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Thanks! We use Square to handle credit card payments for conventions, but it's quite annoying to swap between an in-house iPad webapp that handles inventory, receipt printing, and sending the order data to a master database.

Allowing simple iOS protocol handlers like "square://pay?product1=Mug&price1=20.00&product2=Shirt&price2=22.00&callback=inventorify%3A%2F%2Fsquare_callback" and it callsback to url "inventorify://square_callback?success=true&paid=42.00" would be amazing as I don't have to have the awkward step of "Exit the inventorify app and charge the customer for $42.00 through the Square app" and then the cashier forgets the amount to charge for.
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Nothing stops you from comparing Austin, TX to Munich, Germany and San Francisco vs London/Paris.
Perhaps this'll be seen as a shameless plug, but this weekend I rewrote my resume and I'm kinda enamored by how concise it is.

It's hard to lie when you keep things high level and focused on verifiable work. I do want to rewrite the two wordy parts to be less...standard:

http://openmymind.net/karlseguin.pdf
Free to register plus complementary breakfast/lunch? I can't tell if it is just a very nice community or if Sam Tobin-Hochstadt is an evil witch, luring programmers to his conferance like so many Hansels and Grettels.
Nope. Disruptive technologies generally serve underserved parts of the market (often those who can't afford the current solution) by providing a good enough solution. Then with scale and time, the disruptive technology matures enough to replace the incumbent. Edit: read http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
From Less Wrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/5a9/learned_blankness/
Precedent is that if you get big enough to become a threat, they will buy you off.
I usually know what I want with web design and know how to use html/css to get me half way there. It really becomes more efficient though to then hand the vision off to someone experienced with design to get the rest of the way.

Sure I could spend a lot of time to learn how to take it to say 90% but I think a lot of the time that is better spent focusing on my core areas.

I guess this is similar to a designer who will jump in and modify view code to work better with their design, but leave the heavy lifting on the backend to the programmer.
Read carefully and you'll see I was not.
as aidenn0 mentions, I don't think a film that works well with a TV would necessarily work well with a laptop. The pixel sizes are different but also the viewing distance is much greater.

This 3M product says:

Anti-glare film, for example, incorporates a special roughened surface. When external light is reflected on this surface light is scattered across many different angles, giving the appearance of reduced reflection. Anti-reflection film takes a different approach and actually reduce the magnitude of the reflection by passing the light through specially engineered thin layers that reduce the amount of reflection, not just scatter it.

I'm not sure that makes any sense but it sounds like it's the right direction. I assume they mean they reduce the reflected light by absorbing it?

Anyway, thanks for the pointer.
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I've got to agree. Joining a project where tech is valued so little compared to ideas is doomed to be a crappy situation for you in the long run. If nothing else, it would be a good wake up call for the friend to spend the 7 grand and see what he actually gets for it...
BART and Muni beat most other transit systems in the US, but pale in comparison even to London, let alone Berlin or Frankfurt. If you're heading anywhere west of downtown SF, expect long waits for connecting buses...which often simply fail to appear, NextBus's predictions notwithstanding. As an earlier commenter mentioned, it's not uncommon for SF commuters to finish the last leg of their commute with a cab.

And a lot of people in NYC don't have cars simply because they can't afford to park them, not because available mass transit makes them unnecessary.
Since when has the computer science industry been able to claim higher integrity than any other industry — certainly sounds to me like you, being someone in a position to hire others think highly of yourself? I'd be able to bullshit you simply because I'm able to do what I'd be lying about, but not be able to back it up with a real-world example.

You're probably no better than anyone who hires anyone else... probably on a power-hungry ego trip. Sure you can tell yourself that you can sniff a lier in an interview, but then do you hire shit employees? Probably one or two... and they're bullshitters, don't you know.

I'm not after a lecture in morals and integrity, I want to grasp the general opinions of people who've found themselves needing to perhaps lie in order to get themselves in a better position in life/job.
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It really is dependent upon your work environment, and the people you work for. When I started at my current job, we had two weeks vacation after 6 months, plus half a dozen holidays. We were a very young company, and I got the impression that policy was created somewhat arbitrarily when we only had a couple of full time employees.

We went to an 'unlimited' policy about 16 months ago, and one of our devs spent almost an entire month overseas earlier this year without issue. He's not too much of an outlier within our company in terms of how much vacation time is taken, either.
It might be useful for some money, if he's paying up front. But the equity is probably not worth anything. All they have is an idea. Their contribution isn't worth 50%, much less 90% of the startup.

