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> why are languages so damn stuck on syntax.
> Why can't it be a one line change for person A to
> have () and person B to have [] (and person C have <>,
> or {}), and then have tools which automatically
> translate between them.

Aren't languages stuck on syntax because syntax is what's standard? It's the terms in which a language is defined and it's what we must agree upon before we can even start building our own abstractions or swappable gylphs for the parts we don't like.

Fortunately you can use technology to compile your personalized syntax to the standard syntax.

We already do that. In fact, entire communities are built around custom syntax layers.

I imagine someone would only map "()" to "[]" because "()" is either unfamiliar or harder to type.

The superior solution is to learn "()" so that it becomes familiar or map "[]" to "()" respectively.

In both solutions you have an end result that does not distance the source code in the editor from the source code you're pushing to your repository, and that's the kind of thing we seem to optimize for as developers.

Obviously I have no idea what you actually had in mind, this is just what came to mind when I read that bit.
Despite dispensing SEO advice so freely, the site's current SEM Rush daily traffic is 0 visitors / day. And the author's been blogging on this site for over 3 years; it's not a new site.
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Haha I have no idea. Didn't see that coming. OH wait it's April 1.
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There's a term for it that I forget right now... morning sleep maybe? Second sleep?

Whether you call that time when you're awake "work" or not is irrelevant---I just meant that you're up doing something, even if its just reading or thinking or writing or whatever.

It seems counterintuitive but when you're properly rested, fit, and not using any real stimulatives/depressants, and you get in that rhythm, it works very well and comes naturally. Instead of 1 time per day of sleeping and waking up feeling great you get 3 times (pre-dawn, after dawn, then after your afternoon nap).

You just have to be able to do all 3 regularly to make it work, otherwise you skip a nap and you get screwed.
Links are important, naturally. When they are coming organically as a direct result of social engagement, even better. You're more likely to get social engagement if you don't compromise the human readable title and content for the sake of SEO.

But quotes like these
>> rankings are largely influenced by the number of sites linking to a post
are very inaccurate and wouldn't come from someone who is keeping up to date with SEO. You can have tens of thousands of links and it could actually be hurting your SEO, which is why some sites are scrambling to take down links just to recover.

It's also worth noting that you can go crazy with on-page factors, having the perfect post slug, the right keyword density, keyword rich anchor text, descriptive meta descriptions, no-follow links, a limited amount of links on the page etc and it can end up biting you in the butt: overoptimizing can hurt your google rankings. The message coming from Google is pretty clear: create high quality content and make it accessible, don't get too clever with SEO. They will only get better at incorporating social signals into their rankings.
Schneier's career has an interesting arc that is not too dissimilar from that of Eric Raymond, involving early modest-but-significant contributions to the field (cryptologic literature for Schneier, open source software for Raymond), then a marked phase of popularization and evangelism, followed by a full-throttle transition into punditry.

I'd definitely push back on the way you characterized _Applied_ and _Practical_ (now called _Cryptography Engineering_). The two books are very different and are the product of different authors; Schneier wrote _Applied_ but co-authored _Practical_.

_Applied_ is a broad survey of cryptographic techniques that was good for its time but has aged terribly and probably done more harm than good for the industry†.

_Practical_ is an engineering book; unlike _Applied_, which is a sightseeing tour of the field, _Practical_ is a book about actually building system with cryptography. Also unlike _Applied_, _Practical_ is diligent about recognizing the limitations of mass-market technical books; it explains things just as often to convince you not to implement things as it does to motivate you to implement them. _Practical_ does not have a lot of "rah-rah" in it. It's not an evangelistic book. The tone of its prose, a mix of casual, clear, and precise, is all Schneier, but the content is wildly different from _Applied_. It's a narrower book, not a "bigger" one.

You might be right about the progression of Schneier's other books. I'm not sold on the idea of a career in information security as a springboard to public policy research on security. Real-world security is not very much like information security at all.

