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24/7, but only until the tickets are sold out. It's inconvenient for me to schedule my life around when tickets are going on sale. But a scalper's entire business is scheduled around when tickets are going on sale.

And if you think that problem is somehow created by the scalpers, go learn what a demand curve looks like. When tickets are underpriced badly enough, obsessive fans with fewer responsibilities are going to buy up all the tickets before I'll have a chance. If the prices are high enough relative to demand that I actually could buy tickets whenever I want, 24/7, then scalpers are irrelevant. Even if they did buy up all the tickets, they'd have to sell them back to me at basically face value. Scalpers aren't a cartel or anything, they can't fix prices, and their inventory goes bad almost instantly when the event actually happens.

The convenience argument isn't actually that critical, though. What's more critical is that by allowing people to get tickets two different ways--either buying them earlier, OR paying more--scalpers also make the ticket distribution more fair, not just more convenient for those willing to pay more.
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If I want to automate my programming, I use a higher level language where the boilerplate isn't required.
I think the economic value of the app industry period has been basically kneecapped by apple anchoring $1 as the proper price of an app. There's just so much work you can put into something that earns $.70 and still make a living. And yes, nobody has a right to a living, but software gets complex fast and it's shocking how quickly even relatively simple software starts to demand a lot of time from a developer.

I'm also not privy to any of Parse's plans, but I'd bet they're going to allow server side logic. A small dev without anybody particularly experienced at being a sysadmin seems like one of their sweet spots. Learning the ins and outs of ssl / nginx / caching / security / the many unexpected ways server software will fuck you may be better outsourced.
Yes, I was wrong about SmartFolders - this Mail.app has covered. No idea what you mean by favorites though - I don't see any such option, same for different labels. Maybe it's some new Lion version that added that?
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IMO it doesn't have most features of his list. It has ALL. And all of them implemented way better than TB. Searching E-Mails? Isn't TB still the application with two different convoluted interfaces for in-folder and all-folder search? Mail.app's search interface is absolutely brilliant in comparison. Even its Spamfilter is pretty decent, nothing like what OP described.
1) can at least prototype something in code. 2) Connections / hustle. 3) You should tell me #3.
Whatever the result, the lawyers always win.

This is pocket change for Oracle. The real set back to them is the result of the case.

And though it's good to see the aggressor in one of these lawsuits actually lose, it's saddening to think that if Oracle or a pure patent troll went after a company without 4 million to pay for a defensive suit, they would have won.
From here: http://pal-v.com/the-pal-v-one/specifications/

Flight specs:
Range 350 - 500 km
Max speed: 180 km/h
Fuel economy: 36 l/h

This is 20 l/100 km at max speed (11.76 MPG), so not amazing but not much worse than an SUV (my car, which is average, gets 10 l/100km). Plus you're flying in a straight line which is worth a lot.
I think it's actually about the same speed as a Cessna or something similar flies, which is pretty impressive if you ask me.
Riding a motorcycle is suicidal.

"Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcyclists' risk of a fatal crash is 35 times greater than a passenger car."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety
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...and ECMAScript 4 had block scope.

Language design by committee is seriously flawed and until a feature is shipping in all the major browsers it isn't real.
From the FAQ:

For more densely populated countries, in the future there will be a network of small airstrips near recreational areas along the highway could lead to a much denser infrastructure. The ministry of Traffic in the Netherlands has started testing this concept in anticipation of the arrival of PAL-Vs in traffic. See movie (Link to movie ministry tests PAL-V ports).

Wow, they really think that there will be enough people buying these to create a need for large numbers of airstrips? Crazy :).
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Too bad, all the Thunderbird features they've been implementing have been really positive. I can't say the same for Firefox...

Last time I tried the nightlies Thunderbird was coming together as a great "Messaging" client - with IM, IRC, Facebook, GTalk support, filelink for sending big files with dropbox.

