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I actually think it's fine to spend time on HN, you just can't also spend tons of time on tons of other sites as well.

Based on anecdotal evidence only, it seems the rate at which articles move up and down the HN frontpage pretty much ensures you'll see everything that hits the front page per day if you check HN twice - once in the morning and once in the late afternoon or evening.

I don't think that's too much HN browsing to prevent you from being uber productive, as long as you're not also browsing tons of other sites on the net too.
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This is pretty impressive, or at least, shows they really have no interest in shipping this as a standalone product, not now, or ever.

It will be interesting to see if anyone can take what's there and wrap a better product around it.
We'll never know what society would be like without that long period of depression. Of course no time is all bad or all good. This depression has given us a lot of great new technologies. A lot of families are on the street after their homes were foreclosed too.

If you just look at Apple Keynotes since the depression started you'd look at this time period as a pretty great time for technology and innovation. If you look at families living in hotels because they have nowhere else to go you'd get a much different picture of what this time period was like.
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I do it and I am able to work from home most of the time as an engineer. To do a smash up classical education job teaching your 8 yr old to speak fluent Latin will take 4 hrs a day. Then you spend 8 hrs at work while they run around wild, work on projects, or whatever. Teach them how to cook at an early age and now you have freed up even more hours.

Some freelancers will take the kids with them as they travel about the world on assignment. That's an education in itself.
Personally, I agree that piracy is wrong.

Users pirated software at my first startup company. It wasn't cool.
...because a handful of headlines from an old newspaper is really representative of what the depression was like.
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One comment I've read from photography tech types is that the correct term for this is "tone mapping" not "high dynamic range".

I don't think it's ever caught on outside of pedant circles, though. :)
Simple: You don't. Grow a spine.
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Actually, if you follow the "infinite parallel universes" theory, then there is therefore a universe that exists that has a God who did create everything else; though this "many worlds interpretation" seems to have Hawking feeling that the other universes are unreal or "not real".

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
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The lack of a front facing camera is a common complaint but honestly (owning an iPad that I love and use all the time) I don't think the use case is as cut and dried as that.

Video calls are most often made with a desktop computer or laptop. Laptops have a camera at the top of the screen. Most Webcams are attached to the top of monitors. So you are typically eye level with a desktop webcam or just above with a laptop. That's a fairly natural position.

With an iPad it is most often put on a table, your lap, held in your arm on an armrest or your lap or propped up on your lap or chest when lying down.

All of these cases would have a highly unflattering view if using video. "Looking up someone's nostrils" is how I'd describe it. I could see it working in the keyboard dock, if you have that (which I don't) but that mimics a laptop setup.

I'm not saying they won't add a front facing camera but just think about the practicalities of it.

As for Gen 2, I've gotten so much use out of mine that I won't think twice about selling it to buy the new one. I simply use it that much that it's a complete no brainer. Few devices I own, other than my PC, get that much use.

I'd like to see more memory. Not because I need it but because more applications will be possible with it. I'd also like to see digital out. There is a VGA out connector but it's analog and has idiotic restrictions on it like you can't play iTunes video on it, I guess as an appeasement to the idiots at the MPAA.

But front facing camera? For me it's pretty low priority.

As far as form factor goes, there might be a smaller one. Rumours of a 7" iPad persist. I'm frankly unconvinced. Even if there was one I wouldn't buy one. A 10" screen for a portable device is truly wonderful. I'm not going backwards, I don't care how much lighter it might be.

And as far as Android/WebOS/Windows tablets go, my own view is that the competition is AT LEAST two years behind. Sure in the next 6 months you're going to see any number of crappy tablets coming out but it will be at least 1-2 years before they'll have the polish, battery life and especially the ecosystem of the iPad.
This is essentially what I was driving at here, jswinghammer, that flattening history is a disservice to the people who lived it. The people on the street and the people at the Apple keynote were all living during this enormous recession, and neither group would tell the whole story. Ultimately, I intended this to call attention to how important daily, personal events shape us, but larger national-level events often act as labels that don't get at the day-to-day meaning.
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Yes, if everyone thought very carefully and honestly about the contingency of material beings and what that implies about the existence of the universe, they'd all be at least theists. ;-)
I use Apache to serve the static content.

The reason you got the error message from the OPML Editor is that it was running on port 80 while Apache was offline. As soon as Apache was running, it reverted to its normal non-80 port.
You forgot 5.) It's often illegal
I think this is well said and summarizes the main things to think about.

I've quit a job twice without an official plan or offer in hand on two occaisions. The metric for savings I used was 6 months living expenses.

The main reason I was comfortable with doing this is that I'm confident I can get a job to feed myself whenever I want.

