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I'm also a remote worker, but I work (mostly) on my local business hours. I'm in Brussels and my team is in California and I'm usually working a bit later (until around 7-8pm) to overlap with them and there's the occasional late night meeting, but rarely. This is a compromise on both sides (I'm working later than normal and they try to schedule the meetings early morning) and I think it's the only long term workable solution when you have teams in very different timezones. Otherwise you'll just burn out and get tired of having no social life and probably you'll health will be affected too.
Besides, do you really need to talk to them all day long? If you're a developer, can't you just have some "sync-up" meetings every other day or so, during their morning?
I was puzzled that the UB-32 rocket launchers have English instructions printed on them instead of Arabic. The CIA World Factbook does say that Arabic, Italian, and English are all understood in the major cities. Still surprising.
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I'd be afraid that the laser light could damage children's eyes if they happend to get in the way and look into the light.

Experience from Copenhagen shows that the best solution is to have the bike path on the inside of the parked cars so the parked cars function as a buffer against the moving cars.

Putting it on the inside makes it possible to make it a different level (like the footpath) so the cars cannot go into the bike lane.

37% of people in Copenhagen bike to work, so they have a significant amount of experience with bike paths:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDs83Ud6Zss&t=1m24s
Same thing happened to me last year. Freaked me out, I know that that password was the same for a few sites (I know I know but I keep a few levels of passwords) So they had to obtain it from one of those. I never received a message from anywhere telling me that my info had been leaked which means some sites I vist I can't trust. I have no way of knowing which.
When thinking about mutually assured destruction on the internet, somehow Anonymous and LulzSec come to mind...
Feld brings up very many valid points. Yes, its been said many times before and it'll be said many times again. theres a reason for that.

-- interestingly, not all good ideas make a good business; or, original/special ideas make for good ideas.
I'm not sure what you mean by "others" here, but most drugs have side effects. AFAIK, until all of them have been sorted out, using an un-FDA-checked drug could heal your skin OR give, for instance, anaphylactic shock to all, some, or just one single patient.

I understand that if "this was approved in Scotland etc." then it was already tested by some other committee. However, what if Scotland has a different list of drugs, excluding one that's approved in the US and that could lead to serious problems when used together with this spray?
I am reminded of the late George Carlin...

"Can anyone explain to me the need for one-hour photo finishing? You just saw the fuckin' thing!"
The login server for WoW easily and routinely handles an incredible number of simultaneous connections as huge percentages of the player base attempt to log in at the same time, particularly after a large patch. There used to be incredible issues with the login server, but these days Blizzard is an extremely tightly run ship. They know where their money comes from, and what it takes to protect the cash flow.
When flagging stories, please could we get asked for confirmation before the story is flagged? Since I started using HN on a touchscreen phone, I have found myself unable to precisely control where I click, meaning that I have accidentally flagged a lot of stories. A simple "are you sure you want to flag?" would save me from having to click unflag so often.
My problem is not that the runtime controls access to continuations, actually that's quite a nice thing for it to do. My problem is that it's implemented using segmented stacks, which is using more memory that just storing a closure.
Soylent Green perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
This has nothing to do with tipping. Groupon is a flawed business model.

Consumers who are willing to pay $ for something are not going to be repeat customers who will then pay $$$ for the same thing.

It's a modified pyramid scheme, the only people that benefit are consumers and Groupon it self, even though they are losing money out of their asses.
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My advice is not to simply pay the license fees, but if (1) Apple and Google don't help their app developers (Apple appears to be willing to help but the extent of it isn't clear yet; Google has neither said nor done anything so far) and (2) the licensee fees are in a given case much less than the cost of even a cursory legal analysis, then they're an economically more intelligent choice unless the license agreement contains anything that poses a risk comparable to the one of being sued without a license agreement.
That works under the assumption that they release everything, when they have explicitly said that they do not.

