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September 6th is Tauranga's Startup Weekend challenge, with a pre-event drinkup on August 6th. Tauranga developers - come along to the drinkup at Brooklyn Bar (The Strand) between 5.30-7pm. RSVP at http://taurangastartupweekendlaunchparty.eventbrite.co.nz/

Startup Weekend: http://tauranga.startupweekend.org/
Drinkup: http://www.meetup.com/TaurangaWeb/events/131422302/

If you're thinking about taking part in the Startup Weekend in September, say so in the comments!
Just because you don't think something is plausible doesn't mean you should denigrate it by calling it a conspiracy theory. I don't know exactly what you're talking about so it's hard for me to research it.

For example, the CIA helps traffic opium/heroin across the world. That sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_South...
Most of the questions have nothing to do with laissez faire vs socialism.
A brief search[1] turns up that the GBC had a few palettes actually built into the hardware, so games that were released before the system out would end up being colorized by one of these; supposedly for some first-party games, the system would actually determine what game was being played and select a more appropriate palette.

Once the system had been released, games could be made in "dual-mode" which would support a monochrome palette when played on the original hardware, but would use custom colorization on the GBC[2].

I'm trying to find more technical sources but haven't located any yet, so if anyone help me find more information I'd be very interested.

EDIT: I found a little more information. Here's[3] someone who disassembled the GBC boot ROM. It looks like on boot, the system would check to see if the inserted cartridge is one of 93 first-party games, and apply a specified palette; otherwise, it would just apply a default palette.

[1]: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497582

[2]: http://www.allgame.com/platform.php?id=17662

[3]: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?19247...
I bet the lack of a national curriculum - that banishes religion from everything except religious classes has something to do with the US results.

Here in the UK we are slowly degenerating by allowing schools to have more freedom, so religious groups are having increased influence on standard state schools.
Actually, he did become quite a convert on the topic of patents. See my comment above to see his change in perspective in a letter dated a scant year after the one you cited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6118931
> it's a complex picture

We can certainly agree on that point.
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Buying cheese anywhere BUT from Wisconsin should be a crime (in all 50 states)
His tantrum is so childish it is embarrassing. He responds to himself complaining about the response his whiny ad hominem comment received. The ironic icing on the cake is that he is complaining about how far HN has fallen!
I love seeing other languages using Node.js's event loop.

Having spent too much time on Node.js, full async I/O is a concept I have a hard time living without. I know Node.js's execution process is special, yes, and I know that on threaded/forked environments, the exact same thing happens (looking at you mod_cgi), but I still cringe every time I have to make an I/O call in another language that would be considered as blocking in Node.js's context.

At the end of the day, languages are just languages, with their pros and their cons, but with projects like theses, some concepts we just love come to life in other languages and get us reconsider these languages in a new light.

Related projects:

- (PHP) ReactPHP http://reactphp.org/
- (Ruby) Celluloid::IO http://celluloid.io/
- (C++) node.native https://github.com/d5/node.native

Now who will make Node.js-like async libraries for Perl, ASP and Python?
discussion can be started here: http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/US8296192
This is the wrong thing to worry about. Scaling problems are EXCELLENT problems.
Yes, if you can fire them do it. Otherwise it is none of your concern.
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Well, then don't you have an axiom that taxes are not theft? Simply because most people agree with you doesn't mean you are right and moral and I am not. Would you call slavery moral? Yet throughout most of the human history, most people had no problem with it. Those who realized it was immoral either kept quiet or were persecuted.

Next you will probably tell me: but how can you compare taxation to slavery? Well, both are done by human beings to other humans against their will because the majority implicitly agrees. In both cases, if a person resists, he is punished. Tell me, how is it moral? The only difference is the degree to which the freedom is restricted and fruits of labour are confiscated. If you believe a person made his money in a dishonest way, it is justified that this person is tried and convicted. However, if you agree a person made his money honestly, by benefiting other people and creating value, what moral right on earth do you have to take any of his earned money for any purpose? He didn't rob anyone, he created value, out of nothing. Not you, not any other person has any moral right to confiscate any part of it.
Interesting that the US believes they shape their own destiny or that they are the product of their own work, yet the 'cultural superiority' question seems to indicate that they don't necessarily value what they have produced.
It's getting there: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Major_Fleet_Engagements
That's an interesting twist. You're basically calling me a burglar, even though it is you who intends to take my money away from me.
I actually helped leanpub get going, way back when, with some UX advice and stuff like that, but I have my own little system which I prefer. might be a control freak thing.

re music theory, I think I could basically write your dream book, with some caveats. my own grasp of music theory doesn't extend as far as Mozart or Miles Davis. I can say some things about Bach, thanks to brilliant work by Chris Ford, Douglas Hofstadter, and David Cope, but if I wrote a "ground up" type of thing, I think I could get you far enough to understand the majority of popular music today, but not into the intellectual stratosphere of formal art musics like jazz or modern "classical." Likewise I can't say a ton about non-Western musical forms. I can deliver a ton of specifics on electronic dance music, so that's probably what I'd do.

