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This sounds like something straight out of Wayne Enterprises. I wish more companies could do things like this and see what can be created and achieved. An area that I could see being able to do something like this without having to face Shareholders, management, etc. that most companies have to do is Universities. University students should be able to take advantage of the resources that universities have and universities should encourage this. They could essentially have a new flock of minds every year to help innovate projects. I believe Georgia Tech started something like this a few years ago.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I'll use a RDMS." Now they have two problems, but that's normalized.
Some random thoughts: I think the documentation for Flask is pretty good. By it's nature, it's not a framework for new web developers, so I don't think all the general regurgitated stuff that usually goes into books should be included. It's not for beginners, don't try to make it so.

What I see as being a useful book on Flask:

1) listing and naming common stable plugins (flask-security, flask-login) and how they integrate and work together. There's a good page on the Flask site, but I feel a lot of the plug-ins don't work particularly well together. There's tons of different authentication librarys (especially when dealing with OAuth) that work with varying degree out there. Some guidance around this would be really useful.

2) Different ways to setup a large project. How to structure folders, etc. There's some good topics on StackOverflow about this, but my experience trying to integrate different plug-ins, etc, leads to a more messy solution. Maybe some ideas in abstracting out data access.

3) The Art of building up your tech stack with lego bricks. Choosing which plug-ins to use.

4) Testing patterns.

5) More of a style of "I'm trying to do this", this is how you do it. (Note: there's lots of great questions and solutions on the email list that could/should be culled for ideas and consolidated)

6) Debugging and tracing through 3rd party flask-plugins. This is a huge problem for me as most don't include log comments

7) Writing and structuring a good plug-in/blueprint, with some examples of different ways to include reusable code into the project.

Note: I've co-authored a book in the past that was published by Wiley and I think your schedule is pretty optimistic, especially considering you've still got some learning and research to do. Unless, you're just regurgitating the already pretty in-depth documentation.

Second Note: I'm just reading the O'Reily book on Angular.JS, it's less that 200 pages. It's dense with ideas and explanations on WHY something is. This makes it extremely useful. I really like books that focus on the WHY, because the HOW because much simpler to comprehend. I also appreciate the book because it's not some 600 page tome of regurgitated documentation.
Ask HN: Taking on an established product, tips for eliciting user requirements?
I'm building an application which helps people bulk process images. There's already software e.g. lightroom/aperture which has decent capability to do this.<p>Really my hunch is that the application will be better suited to people for whom lightroom/similar are a bit OTT.
youtube videos are not monetized unless you turn advertising on. So presumably with mojang permission youtube would have been able to turn on alot more adverts.
That's a Pro feature. You couldn't get stats on the free plan. And it seems, you can't get stats on their new replacement plans either. So far it looks like if you want stats, hope you're grandfathered in as a Pro user and keep on renewing.
Ask HN - where to learn about securing data, both cloud and personal computers?
Everything from Email, files, chats etc - both on the cloud, and on personal hardware like phones, laptops etc. Is there any one place that teaches people what tools to install, how to configure etc. Keeping in mind both a "normal" user (just browsing, email) to someone who codes, but has not much idea about security
One of the links says that each device outputs 30kW. That seems way too low to be cost effective.
Every nutritionist in the world suggests not consuming soda and candy. The problem is people don't listen.
Yes, but is it really necessary to have a feed screen in everything? There's already Facebook and Google+ for that. Flickr was nice because it was geard towards the less ephemeral. I guess "less ephemeral" goes against the zeitgeist.
> Some people view Let's Plays before buying a game.

Maybe the reasoning is that this is not very beneficial to Nintendo, since most of their games are visually at most a "Meh".
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You're killing free advertising, Nintendo. Good move.
No, I'm not confusing anything, I'm not talking about VAT at all. I'm talking about the pretty explicit guidance on the page I linked. And rather ironically on the pages you linked. No income tax to pay on the benefit.

Read the parent I replied to. He was claiming HMRC was trying to get BT to charge income tax for a benefit of tea and coffee.

I challenged it because I was interested if this was ever true and also it's never good to let rumours like this to exist, the UK is a great place to start a business and misinformation like this shouldn't go unchallenged.
Don't forget Rackspace turned an abandoned mall into their HQ

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2013/03/21/stormi...
Have you seen Wes Mason's PHP Weekly newsletter: http://phpweekly.info? Is this intended as a replacement?
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I don't even know that it's that long-term of a mistake. We can expect professional quality Let's Plays for Nintendo games to die off almost instantly (since it's no longer a profession if Nintendo takes all the revenue), and for the people who do them to switch to non-Nintendo games.

