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Makes more happy that I vetoed the vendor's request to one of my Customers to expose one of these systems to the Internet. They asked for exposure to the Internet and I laughed them out of the room.
It does seem terribly hypocritical to complain about the police capturing images from a public street, while simultaneously defending people's right to record the police in public.

I wonder what people would make of it if someone released a highly popular smartphone app that did this same sort of thing, just crowdsourced rather than done by dedicated police. You could build a gigantic, publicly-accessible, searchable database that would absolutely destroy privacy in the same way that having the police do it would, except it would be available to all instead of just to the government. Somehow, I imagine that the same people fighting against this would fight for people's rights to run this app.

It's a tough problem, certainly. I'm sympathetic to the privacy argument, but on the other hand, it seems like that ship has sailed. Maintaining privacy in public just because it's too hard to correlate all of the available data is becoming as anachronistic as riding a horse into town.

Edit: it's so wonderful how people are downvoting me apparently because they disagree. Before you downvote, click the reply button to explain why you think I'm wrong, and then don't downvote. Seriously, you can't take a little bit of differing opinion? I didn't insult anyone or say anything unproductive here, I just went slightly against the hivemind. And yes, I realize that complaining about downvotes is against the rules, and I don't care.
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Kepler has been revolutionary in discovering these 700 odd planetary systems, but we can't even begin to imagine what surprises await for when we point the James Webb Space Telescope at them.

One of JWSTs mission objectives is to study the planetary systems discovered by Kepler, and the origins of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Miss...
It's almost always at the end. I wish it were closer to the beginning to save everybody time and hassle.

For regular 'ol companies it's more about seeing what you want, most places will actually try and hit your desired salary so long as they can make some money on you.

For SV-style companies it's different. It feels different. When you get to that point, it's almost like the tone of the conversation becomes "now that you're really impressed with us, and we've decided that we'll let you into our exclusive club, how low can you go? We'll reward lower salaries with more options that'll probably not be worth anything by the time we hit a point where you can exercise them. It'd be even better if you could pay us for the honor of working here."
Same reason golang apps need to run on windows. Golang needs good library support for MSSQL.
After making murder illegal, people are still murdered. Therefore, laws against murder are ineffective.
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Cool idea. I noticed it pulled in my star'ed repos as bookmarks will it continue to add new starred repos as octomarks or does that import only happen once?

I'm a little confused as to what I would use the octomarks bookmarklet for compared to just using the github star feature.
Looking around there doesn't seem to be any news on a breach at name.com, official or un-official (aside from this of course).

It does have me worried however.
Well, it depends. If you only ever hang out on Valencia (or west thereof), the Mission is vibrant, active, and more or less safe. Just grungy enough to be interesting, and the worst you can expect is a bar fight.

The Mission is very different to visit vs. to live in. It reminds me slightly of Belltown in Seattle - nice to visit, kind of shitty to live in. If you're just there on Thursday nights a lot of the awfulness of the neighborhood fails to bother you.

Catching a giant whiff of shit and piss coming out of the BART station you can shrug off when it's once in a while, especially when you're on the way to a good night out. When it's every single day, to and from work, all hours of the day, it becomes tiresome. When you pass by a homeless dude passed out (maybe dead? who knows) on the sidewalk you can shrug it off, but when you see him slumped over every day on your way to work it starts digging at you. When you hear about some poor Mexican kid who got shot as part of a gang initiation, you can think "how terrible" and get on with your day... when you see the street-side memorials, and then you see another a week later, and then another, it becomes different.

The Mission is a different beast when you live there vs. just visit. If you decide to cocoon yourself strictly in the heavily gentrified western border of the Mission (because let's be honest, the Valencia corridor is a tiny sliver of the Mission), you will never have to deal with any of it. For many people though, the Mission includes everything east of Mission St also ;)

Not to mention, once you leave the bar and restaurant stretch along Valencia/Guerrero the whole thing becomes really shitty, really fast. Have you ever walked down Capp St at night? It's two blocks away from party central at 16th and Valencia. You really, really don't want to.

