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I have to go with Bill here. A mistake I see often repeated by the inexperienced is that they think they need a designer on staff that will produce work for everything from branding and business cards to social media and UX development. You don't need to hire a seasoned UX pro and I give you this advice from the perspective of a seasoned UX pro.

You need branding and some design work done for your business needs and your application: hire an agency or a self-contained talented designer. They're out there, they may be expensive in the short-term, but if they create a well-documented, solid style guide, it will pay off in the future. After the contract is up and the work has been delivered, part ways and maybe continue to employ them sparingly as needed, but there's no reason to keep them on. What are they going to do when you run out of tasks for them? They'll leave.

The person you do need to hire is young, energetic developer who can build UX and is eager to learn. That means they can take a PS comp and a style guide and build the apps you need in HTML, CSS and Javascript with extensible production-level code. Want to know who to hire? Have them submit their github, stackexchange and rss feeds. Measure progress and ability levels and set their salary expectations accordingly. Most developers who are eager to learn will jump at the opportunity to work on a project that may teach them new skills. Just keep the work interesting enough and they'll be good to go.

Your UX prospect has design talent and can code? Then your screwed. There's so much work out there right now that if it comes down to salary, they can walk out at any minute.
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It depends on what you mean by "debts"; you're only in default from the finance industry's perspective if you fail to service bonds/loans/etc., not if you fail to make other payments you've promised. For example, if IBM stopped paying its employees' salaries, or stiffed its suppliers, but continued servicing its bonds, it wouldn't be in default. S&P is specifically rating the chance of a default on bonds.
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This reminds me of the AC vs DC debate in late 1800s. There were public staged demonstrations showing how harmful AC was. Of course none of this stopped AC from becoming the default standard for long range power transmission. Same goes with electric cars too. Regardless of what these fossil brains try to prove, there is no stopping to new technologies. Once the battery technology catches up, EVs will become more popular.
Sure, if you choose to look at it that way. But if you're going to make "Non-convertible floating FX currency regimes (ie fiat money) ... can meet any and all financial obligations by issuing currency", then you've got to consider that entire reference frame.

Issuing currency is identically equal to inflation, which is itself nothing more than a tax levied against those holding assets denominated in that currency. Using this option makes continued borrowing increasingly expensive, because those holding the debt wind up not getting repaid in actual value, only in nominal currency.

So when you look at the world from your perspective, the result is still that, long term, continually increasing deficit and debt is unsustainable.
I have to say this is the first time I've seen someone argue that confidential informants receive special protection from Law Enforcement outside of the Witness Protection Program, which is a federal thing and quite specific (and limited) in its application. Do you have a reference for this "basic assumption?"
When compressing javascript down, missing a semi-colon can cause broken js, especially in older IE browsers. Trailing commas on js object literals would also freeze an entire page in IE. When that happened it would often take several days in jslint trying to work out where the broken js was from.
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return i++ is not ambigous. It will return the current value of i, e.g. if i was 2 it will return 2, not 3. But that's just how the post increment operator works (in every language that I know of), that has nothing to do with semicolon insertion.
If I cancel lawn service and the housekeeper for the week so I have money to pay the mortgage, I am not in default.
True, but small and dense also works in favor of an EV. The car tells you it's charge and uses GPS to determine if you can make it to your destination so you don't run out along the way. I suppose my point is running out of charge isn't something that would happen by accident and acting like it is can be misleading.
S&P's mistake is certainly incredibly embarrassing but apart from that I'm asking myself a much more fundamental question:

Why is the ability to pay considered at all when it comes to the US? A country that is indebted in its own currency can theoretically never default on its nominal obligations. Not due to inability to pay at least. I don't think that credit rating agencies even try to pass judgement on the likelyhood of governments inflating their debt away, so based on ability to pay the US credit rating should be fixed at AAA.

On the other hand, S&P clearly says that what they judge is the ability AND the willingness to pay. Considering the number of congressmen and women who recently voted in favor of default, the willingness to pay has to be in great doubt. In that light, I think, the US does not deserve a AAA or even a AA. B seems more appropriate.
I ended up going to summer school for physics because my teacher "unfairly" gave me an F. She told us at the beginning of the school year that we only had to do 10 of those honor questions (out of 20 possible) every unit and at the end of the year told us "Oh, I meant you only had to do 10 to not drop a letter grade" which was retarded and the class went nuts at this. And once, another student accidentally took home my packet for the weekend on the day it was due and when I tried explaining it to the teacher the following Monday, all she could do was smile and say I get a zero regardless. It was worth a SIXTH of my grade. She also never taught us and just threw homework and tests at us.

