skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case that this is true, this would be far and away Apple's biggest-ever sacrificial move against the Mac for the sake of iPhone OS. Ending OS X's exclusivity as the dev kit for iPhone OS would send an extraordinarily profound signal about the company's priorities.
That's besides the point. I'm not justifying anyone. I'm saying the article is presenting a false choice, between a phone with a known physical security issue and a fictitious phone without one, and claiming that choice should influence enterprise buying.
I noticed that. Perhaps my point is more of a semantic one. It still seems to me that the article seems to focus more on the reading than the modifying though.
Cash, Credit or Cell Phone? The Future of Mobile Payments
I don't buy fancy stuff and now suddenly I have more money than I can ever spend.

When you're young and/or of average means, you mostly think of money as something to spend for either the necessities or luxuries of life.

But past a certain scale, another important function of money comes into play: money signifies control/ownership. These amounts can't be spent; they are instead placed in assets -- and if placed and steered well, more control is earned.

It's confusing because the two functions -- spending and controlling -- are denominated in the same unit, dollars. But the dollars of a billionaire -- deployed in assets -- and the dollars of a thousandaire -- deployed for daily needs -- aren't even serving the same social function.

They are still intrinsicly convertible: you can give up control for consumption, or vice versa. But anyone who casually observes about someone else, "he has more in assets than he could ever need, some should be given to others" is in the grips of this confusion -- because as much effect the redistribution will have on consumption, it will also have on control. Ceteris paribus, it will mean transferring relative control to people with more of a consumption mindset than a control/expansion mindset. Done too much, this 'eats the seed corn' for future wealth.

Park your money in a few diverse investments and take the time to change your conception of money, because if you stay in the usual "how can I spend this" mindset, any amount of windfall can be consumed or frittered away. Become comfortable with the idea your windfall is not a consumption bonus, but a control bonus -- giving you a slightly disproportionate say in how societies' wealth should be deployed so as to keep delivering, rather than deliver once and disappear.
Why so many women put up with domestic violence
> So the Windows coders who balk at a several hundred dollar 'Apple tax' are going to instead shell out several hundred dollars for a VS2010 license?

Many students (an important target demographic) get free access to VS (paid by Uni), while macbooks are definitely not free.
Damn... a lot of people went through agony to upgrade stuff to RC2 ;)
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Hehe, compact.
VS Express is free actually.
On a related note, NEVER put a doctor, lawyer, or accountant on a board of directors. It's very tempting because they often have many of the external signs of success. But many years of indoctrination have taught them to limit risk at all cost and that is deadly -- not just for your startup but for life in general. There are certainly exceptions, but in general their very choice of profession exposes what their priorities are.
There were many other reasons listed, including low immigration, small families, contraception/abortion, abstinence and pollution.

This checks do apply do the countries you cited, but the list is still far from comprehensive. They are far better than war, famine and disease, but still regarded as bad things, which is the point.
Think of how woodworkers end up with such a huge number of specialized tools.

The difference is that a computer is a computer (whereas woodworking tools are not interchangeable). Some people (like me) only want one device, because if you use one computer for everything it becomes almost a part of you in a way that wouldn't be possible if you were continuously context-switching between multiple devices.

Right now I use a laptop for everything. When smartphones get good enough (real keyboard via bluetooth, built-in mini projector turning any flat surface into a screen), then I'll use one of those for everything and ditch the laptop.
Hire a professional financial planner to build you a long-term financial plan. By this, I mean somebody with a CFP (Certified Financial Planner) designation. Most CFPs can also make investments for you and will charge you a percentage based on your assets. At your wealth level it should be <1% annually. There may be a small charge for building the financial plan if you don't end up using the investment services.

I'll plug the guy who taught my CFP course, Jeff Ratizner:

http://www.financialplanningfasttrack.com

But you really should have somebody local. PM me on reddit with your location and I may be able to recommend somebody in your area. (I write software for CFPs and have a good network.)

Final tip: before hiring a financial professional (CFP or otherwise), check their history and make sure have no pending lawsuits or anything else worrying:

http://www.adviserinfo.sec.gov/IAPD/Content/Search/iapd_OrgS...
Yeah, I haven't seen reports of this from any major news outlets. I'm not sure how much I'd trust that source.
> Nits have been throughly picked. :)

Count on it, I am always very hesitant to post code on HN, realizing that if I'm not fresh or have tested the code that I'll be mercilessly hacked to little bits. It's fun though, I think my personal record is 5 bugs in 2 lines...
New media company preaches tech's role in solving world's problems
http://trendydigital.com/index.php?main_page=product_info...

http://www.medgestore.com/products/ipad-leisure.psp
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Oh, they already do... check out for example:

http://www.pencomputing.com/

http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/2_handhelds.html
Markdown is super-niche? News to me.

