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Is this ide very popular? I have never heard from anyone who's really used it enough. I have some experience with just the Ace editor, and found it to be great. But c9 itself felt slow and uncomfortable.
This is, by far, the strangest git complaint that I have ever heard. What are you trying to do, ship embedded devices with git on them?
The best download UI right now, is Safari's
Has someone ever tried to compile/port the first web browser [1] on a modern OS X machine?

[1] http://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/
Ask HN: Where to find designers for low-budget startup?
So this week I was looking to get a logo made for my startup before launch. I had the budget of $800 set aside (primarily sever costs) for 1 year, I was willing to spend upto $180 for a logo. I went on Dribble and e-mailed various designers who I though had enough experience with logos similar to what I wanted. The lowest offer I got for a logo was $450. Now, maybe its just me thinking that is a bit too much. I mean, even at $100 per hour would a designer really spend 4+ hours on a logo? Perhaps using Dribbble was a mistake or maybe I've been severely misinformed about how much effort goes into design. So here is my question: What are some websites with designers who accommodate to low-budget startups and are willing to create a logo for >$200?
I think "underpaid developers on tight schedule" is far more likely than "look, the specs said 'hard to buy', you need to put in two extra steps and a random wait!".
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With two factor authentication enabled this shouldn't be an issue.
goto is commonly used that way in C... and it is just about as commonly straight up banned in C.

I am not defending the bans, but find it strange that people would be surprised by them.
Phone is not the only way to access customer support. And for the look of this, BTW, Mat's gmail account got hacked first and then the social engineering on Apple side took part (the password reset was sent to his gmail account).

Im not suggesting that doing nothing is the same of doing something. Im just saying that not matter how secure and prepared Apple had been, this could have happened anyway.

Zero incident record, in any case, seems very unrealistic. I don't know any particular case first hand but then again i'm sure this is not the first time this happens with an iCloud account either. Mat is a public person and has commented his case publicly and thats why we are openly talking about it here.
I use the 1password pronounceable strings. Still plenty random, but you can say it over the phone to a customer service person if you ever do need.
The London 2012 Olympic tickets are not for resale. The terms and conditions for the tickets dictate that they cannot be resold and any tickets that are resold are considered invalid. Of course they cannot possibly check that for all tickets, but so far it seems to work because I haven't seen anyone trying to resell tickets.
If you're in NYC, it's being broadcast in Times Square. http://www.space.com/16833-mars-rover-landing-times-square-n...
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I think his point was that software should be designed so that if someone is intelligent, they won't have to work hard (remember, "hard work should be unnecessary", em. mine). But he optimized for pithiness over clarity.
The interesting thing about intermittent fasting is that it seems to work through a different but overlapping set of molecular mechanisms to calorie restriction. The gene expression profiles in rodents say that the way in which intermittent fasting (such as alternate day fasting, the most commonly studied mode) works to alter metabolism into a better running state is not quite the same as the mechanisms of straight calorie restriction.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/05/intermittent-fast...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/11/a-little-intermit...

So evidently you still have upregulated autophagy (i.e. better housekeeping in cells), the levels of methionine in the diet are going to be lower thus triggering that important switch in the metabolism of calorie restriction, more ghrelin floating around to stimulate the immune system, and so on. But it's not running the same way as for a steady low diet, and that appears to make some differences. Intermittent fasting is not as well studied as calorie restriction, but it is shown to extend life in mammals, and it is certainly easier to manage for most humans:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/02/practicing-interm...

Which means to say that you'll probably obtain health benefits by doing it, but the studies that show massive health gains and enormously lowered risk of age-related disease for calorie restricted humans may or may not apply to you.
A while ago I thought about what a perfect gateway Antivirus software would make to gain access to millions of machines. In order to stay up to date they are allowed to make regular calls home, are proprietary, and most often for end users even given away for free. Motivated by this post I just went through a list of the Worldwide Antivirus Vendor Market Share[1], looked up their country of origin, and I have to admit that I find the fragmentation of the industry and the internationalization quite remarkable. Of cause I have no datapoints for comparison, but I still find it interesting that so many nations are home to their very own Antivirus software provider.

