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> "Well, those would count as jobs themselves, so you would have to send out resumes anyway."

It's bigger than that. The difference between internships and full-time work is that one is a lot easier to get than the other.

Being a student opens tons of doors for no particular reason whatsoever. Many companies have organized internship programs not only for recruitment's sake, but also out of some sense of social responsibility. People are also willing to cut students a lot of slack, and let a lot of problems drop. The expectations are dramatically lower.

The bar shoots up dramatically as soon as you leave school, even for the same type of work.

IMO anyone who isn't leveraging their student status to get at these opportunities is wasting time. You will never again be in this good of a position to be automatically given the benefit of the doubt.

I know many humanities majors from college, and the ones who have not have trouble finding employment have always been the ones who leveraged internships and other student-only opportunities to their maximum.
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Does anyone in Australia want to take a stab at what this is likely to mean for the politics of the NBN?
tl;dr: $10. His advice: don't pay more than $5.
I think you all are missing this little line here:

"I did not want my script to require any technical knowledge, so that non-techies (business people, marketing, sales team etc.) could just press a button and see the results of their work"

Most of us in here know the results of this tutorial can be reproduced with one single line in bash and a perl script.

But try telling a non-techie guy to get that command working. If you did set up the environment for them beforehand it's all frosty. But if not... that would require introducing them to the command line, perl or python AND the INSTALLATION of their respective modules needed to work with Excel.

Just to install perl on windows would mean having to send them on an odyssey through: strawberry, activestate, cygwin, etc and then hope for the best when they get to the module installation part.

That IronSpread thing sure is quite interesting. Too bad it is not supported by Excel 2003 (yup, I'm in a legacy box here)
High school kids, debating endlessly with a hostile audience every day, are turning into frighteningly persuasive writers all on their own.

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People brought T430s to OSCON? The keyboard layout alone should be enough to disqualify the __30 series :(
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You can: with a few lines of text a script (be it JScript, Active Python, Active Perl) can be made a COM accessible "object" and can be run from Word and Excel or any other program which has VBA.

Visual Studio had that too until Version 2012. Now MS removed VBA infrastructure from the Visual Studio 2012 -- although since 1998 I was able to assign a keypress to run a Perl code from a VS editor to, for example, modify the selection of a C code I develop (I really use such tricks to do non trivial modifications over some bigger piece of code -- pure magic!) So only now in 2012 they killed that in VS. Stupid MS, destroying the best features they already had.
Noooooooooooo Walter! It's too close to my parents :-p
I don't understand why this [1] doesn't work for you - I was able to put exactly 12 licenses in my cart. According to this page [2], the process is to download the installer once and distribute manually.

[1] http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/D6358
[2] http://www.apple.com/mac/volume-licensing/
Penang is definitely a good option. Though I haven't been there heard a ton of good things and it's just a stone's throw from the mainland. +1. Accommodation and food is relatively inexpensive in Malaysia.
The BART restrooms and city's public restrooms in downtown SF have been closed for years because they were used for prostitution and drug dealing.

The comments in the article may sound like hyperbole, but it is not uncommon for homeless people in SF to pee in the gutter in full view of everyone or to leave crap in the middle of the sidewalk. The city sends crews to power wash the sidewalks every couple weeks.

I've worked in SF for ~10 years and the problem has definitely worsened. The city patches the symptoms of the problem, but has failed to find real solutions that are practical yet humane.
In comparison the pricing of my local provider: http://www.onsbrabantnet.nl/internet-weert
$120 a month for 2 years is $2880 guaranteed, not to mention it is unlikely customers will leave considering the competition comes nowhere even close to that kind of offer.

Some of that will be eaten up by fixed costs of providing the service (for stuff like bandwidth, Google can probably get better prices than almost anyone else in the world, due to extensive peering), and for the provided electronics (which Google can order in huge quantities and pay comparatively little for, or even build themselves, like they do with their own internal servers and networking equipment). Whats left over is still a very large chunk of change, especially when you consider the fact that Google wont roll out fiber till a decent percentage of a neighborhood is willing to sign on (their calculated numbers are almost certainly designed to cover roll out costs)

I think this will easily pay for their roll out costs. Remember, they don't need to build out a national network to serve tons of places, they already have one. YouTube itself already uses something like 40% of the internet traffic to residential connections.

