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Connect the dots. It paints a bad picture.

They already got to you :(.

In other words: no it bloody doesn't paint a bad picture. It paints a picture that is completely regular in 999 out of a 1000 cases. If you think it paints a bad picture, then you've already been convinced by them to such an extent that you feel their reasoning is justified. It isn't. The clerk was wrong to suspect anything from the photos. Completely, utterly, wrong.

first, they took pictures of the kids naked. two, they let those pictures get
into the hands of strangers, ones who can then misinterpret and/or be
legally obliged to do certain actions which could start a witch hunt.

Right, and you think my parents, and all those others, developed their own photos when I was running around butt naked on some beach 28 years ago? It's a cultural change for the worse; nothing inherent in the photos.
I suspect that an increasing number of hackers rely upon HN for the majority of their news, myself included. Since "hacking the system" is a popular subject on HN, personal interest stories that show how "the system" works, or doesn't work, are of interest to enough readers to bring those stories to the front page.
I'm guessing the title is on purpose, as it nicely illustrates the problem of ugliness in a language.
> I guess it's kind of a pain to be the target of an investigation, but nobody's life was ruined.

I'm sure you've met someone who did something stupid, and every time you come across them it springs to mind. How would you like it if that was you, and the something stupid was being accused of was child pornography? Everyone who heard about it didn't necessarily hear the resolution or the circumstances.

... This is the longer and cleaner version of the "you can build a thousand bridges" anecdote.
Waaah!
I disagree with "nobody's life was ruined"

Ruined maybe not, but based on the article and other comments in this thread there is clearly a lasting effect felt after having to go through such horrendous circumstances.

The uncertainty, anger, frustration, guilt, depression etc are all things which do not just stop when the case is dropped.

All these people needed was for the person making the original accusation to think for themselves and make a rational judgment rather than simply "do their jobs".
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I'd put it towards my business registration costs. Waiting to hear back about my name approval request.
> CSS Sprites are unweildy. I believe there are a few tools out there to make this easier, but nothing seems to make it dead simple.

Have you tried SpriteMe? It allows you to combine all the images on your page into a single sprite and generates the CSS automatically. If you have tried it (or other similar services), what issues did you face with it?

> Support: when a user has a problem I have to ask them for their browser, OS, etc... it would be nice if I put a js script in the page that recorded that info automatically for signed-in users.

This should be quite trivial to achieve. Just add a hidden field to the login page which records the useragent string.
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According to http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story..., this was used to detect an keypress/mousemove/mousepress-generating testing tool and turn off a few things (Apple menu, File menu, and Quit command, in this case).
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AT&T is gladly functioning as a punching bag for Apple. The phone-contract tie-in has been an enormous revenue driver for AT&T.

The biggest shakeup in the wireless industry will happen when Apple moves forward and releases devices that work on other wireless carriers. Example: if a Verizon Iphone actually hits the market, the shift will be enormous. I suggest it would be a tectonic shift in the wireless industry's provider business.
Relax man, don't get so worked up over it. There's plenty of anti and pro apple people here, and the objective is to discuss opinions and present facts.

Besides, reddit's programming, apple etc subreddits are rather sane. Definitely more than their main ones.

Pretty sure there are a bunch of redditors here too. I'm also certain that they LIKE reddit. This place just requires a different mindset when you enter. And your comment, dear sir, is definitely the bad-reddit type.
I don't think the fact that false leads are investigated is really the problem. But that investigation should be resolved much more quickly and much more transparently.

Really the harm seems to be in they way people are being treated not in trying to prevent child abuse etc...
In practice it just doesn't work very well sometimes. I think it's better to risk letting more child abusers off the hook, than potentially ruining the lives of decent parents like these.
For more in depth information on this topic I highly suggest Adam Wiggins' talk at QCon. The video can be found here http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Horizontal-Scalability

I really like how he treats the topic in a balanced and well reasoned way. Makes it great to learn more about the topic at hand.
According to their bios (http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/), every senior exec who isn't doing hardware of software has either an MBA or a JD.

