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In a world where most people eat meat, I think it is premature to campaign against animal testing. It seems like it aught to be the second problem on the list.

Sure, as seen in Unnecessary Fuss, these experiments can be pretty horrific, and the destruction of all test subjects even after the most minor test feels unnecessary. But the meat industry systematically kills vastly more animals a day. And I don't see vegans marching outside my local McDonalds.
Was the focus on mobile ordering or mobile checkout at the end of the night (or when the patron decided to leave?)

Integration with a POS would make that a better experience than everybody trying to get the bartenders attention to close out the tab.
Chennai is my native place and yes, it's cheaper than Bangalore but by less than 20%. Can you update your profile with your email or email me, I'd like details on the $60 office space.

I am aware that good people come from all universities. For me top university is a useful filter. When hiring, especially as a small company, I need some way to filter down to a smaller candidate pool to interview. So my thinking is: better university = higher probability of finding better grad.
I would even imagine most really high-karma accounts have probably already been linked to a known real-world identity. There isn't a pm system or any private content in user accounts so even nefariously selling access to someone else's account isn't likely to be of value to anyone.

Although I guess that depends on what you would consider 'high' karma. If it's just anything above the threshold for downvoting then maybe having a force multiplier for that might be worth something to somebody. Still though, I wouldn't pay money for it.
Why wouldn't this scale? Sales people typically only work out of offices a couple days a week if that much. They can make sales calls from anywhere and typically close big deals in person outside of their office. Is there a particular reason you think this wouldn't work apart from no one is doing it now?
Death is an act of mercy compared to what researchers will do to them. The in vivo neurological experiments conducted on cats are horrifying.
> possibly with some kind of mental illness

Oh, that explains very well what I was thinking about those bible cites..
In fact ... we like this particular writeup so much that we are going to start pointing customers to it since it is a bit simpler than the EncFS/Truecrypt recipes we were handing out, and just works perfectly with the platform.

Thank you! Cheers!
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> The whole point of an office seems to be to allow management to verify that you're getting work done.

This part is pretty easy. Whether remote or working in an office space, daily standups, commit logs and the delivery of results can go a long way in figuring out if someone is actually getting stuff done, or is just pretending to busy at a desk.

There are a couple of things people don't seem to address enough though.

- A lot of software development involves a group people designing and debating the architecture in front of a whiteboard. Most of this discussion is not preemptive, but rather happens on the spur of the moment.

- I strongly believe (but no data to back this up) that you are more productive when you work with a team you are comfortable with, both technically and on an informal social basis. This involves intense coding sprints through late nights or just having a couple drinks at the bar in the corner of the street.

I would be happy if working remotely really works for programmers, but everyone seems to be talking about the wrong issues.
The #1 story right now is "The Temple Operating System" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6308017

At least ReactOS isn't likely to incite a religious flamewar: LosethOS, the creator of TempleOS, pushes his religion on you. Ignore him: don't feed the trolls.

I _like_ it that operating system news is posted on HN. Operating systems take _forever_ to get anywhere, unless you're a multi-billion-dollar company with armies of grunts working on it.

Their goals actually are not that outdated: a non-trivial number of Fortune 500 companies continue to need Windows XP, but Microsoft is giving them the finger. Whether ReactOS can step up and fill in that need or not, wouldn't an entrepreneur want to know that this is possible?
About Machievelli: The Prince was (proably) a sarcastic piece[0], denoting the things he saw politicians doing and he thought should not be done. It's a shame that he's remembered as though it was an instruction manual.

[0]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince#Interpretation_of_Th...
The pricing here is ridiculous[1]. I honestly can't understand who the target market is here. What does NerdyData offer that I'm not going to be able to solve with something like Oloh or Github code search? What need does the product fill that's going to be worth $100+/month to me? I mean, I get things like "search for a specific GA account number" or "see how many websites use Twitter's embeds", but how does that contribute to my bottom line in a way that validates my paying for it?

I get the sense that there's a useful product here, but it feels like it's being marketed as a replacement for Google Code Search or something, which feels like the completely wrong tack. Selling it as a competitive intelligence tool might be easier to grok, but then why pitch it at developers?

[1] https://search.nerdydata.com/#!/pricing
It seems like there is very little upside for him and frankly the rest of the world.

He is doing great work now and taking over the reigns of Microsoft would be like the president of the United States running for congress after he completed his term.
I wish they could just say "there's a special fast track fee if you wish" or simply make it an actual fast track fee. But nooo, it has to be all hint hint, wink wink.

