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Ask HN: Why my share didn't show up in newest?
I shared a post about Facebook viral tactics that we used to get over 100K actions and for some reason its not showing up to Hackernews users. Seems like for some reason my blog is blocked - but I started this blog about 7 days back to share my tips on what I learnt from building and selling my last 2 startups. If for any reason my blog is blacklisted, how can I ask for reconsideration? I sent a mail to pg[at]ycombinator.com but nothing happened.
Teensy 3.0 - 32 bit ARM Cortex-M4, usable in Arduino and C
Best comment ever. :) I feel that's something that's always missed in these discussions. Users are not entering RFC compliant email header values into your form. Maybe my next web app will make people base64 encode their name, and submit it in =?B?utf-8?..?= format.
I came across this when I searched for libraries in SF. I stopped by for a visit some months ago and almost pulled the trigger, but ended up not needing it. I'll most likely join later this year or early next. May be a good place to play chess too.
Several of the hosted ESPs I used couldn't handle .aero and .mobi at the time they came out.
This is a pretty huge step toward getting things like Udacity officially certified and accredited. I'd love to see a future where the stigma of getting a degree online could be eliminated.
Perhaps this is an attempt to get back in good graces with the hacker community after trying to destroy sergey aleynikov.
Been a long time since I last saw "cow-orker". Or USENET, for that matter...
Adobe is now into Social Media Marketing
Doesn't work from here. Wonder if maybe the local DNS server isn't happy with it.
It’s never been easier for kids to learn how to make games
Ask HN: reviewing an idea
I'm thinking about building a product similar to 99 dresses but for eyewear as sort of a side project. I believe many people will be more comfortable wearing used glasses rather than something like a dress. Any advice you may have would be appreciated and ideas for "99dresses for x" would also be helpful!
That's incorrect. As was already pointed out this issue has nothing to do with reading data from the filesystem or manipulating variables internal to the program and everything to do with poor choices made when using printf.

In other words, those files aren't causing the QEMU program internals to re-interpolate one variable as two values. They're merely messing up a poorly written data exchange format.

Other languages such as I listed above simply do not have the same issue. The C program did not mis-interpret a variable as two separate values because it contained spaces. That is the nature of the danger with shell -- any reference to a variable in Bourne involves string interpolation and tokenization. This simply does not happen in C.
Twitter will not longer support the official OSX client
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no thank you. i'll stay with
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Could well be the case.

It's pretty clear that Google deliberately withheld the data needed for Apple to implement turn by turn/3D in order to give a competitive advantage to Android.

Apple purchased Placebase in July 2009 which should give an indication of when they decided to build their own map platform.
Never turn off Javascript. You will spoil all the fun for security researchers. And Javascript developers will despise you as the user who does not do as they are told. You will also be far less vulnerable to exploits. But who cares about those?

Hurray for Javascript!
If someone could make money by offering merchant services to businesses with no credit history, they'd already be doing it.

They are already doing it, every time a new business opens an account with them.

No law requires banks to require personal credit checks for merchant accounts.

I'm not talking about credit checks, I'm talking about a personal guarantee, of the "taking your house" variety.
Next Generation Monetization: Supremacy Goods
I personally upload tracks from indie artist that usually have there music for free or at very low cost on bandcamp.
So they put you in a managing position without you having the faintest idea of how to develop software yourself?
I disagree. I believe the ethics of the people you work for are important, maybe even as important as fun technical challenges. Please do take your distaste or love for their business model wherever you like.
He's got a much better copy of it than I do, I have a photocopy of an older edition (I want to say 1935 but it's not at hand to check).

Useless bit of trivia: the original OS/2 release included several MIDI sample files in a "media" directory on one of the diskettes. The IBMRALLY.MID file there is a rendition of "Ever Onward, IBM".
You don't tell customers off like this no matter how obnoxious they are to you over email. Just don't reply if you are that upset. Absolutely childish on the part of the company.

See http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1901 for a much better example of how to handle annoying emails.
Switching to HTTPS won't help as it's just arms race between websites and governments.

Jimmy, if you think you have enough technology competance enough, try China's GFW.
used nokia n800 would be very small and expandable.. nettop or netbook would work... thats what I use... more packages avil for x86.... many are fanless... allows use of wine or virtual box.. or video games. Power usage as low as 2tdp and support for various ports - usb 2/3 esata et

good luck and tell us what
This question is equally applicable to all data sources -- not just filesystems. The question applies to sockets, IPC, databases, everything.
No, we're suggesting that if you're going to offer a merchant account to a company, your decision and terms should be based on the nature of that company.

You might reasonably do a credit check on the principals, since someone running a company who has a track record of bad debts is obviously a warning sign. Likewise you can check them against the databases of people who've been kicked off payment services before.

