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DANGER: Rating Agencies in Charge
The sub-prime crisis should have been enough warning for most that rating agencies seem to fall short of what they actually should be doing: understanding and accurately stating the risk associated with various debt instruments through the assignment of a credit score/rating. Instead, we continue to arm rating agencies with the power to cause market instability and political nightmares by placing so much emphasis on the subjective views of credit rating analysts. And it’s a dangerous trend. Take for instance Moody’s recent downgrade of Portugal at the beginning of July. Had there been any material changes in the country to warrant the sudden downgrade to “junk” status? The timing of such a move (in the middle of the eurozone debt crisis) was questionable and more importantly, dangerous, given the turbulence of the markets today. Moody’s move sent stock markets tumbling, the euro crashing and sparked fears of another round of contagion.

Just like Portugal, the U.S. will soon become a victim of the rating agencies. For a country who has wielded a AAA rating since 1917, a downgrade would be a financial “armageddon” with disastrous effects. Even if the U.S. raises the debt ceiling and avoids a default, the rating agencies are still threatening a downgrade unless there is a credible deficit reduction package in place. In the event of a downgrade, Moody’s explicitly stated that to re-gain the AAA rating would require a fundamental process reform of the way the U.S. government goes about its business. Conservatives usually bristle at the notion that rating agencies could wield so much influence over our policy making, but this seems to be the case today. And it’s about time people started to notice.
Do you think John Resig needs the latest hardware to run VIM and Firefox?
Is it worth asking about the programming environment if you're already in the office and can see evidence of it all around you?
A run on the banks, or a surprise lock-out followed by exit and devaluation = poor now.

Decades of austerity measures = poor for the rest of your life.

I know which sounds more sensible to me.
I prefer Goo.gl as it looks more like Google but I guess the shorter the better. There's http://gplus.co/ for Google profiles at the moment (unofficial) so G.co would be cool.

Update: I thought they'd just replaced Goo.gl but looks like it's just internal. Goo.gl started off as just internal too.
I've made this comment before on here. I purposely develop on older hardware because of performance concerns. Pretty much any code you write performs well on an i7 but will it perform well when it gets to your clients who are all stuck running Celerons? I always keep my development machines back a few levels so that I know if it runs well for me, it will for the end user.
Tweet buttons on lockdown: making the Twitter-widget work over https in Rails
I wrote about 'mental gyms' some time ago - http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/mental-gyms/ - but I think I prefer the social aspect of your idea more :)
Show HN: DevDirective - making developer content better
Unfortunately, we seem to have forgotten that in the US as part of the adversarial position between law enforcement and citizens.

It's sad that our system has become more about winning and less about finding the truth and laying down justice. Here's a horrifying case where police and the prosecutor worked lied to convict a man who ended up in prison for 10 years before being release:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18385647

There was another story (not surprising in Denver again) where over 10% of the police force has been reprimanded for lying while on duty. This includes falsifying evidence, police reports and even lying on the stand. Most were still employed for some reason.
My experiences with CloudFlare
Is There Enough Risk for Entrepreneurs Right Now?
From the CTO perspective choosing a niche language is considered a much bigger risk because when your lead developer gets bored and quits you then have to scramble to find another lead dev who can quickly grab the reigns and continue. I've talked to many a CTO who have mandated PHP for exactly this reason, because you can throw a rock and hit a dev who knows PHP.
That ignores the diminishing returns on additional staff. Also your math is off let’s say 1 person costs 100k/year including benefits SS energy hardware office space etc and you upgrade every 2.5 years that’s 5k/person above the base cost of having any hardware/software.

Now, it can be close if your comparing 150 people vs 151 people but I can tell you better hardware would be more productive in that case.
Why US health care costs grow: The most important chart in health policy
If you discuss MVP in terms of Customer Development and the Lean Startup methodology, I think that Eric Ries puts it best by saying that whatever you, as the entrepreneur, think the MVP is, is already WAY too big. Whatever you think the minimum viable features are for your product/service, you should cut it in half - and then do that 2 more times. That's your MVP.
Police live-tweeted a drug raid
Going half a day without committing code is missing the point of version control.
Ask HN: Anyone hiring entry level developers in NYC?
Hi there I am leaving my current job a lot sooner than I thought and I am looking for something else.

I am scanning indeed and other job boards. Hope you guys can point me to some leads.

About Me:

I graduated college a few months ago with a BFA in Web Design and Interactive Media. I can't design but I have an eye and know about designing for the user.

