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I was told to do this by HR after complaining of similar symptoms, citing that I would be 'completely refreshed' afterwards. Two weeks later, I didn't want to come back. Six months and multiple random days off to balance work/life later, I still didn't feel any different.

This is burned out, not overworked. Overworked leads to burn out, but so does not being heard out by the executives. Their inability to take the OP's experience and recommendations seriously (which is what they're doing by continuing down a path that won't work for them) is going to ruin them.

I'd suggest citing this as the reason for resignation despite their clout, because while they have connections, they don't have the foresight to do business effectively in this industry. Offer (again) any suggestions you have, see if they are interested in going another route to salvage you, otherwise take the steps you need to move along.
Cool! Yeah I looked into them but didn't quite understand. I'll take another look. Thanks for the gist you made.
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I think fade effect would be better, because it's easier to see what changed.
Unless you really use it liberally, you can just use jot:

$ jot -b test -c 3
test
test
test
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Wow, thanks Nick, that is an amazing note about the fake Twitter accounts.

The fast majority of them have profiles photos of attractive young women and teens and are otherwise indistinguishable as you point out. Except there is a high incidence of very unusual names, such as if the fake accounts were created using a seeding list of all names without distinction to actual usage frequency. Also lots of ethnicity mismatches between surnames and photos. Another tell of course is its usually older people who buy home security packages, and most followers are teen girls and young adult women.

This is so shady, and so interesting that it is a "security company" doing this, one has to wonder what else they are doing.
Only in Chrome. Not in Firefox, at least.
Not only that, it's in a small light colour text on a white background. It almost seems intentional to swing it this way.
Are you also a fan of list.first() over list[0]? I think it's just a convention that takes getting used to and ends up being quite handy.
There's also mocha: http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/

Which has very similar syntax to RSpec.
I only wish it were color corrected. It's hard to appreciate it when it looks so unnatural.
> There's an expectation that web platforms can accomodate near-automatic horizontal scaling with maybe just a couple config-file tweaks. That expectation is unrealistic on any platform for which you can easily hire developers.

I can attest to this. I did consulting work for Match.com a few years ago back when they ran around 20 million uniques/month. They are a .NET shop here in Dallas, TX where you can throw a stone and likely hit a .NET developer.

After a few years, their stack looked nothing like a typical ASP.NET stack. It included things like custom database replication, memcached, config pulled out of files and stored in actual code, and lots of other things that went way off the beaten path from standard practices for .NET. New developers often had to learn "The Match Way" before they could be effective. Many things that worked with typical .NET enterprise apps would break down spectacularly when massive scale was thrown at them.
Kinesis is native framework that lets you use your existing web languages and skills to build gesture, speech and 3D depth modeling based applications using Kinect. We focus on building a simple, powerful, new interaction platform so that you can focus on bringing your applications to life.
a fun introduction to topology is this article "Using Asteroids [the game] to explain the topological classification of 2-manifolds"

http://everything2.com/user/sockpuppet/writeups/Using+Astero...
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So you do not see the benefit in learning what is considered advanced technologies today because it'll change in the future? Why bother learning anything in this field at all?

The core of any field should be eternal. For example, `while` loops and `lambda` expressions are simply not going to change that much in the next 5 years. Neither is the Model-View-Controller architecture, say.

Portable, core skills are valuable. Particular syntaxes, you can just learn in your first couple weeks on a job.
I tried MPlayer OSX once, and found that it turned my mac's volume up to max everytime I played a video. Sorry guys, endangering my audio equipment is terminally bad QA in my book. No thanks.
Completely agree. I tried to learn rails and gave up partly for this reason. I have been using node for a while now and LOVE it! I really dont understand why people bash node.
Awesome idea but I'm interested in the execution, have you or anyone done any of these projects before and can speak on how it works with these charities?
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Actually since the app was developed at startup weekend which gives you 54 hours to make a presentable demo, I'd say testing was not the first thing on their mind.
You must be confused by every blog on Github then.
First of all, congratulations on your new venture!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, refer.ly is basically a middleman. If that's so, I have a couple questions:

1. What incentives do I have to sign up with refer.ly instead of going directly with companies that run affiliate programs?

2. What makes refer.ly different from existing middlemen like Commission Junction?
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Set theory is hard science. On the other hand, a grapevine of stored procedures with no code reuse beyond copy-paste aren't any kind of science. I'm not even sure they are any kind of engineering.
I do agree with you, but the job-training thinking has reinforced the core, historic problem of seeing education (from K-12 into higher ed) as a private investment made with private money for private returns. We invested plenty of state funds in keeping education cheap back when we treated it as a public good.
An interstitial or an iframe could be interesting, and provide the disclosure.
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The key difference right now is that you have 1 signup, and you're done... that's our minimum viable differentiation (for now)
Certain irony about saying that a LAW of physics is not deterministic. Conceded though that determinism does not hold up at the quantum level.

