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If your goal is changing U.S. immigration policy, there's really not much you can do at the state level.
Its not his site, he just wrote the tweets.
I rolled my own MVC implementations for the client and server. The backend is in php. The client MVC implementation uses Backbone events and the backbone router, but everything else is custom. jQuery of course, Twitter bootstrap, IconJar, some free icons I found on 365psd, glyphicons.
I agree, but you probably walk around with a microphone and GPS that is remotely accessible at all times? which is not as bad but what I mean is that people might get accustomed to it (unfortunately)
I've always liked the option of providing a virtual machine image. Then you get a predictable deployment environment, and the client can run it where they like.
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No, its happened!!!! I voted it up because I want ever one to suffer!!!!!

Very cool though.
can you elaborate? Her books?
We can take our industry back, but it won't happen in VC-istan.

It all depends on what you want, and unless you read this website with a grain of salt you are just playing into it.

HN is about the big score. Sure, sometimes there are insightful articles on building a business but really this place is all about big ideas, big funding, big acquisitions, and the corresponding big cashout. The long-tail business that makes money and provides a service for it's customers is really what is valuable, and you can still be a millionaire.

I think a lot of the young developers think too much of the results - money, women, cars, houses, toys - and not what it takes to get there.
If I get paid in Bitcoins and only spend bitcoins, can I still report that I earned zero Monopoly Money-US dollars this year?

Does that mean when this takes off I can earn, exchange and sell units of future human labor without the friction of governments taking 25% to 35% of it?

We can assume the government will spare no expense in destroying bitcoin by fiat by making laws against it, and if that doesn't work, using economic hit-men, supporting jackals, or the old trusty domestic military action with soldiers from Georgia and Virginia to break down the door of anyone caught using it under the table.

The question is, how is this war going to unfold? Will the US dollar be allowed to be exposed as the always-inflating Monopoly Money it is, and slowly fade out over the next 20 years? So many possibilities.

If bitcoin can survive laws that make it illegal, taxes on it that make it less useful than USD, assassinations of key figures, the destruction of companies promoting it, and domestic military action, then bitcoin might have a shot at becoming the next world currency.

Otherwise, a combination of these things will erase it to a footnote in the history books. But you can be darn certain that the government is going to levy their tax on the income of bitcoins. In the interests of the sovreign, to promote "fairness".
One reason memory management is poor in webapps is due to the lack of weak pointers. WeakMap goes part way, but it's backwards: it has weak keys, not weak values.

In larger webapps, you often end up wanting an identity map for your model instances, so you don't instantiate multiple instances of the same record. At the same time, you don't want your identity map holding strong pointers to all those instances, preventing them from being GC'd if nothing else is using them.

Over time your identity map just fills up with unused stuff and your app is killed.

Finally, if there are low-memory warning APIs in the browser, I'm not yet aware of them.
If you close you eyes, can you still see them????
And you probably want to make sure it has enterprise features, like LDAP/AD integration, etc. (didn't check the features to see if this is there already).
EME is worse than the current situation, because it removes Adobe and Microsoft standing between MPAA's desires and your computer.

At least Microsoft and Adobe would refuse to implement DRM that is too user-hostile in order to save their eroding reputation and install base.

But with EME you have to run whatever binary Netflix tells you to install, and that will do whatever people who pull the strings on Netflix want.
So, what's still missing in postgres?

To make the responses as constructive as possible, please also specify:

* Whether you currently use postgres, and what other systems you use (presumably ones that do have the feature that is missing in postgres)

* Whether you currently need the feature, or whether you anticipate the need in the future, or whether you expect that other people will need it

* Whether the missing feature is preventing you from using postgres, or just a significant pain point (which could include ease-of-use issues)
There needs to be an RFC for Postcard Key Encryption - send each other public keys on hand-written postcards to single-use P.O. boxes to avoid mitm of the initial key exchange. I don't understand why anyone trusts CAs any more.
> LISP, the write-only language.

Utterly wrong, which discredits a lot of the other things you said. In particular, it discredits any claim you have to objectivity.

Hey, I have opinions, too. I don't claim they're objective fact, which you do.

> I'm not talking about a dumbed-down, feature-poor UI.

Yes, you are.
Data cap's are indirectly related to transmission speeds so you may always be able to burn though the data cap in under 10 seconds, but competition will still slowly raise the cap as technology improves.

IMO, the current 2+GB caps are not that bad, raise that to 20GB and you can watch a fair amount of hulu for example (~50+hours) without a problem.
GNOME needs a gadfly like him. Or rather, needed.

