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This is certainly much better than just letting the software die a silent, anonymous death. At work we were about to do a project localized to a language nobody at the office speaks, so we were looking forward to using CopyCopter to work with the translators. I'm very glad Thoughtbot had the decency to release the code, so that we still have the option to use it.

I do hope, however, that the developers there continue to play a role in the project. Just "dumping" a product into the open source world without continuing to contribute to it can kill a product almost as effectively as shuttering it with no source release.
I thought their use of WITH RECURSIVE in the demos on the article linked was interesting. It should allow you to recurse to an arbitrary depth. The only problem there is that if you don't set a max depth in your recursive query and you have a closed cycle.... you might end up with an infinite loop.......
That's a good question. The Sidebar example should illustrate this pretty well.

Current scenario:

1. The user clicks the remove file button [-] at the bottom of the Sidebar.

2. The Sidebar fires an 'intent:fileRemove' event through the mediator.

3. The handler of this event can then determine which file should be deleted and can also prompt the user to confirm their intentions.

4. If the user confirms that they want to delete, then the model is changed and the 'event:fileRemove' event is fired off.

5. The UI then reacts to this event.

If the Sidebar instead fired of an 'event:fileRemove' directly this would lead to some issues:

* The Sidebar would need to take over the responsibility of prompting the user about file deletion.

* If I add a new UI entry-point to file removal, this user prompting behaviour needs to be duplicated.

TLDR; It buys me extra decoupling between user intentions (UI -> Model) and state changes (Model/Controller -> UI). It lets me add a Menu with a Remove item without needing to change my controller and model to accommodate it.
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This is a project that we've been developing for the last year and a half with a friend of mine. We didn't promoted it properly yet, so it's kinda of a premier here.

We've built a service that is helping you to create your wish-list and have-list and based on your choices it recommends you products, an easy way to discover new stuff. We've built it using Grails, MongoDB, Nginx.

Would love to hear your thoughts about it.
Anonymous branches are AFAICT the same thing as detached heads. They're discouraged in git, but they work fine.
You only need ESTA if you want a WT/WB (visa waiver) visa. If you already have another non-immigrant or immigrant visa and you meet the conditions of the visa, you don't need an ESTA. Also you don't need an ESTA for WT/WB if you're crossing the US border on land from Canada or Mexico.
http://yeay.me - direct link
The tech vacancies you forget to promote - Product Support Engineer anyone?
tl; dr Startups - post up your other 'non-dev' tech vacancies - they're more important than you think!

It seems that here on HN we are pigeon-holed. You're either a dev, a designer or a 'business person' (read: idea guy looking for a Tech Co-founder)
I want to point out it is possible to be somewhere between those and still be technical.

Each month on the 'who is hiring' post I see hundreds of posts looking for dev ninjas, rock-stars and wizards. I get that it's a struggle for the best talent.

I often click through to those companies and see at the bottom of the list - Support Engineer, Sys Admin, Product Specialist - all needing a technical skill-set & soft skills and wonder why these aren't listed on the 'who's hiring' too or at least well publicised elsewhere.

After all, we are the interface between developer and end user! The first point of contact, the aggregator of customer feedback. Firefighters, troubleshooters, bug hunters, process writers and more! Of course you need someone with a fantastic skill set!

It's also a great way to bring hidden talent into your organisation. They're going to learn your product inside out and support the 'existing' features while your devs concentrate on the 'new'.

The greatest gift you can give your development team is a handful of uninterrupted hours during the work day to concentrate. A great support team enables this.

On the flip side, it's also a great starting point for anyone who wants to joint a startup or become a developer/engineer later on in their career.

So companies & startups - please - post your 'other' tech jobs here. You'll probably be surprised at the response.
I know I'd be interested in them!

(A bit about me, I support real-time finance applications in the UK, CS degree + 5 years of Field, Remote, Application, Product & User Support.
I earned a place on in a UK startup incubator last year.
Main strengths include relational databases, data analysis, SQL reporting, PHP, mySQL
I build small things in Python, RoR & I'm learning OO programming through iOS app development.
Able to relocate or work remotely.

If you have a role you'd like to contact me about, I'm my username on gmail.com

If you have several - post them up here!
Hm, well I'd say that if you are any other kind of developer looking for a job, it's really not that difficult to transition into web development. If it isn't what you want to do then that's fair enough, but it's where the market is.
I'm disappointed you ask whether you're not good enough to get into YC.. Why not ask whether you're good enough to start a profitable business instead? If you're good enough for YC, that just means you can impress others, that's all.
Going to ted.com is not centralized enough?
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"They" will say that they're under constant threat of harm; there are people (not necessarily terrorists) trying to smuggle stuff onto planes or into the country, and that they have to maintain constant vigilance and being gruff, grumpy, aggressive is a technique they use to unsettle people carrying illicit items.

