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Maybe all the Boeing people quit and went to SpaceX. I really want to know the profiles of every person working at SpaceX, where they came from, and did they build their knowledge in the last four years or last thirty. Its a great story that a company can do this in just a few years, but we need to be honest about what effort and time it truly took from all participants. Personally, I would be thrilled to learn that a new company with greenhorn engineers could do this in a short amount of time. If the enabling factor is a group of aerospace veterans, that's great also.
My grandfather, David Fisher, has been writing an international radio program for decades called "Truth in the test tube". It's aimed at a general audience so it's not very in-depth scientifically, but the idea is to interview scientists who believe in God, just to get people to realize that they are not mutually exclusive. https://www.twr.org/judyblog/?p=2789 Even if you don't agree with those beliefs, you can't claim that religious people can't be scientists.
This is really good advice. We'll definitely use this opportunity as a warning to perform preemptive planning should this scenario arise again. Thanks for pointing this out.
"There is a natural tendency to want to contradict the story, and do it first."

Bang on the head. Gabriel just described most top comments on HN threads. :)
SpaceX is exciting because Elon is one of us. He's a silicon valley founder who put all his personal money on the line to change the world. Paraphrasing PG, he didn't forget his dreams and he's inspiring many of us to remember our own.

SpaceX is just beginning. His launch costs are now as low as the Russians (the cheapest). The Falcon 9 heavy will cut that in half, and reusability is intended to cut it by 80% again (10x improvement is the next goal). Watch this animation to see reusability, it's awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IbxqsWLXsw

Elon has said he will consider the company to have failed if they dont get reusability to work. These cost improvements will make many things possible and change the world. And these too are just the beginning.
If users can't find you, you won't be getting any more of them. Engineering is fantastic, but not much use without people knowing about your hard work.
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Sure, we could guess at all sorts of things from within a function. We could guess that the function is running from a terminal, and simply print the result of the function to stout. Hell, we could guess what the caller is going to do with the result of our function and just do that instead! Why even have a caller at that point?

Of course I'm using hyperbole to point out the absurdity of making this distinction, which on the surface may seem reasonable. The fact is, however, the fewer assumptions a function makes about it's calling context, the better. The whole point of functions is that they are to be reused in ways the author may not have intended. The checkedness of an exception is an assumption about the calling context of a function which should not exist.
Also, when cancelling a subscription service tell them the reason why you're cancelling is because you're moving overseas.

When I did that in the UK (when I was moving overseas, as it happens) I found that it was a really effective way of bypassing all the usual retention nonsense and, i'd presume, any follow-up calls. If you're moving out of their service area, there's literally nothing they can do to keep you on their service.
> Is there a way of disabling plugins in Chrome, as in: a placeholder is displayed on the page and the plugin is activated when I click the placeholder?

Yes, I use this all the time. it's built into the browser.
What is scary about this is that iAcquire was deindexed by Google for something that they did to a client's site. Their own site was penalized despite having no violations of Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

These ridiculous penalties by Google have already opened the floodgates for negative SEO. This penalty proves that you can pay somebody to build spam links into another site, write a blog post 'outing' them for this practice and then Google might remove them from the index.
Ask HN: Which design of a website should my client pick?
Hey guys, I've just built a website for one of my clients and they hired a marketing team who suggested them different design then the one i made. Can you tell me you opinion since i don't like what marketing team come up with, and would like to do some sort of poll to suggest a proper one for my client.

Here is my current design: http://www.investorwatchdog.com

And this is a design that marketing team suggested: http://bit.ly/KHwuDP
gfodor,

> Start a business that has the potential to generate a large amount of income quickly with low startup costs and be sold as equity for a high price after some time. Fail, and repeat for the next two years. Hopefully at some point you will get cash flow positive and will not be forced back into the rat race.

This is the part where you lose me. It reminds me of Sidney Harris' cartoon:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpallan/4633000725/

Now I'm actually trying to implement a version of what you suggest, myself. So I do believe it's possible. But how likely is it, really? Based on my experience, it is very, very hard. And I'm suspicious that it won't work. It seems far more likely that after a couple years, I'll have spent a bunch of my savings, and will just have to go back to full-time employment.

