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"The holy man then said he needed to conduct a ritual that could only be done at night, outdoors, and after he had slept with a woman, drunk alcohol and rubbed himself in ash."

If your credibility is going to be finished, might aswell go out with a bang.
FYI:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077411

Femtoo.com already does this :-)
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Doing it in one line sounds like accessing a single cache slot at a time. We found we're a lot better off collecting the set of cache slots we need and then fetching them all in parallel, rather than waiting until we have the result for slot #1 before we can even start the request for slot #2. Every transaction is at least two context switches, sometimes worse.
Is this free for publishers? How long will it be free?

Twilio has a super simple API to push SMSes out to users, but it costs money. No one seems to have mentioned them in this comment thread, but what are your thoughts on the competition? Do you see them as competition?
I have seen some Javascript that adds the logo as soon as you've typed enough digits. I thought it was a nice visual cue that the card type was auto-recognized.

I think the logical improvement to this interface would be to put the credit card type after the number, and then have it be auto-selected. That way the user can select if he wants, but it will be correct by the time he goes to select it.
All of them.

In Cygwin, my home directory is /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myusername. This breaks fucking everything. I have to re-export $HOME as /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/myusername.

Yes, Windows also sucks.
Furthermore, because Femtoo publishes your tracker notifications as your own personal RSS Feed, you can already access all you notifications from ANY mobile platform that has an RSS Reader.... err. which is pretty much every platform :-)

Check it out at http://femtoo.com

oh and regarding seed funding for Femtoo.... watch this space...
Showing a logo or a message is really easy, ie. http://github.com/madrobby/creditcard_js
IIRC this behaviour can be controlled with SLD's in GeoServer.
I am not sure that this is a hall of shame for implementors, it is more of a hall of shame for users. The first web app I ever wrote did reporting on NMR machine usage; the users were scientists with advanced degrees and years of teaching (and computing) experience. The way you specified the date range for reports was via two text fields; the start date and the end date. Originally, I used a date parser that would accept pretty much any input. You could say "yesterday" to "today" or "4-2000" to "9-2005", etc. I listed examples in the description text, but I had several users ask me exactly what the date format could be. When I showed them "anything", they were amazed, but claimed it was confusing.

I changed the text to read "specify all dates in YYYYMMDD format, no spaces or slashes" and everyone loved it afterwards. I kept the intelligent parsing as an easter egg.
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I think for me, before visiting LeadsCon, it was never so crystal clear that you could have a business without much product or technology. I've seen a lot of people pursue tech or product with business being an afterthought and it is interesting to see the other extreme.

In the end I'd have to agree that (for me anyway) happiness isn't going to come without a health combination of all three elements.
Probably, he has convinced himself of his own powers.
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What moral? I doubt he understands the concept of moral.
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But he could have used it as an excuse so as not to be disproved.

It's always been my one question about charlatans who know they're fake but would take the Randi Challenge (especially when it was televised - see YouTube). If you know you're crap, why do it? Maybe they start believing their own bs after a while?
Here in the US such tactics don't work, despite the US being somewhat to very religious.

Most Christian pastors will say that this would be testing God's powers, a vulgar display, and so he will not do it and hence the pastor's won't try to participate in such a test.
That is what i've been saying :

- The milgram experiment and this pseudo-experiment do not test the same thing, they are not the same,and do not at all display the same riguor. Hence you can't talk about them as the same experiment.

- The milgram experiment is a solid experiment, that has got solid criticisms too, but i'm not at all implying it was fake.
Two reasons:

Force people to enter their area code.

What do you do about international numbers? It's a bit more complicated, and the grouping is less obvious.
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Its really just finding something that your passionate about, and doing that. People who do what they are passionate about, kick ass at it.
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Or maybe their ego is bigger than their head.
I think you'll find that whatever git does, it's faster than the corresponding operation in SVN.

When you send commits to a remote server, git compresses them and sends the packfile over the network. The server will refuse non-fast forward merges (the branch you're pushing is supposed to be merged by you first, locally) so it pretty much has nothing to do but uncompress the changes and apply them. Unless you have a really slow network or are sending an insane number of commits, it's not going to take longer than a few seconds.

Cloning big repositories (like emacs, with ~25 years of history) can take a while if you have a slow network, but sometimes it feels like git can actually clone a repository faster than SVN can check out a single revision.

