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I agree. At my work, disagreeing with the upper management gets you fired. Sometimes you just shut up if you want a paycheck. Then you get where you can actually discuss why something is a bad idea (like with my DIRECT supervisor).

You don't have to be an argumentative dick to express doubt in something. Nor are you necessarily an underconfident yes man if you dont speak up. Circumstances dictates a lot of behavior.
I agree. I personally can't believe Kaspersky were this incompetent. To me the entire thing sounds like a PR play. Just look at all the alarmist headlines they generated.
ya, I don't really like their method approach, they don't use prototyping.
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I found Musk's slight display of emotion when he talked to Aldrin and Armstrong's criticism to be very humanizing and touching.

When he said his response to their criticism is to prove to them that it can be done and done well made me admire him.
Well in that case inquiring minds would like to know: How do YOU keep up with technology?
> Your comments are being downvoted because claiming religion is the cause of slavery and all of the worlds ills

OK. Your claim is my argument sweeps wholesale opinion, but then you make a wholesale opinion of what I meant when I said X. All of the worlds ills? No. Any specific issue? No. A major contributor? Absolutely. I didn't say that a religious-free world would be a slavery-free one. I am saying there would be less slavery overall. Not sure how that could be argued without removing parts of the story.

> You also don't seem to realize that the moral code you live by...

Another assumption.

> is basically arbitrary (different countries feel differently about these things without any religious thought getting involved) and to a million mile observer is indistinguishable from a religion.

You're taking ideals like 'capital punishment' and casting them into a 'religious ideal' for the purpose of comparing them directly. Pretty sure debt slavery, corporal punishment and capital punishment are variable dependant on the state of what you might consider a low wage, or how wrong it is to trade stocks with privileged information. We alter these ideals based on new information. Religion doesn't do this. The book that tells people to behead unbelievers today is the same book from hundreds of years ago. Religion is unyielding and doesn't evolve. Especially the kind that enslaves people. It's pretty absurd for you to suggest religion is as much of a variant as corporal punishment for adults, debt slavery, age of consent, capital punishment - regardless of distance.

> I bet you have strong opinions on all those things I mentioned,

Assumption.

> and you don't realize your opinion is basically a religious one taught to you as a child.

Except if new information is presented that is different than what I believe, I don't ignore it or stick my head in the sand hoping for the 'armageddon/rapture/other ridiculous event' to come to take me away. Facilitating ignorance isn't a strong point.
Moreover, what we (= provable security wonks) really don't understand is collision resistance, or, more generally, cryptographic security notions that are stronger than one-wayness (really UOWHF) and that do involve a secret key.

Trusting blockciphers over hashes based on this high-level argument is suspect, at least in principle. (To be clear, I'm not arguing with your practical recommendations as they seem pragmatically justified.) It could well be the case that the ways we build password hashes from blockciphers appear to be more secure simply because we haven't sufficiently cryptanalyzed blockciphers for the necessary collision-resistance-type properties. Perhaps collision resistance is just too much to hope from any highly-efficient function, and it is only a matter of investing the effort to find collisions in the functions derived from blockciphers. Adding to the suspicion is the fact that blockciphers give us good hashes by coincidence, not design (And formal evidence doesn't help explain the situation - although I see hand-wavy claims about related-key attack resistance being sufficient, in my work I've only found reverse connections).

So are you aware of any deeper reasoning behind the blockciphers-over-hashes argument? Could trusting blockciphers for collision-resistance just be a good usage of security-through-obscurity, because a tremendous amount of effort has been invested in finding collisions in the hash functions but not in the blockciphers?
Chicago To Pando Daily: Shove It
The bigger you are
Can anyone say how this compares to mediaelementjs? They seem to be very similar.
I liked mediaelement.js, but ran into massive problems when using it in a colorbox under IE8.
The Future Of Comments
During an interview both sides should be asking questions in an attempt to explore whether the position is a good fit for the prospective employee. If as an interviewee I'm free to ask any question I want I will get to the questions that help me explore the nature of the company & position. That's the whole point of the interview process

Asking me to prioritize my decision making process into 3-5 neat little bullet points ranges from annoying and insulting. In asking the question the interviewer sounds like this:

Interviewer: "I'm assuming you haven't thought through your requirements for being an employee of my company. I could engage you in conversation like a normal human being to find out what you want. But I'm too lazy for that. Please summarize what you want in a convenient format that I can easily understand."

Interviewee: "This guy doesn't like to think. He values simple answers over process & conversation. I might have one 'bullet point' that requires a dozen questions to figure out. I might have a dozen bullet points that could be answered with two questions. Instead of talking to me he wants me to tell him what I want to hear. I'm outta here!"

