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The one that really gets me are the placement services that require you to pay them before any services are rendered. I spent 20 minutes on the phone with one just the other day. They masquerade as legitimate recruiters and then hit you up to represent you in the unpublished job market; like there are companies out there keeping jobs a secret because they don’t want them filled. They try to prey on fears of the economy and competition and then try to sell you an advantage over that whipped up competition, who by the way, they would sell their service to. It’s not like they are representing you to the exclusion of your competition. After wasting 20 minutes with what I thought was a legitimate recruiter for a CTO position, I was pretty irate. Like I told the scum bag, if you are so sure of your success rate, then why don’t you let me pay your fees after placement? after all if you don’t place me, I have not benefited from your so called advantage. He quickly dismissed that concept with some BS about the payment separates those that are truly looking to advance their career. The part that really bothered me, was the scare tactics and the fact that these people are probably having some success with insecure individuals who are susceptible to this. Given the current conditions and the psychological desperation of being unemployed, I can imagine that this is a very vulnerable demographic. Fortunately for me I have the luxury of time, so I was not susceptible to such carpetbaggery.
if you want an auto-focusing setup, get the panasonic gh1 with the specially designed lens 14-140mm.

But people get the canon 5d or the 7d because of the film look. The sensor is bigger so you get shallower depth of field, and also you get wider selection of lenses
Heh, sounds familiar: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/071607-duke-iphone.htm...
Hmm, on first thought, checkout this hot thread going on right now:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1261499 It's about dead tree version of Hacker News. I am sure these guys are going through the same questions as you are.

Well, without Ads, it's going to be a tough sell (unless you will charge your members?) In any case, you should start off maybe online first? That way you can gauge your market's interest first and then perhaps go on from there.
apart from rolling shutter issue, the image quality you get with a canon 5d mkii is much better than you get with camera they use for TV shows
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But then again, it wasn't Apple's fault…

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/072007-cisco-iphone-du...
I find this funny too. Just as technical, only more jargon.

"These devices are continuing to use an IP address they have been leased well beyond the time they should. (In technical terms, the device's DHCP client software stops renewing its lease, but the device keeps using the IP address after the DHCP lease expires. This is not a WiFi issue.)"
I think the point about avoiding crowd-think is great. It seems like that is one of the biggest pitfalls with VC investing, getting irrational about one area and then bidding up investments in that space.

It'd be interesting to see how other VCs avoid this.
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Andrew, would an RSS feed with mp3 enclosures kill you?
Don't know if I would call it really good, but pdf2swf might be a start.

http://www.swftools.org/
This is an amusing post. For me, buying gas is just as similar to stocks. The trick is to decide whether to fill 'er up full or not. Almost always, a full tank is a bad bet unless if you know from experience that it's the cheapest station in the area.

I say stocks because the gas in your tank is the value you bought it for that you could've gotten cheaply. I mean if you know the gas price is going to increase for sure (such as during a long weekend), then yes I will fill my tank please.
I think it's a little disingenuous to say you can't find evidence of secondary economic implications to health, education, welfare, and social security, and can't imagine how or why they contribute to economic growth.
I can't think of any OSS, but Vuzit makes a pretty good one that you can add and embed in your website without having to host your files with them http://vuzit.com/.
Agreed, rebasing makes things much cleaner.

http://geewax.org/2009/11/21/agile-git-workflow.html

http://reinh.com/blog/2009/03/02/a-git-workflow-for-agile-te...

http://gweezlebur.com/2009/01/19/my-git-workflow.html

http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2008/12/18/agile-git-and-the-...
I agree with most comments, the income for artists is not very likely coming from the music itself.

A great read for everyone who wants to market him/herself http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan...
Use Buildmeister! My co-worker wrote a cool little tool wrapping this common workflow up so you can have single line deploys to staging that merge bug/feature branches.

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Obligatory: http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.h...

Edit: link to compression intro page (very readable) http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/index-compr...
That post is a little rant heavy but I agree completely: simple, everyday tasks are still way more verbose and require more lines of code than they should in most languages.

