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Probably? You think there is even the slightest chance that fortune 500 companies would consider this? I noticed in your profile that you are a patent lawyer. What do you think would happen if you brought this suggestion up at the next partners meeting?

Respectfully, I think you are mistakeningly assuming that your email use case is representative of the rest of the worlds. Are you subscribed to any mailing lists? Do you ever engage in long form conversations with people in another timezone? Any non-corporate collaborative work with friends (software/volunteer activities/fiction/nonfiction writing)?
I like what one of the commenters on the original post suggested:

How about having this intelligent system locate the drivers of oncoming vehicles and not shine light directly into their faces? Same thing for cars being followed, avoiding their rear view mirrors. If headlights were smart, we could make them brighter without blinding anybody.
> As developers, it is our challenge to discover and address the causes of the churn as best as we can, but understand that it's natural and unavoidable.

I disagree. I believe if whats state above is the nature of your market/customers then you are in the wrong market.

SaaS products require a healthy customer retention rate to be successful.

The analogy in our case is often the gym. At a gym:

a) 70% try it out for a month or two then cancel,

b) 25% keep paying but rarely show up,

c) 5% of customers pay and visit frequently (regulars)

A business in that situation has to either make a ton of money form each customer OR have enough new (paying) customers signing up frequently to fill both B and A - to survive.

Attempting to minimize the effects of a market with an inherently high churn rate is costly and usually not worth the effort.
Some of the examples we're presented with are of physical harassment (i.e. groping). I think the implication is that the police should handle these incidences rather than trying to police them outside of the law.
Isn't his point that a party is a party? Being a party at a night club, conference or not, makes all the difference.
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perl, for fun:

sub add1 {
my ($arrayref,$val,$count) = @_;
# Just incremet matches and return if we aren't limited
# Useless return of array ref
return \map { $_++ if $_ == $val } @$arrayref unless $count;
# increment up to count matches
for ($count<0 ? reverse @$arrayref : @$arrayref) {
next if $_ != $val;
$_++;
# Advance count towards zero
$count<0 ? $count++ : $count--;
return if $count == 0;
}
}

Splitting the loop into separate versions for positive and negative counts is quicker than checking if count is positive or negative each iteration, but I figured that's a step more than I wanted to take it.

Alternatively, defining a variable for the amount the $count changes (-1 or 1) and just adding that to count would work as well, but I'm working under the assumption that's less likely to be special cased in the interpreter than post-{in,de}crement.

Edit: Clarified reasoning behind post-increment, etc.
But Dalton was it really such a surprise for you? Was it a first time you heard or had a felling that someone is building something cool and dataset owner wants to shut them down? Seriously, I have at least 50 different cool ideas taping into both Twitter and Facebook streams, but will never lose a minute on any of those because I know that the stream can be turned off any minute. If you ever read techcrunch, mash, sai, a vc etc, you would sooner or later stumble upon a similar situation. "Blessing" from Mark doesnt change a shit -- he doesnt answer to you, he answers to the board and stock owners and since IPO with this thing tanking 40% he is on a very tight leech and you are the last one to answer to.

You story also reminds me of a gentleman agreement I had with Don Dodge. His "blessing" and interest in my idea made me work days and nights to deliver asap, and at the end he totally backed out. It was painful and disappointing, but one cannot do nothing about it.
Would prefer a warning that it's a download link.
Pat-downs are pretty standard in public events and totally fine for security. You know exactly who checked you if anything goes wrong, and he is hanging by a paycheck.
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> Naming and shaming people who act like idiots would
> also be effective I suppose

A "Wall of Creeps" next to the "Wall of Sheep?"

(or maybe the threat of "poor impulse control" tattooed to your forehead? ;-)
I've been thinking about this some time now and I think that the company that eventually figures this out (human self-monitoring devices) - on a full commercial scale - would be very successful and quite powerful (that medical data is valuable).
ASP.NET is a nightmare. An absolute nightmare to work with. Sencha (assuming ExtJS) is one of the worst JS libraries you could pick. Not a great deal of experience with the others, so I cannot comment.

That said, there are no doubt good examples using those technologies to do useful things. I am not arguing that widgets make it impossible to create useful things. I am arguing that widgets by their very nature limit what the developer can do. At best you get indirect access to things you need (Application state, Database, etc...) and often times you have no access.

They are the worst form of abstraction. Extremely easy to do one thing. Hard to customize and nearly impossible to do something unintended.
The web search API remains free. Additionally, the other API features are free up to 5,000 transactions per month (images, maps, retail search, etc.)

