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The psychological capabilities of young children are remarkably consistent and well established in the literature. It's not unreasonable to make generalizations about them.
Ya true, training for anything, including triathlons, takes discipline and time. In deference to the OP, I really believe every person - including hackers - can devote at least 1 hour a day to their physical well being. If you can not take even a sliver of time out of your day to work on your own health than you really need to ask yourself what are you doing with your life.

P90X is a fantastic option. Almost every class can be completed in an hour. The yoga class is 90 minutes. Every other day is abs, an additional 15 minutes. If you can not handle the 90 minute yoga, just do it for 60. Or simply switch it out with another class like the stretch or core synergistics. If your day is packed, just wake up earlier.

Trust me, you will thank yourself when you are in your 40s, 50s and 60s that you invested an hour a day into yourself in your 20s and 30s.
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Nice first post and like how you've written it in a gender-neutral tone. It kind of depresses me as I envy people who have supporting partners, and feel as an entrepreneurial woman those attributes are harder to come by in a male partner. I know it's generalising, but most guys want to take the centre stage. Do they want to hold the home and emotional front together? Probably not. Sigh... :-)
Not what I'm reading here.

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/first-iphone-...
My impression of the HW random number generator industry was that it was all snake oil, only the people selling them didn't necessarily know that was true.

In general I find that snake oil salesmen don't realize that they're snake oil salesmen.
Can Clojure be used in Android app development? Since Android apps are JVM-based.
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GTA is quite an old franchise, GTA 1 & 2 were both top down games. You could drive a taxi/bus and pick up people. The game was really quite fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_2

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My wife and I have been married my entire start-up career (going on 8 years). I think she'd more or less describe it much like me having any other job. I've never worked particularly long hours. I probably carry a bit more stress than others, but that's really it (and I've gotten pretty good at managing it).
Apparently Michael Arrington was able to have his number ported, it's probably just a PITA to automate currently.
This was one of those posts where I had no point to make but thought someone else, when reading it, would.
I just want to add this: I don't know wether role-playing violent games increases violence or not. I can imagine hypotheses where it decrease violence as well as increase it. I also can imagine situations where it might have different effects at different ages. Perhaps that's part of what leads to the polarized opinion. What if role-playing violent acts increases violence in children but decreases it in teenagers?

I think the point is to not assume that it is not automatically the same as watching a movie.
Thanks for all the responses guys! I will probably try every one of these.
EA's practices described in this article make me angry, but I'm also baffled. Why the hell would you stay in this situation longer than about 48 hours?

I can't imagine working for a place that told me it was mandatory that I work 12 hours a day, seven days a week with no extra compensation. Ummm...go fuck yourself? Companies don't own their employees. Especially as a programmer, why would you put up with something so ridiculous? It's not that hard to find work doing development elsewhere.
"Most of the patched vulnerabilities were in WebKit"

reading this makes me not want to use webkit, which includes google chrome. maybe i'll go back to firefox.
You may be the first in line to wait overnight, but you may not be the first person to buy the iPhone at this Apple Store.

I camped for the iPad launch and they split the lines in two a few hours before store opening. Folks with reservations got to go in first. For every ten people with a reservation they only let one in without a reservation.

Still a really fun experience meeting fellow enthusiasts and you may get your mug on CNN, NYTimes, Reuters, AP, random world newspapers. :P I was lucky enough to be the first to walk out w/ an iPad at SF Apple store even though I was third in the reserved line.
I'm a college student thats looking into going down this path, and am pretty apalled about the ratio of cool stuff to playing the game that academics seem to have to endure.

I'm pretty sure I don't want to spend 80% of my time stressed out about grants and 20% actually doing work or teaching. Unless thats not what the reality is, but from the jaded sources I've read, that seems to be the case.
Works for me. I have Comcast internet. Worked great for the U.S. Open and hopefully will work for Wimbledon too.
Computer game programming is a glamorous industry, like fashion. If your boss told you to give sexual favors to a client, you'd probably quit, and hopefully press charges; but it's rumored to have happened in the movie / modeling industries (which are also glamorous industries).
I can vouch for that. Gabriel's been great to talk to as I've had questions on buildling a financial news search engine out of http://Newsley.com .
"An excessive reliance on public subsidies which account for about 10% of the industry’s entire revenue." I was shocked to find this out. More information here (not sure how reliable it is) http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/DF_media-prt.shtml
Very cool concept. My wife could probably write a book about what she puts up with... a supportive spouse makes all the difference. I'll tell her to follow the blog :)
You need permission to access any user data (SMS, calendar, etc).

