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I second the exact sentiment on OSX.

And running a VM with linux (or windows, java is as much a pain on either platform) is a lot of effort for running an editor.

As long as it needs java installed, I'm out...
Why would a 'new [article] saying the same thing' be any better?

Aaronson has a parallel post about Anthropicisms, which seems to share your skepticism about their value:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=101

For the 'Malthusianisms', I'd agree the name isn't exactly right, and I could quibble with his specific examples. But the observation that things are in their current and often 'sucky' state because some balance between tensions has been reached is often useful.

It can help us get past frustration or superficial ranting about a situation, to investigating the real forces at work. And, while some could take from this analysis fatalism, I think it instead highlights what's necessary to be effective. Simply tugging a little in the direction of one of the existing forces is rarely the best path to change. You've got to approach such dynamically-balanced situations from an oblique angle, and apply other forces/insights to jump it to a new equilibrium.
While this sounds plausible, it doesn't explain how roots grow downwards.
This could have been done a little more sophisticated. Now it seems nothing more than some basic text searches.

For instance two people saying "Not Hungover AT ALL, I love these mornings" and "Hungover !" respectively are both in the hungover section. And in the doing drugs section there was one guy who was happy he actually quit.
1) Why are you referring to mobile profits, then citing the net profit of the entire company? Samsung do a lot more than phones.

2) Even if you're comparing the whole company's profits, AAPL still win, they raked in 6 billion USD in profit last quarter.
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did not click cause of one obvious word: gravity
Discussion here:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1935438&#...
And you can't buy a supermarket in Walmart. People have covered their asses like this for years, not allowing others to come along and promote a competitive concept within their store/site.

This is no surprise.
Nice organizational insight: Yes, in theory the higher up managers should do something about the bad boss, but they don't know there is a problem, and a conflict is hard to solve, since you don't know who is to blame (and tend to side with the boss, because he is more like yourself, and you probably know him better)

High turnover, on the other hand, is a good signal of failed management, and if you can find another job, then you'll probably do better that way.
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Levitating spaceship !

http://buildwithchrome.com/build/BDo-
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Wow. Complete cognitive dissonance between us :) I was reasoning about the plant as a biological device which has adapted to life according to Darwin's theory of evolution. Since gravity, as you point out, is quite constant on earth, one could expect that a plant has come to rely on it for its existence. Unless trained otherwise. So I was contemplating that the ability to survive without gravity would have had to be a skill learned off the surface of the planet. And if it has never experienced such an environment before in its evolutionary development, one could consider it extreme luck that it kept on living without the previously nearly constant gravity parameter. If the plant manages to survive in spite of fundamental environmental changes without previous training, it must have a very robust design. It's like a computer program which would keep on running if you removed main memory. Not impossible, but very unlikely that it wouldn't be dependent on main memory by now. If it still works, must it not be designed in a very robust manner?

Are plants this robust? One could be lead to believe that this is indeed a useful property in a evolutionary sense. But it must surely also have high costs. So it is nonetheless a very interesting question in my opinion.

Addendum:
Regarding cells not being dependent on gravity for growth: In the article is was mentioned that plant in fact are dependent on gravity for their survival, in fact very much so. Without gravity the plant would not be able to physically locate its root system correctly or get its leaves above ground. It was, however, also mentioned that the plant survive in space just fine.
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Most people I know in Mountain View have the Comcast Business internet connection, which is basically a different company from Comcast. (Different customer service, different billing, different equipment, etc.) Apparently you can even negotiate the rate down to $75 a month, which is a lot less than I pay for Time Warner's "we are a monopoly so fuck you with a stick" package in Brooklyn.
That.

It's nice for languages to have a "benevolent dictator", but Go insists in a lot of arbitrary but not that good choices like the above.

I would add the bizarro build system (go build et al), that if you want to use you have to follow some rather silly conventions (a little flexibility would go a long way).

The GC also leaves a lot to be desired --they will implement something better eventually, but why wasn't that a top priority in 2012 for a "server systems" language? On 32 bits you are mostly toast with OOM errors, but even on 64 bit the GC is simplistic compared to most modern languages. YouTube, for example, had to jump through several hoops with memory issues to use Go in front of MySQL.

