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> Klout notified users of its Cinch question-and-answer app in an email today that it will discontinue the service on April 18th at 12pm PST.

So.... less than 24 hours' notice? Unless there are immediate security or legal reasons (doubtful) that's rather appalling.
LXLE? Disclaimer: haven't tried this one out myself, just had a look at it and think of trying to revive an old laptop of mine with it:

http://lxle.net/
Australia has a much larger internal market.
Isn't Portland in a drought right now? I know California and Washington don't have a typical snow pack in the mountains this year so I assume the same is true of Portland. Considering conditions this year, doesn't this seem like a poor decision?
"In practice, everybody who has tried splitting wood with a traditional axe knows that it takes a lot of power to penetrate and split the wood. Consequently, women and children may have serious trouble operating the traditional axe."

As a physically weak male specimen this amuses me very much.
Facebook says Paper users explore 80 stories each day, releases new iOS version
Clearly don't know enough about this, but was surprised the time spent drawing templates was so high.
>it won't change anything knowing there's no one else out there

But, we can never know that there's no one else out there, right? We can only discover that there is.
Yes. Couplers would work(1). You'd probably want jam nuts as well, just so things don't back out on you.

1. There may be problems with that approach. IANAPE. They would be different problems than actually caused the failure.
Photojojo is looking for an Industrial Designer
Dropbox is also fast and loose with the security of your files. They're super easy to use but not really meant for anything secret.
The point of this is you can write it once and use it for every type rather than having to write a wrapper for each one.
Linux /dev/urandom and concurrency
Be careful though, if you end up bending the shaft they are useless.
F9R First Flight Test
While as a fellow Australia I bemoan the woeful state of our internet, I don't think it makes it "impossible" to start a startup, in fact I know many startups in Sydney and elsewhere. It makes it more difficult, yes, and limits your options, but it's not impossible.

I can think of several reasons to move to AU from NZ as a startup; a greater talent pool and larger investment community for starters. It's by no means a slam dunk, but they're valid reasons.
"It looks like you've encountered an error: Origin is not supported. Destination is not supported."

Too bad. Seems like non-US locations are not supported yet.
"Tiny Code Generator", the JIT for cross architecture emulation.
>I don't believe this. If that was true the entire city would face massive health issues. What is your source of the info?

The city of Portland says so:

http://www.portlandoregon.gov/WATER/article/330807

A finished drinking water reservoir contains water that has been through all the treatment steps required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and can be delivered to the public without further treatment. Five of Portland’s finished drinking water reservoirs are uncovered. Three are located at Mount Tabor Park and two are located in Washington Park.

The Mount Tabor reservoir was the one in question.
Interesting topic. It seems that every generation has something to criticize about the next. I'm sure that the Greatest Generation who witnessed both World War I, World War II and the Great Depression had a few words (critiques) about the Baby Boomers...just as the Baby Boomers have a few words about Generation Z (the Internet Generation)...
I wish I could come up with an appropriate analogy. But basically, as a med student rotating at a hospital, you are simply there. It's beneath an internship, because that's essentially what you do the _next_ year when the real work begins, the long hours, etc. So any insights are going to be about being a med student or bedside manner. Boring. And probably a little pretentious.
Just out of curiosity, what could this possibly be spent on? Assuming it is going to be used to build out in foreign markets, is this mostly advertising/marketing costs? It already seems like they have a pretty good foothold in foreign markets. I can't imagine with $250M/yr in revenue they really need that $500M for hiring people. Also - how much does this leave the founders with in terms of %?

One speculation I have that might answer my first question is that they're going to spend this on lobbying and legal battles.
Servo on Android
Nick Fish is a City Commissioner, whose seat is "Commissioner for Public Works." This includes the water bureau.
why did they agree to this? This would've been unthinkable 30 years ago.
Toyota shows off fuel cell car that can also power a home
The author concludes that he made a very modest profit, which only counts as a net loss if a one-time fee to Paypal is counted.

Is there a way to put money into a Zidisha account without paying processing fees? What's the cheapest way to put money into a Zidisha account?

On the lender's end, I think about microfinance more as a "renewable donation" than as an "investment". So, it would be nice if 100% of the donation went to the operation of the charitable organization or the charitable act itself.

edit: less ambiguous question.
Maybe lobbying to get laws changed in their favor
Maybe this one is simpler:

http://onlinehut.org/2013/01/smart-pointers-are-not-just-for...

though I was trying to use that method to manage handles, not pointers. I eventually had to write a wrapper for handles for it to fulfill the requirements imposed by unique_ptr.
Yeah the problem is probably that each on of them defines success differently.
They won't use it for anything other than to raise the value of their valuation. If they court a buyer, all of that cash in hand just raised their buying price by $500m.
Shara Yurkiewicz is a fourth-year student at Harvard
Medical School. She was an AAAS Mass Media Fellow, and
her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times,
Discover, and The Best Science Writing Online 2012. She
is interested in medical ethics and has served as guest
editor for the American Medical Association's ethics
journal Virtual Mentor. She conducted ethics research
at Harvard, Yale, and the Hastings Center and received
a B.S. in biology from Yale.

