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The way I think of NFC is in two models:

1. Reader centric - where everything revolves around the reader, as in using this reader for NFC payments. You can use passive tags, like stickers, key chains, wristbands etc to scan. Associate data with these tags via the cloud.

2. Tag centric - where everything revolves around the tag & it is a dynamic thing, which also seems possible with this flojack device. I'm less of a fan of this because of the problems you noted above - it's just a hassle to get people activated in this model.

I think the first model satisfies your requirement of only one side needing the dongle to participate.
Except if your mind worked like that, you'd never be creative. To think you can focus on one thing is to ignore all the times you came up with a solution to a problem after ignoring it for a while and doing something else.
Nice try, Huawei PR
$80k goal sounds slightly modest for a mass consumer tech product like FloJack. Anyways, I would definitely get it. That is, until Apple themselves don't somehow implement this.

Best of luck to you guys. I always root for Kickstarter companies. (Note: working on a site that can help you guys pump hype into your project http://www.hypejar.com/FloJack).
Hard to believe you can't see that you're proving the author's point. You're completely unwilling to believe that perhaps some laws do help protect the more vulnerable members of society?

Amusing to see someone so cynical that they've become naïve.
The ideology can be summed up to refusing let someone else live at your expense.

Fixed that for you. I've read the book. There's quite a bit of kicking freeloaders to the curb. My takeaway was that if you didn't want to be kicked to the curb by some tough guy, you shouldn't live at his expense. Which is really some lame contrapositive of "don't let freeloaders live at your expense".

It was a terrible piece of fiction, by the way. The characters were way too unbelievable.
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In my previous load testing of Drb, at 86 connections (remote objets) with even moderate use, things consistently went bad. This was independent of number of machines.
Will the GIL still be present in 2.0?
Happy to see informed opinions, thank you. Sounds pretty damning, too. Thomas, are you saying that messaging is always superior to RMI, and that there is no valid use case for RMI?
I am thinking out loud here, but isn't a distributed system that leverages RMI quicker to implement? Might be suitable when prototyping. Or teaching a classroom. Does that make sense?
Reflecting on the iPad mini event
Online Analytics Firm Settles Suit Over Unstoppable User Tracking
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Last few months Google launched it's Authorship to the data of your Google Profile that appears in search results.And for this you have to simply follow the two steps create your Google Profile, and signup for authorship with your real Email not scendory email by Going Into your Google Plus Profile. So authors and publishers have to set it up to show their Google Profile data search results.
every time you perform i/o, the current goroutine yields to the scheduler.

If you want to manually yield to the scheduler, you call runtime.Gosched() and the calling goroutine yields. If you want to lock a goroutine into a specific thread, you call runtime.LockOSThread(). Everything is single-threaded to start until you call runtime.GOMAXPROCS(), but that's intended to go away in the very near future. So... I'm not sure what you mean by sealed away; the Go runtime does the sensible things that it can do automatically, but you still have the ability to change the scheduling behavior if you really want to.

what do you mean by "doesn't offer a select primitive"? I'm not familiar with your definition of select, because Go has a select keyword for concurrency control, and I'm under the impression you're talking about select as its defined in EventMachine, could you elaborate?
I'd rather carry a credit card than a dongle I have to plug in and launch an app each time I want to pay...
I would say that by having the default be the safer option, the API is in line with that philosophy.

It takes more effort to override the default and shoot yourself in the foot.

Granted, it could be better. I guess that strange option could be a completely separate command parameter with a very obvious name. Then again, it's such a strange behaviour, maybe it just shouldn't even be an option at all.
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When you dare to compete in your niche then the first thing which is to much important, "a brief overlook at all of relative industry to get the a lot of knowledge for all search terms and a chance to go ahead for further development but not yet more on to understand the current search behaviour & atmosphere,"
>> NFC came into mainstream only last year

NFC is not mainstream. It may be shipping in mainstream phones, but you'd starve to death in most places if you could only buy food with NFC.
That sounds like a big homerun Erica. Good for you!
> I see no reason to begrudge someone for doing what they love, no matter their age.

You're right - sure, one size doesn't fit all. But in my opinion it should be a good reason for someone in his 40s to not protect his future.

First of all, working on your own is a matter of independence, as it just doesn't guaranteed that he wouldn't be fired someday and can find a new decent job at 50+.
Anyone have an example of good cert verification in Java? The concept at https://github.com/iSECPartners/ssl-conservatory is great, but it needs examples in more languages. Our case is pretty weird (some self-signed certs between peers, cert pinning of sorts in that we only accept equifax as a root signer, no default signing authorities accepted), but anyone see holes in the authenticate method of our trust manager at:

https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/blob/master/src/main/j...

? This code is intended for deployment in potentially dangerous regions for getting around government censors.