.... see?
When you take funding, you may (or may not) give away part of your ownership stake (aka equity). As long as you maintain more than 50% ownership, you're still the owner... because you have the ability to make a "majority" decision by yourself. So, I'm still the owner, but that may not always be the case (eg. if we take more funding).
Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems for $775 million
Me too, as long as Santorum doesn't get paid.

Or maybe I would. If he had more money, the Republican candidacy becomes even more confusing and the others will have to spend more time and money fighting each other than fighting Obama.

If I had a huge amount of money, I'd donate it to Ron Paul, just for the fun of it. From time to time he says some surprisingly reasonable things.
I had instinctively clicked on the images at the top before going to the textures. Might have been nice to catch these (ED: clicks) (or maybe even hover ?) and highlight them (ED: images at the bottom) in something like the "MacBook sleep light" style. Just the background of the block - glow from the current (dark) to white and back. Would make it even friendlier, I think.
Ask HN: Question about customers selling goods through my app
I have a web application idea that I'd like to get off the ground, but I'm very green when it comes to one aspect.

The web application would be for individuals to showcase and sell their goods. I've worked as a web developer for almost 5 years now, the first few years was spent setting up and customizing e-commerce sites for clients, so I'm familiar with the basics of e-commerce and payment gateways.

What I don't know much about is the actual process of being the middle man in the transaction. I'd like to take a small percentage of certain transactions, and I really don't want to get my app killed because of credit card fraud or anything like that.

Do you guys have any advice for setting up a site like this, or any good links/articles/books that I should read before diving into something like this? Really if someone could give me the basic gist of how things work from this type of application. Do my customers give me their banking info and I just pay them directly after taking my fee? How would I know the product was going to get delivered, or should there be a waiting period? Should I pay immediately or do pay outs twice a month, etc.

Is this something I could achieve with Stripe, Chargify, Recurly, etc?
I don't think that is the authors point. I think the point is that the _majority_ of startups you see on the coasts wouldn't _likely_ succeed or originate in places like Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis because people are less open to risks of that nature. There are new businesses / startups in the Midwest but the majority worry about the business plan from the outset, rather than later. I didn't read the article as negative on the Midwest, rather, showing the differences in the areas.
I'll pass and just read the insightful comments from the HN community.
IPad 3 Web Image Test
>send the signal my keyboard would have sent

There's a chance they can make that a non-trivial problem, like recovering plaintext given a hash.
Amazon Acquires Kiva Systems For $775 Million In Cash
Ah, thanks. I was going on a vague memory of something read a while back. I wasn't entirely wrong - 40% maybe - so that's nice.
I know it isn't the typical use case but is there anything similar that (also) supports flac? (or even wma?)
My gut take (as a lifelong Chicagoan) is that Californians, after being there long enough, believe in the bullshit they're selling and tolerate it from others as well. Chicagoans tend to develop and groom BS filters throughout their lives and will either a) ignore it or b) call it out right away.

Perhaps this is why Californians can get away with the bluesky radical ideas and Chicagoans are more about "Okay, great. Now how are we gonna make money with it?"
Apache OpenOffice Templates & Extensions move downloads to SourceForge
hypercubes are already n-dimensional, that's not adding any extra information.
> First, you start off with a promising statement about the correlation between slavery and dictatorship. Unfortunately, your following paragraphs have almost nothing to do with it. You quickly delve into a anti-religion rant which uses a poor metaphor involving Toyota.

If this was a review for a movie, you nailed it. Metaphor definitely not my best. It was an anti-religious rant. Thank you for noting that. Hopefully you'll dive into more detail as to why you feel differently?

> It's just easier to dismiss you by the third paragraph and down vote.

Nope. Guess not.
If 2,000 words is too long, there's a TL;DR at the top of the post.
For contrast, they sold 5.2 million macs last quarter. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/24Apple-Reports-Firs...

Also, the iPhone 4s sold 4 million in its opening weekend. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/17iPhone-4S-First-We...

I couldn't find an apple press release for the iPad 2, but a lot of news outlets reported that analysts had sales pegged around 1 million units. http://blackfridaymagazine.com/apple-claims-record-weekend-f...
Microsoft has fired two Bing advertising executives for misusing company funds
I should have clarified that I meant when he was writing his show. When the real journalists got involved he should have said, well...you really can't use my stuff in your context. He didn't and he should be called out.
ASP for iPads has been ~$600 in the past. It might drop a bit, now that Apple has lowered the entry price point (or could rise, as LTE pulls more people away from WiFi only).

