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Another Silicon Valley startup solving a uniquely Silicon Valley problem. It's amazing the amount of effort and investment that goes into the problem of finding engineers, and comparatively how little goes into the rest of the labor market.
Thomas has regularly made meaningful & insightful contributions to the hacker news community.

I don't know what your vendetta is against him, but please- take ad-hominem attacks back to reddit. I don't always agree with what he has to say, but I do find his perspective more interesting then your attacks.
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Have you tried having small kids and managing to get some free time for hobbies? It's more challenging than it seems, and usually takes 6-7 years to resolve itself.
Pssst, a BMW SUV is also a heavy luxury vehicle.
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P.S.: Just checked and it actually works with Internet Exploder 6.0 in an M$ Windoze 98 VM, which I had running in VMWare Player 5.0.2 with my PC's physical DVD drive connected. Should work as long as your Win9x or pre-SP2 XP has WMP 7 installed.

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Also, backstory: http://mike.winterdiamond.com/history.php
Eh? I've been using 2Do for about 7 months now and it's made me immeasurably more productive and less stressed (now that I don't have to keep todo items in my head).

Many people have their own app/site/script/method that works well for them. It's just a matter of finding the right one to match your workflow.
Are you telling me Space X, Tesla, and Solar City haven't had any special deals with the government? This is the funniest thing I've read on HN.
You mean except for every journalist who has raised the ire of a Presidential administration in the US by going public with some detail or another of overreaching surveillance, malfeasance within the administration, abuse of prisoners, waste in defense spending (added bonus here of pissing off multibillion dollar corporations with deep ties to media outlets), foreign relations blunders, or leaks of one form or another?

Why is this story off limits but those stories not?
Hm, that's an interesting idea for solving the hard problem of matching talent with orga...

Oh wait, the article's just a PR piece for a startup using a deceptive title instead of something more honest like "GT takes the dating model to the recruiting process."
>you continually trivialize this story

He's certainly not doing that here.
How about I just go in, work, do a good job, and live a life outside of work.
trevalyan did address your question about credibility. In trevalyan's view, your claims here over the last couple weeks have been "have been demonstrated wrong again and again", and that you've shown a pattern of "claiming there's no story here." And I don't see any attribution of motives.

EDIT: (which doesn't mean I think your original question is wrong)
What evil was done in my name, or for my benefit? You are deliberately conflating someone incidentally benefiting from something with it being done to benefit them. Your consistent, deliberate dishonesty speaks volumes about your faith in your beliefs.
With LuaTeX (the modern version of TeX), such catcode trickery is not needed. LuaTeX provides a hook into the file reader, and you can simply change transform the input as you read it. For an example in ConTeXt, see this answer on Tex.sx: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/4174/323
From my relative who was a Boat & Water Safety person in Minnesota regarding this article:

This is a song I have been singing for years. Drowning is silent, fast, and deadly. One of the best videos I have seen on this subject is "The Reasons People Drown", produced by Dr. Pia. It is excellent, chilling, and should be watched by everyone who is responsible for or who cares about small children and non-swimmers who venture near the water.

Drowning victims are helpless, and without intervention, will be dead in one minute or less. Most drowning victims perish within 6 feet of safety, and that safety often is a person who could have rescued them if they had known what was happening within arms reach.

Re-read the description of a drowning victim and then compare it to the sight of a child at play. There are many similarities and if you are not vigilant you will never notice the differences.

If your child is near the water, you need to be near your child. And, it is not possible to adequately monitor a child in the water and read a book at the same time. Pay attention to the child only, and don't try to keep an eye on more than two at one time!
I'm curious, how much of an issue is language when doing a trip like this? This is something I'd like to do, but I'm only fluent in English and have a basic proficiency in Spanish.
Sure, but they have to believe they're never going to get that corroboration until the story gets some legs. Why aren't they "reporting the controversy"?
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Even easier way is to use http://www.wekkars.com/

You sign up for free and add whichever websites you need that needs to stay awake.
> English, specifically whatever dialect that is, is a horrible medium for encoding laws.

Compared to what, exactly?

> Further, the diffing format used there is atrocious.

That's a really common problem.

> Law is code. Why haven't we fixed this yet?

Mostly, because there is no first party money in it, and there's considerable expense to do it as a third-party solution, because of exactly the problem that this is directed at solving.

There's quite a bit of money in third-party solutions, which are provided by several vendors to the people who have the money and motivation to pay for them (people who professionally deal with the law), as components of wider research suites that cover more than just statute law (including many copyright-protected sources).

