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I really want this to succeed. I have never had a great experience with high speed Internet.

I'd even consider adopting a KC home, and paying some or all of their $300 for free Internet if it meant it would come to the San Jose area sooner.

Maybe a Kickstarter to wire a fiberhood?
Anyone hated by lots of murderous psycho control-freak business owners is probably doing some good in the world.
This looks like a win for everyone involved.
>Seems to me like you're making comments just for the sake of making comments.

I'm not. But since it came off that way I will apologize. First for lashing out at you, and second for not being more specific.

The word "Hacker" is being applied to everything and everyone, and it's annoying. As an example, a search for "Hacker" in my RSS feed produces the following headlines (Among others, but I list these as egregious examples.):

Mobile hackers: The future scares us, change it at Everyme

The Distribution Hacker’s Mission: Create an Unfair Advantage

ShowHN: Hacker Tourist - opinionated ecommerce for photographers

Reinvent Retail. Growth Hacker at YC Mobile Startup.

Ask HN Teachers and Edu Hackers : How do you prepare educational materials?

When you start talking about "Hacker photographers" and "Growth hackers" and "Distribution hackers" I have to ask, do you mean "People who are hackers who happen to know marketing/photography/whatever a distribution hacker is supposed to do/etc too." or are we just applying this term to everything so that everyone can feel like they're part of some elite club?

And that's not even getting into the whole "Well you can't just say you're a hacker and expect everyone to go with it." argument.

EDIT: Which, in certain views on that latter point, the word "Hacker" is about an elite club, which only makes the appending of the word to everything just feel like some sort of envy.

(Full disclosure: I do not consider myself a hacker.)
Do you have any evidence for your claim that malware would be worse due to centralization?

Apple has a very good record on malware via both the mac and iOS app store, best I can tell.

I completely get why a dev would hate the app store, but form an average consumer standpoint - it seems brilliant. Unless you are scared of Apple finding out that you installed "Evernote" or "Twitter". OMG!
If you happen to have a Resume/Cover Letter that when read, has a high chance of making inroads at a company, then snail mail works surprisingly well. (obvious downside is that it takes a very long time to research companies and tailor the documents to each one)

Snail mail is the route I took back in the Fall of 2010. The response rate was roughly 20% for me.
That was Japanese (Hiragana, one of the glyph forms that Japanese uses).
Microsoft Studios in Vancouver, BC lays off all 35 staff
"Microsoft Studios has shut down its Vancouver office and laid off all 35 staff. Also halted MS Flight and Project Columbia"<p>https://twitter.com/24hoursvan/status/228585945946013698<p>"Microsoft Studios has shut down its Vancouver office and laid off all 35 staff. Also halted MS Flight and Project Columbia"<p>https://twitter.com/24hoursvan/status/228588277987434496<p>First we lost Radical then we lost Rockstar, now we lost a Microsoft Studio. Sad times for our city.
FB getting slaughtered aftermarket
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=fb&ql=1

they beat rev est. but remember... everyone and their mothers know that first couple of quarters are budgeted conservatively.
I wonder if, like (800) GOOG-411, the primary reason Google is doing this is to gather data.
Is Google going pull a Google with this and keep a copy of every you packet transmit and receive, holding onto it for ever and ever?
Unless, of course, you live in a country without a DMCA-type law, and you rip your legally owned discs to a media server.
Betable claims to give developers 6-month lead on Zynga for real-money gambling
I agree that a lot of other documents don't have the metadata that they need to allow them to be managed in this flexible manner. But that doesn't mean that a fixed directory structure is a fundamentally better approach - it simply means that these file types (or the users that create them) haven't caught up with the benefits that proper metadata tagging would give.

In answer to your question about Project X - if the documents were able to be (and actually were) tagged with "Project X", and "2009", it would be extremely straightforward.

Using a fixed directory structure, you're relying on the fact that you know where it was stored. Did you choose to store your projects by date? If so, can you remember when it was done? Was it stored by client? Can you remember which client it was for? Was it stored by development team? Which team created it? In a metadata world, all of those things could be tagged independently against any relevant document and you simply do a search for the attributes that you're interested in.
It's standard practice to deny anyone who is not on the guest list or an employee. Simple as that. In my experience it's pretty easy to add people to the guest list as an employee, and the event organizer should have made sure that anyone who was missed was added live.
I can think of one case where a redis dictionary is used to represent a tree, and reductions are needed over a subtree. Calculations on river networks are like this. You might want to use redis instead of a cPickled dictionary, and you might not want the overhead of a full Hadoop.
Wait a minute, they snagged the Bukkit guys? I must have totally missed that. I'd love a link, if you've got one.
This was a really important number. No matter what happened, FB had to at least come out and match the streets expectations of earnings per share (which they did). After the ZNGA plummet of 40%~ Facebook took the ripple of about 5-7%.

