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Honest question. What are some alternatives that aren't likely to pull a paypal?
It's easier to explain that decimal 0.1 in binary is 0.000110011001100110011001100110011001100110011001100110011001100110011001100... It's impossible to present accurately with any combination of significand*2^exponent in a finite-memory binary system. Just like 1/3 in decimal system can't be written down accurately.
I'd consider the flagrant human rights abuses in the U.A.E. to be a pretty substantial downside. The U.A.E. routinely imprisons rape victims for extramarital sex, imprisons or castrates people convicted of homosexuality. There is little or no protection for freedom of speech or of the press, etc. The U.A.E. would be a terrible country to live and work in, and a low cost of living does nothing to change that.
I did a video of it in case they fixed it before I posted this, but now it seems that they did. Anyway, here it is:
http://screencast.com/t/bxMgXQ3mI
If you are actually like this in real life, and not merely a troll, then I am sure the police simply love you...
But isn't this essentially what the radio/podcast form of news essentially is?

Each station/organization curates information (in a similar way web-based reporters do) and then reports as much of it as their resources allow via someone reading/talking?

I'm not trying to beat up on their idea but I dont understand their competitive angle or what would cause me to use it over the huge amount of content out there.
It's definitely in the pipeline for us, but our most redeeming feature (not being restricted by traditional search APIs) is also the thing that makes automated bookings the most difficult. But we have a solution; stay tuned.
If we had trains or planes as large as the tankers and container ships, you would probably be right. The thing is that drag is areal, freight is volumetric. Drag goes up as the square of the dimension, freight capacity as the cube. This allows large ships to be much more efficient than trucks or trains.
In fallback mode, it was possible.
Clear? How so? The product's sole purpose is to make sound. Why would they not put the sound in the advertisement video?
It's a bit disingenuous to lump everyone in the 'government' together. It is perfectly reasonable for the NSA to be conducting a massive illegal wiretap of all digital communications for all persons on the planet creating 'profiles' for each digital communication and linking them together with a myriad of other systems AND for the DHS to not know how to communicate on their radios, let alone encrypted. You must consider the underlying competency of the group which could perpetrate a 'conspiracy' when considering the validity of that conspiracy. And the 'government' is little more than a feudal system that loosely works together sometimes.
Apple marketing 101. Sell the lifestyle. Also I could tell you had a nice single speed bike, but I couldn't tell if it was fixed or not.
Oh, interesting. That's how new this book is; when I (immediately) went to its page on O'Reilly, only the Print Pre-Order was enabled. Thanks for the update!
"destroying someone else's environment"

Oh for god's sake...
Author here. I started this thing off as a bit of a jumble of incongruous features (take pictures, take pictures of just parts of the image, etc. etc.), and have since been whittling it down to two core components: getting a webcam feed up and running; and giving you the option to capture images from it.

Instead of adding more features before 'shipping', I probably deleted a load instead. Didn't need 'em.
> where people make and buy things "just because".

Because people will buy things "just because".
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99% of them are right.
There are similarities, but there are differences too. Podcasts/radio will usually deliver the content more succinctly. Written articles tend to be more in-depth. Pros and cons to both.

Moreover, there is simply more written content than there are podcasts or radio. This can help bridge the gap.
Hi Michael,

We have a lot planned to reduce the amount of unpaid work. Think of getting quotes from say a plumber. A handful may offer free quotes and then you choose one to complete the work. The initial quote does take some effort, but only a fraction of the total effort.

We're working towards this "free quote" model. There will always be a significant amount of work required upfront, but if we can increase value more and more on the backend, the upfront work will reduce in comparison and get closer to, for example, a plumber's "free quote".

Also, as someone else suggested, the experts tend to find flights much quicker than the rest of us. Sometimes it's software, and sometimes it's just from doing it so often.
Why are all the people fighting the fights I want to get behind, completely obnoxious? Kim Dotcom, Juian Assange, Richard Stallman, etc... Can't we have a champion for the digital causes with the charisma that exceeds new money red neck, rapist, or raving homeless person? I'm not asking for MLK or Gandhi, just an average Joe.
Oops, sorry, missed that one. Considering the bad karma I got from my comment, I'll definitely follow that guideline from now on :)
getUserMedia is still pretty young, but I was under the impression that Firefox would have it next version. No idea on IE.

Compatibility table here: http://caniuse.com/stream ...though it has no idea on them either.
I have seen no evidence of this destruction.
Kiva (a similar site for microlending to entrepreneurs in third-world countries) does this. From my personal experience, it's been quite effective and encouraged me to occasionally donate while lending to entrepreneurs.
Except that the government already has a health care plan. And it's pretty amazing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenbaum/why-cant-we-ha...

