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Maybe there is a topic on a forum somewhere about the iCloud website specifically where your comment might be better received?
In 1999 I was deposed by the firm going after Microsoft. I had driven the design & implementation of the <object> tag in IE3, which was central to their case.

Coincidentally, and ironically, it turned out my then-soon-to-be, but now-ex, brother-in-law was a lawyer at that firm (or a related one, it was never clear). He called in rich a few years later.
Did you try following the suggestions in reply to this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6086017
I'd love to try systemd in the future but right now we deploy in Debian and for us is easier to go supervisord (and all our devs "speak" Python, that's a plus).

My main concern is that systemd handles too much and I feel it's going to be hard to change. I guess we can start using systemd without removing supervisord and move from there.
See also: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/overall
If this is anonymous and can have a high degree of reliability in uniqueness it's pretty awesome. Either way though it's still nice for those of us who want to use the Like mechanism without being hooked into FB/G+.
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Once can now choose a 'premium' sku for databases that'll offer guaranteed CPU, Memory, I/O etc resources.
Actually you've misread it or I didn't explain it well enough :)

A private library/app can have abstract dependencies. As I said in the post it deals with the "deploy specific" side of a Python application. So each specific deployment would get it's own requirements.txt.

And yes requirements.txt is a pip only thing but the concept applies to the similar file in zc.buildout whose name escapes me at the moment and any other similar file.
You cannot occupy from the air.

Another point is that the Iraq war(s) was used to dump old, less accurate, ordnance -- so that the US is now largely left with much more modern weaponry (Drones or no drones, you still need to paint a target and fire some form of missile/bomb).
Probably time to use a distribution that does rolling releases!
That is exactly the kind of common sense most politicians try to fight, constantly.

Ron Paul has been speaking about this for many years now, most prominently during the 2008 elections. It might have cost him quite some votes though, the truth hurts.

A good read on the topic is "Blowback" by Chalmers Johnson.

http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Second-Edition-Consequences-A...
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it has 16 GB of memory max and no sd card
(in comparison I'm not too upset with my 64gb phone not having an sd slot)
That company is going nowhere and you need to leave.
I may be the last person to offer advice based on experience (as I have none), but here’s whatever wisdom I can muster:

You should be careful about selling before you have a business license and such. Obviously this all depends on the country, state/province and city you live in. You should really research what is required to sell your product unless you wish to be shut down and/or pay fines and excess taxes. (A lawyer and/or accountant may be a very good idea here.)

Having someone else sell your goods may work, but you should still do your homework. You could get screwed over.

If you’re simply gauging interest, try to find ways to hawk your wares where you likely won’t be subject to regulations — like point #2 you suggest — and of course charity events like bake sales, church functions, or local fairs put on by small organizations, etc. If it’s starting to take off, consider talking with school administration about long term feasability (perhaps a poor chance, but it never hurts to try).

If you’re worried about putting down capital for a full shop, think small. What would it take to be a legally selling food truck? Even better may be finding a partner or two and splitting costs.

Or why do all the work yourself? Bakeries exist, so why not use their equipment and already established business connections? Apply or convince a bakery they need to hire you to bake and sell your doughnuts there.
I couldn't find the HN entry, but a quick stroll around the web brought me this: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/uom-ate120109...
It's quite possible that he left out the fact that he did something productive in order to highlight the corporate fuck-upery. Some deeply nested comment above points to this being the case.
Ask HN: Have any newspaper/media companies traded ads for startup equity?
Many newspaper companies are struggling with a move to digital as well as potentially diversifying their offering online.

I was wondering this morning why a newspaper/media company couldn't explore trading ads/promos with online startups for equity? If managed carefully, the risk could be minimal.

Would startups give up some equity in exchange for weeks/months of help with advertising to get some traction when they launch?

Obviously some level of oversight, the assurance of equity and whatever else would take a bit of time and paperwork, but surely that wouldn't be beyond an established organisation with survival as motivation?
Amazingly, Toshiba still has a product page up for mine. The picture is misleading, it shows colors on the screen, but the specs list it as monochrome.

http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/notebook...
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When your engines stop, you trim for best glide ratio, point yourself at an open field, and fly the plane all the way to the ground. Failure to do so is a great way to get yourself killed.
Like "a bad programmer trying to look smart" is exactly how Haskell makes me feel!
Not under the influence of gravity it doesn't. Gravity causes time dilation without a corresponding velocity.
Can you find a source that doesn't show the UK having 5-10 times more violent crime than the US, per capita? I couldn't believe the numbers at first, so I tried but couldn't find anything saying otherwise.

I think the UK is a great example that violent crime will happen despite restricting weapons.
coincidentally i had almost the same situation happen to me (hired as a dev, project kept getting pushed back and back, had no work to do for 4 months). i spent my time reading books from project gutenberg, one ofthem being The Trial
for fear of having your record requested during divorce proceedings or some thing like that. Maybe for fear the list would be leaked . It wouldn't look good for a teacher to be on the wrong list.

Interesting point. People want to look at porn, yet keep it a secret. Why? If there is nothing wrong with it then why should someone care?

Are teachers not allowed to look at porn? Why not?
Can porn use be used against a husband in a divorce case? How?

You are making is sound like porn can be something unhealthy or negative? If it was not unhealthy and nothing negative was caused by it - then why these examples?

It almost sounds like you are making a case of why people should have a tool to keep it out of their homes. Why should people have to hide the fact that they want to look at porn?

Everyone of course already knows the answer. Porn can and does have negative consequences (of varying degrees) for most. Therefore, it is taboo in society. Everyone knows that the porn industry exploits women. It uses and abuses them. It is derogatory toward them. You see things like "barely legal" posted all over porn ads. So many men view porn, and they all try to come up with reasons that it is good and healthy - but everyone knows deep down that it is not. The pathetic industry will fight tooth and nail against any kind of legislation opposing it. They will cite freedom of speech and every other possible interpretation of anything they can get their hands on but these losers really just are all about money. They don't care about the lives they ruin. Men are still in power and ultimately give the industry the nod - not because they are doing the right thing, but because they are hooked and guilty themselves so they allow the false justifications to continue.

Porn is a devil - Everyone knows it at some level.
>but also to bring forward a set of hardware technologies that won't be in the mainstream for a while.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not seeing anything on the Indiegogo page that isn't more or less on track to be available in phones next year, except for perhaps the sapphire.
Well, scrubbing with md is pretty easy, too.

That said, ZFS sounds great, and I've been meaning to learn it sometime. The big thing holding me off has been just -- well, how much time I've put into learning md and such, and how I would find it hard to justify going back to not knowing much (since this is my livelihood).

If you have any tips on "read this, it's a good intro" stuff (slanted to Linux, as that's my cuppa), I'd welcome them.
This will probably be buried, but this conversation needs some serious context and the article title really needs to be changed to "Game Programmer Quits Job To Sell Street Food, Doubles Salary in China".

Programmers are almost notoriously overworked and underpaid in China. Working 10 to 12 hours a day for $1000 a month is quite common. It's possible to make more money working six hours a day for half a month working as an English teacher.

The view in Eastern Asia is that a programmer is akin to a machine that you hand a specification and code is produced and hence the low pay. You could trade programming in China for a large number of other careers and double your salary. It's not a particularly usual thing.

If you were to trade this for a software development position in the US or Western Europe it's going to be a much different story. Culturally speaking, it's seen much more like and engineer or craftsmen rather than a labourer. Switching from a position like this in the US to selling food is much less likely to see the same kind of return.
( >similar to XAML from MS...< Cough; XUL!)
Its been at least 20 years since that was the case, once large corps started buying up all the local TV, that was the beginning of the end.
> I have a hard time seeing who would be harmed if software patents were categorically invalid.

Patent trolls and lawyers.
If you're building a marketplace thing, take a look at Balanced [1]

Otherwise, take a look at Stripe [2]

If you're not in the U.S, it get's more complicated.

[1] https://www.balancedpayments.com/
[2] https://stripe.com
It is trivial to install a piece of tempered glass into a door.

Don't tell your boss to solve your own problem. Solve it yourself. Get quotes, ask for the company amex, and fix the problem. Don't be the guy that discovers problems, be the guy that solves problems.
Ever heard of Flickr?

They did quite well.
You can't even ensure likes/dislikes are unique with FB and G+.
So explain it to your partner then. Big deal. If your partner does not trust you than you have larger issues. If you look at porn and do not tell your partner than they have reason to not trust you.

This sounds like a lot of people don't want to come clean about viewing porn - yet they sing it's praises. Prevents rapes, promotes healthy sexuality, ETC. BS.
The thing that really annoys me about ZeroMQ is that sockets aren't thread-safe. This isn't such a big problem C, but it caused some really weird and difficult to track down problems in a Haskell program I wrote where I used a PAIR socket, but I wrote and read in different threads. I ended up doing some fairly unsightly socket gymnastics to get around this limitation.

Haskell programs are generally thread-safe by construction. It's very easy to overlook thread-safety in foreign libraries, but this isn't just a problem in Haskell, multi-threaded code is the default is a number of realms.

I now try to avoid ZMQ where I can. Modern libraries should be thread-safe.
Agreed with the point but damn that was some awful writing!
"US government is responsible for US citizen" which has now decided it can assassinate with inpunity as well: http://weaselzippers.us/2013/07/20/federal-judge-challenges-...
I feel if the point is

1) to avoid boredom

2) to do something constructive

3) to learn

4) to show your value to the company

That will be a minor problem, especially if someone like that just decided to do a project from scratch.
> Is it common to ask for an award for doing your job?

Sure it is, most people expect to be awarded a paycheck in return for doing their job.

But as to whether it is common to ask for an award over your paycheck, I think it is probably less common than it should be. IMO, it is perfectly reasonable to ask for a bonus if your actions result in a very direct, sizable and quantifiable gain or savings for the company above and beyond your normal value as an employee.

Executives at these larger companies (you generally have to be pretty large to have a 'ghost employee' problem) are constantly giving themselves raises or bonuses based on such events, so why (other than the shut-up-and-do-your-job-serf mentality too often enforced by the serfs themselves) should the non-exec be guilted into not asking for them?
How does this hardware compare to FirefoxOS' hardware offerings?
True, "abuse" is a very different word from "violate"
Learning new technology and new programming skills is not "internet use for non-work tasks". It's an expected, constant, never ending part of the job for almost anyone technical; unless they want to have stale skills in 1-2 years.
Perhaps, but this is just something I said in passing by the thread, so I shouldn't have to seek out another forum. If people want to down vote me because they can't accept that Apple isn't perfect then I reckon that's their prerogative. I own and use Apple products exclusively and I think it's important to point out their flaws. Google has much better web applications.
Visually appealing. Unfortunately keeps crashing on the sign up form on Nexus 4.
Innocent people's lives are ruined by drugs every day. One example off the top of my head is people coerced into being drug mules and end up getting caught by Customs. If (violent) porn is legal, the producers will be under much greater scrutiny than if they were forced in to the black market.
One possible problem with withdraw later is that you're subjected to 2.5% conversion fee if you're not withdraw to US bank account. In the end some international user will need to pay PayPal about $15 to get refund.
I use supervisord now, before I would use mon/mongroup [1] which is just a tiny C program to monitor stuff.

I have also used god at some point, but I kept having trouble. I can't remember exactly what was wrong but it never quite worked correctly for me. Probably PEBCAK.

[1] https://github.com/jgallen23/mongroup
Sorry but I don't want any electronical mobile devices as my physical identity badge which includes my whole life. The dangers of that far outweigh the conviniences. You just wouldn't be able to stay anonymous anymore and everything about you would be up for grab by the government or some hackers.
Also just imagine when your phone gets stolen. Your whole life in the hands of a stranger.
This is why github exists. IANAL but I'm guessing when you don't use company resources, do it during off hours, and the open source work you do has no relevance to your company's industry; publishing that work to github should be fine.
Something to consider: instant bitcoin donation is both quite anonymous and can't be duplicated at will. And people can put their money where their mouth is. In fact, this already exists as "bitcoin tip" on Reddit.
>Growing up in the 70s, we looked at news from the Soviet Union and other authoritarian regimes as blatantly untrue propaganda. By comparison, our press and government practiced transparency -- they may have lied, but not on the scale the others did.

Well, it lied alright and on a huge scale. The establishment dropped a-bombs on civillians with BS pretexes (one can still find them on party line history books, from where lots of people get their official version of wisdom), invaded tons of countries in the name of "democracy" (that is, resources and influence), from Vietnam to Panama, established dictatorships (e.g the toppling of Iran's legitimate government back in the fifties), persecuted people in the McCarthy era, stomped on the blacks and civil rights movement, etc.

The difference with the USSR is that it wasn't totalitarian inside the country. USSR was like 1984, US was like Brave New World.

>It's painful to watch a government that instituted the Marshall Plan actively destroy its credibility like this

Well, the Marshall Plan was (among other stated goals) a way to extract influence upon the broken Europe, pay the right people at the right places, and ascert the top dog position.
I bought a "dumb" Symbian phone and it has "fake call" functionality. It even allows you to configure which button to press and the timeout to wait for the event. If you answer it, you just hear nothing but it won't hang up on you. It's well worth the steep price of $5.
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I'd be curious to see per-region breakdowns. There are definitely regions we need to expand into. Most notably, Latin America. Stay tuned...
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30-year bonds do, but they are not risk-free unless you hold them to maturity.
Yes. I remember the original author admitting that this was really just a short story for practice.
The problem with that explanation from a pedagogical point of view is that you have left the word "energy" deliberately undefined. Because it's undefined, your explanation is isomorphic to this one:

"Suppose all objects have a 'snorble' (whatever that is) give by a vector sum of two components..."

You also haven't defined M and P. I know you mean mass and momentum, but only because I already understand this stuff. If your target audience is someone who doesn't already understand it, you need to define your terms or your explanation won't be effective.
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This was a strange post for me... just in the voting history.

It was upvoted like crazy, then downvoted like crazy, then upvoted again, and downvoted again.

It's come out very neutral, barely +1 or 0 now, but at the same time it's the most downvoted post I've ever made.

What is so objectionable about the post that merited the quantity of downvotes? And were the upvotes because other people agreed with the idea and also want this?
I'm acutally doing json-rpc over ZeroMQ using a scheme similar to the one described above to do file conversion tasks.

A ZeroMQ proxy using a ROUTER/DEALER pair with a bunch of REP sockets in the background.

The clients use a simple REQ socket.

All in plain old C using ZeroMQ and jansson for JSON while conforming to the json-rpc 2.0 spec.
There might be some financial sense in backing this, whether you intend to use it or not. If it does not get funded, you get your money back. If it does get funded and made, you'll be an owner of a limited edition run of a beastly phone, whose resale value will probably be significantly higher than its current price.
good work. what is really annoying though is that the "would you like to share" popup stays open until I close it, especially when I hit multiple buttons on the page and these popups are all over the place. maybe think about a timer or close all the others when opening a new one.
well at least it's harder if you were to do that with FB and G+. 1 like/article per Facebook account.
Asking for a raise or promotion?
I'm not talking about violent porn, I'm talking about non-consensual porn that has no chance of becoming legal to produce. The drug mule problem would go away if we just legalized drugs completely, but the non-consent problem wouldn't go away if we legalized porn completely.

An analogy that comes to mind is the trade in animal parts from endangered species. If we legalize the trade, there is more of an incentive to kill the animals, even if the killing is outlawed.
Nice to see a fellow pilot -- well, I'm still in the student phase, but I've been doing lots of "glide, grass, gas!" lately, as my instructor likes to say.

Sadly, the number of open fields to aim for in the SF Bay Area is pretty small. It's either hillsides, bay, or city. Oh, and a couple of thin dikes you could land on. ("That's why nailing the centerline is so important. Someday you might need to land on something like that dike wall -- and if you nail it, you walk away fine.")
>Why does everyone blame the evil MSM? Fox News was started because the MSM was 'too liberal'.

Because "too liberal" for Fox just meant "too democrat". Hardly something that absolves MSM from the BS they are.

MSM were the same officially santioned, partisan and corrupted sources, pre and after Fox.

With the exception of some smaller outlets and the rare honest and piercing journalist, but that's not mainstream anymore.
Cool to see FlightAware there. Their system runs on mod_rivet: http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ which I helped to develop. Karl is a nice guy, too.
That's not quite accurate.

“These documents show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity. These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America.”

> http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html
I know a programmer who quit his job and became a janitor, apparently doubled his happiness.

Just because you have the logical mind for something does not mean it will make you happy. I often feel like I lack the logical mind for working in IT but I freaking LOVE the work.
To me, putting like button on my website is only to spread the site/article on social network. A likes this -> friends of A will see that article's link as well..

Plus, as someone has already pointed out, "How do you ensure dis/likes are unique if it's anonymous?"
Yeah I know, and my question was kind of a brainfart... of course anonymity means you can't ensure two "entities" are not the same actual person. I didn't mean to imply anything wrong with that, I was just curious, because who knows, maybe there are ideas about this. But I guess anything that would keep bots or human spammers out would also at least decrease the convenience for genuine votes.
No, short term bonds get lower yield because they carry much less interest rate risk. There's no free lunch.
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I created a subreddit to share side projects.

http://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/
To clarify the pronouns, "they" here does not refer to CloudFlare. It may refer to Facebook, but I hope not as it would certainly be a violation of a NDA.
Yes, it’s difficult but I don’t think »roll-your-own is not going to be able to compete«.

(Disclaimer: I’m interaction designer on ownCloud.) With ownCloud Inc. we have a company, customers and full-time employees. There’s no reason for it to not be able to compete except time needed to catch up to par.

And also the code happens to be open source. In that respect it’s a challenge because we don’t have the one centralized reference server where everyone has an account. There are people running it on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Windows Server, …, Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, …, with MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle, …, not to mention the different browsers people use it with (we support down to IE8) and operating systems the clients use.

Anyway, I digress. ownCloud is also a synchronization service for desktop and mobile devices. In fact we don’t have any system-to-system syncing built-in.

The mobile clients and especially the desktop client have gained a lot in stability in the last few weeks – if you’ve tried before, I encourage you to give it another shot. We’re also in the process of reworking the design for the mobile apps. Overall simplification, better visual design. Let me know if you have any specific feedback.