Python/Ruby is probably the closest I've seen to a language that provides enough batteries to be productive but gets out of my way syntactically as much as possible, but both of them could use some further evolution.
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Definitely seems like a no-brainer that Apple forgot. Does this request means that the weather will get current location and update temp. when the app is opened? Or a dynamic update as you move along - I mean if this is the case, I'd love to have it while driving along and get weather updates for the route.
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I'm not buying this until it's peer reviewed by someone like Brendan McKay.
Haha nice. Now, throw in a head tracking camera, you've got a winner.
is anyone making a google app for this? hncontractors app id is not available
Ask HN: Do you have a smartphone?
Just wondering. Developers focus a lot on smartphone users, but I want to get a grasp of how many people really own a smartphone? Geeks included.
Plan to get one
I know nothing about Canon's product release cycles. Is now a good time to invest in this puppy? Or will the 5D Mark III or some such thing be out soon?
What makes marketplaces succeed
Hi. I'm developing a marketplace and looking for good case studies/theories/reports on marketplace dynamics - size threshold to function properly, customer acquisition costs, other data/insights on marketplaces. Would love any suggestions...
I get about 4h on my 10-days-old mbp battery, fwiw. Apple's benchmarks are as unrealistically optimistic as everyone else's.

(I complained about this to a long-time mac user, and he said "You're probably using it with the display on.")
I almost always (like 97 times in 100) just fill up. Too much time wasted to buy gas a few gallons at a time for a small savings, IMO.

(Incidentally, one of our cars is a turbodiesel sedan and gets almost 500 miles to the tank, 600 on a roadtrip. It's amazingly pleasant to only have to fill up about once a month in normal usage.)
A friend of mine actually forked a project that is similar to what you describe. I believe it currently can build most Go projects, with the exception of libraries and Go code that calls C. Here's the link to his fork: http://github.com/timtadh/gobuild-fork
Is it me or did Apple just leave the 13" in the dark with a Core 2 Duo? So much for a happy ending for back-to-school'ers.
Why do you find this funny? It's a concise, relatively jargon free, precise description of the problem. If it's true, it's also a pretty blatant bug - it's one thing not to release your DHCP lease. It's another thing entirely _to continue communicating with an IP address from an expired lease_.

The only possible excuse (for the network stack developers) is that your parent operating system suspended, and that you weren't able to track how much time had passed - but, iPads (in my limited experience) are pretty good at tracking time.
Here's the original much more informative 2007 paper, http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74162/hotsec07.pdf
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Honestly, I thought it was a bug until I saw this thread.
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On long trips, especially coming home from long trips, I'm usually in at least a little bit of a hurry to get there and be done driving. It's therefore worth $1.50 (assuming I pay $.10 per gallon more than is necessary for my 15 gallon tank) to me to only have to fill up once. In practice, I've found the price aren't usually even that much, so the time saved is that much better of a deal.
Building on someone else's platform is like picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.

I largely agree with this, and it is one of the reasons I don't do iDevice development, but I despair about changing it. We're all ultimately on someone else's platform these days: even those of us on the wild free Internet are, essentially, at the mercy of Google.
Just from my rudimentary math skills, I'm not sure the pay-per-achievement assignment would work. As an example, let's say I have 10,000 active users per month, and from their activity, they achieve 10 things per month. At one penny per, I would be shelling out $1000 per month for your service, $12,000 per year. Simply put, hell no. Perhaps, a better pricing plan would be in tiers with fixed costs, and notifications if one were nearing the limit of their chosen tier?

Also, for that $1000 alone, I could probably hire a developer to build an achievement system on my own server for my own sites. Just curious, what would the incentive be for me as a site owner to pay for your service as opposed to building my own?
Mine, too. I would have liked it to last longer; I'm not a fan of the zero-button trackpads.
Well I agree with the time saved part, but in the long run the $1.50s add up to something of significance.

But, my point is that when gas is expensive and you're in dire need of it, fill it up as much as is necessary until the next favorable stop.
In my part of around here, stations near the freeway are more expensive than stations farther from, and stations closer to the center of Big Town are more expensive than stations farther from. So you let those two forces push you to cheaper stations.
Writely (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writely#History), one of the precursors to Google Docs, was written using the .NET stack. http://scobleizer.com/2006/03/09/congrats-to-writely-for-usi...
Huh? They are redundant if you run them in succession. If you've just added all changes to the index, there is no need to use the -a option to commit unstaged changes to files in the index.
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I actually disagree.

As I understand it, the current model is that the people with money give it to the venture capitalists, and that it's the VCs who are the ones who interfere with the start-ups.

Presumably the idea would be that the "collective" would have on-staff consultants who both advise the start-ups and who convince investors that, in aggregate, the start-ups will make money.