There are obvious problems with that. Interestingly, the (much mocked) TSA blog lists some items they find each week. Very roughly, about 20 guns per week are taken as carry on onto planes.

(http://blog.tsa.gov/search/label/Week%20In%20Review)

I have no idea how many people go through TSA each week. Nor how many guns (loaded or otherwise) they miss. I have no idea if any of the weapons they stopped would have been used for violence. But that feels like a very small number, when compared to the direct and indirect costs of the system.

Note also the mission creep - they're very happy to list any drugs they find. (They do say that they're not looking for drugs, but if they happen to find them they have to report it.)
I find the title a bit confusing. If my understanding is correct, one of the really bad bits of SOPA is that action can be taken without court orders. If there is a court order, then it is not SOPA-style.
I apologizing for down voting you, it was a knee jerk reaction stemming from my brain trying to leave via my left nostril.
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An assault victim! Oh my goodness! When exactly did he begin to fear violence? Was it when he received an email he ignored? Or a phone message he didn't return?

Given your standards, apparently I've been assaulted about 15 times this week. Do you think I should call the police?
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Actually, they should also be congratulated for causing AIM to shut down.
Re: Iron Man 2... they still don't have it in HD? Really?
Try Tel-Aviv.
Are they really distorted though? I wonder if it's an artifact of trying to image a light source, maybe caused by the display not being perfectly level to the microscope stage.

I ask because some of the images really do look perfect with sharp edges (the 3DS, the PSP), compared to the blobs of light you see on the other ones.
Thank you for writing that. It took 20 seconds for the ads at the top to load, and they kept pushing me away from the content. I would have bounced if I hadn't read your comment.

Great read.
We tried that - it was called Subversion. The industry's abandoning that way of doing things because the new way is simpler and better.
I have seen the non-EU line at Heathrow. For those that haven't, it's >3 hrs long, stood up, with nothing but a single garish vending machine for company.

It makes me ashamed to be British. We can do better.
sends virus to tap just opened NSA data center

Because tapping the biggest tapper is ironic.
(not that I will do that/can)
Minister Bruton today announced €60mil in funds designed to help bring VCs to Ireland: http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/bruton-announces-e60m-round...
is there a complete list of ISPs participating?
Waste of a click. There's a reason Apple is just calling it the new iPad. It's just the new iPad - better screen, better camera, faster. "Read this before you buy the new iPad" sounds like a warning to me. I expected to hear some expose equal to that of Antennagate. Instead, I get an article talking about how this is just an upgrade to the iPad. Seriously? You just used up your one "read this before" for the year, extremetech.com.
Sure, it's evolutionary, not revolutionary. Who cares? What's wrong with it being an incrementally better version of an existing product? Does every product release have to utterly blow away everything in the history of computing in order to be worthwhile?

Personally, I'm not going to buy one because of the caché of owning something amazingly innovative, I'm going to buy one because I think it will be useful. I don't own an iPad yet because I was waiting for one with the retina display, and I know a few other people who've done the same. Seems to me Apple gauged the market pretty well with this release.
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Not sure why you were downvoted, gitfanbois I guess.

I've used both git and mercurial. I would tend to agree that git has more of a feel of non-conformity when it comes to best practices and default ways that it behaves.

That said, mercurial has an equally bewildering array of choices when it comes to all the different add-ons that you can install to do similar things.

I think they're both great tools and I love the way that they've both innovated ahead of each other and copied the best of each other.
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And their titles fuel plenty of outraged drive-by upvotes by those who don't even click through.
This is not good. Even if under the current law many people don't get the overtime pay they are entitled to receive, at least it is a legal ground which they can stand up to repeat abusive managers and get help from HR.
This is a well understood problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle
Downvoters need to watch Monty Python's Argument Clinic.
There is no secret ingredient. ~ Kung Fu Panda

To be very honest, in my opinion you're laying too much emphasis on the idea. I don't mean to be harsh but there really is no secret sauce for solving people's problems. Further, you don't 'lose' ownership to an idea that easily because:

1. Ideas are extremely personal entities. It is really hard to appreciate someone else's idea as your own. (Especially, if they are 'ground-breaking' as nobody would have seen it before)

2. It is insanely hard to actually build something. So, it is extremely unlikely that anyone would just rip your idea off.

