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We recently posted on HN about our idea andthewinner.is, a platform for realtime viral contests on Twitter. After some experiments we decided to go more viral and test out the architecture we are using (node.js and websockets). As the Pope just landed on Twitter we wanted to discover how populare he is compared to... Justin Bieber! Are you curious to see how is it going? Check it out: http://www.andthewinner.is/popevsbieber

By the way, on December 12th the Pope is supposed to do his first tweet... stay tuned because we guess it will get a huge hype
As a Canadian, I may enter the US for up to 6 months at a time without requiring a visa, but am I not allowed to work. So when I do visit, I make sure to only visit friends and I make sure not to do any work.

I wonder what is considered "work" and how could it be tracked. Whenever I travel abroad, I bring my laptop, and I always end up answering a few emails and writing code (which is what I do when I go to the office here in the US). If you have a company registered in Canada and you come to the US for 6 months, who is to stop you from sitting at a computer and typing away, as long as no money changes hands in the US?
If I send my email to Google's servers, or register an account for people to send email intended for me to Google's servers, then I'm OK with Google having my email. If I type something on my own machine, I do not think it's right for anyone else to think they can just take it.
None of my friends can code. Bums me out sometimes since I have no one to talk to about this stuff. Sometime it feels like I am the only one in my town that can code.
(I live in a <100K Farming Community)

When I start a conversation about anything related to code or the internet everyone just looks confused so we just talk sports.
Furthermore, a lot of recent hardware (starting with the iPhone 4 in Apple-land, not sure about others) includes gyroscopes in order to handle this even better. It doesn't matter how good your accelerometers are, they're going to be subject to noise from the outside when it comes to detecting rotation changes e.g. the motion of the user's hands.
One thing you should definitely be careful of (not sure if you do this or not) is requiring adherence to a process that demonstrably doesn't work for a sufficiently large percentage of the population. As another poster pointed out, they select against people who don't like to pair program, which cuts out a large percentage of the (good) developer population, thus fostering monoculture.
There are very rational reasons to use lawyers. If the other side is using lawyers, you can be sure that they have tried to slip in terrible terms that you really don't want. They won't look that bad, but they will be bad. Relying on yourself to find them is just stupid.

And once you're using a lawyer, that lawyer will naturally be inclined to try to turn the negotiation into a gravy train.

Try this. The next time you are part of a negotiation and want to redraft the agreement, ask yourself who you are doing it for. Are you serving your client's best interests? Or your interests?

Here is another exercise. The next time you see the need to mediate between "big egos on the business side", think carefully about how those egos got unhappy in the first place. I'll give you even odds that the issue they got upset over is one that was introduced by a lawyer. Could the conflict have been avoided entirely if it was negotiated differently? My guess is that, more often than most lawyers would want to admit, the answer is yes.
Both suck. Use DynaDot (http://www.dynadot.com/)

They're also on the ICANN Accredited Registrar list.
Disagreeing with you and trying to silence you are two very different things.
When it worked, it was great. When it was down or slow (Friday at 4:15 PM, anyone?), it was miserable.
I was at Apple when the Zune came out, and we all were holding our breath, until we learned that you "squirted" your brown Zune.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
There are a lot of things you could pay for if you gutted the TSA. Unfortunately, most people (including many very intelligent and educated individuals) continue to believe in security theater, and the companies that profit off of it know how to keep up the propaganda so the people don't realize they're being duped out of millions of dollars in wasted tax revenue.
Trade secrets go a long way towards covering such cases. Coca Cola is a good example of this working for a very common chemical formulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula#Physical_secu...
I wonder, will Dropbox still allocate 50% of Guido's time toward Python development?

Further, donning our tinfoil hats, is it reasonable to suspect that Google is phasing out the use of Python internally? I've heard rumors that Python is no longer permitted for new projects within Google; hoping some Googlers here can confirm or deny this.
Sadly, I have to agree with Time Warner.

Same here, at least for home use. I mean, I like the idea of ludicrous speed downloads, but in terms of my day-to-day life, an extra 50 or 100 or 1000 MB of bandwidth isn't going to make much difference to me. I rarely, if ever, find myself constrained by my home broadband connection (which is, indeed, TWC).

I got a postcard in the mail from them just last night, announcing that they've increased my bandwidth by 50% with no rate increase, and instructing me to reboot my cable modem to see the new speed. I didn't even bother to do the reboot, since it just isn't terribly useful to me. I'll bother to do it when I happen to be in the room where the modem is.
Judging from the past I would guess that Mega will be quite popular in the web-warez scene as a hoster.
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I don't understand... they don't have electricity, yet they have wifi? Where are they getting the apps?
I agree with all that. Yes, the only reason that gold is a stable investment is because of its large, mature market.