I was pretty pissed that I ended up getting an F instead of a C or D even. If you think an A to a B doesn't matter, change ALL your A's to B's and see how you like it being "fair". As for the credit downgrade, maybe it was right maybe it wasn't. Still trying to decide for myself.

P.S. That damn physics teacher is still teaching (aka sipping her Diet Pepsi in her chair all day) at my school.
Independent of this error, there is no justifiable rationale for downgrading the debt of the United States... The magnitude of this mistake – and the haste with which S&P changed its principal rationale for action when presented with this error – raise fundamental questions about the credibility and integrity of S&P’s ratings action.

The conclusion blog post sounds an awful lot like an opinion, considering the title is "Just the Facts".
Assuming a cleanup is significant, yes, I'm fairly sure Google or another high-profile Linux contributor would have done the same. It's just maintenance work - necessary, but not industry changing like the initial release of GNU+Linux (as a complete OS) was.
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> Issuing currency is identically equal to inflation

That's the main dogma of monetarism, but the empirical evidence for it is fairly contested (especially by neo-Keynesians). Measured inflation in many cases doesn't seem to actually move in line with what changes in the money supply would predict; for example, we should have much higher inflation currently than we do. Some monetarists did predict significant inflation, or even hyperinflation, two years ago, in the wake of stimulus spending and quantitative easing, but it didn't materialize. But I suppose I'll keep reloading http://www.hyperinflatingyet.com periodically just to be safe...
> When Ronald Reagan was a radio announcer, he used to call baseball games by reading the terse descriptions that trickled in over the telegraph wire and were printed out on a paper tape. He would sit there, all by himself in a padded room with a microphone, and the paper tape would eke out of the machine and crawl over the palm of his hand printed with cryptic abbreviations. (...) His listeners, many of whom presumably thought that Reagan was actually at the ballpark watching the game, would reconstruct the scene in their minds according to his descriptions.

> This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan. The same is true of Graphical User Interfaces in general.
I'd liken it more to The Daily Show actually, a news show with a comedic twist. While there is comedy involved viewers expect what they're seeing not to be lies or fabricated stories. Hiding behind the "we're an entertainment show so we don't have to have facts" whenever someone questions a review is lame.
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Also, the Senate was once elected by the States, which may have been intended by the founding fathers as an important check on the expansion of Federal power. State-elected senators would serve their state governments, who would probably not want to see the massive appropriation of state power to the federal government.
Google's JavaScript style guide requires explicit semicolons; rationale: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascript...
Sure, whilst you're alive, your data is being preserved and transported to new ways to store it.

But what about when it's your children and grandchildren? My father has most of my grandmother's personal effects and pictures.

Can you bet that your grandchildren will be able to access and recognize your data, pictures and music.

As an example, we've already seen one DRM protected storage system fail in the market, the ironically named 'PlayForSure', any guarantee that others will survive? What about archaic image formats? What about 40 years from now?
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Given your first paragraphs about forced learning, your last one about how you don't know how to fix your problem in Windows so you just leave it broken is a strange contrast.

If the subtitles are plain text with annotations on their own lines, a one line command will strip them out:

for /f "delims=" %x in subtitles.txt do @echo %x | @find /V "[" >> subtitles2.txt

And if you do need sed and regexes, get sed for windows: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
the really insidious effect of this patent trolling is that it robs capital from true inovation. Instead of companies like Google and Apple spending money on hiring people to inovate and create new products, they are spending billions on defending what they already have. Very sad.
What a troll of a headline (of course, I clicked it, so it worked). It'd better read:

It's Official: Apple's WebKit Is Now More 'Open' Than Google Android.

I wonder how much of this will be rectified when Ice Cream Sandwich is open sourced.
I found the post very poorly written. Is this the best Treasury could do to explain the situation?
do you expect an iPhone blog to give glorious reviews to an Android phone?

Glorious reviews? No. But if Jon Gruber were to make a video deliberately faking an Android tablet's battery running down, I would ask questions.

Watching Top Gear for car buying advice is like watching Jersey Shore for dating advice.

That’s worth an upmod right there. Thanks for the smile!
Buy the LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile. It's not super-powerful smartphone, but it does everything that I need it to and is only $150. Then get the $35 / month plan that goes with it.

