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From an Ask HN post a month ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583307

> > Fairly often we see stories that link to a piece of useless blogspam rather than the original article. The guidelines say that these should never have been submitted. But are silent on what we should do if we notice the guideline being violated.

> > Is it helpful for us to flag those as we notice them so that editors can more easily find and kill them? Or would those flags just an annoyance for editors, and we should just ignore them in the belief that they will get deleted if they are a problem?

> Yes, flag them.

The story kindly submitted here was nothing but one blogger quoting some earlier publications, with no new added analysis. There have been better submissions to HN on the same underlying story today, from better sources. This is one of the hot stories today.
If you're up for a listen, they discuss this on the latest episode of the Stack Exchange podcast, with Anthony Casalena (CEO and founder of Squarespace) and Fog Creek/Stack Exchange employees.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/11/se-podcast-36-we-got-h...

It's quite a story.
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I guess I'll make the obligatory American comment that we should ship them balls used for Stickball (American not Australian game) so when they grow up they would become fans of Baseball.
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To expand: in Hebrew and Christian scripture, marriage is used as an analogy for God. For example, the creation story says humanity is created "in the image of God, male and female". God is said to be the husband of Israel; Hosea and others liken Israel to a prostitute or an unfaithful wife. The church is called "the bride of Christ".

Thus, sexual ethics tie directly into core tenets of Judeo-Christian doctrine relating to who God is and how God relates to humanity. Concepts like faithfulness, self-sacrifice, love, authenticity, exclusivity, the joining of two different beings into one coherent whole, and commitment are reflected in both Theology and sexual ethics. This is communicated in Jewish and Christian scripture, and in the writings of Jewish and Christian scholars throughout history.

There are components of Jewish and Christian sexual ethics that can be thought of in terms of harm (cheating on your spouse can harm them emotionally, or physically through STDs), but for the most part it's more appropriate to think in terms of a reflection of God's nature and interaction with humans. For someone whose education in ethics is limited to harm, it can be difficult to see how ethical systems could be built around other concepts, but once you grasp the basic philosophical core, it's pretty straightforward to see how sexual ethics fit.
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Most Thursdays, yes. The age range was roughly 21-35. We all liked the 3 day weekend enough to do it regularly but I agree that physically it probably wasn't the healthiest of choices.

Interestingly enough, on slower weeks even when we could have gotten all our work done during the week we would end up doing a hack night. We had gotten so used to the habit that we would find ourselves procrastinating during the week so that there was work left for Thursday night.
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> Let me put it another way: Would you rather have that $100 going to Mars for "entertainment value" or, oh say, perhaps school supplies to inner city children? Maybe it could be used to pay off the deficit? Perhaps it could go towards cancer research?

My answer would be the same. You might value those other things more highly but I do not.

I believe that nationally challenging engineering projects pay dividends for years to come in ways that are not immediately apparent when the projects are being funded.

I believe that our future as a country will depend on the number of scientists and engineers we ultimately produce. Manned space exploration is very capital inefficient in terms of science produced BUT it's deeply engaging. It's an entry point that many current STEM workers can cite even if they're not Aerospace Engineers or working in the field.

I believe we should spend money on things that might not work simply because I think it's valuable to have a concrete national dream for the future. It shouldn't be the main thing we spend money on, it shouldn't be a top priority but the money is not a waste unless it goes entirely to contractors and produces no entertainment value.
The purpose of markets is not to provide a casino. The purpose is the efficient allocation of resources. Don't know anything about sector X? Why the hell are you entitled to a fair shot at gambling in sector X?
Orca had been conceived by two men—Romney's Director of Voter Contact Dan Centinello and the campaign's Political Director Rich Beeson...

To build Orca, the Romney campaign turned to Microsoft and an unnamed application consulting firm.

This sounds like a lot of failed IT projects in large corporations -- dreamed up by upper management types who don't know anything about tech, then farmed out to consultants and tech vendors for the actual implementation. The consultants and vendors then either proceed to wander in the weeds expensively due to lack of direction, or actively seize on the client's ignorance and take them for a ride.

The problem is that the people nominally in charge of the project, the upper management types, don't have the experience or expertise to know they're getting taken for a ride until it's too late. So there's no way to hold the contractors accountable, or to get the train back on the rails once it's jumped off.
Sometime in the future it will become clear that one of the causes of autism is traumatic experiences during labor and within the first few weeks of life. And the reason why boys are 4 times more likely than girls to be autistic is because of the trauma caused by circumcision.

I can't point at any scientific studies. This is purely speculation based on years of research and observation on my end. I don't have autistic children, but I know people who do.
Wow, if BlackBerry really thinks a better browser will help them retain more customers they really don't get why people prefer iPhone and Android phones. And consulting with the HTML5 team at Facebook which just rushed to quickly rewrite their mobile apps to 100% native apps after failing to leverage an HTML5/Native hybrid approach they are just digging the hole that much more.

