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Google’s ‘#ifihadglass’ winners are mostly celebs and famous Twitter users
I also feel like The Lean Startup really isn't anything new. Its just articulated and repackaged in a different way that's more sexy, or tech-y.

God forbid any of my peers start reading Drucker...
I really wish Coffeescript frameworks would stop calling themselves Javascript. Why not Chocolate.coffee instead?
This is the kind of stuff that makes Windows seem like alien territory to me. The last time I looked at code using the win32 api, I noticed that the spawn() call accepts a bitmask which can determine whether a window is drawn for the process or not. The window system is so tightly coupled with the kernel that it's in the system calls? I guess Windows really earns its name.
Seem's interesting, I would like to see more screenshots of the IDE without having to install it.
I think you watched something else. I would have exploded like 10 times in that time, and he remained perfectly calm. And no, if it's not required by law, he should not be asked questions about his medical conditions or requirements. Period. If they want to be able to ask these questions,they should include such a policy. An agency that interprets their own rules however it sees fit is a recipe for disaster.
You should post this on the FreeBSD forums -- there are a lot of helpful people there who can help you troubleshoot this.

http://forums.freebsd.org/
You're thinking of DressRush (now renamed to Tailored). Their initial pitch website has succumbed to link rot. You can see the deck here: http://www.slideshare.net/razinmustafiz/dressrush-pitch-deck
I'm about to graduate from Virginia Tech. You're absolutely right. Also, I'm an international student; 7 others applied to Tech from my high school. All got accepted. Virginia Tech tries really hard to get international students and it used to pretty much accept just about any international student (as opposed to the close by University of Virginia which gets most international applications and thus picks the highest two performers out of each school). I'm starting to see more and more internationals this year. When I first came, there was barely any. I thought it's really unfair that we got automatic acceptances just to look more diverse. Well, you might have guessed it: as a result it attracted the wrong crowd.
It's a fact that no one forces a Chinese person to work at Foxconn. It's also a fact that many jobs like logging and fishing in the west are much much higher in fatalities each year. It's also a fact that dentists have a much much higher suicide rate than Foxconn employees, almost 7 times more from the numbers I was playing with last year.

The situation in China isn't good, but it is what it is, and it's not Apples fault. And it most certainly isn't Jobs fault. Just about everything you consume is made in factories in China, but I only see this when Apple is in the conversation. It's simply illogical.
I'm also really impressed with Justin Timberlake's branding strategy (everything post "Dick in a Box").

I wonder how many people out there, like me, were converted from hater, to fan.
And Pixar movies are also not real art!! /dumbopinions
Going beyond "surface diversity" makes no economic sense for a profit-making institution.

You need some kids from "tough backgrounds" and ethnic minorities to convince your sponsors that their financial support is breaking down barriers, but you wouldn't want to spend money traipsing across the country mopping up all the "rough diamonds" to replace the regular upper-middle-class kids that don't need scholarships and are probably more likely to complete the course and leave a lavish endowment afterwards.
Problem: Energy consumption by Bitcoins
I am in favor of Bitcoin for various reasons related to freedom and economy(some gut feelings). But I have realized that there is one thing very wrong about Bitcoin.

All most all other currencies in the world we use are based on some guarantee of the value by some central bank. So for creating say $1000 all they need is a paper and little complex system to make it difficult for others to copy it. So real energy consumed in the process of making $1000 will be may be say $5 (that is max). Ofcourse when we talk about coins the cost may be much more. Some times it may reach the actual cost of metal in it. Let us consider that only 1% of coins are in circulation. So that is not significant.

But what does it cost to create 1000 Bitcoins? Bitcoins are created using electricity. So they consume last amounts of electric power to produce Bitcoins. And this energy is consumed in the process. It is lost, no one can recover anything from it. So for society, net result of creating Bitcoins is always -ve. As the price of Bitcoins are increased now from $1 some years back to $90 now, more and more people will start converting real power into some numbers.

I have not done any statistics on this but rough estimates is more than 10% of the value is already consumed.

As a person who does not much like waste of natural resources, I do not like this. The people who created it should have found some other way to limit the availability of them.

I may be wrong in lot of assumptions I made above. I have not found anyone talking about this issue. What do you think?
Amazon.com is clever in its use of tracking and follow-up e-mails
I only tagged you because you seem to have experience running Mongodb in production (as claimed by you in one of the previous threads) and I honestly wanted your feedback about this. Also I was curious to see if you would evaluate this nifty PostgreSQL feature :)
I've considered this. I don't believe that Microsoft loads ttf fonts directly from webpages. I also don't believe that IE uses the Win32 API for font rendering, but uses it's own engine.

