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I was under the impression you needed to enter your app store password to make a digital purchase.

The vulnerability i thought was that the iPad remembered the password for a short amount of time, if you handed your iPad to a kid in that time they could fire up the app and make a purchase without needing to re-enter the password. Typically though, the kid would be unable to make purchases without a password.

I lesson I learned quickly on the iPad was that few applications were really free. Either the ad's were intrusive or the majority of the content had to be purchased. I typically do not bother with free app's any more and just look for a high rated paid version.
Yes, I completely agree. But perhaps you could be smiling, at a nice sunny location. The human element would be there. That's not a "prison mug shot". Plenty of the photos on the site are like that.

But if you're trying to say "Look, you're going to put all these people out of work if this thing passes", i.e. you're pointing out the human element of what the bill could cause, what is an average, uninformed person ("the world", as the website says) going to think when they see a bunch of people making ridiculous poses?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4cbpmNsM1r8635ko1_250.jp...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4es2F2II1r8635ko1_250.jp...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw45rnSi8N1r8635ko1_250.jp...

I very much doubt they'd emphasise.

And it takes nothing more than the mainstream media selectively ignoring the majority to make the whole industry look like asshats.
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Congrats on the release. The name is quite nice too and already growing on me. I'm excited to try it out.
100% agreed. I know it isn't for everyone, but I can't wait for the "office" stigma to go away and being able to work together with people through the internet on (paid) projects, like I'm used to with OSS. Communicate through IRC, Skype and mail and Google Documents. I work much more efficient that way.

I'm regularly sick of the overhead fluorescent lighting, blame-shifting meetings where nothing happens, awkward "what did you do last weekend" talks at the coffee machine, phone calls about nothing, and sitting in a room full of cackling people being unable to think. Not even starting on all the crazy talk about "human resources"... being shifted between projects before I was even able to do anything because of all the red tape.

Also I'd love to be able to work where I want with my laptop, no matter whether that's at home, in a park, in a field, or in the train. In my mind, that was supposed to be the future.
Yeah, but the UTF warnings bug me, and I can't use all my nice project-specific ack settings (ignoring compiled assets, documentation, --no-flash etc). I get by with keeping a couple terminal sessions open at all times, it's necessary with Rails coding anyway :)
You'd like every judge in the country to have a Wikipedia kill-switch, and "see them try it"? Because let me tell you: the courtrooms in East Texas are filled with a bunch of nutjobs. And it only takes one of them to do it.

Even ignoring the kill switch: this is a bill that would make it illegal to cite sources via hyperlink if the site being linked to contains copyrighted material anywhere, even outside of the linked page, or posted years after the link was originally created. Even if a user posted the link -- and even if that link was swiftly removed by an editor -- Wikipedia would have broken the law for allowing the link to ever have been posted at all, and would be subject to strict penalties. This is a law that Wikipedia literally could not comply with unless it changed its essential character.
So I've been toying with the idea of relocating to Austin, because New York is f*ing expensive.

I even sent a couple of job applications some time ago before I got my new job in NYC. I'm not a rockstar, but I'm good and my resume shows it. I get a LOT of bites in New York metro area.

However, these Austin companies didn't even bother to respond, except one. The interesting thing about the one that responded was that the job was tailor made for me. It was uncanny...it's almost as if they read my resume and produced the job listing to match. Which is why I sent in the application in the first place.

The response was that they found me unqualified for the job. What a load of horse manure. If you're sending form letters to rejected candidates, please take some time to actually use the right template. I believe this one should've been the "no_relocation" or the "ceos_son-in-law_was_more_qualified" template.
I'm sorry, do you work for google? You sound like you're selling it to us.
> I have a hard time imagining how the CEO did't see this coming. He either must not be familiar with the show at all, or must have some serious cognitive dissonance going on.

I think this applies to most interviewees on the Daily Show.
Reminded me of this article: "S Korean dies after games session"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm
> This is worse than penny auctions as they are stealing from kids here.

They're not stealing from kids. Kids don't have anything worth stealing. They are using psychology to entice kids to spend their parents' money when they're not looking; that's different.

> True, people who actually participate in penny auctions probably have IQs worse than 7 yr olds.

This is an outrageous statement and I'm sure you realize this. These strategies are profitable precisely because you don't have to be ridiculously stupid to be fooled. It's the same reason casinos work.

Everything these companies are doing is legal and whether we morally agree or not, this is how the business game is played: you find (hopefully legal) ways to get people to give you money.

If one of those ways is enticing people to voluntarily agree to pay app store fees that they incur through their use, and then enticing them (or someone else on their behalf) to incur those fees, you've won the business game and you deserve the profits. Let customers vote with their money elsewhere if they disagree. Welcome to the free market.

Every time you walk into a store, you are being manipulated with psychological tricks centuries in the making. And any parent has paid far more for useless stuff they were psychologically coaxed into getting than their kids will ever spend on the app store.