The Mission isn't Afghanistan, but it's objectively a troubled neighborhood that is among San Francisco's most violent (which is a small feat in itself, considering that SF as a whole has elevated violent crime rates compared to other major American cities). The Tenderloin tends to get a bad rap as SF's "worst" neighborhood - but its violence rate is actually not the highest in the city. Even more concerning is that the Mission's violent crime rate is largely driven by gang activity, which sets it apart from other neighborhoods of the city also.
You have an obligation not to waste people's time, especially if you are putting up the facade that they might actually be in the running. The modern interview process can take weeks or even months to get through. If you're just going to hire your friends, can you give the other candidates those weeks or months of their lives back?
They claim to be a "non-profit" organization organizing community events.
I think it was not very intelligent on their part to (according to their post) try to finance themselves by effectively trademark-trolling community events.
Yes. It's a textbook case of regulatory capture and corruption. In New York City, of all places, I know - unthinkable! See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking

And the entrenched interests always use the excuse that they're "protecting" someone or another from something legitimately unwanted (contaminated food, unwanted idling truck engines) in order to defend the status quo wholesale, rather than, say, trying to improve the status quo in a manner which also avoids those potential issues...
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It's a personal preference thing, personally, I felt that News:YC was kinda bloated when all I really wanted it for was reading.
My app was built to be nice and simple, with a core feature set, News:YC does have benefits for some people, like the ability to post, not everyone wants to though.
How many? I don't know, but I do know that Grandma wants to send the photos from last night's birthday party to Aunt Tillie back in the old country. And neither is on bittorrent.

I think the mistake you are making is that you think "most people" = you, whereas in reality "most people" = Grandma.

If you are the guy responsible for building some internet service for Grandma to use, you will always go centralized, because that's where the bandwidth is.

p2p only wins in some weird edge cases - in file sharing it's in part not to enable copyright holders to shut the system down through legal action against single points of failure.
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Yeah, that makes sense. It would have been a better troll/joke if he had said xemacs. I was honestly suggesting a better comparison, not suggesting it was a bad idea. ;-)
It seems that Tom pushed it out! :)

gem 'jekyll', '=1.0.0'

https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages
Were you so happy to bash someone that you missed the "default back to the desktop" part? From the average end user point a view, bring back the "default desktop" and the start button and yes, you're effectively back to Win7. I accept your apologies.
Really enjoyed your explanation. Simple and clear.
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Wouldn't it be great, though, if the laws and regulations were able to accomodate you (and other food trucks) while continuing to afford their basic food-safety and related goals? Then everybody wins.

(Except corrupt businesses which thrive on the current system and will lobby against productive change.)
No, I'm accusing the whole damn company of being the rogue innovator. Personally I find Office impossible because the UI keeps "revving" so I can never find the features I want and which I was using happily 10 years ago.

On another note, I thought you might find this amusing:

http://vigor.sourceforge.net/
Thanks I posted here with my skills

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5668454
audited access and look-ups

Driver's license photos have audited lookups, but all that tells us is that the system is routinely abused and no one is stopping it. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/cop-database-abuse/

Putting every car into the database will generate the maximum number of conflicts of interest possible. If a database only has interesting or suspicious plates in it, an average cop might not browse the database for funsies (risking a hit on the next audit). But if everyone the cop knows is in there, they might check up on spouses, exes, cute girls' habits, old bosses, friend's bosses... the list of reasons to risk a peek is endless.
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So if I say 'merry christmas' does it think I'm feeling merry? That would be an unfair assumption.
Pub/Sub across multiple server
I am creating an application with N servers. When a user posts something on a server that has to be propagated to all others and subscribers get the message. On all servers can publish and be subscribed to channels.

The number of system messages can be high.

The messages need not be stored in any queue and no matter that you can lose a message.

What messaging system should I use?

Thanks.
Every web site I sign up to these days, I'm 100% certain that from that point forward I will now be spammed by them on a regular basis. It's a simple fact of the modern web now and I despise it. But when those emails look like this one, I hate them even more. Why? Because a normal form spam mail is easy to recognize. I can hit the spam button in under a second. But when they use my first name, sound all happy and cheery, and talk like they're my best friend, I have to actually read the first sentence to see that it's spam. It not only takes me longer, but it makes them seem even worse. To me an email like that doesn't tell me they are more interested to 'engage', but instead that they want to trick people to read them. You know what I want? For them to never send me any email unless I specifically request it.
Also, the fact that Ned Stark has bastard children is an allegory for "Don't have multiple inferior browsers installed on the same machine." Come on, this whole thing was a real stretch.
It does seem terribly hypocritical to complain about the police capturing images from a public street, while simultaneously defending people's right to record the police in public.

