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It sounds like a lot of obvious mistakes were made here. #1 on my list would be to never give direct access to the company's bank account if possible, and definitely not without limits. There should be 1 or 2 names on it max.

What has personally worked for me is providing company credit cards with a max limit of $25k to anyone who actually needs to be actively spending. Right now that's head of tech, head of marketing and CEO. My company is larger and spends quite a bit. If you are bootstrapping or have done an angel round, perhaps this number should be $5k or $10k. Either way, the important part is the limit.

As far as withdrawals go, a 2-signer system on all checks is a no-brainer, though in this case it sounds like an in-person withdrawal from a branch is what got you. I would check with your bank to see if they can setup a similar system for withdrawals over $X. I've worked with Silicon Valley Bank and they are super flexible to any of these custom needs.

Best of luck with getting back up after this. These are the kinds of events that you need to creatively persevere through.
Nice explanation for the layman, and it's certainly not the first time - messed around with negative temperatures in BECs as an undergrad!

Thing is, when you understand why it happens, it seems perfectly rational and expected. It's all about information.
I thought it has startup potential too, but in a different direction; a league of blind people you can hire to give feedback on your website.
Branch circuit voltage sag, from running the vacuum on the same circuit as the room lighting. Doesn't happen in commercial buildings, where the lighting runs on 277v.
I agree ,we can at least give that guy a bad reputation here.Better yet you should make public the name of the father son duo (anonymously of course).
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You need to install Adobe AIR in order to run the apps created for AIR but for TideSDK, you don't need any additional software.
>Micro$oft

You made some great points, but had to end it with that juvenile jab which adds nothing to the conversation and which I believe has no place on HN.
The pattern has a width of 57 columns. The decoded text looks like the beginning of a private key to me.
"I can confirm the existence of a remote code execution PoC for Rails."
Very interesting experiment. Sighted people often take their vision for granted. I know I do and I try to think of what I would do if I lost my vision but we can all work on improving accessibility in general.
It is just so sad that Paypal themselves don't feel the need to update their 10 year old interface and make it fresh and snappy to use.

Oh well, all the best to your project. I'm sure i will give it a try the next time i try to find a 3 month old transaction.
Well, Apple did have a big event where they introduced educational resources and text books in a big way, and whilst I'm unsure what they do at a school purchase level, they do also offer very handsome discounts to those in education.

Android is very good at many things, but in terms of the education market Apple has been much sharper in getting textbooks and educational content front and centre. I'm sure if there was a level of parity in terms of content and functionality, but Android was significantly cheaper then schools would go that way.
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Most of those problems have very simple solutions in software features.

> When I was trying to do homework, I wanted - the questions from page 251, the table of equations from 190, and to be able to flip through and find similar examples. Obviously e-books fail miserably if you need quick access to multiple pages.

The solution to this could be implemented in under a week, for sure. Add a little UI for temporary bookmarks. Let the reader save a set of relevant pages (questions, table of equations, examples) and then swipe between them. Simple.
Valve has authorized us to distribute the Steam Linux package to our users and host it in our repositories

Suggests that Valve are happy to see Steam spread to other distributions (presumably with certain compatibility checks). A good sign IMHO; I have seem some concerned about being locked into Ubuntu.

Will be interesting to see how far they are prepared to take things: will it be only Ubuntu/Debian based distros, or will they spread to others too? If Steam for Linux takes off AT ALL it seems it would be in (say) Red Hat's interest to get it working in Fedora.
As a horse with a witch mustache, I approve of this question.
The best thing about this is that it will increase the number of Android games, meaning that all Android consoles gain. This means that the Ouya will be helped by this too.

I'm vaguely hopeful that if we can get people used to the idea of Android gaming then you'll see someone like Sony announced that they have an Android compatibility layer so that you can play Android games on the PS4. I shan't hold my breath though.
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This has potential. Shouldn't currency decimals be displayed right-aligned?
By W3C validator do you mean the Markup Validation Service or the Web Accessibility Initiative aka WAI? I think WAI validators were introduced to address the issue you raised in your experiment. Is this true?

Anyhow, I can't agree more, "being W3C valid means jack".
I completely agree with your feelings here. I, too, am a permanent resident with a green card. I live in fear of immigration deciding that "something isn't in order" and then my life is completely upside down. I've grown up in the US, my wife is a US citizen, my kids are all US citizens, yet dad always has that crazy worry in the back of his mind.

