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Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with.
Casas de intercambio de apuestas
Una de las ventajas de las casas de intercambio es que se elimina el margen de ganancia del corredor y muchas veces es posible obtener cuotas mas altas que con una casa de apuestas normal, entre otras ventajas.
The Oat Bran 60 day Weight Loss Challenge
Code School releases jQuery Air for free
That's weird. I'm using MongoDB on the backend. I think it's probably messing up being under the load of being on hacker news.
I don't think it's that interesting.

Buffett knows what he's doing. And we all know that the wast majority of managed funds perform worse then index funds.

And Buffett did not bet on any one hedge fund, which might actually outperform. He has bet on an index of them! And not over a short time period, where again, they could outperform. But over 10 years!

I would be SHOCKED if Buffett loses this bet.
the method fails for the exact same reason.

If a single method calls a super method and that method calls another super method then it fails.

Object.getPrototypeOf(this).method

Always have one value and only one value, calling it more then once leads to infinite recursion.
This may be the heart of the problem. If the databases built with this include keypresses, then when a user logs into a site using https, their credentials are being recorded before they are encrypted. This opens another vector for hackers to get and sell the information for malicious use by surreptitiously acquiring the data from the tier 1 carrier like Sprint or Verizon instead of needing to get it by hacking a bank.

With such a large number of potential victims, it would be difficult to determine if a wave of thefts from a particular institution were the result of the institution's security being compromised or if a CarrierIQ database was compromised.

I develop some on Android and have been aware of this product for many months now but I have no idea what data it collects and transmits. Just what it is capable of. So this may be a non-issue. For now, at least.
So Many Androids, So Little Income
Excerpts from Mann / Fowkes book, Wipeout Herpes with BHT
Is our thing complaining about the popular things from the lesser travelled discussion forums? Snickering about how the masses don't know Facebook from the web from the Internet. "The fools!"

That's obviously tongue in cheek but there's some truth to it. At the end of the day does it really matter if people are happy using the one thing on their computer that they can actually use and understand?
Google Lecture: Lawrence Lessig, Congress Can't Be Fixed As Is
I'm pulling the Hireable field from github. I will probably figure out a better way to determine if someone is hireable in future versions.
Guys look at this. I was about to same as CQ,
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/prominent-israeli-rabbi...

Things are about to get so hot over there. This is very big news. This could be the thing that sets everything off.
I bought this a few months ago, and it was very well done. The videos were informative, and the overwhelming majority of the exercises were useful and clearly written. Almost all the bugs have been worked out by now. The interactive console is is a fantastic way to learn with immediate feedback, and this implementation is better than any of the others I have seen.

I will say though, that after basically paying to beta test it, it does pinch a bit to see that it's free now. Oh well. I really hope these guys succeed, because they are doing great stuff.
As with TFA, I think ianstormtaylor was talking about doing so "manually" instead of via Siri: when trying to add a location to a task/reminder, Reminders does not provide some sort of text field for the address but asks you to pick a contact from your address book (it also gives you "fast access" to your current location and your home, but that's it).

Worse, I think: it does not let you create a contact from the spot either so you have to get out of Reminders, open the phone/contacts app, create a new contact, then go back to reminders and select the contact you just created. That is painful.
Norway had a strong law and order foundation before they hit oil.
I'm curious to try this thing out, but as a developer, I want to see what's entailed before I commit to it. I don't see any documentation, and when I click on the big "Get Wishbox" button, you ask for my email without giving me any information. I'm not giving you my email without (1) knowing what you're going to do with it, and (2) some documentation so that I know if this is simple enough to be worth it.
For me, it only needs one feature: "it isn't Google".

"Bing Is Not Google" used to be a joke of mine. Now it's actually a useful trait.
All of iOS5 was designed "under Steve's watch"...
What will you do? What did you do so far?
hey thanks s_m. definitely some bugs. most of those bugs are a result of a choice to launch quickly and see if anyone finds having a rank of github programmers useful.
It works for the paying customers.
MTB NK 2.41 - Nokia Broadcom unlock supported
How Zappos services and sells to the mobile consumer
Ask HN: Given that SOPA or a similar legislation passes, would you leave the US?
I live in Europe and when I was in school we learned about the "American job mobility" as a driving factor for the economical success of the US.
I understand this applies to mobility within the US but it does indicate a certain mindset.

Given the scenario that

- a bill like SOPA passes

- it is being enforced, creates a controlled internet and thus substantially threatens your business model as well as free speech.

- the current status quo (or "better") of the internet is being maintained in most of the world.

Would you leave the US?

- If not, how would you adapt?

- If yes, where would you go and why?
I feel like this is pretty well known; not that recipes can't be scaled, but that you can't reliably do it by multiplying the ingredients.

