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That has to be the worst webdesign I've seen in months, and I'm talking about 24ways.org.

We're supposed to take design advice from a site that looks like a car accident?

No thanks.
The event horizon is the point where the gravitational pull is pulling you at nearly the speed of light so that there is no possible escape velocity for any particle that has mass, correct?

I'm no physicist, but if gravity were to act on a human body with that much force, wouldn't the force alone kill you? I imagine the force of the pull would be stronger than the force holding together the atoms that make up the tissue of your body, and you would disintegrate into a stream of particles accelerating toward the singularity. Am I way off here? If a smaller object approached an object of such great mass that not even light can escape its gravitational pull, wouldn't the smaller mass's particles inevitably be funneled into a single-file line until they are absorbed into the singularity?
So ... mindfulness isn't something you achieve. Don't worry too much about trying to figure out what "mindfulness" is and how to "achieve" it. I'm answering it as if the question were, "Anyone have a guide on how to meditate without getting lost in stories?"

There are lots and lots of guides, books, teachings. Buddhist methods tend to be very popular because many practitioners want to teach it in service of humanity and will put up with a lot of things from students.

Here's a small one I wrote, and someone asked me to post it onto Quora: http://www.quora.com/Meditation/Whats-a-nice-little-cheat-sh...

This is not complete or comprehensive. It shows you the first door and you an get fairly far with it. By the time you gain some skill in it, you would be able to find other guides to continue on.

If you like the Buddhist tradition, there are books like "Mindfulness in Plain English", available for free. I also liked "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha" but not everyone does, and it's considered fairly advanced. Advanced or not, the first couple chapters are worth reading. It too is also available for free online.

A method that is not of the Buddhist tradition (though influenced by it) is Dan Millman's "Way of the Peaceful Warrior." The book is written as a teaching story. If you want more of a step-by-step guide, Millman's "Everyday Enlightenment" will work.
If someone loses 30 pounds of body fat and you ask them how they did it, would it be considered hacking the system if they told you that they worked out and ate healthy meals while restricting their caloric intake? To me, that's the expected normal way to go about losing weight and for the majority of people is guaranteed to work.

So it is possible to get extraordinary results through the application of discipline to boring, traditional approaches.
I've looked at Peewee (albeit before the rewrite mentioned here), and, more to the point, my first response was "why didn't he write this in SQLAlchemy." SQLAlchemy is a battle hardened toolkit that's both broad and deep. At its lowest levels, its a toolkit for building ORMs. IMHO, if you're doing SQL in python, there's almost no reason to look anywhere else. That's how good it is.
I'm working on a project using Restify (http://mcavage.github.com/node-restify/). It was a quick way to get a ReST API up and running to interface with MongoDB. The routing is very intuitive (server.get, server.post, etc.), and I like the minimal approach. I didn't need all of the templating that frameworks like Express have since I'm using Backbone on the front end for a single page app.
They do specify Yahoo's benefit on the actual petition:

"It's a win-win. We get to keep building and Yahoo can say they're the first tech company to have one of its creations declared as an official national treasure."
Schmidt is typically this nervous/awkward to watch. I still enjoy his interviews pretty thoroughly though. I think the Tina Fey one is my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Mkufm3ncc
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good
mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of
a competent programmer.

Surprisingly true.
That's a fair point, even if it's unfair to the author (the site publishing her could use some work, granted). If one does bail on the article, though, I wish that wouldn't lead to a comment of some kind.
We'll see. That's what we are doing with https://openphoto.me
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"You decide where to store photos"

That is most likely the reason this, as many other "open" alternatives, won't defeat proprietary solutions.

A normal human being won't bother setting up an S3 account and integrating with this service when they can just pay Flickr/Picasa and forget.
This reminds me of the way people answer how you know people need what you're making. Everyone says they've validated the idea with users or talked to users. When you start getting deeper in the conversation you can tell they've only scratched the surface level. They don't know users all that much. I guess people are starting to be trained how to answer the question. The only person they're fooling is themselves though.
It's not webmail as we know it, that much is true. In an age of mobile and tablet prevalence, that's less important than it used to be. It would still be possible to send emails from a browser session (doesn't require exchanging private keys, it just wouldn't be signed... in other words, a "stopgap" sort of ability) and if you are using a trusted SSL connection (I know that's an if, but still pointing it out) you could have synchronous communications in a browser that were still being saved in an encrypted format.