The important thing to consider here, is as far as Google is concerned, they only need to break even, they arn't in the same game the other ISPs are where it is their only profit center.
This entire story seems quite obvious, really.

AFAIK, the CONSENSUS is they run a racket. "Sures is a nice restaurant, would be a reeeel shame if some negative reviews happened to it, wouldn't it" is their business model. (not exaggerating here - Google startup extortion, this is the only company that comes up. They've been sued.)

If you're running an extortion ring, you're not gonna be letting a whooole lot of po'd people in your office.

I would be extremely curious about the specific name. I bet it is someone they have tried to illegally strong-arm by showcasing negative reviews.
Do you know any serious framework for image processing written in python?
It's not clear from the post if they're still using a custom patch. It looks like the fairly new option AuthorizedKeysCommand could save them some work, since you can plug in an arbitrary external script that way.
Thank you. I intend to make and have sketched out a simple website that shows the list, but each item links to a separate page with sources, and also allows for comments. Alas for a lack of spare time!
A very interesting post! Thanks for sharing that!

I have one question though: Did you grandfather your old customers in? So you still charge them the old price and give them all features?
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This is from November 2010, but essentially all of his points still hold true today.
There's been a bunch of mini-dooms along the way as well, everything from y2k causing planes to drop from the sky to terrorists attacking cities more frequently.

I think it's in peoples nature to mentally take trend lines straight up, or even exponentially up. So, if there were x nuclear warheads in 1987, then they assumed it would be 100 * x in 2012.

The same pattern is at work with the climate now, as you've pointed out. Those who speak of the largest catastrophes get the most airtime, and it's a self-reinforcing cycle. Any room full of teenagers will inevitably predict the world will be uninhabitable by their 40th birthday, when in reality it will probably be much the same.
You should know that you are barking up the wrong tree. Both Japan and Germany are both famous for having labour friendly environments. The latter should be lauded for moving its manufacturing into the 21st century, with unions and SMEs playing a huge part in ensuring this happens.

Unions are just organisations. In the Nordics and many other European countries, unions proactively work alongside employers to ensure that the workforce remains highly productive, etc.
This smells in several ways. Wow.
> Feynman

You're referring to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan.27...

Yes, its fascinating.
or you should grow a pair, quit and follow your dreams ;)
Just sign up and include your expertise in the "additional info" box. We just wanted to quickly put up a simple form. If you can hack something, you can join ;-)
> expect neither utopia nor dystopia.

Maybe the old utopia is the new mundane?

Infant mortality near zero, lifespan 80 years, global communication and travel, almost no hunger or war.

Wouldn't that be considered utopia 100 years ago?

Those are for the West, but the rest of the world is rapidly catching up, too.
Seems like. From the post:

> All I did was change pricing for new customers in the backend and updated the marketing site to reflect the new pricing tiers.
I wish, this could come up in India early , Internet is worse here. If you want high speed internet,the charges are too high to afford for common man. I remember before 5 years i used to download at 2 kbps :(, now it's better but not cheap
If they don't disclose that the box they gave you purportedly to record TV shows is actually also drawing power from your line and using it to run part of their datacenter? I would think that that could be considered theft by deception. It's certainly very shady.

I'll admit that the line is a bit blurry.
Why do people do hackathons for free?
First of all, I've done my share so I'm not criticizing people who do. But, more and more they just seem like a cheap way to get people to do a bunch of free work. Not exactly free i guess, there is always the soda.
Yeah I usually go to tropical islands to dive. Walter does the same but for this event, there will be lots and lots of computers! :-)
Looks great! Now we need an edition using Overtone...

http://overtone.github.com/
My company is based in the Philippines. I won't be applying but I'd love to take you and the crew out if you're laid over in Manila for any stretch of time.
I use pattern unlock. But I installed WidgetLocket to give me a primary lockscreen where I was able to make one of the swipe positions a Google Now shortcut, and another position a Google Now Voice Search shortcut, in addition to the two existing positions of a Camera shortcut and the Unlock shortcut.
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Are those users marked as "close friends" in Facebook? Then you'll be getting all of their activities as notifications.
Remote is not in a village, but with decent internet (microwave FTW!) and an escape route for the weekends or off-days when you need them..
As soon as you receive an untyped input, make it conform to a typed data structure, and throw some kind of error if you can't. That way you catch any issues in your input data long before it bubbles through your app and causes a problem which is super-hard to track down.

