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Two main vectors of attack:

1. Shoes4. This is JRuby GUI toolkit work.

2. The website. This is a Rails app using MongoDB.

If you'd like to help with one or the other, email me at steve@steveklabnik.com and I'd love to point you to more details.
Don't try to open this page with Noscript enabled in Firefox - it locks up the browser. I'm guessing that without the javascript to control the CSS, everything runs amok. Seems like you could make a browser DoS attack by simply copying this page and stripping out the javascript? Might be worth a try... for science.
"Design patents" are more sensibly understood as being part of the trademark regime than the patent regime. They protect entirely arbitrary and non-functional aspects of a product. If the shape has any utility, then the design patent is invalid.

I personally don't see the point of design patents. The whole premise underlying the patent system is to prevent free-riding, but shapes are rarely the product of significant capital investment. If the problem becomes one of confusing similarity, then trade dress is the more appropriate vehicle (incidentally, I think if design patents hadn't existed, Apple would've sued Samsung on trade dress infringement grounds).

There is an internal tension in IP law between the economic justifications for the law and, well, the law. The point is to protect expensive capital investment into design from free-riding, but the law is loathe to actually look at whether a design is the product of expensive investment.
I think you are under the false assumption that the users that left, left because they didn't want to be monetized.
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Have to say; having just downloaded the app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mta-subway-time/id561507659?...) it's fairly disappointing UX; the real draw is the data, which (although limited to just a few lines) seems to be accurate. Hopefully the plan is to open up this data to third party developers sometime soon.
It's not really 'abandonment' such as it is 'poor communication.' Nothing has been 'abandoned,' work is going on in a different repository now.
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podrivo: did you do everything by hand or did you use some kind of IDE?

very cool.
Is there a way to stream music from a Linux machine to multiple destinations?

Currently I have a notebook with Mint connected to my stereo system for all my music needs. It works nice.

I would love to have the music play in multiple rooms simultaneously. Is it possible? Money is not an issue. I could buy whatever equipment is needed. But I did not hear about any solution yet.
Oh yes we all live in the land of the ideal where everything is functional and has no side effects of course and we're blessed with parenthesis.

There is a huge difference between an if and a function. Consider SICP where lazy evaluation is introduced (read it if you haven't). An if statement encompasses the lazy evaluation as a native concept whereas a function's arguments are always evaluated (assumption for now - please carry on reading).

So consider an if statement as a control flow structure which automatically supports lazy evaluation and leaves the return semantics up to the user. This abstraction is clean from the highest level, right down to the CPU which uses conditional branching to perform the if operation. There is a 1:1 match all the way down.

The function on the other hand does not natively support lazy evaluation and enforces the return semantics. You then have to apply a lazy evaluation mechanism over the top (another layer of abstraction!). This layer of abstraction conveniently ends up using conditional branching to perform the if operation when it gets to CPU level. There is not a 1:1 match all the way down.

Big hint there: your functional if at the end of the day is just a compiler abstraction over a state machine which uses ifs.

As for OO, the industry I think has decided who won that battle.

But alas, no religious war is required. Use what tools work for you.
From what I understood from sophomore economics, 1,000 transactions of $1,000 has potential to stimulate more economic growth than 1 transaction of $1,000,000. And, if we think about it, it seems pretty straightforward as to why.
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DateTImer Picker is a feature-rich DateTime Picker for Twitter Bootstrap. It allow you to find DatePickers to form fields and has view for the following time lapses: Decade, Year, Month, Day, and Hour views.

DateTImer Picker also provides keyboard navigation support. Using the left/right key updates the calendar by one day. The up/down keys update the calendar by one week.

Using the shift key and pressing up/left will move the calendar back one month. Using the shift and down/right key will move the calendar forward one month.

Using the control key, and the up/left key moves the calendar backward one year and the control and down/right key moves the calendar forward one year.
Thanks! I actually consider 'a huge handholding operation' to be a big compliment: that's the point of a tool like this. You obviously didn't need handholding, but many do: they're my market. I'm glad Treehouse was able to help you. Keep building cool stuff!
Thanks for the list.

Do you know if any of these supports audio + frame synchronization, the audio being the primary "feature" of the animation?
Thanks, I just sent you one back.
Did you read what you linked?