Also, FWIW, I really don't need a "high income" business at this point. Just enough to cover my yearly expenses, which amount to about $30-40K. More is always welcome of course, but I'd rather live on less and not have to go back to work as an employee. It didn't agree with me.
@karunamon Sorry, no. There's normalization due to changing norms and morays (e.g., "shit"), then there's normalization that's designed to subordinate a group (do you see many whites calling an unfamiliar black man "boy"?). This is much more like the latter. If you would tell your wife, girlfriend, or female coworker to "stop bitching" when she has something to say that you don't want to hear, then you are a chauvinistic asshole.

Whoever was the first to say "shit" causally was probably considered rude. Then others got used to it and decided that it wasn't rude. But the meaning did not actually change.

Whoever was the first to use "bitch" as a verb was almost certainly a male asshole who wanted to subordinate the woman he was talking to. By repeating it, that is the sentiment you are reinforcing, because the meaning does not change. You're normalizing female subordination.

It actually has a lot of parallels with how language changed during and after slavery. Black men call each other "boy" (among other words) and it is positive. Women start groups like "stitch 'n bitch," and it is positive. But if you started referring to your wife's book club as "books and bitching," that's negative. You may not think it's fair, but it's their word.
I am loving the takedown notice for the takedown notice.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

Perhaps this is the solution to the entire problem, trap the whole system in a recursive loop. Although then perhaps all the telephones in the world will ring until Douglas Hofstadter answers one of them.
Does it support virtualenv? At the very least I want to manage each environment, but, ideally, it would be able to give me a holistic view of all my environments and what is running in each.

Looks really good.
"Shady shit, glad I don't do that anymore."

But this also proves something. From what you've written you knew you were doing something that was wrong. As one example:

"We sold worthless stuff trying to pursued (sic) them into using it over much better and more established companies"

But you had to earn a living so you did that. Now I don't know what your particular situation was or how badly you needed the job (proverbial relative dying of cancer or you would be homeless?) but it might be the same premise that the people running the business operate under. Everybody of course draws the line at a different point in terms of the "harm" they are willing to do. They feel that what they do is ok or possibly de-minimis but what someone else is doing on a larger scale (a guy who did what you did for 20 years or owned the business) is "bad".

I'm curious (and not being judgmental that you worked there as we all have different lines) why you kept that job when you saw what they were doing?
I stopped using Facebook around a year ago due to the crazy privacy issues. Just recently (as in days ago) I also switched from using Google Apps for my email to FastMail.fm for the same reason.

If Facebook buys Opera (who own FastMail.fm), I might as well just quit the Internet.
No I was thinking more non-batshit insane measures.

For starters they could let you block calls from unknown numbers.

Indeed, they could require some sort of licensing for numbers/entities originating large volumes of calls.

They could also disallow caller id blocking.

But the reality is abusive telemarketing tactics are a substantial revenue stream for them, so they dont give a shit.
This is great! I've been wanting to try virtualenv for awhile based on the good things I've heard. Here's to the developers keeping it modern.
any idea whats wrong with that chillingeffects.org ?
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> This is the strategy of weak people. If it is actually used, in the way prescribed, by an average middle class American it will inevitably lead to financial ruin.

It's worth pointing out you've been conditioned to think this is the strategy of weak people. Who are you to call someone else "weak" for choosing to spend less time at a job? This person is not going to have a big screen TV like you, not going to drive a fancy car like you and has a few thousand square feet less than you to live in. These are all choices we are free to make, and calling someone "weak" for that is unproductive and pointless.

You've been manipulated into thinking you must work full-time until a few years before your life expectancy is up, and anything else is "weak". This is a lie.

It's also interesting you think it will lead to financial ruin. If everyone did this, it would undoubtedly lead to lower growth than we have now, and, as sad as it sounds, many corporations would not be making billion dollar profits year over year. Of course, millions and millions of people would have more time to enjoy with their families and to pursue their dreams.
Here is mine in that really crappy PHP language:

print implode(PHP_EOL, array_fill(1, 100, "Hello World"));
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If he can sell the shares, it makes no difference. They are public and liquid, good as cash.
This is a great idea, but on the off chance they read this, it must stay focused.

A very common mistake on the internet is to see a group interested in some topic, and to mistake the group for the mass of individuals that make it up, to think that the group itself has some sort of individual ontological existence, and that the individuals are somehow stuck to this "group" thing. If this experiences any success at all, calls will be issued by the hundreds to take this platform and group of people and get them to do something else. Perhaps even something nice sounding. And if you give in, you will in mere minutes destroy the entire thing, because there isn't actually an entity that can be led around... instead, there is a whole bunch of individuals who will rapidly and correctly conclude this thing is no longer what they signed up for, if they wanted a general advocacy group they'd do something else, and the whole thing will dissolve in a puff of smoke.

