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Awesome, nice to see the features keep rolling out.

Can I ask, what happens if you have an executable you call for certain functions currently? My use case is calling an executable for PDF generation on-the-fly. Will my set-up continue to work, or do I need to be paying $49 per month extra for this?

I'm not looking for a keep-alive background worker, just a one-off call to an executable as part of a web-request.
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You don't know what you're talking about. Few if any of Sequoia's funds have ever had a negative IRR, as far as I recall. Their record is unparalleled, really.
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This is insanity. I try to avoid flying as much as possible.

However, the whole controversy also seems to lack common sense. An easy "solution" to this whole problem is to ask people to go into the machine and do a 360 degree rotation before emerging on the other side. I'll call this the "Airport Dance" :-)

What? It's not like we aren't made to dance already!
I hope you find it useful! Note the interface is just an AppleScript wrapper around some Python code that could be used in other ways.
I'll say it again. Apple should buy Disney because they can provide Apple with gold plated content, it would actually be a halo brand for Apple, and their worldwide brands are highly compatible.

When Apple had $30 billion and Jobs was alive, it was possible for Apple to take control. Today they could buy all of it at a premium and still have $10 billion left over.
As someone who's trying to optimize his life better, what strikes me the most is this part of the post:

For my consistent experience has been that the more
routine I can make the basic practical aspects of my life,
the more I am able to be energetic—and
spontaneous—about intellectual and other things.

This reminds of the book Uncertainty that I'm reading. Very interesting indeed.
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Programming is one job where the knowledge you acquire during your career becomes useless within just a few years. I'm over generalizng here of course but, for the most part, it's true. Techniques you learn live longer, accumulated wisdom and approaches are valuable forever but there are no old programmers. Programming languages are not skills,they are tools. Knowing HOW and WHEN to apply them is where the skill lies. You're smart to start thinking about this now before you get boxed in. A business background will definitely help, especially if you're interested in running your own business someday.

I guess it depends on the campus, but dorm life (when I went to UNB) was noisy, messy and distracting. Don't live in a dorm just for the experience of living away from home, rent an apt instead. It's probably cheaper than living on campus and you get to pick your roomie.
He doesn't want to ruin his relationship with the source by doing so, but again, it should be a public record releasable under FOIA
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I don't think anyone ever argued VC funding was sufficient to be successful -- it's just nearly necessary in some stages of many businesses to do certain things.

Series B investment is a lot different from "should I bootstrap or not" in the early stage. I think there are a whole lot more people who can work without salary for a year or two, and maybe dump a few hundred thousand of their own money into a business, getting it proven and to profitability, than there are people who can take a successful business, see great metrics, and decide to invest a spare $10mm in taking over the world.

It's useful to argue against VC financing as a "requirement" for early stage businesses (even though it helps a lot of businesses) mainly because it removes an excuse from people who can't raise money (by being in the wrong place, whatever) starting now.

There's very little point in arguing for or against Series B and later funding -- by that point, you either have a business or you don't.
Couchdb has an open ticket on this very issue, which is part of the problem. The other part is the fact that they have really nonsensical configuration defaults.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1060
Not really... http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=brush+fire&...

As well as http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams#Misattributed
Somebody's idea of a joke, feeding the opponents fake data to decrease their credibility, someone just wanting attention? People do various things for irrational reasons.
But that would probably ruin the scan from the other direction? There are two pictures, I thought because there is a scan from the front and a scan from the back.
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Interesting - I definitely believed there were four cpu cores in that chip yesterday. It'll be interesting to see what is made of this double speak, lord knows if someone like samsung pulled a trick like this the condemnation from the true believers would be severe.
So the TSA is "securing" airports by trying to keep vulnerabilities secret. Their thinking seems to be, "if no one knows where the open door is, no one will get in." Surely that will work out well. Not!

Bruce Schneier must be getting a kick out of this.
The problem isn't that this one particular technique exists. The problem is that the TSA's decision making process led them to spend billions of dollars a year against the advisement of the top security experts in the world.

For an organization who's sole purpose is the security of the American people, they're awfully bad at doing things that ensure the security of the American people.
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Thanks for the clarification! Was any bandwidth included in that price/setup? If not, that might be the reason for the difference.
Video was worth watching.
We look forward to your table of % returns.

