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This is incredibly condescending and to be honest, you're not that intelligent if you have to resort to the faceless ridiculing of someone in a public forum.

I had to work with plagiarism first-hand at a first-class graduate school. You would think the caliber of talent for such a prestigious university would weed out disingenuous individuals, but the truth is that plagiarism is a cultural phenomenon. Just type in "plagiarism china" into Google to find out how students are being raised to copy work and rewarded for their efforts. Then they come to learn over in America in a culture where its frowned upon, and you see them with the same confused expressions when they correct their work. Not to say that what China is doing as a country is right, but you can't simply state that people are stupid.
Your unspoken premise is that the FAA 1) Cares about safety (more than they care about appearing to care), and 2) That they know what they're doing.
GSM is designed to be usable when travelling in a car, but going much faster than that will likely cause problems. It's probably problematic that you're not staying long enough in a single cell tower's range, and doppler effects on the radio signals will also cause problems (if I remember correctly from my uni course on the subject).
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Ask HN: Independent contractor vs. 9 to 5 employee
Please forgive the throwaway account. I am considering leaving my full-time 9 to 5 job to become an independent contractor with another company. Ultimately, I'd like to start a company of my own.

In my current job, I have varying amounts of downtime that I can use to learn things. I'm thinking that if I'm able to make this change to independent contractor, it'll allow me more time and freedom to actually start my own company. Also, the independent contracting will give me more experience with the kind of work I want to do on my own.

I'm debating with myself over whether it makes more sense to stay in my current job and work on my own company on nights and weekends, or to go the independent contractor route and use the experience I gain doing that to help me start my company. 9-to-5 would have the advantage of a steady paycheck at a very stable job plus benefits. I don't have a spouse or children. What if the independent contracting work ends up taking most of my time, so that it becomes more difficult to start my own company?

Any advice?
Am I missing something? That client list isn't really that top notch(no offense intended). It's not like he is starting out with Techcrunch and Mashable as clients.

I haven't even heard about any of them besides balsamiq and his own asmartbear.

I'm sure if you hustled and offered those guys deep discounts you could get a few of them as clients too.
Let's not add_bundler_dependencies anymore
The Twitter API is excellent in comparison, I guess in a way the newer Facebook API drew a lot of inspiration from it. Problem is it was rushed out and judging by the article and comments left here not much has happened documentation wise in the last 3 months or more since I last touched it.
I think the issue Ryan mentioned with FB is a general issue these past several years with more than just FB's API and documentation. Everyone seems to be more sloppy these days. People call their processes agile, throw in a task manager, throw tasks into it willy nilly, and call that process.

Hiring a tech writer and sending your lead dev to scrum school won't help either. You need to value good work at work. If you're too busy worrying about how to skim by with less money or worried about losing your employees, you're too distracted. Work with fewer people, get less done, but make sure you do it right! Why do people need a primer on this? It is just common sense.
How much interest is there in following something like this? I've had some startup ideas I've been mulling around with for years and finally decided to jump in head first. One thought that crossed my mind was writing a blog detailing my progress, obstacles, thoughts, etc throughout the process. I feel like, whether successful or a failure, the process would be interesting and useful to others. Any thoughts on this? Anything you'd like to see specifically covered?
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Quoted from the video on JavaScript:

"eventually i discovered that there is actually brilliance in this language, that it's right in a way that very few other languages ever get right"

Can someone please explain this? As someone who is not familiar with JS, I'm very curious to what he means in this sentence.
Whether Common Lisp or Racket comes out in front in a comparison, it always strikes me as amazing what the Racket people get done given their manpower. I don't know how large the team exactly is, and how many external contributors they have. But looking at their site, they have everything from a modern Scheme with libraries, a web server, modern packaging, experimental sub-languages, a module contract system, and so on. And that's besides doing their academic work.
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The idea is not that those who haven't gone to university don't know better, but that going through university (which is assumed to have and take seriously an academic integrity policy) would teach them (even though many would already know better). To say that something is typically true of members of a group does not mean that it is typically not true of non-members.
The 767 was first built in 1981, long before everyone in the passenger cabin was emitting microwave-class RF radiation.

The plane itself serves as a very large shield to outside radiation, but I'm guessing the internal wiring is not RF-shielded because of weight concerns. Wonder how much it costs to rewire a 30 year-old plane.
Instant personalisation helps to give this impression, that they are working very closely with bigger players who can get regular contact with those at Facebook to know the API inside out and get notified of changes as soon as they happen.
Funny, cute, or sad, but http://notironic.com/
Need to make a short urgent call? Get up, go to the bathroom (which is conveniently sized like a phone booth), make your call, take a piss while you're at it, go back to your seat.
I had a calc teacher in high school who did the "recommended homework" thing.

