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Often, in a blizzard, the cell towers fail.

On a side not, at home, the local phone company tends to be pretty good at keeping the line going even when power fails. Last time, I got stuck 20 hours without power, the phone line worked the whole time. The cell towers did not.
What a barbaric and inhumane practice. This is no further progress for humanity than the rack of the Inquisition, the ice-pick to the brain. Are we really resorting to such torturous acts as a norm?

What I find most disturbing about this issue is how people just blindly accept it .. as if it isn't torture and enslavement in some other form.

My hope is that in 100 years, humanity looks back on such activities with pity and shame, as it should be. Just like we should be looking back on ECT and the ice-pick lobotomy, and their more modern chemical versions, with dismay right now.

Seriously, human mutilation as a solution to State problems? No thanks - before this would ever become a norm, I would pick up a gun and fight until the State - or any other Organ - which supports such activities is driven back into the swamp, where it belongs and should never have been allowed to leave ..
I've been of the opinion for a while that static variables of any kind should be avoided except for const data (tables, constants, etc.). They make code very difficult to impossible to port to multi-threaded environments, and make it hard to cleanly instantiate and then clean up a module within a larger program. Even things that feel like they should be global should be contained with a global context container that can be cleaned up.
Not so much recode by hand as actively choose components that provide the functionality. Sure, you might have to recode a bit of the between-components wiring if the separate components you choose don't natively support each other, but its hardly as if you'll generally have to recode the major components themselves.

Sure, Sinatra doesn't come with ActiveRecord like Rails does, but you can use ActiveRecord on its own with Sinatra -- or use Sequel or DataMapper or whatever other ORM [or non-ORM persistence solution] you prefer -- with Sinatra, you don't have to code your own by hand. Similarly with other components.
Don't kid yourself, America is still performing brutal lobotomies.
Well. Who's bug is it then ;) I'm happy to blame the mobile browsers if you used standards (was not able to get a look at the code cause on the road)
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I had previous Windows Mobile phones (Motorola Q and an HTC Touch Pro) that would pick up AM/FM radio so long as headphones were plugged in. I think my Samsung Focus was able to do it as well.
You can choose "skip this" at each of the initial prompts and have a completely functional iPad without registering for anything or entering any other information. Before iOS 5, you had to connect to iTunes on your PC or Mac but that is not required since then.

The first time you really will need an Apple ID is when you go download an App from the App Store (which will be soon enough :)). There also, if you choose an App which is free (like facebook) and you try to download, you will be prompted with a No Payment option to associate with your Apple ID which can can use to downlaod anything. The first time you buy something is when you will need payment information (credit card billing address etc.)
This is the most idiotic thing I've ever seen. DO NOT mix your JSON with your CSS classes. It's just pure stupid.

The class attribute on HTML elements is for CSS, not for anything else. To use it like this is an abomination.

You should have your programming license revoked. (seriously)
Turning my $40 beige box into scrap metal at each motherboard upgrade is a ridiculous solution to a non-problem.

> That big silver box is the CPU. You can get them with dual CPUs too.

Not from the screwdriver shop up the street, I can't. Non-commodity hardware deters tinkering. Industrial design that promotes learned helplessness is so flawed as to verge on unethical.
A Law Enforcement Officer, provided the IDENTITY of the suspect. There fore IDENTIFIED by law enforcement is semantically and connotatively correct. An identification was made, and it was made by a member of law enforcement.

People on the other end of the TV do not ponder whether the identification was a legally-important one or not. They only know, via both of your examples, that a cop said that I guy named John Doe is a suspect.

The divide between intent and reality is in important concept to grasp, especially when you finally put your web application in the hands of soccer mom's and office administrators.
This is one case where a GOTO is acceptable - branching to a common exit, if it makes the code more understandable.
Poker. A good player has a pretty huge advantage over average players given a decent sample size.
This is not a bug - its a feature! Pattern matching/ifs are good for creating new functions, while OO style makes it hard to add new methods.
Tying is illegal in the US. The question is 'is that tying?'.

