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How social media is ruining our minds
Found my old password and logged in just to upvote this comment.

Any child driven enough to do all this at a young age would have accomplished much more down the road.

This is one of those negative sum situations where we all loose.
Anecdotal, but the majority of hackers I know aren't really motivated by money.

To them, it's about making enough money to fund their projects, or making something noteworthy enough to get hired by somebody else who can.
Honestly, this is the thing that annoys me the most about the Occupy Wall Street slogan of "the 99% vs the 1%"; income is a power distribution and there really isn't a threshold you can step over and become rich.

Not that it really matters, since what catches fire politically is only modestly correlated with what is actually true.
Totally shocked that a community full of Aspies is having a hard time mustering sympathy for this girl and instead have to pedantically inform the Internet that that's not really programming and what's the big deal anyway I did this when I was 12 in between stimming sessions and telling my parents every species of dinosaur.
Supreme Court: Copyright infringement is not stealing, it's infringement
.onion

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en
So, there are colors extracted from a photo. Cool. Now how should I use this colors to have a usable design? Which should be text, link, background? Picking a 5 color scheme you like is easy, making something of it is the hard part.
A mistake people seem to make is assuming Tumblr is a blogging platform akin to Wordpress.com, it isn't, it's a different beast entirely. The majority of Tumblr is the "community" of ~teenagers sharing pictures and videos and posts, Tumblr revolves around the dashboard not individual blogs. Sure you can host your company blog there, but do tumblr care about the uptime of that vs. the uptime of their dashboard?
Thanks for this.

And I just googled and found out that somebody did a similar website for some other 5-letter named editor.
Rupert Murdoch takes on Obama, SOPA, Google, and high popcorn prices on Twitter
so you voluntarily have a shitty web experience on practically every website just to prevent that one possibly hacked website that you might visit by accident some day?

how many of these vulnerabilities would noscript fail to protect against?

https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firef...

http://chromekb.com/vulnerabilities/
"tip's" leaped out at me too - was just going to bitch about it here. I understand the "tip is" contraction. But it still sounds weird, still sounds like a plural. Un-contracted it would read "Just $29 per wash, tip is included". If that read "Just $29 per wash, THE tip is included" or "Just $29 per wash, THE tip's included" it wouldn't have made me cringe.
Try and maintain your sanity while reading the comments under the article. The level of ignorance is quite depressing/frustrating.
Snowboarding Crow (video)
Jeffrey Lake, London UK, looking for developer internship in or around London to start a different career after a break.

currently studying for OCJP and building projects in Ruby on Rails to develop a portfolio on github.

* 3 years accounting and finance experience (with ACCA)

* 2:1 BSc Computer Science
Note that this tutorial is intended for the x86 architecture and for older versions of Bochs. If you're running an amd64 system or using a recent Bochs, you will need to tweak stuff in the Makefile and in bochsrc.txt.
Agreed and I use tumblr a lot for my personal reblog http://stammy.com but I wouldn't host any important startup blog stuff there.
Rackspace Cloud problems after migration - including Windows Cloud Sites down
Definitely needs an availability map.

That said this would be a huge deal in Los Angeles, where hoses are in short supply, street parked cars are in abundance, and the dry air and smog leaves a visible layer of dirt on your car within a week of a wash.
What does TTL stand for in this context?
Have you considered offering a second "chocolate"-focused subscription? Things like green tea pocky, sweet potato kit kats, or even those little pocky-style mushrooms. After reading your post I signed up for the $13 sample, but $24/mo is a little high for me when I'm not a huge fan of the sort of candy you're mailing out. It would also hit on koichi's issue where some people are more concerned about quality than novelty.

For what it's worth, I'd pay $15/mo for one package or $30/mo for two packages - personally, the difference between $24 and $30 is negligible, given how much I'd already be paying. I currently pay ~$50/mo to have Steaz and/or other iced teas delivered (cheaper than going to Dunkin' Donuts once a day), so the issue isn't really price, rather it's the relative value compared to, say, $24/mo of drinks.
No-one besides the OED.. There is no central authority for English, but if there were one it would be the OED. Besides, there are copious examples of people using it in that way in English for half a century: the OED catalogues these so it's not really up for debate in English. And that's the point, it's English not Yiddish we are talking about. You would say "it's Yiddish, not German" if a German started trying to correct you on things because he's a "native speaker".