"Because of Mr. Kim's background as a technology analyst, observers speculated that the family had used online mapping to find their route. However, Mrs. Kim told state police that they had used a paper road map, an account supported by the Oregon State Police, which reported that the Kims had used an official State of Oregon highway map."
That's what you inferred. gyardly says nothing about the internal culture of Bulgaria and Romania.
The first chapter of my economics 101 text mentioned that if everyone had "replicators" that could automatically produce anything one desired, there would be little need for economics at all. I realize now the flaw in that delightful thought.
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I'm actually curious about the internals of how a modern OOP system works internally once it's boiled down to the CPU level. I'd imagine there's still lots of branch prediction issues in complex OOP systems.
You don't have any direct experience, therefore hearsay and secondary sources are more reliable? You wouldn't happen to be an editor on Wikipedia, would you?
Living in Michigan, this is one of my biggest fears. Due to the massive lakes that surround us, we frequently get a blast of warm, wet air that causes rain, and of course that warm wet air is being pushed off the lake by a cold front, causing high winds and sub-freezing temps. This combined with large stands of farmland and no trees for windrows means wind blows right across the road and freezes the rain instantly, sometimes right beneath your tires. What was wet a second ago is now frozen, and you can't see the difference. The snow starts to pile up, and a gust of wind pushes you right off the road and into an irrigation ditch. The best 4x4 in the world won't get you out now. And good luck using your cell phone: the areas where this is most likely to happen often have no cell service, or the cell service is only for Verizon phones (too bad you have AT&T, and the FCC forced them to sell off their overlapping network in that area). Four wheel drive won't help. Locking differentials won't help. All wheel drive won't help. All of these require even faintest bit of traction, and you don't have it.

People think I'm weird for having a CB radio in my truck, but last winter during an ice storm I went off the road. Literally all of the county's emergency crews were busy taking care of other ditch parties. I called out on my CB for the local off-roading enthusiasts, and 15 minutes later a snowmobile arrived with a winch. I paid $30 to the man for his help (though he insisted he didn't need payment), and I was back on the road. The CB cost me $250; how much would a tow truck have cost?

This article should be read by everyone who has to travel in winter conditions. Seems like every winter I hear the obituary on the news of people who go off the road and try to hoof it somewhere miles away in a normal winter jacket, jeans, and boots. I keep a snowmobile suit in my truck during the winter. One thing I would have added is something along the lines of "and you knew you couldn't stay in your car with the heat running waiting for help, you'd die from the exhaust fumes". I think that's more common than freezing to death.
I'm really surprised that he didn't just recommend that they do away with Product Managers altogether.

This is probably the best Product Management approach I've heard of for early startups: http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/Does-Stripe-have-product...
What's your point? I have several friends (and myself as well) that deleted their accounts and they were actual active users.
Here you go. http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/28/3809328/one-small-hotels-...
I was a quite active user posting about 1-3 pictures per day, liking stuff and having a bit over hundred followers. I deleted my account after this change. Good riddance Facebook.
No I didn't, I the original search for him and his family and the immediate aftermath that there was a great deal of discussion about them getting lost due to following a bad GPS route.
Come now, we all know that "fail fast" is a valid design philosophy in architecture. :P
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Firstly, this is fantastic. Really beautiful work and you've reframed what I thought was possible with CSS animations.

The CSS is remarkably economical and I notice that you aren't using any javascript libraries other than jQuery.

Can you share how you keyframed and timed the animation work? Laying these out by hand must be an exercise in tedium? In particular I'm talking about scenes.css which is where the bulk of the animation happens (https://github.com/podrivo/thegoodman/blob/master/files/scen...).
I did this in the UK about 2 months ago, the entire process took about 4 hours.

I used the free option too - you have to scour the UK site for it, but its all there, and it was quick (in November anyway)
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Not everybody can flag. I lost my ability to flag about a year ago (not sure why).
This was terrifying, I think because of its sheer realism. Nobody expects they're going to die when they decide to get out of their car and trek to the cabin in the dead of night. But it sneaks up on you through a series of small mis-steps and you could pay with your life for those little mistakes.

Should've stayed with the car. Should've called for help. Once he got out, he should've stayed on the road instead of cutting through the woods. Should've ditched the skis once they broke. Should've exerted himself less.

Lots of little should-haves like those are what can kill someone who's not prepared for and experienced with harsh conditions.
Being cold and being deathly cold are two different things.

I've only gotten mild frostbite once, but I'd never want to have it again. The skin blackens and peels, and itches like nothing I've ever experienced before.
Thats an old school EPROM setup; never used one myself but heard they were a right pain to use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM
Yes, the signal over USB is digital, and the speakers have a DAC and an amplifier.
Of course you're right about the corner cases where somebody has particular requirements, but I'm also counted among the Linux-to-Mac migration. I couldn't afford the amount of time I was spending just to keep my desktop functioning, so I got a macbook. I run a dozen Debian or Ubuntu servers, but my primary workstation is a mac laptop.

