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It was easy for MS to ditch compatibility for Windows Mobile. It never was as dominant as the PC share so they could afford to start with a clean slate.

In terms of ARM tablets, I assume that the only reason to have desktop mode is so it can run Office, however limited the features may be since it would take much too long to make it Metro/touch-friendly. MS isn't completely cutting the cord like Hastings is doing.
Cryptonomicon is a bit more down to earth. I liked Anathem, but there are certainly long bits of 'blah blah' that Cryptonimicon lacks, and seems no worse for it.
Trickster?!?
A resume template in TeX
This is my resume in LaTeX. Feel free to fork and edit.
I must admit, I like the idea of a themed bundle like this. Some of the other bundle deals can seem a bit ... random. It would be good to see software bundles that mirror (or support) particular workflows.
"Do not limit your CV to one page. If your experience spans more than 3 years or more than 3 jobs then you need details and it's madness to limit yourself to one page in this situation."

My interpretation was always that the "one page resume" rule was aimed at new college grads, since they may be more likely to ramble on (and their experience barely matters anyway). The problem is that they don't realize after they get a real job that they shouldn't (necessarily) follow this rule anymore.
>> "Reamde" is disposable Stephenson.
I'll take disposable Stephenson over no Stephenson at all.
I like the name... Can you go into the details of how you came to it and the other alternatives?
Spam E-Mail Is There - How Much Spam E-Mail Is There
The spam emails are the form of the emails which had been classified as the junk mails and they tend to contain different range of text in it which can be hazardous for the computer system that is bei
Ridiculously low rate for anyone competent - do programmers in the UK really accept $25/hour USD?
According to google image search, it's Origin: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=On+the+Origin+of+Sp...
I don't think A/B testing is suitable for this. You could never collect enough data to make any statistically significant observations.
> I can't see how we're not a target customer
> I already have cable

Netflix is a direct competitor to cable. I don't have cable and I use their streaming platform exclusively. I am their target customer.

They'll have a tough time convincing the older generation to ditch cable. They know that. So they're ditching you, instead. As things move along, you'll end up in the minority. At least, that's what Netflix is hoping will happen.
That might not be fixable. IIRC you can't directly poll for the pointer's position so the first time you have any clue is the first mouse-move (or button press) event you see once the user starts doing something after your event hooks are in place.
Just to explain why I downvoted you, since you're new here: on HN, if you agree with a comment, you should upvote the comment. Writing a comment whose only content is stating agreement is very frowned upon.
I hear that some core Google tech papers are usually two to four years old by the time they're published. Is that true?
Reminds me of CFLs. In theory, they are much more reliable than incandescent. Practically, they often stop working just as soon as the old light bulbs would, and they cost significantly more.
Unfortunately true, but it does make it really hard to sue you.
Managing our IT systems from your smartphone or tablet
While perhaps "rarely", some do.

Netflix is moving too fast in response to their subscription splitting. "Quikster" (sp?) looks like an overreaction to a brief, albeit significant, customer irritation. Rebranding the core product (it's long-term fame is for DVD rental, not streaming, even if the latter is the main goal) confuses people. "Hey, where did Netflix disc rentals go? Guess I gotta go to Blockbuster again..." I don't see this ending well.
Related courses: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-courses-on-large-scale-le...

Workshops: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-workshops-on-large-scale-...

Also see the tutorial "Scaling Up Machine Learning" at KDD2011: http://hunch.net/~large_scale_survey/
The problem is that they don't realize after they get a real job that they shouldn't (necessarily) follow this rule anymore.

Absolutely spot on. A grad will struggle to fill two pages but once you have some bit of experience you really should disregard that rule.
here's the issue:
to checkout crowd2 you need to share it on your social network. unless you have a dummy social network that you use for SPAM, you're going to share it to your friends.

but hey, I don't know if I wanna share it yet. i wanna test it first. And, crowd2 is share first, test second. And that's just wrong.

It's easy to make the parallel to another form of spam, as you'd have to have a spam account to view it, as stated in my first paragraph.
Anathem's first few chapters require the reader to learn about 100 made-up words via immersion. Throughout the book major points hinge on various scientific and philosophic theories, which are given different names (like Hylaean Theoric World) than they are on earth. So no, not really that accessible.

This review for REAMDE is the first Stephenson review I've seen that didn't pan the climax, which might say something. BTW, did you notice that REAMDE is designed to make unix people's eyes cross?
Nothing about this posts addresses the fact that, unlike other authors, companies will steal your work and claim your IP, in exchange for a pathetic salary.

That means no royalties on million-dollar applications. Suckers!
Fear of Failure Cure: Utter Ridiculousness
> I noted this elsewhere, but I believe it has to do with Netlfix relationships and negotiations with the content creators, and how it differs from the Qwikster model of buying discs. Qwikster requires zero relationships and negotiations with the content creators.

