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Not sure I read you right?

So your day in the office is shortened by two hours as you can count your commute-work as part of your work day - like, instead of , say, 9-5, you arrive at 10 and leave at 4? Sounds like a fair trade off if you're happy with it.

I don't think you get my tech angle - although I have multiple devices at my disposal, the phone is all I need for 90% of the time as I have no obligation to work on a train - unlike you, apparently.
Not all all!. It strikes me that your employee - if anything - is too reasonable. It seems you're asking him or her to:

- Take a salary at substantially under market
- Take a chance on a startup that has very little traction (just yet)
- Move countries/locations

If I understand it correctly or they are asking for is a very clearly defined "If it all works out then in 6 months I want x% of the company" Seems super fair.

My only counsel - and I think this works for both sides - is a minimum and a maximum range. For example no less than 4% and no more than 10% depending on how you perform. This works for both parties. If they're good but not great you can have the conversation after 6 months "We want to keep you on and around but not at 10%. Here's the non emotional, rational reasons why 4% is the amount we are comfortable to offer" If 10% is hard coded into the agreement you might have to cut someone who can otherwise be a valuable member because they're not worth "that much" That helps you and OP. Secondly, if gives them super motivation to contribute as much as possible during that 6 months to maximum their %.

One final note. What happens if you can't raise any more money for 12 months. Funding is a beast. Have you built that possibility into the dialogue anywhere?

Good luck!
Disk utility's repair disk and repair disk permissions functions, which are run as part of a safe boot, can take quite some time to complete their job.

I would just wait.

However, if you would really like to know where your boot is getting stuck, do a verbose boot, which is the same thing as a safe boot, except it replaces the gray Apple screen fairly (and usefully) verbosely.
1) It's not a complete disaster. It has loads of problems, but in general it's very usable.

2) During the beta phase maps improved rapidly. It was not usable a few months ago. Now it is.

So it's not all bad and there already has been massive progress. I think in one year no one will care about this issue anymore. Google Maps will always be better, but the difference will become small enough that no one cares.
You want this guy to move across countries and work for minimum wage on the hope that you'll be able to raise another round of funding in 6 months?

Sounds like you're looking for a fourth founder, not a first employee.
Ironically, in the 'other recommended articles' section of Atwood's post, there's a 2006 article entitled "Apple Laptops: Good, Cheap, Fast—Pick Three"

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/05/apple-laptops-good-...

He couldn't have been more right, but somehow he never caught on even after 6 years of constant improvements, and the introduction of the Air. His quote "Sure, you can find a few edge cases where Apple loses, such as the ultraportable category" would elicit laughter these days.

In my (and many others') opinion, apple makes some of the best laptop hardware around. It's hard to argue otherwise. Just look at Atwood's complaints about the Asus' trackpad—a defect almost inexcusable in this day and age, especially given that the Mac trackpads are so damn good. Put OSX, Windows, or Linux on it, whatever you want, it's still extremely well made hardware and will be durable, usable, and hold resale value better. Indeed, other manufacturers are simply trying to play catch-up, and cloning the style and being forced to emulate the build quality (albeit unsuccessfully) of Apple laptops. This is not opinion, this is not zealotry, I have no horse in this race—it's simply appears to be true at this point. It's even hard to argue on the economic standpoint with the price of the base 13" MacBook Air being $1199.

Like I say, I have no horse in this race; I don't care what Jeff Atwood prefers in his computers. It simply seems that there's an interesting faith-based exclusion being made, and I would warn others against making the same conclusion without using facts and experience of their own.
The qualities described here are probably the qualities you'd find in anyone at the Director/CXO level, not just HR.
This question is on the programmers stack exchange, which is supposed to be for questions that cause discussion.
A large part of the problem with transit for long distance commutes in the Bay Area is the lack of intra-agency cooperation. Because every county has its own transit agency, a trip that spans multiple counties requires either taking BART or Caltrain, or transferring buses each time you cross a county line. And of course, for trips to SV BART isn't an option, so your choice is Caltrain which runs infrequently (even during commute hours the frequency is pretty low) or a terrible set of bus routes. Consolidating all of the transit agencies (under the auspices of the MTC or something else) would be an excellent step towards building a more useful transit network.
Totally agree. Plus, I'm not sure users are asking for it that much.

It's been years since I have magnatune tab in amarok, I never used it. Paid services, gtfo my applications. I know where you are if I need you.
Well one easy way to increase security would for this to stop running as root.

Please, don't ever run your application code as root. Less so when it's facing the Internet.
(Basically because it's a legal way to keep out black people.)

