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Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
My wife is a stay at home Mom and is bored - unfortunately she doesn't have the best formal education credentials but she is far from stupid. However this does heavily impact her ability to get a job that pays much more than minimum wage, usually labor intensive. She has a herniated bulging disc in her lower back, so I'd prefer her not do a lot of manual labor all day. I wanted to hear from you guys what sort of entrepreneurial endeavors she might embark on with my programming/web expertise and a little bit of cash backing her. The catch is, she needs to be able to do it from home. She doesn't need to get rich - even earning ~$1000/mo would be acceptable as long as the man(woman) hours to money earned ratio is reasonable. Ideas?
That's a good point. Where this would really be useful, is online stores ... wait
They are arsonists masquerading as firemen.
That is NOT correct.

Dissonance model has been shown to not be proportional to price. Which is intuitive as you see fervent defending of brands for products such as beer, wine, websites etc which are relatively low cost or have no cost to the user.
That opens up a whole other can of worms though. How is Amazon making money overnighting me deodorant for cheaper than what I can buy at Safeway? I know there is an argument about all the other higher-margin items I buy from prime, but seemingly 95% of my prime purchases are for items where I would be surprised if their margin exceeded the cost of expedited shipping.

Presumably they have good knowledge of the distribution of consumer behavior and have figured out how to make money in aggregate, despite the presence of people like me. I agree with Manjoo though, at times it's hard to believe.
Amazon is Internet Walmart.

Or in other words, Amazon is the ultimate middleman. It's not about ebooks. It's about making Amazon the most frictionless way to buy anything.

If they own the market then they can dictate royalties to publishers.

If they own the market, they can disrupt the publishers. If I were Amazon, I'd be creating software infrastructure to enable serious businesses to create and market curated collections of content because that's all publishing is in its purest form, be it books, music, or whatever. Distribution is plumbing, and why would someone choose to compete with Amazon on that front?
Wow, haha, thanks for sharing that. My old suspicions finally confirmed! :)
Inexperienced. That is based on my own 20yrs of experience watching (some) developers mature.
You're implying that APL is complicated. It isn't. It was designed for regularity and simplicity. Iverson and his group worked on that for 7 or 8 years (can you imagine!) before they began implementing it, and what they came up with remains one of the great high water marks of software design.

This brings out a problem with the OP and the discussion. We readily dismiss things as complicated that are merely unfamiliar. The converse is also true: we don't see complexity once we've become habituated to it. And we become habituated surprisingly quickly.

So how do we distinguish between complexity and unfamiliarity? Without some reliable distinction, this is all in the eye of the beholder.
This might be right up her alley:

http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-build-a-niche-site/

It's not HN-ey, but I can see it working for her.

Best of luck!
The Prime membership is sunk cost, no doubt.

But once you've paid it, any given purchase is "should I drive down to the store to get it, Amazon it for 'free', or pay some other retailer for online shipping?". And at that point, the Amazon choice wins more often than not.

And while amazon does incorporate the price of 'free' shipping into their base (I often see, ON AMAZON, the same item from a non-prime-eligible vendor for $4 less than prime elligible), I know that when I order something with prime shipping, it gets there within 2 days at most, and has a hassle free return policy.

So really, the $80 serves too reasons: To defray some of amazon's costs, and to weed out serious buyers from non serious buyers -- they'll lose money on "free shipping" for people who only buy 5 items a year, so they pick a price point which is a no-brainer for anyone whom won't be a losing customer for them.
I really like it, although I would change the "years between" slider-type control you used to something more standard, and I would add some better styling to the tomato-meter slider... and well to the whole filter settings panel... but other than that, it's pretty Awesome. I could and will definitely use it... I am forever having a hard time finding a good movie to watch on Netflix.
just watched the video. nicely done! is there a way to specify explicit ordering? so, if task1 takes three hours and task2 takes 10 minutes and must follow task1, can i keep the service from putting task2 before task1 when it is creating a schedule for task execution?
I hope I've never said anything pro-TSA on HN.
This seems geared to make the amount of water on the planet look small, but it backfired for me.

