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No, they are wedge issues because politicians are able to divide voters through manipulation, dogma and money from lobbying power. Once a politician tells voters (or teenagers) that domestic spying is an 'issue' then they'll care. That's how the game works.
Direct link to the email for this story, which also contains interesting details not on the site:

http://thelistservearchive.com/2013/06/06.html
I feel your pain. The truth about getting publicity for apps on major blogs is: you wont get publicity for your app, unless...

- it is visually novel or has some cute gimmick

- there is some story about the people behind the app (already have an audience)

- there is some story/narrative that is only tangentially related to the actual quality of the app

- a massive game changer (incremental improvements aren't going to cut it). Massive game changers dont happen often, and your app most likely isnt one even if it has features that other apps dont.

I've decided to forgo spending much time trying to get major blog/tech site coverage for my apps. It's a wash now - better to build your own audience and market in other ways.

Feel free to email me if you wish to discuss this: krishna @ logiccolony dot com
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When you type "tmux" into a terminal, that starts a client. A client is the instance of tmux that's running in your terminal emulator. tmux manages a collection of pseudoterminals, and clients display whatever is going on in that collection.

(Warning: some oversimplifications.) This collection of pty's is called a session. Each pty within it is called a window. When you start, there will be one session containing one window. You can add more windows (C-b c) and switch the one your client is currently viewing (C-b p, C-b n, etc.) Each new window will start a shell that you can use to run programs independently.

Detaching (C-b d) means disconnecting your client from the session and exiting. Attaching ("tmux attach") reconnects to the session.

Multiple sessions and multiple clients are an advanced topic. Don't worry about them yet.

Unix sessions are unrelated to tmux sessions. Technically, each pty managed by tmux has its own Unix session.

Buffers and panes are advanced topics. Buffers help with copying and pasting; panes let you split windows into multiple pty's. Don't worry about either of them yet.
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Individual connections haven't gotten a great deal faster, but more people have higher speed connections and they are using them more. Traffic has increased by some enormous factor in the last 10 years (picking conservatively from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic easily gets a factor of 20 or 30).
There's nothing wrong with judging people based on how they spend their money. There are admirable ways of spending money (such as Parker's "conservation buying") and less admirable ways of spending money. Spend your money as you want, but your spending shows your values.

The interesting thing in this case is that Parker himself admits it: "Finally, you mention that what we did was
'extravagant' yet none of the usual tasteless crap that rich people do at their weddings was present here — no ice sculptures, no caviar, no pop stars hired to sing their hits songs, etc. This is why your article and so many other articles have been so deeply offensive."

The reason people would find spending $4.5 million on ice sculptures (for example) offensive or tasteless is that a huge amount of human time and effort would be expended on something completely temporary, with nothing to show for it. The opportunity cost is that all that effort could have been spent on something with lasting value. Parker's spending is therefore equally tasteless.

I should say that I am not judging Parker here. A wedding is a big deal, the amount of money we are talking about here is not all that huge, and Parker seems to have some consciousness about his spending. I am, though, defending the right of others to judge Parker. Mild social criticism---not tar-and-feathering---for extravagant spending, and social praise for positive spending, is good for society as a whole.
I'm saying it's not a coincidence he linked to that two month old article the day before he released a $5 app. Prime the pump, in a sense.
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Oops! You're absolutely right. Just had a word meaning dyslexia moment.
You mean backdoors such as Microsoft Security Essentials and SmartScreen? The security applications? That doesn't need to be proven in court, it's a well-publicized feature that Microsoft is very proud of. And, like every anti-virus software, it profiles the applications running on your computer and reports their behavior back to Microsoft.

That's how Microsoft knows what botnets are controlling the OS. That's how Avast knows, how AVG knows, how Panda knows, how Norton knows, how McAfee knows, how every AV knows. It's not a backdoor, it's a basic security feature.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a desktop bug tracking app made for solo developers?
When I am working alone, I often feel the need for a desktop app that would help me easily log bugs and 'ToDo's for whatever project I am working on. I'm thinking of writing it myself.

Can you please look at the features I have planned, and tell me whether you would pay for this app? If no, is there a feature I could add that would change your mind?

The features:

1. Mac OS X native app (Windows later).

2. Ability to manage bugs and features/ToDos of multiple personal projects through a tabbed interface.

3. Bugs can be categorized (functionality bug, performance bug, UI bug, etc.)

4. Bugs can be assigned severity levels (say 1-5), and you have the freedom to define whether the numbers apply in ascending order (1 = least severe, 5 = most severe), or in descending order.

5. You have the ability to change the names of the categories and and the severity levels. The app will adapts to your mental model; doesn't force you to adapt to mine!

