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Ask HN: Help me revamp Zena UI (Open source Rails CMS)
Context:

Zena (http://zenadmin.org) is arriving at maturity after more then 5 years of development. It's a very powerful MIT licensed Ruby on Rails CMS with lots of advanced features to create websites and applications.

I am the author of Zena and related gems (RubyLess, Property, Versions, QueryBuilder, etc).

You:

If you have some good UI skills and feel like creating some "Zen" design, you could give this project a huge boost.

Offer:

I most probably do not have enough money to pay for the type of quality design that this project deserves (I do not earn money with Zena) but I would be glad to discuss any arrangement to give back with my own skills and time.
This comparison is not apt.
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I'm not sure how so many people are missing this. Not reading through or simply not getting it?
Some folks were considering using CUDA from the Linux kernel. I imagined it being used for accelerating block hash calculation in block-deduplicating filesystems (that would be a nice addition to BtrFS, BTW).

And, if you can use CUDA to accelerate stuff like that, you can use OpenCL.
Yep, I now often forget to put semicolons when writing JavaScript or C :-) I was rephrasing the parent question.
Any technology causes client machines to store information for later access are within the scope of the law.

The exact wording is a person shall not store or gain
access to information stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user unless the requirements ... are met.
So if my home stereo is "streaming" music to the speakers in the next room that's considered a public performance too?
But Assange hasn't disobeyed his government, the Australian government.

Furthermore it would help to put some context here; Socrates never actually left Athens, his home city. he valued the individual acquisition of truth, but would he realistically apply the same rules to our open world than he did to his closed, incredibly small "country" where he nearly could personally know every single citizen (a few thousands)?

That's true, even more clear in the Gorgias than the Crito dialogue, that Socrates despised public persuasion by manipulation of the crowd's emotions. However, I don't recall mentioned even once that some truth aren't good to divulge; in fact, though this idea appears precisely in "the Laws", it's quite saliently the only Plato's dialogue where Socrates is absent...
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I dont see the big deal. Apple is Apple. Hopefully he learned a ton and will take it with him to his next startup where he will be able to blog about it.
Gaspard,

I would definitely be interested in helping work on this. Send me an email, midler.dave[at]gmail
Guessing here but so they can be turned into a polygon model for easier display, yes you can directly volume render the data but say a 1024 x 1024 x 1024 cube even at a byte per voxel would be a large amount of memory, most of which will be empty

I'm guessing OpenCL is being used to accelerate Marching cubes or some other similar algorithm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_cubes

This post by Smash of Fairlight
http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/
talks about some of the reason why you want to do this but in a very different context
This is a well written but fairly straightforward "let co workers know I am resigning and moving on" letter.

Why is this on the front page of HN? Not being snarky (Good Luck Sriram!), just wondering what is insightful about this post. Seems like a straightforward resignation email to me. Most of us have written similar emails in our careers.

Obviously the submitter and upvoters see some value that I can't make out. Please enlighten me.
It's interesting that techs and nerds are focused on this since, I think this laptop will be most useful in the humanities. When you can't run git, matlab, r, excel, etc. on a student machine you're science/tech degree is gonna be pretty schackled day one. Still think this is super rad for the wordsmiths out there.
Also, don't forget that if the company goes into liquidation, debt gets preference to equity holders when it comes to distributing assets. So for all the "trust me" rhetoric, it remains theoretically possible that the creditor (ie the "incubator") could call in the loan, and if the cash is not at hand, they could force the company into liquidation. They would then end up with title to any IP, contracts or any other company assets.
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An unregulated market will spawn entities that provide the services it needs. This includes security and trust. Insurance companies, for example, are entities that people trust to protect them against loss. Rating agencies are entities that people trust to provide risk assessment.

The difference between non-coercive (private) entities and government is that non-coercive entities adapt better. So, for example, if you're planning to transfer billions over many years with one bank, you'd want the bank to have all kinds of security. But if you just want a quick, cheap way to transfer 25 cents in a micro payment over the web, you probably don't care if the startup "bank" you use has a $500K bond.
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I'll bite. Define the workings of the death star. Or rather, define how you see the workings of the death star in a way that helps me comprehend your definition of how Apple is run.

