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Why? I think your design is fine for an initial minimum viable product. Furthermore, I think the product looks interesting. I don't doubt there is a market for something between http://monitor.us and Nagios, especially one with a clean, simple interface.

My advice would be to forget the redesign, get some minimal set of functionality working really well, turn off the rest, and start a beta. I'd be interested in participating in that beta.

EDIT: Feel free to contact me if I can help (with advice or a beta). My email is in my profile. I recently went through the process of finding a low-cost monitoring solution for a few servers so can give feedback in that regard.
I agree with you, but not in the way you intended. I suspect that most programming language implementations of concurrency are bolt-ons and are a bit broken in terms of their human (programmer) interface design.
It's hard to disagree with the general sentiment, but trading a life for a computing project is not really what happened here. Software development does not cause mental illness. In some cases, stressful jobs contribute to a person's mental degradation - but it's not like there was ever an option of trading in this guys passion for technology in exchange for a healthy brain.
So if you take your car in for service and a computer software upgrade is necessary and they remove a feature you use, that's OK?

Clearly Apple continues to show just they truly do not care about customers. It's Apple's way or GTFO. And along the way a legion of fanatics has been conned into accepting this abusive behavior. Here's hoping these nitwits aren't in charge of any other important decisions for anyone else.
Summary from http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#cryptome

Cryptome’s digital multimedia presentation of original cartography, animations, video, and architectural documentation will explore the urban implications of the NYPD One Police Plaza Security Plan - a.k.a. Ring of Steel - which locked down Lower Manhattan after 9/11, transforming its Civic Center into a threatscape centered on NYPD headquarters. With its militarized jurisdiction mobilizing through technologies of command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, the Ring of Steel has declared itself an iconic public space for our time.
Why I should be writing for MSDN Magazine (If at all) would be a better title.

I expected better from Forbes.
Where was I talking about an attack?
Yeah, I agree. I'm wondering what the OP's company does exactly. Like Amazon S3 stats?
Hard to believe that they really decided that this is the best way to go forward given all the HTML standard troubles we already have and had in the past.
And as usual with this issue, this post shows little understanding of depression.

> There is no computing project that is worth your life. Turn off the computer. Seek help. Get outside, enjoy the green grass, the birds in the trees. Talk to people you know. Talk to strangers! Drive to Wisconsin, and find out whatever it is they do there. Build a treehouse. Park on a parkway and drive on a driveway. Make a macaroni necklace. Visit a dairy. Climb a rock. Seek life.

Every point except for Seek Help is just "cheer up, pal" bunk.
Ahh, the site just changed and now I can see everything.
Trying to pretend that their is some sort of consistent notion of justice or even ideology in America any more is , especially at the federal level, is just delusional. It's a bit like a company run by hyperactive sociopaths that changes priorities every day. America has become just a massive sea of "interests" and power swirling around like a tornado, occasionally flattening someone's house or life when the winds line up in that direction.
Favorite #NBCFail Tweets during the Olympics Broadcast
Wired's article certainly presents Apple's side of the story. Although, the Samsung take is pretty interesting: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120726121512518

Apparently, Apple argues that FRAND patents should be effectively free, estimating that Samsung's standards patents are worth less than 1¢ per device. Whereas, Apple thinks its design patents are worth $24 per device, and their utility patents are another $3 on top of that. Were that to hold, it would eliminate Samsung's profit margin. So, it's hard not to read this as Apple trying to cage viable competitors entirely out of the market through legal maneuvering.
Article missed the biggest kicker, which is that the galaxy designs pre-date the iphone:

http://i.imgur.com/KPGYL.jpg
W3C Validation of Twitter Bootstrap's CSS - 975 errors
Removing RSS functionality: A defensible decision, I think. Many excellent third-party RSS readers are available and this fits Apple’s overall theme of simplifying the OS: there are more system apps but each does less and only a very specific thing (Mail was split in Mail and Notes, iCal was split in Calendar and Reminders), iTunes being the big exception. RSS was never a good fit for Mail, why should Apple have to schlepp around that ballast for all eternity?

Removing user data: That is indefensible. There should be a painless way for users to export their RSS feeds on first launch (an OPML file would be minimum, better would be some even tighter solution that is not as painful and annoying as dealing with an OPML file.

