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Are you sure mobile browsers are good at viewing desktop-aimed content?

I'm considering auto-resizing (fluid) for simple content like cssgrid.net because some placements will break or look weird. Would this be a problem for mobile browsers?
thanks, it's very interested, did you try capistrano before?
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"As others have pointed out here, the reason degreed people are better plumbers is because they were smarter to begin with, ..."

Truth. The lion's share of income variation is explained by IQ. That is, statistical studies have shown that for a given IQ level, income is only weakly correlated to race, socioeconomic background, educational attainment, and so forth.
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Anki is amazing on the desktop, but the iPhone app leaves something to be desired (note, I last tried it Dec 2010, so the app might have changed significantly since then).

If you want a large base of cards to start with and the same idea of learning (SRS/Spaced Repetition Software), I'd recommend one of the many excellent Quizlet iPhone apps[1]. I personally use Flashcards Deluxe by OrangeorApple[2].

[1] http://quizlet.com/mobile/

[2] http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flashcards-deluxe/id307840670...
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How do I even test OnSwipe?
Except the Opera extension gets served as application/zip so Opera puts a ZIP extension on it and you have to manually rename it to .oex.
I was in your shoes 11 months ago, so let me give you some real-world advice. If you have a friend that knows any language (Python, Ruby, PHP, etc) start there. They will be there when you have questions, and having a person to turn to is the most important thing. However lets say you don't have a friend to turn to- start wit h Python.

Try Google App Engine to get started so you don't have to worry about dealing with a server. Start here http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Find a copy of http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801601#toc for understanding basic ideas with HTML, CSS, JS and Python/GAE.

In the meantime, start a blog and write about your stuggles and the things you learn. Initially it won't really be about coding - but the main thing is showing momentum to the outside world. (Trolls will hate just ignore). By getting your name out there, people will be more interested in helping you.

Start there. If you have questions, my email is emile (at)
Currently on the road in south east Asia while launching several (small) web apps/products. Definitely not easy, will be back in Europe in 1 month at least for a few months. You can check my blog www.sparklewise.com for stories about it ;-)
Ask HN: Fake job interviews in NYC?
In the past couple of weeks, I have had a handful of job interviews where it felt "fake." For example, job interviews where:

1) enthusiastic questions are aimed to pick candidates’ brains for fresh ideas.

Or

2) interviewer appears annoyed with interview process, gives vague introduction and asks lame & predictable questions. (Which translates to: "insider" candidate has already been selected, so stop wasting my time)

So, the question is, are there such thing as fake job interviews in NYC?

Thanks in advance.
Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz have shot their reputations to hell and gone: they will have increased difficulty in finding deals and the companies they fund will have harder times finding staff. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
On immigration: the article says that it's easier to immigrate to Amsterdam than Silicon Valley, but from what you say and what the embassy site says, it's not any easier (unless you're from EU of course). If you need a company sponsorship then your options are limited.

People keep bashing US's immigration system, but the only country I know that it's easier on immigration for skilled workers is Canada. If you have the requirements then you can move without a company sponsorship, and then look for a job.
I used to live on Capitol Hill, on 12th across from Seattle U. Then I moved to Tucson for grad school. The city is a giant suburb; you effectively can't walk anywhere. I miss Seattle.
Would it be better to use a configuration management tool that does eventual automation to nodes on pull requests?
I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I'm curious; how did you go about receiving seed funding (and enough to hire people) for a tech/web startup while not having strong coding abilities yourself?

Did you hire people with the intent of having them build a demo for you?

And for other readers... Do either of these things happen much? Does it work?
I couldn't access the paper itself, but the excerpts are indeed interesting.

Another disadvantage of using a Garbage collector, is that it's hard to predict when the JVM will "freeze" to collect garbage memory. This makes standard Java relatively ill-suited for real-time applications. For these, you need to consider technologies such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_Java

The problem with those GC freezes, is that they can be quite long in big memory-intensive applications. This is a reason for the work on alternative parallel GCs. The complexity and relative mysteriousness of the GC makes it hard to tune. Dhanji, a Google Wave engineer, who wrote the "Dependency Injection" book, and is the lead developer of sitebricks, wrote a great article on this subject : http://dhanji.posterous.com/taking-out-the-trash-and-other-c...

