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They're fun... (Here is a picture of one that I built: http://thingist.com/t/item/15467/)

But they're kindof a novelty. Mine is a daily driver, but I wish it wasn't (I'm saving up for a replacement).

1) My knees hurt, a lot, from riding it.

2) "A good cadence" on this bike is really really fast. This is good for me, but I'm a social creature, I'm usually riding with other people, and those other people don't necessarily want to be flying around at "oh no I'm late" speeds.

3) Hills. You can't downshift to go up hills.

4) Mine has a brake, so the brake thing isn't a big issue to me. Granted I wish the brake was chunkier, but that's my own fault since I built the bike.

The people who talk about "less parts" are just plain wrong, and are confusing a fixed gear bike with a single speed bike. Fixed gears are a type of single speed, and it's being a single speed that makes things simple.

The bottom line is that fixed gear bikes are fun but, like I said, they're kindof a novelty. My legs have definitely gotten stronger riding mine (her name is Annabelle), so that's a plus, I guess.
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I play in coughDungeons & Dragonscough games in Hangouts and this looks tremendously useful.

The participants are usually spread out across the world... the option to view Hangout times in in terms of local time would be _excellent_.

Secondarily, the ability for the organizer to review the attendees' local times for each proposed timeslot would be great too. It'd be nice to know that your timeslot wouldn't be 3am for half the attendees.
There is something for them to buy—each other. Arguably this is an even more dangerous situation, because the result then is monopoly, or close. And then, no competition. And then... Well, then the free market falls on its face, and all of a sudden the answer is that one company wins and everyone else—competitors and customers alike—loses.

There is no silver bullet, for this as well as other problems. Just a web of interconnected aids that we can use to at least try to react when the inevitable corruption arises.
The CIQ video was of the Android software. Initial analysis of the iOS version of the CIQ software indicates it isn't nearly as intrusive as the Android version.

And from all indications (the researcher vs. what Apple states) is that you can explicitly turn it off.
I get spammed by them all the time and they never send jobs relevant to what I've posted on LinkedIn, etc.
There's a wealth of people in countries all over the world who fail to give a damn about this fact, myself included.
also, it's even not a case of "crack this and get an interview" it's "crack this and get to apply for the same vacancy that gchq publish on their homepage": job id 35874.

But, it's a good publicity ruse.

edit: the pay's not even that great.
You can already side-chain data flows with file descriptors. You can solve more complex problems with temp files and tee. I can't really imagine that making me use a GUI to select where to pipe what would be more efficient. Most of the time, when people have problems that require complex data manipulation like this, they'll jut use their favorite scripting language.

There is also not much stopping you from using PHP, Python, Ruby, or anything else with a REPL as your daily shell, but bash is the most popular and works quite well for this problem domain.

Not to sound like an old dude stuck in his ways, but there is a reason that we're still all using VT 100 and 220 emulators from 30+ years ago -- they work great.
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What amazes me the most is that recruiters today are largely as awkward and ineffective as they were ten years ago. Maybe it's just that the worst recruiters are also the noisiest, but I would think that enough recruiters would have learned that building relationships is far more valuable than mass-emailing.

As a developer, if you're in my rolodex as a recruiter / talent agent with a clue, I'll likely reach out when I'm considering career options -- even if it's several years down the road. As a recruiter, once you gather enough developers into that relationship, you should have your bonus-based salary covered... right?

Edit: I wrote a quick one-pager that I routinely send to recruiters who are particularly bad at their supposed job, http://notphil.com/recruiter_tips.html
I would argue that a tendency to not recognize the lack of merit in an idea is harmful in itself. Let us take your example of astrology. What harm is there in believing it, despite no evidence nor any reason to suspect it is even a good hypothesis?

For one, you might waste resources such as money and time reading about it, or getting readings. A minor thing perhaps. On the other hand, what about people who believe in it so deeply that they give away all their fortunes chasing nothing? What if someone ruins a relationship because they read in their horoscope that they should be wary of their partner?

