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Seeing people question the $1000 price tag made me chuckle.

Some comps - Shoemoney's elite retreat for affiliate marketers is $5k a head for 2 days, multiple real estate seminars are $10k a day, heck even the "Rich Dad advanced seminars will set you back $2500 a day.

The price of admission is cheap for people that go in with the right mindset of:

A) Networking like crazy - one good connection is easily worth the price of admission and at $1k a ticket you're going to meet some interesting people.

B) Pumping the speakers for information - the entire second half of the day is set up for hands on consulting from these guys. Let's say you've got a GREAT app, these guys bring really relevant experience, they're one click away from Jeff Bezos and lots of VCs, a post on the 37 SvN blog, etc.

I have said my fair share of detracting comments about 37signals, but if I were closer to Chicago I'd be there in a heart beat for the above reasons .
AppRabbit turns spreadsheets into web apps.
I don't think you could do much work on a 13" screen anyways. The 15" mbps, however, are competitive with resolution with the latest generation.
That being said, I just pulled some stuff out of my code that I really shouldn't have :) Thought I was going to start a revolution there.
Replace Muslims with Catholics or White Supremacists Militia members or Jews if it makes you feel better. I have no problem with that. Maybe nobody should be investigated because it would require "profiling" and discrimination. You do know that the FBI and Police use "profiling" extensively to find potential suspects in a crime? Maybe they should stop doing that too.
Neat service. Something I would use. Has some similarities to http://truecar.com

I'd like to see the specific options package listed (checkbox form maybe?) vs. having to write the features I'd like. That way there is really no negotiation that could go on.
This is done by a committee... Takes quite a while for stuff to be added. Languages in developing countries lobbying for their symbols to be added / formalized have to wait ;)
Many network cards offload some of the low-level protocols, typically ethernet and IP checksums, but some do deeper inspection and prepare packets conveniently for the driver if the OS supports it.
Starbucks Puts Quality Over Quantity
Out of curiosity, how do you think you'd react if Apple implemented something that closely resembled 10/GUI? Do you have any patents for it?

Didn't they interview you for a job at one point? Did they indicate if they were experimenting with new desktop UI frameworks?
Consider using ipset.
Your ruleset is very huge and slows down your netfilter...
Ask HN: When does a startup stop being a startup?
I was wondering when do you consider a startup no longer a startup?

Is it a question of time? Size? Revenue? Growth?
Any plans to offer a private party sales portal?

Do the dealers offer carfax/autocheck reports for the cars or do I still need to buy a report separately?
Distilling inflation to a single number is hard even when you have all the prices available.
Their Plus pricing plan costs $79 usually, and the sign up page says 90% of the people choose that, which makes sense intuitively (With more dealers competing, chances are, I'll save more than $40 by going with the plus plan).

So at the very least the revenue estimate doubles but you think $23M in revenues is something to sneeze at?

By comparison, Digg's revenue for 2008 was $8.5M. There was another thread on HN today about how Digg scaled up too fast which is probably true because they lost > $5M in 2008. In the end, the bottom line number is what matters.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/20/diggs-sorry-revenue-stream-...
Sure, but there's "profiling" and there's "racial profiling." One of them is expected, the other starts riots.

Also, FWIW, "criminal profilers" were recently featured in cracked.com's "The 6 Most Statistically Full of Shit Professions" http://www.cracked.com/article_18380_the-6-most-statisticall...
When I ran OpenBSD I used to block on repeated failed attempts(see: http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/long-firewall.html#BRUTEFOR...).

I used to change ssh's port, but not anymore. If a bruteforce attack is a threat to you, then you are better being compromised by a random script kiddie or spammer than by a targeted attacker looking after your data. Take that scans as free, low skilled, penetration tests.
When I was buying a car recently, I wasn't at all sure about the differences between the different trims when just looking on Edmunds, and the dealers catalogs aren't much better. Do you have it in the pipeline to present detailed descriptions of each trims offering?
Only 21% of companies care that you’re working too hard
Thank you so much for the tip, I'll look at doing this.