The things I've read all point to Apple being pretty much a great place to work, except that because of its secrecy not a lot (if anything in many projects) can be shared outside their walls. This is, if you think about it, one of the main reasons why they enter a market and lead it. One might disagree with their methods and the extreme secrecy, but it's also working out pretty darn well if we look at the numbers.
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When I first read the comments here, I imagined Gabriel knocking his head on the wall, Charlie Brown-style. But the more I think about it, the more I think he might appreciate the layers of absurdity.
Couldn't you buy insurance that covers the bond? Typically this is much less than a bonds face value.
Because otherwise you have a bunch of images and not a 3D object.

But this is far from the only thing people use it for. Basically it is used, or might be used, anywhere else you would use a cluster.

Here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ZSXCqOML0] is a real-time rendering of the Julia set (in 4D, so you are really watching the projection).
"a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to a device" isn't a very good summary of what a cookie is, in my opinion.

> Also, not everyone who visits your site will do so using a browser. They may, for example, have used an application on their mobile device.

What do they mean by this? A mobile browser should still have an option regarding cookies. If it's not a browser but some other user-agent... well what could it be? If it's an app hitting your site over an API cookies are unlikely to be involved, but shared state could be maintained any way you want it to be (plus this hardly counts as a "website").

The third quote is just horrible, horrible advice. A lot of the options they discuss are genuinely dreadful from a user experience point of view, and it seems that European websites will be forced to have worse experiences than all other websites. From a competitive view this is not good.

Finally analytics cookies... If you have to opt-in to Google Analytics that will put a severe selection bias on your data, it'll make many important metrics (uniques, page views, time on site, bounce rate) completely worthless.
I'm not saying the idea is totally pointless, but the $500k needed regardless of the scale of the business seems a bit excessive. Maybe there should be a sliding scale, so that if your transaction volume is $10k, you need a bond for $10k, etc, up to a ceiling? That would at least make it possible to start out testing whether it works without dumping a huge amount of cash.
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The people complaining will be those who drive their own cars and are paying attention to how the computers drive.
Vala is really nice. I wish I did more non-web programming, I would probably use it all the time.
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No reason why not, for most things they are going to be interchangeable, think DirectX vs. OpenGL
eNom are fine. You can register (upgrade) as a reseller for bulk discounts and other tools. I'm led to believe folks with really high value names or lots of them often become registrars themselves.
Go is meant to replace C++ and Java for systems programming. They have no designs on implementing Go to do UI programming, for example, which is where C++ and Java are used more than anywhere else.
He himself has admitted it would be much easier for the US to extradite him from the UK than from Sweden.
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... whose exchange rate against the dollar has gone up by a factor of 6 over the past weeks? If you had any debt nominated in Bitcoin, you'd be screwed.
I think you might overestimate how easy it is for people to switch from Skype. With all your Skype contacts, friends on Skype, the fact that many users would not even fully understand how to download another software program and install it, these are reasonable but not huge barriers to entry.

However did they overpay? In my definition anything that is more than 10 time net earnings is overpaying. So unless their net earnings dramatically improve to $700 million in a few years (unlikely), or unless there are some significant synergies that I am not aware of, I would say it's overpaying.
You can't really do this so easily with books, but my favourite tactic with music is to rampantly pirate an artists output, then go up to them at a gig and press a wad of cash into their hand with an apologetic smile :)

Now that's cutting out the middleman!
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Simply denying aptitude is not an argument. Also, your initial comment only relies on reference to fringe advertising that (probably) nobody here would want to see.
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I'm surprised nobody has pointed out another major reason Go will not replace C: embedded programming. GC eats valuable kilobytes on hardware that often doesn't have any to spare.
Wait, what, what's wrong with optimizing the brainwashing techniques applied to myself?

Yeah, I do prefer seeing ads for stuff I don't need and would never buy than ads for stuff I don't need but it's vaguely possible I might be brainwashed into buying. If I think I need something and I want to browse ads for that something, I will just find a relevant catalogue/industry magazine/whatever.

See, if someone finds a security bug that allows to change something in our computer's software, we freak out and go for patches. If someone finds a bug in our brains, we call that "ads custom-tailored for your needs."
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> It's reminiscent of secret police behaviour with their networks of informants

That's a bit of a stretch.

