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Apple with the iPad and iPhone goes even further and does
not allow children to download an Etoy made by another
child somewhere in the world.

Kids can publish native apps if they want to, there are plenty of examples around. But regardless, you can share anything over the web. What about Android? Does it "not allow children to download etoys" too? This is pure vitriol.
I think the language is done. After listening to this FLOSS episode, I think they're just finishing off the libraries.

http://blog.sethladd.com/2013/03/dart-on-floss-weekly-from-t...

Sounds like 1.0 might be a Google I/O announcement.
Fair enough.

If you want to follow up in depth later on (rather than HN threads), my email is in my profile.
if you started an indie rock band, would you call yourself 'the beatles' :)?
It's an adaptive mergesort-based sort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort
I'm the same way in a lot of respects. I'd love to wake up every morning to tweak a product or SaaS business that I live off of but I haven't gotten that spark from anything yet.

What language(s) do you work with?
You realize you have to pay for all that stuff as full time employee too right? Sure you might get free health insurance at a really good company. But most you have to pay a percentage of the premium. For freelancers, there are a lot of private health insurance plans they can sign up for that are comparable to the ones companies offer.

As a freelancer, you can also write off a lot of your expenses to reduce your taxable income. Bought a new Macbook Pro with retina display? Well, that's a business expense.

A lot of benefits at companies are just fluff to make you feel good about working there.
Sorry, but there are a bunch of people who are willing to work really hard who are in your way.
The result is that companies will find any mechanism available to obtain some sort of implied consent (your purchase indicates..) even if you have no awareness of the change
For that matter the 'private one copy per user', is even simpler to maintain without actually requiring to store multiple copies. All they need is a deduplication mechanism at the storage layer, and store the files block wise. Legally they could prove that they are recording a copy per user, while they would be paying close to a single copy cost in terms of storage.
I havn't done enough iOS to really speak intelligently about it, but this looks like a great place to start without limiting flexibility.

Although "an extensible open-source
mobile backend framework" seems to say that it also applies to non iOS, it doesn't seem that it does. Is it more suited for iOS, or iOS only?
Especially given that this company only operates in San Francisco and Palo Alto.
A skip Instruction button would be nice, so you don't have to watch the full animation. But i really like it.
I guess what I meant is I see a lot of guys in the group who are younger (20-25) with more senior guys trying to "form" them into what they feel is a "good" developer. I've been around long enough to have developed my own ideas, and while I'm always open to having my views influenced and changed over time, I'm not going to sit down and have someone tell me "this is what you need to do to be good like me".

Your note about building stuff on your own is something I constantly do. I try to keep at least a couple projects going at home for the purpose of practice and incorporation of advancing technology. I don't have my finger on the pulse of everything, but I'm by no means being left behind.
I just create a patch for that https://github.com/heelhook/chardin.js/pull/2
This seems like a potentially valuable way to shift some of the standard PDF reports I generate in R over to dynamic web pages.

I had heard Hadley Wickham talk about rendering ggplot2 graphics using d3 and am wondering if he'll be using this standard.
Our society is youtube comments, SMS-speak and TLDR. It's a much bigger challenge to change people and culture, than technology.

There is nothing today in the way of being creative and intellectual. Everyone has free access to mountains of knowledge a librarian couldn't dream of 30 years ago. Technology is cheap, ubiquitous and powerful. Blaming our cultural failures on a couple commercial license terms is just deflecting the guilt.
We are unaware of any current exploits in Webmin related to this, and I don't think we've had any reports of infected users, so far. That is not to say there aren't currently unknown exploits in Webmin, just that the correlation seems somewhat weak at the moment. And, of course, there have been exploitable conditions in Webmin in the past (the last major remote exploit was many years ago, however; most recent stuff has been XSS variants which would be pretty difficult to exploit, and were not seen in the wild, to my knowledge).
AFAIK, with the Safeway delivery they use a flat 5% markup on the cost of the item (which IIRC is what Postmates uses too for non-custom orders). I don't know about Trader Joes.
You generally can't just change the policy - you entered into a contract with the people who paid $99 for a year of free delivery. You can change the policy for new buyers, but the agreement with the older ones still exists.
Almost on par with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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I would say various p2p technologies has been properly innovative in the last 10(ish) years, at least in application. Skype, Torrent, BitCoin etc.
Top secret! Just kidding. We basically wrap first party cloud service API's into a consistent StashKit API and provide widgets similar to the ones Dropbox gives for picking files and doing authentication. Of course, unlike the dropbox widget, ours works with all of the providers.
Would you be willing to do a short post-mortem write up on the load challenges your site faced? Since you are part of the HN crowd, I imagine you did all the reasonable things and somethings still surprised you :)
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Something few realize is that payment is about to make a serious shift as NFC becomes mainstream. LevelUp, being partially entrenched as an alternative to credit cards, could take off in a huge way if they can grab on to this leviathan.
Well played MS.....
I remember when a student would walk through the dorms each afternoon, yelling 'Bagelman is here'. His business was sanctioned by the university, otherwise it was his own affair.
These days, instead of yelling, you could have a phone app which would alert customers that the seller is near, transmit orders to him/her, maybe even use a mobile payment scheme to complete the transaction for whatever.
Weird...I'm using the same setup and same exact Chrome version, and it's working fine for me.

