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neat and simple - i like it! unfortunately I just changed my cover photo, so I'm gonna stick with it for a while.
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Exactly, free memory is wasted memory.
I don't think that both sides have to be willing to walk away for it to be a negotiation. Both sides just have to believe that the other side is willing to walk away.
It is probably not illegal to purchase a VPN connection.

However check the Netflix terms of use. They may specify that you can only access it if you are located in the USA. If you are using a VPN you are accessing a computer system without authorisation, which is illegal in the USA (and most other countries). You are unlikely to be convicted of it (though it did sorta happen once in the USA).
I use mutt. I'm not the only one. There are also people who read their email in emacs. There are people who turn off image loading in HTML-capable mail readers.

All of these are the kind of people you want using your service or software: clueful and security conscious. When they recommend something, people listen. As customers, they're less likely to ask a FAQ and more likely to point out an actionable bug or deficiency.

The only problem I have with 'click-to-confirm' email messages is that some services deliver them slowly. If you can fire off an email when I click Register, I can be reading it and cutting-and-pasting the URL or ID code five seconds later. A message that doesn't arrive for ten or fifteen minutes means I have to context-switch away and then back.
This should just depend on whether you're an exempt or non exempt employee. Most IT professionals are classified as exempt meaning they do not qualify for overtime.

If you're paid hourly, or work as a contractor, you should be paid for all your hours.
Yep, USA welcome to what Hollywood does to the rest of us.
Why I find "conspiracy theories" ridiculous: with "friends" (above-board entities like corporations, proud of having titled nobility... er, I mean, executives; I forgot that "America doesn't have a hereditary aristocracy") like our leading large institutions, who needs enemies? Why invent shadowy evil organizations when there are so many objectively-visible and extremely greedy (if not quite evil, and most often too stupid and poorly-run to pull off the levels of evil we imagine) ones?

The evil-evils don't meet in shadowy mansions with bad lighting and creepy piano music. They meet in private parties in Aspen and executive boardrooms and on the boards of "charities" that really exist as a scoreboard for the social status of rich people. They also don't have huge orgies. They visit prostitutes half their age whom they pay $1500/night to endure their post-coital crying about their mistakes (such as marrying dumb trophy/corporate wives and having to write high-six-figure donation checks to shove their low-IQ kids into Ivies).

There isn't "one conspiracy to rule them all", but there are lower-case-c conspiracies all over the place.
Does anyone know of a FF plugin that will decode QR codes in images on a page, and maybe even turn them into live links? Here's one for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bfdjglobiolninfgld...
Yeah, personally I know a number of solid devs who like feature toggling but the notion has always rubbed me the wrong way. Especially because half the time I'm adding a non-trivial feature, I'm always semi-refactoring the code underneath to deal with the common patterns and concepts that emerge as a result of that addition. But I'm a big refactoring-as-you-go kind of person--I don't know how common this is.

Branching is definitely a significant investment for a team. It's best done when you've got somebody in-house who can guide everybody through the etiquette and how to use git to best support it. And if you want to do it all the way then you want to support in multiple places in your development stack -- QA servers, staging servers, CI, etc.

But for large units of work that genuinely should stay out of master -- large user-flow rewrites, big code refactorings or database migrations -- I find it a great way to have significant experimentation off to the side and then bring it back into master when it's ready for prime-time.
Yes ("Disadvantage of this is that anyone who receives that mail will get registred without their consent if their mail client automatically shows images.").

If people do insist on using this method, they should at least add a prominent link to cancel the account in the e-mail.

But what if some random e-mail client prefetches the image and the e-mail end up never being read or whatever? This is not robust.
I think anyone whose opinion of Steve Jobs is changed by this knowledge needs to take a good look in the mirror and ask if they are not the hypocrite. Jobs always was a consumate businessman. Before Apple, even, he was scheming his way through a job, getting Wozniak to do his work and going back on his word to split profits.

But isn't that what America is all about? Aren't your shoes, clothes, electronics, etc. made by low wage workers at companies run by men and women who are willing to do anything for an extra dollar? Isn't that capitalism? Isn't that their "fiduciary duty to the shareholders"?

In the world of engineering, engineers are a resource just as oil is a resource for an oil company. Do you also get angry when oil companies hire lobbyists to wine-and-dine politicians until they give favorable exploration rights on federal lands to those companies? How is this any different, morally?

Ultimately, the really hard question is: would we have the iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air, iPad if Jobs had not done what he did?
I disagree. I don't own a TV anymore, and probably never will.

I want to pull up the shows I want, when I want, and watch them where I want.