Someone may want to correct me on these points!
You are right. However Javascript is apparent and supported in the Ide and as I use Coffeescript an Javascript as a pair of programming languages, I called it Chocolate.js
I know this phenomenon may sound like a bug, but it's probably a feature. It means that many smart kids go to schools close to home and are able to enrich their own communities by staying nearby. It means that those rural towns get great lawyers, doctors, and access to smart and talented people in dozens of other professions. If I'm from a rural state, I absolutely want my top state schools to compete with Harvard for talent. I don't want talented kids whisked away, never to return.

In my home state of Connecticut (home to one of those Ivy League bastions and a short drive from the others), many of the top students at my high school went to UCONN, got great educations, got great jobs in Connecticut (since locals know how good the education can be), and continue to contribute to the fabric of the state. Because so many people have gotten quality education at an affordable price, they encourage other top students to attend UCONN, donate money locally after they graduate, and create jobs for future students.

At first blush it feels unfair (certainly on an individual level). But it may actually result in a far better outcome for society. It certainly makes my home state a better place to live.
This is poetic.
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If you were a great student you applied to the university of Iowa.

Which is a very good school. The other problem a small but important segment of our society has is believing in the magic of very well marketed schools. Really, there are lots of good universities, and I don't think many people's lives are going to be made or broken by whether they're at U of Iowa or some other school, especially for undergrad.
So you get 4 people to go through security with you, each one of them brings the necessary components. And I don't know how is it like in the US, but in EU you always get shops on the other side, for duty-free purchases. And yes, they do sell all kinds of liquids - the idea is that they have been screened before entering the airport so they are safe to buy and sell after the screening.
So you go and buy a litre of water, go to the bathroom, pour it out, fill it up with the stuff you and your 3 colleagues brought in a few 100ml bottles.

See? All TSA achieved is horse shit. You can still end up on the other side, with a litre bottle of whatever substance you wanted to have,and they couldn't stop you. This is why this entire agency is absolutely useless and more an inconvenience than anything.
A recording is fake music as much as cinema is faked theatre. They're two different expressions, and both can be amazing. I don't understand why artists that adjust to one form deserve to be paid while the others don't...

Also, producers, engineers, etc. that enable recorded music to be fine tuned to perfection deserved to be paid. They won't go on tours.

The real question is: are labels/distributors paid too much? In this day and age, I think so, and that's why services like Bandcamp deserve to be supported.
I find that fascinating. Since you seem to know what you are talking about, can you name a good introductory book on the topic for someone who doesn't have an education in higher-level mathematics besides what's in a standard CS curriculum (I am a PhD student in machine learning/information retrieval)?

EDIT: I just realized that it was covered by the blog post. I am a complete moron. Sorry.
Do a quick s/poor/some minority/ and reread your post.
It's just what seems reasonable to me, which is how I was assuming the OP was justifying his 1 quart recommendation.
There is also watchr:
https://github.com/mynyml/watchr
I saw that comment too. It's incredible what we as the larger tech community have let Apple get away with this decade that we never would have let Microsoft get away with the previous decade.
I don't know how old you are, ThinkADRIAN, but my sense is "young." Pretty much everyone faces questions like the ones addressed in "How To Do What You Love" when they're growing up; those questions don't go away as you age, but you get enough context for them that they're not so hard to answer.

At that point, you start to notice that pretty much everyone younger than you has the same set of life stage problems and questions that you did. This is doubly true if you have a lot of exposure to high school students, college students, or recent grads, or if you write popular essays.

Rather than trying to answer the questions, and the thought behind the questions, piecemeal, it's easier to write one comprehensive answer and both direct people to it and let people find it on their own.

I can't guarantee that that was pg's line of reasoning, but I suspect it's reasonably close.
Twitter users up in arms over Googles Ceasur Chavez doodle on Easter Sunday
And it's probably one of the most significant things limiting adoption of Haskell.
I have been waiting for this.

Here's my Nightweb link for anyone interested in experimenting with me: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=5avfzwgkdzgddsv3...

gw: It would be great to have multiple personas available to me, like an inverse of google+ circles.
My question is(I honestly don't know) - do you not get shops behind the security screening like any country in the EU does? I don't bring anything to drink with me, but immediately after going through security I go to the nearest duty-free shop in the departure lounge and just buy a bottle of juice or whatever. Problem solved.
I was referring to operating systems architectures, not only programming languages.

While I believe you could write an operating system in Haskell, for instance, I don't know nothing about it's performance. However, microkernels, even though are safer, have some performance drawbacks.
I like how the best way to waste time in a meeting in 1987 was to repeatedly press the cos button on a pocket calculator
For how much people like to repeat the "Use bcrypt!" mantra I'm amazed no one has mentioned the password length limit of bcrypt.

