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> And your logo looks like a $44/24hr logo.

You can find cheap made in volkswagen parts in AUDI cars too.

Even if it was $8/1hr logo no one would care if the final product was good enough.
Why should we not compare it to HTTP? HTTP is the dominant current alternative for the role Gopher used to fill. If there is any merit to reviving Gopher, it can only exist in an advantage that Gopher has over HTTP.
Is Ad Avoidance a Problem?
The Nexus 5 has the opportunity to pull a lot of disenchanted iPhone users to Android. What would it take for you to make the switch?
Until he gets hit by a bus or some cancer cells. Then what?
Funny coincidence. I've just spent the last hour on the phone with Comcast support asking them to disable the "xfinitywifi" my router is broadcasting and when it was all over decided to unwind and read some NH... And see this!

For anyone who needs to, call "1-855-845-6834" and ask them to disable the "xfinitywifi" hotspot on your router.

This will save you the 4 transfers, giving your info many times, and listening to the upgrade options you don't care about. It may also save you from the $70 support they'll try to charge you (should you choose to agree), and possibly one redirect to a number that no-longer exists (all of which I just went through).

GL.
Lesson learned: wear a 
condom
 virtual machine.
Yup, exactly those. See, amazon has them for 5 euro ... how anyone thinks that is super expensive I don't know.
The fcf for retailers can simply come from paying suppliers later than getting paid by customers. While a cheap source of capital (even this is doubtful), not exactly a winning strategy in the long run. The fcf will stop once revenue growth slows. As capital it is only cheap in the sense that you don't have to constantly raise equity for growth. Without earnings your equity base can't grow w/o getting more from shareholders.
I bought a cheap Moleskine diary - turns out diaries can be had for very little, if you buy them in July - and I've found fountain pen ink to dry on its pages quite quickly. There's loads of bleed through - but never any smearing. So perhaps it varies by product.

Perhaps I will buy another of their diaries, I haven't decided yet, but for general note taking I much prefer something that's spiral bound. Looking at the prices (and perfect binding...) of ordinary Moleskine notebooks, I think these represent much better value: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pukka-Pad-Notebook-Wirebound-Jotta/d... (the paper is not super premium, but feels weighty enough and doesn't suffer from bleed through too much)
You said it was cool to see unusual FizzBuzz solutions, so I just coded this up in the last 10 minutes. So... FizzBuzz without any modulo or division operations!

#include <stdio.h>
int f0(unsigned int x) { return x? (x&(1<<31)? f1(x<<1) : f0(x<<1)) : 1; }
int f1(unsigned int x) { return x? (x&(1<<31)? f3(x<<1) : f2(x<<1)) : 0; }
int f2(unsigned int x) { return x? (x&(1<<31)? f0(x<<1) : f4(x<<1)) : 0; }
int f3(unsigned int x) { return x? (x&(1<<31)? f2(x<<1) : f1(x<<1)) : 0; }
int f4(unsigned int x) { return x? (x&(1<<31)? f4(x<<1) : f3(x<<1)) : 0; }

int t0(unsigned int x) { return x? (x&(1<<31)? t1(x<<1) : t0(x<<1)) : 1; }
int t1(unsigned int x) { return x? (x&(1<<31)? t0(x<<1) : t2(x<<1)) : 0; }
int t2(unsigned int x) { return x? (x&(1<<31)? t2(x<<1) : t1(x<<1)) : 0; }

void main() {
unsigned int i;
for(i=1; i <= 100; i++) {
if(t0(i)) printf("Fizz");
if(f0(i)) printf("Buzz");
if(!(t0(i)|f0(i))) printf("%u",i);
printf("\n");
}
}
Ask HN: How did you find your mentor?
I was wondering, as newbie, in SV. How did you find your mentors for your companies? Where did you meet them? How long does it take to get their attention?
I don't really understand; why not ask an actual substantial question in a phone interview? Poor candidates who would fail fizzbuzz would fail that too; good candidates would be expected to pass such a question anyway.

