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Let's stipulate to the first sentence of your comment (and ignore everything that comes after it). If you're adding value to an organization, you shouldn't need a contract.

Wonderful! There you are, being a positive influence on your organization, knowing that you shouldn't need a contract. But! Suppose some manager doesn't recognize that you're being a positive influence? Or just wants to throw his weight around? Certainly, a person in a position of power who wants to throw his weight around shouldn't target someone who's a benefit to his organization. But perhaps he's perverse, or doesn't care, or views you as a threat, or (again) has made a mistake in his estimation of who's "adding value" and who isn't. You shouldn't need a contract in part because your superiors shouldn't do that kind of thing. But hey! They might do it anyway! The wonderful thing about being contract-free, or in an at-will employment state (i.e. almost any state) is that there's no such thing as wrongful termination and you have no recourse if you're fired---"but I was adding value!", in particular, is not going to be effective. In this sublunary world, you'd have to be delusional to maintain that if you're adding value, you don't need a contract.

Actually, I can't resist; let's look at the rest of the first paragraph in this light. How do you know that union employees in, say, Flint, were uninterested in "adding value" to the manufacturers who shut down the factories? People working manufacturing jobs---a skilled trade, you know---take pride in their work and I'm willing to assert, just as blithely as you were willing to assert the opposite, that they'd be plenty willing to try to improve the product, improve processes, etc., if they were but asked (and lots of improvements can, indeed, come from the rank-and-file in that way). It's true, of course, that when residents of Michigan are asked to add value to the company by accepting wages no greater than those commanded in Mexico, they are likely to balk.
Yes Java runs on the mainframe and runs quite well. CICS can run JVMs which can provide web services using Axis2 as well languages like PHP, Groovy, Javascript (via Rhino) or Java for CICS apps. Websphere runs on the mainframe but it's a bit different than what you find in the distributed world. The JVM that would normally run an application on x86 is broken into two parts the controller and the servants. The controller will work in conjunction with workload manager to deliver incoming work to a number (you configure) of servants which then process it. With this new mainframe it looks like it will have support in hardware and software for JVM's that can self reconfigure on the fly depending on what work needs to be done and what the current load is. I would like to read more on that.
This looks great! The genre is taking off and this app has some good design going for it. Really slick signup process as well.

I've been working on something similar (really not as far along though) and one of the suggestions I have is making it faster to check something off. Have a checkmark alongside each line item in the main view that doesn't take you into the details screen.
As with the CLMapper Chrome plugin?
CSS Flexible Boxes for Greater Cross-Platform Flexibility
Ignoring for a moment that postgres was my example, but not my point: choose what you can wrap you head around. I used postgres successfully in multiple projects an no one ever had a big problem with it. I've seen MySQL setups burning sky-high because of some Gotchas the team ran into. That doesn't make either of those bad.

The underlying issue is that (except for the most trivial cases), investing time in properly operating and using your database is a huge gain that many young companies ignore. 6 Month later, they have a burning datastore at hand that they don't know how to fix.
I'm experiencing similar frustrations after having returned to using Linux (Ubuntu) at work recently. I've spent a fair bit of time having to customise a window manager (awesomewm), just to get a somewhat usable desktop environment. I work at a university with centralised mail handled by Exchange and struggle every day with flaky, buggy mail clients Evolution/DavMail+Thunderbird. Under linux my macbook air only sleeps reliably half the time, and occasionally I find that unbeknownst to me some process has woken the laptop (with lid closed) in my bag, with the battery near critical. The latest apt-get update broke my sound. Empathy hangs for a good 2-3 minutes on load, but eventually recovers. Something mysteriously reverts my xmodmap keybinds mid-session. Other little things such as LightDM not starting until I hit enter at a black screen post boot contribute to an overall experience that feels frustratingly incomplete.

I know that many of these are trivial complaints and that all of these things can be fixed. I no longer want to have to do this however. In my teens I loved tinkering with the linux desktop, designing 'awesome' Enlightenment themes and enjoyed tracking down and fixing these little problems. Now in my 30s I really just want the OS to get out of the way and let me code. OSX does this well, linux really does not. I say this with a fair bit of sadness as there are many things that I like about linux a great deal - the cli, the excellent package management, the ethos behind the OS and the open source community.
are you kidding? Google had the approach where it leaves its hardware partners out in the open unprotected from patents. Microsoft provides patent protection for hardware partners when they develop a device. That is one of the reasons none of the devices got sued. Besides android UI, particularly the original ones are a shameless copy of iOS UI.
And depending where you are and what you like, such exceptions may very well be the rule.
Calling this thing a tablet is like calling a Dell XPS M2010 netbook.
The point of my blog post was that the jury can serve as a useful component in a larger system of justice. The ideal is to have a system of checks and balances. The problem with patent cases in particular is that juries end up being more or less the only component.
Maybe future gun designs will include a EURion[1] mark?

