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Marketing Software, For People Who Would Rather Be Building It
There's really not that much to it. Use nginx that comes from APT and use a unix socket to communicate between node and nginx.

I use this code to open a unix socket in production at tmp/socket : https://gist.github.com/lgbr/5453355

And use a configuration like this for nginx (replace /etc/nginx/sites-available/default with this): https://gist.github.com/lgbr/5453375
OK, so, it's rare. And you've as much as admitted that there's almost nothing you can do about it in public, so I've accomplished what I wanted to in this discussion.
Short cupcakes, go long on brownies.
I'm not sure it would be a disaster. If it's implemented in the same way as universal iOS apps are currently done, with separate NIBs for each platform, and if the main UI components are merged (i.e. UIButton and NSButton) then I can imagine UI development on multi-platform apps being quite easy to do, and easy to to well also.
Daft Punk Single Breaks Spotify Records for Most Streams
I end up only using about 5 days for a week-long trip each year. Then November rolls around, and I try to schedule all my remaining days before I lose them at the end of the year.

I can't get anything done at the office because nobody else is there. Sure I can work on things and enjoy peace but without graphic artists or designers there I can only go so far, I'll end up throwing stuff out because it's not what they wanted.

But if I stay home, I'm stuck doing holiday stuff or running around to the homes of friends and family. When I get back to work after New Years I need a vacation.
Every once in a while you can see a "pice of water" that should be smaller but is limited by the size of the underlying spheres.
The amount of gold in circulation has never stopped increasing.
I guess it's reasonably useful for mockups, but you can not seriously design a website (or any UI) with absolute sizes.
I've seen many a kid go nuts on the self-serve yogurt machine and topping buffet, turning a small cup of a somewhat healthy dessert into a $7 pile of M&Ms, gummy bears, and other calorie-laden toppings. There's a reason they charge by weight.
Ironic that someone who has spent his life working as a trader (i.e. producing nothing) is so concerned with "debt and honor."
This isn't prerendered - it's real time. Prerendered water (as seen in movies) looks far more realistic than this. Check out the Naiad link someone posted above.

This is great for real time though. It's using a form of SPH which is far easier to adapt for GPUs, and can crunch through those particle-particle interactions.

High end offline water sims would use a different algorithm (usually FLIP), maybe run for several days to sim a few seconds and occupy 10's of Gb of memory.

If anyone's interested, download a copy of Houdini Apprentice for free and have a play.
In jaw-dropping not-full HD.
I made a WWDC Countdown Panel for Panic's Statusboard App
You can open it directly on iPad here:

panicboard://?url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17636189/statusboard/index.html&panel=diy
East Side Access Update - 2/12/2013
Skybox Teams Up With MapBox For Analysis And Annotation Of Data
Did you use Python bindings for libsvm?
> The iPhone has an easy mode too. It’s called “Using the iPhone”.

My iPhone also has a "sitting in the drawer while the Geniuses work on IMAP IDLE" mode.
The cupcake bubble is all too real. Ask anyone who lived in Manhattan during the 2000s as it finalized its transformation from "Escape from New York" to the NYU/Sex in The City cupcake fantasyland of today. The guys who used to have the cheap bagel and coffee trucks now sell cupcakes instead.
When Left 4 Dead first came out, one of the features they were proud of was a radial mouse menu of chat commands. You could make your character say "Heal me!" or "Tank!" or really any of about 27 things. I think it was intended so players could communicate without breaking character . . . which turned out not to be a high priority. I can't remember seeing anyone use it in a live game.

Anyway, I always thought the bots should respond to those commands, and was always surprised when they didn't.

Then again, the experience with the commandable AIs in Half Life was so profoundly miserable, I thought maybe they couldn't get it working reasonably. After all, when you give a command to a human, there are a lot of contextual clues involved in how to interpret it.
How are smartcards not practical outside of a controlled enterprise? The biggest issue I see is that most people do not have smartcard readers, but that could be fixed pretty quickly.
I've wanted to see some big names kickstart their own movies for a long time.

