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> (think bags of groceries in both hands and you forgot to preunlock)

I can imagine someone implementing an app that unlocks the door for you automatically when your phone gets back on the home WiFi network.
You should look at Pandoc[1]. It's a Markdown-to-everything converter, and though I'm not super familiar with the code I believe it's well written. One of my favorite tools for writing.

[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
The linux ZFS kernel modules work well and are not prohibited by license. It simply will never be included in the Linux kernel.
I think the more appropriate advice is don't hard code strings anywhere in your source. Sometimes using such strings is unavoidable and the most practical thing to do (e.g bundle IDs in iOS apps). But if you have to use such strings, define them ONCE in one header file, plist file, or similar and use the reference everywhere else. I've used this successfully through several ownership changes of several apps across several platforms, and always found it to be a minimal, trivial problem - as long as the strings are cleanly #defined in one place.
> I'm not criticizing Go for being anti-event; I'm just observing that it is. Idiomatic Go --- like, the code in the standard library --- has a strong bias towards straight-line code.

I think I understand where you are coming from now - I think you are saying Go is "anti-event-based-callback-driven" rather than "anti-event-loop-implementation" - which is absolutely true. Go's concurrency model is build on CSP (Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes)[1] which seems to advocate procedural threads rather than callbacks.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#goroutines
No, it doesn't need to be in order for the illustration to be apt. "If it isn't broke, don't fix it" is a mentality asking for disruption.
Do you know about

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Lots of folks here "just don't get it" and lots of others think this is great. That is a good sign, startup-wise!
They're also building up their human capital. They've recently been hiring quite a lot of engineers, which will certainly yield later returns. I'm basing this on my own experience with them, as I got a job offer, spoke with several recruiters, and toured their campus, and now live in Seattle.
It's a shame they require us to be incorporated. We're holding off so far because it doesn't make sense until we either get investment or our first real employee. But at that time we will most likely be able to aford these tools. It doesn't make sense to me why they require the incorporation when it's the unincorporated companies that need this package the most :(
Meshmarketing 2012 #mm12
Enron didn't look like a good idea. They ran a commodity business at insane valuations with huge revenue run up during a bubble.

Stating that Enron was a good idea was like stating Groupon was a good idea. Commodity companies that buy revenue (includes WorldCom and MCI) are always bad investments. Once again - had you invested in them you would be a moron.

It'd be fair to state that diversification protects against stupidity.

However, it does not reduce risk in the way people assume.
> Who invented ObamaCare and has the most successful implementation to date?

Ted Kennedy...

A recent Frontline[1] suggests that Romney worked with Kennedy on healthcare primarily to serve as a crowning achievement for his future Presidential run.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice-2012/
Sorta....depends on whom.
Bunch of geeks / startup founders meeting up for coffee / beer talking about interesting things they're working on, or would like to work on, or have been studying.

Informal, un-conference styled smallish meetup.
"Enraged" huh? For "_eight years_"?

Care to show us your alternative? It'll be on Github or GoogleCode, or maybe your personal blog, somewhere we can download it, try it out, and criticize it too, right?

Surely 8 years of rage is enough encouragement to write your own replacement for ~1000 odd lines of Perl?

Or by "enraged", did you mean "annoyed enough to write critical posts on random internet sites, but not motivated enough to spend an evening or two solving the problem myself"?

"NERD RAGE" indeed…
I don't think they're asking for lifetime maintenance and support. I think they're asking that if the author is aware of bugs and exploits, they should at least make the small effort to alert users who are still downloading their code.

If the exploits are as well-known as the grandparent comment asserts, and Gruber is aware of them, there really is no excuse for him to leave the code up without any warning that it contains known exploits. However, if he has no idea and everyone is assuming he knows without someone telling him, that's not exactly fair.
Err, ok. Most of the reasons hav to do with a predictable and efficient legal and tax system. I don't think many startups have a need to keep their founders names secret.
I use rst for everything due to using Sphinx heavily. Trivial tables are easy in any markup, but non-trivial ones are a pain. I use table mode in emacs, but we can't require everyone to use emacs.

I hate its URL handling.

And of course it needed Sphinx to make it work across more than one source file which means we now have two dialects.

I do wish everyone would just agree on one syntax and be done with it.
Thanks Stan, for setting the record straight.

It's amazing how many people totally miss the point about R-Pi. There's so much hate (here and in other forums) because the Pi is not fast enough, or open enough, or supported enough, or available enough.