The problem is you're building a utility item that can be constructed in literally an infinite number of ways, and defining some sort of 'Is this a gun?' test seems to me like verging on hard AI.

Of course, simple rules like 'this is 85% the same as that knockoff AK47 pattern distributed in the "Anarchists 3D Printing Handbook"' will probably catch the dumb ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
There never was a "Linux desktop". Linux is a kernel. GNU is a set of utilities. And X11 is a mess.

Did you know that X11 is why we have shared libs (the UNIX version of "dll hell")? If not for having to run X11, shared libs really would not have been needed.

There are many window managers. Maybe too many. Too much choice for a noob. That selection or the pre-selections Linux distribution people make does not equate to "the" Linux Desktop. It equates someone else's configurations and choice of applications. It equates to having to fiddle with X11, whether you are just configuring it or developing programs to run in it. And that has always been extremely frustrating for too many people- constant tweaking; it never ends. This is like a brick wall to people who might want to try Linux, coming from Windows. You are inheriting a system that's been configured to someone else's preferences. (Same is true with Apple, but they have a knack for making things easy.)

I skipped Linux altogther and went from using Windows to using BSD. I've also been a Mac user. And BSD is way better than OSX, or any of the previous MacOS's for doing most everyday things: email, internet and secure web (ramdisk). Moreover it's flexible - you can shape into what you want - without this being an overwhelming task of undoing someone else's settings.

If you want a citation for the shared libs thing I will track it down, but honestly anyone can do it on their own. The historical research will do you good. Educate yourself.
Well, it used to be you had to travel to D.C., or the president had to travel to your area.
Title is rather misleading, this is not being marketed as a tablet but rather a full on touch PC.
I've been using OS X going back to the betas. I've never seen OS X have problems with third party hardware that conformed to standards.

I have seen problems with third party hardware that required its own driver (poorly written generally) or that was half assed crap that was designed to work with windows but marketed as supporting standards like "USB".

Meanwhile, Linux has trouble dealing with the computer itself, let alone getting hardware attached to it. Constant pain in the ass.

Currently I'm in a country in a different hemisphere from the USA. I walked into a store and bought and off the shelf no-name brand displayport to HDMI adapter. Worked no problem.

I've gotten used to being able to do that... and haven't had much trouble getting things to work with OS X in years.

Course, I also stopped buying things that require custom drivers-- that's a clear sign you're not going to have a good time.

To claim that Linux is better in this regard is, quite frankly, asinine.
It's been a few years but when I saw Amazon's architecture overview presentation at OSCON it was brilliant work.
The previous generation could run up to 50000 VMs, I'd wager the new system announced here could handle a lot more.
Rectangular with rounded corners. Black bezel that is the same size on all four sides. Metal border. Is this another design patent suit about to happen?
This is samsung not following USB standards.

OS X has perfectly find support for media devices, and has worked fine with every digital camera, SD Card or other card reader, etc, that I've attached via USB in the past decade!
No, because you had no intent to deceive and obtained no undue value from your bank. The bank in no way made it clear that they were requiring you to use IE as a term of service; the IE system requirement is for compatibility, and that's how reasonable people understand it.

On the other hand, when you see $7.99 for phone service and $25.99 for computer service, it's clear to a reasonable person what the intent of that price difference is: the company wants to charge more to computer users.

As for the clearness or not-clearness of the message: there's a lot of reasons why I think this case isn't going to the Supreme Court. If you want to suggest that the clarity of the pricing message is one of those reasons, I'm not going to disagree too strongly --- though I do disagree.
It's over from what I can tell: He said he needs to get back to DC.
Then again, I wish ANY other OS would implement the column view Finder has. As bad as Finder is, column view is awesome.

Hmm, Wikipedia lists a bunch of file managers with column view support[1]. Here's it in Konqueror: http://www.konqueror.org/pics/konqueror-file-manager-col-vie...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers#Ma...
That's odd the first pixate campaign on Kickstarter was for $250k. Did they realize they weren't going to meet it and drop the price?

Didn't think Kickstarter allowed that.
I'm with you. The comments diverged towards debating that particular case: "I think he was rude"/"we can't tell if he was…", but the point you're making is about the more general question: excusing yourself from further interviews is not necessarily burning bridges.

"I'm sorry but I don't think it's worth both of our times to continue. I just don't think I'd be a good fit here. It's nothing wrong with you or me, it's just that we don't have the same vision on some things. I really appreciate the opportunity, etc."

