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It is axiomatic around here that large corporations cannot change, except by acquiring start-ups.

Why? Because any organisation with more than N employees starts to behave unconsciously, evolving according to profit and logic-of-the-situation. (I don't know what N is. Somewhere between 8 and 200?)

That's what those people are (unconsciously, angrily) reacting too.
If I could upvote you more I would! Vimium in Chrome is the bees knees! The best extension ever made, no discussion.
Honestly?

You're all so anti-sexist it sickens me. Whenever a female posts, you put away the boxing gloves and take out the kid skin gloves. The only people that actually say negative things are the unapologetic sexists, and no, I don't like that either. But it doesn't bother me as much.

So it might just be my imagination, but just to be safe I prefer to be one of the guys for my recreational forum activities.
I looked up what the thundering herd problem is but still don't really understand how it applies here? Could you explain further? (Sorry if thats a dumb question, not a computer scientist here).
Off topic, but re: Perspectives. It allows your browser to compare notes with other nodes on the Internet ('network notaries') to ensure that everyone is seeing the same cert for a given website.

Looks like a great idea, but how do they prevent the man-in-the-middle from impersonating a network notary?
Namecheap provides free ssl certificates for each domain you get through them.
The monkeysphere is also a good alternative if you use debian and gpg.

http://web.monkeysphere.info/
An astute point. Do you have philosophical deal-breakers that influence your investment decisions, or treat it strictly as an economic variable?
Indeed. The language of implementation does not matter much, what matters is what sort of data structure you use. When you can just read a piece of text from a database, it makes little sense to create an opaque state-carrying object dependent on the memory space of one process. news.arc is about as far from "functional programming" as you can get.

People often use Darcs as an example of why functional programming is a bad idea "for industry". But the irony is that Darcs has a state-heavy mutable data storage model. This is what makes it slow, not Haskell.

Compare Darcs to Git's completely immutable model, and you'll notice that you get fast Git clients even if you implement it in a language like Ruby.

The "takeaway" from functional programming is that immutability scales, no matter what syntax you implement the pure data structures in.

Since starting with Haskell many years ago, I don't think I've written any application that's been dependent on a mutable datastore. With nearly every business application requiring auditing and historical data retention, doing things right even gets you bullet-point features for free!
Thanks! This is my first real play with jQuery. I have added this to my bug queue and will be fixing it in a few hours. Cheers for the tip!
Yes. The HTTP lifecycle is a perfect example of purely functional interaction. You get a request object. You produce a response object. Done.
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Your English could be tuned up a bit. Normal English usage would not say "maths" but would say "math", although there are those who'd say the language is changing in that regard. You should have said "my English is pretty good" since "well" is normally an indicator of a state of good health when used with a form of the verb "to be". But those are nits. Who do you want to read your blog? What language will those people be most comfortable reading? Answer that and you have the answer to your question.
Show HN: 415-483-1860 twilio-translator
@andrewacove and i built this in a few hours at the apihackday. if you like it tweet it up.

this is mostly for fun, but it should translate any phrase to the best of the twilio transcription service.
I wonder if part of the reason for all the unsafe driving is that passengers have reduced incentive to complain about it. Clearly, it endangers passengers, but passengers WANT drivers to go faster so they can avoid paying too much.

I'm not sure if per minute/mile pricing is necessary or just a creature of regulation. I certainly don't encounter it any other time I travel with someone else driving. It certainly ruins the cab experience for me. Can't they properly estimate time and distance now with the mapping and traffic apps we have today?
I think it's good to recognize that every relationship has limits. It's incredibly idealistic/naive to assume otherwise (I wish life worked that way though).
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Not everyone uses smartphones, not all events details are announced so far in advance they can be printed up at home. For that matter not all people have printers.. Especially for the under-30 set, people may leave home long before selecting their final destination of the evening.
One heuristic is to connect a person's name to other identifiers, such as email addresses, phone number, web domain, whois, unique user name at any popular site, university affiliation, etc. Then search for each one, and perform some map/reduce on the results for each search.

I will take a look at Stack Overflow Careers, btw.
I'd argue that the most important piece of equipment you can give a programmer is a good chair. Not only are the bad ones bad for you, but they break easily IMO. I'm 175 pounds and have gone through 4 chairs in 3 years of service. The chairs are conformable though so it wasn't that bad. But I ended bringing my own chair and when asked about it, I got reimbursed.
Jobs unlikely to overstretch Apple cash ~> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/af7178e4-df89-11df-bed9-00144feabd...

"Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’s declaration last week that the technology company wants to hold on to its $51bn in cash and securities because it sees “strategic opportunities” ahead, has provoked speculation about what it might acquire.
Contrasting position on Prop B: http://www.sfbg.com/2010/09/21/prop-b-bad-medicine

SFweekly: "Its author admits that it doesn't come close to solving the fiscal nightmare. But even this baby step has been subjected to a coordinated assault."

Guardian: "A custodian making only $40,000 per year would have to pay the same hike in health insurance premiums as the city's top brass."

Which leaves me thinking, why the fuck wasn't this caught in review? Why am I being asked to vote on a piece of shit?

It all seems like a staged play. "You, Jones, your job is to draft a piece of strawman legislation that we can criticize in these obvious ways. You can then claim that we're not willing to take even the first step. And no matter which way people vote we'll come out tops with our salaries and benefits untouched."
- English: larger audience

- Spanish: less competitors

If you choose English, use an orthography and grammar corrector. This is a good idea for Spanish too.
Virtually no modern wired networks use hubs anymore, they're for the most part switched. Unlike wireless networks where packets are broadcast freely in to the air, the switch checks the destination address and sends the packets only to the endpoint. There are some attacks like arp-spoofing and flooding which can defeat this, but they don't work well against modern enterprise-grade switches like you would find in a data center.
> the capital costs of entering the taxi business are low.

Is what I suspect is the key point. Because capital costs are so low, it's easy for anyone to get into the business. Because it's easy to get into the business, you end up with lots of turnover as people come in looking to charge high rates, get tired of it, and move on to some other job.

Medallions artificially raise the capital costs involved in becoming a Taxi driver, and therefore make people more likely to continue as drivers, since they want to recoup their initial investment, and it's not trivial to do so.
We both entered into this relationship with a full understanding of our proclivities. I knew that he couldn't stand to see me with another man; he knew that I have the impulse control of flea. Marriage isn't about being perfect for each other, it's about making a commitment to make it work. This is how we make it work.

This is just like using StayFocusd or maxvisit; you know you don't have the willpower, so you use other means to keep yourself productive (or faithful, in this case.)
Normal English usage would not say "maths" but would say "math".

Actually, that's a US/UK difference, not a language issue. Irish, British, Australians all studied maths in school, because 'mathematics' is a plural noun.
I just googled the name of your website. I hope you don't actually think that is stalking.
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Show HN: Daily writing prompts with node.js
As an excuse to learn node.js and mongodb, I created a daily writing prompt website in my spare time over a period of two weeks:

http://www.telepromptr.com

I chose a fairly experimental stack for this application: express, mongodb (via mongoose), jade for the templates, and coffee-script.

I was able to extract and release the Recaptcha integration code under the MIT license:

http://github.com/mirhampt/node-recaptcha

I am not looking to monetize this website, as it was just a side-project for educational purposes. However, I would love to discuss the successes and challenges I faced using this stack, if anyone is interested. Overall, I found the experience quite enjoyable. Feature suggestions are also welcome. I hope someone gets some enjoyment out of it.
If you would cheat on him that easily I'd argue you're with him for convenience or because you settled. In any case, I'd hate distrusting my significant other to that point. I would really not be able to have a relationship like that. YMMV though.
s/life/lift/

It makes sense, though. I had a very depressive roommate years ago, and it seemed like the defining characteristic of her depression was sometimes having an insurmountably high activation energy for seemingly mundane tasks, and being painfully conscious of it. Somebody who was full of frustration / anger from fighting that all the time, but suddenly able to follow through could really take it out on themselves. (She eventually transcended her problems, and was still a cool to know in her worst moments.)
Apple drops Java and more: so what?
If they break they must be unsafe as well, I dare say there is some kind of argument there for sure.
ooh, SSL DDoS
This is really unfortunate. Can you point to threads that you thought were sexist? I'm really curious because it's sometimes hard for a guy to empathize.
Congrats on getting something up and running! Now the hard part...iteration.

Right now you have the feeble skeleton of what could make money. As you try and turn this into a business, don't try to just layer on premium features. For example, arbitrarily adding paid usage limits probably won't work in its current state. Build it into a business. Let your app grow. Stretch it and pull it in all sorts of directions until you have something people want badly enough that they'll pay--aka achieve product/market fit.

With that aside, I think you need to identify a particular use case for this technology. Is it for personal note taking? Relaying secret information to a third-party? Playing a global game of 'telephone'[1]? You can't find paying customers until you know what they'll use it for.