Fortunately the government isn't expanding that; it's just mandating that insurance companies give health insurance to more people, and that employers do the same. They're not providing a public option.
I think it's been overly stated in this thread, but it would appear that the majority of the problems with dark-on-white are the brightness, contrast and luminosity of the designs.

W3C apparently knew this was a problem and had provided an algorithm to measure relative contrast/luminosity, which is good to play around and test with: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#contrast-ratiodef
It suffers from the same bug as the stock bootstrap modal; focus is not contained in the popup window. Press tab a few times and soon your keyboard focus is on elements on the page behind the modal.
Will do. This is a great idea. We're hoping to even have a fundraising bar ($X raised out of $X needed this month) to encourage people to give.
Who buys that level without training? Someone who doesn't know what they're doing, doesn't care, and needs to check off a box to satisfy part of their yearly goals.
Well, true. I doubt most people making these sort of products/companies really place that much importance on "making it" though. If their company fails it is no longer really a big deal, so people can afford to go to market with little product research or other investment (the viability of small production batches helps a lot here). So, to a certain extent at least, I think the "just because" aspect of manufacturing is present.
I agree with this. I think a better way of thinking about MVP is by calling your V1 a "minimal compelling product". Your first version really needs to be minimally compelling so you get good usage which leads to good feedback, like you did. It's really a hard thing to decide but it's very important. Go to minimal and you will fail prematurely - too much and you will never launch. More thoughts here: http://www.stevoyoung.com/post/32933259890/forget-your-mvp-b...
But there's also the historical accident of early computers primarily using light-on-dark displays (I always found amber-on-black mode less harsh on the eyes than green-on-black, personally—but just don't get me started on white-on-blue, bah!), which we then moved away from in favor of dark on light.

(If I had to guess the reason for that historical accident, I'd think it had to do with "white" not being a particularly uniform color on a lot of older CRTs, but one with varying hue and intensity in different regions.)

I find light on dark hard to read, even in low light. If I'm reading on my phone at night and use light-on-dark, the text looks blurrier to me than if I change it to dark-on-light (where "light" is a shade of gray that isn't harsh in a dark room).

(I wonder if dark ink on white paper took off over white ink/paint/whatever on dark paper because most people found it more readable. Anyone know about the history of paper/inks/paints?)
Cory Doctorow has quite the charisma - I love his speech at last year's Chaos Computer Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

Don't really like his novels (subtlety is French to them) but his speeches are great.
Have you guys met up with the Kiva team? This strikes me as such a similar model in many ways.

I imagine they would have an incredible amount of learning from the past several years that they would be willing to share. A lot of this has to do with perfecting the user experience for potential lenders / donors. It seems like you're doing a good job on this front but no doubt there's room for improvement.

I've been a loyal Kiva lender now for years and watched them grow to $375M in loans. I think you're on to something similar with tremendous potential.
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"and the manuals are online."

Yeah, but probably not all of the people using the radios have access to computers connected to the internet.

Even at my company, they restrict flash over the internet, so people can't watch YouTube, but that means we can't access training materials provided by our vendors in flash.

Shooting our feet into the 21st Century, already in progress.
No, it's a Mach microkernel (except it's not because they shoved some non-microkernel stuff in) with a BSD userland, and a NextSTEP GUI/framework on top.
I don´t get why they don´t sell the coconut too. How am I expected to get a coconut?. The coconut should be included. Or at least post a link to swallow transport company.
Any of these OS can decide tomorrow to change to another kernel, and Linux is history in the mobile space.

Sure, they could do that. Oops, there goes all those drivers. Hey, what happened to that port to X architecture? What do you mean only Linux and NetBSD run on it?
Definition of 8A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Business_Administration#8...
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I don't have access to a system with the root kit, but something like comparing the reported size of the file and the number of bytes you can read might work

if ls -l /etc/rc.local | awk '{print $5}' != \
cat /etc/rc.local | wc -c

Also looks like you might be able to see it running with a ps also.
Wow. I was just having scrolling issues with Bootstrap's modal today and I couldn't find any solutions I liked. This was a godsend. Thanks.
we have a lot of wind turbines where I live. You get a strobe sounds of wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh if you are down wind of them. They are noisy. Also, if the sunlight catches them you also get a strobe reflection off them. That is also horrible.

There is a farmer who has 2 turbines up, he lives on the far side of a hill about a km away - you can still hear those whoosh-whoosh-whoosh all day long. Painful.

Powerlines also run over a lot of campsites near my house, you can hear them hummmmmm and crackle. In the damp/rain/mist/fog you can hear a lot of crackling and humming from them.

