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One particularly confusing or juicy thing about the codenames: Blizzard's rumoured MMO is internally called "Project Titan". In 2010 Ensemble+Bungie were working on a MMO also called "Project Titan", then cancelled. And Blizzard's rumored game sounds an awful lot like a Halo MMO. It's probably all just a coincidence, but it's a bizarre one.
Arrays based on 1. The odd and slightly under-documented stack that you have to use when interfacing it with C. Global variable scope by default. Tables (.. are both good and bad). Not standard named operators like '=~' and ':'.

Having said that, it's not a bad language. It has an excellent community, who really went to great lengths to help me writing the Lua libguestfs bindings.

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-lua.3.html
Or you could just eat pastured meat.
Heroku can spin up new instances in seconds and you can automate it with HireFireApp. It's not a VPS, but a VPS aka shared hardware is never going to be "seconds" unless it's already provisioned and basically just needs to boot (EC2 and your own AMIs?).
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I find even 4MB complete overkill for the required functionality.

All the damn thing needs to do is keep a couple of running counters on a short buffer of IPs and run iptables when limits are met, and a periodic parse of a log file. This feels like something where 64k ought to be enough for anyone, much less 640k!

Sure, we can get by with a fifth of a gigabyte of swap space for this task. Ugh. I've spent too much of my life in debugger CPU views. Jack's quivering tower of abstractions writhes in repulsion.
I'd like to do something for this idea if I can. Can you drop me an email (in my profile)? The website on your profile is down, so I don't know how to get in touch with you.
Except for storing things away from her to see if she really needs them, none of the other points come close to trickery.

All the other things I talk to her, explain. Why buy new clothes every 2 months (seriously, the damn baby just keeps growing) if we can have a lot of hand-me-downs? She loves her kindle and iPad. The toys issue is a real concern and made it her concern as well. I started drinking a lot less because it was a concern for her.

I don't think it is manipulation. I hate clutter, she knows it, I try to find solutions where both are ok with it. I mentioned sometimes I get my way, sometimes she gets her way. I can't say for others, but I never found anyone that was 100 percent match in everything I like and believe. I mention it is a partnership. I hate going on holidays, hate it, but I go to make her happy. Of course I expect she does a few things to make me happy. If not (both sides), why the hell are we together? Just to save on rent?

Edit: Heck, if you read the top post, you even see I'm going back to work because I want her to have things she really wants.
The lady that has bought the stairway some time before 1971 must be a very wealthy person now. I wonder how much would that bustle from her hedgerow net on Sothebis today.
It looks like it's basically Bitcoin but without the mining. An interesting concept for sure.

If I understand it correctly:
By paying a gateway, you get "ripples" in the form of an IOU (The gateway owes you). This IOU can be exchanged at any other gateway back to money. Meanwhile, your money is inside the system and you can send it to other people in the system.

There's no inherent value to ripples, there's no money being created or lost. It's just a means to transfer money around.

Am I right that gateways need to be trusted though? Can they accept e.g. $1000 dollar, give out gateway IOU's, and never return the money to anyone?
> but it [acid-state] also limits the points of entry into 1 (which means no outside queries/reports which SQL does very well).
> [...]
> If you can live with the fact that your application is the only entry point for your data, definitely look into AcidState.

Sorry for the double post, but I couldn't edit my previous reply anymore. You do have a point about SQL being more amenable to outside queries and reports, especially ad-hoc ones. However, take a look at Data.Acid.Remote (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/acid-state/0.8.2...) which allows you to connect to an acid store in your running application remotely: however, at this time you will have to provide your own security solution for that. Also, for ad-hoc queries to your data you can, probably, bolt on a dynamic Haskell evaluator/interpreter to your application: see http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Safely_running_untrusted_... for a possible solution. That is, of course, not safe (as in Haskell-safe, see the section about exploits), but neither are ad-hoc SQL queries on your live data store.
Either that or give some folks a full blown god complex
Kim Dotcom will sell you a Mega membership for half a bitcoin
I live in both worlds and it's funny, bar the obvious differences in technical skills, there are far more similarities, especially with regard to your second paragraph.
What is wrong with these people? I just don't get it and want to know more about this. Oww: http://www.crush-fetish.net/
AFAIK both forms are acceptable [in en_GB] for both the past participles of caulking your boat and making a financial transaction, cf http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pay#English or http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pay--2.

