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The iPhone is just one point in a long line of evolution that started way back with Doug Engelbart's work, if not before.

Apple would like you to believe the iPhone sprang into existence fully formed, but that is complete bullshit. Apple experimented with touch screen interfaces with the Newton in the late 80s / early 90s, and completely failed. Palm showed how touch screens could work in the mid / late 90s. Numerous academic projects worked on touch screens. The iPhone was the right product at the right time, but it was not truly innovative in a technical sense.
I know this is somewhat heretical - but I don't actually like The Lean Startup book that much.

I was pointed to Lean Startup back in 2010 as a solution to some of the problems I was looking at. The folk I talked to, places like the LSC mailing list, and reading the online/offline writings of Steve Blank, Eric Ries and many others helped a lot.

I was really looking forward to Eric's book - but it didn't really hit the spot I was hoping it would hit. It's very much aimed (I think) at explaining the ideas to the world in general - rather than being a guide to folk who want to apply the ideas. There's nothing wrong with the former, but I was hoping for the latter.
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Great article, but totally misleading title. It's about a secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement which Wall Street may use to kill one very sound state bank.
The Lean Startup took off when it did because it represented a new way of building a business. Before the open source stack got deep enough and servers got cheap enough, there was no room for low-capital startups. Then we hit an inflection point where it became increasingly possible to bootstrap highly scalable businesses.

The Lean Startup is simply an old world entrepreneur discovering the possibilities in the new world. It's not that it's better, it's just been more fertile ground over the last several years. However, as more and more smart kids show up on the scene, I think the pendulum will swing back because the stuff that can be done without capital or investment is going to get tapped out by armies of ramen-eaters. There's always room for a great new idea, but if you have access to capital a little barrier to entry is not a bad thing.
To be fair - half the political parties in Norway like to spit out the word socialist in debates with the social democrats and let the image of Stalinist oppression and Gulags hang in the air. When even the conservatives here in Norway are that immature, you can't expect more nuance from American conservatives.
<<non-peer-reviewed scientific literature is the antithesis of the research culture>>. I don't think it's necessarily so. The arxiv is not really peer reviewed (you need to be recommended by someone to enter, but then are free to post pretty much anything).

The research culture is using your own critical thought to separate the wheat from the chaff. There are countless poor quality (and plain wrong) papers which are peer-reviewed. A scientist should not rely only on a journal's peer-review to give a seal of approval.
> First of all I'm sure they could find an unused estate to convert into what they want. The dudes are used to playing in houses, I'm sure they wont mind if its not a perfect concert hall.

"The dudes" might be okay with it, but the city would own that venue and not only do they have to obey their own law on how it's maintained and regulated, but they'd be liable for anything that happened inside it. Further, if the city owns it, they're going to use it for more than just "the dudes", and those people may have different requirements.

> Also, taxes on tickets and stuff or other promotions or rent for the night could very much turn into a big profit.

You're assuming that (1) anyone will rent the space and (2) anyone will come if they do. These aren't minor assumptions.

> About the law, I don't have anything against the law, just that I can't understand why would they be so obsessed with preemptive action instead of on-the-spot

How much effort have you even bothered putting into stepping into their shoes rather than tyrannically deciding that your solution fixes all possible ills and should stand in for any agency on their part?
Close enough in PostgreSQL. String columns larger than 256 actually use 4 bytes to indicate the length, but on the other hand, large strings are automatically compressed, so they may use less space than 4 + length.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/datatype-character...
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jQuery animate (and any JS animation) iterates over CSS properties by updating an elements style attribute. Updating the DOM at this rate forces repaint/reflows and is rarely going to perform well.

CSS transitions/transforms let the browser render once on separate layers. The animation frames can then be composited faster (and accelerated on the GPU).

Paul Irish has a great demo: http://paulirish.com/2012/why-moving-elements-with-translate...
Socialism going on on Europe? What socialism? Americans... You mean Welfare State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state), which is NOT socialism. If you exclusively mean the economy of Scandinavian countries, some people call it socialism, this can be discussed. AFAIK there's no such state-owned banks in Europe. Most state banks do a similar role than US Federal Reserve.

