skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I was being figurative there, we actually do use a nerfball but I'm pretty sure it's universally despised. What usually happens is someone is done speaking, holds the ball up and looks around for a taker. No one ever really says, "Me next!" so it's thrown to a random person. At least one or two people will drop it per stand-up and someone else will always go, "Nice one, butterfingers!" and there's the awkward, uncomfortable laugh.

I observed this practice for a couple weeks and came to an average of 2.8 seconds per ball movement. Times that by 29 (amount of passes) and you get 81.2 seconds per day we spend tossing that ball around. At an average salary of about $65K amongst the group, the company spends $42.29 per day on passing a ball around; that's just under a $11,000 a year!

But I digress...
I read this as "begin using google maps again".
I think the title should read "Résumé using Google Maps". The current title is an imperative asking me to start using Google Maps again.
Northwestern University
The so-called FairTax proposed by some US politicians does in fact shift the tax burden, from the very wealthy and the very not-wealthy to the moderately-well-off. FactCheck, who are generally pretty reliable, have some analysis at http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/unspinning_the_fairtax.html and their second graph (the first one is from the US Treasury Department and is potentially misleading in a way described on that page) divides up incomes at $15k, $24k, $42k, $75k (I'm sure there's a reason for those divisions; are they where current tax rates change or something?) and seems to show the <$15k and >$75k brackets gaining substantially, the $24k-$75k brackets losing out, and not much difference for the $12k-$24k bracket. Later statements there suggest that the actual range in which people will pay more is something like $24k-$200k.

So, it appears that at least one prominent proposal for a "flat tax" shifts the tax burden from the very wealthy and the poor to the middle classes. (I'm guessing that in absolute terms the great majority of the benefit goes to the very wealthy, though quite possibly the poor would feel it more.)
That event remains inexcusable.
This will be the first serious game engine to be released which has Android support. Hopefully we can see some ports of the popular iPhone games running on android in the near future :)
in the interview he says around 1.5 mio in 2009

a quick look at quantcast shows that US traffic (which is by far the most monetizable) hasn't grown at all since july 09 (though there is a nice bump in intl. traffic)
http://www.quantcast.com/twitpic.com

so i would say 2-3 mio is a more reasonable assumption than 5 mio. which is still fantastic.
No you're correct, just a typical Mixergy puff-piece line.
It's interesting that the Constitution loophole story seems to be based on hearsay. The New Yorker is pretty meticulous about fact-checking.
Oh sure, you could do a ring bus and it'll scale for workloads that aren't the ones Intel targets for their CPUs. (General purpose, not vector, not SIMD, just straight-up random computations requesting all kinds of data from all kinds of places.)

I think they'll drop the rings soon. But it will keep them going until they figure out how to solve their interconnect problems.

I agree with you that the SON as on RAW/Tilera is unlikely to make the leap to Intel. I just hope they'll move towards that direction. Though clearly they may also chose to move in a completely different direction, but they will need a more sensible strategy than they've got now and I really doubt it's going to be rings for the type of straight up make no assumptions about your workload general computing Intel must be good at.

We don't agree that on-chip networks aren't important though. While right now no one's got a good programming model for these things, we're going to need one and there's likely going to be some data sharing involved, which means a good on-chip network is going to be a hell of a thing. Also I simply don't envision a cache architecture that makes sense that doesn't have a lot of unfortunate on-chip communication, and that needs to not be annoyingly NUMA. (Though it may have to be to some degree...)

I guess we'll find out. :)

And as an aside, thanks for taking the time to provide one of the more informative and responsive posts attached to this thread. I think HN could use more architecture folks.
I usually quit reading as soon as I see the signs of the Agile Cult: BDD, other TLAs, and the dreaded "pairing" word. In these threads, what is interesting is the meta-reading. That is, it's about the process, the group-think, the methodology...it's never about actual software engineering. Oh, that's right -- I think the Agile crowd has made obsolete the notion of 'engineering'. It truly is all about Agile, to them.

Keep in mind, the author is a self-described Freak.
The Royal Mail is one of those things that the average Briton will take for granted, moan about and generally dismiss as an ancient, outdated monstrosity, but sorely miss it after moving abroad.

See also: the NHS, EU consumer law and the BBC.
Ahhh, Alastair Reynolds strikes again!

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

I love it when reality leaks into my head from the world of imagination!
I can't help but think of the USA's reluctance to adopt the metric system. The admirable sense of individualism and autonomy that so characterises the USian national identity seems to be something of an obstacle when it comes to adopting international standards.

