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Sure, but that just covers certain math typesetting - a small subset of TeX.
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It goes everywhere.

The thing is, the Universe is a big place. So even if you have sagans of tonnes of mass being converted to energy every second in extremely powerful jets around a supermassive black hole (which we do, in the vast majority of galaxies) given enough distance it's still just another tiny point of light in the sky.

However, quasars are just this sort of phenomenon and are so bright that they are visible in telescopes across almost the entire extent of the visible universe.
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Yes. Actually, pry-rescue not only imbibes pry-exception_explorer's power, but also provides its own possibilities. pry-rescue catches everything (even syntax errors).
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This is really cool. Looking forward to a rails version of the gem!
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If these products are not available in Canada, sounds like a great opportunity to bring something similar to that market.
Agreed this is a big problem. If you could pull in, swap batteries, and be back on the road in 5 minutes, that is short enough that range isn't so much an issue. Having to wait for half an hour or more while the car charges is a very painful thing.

Perhaps self-driving cars are a solution: if the self-driving EV you're in runs out of power, you just jump out and grab another one. The transportation company worries about charging it.
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So if this is, as some comments are suggesting, an indication that Diaspora is essentially dead… what can we learn from it? What did they do right, what did they do wrong? Is "distributed social networks" a fundamentally flawed idea, or was their implementation flawed?

I mean, they certainly did something right, given that G+ swiped liberally from Diaspora's design.

(What would a distributed social network that was dead easy to host look like? Imagine something like Diaspora that lives on your phone instead of on a server, for instance. Right now D* is a giant pile of Ruby, which means that interested amateurs are pretty much not gonna be able to play with it.)
No need to be snarky. Just calmly state that you find the column layout to be difficult to read.
Well, it's sandboxed interpretation. You can't really do much with TeX aside from maybe reading files from the filesystem.
A bit of a inflammatory title, but the underlying concept is valid. If you can approach all your marketing and SEO efforts in an attempt to help the OTHER party, you'll be much more successful.
To call it a "legal relationship" is even stretching it. Would you say that I have a "legal relationship" with every other person on the planet because if I make up mean stuff about them, they can sue me for defamation?
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For writing, the rules outlined here are very helpful:

[1] http://www.critters.org/c/diplomacy.ht
[2] http://www.critters.org/c/whathow.ht

Specifically:

* Critique the story, not the writer.
* Remember that it's your *opinion*, and phrase it as such.

So, for example, if your friend's story had terrible dialog, you might say, "I felt like the dialog was wooden. It seemed to me like Joe Maincharacter used a lot of clichés -- maybe you did this intentionally for effect, but I found it tedious after a while."

This, of course, assumes that your friend specifically asked for a critique when sending you the story.
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I guess I feel that ordering should be up to the User Agent. This way I can sort things multiple ways depending on how I'm feeling.

I also don't see the latency as an issue, but I'm not someone who needs to know exactly what everyone else is doing at all moments of the day.
The problem with thought experiments is that sometimes you can create a non-physical situation by accidentally introducing magic which invalidates the whole thing.

For example, in this you have a perfect mirror, which is actually not physically possible and would mean violating several laws of physics such as thermodynamics and electromagnetism.

Another common problem is hypothesizing perfectly rigid materials or perfectly flat surfaces, which can't exist in any matter made out of atoms but which could easily beused to violate the laws of relativity.
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>Think reddit without the childish memes and BS.

I agree, however, for simple answers I've had some very good luck on r/explainlikeimfive. If anyone here hasn't seen that subreddit I suggest taking a look at it. There are plenty of things that I had no idea about and someone can explain it very simply in a very short paragraph, compared to a wall of text that other places might provide (assuming I just want a simple answer).

Take this for example.

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ywh1y/eli...
Strictly, the question is "what deal would you have gotten otherwise?" but "what are other people getting?" is a good proxy and would be an interesting statistic.
>It's easy to criticise a minor detail of a friend's work, but harder to say "you don't have the talent for this, give up."