(Yes, I know that technically Apple didn’t remove the data – but no one should be expected to conduct such a preposterous rescue mission for their data. This is also not meant as a criticism of her, it’s pretty clear that she is more or less ok with Apple removing the functionality, just not the data.)
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Strange experiences, and I can see why you wouldn't much like science after that. I haven't spent any time at Ivy League institutions, but in computer science at other research universities, my experience is exactly the opposite, that most researchers come from non-academic families, and in many cases from immigrant families. I've run into lots of tenured professors who are either immigrants themselves, or born to working-class or middle-class immigrant parents, but I can't think of anyone I've met who has some kind of 3-generation Yale pedigree, like the kind you find among politicians.
Getting help is goal number one. However leading a more balanced life helps tremendously with preventing and maintaining some mental issues associated with thousands of hours of intellectually intense work. I feel strongly the above suggestions of spending more time outdoors, meeting new people etc are much more than "just cheer up" advice.
Yes that is right, altough if you really need 16 instances then I would assume you would hit the 50GB quite easily.
I have kids (4 and under) and I sometimes wonder if my 'daddy answers' are a bit much. The kids sometimes get bored, sometimes overwhelmed, and generally have to do very little research themselves as I've covered the obvious bases. I'm curious to hear more of your thoughts on this topic.
I made an Android app with a small user/fan base that I published for free after Admob went wonky in the Google acquisition, but I might want to sell to someone who wants to add ads or port to iPhone since I am too busy to maintain it.

Flippa gets good reviews here, but all the sites listed on its front page look like junk and Spam, nothing even as worthwhile as little ThemeSquirrel
This sort of process does more damage to technological innovation than almost anything else I can think of (besides the music and film industry). Look at the state of Unix for example. A free, powerful operating system should be a no brainer for anyone. Until you ask yourself a few basic questions, like which flavour, and religious wars break out.

If Unix or Linux could have limited itself to a far smaller subset, it would likely have taken over the world by now.

This is why the world needs people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Linus et al.

I shudder when I think of the type of damage this sort of thing can do to HTML and web technology.
I thought this was a really fascinating talk.

Debra and John are both practicing architects as well as security culture critics, so their discussion the encroachment of the (physical) public domain by the security system adds a rich dimension to a discussion which is often carried out in rather abstract terms.

EDIT - Visual aides available here: http://cryptome.org/cartome/ring-of-steel/ring-of-steel-00.h...
This is fallout of a battle-by-proxy between Red Hat (Gnome's de facto sponsor) and Canonical (Unity's sponsor) for the future of Desktop Linux. Canonical seems to be winning.
OAuth 2.0 standard editor quits, takes name off spec
You're right that I haven't experienced the device fragmentation and other less desirable aspects of Android development. However I'm aware of them. And as an iOS developer of 3+ years I'm well aware of the ease of going between the various iOS devices. Hence my decision to pursue Android development speaks even more strongly of just how annoying Apple's review policies and wait times are.
That's a good intuition, but I think the author avoided that for some important foundational reasons.

There are two main ways of developing probability theory.

The first way is to use measure theory. This means that probability is literally defined as an area or volume, and leads to the picture you describe. However, it forces you to think of probability as picking from a set of possiblities, and it also means you can arbitrarily carve up a shape or jam infinitely many of them together. You also need to be quite careful, as you may be taking the area of some rather weird shapes.

The second way is to assign "plausibilities" to various propositions, and then use them following a few common-sense rules. This assumes a lot less, but Richard Cox proved it gives the same result as the previous method when they both apply. However, you can now talk about the probability of rain without needing to be able to decompose it into statements about the trajectory of clouds. This also lets you talk about the probability the sun will rise tomorrow or the probability I am typing this from a hot tub without thinking about possible worlds or alternate histories.

The author is a huge proponent of the latter approach, and thus likely tried to avoid talking about shapes or regions.

In high school, you probably learned the classical definition of probability, where, if I say that something happens with probability A/B, it means that, if I do an event infinitely often, on average it will happen A out of B times. This turns out to be too fragile. I can make a die where the probability of rolling an odd number is 1/2 and the probability of rolling a number below 3 is 1/3, but the probability of rolling a 1 is undefined!
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Uh uh. We could assume the Pascal program was written in an environment which lacked UNIX utilities. The 6-line shell script is only better if you can run it at all.

Knut's program's most glaring flaw isn't its length, but its monolithic architecture.
Well, if I happen to care, I will notify you with much haste.

I'll discuss how I want.
Save our (bucky) balls
When you're in deep depression you literally can't make yourself do anything. You may logically and reasonably know that you should go outside but you can't force yourself to actually open the door.
Based on the description on the Article this is anything but depression

May be bipolar disorder, or something more serious

But it's true, it's a misunderstanding, this has nothing to do with "staying in the computer too long" or "being stressed out" or "not going to the park"
We've sort of been through that some 10 years ago, with the XHTML vs. HTML4, which people originally tried to conform to both, then consolidate, then threw XHTML out the window, because practicality beats purity.