Edit: as far as I can tell the article always said "originally a Yiddish word" which serves to hold the case I am making.
From Doer to Leader
Jessica is freaking amazing at colors!! I did a story today about design that made front page of HN (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3467855) that referenced her company Design Seeds. Design is all about natural associations and the way she extracts colors from nature and light is maybe the most useful developer tool I have come across, as far as color schemes go.
I guess it's a control thing.
Just whitelist clean scripts from sites you want to visit. It would be cool if noscript could whitelist by SHA hash. Sometimes technical people like having control of their browsing/operating system/whatever experience, even if that control results in having to do more work or accept a less-than-ideal user experience (from the mainstream perspective).
I don't remember having a high registration time for my .is domain, although its possible I just forgot.

The only gotcha I would mention if you go through isnic is that you need to have your own DNS servers, and they have to be registered with ISNIC with a NIC handle (and some other things?). I just use Linode's DNS servers (where I host it), and haven't had any issues.
Business Leaders of Today are Not Capitalists
> Washers apply to Cherry through our site here, we then select a handful of applicants and setup phone calls to vet the washers. If they pass, we send them all the equipment they need to get started and start pushing them your carwash requests in real time.

http://help.cherry.com/entries/20351222-how-does-cherry-hire...
This is a bit of an aside from the article but I am an antique pocket watch collector. I have dozens of watches over 100 years old and a few in the 250 year range. The obvious first thought is to say I 'own' those watches. However, when you have an object of that age in your hand, and you really consider its age, how many other people have cherished it for their lifetime, and that it will probably exist long after I am forgotten, you realize that you're really just the next temporary caretaker. For me anyhow it puts things into some perspective.
It's not waterless

> You fill up the portable sprayer before you leave in the morning. It holds 5-gallons of water. It's battery powered so you don't need plug in either!

http://help.cherry.com/entries/20210796-how-do-i-get-water-p...

> Our washers use an eco-friendly carwash concentrate and the carwash sprayers use a small fraction of the water that normal carwashes use.

http://help.cherry.com/entries/20209442-are-cherry-carwashes...
Seconded. There's some technical content in the postmortems, and a lot of practical observations on teams and project management.
Plus, most of the entries are a mess of "spouse" jobs. e.g. They have 8k receptionists in the top 1% and 7k laborers. Dropping the lowest income household earners that weren't required in order to reach 1% would focus the data better.
"One more question, how do you handle water at an office building?"

Sounds like they bring it with them.

> You fill up the portable sprayer before you leave in the morning. It holds 5-gallons of water. It's battery powered so you don't need plug in either!

http://help.cherry.com/entries/20210796-how-do-i-get-water-p...
I think this is the method I plan on using and offering to my customers. It will get the point across and still allow them to function.
Akshay noticed I was so annoyed with Tumblr that he suggested I write this post detailing our move and urging other startups to do the same.

As much as this is a very staunch gesture, I think it's a very valid one. Tumblr has a huge, active, and connected community. It can be a great entry point for niche startups to find users and build an audience, but the performance and stability just does not cut the mustard.

I greatly want tumblr to succeed, their platform is very fresh, the theme garden model they have fits their mold perfectly (although the premium marketplace seems to be extremely esoteric) but I also hope this suggestion for startups to choose an alternative platform kicks tumblr in some sort of direction to improve the QoS.
Very nice.

> Integration with pandoc gives us markdown and TeX, ...

... reStructuredText, textile, and HTML.

PANDOC is, like, the most powerful thing ever made:
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Not sure how much space the leftover candy takes up, but twice a year (maybe once in the summer and once before the winter holidays) you could sell $24 boxes of random leftovers from the year. Would be great for new subscribers. You could even give the option of doing a random box + first month of a subscription for $36.
It is still possible to create a Tumblr blog that pulls the RSS from your site, though. You can just tell it to only display the URL and title so you don't get an SEO mess.

Not perfect, of course, but it still gives you a slight chance to use Tumblr's amazing sharing platform.
> Our washers use an eco-friendly carwash concentrate and the carwash sprayers use a small fraction of the water that normal carwashes use.

http://help.cherry.com/entries/20209442-are-cherry-carwashes...

> Yes, the carwash pro will do a full exterior wash including wheels and also wash the interior if you leave the doors unlocked.

http://help.cherry.com/entries/20211376-is-it-a-full-carwash
How does the insurance even work on something like that. New for old just doesn't even begin to come close.
"1.) String instruments (possibly others too? I've no idea) generally improve by being skilfully played, a cello that has been played for a long time by Yo Yo Ma will actually be better than it was before he played it."

Do you have any sources for this? I've never heard this before.

It's easy to imagine how unskilled players could make an instrument worse, but it's hard for me to imagine how it would work the other way. Is it really related to the skill-level of the player, or are skilled player just more likely to care for the instrument properly?

