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With the Internet it is possible to involve the public much more than just with online elections. The FSF for example uses a website where people can comment on each draft of a license [1].

[1] http://gplv3.fsf.org/comment/agplv3-draft-2.html
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The don't need to. Most of the expertise came from multi-national corporations, who would be happy to help out.
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I agree with your points. But what if the idea is sound on paper? The fact that people change is a variable in itself and that is my argument. No one can truly predict that this person or that will turn out to be a good entrepreneur. The 'lemons' that are picked may well be correlated not to the idea but the founders. A weighted balance on both parts (idea and entrepreneur) is required. Or is that too rare or difficult to achieve?
Ask HN: Jenkins, Hudson, JSLint, and Netbeans
Ok, so at work we are using continuous integration and we decided that it was a good idea to use JSLint as part of our code quality process, however, running JSLint on our code now produces so many errors that the build is labeled as unstable.

This lead us to the next step, trying to remove the errors, but here Netbeans is still of little use. To get this to work, we need to fix thousands of style errors.

What process would you use to fix these errors quickly and effectively on a continual basis?

##here is what i tried.

using http://jsbeautifier.org/ ( not jslint compliant )

using http://jslint.com/ ( does not format jslint )

trying https://blogs.oracle.com/ashamash/entry/integrating_jslint_more_tightly_into ( some help, but still sluggish to look at the error list and compare line by line. )

coming up with regexs to fix some errors

##what i have not tried

creating an ant task to take a list of regex rules and apply them to the JS files. ( probably a few days worth of work to get them all )

fixing the jslint/netbeans connection ( probably a weeks worth of work )

switching to closure style checkers and formatters ( unknown )

are there any other suggestions out there?
Are there any language issues, or do some of the companies use English at work? While German is certainly a language I'd like to learn at some point in the future, being able to speak English immediately would be a big help.

Also, a slightly unrelated question--I'm a college student in the Bay Area. Would it be practical for me to intern at a company in Europe (say, in Berlin)? Because I would really love that, especially if the company was a startup.
How difficult is it for one to get the proper visas to Germany (EU?). What are the requirements of obtaining a visa? Can I start a business or work for some one on a tourist visa?
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Certainly if you operated such around random spectators, you'd want to be sure the beam cannot be aimed or reflected at them, but there are certainly ways you could ensure that is so.

The builder on his own, he can do whatever he wants...
Though those are valid definitions, I don't think "harass" necessarily has that violent connotation in most people's minds. It is commonly used as a slightly more intense form of "pester." I've actually heard people laugh at the term being used to refer to violence, because they think of it as a synonym for "annoy," and the idea of being "annoyed by gunfire" is humorously mild.
I'm sure the actors had a hand in making them resonate.
Also in the news: Zynga's PR agency wakes up from their hookers 'n blow coma.
Down for me, Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:96bt8LH...
Big surprise, something bad happens to Zynga PR and Dan Primack is out there with a story about how it's not actually bad.

This sequence of events is getting old.
Everyone speaks decent english. Some companies might prefer you to speak German in the office, but startup companies and tech companies mostly use English as well.

Which college? I interned as a student from Stanford, and Stanford actually paid for my internship. Internships tend not to pay so much, however, so don't expect too much money. But yes, you can definitely find work there. Are you a coder?
Ahaha. And look what happened to Digg!

I think the metaphor is even more apt than you realize.
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In that Burger King, Andy Boyle thought he was listening to the disintegration of a couple’s marriage. He was really hearing the crumbling of his own ethics and self-restraint.

He might also have been hearing the crumbling of his own finances. His surveillance and subsequent reporting may be legally actionable and if I were that couple, I'd be lawyering up about now.
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I'm calling BS (or at least poor research) on the story. I personally know 4 businesses that did groupon deals, and none of them got the money up-front. In fact one of them had the opposite problem, and it took several months to get the check (The account rep had apparently screwed up some paperwork, got fired, and it took a while to get straightened out).

Also, how would groupon even know what the check amount should be up front? I guess they have some history on how many deals they sell by type / geo at this point and could estimate, but it seems risky (on both sides).

Maybe groupon does advances for larger businesses or national brands, but I don't think they are the ones who would need to raise quick case.
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In Estonia voters can change their e-votes an unlimited number of times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia#Ov...
Sure, there's only one IPO. But what about things like vacation time, bonuses, raises, and promotions? As someone else said, unless I've got it written down in a contract that (at least) a couple lawyers have told me is basically unbreakable, I'm going to be worrying about them deciding that I don't deserve what we've previously agreed to just to save/hoard some money.
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"He wanted to bring in partners that he had previously screwed over..."