The reason the iPhone is so popular is because 1) people are excited about it 2) great native apps make people excited because they do useful or fun things quickly 3) the iPhone is part of a rich ecosystem with services for music and apps. The iPhone ecosystem includes cloud and desktop integration along with support from the top rated e-commerce site as well as local support with award winner retail stores. That great customer service matters a lot to mobile phone customers who often expect a lot from their phones. With BlackBerry you get a phone from a carrier which has a poorly trained sales staff which cannot help you and often does not care. If I have an issue with my iPhone I can go into a nearby Apple Store and have my issues resolved quickly, and if necessary, they give me replacement hardware. And BlackBerry is putting out a better web browser? Better than what? Better than the poor browser they had previously I suppose. Apple has had a great browser from the beginning. BlackBerry does not get it. And if they want to catch up they need to do more than tweak their system. There should be an entire ecosystem built around it, but it is already too late. Android is already eating up all the space which Apple has not and Windows Phone is scrounging for scraps. Very little will be left for BlackBerry. They never innovated after they reached their peak. That's how the mighty fall. I hope Apple keeps innovating. I think they are due to push it this coming year. More integration between the iPhone with other aspects of our lives from TV to our cars would be great and we've already seen rumors that is coming.
So the market will become more conservative in cases with low transparency? Good.
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The problem with BitCoin at this stage in it's lifecycle is that there is a real tension between its use as means of exchange, and its use as a store of value; and too much hoarding will decrease the utility of BTC as a means of exchange.

If the people behind this effort really want to get the BTC economy rolling, they need to figure out some way for more people to _earn_ their way into it. If you have a hoard of BTC, now is a good time to figure out a project that you want to crowdsource; if you wait too long BTC will be worth nothing, because everyone will be saving theirs for later...
No according the website it is written in C++.
Immediately, I would say. Regardless of why it's being done or who is being targeted, isolating and ridiculing an individual is a form of bullying.

Whether they realize it or not, those who are the most vocal against bullying or intolerance often end up being among those people directly engaging in such things.

One inherently can't speak out against a particular bully without partaking in bullying himself or herself. Likewise, one can't truly promote tolerance if he or she does not tolerate those who engage in intolerance.
Unfortunately there's still lots of stuff missing, e.g. delegated constructors and, probably most significantly, constexpr.

The apache table[+] has been updated as of this month, and MSVC (with a version given as "11.0 nov'12") now is looking rather better, but is still missing constexpr... :(

Still, it appears that there should be fairly good support in all major compilers within the next few years, at least if you can depend on your devs using relatively up-to-date compiler releases (not at all a given where I work!)... :]

[+] http://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C%2B%2B0xCompilerSupport
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A Web App is actually the right call. It was for volunteers doing GOTV in the field, not as much for people sitting at a desktop. And you would want to be able to issue updates quickly and carefully control access -- things that are much more difficult with an App Store app.
chad: gsm 03.42 might aid your final problem :)
The campaign could not manage launching a web app and they wanted to run the entire USA !?!?!?!
As someone who's been doing that for several years on a side project that I believe in, this really hit home.
It's a well known fact that Python and Javascript aren't suited to writing time machines :)

Admitting that time travelling is in apparence going forward in time but visiting moments of the past, let me explain why :

They aren't evolved enough to have the integer overflow feature :(

Unlike C or low level languages which are all perfectly well suited for writing time machines (and also millennium bugs ...).

Time is a dangerous thing, it must not be handled foolishly with 32 bit timestamps (the 2038 bug will tell us why).

I've got a startup to build and some code to write, unfortunately all these time travelling matters haven't helped ;)
Because they're awesome; and KickStarter! Or something like that.
Absolutely. Its unfortunate that corporate environments seem so ill equipped to to acknowledge and respect, let alone foster, good team dynamics.

In our case the powers that be decided to it was smart to spread us out throughout the organization so that we could carry the torch to other teams. It worked to some extent but the gains paled in comparison to what we could have continued to do as a more cohesive team. C'est la vie.
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We just lean differently up here - federalist instead of sovereigntist. Take a look at this political cartoon that was in Le Devoir during the reference re secession of Quebec - http://jpzeni.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=64
Will you (or do you) offer PyPy support too? It is looking to be the fastest Python implementation around, and even more so as its support for Numpy matures.
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Well thanks to you I just spent the last hour reading about Wittgenstein...
> Judges are humans, not compilers.

This is exactly why I would not worry about it. No judge is going to look at that clause and think it is in any way intended to be enforced. Contrary to popular belief, there is plenty of room for common sense in a courtroom.
+1 i've been a messaging sms/mms core network architect for many years (for a uk operator), was a good read! nice work chad!
Is schemaless a win over an object schema like a JSON schema (or a Protocol Buffer .proto file)?