I just flipped through Ferran Adria's "The Family Meal", which is a record of every house meal served at El Bulli, each of which is scaled to 2, 6, 20, and 40 people. Sure enough, almost none of them scale every ingredient linearly (Caesar salad and hamburgers did, because you just make more dressing or more patties for more people).

In particular: oil, butter, lemon juice, onions, and intensely flavored seasoning ingredients (herbs in particular) often scaled by 2x when the servings scaled by 3x. In some places, an ingredient scaled by more than 3x to make 3x as many servings. Salt went in both directions.
A lifestyle business is one which growth founders will stop or slow once they've reached target income. At, say, $200,000 per year, a lifestyle business founder wants to do something else whereas a more fundable founder wants to add another zero to that income (then another, then another.)

On paper it's not a good idea to fund a lifestyle business because the risks are similar at the beginning but the reward is capped.
Can information technology improve healthcare?
> At least on ipad, you can switch the view from List to Date-based.

You can do that on iPhone as well.

> You then have a scrollable calendar view on the left.

Not that, but there is a "Calendar" button in the top left (lets you configure your lists in list-based view). There is also a list of the next 11 days at the bottom of the screen for quick access.

> When you tap a day, you can then type in a reminder on the right and it automatically gets added to remind you that day at 9am.

iPhone version behaves exactly the same.
You're saying that, knowing what the ingredients for duck confit were beforehand, you were able in 3 clicks to make this app say what the ingredients for duck confit were.

A better test (I make a lot of duck confit): do you know how to make duck confit now? Did you learn from this app? What are roughly the steps you learned?
The Isaacson biography states explicitly that Apple released those apps to counter the perception (which they disagreed with) that the iPad was for "consuming content only"...
Jdee is a pile of garbage which made me quit emacs twice before finally ignoring the package altogether on my third (successful) attempt to switch. While other deb packages exhibit the same symptoms from time to time, jdee specifically doesn't surprise me. JDEE has the midas touch but instead of gold you get shit. I feel pity for the debian package maintainer attempting to salvage such a horrible mess of code.

I didn't realize how angry JDEE made me. Two years passed since I tried to use it and that package can still bring out some latent rage.
I am missing the new approach. Maybe this is an explanation of how you applied lean and MVP principles?
This is an article whose lede is about a 22 year old killing himself, with a lolcat title ("U CANT HAZ SADZ"). I stopped reading right there. Can anyone summarize?
Ok, fair, but that is some really anecdotal evidence. Also, the amounts are low enough that you could even dismiss the evidence as having too low of a sample size.

This may hold true to your own personal experience, but it doesn't really have anything to do with getting a sense whether the income generated from Android devices is 5% or 10%.

You might be doing a terrible job at marketing to Android users, or have the wrong business model etc. (I'm not saying you are, I'm just saying we don't have any evidence from your information.)

I don't think anybody's trying to make the argument that in general Android produces more revenue. Only that it might not be as low as 7%, but possibly around 10% ?

Also, the article is criticizing the data the stats are based off, not trying to make an argument for the numbers being any different in real life.

I'm not saying you are wrong (of course you know your numbers better than anybody), I'm just saying that argument is completely irrelevant to the conversation.

Nice job, though, on the revenues. Your app(s) seem to be doing well :)
I am a knockoutjs lurker right now. Reading up on it and trying to understand how to use it because I have a project coming up. From what I see it seems great. There is even a Rails-knockout plugin to help bind the knockout objects to Rails models. I am excited about it. I think the binding of data to HTML elements is a perfect fit and natural extension of HTML. I briefly looked at backbone, but it seems very limited in the user experience portion of the puzzle.
Jak & Daxter returns
Sorry, I'd prefer to not disclose that.
Persistence Is Best Predictor of CEO Success: Steven N. Kaplan
I fully agree. These are things that _can_ help you prevent yourself from suffering damage, but do not guarantee it.
It would be nice if the viewport size was included in stats like this as that is more important than screen size.
James Cameron and Martin Scorsese discuss the use of 3D
The worst part of the app is that "Home" is not the default location reminder; "Current Location" is.

I don't know if I am in the minority, but I think there is a benefit the the American GDP, if Apple changed the default location to "Home", instead of forcing everyone to waste their time setting it themselves.
HP has sold more tablets in 2011 than Samsung
Well, if the winding road is self-policing because of self-preservation, why isn't the straightway? Sure, people will go 80km/h, even 90km/h, but why not, it's basically highway conditions.

In some sense, I don't really care who sets the speeds limits and who enforces them. The legislatve and bureaucratic tangle is so Gods damn dense from my point of view, I wouldn't even know who to blame. I'm not stupid enough to think the officer ticketing me in responsible for anything but what do I know, maybe the chief of police can say something to the mayor, like "hey, people going 80 on that highway-looking street isn't actually dangerous".

