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Its great to see metaprogramming listed here - it is a term that tends to frighten beginners a lot more than it should. Understanding some of the basic metaprogramming concepts and features early will go a long way to helping you become a better Rubyist.
Do the fees that PayPal charge really cross the line from a possible business idea to non-viable one for you?

There may be some sectors which you could say you can't compete in on a global stage from Australia because of payment processing fees but it really wouldn't be many. What is the big deal about setting up a US company to handle it? Why not charge US customers in USD?

There are so many options that to dismiss running a business from Australia because of the extra few % really may be a problem in your business plan and product instead of payment processing options/cost.
I follow 8, 12 people follow me. I dislike large groups of people on Twitter, the excess posts of crap distract from the people I actually care enough about to value their opinions.
Yeah, you're totally right -- that was a lame analogy. I've changed it. My only excuse is that I posted it late at night. :-)
An arithmetic coding scheme which has a model based on the probabilities found in JSON abstract syntax trees would significantly improve on most typically used generic compression schemes. Arithmetic coding schemes have largely been avoided thus far due to patents which have recently expired, if I remember correctly.

using the order 2 precise model on this page I get 190 bytes-- and that is still a generic non-json model.
http://nerget.com/compression/
Not to mention that even if you could buy the block, San Francisco almost certainly wouldn't let you tear it down.
I would like to get some advice from experienced Ruby hackers. Currently I am picking up Ruby through rails, which I am assuming is fairly common. I want to know the downsides to this and what people did to supplement their ruby knowledge beyond Rails. I eventually would like to write my own gems, contribute to open source, and so forth. I am absolutely not satisfied with just consuming Rails.
Don't be silly--we won't be eliminating standardized tests any time soon. You can't easily produce huge reports full of meaningless charts or fluff up politicians' resumes with rockets and robots. Standardized tests produce orderly, easily measured numbers that make for lots of easy bean counting.
The last published usability report on Unity seems to be from April 2011. http://design.canonical.com/2011/04/unity-benchmark-usabilit...
How is "naked short selling" of stock any different from selling corn that hasn't been grown yet? Or, taking out a construction loan. etc.

There are lots of "don't have it yet" processes. Consider the typical loan. The borrower typically doesn't have the money at the time that the loan is made.
'Gentrification just never had a bad connotation to me and still doesn't now that I"m seeing it on the front lines.'

Having lived in New York, maybe I saw a different gentrification? Creatives and artists who brought a lot of pride and interest in a neighbourhood. Local establishments that had character and often people who lived within the area. Cultural diversity.

But as the area becomes more popular, attracting people who are willing to pay higher rent, it becomes ridiculous for people who bring value to the community to exist. That local cafe can't afford to the increasing rent there and so it's replaced by a generic Starbucks. That apartment which houses the band that plays locally is now occupied by a couple who works across bridge. That little restaurant that sold really delicious and cheap breakfast no longer can afford that spot and instead the whole frontage is now another chain.

I'm ambivalent because I understand that's just a normal cycle. But in a way, it's a bit unfair to some of these people who brought a lot of reason to be in that location, but now can't afford it because they helped make it too popular.

I no longer live in NY and reside in an extremely wealthy neighbourhood. Businesses around me are generally overpriced and lack character because... maybe those are the only things that can survive around here.
>>"UPDATE: I changed the title of this post from “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” as that was a lame metaphor that didn’t actually make sense."

I think the original title is perfect: this is a lame post which doesn't make much sense.
Fox News is definitely one of the worst. There was a recent survey saying that watching Fox News makes you less informed, than if you didn't watch any news at all. Hard to believe that watching news would make you less informed, but in this case it's most likely true. In that survey Fox News also scored the lowest (worst).
Naked short interest is almost certainly too ephermal to distort the price, but suppose it does due to illusory oversupply.

So what's the objection? If you buy, hold, and sell, you want prices to be overall lower. Selling low isn't bad if it means you were also buying low. In short, as Warren Buffet likes to point out, low prices are good for investors.
And they refer to it as 'LUA', even though the About page http://www.lua.org/about.html clearly says to use the noun 'Lua' as the name of the language. First class journalism.
They couldn't even report the name accurately. It's "Lua" not "LUA".
Today's pedantic minute is sponsored by the Lua community.

Yes, Lua, not LUA, you dimwit journalists (the allcaps version is used in every article about Flame I've read).