It's a great idea, but it needs to stay laser-focused on the Internet freedom issues that created it, and nothing else. No matter how tempting. You can not take the resulting group and use it like a handle to move people's opinions around in any direction.
Or on Opera Mini, but that’s a very specialized browser, like Amazon Silk. Also worth mentioning is that even if Turbo is explicitly enabled, it doesn’t ever activate for secure connections.
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Well, then, I meant non-profits -- my mistake.

That is, all this "good" lobbying was by organizations operating on behalf of a large group of individuals who don't have the same shared profit-driven interest.
I don't want to be the immature one here -- but I can't help but feel there is a "yo momma" joke in there somewhere
This is a red herring. If you use the business facilities in a hotel, then the hotel doesn't own the work that you produce as a result of using their computers, network, etc.

An employment contract usually stipulates that all work done while being paid by the employer is work for hire, unless otherwise stipulated. In this case, no such contract exists. Intellectual property is default owned by the creator unless explicitly transferred otherwise.

There's a claim to be made here on trespassing and possibly illegal use of resources, which can be recovered through small claims. But there's really very little case to be made that the IP created through the trespass and use of resources somehow transfer to AOL simply by reason of their ownership of the infrastructure.
If you have your browser set to require a click before running flash, you can't easily view this presentation. Every time a slide changes, you have to click to start flash again.
There's a lot of smoke being blown into this "bubble".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I4VKj4d0WI

Personally, I can't wait for the pendulum to swing. People seem to have forgotten that it's far easier to launch a company when everyone else is panicking and running for safety. You're competing with fewer players, it's easier to find talent and there's more of a focus on starting actual businesses that generate sustained, predictable revenue.

Sounds great to me.
That may be the case for some people, but for others of us (and like a commenter above said), it brings out the worst of us. I found myself getting involved in petty arguments with people or just make an off-the-cuff statement because only that person knows the relationship we maintain between us, and suddenly another one of their friends/family chime in, completely missing the gist of the response.

You forget that there's this huge network of people, people that could be your next employer or co-worker, future partner, that are attached to these otherwise meaningless comments you wrote just to be clever. I said to Jimbob was going to resurface down the road or that I'd end up in a screenshot posted on some site by anyone else that could have seen that conversation, even if it wasn't insulting to me personally.

Ultimately, I wasn't comfortable with my every day conversations being available to hundreds if not thousands of people that don't know me or my tone.
Dexter Sinister is a cool artist collective whose work I have enjoyed since learning of them when they visited Vancouver a couple of years ago.

If you're not up to reading the whole essay, it's sill worth it to scan down the PDF and see how the same font is represented differently depending on the how the initial variables are set. This gave me a better intuitive appreciation for how metafont works, and what makes it different from other font specifications, than anything else I've read on the subject.
After reading all the effort a site like http://bandcamp.com goes to be an effective digital distributor of music, I retract this statement. There's certainly a lot of digital-distribution related expertise that's worth giving up a 10-15% sales cut for.
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Also which subpixel arrangement is in use. And ambient lighting conditions. And (and this is a big one that no one seems to talk about) reading distance.

The choices they posit, for precisely the same LCD panel are going to change depending on whether it's held in the hand at 20cm or stuck to the dashboard of a car 70cm away.

Basically, I don't think this is solvable. It's cute, and within reason (e.g. for an application designed to read prose text on a known set of devices) maybe it's worthwhile. But the problem is just too hard for a general solution.
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Only if you have an employment contract. Simply using someone else's network or power or resources or air conditioning or free beer or shower doesn't grant the owner of that resource any claim to your intellectual property. They can only make a claim for expenses, damages, loss of revenues, etc. that can be directly traced from illicit use of those resources.
Ethics can be personal though, and there are many different forms, many of which explicitly focus on the result, and many which do not. I still think that it is very difficult to separate the concept of ethics from the notion of harm. Even where codified, the concept of avoiding harm, if only to members of your own clade for the more tribal forms, is pretty central to the formulation of pretty much all ethical systems.
What about lynx, links, w3m you insensitive clod?!

Or you know, just Firefox. Not cool enough for you? The above 3 are very trendy.
What you suggest is absolutely unnecessary. Merely requiring an identifiable contact is enough to prevent this sort of behavior -- and this was how things were before voip opened things up to untraceable abuse.