Now, in case the above does not help answer your questions, let us assume that you do have the 'secret sauce' to be the next Google (in whatever field you are). In order to safely look for people basically boils down to trust. You can begin with your friends and see if any of them is interested. Or you could try and secure an investment and just recruit.

And no. Patents/copyrights are a bad idea. You may want to read this: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/11/23/protecting-ideas-can-yo...

You may also consider reading this http://paulgraham.com/start.html for the value of ideas.
I've got a mac mini connected to the TV through an HDMI cable. This can stream Youtube, Amazon Prime, etc.

I've also got a Blu-Ray player that I got open box for $40. I don't use internet streaming on it much because all the same services are easier to use on a computer.

I love the Mac Mini in every way except for Apple's bullheadedness -- I'm behind a slow DSL line, so the "download everything" ideology means waiting overnight. If the Mini had a Blu-Ray drive, it would dominate in every way.
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Does that kind of thing ever work? Just seem one of those schemes ripe for abuse.
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what's bizarre about the article is that they're admitting that it is better than the iPad, they're just upset that it's not SO MUCH MORE AWESOMELY BETTER.

And that's supposed to give me pause? If I go out and get one of these, it is in fact specifically to have an iPad with a better screen, camera, and battery.
I'm pretty sure the simulator that devs use supports the Retina iPad, and was available before release date. The tricky bit is that the Retina iPad is higher resolution that most people's desktops, so simulation becomes difficult.
That's not to say that those currently not on the list won't be in the future, they're probably just waiting to see how things pan out.
And I'm pretty sure that if any of those other VPs were willing to pen a bridge-burning gossip piece, plenty of editors would be competing to give them space.

Similarly, the tilt in coverage can't be a new concept for anyone here. We've known for quite some time that you can more-reliably predict news coverage based on the outlet's target market than based on the facts.

The idea that some news agencies are playing this up and others are playing it down can't possibly be a surprise.
From the article's excitement, I would almost guess that they have a working attack against AES, but that sounds extremely unlikely with the amount of scrutiny AES has received. Still, AES is known to have some very clean algebraic properties, and people have wondered since the AES competition whether those would translate into real attacks -- perhaps the NSA has found a way. At least, the discussions about saving data to decrypt later sounds very suggestive of a break on either Triple DES or AES.

But I should say that you wouldn't have to break AES to break HTTPS and read most of the encrypted conversations on the web. In late 2008 a group of academics broke HTTPS by lifting a digital signature from a legitimately-signed document which gave few HTTPS permissions, onto a document which gave them arbitrary permissions. They did this by breaking the MD5 algorithm, and it caused the community to finally excise the last of the MD5 certificates for SHA1 certificates. But the NSA could do the same with the SHA1 algorithm's known weakness, and could then listen in on any man-in-the-middle attack they wanted. How complex is this? Since 2008, we've had an attack which might work in 2^52 operations or so. For the NSA that's approximately nothing. The Cray computer (one which we know the US government has) does roughly 2 petaflops now, or 2^51 operations per second or 2^67 per day. So it's reasonable to believe that, if they move from eavesdropping to active communication, they can already break HTTPS. (There is a risk in this method, however: if someone catches you doing this "in the wild", then they might notice and raise a big stink about it.)

Their exaflop goal would then be 2^85/year, which would be enough to run publicly-known attacks against Triple DES and perhaps to factor known 1024-bit RSA moduli -- for example the Equifax Root CA is 1024 bit RSA. If you could compromise one of those just once, you could issue certificates of your own -- and it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to detect the intrusion. So with exaflop computing, they could seriously just spend a couple weeks breaking an RSA-1024 modulus and launch undetectable man-in-the-middle attacks against everyone.

It's also likely that they've got more efficient attacks than the public researchers have, since they have access not only to the public research but also to a set of well-paid brilliant minds who work on these problems every day, and have been for quite some time. (It would be nice to have some transparency and know just how far they have gotten, but of course they won't even tell us that. I guess that's a bit of a weird question anyway, like asking, "in the odd event that you might want to stab the Internet to death, we would like to know: how large is the largest knife you own?")
oh the irony
It does make me wonder if a higher DPI screen would really help the Kindle in readability. Or if the major issue now is just the contrast.
There's nothing wrong with incremental upgrades until you remember that Apple markets nearly everything they sell as 'revolutionary' (or 'resolutionary' in this case) and act as if now that they are using a technology (4G, quad core, high-res) it is finally cool.
When you inevitably unbox your new iPad, though, just remember that Apple has done little more than cram a bunch of bits inside a slick tablet chassis; bits that, except for the display, aren’t very exciting at all.

