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Downpayments aren't often enough. I've had friends whose clients never paid the last installment and the owner has changed the access credentials. It's a difficult path - what can you do when the site is live and you can't get access anymore, and the client won't pay the last installment before it's live?
"Every time a vulnerable LaserJet printer accepts a print job, it scans that job to see if it includes a firmware update."

"but what if an employee at a company is spear-phished with a hacked-firmware-laden PDF or DOC?"

I guess the OP thinks it is possible? I wouldn't know.
"Creative minds aren’t satisfied being digital sharecroppers on someone else’s domain, and you want to carve out your own piece of the internet and have a space that you’re proud of because it’s so… you.

If you’re going to have advertising on your site, it darn well better be good, and beginning with our partnership with Federated Media we’re ready to start rolling out WordAds here on WordPress.com"

They'll need to make this available to people who use self-hosted WordPress before these two paragraphs are compatible.
I wonder what would happen if you tried to make the negotion process as transparent as possible; something along the lines of:

"Look, I've read all of the negotiation strategy books, and clearly you're an expert in your field, so let's agree on the value that I bring to your company and find the right compensation package."
A cube with a smiling Hitler face that produces printouts of Foursquare noise? Sign me up!

(...Sorry about the snark. The product actually looks pretty fun. It's just that use example shown on the landing page isn't necessarily the best.)
I don't see it as a given that x86 tablets would have to run android. There are some roadblocks to running iOS, for example, but none that are insurmountable.
I was hoping that this turns out to be something really classy like Deck ads[1].

Turns out the underlying technology is provided by the Federated Media[2], the same company that provides ads for AppleInsider[3] and Boing Boing[4].

There's still a chance they'll do something different, but I'm guessing that most innovation is going to be on the pricing and revenue splitting side, not the eyeballs-viewing-ads side.

That is valuable, and having more competition for Google is a good thing. But oh well. Looks like we'll still be seeing the same ads.

[1] http://decknetwork.net
[2] http://www.federatedmedia.net
[3] http://appleinsider.com
[4] http://boingboing.net
We may be at conflict with what we mean by design. I would consider the switching power supply to be an example of desirable technology, not design.
Ok, I'll be that guy.

1. Testosterone promotes risk taking (http://goo.gl/s2gf4)
2. Men have more testosterone.
3. Salary negotiation is a risk game.

Now for the important part: this doesn't mean it's right. That would be the naturalistic fallacy, i.e. that because something is natural it must be o.k.

So, yes, absolutely combat this. Learn techniques to overcome the disparity. But do not, in a forum full of smart people, wonder WHY this is happening. The answer is obvious to anyone who doesn't mind unpleasant truth.
We don't need to pad our work. Two e-mails a day, updating the requirements document (sometimes in contradictory ways, sometimes in self-contradictory ways) is enough to turn a two-week CRUD app into a six-month application.
Nothing wrong with working hard. But do it for yourself. Don't do it because a VC tells you to. Don't do it because the owner of a publication that thrives off of startup news tells you to.
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For the sake of completeness, here is where I read that: http://www.ode.org/old_list_archives/2004-December/014735.ht...

From looking at the game code, I see odd things like rolling barrels animating their rotation as though the physics engine itself doesn't handle rolling contact.
I didn't recognise the name either but to be fair, Devolver are mentioned as a partner on Croteam's website (the original Serious Sam developers).
Well, given the choice between a world where the only APIs in existence are "true platforms", backed by enormous corporations with tons of resources who pledge to make them absolutely backwards-compatible for ten years... and a world where, in addition to the true platforms, every half-assed hack also has some sort of API so that other people can build upon it with half-assed hacks of their own, my first instinct is still to prefer the second world.

Yes, this means that the word API no longer connotes "true platformness". That's a branding problem for the "true platforms", but I'm sure Microsoft and Oracle can handle it. They have resources.
> Looks like Gilroy might be a good answer.

Everything tastes of garlic in Gilroy.
> I'd imagine Amazon fears becoming a monopoly. US/EU antitrust would break them up pronto.

Name three monopolies that were broken up while it made a difference. In which of those cases did consumer prices go down as a result of the breakup?

The only "broken up while it made a difference" case that I'm aware of is Standard Oil. However, the result was higher prices, not lower. (Standard absolutely hammered transportation companies and passed on the savings to consumers. After the breakup, transportation companies could turn down biz from one oil company to get biz from another and thus were able to raise their prices. That's why railroads pushed for the breakup.)
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Yes, that's correct. I'm not referring to inactive or throwaway accounts. Many people I know have an account for a business, separate to their personal account, and some have multiple accounts to keep their work friends separate from personal lives, and they use each account frequently.
You can fault Windows Phone for the lack of apps but not for the usability of the OS itself. The OS is very polished. Use one for a couple weeks before you make a judgement call.
I haven't heard his whole pitch, but the summary version I've heard doesn't seem crazy to me.

