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Yes. And we'll also send you some cupcakes.
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But typically that's the large fighting the large, as opposed to the NPEs the article points out. NPEs aren't just rogue states with nuclear weapons (big companies threatening each other), they're like smaller, terroristic organizations who literally terrorize smaller companies into giving them money.
Making an ideological debate of it is a sure way into desaster.

"""has been known for decates"""

Thst is actually only partially true, as has been proven in a number of experiments and shown in the book "Poor Economy".

Poor people that reach a higher level of income will generally not buy /more/ food to satisfy their actual needs, but will switch to buy /more expensive/ food (aka "better tasting"), often even /reducing/ their number of calories consumed.

Part of the problem is lack of money, but the main problem is lack of knowledge/education.
Anyone figure out a way to get bookmarklets like Instapaper to work correctly in Chrome for iOS? (other than typing their name)
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To London? Wow, quite a journey.
It's probably a bit late, agreed, but it seems to me this problem is just as much the fault of the encoding itself as it is the fault of PHP : Turkish i and I may look like Western European i and I but they're entirely different characters.
Bug is a bug is a bug is a bug
There are plenty of credible witnesses to UFO sightings. The problem is people getting their knickers in a twist over the acronym 'UFO' - a product of societal conditioning.
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Pretty much. When I worked at bars in college I knew of a guy who used to give glowing recommendations for bartenders he'd fired. To his competition.

Outside of that, the best thing to is to confirm employment with dates. Oddly enough, some people will list a reference from where they were fired for misconduct. I'd bet that said person doesn't even understand what constitutes misconduct, why they were fired and how to avoid it in the future.
Reading to Paddington is the most congested route in the country apparently. At peak times the passenger / seat ratio is around 2. I did it for a week before buying a motorcycle.
Hard to call this a Java bug when many other, non-Java things are affected. It's a critical Linux bug that causes futex to timeout, and anything that uses it to behave incorrectly.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/1/11
I don't know any rails developer who has written a web server, where did you get that idea? Many use mod_rails via nginx or apache:

http://www.modrails.com/

Also, PAAS offerings like Heroku and Engine Yard make deploying sophisticated rails environments far more convenient than their PHP equivalent.

> "sticking code snippets in web pages"

You can do exactly this in ruby with ERB, but many shy away from this approach due to a distaste for the bolognaise pattern.

You should try ruby/rails/sinatra on your next project, it will change your life.
Microsoft's scapegoating explanation doesn't hold water
Hi Loic. I agree, only meant to serve as an introduction to the subject for people who are not familiar with it, which seems to be way too many people.
How is that any easier than just using a virtualenv for anything but the most simple of scripts with zero other dependencies?
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Food insecurity in the US is meaningless. The definition is so broad it encompasses all sorts of ridiculous situations.

Consider a morbidly obese person who eats 6 cheeseburgers/day. At dinner time on the 30'th day of the month (payday is the 1'st of next month) they run out of money, and are only able to purchase 4 cheeseburgers that day. By the definition of the USDA, this person is food insecure.

Comparing poverty in the US to poverty in India is a misnomer - poor people in the US are actually richer than the rich (top 5%) in India. I say this based on both personal experience and statistics: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t...

The article by Scalzi you cite does not describe the poor in the US. I debunk it (with stats) here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713461
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Hey, remember that time I spent a couple hours frantically checking logs and restarting services?
Seriously? This needs to be on HN?
I don't jailbreak/root anymore. If I've hit a point where $device isn't useful to me without fighting against the shipped OS, it's failed me and I'd rather find something more agreeable to my uses.
While "fire" and "terminate" (someone) might bear too much negative emotions, "asking to leave" leans too much on the rosy side. Usually "asking" implies they have a choice, right?
The standard hacks for referrals are:

Call or email, leave a message asking to be called back IFF the candidate was exceptionally strong. Assuming you aren't a competitor, you'll probably get a call back if true. If the guy was meh, it is a nice way to pocket veto.

For when you do employee referrals, if employees are getting pressured by lames to refer them, let them do no-op referrals. Default bring meaningless, and "strong referral" being a real referral. Google, Facebook, etc do this.
We've seen floods of these "What you should have done if your application was interrupted Friday night" articles, but a common theme is to leave out the fact that many of these sites require synchronized data storage, which Amazon doesn't support between regions. If your organization is shelling out the money for something like Riak, Oracle, or the mess necessary to support such an architecture though the likes of MySQL or Postgres, this is all well and good (save for the data transfer overhead costs).

