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I think when something/someone gets famous, valuable or prestigious beyond a certain level it's all mass hysteria. Art is especially vulnerable to this kind of thing.

NPR just did a podcast about Stradivarius violins. One just sold for $12m. There were pepsi challenge like experiments were players and instrument makers tried to pick the multi million dollar antiques from the crowd of regular high end ($10k+) violins. They couldn't.

There are parallels for wine and other things. Almost everyone has come and gone from the inner circles of the high-art gallery world seem to report how many emperors are wearing high heels and penis gourds.

I think this is easier for us to accept today than at any other time. We have a lot of 'famous for being famous' people today, so it's not hard to believe that it's possible.

That said, I quite like Andy Warhol.
It's maybe even wrong of me to lump Ceylon and Kotlin together. Kotlin definitely is richer (and closer to Scala in features) and can also compile to JavaScript, which puts it in a different boat.

As a straight and immediate Java replacement, I'd definitely recommend Kotlin as well. If you want to switch over existing Spring apps, you will not get the best out of Scala. Scala, in my experience, is most effective when written without Java goggles on. But Scala definitely has large advantages for new projects or broad refactorings.
Mtgox was not for everyday use, it was a trading platform for speculators who wanted to trade currency <-> btc.
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When I moved to New York to join 80/20, I left my then girlfriend and our son who was 3 back in Denmark for almost a year.

A lot of my (now) wifes friends told her that I was crazy to do that, that their husbands would never do that to them or their kids and that I chose career instead of family.

The thought of disrupting ones life for something uncertain is to many the #1 fear and is the reason why many say "we would love to live and work abroad" but when it comes down to it they don't.

My thinking one the choice I made was tactially problematic, it is never a good idea move away from certainty in the short run. But strategically I feel like I made the right decision and for a very simple reason.

Your kids grow up and while they might adore you when they are young they will also grow up and become their own individual.

And while I definitely want to see them grow up I also want to be there with them when they are older and perhaps even be something other than a dad.

Lifes complicated and there are no right or wrong choices. All we can do is trust our intution and that might sometimes be trusting what seems counter intuitive.

We all now live together in NY and had another son. And while I certainly understand the difficulty of finding the balance between you and your family but never forget that there will be a point where you are not that type of father anymore and by that time if you are not careful you loose whats just as important as seeing your kids grow up, you loost your ability to define you as more than a dad.
There are businesses that should raise VC and those that should not. Odds are most people's business are not high growth, VC fueled rocket ships that fit in that model. Some businesses are not possible without a large capital injection.

There are many VCs out there that provide a tremendous amount of value outside of their capital. They can help with signing large deals and partnerships, make the right introductions, and provide a lot of credibility to the company. Partners that previously started a successful company are incredibly valuable in almost every aspect of the business.

It seems you are referring to angel investing which is biting a chunk out of the tradition VC market at the early stage. Some could argue that these large angel "party rounds", provide more freedom, but don't provide as much value as some VCs or larger angels can bring. Just handing money to young/poor talent typically wouldn't generate a return.

There are good VC firms and there are bad ones, if one is hiring "underachieving friends from MBA school", they are likely not performing and will cease to exist soon. This isn't the norm amongst firms generating a return for their LPs. VCs don't solely exist to hand out executive jobs at their portfolio companies.

We're at a point where so many folks have such a gross misunderstanding of venture capital. Even people that have raised it.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to describe Charles as "non-native".

For example, it doesn't integrate with Keychain, for SSL certificates, so you have to do a bunch of jiggery pokery with the openssl command if you want to generate your own CA for use with SSL interception.

For a more trivial but still annoying example, control-A and control-E don't work in Charles's text fields. In normal Mac apps, this goes to the beginning/end of the line, but in Charles it does nothing.

"Native" isn't about "poor" UI per se, but rather about whether or not it has the basic UI features provided by the system. In a native app, you have to go out of your way to disable stuff like ^A/^E because the system gives that to you by default.

I'm not a purist and will happily use non-native apps like Charles if they get the job done, but it's still a legitimate point against it.
There are several, and you'll pay a lot of money for them.
The document you point to says they lost $50m in the quarter.
Or is this just the place where I do need to catch errors and process them? And if that is so, isn't it at odds with the whole concept of writing intentional code?

No it's not. The author touches on this:

Note the word intentional. In some cases, we do expect calls to fail. So we just handle it like everyone else would, but since we can emulate sum-types in Erlang, we can do better than languages with no concept of a sum-type.