It's just too bad, I don't find any of the new features in Firefox nearly as exciting as those. Without addons it is still set up and functions pretty much like phoenix does the way I have it configured. I never liked insert tab after current - which is copied from chrome, never liked tab previews which slow down ctrl+tabbing, despise the autoupdate service firefox installs now - they're pretty much jamming firefox with all these useless and copied features and stopping true innovation with Thunderbird.
Btw, on Windows if you want to purge a specific file out of the cache, then all you need to do is to reopen the file with NO_BUFFERING and/or OVERLAPPED, and close it.

This could be verified with SysInternals RamMap.
Watch the last 3rd of this Stanford University lecture on Human Sexual Behavior http://youtu.be/LOY3QH_jOtE (I think the relevant part starts at 1:13)

I think Jaye might be right.
I still don't see how the lawyers are the bad guys here. The company knows that the country's laws might allow it to weaken the competition. It wants to avail itself of that option. The laywers are just the executors of that action, the messengers if you will.

They're certainly happy to make a buck from the process, but unless they're the ones to actually create the laws and keep them in place despite their ridiculousness, they are not exactly to blame.
I've never heard of people complaining of PHP being slow. They don't care, they just want to glue some HTML, CSS and JS together and run it on the browser easily.

So yes, simplify JS on the server to act like PHP and use node for servers and other stuff. Name it differently if you want so they don't call node slow. V8CGI is the closest to a deliciously simple JS implementation on the server I've seen. Take a look at it for some ideas.
As some have mentioned, not a great option if you have insurance. Mine covers a new pair every two years (plus the appointment you need to get a current prescription). They may want to make an effort to cater to that segment more, if it's possible. But it is an innovative approach to a market ripe for the picking. On that note ... Insurance and medicine – Talk about a broken system full of money.
It's nice to see Oracle reinventing it self into SCO
They benefit from the current situation and their colleagues write the laws, so I don't imagine we'll see hordes of lawyers clamoring to change the status quo any time soon.
The problem is money.

Large companies can use lawyers to get things like special taxation benefits ("if we build our factory here, can we get a tax break?") or to stamp out competition from smaller companies through patent lawsuits, etc.

Saying that lawyers who participate in such actions is neutral is like saying that the tobacco companies are neutral with regards to cancer caused by smoking. You can't have a system without it's facilitators.

That said, I know and work with a whole lot of very nice lawyers who, to my knowledge, aren't scummy.
Could someone please enlighten me on how to connect both a readable and a writable stream.

For example I want to convert an image and then stream it to S3.

if I use knox https://github.com/LearnBoost/knox
it has a way to read a stream from a file and then publish to s3.

But how can you take a stream from http://aheckmann.github.com/gm/ and stream it directly to knox or anything else for that matter?
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Man... I gotta get back into economic consulting... $986,978 in expert witness fees.
What are the chances that they will actually receive this?

An order of the court will determine the final award of costs. Both sides get to argue with the court about what's a reasonable award, but the judge decides, and I can't imagine that Oracle wouldn't follow the court's order (as it can well afford to do). Probably Google is initially asking for far more than it actually expects to get after the judge reviews the bill of costs.
Cool website, is it done using Ruby on Rails?
(Over) Simplified:

It's primarily lawyers (or at least, law school graduates) that make the laws, and they are also the ones profiting from ridiculous cases. It's up to lawyers to fix the mess that the lawyers made, that the lawyers are profiting from.

Obviously, only lawyers are happy with the situation.

As I said, this is a simplification. But it is too close to the truth for most people, and so most people dislike lawyers for "screwing things up".
Chrome uses courgette, now if it actually became a standalone project that could be used outside of google (you need to jump through their frankly stupid build system) I'm sure it would see adoption.
Postbox may fit your particular needs. http://www.postbox-inc.com/ It doesn't support Linux sadly.
We may get more home windows users to look into antivirus software yet!
yea this is cool, I was just making a guide with these same popovers on Thursday....Guiders.js looks cool too.
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Ask HN: Getting a viable freelance income stream with time constraint?
I'm looking at moving to Europe from New Zealand in December/January. I'm wanting to develop an income stream from software development that could support me financially. This needs to be doable without physical face time with clients.

I'm also wondering about advice on skills? I have Python experience with wxPython, Linux and some Django exposure. At work I develop retail systems in a 4GL language and work on a web application in PHP that interacts with it. The platform is Linux, I also handle upgrades of this web app to >100 Linux systems.

