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Title doesn't mention that this is in conjunction with an arrest - police already have some increased latitude in searches when arresting someone.
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AT&T has pushed on us hard. We pay almost $200 for 2 people. We will be moving over to T-Mobile when the contract is up. It will save us almost $100 a month and still keep the unlimited plan. Ive had enough of AT&T for a while, im just waiting for this damn contract to be done with.
I did not know this existed, I'll have to give it a look. The setup method makes sense, not sure I like having to check is_valid() though.
In my experience, it is better to just change the name of your company to avoid any legal issues that will consume productive time and resources.
This advice reminds me of "The Soak". Here's an excerpt:

Back to the original flame mail from your friend. You’ve received these before and you know the absolute wrong thing to do is immediately respond. Of course, your animal brain is dying to do so because IT FEELS SO GOOD TO PUNCH BACK, but it’s never the right move because your animal brain is defending itself, it’s not resolving anything other than proving BOY CAN I PUNCH BACK OR WHAT? My advice regarding flame-o-grams and hard decisions is the same. Sleep on it.

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It's not really a command, just convention. If my tweet begins with @Permit, then it's only visible to the intersection of your and my followers, so somebody that follows me but not you would not see it. But if I start it with anything else (people have just adapted . as a convention, but it could be anything) then it's visible to ALL of my followers. Except, as this article explains, if I used the formal Reply button on one of your tweets.

EDIT: s/union/intersection
I have no stats, but gasoline, food, electricity and water are, generally, a constant price and value. I suspect internet usage, especially if a person hosts a website/dedicated video game server would vary considerably month to month.

Statistics need to be taken to validate/invalidate my speculation; but, I imagine when I was on 35/35 FiOS and 25/25(20/20?) FiOS beforehand, my internet fluctuated on the order of 10s, 20s or even 50s of GBs a month.
Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen
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Pretty sure fogus' response was a parody too :)
The consumer and enterprise markets are still vastly different. For as strong as Apple is on the consumer side Microsoft is on the Enterprise side. Yes both are likely headed to convergence but if MS alienates its Enterprise market going after the consumer space it risks loosing its core strength.
Concur with this... most cabs actually have two card sliders (one under the touch screen & one attached to the barrier glass), do they really need a third piece of hardware?

Why isn't the TLC just negotiating for lower fees from the payment processors? Perhaps I'm missing something...

[Sidenote]: LOVE using Google Wallet on my Galaxy Nexus to pay for cabs (they're all equipped with PayPass), very much hoping that Apple will jump on NFC, making it ubiquitous. If there is an opportunity for apps, my guess is that we will see more development around payments via NFC (untog's app would integrate nicely with some payment info). Carrying around cards will hopefully seem old school, similar to how paper checks are now (still need them, but they won't go extinct too quickly).
They can survive in harsher environments using less energy. Wasn't actually thinking about a rad-hard organism. Maybe throw in some flatworm, someone has to have a robust error-correcting code system built into their genetics.

Granted we would have to figure out a different neuro chemistry or physiology for having human level cognition on a much smaller energy budget.
The answer to your question is contained within my previous statement.
I think that would require a tweak to the UI to make it more obvious that a tweet is a reply. There's already some subtle stuff there (small-font "in reply to" and I think a little curved arrow), but the most obvious part that the content starts with "@".
Congrats! Charge more. It has all manner of upsides, such as decreasing emails written by people who think $12 is a lot of money, and also means you won't have 20% COGS for a software service.
I'm pretty sure it's been this way for quite some time now...
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Not only that, but if I'm reading the article correctly the ruling only refers to turning on the phone in order to find out its number. They didn't actually rifle through the phone's phone-book, call history, or anything of the sort.
Twitter's reply/reply-all logic is that if an @username is the first word of a tweet, it's considered to be a direct reply to only them (and thus is only shown to people following both of you). This makes sense, since a tweet that otherwise includes a username (say, "At the beach with @so-and-so!") is clearly not supposed to be a reply.

