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Not surprising at all to see the spike in demand for Rails developers. In my local ruby users group we've seen a dramatic increase in the number of job postings for Ruby/Rails devs.

I'm also not surprised that Javascript is the most sought after language, too. Everything uses it, regardless of the framework.
That barrier is impossibly high, at least in the US, because there's a constrained resource involved: spectrum. I suspect it's quite literally impossible to start a nationwide carrier at this point without congressional action to reallocate frequency bands from some other use.
In the US, USDA funds a lot of farming research and DoE has its own labs for energy research.

Military and Space seem to have a lot of civilian offshoots. Probably because of focus and demanding environments / specs.
Just to be clear, I didn't distribute the janky copy of jQuery to anyone myself. I test my samples pretty thoroughly before publishing, and definitely would have caught something like this.

The situation here was that someone was using one of my samples from the jQuery 1.2 era and wanted to see if it would work with 1.6.2. He downloaded the ".it" copy of jQuery to test it with, got the syntax error when he used it in my sample, thought it was because my code didn't work right with 1.6.2, and got in touch with me about it. That's about where the post picks up at, when I rushed to grab a copy of 1.6.2 via Google and made the mistake of downloading the ".it" copy without noticing.
So the problem is that you can't prevent others from using it?
Sure, but they have to do this. I only consider it evil once a company starts suing other companies that they know can't compete based on patent portfolio size.
Great read! Opened my eyes and answered some questions for me that I didn't even know I needed to ask. Also explained why no matter where I end up, I feel burned out within six months; work hero syndrome to say the least though I was unaware given no definition. Good stuff.
The picture at link [1] is correct, but it makes the LED look way, way better than it is. It does show some light smeared through the spectrum, unlike with the CFLs, but it's not actually even in intensity, and has some sharp peaks (which you can't see in a test like this). Many people find LED light annoying, even more so than CFLs, when it's the primary light source. Of course, that's totally subjective, and some people even like the effect.
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You're still trying to link "unlocked" and "open to the public". The fact that you don't lock something does not mean that it's legally open for anyone to use/take/whatever. If your front door is unlocked, it's still a crime for me to enter. If you leave your voicemail unlocked, it's still a crime for me to access it.
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VS2010. Mainly the fact that the user interface is painfully slow[1] (either that or I'm unreasonably fast which is rediculous as Vim can keep up with me) and it just dies about 5 times a day on a good day. It might be the solution size though - it's got about 0.5 million lines of C# in it. Still it should work.

[1] On a quad core Xeon with 12Gb RAM, SAS disks and ATI FirePro card.
Given that some people have separate accounts for games, I wonder how accurately that number reflects the actual number of users.
It is my understanding that we have two different future-predicting brains: the limbic system (mammalian brain) and the neocortex (primates and dolphins brain). The r-complex is a purely reactive brain, and tries to predict little.

The neocortex is incredibly powerful, but the limbic system notices stuff that the neocortex misses on our day-to day routine. Things like micro-gestures (emotions drawn by our faces for mere fractions of a second), non-spoken language, etc.

This neocortex-unperceived stuff is perceived by us as 'feelings', the operating material of the limbic system.

The REM dream stage is the limbic system putting all those feelings as requests to the neocortex, in the way of: "give me a logical and understandable explanation for this feeling I've been having all week".

Then we experience crazy stuff that actually matches the limbic sensation, or we get the right answer. This also helps/interacts with learning processes.

For the rest of the dream state, I have no current theory/explanation.
Given that these ISPs often have exclusive markets, in which they have no direct competitors, this would effectively deny internet access to anyone who had the misfortune of getting a few of these notices.

Lack of judicial oversight is obviously a problem. But furthermore, this really overstates the seriousness of copyright infringement, and understates the importance of internet access for all.
You are right. I mixed up my memory of the prices from the last time I bought specialist bulbs, because I was putting them in regular lamps.
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I feel sorry that they have to put up with abusive behavior. Just hang up and move on. But can you really just ignore abuse? It must be leaving a mark somewhere. I have also had abusive users and customers and I also ignore them. But can't get it out of my head sometimes. It keeps bothering me.
In all honesty the only feature one social network has over another is where my friends are. I never check the stuff otherwise.
Wow, I had absolutely no idea iTerm did window splitting natively. I had been using dvtm for a while. Thanks for the tip!
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So it doesn't really say anything for certain. It does bring up the common stereotypes of traditional Indian women being forced to stay home, and India's economy being two speeds - the wealthy Fabian socialist government, and poor labor-intensive private sector.

