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Arrogant Customer Service
Was intrigued by a new alternative to Airbrake: Honeybadger. However, their starting $19 pricing plan isn't attractive for start-ups especially when Airbrake lowest is offered at $8.

I reached out to Honeybadger's live chat:

me: Options for start ups?

Ben: what kind of option would you like? :)

me: You see, Airbrake has excellent pricing plans for many levels. Your plan, Micro, is the only option for start-ups. Do you have anything more cheaper?

Ben: here's the thing: we provide excellent service (like being available for chat like this) and an excellent product, and we think it's worth at least $19 a month. the UI definitely saves you time over airbrake, and charging what we do allows us to be as responsive as we are but we know it's not for everybody, and that's ok. If you don't feel it's worth the cost of 4-5 coffees at starbucks, airbrake is definitely an option :)

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One word: arrogant. Never assume their potential customers are hooked on Starbucks and implying that we are careless spenders otherwise we would be able to afford their costly plan.
> In March 2013 [2]

Development of Mir started 9 months earlier. So they basically lied into the face of the whole Free Software community and the Wayland developers who counted on their support by not communicating their change of heart.
"37 of the 511 companies that have gone through the Y Combinator program over the past 5 years"

These 511 include companies that are a few months old as well as companies that are 5 years old.

No business is gonna be worth 40 million dollars right away. I'd say you have to give a company at least 5 years until you judge its success or failure on whether or not they're worth 40 million dollars.

So then, I'd say a more telling statistic would be: of the YCombinator companies who have been around 5+ years, how many of them are worth 40 million? And 40 million is high for a barometer of success. I'd probably make it 5 or 10 million. (who wouldn't be happy with a 5-10 million dollar company). And if you want to judge younger companies, you could come up with another stat, but you have to have lower expectations for younger companies.

Sorry to say, but this big shot needs to go back to Yale and take a course on statistics.
Take a breath.

We've transitioned from horse fodder, whale oil, peat, wood and other fuels as better, cleaner alternatives appeared.

This is no different. We're all benefiting from cleaner and more efficient combustion engines. The cadence of innovation will continue that trend.
Strange behavior of nginx - while configuring multiple domains
http://www.inutile.ens.fr/estatis/password-security-checker

The Terms and Conditions are worthwhile, too.

EDIT: Also, see http://www.ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com/ (needs Javascript)
Do We Actually Learn Anything From TED Talks?
Ask HN: What is the best ergonomic keyboard/mouse combo?
Mostly this question is about the keyboard, as I already have some opinions about ergonomic pointing devices. After years of using cheap keyboards, I'm ready to invest in something that will be nicer on my hands. I see that there are plenty of ergonomic keyboards on the market with a variety of designs and ranging anywhere from thirty to hundreds of US dollars. Some of the models from Kinesis look really nice, but I'm interested in opinions about others as well.

As for pointing devices, I've used this trackball in the past, and really liked it: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043T7FXE
More recently I've tried this one and found that I didn't like the lack of a scroll wheel: www.amazon.com/Logitech-910-000806-Trackman-Marble-Mouse/dp/B001F42MKG

Even with such opinions, it would still be helpful to know what other options people have tried.
Cheaper recipe for treating hungry children
In Defense Of The Amateur Sleuth: How Reddit Could Be A Powerful Tool For Police
Visualization: Miguel Cabrera's fantastic plate coverage
3-week Startup Incubator in Switzerland
If you can inject JS then you can steal session cookies. Other stuff too, but XSS is a big deal.
thats awesome ! how did you calculate teh colors for the text so that they remain visible?
A very, very cynical way of looking at it, but I too would be darkly amused at validation of the "America, Fuck Yeah!" school of weapon policy.

Shame that the common people aren't interested in nuclear power anymore due to stupid badvertising.
Well good for you then.
"No, normal engines cannot run using CNG, without experiencing extensive wear and tear."

Well, that's a new once, since everything I've ever heard is the exact opposite.