Skills Advanced:
HTML/CSS

Basic/Intermediate: PHP,JavaScript(and jQuery framework),MySQL

Really Basic/ Just starting: Ruby on Rails

CMS:

I am good with WordPress I can build custom themes from scratch and I am starting to delve into plugins. I have used Joomla! can't build custom themes yet but I know my way around it. I have been taking a look at Drupal! I am starting to learn to build themes and work with it.
Gigwalk finds a market for mobile temp work; signs Microsoft as a client
NewRelic: Collecting 20+ Billion Metrics a Day
Is that $99 for tasktop? I've been waiting a week for that one, and will just buy another license myself if it hasn't come through by Thursday. Just as I did for Fusion and Igor...

Now, if I could just afford a CX1...
the problem is simple, most people come to django with no previous web development knowledge and no python experience. they expect it to "just work" like php.

this ain't gonna work that way. if you know python, you will always find your way out by looking at the django code (there lie the best examples of how to write django.)

and if you have web development experience, you will recognize the time you've wasted on boilerplate stuff django gives you for free.

'nuf said.
Moving classifieds into the future. Classifieds 2.0
http://www.everclassify.com (EC) is a unique classified experience.

What sets us apart:

EC allows sellers to advertise locally and nationally by setting a visibility, sellers perspective
EC allows buyers to search locally and nationally by setting a visibility, buyers perspective
EC provides options to display items in a gallery
EC provides premiere ad options
EC provides search capabilities to finds items instantly
EC provides sellers the option to see post analytics
EC provides an optional silent bid system for buyers to anonymously interact with sellers
EC provides an optional silent bid system allowing seller to award a bid to whom they choose
EC provides options for sellers to post in more than one location or multi-city posting
Attempts at humor typically get downvoted at Hacker News. HN is more interested in discussion than humor, so it's downvoted as noise.
Eclipse shows you build errors by compiling your code in the background as you type. I believe you can disable this, or make it happen less frequently. This is the cost of red wavy underlines for compile errors. I don't remember the exact setting, as I haven't used Eclipse in years, but it's in there.
The History, Benefits, and Use of Standing Desks
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There are certainly benefits to having everyone upgrade at the same time, though. From a technical standpoint, it seems better to have everyone on the same setup so that you only have to deal with the same set of problems. You might also be able to get a deal for buying in bulk.

Additionally, it would be frustrating to use your credits too soon and then the guy next to you gets something twice as good one month later. So just play it safe by keeping everyone on the same playing field.
My key takeaway: Steve Blank is an asshole.
5 Entrepreneurs That Are Shaping The Buyer Powered Market
regarding unemployment, i would very much doubt the economy is growing, and it's not going to grow for a good 1-2 years. Unemployment drops in the summer months because of tourism, too.
why the second slash?

http://g.co/+nirlevy

one unnecessary character saved

EDIT: the second slash g.co/+/nirlevy version was in the orignal comment (which was obviously updated without notice)
This is absolutely huge. India's only blockade from a full fledged nuclear power system has been a uranium shortage. And India's biggest problem stifling innovation has been energy. This discovery is going to have profound impacts over the next 50 years.
I guess it depends on an individual's perception.

One time - I searched for something out of curiosity.

Eighty-four times - I searched for the term on several occasions because I was using it as part of some process or had an ongoing need for the information. Or possibly I was going to use it in some process, but decided not to, then revisited it later when I considered it again.

Inference is an important part of human cognition. We're pretty good at it. The subtle differences in the details influence the inferred outcome, and they should.

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Note that I am not suggesting this inference should be the basis for a conviction in trial by jury. The standard by which we judge evidence in a trial is not the same standard by which we develop opinions.
With some of those "un-answerable" questions that come up in interviews I've had good mileage from just turning them around back on the interviewer. After all, a lot of the time these interviewers just ask the question because it's part of the "process" or something without fully understanding the question themselves.
However, you have to read the situation well in order to get away with this!
"Best machine you can get" would often be overkill. Consider the "best" on the Apple Store today: a 12-core Mac Pro with RAID and 2 27" Apple Cinema displays, you're looking at more than $12,000. And unless you're overflowing in VC cash like it was 1999 it would be insane from a business point of view to equip every developer with this kind of hardware.

By the way many folks are highly productive using a text editor to write code. They might start off slower but end up actually learning the language and libraries they are using. IDEs that step in and try to take over while I'm typing drive me insane.

Back to the primary topic, certainly it's a false savings to skimp out on buying an adequate machine for the task, but for most devs who spend most of their time in an IDE or editor, something like buying last year's best is often completely adequate and much more economical. To expect the "best machine you can get" without regard for cost is not realistic.
why, that's almost as hypocritical as stopping enemy soldiers from shooting at you by... shooting at them!
and having been an intern for twitter...
For cueyoutube - there's no backend! It's just a static page with some JavaScript on it (mostly jQuery but totally hacked together because I can't stand JavaScript :)

I actually copied and pasted most of it from other sources (which I've listed on the page).

The playlists are "saved" by sharing them - each playlist exists only as a URL containing a comma separated list of video IDs.

I've been sharing on Twitter using the #cueyoutube hashtag.

Unfortunately, however, my primary webserver is down due to a drive failure - I'm waiting for the VPS image to copy to a new host now. Bummer :( Should be back up in about an hour with any luck.

There are some suggestions from people over at http://cueyoutube.uservoice.com/

I really want to only work on the site in response to user demand, you know? Like I want to keep it as an MVP always. If people like it, then they will use it and make suggestions and I'll react to that.

I'm really enjoying the "throwaway" nature of the playlists themselves (ie. you don't login, you don't give them a name, you don't "save" them, you just create, share and move on with your life), but also the "throwaway" nature of the project - it's good to have something that's useful but that I'm not so heavily invested in (unlike Decal, which I'm like, totally invested in to the point of insanity).
The expectations have increased over time. Batch processing banking transactions on a Manframe is a lot easer than writting a bannking website today.
The .tv TLD is owned by a country - Tuvalu if I recall correctly, much like the .co is owned by Columbia and making a reasonable sum these days.
How is this different than any sort of non-free (as in beer) communication? Either he wins or he loses and folks may have an opinion on which is going to happen but to blast him for charging for a service that may provide value is ridiculous.
"U-2 Reconnaissance Aircraft at Osan"

Some sort of airforce RickRoll?
It is not about 'nature' as some mystical attribute. It is about the basic physical limitations of reality.

The restrictions instituted by normal property are grounded in the actual restrictions of physical reality. The restrictions instituted by 'intellectual property' have no such grounding.

> If I tell a guy my idea, and he implements it trivially with huge profit, then the loss is very real to me.

It is not real at all, and it justifies nothing.

If something is physically taken from you, you lose it -- whether there is any law or not. If someone else makes money, you lose nothing -- the idea of loss you present is entirely dependent on assuming there is a law supporting it. A law cannot be justified by itself; that is circular.
I guess that depends on your powers of observation. But even if you trust in your powers of observation, it is an excellent opportunity to compare what you observe with what they say. If things don't mesh, you have to wonder.
No, I don't think so. The Linksys ones are a clear level down, now badged as "Linksys by Cisco" or something similar. The "Small Business" ranges aren't the kind of equipment home users would normally need, but should be plenty for a small office. I'd point you to a link on the Cisco site so you could see the sort of devices for yourself, but as I mentioned, they seem to keep moving them around. :-(
2 examples how great sound effects turned boring apps into mobile fun 
We all know how important music is for games, whether they are played on mobile, desktop or Wii/PS. But, what’s more interesting is how some creative developers managed to turn ordinary apps into great things by adding cool music and sound effects.
How California ISO uses Google Maps, big data to manage power
Launchrock, a service for hosting and tracking launch pages, launched with a launch page

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/launchrock-rocks-launches/
> Also, when they do ask you about how much money you want, give them a range or a baseline (ex: I had X at my previous job, so I expect at least X or from my research people doing this job receive between Y and Z, so I’d expect something in that range). Let them come up with a number.

I don't understand this advice, if I say I expect 'at least X', then it's me coming up with the number, not them. I have always just said I'll comment on what is offered.
Quick aside: does ESXi still impose too much overhead to move a compile farm onto VMs?

A friend of mine tested it 3 years ago and it was something like 300% slower (no idea about the disk config, but he's a smart guy). It would have been worth it at anything under about a %50 hit...
Keratam (2011) Telugu Mp3 Songs Download - Tollymp3z
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Game designer here.

Why not put in a time limit, but wrap it up in some kind of imminent death? "You have 30 days left to live." (Game days, of course).

It might be really interesting to see what comes from it, as people start with grand aspirations, but eventually flip to frantically trying to complete something.
Help Wanted page for github
Texas Study Raises Questions About Impact of School Discipline
I think that's one of the most important things about MVP - don't bother automating processes until they are actually taking up your time.

As a consultant I see a lot of people put way too much effort into developing bespoke software to automate or "improve" workflows that don't even really exist in their business yet, only to find out that the real bottlenecks exist in places they never even knew (and that they've wasted a bunch of money building something they'll never really use).

It's like a "real life" analogue of the adage "premature optimisation is the devil".
i think the parent meant that the developer would not be able to get any more work done during that day because their machine is without a hard drive, not that the code on the hard drive would be lost.
My girlfriend watched almost the entire trial. I sat in for some of it. After about 30 minutes, I literally said out loud, "Neither of these legal teams are interested in the truth; they're only interested in winning." Not only is your statement true, but it's become blatantly apparent.
Facebook's Playground Tactics.
I don't own a Kindle yet.

But this may be the last straw that will drive me to buy one.
That must have been one of Ken Thompson’s more productive days.

(alluding to a quote from him that I can’t source, “One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.”)
>I 've been a supporter of an immediate exit from the euro from the onset of the crisis.

The problem with changing currency is that its impossible to pull off without having bank runs that would make the Great Depression look like a bad ATM line. Changing a country's currency takes a lot of preparation. New bills have to be printed. New coins have to be minted. The currency has to be distributed to banks. Exchange rates between the new and old currencies have to be set. Do you really think that this can be done in secret?

No, if Greece decided to go back to the drachma, there would be a massive financial panic as everyone with a Greek bank account tried to pull their Euros out and move them overseas. The civil unrest that would cause would make the current protests look like a small crowd of rowdy teenagers.
You've polarized the issue pretty intensely here. A developer using the '10 MBP is not really going to be less productive than one using the '11 MBP. But that's where this logic leads.
Looks like most of the images have been taken down?
This is not what the author wants. The article includes the sentence "Fire­fox lets you clear an hour, two hours, four hours and everything." which leads me to believe that they did actually try.

What is desired is clearing everything BEFORE X/Y/Z hours/days ago.
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If you're young and from the right countries it's very simple. It's called a working holiday visa. Usually gives you around a year to work and live in the destination country.
Why 301 Redirects Are Important
Note that there is a wireless standard for interfacing with biosensors called ANT+ (www.thisisant.com). You can get a USB stick for $30, and a heart-rate strap for $35-40. Most Sony Ericsson Android phones come with ANT+ integrated as well.

So I'm not sure what this adds to the what is already commercially available other than Arduino integration and maybe the fact it's slightly cheaper?
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No, it's an SSH client.
This is very true; that's why I hate the Scala compiler and when working with Java I take special care to have a lean and mean compilation strategy.

For example with Java I use manually written Rakefiles (I prefer it over Ant since I have more control), I make sure it doesn't compile unless files have actually changed and in case the project is getting big I start separating functionality in multiple projects, having multiple JARs as a result.

Then, I'm using Emacs and in Emacs I can start a build whenever I'm hitting "Save" on a file. And in case of compilation errors, Emacs even highlights the errors for me.

You have to work on it a little and you lose time on the actual build process, but you can achieve a lean and mean setup (unless the compiler really sucks).

Of course, this is the advantage of an IDE - it takes care of annoying details for you; but then you have to put up with all the bloat that brings. And for humongous projects, your IDE will choke anyway, even if you have the latest state-of-the-art hardware; try loading the Firefox codebase in Eclipse CDT or in Visual Studio sometimes.
I use groovy on grails
wow :O
Nah, the codebase just hadn't been touched by the FSF yet.

See also, "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful" (http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/).

It seems telling that the GNU echo's source is "derived from code echo.c in Bash."
Well I think you missed what this is all about. Apple has a hard time taking Android down so they are attacking HTC and Samsung indirectly attacking Google. They even joined other companies to buy Nortel Networks patents.

So in fact Apple could be suing for patents they bought without innovating. But ofcourse the same could be said about Google when there bid was accepted.

It's all a stupid game where innovation is the real loser.
Only if you write plugins for the same IDE you use to develop in.

If you write Java code, you need 2GB for the IDE on a large project.

But then, many people don't write software to run on customers machines.
Red Hat GC: Bilski's growing up, and smacking down some bad software patents
I was thinking of a standard. From your website, it seems that you are developing a product.
But the Right Thing™ would be for Eclipse to lower the priority for such checks, so that they wouldn't conflict with the interface. I often have processes using all my available CPU time, but since they run at a 'niceness' value of 19, they don't affect the interactive tasks.
Have you checked out the interview with Jerome Breche on Mixergy? Your product sounds a lot like what he started off building (Snap-a-Bug) and then he pivoted to start snapengage.com

It's a great story, you should check out the interview.
The better solution here is to have a couple of "gold disks" of a default developer machine; with all the required programs etc.

That way if you go down you can just swap the drive out and be on your way again.

This is what we do (and we have a lot of hard drive churn due to heavy use) and it works well.
Okay, so... from UNIX v5, OpenBSD added a -n flag that prevents a trailing newline, Plan 9 adds the -n flag and pushes the argv into a buffer (why?) before printing, FreeBSD does all that and also prevents a trailing newline if the last argument ends with "\c" (why?), and GNU does... something complicated.
> If you're using Eclipse or (god forbid) a text editor to write code, spend a minute and tally up all those 5-second chunks of your life you've spent this year looking up the names of variables, objects, whatever, and running into runtime errors from typos. Multiply by $$$/hour and see what you could have spent on a decent IDE.

This is a bit of FUD. There are plugins for most text editors that give them features that most IDEs have. For example, my Vim setup has tab and code completion, snippet management, syntax error highlighting in real time, code folding, document and file search, etc. I can also traverse a file faster in Vim than an IDE, my fingers do not ever need to leave the keyboard, and it's completely free (as in beer and freedom).
Dealing with White Noise