This IMO highlights why one shouldn't get too anal about specific word forms as long as the intent is apparent. Of course one can generate inaccuracies this way but generally an honest attempt to receive the communicated information doesn't gan aft agley.
ctrl+c is even better (in my opinion). In theory it doesn't work in every place ESC works, but I haven't noticed such places. Also ctrl+j works as ENTER. It does make a big difference to me.
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Whether the servers are owned by a co-op or a big company, if the U.S. federal government comes calling, you will have to answer if you or your servers are in the U.S. That is just the nature of a government.
That's the point. Numeric notation is right-to-left. It was around long before the concept of endianness.
It's the ones that don't which disprove the hypothesis. Ireland and the UK both have pervasive public health systems, with nursing homes being a more common destination for the aged than living with children, but are only in the second quartile.
Linode is good with nice API , Even Digital Ocean is good with basic API.

We are using DO ( value for money ) for a new service and A full nginx based site can be setup in under 60 - 80 seconds after cloning a basic image. New instances take a little less time.
I sense that thinking can be mistaken for doing in memory. If we've previously spent a lot of time superficially orbiting a subject, then when later reminded of that subject, it's all too easy to think "Been there. Done that. Boring." even though we never did actually land on the surface.
When I ran an ssh server on port 22 (with root login and password login turned off), I would see quite a lot of random log-in attempts using root and various stupid passwords.

When I switched to some other port, they stopped. Less noise in my logs, hurray! Now, if I see something weird in my logs, chances are it's important.
Also OpenMirage, written in OCaml straight to the "hardware" (where "hardware" is a Xen virtual machine).
http://openmirage.org/
You're assuming no return on capital after inflation. $1.5M would be way more than you need to retire on 25,000 per year.

At four percent return after inflation, you would need 625,000 dollars to sustain a 25,000/year lifestyle indefinitely. Four percent per year is about what you can expect for long-term returns on a slightly stock-heavy diversified portfolio.

The above reasoning assumes no lifestyle inflation due to advances in technology (there were no LCD TVs in 1980), and also assumes that you will be incapable of earning another dollar after you retire.
Another version (thanks to logn) - available at http://imgur.com/a/nCzap
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It's still possible to be minimalistic, with kids...
Kids love nothing more than spending time with their parents, and that is something today's western world seems to infringe... If both parents are working long hours, what happens to the kids, where is the time and love to nurture and educate them!
Is there anything you can do about chinese hackers. I have a small site and many of the ssh requests come from those hackers. Can I send the list somewhere?
Show HN : Web IDE in Python ( Bottle Framework )
We am getting this IDE made for running on routers/embedded systems/robots . Its aim is to be a tiny IDE providing live programming experience on small devices.

We would like to hear what do you guys have to say and how can we improve it :) .
I don’t understand this complaint. Pull to refresh didn’t exist on iOS either. Twitter introduced it, people liked it, it spread to other apps and it eventually became API. This is how evolution happens, why would you want to prevent it?
What is the best way to network with YC Alum?
So summer applications are being accepted, awesome! I am really excited to put mine in the mix but I am even more excited to start taking to YC Alumni, getting advice, and possibly meeting with them. Where do you think I should start besides scraping their personal emails from old documents they posted online?
> Because as it turns out the market for being an “it” founder and a flavor of the week startup isn’t the reality market. It is the perception market.

Perception Market. Also known as a "reputation bubble."

(Anyone know where the original "reputation bubble" article went? I've been trying fancy tricks with Google, but getting nowhere. The fashion industry and the "it" girl supermodel are prime examples in the article.)
Free transportation for life? Sounds good, but what about maintenance such as battery replacement, tire replacement, windshield, fluids, plus insurance, tolls, parking etc. May not be as expensive as fuel, but there's no such thing as a free-ride
You've clearly never had a 12 year old spew all the seven dirty words at you (and some I had to look up)

What are you protecting kids from at this point?
I'm also recommending this technique.
Finally focusing on one task for 25 minutes is very difficult!
This is a severe abuse of statistics.

They are succeeding at alarming rates; the suicides among people 65 or older ballooned to 4,378 in 2010, from 1,161 in 2000.

The are absolute counts, not rates. The male 65+ population went up 70% in the same period, and the 75+ subgroup doubled [1]. This explains away much of the increase (c.f. generic statistics in [2]). And at the same time:

The number of suicides among other adults and teenagers also surged... (no numbers)

Is it even clear the age-normalized suicide rate increased at all among the elderly, relative to the general population? I don't think the journalist checked.

edit: BBC says Korea's general-population suicide "more than doubled" over the same period [3]. So the 65+ suicide rate is almost completely explained by the null hypothesis. The count of 65+ suicides went up by 3.77x; the male 65+ population increased by 1.68x, and the general population suicide rate by >2.0x, which together is a factor of 3.36x. That leaves a <12% increase in [65+ suicide rate]/[general population suicide rate] (I'm still ignoring (rare [2]) female suicides). In a better analysis this might completely disappear. E.g. the 75+ subgroup outgrew the 65+ subgroup and they are much more suicidal [2], but I don't know how much more.

