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A more unified experience across the web is a good thing. It improves usability. Imagine if your Windows or Mac UI for applications were all designed differently. That's the web. So please, more people use Twitter Bootstrap.
I'm no fan of BIND though operationally having separate servers can be problematic: if you want to run both a recursive and an authoritative DNS server on the same host (pretty common for DNS servers on internal networks) you need two IP addresses. PowerDNS works around this by having their authoritative server forward recursive queries to a host/port that you specify.

Agreed that code sharing would be nice, and more important than ever since the rise of small servers with specific focus.
? For me all 8 sizes are visible with no need to expand or scroll.

edit: I guess it depends on your window size - if you shrink it horizontally it does only show 6 items. Though I'm not quite sure why there need to be so many layout options anyway - what exactly are Tiles and Content view for?
Should be: "Retweets tweets that have a picture and mention 'debit card'"
I don't know if they ended up being the acquiring party, but one of the people seriously considering the purchase reached out privately to my company (a Sortfolio customer), with a few short questions. It was a polite email that made it clear they were looking for opportunities to improve the service (as well as address the original concerns about credit card info not carrying over), so I was happy to provide my feedback. I'm happy Sortfolio has been acquired and plan to stick with the service.
True, but it was pretty obvious to me early on that it had massive potential. I actually have an email conversation with Dustin Moskovitz from the Summer of 2005; I reached out and offered to help them expand to Europe (I was studying at college in England at the time) after I saw how crazy my Harvard friends were about it all. Unfortunately it ended up not working out :).
XP has an end of extended support date of a little less than 2 years now. Large corporation have either moved or are planning to move to 7. They won't jump straight to 8 due to needing to wait for the first SP and all that.
I have no idea what you're actually referring to.

I never said everything in the Other page is spam. I am saying they decided to dump any message that isn't your friend or (friend of friend) into the Others page, which solved for them problem of users seeing "spam" in their Messages page but created other problems.
Looks interesting; however, the signup form doesn't validate if there is trailing white-space in the email input box.
:). I hope so!
Oh, that's true, I haven't actully noticed it.
Hacker Monthly is just a great way to enjoy some of the best stories on HN. The feature story with Elon Musk is very inspirational. Humbled to be included in such company (I put together the compilation article 'Coding tricks of game developers').
When you get dozens and dozens and dozens of inquiries, it's pretty easy to tell which ones are serious. People who are prepared to spend $480,000 make it very clear they they're interested in moving forward and not just browsing.
Control key worked. The reason for the confusion is I am a Mac user and the cmd key is the super key on Linux. I'm even using an Apple keyboard :P

Thanks for clearing that up.
I wonder if the van operators have considered how readily those X-rays could be detected. By the sort of people who might want "advanced notice" that they're about to be under surveillance?*

I wonder how long it'll be before things like this become "prohibited items" to regular citizens to own:
http://www.cooking-hacks.com/index.php/documentation/tutoria...

A network of those with bluetooth or wifi connections, spread around critical intersections around the place where you're particularly concerned about your privacy could give you more than enough time to reconfigure things into something that'll look quite different on an x ray screen...

*Or the sort of people who construct IEDs?
The article is from 2010.
I'd agree. Connectivity was the game changer. Functional Internet everywhere? Sign me the fuck up.

Native mobile apps in my mind simply bridge the user experience gap that HTML5 is having a hard time filling. It does some crunching too, but most apps that are worth their salt are either games or apps that do some processing before or after connecting to the Internet.
Ok. Perhaps we should start an os project trying to build it.
Where s an example in another language?
But any time PayPal redesigns the internal pages, every single tutorial on how to actually accomplish something in PayPal becomes useless.
Use the yahoo contacts exporter and get out while you still can, NOW.
That's predominantly about the kernel crash, not the high-CPU futex issue. One of the most maddening things about this is that there have been several different issues related to leap seconds on Linux, making it all the harder to get information.
??? Using that metric,
MSFT: +115% since 2004.
GOOG revenues: +3,320%
I would say this is true in my case. I suppose you could say that I've become "really good" at what I do, but I feel that I am mostly great compared to what Mark Suster would call the "B Team" so this doesn't serve as a great motivating factor.
Thanks for the feedback.

We actually have something like that semi-implemented. They're called 'recall links', and they allow people to generate unique urls per game (secret) that allow a new session to take over an existing anonymous session.

If there's enough call for it, I'll finish out the implementation and launch it asap.

Also - I wrote all the engines from scratch.
UK govt proposes to relicence orphan works on an opt-in basis
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Just that "ape" is a uselessly imprecise term for this sort of headline.
It's not necessary for it to be a majority to be a market disruption.
"Scrabulous" the name is a pretty obvious ripoff of "Scrabble," so that's not really a great example. However, the Mino case is certainly very interesting.
I noticed that too. There is a very high correlation, though.
I predict gieger counter equipped IEDs
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This. I won an iPad 3 at a conference and got a zagg bt keyboard case. With mail and issh it has reduced my need to bring my laptop home to zero.
Sure it is; it's just a slogan.