I know propane conversions run forever.
When he turns 18 and create a legit account, can he claim the bounty?
you should show the kind of app that will be possible after reading the whole book.

as it is 'your first ios app' i'd expect the final (i.e. most complicated topics discussed) to be somewhat basic... but maybe they aren't. maybe a list of things covered (like tables, core data etc)

it kind of looks like you do a timer from https://github.com/AshFurrow/Your-First-iOS-App
I understand the reasoning why they aren't always recovered, it just never occurred to me that there were bodies that are routinely passed but left up there until now. I'm more horrified by the situation than anything else.

That's not to say that the behavior is entirely acceptable. The story of the man whose body froze but was still alive and people just trudged past him assuming he was dead until someone finally heard him moaning softly is particularly horrific.

I understand that horrible situations can call for relaxed moral constraints just to survive. Living/fleeing an area seeing active military conflict, severe drought/famine, and any number of other extremely taxing situations can call for harsh decisions in order to survive.

I think this is different.

What we have here is (I admit, I assume) a bunch of privileged people purposefully submitting themselves to extreme hardship for a sense of accomplishment and meaning. In a way, emulating what they were lucky enough to have avoided by nature of where and who they were born as.

I didn't really have strong opinions about mountain climbing at this level before this montage (beyond thinking it's a bit ridiculous), but now I'm somewhat disgusted by it.
Modern Day Alchemists Turn Cement Into Metal
Chinese hackers reportedly steal advanced U.S. weapons system designs
Thanks for your feedback! You can create sibling tasks using the Enter-key and subtasks with Tab.
Tablet: Depending on what tablet you have the web-version might work but we also plan to build native apps.
Here's what I started using recently (MIT): http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/
There's plenty of reasons to use haxe even if you never use cross-platform development: Type safety, macros, dead code elimination, etc.
There's also a few other small tweeks, at least over building ghc from source. But the tweeks don't matter unless you're doing relatively unusual stuff (like trying to ffi out avx simd enabled c codes :-) ). (Which will be easier do do with any ghc in a week or so once some tool hacking I'm doing is done)
Just because it is called a bank does not mean you'd would want to rely on it. If Paypal suddenly decided to pull up it's stakes and take all it's customers money, I would not imagine that Luxembourgois banking law would help a lot of customers.
Memcached vs redis
That takes two clicks.
Adding a new email address is now behind "Sudo Mode"...
I'd imagine before someone reports a vulnerability, they're likely to research the company's history in dealing with reports. You don't want to openly reduce the incentives you give to people to report exploits instead of selling them. So PayPal deals with this exploit without it affecting their users, but their users now prone to be exploited in the future.
Make it work with zepto instead of jquery, and move most of it into a CSS file, and you'll be golden :)
but in this case it's about the written language and less about verbal dialects.

Chinese and Cantonese are representable by the same written language.
Great job Ash. Congratulations. I got to see a little bit of the book development happen via GitHub and it was great to see how crowd-sourcing technical review/editor function could potentially work in the future.

Congratulations again.
One click (just hold it down until the menu appears, then let go over the option.)
Wow! This is truly awesome. Thanks a LOT for that. I know what I'm gonna do of my time these next weeks now.
Or a single drag.
There's some promising work that might lead to a nice i python analogue, but I don't anticipate anything being ready for prime time before the fall
I left a comment on his blog and he hired me
This is a separate issue. We just added the Private Token feature on the /settings/applications page. This is essentially a password, so we wanted to make sure that it required password confirmation. This will be behind sudo mode later today hopefully.
So basically all you're saying is: it's disneyland for techies, but after a while not that fun? Why do still the most successful entrepreneurs stay in the area then? Why did you move away btw?
I get to use Ruby, Coffeescript and Sublime Text 2 for work. I'm covered.
At least they tell you what's allowed. My favorite is when I put in a password that's rejected with an ambiguous message. Or, even better, when my bank accepted my password but it actually didn't handle whatever punctuation was in it correctly, so that changing my password succeeded but I couldn't log in at all (I was using KeePass, so it wasn't typos).
This earthquake proof table has the potential of protecting 300 million kids
Documentation. Dependencies. Project management. There will always be something you need the internet for.
I agree with you about this making you step out of the comfort zone. Also I think some people might prefer to work solving certain kind of problem or in certain area independently of the languages and tools involved.
How World Food Programme Fights Malnutrition
Not entirely. The article does make some inaccurate claims about the cracking of the Enigma.
It is more helpful in the same way as binary tree search is better than linked list traversal.
Singapore to regulate high traffic websites that report on Singapore
Tabs for indentation and not spaces =/
This happened to me, wearing a full-face (motorbike like) helmet.

