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Agreed, but I take exception to Everest and Kilimanjaro being put in the same bucket. Climbing Kilimanjaro is evidence of: appetite for travel; willingness to take on challenges; reasonable fitness; good will power. ~10,000 people do it each year. It's probably two or three sigma off Olympic / Everest standard - not that Everest is the pinnacle..
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I remember a similar styled ad notification about a year ago for the cr-48 test in chrome & chromium dev channels.
That may be precisely the problem, though - I'd venture to say that Apple will be looking closely at that app. If it becomes a browser replacement/alternative, then chances are it won't be given continued life.
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Posted to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8221381/where-does-email-...
You're right, but my contention is that the "work" is the relatively easy part - the hard part is navigating the social/political context in which the work is being done.

This may sound incredibly silly, but if a giant Fortune 500 company contracts with you for a huge consulting project, it doesn't matter if you're "right" - if the "right" answer isn't one that's relevant/applicable/palatable to them.

My argument is that being able to "play the game" under the unspoken rules that your future employer sets out is a useful signal for being able to "play the game" with the unspoken rules/strings a client attaches to a contract.
Where does email sent to *example.com go?
Ask HN: What's your take on Pragmatic Bookshelf texts?
I've had the opportunity to go through a few Pragmatic Bookshelf titles in the past years, such as the general programming Pragmatic Programmer, and several more language specific books like Agile Web Development with Rails.

I've recently started reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning and Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, as I'm specifically interested in the general development/programming/learning topic, as I want to work towards being the best developer AND learner I can possibly be. It sounds to me like the Pragmatic folks strive to be the "you got to have it on your shelf if you're a serious developer" series.

Is that pretty much the case, and is one's time very well spent reading their texts, or is there even better literature out there that you'd personally recommend?
Dyson's right about Russia having a wealth of talent, but I'm surprised he didn't take into account the US University system and the amount of immigrant talent it attracts each year.
Self-Made Man is a tale similar to Black Like Me, where it was a writer's experiment, rather than a transgender exercise.

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/d...

There are also a lot of interesting works by transgender people, but the perspective there is different, since they usually report that they never felt comfortable in their birth gender.
I think you're right, and I think labels are helpful to certain artists (they provide a lot of capital, for a start), but they're not the only way for bands to get exposure.

Triple J Unearthed, for instance, is an Australian website (and digital radio station) attached to the Triple J radio station. Any unsigned Australian band can upload their music and have it listened to by someone from the radio station (as well as being freely available online for the public to stream or, optionally, download), and the good stuff gets played on Triple J. It's not a huge radio station - it has about 6% marketshare Australia wide (with I would guess 95% of that being in the 15-30 market), but it has massive market influence and has launched many massive Australian bands.

I don't think Youtube is (generally) a practical way for people to find new music either, but I also think that labels as we know it will soon be extinct, and that the music industry, for consumers and for artists, is in the best shape we've ever seen it.
AppleCare is a separate product [1]. All Apple products come with a standard warranty, regardless of where you purchase them, but AppleCare is different. Regardless, it's available provided you buy through an authorized retailer. Although, when you buy somewhere like Best Buy, there's a good chance that the blue shirt at the register will try to sell you their Best Buy extended warranty instead, which (IMO) would be a mistake.

The differences I'm referring to are the "human error" elements. I typically know what I'm buying, so I don't run in to these issues, but I know, also anecdotally, people who have both been taken great care of at an Apple store after they made a mistake in their purchase, and people who have been burned by buying third party.

A quick example. A friend bought a white MacBook at the Apple store. He explicitly asked for the newer model with the faster processor and 802.11n capable wireless chipset. Months later (literally 4 months) when attempting to apply the wireless N update, it became clear that he did not get the updated model. The clerk mistakenly brought him a unit with an upgraded hard drive, but of the older model. After an appeal at the Apple store, they swapped out the MacBook for a brand new one with very little haggling.

I also know someone who bought a mirror-front PowerMac (yes, this is an old example) through an authorized reseller. This was back when OS X was fairly new. He was unaware that he could not install OS 9 on it, which he needed for his publishing business. When he went to Apple, they explained that had he purchased the computer directly from them, they would exchange it, but that he would have to work with the retailer.

Both of these examples wen't Apple's fault. Quite the opposite, both were the result of carelessness by the purchaser. The point is that when you buy from Apple, the extra $50-$100 buys you a little insurance. I've also run in to cases where the Apple Store staff share some information that I may not have learned from someone at a third-party retailer. These little things have value to many consumers. Not everyone eats and breaths Apple.

http://www.apple.com/support/products/
Good point, a lot of the best could be making their way into the USA.
I think management and PR firms can definitely thrive in the new era if they adapt and match their efforts to new avenues of income that don't go through ASCAP, etc.

