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You have the choice to work longer. An employee must do as told. Such is the importance of giving the person a reasonable period of rest. If not, then the person will feel like a slave and just do the absolute minimum to get by. Ive tried both approaches and the one that treats people like (surprise!) people works better than the one that treats them like robotic slaves.

OT: Love the shows. Regular listener here.
If you would not take a card then I would not take Paypal, the do chargebacks.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/security/chargeback-gu...

comment for the OP not you _pius
I don't see the problem. If you mine it, it's yours.
GRABCAD: GitHub for CAD models
Sooner or later, you gotta make money. Hype doesn't pay the bills (and all I heard about is hype about OnLive). There's no free lunch.
Send me an email and see where I send emails from. :) Hint: not an iPad.
Ways to control the flow of data rely on that data being there in the first place. I'm not sure what you mean by 'many technology pundits', so I don't know what you're referencing — but my impression of the recent debate has to do with the importance of the infrastructure not the quality of the tools. Clearly we need better tools, but they can't exist without the data itself.
>>> I'd like to clarify that I see a difference between the so-called Christian "way of life" and the Christian "way of thinking". The activities and behaviours (e.g. hard work, fair dealing, etc.) of the Christian way of life may lead to happiness, but the thoughts and mindset of the Christian way of thinking may not (e.g. guilt over over normal sexual desires).

>>> In fact, I think that many religions, and this especially goes for more severe, "by the book" versions of Christianity, actually make people much less content with themselves, but they carry on spreading themselves in spite of (or because of) this anyway.

Just curious what your exposure to Christianity is?

Reason being is that I've gone from a secular background to belonging to a very devout church and in my experience Christians are much happier. Sexual self-denial isn't a problem and it seems that if anything it leads to happiness, considering the amount of personal problems indulging every sexual desire causes.

>>> Perhaps it is the case that (most) humans need to work in order to be happy. What does this mean when we arrive at a level of technological sophistication that makes work unnecessary?

If we do ;-)
I like this post, but I think he leaves out one potential issue: conversation. We learn a lot through conversing with others, and while I don't think blogging will take the place of chat any more than books or newspapers did, I think it does supplement nicely; I wrote some more about this here: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/signaling-status-b... , since I a) write a blog and b) am by now a veteran of the "How and why to blog" blog posts, which have practically become their own genre.

Most of all, however, I don't think most people blog to inform others: they blog to inform themselves, since writing is such an effective means of stimulating thinking.
Love it. Here's some further thought. Some expeditions are only possible given a certain size and budget. Make it like kickstarter where a guide can propose an expedition but that expedition will only go if it gets enough interest and funding.

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."
I think you're overestimating your involvement in the naming of this blogpost.
haha, url2png, mi amigo!
The cost of a logo
Ask HN: More demand or more supply for mobile dev freelancers?
Is there more demand or more supply for mobile app developers right now? I'm considering doing some freelancing in the future, but if the market is saturated with app developers, I might dabble into something else.
There's rightfully a fair amount of noise being made about this as many on HN can imagine themselves in a similar situation. But there may be another lesson to take here.

For me, the key phrase in this article is the first one: "Faced with a dire financial situation...". The nature of working for a startup where you trade current income for potentially huge future income implies a level of risk. Looking at the breathless press coverage, it's easy to imagine that most startups are a raging success. The truth is that most will be in a "dire financial situation" and have no choice but to perform some juggling if there's any chance that they'll stay in business.

It's quite possible that the owners were deliberately trying to screw the employees, but more likely is that it's a desperate move by desperate management who are trying to salvage their dream.
I don't know why these articles, aimed at a relatively technical audience, usually concentrate on the iPad as a desktop replacement when they should be talking about Android.

Android allows you direct access to the filesystem, documents aren't locked to open in only one app, has processes to allow apps to interoperate, offers shells and compilers which allows coding in multiple languages, allows sideloading of applications, has mouse/touchpad support, monitor output (on tablets with hdmi out), and is generally not locked down to any noticeable degree.

I could almost use my Asus Transformer, with the keyboard dock, as a laptop replacement. If it would only offer window tiling so more than one app would show up at once, and if it had a more robust image editor, then I could probably make the switch full time. The 12 hour battery life would be a nice plus.
and this is why the Surface device sounds so exciting. iPad hasn't been exploited as a productivity device yet. With Microsoft's stronghold on productivity market, this should be interesting.
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Have you taken a look at clojurescript? It is a very mature project that lets you use lisp in the browser: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript
Or better still on Windows Rt with proven Os backing it, Windows should be a much interesting alternative on a tablet being used as a productive device.
I hope the iTV rumors are true
One did.

http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
The startups aren't exact matches of what you want to offer, but they haven't been mentioned yet and they might offer some inspiration.