But repos like emacs' are rare. Often, SVN repositories end up being huge because they contain the code of many unrelated projects. In Git, having such a huge repository is impractical; each project should have its own repository. There is support for submodules though, so you can make a "master" repo that contains pointers to the child repositories, if you really have to.
I think most DAs could probably get an indictment for attempted murder if you attempted to kill someone with sorcery, with the probable goal of getting you to plead to assault. Note that "reasonable expectation of success" is not an element of those crimes in the US. (Most of the statutes are specifically written to make impossible murders chargeable.)

Relatedly, you can also be charged with attempted murder for attempting to kill someone who is already dead.
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This reminds me of the video of an old Kiai Master (using chi to physically attack people) fighting a young karate guy. The old guy can't really do anything and gets hit a couple times. It's pretty funny but also pretty sad that the Kiai Master's students led him to believe that he was actually affecting them with his chi attacks, probably over the course of several years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMgVmFzBrus
Ok for the benefit of live outside India and are ignorant of the horrors of "News" Channel which broadcasted this shit of a "program", I would like to just tell you the best "news" bulletins of there's:

1) Aliens stealing cows for there milk

2) Kabootars (sparrows) effected by Terrorism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3iYpt8-PGE (its in hindi)

3) Reincarnation of every celebrity possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7OJ2XlBoPE

4) I think they have 2 hours dedicated daily to Dooms day stories (Curse 2012 producers for encouraging them and giving them footage)

5) Himash Reshamiya (a...ahem...singer of indian origin) is the favorite singer of aliens.

All in all they are a News Tabloid or a dooms day cult but not at all a news channel.
Superstition is a really big problem in India. I think it is much worse than what would be predicted purely by the poverty level. I wonder why. Another difference is that while in the US, and I imagine in most countries, superstitious beliefs decline sharply with education level, the correlation seems mild or nonexistent in India. There are many people in my family with one or more post-college degrees, and they are just as superstitious as anyone else.

Of course, my sample size is rather small; I'd love to see data supporting or rejecting my hunch.
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See: members of congress and lobbyists.
To me hunch is not a recommendation system. To me it seems to be more of a data collector. I have a strong feeling they are just collecting the data generated by us and re-selling it, but pretending at the same time to 'recommend' something. A con job is all I can think.
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If your are defining Superstition as holding yagyas and poojas then yes the correlation does not exist. But I dont think those two above mentioned things are superstition at all. Like before any major step in india every one in this world like to pray to god or have some ceremony. And that provides just that and nothing else.

I think educated Indian suburban people do not subscribe to Superstition in the way of tantrik and babas but they do still hold havans and poojas before doing anything important. In india we still make a swastik (or any other holy symbol) over a new computer before starting it. And that too is turned on by the elder people of the family even if they are not going to use it ever.
The only words in the title that didn't make me want to puke are "Building", "a", "Application", and "using".

I think I need to come to terms with the fact that I am becoming an open source bigot.
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I graduated with my BS in Computer Science around a year ago, and have been employed by my school's web development department to do PHP web dev for about a year.

The problem is that I haven't been doing much web application development, and have been pushed into doing templating for various blogging/wiki software.

The extent of my work has been basically setting up, configuring, and writing templates for the software I've been assigned to. This has been emotionally and mentally draining for me, a person who was hired on to do web application development, and who has previously worked in mobile application development.

I've been considering quitting my current job, and focusing on finding a new job and personal projects, and I was wondering what advice the Hacker News community could provide on this situation.

Thank you in advance,

-ins0mniac
I would see two solutions here. (IANAP).

1) Energy can be negative. Not sure what that would mean though.

2) You can do the same trick as he did and do E = abs(m)*c^2.

I would be interested to see what the ramifications of each are.
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And if there is indeed a God, this entity has by now, quite thoroughly, stated that it is not willing to manifest itself. It would be odd that a God would choose to end this streak by killing a sceptic, but then again, any application of logic to the metaphysical is, by definition, moot.
That's a great point about this. These types of things are just as much the fault of the followers as of the practitioner.
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Right. If what they do is not forbidden under existing law, no criminal charges can be brought against them.

Of course, if they harm people, those people can still file civil suits.

And, it would be quite surprising if the "whole new kind of evil" managed to harm people without falling into a category already prohibited by law (i.e., assault).

