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Doesn't the fact that they immediately want to unsubscribe make it quite obvious that the email is unsolicited?

I have been getting spam from companies who obviously got my email address from someone who sold it to them, for quite a while now. Even though their messages have clear unsubscribe links, list real mailing addresses, and use reputable email marketing companies, that doesn't make it any less spammy.
> [...] wondering about the yield ' ' * 1200 in there. [...] some browsers (like Chrome) will sit & buffer if there isn't enough data to start with [...]

Slightly off topic, but I wonder if this technique can be used to circumvent the buffering that occurs in HTTP proxies? I encountered the problem once and was only able to make the application responsive by closing the connection after a timeout (forcing the client to open another one).
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love the quote "Degrees, in the end, are just like floaties: they guarantee you won't drown, but they don't win Olympics"
It'll be interesting to see how this compares to Sencha. What else is there?
"Or maybe it goes into your spam folder where you waste your time reviewing the messages to ensure there were no false positives. It also penalizes other users who actually do want to receive the email since that email has a higher likelihood of getting delayed or undelivered because of your actions."

I don't check my spam folder, if it's really important and by some fluke chance their email gets marked as spam, they can call me, my number is just as readily available as my email address to those who need to know it. I use Gmail, and haven't had to check my spam folder in years.

Further, I'd argue it's the company sending the emails who is penalizing the legitimate users by not providing an unsubscribe link (or equivalent) in the email. My process is simple: if I receive a newsletter that was opted in to that I don't want to receive anymore I look for an unsubscribe link and if I can't find one I email the admin explaining why I think they should have one and requesting that they remove me manually (intended to be a penalty for not providing a sufficiently automated mechanism). If the emails persist, I will mark them as spam and if I'm feeling particularly resentful, I'll set up a filter to forward them all back at the admin.

If they're providing an easy way to opt out, marking it as spam is overkill. However, having to login in order to opt out is inappropriate and potentially illegal.
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Why doesn't someone just make a hackerhouse.com?
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Thanks for iTerm2. This is the closest to Yakuake ( my favorite on linux ) that I have found :D
Mark as spam in a big system (GMail, Hotmail, DCC, whatever). Seriously, it doesn't take that many pissed GMail users to cause GMail to drop all of your mail. This is one reason why outfits like MailChimp will kick you off if you get "marked as spam" too often.

(You could argue that such mail isn't "real" spam; nonetheless, "mark as spam" is realistic.)
I haven't watched all of those RSA videos but I've seen quite a few. It's amazing how every one I have seen is outlandish propaganda that it seems no one would fall for, yet I stand completely alone in this viewpoint.
Regarding a), it's slow on my iPhone 4 too (free version of the app). Takes a second to fill in a field when using the paint bucket.
Because, no matter whether or not it's technically spam, people will stop sending such messages if they get "marked as spam" often enough. Either that, or GMail will start silently dropping their mail - either way, my inbox is clean. Making such a policy public can only help.

[Note that I don't mark such e-mail as spam, if only because there's no convenient way to do so over IMAP.]
I suspect this sorry affair has hurt Obama's power and credibility within his own party. They would be in a much better position to decide how the US will balance its budget had Obama simply declared the debt ceiling unconstitutional, as Bill Clinton advised him to. Now, they've ceded legitimacy to the Tea Partiers and will have to acknowledge them (and their demands) in future negotiations. To the Democratic senators and congressmen who have been around long enough to know what a bad idea that is, this deal comes off as a betrayal, one made worse by the president's flat refusal to consider the constitutional option. Even if Obama wanted the Senate to capitulate on the Bush tax cuts, he could well face a revolt. The Senate will hold absolute power on that one; they need simply do nothing to see them expire.

It was pretty clear that the Tea Party wing of the GOP was willing to see the US default if it meant no increase in revenue and steep cuts to entitlements; I wouldn't be surprised to see Reid et al stick to a "keep the tax breaks for middle income Americans and close loopholes and subsidies for corporations" line, then blame the Republicans for the raise in taxes on the middle class when they don't accept his proposal. After that, it's simply a matter of what a tax break will look like. Democrats have quite clearly stated their willingness to cut taxes for "working Americans" (ugh), so the Republicans would have to argue why they think corporate subsidies and tax breaks for the rich should be enacted when they will further worsen the deficit. If you're Reid et al, that's a much nicer position to argue from than if you accept Obama's near dogmatic insistence on compromise, or, as many Democrats see it, giving everything away.
I'm not disagreeing with anything you said but my understanding of the studies that rkalla is talking about is that the extra $$$ won't make your life significantly better so you'd be willing to forgo that money for "better" (I'm being intentionally vague here) work. Obviously, in the situation you're referring to the extra money makes a big difference in quality of life.

