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HN favicon has no design. It is not beautiful and it lacks even the 32x32 version. The whole site still uses FONT elements in its code. What do you expect?

There were zillions of redesigns proposals. None of them satisfied me at all. They were clunky, dense and too gloomy on most cases, but hell, even with that proposals I think this site needs love. Lots of love.
I have a different take on pharmaceutical patents: the research costs could largely be covered with NIH grants, and the pharmaceutical companies should only be in the position of producing the drugs that grant-funded research discovers. Why should the public have to pay absurdly high prices for medication because of the special treatment big pharma gets from the government? Let the pharmaceutical companies compete, and we can get our medications at a fraction of the price (and maybe not have to rely on the notoriously abusive health insurance companies just to do what our doctors tell us to do).

While we are at it, let's disband the DEA and stop protecting the pharmaceutical companies' market from drugs we could be growing in our backyards.
Mach exceptions aren't the "holy grail", they're private API on iOS. That is why nobody is using them. If you want Mach exception handling, it should only take a couple days (if that) for a qualified engineer to implement, of which there are quite a few available from the Mac OS X olden days.

Mach exception handling was explained in _2001_ on the OmniGroup's macosx-dev mailing list: http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-dev/2000-Jun...

Crashlytics is big on marketing (your use of the phrase "holy grail" came straight from their press release), but they're possibly less than forthcoming when it comes to explaining the realities of their technical solutions. Due to this fact alone, I can't share your respect for Crashlytics' management.
I care. Jonah Lehrer is good writer who has written things that I enjoyed reading. I was saddened to hear about how he was taking such sloppy and dishonest shortcuts, and as a fellow imperfect human, I find it interesting to see how he's reflecting on the experience and trying to grow from it.
Winter '13? I thought summer '13 just went out.
And for something a little more modern (OpenPDN - a fork of Paint.Net which is comparable to photoshop in some ways):

http://code.google.com/p/openpdn/source/browse/
Well, luckily, psilocybin is easy enough to grow on your own in the form of mushrooms, though quite illegal. The information is out there if you look for it.
To expand: Looking for something that provides a basic template for an app landing page w custom domain, user signup, stripe / subscription integration and an API, that I can hook into to integrate with user info, subscription level, etc.

Basically, I'm lazy. Can someone make this a service that I can pay for and put an API in front of it: https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-stripe-membership-saas ...let me know when it's ready...thx.
The major concern I have with something like RubyMotion is that Objective-C - the language it stands in for - is not a difficult language. The Cocoa/CocoaTouch API and its verbosity is the real problem, and I think that trying to map the extensive documentation written in Objective-C to a Ruby equivalent runs the risk of adding too much mental overhead. That it requires a paid-for license means that Ruby specific documentation will be comparatively thin on the ground, and the same applies to the resources found on StackOverflow.

I'm a Ruby developer, and I find Obj-C a nice language to work with (though I do prefer the s-expression style in favour of the more recent dot notation). I still haven't managed to justify using Ruby in place of Objective-C.

The only major benefit I see is the REPL that ties into the simulator, and losing the dependency on X-Code, but again, I feel that the verbosity of the APIs is the fault for that.
Are there any good guides out there for starting out Postgres 9.x+ administration, including proper safe deployment on a VPS, maintenance and all sorts of good practices as far as tools are concerned?
I've just read a very interesting book after seeing it mentioned in HN's earlier discussion of LSD. It's by Dr. Rick Strassman, who conducted the first trials of a psychodelic held in the US in 20 years (using a potent psychodelic called DMD). Even after his trial was approved by the FDA and DEA, he struggled to find a supplier for human-quality DMT, although he had already procured a sufficient quantity of laboratory-quality of DMT for testing purposes.

It's a very interesting book -- I highly recommend it [0]. He's not a strong writer in terms of narrative (I found the book's pacing to be jarring given the intensity of experiences described), but he's very precise and describes some very interesting work, and some amazing experiences had by his subjects [0].

