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Anyone else getting nothing but a 404 from Kickstarter today?

If most of you are OK then I wonder if it's linked to the UK launch of Kickstarter. Any Brits successfully connecting to their site at the moment?
Regardless of whether they can be designed better, the data centres were assuring everyone that everything will be fine because they have backup generators, ignoring the probability that flooding would take out those generators.

If I had a website or service hosted at a data centre likely to go offline, I'd be annoyed if I were reassured that everything was taken care of right before the system went offline.
Even us smarties don't "know" anything. Apple has been doing fine in the past with these execs. If there is discord, it's not affecting sales. Record revenue, record profit.

In the future there is now some uncertainty: was Scott Forstall the key to iOS? Is Jony Ive a good UI designer? Will Bob Mansfield retire again next year? If you don't like that uncertainty, it's a good time to sell.
I'm really happy with the 1440x900 quadrupled. Text is unbelievably gorgeous, and when I pop open QuickTime Player to check out video, I see my 1920x1080 data unscaled. STUPENDOUS.
For bash, the info documentation is probably better than man, but as someone who is very familiar with it, I would say it sometimes needs a little deciphering.
I'm more akin going for cumulative fines and/or jailtime for the executive board.

Trespassing in Indiana can be fined up to $1000 and 6 month jail sentence. Each of these seeds are "their" property. Lets say that a contaminated field is 500,000 seeds. $1000 per seed is $500 Million.

Of course, if Monsanto abandons their "property", or lays no claim to it, there wouldn't be a judgement on trespassing.
I fill up my buffer with things I want to tweet, then every day at the specified times, it tweets the top item from that list. It doesn't send twice, and it's easier for me than scheduling every tweet.
Know is way too strong of a word here. You know a firing is good when it's a salesperson who's been with your company for 6 months and hasn't gotten a sale yet. Scott Forstall was with Apple for what, close to 15 years?, and worked his way up to a SVP position managing the company's most important product -- there's absolutely nothing about this firing that an outsider who only "follows" Apple can confidently say that it was good. If it took Tim Cook this long to decide that the costs of keeping him outweighed the benefits, it definitely wasn't an easy decision and the repercussions are big unknowns.
Would a closed, pressurised air system work as a one-off "push all diesel from this tank to the roof" system?

So you could store:

- tank full of diesel

- some compressed air cylinders

at a low level, and use them in the "everything is submerged" event.
yes yes yes!

"Note: we’re only able to offer this to start-ups with a presence in the US today. We recently launched in Europe and Canada and hope to be able to do something similar for international start-ups soon."

Oh... maybe later
I think he's saying he does that at the end of the article:

> (These days most of my microclasses are tied to SASS variables or mixins.)
This. Sass mixins give you the modular benefits of micro-classes but without polluting your HTML.
Here is another article from a Silicon Prairie News which also has more details: http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2012/10/zapier-raises-1-2m...
"Self-plagiarizing" isn't a real thing. It's complete nonsense to say you are plagiarizing from yourself.

Shocking part is so many people are just falling for this argument without thinking about it. As well as those who think about it, and to join in the thrills of a witch hunt, justify to themselves that this self-plagiarization is not just a real thing, but unethical behavior bordering on criminal.

Fabricating quotes and making up facts though is bad and justifies firing and blacklisting. Both practices are unfortunately endemic within contemporary publications, perhaps due to a lack of fact checkers at many publishers.
>You can also "override previously defined styles" but I don't really understand why you would think you couldn't.

I don't think you couldn't. I just mean that if "you can override styles" makes it a framework, then every stylesheet ever written is a framework. Perhaps I am missing something, but it appears to just use LESS the same way everyone else does (or the same way everyone uses SASS anyhow), just as a simple pre-processor, not to create what I was thinking of as a framework.
I use Zapier to send me text message digests of certain kinds of tweets. For something so easy to use, it's incredibly powerful.
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With all of this effort put into keeping the data center running, I've been wondering about a few things.

Was it actually connected to the outside world throughout the storm?

I have a hard time imaging that with the power out in large sections of the city some key router on the line wouldn't have also lost power.

If that's the case, the effort was put in just to keep the computers warm to prevent unplanned shutdown, not to actually provide uninterrupted service to the customer?

I'm not familiar with data center operation. If you're already cut off from the larger network at what point does it make sense to keep the machines running vs. shutting them down?

Or perhaps i'm just mistaken and they were actually connected throughout. In which case I find it amazing that the water knocked out pumps and necessitated other shutdowns but their network wasn't damaged in some way.
Wow. You're doing it wrong. You might as well use inline styling at this rate and dump stylesheets altogether.