If you want to start a startup, you are better off going to hacker meetups, or getting a job at another startup in order to gain more relevant experience and connections.
I know everyone's fed up with the bitcoin articles, but I still wonder what this means for mining. Is there a CE or architecture guru who might be able to speculate how this architecture would perform? The reduced power footprint could make personal mining more viable in the long term as FGPU clusters start to take over.
I think some, but not all, will pay data plans. Square doesn't require a data plan, as evidenced by it being compatible with the iPod Touch, which has no radio:

> Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/square/id335393788?mt=8
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http://farukat.es/journal/2011/05/586-snarky-truth-reasoned-... FACTS! STUDIES! Etc.
I have the x220 tablet (arch linux on it) with the multitouch option and it's definitely matte. I can't compare it to the build quality of the x201, but I'm pleased with the performance and display. 10W power consumption with wifi on after a bit of powertop2.
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What does this have to say about APIs and how much of your data you want to open up? Is twitter because of the eco-system it created through its open API? The more pessimistic argument would be that the openness has come back to bite it. How many more ghosts lurk in the closet?
Yes, they are. I think we can agree that there is a beautiful elegance to it that is similar to that of mathematics.

But that doesn't answer my question, which asked how to write a program that was capable of outputting the Mona Lisa while rationalizing the decisions it is making. Shouldn't we be able to feed everything we know about the Mona Lisa into a program so it could generate something similar? If not, why not?
I wouldn't lie about my role in a project. I'd consider that to be different to be honest.

In this particular example, I was looking for reactions for general skills as opposed to to specific roles within a project. My apologies, I should've been clear about that.
> They failed to take a stand because it was cheaper not to. Does that look anything but revealing?

Apple is a corporation. That is exactly how corporations behave: they do not take a stand unless they see material benefit in doing so. If you want to claim that something is revealing about Apple's view of patents, perhaps you should consider the number of patents Apple has.

Also, an analogy: if someone mugs me and I hand over my wallet, that does not mean that I'm endorsing the process of mugging. It means that I've decided that the known cost of complying (the contents of my wallet) is less than the potential cost of any injuries I might sustain in the process of fighting back.
>Are adhoc gangs/groups that perform altruism common across genetic lines?

It's common in the sense that symbiotic relationships are common across ecosystems and probably a definitive element of what makes them a "system".

Stephen Gould took the idea further in his idea of "hierarchal evolution". Evolution isn't just happening on the genetic, individual, group, and species levels. It's happening at every level of organization.
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About us:

- Focus on SMB loyalty (the other half of Groupon)

- >$2M in funding from Tier I VCs and Angels – approached 9 VCs, received 9 term sheets

- Very promising early traction, already generating material revenue

- Already received acquisition offer 4 months in (easy no; we are looking to build something massive, apply if you are the type to really swing for the fences)

- Competitive salary, generous equity, your choice of dev setup

- Located in Mountain View, CA

About you:

You are extremely hard working and happily crank away at things that interest you late into the night. You don’t care very much for face-time, and measure your success according to results. The concept “high risk, high reward” resonates with you, and the thought of slugging it out at breakneck pace in a $10B+ market excites you.

We have 3 main focuses, and are looking for someone to lead each of these efforts:

1. Frontend engineer / UI / Design
- HTML / CSS / jQuery are second nature
- You have an eye for design and a portfolio of sites/projects that prove it
- Maintainable CSS means something to you, and you have a CSS system that you know is better than everyone else’s

2. Software developer
- Proficient in Python, C#, Visual Studio, wxPython, Windows API, etc.
- You are the true Renaissance Man, comfortable programming on any platform from Linux to Windows 95
- Experience in remote software rollout across large networks a plus

3. Mobile
- Webkit / iOS
- Comfortable making an app from the ground up; from wireframing, to design, to rolling it out in the app store
- Portfolio of great apps to show that you’re awesome

If you’re an amazing hacker but don’t fit in the categories above, no sweat! Apply anyway. We just want the best and brightest. Proficiency at ping pong, board games (real ones, like Agricola or Puerto Rico), and beer pong a plus.