I would question whether most people honestly have the expertise to make a judgement like 'you don't have the talent for this, give up'. I think people routinely overestimate their own abilities and discernment. Taking a hasty/faulty analysis and then telling someone to 'give up' seems like a terrible idea.
Excellent, thanks. That's exactly where I would expect to click!
Select beta testers only? Stripe would be pretty cool to have right now (super stealth double pivot mode project on the go).
> if your app needs to do a burst of 350,000 jQuery calls in a tight loop and you are bummed that the whole thing takes a full second, you should then optimize using document.getElementById

Seems like you might have some other optimization work to do at that point :)
If you resize your browser to make it smaller it renders as one column.
Canada isn't a strategically important market for web services. A strategically important market is one where if global companies ignore it and a local competitor gets traction, it will be hard to unseat them. There are lots of examples: Mail.ru dominates in Russia, Seznam.cz dominates search in Czech despite Google's efforts. Global companies missed the boat by ignoring those markets until it was too late. However, I can't think of examples where a Canadian web service dominates the market in the face of global competition. I suspect most of the services listed here figure they can wait until the market develops, then swoop in and own it.
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The odds of getting Heads on any given flip are always (x)%, regardless of the previous result. Likewise, the odds of getting Tails is always (100-x)%. So you will get HT with probability (x)% * (100-x)% which might be as high as 25% with a fair coin but might be much lower. Regardless of how small the probability, it is exactly the same as getting TH which is (100-x)% * (x)%.

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You are assuming that all changes are equivalent.

If it is my goal to change the world in line with my vision, that is not the same thing as changing the world to align with Google's vision, though there may obviously be overlap.
I want to be able to do this with assembly, e.g., see what is in each register as I step through the program.
Your standards differ from mine then.
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This site isn't coming up for me, I'm in the U.S.

Strange form of karmic justice I suppose.
Unless you are going to be taking children away from their parents and raising them in creches, the success of children will always be determined by their parents. And that's a good thing.

There is nothing wrong with a class system if it still allows for mobility of exceptional individuals, and ours does.
makr.io - the fact that it took me 7 tries to type it correctly in the URL bar & comment field leaves me hoping their #1 task is a better name.
Lots of them do and quite a few flounder in the "I'm working on it, sorry!" phase. I backed a project in early 2010 (A documentary) and the total raised was $15k, initial estimates were a few months. It's approaching 2 and a half years, the guy still updates monthly with "I'm editing this piece!" and "I did this" and sometimes he'll even include an excuse and apology!

I said it last year and I'll say it again now, Kickstarter is going to feel a serious backlash the first time one of the high profile projects falls apart because Kickstarter act like this big wonderful place for nurturing these projects and a lot of people seem to believe Kickstarter has some sort of interest in helping these projects succeed, but they don't, they are nothing more than a funding platform.

The problem is unavoidable I guess; give creative people lots of money, no guidance or supervision with only the moral obligation to actually do what they promised and inevitably quite a few will quit, change their idea or under deliver.

A common thing I've read on reddit is people believing that either Kickstarter makes the project creators accountable for not delivering or that the project creators don't get the money until they deliver... I wonder how a lot of people would react if they realised all they're paying for is a promise.

(oh and to clarify, I really do love Kickstarter and hope they continue to do what they're doing, but I can't help but disagree with their (potentially necessary) approach to projects after they've finished getting funded -- maybe they're working to solve this)

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I backed a project in May 2011 called "MemeFactory Writes A Book", billed as a book about internet culture. The idea was cute and I wanted a t-shirt so I backed it with $100. Now a year and a third later they've "changed direction" because their original idea "wasn't what they thought it would be" so here I am with $100 in a project that is never going to happen and instead I'm waiting on a new project... they also still didn't deliver my t-shirt. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rugnetta/memefactory-wri...

Another project that I didn't back but I'm aware of is by a Youtube video creator called Bashurverse, the summary is: "Donate to us to go to a convention and we'll make a documentary", they got $4k and went to the convention... and apparently got the $4k scammed from them by an evil company... so now they've not delivered anything and the people that backed them are left with nothing and thinking "...oh". http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bashcraft/bashcraft-the-...

Will kickstarter do anything? Nope. Do people know that? Nope, they think accountability exists. When I now back a kickstarter project it's "I guess this would be nice to have, I'll send some money and maybe I get it, if not then whatever." instead of "holy crap this is amazing, I'll stick in as much as I can I can't wait!" which is how it should be.
Also; people moved more. In Malaga I see people driving to the shops at the end of the street. No joke (and i'm not laughing). Some people walk/cycle but the majority is in the car for everything. With the crisis it became less because gas prices jumped up (they are E0.50 higher than a few years ago as you know).
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Not sure if any of those are included here but I have definitely seen links to 'warez' hosted as gists recently.
Just browsing a few of the Sony DMCA notices, I can't help but notice something strange:

[5] Please act expeditiously to remove the file-downloads found at the following URLs:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/cWAKEDR
https://github.com/kakaroto/ps3keys
https://github.com/kakaroto/ps3tools
...