Since IPO, ZNGA is down 70% http://i.imgur.com/kiXss.png (courtesy of henryw in another thread) and despite having 1.2B "in the bank" I don't see much life left in them. Not when you come out blaming shortfallings on "UI changes". Total BS. (Not to mention the backlash Pincus is going to get on taking $200M)

GRPN also down 50% since their IPO. (The only notable increase is LNKD ).

FB need to come out and show that they aren't dependent on ZNGA's earnings (which they aren't). Facebook's worth is their "market", which we know is rapidly approaching 1B~, and Zynga's market cap seems to wane based entirely on their daily active users (DAU) - Take a look at their P/E, it's ridiculous. Zynga's user base is comprised entirely of casual gamers, built on a platform which is looking for long term growth and isn't afraid to make UI changes which they know will damage a company who accounted for 15% of their previous quarters earnings...

Anyway, this was clearly an important announcement, if I had the money, I would happily buy FB.
Even though I kind of wish people would not spread the gospel on this issue, since I'd like the prices to stay low, I can report that I bought 2 of these some weeks ago and really, really love the result.
Man, does it have to be a revolution?
I love this for both the Zencoder team and my former colleagues at Brightcove; glad to see that positive acquisitions can still happen--and not at all surprised that Brightcove is behind one of them!
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"Microsoft Studios has shut down its Vancouver office and laid off all 35 staff. Also halted MS Flight and Project Columbia"

https://twitter.com/24hoursvan/status/228585945946013698

"Important clarification re Microsoft layoffs - a statement from MS clarifies they still have several teams in Van/Vic. More soon...."

https://twitter.com/24hoursvan/status/228588277987434496

First we lost Radical then we lost Rockstar, now we lost a Microsoft Studio. Sad times for our city.
I second this. The review times can cause real problems for development, and it is a concern that gets very little attention these days.
Your comment reminded me of:

I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?

From: http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fas...

There is user-side latency and there is server-side latency. In multi-player games it may be preferable to have less latency within the game between players than in the players' view of the game.
> is it worth to get one?

Yes. Many bloggs with light-gray-on-white text will become less annoying. Even Github used to look like xxxx on a TN panel. Apple-inspired subtle gradients of gray really do look better on IPS.
Only available in Kansas City?
I am talking about growth, not numbers. Google's Y/Y revenue growth was 35% and Facebook's is around 32.
What are the advantages of IronSpread over traditional Python COM access? The API appears only marginally better than Excel's VBA interface, and it looks like IronSpread can't interact with multiple workbooks.

The benefit of having the shell launched from within Excel, with no setup needed, disappear when you want to run more complex functions like continual updates. And on top of that IronSpread doesn't support Office 2003.
"FB had to at least come out and match the streets expectations of earnings per share (which they did)"

The quarter-to-quarter revenue numbers are suggesting a major slowdown ...

This may all turn out to be a joke if the guidance is good, but that'll have to wait for the conference call
Wow - looks like pretty soon there wont be any bridges between ecosystems.
minimize? what does that mean, how much? and who recommends? where are these rules written you're talking about?

usually people hold onto things they think are valuable and sell those they don't.

sometimes those that sell that which they don't think is valuable will use weasel words like 'diversification' and 'minimize exposure' to explain their actions so they don't have to admit they don't think what they're selling is very valuable.
I have two 28" TN monitors, and I find them much more comfortable with light gray text on deep gray backgrounds than with dark text on a white background.
Patrick is an amazing guy, but yeah, it's definitely good to remember that The Real World is a LOT bigger than the HN echo chamber. There's tons of good information out there on marketing, sales, etc., if one is willing to look for it. Limiting oneself to just what shows up here on HN would be silly.
Maybe it's different in the States, but my experiences with Shaw/Rogers have been universally positive on the tech support front. 24/7 call center, and either the problem is fixed then and there, or there's someone out to replace the modem the next day. Hell, I even had one of them walk me through cloning my MAC address to force a new IP when I got banned from 4chan back in the day.
It's nice to see this taken from Mac and PC games to music, but I'm not sure it makes sense to keep the same charities for this initiative. Instead of Child's Play, which focuses on games, I could see supporting a music-focused youth benefit charity for this. Also, several artists might chafe at the notion of supporting the EFF, whom they might perceive, rightly or wrongly, as fighters against their interests as copyright holders.