The point is not about complaining, its that the company said a year ago that they would push it soon
Buy a Harley and these three books:
1) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
2) Shopclass as Soulcraft
3) The Bible
Then hit the road and don't come back until you've learned some things.

There, I've helped answer the question for 30k of your 5mil, I'm sure others can help with the remaining 4.97m :)
I'm sure this is a sensitive topic among ALL of BP's contractors. Nobody is going to be verifying any of this until Congress in investigating.
Ask HN: What makes a good Case Study?
I'm in the process of trying to re-think what a case study is. Everything I read is just boring. There's no unifying themes between the case studies, it's just marketing speak, and there's no fun. You never go "oh, I wanna read case studies about this company."

Do you have any suggestions on what would make a fun case study? Would love to hear 'em.
It does, as it works for a lot of people just fine, but it's not without it's quirks.

Some things that are better in XCode: filtering of options, error bubbles, keyboard mappings.

Some things that are better in MSVC: Debugging! Maybe because I had to use MSVC for the last 10 years, and I'm so used to it. XCode is also not bad, but would need more time adjusting to the keyboard shortcuts
I'm curious. Stop signs are red. A lot of the environment around them is green. And about 10% of men have difficulty telling red from green.

Would a different color work better?
I dunno, I just know that the liberal media is really screwing up the "drill baby drill" rhetoric with their incessant propaganda about a minor accident.

They're talking like there's hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil in the Gulf or something.
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Interesting, thanks. Unsurprisingly, their web site sucks, so I was not able to view details of the device. I can only hope that it is "open", and extendable.

I think there is/could be a market for this kind of thing.

Some cheap universal replacements might be an iPod Touch (though rather small and expensive at 200 bucks) or that open source hardware thingy whose name I can't remember - I think it's about 100 bucks? But rather bulky.
You get over that. I was similarly terrified of mine at first, but have come to realize that it's very resilient. It was the same with the iPhone at first too, but now I kick it around like any other phone (and it's fine).
Red is also a harder color to differentiate in low light conditions. I would say hot pink.
This plane is a Waverider. It uses its own supersonic shockwave to generate lift.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverider
But even non-enthusiast cars are still tweakable. You might not be getting the strobe gun out on your timing belt, but you can reflash the chips that control your car's various I/O systems, change out the suspension, do all kinds of nutty things with the interior and exterior.

For example, I bought a Hyundai Elantra back in 2001, and part of the weird appeal to me was that unlike a Honda Civic, there wouldn't be anyone interested in modifying something as pedestrian as an Elantra. Then I joined a Hyundai Elantra forum full of tinkerers - who take full advantage of the fact that Hyundai posts their searchable tech manuals online for free. Because of this open manual and enthusiast community surrounding a car that is unremarkable except in its longevity, I was able to change my own thermostat out, not to mention the dozens of minor suspension and interior tweaks I've made.

It's not that there's less joy in the ride, it's just a different kind of joy.
Sony Z series.

13 inch laptop //
dual SSD's //
Gaming graphics card //
1080P resolution (wow- in a 13) //
11 hours battery life //
.75 inches thick (iirc)
In what practical way could posters use analytics to generate better conversions? Its not exactly the same as SEO. If there is room for analytics and optimziation, maybe you should be building tools specific for craigslist?
I think it is actually really cool that RoG did not specify that part of the problem because in real life that is exactly how stuff gets specified, and plenty of times that's where the trouble comes from. Asking to revise a spec so that it is explicit is usually a very good course of action.

Not all hardware will segfault when writing to NULL, the immutable should segfault and strings that are not null terminated are indeed hard to impossible to check for (pointer wrap..., after a lot of swapping, or a stack overwrite).
This. I did some freelance Django for a guy from Canada who was paying me about half what I make at my day job. It was nice having a little extra cash but in the end I just wasn't motivated, so it was difficult to make time for the low paying work.
I think Apple's long term model is that the iPad is more of a "personal" computing device. Of course they probably wouldn't complain if you went out and bought one for each member of your family.
A test I would like to see is learning abstract algebra by reading Wikipedia articles versus learning it by reading the better textbooks, such as the Artin textbook. My bet is that the textbook users would come out ahead by any reasonable means of assessing their understanding and performance.
That's interesting. I worked for Schlumberger for a couple of years. They are a good company in their core business of oil services (their software division is horrible, but that's another story). They particularly emphasize safety. I have no idea whether the story you linked to is true, but if the chief SLB person on site made a decision that his people were at risk, it would be consistent with the company's culture to get them out of there at their own expense.
The App Store has enough crappy apps. I don't think opening the platform up to VS is going to bring in any more @atebits or the like. If you want to be serious about iPhone/iPad you will get a Mac.
Video Gamers Can Control Dreams
You're absolutely correct about the scale of input available through the web. The databases that Google has amassed are a perfect example. However my thinking is as follows.

