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Steve Russell, as in "I actually made Lisp a programming language rather than just a mathematical notation" Steve Russell?

Also, I absolutely love this demo. It's really a work of art.

It really puts to shame my humble plan to finish my Osborne 1 emulator and put it on the web.
I've used NZBs that were 3+ years old and they've mostly worked fine. Occasionally blocks are missing, which of course is more likely the older an NZB gets, but most of the catalog is still together.

They're right that many providers are getting hit with notices, which causes them to remove a few chunks of each rar from their server making it impossible to complete the download and too pervasive for repair by typically-sized parity file, but this can be circumvented by using a lesser-known news server as a backup; you still use Astraweb or Giganews for 99% of the transfer, but your fallback picks up the pieces that have been DMCA'd out of AW/GN/another major carrier.

I would be happy to see a more intelligent splitting system than rars, as one missing block in a couple of rars will often make it really difficult to extract the content you DO have and use a more robust delivery system, like a torrent, to download the blocks you're missing. This is going to become increasingly important.

News servers are interesting because they really are a non-optimal method for this kind of transfer that has incidentally become a hot bed for filesharers, probably just because of the plausible deniability ("yes officer, of course we only intend our server to be used by those discussing photography..."). I too wonder if it's not time for a new protocol, something more direct than torrents (webseeds kinda works here, but not quite what I'm looking for) but less hacked-up than NZBs and ASCII-encoded binaries in split files.

It's time to stop skirting around the issue and try to put together a serious underground analog to direct-downloaded binaries, something hearty and immune, or as immune as possible, to interference and foul play like this.
The main idea is interesting, but the justification for the name - that Jedi Knights built their own light sabers as a reaction to an Empire - does not sound correct. The Jedi were around long before Emperor Palpatine was destroying the Republic.
You teach lean thinking to his boss. (And make no complains, just teach it.)
Not at all, travel industry is huge. A newsletter is a great way to build customer funnels for other paying services. Good luck!
That was my first computer, with that awful beige Radioshack shoebox cassette player. Oh, the fun days playing Artilery for hours and hours :o)
Transparency is an honorable goal in and of itself; that said, most people do not want to make complex trade-offs, nor do they want to own the unpopular outcomes of those decisions.

You can expect most people to acknowledge the problem - briefly - and then return to complaining about your solutions.
Sooo.... MS Office?
I'm just gonna plug this, cos they are a great charity and I really like how they are ground roots innovative and solving real problems.

http://www.thefullbellyproject.org/Products/SolarHandCart.as...

Guess all they need is a couple of USB sockets on there now... :)
Do you think that Heroku makes most of its money from startups? I don't.

However they definitely do believe in getting people to be customers early. Hence they market to startups in the hope that they'll grow up.
If having fun making things with friends is "unironic brogramming," I'm proud to be an unironic brogrammer.
You should use firefox ... it has the same functionality, and you can host the server if you want.
64-bit address space lets virtual memory related things like ASLR really shine, even if the physical RAM is < 4GB.
The more interesting part is the ARM multi-platform support. 64 bit ARM cores haven't hit the market yet, but the ability to run one ARM kernel on several different hardware set ups is useful today.
It does look vastly different. The next time a client comes around looking for an ERP system, I'll vet it again.
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It comes down to competition, information, and control.

When you go for maximum diversity in big markets (like a big REIT), you're competing against a big pool of smart money. There are going to be fewer pricing errors to exploit. You don't have more information than other players, and you don't have any particular control over the management of the investment.

If instead you are an expert in one small market, competing against a smaller pool of other players, you are going to find more pricing errors to exploit. And you are going to achieve much greater control over the investment, so if you happen to think you're an above-average manager (or chooser of managers), you can improve your returns above average.

Diversity isn't everything. It can actually hurt, if it means you're investing in many things you don't understand well, vs a few things you do.
Although this post was upvoted by quite a few people...

I think it really depends on the tone of the post. If you don't really see the point in something and it turns out there is a point, it's better to say something and find out, than just ignore it.

Of course, if the point of a "anyone else sick of..." is just to be snarky, then I'd agree. But this felt like an honest question to me.
The plans in the draft bill include:

Internet service providers having to store for a year all details of online communication in the UK - such as the time, duration, originator and recipient of a communication and the location of the device from which it was made.