If, tomorrow, you decide that all tooltips need to change their style the amount of work you have to do is O(N) in the number of tooltip elements you have, whereas if you did this correctly, you would only need to change .tooltip

In general, your CSS classes should relate to the semantic meaning of an element -- .important, .aside, .help -- and not the visual presentation of an element -- .blue, .padded etc. If all important elements need to change from blue to orange, it's easier if their class is .important (one change) and not .blue (where either you modify all important elements or you define .blue as being orange-colored).
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"I thought it might be fun to create a Riak cluster on a set of Pis I had lying around... Note that cluster isn’t fit for any purpose in its current form."

RTFA
My expertise is on the electrical side, rather than the plumbing side, but I suspect the amount of compressed air you would need to propel 500 gallons or so of diesel up 17 stories would be impractical.
Any one from Australia want to chime in here on how the court system is setup? From the article, this was a jury trial, so that should mean that there will be appeals following shortly. If this were left to stand, that would make it very difficult to run any sort of automated search engine. You'd have to make it possible to remove content from your index on demand - just because someone might disagree with it.

From the article, they already have some sort of process in place to handle that. Out of curiosity, anyone know where that is?
It got _better_, way better, much nicer than Java. It's not even remotely gone. Type inference is crap in C#, and they even admitted in some cases, it was due to compiler design problems, not language design[1].

Even local vars can't be type inferred if they're functions, because of C#'s confusing decision to use the same syntax for lambdas and quoted code.

The ASP.NET MVC team resorted to using reflection on anonymous types, because there was no lightweight way to pass in a set of options at runtime. With a more expressive syntax, that'd be needless.

C# has statements that aren't expressions, which really bulks up code and adds flow for no reason. In F#, even "if" and "try" blocks are expressions which again keeps slimming things down, and more importantly, keeps the code simpler.

In one direct "line-by-line" translation (C#->F#), F# reduced the number type annotations I needed by 95% (1/20th).

No pattern matching (and thus no active patterns!), little type inference, no syntax for tuples, no lightweight function syntax, no code nesting, no workflows, (and a weird hardcoded one just for async), no top-level functions, no custom operators, and C# is flat-out downright clunky when compared to F#.

It may be one of those "you don't know what you'll miss until it's gone" kind of deals. I've used C# now and then, even last month on an entire project, and it just feels tiring.

1: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/01/26/why-n...
I got the link off here a while ago, and listen to earbits for electronic music. earbits.com has around 40 different sub-genres of electronic music (they also have non-electronic genres with tons of sub-genres as well).
Ah. That's depressingly poor design. It won't change though :-(
Is the cost direct or indirect?

If it is direct, it means you are sacrificing others. It is not a good thing as said above. You can find happiness and be selfish in various ways that will not directly harm others.

In Atlas Shrugged, refusal to remain a part of the system is just this (John Galt, the gulch) - trying to find one's happiness, without directly causing damage to others.

The whole society may be less happy due to the refusal of a few to sacrifice, but it is an indirect damage, an indirect cost. The alternative would be their sacrifice - a direct damage.

IMHO no man is entitled to happiness at the direct expanse of others.
I, for one, am shocked and appalled. The Amish live in places other than Pennsylvania.
retric is largely right. I tried not to just write the sob story and get to the lesson, but maybe I should have included more details. I'll write that whole story out one day, but honestly that would be a book and would take a better writer than me to tell it.

The depths of everything that happened in October 2011 to The City Swig guys are just. They are fucking shocking. It was quite a time.
In python you can also do

''.join(reversed(s))

It's still not the same as your example, because in C++ you reverse the string in-place. If you have a mutable array-like, you can do

arrayish[:] = reversed(arrayish)

But to me the syntax with `s[::-1]` is already perfectly clear. There is the difference that `reversed` returns an iterator, while `s[::-1]` constructs a new string.
Good point. Yes, such sites do exist, and they serve a niche demographic of people who are interested in 'alt' sexuality. People who do their own thing and don't hurt anyone else

The aggressive moralizing in the OP biased me against any otherwise good message in his blog post.
It's hard to call the diesel generators "useless" when this company is successfully using them to power its facilities. The bucket brigade is clearly not an optimal solution, but it is a solution that is working so far.
A cute marketing trick. No you're not doing this just because you want to "help new startups". That's a nice way of rationalizing it, but really

1) Braintree is suffering from the competition, especially on HN, Stripe is loved like no other

2) They're not giving away 2 million dollars. With so many startups failing to ever generate significant revenue, I wouldn't be suprised if less than 10% of companies that are the first 1000 to register actually wind up generating $50k in revenue through their service. I'm sure Braintree have their own internal calculations about how much this will cost them and that number is certainly no where near 2 million dollars.

