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Wow, nice string of comments in here. Did I offend you somehow? The outrage isn't about "charity", it's about the millions of people that depend on this service to find housing more easily on Craigslist. If you've ever used PadMapper, you'd know that it wasn't co opting craigslist data, it was just summarizing and linking to it.
Sadly, its all too common to see tech visionaries buy into this dog-eat-dog libertarianism. Heck, slashdot is unreadable and reddit is often a Ron Paul lovefest. Its ugly, but some people, especially those who have impressive achievements, seem to need to believe that everthing is fair in life and if you're not doing well its because you suck.

This is also why I don't read ESR or RMS or any ideologue. Last I heard, it took the product of a northern European leftist-socialist* society to produce a college kid with a "fuck it, lets write a kernel and dismiss the Ayn Rand politics" attitude to do anything with their philosophies.

*by American standands
I meant when will they update it so that you can use the new version of Node without hacking the buildpack.
>To change the vendored binaries for Node.js, NPM, and SCons, use the helper scripts in the support/ subdirectory. You'll need an S3-enabled AWS account and a bucket to store your binaries in.
I don't want to mess with that, I'd rather wait for Heroku to update so I can change one line in my package.json.
My point was not to equate the murderous behavior. I see that you might find such a comparison distressing.

Facebook is circling the wagons on its user base. I see no one this benefits other than Facebook itself.

While promoting effortless and frictionless sharing of every last minute detail of daily life and thought within the Facebook "family", they are now very actively creating massive amounts of friction in order to prevent people from sharing with the same people anywhere else.

They are closing the exits in a defensive move to prevent people from leaving.

This is not good social behavior. This is what cults and psychopaths do in order to exert control.

This looks like the behavior of an entity with mal intent.
A digitally controlled light source for a, well, shall we say, special application.

The light source was about 24 x 16 inches with LED's packed as tight as you can imagine. For best thermal transfer and uniformity the assemblies were bonded to a 0.5 inch thick aluminum base-plate in a vacuum fixture.

To answer the other question, power was provided by a set of 48V 500W AC to DC power supplies feeding purpose-built current and voltage control boards.

It produced an output luminance of about 60,000 cd/m2 (sixty thousand candelas per square meter). In other words, it was actually dangerous to look at it directly, all measurements had to be taken through stacks of attenuating filters. Fun project but about as dangerous as working with lasers.
light server stop

if you look through the script file, it has a series of options.

light table
light server start | stop | restart
light update [version]

but as far as I can tell it always checks for updates first and will install them before it checks any of the arguments passed.
You become an expert at what you constantly practice...
Congratulations. You are currently becoming an expert at reading Hacker News.

Hopefully, that terrifies you as much as it does me, and you're inspired to go and build something!
testing nesting sorry
Mastering Your Toolset
I created a Svbtle/Obtvse clone (in terms of styling) that uses Jekyll Bootstrap if you are interested (https://github.com/joehand/joehand.github.com). I took some liberties in terms of functionality to suit my needs.

Definitely love using Prose.io with it. It has made my writing process much simpler.
Why Is the U.S. Selling Billions in Weapons to Autocrats?
In the US? What part?
Should Tenure for College Professors Be Abolished?
unlikely. if you look inside a macpro, you'd see that they have 2 giant fans that cool the cpu & ram. They pipe the air so that it flows over the cpu heatsink & ram, but no other components. There's another fan for cooling the rest of the system. Apple would have to re-engineer the entire case if they wanted to use the impeller design.
> English law punished homosexuality with chemical castration, but (according to ESR) Turing could easily have avoided this fate.

Yes, Turing could have chosen to go to prison instead. Would that have been better somehow? How were homesexuals treated in English prisons then?
Maybe it would be better to learn more about Go and rationally evaluate its use in those cases rather than using your imagination.

I'm not sure what you mean by unfair. Its certainly far from an exact analogy but there are interesting similarities.