It is almost impossible to get data from another app if the author doesn't expose it somehow (place it on SD Card, expose Content Providers).
Only 56 million uniques a month and craploads of email users.

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>>Finally, 3% of all of the Market submissions that have been analyzed could allow an application to send unknown premium SMS messages without the user's interaction or authorization.<<

Could an independent Android developer comment on whether this is in fact true?
one of our points was to start a company before you amass debt (mortgage, car payments, etc) though understandably many students have loans to pay back. a sad part of our consumer culture is that we generally never get out of debt until very late in our careers.
I totally agree with the problems of teaching, administrative duties, and grant applications getting in the way of research.

But I am interested in the concern you showed about people keeping their work secret due to funding applications. In the world of CS, there are so many conferences because people are compelled to share every small step of progress instead of keeping it to themselves awaiting a huge breakthrough.
Ask HN: Going Unemployed?
I'm currently employed at a large software corporation that treats me well but where I am incredibly bored by the things I do. The environment doesn't fit my personality. I have learned so much more on my own time reading and hacking than I have over the past couple years at the company. Ultimately, my eventual goal is to start a company or work at an early stage startup. I don't see my current path leading me there. I'm considering quitting my job so I can devote my time to learning new things and starting/joining a startup. My biggest worries are: 1. Resume gap 2. Healthcare

I've been good about saving money and living frugally so I can go at least a couple of years without a paycheck.

Should I make the move and just quit? How do you go from a corporate job to a startup? Am I right in thinking that I will be challenged and learn a great deal more about technology, management, and business at a startup?
There are links to each Githubbers profile on the blog ( in the right hand column):

http://github.com/blog
UPDATE: Just ordered two Launchpads.

Although I believe TI is actually losing money if you order these in small quantities. I estimate shipping is around $10. Even ordering two, TI still loses a few bucks. Watch as this thing skyrockets back to $20 in a few weeks.
Background VOIP clients shouldn't be ignored for improving the call situation.

There's no way Apple will ever become a carrier though. And such a shame they're hostile towards Google, Google Voice is our best hope for a new carrier yet...
ok.. so why aren't people talking about the kaka red card... i dont remember the name of the Ivory Coast player who dived with his hands on his face while all he got was a little elbow on the chest that too when he was charging into a standing kaka.... reminded me of the exact sham that rivaldo once pulled off against turkey... seriously what goes around, comes around!
According to the review, the opposite is the case. The demo at WWDC also indicated that the iPhone 4 was worse than the 3GS even for wifi.
I want to know what happened! Did they stay? Has EA's approach changed?

I'm hoping no, and yes, in that order. Anyone have any more recent experience in EA's "sweatshops"?
We're building semantic web apps for data integration. Clojure is great for it as it's all either symbolic manipulation (query translation and planning) or moving data with as little overhead as possible.
On the other hand, they already have 400 million users, which is about 20% of the entire internet population in the whole world[1]. Part of me is thinking what exactly are they waiting for? Something tells me even if they were at 100% internet population, they would still be making meager profits and have an underwhelming IPO. But then again I'm a glass half empty kind of guy when it comes to Facebook.

[1]http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
You'd be surprised what people will put up with due to subtle manipulations of people in charge, peer pressure (of others working similarly, especially if your boss works harder than you do) and the promise of future reward for slog now. It sounds like the working hours started out fine, with the emphasis on it being temporary, and then the realisation started to dawn much later that although they said it was temporary it was anything but.

I've been in a similar situation and didn't realise how badly it was destroying me until I was complaining one day to my SO and it suddenly dawned on me that this was not something I could continue doing.
They say that they found the gyro here: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Teardown/3130/2

But to me that looks like the motor for vibration. I would assume the gyro to be mems.
I don't like the binary view of things. In the real algo trading world, no one is forcing you to take a long or short position-- flat is a viable option.
I worked in the talent booking industry for years and saw people put up with the same endless shit stream because ultimately they are using their jobs to give them self-worth. If you want to maintain your dignity there are always other companies or you can just leave the industry. It's not at all easy to do once you've invested so many years of your life, but the decision is still up to you.
The foot in the door principle.

They don't spring the hours on you, they increase them gradually.

First its - well 45 hours a week isnt so bad. Then after a few weeks its 55, and eventually, you get to working 85 hour weeks and not really knowing how you got there.
Read it to my spouse as she lay in bed... she loved it!

And her first comment was can she have a business card... with the title "Startup Spouse"...

Awesome!

Just add a Facebook share link... so I can share on Facebook. :)
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What are PBXes and SipSocery for?

