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It's completely understandable that someone would ask the police to do a welfare check, given the circumstances (signs reasonably interpreted as indicators of possible impending suicide).

I'm sure he understands that he brought this annoyance on himself, probably with a good reason that's none of our business.

But, now that his welfare has been established... Let's give this Googler privacy and space. If only we could expect Google to do the same for all of us when we need it. How about it Google? Consider this a feature request: Google Cocoon, an on-request service that hides your personal information from search and perusal in special circumstances. Sounds like a can of worms, but interesting to think about.
This refers to a 1998 study that says the universe is accelerating. I thought since then there had been news of dark matter being more than what we had thought of, which would exceed critical mass resulting in the universe coalescing again ???

p.s. I hope there'll be some whiskey to go with it :)
HN, Just out of curiosity, will you buy a new iPhone 4S?
If it's a problem with talking to people and communication then one way to start would be to read some sales/communications books.
--How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
--How I raised myself from failure to success in selling by Frank Bettger

The more you talk to people the easier it gets. There's no magic pill. There are plenty of strategies and advice but the main thing is just to practice, and get out there and talk to people. It's a numbers game. It doesn't matter if you mess up or freeze up once or twice, in the long run it won't be that big a deal. I hope this helps.
His contributions to the community were released under liberal licenses and will undoubtedly be widely available tomorrow. Heck, you can `apt-get install diveintopython` on an Ubuntu system. However, a lot of links just got broken across the internet - and his books are popular entry points for novices. Hopefully when whatever is going on in his life cools down, he can transfer the domain names to a responsible custodian.
Ask HN: What's your morning routine?
Even if you don't adhere to it perfectly, what do you find gives you the best start to the day? Could be exercise, reading, etc. The more specific, the better.
The Newton experience all over again!
It's true, a seg/page/fault would take down the whole server, and any requests executing on that process would die too. However in fairness, this is one of the advantages of using a dynamic language, rather than one where you're dealing with memory allocation all the time.
More like a new set of system requirements…
I'm actually kind of surprised about how many people are not aware of the suicide concern. But then, I worked for a couple of years at a large training site where suicide awareness was a Very Big Deal so perhaps I'm just suffering from transference.

The symptoms displayed by Mark here are very similar to some kind of "classic" pre-suicidal actions (i.e. "putting his affairs in order") so I can definitely see why suicide would be a concern among his friends.
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What about when he describes wikipedia?
I hear you: the UI is shuffled each time, but it still seems to run slow and complicated, and programming windows is ... more work than I care to take on, if there is an alternative. (this from somebody who had been using DOS / Novell / Windows / Borland dev stuff for about 10 years before ever picking up Linux -- MS totally lost me just before the underwhelming release of '95)
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Control panel has the Display widget embedded within it. I seem to frequently need to adjust that on laptops with various external monitors.
Benioff probably ticked off Ellison's ego when he said Dreamforce was now bigger than Oracle Open World: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/01/...

It'll probably lead to "Who has the best looking beard."
Your sarcasm sensors are failing. Might want to get those checked.
I only know networking basics, so not sure about your other use cases, but I was pleasantly surprised how useful something like 'http-proxy' for node is.

I use it to serve up several hosts on the same ip, or split sections of my url namespace into several node.js servers.

Maybe look at NodeJitsu blog as the articles seem readable, and those guys seem to use node heavily for running their hosting platform.
CDMA doesn't use a SIM card, they do EMEI whitelists on their end instead (to prevent devices from authenticating with their data/voice networks that they haven't sold).

If Apple has an agreement with all major CMDA networks in the USA (i.e., Sprint and Verizon) then the 4S will NOT work on those networks unless you buy it from the carrier.

This results in more money for the carrier (and presumably Apple). Unfortunate, since I wanted a world phone where I could actually use it in multiple countries with multiple SIMs.
In :). Can't wait.
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Sadly, "Program Manager" was better.
Thanks everyone for taking time to read and offering your thoughts on my situation.

For the past few years, I've been working alone from home, locked away in my room for the most part, and well lurking on HN.

I feel lifted to see the responses here.

My other problem now is that I have too much work on my plate that I have trouble completing. Previously I naively took on new projects as the older ones seem to be taking forever just to sign off on deliverables.

And honestly, there was the greed factor too - it was nice to receive the deposit to kickoff a new project since I've not been getting a salary for the past few years.

But now they are all coming back at the same time and I'm overwhelmed.

And with my diminishing interest in backend programming, I'm hoping to partner with a backend developer to help me out. Do drop me an email (launchplus@gmail.com) if you are keen.

