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Honestly, me too. I grew up in the Valley and used to live in Burbank and commuted to Hollywood and (of course) Santa Monica — which is, yeah, a harsh drive. It would be awesome if Disney could effectively bring technology startups somewhere beside the Westside.

However, I have to think that Techstars, of anyone, has the data to back up the arguments in favor of accelerators being located near a region's startup ground zero.

Even if Disney was insistent, what would the first advice be from every advisor? Put the central location on the Westside or you're a B player.

And I don't think Disney would necessarily be insistent. For example, Grantland's offices are off on their own in downtown LA. Especially since they can just do a deal with one of the many tech office spaces that operate on the Westside.

Still, perhaps there can be a compromise, like two demo days (one in the studio area, one on the Westside). But I've seen the Westside win too many times to hold out much hope...
data cap of 250 gigabytes a month

That is truly miniscule for a 25Mbps connection.

I'm on a 5Mbps connection and our household averages 300GB downloaded per month. Mostly to feed my GF's TV addiction, but still.
A better Google glass
I just noticed these comments. I just wanted to point out that I wasn't trying to draw some sort of analogy between the U.S. and the former Yugoslavia. I thought that much was clear.

My point was that things can do rapidly downhill even in prosperous countries. That was the sole thesis of my comment.

And of course it was clear what would happen in Bosnia once the war started in Croatia (Slovenia was over so quickly). My emphasis was that none of this was expected back in 1984.
This is why I'd rather just have common-carrier. Forget the bullshit of trying to make nationwide infrastructure that makes it easy for Company X to lay yet another strand of fiber, identical to the hundred others already there. Just have a public holding company that lays & leases fiber.
Thank you for confirming you're just an angry scriptkiddy looking to make a name for yourself. We all now know for certain that you can be safely ignored.
Noticed a lot of activity from this link just now – exciting to see you guys checking out our time tracking tool. We really appreciate feedback from the community, so don't hesitate to comment here if you have feature requests or thoughts on Ding.

Gjermund,
Co-founder / Designer
Not with DNSSEC, and the second part is covered by DANE.
You can get 2 liters of soda for 99c, and a 12 oz bottle for 1.50

Usually it's $1.50 for a chilled 12 oz bottle, and $0.99 for a warm 2 liter. It's a convenience charge.
Chicago Tribune: another “background checked” Uber driver with a felony record
Chirp GPS Tracking App Gets a Huge Update
Came here to ask the same thing. Most developers I know use android.
A product tour/screenshots would be helpful in evaluating what this product has to offer. Having that might increase your signup rates.
thanks for Quicktime tip!
I started software development recently, and coming from the restaurant industry it's extremely hard to wrap my head around the way most people in the tech industry think when it comes to work ethic. Personally I think it has a lot to do with being spoiled with an over-abundance of jobs. Most of you are very comfortable and wouldnt be worried about finding work if you were fired tomorrow.

In the restaurant industry it is part of the culture that no successful chef rises from the trenches of building a well-regarded establishment working less than 60-70 hours a week. That is the minimum.

I've worked nearly every position in the restaurant biz (I love the industry and would do it everyday if it paid anything decent) including a couple well-regarded NYC places where I worked consecutive 100+ hour weeks for extended periods of time, 24 hour shifts, and often times ended up sleeping somewhere in the restaurant so instead of spending an hour to get home and an hour to come back, I could use 2 extra hours of sleep. When I was 17 I saved a paycheck with 112 hours on it.

At almost 21 now and having recently completely left the industry (except for occasional catering gigs) I was up until recently still working consecutive 70-90 hour weeks.

It's likely because Im young and maybe naive but the appeal for me has always been the camaraderie and for the life of me I cannot find that in a startup. I've interviewed in person with over a dozen startups now in Manhattan and Brooklyn and I've turned down offers from the majority of companies I interviewed with because at 5pm, they all turn off their computers and go home.

I want to work with a team that's put all their chips into the company. Financially, physically, emotionally. I want the blood, sweat, and tears that make up the restaurant industry. Not because I think my hours are "cool" or "impressive" because I know I wont be able to maintain those hours as I get older and have real commitments. For now what I want is a team that has it all on the line. I know the risks are high but I know the reward is higher, the friendships that come out of those experiences have always been the strongest ones for me and the experiences have taught me how to handle the worst.

As I get older I'm sure I'll come to learn the differences between being paid for physical labour and being paid to develop software. Eventually I'll be in the same boat as most of you but for now I'll continue to work a 12 hour day and wakeup excited to check my emails and excited to hack on the next feature for my next side-project.
Germany is part of the Five Eyes/Nine Eyes/UKUSA network [1], which was established so that the respective intelligence communities can share data. There is at least one of the US' Echelon stations in Germany [2].

