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Step 3. Grant employees one must-have freedom.

Silly bullshit. First of all, by definition you have to grant all must-have freedoms. If that's not a deal-breaker than they're not must-haves.. but the idea that family dinner is a gift from your employer is ridiculous.
Aye, seems Dalvik's GC is a pretty simple mark-and-sweep.
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The analysis isn't so straightforward. What about scientists who use their hedge fund windfalls to fund fundamental scientific research? http://www.deshawresearch.com/
Apple's current focus is iPhone and iPad.

Microsoft has zero market share in the table market ("there is no tablet market, there is an iPad market"), and a very small share in the mobile phone market.

When you are #1 in a market, you don't do comparisons.

The Apple Stores are probably the best marketing the Mac can ever get. So it's better for Apple to spend money on the stores than on making TV ads for the Mac. And so they have: http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/25/the-face-and-the-brand/
I understand that the submission is going to naturally draw people who already have an interest in affiliate links, however I still have to ask -- are people really this profoundly naive? Is there a complete ignorance about the whole unavoidable reality of conflicts of interest?

Why do you think Amazon has affiliate links? Why are they busy handing out millions (though, as so many say, it's "free") to thousands of shills pimping products and consumerism? Why don't they eliminate the product because people are just naturally talking about things they like.
They lost credit card info? I thought the database itself was breached but not the servers with the decryption keys for the credit card info.
This looks incredible. Congrats to node core on this milestone! I really appreciate how laser-focused you guys are on code consistency across the board.

Looking forward to trying out the cluster and domain modules in strata!
The big difference for me was turning on pointer acceleration and pushing the sensitivity way up, to the point where just placing a finger on the stick starts the pointer moving. That way you're not actually using very much pressure, and it makes using the stick much more comfortable and intuitive.

Having a decent cap on the thing also helps: my first TrackPoint (about ten years ago) was on a third-hand laptop, and the rubber had decayed to the point where it was squishy and sticky. Not very pleasant to use :)
It's an interesting way to not use XMLHttpRequest for Ajax.
Is this actually true? Are there some links to back it up?
There's a lot of great advice here already. As a long-time freelancer, I'll try to add my tiny part:

I'm always amazed the influence that personal projects have on which kind of work comes through the door. There's a reason why many companies have a public 'labs' page. Featuring these projects will pull in clients that appreciate your sensibilities (I believe these are the best clients to have).

btw - the fact that you're on the first page of HN is a good start!
Excuse me for not clarifying: Android users, Android developers, people writing articles that anthropomorphize android. Certainly the little green robot isn't claiming anything.
What's file(1) say about those files?

If it's bad magic, update your distro. If it's a Konqueror error, file a bug. I'd be surprised if upstream hasn't addressed this (quick DDG/Google doesn't turn up any similar complaints).
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> Functional programming style tends to generate lots and lots of objects which die very young.

Well, there is a lot of Scala code out there doing exactly that.

HotSpot has no problems with short-lived objects in pretty much all its garbage collectors while Dalvik's GC is just a lot less sophisticated and mature.

So I mainly agree with you, but the proposition of

Language allows producing lots of short-lived objects
+ Dalvik sucks
------------
Programs in that language have to be slow

doesn't hold in my opinion, as seen in the differences between Scala and Clojure.
I actually still play UT99 daily! There's still a fairly competitive community where we hold tournaments and stuff.

Plus, I'm developing something (long-awaited) for UT99 called NewNet (similar to Lotus's UT2004 UTComp mod) that eliminates all movement lag and simulates zero ping server-side. And at some point I'd love to create something similar to QuakeLive (Quake via the browser, with tons of stats tracking and stuff) for UT99.

For a 13 year old game, it's still more fun than most games out there if you ignore the trolls.
The point isn't necessarily promoting one item - it's promoting a class of products.

eg. This week I think everyone should have a UPS, here is a link to an amazon product - I don't care if you buy it so long as you now have the Amazon affiliate cookie lodged.

Next week - why I think everyone should have a home NAS ..etc....

They are no longer even product plugs they are just a weekly - talk about anything available on Amazon - pieces
There is no reason to go local. It is much faster to deal with everything over the phone and by email and that's MUCH easier to do with non-local clientele
I did actually worked for about 100 hours a week and more, for a few months in 1998, and I spent a couple of quiet weeks in hospital as a result. This sort of stupid bullshit about hard work really gets me angry.
Well, they must be doing something right at Cupertino, because they really don't get viruses. Not theoretically of future-wise: practically.

99.9% of things reported (and even those are not that many to begin with) are trojans. So, Mac viruses are like the Yeti, they might well exist, but very few people have seen them in real life.

