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Yet you linked not to the original work but to a German site.

Don't be ridiculous, one links to the currently maintained version of a project.

While these states are proximate physically, the culture between these states is completely different

Citation needed. I lived in Colorado for a couple of years, and in my experience there is more similarity than difference between those places.

How's that for some gray matter? Is it enough, or do I need more?

It's better than commenting on a domain name, but there is no upper bound on insight.
I'm the author. Search-and-replace is the main problem this solves. Another neat effect is that if you use something like Sublime Text, you can highlight a word (variable), and see all the occurrences. Makes it much easier to figure out what unminifed code is doing without all the collisions from "h" for example.
>my 3 user internal accounting app

Why would you require bespoke accounting software for such a small company?

I'm with you on the overall problem though. If you do need a custom solution, it doesn't really make sense to put it on the public internet where it's exposed to constant attack. A good old fashioned desktop app is your best bet for something like this (or a rails/django/whatever app that's not on the public internet).
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It's my understanding that this counter-intuitive performance problem with Dalvik is what crippled the original UI for Android Firefox - they were using their native C++ UI stack (the one used on Windows, Mac and Linux) to implement the whole browser UI, but they found that in practice a UI stack written in Java running on Dalvik performed better because it wasn't subject to all the weird performance penalties from interacting with android frameworks.
The Justice Department press release is the ultimate source for all these stories and is the most informative: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January14/Schr...

I guess this bodes poorly for the people who were hoping to get their coins back from Bitinstant: http://bitinstant.info/
This should be handled by the web-standards committee. Yes it's slow-moving, but solutions that only work in one browser will balkanize the web.

If I were Adobe I'd try to build a javascript-based solution for now, and push on the standards committees for the long term.
I wanted to really dig in and learn how to build a full scale web app. The site uses Rails as an api on backend and Backbone on the front. There was a little bit of learning curve there for me. It also took some adjusting going from making rapid-fire one day projects to working on something long term.
>No, but that also means Julia isn't much special then either right?

That's a really dumb conclusion. It's special in other things it offers (from a better Matlab like language with crazy ass speed to homoiconicy and great FFI). Who said it's only special if it fulfils some specific rainbow-unicorn pipe dream?

It also doesn't read the programmer's thought -- so not special in that regard either.

>Maybe it is just me but Julia positions itself as a better Python not just a better C, in that position, can you really blame people if they misunderstand and expect same "high level" behavior from it?

Lots of people also find Go a "better Python", and Go is like assembly compared to Julia...
It sounds like Shrem was allegedly engaged in un-kosher business directly with a Silk Road exchanger.

"SHREM, who personally bought drugs on Silk Road, was fully aware that Silk Road was a drug-trafficking website, and through his communications with FAIELLA, SHREM also knew that FAIELLA was operating a Bitcoin exchange service for Silk Road users. Nevertheless, SHREM knowingly facilitated FAIELLA’s business with the Company in order to maintain FAIELLA’s business as a lucrative source of Company revenue. SHREM knowingly allowed FAIELLA to use the Company’s services to buy Bitcoins for his Silk Road customers; personally processed FAIELLA’s orders; gave FAIELLA discounts on his high-volume transactions; failed to file a single suspicious activity report with the United States Treasury Department about FAIELLA’s illicit activity, as he was otherwise required to do in his role as the Company’s Compliance Officer; and deliberately helped FAIELLA circumvent the Company’s AML restrictions, even though it was SHREM’s job to enforce them and even though the Company had registered with the Treasury Department as a money services business."

http://www.businessinsider.com/report-ceo-of-major-bitcoin-e...

Anyway, the market doesn't appear to be crashing, yet.
I find it hilarious that they take this guy down and nobody from HSBC does a perp walk. I guess it's who you know and how much you can pay off, ya? This has everything to do with the threat Bitcoin represents. HSBC literally paid a 2 Billion dollar fine against specifically money laundering on behalf of organized drug cartels. The investigation took years and not a single HSBC employee has done a perp walk.

Oh, and since when does selling BTC anywhere, including Silk Road, constitute a crime? It's what you buy with BTC, or any other currency, that is the crime.
Very similar to several posts that have come up before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508981 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3158862 as well as things mentioned therein: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... which is a 45 byte executable (it doesn't say Hello World), and http://asm.sourceforge.net/intro/hello.html.

All the same, very cool, this is a great experiment for anyone to work on :)
Ask HN: Red Team internship idea
The idea: hire a bunch of interns to act as your Red Team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team). They try to outdo your business. If they do a good job, you hire them to implement those ideas for you.

