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"I tried ratpoison in linux but found it to interfere with application keyboard shortcuts."

Huh? Rat poison is the only window manager I've used that interferes (meaningfully) with precisely zero application keyboard shortcuts. This is because it only intercepts one key, and having pressed that you there is a key bound in the next map to send the original key. And of course you can pick that top level key.

Edited to add: Though having said that, does anyone have any thoughts as to why my compose key doesn't work in ratpoison? I'd like to cut out the switch to unity when I want to study Polish...
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Why Heartbleed Still Matters: Hindsight in the Age of Pervasive Exploits
Because they're a "western friendly" nation in a key location in the middle east.
Always blows my mind how relatively "close" the ISS orbit is.
The English invented cricket for that...
Could they not just stay in this orbit and still provide a useful service? Hopefully it's not like they are completely useless now?
Many orders of magnitude easier... The amount of energy required to get the ISS to same inclination and orbit as these stranded sats would be stupendous... _Well_ beyond its capabilities.
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Show HN: Traxer, our automated small business mileage tracking app
You're completely right- I forgot to upload them and then had no internet access.

This imgur album has a couple of gifs: http://imgur.com/a/8aqD9
I'm quite familiar with all of them, and I completely agree. I'm simply pointing out that there's a divide between the things that make us happy on a conscious level and a visceral level. I'd liken getting a patent to eating the last piece of pizza. I know it's bad for me, and I know I've deprived others of the experience so I should _feel_ bad, but it was also tasty so I can't help but feel somewhat satisfied.
Where the U.S. gets its oil from
I've heard that eventually most GPS devices, like phones, will be able to also use Galileo and GLONASS (the Russian satellite navigation system). Does anyone know the status of that? There's a list on Wikipedia of GLONASS-compatible phones, but it's not clear if the typical American phone can actually use it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smartphones_using_GLONA...

Also, does anyone know how much more accurate the positioning will be with the 3 systems combined? And whether phones will have access to regional systems like for Japan? The Wikipedia pages are enticing on these ideas, but I haven't seen most of it updated in a while.
That's my favorite part. I clicked here expecting more evidence that they stole. "Stole" should be in scare quotes, if anything.
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I agree. Can an admin edit the link to point to the actual source, http://wolfstreet.com/2014/08/28/how-to-rig-the-entire-ipo-m...?
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was not a man to faf around was he. He never even got to see her sail her first journey as he died of a stroke. You've done a lot if you've died at 53 and achieved as much as he did.
I'm another advocate for dwm and st. Compiling dwm takes seconds (it is a small codebase) and keeps configuration out of the core.
That defeats the purpose of the experiment. Now you are asking a different question; "does the brain learn features good enough to generalize to a class of objects it's never seen before".

I would guess it does, because all the time we see and hear things we've never seen or heard before. For example, you can show a child a picture of an elephant, they will then know what an elephant looks like and recognize them, even if they've never seen an elephant before.
How would you know there is no signal at 100.3MHz if you didn't look?

Edit: A standard FM radio filter is +/- 90kHz around the tuned-in frequency, so if you choose 100.3 on your dial, you're really getting everything from 100.21 to 100.39 all at once. And 100.5 is really 100.41 to 100.59, so we're really only skipping 20% of the frequencies.
XMonad can presumably be modal if you configure it as such. I've got some modal behaviour out of ratpoison by swapping out my top level key maps.
Hypothetically, rather than trying to refuel the satellite, what if something were launched as a "tug" to push/pull the satellite into orbit? I'm sure there's no time to design something like that, but maybe someday something like that will exist to correct orbits.
I've tried to make homebrew Time Machine backup targets (once with a NAS and with a VM running Ubuntu) and both times they initially worked great but then failed when the disk filled up. Even with the "delete old backups" setting enabled, Time Machine on the clients would still complain that the disk couldn't be written to and would fail. The only way to fix it was to delete the volume completely (losing all backups) and start from scratch.

Maybe I did something wrong somewhere but it was frustrating and not worth the trouble. I'll just go with a real Time Capsule and call it a day.
> "Multiverse ennui cannot last forever" says Graham Ross?

That is naive. There is no way to prove or disprove it; it can be safely regarded as true without ever contradicting any possible observation we can ever make.

I do not think physics will ever settle the questions in such a way that the "multiverse ennui" is not invoked to cover the loose ends; in fact, it will become more and more obvious as the inescapable conclusion.

The deeper we dig into nature, either we keep finding more mathematics, or we encounter some absolute that can no longer be analyzed.

