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Hailing cabs street-side is really only implementing what Ubercab is doing, but with stochastic pre-distribution of roaming service providers. It's an early industrial-revolution way of doing things because back then we didn't have electronic networks. Really, it should be irrelevant in modern countries.
BTW Here's the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects...
Having the opportunity to see this film in post-production stages (the face projection process, in particular), I can really appreciate how much time and effort went into fooling the audience into thinking that no visual effects work went on at all. And that after all, is the ultimate goal, which the folks at Lola managed to pull off. Good work!
i've ran into some personal pains lately (14 hrs + programming sessions), so have done some legwork:

http://www.thehumansolution.com/ergonomic-office-desk-chair-...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu8vgHp3Cgs

ignore the fact both offer things for sale. informative and insightful nonetheless. good starting points.
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that solves the first problem (the applicant only choosing to give you the contact info of people who are likely to give them positive marks) but it doesn't help with the second issue.

I don't see any case where it's in the best interest of anyone to say negative things about a past employee. And I don't think you can count all "company policy is that we simply confirm they worked here" messages as negative, because sometimes that really is company policy.

When asked for a reference, have you ever said anything negative about a past employee or co-worker? Have you ever heard anything negative about someone you were considering hiring after cold calling a previous employer?
Sounds like something out of Office Space the movie.
Hi there,

I just checked out your Freckle app. That's a pretty cool time tracking system, better than anything I've seen elsewhere. I signed up. ;)

Grats on a cool product!
Yeah that was fairly awesome. It's nice when news outlets make use of new media like that :D
I just investigated. You submitted a late application, and with late applications we didn't reply individually; we just posted a notice in late May saying we'd contacted everyone we were going to.

Summer 2010 was the first time we accepted late applications, so we were still figuring out the procedure. We'll probably email all the late applicants from now on, in case they miss an announcement. Sorry if we kept you hanging.
This indeed correct, If you see consumption in terms of KBs they are not significant 20-100kb, but you see in terms of multiples, 2-4X bandwidth consumption will be very significant considering Google search having very higher network consumption world-wide.
a (good!?) method would be, to install small power generating bikes on the plane, and use that to suppliment the power usage of passengers. You market the bikes as exsercise machines for the long journey to prevent blood clots.
Well, each time I go to twitter.com I hope to see something slightly different than last time and that's not part of the internet being broken.
72 kW is 1/19th of a percent of the output of a 747 (140MW).

More to the point, 240W is irrealistic for a laptop. Most laptops consume under 40W. With this better estimation, this is 1/117th of a percent.
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That would be incredible, not just for the people selected but as a weekly masterclass for those of us without design talent - before and after helps a lot.
No, you misunderstood. It's enough to protect you against random people sniffing wireless packets. Not other people that are on your network.
Is there any reason we need to use it? How about we leave the feeling bad out of it, but we just don't use it? Would you teasingly call your friend a "retard" in front of someone with Down syndrome? That doesn't strike me as polite. Using an ethnic referent as a synonym for some type of unsavory act just doesn't seem polite either.
getting up to stretch for 5 mins every hour or so can be important (primarily hands and arms), even if you use an ergonomic chair. i find it helps the "flow" rather than interrupt it (as the link claims).

i'd also recommend switching to an editor which minimizes keystrokes, such as vi(m), emacs, etc. less wear and tear on the hands and arms.

there are many aspects in a workstation that can be improved upon. every little bit helps.
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Rockstar energy drinks- it's like my coffee for the day.
It is truly heartwarming the amount of love that HN readers have for Jay Z.
Thanks! It's been incredible so far.

I just opened up the beta last week, and have enough people using it that I can be confident I'm not wasting my time. The trickiest part has been having to juggle the biz dev and the coding. And finding time to sleep :)
http://silenceisdefeat.com/

Silence Is Defeat provides SSH accounts for a small donation.

(I am not affiliated with them)
It may protect you from impact, but what about your head sliding across the pavement?
I like cqstyle for editing CSS in Chrome. However, I may be partial since I wrote it.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kgjoohfhbbdcbnec...
Need a study break to refresh? Maybe not, say Stanford researchers
Wow, thanks a LOT. I've been looking for something like this forever, guess I didn't know what to search for.
Wow - this is an amazing offer. I'm sure you must be swamped in work already, so expect a "no time anymore answer", but I'll send you a request for help on documentation for http://www.webpop.com
unfortunately, the more you look into ergonomics research, the more you'l find that every person's situation of "comfort" is different. you can start with some basic guidelines (see my other reply to your parent post) and then work from there.

it basically becomes a dialogue with the user and trial-and-error of many different approaches/setups.

another factor is whether someone is coding for 18 hours straight, or 2-3 hours here and there throughout the day.
where's the foreach loop? http://php.net/foreach
Thanks for the comments. Personally I like the yellow but can understand that it may be too much for some people.

