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Sweet. Clean design, and I like that its quite clear cut and focused in terms of what it does unlike, say, Basecamp.

Have you spoken to the clients of your potential clients, i.e the clients of the agencies and designers who it seems you're targeting, at least based on the opening text?

I can definitely see some designers and agencies buying into this, however I wonder how stubbornly set in their ways some of their own clients are.
>Who is going to run the marketplace?

Same as the bitcoin itself - nobody, it's just software (that needs to be written yet).

You don't need a chain trade, just list you points for sale for bitcoins directly. There might be no one to buy it right now, but there will be someone tomorrow or a week later, who is going into that restaurant, and loads up on the points before they get there.

>unspent points are a major boon to them

Of course! The points must decay or expire. It would be foolish to carry debt without expiration.

There is nothing complicated about deciding how big your loyalty program is going to be. Start off at your current credit card processing rates about 1.5%, and go up from there if you feel generous (like the stake house I talked about earlier), or based on repeat volume for a given customer (e.g. spend $100 get $10 back). Most places will be fine with a default for a given industry (e.g. large for restaurants, small for sandwich shops).
Sorry to nag, but there is no reason to put those similar metrics in two different "measurements". That just makes the ratio blurry.

drunk trol...
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I don't understand why the article calls this the largest ship ever built, since (going by Wikipedia, [1]) it is not the largest ship in any metric (gross tonnage, deadwight tonnage, or length).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_longest_ships
I doubt that many CTO types are "real tech guys." Perhaps at one point, they might have coded something up once. But CTO's are management first, with a few noteworthy exceptions.

I think this is more likely two "buddies" rubbing each other's backs.
Would you be interested in creating speakers using this method that play and are controlled in sync?

If so, we (SpeakerBlast.com) might be able to help.
On the callous and condescending: I've wondered how much of that's inculcated by the ridiculous working hours required by residencies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)#History_of... That's been criticized for causing lots of errors, but less immediately, after long enough, a gauntlet like that's bound to change you, right? I don't know, so I'm asking.
Ask HN: How, if at all, do you build infrastructure for side projects to scale?
I am considering using the free tier on one of the major cloud service providers and wanted to get thoughts on if and how people build their infrastructure for side projects. Do you route your DNS directly to your main instance and keep both your database and middleware there (it's simple to setup, but doesn't really scale). Or, do you invest time setting up a load balancer, redundant databases in more than one zone, a middleware instance in more than one zone, remote code execution for spinning up new instances, etc.
I grew up and live near D.C. at present (near the 2nd or 3rd largest Korean population outside of Korea after L.A. and maybe NYC depending on how you count). I've been back and forth to Korea about a half dozen times over last 13 years and have noticed the trend there as well (I'm not Korean, but my wife is).

My in-laws (Korean) are all talking about how hard it is to get kids to eat the kinds of foods they grew up with: salty, spicy, fermented (and generally pretty nutritious), and instead their kids are dead set on eating what they call "American foods" like hamburgers and pizza. Their parents complain about having to tone down certain strong flavors and ingredients in order to get their kids to eat the food at all.

I don't think it's quite as bad as they say, but I and my extended family in Korea have all noticed a rising wave of both obese kids in Korea, and much taller kids than any previous generation.

For people of my wife's generation, I'm usually near the top of the height range for any random selection of people (I'm 5'9"). For those same people's kids, by the time they're in high school, they're usually a few cm taller than all of us. I can really only think of a couple kids who didn't at least reach my height, but at least half their parents are shorter than me.

Because I've managed to cultivate a taste for the more old fashioned flavors, people are frequently pretty surprised at what I'll eat. I've even sat by sheepishly while a mother severely scolded her son for not eating traditional Korean food as well as this foreigner. People say I eat Korean food like an old ajusshi if that makes any sense to you.

As the default hangover cure, I've had lots of this soup both here in the U.S., but mostly in Korea. You can still find it made the old way, usually in pretty spare looking old restaurants from back in the 70s or 80s. Newer places never seem to have it with the blood.
Try and visualize how your life will be improved after you've invested in learning over a period of time.
War is fascinating; all other organized endeavour is soft and fluffy by comparison. It's such a wildly Hobbesian domain it's just inherently interesting.
To an extent it is; if your phone never connects to any WiFi device (and instead uses GPRS / EDGE / LTE etc... to a mobile carrier), and your laptop only ever connects to your phone, then the probes the attacker will see are for your laptop probing for the SSID of your phone. Given an appropriately vague SSID, this doesn't give the attacker much information (c.f. connecting to access points everywhere and giving away that list of SSIDs).

