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That's half his point. As a manager you should have full control of your direct reports. You shouldn't even need to ask permission to rearrange focus within your team. He shouldn't have even asked in the first place, though this is probably a sign of weakness in the manager and not so much the upper management of a company (if you have to ask, your peers will automatically play devil's advocate. The status quo, while not most efficient, has usually proved safe enough).
NameCheap's great. They're pretty quick and cheap. They also offered a free PositiveSSL cert with new domain registrations & transfers for awhile too.
Judge: It's 'possible' Google knew of Java violation
The Neurobiology of Bliss--Sex in the brain
Just FYI "burning your bridges" is a very negative term, and it's generally considered something that you should never do. (i.e., it's not something you would put a smiley after).

The phrase implies a permanent and somewhat violent (not necessarily physical) end to a relationship.

Simply quitting your job would not be considered "buring a bridge" unless you quit in such a way that you could never ever get your job back (for example, punched your boss in the face or something like that).

Your tool looks interesting and I wish you good luck with it.

One thing I would suggest at the moment is to lose the cartoon-ish tiger logo you have, in my humble opinion it doesn't fit with the type of product.

Also, I would change the colors on the various boxes that say things like "Save time", and "Save Money"...

They also seem cartoon-ish and don't seem to fit with the product.

Also at the bottom I would change this line:

> Please, can you share this with your friends and colleagues?

The tone is just overly conversational and a bit to pleading (unintentionally I'm sure).

A simple "share this" like most websites have would probably be better.

Wish I could give feedback on the product itself, but it's not the sort of thing I use.
I would agree with ^this. My first thought, when reading this, was "Thats cool! I would like to find some ways to get exercise at work. But why should I sign up for a (potentially) spammy email list, when I can probably just google 'office exercises'?"
It works the other way too.

According to rescuetime, I've been spending a LOT of time lately on HN and links to articles.

It kind of crept up on me and I didn't realize just how bored I've been at work lately. Definitely time to figure out why and how best to return to a happy-nonbored state. (Quitting isn't really a viable option right now)
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Awesome video of astronauts in the 80s testing NASA spacesuits from the 60s
Those are fortunately pretty rare behaviors. They call for a degree of sociopathy rather than merely buffoonish incompetence.

An unfortunately common story I hear from acquaintances who have used recruiters in my industry is that many recruiters will use a shotgun approach and feed lines of bullshit to prospective employee and employer alike. The recruiter might take your resume, massage it to hit all the right notes for a wide range of listed positions, and then submit it. That will probably garner a few phone interviews and on-site visits at the very least. Once the candidate gets on the phone or on site, he and the people he's interviewing with will soon realize he's being tested for an entirely inappropriate position for his skill set. Not only is this a waste of time for everyone involved, but it permanently damages the candidate's reputation with that company and the people involved in the interviewing.
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I don't understand why/how some of the changes they've made would help dyslexics immediately. Perhaps you could explain.

It seems like most of the changes were arbitrary (e.g. rotation, making the lower parts bolder) and designed to make two otherwise similar characters distinct. Wouldn't that require a learning period, to figure out which characters were changed in which ways? If you don't know (reflexively from memory) whether they rotated the `i` or the `j`, the rotation won't help anything.
I love the dude doing jumping jacks, but it's not quite as good as when the guy does toe touches.
Trees and Other Hierarchies in MySQL (Relational/hierarchical data overview)
Hah, if only it was so simple! The integrity of the job is the problem. It's been coded to failover problems (as the original data integrity its mining from isn't good), so it will happily do something stupid for hours. That's why I have to watch it, and make sure its not doing something stupid.

Unit tests would ensure stupidity was not a possibility, and regressions could be tracked. Too late for that, unfortunately.

So I watch.
Not security. You usually rely upon security for network layers 1-4 as being actual security. Adding additional controls can be useful in slowing down would-be attackers, or "casual" intruders, but they are not "real" security measures.
> what are they trying to accomplish?

They are Anonymous. They're doing it for the lulz, of course.

But seriously, what makes you think they aren't just the modern Loki, doing this simply because it amuses them and creates chaos?
This goofy stuff shows up every time there's a new Microsoft console (or console Microsoft is involved in.)

It won't happen.

The whole point of a gaming console is that developers know exactly what they have available in terms of processing power and memory. As soon as you let a general purpose OS run behind the scenes, you give up that control, and with it, the ease of use and quality user experience that comes from (in theory) never having to worry about a game running out of memory and crashing, or running sluggish because of background processes.

