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> The lack of configuration does not offer anything to the end user

Oh, it /absolutely/ does. It means that companies can train people -- remember, those pesky hundreds of millions of people who are not computer savvy -- to use applications and not see their investments go up in smoke when some neckbeard decides that shift-clicking the mouse just has to center it on the screen, or play rogue, or something.

The companies who have been successful at UI platforms -- mostly Apple and Microsoft -- have extensive guidelines on how applications should behave. People expect this behavior, and if it changes radically from release to release you hear a lot of complaints. (Windows 8 is going to be interesting to watch).

The X-windows applications I've had the misfortune to use in my career have without exception been inconsistent, poorly designed, very bad at error recovery, and just generally all misery. You might be able to reconfigure them; frankly, I just wanted to scream.

On the other hand I seldom use apps on Windows that piss me off. I don't know whether this is because these apps have more competition, or the platform guidelines are better, or the platforms themselves are better -- whatever the reason, I rest my case.

Configuration is the booby prize if the underlying platform is garbage.
Great suggestion! What would the typical fee for this be?
As I get older, I've grown to understand that you can't ignore news and media completely, you just need to filter it to the point that you can make it useful for your needs. Like any other media, 99.99 percent of news is crap. Between smart phone apps and RSS feeds I can limit my "daily consumption" to what I want and need with a modest amount of ads and fluff taking up my time. But periodically I hit the browser or the library and get caught up on subjects that may require deeper knowledge. The best source of links to a broad spectrum of media I have found is here:
http://www.insideautomotive.com/sources.htm
The key is to talk with you SO and understand their point of view. Odds are they already feel that they've lost you to work for a significant portion of the week... so to then say that you need another night or weekend day can be a lot. It's all about communication and balance and no one answer is right for every couple.

My best advice: Talk to your SO and reevaluate your priorities. You might end up with the same priority list after you do so (which is fine) - but give it a hard look for yourself and your SO.
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Yes, I understand your point. For some (maybe in your case, all?) products, it can be annoying. But with early-stage products, that first touch-point is critical, and I believe that you want to make your message as authentic as possible.
If you've got a working, post PM-fit product, I think you'd be using a whole different set of tactics.
Re: recent health care legislation. I can help you there.

If you gross > $350k/year it is not good for you personally, if you gross <$ 100k a year it is a great law for you personally.

Spend 15 minutes talking to a Canadian, an American without insurance and medical bills, and anybody rich enough to have been able to afford health care at the mayo clinic, and you would discover this.

The meta point I'm trying to make here, is that we would be better served by discovering these things on our own, than into buying the propaganda around "death panels" or believing Obama when he says we won't make you wait in line for health care - both positions advocated by the various mainstream media channels.
I speculate that it may be an attempt to stem movement to the significant number of private trackers that dependably provide higher quality torrents earlier than public sites. Allowing TPB to stay up means that people must sort through muck and viruses to locate the content they want. For many, that is enough and they don't bother looking a little deeper.

Lol, but that is 'conspiracy-esque' speculation.
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I've just brought my 8 core 27inch imac out of storage having used only my macbook air for the last 6 months. I can tell you, I am struggling! Going back to a hard drive is absolute torture. At this point I think I'm going to just buy a cable to plug my macbook air into my imac screen. My macbook air is quite simply the best machine I could hope for. With a larger screen it really would be perfect.
> We need to stop seeing social networks as a way augment real life, and more a way to capture life as it is.

But we can't. It is like the Heisenberg principle for social life. As soon as we start recording and observing things and post them on Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare etc. it changes and becomes different. People start doing things just to post and broadcast to others. Others react by changing their behavior based on what was posted by others.
Motorola Spice has a little switch at the back.

It let's you scroll and click.
Bleeding edge technology, or a cutting edge that slips. I like to get version > 3.0 of things, or buy the best of the last generation of technology, or high quality second hand, if I am using it for actual work.
"non-blocking reads in the past"

Sounds like google's finally invented time travel.
I like a confirmation email to let me know that my signup to their service really did go swimmingly, but I don't care whether it's by a robot or a human, because I don't read them. The email title "You successfully signed up for Facebook!" gets the point of the message through well enough.
The study you're thinking of noted that $75k was the level above which additional income would not significantly impact "happiness".

While there are a multitude of caveats needed for any such claim, the most obvious is the fact that $75k means very different things depending on where you live.

The WSJ adjusted the number for cost of living, below :

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/09/07/what-salary-buys-h...

