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Yeah, I kind of went off on a tangent there, I don't blame you for not getting all of it :P

I think what I was trying to say in the beginning is that while I understand how it feels like a leap of faith, I don't think it really is. Like when I include a library, on some level I'm assuming it will really function the way the API suggests. But I don't have to take that on faith; I can read through the code, and see what it's actually doing. The code itself is an abstraction of something else, but if I take the time, I can eventually reduce it to an understanding of what's happening on a transistor level. I can't see what's happening in the CPU, but I can understand it.

I can't hold the whole model of my code at a transistor level in my head, but that's the power of abstraction. I understand what's happening on each level on some scale, I understand how the levels interface with each other, so ipso facto I do understand the system as a whole. If it doesn't behave the way I expect, I can use that knowledge figure out why, whether it's because I made the wrong call or because there's a wire disconnected on my motherboard. It's not magical; it just seems that way when I don't pay close attention.

Which is, in fairness, most of the time.
It's not frequently used, but if all you need is a square, the css

clip: rect(t,r,b,l);

works well. I've used it to create a sort of "expand/contract" effect. But you can use it for masking as well (true masking, the background behind it shines through).
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Just pushed out the update for screen orientation. Also includes Newcastle, Orange County, and San Diego news hubs.
Exactly. Saying that most investing is done is just as bad as people saying real estate will never go down. Generally when everyone feels one way, it's time to act on the opposite.

I'm also actually doing it right now. I own stocks and close on my first house Friday.

Now for a crazy side anecdote. My cousin closed on her first house a few weeks ago. It took her 5 houses to finally get one. The reason? Her other 4 full price offers were rejected because someone else outbid her. Yep, outbid in the down market. It certainly doesn't mean that the market has turned, but it shows the interesting difference between what the news reports is happening, what people think is happening, and then what's really happening.
The inverse perspective works too:

An employer hires you. Then they come across more candidates. They continue interviewing for the same position. You then find out that they have been interviewing, your loyalty is shaken and you know that the employer can fire you within the trial period which makes the feeling worst.

New applicants will not know that the position was filled and get formally rejected if they are not significantly better than you. If they do find out about position being pre-filled, they'll resent the employer for continuing to interview them.

Please note that employment culture is very different in many companies and to not take things for granted. Look at Steve Yeegee's recent post regarding Amazon vs Google.
It is an interesting line of thinking. Way too many startups I've been involved with/talked to have over looked the role of admins/an ops team. The mentality seems to be that developers should also focus as admins/ops. Surely nothing will go wrong on a weekend after a developer has already put in an 80 hour week, right?

From my experience, sys admins are important. If you are doing anything of scale, knowledge on how to setup, tweak, and debug systems is critical. It is helpful if the admins can stretch a bit into the app layer, just as it is helpful for developers to be able to stretch a bit into the systems layer, problems come up and knowledge of the parts helps.

As an engineer that can also setup systems for scale, I know my limits and really appreciate help from and learning things from good sysadmins.
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Many of these traits are shared with OS X. It's a different mindset, and I'm sure Canonical has done plenty of research on usability. From what I've seen most people who arent savvy computer users happen to like it.
I don't mind high level overviews of concepts if they manage to successfully lead the reader to the core of the idea. However, this slideshow was not effective at communicating anything to me. At some point during the second half of this "presentation" each slide seemed to have some vague phrase or sentence that was followed by 3-5 screenshots with no explanation of what the relationship was to the context the screenshot was given in -- I started to wonder if substituting those screenshots with random ones would have any impact on the value of the presentation.

If anything, I think the awful slideshow "player" UI on this website did a better job at explaining the lack of "invisible design" than the slideshow did. I spent almost a minute trying to find a play button, because from the look of the UI I was expecting a movie. When I hit the fast forward icon I thought it just took me to a preview screen for another unrelated video.

I understand how that may seem like an overreaction given that we're used to losing more time on more meaningless things, but a good UI should only take a split second to understand.
Yeah, I can see how it took him 2+ years
It's difficult to judge this without seeing the final product but it is revolutionary in design.

Many wind projects never get off the ground because of the barrier to entry (high initial costs and risk of wind pattern changes etc...)

This design looks to get around those. If one gets developed it'll be interesting to see just how efficient it is.

