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You don't get the whole point of it.

In India, it is known that officials in the government slack during office hours. Delaying of process for unworthy reasons. Numerous time-breaks and other infinite 'small' but aggregatively deterrent forms of behaviours in the office.

The camera moves the whole system a step forward. Transparency is more easily perceivable to the public now. The necessity of a sting operation in the office does not emerge. People can have a fresh perspective on the laws for the government officials.

Psychologically, this might build a better work environment. It has been shown that adding monitoring video cameras does add a certain form of placebo effect.

I hope the 'mantra' should be improvement, no matter how small it is. A complete revamp of the system is more like dreaming about humans taking over all the nine(eight eh?) planets, and that too in an year.
Judging someone on their strengths and weakness are probably done best after we've walked a mile in their shoes.

This would be appropriate to anyone and everyone who is using a judgement here.
I can imagine that sites appear to be fun to use, initially, because of a great design, but I really have a hard time believing that they really become fun to use.

Like a game with awesome graphics and sucky gameplay, people play them for a day and then get rid of it.
It's deprecated anyway, it refers to the first death star. Use the latest specification provided by the Empire for exact calculations.
A GPS receiver and/or IP geolocation, with a regularly-updated timezone database (via ubiquitous WiFi/3G/4G/etc.), will solve this problem.
I'd suggest Backbone.js for Javascript; it's well written, compact (~1k with comments) and well explained.
This article is so full of such silly generalizations I'm not even sure where to begin, or whether i should.

"I did an informal survey of different Los Angeles based Information technology companies. One common theme: although espousing a culture of innovation, and although some are very profitable, most are simply not cutting edge, and some are very behind the times."

An informal survey of LA start ups.. awesome. Any word on how exactly you went about conducting said survey? My guess is it was based on recalling random techcrunch articles read over the past couple years, but please correct if I'm wrong. LA has a ton of start ups that have all kinds of products, working environments and compensation levels, most of which I would guess the author never heard of.

"In most Silicon Valley Startups, coders know SQL, a major scripting language as well as HTML and CSS. However MySpace had positions solely for just HTML/CSS, a trend that harkened back to the 90s when web pages were manually created."

So basically, no one needs to know js and css/html anymore because they are all magically generated by some server side fairies. So facebook, twitter and google do not have people who specialize in js or css/html because that's just way too simple. Totally. For a product the size of what MySpace had, I think it would be shockingly incompetent to not have people who would specialize in that tech.

"Another Los Angeles great, eHarmony.com, uses 40 to 50 engineers for its matchmaking algorithm and servers, whereas OKCupid.com uses only 10."

In your survey, did you happen to ask them why they had such a discrepancy? Because i'm pretty sure it's not because eHarmony's employees are 5 times dumber than okCupid's. There could be a ton of reasons why these numbers are what they are besides lack of skill.

Anyway, I think this is an attempt to rationalize some failure the author has experienced at his previous job. But frankly I think this was a pretty bad attempt at generalizing something as big as the LA and SF job markets. Start ups exist everywhere and come in all shapes forms and sizes, LA has lots of them. To say that an entire city's worth of start ups is one way or another because of myspace, eharmony and your last work place is just way too simple. Anecdotally, I have friends in several LA start ups that are doing just fine, have working environments as good as their peers in SF, if not better, and are using the same range of technology people in SF use.
I haven't seen it in action, but from what I saw in the video, it was actual infinite scrolling - the pagination controls got replaced with 'second page' content after scrolling down.

My guess is that the pagination controls are there to accomodate people with JavaScript disabled.
Ask HN: Access Control to Google Analytics 
I will try to be as clear as possible in asking the question. Currently we use Google Analytics (GA) using a Google Account. Various teams in our office have access to this account by sharing the password to the Google Account.

Example: company.name [at] gmail [dot] com / password

The requirement is to restrict access to GA by:
(i) IP address -- using custom URL for GA where any IP which does not belong to office cannot access the account (Can you create custom login screen for GA?)
(ii) Password -- by using a password manger (but firefox will show the password at browser level, is there a way around this?)
(iii) Using One Time Password (OTP) -- by using GA API to create dynamic passwords for every login (is this possible?)

Is there any other way to achieve this?