But, short answer is, yeah, I could sort of write that. I have to admit that it didn't totally occur to me that a book like that would be interesting. I was mostly thinking about the AI aspect (writing code which writes music) and a straightforward user's guide to Overtone (because it is pretty complicated in places). But I think what you're talking about is the way to go, or at least a good place to begin.
All I see is "TODO : Add detailed README"

What is this? Why should I care? I assume from the name that it's a fork of Twitter Bootstrap (maybe)?
The only solution is: create more porn net traffic to blind all those inspection ... :)
In Australia, Whatsapp is very big within at least the Asian communities I've found
Don't throw strings. Use the Error object.
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When the Germans stop hosting NSA facilities, and end their own version of internet surveillance programs, their opinion on these issues will carry more weight with me.
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Probably because my 1st language is Spanish, but what do you mean by EXCELLENT?

(in Spanish, "excelente" means "admirable")
Geeze, I'm reminded of Kremlinology; Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlinology) puts it well:

"During the Cold War, lack of reliable information about the country forced Western analysts to "read between the lines" and to use the tiniest tidbits, such as the removal of portraits, the rearranging of chairs, positions at the reviewing stand for parades in Red Square...."
> What the fuck is HN's problem with interesting headlines?

Linkbait isn't an interesting headline. Its a headline that is interesting at the expense of not being an accurate reflection of the content of the article for which it serves as a headline.

Its a trick, and unsurprisingly, people don't like to be tricked.
I recently heard Mark Otto speak at a tech talk at Manilla.com. He's incredibly humble and friendly.

He deserves all of the accolades that Bootstrap receives; what an amazing contribution to the web dev community.
Comparing MOBAs: Dota 2 vs. League of Legends vs. Heroes of Newerth
What's so vital about a state that people can't do on their own? What does a state magically accomplish that no one else can?
Electric cars needed far more than a "nudge" and still do. Even with today's state-of-the-art battery technology the range, recharge time, and cost equation still doesn't work for most people. With the lead-acid technology of the day, it was never even close compared to internal combustion.
If you are worried about performance because it nags at you and not because you have a specific known performance pain, I would suggest selecting a higher-performance platform and framework so that you can defer scale concerns until much later. With a high-performance framework, you can build your application with the peace-of-mind that performance won't be a problem unless your product has decent market traction.

A common problem I've observed several times with low-performance frameworks is that you can run into performance pain before you've adequately vetted your project's ability to convert customers. By comparison, a high-performance framework allows you to be experimental and relatively reckless with your application logic. Your application code can be closer to brute-force with a high-performance platform, meaning you can optimize the application code later when the time comes, rather than bringing out the big guns of scalability.
Bootstrap is LESS. There's a huge repo[1] for a SCSS version of Bootstrap: this repo seems to be trying to release it earlier than Thomas McDonald's version. That being said, there is a branch[2] on that repo that (at time of writing) was updated three hours ago.

[1]: https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass

[2]: https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass/tree/3
How is it updated hourly? Did you write your own crawler to pull the data?
It sometimes can be obvious, the small flock of little old ladies attending Wednesday evening mass for example.

If you can manage, check out the crowd shots in a modern televangelist audience. Lots of men, but many many more women: sometimes a shot will show 1 or 2 men, and 8-12 women.

Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMP2lEUP1E

It's not terribly surprising that women often assume a very conservative role in society, viewing themselves as keepers of tradition.

For example, the man in a western suit and woman in traditional clothes is very common all over the world, while you rarely see the opposite:

http://www.squarehe.com/images/0611/korean-wedding.jpg

http://www.ajewelrystyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/indi...

http://www.lassiwithlavina.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ad...

http://hindtoday.com/blogs/images/USA/DEVENDRA_MAKKAR_Family...

http://www.lightfootfilms.org/Peruvian-Family_c.jpg

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/media/edu/EN/upload...

I'm sure it's some strange human expression having to do with who has which reproductive organs, but it's always seemed to me such a strange, interesting and repeatable pattern.
Surprised that this isn't in the thread already.

Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman from Google have done a bunch of great talks about exactly this: How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q52kFL8zVoM)

They also wrote a book about the topic: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018025.do

All of their advice comes from their experience running the subversion project. It is also good general advice for dealing with humans/engineers/etc.
It's an execlente problem.

If you're bringing in enough customers to cause you scaling problems, then that's a good position to be in.
I believe you're referring to this awesomeness..

http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html
You can respect someone for believing in socialism? What about witchcraft?
That looks great! Earmarked to check out on a rainy day. Thank you for sharing.
Now, if Hadoop & friends stored their data in such a way that you could do a random access read (and used a read syscall) then mmap would _still_ be about 1000 times faster than a read() call for access if the datum is already in the o/s buffers.

Yeah, it's too bad this method doesn't exist:

http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/..., byte[], int, int)

It's too bad that this doesn't exist: http://www.parquet.io

It's too bad that this doesn't exist either: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4953

You are amazingly, astoundingly, misinformed.

It's no surprise that you are wrong about mmap as well. It's only a performance advantage when the PTE (page table entries) are already populated. The PTEs may not be populated, even if the file region in question is resident in memory. And even then it's only about 2x, not "1000 times faster". There was no "serialization and deserialization" involved in our benchmarks, either.
I think this gets at the core of what we see going on today and will continue to see:

"Just look around you, and you will see boondoggles sprouting up everywhere, in every field of endeavor: we have military boondoggles like Iraq, financial boondoggles like the doomed retirement system, medical boondoggles like private health insurance, legal boondoggles like the intellectual property system. The combined weight of all these boondoggles is slowly but surely pushing us all down. "

And then when I read this:

"I want to make a boondoggle that runs on hydrogen" – by all means encourage him! It's not as good as a boondoggle that burns money directly, but it's a step in the right direction."

I couldn't help think of that we'll come out this all right if we have the ingenuity to create boondoggles without realizing by simply adapting to the larger movements of the economic system.

P.S. who wants to help me with my boondoggle to get the name, location, and place of employment of people by simply visiting any webpage? I already have an mvp! :P
What does "cheaply" mean? One could still buy ramen?
"the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.”
So who exactly are those associated forces? It’s a secret. "

It's not a secret at all. They've demonstrated it in the past. Based on observation, "associated forces" can be defined as "anybody who has some connection to". There is no definitive answer because it changes constantly and there is no need to provide justification anyway. War is being fought by the government, for the government. Your civilian inquiries are not welcome.
I don't think I'm missing the point: I think the notation is just fine -certainly nicer than regular expressions. You're just not used to it. Lots of people use K.
Ingredient 0: redefine “transaction” to mean nothing remotely like what it means to everyone else.
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah
While it may be true that there are some outstanding ISP issues that lead to slow internet, I think the more pressing issue is the behaviour of the new(ish) youtube player acting erratic. For instance, you cannot fully load a video anymore, it will only load a portion as you continue watching. If you wish to rewind the video, for some reason youtube will want you to rebuffer the entire from where you have rewinded to. This is terrible when dealing with slow connections. I have found that since youtube has implemented three specific things, 1) new player, 2) changing of related videos, 3) google account requirements, the user experience has gone way down hill.
Another option could be a transition into a less-visible role prior to his expected departure date of sometime in 2014....
> What's so vital about a state that people can't do on their own?

A state is just a name for people accomplishing certain things on their own; its not actually a real thing with independent existence.
http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/shell.html

Check that out, I think that's along the lines you are thinking.
Although we haven't yet achieved the slow rate of economic growth and high rate of unemployment that Europe currently enjoys, don't worry, the current administration is working hard to get us there. And if you're too impatient to wait for the whole country to reach an acceptable level of dysfunction, you can always move to Detroit and get ahead of the curve.
There's a lot of issues with the new player. Even if you've buffered the video ahead, when you try to skip to a buffered segment the video starts loading again. On top of that I've had lots of issues where changing the video resolution just flat out doesn't work and greys out the option.
The death of Manifest Destiny... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny)
In my experience, religious women are unlikely to agree with the assertion that religion marginalizes them. Instead, they are likely to claim that religion shows them the importance of womanhood (often motherhood in particular).
I was one of the people who commented on the original post. Since then I've had little success in getting any of these recommendations to work.

Does anyone have some actual configuration examples to provide for things like setting IRQ affinity?
To give fuller context: Oliver Evans, one of America's earliest prolific inventors, wrote to Jefferson [1] discussing the extent of his patent rights and his concern that they were being misrepresented anonymously [2]. This quote is from Jefferson's response [3] to that letter.

(It's worth following the links in the letters above to see the story unfold.)

Now, here's where it gets interesting: Evans asserted his patent against Jefferson, and Jefferson did grudgingly pay royalties [4].

It's interesting how the passage years and being at the receiving end of a patent changes one's perspective [5].

[1] http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-00...

[2] http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-00...

[3] http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-00...

[4] "He enforced that patent against many mill operators, including Jefferson. From this experience, Jefferson understood the frustration of technology users confronted by activist patent holders. Ironically, it was his Board of Arts that granted Evans the patent." - http://www.hssonline.org/publications/Newsletter2009/July_Ma...

[5] "Jefferson's objections to the Evans patent are difficult to reconcile with the fact that his Board of Arts granted the patent in the first place. As much as he might argue, in 1813, that the Evans work was not novel, he and his colleagues had reviewed the Evans work in 1790 and considered it worthy of a patent at that time." - Jefferson Vs. the Patent Trolls: A Populist Vision of Intellectual Property Rights, Jeffrey H. Matsuura (http://books.google.com/books?id=10Tol-c7xH4C&lpg=PT74&ots=b...)
Yup. The notion of full spectrum warfare goes beyond the paradigm of traditional war, or even non-traditional death-by-drone. The effort to dominate globally will employ finance (manufactured crises to bankrupt countries, speculation to drive up food prices, etc.), industry (embedded surveillance tech in consumer electronics), agriculture (making global crops dependent on pesticides controlled by allied corporations), the pharmaceutical industry (control what countries can get drugs, weaken populations with unneeded, addictive drugs), media (obvious) etc. This kind of skullduggery has been going on, conceptually, for a long time but technology now means it can scale.
Using some actual content while developing the product helps a lot reviewing the outcoming product, thus also aiding the design.

But 'Death to Lorem Ipsum' and '10 ways Lorem Ipsum will kill your web project' seems to me rather exaggerated.
Which platforms / frameworks would you recommend over Rails ?...
>I don't think anyone is wanting the next war

The US is directing significant resources towards war with China and China is responding in kind. It kind of makes sense given the amount of money the US owes China and given the "threat" of China's economic ascendence.

http://yalejournal.org/2013/06/12/who-authorized-preparation...
I'm not sure that you're interpreting such a stance correctly.

Any further 1.x releases should clearly try to avoid incompatibility as much as possible. Anyone seriously using a programming language does require a relatively high degree of stability with respect to language changes, library changes, and so forth.

But that in no way means that there can't be work done on a 2.x release that does introduce incompatibilities in an effort to improve the language and any standard libraries it may offer.

This situation is much more about controlling change, rather than preventing it outright.
That's only for wars, not "military actions". We've only actually declared war five times in the history of the country.
> What steps can I take while I write my web app from scratch right now, to ensure that it scales beautifully when it is launched?

That question is far to generic to have a useful answer. If you want to know how to design for scalability, you need to be more specific about what needs to scale and how than just "a Ruby on Rails web app".

There are a number of different things that can scale in an application, and what you need to make one of them scale well may be counterproductive to scaling another one.

OTOH, you are probably worrying about scalability at exactly the wrong time. You either should have a clear problem to address (which you haven't yet reached), or if you know what your scalability concern is before you've started writing your app (much less encountered an actual pragmatic problem), you should be asking that question before you choose the implementation language and framework (since particular choices there may be part of the solution.)
The demos of your app on your site are pretty slick. What are those ? Simple Gifs or is there some other fancy sorcery going on in there ?
PS: i would really like a way to control the playback of these demos. I would mostly arrive when they had already started and frustrated would move on.
Thats pretty depressing, a large part of open source development is learning to work with a wide range of other people without being able to fall back to corporate politics bullshit (not that OSS is exempt)
You can also make a whole cell be in bash with %%bash.
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> Something you usually do not do with tags: "give me a list of every tag that the system has ever seen used on a post"

I'm thinking of the times I've used tags in my webapp and in all cases I've had to do: "for this subset of records what are all the tags?" And in one case, "what are all the tags we're using?"

Does that mean using postgres native arrays as tags would be a bad idea in those cases? I read this article with interest because we've been using acts-as-taggable a fair amount.
The young in the US are more cynical about the superiority of US culture than any other group (are of their own culture). So there is hope.