Thanks.
sorry for the late reply. I think probably cause it is out in the open, compared to methods by bigger tech companies like google where the user information is not passed in the url for reset password
I think the idea would be to charge a large amount to make it worth the dentists while to do so. So high population density high income areas. New York and maybe San Francisco?
Sounds like it might be easier to list the options that actually do the Right Thing. If you're using Python, for example, the correct way to make HTTP requests is to ignore the standard library's urllib and (shudder) urllib2, and use Requests instead:

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

It validates SSL certificates correctly by default. How about other languages?
I'm a programmer in my mid 40s, and sadly I can see that most 40+ programmers generally offer less value to their employers than they did a decade ago. There are reasons for this:

1. Health. This is a big one. By 50 sitting on your ass every work day for 30 years has caught up with you. Hypertension, sleep apnea, diabetes, back pain, etc. You're going to take more sick days, take more time off to see the doctor, and you're going to come to work on drugs that make you tired or a little fuzzy, mentally.

2. Lack of energy. Even if you're healthy at 50 you don't have the same ability to roll with problems that you did when you were 32. You can't put in extra time and maintain productivity. When you get home you don't have the energy to tinker with technical stuff just for the fun of it.

3. Cognitive decline. Nobody likes to think about this, but the reality is for most people cognitive decline starts in your 30s. By 50 it's affecting your productivity. Things that you used to remember for as long as it mattered (like file, class, or machine names) you have to write down now. It takes longer to pick up new technologies and you forget them faster. This translates into lower productivity. Maybe a little lower, maybe a lot.

So even though I'm getting to the age where it affects me, I don't blame companies and individuals for their reluctance to hire older guys. It's based on real-world considerations. If I get laid off will I be able to find another programming job? Probably, but it's going to be a lot more difficult than it would have been 15 or 20 years ago.

I refuse to be bitter about it, though. I had my chance to go into management and decided to keep writing code, even though I knew things would get dicey later.
Not that naive- I am totally willing to believe a small minority of the laws indeed do that, which is why I quickly edited my initial reply to mention that :

- some of the laws were on the books so that politicians can get reelected.

- and that here might also be some honest politicians in there, trying to do the good thing such as repealing crappy laws, and enforcing property and self defence laws

But in this lemon market I think they are crowded out by the standard politicians.

The proportions must vary - with some places like Alberta acting as a beacon for the rest of the world - but my hopes aren't high. Freedom seems to be regressing on a global scale. Some people have much to gain with Agenda 21 and the likes.
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Does the web editor support editing files in a bare repo ?

Yes.

The trick is that lib/gitlab/file_editor.rb checks the file out, modifies it, commits it, and removes it. I read this from one of the comments in the original post.
Unequivocally NO, it was not an earn-out. The sale price was pre-determined and was not based on how much the company earned in the future. The monthly payments and interest rate were also fixed.
Yeah, my sense the user backlash from unsolicited mobile ad spam would even hurt a giant with such heavy engrained web commerce inertia as PayPal.
Really? Do you understand just how disingenuous that sounds?

I know Jacques didn't mention that the problem was with the stock installed-with-Wordpress Recent Comments widget until a couple of hour after you posted that comment, but _surely_ someone at WPEngine knew already that this wasn't a "custom code" issue?

From what I'm reading (and please correct me if this is wrong) a stock WP install with no plugins or custom themes, but with several hundred thousand rows in the comments table and the Recent Comments widget running - will crash hard on WPEngine (while running just fine on a "loltastically over provisioned Linode VPS).

In my view - that's a "Wordpress support issue" suitible for diagnosis by a "Wordpress expert", and a long way from "consultancy" for "building custom code".

It's true there needs to be a limit to what customers expect from hosting companies, but like it or not, you've set the expectation bar _very_ high with the marketing copy on your homepage, and you've got a wonderful social media reputation based on those expectations. At some stage, you need to suck it up and dedicate the time/expense to live up to that reputation, or inevitably social media will bring your reputation back down in line with your business behaviour/policies - and the wider the gap between the expectations you've set and the service you deliver, the more ammunition you're handing over to "the haters" to shoot you with.
IPad Mini Wifi version seems to lack GPS capabilities
I mean into spotlight and started appearing on production models
While this article is interesting, the more interesting story is John Gruber's soul searching on how he feels about the iPad mini – which is where I assume you got the article from.

Three quotes from three stories on Daring Fireball:

>That’s a little more expensive than I expected — I thought they’d at least hit the $299 mark with the entry-level Wi-Fi model.

>We shall see. But remember the iPod Mini, which debuted to similar reactions in January 2004 — it was deemed too expensive compared to the better-spec’d regular iPod that cost just $50 more.