Once we know every physical law, and are certain nothing more is to be discovered, how do we distinguish our universe from a set of mathematical axioms? We have two choices then: to suspect there is some outer universe which implements the rules and axioms of this one. Or else admit that axioms do not require an implementation: they just are, and that's what makes their system exist (which means that any other axioms and rules we can imagine also exist just as much).

Either hypothesis is an unprovable "cop out"; but the latter of the two is more plausible. The first hypothesis still leads to an infinity of universes, and they have to be nested in each other in an infinitely regressing sequence. The second one has no such silly requirement; and it has the anthropic principle which plausibly explains everything that seems arbitrary or special.
Amazing! They synced up the virtual world with the actual movements of the rollercoaster. The only thing left is to add Leap Motion for your hands, and create a seriously awesome super-hero game.

http://blog.leapmotion.com/leap-motion-sets-a-course-for-vr/
What does the list-to-drag ratio versus AOA curve look like?
Do you have any rumors or specific knowledge (even if it's not something you'll share) regarding SUSY? They found missing energy? A new plethora of resonances? Higgsinos or sfermions? Something more exotic?
Kind of invalidates that old single cup self fill solution they themselves sold. Example http://www.amazon.com/Keurig-K-Cup-Reusable-Coffee-Filter/dp...
Ireland has multiple undersea cables landing there but none are on this map. Makes one wonder about the readability of this particular map.
This post makes your company look considerably less professional than it otherwise would have, even leaving allegations about code theft unanswered.

I might have been unsure if you were running copyrighted code, but now I know for sure you stiffed a programmer and are trying to cover your ass after the fact.

As a professional consideration, I won't be using any of your services. Failing to pay an appropriate invoice for services rendered to you is a serious black mark for a company, particularly to people who depend on contract work to make a living.

Finally:

> Our agreement with the poster makes it clear that we own all work product produced pursuant to the agreement

I suspect that this is only true in the event that you completely paid the programmer. Failing to do so likely invalidated the copyright transfer, which is standard language to include in a contract.

I also suspect that the code you're currently running is not a clean rewrite, meaning that the next programmer based his code on that code and likely didn't remove literally every piece of it from the code base before starting.

This very easily could have left your company with liability regarding the code you're no longer using, because the formation of your current code base depended integrally on violating the copyright of the programmer you didn't pay.

I suspect you should just shut up and stop making a bigger deal of this in public, and that you should ask your lawyer point blank if the cost of fighting over the liability you might not have properly controlled will be cheaper than just paying the rest of the programmer's fee.
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If there's one thing I've learned from Kerbal Space Program, it's that inclination changes are Hard and Scary...
If anyone is curious, the tool we wrote for rendering raster map tiles on the fly for this project is open source: http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/announcing-raster-suppo...
Yeah, I'm the MEMB fairy, sprinkling that link in the comments of any story about submarine cables. But you beat me to it this time!

I consider it my small contribution to the world to make sure as many nerds as possible get to read that story.
Not that it's directly relevant to the claim, but 'work-for-hire' agreements do not directly to apply to most software.

In particular, you cannot use a work-for-hire agreement to cause on-the-fly copyright transfer as code is written, you have to include in your contract a requirement about a separate copyright transfer.

Here's a decent write-up I found: http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/9954/work-hire-doct...

There's a separate point here though - your contractor wrote the code which you claim not to be using, but he most likely also did a great deal of software design - data modelling, layouts, behavioral descriptions, navigation, etc. If you are using any of that, you are still using his work.

Legally speaking, even if he was as terrible a developer as you say, you are probably screwed for the money he was owed unless you had a lawyer write his contract with an eye toward not paying for poor work. That's just how contracting works.
Math and CS are close enough that I think they should be nice neighbors and respect one another's terminology. I use the mathematical term "isomorphism" daily almost hourly while programming.
I understand that it isn't a nice idea having code and configuration mixed together and that splitting them would be preferable. However, howm takes less than 1 second to compile on my laptop, once you have a configuration that you like you'll rarely change it and I feel that having the configuration in code makes it easier for hackers to find subtle new ways of customising howm.

A downside that I can see to using a header file for configuration is that a compile is required for installation and configuration. I don't see this as being too much of an issue as I don't plan on making howm available as a binary, so a compiler would be required anyway.
See comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8240525.
How? Space is not like driving a car. To go higher you've got to burn fuel to gain velocity and altitude, do go lower you've got to burn fuel to slow down. If you're going the wrong direction or angle, you've got to burn a ton of fuel to change that (i.e. if at 90deg to ISS, you've got no velocity vector in common). And that's just my armchair assessment that ignores the myriad complications of spaceflight.