Excursionist (http://excursionist.com) - Create and book unique, one-of-a-kind travel experiences. Definitely targeted at a higher end consumer. Worth watching for the way they editorialize places.

SideTour (http://sidetour.com) - Hosts create unique experiences. Users then buy those experiences. Looks like hosts write the copy for each experience, which (if that is in fact the truth) saves a lot of time on copywriting. Once you have the infrastructure you could theoretically scale across the world.

Overall I like the idea, but as a consumer I have a few thoughts.

1. I think it's going to be really important to separate yourself from the existing competition. Otherwise I probably won't sign up for yet another newsletter when I really only take a one or two trips a year.
2. The vetting/quality control process will be extremely important. If I'm going to climb Everest with someone, I really want to make sure the experience in their profile is in fact true.
3. Finesse re: selling me at the right time will go a long way. I don't know if this means you hit me when I'm actually booking a trip or what, but unless the way you present this experiences is incredibly entertaining/awe inspiring, this context factor could very easily make the difference between pestering the consumer and offering a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I don't think UrbanDaddy Jetset or Gilt's Jetsetter has this quite figured out. Though I'm sure they still make money, figuring out a way to present yourself more effectively could go a long way.

Whatever the case, I still think there's room for innovation in the space.
Really?

I'd love to see you edit a photo using just a keyboard.

A Physical keyboard is incredibly limited because it allows us to communicate one of two things to the computer. We can communicate a single character. (ie - a fraction of a word which is a fraction of an idea). Or we can communicate a single pre-defined intent (ie - a function key or shortcut). The way we communicate intents (CTRL-C, ESC, CTRL-ALT-DEL, F5) changes with the application but the Hardware itself doesn't). This is very limiting.
There are a dozen code editors, and a few pretty decent photo editors too. It's as much of a "consumption device" as you want it to be.

The iPad is a general computing device, it just has a friendly interface that most people can understand. Is an automatic car 'limited' because you can't change gears manually?

Also, jailbreak. You can use shell all the time if you want to.
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There's at least some competition. I'm in Raleigh, and to get to, say, Chicago, I've got multiple airline options (some direct, some 1 or 2 stops, etc). If I want to see The Who in Greensboro, there's only one game in town.
LOL, thanks. Felt like I was taking crazy pills for a moment. :P
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Thanks for the feedback people. All great points and worth considering. I am inclined to focus on outdoor adventure rather than the looser 'experiences/tours' approach. A system pointed out by a couple of people (thanks!) that I particularly like is to wait until you get a minimum amount of interested people before going ahead with the adventure.

Keep the thoughts coming.
1. It's just a guess but I don't think many users care about iMessage's encryption. Cryptographers are the exception.

2. XMPP is not true peer-to-peer. If you are a fan of XMPP as a p2p "solution", and you're not the XMPP provider trying to make a buck offering this "service", then I would say you don't know enough about p2p.

3. If you really care about end-to-end cryptography the solutions exist. Working with the nacl library is not rocket science. It's a lot simpler than SSL/TLS. And I don't see any cryptographers cracking nacl anytime soon.

4. Decentralised and open platforms are not really tough if you keep things simple. But for most (but not all) designers of these systems that seems just about impossible. If it's not complex it's not worth their time.

The biggest challenge I see with good, easy cryptography and a decent, simple peer-to-peer platform for the general public is that you will have a huge PR problem from day 1. Because the only folks who will want to use the system will be troublemakers who attract the wrong kind of attention, and a handful of smart people, like cryptographers, who no one pays attention to.
I'm wondering how old the poster is because the future is of communication is probably going to be a lot more similar to how teenagers communicate today. The rest of us old people will continue to feel more alienated and overwhelmed. He very well may have predicted the future of old people communication. Similar to how we give simple cellphones to old people today so they don't freak out.
He's 23.
HN is focusing far too much on the employee stock options. Once any company gets into a "dire financial situation", the options are already completely worthless.

The worse alternative would have been to not restructure and just shut down the company leaving everyone without stock options, jobs and probably without severance either.
A bank to me is a trusted institution that facilitates financial transactions. Having your private key would not be a requirement for a bitcoin bank.
Thanks for the startups list. It's good to get a feeling for the market, even startups not quite in the exact space.
With a distributed system, the masses could delegate everything to whatever large provider they like the best (FB, Google, etc), but by being distributed, they'd all get to share info instead of being in a walled garden with only other FB, G+, etc users.

So the nutty privacy freaks could happily host their own server, the drooling masses could sign up with whoever's popular that week, and everybody would still be part of one big happy family of people posting drunken party pics... :]

FB will fight such developments tooth and nail, of course...
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Windows 8 is not a proven OS.

Windows 8 RT probably shouldn't even be used in the same sentence as the word "proven".
Enough whining already. Was this really the best use of your time to write a 2000+ word blog post on how some tightwad cafe owner decided to cheap out on her obligation? Move on and get something done.
Yahoo Downloads mistakenly mass distributes the MP3 Tube Toolbar virus
darkstalker's talking about stuff being /limited/, not stuff being simple to use and understand. They're related but not the same - that's where great design can come in. (At least, I still believe!)

And I have certainly seen a 'typical' person, who would frequently end up lost having teetered into one of the incredible variety of wrong turns it's possible to take in Windows Explorer - having migrated to a Mac, being brought to near tears of frustration by not being able to arrange things in iPhoto in a way that satisfied her, even after I showed her how to create "albums" to act in a way which is uncannily similar to but not the same as folders, a concept which she does actually understand and use.

(I'm now researching - with no definite expectation of a non-excessively laborious answer - how to export the photos from her iPhoto library into something like their original PC folder structure, so that I can set her up with the highly recommended Lyn and so that she can also manage the photos in the Finder as she really wants to.)
I keep on hearing DEFENSE MODE ACTIVATED whenever they talk about its laser.
Number of "Help me with my Ruby code" posts that get constructive answers on HN: Zero.

Number of "Help me with my Ruby code" posts that get constructive answers on Stack Overflow: Nearly All.

There's a place for everything. Don't accuse me of being a jerk for pointing that out.

The kind of content that's best suited to Hacker News is something that has general appeal to people in the development, start-up, or general technical scene. Your specific problem, no matter how important it is to you personally, is not that sort of thing.

Stack Overflow is specifically designed to answer these sorts of questions. Why are you throwing a fit when that's your best option?
Just as people call them "ATM Machines" it doesn't mean "STL" is the name of the C++ Standard Library.
Am I the only one insane that continues to read these "I only use an iPad" and just roll their eyes?

Even on an Android tablet I would be extremely upset without a keyboard and my suite of applications. I can't even possibly begin to imagine how painful it would be on an iPad. The article from the developer who uses Linode isn't even a good comparison point. As in, the iPad is effectively nothing more than a thin client. A $35 raspberry Pi and a freebie monitor off of Craigslist can do all of that.

Most of the articles can be summarized as: most of the time, tablets are fine for people consuming content. Wifi, Cellular data make access to the cloud trivial. I'm sure if I were writing for my blog named "massivegreatness" then I would be perfectly happy with my Android phone and a keyboard. The notion that keyboards are going away is more of the delusion I expect from MG.

Furthermore, who cares if he wrote this on his iPad? I could write this on my phone without a keyboard, or I could write this on my 11" MBA, or I could write this on an iPad with a keyboard.

(Hint, the MBA is more powerful, and as compact as an iPad+KB.)
Boulder researcher spearheads effort to privately fund space science
More brands joining instagram & with good reason
You're right. There isn't really an easy solution to this.
I read the article. Here is my summary:

"Blah blah blah, and then I bought the tickets because the price was worth it to me."

Well OK then. That means they are pricing things correctly.

Should, someday, these stories ever change to "Blah blah blah, and then I cancelled the order and did something else with my time that day because the cost was not acceptable to me", then perhaps something would change if enough people actually did this. But as long as there are sold out shows, prices, and even fees, should be increased, not decreased. Sold out shows means you are not charging enough.
There is more demand than supply for pretty much any sort of developers. Within your competition, it doesn't take much to be far enough ahead of the masses that you will easily be able to get work. So, the market may appear saturated, but much of that competition is largely invisible. Also, not all app developers are freelancing, X percentage of those developers are working on their own thing with no interest in freelancing.

Another very important item to keep in mind is that freelancing is running a business, and business management (and all the things that go with it) is not easy. Of all the X developers out there, a substantial proportion of them either can't run a business or shouldn't be trying (these people are the types who are leaving a trail of screwed clients everywhere they go.)

So, if you can get ahead of the masses in your dev skills and get ahead of the masses in your business management skills, then you have nothing to worry about (except for thinking what could be possible by building your own apps.)
Ah, sorry bfe, I misunderstood your post. I agree with you in disagreeing with Barclays, if that makes sense.
As a single page - http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=211601363&...
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Waiting is horrible.  So don't do it.
"There are a dozen code editors"

You can't be serious. You can't import or export code. I don't even consider that fit for a toy because even toys are better when you can share them.