But, the point remains: you can't be charged for breaking a law that didn't exist at the time you broke it.
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what is this thing doing on HN front page?
Why not just use Avro if you want a packed encoding system that's schema-bound, or Fudge if you want one that's schema free and self-describing?

Link to Avro: http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/
Link to Fudge: http://www.fudgemsg.org/
Couldn't do hyperlinks for some reason. Perhaps because I'm a moron.
In that case, what is stopping the data consumer in directly contacting the data provider?
> What will happen when a law expires? The easiest thing to do—the thing that takes the least thinking, writing and arguing—would be to simply re-instate it.

Almost. But they will be read first, followed by a "reinstate" or "let expire" decision. If it's a bad or unnecessary law, this will cost political capital, which favours the "let expire" option.

Then there'll be committee hearings, where citizens affected by the law will get a say, and since the text is open anyway, motions for amendments can be presented.

And finally, it has to actually pass parliament, making the current parliament answerable for the passage, rather than a past one. It's a lot easier to say "yes, I agree that law is not the best, but I have prioritised other issues over fixing it" than "I voted for it, when I had the option of simply pushing the other button."

> Now, instead, imagine a boundary on the space the law may take up.

That sounds like a good idea. No text longer than 2000 words can be passed by a single vote.
Any particular reason you can't find a new job before quitting the old one? That's the way it's usually done (unless you've got a big enough nest egg to take you through the transition.)
If you aren't happy, leave. If you aren't learning, leave. Remember that at the end of your life, you are going to die. There is no sense in spending your life being miserable.
Here's a good video of the mechanism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mzhvMgrLE

I'm not sure there's much wiggle room in terms of "finger detection" (as others have said, conductivity of wet wood is just very similar), but perhaps the brake could be designed in a way that doesn't trash the machine every time it goes off.
> say, simulating a universe composed purely of vingtillions of minds being tortured

No, you can't outlaw The Sims retroactively.
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+1. Just leave. Nobody ever regretted quitting a boring job.
And with a still unstable economy it's probably your best bet.
That's just incompetence. I'm not sure making it easier for politicians to be incompetent is a good idea.

Also, if all laws expire automatically, the working rhythm of the legislative body would change to accommodate this. After all, stuff like passing budgets, which is time sensitive, tend to happen in time.
gzipping JSON or XML compares relatively favorably against a pure-binary protocol for suitably large messages, but not for pretty small messages.

In addition, the speed of the compression stream really becomes an issue if you're sending messages within a cluster. Over the internet your bandwidth and latency will start to become more important, but within a data centre all pure-binary protocols are much faster.
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I'm still looking, and the search hasn't been going on too long. There's no reason I can't find a job in a relatively short amount of time, the mobile industry is currently booming. Even if I have to settle for a short term mobile contract position until I find something long term, I should be able to find something.

As far as finding something before quitting goes, I'm still looking, and I'm still living at home being a relatively fresh graduate, and my current job is both emotionally and mentally draining which is why I want to get out.

-ins0mniac
Ouch. When your app is so slow that it throws the screen-cast presenter off his game, it's not premature optimisation to speed it up a bit.

Or you could, at least, edit the wait out of the video,
Part of what I found insulting when I went through it: I could have been interviewing for kitchen staff, for all the information I was given. I was being screened intensely on relatively arbitrary criteria by relatively unpleasant people (as far as I could tell!), but I could get no assurance from anyone that I was interviewing for a position that I would find interesting, or even that I would be working with people whom I liked.

When you interview with Google, you're operating on faith that the interminable, silly process will result in a position that makes you happy. But there's rarely any assurance that you'll get a job that you enjoy, or even that you'll work with people that you don't find extremely annoying. This sort of interview process works better for inexperienced people than it does for more senior employees, who tend to want luxuries like career growth and cultural fit.
So you got hired straight after finishing school but somehow you see yourself as a person who's into mobile application development ? I assume you worked on that mobile stuff while going to school ?

Anyhow, look for a job before quitting. It might be a stupid move to just quit and then stay unemployed.
If you need slides to follow through your presentation, you could use personal notes instead. That means slides are useless as reminders.

