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I call shenanigans. That's true of simple scripts, I'm sure. But you can't seriously claim to me that you can understand decorator idioms, iterables or list comprehensions without a deep understanding of the language. What you say might have been true for Python c. 1998, it certainly isn't true today.

Broadly: reading code is just hard. It's much harder than writing code. There are no non-trivial codebases that can be considered "easy to read" (if you think there are, then you're fooling yourself), and the choice of language makes only mild difference.

(edit: I'm amused at the multiple people who had to jump in to explain "decorators aren't hard!" instead of responding to my core point. First, I know what a decorator is. Second, no one who isn't a reasonably proficient python programmer is going to have any clue what @classmethod does or why all the old code doesn't break without using it. It's non-standard, language-specific syntax in exactly the same way that an STL iterator is, and the only reason you think one is easy and not the other is because you know Python and not C++.)
Apple's movement over the past three months has been an exaggerated version of the NASDAQ or the Dow, up a bit around September, down to it's levels of about three months ago.

In Apple's case that peak coincided with the my hyped iPhone 5 launch which might explain some of the exaggeration.

There are many many people who understand the market better than I do but to me at least this is a complete non-story.
In fact in many cases your resume may not even pass through the filters if you don't have college degree on it.

If you want to be a doctor or lawyer, sure. If you want to work in technology, I've never met anyone who cares. In hindsight, I believe you can optimize your path for your career which often would not include college, but admittedly it is difficult to see that path as a youth, which I suppose could make college a good default.
Thanks! Stay tuned for what's on the menu, we're sure as the programme unrolls, it will answer some doubts ;).

That's actually a plan we came up with with Rails core team guys and hopefully Rails community can benefit A LOT from this open-minded approach!
I am aware of that sentiment. I didn't want to imply that all those abstractions don't get shit done. A lot of them are very much worth learning and solve many problems. So much for the "useful" part.

But what use is a powerful abstraction without usage examples and guidance to use it? And what use is an abstraction that is just not there yet? Or if it is hard to learn the correct abstractions for certain problems, because there is no guidance about that? The lack of examples in many Haskell libraries and projects is striking and I usually resort to working through similar libraries to see how they are doing it.

My problem are not the paper-writing academics, but those that should do the footwork and make their knowledge and brightness accessible to others.

As always, its a combination of many factors.

Also, don't overinterpret words: I never said that Haskell is not useful for getting things done (some things just work tremendously well!). Its just that guidance on practical problems is hard to come by, even if the abstractions fit. Thats why I think that Real World Haskell is such a strong book, because it actually provides that.
If you want libraries for others to use, just use plain C. C libraries are trivial to use in almost all languages (from Ada to Yorick).
If I'm understanding you right, you like the hardware but don't like OS X?

Yet you're refusing to upgrade to the version that may fix some of the issues you have?
Good to know. I will add a volume adjuster.
Because these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_monasticism#Monastic_l... are "rich entitled assholes", right? Nice.
That's probably true too. I think that Apple's smartphone and computer market share will slowly decline in favor of other comparable options.
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Last Friday Ratio Interactive launched the Windows 8 Design Handbook helping designers new to Windows 8 better understand the design language. The design handbook currently consists of five chapters including Windows 8 live tiles, splash and hub pages, and key terminologies. Have a peek at the website and let me know how you like it.
Ask HN: what PaaS add-on galeries are out there?
I only know following:

1. Heroku Add-ons:

https://addons.heroku.com/

2. EngineYard Cloud Products Add-ons:

http://www.engineyard.com/partners/platform-services

3. MS Azure Store:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/store/overview/

4. Amazon AWS Marketplace (not really PaaS, but close):

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace

Any others?
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So under the hood, it is just random tracks curated from existing blogs using their soundcloud pages?

http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/

http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass

http://soundcloud.com/housemusic

So I guess the next genres to be added are:
-Electro.NET
-Moombahton.NET
-GlitchHop.NET
-TrapMusic.NET
-FutureGarage.NET
-HardDance.NET
Le canard enchainé is highly respected by french reader for its accuracy and independence. It happens that they use a satirical tone, but their investigation are always strongly documented. That's why they are feared by every politician and public figures in general.
By the way they are one of the very few french newspaper that make a profit without any financial help from the state (4,81 M Euros profit in 2011, french source : http://www.challenges.fr/media/20120828.AFP6975/le-canard-en...)
"That said, I'd love to have a couple of 32" 2560 x 1600 displays for my desktop, but I think that is still a couple of years off from being 'mainstream'"

Overclockers have a sale on 27" 2560x1440 displays today. They're selling for £311. I bought one about a year ago for £450 - worth every penny.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-019-...