FWIW though I have almost no traffic to these boxes, so I've never noticed any sort of performance issues.
I can buy that this is a serious drawback for some users. Personally even at 1280x800 the pixel density is so high that I end up with my text size so large that having the extra pixels afforded by the x201s (1400x900) wouldn't buy me anything.

When I'm on the go, I'm mostly working in vim, or browsing the web. Neither of these activities stress my resolution (especially as an XMonad user). When I'm at work or home I have an external monitor that provides me with all the resolution I could ever want.
Syncing. Syncing should be pulled out of iTunes and made a core feature of the operating system.

Support for over-the-air syncing of devices.

DLNA. I use MediaLink to stream from my MacBook Pro to the Sony PS3.

My USB scanner doesn't work when plugged into the Airport Extreme.

Basically, everything related to syncing, sharing, streaming, and networking in general should be improved.

The future of the Mac is connecting to the iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, MobileMe, and other devices.
> "but if you've got nothing to hide"

You would think after so many cases of abuse - some large, some small, some invoking Godwin's Law... that people would stop touting the bullshit that is "if you have nothing to hide..."
I wish they would get rid of the absurd "mount a disk before you run an installer" paradigm. Installing an app downloaded from the web, Windows vs Mac:

Windows:

1 - Click a download link

2 - Yes, I'm sure

3 - Run

4 - Next, Next, Next, Finish

5 - Delete the setup file

OS X:

1 - Click a download link

2 - Yes, I'm sure

3 - Open a finder window

4 - Open .dmg file, and it mounts

5 - Open the mounted image

6 - Run the installer (or drag it somewhere, depending on the app)

7 - Continue, Continue, Finish

8 - Unmount the image

9 - Delete the .dmg file
Experiments and re-experiments are of course the best way to find out what in reality is, rather than what we think is, but maybe science has become too complex to function effectivley with the tools of the 16th century.

Seeing as the problems extent beyond medicine, certainly to psychology but also physics, maybe the problem lies with the very foundations of science.
I completely agree. The same goes to some extent with asking for donations.
Not sure if this is a bug or intentional, but I created an account, selected a make/model trim/colors and entered 'submit' and was brought to the 'pick a plan' page to continue. However, there's no way for me to start all over. If I go back to carwoo.com I'm immediately redirected to this 'pick a plan' page. I want the 'start over' button instead :)
I'm not the same person but I did try it.

For me it was quite a disappointment because one of my main beefs with finder is the atrocious performance even on modern hardware and especially when network mounts are involved. Sadly pathfinder turned out to be even slower!

I don't need zillions of buttons and special "features". First and foremost I want a lean and fast view into my files, everything else is secondary.

As much as I hate windows; up to this day the windows explorer remains the most bearable graphical file browser that I have used.
I'm afraid you seem to be caught in a misery well. It's like a gravity well, but with misery. I don't know how this happens to people, but it does.

Your iChat and Safari problems are... unusual, to put it mildly. (Moreso the Safari issue, which seems to be unique to you.)
India sees shift in China's policy on Kashmir
If the site has been running for over a year, how can it be said to "launch" today?
Runs to update the header on the homepage...
It is up to user if a link should open in a new window or not, not something that markup should determine.
It goes national today after no-publicity launches earlier this year in California and Florida

How do you launch without publicity?
Ask HN: How can I move my startup to USA?
Sorry for the throw away account.

I have a startup in Europe (I'm not a citizen of an EU country, but living in one). It made about $150K turnover ($50K revenue) in first 8 months. Hopefully expecting a much better return for the next year as it's a subscription based business and growing slowly.

Due to some personal reasons I want to move to USA within the next 4-8 months, what's the best option for me? How can I do it?
I, like many others, also use virtualbox for development. So much easier to develop on something close to my production servers, but it uses up too much memory.