Fair enough for the ps3keys and tools, but there's a URL for fileserve there. That's not github, wonder why they think they should send that URL to github.
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kijiji.ca has the local classifieds pretty much locked down. Even though they're owned by eBay, the site doesn't work anywhere other than Canada.
I think your 10 year estimate is optimistic, but it is certainly coming to the point where the cars drive themselves. One of the interesting things about being driven, as opposed to driving, is that passengers rarely suffer from 'road rage.' That is a big win.

Perhaps more interesting will be the transition time, that point where half the cars are self driving and half are manually driven. Will manual drivers become more aggressive because they "know" the robo-cars will get out of their way? I expect it will be less fun before it is more fun.
gdb is very nice. I use it with C++ too. Watch sizeof on char arrays. Why is my string's sizeof always 8? That confuses some when starting out.
You're probably right. I'll change that.

Apart from the REST argument, the best single reason I can come up with to justify changing these to use POST is that otherwise it's possible to cancel an email change or resend a confirmation of a logged in user by having him load a page containing an image tag like <img src="url-to-cancel-email-change" /> . This is the same reason for which noir-auth-app handles logouts through POST instead of GET. Not really dangerous I guess, annoying at most, but worth to fix it anyway.

By the way, in twitter.com (and I guess a lot of other not so popular websites) these are handled as GETs, and so they're subject to this kind of "attacks".

Thanks for raising the issue.
At my college, general OOP concepts weren't even in the first semester of the com sci introductory course. Sure, that didn't lend itself to a lot of cool projects, but looking back, pointers, functions, and arrays are definitely time-consuming to fully grok.
I got an invitation to beta test around two days after signing up on https://stripe.com/global. This was on August 8, YMMV of course.
Would you have been able to start it _as_ your son was born? I am just curious as to how important you think the overall timeline was.

Also, I think it is an interesting idea to contrast "youth culture" and "geek culture".

My current goals are just to be as effective a person as possible, work on my entrepreneurial skills, and just hope that when I do have children that I am a good enough entrepreneur to both pay the bills and be able to spend quality time with my family. It worries me that I may not be to that point when the time eventually arrives.
They didn't -- the $200K ran out a year ago: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/10/the-state-of-diasp...
I do find it a little funny that makr.io uses Facebook for it's login.
The dark matter halos don't experience friction, and are incapable of emitting heat radiation to cool off and condense.

If you take a bunch of marbles and put them in a big bowl they will roll around for a while but eventually end up in the bottom of the bowl because they keep running into each other. But if you put in special marbles that just pass through each other and don't experience friction then you'll end up with marbles rolling around the bowl everywhere for ever, which is the way dark matter works.
While graphical debuggers are great overall, there are times when I prefer to get down to the command line and do my debugging there. And quite surprisingly, I don't lose much efficiency there, either.

But then, this could be the story of most command line utilities: Seems fiddly at first, but actually it is quite usable and often times more convenient than all those whiz-bang graphical tools.
This is pretty cool.

I'll be going back home (Canada) from the States and have seen a lot of things available in this country that aren't in Canada (yet! hopefully!).

I wonder if some can be done through the FOSS community in Canada.
all the other mid range cars can do another 250 in 5 minutes.
Family conditions matter, but what also matters is the personal motivation.

I've just turned 40 and have one kid and another on the way. I guess I'm having a mid-life crisis when it comes to my work life and have decided to try to do something on my own.

Yes, with a pregnant wife and a young kid, it is difficult, but personal motivation and focus has so far kept me going, at least as far as developing the MVP is concerned. But, on the other hand, I did think about a revenue model before starting my project and not as an after thought.

I wish I had had this itch 10-15 years ago, but I cannot change the past, only influence my future.
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I'm not sure why there is such a focus on "going through" YC. In my opinion that isn't the difficult part at all (well getting accepted is ;)). Most people can sacrifice 3 months of their life and not see their loved ones. It is really only 3 months of your life. The bigger picture is a lot harder to balance. What happens after those 3 months? How do you run the startup while still maintaining a reasonable work-life balance?

If you can figure that part out then nothing should stop you from applying for YC.
I don't think people want it now, in the format they want and free. Sure, when I was younger that seemed reasonable but for a long time I've been happy to pay for it.

Here's the bit distributors haven't figured out yet, I want it now and I'm willing to pay. Hell, I've literally just infringed copyright today because my only legal alternative is to wait 12 months for local release (and I do it every week). There's a missed opportunity.
Doesn't info registers in gdb do this for you?
his underlying point, and he as much as said it, is that bbcode IS successful because it WAS successful.

when it was born, it was convenient because it looked and acted like html while limiting the users ability fuck things up. at the same time it didn't go confusing the machine that was going to process it. it was clearly never designed for anything but bridging that gap... some 15+ years ago.

