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To clarify, as one who has now and again been involved in "IRL" activism: blocking a road to hold a protest is a crime, legally-speaking.*

In fact, police SOP for a protest that's beginning to get a bit rowdy is to cite them for just such a crime. "Disperse from the road, or be incarcerated," as it were. Some protests will take this as a sign to move back into sanctioned areas (if it seems strategically appropriate to keep the action going); others will choose to stay and go to prison for the night.

In some sense, it doesn't qualify as "civil disobedience," in the Dr. King sense, unless the latter happens:

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
— Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," 1963[1]

[1]: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...

*Edit: At least in the U.S.
Indeed. The advice is outdated and basically wrong. Flagged.
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This article is upside down. The title is the last line in the article: How much brain is really necessary?
Thanks, I've been an executive recruiter for 15 years and only read HN because of the thought leaders who write here. I recruit and work with high level execs who actually understand and respect the value of a good recruiter. Your posts are interest generating because they showcase the low underbelly of the industry and not the well respected recruiter. Still thanks for writing.
Thanks for the tip Sunchild,

We've built up a PDF on security. We should really put this information in our FAQ at the very least.

Cheers,

Marcus (@schappi)
Right, this does look very interesting (and any sort of Sharepoint integration is going to appeal to the "enterprise" market) but in light of recent events I'm not even considering any "cloud" service that doesn't employ encrypted storage and extensive logging.

If you did those two things you'd be safer than dropbox which is something else that lubricates sales to the business market.
Functional languages only get away with immutability, because they give you better tools for combining parts of your program. For example, higher order functions.

I believe that you can write a totally immutable C++ program. But it's probably much harder than writing the same program in Haskell. You could try writing an immutable program in D. D is somewhat similar to C++, but much saner.
Have you checked one out at a store? It's actually very useable, I was surprised.
I don't know how it is nowadays compared to 2~3 years ago when I searched for a job in UK but imagine that with stackoverflow careers, coderstack, linkedin (not groups), github jobs, monthly hn who's hiring posts the situation improved at least slightly.

Weirdest experiences I had were when recruiters would call from a blocked number and leave fart noises or some other idiocy on my voicemail. Or when one guy flat out said (and one implied) that if I don't give him all the companies I ever talked to, he'd not give me the "offer" he "had" for me.

Minority of recruiters were good but most pretty scummy.
There should be an option to buy additional storage space, if needed.
"As usual, the only way to rectify the software patent situation is to hit the big guys where it hurts."

I do understand where you are coming form; I'd like to add my $0.2: The best way to fix patents is to get a better funded patent office so that they can process patents faster, updating laws and basically following the due process required to update the current system.

Accepting that things will change only if large corporate interests are hurt, is to be ruled by a broken, unjust and unfair system, one which will never value be 'fair' only to those with enough money to buy their way to power.
Would it be easily fooled with silly walking like smiling does for facial recognition?
We launched a new application just when this issue started: our application didn't appear in any search. Then it finally got indexed, and our download rate doubled. From 1st of July, it halved again.

This is a screenshot of our stats, here showing the number of new users per day: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1581166/new%20users%20drop%20after%2...

We didn't even start to monetize it, but it has certainly taken much of the fun off of developing it. This must have been a very big hit on some other developers.
Not causing problems for PayPal is shortsighted and has a lot of collateral damage. It invites other companies to bend to every whim of the federal government(with or without a warrant or subpoena).

Maybe this isn't the way you'd like to go about it. It sure isn't what I had hoped for, but the fact of the matter is, it's time. This needs to happen. And if you hadn't noticed, in the age of the internet, sometimes you have to be loud to be heard.
You're right. This has the fingerprints of Big Hotel all over it.

It's clearly black-ops by a Hospitality-Industrial Complex team.

Gimme strength...
But everyone entering the United States has to fill out a customs declaration that lists the value of goods being brought into the country.
Issuing SS payments does not affect the federal debt subject to the debt ceiling. This means that SS is not in any danger from the debt ceiling.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190355490457645...
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More importantly he has revealed that Google will be adding cat picture features to Google Plus. Facebook is in trouble.
I'm not the target audience but wanted to chime in with a few things about the design and copy:

* Why is the iPhone 3 times larger than an iPad? I got a little confused the first time the site loaded trying to figure out what the giant black device behind the iPad is.

* "Signup Now". English isn't my native language but I'm fairly certain "signup" is a noun, and you want the verb or "sign up" instead

* "Zigzag Cloud has powered built-in analytics". Powered by what? Or is it "powerful"?

