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Really? Easily? I've yet to see anyone willing to hire someone to do off site work with a US company, in the Valley or elsewhere. At least not development work, or anything in the range of 100 USD/hour.

I won't discuss my rates in public, but I have clients in the States and UK. I'm a British guy based in Poland, and only one of those clients has been via a direct contact. All others have come to my. As briefly touched on in another comment, I'm also not a cheap option.

The work's definitely out there - just look in the HN "who's hiring" threads. I've also had some enquiries via my various SaaS apps, which double as a nice side income and an advertisement of sorts.

Edit: I'm willing to concede that this isn't easy per se; I'm highly competent at what I do, and I'm also happy to do lots of chatting over Skype or via email first. Without my talent or willingness to chat, I'm not sure that this would be as successful as it is for me.
I thought that our economic success had something to do with working people who produce stuff which is in high demand worldwide: machines, tools, cars, trains, aircrafts, energy systems, chemicals, ...
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I think the iPhone sketch with a Sony label was far more damning to Apple than this memo is to Samsung. (http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-claims-Apples-iPhone-...)
Good to know. I'm actually planning on greatly improving on a service the co I work for pays for. It breaks all the time and is really inconvenient. I just thought my employer was an exception who was willing to accept garbage and pay for it. I have a lot of work to do anyway because the minimum viable feature set is comparatively larger than my previous projects so I suspect that process will kill many bugs I'm concerned about naturally.
AFAIK it is still against Google's policies to have more than one gmail-account? That doesn't mean it won't work, of course, but you might end up with Google turning off all your accounts, with no real recourse to fix the situation.

Why do you need access to your google account to send email from github? From:-headers are designed to be readily "forged" (or rather, set to whatever you want). Just send email through wathever means you use, optionally adding a bcc to your own account, if you want a copy of the actual email in your gmail folder?
>How does devaluing Drachme help you afford the car
It doesn't. On the contrary, it helps you export your home made Pallas Athene car.

Suppose it costs you 25000 GRD to build that car and that's 12500 € at 1 € = 2 GRD. You can sell it internationally for 15000 € for a profit of 2500 €.

Now the GRD plunges to 1 € = 4 GRD. Your costs stay at 25000 GRD but that is now only 6250 €. You either can continue to sell internationally for 15000 € and earn an extra 6250 € profit or reduce the price and sell a lot more thereby also raking in more cash.

Since you probably have to procure parts from abroad, the extra profit will be a lot less, but still it helps you _sell_.

Who pays the bill? Of course the general population if it continues to buy imported goods, because the price of those goes up. If only a part of the gen pop switches to buying domestic goods - hey even better for the domestic producers. Apart from making more on the international market, they gain on the domestic market.
I'd be interested to know what the typical conversion rate people see when sending customers to a landing page from adwords? I suppose it's probably too complicated to have a "typical value".

I'm currently seeing about a 10% conversion rate for my project/landing page but I don't have a feel for how good that is. I haven't done much to try and improve it yet so presumably it could be better.
To what OS would they turn instead? There is no real alternative.
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Many places in the US charge ridiculous "Convenience" charges to pay with a credit card. I pay my rent with a check. Why? Because they charge me almost $40 for the "convenience" of using my MasterCard. Same thing when I had my car loan. $15 convenience charge to pay online with a credit card.

It's complete crap, and a total racket. Unless I want to pay >$50 month for the luxury of paying my bills in any modern way, I'm back to writing checks.
Indeed. I have created a couple application passwords for "Verbs" IM on my iPad and my iPhone (though I rarely use chat, but added them just in case). I'd feel safer if I knew these guys can only see see my contacts and send/receive messages. Right now they can see all my emails and probably everything else that's on my google account.
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How would you reset your password on your Google account Parfe?
I just read this article which explains it nicely (IMO):
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/financial-markets-politics-an...
You managed to capture the style of the article almost perfectly.
Full-res jpeg direct link: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA15691.jpg

There seem to be much artifacts in the image, such as those black dots. What are those?

I guess the overal bad image quality is probably due to dust?

There are many JPEG artifacts, even in the high-res TIFF. Is it transferring the pictures to Earth in jpeg?
It's the closest we've got because culture at large is much more heterogeneous than it was 50 years ago. In the 60's, you had 3 channels on TV and had to go to a physical record store to buy music.
Browser compromises are the one I worry about. A remote attack that reveals everything your browser has or knows.

I've been using 2 factor on google for a year or so now. It's not perfect - especially the ways it can be disabled - but it's better than the status quo for now.
Yes there are cases all over but the Samsung one is far wider in it's scope - you're not seeing senior execs on both sides pitching up in court anywhere else.

