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I love building stuff at home. It lets you test out all these new technologies i keep hearing about on HN :P

I built http://www.snowboardfinder.com a little while ago using ASP.Net MVC. Now i'm using it to learn more about mongodb and even creating a duplicate version in django just because I love python

coding should be fun and putting your mind to a personal project lets you explore
No point having the magic string polluting your profile here for the time being. You only need it the first time you submit.
Apple Hit with iBooks Trademark Lawsuit
I moved back to Linux after a number of years on a macbook mainly because of package management. As a developer, it's too useful to be able to do 'apt-get install foo' for almost every piece of software and have it just work.
Same here (though not Intel), recently most people I've worked for hired me because of my side projects.
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Not really that shocking if you realize it's a mostly one man project that probably doesn't have basic testing.
I rarely hear anyone worried that it will produce false positives, crappy people that have a github profile bursting with interesting work.

Actually I do worry about that, and have seen it -- and maybe not surprisingly could have predicted it.

The symptoms are often a very active set of open source projects, often a maintainer, lack of enthusiasm about virtually anything they did in their day job.

My theory is their day job at some point wasn't fulfilling and they moved to the side projects to compensate. But by the time they joined us, their side project consumed them. There's nothing worse than someone being consistently late or delivering poor quality, and looking and seeing they did 200 commits, some very non-trivial, to their side projects last week. As I said to one during the exit interview -- you should consider making the "side project" your day job, because that's your passion. Unfortunately it wasn't working here.

Given a choice between someone who was enthusiastic about their day job, and has some good end results from it, and having no side projects, and one who has a lot of side proejects, but no enthusiasm or anything of interest to say about his last job -- I'll take the person with no side projects.
Why doesn't Pandora make any money and how will Earbits model be different?
Almost all of the desktop environments commonly used with Linux do have a trash bin.
Shit Burger: Artificial Meat from Shit
Probably not the best place to ask, but if time permits can we have the original UseTheSource please. For a brief moment the title gladdened my heart as I thought UseTheSource is up again. The stories there were fascinating to read.

EDIT: Meant the board where one contributed interesting articles about pieces of code. We really dont have many of those. I am sure maintaining it is painful, so only if time permits.
Adobe Patches Another Critical Flash Security Flaw
Not that this helps you since there are no Thunderbolt peripherals yet, but supposedly Thunderbolt will let you daisy-chain multiple displays from that one port.
There's a lot of nonsense in that article. First of all, they keep repeating the words Plutonium and Uranium (particularly "enriched Uranium") and try to suggest that these are the major threats from the accident.

They're not.

Uranium isotopes have a half-life of billions of years, so whatever radioactivity they emit is spread out over a very long time. Overall, uranium is toxic in the same way that lead is toxic, and the chemical toxicity is probably worse than the radiotoxicity. Even in a completely melted reactor core, uranium dioxide is relativly stable and won't be quickly transported into the environment.

The isotopes of concern are primarily of Iodine and Cesium. Radioiodine from the accident has almost completely decayed, although Cesium isotopes may still be hazardous in heavily contaminated areas for years.

Currently there seem to be "hotspots" at considerable distances from the plant where doses on the ground are in a range that's at the edge of what nuclear power workers are permitted to get (but rarely do.) There's no proof that radiation at that level is harmful, but no proof that it's completely safe to have that exposure for your lifetime either.

Now, it's also BS to say that the threat from spent nuclear fuel that's been sitting around for 10 years is as high as the threat from an active core or one that's been sitting around for three months -- it just isn't; radioactivity decays and heat generation goes down, so it's really unfair to count the number of "cores" worth of danger here.

That said, I wouldn't blame people for mistrusting Japanese government, industry and even society. Japan has been the world's leader in nuclear accidents for the past 20 years, and it's often said that they're not completely honest about industrial accidents in general (such as in the auto industry.)