Specifically - information gained in the Bethesda http://pastebin.com/i5M0LB58 and whitehat http://pastebin.com/MQG0a130 raids has not been released.
What is your proposal for how an app developer with, say, annual income of $10,000 can afford "professional guidance" on his own?
I'm curious what you mean by your comments about the state of compilers.

In what ways do current compilers suck? I assume you're not speaking in terms of utilizing virtualization instructions, since I'm having a hard time imagining a situation in which a compiler would be generating those.

As for people not getting paid to work on compilers -- I'm not sure what you mean here, either. Intel employs people to work on ICC, I think Red Hat employs some GCC devs, Microsoft pays people to work on VC++ (a friend of mine is currently doing an internship on that team, actually), Apple employs LLVM folks, Nvidia does too for their CUDA toolchain, AMD has people working on Open64, I see job postings from Sony and various other companies in comp.compilers...is that "no one"?
The likelihood of any one developer being contacted by "174 entitiesl ike Lodsys" is extremely low -- the same developer is more likely to be struck by lightning.

I have repeatedly pointed out, especially on my blog, the problem of encouraging other trolls to go after app developers. But in the example, $100 is a much better deal than paying thousands of dollars to lawyers. The thing that should happen is for Apple and Google to take care of their app developers.
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This could be a huge opportunity for any aspiring entrepreneur with a background in electrical engineering. Get hold of some mediatek kits and start producing phones in africa.
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Computer Scientist: busy writing the next AES or Bitcoin.

Programmer: writing software code on a spec.

Developer: building the next Facebook.
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It depends on how you define success here.
If it's getting to a point where business is making profits and is sustainable mid-long term then I'd say it's still mostly about the merits.

Now if we're talking about some guy in the Valley flipping a hyped up company then of course his success was a result of the beauty contest, but whether or not the company he made will succeed is still mostly about the merits. It's not to say it definitely won't.

We need to distinguish between individuals being successful and the whole start up succeeding, if the company is crap in the end somebody will pay for it.

Nonetheless from a stand point of an entrepreneur you have to participate in the beauty contest if you cannot self-fund your start up.
Yes, I realize that, I'm just wondering how he came to 30k.
The best course of action now depends largely on the success of Apple's motion for an intervention. If that motion is granted, which is reasonably likely (though never certain), it will be time for Apple to clarify what support and coverage it gives to the sued app developers.

I know from at least one of them that he is NOT covered by Apple. If that continues to be the situation, the advice may unfortunately have to be at some point to sign Lodsys's license agreement if that results in dismissal from the lawsuit or helps avoid one.

For Android developers, the question is what Google will do. So far they say nothing and do nothing. If Apple's motion is granted, the question must be asked why Google doesn't intervene. One of the accused apps is an Android app ("Labyrinth for Android"). If Google doesn't protect Android app developers, they will also have to consider very seriously a license deal with Lodsys.

I have seen Lodsys's license agreement. I would recommend that many app developers share the cost of having it reviewed by a lawyer (rather than get into Patrick Igoe's claim chart stuff, which is neither convincing nor useful to those who can't afford a multi-million-dollar lawsuit over that question). If a lawyer agrees that the license agreement is reasonable, which in my personal opinion it is, then that's definitely better than going to court.

Patrick Igoe also came up with a "divided infringement" theory, which I rebutted on my blog. Apple apparently doesn't believe in his theory either, so why should you?
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I only read the first book, but as I said, I found it too depressing. It builds great atmosphere, but then everything just goes down the drain.
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I think it is mostly captured, except for the moltov coctails and the refilled RPG that they showed. They did show that they were taking the time to get the rust off of ammunition. You probably wouldn't do that if you had means to produce it in quantity.
@Revisor - here it is:

http://westiseast.co.uk/blog/how-to-make-an-infographic/

The mechanics of making the vector images is already well covered by other good photoshop guides (linked in the blog post) but the general steps I went through are here. Hope it's helpful for you.
I'm all for non-profit use of spectrum. The government could have given steep discounts to companies planning to offer discounted deals to the poor. Instead, they've most likely given steep discounts to companies who will squat on the spectrum till they are bought out by whoever expects to get the most profits (and convince banks to lend them the money).
It showed me a "Skip Ad", which when clicked on took me to the article.
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I'm not completely up on the new laws (being a Canadian currently in Australia), but your product isn't focused completely on the California market. There may be bigger opportunities outside of California than within it.

