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I find this statement utter nonsense.

The cost of an Internet line and some maintenance is negligible with the cost of the store itself. Apple sells much more laptops that anybody else per store square meter(from 10x to 100x) with a profit margin higher than anybody else.

The cost are much smaller than the competence, with switched on pcs than nobody could use(password protected).

It seems common sense it not so common after all.
Yes

Except some factor may prevent the proper inspection of the seat:

- Urgency in using it

- Lighting conditions at its environment

- Possibility of evaluation impairment usually by consumption of ethanol

Considering these factors it would be prudent to have the seat at the safest position when such factors are more likely to occur
It may be exaggerating if I claim that http://jobs.usethesource.com/ is "doing something even remotely innovative enough to disrupt the recruitment industry" but it does have some pretty simple rules:

1. To post a job you have to have high Hacker News karma

2. You can't be a recruiter
Is this really a problem? Everyone I've ever cohabitated with engaged in their own toilet seat manipulation and it was never an issue. Maybe it's a US thing.
As part of their classwork on healthy eating the teaher should take a photo of a meal or two each day and post them on the school website. That would avoid any problem of the pupils using their own cameras in school; it would also I feel make a stand for the autonomy of the School unit and demonstrate that the school is behind pupils efforts to eat better and support this child's self-education.

Giving a 'screw you' to the council might be a happy side effect.
Actually, sitting does not remove the possibility of missing. I once had an unfortunate encounter with a toilet where someone had installed an elongated seat on a non-elongated bowl. This made it possible to easily and inadvertantly sit in a way that resulted in missing.
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>And I want a magic pony; but as I said, declaring the return type doesn't tell users anywhere near all they need to know in many cases.

Then you're doing it wrong. Write types that encapsulate all the information you need. Don't allow construction of invalid instances. It's not rocket science.
Am I the only man in the world who leaves the seat up regardless of the operation undertaken?
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If you read my comment above, she is not photographing their private property (the school) but her own private property (the bought lunch). They say they can impose any rules they like as a condition of entrance on their property, even though it is not a voluntary entrance. Her parents may have a choice to send her to a non-council school but she has no choice.

As to the UK's non-existent constitution: the point is that in most countries a stronger parliamentary majority is required to change the constitution, whereas in the UK any shaky government, that just happened to muster a majority of one on a rainy day, can abolish the Magna Carta, for instance.
Yes how does that work? Strange statement! I second lucian1900s suggestion.
It really is a lower-level language than Java or CoffeeScript - it lacks advanced type constructs, much like C.
I think one would need to start by testing a different question first : "With everything else being equal, should your language choice be affected by the level of competence of the developers?".
It seems discussions on topics like this all boil down to clash between the idealist and the pragmatist. Idealist: "I want to use language X because it is powerful and lets me to Y". Pragmatist: "but that feature will be abused by the average developer and your project will suffer". So you can't win. Either you have to work in a mediocre language that the mediocre developer knows how to use, or you will work in a great language that the mediocre developer will use to shoot you in the foot.
If the answer to the above question is no, then we can put this discussion to rest - otherwise we will need to probe further and understand how developer competence should guide your language choice.
I personally love this site but the biggest barrier to entry is that you're preventing a massive amount of the market from advertising. Our goal is to raise the standard across the board.
Blizzard is well familiar with bots and virtual economies, they do still run multi-million subscriber behemoth World Of Warcraft after all.
Funny how they put it like adding an egg was adding human contact.

The fact is that a cake without eggs needs artificial eggs(industry products with natural eggs are very dangerous so they have to replace it with shit). The product tastes very different, is not as healthful (in fact is wrong for your health).

They attribute the effect to a minor cause.
Not true. I've seen some very successful large webapps in poorly-written Java.
Quantum Cryptography is actually Quantum Key Distribution, an algorithm for securely creating a one-time pad between two peers. The proof that quantum crypto is unconditionally secure is just Shannon's proof.

The benefit of quantum crypto is that you can basically setup or even stream a one-time pad over a public network, without having to trust the middle-man. Another benefit over, say non-linear/chaotic systems is that fibre, line-of-sight wireless and satellite communication already forms the backbone of our network infrastructure.