That is true that Go is not just a syntax change to C++ and that it has a very different programming style. Many of the design goals of Go may be different, but maybe not quite as many as you think. My impression is that a primary design goal for Go is to be a powerful systems programming language allowing high performance processing, especially (but not instead of) via parallelism.
I think as working programmers, we end up torn between two opposing perspectives with our tools (i.e. programming languages, editors, language features):

On one side, there's the aesthetic of minimalism. Visualize the master Japanese calligrapher seated in an otherwise empty room, table before him. One parchment, one pot of ink, one brush. And he creates the most flawless art one could imagine. Mastery means removing all artifice, leaving only pure creation.

On the other side, take a look at your average real workshop: a mechanic's garage, a woodshop, or an operating theatre. They are filled with tools. Mastery is knowing a hundred different implements, each carefully designed for one or a few uses. Mastery means having tamed a thousand tools and knowing which one is the perfect one to apply to the situation at hand.

Programming languages live on a continuum between these points. Over in Zen land, you've got Scheme and Go, maybe Smalltalk and JavaScript. Over in everything-but-the-kitchen-sink territory, you've got Java, C#, Common Lisp, and C++.

The first image certainly seems cooler: you as code ninja wielding vi and lambdas with deadly precision. It's the aesthetic of the artist and intellectual. The second image is blue collar, the tradesman, the kid who took shop class for four years, the vocational school graduate.

If we accept the second image, that says something deep and maybe unpleasant about how we look at our work. But, honestly, I think the reality is that quality professional work often looks like the second picture. Every time I go to Home Depot and get some random tool that only does one thing (basin wrench, water heater element remover, you name it), it takes a job that would be hours of frustration and turns it into child's play, and the quality of the work is better.

Simplicity is a virtue worth striving for, but I think it's also valid to want tools perfectly suited for certain tasks. The real art is balancing the two.
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I think the issue will be compiling it for the CLR and then distributing it. The current script gets and runs a JAR, but I 'd imagine it would be relatively trivial to modify the script to run the CLR instead - but you'd have to build from the source included in the JAR (if it's all there...)

Haven't had much experience with it myself, it has been a while since I've played with Clojure.
Porting C# Source Code Formatting and Comments to Java
So nobody has ever successfully done anything wrong on any Windows computer you've used in 10 years.

Gotcha.
This is obviously great news, but I really hope he has plans to take it to the next step. It's great that an incredibly successful comedian can get away this this, but nothing will really change in the long run unless smaller acts have access to this direct-to-consumer approach as well, and that will only happen if someone like Louis CK goes out of his way to share the network, tools, and process that he's developed. It doesn't sound like that's something he's interested in doing (he wants to be a comedian, not an entrepreneur), but maybe he's just taking baby steps and he hopes to get there eventually.
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Thank you for engaging me in this thread. I still think you're missing the point, if you think people need it pointed out to them that there's more than one reason the poor are poor. Well, they do, but not if they've read this article, since the author is more than aware of this, and illustrates what he calls the "surround of force" throughout.

In terms of educating the rich, what exactly do you propose to teach them and how do you suggest convincing them to give you the time of day?
Here's a somewhat parallel effort by esr, where he attacks anti-torture activists because they don't adhere to some arbitry rules that he pulled out of his ass. The real evildoers, by the time he is done, are not the torture advocates and implementors in the Bush administration, but the people who opposed them.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1742

Now with Turing, rather than condemn the people who hounded him to death, he is going after those who don't treat his life-story in exactly the manner that esr, lord of propriety, has decreed.

I can't believe anybody buys this crap, and I can't believe I am spending time on it, but esr is often taken to be a spokesman for the entire hacker community, so occasionally stopping to point out his nonsense seems to be a necessary thing to do.
Yes, some people propose that maybe the IVC writing isn't language at all. See this talk by one of the authors of a paper showing that it is, indeed, writing of a language:
http://www.tedxsmu.org/events/tedxsmu-tuesday-7-5-11/
He used machine learning and the idea of entropy to prove his point, but as he says in the video, it's shocking how he got more menacing feedback -- to the level of death threats -- from saying that "the writing is a language" than saying "the language is Dravidian".