[1] http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/regi...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5236508

[3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14784776
Besides, there's the bias of Onavo's users. Given their product, they tend to be more tech savvy, frequent travelers, users of (limited) intl data plans.

I'm skeptical their sample would be a good representation of the mainstream app audience.
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Java Developers staring at com.domain.specific namespaces are somewhat preconditioned to examining this discrepancy.
I think I'm missing something. How's that you'll be driving "for free" ? Someone has to pay for the energy the cars will be spending.The cars need maintenance. The car will be the "fastest, sexyest" for how long?

There is no free lunch. And Mr. Musk is not trying to give humanity free drive for life... he's just trying to make money. He is just trying to make his stuff popular so he can sell more of it and make more money. It's just business.
Based on this result I think the Ruby algorithm is performing pretty well. Python makes the first four fairly readable for me while Ruby is truer to the original. However the Python and Ruby hues vs original are still a good bit different (but I'm not exactly sure if that's what you want or not)
I liked it too. It's just not hacker news. It's not even news. I'd seen it before on a mainstream site.

I like to see hacker news on Hacker News.
all three of these brands are brandable. I don't think you understand the objective of branding if you think no true scotsman applies here.

Branding is the battle for peoples perceptions, and follows the rules of how our minds perceive things. Your mind is not capable of assigning meaning to a generic term. You can know what they do, but you cant associate it with a category.
"American Airlines" does not mean an American Airline in anybody's mind. Just as Buy.com doesn't mean anything other than a website that might have something to do with the word buy.

Generic domains have all sorts of other value, and you can make lots of money without a good brand. But... Branding is about one thing only... Associating your name as the "Go-To" folks in a category. That association is simply not possible with a generic name.
If I'm a musician, and I want to sell my music in a way that prevents the buyer from redistributing it, then I don't think that is unethical. I think the musician has the right to make that choice. You have a right not to buy it in that form.
Why are humans ceaselessly competitive?
> Of course there are standard resolutions

No, there are not. A 720p screen might be a de facto standard on many devices right now, but if you are designing your app for a couple of resolutions and not resolution independence, you are in for a world of hurt.

For example, the Nexus 10 has a 2560x1600 resolution. Flagship phones this year are expected to go 1080p (the same way they went to 720p from 800x480 which was the most common resolution in 2010).

There is no standard resolution. Don't count on it. End of story.

> especially when you use dp instead if dip

dp and dip are the same thing.
I think it would help to cite a bit more of the reported detail here; for me, it provided relevance to the HN context and a reason for some albeit unconfirmed suspicion:

His parents said they believed their son had been murdered over his work at the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), which is part of [A-STAR].

IME carries out research on microelectronics to help develop the industry in Singapore. Some areas of focus include miniaturised medical devices, sensors and circuits.

Dr Todd, who was trained as an engineer, worked for the institute between December 2010 and May last year and, according to the FT, led a team specialising in a next-generation semiconductor material called gallium nitride (GaN).

The material can withstand extreme heat and power levels well beyond the more traditionally used silicon.

An external hard drive discovered by Dr Todd's parents in his home after his death contained apparent plans between the institute and Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, to develop a device known as a GaN amplifier, which has many commercial uses, the FT said.

But the GaN amplifier could also be used in electronic warfare to jam signals and weapons, and to create high-powered radar systems to boost military capabilities, said experts consulted by FT.

The involvement of Huawei would be problematic because the firm has been deemed a security risk by governments, the FT said.

Last year, a United States government intelligence committee said, after an 11-month investigation, that it suspected communications equipment made by Huawei could be used for spying.

The committee's report cited analysts' concerns that Huawei has links to and is influenced by the Chinese government, despite it claiming to be a private company. Huawei has denied these suspicions, although it admitted in a US government report that an internal Communist Party committee does exist within the company, as required by law...

According to FT, Dr Todd's parents said that their son had seemed increasingly stressed in the months before his death.

"I am being asked to do things with a Chinese company that make me uncomfortable," Mrs Todd recalled her son saying. "He said he felt he was being asked to compromise American security," she added.
Lua Warrior would be a good port/sequel. I imagine the setting could be more futuristic and occur on the Moon.
> The above analysis misses something important -- compound interest.