As always, it's easy to pass the "not my responsibility" or "it ain't desperately broke, no need to fix it" for government decision-makers.

Also, speeding tickets are the good old new tax.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Review
Yae!
"""How are either of those requirements wrong? I certainly expect my programs to be bug free."""

Good luck with that. What I said, though, was that "a problem has to be bug free to be useful" is a wrong assumption. We all use programs that have bugs, and still found them immensely useful.

"""Yes, in theory, you could rewrite TeX to be cleaner, while maintaining backwards compatibility and lack of bugs and regressions. In practice, this is very very hard. It's so hard that no one, no individual or company has managed to pull it off."""

What are you talking about? Tons of people have written TeX versions of their own, even in Lua, and most of those are widely used.

"""But hey, who knows? You could be the first."""

Hardly. There is LuaTex, XeTeX (even more widely used) and others. Are you just talking out of your ass? (Not to mention several other modern typesetting engines that are not TeX based. You make it sound like TeX is an impossible achievement).

Now, what I said I'd like to see was not a rewriting of TeX itself, but a modern version of a TeX like engine, with or without compatibility. Programs like XeTeX and Omega for example provide Unicode support and TTF/OT support to TeX, but I'd like to see something more modular, and with a more streamlined markup than TeX+LaTeX. While we're at it, even scriptable.

There are also some improvements found since in typesetting, like those employed in the InDesign layout engine concerning edge text and hyphenation.
That's a good point. We need your email address to send screenshots to you.

When you enter your email address, we will create a guest JotForm account on the background. When you receive a new feedback, we will send it to you.

We will add some explanation to the wizard.
The author is a man posing as a horse. The article is clearly not serious. The one before it was entitled "Piracy Should be Legal," in which the horse says that the internet is a copying machine because Xerox invented it.

I believe it's meant to be parody. That, or there's a horse somewhere that can type rather well with hooves.
incidentally if anyone has a solution to this particular problem with jdee I'd love to know :)

Shameless self-promotion ... over the past year, I've been working on a project that aims to solve this dependency hell problem: http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/cde.html

All you need to do is find a distro where jdee works, package it up with CDE, and then transport it to your own machine. email me if you have questions.
>Eat healthily and avoid alcohol

I'd include abstaining from a regular caffeine habit as well. It will mask sleeping problems, and can increase stress and anxiety which lead to a loss of sleep which leads to more caffeine!

http://stress.about.com/od/stresshealth/a/caffeine.htm
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I mostly attribute it to self-delusion.

Also, none of those 7 even did a proper A/B/A test on what they claim --while the counter-example is well shown in tons of tests.
Ask HN: Any developers looking for work?
Hi everyone! I'm a sixteen year old working on a startup and am looking for a web developer to work on a project for me. It would involve a payment API (Stripe, Samurai, PayPal), and then a lot of forms and stored data! I have a budget of $700-$750. Email me at jack@skimling.com if you'd like more information!
I don't have to :)

Well, ok, I use screen to detach irssi etc.. but not as a "window" manager
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yes, that's an accurate statement.

backbone and knockout focus on two different problem spaces: app architecture (backbone) and UI wizardry (knockout).

there are several plugins for backbone that bring model binding and other user experience enhancements to it, though. plus, backbone integrates directly with jQuery, so you have access to all of jQuery's libraries and plugins, still.
Are Israel's issues any worse than China?
Would you refuse to do business with China?
If you use aptitude in the ncurses ui mode then you can generally get somewhat more information and ways to solve problems.
This has no relevance to the posted story.
Virgin America's Web Meltdown: Four Weeks and Counting
Google libera Sistema Android 4.0
I hate todo list apps that make me enter a bunch of bullshit just to make a task. I actually really like how easy it is to create a task in the reminders app. I often don't need an actual reminder, I just want a list.
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Obviously cool stuff, but, is a user really going to invest their time in doing that?

We run a womens fashion store, and I know for sure our users WOULD NOT fill this out, or even interact with it. Would be interested in seeing some stats in 6 months.

Best of luck, of course!
It's not unthinking fundamentalism, it's an understanding of the reality of the consumer internet market.

What does a focal point have to do with this? There's no absence of information on either side, unless you just chose to ignore what you signed.

The ISP is providing you connectivity to their network, generally through a heavily subsidized connection, for you to get 'Internet' access. Discriminating between business customers and home users is something that occurs in many industries (see wholesale/retail). You get a significantly reduced price as a home user for reduced connectivity options/flexibility.

If you want or need the flexibility, you pay more and get a neutral connection, where they will (generally) happily route you whatever you need and can justify.