And as far as the Heras/Parpola Dravidian-based deciphering briefly mentioned in the talk, a much more expanded (and more compelling) deciphering is provided in the paper I linked above, called "The Indus Fish Swam in the Great Bath" by Iravatham Mahadevan. Ira. Mahadevan and Asko Parola are the the top 2 scholars of the IVC script. The paper also indicates several parallels to its other contemporary civilizations. That paper comes from the official website of the scholars involved in excavating and interpreting IVC sites.
OpenMobius - High level Java data processing framework based on Hadoop
I have had this feature for a couple versions. One annoying thing about the FB android app is the fact that it checks my GPS location even when location features are disabled, including this.
Yammer charges $5-$15 per user per month. if everyone of the corporate users were charged $5 per month its $60 a user per year. How does that compare at all to a company which had no revenue?
> The Kicksend web app [...] consumes our API the same way as our other apps do.

A result of this is that your app does not work if javascript is disabled. And as a NoScript user, I'll have to carefully consider if I want to whitelist you. (Hint: Quite often, I don't bother. Especially if the site doesn't at least degrade politely ["We're sorry, but our service requires JS..."], which Kicksend does not.)

Don't get me wrong -- I think this is a very clean solution. There are just trade-offs to consider. And, to be fair, enabling both client-side and server-side consumption of an external API -- all within the same app -- is probably more of a headache than it is worth.
The sarcasm isn't helpful, guy.
As a church goer myself, I wish they were taxed. Would solve a lot of bellyaching on both sides of the issue.
Not quite as young as the kids in the article- but by age 6 I was handling a pocket knife, building camp fires (with supervision), and cooking over said camp fires (hot dogs on a stick, etc).
I have a favorable impression of Go after reading this post, however...

The main argument that less is more is essentially the MIT approach of Richard Gabriel's classic Worse is Better concept. It merits mention.
A very nice article. Amongst our Indian friends it is common that NOONE hires a babysitter (that word does not exist in their dictionary), so when you invite someone, you are inviting their children and we see a lot of obnoxious children. It goes without saying that the parenting is to blame, and I think this article is right on, over emphasis on grades, softness of parents on basic things are to blame. Parents will say no, they don't mean it, and then kids learn from that. They are very clever and really take the meaning of an interaction, not just the words. Parents are a bit foolish that way to just go by the words.
No middlemen? I just bought tickets, and the purchase was powered by etix.com. I'm assuming they used a payment processing gateway for my credit card, there's another middleman. Don't you imagine the money owed to these entities is just built-in to the price of the ticket?
AFAICT, everything is being handled by etix.com, since that's where his "Buy Tickets" links redirect: http://event.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSearch.jsp?pe...

Even though the purchase page is on etix.com, it shares all chrome with his site, and the tickets don't seem to appear in any public listings or directories elsewhere. Presumably, there's still a charge, it's just small, and included in the pricing model (along with taxes).

Obviously, it would be awesome if this works out and etix.com (or someone else) makes this low-fee approach more accessible to other performers.
Part of me is happy that he's getting rid of scalpers. The other part of me likes knowing that I can always get tickets for sold out shows from Stubhub.

Unrelated- He's using eTix.com and I think he killed them.
Trying to buy tickets for SF show and getting "Please wait while accessing the system...." from eTix.com.
The Cusp
This is great to see. Just this past weekend I went to a music festival in NYC (The Governor's Ball) whose ticketing was handled exclusively by Eventbrite. I can't remember the last time I was able to buy anything music related online without Ticketmaster being involved. I hope to be able to do it a lot more.