So handle errors you expect explicitly and let the rest crash.

case user:authenticate(Username, Password) of
{ok, UserRecord} -> ...;
{error, notfound} -> ...;
{error, badpass} -> ...
end,
Nice comment. Very reminiscent of PG's "Beating the Averages" essay:

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Paul's essay was the catalyst that got me to (re-)discover Lisp for myself. Scheme was taught in my CompSci I course a long time ago; but at the time, it was just a weird looking language that I forgot (CS II and beyond was all in C++ at my college).
Agreed. Sometimes it gets away from people that when you decide to get married and then later have children, those get ascribed the highest priorities ahead of anything else.
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I'm using the free tier of openshift from red hat.

The performance is good enough that I'm able to cram a java application powered by jetty + mysql + phpmyadmin in a single small "gear" (they give you 3 small gears free, 1gb of hard disk).
Because he's a person and we're social animals.

Because he's interested in art and wants to talk about it. I see nothing wrong with saying that art is good or bad and trying to convince people of your position.
There may very well be systematic bias against women by the organizers of this conference, but this article does a terrible job making such an argument.

Even anecdotally, citing specific women who have done good work in this very specialized field, submitted a quality paper, and were rejected would go a long way towards corroborating the claim this conference is excluding women. Without knowing how many women submitted papers, and some (even subjective) indication of the quality of those papers, there is no way to judge whatever bias towards women this conference may have.

Also, are all identifying data stripped from the papers before consideration? If there is no way for the judges to even know whether the paper was submitted by a woman, how could they discriminate against her? If this is not the process, it may merit consideration for future conferences.
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> over companies which cooperate completely (Telcos, _Microsoft_, eBay, etc.).

FTFY.

I don't mean to sound like a Microsoft basher (and if you look at my history, I frequently defend them), but they are perhaps the most highly-documented (esp. in regard to Skype, Hotmail, etc) at collaborating with the US IC. They absolutely deserve a mention in that list.
This article doesn't address whether "recycling is worth it" or not, and instead basically states a truism: If you have X amount of stuff, and you divert Y amount of that stuff to other places, you will be left with Z amount of stuff which is less than what you started with.
Because iandanforth (and I, and you) get to be surrounded by the "art that other people value", to the point that it drowns out what he (and I and you) might actually prefer to be looking at.
The slow lane/fast lane propaganda is the small fight, they can have it. It's not about the speed, it's about equal access.

The ISP discrimination and censorship lanes are the real problem.
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While we're talking about it, can anyone explain why CocoaPods is so popular? I don't understand the appeal at all. Adding third-party libraries is something I don't do frequently at all, and it's not difficult to do manually. Automating the process doesn't seem to be even remotely worthwhile.
It was hard to install for shared hosting, so most aspiring developers became familiar with MySQL first, with resulting network effects.

The client was a bit harder to use (\x commands are harder to memorize than mysql's "SHOW TABLE" and felt sluggish in a local environment (something that's no longer the case AIUI)).

Replication was a third party addon at the time, and had a reputation for being hairy, though I don't have direct experience.
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> A foreiginer is not a person as defined in the constitution

That is not correct, foreigners are indeed persons under and are subject to the equal protection clause [1] under the 14th amendment of the Constitution, which explicitly refers to "persons" and not only to "citizens".

The whole reason for Guantanamo is that it is outside of US jurisdiction, and it was argued that the constitutional protections do not apply there. It's pretty clear that suspects would have full Constitutional rights on US soil; whether they do in Guantanamo is still being contested (the US gov't holds that they do not).

IANAL, nor a Constitutional scholar, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
That's the beauty of art, different strokes for different folks.

By the way, some people (like me) enjoy Warhol not for his actual artistic creations, but rather for shining a light on the absurdity of it all, akin to the storyline of "Exit through the gift shop".

Personally, I don't get Barnett Newman's paintings -
http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=35...
Some feedback:

1. (I think) that all .price-box elements should have the same height, the pricing page makes me do a double take when I scroll to the bottom.

2. In your "Create Test Plan" screenshot, you should change "Timmy Jones"'s icon to be different from your own ("Team" section) later in the page

I had a similar idea around allowing any and all people to participate in integration testing. If you think about it, having "experienced" testers is probably not a good thing for your tests :)
Ive used this https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb
and this https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame
to make this http://www.ffgraf.com/
Yes of course, I do. Yet, again, I cannot agree with your statement. First, I neither "oppose" Shell nor Google (actually I think Google is a pretty cool company). Still, I find the parody funny and it raises some interesting questions.

Next, in the examples not an individual is "impersonated" but a faceless, anonymous corporation. I would have way more problems with the parody if an individual (independent to if I like them or not) would be impersonated or ridiculed.

If somebody makes similar fun of my employer, I would not mind at all.
Spot on. The truth hurts.

