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Is that why developers are trampling over each other in a stampede to the iOS store?

They're fearful of malware and battery-sucking-always-running services and apps like some Android apps.

This way, they start with a clean slate on WindowsRT and Metro apps and then maybe relax some rules
Disagree. I (thought) I know roughly what D3 is, but it would still be nice to have a (single paragraph, even) introduction. A framework can be pretty broad, so the intro would also signal what the author beliefs D3 is useful for and what techniques he intends to teach the audience.

For these reasons, I hold that any piece of technical writing needs an introduction, no matter how familiar the intended audience is. It doesn't need to be long. But it does need to have its place (at the beginning).

HOWEVER! Either we all overlooked this: http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/lesson_0.html (because this article links straight to lesson one) or the author has added an introduction in the mean time, because it does have an introduction :) So, all is good :)

(BTW I thought that D3 also brought a 3D framework to the canvas, but I see no mention of that anywhere--maybe I"m confused with the name and something else?)
Hell yes you do if it doesn't comply with the audit, security and distribution requirements of the organisation.

Outlook effectively shoots all of the above without massive customisation which is expensive, ineffective and has so many edge cases it's unreal.

People hate IT people because they don't like being told what to do and don't like learning how to do stuff which is outside their comfort (read incompetence) zone. When it comes to handling your company's data, doing what you are told to do and following the process is the law.
Much better quality: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/page-images/26184-image...
Also one of my personal favorites, Fay, is missing: http://fay-lang.org/
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what's the amount of information you remember got to do with the amount you are conscious of?
> The number of hindsight-biased comments do surprise me a little.

We all comment from our own experience, and as such these are anecdotal bits of evidence rather than hard data. Not every HN post starts out with a double blind study over a statistically significant portion of the population with splits per level of affluence and further splits to offset for geographic diversity.

> I expect more from our community.

Sorry to disappoint you.

A community is the sum of its individuals, and slightly larger than that if you're lucky with the communities that you are part of. As such the way to improve on the status quo is to lead by example.

Looking around me at the 100's of business people that I have contact with the vast majority (much larger than the 60% quoted here) of people with some level of success is in a relationship and a not-so-vast majority (but still substantial) have kids and are living a relatively steady life.

For me the young kid that strikes it big is the exception, and as such I am not particularly surprised by this outcome.

It would be much more surprising to me if the opposite were the case, your '75% of successful entrepreneurs are single' example would really turn my head because it goes directly against my personal experience.

That's not hindsight, it is just reasoning from available data and I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.

We should expect to be surprised, but that does not mean that we have to actively twist available data so that we're surprised all the time.

Sometimes a result is simply what is to be expected and I firmly believe this is one of those. But I can see how to some people here this comes as a surprising result because of the echo chamber aspect of being focused solely on a single community, especially one that contains a pretty substantial bias because of the company sponsoring that community.
It's a nice write-up, but he doesn't say how many times he ran each tests, which makes me suspect it's only once.

Something which surprised me is the big impact in performance of the string operation. I'd be curious to see the results reproduced elsewhere and tested on different configurations.
Isn't that the average for the general population? I guess entrepreneurs are human too.
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also, I love the first line of the intro:

D3 is a powerful tool, but you know how that saying goes:
"With great power comes a conceptually clean library with a
learning curve like a wall".

I don't care if it's true or not, good writing :)
Let me try to explain it using a bit more consistent terms. Code models the behaviour of a system, let's replace all instances of 'code-as' with 'behaviour-as' to avoid confusion. So we reason about the language in which a behaviour model is expressed.

'behaviour-as-text' is the serialization of the behaviour model according to the grammar of the language.

'behaviour-as-data' is the model representation as it is viewed and modified in the model.

'behaviour-as-procedure' is the meaning of the model in the sense of execution. The semantics of the model.

So this text says that the semantics of the behaviour model need to be easily expressed as data, and the textual representation of the model must clearly show both its semantics and its data representation.
They can claim that they take the environment seriously.

Of course, if they are successful in reducing overall energy consumption, they will increase the cost of energy to cover their costs and maintain their profit margin.
Yes 100% I would be happy if they then took a couple of dollars off the price of Windows to compensate.

