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This is a really stellar example, and I'll definitely use this as inspiration. Thanks for sharing it.
Which isn't the same as the browser being indicative of it, eh? Especially as other browsers send the OS as well.
Alas, the game is rigged in DC and the state legislatures. Regulation as strong as the slot machines is likely to be applied...never, at the current rate of change. So goes the gamble of democracy.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703817604575585320835209814.html

I got a "Stop spamming us, you are wasting your time message" for the Wall St. Journal. Really?
Nice effort but scrolling with Ctrl+E doesn't work and diw puts me into insert mode and then deletes the entire line. I gave up after about 15 seconds.
I'm nowhere near 20, and know only what I've read online about the Fellowship, but based on my life experience only, I would recommend you apply -- don't worry about the rules as much as pitching yourself and opportunity.

Advice worth what you paid for it! (And, good luck!)
Wow, you're lucky, NYC has so many amazing tech companies to work for an a really vibrant community. As Alnayyir said start breathing the tech scene and get out there.

I feel fortunate to be in Baltimore and part of our local Rails group (monthly pub nights) and our hackerspace (total playground) because I've met people at numerous other tech companies and if I ever want to go looking for a job I know I have a network to call upon.

Go live it!
I recently spent about a week trying to hack Django Bursar into something useful. I was woefully surprised at the lack of payment libraries available in python. I highly recommend stealing as much as you can from existing systems (including Bursar and Satchmo) it will save you some time.
Maybe Garry's limiting his discussion to computer-y tech, but for me, I think biologics-as-drugs is pretty damn revolutionary. Having an number of antibodies that can stop rheumatoid arthritis in its tracks is pretty amazing in my book.

Tech? Portable music/video players have totally changed how I travel, flash memory makes those little plastic thingies from Star Trek work and room-temp color sensors (digital cameras, etc) are pretty amazing.

Then, there's gene sequencing... PCR, ...
The subset of us aussies who actually know about censorship largely have.

The trouble is, there isn't enough of us who care.
Not yet, but the goal is to get to something like that.
Tragically, it's necessary but not sufficient.
You're fine as long as the detached head is newer than two weeks old. (And you might be fine past that point. While the branch is "unnamed" it does have a ref in the reflog pointing at it.)
I have found some great tips/tutorials regarding graphics at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Lessee... Lots of these now-TEA-party folks spent 8 years making goo-goo eyes over Dubya. Yale and Harvard Biz. Guess they really didn't like him?
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Here's the other thing, though: voter fraud is incredibly rare. Yes, we could do better. But this is not the most pressing issue of our time.

Really, we may be better off launching a PR campaign to remind people that voting mostly works.
He's right. The joy of VMs is that they let you play while throwing caution to the wind. Tone down the snarkiness.
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Another similar project is django-bursar[1] which is supposed to be integrated into the Satchmo[2] webshop in the (far) future.

[1] http://bitbucket.org/bkroeze/django-bursar

[2] http://www.satchmoproject.com/
That strikes me as narcissistic. Or maybe I'm just unaware of how many people keep track of the author personality behind each article.
Out of curiosity, what's the oldest applicant you guys have accepted into the program? How did that person do?
The only message that not voting for anyone sends is that you're happy with anyone.

If everyone informed chooses not to vote for anyone, all that does is give more power to the uninformed.
LOL pay walls... oh hai Rupert Murdoch.
Hmm ... so you would think it would be better to just keep adding more diverse topics to the main home page? Or you like the main theme and would use it on the sub-site?

What I'm thinking is that by having niche sites, I can feature a nice-designed app per day in a small post in a small post without swamping my main content. Similar to Greatwebapps.com ... and I hope to do a network of sorts of sites like that eventually. But, I'm not certain it's a good approach.

And, by the way, the content on techinch.com/apps is just filler test stuff, and is in no way the stuff I plan to use once it's publicly live.

Thanks for your suggestions ... I really appreciate them.
I'm 28 and voting is important to me, but I've missed voting in three November elections because I didn't register in time. I've lived at different addresses every single year. The system is set up to dissuade renters from voting. Except in the few states that allow election day registration.
I expect some public outcry or competing shows to point out the amazing assumptions and provide more realistic explanations.
Try looking at the constructionist articles, specially Papert's works, as there are a lot of them online[1].

Basically, the idea is that you can introduce deep mathematical concepts very early by adopting a more intuitive media. Also, take a look at McLuhan[2] to understand how the media shapes the message if you really want to go deep into it.

[1] http://www.papert.org/works.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
I'm expecting everyone to just go completely insane within the next few years - custom-tuned computer systems synchronized with each other will make people feel "lucky" enough that they go completely manic and need to be hospitalized.
There are disaster regular expressions where Perl will be slow. But most of the common disasters disappeared a number of years ago. And your regular expression is one that is unlikely to have performance problems due to backtracking. (Though the regular expression engine may hate the size.)

That said, Russ Cox is generally well worth listening to.
It would be nice if the code could end up in github. Also, more importantly, I need to disable that cursor blinking (peripheral blinky things make me feel like dying).
Office 2011 just came out in the last month and restores support for VBA and much else.

You could always run XP in VMware and use the Windows version of Excel.
I only see the right side.
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I know there isn't any context without the application also, but there seems to be a lot of vague reasons why a new offering will be better than the competition.
You should say that you support Authorize.net AIM. You'll eventually want modules for Authorize.net ARB and Authorize.net CIM as well, for those doing recurring payments. Each has a separate API unfortunately.
Big business objects to privacy protection rules
But it doesn't expand recursively, so "$var" is safe to protect against special characters in var. That said, one should really read one's shell's documentation, because there be dragons.
Reminds me of how Peter Thiel thinks dropping out of college will bring you great startup success.
I would hope you're right, except:

1. If all they're after is an assertion that you've used Gmail in that time frame... well, that's already implied by the fact that you've received a notification of the class action and are replying to it.

2. The notice is written colloquially, not in lawyer speak, and the audience is the general public, so it seems more reasonable to take "proof" to mean "evidence" here.
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Innovation may be down in the USA, but it's definitely better than in other places. The potential is there - the same cannot be said for anywhere else in the world.

Europeans take their ideas to the U.S. because in Europe there's no money for innovations. There's no infrastructure for it. China is trying the wrong approach and producing nothing. Japan has incremental improvements ingrained in its culture.

However I think he's right about the stimulus and money. The big government approach doesn't produce anything innovative either. We're building roads in the USA - that's good, but... not gonna change the world now is it? Printing money is currently undermining the USA - it's surprising inflation isn't much worse than it is but at some point something will have to give.
It reminds me a bit of the housing bubble - for years house prices were going up, way into silly territory, and beyond. But eventually, the market corrected itself. Now, we're printing US$ Tns every year and there seem to be no negative effects - but that, also, is going to eventually hit home. It's going to make America a country of cheap labor. Inflation will catch up.
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Investing time does not equal karma. I have posted about 10 comments so far and only have 2 karma. Most of the threads I post in never make it past 20 total posts. Requiring people to have a certain amount of karma will make them only post more comments to achieve said karma. And the more unnecessary posts there are, the lower the quality is of those posts.
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What is the world coming to when a correction has to get 3 levels deep before it's actually correct on HN?

(And you have less points than either of the ones above you? Seriously?)
Hey Dan, the plan is too eventually be a standalone recurring billing system. ;) So things like ARB become optional not required & things like switching gateways are not impossible (as would be the case with stuffing all of your customers into ARB).
Odd, I don't see any bash'isms in that; I think that script would run in Bourne shell. And in fact, it could be shorter and more efficient in bash. For example, it could probably use /dev/tcp instead of telnet. And it could pattern match with [[ $var == ]] or case instead of grep. And no need to use tail if you do appropriate redirections. I think. :)
VirtualBox is free. I would start with that.
Does Gnumeric meet your needs? http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ OSX: http://gnumeric.darwinports.com/
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Seems as if Stumbleupon has changed their own philosophy about posting with su.pr for promoting site traffic... Im trying to figure out where I went wrong??
If you're not already a web-based tool to store where you're at in which applications, start right away. Some people use Google Docs, others use http://happyjobsearch.com/ (free) and some like http://www.jibberjobber.com/ (freemium).

We built http://linkup.com for that very reason that people prefer and get better results applying straight to company's own websites. If you'd like to discuss it more, email me at eric@linkup.com.

That biggest point that I wanted to talk about is "Have I already applied for this listing" problem. When sites talk about having 9M+ job openings in the US, that's because they show the same job opening multiple times. They have algorithms that take a job title, break it into chunks, and then remerge them in multiple methods. A good test is Microsoft - see how many jobs whatever site you're using has for openings at Microsoft - at any time Microsoft has around 2k openings, so if you see some multiple of that then something fishy is afoot.

