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I guess? It doesn't feel advanced, it's just that one podcast that I listen to is a podcast Apple doesn't list. So I can't switch to this. Like "oh, you want to listen to music that's not in the app store? That's an advanced feature."

And this is actually a lost feature relative to desktop iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/fanfaq.html

"It's easy to subscribe to any podcast using iTunes, even ones that aren't available in the iTunes Store. "
I couldn't disagree more. As an overworked startup founder who regularly uses services like this, SAAS has been a godsend. I hate configuring libraries, especially stuff like this that needs write access to a filesystem, database, etc. Just host it for me and I'm a happy camper.

(The only thing I generally require is that I be able to do something sane for testing locally without internet access. I don't care what it is as long as it enables me to minimally test.)
> It's this years school MIS that claims not to be an MIS.

it seems like you are claiming not to be an MIS!?!
We're working on more clients! We figured we'd release with just a few to begin with.
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I really appreciate being able to just use it on whatever machine I am at. I did bought it initially just to support the developer, but since I use both Linux, OSX and Win, it helps great deal to have two good editors, vim and Sublime Text ;)
I'd rather be hit on the back of the head by a book than a kindle should there be a rapid deceleration! But yes the correct answer is to do a cost benefit analysis.
> MongoDB(page based storage)

Citation needed. Which database system on earth doesn't do page based storage? In fact, you cannot get any durability guarantees if you don't write page-at-a-time.

MongoDB is relying on the operating system's cache manager by using memory mapped files. Whether that is a good idea depends a lot on your operating system, and whether it's page replacement algorithm fits your database use case. Most database implement their own page cache because they want tighter control over those algorithms.

I like MongoDB's data model, I don't understand their choice of query language, and I think their database engineering is odd to say the least. What's the point in having a non-durable system if you don't even get scalability across nodes? Where's the hot backup? And so on. It seems like something people use who just couldn't figure out indices in relational databases, just to run around and tout that NoSQL is so much faster :-(
Based on what I've learned from Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, it would be more boring than the premise suggests.
HN has gotten so nasty. I now find that when I click on "comments" I unconsciously brace myself to find this type of comment at the top of the thread.
I love the UI/UX of this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
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Team-building, pride in your surroundings, and creating a culture all pay off huge in productivity. I see it as an investment, not a waste.
I found one right after I asked this - hopefully this helps anyone else:

http://code.google.com/p/iosched/
Your argument is nonsense. You presume that the torrent feature implies something unsavory, akin to porn, when it's merely a means of copying from point A to point B efficiently.

"Forgive my language, but do you see how stupid your argument is?"

Actually you're embarrassing yourself, compounding your first foolish remark with this escalation.
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There is also Dan Bricklin's socialcalc https://github.com/DanBricklin/socialcalc which has some relatively active forks including audreyt's ethercalc https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc

You can see what the spreadsheets look like at http://www.ethercalc.org/

For just viewing and editing spreadsheets without social features, you can ignore the servers included, the javascript widget works just fine by itself.

Dan Bricklin co-authored VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for the masses.
He he--fixed! Thanks.
Amazing that CNN is this scared of the people to be pushing the CIA-funded method of social resistance.
Setting up a good work environment is a worthwhile investment. When you're going to be working somewhere for 8+ hours a day for the foreseeable future, setting it up to maximize your productivity is not procrastination.
Perhaps even more importantly, Cloud9 is based on the ACE code editor (http://ace.ajax.org/) which, by itself, is a really phenomenal piece of work. When you look under the hood it's way more complex than you might imagine.
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I wonder which key derivation function is used. In practice, this is probably more important for security against brute-forcing than choosing AES-256 vs. AES-128.

I hope they take some inspiration from the excellent tarsnap and use scrypt.

(PS: posting here because I refuse to register for yet another service or associate any social networking account with their site just to comment)
Are you kidding? The tax-reporting requirements alone would be a benefit.
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Any reason there's no Windows app?

The real killer for me last time I tried it was not being able to edit local files. I have so many projects downloaded and set up that having to move them to the cloud just to make a quick edit is not worth it. Is this something the local app fixes?
Well the thing is, GoCode and MarGo are standalone daemons that are queried for completion results, or linting, etc. So I would almost need a higher level place to hook it in to Ace.
Media resolution is relative, as people zoom in on mobile phones all the time.