To tether you only have to download the "Quick Settings" app from the Android market and turn on the wifi hotspot. I'm on the move a lot and have used this as my main internet connection for the last 3 months.

No contract, unlimited data, stop any time. The deal was too good to pass up.
I wrote about this under another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2853308

The problem isn't that the workforce can't be programmers, or other technology related discipline. Entry-level programming skills can be picked up in days by virtually anyone. The problem is that, unlike the jobs of the past, there is no force to drive companies to hire anyone but the very best.

If every single person in America knew how to program, they still wouldn't be working, because the companies would hold the position open until someone who is better at programming is available.
Yes, really?
Bullshit. MIT shall censor these blogs sometimes.
Some general feedback:

- on the statistics link the top ports to their info.

- provide more information, like how to open or forward ports etc

- your url format would be so much easier if you could just type whatportis.com/xxxx or whatportis.com/keyword rather than the index.php stuff

- it's not clear you can search for software that uses a port, you do say name but it would be more clear if it said something like "80, http, world of warcraft" or whatever

- "is this port open on my computer/server/whatever"
Yes, the line joining is precisely where people trip up, the classic example being

return
{ foo: bar }
This is FAKE!

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/48... [updated with English article]

But it's a really cool, fun idea :) grocery shopping while waiting for the subway. It's one of the coolest concepts for a subway ad I've seen.
Yes. Claiming it's "Just the Facts" is technically incorrect. Considering the source, though, it's a lot less misleading than it could be.
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It's mostly because of the way JavaScript handles your 'line joining' point. It's not great, and it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
It's debatable whether github is more important than git or not. Despite the impression a reader of this site could have that (hype and with an user interface copy pasted from the prototype hype fashion simple user interface of the moment, with Big Buttons tm included) hosted services are the best thing since sliced bread and will replace everything, the world is interestingly neither centered around that, and it's indeed very ironic to value importance of centralized services more than the decentralized tool it embraces and extend, given many of the advances in the source code management area and development workflow directly come from the decentralized aspects.

That Hg also exist does not make git less important than github, no more than the fact that sourceforge exists make github less important than git.
[I deleted my comment as a duplicate of Eli's before seeing you had replied. For the record, I said]

Was that really the point? You don't see them driving a gasoline powered car near empty and then acting confused when it can't reach it's destination

Because that's not such a problem - partly because you can walk to the nearest petrol station, and bring back a can of petrol and get going again, and partly because the UK is small and dense with petrol stations everywhere (try Google Maps UK and search for Petrol Station - 5 miles will probably get you to one, 20 miles almost certainly).
Sorry, but electric cars are not infallible. There are some real issues involved with using them, and people are getting upset because a entertainment show about cars is poking fun at those issues in an exaggerated way.

All this sharpening of the pitchforks over ethics/editorial guidelines/facts is just a red herring to debase a TV show that isn't going to march in lockstep with a car manufacturer's marketing literature, or support the environmentalist's point of view that electric cars are utopia.

Do note this article is in the environmental section of the guardian. Top Gear bashes all cars of all types. They can be downright offensive (there was a somewhat tasteless joke about mexican cars a while back), but when it comes to electric cars, for some reason there is this clamoring for facts/journalistic integrity, etc in the media. These people don't really care for the show, they just care how electric cars are being portrayed in the media.
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It makes perfect sense, but there's a problem with this approach. The information in the passive profiles will be nothing new to most users, who already have their friends' contact info and an idea of what they all look like. So a pre-populated social network like the one you're talking about would be much closer to a phone-directory than anything truly "social."

And I know that passive profiles are supposed to be there as a crutch for early adopters, but it doesn't seem to add much in the way of value or positive UX. If anything, having the site start as a directory might just perpetuate its use as one.
Promoting google+ votes is becoming a very hot business. Using these types of services could have negative or positive affects on SEO.
We just have to see how google treats them. Another place to buy google plus votes is bulkones.com
Will be interesting to see how this evolves over the next few months.
Author here. Like I said in the post, the third constraint I had was something that would work with dd wrt - and that doesn't support l2tp. Thanks for the bit on the offline cracking though.
Agreed. It is basically all government regulations that are the problem. Very few regulations exist for ethical reasons; most are there to entrench powers or are just mistakes. The way forward may be to create anonymous or pseudonymous companies, operating over the internet, and paid for in bitcoin, that cannot be stopped (at least not easily) because the real-world identities of the owners are not known. Thus, government would simply be made obsolete.
What is the difference between this book and the one by Matthew Crawford, "Shop Class As Soulcraft"?