Edit: Sorry jfarmer, it doesn't let me reply below. As far as never having seen negative IRRs, this is old but is out in the open

http://www.matrixpartners.com/site/press_detail/63/
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Why do you think it is black in the first place? Think physics and X-rays, not computer screen...
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I wish I could do something like this all the time, but there are always some sites that force you to put symbols in your password, or to use both lower and upper case, or to be between 6 and 8 characters long, or whatever weird requirement they thought would be a good idea.

And since I can't (and don't want to) remember which sites enforce which restriction, I end up having to resort to writing my passwords in a text file.
That scheme will continue to work, but for the sake of your users, you might want consider whether having them wait for the pdf-generation while their request is being served is optimal.
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I think they are betting on security through absurdity (I initially meant to spell obscurity but this makes more sense).
At work we have tools that automatically concatenate the lines of our .c files into one giant line of code. That helps us get around the pesky 10K LOC limit.
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Being enrolled as a full-time student in a university is the perfect time to dive into formal/mathematical proofs, algorithms, data structures, and discrete mathematics. Those subjects are the backbone of Computer Science, so it will be to your advantage to study those topics thoroughly.

Also I would strongly recommend taking courses (history, economics, music, etc.) that are not related to your major, as college is an opportune time to open your mind and explore new subjects and hobbies. Go wild and don't worry, you'll have plenty of time in the future outside of college to learn PHP/Java API incantations.
A lot of other comments are bashing you guys, and I'm not interested in doing that. Of course, I have some questions that I often ask myself when I'm brainstorming and perhaps they will help you as well.

1. Is this a product or a feature? Realistically, what's stopping Twilio from providing these features if you prove that there is a market? Or what if someone implements this functionality as an open source gem out of spite? (See: Growl's painful movement away from free)

2. What is your unfair business advantage? And why you instead of someone else? Do you have years of experience working with Twilio or SMS in general? Are you super wealthy or connected politically in an advantageous way? Are any of your employees or founders former Twilio folks?

3. Is there a market here big enough to justify the existence of your company? Even if your CAC is low and your LCV is high, are there more than 1000 people that need this, and are they willing to pay a premium for what you offer?

I'm genuinely curious what kind of customer development you've done to demonstrate that you're solving a hair on fire problem. I'm had no idea there were so many Twilio SMS apps under current or future development.
First, quite a lot of the money is overseas and at the current tax rate isn't coming home.

At this point, I would favor acquisitions over cash to shareholders. Although, being cautious in this economy is probably a good thing.
Motivation is also another big challenge. Very few people care about their long-term health, and thus very few will care about tracking their health stats.
How long does an FOIA request of that sort usually take? If there are multiple steps, could you give us a timeline?
haha surely you kid?
I focus on people that I want to interact with, not just see what they're doing. I use a combination of people I meet, companies that I use their services, people that my followees retweet or reply to, blogs/writers.

I tend to keep my number small (130 currently) and regularly go through and remove people that I no longer want to interact with. I don't really see a point in following 1k+ people as it's difficult to get a true understanding of what/who they are.
Half of those are incorrect implementations that junk the stack and most of the rest are idiotic rebaked jokes from the late 90s. Nowhere near to http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html which is not only enlightening but actually funny when it tries to; or even to http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.... which was funny when it started and still is the original. Can we stop making HN into the next xkcd?
shrug You don't have to believe me. It's no skin off my back. But as you say, you don't have access to that information.

Looking at the people who have responded to this thread, I see at least three people who do.

So, maybe check yourself? Wovon man nicht sprechen kann...

Out of curiosity, have you ever raised outside capital before?
It appears that cities with high heat and humidity have more cracked phones than others.
I like their posts too. I really admire the company as well. But can we really say every last one is truly great? I dolled out my fair share of criticism (see a couple of those links in the post) but it wasn't 37Signals I cared about, it was quality control. If you land on the front page then more power to you but when just about every one of your posts lands on that front page in rapid succession it starts to look like quality control has gone out the window. We're they all really just that good or was there some fanboy ism involved for lack of a better word?
It's supposed to take a month. But, the TSA ignored my last FOIA request, so I had to sue them for it.
It is also unrealistic to assume the worst. It is more likely that attribution slipped though the cracks then it is that the Apple executives made a conscious decision to not include attribution in violation of the license.
Apple has already come under investigation, once for actively prohibiting people from using third-party music managers [1] and once for unfair contracts to limit publishers to use only iTunes for their music [2].

