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Python, like all dynamically typed languages, has no readability once you start using multiple modules. Static types are important for declaring interfaces between components. I have pretty much written off Python, particularly now that Go exists. I've wasted too many hours tracing down data types in complicated Python programs, usually resorting to printing out the types at runtime to decode them. The problem with Python: it is great for simple programs, where the effort to writing the simple program is much less than the comparable program in C/C++/Java; but simple programs often grow into complicated programs, and then the effort of maintaining Python far exceeds the effort to maintain C/C++/Java. Go, on the other hand, is pretty nice for writing a simple program, and can then scale into a complicated program.
I'm not anywhere near Georgia, but if you need a place to crash and find yourself in the Annapolis, MD area, I've got plenty of space and you could stay as long as you wanted.

I'm guessing that if you're Georgia-bound you probably also work there? If you're freelance or otherwise mobile, my offer's open for as long as you need.
The funny thing is that if you went in as the VP of Sales/VP of Marketing to the CFO of Braintree and said "Our exposure is just $13,500!" he'd beat you with a stick. The good news is the alignment is right here. The more in actual lost transactions fees that occur during the promotion the happier Braintree and the startups will be. As noted Braintree has its eyes further down the road.
Been fine for us all day - weird!
I wish there was a "Sticky" function on HN. Every SaaS startup founder needs to read this.

Seriously. Bookmark it. Instapaper it. Evernote clip it. However you save it, save it and read it.
Quorum-based Journaling for the Hadoop HDFS NameNode
Linux has several similar implementations, as does ZFS with the L2ARC.
Microsoft Hadoop
Nice! Wrong direction though, right?
How Being Very Transparent May Have Saved A 'Failed' Kickstarter Project
I work with C++ daily and it still has many rough edges:

* Horrible error messages

* Even simple programs take ages to compile due to massive header files.

LLVM/Clang help on both fronts but it's still quite difficult.

D2 seems much more promising if you can do without the libraries.
No, that's what I meant (reading back, I didn't actually say that; I just thought it during writing); they didn't deliver cables for the monitors yet :) I have the components to make one, but didn't get to that yet (it's none standard and probably I'll just get theirs when they finally created it). When i'm behind an actual desk I just work on it via another computer or via github (depends where I am). But i'm often 'on the road' (which can be actually on the road OR walking in the mountains) and then I just program straight on the little thing. It's actually quite comfortable if there is not a lot of sun.

But yet it's very much the opposite of high resolution so it takes more planning what you are going to do, but for algorithmic work and hard problems nothing beats mountain walks and then typing/testing on that thing. And the occasional Crash Bandicoot III play of course.

For me the optimum config would be something like an OpenPandora (before it I had (have actually) the Zaurus c860 which did the same minus the games) with a docking 'station' or, but now i'm dreaming as it seems nothing comes close to this yet, AR glasses with a sufficiently high resolution connected to it.

I have been experimenting with a Twiddler 2 (http://www.handykey.com/); everyone complains that it's too slow for typing, but again, when you are thinking up stuff which are not kilometers of boring (crud) coding typing speed, imho, doesn't matter too much. And I can type while walking with it, but no AR (or actually VR) yet.
Why is it a shame?
First, advice about arXiv.org links: for me, at least, it's nice to see a link to the main abstract page rather than directly to the full PDF. Here, that link would be http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310077

And second, this isn't "When physicists chat over lunch". This is "A nine year old dialog by a loop quantum gravity specialist putting words into the mouth of an imaginary string theorist." That may or may not be worth reading, but I think the context is important. [The date "2008" on the final page is some sort of typo: the arXiv time stamp on the first page makes the submission date clear.]
I'm just scared that doing more complex stuff will turn our current, simple, app into a bit of a battery hog itself :) But I think Android does a decent amount of that for you.
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The "instant signup" page says I have to wait one day for underwriters to assess the app, is that normal?
Link to the beta: http://next.soundcloud.com/. But it seems there’s a waiting list to use it; that page just lets you put yourself on the waiting list.
Actually, tea can be a profitable business with the right niche.