In other words, they aren't even going to make very much money off of this in the short term, and they're driving the free advertising to their competition.
Offtopic but kinda related.
Father of the "Dothraki", the language used on game of thrones says you're all pronouncing Khaleesi WRONG
http://io9.com/youre-all-pronouncing-khaleesi-wrong-47877979...
It's nice to see terminal output at the same time as you're editing. Right now I'm working on a Rails app, so it'd be great to see RSpec failures while fixing my code--currently I either alt-tab between terminals or use a second monitor.

Also, sometimes you don't want to wait for something. `bundle install` can take a good 30 seconds...I'd rather not watch that!
I wouldn't really call that a great analogy, a better analogy would be if you record a video of you showing the insides of the car and going on a trip where you describe how the car drives. But still, dumb dumb move by Nintendo
Nintendo taking after Sony.
I had some more ideas about the plug-in development section:

1) offer guidance on making appropriate configuration guidelines

2) suggestions on how to structure a plugin so the view templates can be easily customized or overwritten. Same with the route logic. Same with the controller.

3) decoupling code with signals and blinker.

Generally, how to make a plug-in that provides enough hooks so someone using it doesn't just have to fork their own code off of it.
This seems like an interesting example of the fundamental attribution error. I guess one could phrase it: I see others as they are and myself as I hope to be.
it's usually a mix of things.

first, while you may be drawn to that type of work, not everyone is. some people really enjoy the work they do in other parts of the company.

second, if you're drawn to it, you need to identify the path to it and the needed qualifications. if you don't make the cut, then you know why.

that keeps it from being an exclusive "clique" with no obvious merit-based way in, which helps keep the resentment others may feel (that you bring up) down.
> Some people view Let's Plays before buying a game

I can't tell you how many times my son has come to me and asked for a new game because of some YouTube videos that he has been watching

Edit: as a matter of fact, he wanted to play the WiiU not too long ago after watching NintendoLand playthroughs of the Zelda game. The WiiU that hasn't been turned on in MONTHS
Rackspace's corp HQ is a converted old mall (the entire mall) in San Antonio [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/realestate/commercial/rack...
Interesting move -- feels like this is a natural response to the not-so-sudden realization by "normal" folks that you can get a BIG multiple on $/sqft as a data center over a more traditional tenant.

A parking lot is better than an empty lot. A warehouse is better than a parking lot. And a data center is better than a warehouse :)

The good news for us consumers is that as the supply steadily ticks up, pricing will come down (at least for space - who's to say where bandwidth costs go).
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What is the best tool to move all my photos from my local harddrives (unorganized currently) to Flickr in an easy way?
They also, in most cases, front an advance (with no guarantee of getting it back), which allowed the author to work on the book without starving.
Exactly my point.

Should a CFO be singularly focused on bean counting to the detriment of company culture? No.

Is that often the reality when you bring in an outsider as CFO well after your company culture is established? Yes.

CEOs just need to be aware of this fact and work closely with any outsider who gets hired into a CFO position in their first 6 months on the job to make sure that all interests are aligned. It would be great to find someone up front that totally gets it and is willing to be a dedicated CFO, but I think such individuals are extremely hard to find.

The sad fact is, many CEOs only bring in a CFO when they're trying to find a way to cash out. Company culture usually takes a back seat at that point.
... best viewed in ... netscape ?
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You can disable cache though, is that not what you wanted?
Yeah, the video is still on the account and under control of the original uploader. The only thing that's changed is they can't control is that the ads on their videos now fund Nintendo instead of themselves.
This is an opportunity where they could usher in a new glorious era of personal cloud computing that solves the problem of the government basically owning your hardware, software, and the usage of your software if the government catches you (or the software) so much as jaywalk.

Instead of selling floor space, they could subdivide the space like the "storage building" units. The customers could pay for a rack, and they would need a key to access it. Legally the hardware, software and data would be owned by the owner, and not the government. Anyone else would need a warrant to come in and rape your data, software, and hardware just like if the server was next to my bed.

Part of the reason why I have all my servers in places I own is because of this problem. This is a brief opportunity to explore cloud computing and give the communists and socialists who want everyone to share a common purse on the computing front a black eye.

My pain point is "I want boat loads of CPU cycles and Internet connection speeds, and I want physical legal ownership of the rack space, hardware, software, AND data, and I don't want to have to buy a building that I have to air condition, power, internet connect, secure, and pay taxes on.
The comments under this article are just shocking. And I wonder how ignorant one can be. "They deserve to die". How degenerative can we get? If we lose any moral and forget about the value of a human life, we are no better than the so called "terrorists".
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I'm a little confused - you are saying the article is overstating things, but that degrees in science, engineering, academia, and possibly medicine are "mostly useless"?
I'm not sure what you mean re: "how they host email". IMAP is a higher-tier feature. I'm using them for SMTP forwarding to my self-hosted IMAP server, so not having IMAP from them has never been an issue.