I sincerely hope this is the start of a very positive trend.

(For what it's worth, I'd drop $500 right now for Cameron/Schwarzenegger to make Terminator 5&6)
I'm using Spring 3.1, Jetty, various OWASP, guava. I am in the code of Spring and Jetty on a daily basis, and OWASP when I first used it. I learned guava by writing unit tests to verify my assumptions - assumptions I learned from the documentation - and which turned out to be mostly wrong.

Documentation is ambiguous, and even document which is unambiguous is often wrong.
"What this means is that when you get a job offer from us, you’ll pick a start date....And that’s the day you leave for vacation."

My experience over the decades has been new employers love to hear that you need 3, maybe 4 weeks to help transition your replacement, but your old employer likes to escort you out the door and change all the passwords the moment you slap a resignation letter on the bosses desk. I was actually kind of pissed at my last job when they made me sit around for two weeks instead of the escort out treatment. So I've taken 2-4 weeks off between each job. On the wife's health insurance. I'm not hand-to-mouth enough that I really notice a missing check or two.

What I don't do is exotic or stressful travel. No idea if I'll end up hating the new job so need to be prepared to take off and sending $5K to a resort is no way financially to start a job search. If you don't love your life, fix it so you do, don't just fly to tahiti and come back still hating it.
Global Rich List: Where your income/wealth sits against the rest of the world
Beginners Ruby/Rails Cheat Sheet
True, but adding cute cats to the mix isn't going to fix that either.

I wasn't trying to argue that it was technically infeasible for an Orwellian government to stop it, just that it would be near impossible to stop where this type of traffic isn't already blocked.
I completely agree. I've worked at a company where we had explicit weeks taken out of the schedule to do "app building" where we were expected to do a mix of kicking the tires on the product and experimenting with random tech we wanted to play with (subject to the Legal Overlords and their hatred for OSS, at the time). Speaking with my manager hat on, it worked quite well for exorcising those demons.
"Why would any company pay a computer programmer with out-of-date skills a salary of say $150,000, when it can hire a fresh graduate — who has no skills — for around $60,000? Even if it spends a month training the younger worker, the company is still far ahead."

$60,000 (in the Valley?) + A whole month of training = I had to stop reading the article
I feel like this could be more useful if you let users export images as well.

I know plenty of folks who need to do image manipulation but don't want to spend time learning Photoshop and rightly so, for small image tasks.
Ask HN: Hackers Do you want to share your hacks on the platform I built?
http://www.hacksy.com/ is a platform that lets hackers share their hacks, get feedback, and connect with other hackers.
I just finished building it and I want to know what you think about it. Do you want something like this? Does it solve any problem for you? Why is it going to fail?

Hackers are the main users of this platform so your feedback is incredibly valuable to me. Thanks!
I see, let me know if I can help you out on your side projects
I'm hoping for a Futurama project on Kickstarter.
You can set min/max width and percentages are coming soon.
It's like oil companies investing in green tech. If that's where you think the world is headed, it's better to get on the train and be a player than to get left behind.

For PayPal and BTC - even in the best scenario for BitCion, there's going to be a very long transition period, and PayPal has a very good position to profit from being an intermediate in that period. And once all centralised currencies are gone, true, PayPal's current business model is irrelevant, but by then, they'll have world-class expertise on BitCoin and can probably keep in the game as wallet operators or makers of hardware for casual transactions or whatever.
> Unfortunately, those approaches are not practical to deploy outside a controlled enterprise setting.

In what way? Bloomberg uses custom hardware developed in-house (the "B-unit") for four-factor authentication (password, biometric, visual sync, token). These devices are sent to customers all over the world where there is no control over them. All of the device and biometric enrollment is done through the software remotely when the device is received by the end user. So in my experience it is definitely possible to do this outside of the typical employee/enterprise scenario.
I was thinking of applying, but you have to apply by creating an app to show off your skills. Well that's so open ended, do I put in 1 hour or 10 hours? I really can't afford to put in much time with exams and coursework, so is it worth putting any effort in at all?