These are just a few example. I would also hypothesis that if one is willing to believe in one thing such as astrology, they are also likely believe in other things. Those other beliefs may also hold hidden dangers. Thus, it is important to always practice undiscriminating scepticism. Always try recognize what you don't know.
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this type of job-listing is ridiculous. not because it is juvenile or the sort of a thing that may be indicative of a bubble, but rather, because it is condescending.

in the job market, there are two things i'd like to trade for my skills and time: dollars and equity. i also appreciate and put value on a company having a nice office to work at and that they have a laid-back culture, but they can just say that. i don't need them to buy me my beer or coffee to "signal" that they are hip, i'd rather have the cash and pick my beer when i want to get drunk. i also don't need them to "signal" that they are green by buying me a bike -- i'd rather have them tell me that they care about that and what things do they do as a company to be green.

in general, all these things companies do to "signal" culture strike me as stupid. just say what you value and have your important actions reflect it.
What's more, the prospect of once again working with a company that prides itself on unlimited beer is horrifying.

At my old job, we worked with a certain game development company at the behest of a larger publisher. They also had recently relocated... to an office directly above a pub with their own brewery.

On the one hand, I have a hard time believing that our bitter jokes were true, and that they actually were perpetually wasted; on the other hand, even just getting responses from them was a bit of an ordeal -- never mind getting even acknowledgement of the bugs that prevented us from continuing with our side of the "partnership". Not the most professional folk, and I can't see how the beer would help.

In the interest of not repeating that experience, I'd certainly want positive evidence that the unlimited beer didn't impede the company's performance or professionalism before I'd work with a company that prided itself on offering unlimited beer.
Why does someone self-identify as a rationalist?

I'll just speak for myself in answering your question. Other people who self-identify as rationalists may have other reasons. I self-identify as a rationalist because, after a lifetime of being curious and wanting to know what is true, I have found rationalism a powerful instrumental means of discovering truth. I have found from observation of my own life that knowledge of truth is itself an instrumental means for pursuing other useful goals (for example, making a living for my family) but anyway I think truth-seeking is part of human nature at its best and something fun and worthy for its own sake.

most bad things are propagated by extremely rational actors out of greed and self-interest

I might disagree with you about there being very many "extremely rational actors" in the world,

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stanovich1/Engli...

but I agree with you that many bad acts are prompted by greed and self interest. One of the greatest achievements of rational thought has been a deeper understanding of how human moral sentiments

http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Moral-Sentiments-Great-Philosop...

can be motivated by the actions of human beings pursuing their self-interest.

http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553...

This discovery has resulted in considerable reduction of violence and other bad things over time,

http://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/0...

and promises to provide continued blessings of more peace, prosperity, and freedom as it becomes more widely known to humankind. So I pursue rationalism as a positive good for my family and for my society, after having had a childhood upbringing with more nonrational dogmas than I know adhere to.
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2) Probably a lot to begin with. There is a perceived "security" in using cards online (thanks to years of marketing and PR by issuers, authorisers and gateways).

However, running Dwolla side-by-side with a card solution - with the reduced price option - I think it will be surprising to see how many customers start to see Dwolla as the favourite.

The trick is to create that difference for customers to see. And remember... just because your cost per transaction may go down, doesn't mean your prices have to! Why not use it as an opportunity to stick card fees on top?

I'm sure that will give customers plenty of incentive to the point where it makes no sense to use a full-time payment gateway... just stick Paypal's 'free' web payments solution on there to catch the drifters
Great idea. Added to whiteboard. It's been a Looong time since I played D&D - great memories.
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with a graphical console, you can see lots more messages at once, at the perfectly crisp native resolution of your screen

That would be nice.

why do people feel the need to chime in with how much they don't want something when someone else says they do?

In this case, I'll admit I'm not a fan of splash screens in general.

I've been a teeny-tiny bit annoyed over the years at the level of effort I've seen kernel and distro developers put into graphical boot schemes when it seemed to comes at the expense of more basic stuff, like you know, working drivers for things after the boot was complete. But it's their time and energy. If they want to put it into showing a penguin holding a beer that's their business.