I would wager that Germany would intercept the majority of traffic in this "Europe network" and then give the stuff to the US. Nothing would change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
For the Chinese government this argument may hold some water. I do think that for the Chinese people this is very much a negative though.

When choosing whether you want the American government to have some monitoring power over you or the Chinese government, the answer is beyond obvious [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labour
Ask HN: Best way to monitor bandwidth usage by host/trigger threshold alert?
I'm manually running iftop at the command line and I was wondering if you guys could recommend something better in terms of alerts/GUI.<p><p>I'm running on Ubuntu 13.04. I'd use it to identify hosts/ips that are consuming a lot of bandwidth. It would be great if there was a remotely accessible GUI and ability to set up alerts so I could make necessary changes.<p>Thanks!
I use Harvest now, their OSX app actually tracks when I'm idle for too long and will prompt me to roll back the amount of time I've been idle. It doesn't remind me to turn on the timer though when I forget. ;-)
If users "aren't convinced" of the value of a password vault after seeing all these breaches they don't deserve security.

KeePass is perfectly usable if you spend 5 minutes figuring it out. It's also open source and thus analyzable for flaws, leaving one fewer vulnerability (proprietary code) for those who actually care about security.
Looks like the closing bracket got included into the url. Here's a fixed version: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/google-has-already-removed-...
As someone who's tried both - I say go with Laravel lol - it's built on Symfony2 though, but is very strong, has a HUGE following and great IRC chat group, and support.

Check it out!
I kind of relate it to modern music. Modern "academic" music is typically quite complicated and dissonant, and requires a great deal of skill on the part of the musicians to play: it sounds like crap. Modern "popular" music is simple, only a few months on the guitar will get a normal player where they can play most rock/pop.

You can waste months writing "perfect" Haskell that nobody cares about, or write some really buggy Java and make Minecraft.
The fact that you indicated you like it and want to share that with your social network has not changed. If you "like" a brand, it has everything to do with brands and advertising. You just indicated that you like that brand. And by doing so you've told Facebook that you want that endorsement to be public. Just the same as if you were to "like" a blog post. You want everyone to know that you like it. Otherwise why would you be publicly announcing it on Facebook?
I admire Mozilla's openness, and the existence of TFA is an example of that, but in this case it amounts to really poor communication with the rest of the world. Why all the past tenses? Would it have killed anyone to say "What does Persona get right?" or "Why has Persona failed to gain wide adoption so far?"

The whole attitude here is bizarre. It seems Persona is supposed to have taken over the world by now, while in reality it's not clear that it's even in beta, let alone out of it. E.g., we're supposed to get the javascript lib from one place only, because we're warned that the protocol could change in breaking ways at any time. Let's get to version 1.0 before complaining that facebook hasn't been driven out of business!

I support the recommendations to simplify and get rid of sessions.
Is there some code that saves the data to disk? I don't see that.
Thanks! Making native apps is a pretty costly thing for a small team like us, and to be honest, we don't have much experience with Android development. So I can't promise anything at the moment, but we'll make sure to keep improving the responsive web. It's definitely on the wish list though.
> Investors won't touch a company with a 10 foot pole if they get a whiff of lifestyle corporation because they'll never get their investment back.

It's not actually that they won't get their investment back. It's that they won't get it back in a form that really works for them. If I were to offer a VC an investment plan that would mean reliable payments of 30% of what they invested every year starting in five years and continuing forever, that would not be an attractive deal. Would they get their investment back many times over? Sure. But the thing is, it wouldn't happen all at once as a large payoff.
> Sacha Greif's Telescope is probably the best open source HN clone I found, last time I checked.

I find lobste.rs[1] to be pretty nice. Until now I had never heard of Telescope. FWIW, I did not find the Telescope "demo app" example very appealing.

[1]: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
Perfect.
Kevin gets to publicly announce that he likes something, and for anybody who is listening, they're also notified that the product happens to be on sale. I don't see how Kevin has been slighted just because his willful endorsement of a product went hand in hand with a notification that the product is on sale.
Totally agree. We're working on a new promo page at the moment, and it'll show off the actual product (w/screenshots) way better than this one.
The product itself looks really nice, but the pricing model doesn't really seem like a good fit. I think a freemium model would work better than a subscription based one.
> By then I realized that these episodes were panic attacks. I read up on the topic and basically went through a lot of cognitive self-therapy and after a year or so I was able to drive without issues and life was good again.