AND...for those of you who brush this off. Please contact my wife and ask her feelings about immigration. When I was going through my green card process she just about went nuts at the immigration office and destroyed a few of the workers. Eventually she had to stop coming to the appointments and just wished me luck. She is more frustrated with the process than I am.

The problem is that we're talking about immigrants here. No one is going to stand up for them. Citizens never have to deal with the these issues, and most immigrants, once they've gone through the process, never want to look back on it again, let alone try to fight it.
What about the Assange case? I don't see any wrong-doing there. If there's a conspiracy going on it has nothing to do with the Swedish legal system.
I thought this is called XML+XSLT... (Or what about XML+XSLT+XHTML+CSS)
There looks to be lots of solar both in urban and rural locations in the UK, thanks to generous grants/assured tariffs.

Prof David MacKay talks about equalising supply from wind & solar with pumped hydro and electric vehicles in his excellent book, page 190 onwards: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/sewt...
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I imagine there is another side to this story. This doesn't seem to be the full picture.
That's exactly what I did studying for the GRE with a pdf ebook. Flipping between bookmarks feels just as fast as flipping physical pages.
I feel the Samwer brothers are creating a lot of bad karma for themselves..
Not that I can tell, but we took the controversial tack of telling the kids not to install any games on there. So far, it's working for us.
Quotations on simplicity in software design
In moderate amounts (1-2 cups a day, or a bit more), it has beneficial effects.

For people who drink 1-2 pots a day, I've seen it cause gastrointestinal issues, ulcers, reflux, and other issues.
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£65k saved off photocopying is huge. I've seen copier bills so I know what they can be like, but that's crazy savings from introducing it. Wonder if they're just emailing everything out now, which makes significantly more sense.

I'm in favour of iPads in school. I've ran through a few of the educational programs on the iPad (including iTunes and Udemy as well as textbooks), it's a great resource and helps to consolidate everything I need in one place. When I was at Uni I was one of the few people who used a laptop to take notes in lectures as I found it easier to split my focus.

I can't watch the video but I'm guessing that they've got all the iPads through the enterprise system that most big companies are (or should be anyway) using, which gives them a bit more granularity on what's going on, pushing updates and some additional restrictions. I'm sure teachers are smart enough to realise that kids with fully unlocked iPads are going to spend their time mucking about.
Frankly, it's because people in the U.S. don't make tea very often. It's usually just once in the morning, during breakfast (if that.)
No, not a detached retina, but get them checked. The first time I had a "floater" was last March. Luckily, I had it checked out. Some blood vessels in the back of my eye were leaking and it was serious enough to require laser surgery. Like someone else said, get them checked the first time and/or if they get worse.
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> I can picture for instance a service that would take a page, scan it, remove all the unnecesary clutter and make it as much screen reader friendly as possible.

If this was technologically achievable, it would be in screen readers already ;)
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JsPDF launches open source HTML5 PDF generation library
There was a stat here from a while back saying that half of all Silicon Valley startups were founded/co-founded by immigrants. There was another saying that all net job growth in the US in the last ~30 years was because of growth in the small/medium business sector.

So while it would take some time to see the results, and the casual factors probably not be put down to immigrants leaving (or being denied/not applying to enter the US to begin with), you would see an eventual impact on job creation and economic growth.

Perhaps the slow recovery after the 2007 crisis could be partially put down to the post-9/11 paranoia and making it more difficult for smart people to enter the US? It's total speculation on my part (something that occurred to me as I typed this comment), but an interesting idea nonetheless.

Also, the Economist published a list of best countries to be born in: http://www.economist.com/news/21566430-where-be-born-2013-lo...

The US is 16th, behind Australia, Canada, and many European countries. Years ago America was on top.
Have you seen the Source Code ? :O

apart from <!doctype html> and <audio/> I do not see what is so HTML5 about moving divs using JavaScript.
Agile is mentioned quite a lot in this article, but something doesn't feel right. It is rather hard to conquer some ground in the Enterprise world as an Agile start-up. I don't think big companies are ready for this.
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Simply a question of available power. Typical British kettles use 3kW (comfortably doable with 240V@13A); under US power (110V@15A) you can only manage about half that, which means waiting twice as long for your kettle to boil.
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Well it states what Broadmoor is and says that it contains some of the most dangerous people in the country (and mentions the casual references to physical violence a couple of times). Does that not adequately describe how dangerous these people can be? It seemed fairly obvious to me at least.

It also points out that there's such a thing as going too far and that merely learning/using some of the techniques that psychopaths tend to exhibit (in a mild form) is potentially useful. It doesn't seem (to me at least) that he's directly advocating pretending to be a council inspector/whatever to kick people out of their home.
Of COURSE you pass random in.