* Love the logo and the colour scheme of the site!!
by passing dicts you are removing what makes WSGI work so well: lazy loading, chunked responses, middleware (encoding, caching etc.) by decorating, iterators/generators etc.

your solution is going to be slower, more memory intensive and will not be able to be http 1.1 compatible. there is a reason why WSGI was designed the way it is
Unless I've missed it, Anonymous is not going to DDoS Paypal this time. They are simply going on a campaign to make people boycott Paypal.
Well for it to be a crime there must be a law against it. Some countries don't have laws about it, meaning some places on earth don't consider DDOS a crime.
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Signal to noise ratio makes these sites hard to take seriously or to put in any time to read through the submissions.
A guest can only needs to steal credit card details to attack the host. The host needs to steal a whole house. That might be possible (through, say, AirBnB), but I doubt it would be easy.
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I recruit and work with high level execs who actually understand and respect the value of a good recruiter.

The difference between executive search & volume recruitment is chalk & cheese. The two are mutually exclusive.

Your posts are interest generating because they showcase the low underbelly of the industry and not the well respected recruiter.

As I stated categorically in all my posts, there are plenty of good recruiters out their however there are infinitely more bad recruiters that drown them out. I'm not claiming to be a lone ranger in a rogue industry, I know there are plenty of others out there just as fed up with the self-inflicted negative attitude towards the industry, the difference is I am making my opinion heard.
It's well established that Google's support system is close to non-existant for non-paying customers. Does it suck? Yes. There's definitely tons of room for improvement. But at the end of the day they're still providing you with tons of free, accessible products that are some of the best in the business (paid or not). This isn't much more than any other free service provider on the internet offers these days: half-official forums for free customers, direct support lines for the paying.

But regarding "freeing" your data from Google, it's hilarious trying to see people argue that it's somehow difficult or hidden. It's not. Takeout lets you grab all of your social information. Any popular desktop mail client can connect to Gmail over IMAP and automatically download every last e-mail in your account. I click one checkbox on Google Docs and then hit download to have a backup, or I can connect through WebDAV using a popular FTP client. There are similar easy solutions for Picasa, Calendar, and the rest. Just because they don't provide you with one shiny big button to do all the work for you doesn't mean they don't provide you with very accessible ways to backup your data offline.

At the end of the day, an automated system did what it was designed to do. Google should definitely work on it's customer service channels, but until then I'll happily continue to use their free services and backup on a scheduled basis.
Hi Jimmy,

Thanks for the question.

We have the concept of account owners/admins.
The account owner can access Zigzag Cloud via a web interface and create further users and groups.

All users can access content via the iOS client, but only admins can access the web interface.

Within the web interface admins can:

* Upload new content
* Tag Content
* Create Users and Groups
* Set access permissions to folders within the system
* Do account admin-y stuff

Cheers,

Marcus (@schappi)
Scottish Food Store - Worldwide supplier of food from Scotland
could it be possible that they end up with just one line of products, like the current air and in 11, 13, 15 and 17" formats?
However, this way your code enters an undefined state in C, strictly speaken. (as far as I unstand the standard)

So theoretically, an extremely aggressive optimizer would be allowed to generate machine code that doesn't handle the case x==0 properly.

If (x != 0) is placed first, the optimizer wouldn't be allowed to do that, due to short-circuit evaluation.
Honestly, I hate the name. I know you probably thought a bit about it and accepted that such a unique name would have people who dislike it. So I'm sure this isn't news to you, but yes, I hate the name.

It doesn't roll off my tongue. Without checking for .com availability, I would personally find ZagCloud (preferably) or ZigCloud a far better option.
What is the brown stuff used to fill in the gaps, is it Bondo? The results are surprisingly good!
> If there was a crime, shouldn't it be the legal system that dealt with it, rather than some corporate entity, like Google?

Yes.

But corporate entities must handle these situations carefully. If your web host botches the DMCA process, they are liable. If Google's support technician accesses child pornography on Google, that technician risks child pornography charges.

It's an absolute case of a corporation covering their ass, but absolutely needed in this legal environment, especially around radioactive allegations like possessing child pornography.
You're very optimistic. While I don't agree that people are essentially good, I envy your ability to see the world that way.
I hardly think a guy that LIES about what his product is doing and has success merely because people decided to buy the product regardless. It is almost like he owes his success to the low self-worth of gamers that they would still play a game that is lacking NEARLY ALL the features that were promised.