1. The variety, detail and coherency of input available from interacting with the real world is more likely to give rise to intelligence.

2. Learning (above reflex modification and simple US-CS associations) appears to be based on feedback from behavior.

If I want to understand how a wooden block works, for example, a great way to learn about it is to pick it up and play with it. The richness of this experience and the speed which minor modifications to behavior produce reinforcement are difficult to replicate without a body.
What do you consider a commercial success, then?
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/motorcycle-helmet...
They do, and I don't think that's going to change, because Microsoft has a team of developers whose job is to write the software that they use to write software.
You think they unintentionally made the default setting for updates 'everyone'?
Did anybody think the data was encrypted? Does anybody think a four digit pin is a sufficient key for encryption?
Some suggestions that should be a part of the solution you develop:

- Invest part of it in investments that produce cash flow sufficient to cover a comfortable day-to-day lifestyle

- Based on things that are your passions, see if there is some aspect of that, that you can channel into an ongoing self-education about financial management, investment and risk management

- Find 2 or 3 financial-investment-successful buddies (or more) with whom you can talk about investment stuff over a beer once a month or so.

Things you need from your personal finance plan:

- It needs to work in nonefficient markets (because that's what they are; e.g. ignore A Random Walk Down Wall St -- it's based on false assumptions)

- It needs to work if people lie to you (such as boards of directors of companies you buy stock in, see Enron etc)

- It needs to work if the U.S. currency becomes worth a lot less quickly in the coming years.

Hope this helps,
-A
Dropping the "computer" part from the name was probably a bit of foreshadowing...
What's a P.R. guy to do, eh?

It's imperative for Zuck to speak to users directly and put a face on the company, but alas he's young and not the most media-savvy guy. Do you really think that addressing a topic this big and this personal, that Facebook would not have some kind of script looked over by writers and lawyers? Of course not, but you'd like to feel as though it's "off the cuff" and "sincere". But then again, "off the cuff" means you haven't really thought about the issue fully.

It's a tough gig, you can see why companies hire spokespeople - so you can believe James Earl Jones sincerely watches CNN.
Ask HN: What's the best way to use a 30" monitor?
I just got a 30" Ultrasharp that I hook up to my 15" MBP. I find that using most windows fullscreen is a tough endeavor. Anyone have any tips for effective windows management?
If it's making more than it's costing him, and he's got time to be getting on with other stuff, he's doing pretty well in my book.
"REpetition'sn't ALlthatbad"?
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North Korea: Not waving. Perhaps drowning
Yeah but then the turbo fan is blocking the air intake at high speeds. plus the exhaust of a turbo fan is subsonic, whereas a scramjet intake needs hypersonic intake.

the way to do it is either a) have a short-lived rocket engine to take you to the threshold speed, or b) bootstrap the aircraft using separate turbofan, ramjet and finally scramjet engines.
Universities are dying for an alternative to Blackboard that has some reputable company behind it.

What exactly do you mean when you say "universities"? There is the IT dept, the students, the staff, the budgeting people--each with their own motivations. My experience has been that Blackboard has the IT depts. and the budgeting people across the schools in their pocket. The only people that hate Blackboard are students and professors. Unfortunately they dont seem to have much pull or motivation to force a change.

There are good and even free alternatives to Blackboard but that's not enough to kill or even injure blackboard.
heheh my initial version also explicitly added the 0, and then I also found a way to do it in the loop. Seems a common evolution.

But your final solution is clearer than mine. While it uses an extra variable (register), it avoids looking up the same thing twice. So... more efficient and clearer.

BTW: TIL char * a = "hello"; doesn't work in C (I think it doesn't allocate memory). I'm actually happy enough that I could solve this at all, not having used C for 20 years ...old
Composition with JavaScript
In a society where bank accounts are free (and allow access to the resources of the bank) and lawyers work pro-bono, I don't think "silver spoon" is how I would describe people have access to either.
To think, all it takes is a simple set of graphics like this and I think I finally understand what this attempt is all about. Good work!
Congrats. Yet another opinion, from someone with a similar mindset to many on HN (he's probably on here somewhere), Jon Bischke (founder of edufire.com):
http://jonbischke.com/2010/04/09/if-you-were-24-and-had-200k...

Although he was talking about a much smaller sum, I think it could still apply.
BP tries to mislead with graphs
You could also say that his question falsely assumes that HN readers all have a startup.

The thing is the question is just being asked to the subset of HN readers that are male and have a startup.
The "normal career path" looks very different from ages 20-40 than 40-60: that's what creates a lot of "involuntary entrepreneurs." Not everyone starting work at Google today, for example, will enjoy the same kinds of returns, and even job security, that have been demonstrated over the last ten years.
No, it's not awful. What the hell is Cyber Command actually trying to do? The NSA's IAD has long had responsibility for securing classified networks (and done a damn good job at it). Cyber command is not about defense. It's about a move to militarize the internet. Too bad the security community is only too happy to jump on the bandwagon for the federal dollars, rather than countering that the military has no business creating an arms race on the net.
Putting a conventional jet engine in front of a scramjet defeats any real benefit you derive from having the scramjet there in the first place.

