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Innovator's Dilemma: Kodak made a digital camera in 1975, but didn't market it
Thanks. Very helpful links. Some really great feedback for the tiny project. I be adding more functionality. Specially the "Interesting" and "Category Selection" for now. If you have some ideas about navigation. Please do share those.
HN is implemented in PG.

And vice versa.
I found the experience to be rather annoying, actually. While my eyes aren't great, my clicking/sliding fine tuning is even worse. I understand the issues involved, but I prefer to not have something dependent on dexterity. Otherwise, just have a video game as the captcha and be done with it.
It stuns me that the Tories have managed to convince so many people that the debt is all down to Labour and not the reckless profligacy of the banks.
The vast majority of the debt was run up ensuring that the entire banking system in the UK didn't collapse taking the saving of hard-working British people with it. Virtually nothing has been done by the Tory-LibDem coallition to prevent this from happening again.
I feel you.

There's one thing to try:

Find somewhere close to nature (a lake, a park, a beach, a garden) and sit there everyday in silence and just use your senses (the eyes, ears etc.) to experience what you are in the midst of.

Don't think. Try to stop thinking. Just feel.

I go to the beach every day to see the sun set. Some days to see the sea as the sun rises. Over months now, the effect has been unusual.

Remember to just feel. You'll find a million thoughts (problems, memories, people etc.) trying to barge in. Try to push them out. You may yourself thinking that there could be better or more useful ways to spend your time. You may feel restless. Don't force it, but allow these to pass and just feel. See, listen, touch, here...avoid tasting however. It's risky.

Don't stop anything else you're doing without professional advice.

Add this, and if you manage to make it a daily commitment, you may experience what I have.

I look forward to a difference.

Take care!
Quantum computers have a fairly well-studied mathematical abstraction about which we can reason quite well. Algorithms for quantum computers exist which will break RSA; no similar algorithms exist to break AES.

And the link actually only applies to traditional computers; quantum computers have no analogue of destructively setting a bit, because all operations on a quantum computer are fundamentally reversible, and hence do not entail any inherent energy loss to entropy.
We do know what happened to the father according to previous blog posts:
http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-from-war...
tl;dr; he left her for some woman he met online and married her six weeks after his divorce was complete. And now he doesn't pay the soccer mom child support and is engaging her in a grueling custody battle.

Funny, not much of a father to mention.
I'd have addressed this in the article, but it was getting too long already. Short answer is that many of the best opportunities I've received have arisen as results of relationships formed on the Internet, first, and maybe over a few beers at a conference.

Cultivate relationships in whatever form they take.
So, basically, we won't have any means of key exchange which isn't quantum crypto.
Encryption and decryption speeds need not be symmetric. Salted passwords are a stereotypical example... Lets say my password is "password" and I salt it with a random 8 bit value to make rainbow tables 256 times longer than unsalted. I can encrypt the salted password in one round.

However on the decrypt side a salty password is going to have to average 128 rounds before a match and a worst case failure / non-match means you have to run ALL 256 rounds just to make sure.

Obviously we're talking salty passwords not secure web traffic, but the point is off the shelf systems have existed for decades where the decrypt system is orders of magnitude more expensive than the encrypt system. Implementing an algo with those characteristics for web traffic "superficially seems feasible" although the details are fuzzy.

As an example of a rough guess, 16 bits of salt would scale pretty well for "thousands of clients" if the server and client are more or less similar performance level (which within an order of magnitude or two is probably about right). Simple salt is the wrong algo for this job, but...
Sorry for the slightly off-topic comment, but you should avoid shortening 'latent dirichlet allocation' to LDA without context because it also means 'linear discriminant analysis'. Linear discriminant analysis has historically been an important topic in general machine learning.
"1.21 × 1041 ergs/year ought to be enough for anybody."

Let me just live to see the day.
And logitech dual-standard controllers.

That means to have both DirectInput and XInput support.

In fact, I still think the now 'deprecated' DirectInput is far superior to XInput in almost every way (more controllers per computer, more axis, more features), except may be sales in the last few years.
A lot of the points that they make in the video are just flaws with Facebook's implementation of the app, rather than being a point for HTML5 or a point against native.

Truth is - HTML5 apps can be made to perform well but there are limits. Battery life suffers and you may find in future that the cool animation/whatever you wanted to add in is too laggy (especially on older devices).
I'd much rather do without the IndieCity client to be honest.
Focus on uncovering reality not on expecting it
There will always be dogma associated with the belief that in-person interaction is more valuable than remote interaction, much like the same dogma people some people have about preferring physical books to e-book readers. People aren't able to truly quantify the benefit of working on-site, but they will flail their hands vigorously in an attempt to qualify it.

