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Being in the US I cannot just buy HBO; not that I would want to, I only want this show. To buy HBO requires me to buy a minimum package with either the cable or satellite companies.

that takes the cost of HBO and quadruples it if not more. I just received my legal copies of season two, it was 34.99 from Amazon. HBO could have had that money many months earlier if they would simply sell the show via iTunes or similar.
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Probably because of memory usage and garbage collection and the fact that java needs to be installed on most systems whereas C++ needs no dependencies and python comes preinstalled on the usual linux server (probably not python3 but i assume it will be some years before bind10 sees adoption for such critical infrastructure). Also he mentions specialized data structures and memory management.

Atleast i wouldn't sleep well if i know that the heart of the internet was running Java :P
I've been using this format for years. It's the only reasonable format for dealing with sorting information. Nothing aggravates me like files that use month/day/year format; it's useless.
That's the HN general use of the word start-up as per PG's definition. I agree there are others but it helps if we all use the terms the same way.

See here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4556838
I love Trello, and have been using it since it was first publicly available.

It was such a refreshing change from the Project -> To-Do List arrangement of, well, pretty much every web based project management software up until that point.
Smartphone tests users urine. Taking the piss.
Thanks a lot for your feedback.

I absolutely agree with your point. I actually didn't realize pinboard was a sharing service at all for the first few months that I had it. I wound up following one or two tech writers that I follow elsewhere but I've since forgotten about it and haven't really even looked to see what they're saving to pinboard.
Zuck's wrong, HTML5 IS ready
We're almost there. When batteries and chips made out of Graphene go into production, we can have <3" supercomputers.

The only limiting factor is the OS and input devices. Android is bad as Operating System for productive usage, because it's made for consumers.

Silicene > Graphene.

When we start better understanding how self-organizing structures work, we'll be very close to build miniature mobile supercomputers with extremely low energy consumption. I guess the battery and chip will be made out of the same material, but different structures. Production will be very cheap, because manufacturing will not require lasers, toxic acids and rare materials anymore.
You need to add an "!important" attribute at least for the "display:none;" properties for them to work. Too lazy to make a pull request, sorry ;)
Agreed. If anything, I would say Ruby is the language still in mainstream use that most resembles Smalltalk.
That's one way to prevent spam from coming in. Next you'll find them blocking all chinese netblocks.
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God laughs at climate models.

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The title is extremely misleading, as the structural parts of the car are meant to be made of a metal tube frame, quote from article:

"The design puts a tubular metal cage around the driver, “like a NASCAR roll cage,” Kor claims. And he also mentioned the possibility of printed shock-absorbing parts between the printed exterior and the chassis. "

Interesting demonstration of the technology, but if you want a light, non-structural body, carbon fibre (or even fibreglass if worried about cost) would almost certainly be cheaper and faster to produce.
Parlamento più giovane della storia della Repubblica. Credete che basti?…
Can somebody explain why mongodb storage space is always so expensive and limited on mongodb hosting services? (Not just these SSD plans)

And the plans also start with so little space
I manage the 3rd line support of some of the busiest websites in the world (we provide back-end e-commerce software).

I can't say I think much of google's response here. Nearly two weeks before the first comment, and then shut down after 2 days and a question directed at who knows who, and no explanation?

The analysis elsewhere on here suggests they're violating SLA, so this should get more attention. I'm guessing support is under-resourced @ google, and the culture of support is a bit shabby (no acknowledgement of inconvenience or indication or evidence of work undertaken in the background) - hardly surprising for a large-scale software business based on free services.
My AI doctorate used a lot of group theory. I use came up with the following analogy for explaining what it is and what it's used for to fellow non-mathematicians:

If you want to measure and describe the number of occurrences of something, use an integer. If you want to measure and describe the amount of something, use a rational number. If you want to measure and describe the symmetry of a structure, use a group.

When programmatically dealing with objects that contain symmetry - e.g. physical objects like a cube, a set of identical resources like a fleet of lorries - having an understanding of group theory allows you another layer of abstraction in your computation, potentially greatly reducing runtime or memory consumption.
Maybe you don't rationally need someone to talk to when someone is fixing a problem for you -- but I think you need to know that the vendor is _aware_ of the problem, and is working on fixing it.

Or you start freaking out. And I don't think that's entirely irrational.

This is, among other things, why the 'post mortem' has become somewhat popular -- because it allows us to judge "Yeah, those guys DO know what they're doing, they're on top of things, the chances of outages are getting constantly smaller, not larger."

