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To varying extents, submission to authority is why you get a paycheck.

If an organization has a successful process of doing something and they bring somebody in who bucks their methods without regard for the establishment, that can be problematic. Sure folks can come in and disrupt organizations for the positive, but I'd say that's probably not the majority of organizational disruptions. Most of them are just obnoxious and unproductive.
I want to know what marketing company Mongo uses. They are on point.
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I think OP is thinking of a remote alarm, not so much loud onsite.

OP, maybe something like this?
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ismartalarm-iphone-control...

edit: Or this? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alarm.com/id315010649?mt=8
For Small Firms, Visas Are a Big Headache
It was not bluehost.
Women in Tech: Who's the next Marla Zuckerberg?
Since it's "solid state" (none of those parts move, do they?), I don't see why you need to leave it exposed to the outside air. Could you just cast the whole thing in plastic, or would it overheat? Maybe a mineral-oil bath?
I tend to pay attention to labels and follow the ones I like through various sources (label website, Soundcloud). Labels curate content of similar themes / genres. Some examples: Ninja Tune, Warp, Brainfeeder, Matador.
I see the author has previous posts about what is not causing the delay, but what are the mostly likely culprits and do all browsers suffer similarly?
100% agree, but I think the real trick is not taking it personally. Too many people think that having to fire someone reflects badly on them, it doesn't[]. It only means that it didn't work out for some reason. I try to explain to people "work" and "not work" are two different places, like killing you in World of Warcraft has nothing to do with killing you in "real life", and not being able to work with you doesn't mean I don't enjoy or want to hang out in non-work situations. But that is a hard thing to separate for many people, they are their work and that means work is them.

[] The exception is when it does, they clearly hired someone for some bogus reason, but there will always be exceptions.
My dad used to work on mainframes at IBM. When I was about seven years old he took me to work one day and showed me memory like this. Except he could open the door and you could look at a whole cabinet full of crisscrossed wires.
This may or may not be good, but I stopped reading as soon as I saw the labels "Your flight" and "Passenger name" right next to each other. Writing is design, too.
Fun fact: American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) was one of the first venture capital firms founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, the "father of venture capitalism" (former dean of Harvard Business School), Karl Compton (former president of MIT) and Ralph Flanders.
ARDC is credited with the first major venture capital success story when its 1957 investment of $70,000 in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) got valued at over $355 million after the company's IPO in 1968 (representing a return of over 1200 times on its investment and an annualized rate of return of 101%).
Be sure to check out "Gods Will Be Watching", another game made in 48 hours with a seriously compelling story and art style.

As long as you're checking out Haxe, I'd recommend Stencyl (which, in 3.0, is being rewritten to use Haxe).

"Gods Will Be Watching" was written using ImpactJS, a JavaScript game engine.
Stop Putting Press Mentions on your Website
> How does Docker mesh with something like continuous deployment?

Very well. Because any source repository with a Dockerfile can be built into a container with no other out-of-band information, it is very easy to compose your ideal delivery pipeline with docker as the "lego" brick.

Docker+Jenkins and Docker+buildbot are popular combinations.

> How many layers until the AUFS falls down?

The hardcoded limit is 42 layers. But future versions of docker will store a container's history separately from the aufs layers, so you can have an arbitrary number of build steps.
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What purpose does the little "stub" serve in the year 2013, anyway, other than to make the boarding pass easily mangled?

There was that time in the not that distant past when the gate agent's pass reader was this giant console that would slurp in your boarding card -- printed on real card stock with a magstripe on the back -- and would register your name, then eject that stub from a slot in the top for you to take on your way to the jetbridge door.

Not since those machines were retired (I haven't encountered one in five or six years) have I had any airline employee tear off the stub. Why can't they do away with that?
> The other thing I would love to include is a halfway fold… I bet you have had this happen — You stick your boarding pass in your pocket, take it out at the gate and the stub is hanging off. You reached peak perforation too soon!

Why does your airline ticket need to be perforated at all? In the bad old days, the airline would keep one half and you'd keep the other, but I don't remember the last time I flew somewhere and they didn't scan my ticket either visually or with a magstripe.
Recruiter here. I cannot imagine working in an organization where this is reasonable. The idea that I would EVER tell an engineering team that they can't have the candidate they love is just mind boggling. This is exactly the type of HR people that the industry needs to be rid of. We should be helping teams get the people they want, not hurt it. If this was my role in a company I would resign immediately.
It's indeed very hard to avoid discrimination. I'm not proud to admit that I have racist, and even sexist tendencies. I have just enough self-awareness to recognise that I've done it after the fact, but it's much harder to stop myself in the process of discrimination and behave differently.

I imagine a significant number of people are similar to myself in this regard, I would love to see more discussion about it. Because I feel it's the subtle prejudices we all have that create the real problems, rather than the smaller (but louder) groups of overtly prejudiced people.
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This isn't a map.

What would a better map be? Is your point that they are doing interpolation on something that is already interpolated? Or are you implying that there is no way to create a map of temperature using only point measurements? I would like to know how well this data matches the raw station measurements (and verification measurements) but I think it's a decent visualization of likely real time temperature across a region.
Before I became a developer I was a banquet manager and I've had numerous colleagues from my former career endorse me for software skills they can't possibly know I have. Though I do get a chuckle when one endorses me for 'Java' as I always imagine them thinking "yeah, he knew a lot about coffee"

As presently implemented the endorsement system is rather pointless, but I do think there's some potential for improvement in making it more meaningful. Perhaps make it more like the recommendation system where you'd be required to actually write something instead of just clicking a button.
In a way it was lucky the plug got pulled. The inevitable death is a big part of the game, this way it occurred while there were still many of people involved!
Just for the fun of it, for those of you in the bay area, here's a surface temperature forecast for today, 16:00 PST. It is from the forecast site that I've been maintaining for some time now - http://www.norcalsoaring.org/BLIP/BYRON/index.html

http://raspbucket.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/BYRON/F...

(Based on 3km/750m WRF model run two times a day based on the NCEP data. )
"New Zealand Parliament adopts UK approach to software patents, allows broad swaths of them" - http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/08/new-zealand-parliament-ad...
Reminds me of another game "4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness", which could be the antipole for this.

http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/4mins33secs
Recorded Future Receives Patent for Temporal Analytics Engine
The Social Media Content Sharing Automation Framework
Just noticed the iOS app has dropped.

Might take a serious look at it now...
Congrats on raising your Series A.
Hey Jared, I've been looking to make contact with you but not sure how; if you see this could you drop a note to cto at patientsknowbest.com?
I'd add to this... stop putting your own press releases on your website. It's even worse than press mentions.
Ask HN: reCaptcha isn't stopping spam, what should I do?
Hey guys, I recently built a small posting site and put it up on a previously used url that I had to test it. Within a few hours I had dozens of spam posts. So I installed reCaptcha and tested it (to make sure it was working) and then cleaned all the spam out.

But even with reCaptcha installed, I am still getting dozens of spam posts a day still. Is there a better solution? I have looked into akismet and mollom but I am not wanting to subject post content to third parties. Is there a better captcha system?

I also have included a form field hidden from the user to catch bots but I do not think it is very effective.

Thanks for the help
Interesting concept.. might want to highlight the destination a bit more prominently. When carrying multiple boarding passes, prominently displaying departure point and destination will make it easier to make sure you have the wrong one out at time of boarding..
Most Unix file systems don't have the semantics of a "move". You unlink an inode from a filename, and link another inode (usually the inode for the tmp file). Then you unlink the original tmp filename. As far as btrfs is concerned, there is no relation between these inodes, and without copying the file (like you suggest), you can't improve this.
Oh this is just a whole bag of yes! great (and long-running) standup shows are hard to find online. I even considered starting my own BitTorrent tracker just for old televised stand-up that never gets aired anymore. Sometimes I like going back and seeing "who made it" from the old HBO Young Comedians specials.
>if I could transfer the pace of production from Ludum Dare into my normal work, I would complete a game like House of Shadows in less than 2 months

While the article lists many plausible reasons why the pace of work turned out to be faster on the shorter project, there is also one that is not mentioned but perhaps the most important: complexity doesn't scale linearly. It's always faster to write the first 1000 lines of code from scratch than to add 1000 lines to a project that is quite large already, mostly because each newly added component has a growing chance to interact with an ever increasing number of older components.
Have a look at juce_amalgamated.cpp in the JUCE library for a real world example of this.
The author of this java style classes article has taken one extreme view and I have taken another, that no code, inline or otherwise belongs in a header. Just declarations all the way.

It's remarkable that modifying C++ headers is such a chore that it comes up as a reason for getting something done in a tiny fraction of the time for a roughly comparable task.
I'm assuming you're talking about the telemarketers.
Interesting, I thought it might be pretty hard to do some things efficiently without inline asm.
Folks check this out a clear alternative to responsive design and intention.js ( 100% server side .. easy to follow)
http://www.codewithsnow.com/portal/snow/gettingstarted
I am downloading the tomcat version now ….
For all the reasons you mentioned the logs can be deleted after the process has been completed, if logging is necessary for that.
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Instapaper launches redesign
" The number of people who are annoyed by junk mail or spam greatly exceeds the number of people who gain some benefit from it (mainly spammers and junk mailers - and since they are dishonest actors, I give their considerations very little weight)."

Really? What about the postal service employees?

http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/

Or the people (there are a great number of unmarked trucks on the street) that haul postal service mail. Or the airlines that haul postal service mail (of which a large portion is "junk" mail).

Or we could go further into the people who work in the printing industry or paper suppliers or the makers of the mailing equipment or the people who lease industrial space to these people.

"My argument is that it is bad, because it annoys almost everyone."

Disagree. Is there a survey that shows this? And have the people who (if they were surveyed) fully apprised of the benefits of "junk" mail and if so did they still get "annoyed" by it?

Add: One more thing. Where are you getting that the majority of people who send junk postal mail are "dishonest actors"?
Also, consider the fact that you have to show the TSA your boarding pass. If you have to unlock your phone for that, they get full access to copy all your data if they decide you look like a terrorist.

Likely not a consideration for most people who don't mind privacy stuff, of course.
that game is amazing! I 2nd this recommendation, if you haven't played it and you're into these more metaphoric/conceptual games, you'll really enjoy it
Unpatched Mac bug gives attackers “super user” status by going back in time
Humble Bundle originally caught my eye with the "curation" aspect, but now that there are so many "humble bundles" it seems like I need to sift through all the options myself. I may as well just find what I want to buy and buy it directly (and donate to the EFF directly as well).
If I'm not mistaken, Ubuntu ships Firefox with an AppArmor profile that restricts it by default.

(Question for those in the know: what exactly does it prevent firefox from doing?)
First, I think it deserves mentioning that this post is not about things like Kickstarter, as far as I can tell, but about equity crowdfunding like AngelList. Kickstarter backers do not get equity in the company.

I don't really think the "good startups will opt for VCs, ergo only bad startups will go for crowdfunding" line of argument is really convincing. The reason being that how good or bad a startup is isn't really a knowable quantity both because it's an incredibly vague, meaningless concept and because at the funding stage not much about the future of the company is pre-determined.

That said, I do think the crowdfunding movement (equity and otherwise) has a major, often overlooked, negative. It's much better to have to deal with one or two VCs than be beholden to a dozen, or in the case of Kickstarter, tens of thousands of stakeholders. A good VC will let you drive the company and only provide high-level guidance and a rolodex, but an active community of a few thousand backers who don't want to lose their money will put your head on a pike if you don't deliver exactly what they were promised. (And odds are many of them have a completely different idea of what they are paying for than you do.) Good luck to you if you want to pivot once you have 10,000 backers on Kickstarter, for example.

However, if you have a very straightforward project that is well specified and has a concrete way to measure when it is completed or failed, like shipping a piece of hardware that is completely designed, if lack of capital is a blocker, crowdfunding seems to make sense. For more open ended projects like games or software applications I see Kickstarter has a horrible idea unless there are literally no other options. And even then, it might be worth it to just die instead of having to become beholden to thousands of people on a project you may lose interest in or won't be able to kill even when the writing is on the wall since it will destroy your reputation.
>1. As eli wrote above, it accomplishes nothing but annoying your postman.

And if 20% of people sent bricks in with their junk mail? What do you think the postmen would say?
Here is what I would guess LinkedIn must have been thinking: Nearly everybody boasts about their achievements in their profiles and CVs, making it hard for readers to tell high performers apart from low performers. So what could be a better way than to have others vouch for people </ironical>? This is very similar to older days of websites trying to enhance their rankings by hook or crook, and Google measuring a website's relevance by how many other websites link to it (ultimately leading to the PageRank algorithm).

Unfortunately, this has not worked the way they may have intended. Any widespread data-oriented company has to work hard to keep noise at low levels. A means probably intended to reduce the noise in this case has become a source of noise rather.
wow! they have a nice multi device emulator http://codewithsnow.com/emulator/
I think this is absolutely right on. But a smart recruiter would realize that some measurable chunk of endorsements are selected by people who have no clue as to your skill set or level of ability in that particular area -- people who, for example, logged in, saw four possible endorsements they could give people in their network at the top of their screen, were feeling beneficent that day, and clicked on all of them. Or someone who you just endorsed for a skill, and they see that you did, and want to endorse you for something but already endorsed you for the 10 skills you preloaded, and so they just pick the first thing LinkedIn recommends.

Presumably LinkedIn has some algorithm by which they look at people with similar skill set groupings, and say ah, statistically most of the people with this set have these three additional skills, and then farm that out to your network to see who endorses it. New endorsements tweak the skill set, which feeds back into the algorithm. It's almost like a glorified, twisted game of The Game of Life.
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Nice work!

