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I'm not 100% certain for ships but there is a 'pricelist'[1] for when military aircraft are used by other commands/services or even 'non-government' use.

NASA has to pay for when military aircraft are used in support of there research or operations. SpaceX, as covered under Space Act agreement, would be able to obtain appropriate aircraft from the US Navy, such as a P-3 maritime patrol aircraft.

[1] http://comptroller.defense.gov/rates/fy2011/2011_f.pdf
All you can really say to the people that use 99designs is "You get what you pay for."

There's always going to be people that don't understand the cost and importance of good design, and as much as I am continually put off when I hear business owners praising it, these are the types of people that would rather use WordArt for their logo if such a service didn't exist anyway, so there's not much to complain about.

I've also heard horror stories from both sides in the process, particularly when these cheapskates tend to be the ones who are the most nitpicky.
I'm a preacher of Agile. I talk about it in order to get things done. Theoretical work is important, but let's face it, most customers want products, not research. Your average person declaring himself 'theoretically oriented' is no good in delivering products. He hasn't understood the bigger goal and will just waste the clients time and money training himself to write better algos. Most likely he will be rather unexperienced, and produce pale replicas of existing library algos and data structures.

In my experience the ones who know the most theory are also often the most pragmatic and professional ones. These don't boost about their technical knowledge, but they know it and know how to apply it. These will declare themselves 'problem solving'.

One that declares himself mostly theoretical most likely just hasn't gotten that far yet. Then we have real researchers, but that's another story entirely.
I feel bad for defending the guy after finding out that he's a corporatist douchenozzle.
Most professions are a collection of best practice rules, accountancy for one. Yet it is not a trade.
If your company has a 1 big family vibe, what makes you think this person is doing this maliciously? Maybe he just thinks everything is fair game for the taking.
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That really isn't that much weight- imagine bench pressing 60 kilos.

A more general rule is Bench Press = 3 x 1 dumbbell weight. Pressing dumbbells is harder because it involves more balancing, so it is harder to press 30kg dumbbells than one 60 kg bar.
I only mention it because 1) there were a lot of "GoBama" in Alabama and 2) I'm in Nebraska and the SSID of my wifi is BigRed. (Cause if I put BoilerUp I be the one worried about mobs)
Except I would refute that users are as aware of Lobster as the author might think.

Comic Sans shows up everywhere. Lecture slides, shop signs, product packaging... it (was|is)? ubiquitous.

Now, Lobster might twig in the minds of typography geeks and designers, but it isn't nearly prevalent enough to be in the concious of 99.999% of users. Let's face it, 99.999% users don't spend all their time on start-up websites.
They already have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse set for the Chromebox, though I've not seen it priced yet.

Here's an image:

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/samsung/sam...
I like your point about the backlash being like Vista, considering that I thought Vista was a fine OS. However, I think that was more of a jump sideways whereas this is more of a jump forwards/backwards. I haven't used it since the dev preview, but I'm looking forward to putting this on one machine and trying it out.

I'm hoping for a lot more customization. I don't understand why that's being taken out of every modern operating system. The biggest thing I dislike about Windows Phone is that I can't change the tiles to be non-insane colored. I just want them to be white, dammit! I'm hoping that level of customization is present in Win 8, but I have a sinking feeling that it will not be.
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Cryptome.org/
Documents on cryptology, dual-use technologies, and national security and intelligence. Includes archives.
Having eaten there a couple of times, the pizza at the apple cafeteria was good. We would always comment on how the pizza chef was about 5ft tall. Perfectly sized to look in the oven w/o leaning over. Form following function in one way or the other. The job post doesn't discriminate this way...
Yep. Pretty much any pizza-shop employee does those things. Obviously not all at the same time.
I'd love to see the status site opensourced or packaged and sold as a service
> The cook will also prep and maintain all food items necessary to make a variety of pizzas (toppings, sauces and related prep).

Maintainable food items.

"Also, the cook should be able to test these modular food items to ensure they are bug free."
"If fragmentation does occur, the file system will attempt to move the files around to reduce fragmentation in normal use"

Can anyone give more details on this?

Oh... And the love in the comments on the original article is quite moving.
Honestly who cares.

Based on his Stanford eCorner video, he learned a lot on the side / on weekends. If you look at the MS&E program that he did in Stanford, you do take some basic CS classes and some math as well.

Building the prototype of Instagram didn't need a CS degree so I'm not sure why it's important
Locks are often implemented using an xchg instruction, which is implicitely locked.

