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I have been working from home for the past 6 years. I have a dedicated room for my office. Work can be done only in my office, not even on the kitchen table. This is a hard rule and it is really good. You can enjoy a nice evening with wife and kids without thinking about working because work is only in the office.

If you start to allow yourself to work here and there with the kids playing on the side, you totally blur the lines between your activities and you end up being inefficient. You cannot fully focus on work and you cannot fully enjoy your time with your family and friends.

Note that this is only my personal experience.
> I heard the word virtual used to describe the camera, and couldn't figure out if they were, for sure, talking about taking pictures of a single photon in real life -- ergo not simulated.

I think they were using the word "virtual" to describe the array of camera sensors as one camera. It sounds like basically they had an array of sensors all snapping as fast as they could, but offset in time from each other by some amount, to achieve the effect of having 1 frame for every N fractions of a second. They also had to break down the scene into long strips and repeatedly use the sensors take the same picture on each strip and re-combine the strips later.

> I'm skeptical because.. how would you see a photon? Unless photons themselves give off light as they travel, but that would mean photons emit photons...

What you were seeing in the video were the photons entering the camera after having bounced off of the scene. It's kind of misleading that they're making it sound like you're seeing the photons as they're hitting the object in real time, When in fact, the photons had already hit the object and are bouncing back into the camera. But the resolution with which they're detecting the incoming photons conveys the "shape" of the waves bouncing and propagating off/around objects. That's my take on it at least.
In particular I wonder what applications the TSA might find for this technology......
Seriously?

There are 100 million of other websites.

You can use a phone to coordinate something.

You can go out and eat at a place you went to before.
We don't mind. We're doing just fine without more west coast transplants complaining about the heat :)
"4) Worry about interfaces, objects and design. Don't worry about technology. The latest buzzwords will not save you from bad design practices - and bigger hardware will only save you for so long."

Excellent advice, this is really what is critical in building a scalable application from a coding perspective
> choose between having the family life they want and a tenure track

This is probably true to some extent for men too. Ultimately, the only biological difference is that men can delay family life longer with less risk of infertility (provided they have a younger partner).
The graph shows how many people support/oppose this concept. And finding that out was Jimmy's aim here. Not to make a decision based on the resulting figures.
Blablabla... we are all fools, thinking it's on our hands to decide where the hub is.

It's the VCs that decides that, if they want you in fuckin' Kansas (no offense to Kansas) I bet you all would move there.
A more elaborate talk about this work by one of the authors appears at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKu20y1f_RU
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Language objection. Just because he may/may not have an alternate plan to kill SOPA does not mean he doesn't have a valid point.
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The camera records a single scan line from a bunch of different pulses to capture the length of time they need for that scanline. Then they rotate the mirror and capture the next scan line. After that, they reconstruct the video in software. It relies on the regularity of the laser pulse to be accurate. They aren't capturing a real movie, but an aggregate description of how light moves across a scene.

Regarding the "seeing a photon," it's just an analogy.
Correction, the web is a lot larger than the United States and I'd really dislike it if internal political discussions of the United States were used to 'black out the web'.

The business dealings of the rest of the world should not be collateral damage because of one nations political affairs.

So if you're going to use 'geo ip targetting' to make things local I'd suggest you use the same mechanism to give a free pass to those from other countries.
I can't wait to try TM2, but in the last six months I switched to vim and vico and got extremely comfortable with them. TM2 will have to really be something else for me to switch back.
I'm not actually sure that's true. It's not a full-fledged ssh client; it may well be a shell builtin. (It can't be the standard openssh client, because that lets you escape to a real shell.)
How is this different from knockout?
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> The camera aperture uses a varying electric field to deflect photons

blink

They're using photon-photon scattering? Wow. I thought in order to pull that off you needed very high powered lasers.

Edit: "But while both systems use ultrashort bursts of laser light"

Depending on how they define "ultrashort" this might be the key.
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[...]

