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Knives and box cutters never posed a significant risk. You can't take over a plane with a knife if everyone on board is against you.

I bet you'd have a hard time keeping command with a machine gun if people are swarmed against you knowing (a) they will die anyways and (b) if they don't stop you people they love will be killed as well.
Possibly the best job advertisement I've read, and I don't mean that in a disparaging way. Very well crafted and inherently worthwhile. After all, who couldn't be excited about Valve after reading this?
I ran a bbs. Even had a couple of paid members. I'm embarrassed to say that I can't even remember what it was called now.
If there is no moral authority higher than humans then on what grounds do you begin to build a belief system.

Genuine concern and consideration for another human being? And I disagree heavily with the idea that different opinions lays any sort of a setup for slavery, people disagree all the time; it's a side effect of humanity in a world that's rapidly starting to see cultural integrations on a level never before thought-of.

I've always made the statement that I am an atheist until proven otherwise; don't confuse that with agnosticism, it means I do not see sufficient proof (or reason for that matter) to believe in a deity of which man should worship and this is a stance that I wont change until sufficient proof presents itself.
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>>We've all (yours truly included) heard about the importance of owning your digital data, the downsides of vendor lock-in, and how if you're being provided a free service, you're the product, not the customer. But I honestly never understood how deep this problem is, and how severe the consequences can be ("surely this cannot happen to me", right?!).

Excellent point.

Btw one easy way to maintain a local copy of all your gmail-emails is to use a mail client (like Outlook or Apple Mail) with gmail. With Outlook, for example, you can easily download and move emails into a PST/OST file on your PC.
I'm not sure how to answer that. The cockpit door was locked except for the brief moment when the pilot exited and re-entered the cockpit, and during that time a flight attendant was standing watch. I'm not sure how much more could be done, but it seemed to me it was a fairly significant obstacle to anyone hijacking the plane, considering that passengers would also hopefully assist in preventing a terrorist from succeeding.
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At first I thought you were talking about a touch table interface for RPG / Board Games. A couple of my friends are doing a bunch of development in that vein:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMjnmdwC8s
I tried this, but Thunderbird simply locked up due to the sheer volume of emails (I subscribe to LKML and other high-volume mailing lists). I haven't been able to find any good backup solution anywhere, and articles like this really scare me.
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I had my google account suspended for a few hours a few months back. Why? Because, I was sending myself a set of icons, and I carelessly dragged the folder in, which caused each one to upload separately (30 altogether). I noticed it quickly enough, and closed the tab. When I went back in, my account was suspended. No recourse. Nobody to talk to. Nobody to complain to.

Honestly, I'd rather just pay a monthly fee for the damn thing if it meant a unilateral action such as an account suspension wouldn't happen without prior warning. I'm serious Google. It's a good service. Take my money.
One pair of students decided to create a stack-based language. I guess they noticed it would save several lines of code and make the interpretation process easier to do.
I'd say you just gave a pretty good summary if our core philosophy. Here's a comment I made on Reddit along those lines: http://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/rcw9t/can_we_have_a_dis...
I don't dispute that. But the way Abrash phrased things, it certainly seemed to be an economic argument.
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A lot of people are saying this is due to latency, but it's really not.

Is it any surprise that any country wouldn't want their data stored on US servers? Canada does the same. The USA just wants to eat it's cake and have it too.

That being said, the Australian Government (particularly Department of Defence) also doesn't allow government data on any cloud server, even those hosted inside Australia. These US cloud providers are just trying to drum up business by claiming a bias to loosen regulations, but there is no bias, just good old security policy. Tight security policy, true, but it's their data and they can direct their own employees how they want it handled.

Eventually though the walls will come down unless the functionality offered by the cloud can be duplicated on government servers, but I do think more needs to be done for security guarantees in the cloud to mature first. I have no qualms putting my own data on some 2 week old startups servers, but more serious info probably needs a little bit more consideration about where it can go.
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I rely on google so much, I would certainly pay for support if the option was available.
No, the journal file is turned on server-side and you'll get a journal append every 100ms (by default).
he created great _support_ for those products, so when they launched, it was revolutionary from day one

Like MobileMe? (Or really, any Rev. A Apple product?)
Thanks for the link and for sharing your experiences. Based on what you said, it looks like I'm on the right track to create a great learning experience. Nice :)
Why not use CIE L*ab, since that colorimetric system is based on human perception or difference?
Shouldn't this worry you about ANY email service; even those that you are 100% in control? Backup important data to separate services; have separate services to read this data; do it often, including the read -- make sure your backups work.
Not in the same boat, but in the initial beginning, I'd make sure you give them as many opportunities to quit as possible. It'll weed out those who aren't truly dedicated, and may jump ship anyway 3-24 months from now.

