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A lot of people walk into a tiny NYC apartment and say, this is so SMALL! How do you even live here! But frankly, it just doesn't matter.

Right now I live in 634 square feet in the Bay Area -- not a tiny apartment by any means, but the smallest place I've lived for a long time. It has a view, which makes it feel more spacious, but I still find that the small size makes it slightly depressing after a while. I miss the idea of going for a walk around my house, or of going to sit in a completely different part of the house.

That's not to say that it's terrible, just that size does matter. My next place definitely needs to be bigger.
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opencvs (which you linked to) is not installed by default, we still install the gnu cvs version (in gnu/usr.bin/cvs).

opencvs is run on some openbsd anoncvs mirrors, but is not used on our main cvs server nor used by many developers.
RequestPolicy users are protected against this entire class of problem. When I'm looking at a webpage, I know it isn't pulling in content from any other site, including Facebook, unless I specifically allow it to.
"Groupon is a commissions based business; as I understand it, such businesses do not count an entire deposit as revenue."

They take title in the sense that they are paying (although paying late) and buying a certain amount of product (after they have received orders.) A commission would be if the same thing happened and the restaurant forwarded x% of the sale to groupon.

Here's an example. You are a programmer and I send you a customer. The customer gives you $5000 worth of work. You pay me $500. So you collect the money and pay me a commission. Other way: I get the $5000 from the customer (I have the contract with them) and pay you $4500 for what you have done (and have added risk etc.)

In the case of the first example I don't book $5000 in sales. In the case of the second example I do book $5000 in sales. (Forget the margins there are many businesses (supermarkets) that operate on small margins.)

Now, for accounting purposes there could be reasons that I don't want to book $5000 in sales even though I could (stuff they don't teach in school btw.) Like if I book more sales then there might be some local gross receipts tax whereby I have to pay % of sales etc (or something like that). Of course if I am applying to a bank for a loan maybe I want the higher sales because they will be more impressed. This by the way is why you need to know as much as you can because professionals won't always tell you all the things you need to know to have the best outcome.
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Poster may be referring to the phone address book scandal, probably only one example. In that case importing your facebook contacts from your phone grabbed your entire address book, with what looked like account placeholders for anyone in your phone that wasn't already on facebook. Oh, and it published all their phone numbers too.

I'm sure facebook has myriad nefarious ways for tracking everyone you interact with regardless whether they have an account.

And do we need to point out Double click got caught tracking individual users and lying about it over 10 years ago.

Some sources would obviously be helpful, but I don't think anyone is kidding themselves about what's going on.
Right. It has the smaller, less powerful TB controller that only supports one monitor. Hoping this will change in future generations as they try to create a super-thin 15" pro machine as well.
Pretty much any of it. If there's a photo I want a friend of mine to see, but they don't have permission to see it, I just send them the URL of the static content and it works every time, whether or not they're logged in.
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I'm Irish-American doing a (pre-funded) startup in Brooklyn. Living in Manhattan would be an extravagant expense for someone doing a startup. If you want to be around other Irish people, there's a great community in Sunnyside, Queens.

On Monday there's a YC meet up here in NYC where PG is going to deliver comments on NYC as a startup community. I'm looking forward to what he has to say, he criticized New York in the past as a startup hub, but since YC is having a 500 person meet up here I'd expect his feelings have changed.
Thanks for this advice. I was thinking about ways to close the loop and get out of this situation without harming future opportunities. This would be a good way to make sure my name stays clear with the hiring manager.
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Slightly OT, but this is a perfect reason to regard javascript crypto as dangerous. If one of the most heavily scrutinized cryptographic protocols can have what is in retrospect, a fairly obvious flaw (WEP fell to a very similar predictable IV attack), the average developer does not stand a chance of getting it right implementing it from scratch in an environment they do not have strong control over.
use Firefox "Private Browsing" when you want to drop into a temporary session free of cookies.
Their weather is pretty sweet.
The strange thing is that this recruiter has already placed other people at this company (according to the hiring manager). Maybe the terms did change, or the quality of those candidates turned out to be sub-par.

I have started working with a corporate recruiter at another firm, and so far it's been a much better experience.
This is why I closed my Facebook account two years ago (happened to me on cnn.com). But I'm back. I just wanted those "connections," I don't think that it is worth it.
Yeah, one day I figured out that I'd already muted about half my "friends". Of the remainder, most never posted.

