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Here are some other stories that use the term serverless:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=Ser...

I feel like it's a term that has a generally well-understood meaning. What other term would you prefer?
I have to give credit to Jeff and developers here, setting this to try it out almost felt like php in terms of how easy it is to run. I wish other rails projects were this easy to try out.

Oh man... :) it is a little busy interface. Let's see if this helps or gets in the way.
That's an interesting complicated technical solution to a simple problem with a simple solution. The simple solution is a can of spray paint. The other teams's helmet color shows up on you, and you get (insert appropriate penalty here).

I used to be a big fan of the game back in the 90s but I got bored because its not a very deep game. Oh, its got some interesting depth, just not much. Anyway most of the helmet smashing is pointless offensive / defensive line stuff, mutually assured destruction basically, and sacking the QB. Some simple rule changes wouldn't fundamentally change the overall game while eliminating 99% of the head smashing. For example, what if sacking the QB causes a penalty on the defense instead of (typically) a loss of offensive possession? Obviously you'll need to prevent hacks to the system like no forward progress is allowed by the QB. Also no forward progress is allowed by the center sneaking a yard or two. Ta da I think you've just eliminated probably around 90%+ of serious brain damage right there. Maybe more.

There are of course alternatives to my rule suggestions. Something like tag football can still be exciting if applied properly.

One interesting option is weight limits. Fine, smash into each other, but no 350 pound linemen anymore... we'll go with featherweights. Another interesting option is as any kid who played informally at a park knows, fewer players on the field makes it more of a running game than a brutal smashing game. What it you simply had no linemen at all and just had people running around like sprinters?
Posted many times before, but I can't cross reference because the HN search site doesn't work on the BlackBerry browser.

Edit:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134720

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4321018
We do have a fully documented import and export format, however, we're not prioritizing conversion at this time because we believe there's too much technical and social friction to wholesale forum change.

And it's early, very early in our beta!

Mostly we expect early Discourse adopters to be of the "starting from scratch" kind.
what about a deque? the push-pop/shift-unshift distinction is unnecessarily confusing when something doesn't have stack semantics.
> Right now they're too hard and we're going to try and fix that.

Awesome! I was trying to point out to someone that this is a critical market-share-limiting factor for Rails apps the other day. It's good to know that someone's devoting time to the problem.

For an example of the difficulty of installing Rails apps, take a look at the length of the installation guide for Gitlab [1]. There are seven numbered steps, some of which involve multiple commands. Upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1 was about the same complexity.

Thanks to the thoroughness of its author, the guide largely worked as advertised. But being able to install and upgrade with apt-get would have saved me hours.

Please also keep in mind making it easy for people to upgrade your app -- that's just as important as installing it.

[1] https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/stable/doc/install...
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Always fun to see examples of first-class functions; thank you for the read!
Since the NFLPA is toothless most NFL "contracts" allow a player to be cut at any time for any reason and then he doesn't get any more money.

I don't think this is because the NFLPA is toothless. I think it's because the marginal value of the 53rd man on the roster over the first guy on the practice squad is not high, and it doesn't increase much as you move up. Because the NFL is such a team game, with a few major exceptions players are largely replaceable.

That's why you hear so often about guys who were sitting on the couch watching football one Sunday and playing the next. This effectively doesn't happen in, say, baseball, where the supply of guys who can hit major league pitching above the Mendoza line is quite limited. Even with a huge farm system, teams rarely have more than a few major league-caliber players who aren't actually on the roster.
I do not use home brew or ports so is there any reason that this would not work with the default vim that ships with macos?
Yes, but they don't create battery technology, they use batteries designed by others.
Isn't the Xlerator just a more powerful (and louder) blower? The Dyson is a different concept, uses way less energy and dries much more efficiently than standard driers, sometimes in one 5-second pass (I haven't seen an xlerator).
> I'm sure Google is not using http://googledrive.com/ for anything that's user-identifiable.

Look at the screenshot in the article. It is in fact using https://googledrive.com/
Please give me the option of using more than 55% of my screen width. It's 2013.
Though I agree with most of the article, the statement "you need a finely tuned, automated and hugely expensive factory".
I've always seen that as a moderate flaw in Tesla's plan.

With the Roadster, they had essentially outsourced much of the 'car' engineering to Lotus which built the frames and many of the components for Tesla.

Just like computer companies don't manufacture computers anymore, I believe outsourcing the manufacturing of Tesla cars would have taken a large part of the financial risk off the table.
I experienced this too, but it's working for me now. Seems like a aggressive cookie / caching issue. Try clearing your cache, force-refresh, or logging out and then logging back in again.
Answer #1: Quora is a question and answer website.

To see more answers, please login to Quora so we can show everyone what you've been looking at on Quora.

