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Microsoft caring about newcomers is hell suddently freezing.

Microsoft always used every tool to kick newcomers in the nuts and throw them to the dogs. It's karmically right for them to pay for their sins, literally.

Want to support something important? Spend resources on supporting Firefox OS. Spend resources on Ubuntu Phone app. Do not bother with MS unless they pay thru the nose.
If you know better than the stock market, you can make some serious money. How confident are you?
> Manufacturing continues to grow in the US. What has declined are the number of people employed in that sector, just as the number of farmers once declined.

You equate one type of growth with success. Given that we are living through a period of relatively high unemployment and social inequity in the US and Europe the onus is on you to explain why you equate growth with success. Maybe this type of growth isn't politically/economically/environmentally stable?

> 40+ years of trade sanctions and who is still in power? I would not call that effective.

Again, what is your measure? You seem to be measuring the wrong thing.For example, with the current sanctions against Iran[1] the Office of Foreign Assets Control[2] aims to do what? You claim it would be to effect political change in Iran. Regime change. In what other context have we heard this expression used? The Military overthrow of Saddam in Iraq. With this view economic sanctions are used in lieu of military force. These sanctions seem to hurt the average man, woman and child on the street however causing hardship and misery. Saddam was still in power when we rolled in. Mugabe is. The Ayatollahs in Iran are still going strong. Fidel appears to be handing power over to Raúl. So by your reckoning they have been effective nowhere. So why still use them? To me they look a lot like collective punishment.

> I don't think so: Germans invent a lot of stuff too, write books, software, compose music, make movies, and so on, and are not going to throw out Intellectual Property as a means of promoting those activities, lock, stock, and barrel.

Dismantle is perhaps too strong, too rhetorically strident. Reform would be better, yes - you use the term yourself. Remember copyright has only been around to a serious extent† since the Queen Anne statute[3] of 1710. Patents are younger still. The tide has flowed one way so far, maybe it's time to flow the other. The current state of affairs seems to favour the few of the multitude.

> bad propaganda

These guys were elected to European Parliament, I know we all have a rather dim view of politicians but somebody seems to be buying their PR. :)

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† Excluding a judgment in the 6th century in Celtic Brehon law enunciated thus, “As to every Cow its Calf, so to every Book its Copy"

[1] http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/D...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Contro...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
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He is talking about DevOps ie automated programmatic system configuration. The shell is a great human user interface but a terrible programming environment. Its fine for quick hacks but rarely do you see a test suite for shell scripts.
It is up again. Thanks for letting me know, It was due to the High load.
Most plastics are ridiculously cheap to manufacture. On the scale that the manufacturers mentioned operate, the costs of equipment etc. are quite small in comparison. And don't forget, with the sugar you still have the equipment costs etc. for refining it (granulated sugar doesn't grow on trees!). And branding it as "NaturalSucroseSuperBeads TM" still costs the same.

> Cost is not a significant factor.

Yes, for multi-nationals, it is. Increase that 5c for plastic to 6c for sugar, and that’s potentially a million or two off the bottom line for the company. That's how large companies work.

Also, if it's more expensive to use plastics for these products, why do you suppose they didn't use "NaturalSucroseSuperBeads TM" from the start? Perhaps they didn't think of it? Unlikely. If it really wasn't for cost reasons, then its likely for ease of production, product stability, or other such reasons.
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Hey, I would love to bata test it! I am glad someone is working on this. No PM on HN though :(
If you know Javascript, learning Coffeescript is easy. I became proficient in Coffeescript in a few hours, and I sure don't feel like a genius, so other people can probably do the same. It's just a more convenient way of writing Javascript, with a nicer syntax and some really pleasant features.
In my experience of using CoffeeScript, the author is absolutely correct. CoffeeScript is rejected for reasons "usually knee-jerk, or based on fallacies." I introduced it respectfully and fairly in a former team, and at first people are generally fainting and acting like the world will end.

(This is backend node.js work which emphasized tests and code review. I don't know what it's like outside that.)

Not all rejection is knee-jerk. "Usually" is the operative word here. I would have loved knowledgeable, reasoned critique. I personally assembled as many reasoned critiques as I could, to demonstrate my respect for reasoned, fair decisionmaking. I am continuously disappointed by the low standards of discourse, in programming culture.

(The first random misbegotten idea which pops into my lizard brain to confirm my prejudices, is not a sufficient "reason".)

Eventually, most realize CoffeeScript's sheer maintainability can far outweigh CoffeeScript's (real) flaws; some former detractors become downright zealots. Sure, some still dislike it; but they tend to be ignored because it's really not that bad. Nothing compared to the real problems that a team encounters.
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As some of the people in this thread have already suggested, the idea of taking a gap year is all about having a plan/purpose. Taking a year off just for the sake of it, is not worth it.

