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Where I live electrical outlets are quite common because many people use enging heaters during the winter. Also, the government has sponsored many free parking spots with charging (although the free part will probably disappear as soon as electrical cars get popular).
Let me know if you have opposing advice...always interested to learn more!!
had a look, yeah it does find pretty cheap rooms
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You've summed up the alternatives pretty well. I wanted to move from Flickr to 500px, but I feel like my Hipstamatic snapshots simply don't belong there, considering the caliber of talent on display there. I ended up settling for Instagram, even though I'm not too big on it.
By far the biggest cause of failed email delivery we see is due to bad email addresses that were entered in to the system—problems like ‘joe@gmal.com’ or ‘sue@yahooo.com’.

I wonder if you could hack up an 80% solution by comparing the submitted domain to common email domains, and giving a warning if it looks like a misspelling. That way, 'joe@gmal.com' would see a second step in the signup process asking him to double-check his email address. Any idea what percentage of misspellings that would catch?
If your mexican restaurant finds out that the most successful part of the business becomes making dessert (Mexican at first, but then onto other kinds of styles), then they would be happy to have picked someone who can actually cook something else than just Mexican food.

Or they could give said chef the recipe and ask them to make it - something like crème brûlée would not be easily made just following a recipe but requires culinary knowledge to complete it. A proper coding test/exercise will still be able to weed people out without having to put them on the spot with a whiteboard.
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I don't mean to be the wake-up-sheeple'er of the group, but it's quite possible--probable, even--that this is just a bunch of hand-waiving and political posturing as we head into an election season.

Instead of fixed-length convoluted tax "incentives," maybe we could just try not having the highest corporate income tax rates in the OECD, or one that isn't 56% higher than the wealthy-nation average, for example.

Just sayin'.
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I get what you're saying but have to say that since I've started doing more deployments in AWS I'm writing more and more shell scripts. Any given Linux AMI will support Bash and even though shell scripts are painful to write and maintain, doing the equivalent in e.g. Python is painful as well :-(
What about those of us who already bought Osmos and Goo several times over in previous Humble Bundles? If I bought this it would only be for the Android ports.
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I think a lot of scientists see this boycott as a beginning of that process. But even with open access, the scholarly community needs to find a way to recognize worthwhile research that is at least as effective as the current peer review system. Related to a link I gave in another comment, here's a proposal by John Baez for independent "referee boards" as a layer on top of free servers like arXiv.org:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/journals.html
I'm a Mercedes owner (CLS) and enthusiast. First, even if the distinction was only the engine displacement, the bigger engine is certainly more attractive to buyers.

But it's not. There was a redesign between those model years. Mercedes rarely updates engines mid-cycle. In this case, it was a dramatic redesign, an entirely new platform. The new E Class -- E350 or E550 -- is a very different car than the E320.
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Indeed it's much easier if you're proficient in both.

I've written a number of non-trivial IOS apps that are heavily server based. I've done both the server side (Ruby Sinatra API App, MongoDB, Varnish) and the client side (Obj-C naturally) and consider myself equally proficient in both.

The client generally takes much longer to write and debug than the server due to all the little issues with having a smooth, non blocking UI, network availability, juggling data and managing resources that you have with the client app. Not to mention any custom UI controls you make.
There are plenty of valid criticisms of FCPX, but this stuff is nonsense: there are plenty of professional editors using it already.

Where? I know none and I know hundreds of them, hundreds. Not single television network, production company, post production facility I know uses FCPX. AVID is still the king (and always has been), I see lots of FCP7 still around, and new to the production and post production sphere is Premiere, which is getting a lot of traction recently. I have even seen EDIUS around (especially RTL/Bertelsmann/Fremantle group), but I have yet to see one FCPX suite anywhere.
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No. While a security breach would do a good job of knocking a competitor off the hackers would still have emails and money transfers from you to them that could be used as leverage at a later day.
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Eric Schmidt as well. His ancient history is as the author of lex.
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I can strongly recommend Smugmug as a Flickr replacement. $40/year for unlimited photo storage and bandwidth. They handle high-res photos at full resolution, and their thumbnails are less fuzzy than Facebook. (Actually you can change the amount of sharpening on a per-gallery basis, and the default is a good start.)
perhaps someone can come up with a store that allows a board of directors to leave a journal and setup shop easily?

http://scholasticahq.com

http://openrepub.org
I'm from Kansas City (in the middle of the US) where they lack good Ruby groups. I may have to move to make it happen. I appreciate the feedback.
Did DHS specifically say they were banned for their tweets or is it just a newsworthy assumption? Did the two have any kind of criminal history? Were they denied
This could be like the guy who reportedly entered the US because he showed an iPad photo of his passport. Made news for a few days until US customs said "uh, no, we have our own methods and discretion, the ipad pic didn't matter". Big story became a non-story.
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Like several other people here, flickr is one of the few web services I pay for. It's hard to imagine that it's not profitable. So why does Yahoo treat it so poorly?
I agree. playhard, your logo and color scheme look good. But keep in mind that if someone opens your link in a background tab and then looks at it a few minutes later, all they're going to see is:

Coming soon...

