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Me too! I learned over the years and met some people when I was extremely lonely. I still remember the spark of light when I was "dragged out", it's unbelievable.

If people are not lucky enough and still feel lonely, I think mediation can help a little at least. When I first tried to do that, even sometime later, once I'm in the deep mood, all the feelings from the sub-consciousness level burst out. Then I become calm and peaceful, because my mind is cleared up. This is the way we can help ourselves, sometime is even better than helped by other people.

Some people told me that happiness is a choice. Initially it's hard for me to accept. But now I feel that if we can make happiness and aloneness as our choices, we become so powerful in our inner world which makes us really strong in spirit. But it take time and effort to reach there and stay there.
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Over 60 years ago Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the "man being replaced by machine" problem in his * 1952 * novel, "Player Piano."
Some hopefully constructive criticism. :)

- I'd recommend using HMAC rather than plain MD5 to generate signatures. Using MD5 alone exposes you to length extension attacks.

- You should consider putting a timestamp or nonce in the signature parameters to prevent replay attacks.

- The fact that you're able to validate that MD5(password) is correct implies that you're storing passwords insecurely.

- Consider switching your API endpoints to use HTTPS and sending the password unhashed. Hashing the password is not helping you here: since you're using the hashed value for authentication, any attacker who has it might as well have the actual password. Luckily, I don't believe this is as useful without also knowing the PSK, but it's still a design smell.
Except for all the issues that the article goes into great detail describing, and not without cost. CocoaPods is even mentioned in there, at the very end.

Apple needs to fix this before they've shamelessly let it sit for an entire decade. CocoaPods is just a partial band-aid.
I read the article and skimmed the comments and all of the economic comments almost intentionally avoided discussing monetary velocity as a concept. Oh they'd dance around it but never directly discuss it. Its not terribly controversial, so I don't see why. The modern numbers are utterly dismal, maybe thats why? Too much of a downer?

During an economic depression, a growing fraction of the population is removed from the "real" economic system and market, they start to use Tide detergent, lotto tickets, drugs, cases of cola as their new economic system and currency.

In a similar way, as the fraction of the population still involved in the interchange of information decreases, despite all the article hand wringing, its pretty simple, they'll just drop out. Hard/impossible to say what the new system and currency will be. People will just stop. The future of the "knowledge worker" looks a lot like ... travel agent.

So, put it together, and in a post-knowledge worker economy, they'll always be a small number of elite knowledge workers, and always be some jobs that are not financially viable to automate away (not many, of course), but overall society will just wander on over to something else and look at knowledge work / service work as something from the past... thats what grandpa used to do before all of them got downsized, or whatever.

The article is much ado about nothing, in the long run. Currently there exists a service / knowledge economy, at least for a small segment of the population, and its going away, just like every other segment eventually mostly goes away. OK.

That and watching the political ax grinding was moderately entertaining. "If we all just held our hands around the campfire and sang, then ..."
> It's actually pretty amazing that I didn't fall harder or sooner, living in NYC on about $3k per month.

A takeaway might be that if you are bootstrapped (or doing any kind of startup), you might want to do it at a cheaper location. I know, this doesn't apply for every company/team, but in general, a good thing to keep in mind.
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Hello, hacker news!

Have any of you used java web in your startups?

If you have, please elaborate on your experience.

If not then why? And what do you think are the pluses and minuses of choosing java.
The book that got me hooked on computers many years ago: "Soul Of A New Machine" http://www.amazon.com/The-Soul-A-New-Machine/dp/0316491977
Code Complete was overwhelmingly the most influential programming book I've ever read. But it's been around for 20 years, and much of the material has now been rehashed in many other books, videos, forums, blog posts, etc. I think that's what other posters are getting at when they say it's just common sense: this kind of thing is everywhere now.

Much of the book is spent making arguments for and providing evidence for things that are considered obvious today.

So if you stopped because the material sounded obvious and redundant, then maybe it is for you. But if you stopped because the material seemed seemed unimportant or trivial, then I strongly urge you to start up with it again.
Should probably put health somewhere near (1).
I always liked Thomas Friedman's writing on foreign policy issues back in the day, but his work on globalization and technology always sounds incomplete and amateurish. I think Mr. Friedman would do himself a favor if he actually spent some time learning to code and hacking on an Arduino board or something so that he could start to develop more intuition on what can and cannot easily be done with technology, and where globalization fits in and where it doesn't.
His assassination also had the unfortunate side effect of turning him into a martyr that has attracted a lot of people to join Al Qaeda, making it stronger than it's been in years.
In order to have a single-instruction PR-relative load the offset needs to be small (though it uses a different immediate scheme for the offset). So in practice you usually tuck small constant islands between blocks of executable code when you adopt this approach.
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It's a great book for people who started coding 10-15 years ago.