On the specific issue of the book he's promoting right now, I think it's worth pointing out that Schneier has been wrong as often as he's been right about macro- Internet security. Example: Schneier was an early opponent of vulnerability research, for instance; he used his Crypto-Gram newsletter to single out eEye for irresponsibly disclosing Windows vulnerabilities. eEye was a pioneer of what we'd now call "Responsible Disclosure" (an Orwellian term whose basic function is to marginalize Metasploit) and employed people Riley Hassell, Derek Soeder, and Barnaby Jack, all of whom are now vulnerability research authorities.

† (though you can't necessarily say that for the field of cryptography, which he did more to popularize than anyone; perhaps there are lot of great postdoc crypto people today who got into the field because of _Applied_)
I must say that as a user I felt a bit deceived given the "now free" headline and then noticing the 30-day bit, which essentially means it's just a free trial. To me it doesn't sound like a "free plan".

I don't know, suddenly I wasn't so inclined to give it a go. Maybe it's better to be brutally honest.
Facebook Is Taking On Reddit's AMA Series
April Fool's winner of the day right here
When I clicked through (excitedly) to see more details about who was visiting us from the International Space Station, I noticed that the top traffic source was a search for "April Fools." Google, you got me on this one.
> for the same reason everyone knows that 5 small meals per day is much better for you than 2.5 huge meals.

Is 'the same reason' that it's false? Your common sense and mine appear not to jibe.
ASP.Net MVC4.
Coincidentally, I made a plastic d6 in my home workshop yesterday using silicone molds. This is just a prototype for more molding work in the future.

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"In space, noone can hear you roll! The fate of the galaxy is in your hands, as you race your friends to create (or destroy) planets. Who will be the first to 10? Only the dice know."

Ouch, two errors:

"noone" -> "no one"

"hands, as" -> "hands as"
Sorry man, IMO it will be years before BTC can function in the way that you want it to. First you need widespread adoption.
Get your sleep. Give up something else.

Four days to a week of severe sleep deprivation has been demonstrated to push the human body into a state of pre-diabetic crisis (per blood chemistry).

Another perspective: We enjoy sleep. There might be a reason for that, eh?
"8 to 10 hours of reproductive work"

Yes, this would tire me out as well. :-)

Seriously, I've found that my normal schedule appears to be 7 hours solid, with a 1.5 hr nap, depending. Without an alarm, I wake up 7 hrs later on the dot (and can't get back to sleep), but then require a nap 8 hrs later to make it through the day. I cannot sustain 6 hrs and a 2-3 hr nap for any length of time (maybe a couple of days before I feel like crap).

I wonder how many different variations of these kinds of cycles there are among the population and how they vary from the 1st to the 3rd world.
That depends on who the site's audience are and how the login UI's done. Fairly tech-savvy visitors certainly do understand OpenID and alike. At least, I strongly believe so. Well, more casual audience probably don't.

However, my bank uses X.509 certificates to authenticate users over Internet. Out of curiosity, I've asked bank employee once and was told that most users do manage their certificates just fine, without any issues. Obviously, bank provides short and simple manuals, which explain how to generate a certificate request, obtain a signed certificate (by visiting bank in person), authenticate and renew expiring certs.

(My bank's not using in-browser PKI due to legal reasons and provides a small piece of software wrapping around the browser, but that doesn't really matter.)
If the only mechanism you have to update Rails is to do a "bundle update", start by fixing that.
You can see the erratic pricing activity here: http://appshopper.com/games/the-fleas-2
re: his philosophy. It reminded me of Bacon:

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
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To this point, I could see it as a shrewd marketing strategy where they buy the app with different iTunes, get back 70% of the price, and get themselves into the top grossing apps for a bit. Wonder if that helps with visibility?
In fairness to magazines, they usually aren't intended to carry 16,000 word novellas. This thing needs chapters.
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Do you know of any places that make loans in Bitcoin?
Touche.

Although, a BTC exchange + BTC merchant together have to only beat out on Paypal's charges. BTC seems to be stable enough that Paypal's 2.9% charge per transaction makes BTC a useful competitor.