I'd suggest that in different cases (and indeed within the same case in some instances) both things are happening - Apple are pissed off at what seems to be outright copying and that Apple are taking advantage of the system.

But I'm dubious about any suggestion that it has to be one or the other, these things are rarely that clear cut.
Most 'naive' consumers probably won't even try to solve the issue with bloatware. For many of them Windows implies having to deal with bloatware-full, cheap laptops.
It's to keep sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands.
As a PhD student studying ape communication there is nothing more enticing then landing a spot on the Facebook data science team. I bet the best way for a current student to get a job there in the future would be to initiate an academic collaboration while still in the lab.
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Just checked the TOS...it doesn't appear that it's an outright violation to have multiple GMail accounts:

https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/program_policies.h...

>> Create multiple user accounts in connection with any violation of the Agreement or create user accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses

Also, Google gives you the option of managing multiple Google identities from one account.
They don't need to know it. To reset your Google password you need your backup email account (Facebook / Work email ) or your telephone number or text. All of these are almost invariably accessible without further authentication via your phone. The protection that 2-factor authentication adds doesn't apply in the event that someone has the second factor. We're talking about the incremental improvement rather than the protection granted by your password.
Jokes on them, the Nexus 7 is a better product IMO.
Which restriction do you think of? Germany had many hundred thousands of soldiers. A huge standing army. Lots of military equipment. We bought stuff from the US. Germany even paid the US for the presence in Germany. We even paid you for the first gulf war.

What Germany did though: once the cold war was over, we reduced our military. The threat was over.

Accordingly the US reduced its presence in Germany. The rest of the US presence here is working on keeping the US empire. For example the central command for africa is in Germany. Hospitals pick up the soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. Logistics...
You don't need play store to get apps to run on Android devices. I know some apps from the Amazon app store won't run without the "Amazon app store" app installed but I've never seen a program depend on Play the same way.
Nostalgia! I absolutely loved the soundtrack to this game.
Of those 10% are you able to track how many turn into paying customers?
EDIT: Reading over this, it came out a bit more windy than intended, but hopefully is still useful.

"Aren't we all pretending all the time?"

That's one of the great things about having reasonably anonymous message boards--there exists the very good opportunity to perform communication without the overhead associated with being polite, reasonable, or even civilized.

On Hacker News, I expect that my posts will (for better or worse) someday come back to haunt me. Indeed, if you apply to YC, I believe one of the application questions asks for your HN username. This being the case, there are certain arguments and jokes that I have had to refrain from making. I've even had to apologize OOB every so often to people here for being hot-headed (I believe I once said some nasty things to one of the senior Apache folks...awkward).

On 4chan, these "vile posts" are honest expressions of either the poster or of the facade the poster wishes to maintain--and in a completely anonymous setting, it's easier not to pose at all. An interesting research question would be to compare the normal posters to the non-anonymous "tripfags" and "namefags" (users who post under the same username and signature--terminology is as found on the chan), but I honestly have no idea how that might be done in any useful sense.

The entire mindset of interacting with complete strangers, and especially knowing that you may well never share a thread with them again, is hugely liberating. You can make and laugh at jokes that otherwise would be in poor taste. You can discuss trivial things very seriously, and serious things very lightly, and be assured that you won't be tagged/branded permanently as a fool or a fetishist--consider what we've done to losethos here, and how at this point even if he started posting coherently he'd still downvoted into oblivion.

"Are you implying that I'm only truly me when I'm vile
(for example)?"

As explained above, I imagine that the proper insinuation here is that you're only truly you (publicly) when you have no incentive to put on a ruse/pleasantries--and that if you do so anyways, that is part of the true self.

My experience, for example, is that I am just as much the humble helpful hacker given debugging help and useful links on the /pr/ programming board as I am the mean-spirited hateful troll on /adv/--and on any given day, I may do the opposite. Seeing my behavior when held to no external standard has been enlightening, and proven to be a useful data point in self-discovery and self-betterment. I try to help more and troll less now. :)
HD video would also be competing with science data for both storage and transfer time.

If you read the blog of the MER driver at http://marsandme.blogspot.com/ you can see this tension already play out sometimes, both in scheduling nice panoramic pictures and managing the data storage until a transfer window opens. Science normally wins. :)

One of the surprising thing to me about the internet response to curiosity is that I've seen many commenters who seem to assume we can stream live HD video from Mars; some expected it to somehow manage this feat even while landing. But really, Curiosity talks directly to Earth at only 32kbps, and has around 16 minutes per day of high-bandwidth (2 mbps or less) communication with the Mars orbiters.
You have not used a Verizon phone then I assume. Not only does it come with trial versions, you cant uninstall the trial versions either.
I can't believe I'm saying this but it's almost offensive to me that you're comparing 4chan to celebrity news. 4chan is friggin' high art compared to that shit. Celebrity news is the lowest of the low; nothing but easy-to-read brain candy for bored, boring housewives.