The hash output of bcrypt stops changing after 72 characters but almost all bcrypt documentation mentions a 55 character limit. I'm not quite sure what that is about, can anyone clarify?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "culture loaded," could you expand on that? For instance (this may come across as snide although I do not intend it that way), is typing the word "I" in lower case and omitting spaces after periods a cultural thing? I would assume that nobody would use such a "style" in an essay on a standardized test, but then again I would have assumed that nobody would use such informal technique while arguing for the equivalence of a different writing style, since one would presumably want to criticize from a position of mastery to avoid accusations of making self-serving arguments.

It is true that spoken English contains many informalities that become inappropriate in the context of writing, but this observation holds regardless of ethnic influence on the spoken dialect. Everyone has to filter what they write to achieve the tone of formality. I certainly don't speak with the same formality I use in my writing, and I suspect you don't either.

If you want to argue that the culture in middle/upper class suburbia gives its children an advantage with respect to writing English, I would agree. I would suggest that the problem should be addressed by raising standards in inner city / rural environments, rather than by lowering them at universities, which would only serve to fuel attitudes of resentment and entitlement.

> The very bright poor that i personally know avoid the top schools because they require too many essays

What does this necessarily have to do with being poor? I know plenty of "lazy" rich people that avoid the same applications for the same reasons. How do you propose that culturally induced hesitation be distinguished from laziness? How should admissions boards distinguish between cultural influence and poor technique in an applicant's writing? These questions aren't rhetorical, I would love to hear answers, since I can think of none.

> The smart but poor have high critical reading and Math scores, but very low writing aptitude test scores.

I know plenty of people who share this profile for reasons that have nothing to do with being poor. I, myself tend towards this end of the score spectrum and I do not come from a poor family. Instead, my scores look like they do simply because I chose to focus my efforts in school on math and the sciences rather than on writing. Are you sure this is not the case with the people you were referring to?
It does seem odd to not even pay it lip service with eggs replacing the O's.
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I should note that I had the darndest time trying to install the Winows debugging tools on my laptop - not least because I believe that Windows caches all the fonts and was bug checking every time I did so.

Eventually, I discovered someone else had repackaged them here: http://www.codemachine.com/resources.html Thanks, whoever that person is!
Thanks for your reply.

But I have one more question, if I need to manage bank account, then the database must be consistent. Lets say that I just need to keep balance and social security number for the account, and only need to query the balance. Can No-SQL like redis have better performance than relational database? (assume same on logs and transactions).
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I hesitated to ask on HN because it might seem a religious thing, but heck, they could have put a bunny or eggs in and it would have been fine.

Just weird when Google celebrates so many obscure things to miss something this big.
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Is there a live demo or a screencast or more screenshots?
Everybody™ knows that it’s Easter, you don’t have to tell people ‘OH LOOK IT IS EASTER HERE IS A BUNNY’. How many people, do you think, knew of Cesar Chavez? Hence, might it not be more appropriate then to recall those who are not already in everyone’s mind?
Easter is no longer about Jesus, and his real teaching and guidance for human beings isn't transmitted in this religious holiday. Therefore it's not as beneficial to the world to celebrate easter as it is to celebrate Chavez' specific contributions.

When the actual teaching of Christ is revived then it would be more beneficial to humanity to celebrate than Chavez.

So I can see why Google made this choice, considering their brand.
I was responding to the OP who said static typing was necessary for performance, by providing a counterexample.

And "better or just acceptable" is rather dismissive of the facts.
Beats this! http://www.hmv-news.co.uk/register.php
Yup, a short screencast or some screenshots would be great. Seeing as Windows isn't a supported platform (yet?), I can't try it out right now without rebooting and I could use some more convincing...
In case there's any confusion, they have never done doodles on Easter.[1][2] Nor do they have any obligation to... Not because of any kind of bogus commentary on the nature of Easter, the celebration of it, or religion, but simply because they have no obligation to. Just like they have no obligation to keep a completely free product alive. Get over yourselves, everyone.

[1]: And several other minor holidays.

[2]: http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/

Edit: Whoops! I missed 2000 somehow. http://www.google.com/doodles/happy-easter-2000
I read this article on the same day that the piece on Stanford acceptance rates hitting an all time low appeared on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5464115). If tier 1 schools have a relatively stable student body size and an increasing number of applicants, I don't see anything happening to make them seek out even more applicants. Urban / rural geographic diversity is probably pretty low on their priority list compared to other diversity goals.
Wow, this is just awesome! The app is really polished for an early beta release, especially that hidden markdown feature.

