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>People are so focused on making things that I find to be totally trivial and banal.

Then build something that isn't.
I disagree with your main point.

I agree that healthcare, transportation, education are vitally important areas that constant innovation will yield results for everyone, consumers, producers, governments, workers.

However, the social networking changes have enabled new knowledge pathways and relationships that simply could not have existed more than a decade ago. Sure, much of it is just superfluous fluff and inane posturing. But then, probably the majority of information transmitted over the telegraph, then the telephone, and now the internet has always been inane banter and useless chatting.

But just because telegrams were full of news about new babies, birthday wishes and promotion announcements didn't devalue the worth of the nascent communications industry.

What happens when new ways of communicating occur is that entirely new ways of working and collaborating grow out of it.

In just about every case, connecting with people leads to greater understanding, tolerance, and entirely new knowledge patterns.

Will there be high-profile social networking flameouts? Yes.
Will the future of communication, relationships, production and consumption be shaped by these patterns? Undoubtedly yes.

It seems galling to many that optimising day-to-day communications between friends gets more attention than healthcare, but humans are a social species. Chatting and sharing information has always been at the core of being human. If a core function of being human improves, surely humanity itself has been improved?
Heh, you're not too far off. When I'm developing, I use Vim with a semi-transparent terminal. Any text on the background would be terribly distracting.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck. The images of stars are my own little gateways to the Universe. I can't ever be "stuck" when I'm looking at them. I have a fascination with the stars and all things to do with space & quantum physics, so it works perfectly for me. I guess it's just something I've always been drawn to. I even have a tattoo which represents these things.

I find the stars and all celestial bodies to be comforting, beautiful, and quite inspirational. Much more than just a plain background.
How does one determine that the value of a discipline is dependent upon the boolean verifiability of it's conclusions? Why should I accept this conclusion?

In your very question you assume the existence of an ethical system which distributes values to systems of knowledge and yet that ethical system cannot be verified or tested the way that you demand all meaningful such systems should be.

The answer to why Foucault is important is the same as the answer to why you hold a belief system which itself denies it's own value.
That is the Mozilla Foundation. There is also the for-profit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
Or it could be, that over time, funds worked out that the time taken to build a business to sustainability took about 5 years and designed their fund lengths around this.

I would say it's far more likely that the funds followed pre-established patterns than they created the patterns.
Indeed, slightly cleaner I suppose:

spl_autoload_register(function($class_name) {
require(dirname(__DIR__) . "/classes/" . $class_name . ".php");
});
I don't think that Dave was going for a literal interpretation.
> I don't know where this idea of heroku having poor uptime is from.

Heroku's uptime.
...which is owned by the Foundation. I doubt the Foundation will hand it over.
Biggest lessons from your pro forma?
In the early stages of creating a pro forma for your company, what do you wish you knew then that you know now?
Prioritizing development tasks has not been a pain point so far with Gittip. I get plenty of feedback here on HN and on Twitter and GitHub and otherwise, and the fact that feedback is not directly tied to dollars has not been an issue.
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Is it really the convention to name a some-user class 'some-userc'? Eeeargh -- I can see it's sort of like the established -p convention for predicates, but there at least it'd be 'some-user-p' instead.
Xah is one of my best friends, he's a nice guy :)
We did this with the thought that HN is as much about news as it is about a community of makers building cool things and great businesses. I enjoyed learning more about MixRank, for example. I suppose to each their own.
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Validating certificates is a good thing and everybody should do it.

That said ... it really only tells you that a certificate is 'sound'. It by no means tells you with 100% confidence that you are talking to the right party.

SSL/TLS is still pretty fragile.
there may be other factors in your life, but i think if you have a real passion it's certainly worth exploring!
"The best way to insure that you can live the life you want and have some fun is to put all the effort in that you can now and try to put off having fun until a bit later on."

This is insane. While you need to meet your responsibilities and commitments, once you've done that, live the life you want, and live it right now.

That might involve work non-stop and very little else, if that's what you really want - but if you don't want to work non-stop, that's perfectly fine, and don't let anyone tell you any different.
This seems like a good strategy. I've long thought Google should buy Github (assuming they would sell).
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"Hi boss I've just been to the toilet and was unsure whether to wipe with my left hand or my right. I thought you might want some input seeing as you make all my other decisions for me."
WizMouse has been working quite well for me on Windows.
Using Ternary Operators you can make a fizzbuzz program in 2 lines or less.

