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You know, I don't get that.

I can see how the feature set of OpenOffice or LibreOffice would be sufficient for just about anyone. However, I strongly feel that both Microsoft Office and Apple iWork do offer some real benefits in terms of usability over (Libre|Open)Office.

Seriously, I tried this for real: My mom got a new computer. It was a Mac. We installed OpenOffice, then NeoOffice, then LibreOffice for her. Over the course of several months she never got the hang of it. She was always asking how to do stuff and could never figure out how to do simple things.

Then we installed iWork and she got along fine. There is this inspector thing, and if you want to do something, you will probably find it in there. She was happy with that and even discovered some features on her own.

Later we installed Microsoft Office for Mac for her (for *.doc compatibility reasons). Again, she got along fine. There is that ribbon/palette thing, and if you want to do something, you will probably find it in there. She was happy with that and even discovered some features on her own.

I mean, I very much hope that a wider adoption of (Open|Libre)Office with European Officials would make the European Union invest some money in porting (Open|Libre)Office into the 21 century. But until they do, I can not recommend it to anyone with a straight face.
The deadline, January 9th, is in a rather large font on a big blue button in the middle of the linked page.
"So Rovio probably couldn't do anything anyway."

I've talked about this a few times on HN, but this is a huge pet peeve of mine. It's armchair litigating. Rovio could absolutely file a case against this developer. How far it would go would depend largely on the judge in the case. You can bet that Rovio would, if they decided to, file with a court that historically rules in favor of their position. This would mean that, at a minimum, this developer would have to retain counsel and pay the thousands of dollars it would cost to get the case dismissed (not a slow process). There would be depositions, discovery, inquiry, and a slew of other bullshit that comes along with being sued.

You see, this is how the game is played. It's not a matter of who is right or wrong. It's not even a matter of what the rules say. It's a matter of who has the bigger bank role to pay for attorneys that are good at playing the game.

I know because I've been in this scenario. Prior to the plaintiff filing suit against us, everyone said the same things:

"They don't have a case!"

"This is baseless, it will be thrown out!"

"What a stupid premise, they'll get laughed out of court!"

This was not from one or two people, and not from laymen. This was from virtually every attorney I talked to (6 of them). We're now 3 years in to the suit and the judge seems content to extend the trial date in to the year 2012. The courts are in the business of having people in court. Never forget it.
It's an exploitable vulnerability. I'd recommend not try that on a production system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/47237/
j3, This is a bit of an aside, but who produced your video? It is very well shot, In-house or a production agency?
I see no reason why he shouldn't express his opinion on the committee's goals re backward computability.

Defending the status quo by saying "well duh, you should know better, take it or leave it" is just a way of rejecting someone's contentions without actually addressing them. In a reasoned debate that's indefensible.

If he's wrong, tell him why rather than telling him to take his ball and go home.
The program is onsite-only and the content is directed by what you need for the LivingSocial engineering team, which means Ruby, Rails, and many other related technologies. Sorry!
The stop signs
I had no idea the magnetic screening was so effective.
Dang, thanks for all the feedback! A lot of this I can easily incorporate, which is great.

* To delete a list, click on the trash button in the upper right.

* Right now you can hit left/right to jump between the tabs, but that's not ideal as the hotkeys don't work when a form field has focus

* I'll probably add labels or colors pretty soon. Personally, I don't use them but I know that a lot of people go crazy with that stuff. Just need to figure out how to do the UI

* Eventually there will be an API.
That's pretty cool but I can only get it to work on Chrome. Every other browser the website is severely broken for me.

What browser are you viewing this in?
http://caniuse.com/#search=eventsource

Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera all have it. I believe IE10 will have it but I cant find a reference right now.

This seems to be the nicest shim to let you use EventSource on older browsers https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource, I did make something similar myself but this is much more complete.
I think something that forces me, almost daily, to waste my time dealing with problems that are simply nonexistent in more sane languages deserves my hatred. (And I have a LOT of hatred for it!)
Have you brought this concern up to him? I realize this is not an easy conversation to have, but given what you claim about your relationship ("we're practically like brothers"), you should be able to discuss it, weather the storm, and come out stronger in the end. If you can't, then your relationship with him isn't what you thought it was.