I expect in practice there is relatively little difference in performance, especially under emergency lighting conditions, but the running man is just such a beautifully elegant symbol that I can't help but favour it. I find the international ideals that have driven pictographic communication rather moving; It's the same feeling I get scanning the departure board in an international railway station and seeing all the myriad places, peoples and cultures that are all joined up by modernity.
The problem here is assuming that the Kindle needs a "full" browser. It doesn't. It's a ebook reader, not a tablet. A better or faster rendering would be nice, but I think Amazon should position it in it's own niche.
The beer belly of America (bars vs. grocery stores, mapped)
I downvoted for two reasons: first, because of the "everyone knows" comparison of "uncultured, mouth-breathing trashbag-fuckers" vs. "brilliant, cultured, educated people" which is the opposite of my experience.

Second, for the tone: "uncultured, mouth-breathing trashbag-fuckers" are the words of a status-seeker, not a truth-seeker. Hacker News is above this.
As someone who's been the client in this situation a number of times, let me offer two additional tips:

1. Explain or reiterate the goals before you show the design--especially if you're showing it to a larger group in the client company. If they don't know what you're trying to achieve, they're much less likely to give comments out of left field or try to rearrange everything.

2. Keep in touch with your client. If you've been working on a project for 4 days with no contact, send an e-mail letting them know how far you've gotten and if you're on track to make the deadline. This may not make your design more likely to be accepted as-is, but you'd be surprised how much more likely it makes the client to hire you again.
This is awesome. I've been learning 3d game programming on Unity 2.6 and found that I can rapidly prototype things in only minutes and publish to Mac, Windows, as well as a number of browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari).

The only thing they seem to be lacking somewhat is the ability to integrate well with 3rd party source repositories. Using git or subversion is a no-no, but apparently they have a "Unity Asset Server" that is used as a source control mechanism.

Honestly, with their liberal indie license (free if you make less than $100K per year), multiple platform support, and dead simple rapid development environment, I can see Unity becoming the platform of choice for most indie developers.
I won't touch the ad hominem attacks against an entire class of successful people

Over 90% of people in this class achieved no success on their own, but had it bestowed upon them through family connections and inheritance. Likewise, a lot of genuinely successful (and even very, very rich) people aren't remotely connected to Society and the ruling-class chicanery.

The reason the median American is so easily swindled by the Right is because he erroneously believes most of the upper class to be comprised of more successful versions of himself, ignoring the existence a tightly-interconnected ruling class (not quite a conspiracy, but as close as is possible in a society of this size) that hates his values and is actively colluding against people like him.
I favor going all metric. Knowing all the conversion rates is a pain. I suppose we are making progress, if slowly.
Most people don't use Twitter.com they use 3rd party clients, so twitters control is limited.
I have a degree in Medical Record Administration and one of my past positions was Manager of Medical Records and Privacy Officer for a hospital. The Office of Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. You can check out their HIPAA website at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/ You can also review the Security Rule which sets forth guidelines for protecting electronic data. This can be found on http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/security... - click on "Security Rule Standards - Final Rule" under Security Rule History. It's a pain to read because it's written by the government, but it may have the info you need.
Can I ask what the problem is with source repositories? Are the source files just giant binary blobs?
They use Redlaser's SDK.
Exactly. That's not what it used to say. I know that, because before I posted my original comment, I checked some printed matter from about three years ago, and the parenthesized part wasn't there.
That was actually a pretty clever solution he came up with. I didn't see the punchline coming.
Ask HN: Review my site: startuplinkup.com
As you may remember, www.startuplinkup.com was initially created with the data from the co-founder google doc started by Jay Liew.

It seems a weird concept to have a co-founder dating/ job board as a (semantic) wiki, but I guess it's simplicity and openness fits the "startup culture".

I added the "featured" sections, a Startup Services category, and maybe we could build a wiki of startup advice (the green section).

What do you think?
Facebook like Expanding Textbox with Jquery.
The people I met in SC were pretty decent folks...

re: Patriot, IMHO the most coherent, put-together film Mel Gibson ever did.
I think you can use 3rd-party source control with Unity Pro, just not the free/indie version.

I do agree though. Having tried a number of indie game engines over the years, Unity doesn't seem to suck at all.
This just links to a stub. The full article is here: http://www.examiner.com/x-36206-LA-County-Social-Policy-Exam...
That's not unlike the situation with airliners and downbursts in the 70s and 80s. A not-uncommon atmospheric effect, rumored, then known, then studied, led to one out of X planes falling out of the sky.

But we still put people on planes.

The unsettling difference, that you hit on, is: when Fujita finally got through to the FAA, planes and pilots were quickly brought up to speed; but the sea transport industry has seen the rogue wave research and doesn't seem to be particularly interested in changing anything.
Got a better one for you. Start doing the math on how much money you waste thinking you're smart and understand everything and then blow it later on because you missed a key conversation. I'll stack that up against nerf-ball-tossing any day of the week. Or how about useless status reports? (stand-ups are not status reports). Or meetings with required attendance that accomplish nothing?