To do this, I rely on the following services, in order:

1. Hulu (I'm happy to deal with ads)

2. Network streams (ditto ads)

3. The Pirate Bay (when not available through other means)

4. Another site dedicated to current/past British TV

Re #4 - there's no way, just no way I'm going to wait months to watch a show on PBS that aired on the BBC/ITV/Ch4 yesterday.

IMHO, the most lucrative path for the industry to follow would be a subscription model that's tied to usage.

* Users buy credit, and that credit is used as they download content.

* Current content is more valuable - so the current season of a series costs $X/GB, last season costs $Y/GB, etc.

* Every channel/network is in business for themselves (e.g. cut out Apple/Amazon/DirectTV altogether)

I'm not holding my breath for that scenario though.
And if you care that much about the URL you should be able to infer from website.tld/qr that it's a QR code specific URL to track hits.
That's not really new, here in the Netherlands the gap between US and local broadcasts has now often been reduced to less than a week for certain series.

A 3 day window however is still too long for shows with real fans that want to participate in the global conversation. It may work for procedurals and sitcoms, but not for shows with big stories and cliffhangers like Lost, 24 and such.

Never mind the fact that you still get all the disadvantages of a commercial broadcast: fixed time, annoying station logo's, subtitles (or dubbing depending on the country) and most of all: incessant commercial breaks.

No thanks.
What a great read.

I've been fascinated with ISS since learning about TWISST. If you follow @twisst on on Twitter and your location is in your profile, you'll be sent a tweet with where ISS will show up next in your area. It's been fun to take the family outside and look at the space station as it goes by.

I am a little jealous, though. I want to go for a ride.
thanks! there are so many crap fb tools out there we need something simple. need ideas for more effects to add though!
But if it's a redirect, it could send me anywhere. That's what I don't like about it.
Wow these guys have absolutely no integrity.
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Is that including Sales Tax?

It does hurt a lot when you have such dichotomies...
I'd suggest putting "Ask HN:" at the front of this. May get you more traction.
What is particularly annoying, if you like the Facebook account and they tell you about the upcoming episode, for example Big Bang Theory which won't be on for a couple of months.
There is no such thing as "copyright industry". The motion picture industry, the phonographic industry, the book publishing industry, the software industry, the video game industry all closely related to copyright yet they are all very different businesses with very different problems, "screwed up" very different ways. This is gross oversimplification and I am sad that this level of naïve uninformed populism is making it to the top of HN.
What always ticked me off was the same "non-American" rule applied while we were living in Puerto Rico - which is part of the United States. My kids were watching American cable and weren't able to access the online episodes because we weren't on the continent.
When the poorly coded app freezes, the Android menu buttons are often the only escape. This was an advantage in my opinion.
Dutch TV aired BSG months later.

Result: everybody that wanted to see the show had already pirated it, and the viewing figures were miserable.

This has happened with several popular shows.
That example isn't really good, but think back to the original post: if your browser caches every element of every already rendered page, it can be super fast in case of a page reload/tab reopen.
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1. Hulu isn't available in the UK
2. Neither are (legal) streams from US networks
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Oh, God, the German dubs for Star Trek: The Next Generation were horrible - they sounded like the same guy did everybody's voices (OK, except for Troi, fortunately).

And I'll never forget the debut of the Cosby Show in Germany and wanting to show my college friends this show I really liked - and realizing that without Bill Cosby's voice, it was utterly, hopelessly worthless. Not the first time Germans looked at me like I was crazy, but it was a formative experience.
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Oh yes, I completely forgot that you need Mac OS to access the iOS SDK... Makes me want to get an Ultrabook just to thumb my nose at evil Apple...

Funny thing is, no one has so far been able to recommend a single make and model apart from the MacBook Air...
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This map shows in "realtime" when users around the world take or leave bikes in a bike sharing system scheme of their city: http://citybik.es/realtime

Or, if you want, here's the popular gif cursor party done in real life http://citybik.es/cursor_party
if I had never had any exposure to programming, and you told me that a equals ten, b equals twenty, and a equals b, I would say that one of these three equations is obviously false (the system of three equations has no solution), you're full of shit, and probably made a mistake and expect me to put 0,0 for a and b respectively. Or I would guess randomly or ignore the question.

IF I HAD NEVER HAD ANY EXPOSURE TO PROGRAMMING.
This is a great article exploring what some technology behind PaaS might do, and also a great start, but falls short of true PaaS functionality.

* Many PaaS offerings (like AppFog) are not like shared hosting at all, only the free offering hosts people multi-tenant, when you pay you get dedicated VMs

* The platform in platform-as-a-service means it connects you to fully managed services (on Heroku there are all the add-ons as well as Postgres, on AppFog there are add-ons and MySQL).

