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Recession and Debt Related Issues
Recession has affected our economy very badly and it has affected people in all walks of life. Whether it is a billion dollar company or an average family, recession has forced all of us to reconsider our financial choices and options. Many of us started looking for loan modification services to keep our homes, car modification, debt negotiation, foreclosure, short sale and even bankruptcy claims.
The problem with these kinds of scenarios is that they rarely pan out. Most of the time you just don't have access to 3 iPhones/iPod Touches and an iPad. It's too rare and usually not well-known enough to be worth implementing as a major feature: just a gimmick.
Risk/Reward

By getting in early you have a chance to get to know the device early, you get to have apps out there with less competition, you have the chance to pioneer something and the buzz that comes with it, et. etc.

That weighs against the risks: noone will buy it, something big will change between v1 & v1.1, etc. etc.

Now, some people will buy it and the app store will not have fewer than 1000 apps when it launches, so neither the risk nor the reward are huge. You need to work out which way it leans.
That's so cool to hear. I haven't even had mine that long, and I'm already an admirer. Sound like I'll dig it even more as time passes.

(Note to those on the fence. I'll give you some background info about myself: I'm NOT a big book reader. Pre-Kindle, less than 5 a year. NOT a big gadget person. Software and virtual servers w/too many providers? Yes. But gadgets no (i hate "stuff." Have no printer, a bad, simple cell phone, no dvr, cable box...). I just really like studying and reading, and the Kindle helps a lot with that.
I'm not saying, "get a Kindle!!" I'm just saying if you're trying to map your needs + interests to people who have one, those are some things about me...)
2010 State of Entrepreneurship Address
14k Gold Bracelet suppliers and manufacturers
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I am sorry, the scammer makes the point and he is correct, a lot of the people are scammed due to their own greed.

THe interviewer points out that some people wanted to give the money to charity, and I point out that it is he who is naive. And anyway, if they wanted to give it to charity, it did end up helping some of the poor people in Nigeria, so they should be happy.
There's a link right on the same page to "Glasshouse files for IPO:" http://bit.ly/aR2G8R
Start-Up Creation Steady in Recession
I'm pretty sure the article they refer to is "Exploring Firm Formation: Why is the Number of New Firms Constant?" (Dane Stangler & Paul Kedrosky, January 13, 2010)~ http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/exploring_firm_formati... (pdf, 1.9Mb) or via google cache ~ http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:GjapcIHkFO8J:www.kauffm...
Will an Expanded Right of Privacy Deter China’s Internet Vigilantes?
Given all the upvotes on this post, I'm guessing I'm in the minority. But, I'm not a fan of wikileaks' ethics. Whistler blowers are important, and I have a lot of respect for their bravery, but wikileaks feels like a metalayer on top of whistle blowing that feels slightly gamey and a little celebratory.
I dunno about the feng shui of that thing
What happened with PayPal's freezing their account?
One of the few iPad articles that I actually enjoyed reading. Facebook on the iPhone was a real reinvention of UI. Something we don't see often enough.
Don't tempt me!
Someone must have thought: "gee, how can we build something even more depressing than cubicles?" This is what they came up with.

Is this a joke? I'm serious. Are they joking? Or is this being proposed as a good idea?
"The store may not be open, but the iPhone/iPad platform itself could hardly be more open to tinkerers of all ages."

Considering it as an Apple product in the vein of the iPhone, with all the limitations that go along with that? Yes. But considering it as a computer? No.
Reminds me a lot of OfficePOD (http://www.officepod.co.uk/)

I still love this idea, though I see it more as an awesome workspace out in my backyard that I could escape to, not so much as something I'd want in my office. Can't say I'm sold on that idea.
By the way, there is a working mirror at http://mirror.wikileaks.info/ , last updated 21 December, 2009.
Its like someone has looked at Google (where The Company is one giant social services organization for you) or Japanese companies (where The Company is designed to organize your social life) and decided to one-up them both: now it won't just suck up your private life, it will give you small simulcra of the trappings of having a private life to convince your monkey brain that you aren't actually missing one.
It apparently got unfrozen due to, ahem, popular request - http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/8192453527 .
Ask HN: Router resale and FCC certification 
Brainstorming some hardware ideas, and maybe someone has experience with this?

I'm considering low quantity resale of a wireless router with a slight modification (3 wires soldered on the PCB).
1) Would the manufacturer care (Asus)? Legal reasons I can't do this?
2) Would this modification require FCC certification?

If I sell more than 30 of these, I can justify/finance spinning my own PCB, etc.
Flagging is under 100; I'm able to right now, at 81, and have been able to for a while. Perhaps 50 or 75? I don't recall exactly when it showed up.
On Safari, your script messes up the layout of the front page. All items compress into each other.

