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We all have breaks throughout the day
Surely the NSA will protect us from these too.
I always wondered, why are those laws that are being ignored by most of the police force (spitting, jaywalking and such) not being removed? Is there any reason to keep them besides having a reason to arrest anyone at any time?
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In Pakistan i remember there used to be some special numbers ( 3 to 5) digits. Whenever you dial those numbers from your mobiles this would eventually end up with already ongoing call.
Personally, I have used both the Gmail alias and the company@example.com strategies. I have since given up both as I found it too hard to remember what address I used where.

The main reason I quit doing this is because Gmail's spam filtering kept spam out of my inbox and I never cared if one of those aliases were "compromised" and it wasn't worth the effort. I guess it was a solution to a problem I never had.

I still use a spam@example.com for those sites that I may need to provide an email address and I don't want to give them my real address, such as forums that make you sign in to see an answer.
That was made last year? Wow. That's surprisingly prescient.
That's results-oriented, both in poker and in start-ups.

How did your hand fare against your opponent's range (and not just the hand they turned over)? If it fared well, you likely had good expected value on the hand.

Same principle applies to startups.

In poker, though, the stakes are smaller and you get to play many, many more hands to ease out the variance.
I'm pretty sure I'd do it, but I'd actually prefer an audio system, which is trivial with tech had even 10-15 years ago -- basically 24x7 microphone and headset, connected to something with less computation than Siri, giving me essentially an "audio tour" of wherever I am, mixed in with internet content (e.g. reading me mail), etc.
Take a look at FatFractal (http://fatfractal.com). Better functionality and usability than Parse or StackMob, especially the Datagraph. Full disclosure: I work for FF.
Yes, please shoot me an email ryan @ teamtreehouse
Sure, please shoot me an email ryan @ teamtreehouse
I am following this blog http://net.tutsplus.com/ it has lots of lots of tutorials and sessions.
I got this for a friend in February. I followed these instructions to root and add the google play market:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37295457&post...

http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/65866-trio-machspeed-stealth...
am not one of those guys - i just HATE the idea that you have to "pay" to get a piece of mind - that's their "market plan" right?
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With gmail spam filtering and the new tabs I find all this junk a waste of time. And who wants to use all these different addresses for logging in?
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My grandmother bought these for all my younger cousins (claiming she got them an "iPad"). They were horrible. Everyone kept coming to me for "tech support", wondering why it's not working or why it's so sluggish or unresponsive or why they can't install Angry Birds on it (it doesn't come with the Play store).

At $29, you're overpaying.
yep that's how they get ya, yawn - they [Sublime] are OVERRATED! - i just don't get it! - why go through all the "registration" CRAP when there are infinity options out there - comeon' - MOVE ON ppl!
I have my domains hooked up with google apps (there was a time when it was free, still is if you got in early), and they allow you to have a catch-all for email addresses that you can redirect to one of your user accounts. So each time I need an email for a site, I just put <site_name>@some_domain.com.

This way there's no need for the +alias in the user part, and some site tend to block this because they know it's used for aliases.

Doing this, I know exactly where this email was used. Been doing this for years, and works great.
You can write and compile standard Java apps on Android with AIDE [1]. For young kids, you can make games on Android with Pocket Code [2] using a visual programming UI similar to MIT Scratch.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.catrobat.c...
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that claim is ridiculous. How do they plan to mirror your smartphone and pc ? Something like VNC maybe, which will at least require a rooted/jailbroken phone. And why a virtual 11 inch form factor ?

Id love to be proven wrong, but as this clearly isn't real footage, lets see what comes out of it.
It's a shame these aren't actual database ENUMs, but rather ints (with the mapping in ruby land): https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/db41eb8a6ea88b854bf5cd...

Even a text column would be preferable IMO ... you wouldn't need to worry about remapping if a value got removed, it's more easily queryable, and it's certainly more legible if you're looking at raw data (say, via psql). Plus you probably won't really save much (any?) space with an (64-bit) int.
1 question: why?

Not trying to be a dick, just honestly curious.
My point is that the _state of mind_ of an individual plays the most important role in determining the individual's punishment.

This was no schoolboy on a dare, this was a political activist making a political point. The author was punished severely, but do not trust his reasons for it. (Last year, it was because of Stop and Frisk. This time, he doesn't even seem to have a political excuse... it seems more like a call to a generic "$%#$# the police").

He did NOT seek to "learn about the justice system", he explicitly tried to get arrested to protest the stop and frisk laws that were being implemented in New York City. Jailtimes and Probation are the expected risks you take when you a political dissident like that.