Schemaless is clearly a convenience win over SQL because SQL's way of modeling nested/repeated data doesn't map as easily onto programming languages. But for all the people who are using JSON-based databases these days, I'm curious how many of them couldn't easily write a JSON schema or a .proto file that describes their de facto schema.

I ask because a lot of things become easier to reason about (and optimize) if you know that a field won't be a string in one record and a number in another. And writing a .proto file (or equivalent JSON schema) would give you an authoritative place to document what all the fields actually mean.

I don't have any actual experience with JSON-based databases, so I was interested to hear the opinions of people who do.
Using Windows was a mistake, that's for sure.

Good thing for Democrats they didn't know about the open source ushahidi platform.
I'm located in Shenzhen, China and all those domains work as usual except for Google+ and Google Docs which have been banned for a while. Google DNS also works as usual. Even Google.cn redirects to Google.com.hk as usual. Guess I'm either lucky or this was a very short lived ban in the middle of the night.

edit: Reading the article again, it seems Google didn't actually confirm the block. They simply stated there was nothing wrong on their end. I also strongly doubt they got in touch with a Google China representative in the middle of a friday night. I smell link bait...
Is this the same company with the Hacker Fortress and the eight interns? Sounds like the Hacker Fortress is leased by the C-Corp?

Sounds like an interesting ride, but it might be time to let go and move on - if you have no control, no shares, and no operational role at the company, for better or worse, it doesn't involve you anymore, and given this blog post, you're not going to rejoin the company.
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Some key points -

1.) 11 database servers. 1 app server
2.) Not redirecting http to https
3.) not stress tested or apparently tested in any way
4.) users got their first taste of the system the morning of the election.
This is so awesome. One it's cool to see a company care so much about it's customers and its reputation. Two, it's amazing how much fuel they need to fun
I'm not sure I'm following
The only banking details it needs are you routing and account number. Granted, you shouldn't give those out to just anyone, but it's the same info you give out every time you write a check.

But those are all anyone needs in order to withdraw the entire contents of your account, and they're being stored on someone's presumably-poorly-secured server. At least with paper checks they're, well, paper and are likely physically given to the bank for processing.

If you wanted to be really paranoid, you could set up a checking account just for stuff like bitcoin, and only load small amount of money into it right before making purchases.

My credit card account comes with an online service to generate one-time-use card numbers, for buying things from companies you don't exactly trust. So this suggestion is perhaps not so overly paranoid.
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> No, but correlation correlates with causation because causation causes correlation.

Ow. Correct, but ow.
This is a great example of how RIM is "doing it wrong". No one really cares about things like Flash, "Best HTML 5! OMG! like. EVER!", or "Most Secure E-Mail, Like, EVER!".

People care about the user experience, the ecosystem (read: apps, for now), integration, trust, and the "wow" factor.

Spitting in the wind, though, I suppose.
Nice one!! Haven't used the service yet, still waiting for an invite, please hurry!!!
I believe it was Elop who said it is now a war of ecosystems. And he was very right.

I don't think having the best web browser is going to do much beyond making life a little easier for early adpoters.
The cotton gin was a simple device that solved a long-standing problem that nobody else thought of. It came out of nowhere.

Einstein, in 1905's "miracle year", was pretty much outside of the physics establishment (why he worked in the patent office).
this. I don't like SQL columns. They make life hard. But I'm spending time learning TypeScript specifically so I can add some types/schemas to my JavaScript.

That doesn't mean I want to deal with the implementation detail of columns, but I definitely wouldn't mind some type safety.
As a conservative and a software engineer, it's heartening that they at least had a plan and tried something. The fact that it was poorly implemented and unstable doesn't surprise me. Most last minute projects end up that way.
Passing benchmark suites doesn't matter. User experience does, and that is still very much an unknown.
Great! I always used to have a fixed set of functions written in my personal code base todo these things. Glad yo know you have made a generic library. Good job.
Zero training? A single web server? No end users even touching the system till it's time for mission critical use? No frigging redirect of http->https? And it looks like, as has happened more than once in my professional life, people outside of the management structure saw possible risks and were blown off by those in charge.

Even if you supported Romney, this has to give you some pause about the man's management skills and who he hired to run things.
How did you determine using Windows was a mistake from the information presented in the article ?
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Sounds like Microsoft was trying to sell a few SQL server licenses.
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Also similar to (in Perl)...

* HTML::AsSubs - https://metacpan.org/module/HTML::AsSubs

* Template::Declare - https://metacpan.org/module/Template::Declare

* Template::Caribou - https://metacpan.org/module/Template::Caribou

* Markapl - https://metacpan.org/module/Markapl

And in Perl6...

