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I love vagrant!
It was super easy to create an archlinux base box and i've been using chef to automatically provision environments. Setting up the environment for a new project takes minutes and is both totally automated and separated from my actual OS.
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price gouging?
Did he have to return the device? If they placed a device in his car that sounds like they abandoned their property.
Completely ignoring nutritional need, storage costs, water to reconstitute food, etc, Ramen is much cheaper.

At $1.39 for 6 [1] it comes out to $253.68 [2]. That makes the Ramen only diet more than 3 times cheaper than the Costco food.

[1] http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/a/ID=prod6010665-product

[2] 365 * (3 *(1.39 / 6)) - Rounded up the cent
It's an ugly post – there's no way around it. I'm not impressed by the people it describes but I'm even less impressed by the author.

I'm reminded of an HN discussion a few weeks ago, referencing Eleanor Roosevelt's timeless advice:

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
He opined thoughtfully, resplendent in his wizard robe and tinfoil hat.
I started using vagrant last week to debug my Chef scripts and it is indeed awesome. Vagrant uses Chef (chef-solo) configure your VM from bare image to working server.

I see that is has a plug in system for other provision systems like Puppet, but the chef support works great out of the box.

I was hoping to contribute to the project by integrating fog the ruby library which talks to many cloud systems including EC2 so someone could build an image via Chef or Puppet, dev and test in their image, then provision and upload to the cloud. Could probably do this without integrating with vagrant by building a clever rake or capistrano script.
And I forgot my other comment to make which is, as someone else before me once remarked, many startup's problem space early on appears to be a toy or something of little utility or value, but that is rarely the case in the long-run. Just look at Facebook!
Yuck! Dominos=cardboard
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IBXj-Mt28qU/SyXP2nBOiiI/AAAAAAAABrE/nq...
You might look at http://procasts.co.uk/

I haven't tried them personally but one of the founders wrote an ebook called The Screencasting Handbook which I used to help me make a screen cast: http://thescreencastinghandbook.com/
Ask HN: Who to follow (Twitter) for good code?
Now that the new Twitter supports embedded Gists, I think it would be a great way to share daily code snippets. The kind of tips and tricks to make you a better coder. Does anyone follow people who do this already? Who?
Another benefit of this approach is that it takes seconds to revert to a good state if you destroyed your dataset in a mishap. use snapshots or just restart VM from original image. all while using your preferred code editor (the app source is mounted from the host OS)
My first reaction to that quote was, get a lawyer now and never speak to them again.
I might be putting words in the author's mouth, but I think the things he's talking about are "products" not "technologies." This isn't to say that the same sort of beneficial serendipity doesn't apply, but it applies less.
Apple at that point would buy Pixelmator in a heartbeat and make its own product.
Ramen can be had for as little as 7 for a dollar, on sale.

However I think that a heavily ramen diet without veggies and meat would lead to serious health problems.
Seems lucrative at first, but I would subject myself to eating canned food for a year. This kind of diet is completely deprived from nutrients. I can only imagine the state of my health after a year. For a little more than that one could shop at Trader Joe's and eat fresh, organic and locally made produce.
Yes it is, why should this guy be grateful, I don't understand why this guy should be grateful. I don't understand what is not clear about that. Apple was not grateful so why should this guy be grateful. I want to know why is their an acceptable double standard?

In my personal opinion he should not be anything, Apple should be free to implement anything on their system they want (as well as everyone else) but those are not the rules of engagement. So I want to know, under the current rules of engagement, why is it flattery when the little guy gets copied, but acceptable for the big guys to enforce that they can't be copied.

This kind of mentality reinforces the little guy getting victimized and I want to understand how someone comes to such a flawed conclusion. Whether right or wrong the big guys are using patents as a tool in their arsenal, so if those are the ground rules set out by the bigger players then why should a smaller player be flattered and give up advantage to a big company that has been known to use the same tools against others? If the shoe was on the other foot Apple would not consider it flattery (especially if it was superior), they have proved that and that is my point.
(Twitter no longer does new verified accounts: they consider that "beta" program "closed".)
There are a few women doing the lifestyle design thing: http://www.escapingthe9to5.com/ http://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/ http://epicself.com/
The company that sells this is called Shelf Reliance. They are a MLM scheme with consultants all over the USA taking advantage of the general doomsday fear in the community.

The super-positive comments on the Costco website give it away - "i use it into my everyday cooking! the freeze dried fruits and veggies are oh my gosh...amazing!" -- (hint: they are all/mostly consultants posting).

