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In technology, the solution is to switch companies. I did this twice and approximately doubled my take-home pay each time.

Companies are desperate for good programmers. If you have the goods (and can prove it), you should have no trouble making whatever reasonable amount of money you want. If your company doesn't care that much, you can convince them to care (hard), or go elsewhere (easy).

It's a business, and you are the product.

(Oh, and something I've noticed when reading people's resumes... it's apparently fine to go back to your original company after you've gotten a raise via some other second company. The finance industry makes incest look good.)
Your title is a bit drastic, where does anyone say its unfixable in the post?

edit: sorry, was viewing this from a mobile phone, which didn't skip ahead to the comment.
More complex cameras have greater dynamic range, thus better capturing both shadow detail and not blowing out or washing out the highlights (lightest parts) of the image.

They also have better image sensors which means less degradation in low light situations, less graininess, and with better lenses, less distortion.

My take, anyways...
Oh baby.
Was it ever there? I thought he always said that the paper was done on his personal time and not related to his HP research. I read his Bio there Sunday/Monday and dont remember seeing it. Not to mention it was still being peer-reviewed when it was leaked.
If the integrity of these companies and their clients wasn't so unquestionable, I might even suspect that the answer was "by corruption and bribes".
HN, we're launching a support desk software next week. Help us with our plans?
Hey Hacker News,

Me (Mark) and Logan (lleger) have been working on a support/helpdesk app for a few months. It's called Supportbreeze. We're tech launching it next week, and we're trying to figure out our plans. Screenshot: http://cl.ly/5330f74a6d3af9bbb010

The biggest question is whether we want to limit accounts based on users or threads per month. And we have a few other questions that we're not sure about.

Care to throw your thoughts into our survey?

—> http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHJZQ0ZnWkZrMUlLcGJEcVNUZmQ3cEE6MQ

Oh, and you can try out our site right now. http://supportbreeze.com - we have Javascript/REST/PHP/Ruby APIs, a sweet feature called metadata that attaches, well, metadata to a request (like user ID, etc.), knowledge base, canned responses, custom CSS, and more.

Thank you!
The mention of the paper has been removed from the authors homepage.
That you like to diagram less maths than I do.

Although unless it's super-complex we usually do it on a whiteboard in the house or on the Boogie Board.
but my blood panels were dramatically better on a low-carb diet

My blood panels were exactly the opposite - bad when I ate cheese, meat, fried, oily stuff... good when I switched to a diet consisting mostly of rice, noodles, fruits and vegetables.
They are orthogonal to a large degree. What you say happens quite frequently. Mostly, I'm teaching to 3 or 4 students. That's how many are interested on average.
Yes it was there, including an official copy which he updated yesterday.
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Clickable:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHJZQ0ZnWkZr...

http://supportbreeze.com

http://cl.ly/5330f74a6d3af9bbb010
It wasn't there when the the paper first went public, however it was there this morning.
I think they have the right idea, but the wrong implementation.

It shouldn't be a physical keyboard, but rather a touchpad on the back. With faux-translucency so you can see where your fingers are resting. By default, when you rest your four fingers to each side of the back... the keyboard home row adjusts to rest under your finger

The way it should work is that it detects a keypress when the user presses down and releases a key within half a second.

This would allow them to build a thin device, easily support landscape and portrait, and even provide multiple keyboard types.
It was there, mentioned that he didn't intend for it to be released so early. However, a final draft is in progress, should be done in a few days.
It's the second word. Perhaps an edit?
Charanjit Jutla says "unfixable" twice.
You sure are reading a lot into what I said, and coming off as pretty arrogant trying to correct me.

So because I haven't yet offered other hashing algorithm options yet, since this plugin is about a week old and nobody has used it, and nobody has requested options, I have no right to be offering this solution for public use and scrutiny?

Looks like authlogic uses sha512 by default and clearance and devise use SHA1 by default. If these are their defaults, as you would say, I say this respectfully, maybe those guys should be using somebody else's password hashing library.

Also, could I not continue using SHA2 256, and add an option to specify the number of hashing repetitions, which would increase the time to compute, as well as frustrate dictionary attacks?
He posted something saying that it wasn't meant to be released yet. He had sent it to some experts on August 6th and it made its way into the wild on August 8th. He posted what he said was an "updated" draft. It was there this morning but is no longer.
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Yeah? I can't wait to check it out, Sprint is supposed to have it in my area by the end of summer. Can you reasonably bittorrent on it?

I've read some stuff from people who say that wireless net is a long way from being able to sustain the sort of activity people use on desktops without serious improvements given the amount of spectrum it has available now. However I wouldn't be surprised if metering solves that problem.
Funny how even with great idea and execution, there is an element of luck involved as he concludes "and, who knows, maybe succeed, too".