Also I don't believe the vast majority of people care about an organisation generating a profile of your interests, otherwise services like GMail and Facebook would have failed.
So you want to be a games programmer?
UX design and start ups
I am a UX (User Experience) designer and design researcher who has spent the last 7 years working at consultancies. I'd like to begin working more with start ups and wanted to get some insight into what start up are looking for (skills, expectations, etc.) and how to best sell myself. A few questions specifically come to mind:

At what point do start ups consider working with UX designers?

What are your top 3 expectations of A UX designer?

What is the one thing you need to be convinced of before hiring a designer?
Here are two arguments:

- news isn't targeted at a particular person (unless you're using your own RSS aggregator, but then you're not (usually) giving anyone else information about what you're aggregating).

- news is generally opt-in, meaning that I choose to read bbc instead of NYTimes
This is why we're now called Software Developers I think.
I think you're onto something there. Maybe your thoughts could be generalized like this: Equity split should reflect the relationship of the co-founders. (EDIT: I just saw you already wrote almost the same)

Friendship based on fairness typically consists of mutual respect and confidence in each others capabilities and shortcomings. Such friends have most certainly learned to appreciate their diversity and face another on an equal footing. In this case, a uniform split would be a natural fit - anything else would question the fairness of the relationship.

The problem I see is that even in long-time friendships it is not always clear what type of relationship it is. I would claim that in every relationship, all aspects (fairness, personal benefit and more) are present to some amount. And as you say yourself, each member could understand the character of their friendship differently.

The implication is: Before deciding how to split, find out in what kind of relationship you are. A russian proverb comes to mind: If you want to get to know someone, go on a mountain hike with him. My russian-speaking friend told me that one, and in fact, we went to the mountains together. Almost died several times. We know each other very well now :)
>On the 1920 pixels wide screen at work, more than half the horizontal width became buttons (previous and next)

I think my adoration may have been influenced by the fact that my monitors are in portrait orientation.

And I use a trackball. I'm a sucker for contrarianism. Maybe I should start using visual studio?
Sounds like Vegas would be a good starting point, no one remembers what happens there (zing). In all seriousness, Google is going to drop a ton of money into Nevada to make this happen and drive more people to Vegas again. I call this a stimulation package, hope it passes.
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"My interests" are hard to define without collecting far too much information about me.

Good example for "of interest" in my opinion:

If I shop with Amazon and bought Product A, B and C and your database of previous orders suggests that I'd like to buy the new Album of Justin Bieber: Fine, go ahead and suggest that to me.

In that case you used just the information that I sent to you and correlated that with a little bit of inventory/anonymous order history magic. I get recommendations from you because I am your customer already and provided you with a limited insight into "my interests".

Now - if you track me across sites, try to create a profile of me without my consent and my explicit knowledge and then try to sell this as being relevant, a good idea and targeting "my interests" I have some doubts that we're talking about the same thing.
Thanks for clarifying.

I'd like to add that this is a good practice in the financial industry, and isn't a bad thing at all. It's consumer protection.

And, $500k is actually a pretty low figure for this type of 'bond'.

For example, in Australia I believe you would need a banking license (or a guarantor with a banking license) which requires a deposit of at least $40M in to an escrow account which is managed by the central bank.
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Easy. Just print everything to PDF.
AIUI it's not specific to http cookies, but applies to anything being used as a cookie. So flash cookies, html5 local storage etc all count as cookies for the purposes of this rule.
``You can contact me on this new ‘Electronic Mail’ thing that the kids are talking about (...)''

I'd love to learn what this snark is directed at... Could it be e-mail -- and other internet goodies -- arent't very popular at Redmont?
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I found it interesting (perhaps ironic), that that blog post, from a company who is in the ebook business, whose very domain is "iflowreader.com", doesn't flow the text to a narrow browser. It was unreadable on my handset due to the horizontal scrolling required, and I got horizontal scrollbars when I resized the PC browser to smaller than its width.
Any job seeker who is worth 100K+ won't pay the subscription fee anyway... their listings show the location and often the company name, even to non-paying users. It doesn't take much effort to figure out how to go find the actual posting directly from the actual company.
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"An unregulated market will spawn entities that provide the services it needs. This includes security and trust. Insurance companies, for example, are entities that people trust to protect them against loss. Rating agencies are entities that people trust to provide risk assessment."