People don't realize that it was never intended to be a replacement to your desktop computer, or a completely open hardware platform, or widely available at retailers, or a commercial system widely supported. The primary target are schools and young developers, interested in learning. Honestly, kids don't really care if the GPU is open sourced or not. But they'd love things like this: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/.
One problem with this technology is that it is more harmful for advanced militaries than it is against guerilla forces. If the tech ever gets into their hands, modern militaries have much more to lose since they currently rely heavily on electronic devices.
Only if the assets are uncorrelated and independent.

Otherwise diversification often gives a false sense of security with higher systemic risk (see GFC).
So, you make that sound hypothetical, but if you look, the EFF actually did something like that for the tablet and video game console exemptions: the number of comments filed this year was thereby staggering (sufficiently many that they missed their deadline on publishing them and had to simply put up an apology for a few days as they continued to go through it all).

I have no idea whether many or even any of these individual comments were thereby read: many were from people not even in the US, many were difficult to understand in broken English... some were blank, and one was actually "the wrong PDF" (someone's University parking pass). Before seeing the pile that was sent in, I had made it my goal this year to read everything published, but when I got through the C's I just couldn't do it anymore and stopped.

They seem to have responded to it quite well, in that it wasn't a major issue in either direction: I didn't hear anything (although I was fairly disconnected and only indirectly getting information, so I might just not know) of any complaints; it didn't seem to help, however (in that neither of those exemptions were accepted).
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I'm not saying these last 40 years haven't had merit. The recession of 1982 probably was probably the symbol that put the nail in the collective view to problem solving. When Reagan turned that recession around i think the country started to believe individuals could solve these problems over government. You listen to people who were in the work force and they remember the change. My father references that in shaping his political views and he's not the only person I've heard say that. It was an important milestone and shortly after we saw the rise of me generation which evolved into personal liberty movement. And an emphasis on individual expression and thinking in our schools. And this is how we viewed problem solving required. But it also shaped us in what problems we wanted to solve because if we had a problem that didn't lend itself to this approach we didn't solve it. Questioned if it was even a problem (global warming fits this as others).

I think these are two strategies you can take. One isn't more dominant than the other. But each has their place along with pros and cons, and you have to use both over time . It just depends on the problems you face which strategy you should employ.
Diversification only works if your assets are independent. Buying multiple stocks is the same as buying a call on the world - it only reduces localised risk.

But then again - why are you investing in companies that you believe have localised risk of bankruptcy and a low chance of attaining future profits.
> MUMPS

It might be a punchline, but I'm writing code in it right now.
The problem is not that Gruber doesn’t want to maintain Markdown. If that were it, perhaps it would be easier to move on without him.

It’s that he thinks the best option is to do nothing. He claims the title of BDFL without playing the role.

See his first reply to the Markdown mailing list in nearly three years: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2012-Octo...
But GitHub open sources almost everything!

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...
Smart. Target your audience, and reduce the CaC by defraying the high value opt in cost to partners. Signed up, as we're in the window, and it couldn't come at a better time for us. Just about to launch out of alpha so we'll be getting our money's worth.

Onboarding b2b customers isn't easy, or cheap, so this is crafty move, well played.
The Java naming convention is one of the best things introduced with it, neatly preventing package collisions with the creative misuse of DNS. If you fear your company will change, invent an internal convention. For anything you intend to release outside (and want to exist beyond the borders of your company) you should acquire a domain for it.

Having said that, I always smile inside, thinking of black magnesium cubes, when I extend NSObject...
The star in the left toolbar is a shape library. There are many prebuilt shapes there.

You can draw rects and circles by clicking on the corresponding tool and clicking and dragging on the canvas (standard drawing app conventions).

You scale and resize the intance by dragging its corner. If you want to draw perfect circles and squares hold shift while drawing.
Hacker News is an English-speaking community. Very few people on this site can appreciate an article in Portuguese; don’t expect many views or any discussion.

a link to the article in Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
This guy?

http://xkcd.com/927/
> Ubuntu 12.04 Server crashes randomly due to some obscure bug in 3.2

Must be really obscure. With more than 100 servers under my watch, I never saw anything like that.
Fish Off Japan’s Coast Said to Contain Elevated Levels of Cesium
So it's non-lethal to people with pacemakers and dialysis machines?
Well then - maybe we should reevaluate what makes "good" employees.
Jsparser - visual JS parser
I don't know what their logic behind this was.

BREIN is described on wikipedia as "an association in which the Dutch recording industry and movie studios participate" [1].

They describe themselves on their official homepage as "joint anti-piracy program of [...] distributors of music, film, games, interactive software and books"[2]

As participants they mostly refer to different Associations (producers, Motion Picture Association, Film Distributors), but no single direct tie according to this site to any governmental institution.

