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> Yes, young people should learn to read and write and do long division, whether they want to or not.

Ironic, since in our modern computerized world algebra is important and long division is useless. The writer himself probably carries a powerful computer in his pocket.
somehow reminds me of

https://github.com/scy/levitation

but that doesnt seem to have gone anywhere...
Congrats!

One quick suggestion: I think it would be more straightforward if you used the GSettings API through PyGObject rather than running the gsettings command.
It appears that site ranks stocks based on some formuala using P/E, growth rates and other fundamentals. However, there is no information on the components of that formula or what criteria have been used for the ranking - making it less useful. How do we know it is a valid model for ranking stocks?
Fixing virtual hosts and web sharing in Mountain Lion
I can go search Blogs and articles ,but the official documentation is blank. You don't have to take my word for it.

http://php.net/manual/en/internals2.apiref.php
But, it's NOT Craiglist's data! The data was entered by users to Craiglist in order to share with others. The data is owned by users, not Craiglist.

Most users use Craignlist under the assumption it being a "public good" site. If someone is not draining the bandwidth, the public data in Craiglist should be perfectly sharable.

It's very clear that Craiglist had been betraying their user's trust for them being "public good" company. The public good companies don't hire top notch lawyers to go after copyright violations.
If this is something you'd like to do for twitter, and you have javascript, rails, and/or java/scala chops, or you're just a damn good generalist engineer who can pick up anything, send me an email at lzmfAuxjuufs/dpn.
I also felt login process should be simplified. I got two types of registration forms at my new website
(www.survenator.com) - one is express where user only enters their email address and a highly secured password is email to them. Other is the complete registration form. Although the form is still kept very short. Users can change their passwords\other account information anytime.

Express registration may work for well for those who have hard time coming up with strong passwords or don't want to think about a password while doing another new registration.
We started this feature as an experiment and will evolve\refine it based upon the usage.

Once the user confirms their account if they selected "remember me" checkbox then we don't require them to login, we just check for authentication cookie.

I do not agree with the author regarding his vision for "password reset tool feature to send the link in the email". Sometimes users want to take control of their password and do not want to remembered for security reasons.
The Earth Is Unsustainable...

tl;dr: All the good land is taken and there is no more free or cheap property available that is appealing to me. PANIC!
Steve Blank gave a very interesting Google tech talk about it, back in 1997:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ
I do not think that's true. Are you familiar with the idea that scientific theories have to be falsifiable? That was formulated by Karl Popper in the mid-20th century.

If anything, the rise of analytic philosophy and the introduction of greater logical rigor to philosophy in the early 20th century made it relevant again after a largely fruitless 19th century. Go ahead and ask a scientist whether Popper or Hegel is more useful.
Another great tool in the Programmer tool kit. If you wanted this same concept on Scala or Java I recommend Akka2

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.2/scala/agents.html
OK, thanks! I was looking to build something that combined gmail and craigslist. Haven't seen anything thus far.
I do this with Optimizely (YC W10), which has a similar arbitrary-goal JavaScript API. I scatter Optimizely goal calls throughout our tracking scripts, and any test we happen to be running will pick it up.
In Physics, the general feeling is that "philosophical interpretation" is simply out of the scope of our work. I think this derives mainly from the intensity and ultimate futility of the disagreements over the interpretation of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century. It's seen as a waste of time and a seed of acrimony that we're better off not indulging in as a field.
Teracopy: Copying and transferring files hassle free.
What I meant was that Amazon is a competitor to the iBookstore (so naturally Apple would prefer not to sell products which mention Amazon). I was pointing out that Apple using Amazon's cloud services is irrelevant because Apple does not compete with them on that product.
> The law is pretty clear about this--facts can't be copyrighted.

While it is true that "facts can't be copyrighted", it's unclear that Craigslist listings qualify as facts in the relevant sense. (The singles listings, for example, surely don't.)

> Someone writes down the information and has their own meetup for people who couldn't make it to the free, public CL meetup. Whats the difference between that and what padmapper is doing, except that padmapper is getting the information second hand?

Getting the information second-hand seems fairly significant.

Don't get me wrong - I think that craigslist should be disrupted, but I don't think that you should just do the easy parts.

Note that the NYT has a dog in this fight - Craigslist has "disrupted" the newspaper biz.
Get thee to kickstarter! I would so buy one of these in final form.
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VeriFone Card Readers exploit found, can harvest card details
This is absolutely not a simple Q&A transcript being dumped online, I assure you.

You have no idea how much work goes into something like this.

See the disclaimer at the top where it says the interview was condensed? A lot of information is hiding behind that disclaimer.

That means that to get these 7 good questions, the writer might easily have asked 21 questions.