I wouldn't say it's completely dead.
How is gmail or hotmail the email protocol?

That's your FUBAR right there.

Also, what's so complicated about (a decent) email (client)?

And what's so great about being a "[insert company here] bitch" [1] ? An open protocol is something to build on. Twitter isn't.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/fred-wilson-be-your-own-bit...
They threatened this in a phone call, but he didn't record it so he didn't include it in the letter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325593
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Why do you hate children being taken to the event, and what does that have to do with harassment?
I regularly fight the TSA at the airport and have been threatened many times. I document my antics using #fuTSA.

The last few times they asked "do you consent?"

I asked "does it matter what I say?

They answered "not really"

My response "so why bother asking? It's incredibly deceitful for a Federal employee to ask for my consent to do something when they're going to do it anyway. You're just trying to convince people they have a choice.. when we don't."

I always get the "aggressive patdown" then. ;)
Law is also a pretty insular and regionalistic field. E.g. at one of the most selective firms in the country (Susman Godfrey in Texas), a UT Austin grad has a much better chance than a Columbia grad. They think UT = Harvard down there.

It's all very strange. In most fields such blatant regionalistic favoritism isn't so encouraged.
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Bezos said it pretty well: the key to innovation is the willingness to be misunderstood.
I was hoping this would be a polarizing filter or modification to standard headlights.

While cool, it's unfortunately an entire electronics system dedicated to the situation. The last thing I want is a frozen sensor detecting the entire road was 'rain' and shutting off my headlights.
Had a friend who saw the warning signs and bailed early enough. Queensland (the state Brisbane is in) recently had it's government shed tens of thousands of workers in a bid to reduce debt. Seems to be a great time to be hiring talent in Brisbane?
I don't know about others, but I am definitely using emails less these days, but it has nothing to do with Twitter.

Perhaps because my job is relatively mobile, I am replacing a lot of emails with WhatsApp and Line. I have even started to use voice messaging, because it allows me to convey the tone of my message without having to go into an actual "discussion" with someone.

Although after reading other's comments, I am not brave enough to say that this is the future of email...
Do we need a HN front-page post now for every module in the Python standard library?
It's not clear to me whether the author has much experience actually working with lawyers, in law firms or otherwise. It would seem that experience, even a few years, would vastly improve the odds of building successful products and services.
It's not OK to take advantage of a naive person. They could simply have explained their position in a way more appropriate for the kind of meeting they had portrayed.

If Facebook wanted an acqui-hire from this meeting here, they sold it awfully poorly. They don't have to care, of course, they'll likely just look elsewhere and scoop up 5 people to do the same thing, but from a business perspective this meeting would have seemed to be a waste of time for all concerned. Again, FB has the cash so who cares, but to drag people in with the hope that they'll forget themselves and jump at whatever opportunity is presented. They're taking time and attention away from the thing that attracted them to this person.

Heck, that they kind of throw offers around like this is kind of a lesson for future targets simply to triple their ask. "Sure, $50MM all cash." Screw those jerks.
A deeper analysis of the same controversy, from a game-designer: http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2012/8/1/playing-to-win-in-badmin...
I had no idea Qt was used for that.

https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/tree/master/src/qt

They didn't mention it in their readme at least.
I'm thinking they'll probably include a fail-safe of some kind.
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I agree that ability doesn't determine wages. But I would like to qualify your statement about what does determine wages. In a free market, wages are determined by scarcity and demand. However, a free market is a theoretical construction that often fails to model reality. For example, free markets do not include coercion, deception or collusion, all of which are ancient and universal parts of human life.

For example, the $0 pay rate of a field slave is not because nobody wants cotton-picking, or because there are too many people who will pick cotton for free.
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As others mentioned, you need to start with small projects and work your way up. Remember that Google is your teacher, there is no other way to learn how to code practically. If you're not Googling, you're not learning.

