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* I will humor your mocking :)

Thank you! My mocking was meant to be humored 8-)

* There are universal values. Like kindness, goodness, empathy, compassion. You know, the obvious ones

There are universal values. This seems to suggest that they are only the obvious ones. I don't think you think that.

* No one owns these. Many beliefs have tried...

Those silly beliefs! They just keep trying. But they do mean well.

* ...but the important lesson is to help keep kindness and goodness fashionable.

* Either we're a part of uniting, or dividing.

So a butcher can't breed his own stock. Got it.

* etc.

Ok, time for prose, lest my purpose be misguessed. I don't mean to mock. But I don't think you are paying close attention to what you are saying, and the result is that you repeat clichés, chain non-sequiturs, dangle participles, use foggy pronouns, and say things that I can make no sense of.

If we're to talk about something as important as universal values, we should do better.
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> I was homeschooled and it was terrible. I didn't learn the 101 little tricks to make interacting with frustrating people that little bit easier, I didn't learn to empathize with people less smart than me and I didn't develop the social intelligence that I believe is vital for long-term success.

See, I went to a public school and didn't learn that stuff either. Bonus, I got beat up routinely until high school.
Yes, except that teenagers don't know who they are yet. They have to experiment, trying out various identities and behaviors until they figure out what fits them and what doesn't. So defining themselves in terms of others, whether by similarity or by difference, is to some degree inevitable.

They do need to be encouraged to grow out of it, though, so your point is very valid.
But all rails 2.3 apps use map.connect == are vulnerable(holy shi~!)

Rails 2.3 had "verify :method => :post" which was supposed to be used in controllers. This is nothing new.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the additional benefits of using a password manager such as 1Password is that it thwarts keyloggers. They may only get your master password (which shouldn't be your password on any site) but your site specific user name and password are never actually typed.
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Apple's IPv6 misstep is a sign of the times
Reverse engineering stuff like this can be fun.
I remember trying to reverse engineer some random .exe that got emailed to me once.

I disassembled it but all I found was some basic initialization code and then a jmp to an address that didn't seem to exist.
However when I ran it (in a VM) with a debugger it seemed to go through all kinds of Win32 Calls.

Very odd
This might be a good time to restate Markham's Rule of Technical Debt: Technical Debt can never be more than the value of the program to the user

Sure, it might cost a million bucks to rewrite all that bad code. But if the program only provides enough value to some user somewhere to be worth ten dollars, you can never have more than ten dollars worth of technical debt associated with it, no matter what it looks like.
One doesn't know where to start to criticize. But one thing is for sure: USA bureaucracy is intimidating (quote: "When I told him we were going to miss our flight he asked me if I was objecting or refusing his request.") and stealing from its citizens. Yes, those who FINANCE it in the first place.

It's the beast that serves itself first and, even worse, that same citizens (more precise: their representatives) have created it. What for? Terror?

Is there anything left what we can sacrifice on the altar of "war on terror"?
Wow, that was a little long-post, but I enjoyed it a lot.
It remembered my school days, I used to be interested in computers and physics and math.
Usually others seek me because they needed help on homework.
Yes you feel yourself a little weird, but then you grow up, and you realize that weird is also cool. If you enjoy being weird.
Let's be weird, if you want to.
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Why not just use the jQuery UI library et al?

Our ASP.NET based start-up does just that...
"Show HN" should be for showing us something you have made. Please retitle.
Actually, the society as a whole has already passed the point where people have to work 40 hours a week. It's the monetary system that doesn't allow us to enjoy our time here without working ourselves to death.
Does this mean that if kid is underachieving in Elementary school he is screwed up for life? I've heard that similar system is in Germany. And at very early stage in someone life he could be relegated to be second-class citizen.
A little late for that, now.

However, it's easier to claim that a mining asteroid crashing into your enemy was an act of sabotage/accident/non-national terrorism than a rain of nukes with your signature on them.
While I do enjoy the odd game from time to time, I do have a penchant for using IRC at work. This game reminded me of an old irssi theme I used to use: http://irssi.org/themefiles/c0ders.png
Really? Because I have 2GB too and I can have several flash videos open and get along just fine with other programs.
Doesn't it depend on what the app is? I know you need a business model other than just "make it free", but it seems pretty hard to give a meaningful answer without knowing anything specific about the app.
Do you need a mobile-optimized version of every websites you read on HN?
I read many articles of blogs every day and 98% of them haven't a mobile optimized version of their website. So I need to carefully zoom in and move left-to-right to able to read the post.