Either way, you're wasting an hour of eng time at most.
Not gonna lie...it's pretty bad. For starters, the call to action is off the page on the right. Unforgivable.

Since your design skills are limited, you might need to find someone to do it or at least look online for some templates.

Here's what you're up against:
http://www.ex-pos.com
http://www.averoinc.com
http://euclidanalytics.com/product/qsr
http://restaurantsciences.com/

This one might be within the range of your skills:
http://www.tapastech.com/analytics
Who are these disenchanted iPhone users? I'm not trying to bait you, I'm genuinely curious who you think will switch. iPhone users are generally considered to have the highest satisfaction of any mobile phone users.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/10/17/jd-power-ranks-app...
No, you're not. You can use any android device without any Google involvement at all. Please stop spreading FUD. Look at the Kindle devices.
I hope so. I'd love it if any web page could be an app, and they had the same power that apps do.

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed :->
How to remove the Safari cookies at login
I'm American, and lived in China for two years. It's common to see things on the street that you don't understand, even for natives, and it's not prudent to take what you're seeing at face value. There are lots of scams, so one's first instinct is to hang back and protect oneself. Those times when I did get involved to ask if people needed help, it was always somewhat coldly and hurriedly refused, probably because the people I was offering to help feared that I was up to something. At the risk of making a racial/cultural generalization, Chinese people do not trust each other as much as Westerners do. I wish I understood this phenomenon better.

And, at least in big cities, there is so much going on, and so many people. Surely this makes bystander effect much worse. I like to help, but when problems happened, it was almost always the smart thing to do to just get out of the way.
> It is strange reading that about Yeezus, Kanye made Yeezus with a number of other musicians

As with his music, Reed is assuming his audience isn't an idiot. In this case, Reed assumes that you can fully internalize what West's role was and understand his words accordingly.
Wouldn't know about grid. I only use blanks and I find the paper fits a G2 pen perfectly. Maybe I lucked out on combination of favourite pen and favourite notebook and also on quality consistency here in Europe (I'm actually just 500km from Milan, where the company is based).

Also I only use the soft cover ones, so maybe that affects their quality as well because soft covers are less prone to breaking and ruining the stitching.

Here's my report from a few years ago: http://swizec.com/blog/notebook-fetishism/swizec/2729
Normal Earphones Used to Measure Heart Rate While Playing Music
A flat yearly tax on the vehicle.
It could even make a lot of profits without raising prices simply by dialing back investment.
Local governments are notorious for trying to increase revenue. Like changing yellow-light duration to increase red-light traffic violation tickets after cameras were installed.

Governments in general, at a federal level, might not be this way, but local cities and counties certainly often try many tricks. From "taxes" on driving, to abusing seizure laws. Hence the notion people have.
Once again you are ignoring every word of what I wrote. You quoted me, but neither of the responses had much to do with what I said. They were just a reiteration of your previous statements. We weren't talking about the legitimacy of our war strategy, or who is winning in Afghanistan, we were discussing whether or not Bin Laden could have been taken alive given the information about him that we had before the raid, as opposed to 20/20 hindsight.
I'm switching to try something new, on a device well suited for no contract plans. I bet Nexus will steal more customers from Samsung than Apple though
Lost 'Return of the Jedi' footage discovered on $699 LaserDisc
Providing incentives seems key. I wonder why CPAN came to work so well.

Possible incentives:

- automated testing (TravisCI does this in isolation already)

- automated distribution (build .deb, .msi, and .pkg files)

- usage statistics?

I'll have to think about this.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed this.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/07/08/its-time-to-train-offi...
I think you need to explain, or at least mention, how the Fed's behavior is significantly responsible for the charts of companies like Neflix and Tesla. I'm not sure I see why/how this is the case.
Interesting. I did as you suggested, but still think it is a positive review.

Might you offer a hint as to what you meant?
Not really. There were several consumer-friendly Linux distributions at that time that automated dual-boot and provided GUIs for configuration, including Mandrake/Mandriva, Lindows/Linspire, etc., and WPA didn't really exist.
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The LD50 of nicotine is low enough that it would be conceivable to die from the toxic effects, and that's not possible with cannabis, but that's already a risk with nicotine patches, and it's not that large a risk.

