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I don't think I'm missing the point, I'm not calling for photoshop plugin devs to have the same requirements as others, I'm saying I wouldn't object to licensure for software devs on many categories of systems: medical and avionics are two obvious categories. Perhaps I should have stated that more clearly, but I figured most people would get that a browser-based game is in a totally different league than the software controlling acceleration in your vehicle.
http://www.badgerodon.com/tools/self-destruct/
Question for Rails and Django users: is there a site that gives definitive best practices for both? I've actually been thinking about building a thrown-together site for just that purpose.

I've tried to get into both Rails and Django twice now (I'm a PHP guy usually), but every time I seem to get going, I get bogged down by StackOverflow after StackOverflow that have seemingly contradictory information or offer a third party solution rather than solving the problem within the framework.

In Rails, for example, Rails is easy enough, until you're dealing with RVM * , Passenger * , and installing correct dev versions of database drivers.

In Django, you deal with South migrations when you want to update your database schemas, virtualenv * , virtualenvwrapper * ; in fact, I've heard that one of the criticisms of Django is that, in order to get to production quality, you essentially have to switch out every component of it with a third party.

* The starred apps don't technically have anything to do with the framework; they're more utilities for managing multiple framework instances. Still, you're likely to find tutorials that use them as a de facto standard, which only adds to noob confusion.

I've started reading Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial, which seems promising. I found that the highly-recommended "Two Scoops of Django" book was a little too narrative for me (just tell me what to do, dammit!); there's definitely a need for more Django tutorials than just the Django website's basic one -- kudos to the author for that.
Incentives tend trump all, especially in major grey territory like this.
Teambox Announces $5M Series A Funding Led by Avalon Ventures
Which is more important, Windows RT or iOS? The product which defined and continues to define the current tablet marketplace or something from Nokia who lost their way when they sold their soul to Microsoft? BTW I notice you submitted one of the 2520 stories, pity yours had a bad link. Never mind the snide advice, concentrate on the basics like copying and pasting correctly.
Yes - been over 3 years since last laptop - way over due
Yes, not sharing the same interests as you is so crude.
The more likely result is you already have poison flash sticks and people putting autorun files in USB supposedly dumb machines. So plug in a hacked USB desk fan, and your laptop is now owned if it enables autorun. There already commercially exist "sanitized" USB cables and adapters which only pass the two DC current leads and don't even have the two data leads wired, so you can plug J. Random Hacker's supposed USB gadget into your laptop without getting owned.
All institutional investing today is based off arbitrage. The only thing strange about HFT is that a computer does it.
Themeforest - I am not a designer, but will happily pay to get something I can customize with code
Please don't recommend the Django book to people. It's very out of date (in case you didn't read the warning on the front). Use the official Django tutorial [1] instead.

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/intro/tutorial01/
Is there a way that banks could use the system(as a peer, maybe an invented user) and cross the information with deposits in its own accounts, so they can know when a customer used this scheme?

i mean, the moment this get more traction and the banks figure this out, the party is over and people get the international fees in their bills
Economic growth has historically brought much more wellness and brought up more people from poorness than any kind of State initiative. Let's keep this in mind when reading these news. What we are doing here is saying that taxing more the "rich" and giving to the "poor" brings more wealth than leaving these money to who earned it for investing.

Edit. Please, do remember that disagreeing!=down voting
The situation is somewhat similar in Sweden, especially regarding the 'bijstand.' In our case, you'd have to re-apply each month and they would audit your spending for the previous 3 months (so that, for example, you didn't spend it all on alcohol or an Xbox.) It's also not a fixed sum but based on what they consider necessary, but beyond what I know about U.S. (specifically, California) welfare.

This is not the same as unemployment benefits, but, as you say is a last resort. Unemployment benefits here are given on the condition that you show that you are currently applying to jobs. We used to get a few of these applications at our old office. People would come who weren't remotely relevant to the job, but did it just to keep getting the payments, so that's something to think consider when you mention "with strong incentive for people to work."