I'm not sure how common dropouts are among YC founders, but it's a pattern I've noticed in real life. If something is going to take a long time to accomplish, requiring lots of dedication and persistence, you've got to be 100% certain all parties involved are all-in or they have a high probability of flaking out.
Out of curiosity, what about gmail is so important that you dont move to a different mail client (paid or otherwise)? Or is it simply the fact that you haven't found an alternative that you like?
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yes, with money that was formerly reserved for a downpayment on a house. Just did a pitch practice at the Vegas Jelly and got great feedback from the VegasTech community too. We are excited!
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GMail isn't just a mail client though; it's a web server and a client with push email, calendar syncing, etc; it's basically a simpler version of Exchange.

Are there any good alternatives? Are their any alternatives at all?
Just out of curiosity, did you use two factor authentication on the account? I understand that a common reason for accounts becoming disabled is because someone guessed the password, logged in, and then sent a bunch of spam (or something similarly evil). Two-step authentication makes this attack significantly more difficult. (But, of course, it makes your email harder to use. And malware can still steal your "remember this computer for 30 days" cookie.)
I've always felt that going out of your way to enforce information hiding in programming was kind of silly. Establish in your documentation what is public and what is private and then don't worry about it. If someone wants to hack on your private variables, you aren't going to stop them with this or any other pattern, and if they want their code to work properly, a comment that says "private" will tell them what not to mess with.
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Gmail is a brand name, it's like having a .com.
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I'm surprised how quickly this ended up on HN. I submitted it to Hack a Day late last night (early morning?), and was surprised that Hack a Day got it online by the time I left the house.
Isn't that what Google apps for business offers?

I don't know if you can port an @gmail.com email address in, but if you have your own domain for $5 / user / month you get phone + email support.
Pretty much every company ties bonuses to the success of the company. Google is no different.
Yes, any email client will make a local copy of your Google emails.

If you use multiple operating systems, or you want to use a high quality open source client, best choice is Thunderbird (this is what I use).

On Windows the default email client is Outlook.

On Mac, iPhone, iPad the default email client is named Mail.

All of the above email clients will save your emails from Gmail on your HDD.
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this campaign will compel end-users to spend time on various portals to perform activities such as playing an educative game, filling a survey, writing a paid blog, paid search, reviewing a product etc. On these portals, corporates would be invited to advertise/support and their advertising spend would be used to meet MDG’s goals.
The campaign serves the purpose in three ways: increase awareness by showing factual data about hunger; raise public concern by highlighting extreme consequences, and demonstrate the easiest way to contribute to social causes.
Hey, if you've got a solution for it, I'd love to hear.
damn this is some serous stuff.
I used getmail: http://datalinkcontrol.net/dlc/content/gmail-backup-getmail (Leave out the password from the config to be prompted when you run getmail.)
As part of the prize payment, does NetFlix exclusively own the implementation that won the prize? Have they patented it? Just asking since there are few details of the grand prize winner algorithm referenced in the article, and it seems it could be of great economic benefit, if not to use it, but to also prevent others from using it as well, while also owning the proprietary second, third, fourth, etc rating systems. Could be a good way to block competitors from getting a leg up if you end up owning the technology within each contest entry, and even are able to block the winners from selling it to someone else.
No, it was, is or at least can be, instantaneous where that makes sense.
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I don't understand your stance on family time vs skill set? My day to day is usually like this: Get up, shower, pick up my house, go to work for 8 hours, come home where I make dinner and invariably end up cleaning my kitchen. Then i sit down with my boyfriend and just do whatever so that we're spending time together.

This past weekend I managed to pick up a book on Go and hoping to deploy something through appengine by the end of week. If you want something, you find the time.

And I work 48 hours a week minimum.
There's a lot to be said for non-anonymous services. A classic Penny-Arcade comic strip sums up the internet well. Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Fuckwad. http://images.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2010/01/215499488_8pS...