Nuclear safety requires a person who's disciplined and (for the most part) follows orders but who also has a strong individual sense of right and wrong and won't follow a bad order. America's nuclear navy works hard to cultivate this ethos, but I'm not sure if it's easy to cultivate this in Japan.
The royalty rate that Pandora pays will increase 10% a year until 2015, which is when their current agreement expires. So, essentially, they have to be 10% better at extracting value out of each song played over the next 3.5 years. All bets are off come 2015.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/tc-teardown-pandora-the-tou...
We had a discussion about this in the office the other day. Exacerbated by having the windows reposition and resize when changing between an external display and the laptop display, a major complaint was that window resizing is awkward.
That's what I thought. I'd be happy if anyone chimed in with a legitimate reason, but I won't be surprised if the lack of a recycling bin is just one more symptom of the Linux developer community's apathy towards the actual human beings who use their software.
Ask HN: Long time user, need some discreet legal advice 
Hey guys,

I have been around HN for several years and comment fairly regularly, but need some advice under an anonymous name today. I hope you can point me in the right direction.

I have gotten myself into a shitty co-founder situation, one that could have been avoided with proper diligence. In a nutshell, our founding team decided that a co-founder should be let go at a very early stage and we now face potential IP disputes. Our lawyer has a personal relationship with this co-founder, so the remaining founders are in need of third party legal consultation as soon as possible.

If you can recommend a US-based lawyer well-versed in early stage startups (or are a lawyer yourself with relevant expertise), I would love to talk to you today. Yes, we have money, and yes, there will probably be a lot of work to do. Please get in touch at helpmeout7.hn@gmail.com
I thought the newer models allowed you to hook up two displays? I'll be in the market for a new one in a few weeks, and was really hoping to not have to use this stupid USB doodle anymore.
I see this sort of advice a lot, and frankly, it bothers me. There's nothing wrong with doing programming projects in your spare time, but it's hardly the most impressive thing you can do.

For a variety of reasons, there are many one-dimensional programmers out there -- people who seem to be only interested in computers and oblivious to everything else. Come on people, the world is wide. Programming is not the best way to become an enterprising, dynamic individual. Unless your company is anti-risk and boring, don't you want to hire people who are different from you? People who have taken crazy trips around the world and learned skills that provide lateral insights rather than just what you get out of sitting at a computer writing code and reading Hacker News?

If someone could provide evidence of doing something daring, that would show more initiative to me than a GitHub project.
Actually if you're a VC and entrepreneurs are emailing you with information about their traction, you've just reduced your search costs and increased opportunity. All you have to do is then filter those applications, which can easily be done by human or software.

Its like running Harvard. Yes, under-qualified students will apply and try to get in, and so you'll have to spend time filtering them out. But if you have so much demand and more students have made themselves accessible, then on average, you will have a better selection of applicants to choose from. At least that's one way of seeing it.
one thing that bugged me, (i use firebug Alot) is that when i used the inspect tool to select an element on the page, it didn't navigate to that part in the DOM view in the bottom panel, and I couldn't edit html int he bottom panel i had to navigate away before editing html

but its looking good so far, good luck
I mentioned this in the previous thread but if you want this to stick around you might want to get a link to this put in the monthly whoishiring threads. Those should also be scraped for seed data to get this thing rolling.
I've had the same problem as you with the case cracking, and have seen it mentioned in other places on the internet. Definitely a design snafu there. That being said, Apple will fix it for free, even if it's out of warranty.
I don't know anyone like that.
Hey, thanks! I am holding off... for just the reason you brought up. Am cooking up an onboarding/landing experience. Am very much looking forward to a show hn. Thx so much for the encouragement.
Then you would have to drop email because the signal to noise level had gotten too low.

