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One of the integration solutions is using a cloud based integration platform that provides tasks automation across all business apps you use in your company. You can find such service under http://cloudwork.com. All you need to do is activate streams between applications you use so that from now on the data is synchronized between them automatically. The service is still in its beta but the full version is going to be launched very soon.
Sure, totally valid. I just built the site from scratch in simple HTML/CSS, so I figure this is a risk-free place to learn something new. I've been doing a lot of IA and product management for 18 months, so I'm catching up on the latest practices a bit.
5 inches is too big. That's phablet territory. Smartphones should be limited to 4.8 and under.
I much prefer this:

someFn(arg1, arg2, (-> doStuffInACallback()), arg3)

But far better, if you have any say in it, is making the callback the final argument to someFn.

someFn arg1, arg2, arg3, -> doStuffInACallback()

The thing about coffeescript is that most of the pitfalls being discussed here are very easily avoided with a modicum of experience and sense, whereas in javascript, many of the core issues simply cannot be avoided, and must be worked around in plainly ugly and bug prone ways (see: string concatenation, this/that juggling, "])})]));, just for starters).
Honda has fantastic performance gearboxes and drivetrain loss is usually in the low 20%.

Also most muscle cars are slushboxes and the torque converter ruins efficiency.
don't forget that the hourly rate has to also cover office space rent, paralegals, secretaries, utilities and all the other incidental costs of doing business. Though I bet that most of that $1000/hour still goes to the lawyer.
But I'm not using any of those. (I have used all of them though [OSX, Windows, Linux] so I know what they're like.) Nice try. :)

As I said I feel terrible saying this about proprietary software. I've worked for companies that sell commercial software. But I'm just being honest. The open source stuff is the best I've used.
I think it's hard to determine before you let some people own one & see. I remember when iphones first came out and there was a lot of attention on the size of the phone.

Mobile phones started big & awkward & for a long time (10-15 years) size was the number one feature & differentiator. There were no inherent advantages to size. It fits in your car, it fits in your bag, it fits in your pocket, its comfortable in your pocket... It became a habit to think of smaller sleeker phones as advanced.

But, they got a lot smaller then they needed to be for us to carry them everywhere. There was just no tradeoff to size (other than price) so we kept going. We (or at least I) carried around walkmans that were much bigger.

It would be interesting if the standard size becomes >5". That implies it took us a fairly long time to figure out the optimal size.
Pick a random PIN - say, 197326 - and try it against a lot of account (phone) numbers. Skirt IP-restrictions by renting a botnet for 15 minutes.
Moving from 4.8 to 5 the phone may have the same size, just having the screen closer to the edges, just like Motorola is doing now.
I have not but looking at the numbers I linked there seems to have been something wrong with your importing.
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>the difference between JavaScript and CoffeeScript with respect to the "var" keyword is neither subtle nor obvious, given that CoffeeScript does not have a var keyword

The thing that is subtle and nonobvious as a javascript programmer is the way CoffeeScript variables are scoped. They are not scoped like "var" variables in javascript. They are not scoped like "non-var" variables in javascript either. They have their own kind of scope that is unique to CoffeeScript.

Now you can argue that the way javascript scopes variables is wrong, and I'd agree with you. You can argue that the CoffeeScript way is better, and that's fine. But it makes it a different language from JavaScript, and it has all the baggage that goes along with that. You can't just treat CoffeeScript as "javascript with a nicer syntax"; you need to approach it the same way you'd approach learning any new language.
In General Relativity, Faster-Than-Light travel is only prohibited locally. Its possible for space-time itself to expand and shrink faster than light. This is why distant-enough galaxies are receding from us at faster than the speed of light.

Mathematically, the structure of the proposed warp-drive is such that the spaceship is moving at << c locally, so no causality is violated. See the author's answer here:

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/daydreaming-beyond-the-sol...
Depends what the overall size of the phone is like. If the screen increased by 0.2" and that extra size came out of the bezel, that'd be okay.
Patio is damn right on looking good to the women's circle of friends. People are behaving rationally here - they understand the engagement ring as a part of the cost of doing business/participating in a social ritual, in the same vein as taking your husband's last name, buying certain kinds of houses, etc.
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Any economist worth their salt knows that taxes may or may not inhibit economic growth. Taxes invested in infrastructure, security, and education may actually increase growth long term. Taxes wasted on corruption will most definitely hurt growth. Property taxes also encourage people to put properties to work, inheritance taxes encourage more dynamism between the generations (discourage old money aristocracy), and so on. Overly harsh taxes on the rich will also encourage avoidance (honest or dishonesty) and migration (negotiate your own rate with a swiss canton), while regressive taxes on the poor will lead to riots and revolts.