Nicotine certainly has some distinctive psychoactive effects. I suppose it's a matter of opinion whether you find them beneficial if you are otherwise healthy.
I have seen my share of longtime iPhone owners complain loudly about iOS7. I can imagine a few of them switching when the opportunity arrives. Also, some carriers are not "subsidizing" handsets anymore; for upfront payment the low price and fantastic value of Nexus hardware has a huge edge over the iPhone 5C.
The warrant covers "any communications that that might be found in Mrs. Hudson and Mrs. Flanagan’s home related to “the acquisition of firearms or accessories.”

Likely the term "communications" includes written communications, in which case they would have had to seize all written records in the home, unless they wanted search though all of them on-site. I doubt agents are experts in filtering documents during a raid.

Furthermore, if the police find something not related to the search warrant but criminal in nature (like a dead body or possibly stolen records) they can seize them, too.
It has always seemed quite useless to me to try to learn as much theory as you can before starting to actually do significant projects.

I agree with this, but I also advocate occasionally exploring random theory that's unrelated to your current projects, expanding your mental toolbox. Sometimes you don't know you have a problem until you've already heard of the solution.
You could call it a vehicle registration fee.
Apple Announces iPad Air iPad Mini Retina
Site is down now, but perhaps they're merely trying to appropriate themselves of your code and this is a water-muddling tactic.
For "doesn't use your bandwidth" read:-

* The public wifi usage doesn't eat up any of the private bandwidth allowance
* The public wifi is limited to 512kbps but private usage gets precedence (meaning that the bandwidth available for public wifi could be 0kbps at any point in time)
The issue isn't the number of networks, but rather the number of frequencies used.

The second ssid being broadcast will probably run on the same frequency as your usual ssid.

Switching to super high frequencies will mitigate the overlap, since these won't travel through thick walls, but then you may need to put wifi points in all you rooms.
Sad but true, I concur with this. So many scams going on that I have become desensitized to anything weird in my surroundings. Though if I saw something like the situation posted (gruesome), I'm not sure how I would have reacted. Given that the police/fire department would take too long to arrive, you really have to be prepared to act (not just call 411) if you get involved.
While I don't doubt the veracity of this article, it is wildly presumptuous to characterize an entire nation based on one or two isolated, anecdotal incidents.

How would we feel if the rest of the world characterized Americans by the antics of single individuals, like Lindsay Lohan or Miley Cyrus?
"Easier to do well than good" - a story about mission, innovation and failure
I'm ok with the MBP keyboard, I'd like something in the 13" MB Air footprint w/ retina, 16gig ram, and 512gig ssd. But I'd settle for the 13" Retina MBP with 16gig -- I currently have two gens older w/ 8gig.

Unfortunately, I don't want to put up with the size of a laptop that would have a keyboard comparable to the IBM Model M keyboard. So, when at the office/home, das Keyboard is my goto keyboard solution. Love the mechanical switches.
"harmless" isn't quite right but calling that a "lie" is likewise a stretch. If they are, say, less harmful than sugar, is it OK to call them harmless?
First Bitcoin ATM
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If the bar is "somewhat harmful" then almost everything we put in our bodies would comply.
Sucks for the grandma who runs Kaspersky and her internet is now broken and she has no clue why. That'll be a $150 callout from a local technician.
The title ("Obama 'not told..") doesn't match the contest of the article:

"NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines: '[General] Alexander did not discuss with President Obama in 2010 an alleged foreign intelligence operation involving German Chancellor Merkel, nor has he ever discussed alleged operations involving Chancellor Merkel, news reports claiming otherwise are not true.'

BBC: The statement does not make it clear whether the president was informed of the bugging operation by other means."

Emphasis mine: the statement as published there involves only "Gen. Alexander's discussions." Well done, spokespersons' statement and media's titles.
> They're addictive, and being forced into reliance on a substance is never good.