Building an optimized version for mobile of a website (blogs, newspaper..) is expensive because require knowledge of HTML5, best practices of JS, CSS and it need to be compatible also for older mobile phone.

So i think how to solve this problem. Build an web application that grab content of a external website (via FEED RSS or scraping) and show it in a optimized version for mobile. Each website that wants to have an mobile version of its blog need just to put a link to this website. Example: www.mobileversion.com/?site=http://nytimes.com
and it start to see a mobile version of that website, created by web application, without really need a mobile version. Just inserting a web link. Do you think that could be useful?
Bug: site allows me to add a 'Who paid you?' before any invoices are created. Then when I create an invoice, it loses the 'Who paid you' info I entered.

What I'd really like is to have all my expense invoices set up to be sent to myaccount123@bullethq.com, and have your software parse out the details (VAT etc.) and arrange it nicely by date and company.
It's currently easier for me to log into, e.g. my web hosting provider, pull up a list of invoices for the last year and copy/paste them into a spreadsheet.
Your approach would have me manually enter info from dozens upon dozens of invoices one at a time into your webapp (using the 'Incoming Bill' form).

https://getitkeepit.com/ are an Irish company that parse incoming bills from an (admittedly small) number of utility companies, maybe you could look at something similar?
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Love to see an event like this in Los Angeles.
I don't know if you're wrong but how do those password programs work? If they emulate a keyboard by sending keystokes to the appropriate input field they are most likely logged by programs like these. (not HW keyloggers tho).

If the password programs use the clipboard, then it is just another source for the keylogger to capture and trivial to add.
(edit: a screenshot lower in the article of the 'Perfect Keylogger' options screen shows a clipboard option.)
I am pretty sure that an energy bill in the US from 2008 killed all US funding for the future fusion reactor in France. I can't find a source though. Anybody have any insight on that?
I'm hoping that "emailed the ISP" means "deleted the contents of the server and emailed the ISP".
Are there any Clojure web frameworks that really embrace ClojureScript and blur the line between the server and the client like Meteor recently demonstrated? Sorry to be off-topic.
I would respond to the investor with, because it's not about quantity, it's about quality - quality of work AND quality of life. In 2-5 years time, I can't imagine the product would be any better due to that extra day every week.
reminds me of this:
http://www.viruscomix.com/page500.html
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If your idea is good, it can make the difference, if it is bad people will see it for what it is celebrities using their position to get a pay day. I would personally only consider it after the market and your idea has some validation and at least a little bit of traction. If you have that kind of validation then you at least have something people want, which will come off as more authentic than a bunch of celebrities endorsing something that they don't use.
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I would have replaced all the existing keylogger files with pictures of Rick Astley and Rebecca Black, but that's just me.
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Not to mention the fact that once the attacker has enough access to your machine to get a keylogger installed they have pretty much pwned at least your user account so getting cookies/settings or whatever out of your browsers data folders shouldn't be too much of an issue.
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I'm from the UK and I have the same reaction to most of these stories. Can it really be that bad? Is the American school system so dramatically different?

I went to a high school which was not split by grade. I was called a "geek" or "boffin" (basically the regional equivalent of nerd) because I was often top of the class, or made fun of because I have mild scoliosis. I managed to keep a good group of friends though and I mostly just told the bullies to fuck themselves and got on with my life.

I think there were people who were unable to deal with bullying, and that mostly comes down to a lack of social skills, rather than any extra persecution that they suffered because of their intelligence or appearance.

I would guess it's selection bias.
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>I see this sentiment a lot, but I disagree with it. What are "iTunes, Xcode, Safari/Chrome, and a mail client" doing now that they weren't doing four years ago?

Lot's of things. XCode was rewritten and does live AST syntax completion, background compiles, etc.

Safari/Chrome have several more features --did Chrome even exist 4 years ago?
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I remember back in school, I would always get sick during the vacation after an exam. I'm pretty sure it wasn't confirmation bias, and with what you're saying, it even seems plausible.