Maybe birds won't die when they hit one either. Maybe they'll just bounce off?
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Actually, I would argue that an existing non-compete is a great reason (morally speaking, ignoring pragmatic concerns) to hire someone. Bad rules should be not bent but broken into little pieces.
Personally, I really prefer Unity to classic Gnome. Unity is the best desktop experience I have had. I've been using it since 11.04 out. Unity had some rough edges when it was first released, but a lot of that has been ironed out. I really like the direction Unity is going. I feel that it uses space in a more intelligent way. I am very glad that Canonical has taken the initiative to build a better desktop environment. Many people don't like change, and I feel that is the category that many of the people criticizing Unity fall into. I do agree that Unity is not as easily customizable as I would expect, but again, I enjoy most of the decisions that comprise Unity.
Looks like a rather nice page linking top-karma users to said users' Twitter profiles.

So that's cool, though from the title I was expecting/hoping to learn more about actual people behind (in control of) HN... ie. YCombinator people that actively work and/or moderate and the "About 30 YC alumni" who can "kill stories and edit the titles, and in extreme cases ... ban users."
I only played it once. For about three years straight.
Talk about distraction!
A small trick to tweet with Siri (for the ones with unlimited text messages). Create a contact that has 40404 as phone number and you can text to Twitter your messages.
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this seems more like the one thing he wants Siri to have: an API for third-parties to integrate into their apps.
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I repectfully disagree. I would expect an employer to take that stance. IMO, it's a little like DeBeers telling you how many months salary you should spend on an engagement ring. :-)

Employees aren't chattle; they are independant agents who have learned that their employers won't hesitate to lay them off when it is advantagous for the business to do so.

Nobody can "steal" an employee away who wants to be there and/or is being paid what he's worth in the marketplace. If an employer wants to keep his employees he can treat them right or not be surprised if they leave to work for someone else who will.

On the contrary, former colleagues are just the sort of battle tested people you want working with you.
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Synchronization is ensuring that two events are simultaneous, which most definitely can be done. Relativity just says that you have to be careful to note in which frame the events are simultaneous.
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This is not about being cheap. This guy won't cheap out on food and drinks on a night out, because he doesn't do it very often. He will buy better shoes and clothes than you, because they have to last longer. He will have a nicer house than you, because he has put time into it, and the end, can afford better stuff than you do. Spending wisely and being cheap are very, very different things.
I 'voice drive' cars all the time. I get into the taxi and say "take me to the airport". The only reason I care about the steering wheel is that robots aren't very good at driving yet. Someday, if robotic technology improves to the point where it is as safe(or safer), that's the way we will do it 90% of the time.

Of course, there will always be cars with steering wheels, just like we still have horse carriages. You can still paint with a brush even though photoshop and illustrator exists. If there were a siri-controlled TV (and there probably will be) it will still come with a remote control.
How about the balancing electric wheelchair that is no longer being produced because Johnson & Johnson cannot find a way to profit of off it, yet many people with MS want one?
To second your warning:

http://www.supermagnete.de/eng/safety.php
Oh, I think I misunderstood the statement. They original quote must mean receiver and source of neutrinos. Somehow I read it as being the GPS source and receiver, in which case it doesn't make sense.
It's been my experience that Siri responds equally well to curt commands as to colloquial phrases, which is how voice commands should be (and how voice commands to real assistants work, somewhat.)
What you say is true, but that motion is small compared to the motion of the satellites in relation to either of the ground stations.
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yeah, it's like saying you don't need programmers because there's django and rails
The timing of the housing market and stock market couldn't have been better for this guy.

I'm not saying he didn't have anything to do with this for being frugal (I'm doing the same thing), but stock and housing gains seem to account for a large portion of his wealth.
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It appears (from my vantage point 1300 miles away) that the Valley is somewhat different what a lot of America has become. There may still exist in Cupertino, Los Gatos, etc, an enlightened collegiality, but what about the rest of non-startup America?

I think we've again become the proverbial Cog in the Machine, actually worse than that, not even a cog, just the bloody goop that's unfortunately still needed for the time being to keep the machine running - and as the machine inevitably becomes more efficient, fewer cogs and a hell of a lot less lubricant will be needed. Again, in this new Brave New World, why should we care about the corporation? Sorry if I sound like a '20s Marxist, but [it's my] natural reaction everything I've seen happen in the last decade.
I used to think like that. But then, doing web development myself on the side I've realized no, they don't. Languages and frameworks these days pretty well abstract the underlying technology. Developers end up writing some pretty amazing stuff. It's up to the sysadmin to weigh in on what changes are necessary to make it work well enough to succeed. A seasoned developer will know more, because they've been through the wringer a few times. The new guys, not so much.

