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They should treat endorsements like mini-recommendations and make individuals list out why they're endorsing an individual regarding the said trait. Not only would this validate the endorsements, but bring out the true value that I believe was their intention.
There is no need to "demonize" those who created DMCA 1201 - it's clear that they did it in bad faith, to protect unethical business practices such as DRM which is used to restrain the innovation in a whole range of areas (and which doesn't prevent any piracy). All this pile of garbage needs to be strongly opposed by the public. And primarily on ethical basis, which is commonly ignored in the context of DRM.
I'm the founder of a stealth startup that focused on email first as a key part of our product.

Swombat was one of my early adopters (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280289). Hopefully I'll be launching as a Show HN sometime next month.

Email first allowed me to quickly validate the business and generate revenue without having to worry about anything other than the core value proposition.
I'm not bitter about Reader, I haven't been able to use it for over a year. I still find the idea of Google not sucking at customer service unlikley. They do not have any history of not sucking at customer service.

Think of it like this; if you hear a good customer service story from Google it's a huge surprise, like hearing about a part of Amazon whose corporate culture and work environment is not a toxic cesspit.

Over time, if you hear enough of these stories, they stop being surprising, but I have seen multiple people on this forum complaining about Google being unreachable when they spend tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Google's reputation for customer service is well earned.
It looks as if we've got a Github pull request including these changes, so we'll be able to revise the Python-Django numbers soon.
My only problem with this type of workflow (and the list workflow also) is that often sibling, parent, and child tasks aren't apparent until you are in the middle of, or complete other tasks. So at most I could get a start on a task list/tree, but it wouldn't come close to reflecting reality until the project is completely done. Also, many sub tasks are easier to just do than to describe, yet they don't group together that well under a general parent task.

Of course if a tool could keep track of changes as the project progresses (along with a change log of reasons for each task add/removal), then it could be a good resource improve your estimation skills.
I have to say, these "footnotes" are getting out of hand. That was just another sentence, not a link or citation. Or are we doing this ironically?
Awesome, thank you! We'll aim to get this incorporated into a follow up post soon.
The techniques are developed on models of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, with the mystic elements removed.
We received a Github pull request with a Flask test! So we'll aim to include that in a follow up post soon.
I'm not sure what you mean by "efficient".

personally I live in a one bedroom, and there's one of me, and the heat map for my area looks perfectly accurate.
I'm also happy not to be forced to live with someone and still work any where I like. Freedom 'n all.
Probably referring to mine... which was rightly downvoted to the bottom because it didn't add anything to the conversation. Although, if that's the case, the GP should have been a reply to my comment, but anyway.

Since I can't edit that comment, I'll elaborate here.

The problem that I have with this isn't with "Reader". I just don't see how this has any benefit to Google. They aren't selling items. They are just delivering them. Does this go through some kind of Google online-mall, or will it go through the retailer's standard site?

The real question that needs to be answered is: what's in it for Google? What they've made clear lately is that for something to take hold, it needs to be in their interest. And I just don't see the upside here.

That's not to say I don't see a market for the service (I signed up to be a tester). I just don't see how it fits with Google.
A bit of shameless self promotion: Haraka is a great mail server for coding up systems for processing incoming email, including parsing out attachments. We use it at Hubdoc for streaming attachments directly from email to S3.

http://haraka.github.com/
What sort of security vulnerability would justify this extra paranoia? The worst case is that it's something which affects the very-common case of postgres servers that only talk to local services, like a unicode or quoting error that made sites which nominally quote their queries correctly vulnerable to SQL injection. That would be as serious as the recent Rails vulnerabilities: drop everything, patch everything everywhere, or definitely be rooted.

Be ready to patch as soon as it's out; this could be a big deal.
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Play is not running on Resin. Did we accidentally say that somewhere? If so, we'll correct it.
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And how is this not any different from our reporting requirements now? Any bank account we (US citizens) have over $10k must be reported.
I think the NumPy people are the best team for making this. We should lobby them!
Surely if you need to pack reformating, moving, copying and deleting code into as short a time as possible you're doing it wrong even more than if you had to insert a lot of text!

This leaves navigating as the main reason for vi's UI. And macros, apparently. If that's what you want, great, but it's not for me.
I'd like to see it work for small businesses too, but their initial launch stores all seem to be loaded with bigger companies (Target, Walgreens, Toy R Us).
Ok, so I added a third benchmark where the handler gets and item from memcache (NOT from a database). Here are the results:

PASS
Benchmark_Routes 10000	234063 ns/op
Benchmark_Pat 10000	233162 ns/op
Benchmark_GorillaHandler 5000	265943 ns/op
Benchmark_Webgo 5000	348349 ns/op
ok	github.com/bradrydzewski/routes/bench	10.062s

Notice the top 3 frameworks (pat, routes and Gorialla) have almost identical performance results. The point being is that routing and string manipulation are relatively inexpensive when compared to even the most lightweight TCP request, in this case to the memcache server.
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This may be the only HN comment I've ever committed to Evernote. Well played :)
Termites 'engineer fairy circles'
http://minecraft.net/brand

Just follow these and you'll be fine :-)
> A large save will easily reach into >200ms land on an iOS device, and your app will feel like crap.

Can you give an order of magnitude at this would happen? I usually only have 50-200 entities in my database in total, saving maybe half of them at the same time. Yet libraries like RestKit insist on a two-context setup to avoid the saving delay you mention. I'm not sure if I should fight the libraries and go back to a single-threaded setup (that I understand) or just go with the parent/child context flow.
The difference is that we generally know the reasons behind earlier climate changes. The medieval warming period, for example, was due to increased solar radiation [1]. It's not that there have not been lots of major climate change before; it's that this time it's caused by humans.

[1] http://www.skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period.htm
I wonder how a cgi binary run from xinetd would perform?
Yeah but I'm a paying customer now.
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Technically, O(log(n) <= 7 ? 1 : log(n)) is still O(log(n)) ... :)
Touch typing is a great skill to have of course, as is using keyboard shortcuts. But I can get by with standardised shortcuts, and I'd prefer not learning a new set of shortcuts used by a single program, especially when that program has a modal interface. Maybe modal keyboard interfaces are used by more than vi, but I don't know of any other programs that have one.
The old compose _was_ broken (at least for me). I encounter the use case where I need to reference data from another email when composing a new message all the time. This used to mean opening up a new gmail tab, with the new compose I can draft an email while jumping around through archived messages. That's a big win.
i mean it. i think there are lots of things that factor into creating a more peaceful world. a major aspect is each person's relationship with themselves and what they do. there are some very practical challenges around a person making a living doing what they love. we're figuring out how to make that easier. it may seem like a very bottom up way to approach peace, but change happens one human being at a time.

you can check out my blog if you're interested: www.fromwith.in
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Because it's just something you have, which might be worth $10k if you sold it.

If you own a car worth over $10k, do you need to report that?
Google pledges not to sue open source software unless first attacked
Clojure is awesome, its community is awesome, I think it's an awesome thing to learn if you can take the time. I put together some tutorials on it for any learners out there. http://www.verious.com/board/AKumar/improving-performance-wi...
(3) use bjoern

seriously, in my rough helloworld and sqlite value increment by 1 benchmark, Bjoern+wsgi app runs 2x as fast than nodejs.
Solving problems around email has a wide audience.

After our startup launched a private and secure messaging service, we weren't able to drive easy and repeatable traction.

We broadened the appeal to include email privacy which not only got press but created a ton of sticky users. Eventually, we turned it into our first point of revenue.

Email allowed us to reach a wider audience while still preserving our focus on privacy. While we weren't technically "email first" it was a big second that ultimately served our primary focus.
True, Ruby doesn't usually get used for GUIs. But take a look at the Javascript and browser testing tools that are available. Is there anything like Sauce Labs for iOS?
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Indoctrinator: http://indoctrinator.com is my first email startup. It's a weekly program that reveals the secrets to becoming obsessed over anything you want.

Anyone whose been obsessed before knows how it can accelerate learning and mastery of skills.

I thought email would be the ideal platform for Indoctrinator because I can roll it out in phases and give more personalized service.

EDIT: I invite anyone who reads this and is interested in the program to sign up for more info and early notification of launch.
Good point, should have thought of that. Possibly music and other media too. I always forget Amazon sells so much digital content.
The state of the industry punishes a sizable amount of people that want to talk about these types of things too. If you really care about tech, you'll care about issues that keep people out that otherwise could have had a profound impact on you.
I don't think that's quite true. Any _foreign_ bank account over $10k must be reported. However US bank accounts may be reported by the banks directly.
WTF is happening in Cyprus?
The working link is http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/Pa...
Do people still use that?
I only ever saw it on userfriendly profiles, and userfriendly has been limping along, very nearly dead for years now.
Actual repo is https://github.com/shoghicp/PocketMine-MP, not sure why you linked to an outdated fork?
My biggest complaint about Good Reads is it's confusing user interface. I would really use it a lot more if it was a little less clunky to use.
I'm never using my mouse when using Sublime Text 2, this is a troll :)
It's actually a validation of Bitcoin as another currency. What this (proposed/speculative) law says is that Bitcoin is equally valid as the Euro or Yen, and thus a "foreign currency holding" which must be reported.
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Note that CloudFlare itself doesn't claim it is the largest ever, but references NY Times' claim that it was, and then later goes on to say "that would make this attack one of the largest ever reported."

Other than the headline and the reference to the NY Times article, CloudFlares claims and the linked article are pretty much in line.
Probably a dumb question ... But how does this give superior recomendations to amazons normal recomendations?
So wait, couples are 'forced' to live together? You would think a couple would like each other to some extent, and in a lot of cases enough to gladly live together.
During the time when his vessel, the "Endurance," was stuck in the ice, Shackleton applied management principles from which perhaps startups can learn. He made sure to pay attention to what and how everybody was doing at all times. One thing he did then was to assigning people meaningful tasks to keep them from becoming despondent and dragging down morale. What he did there has actually been studied by military researchers who were interested in ways to get people and organizations through periods that seem utterly hopeless. Startups come to mind...
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I've seen lots of work on alternate Minecraft servers; has anyone worked on an open Minecraft client (obviously not named "Minecraft" for trademark reasons, but compatible with the network protocol)?
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This is a meh protocol. It's not cleanly extensible and carries a lot of legacy.
Mojang has no issue with custom servers so long as you use their authentication, hasn't since the classic days.

Legally, they *have no say in the matter, as the server uses no assets from Minecraft and the protocol has been Chinese Wall'd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Computer_science) via http://wiki.vg
> in particular, asm.js does not have aggregate or structural types.

It's like BCPL!
Being able to spend less time talking to the people I don't want to (and more time talking to the people I do) would probably be the single greatest improvement to my life. It's not at all premature to expend a bit of effort on it.
You need to prefix your statement with "In the USA" to give the right context.
I think the endorsement blasting is actually worse than Facebook's over liking, because of how that data is presented and what it is intended to represent. 200 some dishonest endorsements make even the legitimate endorsements among them value-less. A stray like (or a dozen) doesn't project the same type of dishonesty.
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Yes, it all makes sense now! I love AdBlock so much : )
It doesn't. The selling points are A) the social component (what are my friends reading?) and B) keeping track of books I want to read.
Until explicitly stated otherwise bitcoins are considered, by definition, a cash-equivalent for US citizens. I take it you don't file taxes in the US (or at least don't have very many assets)?
I think a comma might be more appropriate here. North Americans usually use the $1,000 over the $1.000 format.
As as swedish keyboard-user I can say that this often resolves to remapping a large quantity of bindings which then are not supported by all plugins.

It's doable sure, it still takes time and energy though.
It's like trying to reach the moon by climbing a tree - one can report steady progress, all the way to the top of the tree! Dreyfus
This begs the question, what is an "account" in Bitcoin? Can I not just make multiple Bitcoin addresses with $10,000 each?
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I'd like to know more about your startup but there's no info/link in your profile. I'm interested in privacy-related stuff.
Yeah, I was going to say some kind of universal uniform for anyone there not as an attendee...
Awesome. Wish there was a legend for the color scale.
Right, but your example here is a particularly skewed one. It's a hashing library. All it does is take integers and do arithmetic on them. Most real-world application code is not at all like that. Asm.js doesn't even support strings as far as I know.
This might sound bad but...

I cannot actually see a problem with #2, it would be my preferred solution. When I go to trade shows / conferences it is to talk to brains, not bodies, the sex of the brain is immaterial to me.

To me, making sure the bodies are 50% equal in gender means nothing if 80% of the female bodies are only there to make up a body quota but have no interest / knowledge of what is going on.

Maybe change it slightly so that the rules state anyone at the booth must be a full-time employee or a contract employee with X months at the company.

Could you go into a bit more detail about your reasoning for #2 not being suitable?

[EDIT] Messed up my percentages
Not everyone is in a relationship. The forcing is due to money - if you're poor enough, then you simply can't afford even a studio and are forced into having roommates to split the cost of rent.
Validity of bitcoin as a currency is irrelevant. What is relevant is that a US citizen can possess a cash-equivalent that behaves in a fashion similar to foreign currencies or commodities. The tax law is pretty clear on investments and cash-equivalents, bitcoin is both without addressing a question of currency status.
I am at work, and don't have minecraft on any machine nearby =).
Listening to buddhist monks (people who know meditation usually very well) actually doesn't sound very mystic to me, because they normally don't talk about religion, miracles and beliefs, but about mindfulness and happiness.

Here is a Google TechTalk by Matthieu Ricard, who is a buddhist monk and a scientist:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=peA6vy0D5Bg

Another buddhist Google Talk (Mingyur Rinpoche):

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=peA6vy0D5Bg
Seriuosly interested, why is Node.js better suited as a gameserver than say C or Java ?

What exactly are you doing on the serverside? Is it an authorative setup or are you just passing position messages around (in which cases huge amounts of players wouldnt be suprising) ?

Did you reverse engineer minecrafts multiplayer protocol or is this an alternate implementation?

EDIT just looked it up and it seems like the minecraft network protocol is public, so no reverse engineering needed. It also looks like its not an authorative setup which could cause cheating problems in PvP enviroments down the line
I still use the old compose and actively opt out of the new compose whenever they try to force it on me. It smacks of something that should be a choice and not a forced-upon default.
There are a couple projects in this direction (I looked into trying to make a bot at one point). Unfortunately, any names have slipped my memory at this point. But be assured, they exist.
Asm.js is exactly made for things like that: the pieces of code that don't depend on "strings" but calculate a lot. And for things like this:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

For "strings" the existing JITers do already the good job. You can just use JavaScript as is then.
What reasons could there be for not assigning all Google's patents to this policy from day one?

I hope Google aren't going to pick and choose the areas they will allow FOSS innovation to happen in.
> asm.js is already a stronger candidate because I can use it right now and it will work everywhere.

This is fundamentally not true. We tend to think of "better perf" as not being breaking the web, but that isn't always the case. Imagine a game written using asm.js. Plays beautifully at 30fps on Firefox. Great! And it runs on every browser, right?

Well, if it runs at three FPS on Safari, then as far as the game developer and the player are concerned, no, the game doesn't run on Safari.
Just to add to other comment, I had a look at GitX, looks like a pretty neat application, thanks for mentioning it.
I wonder what the worst possible bug might be?

A bug in query parameter parsing that would allow SQL injection attacks?
Sure, Java or C will be much faster at any computational work. And I am no node.js fan-boi. But doing actual asynchronous local-file IO in C is non-trivial, and if their server is not CPU bound, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with using node.js. Could you also use libuv from C? Sure.
At least in the map, West Memphis is much smaller than East Memphis.

Population from Wikipedia:

(East) Memphis: 672,277 (2011)

West Memphis: 26,245 (2010)

Memphis metropolitan: 1,316,100 (2010) (includes both)
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> we have something that I'd call far worse in its subtlety: Using women for exactly the same purpose

Let's get this straight: It's not a sin. Objectification is just a particular functional state.

There is only a problem when there is a systemic imbalance that either consistently robs a particular group of agency. There is nothing inherently wrong with objectification. When you are being a spokesperson, you are voluntarily being objectified. You have basically taken on the role of an information appliance -- one with a friendly face and engaging manner, hopefully. This is fine. What would be wrong is if everyone treated you this way depending on some trait, like your gender or race. (Which is what happens when people assume female developers are paid shills or when people assume that the females in the current context are just decorative.)

The notion that "Objectification = Sin" is onerous nonsense. Denizens of a complex multicultural world need to turn on the brains and understand functional implications. We should stop using labels and tribal knee-jerks. Our new world is too complicated for those old heuristics.
Apps can degrade gracefully by scaling down graphics when they are running on non-asm browsers.
I, for one, welcome our new secure PostgreSQL overlords!
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Manic Digger (http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net/) used to connect to Minecraft Classic servers. And a client for full Minecraft was planned.

But Notch didn't like seeing alternative clients, so I removed it from the game.

Also, see http://wiki.vg/Client_List
If almost 45% of San Franciscans are single, plus a chunk of polyamorous, co-opers, and goodness knows who else, it may not be true that "most people live in couples."
http://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/solocities.aspx

Also, I know it's often done, but a one-bedroom is rather cozy for two people for the long term.
The exchanges will all eventually have reporting requirements for US citizens making transfers above a certain threshold in a certain period of time.

Once the IRS actually gets to work and addresses this they'll probably end up altering terminology so that a bit coin "account" is comparable to all bit coins within an individuals direct ownership and control.

In the end investment proceeds from bitcoin will be taxed and traced. I wouldn't try to outsmart or game the US government in terms of account balances, I could see a "smart" early adopter going to jail because of their efforts to avoid taxes.
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I have Goodreads account too, and became a librarian to be able to fix information and add books that are missing.

I update my progress all the time, when I finish a book, or every evening my current progress on the books I read. Using their Android app is pretty darn quick, and I get a lot value out of it.

On the other hand, my Kindle has mostly Project Gutenberg or other out of copyright books, only bought a handful new ones, so I personally don't care much about the syncing with Kindle. Some people also complain about too much noise in their friend feed about progress updates, so I guess some thought needs to be put into the implementation.
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This is a feature, not a drawback. Aggregate types for C-like languages tend to bloat the code for no real optimization benefit. See the comparison between LLVM IR and Emscripten-generated JavaScript here: http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2011/11/code-size-when-compiling...

(Of course, for GC'd languages, we will need aggregate types.)