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He was also upset that it appeared to violate relativity.

To his deathbed he believed in his alternate explanation that the particles were set opposite "at birth" and initiated that way until observation (if I understand that correctly).

So now we have at least TWO phenomena that appear to be "faster than light" - so get cracking scientists (and engineers) on a practical application for communications to probes that are light-hours or light-years away.
EDIT: I see now that you say "It read back the data like his stresstest program does" and probably mean "It won't read back data..."

While your command is a good way to quickly write random data to a drive, note that it doesn't match the functionality of his stressdrive program, which keeps a checksum of the random data it wrote, and then reads back the data from the drive to verify the checksum.

Not that that would be hard to do with a few pipes. Note that the docs for stressdrive[1] mention this:

"Pshaw! I could do this with dd, /dev/random & shasum!"
Indeed you could. I prefer a minimal focused tool whose
operation is fixed, its source simple+readable and
offers good built-in progress reporting.

[1]: https://github.com/rentzsch/stressdrive
Putting aside all the costs of how much it costs to recruit a talented engineer/designer, I think the current monetization model these guys are using for the site is terrible for gaining traction.

When I first saw this on HN, I thought, "Sweet! If I can browse through the candidates and only pay $50 per email, I think this could be manageable!" I immediately started to look for where I could begin browsing before I realized I needed to enter my CC #.... There wasn't even a free trial... It was straight up, "Hey! You don't know how good/bad our candidates are, but give us $50 and just trust us!"

My suggestion? Make it like the dating sites like many here have already suggested. Let me browse your PF and see your qualifications. Why not set a bidding system on the 5 emails sent out a week? That way you can even rank how good each candidate is and what the demand for them are.

All in all, current model for me is no bueno. For all I know, you're grabbing people off CL.
No USB Mass Storage support on the Galaxy Nexus. Well, for us Linux (and Mac) users that's some bad news.
You did a great job of breaking down the technical complexity, Patrick. You are a good teacher.

"So why did this never show up in development and why did it show up only sporadically in production?"
-- I've also run into production bugs that don't manifest in development; your post inspires me to keep as many details as possible in common for the two environments.
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I was excited about the Kindle Fire, even knowing that it wasn't meant to be a true tablet - but a media consumption device instead.

I'm still very disappointed. The bottom line is, the UI is barely serviceable, there are performance, stability, and battery life issues galore - serious, deal-breaking ones.

This goes beyond what the device is and isn't "meant to be". This goes right to whether or not it is a competent personal electronic device. My answer leans towards "no".

I had the Kindle Fire drain 50% of my battery idling over night. The culprit? I dared set up email on the device - yes, one of those big advertised features right there on the Fire's home page.

The UI is unresponsive. Not only is it jerky and laggy, but buttons routinely stop responding altogether. Using the device is a chore, since you're never sure if you hit a button it'll actually do something, or if you'll have to jab the screen again and see what happens.

We'll ignore all the myriad UI design problems with the device and excuse it, since it's $200 and apparently that means it's supposed to be able to get away with atrocious UI.

The music player is terrible. When reading books or otherwise moving about the device the music will cut out and randomly fast forward. That's disregarding the myriad of UI problems (including sorting "The Beatles" under "T").

The reader app, and the video app, are the only two things in the entire device that I'd consider a win. They're the only ones where I can genuinely think to myself "hey, this will help me buy content I want". The rest of the device fails utterly at this goal, which if you look at it, is the entire raison d'etre for the device.
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Ask HN: Know any jobs sites which don't allow recruiters?
I'd be interested to know of any job sites people know of which don't allow recruiters to post jobs. I know there are good recruiters out there but there are also a lot of crappy ones. I know there are a number of no recruiter jobs boards about at the moment (I have my own) and I'm sure employers on HN would like to know what options they have for advertising jobs directly.
Since the rotation of the earth has to be factored in, does the earth's orbit around the sun need to be as well? How about the suns orbit around the Galactic center?

I suppose my question is - all things being relative, why aren't the neutrinos bound to the same frame as the emitter and detector?
Finally! A lossy transparent format, supported by a browser that a large % of people use!

