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Wow, that's some really good numbers you gave me! Your costs per week doesn't seem very high at all considering you have things like gym membership, mobile and broadband, entertainment, and eating out. I'm starting to think it's very hard not to be able to live on 20k a year unless the person had a large medical problem.
Best part of working with Lamson? A dependency on a module that massively reorganized itself in a very minor version change, leading me to have to search back to see which version it worked with. Was it 2.8? 2.7? 2.6? 2.5? Aha, 2.5!

Fun times. Giving Mailgun a shot.
Looks great. Any chance you are thinking of open sourcing this?
>If you're creating value, the wealth society has given you is probably a bargain for society

If you're creating value, you're creating it, it isn't being given to you (nor is it being taken from someone else). For example, if I (as a great painter!) take $5 worth of art supplies and create a painting worth $1,000,000, I have gained a million dollars in wealth without taking it from society.

In a free market, people can and do create great wealth without deleting someone else's wealth.
There is something around here in the Bay Area called the BACE time bank. BACE is Bay Area Community Exchange: http://timebank.sfbace.org/

The code it uses is a fork of oscommerce.
Good work, like it a lot! I've really missed having an easy-to-use queue in iTunes, it's great to see it put front and center.

A bit of (hopefully) constructive criticism:

I don't think you should add a whole album to the queue when I double-click on a single song; I expect just that song to go in the queue. I like that double-clicking an album cover adds the whole album to the queue though.

Support for podcasts is really important! I guess this is something you just haven't got to yet?

The things that would be a barrier to me leaving iTunes for this are podcasts, AirPlay & the iTunes store. If you had support for the first two and a bi-directional sync with the iTunes library, that'd be enough to convert me because I really like the experience of using this program & I think you've got a lot of things very right.
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"If a CEO has the market power to demand a golden parachute and happens to be paid after she's fired, that's a byproduct of her initial market power, not corruption."

Adam Smith made the same point. Wages are a result of power differential in negotiations, not value to the organization. This is why being able to be self-employed is so important. If you do decide to take a job, you can negotiate from a much greater position of power than if you can't be self-employed.
What about the people among us who don't think that Wikileaks is a good thing to support?

What if there are more people who think that than message board sentiment analysis would lead you to believe?

What if the New York Times simply doesn't agree with your take --- ok, the popular take on places like HN --- about Wikileaks?
Finally, an answer to the tax question! I don't have much experience with taxes so far, but $15,500 after taxes seems pretty livable because even in higher cost cities, there are still low cost areas. Health insurance seems to be a problem for everyone, but the guy mentioned in another comment claims he can do health insurance for a couple hundred per year, so there's that I could look into.
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I'd say the attention span nowadays helps in cases like this one. People will carry on and nobody will know about her in the near future. Hopefully.
> Education isn't a race.

I was explicitly told in school that it was. Sure, getting an education is important; but the race aspect - specifically, against repeating a year - was hammered home.
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If you could measure it then that's the first sign that something is wrong.

In that case, I can tell you that you are very wrong. Khan's lessons have lots of soul. Not only soul, but also invisible dragons that breath the fire of knowledge!

http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Dragon.htm
>I've always thought that you got ahead by hard work,

One gets ahead by providing things of value that others are willing to pay for. You can work hard at digging a hole and filling it back in again, but since that has no value for others, you won't get ahead no matter how hard you work at that. You can also work very little and get ahead if you are very good at creating things others value.

I.e. hard work is neither necessary nor sufficient in order to get ahead. It's being able to provide something that others value that matters.
Interesting listen.

The topic is pretty challenging, especially so for the left leaning where quite often the political policy related by affluent lefties is "to give people the same opportunity as me" to compete in a meritocracy.
IOW, something we all know as programmers:

There's something to be said for constructive laziness.
Most of the credentialed "experts" in education theory or research that I've encountered have been the last people I'd want designing or administering an educational program.

I'm sure this isn't universally true, but just like many other fields, expertise in technology should let new people disrupt the field. Education, being highly regulated, lacking real feedback mechanisms, government funded, etc., is perfect to disrupt.
even if Processing 2.0 does make perfect use of the GPU that distinction only covers the render phase. Calculating collisions for a large number of objects will still be significantly faster in C++. So like nearly every situation in software, it all depends what you're trying to do.
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Who is a replacement? Care to list 30 such replacements along with the types of contracts you expect Nokia would have been able to negotiate?