0. http://www.rickstrassman.com/
Well, one way is to learn organic chemistry and synthesize the substances yourself (or know people who do this).

Another way is to pick or grow psychedelic mushrooms. Before picking wild psychedelic mushrooms, I strongly suggest you learn a lot about how to identify them (ideally not just from books, though good books are important, but from experienced mushroom hunters). Picking wild mushrooms can be very dangerous. As the saying goes, there are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters.

Yet another way is to go to a country where these substances are legal, decriminalized, or tolerated. Until recently, the Netherlands effectively allowed the sale of psychedelic mushrooms. Erowid's Law Vault may help you find other countries with less idiotic drug laws than the US.[1]

Finally, you can submit a sample of your substance to, or get testing kits from companies such as: [2][3]

[1] - https://erowid.org/psychoactives/law/law.shtml

[2] - http://www.dancesafe.org/

[3] - http://www.ecstasydata.org/about.php
> Besides, American airport security is the "gold standard," isn't it?

Depressingly, this is the same logic that keeps Americans from improving anything. Because they're constantly told they live in the best country in the world(TM), Americans are apathetic when it comes to making things better (healthcare, education, poverty rates, incarceration rates, living standards, etc.), because they think it's already "the best".
Not hard. Email me. (Do I get a bonus for veteran status? :D )
The bigger reason to use RubyMotion is not a different syntax - you do end up using very similar code anyway, although lack of header files is a nice thing - but different tools. Objective-C is not the barrier. Xcode is.
Last year they have this awesome Excel spreadsheet and financial modeling world championship competition in New York. I bet they don't make many mistakes. www.modeloff.com
Don't Trust iTunes Movies in the Cloud
Last year they had this awesome Excel and financial modelling world championships called Modeloff. I bet you they don't make many mistakes. www.modeloff.com
Call it my crutch, but I got an app shipped without having to worry about a lot of the baggage that comes with Objective-C as a language. Here's two of my favorite examples of things I didn't have to worry about:

http://nshipster.com/nil/ (wat)

http://ashfurrow.com/blog/seven-deadly-sins-of-modern-object... (6/7 of these don't apply...testing is something I need to work on though!)
I remember that!
We also had the "Carrier Pigeon paster than ADSL" saga - we've made progress in SA!
These are some of the times I feel lucky to be in a developing country. Our government is still behind in developing laws where they freeze all your bank accounts on income tax evasion counts (obviously unless you are a high profile case).

But this is plain ridiculous. Its must be some kind of breach of basic rights. Govt should not be able to freeze accounts unless proven guilty in court.
In case you missed this article about monster doses of LSD, you might be interested:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5210596
Informed people who believe that CISPA is a privacy threat are typically taking a narrow reading of the ECPA's information sharing provision (for instance, reading into it the idea that "information required to maintain one's network" would not include "detailed information about ongoing network attacks"). If you believe that ECPA prevents Facebook or AT&T from sharing information about attacks --- something backbone providers already do --- then CISPA creates a new authorization to share that information.

The idea that CISPA would be a vector for DHS and DOJ to get warrantless access to email and Facebook messages, though, is hyperbolic and more than a little silly, because DHS and DOJ already have a warrantless way to get most of that information --- court orders.

It's ˙totally˙ reasonable to be concerned about the ease with which the government can get access to information via court orders. But that's a concern that's orthogonal to CISPA; if anyone meant CISPA as an an additive to the mechanisms the government already uses to get email, the bill would be written differently.

It is as always worth mentioning that CISPA is an opt-in measure.
1756 paid games in the windows store as of today, ouch. granted, none of them seem to be AAA titles, but I'd assume they hear footsteps.

