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"By then, TVs and/or sub-$100 set top boxes will be thoroughly integrated into the post-PC app ecosystems and will be powerful enough to run fairly sophisticated games."

A solid prediction, as at least one such device already exists: http://www.roku.com/roku-products (This is amplification, not disagreement or a "gotcha".)
>> "Netduino is also pin compatible with Arduino shields."

I think this is an awesome idea. Writing code in the original Arduino C dialect was a bit frustrating (for a Java guy). Being able to write in a higher level language that interops with already available Arduino accessories is just fantastic.
NPR’s flawed best scifi and fantasy poll
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Interest are accurate, but they don't have my age, which is very weird knowing I have a public Google profile (Google+ profile now).
Thanks Peter! We're stoked to have this out the door and excited by the potential.
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Okay now only $1,933 after my donation. :) The Sooner we can get of this planet the better.
I despise it when I try to unsubscribe and this comes up for me.

My simple response: click "spam" button in my email, thus decreasing their deliverability.

If you send out newsletters or whatnot, be sure to make unsubscribe obvious and single-click, otherwise you will face the ultimate in email marketing payback... no one seeing your messages.

As someone who used to be heavy in email marketing, deliverability is the holy grail, and it doesn't take too many times as marked as spam before you are lost forever.
Start to tell somebody about a cool story I read on HN. Realize I only read the comments.
Unix Fight - Sed, Grep, Awk, Cut Vs. PowerShell
The iPad has no competition, especially not from the Motorola Xoom
Weren't the Pyramids an expression of ego, and the Colosseum a sports arena? That said, I love the Sagan Series and agree with the spirit of your post.
Why use a cookie if you could finally make use of the Do-No-Track header (or however it was called)?

Granted, that's a feature only found in newer browsers, but it could help speed up the adoption of that header.

Anyways, I will continue to just block everything that remotely looks like Google (besides the API, that is. It's disconcerting to see how many websites rely on it to function properly).
Search different file hosts with General Files.
Thank you. Seriously thank you.
I think that's actually a really crucial point— not only do non-technical people not know how to code, but they don't know that they don't know how. People who have no idea how we do what we do assume that it's easy.

Edit: I actually think it's a little sad when you think about it. You know those steps for after "Google it" comes up blank, the ones like "Check if there are two things I can combine to do this" or "Look at the file format, maybe it's just tab-separated or something"? Those steps don't exist for most people.

This must be how mechanics feel about cars, huh.
I second that. I do not know him personally but I've spoken to him at a Product meetup in NYC and came away impressed by his level-headedness, tenacity and willingness to share what he had learnt the hard way. I've been following his blog since then.
You can't easily, and some obvious incentives muddle the issue further. The Chinese government, in the hypothetical case where they are behind it, has the incentive to disguise them as criminal-driven. The US DoD and some other agencies, in the opposite case, have the incentive to pretend that the Chinese gov is behind the attacks so that they may bring defense against such attacks among their tasks, which entails budget, manpower, prestige etc.
I suggest that SETI attempt to pitch the research grant divison of Hadden Industries. It is my understanding that S. R. Hadden is interested in this type of thing.
This reminds me of the 40% Android phones are returned story, or the one from yesterday with the Android Trojan, even though it was only made in a lab, yet they made it sound as if it already was a major issue.

Tech bloggers today are in such a hurry to defend "their side" that they will believe any rumor and will be quick to write a story on it to propagate the rumor further, as if it were fact.
But that also makes the incorrect assumption that each of those voxels must be populated -- which isn't necessarily the case. In fact, more will be unpopulated than populated, I would expect.
yup techmeetup is an open, no sign up needed event, I know what you mean about time, I have been meaning to go to refresh edi for months now and only made one. definitely worth making the time for though
This does virtually nothing to get us off the planet. Yes, I can construct a lengthy chain of events whereby a discovery that wouldn't have happened without this donation encourages us to further our space program, but just mailing money to Burt Rutan is more likely to have a direct result.
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I find column layouts useful, expecially for "hacking" purposes.
A while ago I attempted something you can check here

http://tilt2k.github.com/ressays/

Point to an Essay from the menu, with a CSS3 compatible browser you'll see an easy frontend pagination with very little struggle.
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Texas JavaScript | TXJS
however, saying that, there are so many different regional sayings that I'm sure somewhere in the UK it's called shooting red lights.
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Different tools have different affordances which make them useful for different things. Social conventions tend to accumulate around the rough spots. If a thing has merit, it will usually stand on its own.