From the way your question is phrased it feels like you want to take a gap year, but don't have a reason yourself. If this is the case the answer is simply put: don't do it.

On the other hand if you have some ideas and want to validate them and see if they are worth it, post them and we can give you feedback on them. This way the discussion would be a lot more constructive.
I know they have one group dedicated to the Android Source and they constantly answer questions related to development on their Google Group and elsewhere (like twitter). AOSP related stuff mostly comes off as good will towards the community as it's mostly those of us modding the source for ourselves and others in the community that are asking the questions.
Indeed, and Oil is artificially cheap (other subsidies aside, production, consumption and disposal of plastics usually don't include the pricing of externalities). Nevertheless, that is how it's priced, and that is why it's not used by these companies by choice.
> BMWs. They're all luxury cars, from what I can tell.

BMW 5 series are the most-purchased company cars here in Austria, they certainly aren't luxury cars anywhere outside the 3rd world, although they might enjoy a certain brand image in the US ...
Yeah, we requested an API limit increase for Adwords. When we got an email about some specifics and how we stayed within their terms I figured it might just get rejected.

Thankfully it was a real person who actually knew what they were talking about and were able to sort it out over a chain of emails.

So yeah, I guess it is team by team.
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CoffeeScript is, essentially, an unofficial Javascript 2.0. It's not at all tied to Rails.
> look at the quality of their API documentations
twitch maybe it's a personality clash, but I can't stand Google's documentation style, it's not well explained or laid out.
You can use Indian payment gateways like www.ccavenue.com . They can support Indian and foreign transaction.
Thanks, I should have mentioned that I don't know anything about audio, but I'll look in to it!
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> They need to gain enough popular support from the generation who grew up in a world where (briefly) the pay walls didn't exist, and things were free

You do understand that Facebook and Google ARE free, and they are because they can show targeted ads?

> They are embedded in their world of Facebook and iPhones. They only know a narrow internet world, that is controlled by a few large corporations.

They seem to prefer this world to BBSes and Geocities. Who am I to tell them what kind of internet they should use?
Funny how this is on the front page today ;) just yesterday I wrote a post about how it would be a good idea to quantify the importance of open issues, to encourage contributions. Check it out here: http://dennybritz.com/blog/2013/08/04/github-api-issue-analy...

If someone wants to work on this together just shoot me a message!
Do you mean the access_token en udid? This is how oauth works. It would be nice though if he did an extra redirect after successful connect.
> If you are old enough medicare will pay almost all of it. And if younger you should have catastrophic insurance

You ignore the situation this man was, at 67, not eligible for Medicare and not insurable.

> So completely and utterly ignore such numbers unless your goal is to be disingenuous.

He already pulled strings to get the price of the implant in the US down to $13,000, 'list price, no markup'. Crazy.
The funny ending would be when one of your employees does it to you.
The core areas can have the opposite problem almost. The Adwords API has moved pretty quickly but they are also quick to remove things. Most stuff built in early 2012 would have had to be updated for changed/ removed features by now.
I've yet to see a convincing definition of "free will" that makes any sense as anything other than an abstraction on top of determinism or randomness. To propose that we have any ability to make decisions beyond state-machine-dynamics possibly with some randomness sprinkled on top, is totally nonsensical to me.
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zmq is basically clever sockets. I very much prefer it to vanilla BSD sockets.
Gee, you could make the exact same comment about The Guardian's Snowden stories.
If you build something on someone else's API, you can get fucked in a million ways. They might shut down the API (Google Reader), take away the functionality you relied on (Google Calendar), limit it (Twitter) or deprecate the version you're using, forcing you to do development work to keep working at the worst possible time for you (IOS). They might also decide that your product is very good and build a version of it themselves, using functions not available to you via the public API so that you cannot compete with it (Apple).

So before building something that relies on things entirely outside of your control, consider a few things and the effort it would take for each:

- Can you run it on something else (S3 is a good example - there are several API-compatible competitors)
- Can you replace the service you're relying on with one of your own (e.g. building your own Google Reader sync API)

Then decide if it isn't worth building the whole thing yourself. Heck, you might even want to put an API on it yourself. Feel the power? :)

Oh, and never, ever rely on someone else doing authentication for you. It's just too easy to get your entire userbase taken away from you.
Do you think it's a better business strategy to start out competing with the Yarus? I think it makes sense to build a strong brand associated with luxury and desirability first, and then sneak in some budget-level products as BMW et al have done, rather than dive right into a race to the bottom with sub-30K commuter vehicles.
Agreed. I came here to be learn about technology and to be inpsired to one day make the leap from wantrepreneur to entrepreneur. I don't come here to read about politics.
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We're looking for two great developers to come and join our team. The role will involve generous stock options as we are looking for developers that will be with us for the long haul, who want to share in our success.