My point is that time will naturally take care of this for Bitcoin: volatility will reduce as its use around the world increases. And since Bitcoin has already proven it could survive its first 4 years where volatility was at its highest, then it is likely to continue to survive and grow without a monetary policy. Boostrapping Bitcoin was the hardest part, and this was accomplished successfully.
This goes towards the space allotment given to each user right? If so, I'm going to limit the number of attachments I use. No memes for you.
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can you speak more to how this is built - even if its just at a high level?
Those are valid points, and I've seen it from both sides - as a lawyer and as a businessperson. But one of the things missing from your comment is that good lawyers are protecting their clients from the possibility of things going wrong in the future.

Contracts are often unclear and are often broken. Sometimes things just don't work out. Regardless of how, litigation often ensues. That's when the value of a lawyer becomes apparent. It's easy to complain about lawyers during the negotiation - they often needlessly inject themselves into the process - but it would be worth considering that a good lawyer is trying to protect you in case things go wrong. Look at the Frank McCourt case for an example of where the lawyering was poor and it had a disastrous impact: http://www.minnlawyer.com/jdr/2010/09/17/legal-malpractice-c...
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You can turn off the feature.
I would even pay $50 a year if Google stopped making "improvements" to the UI. The new composer looks nice at first but it slows me down when I need to use different fonts, etc AND they removed background color AKA highlight. I do not use Evernote just because they do not have highlight... and now they decided to removed it from Gmail too. If it is not broken, don't fix it :-/
Sigh. Plenty died of starvation and exposure. Read up on history sometime, disease was one of the lower risk factors the first few winters.

A bunch of programmers on a boat who need to get every single essential supply from the mainland is not a society. It's a tax avoidance scheme.

It might even be profitable for a generation, until they start having kids and incur more costs.

And the funniest part? Small groups of people in scarcity/survival situations tend to organize themselves into something that looks much more like collectivism than it does capitalism.

When you criticize my lack of imagination, do you mean 'imagine' in the John Lennon sense?
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You appear to be attempting a philosophical debate on the nature of giving, but have worded it as a definitional construct that's contradicted by common dictionaries and usage. That's all I'm after. If you want to argue that giving is best when anonymous, go wild, just don't frame it such that it looks like you're trying to use your own private definition of common words.
Yeah, I was more talking about an API TO the iDevices, not ON the iDevices. A content management API.
"I wrote a novella Here are some things I learned"
Another such video from this year: http://youtu.be/Y6ZuZuB4tfM
I have smallish hands (octave+2 on piano) and large fingers (official from my accordion teacher) and I can take a photo and pop it out as an attachment to an email with caption single handed from the ancient Rio or my current Blackberry. Each to his/her own.
I am not a fan of the somewhat common rhetoric that "ads are the new user valued content". If HP or Toshiba installed a browser tool bar into IE that gave them everything you searched for, nobody would question calling it spyware. And if it redirected your searches to some sleazy google proxy type site, i dont think anyone would hesitate calling that advertisement.
Or he could make the statement more noteworthy by lending his celebrity to the cause like he did. The point is getting more kids flu shots. Is it so bad to spread word on this "obviously self-serving promotion"?
I wasn't aware of that DNS record type.

The free manager supports A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SPF, SRV, NS.

There's a bulk edit and import feature but I don't know if those allow you to use other record types.
"does the FSF counter by forking Ubuntu and removing that feature?"

It was forked in 2007; the FSF sponsors gNewSense (http://www.gnewsense.org/).

You can find a list of the distributions the FSF recommends at https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
U.S. polygraphers questioned accuracy of tests on detainees overseas
We shall see Time Warner, we shall see.
No such blanket prohibition currently exists.
OP here. I strongly disagree with the assertion that pair programming isn't helpful in sensitive or mission critical applications.

Braintree's core product is a payment processing gateway. If we go down, get hacked, or introduce serious bugs, our customers can't run their businesses. As I said in the article, we pair for almost everything, and we find it helps us write great software that stays up and stays secure.
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You seem to have confused me with someone else. But feel free enjoy your straw man argument with an imagined opponent.

My point was simply that "negotiating for you" is not the best example of how a lawyer provides real value to clients. (Though the activity is undoubtably very profitable for lawyers.)
You can use whois to see when the domain was registered. Since all the other extensions weren't registered I'd assume this is more of a brand style name and was registered fairly recently. It is hard to assign value of a domain without knowing what it is. Also, most people who sell domains are looking for the sales to compensate for the rest of their portfolio that don't sell. So registration fees + 10% wouldn't likely work as an offer.
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Ask HN: Fellow HN'ers in Bay Area ride sport bikes?
Any fellow HN'ers in Cupertino/San Jose/ surrounding area ride sport bikes?

