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Yeah, I agree! I bet the pest control didn't actually say those exact words, either! You know, I wonder if there actually was a pest control guy at all--I bet it was really a plumber!

Man, I just can't trust this author at all anymore. Thanks for pointing this out. Thanks also for explaining the ambiguity of the English language to all of us, as well as some of the really interesting machinations people sometimes go through for conversational hesitation. It's information very few people realize and really contributed a lot to the discourse here on HN.
Sclafani: Vulnerabilities in Heroku
I'd like a single insurance policy to cover me for everything, driving my car, riding my motorbike, health care, critical illness, theft/damage of my possessions or property etc. I'd be happy for lots of data to be collected to refine the policy and tailor the price specifically. Put a black box in my vehicles, collect data about my activity / exercise with a fitbit type device, access my medical record. If it means I have the convenience of just one policy to renew, and I'm paying an insurance premium based on me, my lifestyle, and my driving style - not the average Joe's, I'd be more than happy.
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Seriously, this is a great point. One of the big problems with a small community of programmers who all think of themselves as elite, is that tasks like documentation and tutorial writing go by the wayside. This comment should be a wake-up call to any smart and far-sighted individuals who want to promote a language.
Django should really put this in a separate file
The project he linked to doesn't look like 500ma would matter much.

Next time you spend $25 for an ATmega32, remember what you called those other people.
My experience:

If done in a multiple-choice test fashion, coding tests are worse than useless. The questions usually hinge on minutia of syntax, like operator precedence. Also, they're usually done in Word, so auto-capitalization can cause problems. For instance, in Java, "boolean" and "Boolean" act differently. Word, in its infinite auto-capitalization wisdom, can make test-writers look like boobs to test-takers.

Coding tests when done with experience programmers watching via a collaboration tool, could be illuminating to the watchers. Seeing little things happen could tell a lot about the test-taker.

Unfortunately, the point of a coding test seems to be to allow some kind of administrative filtering on candidates before the interview-with-a-programmer, so they're often multiple choice and a hindrance to finding the right people.

I'll take multiple-choice coding tests, but only for their humor value. I would have a distinct bias against a potential employer that used them, and a larger bias against a potential employer that put any faith in coding tests.
His point on continuations is invalid.

"The problem: because closures can’t be stored in databases, you really have to use a hash table on your web daemon."

This is not true. Closures can be stored anywhere you want.
I don't think the possibility of the Big One precludes too many skyscrapers from being built. Skyscraper building techniques are such that this is of minor concern and the large skyscrapers would most likely fair better than most older, shorter buildings these days.
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Or you could just live in Seattle :)

Note: I'm terribly biased.
The "quality" of the schools is almost entirely a function of the economic/racial makeup of the district. If you moved all the middle/upper middle class whites and asians from the Valley into San Francisco, boom you'd have "good" schools.
Certainly--there are several legal ones floating around to allow testing of the IEs.

Apple is the only company that forbids virtualizing its OS (unless you're virtualizing it on OSX).
The download links still work too.
It doesn't even take 8 story buildings to reach critical mass for high-density urban living.

You can get high-density, highly-walkable urban neighborhoods at as little as three stories. In fact it's better for walkability to have a whole neighborhood of three or four story buildings than to pack the equivalent housing into a few 8 story buildings with lots of empty space between them.

Not that I expect the homeowners of Palo Alto would go for that, either.
The Pi also allows you to write code in a high level of your choice and can toggle GPIOs while running a web server and ssh.

Yes it uses more power, but for many applications, that doesn't matter.
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But there was no other software. It was a logistics system written in Lisp which moved fleets, troops and supplies.

It was based on a decade of research in various planning software written in Lisp.

> And if the software wasn't written at all there would have been hundreds of people doing the software's work manually instead.

How so? How should it work to move hundred thousands of people with hundreds of thousands different types of things between several continents? In a few months?
Yeah me too. I guess it would need to match all the wrong ways against a right way. It is probably easy for something like "jjjjj", but already someone doing BBBBi instead of I would be difficult to match: because one would also need to see where he ended up with BBBB: beginning of line or somewhere in the middle
Ya the problem there is you'll pay 2-4x more per event because you don't get the health company negotiated rate.
And we shouldn't have calculators because we may forget the relationships between numbers?

