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Yeah, that took some dedication, and because we aren't all as dedicated or physicist here are some practical tips I've learned:

1. When an officer asks how fast you were going, never say anything over the speed limit or that's automatic guilt. Just decline to know or tell. A lot of people say within a +5-10mph range over the speed limit because they think that is "ok", but in fact anything over the speed limit is speeding and is ticket worthy.

2. Look up laws in your area about loopholes. I once had a friend who got pulled over for doing a burn out in his Cobra, the officer was so aggravated he forgot to wear his hat when he got out of his car and the case got dismissed because of it.

3. Always be polite. Always, always, always. Even if they're real jerks, which has never happened to me, always be courteous and make things go as smoothly as possible. If you start being an ass they WILL remember it and will take that into consideration when writing the ticket and/or in front of the judge. You'll have a chance to give your side in court, so don't bother wasting your breath with the officer.

4. I once got out of a reckless driving ticket ($400+, I was young and dumb) because I just happened to know the director of the area highway patrol. It turned out I was in the top 5 worst tickets the highway patrolman had ever given out in his 20+ years of duty. My director friend told him I was a good kid and my parents were going to kill me anyway, so he let me off.

5. And really, the single most best way to not get a ticket, don't break the rules. Of course in this guys case the officer apparently was mistaken, but more times than not that's not the case.

This got large quickly. Just some things I've learned over a few years of driving.
Ask HN: What email service similar to gmail is not subpoena-able?
Hi, I am concerned about the US government's ability to subpoena emails from providers such as gmail so easily, what other service could be used? I understand hushmail and the like are also as easily fallible.
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The SmartOS ISO I downloaded, did not have an installer to help you install the OS to disk.

This one does, according to release notes.

Looks like they have tweaked some of the libraries and they provide both 32 and 64bit versions of Python also (this can be a pain to build sometimes as the configure tools don't always pull in the right libs, so you end up with mixed 32 and 64bit objects or other weirdness).

Also, the installer is minimal, basically just asks you what disk to install on. You do all other configuration after you have booted it for the first time.
MechE here, electrical motors can obtain almost instantaneous acceleration / full torque at 0rpm. Their torque curves typically look like this:

http://www.jmag-international.com/catalog/img/e68-3b.gif

The brakes are independent, so it's not as if one system has to provide both accelerations, one just needs exceptional timing of the feet. A lot of rally car drivers can do similar maneuvers

This is the same reason why the Tesla Roadster has such a killer 0-40mph
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Can it be said that such a large segment of humanity is doing nothing ennobling but is merely spending life dying a slow death while living worthless lives because work is done of necessity? This to me comes off as exceedingly elitist.

Elitist? It's quite the opposite. Elitist is calling it noble and righteous to toil away miserable while yourself enjoying a nice lifestyle.
I don't think you understand. This isn't "a way to make some money while doing open source software"; if anything, he's probably losing money on this.

The man is taking time off his job to do something he loves for a community which he's put a lot of time into, and that's something anyone should respect.
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MechE here, the limiting factor for car accelerations is usually the static coefficient of friction between the car tires and the road, _not_ the power of the brakes or strength of the engine.

Without ABS braking, it is quite easy to "skid" while applying a harsh brake because you overcome the limit of force between the tires and the road. Similarly, it is quite easy to "burnout" as well with a strong engine for the same reason.

So although the strength of the two systems is not the same, the limiting factor for both of them is identical. Hence, symmetry.
I think that this is fairly reasonable. When joining the military you agree to abide a very different set of laws and rules. I think that it is fair to demand that military personnel respect their Commander in Chief.
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> Excluding academic conferences, I don't think programmers drink and more or less than other professionals at conferences.

As an academic, I'm curious in which direction you're implying academic conferences deviate. :)
But for 1 billion dollars, seriously?

For a fraction[1] of that they could have cloned the software pixel-by-pixel and weaved it in with facebook in a way that the original instagram couldn't.

I have trouble believing instagram was about to turn into an 1 billion dollar threat.

[1] Understatement of the month
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Thanks for expanding on my answer, nailed it.
So we are now nested, what, six deep in forks? I've long since lost track: OpenSolaris => OpenIndiana => Illumos => this new thing ? are there some in-between steps?

And we don't have 100% solaris api/abi compatibility.

Or a Sun compiler.

Or Sun drivers, necessarily.

Or a real guarantee of future source releases from Oracle.

Who/what is this for?
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Show HN: Kwery.js - lightweight wrapper for webSql
Absolutely yes. I love talking to interesting people over drinks. Love it. However, when they insist on playing music so loud that you can't hear each other, that option goes away. And almost always they insist on playing the latest vapid pop. The play music by 17 year olds for 40 year olds? Why? So we can pretend we're still kids? Fuck that.

