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anyone want to comment on the legal situation running OSX in a VM? Especially for a company/start-up and not just home user?

I was under the impression that you were breaching the apple license at the minimum?
I remember http://happynews.com/ as well -- I considered this a while back, but journalists aren't writing happy news right now, and I couldn't see putting the money into finding and writing it myself.
I recently rewatched a WWDC session video about designing user interfaces where it was mentioned that right-aligning labels allows users to scan through and fill out forms quite a bit faster.

Aligning the colons seems like the same kind of idea, just for code instead of forms. I wonder if it yields the same kind of increases in comprehension as right-aligning labels does.
Sounds like he needs a sewing machine and a few lessons.
> We're looking to spend a max of $1600 on the hardware. I've already tried running vmware on my personal laptop for which my 32-bit processor is not suited for running a 64-bit OS.

If your machine is IA32 it's probably also extremely old.

> Is there anything especially important to watch out for while virtualizing OSX?

If you're talking about OSX and not Darwin:

#1 is that it's of dubious legality (to say the least) - Only the server version is explictly available to run in a VM.

#2 is that the performance will probably be woeful - and likely woeful to being unusable. Particularly if your budget is $800.

There is more, but #1 and #2 are big enough issues in themselves.

For $800 each you could get a Mac Mini, which is probably good enough depending on your needs. You can probably get an older Mini on eBay a lot cheaper.
I have heard the term "deci-millionaire" throws around lately.
Your breaching the EULA - only Leopard Server can be virtualized according to Apple. Even then, you still need an OSX host.

Now, as for if the EULA is enforceable, that's another story. Probably varies on the jurisdiction and lots of other factors.

Irrespective, you're wandering into some very dubious legal ground.
It's only a crime to falsify the application. I agree with you that "personal loans are unsecured and go by ability to repay and credit history." In the absence of reliable income it's hard to accurately represent an "ability to repay." He would be much better served in the near term to find new sources of income. Without them he is destined for bankruptcy.
> In your situation I would get 4-6GB of RAM, so factor that into your budget.

Not many laptops currently support >4Gb of RAM at the moment, so that's an issue too...

Technically the chipsets on the new Mac laptops do, but it's not an Apple-supported option yet. Hopefully in the next rev.
IIRC, the other tuna species are not doing ok. They are projected to be gone within 40 years if current consumption trends continue. Of course that disqualifies them from "on the verge," but 40 years is hella fast in terms of extinction, or even from totally safe to not-safe.
The data access code was intended to display as simply as possible how the Model should be architected in regards to encapsulation. Switching out the data access code itself with something more robust, while still maintaining the overall Model architecture is in fact encouraged. I should have made that more clear, thanks for the feedback.
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There are no acorns this year in some parts of the US
Boy it's a good thing Calcanis stopped blogging, and instead started a mailing list and then posting everything from the mailing list to a blog.

It's the blogosphere's equivalent of McCain's "suspending my campaign until the crisis is fixed" gambit.
In my book, Sun's officially dead now
They've been dying for quite some time, but now they've EOL'd all their workstations, save 1 single socket Intel box. Somehow I suspect it's only there b/c it was the only one released in 2008.

Note that this is without ever coming through on their promises to let their AMD boxes handle quad-core CPUs (requiring that they just release a firmware upgrade).

How's anyone supposed to develop for their stuff? How can anyone in the scientific/research community even try now? Why release SPARCs when you don't provide a way to dev for them? Why even maintain Solaris?

It's like they just gave up. Well, I guess a body will atrophy to death when it doesn't have a brain to keep it going.
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"As a parent, you should be vigilant about never saying mean things about others in front of your child. Even about politicians whom you despise. You should also make it very clear that mean words are intolerable."

That will prepare children for real life...
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I see no reason to set the bar lower than National Sovereignty. There are just so many things you can't do without your own sovereign nation.
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I think it's cool that the government has their own font, but "branding campaigns" often leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.
news are not made to get people happy. In my opinion, humans invented instead stories, music tunes, books, movies, comic books to get hope, happinness and strive for good things.
"No"? Why is this being upvoted? I'd like to hear his reasons. "No" is not enough to spark the kind of meaningful discussion I've come to expect from HN.
If by anywhere you mean a small part of one country, then you would be correct.

Update: The title has been changed, it originally said that this year there were no acorns anywhere.
How exactly would they do that?
Can you please change the title to accurately reflect the context of the article (see jonknee's comment).
Never having to wear pants again.