I think the last point is the most important and the main reason I quit my jobs.
Yeah, I agree, but I had just intended the titles to be a gimmick to draw attention to the essence of the GK Chesterton quote. I did, however, do a lot of digging through titles, and the ones I picked weren't misleading given the rest of the content.
As I understand it, "well temperament" is something of a blanket term for many systems that attempted to find a universal tuning. We don't really know how Bach's clavier was tuned for his notion of well temperament.
I quit my job without any plans last July.

I had a conversation with the CEO and the company environment he wants to build is not what I wanted to be in. I gave my two weeks notice the next day.

I had no idea what to do but it just happens that a good friend of mine is looking to start something. I asked him to be my cofounder and now, I'm finally doing what I have always wanted to do.

I still work part-time just to pay the bills. We're building the product and trying to find customers. Once I put more money in the bank, I'll be full-time on the startup.
> but I couldn't possibly imagine that Apple would handicap third-party applications to give their own product line a first-mover advantage

Sadly, I could.
HDR and the tone-mapped results of HDR images have been used somewhat interchangeably for the last while (go look at flickr or deviantart). When someone shows you an 'HDR' image, its just 'understood' (or misunderstood...) as the result of tone mapping. Furthermore, when you start talking about video games, when people refer to HDR, it means that they're doing the tone-mapping on the fly.... and also conflating (an already conflated) HDR with light blooming.

And yeah, automatic tone-mapping can (CAN!) result in some hideous looking images. Used aggressively and without care, skin just turns to porcelain and every building against the sky now has a crazy halo around it.
I quit a job of 7 years with no plan of what to do next. My wife (but wasn't a wife yet) had a reasonable job, and we figured if ever there was a time to take a risk, that was it.

For three years now, we've lived on the philosophy of "if we stop making money today, we have X months left before I have to go get a job". At the end of each month we reassess that, and fortunately we're still doing ok. If nothing else, my work is a hobby that makes us money. I doubt I'll ever get rich from fivesecondtest.com, but it's something to be proud of, and that's more than you'll get working for someone else.

If you think you COULD get another job in a pinch, then really you have zero risk providing you have either a decent amount of money saved or have few financial commitments.
The article referenced this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/technology/08pogue.html?_r...

The one company that seems to have a clue about this is actually Apple. The iPhone 4 has a 5mp camera in it. Some pundits say things like "I wish it had 8 megapixels or more". In doing so, they show their complete ignorance.

Most people couldn't tell the difference between 5 and 8 megapixels. What 8 megapixels buys you is larger files, more noise and slower processing (on a sensor this small). The size of the pixels matter. It's one reason DSLR images tend to be so much better: they have hugely bigger pixels.

I'd love to see more good 5-8mp point and shoot cams rather than these ridiculous 14+ mp noise factories.
And why are they okay with Netflix not using Silverlight on the iPad/iPhone?
That video was ridiculous.
They haven't done that in forever...there was one high-profile rejection and nothing has happened since. Search for web browser in the App Store and see how many results you get (hint: a lot).

For clarity: The other comment thread refers to the fact that the developer submitted an application that allowed the user to take pictures by pressing the volume buttons, which violates the Apple Human Interface Guidelines by removing the actual volume increasing/decreasing functionality of the buttons. It was nicely rejected by Apple, but then the developer did an end-around and publicized a URL scheme that would launch their app and enable the button functionality anyway – the app was summarily pulled off the store, and oddly enough it looks like the developer has disappeared off the face of the earth. (Apple ninjas killed him?)

FWIW, the main developer over there wasn't well-respected in the iPhone community either. Not entirely sure why, but I saw him pick odd fights from the company Twitter account with other developers for reasons beyond my comprehension.
I ended ten years of employment in July. Burnout was killing my motivation to code at all and I gradually came to realize how damaging this could be.

My plan is to take a sabbatical, travel a bit, and recharge my intellectual batteries by learning a new language and a new problem domain. So far the hardest part has been sticking to my guns and turning down new job offers.

This TED talk makes a good case for this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_time...
Does anyone have one of this in LA (Westwood/Santa Monica/Venice area). How are the speeds and connection stability?
0MQ is not a protocol as far as I know, it is an application. It's unfair to compare it to AMQP.

STOMP is not flexible enough, but it is pretty good.
It's an awfully steep price to pay for it though. It's convenient, but is it really worth 6x the price of an Apple TV or 5x the price of a WDTV Live?
Apple definitely did an excellent job of keeping a lid on the HDR addition to iOS 4.1. Many people seem to be thinking they're doing a bad job of letting new product info leak early, but I think this shows they are still doing a good job. I'm also really excited to see how well this feature works on my 3GS as well.

I have the Camera + app as well, and it works pretty well for me.

As far as Tap Tap Tap sneaking in that easter egg with using the volume buttons as activating the shutter, that was flat out a bad decision. They are not stupid people, and I'm sure they knew Apple would catch a whiff of this and pull the app from the app store. Considering the amount of revenue they pulled in (which is still not confirmed), they should have submitted an update to get it back into the store. There hasn't been any information on whether or not they plan on doing this, but I'm hopeful.
It's be great if something like this became part of the expected install for a new server. Web Server, dB, scripting engine, framework, blog, Wave, etc.
I imagine like everything in aerospace, 'just scaling up' isn't as simple as it is. Drag increases non-linearly as you scale up for one thing, and with something as tricky as the rotors of helicopter, you probably have to do all sorts of nuts stuff to get it to work. For one thing, you can't just make the rotor span larger (with same rotation speed), cause then your increasing the velocity of the rotor tips which could cause all sorts of problems.
The point of the article, life goes on even in a depression, is indisputable. However, I was thinking about the differences then and now. One conclusion I reached was that an economic depression is like a giant step backwards in terms of opportunities to get ahead, standard of living, etc. So for the sake of argument, say a Great Depression knocks you back 15-20%. What I realized was that a crash in 1929 pushed a significant number of people into actual subsistence poverty (not the modern Marxist definition of 75% less than others). The US was just barely out of an agricultural based economy in 1929. Today a 15-20% setback puts us back, on average, to sometime in the '80s. So the consequences today are not as severe as they were in 29.
Well, he makes a LOT of false or illogical statements in this article.

Not something I'd expect from someone like that.
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So wait, is Apple just mining the app store and its developers for development ideas to lift now?
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How can I say no to this? I'm getting in touch with the organizers for this year's Startup Bootcamp. I'll have to fly back that night, though, but it can work...
So Kerala was repeatedly hit by projectiles from space over a span of months, producing a red rain of alien life.

But nowhere else was.

As the earth spun on its axis. And the earth moved around the sun.

The space-spores kept landing on Kerala.

Right. How does that work, exactly?
IMO, for most people, having an expensive lifestyle is not worth working at lot. Just save money, quit and live cheap for a while.
I have set up my mother with a big Intergraph 21" from my collection (she is 75 and her eyes beg for big pixels). When I got X configured properly, the monitor started in 2048x1536.

I configured her account so that she got a humble 1024x768 screen, so she could read what appeared on the screen. I know I could just tell X to use twice as many dpi as it wants, but this was a lot simpler.

OTOH, when I have to use her computer, I am always surprised by the endless screen real-estate. And, with the pixel-density properly configured, fonts are exquisitely drawn. And that's on a somewhat big screen. I can only imagine what would happen on a iPad-sized thing.
I think that currently, to get on arxiv you just need some arxiv-trusted person to vouch for your work. The idea being that if you vouch for too many kooks they stop letting you vouch for anyone.
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I would think the obvious one is Eric Schmidt
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If I'm not mistaken, they can 'reproduce' after a fashion, by warping other nearby normal proteins into prions.
""Shiny black slab" was an attractive design choice, but it may not have been the best choice if you want the device to be able to function in the presence of sunlight. Sigh. This is a shame, because the screen is surprisingly readable when it's not suffering from i-sunstroke,""

OK, from an engineering standpoint, this probably isn't the best. (It seems that apple sometimes ignores the fact that computers get hot...)

But I think we could turn this into a marketing selling point; Vampires are hot right now, vampires hate the sun.

The iPad, the latest in Vampiric computing.

Then you can sell it with sexy twilight/trueblood vampires. (In black mock turtlenecks/sweaters, of course).

It'll be awesome.
To be fair, initial stealth technology wasn't even THAT expensive. The initial development of 'true' stealth (Pave Blue/F-117) cost about 2 Billion USD in R&D and a total of about 7 Billion for all the planes and everything else.

Furthermore, it wasn't even that implausible. Some Soviet physicist already wrote the paper telling us how to calculate Radar Cross Sections. The initial prototyping was a huge success (pretty much matched up exactly what their expected/calculated values).

Now, the B2. That's a different story. It's very hard to justify 2 Billion dollar bombers, no matter how you spin it.

Linkie here: http://www.ausairpower.net/Profile-F-117A.html and also Ben Rich's excellent (though somewhat biased) book Skunk Works.
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I haven't viewed your video yet (bookmarked it) but I am completely on the same page as you. I am soooo burned out, have worked 11 years. In short, something isn't right and I'm not happy. I'm out of here in November.
I don't have a problem with a reporter asking hard questions. I have a problem with reporters who are more interested in getting video that makes the reporter look heroic, than they are in getting answers to tough questions.

Anyone seen any evidence this reporter made any attempt to continue to ask those questions at a later time. Or did she stop the interview the second she saw Newmark looked bad at the same time she yelled the questions once.
I believe the potential of Mongrel2 lies in real-time web applications.

