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I'll take this comment at face value as a legitimate critique of my writing. In general its Clarity, Brevity, Precision = Pick 2 =D. That being said, I just want to point out one thing to the general reader, which is that the allusion to the footnote was not meant to be pedantic or a put-down.

The above poster responded to a weakness in the OP's argument, and leveled a valid counter argument. My footnote was there to highlight this same weakness in the argument. But my footnote wasn't really there as a point of exposition (either), and in hinting at the weakness it also articulated the weakness in a way which illustrated a more valid (central) line of attack. That's why I highlighted it again.

But I could probably have chosen better words in my response.
What hosts does everybody use for these side projects? I'm interested in working on some of my own, but I'm just wondering if everybody is paying for hosting and as you expand into multiple projects how you keep it from getting too expensive. I'd really appreciate any information.
Hey there, it's Graham the author of the piece here.

I didn't include games because my focus wasn't really on consoles but rather smartphones, tablets and PCs and in that sense games are distributed as just "apps" and as you would have seen, I did look at apps.
On tablet? No. Office requires high precision input devices (i.e. keyboard and mouse), which are precisely the devices that tablets do not have.

Tablets are consumption devices; for productivity, you will still want laptop or desktop - without Metro.
Capitalism does not require a free market and while people are free to describe themselves how ever they want the actions of the vast majority of successful capitalists places them firmly in the pragmatist--instead of the idealist--camp.
Wow, I wasn't aware of such a law. Youtube is in a lot of trouble..
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It is open source: http://arclanguage.org/install

Though, I doubt pg accepts "pull requests" or anything. He likes the site the way it is, apparently (I don't like HN to have a million share buttons either, but I do want a few things added that would make life for thousands of HN visitors much easier).
Alpha superstar ninja developers are from Japan. You are going to need a H1-B for those.
Thanks, I've been looking a good, economical, way of creating an intro video, this looks like a really solid option.

Can I ask, do you think it has advantages over, say, recording your screen while you record yourself taking someone through a demo? Then maybe replacing your voice with a voicebunny voiceover?

I imagine cartoon v screen demo is dependent on your audience and objectives, but intrigued as to why you went this route. Cheers!
If there's a smoking gun for IBM great, fine $$$$$$$ IBM. But my personal anecdotal experience is that the companies I've worked for pay the same for HB-1 vs local. They don't look at it as trying to find cheap employees. They look at as trying to find qualified employees anywhere, world wide.

Companies I've worked for, Virgin Games (run by a British immigrant), Shiny Entertainment (also run by a British immigrant and seemed like > 50% foreigners). Naughty Dog had at least 5 or 6 foreigners of 30 employees when I was there. The owner even made a point of showing us the first hire's salary and asking us if we knew any locals that were qualified for the job that wanted the job so that he was sure he was above the law.

A few years later that hire went on to co-found Ready At Dawn which was founded by 3 immigrants. I have no idea how many of their employees are foreign.

I have seen one company, Interplay, abuse their power over a foreign employee by threatening to pull their visa support for him before if he didn't do X (I think X was stop some un-work related outside music activity). He ended up marrying his local GF and then got the hell out of that company.

The company I currently work for, as far as can tell, has a similar position. We'll hire anyone that applies that can convince us they can do the job. Finding them is hard. There may be tons of qualified people but either they aren't applying, they can't write a resume that makes it look like they're qualified, or they can't convince us in the interview that they are qualified.
Honest question: Why is this a good thing?
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As a sysadmin, I used to think in the two goal paradigm. I actually don't any more; if your company has two groups with different goals, particularly in the early days, you'll waste time with friction.

My goal as a sysadmin is to help the company succeed. I try (and sometimes fail) to assume the same positive intent of my peers in engineering. If we seem to be working in different directions, it's often because there's something one or the other of us doesn't understand.

Concrete example: I have often found that my tolerance for midnight crashes is lower than that of the engineer who wrote the code. There appears to be a misalignment. But on further examination, the problem is that the engineer doesn't have the same information I do: she doesn't realize on a gut level the cost of being woken up at 2 AM.

Solution: add engineers to the first level on-call rotation. Information is added; goals become more in alignment.
If you can bring in toads to eat a significant fraction of the beetles that are destroying the sugar cane crops, why wouldn't you do that?

(Because: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia . These are complex, poorly understood systems, and the results will almost certainly not be what you expected. This isn't engineering.)
I kind of like the idea, but I think your are really out of the way with the design, there is still a LOT of work to do.
Everything feels like a website from some years ago, it looks really...flat it's say. There are too many shades of blue and they are used without an apparent reason. The gradients are wrongly used, a light blue fading to white under a white text is not a good idea. A lot of elements have unreasonable inconsistent size, like the search box, is too small.