Yet whenever children are involved, the slightest sign of "sleaze" triggers rage -- a deliciously ironic example of the same psychology these business people use to get your money :).
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I fully agree with you that i favor hand-written recursive-descent parsing. However, it still helps to know the theory for error recovering etc.
> I was under the impression you needed to enter your app store password to make a digital purchase.

That is correct.

> The vulnerability i thought was that the iPad remembered the password for a short amount of time, if you handed your iPad to a kid in that time they could fire up the app and make a purchase without needing to re-enter the password

That is also correct, but can be fixed via parental restrictions: the default configuration allows in-app purchases, mandates password entry and remembers the password for fifteen (15) minutes, it's possible to disable in-app purchase altogether (independently from AppStore purchases) and to not remember the password at all.
In case you miss it, the link to the Iron Foundry site is shown towards the bottom of this post.

http://www.ironfoundry.org/

However, looks like their web developer needs to get off his rear and get the site finished. ;) About half of it is lorem ipsum type content.
This reminds me of Searle's relativistic ray tracer: http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/Searle

In particular, check out "Flash" example in the downloads section.
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It's worth pointing out that The Daily Show has always employed a modest amount of creative editing during their interviews.

To my knowledge it's just to accentuate the comedic effect and not to the point of actually manufacturing any portion of the interview, but it's no coincidence their interviewees routinely come across like complete buffoons.
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License has been added. It's MIT.
W/r/t penny auctions:

In November, an Oregon man filed a federal lawsuit alleging that one of the largest auction sites, Quibids.com, was really a gambling site masquerading as an auction site. The suit seeks class-action status and asks for damages for everybody who lost money at the site.

I agree with you - casinos are gigantic for a reason; just an interesting thought given that gambling sites in the USA are prohibited.
Tap Fish CEO points out how far Daily Show strayed from reality:
http://zenentrepreneur.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-10-things-da...
A related article:

Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas

"Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region. The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years. In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Igor Semiletov, of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that he has never before witnessed the scale and force of the methane being released from beneath the Arctic seabed."

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Parallel vs. Serial.

The Google Tech Talk goes into a little bit of detail about how they capture a stack of frames (slices in Z) into a buffer right behind the sensor and then dump that out for each snapshot.
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I do not understand what you mean with "special".
The only way Spotify can avoid this problem is by becoming too big to ignore, a la iTunes for digital distribution or Walmart for physical goods. At that point the labels have a hard time saying "we're going to pull our inventory unless we get a better pay rate" because though it may dent Spotify's customer experience, it will also mean a substantial hit to the bottom line of any given label who walks.

If you can't get to the point where you're the 800 pound gorilla, however, you are very much still at the mercy of the content owner.
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> creative editing

Brilliant.

Without a doubt they cut their interviews every way possible - but give it to them that at least they're honest about it and still refer to themselves as "fake news."
I think it would be naive to assume "person that knows all about hacker news" = "great candidate". It could be argued spending too much time on hacker news is not what you want in your employees.

Back to the main point, the real issue I have is they are too busy to write an informative job post actually encouraging people to apply, to me that isn't respectful of your audience. They wan't someone to join and be a part of their team, do they really want to start the conversation like this.
One problem might be that many kids know their parents' password – they mght even be the ones who created the account for their parents.
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Stumbled across this. Sounds like the original pitch was that it was going to be a segment on the economy. It makes it slightly more understandable (how one can get duped into this), but unless you are an author or a Nobel prize winner getting interviewed live by JS, it would be wise to stay away from the show.

http://zenentrepreneur.blogspot.com/
You are yelling angrily. Stop that. It is annoying.

> Huh? Cowardly? Are you serious?

Yes, if the developer knows at least 75% of the user base needs and wants A, but still gives the choice between A and B, it is just because he is afraid of dealing with the noisy minority afterwards.

> If I am installing Ad Block, I quite naturally expect it - surprise! - to block things.

And it does block things. Whether it blocks all the things, blacklisted things, non-whitelisted things or whatever is another discussion.

> It is double more so if I am already running the AdBlock and just going through an upgrade.

A completely valid concern. The behavior of an existing product should not change during an upgrade.

> So for all intents and purposes the Sensible Thing to do is to opt users out by default from this new feature.

No, that would be an Insensible Thing, because 75% of users want the other thing.

> Now, do tell me how the hell one would let discerning users know and opt-in without throwing yet another dialog at them?

There's nothing to opt-in to, because the partial block isn't a "feature". It's now the core functionality of AdBlock.

The Hell A) The Block Everything feature could be available in happy colors in the first page of the options.

The Hell B) The AdBlock plugin blurb could say "The entire purpose of AdBlock is to block the "bad" ads [feasability of deciding badness is another discussion]. If you want to block all ads, consider installing NameOfTheAdBlockFork instead."
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this is why her analogy of saying men should stay home and raise children is so apt. if they wanted to, they would

I'm trying to figure out if you're way more privileged than me (unlikely) or way more capable (possible!) but none of it really adds up. I'm wondering what world you live in where you think that people can just do whatever they want to, without resistance. "If women wanted to start companies, they would!" "If men wanted to stay home and raise kids, they would!"