* One of the most compelling parts of PaaS is that it is managed by someone else so that you don't get a call at 3am when it is broken

Moreover, if you were to run a PaaS on your own, it would make more sense to try Cloud Foundry which has specifically addressed at least the services aspect of the above comments.
I think it's time a few big players in the tech industry lead the charge toward making shit like this completely impossible. Regulation and lobbying and beltway insider bullshit is their game, and their rules. Eventually that too will change but that change isn't going to come about playing by their rules.

The problem is that you can censor the internet in the first place, not that some assholes want to censor it. There are always going to be assholes.
I don't think the majority of users check the URL of the QR code. Why wouldn't you trust the advertiser? I think it's really rare to see an advert that looks innocent, but actually isn't, and at the same time contain a QR code that has a "malicious-looking" URL.
What about this Toshiba?

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/laptops/toshiba-portege-z830-ultra...
You just scanned an unreadable symbol. It could already send you anywhere. Vetting URLs by whether they look like they point at a redirect script seems like overkill.
Conspiracy just means "in the same spirit" (from the latin con spirare - breathe together).
I guess I'd trust ads more than random QR codes on blogs. My point is, if the point of a redirect is that you can send people to a different page later in time, then you really can't depend on the QR code taking you where you expect, or even to the same page that it used to go to.
I could see this being hugely successful. The only question is whether people have been conditioned for the sale season. Growing up in a household full of women who buy clothing and accessories all the time, they particularly save up for when holidays approach.
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If you need an adviser, handler, lawyer or PR person to tell you "don't blatantly copy/steal other people's shit", you shouldn't be in business, you should go back to kindergarten.
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True. But in the case I'm evaluating, that isn't my worry. All I care about is the expected number of collisions over some extremely large number of hashes.
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I presume you already hold a cellphone to your head...

Or if you use a handsfree adapter, the phone itself is close to your lap.

Also plenty of laptops already have long range radios built in.
I'm not sure this is an issue. Every application has a hierarchy of controls at the top of the screen, and the user understands this.
I'm in an interesting position because I just negotiated a raise, and am also negotiating with candidates for an upcoming hire.

I earned my raise by first earning it in effort, but when it came time for the negotiation I know without a doubt that if I hadn't made it clear I was willing to walk away, I wouldn't have received the raise. The boss thought he could appease me with talks on potential numbers, but I stood my ground and said that I needed an answer within 24 hours. It wasn't until I, politely of course, demanded a yes or no that I received a yes.

Now, in the hiring process, I have a limited amount of money available to pay a new employee. I may be able to get another 10%, but not much more than that. I do ask candidates to offer a number, not to screw them on salary but to know how apart we are. If we're 20k apart, why should I waste their time stringing them along?
I think you missed the "private" and you jumped a bit fast.

1. Everything is running on dedicated hardware.

2. The system provides MongoDB, PostgreSQL too, it is just managed by us because we need this level of control to put PostgreSQL on SSD and special high CPU instance for scientific computations. Cf point 1.

3. Hosting services for the past 10 years, crossing my fingers, I have never been called in the middle of the night. But yes, the risk is there.

For Cloud Foundry, I don't know it, our solution is extremely light on resources we have full control of it and we are extremely happy with. We can hack/extend as we want and all in all, it is very few lines of code and I personally love simplicity.

Update: Ok, you are from a "Fog" provider, now I understand the defensive tone of your post. Do not worry, the goal of this note is to share what we do and give people willing to go this way some inspiration. Not trying to compete with you :)
It's not just about money, it's about connections. It's not as though I could go to Washington with billions of dollars and suddenly have the same influence as Big Oil or Big Media or whatever else. That kind of power takes decades to acquire and secure. That's not to say money has no influence, but it isn't everything.
The teaser ads that JCP is running on TV show people getting mad and screaming at piles of coupons as they fall out of mailboxes, newspapers, clippings, etc and then missing the sale when they get to the store, or after the fact:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA0L556vGa4
Interestingly enough, i was thinking along the very same lines just yesterday, and most of this week. I have spent the last week going back and forth to the bank to open up a new bank account and failed multiple times. Simply because they dont accept certain types of proof of address, nor printed copies. Unfortunately i moved into the house with my then fiance so all bills are in her name except the ISP bill but it is emailed to me electronically. I had no choice but to print out, but the bank did not accept it citing "its a copy".

These kind of problems in 2012 should be easy to solve, and yet here we are. Why is there not a decent banking service out there that is well aligned with how we do business in 2012? Why im a stuck with the big powerhouse that are like big ships when it comes to steering direction. i.e pathetically slow.

I also thought similar things with Car Repair and servicing. I think that market is utterly ripe for disruption and hasnt had any real innovation (from an organisational point of view), in a seriously long time.

