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Your site is awesome! I've been looking for a way to read without distractions and without having to enter every single article into instapaper.

What many people underestimate is that summaries have an inherent problem: bias. No two people are ever going to summarize an article the exact same way - much less so when it comes to politics etc. So before I use a site to read summaries, I have to trust the brand (I trust The Economist, for they mostly differentiate between reporting and editorializing) and I will never ever trust an anonymous bunch of people (the "crowdsourcing" summaries-solution) to accurately summarize without bias. I value as-close-to-objective-reporting-as-possible very highly - judgments I can make my own.
After the "change" from RentACoder to vWorker I've noticed a step decline in the quality of offers from employers (think 1$ to 30$ a project ...). Back in 2006 - 2010 RAC was a great place to make some money. In the last two years not so much.
An interesting article. The concept of asking to pay for a trial, and a trial of a prototype at that, seems a bit weird for me, though. I don't know I would pay for this. I've come to expect that trials are free, especially of new services.
I thought that was an actual issue dealing with "loudness" and the dynamic range of the sound. ie, newer media is formatted so that it's so loud, it will clip parts off before it you can hear the softer bits in it. I could be way off though, I'm not really and audio buff in that sense...
> Only in the movies.

You mean the movies made about people who were unwavering in real life? Gandhi, MLK, Lincoln are a few high-profile figures that spring to mind, but there are countless throughout history who have made a difference by standing up for what they believe in.

I understand your point, that romanticized notions rarely have a place in reality. But I think Stallman, even with all of his eccentricities, is the perfect figurehead for these ideologies. He is a believer, and that gives others permission to believe themselves. It's a very powerful thing.
You will never, ever get a single recruiter pay $500 to see your CV.

If you really want to reduce the amount of recruiter spam then I suggest you change your linkedin privacy settings and if you have a personal site, make it crystal clear you aren't interested in hearing from recruiters. Any recruiter who continues to contact you after that has done one of two things:

1. Ignored the message on your site

or

2. Found your old details on their internal database.

There's not much you can do about the first one but the second one is easily fixed. Simply ask them to remove your details and send you confirmation of the fact. They are legally required to do so if requested.
> Hmm, well I guess roads are cheaper than rails [...]

We could look that up. But considering that roads and rails the world over are often build by governments or government owned corporations, I expect Elon Musk to have found a much cheaper way to build his infrastructure.
Now what's the reasoning for doing something like that?
Self-filling Water Bottle
Stockholm has the same metro area size as teeny tiny Baltimore. :-)
Is this the big news from yesterday then?
Here's mine, http://textteaser.com/. It's basically an API that accepts the URL as an input and outputs a JSON result. It's only a preview so expect more to come.
They seem to be over their limit with Github, pasted below as a mirror:

You probably noticed Charm had some nasty downtime a couple weeks ago.

Service quality is very important to us. If we didn't think we could do better, we wouldn't do it at all.

We've spent very generously on sysadmin services and infrastructure (nearly $100k of investment on sysadmin services/infrastructure alone). We hired the best possible, and we splurged on a redundant, powerful, and expensive server configuration from the beginning.

Now we've discovered that there's some kind of base incompatibility with Ubuntu, which is giving us kernel panics which nobody can track down. Charm has been plagued by mystery technical problems from the beginning, when we had to backport from Rails 3.x to 2.x because of massive performance slowdowns which even Rails Core members couldn't identify.

What this has really shown us is that, if we open Charm to the general public, we won't be able to provide you with the kind of service you deserve. We are a tiny team, and so far, we've had zero luck in our attempts to grow by hiring developers. Problems which are small now will only get bigger.

There are a lot of things I'm willing to take risks with, but not with your ability to provide support to customers for your business.

And so it is with a very heavy heart that we will cease operating Charm from Dec 15, for the foreseeable future.

You won't be billed again, and we'll refund your last payments.

We will gladly help you migrate your data out of Charm. Please contact us directly (support@charmhq.com) for help.

Thank you so much for taking a chance on us, and sharing our dream for a superior email interface.

I'm truly sorry to disappoint you.

Best wishes,

Amy
That's for public projects?
Isn't Google one of the few corporations that hasn't started using patents offensively? Assuming that's the case, I think it would be reasonable to stockpile patents defensively, even if they abhor patents.

It's just a terrible situation, the only way for google (or any other software company) to protects themselves from certain death is to build up a defensive barrier of patents. And I think this is a great argument for abolishing software patents entirely.
As far as I know, the GNOME 3 "experience" relies heavily on the Mutter window manager and so it can't be easily replaced. Maybe someone else can chime in to confirm one way or the other though.
Does anyone have any links to information on charm, or demos? All I can find is their website, which has no information: http://charmhq.com/

Found this so far: http://charmhq.com/Charm_Bootcamp.pdf
Or just changing kernel version?

