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StackOverflow does have Careers 2.0: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ . Is StackOverflow a "software community" for the purposes of this article? I used StackOverflow a lot at one point, and i got a job out of Careers 2.0, so it looks roughly like it to me.

I suspect Five Year Itch probably see Careers 2.0 as a competitor, or at least a resident of a nearby niche, so they may have a deliberate blind spot towards it.
Also, just like dedicated kids and teens clothing are a recent invention, the idea that people under 18 are somehow not ready for marriage isn’t as old as you may think.

“In 1880, the age of consent was 10 in most states but ranged from 7 in Delaware to 12 across nine states and the District of Columbia.”[1]

[1] http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230?section=primary...
Oh, come on: you mean that I can't just tell the computer "Do What I Mean" and have it accomplished?
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The point is more, what network? servers? backups? if all you need for your business is handled over encrypted connections to hosted services, another company is your server, and they do your backups. Do you even need a network in a traditional sense, or do you just have 4G on your devices through a company plan?

IT will never go away, but for many common scenarios it becomes a simpler problem that needs fewer dedicated resources. A lot of young people don't know how to control a modem with AT commands. A lot of young people don't understand how to resolve IRQ conflicts.

Why do you need to configure a router's firewall rules? You only really need a configurable firewall if you expect to receive incoming connections. The servers that are going to exist on your own premises instead of as cloud/saas solutions or just colocated are already decreasing. As they decrease, the need to support them shifts to the businesses that operate those services.

Eventually in those circumstances, it's only the planning, implementation and migration that requires technical know-how. Well, and those creating the services.
There is a lot of sense in this. From youth we've been trained that nuclear radiation is associated with cancer, Godzilla and mutant fish. My own irrational hate of Nuclear Fission plants comes from the hard learned lessons of Civilization 3; which teaches one to avoid building Nuclear plants due to the incredible rate of meltdowns and the subsequent massive death count and many turn loss of productive tiles. And global warming. Given all that, the level of trepidation around them should not come as a surprise. And if that isn't bad enough, fission plants are like airplanes. Crashes I mean.

People are afraid of Airplanes despite their incredible safety record because failure is spectacular and newsworthy. Consequence is concentrated and easily compartmentalized vs the more background event of the relatively near constant death from cars/coal (I wonder if this is leakage due to the brain reusing the smell cancellation modules on abstract frequencies like death rate). Similarly, the impact of meltdowns can be more viscerally felt in terms of relocation and ghost towning - even if they lead to little to no measured cancers or ill health (the worst case of incompetency in the form of Chernobyl is a fraction of the time integral health/death/radiative burden of coal plants to locals and workers). And to top it off, damage can be easily visualized in terms of three eyed fish, Godzilla and those ugly, ugly orange tiles. Shiver. Availability Heuristic at work.

At the same time I believe there is some cause for apprehension. It has to do with what the state current US infrastructure suggests on the real risks of a plant; failure of which might trigger an AI Winter type event at the worst possible time. The risk of Fission Plants is mainly in human competency and complacency. Will there be any corners cut in design and will operators become complacent due to extended runs of non-events? Will vital maintenance be done? I have not seen evidence that much of the world is ready for that kind of thing. The west is yes, mostly, but as the rest of the world comes online it would be preferable to have clean energy that doesn't jump to 50% chance of meltdown during revolts. So looking at alternative replacements at the same time as - instead of just focusing on -Nuclear is worthwhile.

A single large failure and human reaction to that kind of thing will lead to cascading moving away from Nuclear at just the time when it is most needed. It is thus in my opinion, better to do limited roll outs on newer incompetency resistant designs before any universal switching. Education on the nature of different types of radiation and their effects (focus on neutron vs bio, halflives vs waste), drastically reduced dangers to workers of nuclear vs coal plants, unloading the weighting on the bomb aspect of nuclear, probability theory, and shining a clarifying light on the stellar safety record of nuclear plants; will all go a long way towards solving the world's future energy problems.

As for me, while (I think) Civ 5 doesn't have that stupid penalty, the damage is already done. I will always recommend Solar and Hydro in place of Nuclear.
Thin clients mean less IT!

Thick clients mean less IT!

VDI means less IT!

Citrix means less IT!

Terminals services means less IT!

Drupal/Wordpress means no more web devs!

Ipads mean less IT!

Mobile means less IT!

Cloud means less IT!

If anything, these things tend to create more IT jobs. Now we need another helpdesk guy to handle everyone's mobile devices, a MDM server, someone or run that, a better local wifi network, a more secure wifi network, etc etc.
Doesn't work if there's a proxy server caching old versions between the user and the server. Not to mention that according to the RFC standard intermediary servers are allowed to manipulate/remove/alter any non-restricted header (including Date).

