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Are we fucked more than ever? Possibly. Are we capable of fixing this mess if we could stop bickering about the superficial details and get down to practical solutions? Yes. Will that happen? Not until we really hit rock bottom as a nation.

At some point politicians will collectively be spending as much on political campaigns as we spend on funding our military. Ads for the superbowl will become a new holy festival (a la Yom Kippur) on a national secular level. Bodies of the dead who freeze outside (due to lack of room in shelters for the growing number of poor) in the new conservative-compatible modified global climate will be carted off in wheel barrows to neighborhood dump sites which eventually get taken to and burned in mass graves in New Jersey. Nobody notices the smell there.

Even though things are bad now, my feeling is the people of this nation will take a lot more punishment before pushing back and saying "NO MORE." It takes a bus full of kids getting hit by some asshole speeding to work for a stop sign to get installed. But I think we as a nation will need a much larger car to slam into us to make us finally put some national stop signs in place. I mean, shit, this is the first time in American history that we've had an economic collapse and no new regulation has resulted. The politicians on the right are demanding less regulation. People are so apathetic about preventing this in the future that they're allowing politicians to make it worse.

I don't know about you but i'm stocking up on canned food.
Early in my career one of my bosses also recommended that I read "How to Win Friends and Influence People", so I just wanted to give it a second vote. If you take it seriously the book will definitely set you on the right path, or at least open up your thought processes to new possibilities for thinking about your relationships at work, with loved ones, etc.

There's no silver bullet that helps us address all of life's problems, big and small, but definitely check out the book as an easy first step - you can probably find a copy at any second hand bookstore for a few bucks.
The whole article is a bit heavy on the keyword stuffing, isn't it?
The point of the project is that you can have an account on any Diaspora server and communicate with any user on any other server, seamlessly. You don't need an account on the "joindiaspora.com" server, you can get an account on any of these servers: http://podup.sargodarya.de/
As haraball says in
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3130306 - it's really important that the ideas and techniques from HtWF&IP are not just used as rules to follow, but are internalized and applied faithfully and sincerely. Without that you do simply become a manipulative bastard, and people will work that out and then hate you even more than they otherwise might have done.

Sincerity works though. If you can fake that, you've got it made 8-)

Sorry, in all seriousness, yes, the sincerity is a critical component, which is why you can't just read the book and have a checklist of things to do and follow. It has to be internalized and become a natural part of the way you interact.

The results can be dramatic. They were for me.
This is HN. Can we skip the blogspam and link directly to F-Secure? There is nothing of value in the blog post.

Actual content:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002256.html

It's important to note that this is a trojan virus, which means the user must download and run it. It would be far more significant if this were a drive-by attack.

One interesting item I noticed in the information about the trojan itself is this bit:

===QUOTE===

On installation, the installer first checks if the following file is found in the system:

* /Library/Little Snitch/lsd

Little Snitch is a firewall program for Mac OS X. If the program is found, the installer will skip the rest of its routine and proceed to delete itself.

===QUOTE===

So if you're running Little Snitch, this trojan deletes itself. Effective.
Thats very interesting. Do you have any information on how much these farms are automated?
Why do you say it drains your battery like crazy? I am not saying it doesn't, but I haven't noticed it.

Doesn't iOS now have a location service that will update apps of your location without running the app constantly in the background?
Sounds like someone wants to put "Blessed by Steve Jobs" stickers on upcoming products.
Watch the video. The people behind glass are inside a large man-trap at the entrance of the bank and can't exit the doors. I'm sure if there was a fire they could reopen the doors.
Wow. Shouldn't it be strate forward to correct such large errors by using public available satellite images?
The first time I opened the specs page (right after this was posted), there was no mention of GLONASS for me either. Looking at google's cache atm, it's not there either ( http://goo.gl/ulMM7 ). When I refreshed the page 30 minutes ago, it had appeared, so my guess would be that this has something to do with distributed cache servers.
Gingerbread fixes some of the "lag" issues with the partly GPU accelerated UI, mostly noticeable in the notifications pull-down menu.

Opera Mobile (GPU accelerated), with a decent launcher, memory optimizations (V6 Supercharger, or a good Autokiller config), and Android will perform just as good as any other mobile OS. Unfortunately to get great performance Android needs to be rooted.
I think you would enjoy competing on a kaggle competition (google it).
While it has nothing to do with hardware per se, ILP64 is often seen on platforms, where some significant 32 bit operations (often memory accesses, but surprisingly sometimes even ALU ops) are (or used to be) slower than 64 bit.
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Unfortunately I'm seeing the same thing. the first thing I did was search for GLONASS.
Jeovah's Witnesses FTW!
Great post, especially about the Accessibility niche. You might be onto something there.