It's quite fascinating really, especially in 2012 to give up because of software failure.
Steve, I read all over the place that employees who take counter-offers are usually gone within the year anyway. Is this because the employees talked themselves to into staying in an unhealthy situation or because the employers are simply keeping them around long enough to replace them with someone without the demonstrated propensity to shop around? I've never actually been in this situation so I'm curious what insight you can share.

Thanks!
I interpreted the OP suggesting that you not use a single multiparadigm language because then you won't be forced to follow the new principle everywhere. Of course, it's possible to do (for example) OOP in a lisp-like language, but you'll really be forced to work with it in a language like Java, which may give you a deeper understanding.
It should become a core activity but in many cases even when a company hires a recruiter they are really hiring a 'seat filler' rather than a recruiter (btw, I have no idea about stevek's company; this is a generalization).

By 'seat filler' I mean someone who is simply there to find a body at the cheapest price they can get away with. More often than not it is to fill a quota or fight attrition rather than find someone worthy.
Reading this makes me wonder about the possibility of purely electric f1 vehicles, and what such a move might mean for electric cars in general.
I'd love to read a blog post about how to do it successfully!

I've been looking for inspiration for my next blog post and now I've got it!

You might be interested in my own musings on the recruitment industry: http://hackerjobs.co.uk/blog/2012/6/15/all-that-is-wrong-wit...
Paste the link in another tab.
Ask HN: Any ideas about giving a graphical representation of an inverse problem?
I would like to start my thesis with that.
Thank you very much.
Really? I'm still in love with the higher definition. I'm a big sports fan, and I could never go back to a lower resolution. Especially for hockey, my goodness does HD make it look soo much better. Higher frame rates would be nice too, don't get me wrong, but I think resolution is more important to me. (I could be wrong, I'll let you know when they start shooting airing sports at 60fps)
Always preferred the 9 series, the screen on the 7s was just a bit too small. My 901 is still going strong.
I could say the same of you. Please tell me how I failed to accurately characterize the difference between RPC and REST with respect to defining requests whose entire working URI set can't feasibly be sent over the network.

Alternatively, explain how REST can simultaneously meet the constraints of "avoid combinatorial explosion of possible URIs to explicitly present" and "every resource is accessible by following server-provided links" and "avoid unnecessary bandwidth usage".
And just in case you want to know what SD card you should get: Samsung MB-SSBGA (SDHC 32 GB Class 10) or MB-MSBGA (same thing as microSDHC).

Read Arnd Bergmann's comments here:
https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJ...
You also get some popups when you try and back out of the page. They should make them x10 ones for early naughties nostalgia.
... by the user setting up that iPad.

Sort of as if AT&T had chosen really bad, unchangeable default passwords for all their users.
We want some ambiguity. It inserts human judgement into the loop.
Moving the air through the tunnel addresses the capsule drag, but now you have drag between your moving air and the tunnel wall, which depending on the distance between vehicles is going to be a larger loss.

Yacht designers refer to the "wetted area" component of drag, and an entire tunnel wall is a heck of a lot of wetted area.
Great work! I'm about to decide which solution I'm gonna use for making mind maps while studying and I like this one alot.. Any chance there'll be google drive connection in the near future?

Edit:
I seem to have a problem with scrolling in the document. When I try to scroll using two finger swipe on a mac it sometimes recognise the scroll as a zoom in/zoom out command instead, until I reload the page and I can scroll normally again. Is there any other way to scroll? Am I doing it wrong? (and sometimes the the browser recognise the two finger swipe as a back command..)
Yeah I was implying that with my second point, sorry for not being clear.
This is very clever brain hack, and very interesting to hear.
Serious question: What is the difference between patent-intensive and patent-encumbered?
Don't leave one of these around with unlimited resources...
I'm a bit of a film buff, by that I mean I like shooting of film & I own 16mm film cameras. (I shoot most if my work in digital though, so I don't consider myself all that snobby about it)

To me some arguments for film hold up, but are rapidly becoming less relevant as digital sensors improve. The biggest case form film to me is the dynamic range (in film terms "latitude") compared to digital. Film is currently still better at retaining detail in high contrast shots (for example a person dimly lit against a bright sky). And when film does "blow out" it has a tendency to be a smooth curve and even the over-exposed parts of the frame that may be fully white still have some texture. Whereas digital has a harsh drop off where the information is just gone and it has a rather ugly look.

Newer camera sensors are starting to get very, very close to film in terms of latitude. But for the moment even the most expensive Hollywood level cameras are not quite as good. I expect this to change and eventually film won't have this advantage anymore.