You can listen to what he has to say, but in my mind, he is a liar and uses his costumers gullibility to his advantage. That is the only secret to his success, and really it is not repeatable in most industries. And if it were, I wouldn't recommend using it because it is insanely immoral, not to mention that living on lies is just a horrible way to go through life.
"Rarer than a free quark" would save your analogy.
Yes, because machines fix themselves...
There are also HD rentals/purchases available in the iTunes store. I've been using that quite a bit when working out.
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Or when one guy flat out said (and one implied) that if I don't give him all the companies I ever talked to, he'd not give me the "offer" he "had" for me.

Please tell me you're exaggerating?
Good trick. They are different algorithms, and it looks like the guys working on the search of relevant, similar apps are doing a better job! (I know one of them personally, so I may be biased.)
Hi Jason,

Thanks for your comment.
We encrypt on the server, in transport and on the device.

As you know, Dropbox doesn't have a users & groups permissions model, nor do they have encryption because they de-duplicate files on the backend.

We also have a beta of the web service which can reside on a VM behind the corporate firewall.

Cheers,

Marcus (@schappi)
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With 256 short but non-mnemonic words mapping to the numbers 0x00-0xff

> a slightly tongue-in-cheek proposal

the tongue-in-cheek quotient is "slightly" understated.
My team is hiring. Contact me if you are interested in open source and virtualization. My email is in my profile.
> If someone comes from Craigslist, you can at least Google for their name

You mean a name. Who says it's their name? The reason that we trust AirBNB and choose to host travelers is because if we do come home to find all of our things missing, AirBNB at least has a credit card on file, and can at least prove to the police that someone was staying at your place?
According to the C spec, this is expression is undefined for v == 0.

So it might return true, or return false, or start NetHack, or wipe your disk. In other words: Strictly speaken, that function is not allowed to be called for v == 0.
Great observation !
This was driving me batty at home (where I have a PC), after adjusting to OS X Lion's new scrolling (I figure it's not worth fighting, just roll with it).

I'd come home, jump on the PC and start scrolling up to move content down. It's not a help at all to rewiring this muscle memory!
I am British.
I guess I'm still not sure why a questionable photo in Picasa means a total ban from all Google services.

Or, couldn't users get a warning that they're about to be perma-banned? E.g... "The Google Gods have banned you. You have 48 hours to save any data you wish to keep. Afterward you will be unable to log in & access any Google product." They'd still have backups of everything regardless of what the user does in that 48 hours if they'd like to initiate legal proceedings or whatever.
What in the world do they offer hosts to keep them from going to the police? And what kind of host would contact AirBNB before calling the police? If I came home and my apartment was ransacked, I'd probably be on the phone to 911 before I even set foot inside.
In your situation, it does not seem sensible to leave a well paid job without something to move on to. When you say work independently do you mean you want to consult to companies (including your current employer) or do you have something else in mind?
Great to hear from a recruiter who's trying to do something good in a very broken industry. On the subject of horror stories...

One guy called me a while back (in my role as an employer) who, when I politely said that we weren't interested because we always recruit directly, told me that he had been responsible for someone leaving our company a few months ago and he would now actively try to "poach" more people away until we agreed to use him.

Needless to say, we won't be doing any business with him or his company even if we decide to use agencies in the future. If it weren't for UK libel laws I'd mention his name as a warning to others.
I am actually currently looking for work so if anyone knows of UK recruitment agencies that don't entirely suck, please let me (and everyone else) know who they are!

Email in my profile
I use this all the time, thanks for making it so easy :) Helped me find HopOnTheB.us which is still in the works.
Related: Ford begins to kill off CDs too http://www.neowin.net/news/ford-motor-company-begins-to-kill...
And how much is their lease that paying the penalty is worth having their entire apartment trashed, their identity stolen, etc., etc?
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If effective protective measures can only be taken after the sale has been made / contract signed / whatever, then the marketplace really isn't providing "trust, transparency, and authenticity". In fact, it is actively working to prevent them.
I'm living in Cambridge and it seems like pretty standard fare for people to consider it part of Boston. The T isn't just like other trains, its the intra-Boston trains.

Anywhere you can get to by taking the subway in NYC is part of NYC, that doesn't include Metro North or Amtrak. Similarly the T in Boston wouldn't include the commuter rail or whatever. I understand that they have separate governments, but they are directly touching; you can walk from Kendall across the bridge in 10 minutes. The government is irrelevant for this article, it's clearly talking about the geographical area.
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Yes and the chef should consider adding mangos during mango season.

