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Just be smart...

My favorite bad example is a former kung fu teacher of mine. He was in a motorcycle accident that put him in a wheelchair a number of years ago. He recovered, mostly. And I always had sympathy for him, assuming he was a safe rider.

That is, until he told me the story, and it started with, "I was going 120mph in the left lane on on the LA Freeway one night..."

Don't be that guy, and you'll have much better odds.
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This item on SO has more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2135081/does-my-applicati...
What a load of crap. "We found tracking software on an 'open' platform, so you should switch to a closed platform"? Did this author ever stop to think that the reason we haven't found this on closed platforms is because it's harder to detect on closed platforms?

Has anyone ever said "oh, we found a bug in the Linux source, so you should switch to Windows because you can't see bugs in their source code"? Or "don't dive into that clear water, there's a rock there, dive into this murky water instead." Closing your eyes doesn't make it go away.

There's a valid argument in switching to open Android ROMs or having a real open source alternative.

>Given the choice between a closed software ecosystem and an open phone that spies on its user, we’ll take closed software every time.

HOW DO YOU KNOW APPLE DOESN'T SPY ON YOU, TOO?
For sure, if sitting in a chrome armchair floating across the slowly-changing landscape is your thing, rather than actually riding... :-P
I would guess that it is due to the busy time of the year and maybe to push their digital offerings to more people.
Lets get real here: Native Client is never going to make it into all browsers, especially mobile ones. The point of this demo is to show that JS is fast enough for our needs and we don't need things like NaCl to get good performance. Yes it runs best in Chrome now, but I have a feeling that other browsers will catch up soon. In fact, it might even run well in Safari now but unfortunately Safari doesn't support Float32Array and there is no shim... Anyway, worth testing.
Ask HN: Anyone with scaling skills to consult with us?
Hi there.

We are an established company (telecoms field) that is embarking on an internal 'startup' project. It will be self-contained, still linked to telecoms but we will have the need to scale, offer redundancy and have fast database access. Basically we are taking call data for millions of calls and we want to be able to mine that information. Over a 5 year period we expect to have in the region of 2-5 billion records (call information from number dialled, originating number, length of call, and around 10 other pieces of information).

Basically my knowledge is good but not good enough for this level (just being honest). We've chosen Python and Pyramid to do this, but need help with database choice, how to scale apps across servers, etc etc. We are looking for someone who has done this before. The company is www.performancetelecom.co.uk and we're based in the UK.

To get in touch you will find my personal contact information in my profile

Thanks. Ade
If all of what you've written is in earnest, then you've just insulted many soda lovers.

That said, the solution isn't to walk on eggshells around every topic that anyone could possibly have identified with. The solution is to be very, very cautious about making anything so much a part of one's persona that a stranger's critique of that thing feels personal.
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I also like cross country skiing and long walks on the beach.
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This seems like a wonderfully pointless gimmick.

I'm sure people said the same about Facebook apps back when they first emerged. Being able to "music-ify" your app is pretty powerful- one of the reasons there are so few sites like turntable.fm out there is that each site has to license the music individually.

If you could just tap into a user's Spotify account then you bypass all that.
Yes this is trivial.
EaselJS 0.40 released
I don't think Apple reject apps that leak "a bit". There's this older discussion on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1136511/does-apple-reject....

If you leak fast your app is unlikely to "not crash" and "remain responsive".
yup, thanks. I removed that bit from the post.

If I type "blabla" into the url bar and press enter it still goes to google, even if you change the default search engine to say duck duck go/wikipedia etc.

Also doesn't Firefox send google the url for 'safebrowsing', the anti phishing detection thing?
How does that play with the fact these changes seem to be checked into the GPL'd code? Wouldn't GPL itself give you a separate license to use the features regardless of whatever EULA Oracle comes up with?
I think the sessions in Node/Express are helpful when pair properly. For example, Express can use Redis as its session store. This has the benefit of making the session cross-cluster populated, while still being fast. Add to this the fact that almost everything in JS is serializable as itself and you get a pretty good replication mechanism.
I don't know about the Valley, per se, but my cousin in the greater East Bay area absolutely hates Kaiser after several major SNAFU's in her personal life. Among the worst: A Kaiser physician misdiagnosed her friend's cancer for two years, and also refused to refer for a second opinion when symptoms persisted and worsened. That friend subsequently died.

I mention this because, as I understand it, Kaiser is a big force in California -- that would include in the Valley. And at times they seem to receive significant positive press for what is touted as their program of... "cooperative" patient management combined with "effective" cost controls.

Anecdotal, but from my cousin as well as other people in my own life, I've heard rather a different story.