I'm not saying it's impossible to succeed in a city with few other startups, just harder. If you're sufficiently good at generating your own morale, you can survive without external encouragement."
You sir, just posted a potato powered server on hacker news...And I am actually laughing my ass off.

Sad thing, that the actually potato powered computer, is now offline. I could see this roots/fruits/vegetables-powered Internet, grow on me(No pun intended...Ok, just a bit :-P).
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The problem with that idea of course is that the camera is only catching a very small amount of the light scattered by the scene.
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"The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11". I'd argue its slightly better than 7-11; You get to do what you liked to do, plus rent/food has already been paid for.

I wonder if you can choose not to use the label's equipment so you can keep more of your royalties.
I think we should have comment threads enabled on job posts on HN!
Article on The Verge:

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/13/2632410/carrier-iq-says-i...
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Interesting story, but flagged as blogspam.

Could an admin please change the link to a primary source like this one: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213....

Or even this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/speed-of-light-lin...

[Edit]

gmaslov's comment provides an even better link, although not as 'newsy': http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/
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I've scraped a few hundred jobs in UK with employers' e-mails. There is going to be more jobs' offers and not only in UK soon.

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I am a contractor and part of a larger consulting shop so I'm biased but I have to agree with ahoyhere. You get a reliable burn rate which is adjustable on a schedule you can negotiate. If you're hiring a team of contractors you should get a group who have proven that they have an effective and efficient process for working together which they can apply from day 1 and you can probably scale the size of the team based on your needs and budget. When your needs change or you pivot and you need an expert in a new technology which I don't know I'm happy to walk away or swap places with one of my peers who may be a better fit. I'm also fortunate enough to have coworkers lining up future projects so neither you nor I need to worry about what I'm going to do if you no longer need me or just need to slow down development an focus your resources elsewhere.
I'm certainly not invested in your startup the same way an employee might be. I'm not going to work crazy hours and I'm not going to pull off long shot programmer heroics (well not unless that's what you ask for). Instead I can measure my success only by the quality of the work I produce and the value I can deliver to you immediately. Building the tools you need to validate a product-market fit or get a MVP in front of users is often my end goal, not an incremental step towards hopefully seeing a return on some equity share.
If I'm lucky I'm helping a startup build a new product every couple of months. I think that offers a breadth of experience which relatively few prospective full time hires can match.

Startups will need employees and employees invested in and committed to their long term success. So while your looking for the perfect first employee, the one who has the combination of personality, skills, passion, and mindset you need, consider if the right contractors might let you get a lot done in the mean time.
Now give me PostgreSQL and redis and I'm going to use this.
The story of TM2 reminds me of "Dreaming in Code" (http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent...).
Yep, Fraunhofer is doing it.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/transmitting-high-speed-data-via-l...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/f-dat080211.p...
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The press release (edit: and I) skipped a step: "A portion of the laser beam is split off with a glass plate and directed to a photodetector that provides the syn- chronization signal for the camera. The camera images the incoming light on a slit and this slit on a photocathode where photons excite electrons. These electrons are accelerated in a vacuum tube and deflected by an electric field perpendicular to their direction of motion and perpendicular to the direction of the slit. The signal generating this field is obtained by filtering and amplifying the synchronization signal from the laser. The image is thus spread out over time in a “streak” that hits a micro channel plate at the far end of the vacuum tube that further amplifies the electrons and directs them to a phosphor screen where they are converted back to photons. The screen is than imaged on a conventional low noise CCD camera. The complete time interval captured in this way spans about 1 nanosecond." [Picosecond Camera for Time-of-Flight Imaging]

So a photo cathode generates electrons which are deflected.
Sounds like real-world ray casting or ray tracing.
I think the title should be changed. One million dollars of what? Maybe it should be 'Web Designer/Developer generates over $1M of residual income selling WordPress themes.'

