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Apple Pulls 500px’s Mobile Apps From The App Store
what field are you in?
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"Regardless of whether you should depend on them, many many people do. Heck, many people don't even understand that there's a choice to be made: after all, everyone knows that Oracle is ACID compliant, right?"

Ignorance is not an excuse. It just isn't.

"Just because a DB has a replication package available (like MySQL) does not mean that it is a distributed system. And the file backed DBs (like Berkeley) are definitely not distributed. Sure, there are some extremely expensive massively parallel DBs in use (like Volt), but the number of deployments for those systems is a drop in the bucket compared with single-node MySQL/Postgres/Oracle/SQLServer/DB2 instances."

I do not understand what point you are trying to make here. Are these systems de-facto non-distributed systems merely because of deployment counts? Is there an objective criteria here I should be aware of?
"3. Make it work for Windows, OSX, and Linux if you can."

This is the reason the VM was introduced. So that no matter what OS the user is running, they can follow along without having to go search for ways to get all this setup and running. The setup is very minimal thanks to Chef and Vagrant.

Kenneth is trying to teach best practices and tools to use. He also explained in the beginning of the video that you should be comfortable with a terminal and text editor that you like. This shouldn't be your first time looking at a terminal.

Heroku is a simple way to get your project out to the public and it's free. Nothing inspired me more as a developer than having others look at my work. I think it adds a little bit of excitement to be able to show your work to others almost immediately. Even if it's something small, it's still something to "show off" and feel good about.
I don't see why giving the user more info on how to handle a full project since the beginning is a bad thing, the django part will certainly be independent of the rest of the tools.
German government should open source its software, committee advises
This has been done for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg (both in Russia) -- http://oldmos.ru/ and http://oldsp.ru/
Extending this theory to the world of software it would make it foolish to update or iterate or anything, because thanks to the passage of time, you're just going to have to update and iterate all over again again.

On the other hand, rejecting idiocy like this gets us from Astrology to Astronomy, from Alchemy to Chemistry, and the Magna Carta to the US Constitution, and further, the amendments to it.
Why would you want this to duplicate material well-covered by the official-Django-site tutorial?

Even if you like this format better, the official-site tutorial is pretty good, and helpfully sets a common baseline for all Django learners (and all followup teaching). Having a 'canon' helps future steps, even if they diverge.
What Wastes Enough Energy to Power 2.5 Million Cars and Can be Seen From Space?
New York City unveils its vision for micro-apartments under 400 sq. ft.
I guess I don't see the difficulty in funding it via taxes, like the court system in general. To run a court system, we need to maintain buildings, pay judges' salaries, pay public defenders' salaries, pay bailiffs' salaries, store paper documents, hire stenographers, hire janitorial staff, and all sorts of other things. In the 21st century, storing and making available some PDFs is just another routine part of a functioning, transparent court system, and not even one of the more expensive parts.
For what it is worth looks like they just released an iOS app as a companion for the book. $15 is the price. It appears to capture the methods of the book plus contains videos teaching the method. No reviews yet.
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Andrew Auernheimer is going to jail for scraping public data published by AT&T
> What if I always lock my front door, but this morning I was in a hurry and forgot? Should I give up all rights of private property because of this error?

You and me would both be alarmed if someone entered our house after we forgot to lock the door, but I wouldn't consider that persons entry into my house a crime in itself (obviously, its probably still a crime whether I agree or not). Do you forfeit rights to your private property for forgetting to lock your door? Not at all. If you wake up in the middle of the night and someone is in your house, and you shoot them, you did nothing wrong. Whether or not you locked the door, your life is at risk if you assess the situation incorrectly (goes for daytime too). When that person entered into somebody else's house uninvited, they made a decision to subject themselves to your discretion.

> If they took anything, it would still be stealing--even though one could argue that if I "really" didn't want anyone to take my stuff, I would have locked my door.

They would be wrong telling you that you forfeited your rights to your belongings for not locking your door. If that were the case, nobody would be obligated to pay for anything at the grocery store or mall.

> Should the rights of people and companies be completely dependent on their ability to write invulnerable code?

It is up to you to defend your rights, nobody else. If you are going to offer a service and want to protect the server, data, code, licenses, etc.. the burden is on you to protect it through whatever means you see fit. It is no one else's job to protect your product.