4th year at Harvard Medical School, guest editor for AMA's ethics journal, undergrad at Yale, I think she's qualified to write a reflective / opinion-based blog.
It isn't water commissioner. It is city commissioner who runs the water bureau. Portland has commission form of government where the commissioners are legislative body like city council but also runs departments.
Well, as an example, if everyone has their thermostat to kick on AC an hour before getting home from work, you'd expect some clustering around 5pm or so.
And my point is that forcing people to winnow their lists down to two or three channels would produce more gold and less panning.
Neat idea and i'd love to try it but i'd need to see it side by side with a good maul which makes use of physics in a few ways.

Especially with dry lodge pole pine I can do about as well as the guy in the video does with my six pound maul and I'm our of practice though I split a lot of wood as a kid.

On a related note, I wonder if anyone on hacker news has a favorite wood stove...I'm really intrigued by the new efficient, low emission ones but they are costly and in depth reviews are sparse.
I was hoping you could give a source not because I was questioning the veracity of your statement, but because I wanted to learn more about it, specifically what kind of data that would be and what you do with it. I bet there are a lot of interesting challenges in that space.
Getting in debt for the next 30 years of life as a proof of adulthood. This checks out as a modern initiation ceremornial, a good alternative to getting tatooed religious symbols on your body.

I think trying to avoid that (like paying a rent for the rest of your days, or buying very cheap and sacrificing social sttatus) is actually seen as against the social norms, and a definitive "not one of us" move from the older generation's perspective.
Not true. My research suggests that once it has been archives, provided that copyright is not an issue, the material will be reused in useful ways.

see: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/mit-ec...
I'm not a huge fan of promises on their own. I think they are clearer than straight callbacks, but it gets confusing as you do more complex things. However, they really start to shine when combined with generators. Being able to yield a promise makes code very clean and clear.

And you can always use something like bluebird's promisify if you're combining promises with existing callback code.
Not programming related: I like this recipe channel - recipes are filmed and posted every week. The presentation is clear and straightforward (with a dash of humour). There's plenty of variety in the recipes too: meat dishes, vegetarian, cakes, bread etc

http://www.youtube.com/user/TitliNihaan/videos
This, and also it would bother me a lot to know that I'm essentially re-implementing what is already available in the standard library.
What an interesting perspective.
> revenues in 2013 were about $250 million

Does anyone know if that's before or after payouts to hosts?
I agree that the statistics on this association are pretty lousy, even with the outliers in. However, one would preferably find an specific reason to exclude outliers, rather than rely on intuition.
If I understand correctly you still have to write something like

template<typename... Arguments> auto make_window(Arguments&&... args)
{
return detail::make_resource(SDL_CreateWindow, SDL_DestroyWindow, std::forward<Arguments>(args)...);
}

for each resource.

Quite honestly at that point I'd sooner use a good old variadic macro, C99 style. I mean, sure, it's arguably less "elegant" and C++-ish but it'll be easier to understand, to maintain and won't spam me with pages of arcane template errors when I forget a colon somewhere, so it'll be easier to debug as well.

That's the double edged sword of the C++ template system I suppose, in order to gain in purity they lost the simplicity of the C macro system without gaining the expressiveness and convenience of the Lisp macro system. In the end, what percentage of C++ coders use templates outside of the STL you think?
The "30-minute" Mozzarella recipe that most people start with really is easy and generally has a good success rate. It might not be completely authentic or "world-class" but it goes great on pizza.
Elon just Tweeted this (!)...

F9R First Flight Test | 250m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjWqQPWmsY
I agree with Oxdeadbeefbabe; you are complementing your own 'technical' (computer-related) ability, and overstating the task of configuring a router. Also, not to be pedantic, 'to replace a cylinder' hardly describes a task that can be undertaken on a motor.

The variance in technical ability of the 'average person' nowadays is pretty wide. There are still pop-up clicking grandmothers on IE7 out there, but there are also plenty of baby-boomers with the ability to set the clock on their VCR's, which is a much more fair analogy to the task of router configuration.