So, awesome idea, flawless execution that preemptively outdoes competition, and being lucky.

I _LOVE_ those odds anyway :)
Looking for a technical cofounder
Hey All,

I've recently come up with what I think is a fun/interesting idea for an iOS/Android app. Its not something that will make us billionaires - but I think it would be fun to build and would very quickly become profitable. The app/idea solves a problem for a large and growing market and has a definite built-in audience. There are already competitors but they aren't very good and don't really capture/display the information in a functional way. I'm sorry that I'm probably sounding cagey/shifty, but truthfully I think its something that would be really easy to build and a great, marketable product. With some of the programmers here I have little doubt that we could have it built and live in a month after a couple of hours a week of work. Enough of the preamble, here's the idea.

On the backend: We extract location and timing data from schedules or twitter feeds -> We use locations to "pin" those things on a map.

As for the app: On startup we check the user's location then display (on the same map) the pins closest to them.

There's a bit more I've worked out as far as design, implementation and extra information that we would want to provide, but essentially thats it. I'm looking for anyone with great skills/experience and an interest in food (of any type), slight preference might be given to folks in Boston and/or LA but thats only so that we could chat/work in person. Everything else can be done from wherever and on whatever schedule you'd like.

If you'd like to chat, drop me an email (joshua.snyder(@)gmail.com) or post a comment, I'm looking forward to it. I think this project could be pretty interesting, a lot of fun and rather quick to complete.

Josh
Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling
Dude You're a 35 Year Old With a Neckbeard
Previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1573636
New venture from founder of TwitPic
Please confine your references to classic games like Fallout or Fallout 2.
I'm only actively against you because you are consistently obsessed with me, the things I write, and "proving" me wrong. You have some obvious hidden agenda that I can't grasp, and I absolutely hate trolls with a hidden agenda.

I treat nice people very well and love them. The world needs more nice people, and ones who are actually nice.

You however are not nice. You may use nice words, but your actions (like posting a billion times on anything about me) make you a complete and total jerk.
I've been up-negotiated twice, actually. Once for my second job ("that's too low, how about..."), and once when changing from a contractor to a full-time associate ("if we put you in band X, things are easier"). Things were easier, and I got a few thousand dollars more and a month of vacation :)
Is a separate ID generated for a porn mode session? What does Google do with that data?

This might be a good reason not to recommend Chrome of any stripe for banking.
Old mainframes hinder Social Security's move to online services
What's listserv?
Yeah. I read the cross examination and didn't think the guy's lawyer did a very good job

It did inspire me to watch anime with mangoes, though.
Using magic in the teaching of probability and statistics [pdf]
I'm confused what this has to do with the national income and product accounts. The point of my post is that any product produced and traded falls on both sides of the product/income balance. If a gold miner decides to eat that dollar later (or sell it to the Federal Reserve) that's a monetary phenomenon.

My guess is that you wanted to throw out some vaguely gold-bug sort of thing out there, and protect yourself from downvoting by marking it "side note".
About your query: Oracle has the "soundex" function but it won't return exactly that.

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

The solutions we have in place here in Uruguay are far more simple: a nationwide ID (issued by DNIC http://www.minterior.gub.uy/webs/dnic/index.htm) and the local Equifax branch both have unique data on a customer (I used to work for said Equifax branch).

No idea about a blog, sadly.
The airline industry typically pays poorly in the US, it wouldn't surprise me if the figures were in-line with domestic airline pay.
As a Skype user, if Apple made iChat video for windows and connected it to facetime users, it would make iChat really compelling.
So what's that mean going forward? Hopefully, businesses are getting the message that it's time to slowly, but surely, bring people to work.

Or that it's time for American businesses got their heads out of their asses and maybe give the four day work week a look at. Employees from country to country have all said in agreement "I get so much more done" with that format.
You know, I think it's difficult to have students who pay you these days. Even at a university I think students aren't interested in doing the work and just want to get their degree. It's kind of sad because I'd love to just train the next generation of programmers, but it frankly seems so annoying and not worth it.
I'm currently using Vrapper, and it's been a year or two since I tried Eclim. But as I recall, it's a question of which is primary.

With Eclim you get all of vim, as you say, but you lose a bit of the native eclipse editor functionality.

With Vrapper you get all of eclipse, and a subset of the core vim commands. It's not vim, but you get to keep all of the features of the native eclipse editor.
It can be both; and almost certainly is.

GDP growth has been inflated by debt-fueled spending.

But the change in inequality stems largely from globalization applying downward pressure on wages.

Simply: 10, 20, or 30 years ago, more of the component cost of a product went into middle and lower class wages. Now, wages are down; more-so for industries where costs are easier to optimize globally.