Explain to him how you feel. Don't accuse him; you're not trying to hurt him or screw him over. You're trying to work out what is right and fair.

Also, figure out for yourself what you think is right and fair. What struck me is this:

"I’ve tried working alone before and it is terribly boring and unproductive. So even though he doesn't do much for business I still like to have another person, let alone my best friend, hang out with me all day."

Based on that, you may realize that him getting 50% (at least in the past) has been perfectly justified; if it weren't for him, what would you have done?

However, the past doesn't have to dictate the future. Maybe you're at a point where having a co-founder who can actually do 50% of the "work" (beyond moral support that your current friend is doing) is important to you or to your business. Be honest about this with him, explain your struggles, desires, and motivations, and I'm confident you'll both be in a better place at the end.
The majority of government computers in Munich already run on Linux and they run well. It does work for them. Munich rocks by the way.
would submitting both a gist as well as code be cheating? I'm kind of a math person making the transition to programmer..
I must have misinterpreted the ";-)" in your original post.
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This detail is still under discussion, but I anticipate people will fan out to some of the other LivingSocial offices like Seattle, Boulder, or other up-and-coming spots.

It's unlikely that you could remote from home / some other place because we want to keep the in-person mentorships alive.
Skilled immigration has nothing to do with offshoring.

Sure it does. Both are methods of tapping into the labor pool overseas.

We're already doing that by not taking in unlimited immigrants from, say, war-torn Africa.

Very true. Our unwillingness to take on more refugees has resulted in thousands of people being tortured, raped and murdered. Are you advocating this policy?
Proofs, Proofs, and Proofs
Chrome 13+, Firefox 6+, Safari 5+, Opera 11+. No IE support on the horizon, though.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=eventsource
Was the prevailing wage where/when you were employed less than 45k?. If it was then you were not undercutting the american worker,if not your employer was doing something illegal.
From personal experience hiring a H1B is anything but cheap, lawyer fees and all.
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Ask HN - Gift for a Hacker
I am looking for small gift ideas for the hacker in my life - a developer with 25 years of experience.
Right now his big gift is Make Magazine Store The Ultimate Microcontroller Kit with Netdrino Plus. Also a brainteaser book and a hardware (nails /screws) organizer. The big kit last year was a battery organizer / charger for a drawer and a shower radio, which I could not have guessed.I'm looking for other ideas. What else is on the hacker wish list?
Everything 100% clientside (jQuery + JSON API's), hosted on Amazon Cloudfront, in other words pretty scalable.

Screenshots:

Newsfeed: http://i.imgur.com/oyEdm.jpg

My own wall: http://i.imgur.com/iUAsq.jpg

Photo albums: http://i.imgur.com/iIDKa.jpg

Search for 'Joyce': http://i.imgur.com/6I104.jpg
No, you are not allone :)

I actually work in a company that runs a small side business with writing apps. Most of them are free and only drive money by adds. Actually I don't understand why people download those apps at all. And I have no idea, why anybody should click any of those adds. Still we make some money with it. Enough anyway to keep our devs busy between larger app projects we do for customers or to get new devs into app development.

But then advertising is expensive anyway. Companies pay a lot of money only to have their names and products appear on tv or in magazines. So the main idea here is not necessarily to sell something right away, but to have a first contact and keep a faint memory of you brand name in the users memory.

Just by chance I hit the website of my internet provider today. They offer you up to 150 euro if you get somebody to make a new contract with them. That's what they earn in the first six months with such a contract. Obviously they expect to start making money only after a longer period of time.
You should probably talk straight to the HR people who have all the expertise/knowledge about these things. Email them at hungryacademy at livingsocial dot com.
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What's the company's name? Can't give you specific advice without knowing this. Also, take a look at the company's accounts (buy a digital copy via companies house for £10) - see if they are even in a position to take legal action.

However, just bare in mind, even if you are 'right' and you are not in violation of their trademark, if they have the money there is nothing stopping them from taking you to court after they have tried amicable means to solve the dispute to no avail.

Just to give you an example, I learnt the hard way that even when you are right, it is often better to settle than spend thousands trying to fight - especially if the other party has deep pockets.

