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If you are worried about particulate, you can build one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU

I built one for my room because my previous tenants had cats, which I'm allergic to. Even after steamcleaning our apartment I was chronically congested.

Built one of those purifiers and a few days later most of my symptoms are gone. It's been about a month now and the filter is noticeably soiled.
If one of you guys, someday happen to be wealthy; i highly recommend hiring people that work at Foxconn and other corporate farms of misery; they would probably be really, and i mean really the most loyal and thankful workers in the world if you can give them a decent salary for decent amount of hours.
Ask HN: Why this sudden increase in G+ followers
In past few days my followers have increased on G+ which is strange. In a normal week the count increased by 2/3 each week which is alright, and I understand that. But suddenly there is a surge, 52, 9, 10, 12...at a time, from last one week. I don't share alot on any site, don't even browse any profiles. How can I debug this?
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I dont buy it.

in the good ole days even before Standard Oil, fierce competition and W-2 (and IRS/SS in that matter), the reason behind owning any business was not to get rich or satisfy the board with higher dividend, but to give people job and ability to keep their families respected.

to me its a simple math: Apple produce stuff in China saving 40% of production costs, then sells its goods in America putting 40% profit margin on it. I smell greed, regardless if people accept to be ripped of or not.
Original thread on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/o8gw9/30_pricing_p...
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Also another great resource for getting iOS submission review time: http://reviewtimes.shinydevelopment.com/
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Hiring the people that make the worst hardware in the world to make my stuff? No thanks
The original macintosh used to be built in Fremont too.

http://www.onedigitallife.com/2006/03/21/flickr-find-mac-fac...

As I recall, the US stupidly made that uncompetitive by enforcing anti-"dumping" duties on DRAM chips. We required that RAM sold to the US should be really expensive, to protect our (then largely hypothetical) local suppliers. So clone PCs built abroad could include cheap DRAM chips while Apple could not legally do the same.

Eventual solution? Move Mac assembly offshore to places like Cork, Ireland.
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MySpace can be accessed in China because there's very little Chinese using it, at least not using it to do anything the government dislikes. On the other hand, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are totally inaccessible.

Take DropBox for example. At the beginning, there is no problem using it. But when people found out they can publicly share documents there, it was blocked. Now you can still use it as a backup service, but public sharing is not available.
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I think it's absolutely the wrong language to write games in, because games are enormously sensitive to runtime fluctuations

No-one is nailing down the definition of "game" in this entire discussion. For a FPS or game filled with live special effects, sure. For a chess game, a puzzler, or even a graphic adventure? Ruby's GC wouldn't be a problem at all (although Ruby has other issues that could well crop up).
agreed! York Angeles, ONE Network et al, 25% for $25k... what a joke. Not to mention the lack of investments in Consumer-centric startups... Valleys the way to go.
Consider yourself debugged: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3410859
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It depends on a library called CocoaSequenceGrabber. I'm sure you can find it somewhere, but the first Google link seems to be dead. I also have no idea whether it works on recent versions of OS X.

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"in the good ole days even before Standard Oil, fierce competition and W-2 (and IRS/SS in that matter), the reason behind owning any business was not to get rich or satisfy the board with higher dividend, but to give people job and ability to keep their families respected."

I don't know of any such time. Which good ole days are you talking about? I think you're dreaming of a romantic past that never existed.
karamdeep perhaps everything looks great because you are on the other side of the table... and not creating a startup yourself...
The truth of the matter is that no amount of pizza, videogames, ball pits and monitors is going to make me want to write CRUD interfaces for your boring IT management solution cloud platform thing..

Any decent hacker can get any of those jobs at a minute's notice. Instead convince me that what I'll do will matter, that my work will have significant impact on the company's future, that I will get to choose the direction of many decisions in the company from the minute I join. Convince me that I'll be surrounded by people from whom I'll be learning on daily basis, who deeply care about their work and becoming better as a team.

Any jobs like that out there? Very very few. Also they will not be available through job posts, you'll need to know people for those spots.
Tuition was de-regulated in the 90's and went up 15% a year through most of the 2000's. I'd say it's doable but not a given.
Half the people who came to America did it for money. It was the place where you didn't owe anybody anything, and nobody owed you anything either. That was the beauty of it.
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Heh.. brainf* truly describes my initial reaction to the syntax.
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They do get a decent salary by local standards, and (so long as they're being paid for it) tend to want all the hours they can get. There was a riot a few years ago in a chinese plant because the plant owners stopped giving so much overtime and the workers were upset that they lost out on the extra work.

If you read Apple's status reports, one of the problems they seem to be battling is that these jobs are so good that workers are willing to pay huge bribes to middlemen in order to get the jobs. The workers are routinely willing to give up at least a month's salary to get these jobs, often more.

(Apple can't ban this practice outright because it's too widespread (and probably serves a useful market purpose), so they try to put a cap on it and make sure workers pay only a month's salary to get the job, no more than that.)
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I was hoping that this was a version of Python that could run on Android (like awk can).
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Here we go: http://youtu.be/Z4jH-hvxFUs?t=1h8m26s

My figures were off and he says "executive talent" not product managers, but my point about benchmarking stands. Sry, it had been a while since I watched it : )
There was also this game that showed the story behind such devices: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/sep/14/ap...
I would assume that the backdoor for Android devices is the Android Market itself.