Third-party solutions that use only the free-of-copyright public information don't have a lot of market, and would have a lot of expense to create and maintain (not the system, so much as keeping the data current.)
Lets say there are 10 really earth shattering revelations in these leaks. Which is better?

All 10 released at once, and 8 of them getting lost in the discussion, or releasing 1 bombshell at a time and people like us get to discuss the implications of each?

I think they're doing it right so far.
It's posted pretty regularly on HN. http://blog.dave.io/2011/10/0x5f3759df-true-magic-number/
That depends heavily on who the developer in question works for.
I actually think it shouldn't matter what kind of app you're running on Heroku. It's just pinging the URL every 30 seconds to check availability, which has the nice side effect of not allowing your dyno to idle.
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Yes, something most people don't know about drowning is that it is typically defined as the point at which breathing is interrupted and the person is mostly motionless, usually perpendicular to the surface of the water. Sometimes before beginning to drown a person will become a distressed swimmer, which is what people think of as stereotypical drowning behavior. People in this stage often need rescuing, but they are not drowning. The trick is that while people often go from distressed to drowning, people that are drowning may never go through the distressed stage.
Seriously. Let's be honest. We used to torture people in extreme cases, but the person doing it knew that (a) it was illegal, and (b) if they were exposed they would be disavowed. (Of course, they might get away with it if they had some really good dirt on their boss, but that requires "using" a "card").

So the person doing the torturing had to be really fucking sure that this person was "guilty" and further that torturing would actually work (which is "not often"). The kind of operative doing this work was strongly personally committed to our country and extremely aware of their own personal investment.

Instead, we now have state-sponsored, legalized torture, and so any and all sociopaths can happily try their hand at torture just for the jolies, at no personal risk.

Spying must be illegal. A nation still needs to do it, but the brave few who do it, are braver still for doing it at personal risk.
> So, instead we find ourselves in this curious place where young men who mean well want to get with young women who also mean well. Unfortunately, the women are brought up expecting that the men will do the work, initiate everything, and the men are increasingly told that hey need to--to be safe and respectful, mind you!--wait for explicit confirmation of every step.

This is so laden with sexism it cannot be taken seriously. No, most women are not brought up expecting men to do all courtship and it silly to assume so. Further, in the context of how men treat women the dominant social narrative is sexual violence perpetrated by men your problem as a victim, so the reality is that the kickstarter project in question advocates taking advantage of this narrative to get sex without clear consent, which is outright rape.
Great! You're one of the few I think. I've heard many people talking about "todo apps don't help" and "I'm getting more unproductive". I wonder why.
According to what I've gleaned from the folks against this book, you need explicit verbal consent before proceeding with that kiss even if the girl in question has been with you for several years. If not, you may possibly be unwittingly sexually assaulting her because she was too afraid to say no. Even if she kisses you back, she may be doing so out of fear.

So the key takeaway is; you can never be sure if you're raping someone or if you had implied verbal consent so if you don't have explicit verbal consent, stay the hell away from her.

And for you shy people who don't have the courage to ask your partners for verbal consent and never get asked; it's better to be celibate than a potential rapist.
That's fair. There are probably easier ways, but I like the added benefit of having access to performance metrics for free if I need them.
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Open Source FTP client in progress.
True (they are the seed of a fruit).
Slide 8 uses the acronym "ROI" but doesn't define it.
Here’s a tool you can use to make it look more authentic:

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If the government can bail out American banks, it can send a few detainees back home on its own nickel.
Correction: the last one that's that bad. That was pretty bad.
Instagram users upload 5M clips in vid-sharing feature's first day
That's wonderful, if you have a decent place to work, but you don't necessarily start off that way. Did you read the article?
Nobody reads Tucker Max hoping to catch a glimpse of literary genius. His stories are pure content, and his audience likes that. Fans want to hear Tucker's stories about sexual exploits and blackout drinking, and don't particularly care whether or not said exploits are described using alliteration.

So you shouldn't spend time reading him, because you aren't his intended audience.
> If you’ve been making out, fondling, and fingering her for a while, asking her if she wants to have sex is going to make you seem obtuse.

Uh, this is literally the difference between raping someone and not raping someone. A lot of people have different levels of comfort with intimate activity, some people may not want to have more than a certain level of contact. Just going for it and not talking about it puts the burden on your partner, which in our society puts that person in a position of being an uptight downer or just suffering through an experience they don't want (yes this is acquaintance rape and it is a real thing).
Most lifeguards that I know are trained not to jump in after a drowning victim EVER unless they have a strong floatation device--the lifeguard tube. Supposedly most of the larger ones should be able to support 5 people. Drowning victims are so dangerous that even people who are trained can run into issues.
This is like getting a warrant to search your house because your blinds are drawn.
Return On Investment (ROI) is very widely used, including in the general press. He probably thought it unnecessary to define.
There have been a few suggestions by the Indonesian officials on this - can you elaborate on which corporations exactly? I'm not saying that you're wrong, but I've not been able to find direct information on "non-Indonesian corporations" who engage in illegal burning, so if you have sources, that would be great.
Its not at all hard to drive 100 miles in a single trip every week. Visit your brother at the lake. Drive the spouse to a few events on the weekend. Even cruise the shoreline.

