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Do you have new numbers? I got a bunch of people addicted and I assume I'm not the only one.
The CIA destroying tapes of torture interrogations is probably one of the most blatant examples of intelligence agencies operating lawlessly, with the executive branch in full knowledge of them operating in that fashion, but choosing not to do anything about it.

> Under President Obama, prosecutors exonerated the officials who ordered those tapes destroyed.

No one was held accountable. Charges were quietly dropped in 2010:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_CIA_interrogation_tapes_d...

This example is such a clear disregard for the law, even more so than most NSA leaks.
More shell, less egg (2011, on McIlroy and Knuth)
I really hate that being used as a reference. There was a lot more going on in the Sigfried and Roy case than the news would talk about. The tiger had no intention of killing him or even hurting him (if the tiger did, he would have been dead). Roy himself says the Montecore, the tiger, relocated him off stage [0]; and, I've read other articles that say the tiger was stressed because of the situation and a particular way the crowd was acting. I've also read articles that said that if people hadn't responded in a panic to the Monticore's actions, that Roy would have been much better off. The people around him panicked, and Monticore went into defend-Roy mode, unfortunately harming him in the process.

Monticore never turned on Roy.

[0] http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20742412,00.html
I've been using HelloSign since the beginning, and don't really sign my documents any other way if I can avoid it. This may be more relevant in the legal space, where I've had to sign and fax things way too often, but just being able to do everything online in a simple, clean, interface is a major improvement. Looking forward to using this in Google Docs.
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That really depends on the country. For example, in Austria there's the "Buergerkarte" which is essentially a smartcard that can apply digital signatures. Your public key on that card is certified by a government agency. If you want to submit government forms you can either sign them and send the original document via postal mail, or you can use the Buergerkarte to cryptographically sign a PDF file that you can submit via the Internet. As far as I know things like copies of physical signatures won't be accepted.
Isn't then the solution to write a manual that tells people precisely how and when to be creative and lays out a protocol for raising issues? One that looks like a very rigid structure, but in fact allows for good creativity.
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it's probably safer to just remember to use mv instead, because there's a very high chance that you'll do the wrong thing on a terminal that doesn't have that alias available.
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Thanks Joseph. This made me interested in giving it a try (I sent about 1 - 3 docs for signature each week), but this stopped me in my tracks:

"Add HelloSign to Gmail? It can:

- Access your data on all websites

- Access your tabs and browsing activity"

I'll give the regular HelloSign a try, but no way would I add an extension with those permissions.
Using up a bit of my HN Karma to post this! Especially as Charlie Chaplin is a really quite interesting hacker - and I know we love our classic films here!
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We allow self-signing documents which PandaDoc doesn't. Outside of Google Docs add-ons we're also the only e-signatures provider that has a direct Gmail plugin integration (https://www.hellosign.com/gmail). We also have an API for developers to integrate the signing workflow seamlessly into their app.
Big surprise, in a state where you're not even allowed to pump your own gas. If they did allow Tesla sales, you'd have to hire someone to plug it in for you. Electricity is dangerous, dontchaknow.
I'm pretty sure I'm screwed when it comes to Google tracking me, between Chrome, Gmail, Google.com, etc... Analytics is the least of my worries.
> "an illegal search of computers (provided to the Senate staff by the C.I.A.) that contained drafts of the internal review."

Sounds like the Senate review committee needs to work on their opsec and move the files to a safer location after receiving them.
Did you read the post? You only need to store the key in private data. A few bytes at most.
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If it is a marketing ploy, it is far from brilliant. Brilliant would have been taking it down for a day then putting it back up. Not keeping it down for weeks while the excitement around the game fades.
Fantastic, we are currently finishing up some of the basic research. After wrapping that up, we will be searching for the funding source/incubator that offers the best fit. I know one of the founders of one of your portfolio companies and have only heard good things.
This is actually a good point -- the "button to nowhere" product is particularly valuable at an early stage.

We're working on a followup story on how we do customer development/feedback with a established product.
The NHS website does a pretty good job. It's obviously aimed at the UK populace, but presumably the info is accessible to anyone with an internet connection - http://www.nhs.uk/

Their "Behind the headlines" blog picks apart popular health stories reported in the (UK) press - http://www.nhs.uk/news/Pages/NewsIndex.aspx

I can't say I would necessarily trust a consumer company for health information, but that's probably an attitude shaped by having a state-funded, not-for-profit health system.
Haha! But seriously given the leaked chat messages from when Zuckerberg was still not the polished CEO and less mature [1], your argument seems plausible.

> ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
> ZUCK: just ask
> ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
> FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?
> ZUCK: people just submitted it
> ZUCK: i don’t know why
> ZUCK: they “trust me”
> ZUCK: dumb fucks
my guess it's not a hype train, it's a cash train with gaben as the conductor.
This is a great example of how the Constitution and our system of laws is meaningless as long as two branches conspire to make it so. In this case, the executive branch allowed the torture to go unpunished, and the legislative branch allowed the executive branch to do so.

There is a third party that needs to acquiesce to the lawlessness: the voting public. Well, sort of. The current president promised them that there would be accountability for the torture, but that campaign promise went the way of so many others.

So it goes.
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Just something itching me wrong about purposefully making a game excruciatingly difficult and then getting so emotionally affected by their reactions to that difficultly that you are distraught.
Who's this strange Norwegian guy?
What he's talking about is likely this strategy: https://wiki.debian.org/ConfigPackages

If you follow it, you'll get a package like "mycorp-nginx", which is an atomic piece of configuration management that not only controls nginx's configuration wherever you deploy it, but also nginx's version on those same machines.

Basically, with this strategy, instead of installing nginx, you only install mycorp-nginx; the config-package then installs the thing it's configuring as a dependency. That dependency is locked to a specific version, so it'll only upgrade when you push out a config-package that changes that dependency.
I challenge the assertion that you must you have followers for twitter to be useful? I get plenty of utility from following my favorite comedians, notable developers, companies of interest regardless of whether they follow me back or not.
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We were even selected as one of four winners at the Innov8 For Health Idea Expo last week http://innov8forhealth.com. Does compatibility between you and the doctor matter?
I am not so sure, the pilgrims who settled in New-England were running away from persecution in old England, not for being protestant, as England was protestant, but rather for being the wrong sort of protestant.

Then, they proceeded to spend the first really bad winter eating each other and when numbers picked up with more colonists, they got into the swing of hanging Quakers.
I don't see where the amplification is. The size of the GET request reflected to the target appears smaller than the POST request sent to the Wordpress XMLRPC. So it's less effective than simply attacking the target directly.

Am I missing something?

[Edit: reworded for clarity]
" I see experienced enterprise software professionals who are versed in operating systems and Windows, for example, taking the training to advance their careers. "

That had me laughing.
Certainly, mysql's existence has always been based on "we're the db for people who don't know anything about dbs". But in this particular case, the person I responded to does know that mysql isn't doing a count, he pointed it out himself.
Leave. Regardless of how the situation subsequently plays out, this is not someone you can trust.

(Meaning, find the next job while you're employed. And that reduced pay should justify -- in your own mind -- the personal hours it takes to do so.)
He uses a nice trick to approximate the real thing, however this algorithm wouldn't be able to deal with curved objects.
I worked at a Best Buy one summer and bag-checks as well as pat downs were mandatory any time an employee left the premises.
Some of those things, like credit card fees, don't really count as you keeping it.
I wonder if other (smaller?) countries trying to be more competitive will be able to outperform California over the long term. I.e. if a small country focuses on changing its laws to be the best in the world for startups, can that break through the incredibly strong network effect of Silicon Valley.

The amount of Bitcoin startups in Singapore makes me think this is likely.
I'm prepared to entertain a defense of a ban on direct-to-consumer auto sales but have not yet seen a compelling one. Did such a ban make sense in the past?
Relevant similar story: I had this site for years, http://paycheck-stub.com

Developed it back when I was doing microsites, and I wasn't really sure what to do with it. My main question: why do people visit, anyway? I figured I'd know what to do with it once I figured out why people were there.

So I did just what these guys did. I created a list of buttons down the page with all the possible things people visiting a site called paycheck stub might want. Hooked them all into Google Analytics. Paycheck templates? Fake paychecks? Loans? Payroll services? A job? Sample paychecks for school or presentations?

Very interesting results. First, about 90% didn't want any of that. God knows why they were there. But out of the other 10%, I got a couple pieces of useful information. They were looking for payroll services. So I put up some banner ads. (I think I took down the Adsense. Can't remember)

That, in turn, provided more ad revenue than simply using Adsense on the site. It also provided me with a list of topics to develop and some search terms to try to hit.

So I developed those topics and tried to do better on those search terms. At one point I was almost ready to jump into online payroll. Fun times!

Then Google killed my search ranking -- I wasn't paying for links or spamming. Beats me why. I got so frustrated with them I gave up.

Still get quite a bit of traffic, though. But now, I'm sure, the traffic pattern is completely different. I wonder if, for static sites with a lot of content, this is something you should repeat every year or so?

Like these guys, I found it a rewarding experience, both for my understanding of the site and for my readers. The reason I'm posting is that many times we view this as a step on the way to creating SaaS, but it can be just a great way to connect with your readers. I bet it's extremely applicable for a lot of blogs.

