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a) I buy that;

b) hmm;

c) but then if there is only one master control, they'll just have one volume control to mess with, right?;

d) I don't buy that & here's why: are you really going to be listening to other tunes in the background while you're listening to a TED talk? For case 2, you can pause/mute the video (all I'm referring to is the volume control slider in embeds;

e) I agree 100% not to make any assumptions about potentially billions of users but with a main audio slider for their device I don't force them to mess with two volume sliders.

Besides desktops, I think about tablets/mobile phones, how often do you tweak the volume of the embed itself and not the audio for the entire device?

Bridge: You are spot-on that it should be a crime for auto-start on audio (I feel like a few jerks who tried the auto-playing "Congratulations, you just won a free iPod blah blah" will be eliminated quickly) but I think we can kill off the volume sliders (assuming no auto-start audio, easy pause/mute)

I'm still trying to see if there is a bullet-proof use case out there where it is essential to have a volume slider on an embedded item itself.
Actually this applies to "all" other similar encryption technologies and is not limited to mac or firewire. You can also use Thunderbolt, PCMCIA, ExpressCard and even esata ports to have direct access to a computers RAM in which you passphrase is being held.

Basically all ports which use DMA are possible if I remember correctly.

Further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack
No, it's not reasonable. His savings barely covers the cost of a new car (bought on an emergency). IPOs are volatile and impossible to time.

On his budget, I could see him investing a few hundred into Facebook with the intention to stay and hold, but anything beyond that is silly gambling.
I know what you mean by "let them teach you about their field", but I think the point of the whole discussion above was that you cannot design a very good product unless you use it yourself. I dont remember who said that in the first place, but I remember such things as "men can't really design stuff for women, because they don't really understand how they think". I am not sure if it applies to everything but there is some truth in that. In software, you can see a similar trend: Facebook is a good social tool because the funder actively uses it all the time. The iPhone is a decent phone because the CEO was going to be an active user. I have heard tons of stories from friends/coworkers where design decisions are taken by non-users, and they usually fail miserably once on the market.

I agree with you that spending a lot of time with others who are not like you is definitely an improvement, but it is still not going to be as good as if they were able to do something on their own.
How many times does the average Asian student take the SAT versus the average white/black/Hispanic student?

I honestly have no idea, but until we know that, statistics like "Asian students need to score 200 more points than white students" are meaningless.

This is entirely hypothetical: An Asian student takes the SAT 4 times and makes a 1500, A black student takes it once and makes a 1300--If the black student is accepted, on paper it looks like racial discrimination.

Personal anecdote. I took the SAT once, in 10th grade, and scored 1360/1600. If I had taken it again my senior year I probably would have scored much higher, but I got accepted everywhere I applied, and I had the highest score in my class, so why bother. Most of the other high achievers in my class took the SAT at least 3 times.
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The role of news agencies like Reuters is to produce quality news on matters that smaller papers might not have the resources to report themselves... like TheWrap just exemplified.
Basically the only "defense" is to shut your computer down when you're leaving it alone / unattended for some time.
Ask HN: Is there a "learn Linux the hard way"?
I've been a hardcore Windows user for far too many years, and I'm quite uncomfortable working on Linux. I've installed Ubuntu several times throughout the years, but never got too far with it: most of my time was figuring out why video card drivers wouldn't work, what latest update broke something and how to get my 2nd monitor to be used.

It'd like to address my comfort levels though, and perhaps make a permanent switch to the OS for everything but the Windows-only apps. As a software engineer I'm not too averse to learning things the hard way, and I love the nitty gritty technical details. I couldn't locate anything like a "learn the hard way" approach to Linux, and was hoping that you would be able to point me in the right direction.

Are there books / online tutorials / anything else that are great for people just starting out, but not afraid to get their hands dirty?

Thanks!!!
true - but most of that happened in my childhood, when Austria was partnot of the EU and Switzerland did'nt subscribe to these rules.
Anything that runs in Dalvik VM has gc turned on and its mandatory.. even C programs that run in Dalvik, all androd applications run in Dalvik even c ones, have the Dalvik Vm gc turned on..thus quite mandatory on Android.
That's true- I was a bit taken aback by the fact the Embark NYC ad didn't have one but then it got me thinking why bother with them at al.

There is no consistent volume slider on the web though, everybody and their grandma seems to have some clever/fancy way of doing it, youtube is different from vimeo is different from some random fancy embed anyway.