This isn't a better email client. This is a worse email client. If you want short messages, XMPP is over there, twitter is over there, and facebook and G+ are over there. Pick something appropriate, please.
I thought the quote went: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
This is a compelling idea; it makes email more efficient in the same way Twitter makes blogs more efficient. There is power in concision.

However it would make a lot more sense to build it on top of Twitter DMs than on top of Gmail. Your Twitter friends expect curt messages, whereas many regular email correspondents will find subject-line-only email rude.
Ask HN: Am I too demanding?
I want to ask HN about a thing that's bothering me now. I'm a web developer and I have recently changed job (3 months ago) because I had a few conflicts at my last company and was overall not satisfied with the company and the role I had in it. I managed to get a job in a nice startup working on some cool products and I learned tons of stuff since I came here 3 months ago. As an added bonus, I now work 4 days a week and I am overall extremely pleased with this new job.

I have two friends of mine who are still working for at my last company and are actively looking for jobs so I try to keep them motivated by sending them links to job posts that looks nice and encouraging them to find a job they like instead of enduring the one they have.

What I am starting to realize is sometimes I find job offers that I would like to apply for. I find this strange because I am really happy with my current job but I still find some other places could be an upgrade for me. The thing is, this is an endless circle! There will always be a nicer job than mine (the grass is always greener on the other side as they say!). I feel sometimes as I should send my resumes at a few places even though I love my current job, just to see if I could get a really great offer (in terms of salary and work conditions).

Am I being too demanding? Isn't this silly of me to think I should keep sending my resume after finding a nice job? Has anyone felt like this before?

Thanks!
Has SETI actually found anything scientifically useful?

(This is an honest question.)
Read the RFP. 3/4 of the goals are about understanding, not influencing. After reading it, I'm excited about the kind of research I hope gets done and published around this. Five will get you ten the grad students/profs who work on it end up creating startups:

"
The general goal of the Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program is to develop a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base. In particular, SMISC will develop automated and semi‐automated operator support tools and techniques for the systematic and methodical use of social media at data scale and in a timely fashion to accomplish four specific program goals:

1. Detect, classify, measure and track the (a) formation, development and spread of ideas and concepts (memes), and (b) purposeful or deceptive messaging and misinformation.

2. Recognize persuasion campaign structures and influence operations across social media sites and communities.

3. Identify participants and intent, and measure effects of persuasion campaigns.

4. Counter messaging of detected adversary influence operations.
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The PSF helps out local conferences as much as it can - any "revenue" from PyCon is sent back out by the board of directors to local conferences in many, many countries. Check out http://pyfound.blogspot.com/
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841639
im a side-project guy myself, though i cant wait to be able to work full-time on either my startup/concept or another that im equally passionate about
That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.
Developer's Union
After hearing dozens of horrors stories from the Mac App Store/Android/Amazon/Google developers lately, I got an idea for a union that would have real collective bargaining power, because it would provide a library with an encrypted kill switch.

If Apple or any other company refused to play ball on something, all of the apps under the union could vote to be shut down for a day, effectively going on strike.

Developers would enjoy the privileges of membership in the union, because their support calls would get answered and any individual threats of takedown or lawsuit would face the consequences of union attention.

Apps could even be certified as "Fair Made" so users could find "sustainable" apps.

Maybe there would be other functions, to provide independent news on the state of development and any shenanigans like attacks on net neutrality or abuse of the patent system.

All that is missing is support from companies that have achieved success, such as Rovio (of Angry Birds fame), PopCap and humblebundle.com.

An organization like this will be protected under the National Labor Relations Act:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act

I did a quick search on developer unions here and all I found was this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2278166

So my question is, where do we go from here?
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"remember that vast swaths of land in Central Asia, Siberia, Canada, Alaska, Australia and Antartica are virtually uninhabited: we don't even need to go the moon or Mars or something to find space for humans." Uninhabited for a very good reason, with the exception of Canada and Asia, maybe. Seriously, Antartica?
This is not a new kernel, and there is absolutely no way in which moving to a BSD kernel would solve anything at all.