Want to write a backend in PHP for a real-time chat? That is very difficult with Apache and mod_php. With Mongrel2 and ZeroMQ, it is almost trivial.

Mongrel2's asynchronous pub/sub networking paradigm opens up possibilities for real-time communication to browsers. When websockets get real, Mongrel2 may very well be the way we all start using them.

Where Mongrel2 has some ground to cover is handling traditional server-generated pages. Want to run an existing PHP application with a framework like CodeIgniter? You can't do it from Mongrel2 without proxying to nginx or apache (yet). Hopefully this is something that will come along in Mongrel2 v2.0.
js1k wants UTF-8 encoding which'd bloat it up to 1500-or-so bytes. We asked to use another charset but didn't get any reply at all. So, being "not cool enough" is just sarcasm.
I'm sorry to say your argument is purely theoretical. "The market" resides in economics texts, reality doesn't always conform to it. I grew up in a country where bribery is rampant. It is a nuisance and a drain on everything.
I wonder if that was just one developers work, rather than a company decision? Would not like to be that guy/girl.
You might be surprised at how large an impact adding unit tests can have on existing code. It makes it feasible to start incrementally fixing the spaghetti while having some assurance that you aren't breaking existing functionality. Granted, it's not a panacea, but it does have a huge impact.

That all being said, the concept of "taking ownership" without having any control of how you do your job is bullshit. The only way to solve that problem is to tell management that they are solely to blame, but the solution you get may be to no longer work for them; you have to decide for yourself if it's worth the risk.
Think about it this way. As a programmer, the future of your career depends on your ability to keep learning new things and to stay on top of new technology. Anything that threatens your ability or motivation to do that is very dangerous.

It's easy to get comfortable in a good gig, particularly if the pay is high and the work isn't too onerous, but this is a trap if it means you wind up doing the same thing for too long.
The article’s heart is in the right place, but it overstates the case. For example, “Sharpness has very little to do with image quality, and resolution has little to do with sharpness” goes too far if you have a pretty good lens and you’re pretty good at avoiding camera shake.

Pixel count is not nearly as important as marketing makes it out to be, but it is important.
Give me an example of something that you could do better with a gui. Just curious.
It seems to me that most people are happy to put up with long hours at a stressful or boring job in exchange for a cushy lifestyle. If you're willing to forgo the big house, nice car and 42" plasma screen you can buy yourself some extra freedom though.
'Everyone always leads in with the "I thought it was useless" bit.'

Experience. The iPad is far from the first device in the tablet form factor, and far from the first tablet device to promise a revolution. It is, after all, not even the first Apple tablet device.

I think the problem has been that tablets have always lagged behind even laptops in what they could afford in terms of processing power and such; it wasn't until the Great Stagnation of CPU speeds and the relatively recent focus on low-watt-yet-powerful CPUs and GPUs that the segment became viable. No longer does it feel like you've stepped ten years back in time when you turn on a tablet. You have, except with a much better graphics card, but a ten year old-ish machine with a better graphics card is still a decent machine for most uses, so you don't feel it. Smartphones rode the same wave a few years ago. (Plus the work on faster browsers helps a lot too, even an older machine feels a lot faster on those.)

It's also pretty easy to think that a laptop is good enough. I know, because I still think a laptop is good enough for me. Perhaps my usage is abnormal but I spend a lot of time on my laptop typing, and I don't just mean for programming.
This matrix style hurts my eyes.
I love my seven-year-old LG flip phone. No camera, no MP3s; it's a phone. (I admit, I do use the alarm clock feature, too.) I've heard from lots of people that iPhones and their brethren are pretty decent as tiny computers, but mediocre phones; and with the tablet/pad form factor coming into its own I think the "smart phone" will soon feel more constraining: now it's a mediocre phone and a mediocre tablet.
You assume 1. There is not a common origin (or identical copies of the same origin) for every universe and, more importantly 2. p(God exists) > 0
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How about the magazine "Nature"? http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/09/enstrom_...

You need to realize that "better" sources might not report the story because it doesn't fit with their agenda.
I'm doing a correspondence course in copywriting called "the Accelerated Program for Six-Figure Copywriting." (http://www.awaionline.com/copywriting/)

While it's simply unrealistic to get paid six figures for copywriting, it's helped make my writing much simpler and much easier to read.

Additionally, this sounds like stupid advice, but copy (by hand) writing you like. You'll learn (both consciously and subconsciously) what the writer is doing.
Ask HN: Any OSS Node.js projects need more developers?
I've been noodling on some of my own Node.js ideas for a while, but I'd really like to hop on board an already semi-established project.

I've never submitted patches or code to others' open source projects before, and I'd really like to start giving back to the community.

I can't commit a huge amount of time or LOC, but I'd definitely like to help out.

Are you working on a particularly interesting OSS project in Node? Let me know!
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