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> Two constables standing out front of the embassy is hardly "massive resources".

It is far more than they spend on a lot of people that are wanted. 24/7 means shifts, which means we're talking about 10+ people full time to have 2 people stationed there at any time.

I can think of any number of places where investing 10+ officers full time would do far more positive for society - including preventing serious crimes.

> And they know that he has snubbed the English justice system which I imagine they feel a bit dark about.

So in other words: He is not being treated as everyone else. He's being singled out for political reasons.

Maybe there's nothing more to it than that, as I've already stated.

> Basically the amount of conspiracy theorising around the Assange case is getting flatly silly.

Ad hominems don't increase the validity of your own arguments.

I don't know if Assange is guilty or not. I can tell from what he has admitted that he acted like a total douche, but not whether or not he committed a crime.

What I do know, is that the behaviour I've seen from the prosecution is bizarre enough that I fully understand his reaction - whether he is guilty or not.

You've not provided a single argument to counteract that. Your arguments repeatedly focus on semantics or details that don't make the slightest bit of difference to addressing the blatant ways in which the prosecution of this case differs from the norm.

That does not mean there's a conspiracy. It doesn't even necessarily mean that there's anything wrong going on. Maybe it's "just" a boneheaded prosecutor. That does not help Assange, and that does mean that there's every reason to keep asking the question of why they consistently fail to answer the questions around this case truthfully (such as their blatantly false claim that they can not question him outside of Sweden).
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Completely agree - to which I would add the new alternative you speak of has already arrived: Google Chrome. I can design an entire page in Chrome without ever a need to refresh. Grids, typography, CSS - not to mention JavaScript, images and video - done faster and better in Chrome than I could dream for coming from Adobe. Specialized image editors like the Adobe set are properly relegated to "the cast," support roles at best. The article's screencaps are a testament to the huge recent improvements for designers within the medium itself, the browser.
It has been put into maintenance mode, so that is what you see now, until this is resolved.
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There's something very BASIC like about Lua without it seeming to have the rough edges of BASIC.

Recently started doing some Lua after 20+ years of C based languages and I'm really enjoying it.
Ask HN: How can I promote my start-up quickly?
I've just "launched" my start-up - http://RocketLi.st A fully brandable RSVP platform targeted at free events / parties (Think SXSW)! But unlike other sites out there, RocketLi.st is different in two main ways;

1) It incentivises attendees to complete small tasks in return for event perks and status increases. (eg. Attendees start on the "Z list" but simply by verifying their email and signing-up to the organisers mailing list they will get on to the "B List" and gain priority entry)

2) It gives event organisers insights into their attendees (music, film & business) taste profiles as well as analytics's on attendee engagement levels and audience demographics.

But on top of these two core benefits, RocketLi.st also helps SXSW organisers to combat the increase of spam RSVP's. This is because all spam bots will just submit email addresses leaving those attendees on the events "Z List"

Right, well that is the basic overview of my app. I hope you like it?

But the problem I'm left with is how do I get this in-front of event organisers... especially ones who are putting on SXSW events this year before they use another platform?!

I have tried emailing all of the organisers from last year, following them all on twitter and engaging with them directly. But I'm not getting anywhere quickly and I'm running out of time before this years event.

So back to my main question... How can I promote my start-up quickly and what would you do differently?

Thanks in advance for your feedback, ideas and time.
You can always download AutoIT
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Think about something you're passionate about. Or were passionate about when you were in high school. Write it down.

Programming.

Then apply this test: Will people pay you for it? Will they pay you a lot for it?

YES.

Okay, perhaps this post is not for me, but the post comes across as highly anecdotal. E.g:

That advice has probably resulted in more failed businesses than all the recessions combined...

I hate to ask it, but source?
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I get the feeling the market had forgotten about the delays until this current situation. Planes were shipping in a highly visible fashion.
Ballmer: Dropbox "a fine little startup" with a "pretty small number" of users
Curious...
Anyone have a link to the JSTOR data or PACER system that Aaron uploaded to the Web?
I created the same thing a while back, but using the following globe: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/globe

I quite liked using the spikes to show traffic volume.

Very cool globe though, love how smooth it is compared to the one I mentioned above & the lens flare!!!
Question: in the object tree for Point3d, it looks like there are two __proto__ attributes at the same level of nesting. Should the second belong to Point and be indented? (I'm not that experienced with javascript so I could simply be confused.)
I didn't change the hash, though I would have if I'd found the post on Pastie.
This article is flawed. The author sees the right problem but draws the wrong conclusions.

I agree that great passions rarely make great businesses. Doing what you love is absolutely not a guaranteed path to profit. But I feel the answer offered is to work hard and the passion will follow with the success. Except it doesn't. Not always. There are some things you can have complete mastery of and still not enjoy. (The best contract negotiator I've ever met in my life came to me for personal advice. He hates negotiating. But he's mastered it, so everyone asks him to do it.)

To make sure you'll enjoy your work, don't focus on the end product at all--focus on exactly what you'll be doing in the day to day to create it. For example, you may love food, but a catering business is much more about customer service, management, and logistics. Do you love that? Do you love making the trains run on time? Then you'll enjoy a successful catering business--even if you don't love food.

Meanwhile, if you love building products, but pick something that requires a bunch of contract negotiations with a ton of suppliers, you'll likely not enjoy your work, even when it results in a successful product. Maybe the reason you love building things is because you feel control over the process. Perhaps it's better to pick something you can create in a very hands on environment with a small team.
What languages pass "objects" by value?
This is really amusing, but I'm a little skeptical that it's based on real data. Where does this author get the data on "number in family" for each student presented on p.3, for instance? (The article would be fascinating if it were true, but I'm tentatively treating it as a humor piece.)

In case it is true, let me second kenthorvath's comment: students have much less incentive to tell a professor about deaths in their family when there's no exam coming up. (I can't judge the grandmother/grandfather ratio information, because the article presents absolutely no data on that point at all. Hence even more skepticism.)
Passion leads to hours of practice, and hours of practice leads to success. While you can't force yourself to be passionate about your current job, if you follow your passions - sincerely - I think that more often than not, it'll lead to a successful existence. I can think of very few passions where people can't at least maintain their existences. Maybe not get rich, I think in general that takes luck, but feed themselves and I think live happier as a result.

And honestly, what's the point of doing anything else? Be someone else's servant, because you want ... money? Recognition? You are going to die one day, and that's it. The purpose of life, as best I can tell, is self actualization.

It's stupid. You want money? Why? So your kids can follow in your footsteps and chase money so that their kids can follow in your footsteps and chase money so their kids can...

And then are you just blaming your children for your lack of ambition and risk taking? Would you say to your kids "I would have figured out what I loved, but then you were born". Would you think it, though?

If you want money, go work in finance. Otherwise you're not sincere in even chasing money, you're just treading water.
Interestingly, NoScript addon for Firefox brings up the following message on attempting the URL:

"javascript: and data: URIs typed or pasted in the address bar are disabled to prevent social engineering attacks.
Developers can enable them for testing purposes by toggling the "noscript.allowURLBarJS" preference."
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Yes it should! Good catch. (This has been updated)
It works now :-/. Did it happen to anyone else?
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It would be nice to see this integrated into SSH's "subsystem" model. Then we could have django-shell over SSH operate much like sftp
I've got some cursing in my git commits. Most of the anger typically stems now from the company, but from external sources (e.g., buggy software that we rely on, but for business reasons cannot ditch.)
"Should"? In some academic sense, of course everything should be engineered perfectly. But in the real world there are tradeoffs, and people pay more for flexibility and functionality than for safety. I don't see that changing in the near term.
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What about one example I encounted?

boolean alanIsABastard = true;

I was the Alan in question - I guess I should have been pleased it was a variable! :-)
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At one time, I was paid to maintain code like this...

1 on error goto 700

never again.
Delays in the introduction of new models are extremely common in aerospace. If these battery issues had been noticed by the right people sooner the 787 would have been delayed more than it was. Very few airlines would have cancelled orders over that.
I live my life, you live your life, what works for you do not work for others and vice verse.

Finding ultimate grail that works for everyone, good luck on that.

But deeeem, the opinions, I have dem!
This isn't a longing for BASIC, it's a longing for a time when the entire display could be addressed using simple x,y coordinates. Maybe more accurately, it's a longing for BASIC as a metaphor; longing for the simplicity of the past.

Personally, I wouldn't trade today's computing environment for the environment we had in the days of BASIC, even at the expense of a higher barrier of entry.
That's a prejudice I would be careful with. English is the working language for most developers all over the world, but not every culture is overly sensitive to swearing. Context is everything.
Fuck you, Microsoft: the sorry state of Visual Studio syntax highlighting
It kind of says something when people can't tell the difference between your maintenance mode page and a hacked page...
What if lockdown worked in such a way that you could lock it down to only run your Linux kernels? E.g. load up your own certificate in the TPM and use that for signing when you build.

In that case it would be a security feature -- another line of defense against bootloader malware and/or adversaries in physical possession of your machine.

(I don't know how technically feasible that is; I know Canonical and others are looking at having their own cert so at least their unmodified kernels can run, but I don't know the mechanism for how that interacts with already-released UEFI machines.)

The point is that technologies like this are a double-edged sword, not evil in themselves. A similar argument is made by Linus himself for sticking with GPL v2 instead of moving to GPL v3, which outlaws certain DRM-related uses; he's more interested in providing a functioning mechanism, and leaving the policy-setting to others.
Couldn't all gems fetched from Rubygems be infected?
Maybe, but can it detect sarcasm?

d59b0a8 - Oh, this shit is case sensitive. Awesome.
I'm introducing my niece to programming using Computercraft; a plugin for Minecraft that provides programmable blocks in the Minecraft world. Lua is the language used to program the blocks, and it works wonderfully.

http://www.computercraft.info
My gut instinct is that both following one's passion and having one's passion follow oneself could work. There are clearly documented cases of the former - Warren Buffet for instance, as he is fond of repeating. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/warren-buffett-care...

On the other hand there's the Koch brothers who simply carried on with their father's rather mundane raw materials business and made it into a mega-empire. When asked about that I remember one of them saying in an interview "That's just the hand we were dealt."
Robots picking artichokes might not be as tough as you think. I think a sufficiently motivated teenager with ROS could do it half-assed right now. That's a shorthand way of saying I reckon I could do it ;)

Generally, the hard problems with robotics are related to sensing. Stuff like inverse kinematics and gripper movement are mostly handled in ROS if you can build a model.

Recognising the artichokes is not that hard as you might think given OpenCV as a primitive, and if you could get a near-field sensor using structured light it would actually be easy. This is not possible right now but will be in the next few years (unsubstantiated prediction).

Anyway, what I am saying is that you would be surprised how fast the boundaries change between "hard" and "easy". The things people are doing now with a $200 irobot create and a $100 kinect are blowing my mind.
If you think death is utterly horrible event and that person is being robed from all things life have to offer and that death takes away so much joy and happiness.

Yes, everyone who died is insane.

Seeing as not so many people came back from death, life is not so much of "best next thing after sliced bread". It is just an experience, don't hang on it too much. ;)
consider me a fan of your work!
RIM Drops Research In Motion And Rebrands As BlackBerry,
A friend who has risen to the top of his area of expertise in the world, and who does it on the side, recently told me, "there's nothing like doing what you love and not having to rely on it for a pay check."
None of that makes a good argument for why you need to reconsider your frontend, it's just a list of cool libraries.

Developers like to try new technologies, and like to improve things and make their life easier (which often involves some form of re-write). This is natural. But does the new stack justify the time that was spent moving over?

I'm assuming it was worth it, but it would be nice to see something actually backing that up.
I thought chrome did drop it and microsoft released a plugin?

Firefox getting mp4 support doesn't change anything, people are already using firefox right now, and it doesn't support mp4 right now. The fact that the marketshare of non-mp4 firefox will eventually end up small enough that most people ignore it doesn't mean mp4 is all people need right now.
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Your users need to know if their systems have been compromised .
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MIT people can be very good (ob: I am an MIT people, so I obviously have a huge bias here), but they can also be way too theoretical for development work. Not too long ago, it was entirely possible to get a CS/EE degree from MIT without doing any Java or C programming, which were the vast majority of industry use at the time.

PhDs, from any school, are also something I've gotten to be wary of. Of the 5 best coworkers I've ever had, all 5 had PhDs, but there is a lot of variance. Sometimes they spent a lot of time understanding one very specific problem very well, and people who have that problem should pay a premium for that talent, but if you don't have that problem they won't be worth it to you.
>Sounds like an interesting space to be in.

Interesting use of interesting.

The stuff you've used to qualify Farmville there would apply to directly to dealing in drugs, sex, weapons, money laundering - just about anything.
And in Britain it's even more complicated.
In the intro CS class a very large percentage of students were completely baffled by division when converting between binary/hex/octal.

It was the basic arithmetic/algebra that gave them pause, not logic.

Additionally you need to take at least 4 classes that are actually in the math department to finish the degree.
BlackBerry maker changes its name and launches long-awaited BlackBerry 10
I don't miss BASIC as a simple production language, I miss it as a simple first language. (Sorry if I didn't make that clear in my earlier post.) We often create sandboxes with most of the complexity abstracted away for people to get their first introduction to a complex system, and BASIC filled this role nicely 30 years ago.

I'm not saying we need to bring BASIC back, but rather that we need a first language that is as simple to learn and use as BASIC was.

After all, the metaphor of putting things into a rectangle using x and y coordinates is no different from the way we position elements on a web page today.
I find it quite telling that you choose to belabour this point rather than address the other issues.

He is under warrant of arrest, yes. And in Scandinavia this is used to bring someone in for questioning. This is what the prosecutor has repeatedly claimed is the purpose of the arrest warrant.

It is normal for such arrest warrants to be dropped with no subsequent charges. It also happens that they result in formal charges being brought.

I am not claiming that he might not end up getting charged as a result. He obviously can, if they can muster enough evidence.

I am on the other hand claiming that an arrest warrant means next to nothing in Scandinavia in terms of ascertaining the amount of evidence, and as such you can not use the existence of an arrest warrant as any kind of indication that he is more likely to actually have committed a crime, or that the police somehow has more evidence against him.

You repeatedly appear to try to make it sound as if the existence of an arrest warrant from Swedish authorities means far more than it does.
As a counter point, outsourcing has served the car industry quite well. At one point in its lifetime Ford had it's own rubber tree farms. Nowadays car companies rely a lot on suppliers and heavily involve them in design as well. It's just very unlikely that one company has the skills and the focus to be good at everything.

That said (and the article makes this point as well) suppliers have to be closely involved for this model to work. When Toyota was consistently beating American car manufacturers in terms of quality one of the biggest differences was in how they managed their suppliers. American companies tended to have multiple suppliers for the same parts and determine (sub) contracts mainly on a cost basis. Toyota on the other hand had very long term relationships with its suppliers and worked much more intensely with them.
I think the better point to make is to not build a business doing something that you are absolutely in love with. It clouds your judgement and could drive you to build something people don't want. You can definitely love what you do. I love programming and marketing, and those are my businesses. But I don't let the love cloud my judgement (well, not anymore).

Its like when we fall in love for the first time with a new person. They are perfect in our eyes, There is no way anything they do is seen as negative. But little by little, as time passes, we start seeing the real person and not the fantasy. Sometimes that makes the love grow stronger, and sometimes it drives us to break the relationship. Same with business. What you need to realize that the reason business failures hurt so much is because we fall in love with it. And then get our heart broken when it doesn't work. Don't fall in love with it.
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Well, sometimes the do just need a better diet. Diets are such huge business because there is so much calorie dense food available.
I always found managing Python modules using modules to be awkward. Using it to activate entire virtualenvs might work better. Though that's only worth it if you're already deploying a modules environment.
I'm in IT ops, and I will bet you dollars to donuts that the money saved by putting toilets in every other car was more than wasted by the shunting yard switching cars every which way.
> For coroutines, each coroutine needs its own stack. That means you have to have a dynamic memory system baked into the language. And maybe garbage collection too.

Why? Just statically give every co-routine it's own stack.
Ask HN: What are some customizable commenting services?
I'm building a tool to let folks share application mockups and gather feedback on them. I'm looking for a customizable commenting system similar to Disqus. Disqus will likely work. I'd just like to do some comparisons. Thanks!
It sounds really complicated. My mind fogged over on point 1. Can you work out a way to make it simpler to understand? You talk about the increase of spam RSVPs. I've never seen that problem - can you make me understand it? Is your first language not English? You're making lots of grammar mistakes that could make your writing look unprofessional.

To understand my confusion, this is how I read your pitch. I want to run some kind of professional event. I want people to come to that, but I can't just invite them, I must make them perform some kind of tasks first. Why would anyone do that? I want them at my event, so why am I make them work? And what tasks are these? Solving captchas?!
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A while back I created a project to scan a single repo for cursing and chart it by commiter.

http://making.meetup.com/post/21273810443/cursemetrics
Same here. I wanted to be programmer since I was 7 and found out what a computer is.

And it pays the bills just fine.
slightly off topic. I REALLY wish GetBlimp showed pricing on the site before signup. only thing i see is "start with our free plan, then prices start at $12" on the homepage, then signup page etc i have no idea what prices will rise to.
There is an alpha build of Package Control for ST3 http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control/installati...
With vday just around the corner - maybe you should just focus on cakepops.

What I am saying is create a simple offer/package. Something you can order fast/easy and repeatly.

1800flowers personally calls people 1 year from date sent (if you mark it as birthday, annerversary,etc.) During the call they not only remind you but offer 15% right then and there if you order over the phone with them. Talk about repeat customer and increasing your lifetime value (LTV).

I think if you want to target the flower/etc. market either create a simple facebook app that would pullin birthdays and work on sending/etc.

Let me know if you need help (twitter @johnmurch) or want to bounce around more ideas as I think it's a niche product that could do well as an alternative to flowers (like you said).