Give me quality liquor, music a bulk of the people actually like, played low enough that no one has to yell. Then fill the room with passionate thinkers. Heaven.
That's a good point. I believe the original comment was being a bit loose with terminology, and not really making a distinction between being fired, being encouraged to quit, being made redundant, etc. The fact that he also mentioned a letter of resignation points that way too.

You're correct that there is a huge difference between being let go with good references as part of a reorg of corporate strategy (or whatever_, and being fired for sexually assaulting the cleaning staff. The former is little impediment to finding a new job, while the latter is. (Well, unless you can successfully threaten your old HR department with a wrongful dismissal suits so that they will lie and cover for you. And oh yes, that happens[1].)

Context does matter, and that's worth pointing out.

[1]: Frequently, too. A short-sighted analysis says that you have two goals when you discover a bad employee: 1) Get them OUT of your organization before they do something that might make you liable and 2) Make sure they don't sue you. A glowing letter of recommendation is cheap, and can help achieve both goals. Often a small bribe - sorry, severance package - can be tossed in as well to sweeten the deal. Of course, that will come around to bite you when you end up hiring some other companies ambulatory menace on the strength of a glowing-but-false letter of recommendation. sigh
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Josh, the red background is a definite eye-sore. Please.
Rachel IS the stalker. You didn't know this ? they are one of the same.
I think pushing the front-end to the browser is a wonderful thing. Now that browsers have the power to run an entire application inside of them, it makes sense to distribute that part and worry about scaling your API. Your front-end will never achieve better concurrency than running 100% on the client :).

As for the features themselves, I agree that slapping things together is a usability nightmare. This is also new/unexplored territory for the most part though, and it will take time for usability standards to catch up. Right now, most people on the bandwagon are just copying facebook/twitter and not thinking about how this affects their users.

Let's face it, the web is moving in this direction, and while it's great to sarcastically poke fun at people who are blindly following the masses (I'm all for this), constructive criticism would be a bit more helpful.

Yes, infinite scroll sucks, but non web nerds seem to really like it. I'd say implement it for feeds and other time-based data, but not for listing images/products/etc...or better yet, find a way to implement it via pushState.

Overall a funny post with great points. I don't think anyone is going to throw away their JS app because of it. I'm currently writing an app that NEEDS to use pushState because we have a music player that exists across page "loads." Ok, we could pop open a new window like Myspace does, but talk about usability annoyance...
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Jika dengan mengetikan satu persatu menggunakan keyboard terlalu lama dan memakan waktu yang lumayan lama dengan software ini a
I'm wondering the same thing... Has anyone also used Plupload? I can't really find anything to say this would be better but I haven't used it yet. (http://plupload.com)
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With sufficient metadata about resources this would be perfectly feasible. My thought, though, is that maintaining that metadata (so-and-so needs access to such-and-such, which changes oh-so-often and which is typically a binary blob 0.5-3MB, or whatever) would in the short term be more work than just writing the interfaces by hand. For large systems it might work, but man, who's going to want to fix the system that writes the APIs when it breaks?
"...while they may be programmers, they're not geeks. Drunken parties are part of this self-deception."

So, all programmers are geeks?
No, somehow I don't think he is always making money.

All these speeches quite idiotically fail to make a distinction between work and remunerative work.
Car owner here. I don't think this is right.
Oh dear Lord God, you are not crazy! I've never understood the sheer insanity of the workaholics I find myself surrounded by.
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Adam Levine loves Jennifer Love Hewitt Flirting
caught in the news a week ago that Adam Levine is alleged to have split from Jennifer love Hewitt that as a model and a few days after it broke complicit model Jennifer Love Hewitt admits she still loves Adam.
I have no idea, thats why I exclude them. I don't have experience in that circle or knowledge of friends experience that I can use as a basis to speculate.
Nobody said he would make money off his True Craft.
I doubt it is related to being the younger generation. I think it is more to do with Hacker News not having many "hackers" ;)
I have been thinking about what the url space for infinite scrolling should look like, and I think that if you have meaningful titles you should probably use those as your indicators instead of numbers. Still having paging links makes sense to jump groups of posts.

As for the hashtag, it is a worthwhile thought and you could probably go either way on that one. If you think of the original purpose of the hashtag it was to jump to a specific anchor on the page.
Who is it for? My view:

People who want to run ZFS for storage usage. ZFS is still better than Linux alternatives like LVM, BTRFS etc. To be picky, there is not an exact counterpart to ZFS under Linux.

And with clones etc. you can set up 1 master KVM image and then clone it 10 or 100 times, saving a lot of disk space in the process (ZFS clones only use the amount of space that is different from the original).

