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You lied to customers to get something valuable from them (in this case, the information that they were prepared to pay you, and their engagement with your site). You used this, by your own account, to gain $4000. I wouldn't want to make a large bet that that isn't fraud and outright illegal.

It probably isn't, unfortunately. But I hope your company fails. You should not get away with such behaviour.

A decent person would learn from all the people here saying "This is not an acceptable way to behave", and issue an apology for boasting about how they made a profit from deceiving their customers. I wonder: are you a decent person?
>The theme was also propagated in the novel 1984,concept of equality among humans was/is going to be a big disaster.

Not at all. If you want to mention an anti-egalitarian novel, Harrison Bergeron is probably the one to pick.

Orwell was very definitely big on equality and socialism - In one of his essays, circa World War 2, he even proposed a maximum wage!

1984 was largely a critique of Stalinist totalitarianism (and post-war British austerity) rather than a criticism of socialism itself. In fact, one of his problems with Stalin (as well as the previously-mentioned totalitarianism) was that Stalin was a counterrevolutionary who crushed the egalitarian revolution going on in Spain during the Civil war - Orwell was fighting alongside a Trotskyite militia at the time and recounted his ideas in Homage to Catalonia. Orwell was to the left of Stalin, if anything.

Orwell's socialism is certainitely the main thread throughout all of his work, but unfortunately his two most famous works - Animal Farm and 1984 - because they happen to be attacks on the Soviet Communist Party, are often erroneously read as attacks on socialism.
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Indeed: what they routinely do in those cases is take some otherwise-ignorant agent, give them a little advice like "hey, you really should check out some stuff in this area" (nudge-nudge/wink-wink) and have him "rediscover" this information. Then they tell the court that it was Obtained Through That Agent's Normal Ordinary Investigations. "Parallell construction" aka "intelligence laundering".

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
I don't have a facebook profile and I keep in touch with people with the exciting new technologies of email and telephone. Amazing what actually talking to people does.
Well, that's like reactive transparency. For some people this means that I / we have broken their trust and any future relationship is thus dependent on earning back that trust. Being open, honest and apologetic after that fact, helps with mending those relationships.
The title is horrible. "Marketing for Developers -- Applying a low touch approach". Hm, that looks like something in my ads/spam folder.

The mail starts with some random blurb about the company. Honestly I don't care (yet). All I would think is: Why are you contacting me? How did you find out about me? They say they solve problems. Which problems? How are they related to my field of work?

After that I wouldn't even care to read the rest. Sorry, this is bad execution.
dobbsbob writes:
> Belarus seems to have no financial police whatsoever [...] they didn't even ask me the source of the income [...] watch shady Russian businessmen walk out with bags of cash

hayksaakian writes:
> This seems completely legit.

I find myself unable to tell whether you (hayksaakian) are being serious or ironic.
"the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel" isn't breakeven. The fuel doesn't absorb anywhere near 100% of the energy put in. They're nowhere near breakeven.

From the actual announcement[1]: "The NIF laser focuses 1.7 megajoules of UV light onto the cylinder, or hohlraum, that contains the fuel. Only a few kilojoules of that energy actually winds up in the plasma. "Most of the energy that the laser transfers is wasted on heating up the gold hohlraum, then heating up the plastic, and only a very small fraction of the energy actually heats up the thermonuclear fuel," says Betti."

[1] http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/politics_and_polic...
Because, you know, sometimes it's more complicated than what you eat, like when you have, you know, medical conditions like the one stated in, you know, the article.

But congratulations on your weight loss and newfound abilities to generalize a condition that endocrinologists and geneticists have been researching for decades.
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Also this:

http://33bits.org/2009/05/13/your-morning-commute-is-unique-...
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The difference, I'm guessing, is that you feel like more of an expert on politeness than the medical field.
It has always been illegal to not comply with search warrants. Why would search warrants for digital data be any different?
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You can solder with platinum directly, in a manner of speaking (it won't be 100% platinum, and it also requires much higher temperatures than ordinary solder).
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A former college of mine set out to start a company like that:

https://www.sprowd.com/

I didn't follow them since then. Looks like they tried to crowd-fund themselves, but failed. However, he seemed very passionate about this idea. So, I would be surprised if they'd give it up easily.
That's unfortunate. It was a really useful tool. The Hot Topics are not particularly useful, well, unless you want to know what People Magazine is going to print in their next issue.
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I love the way they make usual objects look good and function properly. Reminds me of Apple and its revolutions (iPhone, iPad, iPod) - but then again, I heard the founders come from Apple?
There is this thing about ancient China: each son, when his father died, had to mourn for three years. Yes, three years. And it meant stopping your official occupation, e.g. official employment. (This didn't apply to the peasant).

