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The cynic in me says: See XP Mode.
Samsung Considers InterDigital’s Patent Trove Along With Apple, Google
Alfresco 3.4 and H2 embedded DB
The methods used to target ads can be more intrusive than you realize (speaking as a data mining person). I wrote a short piece about it: http://blog.twodeg.net/when-your-data-sings
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Microsoft Announces $200,000 Security Prize
How is this in any way HN material?
How to deal Bad Client
A Bad Client spoil the whole project, so everybody should know the different between Bad Client and Hired Party. Here are some definitions and distinctions of Clients, you should avoid some of these. Very informative and important Article.
It's better work remotely even with lagging latency, that dress-up in funny suite and go to the clean room ;)
Any hackers in Boston looking to get involved in a growing start up?
I started a company about a year ago. Outsourced the development, did the marketing, grew it to 5,000 users, have some paying customers and lots of interest from others.

I'm looking to bring on a tech lead to help improve the product and service. I can offer equity in exchange for your skills. Right now I've met with some of Bostons top Vcs and Angel investors and have interest from both parties.

Anyone interested please feel free to email me (in profile) or post your email and I will email you. I'm located in the Northeast and would prefer finding someone also in the Northeast, but am open to anything.

Thanks!
Is there some kind of widespread anger at truck drivers? I've always found them to be the safest drivers on the road personally. Obviously their livelihood depends on their driving record so this is no real surprise.
1) Valid
2) You can't opt out of the ads. You're going to see them whether you want to or not.
3) You're opting out of the targeting, not the collection of your data. They will still have your data even if they don't use it for ad targeting.

Every now and then I see a perfectly targeted ad. like the other day I saw one for a chamber music concert a bus ride away. I saw an awesome concert and the venue got an extra sale. If that had been a random IQ test ad, I would have missed an awesome experience.

TL;DR targeting is better for everyone.
Should it (programming, creating an app, executing an idea) be this hard? Or would that only lead to more fart apps and more disappointment later in the process when the app doesn't hit it big?
I manage a remote worker and I'm the CTO of my own co-founded startup; yes there's a lot of stuff going on all at once, but I think it's a bit extreme to posit anything related to mental illness. If someone tanks like that, it's their failure as an individual to know what their boundaries are and how to uphold those boundaries (this would go so far as to even quit the job or stop what you are doing till you are well again).

I had to learn those personal lessons the hard way - a long time ago I was a quintessential nerd in that I didn't ever exercise, eat properly, or maintain a healthy routine AND I worked 80+ hour weeks. That was in an office with co-workers. Burnout wasn't just the symptom, it was one of many symptoms of a deep psychological shortcoming on my part: self-worth. The more self-esteem you have, generally, the more capable of knowing what your boundaries are and how/when to uphold them in the face of an encroaching white collar executive that doesn't understand what you do or why staring at a screen for 12 hours and eating donuts as a breakfast "bonus" is (IMHO) mistreatment. That example is an extreme one, but it's where I came from and now I manage my time effectively, have an equilibrium in my life that is healthy and feels good, and I own my own company...
If you're interested, a clue in a cryptic crossword in the UK must give you the answer two different ways, one of the ways is a synonym/description, and no word may belong to both of the ways. Sometimes a setter will not meet these criteria, so they append a question mark to the clue to mark it as not quite proper.

For example, "reprimand son for being so unfeeling" is scold -- a synonym of reprimand, and then s for son and cold for unfeeling.

I enjoy doing the cryptic crossword in our local paper. Unfortunately, the ones in national papers are too hard for me. Often the trick is knowing something like that a sailor used to be called a "tar".

They are a lot of fun though; I prefer them to general knowledge since all you need to answer them is time, lateral thinking and a good vocabulary. They are also a great illustration of the workings of the subconscious -- coming back to a puzzle after a short time usually yields some answers instantly.
It would really depend on what you want to use it for. (My experience is with the CR-48, so I can't speak to the commercial iterations of the ChromeOS notebooks.) I throw the CR-48 in my bag when I'm headed to the lake or on a trip and just need simple email/web access. Its also become great in the kitchen for recipes, in the living room for adding to my Netflix instant queue, and on the boat dock for looking up random stuff (always something that needs to be fixed, examined or researched on a boat dock).

In summary, its a very useful tool, but absolutely not a replacement for my MBP or T400.
Avoid the short haul on the long tail of social media
Ask HN: if you had to recommend one business book...
I'm an engineer with a rather limited business background. I was curious what HN would recommend as the best business books.

Cheers.
But was it even his idea and execution?

You can't really tell that much from this video. He had others involved (for shooting at the very least) and we don't know if he edited it, wrote the script or if any of the ideas were his or a friend. Not that anything was spectacular of course.

