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That post is so wrong in so many ways...

You don't need an IDE to program in Java, and if you use an IDE you don't have to use Eclipse. It just happens to be convenient and powerful, but the best way to start learning any programming language is with any text editor and command line compiling. Command completion is not something you want to learn the syntax, it is something you want to make your life easier WHEN YOU KNOW the syntax. And Eclipse can be used for other programming languages besides Java.

C++ - You're right gharbad... Microsoft Product??? Bjarne Stroustrup must be screaming right now...

MYSQL... a PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE???? He mixes apples with dogs... SQL is a query language for relational databases, and MySQL is a database engine. I think he made up that SIDU stuff... as I always refer to those operations as CRUD.

I must quote this:

"VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Don’t be swayed by the latest and greatest glittering turd (ruby, python, node this or that). Stick to the established languages for now. They are proven, robust and in demand. WordPress and every serious business uses them so they obviously must be good." <-- No comments... jump off a cliff, 10.000.000.000 lemmings can't be wrong!!

It again mixes oranges with horses...

"Adobe Flash programming uses a very similar programming language to JQuery (its called ECMA script)" -> I guess he meant to say "JQuery is a Javascript library. Javascript complies with the ECMA standard, like Adobe ActionScript 3 aka AS3.
Could I create my own language?
Sure.
Would anyone care?
No.
I like Amazon and there new color e-ink smartphone with solar panels looks interesting, not interesting enough for me to buy, but interesting. I hope that what ever they do is compatible with the greater infrastructure because otherwise, it is useless.
Awesome! Thanks! I will definitely dig into this more over the coming days.
Even Apple's hastily thrown together tour of their antenna facility was sexier than this. Wow.

I've never seen someone so awkward in front of a green screen before.
Ron Paul. He's focused on reducing inflation and improving the economy. More $ = more buyers.
I don't think this fact makes it a terrible idea, perhaps just a less-than-perfect method for finding the stolen camera.
That's what kills me about these flexible sign-ins -- I was locked out of stack overflow for months because I have accounts on all of these providers, sometimes more than one, and I had no clue what I'd used initially.

No idea what the solution to this problem is, but I suspect it isn't going away.
Ignite puts on events in various locations. 5 min talks on interesting topics, slides advance automatically every 15 seconds. http://igniteshow.com/
Discover 20 web-based apps which will make your company more productive
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2476789

What's more, it seems that it's your site, and you submitted it both times.
Is Google Website Optimizer really 5 years old?
1) Libraries used to manipulate images tend not to break EXIF data, and many site do not use any encoding at all.

2) Seriously, do you think that a common thief cares about EXIF, let alone know?

3) I have not seen a camera which does not write EXIF -- more probable problem is that it does not write camera serial number.

4) What is the difference? You have similarly small chance of retrieving it, no matter whose possession it is in at the moment.
Are you really arguing that the marginal value of an extra dollar is more for a billionaire than for a college student who eats ramen?
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Longevity Project: Parental divorce biggest social predictor of early death
Apparently some hyper-paranoid corporate firewalls block JavaScript... that probably accounts for the oddly-high percentage of no-JS business users you're seeing.
Indeed. However though Google translate quite correctly from most common languages to English, translation to other languages (even English to French or English to Spanish) often hardly makes any sense.
Would it be possible to process the images somehow and find the noise profile for every image and match it with existing images?

When I found a directory full of images and couldn't remember which camera took them, I noticed that there were a few fuzzy pixels of green and red if I zoomed all the way in that were present in all photos taken by that camera. I took a photo of a white wall in a dark room (to force high ISO) with a couple of my cameras and found the one. Of course I found out about the EXIF serial number and other unique data later on, but it could still be useful on sites that store the original image but strip EXIF.
I thought I may have been the only one and assumed I just couldn't figure it out because I've been so occupied with my own startup, hah. But some word of advice: you need to have a more clear explanation of what your product is. I found myself searching for an About page on your site after I still couldn't figure out what it is you were trying to do. Adding one could help people understand what it is that your application does. An idea for what you could put on the About page would be picture examples with arrows guiding the user down through the process of use with minimal wordage. Or maybe you could have a question mark in that section at the top of your website where it gives the couple of instructions. Upon a user clicking that question mark symbol, a popup could come up and offer the user said picture process flow. It's very possible that no one is registering on your site due to lack of instructions and understanding. So I encourage you to take this step.
I can relate relate to the thickness of a hair but I can't relate to the size of a red blood cell so...
If Mr Bohr ia an average sized 1.8 metres tall and is only a little smaller than the diameter of the hair after the first shrinkage that means that after the second shrinkage where he's 100 nm tall that the hair is about 1000 times wider than that. I calculate it would take him a good 20 minutes to walk past the end of the hair and in his world this chip is about the size of a pool table
A 20-year-old is still considered a kid, now?
What's the database of photos it can search against like? I just tried looking up a photo, the site found the serial number in it but couldn't find any matching photos online. I know the exist, even the exact same photo I was testing with is available on various websites.
Could you set up and provide them a Vagrant box that's pre-configured?
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That's like saying that UFO conspiracy theorists would be the best at running SETI, as they are focused on contacting aliens.
Hmm TDMA for upstream seems wasteful, imagine all those unused slots.
This seems disingenuous. The only answer is a link to Snopes, which debunks the theory that it was actually a conspiracy.
Big Think: http://bigthink.com/
Wages are a price just like any other price.