Lua is not an acronym, it means "moon" in Portuguese, it is the successor of Sol (sun), a little known data description language.
The best advice I can give is get to know Ruby well - don't just focus on Rails in the beginning. Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen is a great read and will give you a deeper understanding if you've got the basics down. Also, the PragProg book Metaprogramming in Ruby is a great intro to metaprogramming.
My favorite morsel, of many tasty bites, from the article: "this new weapon is twenty times the size of earlier cyberbombs and far more powerful."
But four 5%-tolerance 5-ohm resistors could be chosen to add up to almost exactly 20 ohms, but a 20-ohm resistor would never be 20 ohms due to the notch.

In the old days, it might have been cheaper than the more accurate resistors. These days, high precision resistors are relatively inexpensive.
That last bit is key. The problem here is not rent control by itself, it's the combination of rent control with prop 13 and extreme anti-development laws.
And all those malware written in C? Shame on you Linus.
Linking Angry Birds and terrorism is kind of brilliant.
I just wish they stopped with the "we have fewer apps, but are higher quality". I very much doubt that is true. In fact, if anyone did a survey, they'd probably find out that on average WP7 apps are poorer than on iOS or Android.

There are a lot of developers that just "rushed into it" and patched something together just to say they have an app on WP7, and maybe even get paid by Microsoft or get freebies from them.
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The ratio of designers to developers says a lot. I hope to be able to emulate that one day.
As a guy who's just been building a robot for a class instead of doing an exam - YES PLEASE!

But I'm probably not a "kid" anymore and college exams have never been all that standardized ...
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Unlikely. Remember that in San Francsico, just as renters are insulated from the real price of the rental, landlords are insulated from the real price of owning the land (via Prop 13). Repealing rent control without repealing prop 13 will just screw renters. There's a reason rent control was enacted shortly after prop 13 passed.
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Actually the article just seems to be quoting Mayor Lee's concerns about 'blacks' being pushed out of the city. Agreed that it isn't very clearly worded but I think it conveys that it was the Mayor mentioning "blacks" not the reporter so it is possible self-interest is not involved here. Or am I misreading it?

Quote :

Mayor Lee acknowledged that he was worried that some groups were being priced out of the city, mentioning black residents, whose population has declined along with those of families.
I guess you are right. I'm one of the (many) students who built 3 apps to get a free Nokia Lumia 800. To be honest: my apps aren't of really high quality. Why not? Well, two good reasons:

- Building 3 GOOD apps in 2~3 months is just not possible. If you really want to build quality apps, it will take more time (at least - if you're not working full-time on it... Something most people won't do because they are students and have jobs because they also need money).

- A Nokia Lumia 800 costs around $400. Let's assume the average hourly rate for a student is $30 (don't know about the numbers in the USA tbh): that's about 13 hours of work, or 4 hours of work per app.
> (infinite loops are almost always written using the loop do..end construct though. but how often do you write infinite loops anyway?)

`while true` usually does it for me.
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I'm not sure I'd say largely paid back.
http://projects.propublica.org/bailout/main/summary
There's a lovely browser addon called 'Facebook Disconnect' than blocks all third-party calls to the Facebook API. Available in Chrome and Firefox, and probably others.
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Spend a week just learning Ruby before doing anything with Rails. There's a huge learning curve to Rails - learning the language simultaneously will just make you frustrated.
A feature that plain PDFs don't have - the conspicuous lack of an ability to save documents without going through a paywall.
> The move to secure boot means that firmware updates are signed

Does this mean that flashrom will no longer be usable? Not even on boards that allow disabling secure boot?
That's totally absurd and would completely destroy their reputation as serious journalists if they had one.

In tomorrow's news, Obama uses cell phones, wears clothes, and drinks water, just like al Qaeda operatives do.
The content of the article really wasn't that bad (mentioning that Angry Birds uses Lua is a perfectly fine way to add some context).

It's just that god awful headline. Fox News is notorious for headlines that have no bearing in reality.
> Proportion of quality apps (rated five or more times) stable at 8% (UK rating) 12% (US ratings)

So, really 10K apps that people are actually using. That's still a lot of apps.
If your HTTP connection is going to be gzip compressed, then this will only give you monetary savings to compensate for the additional code complexity if you have medium to big data, at which point storing it in JSON is a questionable-at-best proposition.
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They did try to solve that with the Home edition version, it is a bit more than 2x more expensive than the student version but it does solve running mathematica for cheaper as long as you aren't using it for work.
I wonder if the study found that was true for all TV news. Honestly, people who get their news from any TV shows at all at this point in history aren't really all that informed in general.
Some servers hosting/infected with Flame are running HTML... just like Fox News! I need to sell this information to MSNBC.
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I remember taking a standardized test in public elementary school in the US (I think this was the Iowa series). At the end of one section I finished early, I counted the number of questions and was planning on finding out some basic stats on the questions.