Could you apply the principle of charity and think of any other possible reason why employers might care about grades?

Like, I dunno, employers believe grades are correlated with conscientiousness, agreeableness and intelligence, and employers find these traits useful?
If only there was a way to measure programmers on the robustness and potential of their code, and not just on "they wrote a lot of it."

The system seems to be that it is much more advantageous to your career to rapidly produce gobs of spaghetti -- and confound everyone around you -- than to build elegant code that enables everyone around you. You look better when everyone but you is confounded; you look replaceable when everyone around you can extract as much value out of your clean, powerful code as you can.
Bounces should go to the "envelope from address", which is different than the from address in the actual email. The way I've set this up before had the envelope from address be "bounce-$user_id@companydomain.com" so that we could identify bad addresses, but any replies from humans go to someone directly.

You can also use the Reply-To header to achieve the same result.
This can be viewed as a corollary to Perlis's "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures." [http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html]
From the creator of "Alien blue" (a reddit browsing client).

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alien-blue-reddit-client/id37...
MacVim is the standard OSX.
I watch coursera classes on my iPad 3. Before, a 10 minute video was using 5~9% of the battery. On iOS6 it goes down 1%, 2% at max.
That's one of those things we'll only know if/when Ive or Cook get an equally informative bio, I guess. Jobs might have decided a lot on upcoming projects, but it's hard to tell if his decisions held after the new CEO or were altered/ditched/etc. So I'd say it's a 50/50 chance there :)
Apple did eventually reverse themselves on this, but here's the original blog post from Google about it (they originally supported iOS through Mobile Safari because of Apple's rejection).

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-latitude-now...

> We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles.

It took almost two years for Apple to cave.
Unless you rely on an obscure feature like transit directions that is.
Why didn't he call AppleCare back?

All he needed to do, with an Internet connection, was power on holding Command+R and the Mac does the rest (formats the new drive and creates a recovery partition, then, boots to it, and one of the options there is to restore the entire computer from a Time Machine backup).

Done.

He made this needlessly complicated, and really should have just called AppleCare back, as they could have easily walked him through these steps.
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I agree, being an early adopter always means that you should prepare yourself for issues. However:

> Developers will move over their apps. Any major bugs will be found and shook out.

Wasn't this why the iOS6 beta versions were released months before the final release? Now that iOS6 is officially released, Apple is encouraging all users to update and there are quite many average Joes and Janes who don't read the tech press and these warnings. These users are the ones that face the most confusion if something is missing or changed (YouTube, Maps).

Since I installed the update as soon it was available, I don't have first-hand experience of when users are prompted to update. Based on previous experience and some update guides[1], the prompt will appear automatically when connecting to iTunes.

[1] http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Guide/ss/How-To-Upgrade-To-iOS...
That is really arbitrary, not everyone follows this convention of a designated library for specific file types.

Also:

> Searching for that phrase under Files and Folders: "Sorry, there are no files or folders that match your search."
Correction: our idea of an awesome Startup CEO is far better than an HR director.

It's simply a subset of what a CEO needs to be. This is like saying "Your idea of an awesome human being is actually an Ameoba" because we both consume nutrients and move. That analogy also happens to elucidate my opinion of HR directors.
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But surely you accept that you're the minority?

It's very clear to me that Ubuntu is targeting mainstream users. The type of users who don't consider where their "search data" is going. They just see that instead of going to Google, they can click the Ubuntu dash and search from there for anything - files, music, products, or just vanilla web searches.

What Ubuntu is doing here will certainly piss off hackers, but mainstream users? It's probably not going to bother them much. They might even find it convenient.
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I'd assume the small "Intel inside" and "Designed for Windows" ones (as well as the "X recommends Windows Y" notices on product pages) are in some extent considered paid advertising, as they ate part of pricing agreements.
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There were apparently 600 police on hand.

Hindsight says that they should have made it hard to take the train there.

I sort of think the problem will mostly go away on its own, most people aren't going to want to repeatedly act as human shields for hooligans.
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I have not been prompted to update, as, like many users, I no longer need to connect to iTunes.
> through decades long investment where the free market failed to do so.

What free marked failed to do? Create a taxi service? Gimme a break. Literally, if govt created a Manhattan project or Apollo doesn't automatically mean that they have to regulate everything else, including taxis and color of water in my toilet.