And I think 4chan has a huge influence. It is a very powerful site in tech culture, which is pretty large I think. Tech culture might be smaller by numbers than the so-called mainstream but it's plenty large enough to be self-sustaining and have its own sense of identity.
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> edit: when I say meme, I mean "A meme ( /ˈmiːm/; meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena." ... I don't mean, "funny picture"

Don't you see? The fact that meme now connotes a "funny picture" is itself a meme.
>This also means that you're not entering the password which can do all of those things on a daily basis,

Before two-factor, were you really typing in your GMail password on a daily basis?

I mean, I certainly don't deny that two-factor is much safer if you can actually use it, like on the GMail site. I just worry about the big holes that application passwords punch in that wall. All it takes is one application sending your password in non-SSL when you are connected to an insecure wi-ifi, and you are hosed. Is every Google login for every service SSL only?
Those are locusts.
Watching Tron:Legacy certainly made me want to open an arcade! I just don't have the capital lying around to do it. But, yeah, it sure seems that with the right touch, the arcade could be revived as a business model. I sure hope so anyway, I miss arcades.

I actually found myself wondering if Disney would be willing to license the "Flynn's" name to somebody... how cool would it be to walk into an actual Flynn's arcade sometime? :-)
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A reset link that gets sent to a secondary account that my phone doesn't have access to with a unique password stored in a PGP encrypted file with a nice long passphrase only known to me.

My security question has a gibberish answer.

Not rocket science.
It is a renamed "watch."
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The article mentions how to work with self-signed certs, but that is not the point. Many orgs don't run their own root CA because the cost of supporting all the devices just to auth securely is overwhelming, and just buying one cert from VeriSign is enough to keep it secure. Except when 2015 rolls around. If you maintain wireless networks for large enterprises, it's kind of a big deal.
That's correct - should have been clearer - was keeping it short. By "taxes" I mean all compulsory payments I was required to make, including health, unemployment etc.
Before Android, the iPhone was a horribly complicated device with broken, almost useless notifications, no cloud functionality, and a need to tether off of a master PC to do anything of consequence (updates, initial setup, etc).

Every device learns from every other. I used Android above but of course it learned from WebOS among others.

Further this notion that the iPhone spurred on a lot of changes that were already happening industry wide is truly infuriating. You've seen the ridiculous "here are smartphones before the iPhone, cherry picked to find those most unlike it, and here are smartphones after the iPhone, cherry picked to find those most like it", acting as if the pivotal event was the introduction of the iPhone, external to the fact that a confluence of hardware improvements made such a form factor possible if not optimal.

The GPS industry -- which exploded before the iPhone -- pioneering and accelerated mobile screen technology, mobile touchscreens, mobile CPUs and GPUs (OpenGL ES -- the foundation of graphics on the iPhone -- was built almost purpose suited for mobile GPS devices), etc. The iPhone borrowed from that development, taking the state of screens, touchscreens and GPUs to make a better smartphone.

Everytime someone shows one of those "before the iPhone" and "after the iPhone" they scream out their ignorance. That the iPhone took advantage of the progression of technology at the right time doesn't give it ownership of the domain.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/15/tomtom-go-910-portable-gp... <- a year before the iPhone.
Which makes you wonder, would windows' image be better off if they implemented some sort of quality control on what is distributed?

In the end when some bloatware crashes or slows the pc down, people blame windows.

I know that that's windows' business model, but makes you think how much they would benefit from having a rock solid image.

Just look at windows 7 for instance. It is a rock solid OS but that doesn't seem to have done a lot for microsoft's image. (Or maybe it has? Links welcome.)
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Not surprised about the police beating someone during a raid.

It's very hard to prove and they could always justify it as pacifying resistance. Which may or may not be present.
But, as we know, Apple only needs those last four digits. We asked Amazon to comment on its security policy, but didn’t have anything to share by press time.

Wow. That's really bad. I mean, it's stupid that Amazon allows that sort of thing (and it sounds like they may be working to fix it). But Apple going off just the last four digits? That's straight up retarded. Why isn't anyone asking about Apple's security policies? Thank Sagan I'm not an Apple customer.
Devaluing your currency makes foreign products more expensive relative to yours and makes your products cheaper relative to foreign ones. That means that it is less attractive to export goods to your country and more attractive to import from your country.