We hear "pencils down", and so the break period comes around. I comply, and the teacher collects our tests. I then picked up my pencil again and started doing a bunch of math, trying to find out how many questions there were per section, or how many multiple choice there were in total, basic things like that.

I got in more trouble than I could have ever imagined. The teacher nearly screamed at me for doing math, and threatened to take me to the principle to have me removed from the exam permanently. She feared I was cheating, and forbade me from doing any more math that day outside the strict testing times.
This. Public projects that don't produce sizable sums of bogus data aren't worth it for candidates to support.
Don't forget - realtors love to sell houses in towns with high standardized test scores.

Why they can't just show a map of median household income (which is a pretty good proxy for standardized test scores) is beyond me.
That's a longstanding debate, but yes, a common view is that there's more of an algorithm/formalization bottleneck than a hardware-speed bottleneck. There are some things we in principle know how to do in AI, but just can't practically do fast enough--- those will be fixed by speed increases. But there are a lot of things where we don't even know how, in principle, to write down an algorithm to approach the problem satisfactorily. Hence the notion of "AI-completeness" rather than "NP-completeness" as a colloquial expression for what makes an AI problem hard.
What prevents mobile browsers from being designed differently, to scan for connection changes and reload/resubmit automatically?
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850935 <- Comments

tptacek's detailed summary:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3856526

Other instances and related items can be found with this search:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Abos...
I'm glad to see that Stripe has lit such a fire under their competitors. I'm new to the payment gateway scene—can anyone with experience give a comparison of Stripe vs Braintree's APIs?
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Reminds me of my primary school's request to my parents that they stop me from having access to books at home as it was making me difficult to teach.
There are a number of schools which are now refusing to participate in their states' "mandated" testing. There are a number of conditions that have to be in place for a school to take this step:

- The school has to be really good at educating students. It has to be clear to visitors that high-level learning is happening every day. The school must be able to prove that all of its students make a successful transition to their post-high-school lives. A successful transition means the student has set goals for what they want to do after high school, and their high school education allows them to move on to these goals.

- Administrators, and teachers, must not fear losing their jobs. This is much like the programming world, where the best programmers don't have to submit to stupid managerial decisions because they can always find meaningful work elsewhere.

PG encouraged people to replace universities in his PyCon keynote. When asked about replacing high schools, he laughed and said something along the lines of, "Don't touch high schools. That is way too difficult." I think we fix high schools the same way we fix everything else on PG's list - don't attack the big problem itself, just attack a piece of the problem. Build on your successes, until your model of how to run high school is so compelling that everyone else has to use it.
I think you may be contradicting yourself. Using your example, one thing leads to another but it all hinges on an initial lucky roll of the dice: born in the US to the right parents. No one "earns" this head start but almost everyone reading this discussion has it.

Like you, I believe that I've had some say in getting to where I am today, but it's hard to tell how much of that is reality and how much is self-aggrandizement.
We need a higher resolution in our vocabulary when talking about technological risks. Someone can be in favour of most forms of technology, and yet even when dealing with technologies with extinction risk, the word that comes up to describe the opposition is 'Luddite'. Which is not to say that I am opposed to AI research.
We should :)
1) They don't show median household income because that would discriminate against the poor, or some line of thought like that. 2) The reason that standardized test scores are shown isn't because people are really interested in the tests, but rather that they act as a proxy for the quality of the area; you don't get much in the way of gang violence in areas where kids do well on tests, generally.

There really should be a better way of measuring the quality of an area, but I can't say I see an obvious one.
"Lorem Ipsum" on the http://www.worldipv6launch.org home page. Nice.
Read the title and tell me that Agile vs. Scrum vs. whatever isn't the new buzzword-laden bureaucracy. All that time you're spending talking about how your going to do things and what names you are going to call each other is an unnecessary distraction from the doing of things.

Leave me and my team out.
From the article: "That means that Facebook's enterprise value is greater than 10x current revenue run rate and greater than 25x EBITDA. These are big multiples folks. I am happy to take those numbers for any company out there."

The bigger those multiples are, the more "overpriced" a company is, so it should actually be less attractive of an investment.
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> The content of the article really wasn't that bad

Oh yes it was! Some quotes:

- "this new weapon is twenty times the size of earlier cyberbombs and far more powerful, making it practically an army on its own"

- "Flame is likewise a form of spyware that enters a computer system, though exactly how is unclear."