Query: why does a radically different content acquisition model necessitate or suggest a split of the company? Would it not be less troublesome to make a new internal division focused solely on the DVD side of the business?

> I can't really understand why people get so upset about these changes because I can't find the catalog size/ low cost anywhere else. If anyone knows of a better service/value, I would be interested.

That they are splitting the interface has killed my long-term interest in Netflix. I tend to search for films based on whim and have an active love of long-tail content. I tend to throw several films at a go into my queues, being little concerned about what arrives and when. Each new disk a surprise; I end up using the Instant Queue as a priority filter when searching for entertainment. After the split my use case will be destroyed--I'll be required to visit two websites, which I won't as I can't do so idly--and consuming films becomes a matter of searching my own desires and making, as it seems to me, an arbitrary choice between formats. I once did treat Netflix as a library which could be idly passed through, picking things here and there off the shelf. It's all about the movies for me; format is a tertiary concern. Once Quickster is live the library will be gone. It'll be two properties competing for my attention and making the choice of format a primary concern.

I want to watch movies, not decide how to do so. Netflix is a luxury good, not an essential service. It _has_ to be so trivial to use that one does so without a thought because any luxury good that starts to incur costs--beyond acquisition--becomes less so. Netflix has the size, but by splitting they've reduced their lead over their competitors and it is no longer possible to view them after the awful website redesign, the price increases, the non-apologies and the site split as casually luxurious as they once were.

I'm still with Netflix, but I'll jump ship as soon as a competitor gives me that effortless feeling again. Netflix used to have it, Amazon almost has it and any one of the content holders might grow a clue, start their own streaming service and have it overnight.
I have been thinking the same thing for a while now.

I imagine they're great to create prototypes with and start up with, but as someone posted to my inquiry yesterday ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011227 ), they're too expensive to go into production line.
Effects of Ownership in Software Engineering
That's Stephenson in a nutshell: long winded openings and abrupt endings. I haven't read any of his stuff since Cryptonomicon (have them all lined up though) but the single glaring flaw I always found in his books was how rushed the endings were. I don't need all the loose ends neatly tied up, but always got the feeling he was using some sort of lossy compression scheme for the last few pages.
Designer’s block: A Q&A with Trent Walton 
Web designer and founder of branding agency Paravel Inc., Trent Walton knows a thing or two about fancy but functional design. While hashing out content choreography and customizable web typography on TrentWalton.com, he also has fun making sites and apps with quirky personal touches.
Thank you. Fortunately, I really enjoy video production so it was a lot of fun to work on.
simple.
its not about letting people make a campain its about making crowd2 well known. so the download is more important than the campaign.

same reason it says live demo, as live demo would imply there's no download, aka no hassle. Aka a small marketing lie.
In this way "kerning.js" doesn't seem to be the most descriptive name for this project. Everything but the first example is not related to kerning, just typography. My first thought, when I read the title of this post, was "but we already have kernjs..."
The Truth About Capitalism, Part II
"People are disagreeing with me on the origin of water, and the meaning of life. The rest, people are fine with. ;D"

https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/114992511382065152
Forgive Student Loans? Worst Idea Ever.
I'm working on a fine-grained typography control JS library myself, very interesting work.

Designers/front-ends, what things would you like to control about your type now, that you can't yet?
I did exactly the same thing. I can't see this being a useful plugin as it stands and I've never seen something like this in any UI either. Something like a shake or highlight would work better.
It sounds like he was saying that reloading the page didn't have the new content, which means it is what you are talking about but combined with a link target that doesn't actually take you to a page with the continued text, meaning someone with JS disabled wouldn't be able to read the full text.

I'm too lazy to check if thats actually the case though.
And who said playing games was a waste of time! It's interesting that two dichotomous areas have come together to solve a problem. It also got me thinking that the power of the internet is not used/maximized to its full potential. We are connected, but most of us just throw stuff into the Net. Blogging/forums come close in that we exchange ideas and discussion. But I wish there was a legitimate site/forum where we could post a question and get various answers (from legitimate users/professionals) that were somehow weighed/scaled. Using the power of the internet to point us in the right direction....
Apparently doesn't work with no-script, even when allowing the whole page. I suppose there is some cross scripting going on? Or is it because my iceweasel 3.5.16 from Debian-stable is too old?
It may have largely surpassed GCC in terms of how easy it is to integrate and compilation speed, but in quality of generated code it is lagging.
From the article:

> Thus, Android 3, apart from Linux, is non-free software, pure and simple.

