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It is not (for me). I manage people who's location I want to see in Latitude, which is a tool I use to see people's location.

With the combining, I need to manage an entire social networking tool in order to see locations. I just want the radio, not a car with a radio in it.

This in addition to convincing people who have never even heard of google+ that they should sign up and manage for themselves, rather than simply accept an invitation email and forget about it.

It's like asking for scissors, and being handed a giant swiss army knife. Sure, it has scissors in it - but they are not as good, harder to find, and mixed in with a bunch of stuff I just don't want or need.
A grep of your git log indicates at least 7 developers with >100 commits in recent history. I'd hope there's a decent chance at least one of them is better at crisis management and general PR. Certainly collectively you could have done better than the rushed (and at times nearly incomprehensible) statements you've been making.
I like carousels when they're used for the right purposes ... it's my favorite way to view a slide-show (so long as I can control how it advances). On the other hand, I can't think of any other valid reason to use one.
1. Weekly sprints, weekly billing. No cash delivered after 14 days, down tools and call them to say why.
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wow, this looks amazing! If you need any more beta testers, I'd be glad to join in.
Totally agree. We give a company the 'right to copy', in exchange for them improving culture.

If they don't provide decent subtitles, then in that particular area of culture, they have failed. So why do they deserve to keep the right we gave them in that particular area?

To me it's so simple... You don't do the job properly? You no longer have the right we gave you and therefore we can do it ourselves.
Any project has a defined scope and set of requirements. If you start the project before these are defined, you're dumb, because you have no idea what you're working on.

I always draft a requirements document for my freelance customers, and spell out exactly what I will do for exactly how much money, by a deadline. This document also says in no uncertain terms, that any deviations will result in a new set of requirements, and thus, a new price.

Hourly rates punish you getting better (why shouldn't I charge the same I did last month for something, despite having found a way to do it twice as fast?) and they open you up for all kinds of "why is this taking you so long" or "I'm paying you X per hour! That's more than I pay my shrink!" comments.
The Bittorrent tracker software used to run What.CD, a popular music torrent site.
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This is one of those cases where the application of the law flagrantly offends general sensibility to the point that it is clear the law requires modification.
This. Valve is a business and it sounds like they didn't think her ideas were going to provide value. In the end she got to walk away with all of the IP that she had developed on company time (and probably severance). I don't see what she has to complain about.
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What would happen to lyrics sites and guitar tabs?

Some here say that "Scripts are copyrighted. The dialog is just the script, so of course it's copyrighted."
Which is fair play but would that not open for raids of lyrics sites as they provide the same service?
I agree...but. You probably only ever get to fixed pricing (successfully) once you've learned to value your hours, which you probably learned by years of selling them.
My favorite example of science for humanity's sake was the development of the polio vaccine. Its always sad to see someone like this who values commercial benefits over scientific progress become head of a scientific organization.
> being unencumbered by patents was its big advantage over the MPAA-backed formats and they lost that

They didn't lose that. They just signed an agreement with MPEGLA that anyone can use WebM for free. Firefox implemented WebM support. WebP is already being used by Facebook and many others and saves them millions making the open web faster, it'll be in Firefox soon. You also conveniently forgot WebSockets, Web Components, SPDY and WebRTC (they spent millions on iLBC and others that they just gave away for free to everyone including Mozilla, saving everyone years of R&D) and all the amazing work Ian Hickson has done on the _whole_ HTML5 API. Edit: there's also https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/ without which Firefox wouldn't have WebGL on windows. There is more but you get the idea.

Criticizing Chrome 'apps' for having non-standards API is ridiculous because Firefox does the exact same thing: Firefox addons. They have their own proprietary non-standard API: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/developers/docs/reference How evil! What people don't seem to understand is that Chrome Apps are just like Firefox Addons, so it's hypocritical to criticize the former and not the latter. And the Chrome UI did revolutionize the field, every browsers copied it and that's a good thing! Just saying that it was a huge contribution (among tons of others from Google, way more than Mozilla).

Google has been sponsoring Firefox for a long time even when they had an insignificant market share at the time. What you don't understand is that what's good for the web is good for Google. That's why they support even insignificant projects that may help the open web in the future (they even sponsor Open Street Map).