I assume this is probably a driving factor behind project green light? While a heavily curated store made a lot of sense when valve launched steam, with their major competitors now os vendors with light curation can valve really afford to turn away indies? It's not like their store is still browsable or doesn't have a lot of crap in it already.
Somebody owns the company no? Someone writes the checks? That person does the firing.
I recall reading a while back that they have a procedure for this. I think they actually decide it through group consensus, so I would imagine the reasons for being fired would have to be pretty real.
Does anyone know the identification numbers of the patents that Innovatio IP are using, or even the specific claims that are being used? I'm interested to compare with some prior art that I am aware of.
Obama issues cybersecurity order as Congress revives Cispa
Generalizations like these are exciting. Let me try too...

I've yet to meet an American who didn't think at least one one of these, if not all, were completely broken.

Source: I live in America.
Affected employees were asked not to speak about specifics, but the impression we get is that these cuts were driven more by company challenges than by individual performance issues

This is a bit surprising, I'd have thought Valve was trucking in money by the boatloads.
It hasn't been that hard for me to translate Objective-C code into Ruby. The hardest thing has been APIs that have varargs that end in nil for some reason.

Recently the RubyMotion team published this yardoc that translates all of the existing APIs for you into Ruby:

http://www.rubymotion.com/developer-center/api/index.html

But I didn't refer to that for the majority of the development since it wasn't around yet...I was knee-deep in the Apple docs for most of it.
Google 'flaw' puts users' details on display
Interesting, but we live in a country where the Mayor of New York (Bloomberg) is attempting to actively restrict the use of narcotics for people in pain in order to keep them out of the hands of abusers.

We live in a pathetically immature culture.
What is the tradeoff between the two?
Here's a more realistic version: http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
Hey hajrice, thanks for clarifying. I really am just looking for a FAQ/KB. Helpjuice looks a lot like what I'm looking for - I like the focus on just KB.

Some feedback:

1) I went to sign up for a trial and noticed that there was no https on the submit form. Unfortunately that's a no-go since the password is transported via plaintext unless I'm misunderstanding something. This is the only real deal-breaker.
2) The price-point is a little high (not a deal-breaker), but I didn't really get a chance to test-drive the product because of the lack of https.
3) I'd like to keep branding on faq.mydomain.com
Look at the specific sentence I quoted to criticize.

Do you really agree that "The concept of entrepreneurism as a small-time life-style has evaporated from the culture"?
I'm not perfectly happy, there's not not much impact being unhappy is likely to have. Once a company makes a huge announcement like this, displeasure from the customer base is unlikely to cause them to change their minds until either they discover the change was a HUGE mistake and upsets lots of their customers and they lose significant market share OR they're forced to change because they go bankrupt.
No argument here, XCode sucks. RubyMotion seems like a heavy-handed answer to that, though.
This is a ridiculously open-ended spec, and there's a mountain of federal legislation to comply with. I might go as far as to say that it's a reckless way to try to procure software, as it's very much a product which needs to work and be supported over the long term, not some sort of black-box AI quick win.
Yes both Missouri and Hawaii have handled my moves in this fashion. At first they assume you owe them money, but if you provide documentation for where you were living and when then they cancel proceedings with no fuss.

I'm not sure how I was able to escape California without dealing with this, but that was some years ago...
Slacker Takes Aim at Pandora
I'd recommend "The Accidental DBA" (or, Administering PostgreSQL When It's Not Your Job). You can find it here: http://www.pgexperts.com/presentations.html
Just one request: please accept delivery to Europe (at least France) even with some shipping cost and I will join immediately.
I'm curious to see how the whole 'forking/cloning' concept is replicated here, especially if Pixelapse is seeking to become the Github for design. I'm fairly certain that the restrictions for use of graphic content in a public format is a lot more prohibitive as opposed to software (there's not really such a thing as 'open-source graphics' besides measly clip art galleries).

The true social value of Github is in its community-oriented approach where any developer anywhere can fork code and contribute changes. That doesn't seem as possible with imagery, and my impression is that designers are more concerned with protecting their work (nothing wrong with that - just an observation).
It's a mentality I really think is going to hurt the country in the long run. The only way to stay the best at anything is to keep striving forward - like Singapore does with education.