Edit: Actually, my Chrome version is "26.0.1410.43 m".
Imposter syndrome is incredibly common among very successful people, which as much as we might hate to admit it, most developers are.
Nice! What's the number? Love comedy lines.
Disclaimer: I work for Twilio

This is more than just marketing, but less than what you're describing. A great deal of work went into updating and testing our helper libraries in the GAE environment, as well as building documentation and proof on concepts[1] for developers to learn from.

Deeper forms of integration require heavier lifting and require buy-in across the organization. If partnerships like this are successful and improve the adoption and use of new tooling, I think it will be much easier to make a case for more integration down the line.

[1]: http://twiliosandbox.appspot.com/
Seconded on the library - make sure to get a card and access their on-line catalog - besides the HUGE computer book section in the library itself there are many e-editions available for on-line patrons.
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You might be interested in namecoin or litecoin. Unfortunately, those aren't worth much, because of the network effects driving bitcoin.
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Nothing but getting people to use the competing currency. There are already numerous competitors trying to get momentum.
I thought this was a great post. It's giving me pause to reconsider how I'm making my next career moves.
They're fulfilled by what we in the biz call "upstream providers". Companies like AT&T, Verizon and Level3.

What distinguishes a telecom company from an Internet company is surprisingly vague. Many in the industry say it's the process of selling Two-Way SIP connectivity that gets you, others say its colo'ing gear inside of a ILEC.

As in all things telecom, consult your lawyer.
That's actually really good advice. At Instacart we try to go out of our way to make sure our customer experience is top notch. Giving people what they ask for is always the best way to do that.
The disclaimer made me cringe: "as a man writing about gender inequality, I acknowledge my privileged (and biased) viewpoint in this discussion."

In what upside-down universe is it considered necessary to pre-emptive apologize for what you are (a man) and what you might unintentionally do (offend someone's sensibilities)?

These kind ridiculous expectations of others is why the Adria Richards thing blew up, not because of (quoting the article the author links to) "One Brogrammer's Sexist Joke".
I'm pretty sure that, like most sites, they have something in their TOS that says they reserve the right to change the terms of offering their service at their sole discretion. When you sign up for the service you are agreeing to the TOS even if you pay a fee, and this is quite standard.

It sounds like they tried to do the right thing and notify customers of the change, and people could have chosen to unsubscribe if they didn't like the new terms, but there was some kind of bug and they are fixing it.
The same thing that's preventing someone from looking at Facebook, changing something simple, and competing immediately: nothing but network effects.
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Makes me wonder if Microsoft would ever consider releasing IE for Mac OS X again. That would seem to be a good way to make sure Mac Developers target IE...
You said "amortized over the life of a five-year web service" that's 4 years of cost + 1 year free.

As to Cost it's $100 for 3 years at .5cents an hour or 63$ for 1 year at .5cents an hour. I used the 63$ for 4 years vs 3 for 100 plus one at 63. If you really care about the time value of money your first year is free so it's better than than paying up front for that first year any way you do the numbers.

PS: I don't actually use AWS I was just defending them from the old 'there vary expensive' which I found to generally be false. Most of the time your time is worth far more than hosting costs especially when dealing with such small servers.
Looks really nice, but I always feel that if you need some kind of guided tour for your app, you've already shot yourself in the foot.
Thanks for the info. :) The page I was reading said it was mostly Plesk, but their pastebin file lists Plesk only. I am just covering my bases until everything is known about this. Although it is pretty unfair that I made it seem as if Webmin was specifically identified as having a vulnerability.

