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1. Depending on the jurisdiction, you may ask to record a telephone conversation.

2. Keep a written journal of conversations on the telephone. A paper journal. Dates, times, phone numbers called, full name of person spoken to and their title, matters discussed.

When two parties turn up, it's frequently the case that any admissible written evidence trumps verbal recollection.

(Of course, IANAL and TINLA).
World IPv6 Launch - 6 June 2012
You guys should stream this meetup so us east-coasters can watch too.
This isn't a problem limited in scope to Apple and Paypal. If you get your identity stolen in any way it can be a huge hassle and take over 12 months to completely figure it all out and clear out your credit. Speaking from personal experience, I had to call over 20 businesses, send each of them copies of the police reports, and remind some of them, to clear their marks on my credit report.
But it did have ASLR enabled, right? I didn't get how to bypass that without ret2libc.

I think I'll try again tomorrow morning and see what I missed.
What really surprised me is that running it in incognito mode (in Chrome) made absolutely no difference to my results.

I know that incognito mode is geared towards not leaving a trace on the user's computer rather than being anonymous to the server, but I guess I assumed that with the plugins disabled they wouldn't be visible to the server.
>"Yes, the idyllic town situated between Belfast and Dublin is looking to capitalize on the latest trend: technology"

A tech "writer" who thinks that "technology" is some new concept developed in Silicon Valley. Cute.

Thanks for reminding me why I haven't checked in on that site.
This is excellent. Also, I was not previously aware of the "World IPv6 Launch" linked to in the post which also looks like a great initiative: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/
It's a smooth effect, but it's so much nicer when scrolling scrolls instead of zooming. On this one, scrolling left or right just duplicates scrolling up or down, and for some reason, scrolling right (zooming out) sometimes stutters. I would have thought that trackpad scrolling was really common now, but maybe it's somewhat Mac-specific?
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I've been writing Python for maybe 3 months now and as I started digging into the OO stuff, I commented to a few developers about how it 'felt' a lot like javascript and they nearly took my head off. Is there any material you (or anyone for that matter) can point me to that might help solidify my argument?
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One thing I always tell friends and family is that litigation is the worst way to resolve conflicts. I have filed numerous legal complaints while working for a Legal Aid organization and even the simplest cases with as little as $2k at stake require hours of drafting legal documents, arguing motions, conducting discovery, etc. The more complex cases such as those you referred to in your original post are even more complex.

My suggestion is that you approach this issue from an arbitration angle, which takes legal disputes outside of the legal system. In other words figure out how to get parties to agree to forced arbitration like in MLB when contracting with each other, the only problem with the arbitration approach is that it would only work in situations where the parties contracted with each other, but not in situations where you suing someone who has no contract relationship with you.

I believe that most "freelance" lawyers are grossly underpaid and overworked. Contrary to popular belief solo attorneys only bank between 30k-75k a year on average which is barely enough to survive. Only the top 10% of attorneys work in prestigious law firms with six figure salaries and big name clients. The majority of attorneys in America are either barely scraping by or unemployed.
Patrick, this is great for our field where there are tons of influential folks blogging and/or tweeting. But what if you don't work in IT industry?

My very dear friend works as an Internal Auditor. She earlier worked for KPMG and now she is working for a Fortune 50 company. She is looking for other opportunities as she feels that she is not growing in her current position. Now, there aren't that many Internal Audit bloggers and certainly no hiring manager is blogging/tweeting. What approach should she take to get noticed by the right people?
If not overdone, I think it is fun. The community will mature at some point in future, but currently the evangelists comprise of not professionals whose jobs are to get these platforms/softwares to more people but passionate fans and contributors who believe in the product and think that their's is the best of them all. It does lead to an unnecessary increase in tension in the community but it also means that those who are involved will be true to their beliefs and contribute to their distro/software/platform in a much more personal and devoted way.

And it is not like commercial software community is never involved with any flamewars. When they do it, they do it for marketing and they do it professionally [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EbCkotKPU
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I would complain that JIRA itself is closed-source...but the author is recomending Github as an alternative, which is also closed-source. Ah well. :)
ASLR is enabled, yes.

ASLR actually makes ret2libc much more difficult to pull off (esp. on 64-bit platforms), because the location of libc.so itself is randomized.
When spoken, it sounds like 10gen.
>Sounds promising, but I wouldn't normally consider a 14-15" screen "thin and light", and I don't see any statistics on thickness or weight to indicate otherwise.