They would also be having to store for the first time all Britons' web browsing history and details of messages sent on social media, webmail, voice calls over the internet and gaming, in addition to emails and phone calls

Police not having to seek permission to access details of these communications, if investigating a crime

Police having to get a warrant from the home secretary to be able to see the actual content of any messages

Four bodies having access to data: the police, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the intelligence agencies and HM Revenue and Customs
As someone in the industry, I can say that medical software is so bad because hospitals want lots of features and medical specialties are niche markets.

small market + high complexity = low quality
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If you accept that patents should fully be property, as the current law does, then lawsuits by non-practicing entities are not a sign of a problem with the system. Lawsuits are just one of the ways to enforce and monetize property rights.

Now, you may think that intellectual inventions shouldn't be the subject of property rights. That's an entirely defensible position, but it's also a totally separate issue.
Among other things, that try..catch won't do anything for SIGSEGV(int * p = 0; * p = 1) and SIGFPE(1/0). You can handle the signals, or you could miss them like you did just now. That won't be a design issue but an implementation bug.
Since no one is really posting about the apps: I just updated to the new Android version and it blows the old Yahoo Mail app away. The app feels more like an Android app, it looks better, it's snappier, the ads are gone, and is overall a much better experience. If this is representative of the type of improvements we will see, I am excited.
Unfair. Some of us have the discipline to keep our trolling and our patent suits separate.
You should go interview with google's chrome team and bring this up, I'm sure it's something they hadn't thought of.
There's a difference between going over budget and systematically overcharging. A major government contract should have provisions for the former, but if someone systematically overcharges they should be in court.
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I agree but something can still "look like spam" without being spam.
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Spell checking math, and in particular LaTeX math, is a complete nightmare. I, for one, find that there are just as many substantive typographical errors after spell checking my papers as before, and all I've done is wasted at a minimum an hour trawling through false positives.

Besides, small typos in a paper that's substantially readable and well crafted, written by someone in a language other than their first, are scarcely a reason to stop reading.
Not all government contracts are the same. Many of them have provisions for going over budget.
Congratulations to you, OpenERP is an incredibly ambitious project of potentially enormous utility. I can't think of a bigger source of waste and deadweight loss in the corporate IT world than the slow, stagnant, user-unfriendly ERP software that huge companies like Oracle and SAP spend millions of dollars selling to other huge companies who don't really understand what they're buying. I have struggled with it for years and often daydreamed of writing my own ERP suite to sell to small businesses. Kudos to you for actually doing it!
As a Windows 8 developer, the most frustrating part of WP8 is the lack of compatibility for native HTML5/WinJS apps. For me, this was the best thing about Windows 8. It made building apps easy and fun. The most ridiculous thing about the whole thing is that the HTML5/WinJS apps are completely responsive, and you pretty much have to build a mobile version of your app to support "snap" mode. So, they could easily have a write once, run anywhere model if they just supported native HTML5 apps in WP8. Sorry, /rant.
Although certainly crippling to a startup, damages are usually not that high in absolute terms unless it's the likes of Samsung being sued. If memory serves me right, according to a recent article on HN, they're on the order of ~$1m for small-medium businesses and $7m for larger businesses.
If you want this, then:

A. Let your engineers know they will never have to look or explain this code to anyone, and

B. Their job isn't on the line if it doesn't work.

The reason your engineers want clean, testable, fast code is because they know that the project manager won't be up until 3AM debugging the system because it's down and there's a giant pile of hastily written code and technical debt.

(I agree with what someone else said that developing and selling your own product really clarifies the importance of getting things out the door, but in those circumstances the pain of no customers is more than the pain of the 3AM debugging session.)
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From a personal standpoint, I think the web design is quite attractive, but I would be looking for something simpler and more functional. The only reason that I would approach the site is for gift ideas, (I would use Amazon for buying, actually storing a wishlist of hopeful transactions). My train of though it to start with the person who I'm buying a present for, and brainstorm what I should buy them based on what I know about them. It seems that the site is organized in a way that assumes you already know what you're looking for.
Nice interface, and I enjoy the tabs. My YMail account is still just crud for fantasy sports and spam, but it's a nice interface nonetheless. Much more responsive than I remember it being as well.
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Love this approach, and the same can be done for IT departments. It's the first step in making IT a strategic resource and not just a utility. Show technical teams the details of how their work supports the results on the sales team (and maybe support, etc.) If the manager or executive doesn't already understand the connection, then this will be an excellent exercise for them too.
> When i think of ARM i think of Mobile Phones, total ram isn't an issue(yet?) Are there other advantages?

