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Yeah, I am concerned by the plan to create a web front-end for managing files in one month, it seems... optimistic at best.
Kristi from Braintree here.

First, I want to apologize that we weren't able to reach out about lower fees sooner than we did. High fixed monthly fees have been imposed by the underlying banks that provide merchant accounts for years. Some banks have recently relaxed those and Braintree, Stripe and others in the industry are now able to take advantage of it.

The reason we were able to waive the fixed fee when you contacted us was not because it was in our discretion the entire time, but because we had only recently been able to get some of those fixed fees removed by the underlying banks. Since that time, we have been proactively contacting hundreds of our customers that would benefit from the new bank structure to offer them lower pricing.

The 6% reserve on your transactions wasn't imposed by Braintree but rather the bank that was providing your merchant account (Braintree is not holding back anyone's money). We work extremely hard to prevent reserves being imposed on our merchants and when it does happen, our intent is to get it removed as soon as possible. Please reach out to us so that we can work on getting your funds released asap.

We could have handled your situation better, and we're sorry that we weren't able to get lower fees to you faster. We've been browbeating banks for years on behalf of startups to get simpler, better fee structures. We've made a lot of progress and think we've had an impact on the industry with things like simpler pricing and card data portability. That said, we recognize there is a lot more work to do, and we will continue to work hard to provide an exceptional payments experience for startups.
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Great feedback! I mostly use writeLaTeX for smaller projects (papers, talks, short notes), so I haven't done much on multiple file support. Some of the other online editors (e.g. scribtex and sharelatex) have better support for multiple files, I think.
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I think you can blame Cargo.
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It's not so simple, and for the vast majority of use who don't have strong real-time requirements there are a couple other things to say:

The two big managed languages (Java and C#) are now getting fast enough that there is only one place where slower performance can be assumed. That's the startup time - bootstrapping the managed runtime and JITing the code takes a while, so languages like C will always rule for execution patterns along the lines of a CGI script.

It can also be said that they'll always be bigger memory hogs, which is something to think about when you're working in a constrained environment. That's a side effect of the garbage collector - objects aren't cleaned up right away, so there's always a "queue" of objects that are waiting for cleanup that's just sitting around occupying RAM.

However, in terms of overall performance the story gets murky. In many real-world applications C or C++ is unlikely to outperform the managed languages (certainly not by a significant margin) unless significant spent on careful optimization. All that work increases both initial development and continuing maintenance costs, though, so it is unlikely to be worthwhile unless you're in a situation where a small amount of execution time really is worth a large amount of money.

This is a difference you're never going to be seeing on the benchmark sites, though. Benchmarks are by necessity small programs, which means that are easy to carefully optimize to an extent that doesn't necessarily reflect what is practical in the real world.
My totally unscientific and anecdotal input is that, for what I end up watching (5-10 videos/week), it's in the 50-75% range (for HTML5 videos being available).

Of course, that doesn't mean much and I always have a Windows virtual machine running for just these scenarios.
IMO, a Facebook account shouldn't be a prerequisite for any action on the internet other than using Facebook.
Yeah, I understand why movie theaters are interested in 5k, but I don't think most people will be able to see the difference on home televisions.

Not that that will stop them from making them, but it'll be interesting to see what happens after 4k/5k when the limit of how much resolution the human eye can perceive has been surpassed.
>The Bill of Rights says the Government "can't restrict your freedom of speech", not that you have the right to free speech. There's a difference.
So you already have freedom of speech.

That's very idealistic, and I'm glad I live in a country where this fiction is enshrined at such a base level.

In reality, we are born, human creatures, unto a world with billions and billions of other human creatures. The only rights we really have on this Earth are the ones the other creatures around us let us have. If preserving the fiction that we aren't collectively (or often individually) the sole arbiters of the rights of others means increased liberty to some degree, I'll take that.

But yeah, semantically you're spot on. The Bill of Rights clearly concedes the authority to a higher power than the government.
For reference, there are 129,600 frames in a 1.5 hour long 24 fps movie.

At 0.75 hours per frame, that's 97,200 machine hours, or just under three years even if you have a cluster of 100 machines.

This might be GPU encoding's chance to shine. Right now it's generally considered to not be worth the hassle over a fast i7 machine.

And of course the algorithms will be optimized, maybe by orders of magnitude. But that's still a lot of computation power required, no matter how you slice it.
The "Preview" is a killer feature. You need to make it more responsive though - currently (probably due to server load) there's a lot of lag. However, if you want to develop this into a full fledged project it should "just work" without waiting for some time for the preview to load. This includes the errors which you load in the Tex editor too. Both the instant error and preview features are great but you've somehow got to make it scale.
That is very true, to be honest my post was food for thought more than a call to action.
I didn't look closely at the kickstarter page but I use gitdocs[1] which is basically works like dropbox but syncs to a git repository. It works ok for my (light) usage.

