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In one project, I had to use camelCase and cargo-cult-Hungarian prefixes in table objects: tblTableName, sVarcharColumn, iIntegerColumn, vViewName and so on. I actaully surprised myself with just how deeply and viscerally I hated this convention. I could no longer easily convert column names into human-readable headings on reports; and the prefixes were just redundant, completely missing the point [1] of Hungarian Notation.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa260976%28v=vs.60%2...
The incentives for colonising the Gobi desert are vastly smaller than for a (small) colony on Mars or the moon, even just in perceived prestige.
Sad that their poster child is Zynga.
I can't believe their solution is to not run an online multiplayer game. That's the ONLY kind of game you can assure 100% payment for. They just fail at development. This is a known and solved problem. Look at WoW. You have to log in with a valid account to the game server to play online with people. Yes, it's a slight barrier to entry. Oh well, deal with it, it gets you 100% paying customers. This is not hard.
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I never pitched a VC. I actually never met such mythical creature, maybe you were about to touch his unicorn salad. Anyways, explanations for this:

- they are actually giving a heads up on how most of people will treat you or;

- there are just too many interviews and no time to make anyone fell comfortable.

Edit ====

Anyways, I remember in 2006 when I barely could speak english and was doing a master degree in the US. I needed to find a part time job to help me pay for unexpected expenses.

There was an interview at an investment firm: I felt like I was worth less than nothing. I almost cried after leaving the building. Anyways, 20 minutes after I left they called me and offered a position.

When we feel vulnerable anything people say to us we tend take it the wrong way or overreact.

Good luck with your venture.
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the data collected from the history is not associated with the user account, only analysed; and the plugin/extension respects private/incognito mode, according to the privacy policy: https://lumi.do/about/privacy
I have no idea, not an iOS developer. I assume there must be some API or email proxy that you can use to contact customers if they don't reveal the actual address.
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Regarding your first line, my initial response was exactly the same on reading the title of the submission on here. But before commenting I read the article and came across this:

"A multiplayer game like Battle Dungeon requires servers to host matches – servers that Hunted Cow has to pay to maintain. ”If they were all legitimate sales, it would have given us the resources to work on it further, however the way it was going it just wasn’t viable.”"

That seemed like a reasonable explanation to me. Since I assume you too read the submission before commenting, I'm interested what part of the above explanation you disagree with.
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A lot of learning takes place outside of the classroom. Times and times again, it has been demonstrated that peer teaching is one of the most effective way to enhance learning. In Physics, many profs (myself included) encourage students to discuss problems and help each other but without copying solutions. When you give one assignment every week with 5 to 10 problems to solve, and assignments count for 20% of the final grade, each problem is worth very little... which is why you do not penalize students strongly when you catch them for the first time copying a solution to a problem. Learning the difference between explaining the solution of a problem (similar to explaining an algorithm) and just giving a solution to copy may is not something that is immediately obvious for some.
They've overhauled it recently, but due to the amateurish look and text of the offers they probably can't shake that 90s feeling
For what it's worth I personally don't even look at free games anymore, because there's always a catch. So, yeah, I guess it's a form of a pushback due to the massive abuse of IAP that doesn't align well with user's genuine interests.
stanford's is pretty sparse http://www-cs.stanford.edu/content/qualifying-exams

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/academic_programs/graduate/curricul...
Purdue's is a little more interesting but still will have to dig into the courses

that's like 10 years ago for me, it used to be easier to find lists of papers on this : ]
What's your configuration on that? 3x2, 2x2 with 1 to either side of that, or 6 in a row?
>I'm confused by the sarcasm

10 year old kids might not be the best indicator of future trends. After all, we aren't doing our work on the Wii, building our homes using Legos, or any of the other things children spend their time on.
It's the display.

If it were a software problem Apple would probably not be replacing any screens at all or even performing a screen test.
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Well, I'm glad someone is thinking about what to do when they get there.
It's odd that any mention of Elon Musk colonizing Mars results in rapturous worship.

Other efforts, China in particular, seem to attract scorn. Especially in light of the fact that Elon Musk's original plan was to send a greenhouse with plants to Mars.

Perhaps I over-estimate the HN crowd.
That doesn't work if there is significant functionality server-side.
Surely the answer is either to control server access or let other people do the hosting for you?

Removing your app (that presumably you invested resources into developing) for something trivial seems crazy.
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Totally agree @hakaaak, especially with the care that should be put into making the API navigable using hyperlinks.

It's kind of cool to have a browser-friendly API to play with in the beginning, but it should be pure bonus. APIs are designed to allow a computer program to interact with another one. Favouring query strings over HTTP headers for anything other than altering the projection of a resource is non-sense.