Though I think the real problem with the VC model is the necessary "hockey stick" profit chart. The fact that a "lifestyle business" is considered a failure means that lots of functional, profitable businesses are forced to grow to the point that they really do fail.
Not sure if this is generally true, but in one freeway town I often pass through, you come off the freeway onto a main drag with lots of gas stations. Since we drive on the right side of the road, the gas stations on the left side of the road have marginally lower prices than the gas stations on the right side--presumably a premium to cover the inconvenience of making a left turn on a usually busy street!
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Well it's not really like anyone will be running these sites independent of Joel, Jeff and co. So really this is just a mostly automated method of spinning off the software and getting a vibrant community at launch like SO had rather than stabbing in the dark at what people actually want.
Hacker News may not be the best sample unless if you are trying to find out how many geeks (let's face it, if you are reading this you are at least a geek :-) own a smartphone.
It is easier to get people motivated with honey than vinegar.
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Count me in on this one. Paid $800 to replace the logic board on this macbook from 2008.
Yeah. 4:3 is closer to the aspect ratio of books, newspapers, etc.
1) The quality argument has been shown to be utter hogwash. Simply untrue, utterly devoid of rational backing. Read the Ars link I posted for details.

Totally true, one is not better than the other. But when you've got a ton of developers and you want to raise the barrier to entry (and they do) how else should they be doing it? Choosing the apps themselves?

2) All of these companies and developers have been following the rules only to just now have them changed on them for utterly shitty reasons.

Yes that's true. At the same time, that's life. You play in someone else's playground they make the rules. No one forced anyone to be an iphone developer. It's not your RIGHT to be an iphone developer in the same way it's your RIGHT to be a web developer. Remember when the facebook app developer stopped developing for the app store? That wasn't just for show.

3) Apple isn't enforcing their own rules. Lots of apps break the rules yet are allowed on the store. Their rules, at this point, amount to: we're gonna let you in if we like you. That's a pretty crummy rule; hope your business plan doesn't depend on it.

Again, I'm not saying any of this is nice for developers, but hope your business plan doesn't depend on someone else's marketplace.

4) You're missing half the perspective. Apple should be grateful to the developers who have worked their asses off and bent over backwards to satisfy Apple's various restrictions to fill their store with lots of software. If Apple treats them poorly, they'll find developers choosing other platforms.

Sorry but even without the app store the iPhone would still be the number one selling phone. No question about it. The app store is great, but Apple easily could've done it without it. And please don't forget that all of these developers were chasing what was called a "modern day gold rush" - they weren't volunteering their time for Apple. They bent over backwards more than willingly, and continue to do so.

This is software companies outsourcing their marketing to Apple and complaining when the service changes. This is what happens when you don't have control over your business. It sucks.
The key is to balance supply and demand actively. That is, is their is demand, make sure supply matches it. And the other way round.
There's always another off button.. taking out the battery :D
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I was just explaining to my kid how you can tell your latitude from the sun's angle at noon, if you know the day. This picture solidified that idea.
ashleyw has a good comment about this further down:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263223
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I don't remember Apple charging for matte screens on the pre-unibody MBP's. When did they start charging?

Am I wrong here?
Though I don't have any personal experience dealing with this in the real world, I do have an answer for those with access to an academic institution. Usually, the big research universities (in the U.S. that I know of) have a technology transfer department and they can be very resourceful. Of course, this depends highly on your university...

And if your university has a business school, they might be helpful too.
I didn't have my resume out there. It doesn't serve my interests to aid the recruiter in their fishing expedition.
It's interesting that there are enough of the devices on campus to actually cause problems.
I can't seem to edit my post, looks like mobile safari has done this since 2008 for what it is worth.
I built this for a project I'm working on. http://github.com/Benmills/pdfize

It's a jquery plugin that uses the google pdf viewer. Here is a demo: http://files.bmdev.org/pdfize.html
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It also wouldn't hurt to change the icon as well. The calendar app's icon does this.
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In the last Theora/H.264 thread on HN, I recall somebody saying that VP8 was better than H.264... when VP8 was new, and H.264 encoders were still largely experimental. Nowdays, things like x264 and commercial codecs shipped with QuickTime are better than VP8.

There's an interesting post about the problems with VP8 posted by an x264 developer here: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=292
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We haven't been following go-nuts, simply because we haven't had the time. I hope to write a comprehensive postmortem in May. I'll be sure to join the list at that point.
That's a saying that works only when things fail. But if you applied it to everything all the time, then no progress will be made.
Not if the type designer didn't sit down and spend a lot of time hinting the font face for lower point sizes.