* Tags - https://github.com/masak/web/blob/master/lib/Tags.pm | http://blogs.gurulabs.com/stephen/2009/03/tagspm-for-the-per...

and in Ruby...

* Markaby - http://markaby.github.com/

* Erector - http://erector.rubyforge.org/

and in Common Lisp...

* CL-WHO - http://weitz.de/cl-who/

and in Clojure...

Hiccup - https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
Yes, I signed the lease as CEO of the company. I live here, and the community I've created here is important to me. The company needs to agree to terms to ensure this can continue, that I am repaid for expenses I put into the company etc.

Obviously I have no intention of rejoining the company now or anytime, or ever working with or speaking to them.
Have you even tried developing for BB10?

Converting a mobile webapp to BB10 to native app takes merely few hours. BB10 supports Phonegap out of the box (their dev tools have simulator for it). They have their own version of something very similar to Phonegap but a little richer. You can port any Phonegap app to BB10 and use their JS API's for deeper integration.

BB10 is RIM betting on HTML5 for native apps as well. If they can optimize the experience nearly as good as native Java apps - this could be the next tide. You gotta look at the future where developing for 5-6 platforms would be a pain. Microsoft is betting on similar approach for Windows 8.

Win is at the next tide - not the one that Apple rode 5 years ago.
He hired Microsoft and what sounds like a Microsoft Partner. No one gets fired for buying Microsoft.
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> Reboot, login, open browser, tabs all pop up -- and there's my comment.

And you didn't get IP-banned here? :D.
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There is of course no fundamental reason why JSON-based db's has to be schemaless. This is one interesting direction that might be worth exploring.
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Wonderful, was considering writing this just the other day. Thank you good sir.

One thing that would be really nice, is a record mode and serialization (to JSON/yaml/etc...) plus a context manager (python's with). How ready are you for pull requests? ;-)
I am saying the USA is the easiest and safest place on planet earth to start your own business. If you know how to:

1. buy low & sell high
2. defer personal gratification
3. save a % of everything you earn

you can gradually grow wealthy.

The world is in recession, and the US might be starting to recover. It is a hard market right now. But it will recover and boom (and then crash) again.

I have traveled in Russia and Mexico and made friends with regular people who live there. I also studied economics at university. I am thinking about what I am writing here.

edit: I was born and raised in the USA

Two inspirational books to get started:

The Richest Man in Babylon

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
you can replace 'zara' with any fashion or electronics corporation.
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Now that some other map of racist tweets is getting some online press, I thought I'd post this thing I made a while ago. I meant to do more stats and what-have-you, but I started a new job and didn't get the chance to do everything I thought I would.

I also kept getting accounts suspended when I had this 'Disapprove' button that sent a tweet to the user from my Slur Tracker account saying one of several tweets that said something like, 'hey i saw your tweet on slurTracker and I totally disapprove!'
Currently BitPay is having one it's highest volume days. Some merchants are out of stock already. It's doing well.
Why do you choose to throw out an insult at Windows? Is there anything about this story that points to Windows being at fault? How about you think before you flame next time, okay?
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Cause it's a bias of his, likely.

What I get from the article is a classic tale of crappy IT management, the like of which I've seen and heard of several times.
"Using Windows was a mistake" is a truism.

Also, from the article, project failed. Failure is regularly equated with having made mistakes.
Oh yes, people do get fired for buying microsoft. Switch industries and you'll see. Or try spending 2 years building your company knowledge base into sharepoint and you'll see.
Yes, people who make mistakes can still run the entire USA. It has been done before.
The assumption that software can work from the first try is proven wrong, time and again. Software is something that needs to grow, mature and stabilize. The Romney campaign had the thing that's usually hardest to get - the human beta test resources. It should have been dry run for months.
let's compare again. when they shipped.
I agree entirely! Everyone is sitting on their hoards of Bitcoin and not spending it. This is merely one attempt at a solution. One way for people to earn BTC IS to sell things.
I can best explain via example. Let's say I want to iterate through a directory and do something to each file:

ls C:\ | foreach{echo $_.Name}

That will print out the file name. The $_ variable represents each file object that ls returns. Let's say I want the file creation times instead:

ls C:\ | foreach{echo $_.CreationTime}

Or just the day of the week the file was created:

ls C:\ | foreach{echo $_.CreationTime.DayOfWeek}

It's incredibly powerful. And the default is always a text representation of the object anyway, so it seems like text is getting piped, just like Unix. If you do this:

ls C:\ | foreach{echo $_}

You get a typical directory listing.
"A Web App is actually the right call."

Yes.

Calling it "an app" however was a bad call. From a practical standpoint, that is. From the standpoint of "an idea guy" and a "communications expert" it was of course a requirement.