Do you have any links to that research?
Consider the case that rich country A recruits all the, say, nurses from poor country B. Or any other skill that B is short of itself.
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In exactly what sense do you think that's better?
request.REQUEST? Admittedly, people don't use it that much, but it's definitely there.
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My opposition to illegal immigration boils down to these points:

1. Many illegals die each year making the journey, and many more are brutalized on the way to the border. They have to deal with coyotes, drug gangs, etc. The current situation is untenable.

2. Once they're here, the illegals are cut-off from their families; they can't visit home and miss out on their children growing up, leading to further problems.

3. Just legalizing them doesn't solve the problem; just more people from south of the border keep trying to get in.

The solution, IMHO, is an "unskilled worker visa" available to residents of Mexico and Central American countries. Give preference to those with roots in their communities and a clean record. It would let them come to the US for manual work like picking crops, construction, etc. and go back (and forth) whenever they want. Many other countries (especially the Middle-Eastern ones) have such visas.
>I see the same issues the guy in the article has seen. Basically, I have a total of 8GB of ram in this here mac mini, and when my desktop session gets heavy things start going south. For example: Let's take a large Chrome session (~150 tabs spread over several windows), an IDE open somewhere, Spotify, Steam and some background apps, and a small Windows VM.

150 tabs? A VM? An IDE?

That's just A LOT. Of course things will go south, what did you expect a magic machine that can run everything and whistle away hapilly with 0% load?
You're getting into dangerous legal territory there (technically you are by just connecting to the FTP I guess).

Bear in mind that many of the servers used by these guys do not belong to them and are probably a neglected server somewhere that was setup by an innocent party for other purposes but was subsequently pwned by the malware people.
I'm not sure I'd be so quick to say it's not turing complete--the language includes building functions (not first-class functions though), but it might be possible that they can be used to emulate conditionals and branching.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be that hard to extend the language to add some looping and branching constructs to the language, there's nothing really special there to add, it's just another simple type of construct to evaluate.

In my understanding, loops are implemented at the lowest level with jump instructions, but I've never really done much low-lever programming so maybe someone else can explain that better.
AGI == artificial general intelligence?
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Sorry to hear, sounds like some of the major negatives I experienced in Silicon Valley. Nevertheless all companies have their healthy and unhealthy divisions and practices. Presumably someone is doing something right to pay for everyone else. We'll see if they continue to stay in the game.
Thanks for the info!

I guess the NYC job market's a tough one especially for tech.
Its been a while (AOL ;), but IIRC the Windows API lets you SET_TEXT directly by window handle.

Assuming that's how 1Password works, it should be safe. I think that's a fair assumption because using the clipboard or SendKeys to an input box is all kinds of trouble in practice, and the API is easy.
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10:30 AM PDT.
Oops! Which OS? Mac?
1 there are many book on creativity techniques, you can find many of them in the web. I can recommend Thinkertoys: a handbook on creative-thinking techniques. Business Model Generation is also a good one.

2 get the idea and start as early as possible. Don't waste much time on idea generation, a month or two will be enough. When you start, you will learn. And knowledge is the most valuable thing in your first product. Be ready to start over with new skills and wisdom. But it may happen that the first idea will bring good revenue. Be ready for that as well :)

3 I like Steve Jobs. From what I read his thinking style is cool.
Thank you; a particularly poignant final line... Powerful indeed
I'm pretty sure that if these people, with their background, were only looking to get even richer. They would use their time to invest on something here on earth.
The Planetary Resources Business Plan
It's not enough to understand how computers work, but people too.
Haha, xkcd FTW!
this is correct and why the original post is all wrong. what is calling foo()? it should be making sure foo() is happy, and if not, then continue your logic from there.

that is how you handle errors in C.
Does Windows Eclipse then show letters like that?
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No need to brag. Haha. We do something similar at bizodo where we work a little later on Thursday and then half day on Friday.
Already existing libraries can hurt development. You can liken it to Jeff Atwood saying "Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems". Not only do you have to write your code, but now you have to understand that library and how to use it.

Just because their is a library doesn't mean there are any consequences that come with using it. There will come a point where the limit of the library has been reached and you must either A.) contribute to it or B.) if things are proper fucked and you end up writing a custom library

Either way making the argument that development is easier because of all the libraries available is like saying, constructing houses is easier because of all the blueprints available. (contrived examples always win)

PHP is a fine language along with Ruby, Python, and Javascript. Each have their strengths and weaknesses. No sole language will win all the time.

references:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/regular-expressions...
I don't see anything wrong in this picture. You still have free memory. Even if it didn't show free memory you would probably still be OK, because it would just be reserved for use
I'm glad there is still awesome people out there and thriving. I'm 25 and I still feel like the weird kid sometimes.
Windows 7 using Chrome 18 (stable)
I think you're understating the potential downside of telecommuting.