So everyone in the business management or legal side of Apple has an MBA or JD? Go figure...
I love Python, I really do, but JavaScript happens to be slightly better as a browser language because it is a little freer with the anonymous functions. Most JavaScript programmers use this all the time, without even thinking. Here's a jQuery example:

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OK, that's not too bad, I guess. Named parameters are nice. Having to define the success callback separately is not so great.

Edit, HN broke the formatting.
What is "normal" is subjective and varies by person and society. Would you agree with that?

Some people don't think it's normal to want to photograph children naked. Others do. Some may not think it's abnormal, but on the other hand think it is not wise. Clearly, you think it's okay to do. Or you just think it is not unwise, or should not be banned. Those are each distinct nuanced states of mind on the matter. That's fine.

I don't see where all this "being terrified" angle is coming from actually. I guess I have a different understanding of the word terror and terrifying.

Having an awareness of the state of one's society is a useful thing. To be aware of possibilities, and make choices accordingly I'd argue is a smart thing. It's not being fucked up, it's being wise and pragmatic. As was shown in the OA, in theory everybody is innocent until proven guilty. But in practice, especially regarding this particular issue, it's effectively the opposite. Clearly we want to change that. But the world is not like that at the moment. Should we try to make it better? Yes. Can we make it better? Possibly not. Should we do the wisest thing in the meantime? You'll probably have a happier life if you do, but it is up to you whether the tradeoff is worth it. From my perspective, there's almost no upside and therefore no tradeoff to consider. YMMV. But do not be "terrified" of my position. Be terrified of a giant flying shark in the night or something. But not something like this. :P
As someone who visits the Bay Area and doesn't have a car, how can I reach that museum via public transit? BART doesn't reach that far down in the west bay.
Because it's very interesting and very high quality. Also, from the guidelines of this site:
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The whole point of favoring BSD over GPL, in addition to prohibiting a GPL fork, is that I want the code and all derivations to be free for personal and commercial use with no obligations made upon the user/re-implementer.
Not saying this applies to you but a lot of possibly questionable material that is bypassing the eyes of processing at a drug store is now being made available to many more than a couple of people online.
Hooray!

Andy was my officemate when he was working on this. I have a copy of the thread mentioned in the article.
I couldn't believe this when I read your post, but it turns out there is a minimum employee count requirement, and it's now 500 employees.

Just wow.

Now, to be fair, the non-enterprise developer program lets you distribute your app to 100 devices too, but you need to pre-enter those devices's IDs beforehand. There's no way to hit between 100-500 devices.
It's up Shoreline. You can take Caltrain to Mountain View and get a taxi from there.

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language):

"Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early years of the Mac; parts of the original Macintosh operating system were hand-translated into Motorola 68000 assembly language from the Pascal sources. ...the C interface for the Macintosh operating system API had to deal in Pascal data types."

My memory was that C was considered a mainframe and IBM PC language, while the relative elegance and sophistication of Pascal was good style for Macs (esp. when leavened by a bit of assembly code).
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I'm bored of social websites.

Uh-huh. Do you consider Hackers News a social website?
LOL, sorry I said that badly.

What I meant was the opposite - their massive growth encouraged them to finally add oauth support.
Except that's not true. Phil Schiller (Senior Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing) has no MBA.

So that's 7 out of 12 of the top execs who have no MBA or JD.

(Also, most of my friends in management at Apple don't have MBAs. If they do get master's degrees, it's usually for the pay grade bump it gives. More anecdotally, I know at least 50 people in middle management at Apple without MBAs.)
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DCF is a really problematic thing. I completely understand where you're coming from and we've had people close to us under false investigation from family services and it's a pretty bad gig. They act like everything you say is such an absurd lie and that you're just waiting for them to walk away so that you can start slamming your children into the floor again. It is really sad that they can't use common sense.

But at the same time, we've had people close to us exhibit a constant pattern of abuse with their children, including using and dealing hard drugs with the children present and leaving things like syringes lying around. We called DCFS and the investigation, as far as I know, has gone nowhere.