With many millions of dollars of shareholder wealth at stake, only people with a strong track record should be seriously considered.
Ah, I should have looked there. Didn't know where to find the TOS for apps using Twitter.

I will definitely report them for this. Thanks for the link!
There is already something like this http://context.io

You can extract and search anything from an IMAP account. Your app do not need to receive/parse the message.
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There are also outliers, about which it interesting to ask "why?" This [1] example of poor kids in a good school was recently reported in Australian media. The Albert Street School [2] in Johannesburg is run by Zimbabwean refugees for Zimbabwean refugees. Recently, it's been achieving results comparable to the best African private schools.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-06/disadvantaged-students...

[2] http://www.eliasfund.org/partners/albert-street-school
With respect, this is complete nonsense. It would only be true if there were no replacement for Elop who could not produce similar returns for a lower cost.

I realize Elop's pay is set by supply and demand, and if Nokia could find a cheaper person with the same qualities, they would and should hire him.

I'm just pointing out that it is in Nokia's best interest to pay significant amounts of cash comp to a good executive even if that executive "runs the company into the ground".
That's nice speculation, but not how suicide usually works. You commit suicide because you feel there's no one left who cares about you. The idea that there are thousands of people asking you what happened works somewhat counter to that.
I love what Codeacademy is doing, but hope they'll be rolling out some meatier lesson content with that 2m round before too long. The entire venturebeat-post-worthy jQuery lessons take about 3 minutes to go through (http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom/1#!/exe...)
I think 5 and 8 are just the ones that aren't always done by other large players.
I like the fact that the tabs have no icons, but rather large and readable labels. I do tire of everything being an icon these days and appreciate the effort you took to make them aesthetically pleasing.

I'd like it that when I add a song no more than the song is added to my now playing list. When I double-clicked a song it filled the whole thing with my library. Sometimes I want to play just specific songs and not their albums either. At least it's easy to collapse and remove all other albums.

I didn't find the welcome dialog out of place, though there needed to be a little more indication that they're buttons. (I'm fine but my mom would be totally confused over what to do.)

I'm not a big user of AirPlay or Podcasts, though I would probably use the latter feature more.

Keep up the good work. I already like Enqueue better than iTunes. You've definitely caught my attention! If you keep to a similar UI and don't bloat the application I'd probably even pay for it (which is really saying something because I'm a bit of a cheapskate).
I assume you've already checked this, but just in case you haven't: is Find My iPad setup? If so, and if you can get access to his Apple account, then you can track it that way.
"If a CEO has the market power ..."

Isn't it possible for the market itself to be screwed up? There is no such thing as The Market, there are many different markets with different rules and contexts. We can alter these rules and contexts, and they change on their own over time through technology and other things.

The question is whether the market we have right now is serving us well, or if we could alter it to serve us better.
Don't forget drunken photos. The iPhone is relatively unforgiving when it comes to mashing what I think is the button - with my camera, I know where to put my finger and press, and I get tactile feedback.
no, fsync means wait for the data file to be synced to disk. {safe:true} is what you are talking about. {j:true} is probably what yo should be using, {w:majority} is also important, and {fsync:true} is the data file option

I think given that one of the parameters is called "fsync" using "fsync" should mean that.
When people say the New York Times does "journalism", one of the unspoken connotations of that is that they are paying actual highly-qualified people to travel across the world, often into war zones and scenes of chaos and disaster, to record and report events firsthand.

It is awfully hard to even formulate an argument that the New York Times isn't a journalistic organization.

On the other hand, it is not as difficult to formulate an argument that Wikileaks staff aren't journalists. You are very unlikely to agree with those arguments, and I respect that. I have a lot of friends who ardently support Wikileaks and think no less of them for it.

But I have a problem with putting Wikileaks on the exact same level as The New York Times. They simply aren't on the same level.
Can you provide a link to Mist? I can't seem to find it.
Either that or the consumer-grade digital cameras will start to evolve in new directions. I think we're already seeing the beginnings of this with Lytro's light-field camera, for example. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing light-field cameras from the major manufacturers (Canon, Nikon, et al) in a few years time. And given the physical constraints of the microlens array, it'll before you get one of those in a mobile phone!
Interesting. I had made a similar service a few years ago (sendmypassword.net) but it never got much traction outside of my company.