But labels? Why?? They came into existence for two reasons: recording was expensive and distribution was hard and required retail deals, physical storage and transport. None of those things are true any more.

A few will be around I suppose but only serving a narrow band of "mainstream" artists that live in a rarified world of High Media Royalty (Taylor Swift, et. al.) that has little to do with the vast majority of working musicians and writers. Those artists will find new ways of building followings and already are not chained to the old production/distribution models.
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Err, half of Alaska is Hawaii?
Give it a shot again. I've used it with several projects over the last 6 months and have had no issues. One of the projects also involved some fairly heinous malformed HTML, and PyQuery performed well.
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The Dyson in this bet is Esther Dyson, who, last I checked, was female.
Anyone who can code, no.

Anyone who can code well while remaining sensitive to business concerns and doing some level of networking? Depending on location, it can be far easier for them to find a job versus the average, even normalizing for factors like level of education. But at this point, we may be talking something like the top 5% of the industry, perhaps less.
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Meh. That's a bad definition of "elite" if you ask me; those aren't the most interesting jobs or companies. Entry-level "white shoe" law positions are horrible, and junior-level investment banking is an atrocity. If that's what they're calling "elite firms", then their standards are low. Those careers are miserable for the first 5 years-- unless proof-reading pitch books at 3:00 am on a Sunday is your thing.

Worth noting is that these firms go after mediocre Ivy graduates. The 3.8 CS majors are overqualified (except for quant positions). It's not about intelligence. It's only somewhat about social status. Mostly, it's about the people they're trying to hire: status-hungry kids with an unconditional work ethic. These people make bad hires in technology (unimaginative, egotistical) but are great junior I-bankers because they'll do whatever is put in front of them, even if it's the most awful work in ridiculous volume, for the sake of prestige.

What is the profile of the 25th-percentile (as opposed to 50th or 75th) Ivy Leaguer? Someone who's not especially smart, but loaded up on trophy extracurriculars and averaged a 3:30 bedtime during high school on account of perfectionism and overcommitment. For investment banking, that's the ideal hire for a junior position.
You need units; I typed in lasagna and got suggestions for "200 cheese" and "1 beef".

EDIT: just realized that I actually typed in "lasanga", hence the weird ingredients.
I was referring to physical dollar bills; how many drug dealers get paid by direct deposit?
The enclosure and switch are the same parts used to make guitar effects pedals.
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So who are the designers, and how are they going to do any of this in isolation? Previous attempts have resulted in bloodbaths because the only way anyone can design a society is with large amounts of force. And then the state of the society is better characterized by the bloodbath than by whatever design the bloodbath was intended to create or enforce.

Unintended consequences aren't the only reason you can't design society. The main reason is that society insists on designing itself. It's obvious with a processor who is the designer and what is the designed. Societies are full of people who don't agree with other people's "designs" and won't voluntarily cooperate. So either you give up, or you spend most of your time designing cost-effective means of imposing your designs by force, which always turns into some combination of mass imprisonment, mass murder, and repression.
Historically invoking the term "class warfare" has been a way to scare liberals out of broaching issues of class and wealth disparity in America. Using it here makes you look like a shill.

The Occupy movement is about finally having a discussion about these issues.
The app wasn't meant to attract new users but mainly to support existing ones, so it's an option that is "good to have" rather than the product itself. If a user or a company deploying Google Apps felt that they needed a native option then it's available, and for Google it won't cost much to maintain because they are already investing in the webapp.
I don't think the fail whales have gotten any less frequent. I still see them all the time and I hardly ever use twitter.

Just because a few execs leave the company doesn't mean that would cause more fail whales.

The real value is the engineering and ops teams who keep the system going. I'd look to see who on those teams have left recently.
I think you still see the old spirit of 4AD in labels like Bella Union, but those labels have adapted and become more involved in promotion and management, as well as providing a general aesthetic credibility with a certain community, like SST, Alternative Tentacles, Touch and Go, Dischord used to, and still do to some extent.

I think if you look at SST, Touch and Go and Dischord in particular you see a business model a lot closer to what needs to happen now: keep recording costs low, cultivate solid distribution relationships, network like mad and treat the artists fairly and transparently.
The "+" trick is great, except for sites that use hair-brained email "validation" scripts which reject the address. Sadly enough, these are often the ones that I most want to use the "+" for (its a great way to also keep track of who hands out your email address to spammers).
Honestly, I would expect someone with the qualifications you listed to be able to easily get a job at a highly desired company (fb, MS, google, fogcreek, etc).

