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Feel for you, and that's a big reason I chose Android. Ironically, DHH wrote about why he digs the core iPhone apps here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684433

P.S. Web-based Gmail for mobile apparently got some updates yesterday:

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/08/gmail-for-mobi...
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re: "when one molecule in a plant acts as a poison, then generally there will be some other molecule in the plant to counteract that poison"

How does that happen? From an evolutionary point of view, it seems a bit unlikely. Unless it's part of the plant's reproductive strategy, a plant's goal is usually not to be eaten. (However, animals often evolve to counteract plants' defenses.)
You'll find this in any medical field. But, being married to a general dentist, I know that it's very possible for you to find an oral surgeon via a referral that will do as you ask (if it's not putting other teeth at risk). It's generally accepted in their community (from what I've gathered) that if there is a high probability to save a tooth they'll opt for that. Talk to them, if you don't like what they have to say go somewhere you feel more comfortable with the treatment plan.
Apart from some of the opinionated "you should be doing it this way" stuff, if your not using a lot of this your probably providing a sub optimal experience for someone somewhere using an old browser. I guess it depends how much you care about backwards compatibility over just building for the latest and greatest, each project will be at a different point on the scale of what they need to support.
This classical result holds in some generality, e.g. you also cannot trisect every angle with straightedge and compass in the hyperbolic plane (an exercise in Hartshorne's book Companion to Euclid).
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Likely a cultural thing. I imagine it would have stronger connotations in British/Australian context.
Is it not proper to spell JavaScript with a capital J and S?
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You should only use that technique if either the only way you can look at the information in context is to signup (think of a game or Facebook) or if the content is so amazing that you're not afraid to peel off users. It should be noted that many ad driven campaigns force you to these screens — in that case the ad was about acquiring your email address so the site figures it's now or never.

If you want to see if it's a good idea for your site just do some A/B testing. In fact with A/B testing you can even play with the wording of the signup to see what works and what doesn't work. You can also do A/B testing with pages that don't have a wall but have a tout to encourage you to signup.

On a user generated site you might only dare to do this if you already have a pool of content that people must look at no matter what. But if you don't have that pool the kids will be very upset that you made them get an ID card.
I've not used a 30", but I've use 27" plenty. I just spread applications around the screen. Having an editor and terminal/browser side by side is quite handy.
I tend to listen to audiobooks while driving, so I don't generally like content I need to think about. Notwithstanding that, if I don't have a visual, my retention and comprehension of difficult topics is horrid.
I used to meditate a few years ago when I was like 16 - 17, it was amazing, I felt so fresh and clear after. I stopped a lot of good habits that I used to have and only now am I getting back into them.
I was thinking of giving 5 or so sentences and having checkboxes for whether they're grammatically correct or not. I feel that even people that don't exactly know the correct usage can still get the OP's test right because one "looks" better than the other, whereas with mine there's only one choice presented.
Pretty sure I've seen this years back.
I know ESR isn't really popular here, but:

"Being a native English-speaker does not guarantee that you have language skills good enough to function as a hacker. If your writing is semi-literate, ungrammatical, and riddled with misspellings, many hackers (including myself) will tend to ignore you. While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong and we have no use for sloppy thinkers. If you can't yet write competently, learn to."

I still try to read through poor writing, but the comment has to contain something fairly insightful for me to get over a "then/than" mistake. That said I think a Naive Bayes classifier for "sloppy" and "not sloppy" would work better than this captcha system. Not to mention it's super-easy to get around by a bot, and getting rid of bots is the point of a captcha in the first place.
Do people really think working on problems like this is impactful? Guessing the guys running this are pretty smart engineers, bums me out that they are making "solving the office lunch problem" their big hack.
This was my first big launch at Google!

The traffic estimates we eliminated are different that the ones we use in Route Around Traffic. The old ones (e.g. "Up to XX Hours, XX Minutes in traffic") were pretty inaccurate and was a picture only of worst case scenarios, whereas we feel the data used in route around traffic is much more accurate.
I can certainly understand that. I've definitely taken care to make sure that all of our examples couldn't be construed as free work. Code katas, like the bowling kata, are good for this.
I've been waiting for this kind of thing to show up on the smartphone mapping front, nicely done!
Other nations have sovereign wealth funds which invest in companies and build up business and investing acumen.