As a beginner, I'd rather disable Webmin for now. Just in case! But you are correct; Webmin is probably not affected by this.
uhh,ok.. and tools can implement protocols. I think the gp's point was that many of these tools don't lend themselves to interop and portability, important things to factor in when evaluating a tool.

EDIT: I don't know if his point really applies here with these saas tools. From my experience, these usually offer at least a standard way to export your data in case you want to jump ship later.
I'm not sure what an "etoy" is, but I imagine it's essentially a program and associated source code (e.g. so that you can learn from it). iOS bans, for no reason, compilers or interpretors. Android allows for these. The majority of children will not be publishing native apps.
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You did not just changed “some policy”. You had the contract and tried to quietly change rules in the middle. If you really, really had to change rules for existing customers, you should offer them either accepting new rules or canceling their contracts and receiving their money back.
The Pirate Bay is down again?
Just wondering on your business model. Do you really expect there would be many people with so many iPhones to use this for the purpose of making a big screen? Because those who don't already have, would probably just buy one big screen IMO...
There's still a small amount of language evolution going on. We recently added mixins, for example, and there's a couple of minor things still being batted around.

However, we are making very few breaking language changes right now. Most of the fast-paced evolution is in the core library. Unfortunately, the corelib was essentially stagnant for close to a year, so now that people are working on it, they are feverishly playing catch-up to get it to a good place before 1.0.
Yea, same with my in-laws & other relatives. In the regular world, Yahoo Mail works just fine for plenty of people.
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Hey guys,
Are there any HN meetups in Beijing?
It's very disappointing that they didn't bother to update that news article. The actual source of that "exploit" was compromised admin machines. Everyone that kept having their servers hacked was found to have a rootkit on their local machine. I would not be surprised if this new "exploit" was the same thing.
Changing the terms of a contract after it's been signed is shady, and it's totally fair-game to publicly call out a company that does it, especially since the OP contacted Instacart first to make sure it wasn't a mistake.

I'm friends with one of the founders of Instacast and I'd love to see them win, but the way they handled this is really not OK.
Instacart Express was a free trial until very recently - no one was charged for the service. When Instacart starting charging the $99 fee, they also sent out the email (which apparently didn't reach anyone?) and changed the policy such that it made sense for the company while also providing that people could opt-out on the new conditions. I agree 100% they shouldn't be changing the policy if people had paid for it (e.g., breaking the contract), but in this case everyone was getting a free service.
Interesting. It's Open Sans Light. It looks like this in Chrome for me:

http://imgur.com/oQJZpri

What makes it hard for you to read?
Or make a userscript out of it which will let you do that automatically.
In the universe where the author would likely get a dozen one-off responses mentioning his ignorance of privilege.
> Okay, they changed the policy.

It was not a 'policy' that was changed - it was a contract.
I'm disappointed by rampant consumerism and a culture of entitlement.
I've spent some time deploying Openstack on Cisco UCS and this box would seem to replicate much of that functionality while adding versatility.

Pretty much exactly what I've wanted.

The benefit of converged infrastructure while leaving a choice in compute vendor and integrating the controller, interconnect and orchestrator in a single unit.

Very, very cool.
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An explanation, an apology, and a fix. If only all companies that made mistakes could react like this!
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Solid (positive) review. I too have read Lean In and recommend it to the men as much (if not more) than women I work with.

I take some issues to some of Sandberg's arguments but the book is tremendous overall. Has changed my attitude considerably.
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> Historically, the hardest part of interacting with the DOM has been the inconsistencies (and missing functionality) amongst ancient browser versions.

Even newer browsers have a surprising amount of DOM inconsistencies, especially for newer HTML5 APIs that are still evolving. While this is an ongoing job, the Dart DOM API tries hard to polyfill that so that you get a single API that works across most browsers.
The Beatles are still listened to. This browser is no longer used. I don't see the parallel.
Good to see some potential (and OSS!) competition for Parse :)
Indeed - I saw it myself
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I'll be in China for a bit but would like to continue to do development work. Do you know of any common services that are blocked in China? If so, are you aware of any ways to get around the block?

I don't mean things like facebook or twitter, but github, heroku and such.

Thanks!
This looks awesome - a Parse.com you can deploy yourself!
And, see, I would actually invert further. The declaration should be:

elements = [1,2,3,4];
doubledElements = doubleElements(elements)

Basically, if you see the words map, fold, reduce in your code, you are probably not as easy to understand as you'd like to think.