Apple do this for at least some of their internships as well. I think it's a shame because I suspect it puts many students off from applying.
Google will almost certainly add that functionality to Street View in the future. The coming ubiquity of always-on Glass-type cameras will turn a significant fraction of the public into walking surveillance cameras.
I'd look at one of the several Linux certifications. Formal training is, in my opinion, the way to go in a business setting.

It's also a could reality check for management. If they are unwilling to invest in formal training, then there is a lack of deep commitment to the learning process.
People mimic their management chain. If the CEO/managers don't take vacations, neither will their directs.

One of the most balanced (and productive) teams I've worked on was under a general manager who had 8 kids and made it a point to attend _every_ event they had and go on regular vacations. Since everybody ran into his policy at some point (reviews scheduled at 5pm canceled or him out of town for a week or two), the whole org was pretty good about doing the same. And it was very different from other orgs in the company, many of which had the usual long hours + weekends culture.
Say no to bullshit meetup NDAs
whats the point of life if you are working all the time? Life is about balance and not taking a vacation - ever - sounds like your balance is off kilter.
It is not legal or ethical, I think. No one should have my conversation in their phone or something, even though s/he is my closest friend or my parent. So, I think I wouldn't use it, but not sure about others.
Or Richard Branson could look at it like a cheap way of financing a return trip from space.
brittanica is remarkably good.
Zach Braff and Garden State are pretty well known. I didn't even know Garden State was an indi movie until now.
What are you talking about? The feedback here has been overall very constructive.
I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate
I fly out to Microconf 2013 in approximately 20 hours and haven't finished my presentation yet, so I thought I'd procrastinate by finishing the editing on this transcript of my Microconf 2012 talk. Also includes slides/video.

Feel free to ask questions if you have them.
Works or doesn't work, does what it says in the docs or doesn't. Those are the only true measures.

Everything else is just opinion.
> In those expressions, you have access to Javascript code

Just to clarify, double curly expressions in Angular, {{ }}, are "JS-like", basically a subset of JS + filter syntax. One goal of the expression syntax is to prevent a lot of app logic being stuck into the template itself, so the subset of JS is fairly minimal, but this is by design. This also means that the expressions are not eval()'d. Instead, they are parsed with Angular's $parse service.

See: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/expression
Eye opening.
I've never seen water simulations that can pass the U test. Basically, take a pipe, bend it into a U shape, pour the water in one side, and see if the water levels even out. If it does, then it's a very accurate simulation of water.
And how do they distribute the free tickets? By charging, and by charging a significant amount, they can be sure that only people who really want to be there will be there, and they can be pretty certain that the people coming are developers who will directly benefit from the talks and labs.

That said, I do think they should have separate press tickets for the keynote, perhaps priced a little higher, but with priority entry or something. As a developer I'd like to see fewer tickets taken by the press, but really care about being in the main hall for the keynote.
Fixing the Social Media Perception Problem
I can however compare it to the famous Cray 2 supercomputer, capable of 1.9GFLOPS.

Remember when we were promised we'd someday have supercomputers in our pockets? We do.

Well, ok, fairly big pockets in the case of the iPad, but still, you get my point.
I wrote a little wrapper while at OkCupid for dealing with adhoc JSON objects in Go, available here: https://github.com/okcupid/jsonw
I have never been to a webpage with more html pieces showing and hiding as you scroll down the page. I honestly am not even sure what i read. I was too busy closing slide in x or cookie alert y or wishing fancy fixed pos nav z would stop moving around.
Sriracha caramel frosting? Is... is that legal?
Anyone else have an issue with funding someone else's dream when their net worth is say $20M and yours is maybe $100K or less?
Of course you can. Don't be daft.