I use analytics to do significant A/A testing on every configuration the sites users are actually using to determine what will work for my A/B testing later...
Should I maintain a separate realtime analytics or delay deployments by 24 hours when I would like a little more assurance? This is not a rhetorical question, whether I should keep maintaining separate tracking for the 20% of the time where google analytics is unfit is an open problem for me.

Similarly, I would like to know if there is a sudden plummet in some demographic the second I start a test. It usually isn't significant, but the client panic will be. It is better to cancel the test and do a post-mortem before restarting.. A B test doesn't have to get its day in court.

Giving delayed numbers for routine reports is perfectly valid, dressing up that pig is luddism.
It was actually slightly more dumb than that.

Like most sites, after you register your account, we generate a nonce and email it to the provided address. You click the link with the nonce, we prompt you to set your password, and your account is ready. Our bug was that for already-verified users, the nonce column in the database is empty (it's a nonce, you see, so we only use it once...). This was the root cause for both bugs Mr. Sclafani describes.
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Embrace Ruby’s Lisp heritage and ditch YAML
I bypassed the library problem by calling Python from Arc and returning the results as s-exps. It took 40 lines of Python code.
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You may want to consider http://clipboard.com/ as well. It allows you to save almost any type of web clipping (text, whole pages, parts of a page, reader view, etc.). Disclaimer: I am the founder of Clipboard.
how do these compare to gpus? a kind-of client is considering using this or something similar to process radio data (calculating correlatins i assume) and i'm curious what chance i have of selling him a gpu based solution instead.
"You just need to understand cause and effect," said Apollo.

"He's right, mortal. This isn't what you would call rocket science," added Athena.

"Okay, and my business will succeed if I can understand cause and effect?"

"Yes," said Apollo.

"Of course! Why are you wasting time? Go write some software", said Athena.

So yeah, real-time A/B testing seems like a bad idea, but real-time analytics sounds fine. On the other hand, maybe the Gods gave you the idea of cause and effect to destroy you. I bet more than one story on hacker news today pretends to understand the causes for an effect.
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It’s full of great stories about the development of masters, like the Noble Prize winning physicist, Albert Einstein, and the pioneer start-up investor and mentor, and Mixergy interviewee, Paul Graham, tons of great stories and lots of good research.
Ask someone from the east coast what are the 10 biggest cities in the country. I would bet 99/100 wouldn't guess San Jose is in there.
500kg sounds trivial, until you realize they mean conversion of 500kg of antimatter into energy being able to use 100% of this energy for the drive. Good luck solving that problem any time soon. You have the time though, it's going to take a really long time to make or gather 500kg of antimatter.

Then there's the problem of destroying your destination when you arrive in shower of gamma radiation.
the first Gulf War in Iraq was won because a Lisp application took care that US soldiers had everything from toilet paper, ammunition to gasoline

The word because means that if there was no Lisp application the war would not have been won. This is almost certainly false, even if the Lisp application did make things easier.
Colour is dead. Nobody's talking about their colour TVs any more.
This is exactly my thought. No matter where you work (unless you own the company of course), you will always have to do work that you don't want to do.

My biggest issue is deadlines. At my current company, the boss constantly adds things and changes his mind on a daily basis..even when there are hard deadlines. He also ignores the fact that it will add time onto the deadline (many people have tried), but expects everything to be done on the same timeline.

This is why I have decided to work for myself.
you sir need a broader view on the world.
No, it's not false, but I'll rephrase it to illustrate my point: "the only economically practical way to reduce bugs is to test thoroughly, unless you're NASA or you have some magnificent budget that somehow lets you hire people who can mathematically prove your code is bug free".

I am aware that you can prove code is correct, from a math POV. That's about the only way you can write "bug free" code without extensive testing, and even then, I'd argue that's not good enough - code needs to be tested. Bugs don't exist just in code. They exist in CPUs. They exist in configuration. They exist in dependency version mishaps that somehow make your code work incorrectly.

There is no silver bullet here. Sorry - there just isn't.
Raspberry pi is helping people build cheap netflix settop boxes.

That's hardware hacking.

In reality, those of us who don't bring a pickaxe and a carbide lamp to work are just "systems integrators" anyway. Attitudes and titles don't pay the bills.
Alameda is a fabulously-kept secret. The ferry commute is splendid and with the exception of a rough area on the west side, it's like walking around Mayberry. Shopping isn't terrible.