Couldn't agree more, happy to see Stallman call it: Android 3.x is clearly not open source.
30000 core distributed cluster using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
I love the idea. Just some thoughts.
1. What if the URL I want people to like is not Open Graph ready. Then what's shared looks ugly on the news feed. I know this is supposed to be my job to take care of, but when creating a campaign, there was no reminder about Open Graph and the possibility the story on the news feed will look ugly.
2. Folks could just email the link to their friends after they obtained it by liking the link. And, what's stopping them from quickly removing the like from their profile?
snailflix.com is still free...
I've had a few go bad in recent years, ranging from 160Gb to (most recently, unless you count a 320 that was on its way out according to the SMART readings and was pulled and replace before failing) a 500.

They've been from a range or manufacturers (and a range of ranges) with not enough of each to consider a pattern.
This sounds remarkably similar to the Imview story, which Eric Ries shared in the opening chapters of his book. It's the same way I felt after viewing what looks to be a neat product, but something I want to play with before implementing.

Edit: I'm not sure why I was downvoted, but the point was that after Imview received this feedback from their demo set, they implemented a way for people to play before sharing, which later led to their success. Just food for thought.
Startup Accelerator program out of India
It pays $20K for 3-6 months of program.. (http://www.thestartupcentre.com/accelerator/)
I, Interface: Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Applied to User Interfaces
Tips For Working With an Interior Designer
If this is the first time that you are planning to work with an Interior Designer then this article is a must read.
Nice accomplishment but I have to say that the idea of the product is off-putting. Still I guess it's up to people if they want to advertise this way.

I'm not convinced that this approach will always yield a higher viral coefficient than not forcing sharing in order to gain access. The interesting thing is you could actually run A/B tests on this.
Hmm. I'm not sure that's a great idea for two reasons:

* It means that kids are going to get an inconsistent experience throughout the school.

* It means that a teacher's personal finances affect their job performance and the benefit to their kids. Since when was the precedent to be full-time employed AND have to fork out for your resources out of personal pocket. That isn't really acceptable.

Both of these are grossly unfair, in my opinion - both to teachers who may not be as well off, and to kids who happen to have those teachers selected and thus don't get the benefit.

There's also the factor of whether the inconsistency across a school of having each teacher with different bits of software is going to negatively impact things.

I do agree with the sentiment of allowing teachers to decide what is purchased based on it being actually useful - I see a lot of "edugeeks" trying to pitch software they claim will revolutionise teaching to school boards and heads of IT, when in reality it's fucking useless for teachers, and irritating to students.
I never signed up for Netflix until they offered the streaming service, and then never used the physical DVD delivery option - and changed to streaming-only as soon as they made it available. Some of us don't want physical discs. Having such a wide variety of content - even if it's not as varied as the physical media selection - for less than $10 a month is awesome.
I've been thinking about this exact approach for a while, so it has been immensely useful to read the discussion taking place in this thread.

There's obviously a lot of value in word-of-mouth sales; but I'd like to know more about about approaches to advertise directly to teachers in the first place. There must be schools where no teacher is looking at tech news sites :) Any advice about advertising to teachers?
Because they have fundamentally different cost structures, and each will benefit from a dedicated CEO who is accountable for results and responsible for strategy?

You really think that the respective sites will have no integration? Not a single-sign-on user account? Not an "Available on Netflix" link? Why? It makes business sense for both units and it doesn't impede any of the objectives of the spinoff.
It would be a debatably good move if the streaming catalog were deep. It is so shallow that during the DVD+streaming price hike/split, I canceled the streaming portion.

And, note that I'm setup perfectly for streaming. I have no TV/cable/dish. I get all my content from downloading TV and getting movies from you. If I could get TV from you on streaming, I'd abandon torrents.

It is really horrible watching Netflix implode like this.
Only enterprise and developers can bypass Windows Store for Metro apps
Your fake Internet identity won't protect you
What's Your Score? Identified Launches People-Ranking Professional Search Engine
It's sort of an in joke. Freax is what Linus originally called Linux. Probably it was also intended to not make the book age too badly if Linux cratered?
Top Earning Blogs & How they Make Their Money
The Diamond Age is by far his best work. I think you'd prefer Greg Egan.
I've been following Netflix for years and 'Focus' is Hastings' singular theme. They dodged cloning Hulu, Redbox, Youtube, various 5$\movie rental options, GameFly, etc. They ruthlessly cut out things like Friends features, used DVD sales.

I'm surprised the reaction here is so negative. Working for large companies the theme is usually waste, and inept decision making. This is a result of the size of the decision apparatus. I would think a lot of people here are fleeing that kind of a work environment or are at least aware of it.

Wearing a customer hat this sucks in the short-term, but perhaps pays off in the long-term if the internal decisions made are substantially sharper. Now you don't have meetings where people are wondering why stupid decision X was made, and the answer comes back 'because of this Y interaction with our legacy mail service' which has no long-term role to play.

