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Hi, we do ship do the Netherlands, that was a mistake (already fixed).

Our roastery is in Porto, Portugal, but we (development, sales and customer support) are based in Eindhoven, NL.

Thanks for the info
I actually believe that not all cultures are equally valid. There really are dysfunctional ways that humans congregate.
I read the point as not to spend time away from your core skills in order to save money - in his example, hosting.
I would love to have something that includes a 3rd party thread in the article. For example, when the article gets posted to Hacker News or Reddit, then include those discussions in the article and make it part of the system. That way, I can read the article and still participate in the discussion on my favorite social network without having to open multiple windows or dance around between sites.
Welll.... this doesn't look well.

https://satoshidice.com/
And yet nobody has issues with foo(a, b)

Which is basically the same as (foo a b) except the ( if one identifier later.

I've often seen stuff like this in languages without operator overloading: a.add(b.multiply(c) d.subtract(5)) and nobody complains about that, but a lot of people are hung up about (add a (multiply b c) (subtract d 5)) which is almost the exact same thing. Of course, in Lisp-like languages, you would be able to redefine functions, s it would actually look like this: (+ a (* b c) (- d 5))

I don't get why people have such big complaints about syntax. Whatever you are used to is easier to read. Obviously! But its not hard and does not take long to get used to this.

So once you are used to it, Lisp is simpler because it has one single rule that is followed by every language construct: (function params) - in other languages you have all kinds of flow control statements with different rules (if, else if, while, for, switch.. all have different rules). Then theres function calls and method calls. Precedence. That's a lot to have to remember.
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The problem with this line of argumentation is that you really don't need to invoke vague nominalizations like "power" and "privilege" to argue against this "i'm being oppressed because of my homophobic beliefs" nonsense. When you do, it invariably leads to the sorts of responses you're seeing from the likes of 127 and aaronem below.
neat, but can i have a windows version? :P

maybe an installer instead of the standard linux way of forcing you to know things you don't really need to know?
A static compiler has to generate code that handles every possible path through the code. This tends to pessimize code downstream of a control flow merge point, because such code has to be compiled assuming it can be reached via multiple paths. A trace compiler can compile only the paths that are actually taken on a given workload, and compile the (dynamically) uncommon cases into exits to the interpreter.

The firewall rule example Mike Pall gives is a pretty good one. You have code that has many different paths through it, but only specific ones are triggered, dynamically, by a particular attack. Those can be compiled into traces that assume the other paths are not taken (except to guard the possible control flow splits with trace exits). This can allow an optimizer to make much more aggressive assumptions on the actually-taken paths.
The context of the snippet you quoted is "Spend money on tools that make you more productive." In other words, don't skimp on a tool or service that can simplify an operations task, if the result is that you can focus more time on features. I don't see the implication that operations is unimportant.

Having a laptop/PC that you can develop on is important to developing a product, but no one would suggest that the author design one from scratch. Everyone (excepting perhaps Richard Stallman) would say it's better to just outsource that task to Apple or Lenovo.
Now I'm positive that we're all wasting our lives.
I'd like to ask everyone saying "I saw the quotes right away," what OS do you use? Perhaps your OS uses a different font.

I've had bugs in websites where menus would be completely messed up because they didn't fit in their given space, just because the font of choice was not available on Linux and it fell back on something slightly larger.

Edit: Though in the HN title it is much clearer than in the jsfiddle, for me anyway. Might that be it?
Oh, plenty more that deserve a mention. Spotify and SoundCloud, sure, but also other music startups like Songkick (YC) and Deezer. On the gaming side, there's Rovio, King, Supercell, Plarium, Wooga, Nordeus, ZeptoLab, Game Insight and plenty more that are kicking ass and taking names.

Others with loads of potential to become big hits include Huddle, TransferWise, 6Wunderkinder, Geckoboard, Jolla, EyeEm, Klarna, Narrative, Magine, TradeShift, HouseTrip, Trademob, Withings, Blablacar, Outbrain, SwiftKey, Hailo, Holvi, Wrapp, Busuu, Babelverse, Trustev and so on. Then there's a whole mobile payment revolution going in Europe (where Square isn't available) with companies like SumUp, iZettle, Payleven and others growing rapidly.

I could go on and on, but there's a few reasons I started Tech.eu and one of them is precisely to highlight the tech innovation that's happening across Europe. :)
Maybe because, in every audience, there are some people who have been beaten, or know people who have been beaten or killed, because of beliefs like this? Folks who've watched someone get their teeth kicked out over the sexual orientation tend to get a little...passionate...when a known homophobe's name comes up. They might even mention this out loud!
I can come up with a number of reasons it would be bad, but none that doesn't make me sound like a rabid totalitarian.
"Here is a true story about a glass tty: One day an MIT hacker was in a motorcycle accident and broke his leg. He had to stay in the hospital quite a while, and got restless because he couldn't hack. Two of his friends therefore took a terminal and a modem for it to the hospital, so that he could use the computer by telephone from his hospital bed.