A quick note: "I am losing possible customers because it's not 100% clear what FinalTouch is and how it works."

Nowhere in the blog post did I see a description of what FinalTouch actually does -- I had to go to the product page to find out after reading about the paralyzed man. Considering this is your first blog post about the product, it would probably be beneficial to have one sentence at the top. Still, I can't wait for the second post of the series.
Livefyre lands $4.5M to take on Facebook comments
> If the WWII generation was the greatest generation, as Brokaw put it, then the baby-boomers are the worst since the Dark Ages. For all their high-minded idealism they've created a society, at least in US, that is more divisive than it's ever been.

I've been waiting for a substantial book to come out on this subject. Browsing through Amazon.com I don't see much that really nails it. It's a cultural thing too- for instance I see the whole Leno/Conan debacle as a generational conflict that the Baby Boomers won because of sheer numbers and technological dispositions.

Instead there are a lot of books about how the Baby Boomers "are changing everything...again" in retirement.

EDIT TO ADD: Obviously the Occupy Wall Street protests are another manifestation of this with BBs' refrain of "what are they protesting?"
have you gained returns on trades yet?
I'm not sure why adding $1B to your net worth somehow reduces your ability to be an entrepreneur. Most founders have a line up of 5 viabile products in their head at any given time anyway.
Kobo releases Vox e-reading tablet, based on Android 2.3
It's an interesting question and we haven't had any problems so far. The good thing is that our data feeds are vast in terms of both size and reach across the social web, and we don't overly rely on any one feed.
"Without Paul Allen Microsoft as we know it would not have existed because he named Microsoft Microsoft."

So he named the company? Now you are being totally silly and showing that you are determined to fight with me for just silly reasons.

You are the one being 'personal'. You just don't want the argument made that sole founders can be a good bet and just want to stay with the PG and VC herd that cofounders are crucial, say, for naming the company and cut me down for not joining your herd.

Jobs was a successful sole founder at Next, Pixar, and his return to Apple. The only role from Woz and Jobs's first time at Apple was just cash, not Woz or a 'cofounder'. You are straining to deny that Jobs was successful in his last three gigs as a sole founder.

Gates? He had to refound the company after the success of MS/DOS and make Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, and Office all real. He did. Alone. While doing this, IBM was laughing at him. He knocked the socks off IBM, DB2, Lotus, WordPerfect, Sun, HP, and more.

Just look around you: Commonly cofounders and coleaders just suck. Big committees suck. Group decision making sucks. Take IBM, AT&T, GM, Sun, HP: In each case, the management suite and top management 'team' was awash in what was regarded as the best qualifications. Still, they all just sucked. The Navy knows better: On the bridge of a ship, there exactly one captain. Although one captain can be bad, two is usually worse.

Then you are ignoring the present for what is central at HN: IT startups, especially Web 2.0 startups. Elsewhere on this thread I've explained in good detail: A founder needs to understand his business; he needs to understand the software; the bottleneck in understanding the software is not the unique software of the company but just understanding the now huge software components available; that bottleneck can be passed by just one person at a time, essentially alone, or learning is not a spectator sport or a team sport; once a founder has passed this bottleneck, a cofounder becomes much less relevant than in the past. You can see this, if you want to.

The main issue here is sole founders or cofounders. The resolution is, net, having all the business between one pair of ears is a great advantage when it can be done, and now for a Web 2.0 startup it not only can be done but should be done. The 'team' of Michelangelo and anyone else would be nowhere nearly as good at painting the ceiling as just Michelangelo alone.
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I don't think I agree completely with that philosophy. I've heard a lot of programmers say that if you program it shouldn't be about the money. It's as if we should all be devout monks of technology eschewing worldly pleasures in the pursuit of high and noble technological purity. Meanwhile, the business/sales people use all our skills and efforts to make themselves rich. I can't agree with that. I do like programming and I do program for fun in my spare time. However, money is still important. It's an important consideration in choosing what you want to do with your future. It isn't the ONLY consideration, but it's still important.
Never heard of this one but it sounds like someone attempted to remake the Voynich manuscript. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_Manuscript
definitely, a couple specific trades are mentioned in the article
The problem is that teaching yourself the basics of the language is trivial, whereas actually getting Ruby and gems working with textmate and then building real stuff on your own is quite difficult. I already know all the basics of Ruby, but I can't actually do anything with it, and so this doesn't really solve my problem.
Yes, that was part of the multi-tasking model rolled out in iOS 4.
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The Future of Purchasing – It’s All About Social Status.
Typography for Lawyers:

http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/

Provides excellent advice on Typography in general
As JonnieCache said, it's not about pregnancy, but you may be interested in this: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/
Put it in a pocket that isn't full of day-to-day stuff like coins, keys, etc., and doesn't suffer random, potentially damaging physical intrusions? Inside jacket for me.