Besides, there are less obtrusive ways of protest than spray painting a public building.
Can it be used as a digital photo frame?
Whenever I read a story like this (there have been dozens lately), I simply don't have the background to determine how big of a problem this is going to be. Are these bugs antibiotic resistant just to current antibiotics? Is the only reason we have nothing that currently kills them is because it's not profitable for research into fighting them? Basically, what I'd love to know is are we on the cusp of a new Black Plague type of scenario with antibiotic resistant bugs or is it simply a problem that we haven't been working on?

I read somewhere a while back that no one has really been focusing on new forms of antibiotics because the old ones worked, and it's not profitable for pharmaceuticals to research it, as it's the type of drug a person takes for a limited time only (aka non-chronic) so the profit potential is much lower than say AIDS medication. Not sure how much truth there is to that however...
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What I'd really like to see happen is for one of these very cheap tablets to be given a set of ports for interfacing with motors and instruments. It could become a sort of Raspberry Pi that's already in a case with a screen and battery. It would then function as a kind of extremely flexible Lego Mindstorms competitor that could be put into the middle of home automation, robots or garden automation.
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So that makes it okay to show a product so-far-bluffed that it will never exist? Get real. The video is the antithesis of honest marketing, it's pure hype.
Capacitive touchscreens are the devil, ugh!
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how can something like this reach HN #1 ?
Its a terrible terrible product, so whats the point if its cheap? Like on low-end android smartphones, the user experience is horrible and that "tablet" is smaller than many modern smartphones.
The resolution is really low, and you can only install apps from their own app store -- so probably not worth the trouble.
The dollar signs are hideous. Change class$ to Class. Don't be an amateur when it comes to reserved words, even my doge knows about case sensitivity.
Ok, sorry, but 100 hours to apply to a single job is just silly. There are tons of factors that you could make you an unfit candidate for that position that you couldn't possibly know about, and even putting a solid year of work into a resume won't help you get around those problems.

"So I put in my 100 hours. I made a custom resume that I illustrated with little Evernote-style animals. I got out my guitar and sang a song about why I wanted to work there. I designed a custom iPhone app for them."

Perhaps they were a little creeped out by someone singing a song to them on YouTube without knowing them at all? This just gives me weird vibes... and furthermore demonstrates nothing of clear value to being a designer (presumably) at Evernote. Those 100 hours would have been better spent honing skills or learning a new one.

I think you should pump the brakes a little on your job application strategy. Most of the time, a well-crafted, personal email and solid resume is the best way to go. A bunch of the time not being hired is as simple as "they found another person first", "you were one of 100 resumes and they accidentally skipped yours", or "they were looking for a person who would be more adept as skill y whereas you're best at skill x". That's why you should concentrate on a couple companies you'd like to work at, and not be devastated if the most likely situation happens (not being picked).
Honey is basically sugar. Just Fructose and Glucose. There is some plant matter, but not much.

Thinking that Honey does much more than taste good is silly. The reason it does things like help when you are sick is just that it is really easy to digest sugar and that gives you a kick of energy, and because of the distinct flavor it also helps with nausea. But basically anything Honey will do maple syrup will do just as well, as they are really similar chemically.

In truth most the things honey will do a caffeine free soda will do.
Have you actually encountered a site blocking + in email addresses? Because that's just categorically wrong behaviour.

My mail server (running qmail) uses - for this. Have been doing this trick for at least a decade now with it. I've never had a site complain about it.
Capacitive touchscreens are used in all modern tablets/smartphones

i think you are confusing that with resistive touchscreens.
The first big step is to reduce the number of laws, and things that are considered criminal. When we stop legislating morality and inconvenience much of this discretionary enforcement goes away.
40% profit margins do not exist for long in properly functioning competitive markets. Deeply entrenched companies typically run at 10%. Monopolies (example: drug companies) run at 20% (arguably in the case of drug companies this is ok because they operate with much higher risk).

If you find a 40% margin that can't be ascribed to transient behavior, you have found a market that has entered one of the (many) modes of market failure, in which the usual arguments for markets being a force for good (or least evil) go out the window. We use markets precisely because they tend to avoid situations like this; it baffles me how frequently the "market did it so it must be good" argument rears its head every time there's an exception. It's circular reasoning, at least for those of us who don't take the moral infallibility of the free-market as an article of faith.

Specifically, they are not "automatically bad" because they make money using copyright. They are bad because they've found a loophole that lets them monopolize a critical distribution channel for taxpayer-funded research, and they're milking the shit out of it at enormous cost to taxpayers and students. Broke startup founders do not get to appropriate tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded work and hold it hostage from those who have paid for it, and if they did it would not be OK.
This is especially true of recruitment agents who appear, at least in the UK, to sell your address to anyone.
> Hacker News seems to be a den of vipers, waiting to strike at the tiniest opportunity to nitpick.

