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Sorry I didn't see this, don't really have orangereds on Hacker News.

Here's a source: http://www.booz.com/global/home/what_we_think/featured_conte...

You're right, while continually be labelled by organizations as the most innovative, they do only spend ~3%
I've had it happen twice with Mastercard in the last year or two.

In both cases I made a small purchase at a fast food restaurant, followed immediately by a large purchase. This was one of their triggers, which makes sense. Thief tests card, then immediately tries to max it out.

It nearly caused me a huge problem the first time since I was purchasing an engagement ring and they called my now fiancee regarding the transaction. Thankfully they didn't give any details but it still meant I had to lie about it all about which I was not pleased.
IMame released into App Store...thank you Apple Gods
Molloy problem as an interview question
I started from the top, clicking every link, and hit this one. It's a frame-friendly site!
1. They do not convey the same amount of information. Take 发 for example. This is now a split tone word which can mean either 發 or 髮. The information density has been reduced and it's now ambiguous without context which character this represents.

2. People in Mainland China and Taiwan most certainly do not speak the same. There are a litany of spoken differences between 普通話 and 國語. As someone who travels frequently between the two countries, I am constantly shocked how much the two have deviated. There are numerous idioms that are completely unused on either side. Many very basic terms such as the terms for SMS (短信 in China, 簡訊 in Taiwan) are completely unrecognized outside of the respective areas.
I definitely moved mine from them long before this incident and many others. Yet I am still outraged. "I once used them before!"
Yea, because tweaking software is so much harder than writing an entire massive-world RPG.
Can't we dispense with the inflammatory and misleading headlines, PLEASE? As before, FB is selling space on your timeline, not the contents of it. This is comparable to the targeted ads Hotmail (if I recall) used to insert into outgoing emails. I don't like it, just as I didn't like ads in my email, but it's a far cry from what the headline implies.
That's utterly unforgivable. Apparently not only do they consider customer time worthless, but they are actively tracking your usage for direct spam purposes. They're not even trying to hide it, and they're using the customer relationship as leverage (don't answer their BS calls and they'll probably just cut you off).

If you haven't done it already, I'd recommend a blog post about this, for everyone's sake. The only way I dodged the GoDaddy bullet was reading about nonsense like this.

And for what it's worth, thank you for being the example or all of us for why these clowns don't deserve our money.
http://www.marssociety.org/home/press/announcements/illputmi...
I really like the idea. Signed up. Want to add content to my board to curate the content and mark the items that are particularly relevant to me, and I can't see how to add something to my board. If you can make that functionality obvious, I think that would help make this a really useful application.
What about the disutility from alienating everyone else in the coffee line?

Yet another example of how private incentives (to the cashier) trump public good...
Kinect weighs astronauts just by looking at them
Dreamhost speaking out against SOPA
Are Reddit and HN users even profitable to GoDaddy?
Who has studied the effects of low gravity on a growing child? That's of course a rethorical question: nobody has.

So I can see people spending some years in Mars, similar to those who work in oil rigs. Hell, I would have done it myself! But a full-blown colony? Rising a child on half the gravity with unpredictable effects is a different animal.
Identifying gaps in your knowledge is half the battle.

Learning and getting better isn't limited to eliminating known unknowns, it includes becoming aware of unknown unknowns.

Once you can google a problem, there is a very high chance you'll be able to solve it.
I use them for domain registration, Sometimes DNS and occasionally hosting small sites with no outages and no complaints
Plus 1 for namespro. I have about 30 domains with them and everything has ran smoothly.
I run ICS on my Galaxy S. Right now the only feature not functioning is video recording. Definitely worth the side-grade from my Droid X (which locked the boot-loader). $100 for the S, sold the Droid X for $90.

It looks like TouchWiz deserves most of the blame here — according to Samsung Tomorrow, neither device has enough RAM or ROM to accomodate TouchWiz and all of its Samsung-designed accoutrements without affecting the quality of use.

Ah, the vendor screws up vanilla ICS and blames the device for not having the memory to run these "improvements".
Apple outlines international iTunes in the Cloud compatibility
I know developers with government clearances that would be happy to make half that.

Where are there mythical high paying jobs? FantasyLand?
This is a crowded space as you mentioned. I don't know why this is any different then Flipboard from reading the description, only thing maybe is that you remove advertisements and make it easier to read. However, the big difference between you and Flipboard is that Flipboard has a brand that I know of, its free, and I know there is a large team behind it making it better all the time (or at least trying to).