Do you send confirmation mails, etc after the password is seen so that the sender knows the password got there?
Imagine that your customer is drunk.

Digital cameras win hands down. Slam the power button, slam the photo button, and you have at least a blurry blackmail-worthy shot of your friend dancing with a hobo.

With a mobile phone, by the time I get the app up and running, the hobo is gone and my friend is left with nothing but hobo sweat.
Your argument is a nostalgic argument... one might as well argue that an honest and hard working blacksmith deserves to be able to earn a living wage to support a family... This ignores the changing economy -- these days people use bicycles, public transit, and cars for transport rather than horses.

Other areas of the economy are changing too. Most technological innovations exist b/c they do something cheaper or faster than the human labor alternative.

No matter how much a person may enjoy menial labor, someone else is working hard to make that work unnecessary. To fight against this trend is a doomed effort and frankly longs for the dark ages.
It looks great but a question: Why should I use this over iTunes?
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Are there good python PaaS that doesn't lock you in? I'm looking for one for our next project (or migrate the current project away from App Engine). I guess I just don't trust Google any more.
Either you have separation of data and presentation or you don't. HTML didn't. HTML5 still doesn't. It is not possible to present an arbitrary block of data in a normalized, optimal form, and have CSS render it any way you want. For that you need script (or XSLT!), but even then, unless you go canvas, you have to deal with a markup language for presentation that is actively trying to not be presentation but be data instead. Its trying and failing. Life would be so much easier (and involve much less cognitive dissonance) if the DOM stuck to being presentation.

As it is, developing web apps is this giant joke, where you encrypt what you really want to happen in the form of pseudo-data (html) and magic rule-based transformation (css), and then the browser goes to a ton of effort to attempt to recreate what you really wanted. The effort the browser has to go through as soon as you introduce a div, or change its class, just to determine which, if any, of the CSS rules now apply to that node and any of its children, is just offensive. Worse: its something you, the programmer, must be able to model in your head to determine what the fuck is going on. Good luck with that! The result we get is "try it and see" "programming".

HTML1.0 was a local optimum. Somewhere there is another, better optimum. The W3C appears to be willing to travel the Himalayas of suboptimal to find it.
Whole Foods does a lot of good (supporting sustainable practices, small farmers, etc.) in the course of its main business, but is 1-10% the size of Google, depending on metric.
>hard work is neither necessary nor sufficient in order to get ahead. It's being able to provide something that others value that matters.

While nominally true, this falls apart in the real world. Creating value is great, but if you aren't working hard at it then you will likely be outcompeted by someone who creates similar value per work unit, but works much harder than you. There are caveats and exceptions to this, but one cannot take the statement "hard work is not a necessary condition" to mean anything other than "hard work is a necessary condition" if one is to have any expectation of success.
>all humans want to feel connected and valued.

Being lazy and prone to instant gratification does not mean not having friends or family. Why would you see these two points as mutually exclusive?

>rich culture of arts and music

Are you assuming that everyone can produce something of value in this regard? They can't. A very large majority of it is complete crap.

>prefers to do something with their time

I didn't say people wouldn't do anything, just that they wouldn't do much anything they found uncomfortable to meet some abstract, long term goal. The ability to work to embetter themselves is not the same as mental masturbation.

>I am confident the majority will also prefer meaning over stagnation.

People need reasons to do things they find difficult. Motivation and drive is not born out of a vacuum. Remove a reason like the need to have food, water, heat, electricity, sanitation and housing; lose much of the need in creating wealth for yourself.
As of iOS 5, you can now use the volume-up button as a way to take pictures, so you get that tactile feedback.
I'm the co-founder of Codecademy - we'll definitely be rolling out meatier content soon. This is just a peek at what some of our beta users have created. If you'd like to create a course, sign up - we're rolling out access to the course creator slowly to make sure our content is all high quality. Let me know if you have any other feedback!
I use this app everyday. It's not perfect, and I still use iTunes when I _add_ new music, but other than that, iTunes is dead to me.

I love it, and it's improving regularly.
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In other words, you're agreeing with me; Elop is benefiting from a windfall of lack of information. This lack of information forces companies to make inefficient choices of leaders and waste lots of money on leadership.
This adds a whole new meaning to "software bug".
The phone number is unlisted, but the point is that it was supposed to be sent over HTTPS and it wasn't.
> How is a CEO being paid $10M per year and running the company into the ground different from an employee being paid $6/hour and alienating 10 customers?