Yes you can come up with a hacky solution that works 80% of the time quickly, but if you want a 99% solution you need to put the work in to do it right.
Every auto company in the world has received substantial assistance from their national government. In the U.S., it's ludicrous to single out Tesla for special attention less than 5 years after both GM and Chrysler received bankruptcy bridge financing from the federal government.
Wasn't Breeze sold as "Pay once - use forever"? It's a joke that they now just cop out via "yeah we'll refund your money".

Compare this to Backpack that was also discontinued but since it's paid for monthly, 37signals decided to let existing customers continue to pay and receive their service.

So Backpack stays alive (albeit without new signups) since it continues to make them money, but Breeze gets closed and all customers get shafted. Even thought Breeze was sold as "forever" while Backpack was sold as "monthly".

And let's not forget that Backpack needs a lot more (security) updates and maintenance than a simple mail server for mailing lists.
I know one male Jody off the top of my head: Jody Davis, who played catcher for the Chicago Cubs when I was a kid.
The thing is that nuclear isn't really good at this. Nuclear plants don't have much in the way of a throttle - they're just "on" or "complete shut-down and it will take substantial measures to start it up again". Fossil fuels or some sort of capacitive system (even just using the peak surpluses to pump water into a reservoir above a turbine) would do that task better.

The panicky nay-sayers of nuclear power are too obsessed with the risks of radiation, but there are a lot of other legitimate reasons that it might not have a place in our future. Uranium just isn't that plentiful, for example.
What impresses me the most is the JS. It is so clean, concise, and, the only other word that I can think of, professional. It puts the onus of capability on the browser and doesn't try to make up for those who lack. Sure you can shim addEventListener or setAttribut, but F IE (really), it has been adding complexity for far too long.
Something like this wouldn't really protect you from law enforcement. They perform forensic disk duplication before mucking around with a drive. If you provide a fake password to TrueCrypt and it starts overwriting things, it would be pretty obvious to anyone investigating the drive what's going on.
Microsoft does not understand usability
Show HN:  A high performance airplane for the price of a luxury car
The Light Sport Aircraft category was created by the FAA in 2004 with the hopes that it would lead to the first affordable airplanes. By lowering restrictions for LSA’s, it was predicted that planes would be able to sell for around $60,000.

9 years later, none of the big players in the industry have been able to accomplish this. Cessna made its Skycatcher, which was supposed to sell for under $100,000. It launched in 2007 at $110,000, and has since increased its price up to $150,000. Several, better attempts at an affordable LSA have been made since then, but decent planes have struggled to find price points under $80,000. A few are sold in the $60-80k range, but these are “bare-bones” airplanes, and the market has shown little demand for planes not equipped with radios, lights, navigation, iPod jacks, etc… even if they are affordable.

I co-founded a company that has made an airplane with all these amenities and more for $55k. The design has been around for a few years now and comes from a kit-plane manufacturer in the Czech Republic. It is tiny: 250 pounds empty weight, which is small enough to be classified as an ultralight (although its performance takes it way out of ultralight eligibility). It is very strong, capable of carrying 60 pounds of fuel, a 230 pound pilot, and 30 pounds of baggage. Because it’s so small, the performance specs are competitive with the Cessna Skycatcher on just a 50 hp engine. It is very fuel efficient, getting 60 mpg and flying 575 miles on one tank. Radio, GPS navigation, collision avoidance, synthetic flight, lights, and an emergency locator transmitter all come standard on the plane.

I know this isn’t tech news, but I love this website and rarely get to contribute since I’m not a programmer. Here is our website: http://www.skycraftairplanes.com. Please give me your input.
Yeah, if you subscribe to HBO Go you get everything on HBO streaming. It's a good service from what I've used. Also comes bundled with the channel if you subscribe with cable.
I really hope this game model suffers the same kind of crash that felled the arcade business in the 80s. At some point I think people are going to collectively realize that they're being manipulated and burn out en masse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash...

The overwhelming dominance of this kind of app in the app store has killed a lot of my enthusiasm for mobile, unfortunately. There are a lot of very interesting things you could do with a pocket computer that's always online and equipped with a bunch of sensors but nobody cares because if you're not playing these kinds of slimy games with the rest of the top 20 you might as well not exist in the store.
Something rather significant in the development of the human female usually occurs between the ages of nine and 13. This does not justify sexual contact between and adult and a 13 year old, of course. Are you suggesting the Holy Ghost had taken indecent liberties and should have waited until Mary was a few years older?
Ask HN: How do you guys follow posts on HN?
I was wondering how do you guys follow posts on HN, like when someone reply your comment or when you post a story and people comment on it.
Also, I'm not sure how Wayland is going to solve that, since Wayland protocol doesn't mandate for the window manager to use client side decorations. May be you are talking about Weston (which is a reference compositor of the Wayland project). But in practice each major DE will probably create their own compositors which won't necessarily use client side decorations.
I am more concerned about the possibility that this is not unique, that it happens all the time, and that people wind up pleading guilty because they think they have no chance of winning the trial.
How is that a cop out? You get your money back so whatever use you got from it was effectively free apart from the minor inconvenience of moving over to another service (which they are kind enough to make suggestions for).
> Incumbent manufacturers have to go through dealers. Allowing Tesla to bypass dealers wouldn't be fair to other car manufacturers.