HTML5 standards for video take audio slider as a given so this might be sticking around for a while at least
I have to say, your product is amazing.

one thing though - since you guys are after hobbyists and small design firms and it seems like it's a fairly small market with very little money to be made.

but it's very likely that you guys will be acquired by one of the larger CAD tool companies.

hardware design is not like software design because plenty of companies are already sell hardware building blocks that can be tweaked with software to develop an application. Very rarely you have to redesign hardware from scratch. These companies provide their customers (which include hobbyists/small design firms) with schematics. Their customers may tweak the schematics rather than designing everything from scratch, so collaboration may not be the highest pain point here.
I've made apps for Android and iPhone. The iPhone crashes less. I've found in a lot of cases that null pointer exceptions that usually would kill an Android app and handled silently by iPhone because in Objective-C passing a message (calling a function) on a null value is just ignored. I wonder how many other iPhone apps have avoided crashing because of this behavior.
There was an article here a few months ago by an Asian engineer about this topic. His theory was that Asian culture doesn't encourage one to be talkative when interacting with superiors--the Asian in the meeting is more likely to stay quiet and thus is overlooked by his superiors.
Turning off the machine can be easily socially engineered around by a determined targeted attacker; all from fire alarms to a visit from IT staff to giving you a free memory stick at a trade show and so on. If you were to be gifted a new USB keyboard tomorrow from some random company, you'd likely accept it unquestioningly.

Also, given that you leave your computer unattended, even whilst turned off, gives the attacker opportunity to insert a small device out of sight, rather as cleaners really have done with keyloggers on computers at banks.

Isn't when you are present the time when its hardest for them to attack because of the physical contact required?

Of course, in films the robber-dressed-as-janitor always manages to walk into the server-room with a tool box..

There are three types of attacker, right?

1) your password/data is valuable, its a targeted attack, the attacker will take the risk of direct access to the machine; they can do this by socially engineering you to insert the trojan hardware, or they can add some small hardware dongle when you don't see or understand

2) law enforcement, they will grab the machine, you'll know they have done so; DMA attack is just a lot more straightforward than freezing it and probing type attacks.

3) those prepared to use a $5 wrench http://xkcd.com/538/
I am from Honduras and last year I spent 3 months in NYC on the DreamIt incubator program, I just told the customs officer that I was going on a 3 months workshop, he just asked me where I was going to stay, my other 4 friends did the same we all got a 6 month business visa. We got lucky I guess.
I think that the data presented here is really interesting -- it presents an obvious root cause for decisions and what might be driving those decisions.

However, presenting the data with pie charts isn't really acceptable. 3d pie charts, even less acceptable. And 3d pie charts with gradient shading is worse still. If you want readers to take data-driven articles seriously, please learn even the basics of data visualization and how to best demonstrate the differences in data, and how to further compare the data contained. A side-by-side stacked bar chart would allow viewers to easily compare values relative to each other within the bar chart, and also to visually compare across the 3 companies.
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Apparently the free one is the one for Entrepreneur/Small Biz Owner edition.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/think-and-grow-rich/id412247...

Same author tho.
Why won't disabling features which give easy access to ram work?
I was going to suggest filling the socket with dried play-doh, but thus guy reckons removing the kernel extensions could help:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/9200953#9200953

Though that's a bit crude...

I'd be interested too.
I agree with you but there remains one difficult problem. How do you convince the brand to price their product lower and thus eliminate the possibility of selling in retail channels?
Why such small font?
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Well, I entrered Argentina with a back tickett in 6 months, and asked for the 90days automatic tourist visa at the border (and got it), got a bit lost and re-entered the international zone with my stamped in passport, the border guy recognize me, and guide me back in the national zone, up to my luggage. I then crossed twice the border with Chile during the week-ends to get new 90 days tourist visa (and it was clearly way more difficult for an Argentine than a European, also they have special treaty and are neighbor).

Here in Europe, we have mostly no border between 15 states, when you cross one by car, you have a few signs on the side of the road: flag of the country you are entering, european flag, and local speed limits. That's pretty much it.
I think the smart money is probably to pay off your debt, but I'm going to repeat what an older gentlemen once said to me, because it meant so much to me.

"Sooner, rather than later, Invest in yourself."