We don't think about it much, but the total power draw of a data center is a huge cost, and ARM servers are lower-power than x86 servers. Every step towards being able to replace x86 servers with ARM ones is saving the people who pay data center power bills lots of money.
Also, Not True. WP7/8 runs a modified version of silverlight. Now, both WPF, Silverlight and Windows 8 all use XAML, but you are not guaranteed that they will be cross compatible (close, but not quite the same). They all run C# code, but with different base class libraries and sometimes one env will not have certain classes (HttpClient, among others).

So, they are very similar and porting from one env to another usually isn't a huge deal, but issues can arise. See Portable Class Libraries to make your life easier in this regard: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh335063.aspx
Dropbox on my iPhone 5 has a place for purchasing 100GB for $99 in settings. I think they had to decide to give in or not allow signups in their app. They chose to give in to Apple and allow subscriptions in their app.

The Dropbox app only has a single subscription in comparison to several options on their website including paying monthly. I guess Apple is OK with that.
Use the Internet? Windows 8 was mentioned here because it is a mobile OS.
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I never said it was astounding those are your words not mine. Now tell me how many of your parents middle class friends have been able to save $1500/month consistently for 25 years and have 1.5m in the bank. Unless you are in the upper class, I'll bet none of them.

The point is the above poster gave ludicrous manipulative figures saying they "lost" 400k. It's a great example of how people can sit back and be great armchair quarterbacks and pooh-pooh things using flawed mathematical assumptions but when you look at things in the real world, it all falls apart. He says based on his numbers they "lost" 400k meanwhile they have 1.5m in the bank. You say all it takes is to save 1500/month over 25 years every year and ill be willing to bet no one you know has been able to save 1/3 of their pretax income consistently every month for 25 years.

Housing is generally a great passive way for people to save for retirement. Nothing is guaranteed of course. Many people lost their savings because of the Housing bust. But that is a 5 year period of people relative to decades of people who actually prospered from it.
fair enough. Although I feel like you missed my point. Review my startup is great. And all for people building a startup for startups.

I'm just seeing a lot of startups whose focus is to market to startups. And I feel like many people might be spinning their wheels by building for a market that is oversaturated.

What the hell do I know? Keep building startups for startups and asking for a review on HN. I'm just concerned that those people who are building their startup for startups might be wasting their time. And I myself and finding myself irritated about seeing nearly the same exact startup idea within a week. So flag me, I deserve it.
The trap I fell into was making the mistake of arguing with a lawyer. ;-)
Gold isn't a terribly useful metal. There are some minor electrical applications, a handful of catalyst applications, and of course jewelry. The size of the international investment stocks is a great multiple of the annual usage in all these categories.

So the high value of gold is predicated on the high value of gold -- think tulips, Miami condos, and dot com equity.

However, gold has been in this bubble for a very very long time. Consider the famous investing maxim "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" and just stay away is my opinion.

In response to the sibling post on transmuting gold, the minimum possible energy cost is really, really high (due to the necessary gamma rays and the cross section of 198Hg). Unless we figure out a way to produce to nearly free energy it is never going to be worth it.
That's FUD. Check out this article on how much effort it takes to support both WP7 and WP8 with first class apps
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UpdatingMyWindowsPhoneAppToWin...

TLDR; minor code changes, change screen ratio, add screenshots
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I still think people should post "Review my startup" on hacker news. I am just seeing the same exact idea over and over again. I will definitely check out pivoted.co
How is the market not competitive? UPS, FedEx, and USPS, are the three big carriers that come to mind. The logistics for nationwide delivery pretty much insure your not going to have a large number companies. You might get some that specialize in particular types of delivery, but generic deliveries is self limiting.
Now, fix all the chat spams we get all day.
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This surprises me. I don't remember the last time a spam message made it to my inbox with Yahoo. Maybe 7 years ago?
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It can't possibly be uglier than Oracle ERP though, that thing (or at least the version my last employer had) is built on an in-browser Java Applet. It also has weird dependencies on an older version of Java, so it can break if you update the Java install on your machine. Ugh!
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There can't lost sales unless you were also selling the patented item.

Not even if it occurred during the lag time of you bringing it to market. (If this ever actually happened without corporate spying and intentional infringement, than the patent was clearly too obvious)
Northwestern is obviously not the troll in this hypothetical, since it's the inventor, but the entity that buys Northwestern's patent may very well be a non-practicing entity. If a suit by Northwestern to enforce the patent would be legitimate, why not a suit by anyone else who bought the patent?