Think of yourself as the Spotify of money. Great service, but can't be used inside the US. Proving yourself on other soil can be a big boost to getting traction in the US.
I read Job as a story about God settling a bet with Satan, by allowing him to torture the most righteous man he could find to see if he would break - killing his wives, his children, causing him agony and taking away everything he loves. When he doesn't break God shows how generous he is by giving him new wealth, wives and children.

If there is a God, this is a compelling example of the value he places on human life.
> The language is privileged

Most languages are privileged. In python you can't define your own calling convention or add your own flow control.
If the language wasn't privileged, then it would't be a language.

>you can't pass a slice of concrete types conforming to an >interface into a function expecting a slice of interfaces.

Interface and concrete types are different sizes, so doing this requires an allocate. The language chooses not to hide this as it would be different from how all other kinds of slices work.

> Makes it difficult to find out why your program crashed
> because the information you need has been cut off by the
> terminal!

This is a problem with your terminal. Getting a terminal that has a bigger buffer is a good idea, logging to a file is also a good idea. It would be weird to have the thing that happened first be at the end of the stack trace.

>If you want to change whether an entity is public/private, >you have to replace all occurrences.

This is a rare thing to do and you get the advantage of knowing the visibility of a method or variable as you read it. Code is read more often than it's written, so they optimise for readability.

>You can't use custom types for the key of a map. To get >around this, you have to use maps of maps.

The built in map covers most people's needs. If your needs differ then people have written external packages that implement a hash map. Every additional feature is a burden on anyone that doesn't use it.

> You can't select over multiple io.Readers without starting > a goroutine for each one.

You can't select{} on io.Readers because the io package isn't part of the language. But you can certainly write a package that uses the OS's select() syscalls to wait on any number of file descriptors(which would block the goroutine and the thread it's running on as expected).
Yep. But goroutines are cheap. Also, how do you select over an arbitrary type?
Seems like kind of an insensitive thing to say, given that there are people dying over there.
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Actually Airbnb is a terrible name because it conjures up a distasteful (and inaccurate) mental image of what their service provides.

An Airbed is a horrible rubber thing that you sleep on at a friend's house that deflates in the night leaving you lying on the floor surrounded by sagginess. Therefore an Airbed-n-breakfast must be a place where you can expect to get that sort of experience, but for a price.

That mental picture kept me from even bothering to check out the website the first dozen or so times they made the front page here. I'd wager it's costing them a lot of money from people who simply refuse to check them out because they don't want to sleep on an airbed.

Notice that none of the listings on airbnb show anything like a trashed studio apartment where you'll be expected to sleep on an old couch with dead pizza boxes under it, but ask anybody on the street to describe an "airbed and breakfast" and that's what you'll get. But if you don't force yourself to ignore the terrible name and give them a shot, you'll never find out.

For my money I'd rather be called something nosensical than something off-putting.
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Could somebody explain me why this gets downvoted?
what I meant was that this is how WW3 is done, online.
I guess my Chinese government hypothesis is not that bad, WSJ thinks the same

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230425930457637...
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The book Start Small, Stay Small, gives examples of this, as well as ideas on finding niche markets.

Interesting and useful stuff. You may locate a niche market, find that there is genuine interest in it as reflected in ad words, and also get a sense for what the existing market is like (e.g., is there already a highly-dominate player, and is it cost-effective to try to move into this niche).
Even that doesn't help. There are a zillion possible beneficiaries to any major attack, and some attackers do it for the lulz with no benefit at all. If you can't reliably identify where an attack originated then deterrents are meaningless.
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> GMail never will since it needs the ability to read your email to show you ads.