Most consultants will beat or match Costco pricing, so if you are hungry-poor, can survive on ~800 calories a day and enjoy the taste of powdered donkey, or you are the paranoid type, contact your local Shelf Reliance(tm) consultant for an in-home consultation and party today!

http://www.shelfreliance.com/?affiliate=bl4k
Hopefully they get around to deploying open source monitoring with this hire http://foursquare.jobscore.com/jobs/foursquare/operations-en...
One of the agents produced a printout of a blog post
that Afifi’s friend Khaled allegedly wrote a couple
of months ago. It had “something to do with a mall
or a bomb,” Afifi said*

The nickname of the friend of this student, who posted the story on reddit is "khaledthegypsy", and he posted this comment couple of months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ciiag/so_if_my_de...

Seems like FBI didn't bother to check the context of that comment.
Explain please.
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And why would you think that a novice on the web with Photoshop _couldn't_ do better than a 'professional' with blah blah blah, especially when this new logo is amateur hour at best and utter crap at worst.

I sincerely hope that the entire Internet is being trolled by The Gap on this one, given that the alternative is entirely depressing.

Either that or this logo is legit, meant to last, will work on consumers, and in turn will reduce designer's hourly rates around the world. :)
Funnier famous example in Britain from the 60s/70s.

The communist party HQ found a bug and removed it, and were subsequently prosecuted for destroying government property. While the government denied in court spying on them, and even denied the existence of MI5, the agency involved.

The case succeeded on the basis that those being spied on believed the government were responsible and therefore intended to destroy government property.
A black, unknown object that looks like it could be a pipe is attached to the bottom of my vehicle. I'd just call in and report a bomb.

See if the authorities can figure it out.

On a more serious note, California is in the 9th Circuit which recently ruled you have no expectation to privacy regarding your car parked in your driveway or an open lot.

I doubt the FBI agents had a warrant.
No offense, but I find that a little hard to believe. Every doctor's office I have ever visited in the last 10 years had more admin staff than nurses and doctors.

That is, for each doctor there were perhaps 1.5 admin people doing paperwork. While they are cheaper than doctors, that is a still a large expense (figure $60K per person as a minimum, thus $90K per doctor per year in additional expense).

However I do agree that obesity is a problem in the US.
I dunno about you, but I barely type when I'm coding. I'd guess about 90% of my day is reading and thinking.
My brother noticed that they had a Mountain Dew can accurate to the time period.
"Homelessness isn't going to be solved by some RoR hacker creating a website that matches the homeless with available space. Rather it is the challenge for social workers, mental health practitioners, etc."

I think you're missing the larger point: when the best and the brightest technological minds are chasing the instant riches of social networks for dogs, they're not creating new antibiotics, energy efficient cars, cheap building materials, or any of a thousand other different things that people with big brains might be doing to better the world.

People who are smart enough to be writing social networks are more than smart enough to be doing pharmaceutical research or inventing solar cookers for the third world. There's just not much of an economic incentive to do it, when it's easier to sell to the vices of the first world.

That said, I realize that I'm a hypocrite on this point: I'm in this wacky social-network-hoo-hah business as much as anyone else. I just wish the economic forces were aligned differently.
I've never used the list, but I don't understand what she offers that Yelp won't soon offer when it reaches critical mass in those categories... Am I missing something?
The things that they list as "differentiators" don't actually differentiate significantly from Yelp... and it's $50 a year!
http://www.angieslist.com/angieslist/visitor/howitworks.aspx
Ask PG: Can we have quote syntax support?
I often see people who appear to have mistakenly triggered code syntax. Sometimes they indented before their poor-man’s bullets, which is a separate issue; but what causes me the most concern is when indentation is used to show quotation. Monospaced, horizontally-scrolling text doesn’t help anyone. Dare I be so bold, I would recommend using ">" to trigger a blockquote, Markdown-style. Since lines beginning with a greater-than symbol already usually indicate a quotation, this shouldn’t cause many degradations of existing content.
First CNN Turns twitter into national news, now we try and make Twitter international news?

This article says nothing useful about North Korea except that they like people with similar interests (surprise).
Reading this resonated with me. I knew that the responses here would pretty much rip it apart, but I'm surprised that as of right now only one of 15 comments is positive.

It's pretty easy to find ways to criticize this post. It's not particularly well written, it's not inspirational, and of course you can poke holes in any kind of argument this vague. But if you don't agree, I think it's worth it to stop and be honest with yourself about whether you really think it's complete bullshit, or if there is maybe a tinge of guilty defensiveness mixed in.

I'm not claiming that this article is anything close to the whole truth—after all, we can't make a difference if we can't make a living—but if there wasn't at least a seed of truth here then I don't think "changing the world" would be part of the standard entrepreneurial goals.
I might be able to help you out - I co-founded TekPub and myself or one our other authors could handle whatever you are looking for. Drop me a line.
The same thing has happened in New Zealand, I can't find a reference right now but it was last year/year before and drug squad police who attached the tracker.
I think that the "homeland" that Doxer was referring to is Israel, not the USA.