He should have at least put at the end some "credits" or even commentary on what part of it he was responsible for.

The video is trying to say "I'm creative and resourceful enough to do this video" but we don't know his actual role in the video other than that he was able to appear in this part.
Would a more extensive rail infrastructure eliminate the need for so many trucks? Does rail fail to scale at the distances and route complexities involved in traversing the US to all the major population centers? I promised I didn't intend to rhyme in the previous sentence.
You can pop the ATMega chip off of the development board and use it in place of the complete arduino. ATMega chips are pretty cheap (edit- I said $1 before but that may have been optimistic).

If you just want to plug a Gamecube controller into your computer this is probably a better option: http://goo.gl/Y0nP9
NASA has many space programs: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html

The shuttle has been canceled.
they aren't just another "daily deal site"--they're trying to own the space. also, from what I hear, their yipit data product (data and analytics on the daily deal space) has already experienced good traction from hedge funds and others interested in this growing space.
I've got a few little side projects on at the moment, but I'm aiming to make BugMuncher my full time job.
Scientists Bag and Tag the Stem Cell That May Create An Endless Supply of Blood
Maybe you missed the last line? It wasn't a "possibility", but an account of an actual event.

That said, I'm always saddened that folk don't consider such a possibility in interaction with strangers -- especially when it doesn't cost them anything. Assuming the worst of someone to protect yourself is one thing, but all too often I see such an assumption used as a reason to get angry at a stranger. Quite why people search for reasons to be angry I'm not sure, but it sadly seems to be a human trait. :(
Ok, maybe the migratory Tokelauans ate something other than some hypothetical health-optimized science-based diet. The science behind it was probably production-efficiency optimized. Where's the citation for some science documenting a group of people getting better health benefits from "modern scientific findings?"

Your claim:

Modern scientific findings, properly analyzed, are an astonishingly better guide to human health than any traditional collection of folk wisdom.
Progress On The Startup Visa Movement
> I find the Chinese explanation a little too convenient and a little too amenable to typical national defense thinking. What this article really says to me is that if you want to hack an American company, own a Chinese box first. Nobody will look any further.

Would you also limit your targets to things that would seem to be of overwhelming interest to the chinese government?
MinWin is NOT a new kernel. It is a subset of NT. Drop the binaries into IDA and look at it yourself, or dig around for Russinovich's talk on the subject of how they disconnected all the dependencies to build MinWin. Even Wikipedia disagrees with you: "MinWin is not, in and of itself a kernel, but rather a set of components that includes both the Windows NT Executive and several other components that Russinovich has described as "Cutler's NT"."

As for virtualization support, you're wrong on two counts: 1) with the creation of Hyper-V, a number of facilities were added to NT to support something akin to paravirtualization, and 2) MinWin has absolutely nothing here that NT doesn't have, being a subset.
There is a google chrome extension for 4chan that will let you preload all images or open all images inline. It also auto fetches new replys and loads them inline aswell. I am on my phone right now so I can't find what it is called, but IIRC it was the most popular and highest rated 4chan extension.
Let's say, my app is making me $1000 a day. Apple wrongs one of the members, and union decides to strike. That will mean $1000/day in lost revenues. No thanks. I assume anyone with a slightly successful app will say "no thanks" too.

Unions only work when the members are within a narrow bracket of income.
Ghostery + AdBlock, no information about me.
This thread is freaking me out =)

So you start a company and you're not supposed to care about money nor buzz? So how do you measure success?

The answer for a for-profit company must ultimately be money.
I'm part time right now, but will be starting full time in January. Wish me luck!

If anyone has the karma for it, (I don't) maybe we could get a poll started? This would work well as a poll.
How dire the situation in europe really is
I made up a word game in high school that became popular with my friends - tell me what you think. Basically, you solve for one word. The clues are words that have at least one letter from the word, in order, that have something to do with the word.

As an example, this:

---

storm

weather

drip

falling

---

would be "rain".

This one is considerably harder:

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fur

hibernate

claws

latin

brown

omnivores

---
HN is probably not the best arena in which to antagonize nerds.
Living on the Edge – new Adobe animation tool sparks necessary conversations
Will it? I don't think it will. There are a plethora of languages right now and people write more all the time. Go doesn't bring anything "special" to the table to give it Enterprise penetration. People are pretty entrenched with what is out there and it would take some confluence of events to make Go have penetration like Java, Python and others.
On the side. Can't afford to go head first right now. I am saving up to take a sabbatical in the future. Unfortunately this means I have to hide my work from my employer knowing they can technically lay claim on it despite the fact that all development is done at home.
I should also mention I have deep, intimate knowledge of the industry we service (its a B2B service) and lots of connections that will help us grow!
Behold! The power of hacker news!
If a truck driver (or anyone on the road) gets flipped off, it is usually because they are driving a huge vehicle too aggressively and dangerously.

