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If I'm ever President, I'll veto any bill that's over two pages without reading it.

If we really need to pass a 1000-page law for the good of the country, Congress can send it to me in 500 pieces, which I can veto individually.
"The OS X way" is to drag the file in the Trash icon.
My problem with Mailbox (and the reason I never activated it despite getting to the front of their queue) is that it requires me to trust someone else with access to my email. The inbox is the keys to so many other systems these days once you factor in password-resets. I'm just not willing to hand over that kind of access to an additional third-party beyond what I've already chosen to accept as an acceptable level of risk by trusting Google for my webmail. What Mailbox, and that decision not to use their service, has caused me to do was make a concerted effort to reduce the amount of automated and spam mail I was dealing with. Over the past couple weeks I've been able to make a noticeable change to what hits my inbox each day.
Maybe I'm a bit weird because I live somewhere between Japan and Germany, but I've always seen culture fit within a company as being very similar to cultural assimilation when moving somewhere new -- e.g. "when in rome..."

When I'm in Japan, I'm still very American, but my sense of personal space has changed because it works differently in Tokyo. Likewise, I notice all kinds of details that were completely invisible before, but that are important in Japan.

This doesn't mean any of my fundamental beliefs needed to change to suit Japan, nor does it mean that I'm entirely satisfied with the way the Japanese run things, but I've managed to find a niche for myself where I can be happy without driving everybody around me too crazy.

Other people have had more or less luck. Some people just adore every aspect of Japanese culture and never want to leave, and a great many more that end up either going home, or living a bubble of foreign friends and bars in Roppongi. I'm somewhere in the middle.

When I think of cultural fit at a company, I think of the same sort of process. You either identify with the evolved culture and practices of the company enough to be happy and productive, or you don't.

If you don't fit in, that's not a bad thing. It's the same as coming to Japan and discovering that you really don't belong there after all.
Hi Rachel. What timing. Just yesterday I realized what I call the "primordial criticism":

Good products get used.
Usage creates dependency.
Dependency is bad.
Therefore, good products are bad.

Since bad products are bad, and good products are bad, all products are bad! You have just plugged in OSX into the syllogism.

But the syllogism results in a contradiction. So one of our assertions is wrong. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide which it is.

P.S. use Picasa on OSX, not iPhoto. And iTunes does indeed suck and I don't understand why someone hasn't written a replacement for it that fits the Sparrow:Mail==X:iPhoto equation. Perhaps I'll take a crack at it.
Awesome, that's a lot of connections to manage. Do you have any problems with memory or IO constraints on the Xilinx?
"Windows error alerts. If you’ve used Windows then you’re familiar with the limited help that happens when an error occurs. So this popup is actually pretty clear on what needs to happen, but WHY isn’t the URL clickable? Okay, maybe that was too hard, I’ll simply select the text, copy, paste…Oh right, I CAN’T SELECT TEXT IN THE POPUP! (yes, I’m shouting) Really, after a quarter of a century you son’t see the value in letting me copy text from the error dialog?"

<Rant>

This.

I've been running xfce on arch since October on my main machine, and I've yet to have a fit of frustration. There's nothing terribly idiotic, and I can always easily access what I need. I've got about 3 years of experience with Linux under my belt.

I've been using Windows wince about 1995. I'd say I average about 1 fit of rage a day from using Windows at work as a result of stupid little things such as the above. Just yesterday, I had an explorer window open, and I wasn't able to move up a directory as there was no "up a directory" button nor the parent directory listed in the address bar. How in the hell am I supposed to move up a directory?

I know this is just kvetching, but HOW IN THE FUCK CAN A $200 BILLION COMPANY FUCK THIS UP FOR OVER 20 YEARS??

I'm happy I'm never stuck using MS Office. I've too many friends who cry about how it crashes itself right before/right as they try to save their file. To me, this paints Word (and other products in the suite) as some kind of sadistic bully; you're just about to hand in your assignment to the teacher, and the Word bully comes along, rips the assignment out of your hand, tears it to shreds and quips "Haha! Fuck you!" leaving you in tears while Word bully disappears and is not held accountable. </Rant>
Natermer, that comment should not be dead. Indeed, it makes little sense that any of your comments are dead, save that you took unpopular opinions (I practice I support in general).

So, please allow me to register my sadness on this matter. It is poor form for anyone to be ignored, and certainly not OK for them to be ignored based on their opinions on a board called Hacker News. Its not surprising (we're much better as a species at saying stuff than we are at living up to those words) but it's still sad.
Show HN: Make the Harlem Shake
http://www.maketheharlemshake.com

Weekend hack I with a friend - it builds Harlem Shake videos for you using your laptop webcam, and provides Imgur-like sharable links.

