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We're looking for mobile UI designer to help grow our mobile application team from the ground up, and play a big role in designing and defining mobile web and mobile app experiences for our Karoo and care.com apps.

Ideal candidates will have strong portfolios of work that demonstrate beautiful and thoughtful product design and a passion for designing simple and intuitive mobile web and mobile application interfaces.

You'll also be working on an awesome team in a fast-paced, iterative and entrepreneurial environment. Email or tweet me if interested, my name is Katelyn: friedsonkatelyn@gmail.com, http://twitter.com/kfriedson
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Well - if you look at Gold and Silver sponsorship alone, Silver is 2000$ for companies under 25 employees, Gold is 4000$. Many companies - not even startups - take advantage of these discounts.

These discounts to SMBs is part of the PyCon 10 year heritage, and we're proud to be able to do it year after year.
i've said this before (sorry), but cockburn, in cooperative game, describes shu ha ri - http://alistair.cockburn.us/Shu+Ha+Ri - as three stages of mastering something: following, detaching and fluent.

anyway, this post is so second stage it makes me wince.
Also due perhaps to real wages in the US declining to the point where cost/benefit calculations of US based production facilities are finally starting to add up for some manufacturers.
These blog posts appeal to people looking for a "magic elixir" that will turn them into the ninja coder or elite haxor or bullet-dodging movie star that everyone wants to be. It's unrealistic, and comes from unambitious people who want to get the reward without completing the quest.

Most of us can't just find what we're really looking for in life. It doesn't exist yet. We have to make the future, and that's a lot of difficult work.
Is it the terms you object to or do you fundamentally reject the premise?
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Yes. It's the logistics that make the giant Chinese factory cities the preferred manufacturing facilities. Wages are a happy side-effect of doing business with a lawless regime.
I agree. This blog post is a typical young adult way of looking at the world. Always chasing the new best way to live. Whether that is the best city, the best neighborhood, best car, best phone, best career, best company.

This does not lead to happiness. Happiness is internal.

If you become happy first from examining yourself internally, then you will naturally make decisions that will lead you to your goals.

For example, if by looking inward and realizing that your goal for the next few years is to become a successful musician, you will probably gravitate to one of the major musical cities, LA, New York or Nashville.

However, if you realize that being a family man and creating a healthy family is your real goal, then having a decent job in a nice suburb is probably where you will end up.
> Does anyone have pointers on how make your slides look
> beautiful without being a trained designer?

By keeping it simple. Pick one good font. As little text as possible. No templates[1]. Solid image material (sufficient resolution, used sparingly, do not overcrowd the slide with superfluous visuals). Without much work, you've outdone 90% of your competition.

[1] By that I mean: No fancy pre-made visual templates. For the sake of consistency, using the templating mechanism of your chosen tool (Keynote, PowerPoint, Beamer[2]) is highly recommended. But you'll have to create your own templates.

[2] Don't use Beamer.
Also, what do you think is better, running server side code tests or just client side regex validations?
And wages increasing in China
Yeah, but that only makes sense when there is a connection. Requiring ISPs to keep more detailed records of internet usage, while terrible, does at least make sense as an anti-CP measure, even if the real purpose is to make it easier to sue file sharers. But DRM doesn't have any plausible connection to CP.

But OK, I'm not going to go too far down the road of imagining that legislators and lobbyists are behaving rationally. The more important point is that while I've seen plenty of examples of using the fight against CP as a front for the copyright agenda, all of those examples did bear some reasonable facade of plausibility.

Can you give an actual example of where they've been so brazen as to actually try to claim DRM was a tool for fighting CP?
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Needs more Bitcoin stories.
I'm not sure on the accuracy levels as it doesn't mention sources but I found this: http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-the-top-manufacturing-count...
I instantly forwarded this link to our lead designer for the insights like "Recognizing that no design is sacred". Really reinforces the idea that reiteration based on actual user feedback is important. We're about to launch an app so this was helpful! Thanks
Another logical fallacy I've seen is kind of the contrapositive (if I remember ethics class correctly): If people hear an anecdote of a problem affecting someone in a group, the problem exists throughout the entire group.

E.g. the other day Reddit had a story about an atheist who dropped out of West Point because he felt there was too much religion, which somehow mutated on some of the subreddits to how all atheists in all of the military branches are continuously being oppressed (which is far and away untrue).
Lucky for me a life created by happenstance has, so far, turned out to be rather great. I know I've gotten lucky and am grateful for it most every day.
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I definitely agree. As a recent graduate, I was constantly plagued with thoughts like that. "Did I choose the right company? Area?" etc.