Disagree though that quantum non-determinism translates to non-determinism at the scale we experience [1]. Have never seen a Feynman diagram for a soccer ball. Which is why I feel comfortable saying that if you believe the macro world is deterministic then you cannot also believe there are objective probabilities (unless, as you indicated you are talking about the subatomic world).
In my experience, it's not true of undergrad studies. It is however (again from my experience) very true at the graduate level. Typically because of the grade compression at grad school - in most cases a C+ is a failing grade, thus the range of acceptable grades is compressed (undergrad A-F, grad A-C+). So a grad B+ takes on the characteristics of a undergrad C+ - essentially a signal that you need to shape up.
The fact that you're comparing NaCl to ActiveX suggests maybe you don't actually understand what NaCl is?

NaCl is a platform independent secure code execution environment. It is NOT a way to talk to the underlying OS like ActiveX. Is is NOT a way to write plugins like ActiveX.

It's effectively just another way to write code in a browser like JavaScript. Is has no more or less permissions than JavaScript. It is no more or less access to APIs then JavaScript. It just has 5 to 100x more speed than JavaScript depending on what you are trying to achieve.
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Neither has bandwidth. :-)
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Hello folks, i wasn’t active on blog so much these days, cause i was on vacation with my family and had really great time!

I was thinking what will be interesting topic to write about and made a decision to go with something easy but something that is required as mandatory in every web application developed in PHP.
This is essentially the same argument that people try to make against disclosing security vulnerabilities.
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This qualifies as news?
Video can be expensive (~10k/min); try to find a college / recent grad film or animation student to handle getting the project off the ground (storyboards/dialog/locations/previz).

Once you have someone who knows the medium, getting the permits, equipment, actors, props, and filming the scenes becomes much easier.

The final edits to the film with audio production will also need to be completed.

Normally, these all of these tasks are done by the producer/director... so you could try to find one of those as well.

And remember to ask for a portfolio (demo reel).
Not so much. If you're going to need to view video away from data service or WiFi then, yeah, you have no choice but local storage.
I didn't get a scholarship, I might have been offered one if I took the college aptitude tests, but I didn't feel like going to college at the end of high school - I was sick of high school as it was, nothing but cliques and kids picking on me. I hated it. I didn't want another 4 years of the same stuff. So, I probably wouldn't have gone to college even if I was offered a scholarship. However, now I am considering going to college, (many years later) and I doubt anyone would give me a scholarship now. I've become a successful programmer just from teaching myself.
Actually, the largest single undergraduate major is "BA in Business". This signifies the problem: the plurality of undergraduates are not majoring in a Liberal Art or Science (those arts and sciences worthy of a Free Man and forming the basis of his intellectual life, hence "liberal") but in General Hope-I-Get-a-Job Studies.
diff formatting is not the easiest / most humanly parsable format to read.
That is going to burn down so fast when the affiliate sharks starts biting. Affiliate is basically the webs version of HFT -- millions can be made, and lost, in a matter of a few minutes.
Yahoo just broke every page that was using their Weather Badge
Yep ... they sure did.
Hmmm, I'm not sure that creating new technology on top of what we currently have will make any difference. Currently, TCP/IP is a very simple end-to-end mechanism, which is why it's so easy to work with it. If you enforce encryption, you're violating that principle and causing a lot of headaches. It's much more a matter of legislation and infrastructure, I think, than of technology itself. Refusing to sell surveillance equipment to these authoritarian states would already be a good first step.
Nice humblebrag there.
I use node for everything now myself for a number of reasons. The "problem" with node is that its still very young. And its a different programming model then people are used to. So its similiar to the whole RDBMS/document store argument. You use what works for your applicaiton.

The thing that annoys me personally is that they make it seems like there something wrong with node. And there isnt at all.
> I figured having a different tone than the usual patronizing one could make it more interesting

I agree.

Good luck with this, and I'll be interested to read the finished version.

Have you considered having a section on how people and democratic countries could counter this?
Neither is source code. Both take practice to master. Both are worthwhile.
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Well played and conceded. So do we need two sets of rules? One for 'our world' and one for the subatomic world?
xss + tcp and now udp websockets. match made in heaven.
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I may as well internalize that Warren Buffett's experiences are equally mine, or a strain of bacteria. If we're not defining "self" through any real continuity and instead just making it an arbitrary label, there's no reason everybody can't be me. It becomes a bit meaningless.
> If you did it 50 or 30 years ago, as Lisp has, you do get to define what it is.