I also don't seem to understand why we must reinvent the wheel and duplicate features when HTTP clearly mentions how to specify an output format, and how to handle partial responses (Range, Content-Range, 206 Partial Response, etc).

PUT is not the equivalent of "update" in CRUD. PUT is meant to replace an existing resource projection with another one. PATCH is the way to go if you want to update specific attributes of an existing resource.

And what about ETags? conditional requests?

It kills me when people mix pragmatism with embracing years of bad practices. That's how we end up with standards where history and legacy are more important than common sense.
As others mentioned - PhantomJS is way to go, it supports webfonts as well - http://www.grab.lv/_external/testpreview.png
So how are they supposed to personalise your content if they don't know who visited what?
The game could have an in-app payment, whose receipt is checked server-side. Then access to your game is as secure as your server (and its interaction with your app). Still hackable, but not trivially.
You only talk about positive celebrity news. In contrast, I think the most interesting newspaper stories are the ones that influential people do not want you to know about. I can follow my government's twitter account, but will they talk about how they are tweaking statistics to their advantage etc.?
This seems to simulate the pressure due to the weight of the bricks, but I wonder how much the height comes down by if you factor in the extra pressure you have to put on the top brick to get it to clip on.

Does this add non-negligibly to the pressure on the bottom brick, or is it almost nothing once dispersed through the whole tower?

(You may be able to tell that I have very little knowledge of the physical sciences, so apologies if this is a stupid question!)
Meh. I grew up in NY, NJ, and MA, and I hated the Seattle gray whenever I visited. It indeed never really rains, which means in Seattle you have to accommodate rain all the time while not actually getting to enjoy a good solid storm.

I like the way we have it here in Haifa. Practically no rain whatsoever for half the year, and in the winter months it oscillates between winter sun (which is still quite bright here, we share our latitude with Florida), Seattle-ite gray+drizzle (on a bad day), and thunderstorms to rival inland New England (on a good winter day). And then back to nothing but sun, heat, and coastal humidity in the warm half of the year.
Just want to thank Andrew for being a good custodian of south.
Note that I didn't say you should always be tough. Of course that being kind and compassionate is the right answer most of the time.

It's just that sometimes a figurative slap is the right thing the sufferer needs to wake up from the suffering and realize there's no actual need to suffer like that.

It's all very personal and context dependent and, most importantly, it should never be done in anger.
It'd be nice to have a 3rd party receive the package, open and photograph it, even try it out, then package it back up and send it off to it's recipient. BUT... The USPS needs to introduce 3rd party interception in order for this to work. Otherwise buyers would be paying double postage + the cost of interception and checking.
Looks very... inspired by iA Writer. Not that it's a bad thing.
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Probably the best solution would be to switch to recurring in-app subscription to the online service. This is I think easier to verify and harder to pirate and should align the revenues with the costs (avoiding getting nice sales up front and not being able to sustain the servers in 18 months time).

Some hacks might work if they don't want to go down this route like issuing an update that contacts the server for a unique ID on first run and treating those that don't update quickly as suspicious - request them to email the iTunes receipt or something.

How quickly is regarded as suspicious could be worked out by looking for when there is a divergence between installs (and unique ID requests) and the daily update totals the app store provides. Duplicated IDs should be easy to detect it they access the service later.
If the seller accepts returns, would that solve the problem? I apologize of the OP mentioned whether his item was returnable -- I did not see him say that.
You would guess wrong. I'm actually a huge InDesign fan and have been accused of being an Adobe fanboy. Source: Smashing Magazine (see comments for my article): http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/27/10-pre-press-tips... or just read my blog full of InDesign only tips http://digital-engineer.net/

As an (non-paid) author for the Dutch InDesign User website and magazine I do find it funny someone might accuse me of working for Quark!
ever heard of supply and demand?
Adam Curtis is one of the most important documentary film thinkers of this or any other generation. Seminal.

'The Loving Trap' (2011) is a good place to start exploring this visionaries ground breaking work...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg

Why is this on hacker news?
You are correct, 3.5 Km is the maximum height only when building towers with constant horizontal cross section.
And for instance, you could say that "iOS's dislike of the technology" was nothing more than a strategic move from Apple and Jobs to win a battle of content over the channel, where the money lies, but you chose or forget to acknowledge this in your discourse; I just don't see how it is any different from MS or Adobe or any other corporation trying to do what they are supposed to do: making profit.