Communication kills teams. That's why the 30-person team sucks -- communication difficulties expand at an exponential rate. Stand-ups, pair-programming, co-location,and all the rest of that are just feeble attempts to address this problem. If you don't like one of these things, stop it. But that doesn't make the underlying problem go away. Whatever you do, you have to constantly be figuring out ways to solve this problem, not just thinking you've got it nailed because you're doing X.

Agile is very simple. But if you try hard enough, and most teams do, you can screw it up.
For me, the most amazing thing is the "time to hockey stick": Friday night he starts hacking, and by Monday it's getting blogged about and going viral. That is an amazingly short amount of time to build something people want. Most of us have to iterate a long time to achieve that.
Drudge Report accused of serving malware, again
Or even better, C.V., since that's what the OP used in his description.

"Ed Hamilton - Copywriter
This is my CV on Google Maps."
Please stop the FUD. Merely plugging the phone to the PC CANNOT START ANY KIND OF VIRUS SPREAD UNLESS YOU STILL HAVE THE AUTORUN FEATURE ENABLED. Repeat with me, many many times. Please do.

There is one thing to hear this from an ordinary user. They can also say such things as "it low level reformats the disk" without knowing what a low level format is, or knowing that low level formats are not possible since a long long time. They can also say that they steal your satellite dish card codes, whatever they are.

All of those statements are false and the product of a kind of medieval fear. It's ok to hear that from users. It's not ok to hear that from seasoned professionals. Please.

In the same vein: please, copying infected files DOES NOT INFECT THE COMPUTER THAT DOES THE COPY.

Enough is enough. Virus is an industry that builds on malice (from virus writers) but also fear and plain ingnorance (from antivirus writers).
Well, the last time it was on one of the senator's websites. I admit I was skimming to look if some things were changing for certain currently funded programs, but I kept my eye out for other stuff.

Politics are political. Each party is funded by people who want parts of the current system to stay the same or change for their benefit. Trial Lawyers (D) and Drug Companies (R) for example have huge stakes. I ignore what a politician says and look at the actual documents. I admit, lately, it has been really hard to get ahold of bills. I worry about the urgency that doesn't let a bill be posted and reviewed before voting.
This is a perfect example of why it's important to understand not just what your client is asking for, but why they think they need it.

The same lesson goes at least as much, imho, for negotiation - I used to see this all the time at my last job. We'd be negotiating a deal with some counterparty, and they would ask for something completely unnecessary and completely unpleasant (for our side). Sometimes it was just a negotiating ploy so they would have an ask to drop in exchange for something they wanted more, but often as not they just hadn't thought about whether or not they really needed Onerous Provision X. And if instead of fighting over Onerous Provision X you tried to figure out why the other side thought they needed it, and then tried to address that need in some other way, the whole thing went a lot more smoothly, you usually didn't need to give them Onerous Provision X, and everybody walked away feeling like they got what they wanted.

The point of which rambling story, I guess, is that in spite of the linked piece being presented as Idiot Client Asking for Dumb Things, the real lesson is that half the time a ridiculous request is actually just an opportunity to meet the underlying need in a better way.
Some people, use the web for a lot of reading. I would assume this is especially true for the HN community.
Kindle, with its e-ink paper, is optimized for your eyes, for long term reading.
In a way, you may take it even further, and imagine that we might all code on an e-ink display in the future. Perhaps a dual monitor e-ink + lcd setup... I'm getting geeky now.
This situation is virtually made for client-side certificates:

1) You won't need passwords beyond whatever it takes to log in locally.

2) You can assume the hospital computers are physically secured. (Well, I wouldn't, but apparently they do.)

3) The hospital changes machines very infrequently and probably wants a human in the loop every time a machine changes.

4) You can have certificate generation and registration get handled by the on-site IT staff. It is once in a blue moon, and makes them feel like they're not getting paid 6 figures to clear paper jams and reboot Windows.

5) You can mumble any sort of cryptographic magic to scare away people who know just enough about security to be dangerous.
Steve's final conclusion:

“For most web sites, the possible performance gains from optimizing CSS selectors will be small, and are not worth the costs. ”

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/03/10/performance-impa...
I love these articles using job posts as references. (There have been others from Apple and Google up here before.) THey show what managers are thinking about, and what is in the pipeline for 18 months from now, long before a company would ever publicly announce a new product or feature.
You can also find sample security rule compliance policies that different organizations have created. For example, University of California has theirs at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/hipaa/docs/security_gu...
actually, it is a pretty standard solution to these types of problems - it's called Federated Identity Management.

There are a number of standards in place all supported by a number of different vendors that provides this type of functionality. SAML and WS-Security are two that come to mind.