Now this happened some years before the spread of home computers, and computer terminals were not a familiar sight to the average person. When the two friends got to the hospital, a guard stopped them and asked what they were carrying. They explained that they wanted to take a computer terminal to their friend who was a patient.

The guard got out his list of things that patients were permitted to have in their rooms: TV, radio, electric razor, typewriter, tape player, ... no computer terminals. Computer terminals weren't on the list, so the guard wouldn't let it in. Rules are rules, you know. (This guard was clearly a droid.)

Fair enough, said the two friends, and they left again. They were frustrated, of course, because they knew that the terminal was as harmless as a TV or anything else on the list... which gave them an idea.

The next day they returned, and the same thing happened: a guard stopped them and asked what they were carrying. They said: "This is a TV typewriter!" The guard was skeptical, so they plugged it in and demonstrated it. "See? You just type on the keyboard and what you type shows up on the TV screen." Now the guard didn't stop to think about how utterly useless a typewriter would be that didn't produce any paper copies of what you typed; but this was clearly a TV typewriter, no doubt about it. So he checked his list: "A TV is all right, a typewriter is all right ... okay, take it on in!"

[Historical note: Many years ago, "Popular Electronics" published solder-it-yourself plans for a TV typewriter. Despite the essential uselessness of the device, it was an enormously popular project. Steve Ciarcia, the man behind "Byte" magazine's "Circuit Cellar" feature, resurrected this ghost in one of his books of the early 1980s. He ascribed its popularity (no doubt correctly) to the feeling of power the builder could achieve by being able to decide himself what would be shown on the TV. --ESR]

[Antihistorical note: On September 23rd, 1992, the L.A. Times ran the following bit of filler:

Solomon Waters of Altadena, a 6-year-old first-grader, came home
from his first day of school and excitedly told his mother how he
had written on "a machine that looks like a computer -- but
without the TV screen." She asked him if it could have been a
"typewriter." "Yeah! Yeah!" he said. "That's what it was
called."

I have since investigated this matter and determined that many of today's teenagers have never seen a slide rule, either.... -- ESR]"

http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TVTypewriters.html

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If you went ahead and assumed that TSA agents are really just cleverly projected computer algorithms (androids perhaps?), your predictions concerning their behavior probably wouldn't be far off.
Who "owns" our Luna? Seriously, if China did decide it was economically feasible to mine it, are the resources theirs for the taking, or do we have international treaties defining things, similar to Antarctica (although that's also up for debate...)
So will the native facebook app. Of COURSE the fastbkapp will receive that info.
Not everyone is a knowledgeable web developer, or is interested in the security maintenance of a custom solution, of which you have even less knowledge about the data they collect.

For example, I have a friend who runs a small business selling music samples. He uses WordPress because it is a simple solution that can do a lot for him without a super amount of technical savvy.

I think WordPress is disgusting, but the point is, there is a market for these products. If you feel strongly against this trend, you should consider developing one that drives your vision that has similar practical value.
I'm working on a windows version based on the excellent node-webkit [1]. I'm still not sure on how much effort I'll put in packaging it.

[1]: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/
Because flashing circuit boards are so often used by terrorists?
> If you had put in the terms of your OpenSource Image Hosting platform that users couldn't use the software to host violent or simulated violent content, that restriction is removed by CC 4.0.

I don't immediately see where CC 4.0 does this, but if it does I view it as a good thing. If you add extra terms on top of a CC license it is no longer a CC license and you should not label it as such.

> Conversely you can now require that anyone who uses your Image Hosting Platform gives you the rights to any data about users of that platform. This will probably only hold in Europe since in the US data is pretty hard to copyright.

Wait, what? Is this some weird interpretation of the new clarifications on database rights? The Creative Commons license has nothing to do with data you hold privately.

> It also now allows that if you are a Model in an image that is shared as Creative commons that if someone wants to make modification to that image to make it look like you are being Raped, or raping someone else that is permissible, and you can only say all derivative works are allowed, or none are allowed.

As long as the person who put the work under the CC license was in a position to sign over the model's moral rights. It's meant to be an easy to understand and use license, the fact that allowing derivative works is a binary decision is a good thing in my view.
> Is this all just because of all the web devs seeing the increasing usage of smartphones and proclaiming that html is the better way, because they are too lazy even to investigate what native really offers?

Another possibility is: browsers are advanced enough to allow web apps to be possible, and as such, options other than native apps become available. Products requirements vary, and so do the devices you deploy to. There are a myriad other reasons one may weight the options and decide to develop a web app other than being lazy.