The woman still has her children because every time the agents show she happens not to have anything particularly incriminating in plain sight. The woman is a serial liar and manipulator and uses people wherever she can. She has many medical problems incidental of her drug use and the way she has treated her body and uses them to her benefit, playing the persecution card. We believe that she is constantly on the edge of sanity and has issues with schizophrenia. She is regularly beaten by her partners, and the children see this. She is always cracked out on legal prescription drugs, which she has a valid prescription to use, because as above, she has abused her body for years and now has serious problems as a result.

Her son has a disability that requires special attention. If he gets injured, he must be administered a booster immediately or he may die. This child is frequently unsupervised while his mother sleeps until 2pm and he runs around outside with kids who don't speak English, jumping off of balconies and stuff. He frequently misses school for a week or so at a time (she makes sure he appears at least once every 10 days, because the school people don't file a report until 10 consecutive absences). But apparently DCFS can't do anything unless they happen to appear at a time when the mother has drugs in reach or sight of the children, and the story is that heretofore they haven't seen this.

I sympathize that it sucks to be falsely investigated, but if you consider that there are people like those described above, who have become expert manipulators and liars to conceal and feed their habits, and DCFS has to investigate them too, you can understand some skepticism on the part of the agents.

Either way, it's a pretty horrible system. I don't really know the answer, but the current setup obviously doesn't work; this woman still has custody of her children six months later (the last time we had contact with them, her boyfriend, who speaks almost no English, called to say that the woman had been away for two days and asked us to take the children so he could go to work) and innocent people get harassed for years because of pettiness and retaliatory reports. Someone should try to fix this, though obviously it's a pretty intractable problem.
EngineYard did a series of 6 that goes a bit more in-depth, their blog nav sucks though so just use this:

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Honestly there aren't any really great comparisons because the people with the really in-depth knowledge about one db or another tend not to have the same depth in the others. Plus there's the fanboy quotient adding to the hype, which initially was really turning me off to the whole NoSQL meme.

More recently though I've decided that I can't let the ignorant hype distract me from discovering the real value. In general I still think most apps probably need some kind of relational database (and generally I consider a relational DB a nice hedge against changing requirements), but I'm also spending quite a bit of time on optimizing my own app and it's amazing how certain alternative data stores offer primitives to billiantly pick off real world bottlenecks cropping up in a traditional SQL DB.

So for me the best way to approach it has been by looking through the prism of real world problems.
Chicken McNuggets because someone just made me hungry for them.

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His analogy is majorly flawed, unless everybody is stealing cookies from the cookie jar.

He seems to be more analysing Job's body language and speech, rather than what was said and what was shown.

If the media get another story to follow, they will leave it alone. If not, then they may pursue it for a while longer.
I'm thinking of trying NearlyFreeSpeech.net - I'd been paying about $250/year for shared hosting that was so-so quality, and after I closed down a couple projects I don't have the traffic that I'd need lots of mediocre quality hosting. That's what I'd get online.

Offline, rice and coffee.
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I think behind all this competition from the blogging platforms there is a realisation that at the core their offerings are quiet similar because of the nature of blogging.

It certainly isn't a internet startup area where there is going to be to much innovation given that to many features and you lose the people wanting a simple solution and end up competing with self hosted wordpress for more serious bloggers.
Don't forget casual/social games! There still tons of money to be made, but it sure looks like a bubble.
Yeah no doubt. The main reason I don't go to reddit anymore is not due to a lack of good discussion. It's just because I don't want to scroll through a 50-comment long pun chain to get to it.
"Apple is now a dominant player in the consumer technology market and it can't afford this kind of ham-fisted performance. Jobs should remove himself from the lineup and let someone else take over. Or he should get over himself and cheer up. But Friday's press conference was not good corporate PR."

This is exactly the type of ivy league business exec extrodinaire that could lead to Apple's demise in the post-Jobs era. Yeah, let's be all unicorns and butterflies on stage when our crown jewel, the best cell phone ever made, is being torn apart unfairly by the media. If you're not angry on stage, either your product is defective or you're not being sincere.
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BTW I am using SWF Protector to secure Flash code.
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It works against the most popular Flash Decompilers. So hackers will not be able to decompile my code. Although I think that experienced hacker can crack the file anyway.
Agree with the article's observations, but disagree with its conclusions. Although the article correctly described Jobs' body language, tone, anger, defensiveness, etc., the effect of all that was positive for Apple because it was totally honest and matched the situation perfectly. People who watch the video understand the Jobs has every right to have acted the way he did in the press conference, and that understanding builds empathy for the company and works in Apple's favor.
Honestly, ice cream and I'd go watch Inception. Been living on a budget so both are out for now, and I have all the programming books I need right now.
This is an interesting schedule. I like how you added the social component. This days you can't do anything without the social component. :)