Cops are only recordable on the job, because they are public servants doing a public job.
Notably there was no Iron Ring for the people running the companies building the bridges and rigging contracts.

It's a huge scandal now that went "all the way to the top". http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/former-montreal...
As far as I can tell from the article, EFF is asking for transparency into how ALPR records are used in the LA law enforcement. The only policy response even mentioned - and it's not even explicitly called for - is for the legislature to set retention limits. Both of those strike me as eminently reasonable requests, and neither of which claims a general "freedom not to have your license plate OCR'd."
I fail to understand how it's hypocritical to advocate recording of the people sanctioned by the state to use lethal force while decrying a system that is by all measures ripe for abuse.
@1: In a normal restaurant, not every employer handles food all the time. I don’t see why a (helpful) license shouldn’t be required – whether the actual licenses are a positive contribution to public health is another issue.

@2: If it is not legal to park somewhere, then don’t park there rather than complaining about unpredictability in law enforcement. Ideally, everyone parking ideally would be fined every time. Would your friend prefer that?

@3: Nothing wrong with enforcement of health regulations. Ideally, these would take place all the time at the best humanly possible quality. Since health inspectors are just humans, too, they might appear somewhat arbitrary. Again, ideally, everyone violating one of these regulations at any time would be shut down permanently.

@4,5: Okay, these are obviously problems. The simplest solution appears to be not to require a license to operate such a business and regularly auction off suitable (public) places to the highest bidders (once a month, maybe?).
I can't tell if this is a serious question or you are channeling a pro wrestler.
You could try talking with American companies who offer H1B sponsorship, as they like hiring Indian developers for less than American developers. For an Indian, this is a great deal since they get their citizenship sponsored, and the company gets skilled workers for lower pay than they'd have to offer a citizen. Based on my experience with Amazon, AT&T and other tech companies, there's a huge market for Indians in software in the US, I'd imagine it's easier for an Indian to get a job in the field than even an American.
> I hope you know what Desktop Linux is.

Until yesterday, if asked, I would have said 'A linux for end users'.

And if asked for an example I would have pointed at my laptops running Slack/Enlightenment and said 'like that'.

Maybe it's where I'm at: the only people I know who run Linux are guys who aren't above compiling from source when needed.
Here's the problem: it works.

Email is still the most effective way of reaching people on the Internet.
Hey everyone. Thanks for reading the tutorial. I'm part of the PR Hacker team and would love to answer any questions you may have or feedback on our tutorial. Let me know.
I think there is an elephant in the room here. (Sorry if this stings anyone)

The collective We have been led to believe that we must make something original to be great. Don't make another social network, too tough. Don't do what Instagram did, it's too (pick your reason) risky / saturated / lucky / etc.

The thing is, entrepreneurs have no reason not to shoot for the moon, recreate everything. Why do we resist? The big name funds probably won't invest for fear of cannibalizing their current holdings. Think about that next time you hear a VC or read their commentary (or any commentary for that matter).
This is my concern too. There's no mention of starred repos anywhere (that I could see) but lo and behold they're added to my bookmarks.

This is great, and I'd much prefer to simply star projects and have them appear than use a bookmarklet if possible.
Exactly. We do this with matchist (http://matchist.com/talent). We're not trying to be sleazy, as the GP suggests. Instead, we're trying to be as personable as possible while at the same time, growing the business in a healthy way and providing more value for all our customers.
I tried all rest frameworks I could find for both Django and Flask - for me DRF is the cleanest.

The standard html interface for it (and content type handling) are definitely the best of all of them. You can get a very complete api up and running with not much effort.

The documentation is really nice and clear and if you get stuck just take a look at the code - it's very easy to follow. You should look at it anyway, it's nice code to read through.

My only complaint is that it's not built for Flask :)
I believe this is exactly how it should be done. I don't think it very likely that someone could cheat on the project and then still be able to speak intelligently about the solution.
Was the previous post killed?
I'll be impressed when they post some phone numbers.
Amazing, it's great how something so new (online advertising on a search engine) can be already so old. I mean, looks like you had to mail that thing with a $1000 check.