Why? Why not just let everyone sell direct?
Fair point -- I was being hyperbolic. Rather than "a topic you know nothing about", it would be more accurate to say "a topic which people (namely the parties which assessed the fine) who are demonstrably qualified have already passed judgement on, and which you therefore must show specific reasons that your assessment is more accurate in order to be taken seriously".
True, except I have three ages to watch, and the craving is proceeding independent of age, and seems more correlated to experience.

Plus, ahem, I also kicked a Mafia Wars addiction years ago that has left me totally disinterested in trying another variant. :)
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How is it a joke? They paid once and they get their one time payment back? Technically they got to use the product for free.

Recommendation of alternatives were there as well which is excellent.
"Say sorry, send the client their data, recommend alternatives."

That's exactly what Google do, and they get ripped to shreds.
Adventure Island
love this place!!!!!!!
I have never met a biblical scholar who denies that Mary was a young teen. In fact to the best of my knowledge there is not a single christian denomination (Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox,... ) that believes anything to the contrary. So who are these Christians you know and do they actually _follow_ their claimed religion ?
I mean, that's really the best you can ask for. I'd hardly consider it a "cop-out" to be refunding the users their money
It is fairly simple: having a GitHub account and being active on StackOverflow don't appeal to the majority of developers. Those sites will capture far less than 1% (made up, but probably close) of developers making them not the best location for hiring managers to look.

IMO, if you want to find developers to hire then LinkedIn and recommendations from other developers are still the best route. Having a successful GitHub project doesn't always translate to "great team developer" as different skills are required for each. Being helpful on StackOverflow for a very specific thread doesn't always mean you are a master of your craft. Having both experience and recommendations from the industry and category being hired for is more of a "guarantee".

Disclaimer: I use both GitHub and SO.
I don't see the problem. This is just like China. Keep sending us cheap textiles and Nest Thermostats, human rights be damned.

</sarcasm>
No essay scholarships
Stuff for college.
I would love to see the "why" in a blog post.

When I first heard the launch of this product I was a bit skeptic. 37 Signals sells good to techies (and where techies are in charge of the order) but this particular product was specially geared towards non-techies, hence it would be really hard to make it work.

My guess would be that the system didn't organically acquired enough users, I might be wrong, and they simply cut their loses. Maybe they'll post something in the upcoming days to enlighten us.

Considering they constantly and harshly criticizing everyone else's business model and they literally wrote a book on how to run a business like this, a blog post with details is expected of them.
Yeah, I got hit by the 99c fee, but I emailed them about it and they gave me a refund. Their customer service is pretty good, although it does take a while for them to get back to you.
He missed a point: don't let the service continue limping along and become a vital part of someone's toolkit.
Thanks, just added liferea. I'm sorry I haven't added collobaration to my list app, otherwise I'd credit you properly. But I've linked to this discussion as a source.
But a few comments up, someone mentioned points. Sure, they can decide to do that, but they will get their license taken away (and I know people that have.) It does have consequences.

I think fining the rich more because they are rich is not the way to go about it. Should we charge them more for their leisurely items? It's about choices at the end of the day. If you are worried about not being able to feed your family because of a $50 fine then don't speed! It's not something people do against their own will or because they have to (bar being late for work which I would argue isn't an excuse anyway.) That's the point of the fine: to put people off doing it.
Counterexample: the northernmost part of New York City is the Bronx, which is far from the priciest. (Inwood, the northernmost part of Manhattan, also isn't as expensive as portions of the island to the south.)
Right in Google's announcement:
"Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months." http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cl...

How is 37signals' announcement any better?
Thanks, just added newsbeuter. I'm sorry I haven't added collobaration to my list app, otherwise I'd credit you properly. But I've linked to this discussion as a source.
Well... in America it is a crime to get chocolates (kinder eggs) into the country

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/sne...
Because it was sold as "just pay once and get your mailing list", not as "just pay once and get your mailing list for a few months then no more mailing list"
I must have been missing the part where Google recommended real alternative to Reader.
You're right, I should have just stuck with Jordan blocks, and I'll try to remember to do that next time I explain this to someone.
Not enough people signing up seems like a good reason to end the service to me...
Not too long ago, everyone thought inter-racial marriage was offensive. I think basing your morality on "what everyone thinks right now" is foolish at best.
Ask HN : Upgrade Linux - Fedora 17 to Mageia 3, Linux Mint or Fedora 19?
I'm on Fedora 17 using Gnome Fallback Mode and think it's about time for an upgrade. I don't do a 'yum update', mostly because I'm afraid the ATI graphics driver will break on kernel upgrade, and I can't waste time again on fixing it (need proprietary driver to watch flicker free video).