But in the end, you should be looking at whether a company has a credible business plan and people who are likely to execute it well. That's apparently good enough for other major financial transactions, including attracting investors and things like company credit cards for principals on the day you open a bank account. How come everyone else in the world can use common sense and make an informed judgement about risk, but merchant account providers can't?
No, you forcing me to include a number does not make my password more secure.

Weak password: correcthorsebatterystaplefoobarbaz

Strong password: password1

The worst is when they do that and enforce a maximum password of 8 or 12 characters (I'm looking at you, every bank in the US ever).
The problem with the complimentary goods model is that it depends on a certain amount of proprietary between the complimentary goods. But what happens when someone makes a complimentary good that is interchangeable, and breaks the proprietary; and then undercuts your price.. You are screwed racing to the bottom of profit margins with a competitor, and then you have 2 items which are low margin.
With their business model, the more startups the more likely they are to get a homeruns and base hits, as long as they can maintain a minimum standard that's strongly correlated to outcome (which PG seems to have figured out). It's an odds and numbers game.
TomTom owns Tele Atlas and Nokia owns Navteq, just FYI.
Yup.

I've got another friend/acquaintance who's got a fully legal (self chosen) single name. No first/middle/last name, just a "mononym". He has the expected hilarious outcomes with things like Google's "real name policy".
Device guide: Buy now or wait?
I believe there is a variation on this theme in the Marine Handbook. I am not sure if it is harder to see yourself as undisciplined or unmotivated though.

Strangely I get more done when I don't have enough time because I don't get to think about what I'm not going to get done, instead I'm just trying to get most of it done. That's a pretty non-intuitive result for me.
Yep. You don't like my opinion so clearly I must be working for Apple or own stock. In fact it is neither.

And at no point did I say that OSM wasn't responsible for the map data. Only that Apple added other pieces from other companies.
> "currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates"

So it's really a site for a small number (130+) of "start-ups" (all sharing some common investors?) to poach talent from an extremely small A List of the biggest tech companies around.

The $30 million for 88 engineers is an average of $341,000 per engineer. It sounds like they are adding up all the offers for every engineer rather than the top offer for each engineer. Perhaps some got no offers. Perhaps some got 20 offers of $50,000. The $30 million total offers for 88 engineers tells us almost nothing.
I was listening to CBC radio's Quirk and Quarks the other night (last night perhaps?) and on the show they were discussing the possibility of life in the universe.

People seem to hope that there are super advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, or just one maybe, out there somewhere a billion of years old. Someone to catch Voyager and look at the gold record of greetings from Earth.

The astrophysicist guest on the radio program described how the universe began, what elements existed when, more complex later on. It took a very long time for the early Universe to cool, a long time for it to condense, a long time for suns to exist which created elements, cycle after cycle of suns born and then die, then a long time for heavier complex elements to form. Then perhaps planets, any planets but maybe only a few that could support life. A long time.

Pretty much what he was saying was all life had the same amount of time to develop because the elements to create planets, molecules, life etc. didn't exist yet and when they did it exist it was at the same time everywhere, more or less.

There probably isn't a billion year old civilization out there since it couldn't come into existence there weren't any elements to make it and no way for any short cuts.

I think this is it, it's audio only: http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/episode/2010/01/02/the-top-10-unans...
Just moved from there, but thanks for the offer!
Umm, so you're saying vi is "new wave"?
> Google is merely processing massive data sets using manually crafted algorithims

That is what Watson is. There's not really any "true" artificial intelligence since the term is so poorly defined, but you could make a good argument that your description above fits humans pretty well, too.
I agree. This could be 33 low ball $1 million offers for a single guy who is a VP of engineering at Facebook. Without a histogram or something better than this metric, we can't tell.
I used HTTPS Everywhere and HTTPS Finder extensions. That forces your browser to use HTTPS on every server that supports it.
Google Ventures is not the "Google" of venture funding. And there are about 5-7 firms that would have this type of brand-value that don't even consider these kind of tactics.
We're stoked to get this going and dialed in with Stripe and some of own customer service controls (free deals, unique discounts to single customers, unsubscribers, etc.).

This addressed a sharp need for a lot of us--and there's little better than doing that in a startup.

Good luck, Sean.
Actually Google should be the same as local street directories since that is where they get there data from. I live in Australia (hi, neighbour) and it is Sensis (Yellow/White Pages) who supply data to Google.

As for quality of maps it is about 80% as good as Google and has been getting noticeably better over time.
Noone's stopping competitors from launching platforms with open standards. The only factor is the content producers/app developers will go to where the most money can be made or where they can reach the largest audience.