The purpose of this is actually not to prevent a concerted attack on your communications--there are too many physical/social vectors in that scenario for encryption to even matter. The purpose is to prevent your personal correspondence from being indexed anywhere outside of your complete control, and to be transmitted in a way that prevents the elementary eavesdropping possible today. It should also make the sort of subpoena requests performed by "regular" law enforcement impossible. Most departments don't have the resources to crack a sufficiently complicated passphrase. So what I should have said is nobody should be able to run a search on every word hundreds of millions of people have written in the past ten years which they thought was private correspondence. And the system I am describing really would put an end to that ability. (NOTE: I'm not saying I think anyone at Google can do that. Maybe the NSA, but there's no proof of that either. My only point is that it's very technologically feasible right now and it shouldn't be.)

EDIT: By the way, for people who do know what they're doing and are willing to go through the extra steps, a system like the one I describe here (and am building) is still a net win--instead of your ultra-secure setup being limited to communicating with your ultra-secure friends, there would be a middle road for general communications with less tech-savvy associates.
Since when do we down-vote instead of discuss? Save that button for spam, like it was intended...
Agreed, it renders fine.
Hacker News recommends content to me. It's the only site that I look at every day. I don't worry if I haven't seen every HN headline, the site just isn't good for keeping up and the only way to win that game is to not play.

Once in awhile I'll look at a more news oriented site, like news.google or rarely my region's newspaper's site.

So yeah, I like having things recommended to me, and I like the way HN does that for me.
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Although it touches on 'do' syntax, I think it could use a little more on monads, which is really the crux of haskell programming. (>>=) and return, and an example or two. Maybe something on lifting.
I'm wiling to bet you could, and for a lot of money. If you did have the above mentioned robot to make it a push-button exercise, I'm pretty sure that there would be farmers on with prominent fields near motorway and tourist site willing.
It's almost green advertising, 100% biodegradable and with a reusable robot.
No. Nothing is sacred.
Hopefully after they fix "unknown or expired link" when clicking the More link.
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I'm betting against that. Photos, unlike many other types of content, are not ephemeral. If you don't believe they are then ask anyone who takes photos of their kids.

It is often difficult to defend my thoughts with younger more technical groups. If all people care about really is sharing photos in the moment then I'm wrong and OpenPhoto will be a failure. I'm bullish.
I prefer express, async, jade

Express is very solid and production ready, it's a good balance of magically handling the default things and not having to code for a totally unique system

Async lets you organize your code really well, and works well with the patterns of node.js code.

I also like commander for making console interfaces to apps, this can help with testing and administration
Atleast consider replacing the up/down arrows with unicode ones?
I love foundation it really does straddle the difference between bootstrap and skeleton, light and flexible while being fairly full featured. Plus the grid system is the tits.
This is pure speculation, but my guess is that signal spec licensing sits on shaky legal ground and that the big manufacturers are more than happy to pay up to avoid fighting a lawsuit that they may or may not win. Similarly, those that own the IP for the HDMI spec are unwilling to sue a small fish like the Raspberry Pi foundation, because even if they win, there's not much money to be made. And if they lose, then Samsung and Apple and Dell will realize they don't have to pay anymore, which would amount to a lot of money.

DisplayPort is a free spec and can be easily converted to HDMI, so I don't really understand why anyone uses HDMI. HDMI has more bullet points but I've never seen a device that can do anything more than deal with audio and video through the same cable. And Display Port does that fine.
While I do think Colbert is the smartest funny man (And Stewart the funniest smart man) around, and love to watch them both, I think you're right Luke. His being in character and using comedy generally lets him take the interview in directions and to places that he couldn't otherwise. And I think sometimes that he can come from such an odd place, his questions elicit answers that may not be otherwise given.
Please don't be so harsh on the author.

She's not saying "this is going to be a professional design for your next project", the title itself contains "half-decent".

She's providing insightful tips for developers to make their pet projects look..like they're not designed by engineers (we do tend to make a mess of things).

And the advice she gives is perfectly fine for exactly that. There are fonts that look good together, subtly textured backgrounds do look better than simple, flat colored one's and using basic color theory upgrades a websites look (teal vs. orange, cough). Together, they make something that looks half-decent.

Just like the author claimed.
Note that unless your mysql server has more than 4 (physical) cores, you aren't going to see any performance improvements from any variation/fork of mysql. 8 cores is where things start to diverge under load.

This website has some benchmarks to prove it: http://vbtechsupport.com/606/ http://vbtechsupport.com/657/2/

Also http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/02/18/mariadb-5-3-4...

But there are other reasons to look at mariadb/percona.
I don't know that it has to defeat every proprietary system in order to be successful and it doesn't happen over night. I can tell you that from what our customers are saying that the value proposition is becoming extremely clear. It's been challenging because the concepts aren't always easy to explain. But as with any model that's drastically different it takes time for folks to warm up to it. That was always the biggest hurdle. But I can say that it is happening in a real and measurable way.

This is a marathon.
As a user, IF and only if it is set up well.

Exchange is pretty horrible to administer.