If his sister died, or he's getting paid peanuts, he still has to drive respectfully and safely to avoid causing any OTHER people on the road to die.

Also, I don't think the financial information is correct. I've spoken with truckers in the past and many are making around $40k per year (hearsay), which isn't that shabby for the lifestyle.

Lastly, welcome to life. Guess what. Work is hard, people are mean, and most jobs become frustrating if you are in them long enough, and everyone has personal problems.

I'm not saying that it's OK to flip someone off, but I understand the helplessness of being in your vehicle with your family and almost getting run off the road by some trucker who seems to be "numb" to the fact that they are driving an enormous and deadly machine 70mph down the highway.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm getting down-voted, perhaps a few rebuttals in the comments??
Gotcha, totally. Sorry for misinterpreting your observation as agreement :)

You're right, it's rampant and in some markets it's hard to find an opportunity to work for a company while avoiding this kind of attitude. Shame. I've thought a lot about turning to contracting to 'solve' this problem. I'd rather have a dispassionate agreement based on what I think an hour of my time is worth than a personal one about how much of my available time I'm giving to an employer incapable or uninterested in evaluating my work product.

Fortunately, at present I'm on a ridiculously amazing team at an awesome startup and this isn't a problem I'm currently faced with.. but I've seen quite a bit of it in the past, and I expect to come across more in the future.
> Has SETI actually found anything scientifically useful?

Would you also reject a research grant for a potential cancer cure based on the fact that the researcher hasn't cured cancer?
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Regarding (2) my point was that non-targeted ads are almost the same as the ad not being there. My brain doesn't even process the "shoot the monkey" ad anymore.

Re (3), that sucks. If they're collecting and associating data with your account, but just not displaying the ads, I think that's a problem. Opting out should opt you out of associating data with your account.
Yes, it's found a wealth of evidence that there aren't currently alien radio signals being beamed at us. At least, in the directions we've looked, at the frequencies we've checked, within our feeble human understanding of what a signal should look like, we haven't seen any signals.

That's useful information. But the returns rapidly diminish. The first thirty seconds you use checking to see if your car keys are under the couch is time well spent. But if you're still looking under your couch two hours later... well, it's possible your car keys ain't there.
What interests me most about Will Shortz is the insight his his life and his spots on NPR have given me onto the natural human love of puzzles.

Although I personally do not get much of a kick from solving puzzles for their own sake, I definitely want to understand those who do. Seeing mathematician John H Conway give a lecture was also interesting because he was deriving immense pleasure from something while up on the stage -- and my best guess as to the nature of that something is puzzle-solving. Until that lecture, it had not occurred to me that puzzle-solving could be such an immense source of pleasure.
I'm actually a part of this survey. I have a SamKnows device (basically a Netgear router with custom firmware) that polls Charter's 'net service and I get monthly details and can even login to the SamKnows site to see how Charter is doing. Pretty slick.
No, but if the hypothesis were "lemons cured cancer", and decades of evidence had failed to show any evidence of lemons curing cancer, and the researchers are still saying "Hmmm, maybe we need to cut the lemons up in a different way" then I'd be disinclined to continue funding it.
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3 major universities are within 15 miles of each other, infrastructure is excellent, no overcrowding, traffic is tolerable, lots of room to expand, reasonable cost of living, beach and mountains are only a few hours away, you get 4 seasons here, large international population, brand new airport, green conscious, health conscious, cool downtown vibes, diversity...etc, etc
How can you say flipkart crushes infibeam? If Google trends is any indicator, they are running neck in neck.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=Infibeam.com%2C+flipkart...
It only takes one moment where your entire family almost dies because of a truck driver to jade your opinion of all of them - or at least to be nervous every single time one comes within a 100 feet of you. I don't flip off truck drivers, but I get an uneasy feeling every time I'm around them and I try to avoid them.
Shit, man, I'll give you that for free.
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Isn't this the same story as here?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828122

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2829953

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834002

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834122

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839674
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SETI has scanned the tiniest fraction of the nearby places to look. We're still in the first 30 seconds of couch-looking. It'll be centuries before we're at the 2 hour mark.

Also, as the exoplanet hunt gets better and better, SETI gets more and more data about which stars are the best ones to look at.
Simple way of linking taskpaper with git (i.e. tickets without overhead)
tl;dr - I quit my job because I want to make the next Facebook.
Thanks for your reply! I think I will try and send my resume to a few places that I find highly interesting and see if I can get a better salary just for the heck of it. If I don't succeed, then at least I'm not stuck at some place that I don't like!
Your argument falls into "Misleading Vividness" (http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/misleading-vividnes...)