I agree with your other point (banning or restricting text on slides), but it is hardly enforceable in a fair manner. No slides at all is simpler.
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I guess I can only wish HTML and Javascript were as well integrated into the mobile platforms as the application languages.
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I don't think it's an open source thing. I'm not an open source fanboy, but I recoil in horror when I see a website using silverlight, and windows on a mobile phone just seems like a terrible idea.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider Windows 7, Silverlight etc to be hacker news. It's just spam.
If job is what you want to do, please find one before quitting. You may end up realizing finding a job was not trivial.

If you want to pursue entrepreneurship, I had say start working on your idea in your free time, unless you save some money and then quit.

my 2 cents.
I wonder what no comments from last 7 hours mean, either people here are bored of blogging or answers to your questions are too obvious.
Actually no, but I'll take whatever I can get.
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I would quit simply because I would want to break away from the comfort zone of working for my school.

If you want your focus to be in mobile app development, take as many contracts as you can until it can replace your work. As a recent graduate you're likely in a lower-risk position to give up a fulltime job anyhow, take the plunge now.. you don't want to wake up in 3 years to realize you're still slicing templates for your school
Pretty sure labelling this spam specifically because you don't like the platform leans more towards open source fanboy than you might think ... would it still be "spam" if it was about building a twitter app on Android?
Can someone from a country which has vacation time clarify this for me: how exactly does four weeks of vacation work? Assume that I'm from a planet of weird space-aliens where by default you're expected to work every day the company is open. Do you have to take vacation time consecutively? Do you have to take it at a particular time of the year? Is it subject to some sort of approval process?
Why wouldn't he understand the concept of morals?

I'm not suggesting he isn't a charlatan, but I don't see what bearing that has to do on understanding the concept of morals.
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The other trick is to take leave and use that time to look for work (depending on how long you've been there, of course). Job searching and interviewing can often be hard when you're already in a position, particularly if you're working long hours, or the work is draining.
No-brainer. Quit. You owe no allegiance to your current employer - or to your next one.
I think educated Indian suburban people do not subscribe to Superstition in the way of tantrik and babas but they do still hold havans and poojas before doing anything important. In india we still make a swastik (or any other holy symbol) over a new computer before starting it. And that too is turned on by the elder people of the family even if they are not going to use it ever.

I cant figure out if your agreeing with randomwalker or not :)

You generally won't find that kind of superstition practiced any more in the US/UK/Europe.

Although you do get a number of people either following a pseudo-science "guru" or one of the more cult-like modern religions.
I'd like to mention. Please don't ask us this question just to validate a decision you've already made. If you're wrong about how fast you can find a job you'll regret just quitting later. I know. I don't think anyone will tell you that you shouldn't leave. If you can find one fast... you should be able to do it with the job you have, and still leave that one on good terms.
So are you saying they were flaunting this guru and the rationalist essentially called them on it.

Or are you suggesting it was set up (certainly they seem a little bit of a crazy station :D)
No kidding - no chance I would use that if, for each email I opened, I would have to wait an additional 2-4 seconds for it to do its thing. And not a very high quality sounding video either - had to turn my volume up to more than half way to hear it and, when I did, it has a poor sound to the voice with a lot of hum.
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Find a job first.
and a minor typo 'Notfio' on the FAQ page.
I disagree, I've seen people quit and not find work for 12 months or more.
You can multithread RoR on JRuby, but you still won't get anywhere near the performance of event-driven I/O. But, you need to think differently about how you build your app, right from the get-go.
because it's a story about how "reason" triumphed over superstition and stupidity. Very hacker(ish) if you ask me.
So, what's the problem then?

Why are you asking us? If you don't like your job, and you think you can get a better job, go ahead and do it.

You don't need our permission or validation.
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The best advice I've ever received on job content, from my younger brother: "There is a support group for people who hate their job. It is called Everyone and we meet at the bars starting at about 5:30."

What is your goal for being at this job? If it is "I'd sort of prefer earning an honest living on a dependable schedule so that I don't have to return to living with Mom and Dad", then kiss your paycheck and be happy you're getting it because something like a tenth of kids your age are not. If you're prioritizing career growth and feel that this job isn't contributing to it, a) welcome to almost all employment of young people by universities and b) start pounding the pavement to find yourself another position, then quit.

If you're a risk-tolerating person, I hear that contract iPhone developers are still turning down work at $100 an hour. You don't have to land many contracts to make yourself ramen profitable if you can bill $100 an hour.