BPO does add to the private sector, and bring in some easy money (as long as India stays poor). There are other elements of the private sector, such as software engineering companies, automobile manufacturing (Tato), and so on; and India's domestic demand (which is partly fueled by BPO) drives these.

I doubt BPO can really poison India's economy, the way tourist dollars can deskill some places. BPO is too small, and India's too big.
The paper was likely to go into freefall, with major advertisers dropping it in recent days, and the readership likely to drop sharply.

It will be interesting to see whether killing the paper makes the phone hacking story go away (or at least lose a lot of its momentum) or whether a few people will feel there's no reason not to spill more beans now.

I assume with the staff mostly folding into a Sunday edition of the Sun (presumably) its really more a rebranding, and so they'll hope the story dies.
You can take away my save button, as long as you make it easy to discard my current work as well. The version control like systems we have today are ok (Time Machine, dropbox, Windows previous versions), but not ideal.

If I'm using a word processor that is automatically saving, why should I have to then explore my hard drive to find the file and examine previous versions? The app I am using needs to present this interface (even if it is ultimately supplied by the OS, like save dialogues).
+1. This is a great OSX terminal app. I love how quickly it has grown and improved.

I encourage more folks to try it out. You'll love the color themes, split windows, built-in visor hot-keys, and more.
This video is 2 years old now, but still pretty funny:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5072264/googling-with-bing
As with any other software license (including the GPL), if you don't like the terms, don't use it.
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Counter-examples are how broken Friendster was, and how even MySpace would crawl. Facebook has always been snappy.
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I agree the Safari G+ is pretty nicely done, TBH I'm just hoping for something cool like the Twitter iPad App :)
I like non-tab version better as well. Could do auto-scrolling like maxdemarzi said or a horizontal slider, modal, etc
I hope so, because compact fluorescents, at least the cheap Chinese ones we get in the US, are awful.

I have no idea why I don't hear more about this, but I can smell a horrible chlorine-plastic smell from them after they've been running for a couple of hours. It is an acrid smell that makes my nose feel strange. I've tried many different brands - Sylvania, GE, Feit electric, Great Value - which are all rebranded Chinese manufacturer products, of course. I used to be able to find some bulbs that did not do this, but not any longer.

I'm pretty sure these fumes are toxic from how they make me feel. If you've never noticed it, go buy 4 Sylvania CFLs and run them in a closed room overnight. The room will smell like chlorine in the morning.
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To me it appears that most have not changed the name and they are hosting the download files for free. Not all darkness here.
The idea is that the yellow phosphor converts a short wavelength blue light from the LED into a longer wavelength yellowish light, called down-converting.

This is a special physical property of the phosphor material - not simply a function of its color.

Normally this yellow phosphor material is applied directly to the LED die - but they figured they would put it on a plastic shell outside the LEDs. It doesn't actually make any kind of performance improvement except that the light is more evenly distributed.

If you tried to paint the shell with the phosphor - you would most likely have blue light shining through it - that's why they need so much technology to accurately dope the plastic phosphor, so that the light output is an even and consistent color.
Is there a changelog somewhere obvious that I'm missing? It appears I've gone from 0.20 to 1.0, what am I getting here? The one in the source tree appears to be quite out of date.
IANAL, but in the UK, according to the computer misuse act - yes that would be a criminal offence as the access is unauthorized, regardless of how access was gained. (guessing URL, phising, guessing password etc)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Misuse_Act_1990#The_Co...
To me personally the examples make sense, but don't anymore if I replace Bayer with Google I my mind (or Apple for that matter). The reason is that Aspirin is a commonality. There is no better or worse Aspirin. With web search on the other hand this is not true.
Agree about Notes being as awful. I had to suffer that from '99-'02. Looked like it improved after that but you can't polish a turd as they say.

I've watched SharePoint go with a spectacularly large boom when some muppet renamed the AD domain... That was a fun two days of my life reverse engineering it believe me. Thank goodness they did write it on top of the CLR as it's easy enough to decompile then to work out what the hell is going on.
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The readers don't pay for the paper. The advertisers do.
So is it legal or illegal for you to access http://foo.com ?