Clearly the former is orders of magnitude worse (in every respect) than the latter, no?

> If a CEO has the market power to demand a golden parachute and happens to be paid after she's fired, that's a byproduct of her initial market power, not corruption.

The system need not be corrupt, just broken. In the sense that (I think) we're discussing the merits of modern american capitalism, your comment begs the question.
It’s rude when according to the article he withheld details of the exploit to give Apple time to fix the bug, but the decision is understandable since he did violate the developer agreement. I’m not so sure about “interfering with Apple's software and services” but his activites seem to be covered under “hiding features from [Apple] when submitting them.”
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Presumably the entire thing is served over HTTPS, making this a non-issue.
It's great to see a new entry into the OS X music player ecosystem.

As a fan of "classical" music, may I make a couple of feature requests — which would actually make me switch from iTunes?

1. Multiple artist tag support. I want to tag tracks by orchestra, conductor, soloist(s), and to search by each independently. This would be a killer feature.

2. Grouping tracks by composition. The movements of a symphony are not "songs", they belong together by default, but it should be possible to select one separately from the others. This can be forced into iTunes by careful naming conventions, but first-class support for the distinction between "composition" and "parts of a composition" would be welcome.
No we don't keep any identifying information so we have no way to contact people. We only display a message on the private URI page to the effect of, "Message was received 30 minutes ago".
Looks very cool, but it doesn't seem to be able to rearrange divs and other elements, which is what I really need.

For any large page or template based system, there is almost always going to be a backend involved, which means that dynamic editing tools like these don't serve much of a purpose.

However, for one off pages like landing pages or quick and dirty signup pages, something where you could layout all the elements and text with a simple wysiwyg would be a blessing.
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I'd like to solicit a discussion and pose this question to the HN community: Why should Facebook do an IPO?

Would it be to:

* Quickly/finally reward past investors?

* Raise capital to grow operationally? (do they need to?)

* Raise capital to acquire?

* Just because?

My understanding is that Facebook is profitable and generating huge amounts of revenue running on their current funding.

My position is that Facebook as a public company would be forced to deal with far more distractions than they ever have had to deal with. I applaud the fact that Facebook has not gone public yet, so, why would they? Why should they?
How exactly do you establish the %likelihood that a particular CEO will save your company to the degree of precision that you could actually meaningfully incorporate it into a business model?
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I think Feynman captures the essence of what I meant by "the answer to everything but the meaning of nothing". In his teachings in Brazil IIRC Feynman talks about Physics students who knew the refactory index of water but couldn't tell you why the ocean sparkled in the sun.
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I think Sagan's rant is cute, but ultimately wrong. And besides, when I talk about soul in this context, I'm obviously not talking about anything metaphysical. I'm just saying that his lessons are rather prosaic.
That's a bit too charitable to Apple, I think. Yes, the decision is covered by the terms of the agreement - they can do what they did. But since the result of their decision is 1) bad press and 2) increased risk of security holes, it's not "understandable" unless you think Apple is run by morons...
suivix nailed it. Photography is not one dimensional. A great photograph with a camera phone must be handheld. Suivix's point about taking a great number of photos then comparing the results with a huge sample then making a quantitative assessment would be the only correct way to test it.

This post wasn't about the quality of the sensor it was about the quality of the photograph.
I'm in a similar situation to you - dropped out of school, worked dead-end jobs for years, then suddenly "decided" to turn it around and have a career, and mostly just talked my way into a series of larger and larger successes. And I've met a few other people who've followed this path.
But I have friends my age who just can't pull this off. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason, but they just keep failing to find anything but the most soul-crushing low-paying jobs. I can't find anything that they're doing that's different than what I was doing - and some of them have nice college and graduate degrees, even.
And, somehow, there's a correlation with the income level of each of our parents. It's as if it's just easier for some of us to navigate the economy, if we've had good examples of how to do it.
So I guess I agree with you, even though I could have sworn I was trying to write a rebuttal.
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I agree. I am the furthest thing from a pro photographer and always take blurry shots.

But with the 4S they're all focused and crystal clear.
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The article was my opinion -- obviously you are entitled to your own :-)