History does not exactly repeat, but it rhymes really well.
Hmm, never heard of that, but I can see myself using this caffeinate command quite often.

Sometimes I leave command line programs running overnight then get annoyed when I find that my Mac went to sleep after an hour because I'd forgotten to adjust the power saving settings.

So running caffeinate -u <my command> will be very handy indeed
Well, develop a program for Linux, and then for Windows. The Windows one will net you more. I'm a Linux dev as well, but I know how things are, I'm not a narrow minded dipshit.
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Upgrading to Mountain Lion was necessary? I hardly see how.
Keep in mind, as pg confirmed the other day, HN is still running on a single core.

pg/HN has always been good at prioritizing. (And at identifying his interests versus yours, which may often but not always overlap.) Also, there are ready workarounds, if you must, e.g. load the linked page of interest into a new tab before it expires.

This is something people liked about HN, including early on. That pg would make useful decisions and then not take / cave in to cr-p about them.

I'll live with the expiring links, if and as it makes other parts of managing HN easier.

P.S. As I reflect, is some of the increased discomfort and agitation from users on this point due to an increase in mobile browsing, where such user-initiated workarounds face a more cumbersome UI? (Not all, but some.)
Not quite actually refuting what you said: HTML was certainly based on SGML (the similarity is obvious!), but it never was an SGML application. It only became an SGML application in the spec a couple of years later at the impetuous of DanC — no major HTML consumer has ever used an SGML parser for HTML.
The problem with that kind of advice is that doing those things (spending time outdoors, meeting new people) require willpower, and being depressed, or anxious, or in a number of other states of mind, saps your willpower, and therefore your ability to execute on any of these suggestions.

Practical suggestions are the kind of things a therapist will recommend when you do seek help: cognitive behavioral therapy, or pharmacological solutions. They're practical because talking to someone on a set schedule every week, or taking a pill on a set schedule every day, requires much less willpower than the things people usually suggest, but has effects which increase your willpower, and thus your capacity for attempting those other things.
Hi, I'm actually the lead dev (Paul works with me, but is a recent addition to the project). Glad to see the interest on here.

Our funding is down on that page under 2011, it comes from the Rita Allen foundation. We do get paid a fair rate (I'd say, granted it isn't what we could be making in some places but it isn't that far off, plus I get to write open source code all day and do something I care about.)
We are planning to look at more of this, the site is just a step along the way. You can also check out our API (http://openstates.org/api/) you can play with the data yourself.
> The essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html ?

Yes, that's the one I was thinking of. Thanks for finding the link!

> the mix of chained object method invocations and "outer" function calls

Actually, you're right, I could have factored out the part that builds the dict of words vs. occurrences into its own function, so that the entire pipeline would be a single chain of calls. Now that you've put the thought into my head, I may go back and do that. :-)

> I was wondering how the example script would look like using pipe[1] :-)

That would certainly make the Python look more like the shell script. :-)

One of the constraints I imposed on myself when writing the Python version was to only use what comes with it--built in functions/syntax and the standard library, with no third-party packages, similar to how McIlroy only used "built-in" Unix commands that came with every Unix system.

> One question about the Python code: is the first call to sorted needed

You're right, it isn't. I've pushed an update to the github repo fixing this (in both versions).
There is some similarity to Tor. How does it deal with ICANN tampering DNS records at the behest of big media, like it can do even without aid from SOPA, PIPA etc?
Very very trolly. Almost as trolly as the people on HN who are taking it seriously.
> so we should be asking, "What experiments help us learn the most?" when we spend it.

Understood, but isn't the point of not saying "What experiment will yield something I can sell?"", is that we don't know the answer to the question "What experiments help us learn the most?"

Again, the LHC isn't that expensive. Mark Zuckerberg lost more money over the last two days to pay for both the LHC and the Hubble.
f'ing brilliant. And actually a usefully gentle introduction to API construction and use.
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Going out of your way to write reusable code, unless you're writing a library, is usually a waste of time.

That I can agree with. But there's nothing stopping you from breaking up your program into small utilities that have a simple interface. Those utilities don't need to be generic or widely applicable. But separating them from the main program can help.