All in all, I feel really foolish about a lot of the mistakes I made during this freelancing period. I will be joining a VC funded startup for a full-time job after I'm done with my current contracts, hopefully that will put my career back on track.
Does Calgary count? lol :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fast_and_Furious
Salesforce is 12 years old company with around 10% CRM market. What was their profit last year? 80 million USD?

You would have to be naive to think Oracle is afraid of Salesforce. I think it's more to do with Benioff's rude knows-it-all attitude.
Why use a Windows service instead of installing in the user's %APPDATA% directory like Chrome? Admittedly, there is some wasted disk space if a Windows PC is shared by multiple users, who each install Firefox. But I imagine most Windows PC only have one user account.
I order a LOT more through Amazon because of Prime than I would otherwise. Knowing my buy-to-hold timeframe is only a couple of days and Amazon's price will be significantly better than other places means Amazon usually gets my first look on almost everything.

I have no idea if I am a profitable customer or not, though. My guess is that the profitable customers with Prime purchase very little or a lot. I don't think I fall in either of those categories (though I might before Christmas is over :).
Also, there's Traditional Cantonese Chinese and just plain old Traditional Chinese. The vocabulary and grammar differ.
This link is now my go to response to all my ex business student acquaintances.

I really am surprised at how widespread this problem is. I can't help but think that it must be some sort of systemic problem in 'business schools'.
It strikes me as somewhat 1984-ish / Orwellian

This is a trade agreement!

I assume it has no provisions for 'extraordinary rendition' of mp3 downloaders ?
I sort of wish that the Wordpress and Drupal projects would merge instead of fighting over developer talent and constantly re-inventing wheels as one project jacks the other for features.

Wordpress could definitely benefit from the added functionality and improvements to core code and Drupal sure as hell needs the facelift.
From Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/10/05/oracle-boo...)

"The Times notes that Oracle said in a statement that it didn’t cancel the event, but instead decided to move the session from Wednesday to Thursday. “Due to the overwhelming attendance at Oracle OpenWorld we had to make several session changes,” Oracle said.

But Benioff said he couldn’t be there on Thursday morning, and the Times notes that the conference features a Wednesday night concert – Sting and Tom Petty – that would likely run into the wee hours and reduce the attendance at a Thursday morning keynote."
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Ask HN: What's your opinion of the "99%" issue?
Reddit is aflame with shared outrage. HN has a somewhat different population. What do you all think about it?

Should people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop leaning on others' generosity, or are there serious structural issues with the "American dream"? What can we do about it, if you think it's wrong?

Sure, we can all think of ways where our governments have failed us, but is there something extraordinary to merit such a strong opposition?

I'm extremely curious for all your opinions. Let this be an open discussion: PLEASE be civil and don't downvote comments that you don't agree with.

Thanks! Looking forward to a lively discussion.
https://github.com/hookio/hook.io

Transparent enough?
Ponder the following: I'm agnostic in the same way I'm 'agnostic' about the existence of unicorns.
You need to get organized immediately, new programmers or not. How I organize any messy/late project I've inherited successfully.

Again, 6-10 project's I've inherited from incompetent/sociopath devs and made into lifelong customers who I like working with. This works.

He needs some structure and routine and this will provide enough of it. He needs some consequence that while they're might not be another option besides him, there is a track record for him to keep and maintain. Don't threaten, ask him what he gets mixed up about a deadline being a deadline and how he can adjust his estimates.

1) Register for the free version of fogbugz

2) Put in each issue (one issue per case number/email)

3) Rank them from 1 (raging fire) to 7 (dont forget.. one day). Each ranking number is kind of how many weeks you need it in (realistically), or in how many weeks it will be completed. Ideally nothing should ever be a Priority 1 or 2. :)

4) Have individual discussions on each case, in each case, via email. This is the knowledge transfer from him into a central system should you add/change developers.

5) when you have enough information on each, rank where each is at. Analysis (what to do), Design (how to do it), Plan (who will do it when), Implement, Test, Launch, Support (bugs/wty)

6) If you can do #5 you can track everything anturally. Only communicate in Fogbugz. if it's not there, you can say everything needs to be touched on regularly.

7) Hook fogbugz up to your source code manager so each case can have the commits of each file tied to it an you start building a history of what's happening.

If you need help figuring it out I might be able to lend you a hand off-line.
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can't' see it either - in Chrome or Firefox. i think it is a <noscript> and CSS interplay of some sort. if i switch to a really old browser with neither scripting or CSS like Lynx i can read the content
Would you say Apple should do the same with iOS? iOS is flashy and in your face. And it's the most successful software product of the decade.
What data-provider(s) does Siri use?
In all this talk about iPhone 4S and Siri, I haven't read anything about the data source/services that Siri uses to 'answer' questions. Some articles seem to imply Yelp, but I'm not sure if that's the only one or not.