3) The primary purpose of this is to bind new businesses to Braintree. The scenario of "getting their free processing here and then going somewhere else before they pay us a nickel." is cute, but misleading. At that point in the company's development switching the entire payments system is much more expensive and would not make any economic sense.

Props to Braintree for coming up with this, I think in the end it's beneficial to the startup community, though I dislike the "second coming of jesus christ"-vibe of the announcement. They're doing this for business reasons, not because they woke up yesterday and felt a little charitable.
Thanks for the reply. From what I understand, the schema I described is similar to what Reddit uses in their Postgres setup. You mentioned that I "won't be getting any of Postgres' advantages", what are some of the most important considerations that play into Postgres strengths? What are the primary advantages you for Postgres your referring to?

Thanks!
Your one complaint about diesel fuel dripping is not a big deal in the short term.
Diesel fuel is quite safe and hard to ignite. THere are plenty of places/situations where significantly more toxic substances are stored in tanks that are not in basements. Your logic would apply more there (could you imagine if acetone was dripping from the ceiling?). As a practical matter, anything leaking through floors is really bad, but the problem is solvable and not a good reason to keep fuel tanks in a basement.

So what other reasons are fuel tanks placed in basements that outweigh the risk of putting them in the basement (everything except tornadoes would seem to be a con for basements)?

Additionally, "Flooding" would seem to be a fairly typical disaster scenario. Again, what does putting them in the basement prevent against that makes it a good alternative.

Plenty of people are designing better datacenters and using them, there is no need for the parent to go out and do anything. If customers hold internap/et al accountable, the problem should take care of itself.

(of course, they won't, but that's another matter :P)
Yes, I agree. "e-ink" optimized apps would probably have to happen for this device. (Pagination instead of scrolling, buttons instead of swiping...) However, these days some displays are getting 30fps (I don't know about latency), so at least animations might be possible. I don't know about the hardware limitations, but it seems hard to imagine the responsiveness of e-ink won't improve enough.
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Pixels are an artifact of our crappy technologies. They do nothing but detract from the actual point of a display.
Fuel pumps can be installed such that they are resistant to flooding. A water-tight seal on the fuel tank, sealed power line from the generator, and other straightforward water-proofing measure would have kept Peer 1's generator working as long as the building's fuel supply held out.

Manhattan is a low-elevation coastal island in a region of the country prone to hurricanes. Flooding is an obvious disaster scenario. It's not like we're asking them to plan for nuclear war, here.
Fiber can be underwater with no problems so it's really just the end points you have to worry about. Honestly, I would be surprised if most networks had much issue with this storm as they generally last until the first time you need to refill the generators. That said available bandwidth is probably significant issue, I had a lot of network issues though the storm, but slow is often a lot better than down.
This isn't even a valid example of DRYness; you're repeating yourself in your markup heavily to avoid it in your CSS. I hate to imagine <a href="..." class="body-link brand-color-link hover-underline undecorated-link">...</a> every time I want to make a link.
> I agree. What happens when the original site takes down the content, but it stays in Google's cache even after they've been contacted?

I believe that is the way you do it. In theory, it will fall out of results on its own, but you can request it be removed from results (but only after it's been removed from the site):

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

(appears to require a google account, which is shitty, but maybe they get a lot of fraud here or something)

> What if the content was very much worse? (eg, 'NAME is a convicted pedophile', with images of the person's face; where that allegation is totally false and malicious.)

That's pretty close to the Bettina Wulff case[1]. Yes, you want that down immediately, but I don't think that should change the procedure. Again, if you think of web search as "what's out on the web", it becomes just a statement of fact. I will grant that it gets pretty abstracted for people, especially in that case, which is more about search suggestions, and is instead "what are other people searching for when including these words?", but there's no indication of the actual source of the suggestions.

> EDIT: Looks like I'm mostly wrong about this particular case.

Can you be more specific? Nothing lept out at me. Was it that he hadn't gone after the sources of the story, just yahoo and google?

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19542938
Just checked out neo4j, it looks pretty great, I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it before. Thanks for the heads up!
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Great!!! I really like it... Only thing I need now is to easily do this via Android.
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`reversed(s)` returns an iterator. The much slower equivalent of `s[::-1]` is `''.join(reversed(s))`.