The phone company doesn't need to police anything -- they just need to identify the endpoints of a call when a subpoena is issued.
Correct. Business phone lines (generally) exist to get unsolicited phone calls from people with whom the owner has no existing business relationship.
The original one is better, but the font for your links is extremely malformed in my Chrome for some reason.

Except from that I prefer it, it is less conforming and therefore will stick in my mind for longer, I actually read some of the text on your site, which is more than I usually did.

Tell your client the marketing team suggested that design so that they have a reason to be paid and that any marketing team is actually useless in most cases. Paying someone to tell you your own opinion is a bad method of outsourcing.
Nonprofit advocacy organizations may be incorporated but it's really not what the parent poster meant by "corporations".
The innovator's dillema mainly talks about the lack of motivation of established entities to offer a lower cost service so they won't hurt current profits. this doesn't seem the case.
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New York Senate bill seeks to end anonymous Internet posting
Oh look, a more convenient way to commit slackivism! Now you don't even have to pay attention to what's going on in the world, just wait to receive an email with instructions!

I expected better from someone in his position. Why not use his influence to galvanize people into effecting change by getting involved in the political process? This slackivist crap isn't going to work every time a major bill is on the cusp of passing in either legislature.
preface: I have ddg as my default search engine on all browsers on all computers I use and evangelize for them regularly.

DuckDuckGo SERPs DO suck. If you've used the service much, I don't think this requires a more detailed description but since you're asking I'll try to be more specific:

* The top links frequently link to content unrelated to what I'm looking for (Jasmine tea rather than the Jasmine testing framework e.g.). How google does this I don't know but rarely do they get it wrong in the same way

* It frequently takes more time/clicks for me to find what I'm looking for searching on a generic DDG search than google. (of course bang searches mean I'm only sometimes using generic/plain search on DDG.)

* The results on google are frequently just better. This is to say even if I find something that sort of answers my question on the list on DDG, there will be a better answer, higher, on google.

Basically, if you are searching the name of a company or something unmistakably clear, ddg performs just as well as google, but when you get into longer queries on more obscure subjects, the gap in performance between ddg & ggl widens really fast.

Is it clear what's meant by DDG results sucking? I don't think that's the nicest way to put it but as a long time DDG user I won't dispute the assertion.
This article is misleading and uninformed.
Footnote: ACTA is in fact older than SOPA.
In art, evoking emotions from a piece is what matters most. Your opinion on its beauty is but second-rate in the experience.

Had you been indifferent, Adobe would have done a bad job.
What a great interview. I liked this part too:

> Wired.com: Your whole mantra is "cheaper and more reliable." But so far you're zero for three, which is anything but cheap and reliable, and guys like GlobalSecurity.org's John Pike say the reason it has taken billions of dollars and tens of thousands of people to successfully launch rockets is physics, not some new design or economic model.

> Musk: Guys like John Pike have existed since the dawn of time, and if you listen to people like that then things will never get better, never change. It's a false point of view. Yes, we need to put some rockets into orbit. But the first order of business is to get rid of design errors, which we're doing, and once those are eliminated then you're dealing with repeatability, and people should judge what we're doing from the point of view of all the design issues we've ironed out through these F1 test flights.

It's truly inspiring to read something like this after the person has been vindicated. The amount of patience, perseverance and determination required to make this a successful venture is enormous, but add to that the ridicule and criticism of your peers and it must be extremely difficult.
Where's the table of contents?
This is discussed rather thoroughly on Python's own wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3

Short version: Python 2.x is the status quo,
Python 3.x is the present and future of the language
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grecy, what sort of vehicle did you do your trip in? Did you sleep in your vehicle, a tent, or what?

I'm trying to figure out how I could do something similar. I may not like it so I want to start with a short trip.

I still can't figure a way around the health insurance aspect though. In the USA, life seems to get incredibly difficult without a permanent residence - health insurance is not possible without it, so far as I know. And a driver's license probably gets tricky as well. I don't want to take a nice trip and wind up either in jail or facing a huge debt burden due to some unexpected health problem.

I realize you don't have the health insurance issue since you've already mentioned that you live in a country (Canada?) where this is not an issue.
Yes it supports virtualenv, thanks.
I know you're probably not being serious, but this would stop that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
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"... they look too bold on high resolution screens (MacBook Air) and they look okay on Retina displays (next MacBook Pro)"

I wonder if this is assumption based on rumors and extrapolating iPad 3 display behavior, or these guys actually got their hands on the next-gen MacBook Pro.
You need virtualvirtualenvenv for that.
We need to reinvent the article