They have AtMail and Roundcube available if you elect to use them for email storage. I've used neither with them, though I do want to spin up a Roundcube installation for myself when I can find some time to tinker with it.
Class of 2013: Narcissism or Altruism? In a World of Abundance, Time to Decide
>From my point of view, it's just very difficult to continue supporting the video game industry anymore.

Don't judge an industry by it's rotting old guard. Nintendo has been making blunder after blunder for quite some time and does not represent gaming as a whole.

Reddit has helped built a list[1] of studios and publishers who have given permissions for LPers to make videos, and the list is pretty comprehensive. Tons of developers and companies are 100% okay with and even promote it.

Also, with both next gen consoles supporting game play video natively, it's going to get bigger and bigger in the industry.

http://letsplaylist.wikia.com/wiki/%22Let%27s_Play%22-friend...
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As Rails is a framework and not a language, it has a much more specified "structure."

Syntactically, the languages are not all that similar. It's probably closer to Python.

As much as people abhor PHP in programming communities (and I get that sentiment), I find RoR to be a far, far worse platform to build upon.
Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M
I had a history professor who attended Berkeley in the 60s. He recalled the instructional methods used by one of his own professors at Berkeley: He simply got up to the podium, opened a textbook, and started reading. There was no discussion or chances to ask questions. As I recall, he indicated that this was a method of lecturing that had its roots in European academia.

A question for HNers from India: With such a long history of sending students to British and American universities, are Anglo-American methods of teaching, research, mentoring, etc. transferred back to Indian universities by returnees who start academic careers?
Hi there. We'd actually been running this as a weekly news list for some time (we'd owned the domain for years) via a PHP-related product that I also run. We decided to open this up wider based on seeing the Python Weekly one, as we're also fans of Python. Someone pointed me to Wes last week and I dropped him a line and we have exchanged some friendly emails between us. I need to pick that up again after being away for nearly a week.
Now, all they need to do is to turn all the ghostmalls into hackerspaces and we are on to something.
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Some people, when finished reading a page, think, "I'll use Alt-Left." Now I'm still on the same page.

WTF, Diaspora?
sure, but you can't turn the actual wire itself indefinitely or it will shear eventually
I used to have few recipes each taking tweets from my account tagged with #reN, retweet them with a new hashtag re(N-1) -- for tweets that I wanted to reach a wider audience.

Example: #re2 would get auto-retweeted for two days in a row.

Around the time I got this working correctly, twitter kicked ifttt out. sigh
> I am beginning to see what you mean by the easy-negative-up-vote effect.

I'm someone who normally hates such posts as well. However the reason I did leave such a comment this time round was out of disappointment rather than wanting to be negative for the sake of "internet points". The topic was one that I had a particular personal interest in and the content looked like it should have been really juicy. But sadly the item failed to offer any substance and that was entirely down to the choice of layout.

However it now seems like this presentation was designed to accompany a talk and likely wasn't expected to be viewed on it's own and without explanation. In which case my post was unfair and I genuinely wouldn't have left those points had I known. In fact the only reason I haven't deleted my post is because I think that would now do more harm than good due orphaning the replies.

So I do actually agree with your disappointment about seeing such a post - even in spite of being the author of it.
The audio/visual aspect is kept. Interactive gameplay is simulated. The person watching gets to see the story unfold. It's clearly a derivative work, the question is where does the line stand and does making a LP cross it?

And that's a huge problem with copyright law, it's so grey in so many areas. If the exact situation hasn't been defended in court, it's unclear whether or nothing something is legal.
Euclideon Launches Geoverse 2013 (Unlimited Detail)
I agree! I am also a new DART'ster. I don't get the same warm fuzzy feeling as using Clojure, but Dart seems to be a very practical language. I have been experimenting with very simple REST services and front end apps and like it so far. I am converting a small Clojurescript + Clojure app to DART to get a better feel for the language and frameworks.
There is a lot of odd precedence that makes renting small storage units not the same thing as larger units. Standalone Property > Multi Unit Property > Storage Space > Rented computers.
HTML5’s ‘performance issue’ rubbished
That's not how things work in reality. Look at the original post. The CFO was handling compliance with all sorts of insane regulatory minefields, the kind where a mistake can lead to the government destroying your company. No, a first-year accountant can not do that job.

But different jobs require different sets of cognitive biases. The ability to handle the regulatory compliance is very unlikely to reside in the same brain as the ability to understand that cutting small perks costs more in morale than it saves on the budget, so if the CEO isn't keeping the CFO on a leash, the CEO is not doing his job.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/cleared-charges-honor-student-space...
7digital [1] decided to do something about this issue and started their own academy.