6. Features and ToDos can also be assigned priorities: "this release", "later release", or "maybe". Of course, you can change these labels too.

7. The app is fully keyboard-enabled: you are able to bring up the app, move from one project to the other, add/remove a bug or ToDo, and make notes about them, all from your keyboard. No need to stop your work, grab the mouse, and then click in a few places. (Normal mouse support will be there, of course.)

8. No lock-in: Export data at any time in CSV, HTML or plain-text formats.

9. Optional preference: The app stays out of your way, in the Menubar. Only pops up when you ask for it through a keyboard shortcut.

Price: USD 15 - 30

HN, would you find this app useful enough to buy? Is there something I should do differently? Do you want ability import from / export to Bugzilla, etc. ?

Thanks!
In response to you and grey-area about news: yes I get news for free, and it is normally good enough. But... Some of the recent reporting from the NYT has really made me reconsider paying for a news subscription, just to be able to fund great investigative reporting. If I wasn't in a low income country making low income wages it would be a no-brainer. But I really do think that there is a market for high quality reporting, and people willing to pay for it.
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Doesn't the pattern depend on the value of each question? For example, if you have a score out of 100, but all questions are worth 4 marks, then you'd end up with a series of grades that are multiples of 4 (assuming no part marks).
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if i want to buy 1000 bitcoins at $121.46 to hang on to for a while, and while i'm buying the price goes up to $121.50 because a HFT is trying to frontrun my purchases, i'm not going to stop buying, its still worth it to me at the higher price. those few pennies, in aggregate across billions of trades, can add up.
http://carrot.is was built with it. Perhaps that changes your mind? :)
A few years ago, at work we were asked if we wanted steak or chicken for a lunch thing. I replied with this pdf as my answer.
> But do not accuse me of being sexist.

But you are. So am I -- we all are. Our culture and society are so riddled with pervasive sexism that we all exhibit sexist behavior at baseline, and the responsible thing to do is try and identify it within ourselves so that we can determine how best to negate it. If someone were truly lacking sexism, that would be an extraordinary claim, and would require extraordinary evidence to demonstrate. And if you'll forgive me for saying so -- that's not about to come from someone who says things like "I just knew this was going to be about sexism."
Suggested reading: http://fireballwatching.tumblr.com/post/48771295667/gruber-s...
Some form of "hard" stimulant use (i.e., not just caffiene) is widespread in the circles of academia I frequent.
1. If you're contracted out your dev work, do you mostly work as a manager, ensuring day-to-day operations?

I spend my time doing marketing and bizdevy stuff. However, I'm still really involved in any major development efforts, we regularly at least 3 times a week discuss code, I still contribute code, and we often pair program.

My contracted developer, Henrique, is really not just a "contracted developer". He's a CTO caliber amazing architect and I consider him a partner in the project.

The current codebase is the 3rd-ish iteration on the same theme. The first and second iterations were built primarily by me, so I had a pretty good sense of how I wanted everything built for the future (incidentally, my "pretty good sense" was totally garbage, and if i started over again, it'd be totally different... again...)

Even the early versions of the current iteration were largely a collaborative code effort between me and Henrique, either hitting milestones by "divide and conquer" or by pair programming.

As the product began maturing, I have been slowly shifting away from code to marketing and CEO/CMO-y stuff. Basically, I am not good at being a heavily involved CTO and marketing. My perspective here is that development CAN be outsourced, though it may not be easy, but good marketing and bizdev can NOT. However, we try to be analytics driven, so Henrique is also deeply involved in the marketing and analytics, but we just have a focus on our own individual domains.

2. Looks like you're now making a profit but a really small one... for May 2013: $5660 - $2377.23 - $1808 = ~$1500, is that right?

Correct.

3. Sounds like your revenue vs costs/expenses scale linearly as well, but more business = more margins, is that right?

In principle, I can squeeze out a little more edge once I get to bigger scale, but there's a floor on the cost of reports, so I'm more interested in growing the audience size than optimizing the costs here. I'm also below the threshold where reporting companies really want to cut me breaks, so I'll have to wait a little further before that.

The "cost of reports" component scales linearly, but I expect the fixed costs to be pretty static for very large ranges of total users/applications. It'll be stepwise-ish, but I'll probably flat until at least 10x more sales from here.
What alas struck me as odd in Germany that after ww2 and the Stazi in east germany you still have manditory ID cards + registration when you move with the police! and you get upset about street view?
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Awesome. Capitalism working as intended. There was an inefficiency in the market, people exploited it and low barriers to entry now make the profits disappear. Our stocks are now better priced as a result.
It's simple. This movement in security and spying on your own citizens is driven by the military industrial complex.

