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I hope everything works out for you! Next year, I'd start looking for summer gigs around December or so, just because that's when companies (in my experience - I'm a sophomore CS major) tend to hire for the summer. Typically, they like to get you on for a few months part-time before the summer starts, too, to work out any kinks.

If that doesn't happen to fall into place for you, the only thing stopping you from creating your own little side company while waiting tables or something is yourself. Analyze your day, see what irritates you or you wish could be done better (programmatically), and write up something to fix it. Put it on Github, get to know some other coders (maybe even from around your area - I highly recommend hnDir - http://www.hndir.com/ - just to see who all is around your area, and in college as well).

Also, to note, to add on to the dev experience you have, I'd highly recommend checking out some iTunesU or MIT OCW courses on Algorithms and Data Structures. I would do this regardless of your situation this summer. Heck, I'd do both of these regardless of your situation this summer. There are great opportunities out there to be taken advantage of! If you ever want to work on anything, email me (in my bio)!
it was a tongue-in-cheek statement about how nicer it is for the developer to have control of the publishing methods as in the android market opposed to iStore.

This time it was just a twitter-dick-move©, but tomorrow it could be a security vulnerability being exploited massively in the wild and you will not be able to provide a timely response.

i'm not saying that the android model is better. i'm all for no control. i'd ditch both if i could.
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More abuse of the term "infection":

>The con artists behind Mac Defender hook their victims by presenting Mac-using web surfers with images that depict an antivirus scan taking place on their machines. The images falsely claim users are infected with serious malware and urge them to download and install the antivirus package. Those who fall for the ruse are then infected.

Yes. It's malware. It has infected the computer. Because they downloaded and installed it willingly. But "infection" implies "virus" to most people, and this is nothing of the sort.
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Changing my diet never worked for me. Counting calories does. Also: I do love pasta.

Counting calories is not that hard. I can do it in my head by now. Tracking my weight (which, I think, is equally important, especially for motivation) is more or less a reward and not a chore by now.
Its not in the article but its a very well know phenomenon. If you research "low-carb diet" or "paleo-diet" you'll find more information.

As soon as your insulin spikes due to high amount of carbs ingested, your body immediately starts to convert excess carbs into fat.

I've done very low carb diets and easily lost 20 lbs in a month even though I've never weighed over 200lbs. Its pretty difficult though.
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Hopefully this will make people think twice before buying crap produced by Apple.
Make sure you taste yourself some rauchbier before you go.

Seriously, try it.
My personal experience: I was able to go from a static html design mockup to a moderately dynamic page suitable for user testing in about 10 minutes, having never seen the library before. It seems to be really ideal for prototyping.
that is actually a very good point. a straight up movie that just tells the story would be ... just another movie.

(of course, it'll be all flat screens and iPods ... and Keanu Reeves. and all the good bits will fit in the trailer so once you have seen that there will be no real reason to see the movie. sigh)
There ain't many things more annoying than screensavers that make my fans spin up.
I appreciate it's about more. My reservations towards jail breaking were more about performance and use rather than piracy to be honest. I should have expanded on my point further.

I don't believe you should be tied into your phones "terms" of operation but in my situation I found the hack pointless and unnecessary. Not to say that it doesn't suit everyone though!

If I take Cydia out the equation there, I stand by my point that I prefer to pay for the goods. Jail breaking and Cydia were used just to get my point across.
I did a BA in literature and I struggled with this for years. There always is a deeper meaning in the sense that we can analyze what the characters represent in a political, social or other context. We can also analyze the author through similar lenses.

But rarely is there a code hiding just below the surface. Unfortunately, that didn't stop me from incessantly searching for them, even to the detriment of my education. My advisor finally said plainly in class, "there's no hidden meaning - save your energy."

I read the article and I think what the author is saying is that Pixar is trying to condition us to deal with non-human intelligence, whether that's man-made (AI) or extraterrestrial.

Another way to look at it is that Pixar knows stories of redemption are compelling. They use that arc as artfully as they use color or big eyes on their characters.

I'm not sure how much influence he has had overall, but Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille and pre-Pixar, The Iron Giant) uses redemption as the central theme in most of his work.
I never even heard of this thing and I keep up with stuff to a certain extent. Definitely not anything I would want to use, the idea of broadcasting all my credit card purchases to a subscription list seems like a really bad idea that no one would want to do.
The best advice I can give is start not at the monoliths that are Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and the others everyone and their mother knows. Start at company that is medium sized, you'll find plenty of real stuff to work on while having the experience of being able to get help from people who have been doing things a lot longer than you.