Wish I could have figured out why those other 90% were there.
And... cue the 'accidental death' or 'heart attack out of the blue.

Movie land of course, not 'real' life.
I can understand things like the Three Tier System for alcohol because that is an addictive substance that can cause serious harm if improperly used. But why is this same logic in any way applicable to automobiles? They want to impose a required distribution layer between the manufacturers and the consumer. Enforced middlemen.

Imagine if that applied to the startup world: "Oh hey, you want to buy this SaaS product I built? Well, you can't sign up on my site, you'll have to buy from one of my SaaS distributors."

Madness.
Copyright is such bullshit. I have a personal policy of never going to the theater to see any film, despite how badly I want to.

Paying these animals only encourages their deviant behavior. If you value a free and open Internet, you will starve Hollywood until it dies.

Hollywood only continues to exist because people like you keep feeding them. Don't feed the animals.
I can see that. What about the assertion that you're not getting as much utility out of Twitter as you could be? For me, Twitter's true power doesn't lie in purely consumption -- it lies in decentralized idenitity + boundless conversation.
The app store is so painfully slow even over wifi. It used to be much better before the switch to the screenshot-heavy layout. I like the screenshots in theory, but it is so slow that it makes browsing apps feel like a huge chore.
Not exposing a client-facing search service has no bearing on their ability to search through your messages on the server; they most assuredly can search through your messages.
Direct sales should be opened up to all car manufacturers not just Tesla. Tesla is no exception, if GM isn't allowed to do direct sale Tesla shouldn't be able to as well.
Did they provide a sufficiently rich API to make add in for equivalent functionality on Android devices? Is there even a business productivity strategy for Drive apps on Android? Bleck.
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he was affected by their addiction and its affects on their lives, which the difficultly played a part in the cycle of.
I'd complain about the not-allowed-to-pump-your-own-gas thing if gas wasn't so dirt-cheap in NJ.
Others might say chasing $50k/day is a stupid thing to do. With enough money to live off, plenty of people seek happiness elsewhere.
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Interesting story Daniel -- there should be an "Optimizely for the button to nowhere" product!
It's pretty sad when you're not allowed to sell your product to your customer. If car dealerships provide such a valuable service then they should survive on their own merits and not have to exist parasitically through legislation.
I said that about both her and Boxer. And held to it until Carly Fiorina was nominated on the Republican side.

I decided there was someone worse based on her HP record...
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As he wrote, he didn't put the game down because he was afraid of the money or didn't want to run a business, he was actually afraid of the effect the "addictiveness" of the game had on some of its users.

With that premise, selling to an established company would have been the most irresponsible thing he could do. After all, the biggest assets of the game are its large user base, the media hype and just that "addictiveness". So this would probably be the first thing any buyer would have exploited, making Dong's problem worse instead of better.
> Um, am I the only one that thinks 35 engineers is a pretty good size team to get a good amount of work done?

It takes extraordinarily good engineering practices and discipline to get 35 engineers working as well as you'd imagine WhatsApp could have.
What is he talking about?
I've lived/worked/travelled in Asia for several years and still regularly visit family and friends.

Sadly Vietnam (and China, etc) don't really adhere to the rule of law except on paper, bribes and corruption are normal and it's really about the connections you have.

You really have to live there to appreciate that -- not just on a holiday for a week.
I don't think it's crazy to consider targeted surveillance of their oversight body as being more of a problem than dragnet surveillance.
The paper vs plastic issue is unimportant, in my opinion. In fact, the latest designs I've seen are made of polypropylene sheets instead of paper sheets.

I think the critical element is that it's cheap to build and ship.

Again, what microscopes do you know of that are cheaper?
Hardest part was coming up with the questions. I still feel like I was missing something. Some important reason they were visiting.

But when you have a site with traffic, you end up with tons of data and very little insight. The button thing moves the needle a little bit, and that's better than nothing.

ADD: One other thing: there's also a minimum amount of traffic you need to make this thing work. 100 visits isn't enough. I'd imagine between 1-5K? Otherwise there's too much noise. Was that your experience as well?
Rather than worry about whether Tesla is doing something that GM can't, you should be focusing on why Tesla is being stopped for doing this in the first place.