That's not a high-DPI/retina display though, just a regular DPI.
So you're saying, if Quantum Mechanics turns out to correctly describe larger and larger systems--in other words, unless we discover some new physics which makes QM break at a certain scale--then your pet interpretation will turn out to be true?
There are online communities, but not the sort of gamification he referred to.
It seems rather generous to call this a database. It's files on a filesystem. The lack of any kind of transactional consistency guarantees (Dropbox is notoriously awful at this), and the lack of any sane mechanism for querying this "database" means that it's just "data", not a "database".
I thought that was a great response on his part.
Agreed.

Over the last year, Apple's share price has swung widely from $363.32 to $705.07.

Surely a more accurate statement would be that the share price has increased dramatically. Swung widely implies ups and downs.

The current dip is similar to one seen in April and its share price is still markedly up YoY.
I have to say I'm rather skeptical - the author doesn't say anything about installing the special "late 2012" version of OSX 10.8.2[1] which supposedly contains the functionality. Moreover, as far as I can tell, he's just combined the two drives into a JBOD logical volume (with a total size of the combined drives). So the first 120GB of the volume sit on the SSD, the remainder ends up on the HDD. There's nothing dynamic about it. None of the "benchmarks" seem to disprove this at least, although it's hard to tell until we know how a "real" Fusion Drive behaves.
you must try the sudoku thing
If you really want something that only requires the device, the Android Scripting Environment is pretty awesome, and it comes with a dozen examples for things like controlling Android's speech synthesizer which a kid could have a lot of fun playing around with.

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
Reminds me of the GMail filesystem: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
To be fair, the article itself mentioned both of those issues together, and I think they are related simply because they're both chips on the same poker table.
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Mind talking a little bit about the technology that you're using and how it's worked out for you? I've been running EEG studies for years, and those small headband-type readers are notorious for being so finnicky as to be almost useless, especially since they have no way of controlling for eye motion. I've never seen a decent setup for anything less than 5-10 grand, and even then they need Ag-AgCl electrodes with conductive gel, which it looks like you've managed to avoid.
All music is produced by independent artists and streamed off of soundcloud.
The newspaper-linking tax seems just plain stupid to me. Can't the newspapers just ask Google to remove their content if they don't want it being used for free? Am I missing something about how Google News operates?

France's newspapers are suffering the same as newspapers anywhere, but France is more than willing to prop up a failing industry any way they can instead of forcing them to modernize.
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> owning physical hardware with only iDevice connectors

I don't think that this is a concern for kids aged 2 - 14.
Ridiculous. Androids are not like Apple IIs where a young kid can figure out to hack on them; in practice very young kids have absolutely no means of caring about whether their phone is "open" or not. The kind of openness provided by Android means absolutely nothing to a kid.
Because there is no better way of saying "this is not finished yet and might be removed at any time".
In my experience, Mountain Lion is a lot more stable and smoother than Lion. Best $20 I've spent all year.

Mountain Lion also adds some cool features like iCloud and iMessage integration, and my personal favorite, Power Nap:

"When your Mac goes to sleep, it still gets things done with Power Nap. It periodically updates Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Photo Stream, Find My Mac, and Documents in the Cloud. When your Mac is connected to a power source, it downloads software updates and makes backups with Time Machine. While all that updating is going on, the system sounds are silent and no lights or fans come on, so nothing disturbs you. And when your Mac wakes up, it’s good to go."

http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/
What about when your selfishness is at a cost to others?
Decorators aren't difficult to understand. It tells you that the function is modified in some way. Iterables and list comprehensions are also easy to read, and I do not have a deep understanding of Python at all.
Given that they specifically prefix the other requirements with 'UK', I suspect that the lack of a prefix before 'Government' means that any government will do.
C# verbosity is far from gone.

http://trelford.com/blog/post/LighterCSharp.aspx

http://trelford.com/blog/post/Boiler.aspx

http://lorgonblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/overview-of-type-...

http://www.njgeeks.org/presentations/FS-Patterns-Long/#18
That is a given, I agree.

But a complex program written in C++ (or using advanced C++ constructs) will scale much worse than a Python one, in my opinion.
Your point makes sense, but the author is specifically talking about sharing news stories from a news app. There may not be a Web view of the stories, but I think it's fair to call that a major shortcoming of the news app.
Essentially yes
My experience with the Nexus 7 (in comparison with light usage of my wife's iPad 2, which I never really warmed too) is sort of the opposite. A 10" tablet is a "small laptop". The 7" device is a "big phone". It's better than my phone for everything I want to use the phone for, and I love it. I'll grab it preferentially to the Galaxy Nexus in my pocket any time there's a choice.