This is a common misconception, however. For example, people want to know why Columbia didn't just buzz over and hook up with the ISS rather than burning up. They were at a different altitude from ISS and could not have made the jump with available fuel.
Red flag: massive assumption about a contract you've not seen.
The alcan highway is pretty long, and passes through some pretty remote regions. You'd have to run cables from the alcan down to Skagway, and then you'd have to run cables underwater to connect the various coastal communities that are on islands, or far from developed roadways. Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Wrangell, Petersburg are all communites with 2,000-30,000 people, and none of those communites connect to the outside world by road.
> The cash deposits and reserves from these customers, broadly speaking, are not that much.

Indeed the deposits by the very poor aren't much. But this is a government scheme targeted at enabling the poor, not to help the banks.

My mom once mentioned, how nice it was when my parents first got a bank account. They started saving. Money became easier manage. To enable 15Mn people to have bank accounts is a good step.
If it makes you happier, imagine that I wrote that the media can't be trusted because it's controlled by liberal left-wing communists rather than it's completely stellar and non-biased reporting on Iraq in 2003.
Countering that you only stole his wallet, not his car might not have been the best response though.
Well, judging from your usual quality of comments (you're one of the users I remember for good contributions in science threads) I think there's an disagreement here that is not stated explicitly.

Do you disagree with any of the following statements, and if yes, where and why?

- original stopwatch solutions gives equal probability for any of the kid to get picked

- your modulo solution does not give equal probability for any of the kid to get picked

- you argue that the non-uniformness of your solution is not relevant in practice, because number of kids is likely to be an order of magnitude smaller than the readout from the stopwatch (i.e. last two digits)
I just picked up PureData and have been enjoying learning about it and sound generation - also written in tcl/tk!
So do it where it does scale. It seems anecdotally there's much less fakery happening in particle physics anyway.
Sounds like your friend is an acolyte of the LessWrong cult. That doesn't mean your friend is wrong. If you go on Lesswrong's website they have all sorts of articles on why Bayesian statistics is better.

I haven't looked into it very much, but I think they see Bayesian statistics as better because it better takes prior information into account.

Here's a persuasive essay on the topic by LessWrong's cult leader: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ul/my_bayesian_enlightenment/
Thank you, this is my first proper C project so I have learnt a lot and have come a long way. I have really enjoyed working on it and would certainly describe it as a labour of love.
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I might have been wrong about the consideration business. I am looking for any precedent about that, because I don't really know what I'm talking about, and I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California

A consideration is something (a payment, etc) which can be said to have been given in exchange for fulfilling the terms of a contract. You would know if you had received one.

The wiki post does not mention anything about consideration in California law. There are three conditions that can cause a non-compete to be valid, and that's not one of them. I could be reading too much into omission of this standard from the list, but it would seem that payments would have to be ongoing, and even perhaps that the only recourse if you should choose to compete would be to cut the payments off.

I also found this:

http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Display.aspx?SectionName=publicatio...

I don't know if you have anything to worry about, you need to decide that for yourself. This story is about a person who sold his business (one of the three reasons a non-compete can be valid in California), worked as an employee, and signed a separate non-compete restricting him from working with potential customers of the company, which was deemed unenforceable under California law.

I don't think you're going to have anything to worry about, but I don't know how much of their IP you do or might have. I think it would be unwise to publish anything you produced while an employee of the company, that might be their IP. Certainly going to cause you some delays if you have to re-implement everything you've done since working there, in a cleanroom process, but if it's something you want to pursue after you leave, it might be worthwhile. Here's a good analysis of general situation similar to yours:

http://hoviblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/clean-room-defeats-soft...

If you are not bound by non-compete, you probably have only two things to worry about. Those are copyright and trade secrets. Educate yourself about those two issues, and you should feel more confident about your position.

http://levinebakerlaw.com/publications/post-employment-non-c...

This page seems to indicate you have a much stronger position than I first thought. You have the right to compete, it's California. You haven't sold any business, you were never a partner. So, just don't copy anything that's not already public domain, and try not to leverage any proprietary knowledge against your old employer that could be considered a "trade secret". Have a good head about what's confidential and what's protected, and you should be in the right. You may also want to read up on California's "Unfair Practices Act"; though you haven't mentioned a non-compete. The more I read now, the more surprised I am at how many rights you will actually have.

http://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/you-can...
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Generally, it's cheaper to launch a new satellite than to do that.

For a good intuitive idea of how hard that would be, I strongly recommend kerbal space program.
Did you try it out? I think you will feel differently when you get to the end :)
Your metaphor does not work. In this case it's not about simply "not liking the result", it is about not producing functional work. If a lawyer does not perform their role competently you absolutely can get a "refund" [1].