All of the above should be taken with a grain of salt, but the basic TL;DR is that the figure is actually ~$100k+ in most major US cities.
I think SONY PS Vita has one on it's back.
Any thoughts on that Moonwalking With Einstein book? I'd love to improve information retention in my day to day life, especially in software. I'm not so much interested in remembering the to-do list as retaining broader concepts for long periods of time. I'm lucky enough to get to learn a ton of things every day, but my long term retention of them is terrible unless I spend considerable time applying these ideas in practice, which is often not practically possible. This leads to a lot of wasted time, it's as if I never even read the darn thing.

Often, and this is the sad part, I won't even bother reading something because I know I'll forget it almost immediately, unless I have a block of time available to dedicate to trying it out in practice.

For example, I'm really fond of the underpinnings of programming language design and compilers, and it's thousands over thousands of pages of information (most of it very interesting and useful to me), but I fail to retain the vast majority of the great info and need to continuously go back to the texts whenever I'm in doubt about something. There were a couple of valuable techniques recommended in Pragmatic Bookshelf's Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, such as "now pretend you have to teach this concept to your former self who knows nothing about this", which supposedly helps with retention and internalization into the brain's "web of known facts".

Is there anything like that in the book? Would it be of any help?
Hah, absolutely!
> Better legislation to fix bidding?

Ins't that the solution to every legislation problem? Do it better next time?
> What do you expect, am I going to post a picture of myself sitting and watching TV so you can see the "real me?" Post about my insecurities? Or should I only post when I've discovered a cure for cancer, or some other event of great importance? Sounds boring to me.

The interesting thing here (to me at least) is that there is an implication that you _have_ to post.
I can't speak for everyone, but when the US gov or the MPAA DDOS's a website they disagree with, I'm not angry because what they are doing is illegal, I'm angry about the hypocrisy in declaring something to be both legally and morally wrong, except when it serves their purposes.
The characterization was unfair, but essentially true from an outsiders perspective. Government procurement policies create a cozy aristocracy of vendors who are equipped to work with the government.

Add to that the fact State laws are often rigged in various ways to give preference to union shops, and all of the sudden someone is low-bidding a $10,000 toilet seat.
Well at least he deleted his original comment now. Hahaha
> People have been shallow since the beginning of time.

That's not the only point though. People are shallow and over time due to cultural conventions they have been conditioned to tone it down. People who yell "Hey everyone, I just ate a $30 hamburger! Check out how awesome I am!" in a group of friends in real life will quickly find out they don't have many friends left. So there is a bit of feedback and regulation of this tendency. Online social networks don't have that feedback, everyone broadcasts shit nobody cares about but they is usually no feedback (say body language) that would let the person know "yeah nobody cares, stop bragging, it is obnoxious".

There have also been some interesting comments here that I enjoyed, so I don't quite get the "ashamed" part.
Expecting people to know and care about DRM, is like expecting people to read and understand the Table of contents in food.

The Hambuger seller:
1. A picture of an Hamburger $4 2.Sale, with just a tiny bit of arsnic in it, $8. Sale, Arsnic free, for maybe $12.

With this hypothetical Humburger product, most people will still pick option 2, not thinking about reading the table of content or understanding the effect arsnic has on the body (maybe they do not know what the word arsnic mean). They will look at the price and pick the cheaper one of two semi-looking identical products.

The way to get food arsnic free is not about teaching the average man what arsnic is, what its effects are on the human body, and that they might prefer the arsnic free food. That its their responsibility, and noone else, to identify food that are arsnic free.

DRM is by its definition a program, created to disrupt computer operation and gain access to private computer systems. This is an identical definition to that of malware. That DRM is indistinguishable from Rootkits should make it obvious to society as a sign that DRM is harmful.

DRM should thus be illegal in commercial sold products, identical to the food industry regulation. Consumers are protected from food that is directly harmful (like arsnic sprinkled hamburgers). If a program is written to be directly harmful, it too should be illegal to sell. If the goal of the program is to disrupt computer operation and gain access to private computer systems, it should not matter if a song is attached to it.
Wow, it's like night and day. Thanks for the tip.
"The quicker goes the journalist the slower go his thoughts. The result is the newspaper of our time, which every day can be delivered earlier and earlier, and which, every day, is less worth delivering at all."
- GK Chesterton...in the 1920's.
Wow. Powerful stuff. What's the technology behind this? Native Cocoa code?
I find it very disturbing and revealing that such a high level and respected guy did read no real book, I mean real books that will be read in 50 years, literature or philosophy, or classics like Seneque, Proust, Montaigne, Austeen.

It maybe he read them all already? Probably not, because if you read Austeen you probably can't spend all your holidays reading self motivation books.
Note- The Amazon Prime subscription also includes other worthwhile services (Free books, Free expedited shipping on other parts of their service, etc).
> why there

The second sentence of the article:

"After the interview they kindly sent me these aerial video stills that they took from a plane above Apple’s solar farm, next to its data center in the city of Maiden."
I would think it's the caes that a "next page" link reduces engagement (some users will bounce before hitting next page). This implies less ad impressions. Facebook is not optimizing for the same things you are.
Most designers that I've worked will have manually created a layered PSD file that the site's design is based from.

However, overtime this file can become out of date - or can get lost if you change designers or programmers.

Seems like this is a great way to restore your photoshop file from the working HTML. Would be amazing if it could link up to the vector graphic files as well. Smart Objects are perhaps the best thing to happen to Photoshop since layers.
> In the startup world? Legal practices?

Yes and both of these places require all/most of the things he listed in order to get to a director position.

> Same here, but as an employee. And I didn't end up owning a company in the end.

Do you think it would have been more or less severe if you were had the extra responsibilities and commitments that came with being in a controlling position of the company?

> None of them ended up filthy rich either.

So? They didn't sign up for that. I don't expect to get paid $200k a year when I sign a contract saying I will get paid $50k.

> I'm in my 30s and am reluctant to get married and have kids because of uncertainty over my future.

Wouldn't being put in a controlling share of a company only make that situation worse?

> My industry is flooded with labour, pay keeps going down and management keeps getting more unreasonable.

Maybe because the economy is currently tanking and has been tanking for the last 4 years. Don't worry im sure Obama's recovery will kick in as soon as he gets in office.
The comment I replied to suggested that an in-state school followed by grad school at Princeton would be a better alternative than paying for an undergrad degree at Princeton. I was responding to that.
I actually use macros along the lines of:

#define LOAD(TYP, ptr) (*((TYP *)memcpy((TYP[1]){ }, ptr, sizeof(TYP))))
#define REINTERPRET(AS_TYP, FROM_TYP, val) LOAD(AS_TYP, (FROM_TYP[1]){ val })

In practice (that I've found, with GCC), the memcpy and single-use temporaries get optimized away entirely. In strict C99, writing one member of a union and then reading a different member of the same union is undefined in the general case, last I checked. http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/06/underst... seems to agree, but suggests that every major compiler recognizes it as a de facto idiom and supports it anyway.
If anything, this thread has given me the idea that it is possible. If someone can build a true to life platform where behavior isn't changed as a factor of the medium...

brb, give me a few years. Once people have fatigued from the social norms of current social media sites, I should have this app finished.
That would be a correction to tikhonj's terminology -- indeed, the usual formal way of dealing with the kind of issue he described uses the term "language" just as you describe -- but my (perhaps wrong) interpretation was that he was meaning to say something more startling than "there exist undecidable languages" with that definition of "language", and it wasn't his terminology that I was trying to correct.

I'm not sure what question you think I was begging. I was saying (partly implicitly) the following: (1) When you [= tikhonj] say "there are undecidable problems" you may well be thinking of, and will almost certainly be taken to mean, that there are actual questions you could ask a computer program that it can't answer. (2) The cardinality argument doesn't show that there are undecidable problems in that sense. (3) What the cardinality argument shows is of course true, but less interesting than the existence of concrete questions (or families of questions, parameterized by the input) that a computer can't answer. (4) There do exist such questions, but to prove that you need a more complicated argument.

I don't see any circularity there. Perhaps there's some other thing I could have meant that is question-begging, in which case I apologize for not making my meaning clearer. If you still think I begged the question after my attempt at clarification, please let me know so I can fix either my reasoning, my exposition or your reasoning, whichever is at fault :-).
I realize it's hard to compare them as data can be difficult to come by, but if you say: "I believe that a good subscription service should not only offer me movies that I know I want to watch, it should also expose me to new and different cinematic experiences that I would have missed otherwise" then why did you limit yourself to the Top 100 Movies?

Some of my favorite movies that I've seen on Netflix are foreign or independent films that I had never heard of and are no where near to being in the IMBD Top 100.

Perhaps you can do a follow-up based on the entire size of their movie catalogs?
You can literally see the aforementioned concepts if you observe the visualizer.
Thanks for answering. Tell me if I'm wrong but MySQL would be behind a caching layer anyway, so the choice would be between cached git or cached git + mysql.

In git, logging commits on a file from an author is also a kind of join, and it is surprisingly fast, so using git as a data store is a weird idea that I cannot take out of my head.
Interesting things may happen when one is raised & ingrained with the correlation of income to happiness, then rise above that "happiness threshold". The basic physiological needs may be in place, but the mindset rooted in their absence is not.
Ask HN: What can I do in NYC for 4 hours?
I'm looking at booking a trip soon and I have the choice of flying through NYC with a 5 1/2 hour layover. Making sure that I have plenty of time to get through security/customs, that leaves me about 4 hours to check out the NY tech scene.