Thanks for explaining the overall situation. I wish I knew more about Sweden's but maybe someone else can post Sweden's corresponding information with details.
Apple disappoints me more each day
A similar idea is the "Ideological Turing Test" [1] whereby a person attempts to convincingly assert the ideas they disagree with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_Turing_Test
I remember that one of my first interaction on this site was with recoiledsnake in fact, where he pointed towards said anti-MS nature of this site. Today, I have been accused of being a shill 3 times. I totally feel how it must have been for those guys. I can totally accuse them of being apple or google PR people, without any credible evidence, it seems.
The major issue, as Milton Friedman noted, is you can't have such social systems and substantial immigration. It's one or the other. Western elites seem to much prefer importing millions of people over anything like solid nets.
Beddit raised over $500k in crowdfunding campaign
PRs are accepted :)
"Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together" is another good one.

http://www.amazon.com/Dialogue-The-Art-Thinking-Together/dp/...
This is an novel thought, but I don't see how this does much to mitigate agent expectations as regards the valuations of real assets, which is the underlying issue here. Theres also the question of how practicable such a scheme could ever be with global capital markets.
It's not unheard of for a board to enrich themselves. I believe a lot of the salaries for boards and executives is nothing more than a looting of the company at the shareholders' and host country's expense.
EMC suing salespeople who defected to rival
Yes! and with pip you can uninstall packages while with easy_install you can't
Why do these kind of tools have tendency to appear on HN about a month too late? :)
Thanks!

Is there a guarantee that TS will remain a strict superset?

Looking at the syntax, it reminds me of Flash ActionScript, which started out as an ECMAScript implementation but became an incompatible superset that pretended to be JavaScript compatible but would whine endlessly about untyped var declarations...

Hopefully ActionScript and C++ will serve as warnings to TypeScript designers: if you're ever thinking about disrupting code compatibility with the original language in the name of added type safety, don't do it.
Except the Dutch basic income proposal doesn't give out "free" money; it gives out money the government has already collected in the form of taxes.
From what I can gather, it seems FlexyCore generates more efficient, architecture specific assembly code at build time. This is where the performance gains come from.

A little deeper reading shows that it does this through the Dalvik VM, the VM on all Android devices.

I think the creator can say it better than me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEAz9fRoDmA
Tough to do copy/paste well on an iPad you know?

It's just disgusting the Microsoft hate on hackernews, I guess it really is becoming slashdot. Oh, you could just not up vote it, but that isn't good enough because people actually up voted it anyways. So flagging is the only option to protect unenlightened barbarians from themselves! The CCP would be proud.
Ok, but we were talking about paying customers, and the people using Checkout were certainly paying for it.
Bet on hash rate volatility and earn bitcoins with Futureblock
Ask HN: Article about Math in schools and the lack of creativity
It was a well written popular paper, kind of long, about how the life has been sucked out of math, or something to that effect. It was a beautifully written paper but I can't find it for the life of me.

I tried various search queries on HNSearch.com too but I can't find anything!

Thanks.
>>>What kind of cowboy shop doesn’t even have monitoring to ensure a cluster is running a consistent software release!?

I think you'd be surprised at what happens in large companies. I went through four, count em' four major releases with a company and each time the failure was on load balancing and not testing the capacity of the servers we had prior to release.

Even after the second release was an unmitigated disaster, the CTO said we needed more time to do load testing and making sure the servers were configured to handle traffic spikes to the sites we were working on. It happened again, TWICE after he said we needed to do this.

You would think something as basic as load testing would be at the top of the list of "to do's" for a major release, but it wasn't. It wasn't even close.
I am going to apply for job positions using fade.li.
Robots may not replace human labor, but a combination of automation and outsourcing to another nation could significantly reduce the required labor for the original nation.
Learn and Remember the 7 Habits in 3 Minutes
Amazon is an inventory turnover business. This is the fundamental point that's usually not understood.

I'll explain by analogy.

Assume 2 businesses with the following assumptions

Store A:
-sells jewelry
-capital cost of store is $100K
-inventory is $100K (1 turn per year)
-annual revenue is $100K
-net income margin is 5%
-annual net income $5k

Store B:
-sells pens
-capital cost of store is $100K
-inventory is the same $100K (they sell a lot of pens)
-annual revenue is $500K (5 turns per year)
-net income margin is 2.5%
-annual net income is $12.5K

if you think Store B, the lower margin, higher turnover business, is the better investment, then you get the Amazon investment thesis.
If only it had speakers built in, decent piece of hardware
I don't know if the author has an Apple Store near him, but my < 2 year old MacBook Air had a battery that wasn't holding a charge either, and I went to the store and they replaced it in about 20 minutes.
Lesson learned: create a compelling product for Android developers and Google will acquire you in a heartbeat.
Nokia Lumia 2520
JavaScript: arguments explained
I'm not really a pythonist so I'm not 100% aware of the consequences of this, but as someone who deploys Python-based software every now and then, this just seems to make sense to me.

About time really.
It does? Could you point to some documentation? I'd be really interested in that.
>I read the book...

I freaking love this. The books that get mentioned casually here at HN rock! I have no idea who you are man, but thank you!
Still sounds quite a lot for doing "the marketplace job" which in the case of wrapbootstrap is allowing a developer to simply sell with paypal.