If your application is architected to use SimpleDB, DynamoDB, SQS, or even RDS, these simple "You should have been using Route 53 and multiple regions" articles get increasingly frustrating. Most applications simply aren't elementary enough to fit into that boilerplate structure, and getting around that fact either requires switching away from Amazon's managed database services (lots of money) or writing synchronizing scripts that play nicely with your stack and launching them on additional servers (lots of money and lots of resources).

While ideally I'd like to see Amazon release some sort of feature for multi-region sync, it would be interesting to see how the tried-and-true multi-region businesses have approached this problem.
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Not really. You can inline base64 encoded images. The main problem being that it's about equally as insane as drawing your images with CSS.
"This item cannot be installed in your device's country." I'm in Canada.
I bought a car to replace my train commute, and promptly sold it after a week of hellish traffic and "park and ride" car parks where the meagre 300 spaces fill up shortly after 6.30am. This isn't even London.
I agree. I think it's awesome.

My comment was more in reaction to "bye bye images" in the submission title.
If you have just graduated University then it's likely that the only code samples you have will be from that and universities are known to enforce one particular style of notation which may or may not be what is used in industry.

I imagine that the number of university students who contribute anything meaningful to open source apps in addition to their studies is very small. This might be the small number of people he is interested in recruiting but being pissed off because every CV you get in isn't like that seems strange.
That's not irony, it's a business plan.
Except for this current patent fiasco with the Galaxy Nexus! They definitely did innovate, and yet they are getting knocked down for something that has been in use on normal computers for years now ... but for some reason is patentable because it's now on a phone.

For blatant copying? Sure, knock that down, ban sales of it. But to say that the Galaxy Nexus is copying the iPhone is ridiculous to the extreme, and Apple is just using the weapons they have (these silly, over-broad patents) to try to limit competition. I mean come on, unified search? Google practically invented that.
Isn't that already done with auto-vectorisation? http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/vectorization.html It should take chunks of "vals" and automatically process X elements (depending on how many fit in the registers) at the same time via SIMD. It was available since ~2008 too.
> a) Why are you comparing Android to a Mac ?

I'm comparing Android to an iPhone. Apple has filed an injunction against Samsung in the states for the Galaxy Nexus Android phone.

> b) The Mac has had pretty impressive notifications courtesy of Growl for nearly a decade.

iPhone, not Mac. Notifications on the iPhone are (at least in version 4) terrible.
It said commandeered, which is even more hilarious. Pirates of the US Navy, stealing both of Iran's subs?
I'm so tired of this game.

The Internet as the Wild West is what contributed to its success, both as an economic powerhouse and as a tool for connecting people. Leave it alone.

It starts at censoring porn and will end at censoring dissenting thought.
I'm well aware of corruption and the antics of Salman Khan. I absolutely don't dispute that India needs to fix this problem to make real progress.

However, this ignores the question: how would enforcing laws against the wealthy and privileged affect the particular problem we are discussing in this article (wheat rotting while children starve)?
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> what makes a lisper better at statistics teaching and exposition than a non-lisper? (say, a trained maths educator?)

Nothing really, but I think the code portions of a book like that might be interesting. Allen Downey's book has a bit too much layering of OOP for the sake of OOP for my taste. Check it out if you haven't, he builds up classes for most things where simpler data structures could be used, and ends up wrapping everything in what's effectively a custom API.
Ask HN: Recurring billing solutions, summer 2012 edition
At this moment (July 2012), what are some of the better, more affordable recurring billing solutions available?
Well, I think it's more reasons than just new features. It's the very idea of escaping the walled garden. You can disable the killswitch, you can install any tweak you please, or even develop your own. You don't even have a filesystem explorer unless you jailbreak, or a console.

The jailbreak tweaks are usually better than Apple's own implementations too, even from the beginning. Backgrounder is far more powerful than built in backgrounding. LockInfo is extensible and beautiful. Winterboard (and originally Summerboard) allow far greater control over theming than Apple allows. A quick settings pane like SBSettings, incredibly useful, and been there for years.

I can't imagine being without a jailbreak. My iPod Touch would be useless to me without.
Haha, I actually thought the same thing.
True, but CCTV cameras are generally only used by the police and viewed by a limited number of people for a specific purpose.

When you have potentially everyone on the street recording you, you have no idea what that footage might be used for and who it might be shared with.
This comment seriously made me laugh out loud:

Maybe they like a higher CO2 level and warmer temperatures, and are masquerading as energy company executives. Alienforming a planet is easy if you can get the natives to do it for you.
Completely true, there's a lot to be written on the subject and there are some great detailed posts out there.