So that makes about 7 years (pessimistic) to pay as much as for a new battery pack.
I do this with Pingdom.
Also Wikileaks crashed more because Julian Assange got accused of sexual assaults. Lets hope Snowden keeps his nose clean...
Yes. Both with autism. It is challenging, but not impossible. You have to do more than just a hobby. You have to manage time, energy, and money.
I there a reason to think this couldn't be applicable to a million other jobs? Obviously, not all jobs allow this flexibility, but surely many more do than just coders.
What does my credibility have to do with whether any major media outlet has run a story on Tice's claim that NSA spied on pre-candidate Obama? I don't understand your observation here at all. My point was that my track record of comments has nothing to do with the answer to the question.

If you or 'trevelyan believe I'm wrong, and that there is or will soon be major media coverage about this story, or that major media coverage doesn't signify anything, you can say that.
Long term relationships are different from early dating, you have your own communication and boundaries with your long term partner that are really different than when you are first starting out. However, domestic rape is real and yes you can totally sexually assault your partner and you do not have automatic consent just because you've been in a relationship.

That said, this book advocates doing physically violating things to all women you would date in a short term time period, which is the kind of thing a serial rapist does.
Here's a quick explanation of the format, in case anybody's interested:

http://pythonhosted.org/passlib/lib/passlib.hash.bcrypt.html...
Seems pretty straightforward to me. There are legal requirements for an action to be considered rape.
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In the first case, it really is quite trivial. Unconscious is not making a choice. Hence, "mentally competent". I suppose you could accidentally rape someone if you didn't know what rape meant, but if someone only told you "rape is sex without consent" and you fucked an unconscious person, surely if they took 2 seconds to think about it, they'd realize there is (and can be) no consent. I'm sure the people didn't really think it was perfectly fine to have sex with them.
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In the second case, it may be true that women have a more difficult time saying "no", but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility. Perhaps it is a failing that more women have sex when they don't really want to (but never express it), but legally, it would not be rape, so I don't see why this is being brought up. I agree that this scenario is unfortunate and but it doesn't warrant locking up a person. Yes, we should all strive to be sensitive to the needs of our partners, but realistically, some girls even feign consent when they really mean "I don't care much for it" or "if you'll cheer up afterwards" or "if you'll like me more" -- i.e. disinterest or questionable motives.

In summary, let's keep rape as a reserved term for obvious and gratuitous violations. This "accidentally raped" is kind of stupid.
Author here. I prepared these slides with go.talk/present[0]

If you see any issues (mistakes, things that need to be added), feel free to submit a pull request! https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/vc-for-hackers

[0] http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.talks/pkg/present
The people who built HN did the web design you speak of; Web design is not what users posting comments are doing.
English is not the problem here. You can write sufficiently clear language (which is not formated with caps lock..) in English. The problem is just the custom in United States of writing complex laws instead of writing the main points and letting the courts interpret it. For example, here's[1] a reasonably sane-looking law written in English.

1. http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1994/en19940543.pdf
Survivors of sexual assault and rape may most certainly call an unwelcome kiss sexual assault and it may be a hugely triggering thing that causes a relapse. You don't get to decide what someone's boundaries are just because you want something from them.
lmao. that's odd, it's opening up for me.
Just a little background, this is an FTP client that is very simple, caches content for fast response and syncs files locally for backup. It's windows only and is an experiment for me to test the market for interest. I'd be happy to hear any feedback. Thanks!
Please don't try to combat sexism with homophobia, you aren't helping anyone.
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I'm still a rails newbie so I might be mistaken, but it seems there is no template inheritance in rails.

I absolutely love the way of thinking template inheritance is driving me to. Rails seems to take a similar approach as JavaScript frameworks and follows a more widget like approach (layouts) or a simple inclusion of template parts (partials).

I know that is true for erb, maybe rails adds something on top of that I'm not aware of.