Instead, America is trying to destroy any expertise or knowledge that the government has, and keep anyone with experience out of government (look at the ridiculous confirmation battles over the past 5 years).

The problem is that our current politics won't let the US government act on societal principles, or on business principles. The US Government is so hobbled that it can't act to succeed.
"found myself constantly having to go dig through email to find FTP credentials when things needed updating, or when we needed to give a new worker access. When we had contractors or employees leave, for whatever reason, I’d have to worry about them leaving with access to our servers, as well as client’s servers, which we didn’t control, and hope that they didn’t use that access against us."

This literally makes no sense to me. When someone needs access to an account, add their public SSH key to it. When they don't, remove it.
How are you solving the password sharing problem?
I've used twig quite a bit. Its leagues better than Smarty in every way. I heartily recommend you give it a spin. Having autoescaping built-in is a powerful and fantastic feature.
That's a little extreme. Unless you expect them to get into your low level hardware (BIOS etc), just format it clean afterwards.
Are we close to an antivirus for cancer? I hope so.
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Duly noted. We're hackin' hard over here!
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I hate to be cynical but I give this a near zero chance of happening. I do think its a good idea though.
Ha ha but also not true. "Native apps" will be best in Silverlight on Win 8.
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on a serious note...i dont really think this particulat post is that bad...but encouraging such posts can turn our beloved community into reddit!
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Actually, I think they solved it; clumps of eggs.
His presidency has been centrist, but his rhetoric was and is leftist. I am not a Tea Partier.
PHP is designed to be embedded in HTML. That is why you must use the enclosing <?php ?> tags in all PHP scripts. Even when you run standalone php scripts from the the command line, you're literally embedding PHP in STDOUT.

This is very different from other languages such as ruby where templating uses the ERB module, which is a subset of the ruby language.
Agreed. Although I have to admit, I also find the idea of someones creative concept being copied far more offensive than setting out to solve a common problem and adopting the same solution as someone else.
Not yet, but if you go to the NYC page you can sign up for an email update for when we do arrive. Thanks!
Mutation 'A' has has both benefits and drawbacks, so mutation 'B' fixes some of those drawbacks. Sure, it's good for a plant to be poisonous to animals that want to eat it, but not at the expense of poisoning itself.
Any time I see this claim I want to bring up the fact that you can do it if the straightedge is marked in 2 places. See http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/forum/angtri/ for a random link that explains the construction.
Facebook is down
Login page doesn't work. A lot of complains on twitter. http://twitter.com/#!/search/facebook%20down

update: It is working for the current opened session. Try logout and login again.
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Although it's not /really/ homebrew, most of the use of a hacked system is for game mods. I know that the Super Smash Brothers. Brawl modding community is on fire with mod projects, but that's the most popular title by far.
1FTP has the magic FTP password. Everyone else has an individual password to get into the website, so they don't need to know the actual FTP password.

You could create ftp accounts for each user, but that's just not how things are done.
When someone says "x could never happen", i always want to ask "what would have to change for x to happen".

If congress has to act on this, yeah i think it's DoA, regardless of how good of an idea it is. But why couldn't the Federal Reserve do this?

Why can't the Obama administration who's still sitting on a pile of stimulus money team up with the Fed to do this? Grants + loans?

The Fed absorbed a huge amount of weird shit (assets like houses and such) in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers collapse. I would be interested in what they would have to change to set something like this up.
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Gold isn't a good example of any market principle because of its historical and symbolic significance. There's a reason the term "gold bug" exists but not "wheat bug", and there's a reason it was a perfect match for Glenn Beck's theatrics. Who hasn't had a conversation in a bar about the price of gold? Who has had a conversation in a bar about the price of sugar or aluminum? Gold is a magnet for all kinds of emotion, from paranoia to get-rich-quick mania.
Works for me.
Could it be anonymous's work?
Wait, sorry, are you saying that a company shouldn't hire a person if they can't afford top-end office equipment? Or is this only for developers? I think that's silly & unrealistic, and am hoping it's just hyperbole to make a point.

