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It's the only Yahoo product I've spent a dime on. In fact, except for Netflix, I've spent more on Flickr than any other online service and I'm a cheap bastard.

That said, I did downgrade and stop paying them last year.
Visa Waiver (ESTA) and Advance Passenger Information (API/APIS) are not the same thing. Even with a visa waiver you (via the airline) must provide API before check-in, and may subsequently be denied boarding, denied entry at your destination, or in extreme cases return of your flight to it's origin mid-flight.
I've been doing client-side application development my entire career, so server side stuff is the largest hurdle for me. I've quit partway through 3 rails projects so far.
According to this article, http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Gets-to-See-Published/13040... , Darrell Issa is a co-sponsor. He was one of the few that were very vocal against SOPA so why is is sponsoring this?
Overall this is a helpful list. One of the biggest challenges with used cars is they are impossible to treat as a commodity. I spent several years working for a company that financed high-end classic and exotic autos. I learned a ton. One of the biggest tips is you really need to profile the owner if you want to get car that was well maintained.

I like luxury cars (BMW's, Lexus, etc) and over time came up with a system for purchasing used ones. Search CL and local want-ads in affluent suburbs. Eventually you will find 1 owner cars with low miles owned by people with the means to take proper care of them. Ask for the maintenance records, look at the condition of the interior and also look for clues on how the person takes care of other things like their personal appearance AND their home. It will tell you everything. I've gotten some killer deals on pristine cars following this method. Currently on the hunt for a late 70's air cooled 911 :)
This post makes an important general point. Developers and management don't appreciate and respect upper-tier support people nearly enough.
i would never even think about going that route. It's always best in the long run to try to outperform your competitor by offering better service, customer support and just better product in general. I always live by the old saying "treat others the way you like to be treated". beside, how would you know that the same group didn't contact the other company as well?! so this way they would get $100,000 and take down both sites lol
I don't consider the Yellow Pages to be content, just hard-to-gather data. For this site, the top level is data which points to content. The comments are the content, for me.
If you have photos on flickr, get them off NOW.
"The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." George Bernard Shaw (apparently).

The original tweet(s) were immature as well as culturally insensitive. If you are going to use language that's cliquey in a public broadcast medium, and words that in their plain well-understood meaning convey threats or danger, then you have no grounds to complain if persons of authority take measures against such perceived threats.

Granted, these people probably didn't realise the repercussions of their locale-specific slang, but ignorance is no excuse. They should at least be aware of the environment they are travelling to.

It's the golden rule of international travel: Don't be an idiot. International travel is a privilege, not a right. Foreign countries don't have to let you in, even if you are British.

Being British myself, I'm actually unaccustomed to the use of the word destroy in that context, and never heard this digging up Marylin Monroe quip. I found both tweets tasteless and needlessly incendiary.
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Let one little patriot act pass through Congress and we get plagued with the retard bregade known as the tsa for 100 years.
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It makes sense to include Android in the Humble Bundle, since it is the only popular PC platform that was not already included. It is not really possible to deliver a iOS or WP7 app without DRM, so they cannot extend the offer to applicances.
Sometimes, you need to cut off an arm to save a body.

And how do you or I know it is foolish or not? This is one persons opinion. Do you have their financials to look through? Do you really know why pink slips were given? How do you know Yahoo! isn't preparing Flickr for sale and trying to clean up balance sheet?

I don't.

A huge culture loss absolutely, I agree.
The real "hack" here is slyly congratulating readers on their cleverness so they keep coming back for more.
The idea is good with the exception of the auto shop doing the once-over. I think they would be leery of providing a statement regarding the condition unless they were sufficiently compensated. Or unless the idea was large enough to involve a network that provided the guarantee.

What you are suggesting is in a sense what used car dealers do. Even if there is no long term guarantee on the condition of the car (many times there are though) there is an implicit guarantee that the car isn't going to die once you drive it off the lot. The point is, they charge for that because they have to cover that as a contingency if something hidden turns up.
That's fair but I have an almost visceral reaction myself to seeing the black menu and white body with zero modification on public facing sites.

The base WordPress theme bothers me less than seeing something like this: http://daveriver.scripting.com/

Quick Edit: Looking through the sites on http://builtwithbootstrap.com is a mixed bag. There are sites that quite honestly look atrocious and others that look quite nice. I guess my baseline opinion is that Bootstrap in the wrong hands is just as bad as a blank canvas in the wrong hands from an aesthetic standpoint. That says nothing about ease of maintenance or anything else...
A different set of donors to his campaign?
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I mostly disagree - nowadays it isn't AR that is essential ime. AM on the other hand is utterly essential and I end up implementing parts of it on almost every nonAR-model to get the nice interaction with AS.
"But mainly it was there as a point of discussion to see how you approached such code."