The NT kernel in and of itself is very small, simple, and remarkably well designed. The Win32 subsystem is what is horrid, and that's 99.9% in userspace. There's no reason that they can't create a whole new subsystem along side Win32 where they improve everything, but I don't see that happening.
Programmers and Designers: Can't We Just Get Along?
I'd add the best way to get involved is to join pycon-organizers (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers) - as things ramp up, more and more opportunities will pop up.
Seven people basically check each puzzle by hand, and yet it still isn't 100% foolproof? That seems hard to believe for the level of skill all these people have minus the freelancer.
It's also worth keeping in mind that he was making $250k a year doing something shortly after school and then started this company. Presumably he has a lot more of something or rather than the average (or even above average) person. His story is an extreme outlier.
Apple Introduces the "Original" Cocoa [WWDC 1996]
I use Session Manager. Open all the tabs you use daily, and then save the session and configure Session Manager to open that session on every startup. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manag...)
You probably want Linux containers (LXC). Or you can use KVM and get some memory sharing benefit by enabling KSM.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kernel-sha...
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Firefox does that in 5, at least as far as I can tell. It also updates addons silently. The only reason I've noticed things were being updated is addons that show a "what's new in this version!" page.

For me (and apparently a large number of people in this thread), I won't consider switching to Chrome until they get more powerful extensions, namely TreeStyleTabs and Vimperator/Pentadactyl. The current stand ins completely pale in comparison.
Amazon Local has expanded yet again to Chicago.
I am in awe of you ability to construct a lengthy chain of events whereby this is possible. You must know computers and stuff,
I just wanted to say that the PyCon WiFi reports are some of the most interesting reading I've had on the subject of keeping a wireless network stable with that large a crowd.

I look forward to this year's report ;)
And if you have a well designed web app that can handle the extra volume, you can prefetch everything and get amazing response times.
That didn't take too long :)
Yes you can buy really bad porn
I really hope that's because you own a bugatti.
How does the Research Triangle Park compare to other startup hubs?
> Well, now I’m telling you that Xbox applications need to run in kernel mode.

wtf?
how much longer will they operate after this fundraising drive? for eg. are they just going to have to ask for donations every year from now?
Yeah, I sometimes skim articles that cover familiar ground to see the authors take, then read most of the comments on HN.

I prefer the HN comments to the on-page comments for obvious reasons.
Exploiting an Obscure Massachusetts Lottery for Millions
Global cyber-espionage operation uncovered
IBM to Unveil Secure Open Wireless System at Black Hat
yipit, really? Yet another "Daily Deal" site is what the conf considered most likely to succeed?
As a way to become known and advance your personal brand, Quora is awesome. It's also a great place to go looking for talent. The community there is still small enough where you don't see a lot of cheezy recruiting.
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SETI@Home did some meta-useful work pioneering crowdsourcing of scientific-computing resources (later used by Folding@Home and others). No idea about the actual results of the data collection/analysis, though. Obviously they haven't succeeded in the headline goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence, but I would be surprised if they haven't found something interesting about analyzing vast quantities of signals (and anomalies in those signals) along the way.

Plus, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt because they're asking for an amount of money ($200k) that, by the standards of scientific research grants, is extremely small, so it's not taking a huge risk.
Programmer Needed: For Startup Cloud Based Real Estate Web Company
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What we have:

- Two years of energy designing the specifications for the cloud base web application.
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- System is 20% complete.
- An opportunity to meet the demands of a completely underserved industry.
- Huge upside with this business plan which is scheduled for a 3-5 year turn.
- CEO has previously owned and operated another software development company for 18 years. Sold it. Retired. Now is back in the game and wants to make his mark on a completely new and underserved industry.

What We Need:
- Someone who can see our vision and has a desire to become part of an exciting new startup.
- One or two exceptional ASP.NET programmers with Postgresql database or MySql, HTML/CSS and web application administration experience.
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Contact:
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I googled "rising senior" and got under a million results. Even more telling, the very first result was title "What is a rising senior?"

It's also worth pointing out that I'm US born and bred, spent 7 years at universities and was unfamiliar with the term. It sounded pretentious to me.
I wish there was a way to see what stories you (and a few other HN members) found interesting. That would help me build out my weekly Hacker Newsletter!
Wasn't the Apollo program just a show of force against the Russians? Wasn't the shuttle the same thing?

Wasn't SETI just a pointless project by a bunch of those pesky nerds?

Do you think that the Pyramids or the Colosseum were a waste of money?
Does it matter? Let me explain:

Look at the targets, governments like US, India, Vietnam with which China has a beef, and corporations accessing whose data can give leverage to Chinese companies and government. So, in the end, if you consider all the data that must have been collected, who is the most obvious customer of that data? Its the Chinese government. So even if it is a group of hackers, they must do something with that data. If it was a small time intrusion for bragging rights, then it wouldn't have continued for so long.