People who have a lot of Solaris experience or have to maintain a lot of Solaris systems already. Also people who are using Solaris zones.

People who are building backend systems that require or can use any/all of the above. Right now, no one cares what your Web SaaS service runs on, as long as it stays up and doesn't lose their data.

Solaris still has a better VM subsystem, IMHO, than Linux does, and performs very well under heavy loads that include disk activity.
Maybe there's life on mars after all
As a 23-year-old grad, this whole meme of "Find work you love, and love your work" is absolute bullshit.

Just because I loved programming at home as a hobby did not mean that I enjoyed sitting in a cubicle doing assigned programming projects all day.
And what about the creations that don't bring monetary remuneration?

And what about the rest of life?
I think the landscape has changed a lot since then. Back then computer security had more of an underground feel it, where free and open discussion about it was viewed as being discouraged by 'the authorities'. The 'underground' pretty much existed for this reason.

Now the information out there is so widely available. Given enough time and effort, you can become pretty well-versed based on what's available.

Still, even back then most people weren't aware of Phrack, defcong and 2600. Kevin Mitnick was the only thing people knew of, and that came pretty late. Whereas today if you haven't heard of Anonymous you've been living under a rock.

(Phreaking also has become less relevant with the proliferation unlimited cellphone plans, ubiquitous broadband, and proper encryption of cell calls. I never hear the term 'phreaking' anymore, which was a large part of 'the scene'.)

Overall, I think the spirit of encouraging the'free exchange and discussion of information' has ultimately been successful.
Thanks for encouraging words, I was not able to solve D (no time left - I started 2.5 hours before dead-line, and did not exercise before), but got 60 points for other 3, enough for 1st round.
It's America's (crappy) solution to our relatively low number of vacation days.

This would suggest that you'd find less conference participation in places with more generous vacation policies, like Western Europe or Australia. Anecdotally I haven't seen any evidence that that is true, although it might be.
We also made a schedule/planner for Coachella here: http://t.co/6wr61E3e

It shows recommendations and you can print/share your schedule. Much more useful than what the guys on the forums are doing (sharing Excel sheets!)
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Ask HN: Creating a web development agency
Obviously this isn't the most novel idea in the world, but usually on HN it's either people breaking off to create some kind of product/startup or solo-freelancing, but I'm wondering how many people have had success creating a small web-dev company. I've discussed this lately with a developer friend of mine, and both seem to agree that it might be better to form a company and sell our expertise, perhaps target a certain niche. I'm curious how many people on HN eventually took this path, breaking off to form a small group company, as opposed to solo freelancing, startup, or big-co. Thanks.
From Bracha's talk, it's clear that they're designing Dart not for themselves but for what their imaginary average web programmer (who sounds like quite a dull creature) will tolerate. That's why Dart is so Java-like, for example. Isn't that a well-known path to mediocrity? Even Bracha doesn't seem to like Dart very much - he just really hates Javascript. I wish they had instead taken on the task of producing the greatest and most inspiring (to themselves) web language they possibly could. Perhaps part of the problem, though, is that they are language designers and implementors who don't actually write web programs themselves.

Of course, Java was designed in such a way and became widespread if not beloved. But then it too won what Bracha (in pooh-poohing Javascript's success) calls a "language lottery", meaning it benefitted from an accident of timing. Barring that happening for Dart, it seems unlikely that lots of smart programmers will get very excited about it.

One interesting point in Bracha's talk: he mentions the Dart VM more as a server-side platform - basically an alternative to Node.js - than as something they would ship to the client in Chrome. The client-side story, at least for now, is that Dart always compiles to JS. And he claims that they've already got compiled Dart to be about as fast as handwritten JS, which is surprising.
Presumably someone wanting to use the image could use something like Google's image search to check if it was posted in other places that pre-date it.
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How the Poor Vote Themselves into Poverty: Most People Accept the Crumbs
Both errors fixed.
Yeah, this argument would only apply to all-wheel-drive cars that are powerful enough to burnout on all four wheels.
A quick and painless baseline overlay with no Javascript
Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes.
Both HN Articles and comments have been gradually slipping in quality. I think this is probably inescapable as more users with less discerning tastes and attitudes come on board.

However I think the slide towards a reddit style board can be slowed significantly by reducing the influence of new and less appreciated users. By giving long term HN users with high karma (ie. not me, but the people who made HN great) more up-vote power and newer members and those with lower karma less up-vote power.

The current system allows high karma users to down vote, but this power is nullified when everyone has the ability to up-vote. For example you could have one dubious article or comment upvoted 100 times by users with 0 karma.

I propose halving up-votes for those with low karma and doubling the up-votes for those with high karma. This way you retain the influence of original members, and you further incentivise new members to make meaningful comments and strive for higher karma.