[1] https://github.com/bazaarlabs/gitdocs

[edit] It looks like git-annex solves the large binary blob problem with git (which I don't think gitdocs does) so maybe they could be integrated?
I have Facebook resources blocked (thanks Facebook Disconnect!) so I won't ever know if your site has Facebook comments. Even if I saw them I would never comment using Facebook, the same as never using it to log-into a third party service. No need to give FB the opportunity to once again change their rules and share stuff I'd rather they not.
They claim they are currently testing a non-Flash Android player so something has been resolved internally.
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100% agreed on the age thing. Comments like this just reinforce the stereotype (myth?) of 20 year olds chasing multimillion dollar lean startup VC IPO dreams. Many people over 25 start up organizations/companies.

You can look at it as "oh it's so hard, i've got a mortgage!". Or you can look at it as "Wow, I've got some really good experience in industry X, skills to sell, and established roots in industry X and my local/regional area to help me get moving faster!".

There's a few entrepreneurs/startups in our area that I really respect, and most of them started over 30. One was closer to 40 before he started, and wasn't really rocking it until 40 or just a bit after I think.

Living at home with your parents, no rent/food to pay would still be hard if you didn't have enough money for a computer and net connection (assuming you're trying to work online). Having capital relative to your startup needs is key - age is immaterial.
Can't confirm that, I haven't seen one in DE in the last year. All I see are Android, iPhone, Blackberries and old (feature) phones that are 3 years or older.
Context is everything. Your method is great for low traffic sites. Sites with higher traffic are harder to block, because spammers specifically modify the robots to scrape the number and input it.
Well the three reasons that the author is hating on FB comments are bulleted in his 16 sentence blog post, so it should be relatively easy to figure out why he is hating FB comments.

Your counterpoint only addresses the first of his three reasons.
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Ok, did not know that :)

Well, maybe multiple files are not all that necessary, but a tree showing the document structure and enabling you to jump to a certain section with one click in the tree would be nice :)

Good luck on the project.
Any mirrors? Site is down and not google-cached.
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I think for an article or blog post, yea Facebook isn't that appropriate but most other places I find it useful for the pure fact that I can't really be bothered to make an account for every site I visit.
People seem to like to write long articles about why design matters, but fail to show it. It's nice to read an article like this where the significance of the design work can be judged by something out in the wild. I'm neither here nor there on the specifics of Metro, but I think the success of a system of design (something not in the hands of any one designer) is something to get excited about.
python 3's wsgi support is what is enabling frameworks like pyramid and now django to finally move forward with python 3. that only happened like a couple of years ago.
an era where any piece of software over 1.99$ is
considered expensive is a very sad one.

For developers who can't make it up in volume, sure, but for humanity, this is great.
I agree with your point,
My first draft of the post had a paragraph about this.

Up to me, Jobs clearly met the criteria of what we call in psychiatry personality disorders (antisocial: failure to respect others' rights, lying, cheating, borderline: instability in relationships, and histrionic: excessive attention seeking).

Yet, I think the RDF can be used as a communication tool instead of a weapon. An idea is often worthless if it cannot be communicated. Outright stealing of others' ideas is just an extreme.
But it's obnoxious to drag an innocent bystander into your mind games.
Yet, despite the fast growth, I'm still having problems finding a Bada phone in the States. None of the major carriers seem to sell them. I've been looking for one for about a year now and it just seems that I would have to buy it directly from Samsung and not get a discount on my new plan discount. If Samsung could start entering the US market, I'm sure they would easily pass Windows Phone in sales.
URL should be: http://blog.jonwagner.com/2012/08/15/progress-on-progress-ba...
I also block disqus and have noticed a lack of comments increasing over time, which really isn't a problem at all...
You should look into SVG for doing detailed graphics. There are a number of libraries for making it easier to work with, Raphael came to mind because I remembered this demo: http://raphaeljs.com/australia.html
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GWB did coke, and it wasn't a big deal. I think it's important to point out that this change wasn't as slow as you make out.
1. At Google, code has to be designed, written, tested, and reviewed. You can't just start writing and shipping stuff, partly because there's so much infrastructure, and partly because you pay for shoddy code later.

