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I realize my comment is redundant because you already said "infographic", but that image is garbage. The salary numbers are incredibly misleading, since they ignore stock or are an arbitrary sample.
Your last paragraph is actually the "mixed reactions" that I was having. It seems like for hidden volumes to work right, you need to constantly be using the outer volume. That's fine, there are plenty of applications you might want to encrypt but might not need to hide from the police -- passwords and emails, perhaps, or legally-downloaded-and-possessed pornography, or a journal, or something like those.

The problem is, due to what I guess is something of a flaw in the central idea, you ultimately have to provide the password for your inner volume when you do all of these things which don't involve it. So now your private data is split up over two drives, which is at least somewhat questionable, and also the "mundane" drive requires the "important" password.

This may be acceptable if you're collecting a small cache of text documents which you believe could harm a corporation -- then you say "no, I don't have those articles, see, this really is just my porn stash, please don't hurt me. But a criminal or a government -- no, they're willing to be patient and they're perhaps willing to peek at your password input prompts with webcams or audio-recordings. They would know that there's an extra password being entered every time you decrypt that file.
Disagree. In this idea there is a nearly universal assumption of "uploading" the mind in question, and therefore the disposal of the original sheath. So on a purely pragmatic level, the continued existence of the extracted mind is a lot less easy to verify, being that it no longer has an autonomous physical body.

Anyway, you have to admit it would make good science fiction.
It is not only the government that promotes these practices, but also, small businesses and workers.

The idea behind this is the fact that neither party sees benefits in working completely "white".
The fact that these rumors are being discussed... is substantial.

The statement is self-refuting.
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What matters is the truth here beyond who says it.
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My dad has DirectTV. Sure, it has loads of channels. But once you subtract out all the PPV channels, the really narrow special interest channels (the marlin fishing channel) and the holy rollers there's only twenty or so you'd want to watch, depending on your interests.
Brooks oversimplified a bit. In a large organization, more PMs and subdivindings into groups are necessary. Hierarchy isn't.
I think that cyclical is a much more accurate description than 'endlessly spin around in circles'. The latter implies no net progress, which I don't believe is really true.
"Why does it have to be like this?"

So Microsoft can make money off of everyone. Would you want to charge a multi-billion dollar corporation with 12,000 employees the same price for your operating system as you would charge a 50 year old baby boomer who just wants to check email? You want to make as much money as you can from each demographic so you add features to that demographic's branded version and milk them.

The poor pay a little, the rich pay a lot, and everyone ends up with a copy of windows. It's what kept Windows at 80-90% market share. Of course, in the short term it worked great, but in the long term it might begin to backfire as consumers move on to less confusing brands with less hardware options, more quality, less affordability, more prestige. At every meetup I attend, I see macs all over the place with me being the only Windows user. Apple has gained a lot of ground in just 10 years. The user experience, the hardware, and Microsoft's short term decision making.
Wait, you use Doritos to make nachos?

Weirdo.
That's a trick I've yet to learn. The other problem being that I prefer to stand and move a lot when working ;)
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I've been developing a "pinterest style" app (for lack of a clearer explanation) in Rails recently. I've been focused on learning Rails (I'm a PHP developer) the past few years. There is a ton of talk about Rails and MVC altogether being eventually phased out for stacks like Node and Backbone, etc. While I doubt the Rails/MVC style will be gone anytime soon, I want to future-proof my career. I don't want to stick with PHP forever, I just don't get the same joy anymore that I used to when I write code in it.

What should I look into learning in NodeJS/Backbone to rewrite my "pinterest style" Rails app. I'm probably still going to release the Rails version just because I feel comfortable with the code I've written and the Node/Backbone rewrite is mainly for learning the technology.

Are there specific Node paradigms/patterns/modules that I should look into for a site like this?
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Awesome!! I totally saw that call instruction, and then went on a wild goose chase thinking about how to get the string into that register, totally missing the fact that some of my earlier attempts at using printf had established that the string already happened to be there to begin with. Now I just feel dumb. ;P
Which is a fine position to have, but a non-sequitur in this discussion.
Well, no ones forcing them to actually send these messages over the air. Theres this global network called the internet where you can peer with your mobile provider friends (just as you're doing now, on the air).