My advice (not that you asked for it, but I feel strongly that you should consider it): seek help from a qualified professional, like a psychologist. You don't deserve to suffer like this and it is not something that you should be trying to solve on your own. You may not believe that someone like this could help you, but consider how much better you would feel if they did.
Initially, they were. Then they became important to protect Europe from the Soviets. I would argue that to some extent they're still fulfilling that function.

But please make no mistake. The extreme right is still popular in Germany and generally in northwest Europe, in some places commanding ~35% of the votes. Far left (meaning having political positions not even American "communists" would support) commands another 10-15% of the vote, even in East Germany where, let's just say that a lot of the population has good reason to distrust them.
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Or you could switch (legally) now and not have to worry about it in the future. Operations in general is about risk management, I won't tell you what to do, I'm just saying there actually are options.
A worrying amount of serious CS effort was put into the problem of Sudoku solving after it became a big hit.
You must have been extremely lucky, I have nothing but bad experiences with the SNCF and their employees through my years in France. This company is a joke.
Agreed. We're working on improving the promo page at the moment, and will make sure we include several screenshots.
Thanks a lot for writing this.

I don't get full blown panic attacks, but I get extremely stressed out as well during tech interviews. I think I'm a pretty good coder/computer scientist - I've released tons of open source stuff, spoken at conferences, solved many Project Euler challenges, published papers, taught people how to code, etc - but my success rate is still abysmally slow in interviews because of that.

For me, it's a mix of the stress of feeling judged, having to "impress" someone in a very short timeframe solving a problem they know perfectly and that I have never seen before, the fact that I am naturally introverted and shy, etc.

A friend of mine who works at a large tech company in Seattle told me he took Xanax before his interviews. Another friend working for a big tech company in the valley told me he'd chug a couple beers before his. Yet another friend working for a fairly large "startup" in SF recommended that I smoke a joint before my interviews.

Our industry is weird.
I prefer to use CTE in postgres to do upserts, this is a non complete example, but you get the general idea:

WITH upsert AS (
UPDATE some_table
SET attrib = 'foo'
WHERE id = 123
RETURNING *
) INSERT INTO some_table ( id , attrib )
SELECT 123 as id, 'foo' as attrib
WHERE 123 NOT IN (SELECT id FROM upsert );
Why don't you read "about democracy in America" from Tocqueville ? It's more than 200 years old but it's very relevant even to this day to understand the differences in terms of culture between France and the US. And the culture shapes the laws and the aspects of Freedom.
‘Why?’ – What every Entrepreneur should watch.
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Ubi – The Ubiquitous Computer
Props for not promising that it's "coming soon" -- vaporware sucks.
Why would an ISP do that, when any self-respecting business operator can simply instruct his or her call center reps to say the following:

"Thank you for calling us, Higher Purpose. Your Internet is slow, Mr. Purpose? We can certainly fix that. I see that you are currently paying us $39.95/month for 10mbps service. How about we make that $89.95/month for 20mbps service? Besides, who will you switch to if you don't like the price?"
I cut the cord 9 years ago; i didn't get rid of my ISP, i simply stopped paying for their TV programming.

I prefer to spend my money on a faster internet connection and stream the shows or sports I want to watch thanks to options like Netflix and NHL Gamecenter. I no longer need Cable TV to buy the NHL package for example; nor do I need Cable TV to watch Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones.

The author of this article is confused; it's not literally about cutting your cord with your ISP, it's about saying no to expensive programming we simply don't want anymore.
You are doing doubly wrong.

Look at people opinion on HN (i.e. our peers). Being good require to train in new tech and work on personal project outside work time.

If you are pushing yourself to the max for an employer you are most likely not doing that. Meaning in addition of making your boss richer for no personal gain, you make yourself look incompetent to your peers, potentially arming your career.
I'm quite lonely day in and out. My manners and Way are generally nonconformist/self-deprecating.

Thank goodness for childhood schizophrenia, or else I'd have not one singleton of a friend.

Oh, and thanks Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory too, I guess..
I am not sure that the question is whether a 60 hour workweek is fine. There's a huge difference, like it or not, between on one hand answering tech support calls for 60 hours in a week, or coding 60 hours in a week, or the like, and working as a self-employed individual for 60 hours every week.

I probably work 60 to 80 hours a week, most weeks. During slow times I work less. It includes everything from software development to discussing tech support issues with customers, to doing my own billing, to accounting, to any number of other tasks. If I worked less than 60 hours a week I wouldn't have time for real work most weeks.