Do you think its primarily just the large yellow area on the homepage, or that the yellow regions on the other pages are problematic (which are more used for highlights)?
True enough, but as a general rule, I never buy extra RAM from Apple if I can avoid it. The stuff that is baseline installed seems to have a reasonable price tag attached, but they really do price gouge when it comes to adding extra RAM as a BTO option. So that, plus the fact that I doubt that RAM is user-extensible in the new MacBook Air (they call it 'onboard RAM' on the Apple Store, which doesn't fill me with confidence.)
Is there a citation for the law requiring arrangements at least an hour in advance? The original article didn't claim such a law exists in San Francisco, just that it was common in many states. So I wonder where you got the specific information about SF laws.
"If you don't encrypt your traffic, then by implication, you don't care if people eavesdrop on it."
Every pacific crossing I've been on in the last three years (all 747s) has had AC to my seat. As far as I could tell all the seats had it. Large jets have auxiliary engines that power the coffee makers, the ovens they use for cooking in the plane, the lights, etc. You can normally see the exhaust for this engine on the very tip of the tail.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this article is defeated by the actual fact of the matter that some planes do have AC to all the seats.
The only downside to wildcard certs through StartSSL is that getting one requires high-resolution proof of personal identity, to be kept on file outside local jurisdiction (the company's based in Israel) until the cert's final renewal or revocation, plus seven years.

I admire their model of only charging for operations which require human intervention, like identity validation, but handing over that degree of documentation for that amount of time requires a lot of trust, not just of the company as it currently exists, but as it will exist in the far future.

If there was a way to validate organizations which wasn't layered on top of an earlier validation of an individual, or if their decentralized web-of-trust was usable for class 2/wildcard certs, I'd be a big fan.

As it is, there's no reason not to use Start for class 1, single-domain certs, for which the validation is automated and reasonable.
The APU power is more relevant. THe 737 can have 90kW APU which should be enough for 1000 laptops under full load (while 737 cannot carry more than 215 passangers)

http://www.b737.org.uk/apu.htm
Yet another one brainwashed by the breakfast mafia.
"fuel is not a major component of this ... The math really doesn't support the assertion that it's not cost-effective."

How do you figure?

Say some extra weight delta_w in additional equipment is required, and say that the fuel required to complete a given flight is a function f of the plane's weight, and that the cost of the fuel is C. Further, let the lifetime maintenance cost of the new equipment be E, and the lifetime maintenance of the plane's structural components be g, also a function of its weight. As a rough approximation, the additional cost should be

E + C df/dw|_W * delta_w + dg/dw|_W * delta_w

(Note that, really, f is a function of both passenger power consumption and of weight, both of which we're varying here, but I'll buy your argument that df/dp|_P * delta_p is neglible in comparison to f(P,W))

The article asserts that one or both of the derivates in this equation are large enough that its product with delta_w is non-negligible (in fact, prohibitive). I'm guessing that df/dp is not the problem, which is the only term you really addressed.
HTTPS also needs distinct IP addresses for distinct hostnames, so that the HTTP handshake, in which the Host: header appears, is already protected by an encrypted channel. No more having multiple websites on one IP address.
It's actually interesting. If it really works, we could see it evolve to vest, or pants or anything that protect the crucial area of the body other than the head.
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Couldn't a mob from someplace like 4chan game such a system with a dadaist inversion of constructive/helpful? The result would be a little like Bizzaro-world. Or maybe like 4chan!
Yes, this would be amazing. Thank you for doing this. Speaking for myself, I'm desperate for design help, but don't really know the best way to find/work with a designer.
Yeah, but you'll be right on all the stories nobody remembers and wrong on the big stories. That's why most people do it the other way around. "Never heard of these guys? You will soon!" "The world is never going to be the same!"
There are several comments below the article which noted that Google had turned over data to external French auditors, who reported finding passwords, emails, and other sensitive information in the WiFi data captured by Google. Personally, I would be more worried by external auditors having access to the data than Google.
+1 for .NET, too!
Interesting article, but a whopping quarter of kilowatt to every seat? Isn't that a bit overkill? Assuming that typical laptop charger drinks 80 joules of energy per second at most, and since laptops luckily have built-in energy sources for couple of hours, the power output could be time-divided, eg. every output is powered half of the time in 30 minute intervals. Assuming not everyone needs power at all, two power outputs per three seats should be enough. Suddenly we have reduced the needed peak power to 1/9th of the original!
Have you ever worked on a product team?