I don't know if that will really help you with your predicament, but truly, sometimes the best thing you can do in life when the chips are down is just to bet on you.
It's not that bad. The slices are pretty big. I got the gist of it.
It would have to be disabling by omission.

I've seen dumb terminals for military networks that simply don't have any slots for any peripherals.

Which means staff go to great lengths to work around these limitations and basically open everything up and email documents to their hotmail account so they can print them off elsewhere etc.
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OTOH, I find the habit that Americans have of calling everyone "guys", particularly from waiters, janitors, etc, annoying and vulgar, but apparently that's the habit on the other side of the pond (or am I that old?).

How would you call a person you don't know? Particularly someone with authority, like a cop, border guard, etc? Just curious; so far I still consider "mister", "man", "ol'guy" and "chap" to be deliberately insulting :)
If you really don't mind getting your hands dirty, I recommend: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide

My Linux skills have improved and I have really enjoyed using Linux as my desktop and dev environment since learning by using Arch.
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WTF are you talking about? A body of research? Are you out of your mind? This response actually sounds like a form response for when anyone disagrees with you.

To answer your question by deconstructing it: which one of my claims could possibly be supported by empirical research? The fact that I like gloom, nostalgia, and complex forms of pleasure? Or perhaps the idea that it's extremely hard to disambiguate the contribution of your circumstances to your happiness from your own contribution? Or maybe my own personal observations regarding the bay area?

Seriously, what type of research are you looking for?

"Scientists find that yelsgib likes gloomy feelings."

"Sociologists determine that the bay area concentrates on positive feelings to the exclusion of negative ones."

"Cosmologists determine that we are a very small part of the universe."

Are you actually this obtuse? My good god. I seriously cannot believe your response. It seriously blows my mind. I don't even know why I'm responding. It bothers me that I'm even responding. Are you trolling me?

The first line of your response is that "disagreement males (sic) you question your assumptions and strengthens your understanding of the issue." What assumptions did I make you question? How was your understanding of "the issue" strengthened by my response? Did you say these things because you meant them? Or do you just say whatever pops into your head without regard to whether it makes sense or you actually believe it? Did you even read what I wrote?

Holy christ on a cracker.
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Those are all valid ways of conceptualizing those sets, but I don't think it changes the point I was making. The real number 3 doesn't need to be "converted" to a complex number to be added to 2+i. 3 is always both a real number and a complex number, which may be represented as either 3 or 3+0*i, and either way gives 5+i when added to 2+i. All the latter notation really does is clarifies what domain you're currently working in, and even so, I've never seen anyone write it out explicitly.

Type conversion is more like if you had the written number 3 and a picture of the point 5 on a number line and someone told you to add them. Naturally, you would write 5 as a number first, because you don't have a useful way to add a number and a picture. But this doesn't change the results of adding the quantities 3 and 5; it's purely an artifact of the way the information was presented to you.
Ok thought of one: main volume sliders are not super granular, usually 1 to 100, a 20 on the main one and a 30 on the embed doesn't necessarily correlate to a 50 on the main...
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A couple of interesting things popped out to me.

Microsoft is surprisingly diversified. It's nice to see their entertainment division has been successful--that's my favorite part of Microsoft (outside Microsoft Research, of course). I wonder if we'll see a separate, significant mobile category in the future.

Apple makes a larger amount of money off iOS and less off OS X than I expected. I guess I just see a disproportionate amount of Apple computers around (mostly owned by college students).

Google wasn't surprising at all. Of course, this says more about me than Google: I follow Google much more closely than Microsoft or Apple (I actually use Google's products, unlike the other two).

It would have been nice to see Amazon here as well. They've been trying some new things; I wonder how it's been working. (But not enough to go look myself :p.)

It'll be interesting to see Facebook in the future too.
Having travelled to both Canada and the US for a dodgy-looking (but in both cases totally legitimate) 3 month visit, I can tell you the Canadians are very much stricter than the American border guards.
Because the point of DMA is to give fast access to RAM without involving the CPU. That is what makes the speed of Firewire or PCMCIA or Thunderbolt or PCIE feasible. Without DMA, these technologies would not work.

Also, the password needs to be stored in memory and accessible by DMA, since you would not be able to use it without having it readily available.
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Then I'm sure you could think of a strategy to discreetly "leak" information about it to get it discovered more quickly.
Any country you need a visa for prefers in all cases you to have a round trip ticket.
[On one of the reasons they have a 7 day payout period]

We were not willing to compromise on the experience of going to Stripe, deciding "OK, Stripe looks good, I will sign up.", and then can launch right there and then.