The motivation: I was just thinking that so many businesses are so stagnant and stay in the market until a startup comes along and outdoes them. This would be a way to mitigate that.

What do you guys think?
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I have multiple online resumes, which I customize for specific job applications. Unique URLs for each with integrated cover letters gives me tracking, and I've had almost a 90% response rate (defined as getting a response and/or first phone interview) with this approach.

Plus, I can design responsive one-pagers easily with my own design tool, which is also coincidentally where I host the resumes. Customization is mostly the cover letter and tweaking specific job history accomplishments to focus on what a job posting is looking for, but often I've done custom designs as well.

One big issue I find is that many online job submission forms still only have an 'upload .doc or .pdf resume' button which accepts a file. Once you get around this and have actual people click the link, the results are usually good. I will usually post a text-only version with a header to the effect of "Hi there - please view this resume online for easier readability & sharing. [link here]"
Have you considered selling on a site like https://flippa.com/?
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Selling bitcoins (or any other currency or asset) to someone for money that they have obtained illegally is money laundering.

Obviously, all transactions cannot be held to the same standards of diligence. e.g. How can a bureau de change at an airport be expected to know that it is accepting a £5 note from a pickpocket?

However some transactions are expected to attract a degree of diligence, either based on magnitude or some other circumstance.

It is clear that they appear to have been attempting to sell a large sum of bitcoins to people who are at least on the grey side of the law. In such a situation, one might expect that a quantity of the money they receive from the transaction might be dirty.

Whether the defendants are guilty of (attempted) money laundering is for a jury to decide.
Done that and (not surprisingly) nobody cared and nothing happened.
You should have also cited some Russian news...
But there's some truth in this - 'Svoboda' is indeed far-right party, but it definitely doesn't have trained militants and I don't recall any "hate crimes against migrants and political opponents".
'Svoboda' is only one of the forces, having or not having Svoboda there doesn't change anything.
I don't mean to gatecrash, but as I have been running a near identical site for a few years I feel compelled to comment.

The street views generated on this site are not really random; they are picked from a predefined list in a db. This is why duplicates appear after a number of clicks.

I run http://www.mapcrunch.com which also generates random street views, but with more options - you can define a region on a map (like a city) and generate street views from within it. You can also restrict the generated views to those taken within buildings, or within urban areas. The views generated are also totally random.

I don't have any objection to someone copying the concept of an existing site / service, but I feel that if you do so, you should at least try to differentiate it in some way - most easily done by making improvements or including superior functionality.
I ended up on the same train, not far from where you are.

http://randomstreetview.com/#rklpm_5zotk_-k_a_3

Maybe I got the cached results of a prior search?
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There is nothing stopping the union from re-negotiating the contract that exists today, the same way management wanted to re-negotiate the contract that previously existed.
I was going to write an insightful response here, but lunch time came up and well, I'll get to it later. :)

Seriously, though, I've found that procrastination is my
greatest hurdle to overcome. I always think: "I'll get to
it later", or "There will always be time to get to that".
Invariably, all that time ends up getting away from me and I feel down on myself for not getting to said project/essay/whatever.

So, when you have an idea, act on it. Don't wait, because waiting will kill that nascent idea as surely as anything.
Make time, even if it's just a few minutes, it will end up benefiting your project in the long run.
Constantly burning car tires, large-scale production of Molotov cocktails, great skills at building barricades, lots of people wearing body protection ... This does not look like self-organization at all. Surely, someone has been seriously training for this.
Thanks for the feedback

I need to get a new theme. Really unhappy with this one (and it's fonts)
Original source: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January14/Schr...
This strikes me as something that, without a lot of thought, will expose a user's browsing history (similar to the old "check the visited link color" attacks). Insert script links with a hash, check to see if the browser makes a request.
Al Awlaki was tried in abstentia by Yemen in 2010. It is often suggested that a trial in abstentia by the U.S. would have been preferable for Al Awlaki, but to me, it's even scarier than the drone strike.

Legally, there are essentially two regimes: the domestic criminal regime, and the military regime. If you fall into the former bucket, there are lots of protections. Trials in abstentia, for example, are illegal and invalid: a defendant has a Constitutional right to appear at his trial. If you fall into the latter bucket, there aren't really any protections. When the U.S. fought Germany in WWII, German soldiers couldn't claim legal protections under U.S. laws.

Putting Al Awlaki into the "military aggressor" bucket is problematic, because of his citizenship, but not totally unprecedented. In World War II, it is almost certain that American citizens were killed by American forces while fighting for Hitler. Indeed, at least a dozen American POWs were killed in the Hiroshima bombing. It's morally troubling, but at least its encapsulated: you're in a war zone, a place without functioning rule of law, and pose a military threat, you're fair game.

