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For those of you who live in New York City, what sort of standard of living do these salaries represent? Would one be comfortably be able to lease a 3 bedroom apartment within walking distance of work, in a neighborhood with good schools?
> Get off the popular train – teach yourself not to judge based on anything other than your own view. Stop listening to the mainstream radio or to popular music channels. Try college radio.

This will just make things worse! Trust me.
I agree that as of today 3D printers can't replace almost any commercial manufacturing technique. I think the article was meant for excitement about what may be coming soon. Most of the comments here sound a lot like what photographers said about digital cameras in the early 90's - low quality, poor resolution, expensive. Do you see 3d printing being able to improve in the near future to the point of being useful to you in final production? Or do you think that even with major improvements they just won't be able to keep up with more conventional means?
And it's legal to boycott someone!!!
Alamo Drafthouse was great last time I was there (crap...6 years ago?).

For those of you not fortunate enough to get to Austin, the seating was not regular theater seating, you had some space and a table area for your food and/or bucket of beers. They often showed silly movies like Halloween I, where people will yell out things like "Don't open the door!" There is also wait staff, so you placed an order and they brough it to you. And they had a mix of films, from current movies to niche films.

From their website looks like they have expanded and are showing more first-run movies, but maybe it's still similar. When I started going there, there was only 1 theater downtown on 4th street. Ah...the good old days.

So far, Portland has a couple of theaters I've been to that serve beer/pizza, but you buy it at a regular snack counter and take it with you to your seat. Just not the same.
No: read this article that tells you to stop reading so many articles, agree with this opinion that says you should stop agreeing with everyone's opinion that you read about, etc.
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You say that like it is some force of nature. Movies don't have to be expensive to make and Ebert specifically called out that the bright spot for 2011 was independent films.

You are correct about branding, but the movie studios decided to make these big budget movies. They are gambling big for a big payoff when they certainly could make great movies significantly cheaper.

I bet if you looked at studio executives' compensation packages, you could draw a link between their compensation and the 'go big or go home strategy'. I would bet they make a lot more money in bonuses if the studio has a huge year than one with good year over year growth. Add that to very little downside if they create flops (just blame the pirates!) and you have a recipe that likely explains the current behavior of the systems. Just a guess.
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It's not impossible for corporations to face criminal charges, and I believe jail time shouldn't be ruled out.

Board Executives are going to think twice if a 6 month jail sentence is divvied up between them based on the percentage of shares they hold.
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I found "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide" to be excellent (hah, I just noticed there's a quote from me on Twitter on the book's homepage): http://www.hadoopbook.com/
I'm no expert, but from the post:

"But Indian scientists are less thrilled. Govindarajan Padmanabhan from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore:

Our national labs have all the genes for rice improvement, we do not need Monsanto. The moratorium will actually affect the indigenous effort [to create GM crops that could feed India's rapidly growing population]."

EDIT: Eggplant, rice, what's the difference anyway?
No, I get that. I think the person you replied to was saying the same thing. =)
The one and only reason I stopped going to the movies was 20 minutes worth of obnoxious commercials that preceded every movie.
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The truth is that I don't think most people have it in them to create. The ones that will actually create new things will know when to stop listening to other people. The rest of mankind is probably happy just consuming for their entire lives.
Oops, forgot about the McMenamins, but their beer/food isn't really very good imho. Also, I would like it if they had more table areas, I had to sit my beer on the floor. They do have awesome buildings, though.
Sendgrid is fantastic. Well-documented, easy-to-use, and full-featured. We recently set it up for a client and were impressed with the stats in particular.

Postmark looks nice too. I'd be inclined to trust my money to the same crew that runs Beanstalk.
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Yes, those are no longer values that will hit the worst-case performance here.

Did you read the article? The reason for the bad performance is that the way that PHP hashes integers is just taking the integer mod the size of the hash table. So for values which are 0 mod the size of the hash table, they will all go into the same bucket. If your hash table has a size that's a power of 2, then any sum of powers of two equal or larger than the size of the hash table will hash to 0, and go into the same bucket. So if you insert a whole bunch of values that increase by a large power of two, then they will all hash to 0 and give you O(n^2) performance.

Note that the size referred to there is being use not only as the size of the array, but also the amount to iterate by. By changing that to something other than a power of 2, you are no longer inserting "evil" elements.

The point of this article is that it's really, really easy to do a denial of service attack on PHP arrays by picking array indices that are large powers of two. Of course you can fix the problem by not using large powers of two.
The Hadoop and HBase books from O'Reilly Media are quite good. They gave me a good overview and got me up to speed enough that I was comfortable stepping into a new personal project using them.
Google+'s success or failure has nothing to do with Google's social strategy
Ugh, Quicktime. Of all the movie trailer sites, this is the only one that expects you to install some slow, clunky software first.
LOL some of these results are funny... Facebook for Pizza haha
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I think you meant some podcasters out there do deserve to be tormented. The podcast itself isn't going to be hurt by the torment.
>> It is interesting, because really, what has Android being "Open Source" really done?

You mean, besides this (from the G+ post conversation): "Historians are, however, going to make note of how the open source Android platform (or its later forks and clones) played a role in facilitating everything from low-cost solar-powered devices in the remotest villages in India and Africa, to a hundred million tablets computers in the classroom each revolutionizing education for children all across Asia and the Middle East, to putting an Internet-connected smartphone in the hands of every man, woman, and child in America, even those from the perpetually overlooked majority that simply can't afford a shiny brand-new iPhone or Galaxy Nexus every Christmas."

This is already happening. Now. And it is happening because Android has successfully commoditized the mobile OS. I'm seeing it happen where I grew up. Where people cannot afford iPhones and Galaxy Nexuses. But they can now afford an Android smartphone.

From the G+ post, again: " That there's now an eminently capable open source mobile operating system, one that is free to use and free to fork, means that the knowledge advantage can be better and more evenly distributed across the planet than ever before."

Anyone, anywhere can build and distribute their own Android-based device. They are already doing this. Isn't that one of the cornerstones of an open source project?

>> " Are customers less beholden to telecoms for their devices? Have prices dropped or competition increased? What percent of Android device owners have compiled their own kernel? Have read the Android source?"

Do you ask this of Apache, Asterisk etc?

You say elsewhere that "The cost of a Windows license was never a material factor in the cost of a computer.". For you perhaps, but it definitely was a factor in my part of the world.
Running php -a will give you an interactive shell as well, however, if you do a lot of php development phpsh http://www.phpsh.org/ is a lot more feature rich and can be a huge timesaver.
Ask HN: How Can I Create an RNG Without a Seed? In LOLCode?
Short version: I'm torturing myself with LOLCode (http://lolcode.com/specs/1.2) right now, and I'm trying to figure out how to create a random number generator.

Using the LCI interpreter (http://icanhaslolcode.org/), I can't access the file system (so no /dev/random for me), there is no built-in RNG, and I'm trying to avoid asking the user for a seed value if at all possible.

I have some really, really horrible code in place now, but I'm hoping someone better versed in number theory and CS can either help with the math involved, or point me to some of the right places on the net with information on this.

Thanks HN!
I rented a nice 1 bdroom within walking distance from work for 3000$

yea ouch.

I now rent a nice but tiny 550 sqft 1bdroom for 1900$

3 bdroom apts are extremely expensive.

however the trains are really good, so "walking distance" isn't that important
It was his fifth bullet point:

"Competition from other forms of delivery. […] Netflix alone accounts for 30% of all internet traffic in the evening. That represents millions of moviegoers. They're simply not in a theater."

Ebert didn't really tie it into the overall argument as well as I would have liked, but he did bring it up.
Completely agree with "kids get bored". It's to the point we don't bother going. My kids literally groan if I mention going to a movie over the weekend.

Then there's going to a 3D movie. It might as well be a punishment. Making kids watch a movie with giant glasses that fall off their face and strain their eyes is just cruel. My son complains that his arms hurt by the end of the movie because he's tried keeping those glasses on the whole time. Then, of course, the movie had no right being 3D. Adding cut scenes of flying through a 3D town or a cat flying at the screen does not justify this awful experience.
Clickers:

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http://icanhaslolcode.org/
No. That's why, if you want to sell software to your users without giving them the freedoms afforded by the GPL, you'll have to either write your own software from scratch or base it on one that uses a license that allows you to give your users an inferior set of rights.
"I'm even more excited about seeing a $25 mobile device that has access to a killer web browser and endless mobile apps, and watching that device appear in the hands of a billion school children over the next 10 years."

All those billion kids who did got Android or Blackberry instead of iPhone for Christmas are currently crying over Twitter about how they hate their parents...
> P.S. I'm curious about why the United States underperforms so much compared to salaries paid to teachers in the chart shown in the submitted blog post.