There are some fields where what really matters is talent and practical experience, not book learning. A lot of the best techies I know either have no degree or have it in something unrelated. The same is true of entrepreneurs and musicians, and probably other fields.

Consider also the absurdly rising cost of education:

"Median household income has grown by a factor of 6.5 in the past 40 years, but the cost of attending a state college has increased by a factor of 15 for in-state students and 24 for out-of-state students. The cost of attending a private college has increased by a factor of more than 13." -- http://www.economist.com/node/16960438

It's simple economics that if the cost of a good keeps increasing, it eventually won't be worth it for some purposes. It's not crazy to ask whether for certain people it's really worth it now. If your aim is entrepreneurship, you might be better off spending $150k and 4 years on starting businesses and learning on your own rather than giving that to Harvard.
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>Nobody is talking about years of work on vague promises, and nobody is talking about the environment you describe in which no one would want to work.

I was, and the GP mentioned it.

I have worked at a 20-person "startup" company where otherwise intelligent engineers did work for years on intangible promises of wealth, often pulling 70-80 hour weeks, strung along by already-super-wealthy investors/managers who would drop hints about "something special" or "a piece of the pie" down the road if only said engineers could accomplish absurd request x by date y.

People need to be aware of the reality of this circumstance. The advice here is directed to people who are already too scared to ask for a raise; how long do you think it will take such inexperienced persons to recognize that they've already met the "Criteria for Raise" checklist several times over and still don't have a raise?

I've also observed an interesting phenomenon: people want to believe they have good leaders and will often make excuses for them. "Oh, they had to pass up my raise this year because the economy has been real tough, yeah, it's alright, I just need to be a 'team player' and next year I am sure they will reward me for my loyalty and sympathy". This actually happens. People should be talking about it, especially in a thread about people who are too intimidated to even ask about fair compensation.

I resigned after only seven months (things got progressively worse...) to get away from that ridiculous culture. They were on the verge of canning me for refusing to participate in their silly abuse. They replaced me with another engineer equal in naivety to the rest of them.
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One way to learn Emacs is to study other people's .emacs files. The stuffs there usually address real world problems people facing. I always learn something new when looking at other .emacs files.
I think you're confusing "hard work" with "working with reckless abandon."

I find I am most consistently productive if I work 8 - 10 hours on the weekdays, and 3 - 5 hours on the weekends. I can sustain this for several months without burnout, despite the fact that I work every day. This is more than an average work-week, but it's also not the crazyness of deadline crunch-times. It leaves enough time for workouts and some socializing. Eventually, though I need a few months where I take at least one day off during the weekends.
It's beyond time for some real privacy laws in this country, but I'm curious.. Can existing laws cover this? For example from what I understand, PCI compliance is required for storing credit card information. If CIQ is capturing this information along with all keystrokes, does the same law apply to them? And are they abiding by it?
Wow.

"Ladies, take control of your own destiny, or be a victim of your own making."

One of the more ignorant things I've read here ever. You clearly don't understand the sociology of the issue at hand here. Do you think that women just wake up and go "Woe is me, I'm going to lay down today and take whatever I get"?
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I think know how this is done, I use it to hack my cartridge life all the time. Slightly off topic but bear with it...

When the HP driver software compiles the file code to send to the printer it also encodes other information. I discovered this because I found out it that the system date of the pc gets encoded along with the print data. More shockingly, prior to encoding the file, the printer checks the "best before date" of each cartridge and compares it to the system date. If your cartridge is beyond the date HP would like you to use it by, it introduces artifacts into the print and the issues a "beware you printer could malfunction with out of date cartridges" message.

Simple work around, change your system date to some time in the past before your cartridge expiry date, and hey presto your HP printer starts to work again. Change it back to the present and all of a sudden the artifacts and message appear.

If HP can mess with your PDF pre-print, then so can someone else. Personally, I love my HP printer. I just hate what HP do to try to force you to buy more ink. Whenever have non-perishable goods required a "use by" date?
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Yeah, at the end of the day, when it's, say, Tuesday 4:00 AM and your eyes start to close harder then you can hold them, you are still looking at some shitty and not interesting at all comments on HN, you are almost asleep. You feel it.