Company Marketshare CountryOfOrigin

AVAST SOFTWARE	12.37%	Czech Republic

AVG TECHNOLOGIES	12.37%	Czech Republic

AVIRA GMBH	12.29%	Germany

MICROSOFT CORP.	11.24%	United States

ESET SOFTWARE	9.98%	Slovakia

SYMANTEC CORP.	8.77%	United States

KASPERSKY LABS	7.98%	Russia

MCAFEE, INC.	4.50%	United States

PANDA SECURITY	4.18%	Spain

COMODO GROUP	2.79%	United States

TREND MICRO, INC.	2.15%	Japan

PC TOOLS SOFTWARE	2.00%	Australia

EMSI SOFTWARE GMBH	1.16%	Germany

SOFTWIN	1.11%	Romania

F-SECURE CORP.	0.95%	Finland

OTHERS	6.16%

[1] http://www.opswat.com/sites/default/files/OPSWAT-Market-Shar...
Conversely, this makes me want to abuse the language as much as possible (not like I have much room to grow, there) just so I could get a job interview from you, accept, then tell you on my starting day that I changed my mind, and string you along like that.
On the positive side, perhaps the publicity will cause Apple to tighten up. They have demonstrated that they are serious about security.
Is there anything at all to substantiate this story other than an anonymous blip on Reddit? Anything?
NJ<->NYC needs another "subway" tunnel pretty badly too. Ferrying people in and out with buses has reached its limit.
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If you are willing to take the time to social engineer a CSR to get a password, you are likely willing to take the time to acquire a fake ID. They aren't hard to come by.
On the one hand, it's certainly reasonable to have a site up for the project before the code's ready. On the other, I certainly hope they're building something meaningful with it, before they call it stable.
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> I don't want to duplicate a file every time I want to do some experimentation!

But you want to keep it "in memory" while you experiment with it. The new model is more natural: if you paint on a canvas, it's painted. If you want to experiment, use the magical canvas duplicator and work on that copy, then just throw it away if you don't want to keep it.

That said, they shouldn't have brought Save As back. Imposing a new model is already upsetting, making old functionality behave differently is terrible.
Wow. That's really interesting news. They raised $1bn in the IPO. Their current assets have dropped from $2bn at the time of the IPO to $1.4bn today -- so half a year. Balance sheet: http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ZNGA:US/balance-sheet

[edit] They did buy their HQ though for $250MM, which explains some of the transfer of short term to long term assets.
Ask HN: What's the best way to get a code review of my Rails app?
I'm building my first app using Rails. I'm making a number of design decisions that I'd like to have reviewed by someone with experience. For instance, have I put business logic and configuration in the right places; am I calling external services properly; what have I done that's going to haunt me after I launch?

I can search individually for guidance on these topics, but I'd like a holistic look at my app. Any suggestions or recommended resources?
> I just wish project leads/managers would listen a bit more to the community rather than arrogantly dictating "It will be done this way, deal with it".

You say that looking at single side of the coin. On the other side, the story is different. The devs receives several feature tweaks every single day. One can give detailed responses for only so much longer. There will be one time when you just cant write a satisfying response because it is not your main job.
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> This reminds me of facebook and how all its employees were stalking people using the god password.

Wait what? Sorry to get off topic but when did this happen?
Banks are experts at pushing financial liability onto others. Much of the time, credit card companies inform the merchant that they aren't going to pay for a transaction that they have deemed fraudulent. The merchant can chase the fraud themselves or eat the loss.

The fact that 'identity theft' is a commonly used name for bank fraud is another example. When some bank opens an account for person Y, there should be zero consequences for person X (regardless of any fraud committed by Y), but the banking system isn't quite set up that way.
I was surprised the source started with a <header> tag. I thought the header tag was introduced in HTML5.

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_header.asp
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Shouldn't this be a very attractive market for commercial ISPs then?
Microsoft and Google have zero incidents only for very large values of zero. Google "gmail account hacked" or "Xbox live account hacked" or "hotmail account hacked".

In the last case, the top links are to Microsoft's FAQ pages.
I see nothing on that site about the US. Where would I find such information?
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I've found Google Chrome's downloader stalls out or fails from time to time, so I'm pushed to Firefox for these failed downloads.
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Two things I wanted to know but couldn't find in the article (I thought they would be important):
1. How many metres down are they digging?
2. How many metres long will the tunnel be when it's complete?
B4RN is using burial, which is a great approach for reducing long-term maintenance, but the extra costs of burial may or may not work in other localities.