That is so classic. It really does get kind of Monty Python-ish.

Like I said in my post above, I have a lot of stories. If I ever wrote a book about it, I'd have to tame them down quite a bit to make them believable.
Getting a visa isn't impossible, but you need a good reason. I got a working visa through my university, but many people can get 'artist's visas, which allow them to stay if they are practicing any sort of art (photography, djing, music, whatever). These artist visas are not so difficult to get.

A residence permit is also quite easy. But a working visa can be difficult----you need to be sponsored first.
I'm sorry but what does twittering about a public argument and stealing nude pictures from Bourdain have in common? The whole thing is sensational - don't do stupid things in public.

"He was really hearing the crumbling of his own ethics and self-restraint." - Really?
Maybe the fact that these services are popular should be a signal that they provide a value that you happen not to understand (or have a use for at this time).

Entrance into contracts by free individuals: legalize it.
Wow was my spelling mangled. Thanks iOS. That's "made PCs" and "These days" and "but it's one"
Congrats guys. Very cool product.

We've found lots of opportunity to make email marketing more sophisticated, and not enough smart engineers thinking about it.

BTW There's a belgian company called 8seconds ( http://www.8seconds.net/ ) with some similar dynamic-image loading tech, combined with (I think) multi-armed bandit split testing on the backend.

- Aarlo from MiraPost
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a lot of technically inclined people know a
lot of other people and want to interact with
them socially

I remember a time when Facebook was the gathering place for technically inclined people, while normal people would hang out on MySpace or Hi5. I also remember a time when Apple products were reserved for professionals doing either creative work or software development. And speaking of Google, I also remember a time when Yahoo and AltaVista were used by normal people, while people with in-knowledge would quietly type "google.com" in the address bar.

For me, I never liked MySpace or the copycat Hi5 because noise, eye-bleeding page customizations and idiotic comments were actively encouraged and I couldn't stand it. Then Facebook came with a cleaner design and (initially) a more well-behaved audience and so I was hooked. But now that initial advantage is gone, the masses found out about it, so half of my news feed is filled with invites to idiotic games or stupid jokes and I don't have the patience to block them all (on the other hand Google+ has a spam problem already).

The reality is that technically inclined people are the trend setters when it comes to technology, not the other way around.
Wow, I had no idea about the cheap housing.
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You don't know whether or not it's a legal issue.
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Diagram for a Bernoulli process using R
Impressive as a home build.

They banned colour lasers in Austrailia circa 2000.

At the millennium party Mobile Home they used a commercial laser to project whole Tom and Jerry snippets onto the cliff face of North Bondi.

The ban came in shortly after and we were left with monochrome :(
>Is it really silly? Gmail doesn't have version numbers. Facebook doesn't have version numbers. Hacker News doesn't have version numbers. Twitter doesn't have version numbers.

Web apps and installed programs are completely different animals.
Interesting, in that case would it not be wise for all of the disgruntled employees who are about to be screwed over to just refuse to give back the stock, get themselves fired and then start a lawsuit and assuming they win use all the money from selling the IPOd stock to start a business that directly competes with their previous employer?
Whether all people go voting or not is irrelevant as long as they only can vote for so called "representatives" who then make all the important decisions.

It is more important to implement unfiltered direct democracy first. I want to vote on some stuff directly and let somebody else vote for me on stuff i dont care about. Thinking hard about changing _how_ to vote without changing _what_ you are allowed to vote on is a waste of time.

As long as I can not vote on stuff directly, I dont care for elections at all. All parties are the same, all representatives sooner or later become corrupt. The game is rigged in favor of people with money & influence, elections are a lie.
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There's both a preference to disable it for an application, which can also be applied globally. Apps can also add a preference to their own app to toggle it. A "Mist enabler/disabler" app should be written to allow you to configure it easily, IMO.
^^^This is an accurate and very important rebuttal. Groupon has taken flack precisely because its cash flow depends on delayed payments to vendors. The vendors emphatically do not get paid up front.

If they did, Groupon would actually not be in business right now. The amount it owes vendors exceeds its cash, but by the time it has to pay it has sold more Groupons. In other words, Groupon pays old liabilities with new ones (this is, obviously, a point of intense controversy).

http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-low-on-cash-2011-8?op...

