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I've been using W3 Total Cache for a while. No problems so far. It's great for me because I don't like tinkering on the backend for something like this. I could go in and make it better with this or one of the technically superior plugins, but this one was 99% there the moment I installed it.
Intially we are thinking of a web ui to control the filtering rules though Sieve as a mail filtering language might work with some modifications like envelope sender/recipient based filtering and filtering by attachment names. I guess we have to wait and see what kind of power users would want.

Sieve/other mail server filtering implementations currently only target incoming mails, so I would be interested in knowing how you manage outgoing mail filtering if at all ?

From your emphasis on "a mailserver I control" I guess you are leaning towards the in premise version if you ever need this.

About the logo, as you guessed correctly it was a quick selection to get up and running and not the final version !
"where it can be sunny outside, but still need to know if you need to take a jacket to lunch?" - mbreese

I never understood this till I lived in India. I understand your confusion. I do agree with you that weather widgets waste pixels and can be done in a better, more compact way.
The homepage doesn't work for me on safari 5.0.3 on mac. The "I say what's this" link doesn't do anything and none of the screenshots on the bottom of the page are visible. I thought the page was like that and was anxiously looking for screenshots.

The webkit inspector reports the following error:
apf_release.js:1 TypeError: Result of expression 'this.$ext' [null] is not an object.
Yes, networking is so important. If you are introverted and always postpone actually going out to meet people, use my new startup (letslunch.com: business networking over lunch). After all, this was one of the scenarios we had in mind when we started it. Because the computer chooses for you who you meet, you skip the awkward part of other matching systems where you can get rejected. With us, you can't.
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I think ajays said why: Eventually, we get what we celebrate; if we celebrate being a cheerleader (or a beauty queen) more than being a scientist, then we'll get more of those.

I'm going to stuff words into ajays' mouth but if someone as "cool" as Natalie Portman can be so intelligent, that perhaps helps to counter a little of the anti-intelligence schtick that's common in some areas of life.

That said, many famous people are more qualified and intellectually agile than their public personas and media coverage give them credit for..
No point in showing up with a revised NDA, they won't be able to sign it without running it through their lawyer-mill, so you'll just delay the whole thing if you do that.

I would respond to them and tell them that you respect their concerns for privacy and confidentiality. However, in your current position you cannot afford legal counsel of your own to properly review and interpret the NDA, and its possible ramifications to you in other career pursuits unrelated to their business/your meeting. You might offer that you will sign the NDA and be bound to it for the purposes of your interviews with them, if they agree to release you from any and all restrictions in the NDA if you and the company do not formalize a business agreement within X (3-6mos. should be sufficient).

If the above is not acceptable, suggest that you hold to the meeting, but refrain from discussing specifics and instead talk in higher-level/more abstract terms (eg: "how would you architect a database to handle 5,000,000 read or write operations over a 24 hours period with the queries generally being concentrated over short periods of time" vs. "how would you build a database to compete with groupon" kind of a thing).

You are not being completely short-sighted, but you should be aware that in a big swath of the industry NDAs are common. The good thing is that they are rarely ever enforced in any way unless you leave the meeting and then immediately put up a post on HN trying to recruit a team to build the very thing you just discussed with them :)
hmmm... We got a similar NDA less than a week before a meeting with a research-commercial tech group at Harvard. It was very annoying because the NDA was so over-reaching. Just like in your case. We were meeting to discuss what we could do together potentially and before we even knew the scope of the potential collaboration I was expected to sign away everything.

The NDA basically said that if we did not have documentary evidence predating the meeting then anything conveyed in the meeting would be owned by Harvard. Now as a start-up we dont go around dating, signing, and filing away in a safe all the ideas we have. When I brought it up they said that we could make exclusions and they would follow up with their lawyers and on and on. So basically we should spend a ton of money going back and forth on this with our lawyers while it was not even clear that we wanted to partner. We passed.

Coming back to your case: The NDA is over-reaching. One subtle change you can do and keep everything the same is just change the duration. Bring it down from 4 years to 6 months or 1 year. Esp. if this is an industry in which you do not often find your clients. That way the suit thinks that you agreed to everything but you have just essentially diluted everything away.
It's not about her, it's about the little girl who is growing up thinking she could never be a scientist because it's too hard or girls can't do math or whatever inaccurate stereotype.
My apologies if the format isn't correct.

This is in no way a marketing ploy, but a sincere effort to find someone who would be genuinely interested in working on it and to gather feedback. Someone mentioned adding in a email opt-in field for example, which was a great idea.

Again, apologies if it has felt like anything else.
Nonsense. For basic material, as in K-12, people have known how to write good tests for over 50 years and often have. The concepts of reliability, validity, separation, difficulty have all been polished at least since
1950, maybe 1930.

That the tests are not reliable and valid measures of learning and can easily be significantly 'gamed' and, thus, should not be used to evaluate K-12 teaching is just an unsupported myth being put out by propaganda of the AFT and NEA to protect bad teaching.
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This seems really off-base to me. I don't think I've ever once heard a Lisper say "it works in my image". The consensus in a recent discussion on the pro-lisp group is that images are useful primarily for long-running servers, not for development. In any case, standard practice when putting out any CL code other than a snippet is to supply an .asd file with it. That seems to refute what you're saying.

Can you supply concrete instances of this "it works in my image" attitude? It should be easy if it's as common as you say.
I find this articles lack of hot grits disturbing.
Even with a free trial, the purpose of a long sales form is to explain why APPNAME.LY is superior to all the other competing products and get you to try it out.

Look at Basecamp (http://basecamphq.com/). They have a tremendously successful webapp, and their landing page is long enough to clearly explain the benefits and uses many of the features commonly found in direct mail/mail order advertising.
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Thanks in advance- The Lean Startup Rookies
As a fair-weather motorcycle commuter, I'd prefer a 36-hour forecast focusing on rain chance as a default widget.
From my experience in the corporate world as well as the small business world, the business people who use more jargon and buzz words (out of place) are usually compensating.
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Essentially the problem is the same in the case of stolen documents or quant code, it allows insider trading. And frankly it's a lot easier to make money from insider trading on M&A activity than trying to understand how someone's trading code works.
because someone like warren buffet shouldn't pay a lower percentage of his income in taxes than the rest of us.

Hell, you're the one that is making the case that a worker generates more value than people who gamble on stocks.
"@teehanlax In an update, you mention that you're building a product. Did that come to completion?" - @bradleyland

"@bradleyland It did briefly exist in the Cydia store. But working in the Jailbreak Community proved too difficult" - @teehanlax

Pity. Also, I just blogged about something similar, and was surprised to find this on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2275922
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You are missing the point. You are choosing to slice reality at the joint of gender, assuming that people with breasts are "like you" but people without are "different". Of course, in a discussion of political power, this is not a very useful way to slice. Male predicts very little. Insider status (e.g., child of politician) predicts a lot more.

You are also implicitly assuming that the category of "like you" matters at all. But that's a choice you are making. I can choose to view Peter Thiel as "not like me" because he is gay. I can also choose to view him as being "like me" because I aspire to be awesome in the same ways that he is.

If women are less likely to make this choice, that's not privilege. That's simply the choices of individuals holding them back.
>Can I ask why?

Because it would encourage a lot of people to become interested in science.
Nice landing page. I did have one question under the first paragraph it says: "...the to field will be pre-selected so all you have to do is start typing." How would it know which contact to fill the "to:" field with?
If it looked like this, yes; I would assume it was lying to me, and I would throw it away.
Excellent point, thank you. My misreading of that one word biased my interpretation of the comment!
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Thanks for the great feedback. Some thoughts/responses:

* Robot eating pizza logo - Great suggestion! Definitely need a good logo, and will consider this when reaching out to a graphic designer / 99 designs.

* WAY too many different fonts and text styles - Guilty as charged. Will fix this in future updates.

* Get some better/more appetising food photos - Believe it or not, these are actually improvements over past iterations. But I will keep my eyes open for something even more delicious (although if you have food images suggestions, I'm all ears..er...eyes..er, stomach?)

* The text boxes change size when selected, causing the layout to jump. - Noted. Will add to list of things to address.

* Edit and cancel button icons jump 1px on hover. - Should be fixed now

* The cancel button has a text-selection cursor instead of a pointer - Should be fixed now

* The flat grey header doesn't really go with the wood panel effect. - Noted

* Wood panel bg repeats too soon with a visible join. - Fixed the visible join

Results page:
* The login pop-up needs proper styling - Noted

* I'd consider making the phone numbers always visible, rather than with the address expander. - Interesting point. I've also had requests to make the entire address visible too. I go back and forth between making more info visible immediately versus keeping the results cleans and simple and providing more info on a need-to-know basis. Sounds like you think phone # is more vital to expose earlier.

* The dollar signs to indicate price are a kinda ambiguous. How must is a $$$ meal compared to a $$$$ meal? - Yes I can make this clearer. The system is the same as Yelp's for restaurants, but I should add a legend calling this out more or somehow make this more obvious.

Thanks again for all the great feedback. Super helpful.
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He's not mentioned in the article, but Dylan Bruno from Numb3rs is an MIT grad (we both played on the football team) and, coincidentally, acted in a movie opposite Ms. Portman :)

Woodie Flowers always used to say that we need an "LA Engineer" (a play on "LA Law for you younger folks) to bring science and engineering into the mainstream. I always cringe at shows like Big Bang Theory that portray smart folks as socially inept - given that association, it's no surprise that many kids would rather be "dumb and cool" than "smart and nerdy" when in fact smart people are just like everyone else.
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I'm not sure, but probably i think we need a large user base to generate some revenue on this model, the initial idea is to test this ad-base model and see how it goes, other than that i didn't figure it out any other way to monetize it at least so far.

Inside Facebook we have 2. TripAdvisor and Where I've been. Both of them require you to manually add your places on the map which is little bit different than Mentaway where everything is automatic.
Thanks man. I find hobbyists aren't fully committed and look at entrepreneurship as "fun". Hustlers, also think and know entrepreneurship is fun...but its in their blood, they can't sleep at night. Or if you are like me...you email yourself ideas while lying in bed at 2 am haha.
a. Yes, it's tiring to see the same thing repeated. As a hacker, repetition, and hence wasting time, is something I try to avoid.

I concur with this in general, but also suggest that repetition is a cornerstone of learning. Many ideas must be revisited several times before full understanding takes effect. This specific type of repetition is not wasteful repetition. It may not be you job to teach people, but I highly doubt getting in the way of others gaining understanding is your goal either.

e. I don't have time to word-craft things endlessly, and sometimes I don't get the nuances right. It takes me almost no time to create the cross-references - the time is consumed in trying not to offend people. Sometimes there's not enough time for both.

Fair enough. Seeing as how you are very frequently the person who posts the cross references (which btw, I really appreciate) I would like to propose this as a template for future "this is a repeat" posts (I certainly hope other jump in if there is a better way of putting it than my template):

This article is something of a classic here on HN. There have been some good discussions on it previously (see below). The comments in those articles may help provide some perspective for the discussion here.

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Why not just use a tree?
Come on, she is an actress with a BA in Psychology. Lets have this discussion again when she gets her PhD. Until then, perspective.
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Anything that purports to restrict your future choice of work or development field is a no-no in my opinion.

We never ever sign NDAs - and (so far) have always got to the meeting. Usually you just have to point out the dafter (or most unreasonable) clauses in the NDA and the potential client will cave straight away.

I am often amused to find that it is the client looking towards our business for ideas and inspiration when they punt one of these things in our direction so we should be making them sign an NDA and not the other way around.
By preselected he means it will be the active field. So you can "start typing" - type "Han" and "Hannah" will pop up. You just don't have to manually click on, or tab to the contact field.
I don't know why you'd preemptively lower your expectation of a blog. I start with a high standard and move on if the blog doesn't meet it. Why shouldn't this be the norm? There are more than enough good blogs on any subject to skip the bad ones.
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Yes, I agree. And, since I got a couple of questions about how to best find this, in this example google search query: "The Bipolar Lisp Programmer site:news.ycombinator.com" returns the previous discussions right at the top. I know most of you know this already, but there are many new faces here so no harm in posting.
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It could also inspire people trapped in dead-end science careers to take acting lessons.
As someone who did last year's Fellowship program, I couldn't be happier. HackNY is keeping kids off the street - Wall Street.
To my mind, the "dumb" tools are the simple ones that often ship w/ Unix, and using them forces understanding of principles, rather than rote memorization of meta-commands. From that (the hope is that) one can _understand_ what a problem is, and now to fix it.
Read some good books. start with this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Invest...
Apple doesn't put new email notifications and such on the lock screen or the status bar, and I don't think that's an oversight. It would be the equivalent to a blinking red "back to work! message* and make people hate to look at their phone.

*Doesn't blackberry have one of those?
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We laugh at people "on the lower half of the bell curve" who use the "length equals strength" heuristic to evaluate long-form letters, but the same thing happens in these comments all the time.
It would have been decent to give credit. I just object to the notion that Angry Bird wouldn't have been successful without Box 2d.
If my coffee mug exerts that much control over my feelings my laptop must be in charge of my very existence.
Hell yes, we do.
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How can a source on knowledge like TED, thriving conferences that are entertaining and full of knowledge, be unknown by so many people. I mean they have access on TV to so many brain melting content, but a source of knowledge and idea like TED, is burried on the internet.... What a world !
It's not their fault that TechCrunch wrote an article begging people to make these comparisons. It's perfectly fine to launch a Grasshopper competitor; it's just a dumb idea to pitch it as "Google Voice for Companies", as if companies didn't have this stuff long before Google had Voice.
I'm not sure the idea was to validate her as a person. It was more to reprupose her from being a "beauty idol" to being a "scientist idol"

This is important if you beleive that
1) A society with more Scientist idols would get more scientists than one with more beauty queen idols
2) A society with more scientists would be a better place than if it had more beauty queens.
How many apps?
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"Marie Curie - Actress" would have been more interesting.
I've come across that question a couple of times myself,but don't think there's an elegant way to implement it by wrapping existing git commands. Unless there's some command that I'm not aware of.
As the commenter on your SO post has mentioned, they are not actually the same thing. Pipes are a much lower level concept than these OSX services. Of course you could implement them on linux, and you might even want to use pipes to do it, but its not a terribly interesting problem. Really its just GUI design, not a unix thing at all.
Matt Blaze is right on point, as usual; in fact, he probably does not go far enough in his critique of scientific publishing. Commercial publishers from Nature to those on the long tail are as bad or worse. The "in your face" commercial paywall in front of most technical journals is a frequent user experience here on Hacker News. And counterproductive to doing good science and engineering.

If the free exchange of information promotes the growth of human knowledge, then free it ought to be. The ACM an IEEE digital libraries have improved and simplified research in many ways. The fact that they are behind a paywall and available only to members (and some institutions) is a negative.

Many alternative venues for publication are appearing, for example, Arxiv, http://arxiv.org/. Google's Knol service is also a reasonable place for articles about new work. But they do not have the cachet of a peer-reviewed archival journal.

ACM and IEEE are membership organizations. Perhaps we need a grass roots effort to change the copyright policy to, say, one of the creative commons licenses and open the digital libraries and electronic journals to all comers.

On the other hand, a well run, professionally edited journal costs money to produce. In a world where content is free, how should we monetize publications so that the staff gets paid?
HTML5 Got Pushed to 2014 and I Don't Care
Recently the W3C stated that after several more years of rigorous testing the final HTML5 spec will be ratified in 2014. This sounds nice but truthfully you need to be building and deploying your web apps in HTML5 now, because it is already here. The last major browser to gain HTML5 support(Internet Explorer 9) is in release-candidate and will be released to the public this sprint(likely at the MIX conference). With big players like Google, Apple and Microsoft behind HTML5 today you can bet the world will adopt HTML5 as the standard long before the W3C finalizes it. Even Microsoft has taken its foot off the gas pedal with their cross-platform runtime Silverlight in favor of HTML5 as the de facto standard for web app development going forward.

Think it can’t happen? 802.11 N Wi-Fi was supported in thousands of devices in 2007 a full two years before the spec was finalized(October 2009). The truth is technology is moving faster than these consortiums can handle. Non-profit approval groups meant to standardize technologies are often the bottleneck to their advancement. As a result, either the company gets left behind or the community advances the technology beyond their control. A good example is how .Net has run over Java in the feature race.

In interviews Mark Zuckerberg often talks about in the early 2000’s choosing a platform for a new product was easy, you write for the web. Over the years with the rise of the iPhone/iPads, Androids and Blackberries this decision has become many times more complicated as each device platform comes with its own set of standards and API’s. This leaves us with picking one platform and missing out on potential users or hiring many developers and launching many simultaneous products.

What HTML5 brings to the table is the feature richness to solve this problem. Offline support, local storage, built in multimedia support for rich internet applications(RIA) all supported by all platforms. Build once, deploy to all. Even typing this sounds a bit like a dream but its here now and will be on all platforms in a matter of weeks(When IE9 releases to public).
> Without any IP laws, you could, in a thought-experiment
> world, spend millions of dollars to create a movie,
> release it, and not make one dime back on it. That would
> be the last such movie produced. That's "underproduction".

This is technically true, but IP laws don't provide any guarantee to the contrary. They are irrelevant to that thought experiment. Copyright does not guarantee profit.

There's a decent argument to be made that this would happen more often without IP laws, but then you're moving away from the thought-experiment world. Doing that makes it not clear-cut.
To be fair, the TorrentFreak article does mention this rather important detail as well, but it certainly doesn't make a big deal of it and the headline is clearly editorialised to the point of outright falsehood.

Looked at the other way around, more than 80% of those surveyed did not mostly or fully accept that pirate copying is ethical (7+ on a scale of 1-10).