>“Better but costs more” is a gamble. “Better and costs the same or less” is a sure thing. And the iPad is hard to compare to any previous Apple product other than the iPod. The iPod and iPad didn’t enter mature markets — they entered nascent markets with no strong competitors and established themselves as unquestioned market leaders. The iPad Mini’s $329 starting point leaves a price umbrella in tablets that Apple never left for MP3 player competitors.

I think that Gruber disagrees with the price even though price margins has always been their approach.
You're right. I got divorced in 2001. It was effing heartbreaking.

Now I'm single again and will stay that way while I still financially struggle.
I've been doing contractor work my whole life. It sucks. That's why I started a business. I'd rather be broke and enjoy what I'm doing. I never understood the people that could work a full-time job and do a startup. My mind and emotions don't divide that way. So, I enjoy being broke...but I definitely wouldn't say it's an advantage.
The implication that it's automatically bad to support Paul Ryan or support the Tea Party, and the declaration that anyone who defended Uber on Twitter was an 'idiot' is somewhat astounding considering the author rails against internet bullying at the beginning.

I'm personally convinced that the tech world getting politicized is absolutely the worst thing it can do for itself.
Thanks. Is there a more simple one such as an extension? I used to use one for Chrome but it's been blocked.
The first time I tried it, nothing happened. I clicked on the globe because I thought maybe you had to drag it, and couldn't un-drag so it kept jiggling around without doing anything. No red dots came up.

I glanced at the comments to see if anyone said "It's broken" and nobody did, so I went back and tried hitting the play button but nothing happened, same result.

Then I read the first comment on here and went back one more time and it worked; however, this time when it spins and I click on a red dot nothing happens and I get ' error parsing d="" ' in the console, with the line being /quakes/:1, which is just the <html> tag.
Ask HN: Recommendations for hacker hostels in the bay area? 
I recently left my development job to bootstrap my own product. Community is extremely important for me so I'd like to be around other developers doing similar things as me.

I also love the hostel feeling so, naturally, I'd like to start there. My budget would be ~$40/night for accommodation.

I found three places that seem to fit: Chezjj's, Treehouse, and something called StartupHouse.

Does anyone have any experiences with these? Are there any other places I'm missing?

Working in a coworking space is also an option. Is this a better way to get involved in the community?

I’ll be headed down the first of November if there are any events taking place. I'm sorry to have missed the startup school event on the 20th.
No, not any API. But if the defaults err on the side of caution, which is the case here, and the non-default documentation is complete and coherent, I think that's pretty good. I don't think I would call this situation unreasonable, though I do agree that it could be improved.
They were comparing it to Dropbox because that's the comparison actual users will make. Regardless of whether they want to brand as 'backup' or 'photo storage', people are starting to view those things equally and Dropbox is an EXTREMELY popular backup tool [1] [2] [3].

Dropbox even launched a feature to automatically capture photos from a device [4]. If they can't answer the 'compare to Dropbox' question well, they can't defend the business.

[1] - http://www.labnol.org/software/backup-files-dropbox/18634/
[2] - http://lifehacker.com/5406806/best-online-backup-tool-dropbo...
[3] - http://workawesome.com/software/data-backup-and-sync-3-dropb...
[4] - http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/12/dropbox-responds-to-tumblrs...
Square added the encryption in the dongles last year. This happened not long after Verifone cited the lack of encryption in an early 2011 FUD campaign against Square.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/28/square-to-beef-up-card-read...
This is all true, but... do you want to manage money, manage men, or write code?
I don't know why you would connect someone posting a pro-Stripe/anti-Paypal rant to Thiel having a stake in Y Combinator. Some people love the conspiracy theory, I know, but I'd rather HN not become a place for that kind of people.
Good point. By "non-technical", I intended to mean "not interested in being a Wordpress scaling/management expert". If my poor choice of words lead anyone to think I was claiming he was not technically skilled in other areas, my apologies...
Hmm, sorry you're having trouble with it. The 'error parsing d=""' is an issue with the SVG parser within your browser, and shouldn't prevent it from rendering properly. I believe upgrading to the next version of d3.js will likely fix this.

It's possible that it's not properly loading the data for you, either due to latency or some browser restrictions. What are you running?

I'd like to debug if possible. I believe D3.js only fully works in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox (+ maybe Opera?).
That is true... but there are designers who don't have better ways to make money out there so I wouldn't necessarily discount these sites completely. He would probably have better luck looking for local designers first, someone with which he can build a rapport.
agreed, but i think this was designed in a world where you have static/passive nfc tag like this: http://nfctags.tagstand.com/collections/nfc-kits/products/nf... & you have the dynamic part "in the cloud".
I was involved in some talks around the Humble ebook bundel last year, there were a LOT more authors who wanted to be a part of this but they couldn't get their publishing houses who they had handed their ebook rights over to go along.
wow, that almost sounds too good to be true
I use backbone.js, underscore.js etc.. heavily in my work. I primarily code in front end but I have only a year of mainstream experience. Where does that place me in this stack. I think this is the misconception recruiters are not picking me for junior/mid level positions and I get calls for senior level positions and then they drop me cause of less experience. backbone.js ! = more experience
If the SSL/TLS server is properly configured with all of the nodes in the certificate chain, you don't need to buy more expensive certs.