"5:30 AM - Wakeup

5:30 AM - 7:30AM - Read blogs, articles, mail, write blog post

7:30 AM - 12 PM - Code without distractions (turn on SelfControl)

12 PM - 1:30 PM - Run, workout, make some quick food

1:30 PM - 6PM - Ignore desire for a nap, Code & Coffee
6PM - Get out of the house and meet people!"

Do you really plan to uphold it every day? Or is it more like a flexible guide? This times look pretty tight. Did you plan it concerning your personal preferences (early wakeup, how much sleep?), or more on the general work day "normal people" expected schedule. And do you really need to write a blog post every day? Don't you think all this will be a distraction?
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if you prepare a splash page to entice people to your offering, its a good idea to make it readable.

your egyptian background is artistic but makes it awfully painful to read the text
I double-clicked on the .rsrc file, since I still have a working resource editor (Resorcerer) on my OS X Mac. No dice; it’s in the ancient MPW “Rez” format that acted as the original way to store resource information for development and source control before being compiled into the classic Mac dual-forked file format. I kind of wish I kept my CodeWarrior discs handy; they still had a Rez compiler that worked under earlier releases of OS X.

Interesting that they didn’t use the “ellipsis” character in the menus, preferring to hardcode the three periods. The Human Interface Guidelines were clear to use the single character (which does look different enough in the Chicago font), and these kinds of typographic details (via the MacRoman character set) were key selling points for the Mac early on.
Most likely: someone whose continued employment depends on turning a certain minimum percentage of reports into criminal charges/convictions. Busting actual child abusers who have experience with the system is likely much harder than setting up innocent people who don't understand what's going on, so this would presumably be an easy case.
Confusing response. If you want to get down to it, CPAN doesn't really provide much more functionality than what you can get in most other languages and provides less than what Java has. CPAN has a tremendous amount of duplication, has a fair amount of toy code, etc., etc.
I would put the video above the buy, as well as a static section with an little explanation. As well as something like step 1 - stick, step 2 - write, step 3 remove/restick type thing. Emphasising that it can be easily removed front and centre is a must, that would be my first question once I got what it was.

Also being able to get the product at a glance without a video would help. With the right images and writing I could get what the product does and decide if I would be interested in probably 10 seconds as opposed to having to watch a much longer video.
This is a really great question, but I can't really see a corollary in programming. Software is a much wider field than soccer. Contest problems could be similar, or running through a textbook like How To Design Programs. In reality, the best thing is probably to find some smaller projects with reasonable constraints on a simple platform, that way you can build software without spending a lot of time dealing with infrastructure concerns, and just focus on architecture, algorithms, etc.
That's because you must be in an area with relatively high signal strength. The signal bars on the iPhone are very non-linear. If you had been in an area with marginal signal strength (but still enough to read 5 bars), holding your phone normally would be enough to drop several bars.

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ChompStack was previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492184

I really like the simplicity and focus of their idea. Even the smart folks here on HN were suggesting they get into POS systems, online ordering and restaurant reviews. I'm glad they didn't take everyone's advice.

Now to dispense some advice (oh irony!):

The "Pro" pricing is too low - $45 / mo for a restaurant chain with over 10 locations is a rounding error. Restaurant chains of that size are probably spending over $100,000 per year on advertising.

I'm sure the pricing tiers will morph as the product develops anyway - number of locations doesn't seem like the best sole differentiator.

Good luck to ChompStack, I hope it succeeds.

(My restaurant marketing budget estimates were poorly calculated using this link http://aaronallen.com/articles/restaurant-digital-marketing/ and this link http://www.restaurant.org/research/facts/ )
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Because they either don't know about the problem or they think that the current alternatives are too hard to implement (or don't know them either).
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