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I think one of the best hedges if you're concerned about your job in the next decade or two would be to learn Mandarin.
I redirected reddit.com to news.ycombinator.com, so I haven't read the article.

I did however, just spend some time talking with my attractive single sister-in-law about dirty guy tricks in the dating scene. She's pretty broad-minded, so I don't think she represents every woman, but I liked her attitude.

She said something like: "Girls stuff their bras, and play all sorts of mind-games to get guys to like them. I would consider social engineering fair turnabout, man! The guys are way behind in this area!"
Beliefs have traditionally come with blind acceptance - either due to very complex disposition or due to its origins in fear (sins/hell etc). To that extent, I agree that what Tolle is doing falls outside of beliefs - it is a paradigm change in that the path he charted to get to enlightenment is much more scientific in nature - verifiable, logical and something that can be easily experimented with. And most of all it doesn't have its origins in fear or authority.
PSJailbreak did not come from the homebrew scene and you cannot honestly think people were going to pay $150 just to run homebrew that didn't even exist. You said I should not ascribe PSJailbreak to be for piracy and yet in the same breath you devote them to the homebrew side. At best, you could say that they tie. OtherOS does not count as it is still restricted by the hypervisor.

The pirate method I was referring to is the USB descriptor buffer overrun.

The technological measures protecting HDDVDs and BluRay are as tough as any used by the gaming consoles. Even still, SlySoft in particular manages to deal with new hurdles faster than the rest of doom9.
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The "Help us get featured" thing is nicely executed. If I skim through the text, I would think that this app has been featured in these sites.
The real question is how can you value something if you don't have complete confidence in the numbers? Without accurate reporting of their earnings, it's very hard to just trust the numbers that GS gives you.
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The disadvantage of this is that there is no visual cue to the user that additional controls will appear.

Not every user will spend time hovering over your entire UI, searching for controls that you've hidden away.

This is a one-dimensional design decision. "UI looks cluttered, lets hide some stuff. Wow that looks better!". But from the viewpoint of a new user, you've just created a barrier.
Understanding people is hard sometimes. If you yourself have managed to improve yourself in some way, it's particularly hard to understand why someone else couldn't do it too.
take a look at the Zend Framework and site.
Some amazing docs and code there.
http://framework.zend.com/
What I find interesting is in the numbers they published seem to indicate that Chrome (+5.35%) is taking more market share away from Internet Explorer (-5.61%) than from Firefox (-1.8%).

Given that the last data was in December, part of me has to wonder if college students home from college "fixed" their parent's computers.
Well, you'd have to be an accredited investor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor

(Though I assume that friends and family rounds have some way around that, so maybe if you know someone that's looking for super-early investment, you could invest.)

But even so, from my limited knowledge (mostly drawn from reading stuff posted here) I think $25k is pretty much the least that people tend to invest.
Yeah. I caught that too. So awkward. As a she, i'm all for some "she's" in abstract examples, but they switched pronouns in the middle of an expression. Strange.
I recently started using this to give non-CLI users a little bit of a sense of control over their EC2 Linux boxes.

My experience so far is that it's a bit fussy; Hard to get installed on Maverick, and requiring occasional reboots. Logging isn't what I want it to be.

When it works, however, it works nicely, and it's definitely faster than VNC.
Buy low, sell high is the motto of any business. Think of GS as a middle man for stocks and other investments. (Which is kind of what their supposed to do as an investment bank.) GS didn't know for sure when they bought $450 million of FB stock that they'd be able to sell at a premium. If you don't like the price GS is offering, there are plenty of other investments out there. I doubt Rupert Murdoc likes the price he paid for MySpace, and he didn't even have GS middle manning the deal. You can make bad investments with out GS.

How many of us buy servers for each and sell services at a premium above what it costs us for the server? Instead of adding a server to some code, their adding a shell corp to some stock. Maybe they should put ads on the FB stock and give it away for free?
Medium was the wrong word, in hindsight...I think I really mean't discipline.
Sorry, it's the josh-u in the name. "Tom" bugs me a bit too.

You're obviously right regarding Goldman not publishing prices; I'm just saying, being sloppy about terms --- particular when you're just being sloppy about what kind of dealer we're talking about --- doesn't mean you don't know what a market maker is.

I had to look iceberg orders up.
It's going to be painful because money was promised in the past.
I never said that running 1:1 backups is anything near the accomplishments in other instances. I am not the one trying to make a strong claim here. Anyone saying 'let people run linux on it or they will hack it, which leads to piracy' is basing that argument on the sole data point of the PS3. That is a terrible argument.
http://www.dzone.com

http://www.456bereastreet.com/

http://www.bennadel.com/

http://www.webappers.com/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

and the list goes on and on and on.