It all comes down to, as you've alluded to, having perspective. I set a goal early in my undergraduate career to be in the very position I'm in today: working for a stable company with a lot of job security, and the ability to use it as a stepping stone in the event I'd like to take on more risk. It's when I remembered the fact that I set that goal and accomplished it fully that I regained the perspective that while the grass may be greener, my grass is already as green as I had always wanted it.
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Google Peter Thiel's "Founder as Victim, Founder as God" which is a treatise on this very subject.
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Quite honestly, this kind of post just makes me want to hurl. The OP was NEVER the target market for Apple, it just so happened that Apple's design choices coincided with his or her needs.

If you ever thought Apple's primary target market was uber-geeks, you were seriously deluding yourself. The reason so many of us were drawn to OSX was that it runs Mach BSD under the hood - so yay, we all get a nice convenient UNIX(TM) workstation that also runs commercial software and games.

I've got to admit I'm getting awfully sick of this kind of meaningless hand wringing. You want commodity hardware and the ability to tinker with everything* then by all means go buy a Linux box, just don't get all high and mighty and act as if Apple has betrayed you, because from their perspective exactly nothing has changed.
It depends if I'm hiring him to program or repair cars. If someone left college with a CS degree and a realization that he never wanted to write a line code ever again and got an apprenticeship as a welder instead, I wouldn't hold it against him if 6 years later he'd forgotten most of what he knew about programming.

So this candidate partied his way through college and bluffed his way to a degree, what difference does that make if you're not hiring him to do anything related to his degree? I thought the prevailing notion here was that most of the stuff taught at college was largely pointless when compared to the hard-won knowledge gained in the trenches of the professional world.
Show HN: My first Chrome Extension
If I could up vote this all day I would, you put into words something that I've tried to express to many people over the years, but felt I never quite managed to make the point.
Honestly, Chrome takes more of an app store model. It updates behind the scenes and always works. While it may be backed by open source work, it is released and controlled as product by Google.

Firefox is a disaster. I don't open it much, but I every time I do, it prompts for updates and things I don't care about.

VLC is wonderful program, and I use it almost every day. But it is way too complicated for most people. Something that plays videos should be as simple as a DVD player. VLC is a power tool.

I believe Apple wants to make computing that is easy, fun, and productive to use for non-programmers. They also want to make money. I don't think they want spy on and control their users for some arbitrary evil reason. At some point, there may be a need to take antitrust action against Apple, and those laws are there for a good reason.

I resisted buying an iPad for a long time. Then I saw Garage Band on the iPad. It is not a professional recording suite, that's true. But it's the modern day version of a home 16 track recorder + amp simulator + drum machine + MIDI sound back + effects unit. To get all this in a $500 package is literally quite amazing. 15 years ago, you'd have half a room full of equipment, a much clunkier interface, and endless wires. Even Garage Band on the Mac doesn't work as well.

I didn't insist that Apple wants an open system for apps. I said that it takes someone with negotiating skills to change an existing reality. You might even argue that free software would not be as successful today without someone like Linus who is more pragmatic.

I like freeform computing platforms for my programming tasks, like running web servers and the like. So long as Linux is around, we don't have to worry about that going away.
Exactly what I was looking for! I'll send an email shortly :)
Thinkpads aren't pretty enough for the average apple user.
I don't have a good feel for the amount of malware on the various platforms. How do you think a well-curated app store differs from "a place" where you can get executables?
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Please don't be afraid to keep posting that link, it's awesome :-)
That's much more clear to me now
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A-men. The self righteous tone gets SO old after a while.

What's also strange to me is that these posts get the up votes they do. is this REALLY news to anyone?
Thanks for the breakdown, does that $92,122 represent their investments in infrastructure and manufacturing (that google does not really need to make) or money invested in long term securities/financial products? Whats the Long-Term marketable securities for Google?
Does one have to make the _yourusername_.github.com repo first for this to work? My understanding is that the Pages feature is only activated by doing this.
Ah, my bad. You were calling something a fiction and I assumed it was the "you can use bitcoins to accomplish this [in the context, performing transactions while remaining an anonymous pair of encryption keys, which you can't right now]", when you probably were referring to the "you don't even need banks" part.
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The thing of it is, I'm of two minds on this: yes, it seems that HN (and the Internet in general) can be overly harsh, especially considering that many of the harshest critics will probably never do anything substantialy close to a lot of what gets submitted. OTOH, it's sort of like boot camp: if someone can't handle mean things said about their idea, then they probably won't survive the slings and arrows of the market (and yes, I know not all of the "Show HNs" are business related). Also, many people, when they see something that seems obvious, already done, or simply wrong, tend to have a bad reaction (see http://xkcd.com/386/). Still, criticisms could be phrased better; OTOH again, but many of the originators of "Show HNs" that seemed like the most likely to suceed were the ones who show up, acknowledge valid criticism, and fix faults with their projects. Some of the best even thank polite critics for input.
I think beautiful slides can be made with minimal effort when adhering to the points in the article and using a simple black text on white background approach. Increasing the font size to an absurd can make things look funky and seems to be a trend, as well as having slides with a single powerful word or two.