What is closer to the truth is that nowadays "average" technical people are way more abundant than ever, mainly because there are ever more and better learning sources (books, ebooks, conferences, video tutorials, chats, forums, certification courses, crappy 2-year colleges and good universities, fancy IDEs, super high level programming languages, frameworks and libraries for everything, etc.) The learning curve is not as hard as it used to be, if you want to be an "average" technical guy.

And it's just basic economics that people (and entities composed of people, such as companies) don't like to pay a lot for something which is extremely abundant and available in their area (logically). This is because when humans are in the process of valuing things they're affected by a mixture of need, personal preference, the scarcity of the things in question, and the moment in time when this process is taking place.

I've been a "pawn" "low life" "technical monkey" developer for a while, and I actually began working as a developer from the start with a secondary hidden purpose of studying the ways companies act (because I was already an economics nerd before becoming a developer), and this is the usual result of my observations (plus studying the history of other companies):

- Technical Monkeys with NO additional nontechnical skills:
They're like the average rock drummer who can keep a beat but other than that is not very useful. They will always earn a lower wage, because there's just too many of them out there: they're not especial. Wage is just another price, remember.

- REALLY GOOD Technical Monkeys with NO additional nontechnical skills:
They are exceptionally awesome and productive, and will get paid accordingly, unless they work for a really stupid boss. They're like the really good session drummer that records albums for all kinds of artists, and as a hobby breaks world records for faster drum fills, longest drum solo, etc. He has no other skills but he's a absolute beast at what he does.

- And then there are those Technical Monkeys who are good (though maybe not the best) at the technical stuff AND have really good business ideas i.e. better management ideas than their bosses do. So they can manage teams AND they can speak technical monkey. They're the Phil Collins. They will either earn a good wage or start their own company.
Yup, there's not a distinct correlation between buying early and getting the best price. Sometimes the best price doesn't show up until a week before the departure. Sometimes the best price is attained when purchasing months prior to departure. The only thing you can bet on is that the cheapest fares are usually attained when you fly out on a Wednesday. Monday flights are more expensive as it's typically for business travelers, and Friday/Saturday flights are expensive as well because of vacationers. If you can fly to your destination on a Wednesday instead of a few days later, you'll usually save a bunch of money.

Re: when to purchase a ticket, Farecast (now owned by Bing) was the best predictor I've seen.
Google Chrome Canary available for Mac OS
Linode's datacenter in London has "100% uptime" for me.

Just a few times I had to reboot the Linode because of some weird I/O locking.
Do something good: kid. Do something illegal: man.
| Deciding to pull in profile data in the back end [...] was a very bad decision [...] you can easily get this information through the Facebook JavaScript API.

Aren't you open to the client lying to you, though? Requesting the information in the client and having it send it to the server gives you less of a guarantee of its validity than if you did it entirely in the server.
Another neat idea: Allow the user to select their city, the make and model of the camera, and the date it was stolen. Then you can scrape Craigslist from the surrounding area and show possible matches.
Track Amazon.com price drops with Firefox and Chrome addon
Adds a button to Amazon.com that allows you to track items and receive an email when the price drops or when the item comes back in stock.
Consider that Apple has neglected the non-Pro MacBook for quite a while: it still uses a Core 2 Duo processor, and the MacBook Pro line includes a small-form-factor 13" machine that uses the i5 and i7 chips.

If this rumor has any legs, I can definitely imagine Apple moving to ARM for the MacBook Air and MacBook, to which will greatly benefit in terms of battery life and size along with its iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV bretheren. Most of these customers will be using the App Store, so the "fat binary" problem is probably much less of an issue, since Apple can mandate that submitted apps must be bundled for both platforms, which shouldn't be much of a problem if XCode supports it. They will remain with Intel for the MacBook Pro and desktop lines, for customers who need the CPU power, and are less sensitive to power usage.
Effectively the same as submitted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2517296

Much discussion there.
I'm a huge fan of HN and with the constant reminders here of people successfully doing something, I've (re)launched an app that tracks amazon price drops. Thanks hackers! Also special thank you to Joshua McKenty of http://www.piston.cc who built the first version of this.
What 5 months and you haven’t launched yet? Lean startups do it in 10 minutes.
Fancy a geek being awkward in front of a camera :)

Actually I thought he was fine
I did not see this explicitly called out in the article however one of the very strong benefits of the work log being advocated is the motivation and focus provided by a list of daily accomplishments.