It was amazing, as I could devote however much time I needed in order to be able to identify and then efficiently and effectively solve a given problem type.

This was still at the level where it was a lot closer to arithmetic than actual math (even the most complicated problems rested on just one or two methods which we already knew, and all had an objective, known solution), but the flexibility that it offered me was very useful, given the busy-ness of my schedule that year.
Yeah I saw that, I just wanted to give people an idea of how much it can range.
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If you follow web design/development at all you will know that CSS3 (and HTML5) are talked about more than healthcare reform in Washington DC. Some of the things you can do with CSS3 are amazing.
I don't know about those things. Got a link to some good documentation on them?
But until we figure out a way to ban being a prick I'll take the blanket phone ban.

And what is this urgent call about anyway? Maybe to you it seems urgent and to me it just seems like you're being inconsiderate.
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> I am of the opinion that there is no longer a need for server side templating languages

This makes the assumption that all apps are dumb frontends to a database.
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Photo Memories
If you google Facebook Photo Memories, you'll find pages and pages of people who absolutely HATE this app, and not one that likes it. I HATE THIS FEATURE. All it does is show pictures of people who are dead, making users randomly depressed for no reason; people you were once in a relationship with but are no more; or current significant others with their exes from the past. It is absolutely horrible. If nothing else, we should have an option to NOT show this daily shitfest. AND it is a complete invasion of privacy - if I don't want certain people to see tagged photos of me, they should NOT show in photo memories on those people's pages. I hate it and beg you to remove it or fix it so we can opt out of it and not allow our pictures to be featured in it. PLEASE. IT IS A HORRIBLE IDEA THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO LIKE.
Nothing about the idea requires abandoning HTML for content.

However, something like login management could be completely handled by an API. So the browser would be combining different sources of HTML into once package. This is pretty much what is happening with the Facebook "Like" button anyway.

There are a lot of sites out there which serve pages which are mostly static content with just a little bit extra -- the login name at the top, personalized tools here and there.

I happen to work with Wikipedia content, so that's top of my mind right now. If you are logged in, we give you content rendered mostly from scratch, since the caching system is optimized for the non-logged-in user and there are user preferences which might transform the content in complicated ways. (Even things like date formats are subject to user preferences, so it's considerably harder to cache). This works okay, but it's dramatically more expensive for logged in users. We would have to rethink things if we ever got to a world where a lot more people are logged in.

A paradigm I'd like to explore would be to fetch the static content from one set of servers, and login state and personal options and other transformations from another, and get the browser to combine it all. Probably won't ever happen on Wikipedia though, at least not soon.
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But...shouldn't you take your chances?? I mean, stay, hope they are afraid of the engine, and if they're not get obliterated: or run and risk them catching you? I think I'd take the second option.
If you are one of their favored employees (multiple bonuses of additional options) and you got in before they hit 50 people you can expect about 0.1-0.3%. I know employee 1000 at Google walked away with about $2 million.
I have a hack that makes this somewhat simpler — hook into people's online grocery shopping. Then, all the stuff you eat at home can be counted automatically. Obviously, it doesn't work so well if you throw food away (so you have to tell the app that, or allow for a small amount of wastage) or share food (so you have to say how many people live in the household and their consumption profiles), but the data is available now.

Also, you don't need to measure exercise to help with weight-loss; instead just work out how many calories the user is eating and then encourage them to restrict that until they start losing weight (basically we are building an eat-watch à la the hacker diet.)
If A -> B, it's not necessarily true that B -> A. (A = generalist, B = sleeps a lot.)
Is there a more secure way that a non-data-retaining service can connect with your server so a user can update there .plan file than sftp?
How do you include third-party comments without it appearing unbelievable/dodgy? And should you include a non-stock photo of yourself?
Last time I checked, paperbacks don't have cellular radios.
Here's a recent example of a news website writing a good article about a scientific paper:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/09/gamers-make-fast...
This comes at a curious time for me. Just recently a startup didn't start at all, because I and the other would-be co-founder couldn't agree on how to split the equity.

