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I'm very sorry you had this experience. We would never intentionally ignore a legitimate bug report. If you could send me a message (link in profile) with the e-mail address you used, I'd be happy to get to the bottom of this.
Grunt-link : grunt plugin to link your local modules
I wrote "// global scope" beside the first statement to signify that that statement was run in global scope, same for the statement below it.

In global scope, the activation object is the global object, and so saying "var x = 1" will make the global object have a property x equal to 1.
ZFS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS) is one advantage of FreeBSD.
SQLite3: LIKE-Operator is faster than datetime functions (Benchmark)
I have no ability to downvote, so instead I leave my intention. Please try not to be so reactionary. Silicon Valley is a region in California. The Westboro Baptist Church is a private organization.
JavaScript has a number of nice features that do make sense, and if you understand how prototype chains work and such the complexity is worthwhile. "This" hasn't been one of those features for me.

I'm sure "this" makes sense in some context, but it forces me to think about the implementation of the language way too much without any benefit that I consider it a misfeature. So I don't use it.

Instead, I capture it with another variable in a prototype declaration:

var that = this;

and refer to "that" everywhere in the prototype. Tends to be a lot simpler, and usually for event handlers I'll create a closure to avoid the issue entirely.
Slightly misleading, because there's only audio of him talking about it, but no audio of the actual conversation.
Twitter profiles being blocked in Google Chrome
No my friend. Suicide is absolutely NOT ok.

For the people who do though (or their families), several countries have passed several laws that provide the ability
to rest in peace in a humane manner. One might argue if this is humane, but it depends on the perspective.
Who decides for an individuals future is also difficult to answer. It certainly must be him.
When we are born, if we are left on our own.. thats it.. 2-3 days.
Once we start thinking, we then think that we can do everything on our own.. ego

The equilibrium must always be met by following the trail of common sense, using our brains
were common sense does not apply, a healthy sleeping pattern, a healthy diet, plenty of excersize
and two or more creative hobbies. One intellectual, one athletic. Plus work to pay the bills. The latter sucks!
And always try to make friends with the little people. Keep your friend close and your girlfriend(s) closer;)
Girlfriends are like cats. They have the ability to suck all shady aspects of ones psychosis in an instant.
Let them do the dirty work for you!
Find a Google image of Manslows hierarchy of needs. It is a nice median of life and how things should be,
customized for each individual.
It is not the be-all-and-end-all but it is a nice place to start.

Imagine those who have been running the world all this time..and they have made a serious clusterfuck out of it.
Wouldn't someone argue that they would of been the first ones to think in that way? Even though they should.. lol! But they don't.
Why?
Because they don't have the time and luxury to think twice!!
And that is their problem my friend! Even though it affects us all. Their choice though!
Themselves, their friends and their relatives are responsible for them!

Why would you choose suicide? Do a reset/restart/reborn/logon/evolve/create.

Human bosy cells are completely replaced after 7-10 years.
Why would you hold on to your thoughts for 11?
Because' i suppose would be your answer. Because what' i would answer back. And so what'.. i would argue.

Time my friend is one of the most important equalizers on this planet if not the biggest. And we've all got a limit.
And we all pretty much need the same things!
Whoever wants to live eternally falls in a catergory of his own. That of dumbness. He should be advised to get a life.
Find a way of creatively fill 24 minus sleep and you may find yourself not having time to think.

Get over it.. You're just having a bad day. Your not the first and not the last.
You got nothing to fear except fear itself..
Have a good day and post on Hacker News more frequently.
Some seriously interesting people troll the place all the time.
You won't be able to meet them in your sleep!

qoute: “Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.”
Until just a year or two ago, there was no way to validate a credit card without authorizing a charge to it for a dollar amount. Some backend processing networks still don't support zero-dollar authorizations. The reason every site that needed to validate a credit card charged $1 to it was because that was the only way to know the card presented is real.
Which is 100% the opposite of what most of us get told in most areas, at least in tech, because book writing will net most people only a few thousand bucks, and often takes several months.

But self-publishing? Owning everything? There seems to be more upside potential there (and yes, it's harder up front, because you have to market yourself too).
mobile without advertisment, a wet dream that will never end - do you really believe in that?
Political alliances are constantly shifting. The US was allied with the Soviet Union in WWII. Then the USSR became the US's arch-enemy in the Cold War. The Osama bin Laden that the US was subsidizing in the 1980s was at that time fighting against the Soviet army in Afghanistan.

Another example of shifting alliances: During the Iran vs. Iraq war, the US and other Western countries were subsidizing Saddam Hussein, since Iraq was considered the lesser of two evils (they had not taken US diplomats hostage as the Iranians had). Everyone looked the other way when the Iraqis used chemical weapons on the Iranians. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, they became an enemy of the US because they were threatening US oil suppliers. At the present time, the Iraqi government is again a friend of the US. In a few years, things could change again.
(a) You appear to be referring to a bill that died in a House committee.