I feel this statement makes little sense since the display is the thing you're going to be interacting with the most.
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While I agree with what you were trying to say, that was really uncalled for.
I wish they had added the original iPad to the chart. As an original iPad owner (and one that really enjoys the device), the new iPad looks pretty enticing.

Saying, "it's just an iPad 2 with a better screen" sounds pretty great to me.
Unsurprising. Apparently, the author doesn't realize that Apple only upends entire industries every decade or so.
I am not sure what type of startup you are talking about, but I think what typically with the term startup is a company, that is small, has a low probability of succeeding, but if it does can grow very fast. I don't think there is (or was) any bank in to world that will loan money to this type of company.

But there is no reason, why an Irish startup can not have investors from other places, especially with the finance capital of Europe (London) so close by.
That's funny. I just assumed that it was an attempt at a joke since it gave a DB connection error.
Yes that's right. Not that I don't believe in minimum wage, per se, but that I don't believe in laws generally that prevent people from interacting with each other in accordance with each person's self interest.

Or if I want to avoid pedantic arguments, maybe I should say "perceived" self interest. I'm sure there are many paternal government supporters who will do their best to convince a jobless poor person that it's actually bad to work for a rate that some bureaucracy doesn't like.
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Does that affect "crispness" of the fonts?
Or maybe they reconfigure subpixel rendering during device rotation.
I've been in a Campfire room with the new maintainers for a few days. We've been coordinating the transition for a couple of weeks. Looking forward to knocking out a few more features and bugs in the next few days while they get used to the codebase.

Everyone's busy so we'll see how much time is needed and able to be spent by the new maintainers but we're happy to have found almost a dozen developers to lead maintenance across the two companies (Crowdtap and Iora Health) and we took the time to express a process and way of doing things to help make the project more efficient:

https://github.com/copycopter/style-guide
This article completely misses the point of why people buy iPads. Nobody buys an iPad because of the specs, or the innovation, or how many graphics cores it has. People buy iPads because they are awesome little computers that are easy to consume content on and because they are affordable.
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Thanks for the warning comment. I'm glad that I didn't have to give them another page view just to come to the same conclusion.
I've been using Apple products since the Apple II, so I guess at this point I've learned to take the hype with a grain of salt or two.
My experience is that many, many contracts for programmer-types include a clause about intellectual property. In my direct experience, no employer has ever collected on this. I suspect if an employer did exercise it, it would be for IP directly related to their business/product. But...that's a hope, not necessarily a reality.
FWIW, he backed off that pretty quickly. He claimed it was for Shift Jelly only and his words got misconstrued as a public challenge.
I really like London City airport.

Last time I landed there I literally blitzed through immigration and boarded a DLR train like 15 minutes after landing.

A beautiful approach, too.
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Cue the 30-page MSDN blog post explaining with charts and graphs that "no, seriously, our focus groups think this is the best user experience ever!"
There could be some value of filling in the questionnaire beforehand, namely to make you aware of certain restrictions ahead of time. Like the fact that you shouldn't be a genocidal terro ... OK, there really is no justification for THAT kind of question.

But, for example, I recently smuggled a packet of Spanish Jamon into a Latin American country which completely bans bringing that kind of thing in. But I only found out on the plane, and there's no way I was going to flush 400gr of prime Iberico (which on top of it was a gift) on arrival.
Glad to hear that. Thanks very much for sharing your work!
People are still waiting in lines to buy Apple products? After all those years? I could understand it (if I really, really tried) when the first iPhone came out. But for the iPad III. People have way too much time on their hands.
The website is down

> Error establishing a database connection

Quite ironic, considering the title
Sloppy linkbait.

I'm not an Apple fan boy but when he complains that the performance of GLBenchmark is the same:

> The most likely reason for this is that apps must be written to take full advantage of all four GPU cores, much in the same way that only a handful of apps make full use of Tegra 2 and 3

He seems to forget that theres four times the number of pixels on the screen.
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Click bait title with absolutely no new information or insight. Not sure why it was upvoted so high on HN.

The crowd that reads HN already knows the specs of the new iPad and is capable of judging whether or not they're worth the outlay.
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I'm running XBMC on a windows box, but I only watch movie trailers from time to time.