It's not just market share either. OS8/9 had several viruses with 1/5 the market share OS X has now.

If one considers that OS X is basically NeXTStep, and essentially a UNIX, do one really sees many viruses in UNIX systems? What I'm getting at is that the "administrator privileges by default", "can fuck with any file on the system" feature of Windows --up to Windows XP, which is where viruses really reigned, was not part of OS X from the beginning.

So, at worst, OS X since 10.0 was as secure as Windows Vista, which was not a swiss cheese OS like, say, Windows 98. Plus, OS X didn't have Active X, either, and used a custom PDF viewing (Acrobat is another common attack vector in Wintels).

Now, with the eviction of Flash and Java plugins as the default, and several other techniques (sandboxing, ASLR, signatures, etc), things will get even better.
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tl;dr: An information architect is a librarian for the internet.

As with every position in every industry, you'll come across good, mediocre and bad people filling the role of an information architect.

Info-architects should not produce code, specs, interaction design or anything visual beyond a high-level site map. And they should not be asked to do so unless they can write production code, produce visual design or architect the full user experience, something most cannot do.

Their role is to understand what information the system is receiving, analyzing and transmitting, how the information relates to itself and how that information should be best organized and disseminated in order to meet business requirements.

If you meet one who knows their shit, cozy up and learn as much as you can because it's been my experience that many of the root causes of adoption failure lie in the engineer's inability to properly organize, relate and disseminate information to the user. Not scale, not coding skills, not lack of design.
>eg. This week I think everyone should have a UPS, here is a link to an amazon product - I don't care if you buy it so long as you now have the Amazon affiliate cookie lodged. Next week - why I think everyone should have a home NAS ......

Well, an edge case. It's not like you can't easily spot a blogger that writes with that intent...
I've decided that I want to start freelancing doing web design for local businesses/organizations.

Much like how in product development we talk to customers prior to building stuff, I'd suggest verifying that you have an addressable market for a service offering prior to defining what that service offering is. "Freelance", "web", "design", "local", and "business" are five things that you said in that sentence which might be distinctly suboptimal.

Consider alternatives such as "I am the world's leading expert on WordPress sites for heritage language Asian schools." That sort of thing potentially resolves a lot of customer identification and marketing problems, and lets you charge much higher rates than generic "local business web-dev", even though you might just be doing web development and heritage language Asian schools may all be local businesses for some value of local.

(By the way, just my biases talking, but when I think "local business" the phrase "the best possible customers for programmers because they love paying five-figure invoices in a timely manner after competently managing reasonably specified projects" does not exactly jump to the forefront of my mind.)
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Come on, this is a hacker community...The people here aren't that dumb. Atleast, you could have used a URL shrinking service..duh!
You mean like if http://www.factcheck.org/about/ was instant?
It's always weird to see someone execute on an idea I've had myself. My idea was through chat and email though. Talking on the phone is way too personal. But good luck.
An iPod Touch has been $200 for years, and it's just a small iPad. I don't believe that stretching it out a bit can cost all that much.
Hi, I have been reading Hacker News for a while but this is my first post. My name is Georges Duverger.

I have been working in the Web industry for more than 5 years—3 startups, 2 countries, 1 acquisition—but until now I never took the time to write down what I believe in (professionally, at least).

I would love to hear your feedback on those thoughts. Thanks!
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I was under the impression that this used a similar principle to the one that keeps hard drive heads in place. So some reasonable amount of vibration should not be an issue. On the other hand, assuming a reliability similiar to hard drives, failures will happen. and in worst case, will send a weighty heatsink spinning at 2krpm flying inside your computer case. Given how collision-unfriendly that baby looks, its not something i would want to happen inside my desktop box.
Direct link to researcher's blog post about the exploit:
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/06/bad-couple-o...
Thank you very much for your article. It brought back lots of fond memories of my younger days, spending hours and hours solving past year olympiad problems. I eventually got a silver medal in the Singapore National informatics olympiad. But it was not good enough to qualify for the IOI. I am 26 years old now, have my own startup and I still think about it :(
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What 'INTERNET' means, to Indian Parents and how geeks turn dumb 
Spreading Awareness? - Bullshit! You just turned a Geek into a Dumb-ass.
You'd probably have a better framerate if you used translate or translate3d instead of a simple transition. Framerate is fine in Chrome but isn't fantastic on iPhone/iPad
This is crazy, but yet amazing. I'm totally gona subscribe to the RSS feed. :)
Writing a book on Modern Perl is nuts.

As the author of this post points out, there have been about twenty releases since Perl 5.6, when the book was published. Features like the "switch" and "state" keywords have been introduced. If you look away too quickly, another database interface crops up, or people are doing objects differently. Perl changes so often that writing about it is like trapping a unicorn.