School doesn't teach you proper engineering practices and learning from the mistakes of companies that have already gone through starting troubles is also beneficial to you in a long term if you want to form your own startup.
I agree with that. I lost around 10kg in a couple of months on a steady diet of ice-cream and chicken, counting calories as I happily ate my ice-cream.
If you control a massively multiplayer game you probably get more money from the player subscriptions.
Short answer here:
If you don't mind not having weekends off, work for a startup with some semblance of traction.

If you are interested in going to Tahoe for skiing over the weekend and visit friends in Florida the next weekend? Pick a large company.

Who knows where each path will lead, go with what you enjoy the most.
"afraid to let people know what they spend money on"

I doubt it is about fear for most. How about it's none of the other people's business. This meme about how people are "fearful" of whatever corporate agenda has been decreed is kind of annoying actually.
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For my purposes, MSE has been a very large resource hog at inopportune moments. I've taken to shutting it down any time I do anything which touches a lot of files or simply consumes a lot of CPU - the speed difference is often easily visible.

This, for a product which hasn't found a single thing on any of my machines. Ever. It's great that they offer it, but it has been worthless for my use.
Not necessarily. I went from counting calories on a sheet of paper to mentally keeping track of balances in my caloric regiment and keeping track of my weight everyday.

Perhaps it's a diet of coffee/cigarettes (appetite suppressants) that made me go from 200 lbs to 172 in a year but oh well.
Oh, it was the Pud FC dude behind this, the dude who did all the porn videos staring himself where he paid the actresses, and then stuck it on his website. Huh, interesting, I didn't know that guy was still around doing stuff.
Smells like fatalism to me.
This is pretty, but I really think the grid should be fluid, and not just jump between states.
Perhaps eight or ten years ago I had a Polish girlfriend and visited her in Poland and lived with her friends for a bit. I noticed how they mainly used the Internet. They had an ICQ-like polish IM (GaduGadu) running and they ONLY changed the status messages on that thing to inform people what they were doing.

I found it amusing at that time. Later I saw Twitter, and it was very similar.

So yes ,it does solve a problem: Broadcast short pieces of information to friends without having to start a conversation.

At least I think that was the original idea.
F1 is too much a parade. Give me prototype moto racing any day.
Sure. Set noscript to block-by-default, and don't allow script execution from malicious domains.
I agree, as a user of iScroll I'm puzzled as to why he didn't just fork iScroll. He mentioned that he didn't like how it "felt" on twitter but I would imagine the formulas used to calculate momentum are, relatively speaking, a _very small_ part of the iScroll code.

As an aside, I think that github might be able to help a lot with encouraging collaboration in light of so many duplicate projects by working on better ways to discover projects (either by better search indexing, better SEO or otherwise). And as a disclaimer: I think github is one of the most innovative companies today, so this is by no means an attempt to point fingers, rather an observation that they have a huge opportunity to really change how OSS works.
Are we really asking the right questions? I mean, for us guys, who are not part of Anonymous, does it really matter how strong their hierarchy is?

For me other questions matter a lot more. Like, how does Anonymous influence our laws and how do these apply to my daily life? Maybe they help making organisations who possess a lot of power, to consider the public oppinion more (like Sony, Paypal, and so on). Or maybe they help the governments more to convince big organisations like Google and Facebook to spy on ME.

AnonOps is for sure not the one, who dictates which questions matter for me and which don't. I hope the scientists who try to analysie the Anonymous situation don't forget that, despite spending so much time in the surroundings of them.
This article is misleading in a couple of ways.

First, Einstein favored a static universe. He also really hated the very idea of a cosmological constant, but it was needed for the whole model to make sense. In retrospect it was a classical example of someone not accepting what the math was telling him, on account of personal prejudice.

Second, the article makes it sound like cosmic expansion is a new observation and that it somehow vindicates Einstein. In fact, we've been using red shift-based calculations for a very long time to reliably determine very large distances.

And contrary to what the article says, matter is not "pushed" apart. That's not how cosmic expansion works. New space is being created all around us, all the time. It's just like all cosmic distances are continually scaled up. There is no inertia involved, and that's also the reason why some day parts of the universe will be able to recede from us faster than the speed of light.
Ask HN: Has anyone earned any money on Binpress.com?
I am building a JavaScript component for content management. I am not sure if I should consider Binpress as a viable way to earn money from it or I should focus my energy elsewhere and use Binpress as a tool to get additional revenue.