I think the important thing is getting the message out that such configuration is much more important than having the clock on your VCR right, which is probably how important the average person thinks router configuration is. As you said in another comment, routers are effectively shipping to average people broken. I think if this were more commonly known, people would take the time to learn and configure their networks. Not ALL people, but more average people than do today. The real problem is not that people are not technically capable of doing the task, but they do not know that it is a task that is really necessary; it's not common knowledge that a brand new router is a security risk.
You guys rock. Let's talk more. nick@docker.com
Extreme sandboxing [pdf, 2005]
Right - Betteridge's Law does not apply very well. My point was more that an article that presents an open question is interesting food for thought - as opposed to articles devoid of substance that seek to answer everything in their headline. Now that you know the term, look in the comments every time you see a '?' on the front page, and you'll see the law mentioned. It is not a claim to be smart, as the peer claims, it is an indication that I spend too much time on HN.
Wait, what? The $500 million comes with a $10 billion evaluation. Surely, being more liquid doesn't raise their valuation?
Just a minor detail, the video show the load of the table with 190K rows, but then the distinct shows 194K results.. that is weird, because the table was empty before the load. :P
Actually, they dont really need to upload to archive.org to make it reusable. Youtube has the option to place this material under a liberal CC license. The least they can do is change the license so that this material is then free for reuse.
There's a slightly different take on this that was presented last year at RailsConf

http://confreaks.com/videos/2448-railsconf2013-of-buyers-and...

tl;dr: Different kinds of technical debt have different interest rates. Paying loan shark or credit card rates for a long time is bad. Paying mortgage rates is fine. Not having any technical debt means you over payed up-front.
In a way that is no different from the older Xerox PARC systems or the Oberon based ones at ETHZ.

All of them are based on the concept of using memory safe languages for coding while leaving the runtime the OS role.

Except for C and C++, language standard libraries tend to be very rich and to certain extent also offer the same features one would expect from OS services.

As such, bypassing what we know as standard OS with direct hardware integration, coupled with language memory safety, could be an interesting design as well.

That is why I follow the Mirage, Erlang on Xen and HaLVM research.
This looks like a really cool idea. I like the idea of having a place for full stack developers to build a "digital cover letter" and showcase code samples within it.
Ask HN: What alternatives exist to `curl '...' | sh`?
Lately, I've seen a lot of programming tools instruct users to type `curl '...' | sh` into the command line to install the service (Meteor, NPM, OpenShift).
Top 5 step sequencers and drum machines
Because you are so off-base

The point of the post is that NZL has 20% below OECD average GDP per capita, when it would be predicted for them to be 20% above.

The key figure is Figure 3 from http://www.productivity.govt.nz/sites/default/files/internat...

In that, you can see NZL at the far bottom right.

On the other hand, Norway, Sweden, and Finland are all above the line, meaning they have higher GDP per capita than predicted. The only nordic country below the line is Denmark, and they are barely below the line.

So, you are saying that the nordic countries are similar, but the very paper this blog post is based on shows they are not at all economically similar.
There are commercial database solutions focused on IoT that have no problems with these workloads (e.g. my company, SpaceCurve, or Pixia) but nothing open source. A single rack of servers arranged as a parallel system with a 10GbE switch fabric can support it if you design the software correctly.

If you look at every company that is working in this space, one of the first things you will notice is that they all use custom storage engines that do a full operating system bypass i.e. they manage all the system resources in userspace. If you do not do this, you cannot reliably get the necessary throughput out of the system for IoT. As far as I know, no scalable storage+execution engine in open source is designed like this yet. It requires much more computer science sophistication and lines of code to implement compared to traditional storage engines, so not the kind of thing you hack together over the weekend.
BTW, per capita energy consumption appears to have peaked in the US and some utilities are even concerned that the combination of flat demand, increasing efficiency, and solar could cause a "death spiral". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Pro... http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/this-is-what-the... http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Strateg...
But if there's no point to all of it, then there's no point

That's not attitude that's science

Space exploration is the point
I would imagine their accounting requires it to be before because they are the ones processing the transactions.
This could have been avoided had more web servers properly implemented OCSP stabling (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366#section-3.6). That way it would have been the hoster of the website rather than the issuing CA bearing the resource cost in providing the revocation status of the cert.
Right. I used to criticize New Zealand a lot because it doesn't jive with my mind's ideas of how government should work, until a friend pointed out how much New Zealand was #1 in many areas that are considered signs of an ideal society. Makes me question my ideas :)
Why did you mention the blind? Some can certainly create visual things [1] and run Javascript.

Having a limitation sucks at least two times, the first when you find you can't do something and the second time, after learning to do that thing, when people assumes you can't even try.

[1]: http://www.armagan.com/
We don't currently offer a way to put small amounts into a Zidisha account without paying credit card / PayPal fees. That said, most of our lenders recycle their funds over multiple loans, rather than cashing out immediately when they are repaid. When the 3.5% transaction fee is spread out over many loans, the cost per loan becomes less significant.
IPhone 6 – Apple’s best smartphone to arrive in two screen sizes
The founders must be so diluted
There are several promise libraries (the most promising among them seems to be Bluebird, though Q has some popularity as well), which can easily convert callback-style functions into promises. For example:

var b = require('bluebird'), request = b.promisify(require('request'));
request(...).then(...)