The "refunding your ticket if you try to sell it" thing, well, that's going to be a pain. Glastonbury Festival in the UK has tried to combat this, and ended up basically producing photo IDs for every ticket. A whole ton of effort, especially for a small attempt like this.
Isn't being a middle-man in "direct to consumer" sales kind of an oxymoron?
On top of that, I tried to remove my new Facebook email address from my profile. I got the following error message:

There was an error removing the email: xxxxxxx@facebook.com

Did I type the wrong password? Maybe that was supposed to be a capital letter. Oh, there's a different 'wrong password' email...
Hardin overstated his case, for much better and more nuanced treatments, go to Google Scholar and search for "Elinor Ostrom" "Tragedy of the commons". She won the 2009 Nobel in economics, largely for her work in how "the commons" really are managed.
Orbitz Starts Displaying More Expensive Hotels for Mac users
From his site, with buy links: https://buy.louisck.net/tour-dates
Europeans Who Get Sick On Vacation Can Take Another One, Court Rules
Walked around Japantown and went on a sailing cruise. Might check out the Haight later.
Computer Age (reggae dub) Mungo's Hi Fi
Maybe you are the ubermensch incarnate and could maintain total control of your creative mental faculties through the most painful torture...

Hardly. I certainly wouldn't hold a person being tortured responsible for their actions, but I also wouldn't permit them to make their own decisions.

My position is that the right to make a choice and the responsibility for that choice go hand in hand. Either the poor are allowed to make choices and suffer the consequences, or they aren't. If you'd like shades of grey, perhaps they could jointly make decisions with a guardian, and the guardian is partially responsible for those choices.
Gotta love that the homebrew recipe is already up.

brew update

brew upgrade node
"Also, you'll see that if you try to sell the ticket anywhere for anything above the original price, we have the right to cancel your ticket (and refund your money). this is something I intend to enforce."

I thought this was great at first, but I wonder how this will work.

Won't canceling the ticket hurt the person who buys it from a scalper? I don't see a way for him to stop scalpers from selling them, and after it's out of their hands the scalper doesn't care if the ticket is cancelled. I foresee buyers not finding out until the event and being angry.
When I say $75 an hour including overheads I don't mean a salary of $150,000 - I mean a salary of $60,000 plus tax plus health insurance plus pension contribution plus office space plus a desk plus a computer plus the calls to IT Helpdesk plus the line manager's time plus any commercial software plus other developers' time coaching plus the 20% cut paid to the recruiter plus the HR and payroll people's time plus networking and internet connection plus the backed up storage space on file and mail servers plus the car parking space plus a phone line plus cleaning plus the break room food and coffee.

Of course these things are company-dependent, but I'm a comparatively junior developer and for purposes of internal costing my employer costs my time at $75 an hour.
Please tell us about your business model. It is far more intriguing :)
I'm one of those people who enjoyed reading the long emails. It's easy to believe HE wrote them, and there's an appeal to that.

But I find it hilarious that, after that long email, he mentions they'll be sending a TL;DR version later. I have to wonder if that was humor, or just a legitimate "ah well" moment. I can't tell, and that makes it better.
It was my understanding that TicketMaster/IAC had contracts with most venues that secured its position as the only place to buy tickets online. For example: http://iac.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=604

Is that no longer the case? Or did Louis CK figure out some hack around those agreements?
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Sumo Logic Launches Free Machine Data Search and Analytics Service
Sumo Logic launched a free cloud based log management product today. They let you manage up to 500MB/day with 7 days retention and up to 3 users. Perfect for small shops that can't afford to pay for Splunk and all the machines required to run it.
Thanks for the link. I guess you were originally down-voted because some people don't like a counter-opinion when it comes to file sharing. I have mixed feelings about sharing but the one thing I don't really like is when people are claiming to just "share" but are actually making a significant profit. I think if there is profit being made then at least a portion of it should be going to the artists.
If it was as simple as that, couldn't they just process the live IR feed through a negative/inversion filter to achieve what they are doing?
> In a language with closures and Go-style goroutines and channels...