From Gizmodo's hands on with them at CES:

>Like its new tablet, the specs aren't final, so Vizio won't say just how thin, or how light they are. But the 14-inch felt comprable to my Macbook Air, and looked to be similar in terms of thickness. (See comparison shot.) Bottom line, this thing will be a breeze to shove in a bag and tote around all day.

http://gizmodo.com/5874470/putting-my-hands-on-vizios-new-ma...

Just guessing at the photos the prototypes they were showing off looked like they were in the inch-ish thick range. I do know that pretty much every hands-on I read about them said they fit the ultrabook mold even though Vizio is choosing not to use the term to describe them. (And I don't blame them. I always thought ultrabook was a pretty terrible name).
I think most people do not read the document
http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/2012/01/a-mechanism-to-help-writ...

I will give out a link to this document on http://tengine.taobao.org/, so more people will see it.
Regarding "Fooled by Randomness". I haven't read the book, but assume it's brought up in the inherent randomness of the markets, and people's ability to try to rationalize said randomness.

Trying to understand the market is surely a shortcut to crazy town, and certainly trying to rationalize it is a poor mechanism to profit. But it's clearly evident that the market isn't uniformly random, and that there exists exploitable patterns in the market that are reliably (to a degree) profitable over certain time periods.

I think the thesis of "Fooled by Randomness" is best taken advantage of by understanding that you need to recognize the pattern, and exploit it directly, rather than trying to extrapolate meaning and use that directly.

The market is clearly a truly chaotic system, but you just need to take advantage of patterns that are statistically relevant and profitable.

Edit: After additional contemplation, I'm not sure I actually agree with what I just said.
Hopefully Amazon will do this with all EC2 locations soon! They're a bit behind the curve here.
does linode still offer only /128s?
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That's really interesting, especially about the lawyer underemployment problem - do you have a link to some data backing that up?

Is it possible to create some sort of legal instrument where a case is simplified by first creating a contract between the disputing parties? It sounds daft but if savings on both sides are significant due to the simplification it would be in their interests to agree - especially if terms were standard issue of some sort.

Thanks for the food for thought.
It sure seems like a bad idea now, doesn't it?
There's so many possible answers to this question but the easiest possible one is to go to a conference in the industry, on your company's nickel if possible (trivial), and start making friends. Or you can use existing contacts in your Fortune 50 network and get warm intros to the right sort of people at peer firms, clients, vendors, etc. Or, since I'm guessing one does not become an Internal Auditor the first day out of high school, you work the alumni network at your college.

Also, even if nobody in your industry blogs, doesn't mean you can't start to generate a portfolio for yourself. How many blogs have you ever read by Japanese salarymen who do Enterprise Java development? Can you think of any which had an article or two that suggest maybe the author is smart enough to take out for coffee? (You can totally do this without bringing down the wrath of God on yourself for spilling company secrets. Just talk in very general terms about challenges in Internal Auditing and how one could overcome those, optionally with heavily anonymized anecdotes.)
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From the FAQ [1]:

We are also offering the ability to have an entire /64 or /56 subnet routed to one of your IPv6 addresses – even one of the Pool addresses, which means you can fail over the entire subnet.

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No offence intended but you don't seem like you're in a desperate 'won't survive the week' life threatening situation. Presumably you have a computer, electricity, and some kind of internet connection right now. I'm not trying to pry, but I'm trying to understand... are you so desperate that you might die by the end of the week without help? Speak up if you are.

To be honest, and again I'm trying to help, not trying to offend or criticize you, it sounds more like you are 'merely' in a desperate situation, trying to find out how to market and sell your knowledge. Nothing wrong with that, it's just miles away from 'i might die tomorrow'.

I hope others are reading this. I looked at your history and you seem to be a long-time HN'er, with many comments/submissions over your 954 days of membership.
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Would not many of these be military targets in case of a war?

What failover capability does the USA have?
Great, email your way.
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It's interesting that MITx is being explicit that their courses will be hard. This provides an interesting market differentiation in the online learning space. The recent Stanford classes & Udacity seem to be aiming for a much more general audience.
Interesting. I take modafinil 2-ish times a week, sometimes to skip a night's sleep to work on my own projects, sometimes to get a really productive day at my day-job with a startup.

My subjective experience with driving on Modafinil is very different: I become significantly more aware of everything on the road. It turns me into a laser, sure, but a laser that's constantly scanning back and forth. Too many confounding factors to say why that is.

I haven't noticed any diminishing of 'broad thinking'. Not sure I could claim any increase, though.