Just to give an example, I once had trouble writing a function that transformed a particular tree data structure. I ended up breaking it in two: the walking part, that took the transformation part as an argument. And of course the transformation part. Note that the walking part was fairly generic, and could have been use for other purposes (heck, one of its arguments where a function!). But I didn't write it for that. I wrote it to reduce the amount of brainpower I would need to finish my program, through dumb separation of concerns.
Samsung caters to the needs of almost every segment. In India they have hugely popular dual SIM (It's a big deal in India) Android phones. I'm sure there will never be a dual SIM iPhone ever. Samsung phones are available even in remote villages , but iPhones are only available in cities.
Apple will have to improve their distribution and variety to appeal to new users. So , this trend will only accelerate
Apparently, it's not the complexity that kills you. It's the unexpected explosions (who knew titanium could be explosive?), the deadly poisons, and the times where you discover that the oxidizer tanks for all the rockets you manufactured seven years ago are leaking fuming nitric acid, and you haven't changed the design in seven years. The solution for that problem was truly astonishing.
My daughter isn't at that age yet, but I imagine that helping to lead the conversation/exploration with the right questions (rather than providing complete answers) might be a sound approach?
If you watch some of his earlier speeches it is pretty clear that "intellectual property loss" is code for "chinese industrial espionage". This guy doesn't care about your game of thrones torrents.
Would this be the Steve Jobs who ditched floppy disk drives when people still had piles of disks around, and Firewire ports when people still had plenty of devices requiring them, etc.?
I guess I should come clean and admit that I'm older than most of the people here ... my kids are 21, 19, 16 and 10. I think when they're younger, you try to answer the question in a fun way that makes them continue to think about the topic. Remember though ... the impulse to tell them they're too young for the question can be pretty strong. Counter this in your mind by reminding yourself that they weren't too young to ask the question. You just need to think a bit to make the conversation age appropriate.

When they're a little older, you can start to send them off on fun "quests". Instead of answering, say "Hmmm ... I think you should go try <insert a "life-experiment" here>". And you won't need to cover the bases at all. Guide their curiosity to the answers instead. Once you get used to it, your conversations will happen this way naturally.

We didn't really push our kids academically, but we did push them to be critical thinkers. We also never really conversed with them in "baby talk". We used college-level language around them and gave them definitions for the words they didn't already know (you'd be amazed how well context works even with young kids). By the time our oldest two were 8-10, they were comfortable having long conversations with adults (the adults were generally surprised).

I also want to give a lot of credit to my wife. Her undergrad degree is in early childhood development and her masters is in counselling education (focused on elementary school grades). I am a far better father through watching her and getting occasional tips.

But my final thought is the most important ... give them your time! It's so easy when we're busy to just put them off, but you can always afford 15 minutes to engage with them more deeply on any topic.

Have fun :)

EDIT: Given the mind-set of the HN crowd, I should also point out that we also encouraged entrepreneurship in our kids. I've reposted an article I wrote six years ago on my site for those that care to read my thoughts on kids and business. See http://www.selesy.com/news/17
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9.66M tweets about the Opening Ceremony on Twitter
It's become a ritual for me that I have to rebuild imagemagick with each new upgraded version of OS X.
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That's a false dichotomy. The author of the article is suggesting you can trade obsession with technology for a healthier brain, and that this trade may have cost a life in this instance. Also, passion need not be obsession.
It’s really depressing that for the first time we can have a glimpse into Apple’s design process (which, whether you like the company or not, is unarguably interesting) and all HN can talk about is petty score counts.
I'd love to see a how this was made blog article... especially how all of the data was found/processed.
NBC Olympics Online: A case study in incompetence?
TV coverage sucks.

Tried to watch the events I am interested in online. The plan was to connect one of my development devices (either an iPad or iPhone) to the TV for the duration of the Olympic Games and simply watch that way.

Here's the problem: NBC doesn't seem to allow you to watch on a mobile device without installing their app first. I didn't because all reviews on the app store state that there is no full-screen video and, in general, the app is a horrible experience.

I looked all over their site for a way to sign-on and enable live streaming on the iPad and every single time they detect that it is a mobile device and stop at "Download Mobile App".

No worries. I can connect a spare laptop to the TV and do it that way. I happen to have a qualifying satellite TV subscription that enables watching online through nbcolympics.com.

The site makes you log on through your cable/satellite provider. I did and got a message reading:

"You're Ready To Watch! Your required tier of TV service has been verified. You now have access to watch live streaming coverage of the London Games!"

Then I clicked on one of the events and got a popup that said:

"We're Sorry. You do not have a subscription to view the requested content. To upgrade your programming go to mydish.com/programming and then log back in to view content."

I did the login -> get-confirmed -> try-to-watch loop a few times. No joy. I switched from Chrome to IE. No joy. I switched to Safari. Nope. PC/Mac/Apple TV, Google TV, no difference.

How incompetent do they have to be to ruin access and the user experience to an event of this magnitude to this extent?

WTF? I'm going sailing.