Also, ouch on the "poor piece of engineering"... If I recall it has been able to help push some usage of the web forward (Youtube? Before Flash?), and foster creative content (anyone been working in the game or ad industry these past decade could testify... I'm talking Art Directors and Flash devs on websites, not annoying page ads). Or maybe I'm wrong on this - if so, please someone correct me. I don't remember Java succeeded in this field.

I don't want to start a flame war, it's just this anti-someone view, whoever that may be, raises my eyebrow all the time. As far as I know they do what _every_ other company on the field does: use and protect their hero assets for as long as they can, then catch up with the disruptive tech as soon as they penetrate.
great, another site wants to 'personalize' stuff based on what I 'like', so I can 'discover' stuff similar to what I looked for before.

btw hasn't the early StumbleUpon worked that way? browser extension + suggestions?
Having spent a year writing AS3 code for Flex, the compiler and the runtime continually struck me as generally ambiguous, and at times contradictory. Most of these were either amusing, or mildly irritating, as an indicator of poor quality and attention to detail, but some were more severe.

Personally, it's an environment that I was very glad to leave behind.
If you're curious about the engineering that goes into a large Lego structure, James May ("Captain Slow" of Top Gear fame) built an entire house out of Legos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2YqMrS_pM It's an hour long story, but if you want to skip to the final product: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2YqMrS_pM#t=2600s
If that's an issue, maybe you can add new bricks to the bottom.
> "If we establish a party branch in space, it would also be the 'highest' of its kind in the world," Xinhua quoted Yang as saying.

Really, I love Chinese humor. It's underrated.
It would be cool if they could shut it down for a long time then have it wake up and send some data back with the remaining power.
Competition is good.

Perhaps NASA will get more funding for Mars missions as a result of this. Everybody wins long-term.

It's a shame that it takes a threat of one-upmanship to get people off their asses rather than doing it for the sake of scientific endeavour, but that's human nature.
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You could just hold the second-to-last brick while you clip the last brick on it :)
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If China manages to do this, then we will have people on Mars in under 2 years.

Competition from china is the only thing I can see spurring the USA into action.
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Ask HN: AirBnB took my money and deleted my wife's booking
During last year I heard rave reviews about AirBnB, so several times I recommended my wife to do our family bookings through AirBnB. A couple of days ago she found a nice apartment for our family and booked it, the host confirmed the booking, my credit card was charged, we received booking & charge confirmation by e-mail. All clicky-clicky?

Next day my wife saw that our booking disappeared. Wow, having calmed her down I checked all myself. Yep - no booking, disappeared w/o trace. The only things left - e-mail confirmations and less $1'000 on my bank account.

Next step - to send a message - several choices for the subject, one of them 'bookings'. No avail - since my booking was deleted, the system did not allow me to choose booking. Nice and cool - but my problem is booking...

Next step - call them [it is becoming urgent due to visa, etc] - found local AirBnB phone support number - dialed - nice greeting got cut after 30 secs and then silence and music... I guess I shall fee lucky?!

Next step - searching for a help desk, customer care or smth like that. Nope...

Why most companies that become big unlearn how treat their customers and users well? I am not speaking about wishy-washy feel good stuff - guys, this is basic - understand your customers pain points and re-engineer your systems and processes to meet those needs in a practical way. What is more basic for the guest then booking, money and security/trust.

I would really appreciate if someone @AirBnB would help to intervene the existing ineffective process. No need to return the money - just return the booking to my wife, make us happy :-)

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Exactly. Vice. People. Fuck. Have you ever read vice before?
Bunch of cold, fucking exploitative hipsters. (Truth zone)
except for it's free and not Apple-only.
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...free for up to 5 documents.
I tried this once and really liked it to the point where I considered replacing Google Docs with it.

Only to find the freemium usage-terms way too limited. You want me to pay to have more than 5 free-text documents stored each, probably occupying in total less than 10kb?

Seriously?

Edit: Seemingly the limit is 15 documents now. That's still a no-go.
Not having AC. It was 40°c today :/
I've heard that argument many times, and I really find it hard to believe. Would the landscape of the market change? Absolutely, but saying that it would disappear seems like fiction.

So, my question for against your statement is, if IP laws changed, why do you think that drug regulations (and everything else that drives up cost-to-market) would remain the same?
> How do you see an industrial secret being an alternative for a video game (the original post)??