I've been looking at some cheap Walmart/Frys PCs to install ubuntu on and develop.
> Replace muslim by whatever (asian, nigerian, haitian, mexican, brazillian) and you have a generic immigrant profile,

Yup. The Haitians are especially dangerous, second only to the home-grown Lutheran terrorists.

If you're going to complain afterwards that the govt didn't "connect the dots" ....
This case, initially filed in state court, had been removed to federal court on the ground that the federal court had so-called "diversity jurisdiction."

Basically, federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction and, unless a case presents a cognizable federal claim or unless some other limited ground for federal jurisdiction exists (such as diversity of citizenship among the parties), the federal court will lack jurisdiction and the case must be remanded for processing and eventual trial in the state court from which it originated.

For diversity jurisdiction to exist, there must be complete diversity of citizenship among the parties, meaning that all defendants must be citizens of some state other than that of the local jurisdiction (here, New York). Facebook is a Delaware corporation with its principal operations in California and therefore is diverse from Mr. Ceglia, who is a New York resident. Mr. Zuckerberg argues that he is a resident of California, having lived here since 2004 to drive his company's growth. In his motion to get the case remanded to state court, Mr. Ceglia argues that Mr. Zuckerberg is in fact a New York resident and that this fact defeats federal diversity jurisdiction, necessitating that the federal court grant his motion to remand.

For a bit of editorializing, I would add (as one who has been highly skeptical of this case) that this strikes me as a rather desperate attempt by the plaintiff to get the case into a forum that might offer up more hope than would a federal court for getting jackpot justice. The argument on the technical point at issue is that Mr. Zuckerberg should be considered a resident of New York even though he has lived continuously in California for the last 5 years, has voted there, pays taxes there, etc. because he was held by a different court to be a New York resident in 2004 and because he allegedly "lives out of a suitcase" and has done nothing to establish a true residence elsewhere since that time. This sort of argument, in my mind, in on par with the rest of this case - essentially a wild swing that reflects an underlying position that is fundamentally unsound.

Time will tell as to the overall case but, as to this motion, I see it as basically frivolous. Whether the overall case is meritorious or not, it will almost certainly be fought out in the federal court and not in a state forum in which Mr. Ceglia evidently hopes that looser standards might apply.
Linked in isn't facebook. If you are using your "status" as a glorified twitter account, you're doing it wrong.

If you are looking for a new job, contact the people you think may be able to help directly via message.

Status messages customized to an audience type in a world of public information being available on google is a bad idea in general, regardless of linked in's behaviors.
The only good thing about the Finder is the column view. Otherwise I find myself missing Windows Explorer, circa Windows 2K when using the Finder.
"Well, Bob, the programmers are ticked because they can't print their training handout on public and private variables..."
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> one variable that is consistently associated with large families is strength of religiosity

I've never understood this.

A preference for large families seems logically unlinked to the primary evolutionary benefit of religious beliefs as I understand them: the cooperation level that is feasible when there is a powerful, omnipotent god to punish norm-violators.

Yes, religions which incorporate ideals about large families will tend to spread, but the same can be said about non-religious cultural memes.

And, in fact, shouldn't secular humanism (which stress the worth of people independent of their service to a god) be more compatible with large-family ideals than traditional religions (which stress duty to god over duty to self and others)?

EDIT: I read quickly though the paper you linked. It doesn't seem to answer my question. Rather it assumes the link between religion (belief in a judging god) and large-family ideals, and then arrives at the natural conclusion that religions are evolutionary advantages.

Or did I read it wrong?
In fairness, steps 1-5 or some subset of them are combined into one or two, depending on your browser.
Note that defense being 50% of the US budget doesn't include mandatory spending, such as social security. If you include these the US spends about the same on social security as defense, at about 20% each.
I use the same keystrokes to trigger Quicksilver, which some may prefer over Spotlight.
Oracle pledges support for OpenOffice.org
"Use a non-standard port: I'm not a big fan of security through obscurity and it doesn't work well for ssh."