I still remember the first time I flew over Lake Michigan, and my mind was blown at the impossible scale of all that water.

In this image, most people compare the water to the Earth. Nice, homey, medium sized Earth. In comparison, the water looks tiny.

I was drawn to that far tinier lake to its right, which once blew my mind. Comparing the lake to the big wet globe feels like skipping a few steps in Powers of Ten (or Gurren Lagann).

All I know for sure is that my poor human brain sucks at scale. "Bigger than I understand" arrives far too soon.
People have been searching for the One True Language for decades. Why is it so important that there be one? The interfaces we use to talk between components are so much more important, so that we can use what fits for different parts.
You mean the law of reversibility?
The downside of course is that it would more than likely bias people's attention towards negative reviews / low ratings. The low-tech solution could be to simply print the good ratings ("4/5 from customers since 2009", "Most liked on FB", etc...), but even that might still cause a few people to question the things that get no comment. That being said, I think it would be an excellent idea for restaurants with quick menu turnover, with seasonal dishes or a kitchen that likes to experiment.
UTF-16 is most certainly Unicode, even if it isn't the preferred flavor.
Is Rails as prevalent as it once was, or has something emerged to overtake it for whatever it is that Rails excels at?
Plato's emission theory of vision. Or, why it's dark when you close your eyes.
They've been selling the 3GS continuously since summer 2009. Of course they're still making new ones. Tim Cook wouldn't have his current job if in his old job he'd accidentally booked years of surplus units.

See also Anandtech's writeup of the substantial new chip fabrication improvements going into this year's version of last year's iPad: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5789/the-ipad-24-review-32nm-a...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/18/uk_war_driving_arres...

Situation in UK not clear, most police action is around cautioning people doing strange things with laptops in parked cars. Responding to complaints.

Given current security levels in UK coming up to Olympics, any use of communications kit like this in a moving vehicle would need to be really upfront, or you had better have a good story when stopped.
Well, for the most part, my expenditure on Prime is usually justified within weeks after I renew it. I work from home, in the suburbs, and do quite a bit of my shopping online.

I have, within the past month or so, bought inner tubes for my bike, other bicycle accessories for the new bike I just bought (pump, water cage, water bottle, wedge pack), a pair of boots, a new Aeropress, one paperback (for the daugher) and a smattering of Kindle books.

I don't shop just to justify the sunk cost, but it should probably go without saying that while some (or none) of those purchases may not have been the very best price I could have found them for, they were all priced reasonably, and I suspect, well below what I would have found them for at the nearby brick and mortars, without having had to leave the house for it.

That said, ignoring the 'sunk cost fallacy', as the chances of finding 'better-than-Amazon' prices locally are slim to none, I am an idiot if I don't buy from Amazon wherever it makes sense to. Obviously, packs of deodorant and shampoo are borderline, but free shipping on a lawn mower that's half the cost of Home Depot? Ideal use of Prime membership. Not exercising it means paying more, and going through considerably greater effort to do so (lugging the box around, borrowing an appropriate vehicle to carry a lawn mower, etc.)
Show HN: Weekend Project - SlideWriter for iPad
Put the Go Pro higher on the page like towards the top cause some of us want to give you are money as easy as possible!
Was it deliberate, though? The impression I gained was that the engineer made the software dump the packets and extract the SSIDs, but forgot to remove the dumps.
Perfect example. There were no language problems. You wrote it in Python, then once you knew where to optimize you did so with C/C++.

Great use of the available tools.

Now to answer your question: I have no idea. Perhaps like you, I consider C and C++ to be pretty much one language because they occupy nearly the same slot in the toolbox. Maybe ones a regular screwdriver and the other is a power screwdriver? I dunno.