Has Google ever published such a "post-mortem" after an outage? Has Google ever even admitted there was an outage publically?

But also, yeah, rational or not, people like to have someone to talk to. In customer service in general, there are many studies showing that customers satisfaction will be higher when they are treated 'nicely' _without a solution_ than when they are treated brusquely but their problem is solved. This is not actually rational, and I'm not saying I'd like vendors to strive towards that model -- but it is apparently human psychology that vendors may want to take account of.

On the other hand, Google seems to be doing pretty fine how it is going. Although I don't know how GAE is doing, really, compared to competitors.

How Google does it, though, is basically no support at all, right? It's beyond 'good support' or 'bad support' -- with the possible exception of AdWords, is there any Google product where you can ever talk to a human about any support issue at all? For email that might be fine, especially when the email product is pretty darn reliable. For enterprise critical software... it would sure make me nervous.
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I don't doubt there are all kinds of new materials out there stronger than steel, but the article clearly states that he uses "ABS plastic via Fused Deposition Modeling", which is a different material and a different process.
Leap Motion controllers to ship May 13, cost $80 | Cutting Edge - CNET News
The best blog about startups and entrepreneurship on the net. And very funny to read.
Quackwatch page on Dr. Dwight Lundell http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
If you're going to write an article like this you have to cite some evidence - if Dwight Lundell really believes what he's saying he should apply to the Atkins Foundation and do some research - instead he's selling his self help book and dietary supplements:

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
We got one of these at my work, and I just can't seem think of any creative apps to make. Does anyone have ideas?
> The thing is, many people use the title to determine whether the article is worth reading.

That same argument could be used for having the language in the title as people who are not interested in programming are going to be less interested in a thread about programming.

And language fanboyism is going to happen with or without this title (given the content of the article). What's happening here is more a case of lazy members wanting to commentate on articles they've not even read. It's basically the lowest form of blogging.
Or they can just sell it to the likes of Netflix or iTunes, who have much better reach and convenience than US-only TV subscriptions.
But then the timescale and physical extent of the universe are conditions of such magnitude that tackling the problem is the poster child of premature optimization.
In this case they don't have any trouble with cheating because the game logic seems to be entirely server-side.

Also cheating is only trouble when it degrades other player's experience or when they are hacking/hurting the monetization.
I posit: everyone is depressed, all the time. Start-ups are not unusual.

In the US, 9% of people report being depressed at least occasionally, and 3.4% are majorly depressed. An estimated 26% suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a calendar year (shout out to anxiety disorders!).

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-coun...
Fascinating reply. Thank you for that honesty and insight.
Off the top of my head: lxml, pytz, simplejson (as json in the stdlib), requests and jinja2 work already. Twisted has someone working on Python 3 support. The others I don't know about.
:) I think zero emotional risk is not possible because startups are personal and depending on the person effect can be huge.

However removing the money from the equation will make things much easier for sure. Many people perform bad when they are economically pressured and they don't have a good plan B.
Scoble's post on our app just surged our daily downloads by 2.5x
I always loved to read Scoble's take on future of technology and his open support for the "age of context".
So when we got a chance to talk to him and show him our friday app we were excited. But we didn't expect a huge surge PR spike if he writes good about friday. We just wanted to use his post as a validation of our efforts (if he likes it).
But to our amazement we saw over 2.5x increase in our daily downloads since his post. We have been written about by Techcrunch, Business Insider etc. But this surge was bigger than that. Can you believe Scoble just trumps all of them when it comes to PR power?
(This is his post : https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/XbUx8R5Ywda)
Tesla CEO vows to pay off $465M federal loan early - CBS News
> The title is extremely misleading, as the structural parts of the car are meant to be made of a metal tube frame

It sounds sort of like a classic fiberglass kit-car... IIRC, those things were often essentially cool-looking fiberglass shells on top of dune-buggy-like tubular frames.
Actually, this is what I believe is the place of Go (the language) in HTML5 programming. I don't know if this was done with Go on the server side, might as well be node or gevent, but Go would be faster and easier to build a multithreaded game server with.
Amazingly, this has been debated over on his Wikipedia page and yet the current page doesn't indicate the controversy at all, except noting the lack of sources for some of his claims. And yet the article has no header about controversies...this guy has a longer article than many historical figures

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ankit_Fadia&ol...