It's telling that these comments rarely solicit many replies on HN, even though they apply directly to what HN is all about. I have no sympathy for willful ignorance.
Yes, this is called MAPP. Every large security company gets them, as well.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/security/dn467918
That's why they invented justgetflux.com -- now you can work longer at night!
Ha! Another question, do you plan to be able to filter by applications?

When you have a lot of tabs open, there is always pollution that get added to what actually matters.
Ceylon also targets compile-to-javascript. (I thought Kotlin kept the standard Java library - have they compiled a version of that for javascript or what?)
For some reason, HN deleted all posts to the Secret website. Anyone knows why?
Congratulations on an income-generating project! That's an immense achievement. Perhaps the infrastructure cost is worth the headaches you spare yourself by being on GAE but have you looked at dedicated infrastructure from the likes of OVH/Hetzner (on both providers you can get ~2TB storage/64GB mem boxes for around $100/mo)? I moved all my projects to a single OVH box and it's been a champ. It does mean slightly more maintenance burden (ex you need to roll your own backup/restore plan). Perhaps it is a poor fit but that seems like a possible path to get those costs way under control
What if, instead of "My dear daughter, Wait for me.", why not "My dear daughter, join me.". It's the journey. Take your daughter with you on your journey to build your experiences together. When she is ready, she will branch off to continue with her journey. She will then learn from you and take your grand children on her journey and so on...
Having been recently married and with no kids yet, I am fortunate enough to have a supportive wife who is letting me pursue a partially selfish dream of founding a startup. The glamor of the pursuit has long since faded. Execution is my hammer for every type of hurdle while Time lurks in the shadows conspiring with Denial and Self Doubt. I hope that I'll have the perfect lifestyle that will allow me to spend quality time with the ones I have chosen to be with and have brought into this world. Quality time can only exist if they are provided for with more than just love, but also a roof over their head, money to pay bills, and food on their plates. What we all seek is security and founding a startup puts the burden on you more often than a corporate job. There is no get rich quick scheme here but I have to try to see if I can achieve immortality by killing myself through hard work. If I am a mere mortal, I will succumb to the daily grind having a bit more certainty of my capabilities and a steady paycheck.
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Do you really consider that some % offered to you as an interest on savings account make a difference when there is almost 100 billion USD printed each month in form of bond purchases by Fed?

I'd say more: by locking your money in the savings account (in return for few %) you guarantee your bank protection from bank run. If suddenly it turns out your bank is being bailed-in (your deposit is partly taken by central bank), or dollar goes down, they have all legal reasons to deny you access to your cash. Also, they can reliably use that cash for tons of loans (based on fractional reserve, of course) since you are not going to remove that cash from your balance any time soon.

These little favors: "FDIC insurance", "interest payments" are all pieces of a theater to make you either blind or a part of the scheme (but you will lose nonetheless).
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Or, he's brilliant – by playing along with the cableco's game, he's making the fight public, which also puts the heat on the cableco's, and gives the FCC the political capital to push back on the cableco's.
Unfortunately the markets they're targeting are going to need very thorough testing and characterization. And they're probably way too expensive for the other uses that come immediately to mind. It'll be years before you see these in action.
He really uses internet explorer?
I just changed mine to a random 32, but I suspect ebay just silently threw away the last 12. Will test ...
ye the lord commanded it
Also, don't forget that Comcast now owns NBC. :-)
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But does that actually delete all user records?
Great read.

This is especially interesting to me. My side project http://www.longboxed.com was recently launched to a modicum of regular users (~300). My app runs on Heroku on the free tier with the 'Hobby Basic' level of the Heroku Postgres database. All told it costs me ~9 dollars a month. No big deal.

However, if I ever stepped the site up to another tier I'd be looking at ~50 bucks for the database and ~36 bucks for another process instance. These expenses can add up fast for a site that doesn't currently generate any money.

Anyway - it is nice to see examples of introducing a pay model into your app after it has launched.
I'm sorry for the delay - I forgot about the post after Monday. There's great pay, it's just that I'd like to find a college-aged or recent graduate programmer/developer because I think such a person would be more enthusiastic about our efforts. Aside from the startup's Director of R&D choice - a successful researcher and Caltech professor who's worked with several startups, each member of the startup's early-stage team has held high level positions at leading entertainment, tech and/or music companies.
Nope, give them a tiny amount of credit: they're not arbitrarily restricting password length. It's just the instructions that are out-of-date (or just plain incorrect).
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Honest question: is this idea really something people courting investment are unaware of:

"Investors are not in the same business you are"

And if so, why are those entrepreneurs surprised? What are their expectations?
Is there an open database for horse racing?
I spent many years with Tcl back in the ArsDigita/OpenACS days. Tcl embedded in AOLserver hummed quite well, and as Greenspun once wrote, "Hey, Tcl is just like Lisp, but without a brain, and with syntax on steroids" (http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/introduction.adp).
Right. If it actually were better than lithium ion, they wouldn't be shy about saying so.
>paper cups in the compost bin actually going to make progress towards zero waste given the mountains of trash that end up in the landfill today

As far as space I don't know, but I do know for aluminum cans there is a benefit in the amount of kilowatt*hours (Anyone else wonder why we just don't say Joules in the US?) saved. I believe the number is crazy too, like > 90% of the energy is saved by recycling the aluminum.
I'm a bit confused.

