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One hosting site that's backed by another hosting company that has a history of huge, extended outages does not make ruby or rails "omnipresent"

I seriously question anyone who uses heroku for production anything.
Interesting, my hands are more precise when I'm on caffeine, and it also increases my ability to think logically + dulls my emotions (which helps when dealing with anything non-creative every day)...
Watched it on justin.tv but had to switch streams three times from British English to Russian to Spanish to Chilean Spanish due to DMCA notices.

Thanks ycombinator!
Sadly, no :-)
Maybe worth tweaking the site to fit on the iPad
> Why not just accept the fact that Russia, the US and China are most alike when It comes to freedom.

Because it's not true. For example, observe how the US consistently beats China and Russia by significant margins in freedom indexes:

In the Democracy Index compiled by the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit, the US is considered a Full Democracy and both Russia and China are considered Authoritarian Regimes.

In the Press Freedom Index, compiled by the French organization Reporters Without Borders, the US is 47th out of 179, Russia is 142nd and China is 174th. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Press_Freedom_Index)

In the Economic Freedom of the World Index, published by the Fraser Institute (based in Canada), the US is 10th out of 141, Russia is 81st and China is 92nd.

I chose indexes that were compiled outside the United States to avoid attempts to paint these numbers as biased. Other numbers compiled inside the US concerning human rights also strongly favor the US over Russia and China.

You say we should "be honest," but your claims are not supported by the facts.
Excellent, I was looking for this exact article last night. Now where's the intuitive explanation of synchronicity?
I don't think this would be the best thing to use unlimited talent and money, but I'd really like to work on a perfect code editor/IDE.

I find all editors I used somehow broken. I've used Emacs, Vim and Eclipse so far, and all of them seem at the same time appealing and defficient, each has something cool other two lack, and something that really sucks. (For example I love that I can has Haskell repl open as buffer in Emacs, but I hate Emacs keybindings). There are also a few editors I haven't tried yet (which I should do), and I'm aware that all of those I tried are customizable by plugins. Perhaps a huge pack of vim plugins would be solution here; but maybe we need some new concepts about editing, browsing and running code? I believe there are lots of things to try out there, and I hope that LightTable will deliver some new great tools, the kind of 'obvious in hindsight' ideas, that you can't live without once you tried them.
Techcrunch is getting pretty desperate now. What's the purpose of this article?
nReduce is great virtual incubator. Joe and Josh have been working really hard, day after day, to integrate the suggestions of the users. It is still in progress and there are a few bugs, but the site is fantastic and the level of energy very high.

I have participated every week since the beginning. Virtually - using the site - as well as attending the SF Tuesday Beer+Pizza meetings. Both bring a lot in terms of motivation and feedback.

Kudos to Joe and Josh!
Oh yeah, it sucks after using a lot of it over the course of 1+ months. However, I found that I can significantly reduce the withdrawal time (to 3-5 days) and alleviate the symptoms by using piracetam - 2.4 grams every day, no headaches and near-normal energy levels...
game changer. will you let vc's work for you after you crowd out their market?
Dude, they aren't "giving" away jobs. This isn't a charity. You don't hire people unless you need them to make money, and then you do whatever it takes to help them make you money. If it wasn't in the best financial interests of the employer, they wouldn't do it.

Why would you prefer engineers take a pay cut to do technician work rather than the engineering they are trained for and experienced in? If an engineer can do it, I bet it would be even easier to transfer VPs and executives to these lucrative technician jobs, right?
What do you have to lose by applying too early?

Worst case scenario, they ignore your application and you re-apply close to graduation.

Best case scenario, they offer you some freelancing or part-time work and you graduate with some real experience and, potentially, a guaranteed full-time job.
Haven't looked at Derby, but after doing my first node steps with Meteor; I quickly figured it was a very rigid platform.

What? no npm?

So I recently switch to SocketStream. So far so good. I like to be in full control and assemble together the bricks I need.
> Edit: I should add that no chemical is good for everyone, not even caffeine.

Obviously false. It is hard to live without chemicals like oxygen and water (though too much of either can be toxic).
"Does the U.S. government even have the right to go and seize this homeless person's foreign assets?"

I suppose it would depend on the treaties with have with where those assets are held.

Also freeze =/= seize. They are similar and rhyme but not identical.

"Everyone seems to be conveniently forgetting that Megaupload has NOTHING to do with the United Stated except for operating on the Internet and not discriminating against U.S. customers."

Are you telling me that I can sit in Nowhereistan, hack into bank accounts all over the world to steal that money, transfer it into my Nowhereistan accounts and I'm immune to all the world's governments even though they have a treaty with Nowhereistan?
Fair point and I'm definitely a proponent of RSS. It's how I read Hacker News.