" and a few pretty decent photo editors too"

The way the iPad works compared to android makes it a huge PITA. If you use itunes to import photos from your computers they're going to get resized, and for some reason, you can't delete imported photos on your ipad unless you delete them from your computer and sync with itunes. How about that, for a closed device ? You can't delete content on the tablet unless you do a sync on your computer ? Complete madness.

"The iPad is a general computing device, it just has a friendly interface that most people can understand. Is an automatic car 'limited' because you can't change gears manually?"

Yes. If we race the same car, you with automatic and I with manual gears, I'm going to beat you.
For that matter you must be an American, because here in Europe most of the cars sold aren't automatic. No one here believes that getting an automatic car is an upgrade. And having a friendly interface is no excuse for restricting what I can do with the device, Android proved you can do both : give a friendly interface and still be friendly toward those who want to do more than browse the web.

Android has the potential to replace computers, with time. The iPad is a shitty walled garden where you can't even erase a photo you transferred from your computer. I regret having bought this device. But since Apple products tend to keep their value well on the aftermarket because of all the fanboys, selling the iPad 2 will actually bring me enough money to buy a Nexus 7 without having to spend a single cent more. I pity the poor sod who's going to buy that crap, though.

I own three Apple products and I am sick with their antics. No more.
This would only apply to upper level classes. The thing about this, there can some specialized classes where reading source papers makes sense. But honestly, even for those classes, usually a good survey book can be better, more concise than the source papers. It depends. But I don't think this would make sense of Algebra or Calculus ... or probably any class besides more specialized ones. I mean, you could teach a Distributed Systems class with source papers; I think that would be OK but it would probably be good to have a textbook as a reference.
Concepts needed to teach for loops: Variables, Arrays, if-statement, goto or jumps.

Concepts needed to teach recursion: Function calls, if-statement
Where do the tracks come from for a tag?

Getting some good punk tonight! Well, aside from a Minutemen track that was in there! ;p

Definitely some design challenges ahead. Make +Artist infinite scroll, put it in the very upper left. Make +Genre into #Genre and put it one column right of that. Put all the playlist controls in the third column, New/Random and Shuffle/Loop. Cram the main header & social feeds right of that, include the Add Tracks in the lower part, and then the video in your fourth and last column.

That's my suggestion at a first pass anyways. There are three different tools for adding songs, and knowing you need to click & do something with them is priority #1 for new people, and needs to be minimal. The big search box doesn't help, as it takes to much brain power to see something happen. The +Artist and #Genre columns top left are to try to condense & make apparent their utility, stress the need to do one of them asap. Search is more advanced, people seeking shall find.

Great functionality! Love it. What's it coded in? Would be happy to rejigger your front end code for the above.
It's interesting to read it 5 years later and observe how keynote presentation hype translates to long-term product evolution.
Love it. Kickstarter for adventures. It wouldn't even need to be big expeditions (although they would be awesome), it could simply be that for a canyoning guide to justify spending a day taking people through a canyon, they'd need at least x amount of paying clients. It could deal with the payments, booking etc... and let the guide deal with what they do best - the adventure.
I have used this library http://www.liblfds.org/ for lock-free data structures successfully. Only used the queue but it also has a linked-list (logical deletion only), stack and a ring buffer.

There is another library others are using but can't remember the name currently.
I just spent the last two weeks learning the Ruby language (but I come from other programming languages).

I'd argue that learning .each vs. normal looping has numerous benefits. First, this is the way most people loop most things in Ruby. More importantly, however, teaching .each enabled me to be more openminded towards learning "yield" and blocks.

In a way, without having learned about .each first, and coming into Ruby with my preconceptions (or no conceptions), I would have been confused. I would have been writing Ruby as if I were writing Python or C, without really understanding the benefits of writing Ruby as Ruby ought to be written.
Why was it in a dire financial situation if it had millions of subscribers?

I can't find any descriptions of the cause of the crap finances, especially with millions of subscribers. A likely scenario seems possible: their financiers/vcs decided they didn't like the direction the company was taking/unhappy with growth and called in their loans and forced everyone out.

Everyone, except the vcs, takes a haircut.

(Was there a more straightforward reason?)
>I'd love to see you edit a photo using just a keyboard.

Heh, I'd like to see you edit without one.

Any editor worth his salt will have mapped his shortcuts to sit under his keyboard hand. How is moving a finger 1/4 of an inch in any direction to call entirely new windows/tool/pulgins/etc limiting? What do you suggest as a betting input device?

>The way we communicate intents (CTRL-C, ESC, CTRL-ALT-DEL, F5) changes with the application but the Hardware itself doesn't). This is very limiting.

Could you expand on this? I don't quite get the point your trying to make.
This was already posted here there other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4401018
As a rather shameless plug, using DDG allows you to do the exact same thing if you add an exclamation mark without even having to make a custom search engine.