On the other hand, it's very easy to quantify the benefit of remote workers. You increase your potential labor force if you remove geographic restrictions, which cuts costs and improves productivity. I personally was able to quantify the benefit of working remotely in terms of distractions. I work remotely on a medium sized team and I occasionally travel to the headquarters to work on-site. My productivity always drops when I'm on-site because of the constant interruptions and meetings, both initiated by others and myself.
He's with another woman that he met online and married six weeks after his divorce was final. Now he's not paying any child support.
http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-from-war...
We saw the latest generation of mobile devices — running at least iOS 5 or Android 4.1 — push ever increasing performance and HTML5 implementation scores.

Do the new native FB apps only run on iOS5+ and Android 4.1+? HTML5 may be ready on those platforms, but Android still has a lot of 2.x phones floating around. How do the HTML 5 benchmarks for iOS 5 run on the original iPhone 4?
Battery life suffers

Really? If anything I would have thought that HTML5 was more battery efficient- there's only so much you can do with it, after all.

I spent a long time optimising a mobile webapp I was working on and while it was 95% there, that last 5% bugged me to no end. So I investigated native options. But I learnt to avoid mixing CSS3 box-shadows with transition animations and that sort of thing- you definitely suffer in FPS.
Where are the benchmark reports on phone's from 1.5 to 4.1? 64% of android phone's are still pre-honeycomb(3.0). HTML5 on Android is good now but it sucks on those earlier phones. I am sure Facebook has to take care of everyone.
Open femtocells being used to give whole villages signal
Html5 drag’n drop file upload, shenanigans used only by developers?
There is at least one way for a language to have nullable types that is both type-safe and memory-safe: Option types.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type
Thank you. This looks like it will work well. The only problem is remembering not to push.

It would be nice to be able to work with two repositories in parallel. One repository for my development and the other one the "official" repository with larger commits, better commit messages and the guarantee that all commits work.
This. It's a lot harder to screw up when using native SDKs vs. the plethora of HTML5 frameworks, some which are more mature than others but none really seem to have a "standardized" way to easily make a performant app in the same way that the native SDKs do.
For further reference and a more detailed discussion of algo / key length selection take a look at NIST's Recommendation for Key Management [1], specifically section 5.6 "Guidance for Cryptographic Algorithm and Key-Size Selection."

[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57_p...
Integrating Google Cloud Print into iOS
Oh yeah, Microsoft's vitriolic campaign against Android. But this is not about Android per se, but about Samsung's drivers for the camera, and giving camera full access to root, because they were lazy.
There is a real reason that the right to bear arms is enshrined in the constitution. You can't handwave away the reason it was included in the constitution and then say "See, it's that simple."
Why HP, Dell and IBM Are on the Wrong Side of Internet History
I will try learn how the D language helps programmers get rid of errors
After living in Florida (Orlando, Naples), CA (Santa Clara), Boston and DC, I like to apply "The Efficient Frontier" to locations I choose.

Essentially the efficient frontier is a finance concept that says that combinations of assets can be graphed and form a line called "The Efficient Frontier" where only portfolios of assets on that line should be considered.

Sorry for the link to wiki, but this is a really short article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier

When I consider where I live, I want to optimize to make sure I am on that frontier. Instead of risk and return on the axises, I think of a multivariant optimization, but essentially what I am saying is that many cities do not make it on the efficient frontier when looking logically.

For example, is there anyway that Louisville has as rich of a history as NYC, or DC, Boston or even SF?

Does Louisville have better night life than any other big city (DC, NYC, SF, Boston?)

Does Louisville have better skyline than any other big city (DC, NYC, SF, Boston?)

Does Louisville have better live performances than any other big city (DC, NYC, SF, Boston?)

Does Louisville have better museums than any other big city (DC, NYC, SF, Boston?)

Does Louisville have a better hipster scene than any other big city (DC, NYC, SF, Boston?). Its probably better than Boston's, but I don't care whether hipsters are part of the culture or not.

And the OP's biggest point, that he likes to drive to rural areas in 15 minutes. Its more like 20 minutes from SF, but some of the best mountain biking, trails etc. is right there. Boston has the same thing 20 minutes away. IMO DC and NYC are harder to get to rurual areas.

Liking Louisville is completely understandable if you just like being familar and don't want to move and have to make new friends etc. but it should be 100% understandable why a recruiter cannot imagine someone wanting to stay when viewing the opportunity as an outsider.

[ADDED] I reread what I wrote and it seems like I'm bashing Louisville, more my intention was to put out the efficient frontier concept for selecting a location.