Just saw Mageia is No. 2 on www.distrowatch.com, and found out it's a community edition of Mandriva.

Which distro should I upgrade to? Anyone has any experiences with these? or should I wait for Fedora 19? Also, working on Fedora allows me to work well with CentOS on servers (Amazon and DigitalOcean, at least it's not that big a change).

I've an HP dm1 with AMD-e350 and 8gb ram, mostly use vim and Eclipse. I will be using either Gnome fallback mode (if that exists for Fedora 19) or some other older type interface.

Thanks.
I would imagine a product that you paid for would be more willing to work with you than free products.
This site is super annoying.
It's identical to the drive being overwritten by actual random bits, which some people do, so I would say that doesn't count as a signature.
We're selling our displays through Adafruit. Sorry that wasn't clear. I'll rework the site's text. Appreciate the feedback.
I just check https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=<your username> from time to time. I'm sure there are more elegant solutions, but it works for me as a light HN user.
I use VoIP through the free app 'Line' and it seems to work quite well on 3.XG lines. Voice Quality is also higher than normal calls.
"Because we're switching from a desktop-based office productivity suite to an online-based suite, we can expect the IT department to go away."

Said no one ever.
Washington Post to Begin Paywall on June 12
The Dawn of the Voice-to-Text Era
Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts
That sales strategy is exactly what the sales team at my day job does; our software requires heavy buy-in from IT departments, and the payoff isn't in the IT realm but more for the foot soldiers on the ground (and of course, the bottom-line).

At one point, it became obvious that it was much easier to wine & dine the non-technical executives than it was to win over the CTO. Also, it's a double-win since even if you had managed to win over the CTO, they'd (the CTO + our sales team) would still have to win over the other executives. However, if you flip that around, the CTO is really the only one you have to convince, and if you've made a good enough case upfront then the CTO will have a really hard time stopping it.
Taxing is a different issue IMO. Everybody is taxed (well...) and you don't have a choice about it. You have a choice to speed. If you want to, then go ahead and do it: but it will cost you.
They also love to be sinful, that's why they constantly try to criminalize things they do themself.
But 37signals closed Breeze because it didn't hit a critical mass of customers. Google can't say the same thing about many cough Reader cough of the products they close down. That's why Google gets ripped to shreds.
Steve Jobs is the ultimate outlier. Yeah some folks here are obnoxious, anxious, ride in carpool lanes etc. Is it so different from other urban areas - Seattle/Boulder/DC/LA? Not in my experience.
> NO insurance company in the world will insure a nuclear power plant.

This is hardly a meaningful claim. Insurance companies in the US won't write flood insurance policies, either. This doesn't mean that your house is very likely to get washed away in a flood. It means that the business is not profitable because no one wants to pay the premiums required to insure for the worst-case, nor do insurance companies want to sit on the piles of cash necessary to insure these sorts of events.

As a counter-point, hydroelectric power plants are also not insured for worst-case scenarios. And when hydroelectric dams fail, the results can be orders of magnitude worse than Nuclear meltdown. e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
That's nice. La Poste (the french mail service) has a similar service: https://boutiqueducourrier.laposte.fr/lettre-en-ligne (in french obviously) and it's relatively cheap too. They have quite a lot of options such as recorded delivery and high priority mail.

I'm too lazy to search but I wouldn't be surprised if royal mail did the same thing in the UK
Don't forget Guild Wars 2! No monthly subscription fees and there are plenty of ways to have fun without spending lots on microtransactions.
Why aren't more companies like Amazon?
I use http://www.feedsapi.org to forward all my expanded rss to my email account, On the web I use it in combination with Feedly to read fulltext rss feeds, and on my desktop, I use snackr + http://www.feedsapi.org .
We are working on a proper Linux driver but it's a few months away. For now, you can run the Sketches on Raspberry Pi. These guys did it based on our code: http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/displays/lcd_27_epap...
Ask HN: Is anyone using Bitcoin here?
PlexConnect: View a Plex server on ATV3
Yes, you could take the wording literally, but it's physically impossible to continue a service forever. When I pay $5 or whatever to use it forever, I don't expect to be sitting at my computer at 95 doing so.
The Secret Science of Scalping Tickets
Is volume right? I thought if I double a 3d object it's volume increases 2^3?