Are you ready to Luttie?

Since that person is going to have no idea what they stand to gain from choosing to Luttie, they're probably going to leave instead of submitting their email.
'Elistist, Aristocratic Mentality Created SOPA' says everyone else.

Gee, these CxO people are really getting too big for their britches, as the midwestern USA metaphor goes. Maybe the "Occupy" people have a few good points after all.
I find use of 'f bomb' less professional than the use of 'fuck'. It smacks of prejudice, plus it's using slang to deride slang.
That is true. I do minimal system administration, so that is not a concern for me.

I tend to use a shell for system interaction more than scripting. In that regard, I give more importance to interactivity enhancements. On the other hand, I have found myself using bash to automate simple things in our company testbed. As soon as I need a datastructure more than an array, or recursive functions, I jump to lua.

If your primary job is to be a sysadmin, then Bash is Required Reading.
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Did DHS specifically say they were banned for their tweets or is it just a newsworthy assumption? Did the two have any kind of criminal history, or was the denial due to their responses?

This could be like the guy who reportedly entered the US because he showed an iPad photo of his passport. Made news for a few days until US customs said "uh, no, we have our own methods and discretion, the ipad pic didn't matter". Big story became a non-story.
The post has a very condescending tone IMO, but there is a grain of truth to some of it though. I would say that you should incorporate bootstrap into your design, rather than let bootstrap be your design.

Disclaimer: I'm incorporating bootstrap into the design of my personal project.
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Since Lua 5.2 (just released) the pipe:close() method returns the exit status of the command. For more information see http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-file:close

You can also get the exit status using Lua 5.1 but it's definitely nasty (io.popen('your-command; echo $?') and the last line of output is the exit status).
No secrets here, these are basics. Since your mail is mostly transactional your volume is significantly low compared to people who specialize in mailing. Transactional email is less likely to produce spam complaints. Misspelled addresses are detected on first sends, which is what you want. You're going to get an error at the smtp level or a bounce.

Here's a secret - Monitor the ip to domain ratios , usually gmail will allow 1k of mail from the same ip per hour.
I just opened a github account and will post an easy to deploy project soon.

Is there a link or site that has step by step for more complexed ones?
Doubled my originally intended contribution given the availability of the soundtracks. I wish all games came with the MP3s of the music used within. Game soundtracks are a staple of the music I listen to when I code.

Great job Humble folks!
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Why not? Aside from being utterly unethical, it's a serious federal crime here in the US, punishable by up to ten years in prison (see Title 18 U.S.C Section 1030). I imagine it's also a crime in most other nations.
ah yes, didn't catch what you were saying in the original post...then yes, the redesigns should be accounted...but since they are only looking at E320s, the redesign hit should affect all years.
Ask HN: When is there too much navigation?
Screen real estate is one of the top concerns for my personal computing setups. You've probably seen toolbar overload - http://bit.ly/w0xOEm -
but what do you think about this: http://bit.ly/yfvRJV

That's 6 *-bars: os, environment, browser, site family (google), site, sitetools. After those, you finally get to content. No, we're not programmed to scan each pixel from top to bottom every time, but it seems like navigation should be more compact relative to the content.
Thanks for bringing the EFF back.
I agree. They absolutely should sell Flickr. Yahoo needs cash, Flickr doesn't fit within what Yahoo is (wherever that may be).

With all that free cash, along with the Alibaba deal, they can really make some stuff happen.
Also not mentioned is monitoring if your users actually read the emails. A web bug will work (some of the time) as will checks to see if users ever respond (eg if there is a link to click for full details) or login to the site after email receipt.

LinkedIn noticed that I never read one of the group messages I was getting and so switched to a far more infrequent digest of highlights. I think they may even have unsubcribed me completely from one group.
Yahoo has only two main approaches to dealing with user-generated content moderation:

* a Bayesian filter based moderation engine. Requires loads of resources, political clout to convince the product owner of that system to allocate resources to your own property, and a long lead time to train the filters. Not much scope to adjust the filters

* A "customer complaint" mechanism (flag this comment type links), that go to a customer service centre (in the Phillipines, I think), and they endeavour to look at complaints, and potentially do something within 24 to 48 hours.

Editors on typical Yahoo properties are reminded that they themselves are not allowed to delete or remove comments from the site since that exposes Yahoo to accusations of censorship. Although, a number of editors and engineers quietly ignore that decree and try to clean up their properties individually.