And, while the results are faster than Python/Ruby, they are not that competitive with C/C++ or even Java. The "20% slower than C" claim that you'll read is mostly BS. YMMV.

It doesn't help that if anybody brings up those issues, the general sentiment from the Go community (lists, etc) is also: "you're doing it wrong, reverse course, Go is perfect".

That said, I like Go, if it improves a bit with a 2.0 version, it can go places...
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Good luck with that. I can't uninstall the facebook app because my carrier decided that this app is not optional. It just can't uninstall.
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Hmm... I've worked on software at three different orgs that rely on the X-Forwarded-For header to identify a client's IP address from in front of a firewall (I'm not a network guy, but I think it was Cisco equipment).

I agree the X- prefix ain't great. Is there an alternative for the originating IP address? If not, we need one.
Did you miss the part where he says: "We weren't trying to design a better C++, or even a better C. It was to be a better language overall for the kind of software we cared about."
>There are plenty of "proper implementations" of these collection classes. Your only criticism of them seems to be that they are not type safe. But it is trivial to implement a type safe wrapper around such containers, if you desire it. So the situation is perhaps a little cumbersome, but no worse than C.

"no worse than C" doesn't sound particularly enticing.

>The Go language and libraries, by contrast, are amazingly regular. This is not just my opinion, but the feedback that I receive consistently from Go programmers around the world.

Selection bias?
Do you have anything for your claim (like maybe NASA planting something on the space). Because, after reading this article, I'm having a hard-time figuring out the chance that the plant will actually find its way to the top.
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I work in a fast pace IT workplace. I'm a UNIX admin for several hundred trading systems, we're essentially a stock exchange. We deal with hundreds of millions of pounds a day, 4 second downtime could cost a few million easily. My colleague is out for 2 weeks vacation so it's down to me to keep our European operations running. When there's two of us it's great as we can fall on each other for support. But when I'm on my own sometimes I realize I'm running the operation singlehanded and the stress gets to me. Stomach cramps, loss of appetite etc. How do you guys cope in these situations? I've been here two years and I still get stressed when I'm working on my own. I don't eat poorly and I try to exercise regularly outside of work. How is it for programmers, testers and other sys admins out there?
You can have pre-standard implementations without vendor prefixes. Here's an argument against them:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/03/css_vendor_pref.html

And here's some further discussion:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/03/css_vendor_pref_1.html

Personally I think vendor prefixes are an awful hack. We've already got browser-conditional comments in HTML, why not use them? Hell, browser-specific stylesheets would be a better option from where I'm sitting.
I was confused at first because I use Facebook in a different browser, so it just gave me the login screen.
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None of the posts have any likes. Now I don't feel so bad about my own ignored facebook posts ;)
Hm, to summarize what Go does better than C++:

* Easier to learn
* Faster to compile

On the other hand, C++ provides

* Better performance
* Better abstraction
* Mature tools

Well, I can understand why C++ programmers do not switch.
I'll bet you that if you look closely enough you'll find the Comerica (and most other equally large venues) is owned by Livenation/Ticket Master and as such will only deal with acts who work though Ticketmaster. That's the hardest problem to solve with ticketing, the fact that most venues of a decent size won't touch you unless you also use their ticketing service.
That's really an interesting idea, you become the market maker - a monopoly and a monopsony in one, much like amazon is for electronic books right now.
Perhaps the YC crew doesn't want it to be a distraction for its startups? Are you thinking of a TV show like the Dragon's Den in Canada?
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I guess django will have to find a replacement for X-CSRFToken
I completely disagree with you. An average mac developer who frequents this site is just as intelligent as other developers who frequent this site :)
Mojolicious playing nicely with other IOLoops is probably my favorite new feature since 2.0 - http://blog.kraih.com/mojolicious-hack-of-the-day-more-anyev... . What would you guys like to see for 4.0?
You can have a much nicer UX, better code and extra features

But CL has both traffic and a well-known brand, investor money can't buy that.

Any feature you add is useless when there's no content, and there's no content because nobody goes to your site, and nobody goes because there's no content, see how it goes?

And of course CL knows better than letting you "borrow" their ads...
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I have set up a simple and cheap bug tracker and work management app, and am hoping for some feedback. It's similar to a stripped down JIRA - just the main features, without the plugins - and at a reasonable price, I think.