http://imgur.com/a/UgGTI

I also got hit by a car a couple of months ago.

You couldn't pay me enough to ride a bike without a helmet.
This guy's totally right.

Switching to ethernet will increase your productivity right away – much better networking performance, especially if you're in a high-interference zone.
It got to a state where it is somewhat working, but it doesn’t handle a lot of cases. When I tried to use it for a simple real-world daemon, it didn’t work. AFAICT, nobody actually cares enough to continue development (though some people want to see it succeed).
Backbone.raphael: SVG/VML views in your Backbone app with Raphael
Use backbone.raphael to build great visual apps with mv* architecture in your client having SVG/VML as your views.
I don't know if it's so hard for most people to de-accent, if they want to. All you have to do is to be able to make all the sounds that are in regular English - for me I was missing -th (ð) sound - and make an effort to pronounce everything correctly. I've always had a knack for imitating people, and it's never been hard for me to imitate any accent or dialect (of my own language or English) as long I've had enough exposure to it. So if I want to adapt a new accent, it's more a question of imitating it until I do it organically - faking it till I make it.

Of course, what is it like to have no accent? All of these people are mentioning Friends, in which they have a "standard" American accent, which says something about American-centric view of the whole debate. I've heard that I don't have an accent (from someone who wasn't American), though I don't know if he meant that I had a vanilla American accent or that I simply didn't have any accent that could be pinpointed.
How do I delete a Git branch both locally and in GitHub
The Dream Matcher Experience in San Mateo
That was the exactly same joke I thought immediately upon reading it ;)
It's an old embedded one inside of an hn app.
Why the approach of creating more energy. The entire universe is made up of ions electrons are made up of ions. Einstein said a softball contains enough energy to supply the world with energy for eternity. No meter is the problem.

Today there is led electrical lighting fixtures warehoused to replace every light fixture existing. Adoption of commercial, industrial and residential light fixture replacement would save 80% of present consumption.

Inductive load consumption could be equally reduced by using superconductor wire. Focus on creating a combined hydrogen + superconductor transformer fuel cell. The real cog in the wheel is middleman metering.
I've used Freedom.app for quite some time. It blocks your internet connection for a certain amount of time (say 2 hours). The only way beyond terminal wizardry to get back online is to reboot.

http://macfreedom.com/
Ah, you are correct. It changes in the tail position, and I was only looking at the first bit. Sorry about that.

It seems impossible to ride a session in this case, as the GP suggests.
Thanks for the input, first thing on the agenda after mastering producing screen casts, is to find a good copywriter, and designer for the launch. If anyone is looking for some freelance work in these areas, feel free to get in touch anthony(at)makerops.com
Wait, so to be more productive, I should turn off my access to GitHub, StackOverflow and IRC, and stick to Dash for documentation?

