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No, "golden handcuffs" are anything that seem like a good thing at the time but that prevent you from leaving.

"Golden handcuffs are a system of financial incentives designed to keep an employee from leaving the company. These can include employee stock options that will not vest for several years but are more often contractual obligations to give back lucrative bonuses or other compensation if the employee leaves for another company."

-- Wikipedia

I would like to hear arguments about how a doubled salary, thanks to profit-sharing, does not count as a "system of financial incentives designed to keep an employee from leaving the company."

It is merely the carrot and not the stick.

(Does nobody Google any more?)
Let's not conflate the French and Russian revolutions - they have absolutely nothing in common.

I have issues with the word "absolutely". They had quite a lot of common - both were about overthrowing a system of government based on birthright, and the participants in the Russian revolution certainly tried to learn from the French revolution.

(One could argue that the Russian revolution was actually better for the poor in the short term than the French. Serfdom was immediately abolished, and it got them out of WW1. War had the biggest impact on the poor)
Just out of curiosity, why the 5 days restriction ?
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Fairly common-sense, an actual example would have helped. It's pretty obvious that you should kill features that no one uses. But it's never the case. In practice, a handful of users use it, so now what, do you do?
So won't this be confusing, as non-discriminating sites choose to inflate their page views by ignoring whether those were prefetches or real loads?

There are a lot of sites out there that use JavaScript reloads every X minutes to do this sort of thing already. More trackable but I bet they still include those numbers in their media packs ;-)

TechCrunch, for example, has this near the bottom of the source:

setTimeout('location.reload(true)',1200000);

So that's every 20 minutes.

A more insidious trick to "inflate" your views would be to detect when a tab isn't open but still showing your site and to refresh a lot more often in that case (meaning the user won't notice).
The script has been superseded by iScroll 4:
http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
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"You obviously don't make money on Day 1."

I don't know about Android, but I made hundreds of dollars on Day 1 of my app being available on the iPad App Store and know a LOT of friends who have made thousands of dollars on Day 1 from their iPhone apps. Please don't generalize about app sales revenues across Android and iOS because it's like comparing raindrops to a downpour.
The article outlines a technique to check whether your page was preloaded or not using JavaScript. So the JavaScript would need to be run in order to make that check.
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> So by "Native scrolling for mobile web apps" he means better scrolling of iOS Safari

Well he means what he says: scrolling which looks and feels like native (UITableView) scrolling.
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I understand that but that wasn't the primary use case for the 10:10 code.
If you are to make such a change, why settle for such low accuracy? What about height/floor numbers?

Also, what about geological changes such as the japanese earthquake? thousands of misdelivered letters...
It's not designed for postal delivery. It's designed for everyday navigation.
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It's claimed to be open source design, but I can't find the design anywhere. I think the author rightly credits the open source community for helping, but where are the design docs?
But the swim bladder which makes them neutrally buoyant will give them an "up" and "down" sensation.
Two hours ago I conceded the analogy was poorly chosen. I'm not sure what else you have to say.

It's not clear to me what you of my writings you think are logical nonsense.

It's the quip about "your outrage contradicts findings in research". A contradiction occurs when it's logically impossible for two propositions to both be true at the same time. My disappointment (not outrage) is a sentiment, not a proposition; it can't contradict anything.

And you may be disappointed, but research says
that people form opinions very quickly. To try
to take a stance that this should not be the
case is a little odd. So I guess I don't
understand your point.

How is it odd, exactly, to be disappointed that people form opinions based on knee-jerk reactions rather than thoughtful consideration?
People can register unicode domain names (not tld) for years now. Do you know any major sites with a non-latin primary domain name?
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I used MongoDB to handle analytics for our system and it's been OK. We had some problems with memory leaks & other issues with Mongo but as new versions are released, these problems are fixed.

As for the question "Why MongoDB?" it depends on what you want MongoDB to do. Each of the NoSQL solutions have their pros and cons and you'll be best doing some investigation into what best suits your purposes. For example, CouchDB has built in record versioning. For analytic's this is an unwanted overhead but for a system where you need record history (e.g. collaboration tool) having that built into your DB is a big boost.

Then there's also the CAP Theorem. Check out this URL for a great overview: http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems. Out of consistency, availability and partition tolerance, you can only satisfy 2 of the three. So for example, your solution could partition beautifully and every client could read/write data when you want but at the same time you couldn't guarantee every client sees the same data all the time.

Hope that gives you a little food for though. MongoDB's great. The community is helpful, the product is quick & easy to get up and working with and it's powerful to boot. But it's not the only solution out there and the right solution depends on what you are aiming for.
Personally I want the Internet to bring the world together, and I see IDNs as a step toward maintaining the existing segregation between nations and languages.
Couple of ideas:

Change "loose" to "lose" (typo).

Instead of saying "Gush puts..." consider wording such as "Share your photos and access your work online."
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I'm Australian, and a friend of mine gets very sick when exposed to carrot, mint or nuts. It's not just an "American" thing.

(I'm just lactose intolerant, which means I just want to avoid food that is going to make me feel a bit unwell. Nothing critical, but it'd be nice to know if the restaurant's chef is dumping butter into something, or if the "Fetta" is actually cow's milk.)
Truly, it's not that much change. It would be a small update to allow GPS devices to accept a 10:10 code and validate it, and the online mapping services could quickly add recognizing the codes with a regexp + check the checksum.
Google cannot know if you already bought the RAM, or were still merely considering buying it. So it looks like they assume the latter, just in case.
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In the example given, it was only used a couple times in as many years... And their answer was to kill it and wait for someone to complain.

For something that's used a little more, I would say survey the customers who use it and find out why and how they use it. Maybe they use it because they actually want something else, but it's the best they could find. Maybe they use it by mistake, thinking it does something else. Maybe it's actually quite useful, and nobody knows it exists!

If none of your customers uses it for what you think is a good reason, I'd push hard to get rid of it.

At a previous company, every few months someone would write up a bug report saying feature X didn't work. (Different each time, of course.) After investigation, it would turn out 1 of 2 ways every time:

1) The feature works just as intended, but is so seldom used that the CSRs didn't understand how it works, and neither did the customer.

2) The feature has never worked properly, and nobody had tried to use it before.

The time spent dealing with those 2 situations cost the companies about 10 hours of my time every couple months. I have no idea how much CSR time it cost, but it was probably quite a bit more than my time. They didn't bring any customers in, and they didn't keep any existing customers. The features only ever cost money.
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Well, there's the part where the monarchy collapses but no one really knows who's going to take over, and then there's the part where radicals take over, murder the entire royal family, and enforce a bloody reign of terror, and then there's the part where all the other countries in Europe get anxious about all the unrest and go to war with the revolting country, and then there's the part where the country ultimately ends up under an imperialist dictator who tries to conquer their neighbors. They were quite different affairs, yes, but it's an exaggeration to say they had absolutely nothing in common.
It what ways does it not work? (I didn't have any issues viewing it in Chrome or Firefox 4, but I may be missing something and not know it)
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This has cheered me up immensely at the start of the week; I may not have to kill myself now, and may just affix some of these to my wall instead.
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Haven't contacted any at this stage - thanks for the tip though, I'll definitely look at doing that in future. I guess with this app I was just so focussed on the development side of things, and getting the whole process working that I didn't spend much time marketing the app itself.

Does anyone have a recommendation for some good app review websites? I've seen a few spammy ones around, just wondering if there's one or two sites people actually find useful?
But on the other hand, I can do it (I think) quicker than entering a PIN code, and without looking at my phone. Always a tradeoff...
The same rule - it's temporary - applies just as well to Genius for most of us. There are complete idiots and there are complete geniuses, but most of us will bounce into both categories from time to time.

There's an excellent TED talk from Elizabeth Gilbert [1] on the history of 'genius', which originated as a term to describe someone being supported by a genius, not that they were intrinsically a genius themselves and at all times.

Worth considering next time you completely stuff up; and probably even more valuable to consider next time you nail something perfectly, and believe it will continue.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
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I think the big difference is that not anyone can register a gTLD in the same way that you register a .com or .whatever. Also, new rules apply to the registries, so if you are doing "bad" stuff ICANN can remove your registry and bye bye.
Maybe science is my religion, after all
Be aware though - Google has a system in place to prevent gaming the just-in queue. So if you push updates too frequently they won't appear in the list. I've had this happen with my app a few times.

It seems that 8 days is the minimum time between updates, to qualify for this "just-in" status. A few developers have reported this figure, and it's worked for me recently.
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isn't that want init.d scripts are for?
A small update in a well written desktop app? In the poorly written firmware that exists on many embedded device, that's a large change.

And given that there's thousands of devices, even it was just a small change it would be a huge massive change because of the number of places that need to change.
It does have Buddhist roots. If fact the Youtube videos of DFW's - This is water - are very close to what Buddhism advocates (for lack of a better word) - consciously chosen response to every moment/situation. (DFW mentions "Default Setting" of unconscious conditioned response which I find highly relevant for geeks!)
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I'm not saying food allergies don't exist; I'm not even saying they don't exist where I live (Paris).

But I am saying that where I live they're uncommon enough that nobody ever talks about it.

My daughter is going to school next year for the first time; on the form (which I filled this morning) the question is in fact asked: does your child suffer from food allergies?

But while the rest of the form is typed, this question has been added by hand at the very end of the form...
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Why do you equate this to being behind?

The generational analogy seems perfectly apt, but that doesn't make out outlook worse or less sophisticated than the other.
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Fair enough, but that's not the use case for the code. It's designed to get someone who's using a consumer navigation device to a location with reasonable accuracy with high accuracy in entering the location itself.
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"and whatever you do don't use your favorite/main browser"

hahaha... no thanks
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O.o that's nice. Now THAT would be a reason I would consider to switch to tmux.
I use geopo rather than geohash: http://geopo.at/intl/en/developer/
Can't remember why (the database schema calls the column geohash) but it is great in either system to be able to do a really fast lookup based on a substring and then use proper distance algorithms to narrow down to what's actually close. You need to over shoot as mentioned in the Geohash article because boundaries could be very close to the position.
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Someone correct me if i am wrong but i believe the money raised wasn't exactly "capital" per say. From what i've heard, investors for that round were basically buying stock from the founders. Think of it as a private stock market or more commonly known as the Secondary Market (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/secondarymarket.asp).