Protectionism was the wrong conclusion, but labor had it exactly right when they posited that buying lower-cost goods (those with costs sourced internationally) would squeeze the income of the working class. There's no way it couldn't.

(What labor glossed over, is that stagnant wages don't necessarily mean stagnant quality of life. But they were organizations rewarded only for increasing wages, so they predictably had no interest in the larger objective view.)
The division between wireless and wired seems really artificial to me. Yes, the current state of technology means a megabyte over air is a good margin more expensive than over wire, but I don't believe this is worth codifying into law.

Personally, I'd like to see a restriction on what can be called "Internet". An internet connection in my mind implies neutrality. If your network only provides a subset of the content on the internet, you shouldn't be able to call it "Internet", but instead call it something obviously lesser, much in the same spirit that requires Cheez Wiz be called "cheese product".
I've asked for a raise and gotten it once. My other raises were all from switching jobs, although I usually left for other reasons and you generally get a step up.

When I did ask I knew the company was small and relatively informal. I said that I had done X, Y and Z that included taking more responsibility and really delivering and that I would like a raise. They asked me how much and I said $15K and they said yes. It was pretty sweet.

Not to say you don't deserve it, but I would not really consider doing "above average work" to be a good enough reason for a big raise. A small annual one, sure. I would think you'd need to be taking on additional responsibilities. Assuming you're doing that, then I think you should be able to make a compelling argument. Also, since you know that you're underpaid, you could bring that up as a point.

Whatever you do, don't make it into a threat that you will leave if you don't get the raise. If they say no, just ask what steps you can take so that you WOULD be worth $10K more money to them. If the answer is "nothing", then get the hell out. Most likely the answer will be "you would need to doing X independently" or something like that. In that case, do it, get your praise in writing from your managers/coworkers, and then ask again in 6 months.
"'d hate to see the day when any community measures itself by comparison to other communities"

most value judgements can only be made relative to other like things.
Ash HN: What are you yelling about wrt Google/Verizon?
From Google's Public Policy Blog, dated Aug. 09:

``Today our [Google and Verizon] CEOs will announce a proposal that we hope will make a constructive contribution to the [net neutrality] dialogue. Our joint proposal takes the form of a suggested legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers, and is laid out here. Below we discuss the seven key elements:

First, both companies have long been proponents of the FCC’s current wireline broadband openness principles, which ensure that consumers have access to all legal content on the Internet, and can use what applications, services, and devices they choose. The enforceability of those principles was called into serious question by the recent Comcast court decision. Our proposal would now make those principles fully enforceable at the FCC.

Second, we agree that in addition to these existing principles there should be a new, enforceable prohibition against discriminatory practices. This means that for the first time, wireline broadband providers would not be able to discriminate against or prioritize lawful Internet content, applications or services in a way that causes harm to users or competition.

Importantly, this new nondiscrimination principle includes a presumption against prioritization of Internet traffic - including paid prioritization. So, in addition to not blocking or degrading of Internet content and applications, wireline broadband providers also could not favor particular Internet traffic over other traffic. ''

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/search/label/Net%20Neutrality

So what's all of the rhubarb about?
That's why we all need treadmill desks.
The interesting question is what's at the root of the correlation?

My guess is that it's one or more of:

1. iPhone users tend to have more money as a group and that correlates with more sex.

2. as a group they tend to be more concerned with appearances and sensual experience and sensation seeking.

3. as a group they are more impulsive.
One approach or "philosophy" which seems effective on other sites is to aggressively favor relevance/visibility on the basis of past recommendations or some other metric. So, creating not a high barrier to entry, but a way to screen out new entrants until they have X factors behind them - maybe a certain number of examples, or a certain amount of information associated with them.
Is a federal agent with no skin in the game and appointed by Congress really so much more trustworthy than publicly-traded corporations with customers and shareholders?

I just don't see why you assume that Google and Verizon are acting counter to the interests of the public, but you trust Genachowski.

Edit: publicly-owned -> publicly-traded
"Having a life" is how people explain why they don't do anything fun with their friends except eat and have drinks.

It's funny, I always think the opposite. Whenever I'm working hard at my job during the week and then just eating and drinking with friends on the weekends, I feel like don't "have a life." I do these things most often for lack of other opportunities, and then I start to feel don't have anything more interesting to do than eat and drink and talk. At these junctures, I start thinking more about potential activities, projects and travel opportunities in order to get my "life" going again.
Derek Sivers has a lovely post about this topic. He says that "ideas are just a multiplier of execution".

Check it out:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/08/ideas_are_just...
I was only saying that Zed does more good than harm. In fact, I don't see him doing any harm (except possibly, as you point out, to himself) unless you're saying that we suffer by not having an easy-going Zed to talk with late into the evening.

This isn't a workplace; you're not forced to interact with Zed. Either you decide it's worth the potential grief, or you decide it's not. I don't understand what your personal stake in his behavior is.
Oh, totally. Do you know about foodsubs.com?

should we just set up a HN instance for cooking, or what?

I just bought the polyscience smoke injector thing. This weekend's going to be tasty.
> (Pet peeve of mine? Mixing up authorization and authentication.)

For anyone that's confused:

Authentication: Is the user who they are they are?

Authorization: Is the user allowed to do this?
I believe gjm11 was talking about personal income (i.e., wages/tips/capital gains), not total income to all entities. At least, that's usually what people talking about inequality are discussing, since that's the only thing the government keeps statistics on.

So buying $10 worth of golden rocks will increase GDP by $10, and the balance sheet of Gold Inc by $10. This will only increase personal income if the owner of Gold Inc sells $10 worth of stock or receives $10 worth of dividends in the same year.
He emailed me more details. Basically, he's a system administrator who learned Python through my book, and actually just an early version of it. He hadn't been able to learn programming before. He then wrote some software at his company that got him enough of a raise that he could move his family out of a bad neighborhood and buy a house. He then got a promotion and has been on the up ever since.

This is why I liked it so much. When I tell system administrators they have to learn to code, I really mean it will help them. Hopefully my book can do that for even more of them (and others).
It is a bit sad though for the author. The author never intended the paper to be public. Now he joins the infamous list of people who published to prove P!=NP or otherwise.
Marconi is relevant here because he conducted numerous ship to shore experiments across the Atlantic, before coming to New York and starting the first telegraph network.
It's been like this with Ruby since certain developers have been pushing harder for 1.9 adoption. A new developer is gonna pick the higher version number, cos higher version means newer. They're then gonna wonder why some gem doesn't work :)
The main contention is that although this is good news for wireline businesses, the real future growth in data is expected to be wireless, which is given a free pass from the "teeth" of this proposal.

Instead, the idea is just to let people "know" when they are being screwed over, basically, by having a sort of transparency around when things are unfair.

That's the fear, I believe... and the idea that Google has ceded too much in the proposal instead of fighting for the same kinds of provisions in the wireline proposal to exist across all kinds of data channels.
Until a major chorus of experts chimes in with "Yup, this is curtains for this approach", I think it would be wise not to take too seriously any blog comments based on quick reactions to the paper.

...just as it would be unwise to take the paper itself too seriously until a chorus of experts tells us that it's looking pretty good.
$50/dollars more per month causes that much discomfort?
I'll be at Antidote in Houston tonight for the informal Learn Python The Hard Way Tuesday. No big deal. We just sit there going through Zed's book and if you get stumped, I help you figure out the answer. You can also try this userid on Skype or at yahoo by email. Tonight, I may be preoccupied by someone from okcupid.
So what exactly does google do that justifies their our-shit-doesn't-stink reputation? It seems like they behave exactly like any other self-interested major corporation when the chips are down. They were for censorship in China before they were against it. They were for net neutrality until Verizon offered to cut them a deal. Are there any cases where "don't be evil" made a bit of difference on a non-trivial issue?
It reminds me of some Apple patents for back-side input on small devices: http://gizmodo.com/259271/next-gen-ipod-patent-has-touch-sur...

I think that both ideas have a snowball-in-hell chance of being in an actual product. A significant power of a touch interface is directness ( http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1453235 ). Fingers on the back of the device break directness.
Awesome. I posted a whole bunch more lessons, so not sure when you stopped reading LPTHW but try grabbing it again. Learning Python is a great book, and it's huge so you'll have tons of things to work on. I haven't heard of python 4 fun before.
Why? The testimony is for a jury of laymen, and they need to understand as much as possible to properly render a verdict.
From the thread: "We think that the reported RLZ ping behavior (that request to "/tools/pso/ping...") is a regression -- RLZ pings should not be happening in Chromium or non-promotional Google Chrome builds, so this is not the intended behavior."
Whatever comes of this paper specifically, it's been a very entertaining couple of days to watch this unfold.
Actually, I'm very ethical. People around me tell me I take it to absurd level sometimes.

It's funny how public perception of this can be driven by folks who have never met you or done business with you. You would be hard pressed to find anyone in business, an investor, a partner, etc. that would ever say anything to the contrary. Thus the reason I'm able to raise money, partner, sell companies, etc. over and over again despite the fact that i get negative comments/blog posts from haters.

There is reality, and there are comment threads. :-)
Actually, slow in this case does not at all mean "this operation isn't implemented in hardware or optimized assembly".

The slowness of an algorithm like bcrypt is a tunable property of the key expansion algorithm. A step in this process will be repeated 2^n times, where n can be configured by the user.

If a password function was only slow because it wasn't implemented in assembly on your server, an attacker would obviously just go implement it in assembly for his brute-force crack.