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I had the fortune of visiting the O'Reilly offices in Sebastopol a few weeks ago (thanks Mary!), and this gracious attitude permeates the building. It may be one of the happiest, friendliest offices I've had the fortune of visiting. Plus, the Make offices are just incredibly cool - like a real-life Willy Wonka factory, with hundreds of cool half-built gadgets scattered around.
I would expect that the parent comment was not addressed to you so much as to the guy who says he can't move because he'd need to spend several hundred dollars on new drinking glasses.
Be surprised. Living on the LES or Nolita can very easily be done on 75k without the 20 minute crowded commute on the L train.

Plus there is quite a lot to do, I don't understand this Brooklyn-centric view of the world that developers and the NYT's have developed.
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No joke. I know some LEO are very well trained, but I've shot alongside Boston PD and Seattle based Air Marshals and I was shocked at how bad of shots both groups were. And this is on the shooting range, without adrenaline/fear, etc... They were hitting paper, but nowhere near the 10 ring. The Air Marshals were scary considering they'd be shooting inside a crowded plane.
Shouldn't be surprising, though, right? The same effect that causes you to perceive three colored lines as a single square causes you to perceive a black line as just a somewhat dimmer pixel.
If you are already trusting a cloud service with your data why not go one step further and use bitbucket for free private repos?

You don't have the possibility of corrupting your repo with an unsynced commit from a differennt machine.
People have had reasonable success just taping a webcam on top of a used bench microscope.
Amen.

The trait of rich people that I try to emulate (not always successfully) is that they tend to purchase assets that appreciate in value. Toys are paid for with highly disposable money and not the nest egg.

The trait of poor people that I try to avoid is purchasing depreciating assets, usually on credit ensuring that you'll be poor until that lotto ticket hits big (i.e. forever).
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Thanks, I shall go and have a look and see what this supports.

I have recently been convincing various family members and friends that they should buy their children a real, cheap, laptop instead of an iPad. If you can only have one machine, I think it should be one they can create their own content on, just in case they want to go that route.

I know the iPad has a few things (art programs), but it isn't a replacement for a computer. Worryingly many people seem to think it is, for children (who I would hope would be creative).
>from article> Having graduated from a top-10 law program, I'm now making $36,000 a year and have $165,000 worth of student debt.

This is the kind of stuff scares me about the economy moving forward. For those that are not familiar with student loans, one cannot their shed student loans under bankruptcy protection. (I do not think one should be able to back out of a student loan, because unlike a house which can be foreclosed on and resold, it's kinda hard to repossess knowledge and as the loan holder resell it... but moving on) Anyways, in order to get away with not paying them or having your wages garnished, you have to die and that of course has it's own problems. There are programs that are set up to help those having a hard time, but that's not helping the situation in aggregate.

Last year, US students borrowed $100 Billion[1]? The weight of student loans is going to cripple this country over the next 10-20 years. It is unsustainable.

[1]-http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/college/story/2011-10-19...
Yup, police with submachine guns are completely routine at Heathrow. They're also not an uncommon sight around certain parts of London these days - all the big government buildings have a couple of policemen with MP5s hanging around the entrances.
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He used to use a Wii, but has since switched to a PC that sits in the living room. Neither interface presents much trouble, though the inconsistency can be irritating. He does occasionally search for car and machine parts, but other than that, his Internet is basically three bookmarks: Netflix, Hulu, and (occasionally) CBS.
Fog Creek is absolutely competing with companies in the Bay Area. I'm not even talking about Google and Microsoft's New York offices.

Maybe west coast candidates won't move but what about all of the people that live in other parts of the country? Most people I know are scrambling to get out of the midwest as fast as they can.
Interesting, but I don't think Google wanted to go social to decrease the damages of link spamming.

People already do social network spamming. There are plenty of sites where you can pay for a certain number of +1's or likes.

Using a combination of inputs, social interaction, page links, keywords, they can achieve a better overall ranking algorithm, which is probably one reason they wanted to go social.

However I think the main reason Google wanted to go social was to be able categorise their users better. The more they know about their users, the better they can serve ads.
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A few weeks ago I went to a talk by Nicole Freedman, the head of the Boston Bikes program, on the state of biking in Boston as of the end of 2011. She talked about the enormous changes Boston has been making, like going from 180 feet (!) of total bike lanes a few years ago to over 50 miles now [1]. For instance, they removed 70 parking spaces from Mass Ave to make a bike lane there.