When I had sshd running on the standard port on my MacMini, it would often slow down and start spinning the fan like crazy while some cracker was bruteforcing accounts and passwords. Now that I have it on a non-standard port, that never seems to happen anymore.
In a recent interview (D8 Conference), Jobs called Apple "the world's biggest startup". I don't think it's a question of size, revenue or growth, but rather the mentality of the company and the individuals working there.
I use firehol (firehol.sf.net) along with knockd. Combined, it seems to be a rock-solid defense. The firewall will simply drop packets until someone enters the proper knock.
I've tried Ubuntu on a C series Vaio (long time back) which pretty much died on me a hardware failure at a time within 2 years and right now am using a 15'' HP Probook (4510s) which runs Ubuntu like a dream. The ATI drivers are picked up directly and the only issues that I've run into involve screen brightness screwing up after suspend/resume -- HP seems to be able to support Ubuntu really well.

This laptop didn't cost that much -- around $1000 but the build quality isn't that good -- though the keyboard is excellent (with a numpad).

As a side note -- the best solution seems to be getting a MBP and then running Ubuntu virtually for development and OSX stuff for everything else.
"Brandishing off one's religion is a matter of the one's personal choice."

The issue is that you can come up with all sorts of interesting restrictions that are theoretically neutral, but amount to de facto religious discrimination. For instance, consider a store owner who hates Islam, but knows better than to say so for fear of being sued. Instead the store owner prohibits employees from wearing head scarves. Presto! Now most Muslim women would be unable to work there.

It's to prevent these supposedly neutral rules that the law of reasonable accommodation is in place.

"needs to have a registered tax free church in the US , otherwise it isn't a religion"

This is limited to particular circumstances like data collection, but doesn't apply to religious freedom laws (like the employment law).
Care to share the Django app? I'd like to explore doing this as well.
Essentially, this is a form of secret, artificial intelligence that frustrates your plans. As such, I predict epic fails.

You know, like when the publication has a rule that all references to "the queen" should be changed to "Queen Elizabeth." Then they publish an article on bees, which states "Queen Elizabeth can lay thousands of eggs at a time..."

Similar crap will happen. Some keyword will silently block the copying or printing of an innocent but important document and cause hilarity and/or a major problem. "We lost the contract! We couldn't fax in the proposal by the deadline because it wouldn't print!"
I'd think that could cause problems if the system frameworks or other libraries are changed by the update, but the apps are restored into RAM from the pre-update memory image.
Those Asian addresses are only banging away at your server with weak u/p combinations, so if you've implemented PKA then they're already nothing to worry about. Blocking those IP addresses does little more than filters them out of one log (sshd) and into another (netfilter, assuming you're logging). The same goes for moving it to a non-standard port. You're only protecting yourself from the unsophisticated attackers looking for low-hanging fruit, which you've presumably mitigated with PKA already.

The author of the article advocates filtering to trusted sources because it's so much more effective. Ask yourself just how often you access your sshd from a new-to-you location. I'd be willing to bet that it isn't so often that you can't anticipate it. This effectively becomes a third factor in your authentication schema. It requires any attacker to have your private key, know it's passkey, and be at a pre-approved location. Gaining access to your sshd then necessitates attack vectors for your sshd, your private key or the encryption algorithm you used to generate it, and netfilter or whatever runs your firewall.
Flipping through some of these papers is an awesome timesuck. Just saying.
How do you know they're charging too much? If they don't sell tickets. However, I imagine they're going to easily sell every ticket. Supply and demand. They're running a business, not a charity.
Thanks for releasing this DocumentCloud. I've been ranting about bound models with jQuery for months. It's nice to throw away the start I've made and use someone else's code.
I tend to think that Retina on larger screens (iPad sized and larger) still a ways off for cost and gpu/battery reasons.