I can almost guarantee you the developers had very little to do with the lack of standards support. That's a feature, and features are decided on by PMs, who are usually on the short leash of middle/upper management.
Why not try an a/b test? I bet that another color will test better...
I assumed that was the case, but it's good to hear you might change the response process for future applicants.

Thanks for checking!
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Admittedly, I'm a bit more conservative than most. But for me this amount would have to cover twenty years of potential problems.
Each request should get the same "logical" response. There is nothing wrong with the content varying with each request. A resource that represents "The last 10 items processed" will always contain just that, even if the response is different at the html level. This is why cache-invalidation is important.

A resource can also be composed of parts of other resources. For instance, you can have an order resource which is composed of item resources that each have their own url.

I think the rails flash is usually used to send a user a message which will only be seen once on the very next request. Think of the message as a resource that isn't important enough to get it's own url, and every resource as a composite of the actual item they are looking for and an optional "message" resource. The message resource isn't important enough to store into permanent storage. It could be stored into the db backend and then loaded up on the next request, and then deleted once the user has seen it. In practice that's not practical so it's kept in memory.

I don't think it breaks the internet at all.
Emily Steel got in a nice dig at the NYT, but are we really to believe Newscorp doesn't do tracking? Someone needs to tabulate the content of their cookies.

PS: the Journal asks for your real name before you comment.
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You can already do functional web programming with Scala/Lift. Be prepared for a real mind-bender of a web framework though. For instance, each form field specifies an in-line closure that gets called when the form is submitted. When you define an ajax button that is inserted into a form, clicking on that button invokes a server-side closure that's provided with the definition. There aren't any servlets, json parsing, ajax client library or anything like that in between. It's really quite nice. Just really really different.
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Isn't that like saying "if you don't lock your mailbox, then by implication you don't care if people read your mail"? Or, "if you don't lock your telephone junction box, then by implication you don't care if people tap your phone"?

Although I don't agree with your quoted statement, I don't think Google's capturing of data should be considered criminal, either.
> having an insurmountably high activation energy for seemingly mundane tasks, and being painfully conscious of it.

That's a really good description.
I haven't actually added control structures yet. I just went with functions.

In short its on the to do list, but I figured this was enough to get me started.
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I must say, I think this is the first time I've ever agreed with Malcolm Gladwell on, well, anything.
I think you could do it pretty easily in NYC if you started riding limos around, buying designer clothing, and going to tony restaurants.
Was the innate poetic structure and meter of your sentence intended? hagigography/technology, businessman/musician
I think the mod_wsgi thing might only work in daemon mode.

If you're in sufficiently dire straits, remember that switching to Linode and becoming root yourself is always an option.
I'll leave such site or at least will not pass as a human.
Gerald Weinberg's The Psychology of Computer Programming is a classic, well worth reading. Also second the recommendations for The Mythical Man Month and Peopleware
Well, if your setup (Varnish+Apache) works for you then there is no need to change it (unless you really need to).

However, recommending this (Varnish+nginx) just leads to more people repeating the same mistake.
I'm a vegan and it ain't cheap. Although nowadays you can buy most vegan stuff from regular supermarket, they are still kind of marginal products and priced accordingly. E.g. soya milk costs more than 2 €/L, while cow-milk is less than 1 euro (IIRC). This is in Finland, Europe.

The funny part is, that most of soya produced worldwide is used to feed the livestock, i.e. converted to meat at pretty bad efficiency rate. So, soya per se is not expensive, and I'm pretty sure soya products could be cheaper than their animal-based counterparts, if produced on a (comparable) mass-scale.

(Then again, the "cheap" concept used here assumes that the suffering of animals has no price, which is not true for most vegans/vegetarians.)
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A switch mode power supply can do a whole lot more than act as a rectifier. "Switch mode" refers to the turning on and off of numerous silicon switches usually connected to some kind of LC energy storage/filter, and this is the basis of modern rectifiers, inverters, step-up and step-down converters, etc.

It is in fact possible to use a switching circuit to convert an arbitrary ac voltage/frequency to another arbitrary ac voltage/frequency directly without a DC link intermediary. This is called a "matrix converter."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC/AC_converter

So it should theoretically be possible to take say 200VAC at 400 Hz and convert this to 120VAC 60Hz. In fact this would probably be more compact/less expensive than the usual inverters mentioned in this article, since these are usually meant to be powered by a low voltage DC source and thus have to deal with taking a low voltage and very high current and first stepping this up to several hundred volts, then modulate it into an AC sine wave. A matrix converter (or even AC-DC-AC converter) would have no such requirement if it were powered from the already high voltage aircraft power bus.