That wasn't true of the iPad, nor of the 10" Android tablet (a development board) I had at home for a while. With those, the choice was always between the big tablet and the laptop, and my experience was the laptop always won.

Obviously, the one spot where a 7" tablet fails is the important use case of carrying it around while not using it. So the phone isn't going away. Nor, obviously is the laptop.

But my surprise is that, unlike the 10" model, there was space in my life for a 7" tablet. It's really a very different kind of thing, and it's not surprising Apple wants to play in that world.
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Darn. Hey ho.
It's clear from your comment that you are against the ruling and the man's actions, but calling him "clown" doesn't add anything and, in some cases, takes away from any point you're trying to make.

If you have a point to make, I'm sure you can make it without name calling.
Your blog design is bad btw, popout at side overlays scroll bar in Windows/Chrome.
I generally develop in terminal windows, doing console-only stuff, and I still feel stifled if I don't have at least two displays. I know that all the cool kids are using split terminals and the like, but I like to keep log output visible, a browser in a separate space and a console debugger up without having to toggle between them.

That anybody can get anything done with such constraints is amazing to me, but he's obviously quite good at it.
Zoomable: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/117375
I just don't want to trade one set of problems for another. Some of the Mountain Lion annoyances are small and fixable (Gatekeeper) but they add up to be just plain annoying. I haven't messed with it much but their limitation on subfolders is just annoying. I'm sure it's aimed at simplifying things for average users but power or heavy users need something that can conform to their style of work.
There is a new blog post from Vector Fabrics on this topic. It includes some clarifications and tries to respond the questions raised until now: http://www.vectorfabrics.com/blog/item/accelerating_the_idte...
But that is sort of the point. You should not write C++ like C. If a C-programmer thinks your code is nice and readable, you are not using C++. The C-stuff was just added to lure C-programmers over.
Fair enough, point taken. :-)
Ah yes, Korean IPS monitors. They are really amazing I have one myself and they give amazing bang for your buck. Read more about them here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/the-ips-lcd-revolut...
Bookmarking, storing, saving - these are all important things that need improving, but the scope of this doesn't go far enough IMO. To make bookmarks useful the page needs to be archived (for when the page disappears, lost a few that way), with full text searching and notes/annotations help too.
Thanks.

Yes I agree with you. But It's a random idea I got while watching a video by Google which says Build NodeJS apps on Chrome. (But it does nothing rather than using Browserify)

I really don't need people to fork and send me pull requests. And I probably not going to build any chrome apps in near future.

Guys, It just a random idea and I used Github repo to show it. That's it.
Make sure you also read the other blog posts in his blog. He _proves_ that those chained disks transfer popular files to the SSD when they're accessed more often after a while. He is even on it to show that this technology is file system agnostic and runs even with ZFS, he also found that its block based rather than file based: https://twitter.com/jollyjinx/statuses/263638394721161216
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Mom convicted for "disorderly conduct" for TSA sec refusal for daughter
I know this isn't completely tech related:
http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/30/mom-convicted-of-disorderly-conduct<p>I wonder if HN knows of a startup that actually does decent unobtrusive technology-based security screenings.
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What the heck... Server side cropping? This is news?
It may be different for different cohorts, but for my social circle, SMS is the de facto communication medium. I deleted my Facebook account over a year ago and still keep up with friends, plan events, etc., all via text message.

Thus, there really was no downside in terms of being "out of the loop", while I get the benefit of not feeling like shit because I'm continually inundated with self-promotion posts that make others (most of whom I barely know) look like they are doing more important things than me.
Very nice site. Very effective and simple to use. I'm sure you'll expand to add more killer features :)
If everyone opened their wifi to strangers, it might BE the solution; everyone would realize that IP != person. But I agree with you.

It's an unfortunate chicken-and-egg problem. I think this web site is trying to solve it by getting enough people to jump at the same time.
I've lived in this world: it was San Francisco about 15 years ago. People there used to leave their networks open (60%?) and now they don't (99%). It is an amazing change and I don't understand it. What has changed? I think it is the population using WiFi, which used to be more technology people and is now just...everybody.

My network is still open, though, and will remain so. Less than once a year I have to throttle a heavy user.
I don't know about losing its touch, but wanted to offer some corrections re: "I believe it will be a slow but steady decline in value, down to a more Google-like share price."

1) Comparing share prices between companies doesn't make sense (the share price is total value / total number of shares, the latter can change). That said, GOOG's current share price (~670) is higher than AAPL's current price, and near its all time high (~700).

2) If you meant to compare total values, that Apple should be worth as much as Google... Apple is over twice Google's total value (550B to 220B) so that'd be an enormous decline in value.