Now only to solve the single-photon detector hardware issues.
Of all the things I hate about (typical) Windows PCs (or Linux PCs), I have to say the experience of opening their lid is the worst. I'm used to my MacBook Pro, that requires minimum pressure to open the lid. On the contrary, all other laptops I've tried require to to first hold the bottom and then push the lid backward. If you don't hold the bottom, it will go up 5 inches and lands very hard on the ground.

I damn near wrecked my aunt's new Dell last week the instant I tried to open its screen (to install anti-virus and remove factory junk). If I had used just a little more pressure, her laptop would've landed 3 feet on the floor and would certainly break. Bad fortune for a laptop that hasn't even been booted once...

So I guess a typical Wintel user that is used to these stupid screens would be amazed at how MacBooks are different.
MS will always have the money while there are hard working companies paying them troll-patent royalties.
More than two external displays.. with a laptop 
Atwood and Hanselman have done a lot of posts on the benefits of using multiple monitors setup. What if one wants to achieve that setup with a laptop and 3 external monitors? And not feeling like spending more than $60? Little black box will help.
I stumbled on that as well and had to pause and reread. I wonder if it's simply a matter of the way people process information. I'd peg Atwood as more of the extroverted type, and those with that style of thinking tend to exaggerate quite a lot in ways that otherwise would be seen as very peculiar to introverts unfamiliar with other styles.

Of course, it's likely not quite that simple. There are probably more personality dimensions involved. Go peruse your local grocery store's gift card section and see how many you relate to, then consider that in order to be profitable most of those cards must relate to most people. (Those that don't are replaced by those that do.)
My cheap shared hosting provider has 99.98% this month, and they give you a free month if it goes below 99.8%, which has only happened once in two years.

Somehow Heroku doesn't seem that great to me.
Great! Having never visited an Apple Store, I had no idea. I always thought it's a poor man's job to clean machines/iDevices every night (remotely, of course - but still manually).
Well, this sucks. Are they removing this feature to cut down on bandwidth? Or perhaps piracy?
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Following the same legal reasoning, i.e. any rules go on a private property, this council can, and probably will, forbid her to draw at school.
Perhaps they think it will be difficult to "raise" the chocolate ration to 20 grams per week if the kids are taking pictures of it every day?
Bureaucracies are probably doomed to failure in this type of situation. A better solution to all the ass-covering and denial would have to simply ask Veg to write the occasional post, with photo of course, of the healthiest meal she could purchase on given day. Then either there is evidence to support the council's claim of healthy choices being available to the pupils or something needs to be fixed.
I always leave the seat AND the lid down, to cause equal annoyance for everyone
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There's a great three part series[1][2] (well, parts one and two are great) at the Kernel magazine on recruiters as well as an expose on the top recruiting scams[3].

[1] - http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/2401/tech-recruiter...

[2] - http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/2403/tech-recruiter...

[3] - http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/2404/the-10-sleazie...
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For me, the money shots are

"we had to act to protect staff from the distress and harm it was causing

"In particular, the photographic images uploaded appear to only represent a fraction of the choices available to pupils, so a decision has been made by the council to stop photos being taken in the school canteen."

An embarrassing own goal that could have been resolved with a simple "OK, we overreacted, Veg can carry on as before" has been turned into a quite spectacular PR catastrophe.

An Exec Director for Argyll and Bute is appearing on Radio 4 at 1pm - should be fun!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jrqr7
From a comment further down, it sounds like it's due to considering it now redundant, and not wanting to support two ways of sharing files. The original way to share Dropbox files over the web was to drop them in your Public folder, but now you can right-click on any file, in any folder, and generate a shareable link to it. So they're going with that as the new sharing mechanism, and phasing out the "drop it in your public folder" approach.
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People started to use Dropbox as a free CDN, didn't they? Why do we need AWS CloudFront if we have Dropbox? :)
This suck.
But it was kinda oblivious that they were going to remove it.
It was never advertised as a feature, and it was made more complicate that the "normal" sharing.
Probably they want to stop people from using it as a cdn/server, something that it was never made for.
Spotted that. Todays post was an updated version of a very old blog post I wrote a year ago. The Kernel inspired me to get back to what I love doing which is exposing the industry for the giant cesspitt it is.
May I ask what platform/language your ERP is coded in? Is there a sufficiently well-evolved in-game development environment for such things, or is it just your corporation membership have hacked something together in ruby or .. ?
If the attacker manages to obtain all the random noise, they could index every window in the noise in a k-d-tree and perform an efficient nearest neighbour search for the exact background from the CAPTCHA audio, and then simply subtract the background, giving perfect segmentation in O(log(N)) asymptotic average time complexity for N windows (at 64kHz and 2000 hours of audio, N=460800000, log N = 19.95).
Dropbox public folders for new accounts will be phased out. As mentioned in the link, all current users can continue to use it.
Also, as long as we're being literal about everything, it would be impossible to kill a child (or anything else..) multiple times.
I'm hoping that http://jobstractor.com is doing it's bit to disrupt things. I actively try to filter out jobs from recruiters (some improvements to that coming next week actually) and focus on the more word-of-mouth jobs you perhaps wouldn't always find unless you had the right contacts.