Can someone enlighten me please: is a 50/50 split reasonable for 2 founders of a coding-heavy startup, where each founder has roughly the same background? That is what I was asking for. My friend was asking to have 100% equity and I would get a sizable share of sales as a contractor for his company. It was our first startup, neither of us has previous experience running a startup or a business at all.

I'm very sad it didn't work out because we worked on the technology for almost 4 weeks and it was promising, and now I feel a bit "guilty" about not having "cooperated", but I just couldn't invest the effort, resources (we have no investment; we would be burning our savings for some months) and yet have no ownership at all of what I was creating and risking into.

Any thoughts into this will be greatly appreciated, as I have no other sources of feedback to evaluate my decision.
A few things:

* I have to trust thimbl.net and/or you that you aren't storing anything.

* Even if you released your codebase on github (or similar) there is no guarantee (to outside users) that it is the same one that you are running on your servers.

* Your site is not https, meaning that my ssh password is going plain-text over the internet.

* Even if your site is 100% not doing anything funny, there is the possibility for someone else to sniff the passwords flowing through your site.
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In this unbearably nitpicky reply, I point out that you forgot an apostrophe in your penultimate word.
Some useful web startup tools I used to launch our site
Their Ajax crawling stuff doesn't work by executing JavaScript within their crawler. If you read the docs you linked to, they specify that this URL:

http://tempalias.com/#!/privacy

Gets converted by their crawler in to this:

http://tempalias.com/?_escaped_fragment_=/privacy

It's up to you to implement your server-side code such that ?_escaped_fragment_ causes an indexable version of your content to be served up.
I think that many people are taking issue with the way you phrased your intro. Something like, "Hey, I'm launching a new startup, to prove to myself that I can do it again. Why don't you follow along because I'll be sharing each step of this journey on my blog!" may have been received better by the community. Nevertheless, the approach you took is a legitimate one. And of course, you'd be a fool not to take advantage of your notoriety as a means of propelling your new startup. You worked hard to get where you are, and fully deserve to take advantage of your position, connections, etc.

You can become Wordpress's Heroku if you play your cards right, and I don't see how you are not going to make big money out of this company as well. My only suggestion would be to reconsider your pricing, so as to make it more accessible (while also meeting the needs of those who don't quite require unlimited blogs). For example, you could charge $29 for a single blog, $49 for 3 blogs, $99 for "unlimited".
Just a very minor observation:

I've read this on the site : "15 years of combined experience". Lots of people find this 'n years of combined experience' pattern a bit lame.

For example:

http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2010/02/combined-years-...
Summary and analysis of a topic based on reference materials is a prerequisite for any academic research, hence University students are given this kind of exercise all the time.

Any University graduate should have learned that cut+paste = failing grade.
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Yes, this. There isn't really a single avenue of study at University you can choose where you shouldn't encounter this. Unless you can make it through a degree without writing a single paper. The idea that you can plagiarize anything in any context at all is basically anathema in almost all academic circles. Not that it doesn't happen, but most people that even attempt it are smart enough to do more than change the font size to hide it.
I am pretty sure I have seen an app that does food recognition already. Not sure if it was for iPhone, or traditional desktop.

The one sad aspect of this idea is that in theory, humans should be able to determine their needs without external monitoring devices - certainly when it comes to food.

Perhaps instead of an external device, it would be better to invest in some self awareness? I realize, though, that it is not possible for everybody, in fact, I also don't know a good way to learn it.
That's ok. You are not their customer.
Sigh. I give up. I'll just suggest you open up a copy of clrs and read the section on randomized quick sort. There is a section dealing with this killer adversary exactly and why this adversary does not kill randomized quick sort.

Your logic is failing because your thinking of this from a programmers perspective when, in reality this is an algorithm analysis problem which is theory.
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It's not that non-university students are immoral or stupid. The article says nothing of the sort. Plagiarism is a basic lesson of university students on day one. You're being too sensitive.

The unsaid connection the author is making is that universities have honor codes that get drilled into you from freshman year. Those honor codes have very specific definitions of plagiarism, usually with examples. Only an idiot, lazy, or jackoff university student would plagiarize word-for-word thinking that a font change is good enough. That makes the university student 100x "stupid-er" than a non-university student that figured out what plagiarism is through intuition. :)

edit: slight wording changes.
Not well, but they can work (9/11 proved this pretty conclusively). It depends on where, how fast and how high up you are.
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Haemophilia A here. I'm working on my startup/app solo and full time, off consulting savings.