"...it collects cash from Groupons the moment it sells them and doesn't have to pay some of the cash to merchants until 60 days later..."
The irony of course being that anyone good enough to be in his target market for "top talent" is probably going to take one look at a move like this and run away very fast.

Meanwhile, he's likely to see an exodus over the coming months of other good employees whom he didn't try to screw (this time) but who also now realise that the benefits of staying long term aren't necessarily worth the paper they're printed on.

You can pretty much write the rest of the story when something like this happens. The only question is whether people like Pincus himself will manage to cash out at some stage before Facebook intentionally or otherwise pulls the rug out from under Zygna in much the same way and the potential value of an IPO plummets.
Thanks everyone. Ya I have been hearing SeedEdition has the same features as Chargify. I will definitely look into everything.
A few years back I showed that movie to someone who hadn't seen it before. They were utterly floored at how many catchphrases they already knew came out of that one screenplay.
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It seems like this is where the world is going. As soon as you leave your home you will be recorded, eventually by automatic cameras and microphones. Every place you go and everything you say or do will be recorded and spread to the world. Other services will analyze all the data and inform your family, friends, boss and business contacts when you do something of interest to them.
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The url craps out on my iPad so... Meh. And what the other poster said ... It's hard to imagine urine being a better fuel than it is fertilizer.
But nothing has really changed, except what they refer to each release as.

I've always been a fan of this definition:
A minor release contains bugs fixes and minor feature changes (For example, 1.0 to 1.1). Major releases include major functionality and feature enhancements (e.g. 1.x to 2.0).

The problem comes in that they're releasing minor bugfixes and patches as major releases, for no other reason than to compete on the numbers system.

I don't think the answer is "abolish the numbers", I think the answer is "be honest".
I'm just a regular user, not a business per se.

But I like what they are doing with the +1 button, or with the customized search results. I think it's pretty cool experimenting with my own blog / trying to stand out in the search results and it's also pretty cool seeing your face in that list :) -- not that I want to earn any money from it or whatever.

Google's direction is pretty clear to me. They are giving people the tools to promote themselves online. This is not necessarily a bad thing, although the nymwars left a bad taste in my mouth that I hope they'll rectify.
> What Zynga did ... is little more than morally-acceptable business as usual

Exactly. I'd like to congratulate Zynga's PR team for both disseminating their message in a prominent publication in an urgent fashion and for dumbing down the issue into Red Sox hyperbole so that even the most simple reader can grasp the wrongs to ownership in having to over-pay an under-performer like Carl Crawford.

But what they fail to mention is that outside of few very talented developers who can keep the ship above water, Zynga is free to scrutinize any and all employees using whatever standards they deem fit and demote the lot of them, recovering as many outstanding options as they want.

This is all probably legal, of course, and given the economic times, I'm sure many Zynga employees will be happy just to have a job. But make no mistake about it, Pincus isn't building a company with an eye on the future, he's selling it. And the more he has to sell, more money in the bank for him, even if he has to repeal every single stock and option grant that he can. In the end, even those who help him get away with this will be so few in number and power that they too will get the Pincus treatment. Buyer beware.
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I usually like Primack's work, but he is so wrong here it hurts.
I'm tempted to spend a bit of time there next year. I occasionally do some work for some guys not too far away from Berlin so I have something I can justify it with (northern working class roots means I still think of travel as bourgeois frippery). I'd be interested to see any lists of meetups/that kind of thing that happen regularly.

My dad spent some time there in his army days and I remember him telling me that beer was cheaper than a cup of tea from the roadside stops. Glad to hear that's still the case!
I didn't downvote you, but - how? And why?

Can a conversation that is forced upon other people (in a different setting I could imagine that guests in that BK complain about the couple shouting) still be considered private?
I haven't been a university student for some time, but everything you listed in your blog entry seems intriguing. Any idea how difficult it is for programmers with a few years experience + degree to get a visa there? Also, what is the duration on them?

