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I'm not sure what it means for my account to be dead, it seems I can comment as normal? is there any way to make it undead, without making a whole new account? I'd be willing to change my tone, I'm trying to become more positive this year ^_^

It means that your comments are only visible to people who turn on "showdead" in their profile settings, and it's impossible to respond to you directly.

In theory you can try to contact one of the YC or HN site admins, or PG himself, if you want your account restored. I don't know what's involved or what sort of argument you should make. It might be easier to begin your new tone and new resolve with a new account.
Wow, ridiculously impressive.
Stackoverflow.com: the road to SSL
I don't think it was given a chance, and the language is prototype-based. It's like programming Smalltalk like it FORTRAN.
Do you guys have visually obvious bike lanes over there?
It seems like Windows RT is the first time they've actually broken backwards binary compatibility isn't it?

Very much not true. Early on, "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run." They pulled the same trick several times against competitors, for instance Microsoft Word took dominance with Windows 95 because there was a period of 9 months where WordPress was not available on the new OS while Microsoft Word was.

This was one of the issues in Novell's 2004 lawsuit against Microsoft for anti-competitive behavior. The last I heard was an appeal filed late last year, see http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121123221716522 for details. I do not think that the appeal has been decided yet.

There have been other, less nefarious, sources of breakage. For instance at one point Microsoft changed malloc() to try to assign recently deallocated memory if possible. The purpose is laudable - it is to push developers to notice and fix memory bugs. However, it naturally caused many programs that had been working to quickly crash. (Previously they would have run for much longer before crashing - long enough to be useful, but quickly enough to contribute to the perception that Microsoft software was buggy.)

Therefore Microsoft made a list of important programs that it knew would crash, and for those programs only gave them the old behavior. Many small companies did not make the list, and the result is that their programs wouldn't run after that upgrade.

Microsoft's behavior here was defensible (in fact I like it), but it was a deliberate incompatibility.
I don't like the genre (fantasy), and I don't like soaps. "OMG, $x is fucking $y!" isn't my idea of entertainment unless $x and $y are people I know personally.
I'll be curious whether your opinion changes in 6-24 months as your current hopes meet the realities of life with Facebook.
Why bloggers insist on using the awful lightbox/email signup/popup windows: because it converts better.

I concede it could be bad on developer focused sites. But I also have to believe they have tested it, and by their metrics they have more 'success' using popups than not.

(Don't get me wrong; I hate them too.)
Robotic Dragonfly by Festo
Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
Is "a premium brand" a main obstacle preventing new entrants into the content production market? There is another large obstacle: acquiring subscribers to fund the production. Netflix already has a massive subscriber base. HBO needs to convince people to subscribe to their content and to watch their content. Netflix already convinced a massive subscriber base to subscribe to its content. Now all it needs to do is convince them to watch it.

EDIT: I think my post addresses filmgirlcw's point well. Yes, it took 15 years for HBO to cultivate their seal of approval. But that is partially because cultivating a seal of approval required HBO to build its subscription base, which takes time. Netflix already has its subscription base, so it only needs to convince that subscription base to watch its content. It can do that by 1) advertising prominently within Netflix (near zero cost), and 2) producing quality content, so that once people watch the first episode of a Netflix show, they want to watch the second. Therefore, the highest cost to Netflix is that of producing quality content. But as long as they can do that, they will succeed because they already have the audience. Of course, they do need to recognize that they only have a small window of opportunity to show that they can, in fact, produce quality content -- or else they will lose the willingness of their subscriber base to watch their originals.
IF that happens. There is still a chicken-egg dynamic at play (businesses don't plan on holding BTC and no one seems to reliably hedge against USDBTC volatility at a scale that justifies using it for business. Expenses are still in dollars so revenue needs to reliably exceed expenses. If that means grossly unfavorable prices, people will just convert BTC to USD first.)
Smart people care if it's been tried before. The only thing better than learning from your mistakes is learning from someone else's mistakes.
Chechnya and the bombs in Boston
This has always been the way it works with hosting providers and even colocation facilities. You have an obligation to keep your infrastructure healthy, or the provider has an obligation to shut you down before they get a reputation for being malware/spam/badness-friendly and have to worry about their peering relationships and the like.