Most of the people at the talk seemed to be hard-core cyclists, who tend to be a pretty tough crowd to please, but there were so many standing ovations that it could've been the State of the Union address. Have you ridden in Boston lately? I'm curious to see if the changes are as big as most of those people seemed to think.

As to getting around, there are certainly trips in the Boston area that are easy by public transit and others that aren't. I live in Somerville and getting to Allston is a pain (I'd probably use the 66 bus [2]). I generally only drive outbound from Somerville, since I find driving in Boston stressful and of course the parking is expensive.

[1] http://www.cityofboston.gov/Images_Documents/Annual%20Report...
[2] http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/bus/routes/?route=66
How are we going to design iPad views on MacBooks?
1440x900 resolution on the common 15" macbook pros was a pain while designing the non-retina ipad views. Now the "resolutionary" retina iPads with 2048x1536 displays make it even worse.

Here are a few of options:

1) Apple has to allow us to use the iPad screen as an external monitor; or at least an extension to the Xcode, so we can design directly on the iPad.

2) Isn't there a business opportunity here? Wink wink, ycombinator.

3) We will all need 30" monitors! Who's got the 13 hundred lying around?
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"The TSA must have been rejected from any other job, including flipping burgers, before landing this gig."

This is the real problem I think.
Agreed, I've never seen that in the US. I have seen it at train stations in France though. That was a bit surprising my first time there.
There's a big spread to visual accuity. There are two big factors: receptor density on the retina and near-field focus ability. The former doesn't vary too much I'm told, but the latter can be 3-4x better in some people than others. I can focus reliably on a high contrast object at about 6" or so. Some people can apparently do it at 3-4". And of course it gets worse as we age. Far sighted adults have trouble reading at arms length, even.
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If we're doing anecdotes ...

Friend was a former Forth Worth police officer. His first week of patrol his issue pistol was broken. He didn't find out about this until he pulled it on a guy and it went 'click' not 'bang'.

It amazed me that this guy, who was not stupid, carried a gun around for a week without doing a function check on it.
Right, TSA agents aren't law enforcement.
The greatest insight I got from this (pretty awesome) book was that sometimes your friends criticize your ideas and projects, because deeply they are scared that your relationship will change if you're successful.
>hen was the last time you heard about ECHELON being used? Never?

Are you kidding me?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

This room is in the same building that Twitter HQ is in. It is the ground zero for the back door-ing of the social stream.

You likely have not been paying attention
Speech recognition on new voices transmitted over the phone is a lot harder then something like speech recognition in android or siri. Is there anything that beats google voice at transcribing voicemail? As far as I know there isn't.
Hubway has a real-time feed of bike availability [1]. I built a little web site that shows the bike stations and T stations on a map [2], along with real-time data for both bike and T stations. Bike stations with available bikes are shown in green and ones without are red. Also, it's open source [3].

[1] http://www.thehubway.com/data/stations/bikeStations.xml
[2] http://bikeboston.herokuapp.com/
[3] https://github.com/amonat/bikeboston
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Would creating a Python interpreter that runs on Chrome's Native Client be enough? In NaCl you have an environment that lets you take C/C++ code and deploy programs written in that code to the browser. The Python interpreter (and the ones for several widespread languages) is written in C. Why not put the two together?

I've seen a proof-of-concept of this on webOS, which is essentially a browser since JavaScript programs can run natively. In webOS 1.4.5 and above, there is the PDK, which is a library that lets you make C/C++ programs compatible with webOS and run them on-device. Part of the PDK is the plugin interface, which allows JavaScript code to call C-compiled functions, which the C-compiled program exposes to JavaScript with special PDK functions.

Since the Python interpreter is in C, it can be adapted with the PDK to allow Python programs to run natively. Here is a post demonstrating it:

http://www.ezequielaceto.com.ar/techblog/?p=359

In Chrome, NaCl is analogous to the PDK, so why not have Python as an NaCl plugin and use it to run Python in the browser? You have to imagine that if NaCl gets widespread use, similar and compatible technology will pop up in competing browsers, so sooner or later your Python will be cross-browser.

I'd like to see someone try Python in NaCl.
In many ways, NYC is an even harder market to compete in, due to the financial industry. If you are a good hacker, hedge funds will offer $150k+/year to start - and if you're able to deal the intensity of it, that'll quickly go up. I know guys in their late 20s making over $300k a year writing code for these firms. These are salaries that most software companies can't match, even if they wanted to.
A big problem here is perceived risk and unwillingness to step out of the comfort zone.

The other problem is money: when you are dropping > $500/month on student loans, you have to have a job before you move.

