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You don't owe them anything. If you don't like the environment (and who would?) then get out of there. That's what I did.

Don't let a crappy job spoil coding for you, though. Try working on something you enjoy for a while and see if that helps.

On the subject of working overtime, a lot of smart people don't think it's efficient [1], and I tend to agree - if you work too many hours, your actual productivity during those hours plummets. People need rest. Is there some reason that a 40 hour week is not enough time to get things done? If so, maybe there's a problem with the company's methodology (screwing around and then having marathon sessions before deadlines?) or maybe they are setting unrealistic goals. Either way, not a company I'd want to work for.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
You must be middle class. In fact, what you described in precisely what the vast majority of the lower class feels like, and grew up feeling like.

You should read the book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," it's a classic and I bet it'll open your eyes. You might like it.
Driver support for what? I don't see either company supporting kms, gem, wayland, etc.
* Consider that your audience will not fully understand your idea unless you can effectively present it - take the time to build a visual presentation
* Estimate time/effort to complete the project, the cost of integration into the current IT environment, on going needs (people/ systems / support)
* Revenue structure and model - per seat, per month, per licence, one time
* off set costs with revenue to show time line of profitability based on a log of sales. be conservative. let other people you can sell more
* build a prototype - even a poor one but make it look good. Most business types take visual cues to reflect on code quality. They do not understand Algos. Don't discuss it with people that do not understand the math / concepts. Talk about the solution to a problem instead.
* If possible build two documents: one is a powerpoint presentation with the above information. The other is a prose document outlining in deeper information the system/ concept / etc
* Give it away - you don't need to own the project. Find the individuals in your firm that can get it done. Get them interested in the project. Let them help you sell it.
* Market Research is red ocean. You can only know what has been done and with what demographics. You can not understand blue oceans from market data. Determine if your product / service is new/unique/special/ and if it is red ocean do the work. find the demographic, understand the competition. Figure out the four forces (five) and break down their busienss / profit models. If it is blue ocean, map the shift. Where are you taking the model vs the current solution framework.
* Be persistent, as that is the measure of an idea. If you wont fight for it, why would anyone else? The best ideas do not always win.
* Break down the presentation with an action list. what to do next. who to do it. time lines.
* Make sure you would use it, if you were the customer. Otherwise, why would you build it? (unless you are in finance, then this doesn't really matter does it?)
* Patent the idea before you give it to you boss. Just for the hell of it. You can always licence it to the company. :-)
They state that those rendering errors are only visible when using free-camera mode, not the standard pre-defined camera. That's why it looks buggy, it was never "optimized" to look well outside of the benchmark's default camera settings.

They also point out that preventing NVIDIA drivers from detecting 3DMark results in the scene being rendered correctly.

If these claims are true NVIDIA can't shift the blame to some incompetent programmer.
The Mayo recommends limiting saturated fats [1]. So does the American Heart Association [2]. Also the World Health Organization [3]. According to Wikipedia (I haven't checked the links here), Health Canada, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the UK Food Standards Agency, the Food and Drugs Board of Ghana, and 6 other national agencies recommend consuming less saturated fats [4].

I Googled a little bit for articles challenging this consensus, the most scientific seemed be [5]. It cites studies that show no negative effects of saturated fats. However, the only evidence for a positive impact is cross-country comparisons, which have many uncontrolled variables, and mechanistic explanations without epidemiological backing.

So, the argument against saturated fats is not unanimous, but I think it's fair to say that it's a consensus. As for a healthy diet being low in unprocessed grains, we'll have to leave that for another day.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fat/NU00262

[2] http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/FatsAndOils/Fat...

[3] http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/diet/en/

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat#Dietary_recommend...

[5] http://www.health-report.co.uk/saturated_fats_health_benefit...

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The OP claims to have been defrauded by (i) an online investment company and (ii) a hacker he hired to steal his money back for him. He is looking to hire someone to steal his money back for him and is not willing to pay in advance.

He appears to be under the impression that this is a discussion board for criminals rather than (aspiring) entrepreneurs.

Anyone fancy finding out if there's an FBI / other law enforcement e-mail address I can forward his e-mail to? I don't particularly fancy filling out a long online form.
My own experiences with eLance haven't been great, but I'm sure for some people it's worked out.
It's best to work with local talent, even if it's going to be more expensive.