It's odd how Python has list.reverse() but not str.reverse(). Probably a conscious design decision sometime ago.
Never shipped a product, only started describing its tech as "tiles" in 2011.

The word "tile" is used prominently in the patent.
A pulley system would save manpower but manpower wasn't the limiting factor last night. It was buckets and throughput.

Pulley system wouldn't work inside. There isn't a gap in the stairwells and it's not a straight shot up. Going over the side of the building would potentially work but there'd need to be a boom to get it off the side of the building and without some sort of power winch it's a matter of hauling one or two buckets up manually and I think that'd be lower throughput than the brigade system where you get 1-2 buckets in the time it takes to walk up two flights of stairs.
I agree with the GP. It's pop trash.
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This shows great dedication on behalf of the team to provide a temporary solution to a more permanent problem. Well done.

More importantly, though - and not to discredit any of the hard work that's been done - hopefully the companies take a look at why the problem was created in the first place. For instance: why were the generators on the 17th floor? Why were the pumps below ground? Why was the datacenter built in a floodzone in the first place?

This is not unlike a lot of problems we face in software - developers bearing the consequences of poor planning.
The question isn't whether it's plausible or not-- this is Indiana Jones, after all. The question is whether it worked in the movie. The whole scene is bizarrely out of place and is making light of something that most people don't think is really all that funny.

In a similar vein, there's nothing wrong with funny characters necessarily, but there is something wrong with Jar Jar.
This is amazing. When you can zoom in on a bright speck and discover that it's actually a giant cluster of stars, and then continue zooming in on that cluster until it doesn't seem dense anymore, it actually lends context to the static photos of space we've all seen before.
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I have to confess I am flabbergasted by your ability to misunderstand (willfully?) what I think to be plain and clear english.

1. I never said anything about people having to accept 2D-only (and the G200 was not 2D-only, by the way), I pointed out that GPUs nearing 15 years old were already able to produce resolution you consider "overwhelming" and that a modern IGP would thus have more than enough power to handle it

2. The dedicated GPU note was to point out just how far beyond those resolutions you consider "overwhelming" a "modern" (Evergreen — and the first Eyefinity release — is 3 years old) dedicated GPU goes
I'd wager that it's more healthy than most home offices, which tend to restrict you to one position.
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Good on you for renaming the project... but why would you chose that name in the first place?

I'm not trying to start a flame war -- just curious because I've been in a similar situation.

After university I named the first C unit test framework I wrote the oh-so-obvious C*NT. At the time I thought I was being funny, but over a decade later and I can see that this is a symptom of the underlying misogyny/"boy's club" that is high tech.
This is the exact reason why I left a small visual cue to the old name :)
To each his own, I suppose. I've been deskless for 4 years, mostly on a couch in a relaxed position with laptop on my, hmm, laps. It's much more comfortable for me than chairs and desks. I sometimes spend 16 hours per day pressing those keys; I don't think I could've survived that in a chair behind a desk.
I think we all agree that software patents just gotta go (specially the ones regarding UI). The real question is how to make that happen. Perhaps having a big player like Microsoft targeted by a troll will help.
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Hi there! I was referring to the PHP programmers "them" :)

Pun intended.
This is to be expected. Defamation law works very differently in the Commonwealth than it does in the U.S. (or in most other legal systems).

British and Irish newspapers have lost defamation cases even though their claims were proven true. Unfortunately, Commonwealth defamation law does not concern itself with the truth of statements--the effect on reputation is what matters.

Edit: Changed UK to Commonwealth, as Australia is a Commonwealth nation but not a UK member.
Yes, I use that and also have Instapaper/Readability regularly mail me articles. It's helpful but these are still hacks.
1) It's horribly painful to organize the articles, especially when spanning multiple pages
2) I have to know about the article ahead of time to send to the kindle, rather than discover on the device itself
3) I can't "Mark as Read" on the device itself right after reading
4) For Instapaper/Readability, only the latest ~20 articles are shown. Also, the API Amazon provided used to frequently break.
I responded to a similar objection here, same thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4719725
Quotation marks added later. Good call on that I guess.
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There's no reason the fuel tanks and pumps can't be in the basement and still withstand a flood if they're waterproof, which would be relatively easy to achieve. I suppose these systems are typically designed to mitigate blackouts though rather than natural distasters, and floods were not considered as a possibility. As you say, it's easy to be critical after the fact.