Google also does email search better than anything on Exchange, and the web ui is better.
When you surrender your brain to a stream of thoughts, is that what you define as "mindlessness"?
I recall Philip Rosedale say his preferred method was trying to deliberately count to 10,000 every single day.

Anyone have similar exercises or think this is practical?
Twitter bootstrap makes prototypes usable. It does not replace good design on a product, and no one claims that.

If you are developer, please use it on your next prototype instead of throwing together some html and css.
I'd like to see some researchers in the field of psychology and physiology take these existing theories and knowledge of human body and begin to see if we can measure in daily life.

If we had a tool that would let us know when we were most productive to do certain tasks we could prioritize tasks accordingly. We'd greatly improve efficiency in our tasks by doing them at times that are reported to be most effect by the tool.

It's ambitious and very broad, but if we're going into the realm of monitoring our appliances, cars, schools, etc why not try to monitor and utilize that data to make ourselves more effective?
I don't think the effort is so much to hide it as it is to make the site more your own.
I wouldn't want to take this advice, from someone with such a poorly designed site.
I would like to have some of the common language extensions, and what they do too.
I can never remember the syntax for GDATs...
I ran into this about five years ago when doing a design that required HDMI I/O. Distributors in the US such as Avnet and Arrow wanted to see confirmation of being under contract to be able to buy chips. I don't remember all the details. I think you get access to sample quantities just for signing the contract but anything else required payment of the big fee. Also, you couldn't get access to some data sheets without proof of being under contract.

I can easily imagine that things in Asia could be very, very different due to, shall we say, how loosely IP rights are enforced there.
How about an independent non-profit organization that monitors and assigns grades to various characteristics of a company's API? Developers could consider that as a strong signal when deciding to commit to an API. One of the problems is that it is very difficult to anticipate the kinds of issues an API relationship would cause until it is already too late. This could help with that.

Basically a BBB for APIs but ideally non-profit. The challenge would be in maintaining objectivity and conflict of interests.
The site isn't loading for me, here's the text-only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
It's terrible Japanese too.
Meteor (http://meteor.com/) seems to be pretty popular these days. It's not labeled production ready but it is showing a lot of promise and is under active development. Checkout their screencasts to see what it can do.
My Japanese is really, really rusty, but isn't "anata" considered disrespectful?

Also, I thought the accepted transliteration was "wa", not "ha", but don't quote me on that.
Are IP rights enforced at all in China?
Show HN: Trade the stock market using javascript in a browser
I built www.StockTesting.com
It allows anyone to trade or test strategies on the stock market with Javascript, all from within your browser. You can see charts of your backtesting strategies from the last 10 years, or even set your strategy to autotrade the market and update your phone by text message, voice call, or email. You can do this all just by calling a function from within your javascript code (eg) : call_my("cell","555-1212", "Just sold my shares for a cool profit of $"+profit);
That proves the point. To be able to fold a simple protein, you have to be capable of simulating the very challenging simulation of "real world physics at an atomic scale".

To simulate a brain, you get to do that for a few hundred trillion proteins that make up a brain...and all their interactions with all the other trillion proteins.

The complexity doesn't come from the proteins so much as the physics that govern the proteins.
In college I was reading a lot of the EWDs (particularly his trip reports, some hilarious stuff there) and IIRC he didn't like C/C++ a lot and thought that functional programming has some promising ideas. This was in the later EWDs, I'd say 1150+.

There are some fun quotations of him about APL and Basic.
Focusing on the most important problems is not procrastination; in fact it is the opposite of procrastination.
Asking for "source" on how the world works? LOL

Actually, having street smarts would be anecdoatal;

<because>

Actually having street smarts would be anecdotal.

But this is OK. It's the point of the thread...
I've found "Mindfulness in Plain English" to be quite helpful. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
Will someone please remind Mr Winer that the Flickr API was conceived and created (along with Flickr itself) in Canada.

While you're at it, you might as well declare Celine Dion a US National Treasure (actually I'm serious... you can take her... please?)
How well does this work from a Chromebook?
One more thing: Weight. Inventor states the internal front gearbox is..."Light and compact – much less than 1kg weight and 20mm width."

A front derailleur typically weigh 50-100grams.
I've seen another 'designer' with this exact same layout. Heh.

Drew Mclellan was his name.
> nobody should be able to run a search on every word
> hundreds of millions of people have written in the past
> ten years which they thought was private correspondence.

If it's possible for your provider to compromise your system and take your keys, then they can run a search on everything you've sent through their routers.

If they can compromise one system, they can automate it and compromise ~100% of typical consumer machines, and then have access to all of their email.

