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The video is in Chinese however it's impressive when the announcer places one empty water bottle on top of the other near the end while traveling at 150mph+. Pretty smooth ride.
Hackers & Founders Co-op, The Accidental Incubator
Should We Fear Our Government?
I just hope that the league of american white old men doesn't meet and decide that the answer to Lulzsec is naturally the removal of more freedoms for the sake of security and much easier wiretapping by the FBI.
Agree. Even though Apple have their own data-centres, they might use some Amazon or MS capacity just as a redundancy hedge.
Anti-trust law is an artificial, state-enforced restriction on competition. In a free market, people should be able to compete.
Tech Coast Angels Partners With Bridges to Italy to Mentor Entrepreneurs
And my criticism was about the recent imbalance of such topics.
Anyone know an MMS provider in the US with a similar API (nice, clean and cheap) that works in 2 directions - i.e Mobile Originated (MO) & Mobile Terminated (MT)?

(I might as well ask this here :^)
Giving the RubyGems documentation some love
No, not all hackers do! Perhaps all hackers should.

From my own experience, sometimes it takes a major life event to shake one into thinking about the "what" and the "why" of life.
First Silicon Valley Internet Company Joins The Wall Street Single Letter Club
Does VRBO do partial apartment rentals? I've used both (Airbnb for the first time this week), liked both, but have the impression VRBO is entirely whole-house rental --- and significantly more expensive.
What I like about agile and its fellows is that it takes old ideas and turns them into one-click tools.

My theory of software development process is that tools are the dominant shaping force.

Waterfall was a fit for the word processing era. Build a big document, hand it off. Changing the document is a pain, so write it once in advance. And so on.

The advent of bug tracking tools showed how individual work packets could be packaged, sliced and dealt with individually.

Similarly, this tool revisits the ideas of traceability (previously achieved with spreadsheets, basically) and change matrices / change ripples. Because it's automated, it actually becomes part of the process, rather than an impossible burden.
Maybe they'll raise awareness of security issues and get companies to take it more seriously. Or maybe we'll just see more security theater and companies will use their lobbying powers to put in place draconian laws against any form of "hacking".
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Bingo, thanks for saying it better than I could. The Kindle ecosystem is a perfect example.
Really? You had to bring race into it?
What surprises me is that lack of backlash for the shoddy upgrade process...

Moving from Rails 2 to Rails 3 is a nightmare, a documented nightmare in 3 parts http://goo.gl/2Xw7n

Sure you can get part of the way by porting to bundler and upgrading to ruby 1.9.2, but there is no plugin or way to have an app work with both Rails 2 and Rails 3 at the same time. And this is a year after it was released with 3.1 just around the corner.

For the upgrade you need to change boot.rb, application.rb your routes and all your other configuration. Potentially you may need to update a ton of views to allow for the xss protection.

By themselves none of the changes in Rails 3 are bad, its just that somehow they managed to make it very very hard to upgrade, so less people use it, and it gets less testing and stuff regresses.

I think if the team focused on a bridge / integrated upgrade path for rails 2 that allows you to switch to rails 3 seamlessly it would do wonders for adoption.
Why can't I just like computers?
Cardio has numerous mental benefits for executive mental functions, working memory, etc. that has a large body of supporting scientific evidence. Weight-lifting doesn't have a significantly comparable effect (not saying it's meaningless or has no mental/psychological benefits), just different. For maintaining ideal bodyweight and metabolism I agree that weights are de rigueur.
http://massivehealth.com/ - stealth startup cofounded by Aza Raskin (former creative lead at Firefox).

https://cakehealth.com/ - mint.com for healthcare.
Judge: copyright troll Righthaven has no standing to sue
Yes, it is illegal to financially damage a company, and many crackers do exactly that. This article and most of the comments here argue about the tools. As hackers we find it hard to understand why a hammer could be outlawed because it is good at breaking through the windows of houses.

Why does no one talk about the network that was broken into? Why does the general public believe that crackers are so good at their job it is impossible to secure a computer system? There are two possibilities that I can see here.

1. Most cracks happen because of a less-than-perfect system administrator. Either some subtle problem with a configuration file opened up a hole for the cracker or nobody bothered securing the network to begin with.

2. Most cracks happen because crackers have found a reliable method of discovering 0day exploits or our current computing model is fundamentally insecure.

In either case, I find it unjustifiable to declare cracking an act of terrorism without spending ANY effort reflecting back on our own security. If millions of us routinely use the same password (or a easy-to-guess pattern) for all of our accounts who is the terrorist? The people who take advantage of an easy opportunity, or the people who created that opportunity in the first place?