Putting Al Awlaki into the domestic criminal regime, then trying him in abstentia, is REALLY problematic. If a terrorist is just a "really bad criminal," instead of a foreign soldier, then in what other cases of "really bad criminals" do Constitutional protections go out the window? It's not encapsulated, it's hard to cabin to the specific facts, and it amounts to an even bigger erosion of rights.
I'm sorry that there is not enough angelic protesters in Ukraine to conform to your high standards. Not only that, but apparently Ukrainians don't even qualify as "normal people", since no matter how many times we look at Syria it doesn't become obvious that the "better solution" is to yield to the government and abandon our constitutional rights.
Agree.

FYI: I mention it in the top as well.
Honestly three accountants isn't that small of a firm - I was thinking of a firm that had around 500 employees and had such an app. They certainly paid for bespoke software for more than just their accountants.
I don't think Bezos investing in 37signals qualifies as normal VC/Angel money. He took a small personal ownership stake in the company - it's likely he can't "sell" that stock, and that he makes very little from it (compared to his other investments).

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests...
I'm the author. Since "a", "b", "c" get recycled by different scopes, it makes it really hard to figure out which "a" you're looking that. By having unique names, you can easily spot where one variable is used exclusively. I was going to use a dictionary but I didn't want the tool to be language specific or run into unsavory words.
Heh, thanks, but I already knew that. That's why I'm disappointed to see so biased 'article' at the top of HN today.
As for the last line: It matters because most popular media I've seen portray them as peaceful activists that are beaten by vicious police commandos armed with assault rifles and grenades.
And I'll resent violence no matter who it comes from, but I guess it's the easiest way to get attention, huh? Not paying taxes could take a while to get through.
It's the bias what annoys me. What's happening there is another thing (though there is a nice video of it http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=959_1390672028 ). If both sides weren't corrupt as hell, they'd make open transparent referendum for the whole thing and be done with it.

Edit: The top comment right now (people being kidnapped) is a nice example. There is no proof of that as far as I know and people already talk about it as facts...
Here's the upgrade logic I would use for your use case:

* Is your accounting application exposed to the Internet? Then I'm going to recommend an upgrade for every security release. Because your app is probably handling something sensitive enough that you'd want to protect it.

* If your app isn't on the open Internet, it probably needs upgrades at each minor release at most. Maybe not even then, but minor releases of Rails often include features that are meaningful to end users.

* If we're already working on other changes I'm likely to try to bundle the version upgrade as part of it. Mostly because staying current means I can reduce new feature costs to you by the new/updated libraries I otherwise wouldn't be able to use.

Sound better?
Braintree was acquired by eBay, after several rounds of VC including a $35M Series A.......
>>> How about drone strikes which target and kill a US citizen

I'd use the term "citizen" pretty loosely here. Considering his passport was revoked six month before he was assassinated and the fact he had taken up arms against the US by fighting in another country's army, I'd say he wasn't exactly a "citizen".

It's only murky because the US government didn't officially revoke his citizenship.
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I'm going to have to disagree. Fake words are still better than single letters. It's much easier to scan for "vublu" in a segment of code than it is to scan for "v"
If the French hosting service was really OVH, it would be quite strange that a Polish refugee fleeing for political reasons take part in a large-scale spying operation. But since they are now operating in the US, I guess they have no choice than look like nice little soldiers.
Agree

But to be fair: In my exp the timestamps on models are usually already sufficient.
In most cases you want to monitor state changes.
> FreshBooks, which now has 110 employees, is part of a rare breed of technology companies that has achieved success without the help of venture capitalists

http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-11-26-no-vc-freshboo...
I am sure this will get down voted, but I can't help but find it interesting (Gov going after them after this recent HSBC news) HSBC was involved with drug cartels and much more and just had to pay a 1.9 billion dollar fine (sounds like a lot, but keep in mind its about 5 weeks of profits) http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/11/us-hsbc-probe-idUS...
In a pure theoretical sense, yes torture is very effective at hurting people. But only for watchers or executioners who have a need of seeing the person being tortured suffer. I really doubt if traumatizing (torture > just hurting/punishing) a criminal is going to change his behaviour for the better.

The question then would be if the goal of a justice system should be to hurt people in the most effective way imaginable.

I don't know what you mean by creating a "faux-clinical atmosphere".

Isn't the reason for punishing criminals that they broke some aspect of acceptable social interaction (not hurting others a major one of those aspects) ? Even in the context of the state having the monopoly on the use violence, they should not use violence to the fullest extent possible, if only to prove that some actions are really unacceptable and there is never a reason to sink to the same level of what the criminal did. Criminals may be one-time-offenders or life-long-monsters, they are still humans.