How bad is it? Unless I'm exercising hard, I'll get caffeine withdrawal symptoms if I stop drinking coffee. I have read of both beneficial and detrimental effects of caffeine. What's the threshold for considering the accompanying physical addiction a problem?
"believe nothing until it has been officially denied"
Thanks for posting. Well worth the time spent reading it :)
Yeah good point. I guess for various reasons higher levels of government tend to reign in the ability of lower levels of government to raise taxes, and it does create precisely the situation you describe.

Still, all the more reason to make fine distinctions - in this case between local state and federal government
Reading this article reminded me a bit of Carl Sagan's "The Dragons of Eden"[1] (1977). It's subtitle: 'Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence' explains the content pretty well. Mr. Sagan explains quite clearly in the introduction that he is speculating, but it is very entertaining speculation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dragons_of_Eden
http://imgur.com/ab50rmB
It's been my experience that many cultures have this problem, not just China.
First of all, the question you need to ask yourself is what type of leverage do you have in this situation and what type of relationship do you want to keep with this company you are at.

In terms of leverage, if you stop and quit right now, what will happen to the project? Are you on the critical path? This does give you some leverage.

Also, what level of documentation do you have with regards to getting paid? Based on your statements, you have met with management and have had verbal discussions. I would suggest doing these things via email. Do not just leave it to verbal communication for obvious reasons.

At this point, you need to build your case for yourself to prove that the company owes you money and you have not been paid. This is not so much that you would sue but that if you do go down that path you have evidence.

The next step would be to write an email to management stating:

1) The work you have done and how much you are owed.
2) A deadline expecting to get paid (lets say a week).
3) What will happen if the deadline is past and payment hasn't been made.

Be prepared for a couple of scenarios in this case. The company ignores your email and the deadline is past. You need to walk away. How nasty do you want to be is also a considering. You can backup your work and remove it from source control and hold the company for ransom until you get paid (I know someone that did this and they got paid pretty quick). If you don't want to go down that road, quit and look at suing the company with the expectation that you may not recover your wages.

The other scenario is that the company does pay you. In this case, take the money and find another job pronto. There is no reason to work for a company like this.

The other thing I want to add to this is that it is not your company and not your problem that the client is not paying the company. Don't make it your problem.

The most important thing is that you need to stop working without getting paid. If you feel the company is going to screw you over, just quit and spend that time looking for another job. Your payback with the company can be that you spread the word in the area that they a deadbeat company and everyone should stay away.
Are you actually me? This sounds so familiar, I just had a flashback...

Get a lawyer, like everyone else is saying. The fundamental fault I made was not enforcing my boundaries - this is the purpose of lawyers, to help you do this, but you first have to be aware of it yourself. So if you are not very familiar with contract law, learn the basics and how to analyze a contract etc. Apologies if I'm assuming things, but my assumption based on what you are saying is that you aren't.

I would recommend this to -everyone- in the IT field - there is now far too money sloshing around and every clever asshole out there is hell bent on becoming the next Steve Jobs. And learn a bit about the Loser/Clueless/Sociopath theory of management - I ended up working for a bona fide sociopath, as it turned out...

I too quasi-capped my invoices on this hell of a project - I lowered my rate for certain types of tasks, given they were mostly data entry like stuff, so it seemed logical and at that point, I was psychologically mired in the whole thing. Somehow this website I was hired to build turned into my being the entire IT staff for a enterprise B2B startup. As in everything - sysadmin to QA to CTO.

I finally snapped out of it when a) the CEO lied to a customer about the data we were selling - blatant negotiation in bad faith and the customer was going to sue (and mostly definitely win) and B) it became apparent how they were playing 3 card monte with the invoices and lying to all the salesguys and me about cash flow issues while they paid off the loans their OTHER company had made to fund the startup.

So everyone working for this company quit. It took us 6+ months to get paid back because the CEO's wife then went and started pulling crap, reinterpreting contracts and claiming people were not owed so much money...