At this point I think it's a matter of the technology catching up, since this is a highly specialized application that has just recently become an opportunity for innovation.

EDIT:
Also - 240W per person? This seems outrageously high as a baseline load. I would estimate more like 50-100W per person on average, with 300W peak (like when the power supply is first plugged in.) The peak loads would not all happen at once unless everyone decides to plug in and turn on their computers at once, in which case the power limiting would kick in...
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Will update it soonish!
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Will update it soonish!
So can nginx... And it's probably a lot better at it because of number of 3rd-party load balancers and supported backend protocols (HTTP, FastCGI, SCGI, uwsgi, AJP, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, MySQL, memcached, redis and then some more... ;)).
More like "If you shout loudly in your apartment, expect others to hear you."
"Sorry, I can't make it to X - because of family problems." It's an excuse that makes it possible to get out of loads of things, because most people will just nod and say "ok, sure, I understand" and question no further.

First heard it used when attending a 5-day TEFL course; one student had decided that it was a waste of time, so skipped the last day by using this excuse. (He had enough attendance to pass). I've only used it once, since it feels slightly unethical, but it's very effective.
Yes, and Pushkin was a francophone - most of Russian noblemen were. As were most writers of the 19th century: if you flip through War and Peace, it is easy to notice that much of the book is written plainly in French.

Hence literary Russian is very heavy with borrowings from French, which became so ingrained into the fabric of the language that native speakers don't even notice.
The difference is wifi broadcasts that information.
I highly dislike the title of it. It is not HTTPS everywhere, it is "HTTPS on sites we know it is possible on".
Yea, reminds me of malice vs stupidity http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/stupidity-versus-malice/
I'll second that. I was blown away that the "Winklevii" weren't portrayed by identical twins, and even more shocked to discover that there was actually a totally different person playing one of them.

Really impressive special effects. Arguably more so than Avatar in its own way. Avatar's effects were impressive, but you could tell they were just that. Social Network actually threw you. Very cool.
This is a pretty snarky and relatively uneducational article. A lot of speculation, some ignorant rambling (nobody at The Atlantic seems to know where electrical power on a plane actually comes from), and a lot of misplaced vitriol. You'd think people would be grateful that airlines are offering standard electric outlets on the plane at all.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2035#c...
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large corporations cannot change, except by acquiring start-ups

I'd be curious to see examples of large corporations that have changed by acquiring startups.
Your terminology "the network" or "your network" is still unclear; encryption to the AP could be unique per wireless network client, or not. If it is unique per client -- and it is my belief that recent standards, like WPA2 at least, provide this -- then casual passive eavesdropping by other wireless clients (as with the FireSheep tool) is thwarted. (And that's what most people are most concerned about.)

Are you suggesting that no generation of WEP or WPA protects against other authorized wireless users of the same AP, because they're "on your network"?

[rewritten completely to seek clarification]
Sorry, did not follow this part - "Not other people that are on your network.". Care to elaborate?
you manage products, you lead people.
But more people would wear something that is fashionable so it's worth creating.
Also Firefox doesn't put DNS through a socks proxy by default, which has some security implications and doesn't allow you to reach internal-only names. In about:config set: network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to True.
import urllib
params = urllib.urlencode({'days_wasted': 99, 'hours_wasted': 999, 'minutes_wasted':999})
for x in range(999):
f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.iestolemylife.com/save", params)
print f.read()

tl,dr: don't let one IP submit more than 10 times the maximum recorded life expectancy of a human
Is there a graphical tool (along the lines of TortoiseSVN) that you can use to do all this?

The added hassle of memorizing shell commands (and opening a command prompt every time you want to commit) are just not worth any incremental benefit that Git might provide. I'm happy using SVN because it's got good tools. Surely there's an equivalent for Git?
It states that it works for "open networks". What does that mean? All networks that you have access to? Including those in Cafes where they give you a key to log in? Or just networks that are completely open? And why does it work at all? I thought the wlan access point would encrypt the communication between itself and the computer. Would be interesting, which protocols are vulnurable to this and which are not.

I guess the logging of raw wlan packets is a one-liner under linux? Does anybody know it?
Wow. Would buy that right now. I do use a helmet, and while I don't think they are "uncool" or something, I just find them uncomfortable.
Doesn't sound like a good idea Curtis.
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