Bluntly, it is a pain in the ass because the sites make money by having a huge number of repeat jobseekers continually visiting the site - who think that the site is 100% doing everything in the jobseekers best interest. But when you introduce a pay-per-post or pay-per-click model into the mix, delivering the best, purest jobs becomes contradictory to making a short-term profit. (Think early Excite.com vs Google.com)
A news site I read has them. I see it pop up while I'm reading an article, think one of the headlines sounds interesting but then can't find it when I've finished the original article and I'm ready to read something else.
Hahahaha.

Stoned guy here. You just need to chill out and recognize the problem of the penis... man. It's giving the internet bad karma.

Seriously, I was a little tired, but I was not stoned. Could I have made an awesome polished video? Sure. But they said talk spontaneously as I would to a friend, and I took their instructions literally.

Any feedback on the concept?
Interesting that most people haven't put a nice shirt/ suit jacket on. I know it probably has little impact but it gives a good initial impression.
Less than 8% actually seems like a very generous percent.

Having watched enough applicant videos, you can see that a big percent of applicants applied just because they were bored and don't take the whole process seriously:

http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants
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Good for them. I heartily encourage News Corp to put all of their newspapers behind pay walls. In fact, if my meager contribution were enough to convince them, I would be the first in line to pay so that all of their television news could remain safely behind a pay wall as well. Godspeed, Mr. Murdoch.
A better design would just be a can left on the counter at newsstands where you could drop in a USB drive and maybe pick up someone else's if you were interested.
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This drives me nuts whenever I read anything by Connie Willis. Her time travel books play (partly, obviously) decades in the future yet there are constantly people running around and frantically looking for each other and not finding anyone. I always want to scream “Pick up your goddamn cellphone!” (Some of those were written in the nineties which explains their lack of cellphones but even her most recent books from this year have the same problem.)
Ah, in the UK you just pick up a single student loan to cover all your tuition.

Thinking of most people I know whose finances I roughly know about... I'd say the average is one credit card (probably just $500-$1000 limit, not neccesarily maxed out, often paid off in full each month), no general loans, and a mortage and/or student loan depending on their need for them.
Use LibreOffice ( http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ ) or just use Windows. You could emulate Windows with VirtualBox/VMWare Fusion, but it is slow as hell. You can also get a lower end laptop ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1841462 ) that is bigger and more powerful than a netbook for the price of a netbook. I'd only use a netbook if you want something smaller.
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I read tons of articles every day through Hacker News, Psychologytoday, etc., but I have trouble remembering it to actually apply what I learn. How can I improve my retention?
I'm uncertain if said populism is fake. Most of HN readers likely fit the stereotype that the author is attempting to project in this article.

But that's what he is making: a stereotype and only a stereotype.

His assertions read more like assumptions that only sparingly drew on sociological information. When he referred to, I believe, a single sociological tome, he only considered "elite" schools. He neglected those of us who did not attend Ivy League (UVa here and I was a miserable college student indeed) and those who did not attend college at all! Instead, he seemed to prefer to pick bones with his journalistic peers.

Living in Worcester County, Maryland for the past couple of years, I find that I did not understand the "Digital Divide" until meeting for myself children with no computer or internet connection at home. Are these children likely to become the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Mark Zuckerburg? I highly doubt it. Even if they have it within them, this environment does not care to foster those interests. Instead, the local "vocational tech" school seems to emphasize and curriculum involving auto repair and HVAC. This makes me sad. And it makes me just a touch more sympathetic to this clearly embittered journalist.

Bring on the down votes.
All these class action lawsuits are essentially "lawyer enrichment schemes" note that the lawyers, for basically finding a few GMail users willing to attach their name to a suit, will get well over $2 Million for what, a month's work, if that?

Go research, if you want, any class action lawsuit involving automobile problems, such as the VW/Audi engine sludge issue, and see how lawyers routinely get cold hard cash up front while the people whose rights were violated or had real, actual problems with the product provided them, get coupons to the equivalent of a free Big Mac.
not suggesting that HN should copy other sites out there... but twitter and the like have a "report as spam" feature.

this, in conjunction with a min karma requirement, could possibly be a useful tool to enact more drastic measures towards combatting spam on the HN site. no idea what form this would take. enough "report as spam" votes by high-level users might ban the user directly, or maybe just generate an email to some administrative review process that would make the final decision.

i, too, have noticed a recent surge RMS posts and, though i'm a newcomer to the site myself, find them rather annoying as well.