> I don't see similar push for desktop apps

I dunno. I use a number of web apps on a regular basis, Rdio being the closest thing to a native app I've used (I run it via Fluid to remove some cognitive gaps). Also, what about Chromebooks? Google's been aggressively pushing that. I think it just may be that more apps get developed for mobile, period, and as such the degree of interest in mobile web apps seems higher (which is ironic given how much easier it is to develop smooth web-based UX for desktop).
This presumes that every belief and idea occupies an equal plane of legitimacy, and that everything is basically a matter of opinion. It's not.

His views are not acceptable. He's free to voice them all he likes, of course, but choosing to ignore him completely on the basis of some of his unacceptable views is not, in any way, "prejudice." Do keep in mind, please, that on the basis of just one thing - someone's sexual orientation - this guy is willing to give them legal status as second class citizens and incite armed rebellion against any government that would recognize their rights as people. If he's willing to do something that bad to someone solely on the basis of their sexual preferences, why on earth should anyone feel the least bit bad about choosing to simply ignore him on the basis of one of his beliefs?
He's a game developer. MSVC++ compiler and Visual Studio are (almost) a gaming industry standard.
Money came into the picture.

You have it completely backwards.

I "discovered" the Internet in 1988 when I got a job in the IT department of the University I attended. I LOVED it. I transferred files, participated a lot in news groups, played MUDs, made friends in Europe... it was wonderful.

When I graduated a few years later, I had to kiss the Internet goodbye. Without attending a major University that poured tons of money into maintaining a connection to the Internet, I had no hope of staying on it. I remember telling my parents about this amazing network of computers and saying something to the effect of, "It's fantastic, but I don't see how most people will ever get to use it because it's so expensive." Afterall, the Internet had been in existence for decades but was completely unavailable to home users.

Then they opened the Internet up for commercial use and the web came along. MONEY CAME INTO THE PICTURE. Tons of it. A few years later, every business felt like it had to be on the Internet in some way. With all that money flowing into web sites and interconnects, access from home became dirt cheap.

Commercialization is what made the Internet available for the masses. It amazes me that here we are not even twenty years later and people are rewriting history, demonizing the very framework that made the Internet successful.
Getting to the moon is not a technology challenge (we've shown it can be done with 1960's era technology) it's a financial one. It's hugely expensive. I'm not sure how you "exploit" the resources of the moon when it's entirely cost-prohibitive just to get there and return.
Finally. Having to install 9.2 each build killed me. It added 10 minutes to a build and sometimes hanged leaving a 20-odd minute wait for it to time out. This is a real improvement.
Think Bayes. Bayesian Statistics Made Simple [Free eBook from Green Tea Press]
Depends on the test. Full-life trials, like this one, tend to have many more than that because you need to take into consideration a lot of the random factors of being alive. However, there other things to keep in mind here. The breed of rat used has a predisposition to get cancer in a real short time; more than half of Sprague-Dawley rats will get cancer within two years. As a result, they're used much more often in research centered around having cancer than getting cancer. Finally, the rats were allowed to eat food whenever they wanted, and however much they wanted. So, there's the possibility that one or more of the groups through chance just had particularly gluttonous rats. Because of this, you have a lot of questions as to what could have led to the problem -- was it the GMO corn/roundup, or did the rats feeding on GMO/Roundup corn eat more, or was it just (un)luck of the draw, etc?
Of course if I need it to be eye-wateringly fast I wouldn't be using a document store. I'd use good old relational or something like redis. Often though you just need a sensible place to put some unimportant schemaless key-value data without a half dozen extra dynamically created tables or whatever. EAV makes me very sad.
Well, there's this: http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SpaceLaw/moon.html

Enforcement is another thing.
The native app didn't help much. The biggest deal with the HTML5 app was adding DOM content as the user scrolled. They were experiencing memory leaks. The native app may have fixed that part, but their backend API service was still sucking pretty badly for months after that. Even now, on an iPhone4, the performance of the native app kinda sucks. It's better on a 5 or 5s, but still fairly slow to get a JSON stream, parse it and build dynamic views.
Dropbox uses C++ as a cross-platform language for iOS and Android: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5rXCvu9-NM
There's the Moon Treaty, but technically, it's first come, first serve - if the Chinese figure out how to mine the moon, they can just go do it unless the other countries step in and stop them.
Generics have their own problems: http://research.swtch.com/generic
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No, I mean the conversation that link is part of.
>good things occaisionally come

Understatement of the century.
I think the problem is that both GPL and CC-BY-SA require you to license derivative works with that same license. And sometimes it's not easy to tell if something is or isn't software in a clear way.

For example, if you modify an image of a map licensed with CC-BY-SA for it to be used in a level of a game licensed with GPL, which license should you use for the derivative work? Is it data, code or both at the same time? What's the status of an image or a sound made with a script (think about fractals, for example)?

