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Twitter User Tricks Sony Into Posting ‘Secret’ PS3 Jailbreak Code
Whammy Bar was one of my fav's. Small world. :)
Wait, you're serious ? I thought this post was submitted to join the trend of "looking for codemonkey" posts that we ridicule. Because the "you can forgo salary" part kinda makes it sound like one of those.
The link, in case people try .ly first: http://www.chirply.com/

A few things I noticed:

- front page looks very different from the voting index, as though they're very different sites
- front page lacks focus
- index mentions tacky greeting cards but only shows blank white line-art empty cards rather than actual examples/previews (even if they're not real yet). I'd cut back (or shrink) the front page text and put some designs to vote on there too.

Hopefully the front page is just temporary until winning designs are chosen because all the best stuff is hidden behind it.

Related: Someone should collate "Threadless for x" and FML clone sites so people can see what openings are still available in the market.
Agreed, except for the destruction part. Maybe the publishers could pass the books on to nonprofits to donate to developing countries, libraries, schools, etc.
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that wasnt a hint, he was referring to ipad's release in spring 2012..
Lots of things I'd assume. Without doing any research, here's a twist (still likely not legally wise):

The startup scans your books.You pay a monthly fee for storage of your books at their facility, which is a free-to-use library. You remain the owner of the book and take the scans with you.

There are probably some (many) issues here, such as first sale rights, but it's not crazy.Adding additional businesses could help (coffee-library-book scanning) offset the expense but it's probably easier to try and change the law - someone would be angry enough to make your life miserable.
Why shouldn't this break military plane GPS as much as anything else. It will also remove the ability of USAF to GPS target missiles onto US population centres, which they have no need to do anyway. They can still bomb the rest of the world no problem.
Infographic: How Does the Brain Retain Information?
And none of those credit cards are the size of a Veer.
The difficulty in separating skill and luck is unconsciously illustrated by the author himself in his basketball example. We're asked to consider how much of a 'hot hand' is attributable to chance, and how much to skill. But what is chance in this context? Clearly he doesn't mean the likelihood of a ball launched in an arbitrary trajectory finding its way to the basket. More likely, he means the shooting average of an average basketball player in the type of game being observed (pickup game, college, etc). Clearly skill contributes to such a baseline average.

With basketball we have a skill that can easily be measured for nearly anyone: we just have them toss a basketball a few dozen times and we have a good gauge of how skillful they are compared to others. But what about, say, a venture capitalist? The game that they are supposed to be skilled at has so much overhead that very few are ever played, and not all those that want to play can (you've got to have a lot of money to even sit at the table). It's quite possible that success as a VC is entirely attributable to luck, with no contribution from skill at all. For these kinds of activities we have no way to generate a meaningful statistical baseline. We can only engage in a thought experiment: if hypothetically the success in question was actually due solely to chance, would the world we see look any different?
sounds like a meat-eating hooker
If the kill switch is built into routers, expect that to be used by hackers. You'll have to use open source router code like dd-wrt to avoid it.

This is a bad idea and is trying to change how the Internet works. The Internet was designed to stay on even if there was a nuke attack. ISPs have been handeling DOS attacks for years successfully without a kill switch.
Well gentlemen, we are trying to do big things in the area with the collaboration of the universities, the private sector, and the local government. Hoping to plug into the tech stars network too.

There are definitely some opportunities to work with us either in Tally or SV (in coming months). Would love to receive your resumes and have a conversation.

Adam
Go big if "big" is really big (top-10, or ideally top-3, in their category). Go cheap otherwise.

Most of the advantage to an elite college accrues to the very top - Harvard, Stanford, MIT. If your choice is between, say, NYU or Hampshire or BU and a state school with in-state tuition, the state school is probably a better value. If your choice is between, say, Stanford or Amherst or MIT and a state school, going to the big name school can result in earnings that pay off the cost of it within 5 years.

Also, many of the top-tier colleges give very generous financial aid to middle-class families, so you may find it's not all that much more expensive than a state school. My actual tuition at Amherst College was less than sticker price at UMass Amherst, though of course I would've gotten a full-ride on merit scholarships at UMass.
I think at one point I had done the ANSI banner for Whammy Bar.
Google's spam filter is training the internet to produce better and better content. Over time a rising tide lifts all boats.

In 2000 they were working on not returning results from various subdomains off the same base domain.

This year they're working on content farms.

Next year we won't be talking about plagiarized or duplicated content. We'll be talking about Google giving us content that is superficially different but not unique enough.

Five years from now we'll be talking about how Google is giving us unique, relevant content in the first ten results, but it's not personalized enough. Et cetera.

