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I agree, with the qualifier that the "need" can be something that you made up.

Like you, I started learning programming after college, and I worked through courses, books, lecture slides, tutorials, read library docs, etc. but I learn the most at times when I actually sit down and go through the whole process of designing and building a complete application that does something useful. This year I've made it a goal to write code every day, with the intention of this culminating in launching at least one complete web application this year as a side business for extra income. I have a couple of solid ideas that I think I can build (and sell), but the only way to learn how to build something is by trying to build it.

Tutorials and courses are great and are necessary up front, but your fingers really need to be typing code that is generated by your brain, often, in order for it to stick.
"Blue collar" is a common expression to describe developers without CS background, that usually develop CRUD applications and are expected to be easily replaced by management.
Well, changes to e.g. cameras (like the GoPro) that drive the cost of creation down will continue to make a big difference; but 8k TV? Nobody has the bandwidth. Nuts to that.
What makes you think that stateful code can't be reasoned about in a mathematical fashion?
You'd probably want to bump 1000 iterations of PBKDF2 to something like 100000 in the next version. Better: include cost parameter in key format, and calculate the number of iterations on-the-fly by estimating how many iterations it takes for a certain amount of time.
I'm a horrible person for this, but I love Silicon Valley along 280 -- the hp offices/Stanford/ VMware area of palo alto/Menlo park to work, and atherton, Hillsborough, woodshed, etc to live.
Note, for what it's worth, the Dutch system does not work as well as that of our neighboring countries. Here people often have to wait a long time to have something done, whereas for example in Belgium you are helped much quicker (resulting in some Dutch people going to Belgium for healthcare).
The fastest way to annoy someone is for the docs/examples to be out of date.

Previously Facebook has introduced API breaking changes pretty regularly, so it would be challenging at best. They've made a commitment for 2013 that breaks will only happen quarterly so it should be safer for Codecademy to commit soon.
After a few decades of emacs and Common Lisp, I strongly prefer the free community IntelliJ with the Clojure plugin.

Sure, I have emacs setup for Clojure development, I just don't use it anymore, preferring IntelliJ. Times change :-)
Google starts prompting Google+ Pages to create their own Communities
Trillian claims to support Skype. I havn't tried since Trillian really went downwards after version 3 - when they started with "astra", included ad-ware(opencandy), bloated the client and required all account information and communication to go through their own servers.

Until this day Trillian 2-3 still beats any IM-client i've ever tried. It's fast, has plenty of features, plugins and is customizable in just the right places.

Back then using a third party client was a must since the official Windows Messenger client was completely useless, same story for icq and aim. I wouldn't say the official Live messenger client is good today, but it is good enough to make me not crave for a 3:d party client, I simply don't care anymore.

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Oh man, does that petition start by comparing taking someone's life and livelihood to constructing a new building? Honestly now.

The Bay Area feels like a typical tragedy of the common scenario - no one likes the absurd housing prices, or endless traffic, but no one is willing to allow high density housing/construction in their area. So the burden increases on everyone, bit by bit.
> The truth is, it's all state. All of it.

Lisp represents mutable state the same way Python and C++ do.
As someone looking to move to San Francisco, I was amazed the author said it was ever cheap. Any chances it will return to affordable-to-live as a college grad in the near future?
Right. Clojure isn't the first Lisp for the JVM, but it's definitely the first one to care so deeply about other languages and existing libraries.

If you ask about C interop or creating standalone binaries on a Common Lisp board, you'll get an answer (because you can do this). But you'll also get this whole, "Oh, but why would you want to infect our beautiful language/runtime with the fallen world of imperative code, UNIX conventions, etc. Free your mind!"

That. That right there. That's the problem.
US concerns over UK vote on EU
I think you're reaching too far - 7 year old, 4 versions obsolete software isn't even worth pirating today. This isn't an advertisement.
In Oakland, I'd some nice parts of Lake Merrit, Chinatown and Temescal. Rockridge is nice, if thoroughly yuppified. Richmond's Marina Bay and El Cerrito are both thoroughly nice and BART-adjacent, if a bit too suburban and removed.
Yep. And in Perl6 these were changed to:

__LINE__ $?LINE
__FILE__ $?FILE
__PACKAGE__ $?PACKAGE
__END__ =begin END
__DATA__ =begin DATA

ref: http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/S02.html#Double-underscore_forms
It is, but apart from being somewhat strange - I doesn't have just some functions removed, they are implemented differently from mainline Photoshop, it still has not Retina support, unlike Lightroom, for example. Clearly and surprisingly Elements is not a priority for Adobe, I tried the trial, but not going to buy it, looking for something else.
Is it legal to publish Windows VM images?
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I guess this is the end of skype support for linux?