I'm guessing trekdek hasn't worked out since if it were going to launch any time in the near future, a coming soon page of some sort would be in place of the GoDaddy landing page. But that's ok - I've done many things which haven't worked out as well. You should regroup and try again, you will find you have learned a ton from the mistakes you've made in the past.
exceptions.KeyError not callable

http://gyazo.com/564cc7065e1cf337b3a5034c68b87972.png

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This is politics, not Hacker News.
Ah, don't get me wrong, I did not mean to say nvidia is any better. I was just amused that both companies say "we're the best", both are known to have a "creative" approach to benchmarking and one of them sets a challenge with "prove you're the best with benchmarks".
Sorry for the late reply. We're prototyping a new invite system where we do a few things:

a) drop the whole "Apply" motif, since it's not so much about approval/denial as it is ensuring the integrity of the community. It's caused a lot of confusion.

b) move from a "use your invite and become accountable for the invitee" model to a vote-centric one: you cast votes for folks you'd like to invite, and depending on the reputation of the voters, after a threshold of votes is reached that person is invited in. People who voted on users who end up being invited get a point - we're building a leaderboard that will surface the users with the most points -- basically trying to reward, through exposure, users who are great at growing the community. (NB: this leaderboard will also feature users who have a large amount of comments marked as helpful or starred by staff)[1]. The overall goal here is to use humans as a "not a good fit for Forrst" filter. We're trying to encourage folks to grow the community by rewarding them with recognition -- both within the community and publicly.

c) We're also working on some other stuff that will whitelist users who want in based on various things (e.g. having a verified email address with a well-known company e.g. Google, Facebook, etc.). Also have been working on looking at a user's existing social graph(s) to determine potential overlap between that person's network and the Forrst userbase. Much of the credit for this one goes to Nate Westheimer (innonate.com). FWIW I'd love to speak to folks who've done similar things (kyle at forrst.com) Also looking to make it dead easy to get dev/design shops on, and furthermore, to make it simple for existing Forrst users in good standing to get their teams on board.

Happy to elaborate on any of this.

[1] I should add that we're really pushing right now to make it all about quality comments. Posts, to me, are second class citizens. They only exist to create great discussion/feedback/critique.
Mmmm profile created 57 minutes ago, and if you do a search in google for mike.shel@hotmail.com he has posted the same message in several forums AND he has a hotmail email... interesting!!
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While we can't make claims about totals, I think we can make some sweeping claims about relative harm.

Namely, that taking Chernobyl in its proper context (one nuclear plant out of many) and even taking Fukishima to be an event of similar magnitude, nuclear power plants still present significant advantages over coal from a pain-and-hardship caused per watt-hour generated.

No one's arguing that nuclear power is safe. However, I'd rather have the last unprocessable nuclear waste from a generation of reactors buried in a well-shielded container under my house than live downwind from a coal power plant. Ideally of course I would like neither, but the fact is millions of people live downwind from coal power plants, and that is a much bigger problem than Fukishima. That problem could be mitigated if as those coal plants die they are replaced with modern nuclear reactors. Yes, it will cause other problems, but these will be smaller when taken in aggregate. (Even if they are more dramatic when they happen.)
To make a Lisp interpreter you need to know Lisp. But I liked the idea of writing a shell.
Marion Carrette,Zilok (Paris),The Team is Important not the Sex of the Team
Guice 3.0
>I have to wonder why $4,000 a year for a journal sparks moral outrage and why the solution isn't "Alright, screw it, this is so easy we'll just do it ourselves."

Cornell runs arXiv. You can't fight a group as entrenched and pernicious as academic journal publishers on a single front.
In _Founders at Work_, McKinsey's consultants are quoted as recommending growth be no greater than 25% because past that, the corporate culture is lost.
Why "Dancing With The Stars" doesn't have a Robot Champion
I was listening to this preso http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Leaner-Programmer-Anarchy and the speaker said the same thing at the same time I read this line. Scary...
Yes, sounds promising but it crashes when trying to create a new whiteboard...
Side question: how many users can these minor linux distros hope to get? Linux is still not mainstream for desktop computers (i.e. non geeks are a very small minority of users), and there are dozens of distros with very little differences between them. With the majority of the user base using the major distros (Ubuntu, etc.), what is left for small distros such as this? Thousands, hundreds, dozens of users?
Stoner Arm Dealers: How two American kids became big-time weapons traders
ok, i'm not from the US, and I don't really know what's this 'good energy' you're talking about. Care to explain?
Consult Givewell, hopefully.
One thing that I want from protocols is several reference implementations. And some of those libraries instead of full applications.

But indeed, XMPP (like BuddyCloud here uses) sounds like a good idea for a social aggregation protocol.
There is a band of the economic spectrum in which entrepreneurialism can be practiced at the scale and with the low barriers to entry we currently enjoy, and so macro economic news can be hacker news.

Also, many successful startups simply engage in making distractions for the middle class, so that they pay less attention to the rising temperature of the water in the pot.
I think you're saying the same thing, but I agree deathflute has stated the problem more clearly from a business perspective: the strategies do not scale, yet they need to reinvest proceeds into the business to remain competitive. the result is more technology to execute the same strategies faster, rather than mitigating risk by diversifying into new strategies. this is why people call HFT an arms race.
AMD does help the development of the open-source radeon driver that uses kms, has been modified to use the gemified ttm (which is assumed to be a step in moving to gem support once everything fits), and certainly supports wayland.