Just like in the AI world, every time a computer does something we thought only a human could ever do, instead of admitting defeat, you say, "This just proves that chess|poetry|music composition|playing Jeopardy doesn't take real intelligence." The truth is that you're not defining intelligence, you're moving goal posts. And if there's one thing Matt's post shows, it's that we moved the goal posts.

I think Matt likes the criticism. When Google's critics have to move to more and more sophisticated attacks, it shows that Google's facility is growing.

Google is not just raising the bar on the whole internet. You are raising the bar on Google.
Many countries have taken to printing Americans, only because their citizens get printed by America.
The poster rants about how software is boring because it uses the ole faithful buttons, checkboxes, text fields et al.

Totally fails to convey why those are "boring" and what would be better.

It is one of those "Where is my flying car/rainbow colored magic super pony?" kind of articles.
One word: Clippy.
It's possible, but you need your application to stand out in another way. Do well on the GRE's and get a strong recommendation from a prof. Then apply to multiple programs - all you need is for one of them to admit you.
I went ahead and purchased it on impulse (a $9.99 price point makes that easy to do), but I probably won't be able to use it regularly until they add some sort of OmniFocus integration.
If I had more upvotes, I'd give them to this statement. However, I'd be surprised if there weren't a nontrivial number of Rails developers who totally identify with that. The service is laughably simplistic for my day-job environment, but it isn't aimed at us. For hosting a four-hour app on Heroku, that for whatever reason needs to be client-editable, it's great.
I met one of the founders at a Twilio event not long ago, and when he told me about his product the first thing I said was "So it's kinda like Yammer?"

At least they are starting to address this marketing problem directly.
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I love the analogy. They were great, but they need to redefine the platform and what it means to be a smartphone again.
Maybe something like this could work?

http://www.cloudcompiling.com/cloudcompilingsaas.html

Wasn't there a link to a "Cloud Compiler" yesterday?
1) I have been running the co-founders meetup here in Silicon Valley for almost two years, so I can tell you that there are valid offers for jobs without salary (or way below market rate, shall we say).

2) If you think we are just a bunch of clueless "business guys" with no respect for coders, I used to design processors for a living and can still disassemble 6502 assembly code from hex :-)

[ouch - downvoting hurts. And flagged into oblivion. Seriously? ]
I've long wondered whether it would be possible to build a sufficiently-isolated room within a room within a room (ad nauseam) to have a recording studio located near a train track.
You're probably looking at the prices for the four-week courses? PostgreSQL is a six-week course.
If its almost as "good" as the iPad, and more open (there are so many things you can't do on the iOS platform), I would pay a premium of say $100.

But I suspect it will be quite a while before anyone else can even match the iPad1, let alone what iPad2 will be like. Apple's products are soooooo much better (if you ignore the shortcomings, which are 90% of the time deliberate) it's almost like alien technology. I am a Microsoft guy, but I love Apple's products lately.
They were doing so well, and then in the penultimate sentence they mess it up by inevitably confusing Java with JavaScript.
If Apple does have two separate iPad releases in 2011, I definitely think the first announcement will replace the current iPad and the next announcement will be a product that augments the iPad line, an HD or Pro model, as Gruber predicts. But I sincerely doubt there will be two different iPad announcements this calendar year.

Ever since Gruber's initial review of the iPad, I've been intrigued by the possibility of a Pro model with more RAM and possibly some extra horsepower. Again, it doesn't seem like Apple's plan though.
HP: webOS also coming to notebooks and desktop computers
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It's possible the LightSquared transmitters will be far more directional than the Garmin test gives them credit for. They may not run full power all the time anyway.

Regardless, it's generally the responsibility of the receiver to ignore signals in another part of the same band, and this is a different band entirely. Perhaps some receivers are built as cheaply as possible and don't have the best filters. If they all break, well, their customers should know not to trust that brand again. Any other policy amounts to no one ever being able to establish new radio service on its own part of the spectrum, on the theory that some other defective other equipment might fall over.

Personally, I think it's far more interesting the prospect of having a network of 20,000 steerable-beam transmitters approved for 15KW ERP each at 1.5GHz. 300MW is about half the output of a typical electrical power plant. If those were networked that could make one hell of an antisatellite weapon, phased-array radar illuminator, or maybe even an SDI-type directed energy weapon.

If the military isn't behind this, well they should be. <conspiracy theory>Maybe that's why the FCC is fast tracking it so much.</conspiracy theory>
HN would be in the same space as Reddit at that point. Reddit seems to be doing well with YC's help. The audiences are different and clearly as we have seen there is enough space for the both of them. There is something about HN being what it is today without the motive of creating profits. The content and community is what drives traffic and I hope that's how it will always be.
The Dropbox API doesn't require your credentials. Just use OAuth, so the only party getting your credentials is Dropbox.
I think there are a number of things you need to consider.