However looking at this feed, it's easy to become overwhelmed. It looks like Dave was clever enough to limit the posts to (by my count) 3-10 every 15 minutes, but still, it's difficult to know which articles are worth reading on their massaged headlines alone.

The point of Twitter is that the links are curated by the people that you follow and there's a point of view behind them. I find this necessary for many topics I'm interested in because it can be hard to find the good content among all all of the fluff.
Not a comment on the article as such, but a pet peeve about the way it is displayed. There is a "floating" header on top which covers the text. If one hits the space bar to scroll a full screen worth, some unread text is covered up by that header. The same would be the case for the footer but, that one at least, can be collapsed. This is not the only site guilty of this (in fact it seems to be a growing trend) and I am surprised that no more people comment negatively about this.
Yeah, really. I can drunk a "shot" of Turkish coffee and not feel anything like the jittery hit I get from a full mug of normal filter-coffee.
Who's ready for Google Fiber? :)
The analogy is not totally off at all. Read the other comments. It's just a matter of perspective.

Also, those are $500m in alleged damages. There's quite a bit of controversy over whether pirates are actually lost sales. Additionally, many people resort to pirated copies in order to carry out their own "try before you buy" shopping strategy. :P
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I don't think software is really different - there are certain companies with unrealistic expectations that want fresh grads to know the obscure libraries and APIs they rely on, but that's relatively uncommon.

e.g., I got hired into Amazon out of school, and they use a crapload of proprietary software internally I had to learn in a hurry. Software supports this model of operation as much as traditional engineering.

I've also interned in traditional engineering before - and the differences really aren't significant. Both software and traditional engineering fields highly value internship experience both as an indicator of competency and as a recruitment tool. IMO software simply does this on a much larger scale - e.g. literally hiring thousands of interns across a single summer.
Could it be that those aren't completely unbiased, despite being based outside the US? Maybe others give it the benefit of the doubt when compiling these things whereas they don't with those other regimes.
I don't even mind the commercials, it's the awful commentators that ruin this for me. They should have done a simulcast on MSNBC without the idiotic comments.
The one I'm working on right now -- it's the startup I want to do the most at the moment. After, space junk cleanup, improve plastic recycling, software/games for medical compliance, and a cable channel/network with nothing but 80s tv shows and movies.
Can't open the page...
It seems like the name of this project alone is enough to guarantee traction problems. Having a searchable name these days counts for more than having a name that is clever, short, appealing, or anything else.
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Leonard Mlodinow touches on this issue in The Drunkard's Walk[1]. If I remember correctly, his explanation was something along the lines of this: a truly random playlist is not desirable to most users, which challenges the claim "I do believe the ordering is truly random the first time it's generated" in the top answer. Mlodinow explains that most people really don't understand randomness, and a "truly random" playlist might have the same song twice in a row, play a few songs from the same album in the normal order, and things like that. Some people don't realize that rolling 1,2,3,4,5,6 on a die in order is as likely as 6,4,1,2,5,3 even though the second set of outcomes might seem more likely because it looks more random. To outcount for this, iTunes actually does use an algorithm to make the shuffled playlist "better" than a truly random one.

Of course, by some definitions, even rand() isn't random enough, so I can see why people argue about it. The book doesn't even provide a rigorous definition of the concept, but it was never intended to be a serious treatise on statistics.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/books/review/Johnson-G-t.h...
Duly noted. Thanks for the feedback!
The stupidity hurts.
how does this work on a technical level? are you running a copy of sc2 and basically just replaying the replay?
I'm not saying you are immune. But if the judge ruling over the case throws it out before it gets to court then your assets should not remain frozen indefinitely out of spite.
That's what I do. It's always funny to me how a lot of people want to jump from drinking tons of coffee to no coffee. There's a happy medium in-between. I drink a lot of coffee but I do ramp down my caffeine over the course of a day. Start with full caff, then down to half in the afternoon, finally to decaf in the evening though sometimes I just skip it entirely. I feel very alert consistently throughout the day except for a short period in the afternoon before I've had some half-caff. I'm asleep within about 5 minutes of my head hitting the pillow.
It's in many ways a country that it's better if you miss it, however. Visit it, and live somewhere else :-/
The grandparent has the right sentiment but the wrong language. When you see :: you know you're addressing a specific class and not a namespace.