I think the things recruiters have in their favour is a big network of job seekers and employers. The lower barrier to publishing a job brought about by social media can I think help disrupt that model. There's a way to go though and I think recruiters will always play some part even if that role changes.
> But if you read her blog, the photos of lunches look pretty good and her "reviews" are mostly positive.

Because of her blog, look at the earliest items and things were... http://neverseconds.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/tuesday-8th-may....
How about mobile app projects?
That might well have been a reasonable compromise, but I disagree that bureaucracies are doomed to failure in situations like this. I absolutely expected them to say they're reconsidered and were prepared to let Veg keep photographing food (with perhaps some agreed guidelines). Instead they've basically said that a 9 year old was bullying them.
So ban that, instead of cameras at school.
We gave up on trying to run software on the dev machines for VOIP and went with GrandStream GXV-3175's (with asterisk in the middle on a datacenter server).

It was expensive (like $300 each) but it works better than any software solution we could find, even Facetime.
Statement on school meals from Argyll and Bute Council | Argyll and Bute Council
I would be more inclined to accept his message if it could not be boiled down to "If it is not working for you, you are not trying hard enough".
Also, more marriages have probably failed due to the husband being a wimpy "I love you every day no matter what"-kind of guy than due to adultery. Adultery is the consequence of a failing marriage, not the cause.
When you are the president with power over a nation it can counteract the wimpyness. For a software developer? Not so much.
Twitter is a web site, not a web app. First-page load performance is critical for them. I wouldn't have chosen a client-side rendering architecture.

My perspective is that of web apps. By using client-side rendering I can prefetch more data than the user needs at almost no extra cost, and render it when they click without hitting the server. Not having to contact the server at all beats any server-side rendering architecture. Even web apps that supposedly do server-side rendering will end up with some prefetching for performance (e.g. tooltips and detail panes are already embedded in the page but hidden).

The reality is that the big bottleneck in any web app is not the fetching of data but the fetching of the front-end. The more front-end code (images, js, css) that you can fetch from browser cache or CDN the faster your app. The "ideal" case is not having to fetch anything except the data from the server. You can do that today with client-side rendering combined with far-future expiration or HTML5 appcache. The caveat here is that the performance benefits only start compounding for client-side rendering if you can prefetch data. Twitter couldn't do that, so there was no benefit.

Like any complex technical issue, there is no right answer in general, only a right answer in context. People should just be careful about what they're measuring. The important benchmark is time to load the page, not time to process the page on the server (a huge difference), and measurements should be globally distributed (you should be measuring transcontinental page visits).
i agree with linus. i find it particular useful for a common bail-out or error-handling at the end of a method. you just jump there and are good. no unnecessary indention or duplication required.
but that is about the only place i found the usefullness outweigh the danger...
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This is exactly why this political stuff needs to stay off HN. By your apparent definition no one could level start criticism against Hitler (hopefully that kills the thread).
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When you think only in A restrictive language, your thinking becomes equally restricted. Any of us would become rigid if we never used or understood dynamic languages and only use java or c++ bog standard OOP.

So the comment is less about the developer than it is about the mindset and the 'easiest path' that emerges from the language design.
Fix it only AFTER you are done being supportive and the current conversation and any followups on different subjects that may appear end.
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I agree - having recently been through tech recruitment processes its pretty painful - at the end of the day recruiters are just sales people, their single goal is to sell you and the roles, regardless of what your goals or skills are.