Nothing new here because it's "the cloud".
SpaceX Grasshopper 250m Test | Ring of Fire
Demythologizing the high costs of pharmaceutical research
Entrepreneurs don't need a co-founder to be successful, yet startup dogma says they do and most startup accelerators seem to be fundamentalists. (Most startup accelerators are "me too".) The right co-founder can be a great help. But finding a co-founder just to meet an acceptance criterion for a startup accelerator is a recipe for failure. You should find a co-founder because you think your business has a better chance with the right one. That is the only good reason to find a co-founder. I would have thought that startup accelerators would be wise to candidates finding a co-founder purely to meet acceptance criteria. I never thought I would hear one saying go find one by the end of the week then we'll talk. That just encourages bad co-founder relationships. This is what happens when you follow dogma at the expense of thinking. You end up with startup co-founders that really don't belong together.
Young appmakers can't count on a job for life
I doubt he has anecdotal evidence or he'd have mentioned specific cases in his article. It's a theory he's working on as part of his efforts to convince the best and the brightest to work for his company, a high risk unstable start up, for below market rates. There's one of these articles out from some guy at a VC backed firm who is unable to afford competent people every few weeks. The best idea these guys ever have is to write articles telling all the "coders" that they are not as special as they think they are and would be lucky to work for a fine firm such as theirs in return for vague promises of magic beans.

Meanwhile I have no problem at all hiring the best and the brightest. It's super easy to find good people and hire them and how to do so is not a secret at all.
I would have accepted "it's Unix". I think that's got to be the biggest reason techies run Macs.
Social decision making apps. The new trend?
With the right answer to this question, the original comment would need to be revised to "I have a friend who worked for a now-bankrupt marketing company until the Google anti-spam team found out about said company."
A few anecdotes:

1) A few weeks ago, a 15 year old girl in my neighborhood, learning to drive on a slow side road with her parent in the car, mistook the gas for the break while practicing backing up and ran over three young children putting them in critical condition.

2) A relative of mine was given a new big "safe" vehicle for her 16th birthday. The photos from the event were full of incredible excited smiles.

Three months later, while leaving her part-time "earn your own gas money" job, she met a "cute guy" friend of hers from school who wanted to bum a ride. Foolishly she agreed, on the way to her vehicle, two of her "cute guy"'s friends suddenly showed up asking if they too could bum a ride.

Peer pressure and hormones fully kicked in, they all loaded into the vehicle and started on their way.

On a clear evening, doing about 40 on a paved road with no other traffic, she veered off the road surface, over-corrected getting back on, cut sideways across the road into a field and hit a tree straight on.

She was killed instantly, one of the boys is paralyzed from the neck down and the other two spent a bit of time in critical condition in the hospital.

3) After that happened I thought back to when I was a 16 year old, with a used beater car and what kind of stupid stupid driving I did back then. It was a miracle I survived almost any time I got behind the wheel.

This was even considering that, growing up in a rural area, my parents taught me to drive on the back roads when I was about 11 (in case of an emergency). They had me practice regular driving up until I got my actual license. Even after almost 5 years of sporadic driving lessons, including a minor fender bender in my parent's driveway. Despite passing the driving exam on my first shot with no practice and no studying, I still drove like a damn fool. (and in my state at the time we had to have something like 20 hours of professionally supervised behind the wheel instruction and 20 hours of classroom before being allowed to take the test).

It wasn't until I hit about 20 that I started to drive like a person concerned at all with preserving my lifespan.

Younger American's shouldn't drive. We should get a learners at 18, be required to have a fully licensed person over 25 (or better yet a parental unit) in the car with us until 19, then no passengers at all till we get a real license at 21. It's not just familiarity with alcohol or any of that, young people are just simply not yet fully wired to deal with complex social pressures, impulse control or any of the other kinds of "maturity issues" needed to operate a 2 ton block of iron that can be coaxed to 100mph in under 30 seconds.
It is a shame, but it is also wonderful.
Shut up. We're all going to buy one. We'll hate ourselves, sure, and we may only wear it to user group meetings, but you can bet your ass we're all going to blow $300 on one.

Wearing it in public is one thing. Wearing it constantly at home (baby's first steps, anyone?) is another matter.
Iceland wants to ban online pornography
Cut, cut and cut across...and it smiles at you. :)
Holy flying batsh*t, that's great!
I actually do not have any idea if Glass will flop or not.

Personally, I'd only wear it indoors for the meantime. Maybe when I'm climbing or biking too.

I'm part of a Glass User Study since last year. Google is very careful to not make it a distraction device but rather a device to assist you by having information available with just a tap or voice command. This is the main reason that the API is only a Mirror API, just a notifications service.

What's compelling is it being a camera. Glass wearers take way more photos and videos.

I believe that will be the main use-case. Smartphones need several actions to take a picture. With Glass, two voice commands or just push a button.

I'm giving Glass the benefit of the doubt.