To me it's usually a sign of form-over-function, or functions-I-don't-want-over-functions-I-do.
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Do you have a link to the video of CIQ on an Apple product where it cannot be disabled or opted out of? Or are you citing a video covering an Android phone and incorrectly drawing conclusions about an Apple product?
I voted the 3rd option, though I really wanted a fourth, "I avoid all but a very few recruiters." I can think of two or three recruiters who have contacted me with actual relevant jobs. Once, I was actually shocked at how accurately I fit the position's requirements.

I have been placed in a few jobs by recruiters.

I rarely, if ever, call a recruiter back. And I never return any contact if they say something like, "we'll see if we have anything that fits," or especially if they want me to come by in person (those are the sleaziest).
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A 20-char password limit makes sense in one setting: When the password is stored as fixed length plaintext in a database. This is a really, really bad sign to see with a payment processor.
To some degree it sounds like the author is just describing another "tribe": the one that he is a part of.

The main argument of the piece is: don't trust that someone who calls themselves a skeptic is a "good" skeptic until they've expressed a skeptical opinion that cuts against the grain of mainstream belief. Otherwise, they may be just pretending to be a rationalist when they really just believe whatever the mainstream believes.

These are his main examples:

> Personally, I think that Michael Shermer blew it by mocking molecular nanotechnology, and Penn and Teller blew it by mocking cryonics ... Conversely, Richard Dawkins scooped up a huge truckload of actual-discriminating-skeptic points, at least in my book, for not making fun of the many-worlds interpretation when he was asked about in an interview;

The Dawkins example demonstrates his thesis very clearly. Dawkins is skeptical of a generally accepted theory (that the OP is also skeptical of) therefore the OP now considers him an "actual-disciminating-skeptic". However, his first two examples attempt to support the inverse of his thesis: if someone expresses a skeptical opinion that agrees with the mainstream, then they are not a "good" skeptic ("they blew it"). But that is a ridiculous claim that the OP himself dismisses in the first few paragraphs talking about how religion is no longer a good litmus test for skepticism. So, it seems like the OP is actually arguing that if a self professed skeptic expresses a mainstream skeptical opinion that the OP disagrees with, then they are not a "good" skeptic. Which is a bad, close-minded argument. The OP places himself in a "rationalist" tribe where dissenting opinions are no more tolerated than they are in the mainstream tribe.
There are also also over 20 million military veterans in the United States; probably most of those will have had a security clearance. Once you add former federal employees and contractors, 10% isn't far off.
I believe a lot of the problem is that the major vendors believe they'll expose themselves to patent lawsuits by making it easier for aggressors to make a case.
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Great idea, do you already have ical integration? Public hangout category, language or location search (or combination)?
Indeed: 147456 (probably plus some for parity; not sure what the PDP-7 memory bus looked like) tiny little beads threaded onto tiny wires by human beings. That amount of memory in an SRAM array (almost a million transistors!) was unthinkable in a minicomputer, and DRAM had just been invented and was even more expensive than core.
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Cheers!

(I only got back into it recently after a long break since I was 14 or so. I'm not keen on the new products but the 80s era stuff is retro-excellent.)
I couldn't complain enough about Linux with Nvidia cards... The worst part is, my card is something like 8 years old now (The old Dell is still going strong as ever now) so it's a legacy card they won't even open source, it's not like they are ever going to make money from the drivers for Gforce4 ever again...
are we crowd sourcing intelligence tasks now?
Yea, this is more comparable to eFence(3)
You need both an extremely smooth running company and extremely motivated, well-organized, disciplined and communicative developers to pull it off.

One small problem: the number of developers who think they can handle working remotely in a team is much greater than those that actually can.

One major problem: none of these factors are constants. They are variables, and if they change in the middle of your project, none of the many things you could do to get a physically co-located team or company back on track will work.