[To unalone and the OP] Sorry for coming off as pompous. It does read a little that way, but I used the OP's criteria, not my own. The OP could have made a much better arugument by specifying what he likes about the criteria, but he didn't do that so I just asked the questions rather than making an assertion about them. Notice that I didn't specify whether DC does have better nightlife than Louisville? I instead just asked the question which the reader can answer on their own.
Great, thoughtful article. As someone whose office is in Mountain View, but lives and works from home in Annapolis, MD (the entirely opposite coast,) I definitely relate.

The compromise that I've made is that in spending a few days in Mountain View every 6 weeks or so. It's not terribly inconvenient for me, allows me to pad my frequent flyer miles, and I generally enjoy California. I think that the cost of living between California and Maryland are a lot closer than Louisville would be, so I've always got my eye open to possibly relocating somewhere even cheaper than here -- my home town is Memphis, TN, which is damn near free to live in comparatively, but I really like Annapolis, its proximity to DC and Baltimore, and the knowledge that almost everything is within a couple of hours.

The biggest trouble I have is that I really like the bigger cities. I love the time I spend in and around San Francisco, and on occasion I'll spend time in NY, which I also enjoy. I can't ever tell though if it's just because I'm effectively a tourist, or how much I would enjoy it as a permanent residence. Ultimately, I think I'm plenty happy anywhere with a temperate climate and the ability to work from home, so I'm occasionally torn on job offers I receive to work in sexier locales. Grats to Ernie for having found his ideal place. The spot I'd move to to maximize dollar value (Memphis) is too hot to be perfectly happy, and all the places I've found with better climates tend to be more expensive -- so perhaps I'm still searching for my idyllic setting, or perhaps it's just a matter of the grass being greener.
Two things:

- "In the long term" doesn't make for a more favorable environment to the tech savvy users supposed to push that change.

- I'm not sure you quite understand how ballsy they are. If they've cut Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and find time to screw in a real sneaky fashion with Google, I think it's safe to say they'd block Github without even thinking twice.
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[video] Structural and Sampling (JavaScript) Profiling in Google Chrome
You can pre-fill the card, too: http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/?q=hello+hn!+dont+forget+you...!
Thanks for the reply. I was asking because a study done by 'Freelance confidential' asked Freelancers "Where do you find work?" "Referrals" scored 39%. Portfolio website scored 19%. Didn't think about it but I suppose referrals via the web work just as well. 71% of all freelancers complete most of their work at home btw.
"personally I wouldn't mind having this dual usage but maybe it would make the W3 spec people throw a hissy fit."

They would be right to do so. 206 implies that the request is done. It is a very fundamental difference for 206 to stop meaning that. One can not just gloss over the fact that one of the connection may very well have closed the TCP stream. That's not a theoretical objection, that's a very pragmatic one.
More thoughts on feature-richness and why it's evil
It was the former :)
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NIST citation: Page 64 of Recommendation for Key Management [1]

[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57_p...
"Winter cleaning" at Google of some of their less popular products
I believe that a lack of focus - for example being unable to focus on a discreet task for any length of time, is a bad thing. I've often drafted 10 responses to 10 different e-mails and given myself a mental slap on the wrist for realising that I've not finished a single one of them. Then the phone rings...then an employee interrupts me with a question on Skype and before I know it, it's lunchtime and I've got nothing done.

Focus is something you can learn, and I'm proactively re-wiring my brain through exercise and meditation to achieve longer levels of focus.

In the meantime - at the start of the day I set up my personal Trello board with the smallest number of tasks that I must do that day, and so long as those get done - I'm free to dip in and out of a range of other tasks that my job as CEO requires of me. This also helps to stop the self-hatred vibe, which is easy to jump on when I don't feel I've made enough progress in a particular area of the business.

TL;DR: Being a CEO is tough.
I hope you're not trying to argue in favor of the US with something like this. It's not a very favorable comparison!
They're not compiling it, they're writing drivers for it which are then linked in without a recompile.
It is hard to quantify, but having done the remote working thing for a while myself, there is a lot of communication that one misses.

Skype, Facetime, G+ Hangouts etc all help, but there is still a significant qualitative difference to being in the same physical room as a bunch of smart people - both in terms of coming up with better ideas and solutions, and of avoiding miscommunication and misunderstandings.