But the remaining folks are largely my real friends, so it all works out.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but flash cookies are cross-browser
If I understand, the binaries need to also be signed by the private keys belonging to the 'owner' of the firmware / machine.

This presumably means Intel and/or Microsoft.

The implication is that, to get on the machine in trusted mode, you have to be approved by Microsoft and/or Intel, or else you are stuck running in untrusted mode, which may in future make you a second class citizen, and in an extreme case might prevent you from say, accessing your own banking records (spinning a hypothetical).

If as a condition of an OEM agreement, Microsoft and Intel force a lock-down of the boot firmware, then the potential controversy is that other operating systems are excluded from ever running in trusted mode on that hardware.

It just occurred to me that this is similar to how the iPhone works. I can sign locally, but only Apple can sign my app for wider distribution... unless the recipient phone is jail-broken in which case that phone will quite easily be detected as untrusted and could easily in future be denied access to the network, or app store. There's clearly a reason the baseband is also encrypted and signed.
That might be because the Brookfield Landfill on Staten Island was an illegal toxic dumping ground for 20 years and is still being cleaned up. http://earthjustice.org/our_work/cases/2008/brookfield-landf...
If only I had a service that did it the other way around. i.e. snail mail => email. Besides getting rid of the annoyance of having to physically throw away junk mail, I could get spam filtering on so I'd never even see it.
Interesting to note that this is currently #1 with >100 points, while my link to the actual petition was flagged and is now marked dead.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320

According to the guidlines

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."

bizarre.
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Thanks for that resource, I had no idea it existed.
Trust. FMG (foreign medical graduates) have an extremely low reputation in the US. It's a component of defensive medicine.
Does EasyPrivacy accomplish a similar thing? Anyhow, I've added this in to my AdBlock. Thanks!
There is absolutely no justification for flagging this. I am disheartened that hacker news has become a place where people flag stuff they dislike rather than posting a rebuttal. I feel this is a systemic error, it is currently too easy for a few people to kill articles they don't like.
See my other answers. "Final reads" must be performed my a physician who did a radiology residency in the USA, and credentialed in the USA. Note, you don't need to be located in the USA, but it doesn't matter, there is no competing on price.

See my other answers. For each scan or xray performed, two fees are billed. The reimbursements are generally set in stone, and non-negotiable. Additionally, "fee-splitting" is Medicaire fraud. Meaning, if you as an independent businessperson own an imaging center and I read cases for you, you cannot keep any of my "professional fee" for reading the case. So there is no way for another radiologist to compete on price with me, it is simply illegal to offer to read the cases for less.
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> We'll be offered support in getting visas and such, but I'd like to hear any anecdotes about the process.

Does "support" mean "Hi, I'm the lawyer who will make this all work, like I've done dozens of time this year, so most of your contact will be with my assistant, and my fees and the expenses are already taken care of." If not, you've got a lot of work to do.

WRT moving to NY (or anywhere for that matter).

(1) Why and by how much will moving improve your chances of success?

(2) How much will it cost in time and money to move?

Is (2) less than (1)?

Seriously - the absolute best case is that you spend a week moving. The more reasonable best case is that you spend a month (preparing to move and dealing with the move after you're there will also take time). The likely case is that you'll lose 2-3 months and you could lose more.
So it seems the solution would be to have different browser profiles. For instance, one for regular browsing, one for FB and one for gmail?
I have a project that was started last year. We tried for YC but didn't make it. My team got burned out and now it's stopped.
Our mission was to make mobile advertising more effective and connect the advertisers with the audiences. The advertisers can target their campaign at specific demographic audience. The ads are full screen and there's a mechanism for the advertisers to "interact" with the audience.
Also, we bring mobile advertising to SMB that do not have the skill or resource to get into the mobile space.
I'd be happy to go into more detail if you are interested.
"Testing is a tool for helping you, not for using to engage in a 'more pious than thou' dick-swinging my Cucumber is bigger than yours idiocy. Testing is about giving you the developer useful and quick feedback about if you're on the right path, and if you've broken something, and for warning people who come after you if they've broken something. It's not an arcane methodology that somehow has some magical 'making your code better' side-effect..."

I liked this part; it made me laugh. I also get red flags whenever I hear "X is the one true way to do Y" statements. Personally, I don't think that there is much in life that is so black and white that there could be "one true way" to do anything.

My understanding of the original agile methodologies was that each team/company needed to do what worked for them. Sure, you could follow some book to the letter and hire some certified SCRUM master but odds are, some deviations from the written plan are needed for the best results.