There are many, many areas of programming and no course will cover them all, or even one wholly. You just work on new stuff and you will retain what you use frequently. This knowledge gets more vast the more you code.
tl;dr for this post: at least in Chrome transparent as a CSS color translates to rgba(0,0,0,0), which means that if you have a gradient from something that isn't fully transparent (alpha channel > 0) to transparent, there will be an awkward phase in the middle where black is visible (because the gradient is transition the alpha channel in lockstep with the color.)
If you don't feel like reading the link above, what the author is basically saying is that if a tournament structure is so badly designed that it sometimes incentivizes losing on purpose, then that's the fault of the organizers. The players are just playing to win within the rules given to them and shouldn't be blamed.
And what you would do if someone grab your hips. This is a very real situation as accidental hip grabbing is very common specially in crowded conferences. I believe hip grabbing and tatoo licking are VERY different situations, you see how complicated this issue really is.
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Hehe, I've also noticed this.
I find it convenient to have share this, connect to FB, etc. it's called innovation for reason. It make people click and type less.
Agreed. The link should have taken us to a page describing what it's about, with the option to download.
Unless you think event or building security won't help you, it's still probably better to go to them, even if a "real crime" has happened -- they're able to get police there faster than you can, to the right location, and may be able to assist themselves (a lot of building security are off-duty police, too, and at the very least they're good witnesses). Particularly if it's something which just happened or is ongoing.

I might call the police directly if it's something I want kept private (like, rape) which had happened already, but realistically anything which happens at a conference to an attendee will become known to the conference and venue security soon enough. Or I'd call the police if I didn't trust local security to do anything, like is sometimes the case with campus police. However, at conferences, I think most security staff would be responsive.
Those curves have changed very quickly. I'm very interested to see 2012.
If you can think of this concern in 8 seconds or so, I assume automotive engineers can too.
How about the dojo widgets, do those qualify?
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Which universe exactly is this where "geeks" and "nerds" suddenly turn into ravenous, over-confident and over-sexed pickup machines?

In my universe, and it has always been this way, whenever I go to a party the geeks and nerds end up huddled in a corner, occasionally daring to look at a woman, and whose social interaction bear such a close resemblance to the Big Bang Theory that it is quite embarrassing.

Admittedly I am not from the US (maybe things are different there), but I find this whole picture a bit hard to imagine.
On Windows I use GSView to view PS files.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get50.htm

You must also install GhostScript in order to use it:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/GPL/gpl902.htm
Yeah... most everything on the wiring harness goes back to a computer, these days... and modern ECUs will ignore data that doesn't fall within expected parameters.
Did I understand correctly that the "other business he is growing" is an analytics platform for Facebook ads?

Here's the link I got from the post: http://pagelever.com/

If so, so much for impartiality.
Yep. Rude.
Where are you right now? Lets meet. Just write me an email it is in my profile, now.
Their scenario.

The amount of times I've seen breaches of e.g. open source licenses dwarfs the number of patent cases I've seen. Generally, the creator has no recourse, because they can't prove it most of the time (closed-source product), nor can they afford the court costs if they wanted to, so it just slides. Sometimes changes are made (e.g. GPL-using code open-sourced), but often they aren't, and it's largely because the offended party is small and can't properly defend themselves, so it isn't worth it.
what makes you say that?

Labels were originally pure labels like tags but now they have added sub-labels and nested labels which is basically the same thing as folders. So they are calling them labels but have basically abandoned that concept and are back to folders.
It's interesting how much of the Foundation consists of patterns for overcoming the awkwardness of Objective-C.

For example, in most modern languages, NSCountedSet is crazy trivial; you just use a hash of numbers. But since Obj-C doesn't have autoboxing (well, it kinda sorta does nowadays, but anyway), having a built in implementation is nice.

NSValueTransformer is a similar workaround for a lack of language features, which will look particularly alien if you're used to languages with proper closures and autoboxing. They are a boilerplate nightmare, and Apple would have done well to provide some simple implementation that could be controlled from the interface builder years ago (based on JavaScript expressions, for example).

Anyway, a fun exercise with NSValueTransformers is to build a subclass for chaining them together (bonus points for automatic reversing), and then a subclass of simple primitive operations that you can compose into more complex transformers. This can actually be pretty useful if, for example, you have a number of log-scale sliders and text fields that require slightly different transformation parameters.
It's very sad to see Pacific Fibre shut down, because they had done an incredible amount of work to get the major corporate and political players on board. They were basically putting forward the only credible plan to lay a new cable, and it's now very unlikely that the Southern Cross cable will lose its absolute monopoly (it's essentially the only connection that New Zealand has to the outside world). It's a sad day for all technology-driven businesses that want to start (or remain) in the country.
They have some right to block this if they feel there will be espionage, but should have to pay all cost differentials required to not use Chinese equipment and investment. (NSA is welcome to invest, since they'll be wiretapping it anyway, and if European intelligence wants to subsidize ALU to provide equipment, they can have their own monitoring.)

Realistically, any major fiber system is going to be monitored by virtually all intelligence agencies of major powers -- at minimum the US plus the endpoint nations, but I wouldn't be surprised if China, Russia, and maybe eventually other countries established submarine tap technology, either in the middle or at underwater branch/repeater units.