I know several people that spend serious money on that (over here, Argentinean Ines Berton blends are the most sought after - http://www.tealosophy.com/eng/eng.html ).

Edit: It won't be Facebook-sized, but if the customer validation works (and they really know their stuff - much like with wine, premium tea drinkers can be picky), they might be on to something.

Personally, I worry about them losing the "experience" factor that one gets from going tea shopping.
C++ does not need the credibility. Hey, in what language is your Python compiler written in C/C++. When performance is the criteria C++ will shine. The world runs on C/C++, this comes from a C# developer.
This appears to be a followup to the longer story that appeared in the NYT Science section on Tuesday, also posted on HN to almost no comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714328
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716240
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4720637

That story discussed Neumann's work on the DARPA-funded Clean Slate project to "build something new from the bottom up" to respond to security problems.

Neumann is beginning this 5-year project at age 80 -- an interesting response to the "do you still want to be doing this at age 55" thread.
"Generators are placed on the top floor to simplify the exhaust path, which must terminate at the roof."

Thank you.

"Pumps are placed next to the fuel because pumping liquid over any significant vertical distance requires the pump to "push" rather than "pull". The fuel is placed in the basement because nobody wants to sit next to a tank full of diesel."

The proper design would seem to have two pumping stages. One from basement to 3rd floor, the other from 3rd floor to 17th floor.

If fire codes are such that one can't safely store 24 - 72 hours of fuel above flood level, don't advertise that your data center has reliable emergency power backup.
Committed and deployed! :)

https://github.com/julien-c/Circular/commit/f6af7e4144ca3a59...
I'd love to see more details about this. You may not return to this comment, but nigel@puppetlabs.com would love to chat about what you're doing here.
as yefrederic pointed out you could use filepicker.io to build static js applications. We handle all the server side logic for you.
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"Let's not" - Make rspec tests faster, more readable, and more maintainable
This is the building that is home to the "Bucket Brigade" that has been getting so much press lately.
It's quite like like a combination L2ARC + ZIL. However, the L2ARC isn't persistent across reboots (otherwise block writes would need to be journalled, adding complexity) so you don't get the speed benefits until the machine's uptime gets large. Not the greatest thing for laptops. Also, I believe the L2ARC is populated from in-memory pages, while it appears the Fusion Drive can be populated by a daemon process.
Then why are you ranting about the default search engine as evidence of adverts in Android?
Huh? That's not entirely accurate and besides, Gecko and Webkit have been doing full page scaling for years and I presume IE is as well.
OT: that was a good example of a print link that is not obnoxious. Unlike most print links, it did not come up with a freakishly wide columns of diminutive text, and had a clear way to get the non-print version so that one can read the comments and other extras lost on the print version. More sites should implement their print links like that.
The Personal Computing Land Grab
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It's pretty clearly a real thing -- even if you don't like how the concept is named or think that it's unethical, it's a specific type of behavior/action that can be discussed.
Some parts exist either for backwards compatibility with existing code or to serve very narrow use-cases and should be used sparingly or not at all in new development.

There's also a ton of redundant libraries and language features, resulting in a lot of decisions being arbitrary choices between equivalents. Having the same decision made throughout the code makes everyone who has to read the code's life easier.
There is a connection, we can view mappings between linear memory spaces to higher arrays constructs as a series of coordinate transformations in the same way we deal with transformations between charts on manifolds. Except in our case our charts are necessarily disjoint, so the boundary conditions on charts are trivial.
The "victim" of plagiarism isn't the original author. It's the reader, who is deceived into thinking they are reading original thoughts when they'd instead be better served by the original source.

Nobody in the media is "just falling" for the idea of "self-plagiarizing"; in virtually every place I've seen this issue covered, there's been extensive scrutiny of the idea of "self-plagiarism" and where it ranks in the catalog of literary sins.