P.S. I guess I can mention that my cousin is a rather successful and well-connected health care practitioner, herself. So she's approached and dealt with this from something other than a clueless perspective. (I don't know about her friend, though.)
I like my Galaxy Tab. I found it actually is more usable as a tablet than the iPad. The home screens are more powerful, the native Google Apps kick more butt, and its multitasking is better.

Sure, it doesn't have all the apps, but I use the web more than anything.

The article seems to be written from a fanboy perspective. I don't care about sales. I care about the platform.

Android is open. I can do more with it. That's what I care about.
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Read those pesky Facebook social-news-articles without auth
I think this is a good case study in support of "never trust an internet-connected electronic device directly from a vendor". There should be a universal policy to unlock, root, or blow away any software that exists and replace it with "known good" software, like CyanogenMod, Ubuntu, or a new copy of Windows.
For comparison, here are some US rates:

T-Mobile: Unlimited txt/voice, 5GB data == $89.99 USD (2GB is 10 less, there is no cost overage after the cap, but the speed drops to less than 2G)

Sprint: Unlimited txt/voice/data == $110

ATT: Unlimited txt/voice, 4GB == $115, 2GB == $95
[off topic] Please make some clones of IDoneThis for other purposes. For example, it would be great to have something like "ISpendThis" to log our daily expenses.

[feedback] I'm a fan of your website. It helps me a lot to keep my discipline and improve my productivity. Thanks for such a great tool!
The end result of Duolingo would be a multitude of translation examples, which should be a huge benefit toward teaching machines how to translate.

I listened to the interview, read the website, and read through the quora page, and didn't notice this even mentioned. Did I miss it?
Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on Facebook within 24 hours
Will this mean that quotas will be overrun by Indians and Chinese in the next few years because of all the people that have been waiting in line, making it longer for other nationalities get a green card?
Facebook has hundreds of millions of users and no real barrier to entry. Spotify has 2.5M paying users. That's not enough to build a Turntable business off of.
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Your New York hate is just adorable - and belongs back on Reddit, not here.
Been debt-free, employable I have gone through the painful experience of failing. It isn't about your mechanical abilities being challenged, i.e. skills and ability to pay the bills, it's more about the astounding realization that "I cannot make it" thing. To be disappointed with yourself is much more painful than slavery IMO and is usually the cause of depression.
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No, but it's enough to throw together a proof of concept, or a quick hack, maybe a small app. Over time, Spotify becomes known as the music account to have on the net, both parties benefit.

I'm not saying it will definitely happen, but I can see it.
This a ridiculous argument. Nationality/Diversity based immigration is fundamentally different than qualification/skill based immigration. The US does both. Hence nationality should not be taken into account for skill based immigration.
A car can kill a pedestrian/bicyclist/motorcyclist at surprisingly low speeds. It's almost impossible to kill someone in a car at under 25 MPH or so (unless they drive off a cliff or something), but pedestrians can be killed by cars going as slowly as 10 MPH (they get knocked off their feet and hit their heads, usually). I read a very interesting paper by the NTSB or IIHS about that, but can't find it now.
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> you assume too much of rooting.

No.

> getting root access is NOT the same as looking at source code.

Er... duh? That doesn't matter, the kind of issues we're talking about here is usually discovered via blackbox testing (not whitebox), by tracing syscalls or core API calls (no need for source access for that) as well as network communications (no need for sources either).

> loggers could pretty much do nothing if device is not stock.

And the vast majority of devices are stock.

> what else could be have 'too greedy logging' 'by mistake'? you and me will never know.

Logging has to go somewhere, logging that goes nowhere is pointless. As soon as logging goes somewhere, it can be seen and traced.
Could have sworn this said "medieval justice".
It was in the interview.
I actually do this right now, but without SSH. I recently started writing my code on an HP Touchpad with a bluetooth keyboard. It started to get difficult to sync my work across multiple computers, especially when there was no network present at a place I wish I could work from. I got a Touchpad, installed Ubuntu on it, and now I can have my entire development studio and all my code wherever I go without needing to worry about getting to my Git repository.

There are times when I cannot test my code on the tablet, but at the very least I can write it wherever then push it back to Git and pull it to my test machine when I get back.
Seems driving in Barrow Alaska is much safer than I thought!

I wish I could switch on and off things. I want to see motorcycles only.
So, to take this to its natural conclusion, either you (1) don't think we should bother writing indentation, or you (2) think we should write indentation (presumably for our own benefit, since the language is indentation-ignorant) and then write some extra delimiter for the compiler.