As a result, with a few friends I have been working as part of a team working on a product to try and disrupt the recruitment industry (was actually going to do a Show HN, as we have just launched two days ago!) - Its a online resume building site, that lets developers plug in to GitHub, stackoverflow, etc, to demonstrate their projects and experiences.

As well as this though, we are working on the companies section, where companies can register and effectively create their resumes pitching to developers why they should work for them (developer hardware setup, training agenda, oss contribs etc) - so making more incentives for companies to register themselves (and less so for agencies), and hopefully reduce that burden of recruiting on companies as they can easily see github contributions, stack answers etc and get a better indication of potential candidates skills.

Feel free to check out the site (in beta) http://nerdability.com
I believe it would be interesting to use EVE as the front-end for real management. If we get robotic space-probes off in the near asteroid fields in the next few decades, and little doubt EVE will still be around by then, well .. maybe a robotic-space explorer plugin to EVE will result in something even more awesome.
They are NOT removing the ability to link to files in your Dropbox. Just the Public folder itself, which is no longer needed since any file can now be shared with a public link.

EDIT: And for those of you concerned by any impact on using Dropbox as a CDN, there shouldn't be any issues. The links that Dropbox generates from your files have a bit of chrome (a preview of the contents of the file and a couple of buttons), but you can still get a direct link from the "Download" button.
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Some time ago together with a friend we've launched musicrage.org, a HumbleBundle-like approach to selling music of independent artists. We got some recognition on the local market, but the press releases sent to sites commenting on startup market (TC, HuffingtonPost, Lifehacker and a few others) got completely ignored. We don't have much of a budget for markeing, so dear fellow hackers: what's the best (free or most cost-effective) way to promote such a site?
You'll probably get a better answer from a local startup forum, laws on competitive advertising vary heavily from country to country.
You can do that for yourself, but you should not discuss it in that manner.

Once you have a fix, just roll it up to production and see how it does. If the fix involves the partner, first think about how to introduce the conversation properly.
The Public/ folder is probably the most useful feature of Dropbox. It is totally user friendly and integrated into the desktop. You just have to drop a file in the folder and get the public url from the drop-down menu. It couldn't get much easier than that. And now it will be phased out. Really sad news. I guess it's about time to try Google Drive.
I guess it is not distributed (meaning I can run my own Quoddy server, and talk to users at friend's Quoddy server)?
This is not an easy problem (and I think nailing the parts you're focusing on first is a good decision) but if you guys could get the code generation part of the overall page layout problem solved, you'd really have something unique.

I think by far the most time consuming (and frustrating) part of "easy" web design, at least for me, is getting the floats, clears, block vs inline, etc. stuff working perfectly without resorting to absolute positioning or other shortcuts.

If I could quickly throw together a page layout - navbar on top, image on left on main box, text lined up on right, etc. define a few properties (fluid vs fixed width), this element centered, that element indented, etc. and quickly get a working page layout system in place, that could save people hours. I'd pay for that in a heartbeat.

Like I said, I know this isn't an easy problem to solve and I like the idea of getting the per-element / style code generation done first, but do keep this in the back of your minds. Keep it up!
If I may refer you to a previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115879
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Its clear that Speak for Yourself need to do one thing now: build a new version of the software, as quickly as possible.

Seems to me, on the basis of the videos of the software I've casually viewed, they could do it in MOAI in a few weeks. (http://getmoai.com/)

Most of the work for a 'port' is done: the content and design of the app. If the content is well organized, they could do a cross-platform version of SfY Next-Generation (runs everywhere: win/osx/linux/ios/android/&etc.) that prevails beyond falsely imposed boundaries.
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> Communicating with a person is an endless process of content negotiation. What are you and I talking about?

Right. So how does grep know it's talking to ls about dir contents with a (disk) size field and not talking to ps about process table contents with a (mem) size field? Some sort of slower content negotiation, I presume.

> cannot possibly

I suggest that every time you think that, you double-check your assumptions. In this case, I think you're just pushing all the extra hard work off onto some other part of the algorithm.
The core of this is not a problem of fixing some naming convention (like leap years), but to actually disturb the measuring of time for a sake of making idealistic views of solar system dynamics the canonical time source. If you measure c during this "correction", you are expected to believe that it is smaller (in fact arbitrarily) for this one replication of the experiment!