And this is still my favorite clip from a TV show- somewhat related. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYjyLg8bbo
They let Jeri Ellsworth go, which is pretty surprising considering she was apparently involved in controller design for the Steam Box.
Well, sort of. I wouldn't really call it running "ruby code on the Objective-C runtime". Your Ruby code is effectively being converted to Cocoa API calls during the compilation process. RubyMotion has a number of Objective-C subclasses that match back to Ruby objects (for example, strings in RubyMotion aren't NSStrings, but a subclass of them). If you dump the headers out of a RubyMotion app you can pretty clearly see this.

Ruby and Objective-C definitely aren't that similar internally - as someone else has suggested, there's no technical reason you couldn't do something similar for Python. It just happens that Ruby to Cocoa bindings have been around for a while (for some time with Apple support), and as a result there has been generally more interest in carrying it forward.

I've probably failed to adequately explain how it works, but the MacRuby source is available on GitHub, and Laurent Sansonetti has done a run through how RubyMotion does it's thing here: http://rubysource.com/laurent-sansonetti-on-rubymotion-inter...
I'll add this to your comment since it's much better than the one I'd written; Dancesafe sells DIY kits for certain chemicals as well -- http://dancesafe.org/products/testing-kits
As an aside, feature copying was one of the greatest sources of irritation my friends had when Opera was still this really weird, unique thing that I used and they didn't. It was quite regular to have them excitedly tell me to switch to Firefox because "Dude, there's tabbed browsing, it's SO great!" Uh, thanks, I've... I've had that for years. But I'm glad you're discovering it too!
Just downloaded their trial edition a few days ago for an upcoming project but haven't started playing with it yet. Glad to hear good things about it.
Yeah, gnuplot is a very powerful tool.

I imagine you could put it all into a user-defined postgresql function, so all you have to say is:

graph(select * from example);
I presume this violates your license with the paper vendor?
Seems kind of funny for TPB to be threatening a copyright infringement lawsuit. But then again, it's also funny for a pro-copyright organization to be blatantly ripping them off...
Thanks for your suggestions, all. Our traffic roughly doubled, which didn't cause any strain on our infrastructure.

For the curious, the site is http://betterific.com, which was linked from http://facebook.com/arbys, marking our first big partnership. After endless market surveys about what your customers want, Betterific tells you why.
Apple shared?

Get with the program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
If you're just reading, use Chrome's built in PDF reader or PDFjs for Firefox [1]

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs/
The TSA's budget is just a tad short of half that of NASA's. Cutting back on the little-old-lady-molesting budget and giving the cash to space-explorers seems like a no-brainer to me. However, I'm not an American.
CoreData is a very powerful object store with many libraries that support it. I haven't tested BubbleWrap much, but it's a very simple system, without searching, indexing, migrations and other CoreData features.
Mozilla is absolutely a business, they are just non-profit.
No it's not a "flaw":

http://marketingland.com/why-im-glad-google-play-gives-devel...

http://marketingland.com/google-play-gives-email-addresses-p...

It's ridicules how some outlets just run with this sort of crap without question.
Depends on your definition of flaw. This has been discussed before: https://plus.google.com/106557483623231970995/posts/Bed6WUJp...

Basically, it is due to how Play Store is set up. Developers are the merchant of record, not Google (unlike Apple's app store, where Apple is the merchant of record). The developer may not "want" this information, but for tax purposes they need it.
How the API killed Business Development
They've since come out and said that Greenlight as a system isn't solving the problems that they wanted it to, and they're going to try and reduce the barriers to getting games on Steam.

My assumption there is that with the saturation of the games market (especially the "casual" variety) means that it's impossible to pick which horses to bet on. Steam doesn't want to be left out as the only missing platform when the next Angry Birds rolls around, and the obvious solution is to do minor quality control but let everything into the storefront.
Can someone enlighten me as to why this thing contains an AVR microcontroller? This seems to be a trend; I remember one of the MacBooks had some ARM sidekick, too.