The users will ultimately go where there's the most (or best) content/apps.

So the business models of the producers is the deciding factor.
"Twitter for Mac is done. ...no further updates"
Toll Fraud Tops Mobile Malware Threats
As someone who had to deal with a bit of depression in the past I think the article got things backwards. Get motivated first, and as your time becomes limited (instead of just being wasted) discipline and organization naturally follow.
How to find your iOS device's UDID
Could the blessed days of the s-expression interchange format finally be here?
I rememeber back in the day when email addresses like hello@[8.8.8.8] were valid..
For a job seeker, there are a decent number of superstars out there who do great work, know all the job openings at all the companies you care about, are in contact with decision makers and help fill big jobs. (If you want a big corporate job, that can be a great way in.) There just happen to be many more recruiters who are few or none of these things.

Not that different than the world of real estate brokers, barriers to entry are relatively low so anyone can try it, but only a proportionately small group of people are truly effective at it.

On the hiring end, a really good recruiter can definitely help a company fill specific positions, particularly in a new competency, and I've met some great people that way (but personally no hires).
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4506

That is 'XDR' (eXtensible Data Representation) which has similar goals and is reasonably mature. Of course JSON (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt) does this as well but using character code points. Not to mention XML and ASN.1. In perl there is YaML (http://search.cpan.org/dist/YAML/) too.

I'm wondering what this one brings to the table. The readme file doesn't say.
I get why the developers of this might want to limit the initial pool for practicality's sake (I imagine it is helpful to have people who are at least somewhat pre-vetted), but I have to agree, when I saw that my initial reaction was "you think the only people worth their salt are part of a very small insular world of large companies that are able to overpay talent to keep them off the market?" I'm sure that wasn't the intention, but that's the impression it left me with.

In a sense though, this reminds me of professional sports free agency in a lot of ways. You have the teams/companies that are willing to overpay for names, and you have sort of the moneyball thing going on with groups that are looking for really good bang for their buck and trying to measure undervalued talent. One thing I wonder if this site could have the potential to do is help out the second group, although I don't think the current setup does that.
Angel Investor: Entrepreneurs need to learn to respect capital
They emailed developers to invite them to submit apps for Fire HD. No hint of a compatibility change in the works.
Thank you. This was an extremely well written read.
>Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.”
Now they have two problems.

It was a dumb thing to say when he said it, and it still is. Granted, REs aren't appropriate for everything, but for some problems they're the right solution.

>So eschew your fancy regular expressions already. If you really want to do checking of email addresses right on the signup page, include a confirmation field so they have to type it twice.

No. Just no. I hate you and everyone else who thinks this is a good idea. Don't make me type things twice - the point of computers is to take some of the grunt work out of life, not to add more.

There's nothing wrong with checking an email address for validity, and there's nothing wrong with using a RE provided it's correct. You'll miss a whole bunch of typos, but since you're going to send out a "click to activate" mail anyway it doesn't matter, and the ones you catch will save the user a bit of time.
Chiming in - PagerDuty has saved many butts at Airbnb, too. We love to hate getting pages from you guys.
Could you please clarify this? We made contact with Braintree just last week, resulting in an invitation to join the EU beta programme. We read over the provided docs and sent back a few follow-up questions, but haven't heard anything since. Now the whole site seems to have changed around, suggesting that the service is out of beta.

Can I safely assume at this point that our reply was "lost" and we should start over? Not exactly a promising start on the customer service front, but perhaps we can call it teething trouble. :-)
Where can I still use bang-paths?!
Not just that. They also want to make it illegal to not decrypt your data on request. I think lots of people will be forgetting their passwords soon.
So, XML, YAML, JSON, and the dozen plus other markup notations were not suitable because they used C style delimiters instead of Lisp style delimiters?

Snark aside, what does this buy us that these existing markup languages don't?

I appreciate all that Rich Hickey does for programmers, but aside from his name, this just adds to the noise that already exists in this domain.
I've read about that before :) , there was also a short story by Asimov in which the Voter was chosen at random.

For example, here's a paper from Yale:

http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

some random blogs:

http://equalitybylot.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/ben-saunders-c...
So how exactly would you recommend going about finding a programming job in the U.S? Are there any resources you found particularly useful given that I have no connections, little knowledge of the job market, and respectable (but no niche or outstanding side projects, mediocore GPA, etc.) skills that would render me invisible in the eyes of "top" employers like Google?

I've heard so much about how the grass is greener on the other side but it is not so easy for some of us to join in on the action. I have a bachelors in CS and two years of Canadian experience under the belt.