It is well known that users are stupid, and that two-factor authentication is much harder to break than static passwords. Bruce Schneider has been saying so for at least a decade. Why have we not moved on? As a system administrator, it should be an act of terrorism to NOT make two-factor authentication the DEFAULT way of using your service.
Hard to take too seriously any OO fundamentalism from someone who cites the Gang of Four patterns as if they were sacred scripture. Actually, they're techniques for working around the limitations of languages like C++, and when evoked explicitly in Ruby tend to be a "code smell".

This comment has been a service provided by the small bot running in my brain programmed to respond to mentions of the GoF book with a link to Norvig's presentation on them:

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
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The comparable entities are North America, the Middle East and Europe. Then things would change. <-- No, here is why, if you're in Israel you have access to all that it has to offer, same for the US, and same for Europe (EU). The point is 'how much money is there to go around / potential recipient.'
"Spend a few weeks hanging out in bars and cafes asking what people do and you’ll hear some of the most idiotic business ideas in the world. A lot of journalists use this argument to call San Francisco an echo chamber whose sole purpose is burning money. And you know, they’re right. This city does burn through money on terrible ideas. But that’s a tradeoff for fostering a city of people who believe they can do anything."

There's something to be said for inadvertently confirming that tech is in a bubble. "Here, just buy this house on an adjustable rate mortgage, then flip it for bucks!"

Nevertheless, I thought the author made a good point about building the future.
Let me make you a guarantee: if you take Viagra and Adderall, you will exercise. I will bet money. Lots.
That someone was Socrates: "The fact is that this invention will produce forgetfulness in the souls of those who have learned it. They will not need to exercise their memories, being able to rely on what is written, calling things to mind no longer from within themselves by their own unaided powers, but under the stimulus of external marks that are alien to themselves. So it's not a recipe for memory, but for reminding, that you have discovered. And as for wisdom, you're equipping your pupils with only a semblance of it, not with truth. Thanks to you and your invention, your pupils will be widely read without benefit of a teacher's instruction; in consequence, they'll entertain the delusion that they have wide knowledge, while they are, in fact, for the most part incapable of real judgment."
It does, but we're talking about less and less revenue. Ho much of that 25% are you going to ask for?
Agreed. In my experience, a programmer would usually work in a team lead by a developer. In banking tech (my domain), a programmer is usually a contracter or offshore. A developer would be a employee and would be onshore.
There is no economic value in funding this backup plan by the private sector (which is defined by profits). Its not like they will "own" the new colony - unless, of course, if they actually do. I.e., if the corps are allowed to use those colonists raised as slaves for the corp's gains, then there would be economic value and hence, the private sector will attempt to do this.

Though i doubt that is ever going to pass, so the only alternative for this "backup" plan is gov't funded expeditions.
when was the most self aware bubble ever? if there is a difference this time that's it.
Those who have met Jonathan know that he has a heart of gold. This is a guy who just wants to help those that deserve it. I'll be supporting the Co-op as much as I can and watching closely as this first set of startups grow up.

Keep up the good work!

And see you all at the next H&F meetup...
Edit: Just finished implementing this using the Stanford library - check it out (non-SSL test site) http://wire.0xf.nl
Daily deal aggregators exist to reduce the noise.
There's a good book on the political and social consequences of the last little ice age: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan.
Economist Debates: Tech bubble: Statements
Check out both sites:
http://www.wimdu.com and http://www.airbnb.com

The designs are very, very similar. Blatantly so, imho. Even the logos are in the same style.
ReadyForZero (YC S10) Raises $4.5M Series A
Copyright Laws for innovative U.S. Tech Startups?
Does it makes sense to protect innovative u.s. tech businesses by copyright laws or do you think that in free markets every startup has to deal with copycats?
http://carelogger.com - diabetes logbook (my site)

http://patientslikeme.com - illness community
I agree that current efforts at sustainability are pathetically weak, but I disagree that CO2 emissions are fundamentally the problem. Global warming is an environmentalist boogeyman that makes for good PR, but climate disaster or not we have politically intractable problems with the waste of natural resources. We can always grow more plants to reclaim CO2, but we can't continue to just extract everything and then throw it in a landfill 6 months later.
There is a good expression for cases like this -

To break is not to build

meaning it is much easier to break something than to build it in the first place. And it holds so very true for virtually any networked app or service.
Some great points here but just because this applied to this guy doesn't mean every point is a catch-all for sick people.

2. I SHOULD BE GOING NOW. You’ll never go wrong by uttering these five words while visiting someone who’s sick.

I spent 11 months in hospital after a spinal cord injury and every time, I hated when my mates were about to leave. Having visitors can be the only form of escapism.