For stuff like photos, just supply a larger resolution JPEG that has lower quality. This will look great when smaller and when zoomed in, while keeping the file size in a range that is ok for mobile.
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Ikea desks are not too expensive and will have a higher resell value than your door desks when your company goes under from spending too much time making desks.
@NathanBowers on twitter suggested looking into http://convertico.org/Multi_Image_to_one_icon/
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This user is perfectly sophisticated enough. However I refuse to use Gravatar since it requires having a Wordpress account whose terms and conditions I will not agree to.
Hah, nice! Ironically, my mom is an interior designer. We're still working on what to hang on the wall, furniture and layout, but I have some ideas of how to make it personal/local, hopefully that'll take it a bit out of the Starbucks genre.
I can tell you the node libraries I wrote for this release are very cool in their own right as well. See the c9 account on github for most of them. I'm especially proud of the vfs system.
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What are the current limitations of 'just' creating this on a much (much) larger scale? For instance, 160.000 or 1.6 million cores and would it be a significant improvement? And for which other fields would that work? I do know about neural net theory and I worked with them in college assignments quite a bit 20 years ago, but I'm wondering if anyone here knows what differences this kind of scale will make or if it's just interesting for still images (in which i'm very much not interested).
Will this integrate with schools' registration systems (add class, drop class, is-class-full, etc?). When I was in school I made some decent college cash with something I built called "Classgrabber" that registered for hard-to-get classes automatically. I had to write a registration "bot" that acted like the web browser. With an API, it would have been much easier, and more open to innovation. The school's response? They outlawed Classgrabber, but it didn't stop people from using it (after all, they needed to get their classes).
Glad to see you guys reading HN too
Speak for yourself, Chronicle. The broad outlines of the Prussian displacements were in my 11th grade world history text. The NY Times has dealt with the case of Silesia within the last 10 years, and there were books about the displacements from Bohemia not that long ago either.

I will say also that it is seldom that anyone comes out of a war with clean hands, which is all the more reason for hesitating to start one.
Bridge was a lifesaver for the blimp project! Without it we would have had to drop $70 on a bluetooth module and send commands over a serial connection.

here's a video of our blimp:
http://photos.zyron.me/Other/2012-04-29/22712358_zSZWhh#!i=1...
Probably the best riddle website you've looked at today.
I wanted to make a riddle website in under 24 hours. Any thoughts? Any suggestions on how I could improve it? Just for fun.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that if someone gives you market research in hopes of exchanging it for access, there's a chance that they'll be giving it away for free?
When Microsoft, Google, or some university publish analysis of hardware failures across large numbers of machines, they always anonymize hardware vendors ("vendor A", "vendor B").

I understand the reasons (not alienating your hardware vendors), but will there ever be a research group who will disclose vendor names? Heck, I would pay for this information.
It is interesting to an A.I. researcher. I loved watching the slow-motion version at 50x

When I took Machine Learning, we studied different "bots" in various contrived game scenarios to illustrate the effects of imperfect information, non-deterministic outcomes, and other kinds of noise.

The most interesting outcomes were when the bots learned to cheat. Since the system doesn't punish cheaters, it becomes a winning strategy. I think humans have learned not to cheat - for the most part - because at the most basic level cheating reduces the group's overall survival rate. E.g. stealing food from another member of the group.

tl;dr if cheating is so obviously the best strategy, maybe the game needs to be revised? Because for this robot, cheat-really-quickly leads to 100% victory.
Pretty slick, thanks.
Curious; why was this downvoted?
Do you have a repo with this prototype? I would really like to see this possibility pan out. I think using node to interface with file system is the most feasible and portable at this point.
The algorithm they used did not exist before 2005. Also since 2005 this algorithm had been mostly trained using just 1 computer at time (usually with gpu's). The supercomputer setup is novel for this.

Most of the machine learning community had been disregarding this algorithm since 2005, until the past couple of years it started making dramatic showings, such as

- Microsoft Research speech recognition system in 2011 (done by one of geoff hinton's students interning there)

- NEC labs, ronan collobert - real-time natural languaege parser - first real-time parse ever - 2010 (trained on one computer for 3 months using wikipedia)