AMD also makes and supports the non-foss fglrx driver, which they cannot open-source due to licensing restrictions. The open-source driver is not yet even near to fglrx in functionality or speed, but it does seem to be slowly catching up. Some features will probably never work with the open-source drivers -- notably the video decoder, because AMD is afraid that if they release it's specs, the HDCP key embedded within can be stolen. (That this point is completely moot as HDCP is broken doesn't seem to matter to them.)
This is not a new concept. Citigroup released an infamous report to select clients in 2005 stating that the U.S. has now become a plutonomy and advising clients on how to exploit it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6674234/Citigroup-Oct-16-2005-Plut...
Video: Linus Torvalds on git
What One Newspaper Is Looking For in an Investigative Reporter
It does sound cliché. And, respectfully, I think it's just as wrong [Edit: not wrong, but maybe shortsighted. Then again, if what I say in the following paragraphs doesn't change your view in the slightest, then more power to you: my view isn't the absolute. Do what you think is "right", whatever right might be.] as most clichés tend to be.

We have now, certainly, and now is amazing. But we have the past, too; at least for a while (dementia and all sorts of other things can rob us of the past). We have the future, too (though we can be robbed of that).

I live for all three. The past is where I draw from to inform my present actions; the present is where I enjoy myself and prepare for the future; the future is where we're all heading.

If I lived for the now, I wouldn't be going to college. I wouldn't be planning to study for a PhD in Neuroscience and researching assistive brain/spine implants. I wouldn't study programming languages and designs. I wouldn't be reading The Intelligent Investor. In fact, if you lived for the now, you'd probably be living in a soma-induced haze à la Huxley's Brave New World: it'd be the optimal choice, in fact. Pure neurochemical bliss.

The argument that you should live for now because you could be dead at any second is obscene, to me: it's more likely that you live than you die, and you're likely to be consistently happier now and in the future if you act like you'll be alive in the future. Evidence: planning for retirement. Seriously.

So live for yourself, sure, but live for all of yourself. Think of yourself as a smudge on a timeline: not in one place, not just in the past, not just in the future. Optimize the smudge.
I found a g-file that I wrote in 1985.

It was an impromptu instruction manual for an Apple ][ paint program that everyone was pirating at the time. I guess it made it's rounds around the BBS circuit and was captured in the textfiles.com archive.
Amazing. I love the fact he referenced Myst!
And this is playing "7 degrees of hacker news". Good effort!

Another common tactic in the game is "XYZ is really a hacker because ... and therefore anything they happen to say must be hacker news!"
HTML5 Is Breathing New Life Into the Web
From which we also learn that he is (at least claiming to be) a Canadian expat in Finland. Might Finnish law enforcement be interested?

http://www.finlandlive.info/general-discussions/4909-looking...
> the benchmarks suggest that the AMD card wins in most disciplines

Anandtech's 590 review [0] does not really agree. It sees the cards as a wash overall (though the choice of games benched will influence the winner a lot), compute is NVidia's domain, and the 590 is significantly quieter than the jet turbine of the 6990 (60dB versus an incredible 70dB on HAWX)

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4239/nvidias-geforce-gtx-590-d...
Spoiled by the All-in-One Gadget
This is awesome. Great job. Please don't feel pressure to lay on many new features. I like the simplicity of the concept.
> I still use Java when writing tiny multi threaded projects that communicate over TCP/IP

Sounds like a good reason to learn Erlang.
Instead of open an original page with article I want to open the page prepared by YC with a button for fast return to HN. It’s handy to walk around the site and then turn back to HN. The BACK button doesn’t helps when you go deeper the site. Or it could be the button that opens comments.
Ok good, so I'm not alone in being totally confused by the UI. I would rather play myst than color.
Doesn't the headline say "moving toward plutocracy" and the quote is: "we have moved in my lifetime towards a plutocracy"? That seems like an accurate summary of his sentiment; it's not saying that we have actually reached a plutocracy, just that that's the trajectory.
Not having a phone is extremism? That's rich! It is, however, a common attitude. The fact that I don't have a phone is generally met with incredulity.

Sometimes I like to trick co-workers by connecting to my VoIP phone with a SIP client on my laptop and calling from my desk extension. "You're still at work!?"

I mostly notice not having a phone when I meet people after work for cocktails, because I arrive on time, and sit alone in the venue, getting a head start.
Why does he talk up inheritance taxes so much? He said you won't have to pay them because you're leaving little to his heirs (maybe positions in Berkshire Hathaway), but does he have to sell people on government policy that enriches his company? (Keep in mind that heirs of owners of private companies are usually unable to pay the taxes to keep that company, and therefore find themselves selling it to private equity...i.e. to Buffett.)

