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Tampon is a great name for a punk band. There's an all-mom punk band here in Seattle called "the Kegels" and people love them.

I usually say that people should be as edgy and experimental as they want on their own time. A serious product or workplace should have a different standard of decorum.
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> we had been unable to find a British manufacturer [...] who believed that the project would be enough of a success for them to risk line space for us.

I think that sums up current European attitudes to manufacturing and capitalism all too well, sadly. Note how they eventually ended up with a Welsh factory... owned and run by Sony.

And what does a supposedly business-friendly government do? Worry about building houses. Sigh.
Particularly music from a company with a history of very harsh enforcement.
You should probably ask them to pass naked through the checkpoint. A Court has just recently declared that as free speech.

http://www.inquisitr.com/281009/naked-guy-wins-court-case-af...
The only person who would do such a study would be an analyst for a private investment firm.
Given other common things I've seen filtered, I wouldn't be surprised. I don't think the intent is to sensor as much as it is to keep the news a little more focussed. Still, I wish there was a bit a transparency with a viewable list of what is and isn't filtered.
In light of the fact that I never run rnm without the `-z` option its not that scary of a ride.

$ rm -z *
rm: invalid option -- 'z'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
You apparently missed the part where I said "but far more importantly".
It's very true that if the components are made in china then it is easier to keep your supply chain reliable if you assemble next door and that's a risk of bring assembly back to uk but some other risks (which can be of greater concern) are reduced by shipping components to the uk and then assembling. It all depends what your product uses, there's no longer a one size fits all solution that there seemed to be 10 years ago of "just make it there and ship it back"
The same thing that happened to the failed war on drugs after 4 decades. It will carry on.

As for your other question, it will keep getting bigger budgets, because "mission creep". What do you think this, and those cases where they went to subway and bus stops was? They are testing the waters to see how the people are reacting to them expanding their scope. If no one says anything or the outrage is not big enough, they'll most likely propose the Government to allow them to set-up check-ins in other places as well, and of course increase their budget.
I'm not so sure of that. Try playing a video on Windows XP with a cloned display. In some cases, the video will play on one screen, but not the other.
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Well, by the ACLU. They describe what they mean in the fact sheet linked from the page that was provided:

The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.”
But what is “the border”? According to the government, it is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />United States.

(I left the XML error in there just for the lulz.)

You can disagree with their analysis, but it's pretty clear that their position is that normal 4th amendment rules are being superseded merely because of a rather wide proximity to the border.
I was thinking of this too but would that not come under Online Fair use laws? Also there are other apps on the store that compile hashtags as well so I'm not really sure why mine got taken down and others are still up.
Steve Jobs wouldn't have needed a 1873 word essay to make this point (which doesn't make sense).

(Hey, if you're gonna scam for page hits with a title like that, you're asking for it.)
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The second result for me (posted 7 minutes ago) is related to this topic: http://i.imgur.com/oJQYf.png
I have an iPhone 4 (which I pre-ordered) and as soon as I read about antennagate I spent quite a bit of time trying to replicate it and could not.

If you're selling tens of thousands of a product with a high brick rate you will have very good stats very quickly.
The numbers don't reflect this though. Just looking at the first quarter of each year from 2006 to 2012 (inclusive), there have been more inbound arrivals in 2012 than there have in any previous years.

2012: 14,195,321 [1]

2011: 12,839,980 [2]

2010: 12,635,880 [3]

2009: 9,762,932 [4]

2008: 11,388,763 [5]

2007: 9,871,406 [6]

2006: 9,045,854 [7]

Quite simply, people aren't voting with their feet. In fact, any declines in people flying into the US seem to trend with the general economic climate.

The reason I picked the first quarter is because we already have the first quarter's data for 2012 and I couldn't be bothered to deal with the second quarter because this is only a quick glance at the data. :-)

[1] http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/m-2012-I-001/table1.html

[2] http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/m-2011-I-001/table1.html

[3] http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/m-2010-I-001/table1.html

[4] http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/m-2009-I-001/table1.html

[5] http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/m-2008-I-001/table1.html

[6] http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/m-2007-I-001/table1.html

[7] http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/m-2006-I-001/table1.html
Ruby, Python, or Scala, they are all dependent on a VM. It just happens that for Scala (for now) the Scala VM _is_ the JVM (some folks even see this as a plus for Scala).