Either way, I'm generally a fan of TDD, test automation and metrics ... where they make sense and where they aren't going to be abused. Use tools and methodologies that make sense for the current situation, not just because some book/person tells you that you'll fail unless you use them.
I think Ghostery deserves some promotion here :
http://www.ghostery.com/
available for all major browsers. It blocks near to all webbugs including the facebook social plugins.
Can you configure gmail to use from: xy.com whenever you email ab.com? thanks
Hi everyone! I have a bunch of different email addresses, and whenever I email a client in regards to project X, I'd rather use email address Y -- and I end up spending a lot of gmail time just changing addresses. Is there a Firefox plugin or Greasemonkey script or something that does this? Thank you!!
So it's worse than I thought.

How does California justify collecting sales tax from Amazon if Amazon has no affiliate network there, no advertising there, and no real presence?
Ask HN: Who applied to YC Startup School this year?
Would like to know approximately how many people are interested in attending/applied for the event this year and where people are coming from.
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This is why I block FB in the hosts file (https://gist.github.com/1197453) and only use my mobile devices for FB messaging.
The small town effect would seem to apply in my case. I'm not too close to a major metro, but some insane people commute from here.

Maintenance isn't so bad except for how it's managed. michaelochurch addressed this well in his reply [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3024752]. I could do with less tech support, but haven't gotten around to automating it away.
You might want to make an actual readme for GitHub instead of posting the default Rails one!

Plus your overthehump link is broken (at the top of the GitHub page).

Neat, congratulations, this looks really useful. There's probably a startup in here somewhere if you could get bus and train times for a cohesive group of country-wide city and metro areas.
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The headline "White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit" is slightly misleading. It makes it sound like the petition came from the White House.
Feels good, doesn't it.
Funny. I just disabled my account this week and don't have plans to go back. Facebook never made much of an impact on my life and I've finally decided the loss of privacy is no longer worth staying on.

Edit: Now after having read the post I realize it is sarcastic. So maybe I'm not so different after all.
I also should have mentioned that (for me) his content was worth reading even with the in-line ads. Placing in-line ads in content that was marginally valuable/interesting to me might very well result in me skipping the content. That's why I brought up metrics. It's entirely possible he's making more off the ads even with a reduction in readership ... but only he has the data to know.
So how many of us are concerned about this from a personal privacy point of view, but still have all the Facebook buttons and markup all over our sites?

I'm a little concerned that, as a website operator, I really ought to work with Facebook because it will lead to more PVs because it is advertising my site for me.

But I've been uncomfortable for some time as I watch my friends and my children slowly confuse the web and Facebook. It's easy to see a day when, for most non-techy folks, the web is Facebook.

So, I can close my FB account. But I think, in the spirit of doing the right thing for the world, the web and the future, I also have to take Facebook off my site and face whatever consequences that may bring.

Or am I being a fuddy-duddy old reactionary?
A TED talk from a woman (Paula Scher) who knows how to be "serious" without being "solemn" and losing your sense of play: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paula_scher_gets_serious....
Wow.

You have a lot of determination! Kudos.
No longer. Images are obfuscated (view the source of a gallery image to see what I mean).
I'm going to respectfully disagree.

This may be possible in some medical fields (I doubt it), but not radiology. There is simply too much to learn. I completed 4 years of medical school followed by a 5 year residency. Some radiologists go through additional sub-specialty training. I've been practicing for 5+ years, and I'm still learning everyday.

I am a doctor's doctor, meaning my customers are doctors from every specialty, who order studies and read my reports looking for answers they can't answer clinically. I can talk to Orthopedic surgeons in their language, Neurologists in theirs, and Gastroenterologists in theirs. I'm familiar with the radiological manifestation of most pathological processes a human can experience.

The notion that someone could self-teach what I know seems impossible.

There are licensing and board requirements, but conspiracy theories aside they are not designed to create artificial scarcity, they're supposed to keep dangerously ignorant doctors from practicing.
But are you actually pursuing your own projects now?
Same experience, i think they delete nothing at all.
Why does the author pick out TDD here? All he says is that "People that say TDD is perfect and the best technique in all situations are wrong."

Once you establish that 'there are no silver bullets', you don't have to go around to every bullet and say 'that bullet isn't silver, either!'
>It's first and foremost a design tool.