After this quite harsh review, I suppose you are not having access to a designer. That's fine but I strongly suggest to at least have a look to the designs you can find on themeforest.net, most are quite cheap(20$) and will give a whole new feeling to the website.

I know the design might sound as a secondary thing to a developer but I'm afraid that without a decent one the media will not even take you in account, which is a real shame because the idea is really nice.
I am not, did you see his reason?

Fairness. Really, his claim is that since not all children have parents at home to help with homework that it is not fair.

As if education was being dragged into the ground over fairness as it is, he wants to double down. I understand in France their school week is four days and he wants to bump it a half day, but fairness?

Why not just artificially raise the scores of the disadvantaged instead and be upfront about it. If he thinks homework is the problem then he truly is a politician.
Right on! No amount of toys of your own or prestige can compete with the rewards of being a parent who can actually be there with your kids while they grow up.
I wonder what the market share of 4.2.2.1-6 is.
Mine has been, well the last 6 months have been... interesting.

No technical challenges, but wow on the kind of distractions that can occur when you have user generated content. I've gone through a dark patch and came out stronger for it, doubling down now... rented an office, got a co-founder, honed the vision.

The users of the cycling forum have witnessed most of this and have been badgering to support me, so because of user demand I'm just about to crowd-fund a 1 year runway on the basis of patronage (donations with no returns).

Haven't felt as positive and as focused in a long time. But in hindsight wish I could've avoided some of the distractions this year.

Looking to just turn into a bit of a hermit now. Want to get the v1 out there and used. I've gone and built up demand so now I need to deliver before I lose the interest of those forum admins.
That's my point. The two big political parties nominate candidates within the broad consensus of American politics, for the most part. Or at least the candidates that get elected have to govern largely along that consensus in order to get anything done. Remember, then-Senator Obama campaigned on "renegotiating NAFTA" and generally called it a bad deal for the American worker. He was also "not a big fan" of welfare reform. But as you say, he hasn't done much about either.

It's silly to claim that a modern Reagan wouldn't fit well enough within the Republican and American mainstreams to be nominated, and those links don't provide real evidence otherwise. Shocking: Reagan wasn't a hard and fast ideologue. But a hard and fast ideologue isn't going to be nominated by the Republican party today, either.
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You wouldn't steal a car... Nope, but I'd copy one with my 3d printer.
> metro is billed as the only start menu on x86 devices

Metro (Windows 8 style) is not billed as "only the start menu" (assuming that's what you meant) on x86. You're hearing that from hanging around HN, not from Microsoft. Windows 8 fully supports Windows 8-style apps on x86, and it's expected that you can and will install some of those apps. However, Windows 8 on x86 also fully supports all the desktop applications you use on Windows 7/Vista/XP. So if you want, you can indeed avoid all the Windows 8 applications on x86 and stick to the traditional desktop, in which case you'll only see the new style on the start screen and perhaps in various settings screens. But that's not the expected experience on x86.
I've been running at 75 for the past few months, saves me from wasting _too_ much time here instead of working ;)

I have noticed it's a bit quirky though - occasionally I'll have an article from a year or two ago show up on "my" front page.
Indeed. A crime in both locations. But double jeapody means someone should not be prosecuted in both.
The 3D-DRM patent only makes sense with legislative teeth behind printer regulation. It might be naive to assume that IV and the people they can rally to that cause (Nike? Lego? Any car manufacturer ever?) wouldn't want to dump $BIGMONEY into lobbying to make that happen.
Depends on the place and where the H1-B is from. I have seen situations where H1-B works make half of the American worker. One tactic I have seen is that the American companies tend to basically lock in the workers by paying legal fees and dangle the green card sponsorship carat. The H1-B individuals typically will put up with this for the chance at perm residency. While not all of them, make no mistake there is a real new indentured servant class.
There is, somewhere on the internet, a Daily Show episode where even they respect the law and don't use the footage.

I imagine they would have to sign a contract to get the footage and would be bound by the draconian idea that men and women sitting two swords length apart across a chamber guarded by men in tights are not to be laughed at.
I really hope I don't have to start testing for IE on an XBOX.
All I get is a "100%" loading indicator, then the spinning pizza of death and repeated "unresponsive script" warnings for several minutes until I gave up.
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Only if CBS.com doesn't use Flash or Silverlight, as IE9 Xbox doesn't support either of those.
> Office requires high precision input devices (i.e. keyboard and mouse), which are precisely the devices that tablets do not have.