$1.8B in revenue in a weekend, still not bad :P
I work for Microsoft as a UX prototyper. This is actually not only cool, but useful. I'll forward this around internally.
Thanks for your work, azakai! I was very pleased when I learned about it. A perfect fit for my site, and a cool way of implementing a new "back"-end.
Yeah, that's pretty spun. Reporting something to the IWF doesn't mean they took action (the IWF publishes a block list of banned URLs, I'm pretty sure reddit.com isn't on it). "Making offers and requests" for content that apparently didn't exist isn't child pornography. Nor is "pedophilic imagery" child pornography. You are using what in most contexts is a legal term (c.f. "murder", "larceny") incorrectly. Were there any actual children expoited on/through/via Reddit? That's usually the test for criminal misconduct.

And the strawman bit is I think missing the point. There's a real moral question about where to put the boundary between "protection from unwanted content" and inappropriate censorship ("friendly fire") of good content. Pointing out that reddit has lots of the latter is, I think, important and relevant to that discussion. Most sane people I know are more liberally tolerant if the relative benefit is higher.
Ask HN: What's the best way to get users for a PAID web service?
I saw in another thread where people were discussing the best way to go from 1 to 1,000,000 users. A lot of suggestions were presented, and even more so on Quora. Some of the highlights include making it exclusive, rewarding users for inviting others, etc.

It seems like a lot of these great ideas are focused on free services where the challenge is to get people in, not so much to convince them to pull their wallet out. Since there are possibly a whole different set of challenges for paid services, what would be some great ways to get more users specifically for services where the customers would have to pay? Are there methods of acquisition that would be completely different from the free ones?
SoLoMo: CityMaps Nabs $2.5M To Render Your City Social, One Block At A Time
I wish employers would ask both of these questions during interviews. They often focus on what I currently know, and not the overall work experience component. As a Web/Mobile developer and hiring Project Manager, I've switched jobs often, never working more than 1 year in each job until recently, for the past 10 years. My answers at this point are:

I'd like to work as close as possible to home. I live in DC, commutes add to stress, and you end up having little personal/family time working further away from home. This is worth even sacrificing a income because time matters more to me now than $10k. It doesn't hurt that it saves on gas with rising prices.

Secondly, working in an environment of people that pull their weight. This is a paramount to me. If there are a bunch of unqualified employees that don't work hard to improve their English speaking and writing skills, communication becomes a major issue in meeting objectives, and I often end up with a ton of proofreading assignments. Having people around me that know answers, and that also put in the work, rather than just a bunch of blind "decision makers" or "oversight managers" is paramount to a good working space. Personal attitudes are also paramount, people don't need to be overjoyed and silly, but I can't tell you how many interviews I've said no to when they ask me about how I get along with difficult people. Its a company's responsibility to breed a mutually respectful, productive, and cordial business culture. Too many companies allow negative and difficult people to climb their ranks, I'll never work for them long if that's the case.

Lastly, I expect a company to offer a good work/life balance. I want to work for a company that clearly defines objectives, and when they're met, I don't want to be "nickeled" and "dimed" over my hours... If my work is high quality, and all goals are met, don't squeeze me. i realize that its even good to pull extra hours on projects, but a company that doesn't realize that they should "ease up" on employees in quiet times is a company that faces high turnover, they're throwing away all the intellectual capital they build by pressing employees (that eventually leave or get burnt out) too hard. This issue is usually fixed by careful attention to contract terms during bidding. If there's a requirement for a performance based contract, if you want to be happy, avoid the trend. Your oversight managers should be the ones responsible for maintaining quality and upholding employee conduct through reasonable oversight. Don't turn your company into a metric-driven juggernaut by giving in to strict SLAs/Contract terms, or you'll suffer crippling turnovers and you'll eventually lose your contract holding through (continually) rising expectations, or through liability for errors.
He should not have been on those shows unless he was talking about his play.
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Heaven forbid you, as potential employee, should summarize what you want in a convenient format! That would be communication, instead of sparring, or gamesmanship.
Minor nitpick : the linker (ld) is provided by binutils, not GCC.
Whether rich people use roads, public education, or food safety is beside the point. (And, frankly speaking, I'd venture to guess that rich people do use roads more, because poor people are more likely to ride the bus or walk.)

They pay more because, if we taxed everyone at the same rate, we wouldn't have anywhere near enough money we needed to maintain even the somewhat shoddy state of civilization in the country.

You may not like the idea that the government has to pay for all of the things it does, and that's a fair response, but it doesn't really address the bigger picture: what kind of quality of life do we want in this country?

Just to play into the "low taxes for all" thought experiment, say we slash taxes across the board and have to cut a ton of stuff from our budget. Well, I can think of what I'd cut, and I'm sure you can do the same, and I'd bet there's some overlap, and some contention. But how would these cuts make life harder for your average American (who, mind you, is poor and sick and works their ass off week after week for very little wages)? If we don't care about them--if we throw them to the wolves of fate--is this the kind of country we want to live in, one we will take pride in? How would history view us, at the dawn of the 21st century?