> I would submit that that is not a sustain way for the law to operate.

The reason for that may be because we shouldn't rely on the law to prevent a crime aside from being a visible deterrent. The purpose of law should be to enforce civil agreements when a crime is committed. If someone causes financial damage to your property, what good does it do to put that person in jail? Wouldn't a better solution be to have your property returned or receive financial compensation equivalent to the value of what was taken/damaged?
No matter how many millions it should still be a civil matter unless there's some kind of fraud going on.

Also a single person rebroadcasting is probably only making a handful of copies. You can't say that they are personally damaging you for all those millions of dollars. Unless you want to exonerate everyone else in the swarm.
And what would blind employers to that incentive? There is also a counter-incentive known as perjury.

Should we ban blogs because they allow for anonymous accusations that someone's employer might see?
> You can always force the Start screen to open on your monitor of choice by opening the Charms bar on that monitor and clicking on "Start" or by using the lower left hot corner.

I wouldn't call that "force". It's more like "constantly remind".
Ask HN: What do you do outside of work that really drives and inspires you?
I don't see much on HN on what developers, entrepreneurs, designers, tech-folk might be doing outside of work. I think it's important to engage in other activities in order to reset your brain and even gain perspective.

I probably have too many hobbies. Some techie, others not so. One activity I have enjoyed for nearly twenty years is Schutzhund Obedience training my dogs. I have now gone through this process four times (always German Shepherd Dogs). I find it incredibly rewarding and lots of fun. Nothing like spending a couple of hours at a park training your dog to completely unplug you from the keyboard.

It's even more fun when you get to teach your kids how to train the dogs. For kids this inspires confidence, inner-strength, self-reliance, compassion, understanding and a whole host of other good qualities that you just can't get out of playing video games all day. A dog is almost a perfect mirror of who you are. They reflect how you treat them and how you relate to them. If you are mean they'll be skittish and afraid. If you are firm but fair they'll be confident and willing to do anything you ask. If you are not disciplined and consistent they'll be confused and will not respect you. Too many lessons in just one activity to list here.

If you've never seen Schutzhund, here's a really neat video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZmIFdgU2M

I am not affiliated with this dog or this kid at all. I just think this video is a beautiful example of the connection that can be created between a dog an its owner. Keep in mind that in this video she was seven years old. She has full control of a dog that probably weighs nearly twice as much as her and if far stronger.

How about you? What do you do outside of work that might drive you and help you find balance in life?
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Ming the Merciless was testing us?
SnowPlow Analytics 0.7.1 released, with easier-to-run Ruby apps
Would be cool if you can show the Top Comments. I know that top publishers do comb through comments and sometimes even respond to the top comments.
It's now been changed to:

> Symmetric encryption means the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt your data; this less computationally-intensive and easier to implement than asymmetric encryption, which we'll get to in a moment.
The code for the viewer lives on github here: https://github.com/danvk/sfhistory/tree/master/viewer

(start with viewer.html). If you use it to build something for India, I'd love to hear about it!
Thanks for publishing this.

(listening to Solar Fields (and I bought this!): http://toogl.es/#/view/c_KuGgpqbes )
Ask HN: How do I know what job to apply to?
I recently started teaching myself web design, from the back end to front end.

I've developed what I would consider a pretty serious web app, utilizing an idea not seen on the web (a modified, more robust, and manageable tagging system). Unfortunately, its not quite done yet, and there are still some quirks, otherwise i'd share it.

In it, I utilize the following techniques:

HTML/5
CSS3
MVC (page built in codeigniter)
PHP/mySQL
^used to build a fully working message board.
full AJAX (No page loads - mimics usatoday.com, using pushstates for compliance with seo/browser favs.history).
with AJAX comes jquery and general javascript usage.
etc.

My question is with the general knowledge demonstrated in my web app, what type of jobs would I be looking for, and whats the best way to demonstrate said experience/knowledge without having programming experience from previous jobs?

In terms of 'what type of jobs' im not talking solely about entry level -> senior, but career paths as well (php dev, ui designer, front end, etc).

Since I am so new to the field, any answers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
While I instinctively agree with the author's conclusion, I have some questions about his argument.