Societies are complex systems and managing them efficiently is actually (gasp) quite difficult.
Warning, people are posting NSFW and potentially malicious stuff in the colaborative area linked to from the post.

As usual, as soon as HNers are no longer on HN proper, the inner troll comes out.
In other words, utility software (that is, software that has a use for a wide variety of applications such as OS, server tools and programming languages) tend to be more and more free - simply because so many people need it, that it quickly turns into a sort of commodity.

Specialist software, which includes photoshop, but there are heaps of others like electronic circut design software, and geological survey software, tend to be paid for simply because no one uses it (other than the handful of profrssionals). The cost to make them can't be amortized across millions of its users.
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Ouch. If his accomplishments in getting money out of people are real, then this is a painful reminder how far you can go on zero skills and 100% chutzpah.
"If you focus on the wall, you will drive right into it. If you focus on the road, you will follow the road. Running a company is like that. " and “I didn’t quit.”

I am going to engrave the above mentioned quotes in gold* and put it on my wall.

* - Or just have my young kid write it with a pencil on a paper and put it on my wall.
From what I can glance from the post, this is a "poor man's" full-text search. It can search by keywords, but it does not seem to do stemming, word similarity, document similarity and all the nice things you love about Lucene and others. As far as the post explains, it also does not take term counts into account (which seems okay, as they don't have large documents). Also not sure how well it handles things like german umlauts (does "über" match "ueber"?).
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The point is that the vehicle for conveying status doesn't matter. All that matters is that it conveys status. Everything else about it is veneer.
If you lived in a society that killed/tortured atheists for not believing, it would be extremely rational to (assuming that you value your life over your advertised beliefs), at the very least, pretend that you believe in whatever bullshit people want you to believe.
Inflation in moderation has its uses. It acts to cut debt and encourages people to spend money and stimulate the economy today, which is preferable sometimes over encouraging saving. Compared to inflation, deflation is quite evil: your debt load goes up, what you want will be cheaper tomorrow, your best option is to save. Look at Japan's lost decade to see what that would bring us.
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From 4.8 (Galaxy S3) to 5 inches, the phone most probably will have the same size, but the screen may be closer to the edges (specially top and bottom), just like Motorola is doing now with its new devices.
I might turn out to be mistaken, but I also have some level of confidence that Motorola's commitment to prompt Android upgrades will be considerably higher than it has been in the past. So for Verizon users especially, this should open up several possible additional models.
Why 4.8?
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What's with the "c4nc3l" button?
The diamond trade is absolutely disgusting

I am not sure that the people of Botswana would agree.
> I don't understand the "Linux costs you time" mantra.

its because this mantra is FUD that opponants of GNU/linux often use to discredit it. If you spoke to a businessman who doesn't know his microsoft from his unixes, he might be veryeasily convinced that something which would've costed thousands could've been had for free must have some sort of catch. Because physical goods that you can get for free always has some sort of catch (whether its just for adverts, or whether the "free" month of trials automatically becomes a paid month the 2nd its over etc). Most people aren't equpped to deal with software, simply because its so new and recent, and the brain is evolved to deal with the physical and the now.
Well, it looks like they changed the post title, but left the "scrapped" in. Oh well, 1/2.
Pascal's wager is interesting but it makes a core assumption that makes it laughable - namely which God/religion/deity do you bet on?

The positive sum that the wager demonstrates in a belief in a God is nullified when you divide by the number of Gods/religions/deities in existence (many thousands/millions). Indeed - if you factor exclusive Gods/religions/deities that condemn separate beliefs - the wager goes negative since holding many beliefs that negate each other, with the addition of trying to believe them all, will cost you much more than just not doing so.

This assumes pure "afterlife" expected probabilistic value - I'm ignoring societal pressures which would eliminate this problem of many Gods/afterlife and replace it with "Believe in what we do - or die!". Then it's not Pascal's wager any more - it's believe or die because others force you to.
Isn't the Galaxy S2 a year old now? It's yesterday's toy in the same sense that an iPhone 4S is -- it's last year's model.
Entirely off topic to this post, but given the HN audience, this is one of my all time favorite long form articles:

"Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson. Wired.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

It's about FLAG - Fibre Optic Link Around the Globe. 40k+ words.
I ran into the same issue while traveling in South America. Some ATMs would not work at all with my 8+ PIN.