"Don't censor the Internet" - Who are you talking to? What constitutes censorship? What actual means will prevent censorship, and how can we implement them?

You're just saying that censorship is bad, which is almost a tautology, because the term itself carries negative connotations with essentially everyone: people who do advocate what you might describe as censorship aren't describing their own position as censorship, and the fault lines in your base of symbolic 'support' will appear once you actually get into details and attempt to answer the questions above.
Can you explain the process by which Microsoft can assign someone to be the CEO of Nokia?
Can anybody explain what Wunderground and TWC offer above the NWS? They're both just calling the NWS API and wrapping it in ads, right? Do either of them do any kind of additional analysis or processing to make the forecasts more accurate? The few times I've checked they're always been mirroring the weather.gov data. The government is known for being clunky, but I've always thought they did a pretty good job here [1], though I did like their old layout a little better.

[1] http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?textField1=40.01498...
In Checkers if you need to 'double-jump' I find in Chrome I have to refresh my browser to do this
Rails 4 feature as a gem: Routing Concerns
Github:Enterprise for SMBs
How many of you would consider using a tool similar to Github:Enterprise if it was priced much more competitively? Say 250$/year, and if you want a new major release again $250/year - on-premises install, unlimited users and repositories.

I know there are a bunch of open source Github clones, some more, some less supported, but I have a feeling a well (and constantly)-developed and pleasing interface would help us all.
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Just for an interesting comparison:

Top 100 mining companies in the world:

You'll note that even BHP only hits ~$200bil.

http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page67?oid=95...

These are companies that fundamentally provide the materials for our societies.

Shall we change into energy?

ExxonMobil is top, at roughly ~ $300bil

http://www.platts.com/Top250Home

This is a company that powers the modern world.

~ $6 bil for this, $8 bil for Skype, $100 bil for FB is nothing more than Peter-Pan land.

aQuant was MS attempting to get Google to move on some issues, and an attempt to monetise chewing the cud.
Skype was MS attempting to control P-2-P interfacing - which will probably succeed (and wasn't ever designed to be monetised)
FaceBook was attempting to give the proles the same inherent networking architecture that the elites always enjoyed, and the $100bil is a pay-off for reshaping the world

Hint: mining & energy deal in reality. Tech stocks deal in 'societal value' [where said value is not value to the consumer, it is value to the code controllers; "if you're not paying for it, you're the product"] and are largely to do with the cost of control.

$6 bil in this case means nothing, because MS made billions from nothing.

"It's worth a punt". Translation: if you spend $100 bil on liquidity per day, $6 bil is a joke. Remember: Gates has spent $18 billion on "African circumcision to prevent AIDS" already, and the US government spends that in a month on foreign military adventures (both aggressive and passive).

~

It was worth a punt. Google turned out to be aggressively competitive, however (and let's not mention the top three AI specialists who committed suicide in the year Google launched their algos... ok?)

Be seeing you.
There is a distinct difference between languages designed around the functional paradigm (Haskell, lisps etc), and languages that support the functional paradigm (python, javascript etc). Most javascript code is imperative, not functional, and it would be disingenuous to say that there is not a difference in the way of thinking when writing in lisp, and when writing in javascript.
that shouldn't stop a company of that size to take their product to the next level.
Marriage is not a right and it is not a default state. (Legal) marriage can only exist when a government explicitly defines the relationship and then issues privileges based on that definition. Marriage is a positive action. There is nothing to take away; gay rights activists are not just asking to be left alone, they're asking that we explicitly expand our definition to include their relationships. As above, it is not a forgone conclusion that the incentives for encouraging the citizenry to engage in permanent heterosexual relationships are applicable to homosexual relationships. It is a matter that must be considered separately.

Suppose I offer friend X twenty dollars. Now suppose friend Y also demands twenty dollars, and accuses me of violating my offer when I refuse it. That is what is happening here -- heterosexual and homosexual relationships are DIFFERENT and deserve independent consideration. Most communities have decided they want to offer an incentive for permanent heterosexual coupling; the same reasoning can NOT necessarily automatically be extrapolated and applied to homosexual coupling, just as I may offer friend X some money because he is poor or I owe him one or something like that, but that reasoning doesn't always automatically include friend Y. No right is being denied here.