I will be moving to a country whose language I won't know when I get there, so I will be looking at developing my clients online. I can also work on developing local contacts in my home country before moving.

Has anyone got advice?
Take a look at the pipe() method. :-)
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If motorcycling is suicidal, then driving a car is murderous.

"...auto collisions are the leading cause of injury-related deaths, an estimated total of 1.2 million in 2004, or 25% of the total from all causes. Of those killed by autos, nearly two-thirds are pedestrians."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_safety
How is this news? Sammy has been around a while.
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> "they are not exactly to blame."

Oh hell naw.

If someone leaves their car unlocked sitting by the curb with the keys in the ignition, is it right to steal it? The fact that someone has (stupidly or otherwise) created a situation that is easy to take advantage of in no way excuses the person that exploits it.

The fact that we have creating a patent and copyright law situation that borders on the absurd is one thing, people actively seeking to profit from this sorry state of affairs are as guilty as they come.
The cost bill filed by Google underscores the intensity of this case and shows that we caught only surface glimpses of what surely were day-to-day firefights keeping the lawyers and their minions going round-the-clock for an intense year's worth of fighting.

A "cost bill" is not a bill for the attorneys' fees incurred in a case. Under U.S. rules, the parties bear their own legal fees in most cases (and that is the case here).

But federal court rules do permit a prevailing party to recover from the losing party necessary costs incurred in dealing with document production and similar matters in the litigation. The out-of-pocket bill here (not including attorneys' fees) for Google to filter through 97 million documents and to produce just over 3 million of them after careful assessment and screening: about $2.9 million (mostly paid to electronic discovery service providers, who surely found full-time employment in this case during this past year).

The bulk of the remaining bill for costs consists of nearly $1 million paid to expert witnesses for their assistance in helping to prepare and present Google's case.

In a case like this, Google's attorneys' fees had to run at least $10 million per month, at least during the intense phases of the case. I would estimate, then, that total attorneys' fees in the case easily exceeded $100 million and may well have done so for Google alone.

Big Law may be in the doldrums today in general but a case like this clearly offers a big payday. The law firms here were all exemplary and undoubtedly earned it. Still, the cost is staggering to contemplate for the casual outside observer.
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>Also, what did you mean "how Chrome hides everything"?
I think he's talking about how Chrome keeps the update process invisible to the user.
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The problem with KF8 is that i now will be limited to a fraction of the kindle crowd i was targeting. KF8 does look promising though, truly a new age of publishing. What about the iBooks platform, any hope over there?
Even your users? Do they give you password hashes? How does that work?
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"Corporate culture engineering" has always struck me as a cargo cult. Large, immobile, boring companies try to reinvent themselves as small, nimble, exciting... by copying the symptoms of a great corporate culture, not the causes.

Free food is not corporate culture. Scooters is not corporate culture. Beanbags is not corporate culture. They are the natural expressions of an already-working culture, and will not lead themselves to one just because you've decided to build airplanes out of straw and bamboo.

Shortly before I left Amazon I was given a plastic (code) ninja action figure, which was, supposedly, some kind of new corporate mascot. We were all encouraged to take pictures with this ninja in interesting places, as some kind of "fun" thing. But of course, you can't order fun into existence, and the whole thing smelled very obviously of stuffy suits failing to get it. A fun, exciting company invents traditions like this, not vice versa.
Being as crazy talented as me at everything that's non-technical.

Ideas are worthless without sales, marketing, money (earned or otherwise), and execution.
oh galeon, how i miss thee, particularly your sane address bar tab-completion. anyone know if there's anything comparable as a chrome extension or firefox addon?
Note that this does not actually include the attorneys' fees, though.
Believe it or not, this conflict plagues even real science. In physics (and probably most other hard sciences as well), there is actually a fairly sizable rift between theorists and experimentalists.

If you're a theorist, you can deal in idealized systems. You can dream up an experiment with a perfect component X in it and work out what theory says should be the result. In a morning you can create a dazzlingly complex theory that would take billions of dollars and thousands of man-years to test, calculate the theoretical result on a napkin over lunch, and then move on to something completely different in the afternoon.