You may call that squeamish, but i don't think torture should have any place in a modern society.
By code completion if you mean that the editor auto completes keywords and table (view, function) names, it does.

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Alaska used to be Russian territory, sold to US in 1867.
If by JavaScript you mean making a webview-based app with something like Cordova/PhoneGap, then that's not a great option either. Pre-4.4 WebView on android is notoriously bad, and things as trivial as smooth scrolling are a huge issue. The same app performs fine on iOS and on Android 4.4 which uses Chrome's engine, but unfortunately it will be a while before older versions go the way of IE6. I agree that C++ is not a solution for portable GUI apps either (although it works great for portable games since OpenGL ES runs on pretty much everything.)
Bootstrapping is a self-funded startup that makes money from real paying customers, often from Day 1, or close to it.

Bootstrapping hasn't changed.. one test to being bootstrapped is: If they didn't get funding, would they run out of money and have to shut down?

It's not uncommon for a bootstrapped startup, which has baked 'making money' into the bread from the beginning, to accept funding to grow faster once they have a business model that's already making money. They already have a repeatable and scalable _business model_. Without funding, bootstrapped startups would continue to exist, and would most probably keep growing, though.
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If HN is going to be a nexus of discussion on the FBI and NSA, it needs to understand the "social engineering" programs going on, and take steps to out astroturfing.
Makes sense. I would add that tip to the readme. I don't think it will be immediately obvious to people, so bringing attention to the ability to find and replace will make the renaming a more attractive feature.
I hate to agree with this troll, but I don't see how to disagree :(
The problem with a,b,c is that the minifiers aggressively re-use the same identifiers when scoping rules allow them to.
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The whole OS, including e.g. the "QuickDraw" graphics routines.
Custom application development has maintenance costs associated with it. You can ignore those but it's at your own peril, nothing is stopping your from having an unsecured public web server running on your systems, it's just a bad idea. Just like nothing prevents you from not updating Windows and having your laptop become part of a bot-net.

If you can't afford that cost it would be ill advised to use custom software application (or take a different approach to it that doesn't involve exposing a web server to the internet). Either way comparing Photoshop/Word updates to updating a custom application running on a *nix server exposed to the world is just absurd.

And yes you're right, custom application development should probably be avoided wherever possible. Especially if you don't expect the ROI to exceed ongoing expenses.
Hey, this looks amazing! Will definitely be using it in future!
Programming languages are a means to an end. Greatness can be achieved in a variety of environments.
You can get the page itself from Coral Cache:
http://timetobleed.com.nyud.net:8090/digging-out-the-crazies...

But the site uses a fully-qualified link to its stylesheet and so won't render.
At least one clear advantage is that Eclipse is horribly slow in debugging when compared to VS. I don't know how does IntelliJ compare to it because I haven't used that.
>which leads me to say, why are you using C to do X?

Because they know C, it's fast and it has lots of libs available. They might also dislike Java or CL.

Not every engineering decision is perfect, lots of factors play in.

>Attempts to combine the best of C (speed) with the best of scripting languages (easy to do things fast without having to pay attention to what you are doing) in my opinion end up merely joining the worst of both worlds rather than the best of both worlds.

The "pay attention" things is to needless complexity (memory management etc). They only reason we put up with those things was to get speed. If we can get adequate speed without those, nobody cares about them.

>Besides isn't programming about being specific? Do you really want to code stuff without having to worry about the details?

No, programming is about getting results. Nobody cares about the details in the level of programming language minutuae.

We care about the "effort put in" and "quality/speed of results coming out" ratio.
Secondary message: "We pulled this game before Namco found it thanks to the extra publicity"
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So is any startup that has a sustainable business model from day one considered bootstrapped?
I tried your link and it works as expected. Chrome 33 on OS X.
Companies have a legal obligation to maximize shareholder profits, but that doesn't directly translate into how they treat their employees. If company directors felt that hiring the 'best' employees at a premium was actually making them more efficient and thus in the best interests of shareholders, they could do exactly that.

You are speaking about company directors deliberately devaluing their company on purpose to serve some other end. Often this would be connected to fraud, or semi-fraudulent, hence the the case law behind your idea.
ALL the major banks in the US are involved in handling money for criminal enterprises. Washovia (now Wells Fargo), US Bank, and HSBC have been caught doing this yet nobody was arrested of course. Those are just recent examples too!

Guess how Wachovia got out of criminal charges? They settled!
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