This is great advice for many creative professionals but, for coders? Even if you aren't working on network-related software, how many coders can write a hundred non-trivial lines without the Internet? I can't, though I used to back 'in the day'.
Do either of these "intelligently" pick colors? Just playing around with them, it seems I can't make anything ugly.
Is Data Science Your Next Career?
How I Beat the World High Score in Dots (hint: I cheated)
Padding is not always supposed to be "balanced". It makes we we for some sections to be closer or further to other sections. In this case, he extra padding probably looks very slightly better. But I don't think it's the way it is from lack of love.
At This Rate, The Last New Bitcoin Will Be Issued 15-55 Years Ahead Of Schedule
Hi, what's the difference between Pure and Bootstrap? Should I even consider Pure if I'm using Bootstrap (or something similar) already?
I believe that GP is confused a little. In Europe (at least Cental and Eastern), the gas conversions of cars are mostly of the LPG variety. I haven't seen a gas pump without LPG for a long time. I'm unaware of any CNG conversions around here, however.
What a naive perspective. Who, seriously, these days develops in a vacuum, referring to printed reference matter? Software development these days is a series of google trips to the likes of stack overflow and others. If we lived in an 80's world still, where the environment was still in its foundational stage then this might be a productivity idea, but in this era development is hybridization of many foundational technologies. The stuff of development has moved up the abstraction ladder and that requires constantly refereeing to constantly changing materials (the Internet)

If some like to be productive without the web then fine, but let's not pretend this applies to others. If I wanted to write the next great American novel maybe I should get a wifi free cabin the woods, but for my day to day life, no thank you - I'll take wifi anyway, the faster the better.
No. The web is about links, if you don't want things to be linked too, don't make them accessible to the general public.
The choice between 'portability' and 'ifdefs' is a false dichotomy. There are far cleaner ways to achieve portability, and ifdefs are almost always a sign of 'doing it wrong'.

See, for example, Kernighan and Pike talking about portability in The Practice of Programming.
Looks interesting. I've been using DropTask (https://www.droptask.com) recently which is a slightly different take on visual task management. Still not sure whether I prefer it to more traditional apps, but kudos to both companies for trying something different.
CNG is methane, and propane is propane.
vk.com seems to get both things right (judging paddings visually)
The survey is compelling students, under color of legal authority, to confess to crimes. This confession can later be construed as "discoverable evidence" leading to actionable charges.

The objection here is to "fishing expeditions" wherein evidence is gathered en masse under an innocent pretext, and later (whether planned or not) an authority could gain access to that information and use it against the coerced students. Example: survey occurs, police find evidence of drug crimes with tenuous connection to a particular student, survey results are demanded via warrant by police, confession by student in question is revealed and a whole lotta other students' confessions are found and subsequently acted on.

That the evidence was elicited prior to development of a criminal case does not excuse compelling students to confess, whoever to, to otherwise unidentified crimes. If the evidence exists at the onset of criminal investigation, it cannot be recalled by the suspect under 5th Amendment grounds. That the confession is elicited by the state, to wit the public school, compounds the issue: the government is not allowed to demand evidence of criminal culpability without warranted cause, which is exactly what the school in question was doing.
If my datastore is a SQL database, I don't want you modeling anything if you can't answer these questions.
Do good and do well – Amicus (YC S12)
At Amicus, you can do good and do well. You can improve lives and work on interesting problems. For instance:

We helped win marriage equality: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-social-network-effect-that-is-helping-legalize-gay-marriage/265793/

We're well funded: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/amicus/

We work on interesting problems:

- Open source projects, including our own in house, soon to be open sourced, real time Model View Presenter javascript framework with bi-directional data binding

- Machine learning and/or statistical analysis on demographics and how they relate to outreach/fundraising effectiveness

- A realtime collaborative community environment for supporters of non-profits to communicate, and provide each other encouragement. This will involve realtime javascript with node.js, socket.io, and backbone.js

- Realtime data visualization with D3, including D3's map projection, to create data visualization's to help client's understand the impact Amicus is having on their organization

- And for lulz: A Minecraft mod/voxel.js project for devirtualizing virtualized servers. Basically a minecraft mod that allows you to control AWS instances by putting down/picking up blocks :-)

Sound interesting? Want to change the world for the better? Shoot an email to jobs+HN@amicushq.com and tell us why you'd be a good fit. Include a link to your github and/or linkedin.
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Trying to simplify the job search process. Would love to know what you think!
> They abstract the core concepts out into interfaces that can be implemented atop different APIs

This is exactly what systemd's D-Bus API is for.
School teachers and school administrations tend to be skewed leftist / liberal relative to the average of the country as a whole.

