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I don't follow. Is Python the only programming language available? Is programmability determined by a device's ability to run python scripts natively?
sure I can give you some pointers. My contact info is in my profile (just updated)
Long Island University provides iPads for all of its students. Here's why
Igor has been one of my programmer heroes for many years now, and I'm glad to learn more about his background through this article. The reading's a bit tough, as many verbs appear to be missing and a few Russian words remain untranslated. Some interesting takeaways:

* Igor wrote Nginx while working as a sysadmin for Rambler. Classic bottom-up innovation: he could see Apache's shortcomings in a very up-close and personal way. This also explains why Rambler does not hold the copyright on Nginx (see the end of the interview).

* He is quite modest when comparing Nginx to other web servers. This reflects well on his character, but perhaps has "slowed" the adoption of Nginx. It's clear from this article that Igor is an engineer, not a salesman. I find this to be refreshing in an era when many open-source projects seem to achieve adoption by being the loudest, rather than by being the best.

* Igor put off starting a company until there was just too much work for him to do alone. I liked this quote: "I rarely change my life direction: for example, [before] Rambler, I spent seven years working for a company, [and at] Rambler, I also worked for ten years. Change is hard for me. But, nevertheless, by the spring of this year, I did finally decide to found a company that would help the further development of the project."

* Despite having U.S. investors, Nginx's engineering team is based in Russia. One interpretation is that you don't need to be in the Valley to develop a first-rate product; you just need to be in the Valley when it's time to hustle it.

Anyway, an interesting read. Apparently this article is his first public interview. I know Igor doesn't like publicity, but it's inspiring to read his story.
It's $20 for a well-done piece of software that syncs very well with the other Twitter apps you use on your iOS devices (assuming that if you're interested in Tweetbot for Mac you already use it on your iPhone/iPad).

I would've paid the same amount even if it wasn't for the Twitter token restriction issue because $20 is not that much for an app use a few good times per hour every single day.
The black UI looks totally out of place on OS X. I hope you can change it to graphite (you couldn't on the alpha client).
It's extremely easy to locate the jamming device!

The device is transmitting at high power, it's like beacon, and very easy to see.

If you do it in war the jamming station is likely to be visited by a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile such as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARM_missile
>..then surely it should protect the free speech of someone who names you.

There is another good reason for a sitewide ban on personal info, that being that if the internet is good at one thing, it's generating outrage. Outrage + Large amount of anonymous people = witch hunts. And I don't care if the guy's a serial rapist (which he isn't, not that you could tell with the acid-dipped keyboards in play) witch hunts are never a good thing. Accusations are thrown and innocent people's lives are impacted based on the flimsiest of evidence sometimes. Best to ban that outright and let people organize their raids elsewhere.

I also assume it would put them (the site owners) on shaky legal ground.

Reddit bans four things that I know of. Personal info, illegal pictures of minors, exploits targeting the users, and spam. There are very good justifications for every one of those.
Mousemade is in contrast to handmade. We're like Etsy, but of digital content.
Pageviews aren't the same as marketing
What words or actions would be those? As far as I know he kept himself mostly to his own subreddits, where one could just not go.
Google’s Stock Takes A Dive After Mid-Day Earnings Release, Trading Halted
Not exactly. They have a limited number of tokens, read more about that on their blog post http://tapbots.com/blog/news/tweetbot-mac
A couple of years ago visible form my student house were "227 epic house" and "229 even more epic house".
They're paying millions to hire some people, but aren't getting any of the IP? Isn't that unusual?

Maybe I just don't understand how these things work.
I don't like that they ported the aesthetic. I'm not a fan of it to begin with, especially on iPad, but at least there it gets to take over the entire screen. On the desktop, the apps I use most of the time[1] still look like Mac apps, so this would stick out like a sore thumb.

I really, really like Twitter for Mac, even if it's abandoned now. I'm not sure if Tapbots has fixed it (and I'm not going to spend $20 on a client I don't like the visuals of to find out), but Twitter for Mac absolutely beat Tweetbot Alpha in scrolling (using TwUI helps quite a bit most likely). So I'll keep using that for now on my external monitor where it doesn't look blurry.

[1]:

* Safari

* iTerm2

* Xcode

* Messages

* MacVim

* iTunes

* Mail
They won't be compensated too much though because Twitter has made auth tokens arbitrarily scarce. AFAIK they have a cap of 100,000 customers for the lifetime of the product which means they're limited to $2M in revenue on this (less Apple's fees, so $1.4M and any returns would most likely still count against tokens but offer no revenue). It's not super lucrative, if they hadn't already started when Twitter announced its plans I don't think they would have made it.
Would they do that if their browser isn't displaying invalid characters? That's what I meant by "ordinary circumstances."
Why dojo toolkit get so little spotlight on HN compared to other js frameworks?
Hey guys,
I often see how much praise does jquery/sensa get here.<p>But very little is posted about dojo toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org/), and I feel that it deserves more recognition, since requirejs/AMD formats come from http://dojofoundation.org/, same goes for cometd protocol back in early web 2.0 days.