There seems to be a typo in the Stats (my emphasis):

>Pixels:	16-bit unsigned ints, representing "deci-kelvin" (i.e., divide by 100 to get the temperature in Kelvin).

It should either be centikelvin or divide by 10.

On another note: It would be cool if you could hover over a certain area to see its temperature.
I'm liking this color:

a:visited { color: #6f32ad; }
Not to mention that the plug was literally pulled to kill her.
Thank you so much for that second link! I've been interested recently in how dependently typed languages can be made more natural for general-purpose programming, and this looks like a really good read. It gives me hope that it won't be too long before there's a dependently typed language comparable to Haskell in terms of community and ecosystem - in my (limited) experience, Agda and Idris are awesome for theorem proving and for small programs, but they're both a ways off from being usable for large, complex programs, and I feel like a big part of what they're lacking is just well-documented libraries for common operations.
I recommended my friends endorse me in Falconry
It is not as polished as Dropbox yet, but since this is Hacker News one solution would be to have BitTorrent Sync running on a home server then you could just SSH/sFTP to retrieve files. I have a Raspberry Pi running 24/7 on my home broadband with DDNS + BitTorrent Sync on it.
Upon re-reading my comment, I should probably clarify: the government backed down on mining conservation land.
What possible argument is there for that? I guess you can't fly Southwest either, since they take your boarding pass outright.
That's been available for 4 years:

http://www.shopify.com/technology/3032322-new-feature-metafi...
Google founder’s ‘romantic involvement’ with staffer
I think all business-to-consumer calls should be charged a premium rate that's passed on to the consumer in question as a credit off their next bill.

Rather than telling this guy he's rorting the system, we MAKE this the system.
I am being endorsed for technologies that people in other departments think I use (which I've often not touched), while corporate management are busy endorsing each other for "Entrepreneurship." :)

My most endorsed skills I have not used for years.
I didn't realize how hot eastern china was!
>B) If you want credibility, share testimonials from your prominent customers, not reporters who spent 5 minutes reading your press release

I don't know about this. If I read a testimonial on a website, I immediately assume it's fake.
If you can do 4 of those you're doing well. The key is to expend every little bit of energy you can for those 30 seconds, super burst sprinting till absolute failure.
A related issue I have is that they limit the number of skills to 50. What are included in "skills" these days are sometimes experience with very specific tools here and there. For a multidisciplinary person like me, I am tired of prioritizing what to keep and what not to within this limit of 50.
Does your data allow comparisons at different points in time? In particular, is the gap widening or narrowing?

(A 6X differential isn't too surprising when there's a clear first-mover or early-mindshare-leader... but it also isn't insurmountable as long as the market is growing and fluid.)
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A lot of folks are making ad hominem arguments that because it is a VC arguing against crowd funding, he must be wrong because of who he is.

Let's see if we can focus on the reasons why his arguments are wrong, not just that he is a VC.

Valid reasons why he may be wrong:

- He argues that good startups have no trouble raising VC. On the contrary, many VCs have poor ability to determine what is a good investment, and many good startups have war stories to tell of how difficult their first financing round was. Therefore, crowdfunding could benefit good startups because raising money from VCs is not easy even for quality startups, because VCs are (as a class) not particularly good at identifying quality.

- Investor selection: sure, getting top-tier VC has soft benefits. But there are costs as well: VCs have more board power, can often force a founder to step aside, or will force a sale to liquidate equity to distribute returns to LPs. Yes, individual investors may not add as much "soft value". But the power dynamics are different and in some ways there may be lower risk to the founder.

- Later stages: so what if crowdfunded companies don't turn to crowdfunding for second rounds? Crowdfunding will work best for early stage. If the business turns out great, and the company needs large amounts of follow-on funding, then getting $20mm from institutions will be more feasible. But it is difficult to understand why that's a serious problem for earlier stage crowdfunding.

- Marketplace for lemons: information asymmetry also exists for VCs with startups, so the lemon argument against crowdfunding is not unique versus VC.

In short, these are interesting ideas against crowdfunding, but none stand out as particularly compelling, or they can at best make a claim against crowdfunding for certain types of deals, rather than against crowdfunding as an asset class.
Both this and problems like LukeShu mentioned. For example, I had a problem where org-mode would hang in certain cases when using \mdash with pretty-entites turned on. Or csharp-mode would hang when editing around preprocessor directives. Emacs becomes non-responsive in such cases. It would be cool if I could just close that buffer, like a browser tab that had crashed.

This and the fact that all async processing has to be done through OS jobs (or something like that) make it unsuitable as a replacement for many kinds of app.