Thanks in advance.
I have no idea why everyone has gone off on a tangent about salary. It's not extraordinary for people with lower salaries to rule people who out-earn them (ever hear of Hollywood?). It isn't about money, it's about corporate power.
although there's more to the story, the headline itself sounds so 1990s. (soon you'll even be able to order pizza online!)
iTunes used to have a slider in the settings that would make it "more random" (would try to play songs from different artists and albums). Apparently, it got removed around iTunes 8: http://hintsforums.macworld.com/archive/index.php/t-93993.ht...
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+1 on the office hours comment.

In fact, I would argue that office hours is NOT the proper venue to discuss these matters anyway. From my experience, the purpose of office hours was to clear doubts and further understanding of the class material. I would've been extremely pissed off if I came to office hours with a legitimate question about the material, only to waste my time waiting on a bunch of people arguing about cheating.
Yesterday, a friend called me and wanted my help. Apparently NetFlix wasn't working on his 360, and it kept rejected his password on the PC, even right after he set it. He was in a panic and refused to listen to me that their service was probably having problems.

I wonder how long he spent messing with it instead of contacting them, or just listening to me. :D
Agreed. Supposedly there was 11 exabytes of internet traffic in 2008. It would require an extremely generous redefinition of my IP's fair use guidelines for me to achieve a 20th of this.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/...
> It's just that it makes clear that advertising revenue is a hard way to make money.

Respectfully, that's a very naive conclusion to draw.

You may as well try selling wooly hats and coats in the desert, and conclude that making money selling wooly hats and coats is really hard.
FWIW, javascript implementations all behave very similarly surprisingly.
There are some quirks of course, like JScript not accepting trailing commas, not allowing array like access to strings and leaking out the names of named function expressions, or like some nastiness in IE behaviour with the global object and window.

Especially considering the history of javascript, it's a miracle we're having it this good.
Not so much with the DOOM.
As another poster mentioned, please read the article, the author did not give up so quickly.
I got a different impression from the blog post. Being a teacher does not mean you have to do charity. Everybody needs to get some food on their table. I can relate to that being rewarded less because of something you feel you were not responsible, makes you feel upset. However, I didn't get the impression that it's all he cares about. It was just one paragraph among many after all.
thank 10 pages of code is just enough I can read in a month's time.

Does backbone assumes any CS knowledge like Data structures etc?
From a synopsis of a Crockford presentation (here http://www.catonmat.net/blog/javascript-the-good-parts/) here are some js bad parts:

* Global variables.

Global variables make it harder to run independent subprograms in the same program. If the subprograms happen to have global variables that share the same names, then they will interfere with each other and likely fail, usually in difficult to diagnose ways.

* Newlines get converted into semicolons. JavaScript has a mechanism that tries to correct faulty programs by automatically inserting semicolons. It sometimes inserts semicolons in places where they are not welcome.

* Operator typeof is not very helpful. For example, "typeof null" is "object", "typeof [1,2,3]" is also "object".

* Operator + adds numbers and concatenates. The + operator can add or concatenate. Which one it does depends on the types of the parameters. If either operand is an empty string, it produces the other operand converted to a string. If both operands are numbers, it produces the sum. Otherwise, it converts both operands to strings and concatenates them. This complicated behavior is a common source of bugs. If you intend + to add, make sure that both operands are numbers.

* Operators == and != do type coercion. Use of the === and !== operators is always preferred.

* Too many falsy values. 0, Nan, '' (empty string), false, null, undefined are all false.

* for ... in operator mixes inherited functions with the desired data members (it does deep reflection).
Yes that is a fair point and I should be flogged for referencing numbers so poorly supported. However, that does not make them wrong. A thorough review of all the evidence shows that: a) Watt stopped adding inventions after 1782, and b) when his patent expired in 1804 horsepower of new engines rose immediately and significantly. After securing his patents he left the engine unchanged for some 22 years.

It should also be said that Watt's patent was an exception: his connections to power allowed his patent to be extended for 24 years by parliament. However the "regular" patent system impeded Watt. He had to use the inefficient sun and planet gear instead of a crank because Pickard had patented it. Pickard patented the crank: a device we have evidence of from 5BC. Watt used his less efficient gear system until the patent expired, and then immediately switched. Pickard had offered to license the crank in exchange for the condenser, but Watt spent a year inventing his gears instead.

Fact: a number of significant improvements were made to steam engines by people other than Watt.