His claim that it's better to get productive days through other means seems to be a false dichotomy: Modafinil isn't dangerous like he's convinced it is, and while you can get productive through better health and rest, you can get even more productive by eating healthy, exercising, resting properly, and taking Modafinil. It's not clear why he thinks that Modafinil will force you to be unhealthy, thus making it a choice between "healthy" and "moda" (Honestly, the days when I take Modafinil, I find I have the focus to exercise harder and longer, and the willpower to eat much healthier).

His points about 'shortcut to a really productive day', 'having a clear big task to focus on', and 'drink a lot of water' are all spot-on, though.

I have to disagree with his recommendations: I think Modafinil's value proposition is positive for almost everyone, and proportionally more valuable as the value of your time or focus increases. HN readers in particular tend to have valuable time and extremely valuable focus; Modafinil is a huge gain, something like a large fraction of just the positives of amphetamines, with the negatives of caffeine instead.

The illustrious gwern has an article covering the medical research, benefits, risks, a novel cost/benefit analysis, and supplier information here: http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil

(Yes, it's been linked a few times already in this discussion. Go read it already.)
The "all other doctors" part really bugs me. It's mostly true for most specialties, but certainly there are examples of plastic surgeons performing questionable procedures, and obstetricians who perform more conveniently scheduled C-sections than are medically justified.
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I don't see why a mental health worker's critique on the culture and practices of other professionals in the field wouldn't be valid cause for discussion. If someone observes corruption in the field they are working in, is it not valid to raise the issue for discussion before performing a formal survey on how widespread that corruption might be?

What type of evidence exactly would satisfy your requirement?
Oh thank bahamut someone else said it. Good content, terrible design. Over complicated in every way. It's going for that "lively & chaotic" content all over the place look. You know, the one magazines love to use, the one that people hate to read because it's hard to skim through and forces you to play connect the dots all over the page. I almost need to draw a replica of the front page on paper and mark off which stories I read so I can keep track of where I am.

Yet so many blogs are going for that look. Why? It's pretty but so difficult to read.
Maybe I'm not familiar with the background, but I'm not sure why JIRA specifically is getting singled out here, instead of just saying "bugtracker." Please help me understand further.
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sounds like an interesting article, wish i could have read it, but the floating social toolbar on the left side covered a quarter of the article on my phone.
I'm not certain it really matters. Do to the high volume, as others have mentioned, people remember ideas / traction, instead of names. If you submit and someone else submitted, and both of your applications pique interested and get a follow-up, then pursue your application. Most incubators meet the team before selection. At that point, if both apps make it that far, the truth will come out.

At that point, they'll have to explain why you aren't with their team and the truth will come out.
Email on the way.
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git would be enough. Committers could use whatever they want to merge. Most people would choose github. But git is GPL, not Apache. Thus the problem...
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Photographer Christian Hougue produced a really beautiful series on this ground stations called Arctic Technology. He mentioned that the air is some of cleanest in the world, which is a real boon to the equipment they're running.

http://www.soulfood.no/arctic_technology.html#img/arctic_tec...
Also the first part of your argument is ad hominem, and doesn't lend any logical support for his critique being invalid.
Not sure I understand the issue here. JIRA doesn't force you to do anything with the source. "a monolithic subversion database" depends only on the project, not on the bugtracker.

Set up a custom field where you put a url and/or git hash... and problem solved. Probably not as nice as Github which integrates both, but on the other hand Github's issue tracking capabilities are far behind JIRA's (no proper workflow, no structure for custom information, etc.) You'll have to figure out what's more important to you.
Why does it matter if it's a server? I reckon, if it's a server, the only people that should have that sort of access to it should be trusted to change the time.
This implies that feedback can't be provided throughout the interview. Reduce feedback loops, etc etc.

In some of the 'worst' interviews I've conducted, it would become clear with 45 minutes to go that the candidate was a pass for technical reasons. After exploring for other strengths beyond the expected skillset, I focus the rest of these sessions on the really important things the candidate should know before their next interview with some other company. This is easy to present as standard interview questions, but with more explanation and context worked in to setup and 'next step' in multiparty questions. With no explicit "you've failed" ever stated, you have an opportunity to maintain a positive conversation, do the candidate a service and a favor by educating on what they need to learn next, and if you're really lucky discover that the candidate is a fast and eager learner who would be a great addition to the team despite current deficiencies.