www.noteandpoint.com is a good source for inspiration -- whenever I find myself in a situation where I need to produce a presentation quickly but want to make it look good, I just go through these. My most recent favourite is this one -- http://noteandpoint.com/2010/02/keeping-it-personal/ Goes to show how much you can do with a simple bold serif font. It's also worth looking at this one http://noteandpoint.com/2011/11/how-to-create-slides-that-ro... -- How to create slides that rock, learning by example :)
>Kim stands for freedom

I think you mean "...stands for the freedom to make money off of people in the same way he has been the last 2 decades, namely through at best shady and several times completely illegal and fraudulent means".

Yes, even scumbags have rights, absolutely! No, don't ever paint this egotistical, opportunistic allegorical hyperbole of a man as any sort of "hero" or "freedom fighter".

>It's about expanding the power base

On this point, I could not agree more with you. It has been my own impression for a LONG time that all those "you wouldn't steal a car" ads and all the media attention the RIAA/MPAA-mafia are getting for their strong-arm methods is really nothing but a very clever and calculated PR campaign to implant this actually non-existent problem in people's minds so that they then can lobby and extort money and continue increasing their power and influence/leverage on governments the world over. So what I am saying is, it was never about changing people's minds to not copy a CD or a movie but it was mainly about rallying and lobbying for their cause; a self-feeding cluster-frakk because the topic is then obviously "en vogue" so politicians can no longer ignore them and have to give in to their demands. When actually they do not make less money now than they did 15 years ago.

It is very sad to see how successful this has become, seeing NZ fold like that.
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I agree completely that happiness comes from within.

And yet there is a duality that has always struck me as important, though hard to explain: it's easiest to be happy when you're striving toward a goal you believe in. But you need to keep your sense of self, your ego, non-attached to the outcome of the striving.

That is, you need to invest yourself 100% into doing things that are important to you, but remain detached from whether you ultimately achieve what you wanted to achieve.

I think Buddhists call this "skillful attachment".
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Paging really, really sucks to manage on a TI calculator.

That being said, I loved working with the 32KB limit and optimizing every single byte out of my code. You got to learn all of the tricks like "XOR A" = 1 byte vs "LD A,0" = 2 bytes. However, some things sucked, like having to frequently write new sprite routines or tilemap scroller routines. I even ended up writing a logo style scripting language to handle animations in a RPG just to save a few KB.

Yes, this is clearly the 3% case for Knuth's quote, "... 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil"
> the right definitely exists

What right? If you are talking about free speech, that isn't applicable here. Owners of site can allow or disallow expressions on their discretion.

When I said right, I meant the typical defense - "They posted it here. They asked for it.". I am saying just because someone posts a "Show HN" doesn't imply you can be a jerk and hide behind "but they wanted feedback".

> unfiltered honest

The problem with "unfiltered and honest" is it doesn't have a agreed-on definition.

You must be blind to not notice the crime against humanity that "white on yellow" text is.

The white on yellow text is unreadable.

To some people, 1 might look honest and unfiltered; to me it looks like some asshole trying to be tough guy on the web.

2 isn't filtering anything and is honest. "Not being an asshole" and "being honest and straight forward" aren't mutually exclusive.
Thanks for the tip. I'd love to talk more about getting good sound. Send me an email. jonathan at spiritusvult dot com. As far as it being expensive, I'll be doing all the post myself. I work cheap, for myself. ;)
If there's any community that can do it, it's the Haskell community. As you put it, "with such beautiful people speaking it!" it truly is amazing to see the brain the members of the Haskell community have. Hanging out in #haskell is always a pleasure, the genius radiating out of that place...
The "working with people" comment makes me wonder if they are working with Rethink Robotics.[1] That would be an even more interesting take on this shift.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/rethink-...
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It's obviously the premise; that people who are proficient in computers (whatever that may mean) are abnormal.