Honestly, this article made me realize how much I take it for granted that all of the LCD projectors and dual-monitor setups I've encountered in the last half-decade have just worked with my mac. I thought back to 1999, when I got my first Xinerama dual-head setup working with X11 after about 4 hours of work...

xf86config? Oh the pain! One of the video cards was running at 50hz in 15-bit color mode. Madness.
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I guess you're talking about only Python. Well, as I said its one of the easiest language to pick up. Python's own documentation is a very good start. "Introduction to python" and "Dive into python" are good start. Huge list - http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks.

If you're talking of django/web-frameworks, well it'll be a little more effort since it involves some stuff (concepts of MVC, etc) other than python per se. So you could start by understanding of web development in general. But django docs tutorials are also pretty good.
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I wanted to study it, so it was all hand coded.
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Regarding this bug:

> CORS support is basically broken. S3 doesn't return the proper headers for browsers to understand how objects should be cached:

The S3 team is working to address this. We're investigating the other issues and always appreciate your feedback.
Sure, pick the silliest-looking case you can find and claim it's a typical PC.

Apple is able to make everything slot into the motherboard because they control the design of every part, and sell enough volume in that exact configuration. There's no standard place on the motherboard for your hard disk connections, so you can't do the same for arbitrary motherboards.

You could sell a PC case that only took one motherboard, one that hard drives slotted directly. But realistically, once you've chosen the motherboard that severely constrains your choice of processor, and probably memory as well. It would mean giving up everything that makes the PC great.

And really, who cares? The engine bay of my car is pretty ugly too, but it's not like I'm showing it to guests; when I pop the hood it's because there's a specific problem I want to fix, and as long as it all works it doesn't matter that it looks like a mess. The inside of my PC is exactly the same.
This bit about how certain groups of people have somehow developed different responses to cold is fascinating:

Were you a Norwegian fisherman or Inuit hunter, both of whom frequently work gloveless in the cold, your chilled hands would open their surface capillaries periodically to allow surges of warm blood to pass into them and maintain their flexibility. This phenomenon, known as the hunter's response, can elevate a 35-degree skin temperature to 50 degrees within seven or eight minutes.

Other human adaptations to the cold are more mysterious. Tibetan Buddhist monks can raise the skin temperature of their hands and feet by 15 degrees through meditation. Australian aborigines, who once slept on the ground, unclothed, on near-freezing nights, would slip into a light hypothermic state, suppressing shivering until the rising sun rewarmed them.

You have no such defenses, having spent your days at a keyboard in a climate-controlled office. Only after about ten minutes of hard climbing, as your body temperature rises, does blood start seeping back into your fingers. Sweat trickles down your sternum and spine.
They paid a billion dollar to prevent Twitter from having a decent photo service. Facebook doesn't need Instagram. Twitter did.
Thank you. I was somewhat puzzled why this article got so many up-votes. It didn't seem to say anything new or interesting. I half expected it to end with, "I'm beginning to think that form ever follows function."

It's not that the article is wrong per se, it's that it states some fairly obvious ideas that are true in a broad sense (e.g. a user needs some visual guidance to make sense of a page; designing for looks at the expense of function is a Bad Thing) while being horridly weak in the details and specific examples.

Since there's little substance to the article it mainly serves as a kind of flag for taste preferences. People agree or disagree with the general sentiment, but when pressed to explain why most can't. I think this is why there was a such a reaction to "citation needed"; the annoying realization that one's opinions are merely anecdotal observations with no ready means of objective verification.

The question (perhaps rhetorically) was asked if posting "citation needed" ever lead to a worthwhile follow-up discussion. I'm thinking probably not.

Anecdotal observation: It's occurred to me that when people make obviously non-personal assertions, and they have some backing evidence, they tend to post it with their comment. If you don't see the citation it's likely because the poster hasn't any, and asking for it will be met with silence (or possibly derisive dismissal of the idea of being asked for evidence).

I attribute this to people asking for supporting links often enough that many posters think it's expected of them. I would like to think this is true.
Now might be a good time to recommend Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class for anyone who hasn't read it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class

One of my touchstones for understanding the modern world.
Usually even when you have a DUNS number, Apple demands that some of the company entity codes are filled in correctly. D&B will usually offer to fix them for you in a month or take $200+ to do it faster.

The process that takes a month can be done over the phone or online but frequently D&B simply stops processing mid-correction and abandons the update. The process will be abandoned silently for a couple weeks, then you'll get calls offering once again to update for a fee.