Fact: the patent system prevented anyone but Watt from selling steam engines because he had a patent for the condenser, without which all other inventions were pointless.

Fact: Watt did not license any of these improvements, nor allow anyone to license his patent, nor make any further improvements of his own.

Fact: only when Watt's patent expired were these technologies incorporated into products (and immediately so).

Fact: Steam engine technology was stopped for 22 years by the patent system.

The numbers are not in question. The question is, "without patents, would any of the inventions have happened at all?" Watt basically bankrupted himself developing the condenser to the extent that he took a job for a couple of years. It then got investment in exchange for a share of the patent. Would anyone have invested in his idea without patent protection? I do not have any proof one way or the other, only evidence that thousands of businesses are started every year without support of a patent.

The issue is of great concern to HN readers: we make a living through our intellectual property. Watt made a ton of money because he could patent his idea. Without patent protection, he would have had to compete in manufacturing, service, or rapid innovation. With patent protection, he could have one good idea and hit the jackpot. Although I may personally like the idea of making a million off an idea, I believe that the world is better served by allowing ideas to be unpatentable, and instead requiring competition in execution.
Latvian Facebook clone has solved this by marking sent messages as read/unread. I think people use that system way more than e-mail here. Maybe there is going to be something that will replace e-mail worldwide in a similar way. Actually, I'm sure GMail could implement it right now if they wanted, for messages sent from and to GMail accounts.
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Jacquesm: Just to illustrate how you have a tendency to Specify unreasonable upfront restrictions, your own code prohibits you from correcting some of these errors in your code. Even though this is an 0.1 version, it requires all future versions to be equally or more restrictive. So you will have to live with your "first rough version" forever.

That is exactly as stupid as promising to keep the 0.1 version of your api active forever no matter what even if a serious security vulnerability is discovered.
"In India, it is known that officials in the government slack during office hours."

It's been known to happen in North America too. :)
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Yesterday I accidentally browsed the terms and conditions of galois.com and discovered that I'm not authorised to view their website without a written licence (as I have a professional interest in their area of business and my viewing of their site is not personal and/or non-commercial).
I've written to them asking for a licence as I don't want to fall foul of UK laws that might put me in prison for 2 years for accessing their servers without permission.
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Yes I see this so many times, even on big sites with millions of users. It's great for usability though, as I can go "ahh, that's what it was". As for security, most people's passwords are vulnerable to dictionary attacks anyway
Well it also depends of the university... École d'Ingénieurs (Engineering Schools, it's a bit different from the american system) tend to be stricter about that while universities in France are less strict.

I know for a fact that no exam were reused because the previous years exams were available at the library for students who wanted to study... Since most of the exams were open book, with a world problem to solve in about 3 hours, they were actually fun to study from.
Let the code speak for itself: V8, Node, jQuery, Underscore, CoffeeScript, etc
Email can be very painful if you use it incorrectly, yes.

I've been dating a girl I met recently, and the other day, I sent her an email that laid my heart open. After I sent it, I realized she probably wouldn't read it for hours, and then it might be even longer before she can craft a reply!

I moped around for an hour and a half, when she sent a reply saying she was sorry it took her that long to respond, and she knew what I must be going through, waiting for a response. She addressed only that painful bit, and responded to the rest when she had time later.

She's obviously a keeper. ;)

The moral of the story is that if you don't respect the properties of the medium, you can do yourself a lot of damage.

Email is usually delivered instantly, but -not always-. And it's a medium that is usually used for thoughtful replies, and not quick ones. If you want an instant answer, you need real-time communication.
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http://derstandard.at/ has fixed pieces of the interface for at least a few years but I really, really don't like it. Try it yourself. It looks good as long as you're actually not interested in the material inside. Unless you're designer of the site showing the features of the site to the boss, you're not likely to use the menus inside of the fixed areas. But this also explains why some sites end up having such interfaces. In my view, this is a sign of Google turning soggy inside as in:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776046
There is no politics. Simply put, the developer who first wrote it worked at Mozilla, Firefox's tools aren't designed to replace Firebug and Mozilla coordinated releases with the Firebug team. So many negatives assumptions and unsupported claims when it comes to Firefox, if people wouldn't be so insular they would know what they are talking about.
You are doing what lawyers call "assuming facts not in evidence".

In particular, you are assuming that without the current procedures, actual security for air travel would in fact be lower. Moreover, you are assuming that if actual security for air travel were lower, the result would be an overall increase in losses due to terrorist attack. Neither of those things is necessarily true.