PS: The fact there are apps for this 'problem' makes me chuckle.
Whoever wrote this doesn't like Apple much.

After all it paints a picture that Apple could not run itself without Steve even for a single day right up to the day he died.
Sounds like an expensive plan for your users. Then again, if you've got an iPhone 4s you probably have the cash I guess.
Did you know Steve Jobs personally?
Step number one - don't go to court after speaking with just one lawyer or firm. Seek multiple legal opinions before filing. I can't stress enough the importance of this. Also, ask specific questions about how things might go wrong - including whether or not the other company can require you to pay their court fees if you lose.

Secondly - think about the size of this company and what might happen if you win, but they appeal the case. Be very wary, because some companies will have a large financial incentive to fight you through various cases and appeals. The reason for this is that allowing you to win your case sets a precedent that affects their other business dealings with other partners.

Finally, ask them what happens if the other party counter-sues you, who pays those fees for your defence, etc.

PS - I'm not a lawyer, so this is not legal advice. Just devote the majority of your time considering what might go wrong, and ask hard questions of your lawyer before you go to court. Winning in court, unfortunately, isn't always about who has the best legal argument, but rather who has the best defense in terms of legal resources, money, etc. Make sure you have enough resources for the entire process.
May I ask you, as a professional photographer, what do you think about the eruption of strong effects in photos shared with instagram. I fell like it is something fake, that it will look weird or stupid in a few months.
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This requires the user to download the malware and install it - the only way this happens is if people are stupid enough to install Flash Player from somewhere other than Adobe.com
I can't upvote this enough. My mom bought me this book when I was 13, and it literally transformed my social behaviours (for the better)
Thanks for this. Zdnet websites are the worst.
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"Generation X" was originally coined to describe people now considered Late Boomers, from 1953 to 1963. They're in their 50s now. Personally, I'd place "X" at 1957-1982 with fuzzy edges. (Steve Jobs was half Boomer, half X; I am half X, half Millennial.) If you could be high and unwashed at Woodstock in 1969 and be in upper management at a major company in 1973, you're a Boomer. If you had to work your ass of from age 15 to get anywhere, you're X or later.

I would argue that "X" hasn't ended. I was born in 1983 and I don't feel much of a generational separation between myself (1983) and people 10 years older. But I think there's a huge separation between people born in 1945 vs. '55, and also '55 vs. '65. This came into the clear at my wedding, when I could sense "generational sameness" in conversations among people of radically different ages (from 3 to 84). I feel like I'm "the same age" as people who are 23 (18's different, but that's because of inexperience) or 38, but age 55 and 65 are (generationally speaking) very different, even now.

My favorite shows are Mad Men and Breaking Bad. It's best to watch them both. They're eros and thanatos, the bookends of the American Era.

I think the "X" distinction is about coming of age in what I call Tidal Crisis, which started around 1970 and never ended. Things aren't getting worse-- on average, taking a global perspective, even the 2000s was a great decade-- but progress is uneven and separations are becoming vast. It's a national morale crisis that threatens (IMO) the existence of the U.S. as a cohesive entity. We have pockets of underemployment and clusters of overemployment, and I don't need to say anything about the rich-poor gap that's now tearing the country apart. That's the backdrop for X. But there's also an internal component, which is about having the courage and passion to do the right thing anyway, in spite of a damaged environment. This is why Gen X produced great artists and also (I think) why so many of them are great parents.
Actually as a former professional photographer myself I know that you are absolutely right about the still image, but actually a bit wrong when it comes to the video.

The 5DMKII only resolves about 560 to 600 lines of resolution and interpolates them to 1080p.
Source: http://www.dvxuser.com/articles/article.php/20
Source: My eyes

So while the still images of the 5D are several orders of magnitude better than a 5D at resolution, I'd guess the true 1080p resolution of the iPhone 4S is probably slightly better than the 5D -- baring control of DOF.
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What's your infrastructure like? I imagine this would require lots of hardware for all the crawling and analysis?
An alternative would be to allow bots to connect to an external server maintained by the bot author to get the latest strategy, and dump match history for analysis.
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> And if your boss hired to to work on a project, don't refuse to do it; otherwise what did he hire you for?

The project was in a programming language I didn't know (and it wasn't used at the company) with a tight schedule. And I knew I wouldn't be able to finish it in time in the quality I want to provide. Plus as a Java developer I wasn't that interested in that particular programming language (Perl).