Neither of these options are workable. I've not seen a successful case study of the filter approach, and we've all seen what happens with the 24/48 hour response time of the first party support - the trolls and the spam stay around, and only get cleaned out (if they ever are) way after the topicality of the thread has finished. Yahoo News continues to suffer horribly with these methods.

Out of all Yahoo properties, only Flickr seem to have had a handle on community moderation. They were the leading light on that during my time at Yahoo.

Yahoo simply does not understand the nature of community and believes that moderation can just be automatically applied. It's not an organisation geared towards providing a human face. Flickr has always been the exception here, showing the value that can be achieved by human empowered community nurturing. Sadly, no more.
I took some Visual Basic programming courses in high school, some PASCAL courses in college, and then didn't program anything other than basic HTML/CSS for the next eight years. Last year I programmed an iPhone game in Lua (using the Corona SDK) and it was easy as Tau. Sure a better programmer would have finished the programming aspects in a quarter the time it took me, but I started by looking at Objective-C and I'm not sure I ever would have picked it up without some kind of formal training. Contrast with Corona/Lua, where I watched a few eight minute videos on YouTube and could turn around and make simple but complete programs, and more importantly completely understand what was going on within them. Reading the Lua documentation was a revelation, reading Apple's was a headache.

Why Lua? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beat-boxes/id460798042
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my favorite zsh feature is advanced globbing--i'd far rather type

ls -d ***/*(/)

than

find . -follow -type d -exec ls -d {} \;
to be honest, I was in your boat. I always bought Hondas/Acuras since I was afraid of maintenance issues. So for the last car I decided to take a gamble and buy an Audi. An A4 quattro for winter driving. Figure, worst case scenario, I'll just drive the other car.

Maintenance isn't too bad, I mean yes, a lot of things need a few extra steps compared to other cars...but there are plenty of forums with step by step DIY instructions on how to do everything.

Basically a good rule of thumb is that a Toyota/Honda will cost you $500/yr to keep running. And an Audi will cost you $1,000/yr.

Reliability wise, the mechanical bits are pretty reliable. They had a major issue with the coilpacks, but they did a recall on those, and the new ones are supposed to be bulletproof. The electrical bits on the other hand have their fair share of gremlins...but those are an annoyance, not anything serious + Audi has an onboard computer that catches these things...so you'll know when your turn signal burns out.
I agree, the most useful parallel implementation is nearly always mapreduce or pipes and filters. At the moment, Clojure's not that great for pipes and filters. The STM solution is brilliant, but atm it's all or nothing. The Rust model of being able to transmit something which ceases to be valid on the sending thread would be a useful addition to the current semantics. I think they're still thinking about the correct abstraction for event streams.
Maybe they simply don't consider it profitable enough?

Flickr's done a remarkably bad job with taking advantage of the exploding popularity of mobile photography. The iPhone is the most-used camera on Flickr, yet their iOS app is mediocre. Instagram ate their lunch and they don't even seem to care.
Thanks for the feedback about my comparison - I'll agree that the "editor holy war" comparison I chose wasn't as apt as it could have been, and that Vim is not as to Emacs as FCP is to FCPX.

With that in mind, I still think there's a big difference between saying "video editors as a group tend to be too resistant to change," which I would have no problem agreeing with, and saying that "anyone who is creative will think FCPX is better than FCP," which is silly.

I'm not trying to assert that FCPX isn't better than FCP or that the old FCP workflow wasn't broken, because honestly, it probably was, and beyond missing a few key features (which I'm sure will slowly return), FCPX really is better. I'm just trying to say that being resistant to a major workflow change does not mean you're "not an editor" or "performing only rote tasks" like nirvana asserts.
As I was later to understand, "The Republic" is slang that indicates a sympathy for Republicans, Irish Catholics, some of whom rather notoriously caused "trouble" for the Crown and it's subjects. The offences were mutual. Open hostility relatively rare now, but there is still a lot of animosity and caution reserved for suspected troublemakers of any stripe. As an American, I am certain I was treated deferentially. I had, in effect, just given the agent the finger.
What is it with certain static blog sites and linux chrome that make links and "special" font (such as his inline css font) unreadable? I don't like having to edit someone else's CSS just to make it readable. Especially when it's a blog about web development.
Cox, Comcast, Roadrunner, etc. Most of the large ones besides Gmail.
I subscribed to Flickr for three or four years. I think it's the only Internet service I've ever paid for. I stopped paying because I realized that 1) my friends only check Facebook anyway and 2) they did nothing to improve the site or tools in the years I subscribed.

