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Finding a reliable contractor for homeowners is very difficult. Traditionally, you found them via word of mouth (your neighbor hired a plumber who did a good job; your cousin the carpenter recommended a roof guy; etc)... you don't need a large network to get some useful information, but AngiesList helps you expand that network by providing more reliable reports from real experiences (i.e., not so easily gamed by sock-puppetry on "free" review sites).

Also, finding a contractor is often about avoiding bad vs. discovering the good.
4,5,6 are just milestones for features.

Branches (6.0.477.0) = 477 are self explanatory.

"Missing" or arbitrary branch numbers are mostly due to failed ideas.
Oh OK well I addressed that point two posts earlier. In short, most people who are now in the drug are not in a position to switch to other forms of crime. So overall the number of crimes and the number of criminals must go down. I have no data to back up any estimates onto how much, but I'd guess that something in the magnitude of 75% of all current criminals who commit crimes because of drugs now will not switch to violent crimes (let alone to fraud, for which - let's be frank here - most petty criminals are too stupid).
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http://www.osborn.org/site/sections/1343
> I don't know how GitHub got a head start,

Check out Tom's story about it: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...

One of the things I love about the Ruby community is that it truly embraces change. Rubyists (and particularly Rails hackers) jumped on git, and since GitHub was built by our own, it was supported heavily by Rubyists. Engine Yard gave them free hosting for a long time, we blogged and told all of our friends, and like any social network, it just grew from there.

It also helps that it's an awesome service.
If it helps, I'll say that I've tried using Priceline's software and found it similarly broken and buggy in a way consistent with the article. No issues with my CC being charged--thank goodness--but I saw flights disappear, reappear, change availability, and change details entirely while trying to book a trip to Munich.

Eventually I gave up and ate the slightly worse prices at Expedia. No bugs, easier to pick a flight, and no obnoxious William Shatner-oriented graphic design.
Interesting - I'm planning a conference soon and this makes me a bit nervous. Good luck with your fight!
Ok, student to teacher ratios went down, but student performance hasn't improved.

So we made life easier for teachers (at the expense of taxpayers) without helping students. Woohoo.
I've paid money for Angie's list, because I was more interested in the quality of reviews over the quantity of them. Seeing reviews from people who self-select to be part of a community that cares enough to pay (a little) adds value to me. I've essentially given up reading reviews on Amazon and Yelp, as there's so much noise. Maybe I'm just an elitist snob, but reading semi-literate "this place sux" reviews doesn't help me.

Note: I'm just explaining the motivation. I'm not affiliated with or evangelizing for Angie's List, I'm a former customer who find a few decent referrals that way.
... and gotten the investment? That you didn't need?

Or you just would have liked to score off the angel.
If someone is motivated enough to pay money to write a bad review, perhaps it has more weight than a free drive-by bad review.

All I know is that the for-pay internet dating sites are usually a better place to find potential dates than craigslist.
I am not hiring freelancers, I am recruiting freshers out of college, when I need 25 people and 2000 people apply for the job.

I ought to chose people who can perform.

bad scores in college does not prove they are better programmers.
I just found it ironic that an article complaining about "unedited data" also had a spelling error that should have been caught by an editor.
You may as well get buried in your smart car
Long time platinum amex holder. Every time I've disputed a charge, it's been in investigated timely and properly, and in my favor. They even have a nice tool on their "my account" page to dispute charges, and they follow up via snailmail to confirm. I also have visa and mastercard, but I only use them when amex is not accepted -- simply because AmEx offers me the best service.
The author directly makes the point that you can drop out of high school AND go to college. For some reason people think high school is of some major importance but it is not. You said it yourself "accelerate and go to college earlier". The best way to do that is to skip high school altogether if you have the ability.

Whether college is a useful way to spend one's time is another topic. I found it to be "high school with slightly older people". Still just a phoney, still just as irrelevant.
Now they can sue techdirt for slandering them about sueing that woman?
List of changes (from the mailing list)

What's new:

* fixed a bug with subdomains that was caused by the inability to
specify the server name. The server name can now be set with the
SERVER_NAME config key. This key is now also used to set the
session cookie cross-subdomain wide.
* autoescaping is no longer active for all templates. Instead it is
only active for .html, .htm, .xml and .xhtml. Inside templates
this behaviour can be changed with the autoescape tag.
* refactored Flask internally. It now consists of more than a single
file.
* flask.send_file() now emits etags and has the ability to do
conditional responses builtin.
* (temporarily) dropped support for zipped applications. This was a
rarely used feature and led to some confusing behaviour.
* added support for per-package template and static-file directories.
* removed support for create_jinja_loader which is no longer used in
0.5 due to the improved module support.
* added a helper function to expose files from any directory.

Links:

Online Documentation: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/
Downloadable PDF: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/flask-docs.pdf
Website: http://flask.pocoo.org/
On Github: http://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask
PyPI Record: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask

http://flask.pocoo.org/mailinglist/archive/2010/7/6/ann-flas...
Now name me some successful recent high-school dropouts.

Wrong question, I think. The correct question is "name some unsuccessful people who did not finish high school who might have been more successful if they had".

These people are not so easy to name-drop. Not because they don't exist -- there are certainly hundreds of thousands of such people for every famous name like Mark Twain or Ben Franklin. It's because of sampling bias.

If you drop out and don't become Mark Twain, nobody's going to write your biography. Indeed, you will find that a lot of people will stigmatize you.
There's a crowd-sourced database of websites that commit this sin (of storing/returning passwords in plain text), but I can't find it on Google now.

Consider me jaded, while this is good information to have, it seems a bit too common-place to devote a spot on HN to.

More general discussion on the topic here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893613
Clever isn't it?

Instead of just addressing the cause of the negative review so that it gets buried under better ones, let's go and spend a lot of money on a lawyer and make this one review into a PR disaster!
Some people rather experience an extreme loss in employment but rapid gain in employment, instead of a slow misery that last for a decade. By defaulting banks, we could reallocate resource quickly as banks' assets get sold to healthy banks.

Rather than trying to avoid pain, we should acknowledge failure as a part of a healthy free market system and optimize for a robust system that can handle failures instead of having "too big to fail."

It should be like when circuit-city falls, there isn't much damage to the economies, instead of the fear that comes from when financial institutions are failing.
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> If there was really nothing in the curriculum for you to learn (was mathematics really that easy for you?) [...]

Mathematics in school is easy and boring. (Mathematics at university is a different kind of animal, and it's only connection to mathematics in school is the name.)
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High school didn't have to be a distraction. Did you take the most advanced courses offered? Did you attempt to graduate early?

I don't remember what I actually learned in High school but it helped me get into University and get a job. Google is great and looking up facts and even teaching but you can't put "Advanced Google Searcher" on your resume. High school and even University are both aids to transition to the real world and are only what you make of them. You can be successful without any formal education but the average person will be more successful sticking to school.
I did all right. I'm a high school dropout with two bachelor's degrees from Carnegie Mellon, a six-figure computer programming job and a similar disdain for the public education system.

I won't say dropping out of high school was the best thing I've ever done, but it saved me a year of boredom and staying would have done me no good. Dropping out was a much better idea than staying in.
If your site is large, removing even one round-trip to the server can have huge impacts on both the client-side load time and the server-side load.
I read some of your other threads, what I could make out

a) you are angry at the system
b) you have a girlfriend who helps you by not disturbing you, who supports you, while you build your startup

couple of questions for you if you want to answer them
a) can you tell me about your startup
b) did you ever face challenges getting hired
c) do you think you are a good programmer, how can you substantiate it
Start instead with an open slate, and for any given "advantage" schooling may have, there's a set of alternatives that can do it better. For any given whole package, there's a strung-together set of those alternatives that can do it better.

Even if that's so, you have to consider the probability that your typical, dumb and arrogant (or even your atypical, slightly-less-dumb and even more arrogant) high schooler is going to figure out what that set of alternatives is.

You also have to consider the cost of failure. The best-case scenario if you teach yourself isn't much better than high school, while the worst-case scenario is much worse.

The idea that you should drop out of high school appeals to three particular ways in which teenagers are dumb:

1. Short-term thinking (sticking something out for another year seems like an eternity)

2. The conviction that "I am special" (even if you are, you're less special than you think), and

3. The conviction that "if I'm not good at something it must be beneath me"

I don't think they need any more encouragement.
I think part of it is that internet companies are like celebrities...they're sexy, so they get a lot a lot of attention. Just like that shy girl from Texas who took a chance and made it big in movies, companies like Google who made a fortune out of bits and bytes capture our hearts more than conglomerates, shipping companies, oil companies, or banks. These are the companies that actually make money when ads get clicked.
It was 3,000 pages. The error cited here was the difference between "below sea level" and "prone to flooding". Even Knuth would be hard-pressed not to make an error of that magnitude in a 3,000 page volume.
I am probably not all the different from you. But I have been running Wordpress on my own server for years and have never had a problem.
consumers are not used to paying for set top boxes. steve jobs stated as much in a recent interview when they were evaluating going after the tv market or the phone market. they chose mobile over tv for that reason.

