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Ask: I wasn't able to attend IO2012, can I order a pair of developer Glass-es?
I have had an augmented reality idea for android I've been working on. Now that Google Glass is orderable but only by attendees, I was wondering if there was a way around my lack of attendance. I get the impression the answer is 'no' but I'm willing to pay. I was just hoping there'd be a slot open.
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Your comments regarding Python and Ruby initially drew my ire, but I realized that they're not really "reasons". I'd have omitted them entirely, because they're not really reasons at all. You don't have to have exclusionary reasons for not choosing another language. The ones you've listed are so flimsy as not to detract from the positive reasons you listed. The simple desire to try something new is plenty good enough to try a new language.
Quality control in the free-market is all about reputation. You don't buy a Dell laptop again after getting a crappy one.

In some industries, however, the market fails to regulate quality by itself.
E.g. in the food industry, people can't see measure directly, and when people get sick from invisible contamination, they usually can't precisely trace their sickness to specific food.

E.g. in the medical industry, people are rarely repeat customers. You're unlikely to go back to the same heart surgeon because you had a good experience with them the first time.

Cabs fall in the latter bucket. Because cabbies almost never get repeat customers, and because cabs are selected based on location not reputation or quality, cabbies have no incentive to provide good, safe service. And even if customers were willing to pay more money for better service or safety, they would have very little way to express that through who they hired.
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Ah, the good ole boy 21st district candidate. This corrupt politician has free reign as long as his district remains gerrymandered. Just throw a few bones to the rednecks and a few kickbacks to the rich white folk and then collect checks from the MPAA/RIAA.

Seriously, look at this map: http://lamarsmith.house.gov/District/InteractiveMap.htm
Why would a human login at all?

In serious deployments people don't login to production hosts outside of extra-ordinary incidents. This entire discussion is based on a broken premise.
I don't want to make assumptions without seeing some data on this, but do people really think that the 10" iPad is too big? I can understand a fiscal reason to make smaller iPads, but I struggle to see any vast ergonomic benefits to a slightly smaller device.
Is this going to be targeted towards big companies or startups (in pricing) ? I'm working on a game at the moment that could definitely benefit from this tech and I'd love to try it out but I'm bootstrapping so not sure if it would be affordable.
How Pinterest build their MySQL datastore
More than 1.1 million tickets sold for Floriade 
Meer dan 1,1 miljoen tickets verkocht voor Floriade: Exactly half of the opening period of Floriade 2012, the organization has announced that all 1,174,623 tickets are sold. On July 6, 15.00, exactly half of the Floriade, the ticket was bought by the family Steines from Germany Hürth.
Actually, we're very much pushing state-of-the-art :)

It's just that we're tackling a different problem - low latency applications - and when I say low latency I mean in the microseconds range. Big spatial data is a very interesting problem, and tracking a large number (though less than billions) of moving objects is another - though very different - interesting problem.

For working sets that don't fit in one machine's RAM we offer a cluster.
i highly suggest you read the article
FBI net shut off has 'limited' impact on victims
Rails can't scale ...blah, blah, blah. That's repeating 2008 rehash bullshit. Build something that enough people are using then he can't bitch about a problem he'll probably never have. Besides, with proper SOA, scaling problems are on par with other languages. It tires me to no end when people (as in the original poster) makes claims they know nothing about.
What evidence is there that Apple intends to make a slightly smaller non retina iPad? This sounds ridiculous...
Cost is a big factor but it is not the only consideration. Even if cost was no object and you could just throw a lot of machines at the problem, designing distributed algorithms that will scale to thousands of machines is a different kind of problem than what you can get away with on several dozen machines especially when talking spatial access methods (which have their own unique nuances).

This is surmountable but few people know how to design the data structures and algorithms required to make non-trivial spatial data models scale to that level. There are significant gaps in the published literature.
Also don't just jump into this shit unless, you know, you have legal counsel that specializes in gaming. It's still a huge risk. E.g. U.S. customers could circumvent and bet on your site. Guess what, you're on the hook for that!
And when you do then 'prod' and 'root' work just fine.

They do until you have to show auditors who logged in and when.

Scattering user-accounts across machines is a maintenance headache

That's why God invented Active Directory.
What a terrible article. If the chap writes the muppet history then that may be worth reading but this managed nothing tangable and is trying to make something out of what it is not. So many assumptions, so many parralels that have no corilation.

Only story here is that the chap got paid to write that, now that is a story!
The OP must have read a bunch of blog posts and suddenly he's an expert.
Does anyone know which commit covers the reduction in functionality for the global search (related to the sales ban on the Nexus)? My friend is trying to find the commit so he can compile Jelly Bean (for the Galaxy Nexus) with the global search restored but neither of has been able to find where the change was made.