Crazy!
Well, I suppose that's the beauty of capitalism: If everyone else feels the same way about the trucks in your area they'll soon go out of business.
The whole premise of interviewing and opening to the pool of candidates is to evaluate and give every applicant a fair chance after passing a minimum bar. If the whole point was to favor or employ someone (pre-decided or friend), then why this facade?
I actually was in a full screen VM. Also, I actually wanted to do a restart and not a shut down.
Yes, pervasive monitoring might be absolutely inevitable, technology is hard to suppress, and I may not be able to keep you from OCRing my license plate.

However, the people do still have the ability to keep the government from doing this, or from accessing and utilizing the pervasive monitoring done by others. The government does not automatically get the right to do everything a private citizen can.
Hahah. Awesome. Meant to create discussion.
Sort of relevant: In Canada the word "Engineer" is protected. While I am a Computer Scientist, I can not call myself a Software Engineer (or any form of Engineer), unlike in the US. In Canada you must have graduated from an Engineering College of a University to use the title.
There is a very quick reference to the person who inspired him, Jeff Hawkins, whose book is worth a read:

http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507...

Edit: update link
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I don't live in NYC, but I'd figure a spot for a food truck would carry a heavy $10K+ license from the city. Given that I've seen spots sell for $100K+ just to park your car in.
Non-Engineers notice my iron ring surprisingly often (ie. "oh my old roommate was an engineer"). It's a great conversation starter.
Hypothetically speaking, let's say we allowed every STEM-studying individual to enter the U.S. from abroad. According to the article, this would result in added competition to the existing STEM workforce whereby depressing wages and reducing job opportunities for U.S.-born PhD's.

Explain to me how increased competition, (of any kind) has ever been a bad thing. Generally it leads to lower prices, lower barrier to entry for new entrants, and higher quality. I'm not exactly opposed to having higher quality scientific discoveries here in the U.S. with the information gleaned from such efforts more readily available to the rest of us. How exactly is that a bad thing?

Furthermore, if we can somehow drain our biggest competitors' of their best and brightest, isn't that a good thing? In doing so, wouldn't that create an incentive for their governments to enact legislation to reduce the flow of STEM workers out of their respective countries, whereby creating a global economy committed to medical and technological advancement for mankind?

I'm sure this is an over-simplified and maybe slightly pedestrian way of looking at things, but it just seems like common sense.
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These emails work staggeringly well.

Most responses are "I'm OK thanks", but people think they're genuine enough to respond to.

Even when automated, I've still seen many tech founders, nevermind lay users, responding to these as if they've been personally touched.
This is good advice. We've been sending emails like this for a long time. The method is fairly low tech. Pull list of new customers > file.txt and then newcustomer.sh < file.txt

Most importantly though a few points. Even if you aren't doing a personal email (because it might not scale), even if it's not suppose to be personal make sure to have it come from a real person where if someone has an issue they feel that if they write back a real person will read what they say. Of course if you have 29 million customers this might not apply (say free product) but then again you probably won't be reading HN right now anyway.

Separately, nothing is a bigger turn off (to me) that getting a letter from a company appearing to care but not being signed by anyone other than "support team" or being signed by a person who has a non person sounding email address.
I thought anyone in public could legally be recorded.
I took a quick video of it on my machine: OSX 10.8.3, Chrome Canary Version 28.0.1499.0 canary. It doesn't happen on any other browser on my machine (Vanilla Chrome, Firefox, FirefoxNightly)

http://screencast.com/t/2DOssUNcJrGt
Because recording police is justified by "we're both in public, and I should be able to record public things", which justification applies equally well to police using cameras in public.
But in practice though I've found that pretty much all programming jobs are listed as "Software Engineer" and you'll get that on your card.
I've used Win7 for years and I always use "WinKey+RightArrow+RightArrow" and then I either press 'r', 's' or sleep or restart or whatever I want (it's super quick onece you're used to it).
I don't want my lid to do anything. I have SSH session open and don't want them to kill (and don't start about screen...).
Also, my power button would've just shut down linux since the Win8 was in a VM.
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Truth is a certain amount of spam is like a vital sign. If you log in and you have no spam you have to wonder if there is a problem with your email server (if you run one) or your email provider.