I mean, I can get behind statements like "If someone really wants something bad enough... if it burns in their heart and their soul bears down on it like a million years of rock on a diamond, then they can achieve it."

That I believe.

But this idea that everyone is just doing exactly what they want to be doing, and that there aren't structural impediments that are unequally distributed across demographics... I mean, really?

I mean, read this article and tell me that the only thing stopping, say, American men from staying home and raising kids is that "they don't want to": http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden....
There's a reason children are held to different standards than adults, legally as well as morally.
Given the developer/community response to the redis windows patch a few days back, I am not sure that would ever make it on to the windows platform (at least in its canonical form).
All results come straight from the Youtube API using "location=!" (iirc) parameters to only return geotagged videos.

Since geotagging isn't used that much on YouTube, a lot of "good results" don't appear. Nonetheless, here are some searches that give good mapping:
- occupy movement
- deamdau5 live (not all "artist + live" combo work well)
- parkour
- startupweekend (I just love these events)
- hackathon

Have fun =)
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Most of your doubts and concerns were already answered by the wise old edw519 here: http://edweissman.com/53640595

Also please understand that self-pity is the worst use of your imagination.

I've been in your situation too and some of the things that helped me are:
1) Having a habit of exercising daily for 30 minutes. No compromise on this. This is a good antidote for depression.
2) A habit of getting up at 5 daily and doing the most important thing at that time. This habit alone can change your life and to cultivate this hard habit in a ridiculously easy manner please check this article: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right...
3) Having a Vision Board. I use text instead of images. They are more direct. I change it every week to keep it fresh and inspiring all the time. As a part of the morning ritual, I stare at the vision board for about 5 to 10 minutes and is also close to where I sleep. It gets in my way whenever I’m distracted and not working.

I'm an aspiring Hacker too - currently at the 'aspiring' level only though. I'm learning Ruby by straightaway trying to implement the algorithms found in my college book - Design and Analysis of Algorithm. My work is hardly inspiring. But I start my day with some satisfaction that I’m one step closer to becoming someone like ed519 even if it would take me years!

Remember that the 10000-hour-rule is BS. I realized that I can have fun 'while in the learning phase' and I could hit a wonderful break even before that.
Just develop a couple of life-changing habits and you’ll do great.
There is no SOPA bill in my country, please don't block English Wikipedia from me. Unless you are willing to block enwiki for everyone incl. USA when some law somewhere threatens it, please don't do the same when a law threatens only USA.

I know the USA is big in the anglosphere, but please be a bit less USAcentric.
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Agreed. Block it for the americans, let the rest of the world get it fine. Let Americans see what its like when big copyright cartels don't want to allow a certain piece of work to shown in their country. Let them learn that this could be the future of the internet for them.
This article also raises the point that if nationally mandated sales tax equality is instituted, Amazon and its competitors are in the same boat - but that would also free Amazon to actually open physical stores or showrooms across the US, as well as hiring in various locations, without worrying about creating tax nexuses.
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Which minorities are disadvantaged? This is capitalism, discrimination has a cost and I don't believe many people are willing to spend much on their sexist/racist tendencies.
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It could be argued spending too much time on hacker news is not what you want in your employees.

That doesn't really make sense to me, personally. Check the leader board. Almost everyone on it appears to be an extremely competent hacker. (Though I think at least one is an extremely competent lawyer.)

I personally generally hate job listings. I think they all make little sense. I work for a large company and I find the job postings there completely unfathomable. It's one of the reasons I am still stuck in an entry level job: The job board at the company I actually work for is almost completely illegible to me. The last job I applied for I only applied because a senior manager clued me it was a job on her team and encouraged me to apply. I didn't get it but I at least had some fucking clue where it was, who it was with and what it entailed, information I cannot ferret out from the official postings. (Note: I still didn't know what it paid, information I would have liked to have.)

I think most job postings completely suck. Is this worse suckitude? I don't really know. I just don't think there is any reason to conclude that it sucks "because they are arrogant".
Good find, and definitely worth a read!
4 hours is certainly ample time to slip up and make a mistake.

The live interviews seem to be a safe bet. It would reflect poorly on them if they routinely skewered their guests.
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> It may be the laser being refracted by the air, just like commercial green lasers are refracted by fog. I actually think is the only explanation.

It is. Seeing is interacting with photons, so you can't 'see' a photon that didn't just hit your camera. The process is similar to how I heard we can see speed of light in space, as light from exploding star propagates through a nebula and reflects back to us. I can't find a reference for that though, I heard it as a story from a physics professor.

> And neutrinos, because seriously, neutrinos rock

And magnets.
> When we designed the game, we were looking at Facebook where aquarium games were very popular – and the average player, according to various blogs was a 43 year old woman!

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