I've been running a low-key free beta for a while, and have had a few signups (I've not charged anyone yet, so no paying customers), but most don't seem to use the tool. They sign up, then are never seen again.

I'm not sure if it's just that this type of tool ends up generating a lot of people who are just taking a look, and very few usually carry on to use it, or if there's some serious problems with the app.

I'm not anything much in the way of "not seen you for a week" or "how are you finding it" emails - working on those next.

I've emailed most of the signups over the last week to try and get some feedback (and get a few of the older signups to have another look), and have had a few responses, most of which were positive. Suggestions were, I think, relatively minor things like image and line break support directly in the WYSIWYG.

The app is at http://www.envoyapp.com and there's a demo at http://demo.envoyapp.com

I've most recently added the API and FAQ.

I would have thought most of the lovely folk here are the kinds of people who would use this sort of thing, so perhaps the best possible people to point out the flaws!

[P.S. The server is a small, beta-size setup so if lots of HNers turn up at once the site may vanish. I'll be keeping an eye on it as best I can today.]
No. I viewed this on a browser where I'm not logged into Facebook.
Clickable links:

http://www.envoyapp.com

http://demo.envoyapp.com

~~ Also, some wavy line background ... ~~

The app started, as I suspect many do, with me wanting a simple bug tracker, timesheet and wiki app for managing bugs, time, etc. I'd used FogBugz, JIRA and a few others (and their influence is probably obvious) and wanted something similar, but that I could tinker with.

So, I built the thing I wanted to use, and have been using it myself for a few years. Over time I've added things as I found I needed them. Some of those things have stayed, some have been dropped after finding they didn't work the way I thought they would.

I was using it at work, and others were finding it useful and asking if they could use it too, so I decided to see if it would be useful to other people, and grew it into what it is now.
I am talking about detecting FM radio station on my mobile device.I want my mobile device to be able to catch the radio station. What about sound radio detection (does not have to be frequency detection)? Is it more obviously? All I need is an algorithm for radio station detection. Thank you for your answer. I will check Android FM receivers.
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You're welcome for the self-promotion.

I feel that telling people to just blaze through functional programming is silly, as completely understanding CS roots (instead of sticking to today's easy languages) and understanding all the programming paradigms are important.

Good luck with that shamelessly using networks crap. It makes friends I'm sure.
Extremely annoying. I just stopped watching.
Could be my slow internet connection, but this is slow and laggy for me in chrome.
"They're not going to be mailing out USB sticks on a weekly basis"

Mailing? That's not secure enough.. You have to go to Facebook HQ and get your weekly OTP. Daily if you post a lot of images =)
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That reminds me a bit about a 'feature' of VB (LotusScript?) "on error resume next" :)
>IMHO, its not fair to compare Go libraries (at this stage) with the more mature implementation of libraries in C++ and Java.

It's not about being 'fair', it's about being practical. If a project has a need for X, a programmer cannot wait until X feature of lib is added to a language to start his work.
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Sorry but prose is only an advanced markup editor for your GH repos. You're probably missing the point here.
> "Let's hope more Apple Mac owners are also learning to take important security steps -- such as installing antivirus protection."
> This is the worst possible step to take.

What?

He's recommending security steps, i.e. layers. What you wrote (education) is another layer. Users need anti-virus too.

Recommending anti-virus as a layer is not the worst possible step to take. It's a better step than having an uneducated user with no anti-virus. It's not as good as an educated layer with anti-virus.

As a side note, much of the software available for the Mac is "download from some http website that your friend recommended". Also not ideal, which is where the Mac Store is meant to come in.
That "some" really pulls the rug out from under it.
It becomes pretty circular. "People who waste
water do it until it runs out."
When I was in college, the opportunity cost of a $45 ticket was eating badly instead of eating well for two weeks. Now I have a regular job, the opportunity cost of a $45 ticket is much lower - I'll have to wait a few weeks until I buy that DVD box set of 'House MD'.

So now I can buy tickets that before I could not afford. Have I become a more dedicated Louis CK fan? Or have I just become a richer fan?
For the sunlight part: sunlight inhibits growth on the sun-facing side of the plant, and so the flower faces towards the sun.
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Root it, install titanium backup, remove it (if its not rootable then there is no way that im aware of).
That's what I did for my HTC desire so I could remove the crapware (fb app included) on it.
Just dual-license the work.
With plants, the "default" is to grow a shoot in a straight line. When an adjustment needs to be made, the shoot's two sides grow at different rates, resulting in a bend. If there is no stimulus that makes the plant want to "turn", it will just combine growing in the same direction (probably with some random small variations thrown in).

