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Buying rental properties that are cash flow positive from day one in northern california. They pay between 12-18% per year when bought in cash.
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Is the Party Over at Google+?
In that case I wonder what makes you compare the two frameworks and what you actually think the two are in such a separate league. You keep talking about Symfony without actually comparing it with Yii as your initial statement made me think you would. :)
> Here's mine: an act of terrorism is an attack designed to elicit a reaction massively disproportionate to the damage directly caused

I see where you're coming from, but I feel it's too subjective. The massively disproportionate action is not under the control of the terrorizer, but rather the publicist. The media really controls who we consider to be "terrorists", rather than any empirical metric.

If we have counter-terrorist groups who just go after terrorists, shouldn't we define who terrorists are? We start using words like "cyber-terrorists", and now we're all included. I just find no value in the semantic classification of boogie men except for expansion of our police state.
If you want to try it out with different sizes you can go to this page:

http://www.pixelscript.net/gilldyslexic/demo.html
The line from Lisp to Ruby should go from Lisp to Perl - all the Lispy features Ruby has - as I understand it - were lifted via Perl...
Not invented here?
Ask HN: Why Google wants to own DNS?
With the recent Story topping Hacker news site about Google page speed service. It seems clear simple and useful, just change to google DNS and they do the hard work. I wondered what's the benefit for Google, why own the DNS?
>But they can't work that way. The project has to be specified upfront, in advance, because otherwise the government might get cheated by an unscrupulous developer

I don't understand what you're saying here. Are you saying the risk of losing a few £10k is worth paying a few £100k over the odds to avoid?

Surely the gov should be using their own web devs and having a consistent CMS used across all gov online estates. Yes there will be db integrations and things but a single shop of web dev working for the gov would surely save money.

They could get 3 whole websites and employ a 4th body to choose the best and still do it cheaper than hiring the big firm in the first place.
Perhaps part of his point if it's "just for fun", which in the broadest interpretation could be taken as "without any basis whatsoever" then it doesn't belong in front of a crowd of people who expect logical explanations for things.

Let's be honest—some of the descendants are a bit off (Java->Javascript, anyone?), and some languages have multiple inspirations not listed.

It's an interesting idea, and perhaps the starting point of actual research, but isn't yet trustworthy or sensible enough to be taken as gospel.
If you put more than an hour a month into it

Thankfully, the support costs are, err, maybe an email every few months? Basically, extremely low. Combined with sharing the hosting with TweetingMachine, it is essentially all profit at this point :)
I think the price is way too high. Apps like this generally sell for <$5 I don't see too many people paying $20 to clear their inbox.
HTTP header is code for "POST data".
Perhaps they were wooed by appstore sales figures. The iPad is also locked down enough for those who want to have complete control over their IP.
I would like to do research on my font too, I don't have any academic links or funds for it though.
I think the Lispy features were more derived Smalltalk than Perl...
I used it from v 5 on, then moved to FF when Opera's lack of plugins and compatibility probs. killed it for me. Then, I went chrome > FF with vimperator > back to opera. Opera is the best keyboard-shortcut-driven experience ever. Try shift-arrows. With addons, it no-contest the best browser for me.
check out github pages. you'll get the added benefit of version control as well.
http://www.ReverbNation.com :)
Javascript: split-join vs. replace
Grooveshark. win.
The post title doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't something like "My service works, and now I charge even less" be more accurate?
Indeed, but you are taxed on /your/ income, not your company's.
The company itself is not a citizen of the jurisdiction you live in.
Have the company pay yourself a salary that is below (or just above) the lowest tax bracket in the jurisdiction you live in and you pay zero or very little taxes on that income.

When you ever want to take out more than this salary from that company, make sure you do so either through another company that you control or while not living in a jurisdiction that taxes individuals on such income.

A company is primarily a financial device to avoid paying (too much) taxes.

Regarding the last part: I don't know if you ever incorporated abroad. But 'streamlined' is an understatement. I have frankly no idea what 'effort' you are referring to. Could you elaborate?
I think this is an amazing new social media feature. They're still testing it as well.
I see very distinct music activities:

- Discovering new music (Hype Machine, Sound Cloud)

- Recommending music to friends (Last.fm, sending a YouTube link to a friend, etc.)

- Active listening (building a playlist on Spotify or Rdio or Rhapsody; buying/pirating music and manually managing it in iTunes, Goole Music, Amazon CloudPlayer, etc.)

- Passive listening (Pandora, Turntable)

Some services blur the lines between these activities, but I don't think any make a serious attempt to satisfy more than two of these use-cases (and probably with good reasons). As a result, I think many folks use more than one service.

