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How can Visa or MasterCard censor what I can do with my money, especially when it comes to an entity that has to this day not even been charged with a crime?

It speaks to our "obedient sheep" nature that there has been no outcry about this.

Some will say: "Well Visa and MasterCard are private companies", which is technically true of course, but when they handle the majority of all private money transaction there are other factors at play.
Maybe he's trying to bring light to Unhosted?
Alex is Awesome but he is no Angry Birds
Wrong analogy. It assumes that the human body have the same degree of complexity as, say, coffeescript. In no way. To properly (without killing the patient) and reliably open and then stitch the human body requires years of study and practice. While coding JS in vim requires, like 3 months, of which 10 weeks is studying vim :-)
I'm not speaking about why you're going to open the body (diagnosis) or what do you code, that's a different story.

Just the plain barrier to entry.
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Yeah, sorry if the comment was a bit context-lacking. gmurphy is a coworker on Chrome.
Lol. The food truck business work day is much longer than 2 hours. The 2-3 hour lunch period is the primary window, but many trucks also do a dinner service for 2-3 hours.

In addition to the service window, there's several hours at the start of the day dedicating to stocking the truck and prepping the food so that it simply needs to be cooked. At the end of the day, leftovers must be disposed and all of the equipment must be cleaned. Both prep and cleanup will take several hours: prep will usually take 3-4 hours, and cleanup will 2-3 hours.

On top of that, there's the transportation time for getting from home base to the day's location(s). In L.A., most trucks operate out of a San Fernando lot, which means 1-2 hours transit time to get to their lunch spot.

All told, the employees may get 8 hour shifts, by the truck managers and owners will be lucky if they work fewer than 12 hours a day.

Sources:

http://clatl.com/atlanta/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-atlanta-foo...

http://www.findlafoodtrucks.com/blog/tag/nom-nom-truck/
http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/6599/Food_trucks_A_d...

http://mobile-cuisine.com/business/breaking-into-the-food-tr...

Komodo, one of the grandaddies of the modern food truck industry, used to have a great post on this but it appears that they have deleted that post.
I'm a systems developer, not a distro maintainer. When I boot off of that iso, I want a menu that asks me this:

[ ] Desktop

[ ] Server

[ ] Embedded

[ ] Custom

This ultimately comes down to a user interface issue, but it's different than the kind of user interface often associated with the HN crowd. It's more like an API user interface, be that a web or programming library API. A crucial feature of good APIs is 'graceful degradation' in terms of easiness/control. Take a look at the libcURL library[1]. cURL has 3 levels of access: "easy," "share," and "multi." If you don't care about a lot of features and just want to download a webpage, the easy interface will get you what you want in a few lines of code. If you have something more complicated, you can go all the way down to the multi interface to access many of the raw functions of the API.

They key takeaway is giving the user control of her complexity level. If I'm a sysadmin compiling an image meant to be deployed on thousands of servers, then something like Arch would be pretty great -- I can fine-tune things how I want. If I'm just a random developer, then I would like to stick to 'sane defaults,' with the option to revisit those defaults later if needed.

I really don't care what cron I have, don't force me to pick one against my will.

[1] http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/
I don't see how it's relevant.
I'm fairly sure the "commentary and criticism" exception pertains to fair use use of media that refers to the media itself (e.g. film reviews, cultural commentary, satire of a popular program etc.)

All this is very different from declaring "I'm producing a work of commentary or criticism and therefore I can do anything I want with whatever I find, even if the point I'm making relates to something else entirely."

That's just a rookie move. Rupert Murdoch really was right about Romney needing to "drop old friends from team and hire some real pros."

https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/219393140245807104
I thought in 1999 most companies just slapped ".com" to the end of their company name and raised $50m from VC's without accomplishing anything or solving a specific problem.
Funny that the US immigration system actively repels the misfits of this kind (dropoffs). If you don't have MS degree, good luck getting the green card (it takes many years vs. 1 year or less for MS). I believe this will be Alex's problem too (he's British, right?).
> What if he was a complete jerk?

Even if he was most jerkiest jerk telling sh*t about their mothers nothing justifies physical attack and destruction of property.

If you can't restrain yoursef from physically attacking people and tearing their papers when they open they mouths you shouldn't be working where people are present.
Apple and the EPEAT, sitting in a tree…
Wow, I'm at a loss for words. We all love him here, can't wait to find out what really happened.
This is a great package and I thank you for it, but why not submit pull requests to the original project instead?
How do you know this has anything do with UFO's?
The idea that these lights are aircraft is just crazy.