There are plenty of advantages to relative sizing, and in general it's a good policy, but there are many excellently-designed web sites whose sizes are absolute – just as there are many shit designs that're responsive as hell.
I feel so out of the loop, I didn't even know there was a cupcake fad going on.

Either it never hit Baltimore or I just don't go to the trendy parts of town.
Even if you mark them 'lost', you can't just trivially reassign them. You would need to have the private key to be able to spend them, there is no other way.
It's hard to believe it's taken this long for something like this to come around and gain some popularity in the mainstream. It echoes so much of what is wrong with education, and perhaps implicitly, what is so right with the Tech industry, where testing is no longer the most important factor played into hiring.
We currently allow you to download (export) a zip of the page, which includes the images you drop in.

Or do you mean image manipulation itself? If you are good at it, you should join us! We'd love to have you open source it. :)
Even then flight is extremely inefficient.
Now do one where she does not mention being your girlfriend, and include a better close at the end. Better yet, use http://videorascal.com (I dont own it or work for it).
What startups need to know about the “internet sales tax bill”
Parable of the Stones
Brilliant! Let your developers do what they do best: making kickass functionality accessible via APIs. Don't get them bogged down in implementing the billing, rate-limiting, and other restrictive (as opposed to creative) stuff.
By one percent, from 4 million to 3.95 million. It’s not the same, but it’s stable. Which is why I wrote exactly that.

“Mac sales declined” would be the wrong headline, giving that Apple grows faster than the rest of the market, have done so for years, and continues to take most of the profits out of the PC market.
What's next? Muffin tops sold by a store called "Top of the Morning?"
I thought about this too, ideally you would want to use crowdsourcing to just gather evidence and let professionals who are also liable to sift through the evidence. Another angle to work is to allow the crowd to analyze the evidence but not make that analysis public. Problem boils down to incentive - if your contributions are not made public and there is no attribution, is the motivation still there? 4chan is probably more interesting to look at in this regard, since all posts are anonymous.
Beginner's Guide to Sales
Google is reporting that 2.5% of the US is using IPv6, 2.3% of Germany and 5.2% of France. That's far higher than I would have thought.
You might also want to consider the possibility that the executives running these Big Media giants are well aware of the balancing act we're talking about, have access to much more information about the real costs and benefits of DRM schemes than you or I do, and have made a sound business decision based on the empirical data in front of them.

The logic they use to justify DRM (to the public) is so flawed and based on such bogus numbers of "lost sales", that I have no trust whatsoever in their sincerity or even ability to use common sense. The fact that DRM doesn't stop piracy is well known, yet these content producers pretend that they don't know it.

However if we assume they aren't morons, then it looks like they indeed have some real interest and reason behind DRM, which however has nothing to do with piracy. It can very possibly be related to their desire to control distribution technologies, prevent innovation and protect their business models threatened by the digital world. It drives them to be paranoidally obsessed with DRM (preemptive policing of the first order) and its derivatives like DMCA (preemptive policing of higher orders, which are aimed to stop violating the preemptive policing of the first order - i.e. breaking the DRM). It's easier to see it in DMCA, that it has already completely nothing to do with piracy, but has to do with desire for control, and in retrospect DMCA reveals the real reasoning behind DRM and its unethical nature.

Either way (whether they are just foolish, or they are evil), the public should strongly oppose DRM and DMCA on the ethical grounds.
I'm sure most endowments use some margin, but there are different leverage ratios. The Harvard endowment has since eliminated net levage, but before the crisis they were levered to 105%. The borrowing that Cooper Union did amounted to 30% leverage.

Further each the duty of prudence has to be measured against each sitution individually, according to the eight factors listed in the law:

(1) general economic conditions;

(2) the possible effect of inflation or deflation;

(3) the expected tax consequences, if any, of investment decisions or strategies;

(4) the role that each investment or course of action plays within the overall investment portfolio of the fund;

(5) the expected total return from income and the appreciation of investments;

(6) other resources of the institution;

(7) the needs of the institution and the fund to make distributions and to preserve capital; and

(8) an asset’s special relationship or special value, if any, to the purposes of the institution.