Also, "You look great". Maybe you do? I get this a lot. People say it behind my back too, i.e. "Hey I saw him the other day he's looking great", which feels awesome because in my mind I look like shit.
From the way you have described your business it seems like you are one of the high-markup enterprises that will (always) benefit from getting large numbers of customers through the door, even at a much lower price than you normally charge.

(I'm not making a judgement on your pricing, just pointing out the obvious.)
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Psylarium: The maze of finding a good VPS hosting for Drupal and other CMS
Ask HN: Proxy JavaScript APIs through nginx?
Hello, I have an issue with my site in that I need to be able to maintain anonymity for users. I also use 3rd party APIs such as the Google Maps API - this means that a user's browser directly communicates with Google for map queries.

Simply put, is there a way I can use nginx (or Flask/WSGI) to "proxy" the request, so that the script points to my server, then my server gets the 3rd party script, then passes the results back to the client (thus removing the direct interaction with Google's servers)?

Thanks
Floor Displays Increase Sales
H&F is the only meetup I've found that's worth going to -- from when it was 20 people at St. John's Bar and Grill up to it's current several thousand form where we need to take over Pedro's Cantina. And like Jonathan said, he wasn't doing it for any selfish reason (unless you count hanging out with geeks). Silicon Valley could stand to use a few more like him...
Awe, shucks. Yer makin' me blush.

I really just got sick and tired of watching what I thought were amazing startups struggle and die.
So, HN can't handle the original URL this was posted with because it has an apostrophe in it. This version should work:

http://engineering.linkedin.com/21/coffeescript-javascript-t...

It's a nice little article, and I hope it'll attract more people to the language.
The morning weather forecast will promise that "some weather" will be delivered but they don't know what form it will take or how much of it there will be. They will go on to say that if you're not happy with the weather that is delivered then you shouldn't worry because they can guarantee that some more weather will be delivered the following day.
Of course not. It's akin to saying any successful Rails app is an embarrassment to 37signals because they had the technology to create it but didn't.
HN is no place to discuss emotionally charged questions of nationality and history. Your reply illustrates the reason why.

Keeping aside the possibility that you are a troll, it simply makes no sense to bring up issues related to the Palestinian / Israeli conflict. This is not a thread about it, and I have no time to go into detail about historical grievances of either party in the conflict.

It is easy and pat to make simple, childish judgments based on one's race, religion or prejudices. If you want to stick to that level, it is your loss. The idea that the conflict is one side of monsters and one side of tragic heroes is comedic, regardless of which 'side' one chooses.
Ha. The first thing I thought when I read that article was "winter is coming" so I immediately searched for that string in the comments. I'm glad I'm not alone.

I'm a few pages from the end of A Game of Thrones and I have been shocked by some of the character abuse you're talking about. Right now, it's kind of exciting, but I can definitely see it getting tiresome if it becomes gratuitous. Thanks for the warning--I won't feel guilty if I abandon the series midway through!
Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham
Microsoft has 'cloud services' baked into Windows Phone, but doesn't have the market penetration for the product recognition.

In the current release, contacts are automatically synced, I'm not sure about calendars, and photos, video and I think office can be set to automatically sync.

From my understanding there is deeper integration in the next release (Mango).

So Microsoft is there and doing it, but they aren't competing in the same marketing space as Apple, and it seems few people know Windows Phone even exists.
I think Karl meant infrastructure, not technology.
If you leave your wallet on the street in a bad neighborhood and come back, you'll probably never see it again.

The problem with such protection laws is that it doesn't take into account the ignorance or incompetence of service providers. It also holds back innovation and we end up with less security. Even if these vulnerable companies don't have the expertise they can hire a reputable security company to audit their system to plug the gaping holes.

Do we need to pass laws for companies to do security audits? Maybe for listed companies or companies that have services of a certain size, since they'll try to skimp on costs or executives don't understand IT needs.

Trying to criminalize the intent of developers even if they create tools solely for cracking is a slippery slope. While we're at it we should make defense contractors liable for war damages and execute the engineers responsible for creating weapons.