there are many failed attempts at cracking the living room -- the cable companies make most of the money and they have little incentive to truly innovate the boxes that they are "renting" out to their customers.

to get truly elegant UI's that are powerful enough to do anything useful with all the TV signals (HD, etc) requires significant hardware. when Tivo was ported over to comcast boxes, most of the features that make it tivo were slashed since the boxes comcast gives to customers were significantly cheaper and underpowered.

most cable companies have a monopoly in the physical area they are servicing. where's the incentive to increase cost by upgrading equipment for your customers when the minimal viable product is happily received by the smith household?
Some methods:

1. Change your layout from "USA" to "USA International (AltGr dead keys)". Then use right-alt+key to make various special characters (you can look at what each character does at "Show Current Layout").

2. Enable the "compose key" -- I use the Menu key for this -- which is described at http://sivers.org/compose-key (it's simple to enable: Keyboard Preferences→Layouts→Options→Compose Key Position). Both of these are customizable, so you can add your own combinations if you want.

There are some other ways:

3. Ctrl-Shift-U in a GTK+ text input to enter a code point, as you said.

4. Alternative input methods that let you type special characters in in various other ways, such as LaTeX names, if you prefer that.
Patrick at Bingo Card Creator does this. If you search his blog ( http://www.kalzumeus.com/ ) you find the entries where he discusses it.

For me it depends on what is the lifetime value for a customer. Very easy to determine if its a one time fee. And what is the lifetime expense of a customer. If the expenses (server cost, support, etc.) grow over time, then you are bound to lose money. If your application is one would only be used a few times, say wedding planning, or related to being pregnant, then I can see it.

The big downside I see, is how do you handle upgrades. With a SaaS subscription model, they are continuously paying for the upgrades. With a web app with a one time fee, you would either have to give them the upgrade for free, force them to pay for the upgrade or maintain multiple versions. With desktop apps, it seems that you get a big boost in sales with an upgrade and I feel like you miss that with a one time fee for a web app.
This was recently linked from an HN article[1]. I think it's worth a thread of its own.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486708
It seems the chrome team simply doesn't do "releases". Chrome evolves over time, and every so often they bump up the release number, but they're not working to a release in the same way as Photoshop or Firefox. This reduces the significance of the release number, but that's just a product of the differing development model.
Erm... an US law applies in international waters? It's not like Ecuador will go to war with the US if the US decides to arbitrarily enforce their rules on the open waters, but Venezuela might... (I'd try Venezuela if I were a drug smuggler)

Edit: the US law intends to apply to vessels "without nationality", but I'm pretty sure the crew has a nationality which might want to object.

Most other nations would at least release a statement against such practices by the US (I know mine would, heck I'd draft it myself)
Ask HN: Abandon my efforts of creating spreadsheets instead of using QB?
I like the idea of having all my financial statements accessible from anywhere and by people who have permission to view them. So I started replicating much of Quickbooks' functionality using Google Docs.

However, I'm coming to learn that although it is possible to include much of Quickbooks' features, it's becoming a little cumbersome to do so.

Should I just use Quickbooks?

(I'm also considering just throwing up a web app and slowly adding to it as necessary).
From the article (quoted by mustpax):

They did offer to let us cancel the tickets for a $420 charge, meaning we'd still be out almost $1100. We thought this was unreasonable, so we disputed the charges through Amex, thinking they'd have more leverage than we would -- another mistake, as Priceline kept responding to Amex's inquiries with the same "they accepted our tickets" line. We found out that in the event of an Amex inquiry, Amex just forwards your documents to the vendor, and accepts their answer uncritically, even if the answer has nothing to do with the dispute. We tried to contact Priceline one more time to discuss our REAL complaints, but their answer now is "We'll only talk to you through Amex since you involved them."
why would someone name their app Fake? It makes me think its an april fools joke.
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Yes. It doesn't match my profile. Thanks anyways.
That seems like a fun game, though I don't have any opinions on Continental Philosophy. I don't speak French well enough to do it in the original, so I'll have to try in translation:

"And even if one wished to keep sonority on the side of the sensible and contingent signifier which would be strictly speaking impossible, since formal identities isolated within a sensible mass are already idealities that are not purely sensible, it would have to be admitted that the immediate and privileged unity which founds significance and the acts of language is the articulated unity of sound and sense within the phonic."