That said, now you have to trust both the BTC exchange and Merchant. But that is a bit easier if you can put up with the downsides to BTC (no chargebacks, etc. etc.)
I'm wondering who needs a bookmarking app in 2013, let alone pay for it.
I'm not an expert on haikus, but I'm guessing that in English, there's an accepted convention that each line in a haiku generally serves as an independent clause?

So:

What she has given
them is institutional
hagiography

is less "aesthetic" than:

The story's not clear;
Durer may have cooked it up
just to do a nude

One extra layer of machine work could be to use NLP to filter out phrases in which the fifth/seventh syllable doesn't belong to a word that is not a noun. It would be interesting to see how much more it would filter/improve the auto-generated haikus.
Stylish and smooth-talking are the last words I'd use to describe Tim. Whereas they do fairly accurately describe the tone of this article.
I'm convinced most April Fool's jokes are secretly part of a troll campaign to destroy the tradition entirely with shitty slaps at humor.
Ask HN: Are there any children's websites that teach coding or coding concepts?
My 5th grade daughter is on Spring Break this week. I'd really like to expose her to the basics of coding, and start planting some seeds. Any resources?
How is an expert on sleep saying something MIGHT be true now being classed as pseudo science and not to be taken seriously?

Your rebuttal of this "pseudo science" is that you perceive that you personally need 8.5 hours sleep - now that smacks of pseudo science to me.

People are very different. Just because 1 person in a 1000 (or 100 or million or whatever) benefits from 8.5 hours sleep does not necessarily mean that in general one might get more benefit from less than 8.5 hours sleep.

This is not hard science, I doubt it could ever be, but that does not mean it is pseudo science and certainly should not be dismissed out of hand because it does not fit into the model of the world that you have personally.
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Its definitely a strange thing. Money goes to "miners and grants"?
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Maybe the rules are too complex to work out the probabilities directly. For example, landing on each property in Monopoly.

The real question is why write a rails app? How does a web application framework help you roll dice?
Fixed this. Thank you!
Launch was successful and then a nose dive. Where did things go wrong?
I do not understand the hoopla. When the patent on the old version expires, anybody can make it for pennies a day. An expensive new formulation hurts no one, since they are free to huy the cheap one.
Isn't this what CPU makers have been doing for years?
Your job may be paying you $8/hr, but if you can be doing something to move up to a higher paying job, the value of that activity may well be >$8/hr
Appears to be a 3-year-old post?
The feeling may be mutual.
Did the NBA Just Buy Pelicans.com?
This one I think:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/barmax-ca/id345722008?mt=8

Called BarMax. They even call it "cheaper" on their official web-site. Which just raises the question: cheaper than /what/?
This is what happened. Luckily the domain happened to be dropping a few days after I decided I wanted it.
Nice execution.

I'm sure some folks in here are too young to remember those days...
Huh? No, I am familiar with Ruby development and use of git and patch files. I still don't understand your point. How do you a dry-run of a patch that doesn't exist?
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback. I'm not certain about the price, but my thinking was that the app would appeal more to people playing fantasy golf or involved in sports betting, and that price wouldn't be much of an issue for them.

I'm biased of course, but I honestly think it's pretty powerful as a statistical analysis tool, so I also want the price to reflect that. I'm open to experimentation though, and I could see how potentially getting more purchases from casual fans could offset the more serious ones who'd be willing to pay more. Something to ponder...

Edit: By the way, shoot me an email at support@progolfscout.com and I'll give you a promo code to try the app for free.

Same goes for any other HNers (up to some reasonable number) that want to try the app without spending $5. Just let me know.
No, it was for a work project.
Awesome! Similar in spirit to (though far cooler than) a simple project I threw together to learn/play with Ruby:

http://haikubot.herokuapp.com/

Not sure my single Heroku dyno with stand up to any kind of HN-hammering, so click with caution :)

(Or see https://github.com/keithfancher/HaikuBot)
It has a global rate limiter AFAIK, so it's hit and miss depending on how much load it's under.