Since I'm a pretty early user (from 0.4.x days), I know that documentation wasn't good enough etc. But things have changed considerably since those days - and currently the framework is very modern with it's AMD approach to build things, application/model infrastructure, widget infrastructure, topic system, i18n support, a11y support. There is a good Zend Framework integration layer in PHP. So this makes me wonder, why we don't hear more about it here and other places?

Is it that it's more verbose when it comes to code? The only place I often see dojo mentioned would be javascript positions in banks since they probably use a lot of their widgets.

I seriously think that this is the most underpraised (is that even a word?) javascript framework, so I would love to hear why people are not using it, is it because everyone knows jquery/needs their plugins? (a lot of what is available externally there is bundled as dojox/dijit component in dojo)
#golang had Limbo in its ancestry, another CSP language, this time for the Inferno register-based VM from Bell Labs. Target Go at a browser VM?
Getting paid isn't milking your fan base. This is the same price, near enough, as a new movie on iTunes, or a new album. Users will get subsequent updates to the app until Tweetbot 2 comes out (or Twitter finally do what they clearly want to and round up all of the 3rd party twitter software engineers and put them into a big rocket destined to be fired into the heart of the sun).

Apple can rely on the fact that Mountain Lion is a yearly update, they can afford to market and promote the product, and it doubtless has a lead-in for hardware sales too.

Tweetbot on iOS is, when you consider the relative size of installation bases for iOS devices and Macs, comparably priced. You can sell an iOS Twitter client at a reduced cost because there are just so many more iOS devices out there. To justify maintaining a Mac codebase you need to charge more.
And unified timeline!
Wow a little too pricy for me especially after buying TweetBot for the iPad and iPhone separately. For me there is just not another $20 worth of value there. If they can sell it at that price though more power to them. Maybe they'll do a sale eventually?
>By your logic, the burger you had for lunch last week expresses your moral preference for factory farming practices and the grave environment impact of meat consumption.

A lot of people do believe that though, sadly "with us or against us" is really really common.
Not necessarily. Facebook now uses SSL for login and I'm assuming any sane Online banking service does the same.

On the other hand there things to watch out for like SSL strip.

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/

So make sure that you are actually using the HTTPS version of any site.

If you are using standard HTTP (or another unencrypted protocol) then you can assume that the network owner can intercept everything you are doing.
Google launches fanless Cortex A15-based Chromebook for $249
That's a fair point, but I'm not sure where I'd draw the line. The worst consequences you cited -- identity theft, fraud, etc. -- are already illegal. We criminalize the act; not necessarily the surrounding things that made the act possible.

Spoiling my kid's birthday surprise might make you a dick, but I don't want it to make you a criminal. It's also hard to see a good way to enforce this kind of thing. As long as all a person is doing is visiting public places, then lacking a specific compelling reason (e.g., restraining orders issued by a judge), I'm not sure you should be able to prevent someone else from visiting those same public places.

These are definitely issues that are going to become more important as the amount of data we generate continues to grow. But right now, I think the balance is actually pretty good. The government probably has too many rights to collect information on you, but for private parties, I don't have a huge problem with things as they stand.
Better summary: "EA's coupon code hacked, gave away thousands of free licenses."

Doesn't sound so bad does it? EA should shoulder the blame for a hackable system that didn't have anyone closely monitoring for fraud. Also, would these people have actualy purchased the game? Are the licenses transferable? - if not, there might not have actually been much loss.
What's the mood on something like the Unicode 6 regional indicators (see http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3727.pdf) when the support stabilizes? e.g. 🇺🇸 (U+1F1FA U+1F1F8) can be displayed by the user agent as the letters "US" or a United States flag but the choice is up to the UA rather than the developer.
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They look like Mac apps because, with 2 exceptions, they're all Apple apps. The Tweetbots apps needed to have the same design.

edit: I know about the bug you mentioned and it looks like they've fixed it.
Adrian, I am also following the same path as you have mentioned. I am currently enrolled in MITx - 6.00x online course and I too would like to use Python for web development. If you are looking for more meaningful material on Python I would suggest visiting the (http://www.realpython.com/) website and download the e-book ($14). This book is full of real time python usage and it does cover web-development as well. Not sure whether you've heard about it or not but the idea of RealPython was kinda hit on Kickstarter few months back.

It looks like our goal is somewhat similar and if you want to discuss more about learning Python then feel free to drop me an email (see email id in profile).