And since PHP doesn't have any concept of a class-instance there's nothing mucking that up.
Believe me, you still get visits and threatening letters from the TV licencing people.
Read Ignition!. It is, in fact, fairly difficult to find a combination of fuels that ignite exactly in the manner one wants them to, in a reasonable range of temperatures, and can be stored without decomposing or eating the storage container.
Stream movies and music 24/7 to myself, my family, my friends and their families, people I meet on the street, vagrants, etc. That and I might even have some bandwidth left over when people are using bittorrent on the network (yeah right).
Meanwhile public school teachers teach math without understanding the subject at all, and we question whether or not Khan is doing a better job? I'm pretty sure he can do a better job than teachers regurgitating the textbook.
They only have to distribute these binaries to people who already brought the product. My guess as to why it is public ally accessible is that due to selling it through the app store they can't tell who actually brought it and the amount of people who can compile this, would pirate it, couldn't pirate from somewhere else and would have brought it if they couldn't pirate it is pretty minimal.
Under development: Cool and better way of writing user guides & API docs
Hi Everyone,

For a few days, I am thinking on building an online service where developers, SaaS owners and software owners will sign-up and start building user guides, API docs easily and quickly.

I have some nice ideas to make the service "worth" to pay for it such as user guide templates, mobile device support, interaction, etc.

I just built a landing page for my service:

http://www.userguidez.com/

It will be reasonably priced service with 15-day trial in the beginning.

In short, you will be able to create "cool" user guides and API docs just like;

CampaignMonitor's Help Section:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/api/getting-started/

MailChimp's Help Section:

http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/troubleshooting-the-mailchimp-signup-form-page-on-facebook/

Wufoo's Help Section:

http://help.wufoo.com

Or something like;

http://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/wsm/11_XTM/en-US/index.html#en-US/wireless/ssid_broadcasts_enable_c.html

What do you think? Wondering your thoughts to test my idea.

Thanks for your time and help!

Sean
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Right, but you're not using shared hosting for production either.
Because, if you look at it from a business standpoint, why would you hire more employers if you have employers that can convert. Unlike some people, I don't need $90k to make a living. But then again, when has ethics ever been a problem right? Its all about wanting more and more.
Not to mention, some engineers are really crappy and since getting a new job isn't particularly easy, especially with a family, pay cuts are an option.

I've seen a lot of things done at the company I work for that wasn't exactly in the companies "financial interest". Its amazing how much money is used for things that aren't needed because a manager felt they couldn't wait an extra month, or something wasn't "moving" fast enough, or other poor excuses that justify spending 50k on a system of which they probably don't even use the majority of the features.
From the article criticizing Khan:

> An effective math teacher will point out that “rise over run” isn’t the definition of slope at all but merely a way to calculate it.

Depends on the level. For introductory algebra, or classes before calculus, where the "slope" concept is used exclusively with linear functions, "rise over run" is a perfectly adequate definition.

For calculus, you can rigorously define slope as the limit of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / h as h -> 0 (or any of several other equivalent definitions). The subtleties of the proper definition are likely to be more confusing than enlightening to a beginner.

But even the rigorous definition is still a "rise" term f(x+h) - f(x) divided by a "run" term h. The phrase "rise over run" is an easy-to-remember mnemonic which actually does a really good job of capturing the underlying idea without going deep into more technical issues involving limits (calculus) or the guts of exactly what a real number is (real analysis).

Once the linear case is completely understood and the student has some basic facility with both mathematical reasoning and algebraic manipulation, THEN is the time to introduce the more general definition of "slope". Even then, mathematics teachers tend to use the word "slope" mainly in the linear case, and "derivative" in the general case.

As far as I know, this has been the standard way to teach high school / early college level mathematics for decades.
Most of the sports channels aren't covered by the licence fee, you still have to pay for cable (or Satellite) for them. The Olympics are one of the few exceptions.
Throws it out over a technicality in service because of a lack of address? We're back to the homeless thief with no address getting a free pass.
My problem isn't just the delay, it's the fact that they were pretending the rest of the world does not exist.

The NBC "newscasters" were lying on air, saying things like "the big question now is who will be lighting the olympic torch," "the opening ceremony will begin in 2 hours" (when it was already over!), "in three hours time, the debate will be on as to whether the London or Beijing ceremony was nicer, we have the world has no idea what surprises are in store," and so on and so forth. They're deliberately misleading their viewers, and it's disgusting.
Can we please stop with the framework approach? Node.js has what is probably the best package management system out there. Frameworks are really only necessary when you have crappy package management or specific problems. NPM makes is so easy to use libraries liberally and that's what people should be doing.

With frameworks, the framework calls your code.
With libraries, your code calls the libraries.

If you've never taken the libraries approach and are working with a framework, then you are essentially holding a hammer and looking at all problems as nails.

What I'd prefer to hear about is a discussion of Racer, the synchronization library used in Derby.
I second Theanine. Personally I've been taking it before my morning coffee and I notice that I am less jittery and less stressful, while still having that caffeine high. I will even take it alone sometimes before a high stress situations and it helps with the nerves.

I oftentimes choose to consume Green Tea or Matcha as they contain a varying amount of natural Theanine.