One would hope that the expected answer was to approach it by way of promptly deleting it, replacing it with something readable, and then finding the person who wrote it and kicking them in the shin at least 8 times.
I must be walking under a silver lined cloud; I've had an original droid since launch day over 2 years ago, and now an ICS Galaxy Nexus since launch day, and the Exchange integration has been better than my Windows PC, by and large. I've never had any of the issues you mention. I don't doubt you've had them, but I have not. I frequently get "dinged" on my phone for new email before Outlook. (I will admit that deleting a mail on outlook takes up to 5 minutes to "be gone" on the Android.)

But never any calendar issues. Never any dropped mails. Never any needs to "hard reset". Lookups work as well on my phone as they do on outlook, for me.
> It's the same problem on Web Development. It's actually worse.

For me, on average, the same type of UI / interaction in iOS takes about 3-5x more to develop versus web.
I'm aware of two ways to do this with the content network:

- Bid on specific placements. If there's a blog or blog post post I want my ad to appear on, I can tell Google that I want to raise my bid for that specific URL.

- Bid on specific keywords. For example, I might include the keyword phrase "freelancing health insurance personal experience" in my content campaign, and give it a higher bid price than the keyword "medical bills." In this regard, it's the same as with search, except that your ad is triggered based on Google's scan of the blog post, rather than what a searcher types into Google.

To get an idea of the keywords that Google might extract from a blog post, type its URL into the Google Keyword Tool:

https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__u=10000000...
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English writing was as-a-rule slow for me and I definite to professionally apply to liable online drafting producers for the awesome utility from professional writers!
Is there a Hacker News flagging mafia?
I suppose it is a matter of perspective- I am one of those people that transitioned from web sites to apps (well, I do both)... I hadn't thought about people that transitioned from desktop apps to mobile apps.
Not true. Dealer makes money on the financing. If they are making money on that they can afford to sell you the car for less. Usually a good idea to walk into the dealership and let them believe you are going to finance the car and at the last minute change your mind.
That other countries practice similar, or worse, exclusionary methods is irrelevant. That people within America still have the right to freely express themselves is, I think, a less interesting takeaway from this snafu.

More interesting is that this sort of behavior is emblematic of major government failure: a failure of policy, of implementation, and of accountability.

From a policy standpoint, we've had roughly 24 terrorists or 3 trips attempt to cause harm to US aircraft in the last decade. In that time, we've hand hundreds of millions of air travelers or millions of trips. And yet, our policy is to treat every single traveler as a potential terrorist.

We've implemented these policies poorly as well. We've spent billions of dollars on what amounts to security theater. We've deputized some of the least capable members of our society, giving them the power to screw with customers more or less without reprisal. We've made travel, which many people viewed with joy a short time ago, a massive pain in the ass. But apart from that, we've also given untold agencies untold power to surveil, apparently, the entire world.

Eventually, and this didn't take long, those in charge of the theater begin to believe they were on the righteous path. As long as your behavior can be cloaked in "security" or "doing what's best for the country", you've essentially got a free pass. And so, 80 year old women get pulled out of line to have their colostomy bags inspected. Senators must be randomly patted down. We get decisions like this.

And, that “security” cloak never gets lifted. When bad decisions are made, as I would argue was made here, we don't hear "Ya, we overreacted. Sorry." Instead, they double down. They cry Security! and spew politicized bullshit, the kind that would make Orwell cringe:

"it tried to maintain a balance between 'securing our borders while facilitating the high volume of legitimate trade and travel that crosses our borders every day.'"

The trouble is, many Americans seem to have no problem with this. Such a minor hassle is worth it, even if it increases safety an imperceptible amount. The problem, in the short term isn’t devastating either. We get a few less Mr. Van Bryan’s visiting each year. But in the long term, all societies whose citizens cede too much power to those who claim to be acting to protect those citizens fail. Usually in the most unpleasant ways.
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Where do I start in regards to building a team?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm looking to apply to YC this year, I have a great product but the only thing I'm lacking is a great team.

A few questions:

1. Where can I recruit people? (i.e forums? job boards? etc)
2. What kind of incentives would entice people to jump onboard? (baring in mind my product isn't a business/company yet so I don't have the funds necessary to provide salaries or anything of the sort.)
3. From experience, what are the most important key factors to take into account when hiring/recruiting? (knowledge? passion? etc)

Thank you for your time.
The (financial) cost is not a side issue. With Elsevier bundling different journals together, the outrageous charges really hurt the libraries. The last time I recommended my library two books to purchase, they asked me to choose one since their budget was limited and the books seemed to be on similar topics and available via interlibray loan.