The discussion is pointless either way, because actual speech takes up a lot more of that precious air time and only costs marginally more. You could literally send a complete book over the air disguised as "speech" and pay a miniscule fraction of what it would cost you to divide it up into tiny 160 byte blocks.

Which then gets us back to antitrust.
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"The various versions of Windows are actually very important."

Bullshit!. I am the average consumer and NOTHING is more important than me and my feelings! If you confuse me and make me feel stupid then I'll just buy one of those really nice Apple Mac computers that anyone who's important has. I heard they don't get viruses. And they're sooo pretty. They'll look much better on my desk. And my friends will be impressed. They make me feel smart and creative. They make me feel good.

Lost sale because Microsoft doesn't understand basic psychology.
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Every now and then, we would hear pundits declaring that it is now the “Mobile Web year”, whether 2012 will become the real “Mobile Year” remains to be seen.
Would you mind explaining the downvote? I friggin live here and I KNOW they are printing more money than ever.

Their modus operandi is basically this:

- Take money from the middle class through unconstitutional high tax rates (that never come back in the form of infrastructure, education, security, etc), so they become poor.

- Give money to the poor so they keep voting favorably

- Give money to already rich friends and the Congress members, to have more power

- Get crazy laws approved, so that middle class has no escape. Eg: We can no longer buy other currencies, not even gold, so we are forced to stick to the pesos.

- Print print print! (more pesos) This way the money flows like this: people's savings and salaries -> government

- Profit
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Do you need the full 30W to keep the battery alive, or is that for the whole electrical system on standby?
What happens if [Etsy, Amazon, Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogger] blocks Pinterest and build pinboards into their own site?
I believe you may have take the quoted out of context. I interpreted that sentence to say that, Dropbox allows the state system to behave the same regardless of the commodity used to interact with it. I do not believe the discussion was about how you interact with the file but how you interact with the storage of the file. I do think that that concept is not quite as disruptive for the industry as is implied though.

Also, could you call the "magic" a harbor? Harbor's allow anything to dock and trade regardless of their size, shape, or origin. Only half joking.

You are dead on about the barriers of entry though. There are goliath industries out there that will defend there profits to the death, rather than pivot or expand. Not so much the big 3 in my mind, but all of the supporting companies and service providers.
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It's unfortunate that windows media center hasn't caught on in a bigger way. I use it on my casual home theater and my larger more serious home theater. I have a channel master 4221 antenna that feeds into 2 HD Homerun tuners and clearQAM feeding into a couple more. This gives me the ability to record/watch 4 channels at once from any networked media center in the house. Media center has a fantastic interface that aggregates all the channels available across all tuners and hides the complexity. It allows you to easily record series and find shows across any of the tuners, all while looking beautiful. In addition to the great tv viewing experience, there is the wonderful media browser addon that beautifully indexes your digital movie collection and plugins like showanalyzer to automatically skip commercials in recordings. With TMT 5, I get a blu-ray player built right into media center too.

I honestly could not imagine a better setup. The only issue is that the initial setup is way too hard and time consuming. But the result can't be beat right now.
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Eh, Google went evil, Facebook was chartered evil, Msft overflowed and is back to good.
A surprising number of people, even within the technology field, don't like change that disrupts their personal habits. Hence the constant low-intensity warfare over the various Linux distros and interfaces.

In this case a lot of folks are getting emotionally involved because this story serves as proof that electric cars can't be maintained with the exact same habits that an ICE car is maintained. Habits are a personal things, and can be difficult to change. A lot of people will fight to preserve them rather than adapt them.
I liked Dropbox until it deleted my files. Then I dropped it instantly.

I was on Ubuntu, using their Dropbox client. I had some files that were already synced, but that I wanted to exclude from being synced (they were huge files, taking up precious space). I added an exclusion rule using their client, and poof, not only were my files gone from Dropbox, they were gone from my filesystem!

I liked Dropbox. I still do, but I won't use it. You can't make mistakes like that and expect trust in return.
This is off topic, but the code highlighting with slight background noise seems like a good idea in general. Has anyone tried this in their editor of choice?
This. And don't bother trying to find a picture of him online.
This is the same fallacy that some people use about planes: "Traveling by plane doesn't result in more fossil fuels burnt because the plane would have flown anyway".

