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How would you say ICC support is better than MSVC or commercial GCC support?
What's interesting about that is also something left out of the other article, that the girl is a teenager. That makes me wonder how she was out drinking? It also makes me wonder then if these are the same cases. The descriptions of the crime is incredibly similar so I'd believe they are but it sounds like there very well might be more here than the press knows about yet.
There's a difference between not taking it into account, and not believing it is worth including.
Well you can extract methods into new object where they will be public.
The new "Industrial Revolution" of Software
> and I couldn't lie to them and tell them I would stay that long.

That's a choice you have to make.

Keep in mind, even when they say they are looking for someone for at least 2 to 4 years, they'll fire you with zero notice if it makes sense to their bottom line.

If there is nothing in writing, you are not bound to them any more than they are to you. Circumstances change, and you need to do what's right for you.
jvm is really fast, it can usually compete with C++ code in terms of speed (if you ignore the startup time ;p )
And that's one reason why loops are hard to debug!

Losing stack frames for recursive functions is not so bad. The real violence that TCO does is to non-recursive tail calls, which form the majority of tail calls, at least in non-functional languages.
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I think one of the main reasons media outlets such as the ones you mentioned don't cover these stories is because they just aren't aware of all of the work that is going on in the community to resolve this. It's just not on their radar. I think, in part, it is our responsibility as founders and community advocates to continue doing what we're doing and putting our work out there, but it also just as much (if not even more) the responsibility of these larger media sources to make addressing this a priority.

The hardest part, in my opinion, is getting people to understand that this conversation is not limited to one subset of the community. It involves everyone in some way.
That's a good idea but I nevertheless think big clients (client reader + integrated access to server api) will win anyway because if you have to pay a client and then pay a subscription to a server to have access to an implementation of this API I don't think it will be very appealing. All the current model of 'small' clients was based on the fact that the access to Google's (non official) api was free. That part won't be replaced.
They still employ specially licensed driver just like cab companies. The regulations they don't have to deal with are things like availability and rate laws iirc.
completely incorrect

This comment is "completely incorrect" because its making a jugdment absent any contextually relevant fact.
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Why does the title of this post mention a funding round and link to the actual product? It reads like a TC-style blog post. It's very misleading and a lost opportunity.

The product is interesting and probably a good idea in light of Google's shutdown of Reader. Google Alerts almost certainly won't be around indefinitely and Mention.net can jump in to scoop up a user base once Alerts is shuttered.
You're likely right, or at least mostly right, about the overheads. I think people who don't have first-hand knowledge of a particular business have a tendency to think that more of the cost is tied up in whatever's most visible than is actually the case. In this case, it's the physical restaurant. In the case of books, it's the physical copy (which is actually pretty cheap in most cases).
Nice touch with the bobbing ship on the side there.
As someone often accused of being a Google "fanboi"... I agree. I'm not going to abandon Go or Chrome or anything because they are fully OSS so if Google drops them it isn't the end of the world, but I wouldn't dream of building a service (even a free for-fun one) on top of some Google Web API these days.

Maybe that's fine with them (seems like they have a corporate mission to eliminate the whole idea of free or nearly-free web APIs anyway), but regardless of their motivations they've proven to be a non-reliable provider of stable free-to-use web APIs over the past couple of years.
I might pitch in and help on this, I know I'll be looking for a replacement to Reader, might as well help build an api implementation
but the business model I'm working on involves a lot of carts with a central kitchen, in clusters in a few cities.

As someone who knows an awful lot about the food truck industry in multiple cities across the US, please, please do not proceed with this idea. Food trucks are not an economy of scale. They are boutique mom & pop businesses.

I am sorry to hear about the troubles with your truck, but I am sure that you can optimize operations to become profitable on most days.
"I don't believe in this anymore" = shutting down something is exactly the right thing to do

The funding you get from VCs comes from Grandma's pension fund.

You think it's better to burn millions from the pensions of Grandma and her friends to sink into a losing business?

Just to keep a few of us engineers employed for another year before the inevitable failure?

Screw the engineers.

And let them look for better, non-dead-end jobs earlier.
Capitalism isn't an idea, like, say, socialism. Capitalism is something that arises organically in societies that allow their citizens/residents freedom.

The alternative to capitalism isn't a different economic organization. The alternative to capitalism is not-freedom. Those who say (like @api in the first post) that capitalism is dying and imply (or state) that we need an alternative, either mean to take freedom away from us, or don't know that that's what they mean.
Love the sharing feature http://spiffygif.com/?length=26&radius=18&corners=0....

super useful
It's not China.

China has the capability for significant cyber warfare. They're just not interested.

Much more serious is the commercial espionage from China.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21769078)
I'm genuinely curious (not being snarky or wtv): what do you put 95% of your effort into?
It's worth separating clients from servers, and noting which clients can sync with which servers.
The Meaning of the Google Glass Backlash
Yeah it does reserve the funds, I've worked in this industry. Settlement happens later, but authorisation does put a reserve on the funds in the credit account if the transaction has gone end-to-end.

If you mean the 'chargeback' feature when you say "then the card provider starts grabbing money back", then yes, absolutely, this is a feature of card payments and is essential for people to have any trust in internet commerce at all. Chargeback is good
I get the core idea: alerts services are essentially ego-stroking services unless your corporation is big enough to reach PR critical mass.

But finding out who's talking about you is a graymarket use for this service. For a company to properly rationalize $240->$1200 a year for alerts, they have to feel this is a business tool.
Sadly, Microsoft Outlook Web Access isn't an option — if you're looking for self hosted services, which you should, having seen what's happening now. The webmail interface is just ugly and hard to use when handling lots of emails each day (as most people here do, I presume).

As soon as I find something with a decent calendar system (web, CalDav, time zone support, decent interface and subscribing to iCalendar feeds) as well as decent email (useful interface, good filtering, acceptable spam filtering), and hopefully, XMPP support baked in, I'm jumping ship. This is starting to get ugly.
I do wonder what happens without step 4 occurring.
"It's likely that other casual agreements that you don't think of as contracts are also contracts."

Well I'm not a lawyer but I've been in business a long time so long that I'd rather not say and reveal my age.

I've done plenty of deals over the years and have dealt with plenty of lawyers and situations. While what your prof has drilled into you is true in the real world it may or may not be applicable depending on the situation and the specifics.

The fact that it's a "contract" is meaningless to me. The only thing that matters is the issue and the cost of enforcement combined with whether there is a leg to stand on and how motivated the other party is and who they are.

You could have a deal with a very wealthy person (or company) with an iron clad contract and they might not pursue enforcement simply because they don't want to spend their time over the issue. Or, they may be vindictive and decide to spend time and money to make a point. Or everything in between.

I've been involved in situations that have no legal merit whatsoever but someone was able to tie up a deal for 2 years over something written on a napkin agreeing to sell something that was only signed by one party of the business entity. It wasn't even valid for that reason alone but the aggrieved party was able to still file a lawsuit and hold up a deal and extract a settlement. Prior to the lawsuit being filed other lawyers scoffed and laughed at the idea that anything could happen. But it did.
The same as with this handshake deal - it formalizes a level of commitment that the community recognizes as one that you should not back out of under normal circumstances (e.g. if the other side is being perfectly reasonable). You don't want the handshake deal to force people to invest no matter how unreasonable the company ends up being in the paperwork they send over.
Node.js v0.10.0 .deb for ARMv5 and RaspberryPI
Great. It would be nice, to compare the size in KB also.
> Religious schism had little to no bearing on the sudden development of trade and exploration in the renaissance, both of which opened the New World.

The spanish fight against the moslems was certainly immediately temporally connected. That fact is definitely relevant. But the most important part of the argument is not that the struggle between elites were of religious origin, but that there was an intense struggle between elites. In fact Columbus' travels were probably supported by Isabel of Spain exactly because Spain had made an agreement with Portugal of not sailing in the southern atlantic waters.

The discovery of the Americas did likely not have a great impact before much later. I don't know if Luther's exact words ever were very important. I don't think so. But the excuse they gave many small kings to separate from the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic church and to go on crusades inside of Europe certainly put fuel to the fire of european history. The thirty year war had much greater impact on european philosophy in the 17th century than America did.
This is a good point. There are two types of people in the world: thos that say "this is stupid" and those that say "oh, I get it".
They cover that too in the article, the truck still comes out ahead.
Hhhm, nice framework. We'll add it for next version, thanks.
The results it pulls together aren't stellar, and the DRM (if you could call it that) makes me ridiculously uncomfortable too.
Apple Releases OS X 10.8.3
Duolingo Adds Offline Mode And Speech Recognition To Its Mobile App
It's funny because while I'm bound to my gmail account by my email address, I use google calendars only because of inertia. I would think that it's a huge benefit to google to know about all of my appointments. The day I can't use google's calendar with Mail.app, either on iOS or OSX, is the day I migrate my calendars to iCloud. Google cant be dumb enough to think that iOS users will use separate calendar apps for their exchange and gmail calendars, can they?

So what's next - no IMAP for gmail? And then force everyone to use a custom gmail app?
How common are CSRF attacks? My sites are not protected at all but I don't know if it's worth the hassle to fix. It just doesn't seem like a big deal and very unlikely to happen.
I doubt it'll stop any piracy, at all, versus say, an activation check like other games. People willing to install a crack will install a crack.

Also, TPB has trusted uploaders, so you can be reasonably sure you aren't installing malware. I'd wager many of the cracking groups have a higher reputation than EA.
Facebook Working on Incorporating the Hashtag
What springs to my mind is targeting special-purpose programs used by states for encryption and secure communications. i.e. inject cryptographic backdoors or sufficiently weaken PRNGs so that intercepted communications can be "easily" deciphered elsewhere.
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Don't forget to do it before witnesses, preferably a Secret Service agent.

"-STATUTE-
Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or
unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank
bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national
banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal
Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,
or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
"

18 USC CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY
http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C17.txt
Show HN: MonsterLumen helps you brainstorm business problems
Hi Hn,

A buddy and I worked on this prototype to see if we could design a system that helps people think creatively. I'd love your feedback, tips and pointers - and yes, I know it's a bit ugly (much css work to be done).

Check it out at beta.monsterlumen.com and let us know what you think!
It's an important and not trivial lesson. Your language is wrong for us, the readers, and we are far more likely to reject your site without a real attempt to engage. A chart is a chart, a table is a table.

I was amongst many it seems who were discombobulated when we arrived at the site. I was wondering whether the chart was in flash or something had not loaded. And I felt very let down and negative about the table, as I was expecting some sort of x/y bubble chart, where the bubbles showed the number of users and the x/y axes showing something like usability and feature-set. Now that or similar would be a chart worth looking at.
Not the OP but:

* Problem definition

* Infrastructure

* Data transformation

* Exploratory analysis (arguably part of model work)

* Results presentation

Then again, this is an ongoing disagreement I have with the Kaggle folks over what constitutes "data science," where I'm pretty confident that "applied machine learning" is a better explanation of what their contests are about.
Yeah, CalDAV != Calendar API. I've always had nightmares hooking anything to it reliably over time. I finally just gave up and use Googles stuff to access it (after years).
Good advice, but most people I know don't find making money exciting enough to pursue it as an end in itself. If you are not interested in what you are doing to make money, you'll probably lack the passion/excitement necessary to really work at it enough that you become good at it.

Selling things on ebay just for fun would make me crazy. I'd rather work on something that I find interesting. Jason has done a good job at identifying things he personally enjoys working on, and then sticks with it long enough to really excel.
Many more years from now on!
They accomplished a lot with a limited budget.
The URL is http://beta.monsterlumen.com, and I'll be sticking around in the comments to get your feedback!
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Yeah, that's the crazy aspect to this. I really like Go, Chrome, and a lot of the other things they offer. But to quote a character named Mr. Lahey from from the tv show "Trailer Park Boys": "Its all a shit-storm now."

You can't built bridges on top of shaky ground.
The value of content on Tumblr v. Twitter
"makes people accountable and open to shaming if they don't follow through"

And what exactly might be the method of shaming? A blog post? A central repository of shame? It's not like there is going to be some ebay type feedback system on investors that will take into account investors failing to live up to their promises. New entrepreneurs are hatched everyday. The "reputation" that an investor earns will have to be etched pretty clearly for them to find that info and believe it's ubiquity.
I don't know much about the business, but it seems like all the food trucks in my area in Colorado are niche foods. Occasionally there are events when food trucks show up at local parks, and there is a wide variety. There is usually several types of ethnic food, a truck or two with food sourced from a local organic farm, and a truck from a local brewery. It seems like food trucks appeal to the type of person who shops at Whole Foods or Trader Joes. In fact I think I remember seeing a truck serving food from peru or brazil, when Mexican food would be less niche. Because Colorado has a bunch of immigrants from Central America and has a number of Mexican restaurants.
> Yet EA / Maxis continue to ignore the customers.

As long as quarterly projections are met, who cares if there's a mob with torches outside.
Reselling something over and over again can be applied to your own products and/or services. Even businesses where every deal is its own special thing should find how to make them more similar to refine their process of selling the same thing over and over again.

Practice really is the only way to get good at it.
Could they use Google's new offline voice engine for the Android app, or is that something only Google Voice Search can use?
That article, and many of the others linked from within show that it is very unclear what's going on exactly. It would appear that Microsoft is only planning on implementing CalDAV in Windows Phone but has, as of yet, not confirmed it.

It does appear that they have confirmed not supporting CalDAV on Windows 8, RT, or Outlook. And since Google is phasing out support for ActiveSync come 7/31/2013, the only way to sync with Google calendars and contacts is from Outlook 2010 and earlier, and only if you are a paid apps user. (using ActiveSync)
Well, that depends. I had the same reaction, and my thought was to basically go the opensource route, but some products almost have to be replaced with a company. Products I use from Google:

* Search - replace with duck duck go
* Chrome - Firefox, most likely, but there are tons of browser options these days.
* Voice - this is the one that really has me hooked into the service. Not sure what I'd use instead, if not just a regular phone number.
* reader - now built into owncloud, dozens of reader replacements popping up.
* youtube - probably won't replace. I usually don't log in any way. Uploads that I do occasionally post will go to vimeo.
* gmail - aside from the hassle of switching, rolling an email server isn't too hard. downtime is a concern, but I could mitigate this by hosting it in the cloud somewhere, or even doing a colo backup at a friend's house. Paying for email is an option, I suppose, which could have benefits.

Other than that, I'm not sure. These moves by Google recently just seem skeevy to me. I think it started with the G+ stuff, but since then my trust in Google is waning, so this is a thing I think about somewhat regularly now.
I saw the digg.com source and said, "Screw that!"
I think a lot of the fingerpointing at Google has been ridiculous and way overblown. But there have been a few things, and I think the services they've shut down (eg, Wave and Labs and now Reader) are a good indicator of their new "focus".

With the death of Reader, my last shred of goodwill is basically gone. I've used an @gmail.com address for the past six years despite having my own domain, and now that's going to stop as I gradually transition off most of their services.
I'm not exactly sure, I've noticed the same thing.

Go appeared a few years ago, quickly became pretty well-known, and continues to grow in popularity. Maybe it's seen as "threatening" to older projects like Ruby and Python? The most vitriolic comments always seem to come from Ruby, Python, and Rust partisans. Of course, I'm not sure why they're so threatened by it, they themselves explain in great depth how the lack of generics or exceptions will prevent anyone from writing any real code in it, or even trying to in the first place!
As a game designer this just stunned me!

I guess I will research more into that, and maybe see if I can pull a game out of it!
HTC Phones Win Red Dot Award: Product Design 2013
Some rules are meant to be broken.
BeyondPod. Been using that to manage my podcasts for a few years. It can import from Google Reader or maintain its own podcast list. Easy to export out if needed.
Why don't they just use local apps? Why does this have to be a web service in the first place?
I'm sorry you feel let down. I don't mean to mislead anyone. I'm adding features which will make it clear why I call these charts.

Also, bubble charts and more are coming to the site, so thanks for a great idea for a chart!
I use Thunderbird and I think it works well. I like to have my feeds and emails in the same app.
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If the goal is to spread tickets evenly over all potential attendees, then lottery style ticket sales make more sense.

Although if they want to control the composition of their audience even more, they can sell some tickets via Dutch auction and use the profit to pay for the costs for attendees are specifically invited.
Voices from solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death
Yeah, the video is verging on parody. You want PR, marketing and sales people to pay for your business tool more than you want free users to waste your bandwidth collecting false positive reports on their name... right?

And the likes of Meltwater and (to a certain extent) Factiva should be your competition, not good-enough and free Google Alerts
The ability to detach the frontend and control the storage backend was a pretty big motivation for http://grimwire.com/local/. You might implement the RSS backend to serve an environment for running RSS apps. Then you'd write the GUI as one of those apps. The separation would allow you to change backend or frontend independently.
Been using Office 365 for a year now. Never had any problems. I'd suggest it over GApps for business if you are looking for a paid service.
thanks for the decisive response. :) no subtasks is a no-go for me. i get your thoughts about features growth, just wouldn't work w/ my work flow so I'll wait 'til you guys come around. :)
Chrome isn't OSS. You're thinking of Chromium.
So from your position food has no intrinsic value?

I'm trying to understand the argument. I see it that food has a number of attributes, flavor, dietary compatibility, accessibility, and quantity. And it has a cost. There is an internal 'value' evaluation that is done when the cost is compared to the other attributes which results in a buy/no-buy decision. Sometimes those things are artificially manipulated (like having to buy a $1.50 hot dog at AT&T part for $5 if you want to eat it).

But in all cases the 'cost to produce' doesn't enter into it until you aren't making enough sales to make ends meet. If the food is equivalent between a truck and a restaurant why wouldn't the truck charge a bit more to capitalize on the fact that they are here and if you want it eat it from the restaurant you have to go drive off somewhere to get it?