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The "threads" link at the top is a decent approximation.
Ugh... as a marketing guy trying to build an awesome, lasting brand, I hate these comments. We talk about it a lot internally and do a lot of coaching to make sure we're not too aggressive. It is a balance though - growth and aspirational goals to be a meaningful long-term business coupled with wanting to be a healthy participant in our community... Sounds like on occasion we've failed.. Please know we're listening to feedback like this - it doesn't mean we're going to stop contacting people who use our product, but it does mean we care, and will work to REFINE our commercial tactics.

patrick@newrelic.com
VP, Marketing
New Relic
Completely, forums are about basic human expression in paragraph form. This is an essential right and we want to give it back to the world in 100% no strings attached open source form.

Not that there aren't other forum choices, of course there are, but VERY few are 100% open source and even fewer are ones I want to use.
My first thought is to make Quadcopter obstacle courses for group racing. Combine that with augmented reality power-ups that you could use to freeze an opponent and we have a Mario Kart Racing style game.
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It also seems very ego-heavy, with lots of user-centric stuff. I find that the more central the concept of a user is the lower the quality of discussion that follows.
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How is that even possible? Are you putting your head through the loop?
For starters, women live about 6 years longer than men [0], and currently make up about 67% of college graduates [1] , which is partly due to affirmative action.

I can't find a great link, but I believe it's been projected that women are or will own a greater than 50% of total wealth in the Western world in the next decade or so.

Divorce court isn't too friendly to men either.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...

[1] http://www.womenmovingmillions.org/how-we-do-it/facts/
I have to agree with the OP. While Discourse design looks different from vBulletin and phpBB, it's unfortunately just another variety of the same. It is busy and it's ... uhm ... giddy if you will. Why the heck does every message need a full toolbar of buttons, for example? Badges, counters - I think others are right, the gamification of SE wasn't the reason for its success. In fact, it might've pushed away more qualified posters than it actually attracted. Why not try something different, or at least make all the paraphernalia optional?

Take a look at the Pivory project - that's a great take on design that doesn't stick out, but doesn't hinder the usage either. Adopt something similar as your default theme, kill the badges and you will have a discussion software that is dramatically better than vBulletin, across the board.
oh man, so sorry. :(
- Patrick
VP, Marketing, New Relic
My point is that it's a risk that everyone, to a great extent, knows about

My point is the opposite. I don't think most people understand the risks, and we already know that 15-year-olds are not equipped to make long-term risk analysis.
Agreed. There needs to be some sort of mechanism to flag trolls, etc. This same mechanism can be used to rank by popularity. This doesn't mean it should be used that way unless you actually want to promote shallowness and group-think.
This laptop is something like 3 years old at this point, and I bought it new for around $1200, I think. And it does 1920x1200. So it's not really that only Apple can afford to put this kind of thing on a laptop - I don't buy that.
I'm partial to Ubuntu One.
The hits and tackles are very different in Aussie rules or League not only because of the equipment difference, but because of rule differences. Look at some of the hits NFL line-backers put on receivers over the middle 2+ years ago (there was a rule change to partly address this). There just aren't many situations where a rugby player would get that sort of look at someone who is blind to them.
In those sports it is very rare for players on opposing teams to and run directly at each other from 10s of yards/meters away.

In the absence of padding and helmets this would be rare in American football as well. Oh sure players would run toward each other. But the results would be a rugby-style wrap-arms-and-pull-down tackle rather than an NFL-style airborne earhole clock-cleaning.

I agree with most of your other points; the NFL may well be safer now than at any time in the modern era. I doubt it will ever be safe, however.
The real issue is as a society what do we do when adults knowingly engage in an activity that is self destructive.

Nobody is forcing them to be football players. Nobody is forcing us to watch.
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Maybe in Aussie rules most tackles are chase-downs, but there's plenty of front on tackles in Rugby Union and Rugby League.
This looks great. I recently went through the decision making process with a client and they settled on getsatisfaction for now but would probably love something like this.

I'd be interested to know how they came to the decision to use Rails. The goal here seems to be an application that is easy to deploy across PaaS/IaaS platforms such as AppEngine (no Ruby support atm, mentioned on the website though), AWS, Heroku as well as self hosted/installed.

All the apps in this space (behind the firewall, self-installed) to date have been either PHP (Wordpress, PHPBB, SugarCRM etc.), Java (Atlassian, Jive, Zimbra) or .NET (Telligent, FogCreek, vBulletin)

The only Rails app I can think of is Redmine (oh, and Diaspora).