This post is yet another example of the "middlebrow dismissal":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714217

It is all well and good to grapple with the idea of whether and how "self-plagiarizing" is a real offense. But to do so in a comment like yours, dismissing it as herd thinking and witch hunting, is lazy and ill-informed. Your comment has as its premise something that is actually the opposite of the truth; ironically, it distracts from the real controversy of how big a deal self-plagiarism is by pretending that there is no such controversy.
HighlightCam donates $1/Facebook share to NY Red Cross
This wasn't an oversight, just a bit of failed translation. Julien mentioned it in the original launch thread, but Tampon in French loosely translates to "buffer." See what happened there? Give the fella a break.
So? The smaller screen is more dense but it doesn't change the fact that 10" 2560x1440 displays exist. And they're not prohibitively expensive. (See: The Nexus 10, with that screen).

I can tell you what, if I can go from 2560x1440 on a 27" and go back to my Macbook Air and want to rip my eyes out... we can stand to improve.

Obviously, without scaling the UI, this resolution would be unusable on a 10" screen, you wouldn't be able to click much of anything. Linux is good at DPI scaling, Windows 8 is supposedly better.
Teacher at Virginia Tech wants to make an interactive educational graphic novel
I have now realized that anything can happen in the world of ...
Humanity as a database: after infiltrating a religious order mandate arranged marriages encoding your input data in predicted genetic mutations of offspring. Ensure the religious order is hermetic so no outside data appears and that its teaching require all members to appear at a certain location at a certain time. Retrieve your data 1000 years later by appearing at the preordained spot for the Holy Query Ceremony, and examining the eye/hair colours of those gathered. Good error correction protocols are required. (This might well already be part of a Neal Stephenson novel).
It's not surprising that it was Bob Dylan fans who caught Lehrer fabricating. The stuff he was saying about Dylan was obviously off – equally ignorant and glib. I remember listening to Terry Gross interviewing him well before the scandal and being shocked at what bullshit he was peddling.

Fabrication and plagiarism are what got him fired, and I suppose it has to be that way, but there's an unpleasant corollary: had he been a more careful or even just a less prolific bullshitter, he would still be a celebrated star of science writing.
I've used Dia a good amount and aside from the learning curve (since some things are not as intuitive as the should be), it's a great tool.

I'd be curious to see what other Dia users think about Lucuid and if its worth switching to.
It's easy to say diesel fuel is "quite safe and hard to ignite." But if the NYC Fire Code says you have to store it in the basement, then guess what? You have to store it in the basement
Microsoft lose in such cases surprisingly often. Smart Tags in Office, onclick activation of plugins in IE...
Is Heroku down?
Is Heroku down? Our single dyno apps have been knocked out but we can't find a status verifying this is a systemic issue.
That sounds like not a great twitter/facebook feed you're managing with buffer, no? Do people care about the feed, if it's generic enough to warrant 200k+ queued posts?
Apple Falls After CEO Cook Overhauls Management Team
And third-wave feminism flirted with post-structuralism..
yep, you got it right now. looks nice
Please fix headline to:

"Braintree Waives All Fees On First $50k in Transactions For Next 1,000 US-Based Startups"

Might be a good idea to do this always, just a little thing to acknowledge the other 95% of the world..
Hydraulic elevators are only used in buildings with 2-5 (in rare cases up to 8) floors. These are certainly traction elevators but the controls and wiring are still likely located in the basement.
Thanks for the explanation. I was still confused about how "things actually are material and unchanging" led to "reality does not exist when we are not observing it."

You pointed me in the right direction though and I'm convinced that the term is being abused by the caller:

>Realism in the sense used by physicists does not equate to realism in metaphysics. The latter is the claim that the world is in some sense mind-independent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_realism#Local_realism

http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0607057v2.pdf

If papers are being written about how "local realism" should be banned from scientific discussion, I'm fairly certain it isn't appropriate for laymen to bandy about the term and then make wild ass philosophical assertions based on it.
" Google pushes consumers and developers towards ad-supported apps by offering limited payment options in the Google Play store."