Multitasking outside of the gaming processes is something that will always be kept to a minimum in order to keep the experience as flawless as possible for the user. Right now, you can do the bare minimum required for the basics of today's gaming environment, which is downloads, voice chat, friends lists, etc. These processes use minimal known CPU, and a finite but known amount of memory, and that's why it's a console and not just a Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo branded computer.
I've read the paper now, so I can chime in on an informed basis.

They claim a 0.2°C/W, which would be really something. You can get down to 0.37°C/W[1] with air cooling, using heroic measures, and blisteringly awful efficiency. Doing 0.2°C/W would be a real step up.

I don't really think they've done it, here. Their experimental setup used six 1"x1" 10 watt heating elements. This is because their heatsink needs a very large cross-section to overcome the lousy thermal conductivity of the air gap between the impeller and the base plate.[2] Total area, 38.7cm^2, total power, 60W.

The Intel Core i7's heatspreader has a surface area of ~20.25cm^2, and a thermal design power of 130W. 52% smaller, 216% times the heat output. That's about four times more heat per square centimetre.

The smaller the heat source, the longer the average thermal path between the source and the air/heatsink boundry, the worse the C/W, and the less effective the heatsink will be. If they had actually used a computer processor, rather than a bunch of heating elements, then my WAG is that they would have done 0.35°C/W.

It's a beautiful idea, but their setup looks nothing like reality.

1: http://www.dansdata.com/quickshot012.htm

2: They say that, due to the high sheer speed, there's no boundary layer, which "increases thermal conductivity several-fold". Well that's a cool story, bro, but air (0.025 W/(mxk)) is still sixteen thousand times less thermally conductive than copper! (401.0 W/mxk)) If you increased the thermal conductivity of air by 6.4 times, then it would be as conductive as... rubber, something which is not world renowned as a good conductor of heat!
Well, in that case they might not be following the protocol. And in some cases break the connectivity for others...
You may have missed your calling as a carnival age guesser :)

MB founders ages : 31, 40, 37, 35, 31

Definitely truth in what you've outlined, but we've also had the experience building another couple of boring businesses that haven't made us billionaires, but left us free and able to cash flow this project with years of runway.

It's hard as an entrepreneur not to jump into exciting, glad to see the response to the post today which was initially written as an email response to Noah ;)
This is a well done summary that is really appropriate for any RDBMS. More than worthwhile if you deal with hierarchical and relational data.
I forget where it was (Gladwell? Levitt?) that I read about the guy who had become quite wealthy by selling bowling balls online. It turns out there's a larger market for it than you might think, and nobody was doing it at the time.
Luckily that’s mostly no more a problem if your data is already on modern storage media. HDDs are cheap, making backups is easy and slowly but surly that notion that backups are necessary is entering the collective consciousness.

Data now just moves from HDD to HDD and is usually (or should at least be) on at least two HDDs (or one HDD and one SSD) at once, one of which is replaced as it breaks.

I’m not terribly worried about the expiration date of HDDs, it doesn’t really matter that they are only the temporary home of your data for a few years.

One interesting problem where the short lifetime of HDDs comes into play is how you should pass something on, for example to your kids or grandkids. It’s not their data, they probably don’t care enough (or don’t pay enough attention) to make sure to always migrate it to current storage media. Sure, they might enjoy looking at old photos and videos but how often will they do that? Every five years? Every decade?

Just stowing away a HDD in the attic is probably not a great idea. Using contemporary storage media that might survive longer is also questionable. Will it be easily possible to read CDs and DVDs in forty years?

I’m actually more worried about that than about file formats. I’m willing to bet that it will be possible to open up JPEGs with PCs (whatever they may be) in forty years. Even by default, even without getting any extra software. TIF is now 25 years old, it was never really widely used (at least compared to JPEG) but it’s still easy to open up TIF files. (Forget opening the raw files from your DSLR, though.)
Follow up. Signed up for the beta and got an invite in just a few minutes. I'm guessing they're keeping it open so if you want to play with it, use the invite code "instant." Hopefully that wasn't a secret