Consequently, what I'm more interested in is why you use the services you use. What makes you boot up Spotify one morning and Pandora the next? Do your activities seem to fall into the buckets I described, or are my assumptions completely off? And if my assumptions are somewhat accurate, what percentage of your time do you spend on each type of activity?
Seems hard to believe their motivation for seeing a ton of consumer web traffic on third party sites is to improve the world. I mean, obviously google analytics isn't some altruistic attempt to help people track their web usage better.
Saves a few steps jumping from hit to hit, and if you set up next-result and previous-result mappings, it's even faster. This is assuming your workflow is "find, then open one or more of the results in vim."
Surely the best 'hackers' of all time are the ones that haven't been caught?
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Thats enough to buy coffee for a month, in my books that success :D
Flamebait.

Jobs played up the IP that went into the iPhone at its launch and (paraphrasing from memory) vowed to defend it vigorously at the time, well before a single Droid or Galaxy S or iPhone shipped. I'll dig through the WWDC transcript if someone forces me ;). They knew that they'd be copied, presumably by low-cost imitators as their products have always been imitated, and were always prepared to use IP law to defend their advantage.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with this strategy, but Apple saw these market pressures coming a long time ago.
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Agreed, and I also don't think that the transaction indicates the person had some sort of insider information about how the deals in Washington would work out. Based on all of the public information out there (comments from ratings agencies, Congressmen themselves, pundits), it seems likely that the US will avoid a true default but that it's credit rating will be downgraded.
There has been an iPlayer iPad app for a while - I use it far more than the website.
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I rented an upstair room to a backpacker a month ago in Saigon Vietnam. On his last day, he picked up some chick off the street, brought her home and locked the front door from the inside. My staff ( I have an online bookstore there) couldn't get in for half a day. I sent airbnb a message complaining and heard nothing back from them. I don't think it is that hard to hold a credit card number of the guest just in case stuff like this happens. Why they are not doing it is beyond me.
Basically, high-quality search and comprehensive indexing means its hard to sweep things under the rug: once the data gets out onto the net, it tends to stay there. Google's played a large part in that.
Ahhhhhh... Someone is wrong on the Internet!

The card thing is really No Big Deal. It's actually a pretty smart integration with one shortcoming.

Whatever gateway they're using has some support for you maintaining control of the checkout experience while not actually receiving or transmitting card data--a great thing for PCI compliance. So the form is on an HTTPS page on the merchant's site, but instead of posting to the merchant's app, it posts directly to the gateway. The gateway communicates status with the merchant via a synchronous HTTP request or signed data in a redirect URL, and the merchant's software processes the transaction without ever seeing card data.

As the OP says, "they're using HTTPS"--yes, this makes all the difference. The only reason the info appears to be clear text to him is that he's using Tamper Data, a browser extension that lets you play with your own POST data before you send it over HTTP(S).

This is the Right Way to do it for a site that doesn't get some compelling advantage out of building the infrastructure necessary to be PCI compliant. Done this way, PCI compliance requires just the trivial SAQ A. The only problem with this is that either the gateway does not support (sadly, the most common case) or the developer did not implement signing the transaction details on the merchant side.
As far as I understand, they don't 'own' the DNS, they cache and proxy.

They obviously got a lot of bandwidth...
I have red his book, it's like nails on a chalkboard to my brain. My problem with it? I know too much. I am not an MD but I work with them, I write medical R&D software.

If you are passionate about the subject, step out of the Aubrey lake and dive into the huge ocean that is next to it. It's not nearly as optimistic, but is much more relevant.
iOS users buy more apps

I own both an iPhone and an Android.

I haven't bought any Android apps because Android apps are crap and I won't pay money for shitty weekend hacks.

if you're developing to make money, that's pretty
good deciding factor

That's a pretty weak argument -- do the math, most apps on iTunes aren't even making up for sunken costs.

Quite the contrary I would say, since the Android Marketplace is filled with crappy apps, you can create value quite easily.
This article is dumb. There is literally a new drug coming out in four days that may be able to help with alzheimer's:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2011/jul/1...

CBD binds to the CB2 receptors, which are mostly in the body and not the brain. This means that it won't directly reduce brain inflammation. However, because it's still an anti-inflammatory, there should still be some cognitive benefits. (And studies done in mice have already confirmed this.)
I recall that as well, but I think this article is still valid, because it speaks to Apple's vigor in enforcing them, as much as anything. I'm not going to say Apple is desperate yet, but I think that Apple foresees that desperation if they don't very actively pursue anything and everything.
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Another fact to contrast the magnitude is the fact than in 2009 there was a total of 31 homicides in Norway. This attack produced more than two years of homicide victims.

http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/00/minifakta_en/en/main_0...
Why is it mindless propaganda? And is that article's point (and I assume your point) that 9/11, the london bombings and the Oslo bombings were conducted by government agencies?
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"This is not about religion, this is what people think about religion"

...