Now your eyes are closed, you think you will asleep right now. You are closing your laptop. You are ready to asleep. And then (!) you start remembering that you need to set an alarm! You go through pain of your eyes trying to set the alarm, but the light of your phone it too bright, and eyes don't want to open already.. argh!

I would like to have Siri for this purpose, since this particular situation happens to me just too often.
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I use it several times a day for:

- timers

- reminders

- calendar events

- calling people

Can't wait for the map integration to get to the UK, then I'll be able to use it for finding my way too...
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The ones that caught my interest were things like exposing the informal job market (always interesting to read about)& Simple File Transfer (no account)

I encounter this need on a daily basis. The issue with using FT sites that already exist (sendfile etc) they tend to have a spammy feel, end up being blocked in a corporate world so offering a professional, overly secure site would possibly tap into the business market.

Perhaps a business solution where they register once for the entire organisation, provide their IP range and anytime your site is accessed from their machines you allow them a secure, simple way to transfer files.

This is how Yell.com allows search access to companies to their online phone directory.

I think the issue with having NO users account details means you cut out a lot of avenues for monetization quickly. By aiming it at businesses you would still gain revenue but the end user would have a seamless, account free experience.

I also think the home market is well covered with Dropbox and the likes where there's no restriction on what you access, sign up for etc.

The other idea that I noticed was the Cleaning DVDs one. While the only phrase I understood was 'cleaning my toilet' it certainly made me smile.

I think there is a small niche product to be made out of that one! Heck, I'd probably even buy one, you could market it as How to hack your housework! :)
The Tuesday Birthday problem is related to you not having info about the order leading to extra possibilities that you don't intuitively consider. Like in the simple example, if one son is a boy, probability of other being a boy is 1/3rd because the info you have the sets available could be BB, BG or GB. But if the younger son is a boy, then the GB possibility is removed, so it's 1/2 on the older son - BB or BG.

In your case, your younger kid is a son born on xDay. If you assume you will have another kid, chances on being a son are still 50%. It only gets interesting if either kid could have been a son.

In Monty Hall, the info that you don't intuitively consider is that Monty is providing additional information. You think of it as 50/50 because Monty ruled out a goat and car has to be behind one of two remaining doors, but actually the way it works is you chose a door that 1/3rd had a car, leaving 2/3rds chance of car on the other two doors. Then Monty eliminated one of those two doors, still leaving 2/3rds chance of car on the remaining door. So you should switch to that door. In Monty Hall, first you divide the set into a 1/3rd chance group of 1 door and a 2/3rd chance group of 2 doors, then Monty makes the second group a 2/3rd chance group of just 1 door.
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No, they are correct in saying that GB and BG are distinct, even with no other information.

It is not order that is important, but considering each child as a distinct entity.

The 50% chance of being a boy and 50% chance of being a girl applies to a single independent child. When enumerating the possible combinations we need to first enumerate the possibilities for each child, and then combine these two enumerations into our overall enumeration.

To help us distinguish between the two children, let's call one Sam and the other Alex. There's no ordering over them, it's just to help us tell which one we're talking about.

Sam can be: Boy, Girl

Alex can be: Boy, Girl

Combining those gives us:

Sam is a Boy, Alex is a Boy

Sam is a Boy, Alex is a Girl

Sam is a Girl, Alex is a Boy

Sam is a Girl, Alex is a Girl

Or, to use a shorter notation, BB, BG, GB, GG.

Using oldest and youngest is just another handy way of distinguishing between the two children. Even if they were nameless, faceless children with no distinguishing characteristics other than gender we still need to consider then separately, each as their own entity with their own enumerations of possible genders.

Where the parent commenter is wrong is saying that (correctly) considering GB and BG as distinct combinations is the same as considering "Oldest Boy born on Tuesday and Youngest Boy born on Tuesday" distinct from "Youngest Boy born on Tuesday and Oldest Boy born on Tuesday". They are not. When you stop thinking about ordering and instead think about the enumerated states of each entity (child) involved it becomes clear both are saying the same information. They are not distinct, but the same combination phrased differently.