In option (1), you're going against possibly the strongest majority opinion programmers hold. Feel free to make this case.

In option (2), you want us to write the same information in 2 different ways - one for the reader, one for the compiler/interpreter. If you want to make a case against DRY principles, I would love to hear that as well.

Is there a third option I'm missing?
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What do you mean when you say "independent of your stack"?

memcached, postgres, rabbit, etc aren't written in the language I use, but they're very much a part of my stack.

Using an external application to hold the WebSocket connections and be the middleman between your app code and the user is not automatically clumsy. Clumsy would be re-writing your app in JavaScript because you believe it's the only language suited to WebSockets.
The problem with significant whitespace is that you can't count on whitespace to be preserved across many common protocols. Text editors will convert spaces to tabs and vice-versa. HTML rendering eats whitespace. Cut-and-paste may or may not preserve whitespace.

Python has had this problem since its inception. If you're editing a Python program in emacs python mode and you hit TAB at the wrong time you can inadvertently change the semantics of your code. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I'm a big Python fan, but significant whitespace is a bad idea.
For the amount many people who heavily use their phones, I think the numbers are sound. 1% of the users probably consume 99% of the resources. You being that in top 1%.
The money Windows cost are nothing compared to Oracle fees.

You can buy Windows server editions for less that a developer's week salary. You'll need MUCH MUCH more than that for Oracle.
Agreed. I've reworded the Lite version checks a bit.
Where do I sign?

Do you think it would be hard to introduce such feature to CoffeScript on your own?
People mention 'game consoles' a lot, as if that's a good thing.

However, the best games have always been running on PCs first, often with exclusivity. Starcraft, The Sims, World of Warcraft, Half Life, Counter Strike, SimCity, Quake, Diablo 1 & 2 and the list can go on.

I own a Wii as it came free with my Internet subscription. It's gathering dust since last year. The games are simply not addictive. And this feeling I had on PS 2 too - the games feel too dumb and non-engaging, lacking taste. Which is why I never bothered.

Some people like these games consoles. I never did.
Wait, how does Node solve this where others don't?
JavaScript Client Library for Google APIs Alpha version released
I remember seeing this as well. Wish I could find the link.
aka the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
I have an upper end desktop, a cheap netbook and android phone, a PS3, and a kindle. My family has a shared Ipad and my wife as a reasonably powerful laptop I can borrow sometimes. I use all the others to supplement the desktop, but even together they couldn't replace it.

My desktop is the focus of my digital world. I use it for my programming, for writing papers at school as well as for gaming and media consumption when I am at the house. It does things like run multiple VMs and compile code in a reasonable time that none of the others manage. With its dual monitors and easy ability to handle numerous programs at once, I find it tops the others even for tasks like e-mail and web browsing that the Ipad does handle well. All of those others combined cannot replace what I do with my desktop. Even with her fairly high-end laptop and access to the other tools, my wife often borrows my desktop when she is doing serious writing for her PHD.

The others supplement my desktop for niche tasks. I take my netbook to class to take notes and it is good enough for light programming/paper writing and writing when I am on a trip (and I consider it a small PC, not a PC competitor. Also, I find the netbook quite nice for its good-enough travel computer and in-class-note-taking.). My smartphone is a game changer since it is always with me. The kindle is by far the best device for reading and I now prefer it over physical.

The Ipad though? It mostly has games for the kids since it is simple enough for even my 3 year old to use. I sometimes take it with me to places like the airport or DMV where breaking out my netbook would be a touch awkward and it has a pretty good Go program on it.

In short, I think for people doing serious content creation or serious gaming the PC will live on for the forseeable future.
If you're truly pivoting, and not just giving up and changing plans, then one would imagine that you can latch onto the common thread between the old and new direction as a means of motivating the team. If you're building a new product towards the same vision, focus on the vision, if you're re-using technology built but towards a different vision, focus on the technology.
Yah, a good number of nuggets in here: "A vision is about inspiration, not opportunity — and inspiration comes from self-reflection."
s/whitespace/indentation/

You know that's what is being discussed.
Existing customers are grandfathered in but don't get access to the new services.
When you cut out really young people, inexperienced riders, people who haven't taken the MSF, intoxicated people and those on 600cc sport bikes... fatalities on a bike go down a great deal.

Many, but not all motorcycle wrecks are preventable. The guy in his mid 50's touring all around the US on his 1800cc Gold Wing is far far far less likely to get killed than a 21 year old who has 'a few drinks', and tries to impress his friends on his 600cc superbike around the city (and not wearing any gear).