Which reminds me - you can properly get almost anybody to respond to you if you send them a telegram, though you will have to find a company that still delivers them, since Western Union has stopped.
What's with these job postings on HN?
http://web.mit.edu/rryan/Public/ad.png

Are they ads? Why is there no discuss link?
IncubatorIncubator Files For IPO
If it wasn't obvious, "Why is `rm -rf` not connected to the recycle bin?" is implicit in my original question.
Do you mean the original circa-1999 UseTheSource which was my original blog, or the reboot as a sort of StackOverflow?
You're not too much of an elitist, you're too much of a crank. Does it really dishearten you to see a bunch of people having a good laugh? Does every word written on the internet need to be researched/profound to be worthy of reading? This is the internet, it will forever dishearten you if you think in these terms.
Most of these seem to be generic OS X complaints - specifically about not being able to run windows apps, and having to use OS X specific shortcuts.

Not trying to be a mac apologist here, but complaints about OS X is not being able to run apps designed for OS Y, or using keyboard shortcuts from OX Z are kind of silly. My MacBook doesn't make toast, either.
Those who pay thousands of dollars a year for their professional license.
Hahaha. That's your argument? "They're in many places and you wouldn't understand why they're so valuable if you have a <scoff> 'lifestyle' business".

How about dishing concrete examples of all these places they're in that's going to make them as astonishingly profitable as they need to be to justify a $2.5B valuation?
HTC Desire to get Gingerbread&#8212;once HTC shrinks bloated Sense UI
Is this intended to include contract work / freelance projects, or only jobs in the traditional sense?
Feature that would be useful:
When tumblr goes down, redirect to the backup pages automatically. Sort of like a just in case for tumblr. Would be worth the money for most businesses, and would require very little investment in terms of hosting. Spin up a bunch of amazon servers or something and throw it all up on there. Spin down when things have settled down for an hour or two.
It will be interesting to see if, in a few years, dentists and doctors start collecting baby teeth, which can then be analyzed for uptake of radioactive materials into bone.

This was done in the 50s and 60s in the USA - the large number of above-ground nuclear tests put material in the air, which was detectable in teeth from children living at that time.

(link may be biased against nuclear but contains overview of the study): http://www.radiation.org/projects/tooth_fairy.html
How do you fix the drop-down menu skip?
Having used a mac for half a year, after having to go back to windows to use some windows-only software, I actually find the mac command key much better placed than the windows control key. Its much easier to reach, which feels natural for a key used so often.
Yes and I back it up myself by simple wgetting it every now and then.

I was not saying it was too high, I simply consider it quite high. It would be too high for me, that is more than I pay for hosting (other site) monthly.
Beach balls

lack of pageup/pagedown on 13"

I got a new 13" last fall and didn't notice until after the 2 weeks that they'd got rid of the mic-in, and now its software toggle on that headphone port (sound out or sound in). Really annoying, and I wish the sales guy had pointed that out, as I said I'd had an earlier white macbook (which did have that). I have a useless (to me) expresscard port instead of useful mic-in :/
There are three situations:

1) the idea is sufficiently novel that it would be difficult for an average person to conceive without suggestions

2) the idea is commonplace, but the value-add is something that is not obvious

3) the idea is a clone.

In the third case, there's really nothing you can do to protect yourself.

The second case is what happened to the Winklevosses. Their value-add, the idea of exclusivity, is something that a lot of people write off as obvious. However, and a poster correctly pointed out, the idea of social networking is commonplace. The cachet was an idea that the Winklevosses figured out, and that essentially was what propelled the entire project (had that been commonplace, someone else would have tried a long time ago)

Again, its difficult to protect nontechnical people in this circumstance, but the idea would be to let the technical people build the standard stuff first and then reveal the value-add after trust has been established (the winklevosses made the mistake of revealing the value-add way too quickly, before establishing trust)

In the first case, you definitely want to learn the technical stuff yourself. Especially if the idea is really good, in which case any developer would try to zuckerpunch you. You don't really have any protection, other than potentially trying to patent.
Ever hear of Macports or Homebrew? They have almost everything I need, usually with the most up to date version. No 2 year old stale packages like Debian.