I remember being graduated in 2006 with a BSCS and so broke I could not move without a relocation benefit. I was debating hitchhiking to Seattle or SF and bumming around with a laptop looking for coding work, but I wound up not having to.(Answer to this problem: save about 3K or so and don't ever let go).
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Amazon.co.uk are excellent, but Amazon.de are terrible. They have two listings for Quarriors - one is the German language version and the other English. We order the English version, and receive the German version. Their solution? They only stock the German version (their English listing was an error) so we had to send the German version back to them (partly at our cost).

Fine. The .co.uk do it better (you can keep the incorrect item). But returning is reasonable enough.

But they've not bothered to correct their listings despite several attempts to fix the problem.
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What's "actual" education? One's personal opinion can differ. However, education and indoctrination are not mutually exclusive. The debate about mentioning creationism in schools shows that both sides see the school as the indoctrination vehicle - otherwise describing the existence of the creationist theories, which is - the existence of the theories, of course - a scientific fact would not be controversial, but there's more to it than just that, right? And educational institutions themselves are deeply political - D/R ratio in some academic disciplines is 30/1, some institutions are completely ideologically monocultural, and teacher's union NEA is 6th biggest political donor, donating almost exclusively to one party. There are also numerous documented cases of teachers involving pupils into political activities for the causes of their choosing. So it would be very hard to find an education venue where indoctrination would not take place.

The whole point of the homeschooling (one of) is that people choose what is actual education for them, not for somebody else. Of course, you or I may not like their choice, but why should they care?
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Oh, absolutely. Exaggeration, squash & stretch, easing, and other basic principles of animation are necessary to account for how people perceive the real world. It’s just important to understand the difference between perception and reality—to know the rules so that you can break them intelligently.
I'd be more worried about the cheerleader.

Sorry, wrong answer. It's not 'staying in control' it's the will to use the weapon to cause harm that 'will or may result in death'.

A cheerleader has no training, is not desensitized, hasn't been indoctrinated that guys downrange are targets and no longer actually human.
If only every company developed sales funnels like this intern pipeline, there would be many more happy customers in the world.

You could probably launch a business in almost every possible field in the world, charge 50% more than everyone else, not fix a thing about how you do business... except cloning a sales funnel like the one mentioned in this article,(overwhelming your "qualified" prospects with a pleasantly surprising "shock and awe" experience and you would crush the competition, and have prospects lining up around the block begging you to take their money!

It might cost you an extra buck or two upfront, but it will pay for itself in spades in the long run, and as the article points out, greatly minimize your risk by qualifying your prospects before investing in them, and instead spend the money on attracting the top 1% of customers!!!!

I guess the only real question is... This article is 5 years old, what's taking you so long to realize your customers just want to feel special and want an experience they can't resist sharing with everyone out there.

It truly amazes me that there is a guaranteed to work formula here, and yet so many companies spend their marketing dollars trying to attract everbody or the wrong-body instead of investing in the right people at the right time, and making bigger margins, delivering better services and experiences to better customers, who are very happy to pay premiums.
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Having interned there last summer, my observation is that you're completely wrong. Who knows, maybe they were all just hiding it for three months.
Facebook and Twitter now have NYC offices. Ebay is opening an office here, too (http://www.commercialobserver.com/2012/03/ebay-in-talks-for-...).
Hand guns are made with the specific purpose of killing human beings which is somewhat terrifying. Also, it is a lot easier to be accidentally killed by a hand gun than a plastic supermarket bag.
I love how the e-ink looks up-close. If only the contrast was higher and in colour. Sadly, I've got a feeling e-ink technology will become extinct.
Play 2 is not using that "magic" anymore, so you won't hit that problem (which, on the other hand, wasn't 'too' common).

Give it a try. It's worth it, honestly.
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From time to time I've read articles about the dearth of (semi)skilled workers in machining, exploration, etc.

Factories clamor for skilled workers. The pay isn't bad either. IIRC, 60-80k/year is not unusual. And if people are willing to move to ND and join the oil shale rush, apparently unskilled workers can pull in low six figures.

I recall an anecdote of a truck driver who lost his job. He entered some program which would teach him some skills to make him marketable (something like welding).

He quit midway through because he said it didn't fit his lifestyle of freedom (ir something to that effect).

It kind of struck me as odd and somewhat selfish. I mean, I recall taking on really crappy jobs (like at oil change places) when I could not get anything better. I didn't like it. Yeah, it cramped my style, but it helped me get thru college and eventually university.
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Point taken.

Give it a few years, they will be.
+1 for O'Reilly Customer Service: when they released The Cathedral and The Bazaar (or was it Free as in Freedom?, can't say for sure), I wrote to them saying that it was funny that a book on free software wasn't itself free to read.