Does anyone know a good way to provide webp with a fallback, short of sniffing the UA? I've tried using mod_negotiation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_negotiation.html), but Chrome doesn't sent the webp mime type, so I can't get it to work...

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This is very helpful comment. Have you considered writing articles/blog entries?
Ugh. Rentzsch is a braver person than I.

I wonder how many days of backups he keeps. If his drive were to start silently corrupting data again, how long would it take him to figure it out? Even if he did have an extensive archive, hunting through it to find good versions of all of his files would be a royal pain.

I'm also curious how stressdrive handles the various levels of caching between it and the disk. I guess the expectation is that the cache is not nearly as large as the entire drive?
Of course somebody will counter-argue with the legal obligation to their shareholders, yadda yadda.
At a guess, file a bug against Chrome?
Funny, everyone who has an iPhone has the NeXT OS.

Steve started over with Unix before Linux even existed, and made it a great system for anyone to use.
I expected Ron Paul to oppose it, too. He was also one of the very few who opposed the persecution of Wikileaks.
(Speaking as an owner of a software business).

Ehr, sorry, but this is not true. It's not a gun, but you have to own a copy of Windows for some government/state services in some countries, because their software is written for it.

Also, copying software is not a "theft, plain and simple". I'm not sure how you missed the whole debate about it that lasts for a few decades. If it was so "plain and simple", there would be no debate.
Sure to a point. But you don't see many politicians out of the bible belt who votes for abortions.
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Freelance Greek SW engineer here. My annual income hovers around 40K EUR/year ; with the recent tax increases the overall (taxes and insurance) amount (which is completely payed from my 40K - no employer involvement) has risen to 50-55% of my income, leaving me around 18K Euros to eat/pay bills, etc.

What is the percentage (for my range of income) that fellow SW engineers pay - for taxes and insurance - in other countries? e.g. the US? Germany? England? Australia?

Any feedback from fellow SW engineers most welcome.
they can take the MIT licensed source code, put it in their own Github, and write me an email saying "Hey, pull my stuff", which happens every once in a while. Github did not invent requesting pulls.

You don't even need to put it on GitHub to send patch. Git has alright support for easily turning changes to a local branch into an easy to email format, cf. http://book.git-scm.com/5_git_and_email.html
Sadly, that won't happen, though. Obama and Biden are big supporters of RIAA and MPAA. They were the ones setting up the "voluntary" ISP alert system for people downloading illegal torrents, too.
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Your boolean logic is flawless. Unfortunately, this is not what we are dealing with.

Let's, for example, assume you generously donate a given sum every month, to Greenpeace. According to you logic, nobody can say you support them.

Microsoft pays the fees required by their BSA membership and allow the entity to brag abput their membership. The entity's charter is to defend the interests of their members and one of the ways to do it is supporting SOPA. How can anyone say, considering Microsoft's previous support to PIPA and their support to BSA, that they don't support SOPA?

How likely is that Microsoft would chose not to comment and, at the same time, be against SOPA? The odds of that are vanishingly small.

About the first part of your last message, you never kept it really secret ;-)
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No, actually, you patent the general idea of one.

More specifically not the general idea of trapping mice, but the general idea of a hinge and a spring, or the use of cheese on a trigger, or whatever, as general as you can get it.
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Does the 0.9mg/cm^3 number seem strange? The density of air is about 1.2mg/cm^3 at STP[1]. Can it be less dense than air? Wouldn't that make it float?

1. http://pdg.lbl.gov/2007/reviews/atomicrpp.pdf
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That is not going to chang enuch I am afraid. We could always count on Ron Paul to vote against it but there are way too many people in the house for one vote to matter.
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I've heard this response, but I'm not convinced that this explanation really changes the issue substantially, or exonerates the Congressmen in question. As it stands, willful infringement must be proven to land any meaningful award in a copyright case. (A recent example http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/jammie-thoma...)