I'm not giving Google too much credit, they have literally spent more resources than Mozilla on the open web whether you like it or not. Are you seriously saying that Mozilla has a bigger budget than Google when it comes to the Open Web? If you think about it, Mozilla itself is part of Google's budget for the Open Web. They have also spent more than any other company be it Apple, or Microsoft or any other really. Just educate yourself on the topic.
Oh man. I was hit by a car from behind while cycling like Seth 2 months ago. The car was travelling at 50mph and if I had been hit straight on (I was hit by the sideview mirror) I could have easily, easily been in Seth's shoes. (I was in the hills and had to be helicoptered to the hospital)

I'm not sure how to describe it but I'm sitting here in front of my Linux desktop feeling really really uneasy. I tend to laugh off the accident these days but it's really hitting me that I could have been dead and not be able to write this post.
Looking from Rackspace to OVH is really going straight from one extreme to another. Softlayer is a more sensible middle-ground (though note their list prices are high, you'll almost always be able to get 2x RAM or similar).
Could someone explain how they came to this judgement? It doesn't make any sense to me. For example:

>>"The U.S. Department of Justice said this conspiracy was designed to undercut online retailer Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) dominance of the fast-growing e-books market."

How can they undercut Amazon's dominance by charging more?? It might make them look better to publishers but not consumers. From my perspective Apple looked at the market (Amazon), realised their pricing wasn't sustainable, and agreed to a more sustainable model with publishers. I could understand the problem if Apple tried to raise prices and had a monopoly on ebooks but the fact consumers could just download the Kindle app to an iOS device and get the lower prices (and Apple was new to the market) rules out that argument.
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BM has serious problems. Currently everyone receives every (encrypted) message. This doesn't scale when there are 100.000 messages a day.

They are currently trying to find an appropriate stream implementation.
'Gazelle' is the bittorrent tracker frontend developed by What.CD (For those not in the know, one of the largest music trackers out there).
What.cd is a private torrenting site. They decided to open source the code they use to run their site.
Also reflective clothing.
Peep: A "pip install" that is cryptographically guaranteed repeatable
There's no way you can get people from LA to SF in that timeframe without some combination of massive tunnels and viaducts due to what's known as minimum vertical curve radius.

If he's going to build this for one tenth the cost of a predominantly at-grade high speed rail system, then the real breakthrough isn't his don't-call-it-a-vacuum evacuated air hockey tube, it's a magical ability to lay massive amounts of concrete and bore hundreds of miles of tunnel for several orders of magnitude less money than is currently required.

If he's figured that out, the resulting company would be worth far more than tesla, SpaceX and any asteroid mining venture he could conceive of combined.

I don't think he's figured that out.
I think you picked the most expensive dedicated hosting provider in existence. Have a look at SoftLayer, Hetzner, Incero, or one of the other alternatives. Also, at these prices, it's not unreasonable to just order any old Dell server for $600 and put it into a colo rack somewhere.

For reference, the dedicated server I rent for my private projects comes in at €49/month and it has these specs:

Intel® Core™ i7-2600 Quad-Core
16 GB DDR 3 RAM
2 x 3 TB SATA 6 Gb/s HDD; 7200 rpm

Support is extremely fast and competent, I'm really happy. To try and mirror that package with any kind of Amazon (or Rackspace it seems) offering would be prohibitively costly.
Look at softlayer. I'm moving the whole company off AWS.
The problem with no 3 is that not every job can be measured in $$$. Especially when you are building an MVP and/or experimenting with features.

I think your approach is definitely valid for "traditional consulting" but a bit less so for more plain webdev work.
And Android. This is the second app I used extensively that will no longer be supported on IOS.
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It's starting to look like East Coast USA. I'm talking to a few people outside of EST that are still able to access every service.
In my experience, pride plays heavily into the devaluing of convenience. For every abstraction and or simplification there are people who put it somewhere on a scale from wasteful to cheating.

You don't even have to dig very far into these discussions to find the guys who don't abide hosting at all. They can't fathom why everyone doesn't build their own bespoke hardware and string together their own orchestration.
Surprisingly childish behavior from both companies. Stop trying to embarrass each other and spend thirty minutes on the phone like adults.
The "buydown" option provides a nice alternative between colocation and dedicated server. With initial setup fee of $1300, you can get a server with similar specs to m2.2xlarge + 4000 IOPS for just $139 a month, while not having to worry about replacing failed hardware parts and resource contention. Sweet.
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Mail isn't a + thing... yet.
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That's true, but it's also a lot larger than the impact any one individual's actions usually have.
Where is this feature in Google +? Is it supported in the IOS Google + App?
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Kind of silly he was a programmer and should be logical, but then he rode a bike. It would be great if it was safe to ride around on our roads without a crash cage around you, but it isn't. Cycling is 1% of all trips and 2% of all deaths. If you can afford a car/taxi/shuttle/bus/etc. and value your life, you should not be getting on one.
I agree, it needs some work. There is no sense in trying to fund yet-another-encrypted-messaging-application when other designs could use the help. The one linked here doesn't even say if it will be open source or free or subject to independent code audits, etc.
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"Is it possible to design a network that doesn't expose where information is flowing, or better yet, doesn't even need to know where information is flowing (it can't leak what it doesn't know)?"