I mean, doesn't a 30" monitor require dual-link capability to feed that resolution? A retina display on even an iPad sized screen would approach that type of resolution.
Thanks for this post. I just bought my ticket. I've seen other classes go for a lot more that offered a lot less.
Nah. I think alternate interpretations would be comparatively obscure, at least in the US/UK :-)
Since we are focusing on incentives, if they charge the dealer - they are working for the dealer. Who do you think they will be motivated to help better? If the dealer pays them, they have to help the dealer maximize his profit and the customer loses.

Carsdirect is a broker of used cars. They solve the problem of letting sellers find buyers and vice versa, not the same as making the process of buying a new car painless and shorter.

Most importantly though, their offer to refund your money for any reason makes this entire argument pointless. If they didn't think they could make you happier by saving you at least more than their fee, do you think they would make that promise?
yes, I'm serious. 37 seats x $1000 = $37k in pocket as you said. No one is debating the fact that they are only able to do this after years of hard work. Could Joe Schmoe of the street do this? No, absolutely not. But putting "How to make $37,000 in a single day after YEARS and YEARS (and YEARS) of hard work" doesn't exactly fit in the title field.
Seriously though if anyone wants to brainstorm about this, you send me a tweet thru my HN handle.
How Infographics Illustrate Completed Data through Graphics
There are thousands of infographics available to us. Some them are inspirating and some of them are not. Today I gathered up seven of the best articles found on DesignGizer and The Web Blend. Within these list you will find some of the best info-graphic examples created by designers from around the world.
Wesley Beary and fog Promoted to the Engine Yard Open Source Program
"222 additional CJK Unified Ideographs in common use in China, Taiwan, and Japan"

Enough to make the japanese stop not wanting to use unicode to represent their language?
That's a really good point. What sort of message passing support would you like to see in node? I have some free time.
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You probably realise this, but using spring-loaded folders Finder does allow you to navigate while dragging and dropping.

See http://kb.iu.edu/data/aehp.html
Meetings are Toxic
Erm yes I know how to send a message thanks. Nevertheless if I update the skills/experience section of my profile, everyone will be notified. There's no way around your cow-orkers knowing that you've updated your CV.
Charging at the pain point can Make people feel like its worth it. Also makes them take it seriously, and listen proactively.
Database backed websites in pure Javascript; No server side programming
I'm actually in the market for a new car and this sounds promising.

So I'm actually looking at this as a new consumer and a few notes on the experience (my first obviously)

1. The site is too wide. Annoyingly so, I don't know why I'm so put off by this but I literally have to widen my browser to get it to render correctly and it makes me uncomfortable. Considering how much empty space there is I'm not sure why its got to be over 1200px wide with no margins. YMMV I'm just one data point

2. I'm not comfortable with, what appears, to be the requirement to signup right away. I'm not clear on the process here, but I'd like to browse a bit without having to log in to anything. I also don't like not being to signup using facebook without having to give an email. Here's the thing car buying is one of those things where I hate giving out my contact info they tend to just be spam beacons. Let me do something without having to register my email address. I'd prefer to choose my car and options etc.

I'd honestly prefer to get to the point in the process where the only thing left to do is for me to pay you and you send my info to the dealers before I need to sign up.

3. Creating a log in without a password verification seems like a bad idea. What if I screw this up (or worse screw this and my email up)? By the way there's an issue with your reset password page.
http://public.adifferentengine.com/files/badreset.png

4. I tried the car I want and I'm missing a bunch of option choices. I've got a pretty exact idea of the car that I want and there's a bunch of options that I can't choose. In my case I have a very exact idea of the car I want and I just want the lowest price from the dealers. Having to deal with negotiations based on price with varying options is a hassle I don't want to really deal with.

Anyway I'm not buying today but I'll probably give it a try "For Real" in the near future seems like something I'd want.
People like choosing their music -- or at least, the 'anchors' around which a service like Pandora build playlists. Here there's no evidence even of what artists/genres are possible. So the idea people would pay a premium over other rental services -- like Pandora or Napster -- seems farfetched. For your lowest yearly cost ($30*12=$360), someone could own an iPod touch and yearlong "Napster+mobile" subscription.