Or the seed + current value of the PRNG.

That's how companies like Blizzard do to reproduce any game state in games like Warcraft III. For example a replay file is tiny: the only thing that is saved are player inputs and the time at which they happened, as well as the seed to the PRNG.

You're likely confused because you think "random" means "true randomness" while typically we're using seeded PRNGs.

In addition to that, in language supporting high-order functions it's very common to pass a function to/from a function.

Passing in a PRNG function and the current value the PRNG is at is a very good way to get a 100% deterministic function inside a functional programming language.

Stop spreading FUD about FP.
The jumping is too fast on my machine, but the running and forward jumping is too slow.
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There are Python bindings to communicate with the NXT brick ... aptly named PyNXT. The python doesn't run directly on the NXT brick so there is some additional latency that one has to deal with.
On my first generation i5 with integrated graphics, it runs fine in Iron, which is basically Chromium. Looking at the Wikipedia article for RockMelt, that browser hasn't even seen a preview release in over half a year, so I would assume its performance might lag a bit behind the upstream projects.

Have you tried it in any other browsers?
> The device can also play PC games through the Steam streaming service by taking advantage of Nvidia's Grid,

This sounds pretty cool. I am curious as to how they are able to run steam games? Is this talking about the beta linux steam client? Or are they referring to steam games which would specifically be built for their Nvidia Grid architecture?
Sounds like you're looking for Etherpad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad
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My experience with US embassies (both the one in Brussels and Dublin) has never seen them refuse entry to a US citizen and tell them to re-schedule. They usually have separate entrances as well with different procedures.
> 'the publishing will only happen now' is the kind
> of assumption that ends up being false very rapidly.

I think you're right, and part of the problem here is the time example clouding people's judgement. The fact that we as humans experience time as a continuous global phenomenon is irrelevant from a software engineering perspective. The current time is data no different from any other data.

It's not even difficult to think of an example of your point about the assumption quickly becoming false. Presumably our "publish" method exists within a blogging application. An extremely common feature in blogging software is some tool for importing posts from other blogging applications. In that situation, you need to be able to pass in the time as input.
I have similar feelings about reading books on tablet, I just can't get used to it. The only advantage to me is the unlimited number of books I can 'carry', otherwise I'll always choose a physical book.
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My first concern is security. I see that you say you import "via SSL" into a "secure Slowpal account".

Can you elaborate on what makes the Slowpal account secure?
Ask HN: Can anyone share a Projected CashFlow P&L or Balance sheet with me?
Just interested to find out if anyone is prepared to share a projected Cash Flow P&L and Balance Sheet with me just to give me an idea of what's involved for tech Startup Business Plan.

I'm familiar with the format, but I'm mainly looking for an idea of what should be expected in the way of valuing assets and costs of infrastructure.
App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012
You need to install Tide runtime once (just like AIR) to be able to run Tide apps.
Am I the only one that thinks the name and branding choice is misguided?

How is this any different from providing a valued added service for Paypal and naming it FuckPaypal.com?
A HTML + JavaScript version of an awesome clock
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One of the many inspiring stories on HN. The methods sound great, the company sounds great, and I'd want to either work for them or start my own company like that.

But I'm a student and I guess I should finish my studies before dropping out. Despite the great tales of Bill Gates & co, it seems like the right thing to do. It also gives me an opportunity to watch behind the scenes of "real life" companies. Internships.

And that's what I want to ask about: All companies seem so traditional... There is no space for the methods described in all these HN stories; no time for innovation. "The customer wanted these features last week, do you think we have time for [you name it]?"

So I don't know what my question really is... It's just, these stories sound so good, but during internships, it turns out they're no more than stories. Or are they? Or is it an American thing or something?
This awesome clock to be exact. http://copygr.am/awesomeinventions/356722333983357560_228320...
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Who is we? Synchronizing changes back to the API doesn't sound easy especially when the state of the remote side may have diverged from the client.
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While being "W3C valid" (passing validation according to a DTD or schema for the HTML) is insufficient, it's still useful in that tools, including screen readers, can more reliably process the content of a valid page than an invalid page.
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This is excellent, but doesn't quite "feel right" when playing. In my opinion, anybody interested in playing Super Mario will remember its distinct feel -- so it will be important to nail down the exact dynamics of running, jumping, falling, stopping, mid-jump corrections, ducking while running, how close you can get to edges, etc.
I believe the games run on remote hardware and are streamed to the device.
100 bucks a credit card :)

I'm allowed into Oz with as little or as much cash as I like, for the next few yeas at least, which is quite nice.
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You're setting a very, very, low bar for "doing their jobs". The reason we employ human beings at border points is so that they will, theoretically, use good judgement to allow the free flow of legitimate goods and travelers (i.e. not create massive delays without a clear reason).
> They (the company) chose to go the extra mile and should be commanded.