Anyone have an authoritative answer for what data sources/services drive Siri?
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Have you tried joint ventures? Implemented any affiliate marketing programs?

Created content that you can optimize keywords for and good doorway pages? There are many free resources out there online, and I think you just need to read up on the subject that you're stuck on and go from there. Try a few things and test it and see what your results are and improve from there.
There aren't exactly doing much for their brand are they? It's not about what they do privately.. I mean, hire some PR lackey to post "public" recipes or list your favoriate bands - whatever.

It's perceptions that matter.
You are so right, great article. Unfortunately, I need to carry one with me because of work.
>> The better solution would be for companies that produce music/films/software/etc to revise their own business models and adapt to the reality of piracy.

Adapting to the reality of piracy would probably mean lower prices. Why do that when they can just stick the government with the cost of enforcement and then keep prices high? Plus lobbying costs are a fraction of the enforcement costs.

Not saying it's right, but unfortunately such is the perverse relationship between big business and government nowadays.
I keep thinking about this: http://www.miniature-earth.com/

If you have a computer, a roof over your head and enough to eat, you're in the top 3% of the world.
I'm in your shoes.

I'll be going for 64GB, as I've maxed out my iPhone storage for over a year (Apps alone are 8GB), and have had to put quotas on my media just to get some stuff in there.

$100 more over a 2-year TCO is a small fraction of the total. If you assume just the data plan alone, 24mo x $20 (VZ 1GB) = $480 and with voice, all told, it's over $2k...

Yeah, I'll pay 5% more over 2 years for double the storage.
I signed up for Bitbucket the instant they had git availability. I only started using Git regularly for new/small projects a month ago, after quite happily using svn for web projects.

Bitbucket gets what I need. I love the social coding of GitHub and will continue to participate in it. But I can't put my own projects there. There's too many small, private repos that I can't keep paying for.

Bitbucket's approach is good for me. I'd rather pay for storage/users than per repo. If Github is really about promoting source code control, it shouldn't be a barrier for private / personal projects. For now, bitbucket solves this. I hope Github comes around.

Until then, I'm cancelling my $7 github account and giving Bitbucket $10/month even though I'm only using 2 users. They're doing me a real service and favor.
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I got it right when it launched, and I remember it being a paid app. After posting that comment earlier, I checked it and the server is already down for me. I saw the post on TC that it will stay functional until 10/15 but mine currently isn't. Taking something away from
existing users to make new hardware more exclusive is super disappointing.
Does anyone know how many people were invited and how many people applied
From reading all the comments, i can see people in HN do not care about intellectual property.Go figure....
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Perhaps the comment was aimed in context of Oracle's recent actions with NoSQL - simultaneously downplaying NoSQL and integrating NoSQL with Oracle seemed a bit like a late reaction to the growing trend that's threatening their cash cow.
I'm brazilian and I don't think that its a WOHOO act or something. It's just that US and EU governments are so full of interests(and shit) that it looks good.

We don't have a big(and stupid) elite like the US does, so things stay reasonable.
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Coffee, HN, more coffee, Reddit, grapefruit, cereal and then a 20 mile bike ride into work.
Not only that, but it's just slightly less obviously melodramatic.
ACTA hasn't been waved around in front of normal people enough to get to the point where everyone can articulate why it is a bad idea.
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I can't get in. I click 'Login with Facebook' and it returns to the same page with 'Login with facebook' and share buttons.
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I started using django-social-auth, but ended up rolling my own Facebook backend using the Facebook Python SDK. It's really simple if all you want to do is fetch some information and create a new user.

That said, django-social-auth should be more than enough if all you need is a way for a user to login using Facebook Connect.
got in on the second try. sadly, i didn't save any of my answers, so i don't know what i did better this time. maybe following everyone's yc application advice of being interestingly concise helped!
India is doing good in software patents and drug patents as well. Software cannot be patented and drugs have to be innovative (incremental is not good enough).