If the guy had three hours of interviews already and 3-4 more in the afternoon were planned, plus a lunch, I don't see the problem. It's very easy to end up doing interviews and realizing that the position is not what you had in mind: maybe there's more travel, less hands-on, you'd be working by yourself on the project, etc. You can often easily tell that's not what you're looking for.

Of course, I wouldn't leave in the middle of an hour-long interview and I wouldn't give the impression that I'm rushing out either.
All questions have to be about Rampart.
No, it was an app store like we know them today. Here's article from the founder (also the founder of MP3.com):

http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=340
There's already a thread above this one on the main page, and it actually links to the AMA:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4450803
OK, this is pretty impressive. What do you guys have for native apps? Could I use the built-in tools that come with instruments to write my iOS tests? For example, I've tested Apps using IMAT (https://code.intuit.com/sf/projects/ginsu/) Could I do this with sauce? (Full disclosue, I wrote IMAT while I was working at Intuit, not sure if it works with iOS 6, or the latest Xcode)
Americans Think Cloud Computing Comes From Actual Clouds
If your employer has been infested by unions and there is a competitor, customers will rush to the competitor and your union will be of no help. Even if your union has managed to infest all your competitors in the same country, imports will ruin you all.
The problem is that pretty much all of it is dynamically generated. Short of the sidebar & header there is nothing that is really static static. e.g. With all the comments it checks whether that person is on your friend list & colours those differently. Easy enough to do...but it doesn't scale well. They've got a blog explaining the issue(s) somewhere.
You could always write a letter, you've probably got just about the same chance that he'll actually reply with a non-canned answer, and there have been telephone conference town hall meetings for decades.
A native decimal datatype would be awesome indeed.
> Do you mean the computer-graphics movie, or The Last Airbender?

I meant Avatar, the computer-graphics movie, although I really like The Last Airbender, and I wish it had gotten more attention.

Avatar is nothing more or less than a very long mathematical expression, sort of like a computer plot conducted very carefully for aesthetic reasons. When they watch Avatar, viewers are looking at mathematics.

> None of those really has any mathematical interest for the viewer

People who watch Avatar, who find it interesting, are appreciating mathematics even though they may not realize it. All the lighting, the colors, the motions, are expressed by the mathematics of physical reality.

When a real tree falls, it's very mathematical. When the big tree fell in Avatar, that was also mathematical. As to the first, mathematics could be used to predict exactly how the real tree falls. As to the second, the falling tree was the result of a computer solving a differential equation that described the tree and gravity.

They're really the same -- mathematics predicting reality, and mathematics generating an imaginary reality.
As someone who previously worked doing Windows support, actual "troubleshooting" on desktops is pretty rare apart from a handful of common cases.

Most of the time all that happens is virus scan -> backup -> reinstall.
It's also very different since our population is now 300+ million as opposed to 3+ million at the inception. Any one of those 300 million could potentially have asked the president a question, not limited by geography or social/financial status.
When you are out riding with your friends, you typically want to beat them to the top of climb. A 2km climb is fairly reasonable for that type of climb.

You are right - 200w is low - I just used the default values. If you look on Strava, most middle-of-the-pack people post power in the low 300watts.

1.5 kg is easily the difference between a < $1000 bike and a $2000 bike. Cycling (as a sport) has a lot of financially wealthy (but time poor) people (the same people who used to play golf). These people aren't interested in the cost effectiveness of an upgrade, just weather it will help them beat their friends up a hill on the Saturday ride.

Personally, I think using ~$200 carbon fiber water bottle cages to save 30 grams is a waste of money. But the truth is that the grams they save do add up, and the weight does make a difference on hills. If you don't care about money (!) then why not spend the money....
Ask HN: What traffic should I expect from the App Store?
I'm launching an iOS app soon and I'm wondering what sort of traffic to expect from the App Store.

This is over an app that lets users submit and download pictures. How much bandwidth should I expect to consume? How much CPU should be available? How much disk would be needed? How much of a peak should I expect in the beginning?

Can anyone share some of these, hopefully including hard data? Thanks.
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It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that I'm spending enough time with michelle and the girls. ...

I understand how tough it is out there for recent grads....

Money has always been a factor in politics....

The decision to surge our forces in afghanistan. Any time you send our brave men and women into battle, you know that not everyone will come home safely, and that necessarily weighs heavily on you. ...

Win or lose, I'll be thanking everybody who is working so hard - especially all the volunteers in field offices all across the country, and the amazing young people in our campaign offices.