Which is not to say that other boards aren't also violating their duties of prudence, but an egregious case is a good place to start.
I think the real problem with Crumbs cupcakes is that they are actually pretty bad...
Frighteningly easy considering there is no verification going on before the market reacts to these kind of things.
Which is a good thing. If the market panics and goes down quickly, the people that keep their senses are going to make money off the people panicking, and keep it from going down further/bring it back up.
Cryptokit-1.7 released with SHA3 support
If only more libraries had such a well written introduction. Thanks!
Yeah, bitter. But I reckon they use those questions to test if you care enough to dive deep into things you're into.
It's amazing that you can walk through Boston, pass dozens of cupcake and frozen yogurt businesses in high rent areas, but finding a baguette from a local merchant is near impossible. It must not be profitable or the demand just isn't there.
ABC TV Wrong that SF Company Software IDs Boston Suspects
The real win is that if it becomes the underlying infrastructure, it is still possible for the common man to have a "manual wallet".

You won't end up in walled garden situations where a single vendor controls with massive fees and restrictions, but you have no choice but to use them, because hey, that's all everybody accepts and uses.

If an online wallet service/paypal/visa is gonna keep your business, they have to make what they offer be worth their fees.
>Much of the time, the context people were putting around photos they were linking was observably false

The most obvious case I saw of that was the number of times photos like this[1] were posted (and others of the same people without one of the backpacks) as 'proof' of their involvement, despite one of the photos being from after the explosions[2]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/GZgmb3L.jpg
[2] (warning: shows bomb site. Not too graphic, but some may find it unpleasant) http://i.imgur.com/iVzG7MK.jpg
Nothing prevents you from creating a "bitcoin-B", "bitcoin-C" and so on. There will be enough bitcoins for everybody.

Disclaimer: I believe bitcoins are tulip bulbs.
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10 - 1 = net +9 votes as of 2013-04-24 09:28 PDT. Calling that final.

Feel free to take back your upvotes if you feel my karma was undeserved.
Wallets are never going to be mainstream the way they work right now, so for most people, online wallets are the way to go - at least until hardware wallets are a common thing, like say in the form of a ring. If that ever catches up, I think it will be the way to go for people who want to have personal wallets.
I feel like startups that have no vacation policy at all (as in, take as much as you want) run into the problem where employees might feel guilty about taking vacation or forget to take all their days because they're busy. However if the norm is 7 days or 10 days or 14 days per year, it's more concrete and you don't feel guilty for taking them. I think it's psychological.

Personally I don't really ever feel the need for a vacation more than one day every few months, but that's just me now in a particular time and place. I think that'll change as the demands on my life change.
Macarons.
Maybe endurance is a separate ability. Some folks can operate at a high level for extended periods of time, though their highest level may be below the peak output of others. I will say I have no quibble with your numbers as averages. To find someone who possess both skill and endurance is exceedingly rare.
A Visual Compendium of Cameras
It'd be great timing for them to release a new Mac Pro.

But it's been great timing for a new Mac Pro for a long time.
“Churnalism” tracker catches journalists copying press releases and/or Wikipedia
The Food Network has also been pushing donuts lately, where they were previously on the cupcake bandwagon.
I like how the #1 best performing windows 8 laptop is a macbook.
It's more on distributors than theater chains. I believe by giving first dibs to a good distributor will allow the movie to be released internationally (either on cinema or bluray / DVD) easier and faster.
> If you have a Verizon iPhone, you're probably reaching Google via IPv6 without realizing it.

Which is the only way it should ever be.
I think you lack imagination.

Techies always love Moore's law and all its benefits. However, there's so much more that we need to accomplish. Supersonic commercial flight, cure cancer, commercial robotics (ie. Rosie), colonies on Mars and the outer solar-system, get on a train in San Francisco and arrive in LA an hour later, etc.

Yes, computers and communication are changing rapidily but almost everything else needs a kickstart.