Both licenses are "viral" and require you to use that and not the other. You are on a deadlock.
What are the odds the 10th result for me was "Learn Python the hard way by Zed Shaw"?
Bug:

<font color=”red”>green text</font>

Is not allowed as title and will show up as "green text", which is a completely different title, without warning. Is there a reason for not allowing this?
You can make a number of different "droplets" (instances) through 1 account, provided it has enough funds. However, if you want to host a few small websites, you can do that on 1 droplet using Apache or Nginx to set a directory for each domain.
"Also, the ability to get to 100 pounds overweight without only mild loss of professional and social status (instead of the severe loss women face) is a male privilege of sorts."

Women don't face a severe loss of professional status if they put on weight, unless their employer enjoys being cleaned out in court. And as for a loss of social status - try being an obese man for a while and see how that works out for you. They get ripped on just as bad as obese women.
Funny, based on your first sentence, we actually agree! It is a simple problem, made complex by what we've "Built" around it... I just wish I had a good answer to it all :(

I'm writing a book on my life at the moment, my email is in my profile if you'd like some more info :)
3 months minimum: a neat solution.

How do implement wire transfer? I'm also in Germany and would like to offer the same to my SaaS customers.
Software eats dinner: Why VCs are pouring cash into food startups
it should be "red" not ”red”.
Late, but yes. AFAIK there's no way to distinguish such a thing unless the exchanges use the same wallets for escrow.
I like what I see in Digital Ocean's offers and will be most likely choosing them the next time I need a host. Are there any catches to look out for?
Let's define what's scientific, which parts of that writing can be considered scientific by that definition and return in 50 years here. Really. I can add that to my TODO list :) Chances that I will be still alive are not very high but I still have those chances.

I want to define what's scientific because after 50 years in pessimistic scenario religion can be considered scientific and pope might be The Chief Scientist.
You got all that from looking at a 19x19 grid?
It's the typical european approach: Spread your funds everywhere and evenly until not enough money is left to create something with enough punch to make a difference.

You can observe this approach in many places:

- Research. (Take a look at the recent billion euro graphene project. A billion is not so much if you divide it between 140 universities and spend it over 10 years)

- Education. (What was the name of the really good German university again?)

- Industrial clusters. (The US has a place for airplanes, one or two places for semiconductors, a few places for cars. What about Europe)
GNU RCS 5.9.2
Hilarious. Reminds me of referring to one's self in the third person. Had to upvote.
By "a higher level" do you mean Plato was right in the same sense that "communism is a perfectly good economic/political system, it's just that real communism has never really been tried"?

Or do you mean that Plato was possessed of a higher intelligence than puny mortals like us could hope to properly contemplate, possibly even incapable of error, and therefore we should defer to his musings without using our critical thinking to apply the benefit of 2,360 years of hindsight?
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Waive of moral rights. It was hinted in 3 but is now explicit.

As written you can now own data created by your software used by others. The intent was likely that you could license data as CC some rights reserved, but in the process it appears that you can now claim rights to data created by the software you are licensing.

Most licenses for Personality or likeness of a human allow restrictions on the way that image is to be used. I can't take a picture of your mom, and then have it be used in an ad that implies she has STD's. With good reason. If I posed a model to look like she was basting a turkey for thanksgiving, and then modded the image to be part of a pornographic image she would now be a porn star rather than a cooking personality. She would have no problem being in a derivative work that added titling or changed the color of the walls, or featured a different brand oven, but probably wouldn't be ok if the image was modded to look like she was inserting a turkey baster in to a persons rectum.
I like DO for hosting small, non-critical stuff. However, i can't help but notice how they're giving away too much free service. How are they (planning on) making money?
Does anyone have a cached copy of http://dee.su/uploads/baal.html? It seems dee.su exceeded his CPU limit already...
So it's ok to be poor and stresses as long as everyone else is?
Paul could do a similar talk for basically every mainstream language. Better not learn anything!
To give credit, where credit is due: the original work on trace compilation is much, much older. The paper you cited is an application.

The fundamental papers to hunt for are Joseph A. Fisher's publications on trace scheduling (sadly, his PhD thesis from the 70ies is nowhere to be found online) and the Multiflow reports from the 90ies. The Dynamo paper built upon that foundation ten years later in '99 (get the full HP report, not the short summary). A related research area is about trace caches for use in CPUs with various papers from the 90ies.

AFAIK there's no up-to-date comprehensive summary of the state of research on trace compilers. Most papers don't even scratch the surface of the challenges you'll face when building a production-quality trace compiler.
> it's entirely cost-prohibitive just to get there and return.

On the other hand, the scientific advances required to solve that issue would probably have wondrous consequences even for transportation that doesn't leave the planet.
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