Being a scientist myself, I am in favor of open access, but I also think that affordable access is the next best thing. I am not compromising on this, if a publishing house that published low cost journals supported RWA, I would boycott them, too. There is no reason to be militant, though. Once open access becomes standard, people will demand it more easily. Note that one reason for Gowers's public declaration was to make this "socially acceptable". Unfortunately, it is not yet so.

Perhaps the whole landscape can be changed in one move, and we should shoot for the stars, but this has to be done by the scientists, and generally speaking they are busy doing science. An easier goal is much more realistic.

This being said, I would also like to add that I think there is an opportunity here for a startup. Just like PG et al's Viaweb, perhaps someone can come up with a store that allows a board of directors to leave a journal and setup shop easily?
Markup isn't really a big deal. There's only so many ways to markup certain kinds of features anyway. This only really starts being an issue is when your site looks substantially similar to another site. That's more to do with CSS, colors, imagery, and content. It's actually quite easy in many cases to visually replicate a site without using the original HTML at all.

I wouldn't worry about it.
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Sorry, I just submitted the story with it's original title. I am not J.D. Roth.
I would love to do exactly this, because I love the A4. But the maintenance cost fears stop me. I was really hoping it was one of those "Macs cost more" type myths, but the more I read the more it appears to be true.
I agree with the characterization of the past but I don't think curating is the answer either. You can't easily distill quality content out of a sea of junk. Much of the best content on the web still comes from traditional editorial organisations like NYT, Economist, etc. Free-for all social content works great for sites like StackExchange but I don't even think Quora, which is kind of like a curator, is going anywhere.
> The lack of diversity I am talking about does not come from averaging a large number, but from the fact that unlike Mississippi, all of Japan, Canada and the EU have very high standards of living, nationalized health care, and very extensive social safety nets, as well as very high education levels.

This is a complete non-sequitur, because you either forgot what you originally said ("Hell if we're going to use CIA country fact ... includes both Japan and most of Europe?") or you didn't read what I wrote carefully, or both. Luckily, in the midst of your confusion, you did make a point to disparage Mississippi, which was very classy.

> Simply put you and I have different definitions of culture.

So do you agree that the definition that I used, the one relevant to the OP, has a larger variance between Mississippi and Maryland than Sweden and Finland? Because I'm not interested in hearing how confident you are that the difference in "national identity" is larger for the latter pair (which it is by definition).

> Let's do a thought experiment:...

I did the thought experiment with Mississippi and Maryland, vs. Finland and Sweden. And if you assume the person can speak the relevant languages, then I think they grok Sweden following Finland (which I base on the advice of the Finnish grad student down the hall) or Switzerland following France (which I have done) significantly easier than they grok Mississippi following Maryland.

Have you spent any time in a poor, southern US state?
Reading between the lines, it sounds like there is outsourcing of Flickr customer support to (presumably lower paid) third-party (or possibly off-shored)

These sentences from the post, in particular, caught my attention: "Not only do you have the patience of a saint (imagine getting asked the same 3 questions, 50 times a day, every day)"

" You literally can't buy that or replace it or outsource it, though it appears that Yahoo thinks it can."

Sounds like these were Tier-1 support people (or worse, Tier 2/3 support people doing Tier-1 jobs) For a company in Yahoo's position, In-house Tier-1 support is a luxury they can't afford.

And, while I don't mean to sound insensitive - a well educated/technical team can come up to speed pretty quickly - within a period of a few weeks, on Tier-1 issues. You work hard to hold onto your Engineering-Support (the people that are familiar with the code base) - but the "Same 3 questions, 50 times a day" skill set can be bought/outsourced.

You can't help but empathize with the people being let go - it sucks to be Riffed. But, if the rumors that I'm hearing from inside Y! are accurate - this is just the first in a big string of layoff notices we'll be hearing about in the next several weeks from Sunnyvale.
I just learned about AutoGlance, which is a "Hipmunk for car buying": for example, http://autoglance.com/search/#Mercedes-Benz,eclass,50,29492
So true. I move that the expression "beg the question" be stricken from the lexicon. If you use it right, people have no idea what you're talking about. Use it wrong, and people like me get all distracted and discombobulated. Best not to say it at all.
This is probably of interest to HN readers, so I submitted it. But a) This could easily be some publicity-seeker attempting to hitch a ride on the recent New York Times articles, b) there's no evidence a petition is needed, as the (quoted) letter CEO Tim Cook wrote to his employees expresses his concern with the issue, c) it's probably unfair to ask why Cook "isn't doing anything about the problems?" and d) let's save some umbrage for all the other companies and products that use these or other Chinese suppliers with similar issues.
I think you're dancing around the word "discrimination" which is actually a fundamental aspect of thought and language, and is how humans can tell, for instance, the difference between good and bad. Are you saying that people shouldn't have standards?
I would think to run in either case.
Whoa! Talk about overreaching.