Many thanks to Shubham Goel for building it with me, and to Tyler Menezes, Vu Tran, Paul Cretu, and Feross Aboukhadijeh for their help.
That's smart! But if you get the number wrong, there might just be no way to link the package to whoever was sending or tracking it. Well, then at least the problem will be on the end of users other than what we currently have.
I totally see where you're coming from, but since the system is mostly automated (as far as I can tell), it'd be just as easy for them to grab from a DB than to try and parse out an adress and postage.

I didn't really start mailing things until the last 3-4 years, so I must admit that I don't know how the system worked previously.

While I agree that it wouldn't be immediately adopted, I don't think it would require too much work on their end to make it work. It's probably naive, and I don't fully understand the system now, so I may be totally wrong, but this was just my idea.
They have jalapeno's in Vietnam. There are quite a few plantations there.
Every time someone comments in favor of the safety of nuclear energy, I point to incidents like this. Totally manageable. Totally mis-managed -- or, unmanaged.

Sure, maybe technically we know what to do. (Although I find this debatable on the timescales involved.)

But the human factor -- especially at any significant timescale (even just a few decades, or even years, or even in current time and practice). Zero reliability.

Humans have not demonstrated any capacity to properly and reliably manage technology requiring such levels of commitment and diligence.

P.S. This is one reason that corporations should pay significant taxes. Because they should directly bear a significant portion of the costs of such fuck ups, and the preventive mitigation of them (e.g. effective regulation). In order for this to happen, they need to be contributing while they are extant and are making money from the endeavors. If we don't do this, society ends up chasing a non-corporeal ghost after the fact, or even when corporeal, one that no longer has any financial motive to pay. Eventually, the cost ends up being dumped indirectly and indiscriminately upon the general public. And often, the worst of the costs (e.g. health issues) end up being dumped upon those least advantaged and most defenseless.
[EDIT: This might be a bit off-topic to the issue raised by the author]
I find the whole idea of zero inbox incredibly useless to my workflow as I don't care to treat email as GTD. The only value I get out of keeping Mailbox on my phone is the snooze feature (which unfortunately no Google App Script or Chrome Extension has been able to address properly yet). Once that gets solved by Gmail, Mailbox will be a goner. And yes, even though the author pooh-pooh'ed them at the introduction of the article, lack of labels and a couple of other features (like Undo) make Mailbox a no-go for me on a regular basis. Countering these objections with "missing the point" is extremely lazy IMHO.
Obviously armed resistance should never be one's first course of action, but the ability to revolt is an option that should neither be taken lightly nor easily forfeited.
That is great. So a tablet isn't for you. It is for me and many others, however, and this bizarre need to deride the tool is baffling.
That is a really good point and it complicates a lot of string-based questions, which is why they are almost always constrained (either implicitly or explicitly) by assuming that the string is ASCII only, which seems reasonable to me.

There are probably better filter questions to use that don't require as many artificial constraints.
Thanks!

Yeah, I'm not quite sure how to prevent human error without everyone having barcode sticker printers, which seems extremely unlikely.
Interview w/ Neil Patel of KISSmetrics
What exactly is distracting about Lorem Ipsum? I've never found it distracting, and I've always found it super useful for mocking up layouts that have responsive designs to see how the text moves around.
Using Tunnelbroker With Apple's Airport Extreme (or any other dumb router)
Nice, this looks much better than BLOKK.
> A user is trying to steal from us and I don't mind

Of course, you mind. You hellban them for crissake.

Catchy title though :)
Another alternative to things like Mailbox is not using your email inbox as a project manager at all.

After 15 years of abusing my own inbox this way (5172 "unread" todos to go! yay!), I grabbed a copy of Things.app a few weeks ago, and then swept the last month of my inbox into Things (skipping everything that wasn't actionable). I use virtually none of the features of Things; it's just a hotkey bound to "create a todo for this email" with the nice property of linking the todo back to the original email. I've played with tagging and projects, but they're not nearly as useful as just having a list of todos with checkboxes.

I don't do "GTD" or any of that stuff, and I am not a believer in the value of "inbox zero", but I'm now a convert to the idea that your inbox is a crappy organizer.
Well, maybe... If the police were to work with the postal service, they could find the originating post office.

Then again, they could more or less do this now, and they don't.
Actually you can Ctrl+C on an error dialogue box to get all the text (then paste in a text editor and select).. I am guessing this decision was made to allow the errors to be more "definite"..
Ctrl+C works for copying all text of error alert. It's still frustrating because for googling usually better to enter only part of it.

>Just yesterday, I had an explorer window open, and I wasn't able to move up a directory as there was no "up a directory" button nor the parent directory listed in the address bar.

Fixed in Windows 8.
Is that actually true? If some police organization actually does a honeypot on SR, they would presumably be able to get the address from the USPS easily. SR getting raided or hacked is alleviated by public key encryption, and this couldn't replace that since the USPS would presumably keep historical records that would be accessible to law enforcement.
I can't give examples without that expenditures either. To be honest, I don't know which countries are on either side of that boundary, but countries that are usually put in the big state bag, like scandinavian ones, are not specially known for much state interference.

BTW, I would only consider first world democracies. Others' problems are arguably caused by different, more obvious, factors.
Does anyone want to play tennis? How our startup was born
Looks nice! It's great that they didn't just write another grid system but used one that was already working.
you could say that the transaction went through but don't send an actual order confirmation by email to fraudsters. As far as I know carders will quickly try out a bunch of credit cards to see whether the charges went through but they won't stick around and wait for a confirmation email if the checkout screen says that the card has been successfully charged.
Status Snapper: The Google Chrome Extension for Capturing Status
Tips for startup success if you’re not based in a major tech market
Does Mailbox stores your e-mail in their servers? Even if it's temporary, I don't think is a good idea. Why exactly do they need to do this? Building the same awesomeness on top of an IMAP client wouldn't have achieved the same goal?
Have you tried Boomerang? Pre-Mailbox, their "snooze" feature was the only thing I used for email. I love it.

http://www.boomeranggmail.com
IMO it would be pretty easy to change the USPS to be profitable or sustainable, but politically difficult. Preserving universal service (expensive rural routes and facilities) should be done via direct government subsidy, vs. commercial cross subsidization.

Reducing or contractorizing staff (to cut medical and retirement costs) would have been done already by a really private company, but would have political and economic consequences given the size of USPS and government affiliation. It is probably easier to cut facilities and routes, lower delivery frequency, vs change employment terms.

The USPS is increasingly b2c and spam delivery service; used a lot less for b2b and c2c, so reducing frequency to even twice a week would be fine.
Reversing a string was initially a good interview question because in C you can keep probing multiple levels of knowledge with it. You learn if the interviewee knows the algorithm, then if they understand how to do it in place with a pointer, then if they understand the XOR pointer trick. It's not a very interesting problem in a language like Ruby or Python.
Better use actual copy which will allow you to discover the boundaries of your design, e.g. margins, text size, text width, etc.
Cool you could provide a list of exceptions to the rule. Aquisitions, IPO, Unsustainable Co's., and companies that fund themselves through continuous investments are exceptions to the rule.

I don't get why web business people want to change the way business had been done for all of history.

You make a product, you sell it, you use that money to grow.
Don't dilute that process, and if any key part of that process is being omitted you should be very skeptical.
You can leave things in a car used by other family members or close friends. While I'm skeptical about the prospects for a driverless taxi, I can easily see sharing a car with people I trust.
Good luck, this is very, very hard

Why?

Having tested an x86 processor from a 3rd party manufacturer (not the big ones, and not even the 2nd league)

- Bios. Including ACPI stuff. So Windows XP would boot, with linux some would boot, some would work but with instabilities, some would not boot

- Minor incompatibilities and every nook and cranny of the x86 spec.

- Drivers for everything your board does different

- The x86 (legacy) infrastructure. Not sure how much you need to boot and make Windows work for example. It may get nasty. A20? Chained interrupt handlers? DMA controllers?
Realistically too, the post office is running on a shoestring budget. I don't quite understand their biggest overhead costs (beyond paying out salaries and pension benefits to postal employees) but there has to be a way to make the mail system work the way it's worked but at less cost to tax payers.
If you love programming more than anything, you are probably the kind of person who wants to know assembly language. If your full heart is not into programming, maybe not.

God says...

7:2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai,
and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of
Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose
number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six
hundred.

7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael,
and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.

7:4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their
fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men:
for they had many wives and sons.

7:5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant
men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven
thousand.

----

The first thing you learn on a C64 doing asm is low and high bytes are separate.
Nice! Was just talking about my own personal experience. I'm sure that people that delt with mainframes talked about them being "down" when terminals weren't working. In the mid 90s I remember talking with my parents and them not knowing what a server was, but by ~2001 my dad at least probably knew about a website being "down".
The worst part is the hype. Pretending it's cool, like there is a choice.
Was a fine tangential comment, till you started an unsolicited diagnosis of Colin's hypothetical disease.

Downvoted.
http://cssgrid.net/ is a pretty good responsive framework as well.
Stupid to admit it because my credibility is in the toilet as is. Reminding people that I am homeless just gives them another excuse to be dismissive assholes. No one wants to hear that I am competent, intelligent, etc and on the street because of my medical situation. It is too threatening. It is far more comfortable to believe my problems are somehow due to poor choices. It is similar to the principle that if you want to convict a rapist, you want a jury full of middle aged men, not women. Women will blame the victim and let the rapist off. Most women do not want to believe that you can do nothing wrong and still be the victim of sexual assault. So they find fault with the rape victim and conclude she was "asking for it" so they can tell themselves "I will never be raped because I would not (dress that way/talk that way/go to that part of town/whatever)."

I know plenty about social psychology. It is actually a personal strength or I literally would likely have died.

Anyway, off topic and probably nothing anyone wants to hear. I am just kind of cranky this morning.
there are no reliable sources in this area.

So you would agree that the 200 million number is also unreliable?

Another data point: the NRA-ILA puts the number of gun owners at 60-65 million http://www.knobcreekshoot.com/FirearmsFacts.htm

The figure of 270 million guns total is somewhat more reliable

Agreed, but that wasn't the statistic given.
Again your just exposing that you value the wrong things.

Who cares about growth? I don't. Not when it means I need to compromise my board, take on debt, ect.

I don't know how else I can get the point across but all you should care about is profitability.

And again those big deals are such a small percentage that you shouldn't even plan for that. Just make a profitable company.

I'd rather be profitable at a significantly smaller scale, because this isn't a sprint and in the end you actually have sustainability.
Welcome To The Year Of The Hack
"Mailbox helps you manage your email, and in order to provide you with that service, we need to collect, store, and in rare cases, share your personal information."

Yay - sharing!

"Mailbox is designed to help you manage your email account with other providers, like Gmail. When you link your email accounts (provided by third parties) to Mailbox, you give Mailbox permission to securely access your information contained in or associated with those accounts. If you link your third party account to Mailbox, that third party may also pass certain information along about your use of its service. While Mailbox does not store your password to these email accounts, the service does securely store some emails on a temporary basis in order to deliver them to you as quickly as possible and keep track of your deferred messages."

http://www.mailboxapp.com/privacy/
Is there a job where this would be a really good portfolio piece?
The Roots of Human Genius Are Deeper Than Expected
I think there's already a system where you pre-pay postage online, print a barcoded label, and then drop it off. The label contains routing information.

There's no anonymity. Rather, there's redundancy because they print the destination address. If you need to hide you address, you can buy a PO Box at the post office or a private box seller.

I wish they'd innovate by having the post office retail windows open on Sundays, rather than these current cutbacks. (The cutbacks are due to overfunding their pensions, and that a 2006 law is forcing that.)
I was working on a ship over new year's and was standing dock watch in the early hours of the morning (~2am). A couple of people on bikes stopped by, had a chat about the ship and rode on. Turns out they liked to do their training rides in the morning when there were no cars to get in their way. Besides, it was too hot during the day.

My point is: you don't necessarily need the dog.
It would be much easier to list the parts of JS that work as a non-alien would expect.
That is not an appeal to emotion, that is an appeal to history.

The entire history of the human race has been that of oppression of the many by the few; only in the last few hundred years have we begun to cast off those chains, and though it is tempting to believe that we will never see them again, people still desire power, sociopaths still exist, and considering the history of our species, I think it unlikely that the world has seen the end of destabilization, riots, and war.

It has only been half a century since the end of the last 'War to End All Wars,' which happened just a couple of decades after the previous War to End All Wars, shortly after the second World War, the world fell under the shadow of the Cold War, a period where we came very close to all-out global nuclear war numerous times. I'm sure you're familiar with the Cuban Missile Crisis. You may also want to google Stanislov Petrov.

Ask an economist just how close we came to all-out GLOBAL banking collapse just a few years ago; we were within a hair's breadth of a severe financial meltdown, and that is not an appeal to emotion - that is fact.

None of us can predict the future, but to assume that we have seen the end of destabilization and the unknowns that destabilization brings seems rather foolish.
This list isn't even well thought out at all and is more just a rant about some random stuff. I'm not a big fan of the javascript type system in any case but this isn't a real critique of it.

At some point just like Monads you just get the javascript type system and don't worry about it anymore. It is what is. No amount of gotchas will get you over the hump; you have to actually understand it. At least it isn't syntax like C++ where you find out in a WTF moment that the parser is doing something insane.
This is a great point. I'm a serial Hackathoner too - I love going to Hackathons. But they're social events with code at the core and possibly you'll make something cool. Mostly you'll learn stuff and make new friends. The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is the canonical example for me.

What you're talking about is not really a Hackathon. It's appropriating the word, and doing something that looks superficially similar - doing a binge of coding - but it's not the same thing and ultimately sounds counter-productive in the long run for me.

Just my 2c
My impression/experience was that there were no time or inebriation requirements. But that was a little while ago now so things may be different.
There's a difference between a Hackathon and a barn-raiser which is what you're talking about.