All processor's caches are committed/flushed for the affected cache line. So its correct to say other processors are slowed down. But it also in that sense IS a main memory operation, just not yours.
I understood that much, and sure, if you try to construct browser links from scratch then their behavior won't match the behavior of real browser links. However, if you really do have an <a> tag, then you should only have the ability to override the "unmodified click case".
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The MySQL optimizer will actually notice and remove the outer join aspect automatically. So I have often done this out of pure laziness if I start with an outer join, but really end up needing an inner join.
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Part of the beauty of Helvetica is that people typically don't think about it. It's everywhere and it's a subtle typeface. That's why many brands use it in their wordmarks.

For example, see Helvetica and Neue Helvetica in the logos of BMW, 3M, Gap, American Apparel, Jeep, The NBA, Lufthansa, Target, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, McDonald's and Microsoft. There are many others I'm sure.

Now if you had said Papyrus, I would tend to agree with you.
If it were just a package manager then I would be fine. However this is like a linux distro saying that if any program wants to use X then it will need to be installed via the package manager and must be approved by their rules, and by the way you can't install 3rd party apps that compete with our apps.
+1 for this request
Do you think that people who are comfortable slacking off care about hypothetical future repercussions?
Teach whether you know what you're doing or not
This is exactly was MIS--or Management Information Systems--is: a hybrid major between CS and some sort of Business focus.

Up until the dot-com boom of the late-'90s, this was the preferred degree for many corporate IT departments. In fact, the CFO was head of IT/MIS in many companies up until the mid-/late-90s.

Other hybrids are bioinformatics and cognitive science/computing.
Often the best to prove you know these things, is program them.
I am not sure why shane_armstrong had his comment downvoted to oblivion, as I can see why epileptics would want to stay away from these.

Even my brain was having a hard time comprehending what was going on.

They sure are "eye-catching". And I love the quotes :)
The potential for a big flop is that instead of buying a PC to replace that aging XP box, the customer will just buy an iPad.
I have gone to lunch and come back. It was amusing to watch the upvotes and downvotes for my remarks before I left. That seems to still be going on.

I appreciate that you love it. But that is exactly why they don't need a begathon and shouldn't have one. They could post their donation goal for the month on the site (at the beginning of the month) and post regular updates as to how much they have gotten so far. If it is looking to be a shortfall, an email to their subscribers would be appropriate. No begging required. They offer something of value and they need something of value in return to keep it going. That requires communication, not begging.

And, frankly, with an established audience and relatively highish monthly inflow, at this point they should be hiring someone with experience to help them raise and manage an endowment so one slow month doesn't threaten to take them off the air. Their begathon loudly announces that their business model needs work as it isn't being handled very professionally or responsibly.

I did a lot of volunteer work over the years and I have studied how Not-For-Profit models work. I am not just talking out my ass here.

Peace and carry on.
Ask HN: Having few employable skills and only 1 mo of savings left?
Thought it may be appropriate here, as there must have been startup founders who are close to that situation.
Here's the context. It's not for myself, but a friend who's in this situation right now.

<p>He graduated with an applied physics bachelor's degree 2 years ago. He's had some instrumentation design and support experience, but it's not like these skills are sought after much here (after all, most of it is outsourced to Foxconn these days), and these kinds of jobs are unlikely to be landed quickly. He can drive. He's had some C, C++, and Matlab programming experience, but there isn't much of these opportunities these days. Even if they do show up, he probably can't beat out the competition from various experience levels for the job vacancy. He has only 1 month of runway left.<p>What would you do in his shoes? Glad to hear your suggestions. Thanks in advance.
overview of different systems:

http://elinux.org/Development_Platforms
Considering he's not hellbanned, the most likely explanation is that he posted the same comment twice. HN will automatically kill the duplicate, which is what you see. Then, realizing he posted twice, he deleted one of the copies... but chose the original. It doesn't appear [dead] on his screen so he didn't realize he deleted the wrong one.
> Hackers are not optimizing for performance or readability.

Speak for yourself ;-)
It's the Blend interface and I dig it too. But I like dark windows and stuff in general - I know it's not for everyone.
I get that Google wants to try weird stuff. But how did Samsung green light this adventure? I can't imagine that it's easy/cheap to produce these things in small production runs.
I'd go with 18.23%, you're clearly ignoring pages on ferrets.

An oldie-but-goodie:

http://instapaperstories.tumblr.com/post/3069345131/the-geek...

What's actually interesting about Porn on the internet, is the way it has dealt with a) copyright issues and b) free / amateur porn.

In both cases, seeing falling revenue from P2P sites, there's been some amazingly good work on ad revenue, and ironically, a drive towards monopolies of content ~ where the content makers of 'paid' porn are actually supplying the "free" sites with content directly to drive ad revenue. And in many cases [b]own their supposed "adversaries"[/b] who are supplying "free porn".

If you want a short-hand way to think about it: it's the same deal as Pepsi or Coke. Multiple "competing" brands / flavours, all under the same umbrella.

Then again, there's also (can't find the link atm) the remarkable lengths free porn sites harvest fraudulent ad revenue off 'mushrooming' innocent linked sites tied to the page views.