Edit: One thing I forgot to say, is that the app actually looks pretty nice. Sadly, I don't think that is enough to break into the market.
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VS is 'powerful', but Vim + BufExplorer + Project add-on + Taglist + grep steals the show. (I hate emacs).
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I especially hate it when schools and universities in my country (almost all the ones I know) make students use Visual Studio in CS 101.
Most of these students struggle when confronted with a UNIX system where they actually have to use the shell to do tasks. Giving beginners raw components of a system to deal with rather than everything bundled together in point-and-click interfaces goes a long way in cultivating the hacker mindset.
Merry Christmas in Scala
> It's free and there are no ads; just something I did to give back to the community.

This is the spirit that made HAM Radio a success in the first place. I wish more of it would be still present.

Out of the same motivation, I have developed an open source APRS app for Android (http://aprsdroid.org/) written in Scala. It is available (for a fee) on the Market as well, but you can download the APK freely from the home page. :)
Inaccuracies in "Why Not Bytecode" article. [Charles Nutter]
The book "The Case for Mars" makes a similar argument (that getting to Mars using mostly Apollo-era technology has always been possible, we just lack the political will).

More importantly it makes a compelling argument that we must do this, because civilization requires a frontier.
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Pele
Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript
Online MySQL configuration tool by Percona
It's a bit cheeky that you get all the way through the process then have to register to see the result
Your Startup is a Love Letter
The headline isn't misleading. The piece is literally about how Facebook is pitching this big change to marketers.
not sure the big deal about this, google is a big company, there are bound to be a few thousand douches
I'd say that these kind of jobs need to provide one of the following two options:

* great pay

* great challenges

And in all honesty, I'd say that the former isn't as motivating as you'd think. I've had jobs where I make "plenty enough" money and have quit because I've not been challenged.

In fact, in one in particular I tried to make my own challenges- throwing together concepts and forwarding them to my managers, only to be shot down. Then watch our competitors do exactly what I proposed a few months later. It's demoralising and it made me realise that, as a company, we'd always be on the back foot. I'd never be proud of what I made, and "plenty enough" doesn't make up for that.
Should software be protected by patents? 
As patent trolls keep going after Google, Groupon and others, I thought it is time to discuss the merits of software patenting. NZ and India and other countries have recently struck down software patenting as the patents have an adverse impact on innovation. I'm ok with copyrights for code, but patenting software ideas seems ridiculous. What do you guys think?
but everyone who thinks they're a "ninja" is wrong.
According to TFA, the ordering of your timeline is influenced by how much people pay Facebook. Sounds like selling my timeline to me.
As much as I would love to do this, I don't think I could ever bring myself to. If the line is more than about 4 people long I just turn around and walk out, unless I really need whatever the line is for. I'll wait at the post office, but I ain't waiting for the soccer mom to recharge her Starbucks account using a bonded credit card from Mozambique or whatever. That's a simpler way to avoid wasting time that doesn't involve giving me special treatment.

But anyway, I think it is unhealthy, for lack of a better word, to think in these terms. You'll start stressing yourself out about how much money you're wasting (because time=money) in scenarios where wasting the time is unavoidable (traffic, spending time with in-laws, etc.)
The problem:

As it is mentioned in the email. People tend to believe, being great is about knowing a lot of facts and stuff from memory. Having information about stuff others don't know. While the fact is intelligence and knowledge only acts as catalyst in the path to success. They are not success or don't lead to success in themselves. Unless you don't understand this you will keep wondering why you are not getting successful while some guy you consider mediocre is winning.

What matters in real world is productivity. Ability to discover things quickly. Learn quickly. Learn to understand and properly state problems. Search for solutions quickly. And then use the best tools at disposal to build things in as little time with acceptable quality in the problem domain. Intelligence and knowledge of facts in this system at maximum fastens your rate of success nothing more nothing less. But yes practice helps. But practice in the right areas.

If you believe reading algorithm and data structures text books and searching for puzzles online will make you a good programmer, then I'm not sure. It may prepare you for interviews, it may also get you a job a bit web giant. It may make you look super intelligent in front of a panel or your team. But in terms of producing software for solving business problems, those facts from memory and even their practice at maximum serves as a catalyst not a crucial ingredient to success.

Apart from practicing writing programs. Learning API's, best practices, tools, techniques and your other usual day to day programming tasks. You also need to practice to be a better team player, you need to learn design, you need to learn customer interaction skills, you need to learn how to gather requirements.

You need to learn how to manage resources - time, money and people effectively. You need to learn effective ways of running software teams. The list goes endless.

Its no longer "Can write awesome code" == "Success". There are a gazillion parameters that will decide you success. And programming is just one of many of them.

Here is the shocker. You don't really a 1000 years of life to give 10 years to each. And even if you had a 1000 years of life you would be bored of giving 10 years to each and you would keep forgetting what you did decades back.