(b) It's not in dispute that the DOJ opposed cryptography in the '90s (that's the lede of the comment you're replying to).

(c) The bill you're referring to had nothing to do with Biden.

(d) The one crypto-relevant bill that does bear Biden's name explicitly forbids the government from demanding that ISPs design networks so as to provide plaintext to law enforcement.

Let's keep the goal-posts clear here. The thread we're commenting on says Joe Biden opposed encryption. That's relevant because Joe Biden is a part of the current administration. I wouldn't want to perpetuate that unfounded idea by pointing out that other people were opposed to encryption in the 1990s; it was a common belief back then.
Yeah, I think the reason that OP's sister's use of SnapChat is different is the Hipster thing, using it for porn is too mainstream.... They're probably back to sending it through texts...
I've noticed your emphasis on doing frequent and appropriate mailings. It's good advice! It works well for us.

But what do you recommend for integrating a B2C CRM with email marketing?

We do detailed segmentation of our mailing list and I can't find a good B2C CRM that integrates sufficiently with an email mktg platform.

I'm currently looking into synching many more fields (needed for segmenting) from Zoho CRM to MailChimp via API with CloudWork/ItDuzzit/Zapier. Their defaults are useless (3-5 main fields), as we need complete contact info in order to segment well.
> how do you write a C compiler without a C compiler? C is often the lowest-level language compilers are written in, so in order to bootstrap a C compiler for a specific architecture / OS, you need to write the entire compiler in the target language (assembly).

Nope, you probably don't do that. You use a computer (host) where you already have a C compiler, and you compile the new compiler (which you wrote/ported). Then you run this new compiler, on the host, to generate executable code for the new architecture (target), i.e. cross-compile. You can use this cross-compiler to (again) compile your ported compiler, but to run on the target architecture. You end up with a native compiler for your new architecture.

Though, there is no essential need to have a native compiler for an architecture. For example, you can program an AVR microcontroller in C without running any C compilers on the AVR itself.
Thanks, it looks great!
For anyone interested in high throughput/low latency networking, netmap ( http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ ) looks really exciting in combination with a userspace TCP stack (e.g. unetstack). Pity I have no applications that could use it, would love to experiment.
"The only cost to the creator is the erosion of the paying market."

Development and production was financed based on the existence of that market. When it erodes, the entire proposition collapses. To creators, the existence of a paying market is like the hull of a ship to a sailor. In both cases, erosion is very very bad.
Google blocks Twitpic over alleged malware
What, I just created an account in Ad-Sense, and got a thread of emails explaining to me how can I use it, with a dicount coupon. After I failed to use it, I got another thread of emails, each time more personal, with hints and phone numbers I could call to get a personalized campaign, and an increase in the coupons discount. Now, about each 6 monts I get physical mail from Google with phones and coupons, each time with a more elaborated impression (they tought about nice paper, credit-like cards, nice envelopes).

All this time I've given Google no money at all.
On the comparison of TV and online prices: Transactional advertising (direct response) generally costs more than the brand-awareness equivalent, not less, so I definitely wouldn't call the fact that TV is brand awareness the reason it is so expensive. Part of it is supply and demand - people are willing to pay more for TV spots and compete for them, so prices go up, and the fact that there are far less commercials shown on TV than adverts shown online is the supply part. There's also the fact that they are completely different mediums. A more accurate comparison would be TV vs. online pre-roll advertising, although even then it's not completely like-for-like, and the online pre-roll market is young enough that it's too early to see where we will end up price wise.

Regarding brand awareness vs. transactional: worth noting that an awful lot of online banner adverts are paid for from brand awareness budgets rather then transactional. It's not as clear cut as saying that the fact they can be clicked means their purpose is direct response.
I have no problem with the charging a nominal fee to keep out spammers. However, they should just donate the $5 to charity like Atlassian does for their $10 starter pack.
On this issue, Biden was clearly on the wrong side of history (and some of the fundamental tenets upon which the US was founded). But I don't think anyone, even ardent Obama supporters, would argue that he's the brightest star in the sky anyway. He is perhaps the strongest protection against an Obama assassination, since no one would want him to take office.

Fortunately, the system worked in this case. A dangerous law introduced by a dimwitted person was not allowed to weave its way into our system. As a result, the Internet flourished and we are able to discuss this issue on Hacker News. While we haven't been so lucky on other such laws, in general, we should all be grateful that the US system is as effective as it is in muzzling these types of people and the changes they try to make.
>>...it's loaded language, thinly veiled propaganda to make opponents look bad. The creationists and NeoCons use the same tactic all the time...

...along with pretty much anybody with an agenda. "Pro choice" and "pro life" are both terms designed to sound good, for example. Who wants to be anti-choice OR anti-life?