I have googled and found no numbers about revenue from the service.
I'm not disagreeing. I'm just pointing out it has nothing to do with the article.

After stating that the now-great-great-grandparent had missed the point of the article, they proceeded to talk entirely about things not at all contained in the article. I'm sure there's a better term for it, but the post is pretty blatantly contradictory in that way.
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I know he is being praised for this attitude but he didn't know from his original post what his intentions were.

I hate to point out the obvious here as well but what if the original poster was simply just lying? What if he was back tracking as he felt guilty and was just showing some empathy to the developer?

As he did, he gifted the app to him. Why didn't the guy get a friend to do that? Why didn't he get a voucher?

I must admit, if my true intentions were to crack the app because I had no means of paying for it officially, I would have stated that in the first post as I would have felt a moral guilt to do so.

It has turned out well for the developer and I really wish him the best of luck. I hope he does make a lot of cash out of this.

The biggest thing to come out of all of this is not that it's best to take the moral high road or karma is rewarding him etc etc. Its the unexpected power of a viral news article. Not to say that this was scripted conversation, I truly believe that this is authentic but I bet you find a lot of similar stories erupting with this type of behaviour now.
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The standard method is by drawing a distinction with regards to the degree of the restrictions. In other words, the argument is that the extra powers granted by the Patriot Act are far less severe in their reach, and far more restricted in their actual use than the powers wielded by the other regimes in question.

The extent of emergency powers, in law and in actual practice, vary wildly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency provides an overview.

And, 14 years is by no means a record; Israel has been in a State of Emergency since 1948, Syria from 1963 until last month, Egypt since 1967, etc.
This is really the kind of comment we don't need. It is your right to decide that an article doesn't help you. But the comments are for the readers interested in real discussion about the topic.
An economist's take on bitcoin: http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-id...

Spoiler: bitcoin is a scam
At heart, it's because honest nodes spending CPU power to notarise transactions in a distributed manner is what maintains the system's integrity. I suggest reading the original bitcoin whitepaper - even if you find the economics a bit dubious, as I do, the tech is certainly interesting.
You can mislead people with facts by presenting them in different ways.

The current title all but forces people to make up their minds before they read the article. The original title is much less biased and serves to let people draw their own conclusion after reading the article and having all of the facts.

How would you feel if someone else submitted this instead, titled Support for the Patriot Act Weakening Among Republicans? If you read the article, you would know that this is also true.
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I think this conclusion is less obvious than it first appears, and to suggest that it is some sort of grand scheme on the part of Pixar is a little bit ridiculous.

I would say that the human/non-human interaction comes from trying a formula, finding out it works, and trying subtle variations.

His comments that "brave souls" will be "defending what is right" and things will be "better for it" could describe nearly any film, and should not be considered some indication of a trend with intention in Pixar films.

It's possible that he's merely trying to document/predict the effect of this particular combination of elements in many widely watched films, in which case his argument might be seen merely as exaggerated.
He updated it to say that after I made my comment: https://github.com/joehewitt/scrollability/commit/a7eac85ad3...
Why is it the browsers job to secure your system? It doesn't matter if it's IE 1 or Chrome 12 if any application tries to install itself without user intervention the system should stop it by default.
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On the other hand, vimeo gives you the ability to download the movie (if you are a registered user) which is great, especially when you have a slow internet connection.
Sounds like speculation to me.
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If you take the output of the Closure compiler and run it through the compiler again, it will almost always be smaller the second time. However, the second will also likely produce javascript that doesn't work because it renames things that shouldn't have been renamed (and only the original source contains the information necessary to determine what shouldn't be renamed).

The 4.11% reduction you experienced is likely gained at the expense of invalidating the code.
Guys - Your Typekit CSS is being served up insecurely and is throwing up a mixed mode issue in Chrome 11.0.696.68.

May want to change it to serve over https instead.

http://use.typekit.com/k/meo5ntk-d.css?