It's more about Scala's features, syntax, design, etc that make the language worth checking out.
If I encountered this (I usually fly up to six times a month) I would simply not buy the supposedly-offending food item at that airport ever again. If enough people do this, the businesses there will be less able to pay their expensive airport concession fees, and complain to the airport, or just close up shop. The airport has a lot more leverage with the Thousands Standing Around than I do.
If there's one thing Apple has executed on, it's the synthesis of hardware and software.

That's an often overlooked key to a successful customer experience. Android has some decent hardware - Galaxy S III apparently but I haven't tried it yet - but unless you luck out and a carrier throws you an Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean, what's the point?

Microsoft knows they need something, but if they don't have some pretty awesome software they'll be in the same place Android is. (Sans patent lawsuits)
The footnote theory that I quote below doesn't sound that far fetched to me, especially after knowing about Stuxnet. I don't know if the FBI is involved, but the theory is not that wacky for an FBI hack.

For instance, I can’t figure out how and why the FBI would
have collected APNS tokens. What are they going to
do, steal the SpankApps SSL certificates somehow
and send a fake push notification from Glitter Draw
Free to a terrorist’s phone?
Nokia N97 promo video was also riddled with fakeness http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1231464
No, that is not at all accurate.

Your link above shows an author who claims JSON output, yet the output is clearly non-validating JSON (toplevel is not a [] or {}, improper quoting, etc). It appears that instead of using JSON serialization, the author merely printed key/value pairs separated by the string ": ". The problems with this approach are obvious.

This is why using a proper serialization format is important.

If the author had done this correctly and used a proper JSON library to produce this output, the following, completely safe result would have occurred:

{
"cluster_size":65536,
"disk size":"136K",
"file format":"qcow2",
"image":"/tmp/foo\ncluster_size: bar",
"virtual size":"10M (10485760 bytes)"
}

The author probably would have been best served by YAML, which is more easily readable -- and which, like json, provides mechanisms to properly represent arbitrary data.

In any event, the discussion is severely confused. Ad-hoc buggy formats cannot be compared with well-formed JSON or YAML. This has nothing at all to do with the language.
A seventh-grade sense of humor is fine, when you're in seventh grade. I'm not ashamed to say I'm more sophisticated than that.

If you want me to make me laugh OR take you at all seriously, you're going to have to step up your game. I love humor and levity. Github and Zappos are both great examples of companies that don't take themselves too seriously without being juvenile.
Yes, it is a serious burn rate, but we have three million users to maintain. That's why we are now just focused on our successful product. Wunderlist is a freemium product, we'll add premium features probably at the beginning of next year for a monthly subscription fee.
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> We have no idea if they miss any guns, 1) nor if the guns they stopped were going to be used on the plane.
2) But TSA will point to the 20 or so guns they fund each week as evidence of effectiveness.

2) suggests 1) is not the case. If the TSA knew or even suspected the guns were going to be used on the plane, wouldn't they point that out alongside the "number of guns confiscated per week" number? There seem to be a lot of dogs not barking.
We split between backend developers (mainly Rails) and frontend/web developers (mainly Backbone). Our backend developers are maintaining the backend of Wunderlist 1, and have built the backend for Wunderkit. Now they are rebuilding the backend for Wunderlist 2 and from scratch. With Wunderlist alone we have three million users, so it is a big job!
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What Rackspace gets is exposure, good karma, and nothing more.

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This is a lot like my occasional bouts with MSG sensitivity (cue MSG pedants in 3 2 1...). I thoroughly believe the science that shows a lack of correlation between pure MSG and the reported symptoms of said MSG sensitivity, but so what?

Every time I get the characteristic syndrome: a splitting migraine with auras and a general sense of fatigue it has been after eating heavily MSG-laden food. What makes this frustrating is that it doesn't always happen. But again, so what? The easiest way to avoid this unpleasant state of being is to avoid heavily MSG-laden food and by that I mean MSG's use as a food additive and not the amounts naturally present in just about everything (so calm down MSG pedants). It is one of the 20 basic amino acids after all.

I have my own theory here but no inclination to investigate because the above rule has almost no perceptible effect on my life, and life is too short to go on some sort of crusade to prove the existence of something I already know exists because I have experienced it repeatedly.