When presented with a sensible, practical and actually innovative idea, I've found the responses to be fairly favorable. With small things that have been done over and over again (worse or better), I think you can expect some comparisons and questions.
> Stuart King, an Australian musician in his thirties, recently commented:

>> Most days I wake up feeling more tired than when I went to bed the night before,

This guy should do a sleep study.
If only my flag link hadn't been taken away.
One would hope that antibiotic resistant bacteria would be outcompeted in sewage by other bacteria with more mundane selection pressures.

Alternatively, the sewage actually has residual antibiotics in it. A cursory Google indicates this may be the case. They ought to be removed from the sewage by treatment.
"what I'd love to know is are we on the cusp of a new Black Plague type of scenario with antibiotic resistant bugs or is it simply a problem that we haven't been working on?"

The answer to the first question is: quite possibly, but with something like tuberculosis instead of the plague. Less immediately scary, but more harmful: resistant forms of more common bacteria will create serious risks when undergoing any sort of surgical procedure. We could get back to the days when your biggest risk of surgery was dying from infection afterward.

The answer to you second question is: no, we haven't really been working on it. But the big problem is that we can't just invent new classes of antibiotics overnight. If one of these strains takes off, things will get a lot worse before they get better.
do you suppose your proprioception might get out of whack if it's even slightly miscalibrated?
Interesting. I found that TameJS or Iced CoffeeScript mostly solved the async terribleness problem in node, but you basically are using a non-standard toolchain at that point, and setting that up for a whole team is sort of absurd.

Also, I'm not fully convinced that node is worth the code complexity that all of these solutions bring with them when go or scala can give you better performance with much cleaner code.
Look, not that many people use Tor in the overall scheme of things. If you find a bomb threat that seems to have originated from a Tor node, and you find that a few people on the campus network were using Tor around the same time, that's the obvious clue to follow. ISTM that you wish Tor were so good at anonymity as to spoof its origins to the webmail program from where the threat were issued, but that seems an unrealistic thing to ask. It's just a protocol, things like time-shifting or IP obfuscation are surely up to the person using it.

To take a principled stand of saying dissidents should have the means to communicate freely, you also have to assert that you'd like for this kid to not get caught.

Realistically he would have been better off to call it in using a payphone (to the extent that he considered a hoax bomb threat a matter of necessity). I don't think you can automate away a complete disregard for security.
He's just ranting aimlessly, probably because he's pissed off about his probation.
While we're at it, any chance of you guys including some Elixir frameworks too? I'd love how to Elixir performance is starting to take shape vs native Erlang frameworks.
Do we shed a tear for the coal-fired plant operator now forced to pay for scrubbers? No. As such, we shan't cry over Amazon's costs rising ever so slightly to internalize the previously externalized cost of marginalizing their warehouse employees.

When an employer doesn't pay an employee a fair wage, they're being subsidized, either by the government (Walmart is an excellent example; their literature specifically instructs their associates on how to collect government benefits due to them not paying a living wage) or by society as a whole.

From an economics perspective, would you not prefer consumers be responsible for the full cost of the good/services they're receiving?
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So after reading this, and relaxing (leisure spurs interesting thoughts), I had this insight - many, many political campaigns are decided when a candidate/staffer/media person makes a stupid gaffe. The last presidential campaign basically was decided by Mitt Romney's 47% remark (http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/mitt-romney-47-perce...).

These things have got to be made more common by mass sleep deprivation. Maybe, maybe, the next president will be the one who insists his staffers work a strict 40 hours a week.
But there must be a smallest framework, right? I would call the x% smallest frameworks "minimalist."
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Let me just do a wild stab in the dark here: none of these French sites are VC backed start-ups looking to get rich quick or conquer the world, but just ordinary companies happy to be making a profit.
Best method for sleeping is running everyday at least 5miles per day.
Really though, what matches the multiple cursor behavior that sublime does. Can you truly do that in something else? If so, please point in that direction.
I dont think they are doing themselves a favor with a bullshit marketing video like this.
They seem to have a great team but all we have seen from Meta other than pre-rendered marketing videos has been a bit rough, to put mildly. Example [1]

Id love my virtual AR 70 inch high res computer display though, so i hope they succeed ;)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWPdAhhUWD0
Walt Mossberg's final Wall Street Journal column
Can't imagine it'll be popular in the US, but these are exciting times for developing countries. Here in Rwanda the government has embarked on a noble and ambitious plan to give OLPC laptops to every school child. AFAIK they've been charged about $200 per laptop. It sounds like this tablet comfortably beats that on price and performance.
Why should they take anyone seriously? These articles and meetings are a nice bit of mutually beneficial PR fluffery but neither parties to these so called meetings cares. And why should they? The only thing a govt has to fear is its people. As usual, the people are not to be feared, hence they get the govt they deserve.
Have you ever developed mobile UI? Sometimes there just isn't enough pixels.
Really want to try this, but no public key provided to verify the packages?
A lot of game developers are increasingly trying to milk every last dime out of their customers.