Edit: I was trying to datamine Steam several months ago as well, but the amount of data I needed really was unrealistic for this very reason, and it would have just been bad etiquette. I imagine by having this API they're having to deal with a ridiculous number of dataminers. And that's on top of their crazy number of normal users, which I'm sure the rate limiter is there to protect.
You didn't read the whole quote. It says to focus on the present and future, not rest on past laurels.

The quote was "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's game" not "Yesterday's practice don't win today's game".
I believe the proper course of action is to make a calculation, involving:
1. a given velocity of money and thus a derived desirable monetary volume for a given economic condition
2. a projected percentage of that economic activity that makes sense in bitcoin
3. a projected economic condition

Even if there is no value in BTC as a medium of account, the quantity of economic transfer it could plausibly come to represent alone has a certain value.
It's also, fortunately, a subset of the genius class.
I think this is a really neat side project. It's almost like a chatbot where you drive. If you can get sentence structure working by doing intelligent stuff with the tokens it could be even cooler. What do you do fulltime?
That is an extremely cool idea. Why worry about setting the exchange rate yourself when you can let the market do it for you!
Do you mind if I ask what was the quantity for your injection molded part, and what company you ended up going with.

Last time I tried to price injection molding it was way too much.
Why make an iPhone app to keep track of planets owned when you could just make a simple paper based scorecard? Or am I missing something about the complexity of the game? An app might be useful but you want the game to be playable by the largest number of peopl possible and there could be some opportunity for recurring revenue from selling the scorecards.
BitCoin Bubble Pops, Value Plummets
Haha, Bloomberg is not a suit and shirt place! When I worked there, I wore sandals, shorts, and a t-shirt. Lots of other people (including my manager's manager) did the same. There was also a guy dressed like a heavy metal rocker who was in meetings with guys in suits all the time.

Also, Danny Dulai worked for Bloomberg.
There is a ticker to get 850k by June 30th, maybe that's what you're talking about?
"Personally, I know that my productivity takes a dip at 3pm every day. This is exactly where I place my nap, and it has been one of the most powerful ways to bring my productivity back to 100% for a good 1,5 hour session after that."

I'm not sure how much science backs up most points in this post, but I can definitely attest to this point. It's so simple yet so effective. A quick 20-30 minute nap and I am buzzing with energy for the next few hours.
The Future of Reeder
There are derivative markets where you could purchase an option to sell bitcoin at a set price in the future. If the price falls below your target by then, buy up cheaper Bitcoins and sell them at profit.
Every game I've ever played has a suggested age range, e.g., 5+ years old.

Is this good for kids?
OKCupid labs beta launch of DateCourier
Its usually done to trick the top grossing apps rankings. Developer will raise the price to $1k then buy himself some copies using different fake accounts, thus raising the ranking.
Once ranking is achieved, they will reduce the price in hope to get more sales.
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The key to productivity is to harness procrastination: Always have something else to avoid, that makes your work seem like procrastination. Make up a dreaded obligation, so that work for your other goals is seen as an escape.
The idea that design should be invisible isn't a new phenomenon. As far as I know, one of the earliest mentions of the idea was by Beatrice Warde in her essay The Crystal Goblet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Goblet). No UI just made the mistake of taking a poor, overloaded name for their movement. Invisible Design would have been a better one that doesn't already impose a solution.

The argument for interface culture seems really misguided though. Since when should a culture around a poor design implementation require that we don't try and improve it's design? I'd argue that we already have said, "the best TV is no TV". Flat screen TVs are exactly this, we're moving away from the huge clunky things we used to have. I'm sure some were disappointed when their TVs lost their knobs and dials, they were part of the culture, but now no one thinks twice about it.

I don't think reducing a UI inherently means making the mental model harder to understand.
Pretty much all AAC apps. If you license one of the decent TTS libraries, they require you to keep the price above $100 and take 20% of the net.