It could just be aliens playing with their equivalent of pocket laser lights that people use to annoy others at movie theaters, watch dogs chase, etc.

The aliens shine them, and watch you guys on the ground go nuts, and laugh their asses off.
This is only tangentially relative, but I find the argument that real numbers may not ever exist in nature to be fascinating. The argument is that all of nature breaks down at the size of plank's constant so every real measurement has a finite resolution.
There are a lot of Moroccans in Paris, from what I understand. Wasn't that what those riots a few years back were about? The Moroccans immigrating but not integrating?
McDonald's are not really "easily" franchisable. You can't just write a check and buy a McDonald's franchise. You have to be an owner-operator, not an owner-investor. You have to go through crew training, learn all the positions, work as a shift manager, and go to Hamburger University among other things (in addition to having the money), before you are granted a franchise.
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this made me immediately ask "What sort of work will she be doing throughout the leave?"

When my kids were born, I did work throughout the period immediately following, and I also got up at night to change diapers, etc. The problem though is that, even as a man, if your sleep schedule is interrupted every 3 hours, you just can't do everything you could when you get enough sleep. Sleep disruption with a new baby is a big thing and you can't just shrug that off. It takes weeks usually to adjust.

Of course there are times when you do soldier on and do what you have to. I got a call from a customer one Wednesday saying "We know your second kid was just born last week, but we need you onsite on Monday. Is there any way you can do this?" The deal was the technical contact on their side was quitting, and they needed help ensuring a smooth transition for the project. It was essentially an emergency that needed to be addressed and there wasn't anyone else I could send to do it. And so I talked to my wife, and we decided to rent a minivan and drive 20 hours each way (over a weekend, approx 10 hrs/day) to the customer's site with two kids (one 4 one almost two weeks old), and let them know we'd need a bit extra for accommodations and travel. But even there.... the work I could do on-site was reduced. It was an important visit and it made a world of difference for the customer, but I wouldn't say I was at the peak of my ability. And it worked out much better than me just flying there and back. The newborn was easy to deal with in the car. I could still help out at night, etc. And my wife really enjoyed the drive (we got back and she said next time her mother came to visit we should do a road trip again!).

But at the same time, if it wasn't for the "down-time" during the drive, it would have been pretty miserable all around (we traded off driving every three hours too, to better manage fatigue).

But I wouldn't suggest doing more than the minimum during this time. It is important (or it was for my wife at least as well as for me) to get out and do things non-kid-related and only building back up as you feel like it after....
No self respecting troll would troll a discussion involving UFO's.
It's like trolling youtube comments, or children's birthday parties.
Yeah it's pretty bad.

I don't know if they realize that or not.
Ask HN: recommended animation app for a 9 year old?
Hi All,

A friend (our midwife in fact) has a son who wants to learn how to make his own animations.

My knowledge of animation extends to certain jQuery effects and sprites on my old Z80 system, so I was hoping that there'd be some animation gurus on HN who could recommend a program that:

- is easy enough for a nine year old to pick up

- would allow him to create fun animations quickly and easily, to keep his interest levels up

- either runs on MS Windows (I know, I know ...) or is a web app

Thanks in advance for any recommendations ...

Yours,
Duncan Bayne
This is the bit, as it appears, where the guy treats the readers as idiots and tries to make out that he wasn't really recording the whole visit just in case that mitigates against his claim of unfair treatment.

Those are not "buffered pictures" they are captured and purposefully stored images of the entire visit - which must be more than 10 mins. A transient store that simply enabled immediate viewing would likely be of the order of [far] less than a second; comparable with the buffering in an LCD screen.

What we'll probably find is that McD asked him not to take pictures in their outlet and he claimed he wasn't taking pictures at all that it was solely a medical device.

It looks about as bogus as it comes to me - is it some sort of PR stunt.
I was actually suggesting they were protecting the neighbors from a potential highly sophisticated criminal mastermind casing the joint to conduct an Ocean's 11 style vault heist of the property next door by drilling through the wall, but I didn't know how to communicate that ;)

I agree. Rich folks don't go to McDonalds too often. However in Europe the brand is perceived a bit differently
Because it is during those periods when you need your friends the most and when it is most inconvenient/difficult for fake friends to come to your aid. It is naturally the most effective way to separate the wheat from the chaff, even though it may not be a nice process.
Don't say this is the user's fault though. People with weak eyesight NEED to get stuff bigger and because of tons legacy software even Windows 7 can't really help you with scaling. Scaling the resolution is still the only really viable option for these people.

In fact, Apple's way of scaling by internally doubling the resolution on retina displays is the most useful way of scaling I've seen so far. It gives you an -almost- crisp image for 3 different scaled settings and one perfectly crisp image for the retina resolution.
Is this a dream come true for an aspiring CEO (resurrect an a-list tech company), or was she the 7th person to be offered the job, except she said 'yes'?
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Why not Quick then?

http://www.quick.fr/
Anyone that thinks that Java byte code is just interpreted at this point clearly has no right to talk about such things. This is about the third article by C programmers in the last month where they believe that Java (and C#) are not ultimately running compiled machine code and are not interpreted. Why has this misconception lasted so long? The first JITs were released last century...
Not necessarily -- a fact alone that they could visit Earth implies that their technology is sophisticated enough to fight gravity, travel at speed of light (or faster) and do plenty of other things that may not even been covered by science-fiction just yet.

Now, before you say it doesnt matter whether you travel at the speed of light, faster or slower, the moment you catch up with space debris, you become a crashed and burnt debris yourself. If all physical objects vibrate at some rate, then as wild as my imagination can go, it may be possible to speed up this rotation of a physical object so much that would eventually become... a wave.
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I was talking about the "open source" bit in the quotation. I couldn't care less about what VMware does.

EDIT:

Oh, just reread your comment, sorry I thought "open source stack" was referring to AWS.
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Hex color of China: #FF8A00

Hex color of orange square in the "list view": #F7921E

As an aside - for a while now OS X has been shipping with a tool called "DigitalColor Meter" which allows you to see the color at your cursor tip in RGB or Hex. I find it extremely useful for situations like this, as well as the "zoom in" feature to be able to see if there is a border on a particular element, for example.
I once saw what I at first thought was light from a helicopter one night, then it turned a tight angle and shot off toward space. I thought for a second that maybe UFOs were real, then I realized I was close to a military base. There is probably technology in the armed forces so advanced that most people do not know about it.
This is an excellent point. The analogy I like to use is based on prospecting: you can try to find fully-formed gold from the earth or you can smelt down ore into something useful. Right now the valley is full of prospectors stealing gold nuggets from each other, and I think there is a ton of opportunity to transform smart, hardworking people into great employees.

Of course this requires time and training, which some start-ups feel they can't afford. In the end I think it's worth it to focus on finding talent that can learn quickly rather than emerge from Zeus's brain fully-formed.
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[...] though I'm not asserting where one might find higher quality between SF and NYC.

Thank you for including this.
I can confirm, most users think of XP as pretty old now, and they usually need win 7. The piracy condition is pretty bad, you get in store (like official store) after seeing an ad for a laptop with Linux and walk out with win 7. Consumers just don't care if OS cost is included in laptop price, they just need the familiar start button, and if isn't there (in linux's case) they'll be upset, which computer companies can't afford.
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Did you really just cite other people's opinions?
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Added a screenshot to the post highlighting examples of what I mean
Yeah, I sometimes listen to a real estate show on Saturday on the radio, and the guy says basically the same things. It is always the right time to buy.
I think that speed of human evolution speaks to the contrary of your point.

Think about it. 500 years we were not even able to push something called electricity through a cable; today we push gigabits of data through the air using wi-fi.

Just thinking where we will stand technologically in next 1000 years just blows my mind. If you have a thinking organisms similar to human that were left alone to evolve in timeframe of 500 million years, its unimaginable what those creatures could come up with. Unimaginable!
and so they think a PepsiCo chief can run a tech company, but that never seems to pan out very well

For IBM, the decision to hire a non-technical and experienced CEO turned out OK. IBM turned around. But I'd agree that this is probably an exception to the rule.

I think the key here is fresh thinking and ability to get the political/operational/strategic stars aligned inside the organization to /cough/ execute. An experienced person may bring this to the table, and a lesser experienced person may bring this to the table. The key is whether it's brought to the table.
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In one sense he is right though. There is a lot of crappy software still out there. There are still places that run off of an Access db. Ripping and replacing these is finally starting to make sense from cost and value proposition. Mobile access, greatly reduced cost of building apps is finally tilting the needle towards "lemme build this" for devs and "lemme buy this" for users.
Well, the more people wonder whether French of Moroccan extraction really are French or Moroccan, the less French they are.