of course there are probably RMS posts being generated by well-intentioned HN readers who aspire to be an active part of the community but lack a firm history of contributions at the time they make them. it seems like there are also people who try to game the system looking for a cheap, but highly visible, promotion. even if that's not the case, asking the community to review one's ideas before an individual has made any significant contributions to the community seems contrary to the notion of "karma".

for what it's worth, i'll do my part to not clog up the feed with premature/shameless RMS posts :D
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I was on my honeymoon in Hawaii and we didn't put together the application until after I got married, so we used two webcams and spliced 'em together...
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I am not old enough to vote yet, but I did spend 15 hours today as an election judge. While I felt that there was a decent turnout for our precinct, I did not see as many young people as I expected. There were a lot of elderly people that showed up, including some that had so much trouble completing the ballot that they may have been better off with an absentee ballot. I saw a few first-time/young voters, but I just don't think many of them feel this election is important because it is not a presidential election.

Get out there and vote next time, kids.
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Oh man, Chrome shipped 8 versions already? They've achieved version-number-parity with IE! :)
I'm Australian, and we have compulsory voting. We also have compulsory education, as one of the basic requirements for democracy is a body informed voters.

I think one of the positive effects of it is that it forces everyone to think about it. I know people who I can guarantee would not vote were it not compulsory, but since it is they have looked into both parties and have formed some opinions which they then use to guide their votes. I think that anything that increases the overall political knowledge of the population is a good thing.

Another positive effect is that politicians don't need to spend any time getting people to the polls - this is something I see American politicians and citizens waste an absurd amount of time on.

Anyway, the fines in Australia are pretty small - I missed a state election once (moved and forgot to update the electoral roll) and it was around $20.
Your story is missing critical parts and makes no sense as written. It is unclear to me how not having a cellphone resulted in the law telling your brother's account that it is now mandatory for him to flee from the cops.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Really think Gruber's response is very astute and spot on. iPad apps that work exactly the same on OSX? Um ya don't think so.
You assert that fraud is incredibly rare -- how are we to know? Did all places start issuing paper receipts that were tallied against the electronic count? Isn't part of the problem that we have no idea how bad electronic voting fraud is, be it prevalent or nonexistent?
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I dare say the cost of producing the content far exceeds the cost of serving it up to people.
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You can rebind keys to do different things in Emacs, and make Edit With Emacs behave any way you want.
Some ideas:

- Blog the summaries.

- Write one or more books with all of the information you learn.

- Keep one or more "electronic notebooks" (text files) with your notes, organized by topic. Blogging is better though, if you tag posts, because that way the same notes can be found under more than one topic.
I'd love for this to work universally but it looks like capturing CTRL-N (line-down) is a wontfix in chrome :( Should we lobby and open a new bug?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=33056
According to wikipedia, nearly of americans didn't vote.

It doesn't seem to make sense to say that voting for a 3rd party is a waste of time if half of the population who agree with you...
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I disagree, on a certain level it is new.
Few security flaws (i actually cant recall any) made a change from a fairly technical and obscure possibility, into a browser plugin.

as the download numbers show, the tool is now accessible in a manner that makes an exploit trivial and require no technical knowledge. I am of the opinion that providers like facebook etc... would do their users a service, by explaining to them the risk of accessing their networks via open wireless networks for instance. Perhaps it is not their responsibility but it might be beneficial for them to help the public understand privacy concerns.
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I thought Numbers was Apple's thing? Did MS stop doing Office on Mac?
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Interesting, at first the HTML5 was notably faster and smoother than the flash version, then the HTML5 became slightly sluggish and the flash version became smooth and fast. Anyone else get this? I'm on Chrome.
Fantastic portfolio site! I've been meaning to do one for myself for quite a while now, and you're giving me a lot of inspiration and ideas on what to add to it.
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Three sons implies a wife, or at least a mother, not present in the plane. She must be completely devastated. :(
I didn't know of Luke or even of him but I am sorry to hear that your community has lost such a towering figure. I am particularly sorry for his wife; to lose your husband and three of your six children would be unimaginably horrifying and I cannot imagine the depth of her grief or that of the remaining kids. My thoughts are with all of you.
FYI, Hacker News is susceptible too.
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I never thought I'd say this, but the US government definitely needs to take a cue from Las Vegas..
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Sorry to hear that. :( Please send our condolences to his surviving family and friends. I think that Billy Joel was right when he said, "Only the good die young."