I think Google Compute Engine does exactly that, with a direct connection between regions so the entire system works as one network. I'm not sure if that will be the case outside the US, though.
More information on OS specific vulnerabilities can be found here: http://www.scmagazine.com.au/Tools/Print.aspx?CIID=304829
Vote Against Freeing Up Orphan Works Achieves 113% Turnout In EU Committee
The demo crashed my browser. Chrome 19. May be due to too much CPU resource usage.
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IANAL

In some states, the only thing you can do is confirm the employee worked for you during a time range. Saying anything else is actionable by the former employee. It is really important to know the law in your locale.

It is actually safest legally just to say your company policy is to give dates only. If you took legal action against the employee (e.g. theft) then the new employer will find it on a background check. Their failure to do a background check is their fault.
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There is a good explanation here: http://serverfault.com/q/403732/58037
How can I attract beta testers?
At the moment this Amsterdam-based startup is in closed beta; but I want to get some interest ignited as we move toward more complete functionality and an open beta environment. Any advice on where and how to attract quality beta testers? http://www.casengo.com
The only problem I have with this, is that for a really simple system consisting of 3 components (web+app+db) now I need to deploy (and pay for!!) 24 components.

Yes I know, business continuity and stuff. Still, just doesn't feel right somehow.
Apple pays $60 million to settle China iPad trademark dispute
"If you have just graduated University then it's likely that the only code samples you have will be from"

That's a weak argument. In fact it further strengthens Ayende's view that such a candidate is not suitable purely on the grounds of not liking to code.
That's exactly what I'm talking about, it's insulting and it disappoints me that all of the recent HN threads have been full of similar insults. Their arguments always seem to boil down to "my hammer is better than your hammer, and you're an idiot for choosing the wrong hammer, but luckily I am here to re-educate you".
No need to be so negative. I actually think the S&M character of these stories goes well with their content (Java development and best practices).
Would be cool to see a startup creating a "Twitter for computers" service. An highly reliable system that can be used just to route messages via an API, with a semantic similar to the one of twitter, to be used as a building component for everything you need. Not sure about what a business model would look like.
http://www.ChargeBee.com - we did a Show HN to ge feedback sometime back and got some very good feedback. Went back and improved on several things and continuing to do that.

We have a good roadmap of solutions to provide you everything you need to run business. Analytics and a few other useful integrations based on customer inputs is in the works. We are still in private beta working with a short list of customers whom we are working with closely (though we are unable to serve everyone immediately as some of the payment integrations are due to be completed by July / August).

We have integrations readily available with BraintreePayments (US), Samurai (not sure if they still do underwrite new accounts and we did this earlier), WorldPay (Singapore). Authorize.net will be ready in another week.

And we support multiple payment gateway integration. We do not have a vault to store card with us and we store in the respective payment gateway.

Here is the link to our API docs: https://apidocs.chargebee.com/

I am one of the founders and will be happy to help. :)
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Enterprise Software Lessons:If you are Going to Pick Up a Fight, Hit the Big Guy
The assumption is if you have a FTL civilization you vary quickly grow to the point where you go just abut everywhere you can reach with FTL travel, unless something else was already there to defend it. Extinction becomes really hard when individuals are being sent out faster than just about anything that could catch them.
Twitter open sources its Iago load generator
This is a Linux kernel bug, not a JVM bug.
You should never, ever install EC2 servers like this, unless they're meant for temporary testing. When the EC2 instance terminates (and it will, eventually) your server goes down and all your data stored on the ephemeral disk is gone.

What you need to do instead is setup an auto-scaling group that automatically launches a new EC2 instance to replace the terminated one. You also need to set up boot scripts that automatically configure the newly launched instance to run your app, or alternatively create a custom AMI image that's preconfigured to run it on boot.

And if you store stateful data (like the MySQL in LAMP), you need to setup boot scripts to attach a EBS volume to store the data on. Or alternatively just use RDS which does it for you.
The easier to type 'sudo date -s "`date`" seemed to work for me.
I think if you're "asked to leave", it's pretty clear you don't have a choice :)
I think part of the great thing about having iOS, Android and Windows Phone available to us as consumers is that everyone has different things that are important to them. Something that seems cluttered and useless to you is a selling point for someone else.

I have personal anecdotes for the two examples of Android and iOS clutter you mentioned. Again, different things are important to different users.

For me, part of the reason I got a Nexus One a couple of years ago was that I could make my home screen more useful than just app launchers. For pretty much the whole time I've had the phone I have had a home screen that includes a widget to turn on and off my led flashlight, a widget displaying the weather for the next 24 hours and a widget to call my wife directly.