Remember, your developer spends their time making it work on a dev box, or even their own laptop. Performance testing and such is an art that if they had time to learn it... well I guess they'd be a sysadmin.
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Wow, what I find shocking is that I'd already completely forgotten about Google Wallet.
$1.8m distributed over ~40 years equates to $3750 a month. I doubt a family could save much with that income.

If you get to this kind of logic, you will lose around $50k from slacking out during lunch through your lifetime (15m a day, $20/h).
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Thanks for the counterexamples keeping us honest pg!
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Maybe these Generation Y ers anaffective fascinating that what feels like love.
This was mentioned in the article.
The possiblities are endless. Two ideas off the top of my head that aren't data search: 1. personal expense tracking: "just spent 30 dollars for gas". 2. mileage tracking: odometer reads 26312 miles.
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actually, haven't Jet, John Legend, and others played Apple product announcements? I'm surprised I wasn't able to find a list of who's played on stage at Moscone during an Apple product release.
> It very much is about the terms. 20-25 years ago a sysadmin was expected to be able to fix C bugs, and have skills not that far removed from programming in assembly (i.e., sendmail.cf files :-).

I would say, 25 years later, the need to fix C bugs is far less relevant. That said, I'd say around 50% of the system administrators I've worked since moving into the Unix world know C and can at least read the source code of the operating system they're supporting. Even if there's not much need to write anything or even submit bugfixes anymore. Also, the number of unix admins I know who don't know a scripting language well enough to write a reasonably-sized, useful tool is vanishingly small, and those few have been very solid with some other technology(network, storage, etc.) and valuable anyway.

"System Administrator" is a broad term, just like "Developer." I'm not sure google has either, right? If we're going by fancy titles, Google has "Software Engineers." I'm not going to criticize Google's culture but the fact is if I say "Software Developer" you know what I'm talking about and from context should be able to tell the difference between Linus Torvalds and a guy who creates wordpress sites for his friends.
Can Siri carry on a 'conversation' about one task? For instance, can she/it find a place in Maps then understand a command like "get directions there" to refer to said place? I don't have a 4S to test myself.
You are talking about horizontal economies of scale that means that companies can increase margins by doing everything themselves. With online services, vertical economies of scale just now are becoming more dominant.

Here's a for instance: If I were to create a new social network today, I might host it on Heroku, send email thru Sendgrid, store my data in Neo4J and make it searchable with ThriftDB, etc etc. There is only one consumer-facing brand, but hundreds of small companies contribute to creating that brand. But each of them also have hundreds or hundreds of thousands of other customers, which creates the vertical economies of scale.

This is not new, corporations have had sub-contractors and suppliers throughout history. But what is new is that the small one-man shop will have a dozen suppliers from day one. It's a brand new ecosystem still in it's infancy, it didn't even exist to this extent when Facebook and Youtube was started. What existed then was the infrastructure services like server colocation and CDNs. So they relied on open source software, but they still had to deal with a lot of messiness you don't have to with SaaS.

This is the embryo of that eco system. Give it a decade to mature and my bet is there will be a one man operation totally competing with Google on their core business.

Oh wait, that already happened.
I imagine you can just use the same preloading techniques as always -- create an image sprite of both background images and set different top/left coordinates in the style, or load images into non-displayable elements or unused variables in javascript.
Siri disappoints me.

It is limited to the 10 styles of commands and it from what I have read it cant interpret different grammatical forms of similar search contexts.

I have written software that can do the barebones of what Siri can do (www.samir-ahmed.com/iris.html). It is far less efficient flexible and polished. But I have 6 months of software experience and Siri has 8 years of DARPA quality experience.

I dont think that google is going to suffer to much unless

A - Siri can integrate well with other apps so that app developers can contribute to its grammar and its ability to interface with twitter, foursquare, facebook, open table etc.
This is open the floodgates for Siri to basically be the ultimate iPhone utility, allowing people to use it to interface with their entire phone in a new way

B - Siri starts to get smarter - and I mean creepy smart. When your wife sends you an email, Siri needs to read it. Understand what your wife is like, and store that information. It needs to do this with every contact so that it has context. This will require an immense amount of machine learning and natural language processing.
What this will do however, is open the doors for a variety of new applications.

You can data mine with Siri
E.g -"What did my wife ask me to pick up from the supermarket"

When you query your contacts, it can make smart recommendations
E.g -"Remind me to buy my wife a present"
Siri can look into your correspondence and make recommendations.