My issue is that this is a built in feature/program which has been around for at least 20 years which now has advertising with no opt out pumped into it and the base price of the OS is still more expensive than ever.

So for the Window 8 upgrade, I gain advertising pumped into my existing applications and get charged for the privilege. Fuck 'em.
pretty funny answer....
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For the hiring/visa issue, would a solution, say if two of their hires were from the EU, start a company in an EU country, employ them with said company, and then have the US company "contract" the EU company for their part of the work?
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Not sure about the US energy market -- but here in Aus -- the profit is in the baseload kilowatts and not in the peaks. Your cheap Coal plant can produce electricity really cheaply - but when demand spikes you need to fire up the higher cost on-demand generators. You can still sell this electricity - but you may even make a loss on it at the margins.
It's not the time that's missing for most people it's the serious motivation. Having more people who depend on you is a huge external motivation factor.

I love lesswrong but don't think his comment is hindsight biased. I do not have kids and me and my wife do not want kids anytime soon just because we enjoy playtime and having less responsibility and more freedom.
Would it be too much to provide a reference for those claims. And tell us if you think it's relevant to the future.

For those of us who are only passingly familiar with New York it doesn't really seem like a new increase of 10 feet would not be a disaster.
There is a quote I like:

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Comparing taxes is hard. There are various other 'hidden' taxes that Ireland doesn't have. e.g. no 'council tax' or property tax (though they are bringing one in, most likely just for people who own, not rent), there are no water charges (yet), etc. All of this can mean that someone can have more in their pocket at the end of the month in Ireland. It all depends.
When it comes to positive psychology married people with kids feel less satisfied with life, but other factors that also contribute to happiness such as meaning and purpose are increased in this group of people and make up for that.
I'm not sure the conclusions follow from the premises in this piece: 3D printing + miniaturization + Moore's law (eventually ubiquitous computing does not necessarily yield 'the Matrix.' Combining trends in technology this way is a bit sloppy reasoning, IMO.

What the author is hinting at (eg when he talks about machines the size of blood vessels), but does not say explicitly, is indeed that an era of molecular manufacturing, computing and construction looms. The field of nanotechnology will pioneer these breakthroughs over the next few decades. For further reading I would recommend Drexler's seminal "Engines of Creation" (non-fictive) alongside Stephenson's "Diamond Age" (fictive/scifi).
Andddddd it's gone..
All sold out now.

So frustrating to get to the end of your order to get the message that the coupon has expired.
while I agree & have experienced this myself very often (-> tax-report, accounting, micro-managing :)), I think you could have gotten to the point quicker & more precisely in this blog-post :)
Thanks for the feedback. Will try with the next one.
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If you can afford it, throw down the scratch for a decent keyboard.

Something with Mechanical Switches.
Our power company does this too.

I sat down and calculated it costs them roughly a million dollars per year in postage to print and send those out.

I emailed the managers insisting they just put it online and use the million dollars to fund low income people from getting their power turned off and avoid the $50 fee to reinstate power.

All they would offer to do is take me off the mailing list.

If they insist on snail mailing stuff, they should only mail the worst offenders and radically reduce the cost. I use less than 200kwh per month in the winter and I still get those things.

The super stupid thing about those graphs is they include landlords with vacant apartments and houses that keep the power on for maintenance and easier new tennant move in (they just read the meter and change owner on the bill).
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Patrick writes about this extensively here
http://patrickcollison.com/post/stripe-ireland
> Please don't use such words as hackable when discussing immigration policies, and please try to look at the situation from the perspective of an immigrant.

I am an immigrant on a visa, so yeah I do know both sides of the coin. The term "hackable" was used from the perspective of how USCIS looks at this.

> I have experienced it on me and know what it's like when your wife cannot work, it's fucked up... If you're an american living in US then you will not understand how difficult it can be for the wife and husband. Look at it from another perspective: if family members are allowed to work then they 1. learn the language 2. better integrate into society 3. grow their career 4. become useful for the economy. You should also consider that wife is not husband's property (also true for the reverse case). If she's not allowed to work than she becomes overly dependent on the husband.