The way these things work is that every once in a while companies evaluate whether there were enough lawyers, and based on this they hire or lay off lawyers.
Looks like the Hollywood war on the Silicon Valley is gaining steam. We are a large chat/IM provider, not directly involved in any copyright-able content and the last 5-6 months have been exceptionally hard in the amount of bullying from MPAA and the likes because of their complaints about LINKS and other things- often plain text where users just talk about copyrighted materials!
Sorry for the joke, but they include a "Like" button there?
I tend to agree. Call me crazy, call me naive, call me idiotic, but I just don't see any actual problems for Facebook until/unless a serious competitor for its userbase emerges. Pinterest isn't (yet?) that competitor, inasmuch as it's not currently a substitute for Facebook; they seem to cohabitate pretty well. Other interest-based networks aren't competitors for the same reason. Google+ doesn't seem to be making much of a dent, probably because the switching costs of rebuilding a social network from scratch are more daunting for most users than anyone expected.

That's not to say a competitor won't emerge, and users won't switch to that competitor if Facebook really mucks up its UX in some unforgivable way. But we should bear in mind that Facebook users aren't just going to jump overboard into the ocean. If they're going to jump ship, it'll be because a better ship has pulled up alongside it.

Revenue challenges? Facebook's got plenty of time to figure those out, and meanwhile, Facebook Connect seems like a pretty powerful weapon of mass monetization in the making.

A lot of the anti-Facebook sentiment out there right now reads like wishful thinking.
I wish someone would do this to John Searle. He really deserves it.
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Thanks to a redditor we seem to have found the C to 0.2, 0.1 AND 0.0 :) http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/q4e57/help_save_the...
It would be nice if the Economist also recognised a lot of other official statistics from all over the world are routinely faked or "massaged", especially when it comes to inflation and unemployment levels. Some European countries experienced very high inflation rates almost overnight when the common currency was introduced, up to 100% in some areas, but 15 years later official figures are only just starting to recognise that. The definition of unemployment in most countries is basically "tweaked" every time a general election is looming. Hell, even rating agencies have lost faith in most official sources, and are now pulling ratings out of their (probably gold-plated) ass most of the time.

The Argentinian government is just guilty of being a bad liar in a sea of very slick liars.
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So, uh, should I do a tracert to google and tell you all the important bits of infrastructure my packets touch on their way to sunny california? Go down to the wire layer?

Thats a cool and complex protocol, but prices have nothing to do with that.
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This is stupid. Are we starting over again?

Just don't provide a high quality version if you are selling it. This kind of blocking is just annoying as any other DRM and will certainly be side-stepped by end users.
The notes for the algorithms class here at Berkeley were extracted into a pretty good textbook. You can get a draft of it here: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html. It's worth a look if you're interested in basic algorithm concepts. (The book is for the undergraduate introduction to algorithms class and offers a good overview of the subject, but nothing super advanced.)

While it was published as a book, it really is just a neater version of the lecture notes for the class.
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Hi there,

I'm launching a new venture and with my cofounder we want to contribute to open source community with our intern development.

To be honest, I've never contributing to OS community (shame on me) but more because I didn't know how to do that.

Well this is my second contribution in the last two day and I would love your thoughts or feedback.

Thank you very much!

PS : It's pretty fun to do that, even if I'm a bit affraid to show my code. But I'm sure I'll learn much more and much faster on this way :-)
An excellent mission statement can definitely help with recruiting. A lot of people have read "Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." and thought "Ya, I'd like to help with that."

A well crafted mission statement can also be a tremendous help internally in terms of getting everyone on the same page. "What are we all doing here?" is an important question to answer once you have more than a few people working together.
I was looking at using Hulu Plus to augment my Netflix subscription, but when I found out that even the paid version had commercials I changed my mind.

At one point they were experimenting with a "Watch one long commercial at the beginning then no interruptions" thing, which was fantastic, but I guess they nixed that, because I haven't seen it the last few times I've been on Hulu.
Perhaps the payment model for the web app is "pay €1 for each ticked booking" rather than "pay €1 for each booking made".

That would explain the use of felt pen as a financial incentive, rather than as a UI fault...
The Berkeley book is quite good. Pretty concise description of the fundamental stuff and good exercises. I'm actually a student at UIUC and Jeff's notes (the ones in the link) are great too and he often includes areas of theory not found in the Berkeley book that he finds interesting.
I'd contrast this situation to Wikipedia, which allows unfettered access to collaboration. The benefit of MediaWiki is that people can build their changes directly on previous changes, being continually pulled into master. Alternatively, Wikipedia suffers from authorities having less weight than experienced editors with little domain knowledge (and constant fights against vandalism, esp. on trending articles).