Taken from here:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/f...

While reading it, I was honestly asking myself if there were major transcription errors from the original translation, because it's completely impenetrable.
I'm genuinely curious: what advantage accrues to a programming language designed for concurrency that you can't get with a good concurrency library for an existing language?
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And I think this is one of the common reasons why people are OK with the AmEx annual fee... no hassles.
Airline tickets are particularly hard to chargeback. So many people issue fraudulent chargebacks (often because they find a cheaper price) that card companies are especially disinclined to approve them.
Quickbooks offers an affordable "online" version. We use it and are quite happy with it so far.

EDIT: http://quickbooksonline.intuit.com/finance-accounting-soluti...
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According to me, that sounds like an incredibly dubious measure of "able to read proficiently". If only 4% of students are passing that means something is wrong with the test, because experience tells us that the majority of people are quite capable of reading normal passages and understanding what they mean.
I used to love using Priceline because I could always get a slightly better hotel price than Hotwire.

Then they did me wrong similar to the OP and px. I won't do business with them again. Priceline's horrible customer service becomes evident once you try to get someone on the phone.
Due to the nature of Groupon, its nearly impossible to wait for what you want to show up. Even in a area with multiple clones, there is only so many deals in one day. So I would not be worried about someone waiting for a coupon.

I suspect most of the people who do buy from Groupon are impulse buys. I know that is my case. In fact I did it yesterday for a something that is not urgent, certainly not something I was waiting for. But now I will be giving business to a company I had never heard of before and probably would not have heard from without groupon.

You should look at it as a marketing effort that pays for itself. If you can do the deal so that you break even or better, then essentially, its free marketing to get your name out there.
why would a medium that requires concentration like video games have a detrimental affect on attention span?
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> I presume they'll want to roll their own solution

I have yet to contribute to rails-core, but generally, they don't accept feature requests, they only accept patches. Even if you end up replacing the 'back end' of it with something else, maybe your code would give the feature a head start.
Seriously? The link provided on reddit is some server some guy found that happened to have credentials listed on bugmenot. Nearly every book on the list is of dubious copyright status (e.g., do they have permission to redistribute it?). Essentially, it's a warez site.
I only really use Priceline before going on a spur of the moment trip -- usually nearby -- and only if it's cheap enough.

I wonder if they have to keep some amount of bad service to try to discriminate actual marginal bookings like me from trips that would've happened anyway at a higher price.
On a positive note, I had a bad experience with the JetBlue website last week, and ended up at the airport with tickets booked for the wrong day.

I emailed their support, and instead of arguing with me, they wrote back "That sounds terrible! We hate that happened to you. Here's $100 credit for a future JetBlue flight."

As the author said, instead of being angry, I'm now looking forward to spending money with them again. Good customer service pays for itself.
It's historically interesting that we're talking about a general default in the context of Greece, given that arguably the most famous default in history - Solon's "shaking off of burdens" in ancient Athens - ushered in a golden age of wealth and prosperity amid rising international trade.

Yet these days we're more inclined to a Draconian than a Solonian approach to our economic and political woes.
I've upvoted you because it's useful to hear the opposite side - thank you. I've just spoken with some colleagues who say that their experiences with AmEx are uniformly poor, so I guess things vary widely and wildly.

I wonder if being a platinum holder changes things, and just how hard it is, how long it takes, to get to that level.
Not so. With sass and compass you can make a mixin to do this for you and the maintenance burden is significantly reduced. See this blog post for more info: http://blog.derekperez.com/post/755676493/smarter-sprites-in...
I notice that your sentences Its not so much... and Its that the errors existed... are both missing apostrophes in the very first word...but that has nothing to do with the substance of your post, does it?

I draw a parallel with your tiny grammatical error because the mistake about sea level in the Netherlands was introduced by the editing process when an early draft of the report was being condensed down to a shorter version. This is categorically different from an error in the statistical methodology or logical reasoning.
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After getting fed up with Gitorious I made GitHaven (http://www.githaven.com/) which allows you to have public and private repositories and comes with a much simpler installer to boot.
But has the student to GOOD teacher ratio gone down?
Of all the credit/charge cards out there, Amex is the most consumer friendly in large part because they typically side with the complainant (their larger vendor fees are the other).

I've never had Amex side with the business when I disputed a charge.
Not that I think the name is that great, but "fake" in this context is used to mean that the app can fake things.