I am sure you may have had bad experiences and there is no doubt that the situation can be hard. Let me offer a counter perspective: I know several immigrants who come here on H1B visas with their wives on H4 visas. From what I understand, they have two options currently :

1. Getting an F1 visa, going to school and then getting a job.

2. Getting a company to sponsor the person for an H1B and then switching from H4 to H1B.

Both of these situations are hard, no doubt but not impossible. I personally know people who have done them. Yes, they are limited to people who have the money to go to school or the skillset to get a job as an H1B.

> I mean com'on I'm so tired of this high-level discussions on immigration, these are people's lives you're talking about. Would you like to lose 5-10 year of your twenties, thirties only to obtain better visa? Would you like to be in the position when you're in a foreign country for multiple years and you cannot break up with your spouse only because of the visa, unless you're willing to go back to your "home" country that is not home to you anymore?

I personally will somewhere else if I had to wait that long. I refuse to believe that my situation (Or that of any high skilled immigrant who gets paid well and lives a regular middle class life) is worse than the countless undocumented immigrants who get exploited for decades and live under the fear of deportation. I am not trying to create a false dichotomy here but consider this from the perspective of the people who make legislation: Why are highly skilled immigrants supposed to be first in line compared to any one else who comes in?

> EDIT: My point is, if you let person into your country don't put additional barriers. If it's a family you're talking about then benchmark all the family members and then decided whether to let them in or not, don't create second class citizens.

I don't disagree with you in general. However, my comments were strictly from a policy perspective: The purpose of the H1B is to let people in so that they can temporarily fill a need for highly skilled labor. The rules associated with that visa are what they are.
In fact, one quarter of electricity bills goes to 40 hours of peak demand per year!

http://theconversation.edu.au/air-conditioning-is-peaking-ou...
So the freaky thing about metaprogramming is that the model changes itself right? The aphorism in three simple sentences:

1 "data must express procedure"

2 "text must express procedure"

3 "text must express data"

This shows that text both directly expresses procedure by rule 2, and indirectly by rule 1 via rule 3. This indirection step allows recursion to take place (i.e. the data contains a model in the same language as it is defined in) that is used for the model to reason about itself.
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Actually it might be good to focus on what you do best (up to a point): If your a good coder, make an awesome product. If you are an awesome marketeer, use marketing to your advantage.

I think that the problem lies in busywork instead of creating value, not in doing what you do best (and if you do that, good chance that you can find people who are good in waht you need that will join you).
Yes, also cost of living is important.

If you're paying less taxes and taking more home but things cost more then it may negate the advantage.
That is superb and i didnt want to imply that its not possible with my comment! There are a lot of factors in play and it can all work out very well!

That being said, i started my first real company when i was 6 years into a strong relationship. 2 years later the relationship is gone and the company failed to catch on. I dont regret it and am still motivated to start new things, if anything this only made me stronger but it was very tough going through it!
Yeah, that seems to work. Thanks!

I still wonder about the mutable data question though. Can we do better than logarithmic overhead, or is there a problem for which we provably cannot?
Chrome is reliant on the host OS certificate stack, unfortunately Chrome and client certificates don't seem to work well on OS X for this reason. Safari works, however.
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Who thought it was an article? Some sort of O'Reilly coupon gets posted a couple times a year. In fact, deeply discounted tech books from most publishers are welcome.

What you're suppose to do here is recommend great books on the list.
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Thats what banners/newsletters and ads in TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky are for. But not in news aggregators, no siree.
I figure on checking before flagging all the back posts. Just in case I have a false positive. Which happened a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, flagged now.
here is a reading list: http://deeplearning.net/reading-list/, and also a brief intro into the whole thing: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pift6266/H10/notes/deepintro.ht...
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Interesting to have you commenting. Thanks for chipping in.

As a quick check: How important has luck been to you guys?
(b) water and miscellaneous

(2) Forget to provide paper in toilets
[1] is great - thanks a lot!
Are you saying that the goal of hacker news is to post commercial ads with coupons for people to see? Really? that's the goal of this site?

I wouldn't mind an article which talked about different books and in that context, which just happened to mentioned that there was a sale going on with 50% off. That would give room of discussion. But this is just a text banner ad with a open comment field. If it had been a real banner, positioned at the right side of the screen, I would not complain as it would be clear that its an ad and not ordinary content. I would even consider a small disclaimer tag in the title ([hacker news commercial] to be fair, but to actually be listed as any other news article?
Hah - same feeling here. I couldn't tell if that line was poking fun at how young that is for worrying about that sort of thing or not.