These libraries also have utilities for controlling callback flow -- e.g calling several promises in parallel, which is done in the article with jQuery's $.when, waiting until a certain number finish, etc
This is out of left field, but I'd use it to start a huge home cleaning business. All those homeowners need to clean rooms between guests, why let some other company take that business?

As for other ideas - what else do hotels spend money or hire people to do (cleaning was my example)? Those are the natural areas of expansion.
How can that be the right move? If everyone stopped using water and there was a massive run on bottled water, it might be worth doing as a concession, but doing it pre-emptively is nonsense. What irrationality are we going to have to pander to next?
I haven't finished reading his book, so I can't speak to the context in which he says this.

I guess it depends on what you consider force. If you stop encouraging suburb development, would that be force? It would certainly promote such redistribution, but I wouldn't consider that force. As another HN link noticed, this kind of financial incentive to move into the city has already started happening, but it has been a bottom-up bit.
enterprise value = market cap + debt - cash; don't think the additional cash would 'raise their buying price'. If they could have sold for $10B currently (assuming the valuation TPG is buying in at is what they would sell for), I'd think it would make sense to not take additional funding at the expense of giving up equity, so don't see how this would raise the value of their valuation. Thoughts?
You don't have to spend the money or even have a plan to spend it right away for it to be useful. It has value as:

1. Rainy day fund. When the market is hot, you might as well stow some money away in case bad things happen.

2. Liquidity for existing shareholders at a good price

3. Sets a floor in valuation in case somebody tries to acquire you

4. More flexibility in acquiring other companies (who will probably want some part of it in cash)

5. Good press

Though of course maybe they also have plans to spend it. Who knows. But if people are throwing money at you at a good price, you might as well take it.
Good question. The answer is no. You still need to write the page objects yourself. But it's much easier. Compare

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='text' and @value='First Name']");

with

TextField("First Name");

Helium makes it much easier to identify the elements of the PageObject.
Hands-on with Ubuntu Touch 14.04: Coming along, but miles to go
If I were Airbnb, and I had an extra $500M of cash, I'd be looking into getting hotel licenses, and/or using my data about the real estate market to purchase property.
Could folks please help me get DigitalOcean onto wikipedia? (deleted thrice)
Sure! I'll shoot you an email.
Silicon Valley tech companies reap record-level investments
Qapital makes saving easy and automatic by rewarding everyday decisions
This interface paradigm has, I believe, become known as gamification;
an example from another domain, language learning, would be Duolingo[0].

Engaging as such applications are with their stimulus of powerful primordial
triggers, they all too often transport not just a game's gratifying aspects
into the problem domain (todo lists, in this case), but also the gaming mindset,
resulting in terribly linear interfaces and data structures.

I do believe that even a serious todo list application, or, as it were,
language learning platform, would benefit from similiarly engaging elements,
effective by virtue of our cerebral heritage.

Nevertheless, I have yet to see a successful marriage.

A gamified Emacs Org-mode[1], perhaps?

[0] An ingenious platform that ostensibly allows anyone to learn a language by
doing bite-sized exercises and translating sentences, while effectively
training the proprietary Duolingo translation engine. See http://duolingo.com

[1] http://orgmode.org/
Abraham Lincoln, as I recall.
I love this impression that if you're connecting from <insert somewhere in Africa>, laws don't apply. I'd wager nobody that's ever actually lived anywhere in 3rd world bandies it about.

True, you're less likely to actually be convicted, but the months/years waiting for trail is guaranteed to be worse than your actual sentence elsewhere, if not fatal.
Buggy Security Guidance from Apple
Not all of it, but not none of it either.
> > The now-isolated core business would have positive value.

> The article doesn't really make the case for that. It says the core business is profitable, but current profitability doesn't mean positive value; it could be in debt, profitable, and not expected by the market to remain profitable long enough to get out of debt -- that would give it negative market value.

Stock can't have negative value. If a company becomes insolvent, its stockholders aren't forced to pay its debts.

The article agrees: "Unless the probability of that outcome is 100 percent -- a rare thing in this life -- then Core Yahoo should have some positive value."
I think Nest is really nailing a pain point for traditional utilities providers and probably can be a great business model for a couple of decades, but to me the future is going to be decentralized.

I say this because the electrical grid in the US is very old and dilapidated and is a constant drain on capital just so that the electricity that is mostly generated by the increasing costs of coal and petro derivatives can flow through it; in the long run, the margins are shrinking (Nest/Google can help slow this rate down).

On the other side, there are multitude of solar alternatives (Micro CSP, photovoltaic, etc) that are powering places now in the US that wouldn't be worth the cost to put on the grid; in the long run, the margins are growing.