Sow how can a privately operated anti-piracy Organization request the takedown of a torrent site and then successfully sue the ISP if it doesn't comply?

This is sick

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREIN

[2] http://www.anti-piracy.nl/english.php

Update:

According to their reporting about the incident, the ISP "[...] disclosed identity details that clearly were falsified and held back other identifying details" [3]. I guess/hope their punishment was because of that.
Though they further state that "The court ruled that Sumotorrent is 'evidently', i.e. clearly, illegal, and XSnetworks should have known that.", which is in my opinion not really a justifiable logic for a court.

[3] http://www.anti-piracy.nl/nieuws.php?id=282
Whoa - For a moment I was convinced $7.4B was revenue. That's profit which is impressive to say the least.

Next somewhat unexpectedly 2/3rd of the profits are from mobile division - Smartphone sales mainly. Wonder if all the parts Samsung supplies to Apple make them so little profit (they sell displays, DRAM, Flash and make Apple's SoC for them) that they could just stop doing that and their bottomline would be hardly touched.

I am sure I am misreading something here - or may be margins are just razor thin in everything Samsung sells to Apple.
You’re flat-out wrong.

The biggest deployments of Markdown — StackOverflow & GitHub — do not squash line breaks. They made this decision because authors did not assume their line breaks would be discarded.

The change is not geek arrogance. It is, in fact, a reaction to how Normal People use it.
You can post your cat and dinner pics on G+.

It's not the end of the world if they ban you.

Aside from people using it to sell things/their business, most people will not lose much of anything. In fact, they will probably gain, since they won't be spending XXX minutes on FB each month.
Similar to the "nuclear option" - post as much racist / homophobic / misogynistic hate speech and fetish porn as possible while adding as many strangers as you can.

A friend mentioned this as an option back at the beginning of the "you can't delete - only disable your account" change a few years ago when Facebook made you go through a click maze and a waiting period before terminating your account.

Idiotic, but illustrative of how frustrating Facebook's polices can be.
Our not-so-well written post about this last year is here: http://ownlocal.com/newspaper-support-group/a-successful-sta...

The short version is that we work with small newspapers, and small newspapers sometimes like the idea of working with people from Austin instead of San Francisco. (Yes, I realize how crazy that sounds.)

It also suits me better personally, and it seems to be easier to raise a relatively large (and young) family.

I made a go of it in the valley for a year, and it was a lot of fun, but we're happy to be a part of the Austin Tech community now.
He does. Her personal connection is not relevant unless her professional one depends on it. To point it out as a relevant piece of information implies that the dependency exists.
Lockitron is entirely battery powered and has no external components. It looks like they can send you an alert when the battery runs low.
No, I didn't, but thanks! That's very useful. Additionally, google + the help command led me to :help text-objects, which describes a lot more goodies similar to 'ip'.
Death is inevitable, these mistakes aren't.
Congrats to the TokBox team. I know Jonathan Mumm (met him at a hackathon last year). He was an amazing dude, and one of the best developer evangelists I've had the pleasure of working with.

Best of luck to the ToxBox team! :D
Or against the US... http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/07/22/Report-China-deve...

Plus, I hear we don't practice the same kind of map-in-hand training that would be useful after an effective EMP.
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda1

You're welcome.
It is VERY easy for a novice Rails developer to critically fail at that implementation, though. All you have to do is put a name attribute on the credit card or CVV text field. That seems logical, will not cause any visible problems, and immediately both compromises customer security and introduces substantial business risk due to putting you in PCI scope (and you just failed).

Next to this, the marginal hazing value of forcing them to write 20 lines from scratch seems muted.
Here's Horace Dediu's estimate for Q3, I doubt the most recent quarter is much different in terms of iOS share:

http://www.asymco.com/2012/08/21/the-interlopers/

Looks like 90% ish. Really astounding to see Apple and MS profits side by side like that. From ~10% of MS to nearly double over less than five years.
I wonder how strong the actuator is on the device. I know that most deadbolts don't line up all that great with the hole in the frame and require a lot of force to actually open and close. I'm sure the actuator is limited in how much force it can generate.
> " Suggestion to pg, make it so that accounts cannot post their first comment for 24hrs."

Two problems with this approach:

1) if someone's post happens to make it big on HN and they discover us through their logs, they can't give feedback while their posts is still on the frontpage.

2) HN has a long tradition of throwaway accounts [0] being used to give valuable input in sensitive discussions (abuse, corruption, medical, financial, family/social, or legally dangerous.) A waiting period means those contributions won't be made, or at the very least, won't be seen by the majority of readers.