The steps I described do not stop a concerted attack. They are merely the minimum required to prevent blanket surveillance of all email accounts managed by any given provider. If someone does less than what I described (and I'm sure I didn't get everything), then sending encrypted email is just wasting their own time.
Agreed. Flickr is $25 for unlimited storage. That's much better than S3 AFAIK. Especially in this day and age when I go out with my DSLR and come back with 4gig of new images.
Why could this website fail? And why could it succeed?
I find higher-order function to be really beautiful with CoffeeScript:

partial = (fn, a...) -> (b...) -> fn.apply this, [a..., b...]
compose = (fns...) -> (a) -> a = fn a for fn in fns; a

splat = (fn) -> (arr) -> arr.map fn
get = (attr) -> (obj) -> obj[attr]

maybe = (fn) -> (args...) ->
return unless args.length
return arg for arg in args when not arg?
fn.apply this, args
The physical keyboard on my Droid 2 is one of the main reasons I keep it. For one thing, it makes text selection easy - shift and arrows.

I'm waiting for the Droid 5. Come on Motorola:)
I've never heard of it but if are looking for alternatives, Tails is reasonably well known and seems to be trying to achieve the same goal.
I love that one, and it always surprises me when I meet people who can't express themselves properly. There are some of the earlier EWDs, where he meets a lot with German computer scientists (in particular one of the founding fathers of the field there, Friedrich L. Bauer, whom he calls "Uncle Fritz"), and it seems that he had good understanding of German, too.

There is also an interesting video of Dijkstra from a Netherland's television station (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/video-audio/NoorderlichtVideo....)
Great article. The underlying reasons that some in the workplace may frown upon the personal projects and hobbies of their subordinates and peers, I think, is simply related to the fact that some people are "all business" while at work", and not interested in your personal life until the annual Christmas party; and then they're still probably not all that interested.

If you can produce, and can show that you produce, then what you do on your own time probably doesn't matter to anyone who matters.

The problem, I think, is when there is a perception that people who work longer and harder, provide more value to a project. This perception can be hard to shake. This is mostly because for your average scientist, engineer, programmer or what have you - the contributions of one individual versus another are not at all easily established -- which invites human speculation, which invites irrational judgment.
Thinking the unthinkable
On the Google Play Store, 0 of the Top 25 free apps are from Apple.

Does this matter? Not really. It's rather asymmetrical. But it is a fact, much like your statement.
UI Parade
The link to Part II seems to be broken.
It may say unlimited, but only a fool would believe it.
How many photos do you have uploaded anyway?

Also, good luck dowloading your whole photo collection from Flickr.
> Sure, but the query was about "pay most attention to".

If you interpret that as "pay most attention to (when questions are ranked by the amount of attention we've paid them over all rounds)", nobody gets killed and we can all go home.
Obesity killing three times as many as malnutrition
It doesn't really matter how many of the applicants are revolutionary. But I can see that some of their biggest hits so far don't pay a lot of attention to following existing rules systems. And as pg has said numerous times now, it's the big hits that matter. The rest is noise.
I'm the founder of the project. Benjamin is one of our community managers and I'm glad he wrote this.

The value of OpenPhoto differs for many people. Benjamin stated why he uses it and even volunteers his time to help make it successful.

What I'm focusing on is making it easy and useful for people to regain control and peace of mind that all their photos are safe, in one spot and enjoyable.

We are doing this a few different ways.

* As the article points out, letting users (optionally) choose whee their photos are stores. I say optionally because we provide storage for those who don't know what that means or don't want to.

* Allow people to import photos from Flickr, Instagram and Facebook. More coming soon.

* Enable folks to change their mind at any time with their choice of storage service. If they choose us and want to change or find a different service that is cheaper or suits them better, we make the migration seamless.

We're an open source project but as you'll see we are very consumer focused. It's why we have apps on the app stores and offer a "hosted version".

Happy to answer questions.
You don't need an S3 account, as it can work with Dropbox and they are working on Google Drive integration.
Forgive me, but I don't understand how what you're describing is remotely possible. Cracking a single bcrypted passphrase should take an average time on the order of years. NSA and their ilk can maybe reduce that significantly, but they still won't be cracking an entire system any time soon, even if it's only 1,000 user accounts.

We must be talking past each other. I promise I'm not trying to be obtuse--could you please try again?
I wonder if they'll fix the API so copyright protection is not "on your honor".

As it is now you ask the API for a list of images and it gives them all to you. It's then up to you to check each image and make sure it's legal to download.

It seems to me they should just return the list of ones that are legal or at least have the option to filter the list rather than have to do it manually.

It's worse than that though. You can't use Flickr to share your images with friends and family unless you mark the images as CC. Anything else and an app is not allowed to download them

My app was banned by Flickr even though that's the use case I wrote the app for.

http://google.com/?q=flickrdown
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