Is that also filed under doing less? I believe C/C++ programmers aren't flocking to Go because it isn't strictly less. Every language that has tried to replace C/C++ always ends up doing too much. I'd love to see a replacement for C that solves the obvious flaws but doesn't add to much to the basic premise.
I only checked the Texas shows, but the Magnolia Theatre in Dallas is a pretty "classic" theatre that has hosted plenty of top-tier comedians, and ACL Live in Austin books all kinds of heavy-hitting musical acts in addition to the stuff you see on the Austin City Limits television show. Not exactly comedy-specific clubs, but probably more appropriate than the places run by Ticketbastard/AEG Live.

They're certainly still getting a cut, it's just not itemized during checkout for all to see, I guess. The only other thing on the receipt besides the ticket price was sales tax, which came out to an even total of $45.00.

Should be a good show =)
Using a hundred different pliars and wrenches doesn't make your car any harder to fix down the road. Using a hundred different types of screw heads does.
I'm Russian, and I brought my 9 (now 11) year old daughter to the US. This process was (and somewhat still is) pretty painful for everybody, especially my wife. Russian women are often called 'sitting hens' back home because of their extreme hyper/over/megacare about all things, especially children. And the whole system is built around this - teachers don't talk to kids, they talk to parents (usually mothers), kids opinions are quickly dismissed just because they're kids "I don't care what you think, tell me what your mother says". Kids adopt to this (they're kids) and sit idle waiting for next command from the upper management. But at the end it turned out to be much easier for the daughter than to my wife. She felt like she suddenly lost control of her child - "what if she gets under the bus?!?!11 what if the will fall from the tree?!! what if she will drawn in the pool?!11", etc. My daughter adopted quickly (again, she's the kid) but in a funny fashion - she's very independent in the school and in the company of her classmates, but still very dependent at home (because it's much easier to manipulate your mother to iron your shirt than to do it yourself, you know).
I can't say that American kids are specifically spoiled. There's fierce competition, who's cool and who's not. In their school it is cool to be cool AND also get into the advanced math class. Pretty tough objective, I'd say :-) Back home (we went to a very good school too) the relations between kids were much more relaxed, but there was much more physical abuse. All cultures have their benefits and drawbacks, but overall I like it here better. In particular because it's cool to be in the advanced math class :-) And because she was very disappointed to learn that there would be no advanced computer class in 6th grade. And because she wants to go to the summer camp in Stanford to learn special effects in video, etc.
But I live in a pretty upscale neighbourhood, one of the best school districts in California, blah-blah. That's definitely offsets perspective.
I fully understand the hatred of scalpers but I also kinda like knowing they're an option. I've bought a few overpriced tickets to events I really wanted to attend. I like that I can attend most events I'm interested in so long as I'm willing to pay for it. Is it worth $150 for a $50 ticket? Not usually, but sometimes.
Although I disagree with the comment, why is this comment downvoted?

Aren't people allowed to voice opinions anymore? Specially when those opinions are shared with some post-IPO companies?
I think you make a good point, but I would argue that Go finds that balance. Sure, Go's design is more ideologically motivated than, say, C++, but it is not ideological to a fault. (And I think Rob hints at this in the article.)
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Well no, I didn't. But now I do that you're looking for and publicizing it, I guess?
"...It was a real challenge to find venues around the country that could work with our exclusive ticketing service under these perameters. It means I'm playing in very new places. I really appreciate all of these theaters that are letting us give this a try."
I used to concern myself with such potential issues but people like you are usually less than a fraction of a % of the users. Anyone who has javascript disabled in 2012 should be pretty used to websites being broken and I would expect they know how to turn it on if they want to.

In my experience the only reasonable argument to support non-javascript users was web crawlers but even that is becoming less of a problem.

However, if your web application seems to have a significant percentage of non-javascript users then obviously you probably would have never used backbone or considered this API approach to begin with.