Result: most of the great products of Chinese culture are a direct consequence of this forced idleness.
Since we're doing grammar advice:

> I cannot get passed the title

I think, and please correct me if I'm wrong, this should be "I cannot get past the title". :)

A bit of lenience might be in order since the author is from Israel and English may not be her first language (then again, native speakers might not necessarily do better).
Keep in mind all of the Micro Recessions that are caused by High Frequency Trading.
The wonderful thing about hiring a lawyer is that they will tell you whether or not this is the case.
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I think this is pretty smart. The fire alarm in my small rented flat is pretty close to the kitchen, so I regularly have to try and fan smoke away from my panicking alarm.

Looks like a well designed concept, well executed.
This type of thing has the potential to ruin the reputation of startups everywhere. If it isn't outright fraud (selling people something that doesn't exist) I'm not sure what is.

I'm amazed someone has the gall to boast about this type of thing publicly while blatantly ignoring the long-reaching repercussions their actions could have throughout the entire startup community.

People routinely go to prison for similar types of deception in other industries. It is a slippery slope that is surely testing the bounds of fraud while ruining the reputation of legitimate startups everywhere.
So much opportunities out there.
You've replied to this story about 15 times defending the woman's eating/exercise habits. What's the agenda here? Most of the people you're taking umbrage with aren't remotely disagreeing with the disorder; merely the assertion that everything is a-okay and nothing more can be done.

The world doesn't work in absolutes and neither should you.
I use IdeaVim every day for java work. It's okay, but it's a pretty shallow emulation, and I frequently miss things from real vim.
I didn't say it was all wine and roses. I said it was miles ahead of scala. It absolutely is.
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Personally, I would agree with you.
1) Ah, excellent! Perhaps I missed the communication on this?

2) Yep, re-prioritizing based on this makes complete sense.
hesitant about 2 hours??? i'm coming from Israel!
Yup, Tony Fadell was a VP there, he worked on the iPod and iPhone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fadell

Matt Rogers was a lead software engineer there in the iPod division:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-rogers/3/8a2/866
The CEO was the genius behind the iPod and iPhone.
Because, you know, I already stated that there are exceptions, only they're rather exceptional than the norm, as in US or Mexico.

Geographically correlated obesity is explained by nutrition culture, not by geographically selective medical conditions.
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Man this would be a great place to work.
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The problem you have is that while there are definitely people who really need to modify their lifestyle, there are a not so insignificant number of people who cannot reduce their weight.

I think it's great you managed to lose weight (I fight a constant battle of the bulge myself with exercise and diet), but the author has an endocrine disorder called Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

My point is that when you lump all "fatties" into the same bucket, you also unfairly judge those with medical conditions. Given many of the fat people you see will be strangers, you'll probably never know if it is lifestyle or a medical disorder causing their excess weight.

Food for thought?
> Humans aren't too happy with every one getting the same.
> We inevitable use our time to buy things that distinguish us from other fellow humans.

IMHO this is cultural, not biological phenomenon. In developed countries, especially US, people are pretty much being brainwashed to 'think different and buy X'.

Yes, inequality is inevitable to some extent, however it is often artificially promoted for its own sake.
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> publicly and freely accessible data would be illegal.

Data is not "publicly and freely accessible" if accessing it requires you to agree to separate terms of service for it that restrict your ability to access and redistribute it.

(Whether or not one believes the data should be freely and public accessible is a separate matter, but given the above, it's hard to make the case that it is).

Amusingly, this data still isn't "freely accessible", because these people have attached their own, separate terms to reusing and redistributing the data.
I changed my default search engine
5 Queries which fired google - http://searal.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/5-queries-where-google-failed/
What do you mean failed ?

It means I have found better results in another search engine
Which search engine you have compared with ?

Searal. I have compared my results with Searal and Google
Ok, I see. Where are the queries ?

Here it is. Decide yourself
Where is a good place to eat dinner? – I have found a direct place name in search engine searal, according to my location. Google just sends me to another url .
JBAS014688: Wrong type for max-threads. Expected [EXPRESSION, INT] but was OBJECT – Yahoo and DuckDuckgo has better results. And google has not even understood the query.
2013 Nobel prize winner - Before finalizing your answer, check out the results in DuckDuckGo tab at searal.com. DuckDuckgo is providing live results.
Unknown lifecycle phase “checkout”. You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format <plugin-prefix>:<goal> - Google failed completely here. I have found results in bing search.
Remote EJB communication cluster hangs with load - Now if you cannot provide answers to this query. Then what is your use ?