The scramjet's main advantages are cost and efficiency; to accomplish these gains it comes with a myriad of technical problems and hurdles.

The viability of the technology is actually still very much up for debate.
No one will argue with you that Perl isn't better than awk, if that's the bar you've set for yourself for picking a new language to learn.
That's why home prices are so inflated.

Most people buy homes with a mortgage, where the number they look at is "can I afford the monthly payment?" When interest rates are high, the same monthly payment gets you a much smaller mortgage, which means there's less money to buy a house, which means that house prices come down accordingly.

It ends up being pretty close to a zero-sum game: house prices go up when mortgage rates go down, and house prices go down when mortgage rates go up.

The problem with the recent financial innovation has been that it prices fiscally responsible people out of the market. So when you can get a zero-money down option ARM without proof of income, suddenly people who never could've gotten a mortgage have a lot of money to spend on houses. The price of a house rises accordingly, and soon only people who are willing to take out zero-money-down option ARMs can afford them. Fiscally prudent people who're looking for a 30-year-fixed, 20% down mortgage see that homes are overpriced, and so they sit on the sidelines and rent.

It's Gresham's Law: "Bad money drives out good". It's why we got such a housing bubble in the U.S: it wasn't that consumers were individually stupid, it's that they were responding rationally to economic incentives, and those incentives led to a market where only people who had no possible way of paying back their loans were buying houses. One of my coworkers bought a house in 2006: he said that the loan officer told them that basically all loans that they wrote were now interest-only. Small wonder, considering that everyone who was looking to put down 20% found that homes were too expensive for them to afford.

Luckily, this process works in reverse, too. Now that the bubble's bursting, the only people who can get loans are the ones able to put significant money down. Good things come to those who wait.
The problem isn't the product; it's the people.

I think Don Norman would probably disagree with you.

I maintain that this is a design problem. We meet people in a variety of different contexts in real life: These contexts vary by geography, time, and purpose, but they're discrete entities that should be as translatable to an application's design patterns as our person-to-person relationships already are. How to do this smoothly, of course, is a bit trickier than just making a buddy list, hence the fact that it's not being done very well right now. But that's no reason to give up and blame the users!

The funny thing is, Facebook actually got this mostly right at the beginning. The "networks" were exactly the kind of construct that a non-flat social network needs; their downfall was that they started out too big to be useful and only bloated from there until they were retired. Networks the size of your immediate family, a group close friends, your team at the office, would have worked. And, with proper design, they still can.
Wow, I didn't know that roundabouts are more efficient than other intersection types. That's really cool. (Now I want to build a traffic simulator that can simulate that effect...)
sounds great. what kind of business is it (if that's not too cheeky...)
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Michael Arrington is/was a lawyer and runs a startup. I think his legal background has given him the confidence to pursue legally sensitive journalism

Barack Obama ran a very startup-esque campaign, tech development, social media strategy, wired twenty-somethings and all.
When you spend all 12 years of your relationship doing startup-y stuff, the whole "she understands what it's all about" idea gets pretty much shot to hell. You put up with her going to med school for a few years, she puts up with your startup for 2 years, but then things level out, right?

So, here's how I handled it: we hired Erin. Worked beautifully. She's a strong pentester and, as it turns out, a strong dev.

I've mentioned this in a post before, but another one of my favorite jobs --- running the network for EnterAct, a major Chicago ISP in the '90s --- addressed this problem by building a family-friendly culture. Regular dinners with spouses, events, offsites, that kind of thing. Not hard to do. Fun. Makes a huge difference. But it has to be led from the top, and taken seriously. Asking S.O.'s to come to the office once or twice a year isn't a culture. It's an annoyance.
If you do have trademark problems with HootSuite, you could also consider using an elephant with a couple small birds on it.

Elephants have a symbiotic relationship with a kind of bird that rides around on their backs and provides a valuable service (in this case, eating ticks--feel free to leave that part out!).

I think this would serve as a good metaphor for using tweets to facilitate the long-term retention of information.
Success is tied to internal driving/motivating factors. Julius Caesar wept in front of a statue of Alexander the Great because at his age (30) Alexander had conquered the known world. He compared himself to Alexander and tried to live up to that standard. Likewise if John Doe truly wants to be the next Bezos 500k/yr isn't enough. The comment above supposes 170k users, not 17.5% of 500 million users.
Can't you hack just about any computer given physical access and being able to plug another computer into it?
The term "significant other" can help you here.