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> If you apply this logic to something else, you'll see how little sense it makes. "If you don't give us your encryption keys, or use PFS, you're a facilitator of terrorism"

That's not even remotely the same logic.

> "If you sell guns, you're a facilitator of gun crime."

Nor is that.

> If you're an ISP that doesn't block sites that we say are piracy sites, you're a facilitator of piracy

Nor is that.

To make your gun seller hypothetical fit the Marques allegations fact pattern, for instance, it would have to be a gun seller that is purposefully trying to sell guns to people who are looking to commit crimes with the guns, and who is touting the effectiveness of his guns at being hard to trace.

Basically, they are trying to hold Marques responsible for crime happening on his servers, that he appears to have known about and encouraged.
I think it has always been this way. iPhone had it easy as they were able to build up an install base before opening to 3rd parties. That was a unique position though that won't really be possible again, at least in phones as we know them.
Doesn't Google have a way of paying for more usage of the API? I know the Maps Geolocation API does. Maybe I'm naive, but if you're using a free service of a mega-corp I would expect the customer service to be nil. Priority goes to the paying customers.
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1. That's missing the point, but since you asked, Emscripten and Native Client.

2. I disagree that CS's user experience is only "very slightly" better, but that's very subjective.

Tooling is a somewhat valid complaint but it's a young platform and it's improving (source maps, etc).

Semantics aren't quite identical (scoping, implicit return values, "fat arrow" functions).

How does CS have more dependencies than any other compiled language? The only dependency is a compiler.
Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..."
There is a communication gap between them and the developers, the problem is there is no real person to talk and sort things out.
That's the problem exactly. While I encourage folk to implement bitcoin payment, as a developer I don't expect any significant amount of users to adopt it as regular payment option any time soon. Even my more nerdy friends are being very cautious about it - "regular" people like my parents wouldn't touch it even if they knew what the heck it was.
What is the Energy ROI of the solution ? From my understanding, biofuel EROI is rather poor, and does not make much economic sense in the long term.
It seems like contriubtion guidelines aren't necessarily what the author is pushing. AFIK, this wouldn't help new developers get up to speed with the code base.
...I think that article about "1 Weird Tip" has perpetually ruined me.

I see the "X (Unusual|Unlikely|Weird|Bizarre) (Tip(s)|Recommendation(s)|Trick(s)) for blah blah blah" format everywhere.
A gate only lets sound through when it goes above a certain level, so if you set the threshold just above the level of the noise, the parts of the audio that are just noise will be silenced. This obviously works best if you're treating something intermittent like speech or a single instrument, it wouldn't work on a whole piece of music.

An EQ lets you attenuate certain frequencies, so if there are some parts of the spectrum in your recording which are just noise, you could remove them, eg. for speech you could remove all the information below 300hz and above 12-13000hz

Multiband compression is a bit too complex to explain here :)

The specialist plugins tend to use a combination of these techniques and then their own special secret algorithms, which is why they're so expensive.
The subway was only months old at the time.
Thanks! I missed that.

(They should have "Desktop version" and "iPad version" bigger on the page you linked. I browsed a bit before finding those. Can you buy hardware somewhere?)
Ask HN: Lifetime pricing for SAAS App?
I want to test a different pricing strategy for my SAAS web app - DomCop. Currently, I have a monthly pricing scheme (like normal SAAS apps do) and want to try a lifetime pricing i.e. Pay $X and have access to the app for life.

Do you have any examples for apps that have done something like this? I tried googling it and searching here - but I might be using the wrong keywords for it.

Thanks
Thank you! I really, really appreciate that. It's emotionally exhausting to respond to all the comments on the article and I think I needed to hear that.
This seems really, really useful. Is this kanban[1] in the form of a web app?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
Traveling cross-country would be pretty difficult with the Model S right now. It requires a full recharge every 200-300 miles, which takes several hours except at special Tesla-operated "supercharger" stations (which take about 35 minutes to recharge the car, v. 5 mins to refill a gas tank), which are currently quite scarce.
> 1. That's missing the point, but since you asked, Emscripten

Has LLVM grown an assembly frontend? Emscripten is more or less an LLVM backend.

> and Native Client.

These are no more web applications than writing firefox extensions at this point.

> Semantics aren't quite identical (scoping, implicit return values, fat arrow functions).

For the most part, this is minimal syntactic sugar, not significantly different semantics.