If you use WPA2 PSK and choose a long, random password (you want enough entropy that brute forcing it is impossible - for example, 20 completely random and independent characters taken from a dictionary of 62 characters gives you ~105 bits of entropy, which should be enough, while 8 characters or a few dictionary words might not cut it) impersonating your phone is not feasible if your laptop is configured to only ever connect using the saved pre-shared key.
IS is an American myth, says Syrian ambassador
The site only contains various military reading lists, so apparently Scheur's book hasn't been represented on any of those - at least not the ones that I've managed to collect, that is.

But the "Defense Academy of the UK" list has a book by David Owen (The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair & the Intoxication of Power) that sounds like it's in the same ballpark.
Right, but in this case your browser never sees the page over HTTPS. The attacker makes the secure connection, and feeds you data over an insecure connection that they can see.

You <-(HTTP)-> Attacker <-(HTTPS)-> Facbook
Fun fact, the integral symbol is in fact this long S (as in 'sum' or 'ſum').
When I started the site 6 years ago I was on a "four word domain name" kick. Also, sadly, militaryreadinglists.com was already taken.
Filtered: NMAP Port Scanner Sees Through IPtables Firewall (2006)
+1 (Yes, I know it's bad form, but in since point counts on comments are invisible this is the only way to let the OP know that others are interested)
A comment I recently made about the shipyard

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406975
Yup, "On Combat" is on the Air Force reading list. And "On Killing" has shown up on four different reading lists.

The only author I can think of who gets more space there is probably John Keegan; he's everywhere: http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/search?keywords=... .
If merchant is paying 1.5% in CC processing fee (of which 1% goes to consumer in cash back) and has his own 2% loyalty program, switching to bitcoint-rewards(tm) they can set the kick-back at 3% making consumer whole, and pocket the 0.5%.
Were there any demos that required you to read text? That always been the hard thing for me.
The q in your latter example is the same complexity in my book as a dense Python list comprehension. Could be worse.
My guess is that the language's "day job" uses many similar-but-ever-so-slightly-different intermediate variables which are difficult to descriptively name in any manner that facilitates understanding faster than just re-reading the definition. Long descriptive names have a concrete cost: they impair your ability to recognize visual patterns / turn common compositions into "pictographs" and they don't refine well: instead of gaining an index and adding a bit to the definition the author has to come up with a bundle of new similar-but-slightly-and-meaningfully-different names from which someone else (including their future self) will be able to reverse-engineer the definition.

The shortcut of using descriptive names just doesn't have the same ROI in all kinds of code. The first time I was forced to abandon my descriptive-naming ways was when I started writing finite element solvers. I don't think it's much of a stretch to believe that (some areas of) finance have the same cost/benefit profile. Since this is a desktop programming example it's relatively easy to come up with good descriptive names, so the short names are almost certainly a holdover.

Or it's just a macho thing. There's enough pixie dust floating around this press release that I wouldn't be surprised.
Sure it means something, just not quite what it used to. Once upon a time, "trolling" meant going on a Usenet newsgroup, posting something that contained an incorrect statement about Star Trek (for example), and seeing if anyone was enough of a smarty pants to flame you for it. Then you "YHBT, HAND" and scurry back to alt.religion.kibology where you post a recap for everyone's amusement.

To my knowledge, that is the actual origin of the term as it pertains to the Internet (as opposed to the meaning in fishing, which is what it ultimately derived from).

Now it just means being an online griefer. I can accept that. There needs to be a name for it and that's as good as any.

I'm not sure what you think the original meaning of the term was, but most people who complain about mainstream culture getting Internet subcultures wrong think it dates back to the earlier days of web forums, which itself was a dilution of its meaning from Usenet.

The moral of the story is that it doesn't matter. It may matter even less than getting riled up about hacker vs. cracker misuse, which itself is profoundly unworthy of getting worked up over. :)
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I guess having twice the vocabulary (or 2x, 3x...) gives you more tools to think.

Sometimes, when I'm trying to figure out something hard, I think/write in english (not my native language), and the thoughts seem to develop more logically (can't explain why though). So I guess it's not just learning, but using it.
As I understand it, it was basically Carmack that made it actually work.

Before his help, I'm not sure it was more than an interesting demo of technologies we'd seen before.
Exactly. There are loads of theories and models that are incredibly useful until you look at them from just the right angle and see how weird they really are.
iPhone 5s came out over a year ago. And yes it had plenty of battery left.

Also, transparency is possible because it's not limited to jpeg. PNG frames could just as easily be used where needed.