The most peculiar debates are about the latest versions of C and C++. Really smart guys, how much nicer if they would listen to Peter Thiel and work on real innovation. The economy needs it.
In case anybody was wondering: mysqldumpslow is for dumping MySQL's slow query log.
1) Amazon is good at anticipating demand, so they can make sure some deodorant is always at a fulfillment center near you.

2) Overnight shipping is cheap if the distance is short, because then it's really just "shipping a short distance, which happens to be during the night".

3) You still have to pay shipping at Safeway, and you also have to pay for Safeway's smaller economy-of-scale inventory system.

4) Amazon wants you to love shopping with them, and they play the long game. They'll take a loss on deodorant to win a customer.
Not HN-ish but has she considered Avon?

My wife sells Avon and it's a not half-bad way to make some income on the side.
"It’s always bothered me that you can simplify “Simplify, simplify, simplify” ... <facepalm>
I have both and with or without cases, I can't replicate the rattle sound you're referring too
Sure, teams complicated the complexity issue. Which is why things like Java are so popular, where the moving parts of the language itself are few enough.

It's jam sessions all over again. Much easier if the basics of the musical form aren't too complicated (e.g. 12 bar blues) or everybody knows the same songs already (e.g. Irish folk). Getting a random bunch of people together for some Free Jazz is a bit harder.
I already feel that the world is a better place
According to the TIOBE index, Python was already in the Top-10 in 2003, before Rails was even released.

You should remember there's a lot of Python usage besides web, like in the scientific community.
I think this is precisely it. I've had this same problem and others on Linux Mint. I wasn't able to fix them until I built FF from source.
Amazon is giving away free stuff in order to get you to subscribe. There's nothing novel in this. It gets confusing when you consider the number of businesses Amazon is into and the way they interact. Does Bezos know what he's doing? Yes. A lot of things at once, likely with different levels of confidence and surely with different outcomes, which Amazon will adapt to and evolve into. They aren't afraid of trying things out. What's great about Amazon is that, like Apple, it hasn't settled onto what they do, except what they're doing right now; this isn't an issue with their focus, but evolution.
BTW, another curious part of firewire (unrelated to target mode) is that a firewire device can read and write RAM from a running PC, without interaction. Even when you have "locked the workstation". Random google link: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/physical-memory-attacks-via-f...
> UPDATE: I believe most (if not all) codes have been redeemed already.

Well that didn't take long.
> Also: the security of the iOS platform is a different story than of the OS X platform.

Interested in this. More secure or less? Any thoughts on it?
Elance, textbroker, mechanical turk, etc?
My question is how effective will this be based on showing the number of likes alone? If you go to the store and see a string of numbers associated with each item on sale at what point does it lose its meaning? For example, I see one item over 1000 and one with just under 200. It's either liked five times more by a random sampling of socialtech-aware shoppers, or it's just a difference of 800 people from a group of 280,473 people (the number of likes on their FB page) which is less than insignificant. I'm sure at least a few people will start to get headaches as they try to manage what their "sweet spot" is for pants, jackets, shirts, etc. each.

Edit: I do think it's an interesting start, and at the very least I'm sure it will look good to marketing by encouraging more people to "like" what they buy– whether or not that leads to more buyers in the end I don't know.
Ask HN: What are your favorite ebooks? Technical or Not
I really enjoyed Sacha Greif's and Jarrod Drysdale's ebooks on design from about a month ago.