Touch cover or type cover, perhaps. I haven't used either of these yet, but I believe this is one of the niches they are intended to fill.
I'm curious how long the entire process took to finish (in terms of man-hours).
They also mainly quite old and a little confused, probably keep think that the national anthem is playing and are standing to honour Her Majesty.
If wordpress.com can exist offering to host people's blogs, I think someone could create a site that does these techniques in the backend and provides a nice content management front end.
Today, without download option, we are just considered like YouTube: a service hosting files uploaded by users, on which we have no control. When we launch download & commercialization of models, we will indeed have to find a licensing deal for copyright content.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/11/manchester-man-jail...

"Stuart Duke, defending, said Thew had been an inpatient at a mental health unit and was still on anti-psychotic medicine, but the judge replied mental health was "not a factor".

He said Thew had a longstanding dispute with Greater Manchester police over the death of his son three years ago"
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The NYT does great visualizations but wow, they need some serious front end performance work. 34 stylesheets, 22 JS files, multiple inline blocks of CSS and JS. It must take forever to load in older versions of IE and on mobile devices.
you might be interested in "the fractal geometry of nature" by benoit mandelbrot.
Kaggle competitors work on small data sets, so algorithmic problems don't really surface there.

Just because your algorithm can "beat" an industry's worth of work doesn't mean it can be implemented in a practical or efficient way.
Blaming the victim is never the right thing to do. In a well-ordered society, people are expected to obey the law.

I can't even imagine how awful a world that expected punished victims for their crimes would be.
48 hours from start to finish? You guys did an incredibly impressive job with this. Your landing page is more refined than many "Show HN" stories that pop up and the product itself is really cool.

I'm uncertain about the business model - is $0.15 per transaction really going to add up? - but according the Steve Blank, that is the point of a startup anyways. (http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/)

Very nice work!
I hate QWERTY for anything other than two-handed typing, as it's muscle memory I rely on, which is completely absent when using a controller. I would have preferred A-Z, or a single row of A-Z as iPlayer does, or the spiral that Beyond Good & Evil uses, or basically anything other than QWERTY.
And coral is a great CO2 absorber...
I can think of a number of differences between the cases (I'm not in a position to say which, if any, factored into the decisions of either the courts or the home secretary):

* McKinnon is a British citizen, Assange is not.

* If proven, Assange's crimes were in Sweden. IMO, the jurisdiction(s) McKinnon should be subject to is less clear - he was in the UK, but the targeted network was in the US.

* McKinnon was fighting extradition due to mental illness and protection of his human rights; Assange was fighting over EAW procedures/political extradition etc. (I can't remember the exact legal argument put forward).

* Assange is to be extradited with the EU. Very broadly speaking, this means that the legal systems and human rights protections are more closely aligned (for example, both the UK and Sweden are subject to EU law, and both have ratified the ECHR). This influences both political and public perception of the extradition.

* Various other political considerations (e.g. Assange's association with WikiLeaks).

* The crimes of which they are accused - I suspect that accessing the US government network is perceived by the public to be largely a victimless crime (in that it is not possible to say a specific person was harmed by the actions), but sexual assault obviously is not.

As far as I am aware, the courts reached effectively the same decision in both cases. The final decision is extradite or not is taken by the Home Secretary, so is to some extent a political decision.
I don't think that these two goals are at-odds. In many companies, the problem is just that neither group, developers or sysadmins, really seems to understand the other.

But both want the same thing -- to ship a working product.

Developers really don't want growth at the expense of software that doesn't work. But many developers come from a computer science background, and I've never seen a computer science curriculum teach students about logging, testing, runtime instrumentation, monitoring theory, security, or deployment.

In university, you write code in a very unrealistic fashion. Lots of individual coding, some teamwork, but your assignments nominally have well-defined inputs and outputs, and students effectively never have to carry projects across classes and semesters, the way that you would with a production application.

Sysadmins, having been exposed to this, assume that developers are out to kill everything with a BIOS, and as a result tend to lock systems down, or implement weird hacks to get around the lack of logging or instrumentation.

In companies I've consulted with, a bit of education goes a long way towards fixing this. I usually rotate a dev at a time through the sysadmin team, where they can both help in debugging problems, as well as tackling all the interrupts that would otherwise be divided evenly among all the engineers.

The developers learn about why logging is important, gain a better understanding of the deployment process and environment, and the sysadmins gain a greater understanding of what the devs are trying to accomplish.

It's amazingly effective in fixing the false dev/ops split, and in getting the two teams working together effectively.
Very nice, I think reversing the job marketplace for tech jobs is a viable need (will only work as long as demand is higher than supply)

however, what really worries me is that you use sendgrid, but still your confirmation email got to my spam folder.