Just in case it is not a joke, I hope we all agree 25 is no where near any "I have no time for any more life experiences!!!" point...
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RBLWatch is a guardian against mailserver
presence in most common blacklists

RBLWatch is run by a belgium startup. We would like to become a major player in the mail delivery field. This is our first step. In the future, we will be extending our product with email loop testing, maybe our own blocklist and even DMARC reports.
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Thanks Joey, if you have any recommendations for articles or how the book should look I would be happy to hear them.
You are spot on about busywork and creating value.

I agree that founding teams should try to get complementary skill-sets in, but this can't be used as an excuse.

Or differently put… while I agree that everyone should do what they are best in, "focus" should come a bit later. Especially in the early phases founders are cross-disciplinary. I see a few people using the "focus on what you are best" as an excuse for just "doing what you like most" and ignore/hire/blame the rest.
As a guy at 32 I realized that there's not enough time to read crappy books. So I've since started reading only stuff that makes me understand the world around me a little more, step by step, either by reading a Philip K. Dick Novel or going through Locke's "Treatises of Government". I've discovered that trying to making more and more sense of the world around you gives you a sense of fulfillment.
When it comes to positive psychology married people with kids feel less satisfied with life

[citation needed]
Companies like Microsoft are king-makers so they essentially get to pick and choose who gets to be a "trusted" certificate authority, and therefore we wind up with a competition-less market.

Not really. Each browser and OS has it's own benchmark to be included as a root CA, and it's certainly not a 'pick and choose' thing. There are clearly defined rules for each, most of them relying on an independent audit to either WebTrust or an ETSI standard - neither of which are particularly 'easy' or 'cheap'. You're welcome to go and get an audit, set up your CA infrastructure and apply to MS and become a 'trusted' CA. Then you just have to repeat that for all the other big software/OS vendors, and then wait a few years till those versions in which you're included are in wide distribution (or not, as things like Windows have an auto-update mechanism and the auto-update of Firefox and the like are making the process much easier!).

Many of these companies claim this excess cost

There is an inherent cost in the verification of some certificates. Sometimes, it's just an automated domain-verification. Certificates are often sold on the level of verification performed - and in some cases the browsers treat these differently and display different UI chrome as a result.

(over the technical costs which are low)

Again, not really. It's certainly not a low cost to have an infrastructure to pass one of the aforementioned audits. Not only that, there are some significant costs in supporting the revocation infrastructure - especially if you happen to have a certificate on a high-traffic site (think Twitter, any of Apple/Microsoft/Amazon etc.) You'll have to support both a CRL infrastructure (TB a day of transfer) and an OCSP infrastructure (not as much transfer, but not 'just' static files). We're taking tens to hundreds of thousands of hits/second.

But in my experience, from buying certificates, certificate authorities never do this

Ignoring that the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'evidence', I'd say that there certainly are certificates where the ordering process is very simple and has nothing more than a domain-ownership confirmation. There's probably more verification in the payment end. However, getting an EV certificate does contain a significant verification process that sadly isn't the easiest. Code-signing certs tend to require a bit more in the way of ID verification also.

Honestly any SSL certificate which costs more than $5~10 is a rip-off

If you don't want to pay 'extortionate' costs for a certificate, try offers like this - or as someone else suggested below, StartCom - Eddy runs a great company and gives away a lot of certificates and charges minimal costs for the rest.
'Course, we should always buy things based on what we think they should cost, not what they actually do...

Disclaimer: I work for a CA. Just wanting to add a viewpoint from the 'other side'. I won't disagree we're a reasonably un-liked industry in places (HN especially!). There are a few misconceptions, though.
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I know at an ex-employer of mine, we chose to use an outsourced shredding company mostly because of legal reasons. I'm not entirely sure how it worked, but since we were handling PHI (patient health information), we had certain rules we had to abide by, and were liable if this data got out. Apparently, the outsourced shredding company insured us against some of these liabilities. I imagine police departments have similar situations.
How much freedom do you really have online?
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