Being able to do all these things will make Siri an order of magnitude more useful, open to door to advertising revenue too and kick Google in the balls.

Until Siri can do these things, Siri is will not be the future of search.
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I'm curious about this as well. I know slashdot's position is that "Comments owned by the poster".
The whole point is retiring so you can raise your children and work on things you enjoy. What's "capitalistic" about that?
Reliability can certainly have a business value.
Why would it read 700MB of stuff right after login?
Please do not slander OS X like that. I've been a happy OS X user since 2005. I look at GNOME 3/Unity and I vomit. Vigorously.

If this was an attempt to be Mac-like, then it was pure cargo-cult UI design. They clearly have no understanding of the actual design process.

The last Linux desktop environment I was reasonably happy with was KDE 2.x. I tolerated 3.x.
I'm not sure that rumor is correct. Look at this comment to Brian Proffitt's article, "Has IBM kicked OpenOffice.org to the curb?". It's from an IBM'er claiming that IBM is investing a huge amount into the OpenOffice project:

http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/212949/has-ibm-...
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They're using their platform to get into publishing, not making the industry obsolete as the title (and the article) imply.
I've read various things from writers about Amazon's publishing deals. They have AmazonEncore, which republishes and promotes emerging authors and mid-listers with self-published novels, giving them an extremely generous (compared to the Big NY Five) cut of the proceeds for every book sold on Kindle.

Of course, for indie publishers in general, if you sell your ebook for over US$2.99 in the Kindle bookstore, you keep 70%. Same with Nook Bookstore. Seth Godin self-publishes by this method. Stephen King publishes short stories and novelas through Kindle Singles, a more curated kindle publishing vehicle that publishes short essays, longer journalistic pieces, and short fiction that gives authors a 70% cut regardless of the author's set price.

Being the #1 bookseller and ereader manufacturer is faring very well for Amazon.
More and more, the middlemen in every industry are starting to realize just how irrelevant they are.
They have rolled out a swipe to pay trial system in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup. Its essentially the same thing, except it uses a chip off your credit card and not one in the cell phone.

Thats going to be Googles biggest competitor to this, the fact any wallet can operate the same way, and well you still need to take your wallet with you for various reasons e.g. carrying your oyster card in London for example.

Obviously win-win for the credit companies, I doubt they care which technology takes off.

Of interest the threshold is NZD$80 per transaction without authorization, which I guess is around USD$60, and I think it works even if you have PIN authorization set up e.g. it overrides the PIN at certain terminals.
There are already several significantly more powerful ARM Cortex-M3 boards available for around the price of an Arduino[0][1]. The draw of the Arduino is ease of use in interfacing to GPIO/UART/i2c and in the community of accessories, documentation, and code that exists around it.

[0] http://shop.ngxtechnologies.com/product_info.php?cPath=21...
[1] http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8559
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it still won't play my music. i get "complete action with [youtube|subsonic]", but no option to actually play the music on my phone, using the stock music player.
Why is being non-GPL that important?
The list is becoming more of a reflect of HNSearch outputs[1][2].

The idea is that there are many cool stuff hacker news members did that we are not generally aware of (but hidden on the user's bios), and we can showcase them.

This is not 1000memories[3], but I find it nice that we can live forever through our creations.

On the other hand, this is a reflect of community, and if it decides it is no longer appropriate to list the members who left us, I'll respect it.

[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&#...

[2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.c...

[3] http://1000memories.com/
I'd format that quote nicely, frame it, and hang it on the wall of my office :-).
I just set Siri to use australian english rather than US english and it had no difficulty understanding me. (I'm an NZer living stateside so I can't really comment on any other issues)
Marc's on the game

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...
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>sysadmin/ops group was the #1 obstacle to getting things done.

This happens when the company discovers that when the system goes down they stop making money. If you've managed to design and build a system to be very resilient and reliable on the chosen platform and has proved to need minimal maintenance, then chances are good you have a very small ops team who doesn't get in the way much.
Curious as to what Otelic (the author's company) does, as I could not decipher their mission statement [0]:

"A company dedicated to bring full engagement and sunshine to individuals and companies using simple tricks and mathematical magic."

[0] http://otelic.com/about
Barnes & Noble's has a publishing house of their own for a while; I'm surprised it's taken Amazon this long.
I don't know why. I just know that it does. The problem is described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-dae...
Amazon's not a middleman?

Of course they are, they just happen to be the biggest one, capable of eating all the others.