In fact, unlike a team you see every day, it may take you a lot longer to even notice something is off. People so underestimate the importance of body language in human co-operation. The way someone walks into a room can sometimes tell you way more than 2 hours on a Skype call.
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Ask HN: Say 'no' to a person who wants you to build their bad startup idea?
As a CS grad, I'm approached on a daily basis by friends/referrals of friends to talk about their 'idea'. Most often, the idea sucks or isn't well thought out or isn't interesting to me. I was wondering how others in the HN community deal with situations like these? What's a good way to tell someone 'no' without hurting their feelings?
This looks pretty slick! Just one thing that bit me: You have the dates and times (and the cutoff date and time) already filled out with defaults, but I can't just accept them. If if try, it says they are invalid, so I have to go back and select the exact same dates and times from the menu. I think it would be better if you left them blank, or pre-populate with text that can't be confused for a valid entry. e.g. "choose a date" instead of "Friday, December 2, 2011"

edit: hm, it actually says "Friday, November 11, 2011" but apparently I didn't read past the word "Friday". Still kind of confusing :)
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Amazing, exactly as you'd expect.
All it would take is someone who knows what they are doing to go check real quick. report back whether or not the phone is throwing out information or not.
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Instructions: run this in a terminal.
An impressively clear cut message.
There are leaks, and then there are "leaks". Memory that you have allocated and no longer have a reference to is a leak. Memory that you have a reference to but have stopped having use for is a "leak". It is hard to build tools to detect "leaks" because you don't know if the programmer intended to have a boundlessly growing collection or if it was an accident.
I get about 1 every other day. I ignore them. They generally are so clueless that they're not worth my time. If I ever wanted one, I know a couple recruiters that know what they're doing.
Do what I do: set up gmail rules to delete the email and send a canned reply. If enough people do this, the spam recruiters will be effectively DDoSing themselves.
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You can build a cheap fixed gear bike to be cheaper than a cheap derailer bike. I haven't priced things out, but I bet an OEM can do it for less than $150. The only parts you need are a frame, fork, seat post, saddle, stem, handlebars, one brake lever, one brake caliper, one short brake cable and housing, bottom bracket, crankset, front wheel (hub, rim, spokes), rear wheel (hub, rim, spokes, cog, lockring), and chain.

As soon as you add a derailer setup, you need an extra chainring, rear brakes, shift cables + housing, the derailer itself, 10 cogs instead of 1, and expensive shift levers. (Even Shimano's low-end 9-speed shift levers are in the $150 range. The good ones are $700!)
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I get this "let's meet in person" come-on by recruiters all the time, and find it really creepy. When I ask why, they say something like "I like to form a personal relationship with all my potential clients" or some BS like that.

What are they really trying to do? Is this some way for them to have "dibs" on you, in case you somehow manage to get an interview with one of their client companies independently?
I get mostly relevant opportunities, but they never acknowledge that I'm already running my own company, even when contacting me via LinkedIn where that's pretty obvious.

These aren't exactly no-name companies or recruiting firms but the actual companies themselves - we're talking about Zynga, Playdom, ngmoco, etc.

Is this something other founders have found?
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Amazon is in online retail. Profitability is in long-term and volume of sales.

Apple tablets a competitor? Sure, but I can still buy my Apple accessories and products from Amazon.
My standard response is I charge £300 per hour. They tell me they'll keep me on file and disconnect pretty quickly.
While text editing interfaces could be more polished and modern--the underlying problem that causes your dissatisfaction is the text. Storing code as text is an evolutionary dead end. Storing code graphs in text requires the use of plaintext names for graph references, which binds logic and presentation together. The gap between the goal-completion logic a user comes up with and how they turn those mental instructions into plaintext is an unnecessary jump--an encoding--that produces no end of trivial but infuriating miscommunications.

Storing code as pure structure (not XML or anything silly, the serialization is trivial) avoids a huge class of artificial problems we've had to deal with since the dawn of compilers, due to the disconnect between human meaning encoded in plaintext and machine parsing.

Visualizing code as text--text as the primary view in the MVC, complemented with colours and annotations and hyperlinks and hints--is extremely useful. What we really need is a structural editor with the familiarity and ease of use of a text editor. But that is a hard problem, and more polished text manipulators are a nice stop-gap in the meanwhile.