Ok, and so does every single marketplace ever that charges a brokerage fee. I think it's completely acceptable to whine about an application that can give you a shortest path between any two spots in the world, 3d buildings, 3d perspective, vector tiles, the best business listings outside of the old white pages, etc, etc, for giving me RELEVANT sponsored results when I look for something. yeesh.
In other words: C++11 boosts Python :-)

I think only a hardcore C++ developer would claim that the author's sample is "succinct". Honestly, C++11 is still far behind the easiness of Python (or Scheme), even with Boost.

Funny, a decade ago Ada 95 (the "military" language for high-critical applications) looked like a monstrous over-designed beast when compared to C++. Today Ada 2012 looks elegant and even "small" when compared to C++11. How times have changed :-)
I had to resist making the same comment that you replied to, because I felt like the article was at some pains to put Lehrer in the context of Gladwell. I too assumed that anyone who could ask this question probably hadn't read the article.
didn't a judge recently rule that an ip does not represent a person?
Right, like I've said 4 times now, it's incredibly easy to use an Android phone without sending a blip of data to Google.

Also, you're absolutely insane and bordering on fanboi territory to act like Microsoft and Apple aren't collecting the exact same usage data from location services etc. You have some bone to pick with Google over advertising yet ignore the fact that it's completely a choice to use it. You people act like Google is breaking into your house and installing a GPS chip in you. It's dishonest.
‘The Fractalist,’ Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s Math Memoir
Ok. Is there some advantage to putting the generator on the 17th floor vs. the 3rd?
I stopped using linux and started using osx because linux always involved way too much dicking around by it's nature.
As seen at PGConf.EU: call_graph
The extra code is there for a reason, but it's still there and it's not there in a language like Python.

Nobody would argue that C++11 code can be much cleaner than old C++ code. But to say it's almost as clean as Python goes to far, and isn't fooling anybody. So why not be satisfied beating old C++?
It's pretty epic, isn't it?
YC itself is effectively that. The good people from the startups that fail get picked up by the others. We also run http://workatastartup.org.
He means across all accounts registered with Buffer, not one individual account.
that's not entirely true, take make_tuple for example, this doesn't add anything except verbosity (by comparison to Python)
500 gal diesel = 1622 kg

17 stories = 46 meters

Energy required = 1621 * 46 * g = 732 kJ

Integrating PV=nRT, W = -nRT*ln(V₂/V₁)

assume you're going to compress the air to 150 psi, or 10 atm, so V₂/V₁ = 10. Assume T=10 degrees C. Solving for n, you need 880 moles of air.

Putting this back through PV=nRT, we get a modest 190 gallons of air (compressed).

So you need a 200 gallon tank with 150 psi storage. Look, here's one on craigslist for $400.

http://eugene.craigslist.org/gms/3306858286.html
I dispute how much "hot water" Gladwell got into over the Moth story. First, it's hard to listen to that story and take it seriously; it's pretty over-the-top. Second, The Moth is a somewhat informal venue; for instance, Mike Birbiglia's Moth performance is more or less a standup routine. The story was covered in the media because it suggested (playfully) that major publications were sometimes run more by gamesmanship than by a duty to report the facts; true or not, it was obviously catnip to media critics.

The latter allegations --- that Gladwell's stories are too pat, and that they exclude contradictory evidence --- amount to Gladwell being "wrong" about things. But being wrong isn't a journalistic crime; journalists, columnists, and essayists are wrong all the time. It's disingenuous to lay that case out in an article about someone who committed real journalistic crimes: fabrication and plagiarism. In the actual NYMag piece, the case against Gladwell consists largely of innuendo: that he gives a lot of high-priced talks, that in marketing himself and The New Yorker, he created a brand that he can milk for his own personal gain. Well, we all milk things for our personal gain; it's called "having a career".
Teaching Thousands of Students to Program on Udacity with App Engine, Part Two
France wants to charge Google EUR 1B in tax
Yeah, I agree with the claim that this is not in the same realm of readability (seriously, just consider for 10 seconds what an at-scale C++11 codebase looks like versus a scaled up python code base. But I understand why they're different and I can't get enough of the statically typed kool-aid lately.
Firefox: browser ballot glitch cost us 9m downloads
Don't the rates match for Braintree & Stripe now?
As he says in the article, "It’s true that these issues will eventually be fixed, the same way most of Vista’s issues were eventually fixed."