~In this field, I often think that Porn has been more driven / canny about financial revenue than the MSM generators.

(Apologies if this is all known knowns & for the lack of a link there)
Neither, I asked a question which you didn't answer and instead decided to respond with ad hominem. Ad hominem is the sign of a lost argument, so either answer the question or remain a loser in this debate.
I think this comment shows that we are really conditioned in a rather strange way due to being bombarded with advertising and marketing messages.

The problem is that people don't want to participate in market research, so the only way to do it a lot of the time means not being entirely straightforward, and looking for roundabout ways to attract attention and get feedback.

However, if you're willing to look beyond the fact that you thought you were signing up for a complete product, and consider the big picture instead, you'll see that having early customers leads to better products and less time wasted on making things nobody wants. So ultimately, you benefit from it.

I used to get worked up about these things too, but I got over it.
It's also the authentically Chinese way to do it. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1249130...
Looks like this is shaping up to be the "Maddox Visual Studio, the best Visual Studio on the internet". Capital letters, black backgrounds, now we just need insulting error messages full of manliness.
This is a great idea. I'm 21 and currently live on the east coast and I am thinking of applying. However with limited income I am wondering how I would find temporary housing for the course. In my area at least it's very hard to find a 2 month lease and living out of a hotel doesn't sound very financially practical.
Oracle/Google Judge rules Java APIs not copyrightable
Then don't use an <a> tag, and you can capture more types of events. :) But when a page uses a link, the browser should ensure that it behaves like a link, including the ability to determine whether that link opens in the same tab/window or a different tab/window.

Or, more generally, you could request additional permissions from the browser; see the recent specifications for mouse capture and gamepad use.
That's not true; the LGPL explicitly supports static linking to proprietary code. That's the whole point, that's the reason LGPL exists.
build something as fast as possible and find a vc.
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Internet freedom will die.
> Country codes showed us that average users don't want other TLDs, unless they are domain hacks and can be spoken easily (.ly, .it, etc). They almost always prefer the .com

Wrong and a typical US-centric view... Germany's preferred TLD is .DE and has >15 mio registrations, .UK > 10 mio just to name the two largest ones. Generally speaking the easier (and cheaper) to register a ccTLD the more wide-spread it is in a country.
> The WOW compatibility layer couldn't account for 700 MB.

I'm not that sure... Plus 64 bits binaries are probably something in the order of 10% bigger.
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You must have only read the comic, but not the comments about down-shifting for turns. :P
> but I disagree with the sentiment that software engineering is a discipline worthy of note on the same scale that we afford to, say, electrical engineering, civil engineering, or mechanical engineering.

Exactly. Programming is not harder to learn or master than something like carpentry (i.e. something easily picked up by an interested person on their own, but with lots of potential for mastery).

What on earth would you be doing for four years of college studying programming sans compsci? What a waste.
The trouble is I did use a filesystem all the way to completely full, and now it's severely fragmented (despite me resizing it larger) and I have no practical way of unfragmenting it.
You should become really good at biology and computer science and go work for something epic like Halcyon molecular! Or Robotex!

Check out some of the founders fund companies, http://www.foundersfund.com/, a lot are doing some super cutting edge stuff (and some are doing consumer internet too)
With no track record, that's more difficult.
Literally every person I've talked to in the corporate world enjoys the ribbon. Only geeks dislike it. It's like saying GUIs are stupid because a geek can be proficient on a command line.
You can specify apple-touch-startup-images that load on web app startup. These ideally consist of your app's chrome with any dynamic or textual elements removed.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userex...
As everyone else has said...

This is not very new or innovative, it's pretty standard actually.
rel="internal"

raised my eyebrows. Yes, it makes sense. But the `rel` attribute is not to be used lightly and values are not to be invented on a whim, because eventually the value can be defined for all sites, not just yours.

Without thoroughly researching it, it looks like `rel=internal` is not standardized. That means you should not use it!

Instead, consider:

<a href="/page" data-push-state="push">Foo</a>

and

jQuery('a[data-push-state=push]')

The data-* attributes are explicitly defined as open for your own invention and use.
Great post. I completely agree especially with the fact that "Teaching makes you learn".
I'm disappointed at how radical Microsoft is becoming.

This makes me laugh. It was not long ago, not long ago at all, everybody was complaining about how old-fashioned and unresponsive Microsoft was being.
A friend of mine once complained he couldn't watch "Pensacola" (or "JAG", I'm not sure) because they couldn't even salute right.
Computer Science is neither about hardware.