That means that where you are reading 1-3 paragraph answers, the original answer was easily 10 paragraphs, because people tend to ramble when you ask them about their jobs, even when they're NOT being interview by the NYT. (Here's an experiment for you: Ask a friend or colleague one of those questions, do not interrupt them, in fact appear very interested, and count how many minutes the answer takes to unspool.)

That means that when you're reading a nice orderly progression of thoughts, the writer probably had to take bits and pieces from different answers because the interviewee thought of something later to append to the original answer, or emailed a clarification later, or reminded himself of something.

That means when you don't see words like "uh" and "um" and "like" and "I mean" and "I think" and "you know?", and when you don't see sentences that trail off into nothingness, and when you don't see run-on sentences, and when you don't see non sequiturs, that's because the writer has carefully removed them.

That means the writer doesn't mention that it took three hours, easily, to transcribe a 45 minute sit down, and more time for the follow up to clarify and fact check words that were mumbled or inaudible and not in the notes.

You don't want to call something like this "sloppy" unless you know what actually goes into it. You know how non-programmers often assume that very simple, easy-to-use software was similarly easy to make? How they don't think about the edge conditions that turn something that SEEMS like an easy two-week project into a three month project (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000356.html)? You know how people around here are always saying that non technical people make bad tech CEOs because they don't understand the inherent and often hidden challenges of writing code? Well, other fields are like that too, including journalism.

(Disclaimer, I write these sorts of Q&As myself.)
Pretty cool, but why doesn't pressing equal again repeat the last step? Eg. on any decent calculator if you press:

2, x, 2, =

You get 4.

Press = again, you get 8, and so on.

As insignificant as this may seem, lack of this in a calculator is a complete showstopper problem for me.
I think what the author is talking about is the spamminess/internet-y-ness that has crept into Facebook in the last few years.

But that is something that I think most Facebook users at least try to ignore. The goodness and desirableness of Facebook happens despite this stuff rather than because of this stuff. Facebook has been a place where a lot of people like to come to chat with their friends (duh!). This kind of virtual tavern is something that a lot of people enjoy. But the problem is that Facebook has succeed so well at being that kind of place, that the limitations of being that kind of place are showing; suddenly realize you just own the nightclub, you're not the most popular person in the nightclub. And making grandiose statements on the nightclub loud speaker isn't going to make you more popular.

- Being the place where people talk to their friends does mean you can sell people anything (they don't come to buy but to chat).

- There are plenty of things that it's in people's better interests not to share and sooner or later they'll figure that out - when they do, they don't appreciate being previously mislead and get more closed about the entire medium (it's interesting how the telephone produced a lot of same ).

- And there are many reasons to step outside your circle of friends. And completely outside is both easier and safer than any conceivable "multiple circles" system.

Facebook's stuff lately has been butting-up against these limitation but not overcoming them. I don't know these can be directly overcome with the "I will monetize my efforts" approach and if they can't, it might be good.
At this point, I actively seek out Google account login options. It is so incredibly pleasant to use on Android.
Just to confirm, you're looking for marketers with basic programming chops?
I do agree that Twitter's asymmetric model works. And Google + also have same feature. I don't have to be "friend" with someone to follow them.

Having signed up on Orkut in 2004, and used that social n/w quite regularly for ~ 4 years. People forget the beauty of Orkut. In someways they were ahead of times -

1. Privacy: Privacy settings were impeccable. In fact, it would notify you if someone visited your profile too. So no more "stalking". Believe it or not, Orkut never allowed search engines to index their pages.

2. Communities: Facebook groups are quite popular now. But still, Orkut communities in 2005 were better. They were malleable. You could turn them into forums/boards for discussion. Group announcements. Group Polls etc. And most importantly owners/mods had ability to make any content public/private with simple switch.

3. Testimonials: LinkedIn started with this "recommendations" feature. But Orkut had "testimonials" since its beginning. It was fun reading testimonials once in a while.

4. Design: Orkut's design during initial years was the best any social network could have. Simple and clean!

5. Search: I've used majority of the social networks. Orkut's search engine was simply the best. It's search engine in 2005 could easily beat FB's search even today.

What led to Orkut's downfall? I've heard form Googlers that there was no strong internal support to Orkut. In 2008 they started copying FB and it became unusable since it had worst UX due to this. And last but not the least, Facebook's Feed. Feed was game-changer for FB and it's eventual growth.

Edit: Grammar
I think it's pretty complicated. You haven't addressed several issues:

1) Craigslist may own text in the ads, but they don't own facts. (Likewise, it's OK for me to tell Alice that Bob posted a poem on his window about cats so that she can go read it, even though it would not be kosher for me to make her a copy, and even if Bob asked me not to tell her.) Padmapper don't use the full ad text, just the fact that the ad exists and discusses housing at a particular location.

2) Many (most?) would argue that, unlike physical property rights, intellectual property rights are only justified insofar as they are a net good for society. I have a Lockean right to the shirt on my back regardless of whether or not there are laws to protect me, but my ability to get 20-year patents (and not 1-year patents or 100-year patents) persists at the pleasure of the legislature. Likewise can be said for copyrights. So even if Craigslist is in the right under the current law, that doesn't mean this situation couldn't be catalyst for good change, and that discussion of crappy UI is important (i.e. not a red herring).

3) Craigslist has monopolistic powers in this market; in the presence of competition, their crappy UI might be forced out of business. One can justify open data requirements as an alternative way of reducing monopolistic powers to standard trust busting methods.

Not saying you're wrong, but I can't see why you'd want to put up a top-level comment with broad claims that doesn't address these and other issues raised in previous HN discussions.
Many English-speaking philosophy departments are, largely because Bertrand Russell got tired of this shit 100 years ago:

"Hitherto the people attracted to philosophy have been mostly those who loved the big generalizations, which were all wrong, so that few people with exact minds have taken up the subject."
I think _delirium's point is that unconscious indulging in it is worse than conscious indulging in it.
Well, craigslist's TOS says explicitly that you give them the right to your post, both to use and defend from scrapers. I guess you could argue that the users aren't aware of this, but I'd be surprised if better publicity of this would have a significant effect on the number of people posting to craigslist.
You're comparing educational standards for the wealthy to educational standards for everyone.
Apparently they offered PadMapper paid access but PadMapper declined. Articles like this make PadMapper look even worse to me.

And sloppy journalism. Why won't anyone ask PadMapper why they decided against? This is like half of a linkbait article. The fact that CL offered paid access was in last week's HN stories. I bet there's a breathless follow-up article with that fact, trolling for additional page views.
I wasn't referencing the article.
So cool! I would really love if there was an OSX version
"Philosophers are the smartest humanists"

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/verbal-vs-mat...
I've been wondering, is it possible the fluff pieces are paid content? Especially the "scaling dick.ly" and blogspam types.
One obvious benefit is that you aren't trusting anyone else with your passwords.
Your calculation is way off. You forget that the rule of 72 is how long it takes for the money to double. Thus, the final calculation is 2^7.6 which is, as any good computer scientist knows, a little less than 256
Cucumber is a bit over-used, after having done it for a few years with product owners and testers it can be useful to stimulate conversations around edge cases before someone makes a guess and it ends up being wrong. They are pretty much all integration tests which are expensive to implement and fairly slow to run so the majority of my testing is unit testing.

I found that Calabash does almost the same thing as Frank and has support for more mobile phones
http://blog.lesspainful.com/
Sadly, most of those are outdated. :(
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I did the same thing.

It turns out that philosophy and programming are distressfully similar. You build a structure out of logic and feel proud of yourself until somebody finds a bug, and then you scramble around trying to reassemble your logic structure so it doesn't have the bug. The main difference is that you can test a program, so the turnaround time is measured in minutes rather than, in some cases, centuries.
Oddly this seems to be a recent phenomenon. Early 20th century physicists were very well-read in philosophy, and their interpretations are accordingly sophisticated and rarely run into novice problems. Same with mathematicians; it's hard to even separate whether someone like Frege was a mathematician or philosopher.

Bertrand Russell and Frege are part of philosophy of science, a relatively recent period in philosophy.

It is widely accepted that philosophy of science was initiated by Immanuel Kant (late 18th century) in the Western world, and since then, philosophers have been trying to give solutions to some of the problems he first posed.

What's more, most of the Western world at the end of the 18th century underwent a period called Enlightenment. This meant, all of a sudden, there was a huge emphasis on science and empiricism throughout all parts of society (Academia included, of course).

Before that, 'philosophy of science' was known as (observations on) natural history, and then the term 'natural philosophy' was created.

Thus, since mathematics is the language of science, this is why you can't/couldn't tell whether a philosopher of science was a mathematician or a philosopher.

Even nowadays, most programmes (my own research covers Canada and major American universities) only offer philosophy of science courses, but many do not explicitly state 'philosophy of science'. I know this because I almost majored in philosophy, but I specifically wanted to go away from this branch and instead wanted to specialize in pre-Socratic philosophy, but there were no programmes dedicated to this.