There is a likely a middle-ground between Wikipedia's open editing, and GitHub's "what does it really mean to fork a story and make a pull request." Interesting experiment none-the-less for Wired.
Then that company would be an underdog in the pinboard business, with lost referrals (Etsy, Amazon) or a distraction from the core focus (WordPress, Blogger), and have to spend several years building a community of users who think to go to the new site to pin things. And other sites would presumably also block this upstart.

If pinning were just a technology feature Tumblr seems the closest to being able to duplicate it (their archive view seems vaguely close to a pinboard, minus the interactivity), but they would also have to provide users with a better alternative.
The (paid for) Google Apps for Business still has a line of Ads at the top of the email listing. No ads down the RHS, though.
Menem, the former president, was jailed for selling arms to Croatia. After that his wife left him for not investigating the death of his son, who was killed by the drug cartel. He built a clandestine airport in Anillaco (his home town) which he used to smuggle arms and drugs. Menem, today, is a National Senator, the airport is still open and the government dropped all charges against him, including: corruption, illegal enrichment and arms smuggling.

People are willing to tolerate this, that's why the country is doomed.
This is why "Mail" is namespaced by "Apple" or "Microsoft" or some other such thing. That is, you don't say "Docs", you say "Google Docs".
I've had my pair for a couple years and love them.

BUT, they were poorly tested. Both sides have broken where they slide out of the headpiece to extend.

Spent $5 at home depot and with a bit of drilling they are now reinforced and back together.
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Hi there,

I'm launching a new venture and with my cofounder we want to contribute to open source community with our intern development.

To be honest, I've never contributing to OS community (shame on me) but more because I didn't know how to do that.

Well this is my second contribution in the last two day and I would love your thoughts or feedback.

Thank you very much!

PS : It's pretty fun to do that, even if I'm a bit affraid to show my code. But I'm sure I'll learn much more and much faster on this way :-)

PS2 : It's my first contribution to HN too (even if I read you everyday)
I think something like Amazon's or Netflix's similar products would be great.
Rails hate on HN? All I'm seeing is devout, unquestioning Rails worship.
0MQ pubsub can be trivially distributed, whereas redis is currently limited to master-slave replication (as opposed to master-master).
In my experience, click-through rates aren't that great and conversion is really pretty bad. I've worked at 2 decent size ecommerce companies and the CPO hasn't ever really been profitable for social media ads especially compared to Google and Bing ads. Their advertising is really more comparable to traditional display or remarketing ads at this point which are generally less efficient for marketing spend and hence less profitable for FB's customers.
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The headband on mine broke within the first 6 months from taking them on and off all day. Great sound, bad quality.

I was able to reinforce them and they are better than ever.
1. Language support, at least bash and php.
2. Line numbers on the left
3. par lines (0,2,4,etc) being a bit gray
non par lines (1,3,5,etc) a lightish gray
4. Option to make everything darker, to work during the night and not make your eyes suffer so much.

That would be all =)

Looks awesome by the way and good luck on the project, only remember to fix the
Unless you're operating a World of Warcraft forum :)
You could just use a service that works with your filesystem, like SugarSync.
if you really want to get serious, you probably have to change the page name that your blogging software generated for you as well - cos its pretty prominently being "racist slur"-y on the browser address bar!

See how this quickly gets out of hand? i guess you'll have to delete the post, repost it with a nice clean title and then submit it to the HN firehose all nice and sanitized.

or you could just let common sense prevail.

nice article, btw.
I spent a little time on it, and am not really happy with how it turned out. I wait for one day when I'll be inspired by something and can revise it into something better, but it never happens.

In my case, I read some business plan books and paraphrased examples of other companies' statements. Again, I'm not happy with my first drafts, but don't feel it's important enough to spend real time on, so it waits to be improved.
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Good read! I wasn't sure about this line:

"Think about how many companies you know that’s sold for 100million, then think about how many launch announcements you hear per week. I think you get the picture."

Do you mean there are plenty of them, or not that many, thus you're not likely to make much from the company being sold?