Take joy rides. Learn how to use your bike. Hit the mountains. Don't be afraid of cornering- just learn how to do it. Night riding is sub-optimal I will agree, but don't be afraid to just slow down. A country road that I might rip down at 100mph during the day might become a 20mph road for me at night in the fog with bugs, recently rained on roads and deer.

Make sure your bike is well lit and you're wearing all your gear that you can stand to wear. If you're in SF like many people on HN, the weather is amicable to wearing almost full gear every day. In Austin or somewhere else hot, I doubt you could wear full gear in the summer.
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Incompetent is a pretty strong word. If you are asking for permissions X, Y, and Z, and the contract with Facebook's API is you either get all three or you get zero, I fail to see why a programmer should spend any non-trivial amount of time coding defensively if that contract were broken. (All other things being equal, there are bigger fish to fry.)
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Use the right tablet. You can't expect to buy a PC then complain that you can't run a MacOS application on it, that would mean you bought the wrong machine.

You need Flash? Various Android devices and the Touchpad both have Flash. You need the screen to face you? Every tablet has a stand you can use. Personally I cross my legs then tuck my tablet behind my knee. You need to type quickly? Almost every real tablet has bluetooth where you can pair a keyboard.

If you need something the iPad doesn't offer, then stop using an iPad and actually find a tablet that offers the functionality you need. They exist. If you need something that no tablet offers, then buy a laptop and stop bitching. Motorcycles coexist with pickup trucks because they're built for different needs.
1) Are these people deserving of my support?

2) Can I afford to give them my support? (Materially? Morally?)

3) Have I identified the problems to my management, so that the subsequent responsibility for managing them (as per my job description such falls outside my responsibility or ability to control) does not rest with me? (I am not "negligent" for having "failed to communicate".)

4) Double-check: Am I breaking any laws or regulations?
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> Here it explains what privileges non profits get:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization

Yes, I'm well aware of that. The point is that the privileges nonprofits get are largely about not having to pay taxes on revenue, but the Mozilla Foundation has no revenue to start with, so there would be no tax to pay in any case.

The main "privilege" the Mozilla Foundation gets, as far as I can see, is that people who donate money to it can claim that as a tax deduction on their income tax return.

This is for the US; I have no idea whether Mozilla has any sort of nonprofit presence in other jurisdictions, nor what the laws are there regarding nonprofits.

Again, can you point to any specific privileges that you're concerned with that Mozilla is getting, instead of handwaving? I see a privilege that people giving money to Mozilla get, is all.
The netherlands and america have a treaty called the Ducth American Friendship Treaty. Under it, you can get residency in the Netherlands by putting something like 10-12k Euros into a bank (or starting a business with that much value, you'd need a lawyer to navigate the details.) At any rate, as an american citizen you have a sort of inroads to getting residency in the Netherlands. Under this treaty, so long as you maintain that business in the netherlands you can be a resident (and you can work towards citizenship if you were so inclined.)

As a resident of the netherlands, you can live and work in germany visa free because it is part of the free trade zone. I am pretty sure this is the case, but again, I'm not a lawyer and haven't run this idea by a lawyer.

But that's one option that might work for you.

If you'd like to keep in contact with me, I'm interested in corresponding with people doing these kinds of global startup adventures because there's always tips we can share with each other. (Email and twitter in my profile.)
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this is a TED talk from the same guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4
I like the idea, but the lack of backwards-compatibility is less than ideal. Some people who update CoffeeScript compilers will suddenly find their code mysteriously doing the wrong thing (when they wrote what this suggestion considers "cascading messages", but expect them to not cascade). I have worked on multiple projects that would fall prey to this issue.
We need more tools like these so we raise awareness and be able to point exactly to who is supporting these bills, so they don't try to pass them in secret and hastily anymore.
"The point isn't how many texts they're getting ... "

You, earlier:

"What percentage of all the SMS messages ... do you think 10 gigabytes is?"

Stop moving the goalposts and maybe we'll get somewhere.
By that rationale you shouldn't trust anybody from your social circle either, friends or otherwise.

The world is an ugly place, full of bad people. That doesn't mean I need to barricade inside the house and give Apple the key.

Which websites do you trust, exactly?

The Ubuntu repository. Plus, I trust several publishers as good sources for packages that don't exist in Ubuntu's repository.

On Windows - I either buy my software, or I'm getting known open-source software from their respective websites. I can't remember the last time my anti-virus (commercial, kept up to date) detected anything.
Well, I suppose it's true -- I have submitted apps to Apple that got approved that leaked memory. But the leaks were coming from one of their frameworks (WebKit).

So perhaps what I said should be amended to say: "Your app does not leak memory, at least because of any code you wrote".