Therefore, a student speaking in favor of 2nd Amendment rights or coming out sounding too "pro-gun" might find himself tagged for observation by the administration as an "extremist" or a potential threat.
For those of you reading it literally, it was obviously supposed to be a piece of tongue-in-cheek advice.
Well, if it comes to Flash updates, you might prefer Chrome which seamlessly upgrades itself and the used Flash package in the background. On the downside, slight UI changes might happen with new Chrome versions.

Also Linux is still an option. It could be configured for all the needs (contrast, font size, clean UI, autologin, ...) and has some additional administrative features like automatically upgrades in the background (including Flash, if Ubuntu is still providing that meta package) and every configuration could is also openly reflected in the file system which might help doing remote support and backups. Also it might prevent the usual Windows/Mac malware downloads.
+1. Same reason the "turn off your email" advice falls on deaf ears with me. Too much of the information I need to do my job lives in my email.
Mnemonic web passwords
What about people on IE7+ who have javascript disabled?
Wow, $6 billion dollars. I had no idea they had that much in their system. Way bigger than I thought they were.
Except the save button isn't, itself, a floppy disk, it's just got a floppy disk icon on it. The floppy disk or paper iconography are not "functional input controls" themselves. They are laid upon UI chrome which is likely skeumorphic to some degree, but the icons themselves are not examples of skeuomorphism.
Where I grew up, where I did my PhD, and where I now work, it has only ever been used as an informal work for "rectangle." I see Wikipedia say "sometimes used of any shape longer than it is wide." I would find it interesting to see a world map of that usage - it's completely foreign to me.
Of course, but 3rd parties are not all the same. Bitcoin 3rd parties have historically been incredibly untrustworthy.
At the risk of sounding blunt, what value does IDoneThis (shudder couldn't you have picked a better name?) provide that an email chain can't? Especially since email is essentially free (or, at the very least, less than $5/user/month)?
This makes me wish to pay for Opera just so they keep it as great as it is.
This is cool! I wish more websites would do things like this.

Side note: would it be possible to add user customization to this? As in, make this the default level, but have an option for requiring the password on all "dangerous actions" regardless of the elapsed time?
Mount Everest Traffic Jams
From my experience, it's almost impossible to divide a whole software project into a hierarchical view like a mind map.

Take for example a simple website. What will be your first level? Server-side and Client-side? What about pages? Do you repeat every pages on each side because you have code on both? OK so maybe the first level is all the pages then? Now, do you repeat client-side and server-side work for each pages?
Ah, it's not the bikes in this case, but rather that you're riding in a painted lane on a road occupied by a sea of extremely aggressive cab drivers ;)

Some roads have protected bike lanes where you're separated by traffic via a concrete divider, potted plants, or parking spaces, and those definitely feel a lot less scary.
Really cool. What would make it perfect is if you could go back and tweak colours you've already added. Bookmarked in any case. Consider my suggestion a feature request!
Interesting. I use org mode to manage my tasks and a simple C-/ t shows me all my todos, managed hierarchically.

Different tools for different people and if your brain works with mindmaps, that fascinates me because they make my brain stop functioning.
I stumbled upon Spotify puzzle page while checking out their jobs page. I love Spotify and working for them would be cool. But they only want submision based on Python, C++ or Java.

I wrote one in ruby still. Not much of an implementation but I did it as proper as I could.

Any comment on how I can improve the code is appreciate.

P/S: I don't know the etiquette here at Hacker News. Especially with regards to posting submission like this. Tell me if I violate any kind of code of conduct or anything.
tl;dr: I'm going back to school.
Ah, but it WILL happen. Finite is finite.
I put my ass on the line for my startup