Anyway, if you want to make it really good, get it to put a little textbox at the bottom where we can type in a regex. That would be more generally useful and isn't hard to do. I might give it a go even.. :-) (Plug: I recently wrote a GM script to change new style RTs into old style ones on Twitter - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/66951)
A topic not adequately covered in this topic, IMO, is corner-case testing. E.g. testing across temperature, supply voltage, and especially Si process variation, in the simplest example. EDA tools of ever-increasing sophistication definitely help economize on time-to-market, assuming you understand your tool chain adequately, but it is still actual unit testing, in temp chambers and similar apparatus, that is your most loyal ally in catching flaws before production. Indeed, a large video graphics company I interacted with recently would run their newest cores through corner-case testing across something like 20 different axes. (Imagine a chip with several voltage domains, e.g. core, GPIO, memory, and some sort of GHz-domain serialized interface, now multiply the number of domains by additional factors such as operating temp and Si process variation, and you get a hypercube representing all possible corner cases.)

Testing across corner cases is exhausting, and yes, proper design discipline coupled with EDA proficiency give you a sporting change of avoiding a reduction in performance goals (at best) or even a re-spin (at worst).

But sending a bad chip to market is often a company-ending act for anyone not in the Fortune 500.
Actually Pixar uses something similar for its employees and it seems to work great. Pixar's are, of course, better decorated and look less like Dickensian outhouses.
I just want to leave this here:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bunch_of_phonies_mourn_...

Possibly the first time an Onion article is... appropriate?
I thought the current trend was to tear down the walls - not build ceilings.

Since when is social interaction between coworkers a bad thing?
I've heard very positive things. I haven't used it personally, but my boss had been doing some playing with it. Main barrier for me is the price tag if I find I like it.
Failure is not the goal
Very nice idea, with a slick widget appearance. The actual feed management interface could use a bit of work, though. After I add a Twitter account/RSS feeds, is there a button to get out of the "new digest" wizard and back to the list of them? Also, could you explain what exactly a "digest" is somewhere in that new digest form? I didn't really know what I was creating. Finally, some of that sample code is a bit iffy. I believe the PHP code will cause the page load to hang while it's waiting to download the page from your server, and if your server is down it will hang for a long time. Very cool idea, just apply a little polish.
"Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced" so Steve, round up your engineers and send them back to drawing boards because everybody (apart from apple marketing) can still see the difference.
Settle down, it'll all be over soon enough.
Can we get one of those spring-loaded beds that you see in cartoons all the time? Then at night you just pull it down and sleep. Those 22-year-old developers don't have anything else to be doing anyway.
This is neat. It reminds me of treeforts and those people living on the Golden Gate Bridge in William Gibson's books.
This is obviously a joke/comic, but at another level it points to something deeper. There is a really good story about the Aeron chair that is another good example of this graph, but I can't find it.
Why would their costs be so high? They should post a breakdown of where the money's going.
Okay, maybe it's 50 then, can't remember. I'm also wondering when topcolor becomes available. I have 250 right now, and I thought that the threshold for topcolor was 250 but I guess not.
I honestly would love this if the alternative was an open office or cube farm.
I'm going to take every reasonable opportunity I can to tell everyone to go buy the Xbox game "Braid" and play it right away. That is all.
Why would a VC care if later rounds of funding came from an IPO or through Private Financing, as long as they were able to liquidate.

What I think is cute, is that with Second Market, Sharespost, and others, we're seeing "collectives" or "partnerships" raise money from the private investors, and then purchase private stock.

For all intents and purposes, these private companies will now have thousands (or tens of thousands) of investors, as represented by a few very large partnerships.

Unlike Google, these private companies won't exceed the 500 investor limit, won't have to go public, will allow employees to liquidate - and the only organization that is hurt will be the SOX auditors who don't get a new public company to audit.
We should scrape this and provide archives in P2P so that the information isn't lost and hopefully they will do a similar spray of unreleased docs if they go down. I'll have a look for existing documents tomorrow.
Kinde 3G isn't free. It is priced into the distribution costs of the media.

iPad allows unrestrained surfing - which is why it requires a monthly plan.
If we leave aside the downsides, we are left with two major things here:

- Simplified computer that the majority can handle fully on their own without someone's help. They can choose what apps they want, get rid of ones they don't want, etc. It does take the stress & overhead away from installing stuff on your machine. That means people will install stuff.

- Assumed location awareness, connectivity, camera (eventually), mic, headphones, accelerometer, ambient light sensor along with the UI is a genuinely new paradigm

Those two things together have the potential to be a very big deal.
If you want older stats, here they are:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.macromedia.com/software/pla...
Makings Of A Good Social Network
Social networks are becoming very popular places for people to hangout online. Initially, social networks were popular only among the youngsters and students that wanted to keep in touch with their friends and to find new friends. Today that is not the case anymore people from all age groups use social networks to get in touch with friends, to share their photos and videos etc.
That attitude was uncalled-for.

