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Chargify user here. Love chargify, hate the merchant account fees I pay each month. For subscription SaaS products, is this now a viable alternative to a merchanct account with a recurring payment service on top?
To use any version of the 'Helvetica' name in a product or object, LinoType must issue a license. I, myself, received a cease-and-desist from their legal team if I didn't acquire a licensing agreement, which I did. I didn't say I had a trademark. All that would do is disallow usage of the Helveticards mark that I designed.
Darpa Unveils Robotic Mule
just for doing basic css stuff. i'm just too lazy or maybe don't enjoy interfacing enough to do it manually.

for example if i'm creating a new landingpage and just need a simple layout it would be really cool if there was a tool i could quickly build a design visually.
Google removes The Pirate Bay from auto-complete search
Show HN: Bucketlistly - a social bucket list you actually want to use
Has the US taken ownership of Iraq's oil and Afghanistan's minerals?
"The bald truth is learning to program is still hard, despite recent gains in accessibility" <- This.

Regardless of all of the tools, you still have to work really really hard to be good. I guess that's true of everything. Even managing your billionaire hair.
Good luck with that. "Hey annoying people, it's best practice to let us know when you're being annoying".
Yep - I've been following a similar diet (GAPS) to improve some health issues and found that the first few weeks were tough because of sugar/carb withdrawal symptoms but it improved a lot after that.
I'd recommend the book Nourishing Traditions for anyone wanting to keep eating some carbs. It's based on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet which it's my aim to transition to eventually as it's a bit more relaxed about grains/pulses/dairy when prepared correctly.
Or simly send a link to it and to this discussion :)
That's fair. But then why ask the student to pay, rather than the employer?
Think my argument is that the CEOs that meet with wild success don't appear to rely on specialists - there is a clear advantage to have a sense of development time in the chief's chair.

That advantage is much harder to receive in our business than Trump's, but is similarly effective to exploit.
I also have a problem with slow shutdowns. Sometimes it takes 30 seconds to shut the machine down. Much less time to boot.
Groovy. Not sure I'll actually use any of these particular features, but it's good to see they're moving forward.

The one feature I'm still waiting for is prorated refunds on cancellation. As it stands, they'll prorate plan changes, but not cancellations.

I actually had to change my policy on that so that I could switch off my old payment provider and onto Stripe. I can only imagine that it's not Stripe's plan to force policy changes like that onto their customers, so hopefully they have this feature in their pipeline.
read "new" beige PC, not ned (or nerd, or nod).
looks like wired got socialed themselves
It might say that people are being compensated in other ways.

Or it might say that the US has access to lower wage labor in other countries.

Either way it says nothing about the global value of labor.
The initial feeling of being tired, groggy, achy, etc. is called the "low carb flu."[1] Usually it takes a week or three for the symptoms to pass before you get over it. The more you relied on carbs as energy before, the longer it will take. The first time I switched to a paleo diet it took about 2 weeks before I felt normal. After that passed energy levels will skyrocket. I no longer rely on coffee and have high energy throughout the day.

You need to incorporate more good fats into your diet if you are still feeling low energy this far into it. There are two sources of energy for our body, carbs and fat. The low carb flu happens as your body is adjusting from using carbs as energy to using fat. It's likely you have lost so much weight because you haven't eaten any fat so your body is eating itself (literally).

Examples of good fats to eat are: coconut (meat, oil, butter), avocados, olives (oil, whole), and animal fats. You should definitely up your intake of these. That should help with your low energy.

Reading about paleo, primal, eating real food, or whatever you want to call it would be helpful. It is definitely a sustainable way to eat. It is essential to eat fat though. Lots of people have done and researched variations of these. Regardless of whether they are "fads" it is useful educate yourself a bit before jumping into something.

[1] (http://www.marksdailyapple.com/low-carb-flu/#axzz26B70TsmP)
The way how Addy Osmani implements singleton pattern is rather disputable. I would implement singleton as a regular object that returns itself immediately if initialized for the second time.

His prototype pattern also doesn't look like the right way of doing things. Is there actually anyone that uses plain object descriptors? I would just create helper method that wraps Object.create() and takes prototype object as first argument and instance object as second argument. There is no need to use constructors in this pattern (either directly or inside helpers) unless you are targetting legacy browsers.

I also dislike the fact that public/local scope is emulated by misusing the return statement - this is ugly, confusing and it doesn't play nicely with other patterns such as prototype. If you need some notion of public/private scope then just use underscore notation.
Github Down (again)
I'm aware of the disconnect between intent of the president and what he is capable of, and the promise-party that always takes place before an election is appalling. To see Clinton, who presided over multiple budget surpluses, tow the party line and endorse Obama, who is presiding over four straight trillion dollar deficits with zero real plan for debt reduction (just reducing the yearly deficit and calling it 'debt reduction'), is enraging. But I'm not going to argue about intentions - it's a pointless argument.