Just three things that come to my mind:

1. how long does it take to propagate updates?

2. what is the traffic consumption on mobile?

3. what about statusbar notifications?
http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=fcx2ahb4vuobu7ej...

That's mine ... awww feels like the beginnings of ICQ ;)

But ... we can hack on it ... finally a good reason to learn Clojure.
Thanks very much. By the way, currently clicking the link in a browser doesn't seem to bring up the intent chooser to open it in the Nightweb app. I'll try to fix that today. In the meantime, the workaround is to email or text the link to yourself, and click it from there instead.

Yeah I've thought about allowing multiple users on a single device, so I'll look into that in the near future.

EDIT: I fixed the issue with clicking links in browsers. I will issue version 0.0.5 with this fix because I think it's pretty important.
I just implemented a tree library using zippers without knowing this.
Thanks for pointing this out....
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In this case it would have sounded way cool. But I would append js to any library developed in CoffeeScript simply because it's the target of compilation, and usable by any and all JavaScript developers. This isn't a library, but if it were it would have to consider that it would see far more people using it in their JS applications than in CoffeeScript ones, because it doesn't really matter. And calling it "js" doesn't alienate CoffeeScript devs, since they're fully aware of the interop, while calling it .coffee might keep away many js devs who don't know what CoffeeScript is about or who don't really know the JS ecosystem too well (which is all too common in JavaScript, being the necessity it is.)
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Is it ? MS requirements are to be able to turn off Secure Boot, not allow changing the CA. I wouldn't be surprised if most manufacturers just implement the former.
you should define a separate namespace for users/posts, like a subdomain or path, for the app, right now the browser is confused when opening the homepage
This is so cool. It makes me want to switch to Android just to use it. Any thoughts on a desktop client?
Bing celebrated the appropriate holiday so expect new BingItOn commercials.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but still on the topic of git and merge conflicts:

Soon I will have to do a pretty big merge, with so many conflicts expected that I don't know if I can resolve them in one day. So usually when I have such a non-minimal task, I create a branch for it. Is there any sensible way to do a merge in a branch, and resolve the conflicts on a file-by-file base, with separate commits for each one?

Or maybe some other way to break down many merge conflicts into several small pieces?

(We have a heavily patched version of an open source project at $work, and whenever there is a new upstream release, merging is a huge pain. We do try to contribute some of our changes back to upstream, but many changes are simply too specific to go upstream).
I missed the part where I said they had to do anything.

Care to point that out to me? Happy to take it out. My question was really about how the selection was made, as this choice seemed odd, not about what they should do or not.

Got anything on that?
University of Iowa is a very good school, no doubt. But depending on what you want to do with your life, it can close a lot of doors. Top-tier banks and management consulting companies don't recruit heavily from U of I, nor do top-tier tech companies for that matter (though the distinction is less marked). When you look at the fraction of the upper echelons of corporate America that come from those backgrounds, that's significant. I went to a state school for undergrad, but where I currently work most people have at least one Ivy on their resume. The difference in our undergraduate social networks is really quite dramatic in terms of peoples' career trajectories.
A flood of prank iMessage texts shows the app can be crashed easily
Because, you know, stoning gays, wives who slept with not-their-husband, people working on Saturdays, people who had sex before marriage and disobedient children will be greatly beneficial to humanity.
I'm unsure of why it is but I don't see why the algorithm can't just handle it like this:

check string length

if longer than 55, remove first 55 or less characters up to end of string, store in array

repeat until string is empty

encrypt each item in the array, append them all on to each other as such

EncryptedText[0] . EncryptedText[1]... etc

Seems like a simple way to handle this. You could impose your own restrictions to stop a server DDoS by encryption requests on long strings, but to be honest if you're allowing a 100,000 character password, you're doing it all wrong.
Once you've bootstrapped/integrated with the network, it takes a minute or two for a new update to reach you in my testing. The initial time to bootstrap onto the network is around five minutes.

The traffic consumption is pretty high, because it becomes a full peer on the I2P network. Over a month I would expect it to consume around 1GB or more. If this becomes an issue for people, I may add the ability to be a non-contributing peer.
I don't think that systematic relegation of poor people to state colleges is ever preferable, even if it prevents brain drain. We should never artificially limit our nation's lower-class youth simply because it has collateral positive effects in the long term.

Individuals deserve the ability to attain the highest level of success they are capable of, irrespective of any of any effects on society. Students are't public utilities, they're individuals with idiosyncratic aspirations and interests. Why is it ok for society of hold them back?