I can understand why people get angry with them. In urban areas where there is a lot of noise, I guess you wouldn't notice it so much.

Off topic, but my sister worked in a place where they put the magnets into wind turbines. There was a loud crash one day, someone had a magnet on a pallet, lifted it with a forklift and drove it out to a van. Half way the magnet got sucked by another magnet (in one of the factories) and burst through the wall and the two clamped together. They never got them apart and had to take the remaining bits of the turbine apart from around them.
I am assuming that most or all of those who are defending Weev have never experienced life after he "drops docs" on you (which he has of course done for years, and as casually as one swats a fly)
Because political activism on an issue that's not obvious injustice is a quixotic, and the smart people are out building new things/finding ways to route around the problem rather than fighting a losing battle.
Maybe I didn't explain myself properly, but what I was stabbing at had everything to do with privacy. As does the whole point the OP mentioned of having communications monitored.

Whether or not the US government can at this point in time read/hear what you say is somewhat irrelevant if they're monitoring it and recording it and there exists a non-0 chance of they being able to then crack it.

I was also not attempting to draw up some huge conspiracy theory that the US government is out to get you or any particular person. I'm merely trying to point out that the more information and communications the US Government (or any other entity) records, then the greater their capacity to infringe on our privacy. And that in some use cases the actual contents are irrelevant in so far that the monitoring itself can inconvenience us and harm us due to information that is inadvertently leaked or signalled through our communication patterns.

But to be honest, I'm glad there exists a way for someone to have every single method of communication go through secure means that are impervious to any manner of eavesdropping.
Single speed, not fixed :)
You have probably dealt with consumer or simple commercial systems. Military, government and even ham transceivers can be a maze of menus and modes. Not to mention the trunking, programming, dispatch, data modes, propagation, fading, interop, etc... One doesn't simply hand grunts and officers a COTS radio and expect success. Training is key.
Is it very hard to get coconuts where you live? In these parts they sell them in all the supermarkets.
Ask HN:W3Schools...
Why haven't the W3C attempted to shut down W3Schools yet? It is detrimental to the web(see http://w3fools.com/)and it isn't even endorsed by them. Aren't they violating copyright?
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Love that extension, thanks!
Is there even a way to avoid that?
Strange that a company founded by 3 ex-Googlers would bring out an iPhone app first and there's no sign of an Android version: http://umanoapp.com/
You really need to get the app to see how big a difference professional voice actors make. Imagine if this became ubiquitous, and we could click on a Umano button right from our favorite outlet's site, switch tabs and listen to the article as you code away!
That seems a bit terrible. Now it's D so it's not like it's a real problem but: if I went from one "standards compliant" implementation to another and suddenly my numerical code started being shit because it turns out my first compiler was silently more precise... there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
From what is publicly known, there's very little reason to believe Assange raped anyone and the Swedish authorities seem uninterested in questioning Assange, filing charges, or anything besides extraditing him to Sweden for some reason.

I don't really want to talk about the details and hijack the thread, but there's something Kafkaesque about how thing shave been handled. The terrifying thing about the case is people are ready to hate him because of flimsy rape allegations, even on Hacker News!

Anyway, I guess the point of this post is Assange isn't all that obnoxious if you ignore the rape media circus. Maybe he is egotistical but most important hackers are.
After spending a week ripping out someone's poorly thought out floating point code, the lesson I learned is that you just shouldn't use floating point unless you really need to.

For example, if you're working with money, you don't need floating point.
I think those are two different jobs. On one hand you have the Product Leader, whose job it is to stay on top of the technology that drives the product, and to be aware of the codebase. On the other hand, you have the Team Leader, whose job it is to facilitate communication between team members. To make sure team members are productive and happy.
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Ask HN: Why is it that so many people fail fizzbuzz?
Does anyone else care if they are ex-googlers or not? Seems completely irrelevant.
Maybe this way they won't get their video taken down for copyright infringement next time they land something on another planet.
Well, if we assume that any source of alcohol could be counted as beer, this device could be constructed by combining the water generator with a colony of modified algae (or an ecosystem of carb leaking algae and yeast) combined with some sort of membrane that allows alcohol through but not water. (Or a Brownian motion powered still).

That sounds pretty hard, but it would be a safe bet to say you could buy one within fifty years. Maybe longer if you want something nicer than pure ethanol.
In my opinion, this is a great strategic decision. IPhone users are more likely to be early adopters as well as become paying users (that's if the guys want to start charging for usage). Most YC companies focusing on mobile start with this as well.
Nexus 7 - how do I recognize different file extensions (i.e. html, css, etc...)?
I got the Nexus 7 planning to use it as a device to code on the train here and there. However, it can't recognize my file types (html, css, js... also font types, ttf, eot, etc.). How do I get the drivers necessary to recognize these files?
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1. Shotgun clause or something similar.