I suspect there is some additive (i.e. an anti-caking agent or preservative) put into some commercial MSGs that is the real culprit and not the MSG itself. I further suspect the sensitivity itself is variable depending on metabolic state.

And this relates to the person you're replying to: WTH would they want to do your blind test on GMO versus non GMO if eating non GMO is working for them and they can afford it? I'd hope that given recent events involving contamination of pet and human food from China that you'd be open to the presence of inappropriate substances in the food chain: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/world/asia/08food.html?pag...

Is it really such a stretch to be open to the notion that there's something real but difficult to quantify going on here?
Yes Linux is in our plans, however, it won't be the first platform we launch on. Wunderlist 1 will be backwards compatible though, so you'll still be able to use it!
I repeat this almost every time this topic comes up:

With a credit card, you can say that the charge was fraudulent and they will take the charge(s) off and you're not on the hook. With a debit card, you're out the money of the fraudulent charge while the bank investigates. From my personal experience, this can take a few days to 3 weeks before the bank puts the money back in your account. If the charge happens to put your account into overdraft, you may still have to pay the overdraft fee which may be hard to get overturned.

I pretty much only use my debit card as an ATM card. Very rarely do I actually use it as a debit card (there are rare instances where I may need to)

Conclusion: Don't use your debit card online if you have a credit card.
I am surprised how close the results are in my case. It was often really hard to say this one or this one. Near "draw" for most of them. Trying the Blekko "/monte" way as proposed here it was 50/50 Bing/Google (a bit more than 5 tests).

I am not going to switch yet, but this is good news, the gap is closing and maybe, like we had an IE monopoly, we are going to move slowly in direction of more search engines.
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Natural News are just an awful web site. I would tend to believe the opposite of whatever non-sense they're pushing.
Yes on both

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Who knew -- lawyers can be creative. Count me impressed.
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I don't know what "The Ruby Community" is, but I can tell you that I respect this guy. I'm unsettled about the documentary. If it was made with his blessing, I'm ok with it. If not, if it's a kind of "unauthorized biography," then I have some questions to ask. But it could very well be a documentary about how he affected people's lives without digging into who he is and the private life he may want to lead. I'd be ok with that.

But of course I respect him.

I don't know if you're referring to me when you say "pretending to respect him," so I won't direct my remarks to you personally, but I will say that I would find the suggestion that I am pretending to respect anybody insulting.
No, that's just your opinion and you're entitled to it so I don't care, the rest is factually incorrect.
Naming is hard, and I appreciate the desire to have fun with a name. It's pretty clear from the responses that this particular joke doesn't work.

Looking past the name, it looks like a well-constructed useful app and you should be proud of it.
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I was at the Apps for Detroit meetup on June 28, this year. I'm a loner, so my overriding instinct was to be a wall flower. I overcame that by giving myself a task. I tried to memorize the names of everyone in the room.

I went to each person, introduced myself, and told that person that I was memorizing the names of everyone at that meetup. I learned that person's name, what that person did, and, sometimes, some other biographical information. Then, I pointed out the other people whom I had met, giving their names. I repeated this for each person in the meeting.

I learned the names of the majority of the people at Apps for Detroit. Everyone I met was impressed. By now, of course, all of those names are gone. Nevertheless, I'll keep trying it at all of the meetings which I attend.

The lesson behind my goal is this: If you're a loner or other kind of introvert, your natural predilection is to be a wallflower. Therefore, you must have an explicit task when attending any social function. That task must force you to talk to everyone or nearly everyone in the room and make them remember you.
As a meta-comment, the obvious should be pointed out: by creating shock value, the name creates discussions, which create upvotes, which drives more traffic to the post hence leads to more feedback.

Call it "growth hacking" if you want, but the name is quite smart in that respect.
In order to use WP8-specific features, developers will need to use a new development model. This is more friction for developers when compared to using comparable new features in iOS or Android, where the development model is unchanged, but new APIs are utilized.

One can only imagine the sorts of bureaucratic infighting within Microsoft as various development tool factions seek to discard the work of factions falling out of favor. In contrast consider how long Apple stuck by Objective-C as its chief development framework.
The actual demo of the tech is much less impressive. Horrible distortions at the edge of frame.