I'll be moving to hangouts if that's the case.
Awesome. Can't say a negative word about shipping early! Congrats :)
"They could use data from what stories were popular in the morning to decide which drivel to shovel out that afternoon."

This doesn't seem to be the same thing as a business decision to me - this is more of a process. It's the same thing as in a JIT supply line, such as ordering more car doors because the line ran quicker in the morning. What you've done in this case is set up a just-in-time celebrity-drivel creation process and are making standard operational decisions instead of business decisions.

If you were deciding to change how the share functionality of the site worked because people were not using it in the morning, then this would be a business decision, and I have a feeling you would not make this decision on just a morning's worth of data.
I would prefer it to be modelled after Kaiser(non-profit) and add no exclusions for preexisting conditions.
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As someone from the UK it is interesting to hear that the US view is of concern over UK holding a referendum. I have no particular view on the matter in question at the moment (UK role in EU) but it is odd to hear the view of the leader of a proud democracy is anti this referendum. Does the US have referendums? Or is it all left up to mid terms and presidential's?
He also is using 95% confidence as a cut-off. Don't do that. You don't need much more data to massively increase the confidence level, and so if the cost of collecting it is not prohibitive you absolutely should go ahead and do that.

Statistical significance grows roughly like the square root of the number of samples. Moving from 2-sigma (95%) to the physics gold-standard of 5-sigma requires drastically more data in almost all cases.

Selecting a measurement's uncertainty is something which should be carefully considered. Sometimes you only care about something to 10%, sometimes a 1-in-a-million part failure kills someone's Mom.

If you're doing lots of A/B testing, where trials penalties add up, it might be worth looking into the way that LIGO handles False Alarm Rates. They have to contend with a lot of non-Gaussian noise/glitches.
It's a good thing they don't pay for pseudoscientific quackery like chiropractors.
New York isn’t the next Silicon Valley, & San Francisco isn’t the new Manhattan
"People don't seem to understand that it's very easy to kill bitcoin, the same way they killed online gambling in the U.S."

No, online gambling was hardly "killed" in the US: the illegal annual market is estimated to be $4-6 billion [1]! Similarly, Bitcoin would not be "killed" by declaring it illegal, it would most likely continue to prosper like online gambling.

"This would kill all the legitimate exchanges and essentially prevent legitimate users from using bitcoin"

I don't think so. There are many other ways to acquire bitcoins: you can sell goods/services in exchange of coins, you can mine, you can buy them from a friend in cash, etc.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-03/bitcoin-maki...
That's the core concept behind a Health Savings Account and has been excellent in my case.

If you think of it as a 401k - put money when you're young before you need it - I think it is viable for many people under in their 20's and early/mid 30's.

But HSA's were eviscerated until Health Care "Reform" so it probably doesn't matter now anyway..
I was optimistic when I learned that GIMP would open .psd files. Then I noticed the distinct lack of a slice tool. Googling found me no useable alternatives other than "crop, save, and ctrl+z".

May be trivial for those who don't work on front end development, but a huge selling point for Adobe.
I remember my first trip to Silicon Valley in 1999. I have been to San Francisco before, but never outside the city. I had a job interview in Sunnyvale (I believe). Was super-excited since I loved San Francisco. As soon as I started driving in my rental car from SJC, I was shocked at the surroundings. I simply assumed SV was like SF.

I got the job offer, but rejected it. Never been back to SV until last year (not counting SJ). I actually live in California, but I will never move to the Bay Area.
I'm with you until your conclusion. Hanlon's razor. I think it's much more likely to be an accident caused by some incompetent support agent. Adobe is very bad at even basic strategy, let alone sneaky strategy.
But why do this for San Francisco, specifically, instead of just developing another area of the bay that has more space and fewer political issues?

The city has a host of infrastructure and political problems that make things like basic housing development extremely difficult. And while it's fun when you're 20-30ish, single, and without kids the vast majority of employees will bail from SF when they get a little older. I know this seems far off, but it happens to almost everyone. Then... where?
Money laundering is illegal, and it isn't too much of a stretch to imagine the US political system deciding that bitcoin amounts to laundering money.
That's absurd. Youtube provided extensive avenues of dispute and appeal. I think Lionsgate is wrong in this case (although I'm not wholly sure, because using their source material for ~30% of the video is pretty substantial in my view), but Youtube isn't there to act as a court or arbitrator. by law, it has to respect the claims of copyright holders. It is not the agent of those seeking to use copyrighted material on fair use grounds. The authors dispute is with Lionsgate, not YouTube.
Silicon Valley is in the waning phase of a hype cycle, but it will come back. The movement of every 20-something tech employee to SF is unsustainable, and eventually prices will rise to levels that even tech salaries can't support (they're basically already there -- $3k a month for a 1 bedroom puts your housing spend at 36% of gross pay, if you're making $100k a year).