The difference between Europe and USA comes from WW2. Europe was devastated by the war, impoverished. To avoid revolutions (like Russia), (US-imposed... we can argue about this too) governments on West Europe had to find a mixture between private property and state-owned economy (with the help of US money through the Marshall Plan). This was called Welfare State. The USA did not have war on its home land, so it needed no welfare state, and anyway, McCarthy was there to deter any left-wing thinking/movement into the country, which continues until today.
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But startups also require people management, operations, and finance skills.
Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, Chromium, tells a similar story of something that was done once for a good reason, but then became 'just what you do'.
"Social democracy" is a capitalist invention to make look "socialism" as tyranny. Socialism is democratic by its very own definition. What people did in the name of socialism is up to those people, not to socialism.
I'd guess end-of-month combined with Easter. People not noticing they're bumping into their hosting quotas because they're taking time off, combined with extra traffic (for some sites) while their audience has time off.
In Belgium, if you have studied engineering at university for 5 years, you get a pay not that much higher than those who immediately start working without university, at least in technical/programming jobs. It's, after taxes are removed, not that much higher than the minimum wage in fact. Except that you have had 5 years less of pay due to the studying. You also pay 60% income taxes, when taking everything into account. And where does it go to? Definitely nothing that benefits the people who actually work. Definitely not roads and other public infrastructure, because when driving from another country into Belgium you immediately notice the difference in road quality and trains are unreliable. If those who want to work, those who study to work more complex jobs, do not get appreciated, while not working gives you benefits, and in some cities they have a "tolerance policy" for criminals, then tell me how that isn't socialist. Quality of schools is dropping, because there is more equality if the curriculum is lowered. They still call Flanders a "knowledge economy". I think they're not seeing something.
If you don't use SSL and the attacker can sniff the stream, chances are he can inject JavaScript to send him the password.

SSL is just indispensable nowadays for authentication.
Guest posts on a blog during a week-long coding conference for an open-source encrypted communications project aren't different enough for you? Hard to imagine any one of these posts as something other than hacker news.
Stalinism is no socialism. I don't care what Stalin liked to call it. Even Khrushev denied his policies.
Hm? Can you define what a

> Hollywood fake version of a startup

is and provide an anecdote or pattern you have observed?
Why does it have to do with tech?
These are all posts written by different people participating in the same week-long event. That seems more forgiving than multiple company employees upvoting a story about the startup they work for to me.

Although this particular form of astroturf probably has better inside jokes.
I'm not sure that is entirely valid. Most smartphones before the iPhone were touch screen - resistive and needed a pen, like the Palm Treo, and the many Windows Mobile Phones before it, - but still touch screen.

Having a capacitive screen only seemed like the next logical step, and of course to do it well, you will need to the change the UX.

In any case I think its disingenuous to contribute the iPhone's success to the top-down touch screen when many of the game changing features were brought to light after the iPhone went to market, such as the Apple-Controlled App Store.

Lastly, there is no way the touch screen could have been considered top-down from Apple in 2007. The touch screen interface had already been iterated numerous times starting in 1987 with the Apple Newton.
I agree with the need for better visualization tools in biology. There is an interesting group/project started at UCSF and headed by Graham Johnson (www.grahamjlab.org/). Some of these tools are still closer to art than science but I think it is really worth the investment. It is clear that these will help us think about biological objects.
If you are looking for something like that, take a look at PC-BSD, not FreeBSD directly.
> (it also makes it look very "mathematical")

Has that ever been an advantage?
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Disclosure:Im not employed by a big tech co or any tech co at all to be qualified to answer your question but here are my thoughts.

A CS degree is not as important as being skilled but tell that to the employers. I was already a "good" coder before I decided to do a degree in Software Engineering. I have learnt alot of things that I would never have given a second thought had I not started the degree.

To answer your question...I dont think you need to be any better than a person with a CS degree you just need to appear as if you are ie side projects that are exciting or active contribution to open source projects. Give them a reason to think that getting a degree would have been a waste of time because you already know it all.
> No, I am not advocating rebellion, violent or otherwise.

Freedom and rights have never been offered on a platter. You have to fight for them. And you have to keep fighting to maintain them.
There is still some way to go to support better indexing of json fields, but I'm pretty excited about these developments. In the future you might see schemaless and schema driven data living side by side on postgres.
The great thing about PostgreSQL is that it is hybrid.

With http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/hstore.html you can put schemaless documents into the same database, even into the same table row as your usual relational data.

You could start with a schema that's only a primary key and hstore for all other data (like a fully schemaless database), but over time extract important fields from the hstore into columns to add indexes, constraints or joins.
This looks pretty good. Currently using http://jpanelmenu.com/, though I'll have to try this one out to see how it compares.
It's even worse here in France, to give you an idea, many rich here move to Belgium which is already pretty socialist.
State-owned banks of state-owned anything have nothing to do with socialism. Enforcing the opposite, i.e., not allowing state owned companies at all is right-wing extremism.