What makes you think Facebook doesn't design and test code, or that the other concerns don't apply to them as well?
"Flash is always going to have a place on the desktop"

What for? Any developer for Flash now sees the sign on the wall. It will not die off, but it will become niche/irrelevant.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/243529/the_beginning_of_the_e...

"The things Adobe is working on for desktops--advanced 3D gaming and premium copy-protected video--already exist in mobile through native apps and HTML5. As mobile and desktop platforms merge, Flash Player will get overtaken."
Less than a year and 5 different products? I'm all for validated learning but it seems like they needed to stick to an idea longer than an average of two months.
I agree that the former is clutter, but the latter is good, as long as the commenter is clearly trying to learn from/correct whatever mistake they had made. e.g. "This is being downvoted and I don't understand why. Could someone please explain the problem?" or "Why the downvotes? Is it because ...?"
A very fair point, but surely Task Driven Development is more about how you write something, not about the workflow around it.
That wouldn't be the charge, the charge would be 'what are you hiding?'
Just read the article, I can see why you'd make the conclusion you did:)
I'm curious what kind of hardware will be required for playback-- my homebrew'd Wii already has trouble playing back highly compressed h.264 videos. I wonder how much more power will be required to decode high-motion scenes in real time with h.265?
That's the next step - authors of 3rd party apps will need to port their code. We've started putting together some documentation to help authors write single-source code (i.e. code that runs on both 2.6+ and 3.2+). The idea is that they'll use the tools we did, plus the things we learned, to port their apps. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/python3/ is a start on that documentation, and hopefully we can flesh it out even more for 1.5.
And does Facebook supply the bathing suits?
Co-founder of Streak here. We (obviously) love using Streak for bug tracking / product planning use cases and use it internally for that + hiring, fundraising, press, etc.

If you want email to be your core workflow, you should def take it for a spin. If you have any questions aleem at streak dotcom.
I'm inclined to agree, but it is the generally accepted attitude in the industry.

Programming is design, but programmers are routinely taught that they do not need to care about design. The de-facto training facility for the industry, a CS degree, rarely goes into artistic endeavours (naturally, but students rarely take it upon themselves to fill their skill gaps after graduation). In fact, it is the status quo for programmers to joke about how poor their design skills are.

Good programmers go over and above and study not only the theory behind programming, but also design. Until we start promoting that programmers must be good designers, the problem will continue.
Yeah, but while Google docs does have collaboration features - assigning parts to different people is really hard.

I am not a fan of using another tool, but in my opinion Asana and Trello are light years ahead of BaseCamp (atleast the old version).
As someone who used to write a lot of LaTeX documents, this just isn't up to snuff yet. It's slow (which they can fix) but what would make it really helpful is hints in LaTeX commands and support for packages. I haven't tried any complex documents yet, hopefully a full 200 page doc with biblo and index would render correctly as well. It's cool though, I hope it does end up working well.
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On server hardware, I perform boots infrequently, and really, really, really want them to work right.

My philosophy is different. Make a change to a server, reboot.

The goal is to eliminate surprises if the server is restarted unexpectedly. I'd rather have them during the maintenance window than at 03:30 after a power outage.

Anyway - to systemd.

I was appalled when we moved up to Solaris 10 and the SMF facility started to replace init scripts. It felt wrong.

I adapted. It's not wrong, it's just different. Better in some respects: you can still use bash scripts, but you have better control over them, a standardized way of managing things.

Now we're abandoning Solaris for Linux and ... I'm appalled that 'linux' default method is still .. init scripts. And a hodge-podge of stuff like djb, systemd, etc, all with competing fan boys and advocates.
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Read the paragraph again:

There is a fully-working hot tub in the New York office that interviews are conducted in. I didn’t believe this until I saw the photos on Twitter. It was billed to me as a way to test candidates’ resilience under pressure. I was told that it’s used rarely...

...

I installed a hot tub (non-functioning) as a conference room in Facebook Seattle. Interviews are never done in them.]
Server Density is a UK company. They use to have pricing in pounds.

They seem to have switched to dollar pricing.

My question:
Are they taking payment in dollars?
or are they converting the amount to pound equivalent in last moment and taking that payment?

I've been thinking about pricing on the internet, whether its good to price in dollars to make it more convenient for the american customers.
I feel like customers from UK are alright with paying dollars, but americans don't like to pay in pounds.
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Ach, you're right. The extensions loader alone blows up on boot. It'd be infeasible to remove the Apple JRE from the field. So much for my pet theory.
You call it a tautology, but my point is that Resig claims that "the most challenging problem that exists with Computer Science education" is "Getting people excited about programming." I do not think that is the most challenging problem that exists with Computer Science education.

