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Lack of a physical keyboard seemed like a dealbreaker on the iPhone too - but it wasn't. You can't touch type with an on-screen keyboard, but it's more than serviceable.
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Are you not an armchair economist? Do you think the current solution for our economic crisis (printing money & encouraging more debt) is a complex one? It seems to me to be just an expensive band-aid where something more invasive and temporarily painful is needed.
While you have 4U, how much power do you have allotted to that 4U?

If you run a Q8400 with a 260w power supply for a 1U, you have a max load of 2.16A and probably an operational .9A-1.1A under normal load. Make sure you can run 4-5 Amps in your 4U. Many colo facilities allow 20 Amps per 44U so average consumption per U is just under .5A.

andy @ interpromicro.com sells Supermicro equipment which run Debian without issues. Recent invoice 9/25/2009: Supermicro X7SBL-LN2, Q8400, 4gb RAM, 811T 1U dual hot-swap case, (no hard drives) Fedex 3day at $710. That motherboard does support AHCI in Debian allowing hotswap, sensors work, env/fan speed, etc.
Thanks gruesom - that's some useful feedback. I've removed the 'alert' about the redirect, per your suggestion (still have a message on screen though).

Firefox does this cool wifi scanning thing to get the most accurate location. It's really accurate (and I cache it, so I only have to do it once), but I don't think there's any way around taking a few seconds to determine your location.

Good point about the psychology. I was worried that playing up the competitive aspect could annoy users ("You want me to compete for your benefit?!") and was trying to walk a bit of a fine line ... I think I'll be a bit more comfortable with that approach after we get some regular users and see how they use the site.
Begging with an iPhone?
it's unclear to me whether you need a merchant account to use square; i'm assuming from "0-$60 in under 10 seconds" that you don't.

if you don't need a merchant account, the market for this is massive. there are millions of people who provide services and sell products who take cash, check, or paypal only. many of these people are dying to take credit cards with zero hassle, which square lets them do.
Theoretically you could use any headphone extension cord to ease this problem considering it most likely uses an audio signal to pass the information. This would in turn let you attach the reader elsewhere on the phone.

Although it seems like part of the point is to have a tiny device you can just pull in and out of your phone at need be.
Receipts on site...not necessarily. The last few times I've been to the Apple store, I've been content to just pay for whatever I bought standing in the middle of the store, bag it and walk away with the receipt sent to my email. Paper is a hassle in some instances...more to keep up with. At least if the receipt's in my inbox (and I happen to need it), I can search for it without having to destroy my house to find it.

EDIT: Then again...I can see where wanting a receipt could be valid--to make sure you're not getting ripped off. Makes me think of the sign next to registers in most fast food joints: "Call 1-800-whatever if you didn't receive a receipt and get a free order of fries." I'd still go receiptless, though, for places I know to be absolutely legit.
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a begger in a big town like NYC can clear 90-120K no problem.
Blinksale is focused on generating an invoice, which is why they charge per invoice. FreshBooks is a full billing app for service businesses, which is why we charge by client. It's similar (roughly) to the difference between a paper receipt book and a cash register. Each good for different use cases.

For small business accounting, try FreshBooks + Xero.

http://community.freshbooks.com/addons/view/xero
In such a market, anonymity is probably preferred.
One thing the author doesn't address is why use lead at all? We know that Earth's magnetic field is what protects us here on the ground. If we could manufacture black holes, doesn't it seem possible that we could manufacture a magnetic field powerful enough to surround said ship and protect it?
A few examples might make your comment's disdain less grating.
I very much doubt that I, personally, have contributed to this, being as I am on the 'receiving end' so to speak. Anyway, anecdotally, I can't say I've ever encountered this. I mean the last time I got hit on by a guy in a technical context... wait, it's never happened. The closest thing I can think of is getting randomly upvoted on HN whenever I happen to mention my gender in a post, or similar.

If anything, guys in tech -- the real techies, that is -- are so horribly bad at talking to women that it's being viewed as an alien from outer space that's offputting, not being viewed as a pair of walking boobs. On that note, I definitely agree with valuing women as people. But in my experience, at least, male attitudes towards women in tech as sexual objects are not even remotely a factor. However, the concern that you won't even meet nerdy women if there aren't any women involved in tech is still valid, IMO!
Hmm, I'm a little surprised to hear that (that messes bother women more than men). What was your reaction to reading the "geek room" described?

Edit: fixed comparison
Nice you guys are liking the tool! I'm another one of howsmycode's developers. As Foca said, please let us know your suggestions in out support system: http://help.howsmycode.com/
Look at protovis also.
Compare/contrast: Murdoch then and now
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i've heard this before but haven't been able to verify. do you have a source?
You mean "root exploit" not "root vulnerability." The second term is again mistaken, although it gets used a lot.