Adding a single character before the username is just a lazy way to throw off the 'first word as username = direct reply' check; using a period instead of any other symbol is more convention than a specific 'special command'.
Definitely, nowadays people are watching more videos than reading books.
Also connecting the visual book to social media to exchange ideas and/or information.
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1) The girl who wants to get in bed with you is in almost 100% of cases better than the one on tv you'd prefer to get in bed with

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True, but people who worry about surveillance aren't necessarily concerned about their individual behavior being tracked. They object to being part of the "users en masse" dataset in the first place, for various reasons.
> invasive fish species all over the world
> introduced by humans for "sport"

Not just for "sport," IIRC there are some invasive species in the Mississippi River that got there when one of the floods engulfed some fish farms/hatcheries that had some exotic fish there to help maintain pests/algae/etc.

Also, Florida has a lot of iguanas (which are non-native), especially in the Everglades, you just don't hear much about it because the pythons are a larger issue.
> You don’t want to go through life being one of those smug Internet people whose sole contribution to every discussion thread is “I stopped reading after…”

This is my biggest pet peeve on HN, and usually leads to an immediate downvote. If you stopped reading, you're not qualified to comment on the post, so don't.
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I would stay the hell away from it. I might start considering shorting it soon (but buy protective calls to hedge the short)
I'll be honest, this is probably the primary fear I have that's kept me from even attempting something in startup-land. Even if I have an idea (EDIT: or discover an existing startup) that I feel passionate about now, I have no idea how I'm going to feel in X months from now. My passions are fickle and manifold.
The wisest people I have ever known spoke very little however they always asked great questions that cut through the crap once they had all of the facts.
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Having explored a lot of app bundles this way, I can report that many iOS apps have shaders and other similar files (e.g., plists, HTML files) stored as plain text in the bundle.

PNG files are obfuscated, but that's reversible:

http://www.axelbrz.com.ar/?mod=iphone-png-images-normalizer

This kind of spelunking can be a good way to learn from other developers about how to approach some problems. However, I agree with other commenters that it would be morally shaky to re-use any of another app's files in my own app.
In my experience, the respectful way to do this is to draft a public tweet that makes sense out of context and (cc @whoever) at the end.
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Yammer is currently hiring: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654071

This link also has some info on what makes us different than facebook/irc/campfire/status.net
Ah, well I stand corrected. That being said, it seems that UNIX time doesn't take leap seconds into account physically, but they are logically visible when viewing the change over time.
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True. I have been in that situation too. Although I also have some cases wherein I thought prototyping something up to a point to prove it's worth is not subject to "document everything." I guess my question now is, is it better to do it from the very beginning knowing this fact?
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I agree with you to a degree. I was a biz side guy when I first launched a start-up 2 years ago. What helped me find a tech co-founder was running the project as far as I could without one. Revenue, seed round, incubator, etc.

Something that I don't think biz side guys understand is that the idea isn't unique or special, and it will likely fail, as mine did. However, both sides need each other...and as I've read a hundred times on HN - there isn't a lot of love floating around for the business side / MBAs.

I don't find tech guys to be very open minded when approached with ideas. On the flip side, I think biz guys need to come to the table with A LOT more than an idea.

I recently got an email from a guy thinking about posting on HN looking for a Tech Co-Founder. In his speech, he said there "is a huge and underserved market waiting for their product." I asked him - why does your site only have 7 twitter followers, and no facebook page? That is a very commonplace conversation.

My solution for business side guys is full proof. Don't post on hacker news. Don't ask random nerds. Quit your job. Learn to code. Screw the snobby tech co-founders...be your own tech co-founder. Startups aren't something that you do on the side...it's your life.
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An article that talks about two companies that I like a lot so far. On the other hand - couldn't vox.io plug WebRTC in whenever it is supported and therefor make the flash requirement optional in the future?

Interesting - I hope it'll land in a FF beta for me.
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I don't use Twitter, but it sounds like you're describing the intersection, not the union. </pedantry>
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Why add another layer of fees? What utility does this provide? Why must you install, register, and have to open an app for each purchase when you can just use existing, bulletproof tech?
Forum thread regarding this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66916.40;all
So, a customer service interface was compromised via stolen credentials and used to access various Linode instances. A couple questions that immediately come to mind:

1. Can this interface be accessed from anywhere on the Internet? If so, why? If not, does that mean other systems owned by Linode were compromised as well?