A minimum of 35% (due to exclusivity) and a maximum of 75% to have a "buy with paypal" button.
Now it's more accurate...but still sounds like ripping developers off to me. (that's, obviously, why HTML5 Admin is not listed there or themeforest or whatever)
As usual, it's important to take pop-nutrition blurbs like this one with a grain of salt. Here's a counterpoint:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/21/eight_toxic_...
I find it notable that this article entirely ignores the EU's Common Electrical Power Supply law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply), which effectively mandated that all smart phones sold in the EU use micro USB for power. This had a swift and noticeable effect in the diversity of connectors in phones (basically Apple is the only maker that doesn't use micro USB and this change happened at the exact time of the law). The emergence of USB as The Way Phones are Charged didn't happen as a magic emergent property, but via considered government regulation. Government: it can actually work.
Another reason not to use Disqus, in addition to:

* Slow load times

* Overzealous spam triggers

* Poor Twitter/Facebook integration

Yes, this is only one user's experience but it's enough to make me stop leaving comments on publishers' websites.
At least in the USA, "community housing" is a hellscape for most of its residents.

I have no problem with giving people money so they can find a place to rent of their own from a landlord that will make profit. I just have a problem with landlords who then all raise their rents to the maximum amount they know people are going to get.
Hey Tzaman, we wish we could have brought it to you sooner,

I'd like to believe it will make you so efficient, you'll make up ground :)
I love the elephant puppet mascot.
For several years you can buy COTS wall sockets with an embedded switching power supply squirting out USB power to a USB connector, so from an electrician's point of view its just a funny looking, somewhat large, extremely expensive standard wall socket.
No sorry. The labor movement and state initiatives have brought much more wellness and brought up much more people from poorness than any kind of investor.

Also, historically speaking, state initiatives have created the most economic growth.
Look at the trails Node + NPM have blazed. That's the right move.

Next up: Local package installs.
Nope I couldn't find any in the specification.

Following a link on the internet it look like they actually have a prototype VID/PID, but you have to contact the forum and sign some boilerplate (saying you won't release your product with the proto numbers) to get it.
What is more funny (or less in that it is sad) is that by today's standards for Republicans, Nixon was a liberal.
I doubt it. Or I doubt that you understood the idea. How can I put a autorun file on my USB mouse? it's the same idea. If the device is not a USB storage device, how it can serve files? Or why do you imagine that the intelligent house ( and not my laptop - where did you get that? ) would run, hello?, Windows ( the horror ) ?

I think, if something like that would be developed, the base would be 100% on linux. You can plug to my Linux machine any USB device, can't think that you can own it. ( unless you link to some clever exploit ).
> To Chesterfield, singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure one’s time; it was a mark of intelligence. “This steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius [...] "

Sounds reasonable. But also consider:

> The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up", Esquire Magazine (February 1936)
Just as I was going to install PhpStorm 6 on my new machine at work, cool.

Most people in my team are not convinced PhpStorm brings anything valuable compared to NetBeans, Eclipse, Sublime2 or even vim. Maybe I will try once again with version 7 :)
If you gave everyone $1000 a month, rent will magically rise to at least half that for even the smallest efficiency.

You do realize that there is a minimum wage in The Netherlands (Euro 1469 per month gross) and welfare (e.g. for a married couple Euro 1323, single up to Euro 926 per month)? So, that should've happened already.

Besides that, we have a system for social housing, which everyone with a low income can use, which is regulated. E.g. when I was still a PhD candidate, I made a bit over 2000 Euro (gross) per month, but could rent a house with three bedrooms for 390 Euro. The price is determined based on size, facilities, etc.

I like the idea of a basic income, since it would kill a lot of bureaucracy that checks that people who are able to work actively solicit positions, etc. It'd be nice if the CPB (the organization that is responsible for making guestimations of economic effects) could work it through.
I had several instances that I thought would make a good example I choose this one because I thought that this would be different and would definitely not be considered a tech hack.

"Before christmas, I was buying gifts for my young cousins and I found out that Toys"R"Us had a policy where they would match any competitor price. I used this to my advantage, I was able to get presents, using my iPhone, that were being retailed at $40.00 for around $8.00. Other shoppers asked me to show them how to do the same. I helped several people free of charge. Toys"R"Us was not fond of it, I just liked helping families out and showing them how much money they were able to save."
This isn't very big news, in that virtualenv already provides pip in each new env, and you should not be using pip outside virtualenv -- unless it's to install virtualenv!
Very pretty, both in terms of code and site design.
This is fantastic! Congrats and keep up the good work! Will there be an ebook version available any time in the future? Thanks again.
What does this have to do with the OP's idea?