(edit: I don't actually disagree with your general point, that better tools == higher productivity == better return on that developer salary. However, implying the cost of buying top-end gear for a dev should be a sunk cost isn't fair or realistic. Especially when the business has other employees who don't touch emacs or eclipse but still sit at a desk all day working on a computer. )
Every 1FTP user has a unique 1FTP account. So to share access, you would simply choose one of the connections you own, click 'share' and input an email address, and then that user would get an email letting them know they have access (if they have an account, or prompt them to create a password for their account if they don't). Think Dropbox. So all users have 1FTP IDs, and are only connecting to 1FTP, not the actual server. 1FTP connects on their behalf on the backend.
Two-pane drag-and-drop graphical clients. Most of them also support SFTP.
Try logout/login. Is still working?
How do you do this when you don't own or manage the server (ie, a client's server, or IT managed)?
The people who need access don't have SSH keys.
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Its acting funky for me, but not down.

Facebook is so distributed that very few need be inconvenienced by a few failed servers
Seriously, how can one not already realize this? You can of course work yourself to death, but you'd think people would have noticed how much healthier they feel when they have been exercising, and how quickly they deteriorate when they haven't.
Those things are commonly unavailable on Windows servers, in my experience. This is probably due to some combination of crappy administrators, difficulty of installation, lack of tooling, etc.
As I wrote in the previous post, Jones wrote that book before he started writing about Jews. Since you refuse to draw the implied inference, then I will do it for you: I disagree with E. Michael Jones about the Jews; I think that E. Michael Jones is wrong about the Jews. Think before you post. If I agreed with Jones about the Jews, then why would I bother pointing out what time he wrote which opinion?

Since that's settled (I hope), you should try to refute the claims of Jones with which I agree rather than those with which I disagree. But you don't even try. You go for point & sputter. Why don't you pull a Godwin while you're at it?

Furthermore, the fact that I agree with some of a persons opinions does not imply agreement with all of that persons opinions. Pick any of your heroes; almost certainly they will hold at least one opinion which you find repellant. I won't hold that against you. One would think that that would go without saying around here. More the fool I.

As for Diversity + Proximity = War, that is rough description. In order for different groups to be in conflict with each other, they must be within striking distance of each other.

Take a closer look at those supposed counter-examples which you site. In Los Angeles and other cities of southern California, Hispanics have been in conflict with Blacks for a while. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/homicidereport/2007/03/march...

New York City has had friction between not only races, but ethnic groups for a long time. Have you heard of the movie Gangs of New York? It was based on a non-fiction book written in 1928.

I'll keep this post as short as I can and invite you to fire up your favorite search engine and enter "racial tension X" without quotes, substituting one of the cities in your list for X. It does not make for pleasant reading.
Looks like stormfront has finally discovered HN.
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yes its down in South Korea as well
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Why not? If the Chilean government can do it, I imagine government(s) in the US can make it happen. Maybe it could start in smaller cities and towns. The missing part it the meme and forward thinking.
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How not to get someone interested in programming, give them 70 pages of math.

Now this is interesting to me, but I'm already a programmer.
Is it anonymous? Is it the Messenger release? Neither? Both?

I'm betting Messenger software push, but that's just my guess. IANAFE

Also, huffpo just picked it up: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/facebook-goes-down_...
We don't need this sort of posting about social media being down. Please don't do this.
The connection was reset is the error I'm repeatedly getting. FF, Safari, Chrome on OS X.

First time FB has been down this widespread?
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At one point this article asks where everyone who used to use Digg has gone, and yet never once mentions reddit.

Even ignoring that, the article is just junk. It says very little, and says it poorly. :(
Agreed that we don't need status updates on whether a social network is down. HOWEVER, in light of the recent threat to takedown Facebook, I think this is a good thing to open for discussion.
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So.... you want some people to lose their retirement money and much of their savings so that you can profit from a startup? you want more people to lose their jobs and perhaps their homes so you can improve your chances of becoming a millionaire? saying your success depends on other people's misfortune seems a little twisted to me. just my two cents.
You don't have to be a dealer to smell of pot.

It's also pretty hilarious to hear you being scared of kids because they "smell of marijuana".

Of course, they probably did smoke pot. But this would earn them a big "so what?" from me, rather than a panicky exit.

And if they were giving you "the evil eye", that would make me wonder if you did anything to deserve it. Were you sporting bald heads, combat boots, suspenders, and German memorabilia, by any chance?