The point is that "using the property in your business" is not a requirement for legitimately enforcing property rights when it comes to any other kind of property. The right to use property productively is part of the "bundle of sticks" that defines a property right, but so is the right to sue for infringement of that property. Splitting up those individual rights and selling them and buying them individually, these are all just part of how property rights work.

The whole point of treating inventions as property is to allow inventors, like Northwestern, to monetize their inventions in the same ways they might monetize a piece of land. They can build something on it, sell it to someone else to build something on it, or even sell it to someone who does nothing with it but sues people who trespass on it. Usually people don't do the latter with land, but the nature of land makes for very different enforcement than the intellectual property.

Again, this is completely orthogonal to what you might think the scope of patent rights should be. Maybe we shouldn't treat them as property. Maybe they should go into the public domain immediately. That's all plausible. But we do treat them as property, and lawsuits are just one of the ways of monetizing property.
> For reference: P <= BPP <= NP

No, BPP is not known to be in NP. It is known to be in Sigma_2 and Pi_2.
Stephen Colbert as senator? South Carolinians like the idea.
I did not know this about WP8, and I'm glad you said something. It's stuff like this that will make devs steer clear of writing for them. If I can write a PhoneGap app for Android/iPhone (Which I am), but I have to make major changes to write for WP8 then I am not going to do so.
He had me up until the "I am the 99%". I thought we were finally through with that.
I recently watched this film on Netflix and it was great! I knew nothing about it before seeing some parodies pop up a few years back.
Is that legal in London? It's illegal where I live (Santa Barbara, CA), but lots of people do it anyway.
Nobody suggested there were lost sales.
I just logged into my old account and couldn't believe the lack of SSL. Mindblowing. I entered https:// manaully and the page loaded after going through the Chrome certificate warnings.
“There are two types of startups... those that are successful on a code base of which the engineers are moderately ashamed... and those that go out of business.”

-- Lean Startup 2012 Conference

Perfect is the enemy of good enough, and all that. Especially as a startup, there's no guarantee you're going to be in business in a few months, and time = money. I'm not saying you shouldn't have well-tested code, but you probably shouldn't spend weeks perfecting something when a good enough solution can be done in a day.
I'm pretty sure that if you have an iOS application with signups and you have a subscription on your website, you have to have subscriptions available in the iOS app. Microsoft could just do what Dropbox did and allow subscriptions from their app and also allow the same from their website. Dropbox has more flexible options on their website than on their iOS app.
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The general thought was that it seemed spammy.

Just because the general thought on HN is that something seems spammy, doesn't mean it is. Focus on results, not the emotional feelings of people who may not even be your audience.
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You implemented one of my long list of ideas - Social Network As A Service. It looks really nice and promising. Good luck. A demonstration of all social widgets all a demo social network using those widgets will be very nice.

BTW, there is a typo on this page - http://hull.io/about . It should be developing instead of "developping".
It (from a screenshot) looks exactly like the Windows 8 Mail app, which is an interesting consequence of going "full metro"

I'm very curious how fully functional it is.
OK, I'll bite. In what ways does Dart reek of Java?

* Dart has top-level variables and functions, Java does not.
* Dart has optional static types, Java does not.
* Dart programs start at main(), Java does not (see static initializers)
* Dart has factory constructors, Java does not.
* Dart has true lexical scope and nested functions, Java does not.
* Dart doesn't need to be compiled into bytecode, Java does.
* Dart's classes have implicit interfaces, Java does not.
* Dart has auto generated getters and setters for fields, Java does not.
* Dart has one-line function syntax, Java does not.
* Everything in Dart is an object, Java has primitives.
* Dart has only library privates, Java has public/protected/package/private.
* Dart starts quicker than Java.

In all fairness, both Dart and Java and JavaScript use { } and ;
Really? my experience with the emulators (both for windows phone, and windows 8) have been fantastic. Can you elaborate what was horrible about them?
trolls = Attorney.where(is_troll: true)

trolls.each { disbar }
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I remember writing the bulk of the Wikipedia article[1] on this cipher back in my late teens when I was getting into crypto. Checking back, it's been heavily edited, but it retains the bulk of the original structure and all of the original example that I used. Kinda neat.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_%28cipher%29
You might be interest in Portable NaCL (aka PNaCL). http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl