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You make good points, but I'll say first your example of the obvious speed trap is a different problem of which I agree with you.

There are examples of US interstates with no speed limits within, to some people, reasonable limits:

http://www.motorists.org/press/montana-no-speed-limit-safety...

They even discuss how in some cases fatalities go up with new road laws and speed limits.

I have driven that stretch of road between Austin and Dallas as I live in the Dallas area. I have also lived in Florida with it's stretches of long, boring roads. Plus, I've lived in Vegas with that incredibly boring route into Los Angeles. In every case I would agree with you that the idea of being able to go a bit faster would have been nice.

But the question that will come up is how do you determine the maximum speed that you can safely manage? What if your assessment of your max speed differs with that of the police officer who witnesses what he feels is a dangerous amount of speed? What about other people on the road that you will eventually come across that can't handle the situation that you present if you decide that the person can handle a speed that in truth they cannot? I'm sure you're thinking you'll just slow down when you see someone but you cannot foresee the possibilities plus your reaction time dwindles quite effectively the faster you go. A mile at 60 MPH is one thing, a mile at 120 MPH is another.

My example against this, which is interesting considering the topic of this thread, is when I was in Vegas an off-duty cop was speeding (I forget how much but in excess of 100 MPH) on one of the interstates outside of the main part of town and rear-ended a family in their car. The resulting accident killed a number of them including children. Therefore, I personally don't like the idea of a free-for-all on the interstate where different cars can drive at different speeds based on criteria that will be different for each individual driver and car. I would rather we all agree on a maximum speed that makes sense for the conditions of the road and expected traffic. Now if a road has too slow of a speed limit for the typical conditions of that road, then that is a different discussion.
If I am wrong and I don't know what I'm talking about, then instead of saying "If you don't know what you're talking about, then why are you talking about it?" why don't you provide backup for your statement "you don't have any idea what Robert is like" which refutes the fact that I think someone who did what Morris did is "devious"?

I would make the same statement about Steve Jobs with regards to the blue boxes.

With respect to Morris, this statement (wikipedia) to me indicates he is "devious":

"According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet. However, the worm was released from MIT to disguise the fact that the worm originally came from Cornell."
Thanks Marcamillion, we have a lot of cool idea's around referral incentives and customer rewards points moving forward as well. stay tuned!
Though I would disagree on the roles and power of politicians. I appreciate your inputs and some of them are quite insightful.
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Thanks for the feedback. I've been a member for 5 years and was unaware of that rule. I just re-reviewed the rules. Thanks for pointing them out.

Also apologies that it came off as condescending. I was experimenting with a bit of a different style of post and writing, attempting to come off a bit quirkier. I've learned that its definitely a style that doesn't go well with the HN audience :).
Said comments are completely non-skeptical about the provenance of the images or their actual significance. Because Hacker News never gets anything wrong, right? We're smart here, right?

No, actually. We average out to the same kind of mob-prone mooks we like to tut-tut at others for being. Except our mobs are about standing around going "Well, actually..." and that's marginally less puerile than what we see from 4chan mobs.

It might feel like skepticism, but from where I sit it looks a lot like pretentious pseudo-intellectual grandstanding. It's like hanging a somebody's napkin doodle in an art gallery just so you can complain that it's not the Mona Lisa.
If it's a main multimegawatt power cable, it could take a while to plug back in (first the charred corpse needs to be removed). But it doesn't take long to redirect all traffic to another datacenter.
Grab some tissues. http://xkcd.com/695/
We won't, this data is readily available on our data page. In fact our new API will have much more information available, with a lot lower latency.
You don't. You only need to reveal information that could with analysis be used to derive information protected under some piece of privacy legislation.

Incidentally, the DPPA wasn't written to lock down the DMV.

I use the DPPA as an example of surprising limitations on the ability of private companies to share operational data that could conceivably due to operator error or time constraints potentially include protected information. Another example: FERPA.
I understand where you are going, but definitely semantics :)
That's really not the case. They were already selling out stadiums by the time Jerry died. Reread that last statement. There is so much hate for this band people stop thinking. More importantly, they're music is wildly different as well. All hippies aren't mindless drones with the exact same taste.
Banks return their bills to their regional Fed bank for counting/cleaning/exchange/destruction/etc. So if you're from Dallas and you spend a dollar in Northern Louisiana that dollar is probably going to end up back in Dallas because Northern Louisiana is in the Dallas Fed's district.
This is one of the most concerning issues to me from that FAQ:

Q: Can a company hack a perceived threat under CISPA ("hack back")?

A: CISPA provides companies with immunity "for decisions made based on cyber threat information" as long as they are acting in good faith. But CISPA doesn’t define “decisions made.” Aggressive companies could interpret this immunity to cover "defensive"—and what some would consider offensive—countermeasures like DDOSing suspected intruders, third parties, or even innocent users. Private defense contractors have already advocated for this power. These actions should not be allowed by such expansive wording. It leaves the bill ripe for abuse.

So, corporations can effectively DDoS other servers now, without legal repercussion, as long as it was in 'good faith'. How does one evaluate 'good faith' in a court room? If I'm a small company with a website, and some major corporation attacks me and knocks my site offline because the attacker who attacked them spoofed the IP address with my website's address, are they off the hook because their attack was in 'good faith'?

To me, I get the feeling that CISPA is about more than violating privacy (although it does that in spades), but also legitimatizing the militarization of the Internet.
Hello ThomPete, we actually do clean a ton of offices and hope to expand further into the facility management space :) Thanks for the post!
I think the correct term for those people are "douchebags"...not "MBAs".
Posting turnover of $4M without discussing your costs means this article lacks credibility. It would have been better to state your actual profit.

Is it 4m/year revenue with 1m in profit, or is 50k in profit... makes a big difference.
Yes. Multi-billion dollar multionational do the worst shit.

As an example:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Coke-Machine-Behind-Favourite/dp...

http://ccrjustice.org/learn-more/faqs/shell%2526%2523039%3Bs...
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I'm not saying it has anything to do with directly tapping wires. I'm just saying that the DHS has an interest in building up infrastructure in this particular place.

I didn't even know Google was interested in buying fiber deployments and redoing them. I thought they were trying to build them from scratch.
They also had already raised funding prior to going on stage :/. I like this idea but there's a lot of technical hurdles that I never hear answers to :(.
I haven't used Jammit before, but I highly recommend checking out django-pipeline for the same purpose: https://github.com/cyberdelia/django-pipeline
I don't live or work in San Francisco, and would mostly choose a moderately quick and only fairly painful death to that option.
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Great, now I have to prove I'm not a "Samsung shill" before being positive about Samsung products.
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On the other hand, a marked bill is likely to be destroyed at replaced if it makes it to the Fed.
The problem occurs with templates such as in this (HAML example):

- posts.each do |post|
%li
= link_to post.title, post_url(post), class: "post_link"

Note that in the case of Rails 2.3 (which the article describes), Rails doesn't know if post.title, post_url() or "post_link" have been escaped or not. It originates at a time when the Rails people were fairly lax and ignorant about encodings and sanitization in general.

For the post.title bit, the link_to method just passes it along, assuming it's valid HTML. Which means it's an injection point if the post was user-submitted. The URL and the {class: "post_link"} are passed through escape_once, described in the article.

As you can see, the amount of data that must potentially be sanitized/encoded can be a lot; lots of small pieces of text that add up to a lot of overhead.

Rails 3.x fixes this by assuming that no strings contain sanitized HTML; therefore, when you insert data into a template, it will automatically escape everything. This is good. If you know that something is already sanitized, you can declare it as such:

= link_to post.title.html_safe

This flags the string as safe, and link_to will not need to escape it.
The sad reality is that some businesses use old equipment and software because its more reliable than some of the built-to-fail junk you buy nowadays. I've still got a Commodore 64 complete with tape deck and more games than I can count, I'll probably never part with it and to this day it still works better than any console or computer I've owned since. It's outlived everything.

My partner worked for an insurance company and a lot of their infrastructure is from the late 80's so is the software and it's always worked for them. Their reason for not switching to modern equipment is that it is more reliable and their business centers around data. If the software or data were to fail them in anyway that's potentially a lot of money or worse credibility and trust lost. I think they saw it as being cheaper to maintain the current system and I can't blame them, a lot of banks are the same too.
If anything, it's simply the brilliant orchestration of this product release that is so Apple-like.

Starting with the Internet rumor mill for the last 6 years, the thoughtfully-placed but cryptic ad buys, the slow drip of new information over a couple months, then the collaborator videos providing an inside view and stoking the excitement. It definitely feels a bit like how new Apple products have come into existence.
Comcast is still sadly better than Charter (though I think Charter is owned by Comcast now?).
Thanks for the comment. I'd love to see an example of the kind of 50/50 test analysis you do when you have time for a post.

I agree the hard part is the analysis, and I mentioned some of the challenges in the post. I hoped to use it as a way to illustrate some cool SQL techniques, rather than as a step-by-step method of finding the right metric, which I agree is much more complex task. Hopefully this analysis helps evaluate a potential metric to find out if it really is useful.
This article kind of reminds me that there was a piece on NPR a few months ago about Nickelback, and how despite the fact that every person I know hates that band apparently they're wildly successful from a business perspective. The main guy in the band basically treats it entirely like a business, they're very efficient in how they run their tours, etc.

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/10/164858831/love-to-hate-nickelb...
This is great, I'll forward over to the guys working on the replacement to our current Flash version.

The data you are using will be superceded soon with a new API with more rich information at a lot lower latency (don't worry we won't decommission the old one for a long while).

We'll be mailing all our subscribers in the very near future for early access.
I thought "ancient computers" meant more like 1000 years old, like one of those ancient Greek gear contraption thingies. With that in mind, the actual contents were disappointing. :(

I guess there are still a few people using abacuses, if that counts.
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What? Make it yourself
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I wonder if this is related to the myriad of "NO SD CARD, NO REPLACEABLE BATTERY, NO BUY" type user comments that littered positive reviews for the HTC One.
Not really. Most readers look at a person's entire posting history before making that kind of claim. And most people who post phony reviews, post too many of them to escape attention.
This is because people wanted to make English more Latin-like in the 1700s.

So Latin rules were applied to the non-Latin English language: i.e., not splitting infinitives and not ending sentences with prepositions.

However, applying these rules changes meaning and tone.

English doesn't have special grammatical structures (e.g., Thai) or verb conjugations (e.g., Spanish) to discern levels of formality or tone; so we must encode them in the dynamics of the word choice and standard grammar.

Being able to form sentences in such structures is one of the primary ways in which we do this.

Double negatives are another example. In the 1700s people wanted Formal Logic rules to be in English and decided that a double negative was invalid.

However, the double negative places a meaning in the sentence that is intended by the speaker, and comprehended by the audience.

That meaning is fundamentally different from the single negative form.

Observing such restrictions create artificial barriers to communication and unnecessarily hinders the depth and character of expression.
I also wouldn't put too much value in a security article served on page using mixed HTTP and HTTPS. This shows a distinct lack of regard for and understanding of security.
Money is what they give you for doing what you don't want to do. Most of the really fun jobs pay poorly as a result. Talk to people who work IT for NGOs for examples.
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> Mutual-Auth SSL/TLS is a royal PITA, and is basically guaranteed to cause you grief. The client compatibility matrix might as well be considered an NP hard problem to assure yourself coverage, and failure modes of the different browsers/SDKs all differ. As a REST API should have maximum accessibility to clients (i.e., don't wed yourself to any one language/sdk), this is pretty much a non-starter.

Given the inconsistent support for mutual-auth TLS, which along with its direct ancestors has existed for a decade and a half, what makes you think they'll be widespread and correct support for SAS?
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>Most bands you hear on the radio aren't really that good at their instruments, but with recording technology you really don't need to be that good. That's why you've got some artists who basically exist because they've got the right look.

I would beg and steal to have a world where mainstream artists were actually _good at music_ again.
I wrote a quote simulator for my mom's cleaning business a while back.

You give it the room count, floor type, wc count, etc... and it produces an estimate of the size of the property and how much it would cost to hire the service.

To estimate room sizes I actually used my body as a ruler since I didn't have a measuring device at the time.

Fun project, too bad the economy in Portugal is so bad.

If you understand Portuguese: http://abelhinha.net
Just a heads up, the schematic Tube map is updated every 3 or 4 months. A member of my team tried mapping the points manually with appropriate curves in Canvas, ultimately it was a bit of a nightmare without the original Illustrator SVG file. It might be a painful task for you.
Not a direct answer but Intel is making plays into quite a few extra markets nowadays, HTML5 being a striking one. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if we see Intel try and make a big play for the developer tools market long term with an acquisition of someone like GitHub or Atlassian some way down the road.
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If you mean highly fragmented, with bits that are amazing, bits that are dull, research units working on the cutting edge, some parts of service that really work well (others less so), and highly leveraging the channel... then yes, yes it is
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I never meant to attack you personally - it was more the sentiment that is often espoused in many comments & stories that appear on HN. You can even see some in this thread!

Some of that sentiment appear in your essays (and perhaps comments) - which people may take out of context.
None of them are ardent followers of a particular band. I know they still go see Phil Lesh and Friends or The Dead when they come around, and I think they've been to a few Dark Star shows.

They all had a heavy lean to the Blues/Country side of things, so they're all big fans of Steve Earle and the like.

They all got together to go see Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan recently, and they all went to Van Morrison a while back.

EDIT: I think it's important to note that my dad was so distraught by Jerry's passing that he took a day or two off of work and sat around listening to old shows on cassette tapes.
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Reminds me of spatch: https://github.com/facebook/pfff/wiki/Spatch
looks like great deal
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Phish's lyrics are offensively awful to the ears of most deadheads.
Those being?
I have found "magic-space" more useful than ":p". This auto-expands history substitutions (like !$) when you press the space bar. You can bind it to the space key in tcsh or bash. It also works for !!, !vi, and other substitutions.

So, when you press ! $ <space>, it expands out to "foo" in place, so you can be sure that's what you wanted, and edit it in place.

I think :p predates magic-space. They're both decades old at this point though.
Given the stage of growth they are in - early stage of likely hyper growth - their profit doesn't make much of a difference right now.

They are likely reinvesting everything into the business, thereby leaving them with little to no profit.
I don't know, when I read the title the first thing my mind jumped to was CTRL-r command searching. I was thrilled to see something similar but better.
Jseigler's done a great job of it, but you can ask Google themselves - CA's CEQA process is hell on earth. From the horse's mouth, so to speak:

"Many fine California city proposals for the Google Fiber project were ultimately passed over in part because of the regulatory complexity here brought about by CEQA [California Environmental Quality Act] and other rules. Other states have equivalent processes in place to protect the environment without causing such harm to business processes, and therefore create incentives for new services to be deployed there instead."

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/04/google-fib...
You mentioned that you have to repeat the steps for enabling the notifications every-time the watch disconnects. Whats its range?
I'm going to agree with the other people who've commented so far in that your value proposition and problem you're solving isn't very clear. It takes a lot of digging just to piece together all the information.

This high LTV customer you're aiming for in the B2B sector is only going to scale really well if you can do an arbitrage through Google Adwords or other channels. This isn't a viral, word-of-mouth type business (for the most part). So you want to lower the amount of time it'll take someone to understand what you're offering after they quickly click on an ad. You should really sit down with people, like your target customers, and ask them, "What does my website offer?" and see how long it takes for them to answer.

I like the design a lot but you need to take full advantage of it with more clarity in copy.
Eventually all you have to do is mimic human behavior closely enough and it's untraceable. Sometimes that's expensive, but it's always doable.
Exactly. My dad always reiterates how important lyrics are to him. We have a very nice hardback copy of Box of Rain by Robert Hunter in the house.
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>Samsung's IP theft issues

You mean the time when Apple tried to patent "0-length-swipe" and a shape of a box?
> You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman

do you think Google created this?
Obviously not, Google get nothing from it.
> I've still got a Commodore 64 complete with tape deck and more games than I can count, I'll probably never part with it and to this day it still works better than any console or computer I've owned since.

Is built better, maybe. But "works better"? It would take that thing 20 minutes just to load Ghostbusters. That in no way could be considered working better than today's computers/consoles.
The solution is to provide sufficiently broad set of tightly integrated base system libraries; there are few, if any, duplicate dependencies across most applications.

To use OpenSSL as an example, on OS X applications all make use of SecureTransport and CommonCrypto. This brings other advantages, such as automatic integration with keychain-managed certificates and certificate authorities.
Are class based views really any good for anything outside of CRUD? I've found the documentation (and, more importantly, rationale) lacking. Generally, when I try and use them, I spend more time figuring out how to customise than when I write "normal" views.
Not on HN, because it is full of Apple fanboys.
They did have a monopoly on trustafarians (wealthy college students that want to follow a band for the summer) after the Grateful Dead stopped touring. There is a new supply of trustafarians every year.
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Thanks for the clarification - although depending upon how you work, this is not much of a benefit. For instance - if you type "/path/to/script.sh" you want to search for the name of the script - not the beginning of the path.
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I was more trashing the NSA's record because they ARE doing sinister shit.

We just don't know 100% if Google is being forced to play along. I'd say it's really naive to think there would be public 'evidence' in the first place. You say it's unfair but I say it's critical thinking. Given the circumstance and the history, I'd say it's completely fair.

Either way it's terrifying, wouldn't you agree?
> a non-programmer-friendly system.

'Non-programmer-friendly' like how MS-DOS was non-programmer-friendly with its memory models and lack of multitasking, or like how AS/400 was non-programmer-friendly with you choice of RPG or COBOL, or do you actually think that making something friendly for non-programmers automatically makes it non-friendly for programmers?
Doing this is wrong for a company of any size, no matter if it's big or small.
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