But a few points:

1. I don't have a commute. When I used to work at Microsoft I would work 40 hours a week, spend at least ten hours a week stuck in traffic, and have at least 5 hours a week in unpaid break time. That adds up to 55 hours by itself. Had I lived a little further away, those could have added up to over 60 hours committed to work for 40 hours of pay. I also find being stuck in traffic significantly more stressful and draining than working.

2. I don't spend more than 40 hours a week doing any specific kind of work. Most weeks, I do less than 20 hours of work software development, and I know that if I am doing particularly heavy software development work, that going above 20 hours a week is courting burnout (I would rather put in 20 hours of really good effort than have to throttle effort in order to stay sane). For lighter work? Sure I could go up to 40.

3. The 60 to 80 hours includes a lot of time that would otherwise be hobby or personal project time, but which I can count because I am self-employed ;-). For example, I spent 20 hours worth of work this week on a strategic project that has no immediate impact regarding revenue, etc, but is fun and I think will make the rest of my work a lot more fun (when I have examples of how I will certainly submit them here on HN). That counts.

4. I work from home so all kinds of break time are usually family time unless I am on HN ;-).

So my point is that there are so many factors that go into this. I think the author is talking about working 60 hours for a business, particularly where you don't work from home, doing just one job. That's fine for short bursts but I wouldn't recommend it as a lifestyle. On the other hand there are certainly contexts where over 60 hours a week for the long run makes sense once you escape the idea that "it's a job."
Sure you can always find aspects where France is not acting as much a police state as the US (at least for now), but at the same since we are on Hacker News, let's talk about how difficult/painful it is to set up any kind of business in France and keep it alive and growing. There's a reason why most french entrepreneurs who are serious end up going abroad instead of staying in France.
so passive. :/
You probably can run, but it will take a long slow process. Can you walk a mile? If so, do that several times a week. Gradually increase to two miles. Then jog (very very very slow run) for a a few yards at a time during the walk. Gradually increase the run distance. 6 months to 2 years later, you'll be able to run that whole two miles.

A huge barrier to fitness is that it is typically taught and promoted by those who find it easy, and they really can't understand how difficult it is. However, if you persist over a long period of time you can get enormous benefits. And this gradual approach means it is not painful - in fact the slogan ought to be 'no pain maximizes gain'.
But there have always been calls to block those three things.

Sinn Fein members used to have their voices dubbed in news broadcasts because of UK law and that was in the 1980s.

Material useful for terrorism has been illegal for some time. This article talks about not just keeping those videos illegal but blocking them from entering the country. That's not a new thing. The UK has been preventing plenty of material from entering the country if they can.

The UK has censored some forms of pornography for many years, and people importing magazines would have had them removed.

This "slippery slope" argument fails not because there isn't a slippery slope, but because we're so far down it already and have been for years.
a 'backup system' that runs on python. how oxymoron.
What would you estimate is the ratio of typos versus "thought it was installed"? Personally mine is probably 1,000 to 1. If I type a command and bash says command not found I know the program is not installed. If I need that program I am a big boy and can use apt without anyone holding my hand.
> My experience in this area goes back to the early days at Apple Computer

Which doesn't have any bearing on your ability to read these investor's minds. Unless you're saying you tapped their phones, hacked their email accounts, and followed them around in public and determined they never gave permission to publicize the investment.

And your "investment 101" comes from a different century. It's sad that you're so firmly convinced we're still in the 1970s. 2014 is much better.
Regarding hint 2, it depends on what you're aiming for and also personal style. Training to failure while rotating muscle groups on a 3-day cycle is a superb way to see results and increase strength quickly. It is also a much more rewarding way to train for some of us than to avoid pushing it.
Disney IP access for a startup could be huge...

A huge disappointment & strategic error. This thinking is LIke founding a company based on another company's API. Look at people that bet on twitter that way. Fools game, really. after all, Hollywood
whom*, you baboon.
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Good thing that not everybody thinks like you. Otherwise, traveling would be a nightmare.
Is this meant to be used as a replacement for the infill created by the Slicer?
Seeing as how they don't have one, I hope it's not considered ill to mention my own app - Time Boss for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twansoftwa... - would love to hear some feedback from fellow HN'ers.
The Myth of the Bell Curve
A piece[1] at emptywheel.net notes that the mention of sigint used in agricultural trade negotiations around 2004 and suggestively points to a diplomatic cable[2] discussing strategy for changing the French stance on GM imports from the US at that time.

If you're interested in this aspect you might like to take a look.

[1] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/02/15/since-spying-to-benefit...

[2] http://wikileaks.org/cable/2007/12/07PARIS4723.html
What do you mean strategy? I only played on http://flapmmo.com but it seemed like it was only a game of reflex (I got to level 12).