Only having experience with a scripting language can easily land someone a job. I don't know anyone that is good at javascript or PHP that is also out of a job.

I don't know anything about algorithms, how to write a bubble sort, and I refuse to do anything open source. Still, I've always had a good job and even now have a decently successful consulting practice.
Because technology interprets inefficiency as opportunity.
I have a Cr-48, which should be substantially slower than those with the Samsung Series 5's, and I have no real issue with laggy scrolling. Biggest tip I can give is to disable extensions, I do that and the Chromebook flies. Then just slowly add back in the most necessary ones. This might solve your video issues too, as video works perfectly smooth for me. If you doubt this, just hop into guest mode and see how ridiculously fast such meager hardware moves when your own bloat isn't slowing it down.

On Google+ you should really scroll with the "j" and "k" keys, problem solved. :P
Storage plans
Yeah, I meant one that wouldn't charge ~$15K for commercial access. One that would charge per db access would be nice.

But it's not exactly the money (after all fifteen grand, although excessive is not prohibitive) but the unreliability factor: if you're building a business on a db API there should be a warranty that the company won't decide to abandon it or cut your access unreasonably.
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Ahh that's fantastic! Excellent way to rapidly prototype UIs.
I guess it probably depends what you are planning on doing with the extra monitor.

I've been happy with one monitor and alt-tab (CMD-tab on OS X) for a long time, but recently I've realized that the extra monitor comes in really handy for certain things. For me, that's having chrome open in one window and the chrome inspector in the other (this allows me to concurrently see + play with the DOM/css/js without it crowding the display).

When I have two monitors and I'm doing this sort of work, I never say to myself: "Oh man, I'm being so productive". But when I'm without the second one, I certainly miss it and feel less productive.
Aack, 3D pie chart... Arguably the worst of commonly-available plot types.
The web app is fine, but there's definitely room for improvement in a native app. This thing offers me nothing that I can't get by using the web app for most stuff, and using Mail.app for notifications. Which is what I've been doing for a year, and will continue to do.
The answer is incomplete. It has no MX record but it does have an A record which is used as a fallback. The A record for example.com/net/org resolves to the private IP address 192.168.43.10, which is where your MTA will attempt to deliver it.

So if you want to receive incoming emails without changing the DNS resolution for the example domains, setup a mail server on your local network using that IP address and you'll be RFC compliant and still get the email.
The two areas highlighted in the article show prefrontal cortex (front of brain) and PCC (towards the back) shutting down. The prefrontal cortex is associated with executive attention and reasoning, while PCC appears to be differentially dialed up or down in conditions with altered states of consciousness (like people under anesthesia, in a coma, or apparently meditating.) Shameless plug: We're using these neuroscientific insights to design a meditation self-tracking tool at http://brainbot.me now.
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I happily defer to your superior knowledge of mountain climbing. :-)
Perhaps I'm nitpicking here, but I believe they don't actually want the same laws for individuals and corporations. They don't want corporations to have the same rights as individuals.
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We get a lot of crap email address signups at http://feefighters.com
We do a little bit of filtering to check that the email address is legit, but let you get by anyway (with an additional click) if it isn't... we have a 1-click unsubscribe but this is making me rethink whether we should let fake email addresses through at all.

We recently got this email from Fake.com

Hello

We own the domain fake.com, and from time to time some moron out there in the world-wide-waste-of-time uses our name to try and sign up for something...

Not just that, there’s also a whole slew of dozy IT people who test links by doing the same thing without doing a whois check first!

Whichever it is, could you please delete this account?

Thanks
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fake landscapes
- the artificial plant company
http://www.fake.com*

Somehow I don't think this has the desired effect... that's a tough domain name for this sort of thing, feel sorry for the guy but not much we can do.
The top-voted answer is wrong. If there's no MX record, mail servers will attempt deliver to the A record.

example.com's servers don't listen on port 25, so the mail server won't establish a TCP connection and won't even begin delivery.

I tried to amend the answer on stackoverflow but I don't have an account and it needs to be "peer reviewed" or something.
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Ethical career? Doctor vs Banker
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The jet powered Heinkel was built with Ernst Heinkel's private funds, not government funds.
Android 4.0 Will Support Flash Player No Later Than The End Of This Year
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/091028.html

is a talk by a liquid robotics founder.
Ask HN: Do you plug your pc/laptop/ipad into your TV? Which one?
Man, I want to like Pomplamoose's music, but there's so little drive to the background :(

Maybe that's because the background seems to be built around the vocals, which is opposite what I'm used to- the vocals built on top of the background.
Sounds like there might be an inefficiency in the resume filler market that an enterprising future IBanker/Lawyer/Consultant could exploit.
I have believed this for a long time, however there is a big issue thats been nagging me for a while.