That said these are anecdotal and could very likely be the placebo effect.
Insider access?? lol
Absolutely agreed. I've been drinking coffee for about 3-4 years now on and off, but for long periods. One cup of coffee has always been enough to have me wired for quite a while.
Due to my job, I work a lot with these broadcasters, especially Channel 4. From what I can tell, even though they are commercially funded, the folks over there in Horseferry Road try to take their "publicly owned" status seriously and try to act with the "public interest" (whatever that means) in mind. For example, I know that at least unofficially, they try really hard to help and support small, independent producers.
The US used to be one of those countries until Ronald Reagan signed a bill removing restrictions.

"June 28, 1984: President Ronald Reagan signs 'The Cable Communications Act' into law. During his first term in office, President Ronald Reagan approved "The Cable Communications Act," groundbreaking legislation that, among other things, lifted time restrictions on television advertisements. The stage was now set for the long-form infomercial."

http://news.yahoo.com/crazy-tv-products-evolution-infomercia...
OK,

I don't use Twitter but I see celebrities and T&A a lot more when I log out of my yahoo webmail than when I'm on Facebook. Real, honest to god porn, for that matter, has stayed on the "open web". There are still, uh, forces pushing people that way.

Also, as far as I know the masses have never been on Twitter.
The analogy is not totally off at all. Read the other comments. It's just a matter of perspective.

I don't agree. Without intending to defend the US government, Sharia Law (or Megaupload for that matter), there is a significant distinction between the two cases: that the MPAA feels Megaupload is harming them directly.

You may not agree that they're right about that. You may think the damages amounts are silly. You might even think that the idea that there are any damages at all is a sign that someone doesn't get the information revolution. Leave that aside.

The MPAA thinks Megaupload is harming them directly, a viewpoint the justice system seems to share.

So, a more direct analogy would be a country with excessive pollution. Or a country with a lot of drug cartels that exports illegal substances or crime. Or a country that trains terrorists.

I'm not saying the MPAA is right. I'm definitely not saying the DOJ is right. I am saying that this is the class of problem that people go to war over, and it's unfair to characterize it as anything else.
holy crap - I didn't realize this. Thanks!
On the one hand, a referendum supporting marriage equality has never passed a vote of the people in the US. On the other hand, Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing and Starbucks are rarely on the losing side of issues in Washington. It's an exciting time to be a Washington state voter.
Let's be clear though, it went down quite similarly with Mac OS X: 10.0 was quite troublesome and not exactly well-received. Look what happened later. Ditto Vista and Win 7. The pattern is not limited to FOSS.

I think the lesson here is that the circumstances at times compel platform vendors like KDE and Gnome to make these big next-gen releases, and the market compels them to do them before they're quite ready for end-user primetime, because the alternative is a serious loss of momentum, e.g. in the third-party space that is waiting for that release. And this is likely even more true in the FOSS space, because you're not just bleeding third-party interest by not shipping, but also developer recruitment.

It's a balancing act. Looking back, I don't think we found quite the right balance with KDE 4.0. But realistically, shipping 4.0 only when it had achieved the quality level, of, say KDE 4.5 just wasn't going to happen, either. Because if we hadn't shipped at some point, we'd might not have gotten the influx of contributors and early adopter feedback that we needed to make 4.5 happen.

Really, people are being presumptuous by saying these things happen carelessly. The reality is that there are pressures pulling you into different directions. You sometimes make bad calls under pressure. At other times you make the right call but get to chose between multiple options that each have their own downside attached.
Good stuff. Mixergy was awful when it comes to searching for something. This should make it a lot better.
The Cartesian plane does not contain equations.

I think what you mean is that a two variable linear equation over the reals describes a line in the Cartesian plane.

Try thinking of a line's slope (as you've described it) as just one measure of that line's "steepness" in the Cartesian plane. Thinking like this, we could use any number of measures to describe "steepness" (for example, angle of inclination provides a measure for the "steepness" of any line)

So it's sort of a philosophical difference. However, there is a a very subtle elegance at work here.... we have this geometric concept of "steepness" which -- very interestingly -- turns out to be related an algebraic concept.

Actually, we can go further. The geometric concept of "steepness" is related to algebra via a simple quotient, which is further related to an analytic concept (rate of change).

It seems so trivial, but a good number of mathematicians make a living by finding small connections between geometry, algebra, analysis, etc.

(Edited)
I suppose it depends if you're looking at the GAAP(negative) or non GAAP earnings(positive). I'm not sure which one tells the truth, but most press sources seem to cite a positive EPS of $0.01. In any case, this is not really a company that's hemorrhaging money.
No one has mentioned yet, but clearly we will be hearing more from Mr. Fogus:

https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/the-reemergence-of-datal...

I cannot attend physically this year. Maybe we can figure out how to get a streaming feed somehow . . .

puredanger, are you out there? How can I give you money for this?
Wow, am I one of the few people who really likes Gnome 3? I use it on my primary home PC on top of Ubuntu 12.04. I love it.