Experimentalists look at such complex theories and immediately give up. They're not interested in such theories because nobody will ever pony up the cash to test 99.999999% of them. Experimentalists like things nice and simple. They'll pick an experiment that looks dead-easy to test, spend thousands of dollars on a component Y that can't do X worth a darn until they find a way to jury rig it to sort-of do X a little bit on good day if the stars align just right. They'll spend six months sorting out the bugs in the experiment and, in most cases, find it matches the theory pretty well. Then they'll submit a paper to a journal which will send it out to referees. Frequently, one of those referees will be a theorist who will say, "Why did you bother doing something so simple when the theory is so clear?" (Some theorists do not appreciate that theories are occasionally wrong, and this is the whole point of actually doing experiments!)

Of course, experimentalists and theorists need each other desperately and frequently work together closely. It's just a little frustrating at times and hysterical at others.
The problem is that Gmail is shit lately, which has gotten me to switch back to Mail.app, which isn't bad. It turns out IMAP reproduces approximately all the advantages of webmail.
Really doesn't. My pet peeve is that there are 2 search bars. Search and Quick Search. The main search doesn't really work well when you want to say, search for emails sent by co-worker X.

You type in their name/email and you get this separate tab (so many tabs). There are things like To Me, From Me, Attachment, People, Starred and a bunch of statistics at the top. You can see a screen shot here:
http://www.dagorret.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thunderbi...

The regular search could be good for advanced searches. There are probably a bunch of options for it somewhere. But for most searches you really want the Quick Search which is some menu bar option.

Not sure what kind of design decision this is either. In Mail.app except for saved searches, I usually try a simp search, if that fails, then there is an option to try and refine it.
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Ask HN: Metafilter down?
I am physically in shock, excuse me for failing to check if this was already asked. I get a 502 error for metafilter. Is it down? Or is this more of my sucky luck or some crap?

Thanks.
Yes, and people go to prison for vehicular homicides all the time. But keep in mind that not every fatal accident is considered a homicide - there are accidents, and there are many cases when the other side is responsible.

Which side of the accident would you rather be on?
At least we still have Al Gore to thank for inventing the internet.
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They did not earn it. Lawyers charge exorbitant prices because they can -- they have you by the balls, and you don't really have an option not to pay them -- not because their services are actually worth $100 million+. I've admired your posts for years here on HN, but it's not just staggering to a "casual observer"; it's staggering to anyone with a sense of decency and propriety.
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If the problem is money, then why go after the lawyers? Why not the accountants who finance the company? Or the HR managers who organize it? Or the contractors who will be putting that factory up, or, hell, the blue-collar guys who will eventually wind up staffing it?

They're all just hard-working folks trying to make a living. They work for the corporations because the corporations have the money they need. If someone else had the money, they'd work for them instead. The only facilitator here is capital.
Can you expound please?
What about the Magna Carta[1]?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_carta
Think you meant to post that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4210062
The aesthetics are bloody awesome! I don't know what to make of the gameplay from the video but the vibe is spot on. You should collect email addresses somewhere, I'd love to hear when it's ready.
Out of curiosity, how much would you bid to reproduce some tens of millions of pages of documents in such a way that you would be willing to testify before a judge that every single one was true and accurate?

(Considering that the judge will not take your word for it, how much should you set aside to pay someone else to go through it all and check your work?)
While the article is a well written summary on what corporate culture can be based on, I fail to see where the "myth" is. Is it that just having culture is all thats needed? I don't think that was ever a misconception. In fact, Delivering Happiness covers most of his points already (re: hiring for culture, openness & feedback).

I think a better and less link-baity title would have been "What culture should and shouldnt be". He didn't really disprove any specific "myth" and only really stated an opinion on how to implement culture. His two unsupported illustrations of bad culture ("Nerf guns and toy helicopters" leading to it being "hollow") were IMO not really myths at all just a setup for the rest of the article.
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Commentary at El Reg ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/07/gnu_gpl_forked/
The provocative presentation ...

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Which is why people are allowed to tape auto of officers with large video cameras -- the press for example.