Given wikipedias strict standards on living biographies and non notable people, never mind frauds, it is somewhat surprising to see the article as it is
I am developing a commercial Mobile App Development framework which can work on Android/IOS and in the future WP8. It is different from PhoneGap. You can play with it in the google play store. http://www.htmltoapp.com

If you want a free framework, you can try PhoneGAP/Cordova with JQuery Mobile.http://cordova.apache.org/
You should checkout http://www.kissflow.com This is what they are attempting to do, with a fair degree of success.
That leaves no incentive to keep running Trello.
Every time a health article is linked from HN, I do a quick ⌘-F to see if someone pins everything on carbohydrates.

Yahtzee!

Then I start looking at the rest of the site. Oh look, conspiratards. I begin to wonder if the person who wrote the article -- that fellow in the lovely white scrubs -- is actually a doctor. So I search his name.

Yahtzee! He lost his license to practice medicine in 2008[0].

One thing that is persistently annoying about HN is the fondness for secret histories, wanting to be seen to know Deep Secrets Which The Masses Could Not Comprehend, seeing conspiracies under ever bush and basically just being about as thoughtful as the sort of intelligentsia that infest coffee shops. It really gets up my nostrils.

Anyhow, I expect that this particular snooty message of mine will attract energetic responses; much as manure attracts flies. Some of you will tell me that it really is a conspiracy -- Archer Daniel Midlands, or corn subsidies and HFCS (hint: people in other countries get fat and die of heart disease without these). Some will be personal anecdotes of how you lost 100lbs in 20 days on the paleto or kelogenic diet. Some will be folk defending the cui bono, others the status quo.

I won't be here for it.

I'm just going to let this train wreck play itself out.

[0] http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
Having used Python 3 a bit, there are things I miss in Python 2. Like when I write something quickly and accidentally use integer division (In Py3, 1/2 == 0.5).
I often convert python code to C++ and you'd be surprised how often the difference in loc is not that much. Certainly no hassle to do so. Not that I'm suggesting that one always should.

Several boost libraries are inspired by python and C++11 features all help to write C++ code that is surprisingly similar to python, with a bit of extra type sepcification.
If you think otherwise I'd suggest you're probably thinking of the C++ of the 90s - a more C with classes, and not modern C++.

I often find it useful to develop and prototype in python and convert to C++. Most often I'm doing this because my python simulations can take days and the C++ versions hours. Often I find it is not just the performance critical areas, but it is easy enough just to wholesale convert the lot.
Quora answer says, even the top engineering institutes of India aka IITs, invited him for workshops. Now that's really sad.
Spam filter. It's disappointing someone seriously believes this is some sort of "objectionable content" censorship. Namely because that's easy enough to test:

"barely legal teens" isn't delivered (edit: now does)

"actually illegal teens" arrives

...along with everything else of the sort (that I've tested).

Surely the phrase was blacklisted by some algorithm after it occurred verbatim in massive amounts of spam.
11 months huh? That's barely anything for larger enterprise customers, about long enough to make it onto a project plan. Most enterprise software companies will provide support for 5-8 years.
Shedding responsibility for problems arising from continued use is pretty much the essential rationale for deprecating a piece of software. Google has never appeared particularly concerned about backward compatibility or facilitating small segments of its customer and user bases.
Not really, as the fake article states, it was an unprecedented action for a prof, who must have been famous for having an easy course. I can't imagine never having a student fail.

>Such students should think about finding something they actually like to learn even if there is no grading system or grading system is broken.

Because basic Econ is an elective? When did that happen? Most students take Econ because they have to. Many end up hating it because some Econ profs find a way to make it boring, or fail to demonstrate its relevance to their lives. Also, most freshmen suck at going to college.

> the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

That's obvious tripe. The mere existence of: most academic research, organ donors, bone-marrow donors, and scores of other low/no reward activities proves it false.

It's always been a pet-peeve of mine that so many have the opinion that every person's natural state would be lethargy or hedonism or some such, if work weren't required for survival.
A bug tracker seems like a horrible way to report production (or non-production) support issues. This is the same bug tracker OSS projects on Google Code use.

Is it really helpful for the public to comment on my support request? Seems like the signal to noise ratio would be quite low, and then you get inane comments like:

I got here from HackerNews, but after seeing the original poster spam the forums in multiple places and have a bad attitude, I can't blame Google for not fixing what looks to me like a non-issue.

Fuck 'em.