I never thought that i can get better results in Searal. How can that possible ?

You are not the only one. I have changed my default search engine for searal. And I am able to find solution quite early than my colleagues do. It is possible because alots of people just think google is the internet. Whatever Google is displaying is correct and is a final answer. But above are very simple query.

Should i salute you ?

Three Salutes to Yahoo , Bing and DuckDuckgo Or one salute to Searal !
You are incorrect. The usual process in cases where the government subpoenas data from service providers is for the service providers to gather the data and supply it to the government. Doing anything else is nearly nonsensical since the government does not have the domain knowledge of the systems of the service provider to be capable of retrieving the data.
You are arguing a point the parent post never actually made.

She has a fairly common endocrine disorder (5-10% of the female population is millions of people) that makes it easier to gain weight. That does not mean that her body defies the laws of thermodynamics or the conservation of energy, and I'm fairly certain that there are people who suffer from the disorder without being obese.

Indeed, it is hardly difficult to find medical resources on weight control for those who suffer from this, such as http://women.webmd.com/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos-and-we...

That isn't to justify the many "Easy!" type comments: Life is tough. We all face tough battles. We all have ways that nature seems to conspire against us. But it does dispute the "I have {x} therefore I am without choice".

As one scientifically vapid, completely and utterly unproven sidenote just because it came to mind during this comment: one observation I've made about people who have difficulty controlling their weight is an almost perfect correlation with an innate desire to maintain warmth at all costs. Very warm houses with the heat set high, thick sweaters, giant comforters, no temperature setback at night. Generating heat is an expensive exercise for the body (calories, of course, are the measurement of the heat potential of foods), so I have to think that these environmental controls contribute to what people call a "low metabolism". I'm the sort of guy who wears a t-shift in the winter and uses the skimpiest threadbare sheet in the 58F house at nighttime, and people always marvel about my "incredible metabolism" as I devour a whole pizza.
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The lack of humor on HN is the worst thing about it, IMHO. Of course that sort of cultural value won't be in the FAQ.
I'm 100% sure they do, but if you're careful when setting p your SSL/TLS keys, verisign (or any other CA) never sees your private keys, they just sign your CSR. If the FBI had wanted to, they could have seized the servers, and either broken into them and replaced the private key with their own, or replaced the servers with ones they'd built with their own ssl key pairs. But, as the article points out - what they were trying _very_ hard to get was complete infiltration of the entire Lavanit operation without any of the 400,000 paying customers of the supposedly secure email provider knowing about it. Kudos to Levinson for not allowing that to happen, to his great personal cost. (I doubt I'd have the courage to do the same)
Whether getting the sales and numbers justify a person's actions depends on the ethical values that the founder has. For many, this seems like a legitimate way of validating one's idea. For others, this is completely morally wrong. As you said, if it didn't feel good, why would one continue the same tactic? I believe business is an art as much as a science. There's much more balance work needed than the narrow focus on sales and numbers. The balance of employees, shareholders, customers, society, your own moral values, etc. Good luck! You can market and do sales. Just do it already :)
>Lastly, have to ask, is obesity a specific US sensitivity? Seems from my POV that there is a hell of a lot of excuse making for obesity in the US that does not happen else where. Any suggestion that its the persons own doing, eating badly and not exercising, is stamped on like its some sort of heresy. Where as here its pretty much the accepted reason.

Well there are a lot of obese people here. They even get handicap placards at this point, its recognized as a disease etc. They're 1 step short of becoming a protected group.
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There must be an issue with the methodology. It is hard to reconcile $85 for 500MB when Virgin Mobile and Straight Talk offer monthly plans for $35-$45/month with a lot more than 500MB of data.

The mobile data situation for tourists is not good, but this chart and story don't accurately represent the US market for mobile data.
Watching the video I realised I am wasting valuable time watching the video...
- Also I would have preferred a grant total of seconds remaining rather than years / months / days / hours etc.
Thanks for the reply. It looks like a great program.

Unfortunately, my wife would have a hard time finding work in her field and my daughter loves her school and friends too much. I'd feel awful asking them to make the sacrifice.
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I think Qwest Communications was a public company when they refused to comply with the NSA.
Sure, I could have just done customer interviews without requiring CC details. I truly believe that this feedback is however still hit-or-miss and we might've optimized for the wrong thing thereafter. Paying customers' feedback is always better than the feedback from any kind of "free user".
Seriously, I'd like you to back that statement with some hard data. Not because I necessarily disbelieve you (lifestyle is a HUGE cause of weight problems), but because I think you underestimate how many people suffer from medical disorders.
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This worked already befor youtube :)
telnet telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

and I still like it!
Ask HN: How do you do your enterprise deployments?
At my company we have numerous applications in which all deployments are done manually.