Post encrypted messages to Usenet; since anyone can receive them, there is no need for a destination address. Post the messages through anonymous remailers (mix-nets) if you want to avoid revealing that you sent them.

This problem was solved a long time ago.
I don't find it weird, but I do find it weird _on Hacker News_.

Especially given the rhetoric about how 'economics' drives things down to the marginal cost, it's not super surprising, as a general rule. People assume that competition won't allow prices to get too much higher than costs.

Some people here may find this ironic, but I always remember this rule because I'm (depending on the day) a Marxist.
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Reader is actually harder since it provided RSS feeds for websites that didn't support RSS (using the in-house indexed data)
And they already had purchased over 100K of equipment, and yet nobody could use it since they couldn't hire someone who knew how to use the machinery - like a machinist.

Completely maddening if you ask me.
What should they run on? Unicorn sparkles?
This is exactly why you might want to consider moving to weekly billing. Bill for a weeks work, as long as the deliverables come in does it matter if the week was only a few hours long?

You can either charge a lot per week, or less per week and still fit in more clients

However there is still a lot or marketing to do
They are moving location sharing from Maps to Google+. I have made a "Location" circle in Google+ for people (mostly family) I want to be able to know my location at all times. So far so good. It makes sense to move what is basically a social feature to Google+.

I have two problems with this though. 1) the viewer currently only works on Android. An iOS interface is promised, but no web viewer. 2) I can decide who in my circles gets to see my location, but not whose locations I see. Meaning the map view includes people whose location I don't care about.
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Don't subtitles (in Sweden) fall under exception from copyright if done to provide accessibility (aid for those with hearing disability) and if done as non-profit?

The law in question: https://lagen.nu/1960:729#P17S1
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On a tangent, I wonder how copyright laws will handle more sophisticated AI systems. Can you train AI systems on copy written data? What parts of the formed neural network are considered derivative works? To what extent are things created by the neural network considered derivative work?
Fraps is screencap software.
This stretch of Hillandale is really lousy, as it narrows from a multilane interchange to a two-lane road in about a block. But it should be fairly well lit (at least around the interchange) and I imagine that Seth was as visible as possible.

But mediocre roads in Durham are the norm, unfortunately. My least favorite was always University heading South/Southwest through Forest Hills. In a hundred feet, your bike lane disappears and you are suddenly on a narrow two-lane with little shoulder, in a right-hand curve with an uphill elevation. There's precious little visibility in either direction thanks to the trees and curves, and the oncoming traffic (northbound) traffic has an awkward intersection that tends to cause people to creep into the middle of the lane. (I may be misremembering the exact details, but that intersection has really stuck with me.)

The drivers in the Triangle are also pretty awful. I've never been yelled more or had more things thrown at me. The cup of ice landing on you is not so bad (it can even be a little refreshing on a hot day) but the handful of change is pretty frightening.

Durham is a great town in many ways, but its bicycling infrastructure is not one of them. Such a shame that it claimed another life.
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As far as I can tell Akka is the same thing to Scala/JVM as OTP is to Erlang/BEAM.
Of course you can enjoy his work, but that is a political statement, like almost everything else you do. If you think his views are abhorrent and unwelcome in the society you wish to build, you may have the moral obligation to make a statement to that effect by boycotting his work.

If a racist serves you a sandwich and you find racism unacceptable in society, then rejecting the sandwich is a political action saying that such views are so unacceptable that you're unwilling to put them aside even for the sake of a meal. Of course, this is a strong political expression, and perhaps not the right one for any view you don't like.

Mr. Card in his response basically says, yeah, I know my views aren't popular, but it's not a big deal. You should "tolerate" them. Now, that is the question you should ask yourself: should you argue with Mr. Card's but tolerate his views, or do you think such views should not be tolerated in society. If it's the latter, then you have an obligation not to let him, or others who work with him, define his or their beliefs as personal and unrelated to their work.
Ask HN: What are these gibberish ads?
These gibberish ads are following me everywhere. They are blocks of text (not images) consisting of what look like high-bit ASCII, and they fill the entire allotted banner space:

ÜWƒ©Ö/ÌR½bÍ... etc

Has anyone else been seeing these? Are these a broken ad from an ad server, or some kind of weird NSA protest perhaps?
They do, except when it's a desktop-targeted image carousel with no support for touch events other than simple presses.
You're indicting G+ for not allowing modular friend organisation. That's the whole point of 'circles'. Ok so you just want a service that provides locations? If you have a Google account then you can use Plus, that service provides locations, done.