What can I do in NYC for 4 hours?
Yes. We are using a few products from the Zoho Suite. We initially started on the free plan. That was a while ago and right now we have around 15 users.

The great thing about Zoho is that it can scale as your product does. If you get big, you don't need to start shopping for a better crm...you can continue to use zoho and just start purchasing required modules / user licenses.
This is highly dependent on the app. All iOS projects I've worked on have been 50-80% UI code sitting on top of a pretty thin set of persistance and networking classes.
> This will just work on different browsers, different OS etc.

For values of "different" that mean "as long as they all have fast processors and accelerated JavaScript". I tried this in a non-Apple browser on my iPad, which means no JITted Javascript interpreter, and it basically hung. I haven't even attempted it on my smartphone, which does have a native PDF-reading application.
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Apple had StrongArms running on its Newton Message Pad 2000 and 2100 and they rocked!!! :-)

PS: I know it is a bit off topic but I really liked StrongArms back on the day.
Hmm...

A Fenwick Binary Indexed Tree allows you to calculate
the sum of elements in an array for any given index
range in O(Log(N)) time

I can modify a B-tree so each branch node keeps track of the sum total of values of nodes under it and the absolute number of nodes under it. It's pretty easy to find the sum of elements within a range, the range of elements that equal a given sum and so-forth. All O(log(n)).

Why the weirdo data structure?
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So why doesn't Amazon / Hulu have just as many movies as netflix? Is it a licensing issue? It can't possibly be a bandwidth or availability issue.
They could have said "completely redesigned* - the closest they came to that was calling it "A6". They are right to sell the benefits, because that's what sells. Even Woz chastised them for saying "quad-core" graphics for the iPad 3. This time, they didn't even say that - just "2x faster graphics".
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it might be tough to do much considering the time it takes to get to/from the airport. both jfk and lga are a good hour each way from manhattan.

what do you want to do?
It will be so much better to have Objective C Runtime on Android. I haven't seen any java based Android apps that run smoother than Google Chrome on Android, which I highly suspect that it was built using C/C++ instead of Java.
> ...read no real book...

Your post just lost all credibility from that point on. What are "real" books? Can you define it? I'm pretty sure you can't, because there is no thing such as "real" books. Do they have to be pre-1900? Do they have to be written in dense prose or the author from the Victorian era? I just finished reading Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman for the second time and in all honesty is one of the most simply written books I have ever read, and yet is deep, thoughtful, fun and I can probably say is more enjoyable than some of those you call classics. Where do we draw the line?
The implementation of that b-tree is actually pretty difficult (I've attempted in the past, but it depends on your skill of course) and the constant factor is much larger. (It's somewhat difficult to implement because when you remove a node, tricky things happen and you need to keep the sub-tree sizes consistent). Granted, whatever floats your boat!
My 1st gen iphone had a terribly flimsy volume switch that completely wore out just over a year after I got it. I don't think my 4S has ever toggled unintentionally and seems more solidly built but I haven't had it for close to a year yet. The mute switch on my old 3GS (now wife's) is also still working fine (volume up/down broke off awhile backthough).
Here, the government is pursuing criminal charges for someone who has taken research papers (funded, by and large, through public research grants) to presumably make them available to the public.

In doing so, he wronged various publishers, who have not financially supported any research, who have not financially supported the scientific review of said research, who have financially gained by (likely) not only charging the original author for the submission but also the universities which provided the infrastructure critical to the majority of research.

Spearheading this noble effort to right the wrong and restore law and order is US attorney Carmen Ortiz, who is cited for the wise words: "Stealing is stealing".

Lets be reasonable here: a decently sized server farm could probably keep the entirety of documents hosted on JSTOR in RAM. Today alone, imgur burned through 50TB of traffic; it delivers a petabyte a week. I'm not going to believe a sob story about how distributing 100KiB PDFs to someone running 'wget -r' is DoSing their systems.
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Are you referring to Jane Austen? As influential and ubiquitous as her books are, I rarely find myself considering her one of the great classic authors.

Either way, I'm sure he's read his share of the classics. The entire notion of "classics" is a fluid concept anyhow. The past, after all, doesn't have an exclusive monopoly on great and meaningful literary work. 100 years from now there will hopefully have been new texts added to our collective repertoire.
Could someone who knows about such matters comment on whether this is the usual consequence for what he did, or if it's likely that he's been given "preferencial" treatment for his political activism?
Shouldn't the fact that one of the most accomplished and driven persons of this era isn't reading "real books" be a bit telling about "real books" themselves?

Edit: thanks for the downvote, ...
>>How much do you think they should make?

What the market is willing to pay them.

I'd rather teach history but I get paid more as a programmer. Let the free market decide their pay.