So while factually accurate, I don't entirely see how it minimizes the damage caused by SOPA, as the copyright holders have never had much difficulty demonstrating willful infringement to date.
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As bentlegen indicated, Pelosi serves something of a different demographic. In fact, I think Democrats as a whole will consider this bill more carefully than Republicans because the Democratic base skews much younger and technologically inclined. Republicans don't have much to lose on this front since most of their base doesn't really know how to use the internet.
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I think you mean causality.
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I think it's fair to say that people at Google do actually know this is possible.

.class, .anotherClass, .yetSomeOther .moreSpecificTarget {color:blue;}

That's no better, because you have to duplicate your selectors. You end up with stuff like:

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.yetSomeOther .moreSpecificTarget {border: pink solid 1px;}

.anotherClass, .yetSomeOther {margin: 5px;}

.yetSomeOther .moreSpecificTarget {margin: 1px;}

Basically if you follow this model you have to have a line for every single property you want to style. It's unmaintainable, and increases the size of your CSS files.
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I've been to two, here's a quick rundown...

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About 90 attendants, 45-50 pitches. Some were good, some were bad, some were clones (groupon anyone?). I joined a great team led by the (then) Brussels director of Founder Institute and had an amazing time. We ended up second (should have been first, but I won't go into details) and that was that. He made a company out of it and recently raised $2m, moving all operations to Sillicon Valley (he is from SV originally, but lived in Brussels for a couple years). You might've read about it on TC. Company is Scanadu, @scanadude on Twitter.

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Fully booked, I'd say about 90 still showed up. If I have to guess, only 25-30 pitches, most were terrible. Ideas chosen were quite bad, a couple opportunistic people won the pitches which is okay I suppose. The one idea which I liked (I kid you not: one) was one I had actually worked on before, before the "founder" disappeared and we just faded. Pretty good project, but from the pitch I could tell the focus was wrong. They also had too much interest (well over 10% of all votes!!) and a team that was too big, so I went home and didn't come back.

All in all, worth trying. Go see what's going on, it could be a lifechanging experience. If nothing else, you lost some money (or to look at it from the bright side: bought expensive food and drinks, as well as an office for a weekend)
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We're just starting a new project this week. It's not that complicated in the big scheme of things, but there are several bits of hardware that need to be coordinated which maintain their own state, plus a GUI, logging, and database updates.

We'd initially talked about what modules and what main threads would be needed, but I started getting paranoid.

So we're going to be using the Python multiprocessing library, and ZeroMQ plus JSON for the communication between the parts.
since most of their base doesn't really know how to use the internet

Neither do I identify myself as republican, nor do I support this bill in anyway but these are the types of sweeping statements that make it difficult to have any sort of rational conversation.

(Frankly, I think this whole topic seems like exactly the type of thing that shouldn't be on HN. I flagged it for whatever that's worth)
The real question is, "Can Barack Obama stand to sign this bill when he relies so heavily on youthful support for election?" Also, "what happens if Republican nominee comes out against it?"

I don't hear much about Obama vetoes, does he just sign everything that hits his desk like Bush?
If the artist was precise (if you look at the coverage of the exhibition you will find numbers ranging from 1 to 3M, both of which are significantly too low [0]), it would take about 50 more rooms (there are about 5M new photos uploaded to Flickr/day vs. 250M to FB [1]).

[0] Rough extrapolation based on http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers... and a 20% growth rate http://www.kullin.net/2010/09/flickr-5-billion-photos/

[1] http://www.quora.com/How-many-photos-are-uploaded-to-Faceboo...
So while factually accurate, I don't entirely see how it minimizes the damage caused by SOPA, as the copyright holders have never had much difficulty demonstrating willful infringement to date.

I agree with this, but the factual inaccuracy is important. Given that these sites are run by the bill sponsors it would be pretty easy to show they are not willful infringes.