> we produced a video that simulates what we will be able to deliver with OIS

Why not wait till you can deliver it to show it then
I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that you're suggesting that you think that it should be illegal to contribute to open source software that is naturally available for free. As someone who has contributed to open source software, I had plenty of legitimate reasons for doing so other than anti-competitive behavior. One of them is advertising - if I'm in an interview and am asked for a code sample I can just point to CPAN.

Similar considerations happen in a proprietary context. For instance this website is funded and built by programmers whose time is incredibly valuable, yet it is available for free. My belief is that pg sees this discussion forum as an advertising cost for ycombinator. Why shouldn't it be legal for pg to spend his advertising budget giving away a discussion forum when there are competitors that are trying to do similar things as a paid product?
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I've looked into things like Stripe, which seems to be quite highly regarded, but unless I have a US precense it is hard for me (based in UK) to set that up.<p>Also looked at braintreepayments.com, they recently are accepting UK/EU. Anyone got any recommendations?
The fact that they had the details about the app pushing data through apns.spankapps.com means they probably sniffed the traffic when launching each of the apps on his phone, and saw that the device token that app was sending up was the same as the one from the leaked data. Pure conjecture, but definitely plausible.
Sorry, I didn't realise removing traceability was the goal. If you want that, you're better off with tor not a VPN.
Agreed, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that this necessarily has anything to do with 'terrism'. Let's not forget, these are the same people who brought you Carnivore.
I've been using PayPal plus another payment provider to provide other payment options and I can say that I get almost no chargebacks with PayPal. I think I've had one in the past year. The other company, I get several chargebacks a month. Their fraud protections just aren't nearly as good as PayPal.

In fact, I often spot fraudulent charges very quickly and have to email my third part processor to refund or cancel the payments.

I was pointed to http://maxmind.com by another HN poster, which is an API that'll give you a probability of a charge being fraudulent so you can verify it before passing it to the payment provider. I'm going to test that out in combination with Stripe.
'It is worth noting that Azure provides a "dynamic schema" feature for the backing relational database.'

There are two different Azure table-like stores: SQL Azure, which is indeed a relational database, and Azure Tables, which are not. It's only the latter whose schema is dynamic in the sense the author means.

(Although I'm a Microsoft employee, I know nothing about the "Baas" product.)
All true. For a real open-source cell phone (as mentioned in the hackaday comments), see the OsmocomBB project at <http://bb.osmocom.org/>.
Or it could be a funding thing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt Columbus is one of the major airports in the US. However, I suspect that the more 'work' they do and people they employ, the more money they are given to operate in that airport.
>>The difference between Geico, Progressive, All State et al is just the ad price and CTR, in sum how much money you make from them. The best site for the user would be a comparison site or maybe a CNN Fortune article that compared them.<<

Absolutely. And it is worth noting that recent Progressive case, where they defended a person who killed a Progressive auto insurance client (to try to skip out on paying the settlement to their customer's family).

Having a diversity of the same types of companies (basically what often amounts to white label brands with the same exact business model) isn't the same thing as offering various entry points into various stages of the funnel & different editorial opinions.

Also the brand bias in the organic results often makes them parallel the ads once more. And that awareness is often driven by advertising. The day after the Progressive fiasco I remember going to YouTube and seeing a huge Progressive ad. ;)
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Yay. :D I can understand that you'll focus on mainstream platforms first, but it's great that you also care about Linux.
Well, our ageing housing stock, escalating house prices and lack of urban social mobility does warrant focus on housing, the knock on effects for the construction industry also show this as being a sensible economic policy as well as solving an increasing socioeconomic problem.

I'm not sure how using a Welsh factory shows how this government is anti capitalist or anti manufacturing - given that Wales is in the UK and it is the UK government I don't think it matters where it is in the country. The factory is probably based there as a result of the government incentives about a decade to fifteen years ago which were introduced to get large corporations to base operations in areas of Wales who had been relient on the mines and who, at that time, had spiralling unemployment.

Alos, The EU isn't anti manufacturing. Everyone is looking to the German model (high value manufacturing) as they are the only one bucking the downward trend and actually growing. The UK itself still has a very healthy manufacturing sector - I forget the exact figure but it makes up a double digit percentage of our GDP so it is not insignificant at all.

I agree more could be done to improve the position of manufacturing but to look at the Chinese model and say "hey, we should have all the back here" is not the answer. Electronics, chemicals and high end goods we should have but let china make the Barbie Dolls and cheap tat, that's not what we should be aspiring to.
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