I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm just genuinely curious...
This is very illuminating; thank you for sharing your thoughts on the subject. I can see where you are coming from in regards to diversification, although I take a slightly different angle. If I'm taking 75% of the salary I would in a fortune 500 gig, I already consider myself 3/4s diversified. Plus, I can always work 4 startups in 4 years and just take the first cliff worth of stock, which diversifies even more. Granted, it's no mutual fund, but it's not "I'm locked in to one company for 1/10 of my life and if they go under I'm bankrupt". It's a little less money for as long as I choose to work there in exchange for a potential return on investment.

If I were go back and look for an equity heavy gig, and I don't plan to, I would look at the entire process as an early stage investor. No, I can't invest in 10 or 20 different companies, but I can be selective and increase my odds. Actually, anyone with my current skillset could walk into any startup in the valley and start working the next day. That is something few, if any, angels could do.
That sounds really fascinating, but I'm having a hell of a time loading the page. Do you know of any other way to get ahold of that postmortem? Can you pastebin a text-only version or something?
I had a feeling, thanks for digging.
They got it repaired I believe; I think I read somewhere that it took a year.
What's your contact info? Your e-mail address doesn't seem to be in your profile.
You are correct. That's actually one of my favorite features tumblr has, it reminds me much of a site I used back in the 2000's called SideBlog. It worked exactly the same way, drop in a line of javascript and it pulled in your posts and you could design everything around it.

This kind of reinforces my earlier commentary, tumblr has some great features and awesome integration, but their performance and reliability always make me steer clear when needing to put up a blog for a client.
It got $10 million in funding in June.

http://gawker.com/5807591/grilled-cheese-sandwich-gets-10-mi...

https://themelt.com/
I view Apple as still very much a newbie in this space. Sure, they can make it pretty and shiny, but I see them balking on the harder engineering challenges.

For example, because I was one of the doomed MobileMe users, I ended up having two Apple IDs for my Apple assets. As a result of moving to iCloud, I had to ditch one set of assets. Apple assumes you only have one Apple ID, which is fine, but they do not offer you a way to merge two Apple accounts. In other words, their walled garden is so tightly walled it doesn't even play nicely with itself.

Another example is that they don't have a good user experience around communicating what is going to happen when moving data from one device to another. I had the hardest time getting my contacts from my old iPhone to iCloud. What ended up happening is that I had to manually transfer the info (yes, look at the iPhone contacts, type them into a file, then manually type them back into my new iPhone) and actually in the process of moving to iCloud I accidentally deleted all of my contacts without warning. Oops!

So Apple is still really green when it comes to smoothing out all of the rough edges of this complex engineering challenge. My experience with DropBox has been closer to the "it just works" experience.
Not really sure what you mean by that.
We (NodeSocket) are on Posterous; and so far so good. Love the fact that if a post makes the HN front page, we don't have to worry about scaling or downtime. Also, it was super easy to select a theme and modify some basic CSS rules to match our branding and website. Finally, they have some nice nerdy features as well; GitHub Gists and Vimeos automatically converted from a URL to embed.
It's the normal DNS Time-To-Live:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records

Iceland's servers have to host the records, so low TTLs would increase their traffic and therefore load.
I think it's a good idea. It will be interesting to see the implementation of it.
The Facebook Eye
For internal/staff email based on the standard FLOSS tools, with some extra features and a tidy self-contained installation i recommend kolab: http://wiki.kolab.org/Kolab2_Installation_-_Source
Why Warren Buffet Disdains The Private Equity Crowd
Obviously you don't frequent many high end restaurants/clubs.

I have been turned away from places for wearing jeans before. I doubt they would allow me in looking like frog man.

It's more "those places" I was talking about. Sure, nobody is going to scoff at what I wear around my condo.
Das Keyboard has unlimited n-key roll-over. Press all keys at once, all register.
I don't, but will have a look around in the morning as I'm about to head to bed (UK time).

My source is the opinion of numerous music professionals, I first heard it at a young age from my cello teacher (a former concert cellist), and since then from a number of high-level professional cellists and violinists.

That said, it's possible I was wrong to think that it is the case for ancient instruments such as strads, it might only be the case for younger instruments.

I don't think it's anything to do with caring for instruments, but actually a case of the way it is played.

I'll get back to you, hopefully!
The Stanford sponsored http://www.nlp-class.org starts on January 23rd, in just a week. Jurafsky and Manning are the profs.

You should really consider taking it if you want a CL course. The previous installments of Stanford's new initiative have been awesome good.
The site shows only this message: «We are so sorry – we are currently not accepting international traffic». I suppose international means outside US.
Hi, I'm Jonathan Cohen.