He doesn't just claim that it's a problem with Computer Science education. I agree that it's a problem, and I value tools that try to help.

No, he's claiming it's "the most challenging problem." I strenuously disagree.

I think the most challenging problem with Computer Science education is retention. I know a bunch of people, personally, who for whatever reasons, got excited about programming - they wanted to learn. They had their own intrinsic excitement for programming, and wanted to move forward.

A few things hindered them, in my opinion: they had no idea how to get started, and even if they did get started, they soon lost interest because it wasn't obvious to them how the tools they had access to were ever going to get them anywhere they wanted to go. Given a goal - say, how do I make a game? - they did not believe there was a finish line they could cross.

I can accept the criticism that I'm too quick to deride it. I'm sure this is a valuable tool for some people. Given the people that I know, who already were motivated, I do not believe this tool will help them at all, and that disappoints me because I had hoped for more.

I think it's barely worth learning because I know hundreds of professional software developers, and I know approximately two of them who got to play with HTML5 Canvas at work - myself and a friend at another company. Both of us did it in our spare time, for fun, because our bosses would never have asked us to do it. If you know more people who are professional HTML5 Canvas developers, then your anecdote trumps mine.
I've been a fan of Tyler Brûlé's work since the early days of Wallpaper*. Eagerly awaiting his realization of great luggage.

Monocle's use of different paper stock for different sections is very refreshing and fun.

I wish the Monocle store in the Village had a broader range of product though.
1) What's not hackable about C?
2) When was the last time you hacked on an init script?

> Ideally an init system would be a lean and smart turing complete scripting language and every feature is implemented on top of it.

You would probably really like NCD[1] as an init system. I was considering doing that in an embedded system I make until systemd came around.

1: http://code.google.com/p/badvpn/wiki/NCD
It might help to some extent, but I think the fact that the iPhone was so successful while it was AT&T exclusive for so long proves that it's probably not the main issue.
I have a bunch of sites, and I've experimented with various options. (Example of one site with FB comments on: http://www.hn-books.com/Books/Slaughterhouse-Five.htm ) I've also tried LiveFyre comments and a few other systems.

If there's a benefit to FB commenting by providing more engagement, I'm not seeing it. I love the LiveFyre system, but I'm not seeing a lot of engagement there, either.

My opinion is that any little thing you do to make commenting harder by even a tiny amount has a huge impact on participation. To make matters worse, you're giving up sometimes valuable feedback and participation content to Facebook, which just monetizes it instead of you.

Maybe there's a way to make it pay off. If so, I'd like to hear it.
I didn't know flying and driving were synonyms these days.
Ok, this is mostly what I was curious about. Shame because I love flask, yet I agree with a lot of his python 3 opinions :(
There is also Wand (http://dahlia.kr/wand/index.html), which, while still alpha, is a very nice ctypes-based, MagickWand API binding. It is also available in pypi, so is easy to install. Support for Python 3 is near-term goal of the project.
Cool, and I'm glad that someone is demonstrating a way to use CSS3 to create graphics in a way that doesn't require extra markup. One of the biggest problems with CSS3 is that, in a twist of irony, it's image composition power entices developers into adding markup to hang the CSS off of. This ends up complicating the markup merely to generate an image, which is a mistake.

This technique, on the other hand, using the :before and :after selectors shows the right way to use CSS3 image composition, if you choose to do it. This example should be shouted from the hilltops to all front-end web devs.
Your sarcasm is uncalled-for. Nigeria is not the United States. If normal people are making the equivalent of about $100/mo, and most apps are around $1-$2, then a $10 app should probably be killing snakes for them.

What's probably going on here is that people aren't aware of how to get the Bible on their phone for free, and are still paying a lot less than it takes to get a hard copy.
It's probably important to point out that this source is a press release directly from the university that employs the researchers and has not been subjected to peer review.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
Creator here...

Thanks! The current load on the servers is a factor in the current delays. I've also made some progress on reducing the render times, but unfortunately that did not come soon enough for the current traffic spike. Watch this space...
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As someone who doesn't really fit into HN (not really interested in startups, but like web design/development), I'd have to agree with the overall assertion. It feels a lot like an echo chamber, and I find myself often thinking "the rest of the world is a lot different than HN" after reading comments here.
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"Do people still drive the Ford Model T"

The ones that love it do. They even restore them and have meets where hundreds of them get together in the same place.

My car has a strong enthusiast community around it now and I hope that will continue long into the future.
Here in Düsseldorf I do see quite a few, even among my circle of friends.

But the number of iPhones and Androids outnumbers them, that is clear.