It's impressive that users of a 25-year-old language are not afraid to improve upon it (with the caveat that it stays backwards compatible). But since I started using $OTHER_LANGUAGE I don't have to worry about keeping up to date because language features change twice a decade.
This is a very interesting product but the wording of the intro paragraph seems odd to me.

"We have developed a technology to create covert concealment devices out of a material that black & white cameras can see through."

I may be picking semantics here but I'm unclear... have they developed the plastic itself, or developed covert camera containers out of another manufacturer's material? The containers are a great idea in their field but actually having engineered the plastic itself would be even more impressive.
>I understand that the submission is going to naturally draw people who already have an interest in affiliate links, however I still have to ask -- are people really this profoundly naive? Is there a complete ignorance about the whole unavoidable reality of conflicts of interest?

Why stop there?

Do you assume people are THAT naive to not be able to tell a honest review/mention + link from a dishonest push?

>Why do you think Amazon has affiliate links?*

To get people to send traffic to them?

>Why are they busy handing out millions (though, as so many say, it's "free") to thousands of shills pimping products and consumerism?

Amazon is pro-consumerism? I'd never...
Most black plastics become transparent fairly quickly in the near-IR, it's something the dye designers aim for since it reduces the heat load into the material and makes it last longer.

Doing this with a regular (IR filter removed) BW camera and a polythene garbage bag is a standard science-fair demo.

As you get further into the infrared it becomes annoying. lots of things you think of as black, like black anodize and black electrical tape are transparent - so you get reflections and light leaks from things you would never think of.
The standard is that hostnames are case-insensitive, but non-FQDN paths should allow both uppercase (especially for systems which don't include lower-case elements, yes, Virginia, they exist) and lowercase elements.
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Does this heatsink work when it's mounted vertically? The "hydroplaning"/floating effect seems to suggest the heatsink must be resting on the base instead of suspended sideways.
Wow, I'm so surprised to read this, just last week I got the news that I ended first in the Nederlandse Informatica Olympiade (Dutch Informatics Olympiad)...

My story is kind of the same except I started with knowledge in Python, C# and PHP. I will be participating in the CEOI http://ceoi.inf.elte.hu/ and the IOI.
The stats quoted in this piece illustrate the success of Kickstarter, not its failings. If 53% of project that need greater than $100,000 don't reach their funding goals, that means 47% of projects reach their funding goals. A 47% chance of raising $100,000 or more for developing something irrespective of its quality is incredible.

And the App Store analogy isn't a good one. For the App Store, you need a fully developed product. You've already spent thousands of hours and dollars creating something by the time it gets to the store. At Kickstarter, you've only spent time explaining your idea. It's a great product dev tool for testing the market viability of business-to-consumer ideas.
Perl is for having work done in a minimal time. If you want to write code that is easy to read, learn Ada.
Python is probably a better balance. Perl is wonderful for all the small scripts I need every days. When something needs to be reused, it become a module with a good documentation.
I think nobody should read perl code except:
- to learn how to code.
- to modify a program you have written
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Ask HN: Please review my startup: flashissue.com
We launched FlashIssue, a web app for curating newsletters quickly using existing web content about two months ago and got great reviews from users, but we would like to help convert more users to the point of sending the newsletter through us (or the mailchimp integration)

We would also like to hear any comments or suggestions on our Chrome web clipper extension that integrates with the app (link to it in the app)

The app is before a professional design iteration (we are aware it doesn't look pretty), but we would like to improve usability as much as possible when we brief the design agency.

Appreciate your comments
Yup, you can see through Coke by opening up a cheap webcam and removing the IR filter. You can even make an IR-only camera by replacing the filter with a piece of exposed film, which is black in the visible spectrum and but lets IR light through. http://www.hoagieshouse.com/IR/
My first thought on reading this: get to the point!

If I were hiring an IA, I think writing an essay with the title of the post might not be a bad starting point.
Especially since it's just a small $$ version of what most computer trade press have been doing for 30years
Well.. its something real..
I am making real money from this.. and putting an affiliate link does not have to be something bad at all.

Why do I have to shy about promoting something real?!!
The video mentions that transferring heat to the impeller is a challenge, but it wasn't clear to me how they overcame this. Is the space between the CPU and the impeller so small that heat can be transferred efficiently?

If that is the case, I wonder how cheaply these could be produced given the incredibly tight clearance.
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Because it's a prototype without noise filters or any other attempt to reduce motor noise. His point in turning off the motor was to show that there's little noise caused by the blades chopping through the air - which is where fan noise actually comes from.
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It's been a while since I looked at the Clojure source, but from what I recall, the initialization problem is almost wholly related to loading all of clojure.core, not garbage collection.