Do you have any examples from reality where this has happened? Are insurance companies and ratings agencies really trusted agencies that would function even better in an unregulated market?

I posit that with no regulation, these entities would become even more unscrupulous than they are now.
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Not exactly an OS, but to replace C the language will have to become the lingua franca for performance(read speed) critical applications. C has wide adoption not just in writing Operating systems but in other equally challenging areas of CS namely databases and compilers.

I do not think that performance is the main reason to choose C for writing a compiler -- I'd rather say it is because of the ubiquity of C compilers on all the platforms.
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More aware than honest.
One thing I don't get is how a site-owner is meant to know what cookies a 3rd party may send. If I add a Facebook "like" button to my site, does FB send a cookie? What if they don't now but decide to later. And if FB does decide to use cookies down the line, how do they ask your opt-in?

You can send cookies with any HTTP reply, so how do you know if that image you are hot-linking from a 3rd party site doesn't send back a cookie?

There seem to be so many technical vagaries that make this so tricky to implement properly.
I wonder if we will be able to automate our job.
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To clarify: My "what's wrong" question meant to show what's wrong with the "what's wrong" question I replied to.

So I agree with your two points. In fact you can easily use interest profiles for serving advertising and news alike, my comparison is apt.
From the FAQ at the bottom of the article:

Q - Oh, okay, I thought you had made some sort of mistake.
A - Yes, exactly.

The ``yes, exactly [[i've made some sort of mistake]]'' doesn't refer to the empty box itself...
He's answering a "do you feel" question. You can't possibly know if he's being dishonest.
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Right, I agree that this 'secret police' comparison is off.

But your Facebook/GMail comparison is different as well: They are not useful/popular because of user tracking, they provide us with a free and (limited..?) useful service. I'd argue that's a bad thing as well, but I'd separate multiple levels of evil tracking:

1) You track me to sell my data and to profit from the ads. I gain nothing (you might be very lucky to guess that I want X and therefor save me from having to type "Where to buy X" into Google, but I'd not consider that useful in general).

2) You provide a free service that I'd gladly use. You track information about me to make a living, pay the costs etc.

1) is unacceptable for me, although it tends to be largely ignored in general and considered normal.

2) is on the edge and I'd like you to at least tell me about your tracking and make me aware of the general data you're collecting. It's up to me to opt-in (by using the service and agreeing to this tracking) or going elsewhere.
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We have successfully automated our job(s). Perhaps a bit too much, even.
That would probably be the hardest problem to solve, and it would require global cooperation, but yeah it would also be a nice end-goal.

Cooperation would already go a long way to solving congestion with just local cooperation though:

* higher road density (cars can pretty literally travel bumper-to-bumper)

* better handling of congestion (car train can smooth local slowdowns over all its component cars)

* much, much improved merging and splitting of roads (including local flow analysis e.g. a small road merging into a bigger interstate with a 3:1 traffic ratio could be managed into a "perfect" 3:1 merge frequency)

* simplified urban planning (if only cooperative automated cars are on the road, you can get rid of red lights)
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> But Assange hasn't disobeyed his government, the Australian government.

I'm fairly sure there is an Australian law that (indirectly) says you are not allowed to steal from the U.S. government.

> That's true, even more clear in the Gorgias than the Crito dialogue, that Socrates despised public persuasion by manipulation of the crowd's emotions.

That's true, I wouldn't advocate this persuasion tactic either.

> However, I don't recall mentioned even once that some truth aren't good to divulge; in fact, though this idea appears precisely in "the Laws", it's quite saliently the only Plato's dialogue where Socrates is absent...

Are you suggesting no secrets are good to keep? I'm fairly sure Socrates would have kept his credit card number in 2011. I'm fairly sure Assange wouldn't divulge the name of his leakers.

All I'm saying is that in a free society, there are better ways to improve the world than breaking laws, one of them being persuasion. Otherwise, we fall in a dangerous trap where everybody is free to judge for themselves which laws they regard as moral or not. The leaks were probably a good thing but there is a greater principle at stake here.

Note that I'm saying this as a libertarian so I'm certainly not biased towards big government secrecy.