Deny that the everything from the title of the piece to the emphasis placed on several of the speakers being Nobel Laureates was designed as an attempt to add an air of credibility to the views expressed.

Follow that with an assertion that individuals who are not themselves spiritual, most of which freely admit having little or no education on or experience with spiritual matters are qualified in any way to speak on spiritual matters.

I find it interesting that the Christian interpretation of God is invariably singled out for criticism by academics, yet I haven't encountered any panel discussions on how Buddhism or Taoism are irrelevant superstitions. Someone tell me that doesn't smack of religious persecution, please.

In the mean time Academics (taken in aggregate) don't seem to understand that part of the reason the majority of the population (in the US anyway, I can't comment on other parts of the world) are inherently skeptical of the Academic community is folks "don't cotton well to having some ivory tower egg-head tell them they're a bunch of superstitious nutjobs".
Erlang actually came from needs in proprietary languages like PLEX and other stuff used within Ericsson. The ideas were to have better concurrency (not parallelism) and better fault tolerance (through distribution and whatnot), properties that were thought to be too hard to do with other languages at the time.

That it has lisp influences and was implemented in Prolog first speaks of the creators of the language, not what it attempted to fix in there. And I seriously doubt that fixing lisp syntax was an objective in the language, especially given Robert Virding, one of the original 3 creators of Erlang, now has his own lisp syntax on top of the BEAM VM as LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang).
My guess is that they were rationalizing it in the experiment context. "The authority is telling me to go ahead, there has to be something else going on here. His life can't really be in danger."
Hmm, from what I gather the customer is able to reset the dollar amount. Something that can be caught for sure, but sounds like pretty bad design to me.
I don't think that's what he's implying.

I think he's saying that any Norwegian politician who would want to burden their population with laws styled after the TSA and US Patriot Act would have a hard time because the US is a stunning example of how these laws do not work.

So absent strong emotional argument, logically Norway should try to find different solutions.
Yes and No.

You have the wrong approach. You can't predict success and you can't predict what markets will work and you can't prredict what the perfect product for a market is. You have to release products and track ALL possible metrics and tweak consistently.

Basically, even the really big companies have hits and misses. And more misses than hits.

So, firstly, you should be releasing 5 or 10 high quality web apps and seeing which stick and focusing on the ones that do.

That's the first step - finding a market demand.

Second is hitting the value for money/quality/perfect market fit.

That's the second step - after you have found market demand, making the most of it.

An inbox cleaner for $20 is just too expensive. Too much friction - especially for a new product from an unknown developer. You have to minimize regret for users - or rather, potential regret.

Instead of thinking in terms of what you want to make think in terms of what people want to get in terms of value for money. 5 people is too small of a data point. So you have to lower the price anyways - to get enough customers to find out whether there is market demand or not and what things people want and what they are willing to pay for.

So play around with the price a bit. Plus release 4-5 other products and see if you find a market with huge demand - one where even lower value for money sells well.
Seems to be down; anyone have a mirror?
>He continued: "It knows that the users of Newzbin 2 include BT subscribers, and it knows those users use its service to receive infringing copies of copyright works made available to them by Newzbin 2."

Under this precedent it seems we can sue BT for allowing criminals to make money using premium paid phone scams. They provide the infrastructure, they know it's happening, they're even profiting (directly) from the crimes.

If this weren't MPA run then BT would actually be going down based on such a judgement.

Also I'm looking forward to suing the government for allowing drunk drivers to use their roads ...
Totally agree on the WFMU statement. A twist on your old fashioned DJ sentiment that I really enjoy is shuffler.fm, have you ever given this a try?
Its faster, because with one key you're searching for the word under the cursor, and you're already on the editor, where the probable next action (editing) on the results is going to be run.

Although I would slightly change it to search upwards until finding a .git directory, and from there the recursive grep :)
Why do we let sexist creeps pervade the software industry?
> the content isn't being blocked for censorship reasons, but for commercial reasons.

All censorship is blocking for censorship reasons. You probably meant to say that the UK doesn't block content for political reasons.
Not all that surprising. Eventually the LulzSec people will get popped inadvertently, but they'll run law enforcement in circles for quite a while before it happens. LulzSec and Anonymous thrive on ambiguity and confusion so they can keep piling on the lies and deception. They have no need to get their story straight, just keep law enforcement in a cloud of doubt. This entire chatlog could be bullshit, a little disinfo to muddy the waters. If Swedish Topiary gets popped you release some logs revealing yourself to be Shetland Topiary trolling the Swede.
Spatial navigation is indeed great way to navigate with the keyboard. I wonder if anyone seriously uses Tab-based keyboard navigation?