Here's a VICE documentary on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_3Qg-SADY
Sure, start submitting and upvoting Erlang posts. I just submitted three, they're near the top of /newest now...
We did a two-day hackfest at work recently, and this was my project. As canvas-lms has grown, we've seen our GC runs get slower and slower, and this seemed like some good low hanging fruit (especially as we keep adding more languages).

I moved the translations out of the ruby heap, so as to speed up GC runs, and there were some other enhancements in both ruby and C to speed up lookups a bit.

It's still pretty new, so as I continue to refine I hope to bring those benchmarks even further.
I don't disagree, but at the same time, by the nature of the system, people aren't capable of behaving in a way that rewards what they like. "Vote-signals," if you will, are as noisy as human communication is capable of being.
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The fact, that they named the app after the First Bond Girl could indicate that this is a first of group of apps. So maybe the sync'ing features will be coming in later releases.
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Note: this post contains words some may find offensive.

I'd like to see something similar for children's songs. By "children's songs" I don't mean songs adults sing for children, but rather the songs children sing among themselves. There are many variations of these songs, and it would be interesting to see how they vary regionally.

For instance, when I was a kid, we had:

He's Popeye the sailor man
He lives in a garbage can
*He eats all the worms
*And spits out the germs
He's Popeye the sailor man

There are many variants of the lines I've marked with asterisks:

He pees like a fountain
And poops out a mountain

They turned on the gas
And it burned off my ass

He catches all the lizards
and eats all their gizzards

He sleeps with his granny
And tickles her fanny

He likes to go swimmin'
With bare naked women

Same goes for other children's songs. There's the "Joy to the world/the school burned down" song, for instance. In ours, the principle ended up hanging from the flag pole by his dick. In others he's hanged by his neck. Ours didn't mention the janitor, but some others have him shot in the head.

There are also variants in things like "eeny meeny miny moe". Every parent in my neighborhood taught the next part as "catch a tiger by the toe", but every kid said (when out of earshot of adults) "catch a nigger by the toe". Where did that come from? I can't recall any adults using that word in my California suburban neighborhood and have no idea where we kids got that for eeny meeny miny moe. I suspect we got it by whatever mysterious mechanism we got our versions of songs.

(Speaking of eeny meeny miny moe, I'm guessing that I'm not the only one here who figured out ahead of time the rudiments of modular arithmetic, and used that to my advantage whenever I saw that an eeny meeny miny moe was going to take place...anyone else want to admit to massively cheating at eeny meeny miny moe?)

Another thing about children's songs. The lyrics are sometimes more sophisticated than you would expect from children of the ages that sing the songs. Who writes these songs?
The fact that Linode stored the public and private keys in the same directory is strong evidence that they do not have any competence in security. Their reluctance to disclose the compromise of their customer's passwords and financial data is evidence that they are not trustworthy.

So on one hand we have someone who is careful enough about their finances to use disposable prepaid cards for renting a VPS. On the other, a company that doesn't understand how encryption works and had to be forced to disclose the attack by the FBI.

Which do you believe?
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The fact you think price per hour is directly correlated with total cost to achieve a good result

I don't believe that. My point is that some web/coding skills are not that difficult to achieve, and those skills don't fetch seasoned defense-lawyer rates. At least, not from me.
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Lifting the ball of the foot while pivoting, rather than resting it on the ground. The pivot is always on the heel, as far as I know. Raising the front of the foot off the floor is not following Frankie's form, if you will. Here's a good demonstration by Al and Leon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZB6t4P-QI

Watch the front foot. There's a very slight momentary lift (during the set-up for the slide), but the slide action occurs along the ground.
The principle of charity is important but also can be dangerous if taken too far, particularly, it can avoid productive discussion by what amounts to a version of the strawman fallacy where instead of inventing something that the other person didn't say shaped by one's own preconceptions to argue against, you are inventing something that the other person didn't say shaped by one's own preconceptions to agree with, which is clearly an impediment, rather than a boon, to the productive interchange of ideas.

Beyond deciding how to resolve obvious ambiguities where it can readily provide a best interpretation which it is most likely was actually intended by the speaker (the Caesar example in the Wikipedia article is a good one for this), the principle of charity is best applied cautiously to form a hypothesis of what the other speaker may have intended that can be verified through a clarification request.
Why is using prepaid cards for online purchases fishy?

- Prepaid cards impose an upper limit on what can be spent, so that if the card details leak out you are protected against losing more money than is on the card. They can't plunder your entire bank account.