For example I've found indeed.ca to be very useful for locating job openings in most Canadian cities and http://www.grasmick.com/ was recommended to me by some expats.
I've found discipline helps most when it's not yet needed. When I have an expanse of time, it's easy to end up being unproductive without discipline. Once I'm working under the pressures of time constraint, discipline is easy because it's necessary and not really an option.
Its also worth noting that SR&ED (specifically the ED part which is typically applicable to startups), only cares that you are seeking, systematically and in the face of technical uncertainty, for technical advancement within your organization.

They don't care whether the outcome of this search is successful or not.

This means you have the incentive to risk the funds on such an endeavour, as you can get the credit despite your success or failure.

Risk real money, and you'll get a refundable tax credit with a chq in the mail.

Risk "virtual" money (e.g. accrue a salary that you might only pay out later provided you have sufficient cash flow), and you get credits that can be carried and applied in years when you had/have real money.

One of the implications, is that if things end up going sideways, you still have the option to e.g. switch your startup to doing something else (like contract work), apply the old credits to the new money and recover something of your risk.
Apple Devices Exposed by Possible FBI Computer Breach?
This is just a silly sentiment. The iPhone maps app may not be perfect but having no clue why it was created makes it sound like you are dumb or just being difficult.
How Patents Stifle Innovation
Unfortunate timing. Paul Stoffregen has already met his kickstarter goal for the Teensy 3.0: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulstoffregen/teensy-30...
Because these tips are not scientific, nor are they meant to be, and I doubt that they can even be testable. How often can life advice be empirical?
They've been avoiding mainstream animals lately.

My guess is the Zonure[1], since it is South African and looks awesome.

Although if they continue the trend of increasingly hard to pronounce names they might go with Zyzzyva.

[1] http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4447517348_9bf8d8b2a6.jp...
Thanks. Rules around each state's sales tax is pretty fluid so trying to get as much information as possible. Appreciate the feedback.
See how good your color sense is
A quick playing simple game that tells you how good your 'color pitch' is. Try it out!
Opt out of the backscatter/Pornotrons.
They shuold release an API. Smart move.
A simple ruby gem for 4chan - simple-fourchan
I wish that all project managers knew how to write code. In my experience this is not the case. None of the time that I spent managing software projects was while I knew how to code. That's about 1 year doing vendor evaluation for a non-profit, 11 months doing requirements docs and manual QA, and 7 months in a 'Scrummaster' role.
Make them upload a picture of themselves next to today's newspaper, where today's date is legible, and you need to be able to verify the paper is legit. That would be possible but not easy at all to fake.

The second best way is credit card, and use a third-party service that doesn't require you to store any cc info locally.

Unfortunately, people have more than one cc, more than one email, and you can't ask for ssn, but even if you could, that isn't guaranteed to be unique:

http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/79/~/req...

DNA is unique, but that is too expensive and can be faked unless checked immediately, and depending on type of test, can be faked even in person if blood not taken (difficult to fake otherwise), and can't do online.

Vocal recognition for determining whether a user is unique and for relogin later can be faked online easily.

Visual recognition online may be decent way to do it, but probably too expensive, and could be faked by someone holding up someone else's picture, or a video of someone from YouTube (although could check for artifacts indicating is from video source).

Retinal scan can be faked.

Gait + body/facial recognition isn't too bad, but you can't do that online. That is what the government uses with street cameras in cities, etc.
For anyone interested, the (no longer) live stream is available here:

http://www.justin.tv/start_x/b/331303892
SATA is also very useful in this application, and quite rare unfortunately.
This board might do the trick:
http://cubieboard.org/#
If someone is paid based on the number of books sold does that count as a marginal cost?
You can do that by clicking on "My Places".
Amazon FreeTime Gives Parents More Control Over What Kids Watch
Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD
PHP coders can use the simple built-in filter_var function: http://phpbestpractices.org/#validating-emails
Delicatessen Cheesecakes Crowdfunding campaign
Launched today. Already 850 in funding. If you guys are into cheesecakes this is the real deal.
> far exceeded them in others (3D).

Actually Google and Apple have pretty similar systems for 3d maps. Apple are in beta with their new version for ios6, which will have slightly better resolution than (the current, been there for a while) Google Earth, but not hugely so. See for comparison http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/iphone-news/3d-maps-comparison-...

Nokia are producing similar 3d maps, although again slightly lower resolution than Google.

I think more importantly than resolution will be coverage. 3d maps of the centre of major cities are one thing, but the whole world is a very different challenge, and one we have no clear idea of a winner on.
Google's Hardware Division Steps Into The Future
Great idea, hoping they open this up to UI/UX designers in the near future.
If your intention is store data structures in JSON form -- ie pretty much a pure graph database -- then maybe a relational database engine is a bad fit anyhow.