Edit: Don't presume this for everyone.
Didn't expect to see Anoop Gupta there. Very cool that he was invovled.
Sticky patch or meltdown?
Wish there was a matte screen option on the MBA.
LulzSec rampage continues: 62k e-mails and passwords, CIA attacked
There are a few issues here. One is that bugs in the GPU itself can enable memory corruption (and thus code execution), and the other is that GPU drivers are notoriously buggy and huge, making a large attack surface. I can't blame them for being concerned in this case -- opening the GPU to web developers at large opens up a huge can of worms.
Physical & Online Crowdsourcing Documents the Real First World War
I have 2000 image posts on my Tumblr and the Tumblr Backup App gives the cryptic error: "Error during backup: API request failed. Please check your internet connection or try again". If I try to back-up a different tumblr with only 100 text-posts it continues without any problem.
In case you are using MySQL this can be handy: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-command-options...
I don't get the reference, and google doesn't help.
#opMalaysia: Hack Attacks on Malaysian Government Websites by Anonymous, et al.
I forgot to mention mine is a 17". I run in 1920x1200 when not connected to my monitors and 1680x1050 when connected. I find it hard to read text in both resolutions on the laptop screen, but my monitors are Dell 20" widescreen and I can see the text fine on them, although it is not as sharp.
For any headline using the form of a question, the answer to that question is usually, "no".
I think it's actually saying a#foo is worse than #foo (assuming you're not reusing #foo in which case, conceptually, shouldn't it be a.foo?).

Indeed, I'd argue it ought to say that you EITHER ought to use a.foo or #foo depending on what you're doing in the page.

I'm not an efficiency nut, but it's quite possible #foo runs faster than .foo and this might be important to you, even if giving multiple things the same ID makes you feel dirty.
I have a 15" i7. It gets VERY hot.
The keyboard shortcut is ctrl-F7

The syspref way is:

Apple -> system preferences -> keyboard -> keyboard shortcuts

At the bottom there's an item which says "Full Keyboard Access". Choose 'All Controls'
The competition is apparently suspended. I don't understand how part of the solution could "become public" unless someone at his company leaked the info.

I guess you combine the four numbers Mu = 231, Phi = 158, Delta = 553, Beta = 68 to get a phone number, which you call to get the next clue. Though which order is anyone's guess. Useless if you live outside the US too.

I don't think this was a well thought out puzzle.
Citigroup Hack Hit 360,000 Accounts
I made that mistake once. My DBA never let me live it down.

Thank goodness for daily backups.
Google Launches "Me on the Web" to Help You Manage Your Online Identity
I had this problem with my macbook air. It wasn't there when I first got it, but later it did. I think it might have been an update to the OS that caused it.

Anyway, I upped the minimum fan speed to where I still couldn't hear it but louder than before, and that prevented the computer from getting too hot and the fan turning loud. Since then, its been fine, except when running intensive applications (say, Starcraft or Flash video), but that's always temporary and I have headphones on for those tasks anyway.
AFAICT the plants reacted to and withstood the earthquakes fairly well. The tsunami on the other hand...well I guess nuke plants and 14 meter high walls of water don't mix.
I'm happy for freelance/contract work to be there as well.
After giving a second thought I think it is not something what you are asking for. You would like to have a way to have quick look to visual price lists, without filling in anything. Something like multidimensional graph.
macports and homebrew are ok but for many projects, there are linux-specific extensions that arent properly ported.