Firstly, the whole point of the criticism here is that there is no evidence whatsoever that the kind of security theatre we put up with (or avoid by not flying) today does improve actual security.

Secondly, why would you assume that a terrorist with the resources to conduct a successful attack and the willingness to do so would be deterred just because airport security prevented them getting onto a plane? Why wouldn't they just attack another target instead: a railway station, a shopping centre, a nightclub, the queue for security at the airport? If you prevent them from killing 300 people by attacking an aircraft, but they kill 300 people by blowing themselves up in a crowded nightclub instead, you haven't saved any lives, you've just moved the problem.

Your car analogy fails, by the way, for the simple reason that thousands of people die in road traffic accidents every year in my country, and laws prohibiting drinking and driving have been shown beyond any reasonable doubt to reduce that casualty rate. (Air bags and speed limits are more controversial, because the evidence that they are a net win is not so conclusive, but that's a topic for another day.)
>The vast majority of the general population are receptive to advertising

That's terrible justification to do something I consider sleazy just to make a buck. I am a proponent of the idea of voting with my wallet, unfortunately for some reason that concept seems to get whitewashed by people who justify ignoring it by saying its "just business". That mindset is even stronger by people who are not end consumers.

>You're the one missing out on the money.

I used to be OK running enough ads for my web properties to cover hosting. Then I discovered I had scruples.
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> And if you believe in God, as I do, why in the world would God choose to reveal himself to only those that take illegal, dangerous and usually expensive drugs? Does God only like the idle rich? Nope that makes no sense either.

And we wouldn't want the world to not make sense, would we. No, everything must be logical.
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Fucks sake, it looks like TC will be using the Twitter method of reporting for G+. Report on any inconsequential bollocks just for the sake of having a G+ headline.
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I just counted, and you've used at least 12685 dictionary words in HP:MOR [1]. I was expecting it to be more to be honest, but it didn't seem right not to post just because it didn't match my expectations.

It certainly seems unlikely that someone who can produce an excellent 500,000 word work of fiction (aside: thanks very much by the way,) in addition to reams of technical writing, has a vocabulary not in the 95th percentile of the population. OTOH, HP:MOR has fewer words in it than I expected, and even the upper bound of 14795 seems low. Maybe the working is wrong; it's shown below.

$ cat Harry\ Potter\ and\ the\ Methods\ of\ Rationality\ 1-72.txt |
tr -cs 'a-zA-Z' '[\n*]' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' |
sort --uniq | cat - /usr/share/dict/words | sort |
awk '{count[$1]++; if (count[$1]==2) print}' | wc -l
12685

$ cat Harry\ Potter\ and\ the\ Methods\ of\ Rationality\ 1-72.txt |
tr -cs 'a-zA-Z' '[\n*]' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' |
sort --uniq | wc -l
14795

[1] http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M... — Eliezer's amazing Harry Potter fanfiction in case you're missing out.
The major difference is Google's non-trivial dedication to providing you portability to your data.
Disapointed by Bruce Eckel :-/

Javascript != Java; it doesn't mean it's an abomination. I do agree that there are pitfals.. but damn, get over it as it's such a beautiful language. I love JavaScript.

I feel like the guy just read the book of Crockford and just got it all wrong.
I despise frames. And let's call these fixed elements what they really are: frames. In addition to reducing the usable screen area (which is awful on my netbook's 1024x600 screen)[1], frames also break the page metaphor. Part of what makes the web easy to use is that interacting with each website works more or less the same. That is to say, the scrolling behaviour of web pages mimics a real-life piece of paper. If the entire website no longer scrolls as one uniform page, when visiting a new site, the scrolling behaviour is unpredictable with each site doing something different. My terminology is clumsy, but perhaps it is clear enough to understand what I mean.

[1] http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1748/screenwaste.png
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That's pretty awesome - it's like The Tell-Tale Heart way of dealing with cheaters
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IMHO the worst problem with JS is too losely defined standard - typeof on array or on function on some implementations return Object, on some other something different, you often have to check for type of argument (when coding function that would be overloaded in languages that support this concept), and properly doing this is pain (checking is something is array is often done by checking if it has "length" property!).

Still, JS is perfect example of how important closures are for programming language - they make very bad language acceptable.
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