Similar to other articles on hacker news like Jerry Seinfeld's "don't break the chain" calendar, seeing a list of your daily accomplishments shows at a glance how productive you are (or are not) being.

I also find that having a long list of accomplishments can help with motivation and avoiding burnout by providing a sanity check for how far you have actually come when things feel like they are piled up to unmanageable levels.
I recommend London as well. It has been rock-solid for me.
I can see your point, but would argue there is a difference. Small independent game designers can at least approach studios for money to fund/produce their game. Composers, playwrights, and artists don't have an equivalent body to turn to. If you're not commissioned to make something, you can't sell your product basically at all.
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True, driving a family of four anywhere in the US is almost always cheaper than flying. And trains, not so much in the US unless you happen to have a fairly direct route. Omaha to Denver by train is OK, Topeka to Denver, nearly the same distance for practical purposes, but to take the train you have to go to Chicago then to Omaha, then to Denver.
Ask HN: my/your take on Web 3.0
Dear HN,

So recently I've been watching interview on TC tv with Reid and OReily about future of the web.

I had to disagree with O'Reily on his take (he coined Web 2.0 as read/write). He sad that future (he does not call it 3.0) is all devices connected to the net and "talking" to us. I gave it some thoughts and am unable to find it to be such a huge movement as 2.0 is/was. I mean, I want my fridge to talk with me what's missing in. This way its another thing off my memory's list: I will find out whats missing when shopping, or fridge will order automatically. But if you think about all the work has to be done to make all the equipments compatible with web (whether its your washer dryer, or garage opener, fridge etc), it may actually fail for now.

I think social connections will remain base for 3.0, but I think next big thing will be a demarchy network. In short, if 1.0 was you read the web(site), 2.0 was you manage it (ie. you have a power to accept/decline friend connections that came to your feed, ban others posts on your wall, etc), the 3.0 would be a network where you actually take a huge part in writing that network personally. When actually talking to my Facebook friends, asking what do they think about FB, they mostly say its OK, but they complain on each feature more or less and since there is no better network, they use what they got.

I can think of some voting system (perhaps this will become a major difference between FB and future network and make people move on..) where all participating users vote on features/tools provided to them by that network's software engineers and accordingly to the result, that network has to comply and provide functionality. Compare it to the government (a better version) where it is actually up to voters to choose who will be in charge of shaping state/country policies and therefore in charge of the quality of voters' life. FB Graph gives you a sample, but still not only it is way too complicated for an average Joe to tap in, and requires you to leave the FB site.

What do you think?
You should read this: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6366/persuasive_games_... and see what you think about gameification afterwards.
I keep seeing these replies on how well Google Translate performed. I didn't realize while reading that it was machine-translated, but my immediate thought was "this person is not a native English speaker or needs much work his attempt at Yoda-speak does."
CloudKick	Expensive!

Actually cloudkick has a free plan, that works on one server only.
> a camera I had stolen in Peru

Not the slightest bit of guilt? or maybe you meant

a camera stolen from me in Peru

:)
There are probably purpose-built plugins to show passwords, but you can also use the very popular Web Developer plugin if you use Firefox -- to make password fields visible, in the context menu hit:

> Web Developer > Forms > Show Passwords

You can also type your password into the username field first, then cut & paste it into the password field before entering your actual username.

Some years back while traveling and using dubious internet cafes I used to (I imagined) defeat keyloggers and at the same time navigate foreign keyboard layouts by typing my password mixed-up into the username field, then copy/pasting it a piece at a time into the correct order in the password field.
Taking Advantage of Email Fail: Opportunistic of Spam?
On Chrome, drag-n-dropping from other windows doesn't seem to work (on Windows 7).
It's a shame some smartphone cameras (eg, my old Nexus One) don't tag with full EXIF data, else you'd then have a much larger potential userbase.
How to remove new program high light from start menu.
Ask HN: Six month sabbatical in Colombia. Any words of wisdom?
I'm a 20 something front end dev based in the US. Planning to head to Bogota, and/or Cali in Colombia for five to six months around August, or December of this year or January of next year. Budgeting around 8000 usd towards this. Planning to do some photography, and hobby dev. projects, and probably learn Salsa in Cali, and brush up on my Spanish/get fluent. And take stuff as it comes, meditate, contemplate on life and some other more lofty goals.

Does that seem too much, or too little to do. What other things should I do? Haven't done anything like this before so looking for some advice. If any of you have done something similar, or are from Colombia, and have some tips/advice, please let me know. Thanks. Also if you have traveled a lot in general, I would appreciate your recommendations and insights too!