When people used to ride horses, I bet those who drove the first cars looked weird. Riding horses were the social norm and not riding oversized machines.
This is why I love hackathons. Let's encourage people to ship. We can worry about quality once we have got people actually started writing code!
that's the way to do it!
IBM solar dish produces heat and power
Smart People Doing Foolish Things
A Sad Day Futurama Series Ends On September 4th (Video)
Have you used it? How are you sure it's a distraction-generator?
The article neglected to mention that technology use really requires you to go car-free. Many states are enacting hands-free laws and every indication suggests that outright bans on cell phone use will follow. (http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/13/us/ntsb-cell-phone-ban) Car manufacturers have been trying to integrate voice commands and web services in car dashboards, but those features can't compete with the full productivity enabled by access to a mobile device. Public transit operators need to understand that wifi access will be a deciding factor for many commuters looking to go car-free.
Yes, without specifying the output, things are going places.

I got this error:

File "export2enex.py", line 31
print "\nOptions:"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Which means my computer is running this file as it were Python 3. I'll try closing all parenthesis from the print statement and see if it throws me another error.
Personally, I don't view Google Glass a fashion statement.

It's a tool for me. Like my computer or camera. Same with my phone.
Actually, there's a way to purchase through Paypal, but only for the yearly plan (:
A better way to word that is 'the poor behavior of young _____', you could put any number of words in there and have the same effect. Youth are not well known for having great risk assessment abilities. At the same time, they do not have property, wealth, and families to add in to any risk assessment they would make.

That said, youth need experience, we are not ready made adults and have to suffer the consequence of our mistakes to learn much of the time. Studies showing that adults make fewer poor decisions should realize a lot of that is because of the previous poor decisions that person had already made.
Why do you think that? Most of the ten largest cities in the US are disposable agglomerations of endless suburbs, like Houston or Phoenix, where it would be close to impossible to live without a car. A "real city" to me is a place where people routinely have real meatspace interactions with other people, not intermediated by metal and glass containers. Most of these places are mid-sized, except for New York and Chicago.
Roger that! Stay tuned via @tweetsFC :)
> Twitter/FB authentication to keep scores across games

This is a tech demo of open web standards. Persona! :P
A good data set can have incorrect analysis written about it. "Clearly not the case" doesn't apply.
Nest’s Plan to Stop Brownouts Before They Start
Because in the US, those are the only cities that have the public services to make them a truly cohesive unit: in Phoenix, for instance, the houses are too widespread, and the downtown too filled with parking lots, to allow for a strong sense of the community as a city existing (I grew up just outside Phoenix, and if you don't have a car, i.e. are 14, you can't engage in city activities, such as the zoo, or museums, etc.. And even when you do have a car, it doesn't feel like a city when getting from a typical home to a D-Backs game takes 45 minutes, and then you have to walk 30 minutes to get from the parking lot, and while you're walking you only pass industrial lots and parking structures).
"A browser" is simple from a "a process that talks to the network and draws things on screen" standpoint. I'm not suggesting that Chrome isn't a complex application - just that it's self-contained and very well tested and doesn't do anything special with the OS or hardware (drivers, USB, video modes, etc).

My workflow would work on Windows, too, aside from the fact that it'd suck. (Example: Unplug an external USB audio interface while a song is playing. OSX skips a beat and then plays via internal speakers, at the previous internal-speaker-volume-level.)

I could travel with luggage that isn't Pelican/Incase, too— but I don't.
Its defaults, at least on windows, are quite striking. You ought to be able to see your screen's colour balance change in the space of a few seconds when it reaches the relevant time of day.
Regex and HTML
Is there any connection between this and http://subprotocol.com/verlet-js/ which was posted on HN a few days ago, or did you both happen to play with the same algorithm at the same time?
Pretty cool, I like how the result of the torn cloth is rather artist looking.

I used to study fine art, if you want to reference something original I always thought setting up a physics engine for creating scenes that you could reference in your painting would be cool, instead of having to acquire and damage the objects yourself.
So no response to the API quicksand complaints?
Got this now:

File "export2enex.py", line 45
print str(err)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Reading: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python#Dealing_with_ver...

This obviously is assuming the default python is python 2.The developer forgot to add the extra instructions for Arch Linux...THANKS!
Prototype-based OO is one of those concepts that sounds good, but it's just not what's actually needed in practice. Class-based OO just happens to be more effective and useful when dealing with real-world problems.

I don't think it's a problem with developers not understanding prototype-based OO; they do. It's just that they run into situations time and time again where class-based OO is a better option. Yet since JavaScript doesn't (yet) offer proper class-based OO functionality, developers needing or desiring such functionality are forced to implement it themselves.

As anyone who has worked on any sizable, multi-developer JavaScript code base will surely know, there are many different approaches to simulating proper class-based OO in JavaScript. The maintenance headaches this causes are very real.

