage to crash it. Most of the times a simple 'where' and close inspection of the source would be enough to solve the problem, recompile and run for the next iteration. No kernel panics.
I think it's Twitter's first step to monetization of their API.
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I've thought of that but I think you could structure the regulation to account for those situations.
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How about allowing arbitrary javascript on the users profile page, such that each profile can be made as geeky as possible?
Isn't email confirmation classed as spam a false positive, not a false negative? Or do I misunderstand?
Great name. It has word-of-mouth marketing built-in. At least in some internet circles :).
Specifically, I would like to be able to filter out TechCrunch, CodingHorror and ArsTechnica articles. I never learn anything from them. (the comments, on the other hand, are sometimes interesting - but I still would rather not have anything from those sites appearing for me).

More generally, the ability to filter out stuff I don't want to read about using a Regexp or a Scsh-style SRE in the Website URL would be great.
Ask HN: Kiwi programmer keen to work in the U.S. for 1-2 years. Bad idea? Any advice?
My wife and I (and our two-year-old daughter) are keen to move to the U.S. for a year or two, in a year or two. A couple of years back I probably would have just gone for it, but with this whole Global Economic Cooling thing, I'm not so sure.

What do you guys think are the prospects for a decent software engineer finding work in the U.S. at present? I'm good at both firmware (C, C++, micros) and web development (Python, HTML, SQL, etc).

I've lived in New Zealand most of my life, but I'm a U.S. citizen, so I don't think work permits will be an issue.

Here in N.Z. I operate as a consultant or contractor (and I've been involved in a couple of startups). What are the pros and cons of contracting vs employment in the U.S.? Do you think we should wait and see how the economy goes for a while?

Any other comments or advice you have would be much appreciated.
It would be nice to be able to view stories submitted within a given date-range (and possibly insert a false date into the decay algorithm), to generate an approximation of what was on the front page n days ago.
Because it has an impact on the community as a whole, if you have the ability to not view submissions, you dont get to downmod them if they arent "in the spirit"

Look at loosely computer related obama articles, or techcrunch ones, they are inevitably posted and quite a lot of people dont like to see them. Given the ability to block them means they would receive less downvotes and make articles that a lot of people dont want to read, more likely to go on the frontpage. combine that with the impression of new users (who havent blocked anything) and its a cycle.
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the solution to the financial problems is quite simple: production must be larger than consumption.

For the last years it has been the other way around, especially in the US.

If you don't adress this you will only postpone the problem.
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I'll assume it's not terribly effective when you're in a functional language, unless you've specifically allocated the elements in an array?
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It really bugs me that extjs is never on these types of lists. It blows the competition out of the water!
You're making two mistakes.

One: you are confusing criminal law with intelligence. "hearsay" and "unproven" are criminal law concepts, used when the state wishes to deprive you of some of your rights, such as when you are being investigated or prosecuted.

Two: you are representing "link to terrorist" as some sort of boolean condition when in fact it's multi-dimensional. EVERYBODY has links to terrorists. I call the neighborhood pizza store who has an owner that SMSs PeeWee Herman on a regular basis who visits the web site of a known supporter of Hamas. We're all linked to terrorists -- it's like the seven degrees of Kevin Bacon concept. The point of meta-analysis is to take all of that random noise and gather meaningful meta-data in order to pursue.

Once the government becomes interested in me, personally, we start moving from intelligence to crime -- assuming I am a U.S. citizen. If I am a foreign citizen, then it's simply plain old intelligence-gathering.

The weirdness is that multi-node transports now can cover areas of both criminal law and intelligence gathering, but the laws are all written for one or the other. There has to be some allowance for work in-between the two concepts.

We have some precedence. It's legal, for instance, for authorities to search your trash without a warrant.There is no presumption of privacy when using computers owned by somebody else, such as your employer.

There's a lot of legal work to be done in these areas. I want the government completely out of my life, but that ain't happening. In any society in which a strong contingent wants to control and shape every form of energy I use (to prevent global warming), then we've gone beyond the old days and are in new territory. The game now, from a libertarian viewpoint, is damage control.

EDIT: I can see where we might have a misunderstanding. When you're concerned that tracking the types and messages from you is infringing on your rights, you're assuming that the government can identify you. I have no idea how NSA is doing its work, but the idea of signals intelligence is that people are just nodes. The association of the data with your identity is another subject entirely. (Of course, attributes about the node, such as location, occupation, religious history, etc. are fair game. Just not identification. Who you actually are is irrelevant.)
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Ken Olsen can be a two-fer with "Unix is snake oil". Supposedly, he claims he was misquoted...
"Community" includes turning to the person at the next desk and saying, hey, have you seen this before? Or asking on a mailing list inside your organization. That's why I said "people you know personally or professionally".