I had a legal dispute before where I was legally in the right - 99% chance of success in court, but we decided to settle as going to court usually means everyone loses but the lawyers. It's also pretty stressful. Pick your battles.
I think that the UK is considered on-par with the US, I wasn't inferring anywhere that the UK is third-world.
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Sophisticated ad buyers track conversion rather than pure click through rate so the price they're willing to pay per click automatically reflects the lower quality of clicks you get on mobile compared to web.
Yes, we are viewing things very differently. You're pretending that huge groups of people spread out over vast distances in different circumstances all act the same, just because you can assign a convenient label to them ("Russians", "Germans" etc.) and do not know about the internal processes of the government. "The People vs The System". This is not how history works, and it is a mistake to view it as such. Manuel de Landa calls this historical fallacy "reifying generalities" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZUotjDvJyM)

To take an example from your reply, what is the "party line"? Forget about Rohm vs Hitler - Goring, Himmler, Speer, top Wehrmacht officers, etc., etc. - they all had different ideas that resulted in different policies in different times.

I don't understand your counter-argument re Germany. I said that most people had absolutely no motivation to go against the Nazis because they were benefiting from their rule. It makes no sense to say that they were afraid of defying Hitler, because defying Hitler is something that never occurred to them as a logical or possible course of action in the first place. Just like stabbing yourself in the eye with a fork doesn't occur to you over dinner.

"Most people" don't care about minorities like Haffner. Look at the immigration issue in the US today. In fact, people use the same logic as you have to question "why is nobody resisting Obama?"
I think the target market in Brooklyn is leasing backup/DR cages for big banks.
Patio11 why is it that you make so little money? I mean you could be a senior programmer at some startup in the valley at more than 100k, health insurance and zero issue with immigration.
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US companies compete on a global market. High skilled workers increase the competitiveness of those companies which in turn create more jobs. And the large IT companies not only directly contribute to the economy, their employees contribute with taxes to the local towns, a lot of companies thrive in the ecosystems surrounding the companies etc.

Also, why this obsessive focus on indians? I'm an H1B from Sweden and there's many fellow europeans working in the valley and all over US. Judge each individual for their skills instead of lumping huge categories together.
Wait... it's stupid to write a script that uses /usr/bin/python (or really "/bin/env python" per the convention in that community)? When those scripts were written, there was no "python2". It's certainly not their fault that "python" changed to be an interpreter for a different language.

This is exactly the problem. Distros (c.f. Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu) with large installed bases simply cannot ever ship a /usr/bin/python as anything but python 2 for exactly the same reason that the kernel cannot change syscall numbers. It will break their customer's software. Arch Linux doesn't really have "customers" in this sense, so they're free to play. The serious distros aren't.

Just mark my words: python 3 will never be a default "python". We're entering year 4 of the python3 era. You really think anyone's going to jump now if they haven't already?
Because I would at least prefer to err on the side of not hurting American-born workers, rather than err on the side of letting in incompetent "tech talent"
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PushPlay: An(other) open implementation of the Pusher protocol
PushPlay is another implementation of the Pusher protocol (http://pusher.com, use them! They have a great service!) but it is written as a module for the Play! Framework. Can be added to an existing Play project or just run standalone in an empty Play project. Very easy.

The Pusher protocol is a websockets based event/messaging service. PushPlay uses the same exact javascript library that pusher uses, only with different connection parameters.

This may look familiar, a few days ago Stevie Graham posted about Slanger, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359097 which is has the same aim, but for different platforms. (You can see my excitement when I stumbled on his post considering the goals of our projects).

It is just a fun side project, and was made really easy thanks to the Play! framework architecture. Still some things to work out, but those should be fun problems as well.

Let me know what you think!
Further problems with the hard drive market:

1) SSDs are taking over the market, and that favors flash suppliers like Samsung.
2) All the research dollars to increase sizes just drive the prices down.
3) At some point soon, there will be no need for further drive size increases. Unless someone comes up with a more space-hungry format than 1080p video.
The prevailing wage was $45k.

This was for a programming role in New York City- I do not know anyone that gets paid $45k. I'm unsure how they calculate prevailing wages, but I'd suggest that the formula could do with some tweaking.
It would be a disaster if an immigrant helped bring his entire family out of poverty. We better do something to prevent that.