And that doesn't concern only India, it's the same thing in all countries with low-mid level corruption. I know they take a risk, but they'd make more money that way AND benefit their country/economy, too.
Many of those who are homeless, in jail, etc. have some sort of underlying mental illness for which they are self medicating with drugs and alcohol. Years ago these people were in hospitals but with the use of new medications and changes in policy they were able to live in some sort of assisted living facilities. These facilities would assist with medication and other support. Yet, when the hospitals were closed, the promised assisted living facilities by and large never materialized. The self-medicating mentally ill end up in jail as they sell drugs to sustain their drug habit.
They sold 17,000 of them - for a death trap, would you expect them to have zero deaths? Because [1] says there were zero deaths.

I put it to you the C5 is no stupider than a segway, and at one tenth the cost.

[1] http://www.crashonline.org.uk/19/sinclar5.htm
I think I'll put on git after I add more features and finish a postmortem of this project. Check it out later. Thanks.
Sure, check profile for email.
Please be a bit more respectful of peoples mental health issues.
The time lapse showing raising a section of roadway is very impressive.
You install the package/setup as root.
Both eastern spans have displayed on Google Maps for the past month or two. The traffic data was even available, just directions didn't tell you to use the new bridge yet.
If you drop an email to me with some more pointers I can edit the article with an rsync feature?
I was just responding in a smart ass manner to a smart ass comment. Regardless, some of those people are in a state of temporary setback...insofar as the values of our capitalist society would infer. The permanency of being homeless due to some illness is something we should deal with in a humane manner and I believe food, shelter and most everything you mentioned is a human right. You don't know what I 'think', just what I type on the screen, and you also don't know what I can 'fathom' or whatever other nonsense you infer about people you don't know. But generally speaking I agree with much of what you typed.
Duplicity [1] is a good alternative too.

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
That's a great point. I'm a vegetarian, and I'm that way for compassionate reasons. But animal testing is bigger than people realize, and it's growing - claiming kittens on Craigslist and even house pets playing inside backyards.
The basic idea behind this, as I understand it, is that the author views the operating system as a way to interact with God.

See the following thread of comments on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1aqdxn/temple_o...

This is essentially the equivalent of "outsider art" in the technology world.
This is a great example of the crap you'll have to put up with from an author who tries to write about something without actually making an effort to understand anything.

The blackjack motif is a joke. Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House exposed the world to the power of card counting? Please. Do some research and credit Ed Thorpe, rather than just running with the time you saw '21' in the theater as the background for your article.
I would guess they are going for an IPO soon and tries to attach themselves to something sufficiently vague that seems bigger than themselves.
More like the president of the United States quitting and running for congress _during_ his term.

(An even better analogy would be if before the person was president they were involved with a different group of people, such as a theoretical President Ross Perot leaving the presidency to help rebuild Perot Systems.)
Indeed. He has the bizarre belief that his computer's PRNG is actually the holy spirit.
You should understand a bit about the author before you let this concern you. It certainly wasn't intended to be humor.
Can we reach out to this guy and help him somehow?
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2516
Metonymy
> Although the power to program exists on the iPad, the chance of "just stumbling into it" is very low

That would depend highly on what software is provided/required on the iPad by the school.
Hmm.. What else is it about? Using VMware or Virtualbox is actually more dangerous from an isolation perspective because of shared folders and sharing USB drives between the guest/host OS.
Terry is the guy behind the LoseThOS monicker, he does not appear to conceal his identity, so it's not hard to find his contact information if you try. I'm wondering if one of us should try to reach him and make an effort to get him to understand that if he lays aside the gibberish addendums and racist insults in his communications he's more than welcome to be a part of this community. I mean, this is actually someone who has gradually been losing it because the world has not been kind to him.

Look at his post from a little more than two years ago: http://i.imgur.com/qL01m.png

There are no insults in that post, instead you see a man who's created something wonderful and isn't getting anything back for it. Of course the icing on this cake is that, that very post was marked as dead... his cry for help was not seen or heard by anyone.
The fortune 500 companies also need the large multinational corporation that supports the well tested and widely deployed legacy systems with bugs and more especially security fixes.

Deploying a completely new codebase and opening yourself up to a frightening array of bugs is not really an acceptable risk, sadly.

I do enjoy the OS postings too. I hope to see more interesting info on the BeOS ports like Haiku on here too. I also loved that I could finally mess around with RiscOS and Plan9 on a raspberry pi.
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FWIW, LosethOS pushes his religion on you as much as the crazy guy on the corner with a "the end is near" sign does. Half of his content seems to be generated by a Markov chain. I also suspect plenty of people here may be intrigued with the "brilliant but insane" aspect he seems to show.
Duplicity is backup not sync.
I once spent an unhappy day with one of these.