Should we meet up and ride?

E-Mail in profile.

EDIT: I have a 2011 Triumph Street Triple. been riding about 18 months. My wife would join us. She has a 2011 Triumph Daytona 675 and has been riding about 7 years. We also believe in proper riding gear. However you may ride with how you wish.
Online gaming and video drove demand for the high speed internet we have today, so "the next big thing" needs to drive even higher bandwidths. What that is, I'm not sure (HD videoconferencing?) but without it fiber will remain a mere curiosity to most people.

(I have a gigabit fiber connection myself and it hasn't made all that much of a difference in my day-to-day life)
On a Mac, you can get a cropped screenshot on your clipboard using Command+Shift+Control+4. Then just drag the crosshairs to choose an area to capture, or press Space and then click a window to capture.

You can save a screenshot to the Desktop, and optionally edit it before uploading, by not holding down Control, with both the 3 and 4 shortcuts.
Aw, man. I just started checking out Ubuntu from using another flavor of linux for years.

The setting can be turned off I just hope it's in an easy to find blog post.
1. Some authorities recommend anonymity (I think Maimonides spoke well of it) or at least discretion, as in the various New Testament injunctions. However, some acts of charity cannot be accomplished anonymously (cf. the parable of the Good Samaritan).
2. Larry Ellison needs more publicity about as much as Kevin Durant needs elevator shoes. If he wishes to spend the money on providing flu shots rather than on yacht or spouse upgrades, I'm not going to blame him.
yes, there is a contract. its Rousseau's social contract: Each of us places his person and authority under the supreme direction of the general will, and the group receives each individual as an indivisible part of the whole
I'd love to hear more about why he'll work on at Dropbox.
I don't get it. How is creating a new programming language in your spare time not a risk? You're spending valuable time creating something that is likely to fail (see the scores of niche languages no one uses).

I think what you mean by "risk" is something very specific: financial risk. If Guido had instead put time and, more importantly, money into starting a "lifestyle" startup on the side, he would have been financially rewarded if successful.
I carry my Cowon J3 + phone on the tube everyday and don't find it a problem. It's thin and light enough that I barely notice it in a pocket. I'd recommend the Sansa Clip if you are going to leave it in the car - I leave mine in my gym bag. The sound quality is great, and it's cheap enough that it's not a huge deal if it gets lost/stolen.
Someone came up with a design. Someone else implemented the backend. We iterated on it for a bit and shipped it internally. Then we figured out the CDN situation, setup logging and metrics, and shipped it genpop today.
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Same here! How does this work under the hood?
I stopped reading when you gave an example of moving somewhere better. Google is not inherently better than Yahoo. Both companies have very interesting projects going on. What makes one company better than another is the chance to work on projects that YOU find interesting.
Amazon's App Store is on fire
How does Google even guarantee that those reviews are honest? Bob's Bait Shoppe could easily pay five employees to post five glowing reviews about how Bob's Fish Annihilator brings all the fish to the yard. Unless you actually know the person, it doesn't seem there's any way to guarantee the honesty.

By the same token, if Bob's having a bad day, five people could easily write how the Fish Annihilator ruined their marriage and stole their dog, without ever having any evidence of either occurrence.

Anecdotally, I know of one business here in Austin where the owner ordered his employees to post good reviews on various social services using their private email accounts.
So much for rockets - North Korea launches a fragrance
If it's a sorting hat, maybe he could ask Tim to adjust it. ;)
No they don't. Chemical agents (e.g. detergents) and drugs are often very cheap to reverse engineer, compared to the cost of developing them originally.
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At least it would be if the servers were not down. Would have thought Google would be able to manage traffic. Another fail like the Nexus 4 releases!

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Who holds the private key?

You do. (Or in reality, the whole world since the point of Mega is to share files.)

Do you trust them?

Depends.
I love xubuntu, it's like how Ubuntu was before they decided that flash was more important than function.
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EASTASIA.
There is a limit above which downstream becomes somewhat useless, and 50Mbps or even 25Mbps is probably that point.

But at least offer decent upstream to match it. The simple fact is that you often get barely enough upstream to transfer the TCP ACKs needed to utilize your downstream. It's the television model translated to the Internet, where consumers are just that: people consuming data and content. Not creating them.
Interesting, I assume they've done their market research with this. They never asked me, maybe it was some of you other TWC customers.
So, people who vote 'against their interests' (that is, against what you believe their interests are) but can't articulate why are stupid.

Are people who vote 'for their interests' (that is, for what you believe their interests are) but can't articulate why also stupid?

I'm curious about this non-stupid guy you posited, who can soundly reason about his vote 'against his interest' (that is, against what you believe his interest is) - is there any reason he can't make the same argument as you from his reverse perspective?