Thus, you're living with roommates in a sketchy neighborhood, getting hassled for change/cigarettes/attention every 15 feet, and stepping in poop on your way to the hour-long shuttle ride to Google. Totally worth it, right? Except that you work 10-hour days, and you don't make it back to the city until after 8pm most evenings, anyway. The "lifestyle" you're paying for mostly happens on the weekends (the ones where you're not working), and consists of meeting up with the friends that you didn't have time to find (because you're all busy paying the bills), or dating (which you can't really do, because the city has turned into a tech-fueled sausage party; the gender bias in technology really starts to suck when only nerdy male engineers can afford to live the glamorous city life.)

Meanwhile, there are actually some charming neighborhoods down the peninsula, the weather down there is dramatically better, and you can have a garage (from which to build a startup, or a surfboard, or work on motorcycles, or start a band) and a dog. I predict a reversal of fortune in 3, 2, 1....

(Note that I say this as someone who currently lives in SF. It ain't all it's cracked up to be, especially if you're working all the time.)
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Bootstrap 2.2.1 vs. Foundation 3.2
Writing 100+ lines of code and having them work on the first run.
Ask HN: Do online learning tools like Code School or Codeacademy work?
Just wanted to hear some success stories from HN.
That's just not for me.
i have a question about their authentication process as described at http://blog.filerock.com/2012/06/filerock-security-overview/

they say that they don't send the password over the net, but send instead the result from PBKDF2. but how does that make things more secure? couldn't someone simply snoop the PBKDF2 output and send that themselves? (if they could eavesdrop at all - my point is not that eavesdropping is possible, but that a transformed password is equivalent to the password itself).

i thought perhaps they provided a different random seed for PBKDF2, but then they would get a different answer each time and wouldn't be able to check it.

i get why PBKDF2 is better than just using a "simple" password. but i don't get why they make a point of saying your password is not transmitted. i mean, HTTP basic auth uses a hash, but that's considered just as insecure as the password for exactly this reason. and PBKDF2 is just a a glorified hash.

it just seems confused. claiming something is an advantage when it's not, as far as i can tell (although i suspect the confused party is me - it just reminded me so much of http basic auth...).
Sacha Greif on choosing a co-founder and building MVP
Started Codecademy recently and really like the lessons. In terms of gamification, the badges do nothing for me, but the points and day streak are great. I had a 15 day streak and it really gave me the extra incentive to do just 10 minutes a day even when I was particularly busy. I forgot one day and now I have to start the clock over again, haha.

Will dig into API stuff once I actually finish the other basics.
Agree that it's not well implemented.
Most Family doctors in the UK are self employed anf their surgeries have contracts with an local primary care trust. There are other models as well and big changes in the arrangements this year. The organisation of the NHS is complex (this is not a criticism).
I suppose anything that doesn't conform to your world-view is 'smug heteronormative privilege'. If you want a big happy feel-good discussion I suggest you go back to Tumblr. HN is for constructive discussion.
Reminds me of the ONE truly profitable piece of legal advice I've ever received from a lawyer: Having an insurance policy really only guarantees you the right to sue your insurance company if they refuse to pay a claim. He said this as we walked outdoors in a large American city and then pointed out the tallest building on the skyline - an insurance company HQ. This wasn't health insurance but the point is the same.
> The two are linked by decrepit transport systems

As a New Yorker, the one thing that kills me every time is the fact that the CalTrain shuts down so early. I was staying in Palo Alto some months back, and I needed to get to the station by 11:59 on a Friday night, because the alternative was an incredibly expensive cab ride back. It really cut into my Friday night plans.
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I'd say that most of the time when you want an array whose size is variable, the size relates in some way to user input. Your mileage may vary.
Password Hijacking Security Incident and Response
applause

I also wish they would fix their current classes. A couple of bugs are keeping me from finishing their Jquery and web(original) tracks. I emailed them about it, but still doesn't work.
Trekkies rejoice: A real warp drive in the works - other stars, here we come.
But as a consumer of health care in the UK I'm struggling to see what the problem is - the NHS is cost effective and generally available and if you want a slightly nicer room and to jump the NHS waiting queues (which do happen) then you can go private and get any kind of treatment pretty much when you want it.
It's a survival mechanism. The rest of the world is in denial.
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I was under the impression that the largest barrier to bitcoins is the inability to get them cheaply. Your link shows it's possible and has gotten better, but is still not as quick as a service like PayPal.

I think it'll get there however, with larger adoption.
It appears that the model for the US more closely matches that of Switzerland, for what it's worth. That might just be me idealizing it, though.
Rang so true for me too. Growing up in London, the valley seemed like the centre of the universe and somewhere I'd eventually want to move to, but when I first visited in 1993 for Apple's WWDC and went exploring I was massively disappointed. ISTR I described it to friends back home as "Like Slough but with better weather". On the other hand I totally adored San Francisco.