The answer is: yes. The only way this is not tying is by bundling the service: apple would provide the number for you without charging.

But then, D&B competitors could say this is a trust case.

To really solve this apple must offer a list of companies that offer the solution for whatever numbering problem they seem to have. Or just drop the requirement.
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Not necessarily I believe. That assumption is pretty much community, geography, age, OS, and niche dependent. I use - and have for at least 10 years - a combination of Vim, Tmux, and the usual linux utils under Zsh (I actually used screen for the first few years) for my text editing needs. That being said, I learned Vim in Linux at the same time I was learning C when I was a kid. I've noticed that generally people that started on the Rails bandwagon (which I love btw) or on OSX as their first dev platform use Mvim/Gvim. That said, I've noticed the more "unixy" people using Vim on a terminal. There are exceptions to both rules of course.

Not my intention to get a debate going about this though, just offering a slightly differing point of view.
Fahrenheit is old. Celsius is modern. The real avant-garde give all temperatures in kelvins...
Yes. The rest of the world has moved on. If you've characterized what I am saying here as "web is simply apps", then you do not understand what I am saying.

I've written this in one other comment, I suppose I will repeat myself:

(1) There are more mobile units being sold than personal computers.

(2) More importantly, there are 2 year olds whose first experience with a personal computing device will be a smartphone or a tablet. When the start going to school, they will be forced to use a keyboard and will resent it. They will see this as a problem to be solved, and will solve it. This is a generation gap, something between 10 - 18 years from now.

(3) Our generation tend to think of the "web" as experienced primarily through a desktop or a laptop. We also like to think that we are at the cutting edge. We are not: these two year olds are.

(4) Rails is designed and used by people who experience the "web" through a desktop, and refuses to see where the world will be heading in the following years.

There are a lot more.

So yes. The direction Rails is going will lead it to its irrelevance.
There's a bit more to it. I don't think apt-get has the capabilities of providing for-pay software.
At least rubydramas.com is slightly functional (albeit out of date;).
Wow. I'm actually impressed by the load speed of that page.

As someone who lives in South America I've gotten used to sites loading in 2+ seconds, but this one feels almost instantaneous.
Tried it, but when I got my Pi it wouldn't install - something about having a different version of the OS/firmware. Might have to try that again though
That's meaningless by itself -- SMB was sold through a lot of other channels, both on other platforms and on Linux, before it was put in the store. It's placement in the store was also accidental, and so probably didn't get promoted much!
Yeah, should've clarified that - XBMC comes up on HDMI now and audio is routed through my TV to play music.
Dude you just assumed on me. I just dislike when people post bogus articles like this on hacker news. Completely unfounded data. You assumed this data was because of the TOS and so did CNBC to get more page hits. Yes I asked many people who didn't ask me, and they didn't think much of it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bogus-story-about-instagram-l...
The mention of Fangs alone made this article valuable to me. Accessibility has had lots of lip service for years but it is essentially impossible to do any legitimate work optimizing for screen readers if you don't have access to them (being prohibitively expensive.) It's like writing for a browser you never get to test in. If anyone was serious about accessibility they should get simply get screen readers in the hands of the people building web sites.
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Do you have a way to make money from poker that isn't a linear function of the hours you spend at a poker table?
GOTO should be used when it makes the code less repetitive, easier to follow, and less error prone. One alternative is to encapsulate the state of various resource allocations, and then call a single cleanup function at every exit point from the function that uses those resources (or take advantage of RAII, if supported by the language). However, in C this is cumbersome at best, and error prone at worst. Using GOTO for a common cleanup point is a perfectly valid use of the keyword.
That's a speculation. Investments are returns on real value. Speculations are bets on unrealized value. The OP asked about investments.
why not push them to a CDN ? and you could extract the inline images from the css and combine all of them into a sprite
If you believe a bike is one person only, you've obviously never been to china. A family of three on a bike is not an uncommon sight.
Not quite true.
Linux users are the 'true average'.
The problem is, Windows Humble Bundles are bought for $0.01 en masse with the intention of reselling, sinking its average price.
Sometimes this is true. It depends on the developers.