All this being said, I don't know if it's fair to compare the approach mentioned in your link with "classical" manual memory management. How often do you see this kind of (de-)allocation patterns in a standard app? Wouldn't a programmer often write "less than ideal" de-allocation code? (honest question there, I sadly never had the opportunity to write in a language with manual memory-management)

"We present a novel experimental methodology that lets us treat unaltered Java programs as if they used explicit memory management. Our system generates exact object reachability information by processing heap traces with the Merlin algorithm [34, 35]. It then re-executes the program, invoking free on objects just before they become unreachable. Since this point is the latest that a programmer could explicitly free objects, our approach conservatively approximates explicit memory management."

Finally, according to the following (2005) article by Brian Goetz, using a garbage collector may yield more opportunities for optimization, at the cost of predictability: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp09275/in...
> Actually, the forEach version can end up faster than the let version...

Theoretically maybe, but I've yet to see that. A regular `for(;;)` is generally 3-5 times faster than using `Array.prototype.forEach`.

Re. JIT, hand-rolling a foreach in javascript can be up to twice as fast as the native one, depending on the features you leave out.
I just turned it on on my account now, and I was able to skip the phone number step.
Frankly, I think you're looking at this the wrong way.

From your description, your wealthy friend:

1. Came up with an idea that he would like to pursue.
2. Has the money to finance the venture.
3. Is willing to contribute his time on part-time basis until the venture bears fruit.

You are the technical person he is going to rely on to build the product or service, and will be responsible for much of the early heavy lifting. You are leaving a job with a $100,000+ annual salary.

What's wrong with this picture?

1. Your friend came up with an idea that he ostensibly can't execute on without the skills you bring to the table. At the same time, he apparently isn't entertaining the possibility of paying you for those skills in anything but equity. There is certainly a reason for this, and it's not likely a good one.

2. Your friend "can be the CEO", but CEO isn't a part-time job. The fact that he's only willing to work part time on this until the company can sustain itself says a lot about his true confidence in the venture.

3. Your friend has committed to $10,000 to $15,000/month in seed funding. How long is he willing to continue with this arrangement? Is there a limit to the total amount he'll invest? What if you need more than $15,000/month? What assurance do you have that your friend won't seek to renegotiate equity if the business requires more investment than he originally anticipated? Given what you've written, I suspect you have no satisfactory answers to these questions.

Bottom line: you should not be worrying about equity - you should be worrying about the entire deal structure.

You are effectively being asked to relinquish a six-figure job for an unpaid position that provides a minority equity stake in a company being "co-founded" by a person who a) won't be dedicating all of his time to the venture until he thinks it's worthwhile and b) who has only committed to injecting cash into the venture in small, monthly chunks. This is a wonderful arrangement for your friend as he receives almost all of the protections. You, on the other hand, risk the most and get virtually none.

Caveat emptor.
Some interesting papers there (apart from the "depixelizing pixel art" we've seen numerous times here already): GigaPics, geometric transformations of images, sculpting, etc...

Don't forget to look at the video http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/street_sl... , this would be an awesome addition to Google StreetView: zoom out and the system makes a frontal view of the street side.
So much argument here with extreme positions and blanket absolute statements, I am a little surprised.

What you eat is inextricably linked to your body's proper functioning and, yes, risk for a variety of diseases.

Thinking just about calories is meaningless. A single calorie of glucose / fructose / fat / alcohol / gasoline are simply not at all the same. Even the same ingredients (those useless nutritional composition labels) affect the body totally differently depending on how they are structured.

1 gram of pureed corn for instance will burn very differently from 1 gram of steamed corn kernels, versus that same 1 gram, popped.

It is a massive failure of education that people are surprised to hear that eating poorly leads to increased risk of disease.

Arguing that diet has no effect on disease is like suggesting that you could just live on glucose, a multivitamin, and water. Try that for a week and your body will be in full-on war against you. Actually, please don't.
I would also mention the Lynda.com videos. I'm running one of their Perl tutorials now working in Eclipse and finally seem to be getting somewhere.
And I really wish someone would put together an intro to programming series using Yahoo Pipes as a platform.
Some thoughts on the design, which I'm not terribly excited about:

When I read Google News or a newspaper's website, I scan a lot of headlines. Even that level of summary helps keep me up to date with what's going on. Memsparx gives me four stories by default, with no clear indication of the gravity of them.