You have to believe that the choice of tools has some bearing on the quality of the response from Google. Seems like there is very little incentive for any "Project members" to trawl through open bug reports when no one is ever responsible.
thanks. we do retry and backoff with S3 storage, google api seemed more reliable on Chrome. Nice lesson about not forgetting IE when testing :)
The commenter you are replying to is a former Google employee; the description of the lock service sounds like Chubby (http://research.google.com/archive/chubby.html), App Engine likely uses some sort of distributed directory service for keeping track of things like quotas.
Its not a real car so don't call it one. Until it passed actual crash tests I don't are how much weight savings they claim to have.

I am impressed that someone took 3d printing this far, it shows the many uses traditional automakers will be able to derive from it, mostly on the component sides. There is no reason dash assemblies could not be done this for current makers other that costs and and that printing time. You can bet they have or are looking into such technologies.

There are many tricks to forming car bodies in steel that allow for variances of thickness and such. Hot form steel manufacturing being introduced now allows for thinner and stronger stamped steel parts; essentially a water cooled press.

So while its neat, its not a car, yet.
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Bomberman is so addictive that I played it during 15mn while I'm on an open space with everyone seeing my screen :p
Darm – An armv7 disassembler
Can an eBay for meth, smack and pot prevail? So far, the dealers are winning.
Freedom of speech seems to be very important to you but you do not seem to understand it well. YouTube is not a product of the government.
I upvoted this because it is awesome, and it is, well... Bomberman.

But I'm genuinely curious: at what point will we stop being fascinated by what can be done in HTML5, and actually start focusing more on what is actually being done -- regardless of the technology used.

Or to put it another way: when will HTML5 games stop feeling like HTML5 games?

For example, if this were on a console, I think it would still be cool, but it's lacking a certain "game" feel to it. It still feels like playing an old school game on a PC keyboard, and there still seems to be a sort of keyboard-to-response latency that I find in most HTML5 games. Not to mention, no music/sound.

Again, I'm not knocking it for the effort. I still think it's pretty dang fun, even for an HTML5 game. But it still feels like an HTML5 game.
LG says it’s done fighting 'specs war', focus on novel features
Billboard #1 songs of 2000-2009
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_billbord6.html

Now, compare the previous decades. 1999 is the last time they made anything good (and even that is questionable). They can blame piracy or the internet all they want but really it's their product that sucks.
Because it's more profitable for them to charge more.
We are planning to release one very soon, stay (code)tuned!
In this case it seems okay, but not in all cases. Consider an FPS. Javascript tweaks could be used to automatically change to a shotgun when close range, assist in aiming, highlight players behind walls, etc. I wonder what the most effective ways to combat such cheating would be?
After careful consideration, as the article mentions, ISC decided a combination of C++ and Python as being more appropriate to the goals of the project. That being safety, stability, established familiarity, speed and of course a level of guaranteed future-proof platform availability.

Read: "This is one of the cornerstones of the internet that we didn't want to piss away on novelty".

That sounded rude, and I'm sorry for that, but I don't know how else to make that point cogent.
The difference being of course that if Bill Gates gives you a nice car he's lost out on something..
What hurts them is not selling it outside the HBO/Cable sales channel.
I think the idea is that GP computers are trucks, iOS devices are cars, and not everyone needs a truck.
Researchers conduct 'autopsy' of social network Friendster
ABS plastic is a very common hard plastic. Its the stuff used in Lego bricks [1], for instance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styrene
> Unfortunately, Heroku’s guide on using Django and static files has no actual details on how you should configure Django to serve static files

This is of course because Django should not be used for serving static files in production. It is has to be handled before it reaches the Application layer i.e. by the web server.

Before Amazon S3 and CloudFront, it used to be the job of Apache or Nginx to serve static content but now that we have cloud based solutions they would be more robust. So it makes sense not to include such production deployment details from Django docs. But it is incredibly useful to have a stand-in functionality while you are in development.
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The potential bad press that Google would get if Khan Academy had daily issues due bad GAE performance I'm sure that would cost them much more than the 500$/month that you're paying. Being big and nice(or cool) I think it gives and edge here.
Scientists create stretchable lithium-ion battery that can be wirelessly charged
Trello is great, I feel it will greatly influence teams which require collaboration and status tracking.

But the way I see it, a lot of discipline with be required to 'update' it every now and then. Some thing that I felt will always be a problem with any process. Every time a process like this springs up, I get enthusiastic then the enthusiasm wears away.

So as far as I'm concerned I still feel nothing really beats managing project from a notebook. You can't really get any thing as flexible and a limitless creative tool called pen/pencil on any electronic device. And the ability to just express your ideas as they are on paper is unbeatable.

GTD was life changing. Kanban boards are not.