Or perhaps they'd overheard you talking to your brother about how all the black people had ruined Detroit.
I'm sitting in the Herman Miller Embody, which is vastly harder to adjust properly, at least for me. I've actually been meaning to finish a very long review of the chair; maybe this'll inspire me to do so and submit to HN.
Cuban says big companies are not cash poor. I wonder how many of these have foreign funds that just won't import it because of the tax hit they'll take.

If you want to create jobs, how about companies under 10 years pay zero taxes. Zero costs to incorporate, and all licenses are free. No costs to access secondary equity markets, and access to an entrepreneurship courses. I don't think they want that many jobs tho, might shake things up.

Cuban is just trying his hand at central planning and it's not well engineered.

Considered the market needs to flush itself of some of these mid to upper sized companies. Some just exist because their stock maintains, while costing society valuable talents and resources. Just something to consider.
In an organization, should developers be penalized for bugs in their code?
Jobs are a means not an end. I've never worked at a job to work at a job. I work at a job to provide for my family and for my other goals in life.

This sort of top down thinking is just toxic. It seems so great and tidy until you actually try to implement it and then you realize that your level of ignorance was greater than you could have possibly imagined. You can't solve a debt problem with more debt and you can't solve a jobs problem by just creating meaningless jobs. The only jobs that are sustainable are the jobs that produce something that other people actually want.

The whole idea of the price system is that we're given signals about the best ways to serve other people in society. The price system in financial and real estate markets is completely insane and basically non-functioning. We're all suffering with these zombie banks we've created for ourselves.

The real question shouldn't be how to create jobs but rather how to create a society where needs can be met by entrepreneurs and businesses. We've all seen that when people are having their needs met then jobs end up being created by the businesses that form in the process of meeting those needs.
The problem is that our current politics won't let the US government act

You could pretty much stop right there.
Disagree; I am not particularly interested in that conversation either. I have flagged this posting.
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I actually refuse to work with FTP. More developers should. Hosts should refuse too.

There are some good GUIs for SCP that reduce the barriers of entry to the same level as FTP.

IMO you're trying to solve a problem that shouldn't be solved. Maybe turn your 1FTP app into an SCP interface. That way the "difficult" things you describe become easy.

My hate for FTP could be clouding my judgement.
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Seems like a modern equivalent of the FDR work programs. What did it take for him to pull it off?

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

Looks like the executive branch should have enough power to do this on its own.
Indeed! I was using BufferExplorer and accidentally 'discovered' <leader>b. 30 minutes later, BufferExplorer was dead :)
I instantly thought "Duh. Digg is tanking, but reddit is gaining." I was surprised to see that my inital thought appears to not be true: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+digg.com/
Something is going on - I have an existing session - with no updates when I was expecting some. Even ignoring that posting status updates just sits there.
I've flustered a lot of people asking them which definition of "real-time" they mean at the current moment.
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After the initial exodus from Digg to Reddit, I suppose there hasn't been much influx that way.

Also, interesting to note that 'top keyword' for reddit is '4chan'.
Not being interested and being inappropriate for discussion by programmers are two different things. Simply because you aren't interested doesn't mean it's irrelevant for hackers to talk about.
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It is not just a social medium, it is the largest social network. It doesn't look like a local problem. It will be interesting to see how Facebook will fix the problems.
Legally I would guess the Fed could probably do something like this, at least indirectly. The restrictions on what they do are intentionally pretty limited.

The problem is the political fallout. Far-right will scream about socialism, far-left (and I'm one of them) will at least be concerned about the potential for abuse by corporations, and pretty much everyone will be asking why we should trust the Fed to do this right when they've done a lot in recent memory to erode any trust they had.

This is potentially a great job to give a central bank, but maybe not for the current US central bank.
Especially the same day as a big software push for their new Messenger app product - be funny if they accidentally DDoSed themselves with the app somehow
>> If you want to create jobs, how about companies under 10 years pay zero taxes. Zero costs to incorporate, and all licenses are free. No costs to access secondary equity markets, and access to an entrepreneurship courses. I don't think they want that many jobs tho, might shake things up.

Actually Mark Cuban suggested this as well -

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/07/28/how-to-jumpstart-the-econ...
It was announced over a year ago at f8, but nothing ever came of it.
I know it's only mashable, but how many times does it have to be repeated: publishing a slightly edited press release != journalism
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