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Have lived in Tijuana almost my whole life, In no way my life has been in danger at any point, even when i decided to go to the bad parts of town, and I dont know anyone that has been kidnapped or killed, its always been someone far from me. On the news theres always stories of people getting mugged or killed, but somehow I've managed to stay away from it all, its mostly fear now, but we go about our business as if nothing happened.
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The "Submit" and "Reply to comment" pages do not respect the user selected header bar color settings.
Steps: 1. Change the header bar color in profile
2. Navigate to the home page and view your color on the header bar.
3. Click "Submit" to submit a new story.

Expected results: Header bar on submit page is same color selected in profile
Actual results: Header bar on submit page is orange.
Surely the chemistry doesn't matter much. Any energy-dense battery will contain a lot of energy by definition, and it seems improbable that there wouldn't be a way to make it come out faster than normal. This problem will only get worse as battery technology improves.
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The author's point was not that DRM deters people from buying; rather, that it deters them from using multiple competing services.

I think iTunes actually supports the author's point - how many people were there using iTunes and Rhapsody? DRM seems to have kept the iTunes customer well and truly locked in, at least for long enough for Apple to make a pile of money off their monopoly before Spotify et al. started moving in.
Did anyone not see that coming? I mean seriously, the whole creative accounting thing should have scared anyone with a brain off the IPO. If their unsustainable business model hadn't already.
Graduate level math and science textbooks, too.
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Great to see everyone's responses. If you find this interesting there are some additional people / concepts that might be of interest to you:

- Marc Powell's Food Genome Project
(http://dev.foodgenome.com/home)

- Hilary Mason- building a statistical model of chocolate chip cookies (http://bit.ly/q1lk5Q)

- Will Turnage - re-imaging recipes with data (http://bit.ly/rgD4gd)
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> Baltimore by contrast was 34.8 and Oakland 22.

I don't know about Mexico, but city-wide US murder rates don't actually tell you much about individual risk. In other words, for some sub-populations, Oakland is a lot more dangerous than 22/100k would suggest while it's a lot safer for other subpopulations.

The reason is that US murders aren't random. (And yes, "competitors" know each other.) Even the "killed by accident" happen to folk who live in/visit the "wrong" neighborhoods.
I think it's important in this situations to not confuse Computer Science with what we, as "software engineers" or "applications developers" or "programmers", do for 99.9% of our day. For most of us, what we do is as much Computer Science as the use of a protractor is geometry.
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I understand that but I think the inferred point was "drop DRM and people will buy from multiple sources" which I don't think is true. My point is people don't want to use multiple services. If Amazon makes it easy to purchase books people will stay with Amazon regardless of DRM.

I'll give you an example. I was tempted to buy books from Apress today (they have a all e-books are $15 special). But I weighed the pros and cons and decided to buy them from Amazon instead for an average of $7 more per book because I like having books in my Kindle library that are automatically accessible.

So DRM is irrelevant but it isn't the main deterrent.
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My experience is still that git is at best a second class citizen on windows, in terms of installation, performance and usability.

Is this no longer the case in some way?
MatterPort - Software Engineer (Vision & Algorithms focus) - 3D Scanning Company
What we're doing:

We are creating a low cost point-and-shoot 3D scanner. Our software, combined with the inexpensive 3D capture hardware now available on the market, will allow everyone to create 3D models of physical objects and environments quickly and easily. See a demo video at http://matterport.com

What you would be doing:

You’ll be working on our 3D alignment and mesh reconstruction algorithms, improving robustness and quality. You’ll need to get creative and invent new algorithms, not just apply known techniques. There are big, interesting problems to solve that are central to our product.

Unlike much of computer science, computer vision is about messy data and uncertain results, so you’ll need to work well with that. Past experience in computer vision or a related field (eg image processing or machine learning) is preferable. Experience with high-performance code (optimization, parallelization, CUDA) is a plus. Our codebase is primarily in C++.

At this time, we are still a very small team. You will have a very significant influence on the future of the company and a chance to shape a fundamentally new category of product.

There are plenty of predictable jobs at large companies. This is something different... an adventure with a very highly talented, motivated, and passionate group. While we are paying salaries at somewhat less than market rate in the short term, we are offering significant amounts of equity; we want the earliest employees to all do very well if the company does very well. You will need to be the sort of person who functions well in a less structured environment, who can create order out of chaos, and who can take on a broad range of responsibilities as the need arises.

Please apply at jobs@matterport.com, and put (2) as the subject line.
Brings to mind the line "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist." Just because some govt institutions are notoriously bad at IT, doesn't mean that all are. And perhaps those capable, are more than content to let you think they aren't? There are some spooky mother effin agencies out there.