By analogy to cars, if you disable the steering wheel, the car can still move, but it won't have a particular destination.
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Startups have bet their business to any random language, from PHP to Dylan.

It's AFTER the startup phase that you rewrite your messy infrastructure (see Twitter, Facebook, etc), and that's when you need mature and capable tools.
> The Go team's view, in a nutshell, is that generics would offer some exciting possibilities for Go (particularly when combined with its concurrency model) but that it is also extremely hard to do generics well. We have put a huge amount of work into defining and refining Go, and we don't want to break it with a bad generics implementation.

Wouldn't it have been a good idea to take generics into account from the very start?
And the biggest growth is in places where it is least sustainable. However, as far as I understand hunger is not a problem of the quantity of the food, it is a problem of distribution.
I do hold somehow cynical view, that the bigger percentage of humanitarian aid should be in form of condoms, not food.
So that's why I've stopped receiving spam to my GMail account.
This can happen if someone else buys that cheap seat before you complete your booking.

I've often tried to coordinate buying tickets with others online and we can all be chatting on the phone as we're all looking at our own computer screens and we all read off different prices.

Well, flight pricing is never simple any which way anyway.
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It's amazing that Telstra can still surprise me with their business practices.

For those outside of Australia, Telstra have a reputation somewhere between GoDaddy and Facebook. They came to power as a legal monopoly, originally government run, and own the majority of all copper lines in Australia. Telstra was then privatised in three different stages and proceeded to bully the industry.

For years the highest speed ADSL1 connection you could receive was 1.5 Mbit/s due to Telstra artificially limiting all companies who used their copper lines. Only in the last half decade have they extended this to the normal 8 Mbit/s[1].

The idea that the data sent over to the US was "completely anonymised" is laughable. Far more technically competent companies, like Netflix[2], have made mistakes in their anonymisation procedures in the past -- I fail to see how Telstra could avoid such a fate. If the data were ever released, it'd likely end up more like the AOL incident[3].

[1]: http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/entertainment/7027-austra...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize#Privacy_concerns

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
OATH is the competing open standard to SecurID, as far as I know, and there's plenty of code that supports it. It's also what the Gmail 2FA and Google Authenticator are based on (so you can use any OATH client to authenticate to Gmail).
Yeah, when I saw "Built with HTML ...", I thought "Cool, it's cross-platform".

Well, maybe not really, since I can't use it on Linux...
We structured the recommendations to be 100% personalized, so it might be that you have more a popular taste?
If not please let me know as it should really recommend long tail content too. Could also be that our rated item set is still not very large.
We just use FB Likes to let you rate those (to increase relevance for items we ask you to rate) but don't use FB Likes in the recommendations.
Yeah def. gonna be some movies in your watchlist that you've seen already, we hope it creates trust in the recommendations and we made rating super fast - one person rated 1,600 movies in 90 mins :)
Also,
1) potential to eventually sell MS products to yammer's customers.
2) being able to win other enterprise deals in competition with Salesforce/Oracle by being able to claim that you have something similar to Chatter.
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It also works just fine in Firefox.
This is an excellent example of Modern Perl, more so than the article posted the other day. No magic, very easy to understand, documented, and structured.
I think it helps more people than it hurts though.
Well, you can't sign up for it without giving them a phone number. That's why I and the missus don't use it.
You would've been a bundle of excitement in school science when the teacher discussed humans knowing which way was up and which way down. Yelled "gravity" and then blocked your ears while the teacher explained the utricle and so on?
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"run by people smarter than I"

Don't bet on that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulosic_ethanol#Cellulosic_e...

Fox News rubbish as usual. It appears that the mandate was made with a view to reforming a part of the energy industry and achieving cleaner emissions, as well as more sustainable fuel. It's not odd for a government to declare targets with tax incentives to bring about change.

As the wiki pages states (with citations) there are over a dozen refineries producing this stuff now. Far from none, and far the mandate is from ludicrous. It's progress.