Did you even read the exploit code? He's figured out a way to overwrite LD_PRELOAD environment variable for anything SUID. That means that you get to tell the binary to load libraries other than what it planned on loading. And hence run arbitrary code.

This has nothing to do with "localhost." If you'd like to give examples of people using "localhost vulnerability" in the past, go right ahead and link to them.
Paul Carr has an article on this that, I think, nails what is going on with Murdoch:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/28/rupert-murdoch-google-n...
I came here to scan the comments to see if this was one of the conspiracy articles or one of the decent ones. I saw something that could be commented on without having read the article, and did so. Not too terrible, I think, but feel free to disagree.

Oh, and the comments did suggest that the article was something I might want to read, I just haven't had time to do it yet.
Scratch off women and just say: "some people wish to obtain high status for themselves." Some people aren't as concerned with status - it's not that they don't care, but they're not willing to put up with as much crap to gain it. (Doctors and lawyers certainly put up with a lot of crap for their perceived status.) If we further assume there is an occupation with middle status, but has nontrivial social barriers to a certain group, then there's not much incentive for that group to break in when there are plenty of other occupations with the same status.

The differences between what I said and what you said: mine could apply to any group, not just women, and I'm assuming that only a smaller subset of most people are willing to pursue high social status despite the extra burdens; most people are fine with middle status.

Also, intolerance of an environment is different than intolerance of a group of people.
I think on a person to person level Bump would make more sense (I don't think they do payments yet, but it would be a logical next step).
I think there's a fundamental misalignment of interests in the news business between 1) readers who want high-quality, unbiased reporting, 2) advertisers who want to sell something to the readers and are thus biased, and 3) the news companies who want to satisfy both readers and advertisers. The problem is similar to the interaction between a customer seeking financial advice from a financial consultant who makes money selling securities: a consumer can't know whether he's being given unbiased information or a sales pitch.

Perhaps people don't pay for "news" because they don't usually pay for sales pitches.

One way to solve this is to openly declare one's identity. Consumers of unbiased news or entertainment are willing to pay; but the consumer of unbiased news will be more intolerant of paying for the news by seeing ads: how can someone deliver the unbiased news while at the same time being a salesman?

Providers of unbiased news should sell their service, unbiased news, to their customers. Consumer Reports does this very well. They stress the fact that they don't sell advertising and that therefore, their only aim to please their only customer by providing unbiased information.

Most other media have a hard-time selling non-bias because they're not really in the non-bias business. They want to have it both ways: they want to sell unbiased news to readers while at the same time pitch their readers on behalf of their other customers, vendors. To do this they have to sell (perhaps implicitly) their readers on the proposition that bias doesn't matter. At this point most media companies have already lost the customers who understand and value unbiased news. The customers that are left are really looking for entertainment.

If this analysis is right, you should not expect to see the most successful ad-supported news media be unbiased.
Are you going to accept the bet, like you said you were? If you are, I have no desire to screw a charity out of your money by helping you with this.
Link to a diff of your fixes/tweaks?

I've only got to 30 here running 8 instances of mine.

(Also, I imagine this could probably benefit from a really fast PRNG, like an LCG.)
I thought about that too. Someone has to have a merchant account, so it's possible all of the payments go through Square and they act as a clearing house where they redirect payment to the correct merchant. I could see that leaving them vulnerable to chargebacks. I wonder what kind of rates they're offering to users.
Why have carbon emmissions to be reduced, unless climate warrants it? The question is: of a dollar budget, how much should go into reducing emmissions?, and how much should be spent to cure cancer, bring education to Africa, and so on. There are rarely that absolute problems which justify any cost for a solution.
You seem pretty touchy about the analogy. I understand that the 'hacking' meme has been overplayed here.

Above though, I'm just pointing out that simpler is often better in a number of different fields, even for complex problems. The Supreme Court spends a great deal of time trying to lay down the simplest tests and precedents they can. The Bill of Rights was a simple document which addressed centuries of complex abuses. Smart companies try to find the simplest policies and procedures that could possibly work. And yes, in technology we often find that a simpler process scheduler works better than a more complex one.
it would be neat if customers could download an app that would interface with a store using square.

the customer could browse the menu, buy the product (coffee or whatever) and prepare their order before even getting to the store, then walk in, transmit the order wirelessly (or through the internet to the store) along with their stored payment info to the store's register and have everything processed right away without having to swipe anything or even stand in line.

i'm sure there are existing iphone apps that do this for particular stores (chipotle comes to mind) but if it was a generic app that automatically worked with any store that accepted square, it would be pretty convenient.
Given the evidence that already exists, I would be surprised if he considered the idea just speculation.