Sometimes the developers don't have product skills but know they don't have product skills. This is also fine.

Sometimes the developers think they have product skills when they don't, and this is always a complete disaster.

I can't tell what situation the company described in the article is in. Perhaps the product manager is incompetent (there's lots of incompetent product managers out there), and the developers are correcting for this. Perhaps the developers have good product sense that the product manager is underutilizing.

But if the developers don't have the product skills they need, skills you get by spending lots and lots of time talking with customers instead of (or in addition to) writing code, no amount of process tweaking is going to fix the real problem - individuals assuming that their technical skill translates into product skills, and insisting on also doing something they're not good at.

I've often wondered why the subset of developers who lack product skills and/or the relevant domain knowledge frequently insist on getting involved with product anyway. After all, the head of human resources rarely insists on committing code.
this is great. how did you identify and qualify this opportunity?
I think there is a big markup (and probably tax) in that $16k as it is an imported hand built bike.
I carry a PLB at all times in my vehicle [1]. In the US this device will summon rescue via satellite. I recommend it for anyone who spends time in remote areas. If you value your life at $1MM and there's a 1 in 3500 chance [2] that summoning emergency services in a remote area will save your life then this is a helpful risk-mitigating tool [3].

1. http://www.amazon.com/ACR-Electronics-ResQLink-Personal-Loca...

2. $280 / $1MM ~ 1/3500.

3. A useful metric might be 911 calls, of which there are 240 million in 2008[4], for the US population of 305 million. If you assume 5% of the calls are life-or-death, that your daily odds of needing to call in remote areas are the same as the country mean, that you spend 5 days a year in remote areas, and a 5-year useful life for the device, then there is a 0.2% chance the device will save your life.

240/310 * .05 * 5/365 * 5 ~ 0.002

4. http://www.911dispatch.com/info/fact_figures.html
The Bitcoin community as a whole is rather susceptible to blind optimism. Good characteristic in a mark, not so much in a financial investment.
I felt very cold waking up after surgery for lung collapse (as in, shivering uncontrollably, not really hypothermic I guess). I don't think they specifically lowered my temperature. Maybe that is a common effect of general anesthesia?

Those heated blankets they have in post-surgery rooms are very nice...
Can you elaborate more on how you make money from them? I have some interesting domains I've had for years -- selling or otherwise trying to monetize them seems interesting.
Open a casino?
Which those 77 sales are really pirate copies as Ubuntu Software Centre sold SMB without permission and hasn't paid the SMB any either. I'd stay away from them if they're willing to pull this type of shenanigans.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/ed-mcmillen-ubuntu-store-so...
How many gazillions is a millon? ;)
You could get a small little Bluetooth A2DP reciever and stream over bluetooth: http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F8Z492TTP-Bluetooth-Music-Recei...
There's also ways to stream from Android to Airplay receivers - just search for Airstream in the play store.
The Humble Bundle Linux version usually sells well.
100M Messages a Day Milestone for IronMQ
This website never seems to load for me in Firefox.
I read this years ago and it really stuck with me. Now when I venture out into inclement weather I always load up the car with blankets, water, food, ratchet straps, and other emergency supplies.
I swing trade, which is just stock speculation (aka gambling with equities). I think I made about 30 trades all year. I've been averaging over 40% annual returns over the last four years.