We were thinking it might be in the QuickSearchBox ( https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Quic... ) but there don't seem to be any recent commits here. I'm thinking now it might be in some place specific for the Nexus, but I'm not familiar enough with the Android source to know where to look.
Something is obsolete when it is obsoleted by a different set of behaviors. I like my wrist watch even though I use it as a pocket watch, because I like things that do one thing and do it well, but when I am at my keyboard (and most likely inside vim), my "watch" consists of

:!date

because I do not wear my watch while typing.
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You are arguing in bad faith. The robots.txt from 2008 is a whitelist of 190+ known crawlers. It doesn't include Bing, which was launched in 2009.

In 2008, kogan.com was a parked domain. It has nothing to do with the current owner(s).
Why does parseInt(1/0, 19) return 18?
“which used Porsche 911 are you offering to sell?”
The really cool thing about the repeaters is that they're optical. They don't work by converting the incoming signal into an electrical impulse at all; instead, they amplify entirely in the optical domain.
You're right -- let me reword -- nothing that he wrote is true except for the first half of the third paragraph.
I just want to clarify my definition of corruption. I believe a politician is corrupt when his or her district looks like the end-game of a round of Go. Or two simultaneous rounds as is the case in district 21.
My only (and I stress ONLY) argument for a smaller tablet is for reading. Back when the original Galaxy Tab launched, I was hugely impressed by the comfort level of reading on the device. The iPad, even for my big hands, feels unwieldy when it comes to trying to read books on it.
Even iOS5 uses the the hixie-76 draft protocol from 2010.
Title says "Dumping PHP For Go"... then the article says: "Why no more PHP? First, I should probably clarify that I will continue to use PHP"... hmm, is this a contradiction or not?
Support for older versions, good question. Yeah, I understand the need, but there is a simple reason, manpower. We are quite overloaded with keeping the normal process running. Doing this in parallel is not something we can do.

But, the scripts we use to build the stuff etc are all in the archive and documented, so anyone can checkout the 2010 or older release, and start a separate repository putting only fixes in. I don't see any reason not to do it, besides that nobody will do it.
I think Bitbucket is pretty good, and has some advantages--most notably that I can have private repositories there without paying. Yes, this may identify me as a cheapskate, but, well.

If anything, I suspect this investment is to make Github more competitive with Bitbucket -- remember, BB's parent company is Atlassian, which has pretty deep enterprise experience they can leverage. You may like GH's issue system better than BB's free one, but a paying BB customer can integrate it seamlessly with Jira and other Atlassian tools.
Deep packet inspection device purged of flaw that threatened TOR users
Yet we still link to TC articles...

YC startups always launch on Techcrunch and top HN within an hour.

Is there not a better place?
brilliant observation
Kanban and scrum are the revenge of the untalented and the humanities majors who would like to have technology jobs without having to learn anything about, you know, technology.

Why not just learn about methodology instead?

One of my least favorite aspects of the whole thing is having someone with little to no actual cs/math/ee/programming background tell me that since he/she/it used it for some trivial web programming, clearly my group doing r&d in machine learning were a bunch of morons who just didn't _get_ it because we thought it was incompatible with the kind of work we did.

Not all software work is cookie cutter.
50,000 sites compromised in sustained attack
LinkedIn’s New Look?
Microsoft deals with Surface and Windows RT woes
Review: Tesla Model S Electric Sedan
True, the hard problem is the regulations. Clones that are out there would have to jump that hurdle before they got anywhere.
The best overall bookmarking experience I've ever had, in the browser or out.

Perfect? Of course not. More than good enough? Yes.

Try it.
Somewhere in my parents house, I still have a picture from the Post of Barry flicking off the photographer. They printed it large, on page B1 in 89 or so.

I can't believe he's still around.
What a refreshing subject/article. I personaly stopped wearing a watch in the early 80's, mearly due to the aspect that time/clocks are all around accept when walking from A to B and knowing the time during a walk is not helpful in many ways. My last watch was apocket watch as I had few issues with wrist watch's as well.

Then mobiles came along, they have a clock/alarm, even early ones and those in many ways surplanted the watch as a functional tool, though not for the fashion sence which is seperate.

Now were getting to the stage were technology has got to the position were watch's can and will make a comeback as a form factor though not as a primary watch/timepeace, but more as a external display. Want to hand a number of a contact to a friend, then pulling up that contact on a watch is alot easier. They also enable health monitoring avenues and in that as a form factor they will make a comeback for the non-fashion crowds.

So are they dead, no they have not died, nor will they as a fashion/dress jewelry aspect. But with main consumer use I feel the time is approaching were they will make a comeback as a form factor.