In Japan a closed source p2p software called Winny caused a lot of disorder with viruses and lots of government information and embarrassing private pictures leaked onto the net due to security issues. Unfortunately, the developer was busy fighting a trial based on whether he had intentions of violating copyright with his software (he was finally acquitted on appeal to a higher district court). If he at any point publicly endorsed copyright violations, he'd probably be locked up for a long time even if he didn't violent a single bit of copyrighted content. Needless to say the project is abandoned and full of holes. Good for the anti-virus industry though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny
I don't know if the Earth's climate is as delicate as we fear. Our infrastructure is far more delicate when it comes to the Earth climate. The Earth is able to function within a homeostatic range (say, established over the past billion years) far more effectively than our infrastructure (established over the past few hundred years). The biosphere may also be involved with this, which has been raised in the Gaia theory line of argumentation.
London's the heart of the UK's economy. That's why businesses put their sales offices in London, while the real work is done cheaply elsewhere in the country.
| For all the talk of freedom, this is disappointing.

You're incredibly naive then. Freedom comes from the license. You can fork and modify to your heart's content. This is how open source freedom works. If you think you can do it better, then do it better in your project. Rails is not some sort of public good that belongs to the people. It is a project that people work very hard on and then give away. And for anyone to suggest that they should not get to decide how things work on the thing that they give away free of charge and for modification is both ludicrous and makes you sound very ungrateful.

Successful projects are successful because the leaders do a good job. They're good at listening, good at saying no, good at rallying support, and good at working with their users and their team. Your vote is with your shoes.
You might consider stackoverflow.com or superuser.com for technically oriented Q&A like this.
My solutions: https://gist.github.com/1026309
Didn't really stop and think on the first one for too long, so it's a bit messy.
Overall it's quite easy but not trivial. Knowing the length of the challege at the beginnig wold be nice though.
Well, I think my reply stands. What I'm trying to say is that just because Apple made a successful product on top of Microsoft's infrastructure, it doesn't reflect badly on Microsoft that they didn't do it first - with Azure, it wasn't their intention to build a cloud-based product - it was their intention to build an infrastructure to support cloud-based products.
'Hackers' used to have a special status, but soon enough they'll be considered like pirates were in the 17th century. It's just isn't cute anymore. Or harmless.
The truth is many customers (oddly) will buy something just because it's discounted! This is how sales can generate sales and compel people to buy non-relevant stuff.

Those of us who recognize that we're spending in net more irrespective of getting good deals shy away but there's always been the coupon-crazed folks out there who've never understood this logic. It's the same logic that propels Costco to sell you way more than what you need.

I suspect you don't use coupons or shop at Costco, but many do :) This makes me, while extremely anti-daily-deal-sites, begrudgingly acknowledge that they do have at least some viability. (note that "some" does not necessarily mean the valuations they've been receiving...)
The ideas in this post are inline with Simon Sinek's 'start with why' book and ted talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...
At some point, shouldn't the readers of HN consider themselves the market makers? This constant hearsay about who is making money and who isn't...tiresome.
Great advice yes but missed the most important thing you should do: call Apple's Legal Dept (or other platform owner should they start pursuing Android et. al.).
TeamRIPPED: Stop Paying the High Costs of Gyms
This is something that people like me really need. A genuine help is always welcomed!!

Wish I could attend the Thursday Meet-up...can I?
Its unfortunate that the x86 camp is splintering, with developers caught in the crossfire unable to find a compiler that works well on all x86 processors, while the world drifts towards ARM...
A surprisingly simple solution to an obscure problem.
Apple solved this with the App Store, though — local native software with truly simple, obvious, easy installation and complete encapsulation of data.

The app store certainly makes it easy but its no where close to the easy installation and update of webapps - typing a name and hitting enter or clicking a link.

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that Apple's vision of the cloud is "data in the cloud. apps are local" whereas Google's vision of the cloud is "data and apps are in the cloud"?

All of Google's client-side software also comes down from the cloud the same way your data does.
Rightheaven clones jump from joy :)
Can Silicon Valley be the center for robotics too?
Donating 8 hours design time to any project
I think a better way to think about this is to separate your company from the products you build. Ask yourself what does your company do, and how your products accomplish that goal. In a lot of startups these days the product is the company which leaves you with absolutely no wiggle room.
Minor surgery - any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance during the surgical procedure, - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body( Ex. Hemorhoids, Tissue neurosis in absces
There are many conditions that can be treated quickly and easily by:
- vaporisation with electrical diathermy (Example: Warts destrucition)
- simple excision (Example: Mole biopsy)
from http://doctorscareclinic.com/html/minor-surgery.html
Seems you have most of the requisite skills to perform minor surgery: lancing a boil with a cauterized needle or tying off a hemorrhoid with a bit of string.
Perhaps you could practice a bit with a needle to get the hang of stitching.
Oh and don't miss Patrick Igoe's informative and entertaining walkthrough of a claim chart at:

http://www.applepatent.com/2011/06/lodsys-anatomy-of-bullshi...
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