If GNOME's developers have truly become indifferent or outright hostile to the needs of actual users, then the project is doomed to irrelevance.
When I first decided to start building this product, I had just started my freelance career. I seriously considered ActiveCollab which is in the price range you're talking about, but I just didn't have the resources to buy it. I want this to be accessible to as many people as possible, even those people just staring their business. But I agree, I will definitely lose out on some customers because they think it's too small. Perhaps as the product evolves and includes more features, I will consider raising the price.
GE Capital was founded in 1932. Jack Welch left GE in 2001 (GE's market cap was $500 billion), 7-8 years prior to the financial crisis. If you're going to blame someone for GE's problems blame Jeff Immelt, don't blame Jack Welch.
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It seems like the bigger problem they will have in their business is that they are going to be continuously busy "doing work" instead of "building the business". Such is the way of consulting. If you can't take on more work by hiring more people, then you can't scale. If you can't scale beyond the team you have, you haven't created a business, you've created a job.

There's nothing wrong with creating a job for yourself, but know that it's not the same as a business even if you call yourself a business.
I can easily imagine what some of the dependency management issues could be, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the following two options:

In the Java world there is a concept of a .war file which packages everything up so it's easy to deploy on app servers that handle it like: Tomcat or Jetty.

Also what's wrong with giving out a prebuilt virtual image for a single server install? Github enterprise does this.
I agree—PonyDebugger is great. I think it's less trivial to use, though. My goal with the Spark Inspector (and it's setup assistant, which makes all of the project changes for you) is to bring down the difficulty and provide an experience on par with Apple's built-in developer tools. I'd love to integrate FScript into the app so you can issue SuperDB-style commands. I think I'm gonna try to auto-convert into their NextStep syntax so people don't have to worry about it, though - we'll see how it goes :-)
The faces could be the result of some aggressive shadow recovery.

I find that being overaggressive with shadow recovery can result in fakey, HDR-like images where the lighting on the subjects' faces can seem... off.
As someone who has sold self hosted software for almost 10 years, there is a whole different level of "hand holding" expected when a customer spends $395 versus $49. We are in the process of re-doing all our pricing with our new release specifically to make the price lower.
It wont be the same law you will end up with 49 slightly different laws with favored son amendments inserted to please Senator Kinsey.
Not yet. It's a highly requested feature though, so it will probably be among the first that I add. Along with the ability to download pdf invoices.
As someone who's built software that others can install I can confirm that it's a lot of work. It doesn't mean you shouldn't do it though.

The most important thing is to separate the "self installed" users from the ones using the hosted version (which you might try to monetize at some point).

Point self hosted users to a "community" that can help them while users on your system can email you directly.

It's worked out pretty good for us. We have a much shorter response time for hosted users than self installed. We typically answer most questions on both but it helps separate what's most important (hosted users).
So this explains why LA disappeared since the counties there actually have some twitter active people living in it to help normalize it. When zoomed in, in the east there seems to be some halo effect at work were rural counties around bigger metros (Dallas, Atlanta, North Eastern Seaboard), with a lesser volume of tweets (low sample size) appear more active.

When zoomed out the 100th meridian population divide is as obvious as it could be. So At the global level normalization is pretty much not in effect. This might likely be caused by the not uniform distribution and size of counties in the US.

A better approach might be binning in equal area regions, with a threshold for low sample sizes.
I'm wondering if there are easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on setting it up on my own PC. Can Joe Sixpack set this up without too much grief?

I'd like to use this for my own projects, but I'm way out of practice doing this stuff.
Scala.Rx: is an experimental change propagation library for Scala
Not sure what PostgreSQL is doing, but this is a useful resource: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html
> "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin

Thoroughly debunked. The fact you keep citing to it shows the depth of your ignorance.

Now do your own research instead of citing to debunked nonsense.
Nobody trusts CAs. There is a lot of work being done on layering more trustworthy authentication features on top of the TLS CA system, one good one being TACK:

http://tack.io/draft.html

The problem with simply abandoning CAs is that it creates a situation in which it's even easier for government sponsored agencies to mass-intercept traffic, at least for a window of time (probably several years), and all that window buys us is the ability for sites that don't really care about security to save $10-$100 dollars on cert costs.
Know of Workflow software (as a modern web service)?
Hi everyone, question. I'm looking for a workflow system to help manage a team. Our work is very process driven: when person X finishes with this, give it to person Y. Person Y then confirms this, then sends it to person Z. When person Z finishes it, then... and so forth. All the systems I can find to do this feel like they're 30 years, does anyone know of a Ycombinator-style company or site that helps solve this? Note: I would pay non-trivial money to subscribe to a service that did this. Thanks! morgan
Who is the driver in your team?
Also check out sweet.js (http://sweetjs.org/) if this sort of thing is your cup of tea.
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Sigh. I clearly went to the wrong business school, and I bet being married and having a kid didn't help me either on this score. :(

(I was there in that capstone project where you had a bug in the excel spreadsheet and we just pasted value over it!)
I can understand the appeal of selling on codecanyon for the existing marketplace you get access to there, but I would consider an independent checkout for the website. Your design and branding are well done and signal high quality, while codecanyon has more of a script/component flea market feel. I think taking someone out of the flow of your site to buy there is a bit jarring and might cause people to reconsider, especially enterprise-y customers.