1) If you can't design it... {sneer}

"If you're using Bootstrap, you clearly don't care enough about your idea to spend time on the best user experience."

Or! Mabye you'll benefit from having more time to spend on your idea, rather than the basic framework of the web page you're composing.

2) Your homepage will suck and you will have no brand

"Homepages for Bootstrap sites are forced to be completely unimaginative."

I view Bootstrap like the binding of a book. A book with interesting binding is cool, but ultimately, it's the content of the book that makes or breaks it. There's nothing about Bootstrap that would cause your brand to be uninteresting. Bootstrap is easily extensible. It's a great starting point.

3) You will have no new ideas

This is almost a fair point. The incentive to create a new modality is diminished when existing tools are at hand, but this assumes that new ideas must be within the realm of web page design. That's like saying that no new paintings can be created with oils. That's just silly.
I guess the use of "improved" might have caused downvotes.

The only thing improved is the short term balance sheet.

(I know nothing about the specific situation, but if only one of the support people at my work would have to go it would be devastating.)
>Padrino’s best bet is to appeal to a younger, fresher group of programmers who haven’t spent years learning Rails

Anecdotal contradiction incoming. I started with Rails years and years ago (can't even remember when). I moved to Merb when Merb was the new hotness because I preferred it's modular approach. After Merb was "merged" (i.e. a few of its philosophies were put into Rails and Merb died due to lack of development), I caught on to Padrino and was impressed by it for the same reasons I was impressed by Merb. I program in Rails for a living but use Padrino for my personal projects.

I actually think a potential knock against Padrino is that it's not quite as easy to get into as Rails. When I got into Rails, it was all "create a blog in five minutes" which is what attracted me to it. There was a point where I didn't even understand the distinction between Ruby/Rails -- it was just one big scripting language to my PHP-addled mind. I think Padrino (or even just plain Sinatra) has a slightly steeper learning curve; but it's hard for me to comment on that necessarily because I am no longer a beginner and my perspective is a lot different.
Different strokes for different people I often sketch out my ideas and possible solutions on a white board or on some sheets of A1 flipchart paper laid out on a spare desk near me.
Oh do please supply the numbers you're working with.
I believe that this kind of thinking is what differentiates the companies that are successful in the long run from the ones who can create a one shot product; and I'm not sure the OP is on the right camp.

To take an internet-famous example, Kevin Rose went on the record to say that one of the major failings at Digg was the fact that they hired anyone who could code in PHP in the beginning, but when a PHP-based solution stopped being the answer, they were left over with a bunch of PHP developers who couldn't do anything but that.

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.

I think the whiteboard tests are an attempt at figuring out the capacity of the interviewee to abstract the problem instead of solving it the fastest/usual way. In my experience, the ability to abstract is very closely correlated to the ability to adapt to new situations (and code better in general)
"Everything looks good, but I can't in good conscience buy this until a get a mechanic that I know to give it a once over. Can we arrange that?"

Don't buy anything from anyone that balks at this, regardless of reason.
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"why should we pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to do it?"

Because it costs us less and we have better deliverability. Also, 1% of 50 million emails a month is a lot of undelivered mail.
Is this just who contributes on github? There is more to open source than just contributing on github. Also, just because you open sourced a piece of code, does that really justify it to be open source on the same level as gcc? or some other largely adopted project? I could open source lots of random things but if no one is using them then one could argue it isn't a contribution.
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More accurately titled, "Who has the most repositories." Having the most repositories is not the same as "who contributes the most."

I wonder if they have / can come up with some kind of quality metric, however bogus it may be, based on activity, watchers, forks, etc.
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Many ISPs are turning to returnpath to manage their white lists, and that is indeed a daunting financial outlay.
If they pay on PayPal or via their credit card, they can always do a chargeback.
"You've rejecting sipping on one glass of poison, now let's all join in and chug another one!" Sigh...
Try doing a small project yourself. This can help in a bunch of ways:

- Learning is quicker. Till the time you can not get a job in a company, why not build something yourself?

- Familiarize yourself with real world and give you the ability to design an end-to-end system.

- You will have a portfolio to show off your skills.

- Using open source tools/scripts on the way will allow you to make contributions to them later. Contributing back to the community helps deepen your understand, gain valuable feedback and also get visibility.