Thanks.
You do realize that by doing this technique you're not physically taking money out of airline pilots' wallets, right? Airlines already screw over pilots (WSJ says average starting salary for a commercial airline pilot is ~$30k) so I don't think this technique will really impact wages of airline employees either way.
Funny thing, my Father used to own a travel agency. This is exactly the sort of thing that travel agents were paid to know AND search for.

Before the rise of all the internet discount travel sites, travel agents earned their keep by doing all this for you.

For better or for worse, that world changed over time. People would come into the agency, sit down for 1 to 2 hours to gather advice and information... then when it came time to book, they'd say somethign to the effect of "well I can book it myself online and save 15%". (Then he'd lose the sale).

That or they'd come in, grab one of his travel brochures then book online.

I'm not trying to bemoan anything here. He did well with the agency for a number of years and sold out to someone at the end who picked up the 'business travel' (where agents still earn commissions for doing it all for you). Just trying to shed a bit of light on the story from my real life observation of the travel industry.

Anyways, kinda interesting way the world has changed.

(edit, oh ... I don't think his travel agents ever advised hopping off mid-journey, but then I think they knew how to book it so you'd not have to do that.)
Once had a flight from Omaha to Evansville through St. Louis. At the gate in St. Louis the airline informed us that the flight was being canceled so they put us (10 passengers in all) in a van and drove us to the Evansville airport, dropped us off, and the driver drove away. The airport was closed! The only pay phone you could see was on the other side of locked doors! This was long enough ago that most of the passengers didn't have cell phones.
My advice would be to focus really hard on a single area in the market. Google (or the Asian companies you seem to be really talking about, like Renren and Sina) can copy your user interface and quote-unquote "idea", but their size creates problems. They're not as focused as a small start-up can be. Big companies lumber, small companies sprint.

Since all of the front-end parts of a website are stealable, you have to win by focusing on back-end technology and community. That's how all of the sites on your list have found success. For Quora, StackOverflow, and Wikipedia, it's the community. For eBay and Amazon, it's the back-end technology. That's somewhat oversimplified, but you get the idea.
I use honeypot fields, but you have to be really careful with them, and certainly do NOT just discard requests with the honeypot field filled, as the article suggests.

About 6 months ago, the new version of Chrome started auto-filling email addresses into my honeypot field, so it was a good thing I returned a friendly message (explaining that some auto form-fillers might cause this error, and needed to be temporarily disabled) rather than just assuming "bot".. but I still had some pissed-off people who had been trying to give me money and couldn't.

It's also worth noting that honeypot fields are only useful on a small site that is unlikely to be specifically targeted. A custom-tweaked bot can very easily bypass a honeypot field, of course.
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Agreed, you were wiser than I was: I read it in full, I paste the comment I wrote there:

<<I see Stephen already made my point: Since when C++ is a Microsoft product? You're thinking about C#, I guess.

Also, HTML (unless you add CSS3) is not a programming language. MySQL is not a language, it is a tool. The language is SQL (again it is not technically a programming language, although I think it is Turing complete, but don't bet on it). Jquery is again not a language, but a framework over JavaScript, and ECMAScript is the proper name of Javascript. The "similar thing" that Adobe Flash has is ActionScript.

If you don't learn JS first, Jquery will make very little sense. And no, it is not really that close to Java. As for "Wordpress and the others using the old languages", seriously? I don't know exactly about Wordpress, but Python and Ruby are really big out there.

Cheers,

Ruben
>>
Nice idea. This seems possible, unless the image has been cropped/rotated. (It's still possible, of course, but the analysis gets more complicated.)
Interesting that the Canon DSLR do support it, but none of the standard P&S.
A key selling point of the Air is that it is a full-fledged Mac computer. If it has to run normal Mac applications in an emulation layer, which will undoubtedly be slow because the Air's processor is not powerful, this will not be true.
Crazy blast from the past. I worked on a cable modem project as my first job out of college in 1999. Back then, having a USB interface on the modem was a huge thing because it meant the cable company didn't have to open a customer's computer to install an ethernet card (and deal with the customer's complaints afterward that their computer didn't work anymore). Nearly everyone was using dial-up then, so most computers didn't come with ethernet.
A working demo would be useful to see how to use this after all.
I really enjoyed it, I don't think he was awkwards either, but that he's older and see's this video kinda thingamajig different to us whippersnappers.

I watched it all, and I learnt a lot from it. I'd've not watched a dry/marketing video on a new processor technology.
Yep, it was launched in 2006. Here is the launch announcement: http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/18/google-launches-website-opt...
:) Love your comment about lemmings. We should all be programming in Cobol, shouldn't we?