These are just two problems that come to mind since they're very fresh on my mind recently, but im sure there are many others just like they were pointed out in the blog post.
My 1-yo. son and I are at MIT today, what should we do/see?
I have 4 free hours starting at 12 PM EST and am travelling on foot.
Just noticed that you offer Office Hours to YC companies for UX and design - might you be interested in doing an Open Office Hours for the London hacker community? We keep some events going just to help the community get out and mingle. Some examples here: http://london.flagonsden.com

Let me know if this is something you would be interested in.

Thanks
Make it more obvious that the buttons are clickable. I couldn't figure out how to sign up.
Johnson made no mentioning of eliminating popular sales seasons like Black Friday.

This New York Times article (yes, login may be required) is much more informative in regards to his plans: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/jc-penneys-chief-...

Johnson pointed out that last year, JC Penney had 590 promotions, which made it seem that everyone was always on sale in some form or another. Honestly, that's tremendously confusing for consumers, as you basically can't keep track of what's on sale. The net result is they were selling everything at such a low price, that a 40% cut puts it only higher than the average sale price with those near-600 promotions.

"“So customers ignored us 99 percent of the time,” he said. “At some point, you, as a brand, look desperate if you have to market that much.” He will move to monthlong promotions, on which Penney will spend $80 million a month, he said, which is a decrease from Penney’s current marketing spending level, which is more than $1 billion a year. And instead of mailed fliers, the company will send shoppers a 96-page catalog each month with a more magazinelike presentation."

72% of JC Penney's revenue came form products sold at a 50% or higher discount. So a 40% across the board reduction on SKU prices still increases their ASP. Apparently from between 2002 the 2011, their average cost per item sold stood around the same, yet even as the average price tag rose from $27 to $36, JC Penney's margin never increased due to the 590 promotions a year. "Now most things are on 60 percent markdown, and every time we do that, we're discounting Penney's brand".

So less trickery around pricing, far fewer promotions at regular schedules with long intervals that consumers can actually respond to, and an attempt to increase the overall ASP of products. Sounds like a good change from their promotion-driven, brand-devaluing death spiral.
I don't really see the point because you still have to switch to your email to open the message. I think a better solution is to let your users start using your service immediately, but require they click the email validation link within 24 hours. Or offer reduced (less abusable) functionality until they verify. Of course, this won't work for all services, especially if spammers can start abusing their account immediately.
I can't speak about your swapping problem, but for example an uncompressed (ready to display) image with 640 * 480 resolution, 24 bits per pixel takes 900 Kb memory. The mentioned 3 GB memory consumption of Chrome equals the size of 3333 of such images, which can easily be the residue of the several days of browsing the OP talking about: 333 pages with ten medium sized images. Of course this is oversimplification for the sake of easy of calculation, the browser caches many other things besides the images, but you can see that a few GB is not that much, considering the modern "need" for that much graphics.
Oh, actually I've never used a QR code reader that didn't show me the URL before letting me decide whether to go there.
Go to the MIT museum!
It's small enough to see in a few hours, and it's got robots!
http://web.mit.edu/museum/
Nice, but I was just wondering are you keeping or dumping any images we upload? There's nothing in your terms relating to that. Not that I suspect you of anything nefarious, but it would be nice to see any (non)retention policy mentioned.
Yes the images get dumped after 30mins - shall add that to the TOS
The difference, of course, is that basketball and football players have unions, and therefore can use collective bargaining to force the establishment of contracts. Luckily (for software executives), I don't think we have to worry about software engineers forming a union...
I agree with the sentiment that too many startups are working to solve problems that don't really exist, but what irks me even more is that so many of today's startups are working not to make the world a better place, but to find better ways to serve advertising.

It's quite depressing to see so much energy wasted on this problem, which isn't a problem for consumers, but for advertisers. I'm sorry, but finding a better ways to use mobile photo social geo to target people for ads is not changing the world.
Another thing that's pathetic is the NEED to move around so much. A lot of work could be done at home if deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about work, management, and productivity were not so flawed.

Who says it's a panglossian necessity to spend 8+1 hours in an office and commuting 2 ways every day?

Best of possible worlds my ass.

Give everyone a Mininum Guaranteed Income, automate what can be automated with frickin' robots, turn most desk jobs into remote jobs, and let everyone else have a ROWE (Results Only Work Environment). Oh, and coddle the fuck out of everyone who wants to be an entrepreneur. (As opposed to jabbing them with bureaucratic spears and wishing for their doom as is currently done by society).
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took me a while to figure out what 'rip off' was (maybe call it 'torn bottom edge')
TWENTY YEARS, only a few tears
thanks for the feedback, i suspected that could be the case
Yeah, but those startup people could be working in Big Finance or whatever. Having them working on useless social apps is harm reduction :)