PHP is easy to deploy while a lot of businesses are already running either Java or .Net. It may be more difficult to get Rails deployed, but then again having a simple virtualization or PaaS target could change that.
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I see, thanks for explaining. Sounds somewhat analogous to what we currently get from Crashlytics, it's definitely a very useful service.
Why do people keep posting this every month???
> How would you feel if a bunch of non-practitioners were sitting around, and added regulations that limited your ability to form a startup because they feared the risks that you were willing to undertake for the chance to "make it rich"?

It's difficult to protect sole proprietors from their own insanity, but if you are talking regulations against excessive overtime I'm all up for it. Just because everyone else at my employer is young, single and naive does not mean I should be forced to join them in their 80-hour workweeks and risk my marriage.
I assume it's mostly to keep weight down. I imagine it could also make manufacture easier/cheaper; you'd need most of the board for the circuitry anyway, so why spend more money a separate piece for the chassis?

Also: I don't know if you've ever tried to break or cut a circuit board but it's pretty tough stuff for its weight too.
Describing it as a "captcha-type system" was probably misleading, it's not intended to solve the problem of computers being able to match the answers easily. It's intended to require people to either know or learn about common logical fallacies.
Hopefully this will get enough attention that we can get a response from Rackspace.
One key advantage that is often overlooked and undermarketed for electric cars is they have a superior preformance and experiance than internal combustion (IC) cars. The Model S has a 0-60 time comparable to a Porche 911 Carrera or a BMW M3, is quite a bit faster accelerating than the (non-AMG) Mercedes S-Class, and knocks the socks off a BMW 5xx. The problem is I don't think the value translates into the $25-35,000 car market.
Perhaps he just doesn't care either way?

Do you think his business would run better if he wore better fitting suits?
It was my understanding that one of the reasons that electric cars are greener is because power plants (oil, coal, whatever) are more efficient at extracting energy from fossil fuels than cars are, so even though electric cars run on fossil fuels indirectly, they do so much more efficiently. The other benefit is that the source can easily be exchanged for something renewable, while for a gasoline car, that is impossible. I don't have the numbers on this though, so if I'm wrong please correct me.
I think you're just living in the HN bubble there laddo!
To be clear, generics seems to be one thing that Go isn't actually opinionated on. As I understand it, they are open to including generics in future versions of the language, but only if the implementation is elegant.
Is this really true? Those videos of old minimally padded players still look like there is substantially more violent tackling going on than what we see in those other sports.
One thing I miss form clang_complete is its snippet support for functions [0]. With clang_complete you could set it up so when you autocompleted a function, it would generate a temporary snippet in your favourite snippet engine (ultisnips, snipmate, etc) so you could jump between the parameters of the function.

[0] https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete/blob/master/doc/cl...
Is the URL of that document pretty reliable or is it not really meant for the long term? I'm thinking of whether there would be issues with using a custom domain for it.

I currently host a static website from S3, and I still have to pay a couple of bucks for the traffic. Sounds like this would be completely free.
Better in this case is subjective.
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Right now it's vapour, but there's also this:
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/products/mecam.htm

It promises better hardware (Cortex-A9 SoC, 1.0-1.5GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, SD card, 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), at a third of the price (MSRP: $49).

But again, it's not real (yet?) - whereas the pre-order of the Crazyflie Nano has at least already started. And they seem to have a firm shipping date.
Personally I think the appeal is that football is a) extremely athletic

How athletic is Football, when compared to other sports? I'm not too clued into the game (grew up in Britain) so I'm genuinely curious. My instinct is that the frequent pauses and switches between offensive and defensive players mean that an individual player gets a much larger break than in other sports (I'm primarily thinking of soccer and rugby here), and runs a much shorter distance. But on the other hand, a football game goes on far longer than both of those.

In fact, an infographic:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55220000/gif/_55220300...

Football players run across a considerably smaller distance than rugby players, but tend to be larger and stronger. Hmm.
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My coworker told a vivid story of playing "Jurassic Park", where he and other men in the dorm would get blitzed, remove their shirts, duct tape their forearms to their upper arms, and pretend to be velociraptors in a dominance battle.

With their arms and hands practically useless, they could only bite and kick each other. Apparently people would get bit pretty good.
Would you allow automated competitors? Who's faster at learning the course, the twitchy redbull'd racer, or the fast-prototyping hacker?
"stronger helmets means more concussions."

Good observation, bad conclusion. The solution is not mushier or poorer protection, but something very much along the lines of "you get one helmet per game and thats it". Made outta styrofoam or something.

Look, here's the big startup lesson. Say you've got a generic engineering challenge. Look at other industries. In the 50s they made car chassis that were so strong they could survive a 50 mph crash and look pretty much drivable afterward. Of course the passengers were dead jelly. Solution? Crumple zones, crush zones... Do the same with helmets. When that styrofoam cheesehead helmet is crushed or breaks off, you're done for the day. And everyone else has the same limitation, so hold back a little, else you get kicked out by everyone else, ok?
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It increases the space for more sink/dryer combinations, however.