I don't think it's ethical for him to use his celebrity to push policy to enrich himself.
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Add $5 to the price of your flight to enter a drawing for an upgrade to business class.

Travel agencies/sites make most their money on add-ons and travel insurance. Now they have something else to tout. Probably illegal, but maybe there's a way around that.

What do you think?
Be polite to cops.

But, never hurts to remain aware that part of their job is to help turn arrests into convictions. Think of it as a customer conversion metric.

Nothing wrong with not talking to them without the advice of an attorney.
Yeah, I think you're right - maybe there's a "push and a "pull" effect involved - creating barriers to make submission more difficult might be a "push", but something like flagging or marking spam and off-topic stuff would be more of a "pull" to encourage quality posts? I think pulls (incentives of any sort) are better for communities than pushes (barriers or punishments). Just some random thoughts...
If you view source on the 'Contact form', you'll see his email address in a hidden input, tonyluciano2001@yahoo.com
Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)
For efficiency's sake, I love the idea of directing managers to keep emails under 60 words. As David Allen described in Getting Things Done, if it takes you more than two minutes to address a note, put it off. Every email should be addressable as they come through.

Also think the no-laptop rule during meetings is important for a company like Google that has so many defections. I've experienced for myself how much of a distraction open laptops can be. Need everybody to think creatively.
I find it rather queer that, for the author, two data points are enough to "put performance into proper perspective". Now that performance is gained from scaling, it matters like never before.
heh, "moving toward"
chrome 10 mac, The browser has a new user and displays dickbar. When you set (through get var? I didn't look,) the cookie the dickbar will not load. Click back on the browser to get back to hacker news, and chrome reloads a state where dickbar cookie is not set, thus displaying the dickbar yet again. Clicking back once more will go back to HN.
i agree with this explanation - what will be interesting to watch is where these coders wind up:

* hyper-secretive buy-side firms like SAC decide there's a labor opportunity, and these blogs are shut down in short order

* some PG figure emerges to steer these promising technologists into the light; i know roger ehrenberg has tried to step to the plate in this regard and what i've gathered from the sidelines is that this is easier said than done

* they compromise on building sell-side execution platforms, who would be more tolerant (more apathetic is probably closer to the mark) of blogging and we start to see a real banking technology community form

the third option is the one i'm betting on and hoping for.
Conversely, the only evidence for a negative impact is cross-country comparisons with many uncontrolled variables. And those studies show a high correlation with trans-fat and/or white sugar/white flour. But those studies are the eventual basis for the recommendations you listed.

If you want studies/references, Gary Taubes' work would be a good place to start. Good Calories/Bad Calories seems to be approximately 1/3 bibliography.
Never met someone that really knows Perl well that thinks the syntax is a big problem or it's a "write only" language. It's all people who were scared off before they saw the light. Almost always the same with Lisp, vim/emacs, etc. Anything that's too foreign looking causes fear and then hatred for the fear it caused.
Excuse me. I didn't mean to imply that all greens are fascist. And I also meant Green in the broadest possible sense - as in environmentalists of all denominations. And this context I meant the extremist faction(s) when I said fascist green extremists. Because they only have one agenda: Stop corporations. Stop Nuclear Power. Stop Consuming Carbon power sources. But I don't see an alternative proposal how to deal with everyday human existence in 21st century.

Saying renewables have loads of potential just doesn't cut it.

In US last nuclear power plant has been built in 1977. Something similar holds true worldwide (there haven't been that many nuclear power plants built since then). Nuclear power production is probably THE most regulated industry in the world (and probably state owned a lot). Newer better plants haven't been built since, guess who, didn't allow it. These old reactors should be shut down and replaced, but since coal power plants are also not allowed to be built (by guess whom) and there are only that many rivers you can turn into accumulation lakes (not to mention disastrous effect on environment - species are dying out due to hydro power). World is in this weird deadlock where we are forced to expand lifetimes of these old nuclear power stations, just to keep going.

And I'm accusing you of being disingenious by pretending that current renewable plans won't have adverse side effects. And by pretending that nuclear industry is in its current state due to greed of plant operators.

And you still haven't provided me with an alternative strategy for while we wait for renewables to save us. We have 40 years of burning coal to meet our demands for energy in front of us - whether you accept it or not. We could diminish some of that impact by building safer, better nuclear power plants.
C++ is used for gaming because it gets the job done and doesn't have competitor that's equally fast, portable and supported by all SDKs.

Similar thing was true for PHP for some time: it wasn't pretty, but it was good enough, and none of the alternatives were as ubiquitous as mod_php.