Is it worth reading both?
No, I mean bad comments. I've seen only a very few comments which both whine about downvotes AND have other interesting content.

The comment I replied to ("You're right that ... You can draw your own conclusions from this.") is a bad comment because it contains no interesting content, just whining about "downvotes without replying".

The site guidelines are there for a reason: everyone should follow them.
Sorry about the terrible phrasing. Late night post written in the excitement of getting it to work. Didn't expect to find myself on HN in the morning :)
If you're not using iOS, you should be using OpenVPN.
I came here to post just this. When put in combination with a choice of alternative keyboard layout, they're a great way to feel smug about lesser keyboard users. But also, it's as if they took all the other kinds of keyboards, fixed all their downsides, and made the key action better than you could imagine. The variable weighted keyboards are great for programming, and the uniformly weighted versions are only slightly less great.
Sure, it can cause inflation, but it is incontrovertible that governments can always replay local currency debt by issuing currency (except the EURO, where priting money has been offloaded to an external entity). Which is why sovereign debt in local currency is always the risk free credit, by definition. And the US is in the enviable position where, due to the nature of the dollar being the global reference currency, all (most?) of its debt is denominated USD.

So I'm left puzzled at the recent debate about the US debt.
No one was seriously suggesting that we never pay our debts ever again, There really was two things proposed:

One was too not raise the debt ceiling and use SS and Medicare funds to pay off the debt;

The other was to default but just for a short while so as to provide more pressure on the Democrats. If we defaulted for say a month; it would hurt a minuscule fraction of the debt holders. If it actually would hurt debt holders China would be pointing nukes at us.

So the risk that a lender would not get his money back is incredibly small. As for inflating the money away. They could come to the conclusion that that would hurt the economy more then it is worth and default on all the debt collective (like of like declaring bankruptcy). This is a possibility in the distant future.
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When using my laptop, I do the same thing using the VPS my site runs on. The VPN thing is just for iOS
I don't see why they need to use the trick with the walls at all. Why can't the consumers do online shopping from their smartphones directly?
Yup. Same here on 10.7.0. Not related to Flash, happend with QuickTime video too. Lots of GPU warnings/errors in the system log. Waiting for 10.7.1.
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I use this, but it can be a little annoying now that some sites like StackExchange block EC2 netblocks (I guess because they have lots of juicy content ripe for scraping). Yelp is another one that comes to mind that does this as well.
All tech companies have an equal amount of the good and evil in them. For you to characterize Google as 'good' means that their PR has done it's job well.
I think everyone agrees that electric cars are associated with certain disadvantages with respect to the availability of recharging facilities. The issue raised in this post is not that Top Gear misrepresented how inconvenient running out of charge could be, but that by deliberately running out of charge, ignoring all of the warnings, and by concealing from viewers that they were ignoring all of the warnings, Top Gear misrepresented how easy it is to run out of charge during normal use.

All they had to do was say, “The Nissan does a good job of warning you not to run low on charge, but we all know how often people in the real world ignore the out of petrol warning on their cars and run out of fuel. Let’s see what happens if we ignore the warnings and try to drive to Lincolnshire anyways.”

Presto, they make their point without maliciously or inadvertantly making another and wrong point.
Just to close the loop, I went with Munin. They have a good number of plugins and ones for MongoDB and Nginx are available as well. A little bit of finagling, but it all seems to be work reasonably well now.
> Unit tests prove a different level of semantics that these warnings cannot substitute (although possibly complement).

That, actually, is part of the point. Unit tests check for correct expression of the problem domain (and solution). Compiler warnings check for correct expression of language constructs. It's possible, though not usually likely, for incorrect language usage to mask incorrect implementations.
I have the Lion installation sitting on my 27 for a week now, I need to wrap up a project before I feel comfortable to backup everything and run it, and in great irony the project involves a ton of video-on-the-browser testing. THANK YOU for linking this on HN, I would never know otherwise.
I was contemplating setting up a VPS for this, but a turn key solution at $5\month would be much better.

Can you comment on how you can offer 100GB\month VPN for $5 but the basic proxy plan is 2GB\month for $20? What use case does the proxy plan meet over the VPN other than more server locations?
Unfortunately, Google lacks Lojban, Quenya, Toki Pona, Ithkuil and many other conlangs.

(I'd personally try Lojban if it was available.)