And isn't the lisp definitions of repl the same as mine?
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on wikis?
My startup is working on a better wiki, and I thought I'd ask the Hacker News crowd what their feelings were on wikis.

Do wikis have a place in your company? How are you using wikis in your company? What software are you using right now? What do you like about it? What are your problems with it?

Any sort of opinions you can give would be very helpful, thank you!
I can't seem to find the article now but wasn't there a story a while back about someone who was able to access other people's bank accounts by just incrementing the User IDs in the URL?
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Does it provide any of the functionality that you get with a Django/Rails style framework? Or is it at a lower level?
Frameworks don't scale. Architecture does.

From my experience, you can scale a rails app the same way you can scale a django app the same way you can scale a java webapp, and so on. The general problem with frameworks is they try to make you not think about datastore access. Datastore access tends to be the hardest part to scale.

Also, in addition to what others have mentioned, iLike uses (used?) rails - it was a large early facebook application. Not sure what their traffic is like nowadays, but I think it was pretty large in the early days. (Edit: http://blog.ilike.com/ seems to document their growth in registered users all the way back to 2007)
Hi, I founded Boxnutt, and I run it myself.

My names Brandon and I'm 21. I go to college and this is a website I've been working on for the last few months.

Boxnutt is a place to share things on the web that interest you. Use Boxnutt to discover what’s new and popular on the web.

There's still a lot of work to be done but I think this is something some people here may enjoy.
>It's just a shame that the owners couldn't make money that way, and seem to be focussed on an entirely different demographic.

Maybe it was when Six Apart owned them, but for a really long time it looked like LJ had given up on trying to improve on features on the site or fixing bugs, and instead focused on cheap and dirty ways to monetize the site like e-gifts.

It may have gotten them some up-front cash but you risk causing long-time users to stop renewing their paid accounts and go elsewhere.
I am just getting started in this space. But for the SF Bay Area I would recommend the following two production studios:
http://www.silberstudiosinc.com
http://www.panorama-productions.com//
Agreed, my personal preference is an iframe from a user experience perspective although from an engineering standpoint this could be a nightmare. The interstitial is somewhat industry standard, but feels very high friction. Thoughts on which is better in your opinion?
It's not a local community, but the whole city. Not sure who came up with the naming conventions or when (the city was founded in 1957, so I'd assume the naming conventions were also established shortly thereafter), but I agree, it's a little backwards.
The problem is that Rails has been around since what 2005. Node has been around for a much shorter period and has only stabilized over the past year. So they just arent comparible in that sense. Plus node works differently then Rails and i admit it takes time to get used to that.

If you do take the time to learn node though all i can say is its just AWESOME! So lets see how things are when node is 5 years old or so.
FYI FedEx says they don't allow pickups at their depot where I live, but I just drove up there, parked and waited until someone asked what I was doing there, and they gave me my package (after I showed photo ID).
Not really. That looks like a 2-dimensional projection of a rotating 4-dimensional hypercube. The StackExchange question concerns 3-dimensional topology.
I love it. It sounds like a few people here have been thinking about a similar idea, and you can count me in as well. The truth is, my company would be happy to pay out 10% of any order if it resulted from a genuine recommendation. Of course anyone experienced with the affiliate world can figure out a way to capture that money, but it's not really available to your everyday Facebook user. Maybe Refer.ly will fix that. Using Viglink is smart.

Unfortunately, the ecommerce company for which I work has had to completely abandoned affiliate marketing. Almost all of our affiliate fees were going to scammers who were using Google Adwords and bidding on our brand terms. Of course that was against our policy, but we had no way of stopping them out of the gate. They would even copy our exact ad so that when we searched our own name, it would appear at a glance that it was in fact our ad showing up (same display URL and everything). Eventually we just had to shut the whole thing down. I hope Refer.ly can figure out a way to avoid these scammers. I imagine it will be difficult.

With this business model, I wonder if it's possible to act as an aggregator for the Amazon affiliate system? Amazon pays out a higher percentage based on how much volume you bring in. If Refer.ly acted as a single affiliate with Amazon, but they in turn paid out affiliates to thousands of different Refer.ly users, then each user would then be getting the highest possible affiliate percentage from Amazon, right? Because together they would qualify for the volume bonus. I haven't looked into it, but I'm guessing Amazon must have some rule against this.
Yeah, not particularly. Most of the ones I've seen (again, casual Github user) are not trying to use .github.com in the name of their site (regardless of address). Here, the project is named, "giving.github.com," implying Github affiliation. http://square.github.com/cubism is clearly branded as Square, not square.github.com. There's a big difference.
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Heck if I wanted to work there I would apply even though it said 'must have' and I didn't.