Throughout most of their history, Apple has been protected from the kind of anti-trust onslaught that has forced Microsoft's hand in some decisions, because Apple hasn't ever controlled significant influence over a market. This has changed in the last decade, and at some point Apple will have to grasp the concept of a legal monopoly or be shown what "illegal monopoly" really means.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-22/apple-s-jobs-must-a...

[2] https://mashable.com/2010/05/27/itunes-antitrust/
Figure out how much your income

Duder is hell banned, I was just reposting that dead comment. But from myself...

I'm guessing it's higher than 3%.

Well, of course it would be. You're comparing your baby to every heath service for his family, ever, that is covered by his universal healthcare system. Or are you saying that your baby is the only time your family has or will use heath service.

If you cared to make an honest comparison, you would compare the portion of his, and his employer's income that went towards universal to your lifetime of insurance spending, plus employer spending on coverage for you, plus all of your out of pocket healthcare spending (on items that would be covered by his universal system).

Now, I don't care to do that math, but here in the US we spend (gov't and private total) more per capita on heathcare than any other nation. So his kid was probably cheaper.
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Then again, this is arguably censorship theater. I thought the original post was blogspammy in the extreme, and this is more of the same.

This does not make me a cheerleader for the TSA.
I wasn't very confused to start with. Is it fast enough? Yes/No? Yes.
The person who answered the question is involved in hosting NPM.

https://github.com/iriscouch/npm/blob/master/doc/cli/registr...

He doesn't suggest that the password hash is per-user private data. I don't think he caught onto this issue until later.

Besides the misinformation, I disagree about CouchDB's involvement in this mistake. There's no common use case in which using the _users database for human-created passwords wouldn't be a bad idea. For machine-created passwords that are long, it might be OK.

It's just like the Rails issue from a few days back: insecure by design. Only with Rails there was an obvious workaround, which was used by many Rails shops (I was quite surprised to find that it wasn't as many as I thought). With CouchDB you basically have to skip out on one of CouchDB's major features.
So you want them to be like Sony, who has gone down the drain since purchasing entertainment businesses? I would prefer Apple to continue doing what they do.
I actually thought this was the best thing I read today. So please don't stop posting these.
The TSA probably views its own mission as largely a propaganda mission. It's just creepy when we realize that it is trying to silence public debate.

The biggest oddity to me is that it's been over 10 years and this debate hasn't actually happened in the mainstream media.

I think one aspect of most orgs that have entrenched power is that they are always very deferent toward government. NPR is a great example... there is lots of coverage of various wall street schemes, mention of greed as a problem in the private sector, etc., but the underlying message in most of the stories is that government is beyond reproach.
During my last semester at MIT, I really wanted to take the sailing class. It always fills up pretty fast, and I was late registering. Clearly, my only option for getting into the class was to show my passion for sailing by coming dressed as a pirate.

I showed up to the sailing Pavilion all decked out, and the people who didn't think I was weird (which was relatively few as folks are used to strange stuff on the MIT campus), seemed to like it.

We weren't allowed to sail the first day, but the instructor did a presentation entire the whole class (30ish students). He asked the class for a sole volunteer to crew for him. Being excited to get out on ye olde charles milky-greens, I hastily shot my hand up. After a moment of contemplation, the instructor somewhat reluctantly said "yeah, we'll take the pirate".

Since he and I were now alone in the dinghy, I drew my [plastic] cutlass and started whacking him in an attempt to commander the vessel. That didn't work, so I gave up. On the way back, there was a lull as the wind died down. We were just sitting there with the entire class watching and I was bored/thirsty, so I took out my flask and took a swig. He gave me a strange look, which I thought meant he wanted some. So I offered him some, which he kindly yet strangely declined.

Needless to say, I learned to sail that semester!

Here are some pics:

In lab after the events, finishing my flask: http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/25837_577030723648_...

Being a software pirate: http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/25837_577030868358_...
The current arrangement subjects you to one short burst of radiation to take a static image, and it's enough energy to have some doctors worried. Multiply that up by however many frames you want to capture, and I don't think it would be "some doctors" any more.

Besides, I've got no idea if the machines in place have microwave units that can withstand a high duty cycle like that. I wouldn't be surprised if they can't.
Sure, although it's a one off generation and subsequent requests are served from amazon S3. It could be optimized further as you say, but I think this is OK for now.

Also, have you considered emailing users with big announcements? I found out about the pricing announcement here on HN, but will be a shock for people who haven't seen the announcement come march...
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In the corporate world domain knowledge is more important for developers than technical knowledge. The complexity of real-wold domains (e.g. insurances, banking, ...) is amazing. For an experienced developer programming is the easy part of his job.
I am on my 15th iPhone since it originally launched. I dont like cases and screen protectors. (they make it hard to pull from my pocket)

I HATE how fragile they are -- I have replaced many a screen and cracked glass on these things.

But one of the many design flaws that irk me about the iphone is no lanyard attachment hole on the freaking thing.

It should have come with a lanyard and a hole to attach it to.

Had apple done this from day one - I bet the number of broken phones would have been greatly reduced.
A couple of months ago I posted a very similar article that uses node.js, request and jQuery to achieve the same goal. In this case, as long as jQuery can handle the response you shouldn't have any problem with malformed HTML...
Strange, maybe you read a bad reporting somewhere. I followed the presentation via Engadget live blog and did not get confused on this point http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/03/apple-...
Nvidia often makes exotic claims about its SoCs; for instance that the Tegra 3 was faster than a Core 2 Duo (later retracted), and that the Tegra 3 provides "the fastest gaming" (it's beaten by the Apple A5 (iPad 2, iPhone 4S) and the Qualcomm S4 on most game-oriented benchmarks, sometimes substantially). Dubious claims are pretty common in the SoC business.
Do you have any reading recommendations for that topic?
I liked it for one. It's a guy for everyone, and I'm sure some will appreciate the ability to c/p your code for their project.
Done, even if potential means you weren't really considering until somebody asked!
So?

Edit: Seriously, what does that prove? Someone faking an email can Google for TSA spokeswomen just as easily as someone trying to verify it.
A big problem with that procurement was the very close ties between former TSA director, Michael Chertoff, and the company that makes the full body scanners.
Paying dividends is a bad signal. That did not work well for Microsoft's share price. And even though OP argues that Apple will not repeat their fate, the argument is weak. There is only so much more iStuff that you could sell when everyone and their mother has an iPhone.

Paying dividends essentially signals that company does not see how to spend money and has no long-term strategy for growth.
Just to give some perspective on how much money Apple has, they almost have enough to re-build the US Interstate Highway system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_most_expensiv...) or construct their own space station (http://historical.whatitcosts.com/facts-space-station.htm)...

The article hits on a key point, though. Consider that during Jobs life he saw giants like AT&T and IBM falter, and other giants like Microsoft rise from nothing, and then falter. He used to tell a story about how they were 1 week from defaulting on payroll when he returned in 1997. I think he certainly wanted to keep the money for a "rainy day" scenario.

Which brings me to the most interesting thing that Apple could purchase: they could afford to pay an average salary of $300,000/yr to every one of their employees for 5 years with absolutely no revenue, and they still wouldn't exhaust their bank vault. If it were up to me, I would say they should start something equivalent to Bell Labs or PARC, but they won't. To do so would be antithetical to the very character of the company. In other words, quite the bind to be in...
In addition to the comments regarding exercise causing an increase in the length of one's life, don't forget about the dramatic increase in the quality of life due to exercise. If you feel better you'll be more productive.
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Blogofile (Python) is basically awful, but it's great once you spend a few days fixing the kinks and make it work.

Make sure you don't get the latest version from GitHub, but easy_install it and build from simple_blog.
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The way your Dad looked at it, the two eggs were your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass.
Why do startups do this? I've seen this a few times over the past few years, and every time I find it loathsome. Dirty laundry isn't something you just go around airing because someone sent you a C&D letter. It could have been a mistake, it could have been a rogue legal team member, it could have been anything. Does it matter to the general public? No. Should it? No. This is between two businesses, and should have stayed that way. It makes both parties look very unprofessional -- and that's about all it achieves as far as I can tell.
Link to photo?
So it sounds like the easy solution is to do two scans. One face-on, and then they ask you to turn to the side and they do another.
Go has been released with a BSD-style license including patent grants. If Google dropped it tomorrow they couldn't stop anyone else from just picking right up where they left off.

http://golang.org/LICENSE
http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/PATENTS
This has been a reality check and forced me to look more objectively at my situation. Thanks for the advice.
More likely they flagged it as a todo for when the legal team wrote the licenses, and the legal team forgot. I don't think a developer would even be allowed to add an attribution notice without running it by legal.
Is this the same source that's threatening him?

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the email server suddenly lost a bunch of emails the day before the FOIA request went through.
We sent out a newsletter for the same reason (including an announcement to people who had unsubscribed). Did you not get yours?

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