As much as I hate to admit this, I am a much better trader than an entrepreneur.
Well it is income. What would you expect?
Why would you do this rather than buy an Airport Express? The cost of the Raspberry Pi, wifi adapter and a basic USB soundcard add up to as much as the real thing, but you spend hours configuring software and end up with a flakey solution. It's great that you can do this, but why not save time and money by buying the real thing? You also get bit perfect optical output and a pretty decent wireless router.
Unfortunately, I think my employer's NDA prevents me from talking about most of what I've developed. I will say that one of the projects I used combined IRC, SMTP, and HTTP together in one server. Twisted made that incredibly easy to write, and be performant. AFAIK, Tornado is HTTP only at this point.
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Dunno because i am 40 and i have never felt like a loser.
Yep, I just enabled CloudFlare on it, I'll see if this makes it any faster. It's hosted on AppEngine, so I'm guessing (/hoping) the static files are already pushed to a CDN by Google.
I have lived car-less in Los Angeles for 15 years. I do NOT "mooch" off car-having friends. If we are all going to a party together or on a trip, I pay for my share of gasoline, and usually buy lunch for the driver if applicable. I never request a ride from anyone when a bike or public transport can do the job.

Your characterization of non-car-having-people is very misinformed.
Buy a house and live in it.
If you purchase farmland, at least in the upper Midwest, you'll earn a 5-8% yearly dividend by renting it out, and there is little to no maintenance that you need to do yourself (depending on your rental contract).
I would say that poker is one of the least passive "investments" one could make, unless you spend your time training a bot.
Would that site be of any interest to HN or is it a niche site?
They are the bikes of choice for undocumented workers and people with DUIs, who in many areas make up the largest adult bicycling populations.
Having designers develop wireframes and designs without the input of software engineers is like having a product designer design the dashboard of a car without the input of automotive engineers.

Wireframes should be signed off on by engineers before design starts, and design should be signed off on by engineers before it is approved.
There's plenty of room in the market for both design philosophies: ugly beige boxes, sleek designer aluminum enclosures, and everything in between.

FWIW, I do think PC cases in general have evolved somewhat from the ugly beige boxes of the late 90's.

The alienware PC is strictly designed to appeal to teenage boys with a penchant for bloody first person shooters-- and guess what, there's room in the market for that niche too.
The unnecessary fear of digital perfection
I think you meant The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
Unless there is another C Programming Language book that I am not aware of...
I sell through domain marketplaces like sedo/afternic/flippa/dnforum. I also reach out to startups directly that correlate to domains I own, it's a very effective way to sell domains. You can also develop them into SEO/amazon referral sites for product-related domains. I know a lot of people that make thousands per month off of pure referral sites, mostly auto-generated.
DMCA take downs surely have been growing.

However, isn't 50 million still a drop in the bucket, considering google's index is around 45 billion?
I teach search and rescue people how to travel on skis or snowshoes and live in winter mountains. If you are prepared, you can stay out in sub-zero for days and days very comfortably.

A key skill is constant regulation of your body temperature. You never want to become too hot/sweaty or too cold. If too cold - get into shelter, drink something hot, eat carbs, add clothes, move faster. If too hot - remove clothes, or move slower. Fix temperature problems immediately - never tough it out.

Common mistakes: people get distracted by gadgets, or they get impatient and start to wander. Then they lose awareness of their body temperature, and become hypothermic. Once you get hypothermic, things fall apart fast.

If you do winter travel in remote areas, carry warm clothes, water and food. Then if you get stuck, be patient and steady. Follow this advice, and the odds of freezing to death go way down! :-)
The whole comment is wrapped in anti-trust which doesn't even apply in this situation. The notion that someone should/could go to jail for a policy that is inconvenient, is hyperbolic.

Apple wants a DUNS number because they are taking on some fraud risk and want a company identifier for credit history and to reduce the risk they are dealing with scammers. Seems pretty reasonable.
PlayStation 2 Has Finished Its Run In Japan, Sony Ends System Shipments
That's an interesting number of trades -- less than one a week. Can you elaborate on your methods for identifying, holding/monitoring, and exiting trades? How many hours a week are you spending on this?
I've taken a look at it. It does not really use the Rails 3 architecture (Russian Doll Pattern) to its fullest potential. I have written https://github.com/intermodal/intermodal back in 2010 to demonstrate it, and have put that code into production.