Job ads requirements are basically a way to scare away those who are limited by artificial restrictions.
I think UPS has that: http://www.ups.com/mychoice/
Interesting that there's no mention of Tornado [1]. (Disclosure: as a co-author of O'Reilly's Introduction to Tornado, I'm biased in its favor.) I haven't played around with Brubeck [2] yet, but I also hear many great things about it.

Needless to say, there are some great Python web servers and frameworks out there that aren't listed on that page.

[1] http://www.tornadoweb.org/

[2] http://brubeck.io/

Edit: Added links
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owww, my head....
If you actually tried to turn a pair of pants inside out through a rip in the knee, the rip might get bigger. In fact, it almost certainly would. Likewise for turning a sweater inside-out through the neck hole, it would stretch it out a bit. Yes, it's mathematically possible but there are real reasons people don't treat their clothes that way even if they know they can.
Isn't the whole idea of having a super yacht to not have to sleep in somebody else's shabby hotel suites?
I have used this library for a demo I did. Works really well.
Prepend uk. to the badge URL to temporarily fix.

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thank you! i love asking that question of math results.
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If the value of college is dominated by its http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics) effect, a degree from the "wrong" school could send such a negative signal (you weren't wise enough to skip the degree even though you couldn't get admitted to the "right" school) that the innate value of the education you received doesn't make up for it. I hope this doesn't hold broadly, because I went to a state university. But I would think less of someone proudly displaying, e.g., a degree from a known http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mill, so it's at least possible for a degree to be worse than useless—the question is how mediocre a school would have to be.
And on the other end of the spectrum, I've been an "intern" with a 10,000+ employee nationwide corporation for over a solid, full-time year now and have 2 years part time experience prior to this position in the information security and network infrastructure world. Yet I'm waiting to be hired full time (or even part time) until I finish my degree. I've earned several awards for my work, and for one quarter actually turned the security department into a profit center based on information I provided about a vendor causing a major security breech (and the resulting lawsuit).

It's a great company, but my experience doesn't matter to them. Without a degree, I cannot be hired. Schools in my state don't even offer Security degrees, so it's not a matter of what the degree says, it's a matter of having the degree. I literally cannot do anything more to prove my value to the company. They don't care. It's about the paper.
I'll just add another data point. After the release of VLC 2.0 I was slightly dissatisfied with the new interface on OS X and used the opportunity to try out a couple of alternative players. In the end I stuck with MPlayerX because of short startup time and the minimalistic interface. But it was only a short love affair. The keyboard controls are pretty much non-existent, it can't open DVD menus, it only shows half the available duration of some of my music DVD rips (dual-layer?!?) and I have some occasional weird timing issues with regard to subtitles (image and subtitles suddenly not in sync). In the end I returned to VLC and all of my issues disappeared.

So kudos to the VLC team for producing such a great product (despite some questionable interface decisions). I'll take a player which "just works" over the pretty and shiny competitors every day.
Intuition 1 is incorrect.

The probability of the marble being under the box during that period of time was 1 because its state never changed. It was merely your incomplete knowledge that encouraged you to (incorrectly) assign a probability of 0.5. You've become confused over WHAT is the subject of your test.

If, however, you were to change the experiment such that there were two boxes, one with a marble and one without, you now have the ability to engage in real probability. The probability that a marble is present under each box is either 1 or 0. However, the probability that you will CHOOSE TO LIFT the box containing the marble is 0.5. This is not a probability of presence or absence of a marble; it's the probability that YOU will choose to look under a particular box.

Probability requires the possibility of change, and the probability of change in a marble's presence under a box (such as by teleporting from one box to another) is small indeed.
I am so tired of hearing that argument. There is not a line of super qualified people banging on your door to get a chance to interview at your company.

Unless your are google or facebook, you are not going to be able to just turn away qualified people. It makes it too easy for your competition.
If it's not Wikipedia, don't bother. Wiki's suck both for "project documentation" and for internal company use.

For one, it assumes multiple people want to edit it. People don't bother.
Yes, that is why I specified daytime. I had not seen a full composite image, before, thanks. I find it interesting how uniform the lights look across the planet. I try to simultaneously remember how much we are affecting this planet and how little.
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Unfortunately, Hacker News mostly is.