Now THAT is an easy one. You make your game multi-player online and host all the IP on the server. That is the alternative that the world is being pushed towards. Perfect DRM, and less power in the hands of consumers than we have ever seen before. (Playing it offline or after the company has gone out of business? Forget about it.)
Thanks for the update and for creating such an indispensable tool. Regarding your last line, is there any plans to integrate South into Django mainline code in the near future? Is there a place to read the philosophy or roadmap for this?
Just curious what kind of failure it was? They can't say 'nobody of the accepted startups succeeded' because it's too early to tell that.
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The YC staff is much kinder after lunch
"The team at YC is changing the way it’s thinking about the startup vetting process. It still wants to look at the 'predictors of success,' but it is now also studying what makes a startup fail. Graham says it even looked at the time of day it’s accepted failed startups and realized that the YC staff is much kinder after lunch."
Is anyone else excited by the fact that your average Lego brick can easily hold a human's weight? So if you built things out of LEGO you could, at least in theory, stand on them.
Yep. It gets kind of interesting though when you think about the challenges.

You could have a really good plan to convert martian soil for plant use, but then again, that might fail. This obviously means you can't depend on your garden. Also, what you would have would be a laboratory, not a garden. You would spend a lot more time analysing the food than eating it.

On the other hand, you could carry out a sample return mission, bring some mars dust back, run tests, and land with a solid plan. Only thing is, sample return from mars would make moon rocks look cheap.

Finally, bringing the soil with you would be the most reliable method. It's moon rocks in reverse though! That soil would be, kilo for kilo, the most expensive soil in the history of mankind.
It seems people here at HN don't know much about vice and hard core hipster stuff. They only know node.js hipster.
I see mixed opinions whenever Elon Musk comes up. Perhaps your sample size of comments for both Elon Musk and China is insufficient. Indeed, when you posted your comment in this thread, there were less than 10 other comments.
I used gumtree in Australia to great effect a little while ago.

You may not get quite the same price you could through ebay, but you don't have any fees so I'm pretty sure I cam out ahead. That and transactions were completed in person for cash. When one of my items (WiMAX router) didn't work correctly for the new buyer I offered to go round and help and give a full refund if I couldn't get it working (it started working thankfully).

The weird thing about gumtree was the rapidity of response - I put a microwave oven on there a midnight on a Saturday night, and got three email responses within 15 minutes. They didn't follow up the next day, leading me to think perhaps they were drunk or stoned prospective microwave owners, but it still sold within 12 hours.

Perhaps I was too cheap, but it was an 'everything-must-go' emigration situation.
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Neat idea, but I don't think there were any onboard batteries -- AFAIK power was just fed straight from the RTG thermocouples, more or less. Batteries would have just added weight, would have had a crappy recharge capacity after a while, and wouldn't have made much sense for a deep space probe which relied on an RTG instead of solar panels.

Also, the RTG might be powering instrument heaters, keeping them at warm enough temperatures to prevent failure. If that's the case, once those are shut off, there's no turning those instruments back on.

EDIT: It appears that Voyager 1's ultraviolet spectrometer instrument, at least, is pretty tough: as of January 2012, it has survived having its heater shut off for power conservation: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20120117.ht...

That's one hardy spacecraft! =)
I doubt Paypal presented any of the evidence provided by the OP.
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> it's technology in search of a problem

>> in academic research that's the rule rather than the exception

That tells you something about academic research
Far from. It takes nearly 2 years just to get to Mars.

Also, China tends to be a fast copier, not a leader. They seem to leave the bulk of development costs to someone else. So I think it's unlikely that they will front the resources it'll take to make a Mars mission possible.
Thanks this was really useful. I use bash scripts, awk etc. fairly frequently but I guess rarely consider Perl for the same applications I do awk, perhaps I should.

Your comment really helped me understand where Perl should sit in my toolkit of programming languages, thanks again!
I do have to admit that he does take an unholy delight in mocking pundits, stock analysts, or those who play them on TV, who make stupid Apple predictions which prove to be stupid.

Somebody ought to. Tech pundits are no better than those idiot psychics that make a set of predictions every December for the coming year: Which celebrities will die, which will divorce, and so on. They're nearly always wrong, but when they catch a break and get something right, they boast about it for years.

Tech punditry is a noxious racket. I don't think we need fewer Grubers, or that Gruber should branch out and start serving claim chowder to the people who bash Microsoft, I think we need more Grubers calling these people out across the entire industry.
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Typically 'acquihire' means the company was purchased solely for the talent. If the company had investors, it means they'll get some of their money back. If it didn't, it might be done anyway to let the founders take their windfall as capital gains instead of ordinary income.

If they were just offered jobs, then it's not an acquihire. It's just a dead startup and some jobs.
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Typing "server" instead of "serve" happens to me extremely frequently too (it happened while typing this too), occupational hazard I guess :)
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