Contact: hckrjobs@gmail.com (include HN / SO username, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, github repos, and phone number)
It's called "tablet convertible" and been there forever.
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Being affected mentally by the day's revenue is pretty common in retail. I did it when I was in sales, I've noticed my friends who own brick and mortar stores act like that. If they had a good day, everything is great and the sky is rosy - if it was not so good, they talk like they're doomed. Unfortunately people often lose perspective on last week, month or year.
What "threat" was TweetDeck? All Twitter has to do is pull their API key, come up with some story about third-party clients, and that is that. Twitter has always been in the power position.
The US and UK are both bad examples. Here in Aus we have universal healthcare and private - if you want to jump waiting lines or have carpet on the waiting room floor, pull out your wallet and go private.

There are a few problems, but there is no perfect health system as there is always more demand than supply.
Looks similar to http://ongoingfeedback.com/ in essence.
The problem is some titles, such as scientist or engineer, are used to reinforce group identity at some level. And that group identity then starts to push on the self.
"Should I lie about my abilities and catch up on anything I've not groked" <-- that's a nono. I personally interview candidates by finding a somewhat obscure entry (e.g. awk) and asking a few questions to suss out whether or not the candidate lied about abilities.

What is your goal?

- Find some job? Then SEO-spam. Learn SCM (svn or git should take all of a few hours to learn on your own) and ecommerce (authorize.net and paypal api are easy to learn, and its a nice exercise to write your own gateway)

- Find a job that actually fits you? Do some soul searching and figure out what in particular excites you. You may find that some experiences are unnecessary (though SCM is definitely a must)

- Find a job that will actually excite you? Try hacking together your own project, or work on an open source project to build some street cred.

Alternatively, you can play the blog game (write a blog about stuff, and broadcast to HN, other forums or other blogrolls). I seem to recall a blog by a fellow WK Selph, (he wrote a few articles about high frequency trading) which he used to land a new job.
What is the reasoning behind not performing de-duplication of common files? It seems incredibly stupid to copy a popular song hundreds of thousands of times when a "single" canonical copy would do. Multiple people can stream music from a single file and people with large music collections would wait seconds instead of hours waiting for their songs to upload.
It would be a very unpopular move, if nothing else.

I don't know if TweetDeck has this much loyalty, but some companies in Twitter's position see 3rd party developers who grow large as a threat - members can grow to identify more with that developer than the underlying service.
> I'm a programmer, I don't need horizontal space, but vertical space

Mostly agree, but my opinion on this matter was somewhat swayed after I started using :vsp in Vim on my 13" widescreen notebook (combined with a full-screen mode in iTerm). Not only had splitting the screen vertically right in the middle helped me recover the "lost" space, but it also forced me to wrap my code consistently to 80 characters, so now it looks/prints better. I guess the moral is that sometimes a bad thing can lead to something good.
Personally, I much prefer glossy screens, both the glass-covered screen on my Macbook Pro as well as the polished LCD on my old Aspire netbook.
In general, the higher contrast and more vibrant colours are a net win, and I find my eyes less strained looking at the display.
For the sake of argument:

What is an example of an optimization that a JIT compiler can make that a AOT compiler cannot?

If the developer is able to profile the application on typical end-user workloads, don't profile-guided optimizations provide the same benefit as JIT runtime profiling?

Why can't an AOT compiler just consider every path a "hot" path?

Last but not least: Got any benchmarks?
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Show HN: My game, "Venture Crapital"
This weekend I participated in my first hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt, and built an HTML5 game with a few people that I met at the event. We got honorable mention, putting us in the top 6 teams of 104 competing. I'm looking for some feedback on the game, so here it is:

http://venturecrapital.us

Source:

https://github.com/wylieconlon/Venture-Crapital

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File a bug or feature request: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry. Complaining on forums is not likely to get you very much.
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Since the poster went through TechStars, it would be interesting to see someone from YCs take on this.
Yeah I am aware of the Harvard Extension school. They require an on-campus course up front but it would be a big pain for me to go to Cambridge for that. Not to mention it is a writing course which is something I have already done elsewhere.
Motivations here are obvious (and were obvious 3 weeks ago when this was first reported): It's a defensive acquisition to prevent UberMedia from taking over the Twitter ecosystem. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/twitter-to-buy-tweetdeck-fo...
1. I never said anything about the CS industry and I don't see why that matters, regardless of what industry this is part of. I never said CS was of higher integrity than others nor was that ever part of the discussion.

2. I don't think of myself more highly than anybody else. You made a statement, I had a counter point of view, and I gave my opinion.