Worst case, it's clear to the candidate where they're lacking without ever needing to state is as such. And who doesn't learn a little bit themselves every time they teach?
nope github has been opensource for awhile dude
A far better quote than the one I used in the article - thanks for this one, I'll be hanging on it!
I have maybe a hundred dollars to my name. I am in a hotel room for tonight paid for by a local church. I am apparently being cut loose in the morning with nothing lined up. I had a tent and it broke which is part of why I turned to a minister for help. The same day it broke I also got downgraded in my rating on the freelance site. I and my oldest son both have a life threatening and expensive medical condition. Yes, I could potentially die of hypothermia this week as I do not even have the means to camp for free anymore. I have been telling my tale of woe on HN and elsewhere for quite a long time and have been unable to get substantive help of the sort that would end my crisis. I am genuinely desperate in a survival kind of way at this point. I have been desperate for money for quite a long time but I honestly am concerned about actual survival at the moment.

Thanks.
Specifically the problem is uploading text patches to JIRA, as compared to doing pull requests on github.
I wouldn't even consider the entirety of mobile apps ported to the N900 a pile, but whatever. GP commented on Android and you followed up pretty directly, so I just assumed.

True, I should have said the vast majority of popular digital services, not ones targeted towards the kind of people that would use an N900 to make a point.
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I had an idea for a little app that would make my friends' lives a little better. I live in a location with street parking, if you know where to park (and when the rules apply; e.g., you can park in commercial zones on Sundays, etc.)

I would like to build dataset of the streets near me with the different parking areas noted.

The problem is that I'm not sure where to begin. I'd like to be able to build something pretty easily in a weekend, and would prefer to not rely on google maps or other hosted solutions.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.
"I’d have to buy Mac OS X Lion again, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, hundreds of dollars in iOS apps, and hundreds more in Mac software"

If you use commercial DRMed software you are asking for this. It is hard to feel sympathetic with this part of the story.
If you can read Chinese, you can check out the link below. They are working on a list of projects (some of them are already opensourced) that handle "big data". In case you don't know, taobao is the ebay in China, with alexa ranking of 13.

http://www.tbdata.org/p_d/development
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I'm exhausted just reading it.
Yes. I think it is USA-centric of you but the question is still interesting, mainly due to the semantic ambiguity that exists in the phrase: "...most of Anonymous."

What I mean is: are we speaking about most vocal; most materially active in terms of actual exploits or do we mean most of the cannon-fodder? (...of which there is plenty due to the brilliance of the decentralized model of organization.)

...I think you'll find that most of the meaningful work is coming out of Europe while most of the interference is being run by lesser skilled, less committed pockets of individuals all over the world.

I really have no idea though - consider these words as nothing more than an outsiders impression that happens to run counter to yours.
I'm fine with that. i'm just saying, that isn't the way things work right now.
Certainly true that JIRA is neither Gratis nor Libre, nor does Atlassian accepted patches from the public. But it's Open Source in the sense that every license holder can download and build it: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Building+JIRA+f...

(disclosure: I am a former Atlassian employee)
Power corrupts, even in Anonymous. They are now at a point where anybody that pisses them off in the slightest gets digitally nuked.

Our society should be above this. It's why we put people on trial.
Almost hate to say it, but this is where a place like LinkedIn can really shine. Almost any profession has one or more interest groups on there where you can share stories with folks of a similar interest. You do have to be careful as more popular professions have their share of groups that are little more than recruiters and desperate job hunters in a mortal spiral. But reading for a while before joining can usually help you steer clear of those.
Yeah, all his arguments are true for most bugtrackers.

By Jira he seems to really mean 'Jira at Apache' - which is their bugtracker for most projects.
The standard argument here is that the project requires all contributors to sign some form of document granting rights to the project. The project uses JIRA's permissions to whitelist people who have signed the doc.

i.e. in Clojure's case, the Contributor Agreement grants copyright to the submitter AND Rich Hickey, so he can change the project's license in the future, if need be.

It seems like Github should add this feature, (open source, with whitelisted contributors) and then the need for the JIRA mess all goes away.
It reads like he's going out of his way to not mention Apache or Hadoop, but then at the end he says it's Apache. So maybe it could have been expressed better.
Each Linode, by default, has one IPv6 address. Via ticket, you can request a /116 pool, and any of your Linodes in the datacenter can bring up any addresses from that pool. You can also request a /64 or /56, which gets routed to one of your /128 or /116 addresses.
Sorry, wasn't written for normal tldr blog consumption but so many people were telling me to blog it I wanted to share.

tldr version: calendar is fluid, RSVP to everything, every person is an opportunity, don't forget you're there to get leads, brand plays, take care of your team
Could you post a link to the source in that case?