Burying wires in gravel, or burying below the usual furrow depths in farmer's fields is fairly easy, and trenchers are commonly available. (And if you bury your wires outside of the growing season, you won't disrupt the farming.)

In an area of the US that I'm familiar with, the granite ledge and glacial erratics (big rocks) would make burial problematic. Nearly all electric and telecommunications distribution wiring is accordingly overhead; on poles. With the problems that brings; ice storms, trees, etc.

Rural distribution does have some advantages in terms of not digging up existing infrastructure, and the ability to easily trench connections across the gravel-surface roads, but the cabling distances are usually (much) longer, and the numbers of and densities of houses and potential subscribers are (much) lower than in urban areas.

This means that the survival economics of the installation are fully in play; how many subscribers you'll gather, and how much to join, and how much to maintain the (overhead) wiring. This is why many rural areas of the US will tend to have DSL broadband, at best. DSL is cheap(er), and it uses the existing copper.

As with the rural electrification and rural telephone efforts that preceded this in the US, the stumbling block for rural broadband is the (large) installation costs; they're not a financially viable undertaking for commercial entities.

Incumbent telcos are seeing their business go to cellular, and wireline subscribers are dropping. Some of the telcos have been in and out of bankruptcy. Because of the budgets and the wireline subscriber trends, incumbent telcos also aren't inclined to install wiring ahead of a requirement; dark fiber isn't commonly installed during repairs in this area.

Yes, you might hope to see some of the incumbents build out broadband as a way to stay relevant. But in rural areas, that build-out involves greater distances and lower (potential) customer densities, and with higher on-going maintenance costs. And around we go...
Getting start with Google app engine
Discussion/comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340852

Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4327463
No one associates Google+ Games with excellence. And no one will. Look at this, which is a top hit for "Google Hangout Games":

https://plus.google.com/109773091778987430194/posts

I just got Tubgirl'd by stuff that looks like scratch-off lottery tickets. Seriously, Google?

Google established its fucking brand by being excellent at something important: web search. They used a mathematical and computational approach (advanced linear algebra, distributed computing) to solve a hard problem. Their brand excellence in Search made them able to capitalize (Ads) on the loyalty they earned by solving Search. Google is supposed to have learned the lesson that when you do something excellent in one area, especially when people are underserved by the lamestreamers (sorry for the Palinism, but it works here) as in web search circa 1998 [ETA: or email circa 2004] or social games circa 2011, it pays off in seemingly unrelated places. Excellence In Gaming could have literally made Google+ a niche winner and an eventual contender instead of the non-player it is now.

Google+ needed to do the same damn thing. To say this: we aren't going to pander, we're going to fucking excel. We may not be the biggest and most established social network, but we're going to have the highest average quality. Center of Excellence.

Now, for Google to go into Games at all was a huge risk, because Web Search and Games are very different. In Search, you have to be ideologically non-editorial (give the user what he or she wants to find, not what your editors think is of highest quality) and you want people to get in and out of your service as fast as possible. In Games, you have to be editorial, because if you waste peoples' time with shitty games, they lose faith in you. (Zynga dreck was one of the major reasons social network fatigue started in mid-2011.) Also, in Games, people are spending hours in your service, not getting in and out as fast as you can send them along. So these are almost opposite categories of service.

What's unnerving is that hundreds of engineers signed a petition agreeing with Excellence In Games, but nothing ever happened except for higher-ups getting pissed off. Google showed it had talent "under its roof" in spades but not the leadership to do anything useful with it.
I think that's a fair point, but the issue is that most people stop with the application and don't pick up on the underlying math. So, we get articles[1] discussing the lack of data science talent that point to a lack of math as the reason.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/statisticians-arent-the-probl...
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Remote contract opportunities for a globetrotter who knows seven languages?
A well-travelled, brilliant, personable friend of mine is fluent in Russian, French, English, Italian, and Spanish with intermediate proficiency in Arabic and Danish. She's considering taking a gap year from university to travel the world one year from now, but she's worried about being able to find stable income during her travels. What kinds of opportunities should she be looking at, and what sorts of temp/contract offers (or full-time offers) should she expect to receive during this time?

She does have dual US citizenship, so government employment is one option. Aside from that, I was thinking she could look into representing tech startups at international events on contract, recruiting, hosting events, teaching for short periods of time, or possibly other things.