- Some people don't like the idea of having debt. By using a credit card you immediately have a debt whether you like it or not.
Anecdata to the contrary, I've seen no suspicious activity on my Linode-associated card.
That is pretty unfair to pg and people that don't like clown colors. A browser extension version should only take a couple hours.
>I'm afraid I don't consider a well reasoned and well thought out criticism to be 'whining'

Hello again, friend. I politely request you reconsider what I wrote. I didn't say that you would be a whiner. I said that since I don't know you that my fear is you may be a whiner. Since people who whine are so damaging to organizations, I would almost certainly not hire you regardless of your other attributes.

Having said that, I certainly respect honesty. But please realize there are times when it's better to say nothing than to be completely honest. I've been married for 10 years so I have some experience in this. Have a nice day!
But doesn't it stand to reason that if he'd been just a little more personable and just a little less resistant to change, he could have done even better?
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Mostly out of reach of nsa, fbi etc. More than average respect for privacy etc. Cheap green energy.
Buyers and sellers of stock face a spread anyway. Quants make the spread smaller by arbitraging it. They are now so good at it that the profits are down to 20% from what they were a few years ago. Mutual funds and other investors can now thus buy their stock with smaller spread, i.e. smaller 'salami slice' to give up.
What you need to do is determine how much time a script or tool will save you, how often you perform the function the script or tool will help you with, how long it will take you to develop the script or tool, and how long you are willing to wait for payback.

E.g. If it takes you an hour to develop a script, it saves you five minutes every time you use it, and you use it every day, then your break even point is 12 days. Alternatively, if you use the script once a month, then your break even doesn't come for a year. You have to decide whether to invest time now, to save yourself time in the future.

Developing a more general tool that might help others or turn into a revenue generating product, will almost certainly involve a much larger investment of your time, with an indeterminate reward. Making the decision to proceed with a project like that is a much more complex calculation.
Yes its is it makes for a stronger government and reduces the influenced of extremists holding the country to ransom.
It's not a matter of engaging in backflips or acrobatics. It's a matter of reading provisions of the Constitution in historical context, not interpreting every provision in the broadest possible way in which it could be interpreted, and handling tensions between Constitutional provisions through balancing instead of just picking our favorite provision and giving it maximal effect.

1) Free speech zones: At the time of the founding, state police power was considered nearly unlimited, and the First Amendment didn't apply to the states at all. So how do you reconcile the state's police power with the right of people to peacefully assemble? The answer does not have to be "you have to read the right to assemble in the broadest way possible to the exclusion of any legitimate state interest in policing." That's one mode of interpretation, but that's not the only justifiable one.

2) The Adam Walsh Act. Not an ex post facto law because it doesn't directly change the criminal status of any person, but rather directs, optionally, states to conform their registration laws to certain standards. Many states do not have ex post facto clauses in their state Constitutions. See: http://congress-courts-legislation.blogspot.com/2011/01/stat....

3) Iraq War: The Constitution does not say that Congress must declare war before any hostilities are initiated. It just says that "The Congress shall have Power... To declare War..." Absent much guidance as to what this provision means, we can look to historical practice. And almost immediately we see that no formal declaration of war (whatever that is--the Constitution never uses the term) was considered necessary when presidents of the founding fathers' generation engaged in hostilities with Tripoli and Algiers, within just a few decades of the founding.

This is not to try and convince you of these points. Rather, it's an attempt to show that reasonable minds may differ. Conservative views of Constitutional interpretation are not illegitimate ones, and indeed are informed by the basic mode of common law legal interpretation that the founders themselves were familiar with.
Ask HN: Is 34 too old to start grad school?
I'm 34 y/o and considering going back to school for masters and ideally phD. I've been wanting to do this forever but didn't have the money. Now I'm financially healthy enough to take the hit of becoming a full time student again.

Field would be Math/Economics
Logical fallacies can be misused. They can be applied incorrectly, or used to shut down discussion. I therefore sympathise with the point that the OP is trying to make. However, does it then follow that logical errors should be given a pass? Does this somehow make muddled thinking valid or persuasive?

The correct course of action is to raise standards on all sides. If a logical fallacy is incorrectly used, then the criticism should be criticized. Mutual progress comes from refining thought on both sides, not allowing errors to go unchecked.
In that sense, he's been priming the pump since 2008.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/11/16/finnell-app-stor...
CISPA was just the 'legal ammunition,' that the gov needed to prove what they may already know in court...and to of course release liability (more like bad PR), against the companies who are the sources.
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This is really weird, I happened to ask on Twitter if there was anything like this just two days ago: https://twitter.com/jbrooksuk/status/341914274014302208

It's almost perfect, I prefer how Medium.com positions the toolbar, top & center of selected content.
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