I've spent a fair bit of time in both places since then and it's not changed my view much.
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Do you live there or just visit there?

Because tourists see the crooked street and the bridge and the hills and the cable cars. They don't see the high suicide rate or the muni or etc.
If you're using a linked list you've already lost the battle against lhs.
"[When launching products] there two sides to the equation: having people pay attention, and the other side is having people pay money. Step 1 is doing something popular [where they pay attention]. Step 2 is getting people to pay for your products.” – Sacha Greif
The article links to an independently hosted HTML5 copy of the video, in case you want to see it first-hand. It's very cleverly done, quite amusing (at least if you're a Buffy fan), and definitely looks like fair-use:

http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/popupvideo
Like you, that also floors me. Moved here in mid-2011, fresh out of grad school. Seems to be cheap when there's not a dotcom bubble, yet then we wouldn't be here. Ain't that a kick in the head.
So they got advertisment money based off something that was 2/3 content owned by another big media company?
If you used PayPal to accept donations for a controversial / illegal service such as a private torrent tracker you're foolish. It was only a matter of time before PayPal shut down these accounts.

For that matter, anyone who trusts PayPal is foolish. Keeping money in a PP account is a great way to lose it.
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/1/9/password_hijacking_...
Hi, our response can be found at...

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/1/9/password_hijacking_...

Thanks again to Stephen for giving us ample time to fix this.

-Tom Maher, Heroku Security Team
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I pass a pile of human feces at least once a week on my walk to work, and the street in front of my office smells like urine 24x7. I've caught someone taking the wheels off a car parked on the street once, at about 2 in the afternoon on a completely parallel-parked to the brim street. In the space of a four-block walk, I'm harassed by on average 8 or 9 homeless people who react to your refusal to give them change with hostility. On a recent walk in the neighborhood shortly after sundown I was accosted by someone selling heroin, who reacted to my refusal to purchase with hostility and brandished a weapon.

I agree with him. A lot of people view San Francisco with rose-tinted glasses. While I have passed feces in New York on the stairs up from the subway, I'd contest that every visit I've ever made to New York has left me feeling cleaner than the average commute to SoMa.
Haha, I actually thought of Typecast when I loaded up this site! (I'm from Belfast, not too many apps of that quality around here! :) )

A little ashamed to say that I haven't used it yet (I'm a developer more than a designer, so just haven't had the reason to try it out properly yet. I guess you shouldn't really need a reason to experiment though!), but it looks gorgeous and a really useful tool to have.
I'm not saying there is a problem with it, I'm just saying that the existence of a PH market in the UK is not a strong counter to the Republican concern about a government takeover of the market for health services.
MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) is hiring a UX/UI engineer
About us:
Our website (http://www.makegameswith.us) teaches people (primarily high school and college students) how to build iPhone games. The site contains project based tutorials which culminate in building a clone of Angry Birds. After completing the tutorials, developers get started making their own original game. We also provide a toolkit to speed up development of games, along with forums to enable developers to show off their progress and get help. Once their game is nearly ready, we skin the game with professional art, and finally publish and promote the games for a share of the revenue. You can check out our first 10 games at (http://mgw.us)

About the job:
We're looking for a frontend UX/UI engineer to help improve our website's experience. Your goal will be to tweak and iterate on the front-end experience of the website to:
1) Increase the percentage of users completing the tutorials (we will iterate on the tutorial content while you iterate on the experience around them)
2) Get as many of those users to start building an original game and engaging with the community/showcase-their-game aspects of the website. Ultimately the goal here is to be a useful destination developers as they are developing their game which will ultimately result in more developers choosing to publish with MakeGamesWithUs.
3) Help foster a community where game developers, aspiring developers, and mobile gamers come to discuss games and give feedback/technical help to those currently making games or learning how to.

We will decide together what the most important metrics are and you will track those metrics and iterate until you get the results you are going for. You understand that how delightful and user-friendly a design is is hard to quantify, but you also understand what the changes you are making are meant to accomplish and aren't shy about trying new things and A/B testing to optimize for the desired result. You'll get a lot of control over our website's look and feel and by extension our brand image, and we'd like you to embrace that. And as an early employee at an early stage startup, you'll also get the opportunity to do a mix of other startup related tasks.

About you:
First and foremost we want you to be passionate about what you do. We'd also love if you were passionate about we do :) You'll need to be capable of doing all the frontend coding, and if you have experience with (or are willing to learn) Python/Django, that's a big bonus. We're currently a team of 4 who live and work out of a 4500 sqft house in Palo Alto, it would be awesome if you're willing to move in with us, although living elsewhere in the Bay Area works too.

Interested?
Contact jobs@makegameswith.us
The whole point was to avoid Facebook.
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