They rewrote the Flickr Uploadr and made it into a buggy, crashing, unbelievably slow POS. It reeked of "I want to try this!" (XUL, I believe) instead of solid engineering and innovative design.
I think the coolness about hating Photoshop comes from Photoshop on Mac being a 2nd class citizen. The Windows version of Photoshop is better in every way. It is very stable and has an excellent UI (though a few of the older dialogs could use an update).

The Mac version on the other hand is a pain in the ass to use. I operate at about 70% efficiency when using the Mac over Windows version.
Smugmug is only a viable replacement for Flickr if your content stays within their absurdly strict and conservative acceptable content policy.

I've photographed a lot of burlesque events, and although none of the photos contain overt nudity, the mere presence of a breast with nipple concealed is enough to get your photos summarily removed by Smugmug's staff.
Hey, thanks for the reasonable reply. I think this is an important discussion to have.

If you follow the links all the way through, they end at a gutenberg project book. It's already digitized. They did provide a source of evidence for the veracity of the letter, which is great. (I'll note here that BB, in an update, also points to evidence in a Snopes message board thread.)

I don't think I explained what I meant by 'context' very well, though. I meant that Letters of Note provides value not by any individual letter, but by providing a stream of letters. That's its value prop. It means it's easier for anyone interested in the particular kind of content it's aggregating to get that content, by following Letters of Note.

BoingBoing's context/stream is different, a lot less specific about its topicality, but provides a similar kind of value: it aggregates things that its readers will find interesting. Its context is 'interesting things.' And not only does it point to the specific piece of content, but, by linking, it also points to Letters of Note, another context/stream that its readers might find interesting.

I more or less agree with you that it'd be more polite of BB to link more prominently and include less of the content in its post, but I think they do enough that anyone who is interested enough in that piece of content will follow the link to see more.
> I agree with your evaluation, though I'd also add that there was quite a bit of concern about no longer being able to get licenses for FCP 7 that took quite a while to get cleared up (IIRC, it wasn't possible at all to get them, at least from Apple, for a few weeks).

True as well. I'd put that in the "botching the release" part
Fortunately, 90% of bad clients are the former.
Ah, interesting. I've never tried it, but that's good to know.
Do you have better deliverability though? You said you use Campaign Monitor for newsletters and those are a different type of mail than transactional emails from an application (much more likely to be flagged as spam too!). Seems like two different things and would be hard to compare.

Campaign Monitor isn't what you'd use for your apps, you want something like SendGrid.
Very misleading title.
Don't think google hosts any of their code on github so apparently they don't contribute to open source?
Thats not really hacks, thats common sense.

Want a hack ?

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>Does the economist suggest an "open borders" policy? No, because they know that that would be silly.

Can you explain why that would be silly - sillier than, for example, the open borders between states in the US?

I'm glad you have such concern for the poorer citizens of the US. Throw in a little sympathy for the poorer citizens of Mexico and I'll be really impressed.
I don't care if I frictionless share...
Love the idea and want to use this, but crashed the browser when I tried a simple psd.
It's tragic in that they otherwise have a very nice service and I would very much welcome the ability to give them my money; they're taking themselves out of the running for rather a lot of photographers.
Thanks for your helpful input but contrary to your expressed sentiments it's not obvious to parents that 5 is too young. My 3 y/o is able to easily navigate the ipad and the computer, play games, find and start movies, etc. I wouldn't be surprised to meet a 6 year old who understands basic programming expressions.
And by any chance, are you using a Mac?
I actually thought of a similar idea before, while I was meditating in rural Philippines attempting to figure out a viable business idea and trying to avoid a return to the rat race in the US. Unfortunately, the idea seemed too daunting to take on by myself.

I don't know if Duolingo already has plans to incorporate it, but I had also originally thought that 'word completion' functionality would assist in the process of learning a new language. For example, a beginner trying to learn the Tagalog language (but knows a few simple words) could begin by typing the word 'Gusto', and then typing a space after the word would produce a drop-down with possible words that could follow, such as 'ko', 'niya', 'nila', 'mo', etc. In essence, it would be 'Intellisense' functionality that provides grammatically correct word-completion to help students learn sentence structure -- which is a major part of learning a foreign language, as opposed to just translating / memorizing fragments (e.g. words). I was even to the point where I was considering how an AI approach using an inference engine / chaining might make this
process more efficient.

Anyway, I e-mailed Luis von Ahn about it, but he was probably too busy to read or react to my e-mail. I am just happy to see someone else was able to make the idea a reality -- another testament that brilliant ideas are virtually worthless without brilliant execution.
Why is it an issue to verify sending addresses? Your setup now requires that you control the domain as well.
I can't speak from experience but you might find this site helpful: http://www.happynerds.net/
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Fair point, but can you find another statistic that /would/ show that public healthcare doesn't work?