Do you know how many things sucked until we had the knowledge and/or technology to make them better? A lot, I reckon.

It wouldn't be unreasonable to complain that cars sucked because there was no place to safely put hot coffee whether I knew a solution was to put 50 cup holders in the car or not.
This reminds me of all the people using vanity IPv6 address spaces. Facebook, BBC, Cisco, Department of Commerce, F5, etc... they all use "hexspeak" to put words or initials in their public IPv6 addresses.
I hear that a lot. It's ridiculous. I don't understand why recruiters feel it's appropriate to effectively threaten people. What a clown.
'there are plenty of good recruiters out their however there are infinitely more bad recruiters...' I know there are plenty of others out there just as fed up with the self-inflicted negative attitude towards the industry, the difference is I am making my opinion heard.'

Perhaps you should provide equal time and write about good recruiters and the value they bring to candidates and companies alike. Maybe "All that's right with the recruitment industry"
If you ever own a rent house, your paranoid fantasies will evaporate the first moment that you have to scrub shit off the kitchen walls.

It's not part of some big plot to ruin AirBNB. Some people are just assholes.
Java, the language, is the COBOL of the 21st century. While the JVM is relevant and will likely remain so, I cannot predict Java language adoption will increase.
> Google employs an automated system to scan user storage for violations of their ToS

So if I take pictures of my children in the bathtub with my Android phone, I am risking having my entire Google account deleted with no recourse except to try to 'make a stink on the internet'?

Because frankly, I would never take photographs to be developed at Walmart because they're well-known for calling the cops on parents who took pictures of their children.

Is Google the new Walmart?
The vocabulary tester that came by here in the last week suggests that native english speakers of Hacker News have a vocabulary of about 2^15 words. An IPv6 address could be encoded in 9 words.

If we restrict to a common subset of words known by most people, 2^13 words[1], then we need 10 words.

If we force the stream of words to make grammatical sense then we get something like 12 words plus another 4 low entropy glue words for a 16 word sentence[2].

It is likely that there are more IPv6 addresses than english language haikus, so that is out.[3] Limericks might cover a large enough space.

So, Why?

1) I think reading a sentence to someone over a voice link would be less error prone and take better advantage of people's prewired wetware. Think of diagnosing a problem where someone has a stale DNS lookup from his dopey ISP.

2) Roughly verifying a hash would be easier. You might not remember "Pampas grass wets the friendly carbon against the bound chemical."[4] word perfectly, but you'd probably recognize it as your SSH host signature.

[1] I made up this number.

[2] I made up these numbers as well.

[3] There isn't room in the margin for this calculation.

[4] Only 10 words though, need to get to 16 for a 128 bit key. This came from a random sentence generator site, it didn't want to make longer sentences.
This would only work if people were also incentivized to post good stuff about you; for example on Ebay, even if you have a dick downvoting you unjustly, the amount of good feedback will probably make it up. But here, there's none of that.
Poll: Allman or K&R Indentation?
Just wondering what HN prefers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style
Allman
Supply chain players helping HTC seek solutions to bypass patent issues
I like the idea and the design is very good.

I think the landing page could do with an overhaul. The main issue is it's not immediately obvious what the product does. What exactly is "mobile file management", "content management" and "content distribution"? HN users could tell you, and if they didn't know they could probably make an educated guess but what about the office manager who currently uses email to share files?

To be fair, further down the page you have this:

"Zigzag Cloud is an easy to use Mobile File Management (MFM) System for business. Sync your documents, meeting notes, training material, or sales presentations to your team's iOS devices over the air without"

I think it could be simplified and moved to the top of the page. Something like:

"Zigzag cloud lets you share presentations, spreadsheets and other files with your team using ipad and iphone (coming soon)".

It would also be interesting to A/B test the wording, design and placement of the download button. I think you'd see more downloads if you ditched the 'learn more' button (make it a prominent link on another part of the page instead) and if you removed the popup for the download button - you've already told the user it's an iOS app and that only the iPad version is currently available. There's no need to repeat that info. I'd be tempted to try something simpler like "Download from iTunes".
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No. ~$300 and it took me eight months to get there. Tough stuff, but I'm optimistic the product will have slow steady organic growth.

http://www.beechtreetech.com/cupcake-wrapper-creator-at-eigh...