Many free market countries do perfectly fine with a mixture of independent and state owned companies, even within the same sector (banking, public transport, medical care). Socialism has fuck all to do with it. It's called pragmatism.
sorry but the first thing I readt was "PostgreSQL the shemales database". Confusing ..
Now, this is useful for responsive design. :)
I'm not going to apologize, but I am going to end this comment thread (or at least my participation in it) here.

If it is indeed true that you are in fact multiple people and have independently submitted articles relating to your (actually pretty cool sounding) event, may I suggest that you coordinate in the future to keep the articles submitted to just a few at a time, and make your comments more substantial.

This would probably stop the accusations of you running an Astroturf campaign.
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> I fail to see what my professional and personal friendship with people in the movie industry has to do with my opinions on the legalities of flying.

Both of these advocate taking away rights from the citizens, the rights for which we have paid a heave price.
This is also true for women - in my life many of my friends who are over 40 are getting their PhDs and doing incredible research. Also see composers and painters: so much of our great works in history are done by older people. Perhaps because I studied classics, I always assumed that I would only start doing my 'real' work after the age of 40 and I'm personally really enjoying building my career with the next 30-40 years in mind.
>I want to admit that conclusion in presentation can be interpreted vise versa: MongoDB almost is fast as PostgreSQL.

Which given how little MongoDB does, and how it can lose data unless you cripple the performance even more (ie. with waiting for successful write status), is impressive in itself.

>Also, notice that comparsion was done with Mongo 2.2, in 2.4 JS engine was changed to V8, so there is a lot of speed improvements.

Not really. The JS engine was never the bottleneck in MongoDB. The demanding stuff is done in the C/C++ core.

>And compare PG have 18 years of development vs 5 of MongoDB.

Not really relevant. PG had 18 years of development implementing hundreds of things MongoDB doesn't do, not merely doing the same schema-less stuff and tuning it for speed.
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What I'm talking about is an app that will handle the registration of affiliates, tracking saas payments (<-- this part would talk to Stripe), and calculating commissions on an ongoing basis. The database of affiliates wouldn't be lost if I were to switch payment processors (this app should integrate with others too, like recurly, etc.. I say Stripe because I haven't seen any affiliate systems that have stripe integration).

"write a few lines of code to POST a commission through an API each month for the recurring part"

As you can probably tell from my original post, I'm not a developer and I'm unable to do this myself. Sure, I could hire a dev to build one custom just for me, but wouldn't it be better if someone released an affiliate management app that is designed for saas sales and integrates with the popular saas payment processors like Stripe and Recurly?
> By referring to "future returns", he went beyond any rational position, and he directly contradicts the position taken by the SEC on this issue.

You asked for an example of a strategy which could reliably beat the market. I offered up the example of the fund I work for. Do you really think that this is me being a salesman?

Here are "the facts":

1. I am not, nor have I ever been, employed in sales. I work in research. I have zero client contact.

2. If I did want to raise investment for the fund, I wouldn't come to an obscure discussion thread on Hacker News to do it. Apart from anything else, most people can't afford the minimum investment.

3. It's an SEC requirement to include something like "past performance does not guarantee future results" on advertisements for mutual funds (NB this isn't an advertisement, and I work for a hedge fund, not a mutual fund). Strictly speaking that's true - nothing guarantees future results. But let's be Bayesian about it - would you rather put your money in the hands of a manager who's returned -10% for the last five years, or one who's returned +10%? [0]

Finally, if you think it's a waste of time talking to me, you presumably think it's a waste of time talking to anyone who works for a hedge fund (or any other kind of fund).

What you're saying is "The opinions of those who have the most experience on this issue, who spend 60+ hours a week thinking about this, and who put their own reputation and investments on the line daily -- those opinions are the ones least worth listening to."

I appreciate your point about conflict of interest. It's true that if everyone believed in the EMH, I wouldn't have the job I do now. But to summarily discard the point of view of everyone who works in finance seems a little bizarre. It's as if I said that it's not worth talking to software developers about programming, since if no one believed it was worth buying software, they wouldn't have a job.

[0]It's a trick question. If you believe in the EMH, your prior on the expected excess return on any strategy is 0% (or slightly negative to account for trading costs) and no amount of data will change that. You should be perfectly indifferent to these two money managers. But are you? What if they had 20 years of history? What if they had 100 years? At what point do you start to revise your opinion about the EMH?
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I suppose you are talking about making pull requests for an upstream repository owned by someone else (typically : making a pull request to an open source project), in which case you ask to merge your master in their master ?