In regards to your last point, I will say flatly that I do not care about our perception in the eyes of the 'world community', I merely care about the reality of our situation. I think anyone other than Bush would have 'elevated our standing' with the rest of the world much the same as Obama (bonus 'progressive' points if not white or male). I don't consider much of the rest of the world such a great place that we should be concerned about appeasing them with politics they get to muse about and we have to live with.
Routers at this level aren't just scale-ups of your home wifi/nat box. They aren't even scale ups of the simple IP routers for a basic IT data-closet that manages subnets and whatnot (already much more complex by dealing with vlans and subnets and dmz and vpn issues). At the level of big networking company they are a truly complex beast.

Just at the IP level they have to deal with (at the edges and across substantial WANS) BGP - a notoriously ugly and fragile protocol. Internal routing protocols such a OSPF are equally ugly and prone to breakage. Many are the tales of some small company misconfiguring their edge routers slightly (say a 1 char typo) and having the entire internet route through their T1, across their lan, out their backup T1. Other issues are BGP flapping, resulting in scary percentages of lost traffic. This doesn't even cover trickier stuff like routing loops...

Other considerations in big routers are things like ASN identifiers and peering points. Considerations like traffic cost, SLAs and QoS all go in to traffic balancing on such routers. MPLS clouds complicate (and oddly enough simplify) these things as well.

There are also important issues like Anycast, CDN and NAT that largely rely on router tricks and add to the complication.

Finally, on top of all this, is the security concern - you can't just throw a firewall in front of it, as many firewall issues are routing issues, therefore must also be present in the router.

All these layers interact and affect each other. Any given machine can only handle so much traffic and so many decisions, so something that is drawn as a single router on a networking chart may actually be several boxes cascaded to handle the complexity.

Oh yeah, and switches are getting progressively smarter with other rules and weirdnesses that provide horribly leaky abstractions that shouldn't matter to the upstream router, but turn out to add issues to the configuration and overall complexity on top of it all.
Never mind when you start adding fault-tolerance and failover setups/configs to the mix.

It gets really complex really fast, and even the slightest lapse in attention to extreme detail can be disastrous and a nightmare to troubleshoot.

For instance, I once had a router reboot for some unknown reason, and the firmware/config wasn't properly flashed, so it reverted to the last point release of the firmware. That was enough to cause the failover heartbeat to be constantly triggered, and the master/slave routers just kept failing over to each other and corrupted all the ARP caches. Makes for a lot of fun when things work and then stop working in an inconsistent manner.
Reflections On Closing Our Series A Financing Estimize
That isnt a licensing agreement with helveticards, that is a possible licence issue with linotype
How to evaluate launch success?
Is it possible to reject just the interpretation of the data?
What a ridiculously overstated headline. If there's any evidence the asteroid/comet/thing was heading towards Earth, it's not mentioned in the article.
Leading by letting go
The DNS is designed to provide resiliency to these kinds of problems by providing the ability to list multiple NS records located in different networks. It is standard practice for top-level domain operators and other high-activity domains to place their name servers in different networks to guard against these kinds of issues. When companies put all their name servers in the same network, they are removing the diversity benefit and create a single point of failure. Domain operators should take this as a cautionary tale that they shouldn't have all their eggs in one basket and make sure a single network failure couldn't take all their name servers offline.
I don't think I would consider this hacking your metabolism. In fact, as the author mentions, his metabolism actually seems to have "slowed down" since he feels fatigued more often than before. For a completely no-carb diet, this should be expected. Cutting out carbohydrates forces your body to primarily convert stored fat for its fuel instead, which is a slower and less efficient source of energy.

IMHO, practice moderation in all things, including moderation. Do I need to cut out ALL carbs? Should I really consume NO fruit? I can NEVER enjoy a good beer? Those rules would simply never be sustainable for me.

I generally stick to what I would call a healthy diet: mostly fruits and vegetables, eggs, whole wheat bread/pasta, small portions of meat (usually fish) with most dinners and some lunches. At the same time, I don't feel at all guilty about grabbing a couple beers or ordering the wings if I'm out to dinner or happy hour with friends. This system has been working for me because I also exercise regularly: alternating between jogging and hitting the gym most days of the week. Yes, it clearly took a bit of discipline to get into these habits. But now it's just become a lifestyle I find easy and enjoyable to maintain. What hacker doesn't appreciate a good challenge with such immediate and important results as your good health?
Any news of a UK beta?

Would love to give this a go, only today did I experience yet another PayPal mishap that leaves me desperate to try something else (preferably something much better).
This Is What A Toilet Looks Like When Bill Gates Is Involved
I don't think Donald Trump is a very good carpenter, or architect, if you want to be the Donald Trump of startups go to Wharton and then play the VC game.

