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That's what I said. Try reading my comment again.

49% of HIV cases = 580,000 cases. That's a staggeringly high infection rate in the MSM community in the United States - more than one in ten. The CDC estimates that one in five gay men have HIV in a study of 21 major cities, and that 40% of them don't know it.
I already posted this below, but I see that you're affiliated with the Marrow Donor program. I'm reposting this here on the hope that you can bring this the attention of someone who can make a difference.

Beyond being somewhat homophobic, this policy is actually counterproductive. The explanation is long, but I've written it all up here: http://bit.ly/q6624N . (The second and last points, in bold, are the most relevant).

Being Indian myself, it's incredibly painful to see posts like this and know that I can't do anything to help Amit out. Because I was never allowed to take the test, we'll never know if I would have matched Amit. But just think - what if I had?
Yes, they're one of our competitors in that space, and everyone faces the same challenge getting started, plus regulatory issues.
Well, Clinton initially spoke out in support of Bush, saying that he had also though that Iraq had WMDs.
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Webcam, skype, daily stand-up.

And also agree with Daniel, there is a powerful simplicity in post-it notes. Automated tools on the other hand never improve your process. At best, at best they automate it and everything that is currently broken about it.
I use firefox because I believe in the work of Mozilla foundation. Chrome, IE, Safari are all company products and those companies objective are tuned to increasing their stock value. Yes, they make very good products but Mozilla makes a good philosophy and I trust them to value privacy, quality and open source. Firefox might be slower than chrome and not that beautiful but it is made with a mindset that is similar to mine.

This may sound too political for a software choice decision but hey, I LIKE MOZILLA FOUNDATION and their products.
It's on all iPhones on all carriers running all versions. However, it is not the same version, and this version of CarrierIQ covers far, far less. It is not keystroke logging, not watching web activity, not watching texts.

This version also ONLY RUNS when the iPhone is in diagnostic mode. It is set to never run while the phone is operating normally.
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Interesting. I'll have to try it out again.

Although, if I'm reading this correctly, the logic isn't quite right. It uses the timestamp of the time when the conflict is detected, when it should really use the conflicted file's last-modified time, or maybe the timestamp of the conflicting commit.
What is Path(v2)?

edit: googling suggests it's this iphone app: https://path.com/
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I mistakenly bumped-up the NY/SF answer, thinking (in haste) that it was all-inclusive of the U.S. I'm in Omaha.
Make your resume free of tiny errors like the comma after your email and unclosed parenthesis. Make a PDF and/or HTML version because not everyone has word installed. If you want a dream job, you better damn well have a dream resume.

And make it way shorter. Assume that people are going to read 3 random sentences on the first page and that's it. Make sure you'd be comfortable with them reading only 3 random sentences on the first page and coming away with a positive impression.
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The second iteration of the Path iOS application.
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https://path.com/
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He was quoting verbatim Joel's original list from the year 2000. I don't think the author (in 2008) needed to expound on what appeared/changed/matured in the interim.
I wouldn't know. But the idea that you can't even fathom how someone might have a different point of view from you and not be bought off by the government is telling.
Would love to see a HTML/CSS version of this.
Can’t remember where I read it, but I recall a story about automating air traffic control, and one of the problems they encountered was that there is a lot of information being conveyed by watching people grab the little strips of information and move them around.

The state of the system is only one dimension, who’s interested in what and what they are doing is another. The claim was that humans are optimized for watching other people work, and most office automation hides all that:

You never see Snively grab the Horrocks file and open it on his desk. Anecdotally, I have seen benefits from physical cards: People might see someone grab a card and speak up “Hey, are you looking at Thermoregulating Widgets? I was talking to Phred and he said...”

This information is theoretically available when someone clicks “start” on a task, but somehow it is not as visceral as watching someone grab or move a note card.
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I wonder how well his site works in less-than-modern browsers - doing "curl http://codestruggle.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-verbatim-sea..., for instance, returns no actual readable content. (I wonder how well it would work with Instapaper?)
there is one big factor why i use chrome over firefox. and that is the auto-complete as i type in things in the address bar. once i got used to that on chrome, i can never get back to firefox, no matter how much they have improved elsewhere. hope this serves as some good feedback to mozilla devs.
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Does anyone know how hard it is to spin up a service like this on their own? Given they use relatively cheap ACH transfers, wouldn't you just need to find a bank that manages the money for you, and the rest is just doing a bunch of those ACH transfers?