When working on a repository where you make a pull request from a feature branch to master in the same repos (typically : your company private repos), I would rather merge the feature branch in master rather than rebasing it, at least to know at which point a dev work has been merged.

The same logic stand, though. If developer has used several branches to build her feature, I don't want to know about it : she must rebase them instead of merging them.

Additionally, I like pull requests to master branch to be in a single, well documented commit. So I encourage developers to make a lot of small commits, then use `git rebase -i` to squash them into a single commit with a long and detailed commit message (the one-line previous commit messages being used to write a changelog). Using github, this has the advantage that the commit message of a single commit pull request is automatically pre-filled as pull request message.
Google is basically a java shop. Are you saying they are unable to capitalize of Sun assets ? they choosed java as Dalvik first class language , what more do you need to capitalize of Sun's asset. It is a mistake and google will pay a huge price in the future.
The UK government currently owns the majority of the shareholding of one very big bank, and a large minority holding of another; RBS https://www.google.com/finance?q=RBS (£2.5B assets), and Lloyd's Banking Group https://www.google.com/finance?q=LON%3ALLOY (£1.2B assets). Now admittedly the Government was basically forced into buying that stock to prop up those banks, but still own them they do.
Hot Standby in postgres is pretty damn good for replication (like you said making failover occur properly takes a little bit of effort but its not too hard).

Also pgpool2 helps a lot with partitioning and parallel queries.

For a relational db, postgres does a pretty good job at distribution and fault tolerance.
Denying communism and introducing capitalist reforms was kind of Nikita Khrushchev's thing to be fair.
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I like the review. I did not read the KDE part, but I read through the Unity part because I use it and am wondering if it is just me or if others are annoyed by some weirdness of Unity. It turns out the author remarked immediately the ergonomic gaps. I couldn't say it better so here the quotes:

"[..] Unity takes a very weird stance when it comes to Windows management: if there’s more than a single instance [of a process/window] it will throw you into an exposé-like view with the corresponding windows (the rest fades out). [..] It’s a very disorienting interface that requires to travel long distances with the cursor. Why is it disorienting? The position of the window preview you selected in the exposé-view is not entirely related with the actual position of the window, moreover, all other Windows pop back adding even more noise.[..]" - this is exactly what I experience. And using Alt-Tab is NOT better if you have several terminal windows opened!

"[..] Remember I mentioned Unity’s approach to menubars being like Apple’s? It only appears on hover. Isn’t that a little cryptic? Moreover, it automatically makes it impossible to know if there’s a menubar to begin with. Anytime a user installs a new application he/she is forced to check manually if there’s a menubar. It also makes it impossible to aim for the desired menu, you got to move your mouse to the top, wait for the menubar, and then visually search for the menu you want, then move your cursor again and then click on it.
Why hide it? Is not like Canonical is doing something with all that space[..] It also cuts down the name of the application. Considering there’s no visual link between the menubar and the app it corresponds to (let alone the window), isn’t that just the exact opposite of what makes sense?[..]" - And some applications do not follow the menu on the top and instead show the menu in the window (LibreOffice, which I rely on daily).

I do not want to complain about customizability of Unity. Most of the things I like. The standard experience just works. But the two points above are just irritating. And because I am using only the LTS of Ubuntu I hope these issues will be fixed in 1204 LTS.
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Awesome. Can't wait to see the affiliate tracking system. Customer referrals are nice, but we get more requests from people who wish to be affiliates for our saas product.
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I assume you know that Lotus Notes was basically just a sync engine. That was its one and only core feature [1]. Apple is overextended - they have to keep up with Android and maybe even WP8. To fix iCloud CDIS with application-specific arbitrary data models is a very difficult task. Especially with their dumb master approach. A true client/server solution requires a smart server to mitigate and handle sync conflicts. As users demand more and more functionality, including offline capabilities, iOS apps begin to morph into client/server ptograms. So much so that what most developers end up doing is writing their own client/server sync. iOS and Android budgets dive into the deep end once sync requirements get baked in.

[1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-NDHistory...
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Build up your commit with git add -p (which requires an editor), then git commit -v and check what you are committing again.
If I understand correctly, you are only asked to fill in a few of the 8 characters. (I have seen this before.)

You are presented with

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and you are supposed to submit

* * [3] * [5] * * [8]

so neither side would have enough information to reconstruct the full password based on the user's input alone.
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