Disclaimer: I work for the company that owns ThemeForest!
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> It takes over the primary desktop which results in very weird behavior with the Dock.

Not sure what you mean. It's pre-Lion style full-screen, not weird at all. It just hides the menu and the dock.

I'm not sure I agree that Emacs's GUI support is "token" but I would admit to it not being the emphasis of the program. I give them a lot of credit for having a Mac port in the main codebase and keeping 3 or 4 disparate GUIs in sync with each other.

Scrolling with the trackpad is crazy fast by default, I had to slow it down with the "mouse-wheel-scroll-amount" customization (I only did this after multiple years because it doesn't matter that much in the end--I realized that if I'm using the mouse in Emacs I'm generally doing something wrong).

Smooth scrolling is anathema to Emacs which doesn't even let you resize the window in sub font-height increments. I don't think that decision is necessarily correct but I think it probably comes from Emacs's heritage as a terminal program. I think smooth scrolling could be nice. I do have to say that in the long run C-v, M-v, and C-s end up being way faster and more accurate than 2 finger scrolling.

A funny aside, I did one of the first (if not the first) port of Emacs to OS X back in the Mac OS X Beta days and someone sent me an email saying the menubar was blank--there were no menus in the program. The funny part was I had released it and had been using it as my main text editor for weeks and I never even noticed. :-)
Google Correlate could be a fun tool to find arbitrary correlation

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw
Worth watching. Asif Mandvi (Daily Show) did a really nice piece on that. They "featured" one software company that peddles this kind of slimeware. It actually tricks kids into buying stuff like digital fish for $99 in the middle of a game! Most parents don't realize this and one guy's kids ended up spending $1500 or so.

This is worse than penny auctions as they are stealing from kids here. True, people who actually participate in penny auctions probably have IQs worse than 7 yr olds. But stupidity is not an excuse.
This works by sampling a static scene a very large number of times with a laser flash and a "streak tube" camera that records a picosecond-long movie of the light arriving at a single scanline.

A normal video camera records a frame at a time, this one records a scanline-sized movie at a time. The raw data is noisy but the scene is static so they can sample the same line over many flashes.

After a few minutes of scanning they have a trillion fps video where you can see a wavefront propagate at the speed of light. Amazing.
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I very much doubt that this is the best answer. We are using a model that pre-dates the Internet to cover the expenses of site content. Given how unpopular it is for the readers of print publications and viewers of television, it seems a mistake to consider something so obtrusive the best available solution. While I don't as yet have a better solution, the fact that no real research into alternatives has been done makes me believe that there has to be a better available model.
It's "released" but it doesn't have a license file yet. In reply to this issue on their github repo, they state it will use the MIT license, but I don't feel comfortable using a library until I know what the terms are.
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So what's stopping him from striking out on his own and building something like WooThemes to pocket an extra 30% from each sale?
The problem with those setups is that although they work great for meetings, they're not suited for casual use.

And casual, informal communication is a major factor in teamwork.
I wouldn't agree with that. They sound like a "cut and dry straightforward we are confident with what we have" company. Made me wish I knew enough Ruby to apply. So yea, it's about the person who reads this. Doesn't fall under level arrogance
Hacking challenge: can somebody use google correlate and find the company unambiguously?
I think he is skewering games that smell very much like manipulative scams. A "game" that targets children, is initially free and then asks them to pay $100 (by clicking a button in game) for some virtual fish? What?
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What kind of sorting algorithm are you using for the videos based on their geo-location?

If I search "New York City" on YouTube, I receive far different and probably more relevant videos than when I search "New York City" on MapsTube.

Cool idea.
Yes, it makes sense. What do you mean which photons? The photons that the camera picks up are the photons from laser pulse, after they have reflected off the scene. Pause it at 2:20 and look at the shape of the light as it moves.