Worse, by publishing this story it makes SOPA easier to defend - the authors can get up and say "look - SOPA won't wreck the internet. I made a mistake and did the wrong thing, and the law explicitly took that into account"
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This is incredible! If the claimed benefits are true (and the WebX team seems to be pretty honest about their numbers) this is now a better format than PNG, JPEG, and GIF, all at once, as well as covering some other options (lossy + transparent) that could be interesting. WebP, with recent metadata and ICC support, and these new additions, is starting to look like a serious image format that we might have good reason. If Google can encourage Firefox to start supporting it, it might even see significant usage. Just think --- one image format covering all the use cases you care about, one optimization tool, one backend to thumbnail user images, you name it.

Man, PNG was such a nice binary format, though. sniff
I thought the air density might have been a mistake, but I checked and your numbers are correct. Theoretically, it should float, right?
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The density likely leaves out the weight of the air filling most of the volume, and just represents the mass of the metal divided by the structure's volume. This is reasonable, given that the air plays no role in the structure's stability or strength. It could just as easily be in a vacuum, or in some other gas. You can't say the same of the frozen smoke linked in the article, as air forms an integral part of its structure.
> totally illegal

That really made me cringe.
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I would think it's about the "apparent weight" i.e. including the buoyancy in air. So it's density would be 1.2+0.9= 2.1mg/cm^3. Also they count the whole cm^3 which is 99.99% air and only 0.01% solid...
Conversely most e-mails from recruiters get ignored. I'd be far more likely to take an e-mail that I know someone had to pay to get to me seriously, on the assumption it'd likely be better targeted.
I am Austrian (born and raised) and am working in Germany now and have been around Europe and the world - what are those subsidies for food you are talking about? You probably mean the Austrian government and the EU are subsidizing local farmers?

Buying local farmer products will vary in cost and when you go to the supermarkets (Lidl, Aldi and Hofer EXcluded, their "food" is absolutely horrible) and buy organic food it definitely is expensive; a bit less in Austria than in Germany though really good and very delicious food is scarce in Germany in comparison. I found the food you can buy in the US cheaper when you go by price per unit since packages are way bigger there and you have a ton more to choose from.
You're right, ericd, but the vast majority of corporations (and shareholders, and lawmakers) are incapable of thinking beyond the next quarter earnings call.
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I also posted this as a comment to his blog - needless to say it was NOT published. Obviously he doesn't like any negative PR or critical voices on there that might make him look bad and not-1%-y.
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Piracy is already illegal. Just like child pornography is already illegal. There is no need to make extra laws about it, and whenever somebody purports to write a law to "prevent" a crime that is already illegal, you can know that that law will contain terrible, overreaching things.

There's a reason that there's no law that holds telephone companies responsible for law-breaking which is organized over their wires / cell towers. It's ludicrous.
You should tell him you'll take it as long as your severance package once they fire you because you have no clue about what you're doing is at least 7 digits. Then if you got the job, make sure that your first act is to ensure that recruiter will never be employed by that company again - that alone will probably make the cost of the severance package worth it for the company in question.
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This article basically takes the approach that "the cloud" is AWS.
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A member of the legislature should be held to higher standards than the general public; don't just obey the letter of the law but obey the spirit of the law. This isn't irrelevancies about a person's past or private life, it is directly related to what they're pushing onto other people.

> He also pointed out Smith and his colleagues would only be liable if the value of the streaming performances exceeds $1,000, and it's not clear how valuable a few short clips of local news broadcasts are.

Is the value for the owners, or for the use that the "infringer" gets from them?
So there is nothing Steve Blank could teach you that you don't already know? Besides, these classes involve getting into teams and trying out the concepts from class (and might have read about on HN) in the real world. I think you might learn a lot.
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I hadn't considered that. Thanks for explaining.
Isn't a potential solution to the question of willful infringement as simple as notifying the Congressperson's office of the problem? If they continue to host the content, they cannot claim ignorance anymore.
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Only problem is many people, like me, cannot actually switch. Comcast is the only provider in my apartment. No DSL company would hook me up and no other cable company has wires in here.
It sounds like you're implying that web apps aren't quite ready to take on CAD/CNC apps yet. Have you seen tinkercad ?
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I don't see the problem with copying this kind of thing - it's better for users if the flash experience is consistent, and how can you possibly improve on the Vimeo player? Is it better if they make a worse one for the sake of being different?