By your logic, just because I didn't password protect it, doesn't mean it's legal open for you to load in a browser.
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CFL induction lamps might eventually resolve this, but at least for now they're priced out of the general market
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Funny -- I had never heard of the "Teacher" caste before. But by the same measure of anecdotal evidence, there must exist a "Hollywood caste” in US -- how else would you explain Will Smith's kids going into entertainment biz. Or may be there is a Pizza maker caste -- what else could explain the family owned pizzeria next door. My daughter's paediatrician is my doctor's son and he is married to nurse. There must be a doctor caste to explain this.
I think his point was not it didn't rise to the legal definition of hacking (of course it did), but whether it rose to the Hacker News definition of newsworthy hacking (hardly).
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I believe most of the features in their feature list were added since 0.2. I'm reading this now, and finding features that I've been needing and didn't realize they were done already.

http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features
Yes, when I noticed that the guardian had a chart of the largest advertisers in the NOTW I did feel it was being a little silly. Though personally, that's why I like the guardian; when it's being biased, it's very obvious.
You can write pretty fast code in Java, so on the JVM you can use Java as your low-level language. With Python, if you want to write fast code (at least with CPython) you have to write a C extension, which requires a certain amount of effort and expertise.

I personally don't know anything about Haskell, but I have heard that it has a very complicated performance model. I.e., it's hard to predict what will be fast and what will be slow, and if something is slow that seems like it ought to be fast, it can be hard to figure out how to fix it. (Since that was one of the major complaints of Haskell users the last time I seriously considered learning Haskell, it might be fixed or mitigated by now.)

Scala can also be slow or unpredictable when using functional idioms, but with Scala you can always revert to Java-style programming to get Java-level performance. The fact that you can do that for a single function or even a single inner loop in a code file that is mostly nice clean functional code is very convenient. One thing I hated about Jython was rewriting entire classes in Java when only a little part was performance-sensitive. Or, equally frustrating, having a Jython class whose associated "little" classes (performance-sensitive callbacks such as renderers) were in a completely different place in the source tree because they were implemented in Java.
Similar here. Cannot control it too much.
Bottom line that is what keeps us going, me at least.
Yes, if someone goes to /admin on your site and starts to mess around even if it's not password protected, that's a naughty thing and should be (and will be) punished even if you should have known better and ensured that it's well protected. Just like stealing a car is a crime even if the owner left the key inside the car. Or burglarizing someone's home even if occupier has accidentally left the front door unlocked. Don't you agree?
Kids, this is why we learn math. So we don't waste our time on what is impossible.

Not to the business' advantage to know anyway, more damages.
You'd have to jack the cover price quite a bit to make up for the lost advertising. Also, the public is pretty disgusted about this; I think readership would have fallen off a cliff anyway.
The problem is Google is at a bit of a disadvantage vs Facebook. Facebook taught us exclusivity is a good thing but by expanding to entire schools at a time they were able to guarantee new users had other in-network friends with Facebook available to them. With + users are relying on people they know to be available to keep the product interesting... A bunch of random people trickling in doesn't necessarily translate to a positive user experience.
Just to add to this. I emailed the CEO of o2 last night to tell him that I would switch my business to another provider if they didn't pull their advertising and I received a reply within 15 mins (at about 9.00pm) saying they were already doing this and it said "sent from my iPad" so I kind of suspect that it was a personal email I received back. About 15 mins later o2 were being reported as having pulled their advertising following on from Ford, Mitsubishi, Virgin etc. By this morning most major companies had committed to pull their adverts. The whole thing happened in about 24 hours tops. Biggest selling Sunday paper to nothing. 'Name' journalists from other Murdoch brands, even the Times, are reporting being heckled in the street. A lot of people are very angry.
"Vista Security 2012". It can't touch the root certs as you need elevated privileges to do that. The entire thing hijacks the user's shell via the registry. You can log in as another user on the machine and it appears not to be infected.

Quite well designed really :-)
No, it doesn't work like that. Leaving your door unlocked doesn't mean your home is suddenly open to the public who can wander in. Leaving your computer without a password doesn't mean it's legal for someone to hack into it and use it for what they will. It also doesn't mean if you forget to password protect your FTP server that anyone and everyone are free to use it as they will.

There is a reasonable expectation of privacy in these cases. The actual severity might be different depending on the circumstances, but it's still fairly obvious if what you are doing is wrong or not. Obviously, their are grey areas. Does a husband have the right to access his wife's voice mail? What about her computer? What if they share a computer or accounts?

A good example I've always heard concerns banking on public computers. If you accessed your bank account on a public computer, and then left without logging out, would it be okay for someone to then transfer money to their account and keep it? No hacking was involved. No security was breached.
Everybody goes through this. Everybody.

Let me give you some perspective... You're way ahead of the pack. Someone (the incubator) believes in you and has given you money.

Considering how many applicants incubators get vs how many get in, you're already past one gate. Sure there are plenty more to go, but let that give you some momentum.