If you're hitting slowdowns after initialization, there's a good chance it's reflection, not garbage collection. Type hinting can help if that is the case.

Because of the way that Clojure reuses immutable data structures, it doesn't do as much garbage collection as one might think.
Well, the big epidemics on PCs have been viruses, not Trojans.

Trojans don't spread fast because of their very nature.
The fanless heatsink is a fan. Duh. YMMV but I'd not call it fanless.
Juniper Networks to use Scala and Akka (Typesafe)
The domain module looks fantastic: http://nodejs.org/api/domain.html

"Domains provide a way to handle multiple different IO operations as a single group. If any of the event emitters or callbacks registered to a domain emit an error event, or throw an error, then the domain object will be notified, rather than losing the context of the error in the process.on('uncaughtException') handler, or causing the program to exit with an error code."

This will be great for things like request handlers, initialization code and other "loose" blocks of code where you don't really care about success but you do care about errors not propogating.
I think this assumes your portfolio, if any, can actually prove that specialty. You might even need to do some free work, assuming you are just starting, in order to advance the idea that you are specializing in some area.
In a production version the noise is largely caused by the air flow, whereas the motor noise would be cut down/eliminated by casing which is not present in the development version
If you've got "more than a few people jumping to invest in your idea, who want some sort of corporate entity to exist so they can own shares of it" you've probably already made it. The scenario where that happens while it's still just an idea you're treating as a hobby seems pretty implausible.
Haha wow, I'm an idiot. I went straight for the large orange circles and passed off the intro paragraph completely.
I 'interviewed' an intern by giving him a crazy assignment. He made this.
The paper linked in the article also indicates that it isn't exclusively about talent, but that scarce capital can also be misallocated towards the financial sector during financial booms:

"Second, we note that finance requires financing. That is, financial intermediaries compete
with non-financial intermediaries for financial resources. This leads us to conjecture that firms
that rely more heavily on external finance will be in more direct competition with the financial
intermediaries themselves for resources."

( from http://sirc.rbi.org.in/downloads/4Cecchetti.pdf )
Don't count on being able to use Amazon Associates in a mobile app, mobile formatted site or getting commission for mobile visitors to a regular site.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/deta...
4. (e) You will not, without our express prior written approval, use any Product Advertising Content on or in connection with any site or application designed or intended for use with a mobile phone or other handheld device, or any television set-top box (e.g., digital video recorders, cable or satellite boxes, streaming video players, blu-ray players, or dvd players) or Internet-enabled television (e.g., GoogleTV, Sony Bravia, Panasonic Viera Cast, or Vizio Internet Apps).

I have never heard of anyone getting any response for prior written approval. Myself included after many attempts.
"PC" has been appropriated numerous times by vendors to mean a specific platform. In the times were personal computers were less-standardised "IBM PC" and later "PC Clones" referred to the platform and not "personal computer" specifically. This naturally led to Macintosh computer being referred to as Macs, even though they too are "personal computers".

The problem is that many people today don't understand the history of personal computing and that "PC" has an established history of meaning a specific mainstream platform. I think some mistakenly poke fun at Apple, as if they had invented the label 'PC' for their ad campaign. When actually Apple merely took advantage of this convenient, existing differentiator for their PC vs Mac ads.

Apple have been working references to other platforms out of their marketing materials for years. Comparisons are no longer needed when a company has found their publicly-held niche.
Do 5 to 10 jobs for free. Not skimpy stuff either... really put the time in, overdeliver, and bust your ass on these and go for real excellence. It'll pay for itself. At least, it's been good to me. Here's some good questions to measure your success by --

--

Measuring Production/Service – Questions To Ask At The End

“Did they give a testimonial? On a scale of 1-10, how glowing/awesome is the testimonial?”

“Did they give us referrals? How many? How many sales did that lead to?”

“Did this job become an outstanding addition to our portfolio? Why or why not?”

“Did they purchase any relevant upsells or services?”

“Subjectively, did it feel like it ‘went well’?”

“What was the cost in time and money to do the work? (Did any of the money/time cost relate more to general asset-building, knowledge, etc, than the fulfillment itself?)”

--

If you play it right, you'll have 5-10 awesome testimonials )(you can actually say, 'What do you think of my service? What do you think of my promptness? Friendliness? Looking out for you?' Etc, to get quotes on relevant topics. You'll also very likely get at least a couple referrals out of it (aim for 3 on average per client to start, you might not hit it depending but it's a good target), and probably 1 or 2 of them will choose you for significant work later. It's really just a win, if you don't mind hustling and working. Sadly actually, some of your best free clients you'll have to run down and really bust your ass to get them to even agree to take your work for free! But it's worth it, it works.