Man, I know what I'm talking about - I've lived for 40 years in the country which was built exactly as you want it to: government regulates _absolutely_ everything. This country used to be one of the superpowers of the world, and then it disappeared. It didn't lose in the war, nobody occupied it, it just broke down under its own weight. One day it just ceased to exist.
You may find http://hackershelf.com/topics/ useful.
The use of "please don't feed the trolls" to dismiss widespread, valid concerns about your product is pretty obnoxious. I don't think this situation is a huge deal, but I don't think it is trolling either to point it out.
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I've worked in the healthcare field for many years, and have written protocols and supporting applications to measure practise standards around central line procedures (both in and out of ICU environments), and I can say quite definitively that while CLI infections as a result of procedural mistakes happen, they are not the low hanging fruit you think they are.

If I had to nominate three low hanging fruits with respect to medical errors, they would be:

- Hand washing. Colleagues of mine have researched and written extensively about this issue; study after study bears out the numbers people are quoting here. I'll source some references and reply with them.

- Positive patient ID. The high flying stories about operating on the wrong patient, or on the wrong limb are one thing, but much more sinister is the issue of mislabeled blood work, specialist reports that are delayed due to mismatched paperwork, and medication mis-administration (more on this later). The degree to which healthcare professionals operate in an environment of mislabeled, misattributed, and simply missing documentation is astounding.

- Medication Administration. A close colleague of mine has made a career around studying the practice of chemotherapy administration and the reduction of errors therein. The feedback she gets when presenting to practitioners is both very encouraging (they, of course, genuinely want to improve their practice), and also disheartening (very simple changes to process have simply never occurred to many front-line staff. They're consistently amazed that the idea of process improvement is even a thing).

If you've ever been in the unfortunate position of having to see chemo being (properly) administered, you get to see firsthand how rigorous process controls are supposed to work. Every bag that gets hung is triple checked via different calculation paths, every patient's identity is re-confirmed every time (even patients that have been on the ward for months), and every interaction with infusion pumps is double checked by at least two nurses after every action. It's a great thing to witness; it's just sad that it isn't the norm everywhere in healthcare.
That is pretty meta.
According to Wikipedia (I know, not the most reliable source) a Kōan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement, which is used in Zen-practice to provoke the "great doubt", and test a student's progress in Zen practice.

The main themes in this particular article are that Vi is not a silver bullet, that even using a great tool you can do a lousy lob and that tools are just tools.

So more than an "incoherent flamebait" this is a list of Kōans about Vi created by someone that uses it and other Unix tools on a daily basis (as you can see on his other posts: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/)
Also what would be a reasonable equity stake to offer?
Suppose you want to manage the marital status of some people. You could have one data structure, here a table in a database, where you keep (name, status) tuples. This is bad, for many reason: what if someone changes name? If you need to allow undoing, how can you know which was the previous status before "maried" has been entered (widow? Single?)

A better data structure here is an event table (who, did what, when), then not only you know the marital status but you know where it comes from, and can build much more on this data.
solution for iPad is www.youtube.com

It works better than the app every did.
Thanks for the tip, giving it a try now!

This brings out another issue: The accuracy of search results in the App Store. When searching for "youtube" (sorted by relevance), these apps are listed before "Jasmine - YouTube Client":

- Video Downloader Super Lite

- SoundHound

- SloPro - 60fps Slow Motion Video

- Trololo Sounds (yes, really)

Also being an Android user, I'm used to going through quite a lot of noise when finding the right app though. Let's hope the situation will improve in both stores soon.
Wow, that's some serious hardware you got there. I think it's good that you are clear about this being a hobby thing: this helps people put a value on it (e.g. it's an extra backup, but not a replacement for a backup, as your house might burn down or something, just to name something crazy – this actually happened to me once).

Also did not see you posted the code already: cool!
Apple is fundamentally altering the technology industry by being aggressively litigious. The statutory precedents they've established are going to change they way computers and software are designed and developed at the ground level, often making it harder for companies with fewer resources. I hope they don't sue themselves in to a corner by ultimately staggering future innovation. Sometimes you don't need to re-invent the wheel.
"This is approximately the same reason as why I start out writing most of my programs by creating a bunch of types, and why I find dynamic programming languages uncomfortable to use."

Classes. There are your types. Python has them. Ruby has them. Javascript has them. . . .
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common sense? I love this reasoning. So for the past 5 years there was no common sense in this regard? I love when marketing does this contradicting messages over the years, I always realize how big the hype factor is.
IMHO, I don't think it is fair to suggest this.

- There are GA tutorials available in several other languages, if this doesn't work for you. Btw, if a tutorial was offered in Lisp/Haskell, would we see the same suggestion?