It could still read your email after decryption and show ads based on that, it would be easy to do with JS. Search would be broken though unless they encrypt each word separately, but that would make your inbox size grow quickly, still doable.
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To be honest though, it seems that young people are doing just that.

(I'm 31 so an old geezer and I don't know wtf these crazy kids nowadays all do exactly, it's just that when I walk back from my office to home through the bar area in my city, I see many people frolicking about with their phones, taking pictures and doing things with it that suggest it's more than just sms'ing. Also I sometimes see small groups of people standing together, each of them doing things on their phones. It's surreal to me, but if that's how they use their phones...)
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There is a special place in hell awaiting the drivers who overtake cyclists then do a sharp left turn (I'm in the UK so this means they are cutting in front of you).

I used to do a fairly reasonable commute every day through the center of Edinburgh and the problem of car drivers overtaking and turning left was probably the single biggest danger I had.
Restaurants pay about 40% for food. The rest is payroll, rent, etc. In total, they make about 4%, but they lose money hand over fist if the restaurant is empty.

Also, that margin is very rubbery, depending on the dish. They might make a pasta dish for 20% of the cost, and a steak for 70% of the cost.

Also, drinks can have crazy mark-ups.

If the groupon is limited to high-margin meals, then they won't lose money. And they might make a profit on the drinks, or people who change their mind and go for a full price dish.

And they might get some repeat business. Also, it looks good for them to look full - passers-by might assume that the restaurant is packed because it's a good one.

The thing is, owners have to be very careful about the deal they give. Groupon seems a little unpredictable (for non-experts), so it can be very dangerous.

Of course, all marketing has its costs. And restaurants and cafes rarely rely on marketing (fast food excepted).
The core function of memory may be to imagine the future
From a fake interview with McLuhan:

"The attention of consumers can shift instantly and make the most profound investments obsolete in just a few years, soon to be sped up even further. We will see economic empires crash within hours, and new ones arise just as quickly.

The task of the economic manager now is to try to hold monopolies in place just long enough for economic transactions to occur."

I first read this while still in high school and it left a huge impression on me. (Big enough that I still remembered it just now, over 15 years later... wtf?!)

--> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/channeling_pr.html
Your sentence should read: Minor changes in the suns output THEORETICALLY have a tiny impact on earths climate.

Real empirical data refutes your conclusion based on one equation.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627640.800-whats-wro...
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One interesting thing we discovered about IPXs late one night in the lab is that they're FCC Class A devices -- that is, they didn't have the same level of RF shielding as consumer Class B gear. How did we exploit this? The memory bus timings happened to be in the FM radio range (~90-110 MHz), so by copying buffers in tight loops we were able to create a tone generator with a 10-20 foot transmit range.

I do hope the professors with nearby offices (and conveniently with radios on their desks) enjoyed our looping rendition of the Close Encounters of the Third Kind theme when they came in the next morning.
as a guess, i would think the short-term churn has increased.

most heavy users of fb that i know are people that signed up a long time ago. it was an important part of their social life and most still use the site.

but recently, i've had a few more (older, less tech-savvy) friends on fb. they 'got around' to joining fb eventually. but because it wasn't as important to their social life to join, and they only bothered doing so after knowing about fb for a few years, they are more likely to drift away.

i don't know if that's true, but it doesn't sound too unreasonable.
It will be really great to catch up with everyone! Looking forward to it.
Microsoft.com purportedly uses Akamai(Linux) for load-balancing and caching their websites[1]. I don't see anything wrong with using appropriate technologies.

[1] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom...
Ask HN: How to get job in startup company?
I would like to work for startup company. I applied to few startup companies but did not hear from them. I think resume which I use for other corporate companies wont work for startups.

I would like to know how to impress startup companies by my resume. What to write? Most of the HN followers are startup guys please guide me. I badly want to get into some startup company to get challanges, to learn something new everyday, to develop something that will be used by n number of users.

Last but not the least advice for getting job in startups.
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Cape Town, South Africa.

Everyone here is going gaga since:

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110609-704507.html

You'd also be well placed to expand into other African countries.