I'm an experienced technical and marketing writer, looking for full-time (or permanent part-time) work.

I know FrameMaker, Acrobat, RoboHelp, Microsoft Office, how to tweak HTML by hand, and all of the social media/blogging platforms.

I'm in Toronto, and looking for a position there or to work virtually -- I've worked from home more or less the past five years.

Thanks!
you can also use 1984.is, an icelandic free dns provider. nice guys, too.
How long does it take to get to 10 WPM on QWERTY? The same?
Innovation has positive externalities (unless it is patented, others can get it for free (roughly)). So, you can still have a major shortage even if supply/demand are meeting in the usual way. (what do you think the reaction to sputnik was about?)
Bicycle Stems
Where's a great place to order custom hoodies?
What site do you recommend to order custom, small-batch (1-5) hoodies?
Weird. I can't remember ever having trouble loading a tumblr blog.

I wonder what accounts for our different experiences?
If your levels are not deliberately planned, one would say you're doing it wrong, usually :)
http://stenoknight.com/plover/ploverdemo/ploverdemo.html

In-browser demo of the software.
.ch (Switzerland) is probably the best rule-of-law domain. Wikileaks is still going strong on that.

I like the idea of .ru or other TLDs under sclerotic court systems.

The fear with .ru would be that somebody could 'buy' your domain with corrupt influence.

I would say .ru for 'anything goes' or .ch for 'I know I am in the right and I think a truly independent court would defend me'
There has been a lot of research into how instruments change by being played; nobody completely understands the mechanisms involved, but it is clear that there are changes in the crystallization of the varnish which affect the sound. Any good violinist can tell you that after an instrument hasn't been played for a while, it takes a few months of playing -- the louder the better -- before it will start to "speak" properly.
http://pastebin.ca/2103365
Zappos.com customer database compromised
From Cherry's zendesk entries, it sounds like they do the same thing -- each washer is provided a battery powered sprayer that holds 5 gallons of water and a battery powered vacuum for interiors.
Neighborhoodies is pretty good, but expensiveish. I think they start at $40. http://www.neighborhoodies.com/
Why is TTL relevant here. You register the domain name with Iceland but the nameservers need have nothing to do with Iceland.
In what proportion are those: A. two person households, and B. two fulltime worker households?
> At least in the state where I live, there are regulations that require car wash locations to recycle the runoff water. I don't see how this would be possible with this model.

I'm curious too. In the process of looking for relevant information (which I haven't found yet), I see that each washer Cherry contracts with in California will have to pay for a $250 per year car washer license. They'll have to do a pretty large number of washes before they start making any money.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToObtainCarWashRegistration.ht...
Since when is a startup's corporate blog mission-critical?

PicPlum's recent blog posts seem to be pretty run-of-the mill ... press mentions, tips, new features, etc. Nothing that (a) would hurt the company if the blog was down or (b) you couldn't simply use your company Facebook page for.
A few questions come to mind:

1. Can you request a car wash for a car you don't own? If so, how can you prevent car owners who don't want the service handling their care washed as a gift (or prank)? If not, how does a user of the service prove ownership of a car?

2. Does the service require cars to be parked in a relatively unoccupied area so as to minimize impact on other cars and/or pedestrians in the area?
Yeah, a couple of years ago, but the H1B didn't work out and I moved on. I should probably call them up again.
I've very, very rarely seen an intro session that wasn't an upsell.

The one moderate exception was at a managed on-site gym at a workplace when I first started out. I got a training program that I followed with some success for the next nine months, losing 50# of bodyfat and gaining 12# of muscle in the process (verified by hydrostatic testing).

Today I'd have done a rather different route, but, hey, it worked. That of course is the novice's advantage: virtually any crap program is better than sitting on your ass. The question is: what is going to work best.

For most otherwise healthy people these days I'd say a 5x5 strength program with 2-3x weekly HIIT cardio sessions (Tabata anything after a month or two).
Zappos: Security Email
The real deal with Groupon
Dude, where's my party? Nixter realtime party app journey from Chile to SFO
Regarding the name - its too close to the Chinese car manufacturer 'Chery' for my liking. If they expand into the USA (as they have recently into other countries) it may cause confusion....
Agreed, we didn't have anything too interesting in recent past but we're going to start ramping that up. Especially after checking out rand fishkin's presentation about inbound marketing.
Here is a bookmarklet which will generate random themes (the background is untouched, so you can set it to your personal choice):

https://gist.github.com/1618529
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