- "once you know the email address or computer IP address ... they can introduce Flame remotely."

Also phrases like "a code" and "built with gamer code".
Actually you can't mount anything from the target drive, because the whole drive is exposed over the network as a SCSI device.
It's a bit scary to watch a news report or documentary on a subject you know well. One of my favorite clips is the "Computator" from How It's Made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnQJxCXbFA

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JOPCP8
All fair points, but history demonstrated that Marco was doing much more than making a rational business decision. I would say that he suffered under the delusion that his blog posts would change the market (let's call it the Gruber Complex). Instead of rationally understanding and analyzing the market he spit venom and conjecture against Android, under the seemingly bizarre notion that it would halt its rise.
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This strikes me as hugely problematic.
Gabe's email doesn't count?
This - JSON specific compression schemes aren't going to yield gains over AST friendly schemes unless the JSON serialization specification changes significantly.

Along these lines - shipping a schema with the data payload is avro-like ... which is also questionable in terms of efficiency when compared with gzip/LZO.
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I don't think the crowd here is very supportive of big time success when it is venture backed, involves large fund-raising and prioritized growth over profits.
Last I heard (and I'm no authority on the subject), HN uses a sorting algorithm that incorporates many variables, including the age of the post, number of upvotes, reputation of the commenter, etc.
Java is a good language for web development. It's mature and most of the big companies use java. Java in terms of popularity might have slowed down but JVM as a platform will stay for a longer time. I use java for my day job, but I did learn php, python and ruby on the side just to build some small apps as part of learning. It's fun to learn additional languages and to know where each language shine.

I haven't worked on Play that much so I'll let others who have used talk about it. Spring framework is another really good one you can give a try.

The reasons why startups prefer anything other than java might be rapid prototyping, bleeding edge and probably hosting costs.
If you want to, why aren't you doing a startup now?
I'm a liberal democrat, but I consider myself pro-anything that will give more kids a leg up in the world, even if it doesn't fit with the orthodoxy of my party. But this is just such a poorly designed law...
Linus? He's small potatoes! Intel makes their own C compiler! This is a conspiracy that goes straight to the top!
It's not superficial, and TV is one of the other forms of media I was referring to. I am curious, though, how you purport to know the main benefit that I receive from reading is.
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The bigger those multiples are, the more "overpriced" a company is, so it should actually be less attractive of an investment.

Right. The OP is considering the situation as a seller, not a buyer. He would be overjoyed if everything he sells is overpriced similarly.
Todays's pedantic minute is sponsored by the non-existant SOL comunity.

SOL is an acronym fro Simple Object Language, so you should type it in allcaps and avoid confusing it with the noun :)
The whole agile methodology is so abused nowadays that old waterfall approach looks like kidding in comparison.
As much as I think FB's valuation was high, they have the advantage of having a Product That People Really Want. This means that they have a lot of room to adjust their business model (so long as they don't screw up the UX/product while at it).

Contrast this with GroupOn, whose product IS the business model...
I feel compelled to both upvote and comment on your post, in order to further emphasize the point you are making: you can help the number of times you put yourself in a position to be lucky. This understanding is incredibly important and relevant to every aspect of one's life, however diverse, from business to dating. Check out Luck Surface Area [0], a relevant concept largely based on the above.

Also, most often than not, merely beating inertia and getting to do things, no matter how involved or not they are, can have a tremendous impact on one's success. Simple things really work. You just have to do stuff. Other times you just have to ask. You'd be surprised how often you get exactly what you ask for without being manipulative. Rejection Therapy [1] is a true eye opener, especially when the rejection never comes. The way I see it, it's the most profound realization that at that point luck was just made out of thin air.

And while some things definitely cannot change, like the country one was born in and the socioeconomic status of their parents, there are many, many others that can be hacked.

[0] http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_Therapy
I don't like false dichotomies like this. Why can't kids learn to do both well? Standardized tests are akin to FizzBuzz for college entrance. If you can't get 500/800 in the Math SATs, you will not be able to keep up in STEM majors with others who scored 700+.

Given the real constraint of limited resources, you have to implement barriers to entry. Standardized tests are not perfect but they serve well. Of course, making rockets and robots is awesome so everyone should be encouraged to explore that.
for my next republican infection virus I will use the language called BillOReilly...it will be 100 times bigger in hot air than Rush Limbaugh
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