- Google Research 16,000 node billion connection network - december 2011
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Absolutely. It is so easy to poke holes in somebody project, blog post, etc, and takes some contrarian angle. I just don't quite understand why they get voted up to the top.
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I only have one account and I've had a very pleasant time using this plugin. It's typically the only way that I will +1 a page because it's so simple.
Sorry, found two more! Look for "This is the platfor professional developers have been waiting for." and "... always milliseconds awavy from ..." on the /features page.
It doesn't look equipped to play rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock
In the bug list, when I try to access my dashboard I have some 404 error and I'm not able to access it. The url in 404 are the following :
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From the site: "Today my office is starting the process of gathering input for the Administration’s new strategy for intellectual property enforcement. The overarching objective of the Strategy is to improve the effectiveness of the U.S. Government’s efforts to protect our intellectual property here and overseas. I want to make sure as many people as possible are aware that we are working on this so we can get the very best thoughts and recommendations possible. Part of the process of gathering public input is to publish a “Federal Register Notice” where we formally ask the public to give us their ideas. We will read all of your submissions – and we will make them publicly available so everyone can see them."
If you use the same e-mail address to sign up for both sites, they can already determine this. The only way to get the anonymity you want is to create new throwaway accounts for each service. (I realize GMail lets you do things like + aliases, but these should be stripped when trying to match up users across databases.)
Since they are trying to hire at the level of a Facebook or Google, are their initial compensation offers in the ballpark of those companies? Or are they running the classic champagne dream/Natural ice budget/sweatshop labor operation?
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Looks nice, but there's no way I'd run a closed source binary only server as a critical piece of infrastructure like this.

Planning on selling licenses I suppose? I would have loved to have a poke around in the erlang server code. Cowboy/rabbit/messaging - sounds fun.
What are some example use cases for an API like this? Perhaps you could add a page like Twilios How To's (while we're making the comparison).
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That would only be true if both OpenID consumers published their user's endpoints
While I agree with your free market principles, I do not agree with your application in this mixed economy context. Dropbox is not exactly a private company. The larger the company, the more it tends to be a branch of our government (via insidious corporatist mechanisms), so your standing up for their "private property" rights is dangerously misplaced.

An even more extreme example would be the telecoms, which greatly benefit from government privilege and where individual competition is prohibited. Saying "build your own telecom from scratch, don't complain" is just very deranged given the context.

Further, even if you were correct that it was a truly private company, your defense on the grounds of property rights is misplaced. A torrent is merely a technical way of copying efficiently, it is not a copyright-violating tool. Whether you believe it is often used for that purpose is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that there are users with legitimate needs for this service, and Dropbox is arbitrarily declaring it off limits because some other users might use it in a way they don't approve of. There is no moral principle that says punish Peter for what Paul might be doing; on the contrary, behaving that is viciously immoral behavior.

So, Dropbox is indeed behaving immorally.
Looks cool, but - is Bridge an open source project? Is it a company? All of the above? Do I have to pay for it? What are the prices?

As someone who makes architectural decisions on a regular basis, I need to know that if a company that we're a dependency on dies, we can rip it out and replace it with a) an open source version of what we were paying for or b) our own alternative implementation (which sounds like something on top of RabbitMQ in this case). It's frustrating to see companies like this positioning themselves in a way that makes them difficult to evaluate.
ZeroRPC was just linked a few days ago[1] and this sounds similar. Both even use MessagePack for serialization. How are they different/similar?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4147337
Hopefully, Apple will _finally_ let me pay for a subscription to my beloved HyperCritical PodCast. I already Pay $5/month to 5by5 - and was considering increasing that - but I would happily pay $2-$3/month for a subscription to Hypercritical. John Siracusa puts an insane amount of effort into preparation, and even when I vehemently disagree with him (he's opposed to patents) - I still find his perspectives and intellectual rigor intriguing.
At OpenRent [1], we use the google identity toolkit [2] and whilst it has a few quirks and bugs, it's been received fairly well by even our non-tech crowd. It uses email providers as identity providers - and is only as intrusive as inputting your email into a traditional log in box, just with much less friction, and without the requirement to remember another password!

I'm surprised it's not seen bigger adoption in the start-up crowd, but I guess it was slightly more work and isn't quite in-line with the MVP culture.

It also places a reliance on a third party - but in this case I expect good reliability from Google, and have a fallback option in place (both for availability, and to support older browsers).

[1] - http://www.openrent.co.uk

[2] - https://developers.google.com/identity-toolkit/
The amazing thing about this algorithm is that it works for any data type (my other comment talks about speech and nlp).

With more computers and more data it will keep getting better - i've thought a lot about this and following this stuff for a couple of years - so it's not just some idle speculation. (I broke this recent story on hacker news a few days ago, and from here it got picked up by the new york times and spread everywhere else).
When I read the grand parent post, I immediately thought of acme.