http://sachagreif.com/ebook/
http://bootstrappingdesign.com/

What are some other good ones? Technical or non-technical, any subject, let's get a good list.
Good point. There are multiple axises of difficulty. Amount of things to remember, interconnectedness of said things, potential drawbacks, unfamiliarity, idioms etc.
I don't know what exactly do you mean by "dynamic topology" here, but I'll try to explain what the author means, from my Erlang programmer point of view.
In ZeroMQ you define a "network topology", however "dynamic" it might be. You define "formal" channels for communication. The computing entities use these channels to talk to each other.
In Erlang it's just the opposite. The computing entities are the communication channels. Imagine that you have entity A, communicating to entity C, via channel B. In Erlang you can have (and that's the usual way of programming) that channel B to be a process with computing capabilities of its own. So in fact in Erlang the "network topology" is not merely a means of communication between processes. In Erlang, usually the "network topology" is the program itself.
Top 7 Startup Accelerators & Incubators
I work for a very cool startup in Amsterdam, and we are hiring Python/Django/JS devs. My email is in my profile - please get in touch.
I'd be delighted (:

But I also can't deny that camel^3 looks like a (much bigger) competitor. I've some ideas to improve what bugs me about Online Shopping, maybe one of them can differentiate me enoguh.

As I learned today: No reason to give up
There's a tricky problem that comes up in teams. A "bad" developer can hack and slash and appear to implement new features in a certain amount of time, and a "good" developer who takes the time to do everything right may actually produce less of obvious value in the short term. When approaching software restructuring, you have to make damn sure that your management chain understands the importance of the refactoring and can evaluate the time you spent for its actual worth. If your organization uses "metrics" or other weasel words to examine productivity, tread carefully.

It's also worth noting that even if you believe you know how to improve/simplify/whatever, it may be worse than you think and sometimes you don't figure out the extent of the complexity until days have gone by.

This, like many things, is a trade-off and not a set rule. In brand new code, by all means make it small and pretty and documented and whatever else would win it an award; but in established code bases be smart about what you "fix".
If prime were available here, I would rarely go into a store except for groceries.

Of course, in the Seattle area Amazon offers those, too: http://fresh.amazon.com/
May Patch Tuesday to fix 23 security holes, affects Microsoft Office and Windows
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, as from a purely economic standpoint that is exactly right. I think the point other people are trying to make is that given you have already subscribed to Prime, things you would already have purchased are now available for less via Amazon.
Not sure whether you are being serious or not, but beyond a certain IQ (I think around 120) there is no correlation between IQ and income (or success in general). This has been studied over and over.
I think that the approach that DDG is taking is wrong. Relying upon individual sites search engines isn't going to lead to uniform results because they are always going to vary in quality.
tptacek has been the most prominent defender of Microsoft's security practices on HN for years. Everything you guys are saying about how Apple get off easy while MS get slammed, he has said repeatedly and more coherently. And out of direct experience to boot.

It just didn't happen to be - and still isn't - relevant here.
Thanks for reminding me about them! I ordered a catalogue from them a couple of years ago but never got around to ordering anything. I'll definitely take another look.
And pray that it doesn't have a similar hole that gets discovered a few months down the line...
Thanks a lot for your detailed, response. I will really look into the things that you have mentioned. Of all the different languages you have mentioned, python is my natural choice. What I have heard about python is that higher execution time makes it not suitable for bigger applications, but I know reddit, dropbox ,.etc are using python. How do you see it from your experience?
Are You Peeing Enough?
can she market childrens apps? its very difficult to get your app exposure. i personally would pay for something like that. today the main option is review sites but theyre super saturated.
Should plugins really be necessary? What would a plugin bring to the table that searching "python whatever" doesn't?
That's not what I'd call a tradeoff. Problem complexity isn't the same thing as incidental complexity. If a DSL is useful for the problem domain, it's not "extra complexity", it's a simple (albeit hard to implement, simple != easy) and elegant solution.
What is it called when a certain amount of complexity is introduced, that serves to reduce overall complexity?
Git for the lazy ones
I think perhaps you're suggesting a false dichotomy there. Almost any useful general-purpose programming language is going to have both some degree of extensibility and some degree of support from built-in language features. The different flavours are a question of priorities, because the more specialised tools you provide via dedicated language features, the harder it is to keep the core of your language generic. The really successful languages tend to have a set of specialised features powerful enough to give a significant advantage over languages without them, but well enough matched and with clean enough semantics that the overhead for extensibility in other directions isn't prohibitively increased.
But it does appear to affect anyone that does NOT use full disk encryption. If I were to venture to guess, I would estimate that the vast majority of Mac OS Lion customers do not use full disk encryption.