I also have the sense that you could probably raise your price significantly. Considering what businesses pay for a service like basecamp, they aren't going to blink if you charge them, say, $250 instead of $45 if the software is good. For a business of any size, $250 and $45 are essentially the same as a one-time cost--negligible.
I wonder if this says anything about the ruling we can expect from the court on the Myriad Genetics case. The New York Times summary implied that the farmer in question had some knowledge that he was using seeds in a way that might infringe, if you buy the argument that organisms can be patented. I don't love that argument, but the possibility of knowing infringement complects the case somewhat.

However, I'm somewhat comforted by the expressed limitation in the ruling, that it pertains to this case only.

In the end, I can't say I'm informed enough to defend my opinion on this case, but I have to say that I'm disappointed.
If it was a known "event" at the time (i.e., all the photojournalists knew the procession was coming and planted themselves in an "ideal" location), and you imagine a TMZ-like throng of photographers with their flashes firing from all angles, the inconsistency of the lighting might make sense.

Note: I don't have an opinion of whether the image is fake or real, but I am not sure the OP's analysis considers all possible lighting situations.
Cute! What are you using for the graphs (and the mini graphs)?
Exactly what I was going to say.

You can say this about literally anyone. Bill Gates? Psshh lottery winner. Who does he think he is going around and doing charity work. Anyone can do that if they won the lottery, he's not special.

See how easy it is to trivialize the accomplishments of other people?

Why do you think we are even having a conversation about Zuck? That's the same reason why he has the influence to have an impact on policy. Anything he says and does will be in the media, and he can use that power to make a difference in policy that he thinks will help the world. You might disagree, but he's in the position to do that, and its unfair to trivialize his accomplishments because of that.

The important thing is, he's TRYING to do something, whereas others won't even try because they're too scared to fail. Sure, his lobby could end up being an utter failure. But don't you think its awesome that he at least tried?
An emotional Bill Gates pays homage to Steve Jobs while recounting final meeting
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ActiveRecord doesn't even support constraints in the first place.
I tried to distinguish between the two definitions of ‘popular’, you’re conflating them.

Most people have a mobile device that came with Android preinstalled. In that sense Android is popular. It also has the most malware infections on mobile devices, but would you say Android’s malware is most popular?

iPhones are the most popular cameras used by Flickr members[1], but it’s hard to tell whether that also means these people prefer iOS over Android.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/cameras
Website infected with malicious iframe leading to Neutrino exploit
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Actually Nitro is not that bad. When you compare that to chrome on mobile, Nitro is same or better than chrome.

Try this out http://premii.com/hn - Hacker news webapp. I couldn't get same performance on chrome. Even Android browser performs better when it comes to animation.
Not come after you but maybe make you stop using it.
Wow, I never knew that, small world. I have very fond memories of Coherent. I split the license cost (a whopping $99 bucks) with a buddy, both of us making near-minimum wage as bench techs for a used computer shop in Atlanta (which, much to my shock is still in business today). A few months later I scraped together enough money to pick up a used Sun 3/60 running Sun OS (and shortly after that, moved to an early version of Slackware), but Coherent will always be my first Unix.
The government does not levy taxes on US dollar, but on the income, be it in dollars, monopoly money, bitcoins, mussels or pigs. It's just in some cases the low scale of the phenomenon makes collecting the tax more expensive than the collected sum. However, if the alternate currency should rise above a certain level you can be sure, it will be taxed.

And the government really does not levy the tax because "they are evil them", but because the governed society has certain needs that can only be fulfilled by common effort and it would be good to minimize freeridership. Of course one can discuss whether certain governmental activities are needed or not, but to abandon all government wouldn't do any good.
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> but what do oil pipelines have to do with Facebook

Nothing.

> how are Facebook's interests served by campaigning for an oil pipeline?

They aren't.

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Facebook is only tangentially related to FWD.us. Its the political project of Mark Zuckerberg.
According to this, Vim isn't modal:

> The definition of modes given by Jef Raskin in the Humane Interface (Page 42):

>>"An human-machine interface is modal with respect to a given gesture when (1) the current state of the interface is not the user's locus of attention and (2) the interface will execute one among several different responses to the gesture, depending on the system's current state."