Furthermore, no punishment is made due to "brain chemistry"; we are not testing individuals and discarding them based on the presence of certain biological markers (either externally or internally visible) that exist through no personal or direct fault. We are simply choosing that we do not want to incentivize, endorse, or equalize permanent homosexual coupling as we do with permanent heterosexual coupling. Such coupling is an independent affirmative action that does not involve one's brain chemistry.
Too soon. That joke is in very poor taste.
Unless I am coding for a "picky customer" I use what I refer to as Java Lite: public instance variables, shallow package hierarchy, etc. I have been using Java since the beginning and have written several books on Java so (at least for my own stuff) I feel comfortable breaking the rules.

I also format code to match a small but wide monitor (MacBook Air 13) and although a lot of people would understandably not like the longer line formatting using up to 100 columns, my code density is good - a typical method easily fits on my display. I also favor short classes.
Your sentences would appear to contradict each other.
Hi, I'm actually in the process of designing such a system, with the goal of maximizing privacy, sovereignty, decentralization, and overall empowerment (not to mention destroying the facebook spying machine). If you'd like to help out with ideas and brainstorming, please do email me at bash.vcs [squigllydoo [SHIFT+TWO]] <google's mail service> . com. I already have some ideas for unique features that will set this apart from other similarly oriented efforts in a significant way. I'm getting close to starting up a mailing list and code repository, so please be in touch if you're at all interested. I'll keep you filled in.

PS it will be completely F/OSS, most likely GPL depending on contributor consensus.
All of those things are fairly trivial for FB to track. Age (obvious), Location (trackable through Places, geolocation, etc. through that thing in your pocket), Gender (presumably you would post a status update about something that big?), Employment (status, amassing colleagues as 'friends'?).
It seems like they've hit on a constantly self-updating demographic info machine...
> For less introverted people, "friend" and "acquaintance" are more-or-less synonymous.

Ask any of those less introverted people to name someone who's an acquaintance but not a friend, I bet they come up with a name showing that when pressed, they can make the distinction and do have different meanings for those words.

I do not believe there are people who cannot make that distinction.
Atlassian Stash? It's obviously focused on just repository hosting and it's not "$250/year", but the prices are certainly a lot lower than what GitHub charges.
Bitter? No. Offended? Sure. We share everything that's going on with the sale. Multiple write-ups. And yet still the default HN hive-mind behavior is to jump to a conspiracy theory!? Come on.
What is the biggest problem a programmer has?
Hi, I'm actually in the process of designing such a system, with the goal of maximizing privacy, sovereignty, decentralization, and overall empowerment (not to mention destroying the facebook spying machine). If you'd like to help out with ideas and brainstorming, please do email me at bash.vcs [squigllydoo [SHIFT+TWO]] <google's mail service> . com. I already have some ideas for unique features that will set this apart from other similarly oriented efforts in a significant way. I'm getting close to starting up a mailing list and code repository, so please be in touch if you're at all interested. I'll keep you filled in.

But yeah, you've hit the nail right on the head. Obviously, my will fall into your (2) category, so we've got some major usability and cryptographic hurdles to tackle. But please rest assured that the solutions exist and that I've got most of them hammered out in my mind - the rest just require a little brainstorming and puzzle solving.

PS it will be completely F/OSS, most likely GPL depending on contributor consensus.
That certainly would make a bit more sense, but I'm not sure how likely it is - It doesn't seem like Blizzard has a relationship with S&S and it seems unlikely that they'd hire creative so far away from their offices in California.
I'd say it disrupted the computing industry by converging the cell phone and pc industry.
If you pick a long enough time span everything is eventually transitional.
I guess that Vibration webAPI could be implemented on a desktop user agent to activate the vibration of a connected playstation joystick for example, but maybe that's a different API…
Hmm, that hasn't been my experience. For a double jump, you should just be able to drop the first jump, and it should be your turn still, and you can (and are forced to) do the second jump.

Are there any more details you can provide so that I can start to debug this?

Edit: we've confirmed the bug. We're looking into a fix now. Thanks for the report.
My WRT54G is still going strong. I run the `tomato` firmware on it, and haven't had to mess with the configuration in years. If only the rest of my hardware could be as reliable.
I can't switch to TAI because then I'd be 30 seconds off from everybody else. And everybody can't switch to TAI because that disruption would be even larger than what we saw this weekend. IMO the solution is to leave the leap seconds that were already added but not add any more.
You have no idea? You launched wild accusations that we were just playing everyone with our proposal and that we actually just had a buyer all along. If we had a buyer at $480K, we would not have bothered listing it again. We would just have sold it.

I think the only reason why you consider my attitude an outlier is because I state it. Every business have a cut off point where a potential return is not worth the hassle. $480K was that number for us. I'll guarantee you that it's much, much higher for most other businesses.

Do you think Apple is going to fiddle through $200K purchase negotiations if they want to diverse themselves of a product? Of course not. Just not worth their time.