Now I will say that, most common apps (Apache HTTPD + mod_ssl for example), do not make this process as clear as it should be. Specifying cert order wrong in the Intermediate Chain file will still break cert validation for some apps, because it's sent out exactly as the server admin configures (and this fact is often lost of folks who maybe touch their certs once a year when they expire).
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But it's not just about who can play a few 10-12 letter words. You need to use the corners and the squares around them to deny your opponent from quickly flipping them back to their color.
I'm actually building a website in D3JS myself ( http://uscfstats.com/matches ) and the SVG and D3 work fine there, and I am using the latest version of Chrome.
As an added bonus, every time I've tried a problem in both, Celluloid has been faster.
So, FWIW, specifically about your #1, this change also states that PayPal cannot sue you either. It also states that this arbitration, apparently in either direction, will reside in your county: this will not happen if you choose to sue PayPal, as you will both be dragged to Delaware.

In fact, what you often actually want out of such court actions is to get everyone to agree to arbitration, as it will be faster and cheaper: it ends up being common to use continued presence in court to simply ratchet up the fees until the other guy breaks down and agrees to arbitration.

For a normal person, the result of this would then suck: attempting to sue PayPal will be extremely expensive, will involve having lawyers in Delaware (and possibly having to go there yourself), and, best case, is going to end up in arbitration anyway... bothersome enough to just be prohibitive.

Meanwhile, for a normal person, you are dealing with small amounts of money; the result is that you will likely be attempting to use small claims court anyway, and this policy change continues to let you (and not PayPal!) do this. The limit on small claims court in Delaware is one of the highest in the country: $15,000.

That said, I agree that this is pretty crummy: we have our legal system setup the way it is for a reason (although, in practice, it ends up being often quite broken). I am seriously going to consider opting out of this; but, in the end I believe that I may actually just determine it is beneficial for me and accept it.

Also, the change that prevents you from being part of a class action lawsuit sucks (but, /that/ said, class action lawsuits normally involve individual participants getting a few dollars... it is hardly worth it for most people to bother being part of a class action).
Maybe we can ask him what its like to be coding at 50?

For a serious question, does acme lend itself to a chording keyboard? It seems like this is taking another step towards Engelbert's vision in the mother of all demos.
1999 called and it wants its DCOM back.
The error keeps replicating itself as long as the globe is moving.
Oof. 2,400 words and I still don't understand the majority of this article. I'm going to ignore the Randian meanderings (verging at one point to medicare?), and just address the attack of "disruption" and startups that is mostly relevant to this community.

First off, I'm not the biggest fan of the word disruption. I think it's a great description of what we as an industry do, however it seems that the word has created some sort of cargo cult, and now it appears to have become synonymous with "Killing it, bro!".

So to associate the entire startup industry with the word "Disruption" and claim that all who work within Silicon Valley adhere to a so called "pro-Disruption argument" is ridiculous. At best it's a badly worded generalization, at worst it's a blatant attempt to marginalize all of the efforts we put into making our businesses seem professional and legitimate, as he implies that if you subscribe to this argument you automatically ignore all laws in your area.

Continuing on we see that the author digresses into some rather, shall we say, pedestrian, class warfare. It's laughable to assume all startup CEO's are millionaires... much less that most can afford that $50 trip to Whole Foods (Whatever happened to the ramen fueled startup? Am I the only broke college student working on a side project in his off time?).

To finally address the claim that this community is some sort of collective hipster law breaking mob, I don't think you'll find stronger proponents of rigorous property and civil liberty law anywhere else on the internet besides reddit. Articles for stronger privacy laws are regularly ranked #1 here. Really, when you strip away all of the ad-hominems you're left with "Laws don’t exist merely to frustrate the business ambitions of coastal hipsters". Ahhhh, I see.

Not to pile on, but I'd like to add that it is disturbing to see a professional journalist use profanity so willingly in such acerbic personal attacks.
Yeah well... I'm 2 months short of my 70th and I'm still programming. But not for money nor to a schedule, and I pick my own projects. There nevertheless remains some of that "skimming great oceans of APIs" and "reading between the lines of documentation" -- but that's been part of the game since, oh, the tabletop rack of IBM manuals in the machine room next to the 360/50...