This post reminded me of them and it'll help me neaten up some of my code. Thanks!
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> they just grant a license to Craigslist.

Under specific terms. And if you are smart enough to make this argument, than you can't just ignore those terms.

> 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.

"You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including but not limited to any unauthorized downloading, extraction, harvesting, collection or aggregation of content that you post)."

> Now it's clear either that they've changed their position,

Steve Jobs, arguably one of the greatest CEO's of our time, constantly changed his mind.
Xah Lee's ErgoEmacs fork of GNU Emacs is a memory hog. On my machine, the EmacsW32 program uses 23,032 K of working set with three text buffers open. With the same buffers open, ErgoEmacs uses more than 103,000 K. The most significant differences between ErgoEmacs and other Emacsen (actually, the whole point to ErgoEmacs) are user-interface issues. ErgoEmacs uses keybindings that match Windows conventions. I wish that I were as prolific as him, but he should include some tips on memory usage in his tutorials.
You only get one youth. Goals are fine, but it's easy to fall into the trap of "once I do X, then I'll be happy." Better IME to spend at least a few hours per week discovering and doing things that make you happy now. That doesn't mean partying, just cultivating interests, practices and (most important) relationships that make you a well-rounded, emotionally healthy person.
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Just because the barrier to entry is high doesn't mean you can't disrupt the industry.
it depends on the nature of the business and the capacity of the manager -- for example google didn't start to talk about having a real ceo (i.e. a professional manager) until they hit 200 people. when you join a company you're buying into the culture of that company, and that includes the style of the ceo. so imagine someone telling steve jobs that he's "too passionate about aesthetics" or telling bill gates that "you have really BAD taste" -- clearly you shouldn't be at that company (even if you're correct).
the problem here is rather than worrying about one particular cert getting compromised, you now have to worry about every CA in the world getting compromised, a much more likely possibility.

It seems the best course of action would be to trust only an individual cert, and check for revocation.

Also OCSP is basicly a joke, it works every single time, except when it matters (an attacker controlling your view of the world)
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It drives me nuts that the cucumber team basically said that "Get your client to write the tests" is the one-true-use of cucumber.

Cucumber has another fantastic use, human readable, computer executable tests which are great if you work in enterprise environments where you have human test teams / client human test teams etc.

The usual situation is they have some crappy "test" spreadsheet or (if we are lucky) proprietary systems of various quality.

Using cucumber the test teams can create tests that they can read and test manually but ALSO allows us to test automatically as well.

(Note: In this scenario the much maligned imperative style and web_steps.rb are also very useful since they remove ambiguity)
oh man. yeah. most job ads seem about as open with personal information as you'd expect on the 'adult gigs' section of craigslist, back when that was a thing. I mean, if you want me to apply for a job, but you won't tell me who you are? that's pretty shady; I won't apply unless I'm desperate.

I mean, sometimes you can find people that are both good and desperate. it happens. But it's hard. You don't want to limit yourself to desperate candidates.

And yeah; the salary range? I won't even refer people anymore until I have some idea of the salary range. I've embarrassed myself too many times by recommending someone really top-end, when what they really wanted was a really top-end intern. I mean, I know some really top-end interns, too... but if you are paying $15/hr, well, you are just going to get a different person than if you are paying $150/hr.
This will take you straight there:
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#ssl...
> Incremental improvements to their search, email, etc I don't think will matter. If Yahoo's search started being 5% better than Google, by whatever metric you prefer, would anyone really care? I would still use Google.

Yup, that's the issue. I actually tried Bing on a search this week - I was pretty surprised to see it returned better results, faster, than Google. But I still use Google like everyone else. Google owns that market, like Microsoft owns the desktop.

> They need some kind of breakout product

I hope Marissa already had a plan for what that would be before starting. Without such a product, I doubt Yahoo will survive.
My dad always says the way to make people happy is to under-promise and over-deliver.
Are there any languages that directly target Dalvik/dex without compiling through Java bytecode?
I agree - for a once in a blue moon interaction, sure, not having to wait as long as you originally thought might be good.

For any kind of interaction which may be repeated then it just makes you look like a stupid business owner or software developer who can't properly estimate how long something will take!
The problem with this line of thinking is that you expect philosophy to offer predictive, objective power. This does not need to be the case - the same reason why a good piece of literature need not have an objective moral lesson.