3) If you meant to compare relative value (price/performance), Apple is actually a better "deal" for investors in that its P/E is around 14, the market average, while Google's is 21. 14 dollars in Apple will create $1 in earnings, but 21 dollars in Google is required to do the same.
I'm not knocking you for using those sources btw, that's a decent way to ignore the hard part of a problem to get to a minimum viable product -- plus licensing tracks is soundcloud's problems. Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time.

When listening to soundcloud I use this bookmark to turn off comments on the page:

javascript:(function(){$("a[class='comments-toggle']").click();})();

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Do you have any additional filters on your sources, or are you straight-up playing the streams as-is?

I'd suggest putting in min/max song lengths (to strip out the 2min previews of tracks that sometimes get posted). Although I think your sources are clean enough to handle that. You probably want a 15 min maximum to skip over mixes that sometimes get posted (or better yet, give a playlist for listening to continuous mixes)

If the soundcloud api provides favourites you could use that as an input as well.

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You could pretty much create a simple version of last.fm by using a "similar artists search" and then mutiplexing the individual soundcloud pages for artists.

So you could have a "sounds like Skrillex", "sounds like High Rankin", "sounds like Knife Party" etc where all it does is randomly play tracks from similar artists.
I still have no idea why people bought into shortscreen laptops hook, line, and sinker - I guess that's marketing for you. Maybe we're just in a minority of people that want laptops, and not expensive DVD players? I'll never buy a laptop with that bottom seventh of screen real estate missing.
My retro 2D MMO is one of the first UK projects accepted on Kickstarter :)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1375039912/mmoasteroids-...
There is nothing underground about Tech-house unfortunately.

6ft under would be a blessing though.
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Funded! Looks very well done from the prototypes, can't wait to see what you guys end up with.
yeah man, its all about catering to the user, why bother going to all these different websites when you get it all rolled into a delicious efficient piece of sushi that is turnchannel?

secondly, i think the devs are going to make a playlist style feature or something, along with a volume slider, so users can discover all this new music, save it to a playlist in a user-friendly environment with community aspects such as comments on tracks and the ability to share with simplicity ....

improving on old processes, why invent the wheel bro?
I'm always slightly curious about these when they appear, when they say they're selling X amount per month, do they mean they've sold X amount per month that are in consumers hands, or X amount per month where so many are in consumer hands, so many are in retail supply chains? Same goes for Apple, but to a larger extent they manage sales through their own channels.

Obviously N7 is delayed shipment in many places so I imagine a lot are in peoples hands, still curious.
That's another feature that makes this "better than soundcloud" because they don't provide a volume adjust on their site.

Really annoying for those times when I've been playing soundcloud in the background with some other audio source in the foreground (like a video game, or even just mail notifications going beep)
On iOS 5 and newer (required for libc++), using clang 3.0 and newer (required for decent c++11 support), yes.
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I think there were 2 big "opportunities" to create OSs. IE times when the hardware existed & the demand existed: netbooks & "mobile." The latter wasn't really an opportunity because the company that built the hardware & generated the demand also made the software. Still it was enough of a gap that android snuck in.

Ubuntu & Mozilla had a wide open chance with Netbooks for a couple of years. There was demand. Manufacturers were keen. Vista was bombing. Users would have excepted an OS that didn't run everything as long as it had some lite browser, lite office app, Skype, media player and a few other bits and pieces optimized for the little display. You could have gotten away with not having MS office or Apple itunes, especially on the first generation Eee.

Both of those opportunities existed because of the millions of apps also know as websites that they could run before any developer even knew they existed. I don't think there will ever be an "in" that big.

e-ink phones?.. Maybe. Battery life would definitely be a selling point. Some people need phones that last longer. But it's predefined as a niche market. It wouldn't be very good on the web (try using a browser on an e-ink to see what I mean. It's cute, but that's it.) so it would need custom apps. Without apps I would love to see music players and email clients for e-ink, it'd be super futuristic. But, to get developers you need scale and excitement. Would a niche player be able to get that?
I've never seen ads in the Android OS. I've used versions 1.x up to 4.x.
I was listening and thought 'hey, I actually like this track' (rather than just being something to listen to) but there was no 'buy' or 'like'/'thumbs up' etc.

Thanks for this site!
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It is not a bug. That effect was already present in the pristine unoptimized code. Quoting Vector Fabrics new blog post [1]:

"Some people wondered if the HUD textures are messed up in the optimized version, because the demo shows that as soon as you get hit by a monster the health and score numbers seem to blow up in your face. The answer is that this is part of the game play and already present in the original unoptimized version."

[1] http://www.vectorfabrics.com/blog/item/accelerating_the_idte...