For example, epoll is not supported (and I haven't seen a good epoll wrapper for kqueue)
The site has been live for just around a week- so I am working on it. Soon, I hope! Feel free to append the Uxreview link to your post, to get all the hn crit consolidated on one review at Uxreview- hope that's not too presumptuous. Cultivating a community of insightful design and product people is my biggest goal right now. First on the list is a better landing page, right after that a latest/interesting activity page.
Sorry, was thinking of the awful `rm -rf /` variant...
Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul?
Same - I now write DELETE FROM WHERE and then fill in the blanks.
I find if I run Pandora in a browser that has e.g. AdBlockPlus on it, I don't get ads. Given that, how can they possiby be making any money on me?
My method is to write each DELETE as a SELECT first. This has the benefit of actually verifying the DELETE you were about to write.
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The habit I learned was: before running any DELETE or UPDATE statement, run a SELECT with the same WHERE. (e.g. if I meant to say DELETE FROM puppies WHERE cute = 0, first run SELECT FROM puppies WHERE cute = 0.)

I find I remember to do that because of the direct benefit (getting a sneak preview of what I'm going to delete), but it also means I end up thinking twice about the WHERE statement, so I'm much less likely to miss it out or get it dramatically wrong.
Yes, which is the same answer you'd get for java, flash, silverlight, etc.
Aside from the security concerns, I suspect Apple would prefer game developers to write native apps rather than find itself constantly being benchmarked against last night's custom build of Android or Chrome or Firefox running a WebGL game no-one actually plays.
It's a shame that the license is non-commercial only. I wonder if they've got a commercial version available if you know the right people.
Yahoo Intros Y AppSpot iPhone App Finder
They're ads from YC companies. It's a sort of perk for the companies that get accepted by YC.
I wish there was a way to put a limit on table updates in mysql's config file.

"Only let me update 5 rows at a time." or somesuch.

I now usually type the command out-of-order.

So I'll type:

where user_id = $f00 limit 10;

then prepend the "update foo set bar = " to it...
the ads from YC startups, in general, have no discussion
Reader Speculation: iPhone 5 release date September 20th?
Pandora: A journey undertaken for love, not money
That's only a constant factor improvement. What if you want to calculate 104 binary digits?
This article really lowers my opinion of Al Jazeera english.
I hate languages with significant whitespace
Why should hiring anybody being fair and objective?
Life isn't fair and objective, business isn't fair and objective.

I want the best person I can get (for a very, very subjective definition of 'best') for the cheapest I can get and keep them (both employed and happy). That's not fair, that's life.
What you wrote doesn't make any sense whatsoever, you seem to imply that there is an inherent problem by design with this, but there is no such thing. There are possible bugs etc. that could lead to arbitrary code execution by exploiting as-yet-not-found holes in current drivers. But saying that you can draw over program code would allow even browser content to overwrite program code, especially in these days of GPU accelerated browsers.
MySQLdb is written in Python. _mysql is a Python extension wrapped around libmysqlclient. _mysql is about twice as fast as MySQLdb BTW.

Nevermind all that. My point is that if you want fast code, write it in raw SQL.
Not to mention that every single person you interview is an individual, with potential to contribute to the organization in different and delightful ways.
Kinect for Windows is, IMHO, Microsoft's only chance of really getting back in the game. It is an Apple level sea change if they can capitalize on it.

I mean lets be real here. Touch is a great way to interact with computing devices but it screws up the screen. Until someone invents a smudge proof surface that will always be the case. Beyond that usability studies show touch screens on PCs just don't work. People's shoulders start to hurt very quickly.

Kinect solves that. It's touch without touching. It can be done without having to reach over the keyboard. It IS the future if Microsoft can capitalize on it.
People were asking me about regular expressions, so I built this interactive tutorial to teach them: http://regexone.com

Was a pretty good way to learn Kohana (PHP MVC framework) and dip my toes back into web dev!
Forks, pipes, and the Parallel gem
Oh man I'd love to try this right now, I've got an interesting opportunity. Not being an HN company I've always wanted a way to access the crowd here for recruiting purposes.

Unfortunately I am at only 454 karma. Either I need to be a karma whore or get an exception from you. Crossing my fingers... :)
I've also done this, but it was a cPanel server and the jailshell did bind mounts to various directories on the system. I tried to remove the jailshell instance, and ended up removing a whole lot more.