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[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_game
Happy and content are different, like being well rested and spiking/crashing on caffeine are different.
This sort of correlates with the theory that poor countries are happier because of their "less developed" lifestyle that encourages friendship and camaraderie over accomplishment and material gains.
I am a woman and I applied for this round along with my male co-founder. I'm moving back to SF from LA at the end of this year, specifically because I recognize it is a better location for my startup. Although I still have a decent network in the Bay Area to tap back into, I do value the mentorship and camaraderie a program like YC could offer an early stage venture. When I described my startup or did a demo of my app for other people at Startup School, I was impressed by the intellectual generosity. People gave a lot of great feedback, freely. Acceptance by YC won’t make or break my startup, but it would make networking and fundraising a little easier as it implies a certain ‘quality’ stamp.

FYI, if you haven’t read it, Illuminate Ventures’ whitepaper on the performance of female founders in tech relative to male founders, it is an interesting read: http://www.illuminate.com/whitepaper/. You’ll have to request the whitepaper via email, but they respond quickly.
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I can see that. The problem I see is that everyone gets labeled as one extreme or the other. As much as I hate sugar-coating what I say to someone because of their gender or other quality, I'd rather get labeled as an anti-sexist than a sexist.

Also, I see that happen a lot more not because of gender, but because we're discussing gender issues. Anytime someone brings up a sensitive issue people are going to tip-toe more, regardless of the attributes of anyone actually bringing it up.
But, they know that it will increase their cred. for some of their audience. So ... it's just smart marketing. Don't let it skew your perspective.

I thought it was cool, too, though.
There is a really cool website Ford has to advertise the new Fiesta, http://www.readypatumundo.com. It utilizes code-switching between English and Spanish, and there is an innovative slider in the top right corner that lets the user choose the English/Spanish mix. Maybe this could be worked into the blog.
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It sounds like he has lived like any other person with the difference being his attitude ("Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it."). He might just be lucky. It also might be the case that that attitude is a powerful tool.
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I'm thinking sticking with the linux desktop for Java dev and all things powerful, and a mac laptop ..... for, well, sitting in coffee shops drinking expensive coffee and looking cool
Wow - electronic autographs?
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Price based on the value you deliver. If you estimate that you can save/make businesses an average of, say, $100 a month, price lower than that but not so low that you can't profit from it.
Agreed, the risk of libel/slander/defamation is typically too great to be worth any such threats even if they do make you feel better. It is like the old angry email technique: if you must vent, write what you want in a non-email format and get it out of your system, then get back to your life with a clear head.

Now go get a lawyer.

Put NOTHING of a threatening nature in any form of writing or voicemail. Hell, write nothing that doesn't document that you are in the right for that matter. Consider everything you do as possible evidence in a future court hearing and act accordingly.

Good luck & don't lose hope.
There is an another firesheep-backend at /firesheep-backend.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF inside the Darwin folder. However this one wont run using ./

Any ideas?
Here's another: you're searching on any keyup which creates lots of overhead. Google's implementation is more complex. It appears they search immediately as you type the first few characters on each keyup/down then if the word goes over a few characters it switches to querying every couple seconds, or until you hit the spacebar. It also seems like they have another timer if you pause after a second or two.

If it's just you using this, I would say don't give a crap. But if you plan to allow others to use it and it gains a userbase at all you might consider a similar approach for obvious reasons.

Cheers!
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OK, clearly you are on a running horse...but have you considered a version for Python?
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I am not familiar with the VOD systems, but I really doubt it. A typical laptop brick is rated at 70W and it probably pulls close to that with a discharged battery.

I would expect the VOD display system to be running around 10W. My guess is 1W lost in a 90% efficiency power supply, 5W for the display, 1W for an ARM processor, the rest for the video decoder chip and miscellaneous support chips.
Yeah, I can see how some people would mind having to keep tabs on their partner. It's not for everyone. He doesn't seem to mind.

But it really has nothing to do with settling; some people are just not monogamous by nature. I'm sure you can understand, since people sometimes make that generalization about the entire male sex :).
There are levels of pay for functionality, like subdomains, and being able to issue your own certificates.

For instance, from Verisign: a 1 year Microsoft code signing certificate starts at $499 [1]. A top-of-the-line (from their main pages) web certificate for a single server for one year: $1499 [2]

[1]: https://securitycenter.verisign.com/celp/enroll/selectOption...
[2]: https://ssl-certificate-center.verisign.com/process/retail/p...

edit: it would figure the links don't work. Just go to www.verisign.com and those are a couple clicks from the front page.
"Spanish:less competitors"<--you are right, I didn't realize that one before!
I was looking into this but havent yet been able to make it work smoothly. Since you have raised it I will focus on getting it working.