As others have said, this is a new desktop paradigm, some bugs are to be expected. The problem is, if it's broken on non-touch-enabled machines at launch, as it seems to be, then a 'Windows 8 sucks' meme will spread, as it did with Vista, and it will be very difficult for Microsoft to come back from that before Windows 9 - by which time IOS and Android will be further entrenched, and MS will have an even bigger hill to climb.
You can find the source code here : https://github.com/cedricss/server-monitor/
Of course, and thank you for reaching out! My previous (pre-startup) job was to do neuroimaging of mindfulness on longterm practitioners in the lab of Sara Lazar. You can check out some of their publications to get going--> http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lazar/

Our startup is bringing those findings from the lab onto our mobile phone (check out www.brainbot.me for some info, although admittedly not much yet!) Right now we're busy prototyping and working on our first release.
I think you are getting downvoted because your comment embodies the easy snark that is REALLY hurting this community. IMHO, seeing that your comment is currently at the top tells me we still have room for improvement.

I don't think anyone is deluded into thinking this is a charitable gesture, certainly not on hackernews, so I am confused why you spent so much time to (in an agitated way) make it seem like Braintree is pulling one over us.
These companies seem to solve very specific issues. It's possible they plan on building a sustainable business model before growing to tackle bigger challenges. Was Google a "big innovation" when it launched, or just another search engine? The world is 500 startups richer and there's nothing to be disappointed about.

Edit: A better example.. Amazon was just an online book store. Now I can't launch a website without getting them involved.

Edit2: I looked up Tealet and it seems like a well executed vision. Writing them off as a disappointment is a dick move. Where are your mind-blowing innovations?
http://server-monitor.herokuapp.com/ is open-source (MIT), and use the Opa framework (also open-source, MIT). The Dropbox-as-a-Database is integrated in Opa by default.
Refraining from locating a data center in a floodplain seems like the easiest way to get greater reliability.
I was this " " close to acquiring the domain. Congratulations on the new name.
Great work and fantastic product, guys!
Thanks for clarifying. Totally missed clicking his username :-)
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I hate to do it (who am I kidding, no I don't) but the battle in this thread for static typing, succinctness and an EASY language that is easy to wrap your head around... if those are things that make you happy to program in a language, please give Go a shot. Here, take 10 minutes: http://tour.golang.org
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> Now all we need is linux to credibly support it as well, or at least a linux built for mouse use. There are still many, many usability issues in gnome with a high ppi screen.

I've never had a problem using high DPI screens on Linux. There's a setting in xorg.conf, but I haven't had to touch it in years because the correct settings are usually auto-detected.

I don't use Gnome, though, so maybe it's causing problems?
I went through a little bit of the "lows" in the last couple days on my side project, http://nbaschedules.appspot.com. Yesterday, I sat down and made a few key decisions such as:

- Cutting planned features/Prioritized

- Stay simple

- This is a side project, a side project, a side project

- [important] Making sure it can run with a very minimum time and money forever so it won't just die (hence using GAE, no domain yet).

- Allocate no more than 1-2 hours a day
Google Launches a Service With The Center For Missing/Exploited Children
Yup. Fuck, they lost their right to use "Metro" to describe their now "Modern-UI style." MASSIVE fuck up in my opinion. Microsoft should have raided the coffers to protect using that term.
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What is the risk to a company whose only asset is the patent which, should they fail to win their case, is probably useless anyway?