Is this how most deployments are done?

If not, what tools do you use?

Interested in particular to hear about Java enterprise deployments, but all are welcome.
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>>However in a "post-scarcity" environment
>>> Scarcity of which commodity?

Scarcity of materials and energy, mostly.

>>> The western civilization is already at a point where food and clothes aren't even a problem. Yet the debates about rich and poor are common.

You are correct that the segment of the population that does not need to worry about food and shelter is much higher than before, but we're not there yet: the "west" is generously about 15% of the world's population.

Unfortunately, discussions of possible futures tend to be rooted in current thinking and assumptions (mostly by necessity); by our current thinking, yes, people would get "free food, clothes and a home" but imagine if those things were as available as the air we breath. We neither talk about "free air" nor argue about its unequal distribution. In fact, we complain when our air is polluted.
That does look quite cool. Would you mind saying more about it, and how the scraper works?
I'd probably even never open such email on my business email. I get a lot of random emails from a lot of people, I don't think they're the first to figure firstname.lastname@business.com out.
Considering parts of Oregon have had to go back to private citizens doing patrols due to budget cuts, I can see where private police forces or citizen patrols will probably happen more and more.

It should be noted that standing police forces are a relatively new concept. Rome had one at the end, but that was became quite corrupt.
Will you quit riding in a car?

Every person gets to trade risks and benefits at their own discretion. To me, the years I've saved traveling are well worth the risk of riding in an automobile. I hope you won't try to convert me to however you feel about it.
I don't think I would have done this either, but before beating up on Adii too much, have you ever spent a lot of time and/or money building something that no one wanted? It really, really sucks, and I can understand the strong drive to avoid it.

To keep the discussion productive, I think we ought to look at similar ways to validate a product that more of us would be comfortable with.

Edit actually, patio11's take on how to validate struck me as a pretty good approach:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-who...

It's pretty long, so if you find "This one day I went into a massage therapist, and asked" that's the start of the story.

I disagree with him about 'The Lean Startup' though, I thought it was a bit too ... "high level".
Yeah, that defn problem needs a whole blog post - damn macros.
Actually, that appeared to be a joke, not sarcasm. Which doesn't make the comment any less insensitive.
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PCOS causes insulin resistance. If she counted calories, she would lose weight. She is eating too much, just like the parent comment suggests. Having a very common disorder does not mean it causes obesity, nor does it prevent one from maintaining a healthy weight. It simply makes it more challenging, as she will tend to be hungry more.
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Ask HN: Graduate iOS developer opportunities in the UK?
I'm in my last year of my MEng Computer Science course in the UK. I'm wondering where would be a good place to look for graduate iOS roles.

I have experience with iOS development, and obviously the mobile industry is pretty booming, but it seems difficult to find graduate roles for the field. I've found a few, specifically small start-ups and select corporations, but it would be great to have some more ideas.

Any advice would be fantastic.
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Many smart people would see right through it.
You mean like Judge Alsup, who taught himself Java so that he could rule that Oracle's APIs are not copyrightable? Or Judge Wells, who ordered SCO to show him the code and then threw the case out when the failed to do so? We haven't done so bad on tech judges recently - it seems to me that the problem with the lavabit/NSA cases is not so much the technical side, but the classic one of government powers, and the fact that there is no explicit constitutional protections of privacy.
"She is eating too much"

How on earth do you know that?!
This seems like a less mature and more opinionated edition of DocPad? - http://docpad.org

I find it hard to understand why one would use this over DocPad... Can someone fill me in, I'm curious to know what the interest is about in case I'm missing something!
I think your point about making your pitch about the other person is bang on, but for different reasons. The whole reason why someone would use your software/product is because it benefits them. So starting off by saying something like "Our product X can help increase your sales by 10%" is just good salesmanship.
Thanks - did not notice that! awesome!
I guess it always depends on the job, but most likely not. I actually had someone apply like that who had taken some Ruby course. It was a pretty much a no because I knew I was going to have to babysit them no matter how smart and talented they were.
What is the opinion on Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks High beta fusion reactor?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor

How does this stack up against the more conventionally theorised techniques?
"Memento mori" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori) has a long history.
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