There is way too little information in either of these posts for the community to make as definitive statements or recommend COAs as you have.

[1] http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Pamphlets/ProblemwithaLawyer...
Ask HN: How to scale things and launch many products at the same time?
As a developer/entrepreneur, I know that focus is essential, so I always work on one idea/project at a time and put 100% effort on it. As a result, however, I always have more ideas than I can handle. Many are promising and commercially viable in my opinion, and it leaves me with the feeling that there might be a model to scale things up and tackle several of those ideas at the same time.

One company that seems to be doing this is Rocket Internet. As far as I understand they identify new and promising businesses (usually in the US) and then replicate those ventures in other, developing countries. For each venture they recruit a talented person (usually from top business schools) to be the CEO and run things for them.

Question 1: Do you guys think this model could work at a smaller scale (i.e., I would be Rocket Internet, finding other people to manage my projects), or should I keep focusing on one idea at a time?

Question 2: If you believe it could work, how would you structure it?

One option I am considering is to identify talented programmers that are getting out of university, and convince them to partner with me to execute my ideas instead of going to Google/Facebook/etc. My plan is to offer something like 70% equity of the project plus a guaranteed salary (say $3k monthly) for the first 12 months. The person would be the CEO and thus be responsible for everything. I would just act as an advisor. Could this work?
I think the bigger issue is that Pigeon.ly is going to eventually want to hire developers. The kinds of developers who they are going to want to hire are the kinds of developers who will throughly Google any companies they consider working for. Based on the content and tone of this post, a very large percentage of qualified developers would turn and run the other way.
There is nothing magical in the TLD (top level domains). They're domain names just like the others.

It just happens that in general, no A record is created for them. An A record has been created for the uz. TLD. That's all there is to it.
Quake strafe jumping explained with vector diagrams
http://gpsworld.com/quad-constellation-receiver-gps-glonass-...
"Poor quality code" is a matter of opinion. You can't decide not to pay someone because they've delivered what you consider poor quality code. The best defense from that is to track development (with milestone deliverables), and evaluate code quality (or pay someone to evaluate code quality) as you go along, so you can end the relationship early before you've wasted too much money.

Waiting until they're done and deciding that it's crap and refusing to pay in full is not the way to deal with bad developers.
It's about leadership on a site dedicated to business. Just because it's not "grocery shopping, but on a computer" doesn't make it irrelevant to HN.
This shows a lack of understanding of the structure of late stage VC deals. These are convertible notes, not straight equity. Also, what is the liquidation preference on this round? My guess is that this $20M note is the most senior debt, so if there is a wind down, they get their $20M first. So, KPCB has hedged some of the downside. And this is the important bit: their hedge increases as the percent they take in the round decreases. In a bankruptcy, they could probably at least get $20M out of the company.
It's loosely inspired by dwm in that it uses a similar configuration file and keybinding system.

On a technical level, howm uses xcb- a more modern and efficient X protocol binding. dwm uses xlib.

From a user's perspective, howm has multiple modes for manipulating different kinds of windows as well as operators, motions and counts. This means that multiple windows can have the same operation performed upon them. For example (assuming that the correct modifier keys are being pressed) pressing "q4w" will lead to 4 windows being closed.

howm also has some features that dwm only provides as patches, such as useless gaps and a grid layout.
"USB Hard Disk / Big USB Dick"

Typo?
Wow! Yardstick Capital at work:

"37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.

Founder Jason Fried informed his employees about the new deal at a recent company-wide meeting. The financing round was led by Yardstick Capital and Institutionalized Venture Partners."

(from https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...)

And I thought it was fiction.
Also if both decisions make you hesitate, it suggests that costs/benefits of both of them cancel each other out, so you may as well stop hesitating and go with what the coin tells you.
This is a shit storm.

You had a D level agency write the code, then you consulted (apparently) B level players in technology field about this code.

Obviously they will find issues with it. Hell I will find issues with anything if I really wanted to during a code audit. Without details it's all bull.

Now, you are claiming you rewrote the code internally. Your LinkedIn shows a CTO that does not seem to have A level background and an software engineer who used to be a network technician prior to joining your company.

Not A level team either. So I don't believe your claim that you rewrote it 'properly' after getting some sort of feedback from 'Founding' CakePHP member.

There is no way you are entitled to do refund at this point. In my observation.

Good luck.
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Probably for the same reason Dubai Airport is in the top 3 by passenger flow.

Their strategic location as a middle of everything - plus their willingness to exploit it by providing the services.
Yeah, they totally do.