Companies that do not have a heavy internal tech focus will be far less inclined to invest in this sort of thing.

[1]: http://about.7digital.com/jobs/academy/
You are really rather critical of yourself. Are you aware of that? I don't think you should be.

Try this trick if you don't think you are being too harsh.

If somebody came to you, a friend or relative, with this problem, what advice/encouragment would you give them?
possibly dumb question: how is that better than subscribing to the github rss feed?
You're not unreasonable for it. Really, I want medical professionals to be inspired by it. As Udo points out, the medical field is very cautious, and won't just jump on something like this without proof it works. As in a proven track record for a decade or so (yeah, there's a bootstrap problem in there, I bet).

It may be worth being impressed by the printable medium, though. The stuff isn't you regular ABS off a Cupcake CNC. It's biocompatible and will slowly be re absorbed into the body. That itself is something I hadn't known existed before, and that material is likely the real innovation here.
Can you share all the effective and easy to use tools you know here please?
Oracle renumbers Java patch updates, confuses users even more
Really? I've always held that the common thought was that Nintendo games are very stylistic and artfully designed. I hear people talk for days about how beautiful the new Zelda game is or how artistically styled the new Mario game is. They might not pump out the most pixels, but they can designed around their limitations.
So, yes, you're extrapolating from anecdote. Not convincing.
Yeah, I don't get why "global service isn't working for me at the moment" justifies unqualified "X is down" posts on HN.
Qtified JavaScript
I assume that's supposed to rhyme...

Yo I'll
solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ
revolves it

(This made me LOL. I'm looking forward to seeing additional lyrics.)
What is a Quantum Computer?
> ...without any consideration to one of tech's greatest strengths (for many of us), that you can work in the field from just about anywhere.

That's not true. You can develop software anywhere but you cannot fully sell, recruit, and support being outside the central economic places. There are exceptions (if buying is just a click without a sales force) but there is a hard limit of scale.
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> Google are very much standing on Microsoft shoulders here, like it or not.

That's a fine point of view, but I think that it's more accurate to say that Google and Microsoft are standing on the same shoulders.
"If an app that had no sustainable future as a native app becomes possible as a web app, don't users also benefit?"

Of course they do, therefore charging for software (desktop & web alike) = good. Make no mistake on which side in that debate I'm on. But let's call it like that.

"And developers win because there are more viable businesses which need their skills over the long term."

Sure, and it's no more than fair, and the natural order to boot.

"Have you ever supported a native app in the wild across a wide variety of generic PC hardware for novice users?"

I'm glad you ask, because actually yes I do, and it's a pain in the ass for the most part. And for the parts where it makes sense, I have moved parts of the services we offer to web applications. Therefore I feel I'm experienced enough to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two, and from that I criticize the developments of people wanting to shoehorn everything into the browser, either because of covered up ulterior motives, or because it's all they know and want to know. But again - then say so, and don't sugarcoat it under the fuzzy 'it's better for the user' rhetoric that is so prevalent.
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The subtlety, though, is that sometimes it's about creating the illusion of strength, or even of future strength, when the present reality doesn't fully demonstrate that strength. Jobs did that masterfully here.

I'm confused. You agree with the parent that Apple was in a position of leverage, then you suggest the subtlety is that sometimes it's about creating the illusion of strength.

Either the position of leverage was an illusion or it wasn't. Maybe Jobs was a master at gaining leverage by creating an illusion of strength, but (if you agree with the parent) this isn't a good example of it. This was someone who had leverage acting as if he had leverage.
Siri makes fun of iPad in Microsoft ad
Penguin pays $75m to settle ebook price-fixing case
As a follow up question - did anyone use IFTTT in a way that helped them make money?
Magid: For regulators, Google is the new Microsoft
Useful post, and +1 for deploying IPv6. Too few companies do it yet. Especially the "300 customer networks" sounds like a solid step forward!

One remark though: I'm not familiar with each and every RFC on the subject, do you mind using names instead of numbers? (I also discussed it before on the Security StackExchange: http://meta.security.stackexchange.com/q/1040/10863 ).
Again, I can't reach the article. I end up at "China manufacturing shrinks in May, leaving policymakers with few good options", just as happened with the previous qz link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5756176
I've played around with IFTT and Zapier and found both quite limiting. I wished I could just write code to connect the APIs exactly the way I wanted. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
I read this article while throwing back some Oikos. So meta.
I was pleasantly surprised it worked in Opera for me (I usually get "fuck you, chrome 4ever" banners too).

Check opera:config if you have WebGL enabled and opera:gpu if your graphics card drivers aren't blacklisted for being insecure or buggy.
White House adds project open data
I really like sketch.js

http://soulwire.github.io/sketch.js/