Because in the US if you flunk out of high school you can still get a job at a gas station and supplement it with welfare and food programs.

In other countries if you flunk out of school you starve to death.
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"The real reason startups don’t use .NET is based more on culture than technology."

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. It's more about which tribe you want to belong to than anything these days.
I think there is some truth to what you say - but to say that it is "utterly irrelevant" who you vote is a bit of hyperbole. In a democracy voting ultimately decides who gets into power and what the policies would be.
3 bedroom would likely be +5k for what you describe in Manhattan.
I wouldn't call the fifty thousand @paulg followers to be passive, exactly, as I see a lot of interaction and he only tweets about the business, nothing personal or news breaking. (I don't follow him on twitter, btw.)

And aside from his personal distaste for the artist Dale Chihuly, I havent derived much about him from either his essays or speeches, so please don't tell me that he's met all 50k of his followers and somehow convinced them that he's a great guy. So do fifty thousand people want to interact with a brand or not?
I've set up AuthSMTP (http://www.authsmtp.com/) for a number of sites, and they've been super reliable. I don't think they have an API or anything fancy, but they are extremely cheap at low volumes.
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Realistically, no. If you have no debt, don't mind 2 beds instead of 3 and not above taking the MTA to work, you could scrape by.
Thanks for the reply.

You are right that movies don't have to be expensive, but I do believe to get the kind of revenue that the big studios want, the studios believe the movies need the big name actors, the explosions and special effects, and 3D. The indies and docs were a bright spot in terms of enjoyment for the movie goes, but I do not know whether the studios believe they are a bright spot or not.
It's a valid question, but what's the point of making a sequel that no one would buy because they know it will be crap. Money is definitely the main factor, so you must make something that the consumer will buy. The whole argument is that consumers are not consuming this product anymore (Theater Experience).

With that premis I'd make a new one.
My major take away from the MG Sieler post was that Rubin deleted a tweeted, which makes it look like he's trying to hide something, regardless of the true reason for deleting it. Why does he need to delete a tweet that whose commands no longer work? A tweet is a point in time snapshot that represents a thought or opinion at a certain point in time. They aren't wikis that need to be constantly updated and maintained. If someone tried the command and it didn't work, they could always search for the up to date instructions. I'm not sure how this became a platform flame war.
http://grammar.about.com/od/advicefromthepros/a/Writers-On-R...

The one I knew of initially was from Faulkner (One of my moderately favorite writers)

"Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out."
Thanx for the very detailed and interesting analysis. Part of what would determine US global leadership is how fast it adapts to the changing world order and accepts the facts instead of hanging on to the past world where it was dominant by a huge distance. This is not going to be easy though.
I don't remember the last time I listened to mainstream radio or watched a TV channel. Can you explain how this makes things worse?
"Have prices dropped or competition increased?"

Yes, absolutely.
Not to be the forebearer of "seen this before" type comments but...

* Duedil has a pretty nice Chrome extension (currently companies registered in UK & Ireland only) - http://www.duedil.com/?share=c99a9be592

* Some guy at Polaris Ventures (I never heard of them either) built a Chrome extension pulling CB, Quora and LinkedIn - http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/polaris-insights-extension/ [TechCrunch's somewhat superfluous write up]
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I was recently asked given a variable amount of parameters passed into a JavaScript function how would you sum all of the parameters. My answer was I would not write JavaScript code like that, and would fire anyone on my team that did. Needless to say I did not get the job, nor did I want it. I have been critical of this type of interviewing for a long time. Trick questions and magic code really provide little insight to the value of a candidate. Further most interviewers do not have the clinical background to even interpret the results as many of these questions are based off of psychological tests. It's a cargo cult mentality and reflects poorly on an organization.
I can't see the commonalities you're trying to draw between the actual scenario Monsanto thought happened (guy accidentally acquired their seed, intentionally decided to grow it and sell it instead of his own seed) and the scenario you're presenting (person accidentally gets OS installed on their phone, continues using phone).
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I disagree with most of the article, but the one point I'll make regard his comments about the iPhone being for rich people/countries.

First, I have to assume he's talking about contract prices, because the cheapest Android devices are a little under $250 off-contract, which is cost-prohibitive for "non-rich"countries.

So, how is this valid, when I can get an iPhone 3GS for free (on contract) and an iPhone 4 for $99? This is on close price parity with Android devices -- from the free/cheap prepaid LG Optimus Android devices to the Galaxy Nexus.