Here's an (apparently old, with source material no longer hosted on EFF's site) example:

http://www.brettglass.com/effcritique.html

I recently came across another musician railing on the EFF, but can't find it anymore. At the least, I'd say there's potential for controversy there.

[Aha, found it, from David Lowery:

http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-...

Fifth paragraph:
"... Further the new boss through it’s surrogates like Electronic Frontier Foundation seems to be waging a cynical PR campaign that equates the unauthorized use of other people’s property (artist’s songs) with freedom. A sort of Cyber –Bolshevik campaign of mass collectivization for the good of the state…er .. I mean Internet. I say cynical because when it comes to their intellectual property, software patents for instance, these same companies fight tooth and nail."]
I guess it's just because of Facebook - but still, that really sucks.
When Einstein heard about Quantum Mechanics and the idea that everything is a probability, he said: "God doesn't roll dice". He meant that even though Quantum Mechanics does give us many answers about the world of the tiny, it doesn't truly explain it. I believe that a similar analogy can be made to this case.
Personally, I'd love any of the following: Arduino, Amarino, Hackable RC Helicopter, Kickstarter funding. Basically gifts as platforms to hack more.

Other is allowing these hacks to be shown to people whom we respect and get feedback. Eg: "What does Jack Dorsey think about my bit coin hack."
Its demonoid now
Facebook, the party is over.
Facebook down 8.5% in after hours on earnings
Better yet. How can I make a job for these people? Think of all of the millions of man years that have gone to waste during this economic downturn. Surely there are a lot of unemployed people who could be adding value to something. I wish I was smart enough to figure out a way to harness the value of these people who are hungry for work.
Hot off the presses: Awesome Sauce - "Feature Complete" Rails on Node.js
I hear the above comment about Hadoop a lot. Can you explain why?
Congrats!

I am happy that they are keeping Zencoder as it is. My business, and those of many others I'm sure, depends on Zencoder.
Technically speaking you can create a new project from scratch without namespaces. This is assuming you are not going to be running in an ecosystem that requires namespaces.
From personal experience, don't apply to any positions that don't reveal the company name in the post. You'll rarely get anywhere, and when you do it will likely not even pan out to being who you want to work for or the job that was described.

What I normally do is this:

Find a job that you find unique or intriguing. If it has a company name attached I immediately jump to LinkedIn to find who I may be working for and if it's the small company, I just look up the CEO.

At this point, I start following the CEO on Twitter (if they have one) and I find out what they are interested in and post about. I will now usually start engaging that person every now and then to make them put a name to a face. This also allows you to get an idea of the personality of the person you may be working for.

After a while, I'll put the question out there, "Hey I saw that you posted Foo job at your company. Has this position been filled? I'm extremely interested."

If they don't have Twitter, I'll engage them straight through LinkedIn. At this point I'll be straight upfront and honest. Just tell them that you are interested in finding out more information about the company before you formally apply for the job. When the time comes, try and get your resume straight to their personal email via this conversation.

Open up a line of dialog with someone who is posted the job. If it's an HR department, it may be tough, but not impossible. It's worth it in the long run to build up connections (even if their virtual) with people. Blindly applying to positions is just going to leave you in the dark.

EDIT: Grammar
I wonder, do latest versions of Android have support for 3rd party Wacom styluses? Although I'm not sure Wacom even sells 3rd party styluses for capacitive tablets that are as accurate as Samsung's S-pen or those old Windows tablets.

The reason I'm asking is because I'd like to buy say a Nexus tablet to use with a stylus, but want the same level of accuracy as Samsung's S-pen or better, without having to buy Samsung's Galaxy Note devices. Do those need a special panel as well to have that kind of accuracy, do they only require that Android has the necessary API's and the support for those styluses?
If you play them from a media server, it's not really a blu-ray anymore :)

Oh actually I just remembered that AnyDVD HD transparently decrypts Blu-rays. http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html
Well, I was limiting this to guns, but okay, sure.

I'm not sure what your larger point is, though.
Although if you really think about it, what other option does yelp have. It's not like yelp is going to get the NSA to do a bunch of wiretapping, or hire sleuths to dig up the social security numbers of the irate business owners. If they think there are serious security risks, then it is prudent for them to be extra cautious, and they have to work within the means that are available to them (i.e. no NSA type stuff, just probably collecting a random list of names based on threats that they received). It sucks that the student didn't get to attend the event, but it would suck way more (from yelp's perspective) if someone managed to sneak in and destroy a bunch of stuff (or worse). I am not a huge fan of the obsession with security that has overrun our country, but I don't begrudge people for taking precautions to protect themselves.
I didn't start out with personal and professional connections. I developed them as I went. The key is getting your foot in the door - be it through an internship, a temp job, or making a name for yourself as an amateur.