It's why you can't play games on Xbox Live without being called a faggot either over voice chat or in private message. It's why websites such as Fat, Ugly, or Slutty exist. http://fatuglyorslutty.com/
How good can someone be at recognizing terrorist tradecraft and bomb-making while knowing nothing about making actual bombs?
The FBI's tactics for finding bomb-makers would presumably find a bomb-laden passenger as well then?
I did something like this once many years ago for one of my wife's students, a precocious high-schooler who needed to be challenged beyond the elementary Fortran she was teaching at the vocational school. So I outlined the steps it would take to translate a toy language into a toy computer's instruction set, and reviewed it with the young man one afternoon at my office - an abbreviated compiler theory class with an eager audience of one. Tom took the big flowchart that we made home, studying and meticulously documenting it. When he brought me the documented design a couple of days later I asked him to implement it.

Tom spent awhile doing this in Waterloo Fortran, and when he presented me with the working compiler I said "Good job. Now execute the code." He blinked his surprise - until then I don't think he'd considered that the toy machine could have been interpreted. A revelation! He went back home and wrote the VM for the toy machine without any assistance; it worked well and I was as proud of him as I could be.

A couple of years later I hired Tom and a couple of years after that he lapped me, going on to better things. 30 years later I still keep a copy of his compiler and interpreter, reminding me from time to time of the bright kid who grew up to become a fine programmer and family man.
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Yes, but the specific problem with Google is they have practically zero customer support. There is no one you can call to get help, and they apparently feel no obligation to respond to problems in a timely fashion.
If the author reads these posts: please, for the love of all that is true and pure, do not open with an apology. Instead, just edit out whatever you were going to apologize for.

Also: I really like the article.
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That distinction makes sense. I find Apple interesting in that even their "loss leaders" seem to be profitable, and more, that though they could throw tons of money into something like ebooks to try to hurt Amazon, they wouldn't. Though now I wonder where Apple TV fits in this, since it can't possibly have the same kind of margins that other products do.
https://www.backupify.com/

GApps backup 36 bucks a user a year.
It's partly inertia and knowing that it would be a hassle to switch email addresses. But also, I think it's a phenomenal service. It's quick, and has great ui. Great spam filters. Great security - recently google added two-factor authentication as an option, which I love, since so many services are tied to my gmail account. In addition they have "shadow accounts" for services that need your password to function (usually other email clients) - so if you setup IMAP on your phone, and your phone is stolen, you can simply disable access for that client. The total package is great.
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Haven't checked my backups in probably a year or more. Still going strong, and still readable. Thanks for the reminder.

For everyone else, I'm using backupify.com to backup my Gmail and Google Contacts (and sent tweets, for some reason…)
The only thing liquids could is if X takes a liquid, say alcohol or other flammable liquids, spray and light up in a seconds. Not sure how the physics work with the plane's config but that may be a problem.

As for the rest, he /she will have to deal with dozens or hundreds of passengers and a knife will just not do.
I've been subscribing to ISPs in Australia for 14 years, and have never had an international traffic quota.
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That's jaw-dropping really... every student should have to experience the horrors of the dragon book.

*edit: I say that firmly tongue in cheek. The Dragon book is one of the most important pieces of CS literature ever written. It's a fine book, the subject matter is just difficult:)
I don't know. Michael followed that sentence with the following:

"Similarly, if you’re a programmer, you’re probably perfectly capable of writing Facebook or the Google search engine or Twitter or a browser, and you certainly could churn out Tetris or Angry Birds or Words with Friends or Farmville or any of hundreds of enormously successful programs. There’s little value in doing so, though, and that’s the point – in the Internet age, software has close to zero cost of replication and massive network effects, so there’s a positive feedback spiral that means that the first mover dominates."

The problem with this: there are TONS of examples in the software world where the first mover DOESN'T dominate.

That said, I enjoyed reading this job post. It might be the best job post I've ever read.

EDIT: user "roc" below says this same thing, but much better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3839190
or a willingness to take your own path and not mind the opinions of others.
FWIW, git grep also uses threads in some circumstances to get better performance.

Also, obligatory link whenever Boyer-Moore is mentioned: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...
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Trust for quality, and their userbase is okay with paying a premium. In a way, they are dumb if they don't try, though they might not want to dilute their brand, and there are potential risks. Plus, the payment game is changing so rapidly, it doesn't necessarily make sense to divert people's attention to it.
This happened to me once and it took a while until they reinstated my account. To date I have no idea why it happened. I thought about moving to another service, but unless you setup your own SMTP server (probably not a good idea), you never really have full control.

Here is what I recommend you do (before getting locked out):

1. Use your own domain for email and host it on gmail (free) - do not use yourname@gmail.com, but yourname@yourdomain.com.