It took me three months to register with Apple. And that was for an ordinary plain vanilla US domestic corporation.
Check out shart at https://github.com/polleverywhere/shart if you're looking for an easy way to deploy static websites, like Middleman, to S3.
I turned noscript off and it still locked up.
Maybe? I just needed an iOS developer certificate. I lack resources to start an international lawsuit against them anyway.
Ah yes, that's horribly, horribly wrong. :)
I'm not a big fan of these PR fluff pieces companies put out about their supposed future potential on HN... This coupled with the marketing advice blogs that mention doing precisely this on HN makes the whole exercise harder to take seriously. Sure: there will probably be money in India's consumer credit. Will this be the company to do it? Maybe. But getting there's the hard part....
What's the problem with the 5-10 seconds wake up time in Heroku? This does NOT happen every time they are used, it only happens ONCE every an hour or more of inactivity. This limitation becomes problematic however if your app has cron jobs every so often, or states (e.g. node app).
If not over the TOS then why did they leave? The timing seems too close to be purely coincidental.
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Those are daily active users. Monthly active users are around 43.6 million.

Source: http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/124024574287414-instagr...
FREE:

appfog - https://www.appfog.com/

dotcloud - http://dotcloud.com

CHEAP:

webbynode, $15 entry level plan - http://webbynode.com

digital ocean, $5 entry level plan - https://www.digitalocean.com/

I've used appfog and it works alright.
I am a paying customer for webbynode and like it a lot. Easy to deploy, ssh access, flexibility. $15 might be more than you want to pay, I've not tried digital ocean, but it seems like a nice entry level price point.
I don't think that in many jurisdictions it would be illegal.

It's certainly not illegal for a company to set criteria for which suppliers it will do business with: for example, "we'll only work with ISO9001 certified companies". Is this any different?

I'd be interested to hear more about why this practice is illegal in Brazil, especially as you say it could lead to a prison sentence (which seems odd for what should be a civil case). Is there case law or statute available for someone interested in such things to browse?
I'm not certain it will work but you might look into the Logitech Media Server http://www.mysqueezebox.com/download with SoftSqueeze clients http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/

While intended for use with Squeezebox hardware clients, I suspect you could get an all-software linux client-based synchronized setup working with it. The Squeezebox software is all known for being hackable.

There is some concern about Logitech killing off the Squeezebox ecosystem, but the source for much (all?) of this is available and the community remains active.
My sentiments were exactly the same. OMG the f word :D
You seem to have not read the ToS before or after the change. It was actually more restrictive _after_ the change.

All this 'outrage' seems to fundamentally be about the user being reminded that the ToS actually existed in the first place, not any changes made to it.
When you feel like a loser, do something good for someone else. It doesn't have to be for strangers or charity-specific.

Call your parents, hell - go see them and take them to a movie on your dime. Buy a video game for your nephew/niece and play with them. Call your friends up and buy a round of beer!

When you stop thinking about "YOUR" achievements and start thinking about others, I'd bet you will feel a whole lot more successful.
"move fast and break things!"
Yes, and I hopped that we grew out of "lets do unfixable damage to everyone we don't like" age. And about castration - it might end up common practice, after all radical feminists are pushing for castration of men (and their extermination), feminism keeps fud that all women will be raped...

I would honestly take capital punishment rather than live lobotomised or castrated.
I doubt that there's a EU-wide norm for that yet, but in Germany, what you do is completely ignore anything the collection agency does by itself after you first tell them you think the claim is invalid. What you must not by any means ignore is the Mahnbescheid (a court notice of the claim) - reply to that immediately that you contest the claim. In most cases that will be the last thing you hear, since they'll then have to actually sue you and prove the validity of the claim to a court.
Interestingly enough Ben Franklin actually agrees with you earlier in the book. "Most People Dislike Vanity in Others, Whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action."
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Sorry but it's bullshit. Apologies for self-promoting my The Next Web article on this, but many popular apps seemingly lost a lot of users according to AppData's data. It doesn't add up at all.

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/12/28/no-rage-against-ru...
This story is the future of journalism.

Instead of being subjected to fake-news fad stories about rich people in the U.S., now we'll be subjected to fake-news fad stories about rich people in China.

Could probably track the prevalence of China-rich-fad vs. U.S.-rich-fad stories as a good marker of the changeover in superpower status.
Facebook is like a basic need now, Instagram is more like a hobby with many acceptable alternatives.
Web 3.0 - static content? ;)
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When WTO meetings are taking place there is no UK representation. There are unelected EU officials representing them as well as the whole EU. Maybe because they are mostly German speaking it's good for the German economy, but killing British?