Not many designers do.
lol, so... It's not generally a good idea to cut it this close in the US. When I drove out to cali, my buddy and decided to drive it at night to avoid traffic - this is KY to CA. So, we're clear into indiana somewhere at around 11pm and we get to about 10-15% of a tank of gas, decide to stop... pull off at the next gas sign, oh hey - it's closed??? That's interested, let's go to the next exit... 2 exits later the needle is on E and we finally get to a city with an open station. From that point on, we always filled it up at 25-33% - a fact which was crucially important in the desert and mountains.
Tim is also working on the project I mentioned elsewhere in the comments. We couldn't find a build tool we liked, so he forked gobuild and made a series of changes to make it more functional. We will try to get the maintainer to pull from us when we are sure the whole thing is stable and documented.
Since you're (presumably) driving off the highway into an unknown town, my guess is that the first station or two will have more expensive gas, because these stations know there are people coming the same way from the highway who need gas asap (and don't mind paying a premium price). This is confirmed by the example in your post.
This makes absolutely no sense. Why try to fix something which is clearly not broken?

EDIT: Spelling
Such an elegant solution in the day of the never decreasing memory card sizes and megapixels.
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In some cases the person who recommended you may be bound by an agreement not to try and hire any previous colleagues for a period of time (I had to sign one when I quit Google), in which case it would probably violate the agreement for you to know that said person was the one who recommend you. While I was at Google they had at least one event in which people were encouraged to think of anyone that would possibly be worth contacting, so it's possible that your name came in through that avenue (and the person who recommended you had signed the aforementioned agreement).
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Great! Just what we need - more disoriented people on the streets. However useful the iPhone/iPods maybe, the sight of white headphones makes me jump. It's too bad that we can't go on for a little bit meditating with the sounds of the day.

The saddest thing I saw was an elderly couple walking side by side in a wooded path; both were listening loudly to their iPod Touches blithely ignoring the beauty around them. Have we become such callous beings that we need isolation from the world with the help of these white headphones?

Besides my rant, 3D is cool, but it'd be sad to see everyone walking around wearing 3D glasses all day ignoring even more of the world.
So, assuming all 5 retailers act rationally, and that they assume all their customers and competitors act rationally.

Station #1 knows most of its customers won't be comparing (don't care or running low). So they can jack prices up a little more.

Station #2 knows that the only comparison they can be sure ALL their customers make is with Station #1, which will be jacked up, so they can increase their margins a little (above avg, below #1).

#3, #4 and #5 could follow the same logic, except for this. Station #5 knows many of its customers won't compare either. They're the last option without turning around, and many comparison shoppers won't turn around for a few lousy cents / gallon. So they can increase their margin a little.

Which leaves Station #3 wanting to look reasonable compared to #1 & #2, and able to survive a comparison with at least #4. And Station #4 knows they will be a good comparison with #5 but need to compete with #3 and so will probably be at or about the same level as #3.

In other words, #1 will be most expensive. #2 & #5 will have good cause for being a little extra. And #3 & #4 will both be subject to the largest competitive forces and will likely have similar, lowest prices.

Shame the initial assumption I made was completely crap.
Well, I don't see why a person without the requisite skills should expect to succeed. Sorry, if you're no good at basketball, don't expect to play in the NBA.

So, by all means, if you're no good at creating websites, it's not a good idea to start one. But I'm thankful that there aren't any arbitrary walls standing in the way for those people that do have what it takes.
In Western Australia, we have a state government run website, http://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/ , that lists almost all WA servo prices across all fuel types for both today and tomorrow. Prices are cents per litre.
It's impossible to claim that this is about app quality when there are literally over a hundred fart apps in the iPhone App Store. Clearly it's quite possible for developers to create low quality apps using only the official Apple toolchain.
I would argue that some tweaks to their original plan would have make it work much better, plus some plain old evangelising.

The pricing for one thing was too expensive and should have more slabs (say starting from something like 10$ a month). $120/month is a serious commitment, expecially on something which might not really take of also.

imho the new plan is extremely complex and there is really no reason why i would want a community to 'approve' of my new qna site. Just plain wrong at the roots wrong.
Funny, but it seems using Chrome's address bar as a search box then clicking the first link is roughly equivalent. You remember the "login facebook" fiasco right?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo...