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Ask HN: Does anyone use something to monitor air quality in their workspace?
I was thinking of getting an oxygen monitor, or something like that, since I worry that my office does not have good ventilation. Maybe I'm paranoid... Does anyone else use things to measure air quality and oxygen levels where they work? What are things you use? Seems like its worth it since you spend 8 hours (nah, 12+ hours a day... this is hacker news) working in the office.
I didn't experience any blocking in 2008, and I could access most sites in summer of 2010. I suppose your experience is more recent, though.
This site doesn't work properly an iPad 2 safari. CSS is not valid.
That would be great for GoogleTV (and great for the user) but I can't imagine hotels signing up unless they got some money from Google out of usage even in the case where the user buys nothing new while at the hotel.

If I've got a bunch of stuff stored to Google Movies or UltraViolet or whatever and I watch that via GoogleTV instead of buying a PPV movie via the hotel's existing system, that's no good for the hotel.
DaveMebs: My point is that an ARM archtiecture license is not necessary for Microsoft to port Windows to ARM. There are only 3 or 4 ARM architecture licensees in the world. The architecture license allows the licensee to MODIFY the ARM instruction set/architecture and create their own implementations of the ARM architecture.

Microsoft does not need this simply to port Windows to ARM.

Therefore I think it is an interesting question: Why did Microsoft buy an ARM architecture license?
Excellent. But there is another important situation to deal with, and that is when the interrogator is asking dishonestly, usually to reenforce some prejudice. Personally I have found the best way to deal with such discussions is not to have them, for the simple reason that my contempt for willful ignorance compounded by dishonesty ultimately outweighs my love and joy at explanaition.

Practically speaking, the impact of walking away from such loaded discussions is minimal, because in a healthy society generally these dishonest interrogators' views and opinions simply don't matter (apart from the odd grade-school curriculum debacle). They don't matter for two reasons: first, normally the point of understanding (e.g. evolution, or even magnetism) is not necessary to the persons practical day. Second, a healthy society tends to disregard the views of the dishonest.

This is an argument from practicality. Know when to walk away from some debates.
The comments seem to back up that the article is from 2001 (so does the copyright at the bottom), but it links to Gladwell's Outliers, which came out in 2008.

What I suspect happened is that the piece has been modified since it was originally published.
It's different when you're the boss.
What's the point in a try without a catch?
Implies? So what?
Kessler is catering to his audience here: remember, HBO butters its bread via their deals with cablecos, not through direct relationships with you or me. Maybe some day they'll want to own the relationship and disintermediate the middlemen cablecos. For now, they're the folks who pay HBO, so it's not in HBO's interest to piss them off by giving you and me more ammo in efforts to cut cords.
I'd love to see this as an input to an HMD with some kind of keyboard/touchpad - a great standardized base for head-mounted glasses/AR.
Exactly!

Like Chris Dodd becoming CEO of the MPAA who is reportedly being paid $1.5 million a year as his base salary.
I figured a few of us here would start by pitching in our own stories, giving numbers, time spent, money lost, the nitty gritty details and in time when others see how valuable that information is they'll feel comfortable enough to share their stories too, adding on to the list. I mean entrepreneurship is all about failure. For anyone to NOT want to talk about it is to reject the fact that it's our failures that lead to successes. And there's plenty of entrepreneurs on HN and plenty of failures. Definitely enough to put together a few stories.
Professional Engineer (EE)
Catwoman - my favourite movie with Halle Berry
Have you watched the movie "Catwoman"? Halle Berry is starring. Halle Berry transform in a cat after her death. This is a magic, which will change dramatically her life. After that she began her attempt to stop a director of a famous company to start selling а cream for face which is unhealthy and dangerous for women's life...
I would agree with this. I have "friends" that used to pirate everything, and now they use Spotify, Netflix, etc.
No idea why this reminded you of DO -- as you say, it's a totally different thing.

DO still works in OS X. Frankly, it's a neat hack, but it's prohibitively difficult to build anything robust on top of it:

- Error handling is difficult -- what happens when the other side goes down in the middle of your method call? If you have to add extra exception and timeout handling everywhere, that dwarfs the small convenience of making the dispatch code easy.

- Hard to make it secure.

- It's impossible to interoperate with anything else -- what happens when you want to talk to your DO-based server using Java or Windows or Linux?

See "A Note On Distributed Computing" from 1994 for more caveats on this whole approach:

http://labs.oracle.com/techrep/1994/abstract-29.html
Going by List of acquisitions by Google [1], and from my knowledge of the founders (which is not complete by any means):

Reqwireless - UW founders

BumpTop - UT founders

Zetawire - Uvic / UT founder

SocialDeck - UW founders

Pushlife - UW founder

PostRank - UW founders

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
pretty dismal
Definitely, I told this from the viewpoint of one of the guys hired in the acquisition. Would love to hear more about the other viewpoint.
Great example of an acquisition that will work out - two startups motivated by the same type of goals and both, as far as I can work out, optimised for happiness, not optimised for profit.
It would be great if instead of a website you port it to a browser plug-in. It would achieve several things:

* Better security for the user (the paranoid in me do not want to send my credentials through a third party site).

* It could use the credentials stored in the browser (cookies, basic-auth, etc).

* The IP of the requester would not be hidden, allowing IP filtering for development servers.

* It could run on a PC that is not connected to internet.
Just because Daniel Bernstein claims something on the internet doesn't make it any truer than, well, if I claim it. [okay, maybe a little truer. He did write qmail]

But I'm particularly interested in Bernstein's ad hominem broadside on Rosen for stating, while general counsel for OSI I believe, that public domain dedication is unlikely in the US. Rosen is "only a lawyer" according to Bernstein -- who I might add is "only a mathematician". Though you have to give him props for representing himself in Bernstein v. Commerce.

I myself think that Rosen's conservative position is the right one. Even Lessig's CC0 dedication is couched in tons of careful "we're not sure if this works" verbiage. At any rate, presuming this is unsettled law -- and it seems to me that it's pretty unsettled -- that alone makes it unwise to be attempting a public domain dedication.
Introducing "Python for Android"
If we can make smart phones, why not smart food?
Harvard ComputeFest 2012
I did millions upon millions of small e-mails using Maildir in a filesystem in 2000 (accounts for 1.7 million users on a single filesystem). It's only a challenge if you pick a filesystem with pathological behaviour for directories with many files and/or with small and hard limits for number of inodes (in our case we used ReiserFS 3).

The biggest problem is read bandwidth for your disks. Write IO is likely to be constrained by available network bandwidth unless you do something stupid. Read bandwidth constraints for e-mail are generally easily mitigated by creating an index (so you only need to open or stat the message files when opening individual messages, not to, say, list message sizes in a POP3 server or present an index view on a web interface).

If you need to list/manipulate those files other than writing them once and reading them when a user actually opens that specific message, or deleting them when the user actually deletes the message, then you're doing something wrong (e.g. you didn't create a sufficiently flexible index).
I find this article completely laughable because the advice seems to be look to hire someone who has all the abilities and drive to start their own company and will do something mind blowing for your company. Well guess what? These candidates already are starting their own company and aren't going to be attracted by your .25% or even 5% equity. This is like the high school version of rejecting people to go to the prom with and then when the prom comes, low and behold you have nobody to go with - in other words, if you follow this rubric you're probably not going to end up hiring anyone.

How about this for advice instead...
Find someone who can fill and execute on a specific need for your business in a cost effective way.
I haven't listened through yet but a quick glance at the track list suggests this is the Girl Talk mashup from the soundtrack: http://soundcloud.com/walt74/girl-talk-all-day (unless Girl Talk is using Flava in Ya Ear in multiple mashups ;)
server side:

http://checkip.dyndns.com/ -> http://hurl.it/hurls/6fb24ac23d7c64a7edbcfceecd77c3d02586416...

127.0.0.1 -> http://hurl.it/hurls/7ad9448295a320acfe11160f0a8986fa591329f...
Having worked in retail and service jobs, I can tell you that a generous fraction of Australian consumers rely on the lowly checkout chick / salesman / service assistant / phone operator etc as someone to prop up their self-worth through condescension.
i'm pulling random results for topics but since there are only a few of them it appears to switch around. once there are too many topics to list how do we order them? alpabetically, by comment count, trending, etc. it's open for discussion. good catch!
CES 2012: Microsoft to live-stream its final keynote tomorrow
For what it's worth, I help to organize a fairly active Ruby group, and I am certain that, if not zero, nearly zero of us would make this proclamation. In fact -- and I mean not to attack you, but just to illustrate how incredulous I am -- I tried to think of a reason there might be for you to fabricate or exaggerate that story. I don't really think you did, but my mind went there.
Airbnb.com: Necessity Begets Creativity
Hmm, if you don't mind me asking, what exactly is happening (I don't have an iPad at my disposal). The site uses Bootstrap heavily, and I just ran it through a CSS3 validator, which brought up no alarming custom CSS errors.
what about lua/love/corona?
Meh, if abuse is really a problem Hurl could log requests and cooperate with law enforcement to trace it right back to you.

If an attacker is relying on using Hurl as their only source of anonymity they're not very competent.
Mhmm, though I'm certain this is not a complete list, and SocialGrapple was listed under USA until I corrected it. :P
Created my frame, left the site, came back, and placed an order.

Did not realize framous had not saved my picture orientation properly. Emailed to cancel order so I could place a new one. No response.

Now I will not be placing a new order at all.
Understanding the physics of why crumpled paper resists with a specific force can help you design vehicle crumple-zone systems in cars which will save occupants from head on crashes into trees, by having the entire engine crumple with a pre defined resistance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone
the finally block is always executed, then the exception is thrown. So

try { dobadthing(); }
finally { cleanup(); }

calls dobadthing(), which throws an exception; then cleanup() is called in case some recovery can be done, then the exception is thrown as if there were no try block.
The TRY-CATCH will still be required. USING will only dispose the object.
World's Longest Palindrome Sentence?
Something fun to point it at: http://httpong.com

Particularly http://httpong.com/response but the other parts can show you what hurl.it is sending.
DebuggerStepthrough has its limitations, this one is pretty big: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8751814/can-debuggerstept...
Gary Johnson is a presidential candidate. He opposes SOPA... Thus, there is another presidential candidate who opposes SOPA.
Watch the rest of the "Fun to Imagine" videos, and you'll hear about why trains don't need differential gears and how the mass of trees comes out of the air instead of the ground.
I agree with the above points, and have one more of my own. Try to gather events and stuff from third party services, so if no one is around, you still have 'something' to show your users.
Edit: and you don't post popular events on your twitter account? you're not using twitter to it's full potential! (look at what stackexchange does with its many sites and it's twitter account).
Dan Bernstein's a mathematician (albeit one unusually well versed with the legal system, for obvious reasons), but you should also note that one of the commenters on this very subthread is a lawyer.

I'm really not interested in the conflict between the OSI and Dan Bernstein. I'm just responding to your comment.

Pretty sure you're wrong about PD being a "fiction".
I've thought of using Lua and if I recall correctly, work has been done to develop iPhone games with Lua as well? Ah, where is the time?
It is very abundant and has a very friendly climate relative to a great deal of the planet.

By friendly climate, I don't mean pleasant 72 degrees year round. I mean you don't have to spend all summer chopping wood, and preserving food so you can survive through the winter, which is a vast swath of the planet.
This post is mean, and has no place on Hacker News. It's fine to say there's no reason to ever use Ruby for a game, but it seems like the main purpose of your post is just to call into question the OP's intelligence and experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi (when available, though that dongle's site doesn't list it as actually available anywhere yet either) plus an SD card (or USB stick) might be something like what you are looking for.

It isn't going to be as small and neat, as far as I can tell the standard models won't even be coming with a case, but they are capable of 1080p h264 playback at 30fps. I'm planning to grab a couple to play with when they are generally available.
Yes, I understand how finallys work. I was questioning why you wouldn't want to catch dobadthing().
If you are going to be building the entire product, and not being paid a salary, you should have something around equal equity with your co-founder. If you are going to be paid, discount the equity split to something more fair based on how much you are being paid vs. what you normally make for your time (how much you are sacrificing by not having a full time job).

They might argue that it is their idea, I argue its mostly in the execution, which you will be a large part of.
What details do you need? Pretty much everything I want to know about the case can be learned by looking at a picture of it, or seeing the various uses in the video.
A good takeaway from this is make your tests performance related. Since the op is using unitests already, a test that updated the game loop for a few minutes, rendering the target number of objects and failed if a frame dropped, would have saved a lot of wasted development.
Putting A Face On The Homeless Through Instagram
Sadly Hurl won't make requests to itself.
>I'm generally anti-coop for people who would have no trouble finding a job when they graduate without coop.

I don't care how good a coder you are when it comes to personal projects, or how well you do in ACM comps, the skills you gain from working on large-scale projects are invaluable to employers. True, the top 5% of CS students might have no trouble finding work anyway, but co-op can turn the next 30% from risky hires into pretty (relatively) sure bets.
>We can do it more or less anywhere, it's just a question of population density. A tribe that needs a few hundred square miles of tundra could live as well off of a few dozen acres of tropical forest.

Yes, it's definitely doable--I'm not arguing with history. I'm arguing with this

>they didn't work anywhere close to 40 hours a week, and spent most of the day chatting and making music

A tribe that lives in the tundra is going to have to devote a substantial portion of their time to preparing for winter.
Which isn't going to allow them the vast leisure time enjoyed by African bushmen living close to the equator.
"What other engineering lessons have you learned from playing your favorite games?"

Back...your work...UP.

I spent weeks playing Zelda. Mapping things out on graph paper. Trying over and over and over. Finally got 80% through the very last dungeon...and the battery gave out. No idea why. Lost everything.

I put the NES down and never played it again.
I understand how guessing at the particular pattern of a crumple is a hard physics problem. What I do not understand is why understanding the macro-properties of crumpled paper is a hard physics problem. For example:

"Do the balls absorb vibrations by trapping pressure waves or by dissipating them? Nobody knows, says Menon, 'but it means there are still plenty of beautiful problems to keep me interested'."

This seems like a rather odd thing to say. What does "trapping pressure waves" even mean? Is Menon asserting that, when I take my shipment out of the container, all of the vibration that the package suffered on its journey is still swirling around in all the crumpled paper?

It's laudable to study everyday physics, but at least when it comes to macro-behavior of crumpled paper, these research questions appear laughable.
Because you're working backward.

We don't have a time machine, so neither of us can actually know the effect. So how are you figuring it out? Legislation by itself has no effect – it's just a piece of paper – the enforcement is what counts. And how a law is enforced is based on its intent (its real intent, which is not necessarily the justification given to the public).

So you're figuring out its "effect" based on the inferred intent, then turning around and saying that the authors' intent is unknowable.
An unscientific comparison of Python, Scheme, C#, Ruby, Haskell (2007)
I read it in Richard Feynman's voice. :)
Facebook actually passes the path from the canvas url to your iframe. So what I do is make all the targets "_top" and point to my canvas url. No need for complicated JS stuff. :D

So a link in my iframe app would be something like this:
<a href="https://apps.facebook.com/defensio/archives/index target="_top">Deleted</a>

This will create an iframe with https://facebook.defensio.net/archives/index
Didn't make it up. No reason to do so, although I suspect if I spent some time on HN I could find some posts about Ruby perf that don't jive with reality.