Flickr produces bbcode embeds, but imgur produces like 8 different embeds. existing adoption is not the sole mark of success for anything digital. facebook anyone?

the wysiwyg editors make it easier to generate "human usable code that limits fucking up". It matters because users can still fuck things up but for some reason they need to be able to read it.

THAT is why this type of thing should be used (on the developer level) as a replacement. It's easy to read, it's easy to grasp, it's consistent and it's no more difficult to parse (for erlang or haskell or php) at the server level than bbcode.
Wow, it's in the first sentence even. I'll blame it on the glaring "announcement" typo. How does that even pass a browser spell check?

Wow. After I type in my username, the "username" label disappears. Pressing "signup" does literally nothing. It changes colors. No page change, no error msg, nothing.

(JS console says 404: https://joindiaspora.com/validators/uniqueness?[...])

And it's doing a blocking call? The whole damn page freezes until it bounces back with 404. This is embarrassingly awful in the first 30 seconds. Funny, the uniqueness checks works from my browser, but apparently their js is doing something silly.

edit1000: If others have this problem, omit the period in your Gmail address.

edit1001: Connected Facebook, went back, White Page. This just gets better and better.
no, most people would go to the place they are going, no matter if it is 220 miles or 260 miles. If it's 220 they'd be fine, if it's 260 they'd be screwed.
CINT referenced, because CLING hasn't seen deployment and real tests. Maybe in a few years.
Exactly. Startup while married and no kids would be a walk in the park, at least in terms of not having enough time, certainly there are many other variables to building a company than time alone. But, kids, in particular when you exceed 2, in my experience, pretty much rules over any shred of time beyond 40 hrs/week.
Depending on how complicated the site is, "wget --mirror" might be enough. Also searching for "wordpress freeze site" found this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/static-html-output-plug...
Was labour the only cost? There must have been other costs also.
This looks really great, but I'd call it "Learning GDB with C"
Same story as the Lisp folks. Good ideas need to be wrapped up in easy-to-understand, small packages for them to be picked up by the more mainstream languages.
Does anyone else think debuggers are awesome for learning how programs/languages work? Its pretty much always the first thing I do, even before reading docs, build and debug.
I am 28 and I see 16 year old kids trying to create a startup. I feel the same way :) So much time wasted! But I think the motivation to create a startup comes from the desire to create your own direction in your career. That is something that only comes after work experience at less than ideal companies.
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Looks like it's been accidentally ddos'd.
There's also CINT (a C interpreter), which can be used as a REPL:

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
May I ask what you mean when you say "until the market develops"?

Some of these services are unavailable due to content licensing concerns (i.e. other parties own the rights to distribute the content within Canada), but absent those types of restrictions I view not offering services to Canadians to be ignoring a significant market (34,000,000 Canadians, 8/10 households connected to the Internet[1]) of people who have similar tastes and preferences to the Americans you already offer services to, relatively speaking.

I'd hope that any company not offering their services to Canadians would have a pretty good explanation as to why they aren't taking advantage of that market.

[1] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/110525/dq110525b-en...
I'm a D* contributor (who doesn't work for Diaspora Foundation).

It's certainly not "dead", the founders are simply not controlling the development and direction of it anymore. Now that there IS a development community surrounding the project, it is capable of being in community control. In fact, some of their first contributions which are in the planning stages are to migrate some features from makr.io into the D* codebase, and vice versa. Maxwell just released a provisioner app that creates and sets up personal D* pods on Heroku instances with a single click on the web interface.

D* is still the only example of a truly federated, fully-featured social network. And it will continue to be a bastion of TRULY free (as in "freedom") social networking even after moneymaker fads like App.net die off, because it's decentralized and now controlled by the community.

And everything that makes App.net great: lack of ads, decentralization, own your data, etc., was already a part of DIASPORA. And the best part? You don't have to give your money to some guy in order to own the things you make.
When is the last time you took on Facebook and won?

I applaud these guys -- at least they tried to improve the world in some way.

I don't think HN should stigmatize failure.
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Agree, though 3 months is not an option for me with my kids age (1 and 3) too much stuff I'll miss, and not sure my wife will be there when I get back.

But I agree, it's the years after probably, although I believe you can do more in 9 hours of balanced life than in 14 hours of hectic coding (just less reading HN, and writing just "good enough" code and not developing features that users don't really need, and hiring good people, can save a lot of time)
I was supposed to. In my high school, it was very much the case that you'd go to class if you were enrolled. However, it was also very much not expected that someone would take the cross-section of courses I took, so scheduling didn't take that into account. The registrar was faced with the choice to either tell a star student to take "dumber" classes or to let me take courses on my own terms and check their scheduling more carefully in the future.