My prediction is that unfortunately many other Jews will now be under suspicion of being disloyal if they handle sensitive information.
This mystifies me too. Maybe it would be more clear if I actually used Angie's List, but... I don't really need to. Yelp already leads me toward great professional services.
SendGrid - transactional and mass email

PivotalTracker - daily todo

FogBugz - customer support via email
macosx | ubuntu

emacs, eclipse

version control tool of your choice (mercurial | git | svn)

python, bash, java.

a brain.
JIRA Studio - http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/studio/

BitBucket - http://bitbucket.org/

Salesforce - http://salesforce.com/

Gapps - http://apps.google.com/

ZenDesk - http://zendesk.com/

EasyDNS - http://easydns.com

most of these aren't cheap, but through a process of trial and error I found out that they are the best.
Having a cracked version of Illustrator has nothing to do with producing good design. Similarly, just because you can code doesn't mean you can write good software. Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual, we live in a visual world and a design/logo often becomes the face of companies.

The problem with gap is they went away from who they are and they're trying to sell an untrue story. Using a minimalist font like American Apparel as an attempt to be "hip" is clearly bullshit to everyone. But again it has nothing to do with the tool, rather its about the concept and thought behind the graphic and that is where Gap has slipped.
Worse case scenario for Skype is the major carriers block their service and/or launch competing services bundled into handsets. They have to play ball or they will be facing extinction.
I was wondering if MS was going to buy Adobe 7-8 years ago, if not 12, but it seems odd at this point.
In some ways, Facebook does have a direct impact on real issues. It is much easier now for non-profits to get their message out to people, through Facebook. Applications like Causes makes it easier for organizations that do have an impact on real issues to collect donations from Facebook users.
So designers should do the initial work for free? So their customer can say "nah, I don't like any of them" and then suddenly a design looking remarkably similar appears on their website/products, courtesy of a much cheaper 'designer' working off the 'rejected' design comps?
Not everything has to be solving a direct problem, secondary benefits have to considered.

Let's take Dailybooth (YC Summer 09)which was mentioned in this article. Whilst the creator may have just created the site because it sounded like a "fun" idea the value of the website is with the micro community that thrives.

Heck, I'll even go as far as saying Dailybooth has helped to save lives. It's dedicated users consists of a subsection of society that may be outcasted in real life. Lets take a teenager who lives in a small town, whom may feel more accepted in a city but has no similar peers within a small town. Dailybooth facilitates this teenager to connect and belong to like-minded individuals people whom they have never met before. Over time real friendships are created over a shared connection which is the website and community.

I heard of actual stories where a teen attempted to commit suicide due to being perceived as an outcast. In this case Dailybooth has facilitated friendships and connections with similar peers which in turn reduces the feeling of being outcasted in a small town, thus indirectly reducing the chances of suicide.

There are even a number of Dailybooth users who travel across different countries to facilitate in real friendships and connections. It allows for boundaries of prejudice to be broken.

So Dailybooth may not be solving a direct problem. But does it have value in our society? I would argue is certainly does.

(I have researched extensively into the userbase and mechanics of Dailybooth and have been involved in it's community)
Dominos redid their entire standard pizza recipe (new sauce, crust, etc.) and pricing structure recently.

$6 for a 2 topping large carryout is reasonable, and their web ordering and status is quite good.

Give them another shot - you might be surprised, as I was.
This is a small point, but funding doesn't get announced on the day it closes ever. So no one was signing anything related to this deal once the .ly stuff started happening.
Summary: people have worse problems than you, stop being so self absorbed, stop hanging out with your friends, stop having fun, join the peace corps and change the world. Or something.
The nerve of these people amazes me. They're caught red handed, probably never had a warrant (with the law shaky on if they need one), and they probably didn't have a very solid lead to start with (how convenient that he was reported by an "anonymous" tip).

In the middle of all this, they still had time to try to bully him into getting back the surveillance equipment from their botched attempt, with lines like "We’re going to make this much more difficult for you if you don’t cooperate."

Just reading the story sickens me.
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Conveniently scheduled while I'm in NYC interviewing. Perfect timing -- can't wait.
Not sure why you were downvoted. You made a valid point.

Slightly offtopic but since people are dicussing updates. Updates are an important part of the sotfware lifecycle. It's no big deal that sometimes the updater might need to be updated.

I personally get a bit angry when of all people, software engineers get annoyed about updates. You should know better that the update to software would push better algorithms, reducing CPU and memory usage while it might also have security fixes making software more secure.

Nobody (not even Apple) makes perfect software. There is no such thing as bug free code. Updates fix bugs.

I understand it is a bit psychological too, since people complain more about free updates than paid ones.

Engineers should promote updates amongst friends and family and not deride updates in public.
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You can manipulate your body language to calm interview neuroses – try it out.

When you're nervous, you pull yourself into a more compact shape. Folding your arms or keeping your legs tightly together lets your reptile brain feel nicely protected when you're anxious.