The battery ran out 30 minutes into my ride and I had to peddle it home. The placement of the steering was uncomfortably low, my knees banged off the front, the seat was curved so my back was bent, there were screw heads poking through the seat back in line with my spine. I had to peddle extra hard as I were turning the motor as well as the wheels.

I had blisters all down my back when I got home.
The more conscientious one is, the better chance of flunking the polygraph. Sociopaths pass with no trouble.
Mandatory!
I think he posted an explanation for those seemingly gibberish posts. He wrote a program to grab random text from the Bible and other sources. Supposedly that randomness is what allows the truth to come out.
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Maybe you will get downvoted because you add exactly nothing to the discussion.
Small nitpick, but to be clear: Craigslist is a for-profit company, and has been registered as such since 1999. The job listings cost money to post. That's where the site is believed to make most of its revenue.

The .org domain, and the fact that a lot of users haven't experienced posting a job, create the popular misperception that CL is a nonprofit. To be fair, it's a strange kind of company, and I'm not sure if profit is its overriding goal, per se. But it's a for-profit enterprise. It may be the most laid-back for-profit I've ever seen, though. :)
Git gets very slow with large files and isn't optimized for binaries. bup (https://github.com/bup/bup) is based on git but designed to solve this problem (has its own high-speed packwriter/readers).

Although still can't delete old data at the moment (though its being worked on).
Ohh man, I used to work with a guy like this....though he would sing and write poetry to you over IM and slowly descend into madness.

He also believed his code was bulletproof and never needed changing/refactoring. He was a team culture killer.
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Either that or he's just a troll.
NYC offers plane tickets:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29oneway.html

Also, SF has the Homeward Bound program, which is similar:

http://www.sfhsa.org/79.htm
I have not downvoted you but can tell you why others are. You implied equivalence in the two systems, which is nonsense. India's issues are due to corruption. The US immigration system is instead faced with a very high load, inadequate resources, and a great many people trying to game it, which all cause it to be quite conservative and precise. But it is VERY different from India both in problem and solution.
I read The Prince when I was a lot younger, fascinating book.
I hear that repeated, but I don't find it convincing. A simple grammar would make it easy to find errors and kick them out immediately. Instead, we ended up with shitty ambiguous standards (common in "friendly" text-based protocols) and still have to deal with cross-browser compatibility.

If HTML had error checking and kicked out unspecified/ambiguous syntax, people may have left off tags (decided not to bold or make a list), omitted some images or something.

It's hard enough writing a spec - there will be unforeseen combinations resulting in conflicting behaviour. The answer isn't to give up and make the spec loose.
He is schizophrenic. One of the defining features of schizophrenia is that they can't be reasoned with. They have periods of complete lucidity followed by periods of complete craziness due to physical deterioration of the brain.

He deserves a good doctor. If we can do anything, then we should set up a fund for medical treatment. He has said that doctors haven't been able to help him, but maybe whoever is caring for him hasn't been able to afford top-tier care. It makes a huge difference.

In practice, setting up such a fund would be difficult because we don't know who's caring for him or how.
I think ReactOS' niche is situations where replacing some legacy system would be massively expensive but for some reason you can't (or do not want to) run legacy version of Windows. It might be a small niche, but even small niches should be catered.
Nice one!

Are you posting the source anywhere?
He's quite racist[0] and people won't tolerate his hate. It's for the best he got hellbanned, so the "saner" ones won't be tempted to get into a flame war with him.

[0]:http://i.imgur.com/IIMGYKE.png (the last comment made me laugh)
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I've often wondered about the reverse. A movie script as the ultimate video compression.
I knew I wouldn't be the only person to think, "Oh my, it's Timecube all over again..."
not before I clean up the code a bit - just hacked that together,
and variable names are still in Polish :)

it's really basic anyway: html parser + NSUserNotification + NSSpeechSynthesizer,
I think it's 5 mins to replicate for anyone acquainted with XCode (I'm not using it on a daily basis, so it took an hour or so)
Why do we sleep? [video]
It's generally Good News, however NZ is a member of the TPPA negotiations, and a willing one at that under their current right-wing government. I'm not up on the details but I'd not be surprised to learn that the provisions in the TPPA will include some kind of software patents and that this will over-ride local law.
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An hour a month? I wish I lived in that part of India. When I was there, Thursday was typically the day we lost to power cuts. 1 paise for travel? Within city travel was 50-200rs. And $200/month for a good developer? Anyone I'd consider letting near my codebase was at least a lakh a month.