It's in the interest of protecting jobs of automotive dealers in an industry Tesla is disrupting. Nothing more.
Love this quote from Google Science Fair: "It's your turn to change the world"
I apologize. I note the irony though that if you replace "Sigfried & Roy" with "Foreign Intelligence Committee" and "Roy" with "Senator Feinstein" and references to "Montecore" or "tiger" to "Intelligence Community" you get this (with some artistic license I grant you :-):

"There was a lot more going on in the Foreign Intelligence Committee case than the news would talk about. The intelligence community had no intention of harming them or even implicating them (if the community had they would have been dead), Senator Feinstein herself says that the NSA, the intelligence community, tried to protect her. And I've read other articles that say the intelligence community was stressed because of the situation and in particular the way the public was acting. I've als read articles that said if the public hadn't reacted to the NSA's actions, that Senator Feinstein would be much better off. The committee around her panicked and the intelligence community went into defend the Senator mode, unfortunately trouncing the constitution in the process."
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...shell scripts can do a lot of heavy lifting before you need to start writing one-off python scripts.

I've written loads of both, and I realize the thread had already started down this path, but how is a shell script really different from a python script? If you're targeting Bourne, your shell isn't a separate installation, but it isn't onerous to install your favorite python version on machines you control. Sure, python has an ecosystem of libraries that shell doesn't have, but you don't have to use those libraries if you don't want to. What terrible consequences does someone who prefers python to shell scripting face?
I am having a difficult time figuring out how to respond to this comment given that the assumption going into this conversation is that you are wrong and we are only interested in figuring out why you are wrong. For avoidance of doubt, we are assuming you are wrong because ovolve claimed to have implemented an algorithm matching your description, that implementation was available for your perusal (it is only commented out, not deleted), and it didn't actually work better. Your comments, however, seem to continue to operate from the assumption that you are correct.

Also, while I do not have the background you do with search functions, I didn't feel like my comment (which I saw as offering an idea more than a proof: a comment about intuitions based on having wasted way way too much time playing 2048 yesterday and from being in the chess club at a different time in my life) warranted the "let me teach you the basics" paragraph, especially under the "we are working together to figure out why you are wrong" assumption. I am sufficiently confused by these differing approaches to the conversation as to not be certain how to proceed.

Like, "huh, ok, if you had a different idea for why you are wrong, what would it be?" is all I can come up with, but I don't think that fits your side of this interaction. (Maybe, if you simply feel you aren't wrong, you could look at ovolve's code and find something "wrong"/suboptimal with his algorithm? I assumed you had already done this, given the context, but maybe not? Clearly my assumptions are failing here.) I think I will just bow out, actually get some work done, and maybe ask my friends (whom have much more experience in this space than, to my belief, either of us) to explain this to me later ;P.
It's a good thing the Republicans are around to fight for free enterprise and a friction-free market!

... Oh wait.
> "Who watches the watchmen?"

nobody,so much for checks and b... (I'm tempted to say b like bullsh_t)
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Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign.

Appreciate the feedback. We have a lot more signing options on HelloSign.com. For example, you can create a signature on HelloSign.com by:

1. Using your smartphone

2. Uploading a signature image

3. Typing it in

4. Drawing it in

For V1 of the Google Docs integration, we only added the draw it in option for Docs Add-ons. The other types are coming. Either way, if you want to upload a signature, you can still do it on our website and it’ll show up in Google Docs as saved.

Preview is useful, but there are a few reasons people still use us:

1. We’re closer to the documents than Preview

- You can sign directly in Google Docs, Gmail (https://www.hellosign.com/gmail), Google Apps, and elsewhere.

2. We do signature work flows.

- You can request signatures, cc key parties (like a cofounder or lawyer) and other business functionality.

3. We’re cloud based

- You can use us anywhere.
This is out of the blue. Innovative, but is there a need?
You can cut down on support expenses by not having to have MySQL expertise on staff.

Of course, if your DBAs (or whatever passes for a DBA in your outfit) are conversant in both already -- or if they are equally clueless with both -- this doesn't save you much.
I like the idea, except I'd prefer an option to rebase rather than merge when my code is out of date relative to upstream.

Merge is for when a major line of development departs. A minor feature written by a single developer is better as a rebase because it makes your history easier to understand.

Some people are purists who say "But that destroys history! It wasn't what actually happened!" Say that you implement Feature X. Six months later you want to implement Feature Y, and you say "I know that Feature X is similar enough to Feature Y, so I want to consult the patch for Feature X to see some working code that hooks into the interrupt vector table."

You don't want to see a sequence of six patches against different master commits, the first five of which don't even compile. You want to see a single clean patch. If you don't squash and rebase unclean patches, you're hobbling future maintenance that needs to look at that code.

You don't want to use Git to preserve what actually happened unless you're a historian. If you're a developer whose main goal is to get stuff done, you want to use Git in a way that makes the code as easy as possible for people unfamiliar with it to understand -- and months or years from now, your future self will probably be somewhat unfamiliar with the code you're writing today!