1) The foundational assumption is that, by "sentient", Kurzweil means "Homo-complete":

> Because of some of the criteria Kurzweil has set for sentient machines (e.g. that they have emotional systems indistinguishable from those of humans), I like to go ahead and assume that the kind of machine Kurzweil is talking about would have fears, inhibitions, hopes, dreams, beliefs, a sense of aesthetics, understanding (and opinions about) spiritual concepts, a subconscious "mind," and so on.

I'm not sure how Kurzweil feels about that but to me the whole point of creating sentient machines is to achieve human-like intelligence without all hindrances and idiosyncrasies that come with being a human. I'm thinking of a thing like Data (or Spock) from Star Trek. Are these guys not "sentient"? I know they're not real but they don't seem outwardly implausible or self-contradictory.

Furthermore, wouldn't some humans fail to qualify as "sentient" (or, at least, "Homo-complete") based on this definition? What about early homo sapiens? Do we know for sure they had the capacity for schizophrenia or autism? Is it at least conceivable that very early humans lacked the capacity to love in the same way as modern humans? How about future generations? If they find a cure for depression, won't tomorrow's pill-popping, ultra-content humans also be "sentient"?

2) Even if you grant him this assumption, it seems like the author is essentially saying that the only way to be "Homo-complete" is to be a "Homo" (pardon me). That may very well be true and I think the author makes a compelling argument that it is. But I still don't see why being a human is the only way to be "sentient".
Ah yes. My first major programming adventure was an attempt to write a MIDI-tracker with TP7. As I recall, it actually sort of worked in the end.
3D printer to carve out world's first full-size building
How to work with cursor loader in Android
Wow, this looks really good. A decent django tutorial that covers all the ops side is somewhat lacking I feel, and this certainly looks pretty full.

How do you plan to fund the other lessons?
Things like MongoDB fail at A and D, which is what the parent was probably thinking of.
The Truth Is That Android Is Cheap, Not Good
Try http://www.tdd-django-tutorial.com/
> My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the Aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets

Fascinating indeed. I wonder exactly what kind of impact a similar storm would have today.
On my Macbook OSX Mountain Lion, it works great and started playing on load (Which didn't happen when i loaded in on iOS but thats to be expected)

One thing that REALLY bugged me was this: The link on each item that reads "View Original Article" just links to the service: SoundGecko - It doesn't link to the original article at all!! - Not even the HN post so the source and the context (HN Comments) is reachable AT ALL!!

Seriously this site is brilliant, BUT what you've done - In my opinion this is unacceptable, at least link to the original article author.

and then linking to the service you're scraping as a courtesy
Ask HN: Why does everything about NYC get downvoted or flagged into oblivion?
I notice most posts about NYC startups are frequently ignored or flagged. Just wondering if this is because this website is run by the SV mafia or if it's because there's genuinely something wrong with NYC startups.
How I got to #6 on the Google Play Store, and why I haven't bought a yacht yet.
25 Years From Today: A Time For Bugs
Nordlandsbanen: minute by minute, season by season in scandanavia
The games will work if there is a Linux port on Steam and you've already bought for Windows/Mac. You don't have to buy twice. However there seems to be a few games with working Linux ports that aren't available in Steam under Linux yet, bastion being one example.

I believe most of the Steam Linux games available are native ports and don't use Wine.
Maybe there are some that do use Wine, but I don't imagine that they will make them available through Steam unless they are confident that they will actually work.

So the real question here is, "what is the real value of this assuming you already have a dedicated Windows PC or a dual boot for gaming?"

For myself it is nice to have a few good quality indie games available to play if I fancy a short break from coding on my Linux box without having to power cycle my PC. For serious gaming sessions Windows is still king for now.

The real question is about future games. There seems to be increasing interest in cross platform toolkits for game development, this is probably most because people want to target iOS and Android rather than Linux however.

However if it gets to the point where Linux just becomes another output format for a cross platform game engine (like unity3d) then perhaps you can expect future game titles to become available on Linux simply because the friction to launch on the platform is so low.
When did commenting on HN become so predictable? Yes, there are bad managers, just like there are bad everything-elses.

Small companies don't need management, but the larger a company gets, the more important communication gets or everybody goes off in their own direction. You can't accomplish big things if everybody is rowing to a different rhythm.

Further, there is a limit to how many people a person can effectively manage directly. Most bad organizations I've see put way too many direct reports on managers, forcing the manager to be flighty and generic.

Finally, engineers put very little importance on personal interactions, but business is run on those personal interactions.