Instead, widen your stance as you sit. Spread your legs a bit, arch your arms behind your head and lean your head into them, if it feels natural enough. Those in control take up more space.

It forces you to calm down and projects a more confident image. There was even an article on HN about this a few weeks ago, I think from HBS.

When I make a conscious effort to do these things, I've found that conversations like interviews are a lot more enjoyable, so I do better even in uncertain territory.

Good luck!
Syntax support for

- Lists and

- Quotations

would be quite useful.

> Example quotation
I can choose in the privacy settings who sees what I'm tagged in. Specifically, I can say that tags are only seen by me, which would effectively turn off tagging. Can I do this with groups? I've tried, but can't seem to find it anywhere in the settings. If anyone knows, please share, I'm very interested in turning it off.
Yeah, but I think Yelp has a ways to go... I think Angie is used for contractors, exterminators, etc - stuff that isn't reviewed on Yelp much... but it's only a matter of time before Yelp (or someone else) gets in there and does it for free.
Amazing that they got $80 mil in funding in the past 2 year, 15 years after it started... Also unclear why they need it, if you've got $60 mil in revenues, 400 employees, and not a lot of non-employee costs, then why do you need an additional $80 million in investment?
You said that wasn't what TFA was describing, but it is.
Parse incoming emails (like posterous)
Gizmodo's just rewriting a Wired article, the pics were posted on Reddit originally.
The Mystery of Microsoft: Why Wall Street treats Microsoft like yesterday’s news
ok go do http://vimeo.com/7166047
having only myself to feed i'd be concerned about the quantities of food per container. being obliged to consume the 236 servings of eggs after opening one of the 6 cans in that set would be a tall order.

i've always understood "ramen profitable" to be a figure of speech. does anyone seriously eat that filth?

i think a real hacker would be aware of their body and its various biological processes ("know thyself" in a sense), and know that putting crap like that into your "human experience system" is foolishness regardless of your budget or time constraints. i work 12-14 hour a day 6 days (minimum) a week and still cook for myself.

when my budget was tight my crock pot was my best friend. dried beans, frozen veggies, minimal cheap starches, cheap fresh fruits, onions, garlic, canned tuna/cheap lean meat, a few cans of seasoning and some olive oil were still under $100/month.

nowadays i eat like a king for $400/month and i'm eating the sort of meals i'd have to pay $20+ a plate for at a restaurant. if you're looking to cut your budget learn to cook. it's easy. it's a process-- optimize it. takes me 10 minutes. dont eat filth. crap in -> crap out.. neglect your body and live with the consequences. until we can grow replacements or figure out how to preserve them indefinitely, it's foolishness.
I don't know much about US law and I'm wondering what could have happened if he didn't hand them over the damn device without some sort of proof of ownership or a formal request.
Fixed for what its worth. Thanks.
The kid sounds like he is indeed boring, but also not the sharpest crayon in the box. It's too bad, really, because it would be great to have someone that was a little more aware of his/her rights to try to take the .gov to task for this kind of shenanigans.
I use the Ready Store for this: http://www.thereadystore.com/

They have a good selection, with decent prices and sales.
Any moderately complex app has a few moving parts. At least you have the web server and the DB. The DB has settings like the default character set, table types etc. These have to be kept in sync across all instances, dev, stage, and prod. The web server also has modules and a conf file with mod_rewrite rules which change and should be kept in sync. Sometimes you update a library or a version of ruby. Add a noSQL server, message bus, file storage, email, etc and you can see how it becomes a serious issue. And the problem grows exponentially the more developers there are each with one or more dev instances which have to get the latest changes and be kept up to date.

These things all have to be dealt with and should not be thrown over the wall and "let the sysadmin deal with it." That's where the value of the OS and infrastructure is a set of code and config files which are kept in source control next to our code and versioned with it is so valuable. Run "vagrant up" and a fresh consistant build every time. Then develop in php, python, perl, ruby or brainfuck if you want.
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Agreed, I actually think all of them have direct impacts, it seems however the author is implying that if the app is not built specifically for the means of doing something altruistic it is in some way greedy or frivolous or something.

I'm arguing that the applications doesn't have to be directly focused on a particular issue, and it still has legitimate uses as you pointed out, and make real world changes that are on the scale that the author thinks that technology apparently should be used for.
GV still requires a voice plan unless you have a Gizmo account, but (0) signups for Gizmo are currently closed and (1) even if you have an account, the call quality is not so hot. Skype offers great call quality on data-only plans, which are significantly cheaper, at least on T-Mobile.

I'm hoping Google gets their act together integrating Gizmo with Google Voice, but until they do this is a great stopgap measure. In the long term I'd be much more comfortable relying on open protocols/apps (SIP and Sipdroid) than Skype though; they have been abusive in the past and even pulled their app for a time.