I built a basic CPU, but i'd class that as digital electronics. Building a a very simple CPU isn't really that hard either.
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But all of those logos were designed decades ago, and it was a perfectly reasonable typeface for logo design. The reason it has been used so often is, of course, that it is a very well designed font. But the whole point here is that its ubiquity makes it generally a poor choice for new logos. An aesthetic does not exist in a vacuum, and the cultural context of Helvetica is that it now looks generic.
Or `jQuery("a[href^='/']")` and you don't need extra attributes at all.
I've used a service like 99designs (logosauce, I think it was), and I was relatively happy with the results. I will probably use a crowdsourcing service for upcoming projects as well.

I can understand why designers hate it, because the industry becomes a race to the bottom, and devalues the profession by making it seem like a commodity. The same thing happened with professional photography, especially in the wedding photography segment.

But I don't have a lot of money to spend on design. I can mock a piece of crap myself, or pay what I can afford to someone willing to do the work (or in the case of a crowdsourced service, compete) for it.

A higher priced designer isn't really losing revenue from me, because I was never able to afford him/her in the first place - and at least a designer is getting some money from me.

Having said that, you do typically get what you pay for. For $300, you're typically not getting as well thought out a design as you would for $10,000.
Hi Ned - would you all consider offering a free scholarship for the Fall course as well? I think for those who are already employed, the July 23rd start date is a very quick turnaround to quit or take a leave of absence. It would be much better to have more time to prepare.
Not to mention the whole dinosaur thing...
Interesting, those colors are pretty similar to my custom VS2010 theme: http://i.imgur.com/bLOxQ.png

Although in VS2010 as far as I know you can't change the colors of the explorer menus and such, but it appears in those new screenshots that you can in VS2012.
"If you do have problems with fragmentation on Linux, you probably need a larger hard disk. If you actually need to defragment a file system, the simplest way is probably the most reliable: Copy all the files off the partition, erase the partition, then copy the files back onto the partition. The file system will intelligently allocate the files as you copy them back onto the disk."

So... buy a larger hard disk, or get a second disk to copy everything to instead of a defrag utility?

I think I'll take the Windows approach here.
You can use a 2.5mm connector - it's sufficiently standard that it's not hard to find devices (or adapters) that use it.
> Honest question: how would you measure an L2 cache lookup?

Like this: https://github.com/ob/cache/blob/master/cache.c
"Windows key"? What's that? ;)
I'm not a hacker, so I can't.

FYI I'm referring to 'trying to break into a system, possibility illegally, with time pressure, hackers', rather than HackerNews hackers. Which I thought was reasonably obvious from the context.

If you're actually trying to crack a system, you're generally trying a lot of different things very rapidly. Tweaking performance and nicely formatting code you're going to immediately discard is... a misappropriation of resources.
I read the article as simply suggesting that developers create real, genuine <a>-tag links in their modern pushState-using web apps. Doubtful that there are enough people specifically overriding middle-clicking on links to warrant a blog post.

For example (and not to call anyone out), there's this demo (warning: will fill your history): http://bodytag.org/rollstate/

Looking at its source, it uses real <a> tags for its pushState() links, but with href="#". If you click on "contact", then middle-click "about", a new tab will open to "/rollstate/contact" (which 404s, another pushState() no-no).
I can't help but wonder why you'd name your wifi something negative. I mean, I can get into showing your support, but I wouldn't even think of someone I hated while naming my network.
... without a keyboard?
It is also surprisingly fast. I have VS11 running on a Cr48 with Win 8. It builds fine and I the OS runs ok. I was expecting some severe thrashing given its rather unimpressive resources and the 1 gig of disk-space that remained after I got VS11 on it.
Does this imply for certain contexts, the Windows model is superior?

Say you had a "write/update infrequently, read many times" system profile with 10% disk space avail. It seems like Windows would store these files closer to each other on the drive, making reads more efficient.

Or would that be such a negligible difference that it's not worth mentioning?
Now that Oracle has lost, what could that company do to patch things up with the java-for-mobile programming community?
I'm fairly sure I've seen guides to put Ubuntu on the various Chromebooks and it just took flipping some kind of dev switch to get access.
I agree. Hope the look at my comment as it benefits both us and appacademy.
Oh god — that’s common practice? … What happened to progressive enhancement & unobtrusive JS being best practices?
Buying for Amnesia. Don't want to play Psychonauts (didn't enjoy it the first time), and I own all the rest.

And I own all the music, too. ... Wow.
I've seen formal government documents signed by ministers that were printed in Comic Sans.

Sure, there's a place for Comic Sans, but it's used in so many places that it shouldn't be.
> it really becomes more of a science.

This bugs me. There really should be another word for this, since, as far as I am concerned, something in which the scientific method plays such a secondary role should not be primarily classified as a science. I guess you could call it "a math", but that is not terribly satisfying.

This complaint is really just a rephrasing of the old "is mathematics science" debate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_scie...), but as long as we are talking about if things that are "too engineery" are computer science, we might as well talk about if computer science is science.