Perhaps you're suggesting that there are no cases where this is true? (i.e., one will always be happier with the extra $$$).
So whatever nature the Universe follows, so does man.

Sure, but that doesn’t mean that humans are able to understand nature in a way that relates to them, at least not on all levels. We weren’t built for large and small scales, our brain is only intuitively familiar with human scales. A second to a century. One millimeter to 100 kilometer. A few centimeters per day to a few dozen kilometers per hour.

I don’t think intuitiveness should be a deciding factor when it comes to describing nature.
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It can depend to which terminal you are printing as well a slow implementation of xterm like gnome-terminal can print stuff pretty slow and make the apps wait compared to a fast implementation (ie: original xterm)
its when simple quants make bonuses 20M per year - causing worldwide economic crisis - and the country is defaulting

then you think that something must be wrong with the American economic policy and tax system
I think this sinks "viral" for now, at least as a strict analogy to epidemiology.

I can count on one hand the number of times where I have forwarded something, or had forwarded to me, something that was "viral".

Every "viral" meme I've ever seen came from a specific broadcast-dominant system. Whether it be Slashdot, Reddit, HN and so on; I've gotten 'infected' simultaneously with thousands or millions of other people. There was no peer-to-peer spread, merely a direct fanout to individuals.

Whenever my friends and I have commented on a current meme, we've been synchronised to within about 48 hours by the propagation of memes between websites, not people.
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I think a lot is down to how you define success. They had a successful Series A round, but in itself I wouldn't consider that success in itself.

I've seen a few things where I've been told it's from Endgame and I have to say that there's no way that the information contained could've been acquired in any way that could be construed as lawful under UK law (bear in mind that our computer crime laws are garbage, but that's another discussion), although I don't have any financial information.
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the post. I realize that it wasn't a very scientific or detailed investigation - it was a quick test to see if there was any difference between verbose and non-verbose commands. The purpose was also not to compare Windows vs. Linux, but just to see if there was any difference in the execution speed when changing the verbosity. I tested two platforms because I was curious, not to compare them. I may give it a closer look with more precise testing later; this was just a small practical test to go with a question highlighted as our "question of the week". If you have some more detailed thoughts on this, please feel free to comment on the blog, or write an answer on the original question: http://superuser.com/q/312877/20088
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If this crisis had actually resulted in real cuts now and real tax increases now it would have softened the blow in the long term.

I'm not positive that that is true, but that is what S&P thinks.

The possibility to the contrary is that our economy is slowing again and we have more financial problems dragging us down. Real cuts and tax increases would slow it further. Reduced GDP growth increases our long-term fiscal problems. How exactly those factors would balance out against each other is a heavily debated problem in economics. (The two major political parties have sharply different opinions about the answer.)

But while that can be debated, my belief is that either "kick the can without the political fight" or "grand bargain" would have been better for us than what we actually wound up with. And I think we're in agreement there.
So all of your clients (who use IE) are using IE9? I find this hard to believe, especially since many corporations are still running Windows XP, which will never get IE9.
I just couldn't help but think how cool would it be if they slowly added spiderwebs and dust to the pages that are served to IE6 users.
By clicking 'unsubscribe', the implied intent is that the email is unwanted. So I can either mark an email as 'unwanted' by clicking 'unsubscribe' or by clicking 'report spam'. I'll always give the sender the benefit of the doubt and try to unsubscribe, but if any action is required on my part other than clicking the link, I take the path of least resistance and simply click 'report spam'. Either way, I'll stop getting those emails.
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Maybe not in 2011. But a couple years ago, it wasn't unusual to see 50% IE6 traffic on corporate-oriented apps.

And, yes, I can give a few examples were the webdevs ignored legacy browser support and got burned.
Amusing read, but the "leaves scars" part is completely unsubstantiated in the text itself, except for a vague allusion in the last paragraph.
This was rejected by Chrome developers because it wouldn't work with Flash. How does yours handle this?
I setup a mail filter to forward the email back to wherever it's sent, multiple times, and delete that email from my inbox. I've generated email threads from LoveFilm where they've had an entire conversation with themselves, great stuff.
Yes, it costs money to stop using IE6. It also costs money to deploy, test, train users to use, rewrite all other applications to use a new browser. When the former cost is greater than the lesser, businesses will upgrade.