A SIP client can talk to Gizmo directly, the catch is a 3 minute limit on call out. But initiating the call from GV, where it calls into your Gizmo # then connects to the other number, works like a charm.
espn3.com if your ISP pays up to ESPN.
http://www.olark.com/portal/tour.html gives you a pretty good idea of what you can do with Olark. I think the biggest difference between Olark and the similar competition is that you get to see the visitors to your website in your buddy list of your IM program. (And yea, you can proactively chat with these visitors using Olark)
None. This Guy was literally "thanking the apple gods" for selling him a new phone after basically bricking his old one.

Apple has never cared about supporting old hardware and they never will as long as people are falling over themselves to shell out every other year.
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The AT&T iPhone reservation system was only live for 1 day before it got overloaded and shutdown. I know lots of people that got stuck in the middle of the process and couldn't even enter in their credentials without it failing in the middle of the process. My bet is there will be less reservations for this phone than the ipad.
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Even in 2004 why work $40/hr if you are a good programmer.
If you like game programming make one for yourself while relaxing in a boring Big Corporation.
It seems the competition are the ones that are getting confused.

Where do they go? Bigger screens? I am sure that appeals to some people. More megapixels in the camera? Sure, but at reduced quality, on an already bad part.

It seems the one area the competition isn't focusing on is higher quality, and better battery life (except for Blackberries, which have great battery life). This is where Apple is going.

You are right though, they iPhone 4 doesn't have a 5 inch screen, 12 megapixel camera, 2ghz processor, slide-out keyboard, which the next Android phone will no doubt have.

Personally, I would be happy if at some stage, they produced an android phone that focused more on quality and battery life. They don't need to keep getting bigger each time.
The dive that resulted in the red card is one of the things that make it hard for the average American to get interest in the game.

Kaká should have the yellow rescinded, allowing him to play in the next game, with a ban for the Ivory Coast player that runs through some time past the World Cup.
Ask HN: Methods for finding niche business opportunities
Hi guys,

I found one of the most interesting parts of Tim Ferris' 4 Hour Work Week to be the practical advice for finding viable niche business opportunities. In particular, going to the store and looking at the magazine section and making enquiries based on those, using google test ads etc.

I was wondering if anyone would be prepared to share any other highly practical methods like these that they have for finding niche problems/opportunities to pursue?

Despite what you might think about the rest of the content in that book, I thought the practical advice was very thought provoking, valueable and something we do not see enough of.
Thought it would be worth trying to elicit some more!

Thanks!

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I thought one of the biggest advantage of US financial system is for people to take risks with their business but can fail without a huge hit on their future, i.e. bankruptcy.

Without this attitude, you'll have people that is a lot more hesitant to start a business.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read and comment. I'm glad you and your co-founder both have supportive wives, as I do feel we add a lot ;) I would love to hear their stories sometime!
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In the first place, a language that exposes pointers may not be able to do away with null. But as for languages like Java, the problem can be solved with the help of an implicit, non-mutable default object:

Foo foo; // initialized to default
if (x) {
// stuff
foo = Foo.p1;
} else {
// stuff
foo = Foo.p2;
}
// No need to check if this is a valid reference, it always will be.
foo.bar();
It's a hilarious money making idea but I have trouble understanding why people queue up overnight for these things[1] as opposed to buying it the next day or next week. It's just a phone, albeit a rather lovely one.

[1] Although not nearly as puzzling as the people who queued up for Windows 95.
"In France, firing a printing plant employee is hugely expensive. The gent is paid €50,000 per year, works 32 hours per week and 164 days per year. Firing him costs about €466,000 – that’s a French government estimate..."

When I had the unpleasant task of considering layoffs at a French subsidiary we used to budget about 2x annual salary for severance expenses. The 9x number quoted in the article is amazing if true... In those circumstances I would work very hard to avoid making full-time hires.
I think it rings true for any industry that is about arts, design, or entertainment.
We are an Indian startup and we are building a next-gen finance webapp in Clojure & Python.

We are using Clojure since the early days and we are extremely happy with it.

We used Clojure to build a finance engine which aggregates financial info from various places, stores them in the DB and serves them over a RESTful HTTP API.

Clojure's awesome concurrency semantics and the overall power of Lisp combined with the vast JVM ecosystem has helped us a lot.

We are Infinitely Beta (http://infinitelybeta.com). We are launching in a month, I will announce when we do.
If sales are as strong as the ipad was on release date, it might go out of stock for a month or two.
Oh God, yeah. Working like crazy for yourself is one thing. Forcing others to adopt crazy work habits is another.