The fact that men have a greater variance in ability than women has been repeatedly confirmed. Depending on which characteristic of intelligence is being measured, the variance among men is generally 1.07 to 1.17 times as great as the variance among women. Vocabulary is an extreme, there the variance is 1.4 times greater among men than women. See http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3238/version/1/files/... for verification of that.

The open and difficult question is how much of the over-representation of men at the top echelons of society can be attributed to this variation of ability versus sexism. While the question is going to offend and be controversial, I agree with Summers that the principle of academic freedom says that academics should be free to ask it.
Why assume climate modelers are special? Most scientific code is going to be like this.
This sounds like a money grab business to me.

They'll launch, make a couple hundred mil, then they'll get hit with fraud, a ton of people will lose money, and they'll be forced to shut down, since noone will want to use the service, in fear of getting defrauded.

Since there is no barrier to entry, it'll be like 2 weeks before someone comes out with a black market version, that will look exactly the same, but instead of processing credit cards, it'll store them for future fraud.

Will be like the ATM snooping devices, but instead of having to get into the bank, all you need is an iPhone, and some "small" business to rob people with. A taxi, or a newspaper stand.

Edit: If you are going to downvote, at least tell me how exactly do you think this will avoid fraud from fakers who imitate the look and feel of the device?
What, there's no neutral environment that can be maintained? It's Star Trek and cans of Monster, or pink wallpaper and plushies? Come on. With any [insert subculture here]-friendly environment, there's a chance of alienation. We're not asking to adjust the decor to market to a culture, just the recognition that one that plays heavily into the "typical geek" stereotype can be off-putting to _any_ who don't fit.
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Do they have a patent on the magnetic reader that interfaces using an phone jack? Just curious.
I can't believe nobody finds this interesting. :(
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In order to make $90,000 begging, you would have to get $250 every day of the year. This seems highly unlikely. I'd say most beggars make more like $20 a day, but I'm just doing armchair science here.
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"Climate change is real enough, with enough backing observations and theory, to run with the assumption that it is most likely true - but probably more complex than we realize right now."

From:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/dear-science/Content?oid=...
I strongly recommend Protovis:

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/

If graphael gets into shape it might be decent as well.
I am generalizing that your willingness to tolerate disorder in your personal environment relates to your tolerance for a generic messy environment.
Certainly not implying that, just appreciating diverse vocabulary.
There's a contradiction inherent with that "thinking different" argument. If you accept that women on a large scale (ie, no individual example, but as a group of millions of people) think differently, then it's not absurd to say that they don't tend towards computing and hard-science as often.

Women have different biology, their bodies respond differently, they fall ill to different diseases but somehow it's become taboo to say that perhaps they think differently too, and therefore tend towards different disciplines. The brain is just another organ after all...

An example from a similar field: 90% of NFL Wide Receivers are Black. Does that mean the NFL is racist? Or that black people's genetic heritage skews their speed&strength bell curve slightly to the right so that the top hundredth of a percent is slightly above white's top hundredth of a percent? I tend to believe it's the second.

Please note that I know some nerd girls (mostly from the CS and EE programs), and nothing I say indicates that opportunities should be closed, or discrimination should happen, but you can't look at a number like "15% of comp-sci students are women" and immediately assume something is wrong.

I don't doubt that social pressures are playing a role here, with general pressure to "be pretty, not smart", but I don't think it explains away all of it. I am not putting forward a theory of everything here, just expressing my frustration with general feminism thoughts that everybody is fundamentally identical, except for socialization.

Well, this is going to turn bad I'm sure, I've touched on sex AND race.... but the central argument across all 3 is similar. There are bell curves everywhere in biology, and they are slightly skewed and stretched across different groups. No individual point is enough to make a decision ("you're a woman" doesn't say anything about computer ability, just as saying "you're black" doesn't make them a wide receiver), but on a mass-scale they predict percentages and expectations.
Or, wear a ring with a built-in RFID chip. The mobile device could then detect the presence of the ring.
I've been hearing good things about Clozure lately, but never played with it.

CLISP was just too slow for my taste though ...
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The audio jack is on the top of the iPhone. What's it hooked up to in that picture?
> "It is unclear whether their statistical model will 'find' social contagion in every outcome they examine because of the limitations," Jason M. Fletcher of Yale University wrote in an e-mail. He and a colleague conducted a similar analysis using data from a large federal survey to show that acne, headaches and even height could appear to be spread through social networks if not analyzed properly.

The inclusion of this caveat makes this an above-average piece of science reporting.
I've come to think that the state of Enterprise software is the direct result of large corporate structure.

Every single success story of swapping out a horrible enterprise piece with a Really Good replacement seems to have, as an integral part of its legend, the skillful subversion of the corporation's natural tendencies until deployment -- and an epilogue that notes political bad feelings remain, despite the results.

It truly seems that Good Software is only something that can happen despite corporate structure and never, ever because of it.

I suppose it shouldn't have been a surprise. I think we've all come to accept that individual efficiency is inversely related to company size (beyond some critical threshold). And when you look at why, you start seeing an awful lot of cross-over with the root causes of corporate software project failures. (political nonsense, perverted incentives, cog interchangeability concerns, liability concerns, etc)
I meant that messes bother women more than men.
Looks like an ipod touch to me.
yes but you have to look at the density of people.

$250 every day = $25/hour if you "work" 10 hours a day. So 1 person donating $1 every 2.4 minutes.

In that 2.4 minute period, there are probably 1,000 people walking by. Is it really that far fetched, that 1 out of those 1,000 people will "give back"? Especially in a city like New York where there are plenty of high income individuals?
If anecdotally you haven't encountered it, then I'm surprised. Most of the women in tech that I've talked about this with have run into it.

If you wish to continue not experiencing it, then there are quite a few men I recommend not getting to know, starting with Eric Raymond.
I knew a busker who made £20 per hour in a city with 300,000 population, this is around $30 per hour.
I don't understand this comment, is this a statement or a swipe at him?
Minor correction to your post: there are no() Starbucks franchises.

(): except in certain high-traffic locations locations like airports etc where Starbucks co-owns the store with the property owner. http://www.starbucks.com/customer/faq_qanda.asp?name=common
I never want a receipt. It's a waste of paper; I always throw it away right away. When will a receipt for a cup of coffee come in handy? All my credit card transactions are documented by the bank anyway.

Receipts are up there with cashiers giving me a bag for a single item I can easily carry.
The Europeans have come up with a suitable name which we would do well to adopt.

French - informatique

Spanish - informática

German - Informatik

If we spoke not of computer science but of informatics we would make so much progress. Remember:

computer science : computers :: astronomy : telescopes.

Math, traditionally, has been about solving problems. Computer science is about solving problems concerning how we solve problems. How many things do we need to keep track of in order to solve, say, the 8 Queens problem? How many steps do we need to take? (space and time complexity) What are those steps? Can we substitute different steps with the same extensional effect that do the job more efficiently? (algorithm analysis and optimization) How do we arrange information in such a way to take fewer steps to solve our problem? (data structures) Can we develop a means of representation for steps that is both easy for a universal Turing machine to read and act on and easy for a human to read and write? (programming language theory) This is informatics and if you are not fascinated by it I feel sorry for you. Computer science sounds too much like what it has actually become in most major universities: code grinder trade school.
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They also have a github repo up: http://github.com/square
It's not about nginx vs Apache. It's about webroar vs passenger vs thin vs mongrel, all of which are rails production-grade servers.
Re: pair programming.

That's been my experience too, but I've only ever done it with people who were much less experienced programmers (i.e. once). It's sounds like you were also working with someone vastly more inexperienced, so it's probably not fair to poo-poo paired programming on that basis alone.
I read the Gang of Four Design Patterns book straight out of college when I had a job as a dev lead at a small lifestyle software startup. Man, I tried to make every problem fit into that mindset.

I'd do things like hand-roll my own XML parser in PHP (never mind LibXML bindings, etc) while trying to make sure I was observing the Visitor and Command patterns, oblivious to the silliness of the situation.

I also missed the understanding of dependency injection (or just management in general) that would have made that hellishly large Flash project so much easier to test and assemble.

Somehow I still managed to get a lot done. I feel in retrospect, that the Design Patterns are good to know about, but I don't know about whether anyone should intend to implement them.
Does windows 7 have a nice auto update like in the mac that will prevent this from happening in the future? We can't be expecting people to upgrade every 2 windows releases :).
They're already looking for Android and BlackBerry developers. No perpritory dock connector.
I would attribute this failure to the vendors/developers/IT experts in the healthcare sector. IT works extremely well in many sectors that need speed, accuracy and reliability such as finance, transportation, manufacturing, etc. So why can't IT provide the same level of service in healthcare?
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I didn't vote you down, but giving them the benefit of the doubt, why don't you think they would address this obvious concern from the start?
CommonJS is tracking ES5. For the time being, we vaguely suggest that all compliant implementations must support all features of ES5 that are implementable or stubbable with existing JavaScript features. For example, Object.freeze can be implemented as a stub no-op so people are free to use the API in their modules, and get the feature when it's supported. The intent is to eventually make ES5 compliance a requirement.