I fail to see how its the fault of outside vendors that their clients or customers are still using an old browser. And if it's an in-house IT shop, it's purely a cost/business decision. You make it sound as if corporations are not upgrading out of laziness.
I'm not saying that Freud was unimportant in the history of ideas or anything; I'm saying there's no concrete evidence any of his theories have any predictive value over the actual behavior of human beings.

You see, I can afford to be categorically dismissive of Freud, Taoism, the Upanishads, and Miss Cleo because of a far more important development in the history of ideas: empiricism.
You're lucky - one of our clients is an Australian e-tailer, with ~30% IE6 traffic - I'd just figured that Aus was really behind on the whole browser thing.

Anyhow - agreed entirely, we support IE6 whenever theres >1% of visitors using it, as it's all potential revenue. That said, we have noted that IE6 users tend to spend less, so... stupid and cheap. Still, net win, though.
Are you sure? gnome-terminal has got a lot faster over the past few years.
I think the problem here is one of scope. Your definition of spam is much wider, encompassing the world at large -- some of whom may want said email. My definition of spam is much narrower, I'm concerned only with what I do and do not want.

If I subscribe to a newsletter, that's not spam. If I try to unsubscribe and can do so with one click or with one click and entering my email address, that's not spam. If I try to unsubscribe and am forced to login (which is illegal in the states, need I remind you) or cannot figure out how to unsubscribe, I categorize that as spam. It is not wanted by me.

Even if it is a newsletter, if you don't let me unsubscribe, that's still spam. You don't get to avoid being labeled as spam just because at some point in the distant past I subscribed and now can't unsubscribe.

Call it selfish if you like, but who else is going to look out for my inbox? Certainly not the groups sending the emails, that's for sure.
Unfortunately, Vivek Wadhwa is being highly misleading here. He publishes a variant of this same article over and over and over again in every forum available to him (see his old TechCrunch posts, for example).

The key is really the misleading definitions at the beginning. He includes what we'd call lifestyle businesses as startups. Is a new carpet cleaner a startup?

Publish the raw data, Vivek, with the actual names of the businesses, their founders, their market caps, their sectors, and their revenue growths in a single publicly accessible, read-only Google Spreadsheet.

Because my feeling is that the actual businesses selected will differ strongly from the kinds of operations peoe on Hacker News are concerned with: Google, Facebook, Adobe, LinkedIn, Apple, Twitter etcetera, and the kinds of companies they acquire.

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Edit: here's the original study

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1431263

Note that this is a survey of 549 respondents across twelve industries. First, that is a relatively small sample to slice and dice on multiple axes simultaneously, though you can compare each attribute to the population at large.

More importantly though it is not a rank ordered survey within those industries. For example, identify the top N most profitable companies started in the last T years in the hardware sector, for different values of N and T. Who are their founders? What are their characteristics? They are going to look more like Jen Hsung Huang of Nvidia, another Stanford grad school product, than the demographic profile Wadhwa presents.
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I might be too old for AirBNB but I wouldn't feel okay accommodating strangers in my own apartment.

I will do that for friends and if I'm around myself, for friends of friends too, but even then the scheme needs to originate from some plausible circumstances where I can evaluate my potential guest in other context before we discuss accommodation. So, receiving an email from someone I don't know ("hey, I know your friend, can I stay at your place?") doesn't fly.

It's my home and I don't want to think about whether tonight's guest is that one from a thousand or ten thousand who will wreck my place.
It doesn't solve that problem.

"It does not, however, universally allow muting a video or game so that it can be played silently while listening to background sounds coming from another tab. (This is not possible in Chrome without either plug-ins such as Flash being updated or Chrome's plug-in architecture undergoing an unlikely major redesign.)"

Instead, it:

"is a Chrome extension that helps you manage the sound coming from tabs in Google Chrome. It helps you to find which tab(s) are making sounds and provides browser-wide management of tab muting (calling JavaScript functions where available, otherwise hiding it from the page), including automatically muting all background tabs."

Basically, the problems mentioned by the Chrome devs are real (at least without modifying Chrome to use a separate Flash process for each tab or updating Flash itself), but it is still possible to give users more control over browser sound than they are currently presented with.

(Updated submission to try to make this more clear.)
Yes, it leaves scars only in the sense that the event has been recorded by historians. Interesting story, but bad title.
You made a big batch of assertions to the effect that all skeptics are being completely fooled by organizations that are funded by Exxon and/or Koch. You said this with great confidence and amplified upon it based on "your research". But it's an extraordinary claim - basically you're saying everybody who disagrees with you has been fooled by a big conspiracy - it's a conspiracy theory. It's a "denial" of the more obvious possibility that some people just happen to disagree with you.