I have quite a list of things to improve now.
I've used limo services a lot (they're really just a bit more expensive than using a cab really), and I tend to forget to arrange it before I jump on the plane. It has never been a problem to call a few limo services to ask if they have available limos to my destination and I've always gotten them promptly. In comparison, if you do pay per view for example, and the event/show is due in 5 minutes, is it not prearranged?

Let's use your example. On demand would be you stopping a taxi by waving like a madman on the street. That's immediate. UberCab is like me calling a Limo service (which is my example above) asking for a limo to pick me up at the airport and the limo arriving in 10 minutes. Hell I once called from the airport and a flight a different customer was in was delayed by 3 hours, so they gave me his limo sedan. I literally had on demand service, since I didn't have to wait for the limo to get there. I've done this in multiple states and it has never been a problem.
The faster the innovation the easier it will be for Twitter to block out competition in the future, not to mention keep a significant runway going for expansion. While this strategy wouldn't be good for the average successful startup, Twitter is obviously one of the top dogs in the web space right now so they have the luxury to REALLY shoot for the stars. We obviously can't tell what's in their innovation pipeline over the next two years, so it's hard to make a judgement call like that. I mean look at Facebook, they don't see any reason to become very profitable yet.
Please. I didn't say "every single person" any more than you did.

I'm exactly like you. Except that I happen to generally think that the vast majority of climate scientists probably are honest and know what they are doing.

But neither you nor me are pushing our opinion in the media, in congress, etc. So we're not really relevant to your argument, neither of us.

Let's think about who have financial interests, shall we:

On the "would prefer a world where fossil fuels are fine and dandy all around" side we have entities like oil and automobile companies, which just so happen to be some of the largest and most powerful organizations in the world.

On the "would prefer the world be going to hell" side we have... green-tech startups? Maybe climate scientists have a slight incentive because research funding is probably easier to get if people generally think an issue is important. But that might have been true 20 years ago. Nowadays I bet you'd get as much funding really proving there's nothing to worry about, lots of politicians would like that to be true. For the oil companies, on the other hand, there's no silver lining, they need to sell less oil and that'll come right out of their bottom line.

If we now compare the amount of money in climate research grants with oil company profits, it is at least to me pretty clear which side I think has the largest financial interest.
Tangential, but any suggestions for educating a dev team used to another VCS? (In my case, Perforce, but I'm sure e.g. svn->git advice will be useful for someone.)

I've used both git & p4 for a while and know their ins & outs, but would love to know if anybody has any suggestions for the crossover. My X-importing-to-Y experience has been limited to svn-to-git, svn-to-hg, and hg-to-git.
Were someone to ignore their issues or hide them from their partner, I would claim it destroys the relationship more than anything else. But admitting one's flaws? As much as you may judge someone for a lack of self-control, you have a respect the honesty it takes to admit to your S.O. that you lack that self control.

Even moreso, it's a very strong indication of your commitment to the other person when, after admitting your lack of self-control, you consciously choose not to put yourself in those situations because you know how much it would hurt your S.O.

tl;dr; - A relationship where both parties are honest with each other and ok with the situation after being fully informed is the strongest possible relationship.
You go, Arrington. Practice some more real journalism and hold their feet to the fire.
Can you explain your view a little more?

I thought that modern Russian literature is generally thought of as being kick-started by Pushkin and his generation.
Nice idea and with some traction this could be a fun site. One suggestion, on the archive page if there was no submissions remove the link (or let me know before clicking on it).
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OK I get it. You didn't mean the nutritional value of a pound of fish.
My employer does a significant amount of work with Apple and, regarding their social media awareness, they're more cognizant than 90% of our clientèle about what they should and shouldn't be doing in the space. As for individual contributors at Apple, I have no clue, but the company as a whole is doing well in that regard.
But that doesn't tell you whether it's important

Yeah, I'll buy that.
Hi thangalin,

Nice to see your post about Go. I'm from China and have been playing Go for more than 20 years. I started to play in high school and improved a lot in college. My current ranking is AGA 5~6D. I don't play very often recently except play turn-based games on my own web site (www.go-cool.org).

Because of my addiction to the game, I even created a variation of Go, Daoqi, which removes border of Go board and makes all positions have same importance. This new game gives players a new and different enjoyment.

I'm also a programmer and have spent a lot of time on side projects. I created a Javascript based game viewer (github.com/gcao/jsgameviewer), a Ruby on Rails application which integrates with a Go forum (http://www.go-cool.org/app)

Like I said, I'm happy to see your post and comments from fellow Go players. Hope I can play with you one day.