Honestly I'm rather annoyed by the lack of template inheritance in a lot of templating engines. Partials just don't cut it.
Thanks! I've seen quite a few of these presentations and have never been able to get them to work. Naturally, I want to scroll with my trackpad and this works up through Slide 3. I didn't know you could use the keyboard to actually load more slides. I wish they'd fix this in the presenter software.
Kind of funny. Looks like the first site on their examples page was seized by the FBI.
Could someone explain the "Your main differentiator is the market -> raise venture" vs "Your main differentiator is your advantage -> not raise venture" thing better?
You mean, "what if we could consult for companies instead of accepting full-time jobs with them?"

The freelancer who works a gig at a company for a couple months before finally accepting a full time job from them is one of the oldest stories in consulting.

Done correctly, freelancing tends (strongly) to be more lucrative than full-time work, most especially in markets like this one, where sellers of talent have leverage over buyers. Why would anyone in a market like this concede anything to a company like GroupTalent? Serious question; I'm sure there's some reason.
After rereading that, I think all he is saying is that $50k is the floor. In other words, if you can get in the door you're making $50k no questions asked.
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Of course not but the crux of the argument is do you want the market to sort out the good and bad business models or do you want politicians to to do the sorting and to prohibit any deviation from their proscribed models?
Oh, also, if you like the DAFT idea, this guy has had some great recommendations (I've been talking to him a bit as well). He handles all the paperwork and ensures that your business plan will be accepted.

http://www.avocado-legal.nl/
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Apparently their reaction page is up - http://www.adecco.com/en-US/Media/Pages/reaction.aspx
Is it really such a bad idea? If you have no other option, and they are going to die, risking brain injury seems worth it.
cool. you should write somewhere visible that the underlying technology is os bsd, it's a strong point for someone choosing to use it or not!
Ever leak invalidates the information the NSA tells the public. Now I have to ask do they even know what documents Snowden left with? Each new revelation seems to be catching them flat footed
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read the comment from infomanXP in the disqus comment plugin.

Dear webmaster. This website looks good. I am able to read the contents very well, see the links and navigation menu. Everything is fine but ...

I was watching a fan made trailer and got bored, so i switched to the next trailer. Unfortunately the trailer that i switched from was still playing when i started the next one. I had to go back to the old one and manually switch it off.

Because I am a lazy person and don't like to go back to switch things of, i made a robot ...

1) I jQueryfied your website
2) I put this code in the console
3) I start a trailer
4) I switch to the next trailer
5) Me gusta, old trailer not playing :-)

Please consider to tune your javascript in a similar fashion.

The code:

var old = jQuery('.gallery-slide.selected');
var oldhtml = jQuery(old).html();

jQuery('.gallery-thumbnail').live('click',function(){
jQuery(old).html(oldhtml);
old = jQuery('.gallery-slide.selected');
oldhtml = jQuery(old).html();
});

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2001: Planted Linden Trees. (hmmm. maybe toxic to bees)

2002: no dead bees.

2003: no dead bees.

...

2012: no dead bees.

2013:6/17 Sprayed Lindren trees with insecticides toxic to bees

2013:6/20 25,000 dead fucking bees

Conclusion: "It could be because Linden Trees are toxic to bees."
Note that the Washington Post went to the government to cooperate with them. It is not clear if WaPo would have published the same story if there wasn't a competitor (the Guardian) who had access to the same material. Snowden may have shared material with the Guardian purposefully either before or after he found out the WaPo was working the government in order to ensure this.

Note also that Greenwald has special circumstances which reduce his influence from corporate and US interests. First he works for a subsidiary of a UK corporation and does not report on UK issues. I also don't think he reports on corporate issues that would affect Guardian advertising. Finally, he lives in Brazil which may reduce US influence on him.

All that said no one is saying that corporate journalists never break stories that are critical to government or corporations, only that they are under strong influence not to and the effect is that few such stories are produced.
I really really wish we would push for a model of oversight like that the Romans adopted when they appointed ordinary everyday citizens like Cincinnatus appointed as temporary dictator in times of distress [0]

This court should have oversight of peers, not career politicians with entrenched interests.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnatus
Clients also have a tendency to reach deeper into their pockets when the risk of failure is lower

Yep. Basically, it's an expected value calculation: your project actually costs the sticker price divided by chance of success. (If you quote $20k and the customer's experience is that 20% of projects fail the "true cost" is $25k after they self-insure for risk of project failure.)

Decreasing their estimate of project risk thus lets you justify higher rates. Also, as your client has lower perception of project risk and execution risk, their perception of the probable magnitude of the success for your engagement will likely increase. (The logic of that goes something like "He's clearly a pro at this, as demonstrated by his execution ability, therefore if this were not likely to be a major win he'd already know that and we wouldn't be having this conversation.")