2. Why can customer service representatives access and update servers without the client being notified and with minimal logging?
My electricity bill varies by a factor of 4 over the course of a year, since the bulk of my electricity use in winter and summer is heating and cooling. This is true of a lot of people I've talked to, and they all get by fine just the same.

People who host web sites or dedicated video game servers are usually already paying for usage. Some hosts offer "unlimited" plans but most charge for bandwidth. Somehow they survive.

Let's say your internet fluctuated by 50GB/month. Comcast is currently effectively charging me 20 cents/GB right now (~$50/month with 250GB cap). Even if this rate doubled under some hypothetical pay for usage plan, you're talking about fluctuations on the order of $20/month. If you can't tolerate that then you probably have bigger financial problems to worry about.

Recall that the current situation with most ISPs is not actually unlimited. It's just that when you exceed their arbitrary and usually private limits, instead of charging you more, they make your connection stop working or they fire you as a customer. (With Comcast, if you exceed 250GB in one month, they warn you. If you do it again, they fire you.) Having your bill go up for additional usage is better, not worse, than having your connection stop working altogether.
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Those particular insects look big and juicy though. I know for sure my cat would love a snack like that.
Sorry, perhaps "proprietary" was a bad choice. What I meant was that I would appreciate if the web client itself didn't require or rely on the nodejs/mongodb backend, and could instead operate directly on top of an IRC server or bouncer.

Ie, I would like to run your web client on my machine, have it connect directly to my IRC bouncer (or directly to a remote IRC server), and not require a local database to use it. I'm interested in using it as just another IRC client that connects to my IRC bouncer, rather than it being my primary IRC client. From what I see, this isn't possible.
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It is not an ad hominem attack to suggest that someone doesn't understand the subject matter.

An ad hominem argument is an attempt to win an argument by making claims about the person's character that are irrelevant to the argument. Saying, "I don't think this person understands what he is talking about," is not an ad hominem attack, because it is relevant to the argument. It might be unjustified, but that's another matter entirely.

Apparently, since I just looked this up, calling someone a moron isn't an ad hominem attack either, but merely verbal abuse, so I retract my earlier statement where I accused the author of an ad hominem attack.

As to whether the author has a point, he might do, but unless he puts forward a good argument we can only wonder.
No-one else has pointed this out yet, apparently, but I just got my mind blown by one little UI decision -- clicking toward either the upper or lower part of the content body, it scrolls to that direction. Wonderful, and very impressive. So obvious, and yet so brilliant.
For wired lines, he provider does not pay for usage, it pays for a certain sized pipe. So if you use a terabyte of data in a month but all of it comes at off-peak times, but your neighbour uses 10 gigabytes a month but always does it during the peak evening period, your neighbour costs the provider more than you do.
I remember reading an advice piece on how to read scientific papers. The core of it was that you need to read them breadth first (i.e. skim many times, each time trying to go deeper into the details.)

What you have written explains why it is such a good piece of advice - if you read a paer depth first you'll get bogged in the details without a chance to get the whole picture.
I think the point is that it isn't usually a reply. ".@SomeUser just totally nailed the presentation!" for tedious example. It's just tweeting a sentence that starts with someone's name.
As soon as I fix the issues plaguing me from installing the dependencies for this, it's replacing Colloquy. Thanks!
7 Comments and no one with anything interesting to say. Sad times at Hacker News.

Fan out of messages is one of Twitter's greatest challenges. When looking at the compromise one has to make with the CAP theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem ), Twitter previously chose to jettison Availability, hence the fame and recognition that the Fail Whale received.

They have since decided that Availability was more important to them than Consistency.

I had simply attributed the inconsistency in the messages I'd received and the conversations I'd missed to the number of followers/follows I'd grown to, but I guess I'm not surprised to see that this is a broader issue.
I agree ... we have a free version at our company but nobody uses it
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Sincere good luck. I was involved in developing one of the first NY cab video + credit card hardware designs in the early 00s. We actually built it into an real yellow cab that, entertainingly, I got park in my driveway and drive around during the venture (on loan from one of the largest fleet owners).

We combined 16:9 screen, ATM keys, tap-and-go card reader, and traditional card stripe swipe, into a self contained unit mounted into the safety panel.

You could mute it (of course). It played a safety PSA, then let you figuratively "change the channel" to show you up-to-date video clips per your interest -- sports, news, weather, broadway promos, etc. -- or a GPS map of the cab's location in the city. A key innovation let us update the videos on the fly in all the cabs without requiring a SD card swap or a cellular data charge.

Great backers, but project got killed in a TLC political maneuver. It's a challenging industry to try to break into and try to change. The devices you see deployed in Vegas, Chicago, and NYC, are mostly hamstrung in various ways that often cost the cabbies or annoy riders. It's disappointing to see, but if someone can muster both the tech and the political clout, it's still ripe for disruption.

Square might have that chance.
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Anyone ever play SimCity? if you don't keep a good balance between growth/revenue bad things happen, I don't see why that same concept does not apply to startups.
Now I have not seen their revenue numbers but I would think that they must be relatively good or they would not have been able to raise such a large round. Unless this is just to keep operating and in that case things would not be going so well for them.
Why, because he can reverse engineer an app?
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I met Samuel at the last startup school, he seemed like an outstanding guy and a very good developer. Congrats and good luck!
You are correct. I started, and still am learning Ruby. My normal "business stuff" can now be slightly automated, I can build simple things (blogs, "toys", etc.), and its fun to make things. Technical people also love to help you learn.

Moreover, when it came time for my technical friends to bring on a "business guy," who do you think they went to -- some random guy from a meetup, or the guy they traded code lessons for all-purpose biz advice and is busting his tail to learn the tech.

Ironically, I'm so busy now that I don't get to sit down and work on the fun projects and puzzles like I used to, but that was the original goal, right?
I agree, but they are technically not stopping your service, only throttling it. So you can still get "unlimited" amounts of data, it'll just take longer. In the same vein they can get away with saying they have the "best" network because "best" is subjective.

Definitely needs to change, though. It's horse shit.
The main value of a business co-founder is taking care of everything else and bring traction: customers, investors, press... Check slide 9 of http://blog.foundrs.com/2012/02/29/co-founder-issues-slides-...
Because he extracted resources from their app and uploaded them to Github with a misleading copyright notice..?
My point is there are already plenty of pure web IRC clients that don't rely on a local database; none of them (that I've seen) have any sort of nice interface like this does. There are also plenty of applications that will proxy non-HTTP connections over HTTP proxies. Corkscrew [1] also allows you to tunnel SSH connections over HTTP proxy, and you can use SSH to tunnel just about anything else you need.
I think you're off base on this and are looking at the issue from a single side.

The "Unlimited Data Plans" are cooked up through marketing departments that take a broad look at the numbers their network can ideally handle and conclude that when matching up customer usage models to these numbers they can offer a service that exceeds the average user's need. If they evaluate the market and determine that the average user is a 2GB/month type user and their network is supposed to be able to handle upwards of 7GB/month per user at their projected service rates they make the offer that "unlimited" is what is offered.

From the consumer's P.O.V. an "Unlimited" data plan looks much better than a "7GB/month" data plan. Smoke and mirrors.

What happens is the power users or edge cases to these hypothetical usage models break down that service offering. A lot goes into a mobile network and heavy users CAN cause issues to the equipment out in the field. What happens is the tech side of the provider begin to scramble to make things happen, project budgets skyrocket and everything suddenly looks terrible on paper.

The next step is then to realize that "unlimited" is a pipe dream and is really only available to those people who check the weather and read their emails on a daily basis.

/rant

tl;dr - its not a malicious decision by the provider to make these offerings. They work with models and offerings from a business perspective that aren't ideal from a technological perspective and the disjoint creates problems on the bottom line. To the end user however it looks like a planned event.
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