I too, like lots of contractors, have a commitment to the job and professionalism that you exhibited - I am certainly not faulting you for that. But you have to realize some clients will consciously take advantage of that - read up on manipulative people and how to deal with them. A good book is "In Sheep's Clothing" by George Simon.

Then I suggest some deep soul searching / psychoanalysis to figure out what your blinds spots were and why - it was all a valuable lesson for me and I suppose it would have happened someday. I can say it was ultimately useful. But 4 years of hell is a long time to waste.

So I hope you can find the silver lining in all this and I wish you luck.
Not sure what is worse: that Obama knew since 2010 that Merkel (and other allied countries leaders) was being spied, or that he had no clue of what the NSA were doing.

If he don't know what the government is doing, who is in charge then?
Automated vulnerability scanning and exploitation
You're right. I think this goal is difficult if not impossible given the way things are.

Missing, I think, is the requirement that open source projects are written with something like Repobuild in mind - consciously choosing to be part of an Open Package Build Network.

It does seem to run counter to open source to standardize around a build system. However, the power unlocked by such a build system (as alluded to in the OP) might be reason to make the move. Who wants to tinker around with the 20 different build systems each of your dependencies uses?

In other words, if the open source world starts moving in the direction of a standard build system, gaining momentum, it seems to follow the open source world can reach further in its endeavors, tackling more and more complex problems.
Wouldn't it be good enough to assume that any file with a valid Microsoft signature is safe? If Microsoft's signing system is compromised (which IIRC sort of happened once when a key issued for signing network credentials could also sign binaries, possibly used in nation-state malware?), you'll have bigger issues than antivirus software deleting essential system files.
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Typical argument. Obama knows nothing if there's any possibility that it could harm him. How many times will they use this argument.

Ultimately, he's commander in chief, and if we use the same approach as applied against Bush, then Obama is responsible.
On my iPad in landscape the green button isn't visible without scrolling.

Best wishes with your venture guys.
Uh... that does happen.
Thanks for the correction - updated my answer.

But when you're honest: How many users are willing to use the device without connection to the Google ecosystem? It's the same on iOS. My point of criticism remains the same: The data you're (then) generating in the Google ecosystem has a higher value than in any other ecosystem (Apple, Microsoft, etc.) and more likely makes you a product (and not free).
Not a chance. My guess is that it'll be DOA.

I'm not sure why technical people can't be more aware of how the world works, but until we are, the world is going to continue to be run by MBA's and marketing people. Google is the one of the few bright spot but most companies are run by a different breed.
Emacs as my Leader: Vim Survival Guide
A really bad idea for the working poor. Think of having no withholding on your income and then having to pay your tax bill. The pay-as-you-go / use tax is probably one of the easiest taxes to manage.
different ip/wireless on the LAN side. But does it also have a different ip on the WAN side?
Why Transparency is Important to this Startup
The killer cutoff is if it's possible to write server apps for the platform in question. For iOS you can while the app is in the foreground, for Android you can all the time, for Firefox or Chrome OS . . . nope, they are explicitly designed to be clients to something else.

That may seem ridiculous, but the hooks are not there in Web APIs to do peer to peer communication for example, let alone peer to peer based on discovery of nearby devices. Chrome OS even lacks zero conf network support. Aside from Mozilla (who seem overly attached to the support of carriers) the people pushing the advancement of the web platform have zero interest in altering this direction, and in fact would prefer we go further in it.

I would be far keener on FF OS or Chrome OS if they supported sandboxed node.js on the clients, and worked on extending the API from node.js, not the web browser model.
Me.

Recently began work on a mobile project where we deal with a few recent Android phones and tablets. I already bought myself a Nexus 7 and it's fucking awesome. I can't wait to drop the iPhone and get the Nexus 5.

Both have their merits but in the end it's the screens size to me. Make the iPhone thinner, give it a killer screen, and I'll go back but until then, Android.
I don´t see why you would use one if those when almost everyone has a phone in their pocket these days. Usually with and app or NFC chip that will do those things.