You don't have to know how to code to do price discovery in tech. The cost of software is especially nebulous, and as PG recently talked about the vast majority of returns come from a few investments. I doubt very many buildings that Donald Trump put $18,000 into became $1 billion dollar buildings. Since the returns are concentrated and you have no idea which will be successful the strategy should be to put a little bit into a lot of startups, not learn to code and out compete your competitors by building software on a better cost basis.
This is not true. Slow Carb includes legumes to ensure you are eating enough and maintaining satiety throughout the day (so you don't snack). Coming from the Standard American Diet (SAD) most people are used to eating high and fast carb diets. Legumes are Slow Carb which helps the dieter adjust easier than the diet the poster is doing.

Many many people sustain a diet of meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts, and seeds without the need for legumes. The key is to get enough fat and protein. You do not need to eat carbs.
Amen. Donald trump of startup would be bad. Lets take one of our most public entrepreneurs, Jason Fried & 37signals, and extend this out.

If Jason was "Donald of startup" he would then create a "get rich like Jason" book series. Of course 37signals would go bankrupt a few times and bailed out by banks that he had leveraged.

Then he would start selling a clothing line of Jason Fried coding shirts. He would then start a reality show where he fired developers based on not coding well enough.

Then Jason would get on tv and start asking the public where Obama's birth certificate is.

Please keep Donald Trump away from startupland. He's a troll that deserves none of our respect.
Looks more like JS the java way. Singletons make no sense in a language that has global variables and never lets you stop an object from being duplicated. The command pattern makes no sense in a language with first-class functions. I'd steer clear of this resource if you want to write javascript the right way.
MIT Media Lab’s Sandy Pentland on the Future of Our Big-Data Society
I guess I'd say that teenagers don't often have a fully developed sense of ethics. I would like to make a gross assumption and make a wild guess that Cosmo is developing ethics, along with his growing up and developing a criminal record. At least that's how the Wired article reads (& suggests) to me.
> It is a little sad that they didn't try rebooting the routers for so many hours.

This assumes they're being literal and "corrupt" means "a bit randomly flipped" instead of using "corrupt" in the figurative sense of "operator error".
I don't think what mixmax (or pg) was saying really had much to do with "being wrong" but more "being analyzed by people who already have a bone to pick". The result is that you find yourself not wanting to say anything at all. Alternatively, when you do, trying to be very very very clear about exactly what you are saying as it will give someone else "a weapon in comment threads" that won't just be used against you once, but might come up again eleven years later: the same statements, which causes a kind of ludicrous level of hedging and difficulty (as people might have understood it in context at the time without problem, but will anyone appreciate it eleven years later? in this "discussion", for example, pg has already had to remind some people that Java was already a quite popular language in 2001, and thereby that it still being popular now does not contradict much of what he was saying).
Makes YC sounds fairly easy to get into, as long as you have energetic founders from good schools. I'm currently trying to find out what the Kalvin's had achieved before applying.

Good read tho. Thanks.
Graphical visualization of composite and prime numbers (reddit crosspost)
Yet another "I dismissed the Atkins diet until I tried it" article.

Poor old Atkins. Even the so-chic Paleo diet is pretty much what he recommended back in 1965.
Which text-to-speech engine are you using for the professor?
Closures were not added to JDK 7, they will be added to JDK8 next year.

Generics are definitely the biggest change, but not so much autoboxing (something that makes little difference to 99.9% of code).

The annotations Java devs use the most are usually @Override and @Test, unless you're using bloatware like Spring/Hibernate/J(2)EE which belongs in 2004. Annotations are useful, but not really groundbreaking for most code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_annotation

In terms of first class getter and setter, I'd say take a look at Scala (or Groovy). Lots of Java devs are looking beyond Java the language, mostly because it has been incredibly slow to evolve.
This is also called Keto is you were maintaining a threshold of less than 20grams of carbs a day.
Mobizy for Windows 8 updated with Share Charm and Pin Flow to Start
First update says it's starting to come back. Excellent.
Fire chiefs issue warning that overheating laptops can cause fires

http://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2012/02/24/fire-chiefs-issue...

Laptop fire blamed for Vancouver death

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/08...

Laptop overheats, starts fire that destroys west St. Louis County home

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Firefighters-battling-blaze-a...

Israel Police: Fatal fire in family home likely caused by overheated laptop

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-police-fatal-fir...

etc...

etc...
:( Why didn't you use border-radius and box-shadow? They would look much more realistic if you did.