There's more smart keyboard navigation in Opera:

• Cmd+Enter to log in on page which has autosaved login.

• Cmd+Backspace to delete last path component of the URL.

• Space at bottom of page clicks link with "Next" in the label.

• '/', text, Enter navigates link with given label (as opposed to '.' + text which searches page as you type).

• And (a rather quirky) '1' and '2' keys switching previous/next tab. It's much easier to reach with left hand than combos such as Cmd+} or Alt+Cmd+→ used in other applications.

The last two have to be enabled in prefs.
I've heard similar horror stories from friends who rent places out, however it does cut both ways - for myself, despite going absolutely out of my way to be a good tenant, I have had landlords try to rip me off (several times), scream at me because I dared remind them that it'd been > 6 weeks since I'd asked them to look at the faulty gas boiler (!), etc.

I think some landlords need to learn to appreciate good tenants as well as to be wary of the bad ones.

Note: I don't mean to imply you, or even most landlords are like this, it's just that there are some out there and they need to learn how to behave decently just as such tenants do too...
Hmmm...is this a problem of someone who was hired to do the front and the backend? Why would freight and total price be calculated client-side, instead of the backend taking in quantity as input and then doing the calculation against the inventory db?
You're right of course. There are certainly other factors, and scientific rigor is a Good Thing (tm).

However, I've found that the older the scientist, the more his or her disposition to say "no" to new ideas - either because the idea is untested or because it flies in the face of their already preconceived biases they've been amassing over their lifetime.

It's often said that science advances funeral by funeral. I think it's more of an indictment about human nature, and the nature of aging, than any particular individual.

When I was an undergraduate, I mentioned 23andme in class - the class had 3 professors. The oldest professor was completely against it: "Why would anyone want their SNPs mapped? It would be useless, at best, and potentially dangerous." The youngest professor was enthusiastic and optimistic about the future: "How much and where do I sign up?", and the middle aged professor was somewhere in between: "The data probably isn't very useful right now, and I think I'll wait until it comes down in price."

Of course, without people pushing the boundaries, and amassing the data, there would be no discoveries. There is nothing wrong with scientific rigor, but I come down hard against those who allow rigor to get in the way of discovery. Sometimes anecdotes are the basis of major discoveries - not all studies need to start out double-blind with huge sample sizes, but the important ones should definitely end up that way.
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The long-dreaded war started, and the death of Voldemort Eaters take over the Ministry of Magic and even Hogwarts
The explanation in this article seems pretty tenuous and the title could at least do with being "British police might have been duped by LulzSec into arresting the wrong person".
Mmmm... I think it's more than that. It's been my experience that questioners don't always ask the right question. For example, consider the (not entirely) hypothetical "How do I implement drop-down menus?" What the person typically needs is some sort of navigable interface for a web site--but that's not what they ask for.

How is the root question uncovered? By asking questions. (Why do you need it? How far along is the project?)

The best solution answers both what they asked and what they should have asked.

The reason people do this (as you say) is that they sometimes have enough experience to suggest a different path altogether.
One more thing. As a software developer in such a setup and w/o a good reason to stay in one place (family, fear to travel, &c.), it is perfectly legal to have no residency anywhere.
Most jurisdictions consider you a "resident for tax purposes" if you spend more than 180 days in the resp. country.
This is independent of you having taken actual residency there (rented a flat/hotel room &c.)

For example, you could crash on a friend's couch in Barcelona for 6 months and the Spanish government would ask taxes on the income you made during that period from you because that is past the 180 days.
Assuming they know you are in the country for that long and can get a hold of you (send you a letter &c.)
But you could just make sure you fly to your other friend in Rome and crash on their couch for a bit just before hitting that 180 days mark. ;)

Basically, if you like traveling and write software, just make sure you read the fine print for when non-residents become "residents for tax purposes" in each country you want to stay in for an extended period and make sure you never spend more than the resp. amount of days (i.e. mostly 180 days/fiscal year) in that country and you do not need to pay taxes anywhere -- w/o breaking any law.
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It's No Big Deal until someone orders $10,000 worth of merchandise, pays $1 for it, and it gets shipped to an empty house in a subdivision before someone notices.

Then it's a Really Big Fucking Deal Oh God How Will We Pay Rent.
I'm a big fan of Opera's attitude even though I only use them for testing.

Their upcoming OpenGL acceleration will really show how stupid Microsoft was for not making IE9 XP compatible under the claim that the OS was limiting them.
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A lot of well-known tips (e.g. bloggers, even the little guys, are gold) that never get old.