Film does tend to have a pleasing, organic look. But plugins are getting very good at emulating the good parts of that without all of the hassles of film. I liken it to audio recording, which went through a similar analog-vs-digital revolution in the 90's. there are still people that choose analog for artistic reasons, but digital is accepted as the primary recording medium now.

As for 48fps, though, that's irrelevant in the digital-vs-film argument because both types of cameras can shoot at either frame rate.
If you want my "TextTeaser" (http://textteaser.com/) can really help provide "faster news". I'm currently doing an API that accepts a URL as an input and returns a JSON result that contains the following: title, url, sentences with their respective scores.

The scores are based on title, sentence length and sentence position for now. Because there are more to come. They are included in the JSON output.
What they do not tell you in lean startup; your early users are your unwitting product testers. Thus the calculus becomes how quickly you can plug the gaps and deliver the real MVP before your users bail en masse.
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Public transport minibuses might actually be a good place to exercise self driving vehicles.

Minibuses don't need the same versatility as consumer cars have. They "only" need to be able to handle anything they can encounter on a predefined route. The route itself could even be optimized for them (eg pedestrian barriers).
Isn't the American way Month/Date/Year?
Encumbered is a pejorative.
Does rails not run on Centos, Debian, or SuSE?
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or trying other OSs other than Ubuntu such as CentOS or something from Joyent.

Or even just Debian. I ran into issues (years ago) with Ubuntu stability due to closed source drivers on a laptop; sure, I have the skills to debug that sort of thing, but why waste my time? I had been running Debian just fine on desktops and servers for years, and after switching the laptop to it, the lockups stopped.

I'm more than willing to admit there may be real technical issues they ran into, but it sounds to me like they gave up too easy, and we may never know what the problems are. Would've been nice to at least have seen a bug report (honestly don't know if they submitted any, but I'm willing to bet they didn't).
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> Information whether email is valid or not was made publicly available by AT&T

By mistake. They left that hole open by mistake. I just re-read the details to be sure; the clear intention of the developer was that the email address would be retrieved (keyed on the SIM ID) to pre-populate a sign-in field for the user. That CCID is not meaningfully useful to the user. This API was clearly never intended as a "validation" mechanism, and for you to claim so is flatly ridiculous. It was a security hole, and a dumb one, and something AT&T should be held liable for if someone suffered damages.

But for you to claim that its very existence makes it legal to exploit to retrieve addresses of third party users is just insane, sorry. That's the kind of logic Weev relied on, and it's going to send him to jail. And rightly so: the rest of us in society don't particularly want jokers like you running around free looking to steal our email addresses.
So if Google abhors patent trolls, why would Microsoft be enthusiastic about patent trolls? The statement would be nuts.
The thing is I would actually favor software patents if it required the patent applicant to submit all related source code to the public domain. Software is the only medium of creation that is essentially a double-monopoly with copyright and patent protection.
I'll reserve judgement. Technical advances are of course an integral part of film history, but the idea that absolute fidelity to some Platonic ideal of an image is an end in and of itself is purest bafflegab. You don't get to throw away the existing language of film just because some consumer electronics consortium wants to sell new TV sets (see: stereo projection).

It doesn't help the case that the last time this subject came up with a big tentpole release it was Dinosaurs Fighting Helicopters.
My guess would be that the ad network they are using doesn't give anything for German views/hits. So they are saving on traffic costs.

If it were the case that they have some local brand (as is the case when you can't buy music/games/etc online), it would probably redirect somewhere else as Google.
This is normal for Ubuntu kernels from experience. They are shitty. Various server releases have given us hell. They're fudging them somehow.

We moved to debian after numerous problems and have had no issues since.
"we're really building a system to efficiently share opinions and see what other people think."

This is exactly it - well said. And as you said, "movies are your beachhead".

All you need is why what you do is different and/or better (which is still not exactly clear, unless it's finding peers).

It's sometimes tough for engineers to be focused less on being precise in description, and more inspirational to goals. I have to work at it every day.
I'm not advocating taking this to commune-like extremes, but I'm surprised I don't hear more about taking advantage of sharing certain items to maximise living space and minimise costs. Two candidates that spring to mind would be vacuum cleaners and washing machines. Surely it's cheaper to have one industrial-quality version of each shared between 10/15 residents (with some sort of online booking system) than for everyone to have one each and lose the space?
That link was really insightful. The fact is that there are tens of thousands of servers running Rails on Ubuntu without any issues.

Sounds to me they would rather blame Ubuntu than their inability to fix the issue.