Of course, in the cooking methaphor, I'm ok with mutating elements and just doing:

elements = [1,2,3,4];
doubleElements(elements);

This clearly has issues if multiple "cooks" are working with elements. But is ridiculously easy to intuit regardless. (Precisely because in real life so many things are changed by imperative commands.)
If only I have multiple devices laying around.
I would go with "The Silver Beatles", naturally.
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I've recently been working on a Node backend for IAP verification and providing signed S3 URLs for downloadable content - something like this would have halved the time it took. Good work Matt!
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I'm sorry, but just stop living in your bubble and you'll be fine. There are great people out there doing great things, using technology, they just don't happen to be prominently featured on the site that takes "what can be delivered in two weeks" to new levels. Look for example at the stuff praekelt foundation is doing - http://www.praekeltfoundation.org/ (videos are short enough for most attention spans), or actually, wikipedia.
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Congrats, Adam!

Do we have performance information yet, even on some basic, common use cases?

Also, the docs mention EJML as the backend for Saddle's data structures--do you have any thoughts on using EJML?
As in, how can we respond to this competitive threat that undercuts our business model while still maintaining our current revenues?
I've been thinking that Parse (and StackMob, Kinvey et al) need to provide a similar self-deployable solution at a reasonable price; this might be the motivation they need to do so.
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After reading the first two paragraphs I thought that this has to be mattt! The man is a machine.
Agreed. Since when did it become normal to apologize for being a man with a viewpoint?

I like the article but there is too much "please don't be mad at me if I offend." Here's a reality bite: Doesn't matter what you say, someone will get offended.
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I'm impressed that the name includes the substring "iOS".
Props for the very clever position detection!
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My default zoom level in Chrome (nothing crazy, mind you) the 'e' character has no horizontal bar, the ''a' character is not connected, it's also quite jagged. It's funny how such simple things can be so jarring.
That sounds like hiding behind fine print, which is certainly legal, but I'm not sure how that makes it the "right thing". Why isn't the "right thing" honoring the original arrangement with existing customers, at least until it expires?
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I can't believe your attitude.

As a consumer, do you ever worry about whether Amazon is making a profit on EC2 or Prime? I don't. But I sign up for something, and I expect to either have my agreement honored, cancelled, or mutually replaced with my consent. If that didn't happen, there is _absolutely no way_ that I would continue doing business with the company, especially for something as discretionary as what Instacart offers.

I'm surprised the author was able to maintain such a civil tone, not that he posted about it.

Even Instacarts CEO's post on this thread is more apologetic than yours.
It's important to me that this post be read and considered by a wide audience of people. If my content angers and offends someone to the point at which they refuse to consider the content, I have lost.

By acknowledging upfront that I have many biases and that I hold a very real position of privilege in society as a man, I am trying to speak not from up high, but as a peer, as an equal.

I don't feel this is an unrealistic expectation. The whole point of this post is that women face unique challenges that men often do not understand. Your suggestion that my disclaimer only exists in an "upside down" universe suggests you don't agree with that assertion.
Windows AD is Kerberos based with a gratuitous compatibility breaking change that I can't remember right now. We use Kerberos at work, and the FreeIPA project is Kerberos based. It doesn't really come into its own until you have many, many machines, probably at least fifty, but it isn't bad in the end. I have had many, many problems with FreeIPA but very few are due to it using Kerberos.
> they've spent millions, which they won't get back from by selling Dart

Yes, I think everyone understands today that languages don't directly generate revenue.

> They probably have a compelling internal reason for doing this.

Off the top of my head:

* If it makes Googlers more productive writing apps in Dart, that directly saves Google money. We, obviously have some very large JavaScript applications (gmail, maps, docs...) and we spend a ton of engineering time on them. If we can make those engineers more productive, that's a huge savings.

* If Dart succeeds externally, that's more third-party code that Google can then use for its own projects, so that directly saves us money.

* If Dart makes other web developers more productive, that makes the web bigger. A bigger web means more people spending time on it and more people doing web searches, which ultimately goes right back to Google. Google is happy when the web gets bigger.
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Why would listen to these silly points, he doesn't produce anything himself. He is no nerd and has no business judging other nerds.

He's an investor who's gotten lucky and been around smart people.

He's nothing special and I would never take any of his points seriously.

I've had a few exchanges w/ him via email and he just quotes silly sayings and has no real substance in him.
Really looking forward to trying this out, owning your data definitely goes a long way.
Actually, no one paid for Instacart Express until March, 2013. And when we made changes to the plan, we intended to notify everyone first and give them time to decide whether to continue or cancel.