But I'm in perfect agreement on the punchline, that was awesome.
There are so many things wrong..... So, let me got back to the most important numbers in computing 0,1, and many. Transitioning any software from one of those numbers to another is generally a pain in the rear and requires a lot of testing, programming, and resources.
The quickest and latest summary (linked in the discussion caudicus posted above) is probably this:
http://blog.plover.com/law/Godel-dictatorship-3.html

Follow to http://morgenstern.jeffreykegler.com/ to get the PDF of one participant's telling. The first page is a handwritten letter, but the story is typewritten.
XulRunner? It's pretty standard and can be used to make something not look like Windows.

Squeak? You'd get a lot of control and ease of use at the cost of a learning curve, perhaps.

I also like the idea of Flash, Air, or any of those things.
If the company is using a recent Active Directory, it's a snap to set up OpenSSO within their environment to consume Kerberos tokens to authenticate the user (in a browser) via passwordless login.
From there, you can configure OpenSSO to federate authentication by providing your site a SAML token, which, when consumed for authentication, means that the only thing you really have to worry about is authorization -- e.g., what a given user can do from within your application.

You're forgetting that the client's IT people thought that VPN was 'inherently insecure.' What makes you think that they would install this when they would not install a VPN?
Great article, and I'm also not surprised, I had to work with a doctor once and basically took care of all her IT tasks because she was COMPLETELY technology averse and also forgot her logins all the time. I wasn't sure if this was normal of medical professionals, but this article just further reinforced that image.
Don't be a banker (part 1)
Real-life Hurt Locker: How Bomb-Proof Suits Work
If you want to know how much CSS selector matching (sometimes called Style Recalculation) is affecting your site you can try Speed Tracer:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ognampngfcbddbfe...

It's Chrome-only but you can sometimes get cross-browser insights. It's also a lot easier to conduct a cursory investigation using this tool than it is to start changing your selectors.
This deserves its own post - "what we know now about emerging iPad app design".
Nah agile evangalism isn't our cup of tea.

We do enterprise software without the enterprise bureaucracy - so adding in agile just takes it back that way.

Ultimately I dont recommend anyone forces themselves into agile/TDD/BDD methodologies. They are systems designed by people to fit their working practices and preferred approach - its impossible to force yourself efficiently into the exact same mindset as someone else...

The best approach is to pick and choose techniques and practices that fit your flow and develop your own way of working. You'll find it's vastly more efficient.

(we have a couple of teams who finish contract work for other companies who's agile techniques just screwed the timetables/delivery :) so I've seen the difference in action)
My school district switches to 4 ten-hour days over the summers; we save a ton of money on utilities just letting the buildings stay uncooled for three days instead of two.

Nobody has suggested doing that when classes are in session, though. Probably because most of my administration is relatively sane.
With Groovy the boilerplate code "melts away" too. Most java code is valid groovy code, but not the other way around.
Another issue is that USB ports have a pretty small power limit - 2.5 Watts, so using it as a charger is going to take significantly longer than what you plug into the wall...
finally somebody has the guts
"Everyone knows" was a bit of a reach. What I meant is that there are so many brilliant, educated people getting short-changed-- often due to malevolent factors like medical bills, student debt, and the calamity that is the academic job market-- that it seems like everyone must know one, but then again, I'm not an authority on "everyone's" knowledge.

If society were run by cultured and thoughtful people, we'd have universal healthcare, and we'd have more jobs in the arts and academia. We wouldn't have a society in which more than half of all people are living in fear of losing everything. We can determine by looking at the world we live in, especially compared to the immensity of the resources we have, that the world is either run by (1) incompetents or (2) people with malevolent values and, therefore, a lack of culture. I tend to believe the latter regarding the ruling class.
Very cool idea. Had similar idea recently; Product GPS. Find what store closest to you has X in stock, who has best price and where can I find it in this huge store (walmart, target, macy, etc).

Good luck
There is one problem with this - now that you've deployed client side certs you now have to implement a software distribution product just to deploy certs to the 100's of computer that require them... or, in this article case, the single computer) :)

Systems Management vendors love to sell software distribution products to help reduce the distribution requirements for client side certs, but in the end most folks will balk at the price and end up resorting to the sneaker-net approach.
Ling’s Cars: Subtle Brilliance and a Lesson for Design Elitists
The license fee can never decrease, but any increase has to be negotiated for with the Government. The fee generally increases at a little above the rate of inflation.
i'm a one-man consulting band. for the past 2 years i've lived in different cities for ~3m at a time and worked from home or coffee shops. i'm in vancouver for at least a year right now, and renting a desk at a friend's (startup) offices. it makes a world of difference to be able to mentally separate my home, where i now mostly relax, and work, where i now mostly work.

alternatively, i heard mysql required that all of their remote employees needed to have a separate room at home where they worked from... i think having a separate space (whether it's in your home or not) helps a lot.