For those that do, you're lucky. For everyone else, this is horrible.

I agree with the comments that if this type of issue was found in a Microsoft product, I suspect there would have been a patch issued in less than a month and probably much sooner. Is Apple just sticking is head in the sand or do they just hope that no one notices the problem while they (slowly) work on getting a fix into a future release?

Or is it that having to do a special patch for this means that Apple has to admit that they have security issues like Microsoft has had to deal with? I'd love to know the reasoning at Apple about why this wasn't fixed as soon as they found out about it.
Thats great. But I smell a slight of hand trick here. Lead the audiences attention away while you stuff cards down your sleeve.

Stay wary, stay vigilant.
Like for many other things, people who bought a prime account will probably rationalize to themselves that they made the right decision.
AirBNB hires at home customer service reps or at least they used to anyways not sure if they still do.

A lot of companies hire people to manage social media too.
As to Shreve's question about pushing back if you sense a dodge, keep in mind that there are sharply diminishing returns for each new followup.

Some guidelines I like:

1) Provide as many additional details the speaker explicitly requests.

2) If you think the speaker unwittingly misunderstood your question, clarify once and briefly. If that fails, it's a sign. Let it go for now.

3) If the speaker's response missed one of the 99 caveats you think are important, smile, sit down and consider drafting a letter.

Socratic conversations can be great ways to explore an issue, but they don't work while one party is on stage. You definitely shouldn't try to convert someone who is on stage. One followup should be all you ever need in this format. If you need more than one, you really just need a different setting.
I'm pretty certain only Perl is in the Perl class of programming languages
Not possible anymore on locked (screen saver, login screen) Macs with Lion's FDE enabled.
looks nice. was it somewhat-inspired by the video going around that demonstrates faster cursor movements by sliding fingers over the keyboard?

after a selection is made, it might be nice to pop-up cut/copy/paste options automatically (unless it does that and i missed it).

when will it be available to the general public?
If you love that sorta thing then you may enjoy being a barber-surgeon/doctor in a living history group. It involves a bit of expense in acquiring all the tools and knowledge, but you'll be by far the most popular person with the public.

One of my friends does it in our group; he constantly has a crowd of 5-10 people gathered around his stall listening to the gory details. Everyone's interested in the weapons and fighting, but they're -really- interested in seeing how a trepanning tool works.
Ability to play DVDs adds $2+ cost for each Windows copy
That's what I was thinking of when I mentioned security. Maybe it's irrelevant to this story, but I thought it was interesting when I read it.
I agree. This cat and mouse game between lawmakers and the people is quite exhausting. If it isn't SOPA, it's PIPA, CISPA, ACTA... and they'll just keep coming until one of them makes it into law.

I think we should be focusing our power into pushing for legislation that prevents these kinds of bills to be passed, rather than fighting them off time and time again.
On a related note: the UK startup Growington is doing a great job. http://growington.com/
The frequent fliers who flew too much
The truth behind vehicle shipping transactions
Plenty of other ways to do auth out there. Heck, if they just emailed me data that would be an improvement.

The problem with CSV, QFX, and similar is that it generally doesn't contain all of the data available from the website, like check images, statements, etc.
But the point is that if they faked shaking algorithmically then the original signal would be shear-free right ?
No I don't. I was going to add that I find it interesting (actually disturbing) when a person that is leading or has mastered one field of endeavour ventures into another and uses that platform. Often squandered but just shows them to be human. But maybe being on edge and thoughtful is what brought them to mastery in the first place.
Is the password written to disk if I am not using FileVault or FileVault2 in Lion?

Even then, I would not want my password be written to disk. This would be a serious problem for me.