Strangely, there was one ATM that accepted 4 digits and then automatically continued to verification of the PIN. I never got a chance to enter the rest of the digits, but it still passed verification and allowed me to withdraw.
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In the past 3-4 years, I've never spent more time installing and configuring Linux (Ubuntu) on my PCs than I have doing the same with Windows (even where Windows came pre-installed). And I spend more time trouble-shooting Windows post-install than I do Linux. May be I've been lucky.
I'm not aware of any UK cards that don't let you change the PIN, just pop them into a cash machine and you'll find an option to do it on the menu.

Of course, my not being aware doesn't mean you can't, but I know from experience that most of the big banks let you do it, and I can't think of a single example of either me not being able to do it or me hearing of anyone else not being able to do it.
Seems like it's all about the Islam movie, which is not really what I'd call 'Hacker News'.
Do you have a link for "the Copy Hacks books"? Haven't read about them.
Pretending to believe is not believing, though.
Trying it out – UX is super fast, easily superior on both iOS and web. The confirmation email parsing doesn't seem to be working for the first few I've sent in. Feels kinda like filling out an expense report. Gonna run this side-by-side with TripIt on a road trip next week, and see if I actually end up using it. Thanks!
mmm. Advantages & disadvantages.

As mac user, I feel like they have a strong lock on me. Since product releases are infrequent and I wil own it for 4-5 years, I hesitate when buying a new one (I don't want to start 18 months behind).

Androids move fast enough that buying a new one you are guaranteed to find yourself a few months behind within a few months. But, it will only be a few months.
Being announced in February, I believe. Availability will be somewhat later, if it follows the Galaxy S3 pattern.

If I remember correctly, the original iPhone went from a plastic screen surface to glass a month before the announcement because Steve Jobs was unhappy with it. Hardware specs are always subject to change based on feedback until the company is satisfied with the result.
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Scratch that – parsing just takes a few minutes.
What I've been wishing could be done is to translate and spread messages on both sides of the divide. Everyone outside the Muslim world knows the film was a fraud and the actors were misled, and virtually everyone thinks it's stupid and unworthy of mention. But I see no mention in global media that the societies wracked by protests know this. Surely there must be some inklings of this trickling out in their media? Or is it so controlled that they only hear that America is screening the film everywhere?

Surely some people there would recognise that you can't blame an entire nation for the acts of one or two individuals who hold no particular power in the country. Or do the media and authorities in these countries portray the movie as being instigated or supported by the American government and wider society? Of course, if the film was merely a convenient scapegoat in order to get some good anti-Western riots going, then it's a much deeper problem and there's little to say.

What's terrible is that there's no communication between the ground on both sides. No one likes the film, but the common citizen doesn't seem to know that. What happened to the social media networks that we saw playing a big role in the Arab Spring?

This case is not much different from the Danish cartoons, but it just feels to me that there should have been some improvements in social media relations since that time. And what are they saying over there that we aren't hearing from our media and social networks? I'd love to see more things like this:

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/295211_101513...
I totally agree with you on inflation.

I would just add that Japan's experience has some unique aspects that will hopefully make it easier for the U.S to avoid that kind of development (I'm more pessimistic about Europe in that regard).

Particularly, Japan has a shrinking population and the asset price bubble in the late 80s was a lot bigger than the real estate bubble in the U.S up to 2006.
G+ definitely feels "higher quality" for some reason.

Some of it is the interface (Google's a lot better at this stuff than FB) and some of it is the userbase (G+ seems to skew towards techies, and er, "intentional" users, rather than "everybody, and that includes uncle merl").

The question I have is if G+ manages to really get some traction, and does start to attract the unwashed masses, how will this feel change? G+'s more nuanced contact model might help a bit, but...
Diamonds are already largely graded automatically. DeBeers has invested heavily in grading equipment that can specifically distinguish natural from artificial diamonds.
> but I highly disagree with that extrapolation.

That's great, but your counter-claim isn't obvious at all. So please elaborate. Are you alluding to banks generally setting people's PINs for them, using more appropriate distributions? Or, God forbid, do you believe that users are more careful when picking sensitive PINs?

I have serious doubts about the latter.
I hate sites that have vim bindings as i already uses vimium for chrome. Im looking at you fffound and vimeo!
Samsung made it really easy to install Cyanogenmod on Galaxy phones.

They even provide an official tool for rooting.

There's pretty much no chance of bricking your phone, and if you go with a stable CM build, you shouldn't have any problems.
Really nice idea. I never used V1 but looking at the screenshot I think the darker colours are nicer. If it's not too much trouble maybe you can add a Dark/Light Theme option, like arstechnica.com for example.

Great job nonethless :)
Right, but I think Mark's point was that great companies can also be built slowly. These may not be the "best" companies but great one's can be built brick-by-brick. I feel that most startup founders today strive for a large funding round before focusing on building a solid business foundation.

For some businesses, it is not possible to create value until you have a large amount of capital in-hand (e.g., Aerospace, Automobiles) but for most it is and we shouldn't lose sight of that. People solve problems, not money; and it is unlikely that a large pile of cash will be the solution to your problems if you don't first start with a good business model.
> De Beers has probably pulled off the greatest marketing stunt in the history of humanity. The fact that it's so ingrained in our minds, to the point where a smart, educated, and informed person like my girlfriend still wants a diamond even after knowing all the issues with them, is fascinating.

Does she still want the diamond after being shown the article? Most people don't like being manipulated.
I'm in Australia, not the USA. And we're talking about business owners, not private individuals.
Bose inspires an active hate-dom in the audiophile community for manipulative sales tactics (they disallow A/B comparison as a stipulation of retail distributorship, for example), units reliably over-priced by a significant margin versus competitors, and spending so much on marketing its R&D and so little on its R&D.
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The first time, sure. When it's happening every other minute it will just be dull.
Some reason I can't edit my own comment, but even $200/hr is low. I used to work in economic consulting and I only have a BA in economics. My company charged the clients $400/hr for my services. Good lawyers charge $1,000/hr, why shouldn't good hackers make $400k-$500k/year just in salary? Fuck stock options, that's just the cherry on top. I've been reading that a good dev makes 125k to 150k, I think that's cute, but devs are still under valued in this market. Let's do something about it.
If it's not a diamond, not matter what you call it people are going to think QVC and Diamonique.

It's not rational, and these stones might be nicer, but they're not diamonds. Branding, there.
Nope, but it will drive a car, just not as fast as I'm sure he would like.

When he realizes his error, he'll be able to reason much better about electrical and mechanical engineering than many of his peers in school (if he decides to go to college) due to having actual experiences of failing in the real world (rather than just on paper). Good for him.
Free markets always tend towards monopoly/oligopoly/cartel structures in the long term - because the firms that do so retain their pricing advantage (profits) and the firms that don't - die.

I have to think that the idea of free/natural markets has to be one of the greatest tricks ever pulled by anyone at any time (next to communism). Markets are artificial and restrictive for a reason - they're created by governments for the benefit of the populace - they are probably the most unnatural constructions ever created in human history (next to the corporation/government).

It is in the interests of market participants to maximise profits (to survive/grow). Efficient markets are the enemy of profits. Hence, market participants will make markets less efficient as a function of their incentives - if they can. It may seem more efficient in the short term - i.e. price wars - but in the long term - after the field is cleared - prices always rise in some form or another.

Free/natural markets are probably one of the greatest lies ever sold.
This is where the lines get blurry. Anything that translates source code to bytecode would clearly not be a transcompiler as bytecode can hardly be considered source code, even if an abstract implementation of the machine ends up executing it.

Something is considered source code if it is intended to be written and read primarily by humans. Once upon a time, machine code would have been the same as source code as there were no compilers, and punchcards were punched with opcodes and data directly. Now, nobody in their right mind considers machine language to be source code, and I could only make a very tenuous argument in favor of JVM bytecode being source code.

Compilation is the process of producing something the "machine" understands natively. Traditionally this was the CPU. Your CPU doesn't understand Ruby, but it (probably) understands x86 machine code, along with various extensions. In the case of Java, the machine is no longer the CPU, but an abstraction of it. The machine in this case only understands JVM bytecode, not Java. Same with the CLR which only understands IL, not C#, F#, VB.NET, etc.

If you emit bytecode directly you'd have a compiler not a transcompiler.
Exactly, they will only show it in February, but most probably, they will start selling it 2/3 months later.
True. To the outside world it is equivalent though.

Furthermore - there's a saying that "believe in it long enough - and you'll think it's true". So you have to be careful with that - sometimes appearances become deceiving (what you show becomes what you are).
Indeed. Our dishwasher is DOA at the moment, and for a family of 4, keeping the dishes washed is an investment of several hours a week, spread out in some fashion or other.

On the plus side, I agree that it's kind of therapeutic to do them. :)