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Because of the tuesday-tuesday nature of the record business, working at a label necessitated this.

Monday->Engineering maintenance for records. Lots of email blasts and such, site maintenance.

Tuesday - Release day, also radio promo meetings. Executive meeting

Wednesday - Marketing meeting. This was when results of the last week's sales were finalized so also reconciling retail with stats and such.

Thursday - typically a big launch day for us.

Friday - clean up, product dev work, department stuff. It was a 0 launch day.
No, you don't. Installing a root ca an iOS device is as easy as sending it via mail to the device and then clicking on it (with a few more clicks to confirm).

edit (because I can't reply): It does show a big warning and you have to enter the device unlock code to do this, so it should be reasonably safe.
Agreed - one reason why I still love Perl so much, despite its obvious warts.
Internet criticism can be very hurtful. A simple way to prevent further startup suicides is that when you see someone being heavily criticized, or when you see a startup that is being criticized a lot, send them an email supporting them and offering to listen to their side of the story. Even if the people are not suicidal, it can help them through a difficult time and motivate them to continue to do good stuff.

The reality of the situation right now in the startup world is that when people hear you are making x amount/month, you get 500 emails, but when the tables turn and you are suddenly on the receiving end of heavy criticism, you get zero emails.
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Good arguments. I'm extremely fortunate and have been able to attend a costly 4-year college without debt; I have a tendency to take my time here for granted, which I absolutely shouldn't. I feel that it would be wrong of a college that professes to teach a deeper education not to require a breadth of learning from its students, but again, my perspective is unfairly privileged and I'm not thinking in any sort of cost-efficient manner.
Did Apple re-implement the protocol to be HTTP-like, or is it a holdover from before the acquisition of Siri?

Especially when you are a startup, building the perfect protocol isn't your biggest concern. Being able to reuse already existing components like load balancers and connection libraries allows you to get your MVP out sooner.
But this is assuming the caller has enough information to solve the problem, which is not always the case (the callee could have information on the structure of the disk that are not relevant to the caller for instance).

Conditions/restarts make a separation of concerns, particularly when the caller knows which of the restart is the more appropriate, if the callee has not enough information/context to choose, and if the callee has more information on how to solve the problem.

I guess the separation can be summarized by: difference between knowing WHAT and HOW to do something. A useful abstraction I guess.
Having done a /lot/ of cold calling in the past (sometimes up to 200 in a day), I'd warn that you can't tell how effective any system is until you actually have people breaking open their wallet or writing a check. Folks will take a meeting just to be polite.

There's a saying in cold calling: you haven't really started selling until they say "no". Everything up to that is small talk.
I just found out that the comment "text view" is resizable..
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They potentially can; commercial firewalls can man-in-the-middle HTTPS traffic with a locally signed and organization-computer-trusted SSL certificate.
You can read concurrently, but the write lock will block read locks.

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/How+does+concurrency+wor...
Kaczynski was partially inspired by, and corresponded with, Jacques Ellul[1]. Heidegger[2] is another relatively well known critic of technology.[3] There are many other philosophers who've criticized science and technology. If you are interested, you might want to read about the philosophy of science[4], the field of technoscience[5], and science studies[6].

[1] - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jacques_Ellul

[2] - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Martin_Heideg...

[3] - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Question_...

[4] - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Philosophy_of...

[6] - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Science_studi...
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Poor Thad - in real life, he's boring. In his fantasy, he thinks he's outrageous, but he's not, he's boring.
Seriously, there is nothing more powerful than a switchboard full of angry constituents.

And the sad reality is that there are not nearly enough of us angry about this to fill the switchboard.

--EDIT--

I depressed myself and wanted to add something constructive:

Lobbyists exist because groups often want more political clout than their members could achieve simply by voting.

With lobbying it is possible for a small group to achieve an out-sized influence on politics. I think the most effective thing we can do is organize a lobby group.

The first thing I would look for is how do industry lobbying groups form. Is there another industry which was threatened by government action and organized to defend itself? How did competitors come to agree on shared goals to lobby for? What was the first step?

Why are there some industries where one lobbying body represents all very effectively, and other industries where, even on shared goals, individual companies have more lobbying power than an industry wide lobby? Here I'm specifically thinking of the EFF vs Google and Microsoft and IBM and some others.
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When I save the state of RAM to nonvolatile storage, then later put it back into RAM and continue executing, there are senses in which you could legitimately say it's not the same program. But they're not the senses I care about.
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Both depression/suicide and dietary habits run in families and reoccur over multiple generations.

Low serum cholesterol has been shown to be a suicide risk factor. [1]

Get you cholesterol tested and try adding more good fats to your diet like oily cold-water fish (think salmon and sardines), butter, eggs (including the yolk!), and coconut milk/oil. You should aim for a low LDL and a high HDL number.

Anecdotally, have you ever seen how most teens and soldiers in the US eat? Their diets are low on good fats and high in bad carbohydrates that will send your cholesterol and triglyceride levels out-of-wack. A diet of Red Bull and Doritos will mess you up.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/...
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I hope Ilya is at peace. I'd like to speak to anyone who might feel, now or in the future, as desperate as Ilya must have.

Please consider this: by nature our own pain and suffering strikes us as intensely personal and private, but the truth is the experience is universal. For different reasons, at different times in our lives, we all get served heaping helpings of grief, desperation, regret, shame, disappointment - sometimes all at once. And, in the case of people with depression, sometimes for no discernible reason.

The most crushing aspect of depression and its cohorts is the false perception that your pain is so diabolically personal that it cannot be shared or understood, to say nothing of being addressed or overcome.

tl;dr you're never alone, in fact more people love and respect you than you know - try to never forget that.
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Unfortunately, Siri does not use the system wide proxy. At least it does not on my iPhone. I tried intercepting the traffic with sshmitm which did work for all other iOS services (e.g. game center) but not for Siri. I'm wondering how these guys sniffed the traffic.
The author seems to think that 'welfare economics', 'the burdons of socialism', and 'socialized losses' are failures of capitalism. They are aberations and deviations from capitalism.
Vint Cerf is about as classy as they come. He's a captivating speaker -- his was easily the best talk I've ever attended. He can talk about incredibly high level, complicated concepts (in my case, it was "internet in space"; in this case, "SOPA") in a way that makes them easy to digest for people who would normally be woefully under-qualified to comprehend the concepts.

I'm incredibly glad he has the backing of a company that can put him before the government.
No, a read write lock is a lock designed so that multiple readers can hold the lock, but only a single writer can hold the lock. That way readers know no write is taking place(as many reads as you like can take place), and writers know they have exclusive access.
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Ask HN:  Review My Startup AboutOurWork.com
AboutOurWork is a social business network designed exclusively for the small/micro-business community.

Problem:

Businesses are inherently social - especially small business and micro businesses. Unfortunately, micro businesses, those with fewer than ten employees, are under-represented online and offline. And the few that do serve the micro-business community (like the Chamber of Commerce) are painfully antiquated. The significant social networks (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn) are out of touch with the unique needs of the small/micro-business community (focusing instead on big brands) and provide very little utility to them.

Solution:

AboutOurWork aims to disrupt the social space by giving small business the ability to create a web presence and to create meaningful connections with others in the community, then visually graph each businesses connection.

1. Business Profile: AboutOurWork is the only social network that allows the SMB to create a Business Profile and then use the profile as their website. No other social network offers this as an option.

2. Business Connections: AboutOurWork let's the SMB connect with other SMB's then visually graph those connections for potential business partners to see.

3. Social Graph: We collect connection type, depth, frequency and recency in order to visualize how the small business community is interconnected... creating the first-ever social graph for the small business community.

We aim to serve the small business community with has largely been ignored by social media and would appreciate any feedback on the business.

http://www.aboutourwork.com
For some context here's another error handler in Google Go:

defer func() {
if r := recover(); r != nil {
if err, ok := r.(runtime.Error); ok {
if err.String() == "runtime error: index out of range" {
// handle bad index
return
}
}

panic(r)
}
}()

vs

try {
}
catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException ex) {
// handle bad index
}

A language where you have to resort to string compare to handle invalid array accesses can't be use as a model for good error handling IMO.

Of course that's just the tip of an iceberg with no way for IDEs/tools to know what return is an error, no way to know at a glance if "_" was an ignored error or ignored other extra return value, plus other fundamental problems caused by implicit types.
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Yes, you're right, in fact I found a few weeks ago that even Squid can do that.
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MPEG-LA needs to keep Microsoft as a customer. Your biggest customer often has more influence on your business model than your smallest customer. If Microsoft can show they are willing to make moves to no longer be a customer of MPEG-LA, MPEG-LA will make moves to show that Microsoft should continue to be a customer.
I see. So this would be somewhat like saying

except MalformedLogEntry, ex:
line = fix(line, ex)

and having ex encode the information that fix() needs to do its job?