The parent commenter is basically saying BB should be distinct from BB just because the first one talks about Sam first and the second one talks about Alex first. This is clearly wrong.
Plugging your ears and shouting "NAH NAH NAH IT'S ALL JUST STRUCTURAL SEXISM" won't change what has been clearly observed and commented on by numerous employers, employees, and researchers. You're just pulling the old "why are we sending probes to Mars when people are starving on Earth?" bullshit, as though it's not possible to work on two problems at once, or as if there couldn't be two causes for women being paid less.
Also I don't think the exact day of birth being Tuesday makes one bit of difference to the gender. For example, if you were to say the known boy was born crying, and the chance of this is 70%, it doesn't affect the gender of the other children. It's just useless trivia.
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I'm seriously pumped about this. Organizing my team already.
> His mother served on the same board of directors as the IBM CEO. Which is probably why the original licensing deal was even considered and why the they where not heavy handed in their contract negotiation

The first is probably true, I agree atleast. Your second point about them not being heavy handed because they knew Bill's mother I just can't see having any shred of truth.

IBM also made a sweetheart deal with Intel with no mother's involved.

The reason they made those deals has been stated many times over.

IBM was in a huge rush to ship and they needed an OS and CPU in a very bad way. They made those deals because that's what allowed them to ship.
How is aggressively undermining your potential employee's bargaining power a show of respect? The job offer is the single highest point of any worker's negotiating leverage and you seem to feel entitled to control the situation.
Randomly pick one of my children. He is a boy. What is the probability of the other being a boy?
Yes, that would be 1/2.

To be clear, that probability would be 1/3. But I believe i understand where you are getting at. You have to phrase the question in the form "pick one of my 2 children, he is a boy with property x=x0, what s the prob that the other is a boy?" .

The probability is prob = ((N/2)-1)/(N-1) where N=2 * 2 * (number of different property values for x). For N>>1, prob tends to 1/2
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If you take into account they could be making 30/mo for each use FOR FREE I'd say they are :)

Or, what is muchmore likely, as corporates don't pass on free money ever, their market is not and so theycan't make free money like in the usa.
Ask HN: Review my project, numuboard.com
Hello,

I built a site that I thought would streamline two things I do on a fairly regular basis.
1) Create a list of new music releases, and grab the links to amazon.
2) Create a mechanism that allowed me to support "people" that I enjoy their work of.

With those two things in mind I created numuboard.com

Thing 1:
numuboard.com compiles list of new music releases and places with product links to amazon. There are currently no reviews, ratings, or prices listed on numuboard.com. My personal shopping habits are such that I don't need to see other peoples opinions. If there is a new Pavement album released, I'm going to buy it.

Thing 2:
I had previously hardcoded a selection of amazon affiliate links that went to various "people" on the internet in order to make it easy for everyone to support those people. After some conversation, I've since removed that feature and changed it so that you can just pass your affiliate code to the site by means of numuboard.com?tag=amazonaffiliatetag

If you have the time, I'd love feedback on the following:
overall design
are things like Price, Ratings, Reviews keep you from using this site?
Any other features you'd like to see on a site like this?

---
P.S.
I don't see this site as a profit-generator. If the site eventually breaks even then great. The cost of running this site is small and so it's theoretically possible for me to break even with a low amount of traffic. If you're interested in the calculations I've done towards figuring that out below. Numbers are used for example purposes only and do not represent actual figures.

Assumptions:
Conversion rate of incoming traffic : 1%.
Monthly cost to run site : $20.00 USD.
Monthly allowable transfer : 200GB.
Transfer Size of Website : 360KB.
Average Cost of purchase : $5.00 USD.
Average Referral Percentage : 10%

Break even: 4000 Visitors == $20 USD.
(4000 * .01) * (5.00 * .10)

Number of pages views currently allotted: 200GB == 582542.222 Pageviews
(200 * 1024 * 1024) / 360
He should call them SMexp.

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I understand they want some flexibility, but it would be nice to know what classes will be offered in the future, so I can plan accordingly. The ML class is being offered again but the AI class isn't. There's 4 or 5 I'd like to take from the upcoming schedule, and I'd hate to miss out on any of them. If I knew one would be repeated, it would make it an easier decision to make.

I know it's "FREE", but it would still be helpful to know what some of the options are in the future, so I could plan accordingly.
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that's not my point. clearly you and i do not have enough money to start such a carrier. why do you think such no one else has started such a carrier? should we wait around for someone to start one? what if we wait 10 years and no such carrier emerges? or should we push for new regulations?
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https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-ap...

Django styles itself as MTV: Model Template View. The concept of "Controller" within Django I would say gets implemented across a few layers (Urls, middleware, decorators and return HttpResponse objects).

I never cared much for the distinction though as long as everyone knows what your nouns mean for the specific project you could call them RedFish, BlueFish, OneFish frameworks and it would work just as well.
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To be fair, newspapers aren't written for experts. That doesn't excuse a lot of crap from newspapers, but they're writing for an audience that isn't necessarily well-versed in all the subjects, for better or worse.