You stay positive and motivated with small wins. Take a look at your to-do list and knock something easy out. It will give you some relief (from doubt), remind you that you can do this, and help you refocus.
You knew I'd be citing the Grauniad because they're the only national newspaper that was covering the story in depth. (Until The Independent jumped on board, late in the day.) The Murdoch press and their rival tabloids were all keeping mum, and The Telegraph wasn't touching it either (possibly out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the PM).

Politicians and rival media outlets are afraid of the NewsCorp empire. They own 30% of the UK newspaper market and a big chunk of its TV programming, and they have long memories. Not people you would want to have holding a grudge against you if you worked in that industry or had to run for re-election.
Induction lamps are getting big - but most people want to get rid of the mercury vapor arc entirely and go for solid state, that's a big enough advantage that energy efficiency almost doesn't matter.

Unfortunately, Switch didn't figure out that the light is no longer "solid state" when they added liquid to it - and that a non-toxic liquid is probably worse in many situations than a toxic vapor.
I enabled the new UI and was disappointed to right-click on a video and still find Flash player. Isn't it about time for them to move on?

That said, it's a decent looking visual improvement.
23. More open alternatives to Wikipedia?
1. I'm trying to build a commercial wikipedia technology-books-tutorials-instructions. Basic principles:
- Paid and Free Articles
- Sale of shares (each who make changes or improvements can own a small percentage)
- Co-writing software modeling technology or visual presentation
- Always an opportunity to make changes and additions
- The collective creative text and image
- The principle of the slide or successive outbreaks
- Creative feedback tooltip to almost every word
- Sign in facebook.com and all edits must point to the author to facebook
- Maximum connection with the actual production - a lot of buttons: order kit, drink beer,
- The order of real rates (in this case necessarily on the site must be at least a picture of what awaits them)
- User can connect each tech page with the same tech page or two-tier tech page or production source or three-tier

Generally this site in my hopes of a conductor in the world of the Internet of things p2p site where you can drive any machine (napechat circulation of books) or a printer with the consent of the owner.
(I read techcrunch.com and I know that car rental flats in such a way to become popular. It is important to gain the freedom of engineering thought, every product has been made clear how and why and we can propose, vote, to manage the production of things over the internet)
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I've been working on an early stage startup which does something very similar to this, although less celebrity focused and more on common circles. It's funny actually, when Google+ happened, I figured they did exactly what we've been working on, but they didn't. Seeing as everyone on HN seems to want something like this now though, it seems to be putting a lot of pressure on.
Having lived in Helsinki and gotten some taste of the start-up culture there, I still believe that Silicon Valley is far far ahead of Europe in terms of the start-up scene. What I noticed was that culture in the Silicon Valley is very organic and feeds itself. However in Europe, it is mostly driven by the government grants/University initiatives/Business schools.

This is the prime reason why any serious entrepreneur should have at least some context of the silicon valley to get a holistic view of their business.
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If it is driving men crazy, it is doing it in a good way. There is significant evidence that the availability of internet porn is connected to drops in rape rates. See http://www.slate.com/id/2152487/ for more.
someone "downmod" this?!? i was just trying to help. WTF. I am so done with HN.
Also http://www.avaaz.org/en/ had a big part to play. That's how I found out about it, not from the Guardian.
If you haven't had the chance to look, OpenCL is a really nice way to write parallel tasks using a language that might as well be C. If your problem can be split into tasks that all execute the same code, you're in heaven.

It's baked into OS X and makes writing computational intensive apps very enjoyable (love to see many cores burning).

Now, does this belong on the web? If HTML5 really wants to be a real app platform, then yes it does. Or is this just a bunch of bored programmers in Japan who thought it would be fun to bind JS to OpenCL?
Depends on which videos you are watching. YouTube comments are wonderful for the various communities. It's when videos attract the attention of hundreds of thousands of viewers they degrade.

As someone who was making videos, and involved with a YouTube community, they were wonderful. I equate it to Reddit's front page. If you only look at the front page, you aren't actually getting much value from it.
I think that's exactly what the op meant. In other words, changing the appearance of the website won't improve its content and, I agree with him, it definitely should improve.
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FWIW, The paper costs £1, so with a readership of 7 million or so every week... That's around £350m / year.

The top advertiser, Sky, spends £2m a year with the paper.

So I find it hard to believe that advertisers are all that important.
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josh, can you elaborate please?
it took my mother quite a while to fully understand why i said i was "scrolling down" when the text on the screen was moving upward.