The point is to develop specific valuable skills. Then, make the right people aware that you have those hard to find skills.

Assuming that what you learned in college is enough to build a career is a mistake, in my eyes.
If you wanted/needed the feature badly enough (ie, it was a mission-critical tool), you might pay much more for an update that included your desired feature in addition to stuff you don't need (or even stuff you might not yet know that you want). Also, the extra "wasted" revenue helps pay the developer for the thankless but necessary task of under-the-hood improvements, whose costs have to absorbed elsewhere.

I'm not saying the model can never work, but it's not a good fit for every product. The developer should be able to create the relationship with their customers that they think fits best; sometimes that will be IAP, sometimes subscriptions, sometimes upgrades. There will never be "one business model to rule them all", or else we'd see all marketplaces naturally converge in that direction.
Congrats!

I built a CMS integration with Zencoder recently and was blown away with their API request builder and speed of file conversion. Great service.
It is indeed one of a kind. I haven't formally studied 書道 (calligraphy), but the ad hoc 行書 (cursive style of writing) I've developed out of laziness is recognized perfectly by it.

If you're interested in good Android apps for Japanese, I would also urge you to check out Aedict[0] and DroidWing[1]. The latter, when combined with EPWING-format dictionaries obtained from a 3rd party source, is (IMO) just as good as any 電子辞書 (which themselves use EPWING-format dictionaries). I personally use the 研究社 新和英大辞典 第5版 and 研究社 新英和大辞典第6版 (they are, surprisingly enough, more than sufficient for classical Japanese and for kanbun), though you can also get J-J dictionaries and domain-specific ones, such as for IT or medicine.

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.baka.aedict...

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aokabi.and...
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This inspired me.
When I mean "hacker", I mean someone who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. This can be in the field of software, marketing, photography, or any other field. This doesn't mean that they're part of any "elite club", and it definitely doesn't have to be something that annoys you so much. It's just a term used, that's all!
I wondered the same thing, and then I started wondering if you set up an infrasonic standing wave, what sort of pressure differential could you maintain? Could you drop the pressure in the nodal low spots down by a millibar? 10? 20!?

That started me down the path of trying to figure out how much energy transfer was there in a standing wave and rather than run down the physics rabbit hole yet again, went back to work.
Making money off trolls and victims alike.
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W40k was the primary inspiration for Starcraft (W40k has been around since the 80s), and the company that owned it was in talks with Blizzard for an RTS game based on the IP. However, when that deal fell through, Blizzard expanded their sources of inspiration to include more popular Sci Fi sources, i.e., Aliens. and Starship Troopers.
Too bad it doesn't work too well. And that if it did work better, any waiter could skim your card and actually use it.
It would be far better for handsets to just support UMA. I did enjoy this feature on my Blackberry on the Orange UK network. The only thing that's decent about them to be honest.
No cost to the public? Instead of doing research they could have provided better support (or perhaps lower prices) to their actual customers.
Yes. In as much as Microsoft had "competitors" but had as close to a monopoly position in its market to warrant action.

Pedant posturing aside, to those who have "skin in the game," namely those renting and renting-out property and paying real money for leases, Craigslist is the 800 lb gorilla in most markets.
Keep writing and make sure you have a link on your site that says: "Like my blog? Hire me as a copywriter!"

Good copy is hard to come by and if you can get good at it, you'll definitely find yourself in demand...
Good point. Also, since you reminded me, chmod, chown, chgrp.
I've often dreamed of jury rigging four iPad 3 panels together. Think about it: a 19.4" diagonal 4096 x 3072 display, for the not-unreasonable price of $1,596. Drop the flash memory and A5X etc inside the iPad, and maybe you could get it down to $1000 or so (!).

No idea how technically feasible that is, but "tiling" could be one way to build a really high-res 20"+ display without requiring absurdly large, continuous error-free panels.
Thought experiment: does applying a "price" to applying to a position make sense? Legitimate & qualified applicants get lost in the noise because unqualified candidates send hundreds of resumes on sites like Monster and Craigslist.

While this would open up possible fraud with disingenuous job postings with no intent of being filled, would something like charging $1 to apply to a position improve the situation? After all, this is the approach that Universities take when accepting applicants.
chriszf says nothing to the contrary in the article. We are given the facts: 1) You may only get in if you are on the list (of names) and 2) Student X did not get in.
Incorrect that U.S. developers of a game implementing Betable could be targets of legal action? Or incorrect that your software is circumventable?

Here's another question. Is Betable willing / able to provide legal counsel to U.S. developers who get squeezed by the FBI?
Even if they are the same panels, they might very well have much cheaper power supplies in them.