(All numbers for Pune, about 1-2 years ago.)

I did a startup in India, mainly for the cheap labor. I'd happily expand and set up shop in India again, depending on the circumstances. But lets be realistic, rather than pushing hype.
Only when tumblr is down.
I imagine they're planning on a pivot to Lifelock-like protection.
Agreed. I'm always fascinated by how different industries punch above or below their weight in government.

The movie industry seems to more or less own half of Congress, and appears to be able to get industry-specific legislation created nearly at will. Yet total US movie industry revenue is in the neighborhood of $85 billion, which is about half of Apple all by itself, not even counting any of the many other valuable tech companies out there.
He's not necessarily racist. He's suffering from a mental illness. He believes god talks to him.
Why would dropbox even need that level of obfuscation for a backdoor? The binary just do evil directly (although having something that seems plausibly like a bug would be ideal.)
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it's unfair to judge someone's ability based on where they used to work.

This friend of mine was laid off in New York and received his severance; based on what I know about him, he could work in a multitude of places right now if he wanted to.

Zynga's vilified image aside, there is no reason to believe their engineers are not "top talent."
Directions are routed away from the bridge while it's closed, so maybe they removed it for this reason.
Perhaps, in the end, the NSA has done us all a favor: they have shown us the fundamental insecurity of giving 3rd parties access to our data.

Let us not write now as if the Snowden leak effects are at their end. This is the start of whatever changes - good or bad, are going to come.

Especially, if the NSA gets the changes it wants from the situation, talking about the insecurity of a network would become illegal and bad security practices could be papered over. Security experts would be unable to speak openly and clever black hat hackers who kept their mouths shut could likely run rampant.
That one wasn't funny, it wasn't as meta as "Is this real life." [0]

[0] https://plotagon.com/358
It's a great idea but I think it is a long way from being useful. The one feature I would not expect to see using a tool like this is realistic rendition of the dialogue. I know that is not technologically feasible. What I would expect to do in abscence of that, is be able to set the mood of the scene through lighting and colour, have a wider camera angle and movement vocabulary, and a wider range of interactions between the actors. This would make it a powerful previz tool and it would help tell the story closer to the writers intent in the absence of human reading the script. Just some of my thoughts. It would also be nice to see a linux version of this too. I can't see experienced writers using this, but they may not be the target audience. Who is the target audience by the way?
I know that I have about 5ish hours of good programming work in me a day. I know that I like to take a 45ish minute lunch. I know that I have some admin type stuff to do on occasion.

So, sign me up for a 6 hour day and you'll get my full attention all day. I won't "need" to spend time on HN or twitter or whatever to kill time because I'll be fresh enough to work all day.

Also, because i believe there is a hell of a lot more to life than work, we'll work 4 days a week.

A guy can dream, can't he?
It's worth pointing out the link to Micro Men on that page. Micro Men is a very good fictionalisation of the Sinclair vs Acorn battle for the UK BBC Micro contract.
Distributed companies require strong product and project management cultures - if it's a product that's sellable by sales people, there might be a dozen tweaks a day that might flow in engineers' direction - TSV export on top of CSV, change the gradient schema to a darker blue color, find out why two records are missing from a large customer's account, etc.

In tight shops where sales sits next to engineers and personal relationships are built, those small issues tend to get resolved rather quickly, leading to happier parties on both end, happier customers and higher product quality.

In distributed shops request must flow through a gatekeeper, such as project manager, who then keeps and prioritizes a list of such requests. Sales people then complain that nothing ever gets done, and requests go into a vacuum, while engineers complain about too much bureaucracy and inability to concentrate on large projects with all the pesky requests streaming in.
Micro Men
How to get massive traction and usage to your product?
On a similar vein, I was very impressed to note that, when the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington collapsed in May this year, it took roughly 1-2 hours from the news breaking (around 7:00pm PDT) for Google to have removed that section of the I-5 from their maps.

I would be very interested if anyone has insight on how it was done so quickly (particularly as to whether it's some automated process driven by a reliable data feed, or whether human intervention was required). It seemed too quick to be instigated by Map Maker edits, but maybe if enough people submit the same change, updates are pushed through faster?
As wiki says it's just a legend.
Sigh. I think public transit is pretty hopeless especially in California. For one, the state is broke. Since driving is the lifestyle here, I could see people would rather vote for wider freeways and bigger parking lots than expensive projects like the hyper loop.

It really goes back to what Henry Ford said: "If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse." We need someone with the power and vision to disrupt and build the future.
> This is akin to a reviewer writing a review of a book they had not read.

And yet you still call that a review.