Rickmb makes a good point as well.

Also, I already thought Google had been involved in doing some work with the NSA? I'm too lazy to dig up the sources for it, but I'm pretty sure they're already in bed together.

edit: my bad, this was in reply to dennisgorelik's comment
Waste of time. Author just wanted somebody to read his pseudo-polarizing superficial drivel.No substance to be found
$.99/month per user.

$6 Billion per year revenue
Being creative applies to both the application process AND the search process. For instance, one of the coolest jobs I've come across this month is for Social Games Quantitative Analyst at PopCap, which sounds significantly cooler once you read the description (http://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POP...)

My point is that if you want your dream job, also break out of the standard "ruby on rails nosql..." keywords you're using and feel free to browse rather than just searching.
I like the idea, but I think a p2p search should also include human filtering and trust. I.e. i know the keys of my trusted friends and sites/pages they've "approved" rank higher for my searches.
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What else is missing from the phone? Microsoft simply doesn't care enough to provide the polish that Apple is overly neurotic to care about. It just has to be good enough.

Hopefully, Android goes the extra mile. It's getting better minus the crappy browser. Google has the best browser in the world. Why it's not on the phone is beyond me. Over the holidays a couple of my relatives had traded in their Android phones for iPhones. The details really do matter.
Interestingly I added Starbucks to my employment history (I was a part time barista whilst at university) and subsequently went down two points for it :S
I guess the moral is only put down relevant experience to your domain. . .
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I'm a software developer and except for one job 25 years ago, I've enjoyed going to work every day and the companies and the men I worked for were great to me.
Maybe I'm lucky?
Mac mice don't need scroll wheels because you can do the scroll motion on their surface and they'll do the right thing. But I rarely use mice these days.
just a minor nit: all phones have locked bootloaders. it's a critical feature for securing the contents of the phone and it increases the security for the end-user by not allowing anyone that steals the phone to read its contents or flash a fake rom.

what you're talking about is the ability to unlock and relock the bootloader at will. my nexus s came with a locked bootloader, but i was able to easily unlock it, flash my own rom, and then relock it. if the phone is stolen, someone can easily unlock the bootloader but the phone's data will be erased in the process.
I always find it amazing how often we (Techies) think that problems we have are real problems. Is there some data, analytics from a well traveled site, that can tell us what percentage of users tend to use spacebar to scroll a web page... or use page up / down? My gut tells me it won't be a big number. If I'm right than this is only a problem for power users, who make up a small percentage of potential users / customers. Could effort be better spent, then, on something else that effects more customers?
Frames were at least consistent. With CSS and Javascript, you can make things behave in whatever broken way you want.
I definitely think there's a potential issue with buying into an e-book platform where there's a high barrier to switch.

About two years ago, my girlfriend decided she wanted an e-book reader. At the time, you could only get a Kindle online, and she didn't want to buy one without seeing the device first; so we bought a Nook reader (after she played with it in the store).

Over the next year, we probably bought about $2000 of books on it, when she finally got tired of being envious of my Kindle (which I had recently purchased) and I gave it to her.

She ended up spending like three weeks cracking the DRM on all the Barnes and Noble e-pub books she had purchased, so that she'd be able to read them on the Kindle.

Most people wouldn't have done that, I suspect. They'd have just stuck with whatever platform they initially decided on (and had amassed a collection of DRM-laden files with).
I think Barnes and Noble has the potential to mount a decent challenge with the Nook - I've been seeing more and more of them around. I can see the ease or difficulty of moving books between the two affecting its performance.

If it's easy to buy from B&N and put it on the Kindle, and buy from Amazon and put it on the Nook, I can see people purchasing from both stores.
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Most people use third-party mice with their Mac; almost all third party mice have scroll wheels.
How about Netflix for restaurant dishes: http://bit.ly/quFLBx
I've got a 67-page iTunes EULA I've had to agree to about 20 times that says differently. This is, unfortunately, an almost universal failing.
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That's because an iOS app can access a LOT more by default than an Android app. Most data access doesn't require permission at all.

The only things apps have to ask about on iOS (that I've seen) are push notifications and GPS tracking. Android requires a permission for Internet access, and another for accessing contacts, and another for sending SMS messages, and over a hundred others.

I WOULD love to have the option (on Android) of querying a user for a permission after install; the "read system log" permission, for instance, is useful for the 0.1% of cases where there's a crash, but I have to request it for everyone if I want to get complete crash reports (the Google crash reports are useless since I use NDK and the Java stack trace, which is all it sends, doesn't tell me anything).