I have an OPML (rss file) with over 300 dev blogs on it. I found this by googling for development rss feeds.
I get to the airport 2 hours early, plus 30 minutes driving time to and from the airport. So that puts total flying time at 5.5 hours. Add in invasive airport security, baggage fees, entertainment fees, wifi fees, parking fees, etc. For a family of 5, flying costs thousands of dollars. And once you get there, you don't have a car so you have to rent one!

We're not talking about this next year, we're talking decades away. Toll Plaza's, seriously? We have Ez Pass already, you don't think that can be upgraded to handle faster cars?

If it was between paying more for 5.5 hours of flying and paying likely less for 5, 6 or 7 hours of having a car drive me, I would choose the car every time. Heck, if the car can only average 100MPH, I'd leave at 10pm and sleep the whole way!
Also, I'd guess that Josh would get a much better deal from YC if he did apply.
Is there some sort of context missing to go along with this? It's an interesting enough site, but I don't get it completely.
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Mine are 3, 5 and 7. If mine could vote, they would vote for getting rid of coal plants and gasoline engines. They would vote for stopping commercial fishing and chemical dumping near places where people enjoy the water and beaches. They would vote for mandatory recycling of plastic, and reduction of use in plastic throughout society. They would make those laws absolutely vicious in enforcement, if I can extrapolate from my brief conversations with them about these topics.

They would vote for doubling of social security benefits for grandparents that hung out with their grandkids.

They would also vote for guaranteed daily movie rights for children, unlimited Harry Potter legos and mandatory one-Wii-per-child laws.

At any rate. The article suggested parents wielding the vote on behalf of children in Japan as a way to have a say in an aging population, so we are now well off topic from HN's core goals.
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If the 2000s were any example you can't trust the numbers public corps give you either.
Can't wait to see the F# jobs.
Isn't the term "value" derived from how much a particular item is worth to someone else?

Having said that, I cannot understand why people say that "Goldman may know the shares are worthless but are hoping to profit from the deal". If people are willing to pay for it, it has value.

As far as Facebook's valuation, the old model of figuring out a company's worth by is revenue is not applicable. Why is a company worth $50b if it produces $2b in revenue? There is no guarantee that it will make even $1 the next year. Whereas, just because a company produces $1 in revenue does not make it worthless because whose to say it wont produce $2bln next year.
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bleh what's this to do with HackerNews? Spam AFAIC
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It worked for me this morning. Or rather, it would've if I hadn't kept hitting 'snooze'.

edit: the alarm I set was configured identically to how mtigas describes their setup.
My alarm woke me up this morning. But then again, it is January 4th in Australia.
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So you've done this online? It worked well for you?

So you know the three sentence opener that is going to compensate for a less than attractive picture?

Let's hear it.

Or is your answer just a stand-in to let you morally condemn these others?

In person, one can project confidence, intelligence, humor etc. Online, being unique is bit harder, not just because someone can copy your words but also because you get to use far fewer of them before a decision is made.

I'm not condemning or condoning the original post. But it's telling that a lot of condemnations for "gaming the dating system" that I hear are prefaced by "it's easy, just become more confident/relax/be yourself". Supply-and-demand says that the common measure of "success" in dating aren't inherently easy. They might not be desirable either but that's a different story.

I think online dating with photo does create a real quandary because it gives one very little time and thus makes the likely winners more based on immediate visual factors.
Second Life too.
This is an interesting idea, but it needs some cachet to catch on. Don't get me wrong: India _needs_ this site, and needs it badly. Corruption and graft have become so bad that everyone from the top-most office down to the lowest level refuses to even lift a finger without getting his palm greased. Things have become so bad that officials are willing to cause a loss of billions of dollars to the taxpayer just to make some money (ref. the "2G scam").

What India needs is a WikiLeaks. And a "wikileaks" for corruption, where you can list the name, position, etc. of the officials who are corrupt. It would be a pretty long list, I can imagine.
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Despite what the article says, if you're using floating point numbers you're already using sloppy arithmetic. That's not just a sarcastic point, it's actually important; given that you're already not being precise it isn't necessarily surprising that you can trade away even more precision for speed, rather than it being some sort of binary yea/nay proposition that cracks numeric algorithms wide open.