Also, I'm not very familiar with US banking system, but it seems as Dwolla can withdraw funds from your account after you "verified" the account. It's a pretty common thing in Germany, but I have never heard of that in the US. Can any business do it or is it a Dwolla-specific thing?
Wow! Great list!
Based on our collective confusion it is clear that the number one obstacle to using Dwolla is their own web site. When the "how it works" page starts with "First there was bartering, then there was coinage, and of course paper tender followed with checks right behind." I'm fading fast.

I want a description of how a transaction goes down. I got that you set up Dwolla by attaching to a bank account for ACH. I got that you use your phone--somehow. Can anyone explain the somehow? How about sending cash to a friend, is there any online demo of the interface for that?
Yes, I wouldn't argue that the iPod shows a vision, but the push on OS X, and other things, from 2004 or so onwards feels in a different league, at least to me, compared to around 2000.

Also, look at how slowly OS X improved in the first few releases, and compare that with the way that every single iOS release just hits the ball out of the park. It's like night and day.

Something that makes me somewhat uncomfortable, is the relatively lameness of Lion in comparison to what came before. To a small but noticeable proportion of users, including myself, Snow Leopard is more attractive than Lion, and luckily, it should be supported for a while by virtue of being the last 32-bit intel supporting OS X.
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The biggest deficit of spotify for me was that music discovery somehow lacked (compared to last.fm, etc.)
Now I can use a bunch of services to help me discover music inside (!) of spotify. I don't know about the business and monetary aspects of this which are discussed here - but as a user I think its great (and maybe thats the best indication for a successfull product anyhow?)
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One can also forget the bookmarks if they're local to you, as in Firefox. Plus they're backed up through Sync. This just in case when you can no longer rely on Delicious, or Google for that matter.
I looked into Net Apps vs Statcounter a couple of years back and found the opposite to be true. From my notes (so may be a little out of date on figures):

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Stats Counter: Stats are based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 4 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites. Stats are updated and made available every 4 hours, however are subject to quality assurance testing and revision for 7 days from publication.

Net Applications: Accumulates data from 160 million monthly visitors to its network of hosted websites that collect statistics. The average traffic for a HitsLink customer is just over 1000 page views per day
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On sample size Net Apps are not nearly as good nor do they have many foreign market users to give a true global picture. It was not until 2010 that Net apps weighted by country population figures which skewed their results heavily to the US market share. And it has been alleged their stats are for sale.
I can't resent anyone for looking to make money, but it seems like the problem they're trying to solve is that they don't have enough money in their pockets. If the focus was on solving an actual real-world problem, and building on a pre-existing platform solved that problem, they wouldn't hesitate to do that.

You can build a feature or a business. It seems like Path is choosing to build a feature and hoping to make a business out of it. That can work, but it's tough. They make great looking products, so hopefully that focus on design influences their competitors, who will likely be around much longer.
Same here. Particularly since Chrome's stripped-down approach has given way to bundled cruft and the competition has pushed Mozilla to improve dramatically.

So I'm glad Chrome exists and I hope it continues to do so, but they're not moving in a direction that remotely interests me.
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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)
(The script that auto-posts "Who's Hiring" every month seems to be broken, so this is a manually created post.)

Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Please also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" (December 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3300378
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It made sense for entrepreneurs to leave the U.S. since 2003 (when I moved my family of 5 to Vienna Austria), so it's already too late (not so easy to renounce US Citizenship now, new draconian financial reporting laws for expats and new laws which prevent taking assets out of the country kick in 2013).
In 2013 I will renounce my US Citizenship to gain Austrian Citizenship. I have thought long and hard about this. I am proud of the principles the US was founded on, which are trampled on each and every day in Congress, by the President, and in the Supreme Court. I am proud of those who sacrificed for the good of our country, who sacrificed to preserve those rights and to bestow them on me upon my birth. Those sacrifices are dishonored and spit upon daily by our politicians, and their kleptocrat corporate owners.
I will always love the United States, and the majority of it's honorable, kind, and caring people. However I have no love of this totalitarian nightmare which is our government.
Our government is illegitimate, despicable, and dishonorable.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security."
People don't talk that way anymore.
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- No idea what you said. - It means, if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action. "
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Gates, that sort of thing People do not believe anymore.
They want to believe in it."
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It's almost 2012 and "open source" doesn't matter that much anymore when it comes to stuff like this: there's enough incentive and basic competence now that someone's going to reverse engineer CarrierIQ, if only to get themselves some press.
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At the beginning of the day, I need to start passenger, mysqld, memcached, redis, and some resque workers for development. I will be adding more services, and the aliases I have set up will soon not be enough. How do you manage starting and stopping your development services?
Comparing this to Valgrind is comparing apples to oranges. On is compiled in (and there are plenty of better comparisons such as ef) and the other runs on any pre-compiled binary. Some Valgrind modules might be slow, but you can run them after the fact which is powerful. You don't have to tinker with build systems or compile flags.
For historical reasons, ACH is approximately as fast as airmailing someone money. When all the stars line up correctly, it is as fast as Fedexing money. Credit cards are like emailing money (and Paypal was, very explicitly,about emailing money). Dwolla is based on ACH.

There's probably a lot that can be done with cheap, user-friendly ACH in an API, but I don't know if folks really understand the "Your transaction takes 100 hours to settle" bit.
I run FaceCash, which is based on accounting software I already had started writing ten years prior to starting in with payments. It's pretty difficult. Between the technology, regulatory and accounting hurdles, it's not a business for the faint of heart.
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auto-complete is there in Firefox, it is just not there by default.
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I think I understand the remote procedure call concept, but could someone explain how I'd want to use this if I were building a web app?

Would this replace a lot of my ajax calls or... ?
I'm with bvi -- I can't live without tabmixplus and multirow tabs. I'm not sure what's awesome about Chrome tab management over what you've said. Firefox has tabs in the titlebar and they do that "tabs don't resize until you move the mouse away" thing -- so what's left?
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great topic, something that interested me for a while. but i was disappointed that it failed to deliver the answer, where to actually find them?
I want to know this too. Also, does the consumer have to deposit money into a Dwolla account before buying things? Can devs use there api with checking account and routing numbers so that Dwolla is invisible to the user? Is there a delay before payments post?
Not only that but making sure your work is backwards compatible with older versions of IE is no fun.
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I assume you never buy anything from a company. It pointless to try to prop up products despite it being worse. Open source project will not success in the long run unless it is better. Firefox being better at protecting privacy is a reason to use it, but thinking Mozilla values privacy because it is a non profit is not a great reason.
It seems like Gitdocs fits the requirement for encryption. Just use git+ssh for the remote of the repo, and transfers will be encrypted. Then, I guess, you need to set up ecryptfs or something on the server side so that things are encrypted on-disk, and then you can back up the encrypted files.

Not simple, but possible.
It's great to see more people from SJC, I was born there too. I spend most of my time in São Carlos (undergrad at UFSCar) though.
For my use, I measured my memory usage on both Firefox and Chrome (with whatever little number of tabs I keep open daily), and I found that the memory usage on both Firefox and Chrome is exactly the same. So I don't bother with Google and rely on Mozilla.
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Is it reasonable for everyone to have access to everything? Taking your UFO example, what if the military had information about unknown objects - could these just as easily be foreign drones with advanced technology? In which case, it's arguably in the interest of national security to hold certain things close to the vest. If the President immediately announced that something unknown was spotted, a potential invader could nimbly push to plan B or re-allocate resources toward better cloaking technology.

Secrets are a competitive advantage - conversely, having competing countries (in terms of economics just as much as defense) know exactly what we know would be a terrible disadvantage.
Uhm, I'm in Mexico and Mexico is in North America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America

See?
In Singapore too.
This looks great! Is there a similar project for memory leak detection in Java? I know that Java is using a virtual machine and is not supposed to have memory leaks, but we have some code that uses external libraries and our HEAP becomes consumed within 1-2 days.
Anyone can transmit HIV, but MSM are much more likely to have it than any other demographic subgroup. Don't let your ideology get in the way of the facts. The CDC says that 600,000 MSM are living with HIV, that's about 1 in 10 MSM. That's tragic.