You are making the assumption that getting an 8% return is something that is easy and safe to do. What happens to the people who retire in a year like, say, 2007. Their first year of retirement, expecting to withdrawal $50k to live on and instead watch their $625k dwindle down to $460,000. The next year maybe they get lucky and only lose 2%, minus the $50k they withdrew. Now they're down to around $400k. Ok the market picks up and they get a 3% average the next year but took out another $50k. Now they've got $360k. After a mere 3 years of retirement they've used up half their savings. Even if they manage to get 8% a year for the next 30 years, they now only have $28,000 a year to live on. Whoops.

The assumption that your money won't run out is not a given. This is the reason it's important to have a LARGE nest egg. While $625k might do it if you could invest it at 8%, you can't count on that and the market could quickly leave you living with your children. To really be safe you're going to need significantly more money than you think you will. You also aren't accounting for inflation, which means as you age either you're going to have to cut your expenses ~3% a year or you're going to have to increase your withdrawls ~3% a year.

I don't know what the story is with these retired by 30 people, but I would be willing to bet a fair number of them will find themselves broke and returning to work at some point in their lives.
When domain names were first used, there was no such thing as a URL. The end.
Yeah, so God and I do songs. I thought no one was wise enough to realize there was anything wrong. God wants copyrights?

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>We are technically a suite of tools (which you know depending on your executional ability is an API, or a set of SDKs, or us hand holding you through using them) for brand managers and marketers to build applications and games with their own data. Layer up content + actions and out pops your very own custom THING.

I have signed up for a demo. Would like the handholding variety please. I have a brand in truck accessories (http://traxda.com) and one in phone cases (http://sascase.com).
I had never heard of Edwin Mellen Press before this, but now I am definitely watching out for them. The Streisand Effect in action.
Sorry, I was unclear. What I meant was that we don't seem to be going all-in on it like the Chinese are. I don't think we can do personalized medicine now, because we don't have sufficiently large sample sets for comparison or sufficiently fast comparators. And i know there is a lot of research going on to improve that, but don't feel we are being sufficiently aggressive about it.
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This would be great if it was for a language that had more popularity. I mean, Forth is great for learning what a stack is or how to program a telescope (look it up), but think how great this could be to help folks learn Pascal or Basic. We could help the next great generation of programmers!

Just kidding. I actually got a real kick out of seeing this again, reminding me of my old ValForth and FigForth days on the Atari.
The tools he writes about make writing code easier, but don't help with reading it - they just generate the boilerplate. It's a bit like checking in code after macro expansion - if the programmer didn't want to write all this stuff, why force others to read it?

But I don't think it means we should write more by hand - I would rather write in a concise language that requires knowledge of few less common abstractions, than in something so verbose I keep mixing generated and hand-written code together! As the article says, this mix often obfuscates intended meaning, as it's sometimes hard to tell boilerplate from necessary logic.
I've self-hosted as much as I can since 2000 and as with everything, one should weigh up the costs of self-hosting versus the benefits. First, honestly assess your own level of skill. Then pick a service and decide what it would cost you to host and the cost of failure. For example, let's look at hosting your own email service.

The cost of hosting for someone not comfortable with email is quite high. Setting it up correctly requires many steps and if you get it wrong, perhaps your emails don't get delivered and you lose business. Compare this to the cost of using Gmail - effectively zero. However, this does not take the risks into account. Google owns your email and email address. If they, or one of a number of governments decide that the service should no longer be available to you for whatever reason, your email is lost. You could mitigate this by mirroring all your Gmail through IMAP/POP3 and using your own domain name. In security terms, the risk of Google taking away your account is low, but the impact is very high.

As an aside, I'd love to use Owncloud but after a incidence where it deleted files, I decided that it's not yet ready for production use.
Friend of doppenhe here.

Amazon, heroku etc aren't fast enough for us due to spin-up time. Basically when we get a particular command from a user, we need to do a LOT computation on many parallel machines, but for a short burst of time.

Keeping a whole cluster of machines reserved would be prohibitively expensive at this stage. We would prefer to keep a small base-load capacity reserved, and then spin up a large number of instance for a short time. Response time is key here.

It would be best if they were already up and running, waiting for a command, but idle most of the time. Fine if it's shared with others. Kind of like a computation insurance for short bursts of high-demand.

Anyone know any services like that?
One other thing I would add is to check on different variations of Android (stock, HTC's Sense, Samsung's TouchWiz, etc..) as well as resolutions, since they have different default widget styles and colors that can affect your app in different ways. (Android 4 is much better about this with Holo, but anything before it can vary a lot.)