EDIT: benologist makes a good point that high karma might just represent a lot of submissions and not quality posts. Perhaps then the up-voting could be tied to karma avg. This was you incentivise posting higher quality comments and articles.
The web isn't moving, instead developers are moving back to siloed client/server apps with private APIs while dismantling the web's semantic hypertext resources at stable URLs. The result will only be called "the web" for historical reasons, and it doesn't really matter how smoothly this disaster unfolds.
High karma mostly just means you submit a lot of stuff. Age of account is a meaningless metric as well.

I like the suggestion I saw weeks ago of just ditching submission karma. When people have no incentive to automatically or manually dump everything Ars/TC/etc publish then the quality of stories might go up.

Edit: found the suggestion, it was by Cletus:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788875
> Use arg is None when you have a function with an argument defaulting to None. That’s okay, because there’s only oneNone.

In most real cases you want to get out if arg is either None offer any false value, so maybe "if not arg" ?

> For testing whether two classes, functions, or modules are the same object, is is okay. Stylistic choice.

If "is" is not better than = I would advise against it in all cases where it is not necessary: always use = except when you do tricky things. The argument that = can be overridden is wrong: if it really is the case, just use another library or fix it. You should nor write defensive code at this level.
I saw the web in 1991. It didn't look ready to become adopted as a standard. The fancy graphics of NCSA Mosaic helped propel it forward. The img element was created without a standards process.
I wanted to read this. But I couldn't.
Format the article.
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Also something to keep in mind that KnockoutJS has a few plugins which aren't as well publicized.

https://github.com/SteveSanderson/knockout/wiki/plugins
Ah, the perfect physics world. It's a fun place to go from time to time.
That's a good point about the context, but not very concrete.

At some point you'll need to go into the details, but I don't think a comment is the right format. Maybe a blog post to show exactly what you mean.
If MongoDB is only good when in-memory, then what use is MongoHQ?
Just reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837772

People are saying you need to fit the DB in memory for it to perform properly

Does this mean MongoHQ is something to be avoided for anything with load? Because according to their new website, 5gb of data would be serviced by 500mb of memory.

Don't get me wrong, for an agile startup this would probably awesome, and getting past 500mb of user data would be your bigger issue at first :) But long term, for a site/app that manages some level of success?
Unfortunately it doesn't work on my Samsung Tab 10.1. Scrolling is fine but animations don't play.

Surprised my iPhone 4 plays it, though some effects seriously lag. Here's looking at you Papercut and Skew.
I am also curious to know about this.
A legitimate question. As someone who has been exploring these hosted MongoDB services I would also like to know if there are any drawbacks. (Besides the latency of the calls themselves)
Why did modems bother to output those noises to the user anyway?
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Note that there was also only 1 programmer on the project throughout its development.
Perhaps that's my point of contention. I think that, for sharing to small groups of individuals, G+ is the best platform around (though I haven't tried EveryMe as they aren't on Android). I type a message, I type a group or two, I hit enter. Done.

Sharing is simple.

Where it seems like your complaints lie are in getting too much information - above and beyond what has been shared.

To me, I suppose that's small potatoes. I get the occasional distraction in my stream, but Google's usually smart enough to make it relevant, and about half the time I see something from outside of my circles, it ends up drawing me into a conversation.

I am decidedly not your mom, and I don't mind it. Also, my stream is active enough that those 'outsiders' ever take up any significant percentage of it, so perhaps I'm unable to see it from her point of view, but I don't think that showing me things I like, that I might otherwise have missed, is a 'problem' that needs to be 'fixed'.

Again, just my opinion. Can I ask what other social networks your mom has used, and how she found those, in comparison?
Just to be clear, this webpage is describing a metric that is part of webpagetest.org an open source project that just happens to be hosted on Google Code and Google Pages. While some Google employees may contribute to the project, it is not an open sourcing of Google Search's exact page speed metrics.
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The indexes have to fit in memory, once they don't you're going to get terrible performance. Also the indexes have to match your usage patterns, if they don't you're going to get terrible performance.

The advantage of using MongoHQ is it lets you focus on the million other things you need to be doing instead of learning and doing their job - we have a bunch of stuff with them, if we hired someone and moved it all in-house we would save negative thousands a month.

The disadvantage of course is you're typically sharing a shared server somewhere on AWS and you may not be anywhere near them, and your indexes have to line up properly. Long running + high volume queries can mess things up too by saturating your connections plus degrading performance.
> Usually at a big company, your team makes the 5mil.

I don't think we live on the same planet. :) I'm talking about modern/recent software development roles in the US/West. Are you talking about a Wall Street job? Are you talking about a banker or a full partner at a financial firm or law firm? I'm talking about an employee. And I'm talking about the general case, not the outlier cases.
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