Since then most of the lessons in Code Complete have become part of the soul of modern languages, frameworks and libraries. So you learn them through proxy.

Still, I still come across people who could learn from reading it again, especially what it says over comments, testing and generally writing legible code.
Not providing a platform for someone else's speech is not the same as censoring someone else's speech. All the more so if one's tuition is partially paying for that speech and there are many other roughly equivalently effective venues for the speaker.

I wish to give a talk about how space aliens built the Brooklyn Bridge using telekinetic herring, and give the talk in your kitchen. If you neither grant permission nor tell me where you live then obviously you have something to hide and wish to censure my speech.
How long had you been programming when you read it? Code Complete and The Pragmatic Programmer had been on my Amazon wishlist for nearly ten years when I finally ordered them a couple years ago. I had the same reaction as you to both. I had already learned all those things through experience. On the other hand, I don't know if the books would have done much good for me ten years ago. Maybe I needed to learn those things on my own, over time.

I think more people read those books and say, "yes, I agree with all of this already" than read them and think, "oh, here is a new thing I haven't thought before and will use from now on."
+1 for Pipedrive.
Ah OK. So the real problem is that my opinion is just plain wrong!

The founder of an accelerator which has a reputation (earned or not) for being fratty and exclusionary and who runs a forum that's widely criticised for quickly silencing discussions on gender issues and being a bit of a hotbed for sexism spends several weeks coming up with an essay.

The end result of all that hard work is something that's decidedly defensive, demonstrates that neither he, nor anyone in his inner circle, has taken the trouble of properly reading up on the literature surrounding gender issues, doesn't go much beyond the "it's good for business angle" and replies to comments [1] in a way that demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of internalized oppression, one of the most basic concepts when it comes to discussing systemic discrimination.

So because given all that I don't agree that PG now comes out looking like a saint I deserve to be described in the most derogatory terms you could think of; but me using a swear word invalidates my argument?

You know what, that's a classic 'tone argument' [2] from derailment bingo [3]. I doubt you've ever heard of it and judging from what I've read so far PG probably hasn't either, which is sort of my point.

And to reiterate once again; I very much appreciate what PG is doing and that he's taking positive steps in the right direction. That doesn't mean that I can't simultaneously believe that he has a long road ahead of him still.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7039270 [2] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument [3] http://mlkshk.com/p/9FOI
My next submission will have the headline: "Is Betteridge's law of headlines always correct?"
still nature's creations are 1000s of times better than any created by man. what is the best of what we created? iphone, pc, car?
Isn't that what MS Excel does, internally?
I'm astounded at this article for several reasons:

1) That it's held up as an indictment of Fannie Mae mortgages. Someone with four leased properties and being savvy enough in the property market to buy and rehab a fifth should know better than to approach a FNMA-backed lender for a 70/30 cash-out refi. Even FHA, previously one of the less-stringent guarantee agencies, only allows four properties under the same ownership.

2) The author is shocked that a program designed for purchase money financing on a buyer's owner-occupied property would turn down an investment landlord.

3) The author makes no mention of approaching any other financial institution or lender. Since, given point 1, he is pretty good at construction but poor at leveraging other people's money (not a slam, that's what _any_ investor wants to do), he wants a bank that writes and services portfolio loans. Which, by the way, means he'd probably be required to want a loan at no more than about 80% LTV across all five properties.
I often wonder when the tipping point for white-collar specialists being replaced by machines will occur. Watson replacing doctors in making diagnoses has received a lot of attention, but there are many other fields. The big one for me is when will we trust software to analyze contracts instead of lawyers? We already have moved to replacing lawyers with computers for discovery, I would be even more pleased in negotiations to only have to change items flagged by machines than the sometimes incompetent lawyers I've had to deal with.
I seem to recall from my ARM Assembler coding days that there was also a noop instruction, which of course could be conditional itself, so if you didn't actually want to do the NOOP, you could do NOOP-NE, which wouldn't do anything twice over.
I enjoy posts like this because it brings out timtowtdi: pushd, cdpath, ln and aliases
I was surprised that the SO was defined as to have high quantity but low quality of communication. I guess he needs family more than an SO, like you said. And this is why FB is so helpful for that kind of people because they can find a place to tell people the apple is so juicy today. This is something you can share with your family everyday.