I liked the article, btw!
Another, perhaps even easier and more obvious solution would be to guess the country based on IP address and prepopulate the field.
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nice idea, but the graceful degradation also needs extra work if usability is the goal. On Opera Mini, for example, it's a text box. The javascript will round-trip to the server, taking several seconds. I'd much much prefer the dropdown. Out of context, i'd not even know what to type into what appears to be just a text field. You could consider this a usability flaw in Opera Mini, but it means a usage drop for many mobile browsers for sure.
Confucianism is historically the heart of Chinese culture. Taoism has never been as singularly influential in China as Confucianism has, nor is its "resurgence" sweeping away Confucianism. Assigning the idea of e.g. fatalism to "mostly Taoism" is also inaccurate. As far as popular beliefs go, Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist beliefs have mixed together in the past centuries when we're talking about the influence of these set of teachings on the Chinese population (at least before 1949). Categorizing Value X as belonging to System A is too simple.
I'm currently doing EECS at Berkeley and am definitely a coder. I doubt Berkeley has any similar program, but nothing like that has ever come up--all of my internship talks and the like have been with the companies in question directly, leaving the university completely out of the loop.

Do you mean the internships in Berlin pay less than ones here, or just that internships do not pay too much in general? I think it would be a perfectly good compromise if I got to spend the summer abroad, especially if the cost of living is so much lower than here.

Coincidentally, this wouldn't be my first internship--I spent the summer at a company in San Mateo and now work part-time for a startup in San Francisco. I'm just getting tired of California.

I visited Berlin a couple of summers ago and loved it; I remember a calm city with very friendly people. I could definitely see myself moving to Germany at some point after graduating.
You may be interested to learn that the Epstein brothers' names were given to Joseph McCarthy's HUAC by Warner Brothers themselves.
The headline is technically true, but not very accurate; the database has since been brought up, but as the article states:

> Nov. 9 - HRSA restored public access to the database, but as many reports have noted, it comes with a major caveat. According to the website, users of the new database are no longer allowed to combine information gleaned from the public database with any other publicly available information in a way that would identify doctors. Or in other words, the government is now trying to tell the public -- including the press -- what it’s allowed to do with publicly available information.
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It's "ignorant" only if one narrowly defines (or conveniently ignores common definitions of) anarchy.

Anarchy can be a state of political confusion or disorder and/or defined as an absence of authority. Both are common usages.

Chaos is confusion and disorder.

So sometimes anarchy is equivalent by definition.
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Yes, this is true.
Sometimes you need to see emotional feedback to your work in order for it to feel worthwhile.
Just sitting at a computer ticking things off a todo list and occasionally pushing things to source control doesn't provide much satisfaction.
How in the world?

There are very clear laws and precedents that have hit the court room many times that make this situation very clearcut.

Boyle has done nothing illegal - recording anyone in a location where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy (a dining room at a Burger King definitely qualifies) is perfectly legal.

The use of this imagery is slightly more complex, but in this case there isn't really a case to be made. Non-commercial usage of someone's likeness in a broadcast is very well protected - and it can't be said that Boyle was using this couple's argument for commercial profit.

The only place where Boyle could run into trouble is recording on private (aka Burger King's) property. But even then, the laws around that are clear - unless there was clear signage prohibiting recording, or an employee of Burger King instructed him not to record, he's in the clear.

Morally? That's a minefield. But legally speaking I just don't see any case.
California does recognize a tort for constructive discharge, but only with the fairly high bar that involves violations of "fundamental California public policy" (as embodied in law or the constitution). I'm not sure this would reach that bar, though; here's an example of jury instructions that've been used: http://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/docs/caci/2400/2432....
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In Microsoft's Shadow, Seattle's Tech Scene Surges
Hmm, but if I understand correctly how this all works, even if you vote and pay taxes in Smalltown, if Bigtown is the default placename for 12345, the post office will still happily deliver mail to your address even if the envelope says "Bigtown, EG 12345" on it.

Of course, humans care about this stuff more than you can imagine. There was a minor kerfuffle in the Buffalo area a few years ago when a woman bought a house in Lancaster (an upscale suburb) only to find that the default placename for her zip code was Depew (a working-class suburb). She somehow managed to get someone at the newspaper to write a story about her plight, which included a note that her copy of Gourmet Magazine came late because she insisted on putting "Lancaster" in the city name. I'm not sure why that would affect anything unless she was also deliberately giving them the wrong zip code though.
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My wife is a middle school teacher and created a system similar to this using a Gmail account. She creates groups for each class, then emails to their SMS address (phonenumber@att.net or similar).

This looks so much nicer than jacking around with all the various carrier email addresses manually.

I'll have her pass this along to her district. Best of luck!
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TL;DR People don't have common sense and make fools of themselves, then try to blame others.
I used a tool that I wrote for myself, it turns out that it's way more handy than I thought it would be! https://github.com/jpf/domain-profiler/