"Off by 1% or so" leads me to guess it is implemented by using 8-bit numbers, and not necessarily with any particular sloppiness added by the chips, just the fact that the precision is small. Visual and audio processing could be set up in such a way that you wouldn't overflow those numbers because you know precisely what's coming in. You'd have to be careful about overflow and underflow but, per my first paragraph, you already have to be careful about that. It also makes sense in such apps that silicon would be more profitably used computing more significant bits more often rather than dithering about getting the bits in the 2^-50 absolutely precisely correct, a good insight. I don't know if that's what they're doing because it's hard to reverse engineer back through a science journalist but "8 bit math processors in quantity" -> "science journalist" -> "this article" is at least plausible.
it's "HE" ;) and I've thought about that, but when I started building this, iOs 4.x was still in beta, and I couldn't install it,maybe in the future :)
what's the unicode emoticon for bonghit noises?
Free alternatives..
Iphone Apps:

Alarm clock pro,
Nightstand Central,
Alarm Tunes

Online Alarm Clocks:

http://onlineclock.net,
http://kukuklok.com,
http://Sleep.fm - The Social Alarm Clock

Or look around your house for one of those old blocky looking things that make horrible noises.
inception :P
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Has anyone here gone through the in-person interview process for the Business Analyst position at Palantir?

What kind of questions should I expect?
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thanx, then you would probably like to hear that it tried to remove all flash also, and replace it with the blue lego thingie :)
Uh,

If that happened to you, it's one woman who did it, not "they".
Flash works!
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I like this article, and agree with his core thesis and general values. Good experience, summarized, so go read it!

It reminds me of something I've spent a good amount of time pondering in the last few years: survivor bias in the tech news reporting world and the duality of things an entrepreneur most hold in his/her head and heart.

On the one hand: as entrepreneurs we must believe the impossible; a premium is placed on bringing a new idea or a gamechanging technology into the mix. In general, this idea must have horrible flaws, extreme difficulties, and significant unproven assumptions, or someone else would likely have done it.

So, on the one hand, we must be largely blind to downside risk while working on something that we have essentially 'sold' ourselves on.

On the other hand, we are typically using other people's money to go do this impossible thing. And, equally importantly, we are spending our own valuable time -- time that could be spent with our family, essentially, as PG commented in an essay, we are adding significant misery to our lives.

Survivor bias means we don't hear about all the unfunded, unsuccessful startups in the news. I know this -- there are a lot. I think this is likely the most difficult thing a startup entrepreneur faces; the requirement to both blind oneself to downside risk so that the journey can be fundraised for and begun and also the ability to unblind oneself when key decisions are made, decisions that impact other people's lives -- employees, spouses, investors.

Add to that the fundamentally speculative nature of the business, and I would call it a tough job! One that pays, on average, really well. Or, on average (minus every company you read about in TechCrunch) extremely poorly.

I am therefore currently spending more time trying to encourage people starting businesses to erase their downside risk first; figure out how to make it work and get it financially sustainable as early as possible. That's one way to try and get a leg up on the (probably) really tough statistics.
Icebergs are when someone is trying to do a much larger trade, piecewise. This is what my group at MS facilitated (automated algorithmic execution of order flow.)

Hidden quantities are an order type that some markets have that allow you to hide the total amount you place in an order, more or less.

Client-side versus server-side, if you will...
Nice to have all in one spot.
I second the question "Which changes?", you know what they say about the higher information value of surprises.
I'm going to be interested to see how long this article stays on the front page after the far more alarming and longstanding Android SMS bug fell off the front page after only a couple hours.
Have you conducted any studies that show that? We have done this and so far no one has ever complained about "missing links/buttons". Most users never even noticed when we switched to hover controls
My recurring one works, but not the one-off alarm (in Australia).
I was tempted to not upvote this, but then the thought of the economic impact not upvoting would have changed my mind. For the sake for the technology companies in the valley and elsewhere I think this is a worthwhile PSA.
I'm glad they're standardizing, but MicroUSB is a terrible connection, mechanically. It's what my HTC Incredible uses, and I have to fiddle around with it for a few seconds every time I plug my phone in.

I wish they would've hired IDEO or someone to actually design this before they settled on a standard. Something you could plug in with one hand, in pitch black, while drunk.

... Not that I've ever tried to do that.
In the lyrics, the hard-worker is the person singing the lyrics. He's saying he's a jerk for not taking time off to spend time with the girl.

So really he is the smart jerk who is trying to tell someone to stay away because he is a jerk and will just criticize her, although he really doesn't like who he becomes, but that's his gift.