Good Luck learning Python.
Google Shares Halted
Show HN: Discover online learning at knollop.com
http://xkcd.com/343/
Panel 2 specifically. Fighting in a broken system does nothing.
Show HN: Fork recipes on the "Github for food"
CloudSpring | SQL or NoSQL: Google App Engine Part - 2
I suspect any recycling efforts will be eclipsed by the move to screw tops.
Google Earnings Come Early; Shares Drop
I was really excited to get it after seeing all the features. Then I loaded up the app store and was a bit surprised by the price as well. I can't find $20 of value in any twitter client personally.
Looking for advice to improve our beta app, Hisocial.com
We are trying to improve our app. Hisocial.com is a platform that allows you to crea. You can post the promo on your Twitter and Facebook accounts, or on your own website.

We are on beta, I wwelcome any suggestions to improve our beta app
There's also an R buildpack for Heroku. There's a sample app written using Sinatra (Ruby) included.

https://github.com/virtualstaticvoid/heroku-buildpack-r
You quoted only part of the sentence. “...but it's not okay to call someone out on that.”

Reddit has decided to allow one form of legal(?) content (invasive, sexually exploitative photos) but disallow another (publicizing the name of people who post such photos). By doing so, they are explicitly privileging the former over the latter and that is a moral preference.

The Reddit community is all in favor of free speech when women are being harassed, but opposes free speech when the name of a harasser is being published.

In other words, this is not about free speech at all.
Manage access points through the cloud
We allow to manage any Wi-Fi AP model.
Your comparison is ridiculous and you know it.
Flask-RESTful, a lightweight Flask extension for building APIs
The original habrahabr article can be found here: http://habrahabr.ru/company/xakep/blog/136354/

Its google-translated result does look very similar to the submitted article, however.
Really?

I thought the general consensus was just to let it all go, spend maybe a little effort tracking the coins as they get moved, but eventually lose them in the system, and then forget about the whole thing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAICT nobody's watching the coins that got stolen from (say) bitcoinica so that they can either refuse to transact with them or go beat them up. In fact quite the opposite, the community as a whole seems entirely resistant to the idea of any sort of coin blacklist. AFAICT.
Gluconeogenesis is a continual process - it doesn't happen like a switch, it ramps up and down depending on your need for glucose. I would be surprised if there's any human on earth that hasn't 'experienced' it.
Motorola 3Q2012 Revenues $2.58 Billion; 18% of Revenue For Google’s Total Q3
Time 50 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_God_Dead%3F
You don't have to pay to participate? So what? Casinos have free versions too you know. Or are they insinuating that you can win $s without investing any B$s?

As a sidenote, claiming that there is no wagering, is also false. Chosing and supporting a team does involve wagering, only the wager is static and proportionate to the participants. Then there is a formula that adds up and/or devides wagers to the participants.
There are a lot of apps out there more expensive than Mountain Lion that you might not even use as often as a Twitter client [1] and because ML was so cheap it doesn't mean that every Mac app should be under %19.98 from now on.

[1] http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/index.html
> Not every decision has a moral component

Fair, I overreached there.

> reddit has made the single moral decision that they will permit (legal) free-speech

except for doxing, of course. Except for hate speech. Except for spam. Except for gawker (whoops, no that was by accident). Except for...

> reddit has made the single moral decision that they will permit (legal) free-speech and beyond that point they have chosen to be amoral

1) As I stated above, that falls apart when you look at it closely. Reddit indeed tries to minimally muck around with content, but it certainly does do so.

2) You can't substitute legality for morality and call it amorality; all you can do is align your morality with the law if you choose to do so.

Imagine an alternate universe where the internet existed during Jim Crow, and Georgia law required it to have black and white websites. According to the "law supersedes morality" theory, they could morally segregate white and black users in Georgia.

Obviously that's a ludicrous scenario for many reasons, but I think Jim Crow laws are an excellent illustration of the divergence of morality and legality. Choosing to follow the law is a moral decision, and you can't wish that away.
AES?
At least until Twitter changes their API TOS again.
Seems to be resolved, cool.
With Zappli’s InstaBuy, Shoppers Get A Two-Click Checkout When Buying On Mobile
Love what you guys are doing. I admit that I'm curious about how you plan to build a revenue model that can supplement that kind of outflow, but I'm sure you guys are thinking about it.

Thanks for the Betable shoutout as well :)
$20 is a valid price given the user token situation. Tapbots will not reach the cap at the $20 price range and I expect the price to steadily drop as sales drop off. This way, rather than getting $10 x 100000, they're getting $20 x 1000 + $10 x 50000, etc.

Personally, I'm not ready to buy yet. I paid $3 and $5 for Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad and I'm happy with the value they provide me. Does Tweetbot/Mac offer more (and 4-6x more) value than the iOS versions? Probably not to me and not to a lot of other people.

That said, it's dangerous to use price as a way to protest the user token limit. You're hearing people complain about the price rather than complain about the user token limit that resulted in the price. And it gives Twitter ammo to point back to Tweetbot and say, "See, it is still possible to make money from clients despite the token limit!"

It may have been better to cap out early and have people complain that the app has been pulled, but that would result in sacrificing the product for the cause.
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Twistory is now history
I've used MongoHQ in two companies now, and couldn't be happier with their product, uptime, and ridiculously responsive support (especially during late-night, crap-I-just-dropped-our-staging-database-by-accident-because-I-ran-unit-tests-on-the-wrong-environment routines). Very happy for their success so far, and looking forward to what they have in the pipeline.
Porting for good: Help bring a Humble Android Bundle to life (YC W'11)
Humble Bundle (YC W'11) and Apportable (YC W'11) are bringing indie games to Android through Humble Android Bundles. Indie developers often don't have the resources to create a polished Android version, so they need our help. We've worked together with the original devs to port over some of the best mobile indie games including Osmos, EDGE, Cogs, Avadon: the Black Fortress, Zen Bound 2, BIT.TRIP BEAT, Spirits, Uplink, and Swords and Soldiers. With your help, these bundles have raised $2.4 million to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Child's Play, and independent game developers.

We're working on a new Android bundle that has the potential to be the best yet. And we'd like to try an experiment. Would any of you like to come to San Francisco and help us finish it?

We're looking for strong programmers who love games. Familiarity with Objective-C, C++, and Python will be helpful. No Android experience necessary; we'll be using Apportable's Objective-C SDK for Android.

What's included:

- All-expenses paid trip to San Francisco (if you're not already here)

- Spend 3 - 7 days in the Humble Bundle and Apportable offices in October or November

- Hands-on tutorial building Objective-C apps on Android using Apportable SDK

- Work with the source code of the best indie game developers (under NDA, of course)

- Opportunities for future employment at Humble Bundle and Apportable

- That warm feeling that you made the world a better place

Interested? Drop us a line at humblebundle@apportable.com
Well, I had no idea who is was, now I do. So I guess it still has exposed it to some.
Google stock trades halted after dropping over 10% in 30 minutes
I'd expect it to be $3.99 in a few weeks, no need to hurry.
How 4Chan's Chris Poole Runs His Web Giant On A Shoestring
Your burger tangent is a strange one because yes, by eating that burger you're providing direct support to the meat industry, further enabling their factory farming practices. When you buy factory farmed meat you're specifically expressing your moral preference for cheap, tasty meat over the environmental and moral costs of its preparation. You can't dissociate the two.
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You've Got Mail Overload
Show HN: Embeddable, Shareable Changelogs for Software Teams (Rails Rumble)
While yes, that is true, it doesn't necessarily apply to this circumstance. The person you replied to might have played a song by an artist that was an inferior copy uploaded by another user.
Google Down 10%
why not offer a discount to the alpha/beta users who've already claimed tokens from twitter
Ubuntu 12.10 released
We'll chat soon, David.
I've used Gnome Shell on the last two releases of Fedora. I've grown to be comfortable with it but the idea of having to rely on multiple(9 in my case) extensions to get to that state is too much. Couple that with having to worry if extensions will be updated to work with each new release of Gnome. I had been interested in Cinnamon but was under the impression it was the distinguishing feature of Linux Mint. Cinnamon is now available for several distributions including Fedora(yum install cinnamon). For me, Cinnamon is what Gnome Shell should have been and I have no problem recommending it.
To be fair, as they say it grows back in a few years and harvest doesn't kill the tree, so it's not as though they're significantly 'wasting' it. I'm sure that space programs can get all the cork they desire and more.
I believe that the same could be said for MongoLab, a similar service.

I also believe that both services need to be certified by 10gen before rolling out new releases. Also, paying customers at a certain level have access to 10gen for support if the provider can't address the issue.

Long story short, both these companies have a good relationship with 10gen in the interest of growing the space.
The only feature I was looking for was "Now with less legal issues". I have used Grooveshark a lot, but songs would keep disappearing due to DMCA take downs. They have a very innovative HTML5 web app and I love their selection, but there is a little too much legal grey ground for me to invest my long term usage in their service.
> the quality of writing had declined, and it had become too political.

In my mind it has become way too Liberal. Maybe I didn't realize it when I was growing up and reading it every month, but it certainly has changed.

Too bad really, in a time when there's so much opinion pieces and media outlets are all slanted one way or another, it would be nice to have a news organization which simply reported the news and didn't have a vested interest in some political party which slanted its views.
For anyone that lives near Atlanta, this was recorded at http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/. Our next meetup will be November 14th if you want to hear more awesome talks like this one. </shameless plug>
By the same logic you shouldn't use red star symbol in your design if its target country includes one of the countries formerly occupied by the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_star#Legal_status