Are you replying to the wrong post?
I'd say don't worry about south if you're not working with a big team.

Just track the changes you make to your models and make the same changes to the database.
> You could get clever by testing on the server whether the other headers are consistent with the User Agent (e.g. Accept).

Those headers can vary from machine to machine even when using the same browser. So you'd have a huge amount of testing, plus the big risk of braking legitimate requests. I just cant see how you could pull that off successfully.

> But yeah, ultimately it's a losing game because you're trusting the client not to be compromised.

Totally. Even if your solution did work, it's trivial to break again as you just add the appropriate headers to wget / curl as well as changing the user agent string.
The irony here is that they are announcing a tool to subvert restrictions in other countries, but they are following their own countries restrictions to the letter.
It takes 2 days to get USD in and out of my trading account. I'm not sure how long 'real' currency exchanges take, but I bet it isn't immediate.
Was it "Lockhart's Lament" ?

http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsL...
We don't have a whole lot of competition in healthcare. Few of us pay for healthcare out of pocket, and many who do so use the finicky and artificial construction on top of the current employer-subsidy system called health savings accounts. Don't get me wrong, given our current system of employer-provided health insurance, the HSA is my preference by a wide margin. But I'd prefer if it were economically viable to purchase my health coverage directly rather than through my employer. I don't want my employer providing this kind of thing for me. It's a market perversion. Just give me a salary, please.

To my mind, competition (in the meager form we have today) is the only force our healthcare system has keeping prices low. And the prices are not low, at least in most medical fields, which goes to show how little competition we have. Third-party payers drive prices upward because the first-party consumer has no incentive to seek a fair trade. Many of us with health insurance use the insurance to pay for everything including routine visits and check-ups. It's as if oil changes were covered by car insurance—you wouldn't care how much an oil change cost—or replacement batteries were included in cell phone loss insurance—you wouldn't care how much a battery cost. Oh, my battery is being finicky, better get a new one since they're free.

I prefer a basic income versus the current central-planning approach to safety netting. The central planners cause the price problems by inhibiting the market's ability to transmit unmolested price signals.

Internet, cable, cellphone service—all services with significant terrestrial regulation. Periodically an innovator attempts to get around the regulation by delivering via a new means (e.g., Internet by line of sight), but it can hardly be said that, for example, cable is not a public/private hybrid. Regulatory capture means we don't have market competition.

> Rent on apartment complexes near each other owned by different management companies magically stay within a several percent of each other.

Yeah.

Wait, are you saying this is inherently bad?
For Rails I highly recommend this course an the accompanying book https://www.edx.org/course/berkeley/cs169-1x/software-servic...

Hartl's Rails tutorial is comprehensive, but does not spend enough time explaining the underlying principles IMO. Writing a test for everything also muddies the water in that tutorial (which does not mean TDD is not good for you).
It improves the economy (because the velocity of money is higher in the hands of consumers) and thereby benefits the people. The system as a whole is a form of progressive taxation, and so benefits people on average (because the marginal value of money is higher for the poor).
Your profile seems to imply you work for Microsoft, so the "disgusting Microsoft hate" on this website can't be seen as objective coming from an employee.

At the end of the day, more people on HN are interested in the upcoming Apple event. Do you want us to apologise for not caring about Nokia, a company that's largely irrelevant in 2013?

Edit: How exactly did you reply when this thread is dead?
USB devices are supposed to be detected via the class (es) declared in the descriptor actually. This allows for e.g. a single HID driver to work with input devices from all manufacturers. Linux drivers almost all work this way, using the vid/pid for quirk detection only. The windows world tends to be less clean.
The Netherlands may wish to reevaluate its immigration policies before subsidizing citizenship. There are many billions of people in the world who are not being paid to reside in their respective nations. A basic income coupled with open borders would likely act as a draw for further economic migration.
Regarding your last paragraph, people explain their current problems as a coping mechanism . But when people do that, what they're really looking for is someone to understand them. It's an emotional thing, and you provided it.
It's meh because it's meh... The package is limited... I can do more by taking a few minutes to write my own curl wrapper than add this to my composer.json file, composer install and then not have what I need... I see in the issues/pull requests someone fixed a basic necessity and it was closed as "fixing this soon" instead of merging it... That right there isn't good.
It's signed "Executive Director"; regardless of their internal organisation, it's a statement from USB-IF.
It only worked because USB was already the defacto standard.

Now if they could just get a EU wide AC plug/socket standard.