I'm wondering why you don't leave your subjective opinions about others' interests out of it, and just say 'people who can't soundly reason about their votes are stupid' - something relatively uncontroversial. Or is your sound reasoning somehow automatically superior to other people's sound reasoning?
I agree. I think it would be stupid to sign any moderately complex agreement without a lawyer having been through it, and having informed you about what you are signing. (I certainly wouldn't sign that.) I also think it would be stupid to have a moderately complex agreement that was not drafted very clearly. And if things go south, you definitely need competent legal counsel.

My entire point was that lawyers like to inject themselves into the process of negotiation, often feel like they are generating value, but in reality tend to generate billable hours and negative client value at the same time.
This is also a strange plug - if I'm looking for something in my computer, how much chance any of Amazon shopping would be relevant? If I'm looking for a notes from last week's budget planning meetings, what would they show me, shopping results for "budget notebooks"? And they expect me to be happy with it? I understand Canonical needs to make money, and with free product it requires some creative thinking, but this one makes little sense to me.
... and Ghandi hanging in the back of the rural Indian school, he he.
That's fair, but unfortunately that's probably the least important detail of the article. I'm still learning how to write blog posts so I'll take that into consideration in the future. I changed it to reflect the fact that many people, whether right or wrong, would currently assume it's a step up.
I'm not sure about this, it would restrict the future changes, limiting innovations and putting the project at risk of dying when the developers leave, IMHO.
Issues images, headshot: https://github.com/blog/1347-issue-attachments

And don't tell me that you Githubbers don't lurk over here ;)
Where have you felt a stunning difference? I'm curious as to whether YouTube et al live up to such a demanding connection. Thanks.
MIT is trying to crack the wicked problem of teaching literacy and other skills to 100 million or so first-grade-age kids in the developing world with no teachers or infrastructure.

I guess it's relevant.
great, it's indeed really useful :D
I think this should be default for every other text editor on web or (desktop/mac with special shortcuts) :P

Damn useful, I have to say. Thanks our friends :)
Moon to become next hot vacation destination?
Yeah, Same situation here. Set up my family and one for my in-laws, and a few others. Not worth $50 a month per family member.
Hmm... this gives me an idea for a browser plugin: For anything you buy on Amazon, it automatically adds an affiliate link for your favorite charity or organization in, giving them a tiny touch of revenue.
You can grow your own food, whereas you can't grow your own health (although you can certainly choose to live healthier, and indeed the disincentive to do this is one of the weaknesses I see in a universal health care model).

Something like clean water is probably a closer analog to health care than food is, since clean water is something that can't be created purely by labor alone.
I second this. Every week I look forward to Friday's release... Great job guys!
I posted this in the other github comment thread, but here it is again (last time I promise), searchco.de allows you to search over github,

http://searchco.de/?q=irq_create_mapping+url%3Agithub

Its not the full index of public repositories though as I don't have a hook into GitHubs project feeds like I do for Codeplex.
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Gmail used to be the easiest way to set up a spamcatcher email account for simple anonymity. Now their user authentication and real name policies have made that harder.

It's easy to throwaway an old single-purpose Gmail account. But it's very very hard to walk away from your social network account that has all of your friends and followers connected to it.

Targeted ads were small potatoes, I believe the top social networks are seeking to be society's future arbiters of identity.

But do they have a good plan to monetize this identity provider business? That, I don't know.
USPTO Preliminarily Invalidates Apple's 'Steve Jobs Patent' on the iPhone
let's make it simple. Images and text are the most important things, make it best and fast ^^
How did you do?
I have 100Mbit down 5Mbit up from Charter. The asynchronous nature of the connection is very irritating and the slow uplink are very irritating. There aren't any services that currently make even 100Mbit necessary though.
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Firm offers moon missions for $1.5bn
Yes, I was referring to the "van Rossum" part of his name. Sorry for not being clear.
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Can you tell me a bit about the CDN situation, especially what specific issue did you run into?
Is the road to heaven similarly paved with bad intentions? And is it devoid of good intentions? I don't think so.
I truly apologize for responding to what I perceived to be your tone rather than to the substance of what you were saying. You are correct, and I should have given the initial comment more extensive and explicit context.
Maybe it's not the most perfect comparison, but it's still the user choosing to use the service/software.

Maybe adverts on a website is more apt. A company is putting time and money into a product, and attempting to monetise it with advertising. As a user, you can chose "this level of advertising is fine by me" or "this is too much I don't want it", and then either stop using their product, or prevent the adverts from happening. And sure, I go to websites with popups and pop-unders and etc. etc. which make me think "what the hell are these assholes playing at", but I'd never question whether they have the right to do it on their own website, only whether I want to visit that website again in the future.