I googled around for some stats, and I found this quote from a website called the Bay Area Reporter:

"According to a 2008 CDC study, one in five MSM in 21 major U.S. cities were infected with HIV, and nearly half (44 percent) were unaware of their infection. The study also found that 28 percent of black MSM were HIV-infected, compared to 18 percent of Hispanic/Latino MSM and 16 percent of white MSM. Of the HIV-infected black MSM, 59 percent were unaware of their infection."
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Nothing. There's just a likely innocent explanation for all three of those things:

1. CarrierIQ is a "secret" in the same sense as the network management software that Sprint uses that can also see all your SMS messages is a "secret": (a) nobody at Sprint thinks its relevant to you, and (b) nobody at Sprint thinks its any of your business. Which, if you take a breath, strictly speaking about the performance metrics they're collecting, it isn't your business.

2. CarrierIQ was dumb about threatening this guy like lots of other companies have been identically dumb. Companies have threatened to sue me. I remain cordial with the owners of some of those companies. Welcome to security research; we don't have jackets, but we sure get a lot of press.

Incidentally, put yourself in CarrierIQ's position and assume that this particular researcher is full of shit, meaning, no, CarrierIQ is not snooping on people's keystrokes. What would you do? There's a guy out there claiming that their performance agent is a "rootkit". They got pissed. Surprised?

3. Any piece of systems software the carrier agrees to stick on the phone is capable of snooping. Sprint itself could just backdoor their Android distro.
Isn't that the problem Dwolla is really trying to solve? Making ACH much quicker than it is now?
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Ship and then improve it!

Steve Jobs had large internal audience to test his ideas on. While for you, when you ship:

1. You will have audience to test and improve.

2. Pressure to ship improvements faster.

Since I have the same devils, I use this approach :)
When people are "prepared" for the polygraph (say a mole) they are often trained to construct alternative mental models that would let them answer damaging questions without appearing anxious.

For example, they might organize an obvious seemingly accidental meetup in a some monitored public place (train station) with a foreigner from a specific country so when the question is asked "have you met with foreigners from country X" they can say "yes, I sat next to one when taking the train".
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You make a very articulate point, but let me disagree on this: It isn't true that a poll like this is "useless for modeling reality". It tells us the distribution of voluntarily given responses about the geographical distribution of registered users of HN who happened to see the poll and happened to want to answer.

How does this correlate to the absolute geographical distribution of readers? Or of registered, but maybe inactive, users? That is difficult to guess. But the information from the poll is, for me, already very interesting.

By the way, I'll add that even with polls you can always only measure voluntary responses, even if the sample is randomly extracted, and there is no way around this.
Not trying to be an apologist here, but I can imagine this data would be useful to anyone trying to design ways of entering text, such as on-screen-keyboard layouts.
Is there any reason for this post to be downvoted?
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Beware: Use a Domain Transfer Agent
Just a warning for my friends on HN: If you are going to buy or sell a domain name, use a transfer agent (i.e., an escrow service).

Over the years I've bought and sold a few domains (under 5), and I've used transfer agents in the past. Sure they cost a few bucks.

But, just recently, I bought a domain without using a transfer agent ... and guess what? The seller accepted my payment and now has not transferred the domain to me, and he's not responding to my email and voicemail messages.

Yep, it looks like I've been taken for some good money; and it looks like I have no recourse other than to hope for the good will of the seller, which does not seem likely.

Any suggestions on what I can do? Has anyone had any luck with the ICANN Dispute Resolution Process?

(Note: I'm not affiliated with any domain transfer agents, escrow services, etc. I'm just passing on this warning to other would be domain buyers/sellers.)
Why would you do this to save $0.25? So you're saving .25% a rounding error. Most people have bigger fish to fry...

Oh, but what about scale? What if I'm processing 1MM a day? You negotiate a new fee because you're xx% of their business.

For the little guys it's not worth the hassle, for the big guys it's probably easier just to call them.