He ends it with toasts to himself (and people like him). While he's toasting them, he clearly doesn't like himself.
I won't tell you to abandon php (I haven't entirely either for pragmatic reasons) but I would suggest "going to the source" and learning about smalltalk. Other than the meta object stuff it will, in the main, transfer over to how you write php and think about OO. More pragmatically I'd also recommend learning from and leveraging the SPL stuff (http://www.php.net/~helly/php/ext/spl/)
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My one-off alarms worked for me as well — though they hadn’t been enabled all weekend and I enabled them before bed last night.

Not sure what the circumstances were for those whose alarms didn’t go off today.
It would be interesting to see a performance comparison with nedmalloc. It uses a trie instead a of redblack-tree for a faster information access.

http://www.nedprod.com/programs/portable/nedmalloc/

Some time ago I evaluated both of them, and they seemed the best available choices. But I never found a comparison study.
>> Will you help us set up something like [WikiLeaks] in our town?

>> There already is a WikiLeaks in your town: WikiLeaks. The corruption exposure business is [global], not regional.

It's often forgotten that WikiLeaks isn't specifically aimed at the US, and the vast majority of their leaks until recently were from other parts of the world.
Honeycomb to require dual core CPU and 720p display?
As a power user I'm atypical, I know, but I hate hover controls because they slow me down. I've also used interfaces that border on unusable because they are both slow and undiscoverable.
This is silly, and also mean. The man has put $1mm of his personal money into funding startups. I bet you that almost all of these startups had close to zero revenue. Furthermore, he's politely answering questions in this low-noise, low-traffic forum! I bet almost nobody got that kind of access to funders in 1999.

Secondly, if you actually parsed through the article, you're considering book value of his un-exited investments to be $0.

Do you have any investments like this you've made? I might be interested in taking them off your hands for an _excellent_ price compared to their $0 value.
My wife's alarm didn't work yesterday (non-recurring, setup yesterday) and a friend told me today that his hadn't worked this morning (non-recurring, setup today).
Have you done any studies to ensure that new visitors know that there are contols to discover? Perhaps they aren't complaining because they don't know they're missing stuff.

Or perhaps they just leave.
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Could you provide more information about the experiment that you conducted? In real life, users have the option of quitting, and the luxury to do it in private; two things that are very hard to emulate in "experimental" conditions but which greatly affect the outcome. I'm not in any position to judge your experimental techniques, but if you're relying on users actively complaining about things, or worse, telling you what they think they want, you're probably doing it wrong.

It's my opinion that hiding menu items not a great idea for the reasons OP said. In my opinion, coming from someone who's had to use an interface which does this, is that it's borderline obnoxious expecting me to remember where, and that it's necessary, to hover over magical areas to show important controls.

I think having the items be very translucent until hovered provides the best of both worlds. I can see where they are, but are easily ignorable.
I have savings, investment vehicles and very little debt. However, in this 'interesting times', I doubt even those are enough to safely hedge against what lays ahead.
What do you think the bulk of your customers will be, small or big companies? Small business tend to like static prices (plans) because it is easy to budget. It also makes it easy to offer 3/6/12 month subscriptions which can help lock in customers.

If you price per user, but not everyone at a company needs the product, they will tend to restrict the use of the product to minimize the expense to them. With plans, you still have this, but to a lesser degree I believe.
Ask HN: Bioinformatics - the search for the hacker chemist
I was chatting with my chemist friend and he mentioned the great need for people in the bioinformatics field that can not only do the programming but can also back-up their understanding of the data they are processing with bench work. I was like "huh - i would need some bio chem" and he was like "huh - i would need some software engineering"...and then we were both like "huh - if we combine our minds there would be no reason why we couldn't get a job in the field today"

Is there anyone that has done something like this, specifically in the bioinformatics field with a partner? I have not heard a lot about this and think it would happen more if chemists and hackers started hanging out more.

Also, where would you find contracting opportunities to try this out?
This is a terrible solution:

- It won't work on any mobile device (touchscreen or not)

- The user has to guess where the controls are, and even if it's obvious to you, it's not for 20% of them at least.

The real solution is to link the title of the entry to the edit form, and to add a delete icon to the right. Yes, it will repeat itself on each line, but it's still more accessible to everyone.

To help the user know on which line he's clicking the delete button, you can altern the background of the lines (grey/white/grey/...) or just make the background change while the mouse is hovering. And as a bonus, have a meaningful confirmation of deletion (repeating the name of the entry) upon click.

Win/Win, everyone is happy.