> How does CS have more dependencies than any other compiled language?

It does not, the point is that javascript has no dependency, and that if you're going to add a compiler dependency you might as well go for real changes.
the cost of healthcare per person in the US seems to be slightly higher than on average in the western world.

Try "considerably higher than on average in the rest of the world": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...
As per guidelines of responsible disclosure, I contacted digitaloceans a good 10 hours before going public. I also contacted them again -before- going public, telling them I would do so, and why.

I feel I have done my best to ensure this does not harm them in any way, while making sure customers are protected.
I would recommend against using any CoffeeScript before you're proficient with JavaScript. It can be a great boon to productivity, but if you don't understand what it's doing underneath you'll shoot yourself in the foot a lot.
The layout is fucked up on my OS X 10.8.4 with Chrome.
I've worked at companies that were paid by Microsoft, Nokia and others to port our apps from other platforms.

This is par for the course, and something Microsoft did a lot when they launched WP8.
GitHub could probably suggest projects automatically based on recent activity. ie find projects which have a good flow of recent activity and have accepted external pull requests, but aren't intimidatingly large.
Thanks for the explanation! I'm already using Noise Gate in OBS (livestreaming), but the noise is still an annoyance. I'll definitely look in to EQ. Thank you so much. :)
I write CS for nodeJS apps every day. The only Ruby I write is for Chef and it usually makes me mad. I've never written a Rails app.
Authentication via third parties are not an inherently Bad Thing. Mozilla Persona shows how third party authentication can be done, without risk of user base hijacking,
I think docker takes the place of init in the container, so no.
Seriously, this part (if true) doesn't really help him.

"He pulled up his browser and typed into it the words: Free Subversion Repository. Up popped a list of places that stored code, for free, and in a convenient fashion. He clicked the first link on the list. The entire process took about eight seconds."

Pushing "proprietary" code to a repo without knowing that it is a) secure and b) allowed feels like a great way do not follow a NDA.
It's a bit of chicken-and-egg problem at the moment, but it has become easier and easier. Blockchain.info + BitStamp works fairly well.
I was wondering the same. I think this is the one the OP meant:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156016
Dropped into the comments to mention socat. I use it regularly to debug serial and multicast issues or to lash up network logging for random shell scripts. It's a very valuable addition to the toolbox IMO.

Edit: somehow my phone managed to post this comment three times. I've deleted the others
A lot of games are doing that, why not a SAAS app?
I also want to point out that this entry was truncated. My full disclosure is, suitably, on full disclosure (the list). There, I explain that I consider DO one of the best cloud shops out there, and I will happily continue using them. I am not an angry customer. I am a current customer, but this is still information that people should be aware of, I believe. Anwyay, do with it as you please. Digital Ocean are aware of it and on top of it (I believe). I wanted to give customers the same chance.
> iPhone had it easy

And yet, somehow, predecessors didn't.

The iPhone didn't "have it easy", it provided value to users through a significantly improved user experience, and then to developers through both a significant user base and the ease to reach them through a unified and not completely garbage platform.

> they were able to build up an install base before opening to 3rd parties. That was a unique position though that won't really be possible again

Maybe. Maybe not. The iPhone was dinged for its significant lack of features at release (hell, it still is at pretty much every release), a new man with a new vision could make a different set of tradeoffs and succeed as well. There's no set template for success. Or failure.
If Moore's law were to continue to hold, this would mean the same simulation could operate in real-time on an 83K processor cluster in approximately 25 years or on one processor in about 50 years. Of course, this simulation is 1% of the neurons that a human brain has, and I don't know if scaling up to a full-brain would be linear (This probably depends on the average length of axons in the brain.). This completely unrealistic estimate also assumes no improvements in algorithms, etc..

Perhaps a more interesting question is whether or not the brain can really be simulated by a classical computer at all. If quantum mechanics plays a role in the function of the brain we will need a quantum computer to do the job. A classical simulation of a quantum brain would be a very odd beast indeed! It might exhibit behavior that seems like intelligence but somehow falls short.
I know for a fact that many small/indie studios have done exactly that: ask MS money to port to WP8. The drama I suppose came from the wording and then one noisy fan that started doing, well, what fans on the internet do.

If you don't choose WP8 to be your differentiating factor, then it makes little economic sense to support it. Sure there's some residual profit to make if the port is easy, but you could instead spend your valuable time developing the next game for the platforms that do matter in economic terms.

Note that the Windows platform on mobile is odd in the sense that phones and tablets use different OSs, unlike Android or iOS. The advantages and disadvantages of that decision can be debated elsewhere, but it clearly can make porting more complicated for non-devoted developers.
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