The point is the technique can be improved. Whether it can be shaped into anything useful is yet to be seen. In the meantime, cool down and take a deep breath.
Most people ignore the other languages.
Swiss childern would have to learn one other language at school, but learning a language in school sucks so bad that most will not be able to speak anything in it.
You don't learn a language by memorizing vocabulary for exams. You learn it by using it, and that's not happening.

So, I'd answer this with nope. Source: I'm swiss.

I'd suggest look at people who truly grew up bilingual.
There is this well known soup in Poland called "czernina". It is made from duck blood and clear poultry broth

Due to health issues and people switching diets to more European and American dishes the soup is diminished to disappear within next 2-3 decades. It is a great part of the Polish culture though.
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Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic About Manga and Anime [pdf]
Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoia (1994)
“The [Moral] Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering”
Excerpts: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/BhoJHxGf...
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No. It's in a monitoring system we've been working on, but the principle is pretty simple. We may well end up open sourcing quite the rest of it sometime in the future -- a lot of the code already is.
How about all the languages a programmer 'speaks' does knowing how to code in a dozen different languages help? I'd like to think so.

I keep flopping between what second language to choose, Spanish, German or Japanese.
Black men are 21 times more likely than whites to be killed by police
How does this compare to something like transit[1]?

[1]: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format
It is rather amusing that the picture shows a Quebec stop sign with "Arret/Stop." In France, it would just say "Stop" - no need for bilingualism in that case.
Would it run under Kona? [1]

1. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
FWIW, with folly::gen [1], this is just:

using namespace folly::gen;
byLine('/a/file/with/numbers') | eachTo<int> | sum;

https://github.com/facebook/folly/tree/master/folly/gen
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I do enjoy learning about such things, but, for most of the work I do, performance is nowhere near at the top of the list of things I care about. Also in the past I've been burned by code that's small/fast but is otherwise utterly unmaintainable. I'm not saying that's the case here, but... past experience, and all that tends to color perceptions.

I think with a language like k or q, which appears to be purpose-built for certain types of problems, people look at it and get easily confused and discouraged because it's so different from all the more mainstream general-purpose programming languages they're used to. And it's a lot easier to put down something you don't understand than to admit you don't get it, or to spend lots of time learning something that may not be of much use to you. Kinda sucks, but it's often human nature.
> why and what is this style of naming good for, and what one needs to do to master it?

It's bullshit. The letters are not letters, they're symbols. Replace them with JPGs of pokemon if you want. It's just as well if they were ancient hieroglyphs. If you forgot what they all meant, you have to read the code and keep track of what variable name contains what. Or make a note on some paper.

This is why one-letter variable names are an antipattern: when there's no rhyme or reason to what value is associated with what symbol (why is `c` the index of the newline and not `n`?), your brain isn't going to remember it, and you've instantly forgotten what that code does. And everyone after you needs to do the same thing: you need to re-remember how each line of code works each time you work with it. And more importantly, looking at one dense line of code provides no context as to what the code around it does, compared to C or Python where one function can give you a decent idea of what its use is.

It's even more of a nonsense issue because the actual name of the variable is just a number: every one-letter variable name maps to an integer. Why not support proper identifiers and replace them with unique integers at runtime? The same goes for whitespace: it doesn't need to be kept in the program at runtime, but makes the application infinitely more readable because units of logic can be grouped on their own line.

So to answer your question: no, this is not good for anything and no, you shouldn't try to master it because there are much more useful things that you could be doing with your life.
I think that the article trying to imply a stronger link between apologies and the law than really exists in practice.

Corporate apologies are not about trying to win a lawsuit or reduce damages, they are about trying to regain trust and prevent or stem the loss of market share.

The public are not so stupid as to be significantly swayed if the company apologises publicly for some problem and doesn't say what they are doing to address the problem. For example, if a companies widgets were exploding, the company might apologise and explain that they have fixed the exploding component, and instituted review processes to stop it happening again. Sometimes the change will not be sufficient to fix the problem, and the public may not have the background to realise this.

The article claims safe apology "laws provide another way to protect wrongdoers from liability". But that is not really true - without the laws, companies in the wrong would not apologise at all, so there would be no more evidence against them. The laws allow companies to apologise without legally self-incriminating; the article takes a very law centric view, but I would think most people would value an apology even if it didn't incriminate the person making the apology - the apology (and particularly, the explanation of why it won't happen again) has value to the public outside of the legal system. Of course, the company apologising should still be able to be held liable if their explanation is untrue or misleading (for example, if the company says that the new version of their widget no longer explodes, but they are lying to get more sales, and it in fact does still explode, they should face an additional charge with big penalties for misleading or deceptive conduct in the course of trade, with the apology admissible as evidence).
The new Simpsons episodes are not awful. I don't think anyone wlll say that they prefer the new seasons over the older ones, but that doesn't mean that the new seasons are objectively bad. Whatever is said about the show, it still has the market cornered on Ivy League level humor. The best jokes are just smart, I would dare to say smarter and more insightful than any other television show. Fraiser at its best wasn't nearly as intelligent as some of the Simpson's throwaway jokes.