The graphic approach is interesting though. I think you could go somewhere with a "field" of images in different sizes.
The Batle of Argel - the intriguing difference of point of view of a liberation army or a terrorist group.
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If xterm, less, ls, vi and others would take 3 seconds to start, I would never get anything done. I think it's sad that people think that 3 seconds is fast (unless the program is loading some big data of course).
What's the difference between apps subdomain and the news subdomain?
I came here to say the same thing. While on my bariatric surgery rotation, the attending surgeons all said much what you said above with regards to normalizing blood sugars. One of them felt that the majority of her patients normalized their blood sugars pre-op thanks to their preoperative fast...
Nice--you're right, that video covers pretty much everything!
Couldn't you, for example, cut some funding from the "military-industrial complex", if it wasn't needed to secure the resources (oil) to sustain the suburbs? Don't you need huge central banks to provide cheap loans to devastate large portions of countryside with yet another suburban sprawl?

I'm not saying it's the case. But maybe, could it be the other way around? What if these were in fact just another externality of suburban life?
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- Fake chunks are detected by the bittorrent client using the hashes in the torrent file. This would do nothing but slow the torrent down.

- via proxies is reasonable since you can legally proxy data you don't own copyright too.

- The problem with any changes to a protocol with no other purpose than to get around laws is that courts will decide that bittorrent is specifically designed for copyright infringement and thus ban it's use or be more likely to side with copyright holders.
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See above about the cows in India vs United States.

There have also been significant advancements in farming since the 1970s when the Green Revolution happened I would think.
Some images of the way cities should be built (and can be, as these are from real Dutch cities):
http://www.aankoopmakelaargroningen.com/images/websites/56//...
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/789252-AMSTERDAM_ZUIDERKERK_...
http://home.kpn.nl/hemmoheidekamp/32/ooftstraat%20concordiab...
http://v6.cache4.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio....

Core ideas:
- More room for green, less room for driving, still some parking-space (it is the fast driving, not the sitting cars that kill city life)
- Very slow driving (15 miles an hour max) within residential blocks (a single narrow lane + speed-bumps and obstacles/hedges can enforce this)
- No cars at all in certain streets, playgrounds instead, keeps young families in the city
- Finally, build more densely, so shops / public transportation becomes economically viable. How hard can this be? (/me wonders what stops architects from simply copying historic styles and neighbourhood-layouts)
Looking at your links and the authenticator, is it the case that any third party web app can use the google authenticator "merely" by providing a key and account name?

Is anyone doing that?

I really like using the authenticator on my phone and would love to see other web applications support it.

But I am curious, why isn't the authenticator itself password protected?

Also, fyi, while I understand how to use application specific passwords, I have no good understanding of what they do, how they work, why they are safe or why I only have to enter them once. So they are confusing to me.
Actually, it runs at ~10fps on my Dell E1705.
However, this is not a blogger. Also: Schopenhauer[1].

[1] Famously did not abide by his own philosophy, which does not make it a single bit less insightful or valuable.
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PG: I didn't say I'd do whatever got the most votes.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595783
Yeah, Opera extension has incorrect MIME.
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it's not a dichotomy. for example, staging non-trivial commits in git is much easier from a frontend than from git's CLI.
If it's not for everyone can you please give people who it isn't for an option to opt out of viewing it.
Use Firefox 5, other browsers take a shit on putImageData performance when blitting to the canvas.
There's also the case of resetting your password for various other services. If someone can get access to your email account, it might not matter whether your actual webhost or domain registrar password is in your Gmail. The bad guy can force a new password or password-reset link to be sent to your email account, then intercept and use that link.

I already use a strong/unique password for Gmail, and I do my best not to login from untrusted devices, but adding two-factor authentication reduces the potential attack surface that much more.
It is probably worth noting that NatWest will lock your account on 3 unsuccessful login attempts with pin + password + customer-number so brute forcing a password would be tricky.

They also require a card reader and a physical card to confirm any transactions involving transferring money. - They generate a confirmation code that you enter into the card reader (along with you card pin that is different to your online banking pin). The card reader then generates a confirmation token that authorises the transaction.