Of course, a less cynical viewpoint is that both terms are designed to express what that side believes is the most relevant issue.
The SAAS course was more recent, so it's possible that Land of Lisp would be a lot easier for me than it was before. The "mathy" kinds of puzzles weren't a problem as I was a math major back in the day -- it was some kind of configuration issue. I remember having spent a lot of time googling and on message boards before turning my attention elsewhere. For the half of the book or so that I got through, it was really interesting. I still like how it eventually teaches you how to build a whole web server from the ground up.
ITC Judge Recommends Ban on Samsung Devices Infringing on Apple patents
Seconded. My Facebook friends list is comprised of ~20 people that I would consider placing a phone call to (or would not be surprised if I received one from).
I had some issues with my Nexus 7 which i bought in the Netherlands and was a bit peeved to find the contact us page for the Nexus 7 is literally an empty page. No contact information whatsoever. This was a few months back. I just checked; it's still empty: http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/request.py?contact_...
So, war is one of the most common words on most countries wikipedia pages. Illuminating.
I'll paste from my personal website: "I love designing holistic experiences, from the big picture vision, down to the pixel grid." So, I find (the right) problems and then create a solution (product). That's how I see my job.
Who gives a six year old a $200+ device?

and How many other six year olds also have some apple product?

I truly feel old... in my day you were lucky to get a gameboy color - and even that was only in 5th grade
NYC Finally Gets Realtime Subway Schedule App
Ask HN: What scientific breakthroughs are you most excited for in 2013?
Hi HN!

I am just wondering what areas of research we can expect to make large strides in 2013? What are some exciting opportunities? Are there any really exciting scientists and researchers to watch out for?
You should at least put a testing framework in place, and test some low-hanging fruit. That'll make it easier to get momentum going for more testing if things continue, and at least give you some minimal coverage.
I'm am skeptical of this solution, because in VR, when you turn your head, all the angles change. It is more complicated that just shifting the image.
CALEA was not passed under the Bush administration; it was passed by a Democratic Senate during the Clinton administration. What does a top-secret memo to George Bush tell us about Joe Biden or CALEA?

Again, I know this sounds pedantic, but it's not an academic distinction. There was definitely a pervasive sentiment that technology was moving faster than law enforcement could keep up with, and that some fix was required. We're talking about a point in time where many phone exchanges still weren't digitally switched! At issue wasn't simply that criminals could evade wiretaps, but that some exchanges might transition to equipment that would preclude wiretapping altogether.

It's intellectually risky to take that sentiment and focus it on cryptography, as if any one player in 1993 had established themselves as an opponent of general-purpose cryptography. This whole thread discusses one word ("plaintext") in a meaningless sense-of-the-Senate resolution that had much more to do with digital switching than it did with cryptography.
This seems like it might be a classic case of the tragedy of the commons. It is very hard to know what the world would be like if we (greatly simplifying) gave up on copyright. It is certainly easier to create at than ever before, but will removing copyright kill that?

I can't imagine how games, and films and TV series with the 20+ million pound budgets would ever get funded again. Maybe I don't have enough imagination.
He did get quite an impressive result, though, and there's some interesting (to me, at least) discussion of negotiating tactics that people who do this stuff for a living actually get taught.
'Start-Ups' reality show gets the ax
Thanks for sharing, I was looking for something like this.

I noticed the ebook is free: http://integrateddaniel.info/book/
I'd ask here how a bill can be a "beachhead" against encryption when it forbids the government from even requiring that telcos adopt equipment for which wiretaps are feasible, and when it specifically exempts telcos from being required to facilitate decryption.
Groceries are vital. That doesn't mean I get them for free. I need access to the roads as well, which is why I pay taxes. Producing this stuff costs money, and those costs are expected to be carried by the people benefiting.

Cultural works are exactly that - works. They represent tremendous concentrations of time, energy, talent, pain, risk, and resources. The fact that the up-front costs are high while the marginal costs of duplication and distribution are negligible in no way changes this basic proposition: this stuff costs money. Lots and lots of money. And that means it needs to be paid for.

If people don't like paying for copies, then what? By what precise mechanism are they going to transfer non-trivial sums of money from themselves to the people who produce the work?

Also, where's the enforcement to handle those who don't? Grocers, after all, only have to worry about attracting honest customers. If they catch someone stealing, they don't take it upon themselves to neutralize this threat to their business. They just call the cops. Throwing the idiots in jail isn't their problem. So what do you do about people who steal from artists? Are these folks expected to operate without the legal protections that the rest of society takes for granted?

Note, I'm not talking about stealing media, which is hard to steal in the strict sense due to its infinite reproducibility. I'm talking about stealing money, which is what people do when they make a copy they don't pay for, since the act of copying - by law - simultaneously creates an legal obligation to pay the author. But if people just decide to keep the money in their pockets, then they're holding onto something that is no longer theirs. And that's stealing.

It's like writing a check. The money to pay it may sit in their accounts for a few days until the check clears, but if they spend it on something else and cause the check to bounce, they've done something criminal. Likewise, if they make a copy, but spend the money they now owe on a cup of coffee instead, they've just screwed the artist out of cash to which he he's legally entitled. And if everybody does this, then the artist is really in trouble. After all, media may be endlessly reproducible, but money isn't. People can copy artist's work freely, but artist's can't "copy" the money in their audiences accounts, even when they're legally entitled to a portion of it.

Obviously, the creation of a legal debt to the artist is not triggered by every act of of copying. But assuming we're not talking about something covered by fair use, in the public domain, etc. then making copies absolutely means creating obligations to pay for them - which people widely and habitually disregard. At present, we're functioning on the honor system. And as any established commercial concern will tell you, this turns out to be a really shitty business model.
> I agree (for now), but i'm not sure this would be a bad thing. You might not be able to make Transformers 3, but you could make most (all?) of Hitchcock's movies.

In addition to "Transformers 3", we also might not have:

WALL-E: $180 million

Toy Story 3: $200 million

Up: $175 million

How to Train Your Dragon: $165 million

Could these same stories be told more cheaply? Sure...but I think they would have just been good stories then, not masterpieces.
Congress makes laws that cover the military, its all checked and balanced. There is no special exempt presidential power defined.
The Achilles’ Heel of 3D Printing
It is not a fluke of history. It is a long standing principle, which had everyone independently and had survived longer than many other law and principles. Why Complain about misleading wording and then talking about copyright like that?
I'll second the value of working all the way through SICP. I started and stopped with it several times before finishing it several years ago, and I learned _so_ much.
Ever heard of the SENS Foundation and Aubrey de Grey? They seem to be working on what you described.
I read the book more than a decade ago, and need to reread it, because I don't think I was ready for most of it back then. Also, the examples all seemed to focus on copywriting projects, and I couldn't really make the leap to software project billing.

I heartily agree with the idea of charging based on value provided, but I think it's harder for many providing software services to know, often because the people you're talking to don't really know - you may have to go a few levels up to get someone who sees the bigger value picture. In my experience, people will just skip over you to find someone more malleable to do the work, and until you get a name for yourself, and/or have people seeking you out based on reputation and past projects, you won't be in a position to do true 'value-based' consulting. It's certainly valuable, but it's also something I don't think many people can start off doing on day one.
I have Iphone, I bought it, because I couldn't afford a new car, yet I could buy something "new".
hm. See, I thought that provisioning/support was my weak point, not bandwidth. Bandwidth is actually an easier problem to solve, right now; I have, shall we say, massively overbought. I do need metering (right now, well, when I say I 'overbought' well, my burst capacity is two whole orders of magnitude larger than my 95th percentile. My commit is 60% of my burst capacity. I haven't had to limit a legitimate user for bandwidth usage in more than a year.) and I do need to do some general network upgrades. Right now, while I have the /external/ capacity, there are several internal bottlenecks which means that I will see some bad shit when usage hits one order of magnitude or so above what it is now. Actually, slightly less than that. I've got several points in the network where some traffic ends up doing a 'router on a stick' where the stick in question is a 1G link. Bad news, as my external capacity is 12G/sec. if Also, I don't have any metering, I mean, other than tcpdump (and perl) when shit gets bad. That's clearly a problem if I want to run at over 1/10th capacity, which I do.

I mean, on the metering side, right now, that is part of why the bandwidth quotas are so 2007; I mean, I /know/ that if I am having problems on my network due to overuse, someone is massively overrunning their bandwidth quota, so I can TC them down to something reasonable without breaking with the expectations I've set. So yeah, if you really do need serious amounts of bandwidth, (like, say, north of 200Mbps) on a VPS, I'm weak... but that's a whole hell of a lot of bandwidth.

(so yeah, I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are right if you are a serious bandwidth user, but most people aren't; and my policy of 'limit, and only if it's causing problems' I mean, rather than charging you for overages, makes bandwidth less of a big deal for most customers.)

Nonetheless, I am way too close to the 'will cause problems' bit with the bottlenecks in the internal network for me to set bandwidth expectations higher without good metering, but switches with 10Gbe uplinks are getting cheap, so it should be a fairly simple matter.

Now, provisioning? yeah, especially on the dedicated servers, I'm completely unacceptable. I've had a few customers that I strung along for weeks. (I mean, they got refunds... but that's just not acceptable.) - provisioning for VPSs is generally way better, It's rare that you wait more than a day or two, but still not anywhere near the linode/rackspace standard, and until I fix that, well, I'm dramatically less useful than they are.