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-13/india...
Exactly another company that is known more for the chatter their CEO makes than the Chatter it sells.
The human race has become spoiled. Every day, new and incredible technology debuts, and we just seem to brush it off as expected, or worse, a late arrival. So where did the magic go? What happened to the days when we would be blown away by a piece of wax that could record sounds? Or pictures that could move? Or the miracle of human flight? We expect things now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_historic_inventions
Modern inventions happen so frequently that they lose their impact. In the 1st millennium, AD, you see 1-2 major inventions per century (e.g. bridges, dams, gunpowder, banknotes). In the latter half of the 2nd millennium, that number jumps to 4-5 (e.g. steam engine, thermometer, blood pressure cuff, printing press, newspaper). The reason for this is that the earlier inventions, plus a larger population make it more likely that new inventions will be discovered. In the era from 1800-present, we have seen hundreds of revolutionary inventions (e.g. light bulb, radio, telephone, television, computer, nuclear energy, automobile/gas pump, internet, airplane, helicopter, IV pump, digital media). It's hard to continue to be impressed by individual inventions when they are happening so frequently. Some inventions from the last 50 years that have become commonplace are: DNA testing. GPS, smartphones, microprocessors, LCD, LED, compressed digital media, fiber optics, tablet PC, ATM, email, internet. Compare that to people who only saw the invention of the steam engine and the cotton gin during their lifetime.
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Yay, I'm in.

I'll be coming down from SF, which is a bit of an epic journey for people who don't drive, but I'm hoping there'll be crews of carpoolers from here.

The Caltrain stops around midnight and socializing often begins around then.. so I'm guessing I should plan to stay the night in south bay.

Looking forward to meeting you guys -- I'll try and dye my hair some ridiculous color before then to be uber recognizable. Maybe orange, just to suck up to YC. ;)
A guy from Halliburton patented patent trolling? Seriously?
Exactly. I think Windows will have to do an awesome job at finding the tool for me. Because my mom and dad won't remember that the program that they use to view pictures is called irfanview.
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Yeah, there seems to be some consensus on the touch-enabled version. Definitely something I want to solve (hopefully just a matter of hooking the drag drop into touch events)
Back in 1986, I had 2 jobs, 1 delivering packages full-time and the other cleaning windows and offices nights and Saturdays.

I did not go to college right out of school and I had no marketable skills. I was able to save $16,000 in 2 years, all of which was counted against me when I applied at the local community college.

And, yes, I had no TV most of that time! No computer either. Never ate out or travelled. Lived in crap town where all it does is snow, rain and cloud over. Drove cars that cost less than I now gross in a week.

There are people all over working just as hard and with kids and maybe not so many educational possibilities. Life can be tough.

But even these folks used to be able to save a little bit of money and earn interest on it. If you only save $200 a month for 30 years at 6%, you end up with $200,000.

Even if they have any money after paying all the taxes, they can't earn any interest on their savings anyway. The same $200 a month leaves you with only $77,000 at .5% after the same 30 years.

What we're doing is punishing the very virtues that made it possible for even the least skilled to move out of poverty back in the day.
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This is probably one of my favourite Mark Pilgrim posts: http://web.archive.org/web/20110514133252/http://diveintomar...

"Do not misunderstand me. I don't think the personal web has become boring. I think I have become boring. I've spent too much time tracking statistics, living up to the meaningless ideals of others, and pontificating on matters of no importance. When I should have been writing about lighthouses."
Don't all successful SaaS apps have the similar layout and presentation?

If anything I think Bootstrap helps get the minimum of the current best practices in place effortlessly -- beyond that, innovation is always welcome
I use a pseudonym on Google+. It's explicitly allowed (although mine breaks the rules), even though they keep locking and deleting people's accounts for using them.
Deliberately taking down such a highly seo indexed site is an act of terrorism as far as I'm concerned.
Service packs have been there before and even after 00s.
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Coffee, WSJ&HN, Bathroom, Emails, More Coffee, then off to work. If I wake up with my gf, then love replaces coffee.
Endorphins > Caffeine.
> 410s

FTFY.
Just an FYI. You can create a folder and place multiple folders of links into that folder. Then create a toolbar on the taskbar pointing to that folder. Then reduce the toolbar to the smallest possible size. You will find that you can now traverse the multiple folders of links by highlighting them. No need for any extra apps.
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I actually found one change to the Start Menu the enabling change for me: Typing the name of something and (often) just getting the application that I wanted to start. Just saying what I want and let the machine to the finding for me just feels like the way things should be done to me.

> So they ripped off OSX Spotlight (which stole it from Quicksilver/etc) - I've used spotlight to launch apps with 3-4 keyclicks since forever:

OSX: CMD+space,Fir<return> = Launch Firefox and
Win7: WINkey, Fir <return> = Launch Firefox
This reminds me of Rickey Henderson, who played for 25 seasons, played minor league ball when he was 48 and still refuses to retire.
I wonder if I have a better chance of being an astronaut or getting accepted into YC W2011.

"The only guarantee I can give you is that, if you don't apply, you won't get in," he said.
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I fall in love with problems, my own, others', or whomever's, and try to find a way to solve it. I know most builders of software fall in love with a solution first/and idea or a grand vision - but little ol' me don't think like that, but thanks, you make a good point for someone who is a builder.