SO is supposed to be both your body and soul mate who is not easy to find and being exclusive. If everyday, instead of sharing the best with your SO, but dumping everything onto your SO, I'm afraid how long the relationship can last. Think about if your SO does the same on you, do you have that much time to listen as well?

I believe relationship should be maintained in such as way that mutually benefit with each other and inspire on each other to make the other party happy in his/her way. Sharing, inspiring and surprising are so much important between the exclusive pair. But that is out of the topic here.
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I wish that embedding resources in programs as const byte arrays were more common. I think that approach leads to a tightly integrated, low-overhead app, especially on platforms (not iOS) where users and third-party programs are free to do stupid things with the file system; the app either works completely or isn't there at all.
The worst-off counties in South Dakota match up pretty well with Indian reservations, and it should be a surprise to nobody (and a shame to everybody) how poor the people are there.
Ah, I see. I should've probably continue reading it before asking. However, it does say something about the algorithm if it scores Translate higher than AdWords (it should probably be first, even before Search - I think they're more likely to return results completely based on AdWords with no organic results at all than shut down AdWords and return only organic results).
I like the whole ascetic lifestyle philosophy but I find it harder to follow with a family and kids. At this point I'm perfectly fine with doing a number of distasteful materialistic things such as taking on debt or owning a house, because it benefits the kids and they don't have to know about the decisions.
Besides security issues, I'm wonder if another motivation is anti-DRM circumventing, working around App Store restrictions, etc.
I can only speak for myself, but I am tired of these "soft" software development books and the various "movements". They seem to be attempts to transform our technical field from solving real world problems via math and deep understanding into something like politics or religion.

I think recent success of these soft topics may be based on people's feeling of self improvement and enlightenment. I can understand that it creates a nice feeling, but prefer to be enlightened by actually learning to solve real things in a more elegant, efficient way than before and I prefer to learn the rest via actual work experience.

Real self-help would mean to become independent from advice from the outside and looking into yourself and finding out how you can do something better by actually doing it...
Who actually lives there besides students and subsidized faculty?
I imagined Google trying to shut down Scheme and I chuckled
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> Someone with four leased properties and being savvy enough in the property market to buy and rehab a fifth should know better than to approach a FNMA-backed lender for a 70/30 cash-out refi. Even FHA, previously one of the less-stringent guarantee agencies, only allows four properties under the same ownership.

You must have missed the third sentence: "I own four properties free and clear." He doesn't have a bunch of loans already (which is risky if the market falls apart, see 2008). He has a bunch of assets.
Zyghost Wiki - Haskell font rendering with freetype2 and opengl
This film reminds of a rare colour film from Rio de Janeiro in 1936, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kymi7y6CyJA.

I find these kind of films very interesting. In case of Rio, how much it changed and in case of London, how much is still the same.
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This is bigger news than most news stories you'll read this year, or this decade for that matter.
Yes, they affect "the environment and life in that region", but not in the same way a perennially poor family would.
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That seems like an awkward default header, especially if it's not going to deflate it (which causes more issues such as needing the content-length header adjusted and checksums...) It just seems like a bad idea:(
It's not that everything must be real-time. But, the stuff that doesn't need it has already been well-done for over a decade. The frontier of new possibilities (including as incremental enhancement to the old categories) tends to involve what's enabled by real-time.

For example, sprinkling in a little real-time surprise – like a notification that others have already responded to your recent work – can accelerate valuable interactions.

For example, in 'blogging' and 'news', both the original authors and active commenters appreciate no-reload indications of fresh comments, mentions, and inlinks. You can do a site without that – but you'll be missing out on features that users increasingly expect, and work to create new interesting content and engagement.

In 'e-commerce', a client-pulled site works and is well-understood, but adding live sales help, or indicators of limited deals being exhausted, can help close sales... so why not try it?

Even where the major cores of these markets work fine without real-time, the frontier of exploration and optimization uses greater game-like liveliness.
Some people are needy and always expect to entertained. They keep telling you not because you are lonely, but they are. If you have this kind of friends, probably you have to provide something to fill in their loneliness and make them happy.
The Gates Foundation had a very significant role in this.
I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. My thought was, is there something different you call yourself, or some different niche that helps you avoid that kind of treatment? I should have been clearer in my question.
Your requests per second chart https://raw.github.com/c9s/Pux/master/benchmarks/reqs.png is a perfect example of a misleading chart, some even might call it lying.

Please use 0 as the baseline (zero point of y axis).
Good point and you are correct. I would do that, but I think you just did it for me. Thank you.
Good luck - I just applied.