I think some kinds of software startup are actually well-suited to people in my position. I'm able to work on something from home that has a half-decent chance of turning into a successful, hands-off, small business. I can't imagine what I'd do if my livelihood depended on moving physical inventory around.
"I think confusion's clarification is very well-put."

Wow! That's so Zen!
I don't understand the anti-authoritarian bent to "hacker" culture. Just because I enjoy working on free software doesn't mean I'm out to stick it to The Man.
Their iPhone Facebook Connect documentation is beyond atrocious. What little there is was written by someone who, besides not being a non-native English speaker, also does not care about getting things right.

Several people have mentioned how bad the documentation is, but nobody has provided examples. In case anyone from Facebook (or "facebook" as it's sometimes called in the docs) reads this and cares, I'm putting some examples from the docs below.

The problem with having mistakes in the docs, is that as the reader notices more and more mistakes, they begin to have less and less confidence in everything that is written there. Once the documentation is suspect, every word in it is suspect.

Here's an example of a sentence lifted from the docs: "i whose fields and values can be inspected and accessed."

Yes, that was the entire sentence, if you can call it that.

How about: "Application can implement these interface to handle them."

Seems like a small error, but a more important message is given to the reader: You cannot trust this document.

Just to preempt an obvious reaction, yes, you shouldn't trust any document, but there are levels of trust, and this kind of grammar makes the trust fall quickly to a very low level.

Another one: "The FBSessionDelegate is a callback interface that your application should implement: it's methods will be invoked when the application successful login or logout."

Same message there. You can't trust this.

Then there are the code examples. Here's their example of how to use something the docs call a stream.publish flow:

NSMutableDictionary* params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: apiKey, @"api_key", nil];
[facebook dialog: @"stream.publish" andParams: params andDelegate:self];

Ignoring the bizarre inconsistent use of spaces after colons, this example gives no clue about what else should be in the params object in order to make a publishable post. I could look it up on the Facebook developers (sic) site, but that data can't be trusted either since it changes so frequently and so little care is given to getting it right.

</rant>
Seems like a neat idea, but the retina-burning color scheme is a bit much.

(For anyone working on the site that might be reading this, there's a "where" that should be a "were" and an "it's" that should be "its" in the first paragraph; I stopped reading there.)
This is an old article ("you should actually be able to run a completely fanless PC, even a newer 300MHz-plus unit").

I don't know if modern PC can work when silenced that way (esp. graphic cards).

One solution I consider right now is buying some cheap terminal with flash, video card, and ethernet, and keep my workstation in other room.
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Of course you are right. It has been a while since I've done this. Sorry for the confusion. I totally forgot that :-)
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I wrote a simple plugin to update Facebook and Twitter statuses when I published a new post in WordPress. Simply authenticating to Facebook took about 2 hours of work, following API links that no longer worked and linked to Bing searches, etc. Problem is, I always swear never to write code on Facebook anymore after one of these experiences, but the next month...
> The water bottle thing is not airlines' doing as far as I know.

Neither is the cell phone thing in the US. It's both the FAA and FCC:

http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=62...
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While I'm skeptical that it will actually work, I think it's an interesting alternative approach.

Think of it this way: DRM is effectively a way of monetizing the inconvenience of pirates. With traditional DRM, an unscrupulous person has two options: either buy the game immediately, or wait until it is cracked and then maybe deal with malware or crack-induced bugs.

The Puppygames DRM adds a third option: download the game directly from the creator (no malware or bugs) and play the full game, but with the inconvenience of only playing it offline. This makes the game less likely to be cracked at all -- there's little glory in cracking a game that practically comes pre-cracked -- and a crack is less likely to see wide distribution when the creator is a more reliable source. So maybe more people will experience the minor inconvenience of playing offline, and maybe more of them will pay to have the inconvenience removed.
There are ways of locking down an incoming ssh connection to scp-only, you can even filter the files it has access to. I looked into this once, but never implemented it b/c we went elsewhere with the project.

Note: This is by making the handling script the thing that runs for a certain ssh key, I don't think it works with a password though.
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In the end of any scenario, DRM always means somebody who has rights on your computer over you, the owner.

My computer is mine. I can give others limited access on them in terms of user accounts. However, I will not give myself a user account and give them root.

The pirates can be said for getting things free. They are also more free due to less restrictions on their version of the code.
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Here's how it works. There is a small number of experts that crack games. Then there is a large number of non-experts that download cracked games.

Unless the DRM can somehow stop everyone from the first group (in this case it won't), the second group will not be affected at all. For them, what DRM is used is irrelevant.