And of sam and how some of the best programmers I know use sam[1] a language that provides even less configurability than acme.

[1]: http://sam.cat-v.org
Look up Kristian Lindgren's work on using the Prisoner's Dilemma in a Sugarscape scenario. Among the results were islands of Always Cooperate strategies buffered by Tit-for-Tat strategies from Always Defect strategies.

Unfortunately, I've been unable to find any actual papers. :/
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"It can take a half-hour for Hawking to twitch out a couple of sentences in response to a question."
This seems to beg the question: how does Hawking find the time to write so many books?
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Problem is that you might not be aware that your story has spun out of control and is heading down the wrong side of the road.

Meditation is designed to help you see if that is the case...and the fact that stories are just stories and not reality.
Yeah, I was in a similar situation with dickhead managers around 99. It was hilarious how much they thought the engineers had to put up with their bs in that type of job market; I had recruiters tracking down and leaving messages on my work phone there. Serving my notice at that dump was one of the highlights of the 90s for me.
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People who hate programming don't program a lot. Programming is immensely about experience.

I have not seen a programmer who hated programming and wrote good code.
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From what I understand, Clever makes migration from MIS less suck. And it gives developers opportunity to hook up to existing student/teacher data, which is pretty cool. Previously, most of the educators were using export/import tools to get student lists into the third party apps, which led to a lot of data duplication.
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Well, that's kind of silly. Not a huge deal, but I listen to my podcasts through a playlist that gathers all the podcasts I subscribe to, so it mixes it up a bit. Sounds like it won't happen anymore…
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I figured they were taking advertising money to fund both their work on the the app itself (which is free) and for maintaining the server infrastructure that allows them to stream quickly (which can't be cheap to them).
ZeroRPC is pretty cool but it's a different concept. It uses 0MQ sockets as the transport whereas we use RabbitMQ. This allows us to do zero-configuration service discovery and complex routing.

Bridge allows you to securely expose APIs to "untrusted" clients such as browsers and mobile clients. ZeroRPC does not do this because 0MQ doesn't allow such access control.
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As an ed-tech cofounder at a company that needs data like this, this is exciting. You guys are YC backed and from all appearances you'll be in direct competition with the Imagine K12 backed LearnSprout http://learnsprout.com/ . It's exciting in that clearly smart people are working on this problem and I hope the competition pushes both companies to make great products.
He's probably not unusual. I know git, but I refuse to use it until forced to. It's overly complicated and wastes my time.

My SVN workflow works fine. My non-branch workflow:

* Step 1: Do my work. Commit very often -- every time I implement a small granular piece. I keep the unit tests running. Other people see my commits immediately. This is simple, communication flows easily, and I'm not thinking about version control.

My branch-based workflow.

* Step 1: Create branch. svn cp ^/trunk ^/branches/feature-whatever && svn switch ^/branches/feature-whatever

* Step 2: Do my work. Commit often. Other people see my commits immediately. This is simple.

* Step 3: Run svn merge ^/trunk. Fix the occasional merge error caused by two people working on the exact same code at the same time. This is simple as long as I communicate with the team. It's easy to communicate with the team, because they all see my regular commits, and I see theirs, and so I know if we're stepping on any toes.

* Step 4: Merge my work to trunk (possibly after review). svn switch ^/trunk && svn merge ^/branches/feature-whatever

I hate the constant badgering from git proponents. They all want me to use a more complicated tool that doesn't offer any advantages to what I see as a simple, seamless workflow. I want my SCM to stay out of my way entirely. If I could avoid even thinking about it, I would.

My job is to write code, not to spend a bunch of time juggling local/remote commits in a complex SCM tool.

I've worked through the industry transitions from RCS to CVS, CVS to SVN, and introduction of SVK, Mercurial, darcs, and now git. Despite being a part of all those industry transitions, I've never seen such religious proselytizing and scorn from any SCM "proponents" as I've seen from git advocates.
Since there's no such thing as absolute security, all security effort is a balance between an assumed threat and the havoc it could create and costs. So it's always business vs. security. I'm a bit on the fence here and I guess I'd have taken another route but well, if the product was not viable without the plugin... Who knows.

Given that: My remark was directed at the blank statement that it's always easy to switch. It obviously is not in that case, the change was on the agenda [1], so it's a bit tough that this happened in the meantime.

[1] At least according to the official statement. I don't have any reason to believe otherwise.
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BrowserId is another option that I'm rather fond of.