ALso remember watch's have had wonderous things like self winding/charging thru kinetic enrgy for a while now. If your phone could do that for it's needs then life would be alot more fun. Now thats not the case and wont for a while yet, but to compliment power ussage and as a 2nd display/health monitoring oh and telling the time, they will only gain more traction.
It sounds like a lot of overhead, but it's really quite simple. Objective-C is a bit verbose for a Hacker News comment, so I put it up as a Github Gist: https://gist.github.com/3080870

As for making a Settings bundle, that's pretty easy too and you wouldn't have to do it unless you wanted an easy way to let someone change their preference later.

Besides all that, I think everyone agrees with you that Apple should make it possible to do it at a system level. The simplest way to do this in my opinion would be to allow users to remove pre-installed apps if there is an alternative on the device. For instance, if I have an app that responds to "http:// URLs, allow Safari to be removed.
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The only activity I can think of that benefits from a smaller size is typing. I have large hands and typing while holding my iPad in either orientation is cumbersome.

Even if typing is easier I don't think I'd purchase a smaller Apple tablet unless it fits in my jacket or pants pocket like an iPhone.

My ideal mobile phone/tablet is the largest iPhone that doesn't require another carrying bag. To keep things easy for developers the pixel dimensions would be the same as an existing device. The pixel density could vary with the smaller screen size.
Very interesting perspective, I wasn't quite thinking of them as "startup services", but it completely makes sense. They're certainly not wasting the opportunity, but as you said, they're on shaky grounds.
If only some tech billionaire could set up a SuperPAC to defeat this guy in 2012.

Here's his Democratic opponent in 2012 https://candaceduval.nationbuilder.com/contribute
Lame. GitHub should have written that they were using Andreessen Horowitz for their money. Without the $100MM would they have written that post, say, if Andreessen was joining their board? Fact is, they're fawning.
I get the point about the ecosystem being small, but not how it relates to deployment. Because Go executables are statically linked, deploying Go apps is very easy.
Show HN: Predicting the winner of the US Presidential Election
In 2008, I did some calculations to estimate the probability of Obama or McCain winning the election, using state poll results, and plotted the probabilities vs time, right up to the election. The results were quite interesting.

So, this year, I'm doing the same for the 2012 elections, and have put it all up on:

http://prespredict.com

I include both 2012 and 2008 results, and make an attempt to see how they correlate with campaign events and national news stories. There is also a section where I describe the methodology.

Let me know what you think

[P.S. I used bootstrap to get the site up and running quickly, but I'm not too pleased with how it looks. Any suggestions or templates I can use to improve the look?]
Not in my experience, no. In fact, it's pretty nearly the farthest thing from the getting shit done thing I've actually dealt with.

Just getting shit done doesn't mean bullshit arbitrary time-slices, half-day postmortems at the end of said timeslices, insertion of "project managers" who know little to nothing of either the actual business problem being address or the technical means used to address it, people working on a parallel svd implementation having to explain their work daily to web designers, blah blah blah.

The whole thing is a money making cult for the people who invented it, and a means of empowering a class of employees (project managers) who should exist only in very small numbers, if at all.

The claim seems to be that if you don't use scrum, you will just end up doing some horrible waterfall. This is a false dichotomy.
It should have happened with Thunderbird some time ago. Thunderbird is one of those programs where my heart would sink as soon as I learned there was a new update queued up. They always break something.
oh dear, there doing the formula:

1) get hacked
2) play it down
3) redesign the front-end as a way to plicate users

That all said when you read a article that starts of "I just accessed a client’s account to update his LinkedIn profile and I was surprised to find a totally different look to LinkedIn." then you know security is not a primary aspect for many, so it will probably work for those that still have the same password in use post hack.
ha, that's a good idea. Small amount of lists for simplified browsing experience, but indexed hashtags for blazingly fast search. Good thinking, guys.
Lately it seems like there are multiple submissions on the same topic that make it to the front page of HN.
Its called racketeering and it's illegal. Happens all the time and it perpetuates because those engaging in it are financially rewarded if successful, which in today's system simply makes success more probable the next time.
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This is the no-true scotsman argument. I have yet to see scrum implemented in a way that wasn't taken too seriously, that didn't make the team's life harder, etc, etc. It's just too easy to say they're all doing it wrong, if it's almost always done wrong.

Maybe the reality is that it only works for some kinds of programming, when not taken too seriously. But then why bother at all?
Let’s Try to Think This iPad Mini Thing All the Way Through
"Chrome for iOS has some pretty major technical restrictions imposed by the App Store, such as the requirement to use the built-in UIWebView for rendering, no V8, and a single-process model. As a result it’s been challenging to re-use critical Chromium infrastructure components.