How else would you handle such a situation?
Something like this would probably never infect any of us but I know quite a few people who will install anything from anywhere.
I believe they've had problems with this earlier.
FWIW, Debian's package manager (and its concepts of package repositories and dependency resolution) hasn't changed much since I tried it in 2001 -- and probably even earlier than that. Slackware and Red Hat were my first forays into Linux, and the dependency hell you speak of was enough to drive me to FreeBSD and OpenBSD in the late 1990s.
Whatever happened to always turning on the IDE flag for "Treat warnings as errors"
That's interesting. I love Little Snitch; there's no parallel in the Linux world, sadly, and I miss it when I'm configuring outbound firewall rules on my Arch box.

However, I think the trojan is giving up a little easily. Little Snitch has a checkbox titled "Prevent Rule Editing" which is unchecked by default, which implies that a process with the same privileges as the logged in user can create its own "allow" rule through a little bit of AppleScript (or whatever else).
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I'd imagine that if you just left a GPS receiver in the same place for long enough, the movement of the GPS satellites would provide some decent dithering for the signal, letting you get fairly decent accuracy just by averaging a lot of measurements. I'm sure there are other methods that work more quickly, though.
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haha, I envy you. My biggest passion is video games, yet every time a new game comes out I'm hesitant to play it, because I know I'll be disappointed. Sometimes I'm surprised when I pick up the right indie game, and there are a few designers whose work I typically like... But that's pretty much it. And it's the same with music, film, books, and anything else. I have this eternal boding sense of "it's just not going to be as good as it should be."

Of course, there are some things that hit me in the right spot. I still remember when I first learned to play Dwarf Fortress, when I read Chinese Takeout over a weekend. They're just rare.

At the same time, I sometimes think this discontent comes not from any kind of true hatred, but instead a longing for the ideal, or at least serious advancement toward it. It seems like our society is horribly slow to advance, and often that feels due to the size and control of older generations. (And my contemporaries who've bought into things as they are.)
When he says "we graduated during a recession" I think he means the early 80s recession (Gen X includes those born from around 61-81 so the first batch graduated in the early 80s). That recession actually was comparable. In fact peak unemployment was worse (10.8% vs 10.1%). Many split the early 80s recession into 2 recessions(Early 80 and then mid 81 to late 82) but if you look at that period as a whole the GDP drop exceeds the 2008 recession as well.

That being said we aren't done yet either. Just as there was a temporary recovery between mid-1980 and mid-1981 we've technically been out of recession for 16 months and things aren't look great for the future.
Power point on Ipad
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How did I get the iPhone number so wrong (part II)
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I like my non-default keyboard (I use Swype) and the HTC Sense phone dialer is much nicer than the default. And custom launchers can be pretty cool.
It's funny you mention that, as I swear the professor said it could be done to accuracy of mm, but after reviewing the wikipedia articles I had concluded I misremembered. Perhaps not...
A bit simplified: when an ant moves to a food square, a new ant is produced from a hill.
I don't understand how this guy can be so self righteous. If Apple's labor practices are so bad, why doesn't he stop buying their devices?
There where natural sales. In fact before i submitted to HN i had 5 sales. Most probably because I was in the New category.
What? No Clojure starter package yet?! C'mon, Google!
Duly noted. I have now changed the intro. Hope this helps.
have you looked at anger management? obviously, you could go see someone, but if you'd prefer to work things out yourself you might gain something from working through a book like "the angry self" by gottleib. it's not the greatest book ever - sometimes it's a bit dumb, and sometimes it feels a bit slow - but if you go through it step by step, including the exercises, you might find that it helps. i think it helped me. it starts with very basic stuff about what being angry is, then how to recognise it, then how you can deflect / control it in various ways. but the best part is at the end where it also shows how it can be a useful tool.

i'm guessing that you're getting angry and frustrated. i do too. that book helped me channel that in a more productive direction. good luck.
But he did post here and he asked for input. So even if none of us would likely give the man/woman a chance based on their admitted attitude (and that's not what is being asked) the input is what matters.

And input like yours is exactly what might make the difference when he or she interacts with potential employers next time.

As a non-team player that manages to successfully fake it (within limits) I think that even that can be turned into an asset.

Refusing work that you are paid to do for is a firing offense all over the world. But circumstances do matter and since they're not provided I'm going to at least reserve judgment on whether or not there were any mitigating circumstances. For the record, I once refused to do a job that was technically within my abilities and job description. The only reason that job was given to me was as a revenge action for speaking up against a superior on an earlier occasion. Fortunately for me I had enough credit by then to be able to refuse the job and get away with it but technically that would have been the perfect pretext to fire me.

Growth is a process. Posts like these are part of that process, so I have plenty of hope that the OP will eventually manage to find his way, and improving on his communications skills would seem to be the first order of battle. Even saying 'no' is a sales job.