- For Ruby/Python programmers, this isn't hard at all to read. Familiarity with non C-style languages might be something to pick up.

- Having moved to Coffee from C-style languages, I prefer coffee. But that is just my opinion.

I think HNers should be more tolerant of language choices. That argument can't really be won.
I seriously doubt that after all the publicity the new maps have gotten since the release of iOS 6, that someone who A) needed a feature not present in Apple maps and B) wouldn't be mostly content with maps.google.com would be asking if they should upgrade or not.
Well, of course we'll need a retrying system with delay, so that's a sorted set then together with the work item list.

I prefer simple solutions and I know it was our fault we got a data loss with Redis. Still Beanstalkd queues have been causing less pain than Resque and Redis together. Integrated delays, tubes and deadlines are really nice.

Altogether the reliability comes from the deadlines. If my worker gets stuck (well, it's Ruby), we don't lose the work item. Doing pop on Redis will delete the item from the queue, but in Beanstalkd you reserve the item and delete it when you're done.
I see that you are passionate about this.

After I wrote a paragraph about how you could use the hardware for a shell server, static (octopress/jekyll) website hoster etc. I realised, that free backups are actually really awesome.

For people who cannot afford another service or dont have access to a credit card or else. Also fpr my most important data like code as a second backup if all goes wrong.

Thanks for the service, I will probably actually use it.

But it being a fun project and only behind 5mbit upload, this is obviously not a professional solution or could be offered for money.
I am a virtual desktops fan (I think they are called Spaces).

Unfortunately, the way Alt+Tab works in Mac, which shows the list of all open programs, instead of the ones with windows in the current virtual desktop, is a loser for me.

Also, the fact that when you make a window "full screen" (with the arrows int he top-right corner button) you lose one monitor when using two monitors setup.

And also, regarding shortcuts, why isn't there a Cut file shortcut (say, pretzel+X) like the copy button?.

I have to use Mac/OSX for my job, but man I hate all the quirks of this operating system
Ask HN: Creating an app which can help with an un-manned train level crossing
I know this question may sound odd, but using the data from the various train services (like Amtrack in US, IRCTC in India), is it technically feasible to create a smartphone app which could warn car drivers about the chances of running into a train at an unmanned level crossing.

This accident today has made me think about such an app.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/south/five-killed-as-train-hits-car-at-unmanned-crossing-in-kerala-271091
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Actually, it is. This is a classic example of blaming the offender and not the process. Many hospitals (and this is borne out by research conducted by colleagues of mine; I'm not making this up) don't even have soap dispensers near sinks. Some hospitals mistakenly cross-label hand sanitizer and soap. Things are simple as housekeeping being late refilling paper towel dispensers cause drops in adherence rates. Can you carry a coffee cup from room to room, or is that an infection vector as well? What about chart updating? Do you wash your hands before or after touching a shared computer keyboard at the nursing station (answer: both, but many nursing stations don't have sinks).

Blaming healthcare providers for not washing their hands is like blaming John Q Public for the housing crisis. The reality is much, much more complicated, and solutions to the problem are equally so. Healthcare is an incredibly complicated ecosystem, and even things are simple as hand washing are affected by dozens of factors, many of which are non-obvious at first. Root cause analysis and a judicious application of process change can help greatly, but the reality is that even simple things such as this do not change overnight in healthcare. It's harder than you think.
I think he meant that it is better not to worry about the code since it will stink no matter what you do...
Data structures != Types

Dynamic languages are not an argument to make bad use of data structures in any way, it changes nothing.
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At the academic level , there seems to be a "space race". Maybe it could be improved by making the NIH invest in more radical high risk stuff.

But the commercialization process sure sucks. Testing and verifying a drug is expensive, long and complex. But there seem to be some work going to improve that:

1. The FDA is becoming a bit more friendly[1].
2. There are some new innovations in how to run clinical trials. One example is [2].They claim they might bring drugs 1-3 years faster to market.
3. Organs on a chip are starting to become available and this might be more accurate than the mouse models used today.

Since some of the new innovations in clinical trials do use web/mobile technology, i wonder what role startups can take in this area.

[1]http://www.xconomy.com/national/2012/09/10/the-fda-turns-fri...
[2]http://disruptiveinnovationsinclinicaltrials.blogspot.co.il/...
The YouTube mobile site is quite decent, but for me not having a real fullscreen mode for watching videos is a big issue compared to native apps.

The YouTube mobile site doesn't have the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag and thus displays the address bar even if placed as a shortcut on the home screen.
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Especially when you conclude with a troll-esque affirmation like "we are root on your system anyway".