Edit: If you're going to downvote this into oblivion, at least do me the favor of explaining where my thinking is incorrect?
I'll see your loudness and raise you that the theaters are freaking cold!

I don't like to bring a coat and a set of earplugs with me to see a movie.
From the ever useful Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cost+of+living+index+Ne...

Assuming a 50,000$ salary, here's how much you'd need to earn for the same purchasing power in New York: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=moving+to+New+York+sala...
I rent out one room in a 3 bedroom apartment for $1850, half a mile from work.

If you're willing to spend 20-30 minutes on the subway each day you can get much cheaper, though.
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Did WakeMate fold?
Our WakeMate just stopped working, and their website doesn't seem to be responding either. The only thing I can find on the web is someone saying that their mailing lists are inactive and that mail to their office is being returned to sender.
Does anyone know what's going on?
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Yes, basically. That isn't an unreasonable reading of patent law. If he had actually tried to apply Roundup to the crops or sell the seeds to other farmers, he probably would have lost the suit. As I understand it, he won because he wasn't actually using the patented technology, not because the patent was rendered void by the fact that the seeds were produced on his land.

The thing you have to realize about patents is that it doesn't matter if you yourself built the thing that implements the patent; what matters is just whether you're using the patented technology or not.
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So essentially, we're capable of making quicker adjustments than most natural forces? If anything, that should make it easier for us to out-engineer nature, not harder.
Ahhhh, I just transferred three domains there a couple of days ago! Sorry EFF! If I'd known they were going to do this, I'd have waited.

Guess I'll just have to donate directly...
Please explain why this would be true for single-threaded applications.
It seems to me like the opposite is the case. I have to coordinate times across time zones way more often than I actually travel (for online meetings and such). If there was a single time zone, I'd never have to make adjustments for those, and only adjust things when traveling.
The culture is so important lately, that it is not only .Net Framework that is getting neglected, also Java. It seems start-ups feel that working with Ruby, Python or PHP is the best way to go for every problem.

But I do believe is cultural. We are building a start-up with several pieces of the service in .Net. And it has been extremely fast for us development wise. We are a team of multidisciplinary developers, and we decided to go with .Net for so many reasons; one of them was speed of development and speed of execution. And it has been great so far.

The weird thing is that we are considering using other technologies for specific problems, like C low level execution, but Ruby hasn't yet been found needed; at least not yet.

We believe that as a developer solving a problem we must choose the best tool for the job, and we believe culturally that is what should be promoted. Ruby, Python, PHP, Asp.Net, C#, Java, C++, Lisp, etc. They are only tools to achieve a goal.

Startups should strive to be problem solvers, not technology evangelists.
Countering a few of Ebert's points:

"historically the movies have been cheap compared to concerts, major league sports and restaurants. Not so much any longer."

I'm not experiencing this. The cheapest concerts in my area are generally $40, with older popular bands going for at least $80. Sports games start at $20 for crappy seats for crappy teams during regular season, more like $100 and up if you want at least one of the good things (seat, team, playoff game). I'm all for bringing movie prices down and I think it will help (which may be Ebert's real point), but comparing them to other things isn't doing him any favours, even going back historically.

As for concessions, dear lord, I never buy food at the movie theatre. And I still think it's kind pricey. Well, at least the base price; you can easily buy coupons for Cineplex/Famous Players that reduces the original price by 30%.

And frankly, I can't recall the last time I was annoyed by the other patrons at the theatre. Is it because I only go to the latest showing? (Speaking of which, I would appreciate a return of 11pm and midnight showings... may not be as cost effective, but keeps up interest in theatres.)

So I think the winning arguments go to home theatres being way better, intense sequelitis this year, and as Ebert says lack of choice.
Wow:) That's really, really awesome to hear. Congratulations on building your business - I feel very honored to have nudged you in the right direction, however slightly.
interesting, maybe you could steal some ideas from polaris insights[1], such as showing linkedin informations data

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/golfffpdocdndgkahj...
Stratfor is an organization (similar in a way to wikileaks) that offers private individuals the option of buying intelligence analysis. I used to be a subscriber.

How does stratfor get this intel to share with its clients? By tips provided by trusted sources in government. These people would probably lose their jobs if it was found out that they shared info with stratfor.

I would not be surprised if the USG infiltrated anonymous and did this attack as part of a campaign against whistleblowers.
Crap. Right around sentence three I started skimming your post.

Thanks for waking me up
ok just did, hopefully we can work something out. thx :)