Unless I really really want to.
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I agree new sources of income are required, but also a debt management startegy is required. As I mentioned before, the debt as it stands is costing $6000 a year or so, it would be very easy to cut that down to $1000 a year or so (that's just the interest), if you can get the interest down to $1000 a year then the other $5000 can go on repaying the principal and hey presto it's gone in 6 years by making a phone call or two with absolutely no change in what you are paying. If you can make the repayments pre tax money then it's even easier.
I co-founded a group that provides secondary school scholarships to children in Southern Tanzania and we ran into a very similar problem (jiamini.org). Like your scholarship, ours was based on a combination of need and merit where the ideal candidates are those that have the capacity to excel in school, but don't have the resources to fulfill their potential.

The first step in our solution to the selection problem was to have children nominated for the scholarship by teachers, headmasters and other community leaders. Nominees could not be direct relatives. They had to be in the top 10% of their class or had to be vouched for by community leaders that they were capable of this type of ranking given changes in their home life. They also had to have a difficult home life - i.e. living with relatives living with AIDS, orphans, living in a mud hut, etc. We also required any set of nominees offered up by a teacher or headmaster to be half female.

Given a large enough sample size - typically we select about 15 kids per year from 2 primary schools - we are able to get about 30 nominees. School ranking, sex and kinship are relatively easy to verify. We can't directly verify home life or income so we provide a simple questionnaire for all nominees to fill out. Answers provided on the questionnaires are then confirmed by other teachers and community leaders we trust.

After all of this, it is relatively easy to identify a group of 15 kids who demonstrate ability and have few available resources. In other words, we've also found there is a strong correlation between income and scores, but there always seem to be kids who score high from the low income groups. People at school and in the community often know who these kids are. You're right, you can't trust a single source of anecdotal information, so the key seems to be to build in redundant sources of qualitative data. This approach won't pass an audit with the same ease as a regression analysis and it may miss some ideal candidates, but it does help find some kids that could use the help.

What group are you working for?
Orlowski isn't the only one jumping on the "let's hate on Gladwell" bandwagon:

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2008/11/naked.html
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7gj3q/where_did_all...

(Shakes cane.)
you can do stripped down used macbooks, 1.8Ghz cpu, 1G Ram, for $800, (these go to 2G RAM, which is sort of barely adequate for VMWare) e.g.

http://www.powermax.com/parts/code/PM_CU_MK

http://www.smalldog.com/category/x/x/x/Apple

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac?mco=M...

there'a a few other companies that keep inventory of apple used/refurbs, I can't remember names right now
So THAT'S why my mother was leaving walnuts on the porch. (In central Connecticut at the moment.) Hadn't asked yet. Wacky.

Flying back home tomorrow, I wonder if there's anything on the ground in Texas...
Maybe we could write something to splice a feed of Happy News into a feed of regular news to achieve balance in the force.
There is a submit link, so maybe you, me and everyone here should be contributing...
There isn't a service that can do what you are asking for, yet. The big difficulties lie in the vast differences in body sizes, measuring systems, and other variables that fashion companies have to deal with that the LuLu's and Zazzle's of the world don't.

Some companies offer customization, but very few to the level you describe. www.Propercloth.com just recently launched and they allow you to have custom shirts made. They even provide a Rosetta stone to compare shirts sizes from various manufacturers, but no one will take specs like the ones you provided and create a garment. at least not in an automated, cost effective way.

If this is an area you are interested in check out my blog (www.replicatorinc.com) it is focused on mass customization and on demand manufacturing. When a company like the one you are interested in launches you'll read about it there.
Zell began to do some research. He found Internet discussion groups, including one on Topix called "No acorns this year," reporting the same thing from as far away as the Midwest up through New England and Nova Scotia. "We live in Glenwood Landing, N.Y., and don't have any acorns this year. Really weird," wrote one. "None in Kansas either! Curiouser and curiouser."

Sounds to me like it's pretty significant portion of the US.
Oooohh thank you! Brain Level Up +1, honestly I would have done the same thing and created a Range Class as well.
I'll expand:

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

edit: cheers Karma, I hardly knew you.
If you look city by city you can see how localized the housing bubble has been. E.g. the median price in Mountain View is now where it was in 2005, just as in Phoenix, but the intervening bump is much flatter.

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Mountain_View-California/m...

Here's the town with the highest foreclosure rate in the country, Stockton, California:

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Stockton-California/market...

All around the edges of town are new subdivisions in the middle of being built:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q...

These guys are going to be lonely:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q...
Except people don't post online that they have acorns. It's sort of like looking at Mac Fixit and deciding that all Macs are broken.

Also from the article:

> But many skeptics say oaks in other regions are producing plenty of acorns
I personally think Tesla will and should be encouraged to go on to do great things, but..

Calacanis seems to believe that giving $400m to a relatively unproven startup has zero risk. While he gives some great reasons for giving the loan including, obviously, "interest", there's no consideration given to what happens if Tesla goes out of business in a year or two.

That's not to say Tesla shouldn't try because, yes, it probably would succeed, but that's also not to say people shouldn't be wary of giving a startup $400 million.. heck, at least drip feed them the loan.
I'm in Boston. Plenty of acorns on my street.
It depends on the language. In Java/C# I would create a Range class - it would cause more trouble not to.
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Disgusting and vile human she is!!!
The article also says:

But many skeptics say oaks in other regions are producing plenty of acorns, and the acorn bust here is nothing more than the extreme of a natural boom-and-bust cycle.

And quotes from posts on internet discussion groups are hardly a reliable census method.
I'd guess that the trees in a region have synchronized their reproductive cycles as an adaptation, like cicadas: hide from predators (thinning their ranks) for a period, then overwhelm predators the next period.
A fisherman throws his anchor into the water. What happens to the water level of the lake?
Can anyone recommend something better than wireframing, IA, and psuedo code for code design?

1. A whiteboard.

2. Code.
They couldn't roll out updates? I heard the botnet writers hardcoded some sites after they regained control.

.

"The updated Srizbi includes hard-coded references to the Estonian command-and-control servers [..]"

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA...
I really think that any documentation that has to do with interacting with a database via SQL needs to not even hint at the fact that you should, or even can, build queries as strings. The security in apps have truly suffered because of PHP's documentation in this regard.
He's talking largely about web developers who already have a 9 to 5 job:

"Work seems to exist in lots of places; big in-house teams, small in-house teams, agencies, startups and freelancers...I’m a little odd here in having previously worked mainly for agencies followed by a stint of freelancing, and now work for a decent sized in-house team at Global Radio."

Most web developers are professionals - they draw a salary while working for someone else. The folks who're bootstrapping a webstartup while living in their parents' basement are a pretty tiny minority, though perhaps overrepresented here.
I seriously and honestly believe it is because of Stink Bugs... Since they came from China, they have taken over and this is definitely their doing. But hey, what do I know.
I hope not. If it is then I need another name for whatever I have.
The price reduction to $0.25 per GB/month puts it much closer to App Engine datastore's expected pricing of $0.15 - $0.18 per GB/month.
After actually using the site myself, I must admit I am absolutely floored. It was well worth my $7 and I received great feedback within the first 10-15 minutes. I guess you really can't judge a book by it's cover.

A+++++++ would use service again!
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The Coding Horror blog is at #2. That implies a bad relevance measure.
They'll have to do the same thing that everyone else who's worked in the computer industry for a long period of time does: they retrain in the latest and greatest technology every 5-10 years.

Some of people I've worked with have great stories about programming in PL/1, on punch cards, and then dropping the box of cards and sending their program sprawling across the tiled floor. Or writing a compiler in Fortran and having to manage their own overlays because only one pass could fit in memory at the same time. It's a world I can't really imagine, because it had mostly disappeared before I was born. But they retrained in various minicomputer assembly languages, and then C, and then C++, and sometimes Java, and one was even learning Python last I saw him.

It's unrealistic to expect you'll never have to learn anything new in this field. Heck, I've only been doing this for 8 years (with a 4-year break for college) and I've had to reinvent myself twice already (from a Java Swing programmer to a server-side webdev, and then again to a client-side JavaScript developer, and may soon be leaving that behind for mobile). Software engineering can be a harsh field like that. But the flip side is that you get to work in an exciting, dynamic, wide-open field. If you want consistency, be an accountant.
I can't wait till they support SELECT like statements. Who knows, even an ODBC driver some day?
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Heh, I've been thinking the same thing. I'm not subscribed to his list, so I'm not sure what the ratio is like, but it is amusing to see the occasional "I thought this was important enough to put on the blog..."
In other words, how to shave the yak for about 6 months setting up a complicated security infrastructure.

These may all be good practices, but how many of them assume that Amazon itself will get hacked?

For entrepreneur on a budget, isn't #20 the most important one?
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I'm not too familiar with these places, but when looking at these graphs during the price increases before the bust (i.e. without the benefit of hindsight), could one not also realistically explain it as 'demand > supply'?
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OK, I imported the OPML to Google Reader. This should be interesting.
Northwest Boston suburbs here, there're acorns but a lot fewer than normal. I remember noticing it around October.
It's sad that the SEC is underfunded given all the fees it collects from issuers of securities and market participants. I'm not sure about the current year, but in the past, the fees collected by the SEC were greater than its budget by over a hundred million.
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I'd love to live in that last house. Think of all the touch-football games they could have!
Grah, I guessed wrong without thinking! What happens is obvious with even a trivial amount of thought.

(deliberately not spoiling)
"It's a fair point but I wouldn't characterize it as a negotiation."

I think you are just playing with semantics;) In general, trying to change your agreement with a vendor is negotiating in my books. Remember if I proposed $100/month, the vendor could well come back and make a counteroffer of $110/month. I might sleep over it. And then agree to it. I'd call that negotiation.

I can see value in Ridgely Evers book. But I see NOT negotiating aggressively as a bigger problem than negotiating too aggressively. Totally agree with Ridgely in that you have to have a sense of to what extent the vendor will go to accommodate you before it is not worth his time and investment.

For hosting, it is not too difficult to calculate that point. ie. say we are paying $3000/month for a high-end server. We know the hardware cost $6,000 to the host. We know we have been with the host for 6 months and paid them $18,000. We know, thus, that the host has already recovered the cost of the hardware. In addition, we know that the bandwidth at the datacenter costs the host no more than $500/month and the rackspace for our server ~$200/month.

With the server cost paid, we are costing the host ~$700/month and making them a rough profit of ~$2300. At this point, we may be tempted to start our negotiation by telling them we can only afford to pay $1500. Realistically, we can settle on $2,000...saving 33%/month.

All the numbers above are almost real from our recent negotiation with a host.
I'd be interested to hear the advantages Rails offers for data visualization compared to, say, a .NET-based site. Are there any Rails features that help deliver client-side-heavy content?
On the same theme, not much of a decline in NYC:

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/New_York-New_York/market-t...

Especially compared to the one in 2003.
I had this question in an interview. Good one, but since i have a physics minor, i was able to guess right, and walk through it by physics.
Yeah, but housing demand can usually be pegged to income, which has been flat. Speculator demand is what explains the price rise and that demand is what makes a bubble. That is only part of the reason. Artificial demand was created by lowering mortgage standards allowing many more "fake bidders" into the market. Check this out http://www.mortgagecorp.com/noincomenoasset.php
There are many sites that already do this. Since custom is much more expensive and prices still need to be competitive, most sites don't very well. If you search google for "custom online __item__", you'll have thousands of hits.

Custom shirt maker - http://www.adrienlemaux.com/

Custom dress maker -
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Nearly every email he's posted has ended up on his blog or someone else's (with permission). Which means he's still blogging.
hmm what is the level of the water being measured against? the boat or the container of the water/lake?
Grad students do this all the time. A friend of mine managed to save $20k in 2.5 years on a grad student salary (~$20K/year).

The secret is really roommates + no car + long walk to mass transit + cheap food. If you're willing to walk about 20 minutes to the nearest T stop, you can get quite a few places in the Boston area for ~$400/month. Eat vegetarian with a lot of rice & pasta dishes and you can probably squeak in under $10k/year, particularly if the university provides health insurance.
I'm talking about the real battle, where they all died and both Boeotia and Attica were lost to the Persians.
ok i'll bite.

someone explain?
http://www.feynmanlectures.info/solutions/boat_anchor_lake_s...

To paraphrase, when the anchor is in the boat it's pushing the whole boat down, displacing exactly the volume of water that weights the same as the anchor.

When the anchor is on the floor of the lake it's only displacing the exact volume of the actual anchor. Since the anchor is more dense than water, it's less volume.
I find it cute how everyone's on a mission to defend HN from trolls. Mod me down too, it tickles.
How about:

When the anchor is in the boat, it displaces its mass in water. When the anchor is in the water, the anchor displaces its volume in water.
Either that, or they've adapted:

1) Produce no new acorns.

2) Environmentalists respond by planting hundreds of thousands of trees.

3) Trees laugh to selves very, very quietly.

(It is a joke, since the time scales are wrong, but the core is serious: if humans are the dominant selection pressure on the environment, then "natural" selection means "achieving maximum fitness for what the humans like".)
ooops, considering that i just realised i should be focusing on the boat's volume rather than its mass, thats a pretty stupid question!
Ha, fun. Although the story about the divorced guy celebrating christmas every day made me kinda sad.
I have acorns, northeast Pennsylvania.
I have no illusions with myself about wanting to live a comfortable life at $100,000. Making it would be this:

Financially: $1,000,000/Year in passive income.

Socially: The Espada brand being universally recognizable and associated with my name.

Automotivally: Lotus Elise, Bentley, the biggest legal monster truck I can find.

Personally: Having no fear

Some might think this is superficial, though I know precisely what I want and don't apologize for it.
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Not too lonely, the sat footage is way out of date. Try Streetview... It's a complete cookie-cutter neighborhood.
No, you share network subnet space with (an arbitrary number of) other EC2 users.
Interesting that sales seem to be picking up and that seems true in many markets. Perhaps that's a good sign.