Philosophy postulates interesting questions, and the mass of previous philosophers provides some direction in the exploration of said questions - the expectation that these questions even have an answer, much less a falsifiable one, is unreasonable.
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Wired is reposting http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/29/new-purported-next-generation-...

Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4308864
Looks pretty good from here: https://status.heroku.com/past
You're probably right, but it worries me a bit after Nokia sent women tech journalists a box with pink lipstick as part of an ad campaign for the pink Lumia 900. As well as all of this: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/03/does-this-smartphone-...
3D printing may well end up being a game changer to some extent, but "ending any effective gun control" is a bit of a stretch.
Yahoo acquiring Pinterest would definitely be interesting. I don't know though how affordable Pinterest would be.
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I'm a college student with a bit too much time this summer. Thought of this site on a plane ride a few months ago and finally decided to put it together, let me know what you think! Should be great coding music.
Do you know any other sources of coding music?
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You wouldn't get. I use backbone every day for my main job, and it's a great tool. Just imagine when frameworks like Meteor are complete and you can minimize a bunch of your boilerplate code.
Apple are aware of both your telephone number and your Apple ID being used for iMessage. By switching iMessages on, Apple are told to deliver messages sent to your number via iMessage instead of a network text (SMS). Apple demonstrate they know this when you go to send a message to someone and the 'send' button turns from green to blue, indicating iMessage is active on the receivers phone.

Whilst I don't know for sure, I assume this will be the method used to redirect messages sent to an iMessage registered phone number to an Apple ID running on OS X/other iOS devices.
Ask HN: Are these hashes?
I have several 40 character long strings that are potentially hashes, however I am not sure and need assistance. The strings are purely made up of upper and lower case letters.

Is there a hashing algorithm that outputs 40 character long strings of upper and lower case letters? Or are these just randomly generated strings?

Edit: Okay, I've sort of figured out what they are through more testing and am almost positive they aren't hashes, even if they are knowing the algorithm won't help me solve anything due to these discoveries.
Speaking as a white hetero male, we're the safest demographic on the web. Just because we get some static doesn't mean that other demographics are better off.
My favorite is definitely Trance Around the World http://trancearoundtheworld.com -- I actually themed the music on this site to kind of fit in a similar flow, I always feel like a productivity robot when listening to TATW
Good stuff man, I like what I hear so far! What type of algorithms are you using to choose what to play?
Huh. You might be on to something there. "Champions of the open web" is a big niche that's empty right now, largely because of Google's failure to occupy it – an unforced error in my opinion. Yahoo under Marissa could seize that position. It could turn them from uncool to cool and win them a lot of good will among hackers very quickly. I'd be surprised but delighted if she did this.
Pinterest as a homepage is a pretty amazing idea...
The problem is that the CA mechanism (in particular, blindly trusting whatever list of root certs your vendor ships) does not provide security. I cannot go and validate the practices of those CAs, and all it takes is one of them to get compromised (which they regularly do, have you taken out the compromised CA's root certs that ship with OS X, for example?).

The only certificates I actually trust are the self signed ones from my organization which I can actually go validate in person. While I have ZERO trust in any of the certificates that my vendor ships.
been looking for something like this! Needs more collections and more options!
Completely different sensations.
This is why we need Creative Commons (read the notice below the photo)
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but that's a real dickish thing to say. Imagine saying that to a colleague or someone at a party! "I'm sorry but you are too young to have valuable opinions".

TL;DR: don't be a dick
Point taken. Our first product was all him - and its great. Now that we are bigger and can make more products - we aren't doing them the right way.
Does social media use in Indonesia predict Facebook's decline?
Leaving out the sky crane means that the comparison doesn't involve "pretty much all the same elements." The MSL sky crane is insanely complicated. Not much can go wrong with an airbag, relatively speaking.

I'd compare it to Cassini-Huygens, more than Spirit and Opportunity.
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This is a really good article - thanks for this.
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Thoughtful, inspiring article.

What's up with the spelling of the last line, though?
Interesting episode of QI(G07) points out that prior to the 20th century the colours pink & blue for boys & girls were reversed..

http://youtu.be/2f7urmRaRxY?t=2m12s
If it's a common algorithm, Google will probably find the reverse hash. e.g. https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d91...
cause you're worried someone you work with might see your hate-filled rant against the blacks.

... or your sexual orientation...

... or your religion...