Although your 100/hr minimum rate does cause me a bit of concern. I'd find it difficult to justify that rate for most of the work I do, which is PHP and javascript development.
I don't think this point contradicts anything Friedman said:

Put all these advances together, say the authors, and you can see that our generation will have more power to improve (or destroy) the world than any before ...
Anecdotes don't mean much, unfortunately I can think of four local universities surrounded by a cloud of extreme poverty.

The lifecycle seems to be new city starts building out, put a university in the new, good neighborhoods, wait 100 years and those neighborhoods are now the inner city with spectacular crime and poverty.

The same low rents and low quality housing that attract students would logically tend to attract poor people. The same dumpy loft that seems perfect for a physics student would also seem financially perfect for a poor person.

Note that I'm talking about traditional student housing, not the ultra expensive school loan inspired facilities.
Students are _very_ different than working poor. The working poor's income is close to their expenditures. Most Student's 'income' will be reported as near zero. However, their expenditures into the economy are above that, through tuition payments and lodging. Also, they are likely to have additional spending money that is outside of reported income.
Interesting. Bookmarked.
Scan and Observable are part of System.Reactive the other two are I think part of System or System.Data.Entity
You can write Java code which works similarly to your C# code by using RxJava: https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava

Or Python, via RxPy: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxPy

Or JavaScript, via RxJs: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS

Or Ruby, via Rx.rb: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/Rx.rb

Or Objective-C, via Rx.ObjC: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/Rx.ObjC

Your code is a good demonstration of how Rx works though, and it's nice to know it's becoming more popular.
Django's event system lets you avoid polling the DB.

Here is a plugin that offers some real-time capability (through a separate process of course):
http://telegraphy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/django-telegraph...

Seems to be the best thing on offer that is off the shelf but you may be better rolling your own node, websocket, redis pub/sub, django integration yourself(which actually isn't that hard to do and may give you better flexibility).
> the interest rates are too low for the banks to loan much. Once the rates rise, they will be handing out loans on the street corner.

That makes no sense if you know how banks and mortgages work--the loan's interest rate has little to do with the profit for the loan originator. The money is made on volume. When the bank makes a loan they almost immediately sell it to someone (lately the Fed) and have made the full amount of money they will ever make on that loan.

Now that interest rates have spiked off the bottom there are fewer loans being made and much less profit (banks are firing people in mortgage departments right and left). If the rates continue to increase it's going to greatly squeeze financial sector profits.
Actually, a decimal time works really well on a circular clock face:

http://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/ (you need to permit gps to get the correct rotation and drawn on light/dark periods).

http://kybernetikos.com/2012/11/26/modern-times-a-new-clock/
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Not sure the performance difference, but highly recommend Flight (http://flightphp.com/) as a simple router. Flight is well suited especially for building APIs. Flight has great http helper methods as well (header, json response, etc).

As far as performance, I seriously doubt the bottleneck in modern applications is the router.
I think he makes some interesting points. I do not think they are that amateurish. Like it or not, we're rapidly sliding into an era where human productivity is going off the charts. Unintended consequences are unavoidable. Nobody really knows what to do about it.
This is a prime example of someone spending a lot of care on making their blog very pretty, and then desperately filling it with whatever they can so that someone will click the link at the bottom and give them a job.
And op's point is that we do not have an open market due to ill conceived regulations like dodd frank.
When I comment on this site I try very hard to say exactly what I mean and nothing more. I believe, but may be mistaken, that you have made some assumptions about what I was saying.

Above I asserted an objective truth, and followed it with my list of subjective truths.

Objective truth: Sustainable happiness is recognizing what is truly valuable in life and appreciating it. To elaborate, to evaluate the value of everything in life based upon its monetary value would be a mistake and limiting.

Then came my list of subjective truths which I prefaced with "For me this is". By subjective I mean I acknowledge that while I hold these to be true, I am unable to prove to you that they are.

To address your points:
I really need to get back to coding my startup. I will revisit this later. I hope that you continue to discuss this with me even though no one else will care by the time I get back to it. (From the HN community perspective this thread will be most likely dead before this evening)
> The big one for me is when will we trust software to analyze contracts instead of lawyers?

When the cost-risk equation comes out in favor of the computers.
+1 Streak (http://www.streak.com)

Streak is great! We were looking for a lightweight CRM that our team would actually use. Streak does everything we need it to and it does not require our team to dramatically change their work flow.

Everything is right inside Gmail and so for us, at this stage, Streak is perfect. Plus, tracking feature is cool. Easy way to see if an email has been read.

Rapportive (https://rapportive.com) is really what makes our direct sales possible. And, Streak plays nice with Rapportive.