That said, how does it benefit the US if the immigrant keeps his money here?

Skilled workers in India should be able to get above-average pay.

They do. It still puts them well below the US poverty line.

Taking that graph at face value, the Indian immigrants could have no jobs at all, and still live better in the US than in India.

Very true. Most poor Americans, who typically have no job at all, still have a higher standard of living than an upper middle class developer in India. So what?

"What's the difference in value between an Indian worker compared to a native one?"

Wages for developers will be lowered. This will cause quantity demanded to increase, resulting in more software being created. This will increase productivity and benefit consumers. I don't see any reason to believe that all the software we could possibly need is currently being created - do you?
Of course, the limitation of SSE is that it's not bidirectional - as the name implies, only the server can send messages to the client. SSE is definitely useful, especially when you don't need the full overhead of a WebSockets server, but the "hype around WebSockets" is largely because you can implement two-way connections with it. Yesterday there was actually a HN post where someone created a full TCP proxy using WebSockets.
Thanks! I am playing around with Go and you are right the packages are a mixed bag. Not to mention using a search engine is basically impossible.
Who do these people think they are?!?!
Have you investigated http://www.elasticsearch.org/ ?

I'd really recommend reading up on the Solr (I notice you mention Solr in your first post) and ElasticSearch projects; these guys, along with Lucene, have collectively solved many of the problems you're investigating.

They're both open source, and (Solr at least) have extensive mailing lists so you can see the sorts of problems people face when building generalized search engines.
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The argument FOR 63 bit message sizes was that you could effectively turn the message based protocol into a stream, except, unfortunately, the "stream" has a limit even if it seems plenty big enough now.

Personally I wouldn't have included the 63 bit message size.
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Best of luck to the author.

Does remind me a broader question -- why is there no popular open source search engine? This seems much more tractable than an open source social network. I wouldn't be surprised if it could money/resources from major players like Facebook, Apple, Oracle. Apache has a lot of hte pieces, but no consumer facing front-end that ties it all together to search the web (AFAIK).
Implementing Someone Else's Algorithm
I'd love to hear any suggestions for how a publication like this could contribute. We've got a few ideas of our own but are very open to suggestions.
Wouldn't that imply that the (presumably static, making a steady-state assumption) fields had non-zero divergence at the stability point, though?
Aren't these charts intended for analog cameras anyways?
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(I work for Tripl)

What the article does not really say much is that Tripl keeping an office in Stockholm where we do have connections, but we have trouble finding fundings for a large engineering project, we have still not found a new office (co-working space) and we have huge difficulties hiring (mobile and web developers).

I would love to be proven wrong and keep a larger presence in Stockholm, but NYC has proven easier on these three topics so far.
I don't work for Living Social, but I think it's a huge risk that they're taking. The form is burdensome because it needs to be. The only people that they should get are people that really want to learn and that's exactly what they'll get here. Remember, the entrepreneurish techie on HackerNews is likely not their audience. The 19 year old fixing Mom's computer who just failed organic chemistry and might not want to go through with their Marine Biology degree is.
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The patent that’s causing HTC headaches describes a process for locating specific types of data in a document, such as a phone number, and making that item tappable so it launches a different app. If the data was a phone number, for example, tapping it would launch the phone app — a feature Apple has offered since the original iPhone shipped.

If I send an email to myself, with a phone number in it, gmail (something) on my N1 links the phone number inside the email such that when I tap on it, I am brought to the phone app.

That said,

My Treo also did this.
The Google Voice extension in Chrome does this.

I must not understand what is going on here....

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/19/apple-htc-itc-ruling/

Claim 1: A computer-based system for detecting structures in data and performing actions on detected structures, comprising: an input device for receiving data; an output device for presenting the data; a memory storing information including program routines including an analyzer server for detecting structures in the data, and for linking actions to the detected structures; a user interface enabling the selection of a detected structure and a linked action; and an action processor for performing the selected action linked to the selected structure; and a processing unit coupled to the input device, the output device, and the memory for controlling the execution of the program routines.

Claim 8: The system recited in claim 1, wherein the user interface highlights detected structures.

This seems to be what Windows (maybe Apple before them?) has done for years.