The price of getting rid of drive-by trolling is that we lose these contributions. Seems better to just downvote or flag the trolls, and keep the really excellent stuff.

[0] There are some real gems among http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=throwaway&#...
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I can't find any information about the power level or wavelength, so it's hard to say to what extent devices can be shielded from this, but it's safe to say that civilian electronics will be more susceptible in general than military equipment.
Read this if you use Markdown alongwith Chinese: http://ruby-china.org/topics/6335
Apple iPad sales disappoint, Street eyes the holidays
Anyone else notice a CD drive open during the test and the CD come flying out?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O...
There are many great reimplimentations, another would only compound the interoperability issue.

The real problem cannot be solved without some forward action on his part. He has refused over and over again.
There is one big difference between luck and attractiveness, though. Luck is a big unknown except in hindsight. If you knew you were going to be unlucky, there's very little you could do (I hesitate to say nothing but I can't think of anything).
Thanks for the link - interesting.
Though i don't think US' next war enemy will be China ;)

What kind of "map-in-hand training" - needed to use such a weapon effectively - are you referring to?
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…if you're a geek.

Most people don't need to or want to think about it.

Markdown is easily understandable by my wife (and we're using it to format her novels), and she doesn't have time to learn something ultimately as irrelevant to her is a format that makes a computer program happy.
What I found odd/amazing is that just after 38 seconds in the embedded video the pulse is strong enough to cause the computer in the middle back to eject the CD/DVD rom so hard as to throw out the disc.

Also, would it be possible to shield against such a pulse, the same way that data centers can be shielded against EMP using things like grounded copper "wallpaper" and adding shielded energy filters on the incoming power supplies?
Darn, for a moment I thought that this was a site that encourages people to write with a real pen: fall back in love (PenFM).
1. URL parsing is a solved problem. Since I so frequently have my competence questioned on HN, I have to conclude that if I can do it, anyone can.

2. There are a number of people in this thread, and many many many more on Reddit and on other forums that use markdown, that have had a specific UX problem with markdown which we can solve. The solution will not solve all possible problems, but it will solve many of them.

3. I subscribe to the Linus Torvalds camp of software development, which is that software exists to solve user problems.

4. While the trade-off between additional code complexity (and better overall user experience) versus simpler code (and poorer overall user experience) isn't always justified, in this case I think it is. I mean, HN parses URLs for you and makes them clickable -- would you really support removing that as a feature, in favor of having simpler code, and having to copy & paste links into your browser?

5. This particular feature rather nicely lends itself to extensive testing so that you can make sure you've covered most of your edge cases. If we decide not to implement solved, testable features out of fear that some other programmer might not implement it correctly or test it thoroughly enough, then I don't know what to say about our industry other than that it's going to come to a standstill.

I'm afraid that's all the energy I have tonight for arguing about things I don't really have any influence over on HN.
I fixed a bug in discount-for-Reddit once. It is some of the cryptic C one sees.
JQuery plugin Waypoints
Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.
No, you just don't give them out in the first place.
IMAP has tags (rather keywords), that you can assign to multiple posts. Just because you assign a keyword to an email, doesn't mean that it should be moved to a new folder. Gmail does that, and therefore breaks IMAP.
A C++ Profiling Module for Multithreaded APIs
I wish I could hit a "Like" button on this.
The biggest use case for me is the proximity lock/unlock feature so that when I approach the door, it detects (via bluetooth) my phone and unlocks for me without me needing to go in my pocket for my keys... I just approach the door and walk in as if it were unlocked... just like my car.
I always use a local IMAP client (alpine), so am not really bothered by fastmail's rather basic UI.
That was pretty funny, and yes if your room was in a faraday cage it would be impervious to this particular threat. But your wall paper (if you did it as wall paper) might catch on fire :-)
To solve larger problems, you need to strategize over longer periods of time. As our attention spans are getting shorter, so is our longer term corporate focus. Look at Intel as an example of an established corporate player of over 40 years -- probably amongst the oldest in the high tech industry. Most of their energy right now is consumed in defining a strategy for supplying chips to the mobile sector. This, when they are the established leader on PC chips. If such a large and old corporation is not impervious to market pressures, where's all the industry's momentum going?
Interesting thought.

Though:

1) According to the animation they can target specific buildings (so i guess a strategic building of the enemy's army would be chosen, no hospital)

2) It's the risk one takes in war. If you think about it all non-lethal weapons bear that risk (for example Pepper Spray on the elderly or people with lung problems || stun guns on people with heart problems). Still better than to shoot them or to just blow the building up.
Another good parser is python-markdown2 [1], which has a very extensive set of test cases, and the code is very readable and well-commented.

[1] https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2