As the article points out they ask for 3 characters from the password rather than the whole password itself, which when combined with a login attempt limit of 3 helps mitigate the problems of keyloggers on the users' machines. This would be harder to implement with longer passwords and more confusing for users "Please enter character 61 of your password".
A friend of mine from Seattle moved to Phoenix for grad school last year and says the same thing. Very unfortunate.

Surprisingly, another friend of mine who moved to Los Angeles for grad school a year now lives in a neighborhood of LA that she compares quite favorably to the Hill in terms of walkability. That, I would've never expected to hear.
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My dad had a Compaq laptop and an Ericsson cellphone in -93, and I got my first cellphone in -96 (I was 22). I've had broadband internet (not dial-up) since -97. Scandinavia was quite ahead of the curve when it came to cellphone adoption and internet stuff.
As the sysadmins say, Rule #1: spammers lie. If their "policy to forbid such actions" even existed it was a completely unenforced fig leaf of deniability, because that is in fact how their "person-to-person sales" contractors were allowed to spend their time until a third party did a little diligence and caught them at it, and unsurprisingly they're going to get away with it—there's been no mention of a lawsuit or anything to claw back what they got paid for poisoning the well.
Chrome did this and it's problematic.
When a user copies a url they are either required to add the http:// themselves, or firefox could do what chrome did and automatically add the http:// to the url when you copy it.
This is a problem if you just want to copy the domain name and now you have to remove the added http://

There is no advantage to this kind of change.
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Any special reason why you haven't used something like libcloud (deploy_node ...) - http://libcloud.apache.org/?

Then the script would work with multiple providers, not just Amazon.
Well, he hated working for a company where engineers were second-class citizens, and all the staff were treated as fighting cocks.

I'd imagine that at Facebook, engineers are treated as first class citizens. I dislike Facebook as a product, and I'm not sure I trust Zuckerberg, but I really respect the company. Roughly 200 engineers running a tech product that millions of grandmas use is no mean feat. I bet they don't treat their engineers as mere cogs in a machine.
Agreed. Dead family members are ok as long as you can't be blamed for their deaths.
Oil in the ground is useless to most nations. Most nations want to sell you their oil, especially poor ones with unruly populations.

US policy with regard to the sale of oil is mostly on the prevention side. (eg. Iran, Libya, Iraq). At $100 bbl there is no shortage of oil outside the middle east. Did you happen to notice that once the US got involved in Libya the price of oil went up? See also wars in Iraq / Afganistan, now lets say you owned an oil field in Saudi Arabia, if it costs $2 bbl to extract and $1 to the Saudi's in royalties would you prefer to sell your oil at $30 bbl or $100 bbl?

The idea that the US has the military industrial complex to provide cheap oil to the suburbs is a fantasy dreamed up by environmentalists designed to appeal to urban pseudo-intellectuals (who are their primary base of support after the coal industry stopped funding them after they took care of the nuclear industry in the 70s). As a side benefit it makes suburban people think their gov't gives a shit about them. If you're a republican it's a win-win situation. This is like thinking that the protestant reformation was allowed to happen because the King of Prussia? was a liberty lover and not because it massively undermined the power of the catholic church.

Dick Cheney was not thinking about how to provide cheap oil to the suburbs, he was thinking how to make the energy industry rich. Starting wars on top of oil fields does not make oil cheap, it makes it expensive. If environmentalists think it makes it cheaper then all the better.

The US has a friendly neighbor to the north which has more oil than Saudi Arabia (especially at $100 bbl prices)

Even if what you were saying was true (it may be, I personally doubt it) all increased oil prices would do is fuel the conversion to coal powered cars (via the electric grid). Don't fight the future embrace it.

Regarding suburban sprawl in flood plains well, if your stupid enough to buy a house there you pretty much got what's coming to you. Why do we need central banking to rebuild suburbs in flood plains? It sounded like a bad idea in the first place, lets not do it again.

If the revenue generated from building in a flood plain is sufficient to recover the costs it should be easy to secure loans from the private sector. How about we just let the Mississippi take its natural course now that the area it flows through is filled with silt and will continually cause flooding because of this.