The direction of the JavaScript current is just flat out wrong. It's not that developers should stop swimming against it; they're going in the right direction. The current itself should be reversed so that it aides the developers in the direction they want to go, rather than continually ramming against them.
Read that as "terrible cloth simulation."
Thanks! The license (MIT) was listed on NPM, but now I've added it to the readme and placed it in the root directory.
This is awesome. I don't know what's more satisfying: actually tearing the cloth to pieces, or the fact that my 2009 13" macbook pro can run it smoothly without stressing the CPU.
Ok... But have you checked it out?
Borderlands 2 was pretty good. Duke Nukem Forever to be fair was in development for 14 years prior to Gearboxes involvement, they finished the game, they didn't develop it from the start they merely did what 3D Realms failed to do. Colonial Marines was definitely a crappy game, horrible even. The graphics quality not to mention the number of bugs, lack of Aliens continuity and horrible AI that it had make it one of the worse games Gearbox have ever released.

We'll see what they make of the franchise.
Especially since more cloth is only a refresh away, whereas bubble wrap.... well, you only get so much of it at a time.
> the remaining developers

/shiver/
When benchmarking, it's best to remove assumptions based on "probably" though right?
Netflix deserves it. With them for movies and free HT OTA TV we are 100% cable free. If only they ran in my Chrome browser on Ubuntu like Crackle does.
/me raises hand.

I also haven't read the books.
So similar to what we have in New Zealand, but different ages.
16 and you can get a learners, have to spend a year (I think) driving with someone who has had their full for over two years
After that you take a driving test to get a restricted and you can drive by yourself with no passengers as long as it's not over either 11pm or midnight for a year (Again not sure) and I think you can cut it to 6 months if you take a defensive driving course
Then you can take another driving test to get your full license
>Young people must now take more behind-the-wheel training (which is more expensive)
>fulfil additional requirements for permits

This is not true at all. I do not know where he is getting his information. And there are literally no requirements for the permit. All you do is take a vision test and a knowledge multiple choice on the computer which anyone can pass if they know the simple basics.

>and once they are allowed to drive, they are often restricted to driving in the daytime without passengers.

This only applies to people with a provisional license (if you are under 18), and you can have passengers as long as they are in your family (brothers or sisters), and this only lasts for the first 6 months.
This is something I relate to a lot. I've been paralyzed many times by being unsure if I'm coding the Best way. In the last 5 or so years I write some awful code but every piece of terrible code taught me how to write good code. The bad code worked, it did what it was supposed to do but it ended up causing complexity and making it hard to add on to down the line and that is what helped me learn to things right.

It has nothing to do with bad code not working. I think its when bad code works that you learn. You should have seen my pet project when it was started in 2011 (which I'll shamelessly plug, https://writeapp.me). It was a series of scripts all string together. Then it was rewritten using a framework when the first version couldn't be extended. From there the models, views, and controllers have been refactored many times over each time making the app more extensible, less buggy, and from a code perspective, more "right".

It's a one step backward, two steps forward kind of situation. Each time you hit a wall you go back and not only fix one problem but move forward helping yourself avoid other common pitfalls.
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Much admiration.
For historians of the future the past 100 years will be this weird time period where we stopped riding horses for transportation, but haven't yet invented autonomous self-driving vehicles.
Netflix just needs movies, we haven't watched HBO since the 80s'. Their programming was never why we watched anyway. It's all about the movies. If I want original programming, and we do, we watch the education channels, in HD, free OTA.
anyone who cares about base rates.
Denver's got a club with a Funktion-One sound system in it- those are the best sounding you can get on Earth. A very good club scene since before the 90's, from what I understand- although I haven't been there since 2002. It's a half hour from Boulder, which I hear has a thriving tech scene. Some VC clubs in Boulder. The weather's great, sun all the time, & when it snows, it's sunny & melting the next day or so.
The plv8x project ( https://github.com/clkao/plv8x ) adds convenient JSON and JS/LiveScript selector operators: https://speakerdeck.com/audreyt/pgrest-node-dot-js-in-the-da... covers the basic usage and the motivation, as well as the ongoing PgREST work ( https://github.com/clkao/pgrest ) that builds a MongoLab REST API server that resides within the database, so they can be queried over a pg connection as well as through HTTP.
This reminds me of the experiments of Glenn Murphy ( http://bodytag.org )
Senate passes “online sales tax” by 74-20 vote
Isn't that the Outliers type of deal? Dedicate N hours to the craft, and you'll rise as a master of it? The problem is that for driving skills N tends to be a pretty low number.
Height restrictions on buildings are hurting America
I'm actually not the developer. I just happened across it, enjoyed it a lot, and was surprised to find that it wasn't posted on HN yet.
Apple needs to keep their ever loving mitts off Netflix.
He is not the first person to try to implement a GPU base database, and this is not a trivial undertaking by any means.

http://gpgpu.org/tag/databases

Does anybody know any source with more details on this work?
Lucky you. It maxes out the CPU on an early 2008 (2.4 GHz w/ x3100) MacBook. I guess an actual GPU makes all the difference.