I'm pretty convinced that someone like her would be in high demand, but we don't quite have a concrete idea of where exactly to find that demand. Any tips?
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I like GIT. If the man pages were improved to be more human readable then I think a majority of all these "i hate git" articles will go away.
Ask HN: How to negotiate a salary with a friend?
I'm in the valley and have a friend who has a so far successful startup. Due to personal reasons I've decided not to work and am thinking of returning to the craft soon and I find his startup interesting.

I know that I could work in his startup or other startups, as in: applying and receiving an offer is not a problem. I'm usually a pretty stern negotiator when it comes to salary...

How should I approach the matter with the friend? I don't want to press too hard I'll lose him, but I also want to get the offer that an hard pressed negotiation would give me. Any advice?
Everytime I see a "for folks from HN" message at the top of a post I feel like I'm part of a school trip. Can we stop littering the web with these?
Again there is no Google mail support to speak of (even with Google Apps for Business in my experience).
I can barely answer half of those for myself and out of those that I can answer I'm either not sure I'd answer the same thing a few years later or it will probably be something a lot of people know.

Those questions are terrible.

Answering with a random string is the only sensible solution. But it is just as mindbogglingly bad. Because then you could just as well write down the password - and bam, you'd never lose it (well, if you did lose it you would have lost the answers to these questions as well so either way you are screwed).
Excellent point! I agree, I could be hearing only one of many standards and/or the developers are using another.
> "Social games" are the least social variety of game

There was an interesting paper on that last year, which systematically catalogued the mechanics used by popular Facebook games. It found more or less what you claim: "no mechanics were found to offer very deep or sustained social interactions between players."

The paper is "Using your friends: social mechanics in social games" by Mia Consalvo (Foundations of Digital Games 2011). Unfortunately paywalled (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2159391), but there are some slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/miaconsalvo/using-your-friends-top...
git checkout bla.txt ? I'm not sure how I get how that's harder. I'll throw one back, how do I do the equivalent of git stash and git cherry-pick in hg?
Your friendship is a barrier for both of you and your friend. Find another place where you can be an employee.
It's actually even slightly worse than this article suggests.

The sales funnel for ordering tickets from the official website looks roughly like this:

1. Search for tickets. Selecting "only available" actually means "show only those that we don't know are unavailable".
2. Click on an event. Find out that
a) the tickets are actually not available at all ("tickets unavailable" or
b) only the most expensive tickets are still available (£200+)
c) there are still tickets you can afford
3. Add tickets to your shopping list
4. Proceed to check out and payment

The most infuriating part is that at any of these steps you may find out that the tickets were actually not available after all, even step 4.

What's worse, the shopping list really is a shopping basket, not a wishlist. You cannot just add tickets to all the events you would potentially like to go to and then only pay for one pair of those that are available. If you do that, and in step 4, it turns out that of the 20 tickets you selected, 8 are available, you can only proceed by paying for all 8 tickets or cancel altogether (and probably lose the chance to buy tickets, as they are released into the pool again).

This means that in practice, you keep going through all the steps, adding tickets to your shopping list, proceed to check out, find out they are unavailable, go back to shopping list, remove unavailable tickets, rinse and repeat. It's terrible.

I finally did end up buying tickets, by the way, and I do want to point out some factual errors in the article:

1. There are email alerts for newly released tickets. They are in the newsletter that you can opt-in for when you create an account on the ticketing website.
2. While there is no clearly marked option "search all available tickets for all sports on all dates in all venues", there are other ways to search than just by sport. You have to specify one of sport, venue or date, which leaves:
a) searching by venue or group of venues. Most of the sports are in the "Olympic park venues" or the "London venues", so searching by venue group is a LOT more convenient (see http://cl.ly/image/213p2f0r022p).
b) searching by date. You can simply select the first day of the Olympics and the last day and it will search all sports on all dates in all venues.

Both things are far from obvious and the usability problems pointed out are real, but for the dedicated it's still possible to get tickets.
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Once the verdict is out, the people are happy.

Give a few months to a year give or take, the people will forget what happen (temper goes down), the rich is out but not necessary in plain sight everyday (semi-hiding), and the body double is in the prison.
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>There will be one time when you just cant write a satisfying response because it is not your main job.

I've got to disagree here. There's always time to remain gracious and professional. If you can't bother to keep those two qualities when dealing with your users, you should probably find a new line of work.
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Have they? (Honest question.)
Indents with tabs are bad? I always thought this was a good thing, allowing each user to set their tab spacing.