It's hard to see from afar the complexity of the decisions that goes on at Netflix HQ every day. I don't think that's going to be appreciated when people are wearing their customer hats. Clearly, the short-term customer perspective is poor.
USA Today exec: "'Dumbing down' is such a N.Y. and L.A.-centric elitist idea"
oh, I like those pure HTML templates, without data-binding dirt!
This is right from his site:

>Neal, in Cryptonomicon why did you call Windows and MacOS by their true names but used the fictitious name 'Finux' to refer to what is obviously 'Linux?' Does this mean that you hate Linux?

Since Finux was the principal operating system used by the characters in the book, I needed some creative leeway to have the fictitious operating system as used by the characters be different in minor ways from the real operating system called Linux. Otherwise I would receive many complaints from Linux users pointing out errors in my depiction of Linux. This is why Batman works in Gotham City, instead of New York--by putting him in Gotham City, the creators afforded themselves the creative license to put buildings in different places, etc.

http://web.mac.com/nealstephenson/Neal_Stephensons_Site/Old_...

Edit: tried to fix formatting
I don't think hipsters spend much time obsessing about the accessibility of genre fiction authors. People call Stephenson "Pynchonian", but Pynchon wrote a whole bunch of books --- is still writing them, in fact --- and just 2-3 of those is a lifetime supply for any hipster.
Prove you the have skills.

That's the shortest piece of advice I could think of on the matter that works.
Netflix and the Costs of Courage
> I haven't quite been able to grasp why Toms Hardware, which I view largely as a consumer/enthusiast review site would choose to analyze the failure rates of SSD's in a datacenter environment.

It could just be that there is not enough good data from the consumer market to make solid conclusions from. DCs use drives in large numbers, so you are going to get "concentrated" readings.
In other words: four years and they still suck.
My solution is to use Google Docs to convert my resume to whatever format people want, including MS Word.
Don't Make Me Download a PDF: a rant about rants
My first thought was: Now Netflix's streaming content won't be bound by DVD by mail quotas.
> If you don't practice then you, and the public in general, are losing nothing from your inability to sue people who are actually making things happen.

I don't work for free, so I'm not gong to bother to disclose if I'm not compensated.

> If you don't practice then you have no expectation of being compensated for your work other than hoping that someone else steps on your patent and trolling them.

Wrong. In the current world, I can file and approach folks who might benefit, offering to license.

In your world, I can't disclose without risking them saying "great idea, thanks".

And no, no one signs NDAs with individual inventors, so that's a non-starter.

> If your patent actually has value then you should be forced to take the risk to demonstrate that fact by putting the invention into practice

The existing patent thicket around processors means that there's no way for me to practice. Plus there's the "invest millions of dollars" part (getting to tape-out is at least $1M, tape-out adds another $1M, and I still haven't done product support or any of the other things required to actually practice).

The value of my invention has nothing to do with whether I can do other things (design register files, etc) so it's unclear why my compensation should depend on doing said other things.
Can tools like Keyboard Maestro[1] do anything or is the problem lower in the stack?

[1] http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
For interesting templates and notes for CVs in LaTeX I can really recommend this site: http://www.cv-templates.info/
99% is a Bitch, 100% is a Breeze
This was clearly paid for by ATT.

Also, they need to look at their methodology. No way they got a true 40mbs over cellular - most likely something is happening with caching or compression.
These are pretty interesting figures. If I've understood what you wrote correctly your conclusion would be that the screens that we love to hate really do work. Do you have any thoughts on situations that are particularly suited to such an ultimatum approach?
Sidenote: http://instantwatcher.com is a great companion site to Netflix streaming.
totally agree, I was blown away by the video considering how much time went in the project.
There is some truth in that...
I think boxes are extra when all you need is elegant typography.
My caveat to the second law: copy rates are 2x that of design. Now our team is more than happy to write for you.

Add that as a rider in the contract, and your problems will begin to disappear.
Would you be kind enough to explain what the "pin header defect" is, for an Arduino noob? I'm just starting to play around with Arduino hacking and haven't heard of this yet (until now).
If the pointer is permanently turned on, then yes, totally. I can see it being useful for tutorials, though.
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I can create an account on the machine without having root access. Which gives me a shell. Which means I can exploit a flaw to change root password. Which means I have access to cookies and other fun things. Which means I can probably access that person's gmail which is pretty much game over, man.

Bedroom analogy is wrong. The computer is the castle. They have it. The problem is that your lord knows the secret entrance to your main castle (in the cloud). You want one of two things to happen: Keep the lord safe, or kill the lord so his secrets are gone with him. The attacker formatting the machine, or replacing the hard drive is fine, he already physically has it, just like he can take the vault and throw it outside and make a new one. However you don't want him accessing that vault.