Now I don't want to be paranoid, but I generally prefer if the only general purpose computer in my computer is the CPU. It's probably hopeless by now, since every other network, graphics chip and controller runs on some ARM microcontroller variant, but to see them alone on the PCB makes me wonder what their purpose is.
The New Microsoft Is a Pal of GitHub
Yes, it's in the employee handbook posted last year. Peer evaluations that actually work compared to the Microsoft system Gabe left behind.
I did sound a bit peeved. Let me clarify: Organizations use data in two ways-- either to make decisions or to have system do some automation and integration.

For automation and integration, as long as the source system (such as yours ) can automatically publish a usable XML schema and make a secure webservice available, we (development )are satisfied.

For decision making , the data source is used by MBAs who are well versed in Excel and Access but get stumble easily when confronted with something that they have to learn. I am not including Mathematica/R guys in this group --- they can generally take care of stuff by themselves. The folks in marketing/HR/Strategy etc. etc. -- they need to make important decisions but they cant if the data platform is not "smoothly" connectable by Excel and Access.

Hope this helps !
>Huxley himself would famously request and receive a large intravenous dose of LSD on his own deathbed the following year.

No, it was intramuscular. His last written request (he was no longer able to speak) was " "LSD, 100 µg, IM".
I am only going to suggest a small edit -> s/Postgres can’t/Heroku's Postgres can't/

PG can scale up pretty well on a single box, but scaling PG on AWS can be problematic due to the disk io issue, so I suspect they just don't do it. I'd love to be corrected :)
I think wordy apologies are a lot more appropriate when it's a for technical mistake "this is how the security breach happened and this is what we've done to prevent a reoccurrence" than a moral misjudgement "this is how I cheated and lied to everyone; please trust me again because I'm candid about it"
wts?
A partial comparison of before/after on the staff listing page.
140bytes: Javascript "libraries" the size of a tweet
I guess I need to include the link: http://www.diffchecker.com/h14Uhs74
How about you buy one license and pirate another? That way the price would be roughly equal to what it would have cost if you had bought 2 copies in the US... All is fair in the world :)
Kotaku reports that Jason Holtman, Valve's director of business development; animator Bay Raitt, and programmer Tom Leonard, are no longer listed in the company directory:

http://kotaku.com/5984057/layoffs-rumored-at-valve-business-...
Trained animals is a good metaphor. Not passive objects acted upon but actors. Your example is even cleaner in Self which allows implicit 'self':

emptyInto: vessel = (| here |
here: place.
go: vessel place.
vessel add: spill.
go: here
)
Carakan was 16.5 months from first commit to shipping (and a month or so more to not being notably buggy), with a team of five for the vast majority of that time. The only code carried over verbatim from Futhark was the regexp engine (though that had machine-code generation added to it), and the parser was also pre-existing (though not shared with Futhark!).

For comparison: MS were the last to do a major rewrite of their layout engine, which started, AIUI, before IE7 shipped (Oct 2006) and shipped in IE8 (Mar 2009), and more-or-less reached feature parity with others with IE9 (Mar 2011). To be fair, they were working from a far more archaic codebase than anyone else, so probably had more work, but they also had a far larger team than anyone else working on this.
> But this was as thorough an apology as I can recall seeing from anyone about anything.

I thought that at first too, but then I wondered what was with that story about the Muslim lawyer who was erroneously picked up and jailed by the FBI and it turned out they had it wrong. Is he saying he's a victim?!?!? That's what it started to sound like to me. So I'm not sure I believe it's an apology.
"In practice, since the specific implementation details of TrustZone are proprietary and have not been publicly disclosed for review, it is unclear what level of assurance is provided for a given threat model."

Let me know if you have a better "source".
If he is as really rich as you suggest it seems odd to me that he would complain about Cloudflare and not have rented a 100 TB server sooner. They are not exactly difficult to find.

Whether he can tell us if he is rich or found another way to monetize adult or potentially offensive content, it is up to him to share.