Does this mean that sendgrid.me (what was used in that case) reputation is down?

I strongly suggest that you get your own email IP, you will have low bounce / unsubscribes anyway as you send only transactional emails

(I'm not affiliated or have any relatives in sendgrid)
This is cool, and I will probably use it sometimes to help force myself to waste less time, but isn't there some risk of a 'tragedy of the commons' (maybe not the right game theory term, but one of those) where too many people want to see only high point submissions so fewer people are around to vote low point submissions into higher ones? Maybe even some adverse selection where now the people viewing lower point posts are the ones who care less about discovering high quality posts, thereby making it harder for those posts to get high points?
But in the end, you're just trading performance for abstractions. There's not really a functional difference between writing the DB in a language running on a VM implemented in C; or writing a DB with a VM implemented in C.

If performance and portability are your goals, C is going to be the logical choice.
Somewhere definitely north of 30%, 40% for high end devices. Keep in mind apple has its own retail distribution, so there is no middle cut (they offer very little to resellers like best buy). Apple has room to cut prices if they want, I don't think anyone else does though.
We're currently working on a way to guarantee that, I'm glad that people are asking this question; you can't expect "because we said so" to work in this day and age.
We've built the service to be profitable from day one, so we're not doing what some other competitors have done in the past which is to burn their seed money like it's the end of the world.
Did you spring into existence sometime after the last debate? Romney isn't a hard and fast ideologue because he isn't a hard and fast anything. But he certainly had to make those noises to be nominated.

Reagan's positions and what he did in office are completely incompatible with Republicans today. A budget deal with democrats that raises taxes? Tough love on Israel occasionally?

I'm not saying Reagan wouldn't have been able to be elected, but he'd have to be a different Reagan to get the nomination. A hard and fast ideologue or, in the worst case, someone who makes the appropriate noises and can beat Newt Gingrich.
That's a great idea! Can you email hello@flirble.me so we can discuss this further?
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How come I could install chrome and get a metro UI on windows 8, even though it didn't go through Microsoft's store?

I keep reading that windows 8 distribution is limited to the ms store for apps with metro UI , but that doesn't seem to be the case from my limited experience.

Can anyone clarify?
Submitted to Cocoacontrols, thanks for the suggestion!
I work in the SAP space, My experience is most of the abuse is handled through 3rd parties. You will never be able to pin it on an IBM or an HP directly, but their will be 3rd party resourcing companies that will pull visas and force project members to live 2 to a room in a 2 bedroom apartment to save costs.
That change would certainly make a big difference and yet sadly most can not see the gains from having a more open visa. Reason being that such a change in the common mans eye's will look like more errosion of job prospects than one which locks the competition to one company so to speak.

Though given this http://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2012/06/13/no-hir...

Then I'd expect IBM have a situation that any idle workers with visa's landed (landed - not sure if that IBM term means they have a visa and can fly over or have a visa and already in the country ). That if they don't use them then like budgets not fully used up they lose them next year. Given that no new visa's are available until next year, then things can only get better.

But IBM are certainly cruising for a law bruising fine.
After reading the section below from the WTO site I can't understand how such a practice of discriminating against foreign workers is compatible with free trade espoused and taken advantage of by developed countries. Protectionism in terms of differential pricing of goods in many cases to protect local industries and jobs is considered against free trade. This to me seems like a very opportunistic interpretation of free trade.

http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact2_e.h...
2. National treatment: Treating foreigners and locals equally Imported and locally-produced goods should be treated equally — at least after the foreign goods have entered the market. The same should apply to foreign and domestic services, and to foreign and local trademarks, copyrights and patents. This principle of “national treatment” (giving others the same treatment as one’s own nationals) is also found in all the three main WTO agreements (Article 3 of GATT, Article 17 of GATS and Article 3 of TRIPS), although once again the principle is handled slightly differently in each of these.

National treatment only applies once a product, service or item of intellectual property has entered the market. Therefore, charging customs duty on an import is not a violation of national treatment even if locally-produced products are not charged an equivalent tax.

P.S : I am from India, I have no intention now (or ever before) of emigrating to find better opportunities. So this comment is not borne out of any bitterness. It is out of genuine curiosity to know why this point of view is rarely mentioned in any such debate.
My understanding is that they used the £500k they said the hack cost to plug the security holes. In an interview I saw a while ago it basically said he walked in through the front door, the "Administrator" account did not have a password and the computers in question were accessible remotely.

Edit: A perl script he had scanned for computers with default passwords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon#Statements_to_th...