See e.g. DictShield for Python (https://github.com/j2labs/dictshield), Jackson for JVM (http://jackson.codehaus.org/), Swiz for node.js (https://github.com/racker/node-swiz)...
By the way guys, there's nothing set in stone yet. We're trying to put together an awesome event for all of us to benefit. Please send in your ideas/suggestions :-)
Bet someone could generate the Art of the Fugue from a few functions...
Hey, I'm really interested in exploiting the GPU for GP programming, and also in how the SIMD can help you... Would you be willing to give me some examples of the most common/useful uses?
Thanks for the invite. We might come to PH to explore our options soon...
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> You trust your current ISP?

I didn't really say that. I said I trust them more than I trust Google.

> they anonymously track your habits to give you better ads as their business model.

That's practically the definition of snooping. Making it anonymous doesn't make it not snooping, and it doesn't make it any less uncomfortable.

Also, unless you're a Google employee, you can't say for sure the tracking is done anonymously.

> You used to get terrible ads on the internet—flashy popups, tricky spam ads, etc. Google has changed this, since they realized that they could avoid needing to trick people into click on ads by delivering ads that are actually relevant.

FWIW, I don't get any ads on the internet, and haven't for a very long time. I guess that's another reason I object to Google's data collection. I'm not seeing their ads, so there's no reason for them to collect any info about my browsing.

> Your current ISP can 'snoop' on everything you do too. Why don't you have this odd mistrust of them?

True, but my current ISP doesn't have a multi-billion dollar business based on snooping browsing habits. If they ever start I'll probably switch ISPs.
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It appears he means a statistics major, or somebody who could do some analysis, and continue to write articles that analyze everyday things we do.
Looking at Phillipines for now, but any SEA country is in the running. Might end up in Bali or Thailand, who knows..
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I suppose Linux users have more money left from not having to buy OS updates every once in a while :P

Jokes aside, Linux users are by definition more attracted to the concept of community and independence. Hence their support to people who believe in the same things.
That's what happens when you design a site at 4am in the morning. But otherwise, we have performed on big things here before so no worries. already corrected the typo :-)
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So a key part of the "cost saving" is that AT&T gave them cheap access to poles. Doesn't that mean they are relying on one of the very competitors they will displace to collaborate with them in this? Seems to me that either AT&T was forced to do this by competition laws OR they indulged this little experiment as a one-off but the chance of them or any other telco letting Google scale this up to the point where it matters is zero.

Does anybody know which one it is?
You saying that he simply put too high a payrate on his fake ad and that's why the glut of responses?
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First of all, this looks great. But is there a reason to use this custom BinaryPack format, over another binary JSON-alike such as msgpack, which already has a lot of bindings in other languages?
Can you recommend any open source project that you consider a good example of Haskell usage?

(meaning both practical and well-written)
I was mostly unemployed for a year or so. Admin assistant posts were attractive because it sounds like a simple office job. Also, 10-13/hr in an office is incredibly better than minimum wage labour. But as you say, over half are scams. For my region, craigslist was worthless.

Fwiw, my solution was to move to an area with lower unemployment (18% to 6%). I have no pro experience and no related education, but I got a dev job with a probation period to ensure I'm actually learning quick enough to be useful.
I'm trying to connect the dots here without much luck. What's the unstated link between the second bit and the first bit?
You're missing the part where its whole point is to be interoperable. You're exactly right that it's simple, that anyone could write any variation on it in a few lines of ruby - which is exactly why it needs standardization. Because otherwise every website will have its own authentication system, and if you want to let people log in with five different kinds of accounts then guess you're writing five different sets of code.
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The idea of a CDN is that you don't route everything through Google's data centers, you just pretend to and fetch from a nearby mirror. This really does save you bandwidth - a lot of bandwidth.