And a little bit of insight on what exactly the service does / plans to do before forcing us to hit that Connect with FB button would really help.
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The curse of having too much money perhaps?
Even if he is right and bitcoin shouldn't be considered a "currency", but rather an asset or a scam to enrich the early adopters, I think there is still a question I wrote above, namely, if it is worth to buy bitcoins for money now.
Mellow greetings. Demolition Man is a fantastic work of satire. It also predicted Schwarzenegger the politician.
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> and it doesn't only happen to idiots who stuff their drives with porn

What is this based on? What the customer tells you? To quote House: Everybody lies!

I am being partially serious, I don't have AV installed, I run Windows, and I haven't had a virus in... a long time. I think the last one was Sasser!
Neuromancer and Chernobyl are intertwined for me, probably because I remember talking about it to a colleague one day when the fallout may have been drifting over the UK. Awesome book, I'd read it again but I doubt it would live up to my memories.

On the subject of adaptations, many years ago I bought a Neuromancer graphic novel which was entitled part 1. I have never seen the others, did I miss them?, do I have a rarity?
Offtopic, but for some reason I wanted to take a closer look at Tyler, Texas. Loaded it up in Google Earth's streetview and "drove" around a bit.

Where is the city centre of Tyler?

I started around where Google placed the "Tyler, Texas" sign but the area looked like some rundown neighbourhoods that you could expect to find at the far edges of a big city.
Poor hardware.

http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/Latency.html
Excellent analogy
Isn't "Make something people believe they need, even if you don't believe they need it" as old as the road to Rome?
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My take:
I worked for a startup as one of their two devs/IT guys at the time (2 business partners who definitely I'd say saw everyone else as employees, three-four customer service types). None of us knew a great deal about dev at the time (no version control, no ticket system, live changes in prod etc..), so we hacked by, but it was only once I worked for a much larger company that I learned a lot of important dev stuff (in my case, I wasn't coming from a CS degree; perhaps more appropriately educated types wouldn't have gained so much). Not all startups are equally tech focused / good at that aspect of things (this one was online retail).

But having said that, the learning payoff tails off really quickly - you gain much more in 3 months on role than the next 3 years etc..

I'd say main thing is to try and switch jobs/roles before you're too comfortable.

Also - focus on what you're gaining right from the start. The thrill of actually having money coming into your account sometimes means you can overlook when you're stagnating. You have to lead your own learning at companies - and if you push for it, you can gain a lot. But generally managers have other things to worry about and if you don't, they'll assume you're happy.
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Because you need some way to inject new coins into the system initially. Bitcoin chose to do this by allowing early users to "mine" the currency.

The traditional approach is to have a central bank which does the minting and printing, and then the regular banks can borrow that money. Those banks then lend that money to their customers, possibly creating more virtual currency by fractional reserve banking.

Bitcoin obviously can't do that because it is a decentralized system. The traditional approach also has the disadvantage that all currency in circulation is ultimately borrowed, so there is always more debt than money unless you allow banks to default. That can only work as long as the economy is growing fast enough.

I think there are even better alternatives, by modeling currency after trust and social capital: http://ripple-project.org/decentralizedcurrency.pdf
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This is amazing, now javascript engine are so fast to be able to emulate linux... what is next?
hmmmm, it's just a page with no info, no way in hell am I signing up. I'm quite happy with how I hang out with friends thanks
Could you please report about caching setup for random read test? was there any cache (a part of OS's) for either position/index lookup or payload? Or did you hit the disk without any caching of past operations?

thanks
Is it time for you to earn or learn?

Mark Suster put it better than I ever could!
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for...
The only person I’d really been excited about directing Neuromancer was Chris Cunningham[1], but that fell through for reasons unknown.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chris_Cunning...
This, plus the common wisdom (I hear it repeated all the time) that alcohol kills neurons, leads to interesting conclusions :).
Thanks, that led me to http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/12/generic-cross... .
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B : Activates Kinetic Energy Recovery System
Oil : Activates supplementary oil tank for engine
PL : Turn pit lane speed limiter on/off
Tyre : Adjust electronics to suit different tyres

Any idea why those aren't automatic? I'd think you'd have some computer-detectable indication for when oil would be useful, pit-lanes are identifiable by detecting location, and send the tire type over wirelessly when changed. And why wouldn't you want KERS running?

Seriously, I'm asking. I'm not an F1 buff.

When you have that much on the wheel, I'd think removing what you can would be important. Especially given the very-early line:

>This year designers have had to squeeze in buttons for [KERS] and Drag Reduction Systems along with the usual array of toggles, switches and levers.

Removing 4 buttons would seem to be an improvement, though a bit of a drop in a bucket.