EDIT: The rounded corners and box shadow aren't showing up in Firefox 15.0.1 for Windows 7 for me. Anyone else?
Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack
So Google paid for something so users can get it for free and they want to limit that to their own customers. If Apple did it I wouldn't really have a problem with it. I don't really see this as any different than the many, many apps that are only available to one platform or the other. Sure it is annoying when a company puts out only an iOS app but I just view that as a lost opportunity for them. But Google/Boingo aren't losing anyone here. So some people can't get something for free... but those people either would have paid anyway or they weren't going to use the service. Not giving it to them for free isn't really losing a customer.
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This looks like absolutely positioned bits of text with unicode glyphs inside divs with a box shadow and border radius. Am I missing something?

Not that the execution or idea are bad, but I don't understand why this is on the front of HN today.

With that said, I do think that the use of unicode characters is a much better move than using some crazy css tricks to draw the suit symbols.
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I have some books I’d like to get rid of. Many are tangentially relevant to the HN community, so I’m giving them away “first come, first serve” (contact information in my profile), but you’ll pay shipping cost from the bay area. Any unclaimed books will go to the local library.

Startups

The Startup Owner’s Manual (Steve Blank),
Founders at Work (Jessica Livingston),
Behind the Cloud (Marc Benioff)

Design

The Elements of Typographic Style (Bringhust),
Missing Manual: Photoshop CS5,
Classroom in a Book: Illustrator CS5

Non-fiction

Influence: Science and Practice (Cialdini),
What Technology Wants (Kevin Kelly)

Fiction:

Dead Souls (Gogol),
The Lathe of Heaven (Ursula Le Guin),
Faust (Goethe),
Anathem (Stephenson),
Paradise Lost (Milton),
The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut),
The Claw of the Conciliator (Gene Wolfe),
The Urth of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe),
The Number of the Beast (Heinlein),
Baudolino (Umberto Eco),
The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follet),
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig),
I Robot (Asimov)
...and if you don't have up to date backups of your router tables, it will take a long time to recover from an "oops".

Doing the wrong thing to router table(s) is the network equivalent of "sudo rm -rf /".
Romney disses cleantech jobs, but GOP governors love them
Am a fan of this fee/tuition structure over Dev Bootcamp's and know a girl in the current class - She built a grocery shopping/calorie counting app that blew me away within 3 weeks of the course. No prior programming knowledge or experience.. was impressive.
Hi everyone,

I've just relaunched Hashtags.org. Any and all feedback is appreciated.

The video displays some common use cases. You can also view something like:
http://www.hashtags.org/analytics/obama/
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What is their 99.9% SLA liability going to be?
Torque pretty much started my development career, so this is great news to me. Its suffered a bit over the years, especially after InstantAction folded. Even so there is a sizeable group of indies who use it. I myself have been involved with in quite a few Torque projects, and even contributed to the core engine in the early years.

It's not perfect, but AFAIK its the only MIT licensed engine which is feature-complete out of the box. I think opening the code is a great step forward and provided GarageGames handle it right we could see some great improvements in the engine from contributors.
Not having any fruits is quite puzzling indeed.
I find this extremely suspicious (I.E. knowing routers, I call bullshit). The change to the Verisign anycast DNS service which I noted yesterday in another thread... brought godaddy.com back up, yet did not result in bringing other DNS services back up.

Someone is lying here in my opinion. I hope I'm proven wrong because this is a terrible excuse for the company to make.

EDIT: And as someone else pointed out... their IP addresses could be pinged which further goes to disprove a routing issue. More than likely high traffic crashed one or more routers (THIS I have seen happen) and the live/saved configs didn't match. I'd put more money on something like this happening if it was router related.
I think you're overestimating the number of people who benefit from even a major advance.

In the UK (population 70 million), 28,000 heart bypass operations happen per year. The number of people who will have one is in the low single digits as a percentage of the population.

Even for those people who do have one there is no guarantee that it will have a significant impact on their lives. Yes for some it will but for others it's only reduced one possible cause of death and a lot of the behaviours that lead to heart problems also lead to, say cancer, or diabetes, or liver failure, or something else that will cut your life short.

Then compare that to the thousands of small improvements.

I can see it might not be constant over an extended period, but I don't think there are many, if any, things that would cause a significant spike.
Fantastic article, and a perfect candidate for HN readers.

C++ exists because someone had a fever dream in which these two classes of vehicles got mixed up and thought, “I’m going to put wings on a fucking tank”.
Why would you say that? Large networks have a ton of routers in them, and even a lot of switches provide routing functionality.

I don't know the details of the environment, but even in smaller systems I've worked on there is a fair bit of hardware separation between various network segments. Complete failure on one part would not affect the others.

For that matter, even a slight corruption in some ARP caches, or stale internal tables, etc., could cause the problems they had... it's not just a complete failure that could cause problems.

And "routing" is such a generic term, when it could really be any number of feature sets that failed; load balancing, source routing configs, etc.
Hmm, really? Looks like consensus is a design flaw is a design flaw.