It's not an invalid contract, and what was suggested is fraud at it's most basic level. I don't see how it's different from using a vehicle as a business vehicle, but claiming it's a personal use vehicle to your insurance company to get a cheaper rate.
Thanks. There are many numbers in those charts that I don't understand. I was hoping that HN community will help:

Why there are so many 405 (method not allowed) errors? I get this from, e.g., Twitterbot.

Am I right? If someone GETs HTML and doesn't CSS then it's a robot? Why so many robots (web crawlers)?
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How much do you think Bar.com is worth? Seems like a domain that'd sell for a pretty penny.
This could be Israel's Rosa Parks moment.
I'm using the natural keyboards of Microsoft since the first model. I can't type in a normal keyboard from day 1. It's amazingly comfort and there is no way I could return back to the standard keyboards. I'm using the pc 14 hours per day and that includes much typing. I want to believe that the reason I didn't have any problem with my hands all this time (carpal tunnel) is because of these keyboards.

Unfortunately Microsoft isn't very fond of this series and since the last model (Wireless 7000) 2 years ago, it hasn't release any new model.
What styles of men’s wedding bands do you prefer?
They forgot to mention that without copyright there would be no clothes or cars, since the purpose of those items is unquestionably to dress up and drive to the movies. There wouldn't be any food either, because why would people eat if they couldn't watch TV at the same time? If you dispute this, just do a google image search for "TV dinner" and you'll see lots of photographic evidence to back me up.
Sorry, our bad. We cached the blog post on Nginx to serve it faster to the HNers. Then someone sent a release and wiped out the cache. Fixed now.
I work a full time job and am a small time weekend entrepreneur. I work with one other partner at a distance and developers half way around the world.

I find it is very easy to slip into crippling depressions for a few reasons:

1) Working after you get home from work is exciting at first, then very quickly becomes grueling and exhausting

2) Every time you take time off after work you begin to feel guilty and start assigning all free time guilt because you should be working on your startup

3) You are constantly aware that when you work alone, or mostly alone, your work can easily trail in scope and head in a useless direction. There is no one to check this for you.

4) You have to be everything, your own marketer, designer, UX/UI dev, product testing, QA not to mention planing and ideation for product features.

These all add up to really, biting off more than I can chew, which in itself is probably the cause of a lot of depression -- the sense of an insurmountable task.

Not sure the best way to combat that.
"Depression is a taboo subject in the startup scene, despite being very common. Be aware that it's common, don't be surprised when it hits you, and do something about it (and be sympathetic to those other founders who are depressed)."
It's way more than stateless autoconfig - privacy addresses and a host of other protocols assume the last /64 is a host address and flexible.

What a horrible assumption to tack on though - it should have been codified in the v6 RFC if that's how it's going to work.
This needs a little more explanation than just a webform.

Nice that the form is so short but no info on who it's for nor why they should take part.
That's a very good point. A few other points:

- Anecdotally, some (most?) of the "normal users" (non techies) I have seen use their android, don't have their Google account set up on the device. I would find it very interesting to know what percentage of people actually end up doing that, because on Android it's optional.

- If you don't have your Google account set up on your phone, you can't access the marketplace and some people don't understand how that works and what the marketplace has got to do with their Google account. Normal users associate their phone with their cell provider and don't even realize that Android is made by Google, etc.

I simply think that not that many people are installing and setting up apps on their phones.

This will probably change in the future. Ironically, this is very similar to the Mac vs PC wars in the 90s, but my belief is that Android will be the dominant player in a few years and even though, the market is small (so far), that that will change a lot.

Besides.. having a smaller piece of a bigger pie seems like worthwhile in the long run.
Thanks for the kind words phren0logy! We put a lot of effort into crafting these courses.

-Gregg
PTFS/LibLime's "non-open fork" of Koha is available on Github: https://github.com/liblime/LibLime-Koha. We gratefully accept pull requests and bug reports there, as well. We're pushing yet another release there next week.

Shortly after the acquisition of LibLime, PTFS offered up the koha.org domain for sale to several community members, including HLT and other vendors, as a means of hopefully rectifying the relationship with them. No one bit, so we've retained it.
Interesting question.

As I've been reading the developments of the SOPA legislation, the very thought occurred to me of what would happen if it passes, and whether I would consider leaving in the near or long term.

The problem is that once it gets to the point where it makes sense for intelligent people to think about leaving, it will become very difficult to do so. The trick is to leave before it gets really bad-- but how to know when that is.

And then there is the question of where can we go?

Canada is the first thought, but it's not easy to emigrate there from what I understand.
And Europe? Without an EU passport forget, about it unless you have very exceptional skills.

I lived in Japan for some years and would also consider there or another East Asian country, but even for those who know Japanese, for example, it is not easy to secure employment except in very specific industries.

I'm curious to hear what others have to say about this question.