> According to this definition an interface is not modal if the user is aware of the current mode at all times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696227

But the real problem here is that the people citing to Raskin are trying to treat their opinions, which are no better (or worse) than mine, as objective fact, and claiming others are stupid for not instantly falling in line.
An emotional Bill Gates talks about his last visit with Steve Jobs
But I thought Samsung didn't innovate?
My suggestion is that instead of reaching for the downvote, that you click the link and read what "Girl Writes What" has to say.

Though admittedly a little long-winded, she raises some very interesting points.
competition will still slowly raise the cap as technology improves.

Has not been my experience at all here in Sweden. Data caps have been lowered across the board over the past year as data speeds and availability has improved.
This may work if you have tons of money to buy good favor. I don't want to sound overly cynical, but my state rep ate up that IBM money happily and voted for cispa. Several letters to her from several in my local community and not even one of them received a form letter in response.
In the examples you list, the people who actually interact with the software aren't likely to be the ones who are making the purchasing decisions, though. My guess is that this is one of the main reasons why "enterprise" software UI is so bad.

So, there may not be a good argument for software developers to produce good design for these customers (awful design has gotten them this far, after all!) but it doesn't mean that design quality isn't still super-important in some other areas, too — namely those where the purchaser is actually the user.
maybe it's just me but there seems to be a bug when viewing this on the ipad. I clicked on an image and could not figure out how to close the full screen preview. Just something you should look into.
When it comes to things like immigration or international pipelines, you can easily tell the difference because only one those laws will actually have force.
Another intepretation of zapov's comment is that it's a shame the NoSQL projects didn't try achieving their goals by building postgres extensions (or even adding new features).

A reasonable question. MongoDB could have focused their energies on really good JSON support in postgres and making postgres sharding easier.
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I recommend http://hackdesign.org/

They have collections of resources and articles curated by web designers and front-end developers focusing on user interfaces and design theories.

These aren't tutorials, but materials for you to read, learn, and apply to your designs and interfaces.
Use your iPhone as a car key.
Keep in mind that the entire Bitcoin network could be replaced with one trusted party with the computing power of an average smart phone. The network is currently paid 150 Bitcoins every hour to be that party, and in an efficient market, almost all of that would be spent on mining, i.e. wasted.

The security of Bitcoin against double-spending is literally based on wasting so much money that it is unattractive for an attacker to spend a matching amount of money on a double-spend attack. The network must spend this money all the time, though - it can't know in advance when it is being attacked.

An attacker with enough resources can also force the network to either match their spending, or be rendered useless.

Bitcoin is an inherently wasteful system, and it actively resists scaling. There are alternatives, the most proven of which is a centralized ledger run by a trusted third party.

Even if there were no viable alternatives at all, I would still have doubts about the sustainability of the current system. The cost of running the network is just too large compared to the amount of real economic activity.
Simple is hard. If someone can't tell the difference between a beautifully rendered minimalistic design and something generic that just happens to lack eye-candy effects, that doesn't lead to the conclusion that flat is easier to accomplish; it just means that person can't tell the difference between good design and bad design. A trained eye will pay attention to proportion, balance, color relationship, (a)symmetry, etc.

From Bauhaus to Braun, Frank Lloyd Wright to I.M. Pei, architects, artists, graphic designers and engineers have been studying and applying these concepts. Lost on many, but still perfectly valid.
There's a category I have for this sort of thing, which I don't have a good word for. The stories from the Daily WTF also generally get slotted in here. It's "crazy stuff really does sometimes happen in the real world, but you'll never be able to verify this specific story either way".

Did this specific story happen? I'll never know. But there's equally crazy stories that have happened. Not necessarily a lot, but non-zero. Much moreso for the Daily WTF; every story is obviously not pristine, unvarnished truth, but I've seen dozens of people pile on to how impossible a particular story is when I've witnessed the moral equivalent in my own experience, so....

(Fortunately the truth value of this story doesn't matter.)
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The noisy extremist factions within Libertarianism are heavily-represented here. I've never seen HN have a productive discussion on the role of government.
Both those companies spend an extraordinary amount of time in the field developing leads and business relationships. I would be stunned if even a single hour of consulting work is billed without hundreds of up-front hours necessary to land the deal.
Agreed. Although in my experience it can go badly wrong... http://opensignal.com/blog/2013/04/26/an-apology-to-our-kore...
This is really impressive. The whole contents of that module are fantastic. Ever since I've started to play around with Scala, I've missed case classes and pattern matching in Python. The ability to write AST macros is even cooler.