Not saying is the most logical thing to do for a company(from an investors POV) but perfectly legal so long as both sides agree on the transaction and follow any legal obligations.
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From their Twitter stream:

> The most epic website launch of all time... The Facebook Competitor may reign supreme,,,, uh oh Zuckerberg

",,,,"? Why do people struggle with their language so much? I mean, all you need to do is get a sentence right, and I'm guessing they'd seen an ellipsis before.
The Skype protocols are already proprietary and not published (I haven't checked if they're patented). It's not like Skype is an open standard or anything. This is one company that sells proprietary products buying another that sells proprietary products.

Microsoft would be stupid to kill Mac and Linux support for Skype (perhaps they may kill just Linux support). The value in a communication technology is in how many people can use it; the more people who are on it, the more it attracts. If they start cutting people off, it will become far less appealing for anyone to use, and very easy for a competitor without such restrictions on their network to steal customers.
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I know a guy suffers from red meat allergy. It's not that it would kill him, but it causes a reaction in headaches, soreness, tiredness, etc.

The joking expression goes "How do you know if one of your customers is a vegetarian? They'll let you know."
Do you mean as like a dashboard for a bunch of different social news sites? What would be some killer features that you think would make it in to something people would pay for?
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Why doesn't the keypad rearrange itself every time?
> You should be willing to cut out features that aren't used.

How about the features that everybody wants but weren't marketed / made accessible well?

In other words, I think such a statement (as well as a fair part of the article) are too simple. How do you know people just don't want the feature, but can find it and understand it?

The extreme example of this is an entire product. If a product has few users, because it has recently launched or was just badly marketed, does that mean you should cut all features, i.e. the entire product?
I'm sorry, the quality tests are garbage. Anyone who's done even a cursory amount of research into PRNGs has already heard about the Diehard tests and would have used these in preference, or as a subset, of subsequent testing.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diehard_tests

As may be expected Diehard isn't the be-all-and-end-all of random generator testing; NIST have their own standards. Dieharder is an attempt to consolidate Diehard, NIST, and various other randomness tests.

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php

This is a severe, severe case of "Not Invented Here"; please do research before reinventing the wheel.
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Ask HN: What do you think is the future of news?
From a digital, online perspective, do you think that influences like always-on technology and social media make the internet a better source of news than television?

Has blogging become more influential than broadcast media?

If major broadcasters want to keep up with the real-time, ever-evolving web, how can they do this?
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And what makes you think that the same people who are complaining about unsalted MD5 are also the same people who use passwords as weak as 'secret123'?
That looks nice, but in my experience it's not likely that you'll have access to a GUI when you're in need of running traceroutes.

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This is a pretty good idea. I can see it being irritating at first, but I bet if it was paired with a swipe motion like that on Android it would actually work pretty well.
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I didn't think it would be able to "find me" accurately, but it did. Now I'm kind of worried :) I thought Google Location Service would not have this precision.
I had a similar thought, but the less free internet has been in the works for years before these guys came around. With or without groups like this, it is inevitable. The powers in place fear what they can't control.
I commented on another article that the 500k bitcoin seller wasn't in it for the money. That they just wanted to cause doubt about Bitcoin and it worked. I had some people argue against it, but this is what I was talking about.

A comment from the post's author: "Given this, and what’s been happening with other Bitcoin exchanges recently, I’m left with a significant amount of doubt as to how well these exchanges, which Bitcoin depends on more than we’d like to admit, are run."

In other words, without the 500k bitcoin initial theft or market drop, he wouldn't have much doubt... Even though the same exact situation could easily exist.

Strong doubt has been created.
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Am I the only person who thinks we have a funny game theory situation where developers should stop giving their apps away for free on Android so that users get used to paying the same way they do on iOS?

I don't really understand why Angry Birds is free on Android? Anybody know?

Edit: Spelling
I guess there's another lesson here - don't let anyone you don't know do promotional work on your behalf. "Anthony" apparently let someone do some promotional efforts for socialpog thinking "what harm can it do?" and then found out it can do a lot of harm. He probably spent money with for that promotional effort too, which makes this all the more tragic.
I bet that the "with cause" part would be pretty easy to find. Every company I've worked for that had official policies wrote them so vaguely and all encompassing that every single employee was in violation. Some of the "don't introduce 3rd party software to the network" policies, when read strictly, make every single developer who writes a small automation script a violator of the policy.
I get your point, and it's a valid one. I just hope that Lulz pick their targets wisely, because an all out war on the system will result in system lock-down, which will affect a lot of good people in negative ways, and will also fuel the governments belief that they should be exerting more control ...