If you don't want to use either JavaScript or a transpiler (ClojureScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, etc.) that compiles to JS, how do you get what you've built into a form executable in the browser, our current runtime target?

Are you talking about using LLVM in someway?
That's a great story. How would you have fixed it without having to find another channel to transmit over? Could the plugin sense the character's condition and delay until it abated?
Absolutely agreed -- I actually find this poem entirely nauseating, probably because it reminds me of my own father: he repeatedly made absolutely terrible choices and then would try to make up for it with occasional blubbering displays of emotion in which he would beg for forgiveness. Again, I'm surely projecting, but I can just clearly see his older daughter's reaction to this: "Dad, get a grip -- and please just choose to show up to my volleyball game next time."
I discovered yesterday that Microsoft (yes, Microsoft!) limits their passwords to between 8 and 16 characters. I'm not sure ANYONE really knows how to implement security even half-properly; I really wish OpenID had taken off.
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Hi hartator,

Thanks for the support. Both fiddler and Proxy.app are proxies. Forms, JSON and XML are handled without a problem. At the moment there is no support for AMF if this is what you are referring to. We did not wanted to add this initially because it is not a standard and it requires creating a parser and serialiser from scratch - it is on our todo list though.
> AFAIK California has never taken an interest in creating its own state level transit agencies?

It has (e.g., through longstanding cooperation with Amtrak, and more recently through the High-Speed Rail Authority), but not of the same style as those centered around New York or Boston, because California doesn't have any metropolitan areas like New York or Boston to support (even like New York or Boston before they had developed their strong coordinated public transit systems.)

California's urban areas are nothing like New York or Boston in density. Sure, the New York-centered services may cover a land area comparable to the Bay Area -- but the reason for an intense transit system in that area is that there are a lot more people there. New York City alone, has more people than the entire 9-county Bay Area has spread out over 7,000 square miles.

And, of course, while New York City is clearly the economically dominant metropolitan area of New York State (and politically dominant in the State, as the City itself has nearly half the State's population) and a considerable center of gravity even for surrounding states, and Boston has a similar role -- that the city itself isn't so much of the state, the metro area is -- in Massachusetts, the Bay Area isn't the dominant region in California, by population, economic power (despite being pretty strong in per capita wealth), or political influence.
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Well, I changed departments in a company I was working for. It took less than 6 months to leave.
It's absolutely true. I work less now and get far more done (I would say more than 3x) of what I did when I was pulling 7-days-a-week work marathons.

People waste lifetimes thinking they are working hard but are really just puttering around.

It's been stated by authors (I mentioned Tony Shwartz in another comment and I highly recommend his book) but I offer this analogy:

Consider you are standing next to a roaring river. It is treacherous. It is dangerous. On the other side, it looks like it's a lot nicer (more grass, nicer setting, maybe a picnic table all set up) than the side you are standing on.

Sure would be nice to get over there. But man, to swim that current...dangerous. So maybe you could build a raft? You start looking for wood, something to put it together. Can't find anything. You try looking at the river to see if there's an easier way to cross. Maybe some shallows? Not sure.

Then, behind you, suddenly there is a pack of lions. They look hungry. They ARE hungry. And they see you. And they start loping your way, drool dripping from their teeth. This ain't Hobbs. This is real. These lions are going to literally rip you apart and it's going to happen in a few seconds.

How long does it take you to get across that river now? Are you still going to try and build a raft? Still going to look for a shallow end?

Still going to worry about getting wet?

Focus is a curious thing. We think are 100% committed to something, but we are really not. We achieve what we are truly focused on.

I mean, it sure FELT like you were working 100% on getting across the river when you were trying to lash together a raft and when you were scouting the river for an easy way across. But when it meant getting across or being eaten, THAT'S when you focused truly 100%.

The secret is learn how to FOCUS, truly focus, put your entire mind intensely on the most important task...then take a break, recover. Then do it again. And wow...does it ever work.
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I came here to say this exact thing. They are definitely showing their bias with that title.
Both Amazon and Etsy are ecommerce players that attract plenty of good developers.