There are some people trying to revive Rails-API. I have already sent them an email begging them to steal ideas from Intermodal. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rails-api-core/LoJap...

Maybe they will, maybe they won't. I got a polite brush-off so I doubt they really looked at it, but since I am exiting, whatever.

In writing Intermodal, I've had to muck around with some of the guts of Rails. I've found that Rails 3.0 very much follows the principle of Russian Doll Pattern, but Rails 3.1 onwards started moving away from it. There are baked-in assumptions in the code for a template-driven app. This is where the Rails leadership is focused on.
Anyone want to speculate on what's going to be IR #4? I'm thinking either biotech (an industry I know little about) or widespread Internet-enabled custom manufacturing of real-world stuff.

Space colonization will probably be another IR, but it seems like serious efforts at a permanent self-sustaining colony (that could survive indefinitely if something really bad happened and the human race on Earth was wiped out) are at least 50 years away.
The bigger problem is that our education system is failing us and not training a workforce that has value in today's society. We are clearly undergoing a structural change in society that is increasingly valuing those who create "robots," or automated solutions. When it comes to middle wage earners, we need to do a better job creating value from our education system.

I wrote a little more here on why being like a robot is better for startups:
http://kylethered.tumblr.com/post/39054135068/implications-o...

and here on how bad our education system is from an economic perspective:
http://kylethered.tumblr.com/post/37790176790/data-says-high...
Don't average players not play for money? Also where do you find people to make money from, you can get a few K out of your friends but is it worth it?
From Jono Bacon at Canonical:

https://plus.google.com/114419073019603780828/posts/KA5vKChg...

--->

Regarding the Super Meat Boy issue, here is a response from David Pitkin who runs the Ubuntu Software Center at Canonical and works with developers:

"I just looked into it and the check to Tommy and Edmund from Canonical is in process for the 77 copies of Super Meat Boy. We have been working together since November to get it resolved, no piracy here just some miscommunication".
Check out https://github.com/intermodal/intermodal
Russian engine technology.

The J-20 is a big prototype canard fighter that has some stealth features but we don't yet know how stealthy it is, but it doesn't look very.

And there's very little information on the J-21/J-31 (naming unclear) but it looks like the JSF / F-22. It could perhaps be more stealthy.
Oh I would definitely agree with you just based on the clarity it provides (not even taking into account code size or elegance), but my coworker couldn't use TimeSpan because of certain domain specific criteria so I took his word for it and didn't even give it any thought. I just asked him what the problem/challenge was, grabbed a piece of paper, and did it with math and then just copied it to the code. In my defense, while testing both methods my solution worked reliably, while his had some pretty weird results on some extreme edge cases. With the amount of nested If/Else's he probably missed a couple of things as has been discussed on this thread previously.

In my defense, moving the logic to a pure arithmetic solution resulted in a procedure that takes a bit less than one third of my screen, while the old one was at least 6 or 7 pages of scrolling through nested conditionals.
How long has it been a requirement that any Apple Developer Program business membership requires a DUNS number? I thought that was only a requirement for their enterprise program, but apparently they now require a DUNS number for even the $99 business membership.

When I opened a business membership in early 2011, I only needed to send Apple the incorporation certificate from my secretary of state. It took a week for Apple to process it, if that long.
This sounds a bit crazy, but I saw the opportunity on Gumtree, a guy wanted to sell this part of his business. I went over his historical figures, did as much due diligence as i could and considered the figures to see if it was worth it. I have kind of a rule, if i can get a 100% ROI in 1 year, its worth doing, I initially thought i'd get a 100% RIO in 8 months, i figured i'd miss something (which i did) but i thought there was enough room for a little bit of error and decided to go for it.