As for my personal opinion on students/teachers of science vs. arts, I feel many science students lack an appreciation of philosophy and how much it did for the sciences in its early years. Most science majors shove philosophy with the rest of the arts, but, as an arts major, philosophy is the hardest arts subject and can be equally demanding as a physics course, because it is the only subject which requires an extremely rigorous knowledge of science and arts. And there are simply very few people who hold such knowledge. Philosophy is the ultimate interdisciplinary subject where in a given class, you can talk about the laws of speed and light, 18th century subtexts vis-à-vis slavery, and biology (the growth process of plants and trees).
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As the author of ~/.osx, I agree. Never blindly copy anyone else’s settings. Heck, never blindly copy _anything_.
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It gets a lot of hate, but Starbucks meets all these criteria.
But he's doing it across a couple generations. Our material wealth is so much greater that it's reasonable to ask whether our level of education has kept up.
Thanks for the link. It inspired me to add to my /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 techcrunch.com www.techcrunch.com

I can't remember the last time I read something useful or interesting from that site, but if others get good PR, freelance work, or gain some insight, then good for them.
disclaimer: I say this having my own somewhat "competing" site in the oss crowdfunding area, though it is new and frankly unused. I'll give out the link if anyone is interested, but it seems poor form to do so directly in this comment.

I like the gist of gittip: giving hackers a way to write open source code while still making a living. That is ideal to me, and crowdfunding works for oss because oss has a return on investment for everyone.

I just have a hard time seeing how gittip will break an initial interest plateau. Traditional crowdfunding has worked for a few projects because there is an exact "you are getting this output for this input". With gittip it is much less obvious. I can donate an amount each week to a person, but there's nothing attached as to how that should be used for either side. The giver might expect a certain result, but the recipient doesn't know what that is or why they are receiving it.

Not to mention there is the issue where of what if a receiver wants to take a month off? The people who are giving do so because they expect something in return, and either the receiver is tied to that nebulous expectation of production, or they can take a break and risk losing whatever funding they received before and the resulting need to build that up again.

I just don't see how that can scale beyond a small, very interested audience. I feel we need the hard goals which say "if you give me this, I'll give you this". These goals give more concrete deadlines and expectations and probably are more likely to drive results.

But hey, anything in this area is encouraging and it will be interesting to see where gittip goes.
Your "Potempkin Village" reference is a red herring.

What we have seen in successful (for a time) online communities have been limited, self-selecting, or gated communities. Usenet was effectively gated by requiring educational institution, technical organization, or government access, up until the Eternal September (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september), so called because of the traditional influx of fresh users at the beginning of every school year whom Usenet veterans would indoctrinate into Usenet culture. When the floodgates opened to full public usage, the ability to assimilate new users (and existing content and behavior regulation systems) failed to keep pace, and Usenet's long decline started.

Other examples include The Well, Slashdot, Digg, and even early Facebook (exclusive by decreasing degrees to Harvard, Ivy League, selective universities, any edu, and the world).

There comes a point in any network in which it desperately needs noise controls. I've been dabbling on G+, and it's lacking in this regard (even boosters such as Robert Scoble point this out fairly regularly).
>But, it's NOT Craiglist's data! The data was entered by users to Craiglist in order to share with others. The data is owned by users, not Craiglist.

So what? Lets assume it is your/mine/somebody's data. When we post stuff to Craiglist we give Craigslist a license to use it. We --by the ToS explicitly DON'T and even ignoring the ToS still-- implicitly DON'T give Padmapper a license to use our data. Padmapper was still using data it had no license to use, regardless of who that license should come from.
That example crossed my mind too but I'm not sure it quite fits. That would be like people getting off the boat and saying "What a delightful village! I believe I'll live here". But maybe you're right. It's a lot closer, and a neat twist.
I'm not him, but I think it's because the cognitive dissonance between being at a "Hacker" conference frequented
by strong privacy advocates and civil libertarians/anarchists/etc and using a phone sponsored by Facebook and Zynga, two of the most anti-privacy anti-anonymity organizations on the planet is just too much.
One thing that makes it not so black and white is that it's not Craigslist's data. The posts belong to the users who submitted them; they just grant a license to Craigslist. And the users clearly don't want or expect this license to be an exclusive one, because the posts are indexed by all the major search engines.

The other is that Craig has in the past stated publicly that they didn't take issue with other sites using this data except when it caused increased bandwidth costs for CL. Now it's clear either that they've changed their position, or that the bandwidth argument was just an excuse for shutting down sites they felt might one day compete with them.
I recently saw a Toronto area Craigslist job posting for a 3Tap/Padmapper type of scraping contract, where it required the developer to have experience in spidering Craigslist, despite the whole ongoing debacle. Oh the irony.

The whole thing stinks and Craigslist is completely right in putting a stop to data leeching. There isn't enough CSS3 candy that you can slap on top stolen data to wash it clean. It's a red herring argument that distracts from the main issue that they don't obey they rules of the site that feeds them.