They shipped me a free copy and a Python T-shirt (to India). I was in my teens: life-long fan since.
Even if you do screw it up, the commit should all be there and valid. The only thing that happens is HEAD won't point to the right commit on other boxes, and then when you do sync you'll clobber the file containing the commit for HEAD, thus losing the other commits. Fortunately, they'll still exist until a gc occurs, so you can go find them in reflog.
You're assuming politicians are sincere.
You can EASILY live on $75K in a studio in Manhattan. What kind of lavish lifestyle are you trying to live? You don't need a car in NYC.

Edit: Maybe starting salaries in NYC for tech startups are that high for programmers, but other positions tend to be in the $35K-$50K range.
If they can get people to make a habit of watching TV through them instead of the internet, they win.

Yup, but surely even a basic viewing session of Internet-based TV would convince even the dimmest bulb that they're fighting a losing battle to keep scheduled broadcast as the primary means of video consumption.
> If a site doesn't want to allow people to "view on one page," they can disable that feature.

That's not something I'd want to encourage. Whenever the pagination isn't excessive, I'd link to the permalink the site gives, and let users fetch the full article if they so wish.
Tell HN: Compiz Color Filter on Linux rocks
I just discovered an AWESOME Linux [1] feature : Compiz Color Filter. I frequently find websites' color schemes to have too little contrast, which makes reading the text hard (e.g., http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-go-nowhere-generation-speaks-id-love-to-move-but-i-cant/254579/). The "too-small-text" problem can be solved by zooming the whole web page, but I didn't have problem for the low-contrast problem (other than things like Readability).

Anyway, Compiz Color Filter is designed for people with visual impairments precisely to improve contrast. It gives you a hot key using which you can switch around the colors either on a per-window basis or for the whole screen. It's instantaneous and has zero performance impact. It has multiple schemes through which you can cycle until you find the scheme that suits the web page in question. Or make your own.

I'm typing this in a scheme which converted HN to have white text on a bluish background color scheme.

It's frigging awesome. Check it out (or it's equivalent if one exists for Windows/Mac).

I don't think I have any vision problems. Do I? Does everybody else find the page I linked above easy to read?

[1] I'm unsure which project exactly should take credit, so I'm leaving it vague.
Agreed on #3 particularly - as soon as spotify and rdio provided a better experience than pirating music, lot's of people were willing to pay.
Ask HN: What do I do?
Hello HN.

I launched a website yesterday called Classfy. It's basically a marketplace that is open, free and easy to use.

After launching. I sent out a few emails to the people who had signed up before launch. Many of them came and looked around and left. That was expected since this is a marketplace and there were only a few items for sale. Some of them posted items for sale.

Now I don't know what to do. Do I keep coding, adding features, improving the UI. ( I want to make it look like pinterest).
Do I try and get more people to signup and post, stuff for sale.
This is the first time I have built something on this scale and scope.

any tips? suggestions?
The best way to remove IE is to install Linux :-)
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I am just describing the situation as bleak, I am not saying they should retire and put even more pressure than they are going to on social security. In an ideal world these people would slip down a rung (just one, not to the bottom) and into part-time jobs and let fresh leadership take over and push innovation. But there is a more ideal world where they could retire now if they'd saved for it and hadn't run up so much debt. People don't just step down a rung though, it's not some ideal efficient labor market, they just use seniority to stay where they are. While it's obvious that a decade or two of experience can trump the 20-something hotshot more often than not - IQ peaks in the 20s and then declines but it's not as useful as people think versus experience - I am not so certain that the experience of someone in their late 60s or mid 70s can outweigh the cognitive decline they will experience (new medical research might hold some promise there I suppose).
If you are unemployed and just out of college you're living at home, not in an apartment.
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It's worth noting that there's no such thing as not entering the US on a route like that with two exceptions. The US doesn't have transit on international itineraries through a US airport except in the cases of Tahiti-LAX-Paris on Air France and Auckland-LAX-London on Air New Zealand.

Any other transit between two international destinations through a US airport requires entering the US just like any other visit.
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Yeah, it certainly doesn't seem like a good idea to lock a child into such a closed environment, particularly if it's one of their earliest exposures to computers in general.
Yep - I was there... it looked like him (after someone pointed it out to me of course)
You should try the line for everyone at Montreal! I guess it's fair by treating everyone terribly, but it's the single most ridiculous setup I've ever seen.
Except you don't own the stuff in your dropbox any more than you own you pictures on Facebook.
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