Imagine that you are in super slow-mo mode for a second. You hold up your hand and shine a flashlight on it. Since everything is in super slow-mo, you can watch as the photons strike your hand first, and it lights up. The photons that don't strike your hand continue on towards the wall next to you, and then some time after your hand lit up, the wall lights up, with a shadow of your hand.
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Most of those tools don't like IRI like: http://müller.de/ or the most famous http://☃.net (http://xn--n3h.net/) and that's a shame! Just like many URL shorteners…

For example, Django do it wrong (even though I tried: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11522):

>>> print(django.VERSION)
(1, 3, 1, 'final', 0)
>>> print(django.http.HttpResponseRedirect(u"http://müller.de))
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: http://m%C3%BCller.de

While werkzeug is good!

>>> print(werkzeug.__version__)
0.8.1
>>> werkzeug.redirect(u"http://müller.de).headers
Headers([('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8'),
('Content-Length', '247'),
('Location', 'http://xn--mller-kva.de)]
Checking on the App Store (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tap-fish-2/id443891725?mt=8), you can buy less than $99 worth of "FishBucks". Most in-app purchases are between $1 and $10. It's just a freemium as any other.

You can disable in-app purchases with Parental Controls, which should be used by, you know, parents, to, err, control.

Of course, being The Daily Show (or should I say "American TV"?), it's completely one-sided and exaggerated. That gets the message across, I guess.
Thanks, will keep trying!

Enjoy dying with tons of people yammering around you!
What point would that be, exactly? The only "point" I took away from his rambling, defeatist post is that he doesn't think we should fight. If that's his "point", I can't believe you'd call it "valid".
My friend Steve Silverman worked on a system which they commercialized back in 2006 [1] that unlike the MIT one captures full-frames so you can get 3D at video frame rates.

It uses a 5ns long pulsed laser "photon torpedos" at 30hz to illuminate the scene and then captures the at a much higher sampling rate where the MIT system just scans a line at a time. So, unlike the MIT one, it's a small, hand-hold-able, system that captures full motion. [2]

You get full scene 3D without the drawbacks of scanning.

They flew one of their cameras on the last Discovery Mission.

[1] http://asc3D.com

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L91F9o600E

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3656494784112768834

I had the chance to play with it a couple years ago - quite amazing.
Yeah I agree, it sounded like it was some VC deal. Nevertheless it was an interesting article (worth reading).
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anyone know how long this might take to pass and become legislation?
I have a hard time imagining how the CEO did't see this coming. He either must not be familiar with the show at all, or must have some serious cognitive dissonance going on.

Also, I think it is good to see Stewart and co. cash in on some of the ridiculousness of SV. I thoroughly enjoy video games on a limited basis, and gladly pay for the experience, but never quite understood how anyone could consider the freemium game model anything but a boderline scam.
And politicians aren't news articles. So how is it that you get to draw a parallel between Politicsand a web site when it suits the point you wish to make, but when someone retorts in kind, you claim they are more different than similar?

If what you are trying to say is that it's not democracy regrdless of how the arrows work, I agree. It's not democracy because it isn't a system of social governance.
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The marketing, advertising, customer service, sys admin work, more complex tax laws, etc. that comes with running a business. He could start hiring people to do all that stuff for him, but then that extra 30% quickly starts dwindling.
I'm still not sure this is how it works. They are talking about 500 sensors. When those sensors can capture @ 10000 fps, you might get a 'movie' of 5 million fps. But then again they also use the bigger mirror to scaneline the scene.
Maybe it's a combination of both?
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It's 0% if you bring the buyer. Makes complete sense to me.
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Changed it ;)
A similar tech - with uses:

http://www.advancedscientificconcepts.com/technology/applica...
Check these guys out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L91F9o600E
Frontpage of Wikipedia should be changed to:

"We're sorry. SOPA passed so we can no longer legally show you Wikipedia content. So long and thanks for all the fish."
Especially because the target demographic is children (let's hope) for this game, I would not hesitate to call this freemium game-model a text-book scam.