So, the way I see it, whether it was a group of hackers (i.e. not directly affiliated with the Chinese govt.) or Chinese government employees, the end customer of the data is the same and hence this activity must have been sanctioned by the government and hence even if they were not in the beginning, I have no doubt that they are currently behind it (whether that implies involvement or support is irrelevant).
Looked it up on the SETI website. First thing I found that has a real, direct impact:

> The signal processing techniques used for Project Phoenix have already been applied to the detection of breast cancer.

Check it out (http://www.seti.org/) there are lots of thing SETI does, and not just searching for little green men.
In the past, I've had some projects that I'd like to have tried, if I knew what I was doing with circuitry. I have a feeling an Arduino (or Netduino) would have taken a lot of the pain out of it. But eventually, I'd probably want to make a version that didn't start with a $35 part, possibly to sell or let others make.

Is there a pretty clear path from starting with a 'duino and moving to custom set of components (assuming we're not talking about anything crazy complex like making a smartphone lol) or would it be essentially re-learning everything from scratch?

For example, the other day I wanted to plug a GC controller into a USB port. I'm pretty sure I could wire it up to a programmable chip and make that happen. I'm also pretty sure an 'duino would be easier. But would making one version make it easier to make the other?
I think we've built/done plenty of cool things as a society and I don't think ending the space program negates that (or what was achieved with the space program in the first place).

I would really be more comfortable with a space program being funded directly by people like yourself in the form of donations to a gov-independent organization, because I for one don't really care all that much about continued space exploration and don't think the government should pay for it. Not that they don't spend tons of money on other stupid stuff, but hey, one step at a time...
Where did I hear this before...ah, yes, I remember now:

Stripped-down 'MinWin' kernel to be at the core of Windows 7 and more
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/stripped-down-minwin-ker...
I always believed this was part of the goal of wave, to integrate email into a more real time setting, and was always surprised that email integration never materialised.

I think the obvious advantage of doing it over email as opposed to instant messaging / twitter is that email is ubiqutous, I dont know exactly how well the worlds email servers would handle it though :)

I think an interesting alternative, instead of bringing the advantages of instant messaging to email is to bring the advantages of email to instant messaging, threads are ad hoc rooms that people can join / leave, the server can persist message etc (I just realised I am basically saying I want wave, but with email integration and without a sucky client)
I do not want to be driven by (sometimes subconcious) suggestive methods but by my needs.
I read the HN comments first, then I may or may not read the article.
Interesting that the numbers in the defense are off. Good voxel schemes store neither color nor normal per voxel. In fact, storing a normal for a voxel makes no sense. Implicit storage and volume based materials have been the standard for a long time.

For a look at a game based voxel terrain engine that's been around for a couple of years, download and try the C4 demo game and editor from terathon.com! (That engine is just one guy, too)
To sum it all up, we need more empathy for others and their situations we are not aware of. I highly recommend this short TED video http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_i...
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lol You are correct, if you meant he would program it himself. I meant that he'd pay someone to write it for him. Since that was obviously his idea all along anyhow.
MinWin is a new kernel and the old NT kernel has nothing to support virtualization.
Yeah. In general, nobody knows how to write network code. I have seen tons of network apps that perform horribly and use utterly absurd amounts of resources for trivial tasks.
Where Did You Edit - map of OpenStreetMap edits
I found the economic part interesting. Definitely sounds like a tough job with some poor incentives.

The other part, about the possibility that he is going through a personal crisis, applies equally to all interactions with strangers everywhere, so it seemed a little out of place.
you are the definition of hustling badass. gumption was a good adjective used here. cheers to your work and may one day we meet at the top ;)
It depends on how busy my week is, but I tend to at least start reading everything that is of interest. Sometimes I don't finish them if they don't live up to what I was expecting and for certain stories I just read the comments as I might learn more from that.

With my side project (Hacker Newsletter), I tend to also read articles that, while not relevant to me, would be something that my subscriber base would find interesting.
Video details Android browser intercept flaw
"The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I think it's just curiosity, and I don't think you need to worry about being too demanding. What you're really after is a net increase in your personal happiness. I don't know your financial situation, but an offer with a much higher salary could very well make you much happier than you are now. In that case it would be worth looking into. Just make sure that you don't leave what sounds like a very fulfilling job too lightly.
Sure it's safe. But that's because people are lazy. Taking your example of web apps for older browsers, shouldn't the teams behind those products be upgrading them anyways or at the very least trying?
Apple does not love its customers, Mac mini edition
US wants to build cybersecurity protection plan for cars
Reminds me of one of PG's best posts (IMO), See Randomness: http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html