I'll be the first to agree that requiring bums on seats, just because, isn't helping anyone. Likewise, holding all-hands meetings where most people have better things to do and only 25% of the room cares about what is being discussed at any given moment is rarely a good investment of time.

On the other hand, having live interactions with colleagues and real face time is vastly more productive in some contexts than having everyone call into a Skype conference/available on IM/screen-sharing. Communication is simply much more efficient face-to-face than over any remote channel. If you have more than two or three people who need to work closely together, then body language really matters, and the ability to do simple things like scribble a diagram on a bit of paper or have a couple of guys step out for a minute to work through some details without holding up the rest of the group is indispensable.

(I have similar views on flexible hours, BTW. If you allow complete flexibility, to the point where you can no longer rely on the "early" guys overlapping with the "late" guys for more than a token amount of time, communication because a significant burden.)

This doesn't mean everyone needs to be in the office full-time, of course, and I'm all in favour of allowing telecommuting and flexible hours when there's no reason not to. But having people who need to work closely together in the same place for a significant chunk of the working week can have a lot of benefits, and IMHO is not a useless tradition at all.
The thing is: school is nothing like the real world. It teaches you how to deal with school.

School is a very weird, twisted little society where none of the work has any real point, there's no source of purpose other than pure social approval, and everybody is either the same age or an authority figure.

The strategies you use for dealing with difficult people in the real world are completely different from what you have to do in school. Same goes for how to find friends, or how to decide what to do.

That's precisely why everyone is always saying "it will get better after you get out of high school". Because the conditions in school are not at all representative of the rest of your life.
What you described is the true meaning of hipster. Someone who does something because it's uncool or weird.
It's just a question of efficiency, if the cheapest way to get platinum is asteroid mining then once it starts it can out compete traditional platinum mining.(1) Generally speaking as the price for a commodity drops the market for that commodity increases more than the price drop. AKA, if gold costs X, and you can produce gold for 1/2 the price then expect to sell more than 2x as much gold. With Oil being a classic example, it's used to make roads because it's so cheap vs. being a better road surface.

1) Not that anyone directly mines for just platinum it tends to be a byproduct of the refining process for things like nickel, copper or gold. Even 'platinum' mines end up producing platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium rather than just platinum. Still, it significantly influence the profitability of such mining operations to the point where if the price drops many mines will slow down production.
Conformity isn't always the best idea. Do what you think works, and adjust as you go. Have awesome employees and an awesome employer, because going to work everyday shouldn't just be about money, it should be about changing the world.
It's a slightly deceiving statement. A company can be "cash flow positive" as long as they are bringing in more cash (by any means) than they are paying out (for any reason).

A company that gets a $1m loan then spends $100k would be "cash flow positive".
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https://play.google.com/store/devices gives "We're sorry, the document you requested is not available in your country." Ouch.
I have to disagree - I had never heard the term before, but now that I see the power/convenience of a symlinked configuration, I'm interested in learning more.

I'm sure many others like myself would appreciate a more thorough, introductory walkthrough. I'll be asking my more hard-core friends for guidance in the meantime.
They'll probably be looking to hire engineers in the next few years tho. If you've got some skills and knowledge that could be helpful. Then there's still time. :-)
Google Docs upped to 5 GB of storage; hints at Google Drive
Ah good old HIEW. It's the simplest and nicest disassembler - open a file switch to disassembly with one keypress. Move one line or one byte at a time for defeating code that jumps in the middle of instructions, edit the assembly (ok code bytes) in place with live preview what instructions you're writing. All in 130KB of code :)
http://www.hiew.ru/

EDIT: I wonder why is the author using a version from 2004 though... I had to double check the date of the article. This tool is well worth the money!!!
There's a big issue with this - it favours Amazon. What both society and the internet really doesn't need is yet another tie-in with Amazon! They're gaining more and more control of the publishing industry and it's scary. Wikipedia tries very hard to stay neutral and avoid advertising, so I think this would be out of the question.