But I will say this, do you think this guy made up his post about using Ruby to try to write this game? If you don't think it fabricated, do you think he's alone?

I do think there is a fundamental problem, especially with respect to perf, that a lot of people have never looked at what code actually runs on their box. Never looked at the emitted or generated asm. Don't know the cost of calling a method, much less invoking some framework routine to do something. And then you couple this with a lot of devs think their the cats meow because they got x trans/sec and hear horror stories about the ceremony and inefficiency of C++.

And it doesn't help with the blogs and articles that constantly come out saying that Java or Ruby or Lisp is faster than C/C++ (the answer is never pleasingly straightfroward).

While I appreciate that none in your Ruby group would think this, I'd also ask why do they believe this? It's no more reassuring if they don't have a clear understanding of why C++ might be better for the job.

Lastly, I should add that the conversation was a heated discussion where I was playing devil's advocate that I thought they were going to switch off of Ruby like Twitter. I don't think they really appreciated it, although I wasn't actually being all that serious at the time.
The phone itself has two corners of contact. The circle provides the third. It's like a tripod. I don't think having a fourth point of contact less than an inch away from the other would really add any noticeable stability.

Plus, by having a rounded edge on the table, it will compress a little bit, giving a very solid connection with the table. If it was a flat edge, you might get less solid contact, especially if it warps at all with use.

Circle seems like a good call.
For chrome, I like using the "REST Console" extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cokgbflfommojglbmb...), which I believe has all of the benefits you listed. The "credentials stored in a browser" thing is the main reason for me to be using it.
In this case, the handle gets closed even if an exception is thrown.
UW alumnus here, IMO the PEY makes very little sense to both the student and employer. From the employer side, you're committing yourself to 18 months of full-time employment for someone who is an unknown value - I've heard this from multiple employers that the four-month terms are more attractive, since it's not nearly as damaging to make a bad hire. Worst case scenario you let the kid sit around and twiddle their thumbs for the last month or two. Long terms lead to more conservative hiring, leading to less placements overall.

From the student side, co-op isn't just about learning how it is to work in-industry, but also to gain a breadth of experiences and find out where you want to be (or more cynically, where you stand a chance). I had 6 co-op terms spread over 5 companies, and it's been a huge career accelerant - I started off working at a no-name code shop, which paved the way to a brand-name code shop, which convinced someone at a highly algorithmic code shop to take me on for 4 months, and that finally got the Big Boys (Goog, Facebook, Amazon, MSFT, etc) to take me seriously enough to hire me. I simply could not have achieved the end result after graduation if I was limited to only a single co-op term.

The way I see it, UW's co-op system takes your first few years of ladder climbing and compresses that into, well, almost no time at all. I've been able to bypass a great deal of the drudge work right off the bat simply by having good names and solid reviews on my record.
İt looks like there is no css just html. Maybe sizes of boxes are not adjusted right. Therefore the boxes ( logo, categories, post) are in one column. İ don't have a pc now to look its original version.
This article was well written but deceptively pointless.
What does an 18 month co-op give you that graduating earlier and starting work doesn't?

The thing I liked about 4-8 month co-ops at UW was that I didn't necessarily know what I wanted to end up doing. This way I got to try working in a whole bunch of situations to find what I ultimately enjoyed most. I did co-ops in southern California, Silicon Valley, NYC, and around Canada. I worked for startups, big companies, and even the government. I hopped around in different industries too: semiconductors, fuel cell research, mobile devices and internet. Ultimately by the time I graduated I had tested the waters of industry in a variety of ways, gained a ton of life experiences, gotten really good at having a big impact at work in a short period of time, and had an offer to return full time to my last (and favourite) co-op employer.