You never have to see or hear or deal with any parts of G+ you don't want to. You don't have to mix friend groups up or assign people to only one label etc.
“Carousels are effective at being able to tell people in Marketing/Senior Management that their latest idea is on the Home Page."

Precisely correct. This is why they exist and why they are so useful at resolving disputes.
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As knowledge increasingly becomes more pervasive, copyright's demise (or at least redefinition) should be inevitable, although it is going to make a big mess before this happens.

The frustrating issue is how little effect any of our outrage will have on the end result unless we channel it into something useful.
"A very specific culture and you have to really have a certain personality to fit in."

Sounds a lot like high school to me :-)
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What I find highly annoying about this trial is Judge Cote had already formed her opinion prior to trial... in a statement to reporters she essentially said she thought Apple was guilty before hearing any evidence.

This is, essentially, a sham trial in which the USG was always going to win.
actually 'ocelot' is the tracker itself, gazelle is just the site that the users access to get the torrents
Amazon found a way to compete before anyone else did, so that makes it excusable for illegally orchestrated price fixing to attack their legal approach?

Sorry, but this isn't the "Think Different" approach the customers deserve.
> The move is revolutionizing medical billing in Oklahoma and around the world.

Around the world? Not really.
Yeah, I think the big difference for me is the language support. You can just await a method call instead of having to wrap the remainder of your block in a function.

Perhaps I should look into IcedCoffeeScript (http://maxtaco.github.io/coffee-script/) instead of plain CS.
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One of the points in the article is that it's impossible (and impractical) to scope out everything before you start.
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It's not the speed that puts strain on the body, it's the _change_ in speed (i.e. acceleration). You are currently going ~67062 MPH around the sun and probably didn't notice. If you suddenly slowed down to 4000 MPH around the sun, you would definitely notice that. ;-). (http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=356)
I might as well ask. What did you mean when you said "buying excitement linearly" ?
It's less than ideal that they've moved it, but you can continue to use location sharing from Google+. You need to enable it from account settings[1] and specify who can see your location (public, select circles, or individuals).

I think in your circumstances this will be better than Glympse, because your use case is about safety and the ambient location awareness, which isn't what Glympse provides. You have to send someone a "Glympse" notification with your location that has a limited window. Speaking from experience, it is hard to send while driving.

[1] https://www.google.com/settings/plus
I don't know about translations, but in many derivate works, what happens is that the work is covered both by the original copyright and a new copyright hold by the creator of the new work.

The creator is still prohibited from distributing the work without securing a license from the copyright holder of the original work.
Why we are getting rid of our hourly rate
I like the uniqueness typing approach in Clean very much.

Function can manage state of variable destructively if the variable is declared unique (there can't be other references, so there can't be side effects from destructively modifying the value).

It's easy to understand. It opens more avenues for fast code, and it keeps the purity.
Followed the article link to http://www.squee.it/ a Croatian startup - they have some rad stuff.
Epic, pure epic.
> the cougars posting is so bad i cant even read this

He's talking about kugutsumen.com, an Eve meta-gaming/trolling forum.

> What is/are "fraps"?

video capture software

> And why would one player need to run more than one Eve client?

Many, if not most, Eve players multibox more than one account at a time (the average number of accounts/person is probably ~2). Especially people who own supercarriers (such as the focus of the article), as those ships can never dock, thus one for all intents and purposes needs another character to fly other ships.

Other common uses for multiple accounts are dedicated support characters (haulers, boosters, healers, etc.) and mining fleets (some people will run dozens at once, crazy I know).
Agreed (at least assuming there aren’t regular fistfights in the hallways at Valve).
Sorry, I incorrectly assumed that the youtube link you provided was a direct link to the video in the article.
Very high (and increasing) hourly packet loss on some of the backbones. They are probably fully down and the percentage is increasing as the rolling hourly window includes more of the outage.

NTT <-> Verizon (9.09% @ 10:20)
SBC <-> Level3 (8.33% @ 10:20)
ATT <-> Verizon (4.00% @ 10:20)

[ http://internetpulse.net/Main.aspx?Metric=PL ]

EDIT: Smile! You're on CNN! http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/10/tech/web/google-down/
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