I'm French, of no extraction. Please stop. French of Moroccan extraction are French.

Regarding the riots, that's also not relevant to the discussion but because you ask, those riots where the results of 40 years of bad policies, social rejection and latent racism.
Stop watching Breaking Bad, people.
If such a thing existed, it should be destroyed. Ads have no place in video and drm for content has no place on the web.
Turning around yahoo - a big corporation like that is like changing an old mans behaviour who has been set in his own ways. Mayer though showed success at google has less chances to succeed . Nevertheless considering her experience on search she wouldn't have made a better choice .
Brought to you by Microsoft. Has any company ever worked harder to get people to stop using one of its products?
It's okay, you can be happy.
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Not totally sure what the pros/cons are, but if you want to register as an corp, you'll need to provide the proper paperwork to Apple.

I suppose one pro is that your personal name doesn't show up on your app listings, just your corporation's name.
Well if McD have a policy of not allowing photography of their staff in their outlets then it's easy.

McD worker: "sorry sir you can't take pictures or video of our staff"

person with recording device: "I'm not taking any pictures this is a medical device"

worker: "it looks rather like a Google glass recording device; you were recording the servers at the counter just now weren't you, I'm afraid you'll have to leave"

person: "no I won't I'm not recording anything these are just my glasses, see I have a doctor's note" [passes note carefully made to look fake but actually having real content]

worker: "sorry, please leave" [attempts to remove what he believes to be Google glass device as the person moves towards him aggressively]

It probably didn't go down like that but why is it such a stretch to believe it did?
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> the bank having the wrong address for me

My Canadian banks let me update my mailing address online. Bank of America can do this as well. Would the ability of your banks to do this be limited by EU regulation?
The factors that caused slow IP4 to IP6 transition are cited as examples by the author you are criticizing. It's very clear they are aware of the scale of http deployment as well as the challenges that brings. In fact, that key point motivates most of their objections to the current standards proposals.
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McDonald's has a policy of not allowing photography in their stores. Clearly in this case there seems to have been an overreaction, they should have just politely but firmly asked him to leave.

McDonand's does not publish any direct contact email information

So do it the old fashioned way. Get out a pen, paper, and stamp. Probaly have better results anyway. Here are the people in charge: http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/our_company/leadership.htm.... Their address, from their "contact us" web page, is McDonald's Corporation, 2111 McDonald's Dr., Oak Brook, IL 60523
Eyewitness reports contains facts that can be checked objectively. I.e witness reports powerlines oscillating in opposite phase in presence of UFO. There are also photographs showing strange things like a fuzzy dark mass beneath the UFO or multiple dark rings around the UFO. This can be explained as light polarisation in presence of intense magnetic field. It is even possible to estimate the strength of the magnetic field. This is something eyewitness can't make up. There are also reports of rotating compass. This can be explained and can only happen if precise conditions are met i.e oscillating intense magnetic field. By knowing the properties of the compass it is possible to determine the frequency of the magnetic field.

If there is some reality in this phenomenon, it is possible to find evidences in the testimonies that can be indirectly objectively checked. This is science process.
Humiliation is painful. If your identity is "being smart", it might be pryed from your clenched fists. Once in a while, God makes me worse than I am. Mostly, He makes me better than I am. Being worse than you are is hard to bare, until you find the numb zone. Fury is often present. If a game seems rigged, losing is not as upsetting.

God says...

shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the
land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall
worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose
glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat
valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 28:2 Behold, the Lord
hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a
destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast
down to the earth with the hand.

28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden
under feet: 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the
fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before
the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet
in his hand he eateth it up.
I remember being confused by this before, but don't remember the resolution: how is it that we're supposed to interpret that ring chart on the lower right? I think I understand the numbers written next to the countries on the ring (namely, percent of ALL internet traffic represented by IE6 users in that country—adding up to 6.3%, the number in the box on the upper right), but those numbers don't correspond to the proportion of the ring.

EDIT: For instance, consider the US. 0.6% of US users use IE6 (from the map). US usage is high, so that accounts for 1.3% of world internet traffic being US-IE6 users, which would be a bit more than 1/5 of the IE6 users. But the US segment of the ring chart is maybe 1/12 of the ring. What does that 1/12 correspond to?