I'm aware of how brute force attacks work, thank you; and when you say "it's plenty fast", I'd guess you're referring to the difference between "slow" hashes -- like bcrypt -- or "fast" ones, like MD5.

...Which has nothing to do with whether salts are a good idea or not, which was actually my question.

Furthermore, your example there assumes a dictionary to throw at the hashes, which is stupid, because if the website (or other application) doesn't have a sane password policy in the first place, then you don't even need their database of hashes. So, the whole "rainbow table" example you just sighed about was completely irrelevant to my question.

Maybe I can put this another way that'll make more sense.

Let's say I have a 150,000 computer botnet -- pretty small by today's standards, and not that hard to achieve really.

And let's also say that I have a database of 10 million accounts that I snatched from some business, and better yet, let's say that they don't know about it, because I was uncommonly smart and I didn't brag that I got it.

Now, I want to retrieve the passwords for as many of those 10 million accounts as possible, using my botnet.

Further, let's say that the company was uncommonly smart, and they twofish'd all of their passwords with enough stretching to piss me off.

How much more pissed-off will I be when I discover that they've concatenated a 128-bit randomly generated nonce to each password?

Because my guess is, a lot more pissed off, since I can no longer distribute my dictionary of 500,000 commonly found passwords to the botnet, run it through their pessimal twofish, and then look for collisions.
Enough with these iPad stories, please?
Drop the "house" gimmick and this could be great. I'd like to have a mobile mini-office, but it really doesn't need the shingles and all that.
At Davos, Experts See Dip Ahead
Sequencing Patterns / Double Buffer
Chrome's incognito window shields you from this attack - it starts you off with a fresh set of history/cache/cookies every time you start it up.
"China safe from cyberattacks"
I ran into this same problem. Reread the original bug report, ignoring the rest. The poster respectfully made a simple query as to expected behavior. From rasmus first response the poster was treated flippantly and with disregard. And the poster didn't wilt, but instead answered toe to toe.
Anyway, now I have this code where user's skip answering fields (damn users!) and my code used to fill in the zeroes (or commas in the thousands). But now my code no worky. Will that cast to float work? I was doing this elaborate if($in==""){0:number_format($in);} or whatever, but do I only have to cast to float?
I'm more interested in the passing mention of FlockDB, which sounds cool. That'll (hopefully) save me from having to write my own distributed graph database.
And for users who disable caching?
That's a pretty ingenius hack. More limited in use than a real cookie (real cookies are sent along with every request; even for images etc), but still pretty cool.
Hmm, that's utterly unprecedented. I wonder what Wikileaks has on PayPal.
College Endowments In Jeopardy
It's not an attack.
The second part, about running and thinking, is good stuff.

The first three paragraphs are a turn-off because they're about you and not your topic. They feel tacked-on.

I'm just guessing here, but maybe when you got the idea for this essay you didn't quite know how to lead into it?
Google Launches Personalized Map Suggestions based on search history
Very clever. Props for creativity and originality.
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"... Since when is social interaction between coworkers a bad thing? ..."

Since co-workers can walk up to you all the time asking questions or triggering your peripheral vision as they walking past you and when they believe their greatest hits should be your greatest hit.

Interaction is okay to a point, but sometimes you have to get things done in long stretches, uninterrupted.
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From a developer's point of view, how does the power of Android compare to that of the iPhone OS? I haven't developed on either, but articles I've read so far seem to indicate the two have pros and cons but are pretty evenly matched overall. Of course the iPhone still attracts more developers because it has more users.

Let's assume that Android-based smartphones become increasingly successful as many predict, and that users find Android smartphones about as appealing as iPhones. Tablets running Android have been announced, though no apps have been optimized for the larger screen size yet. If Google released tablet-optimized versions of the stock apps, and made the appropriate tweaks to the SDK and the Market, wouldn't Android-based tablets be a close match to the iPad?

How come there hasn't been any excitement about the potential of Android-based tablets?
Eh, the experience I had at my liberal arts school was very different from the author's, but with only 3-4 CS professors a lot of it just comes down to quality and philosophies of the faculty about what students should be learning. It just so happens that mine were particularly badass.

The only thing that frustrated me were all the unrelated courses I was required to take as part of my liberal arts education. I'm probably better off for having a well rounded education, but it was frustrating having to miss some interesting CS courses because the schedule conflicted with some other class I didn't care about but absolutely had to take...
"... Actually Pixar uses something similar for its employees and it seems to work great. Pixar's are, of course, better decorated ..."