If you're like me and don't care for a bar-crawl nightlife and would prefer to stay in and read (and own a car, though this isn't as important), you'll love Alameda. Don't tell anybody how good it is to live in Alameda, though, they'll all move here.
Question for Americans: why did Mark choose Newark for this charity money? Is it because Mark grew up there, or is it in a very sorry state compared to the rest of the country, or..?
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How do you "allocate" memory on stack? You can always do 'double arr[huge_constant]' and, depending on resources, overflow heap data. Or with recursion. Damn those bugs >:-)

The thing about C is that programmer should do check size before calling function with double arr[n]. Isn't that point of C? On the other hand, user can make fast stack allocation which, depending on situation, can be good. Stack is insecure by default, OS should put it really far from other parts. In embedded systems, well there you must always think about these kind of things.

Btw, how are (p)thread stacks implemented? Every thread has it's own stack, that's ein interesting situation.
I am speaking about SBCL, in particular; don't know about others. You can drill all the way down.
I like Kippt because you can set it up to automatically save any link you share on Twitter. Since Twitter has yet to let us access our archive of Tweets, Kippt makes it super easy to find that link you shared months ago. I've yet to use it to follow or be followed much though. I may consider ditching Pocket for Kippt completely, as well.
Recommendation engines are broken. Once you get past rating 1600 movies on Netflix the recommendations go to basically zero and you see the same thing over and over again :(

for that reason I'm starting to like the mash-ups people are making like http://abetterqueue.com/
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I think it's you who's assuming too much. I don't see why you think the author assumes the pest control guy is "disturbed by the open admission of sexuality." What the author says is that the pest control guy was "trying to process this and maintain his composure," which could easily describe the process you describe in your last paragraph.
OAuth would be very much appreciated.
Anything north of berkeley and you run into the same suburbia that exists in the south bay with your applebees and big box stores. Emeryville is like that too, but the North Oakland/Berkeley area is really nice and downtown Oakland is getting better and better.

I just moved to the north west corner of oakland (what realtors like to cal NOBE) and it's a really nice place to live. Close to ashby/macarthur bart, temescal, and the "suburbia" crap in emeryville that can be handy to have close at by even if I don't want to spend any time there.

If you are thinking of buying the competition is stiff. Took my wife and I 7 months and 6 offers to land a place. We love SF, but the cost of rent and not having an outdoor space made the east bay very attractive. I love it.
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I prefer it. YMMV.

She could also use "lover", and creep out the young people who don't want to think about older people as sexual beings...
The OP didn't say lying about his hand, he said lying about who he is, which is what I'm responding to.
This is the crucial point which the whole discussion seems to have missed.
Dog's poop - maybe.
Overflown garbage cans - always.
But I never saw any human crap for the past 12 yrs I live in NYC. Where do you people go? :D
I feel "NYC sucks so badly" vibe when I come back from a vacation in Austria, Germany or Switzerland. But NYC still rules, not sure if I would change it for San Fran; I would love to try it but good luck changing jobs for me and my spouse "to just try it out" :\
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This is definitely something that I think has been overlooked in this thread.

If you're dealing with serious money (to the point where an individual is unlikely to be willing and able to spend that kind of money) the odds of even being able to use a credit card are slim to none. Enterprise companies do not generally use credit cards for large purchases. You're better off making sure you can handle POs and ACH (which for the life of me I couldn't tell you how to do outside of "try Dwolla").
"While both Mr. Sclafani and Heroku endeavoured to use test accounts exclusively, a very small number of customer account passwords were reset during the incident"

This is interesting.
I think he could have waited the two weeks to get an answer for his counter-notification before raising torches and pitchforks.
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"Girlfriend" in particular is ambiguous for women.
I wonder if perhaps it's time for the pendulum to swing back the other way some. I mean, I'm pretty happy doing my own thing, but there are plenty of people who just want to have some security in life, and in a world where there's little of that, a company that provides some might be able to attract people. Maybe not in an industry like ours, but who knows... just a random thought.
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"I enjoy rebelling against authority, and I will make fun of you for not knowing how to type formulas in excel."

I'm looking forward to my next interview.
Haha. "This is a CONSTRUCTIVE discussion zone only! Shut up with your opinions, I don't want to hear them!"
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So, open question time: How do all you HN'ers use Trello? What kind of things do you manage with it? Bonus for telling us what you used before, and how Trello makes it easier. Super-duper bonus for anything to do with running software projects, and running businesses.