2. Work-for-hire clause or similar — everything that the employees do is property of the company unless specifically negotiated otherwise.
How are you hackers designing your products?
Every time an "Ask HN" post is made, I'm always surprised at how well the sites are designed. Are you guys doing these designs by yourselves? Many of these sites look way better than what I could do myself, and I consider myself a mediocre designer. Or are you guys teaming up with designers? Are you paying designers to design these projects?
I can read a dark-on-light text at normal size (on a retina display) for an hour without feeling my eyes are hurting, but I literally cannot read light-on-dark text more than 10 minutes and have to bump the font size one or two points...
What business would want to hire anyone associated with one of the most anti-business administrations in a long time?
It caught my eye, but I'm shallow.
My postulate is that there are some people who have really really really good soft skills, and they get through the interview by wit and charm alone. The interviewer decides to hire the person before it gets the the fizzbuzz part. Those people get by on the job by taking a really long time to get things done, but have great excuse masking skills, so they keep their job. This is all based on my experiences working with people who couldn't do fizzbuzz. The one things that they all had in common, was that they all had really great people skills.

Note: Thats not to say that that all people with people skills can't do fizzbuzz, just the people with an abundance of it. Why waste time getting good at a hard skill, if you can get by perfectly fine with your great soft skills?
Why are you inventing constraints that don't exist?

Elon's pauses make it clear to me, and presumably to you, that he was checking what she said versus what he was thinking, and finding that, to a layman, the two would seem similar. Even if underlying technologies are different.

His wording suggested strongly to me that his solution was a tube. Did it not suggest that to you?

No matter how many times you say "pointless complexity", that doesn't mean that there really is pointless complexity. (And we're disagreed on the complexity.)

I'm quite aware of how hard it is to push air out of the way. A quick comparison of the mass of the plunger and the mass of the air says that a bubble of air will not actually slow the plunger down much. Being in air constantly would, but a bubble of fixed size wouldn't. (You'd have to think about what effects it might have on passengers inside.)

There is absolutely no need for a tight seal, as long as the flaps open and shut at the right time. You can stand a long ways away from a moving truck and still feel the wind pushing away. And the closer that it gets to Mach 1, the farther away you can feel that gust.

The friction losses are hard for me to estimate. The upper limit on the temperature of the plungers is caused by the heating of air that is suddenly compressed to 1 atmosphere, and the friction from air moving past at hundreds of miles per hour. However if only a little bit of air is involved, the heating might happen at reasonable rates. Without parameters that I don't have and a fluid dynamics simulation that I am not prepared to do, I can't tell. That said, I can tell you that the rate of heating per volume (and therefore the ease of dealing with it) goes down as you make the plungers larger, up as you speed up, and down as you reduce air pressure. So if you have little enough air and large enough objects moving through it, the heat generation gets more and more reasonable.

And about your PS, I'm trying to guess at how Elon gets around right of ways. Underwater is not part of my basic idea at all.
There is an upside. The more BS like this that PayPal pulls the more people will stop using their service.
constant use of the word 'chap' in an attempt to sound like an upper class British public school boy is incredibly annoying. if the content is worth reading then it will stand on its own - it doesn't need to be livened up by speaking in the style of Bertie Wooster.
It's an apology to the community. I wouldn't have written that, even if drunk, if I hadn't thought YOU would take it as I meant it. So I am glad I read that right, and thank you for saying so.

But many readers either didn't read it that way or thought it unhelpful to the tone of the board. And I think concerns about that are more than fair. Any "humor" touching on violence really must be clearly humor. This wasn't, at leas to the wider audience, and I'm sorry about that.
While it may not be universally true, I quite like this.

Any insight on how one might route around the upcoming internet control battle that will take place in the UN? Or the neverending stream of [RI|MP]AA-written laws that congress tries to pass?
China Plans to Launch its own Chips for Laptops and Servers
Webservers usually have a very explicit authorization setting. Apache often has the lines

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

in a config file somewhere.
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I just similarly booked a round the world honeymoon ticket. I'd consider myself pretty good at scheduling domestic and international travel, and I'm an American-Airlines life-time platinum member. That said, the experts really impressed me and were able to find me business class flights for the entire trip for 7k a head. Not bad.
You might also want to have a look at ggplot2, which is an R library: http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/
And that would be two general purpose programming languages :)
Well-adjusted individuals who do well within the system have little reason to fight it.
Get a new office then?
One thing to note is that all Googlers are not Android addicts.

Google not only has Android developers, but also backend, frontend and iPhone engineers.
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