And, to be wise students of history, and reflect on how we got here, rather than assume our forebears were idiots who didn't know what they were doing, why do we have the regulations on business that we do? Why do we have food safety? Why do we have regulations on overtime pay? (And whose bright idea was it to exempt IT workers from that?) Why do we have regulations on medicine, or laws that dictate how and where we drive our cars?

I'm not trying to ask a bunch of leading questions. I don't have the answers here. I just think it's useful to think more broadly than "a flat tax is a fair tax is a just tax is the right thing to do", both historically and ethically.

enjoy,
A great business does not necessarily imply a great investment.
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It's new years eve and the bell chimes. You are with 9 other people. How often do you toast, if everyone toasts with everyone else once?
The Fourth Dimension App
When I picked mine up from the package room of my apartment on Friday, the guy there said that 15 had been delivered that morning.

That seemed like a pretty high number for a single apartment building in Washington D.C.

For what it's worth, I'm incredibly happy with it so far.
I've got solar panels on my house. During the day, on good days, they generate more power than I use in a 24hr period, except I'm grid tied because I can't economically store that power.

Back when maxwell tech [1] was using them to start diesel electric locomotives I did the math to figure out how many I would need in my house foundation to 'carry me' over from day to night, and it was an additional $128,000 and probably 1000 sq ft of 'foundation' space to hold them.

Graphene, and other high surface area + high conductivity solutions seem like they will make this configuration more feasible in the future. It would be interesting to be 'off grid' but without the cost/hassle of maintaining a bunch of batteries.

[1] http://www.maxwell.com/
It's pretty impressive that an unsubsidized mobile device in the $500+ price range is putting up these numbers. Does anybody besides me think this indicates consumers are replacing their old "real" computers with iPads?
You forget that there is another sub-set of people: the ones that just graduated and currently don't have a job. I think that for a recent college graduate the whole temp thing would sound to bad. Now, if you already have a job, then I believe you are more likely to play the whole hiring process game. When I was trying to get that first job, I absolutely hated the HR games. Now that I have a job, I know that I would be more indifferent to the whole random bs questions.
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Nice turn of logic there. A woman who is surrounded by men all day think of sex with them. Ergo, the writer of this blog post is sexually frustrated.
Wow. Talk about being blinded by religion. (In this case atheism).
I created an account just to reply to this because I found so many errors in its logic. First, the question is not simple: it's convoluted (and there's a typo). An question that would have actually been simple is, "what are your top 3-5 decision drivers for accepting an offer from a company/between multiple companies?"

Second, leaning on the word "imagine" does nothing to "liberate" your candidate from scripted answers; it's a common way of introducing a hypothetical and could be replaced by any number of stock phrases. If you put too much stock in that phrase for the question-design, you're thinking shallowly, and doing a disservice to yourself, the interviewee, and language itself. The ironic is that in posting the question, especially if it circulates widely, you're guaranteed to eventually get scripted answers. Third, what you focus on as externalities vs. interalities seem interrelated, e.g., "I want to do X" is the same as saying "I want to work for a company that allows me to do X".

I understand the desire for interviewers to get past scripted answers and find easier ways to select the right people for the job, but questions like this aren't silver bullets. I also find it funny that people in software would be so against interviewees having scripted answers; it impresses me that people can quickly come up with quick answers to difficult questions, not because

Not wanting to end with all criticisms, I do think the last point about a question like this revealing things about the current/prior employment. If you get people talking about things they like or dislike, unless they give you patently stock crap, they're drawing off recent or salient experience.
If we're going to talk about time, let's not forget a book I read as a child - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_Time. I believe they win the "who used tesseract first" award. At least as far as this thread is concerned for now.

To be honest though, my view is very biased because I don't care about the ocr project at all. I'm sure it's a very nice project, but hardly a tesseract really.. =p
I suspect Silicon Valley industry has shaped Silicon Valley culture more than the other way around. After all, much of California was settled by displaced midwesterners during the Dust Bowl. Silicon Valley (does anyone there even touch silicon anymore?) became the tech capital in much the same way that Detroit became the auto capital: historical accident. Once tech became established there, it became a virtuous cycle as employees of successful startups cashed out and became the founders and investors for the next generation. Now there's a mature network of venture capital, skilled workers and emergent tech culture that would be difficult for any other city to catch up to.
Perhaps true. But at least you wouldn't have the huge cost of cooling things down. Just imagine the possibilities, especially if/when SSD's catch up to HDD's in capacity/price.
Maybe supplementing? Since "old" computers aren't really old anymore as far as functionality.