But honestly, with the fine-grained security model on Android, it would be a pain if every complex app had a half dozen permission requests -- and some would have a dozen or more. Frankly that would be what people would complain about if it were true. The iOS model only works because apps are SO open by default on iOS.

So I don't think the Android model is a design mistake, but rather a security necessity given that Google doesn't even take a cursory look at an app that's going up in the Market. Apple can at least claim that they've checked out each app to make sure it behaves well, though it seems even then that a few slip through the net and behave badly from time to time.
Having attended the last couple of US iterations of Djangocon, being a close follower of the django-dev list, etc. that's not at all my interpretation. Also, spend a bit of time here: https://code.djangoproject.com/ and I don't see how you could come away with the impression that Django development is moribund.

And while I like Bottle and Flask, their aim is widely different from Django's.
Alright, I searched the WP Marketplace for the apps I use most often on my iPhone:

Reeder, Instapaper, Evernote, Highrise, Dropbox, Nebulous, Bento, Pages, Numbers, Delivery Status, Soundhound, Articles, IMDb, WhatTheFont, Roambi, WolframAlpha, Tax Pro, PCalc, Soulver, MailChimp, myPantone, Prizmo, PicTools, Skype, Colloquy, Instacast, TextExpander, OmniFocus, and 1Password.

Out of those 28 apps, only four of them (!) are available in the WP Marketplace: Soundhound, IMDb, 1password, and Evernote (which, according to the reviews, is unstable).

Microsoft's approval process isn't perfect either, I noticed some pretty dodgy apps. For instance, there's an app that uses the Tumblr name but doesn't work (according to the reviews) [1].

Sure, there must be some replacement apps on WP7 for writing, calculation, and editing spreadsheets and databases. But not the apps I like, and which are the result of 3 years testing and learning many different apps.

Oh, and from the article:

"TSN Mobile: On iOS, you can install an app. On Windows Phone, just go to the TSN website and pin it to your start screen. Internet Explorer Mobile is a terrific web browser this way.

CBC News: Again, you don't even need an app. Simply go to CBC News and pin it to your start screen."

That's hilarious. In an article that promises to show that WP Marketplace has more native apps than is widely believed, the author ends up trying to convince us that web apps are better than native apps. In Internet Explorer, no less.

[1] http://www.windowsphone.com/en-CA/apps/37bdda4e-1c03-e011-92...
This is in line with Square perhaps we will see "Pay-by-tweet" with a secure encrypted tweet coming along.

With wrapper apps around this.
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Well Godel had to use Logic to prove this. I guess what he meant is logic allows mathematicians to talk about mathematics at a meta level. I wouldn't say a superset of Math since it's still very much mathematics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamathematics
Great Pythonesque pun there! indented==intended, I'm sure.
Looks great. I've started turning my attention to python recently so skimming through this I can already see lots of stuff that'll be very useful. So much that perhaps a linked TOC at the top of the page could be an idea?
Actually, Oakland has a lot of very lovely parts. Many people who live in places like Rockridge, the Oakland Hills, Crocker Highlands, Montclair, Temescal find that they are all very safe and attractive places.
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After reading "A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves"[1] I am unable to see any malice in this sort of things.

[1]http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152
I suspect you're right about the number of users troubled by this behavior. However, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed. If browsers are going to have this feature it might as well work properly.
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It looks like RWW made a typo with the author - his name is Josh, not John. Searching for "Josh Petersel" "Harvard Business School" will turn up a bio http://averyjoshblog.wordpress.com/about-josh/
Sounds simple enough. It's probably far more revenue than they're making now. So why haven't they tried it? What's to lose?
> Data only leaves Facebook's servers when you ask for it.

That's a fascinating comment, particularly when read immediately after this one (the top comment from the top HN thread, as I write this):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3287480

Apparently "asking for it" can be as simple as having ever used the almost-ubiquitous Facebook OAuth integration on a site, for example.
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If it was jailbroken and overclocked, then yes, it was the user's fault.
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The author is himself imputing an absolutist interpretation of statistical significance. Statistical significance always has a p value (and an assumed distribution!) associated with it. The permutation of statistical significances of insignificances the articles describe could well be true for various p values.
So this spreads the index across all nodes, right? I probably don't want an index of the entire web on my hard drive. But at the same time, how efficient can it be to hit a bunch of different nodes every time I search? How is it going to affect me when people hit my node?
I wish it was that easy for me. My generation almost refuses to use email or even text messaging -- everything has to be done through Facebook.