Computer/tech savvy is obviously a continuum. Lumping people into binary categories doesn't help the conversation much.
I have to wonder if Foxconn or whomever was making these in Asia decided that the volumes were getting too low to make these at the prices Apple was used to.
Love cheese and poetic commentary.
Are they giving a Desktop free too? If I report malware on windows PC?
The reason I have to do it in post is because I don't have time to do it all correct before we start filming (scheduling and all). While it would be expensive, normally, I'll be doing all the post myself, so it's free. My target demographic really does care; that's why they're backing the movie in the first place.

I hope that clarifies.
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If anything the new MacBooks have more expandability than ever... I mean, TWO thunderbolt ports? People do realize that those are just external PCIe x2 ports right? That's more external bandwidth potential than any laptop has had, like, ever.
Assange is a douche. Let's not lump the two together.
> But saying that people don't have the right to do otherwise

I should have worded it differently - I didn't mean right as in legal definition of rights(which isn't applicable here anyway) Let's just rephrase it as someone asking for feedback doesn't mean you can walk over it.

As for what rights people have, HN is private property and what speech is acceptable and what is not is totally up to the owners.
If you want to talk more about the econometric approach, feel free to email me. Would love to chat more. If you discovered AppNash, then you can also figure out my email :). FWIW, your point about finding exogenous changes is right on (model = 2SLS), however getting the quantity sold data is not a simple procedure -- it's a matter of converting sales ranks to quantities. With out giving away all the secrets in public, here's a classic paper that guided some of my approach: http://www.business.illinois.edu/finance/papers/2003/chevali...

The original intent for my dissertation was the following: Chapter 1: Describe the theoretical framework of how to set up a system to automate the collection of data from an entire market (enabling the safe use of population estimators); Chapter 2: Apply that theory to analyze the app store data to test various firm- and product-level questions about the structure of strategies taken by firms (developers) in the app stores; Chapter 3: Another application of the theory using higher frequency data from the Internet (probably hotels, since hotels change their rates at the minutely/hourly level quite often, and regional hotel markets provide very well defined markets so new entry takes a while and is thus easy to account for).
What is a framework?
You misunderstand. Minimizing margins and maximizing revenues are not mutually exclusive. Also, saying an entity is publicly traded irrelevant, as you are suggesting we know every detail about a company simply by reviewing their financial documents and investor relations mail; this is not the case.

Furthermore, I will happily make the "extraordinary" claim that, in general, large companies are incentivized to minimize margins to reap the tax benefits. Then again I am Joe Blow with a whole 46 karma, therefore, I must not be as smart or knowledgeable as a lurker like you with 1000's of karma, right? (oh and this one is a rhetorical question)

As usual on this particular site, if someone doesn't like the truth, they simply think its wrong because they don't like it. I half expected to get super down voted by all the closed minded individuals that have <~500 karma, but I guess you had the skeleton shift ehh tptacek.

As far as the golden goose goes, even if they scrap the program they are still better off. Does it sound better pouring far more money into building what you think is a golden goose only to make a lemon? That and they still have the system if they want to modify it and roll it out again a couple years from now. Also, they got the system right away and immediately got feedback from it. They saved a lot of time, time that they will use now on more lucrative projects.
The US is and will remain a manufacturing giant. What you're seeing here is a weakening dollar and need for faster iteration.
What a tired, sensationalist argument.

Use what you like, embrace change, stop complaining.
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Twenty nine billion dollars is still an amazing amount of cash. That's almost $400k for every employee!
Not really.

V8 was simply a drop-in replacement for existing Javascript VM's, so there was no "adoption" curve, per se. It ran something like 40x faster than the one in WebKit when it was released, so everyone just said "Awesome, thumbs up! Stick it in there."

Google is spending some developer relations resources promoting Dart, probably because it's the kind of project that requires more public buy-in (including a VM that ultimately needs WebKit hooks, which is not solely controlled by Google). But it still has to surmount the same hurdles to internal adoption that other tools and languages do. I'm no longer privy to the details, but I'm fairly certain that there are just a few internal teams trying out Dart right now, to help it get its "sea legs".

And that's really the way it should be. These things don't happen overnight, and edicts from on high that a particular team will use a new technology don't usually work out well.
I looked into using D3 for making typical x-y line and bar charts and found that it required significantly more custom work than HighCharts. My take-away from the experience was that D3 is great for very custom visualizations, but if you want to do something simpler, it is worth looking for libraries that do only that simpler thing well.
How i WISH we could rid ourselves of the 'Contrarian blog post to recently popular blog post' cancer. It's a phenomenon i can't say i even see anywhere else online.
If I am not mistaken we already use HVDC on high power runs due to its much lower loss ? How does this beaker change that ?
The secretary problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
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