In regards to iOS, I was actually just having a conversation with my wife the other day about her being able to easily reject a call on her iPhone.

You could certainly chalk my anecdote up to being a power user, but my wife is not the type to be installing and tweaking Linux. :-)
As a Canadian citizen, I am close enough to the United States already.

It's great that they want to share their landmarks, friendly people, and history. The problem is the gatekeepers AKA the TSA and border police. A quick google search on TSA will give you all the information you need to make an educated choice on where not to spend your holidays.

Until this is fixed, I cannot see how the USA can beat places like Taiwan, China, anywhere in Europe (except maybe Germany), Australia, or Iceland for the image of "welcoming tourists." It's purely anecdotal as it's an opinion, of course. Take it or leave it :)
What I like particularly here is how every feedback and game design element contribute to the fused goal of learning-playing. Textbook game design elegance!
Contributing to open source while in University has major benefits:

1) skill development through practice and peer review
2) skill development through exposure to "real world" problems rather than the toy problems of school
3) portfolio development for job hunting
4) network building for job hunting

If you're in University, you should be working on open source projects for these reasons and others. I suspect the article author is trying to help spread this meme. Open source contributors really do have a major advantage over their peers, but many students do not realise this.

Others don't know how to start, but that's a different problem.

Besides, open source is fun, and you probably have way more time and resources during University than you will later in life.
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Getting employed and staying employed when you're homeless is a lot more difficult. Psychiatric and substance abuse problems don't help either; even if you're a homeless person and lucky enough not to be struggling with one of those, jobs available are often patronizing and demeaning (shit jobs).
The signature says how you can curry the function, but what I'm saying is that the body of the function is written essentially oblivious to that currying. For example, the body of the function would be written the same if the signature were "x->y->z" or "y->x->z".

If we consider (f 0) this provides an auto-currying of the function. However, this "f" is quite different from a function that has the signature "x->(y->z)" where the body would indeed need to be different (where the currying is explicit).
Stealing is not copying. Stealing means making it your own.
My 4-year-old loves it. What can I say? She barely knows the alphabet yet she's learning algebra for fun!
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Collapsible comments on HN would be awesome. Too often I get deep into a huge comment thread that has gone off topic and close the tab after I lose interest and forget what the topic was supposed to be about.
>"asking to leave" leans too much on the rosy side. Usually "asking" implies they have a choice, right?

Maybe more of a Hobson's choice.

"I'm going to have to ask you to leave" seems to be the sort of thing said by bartenders/bouncers when you've been cut off and you're demanding that one last beer. Or by a police officer who presents you with the choice of walking out on your own, or or getting arrested.
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For Vidpresso.com, we use Stripe. It's so easy to set up, and has a really modern REST / Webhook-y api.

2.9% feels expensive, but when you realize you don't have to set up any subscriber / coupon code / plan configuration logic, each charge seems a lot less scary.
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This is an excellent cautionary article... I still don't get all the love for AWS after they have shown that they have less uptime than many dedicated server providers.

Reliability is the greatest feature you can offer, as a downed service can't be used by anyone.
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> “It filters out 35 categories of content, including porn, adult, suicide, anorexia etc,”

What? Ok, I don't agree with filtering out porn but I can at least understand it. But why would you filter out sites about suicide, anorexia, "etc"? Way to increase the stigma around already difficult issues, block people from useful pieces of information, and make it harder for people to actually get help in the way they want it?

I really, really dislike that.
I don't have a problem charging a menial fee to tourists, so long as it's completely transparent where that money is going. The last thing a country should wish on its image is the tourist money going to military invasions and the like.
Off topic but their product, madeiracloud.com, looks very slick.

Does anyone have any experience with it?
According to a recently leaked 'Xbox 720' deck (dated August 2010) they cited cloud-based gaming and media streaming as being a key feature they'd integrate into their next console by 2015 [1]. OnLive is discussed as both a potential competitor and a way to help facilitate that (as an acquisition) in this regard.

The original file has been taken down and I can't seem to find it [anyone?] but I also remember they made some comment to the effect that this upcoming console generation would likely be the last (as we traditionally know it) and more robust future OnLive-like services would take over beyond that.

Given that, I think an OnLive acquisition makes sense on their part and will probably happen at some point.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/more-xbox-leaks-micros...
What do parents do at the moment? I am one but they are so youung it's not an issue (yet...)
2 Hours door to desk, though it was more like 3 when I was working in far West London!