Even if you get in, do you have the drive and intellectual chops to enjoy college at one of the most prestigious universities in the county? College is designed to provide you with an education both in the classroom and outside of it. If you have the drive I definitely recommend attending one of the really great schools you mentioned above. However if making the grades is going to take everything you have and leave no time for anything else then I recommend you reconsider even if you do get in. My take on college was that I got a lot more from the experiences you have outside of the classroom than you ever will in it.

I believe if you are smart enough and talented enough to attend a prestigious school like those you mentioned then you shouldn’t worry about the debt you might graduate with. Smart and talented people can overcome their educational debt and the value that comes along with being a graduate from one of those universities in the long run will more than return.

In my own experience I had a chance to attend Duke, however I know that making the grade there was probably more than I was up for at the time. So I want to a less academically challenging school (Arizona) where I could be on the west coast and excel in the classroom but still have the time to really enjoy everything college had to offer. I think at the end of the day you need to make a decision that feels most right to you. I hope that helps.
Twitter with topics, groups and faster back and forth.
Forking. Sacrament, not a sin. But don't tell that to the prophets.
I'd definitely start with the Eric Meyer reset before writing custom css just to get rid of any defaults you might be unaware of...

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

I'm also a fan of the 960.gs grid, really quick to learn and good for the majority of structured layouts.
Thanks, forgot about adding clickable/lazy links! +1
You are right thank you :)
> iPod touch's display doesn't have IPS, it's rear camera is a paltry 1MP

Wow, I totally missed that, and I have a 4G iPod (my first Apple product). Apple must have evaded this fact really well; I assumed that those specs are the same as in iPhone. How did you know that?
Here's an article with a few examples of deferred in action. Pretty cool.

http://intridea.com/2011/2/8/fun-with-jquery-deferred
Regarding the classic view, isn't there a bit of bias there? since people mostly only look at the front page, then the stories they vote up are chosen from ones already on the front page. So comparing what the front page would look like if only votes from old accounts counted doesn't say much since in all likelihood you'd see the same stories.

Maybe a better metric would be to track only the first few votes that stories get to see if the same ones would make it to the front page?
Maybe, but campfire is far from perfect. E.g. I can't even see all my starred messages in a room in one short list, I have to scroll through the whole chat and actually look for stars.
>they all seem to suck in some fundamental way. FWIW, in Postbox it seems to be speed.

That's because Postbox is based on Thunderbird, which is not a path to creating a fast, lightweight mail app.

I can only think of a handful of desktop mail engines for the Mac (Mail.app, Thunderbird + children, Entourage, Sparrow). If mail clients suck, it's because more people need to write one.
And yet no one was genuinely confused about what they meant when they said it was.
There is a big difference between saying:

"Wow, I really screwed the pooch there. It's going to take a while for me to live this one down. I better get to work."

and

"Wow, I really screwed the pooch there. I'm worthless and I can't do anything right. I should go drink."

One of those, I think, is a healthy way of accepting responsibility for failure. The other is not.

The same, really, goes on the upside.
I'm not actually air force, but am a bit of an aviation buff with a private license. There would be backup nav systems in manned aircraft, but several popular modern munitions are GPS guided, and I would tend to think that modern battlespace information systems require it as well. Planes wouldn't fall out of the sky, but it would be a significant departure from the ideal state.
I would have to agree with the summation of the article and also say that it is corporate Americas own fault for the situation. The sniper like focus on short term market gains has corporations cutting at the first sign of trouble it is no wonder that the talent is now charging rates to reflect this reality and scarcity.
It was interesting but I was hoping for some more concrete suggestions than just a 'you should consider randomness vs luck.' What is a better way than ESOs? Give me a concrete example of how to untangle this rather than just saying untangle it. It doesn't have to be universally applicable but an example would be nice.
[Repost from our blog comments]

We're definitely competing with Campfire. They were one of the first tools to focus on providing group chat to businesses but unfortunately didn't go much further. It's only group chat and it's only in the browser. We have desktop applications with real popup notifications, one-to-one chat support and voice/video calling. HipChat is a tool you use all day and love, not a barebones group chat site you run alongside AIM.

A more in depth feature comparison is here: http://www.hipchat.com/compare
A few years ago the FCC showed up at a coworker's house with their van. Something in his house was emitting improperly. They eventually tracked it down to a computer monitor.