No, it didn't, and it shouldn't. The company chose to have cheap but shitty service and give unsustainable special treatment to irate customers who might create PR problems, while service for those without a Twitter account and entitlement issues remains shitty.

Actually everytime I hear a story like this, my opinion of the company in question goes down a lot. Good customer service doesn't mean having a separate department that can order around the peons to work overtime handling special cases. It means fixing processes so that those special cases don't occur.
Yikes... I wonder if there's an equivalent alarming-but-seemingly-innocuous situation for hearing. I'd imagine the analog for this would be something like tinnitus... anybody know?
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BBC Sport launches free iPhone and iPod touch app
Why not just use the TransactionSearch API? I only visit PayPal's website when I need to change an account setting.
Android or Chrome? Will Google ever decide on one OS?
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Password reset Vulnerability in Facebook Employees Secure Files Transfer service
I visited "Dialog in the Dark" exhibit in Atlanta with my wife a few years ago. It appears that is permanently closed but they opened a new one in NYC - http://www.dialognyc.com/ - however due to Sandy, it appears that is temporarily closed.
This is a good point. The types of people who thrive in one environment are not necessarily going to do well in another.

My issue with academia is that it has minimal job risk but high career risk. So, while it's rare that someone actually gets fired (I've seen 9th-year grad students lose funding; I guess that counts) the risk of ending up in a ruined career is high. On the other hand, in software and finance getting fired is practically a rite of passage-- happens to everyone, especially ambitious overperformers-- and it's painful but it doesn't end your career.

On the other hand, one thing academia has going for it is career coherency. In industry, you serve a boss and have to make it look like you value his political aspirations over your own career development. In academia, your job is to invest in yourself-- to publish and develop a reputation, to attend conferences, to improve your skills. So that's one thing that's nice about it.
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Great project!

The only minor thing that disturbes me are a few well-known logos (Atlassian, GitHub) beyond "Thank you". I know it is a grey area of ethics, but perhaps we should encourage to put real partners (clients, etc.). If you quickly scroll you may see it as more impressive, but in long run listing that kinds of acts seems unprofessional (e.g. listing Microsoft as major partner, when you just license their software).
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It all depends on what industry your startup is in.
Australia has an actual dollar amount (AU$3000 I think) that you have to have before getting a one year work visa. A friend went there recently and that was his experience.
Could you be more specific about the things Lyx does worse than Word? For me, most of its WYSIWYM-features work pretty well.

For what it's worth, the most annoying thing for me have been the tables, which overflow in awkward ways.
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Live Foursquare check-in data on a Google Maps overlay. Needs some polish/fine-tuning, but I just started it this weekend. Check it out.
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Pepper sprays are considered as offensive WEAPONS in some countries and their possession might be illegal.
I was using "safe" in a relative sense. I don't disagree with anything you've said. Wikipedia is generally pretty accurate, useful, and safe for casually informing yourself about a non-controversial topic. But it's not "safe" to use in research, for example. There is a joke I heard somewhere: "If you don't believe me, just look it up on Wikipedia! But wait 15 minutes before you do."
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I have tried Ruby and I am starting to become confident in this. Also had a play with JS.
"Having hard-coded class-names like in the example Time.now is effectively the same as communicating via global variables."

But having DI is exactly that: DI is about glorified global variables!

I realize most HN participants living in the Java/C# + ORM ([N]Hibernate)) + XML + SQL hell are just loving DI because it's a tad bit less worse then global variables but, dudes, there's another world out there.

A lot of functions can be made idempotent (always returning the same output for a given set of inputs) and also pure (idempotent and without any side-effect) and this facilitates everything: it gets much easier to "recreate the state" and it makes it easier to reason about your programs.

It's sad because HN is a community built by pg, who talked about "beating the average", about using Lisp dialects, about Emacs, etc.

I took all his writing as "thinking outside the box".

And what do I see here? I see that HN is mostly consisting of enterprisey programmers living in the Java/C# + ORM + XML + SQL hell and not even realizing there's another world out there.

It is sadening me.