Don't like the idea of being locked up inside ~ http://images.google.com/images?q=pixar+cubicles Put one in a tree? Now that's more like it ~ http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/28/buy-a-modern-treehou.ht...
Very good feedback. I'll work on this. Yes, I have meant to add PHP code with CURL that has a timeout.
I like Joel's solution better, using really small private offices: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/29-office.jpg

Although I don't like the wall of glass he chose. I'd sacrifice some light, to not be distracted by people walking by all the time.
First step is admitting that you have a problem.

After a year of crappy service I finally found a way to improve reception on my iPhone... I gave it up and switched to Verizon.
I like what you have said here, however I have another analogy that describes the part I disagree with.

The iPad is a 4 star restaurant, my linux box is my kitchen. I like 4 star resturants and they are not evil (unless they have a 90% monopoly on the market [and the food is crappy (Microsoft circa 2001)] [Apple might do this to in which case they are evil for being a monopoly not for being closed]). They are closed. I can't go into the kitchen and make food. But I can be inspired by the food I enjoy there.

The idea of teaching children to learn to program using iPad apps is some what intriging, however, I would compare it to http://dreamdinners.com/main.php?static=index its not the same as buying a cook book and being in your own kitchen. Or going to culinary school.

So yes we will see people using the iPad to learn to program , possibly, but I think there will always be those who prefer to learn on an open platforms.

ps. I think you might like this graph :) http://chris.smeder.com/essays/3_stevejobs.htm
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Spontaneous social interaction is a bad thing if one is performing a task that requires intense and uninterrupted concentration. It can be a good thing when planning, and is generally a bad thing when executing. Are you the rare example of a programmer who works better with distraction? Or do you possibly do something other than write complex code all day?
It's rather unavoidable to venture a bit into self-righteousness or vanity when you voluntarily act on ideals. If wikileaks somehow maneuvered into to being the only repository for whistle-blowers, then certainly, their pride would do their a mission a grave disservice. Still, whistle-blowers find few places of refuge these days, and wikileaks has demonstrated substantial effectiveness in being just that. Actively protecting/encouraging whistle-blowers out of idealism, while also acknowledging the consequences of vigilantes pursuing such ideals (collecting too many eggs in too few baskets), need not be mutually exclusive. It's a zero-sum game, otherwise.
Privatizing NASA
The people I personally know use microwaves either for heating water or melting cheese or warming up meals from the day before. But then, if that's all people need, then maybe the iPad really is the right tool for them.
I'd agree w/ you if they all had windows to the outside, but people with the interior offices would get hosed w.r.t light. Plus I don't actually think it'd be all that distracting since you can't hear them, only see them.
Damn straight. Their high costs are very mysterious.

I wonder if someone on the inside could leak something somewhere?
>>We have raised just over $130,000 for this year but can not meaningfully continue operations until costs are covered. These amount to just under $200,000 PA. If staff are paid, our yearly budget is $600,000.

So does that mean the staff costs $400,000? If so, it's basically like they're saying "hey can you also pay for the 4 of us to live pretty for the year too?"

Edit: To be clear, I don't know how many people are in said staff.
I do write code that requires uninterrupted concentration for stretches - but I can get into the zone from anywhere. This week I had some of my best sessions at a loud coffee shop. I don't want to be in a sensory deprivation chamber for hours.

Lately I have also been working tightly collaboratively on projects for over a year - and find sitting in the same room with the person quite helpful. Communication is more challenging than focus - isn't it?
I can't claim to be an Android expert but coding Java in Eclipse is a big pain in the butt. Some people love Eclipse. I am not one of those people.

With respect to iPhone/iPad development, Cocoa is the most beautiful and consistent framework I have worked with. It's the best implementation of MVC I've worked with. Objective-C is a little crufty but message passing languages are so much more elegant than method calling languages like C++/C#/Java.

With respect to Android based tablets, Google has done a huge disservice and fragmented the market by pushing Chrome OS for tablets.
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Let’s bury the electronic newspaper
I thought the same thing: depressing. I wouldn't want to work in that.
I posted their call for volunteers several weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023663

They never even replied to my email offering help, or to anyone else as far as I can tell. I'm still a supporter of their mission, but the organization seems pretty flakey.
great.......i like this one.....
example pinch?
So is this a real company? With a product? As people mention below, Pixar does something similar, and obviously they're successful, in which case it looks a lot less like wanking.

Which is what this looks like.
Forgetting the macbook air? That was one failure of this decade. Looking back, Lisa, Apple 3 were some other failures under him. And I consider killing the newton a mistake too.

While he's done well in the last 10 years, he learned like everyone else. 35 years of experience in product design should show right?