So, just be more productive and iterate your work endlessly. Find flaws and fix them. Do it in iterations. You will be taken care of.
From the discussion here it seems that many hackers do have their amateur radio license. Maybe somebody with enough karma can set up a poll to find out how many? :)
Documented evidence. eg not http://www.quora.com/Has-Amazon-S3-ever-lost-data-permanentl... "All of this is my recollection of what I've been told friends, so it may not be accurate at all."
Seconded. I've used Namecheap for some 7 years now. Unlike so many of their competitors, they actually care about customer satisfaction.
Financing Open-Source-Projects via the Ubuntu Software-Center
"Even when CIOs promote 20- and 30-somethings, they often don't have loyalty to the organization, Mok says.... They will stay with you as long as they see certain things, including personal growth or personal value enhancement, whether that's financial reward or career aspirations."

Employers fire or lay people off when it is no longer worth it to keep them around. And employees absolutely should leave when it is no longer worthwhile for them to stay. Loyalty doesn't come into it. If you aren't fulfilling their "personal growth, value enhancement, financial reward or career aspirations" THAT is why they are leaving. Fix that. Don't just complain about the youngsters these days.
What's a better use of my time -- converting my 1000+ machines to another distro (which may turn out to be worse) or convincing Fedora not to make a stupid decision?
Perl/Python Comparison (2002)
Let's not fall for this obvious bait article. Networkworld thinks we are stupid:

"No sooner does he hire a Java programmer and train him in the company's music industry niche, than the programmer is recruited away for a higher salary. Indeed, everyone on Trebino's six-person Java development team has less than one year of experience with HFA, which is the nation's leading provider of rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry."

Also small article requiring 3 page views.
i'm pretty sure he hasn't taken on the challenges he's chosen because they were easy.

Are there really millions of people who would sign up for the world's most expensive method of committing suicide?

The same could have been said about crossing oceans or strapping into a seat to travel thousands of miles at 30k feet in the air over mountains and open water. Safety is naturally an issue. One can never know what the future will be like, but I'd be fairly confident in saying that the world a hundred years from now will not be the world of present. I think it's that you're ignoring history, not that he's ignoring what's easy and what's not.

By the time millions are willing to sign up, it's likely that it won't be the expensive way to commit suicide anymore. I mean who knows, maybe we'll be shipping our criminals to mars.
Interesting project. Emacs is such a powerful tool. It makes sense to attempt to modernize it. It will be hard to get momentum because Emacs users are typically die-hard purists, so moving away from the "Emacs way" may ruffle some feathers.

Recently I've started to do this on a small scale in my own .emacs file. Shortcuts I use every few minutes were hidden but too many multi-step keyboard shortcuts. Especially when I really don't need to duplicate the arrow and page-up/down keys with single-step shortcuts.

It's too bad it sounds like there won't be a Linux version.
As soon as I saw "RPG" I no longer needed to know why they had problems...
Welcome to the other side of the supply/demand curve. Tech talent is in massive demand right now, finding good/great talent is particularly difficult as there's just not enough to go around.

Hence, real talent commands an ever increasing pricetag.

And I love it.
Don't for get to ask your credit card provider to reverse your GoDaddy Payment- the SOPA-enabled chargeback is the real nightmare for internet companies.
What questions do you get from non-technical people about the Internet?
I am curious what common questions hackers get about the internet, whether it's during consulting, working on a project, or just talking to relatives. I know that a lot of people don't understand the internet to the degree they should, but I'm interested in the specific things they are curious about.

Ex. "Why does it take 24-48 hours to change our domain name?"
favorite alternative poll?
http://www.heinleinprize.com/?p=800

Video of the awards ceremony,including Mr. Musk's acceptance speech:

http://www.youtube.com/user/HeinleinPrizeTrust/videos
Rude? I thought I was doing them a favor. Initially I thought their system did not differentiate between specific models: that would majorly impact usefulness.

Then when he explained I realized it was just a broken search feature: a much easier thing to fix.

I hope most people here don't confuse matter of fact literalism with rudeness. This is HN after all and I'm offering free user feedback to a business, something most businesses greatly appreciate.
Sorry to say, I've been through a very similar situation 3 separate times in 3 different cities as the primary caregiver. The least intuitive and most important thing I learned each time was that there are many wonderful options available but you have to find them. Once you do, it's amazing how much easier things get for everybody involved.

There are many levels of care available between intensive care and hospice and plenty of funding available to pay for almost all of them if you look hard enough. Sadly, OP mentions none of this. What an unhelpful article.