P.S. It's a pretty great tool. Going to use this in the near future.
Do you stream and rent DVDs from Netflix? Your plan just went up 60%
I don't usually have a password requirement, so I have that much longer to notice it. But even when I did have a setup like yours, it doesn't take me that long to type brandy6 and hit enter. I'd still ending noticing a wait.
I've experienced a few cases where I've joined somebody elses network with my Macbook and it's stolen an IP address that someone else was using.
These sites are masquerading as news sites with poor English rehashing of old news, or just pasting news directly from other sites. They aren't quality results that belong in Google News.
He might have meant the cheapness of storage and I sure hope he did. I could have kept incremental backups of all my digital creations in the last 20 years and it would not be 1 terabyte.
It's great to see a real-world writeup of cross-platform development using HTML5. One question: I tried the app on Android, and it looks pretty much identical to the web version, so -- success. However, the animations seem very slow and chunky -- I'm guessing less than 10/frames second, sometimes significantly less, even though the game is very simple visually. Is this an inherent limitation of HTML5 animations on Android? What about other mobile platforms (e.g. iOS)?
My university's homepage used to have random quotes by scholars on it's homepage. One of them went something like: "Every topic can be facilitating if you dive into it deep enough". I think it is really insightful.
I'm really unclear how the 1 disk out at a time is 'unlimited'. It's more along the lines of 'either I or my wife can see our choice'. And to call their streaming unlimited ignores the lack of depth in their streaming catalog.

I really only want the dvds for things that they don't stream. So, their new dvd plan is essentially a tax on me for their streaming plan not being good enough.

And now, given how often I actually get around to watching something, It's barely worth it at the current price, and not worth it at 2x.

[ edit quantification -- I've been a member this time for a year and a half, and just shy of half the streaming was in the first week, (two sick parents and kids to entertain will do that), and 7 titles streamed in the last year. We've gotten 7 dvds in that whole time, and watched all of 3 of them. Doing the math -- not worth $16/month. ]
> This only changes things if manufacturers start making 'empty' phones and require users to download and install their own free operating system.

Actually this is a very good idea. Phones could be sold with just a tiny 'installer' that downloads the OS directly from Google.

The first benefit would be that there is no software to sue the phone makers about. Microsoft, RIM and Apple would have to sue Google itself.

The second benefit would be that the phone uses stock Android, not modified with crapware.
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So, it amounts to firms relying on laws for their business model? Or, more accurately, the artificial monopolies created by said laws? That's doing it wrong. If you cannot stay in business without these laws, you shouldn't be in business in the first place.

Oh, and no, I'm not in the least tiny bit interested in developing proprietary software. :)
Random aside: The Netflix blog doesn't have page titles!
Trying to understand the goals and motivations of Anonymous is about as useful as trying to understand the goals and motivations of any inanimate object- it just isn't something that can be done, because anything is speculation, and any person who claims to be in anonymous can't answer for everyone. Its really best to just think of them as a black box that works without motivation.

The only thing that I applaud here is people (hopefully?) becoming aware that it is severe negligence to store passwords in the plain or with a simple MD5. Any programmer not doing something more secure (bcrypt) needs to learn, or get a new job. It just isn't acceptable practice in 2011 and it hasn't been in some time.

Also, if you have serious data, you have to take security seriously. Rarely have the Anonymous attacks been anything particularly clever from what I've heard, but have been more akin to walking in an unlocked door and pulling a folder out of an unlocked file cabinet.
Am I mistaken, or can Google "turn on" G+ for any google account, and have that count as a G+ user? It doesn't seem like these numbers are very meaningful. We need monthly-actives to accurately compare to Facebook.
I might be an idiot for asking this question, but how do you guarantee data is never lost?
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Race conditions in security dialogs; why you must wait before installing addons
I had a nice little company with 30 or so staff, the first employee was a major asset but made a huge mistake when left in charge, ordered 300k of stock in one day from suppliers, then went on holiday and was off sick for some time afterward. The bills wipped out the pre Christmas profits we made and very nearly bankrupted the company. It was a hard slog for a year to get back into the blank, during which time I put him out of the office in final checking and testing. However, after about 8 months of this he landed the bombshell, he was leaving. Despite all pleas for him to stay, (despite his honest blunder he was one of those people you need, would do over and above the call of duty), alas he left. When I replaced him and modernized the management it was less than 16 months later he arrived in my office after I had called him in tears ( I don't cry) explaining the bookkeeper and general manager had scammed me out of over 100k... later I explained why he was 'demoted' I was astonished to realize he was oblivious to the problem he had created, how on earth had I managed to miss that vital information while begging he stay with the company? Being too involved and too busy, along with not trying to have a blame culture is what proceeded those events. My utter shock though at his ignorance to the real problem, and in his boots I guess I would have left too.
Ask HN: How to confirm that over 500,000 Android devices are activated daily?
This following is stated by Andy Rubin in his tweet (https://twitter.com/#!/arubin).

"There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it's growing at 4.4% w/w"
Google certified ad networks and other abusers of Googles content network
Sounds like a much more difficult hack, but if you want to borrow mine for a while I'm not really using it much.
I did not mean it in any negative way. Just to imply that I am now fully into my products.
On some access points you can disable client to client traffic as a security precaution. If such traffic was disabled, it would probably break the ARP request to see if someone is currently using the IP. (@ 00.0180 seconds in the original article)
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Looking at the comments I'm amazed at how quickly the sense of entitlement sets in. Netflix cut the cost and hassle of entertainment by 80-90% over what was traditionally available from rental stores and cable subscriptions a few years ago. Big content is seeing their profits evaporate and playing hard-ball with Netflix, and all you get is whining from customers about paying $15/month.
A nice interactive feature would be: for the line graph that a slope graph is a "zoom" of (according to charlie's explanation), be able to slide or drag over the line graph and have the slope graph for the current focused period appear, either over or next to the line graph depending on available space.
How long do these experiments run? 1.25GB/s doesn't seem all that bad if the experiment is only seconds-minutes in duration.
TLDR: Netflix raises subscription cost 60%. The comments on the post are vicious.

They are duplicitous. DVD by mail is not a separate product. It is a workaround for the fact that they have failed to license their entire library for streaming. Now they have a perverse incentive to limit their streaming library to encourage people to pay extra for DVD service.

[edit] Now had they just said, "Hollywood is putting the screws to us, we need to raise our prices" I could respect that.
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High quality 3D printing, using normal paper as the source material - nice video
Won't do it. We built this for us and for you, enterprise will pay the bills :)
I think this is a horrible idea. I was actually thinking about upgrading my unlimited streaming plan to get the unlimited dvds option for $9.99. That price is such a good deal and I think it attracted a lot of customers because they were getting bang for their buck. But now that Netflix has announced this new pricing schema, I will definitely will not be doing so and I'm sure many customers are unhappy about this change.
It's unlimited because you can check out as many different movies as you want (building in transit time obviously). Netflix doesn't know or care you have a wife who wants a different movie, if you want two movies at once get a plan that supports that.

Similarly, unlimited streaming makes perfect sense because you can stream as many as you want. The selection of their available physical DVDs is limited as well, you always have to stay within their catalog.
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Hmm. Interesting. I have to wonder if you could do similar for Pandora and NPR (although NPR can send me all the ads they want and I'll even pay them, as I love it so much)
seems nothing more than just a price hike.

at the very least, they could have thrown in some good news about how they are increasing the quality of each service by adding a ton more stuff to netflix instant etc.
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That one, I think, has a consensus: spend some money on anti-piracy features. Spend more than zero, but as little as you can get away with. Don't make an app that's trivial to pirate - but don't spend more than trivial amounts of time trying to deal with the people who do pirate your app. Work on the next actual project. As gratifying as it may sometimes be, punishing pirates is not building revenue, skills, or adoption. Focus on those three things, and spend as little time on anti-piracy measures as you can.
So for folks like me, who have Unlimited Streaming + 1 Disc + Bluray, we've been paying $11.99 before taxes.

Now, we'll be paying $17.99.

That is a very significant increase and very unfortunate.

I don't begrudge what they're doing: Weaning you off your DVD habit and onto their streaming service.

But I just think they are jumping the gun. Get some more first-run content available first.

As it is, I'm going to take it on the chin and pay the extra $6, but with a lot less love for Netflix, for at least a little while until I forget about this.
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Not happy at all.

They just increased my bill by ~60% (9.99 -> 15.98), I use streaming for the most part and order DVDs when they don't have the movie for streaming.

At this price point I might as well go with Vudu or some other streaming service
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Except their costs for DVD services are a lot higher (hence it being more than a $2 add on). Netflix wants everyone to stream, but because they haven't been able to license and not everyone is interested in streaming (bandwidth and viewing location being two obstacles) they will have to keep the DVD side up for quite some time.
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You assume this wasn't done by the USA's military, like the anthrax attacks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
OpenMoko? How about Meego? http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/understanding_meego/