Like you, I'm kind of tired of debating CAGW and so I had no intention of trying to convince you CAGW is actually wrong. I only hope to disabuse you of your view that all skeptics are in thrall to The Cabal. To do that, I only need to find a counterexample or two.

CAGW is in practice an extremely complex chain of assertions; there are a great many particulars in which somebody might reasonably have a specific differing view from "the consensus" or be skeptical that the case for "the consensus" is sufficiently well-established to act upon.

So: Landsea. Landsea was skeptical of the IPCC's views on hurricanes - with good reason, since he was the relevant expert helping to write that chapter.

McIntyre was skeptical of the IPCC's views on Paleo reconstruction, again clearly with good reason and with no prior connection to the Kochtopus - statistics was a hobby interest of his and he just got curious.

I have a friend named Peter Ward who is an expert on volcanoes who does think AGW is a big important problem but is skeptical about CO2 as the primary driver - he thinks sulfur dioxide is more important than is commonly recognized (and has recently published a journal paper on the subject, albeit in a minor journal.)

So that's three people who are "skeptical" about some aspect of AGW not because they got talking points from whats-her-name but because what is commonly claimed contradicts their own expert assessment of the relevant literature.

Given the fact that there do exist people like that, your claim was false. That was all I was trying to say. I wasn't trying to prove that all skeptics are right or that none have been "duped" or, contrariwise, that all AGWers are mistaken. Just that some number of skeptics come by their views as a result of an honest assessment of the literature in areas of their own expertise. Or by evaluating the claims of others who have done that.

I absolutely agree with you that a few bad apples in the IPCC process don't necessarily spoil the whole bunch. The opposite of stupidity is not wisdom, sometimes it's just more stupidity. The AGW hypothesis is certainly worth somebody investigating. I just think claims of "consensus" and a need to "act right away, we don't have time to be certain" are a warning sign that one should probably wait and think some more about it. (This attitude has served me especially well when buying used cars. :-) )

BTW, here's the caltech lecture Aliens Cause Global Warming:
http://s8int.com/crichton.html
Currently it seems the special case is for software developers, though.

Everyone in my environment is finding it terribly hard or impossible to find jobs, or are going out of work, and I get job offers from all over the world. It feels unfair somehow, and I really don't want to sound elitist.
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Is a new carpet cleaner a startup?

Yes.
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Are they already paying for something which solves the same problem? If not, it probably isn't a problem.

"Something" doesn't have to be software. It could be "a manual process which consumes staff time", "a real product which could be made unnecessary by software", etc.

(Many car manufacturers solve computer problems with warehouses full of very expensive bits of steel shaped in particular ways. This is so demonstrably suboptimal that the company which licked those computer problems -- using a variety of systems which owed more to algorithms and paper cards as a transport mechanism -- basically took over the world.)
After seeing the demo I thought this was being done in canvas, but no, it's actually using css transforms applied to DOM elements. SVG is far more suited to this task.

Also despite it's vector look, all of the lines are in fact pngs http://wwwimages.adobe.com/labs.adobe.com/cdn/technologies/e... . Disappointing.
See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability.

It is true that the network would have to evolve to a two-tiered structure with supernodes and client nodes. In Satoshi's paper it is explained how low-power client nodes can do "Simplified Payment Verification" (Section 8 of http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf). This is the mode implemented by bitcoinj (http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/) and it is already used to run bitcoin clients on android.
First of all, welcome to the real world. While it may seem appropriate for your job that supporting a vintage browser from the start of the millennium is a bizarre concept, but for many people, particularly in business applications it's still a requirement and is likely to remain one for a good few years yet.

As tempting as it would be to write a lawn-getting-off comment about some of the garbage I've had to deal with in the past, let me just say that it doesn't matter when you start, there's always legacy support needed. At the moment, having IE6 as your legacy platform is a relative luxury compared to having to support a mish-mash of 32 and 16-bit platforms. There is only one IE6. Count your blessings.
I'm really disappointed to see how many HN readers skim the first few lines of an article like this, and then comment as the informed reader.
People see market makers as scalpers when in fact they're providing a valuable service: they're creating liquidity.

The problem is, in the trading companies no one cares about liquidity (like, say, people at Google would care about search results quality). The thing they care about most is just money and all the nice things you can spend your money on - cars, entertainment, bars, discos... no one cares about the thing they do. So actually this point about liquidity really looks like a mere excuse to me.
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I personally didn't know that such technology exists. Thank you for that comment.
My point is that these interim commits are useful information for other people too not just you.

They help show how the feature developed, what other implementation ideas you tried along the way etc.
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