Having some of the mirrors you use for this be in people's homes is an interesting twist that I had not thought of.
That unions work with businesses to ensure harmony and productivity is the idea behind the CPC-run "unions" in China (I'm a mandatory member, yeh). I believe that unions should be somewhat antagonistic to keep the labor market a bit dynamic (so progress can be made); too much harmony is a big warning sign in many societies.

Speaking of such, Japan was big into factory robotics up until the mid-90s, when they took a break to take advantage of China coming online and the cheap labor that came with that. Its crazy how China set robotics back by about 10 or so years. With Chinese labor becoming more expensive, I'm sure we'll see more progress; not to mention domestic bots, in-the-field bots, and drones.

However, this is a good question: how to deal with surplus labor that gets displaced by robots? We might want to move more slowly for the sake of social stability, that 50% savings meant some guy might be out of a job. I'm not a Luddite, but we should definitely think carefully about the best way to proceed.
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Yeah you can explicity launch multiple instances at your own control, each one uses the same amount of memory - so you could launch 10 instances with 200MB of RAM, or 1 instance with 2GB of RAM.

It's definitely worth signing up for, I've been using it for a couple of months and overall I've been impressed, though they still have too many glitches for me to be entirely happy deploying an important application to it.
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Thanks!
Isn't the point of a CDN to push content out close to consumers because the last mile "pipe" is significantly slower than a content-provider's network? If the consumer is already on the content-provider's network, and operating at the same speed as the backbone, you don't need a CDN.
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the thing is the route to any "mirror" that sat in a persons home would be through Google's network. This wouldn't save them any money.
Thanks for the +1.
And I haven't mentioned the great food in Penang, Penang Laksa ranked 7th in the 50 most delicious foods in the world...http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/eat/worlds-50-most-delicio....
I've did this (alone) for a while. The things I discovered:

* Mosquitoes really, really suck the fun and productivity out of sitting on a tropical beach coding.
* To a lesser extent, so does sunburn.
* Finding somewhere comfortable to sit in shade is crucial, and harder than you'd think, and lying is out (appealing though it may be).
* The ideal place to work was a beachside bar, without standing pools of water close by (attracting mosquitoes), that was quiet, serving coffee and wifi. Often hard to find, though.
* Lack of wifi was sometimes a plus, provided it was never too far away. It's easier to focus on coding without Internet access.

In the end, my favorite tropical location to write code in was Singapore. The beach is overrated :)
If you know how to get a usable binary stream from getUserMedia(), I'd be very happy to know how.
With the Humble Games Bundles, people reasoned that Linux users might be paying more because they were so happy to get games that run on Linux.
The Humble Music Bundle indicates that there is more to it than just supply and demand.

I would guess that a significant percentage of Linux users that buy the Humble Bundles are developers/scientists. These groups create content themselves and therefore they might value content (and especially DRM-free content) higher than other groups.

It might be really interesting if the Humble Bundlers collected some basic demographics.
Eh, Apple has had an issue with this historically.
Why stick the mirror in the customer's home, though, where you have to mirror it once per customer? It basically becomes the same as a browser cache then. The logical place for it would be the local switching office (or whatever the equivalent is for fiber technology) - no idea if that's how it actually works, but that's where my naive knows-little-about-networking-besides-the-TCP/IP-stack mind would put it.
Nice! This can be used to make a really cool isometric website. Something similar but in terms of isometric blocks: http://kushagragour.in/lab/isoblocks/
> This is totally incorrect, eye tracking is not sufficiently advanced to be in any way useful in terms of entering input.

Actually, you are totally incorrect. If you look back at the thread, I am not proposing eye tracking as a sole means of input, but as a means of providing contextual information to other means of input.

> I realize my first comment was kind of mean and sarcastic, but that was because this idea is so completely stupid and not progressive at all that I thought the relatively intelligent community on hacker news would realize this immediately. All my friends and co-workers who saw it were like "this is completely dumb"... immediately.

Then at least you or you and your friends are guilty of sloppy reading, of a level I do not expect for HN. Again, this is not proposed as a primary means of input, but as an enhancement to contextual information for speech and handwriting input.
Well, if you think about it 90% of web apps really are just CRUD apps. They're ways to make some bit of life easier or more fun, not complex pieces of programming.

So for many non-technical founders of startups, being able to make a simple CRUD app will take you most of the way toward a prototype.