So there are enforcement people out there. They just don't happen in the middle of a superbowl broadcast.
It would really be nice if you just told us an approximate amount rather than dancing around. I don't care if it's 10, 50 even 100 in either direction. It's just about ballpark to get a feel for value.
TweetDeck, HootSuite, etc - Which is best? - Most Users at Chrome Web Store
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I don't think it was a mistake, JavaScript is a very hot skill right now. Most serious (not just designer with slight JavaScript skills) JavaScript devs are making 20-30% more than their Java counterpart.

I do Objective-C, Java, and JavaScript freelancing, right now, I am booked solid with all JavaScript work. I can charge double, for JavaScript, the best rates I can get for Java.
How does one share their happiness with other people in a way that makes sense? "Today, I am happy. The world is lovely." [then what?]

Why would you admire and want to learn from someone whose main appeal is that they are happy? What would bring a great deal of people to their blog/site?

That said, there are some lifestyle blogs that do exist like Zen Habits.
It's not for the crowd that wants a bigger screen; it's for those who want smaller phones. It's a little harder for us geeks to understand how the size could take priority.
One might think that personalized domain blacklisting is simpler than social search. http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Are you sure? He refers to the iPad 2 and then the iPad 3. In this follow up post (http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/the_next_six_months) he refers to the iPad 3 as potentially shipping in Fall 2012.
Can This Journalist Be Replaced by Software and Mechanical Turk?
I saw this article yesterday and searched out this site: http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/ with the idea of making one to digitize a few of my bookcases.

Too much going on right now to take that on, so I'm curious, does anyone know of a service around the bay area that will do this without charging fees near the original price of the book?
after watching the video I don't see anything you do that google chat doesn't and quite a lot of the reverse. I wish you all the best but the reason you're having difficulty in differentiation perception is because the products are all very similar.

Having build a chat system, the real problems don't start until you have scale. I'd hate to be using this in a real work environment only to have it fall over when there's a lot of users. Chat is the only time I've ever had to write Erlang code.
Frankfurt Exchange in Talks to Take Over NY Stock Exchange
Where did you learn to do your modeling?
Don't get me wrong, it's a good article and I enjoyed it. Props for mentioning BeOS, $deity bless her and all who sail in her ;)
Want IPv6 now?
Beautiful logging for your Ruby on Rails application
Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition is out
This looks like a consumer device, and it's going to be a hard fight when Apple is king and prepared to sacrifice margins to defend this territory.

The TouchPad hasn't clearly defined it's USP.

Furthermore, Apple is hiring people to get into corporate sales. This is where HP has somewhat more experience in. It's going to be hard to develop the ecosystem.
Utter perfection is unfortunately limited to ZShell's bash completion, but I know what you mean - I experience it every time I log into a Solaris box and have to use CSH.

Don't get me wrong, Cshell is good too syntactically speaking, but the completion on Solaris 8 is a little, meh.

BTW - we have a dojo with different versions of Solaris going back to god knows when, that's why I'm using CSH - would not use Solaris 8 in production anymore.
I started 3d animation as an autodidact when I was 11 years old (now 24). I've spent over a year each in about a dozen different packages, with the majority of my time and effort poured into 3D Studio Max, Maya, and a little-known Mac-only package called Pixels:3D Studio (anyone else here use it, back in the day?).

Just this past week, I've started on Blender. I've been following it loosely since the late 90s, but this was my first real go at becoming proficient. I first tried 2.49, but found it extremely aggravating. Moving to 2.5 was a tremendous improvement, making Blender's unusual workflow slightly more obvious, but there's the rub.

Blender, in its origins, was designed with a very different set of basic interactions than the leading 3d animation packages. In time, as they've added more features, they've slowly moved the experience to be more in-line with Max and Maya, but these alignments apply pretty much exclusively to the newer, high-level features. The core interactions for moving/rotating/scaling, viewport movement, selection, and other "basics" are completely different.

If anyone else is just picking up the program, I'd encourage you to share any good resources or tips you've found for overcoming the initial grind. Here's what has helped me most:

Take notes of all the keyboard shortcuts you encounter. Sure, there are existing lists and cheat-sheets, but writing them out has really helped me memorize them. As I'm following the BlenderCookie videos, I watch for the interactions I don't yet know and immediately jot down the details. Don't forget, many of the commands are highly context-sensitive.
well put, and you didn't even have to try to praise Gucci Man to do it.
There seems to be an acceptance that Apple nailed the form factor for a smart phone when it launched the original iPhone.

I'm still unconvinced. I'd like a PMP slightly larger than the iPhone and I want my actual phone to be a sim card in size. I want it in a wristwatch or my eye-glasses or my headphones (but not my shoe).