2. Create a secondary email account and have your primary account forward all emails to it.

If you get locked out, your account still accepts emails. I believe that forwarding still works as well, though I haven't been able to verify it (need to get locked out again...).

Then either respond from your secondary account, or change your mx records to point to another service, or even to your own temporary SMTP server.

It's not a complete / ideal solution. You still don't have access to emails you sent (could be done using IMAP, but I didn't bother) and to other Google services. But it might be OK as a temporary solution until you get your account back.
Indeed. If you're a guy, this advice is also gold with respect to women.
Would you mind me asking how long it took you to develop that demo?
This is great. More professors need to be like you.

With the exception of barely 2 projects in uni, all my homework/projects were short and small scale, meaning I already knew how to complete 90% of it, and just had to learn the content from the latest lecture to complete the rest.

With this assignment I probably would have known ~40%, meaning I wold have to buckle down and actually get invested - figure out what I know and don't know, and self study to the answer. Because I wouldn't just be able to rely on my teacher and lecture notes, I would actually have to take (some) control of my learning to succeed (rather than expect the teacher and textbook to hand feed me everyone I need to know). Because I'm not hand fed everything, I would actually become motivated because my success (or failure) for once would be somewhat in my own hands. What a concept!!! Congrats.
This is great. More professors need to be like you.

With the exception of barely 2 projects in uni, all my homework/projects were short and small scale, meaning I already knew how to complete 90% of it, and just had to learn the content from the latest lecture to complete the rest.

With this assignment I probably would have known ~40%, meaning I wold have to buckle down and actually get invested - figure out what I know and don't know, and self study to the answer. Because I wouldn't just be able to rely on my teacher and lecture notes, I would actually have to take (some) control of my learning to succeed (rather than expect the teacher and textbook to hand feed me everyone I need to know). What a concept!!! Congrats.
The OS X Mail.app does an excellent job of backing up your Gmail account using the standard POP3 and IMAP protocols.

Every email I've received in the last eight years is stored on my MacBook, indexed in Spotlight, backed up in Time Machine, and available for offline reading whenever I need it. If my Gmail account was suspended tomorrow it would be a nuisance, but I would not lose any data and could recover from it quickly enough.
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Fair enough I personally do not care what you believe in, if it is the tooth fairy or ganesh or yawheh or nothing at all.

One of the points the article was making was that people naturally distrust atheists due to the fact they cannot derive a morality based on humans alone not necessarily whether or not they believe in a diety. Which is why they often say I don't care what you believe in just believe in something higher than yourself. You are just stating a belief system i.e. I am a secular humanist not where this belief derived from i.e from rationality we derive our universal moral standards of concern and consideration for other humans. Or some form of utilitarianism that suggests that concern and consideration are in our best interests as a whole society.

In reality cultural integration is a bit of an illusion as hegemony rules the law of the land in most cases. Travel to Syria or North Korea right now and you will find that power is the morality people usually follow.

To believe that we are all self-rational actors heading towards some grand path of enlightenment and cultural integration in some far off utopia wonderland of cooperation and mutual self-benefit is to ignore the more animalistic and competitive bit of our nature.
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In fact, in Meteor, the relevant packages are called "livedata" and "liveui".

In the docs, Meteor usually tries to use the word "reactive" or sometimes "automatic," thought "realtime" does seem to have slipped in in some places.
What Abrash described as Valve's management style sounds very much like 'adhocracy'. The simplest definition of it is that it is a system which is the opposite of bureaucracy.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on LabVIEW, if you've ever used it: http://www.ni.com/labview/.

It's a graphical programming language with an emphasis on system design (for scientists and engineers) that uses a dataflow paradigm (amongst other things) and has a unique UI creation system.

(Disclaimer: I work for National Instruments and my comments here in no way reflect the views of National Instruments and yadda yadda.)
Oooh, I forgot about your project when I did the betterthangrep.com website overhaul. I just added it to http://betterthangrep.com/more-tools/
Can't emphasize this enough - with only a handful of employees working on the problem, Netflix could not have ever been completely confident that they were maximizing the predictive value of the data. The competition format quite clearly shows just how good the models can get. So even if they only implement the model with an ~8% gain, it's now an informed decision with known trade offs.
Hmmm now that you mention it. I completely forgot that your emails can contain damaging info about other (still living) people. Then again, in a world where it's so easy to copy + paste, it's foolish on the part of the discloser to throw around such personal details in an email message.