Things I've been using it for:

* Tracking people through recruitment process

* Tracking people through usability testing screening / testing / followup process

* User stories / hypothesis through dev process

* Pretty much everything the company is doing (we have multiple backlogs like Learning, Marketing, Product Ideas, Potential clients, etc. that feed into a separate single kanban-style board that covers the next four or five weeks worth of work)

* Used it for open and closed card sorts for UX/IA work.

* Organising conferences

The thing I like about Trello is that it's pretty much process agnostic. There's very little there that's not related to organising the cards. Which works well for me since what I use by default is cards - or post-it notes - stuck to the wall.

I've previously played with pivitol, mingle, basecamp, etc. They were mostly trying to do too much for me and felt like I was trying to mangle my process to fit the tool. Trello lets me fit the tool to my process.

The places where I use Trello are where I've not got enough wall space for physical cards (e.g. there are about 200 odd cards on the company backlog board), when I'm working with people in multiple locations, and when I'm doing stuff when I'm on the road.

I still have a physical board. When we're in the office for extended periods we pretty much ignore Trello for the "real" board. If we're in/out we keep the physical/trello boards synced. If we're on the road we just use trello and sync on return.
It looked human, based on its size. This was coming up the stairs at Times Square from the 1 train, so probably a rare occurrence.
I gained most of my expertise about the JVM running Ruby apps on it with JRuby (and after that, Clojure). I started out something of a Java-hater and eventually came around to kind of sort of liking Java (although I'd certainly rather write Ruby in the overwhelming majority of cases)
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I don't find this offensive, merely annoying. In your previous post you make it sound like it is easy to avoid the kind of small talk that reveals that you are gay. This is not the case. Sure, you can be blunt and give 1 word answers every time somebody tries to make smalltalk with you, but that will just make people think you are in a perpetually bad mood. About half the time I will just play along and mentally substitute the genders to avoid any awkward situations, but you can't really do this if you may see the person again, or when people who know that you are gay are also present (because then you will confuse them). If you do use the correct genders then more often than not there is an awkward situation, sometimes resulting in complete silence and then the other person will try to get away from you (not because they hate you, just to get out of the awkward situation).
Many of Lisp's uses of macros can be replicated in Haskell by taking advantange of lazy evaluation. This is enough for most needs I've ever had, but some things still need the macro system that Template Haskell provides. Deriving lenses from type declarations is one of the up-to-the minute uses.
Thank you for being open about that issue. All the reading about vulnerabilities definitely made me more aware when writing critical parts of my applications.
Because some people want to run their own DropBox clone, and titling the post "...goes Open Source" usually (correct me if I'm wrong) implies that the ENTIRE product goes open-source, not just half of it in order to prove that its security is "for real".
Totes $25 for an ATmega32: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ATMEGA328-PU/ATMEGA...

Try and pop the ARM chip off of your raspi and see how it works out.
Likewise, I decide to live in a community in which we reject the idea that we are all barbarian animals, fighting for scarce resources in a dog-eat-dog world.

Your world is one where you point a gun to my head (using the government of course) and tell me what kind of medical care I can trade with some guy you don't even know. So don't talk to me about "barbarian animals", OK? Your only means of doing what you think is "ideal" is to resort to cowardly force -- cowardly because you just pull the voting lever and somebody else does your dirty work.

Don't wonder why "resources are scarce" when your reply to someone who creates an unapproved alternative is to beat them up with the government.
In fact, initially JP Morgan looked at GPUs for acceleration. They ported one of their models to the graphics architecture and were able to get a 14- to 15-fold performance boost. But they thought they could do even better with FPGAs. The problem was that it was going to take about 6 months for an initial port. That's when they went to Maxeler and initiated a proof-of-concept engagement with them.

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-07-13/jp_morgan_buys_int...
The ActiveRecord query that caused this was along the lines of:

User.find_by_email_and_token(params[:email], params[:token])

If the token is nil, it basically turns into a `find_by_email`.

I'll also add that while we had tests that were intended to avoid this bad behavior, these tests were unfortunately broken and were instead verifying the incorrect behavior.
I saw Alexis Ohanian judge a startup competition once (I think it ironically may have been TC Disrupt) and he did an outstanding job. Articulate and critical yet kind.
If someone who is more knowledgeable can answer, how would this compare to existing soft processor cores such as MicroBlaze?
However, what I like to see in C are "//" style comments, declaring variables at other places than start of scope, the integer types with bit size specified, etc...

All of those are already in C99...

And malloc() takes more time than subtracting a variable from the stack pointer. Though VLAs have pitfalls so you probably don't want to use them outside of throw-away code anyway.