Just like there are bad places to work as a developer, there are bad places to work as a manager. And they often (but not always) overlap.
Gumroad introduces Multiple Prices Per Product, With Variants
Impressive range of libraries provided and the documentation is quite good.

Seems a little strange that the benefits are touted of using the libraries over setting up a dedicated queue service when the libraries rely on in memory queues. While the loss of the tracking data, should these queues fail, may not be worth the hassle of maintaining the dedicated infrastructure, there is a critical difference between the two approaches. These libraries are much more likely to impact application (or the servers the applications are running on) performance then queuing a message on another server.
While(true) BadPractices(); continue;
I was actually referring to talented young people from other european states (France, etc) that are seen as startup/business unfriendly, but I get your point. GB -thankfully- is not a commi country but it is showing a socialist trend. If it were a communist State they would have shot Nigel Farrage years ago ;-)
Python Rocket Science
You might be interested in the work the Cochrane Collaboration does: http://www.cochrane.org/
Play Framework - async by default
Maybe what you actually want is a mobile home, a larger fridge at home, limit travel to the winter, a shorter trip - or not needing a car at all, take the train instead.
I act, therefore I program
Meeting your customers, anytime anyplace anywhere
The Kickstarter is funding all 10 originally planned episodes plus ~5 more covering FAQ-type situations.
I have experienced every negative thing that can come from being an umbrella, to the point people on other teams hated my team because they were happier. If you go that path, expect negative reactions from everybody (except your team, that is, which was all I cared about).
The opening of "Rhapsody in Blue" contains a glissando, which is comprised if a fast run of the individual notes, not a continuous sweep.

Since midi messages are only 8bits, you have only 127 steps of resolution. Augmenting a note beyond a certain point leads to noticeable quantization of pitch.
Funny picture of a keyboard
I would like to show you one special keyboard, that I am sure you will like!
The date range could use some affordance that it is clickable without mousing over. If I didn't know the feature of restricting the date range existed, I wouldn't have found it. (Awesome feature! :)
As it stands, a lot of the peer-reviewed for-profit/pay-only journals basically get the reviewers to review the submitted papers for free. There are obviously some number of employees, but as it stands, they already get a ton of 'free' work done for them (so far as I understand it).
It was an okay article at the beginning, but I really didn't expect it to start claiming that MIDI alienated women and turned music into a male hegemony.
A rotating mishmash of text files, spreadsheets, google docs, scrap paper and a notebook. For professional engagements I've lately used pivotal tracker, github issues, basecamp, and jira.
Microsoft Surface Pro hits U.S. and Canada on Feb. 9
Not exactly. When you consider the legacy Desktop also as an app, the behavior is consistent. Windows key just swaps between the start screen and the current app.

Start screen appears on the last monitor you launched the modern app or charms.

For switching Start screen between multiple monitors, try Windows + PageUp (or Windows + PageDown).

You can change the taskbar settings. Right click on taskbar -> properties -> Taskbar where window is open (under show taskbar buttons on).
I'm certainly not a luddite, and the more documents I can get on line and the less in Lexis/Westlaw fees I rack up, the happier I am. What irks me is the misplaced moral outrage.

Mr. Foster takes the $6.5 billion number and makes it seem like some collusion to make Lexis and Westlaw gate keepers of what should be publicly available information.

In reality, the problem is far less sinister: outdated IT. The courts have been slow to evolve from putting a copy of the reporters in a public law library to the digital age. Is that a problem? Sure. Let's get them more funding and get these things digitized. But trying to work it into an anti-government, anti-business narrative just to send nerds into a frothy rage is stupid and counter-productive.
Thats awesome. Thanks, I will check it out and report back once I have something built.
A Founder's Take on the Series A Crunch
And also you'll know the danger signs of the same situation coming to your platform of choice.
>Towns are an interesting case where the free market system breaks.

A curious conclusion given the the politicians, bureaucrats, urban planners, and general busybodies that wield government power as a club to impose Their Vision on everyone else.
Google Sync was EOL'd 2 days before I bought my Windows 8 phone, leaving me with no way to sync my Google calendar on it. I don't want to be in anybody's walled garden exclusively, I want more interoperability and platform independence. Even Google has plenty of room for improvement.
This is kind of brilliant. I'm going to give it a shot!