Because Android is open source and each device manufacturer has its own build, it isn't really plausible to have a single backdoor within the core operating system. However, the closed-source Android Market application is the perfect candidate for such a mechanism; when you install an app via the market, all of the following happens:

1. You request the application from the Market and agree to any permissions requested.

2. The Market pushes an install instruction to the phone via Google's XMPP-based Android notification service.

3. The phone downloads and installs the .apk as instructed.

Step 3 requires no interaction from the user – this is how, for instance, you can send an app to your phone from the Market web site. But it also means that any government with sufficient leverage over Google can coerce them to use this mechanism to install an arbitrary SpyOnStuff.apk at any time.

But if this is the case it isn't entirely bad news for Android users, rather it yields two means of protecting yourself which aren't necessarily options on other platforms:

1. Use an open source Android build such as CyanogenMod, without the closed-source Market app installed.

2. Proxy Google's XMPP notification service and require user confirmation before pushed APKs are installed. I don't know of any Android mods that currently implement this capability, but it would be nice to see in future versions of Cyanogen or similar.
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"It is also now fully compatible with the client-side."

From the documentation.
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There is an interesting look at the issue http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/what...
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My 4g ipod touch has this problem; regretfully, my warranty expired before I could do anything about it.

... recalibration does nothing for me.
I have an off topic question. I'm not a native English speaker, and I find the way Feynman is pronouncing t, d, k, g, p and b consonants very interesting. He uses hard attacks and hard stops. Does anybody know if there is a name for that ? Maybe a regional thing or just his way to speak ?
Nice writeup on their use of the Cheney Trampoline. As is always the case in such discussions, I'll mention these three fine books for Scheme implementers:

* Lisp in small pieces, by Christian Queinnec

* Compiling with continuations, by Andrew Appel

* Anatomy of Lisp, by John Allen
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Yup, this is true. I updated my posts to reflect this. However once you get above 200k range, AMT starts to kick in and you can't deduct the full amount.
I meant, it doesn't really CATCH the error. You can't handle the error, just avoid it being thrown.
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I doubt this, although I'd be interested to be corrected.

For instance, the iRobot-developed PackBot, which is "military" in that thousands are used in Iraq and Afghanistan, has no rad-hardening that I know of (and no rad-hard version). (Packbots were used at Fukishima.)

I can't imagine why there would be a rad-hard Packbot, because doing so would involve trading off performance like weight or processing power. Here's the best link I could find:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/04/19/...

I also found some mentions of radiation-hardened robots sent from the US to Japan, but always with the same wording, and then no mentions of their being used.
They get an above average salary by local standards. I wouldn't call this decent. I'm not calling out Apple's manufacturing partners here, whom are better than most, just making the situation more clear.

edit: As to "huge bribes to middlemen", I live close to a Foxconn factory making Apple products in Chengdu. I've seen recruiters in a suburban (poor) farmer's market with a table setup recruiting people for Apple jobs. Yes, they were clear the jobs were for Foxconn making Apple products. I had my wife talk to one of them. Perhaps other factories at some times have been competitive to the point where employees paid fees to recruiters, but it doesn't appear to be happening where I live as of a few weeks ago.
You can do this with many types of jobs in many locales. Pay better, treat them right, and cherry pick the best talent.
> I would assume that the backdoor for Android devices is the Android Market itself.

Not necessarily. The baseband firmware on your phone is probably more capable than you think. I played around with hacking my old HTC WinMo phone and with a little work I got the (Qualcomm) firmware to respond over USB. There's a complete file system on there that's nearly identical to the file system structure on my wife's dumb-phone (and accessed the same way). I assume they'd put everything they need at that level and don't have to insert anything into Android itself.
Reminds me of this from Joel Spolsky's interview in Founders at Work:

"I remember one of the stupidest things I ever wrote on Joel on Software. I was giving advice on writing technical specifications, and I said, "Be funny." The reason that was stupid was that I later realized that most people, when they try to be funny, aren't that funny. They just look kind of sad. That's like, "Be born to rich parents." It's not that useful advice for most people."

I don't use Apple products so I'm not in the target market for this in any way, but count me among the people that think the painfully unfunny video hurts more than helps.
Without social network context (you are much more likely to meet a friend of a friend than someone living in a country half way around the world), that is impossible with current-day research.

I'd argue that given facebook's dataset of low-resolution photos in crappy lighting conditions, it could actually be 100% impossible. That is, amongst 800 million people, there are bound to be people who look exactly the same as me with available data.
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Uhh, campaign donations from corporations to politicans have been around for way longer than Citizen's United dude. That case is not the central issue here.
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I agree with the spirit of your comment, but it's true that legged robots are becoming a reality, and showing their usefulness in real-world locomotion tasks. See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL0aiQAm4RU

This hexapod uses more energy to get from A to B, about 2x more IIRC, but it's able to clear some rock fields, sand, and brush that would give wheeled or tracked robots trouble.
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You know those Craigslist missed connections posts? The ones where you’re looking across the subway platform at someone, and you wish you could get their number, but you can’t really shout across the tracks?