If people are genuinely excited about working for you and choose to put in long hours, you thank them, reward them for their efforts and remind them to go home, eat, sleep, spend time with their family, etc. Some people have higher thresholds, some people lower, so I don't think you can enforce any particular rule straight across the board. But you can provide a healthy environment. If my husband ever became a tyrant, he wouldn't be my husband anymore. He knows that :)
>Even some very successful animated movies like Lion King end up with the bad guy being killed. Either intentionally or not, kids end up satisfied that the bad guy had what he deserved and that all become happily ever after.

This is something that I'm disturbed by. Did they really have to kill off Charles Muntz in Up and Syndrome in The Incredibles? Those guys weren't that bad.

I would keep my kid away from as much violent anything as possible, and gradually introduce critically renowned and age-appropriate entertainment as they grow up. Kind of like how I was raised I guess.

Don't get me wrong, I'm an adult who enjoys good entertainment like Sin City and Blood Meridian. I had read a lot of Mark Twain and Dickens as a kid, and those were thoroughly entertaining too. I didn't feel deprived at all. Parents just kind of suck.
I'm thinking of forwarding this link to my boss, so that he can get a quick tour of REST :)
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[These spirals have] been cited by some religious folks as being a proof of the existence of God. Personally, I think that that's silly; my personal belief is that even a deity can't change the way the numbers work: the nature of the numbers and how they behave in inescapable. Even a deity who could create the universe couldn't make 4 a prime number.

Amen to that.
> I wonder which HTML5 APIs the Unity plugin is leveraging.

There's no Unity plugin, it all runs on NaCl. And NaCl can communicate with the DOM so I guess that's the part, and the app can be stored in local storage.
... You're pulling my leg, right? :)

You must be really good at managing your time, being efficient, and resisting the urge to take your work to bed with you!

Do you offer coaching services? lol
The only thing that I could come up with for 'infinite entropy' in Google was a piece about how 'big bangs' start from nothingness in empty space when the Universe 'cools off' or becomes 'too thin.' In that case, it seems like infinite entropy isn't necessarily the 'doom' of the Universe.
IMHO this seems to be a lame effort, all the organizations involved in this competition aren't significant players in data mining or alg trading field.
Its more of top coder rather than Netflix
Ivory Coast player is Kader Keita. He plays for Galatasaray here in Istanbul. It's one of his usual tricks, third time in this season.

You're right on for Rivaldo's (famous in Turkey) trick. His career vanquished after that incident. I hope the same for Keita.
Couldn't an adapter/driver for VAAPI be written? Their kernel module is open-source and now community (I think it's currently a 'community of one') maintained.
What I have seen in advertising industry, is that people just stay longer. Nothing is ever said, there aren't even any dirty looks if you leave at 5 or 5:30, it is just that you will be first to leave. Then, when someone else does it once, they make an excuse, and you feel like you need to make an excuse.

Fine if you are a contractor, that is the way to work at those places.
Can you point to some specific examples that support this? I know it's hard to point out published examples of people who never get published, but I'm curious to see what the credible minority views in these fields are.
Just this weekend I had a dinner with a friend of mine who works for (a Canadian office of) EA. I mentioned this exact blogpost and he said he read it. And then he added that nothing had changed.

Overtime is factored into the development plan from the very beginning, and the overtime period typically starts 6 months before the project deadline. They will compensate with an occasional day off and the work schedule will be lax after the release, but people are really squeezed out before that.
I don't disagree with you, and for what it's worth, I don't run antivirus software either unless I notice suspicious disk or network activity. Since I don't run untrusted binaries, use Adblock, Flashblock, and Firefox, keep my computer up to date, and avoid visiting unknown or potentially-risky web sites, I never have any problems. My point was that antivirus "believers" may not believe you.
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I find this hard to believe as well, but for different reasons. I had an online subscription to Le Monde for years even though I wasn't even living in France. It was tiered but I thought it was extremely advanced in terms of features offered. In addition to web formats, I was also able to download PDF versions of the printed newspaper. It wasn't exactly cheap but I was happy to pay it. I only wish my local newspapers now were of that quality and had the same online services.
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Cool, but it's yet another youtube video about yet another person playing MB sounds on yet another instrument... flagged.
almost everyone qualified to start a company has some sort of skill they can sell for $20-40 per hour (or far more). which is generally enough to pay rent.
Thanks so much. I'd love to hear any stories she'd like to share.

The business card idea is brilliant! Maybe I should offer those? lol

I've added a share widget to the sidebar, thanks for the suggestion :)
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I'm not privy to any statistics on the matter, but simply as an Android user I can tell you that Android applications can't dial numbers, send SMS, etc., unless you explicitly grant them permission to do so -- and Android will tell you, plain as day, that the application wants privilege to access "Services that can cost you money".