The more common case is a driver being angered by the slight inconvenience of slowing down. Which usually is because they are in fact the one driving over the speed limit and therefore driving dangerously according the law.
This seems very similar to a product called LightCMS, which I have used before. Weebly seems to have better pricing though.
Bill Gates: Read the Kleiner report on USA Inc.
What if your researches had been looking at only 100 cells of the billions/trillions of cells in the lungs (for example), and they said they'd like to expand to 200 of the maybe 100,000,000,000 cells available.

Do you still want to discontinue the search? It seems a bit premature at this point.
Some historical perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer
> If someone tanks like that, it's their failure as an individual to know what their boundaries are and how to uphold those boundaries

I disagree - managers have a duty of care towards their employees.

> The more self-esteem you have, generally, the more capable of knowing what your boundaries are and how/when to uphold them in the face of an encroaching white collar executive that doesn't understand what you do or why staring at a screen for 12 hours and eating donuts as a breakfast "bonus" is (IMHO) mistreatment.

I'm sorry but employment is a power-relationship and saying that the critical thing is 'self-esteem' is simply wrong.
Serious question: is Xcode and ObjC the best way to write a "quick" iphone app? As opposed to using something like Corona[1] or Wax[2]

[1] http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/

[2] https://github.com/probablycorey/wax
I met my co-founders through Hacker News.
How to Build a Newsroom Timemachine
Personal cloud solutions - Own your data
I'd be curious to hear others' recommendations, but I've gotten a lot out of Good to Great, The Innovator's Dilemma, and Natural Capitalism.

If you're starting a startup, I'd recommend The Lean Startup over all of those, though.
You know what? If your job is crap, quit, or demand more pay. I never bought this "I have a hard job, so you should be nice to me" crap. You get compensated for your job. If you don't get compensated well enough, that's your problem.

And as for all the schedule crap? Also not my fault. I didn't make you late. I didn't regulate the speed on your rig. (And yes, that DOES make it safer, especially when you're running non-stop and tired.)

However, you -did- get in my way. For a long time. 3mph? Cripes, do you know how long it takes to move a rig around another rig at 3mph more while being safe?

Suck it up, buddy. You take crap from your boss, your co-workers, and anyone else at your workplace or your client's workplace, and you have the nerve to get upset at someone who isn't getting paid to deal with your crap?
I think this would be really useful. With those companies perpetually encroaching on our privacy and the freedom of the internet, such leverage would be really good to have.

Just a few quick notes on unions in general:

1. Even though union membership and participation is covered under the NLRA, companies break the law all the time. Organizers are fired and retaliated against for union activity all the time. The fact is that the labor board (the government body that arbitrates labor disputes) is too weak and the penalties for breaking labor laws for companies too lax that it is often work the small amount of hassle for a company to break a union illegally. This has been shown in many, many union recognition struggles. Because of this, a unions power is not through the laws that "protect" it, but in the ability of its member to take action and force the company to meet demands, financially and socially.

2. Assuming the first point, we must have a discussion to determine where exactly our power can be exerted. Your idea of the "kill switch" is right on; essentially, if a company stiffs a developer, the internet as we all know it could shut down temporarily.

3. There are really bad ass unions out there that are in to organizing groups of workers that other unions deem "unorganizable". Developers, I would think, are one such group, considering our geographic and occupational spread. One such union is the IWW (iww.org). I'm a member, and would really strongly encourage affiliating with them.

4. Actually, I think solidarity with the Foxconn workers in China might be a good first campaign.

So, yeah, I really love this idea and am willing to do the work to make it happen. IRC, anyone?
Or from a comedic viewpoint, the Monkeysphere: www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
Very nice. I've wanted to do an Arduino project for a while (or an Android ADK, or this) but I can't think of any project ideas. I don't want to create a remote controlled car, or a gmail notifier. I want to create something real, something useful.
Personally I wish the resources were put into folding@home and other similar projects. SETI did at least create the technology for this, which is great, but I personally don't find the project itself as anything useful.
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The space program was a way to get photographic intel on Russia something America didn't have much of. By letting the Russians get into space first we were then allowed to have photographic satellites that went over them without having legal issues which was worth the trade off of letting them get up their first.

One of the features of the Shuttle was that it provided a way to carry large items to and from space while safe and hidden inside of the vehicle.
"Adding interfaces" to improve is when i start to freak out too, also splitting a well-defined piece of code into multiple classes. I call that symptom "knowing object oriented programming principles too well".
Though I see what you're saying, and ideally he should still drive his very best, he's human, and he's upset, and that matters. You're getting downvoted because you show little empathy. Everyone's story deserves to be heard, including yours, and why you do what you do when you're not at your best. Excellent article.
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