What a great, focusing vision for a product experience.

I have also been impressed with how responsive Stripe is to feedback. In the interview Patrick gets excited about a new webhook for payment transfers that the interviewer recommends. Knowing Stripe, it is probably already implemented.
Months and years are tricky because they can consist of a variable number of days. To me, it's a better way of handling things without being ambiguous. For example, is one month from now exactly 30 days from today, or is it the next month on the same month day? It's pretty simple to do either with the datetime library.

When taking into account DST, you should first convert from local time to UTC (pytz does this) before doing your calculations, then convert it back to local time if needed.

And yes, you do get a delta when subtracting two dates.
Yup, works fine if you're doing things only locally. However, if you're using timezone aware datetime objects you're out of luck, because then datetime.timedelta doesn't immediately apply.

Just creating timezone aware datetime objects is really too difficult with the standard library anyway. You need to install `pytz` or create your own `datetime.tzinfo` classes just to be able to represent timezones.

To top it off, if you have datetime objects with timezones and datetime objects without timezone information (*even created using utcfromtimezone()!), you can't compare them.
I always wonder about legalities when I hear of foreign nationals doing, or applying for, YCombinator or the like. I have a hard time seeing a legal route for them to do it. What is the correct way to do it? Is there one, or are they all bending the rules?
I thought things had been like this for a while now. A year ago Wired magazine had a good article about a guy who ran a site buying and selling credit card details and law enforcements attempts to catch him.

The computer had full disk encryption which they couldn't touch. Instead they needed to raid the guys house when the computer was on and secure it so the techs could pull what they needed from memory.

I didn't think it could be done in under an hour though.
This was an excellent article, when looked at through the lens of making ad revenue, which is the only lens through which this drivel could flourish. Simply put, online content providers (I refuse to call this crap "news") need eyeballs, and writing crap like this causes eyeballs to appear.

Fortunately, about 50% of the eyeballs are protected by adblockers, but still a great day at the office, for which I suspect he will get much kudos, and be asked to write similar crap again.
The sad part is that most people who see this are also able to pass such test.
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Reference counting does have runtime overhead, though. Incrementing and decrementing references as a reference gets passed around isn't free. If you have many small objects, the reference count itself may become a significant memory overhead. Furthermore, GC means that memory allocation can be done by allocating at the top of the heap instead of a more expensive malloc, and freeing garbage may be literally free depending on the algorithm used. When an object falls out of scope in a reference counted world, it is typically immediately freed - if this is a handle into a large recursive data structure, for example, it can definitely suck up cycles. Counterintuitive as it may seem, GC can be the cheapest solution in some circumstances, unless your program eschews malloc entirely.
Thanks for the tip! Ignoring the educational aspect altogether for a second, what does one lose by using less glamorous / widely popular distros of Linux such as the one you recommended? Is there generally a good reason to stick to something like Ubuntu, or does it really not matter?
Well, from a personal point of view, when we did the reddit hiring, it really annoyed us when someone posted their solution to one of the problems, because there were clearly people who were copying the solution to get their cover letter to us. So then we had to read those letter to determine that no, this person isn't actually qualified, and now we wasted our time (and theirs).

So that is where I was saying the harm comes from. It's not hugely threatening, it's just annoying.
Having gotten a secondary inspection myself because of forgetting to bring a letter from my internship that I was going to, I know what it's like, but if you don't have a suspicious story or one that's easy to track down, it shou;d be fine.

Another post mentions money: they just want you to have enough till you get out and not be a burden. They asked me what my parents occupation was (they were my backers), and I did have documentation as to that (their payslips), not that they cared much.
That's pretty amusing. Perhaps then I was wrong, and it is less annoying to them than it was to me.

> </reddit_starstruck>

I think that gets us both (deservedly) downvoted around these parts. ;)
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I agree, except with your OSM component. I'm not sure it matters that OSM is non-profit. They still can produce similar effects as a for-profit version.
> Surely a better challenge would be to publish a brief but involved spec, then say "implement this API that returns your job application details."

I would personally interpret this as intolerably arrogant and lazy. "Dance, code monkey, dance!"

They require me to spend a few hours coding instead of them looking at my resume and projects for a few minutes.
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