We've really focused on this since I came into office - 18 tax cuts for small business, easier funding from the SBA. Going forward, I want to keep taxes low for the 98 percent of small businesses that have $250,000 ......

Jordan - I'm a Bulls guy.

Internet freedom is something I know you all care passionately about; I do too. We will fight hard to make sure that the internet remains the open forum for everybody - from those who are expressing an idea to those to want to start a business. And although there will be occasional disagreements on the details of various legislative proposals, I won't stray from that principle - and it will be reflected in the platform.

Making sure we stay at the forefront of space exploration is a big priority for my administration. ......

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The Redditors for Obama wasn't there the first time I had the page load. That definitely helps the legitimacy.
Source: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2015210423/pixate-beauti...

Curious for my own sake :)
I'm sorry that you consider citing the science behind the decision "arrogance", but I suspect its just desperation to engage in ad hominem.
What distro are you running? It must be sort of out there that you're having such difficulties. I'm running Arch which is not widely supported, but user submitted build recipes (think brew on OSX but with way more options) work 95% of the time (e.g., no trouble with Skype, Spotify, etc.)
Where are fastest growing US regions for startups? (Engine.is dataviz)
> You can protect yourself from spying (as it is an
> invasion of privacy) with a VPN.

The torrents are posted publicly. Each client is adding their own address to the list of participants, which is also public. Whenever I download a torrent, the list of other participants is available plainly in a tab in my torrent client.

If some client chooses to keep a record of public data, how is this in any way an invasion of privacy?

This is like complaining that your privacy has been invaded when someone takes a photo of a public street, and you happen to be in the frame.
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Overview of the timsort algorithm in CPython
GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X
@using the name "overlay" -> Yes, it cheapens you, and it is the largest piece of text on the landing page.

I think your highlighted benefits don't really align with what someone who needs your product REALLY wants: a ridiculously easy, simple, zero engineering way to give (and update) product/feature tours.

Your benefits also miss the mark on why people want tour systems. It's not because they're professional or empowering. It boils down to time, money and ease. You do talk about saving money and time, but it's the second bullet, and i stopped reading before then.

I just realized that I need this. I'll be signing up.
Her business model is providing a service: exchanging her time for money.

37signals used to be in that business, but moved towards providing products, rather than services. Presumably because it scales better and makes more money, even though doing design/programming/sites certainly makes good money in a sustainable way.
Spotify doesn't kill music, it kills the idea that every song that gets a bit popular should make the performers, writers and record company very, very rich.

If anything, it's arrogance that killed their industry.

Spotify was technically feasible when people where still buying CD's. If they had started a Spotify-like service back in those days, people would gladly have payed more than $ 9,99. Now the market has changed and it's too little, too late.
Okay, but thats more a Django problem then a PostGIS problem.

Lets put it like that: feel free to try some new stuff, but don't start getting all crazy with it. So, if you tried Rails and weren't that convinced by it, maybe default to something that you know, even if it isn't a love relationship. Learning is a great thing, but do it piece by piece, especially if your goal is getting work done.
I worked at BayTSP for years (it's a dark scar on my soul really), and they have been DMCA crazy on torrent swarms for many years.

This is not something new. It's been SOP for a very long time. There was some recent activity in the last few years to get some lining up of ISPs along with a "graduated response" scheme (which from the looks of it transmogrified into "# strikes") but its also tied to other initiatives like trying to use data scraped from cyberlockers to derive knowledge about the migratory patterns (and marketability) of media...you can thank Movielabs and one buffoon from NBC that cooked up that laughable concept.
Your comment made me think of this point: it's not uncommon for companies to ask to be prepared for a full day of interviews but based on how the early interviews go, you get more or less interviews at the end of the day.

This is no different but reversed in "favor" of the candidate.
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I wonder if you have seen the game DragonBox for ipad that teaches kids algebra principles...

Do you have an opinion on it?
Your statement strikes me as patently false. Athletes eat a ton of food while training. Michael Phelps, for example, eats over 10,000 calories per day.
Varnish can only really help Reddit with users who aren't logged in since every page is customized. It'd still help in high volume scenarios since Varnish solves the thundering herd problem: only one request (at most) will hit the database for each invalidation.
Exactly - that's much more succinct than I put it. Comparatively, it's not often that a Linux issue is solved by those same steps (or any given set of steps - there's just more variation).
To have a legitimate replication setup, an arbiter node is highly recommended:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/administration/replication-ar...
The guy I share a cube with has the loudest keyboard in history, or at least for me. Doesn't seem to bother anyone else. But it sets my teeth on edge.

So much so that I had to dig out my old noise cancelling, over the ear things. Now I can't hear anything else, but hey! :-)