If that's the case, then I can see the value in having the ability to pass such information around baked into the language. The code I have is growing more and more ugly, and the only way to simplify it is to introduce some kind of a coding convention that is not common to Python.
Apple on pace to sell record 5.3M Macs in holiday quarter
Maybe, but is Microsoft MPEG-LA's biggest customer?
I am in an interesting situation right now in which I and my co-founders agreed to certain financial terms. The main one being that they would send a small check every week. There was some doubt about the progress (a lot of features where added after the fact) but non the less they where uncomfortable. So I allowed them to modify the payment terms to give them time to feel comfortable. There is always a way to remove doubt even if you have to give a little when you would be justified in putting it back on them, in my case i could have put it back on them and said, you guys almost doubled the scope but the reality is many of those features are needed to make a great product, which is a common goal i share with them given that i am not in a pinch i can wait on the funds but by doing so and giving a little even when i was justified in not doing so, i was able to remove some of that doubt, because i know more than anything, doubt unaddressed is a start-up killer.
Are those air fields to the northeast? They have the same kind of coloring as the evaporation ponds, but the look like runways to me.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.49081,93.510867&... looks interesting as well.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.45374,93.743119&... another similar looking grid further east.
what a waste, at 21 and with Diaspora on his resume, he could have gone on to work at Google or Facebook, making $100K-$200K/yr. The skillset was there.

Sure it's not as much as owning the next Facebook...but it's plenty of money to live a comfortable life...and nothing was stopping him from trying again in a few years.
How to go from East Coast to Silicon Valley startup?
I live on the East Coast, but my dream is to be in a startup in Silicon Valley. What is the best way to accomplish this? Should I look for a job in an existing startup and only later have my own, or should I skip that and somehow find a partner for a startup right away? And what would be the best way to do that? Thanks.
If you buy just about anything on the list, it immediately makes many of the rest of the things on the list "Nice to have". For example, if I buy an iPad 2, the Nook and the Macbook Air immediately become a little less desirable or unnecessary. And obviously, if I buy one of the smart phones, the other two smart phones become almost useless to me.

Well done!
Hmm. That sounds like a big security hole. Phishing attacks in particular. Though I guess the extra clicks should discourage users.
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A question, I do not mean to be dramatic. But, is there some type of out-reach program for start-up founders to prevent this sort of thing? Let us admit that founding or working in a start-up is extremely stress-full compared to other work or professional activities.

I know each one of us has a circle of friends that they have cultivated to provide unconditional support so that when they need that its there. But even when you do that you might hit obstacles that even overwhelm that.
I've often wondered whether an AI system like OpenCyc could derive its knowledge base from web content, rather than relying on rules and assertions written by the AI's human caretakers. If anyone could do that, it would be Google.
Do you remember when the Italians shut down Italian wikipedia because the Italian government was going to pass something stupid? Since this legislation would make it possible to sue wikipedia in the united states, it would make sense for wikipedia to shut down in the US in protest to this bill.
How would you do, in your case, if the parse_log_file function does not know the best strategy if a log file is corrupted? Maybe this information is known only by the caller.

I don't know how to solve that in a language without restarts. The information of what to do could well be asked to the final user (with a dialog box) once an error is catched, the callee would then restart at the point where the execution was interrupted applying the chosen strategy.

EDIT: rereading your Python code, I guess you're right and have the closest equivalent.
Missing the point, I think. There's no security bug here. The application isn't responsible for verifying the root CA in typical security models (though some, like Chrome, do something similar -- that's how the compromised Dutch CA was discovered). The idea is that the CA list is populated by your platform vendor and you trust it.

The trick here was that Siri was asking for an HTTPS connection to a named server, and you can't MitM that without having a signed cert for that server. So they added a new CA to their local (jailbroken) iPhone platform data and signed a cert for the Siri server.
the original gizmodo article has more info - http://gizmodo.com/5859081/why-is-china-building-these-gigan...
These represent the layouts of streets in Washington,DC and lower Manhattan. They are testing their low cost, nuclear tipped, artificial intelligence controlled cruise missiles on simulated targets.
Do it nicely of course, but basically that's what you should say. Play to your strengths. You don't own a company -- maybe you don't even own a suit -- so you play to a college student's strengths which are social media connections and spare time.
He wasn't defending the internet, he was fighting a hearts and minds campaign against China.
Ask HN: How can I find a good partner to start up?
How could I find an experienced or dedicated person to my project? I am really struggling on finishing my idea, and move forward the project. I just graduated on a Chemistry major, since that, I dont really know too many software engineers. Thats not the point. I need a partner to evaluate the feasibility or improvement on the project. In this process, I feel lonely, and helpless. Who could gave me an idea how could seek for a group of people to spark ideas?~
Headline is misleading, or at least I got the wrong impression. I thought it was talking about a new law, but it's talking about the existing law. At the end it even mentions an amendment that specifically excludes TOS violations.

Headline makes it sound like bad news, but I'd say the article is actually good news.
You appeal.
When I wrote my comment I wasn't thinking of lots of up-front planning. I was thinking along more simple lines like root cause analysis using a human factors or equipment taxonomy (much more affective then 5-whys).. and simple logging of incidents for later analysis.

I think some of these kinds of processes can be adopted with small investments in training and change.

Also, a lot of these kind of failures seem to stem from changes at the networking layer.. which should be more planned and tested given their place in the stack (we're not talking about crazy app behaviour).
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I wonder if there are any characteristics about the microphone in Apple devices that the servers could check the audio against to prevent this sort of a thing. There should be a way to somewhat distinguish the device used to record a stream given Apple's control over the devices on which Siri runs and overcoming that would be hard enough for anyone to bother.
Something along the line of Nuçi's Space, in Athens, GA which provides these types of services for musicians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuçis_Space
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internet search is just a niche.
I think you completely misunderstand Ilya. He emphatically did not want to work at Facebook for $100-$200K/year.
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I'm quite happy with my Nook Color.
Be it call, email letter or in person. Volume is the key.
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Is it just speculation that his suicide relates to his work life?

(And not, say, girl/health/money problems...)
You're conflating useful with productive. Huge productive industries employing tons of people are built around things that are merely trendy and fashionable (pop music, LV purses, etc).
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I'm looking forward to this bill passing. As soon as we drive normal internet activity underground, there will no longer be any stigma to being underground. Everything will be encrypted and hidden to people that don't "know the key", and Hollywood and the government will be the last people to know the key. Reading BoingBoing and downloading the latest Hollywood crap will look exactly the same to everyone monitoring the Internet except the person actually doing the downloading, ushering in a new era of freedom.

Just like there are no laws regulating the sale of illegal drugs (and the market is flourishing), soon we will have an Internet that the government can't censor. Illegal is the new legal.
So imagine it being a marketplace. When some bill needs to be beaten and a lot of money collects then the voters can select which lobbying firm to give it to.

And this would lead to them getting the money and having to prove what they are doing with the money.

So its like a marketplace connecting lobbyists to constituents.
It'd be interesting to see whether or not Apple changed the Siri protocol since the acquisition. Was this originally how Siri worked when it was independent?

Because Siri has roots in government contracting (it's named after SRI International, and was originally funded by DARPA) I wonder if the roots of the obfuscation start there rather than at Apple.
I'm surprised that wsj is portraying that Apple is the driving force between HTML5. It seems to me to be a much more "grassroots" level idea than one coming from the top down.
Not everyone gets to be a dotcom millionaire...plenty of people have to work for a living. And with his skillset, at least he didn't have to settle for a $20K/yr job flipping burgers.
And for anyone thinking about ways to fix that problem, the researchers could have hooked SSL's read/write calls using a DYLD interposing library. Once you get superuser access on the phone, you can't trust your code to be safe.
Do what, exactly? Google has already stated multiple times that Microsoft doesn't have a leg to stand on. Microsoft hasn't brought any claims against Google, just people who implement the phones.

Google could probably sue Microsoft for slander, but again, Microsoft hasn't been going around telling the world that Android is infringing on it's patents. They, Microsoft, just go to the manufacturing companies, and even then they are making sure that manufacturing companies sign NDAs to keep the information from going out into the public.

And Google can't sue them to say, 'Tell me what you got.' Because that is fishing, and a form of intimidation, I think. I don't know the right legal term for it, but I do know you can't do it. So Google's hands seem to have been tied up until this point. Now that there are some information in the public, maybe they'll do something now.
> And fears they are. I have to psyche myself out before every call, despite the fact that all of my calls have been pleasant, and most of them have produced meetings.

This, a thousand times over, is my biggest obstacle for cold calling. However, like anything, once you get into a good groove, the calls become easier and easier as you get more confidence in your pitch. Definitely something to just keep drilling away and practicing at!