I'm happy how things have worked out for me so far, but thanks for caring.
Postmates is really interesting - especially the get it now service. The people I know definitely earn more than $2 & change per hour. I've seen upwards of $30 in a given hour delivering food, with an average of about $12-14.
I'm not telling anyone who their friends are, I'm telling you you're using the English language sloppily if everyone in your Facebook you really consider a "friend". You've devalued the word to nearly meaninglessness. Everyone you've ever met is not your friend. Everyone you've had a friendly conversation with and looked up on Facebook is not your friend.
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Why does it say -1 points? Do some people have the ability to reduce the points on posts they don't like and aren't even required to post why?
At the risk of being Mr. Obvious, Postmates badly needs three things:

1. An Android app (I saw only the iOS app listed), with a direct download link, just for giggles.

2. A page on their website which replicates the app's functionality. I mean, it's HTML5/CSS/JS, right?

3. Smarter vendors, which accept and acknowledge orders by text, web, or (a different) app, to help the couriers earn, and to deliver the goods faster.
a large percentage of her voting base are corn farmers

There aren't really that many corn farmers out there. Maybe you meant "a large percentage of her campaign donors are corn farmers"?
Are there any inexpensive sensors that trigger an alarm when one of these vans drives by?
What about those of us who don't use facebook or twitter? Or any social networking service, for that matter?
Dollar Shave Club video is outstanding. They recognize their market and target the script and humor directly at it.
> And I think people tend to be spending too much time thinking why something is imperfect, or how to do it better, instead of actually making stuff that rocks.

I was with you until this. I think it's actually important to think about where flaws are and how improvements could be made.

The literary critic Howard Bloom actually argues that many of the best creative works are agonistic: they take a previous masterpiece and say, "I could do better," and from that claim do. The produced work ends up being a response, saying, "That was good, but here's your mistake, here's how it can be done better, and look how well it turns out."
Sorry, I still have trouble believing you. Partly because I don't believe the premise of just not giving a shit about $220k in passive income.

And partly because this all snaps together way too snug. Short of the fortuitous hero riding into the sunset as the exit-credits scroll by. On his Louis Vuitton designer-pony.

But it doesn't matter what I believe. You're the guys with the sportscars.
Oh shit. Good for Wunderground, bad for me. I can't stand weather.com
Meraki is an example of how this can be done right; their UI looks far beyond any other router.
I've found the most supported device, and easiest to hack around with using b2g, is the Nexus S. I'd recommend going for that over the Nexus.
A restroom protocol library.
Well, you can pass around function pointers, return function pointers, and store function pointers in data structures in C, too. You can also use closures - a closure is just a (function pointer, struct with its closure values) struct. Sure, OCaml, Scheme, and company box the pair for you, garbage collect it, and don't make you flatten your code into a single file-level scope, but the difference between Javascript and C isn't as big as you think.

Javascript is kinda sorta maybe functional if you look at it right, but it's still mostly the same imperative/object-oriented mishmash as Java, Python, or Ruby.
I'm not aware of many non-Lisp non-Prolog logic programming libraries like core.logic. core.logic can trivially operate on the terms of language which it is defined in. Meaning core.logic itself can be used for metaprogramming.

In my experience, metaprogramming is a wonderfully powerful utility for controlling complexity and confusion.

As far as the ecosystem - I used Python for a couple years, it's good. But the Clojure ecosystem is doing pretty darn well itself these days.
Please remember the context of this discussion.

They point is that Googles revenue comes form one source and they haven't been able to find another just yet as users are moving to mobile. The growth you see is based on a revenue model made a long time ago not on their current performances which are to say the least as embarrassing as anything MS have done over the years.

This should be concerning investors in google more than anything. Cause what do they do when most people are on mobile?
And for several large programs they are. As media players have been discussed recently: iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp all use non-standard interfaces. Browsers have varying degrees of deviation from a "standard" program with Chrome being the worst. LibreOffice and OpenOffice before it both have some atypical components. I could go on.
You didn't really share anything someone would need to valuate the site publicly. You (well, Jason) posted an auction with no information about costs or profit, traffic sources or subscriber turnover, handover or whether the billing info of the customers would transfer, etc. These are the most basic pieces of information you'd expect to see in any listing of a site for sale there. Nobody responded to questions on the listing, and nobody accepted any of the pending bids (and people did try to bid on that auction).

https://flippa.com/2739829-sortfolio-com-web-design-marketpl...

What was the point of a public auction if you were only going to answer questions to private bidders contacting you directly? And why list it at all when you were trying to sell outside Flippa, in violation of their listing terms? Assuming that you were acting in bad faith, abusing Flippa as a mere marketing tool for a private sale, would be uncharacteristic for 37S.
Why will you succeed where so many others have failed?