There used to be one truly inspired joke every few episodes. Now there might be only one or two per season, but they're still there. The Simpsons remains on the air because there are some things that can only be done with the right combination of deep wit and animated insanity. It's ok to make references to the classics or philosophy if you follow it with Homer getting hit in the groin. Plenty of shows are funny, animated or intelligent, but I can only think of one show that is the best of all three of those things.

Anyone who hasn't watched The Simpsons in ten years should tune in to a few new episodes. You'll laugh, at least once. There will probably be something that makes you think just a little bit. Nothing is ever as good as it used to be, but there are definitely worse ways to spend 30 minutes.
Snappy: a fast compression library from Google
How long does it take to notice the changes? If I try out a single bottle, as offered on your site, will I likely be feeling as much difference as I'm going to feel by the time I finish it?

I am also curious about the details of the "much more ambitious" study mentioned in the FAQ. Are those still coming soon?

(Accidentally hitting Escape while on the site dropped me into a settings page login. It was disorienting.)
a. He's not necessarily deleting it.

b. If it's worth so much, people should be willing to pay a fair price for it. The implication that he should let it all go for a payment to Amazon is, frankly, insulting, and I'm sure you'd be singing a different tune if it was your own startup that you were trying to liquidate.

c. Talk is cheap. It's easy to try to shame someone into letting you take their intellectual property. It's not plutocracy, it's just business.

d. Getting a lot of users doesn't require your company to convert into a charity. I am 100% sure that Noah Everett has a price, and I'm sure if people actually valued the Twitpic corpus he'd be able to get it.

e. All uses of Twitpic were voluntary and done with the implicit acknowledgement that the images and comments may go away one day. If someone was not OK with this, they should've saved their data, and many probably did. Blocking the Internet Archive from devaluing the dataset is not bad, wrong, or ethically icky in any way. The larger ethical crime lies at the feet of the people trying to convince Everett that he doesn't deserve fair compensation for curating this historically significant dataset.

f. If no one is willing to pay the money to preserve the dataset, it's obviously not as culturally significant as you believe it is. There's plenty of money out there.
> in fact I had decided against attending many previous such events due to the cost (in both time and money) of travelling down to the San Francisco bay area

It may not be my place to say, but...Is anyone else here....irked that a singular genius like Colin, with as impressive a product as Tarsnap still has to worry about money? Especially considering that said worry could easily be ameliorated by yielding to even one of patio11's entreaties?
The equivalent python is:

mss = lambda x: max(scan(lambda a,b: max(0,a+b),0,x))

assuming a definition "scan" (which is like "reduce", except it gives you all intermediate values), an example of which is:

def scan(f,x0,x):
r = [x0]
for x1 in x:
x0 = f(x0, x1)
r.append(x0)
return r

Note that the K is idiomatic whereas the python is (arguably) not. Of course, it could be worse; the advantage is that, much like math, the 9-char K version is pattern-matched by your eyes once you are familiar with it, whereas no other version presented here (or in almost any other language) can utilize that feature of your brain.
Is everything in JavaScript an Object?
Imagine a slightly different version of this story, told from the other viewpoint:

A woman writes a negative review of a book that she feel trivializes underage rape and PTSD. She encourages others to see the book in that same light.

She hasn't used her real identity online, and she's sensitive about rape and trauma. Is she hiding her ID for reasons of safety?

The author then net stalks her, finding out her where she lives and where she works. The author calls her (more than once!) at work, saying she knows who she really is. The author also drives to her home, but doesn't knock and leaves a book with the creepy title A Short Guide To A Happy Life (is it a hidden message? SHORT LIFE?) on the doorstep.

Then the author publishes her real name in a major newspaper, resulting in views all over the planet. Whatever reason she had for keeping a low profile, even if it was for her own safety from a past abuser, it's blown now.

The story sure looks different from that angle. Not saying it's all the way things are, but it's certainly a valid alternate view.
Incidentally, when I visited Quebec, all the road signs I encountered were exclusively in French. As I was driving from Ontario into Quebec, it was like entering a different country.
How many great artists through history had day jobs? I'd wager it was the vast majority. If they were lucky it was a teaching job in their artistic field.

IF you have some track record and a good agent, it's possible to make a living writing tech books. But you would make perhaps five to ten times more by writing less and consulting more, using the books to support your consulting pricing.