3. Considering my last company scaled up and was successfully acquired, I think its safe to say in defense of the great team we've had, that they're not shit employees. Say and think what you want but I think its clear you're the person speaking out of anger right now. And don't let your personal anger at me for what I said out of personal opinion be the reason for you to talk smack about the team I've worked with, of which you know nothing about. They don't deserve that. You can think I'm on an ego trip all you want, I'm not.

4. I wasn't trying to give you a lecture. I gave very concise advice on what I personally look for and what I think others (including those I know) look for. Whether you value that opinion or not or believe others look for that or not is up to you. There are many companies out there that will gladly hire the right person base on their personality, culture fit, and skills irregardless of past experience (another advice you can choose to ignore if you like). Seems to me you're bent on this past experience thing base on an assumption rather than trying to see if you'll be able to land the job as a value to the company you'd be applying for.

Whatever the case may be, you can choose to disagree with me all you like. I'm not here to brag or put you down. I merely disagreed with your statement and whether you liked it or not, it's something I stand by.
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Admittedly I only programmed in Ada for a few months, but I found it to be an unbearably tedious language. The verbosity is monstrous--- the type system is inexpressive; it feels primitive. Nothing is inferred, everything is repeated. Ugh, I would rather code exclusively in C++ templates than touch Ada again.
It's a bad deal because he negotiated less starting salary in return for more starting vacation.
...and is the assumption that the Amazon music service uses AWS or something like it, and the speed of EBS or something like it is too slow at this scale for the songs to be instantly playable?
The model of having regular sales to capture people who wouldn't otherwise buy, on a product that is digital so costs nothing to create (ie all costs are already sunk), is done really successfully with video games by Steam. People actually complain when there's a good Steam sale because they end up spending so much money, $5 or $10 at a time.
There is related lawsuit pending between a professional photographer and Agence France Presse, who stole the photographer's photos of the Haiti earthquake from TwitPic without permission, and sold them to newspapers around the world via an agreement with Getty Images.

They claim that the TwitPic TOS allowed them to use (and profit) from the images, and even further, their initial filing even went so far as to say something along the lines of "well, you posted it on the internet, so that means it's in the public domain".

http://copymarkblog.com/2011/05/11/twitpic-photographs-and-c...

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-in-lawsuit-wire-service-a...
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For one: JIT can do polymorphic inline caching (you can read more about from Google's senior vice president of operations Urs Hölzle[1]), while AOT can't.

Wikipedia gives a few more[2]: runtime profile-guided optimizations and pseudo-constant propagation

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/author79.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOT_compiler
I don't see how that refutes my point?
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Strong words! Five weeks is a lot different than ten weeks, any way you look at it.
It's better in sunlight.

I was initially skeptical; after using an iPad outdoors I found it hard to believe matte could be worse! But some quick research seems to confirm your point.

Does anyone know of a solution to using screens outdoors? I hear the Kindle is good, but I'm thinking color screen.
Wow, really? - I am sorry if that's how you interpreted my post. That's unbelievably far and away from anything I meant. I am the child and grandchild of immigrants. I am simply pointing out how much harder it is to getting to get into college, and drawing out one of the reasons.
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Insurance does nothing to really insure your health.

You are confusing "insure" and "ensure."
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It seems as though the author's neglectfulness in not including Clojure in this project renders it unusable.
Agh, please make mailto: links clear that they are mailto: links.
I wouldn't lie about your abilities. Any competent interviewer will suss this out easily, making you look like a fool.

And if they don't figure out your lying, is that the kind of place you would want to work? Where everyone there potentially doesn't know what they're doing.
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As long as they actually believe that they'll get, well, anything at all really for $7000, then that's what they're valuing your contribution at. Its not surprising at all that they would offer you 10% for this $7k "investment". They probably feel that they're being generous and doing you a favor.

Until your cuz and his friend get some grounding in the real world of web development, I'd steer well clear.
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You can spend 20 years renting a home, or you can spend 20 years renting money in order to pay for a home. Either way you're paying rent.
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I looked at this the other day. Nice one.
I lived in NYC and SF. Public Transit is far from ideal. When's the last caltrain on sunday? 8pm?? In NYC, I live in midtown east and take a lot of cabs .. mainly for cross town events. Yes .. I tried the bus but I realized my dignity was worth more than 10 bucks.
The original claim is blatantly untrue. Also: the sum of the vacation time is similar and five weeks are a long time.
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