If labels truly do provide no value, and artists can gain more by being in direct contact with music fans, why hasnt it happened already?

As much as I love spotify (which is lots) it is still controlled (and owned) by labels, there are lots of things like cdnow which has helped the situation, and I dont doubt that a lot of truly independent direct artists to fans site + apps exist, but even as quite a large music fan pretty much all the music I am exposed to goes through labels, the internet has been around quite a while now, so if this is going to be disrupted, why hasnt it already?
It would have been awesome if you had put a secret message in the image, just for kicks.
Almost all of the "top achievers" I know also demonstrate exceptional talent in a completely different field.

I'm not so sure about that. What was Dennis Ritchie's exceptional "other talent"? Sergey Brin? David Patterson? Yale Patt? Linux Torvalds?
IPhone is flush down the toilet... then (awesomely) retrieved
Ron will have an interesting challenge at his new employer. I feel for traditional retail that the customer experience hasn't changed that much. Maybe it's because I'm a guy but when I step into a big store like that I want to know exactly where what I'm looking for is. I haven't seen a good solution to that yet for bigger stores.
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Can you please let me know where you're seeing this? I looked through http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321 for /\sa\s/i and /(fall(\s)?back)/i and didn't find anything related to this this behaviour. I ask because I'd like to have my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8221381/where-does-email-... be as accurate as possible (plus I'm now curious about this).

Thanks!
do you notice a lot of vans in your parking lot?
I love those books! Andy Hunt and the other Prag guys are not only nice guys, but their customer policies are very cool (beta books and free upgrades of ebooks.) As far as the quality of the texts, they are my go-to books. Except for The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez, I think Prag has some of the best Rails books around as well as pretty much every other topic they choose to publish.
I really wish there was a good way for non-americans to contribute to SpaceX.
While their spare use of external suppliers seems to make sense, it makes it even harder to contribute. I find it sad that the potentially biggest undertaking of mankind is once again an USA only party - run by a foreigner (Musk).

Well at least everyone will be able to buy SpaceX shares once they have an IPO.
Allow me to restate my claim without the words of which you disapprove. The most common message of OWS reduces to "households that make more than $500,000 a year are against everyone else." This is problematic.
Who's your customer? and 5 other customer development tips
I was head of east coast undergraduate recruiting at a consulting firm in LA. I'd say that the article is mostly accurate, on the whole.

I used to look through thousands of resumes at east coast Ivies. I'd basically throw away anything that had under a 3.3 GPA or a 1350 SAT, unless there was something completely out-of-this-league in the extracurriculars.

The issue is the same one that YC faces. There are too many applicants for these positions, and not enough time to adequately evaluate them. So if there's some sort of red flag on the application, the expected probability of making a hire after the interview is lower and it just doesn't make sense to interview when there are better resumes available.

It's like playing texas holdem. In heads up, a king-two has over a 50% chance of winning. But when there are 10 other hands, you don't want to take the risk of someone having an Ace. Similarly, there are lots of winning candidates out there, but there isn't enough time to interview them all.

If I could go back and re-engineer the process, I'd use far more statistics. I'm certain there would be something programmatic that would figure out a way to do it right.

I'd be willing to bet that in the next 15 years someone is going to go Billy Beane on Bain McK and BCG, pick up the talent that seems to be falling in between the cracks, apply technology to the consulting process, and make a killing.
It's looking good for Buffett:

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/11/21/hedge-funds-kiss-...
Yep, it takes a while to build a reputation.
> I don't know - do you?

Yes, I do. If it's relevant to your argument, shouldn't you also know?

> It seems very likely that they live longer even in jail than if they are being executed by death sentence, though.

Oh really? Based on what? Death row inmates have no risk from other inmates, good health care, etc.

> who have been on death row but were freed in time, maybe because of the initiative of that law professor with his students?).

The vast majority of said cases aren't innocents, but "wrongly sentenced", which is basically "sympathetic defendant".

> Maybe you mean 10 innocents per year?

Nope. 10 total in the past few decades.

> Perhaps it is also less likely that a case is being resolved after a death sentence, because there is less incentive to look into it.

Huh? People die every day in prison.
Ask HN: Any companies/products using Hunch API in a meaningful way?
I always thought they'd become an API company but rarely saw stories or showcase of products/companies build suing Hunch API. Anyone knows some good idea built this way?