There was a time when you bought a game for about $50 and you got access to multiplayer servers that you could count on to be available for several years, and the initial $50 purchase was all the seller expected. So you can have your opinion that this won't be implemented, but obviously it already had been, and I'm hoping IAP are more of a passing fad.
What would you choose instead and why?
I do appreciate the arguments about why anonymity matters. You might find it interesting to consider the similarities fo debates about services like the penet remailer (http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/INTERNET/na.txt and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer).

With time, I've come to the conclusion that the ability to (re*-create such tools is more important than any individual instance of such a tool.
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If anyone wants to see a good example of why you can't just toggle off IAP you should check out Jonathan Blow's talk about "Free to Play" games and how the business model deeply corrupts the game through the metaphor of bad 70's TV shows vs HBO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxFzf6yIfcc

The solution isn't to toggle IAP off in the game, it's the ability to toggle it off in the App Store. The difficulty is some IAP is legitimate and some is not. For example, Carcassonne has an IAP to upgrade the game into a slightly different game with additional tiles. It's only when the IAP is part of the core game mechanic that is troubling. I think categorising them and relegating them to a particular category like we do with FPS, RPG, RTS, etc.. would help.
Ask HN: How much corruption do you let slide at a startup?
I'm in a bind here and looking for advice. I lead engineering at a startup that had one of its employees impersonate a high level exec at a Fortune 50 company in order to give a good recommendation when we had no legit ones to give.

What is the recommended way to deal with such a situation?
That is the thing. People dont ever consider asking and help aka "tech support" values anything. I dont mind helping once or twice. But being on constant support is just like a CS working for that devices company.

That is why i have always like simplify, ease of use solution.
"2-in-1 iPotty with Activity Seat for iPad: A comfortable and child-friendly potty with activity stand for iPad."

http://amzn.com/B00B3G8UGQ
You know those meetings where three or four guys go back and forth trying to prove who's the smartest guy in the room? HN is that on a larger scale.

I can't help but think this tendency of ours can't be hacked into something more productive, but I have no solution as of yet. :)
It's intention refers more to an easy-to-use, low overhead and already-written solution, because people either don't understand or don't want to invest the time anymore.
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> I think the web was a big success on desktop

Hear that sound? That's your goalposts scraping the tarmac as you move them around.

> As for mobile, it's clear a lot of companies have no problem building their app twice (for both iOS and Android).

Which is relevant to the conversation... how?
Go has low number of threads, usually a number of your cores or close to it. Goroutines are not threads.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6926247

For people who didn't grow up [with it].
The original paper is clearly a joke, but the LA Times article falls afoul of Poe's Law - at first glance it looks like the reporter just got trolled, though if you squint a little bit it could look as if the LA Times is trying to in turn troll its readership.
AMD Showcases Mantle API Demo
As an author of Hyperdex it seems unethical for him to go bash competition.
I'm a bit late to the boat as well but I would also love a code too.
Indian Diplomat’s Strip-Search Triggers Fight With U.S.
While she did lie probably. They should have submitted an arrest warrant to her and told her to come in. If she didn't then arrest her. No need to strip search either. This isn't some diplomat accused or rape or murder.
definitely higher monthly fee
cap the number of support hours/incidents
assuming only a small percentage of incidents require physical intervention, contract out to part time local tech even if their per incident rate is high
No comments? Is Mossberg too old-school for the people here?

No discussion of Mossberg would be complete without a reference to Mosspuppet. http://www.mosspuppet.tv Don't pay attention to the commentary, just watch the videos. They're hilarious. Sadly the guy hasn't done any videos in quite a while.

"I'm Walt Mossberg. Shut up."
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This article should have never made it to the front page.
Obviously I should leave a morally bankrupt company, but I'm pissed off that one bad decision by management ruins 3.5 years of blood, sweat, and tears that I've poured into the company. Is there any legal avenues I should pursue or just wash my hands of it and part ways?