That said, there is a lot of code we do leverage, such as the network layer, the sync and bookmarks infrastructure, omnibox, metrics and crash reporting, and a growing portion of content."

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!...
As a longtime profesional game developer, I kind of don't get it. Is this company out of business as soon as Oracle implements a loose octree that is ACID? Is there something wrong with spatial hashing?

etc, etc.
You read a study that said that artificially reducing prices leads to an inefficient market? What was the next paper written by that economist, that the sun coming out decreases the amount of clothes per inch people use to cover their bodies?

I didn't say it made the market efficient, I said an argument could be made that it was a net positive. That's not the same thing.

Example: efficient markets sometimes produce monopolies, who then abuse their monopoly power. That's a net negative - but it isn't an example of an inefficient market.
When 10.5 came out, a lot of unsupported systems only required a minor hack to make 10.5 install (copy the DVD to HD, edit a file, burn back to DVD).

With luck, there will be an easy hack this time as well. I believe the factor that decides which machines got cut off is the lack of 64bit EFI, which Apple requires for booting a 64bit kernel. Some people have already worked out how to use hackintosh tools to boot from Legacy Mode into a 64bit EFI and then into a 64bit kernel on the 2006/2007 Mac Pros, which apparently increases expansion card compatiblity (particularly making it possible to put unflashed PC video cards in the machine). Also, after doing this, some of the older MacPro video cards will be unsupported (such as the 7300GT). A suitable Radeon replacement is probably cheap though.

It is too early to tell, but with luck the same thing can be done by dedicated MacPro owners to get 10.8.

Personally, I'm very disappointed that my wife's MacBook is also on the unsupported list. I will probably end up just replacing her laptop rather than trying to hack it.
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Doesn't Americas Cardroom, among others, allow U.S. based players to play poker?
Along with that allow chrome to run its own game-not require it to use the underlying web rendering thing.
Awesome--you have two wildly different opinions responding to you. I agree with both: the iPad weighs too much for long-term reading, and it's too clumsy for typing. A 8" iPad would hit the right mix of portability and comfort.
That is not anarchism.
Really? I mean, the new iPhone will probably have a 4" screen. The current iPhone 4S is 0.5" smaller. Consumer shouldn't have a problem distinguishing them.
Russia has lots of countries bordering it, so I'm guessing plenty go through other countries and then run along the rail networks.

I was in a city which was a couple of hundred k's from the next town or rail connection and they had pretty good broadband from what I could tell.

Feel sorry for us Kiwi's, only one cable (the southern cross) active at the moment.
Ignoring the weird ideas about dynamic languages

memory is shared for each request

What does this even mean? Something like an Apache module (as an example in C) may or may not share memory depending on how it is written, but there is nothing that means it must share memory.

All sensible web programming environments have a stateless programming model (if that is what you meant). Some add state on top of that using sessions etc, but that can be in any language.
Even though I really enjoy pecking away in BBEdit, I find Vim to be so wickedly fast. Manipulating text in Vim is nicely handled without having to stretch the fingers very far. By the time I go to the trackpad in another IDE, I could have accomplished so much more within Vim.
Except that virtually every big company that we admire has successfully used the cash that they've raised to build awesome things that they otherwise couldn't have afforded without considerable risk or years of building up a war chest.

Cash is a tool. Disciplined companies CAN use cash intelligently.
As a developer, the thought of supporting yet another resolution/form factor scares the hell out of me.

I rarely use my Kindle Fire because I feel it's too small, and can't imagine finding a need for a 7" iPad. That's what my iPhone is for.
From github's announcement:

"They (AH) clearly have no interest in the status quo of venture capital."

"we're excited to partner with Andreessen Horowitz to help us make it happen"

"They want to help founders build great companies."
That's a bit of a stretch. You shouldn't notice that much of a performance difference unless you go to the desktop version of Gizmodo or BusinessInsider. Fortunately they already have mobile versions (at least Gizmodo does).
I still can't believe this model is working for this guy. $230k in 2 years is not bad for a paid-only service that people can find elsewhere for free.
I use Pinboard to place the articles I read into buckets:

* Ruby
* Customer Life Time Value
* Landing Page Best Practices
* Etc.

Then when I need to work on something for my site, I'll reference Pinboard and pull up all the amazing content I've compiled over the years (I imported my Delicious links), do sometime reading, create an action plan, and then go execute.

Just my dos pesos.
Don't waste your time in crappy startup jobs
Could someone explain what they disagree with? Do you disagree that databases of public facts are not copyrightable? With the idea that craigslist's investment in their system is irrelevant compared to the value of their userbase? With the idea that craigslist's main success is just being lucky?