There is part-time home health care, full-time home health care, assisted living, nursing homes with multiple levels of appropriate care, and multiple levels of hospice care. (Six days to live or you're not accepted? Shame on them. What kind of thing is that to put caregivers through?)

There is also tons of "care for the caregiver" which is indispensable. I don't how I would have made it without that.

Most importantly, I can't say enough for all of the wonderful people who cared for my loved ones, in many ways much better than I ever could have. They're out there, dedicating their lives to make this inevitable transition better for everyone.

Theresa Brown, I suggest a follow-up "how to" article for caregivers. Unlike this piece, that would take a little research, but could be your contribution to this difficult, but easily addressed problem. You could make it the piece I wish I had read instead of figuring it out myself at the worst moment of my life. Please use the resources of the New York Times to finish the work you've barely started here.
We shouldn't underestimate the message we're sending by outcasting GD. As we've already seen, other businesses in the domain/hosting world have already taken notice and adopted an anti-SOPA stance. If the backlash against GD is great enough, it's a pretty clear warning to every other company out there - if you support SOPA, be prepared to face the consequences.
Mars has more fresh water than Earth does. Most of it is frozen, but thawing it shouldn't prove impossible.

> Are there really millions of people who would sign up for the world's most expensive method of committing suicide?

I don't understand this. Are you committing suicide right now, by living out your life on Earth? You're here on Earth and you're going to die here. Does that mean you've committed suicide? How is that any different from people living indoors on Mars? Sure, they may die there. But people die here too. It's not suicide, it's a way of life that people will choose.

Also, you are incorrect in your silly assumption that life will be harsh for the millions that arrive - it seems much more likely that we could send robots to build the infrastructure while the first few land, making small cities, etc, and otherwise preparing for the mass arrival.

Yes, there are millions that would want to go. I've been thinking about this for more than a decade and I am desperate to go live on Mars when it becomes possible.
Human nature. We all are the victim of "ego" once in a while in our life.

Ego is what bring us down from the top of cockyness mountain as well. The fall would make us humble (and hopefully learn something from it).

At the end of the day, I believe human should learn to live with each other than to shove one another.
19201080 = 2073600 pixels

1280720 = 921600 pixels

So it renders a lot more than twice as many pixels
Almost severing sharing
I was thinking about the 'time is money' meme the other day, as it's one that seems to get traction very quickly with a lot of people - I've used it myself in a few situations (regrettably) and discussed it with others.

There are quite a few fundamental problems I see with it:

* It is frequently used as a validation for not doing something undesirable or even just something unanticipated. Opportunities can and do arise in the strangest situations, and sure - sometimes it's clear that it's not worth pursuing a lead - but claiming that your personal time vs. some calculated reward is the justification is often (I've found) just a quick exit clause

* The implication for people who do wait in line is that they are inferior to you, since they somehow fall below the 'worth' measurement - I would never want to even suggest to people that they're somehow less valuable, since I don't believe that people ever are

* It can quickly spread to other areas of your life - it's a gateway drug in the absorption of economics into daily life - are friends money? Are experiences money? Few people would admit to it, but for some people both of the above already apply.

* Personally, I find it an affront to the idea that services should be provided fairly. If it were possible to non-disruptively allow some customers to be served more quickly based on an open, public pricing scale, then perhaps I'd reconsider it (airline priority queues are a possible comparison) - but this is queue-jumping based on bribery. The suggestion that this behavior is, in fact, positive and likely to indicate success in life is one I find pretty disgusting.
I think this is due to the speed at which techies' skills rot. You stay in the same place doing the same thing for 5 years and you have a skill set that no exciting employer (incuding your current one) is going to want. That's why we all do side projects. That's why we do stay in jobs that let us constantly improve ourselves. It's not that we're fickle, our tools and skills are fickle.
It's totally unsurprising that it's hard to keep smart hackers engaged in building custom Java software for music business rules and digital rights managZZZZzzzz
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"""Room for optimization suggests when time is taken you get a faster code. After all this time and all these optimizations the JVM is still terrible for 3D code and zero blockbuster games uses it."""

I don't think Sun was particularly good at optimizing in this particular task --or even interested.

They worked towards their actual customer use, ie. the server side.

It's not just 3D code, even desktop UI libs (Swing, JavaFX) and multimedia code where left without much (or any) love from Sun (/Oracle).

That doesn't mean a VM is unsuitable for fast 3D. Don't tons of 3D games use the Unity engine, which utilizes the Mono VM?

And it's not like critical 3D parts of the implementation cannot be written in plain old C/C++/ASM -- and exposed to the web programmers via some VM interface (a special set of 3D specialized opcodes? an intermediary 3D extension language + lib other vm languages will have to use? I dunno, it's however totally possible)
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