Well, I was in New York City this weekend and I had a sudden inspiration. There’s a (hypothetical) solution to the “missed connections” problem. And it’s sitting around in plain sight.

Here’s how it works. Many of you are probably aware that Facebook has been steadily developing its facial recognition algorithm. It’s quite good at this point. It can scan any of your photos and tag you automatically, if you’ve enabled the feature. That means Facebook’s algorithm can recognize your unique face. It stands to reason, therefore, that Facebook’s algorithm could scan any photo from any of its 800 million members, and recognize you if you’re in it.

So, let’s take that one logical step further. Imagine you take a photo of someone and upload it to Facebook’s servers. Facebook can analyze the photo and tag that person’s face.

I bet you see where I’m going with this.

You’re back on the subway platform — you see someone across the way. You raise your phone and snap a quick picture via the Facebook app. The train comes. While you’re pulling away, the app has displayed that person’s profile. You click “friend.”

And just like that, missed connections are a thing of the past.

Interesting, eh? Also, creepy. Obviously, if Facebook enabled this feature it would cause a firestorm of privacy concerns. But Facebook hasn’t exactly shown much concern for privacy in the past. And everyone does have a public profile, anyway… and subways are public areas. Given that the tech exists right now, I bet we’ll see this within a couple years.

The implications are rather large.

Dan
For this to be successful, one should be able to easily explain the the patent idea to the game players.

When I filed my first patent, I had to sit with my patent attorney (who had a PhD in Computer Science) for more than an hour to explain the core idea. And I don't think this is a corner case - most of the patents that are filed are quite complex.

If you can address this issue, what you are proposing can be big.
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"Android - immediate distribution"

Another important metric is how quickly users start using the update. When you measure using this metric Android is anything but instant.

Web apps "check for updates and install" every time you use them. Users are forced to update and depending on the site within a matter of minutes nearly everybody will be using the new version.

Android apps don't go through a review process, but it still takes a few minutes for the servers to get the update. It will take an hour or two for every phone to get notified of the update (it's not pushed) and give the user a notification. It will then be even longer for the user to push the button and receive your beautiful new code. There are a few users with "automatic updating" but it's not enabled by default. The majority of your user base will take a while to finish migrating over. I would love if anybody here had real numbers on this, our app only just started reporting version numbers so we haven't been able to collect the data yet.

There are exceptions. The Facebook app renders webpages so most updates happen instantly, but when they update one of the native sections there's still a long wait before everyone has it.
I was rather inspired by this and decided to write up my tmux config with org-babel as literate programming. Hope someone likes it: http://justinlilly.com/dotfiles/tmux.html
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I assumed they were talking about something akin to wikipedia shutting down for all of italy for a day. See http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/blackout-in-italy-the-first...
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Do you rank them in this order? I have "Compiling with continuations" and consider it my favorite 'compilers' book by far.
Does this run on all versions of Android?
I'd like to see him explaining http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
or how Gary Kasparov was beaten (well tied at first) by a computer. I mean did Gary got really dumber in span of a year or so?

I think the reason people somewhat erroneously try to 'robotize' people is the fact that they want consistency even if the quality is poorer.
Just use https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard. Works for pbcopy, pbpaste, and launchctl.

Then just alias launchctl to "reattach-to-user-namespace /bin/launchctl"
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This is so amazing :), it was on HN and I forget, I should have some more coffee.

Thanks for pointing out.
To be completely honest, I'm reading Queinnec's book at the moment, and don't know the others first hand. They're just on my reading list.

Lisp in small pieces is a fantastic book for Lisp implementers. It starts off with a simple eval and then increases in scope and complexity. It's very complete. You can see the contents in PDF here: http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/45662/toc/9780521545662...

Allen's book is considered a definite classic, though, and has a sizeable (and perhaps, aging?) fan base.
The fact that I will base my purchasing decisions on past experience of the brand and word of mouth about the product is not unusual. Many people will be like me, and this is one of the challenges that MS will have to work hard to overcome. Downvoting me for being that way is pretty immature; approach the world as it is, not how you want it to be.
Yeah they are potentially liable to the same sort of issues that proxies are which can make for a legally vulnerable service - unfortunate but true
He was asking for good SOPA jokes.

Like "How many SOPAs does it take to screw in a light bulb? I would tell you, but google doesn't work anymore" :(
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Ask HN: Which c/c++ or python libraries I should learn?
Which c/c++ or python libraries/modules I should learn(just for the sake of learning)?

I'm particularly interested in libraries related to graphics, audio/video analysis and manipulation, communication, face recognition, networking and games.
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I've always maintained that China is about 10 years ahead of the US in terms of transition to a surveillance society. (The UK is 5 years ahead of the US.)
I am a newbie here who is following HN for the past 12 months or so. Since I hadn't seen this article in those months and after having read this article I was compelled strongly to submit to HN.
I thought someone who is a newcomer here should also know this and that is the only reason for me to post this.