Angry and sad if this kills the project entirely -- I was really looking forward to Pacific Fibre :(
To be honest, 160K isn't that much.

Many of my friends, some just graduated in Law and others starting in other fields, are making more than that. Especially in NYC. Many hedge funds, for example, are still shelling out 300K+ salary for people 2-3 years out (considering you had to go through law school its apples to apples)
What surprises me is how obvious their attempts to lose were; so much so that the audience boo'ed them and they were warned by the umpires.
Pardon me for barging in on this discussion but I find the use of "Nope" in a manner not humorous, ironic, or otherwise deceptively rendered to be quite rude indeed. I do not question your motivations but maybe we are — many of us — to blame for the ills you decry.
If you'd like to try out KISSmetrics or Mixpanel, note that the article includes a discount at the end for both sites.
If it makes it to the front page the it means enough people found it insightful or helpful. I for one did, and when/if I want to do some concurrent threading in Python, I know where to start.
HOPE isn’t really that kind of a conference (you can come and go as you please and there’s usually just a volunteer sitting by the door glancing at everyone to make sure they have badges).

If he got a pat down it wasn’t in any kind of official context. (FWIW, the attendees are pretty friendly.)
"The players are just playing to win within the rules given to them and shouldn't be blamed."

Indeed. It seems kind of stupid to penalize them now instead of refining the rules afterwards as they didn't particularly break a hard rule.
When will we finally get rid of the monopoly on bandwidth :(

I wish the government would just spend the money investing the difference. We could sell our assets for something useful!
Ask HN: linux sysadmin considering going the consulting route
Hi all,

I am a senior Linux systems admin, >10 years experience and have worked for high volume dotcoms. I'm looking for my next challenge and I am considering being a consultant. The thing that I am not certain about is the demand for Linux sysadmins on a per project basis. I know plenty of people doing consulting as software developers (and they seem very happy,) but don't really know anyone doing it as a sysadmin.

I suspect that some smaller companies or even startups might be interested because they don't have the funds or need to have a senior sysadmin on staff, but could use expertise on a per project basis.

While I'm based in the Boston area, I would consider doing projects around the world.

Any advice or thoughts?

Thanks.
Why Women Rule the Social Web
Thank you so much for this article. It actually had examples and those are the best weapon women have against sexism/sexual harassment. It's one thing to talk about sexism vaguely and broadly and another to actually tell the stories.

"I think this chick should lighten up personally."

It's hard for males (me included) sometimes to relate to sexism (think of all the women in tech articles we've debated) or sexual harassment because we're not on the menu. We don't experience it. We aren't the prey. It isn't until men themselves feel vulnerable and dominated that they realize what an awful feeling it is to be invaded, harassed, or threatened sexually. From "innocent" ass grabbings to brutal rape. Men aren't frightened of such events because they'll probably never experience them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX2W8lgVUeA&list=FLpASQS...

Enjoy. You'll see sexual harassment and rape in a whole new light after watching that video. Getting your ass squeezed doesn't sound so innocent now does it?
hey this sounds awesome, let us know how you progress with this idea! I'm starting a project involving developing a social media tool and have been learning coding lately. Doing this exclusively for 2 months in a collaborative environment sounds ideal.
As a rule of thumb I just don't use vendor prefixes... if my stuff breaks I just say I'm ahead of the times. 8)
I use the latest Xcode day to day. Xcode is not the kind of tool you can push. If you paint outside the lines, it'll crash.
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IndexedDB polyfills
Nice work man! I wrote a blog post a while back about a QS system I use with some interesting similarities: http://designcodelearn.com/2012/05/14/my-life-tracking-qs-sy...
How do I install dotjs now that Chrome won't allow the rake install method? 
I just got a new Macbook Pro retina, installed Mountain Lion on it, downloaded Chrome, and tried to install dotjs, but Chrome is telling me "Extensions, apps, and user scripts can only be added from the Chrome Web Store." and "learn more" sends me to this page http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664769&p=crx_warning
Any idea how to get around it?
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I feel theres a critical omission here. Part of the game rules is that if you don't play to your fullest (which can probably only be proven if you play terribly bad), you are immediately disqualified from the whole tournament.

Obviously a rational player with complete information would try to fulfill the two conflicting goals of maximizing ones chances by losing (and thereby securing an easier competitor later on) and not being kicked out simultaneously.

In this case, you have players that acted in complete ignorance from that one critical rule. Thats not game theory, thats just stupid.