That does not mean that devaluation is a sinecure; for example, if you heavily depend on imported goods, it will drive prices for those goods up. But it can help correct trade and current account imbalances.

Also, devaluation is, more often than not, something that happens simply due to trading and market pressure and not because of government action. If a country keeps having a trade surplus, then its currency will automatically appreciate, unless there are countervailing forces.
Jury-impacting, yes. Relevant to patent infringement, no.

You're right that it's a great parallel and perhaps even more so.
>Imagine you were granted the magic power to change any website in the whole world-wide web the way you like it, to make it better, more functional, more useful, better looking, more pleasing or disrupting to the eye.

> Which one would you pick?

Well I'd remove the stupid fucking fake scroll bar from http://www.wikipediaredefined.com for starters. It's horribly unusable on Safari.
Two issues I can think of off-hand.

First, the image is shot through the transparent lens cap currently protecting the camera. The cap wont be removed until after the mast is deployed. The mast is still in the position it was stowed in for the journey, this is why the image is at an angle.

Second, the high gain antenna hasn't been deployed yet, so they're working on limited bandwidth. The image was probably heavily compressed to transmit it over the link currently in use.
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Chatroulette keeps growing and other sites like http://chatrandom.com & http://omegle.com are doing just as well. I think people like the penises and that's why airtime never went anywhere!
Please, please, please, please RTFA before ranting.

SMS is not required (you can use the google Authenticator App).

The Authenticator app works just like a "plain old token".

Separation of accounts means squat if your passwords are intercepted. 2 factor auth requires physical access and reduces the possible pool of attackers from billions to hundreds.
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One piece from there is especially notable:

Microsoft notes that It must also be flexible: there should also be no fixed ties to specific codecs, media formats or other scenarios.

The story is strangely familiar to video/audio tag mess. Avoiding specification of required codecs will give companies like MS and Apple their regular excuse to ignore open codecs. I think W3C needs to dodge this sneaky trick and put Opus in the standard explicitly. Nothing prevents extending WebRTC with more codecs beyond the required standard minimum, but enforcing the least common denominator is a must, to avoid the repeating of complete failure of ubiquitous video/audio tag. And that standard choice should be an open royalty free codec.
I'd disagree that it's just roleplaying and not-in-earnest.

Tell me, as sociopathic as channers may be--how closely do they compare with the bankers and financial quants, politicians who drop bombs, or the data mining folks intent on converting our social media signals into ad revenue?
... until the press finds out!
Now I know why my post on Sunday totally tanked without generating any karma. I should be posting on Tuesdays/Fridays instead :).
All this talk from Zuckerberg, "We don't care about Money", "I wan't to connect people" aso. seems cynic with their recent plans.

I buy that Apple really cares about great products. I don't like how controlling they are with their app store, but at least is makes sense for user experience reasons.

What should i believe about Facebook, do they want to connect people at gambling therapy sessions? How does it improve anything? Funny how Peter Thiel attacks Google for not being a real technology company.
Why is activity so much lower on a Friday? Is it because everyone has lots of work to catch up on and no time for HN, or is it because people are leaving work earlier on a Friday?
I think it is a psychological issue. If salaries get cut by 30% across the country, people go to the streets. If you devalue their currency, most people don't even realize it and just accept that the prices for certain imported goods went up.
> I have yet to regret being humble.

One single job interview where they ended up hiring the guy with nearly identical qualifications. The guy leading the interview later told me on the phone "it was almost 50/50, but we had to pick only one of you", and the reason was that the other person appeared slightly more confident in his abilities using a particular framework. If I'd have been a bit more self-promoting, that could've been me. Lesson learned, of course.

Of course there's a difference between confidence and being brash.
That's exactly right. It still baffles me that apple is the only company that makes laptops that are beautiful
The Android UI toolkit actually already handles controllers relatively well thanks to the use of trackballs and D-pads on first and second generation Android hardware as well as Google TV; non-game apps such as TuneIn and XBMC[0] shouldn't have many issues adapting, if any. (2) is a business model issue, not a technical one.

[0] XBMC is mostly custom, but happens it hails from a controller-based platform to begin with.
Except this was not a Sony product being "slavishly copied". That mockup was a Apple design based on some Sony design theory remarks. Moreover, the black rectangle rounded corners Sony product discussed in those remarks was Sony's take on Apple's iPod:

http://www.blogcdn.com//media/2012/08/walkman8212.jpg

None of those products (iPod, Walkman, iPhone) would be confused for the other.