Care to expand on that? Other than forcing low coupling, I don't really see what TDD does for the design of the code, especially because it emphasizes unit testing, and those are pretty small in the scope of overall design. And even the low coupling is debatable, a good test framework is going to have enough hooks to be able to isolate the unit under test to the point that the surrounding design doesn't really matter to the test.
A good time to point out the Ghostery Browser extension. Use this at the most paranoid setting so that when FB and others pull stunts like these you have at least some measure of protection.
Wow, talk about missing the point...
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Straw man? Where I work about half the developers believe that TDD is the One True Way. Unfortunately, this includes the CTO, who wants to force every developer to practice TDD. (along with other 'agile' methods)

I’m sorry that you are frustrated with your work environment, however we seem to have a misunderstanding about the form of the OP’s original argument.

If you read it as:

(a) There exist TDD OneTrueMethodologists, and (b) TDD is not the One True Methodology

Therefore:

(c) The OneTrueMethodologists are wrong.

Then this argument sets up One True Methodologists and attacks their belief that TDD is the One True Methodology. I consider this a well-formed argument, even though obviously half of your company disagrees with its conclusion because they disagree with (b).

The other way to read the OP is:

(a) There exist TDD OneTrueMethodologists, and (b) TDD is not the One True Methodology

Therefore: (c) Using TDD is criminal.

This argument attacks TDD by showing that TDD OneTrueMethodologists are wrong. I do not consider this a well-formed argument against TDD, because I do not believe that using TDD is synonymous with believing that TDD is the One True Methodology. There are also some other small issues, such as the question of whether the only tests in a project are those produced by TDD.

I have seen projects that use TDD part of the time, and use TDD as well as other types of automated tests. An argument against OneTrueMethodologists that believe TDD is the only way and that other tests are not useful or that other design practices are secondary to TDD is not really an argument against using TDD in a wider context.

I personally read the argument as taking the second form. If you read it as taking the first form, I can understand your objection to the term “strawman."
Most people are not able to do this, and most of those few who could don't want to put themselves through it.

Most people don't have to be able to do it, just more than are allowed to do it now, but a factor of say 10.

Furthermore, I don't think people would necessarily need to go through med school and residency.

It's like building a website. There's probably some parallel universe where programming requires certification and only a handful of schools have it. It requires doing MITs SICP as the intro course. Requires compiler construction courses, algorithms, theory of computation and complexity, etc... And then a 4 year apprenticeship with other programmers. And then you can start building webpages, if that's what you want to do.

But we live in a world where it is open and so there's instruction available at many different levels. Would you let someone without a PhD in CS build your website? Of course you would.

And then separately, how many people would trust a self-taught diagnostician?

I trust my car mechanics diagnosis despite the fact I have no idea what level of education he has. But I'm fairly certain he's not an ME from MIT or Berkeley. With good self-study tools, I think that one can self-teach in specialized areas and achieve good mastery rather efficiently. I could imagine Khan Academy for Radiology taught by JHU and Harvard professors to be quite good.
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> "I find it amazingly unlikely that men and women are identically suited to every type of work. Men and women have historically, on evolutionary time scales, focussed on different types of activities."

Vague statements with no justification or data; just as subjective as someone "feeling" the other way.

> "I suggest you either reconsider the implications of you views, or admit that this is what you are advocating."

False dichotomy. The parent has many options: to do neither, to clarify the context you stripped from the quote, or perhaps offer the data this discussion is lacking.

Here is a paper to jump-start the discussion about achievement gaps in general, which talks about ethnicity and gender:

http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/nise/publications/Research_...

Now we can make substantiated claims and attack ideas, not each other.
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I recommend Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/

Quoting:

Ghostery is your window into the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons that are included on web pages in order to get an idea of your online behavior.

Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.

Choose to block - or not. You get control at a company level - are there some marketers you trust, but others you'd rather turn away? Ghostery lets you open the valve of your web behavior as wide or as narrow as you'd prefer.
This is a liitle offtopic, but I have a simply question, one that I've had for awhile but cannot find the answer to, can anyone give an example of a legitimate software patent -- a patent that beyond its superficial veneer doesn't seem utterly absurd.
Nothing to worry about:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3015995
I happen to know the details of this attack since I work on Chrome's SSL/TLS stack.
Fundamentally there's nothing that people should worry about here. Certainly it's not the case that anything is 'broken'.
You can implement a "two-click like" button that mostly solves the problem. http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschut... (German) Just be sure not to make your non-standard FB button look like the official one because they will get on your back about trademarks. http://adland.tv/content/heise-creates-two-click-facebook-bu...