Later edit: to elaborate that last point. I'm not saying Ubuntu is not at fault, but rather that problem solving goes with the territory. Given the wide array of alternatives, this was not the sort of thing you could openly complain about.
That line is about recordings for download, not streaming.
I like Prismatic. Why is that not popular?
In fact, gnome-shell is the window manager binary by linking to libmutter. Running gnome-shell with another window manager is as feasible as running twm with fvwm (i.e. not feasible).
Help I'm looking for a ffffound.com invite.
I'm looking for ffffound.com invite. Can a kind sole out there help me out and send over an invite.

Cheers!
This type of service has been written many times before without kernel panics.

I didn't get to see Charm before they shut down, so I have no idea what they were doing.

Could anyone speak towards how their experience was unique enough to cause kernel panics?
It is no secret that email as a whole needs to be updated for the myriad of modern uses, and I believe this is going to happen through new components that make parts of the ecosystem better. Email is the sum of its parts from protocols, servers, clients, content, users, and little by little we are seeing progress.
They can't find them that abhorrent if they're willing to be involved in the arms race at all.
We run a lot of webservers, our own hardware, on Ubuntu and we do not have this issue at all. Rails doesn't cause Kernel panics. It sounds like they have a bad install or honestly, just don't know what their are doing.

Probably a bad idea to advertise you can't keep a simple webserver up. Probably won't get funded ever.
Would it be possible to run a partial vacuum just in the space between the vehicle and the tunnel wall, for instance by having the vehicle body be slightly curved away from the wall except at the end points?
It has a reputation for bad docs etc...
But they corrected a lot of that recently
Bon Voyage - jQuery plugin to catch page exit
If a user changes a form field then tries to leave the page without submitting the form a warning message catches the exit and prompts the user to submit the form.
The idea that Lincoln was some kind of ideological purist is utter nonsense.
The only problem is the way the SD card sticks out so far, it's pretty frustrating
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That's possibly the lamest and poorest user experience I've ever come across.
It seems like you can override the IP check by using a GET parameter.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403746,00.asp?ip=this-...
The emulator is qemu-based, and so is kvm. And, luckily the Cortex-A15 feature list has "hardware virtualization". And,
quick googling shows there's ARM virtualization support for linux. And, this has already been done for android/x86. So all the major bits and pieces are there.
Probably because BTC are (sometimes) used in illegal transactions. It's an easy jump to assume that BTC are anonymous if the person doesn't fully understand the way the currency works.

My question is this: When hackers steal 400k BTC how do they get that money out of the 'bank'?
Great idea about the screen recording. I'll incorporate some of your ideas into Friday's post.

The idea of focusing on the core of what you're doing is an important one. Looking back, another mistake I made was focusing on the presentation, rather than the chance to get to share a wonderful idea with people who could give good feed back.
Hi n_costs. I spent six years in Argentina.
Let me know if you have any questons

http://about.me/jordanmetzner
You're focusing on the wrong term with your thoughts. It should be 'minimum' part that is in question here. If you're building a new GPS service and need actual satellite development and launch, then minimum may be millions of $.

MVP is not really a product, it's a customer discovery process. If you have that in mind, it becomes much clearer.

We spent over 3 months in development plus 10k in expenses for http://beta.carmivore.com and we're currently in beta testing. Luckily, we went for minimum and early adopters already gave some valuable feedback.
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Hi n_costs. I spent six years in Argentina.
Let me know if you have any questions

http://about.me/jordanmetzner
Dalvik isn't the JVM, and Android is more than Dalvik.

Android applications can also rely on ARM binaries developed against the NDK, so full ARM emulation is required in order to realistically test these.
This is a bogus excuse. There must be some other reason they are shutting down as this appears to be a rectifiable problem.
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If anyone wonders what's the fourth quote about:

... when the Hubble was launched in 1990, a blunder in the design of its optics generated hopelessly blurred images. [...] We kept taking data, hoping some useful science would nonetheless come of it. Eager astrophysicists at Baltimore's Space Telescope Science Institute, the research headquarters for the Hubble, wrote suites of advanced image-processing software to help identify and isolate stars in otherwise crowded, unfocused fields. These novel techniques allowed some science to get done while the repair mission was planned.

Meanwhile, medical researchers at the Lombardi Cancer Research Center at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., recognized that the challenge faced by astrophysicists was similar to that faced by doctors in their visual search for tumors in mammograms. Using funds granted by the National Science Foundation, the medical community adopted the new techniques being used for the Hubble to assist their early detection of breast cancer.

source: http://www.spaceexplorationday.us/benefits/america-needs-spa...
Ah, I see what it is now. Thanks :)
That's not it. From this article about Musk going to the UK[0], "it also can’t have a right of way issue, where people have to give up their homes." Your idea would be no different from high-speed rail in that regard.

0: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/elon-musk-with-jobs-gone-go...