Side note: As a man, I think the last time I had to wait to dry my hands was half time at a sports stadium, and even then it was only a 20 second wait.
The inductive charging hack is SO freaking awesome. I am going to have a base-station on my desk for it to land on and charge.
And now I can't reply to scott_s's reply (another weird quirk that I don't understand, since it doesn't seem to be tied to how nested the comment is), but even something as simple as renaming those links would help people ('threads' to 'your comments' and 'comments' to 'recent comments').

Edit: Now the reply link shows up. What's with the timer?
I definitely need an importer to be able to use Discourse. I have been looking for a way to get away from PHPBB for years, and would happily move to Discourse, but if I can't bring my content and user posts with me, my community won't follow, either.

Unfortunately, this is one of the major general problems with forums. You just don't have an option. Import of old forums might be one of the bigger impacts you could make.
Sorry guys but I think GitHub/Bitbucket beat you to the punch, not to mention all the PaaS apps out there.

Hosts more than css, html, js (for output)

Custom domains

Collaboration via revision control.

I see zero reason to ever use this when there are so many betters tools out there .
No, we were worried that rendering different content for google violates their TOS. So what we do is render a super basic version of the page in the <noscript> section with no tools or extras. You can see it if you disable javascript in your browser.

It's not much to use, but enough for google to get at the words and links.

We're not sure how well it works since the project was secret until today! We're going to keep an eye on it and adjust for maximum google-fu going forward.

(Shout out to Sam Saffron who implemented this!)
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Nice ad hom. Care to state why you disagree?
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that it is clear when people have concussions and that players simply disregard the advice of coaches and play anyway.

1)
"It is not always easy to know if someone has a concussion. You don't have to pass out (lose consciousness) to have a concussion."

http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/traumatic-brain-injury-concuss...

"Since it's impossible to fight team spirit the rules need changing."

I agree, by using a G meter, we can make a specific rule that if a player's head experiences a set number of G's, the player can no longer play. That basically simplifies the entire situation because it removes the subjectivity of detecting the concussion.

If I had a kid, and they wanted to play football I would want him wearing a g meter to protect my kid.
> That selects for trivial pattern-matching ability, not the ability to evaluate arguments.

I think the chances of somebody learning to match the entries without understanding at all are fairly low. Computers could do it of course, but that's a different problem.

> Engaging in productive discourse is not associated with knowing the names of fallacies.

The former is not a necessary consequence of the latter and the latter is not a prerequisite for the former, but I think if your debate only involves people that know about common logical fallacies it's likely to be a better debate.
Thanks for mentioning Gandi.

Clickable:
https://www.gandi.net

They're the only ones I've come across as of late who offer 10 year registrations other than GoDaddy. That's the only reason I've stayed with them, and now I can be rid of their god awful interface.
That's PER link, so you can drop it in another folder, change the link, and maybe it refreshes since it's a different link? Can someone from Dropbox confirm this?
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Maybe the government would just find some other arbitrary excuse to keep you from crossing the border?

In any case, it's disturbing that in a democratic country there's no recourse for people to appeal their no-fly status via the legal system.
It's not true. The padding and helmets in U.S. football did not appear out of nowhere; they were added to the game to increase safety. The game was less safe without them.

This is a good example of "Chesterton's Fence." If you find a fence across a road, it might seem like a good idea to tear it down. But the fence did not appear there by itself--someone built it there on purpose. So maybe it would be smart to understand why it was built in the first place before proposing to tear it down.
>Why break conversations into awkward and arbitrary pages, where you have to constantly find the Next Page button? We've replaced all that with the power of just-in-time loading. Want to read more? Just keep scrolling down.

While I like this for viewing lists of threads, I'm not sure it's a problem that needs solving within threads. Maybe it's just a symptom of my confused mind, but I actually like reading a few pages of a really long discussion, then coming back later to read more. Here I come back to the top and hell if I'm going to try to remember where I was.

I no more think paging needs to go away than I think chapters in books need to go away. Or pages in books, obviously.
Smoking gun is "...a reference to an object or fact that serves as conclusive evidence of a crime or similar act."

I'm suggesting that these sort of attacks on men are extremely limited is enough evidence to suggest the perpetrator is likely to be sexist and/or a mysoginist, which is pretty much the definition of a smoking gun as illustrated.
we use it on free heroku tier (actually we just had to bump db to $5 plan) to grab errors from 3 django apps, so far so good.

To whoever is interested, I am maintaining this repo, that allows you to install sentry on heroku in a couple of steps
https://github.com/dmishe/sentry-on-heroku
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