I just wish the next big thing would pop up so we can stop worrying about what stupid privacy blunder Facebook will commit next.
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Amazon's ability to forgo short-term profits and look towards the long term is their biggest weapon. Very few companies are able to act on threats far enough into the future to fight against Amazon's strategies at a time when defeating those strategies still possible.
I'm not even that sold on social media in general, but I'm comfortable with Facebook as a company due to three main factors:

1) Great leadership (Mark obviously, but a lot of the other people around him, all the way down to Manager level, are great; the drop 1-2 levels to join FB thing seems to have paid off)

2) Attract great team (it seems to be the strongest recruiting organization for a company its size, and overall I'd say FB engineering hires are among the best)

3) Successful track record of innovating and turning even fairly mundane problems into technology showcases

Even if this whole "social media" thing peters out in a few years, I think Facebook will continue to innovate and remain a dominant player in whatever comes next.
The author needs to understand that being an entrepreneur is not about the result. Steve Jobs said in his bio "The reward is the Journey." It's the excitement of what's in store for the future.
Not directly on their own usability. It was more that they broke the web, since bookmarks, shared URLs, and search engines couldn't navigate them correctly to get the user back to the content that was supposed to display correctly.

The static positioned content we get with CSS and JS hacks I've seen to replicate it a start but not always correct on it's own.
I would not be so cavalier about dismissing college grads out of hand like this. Just look at Drew Houston, he was pretty green and took on a very significant technology problem when he built Dropbox. I am not suggesting that all college-age technologists are of his caliber, but there is nothing wrong with trawling those waters.

However, I would suggest being more proactive in that approach. You are more likely to find that type of individual at entrepreneurship/technology meetups that occur around the university, not necessarily in the job boards.
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I'm guessing it might also effect users with disabilities who rely more heavily on the keyboard for nav.
This seems to be a Node 0.6 issue. We're almost done adapting Cloud9IDE to run on Node 0.6. For the time being please use the node version that is packaged with Cloud9IDE. (Run the shell script bin/cloud9.sh)
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Ask HN: a business person with reality distortion field wants me as a co-founder
(using a throwaway account)

One can meet business guys willing to enter a technology world at every tech meetup; I've seen plenty of them, but this one (let's call him Sam) stands out. Sam joined the Big Four consultancy right after college, top tier investment bank afterwards, now in his early 30s, seems very energetic, communicative and well-connected. He left his finance job several months ago to do a startup, but got no technical co-founder yet.

I, on the other hand, have been around the block too, can tell gem from egg or jar, seen companies big and small, recently left my job and launched a reasonably successful product of my own. Friends pitch me their ideas periodically, but none of them really stick -- I'm not sure the world needs another to-do list app or "Airbnb for foodies", really.

Unlike them, Sam is very convincing. Every time he approaches me with an idea, I immediately buy it. He's capable of providing a convincing business rationale, a market volume, estimating risks and he claims he got at least some of the connections necessary to get started. I always feel hypnotized. On the meta-level I can see the difference in my perception of him vs. the other guys, but I can't really tell if this is a good thing.

Now he wants me as a co-founder. What should I do? Is this reality distortion field just a sign of business savviness or should I run away? I'm afraid of being manipulated, is there something I can do to have a better hand here?
You do realize that privacy and sharing are mutually exclusive right?

Facebook's utility is in sharing personal information.
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There's nothing wrong with django-bcrypt. The main reason for picking PBKDF2 is because it can be implemented without pulling in a dependency to the core framework. The Django team does a lot of work to maintain backwards-compatability and smooth upgrades which is why having this in core is important to me.
Thanks chadrs - I just loaded it into my Chrome extensions, great package!
Same sort of "super hydrophobic" spam which went around last week.
This is why I no longer fix most of my family's computer problems. My dad pays some guy to re-install windows about once every 18 months or so. I don't really know how to help him without becoming his personal IT slave so I just politely say "I don't know"
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hmm, something happened to my post and there's a funny number next to it.

I suppose you would rather have bullets?
I wrote the initial version as well as have a full button you can embed:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://hnapiwrapper.herokuapp.com/static/js/button.js>&#...;

There's much more coming and soon will be a much more detailed writeup on it for the HN community. Would love to hear how you discovered it.
I've never tried anything except CM7 on this device, but supposedly it's faster with 2.3 than it was with 2.2, which was itself faster than 2.1, the version it originally shipped with. If the hardware (GPU, primarily) support is there, I would assume ICS would be an improvement.

But yeah, I guess it's a bit much to hope for.