... or your non-gender-standard hobby...

... or your name makes you a cultural attack target online...

... or any one of a hundred things that are personal that other people have no business knowing. Sure, using your real name is great if you're strong-willed, relatively safe, and part of the safest demographic on the web.

This argument that privacy is only important to those who have something horrible to hide should be well and truly debunked by now.
That's a great point: long-term thinking is not about predicting the future, but scenario analysis where you anticipate a number of possible/probable future. When the actual future unfolds, you can say, "oh, that future", open envelope #2, and steer accordingly. :)
It's not unethical to try to influence someone, even subconsciously, even by the choice of arbitrary design elements ("you start with 2 of 12 checked") -- as long as there's no deception.

In the simple case this is usually true, but I do wonder when you start throwing millions of dollars at researching exactly this sort of influence and start looking at pavlovian trigger mechanisms and stuff like that.

Most people aren't trained confidence tricksters, stage magicians or professional psychologists, but modern marketing at its most sophisticated is the combination of all three, backed with vast wealth and global reach, and it has already long gone beyond any pretence of acting as a way of informing people of things they might like to buy and has instead attempted, with a lot of success, to become the product itself. And, in case anyone was in doubt, I do not entirely regard this as a good thing.
That was my thought of it as well. Such pseudo-science demeans both science and the people who use it. If new age spirituality is so awesome, why the need to use pretend-science to justify it? Why can't it be awesome on it's own terms?
This presupposes that the industry-wide preference for male employees is not discriminatory, which scarcely goes without saying.
It would be easy if I had an example that had the reverse has of something simple like hello, however if these are hashes they are potentially of things obscure enough to not have been hashed anywhere else.
The link to Tranceatlantic podcast in the show notes is for iTunes. If you don't use iTunes here's the website:
http://djbissen.com/

And the RSS feed: http://metatechnik.com/Podcasts/BissenPodcast34.rss
Strange headline for this press release.

From my cursory skim, it would seem as though a more suitable headline would be 'applying latest UN/WMO standards to US temperature reduces previously announced temperature growth by half'.

There's definitely a battle of the temperature-set data papers going on with this and the BEST results being announced at about the same time. It will be interesting to see which one stands up to long term scrutiny.
> If MS and Apple threw JVMs onto their devices then we would be 90% of the way there already.

As a one-time proponent of write-once-run-anywhere solutions, I would have to say this would probably result in a reduction of UX quality.
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Can you explain what it is?

From what I can tell, there is a "Fast" playlist and a "Faster" playlist of music (which you've selected) to listen to when working, because the songs are upbeat I presume. So the play button plays the music, and do the Fast/Faster buttons switch between the two lists?

Or is that not it at all?
A variation of this hack which is used by my local car wash: Buy a booklet of 10 pre-paid vouchers for the car wash and get a free car wash ... right now.

According to the owners, moving the 'free' car wash to be immediately available rather than at the end of the voucher book say a significant increase in people who bought them - even though ultimately it made no difference financially to the customers.
My fiberhood, Hanover Heights, is leading the pack in the race for fiber sitting at 21% pre-registration right now.
If its possible have him read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Multipliers-Best-Leaders-Everyone-Smar...

It's a book on how some leaders push people at their job while other leaders simply make everyone shut down and only get about 50% productivity. He's micro-managing style is actually covered in depth.
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I would kill for a "no vocals" option. Trance vocals make me want to jump out of a window.
Weird. It's the first I hear of them, and I thought I knew all the ISP choices around here. I'll check them out, thanks.
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I haven't tried it on a multimonitor system yet, but my understanding is that the start screen and apps will appear on whatever monitor they're launched from and can then be moved around ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/21/enhancing-wind... ) - is that not your experience?
Here's the way I view it. If any industry or business can be potentially disrupted by a tech company in the next decade or two, they will. I think to bet otherwise is naive. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that all currently entrenched interests are going to go away, obviously not, but most of them are going to end up in a fight for their lives at some point, and many of them will end up losing.

So many businesses today are profitable because they have a monopoly or oligopoly on some aspect of a supply chain. The onset of ubiquitous computing, network connectivity, automated manufacturing (3D printing et al), and so forth will disintermediate damned near everyone. A lot of those intermediaries have become fat, lazy, and myopic due to how easy it has been to hold onto their business up until now, for the most part they won't know what hit them until it's far too late to do anything about it.
How is that supposed to make money?