No doubt as our comms tech gets better that gap will decrease (it's a lot narrower than ten years ago), but it's definitely there.
Could the camera app be wrapped with this in a way that r/w is restored when the camera is launched, and then removed again when closed (back-grounded, home-screen press, whatever)? I can't check the APK myself right now, but seems at least plausible.
The government bailed the banks out using taxpayer's money, which added to our national debt. It happened to be a Labour government, but the Tories would have done the same. The banks should have been allowed to fail, just like any other business.
Online referrals definitely work. My last two jobs have stemmed directly from interactions with people on a single IRC channel. :)
You have to learn about the huge wave of extremely bad games that killed the Atari platform.

All the other consoles closed-certification schemes are just made to prevent this from ever happening again.
The future is bright for HTML5 apps, clearly. There will come a time when everyone's phone is fast enough to run apps like the FB clone Sencha made and the need for native apps will start to diminish. However, we're still in the transition period where there are a sufficient number of older phones on the market that don't run HTML5 apps well, so until they are filtered out your best option is still native.

I do hope this app silences the HTML5 critics out there who say you can't get a good UX with HTML5, though. The proof is in the pudding.
Put in different terms, this means Louisville COL is 92.4% of national average, and NYC is 223.8%.
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Flexible, transparent image sensor paves way for touchless touchscreen.
Based on several experiences doing startups with remote people versus local, I would now be extremely hesitant to hire someone who would not relocate or work locally.

Companies—especially small ones—are defined by their culture, and I really think culture is best developed and maintained in person. We recently had three of our team members move away for various reasons, and they're now working remotely. It has been a shake-up. I won't say it's a bad thing, because I truly want them to be happy, and I'm truly willing help them make it work, but it has been a surprising culture shift for our entire company. At this point, I think we'll make it work, but the day-to-day work experience for all our employees has changed dramatically and that's not something to take lightly.

Find a place you truly want to live (which definitely doesn't have to be in the Bay Area) and find a company that you want to work for locally. Go into the office every day. Talk with people about more than work. Connect and develop relationships. Work toward a true culture that exemplifies what the company stands for both internally and externally, and make it meaningful to everyone involved.

That's what makes me happy, and that's what I'm optimizing for. Am I in the absolute number one place that I want to be in, period? Maybe not. If I had my say I'd be living and working on the east side of the Sierra Nevada within 1 hour each of Mammoth mountain and the Yosemite highlands—and that may be my eventual destination.

But right now, location is far less important to me than the people I spend each day with, the people with whom I work, and the company culture that I'm helping to generate and preserve. That's what moves me forward each day, and I truly believe that will make my company more successful and sustainable.

I understand you though. I went through a time in my life where I was more attached to places than people. Turns out I was in the right place all along, but I just hadn't run into the right people. That changed for me, and now I truly believe that location is a small price to pay. It's complicated—it is of course better to have a great employee working remotely than a poor one in the office, but I think it's even better—perhaps exponentially so and especially to a startup—to have that great employee in the same room.

*Edit: I'd like to add, that part of this is the "who moved my cheese" problem, of going from a 100% local company to a significantly dispersed company. We are adapting as a whole and each week we improve our process and culture. The challenge has become "how do we maintain a culture and coherence remotely?" I think in time we will be successful at that, and continue to be a strong group, but it's still a challenge, and one that you'll have to weigh against other challenges if you so choose.
Older devices will slowly dissipate from the market because of the ubiquitous two-year contracts, though, and eventually everyone's phones will be capable of delivering native-like performance on HTML5 apps. It's only a matter of time.
Oh wow, my mistake. I interpreted 123% above the national average as "23%". It must be early. Haha thanks for not ripping me to pieces.
100% agree, I moved from Switzerland back to Spain for similar reasons.
Now I'm freelancing for a couple of companies in NYC and my quality of life and productivity improve a lot, the only drawback it's the 6 hours of difference.
That's not really the point, is it? I have been pretty consistent in my defense of iOS maps, my argument hinging upon the foundation of having "reasonable expectations". Now that Google Maps are available, I've been using them along side iOS Maps. The difference in the POI data is just astounding. Google has such a tremendous lead here, I'm not sure why Apple considered it a good idea to launch iOS 6 without a Google Maps application at the ready.
Very true. The figures are incredibly bad:

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=18161
The Practical Guide to Finding the Right Designer
Is it really backwards thinking when a security update inhibits your ability to get anything done?
The public sector got too big in the UK, and the wealth-creating private sector too small. Osbourne is re-balancing the economy by scaling back the public sector back a bit, and allowing the private sector to grow to increase prosperity. I'm not arguing against the public sector, it just has to shrink a bit.
Why do we see plenty of articles saying that HTML5 can be as good or better than native code and no actual applications doing it?

Facebook and Google tried and miserably failed, LinkedIn and Twitter are probably the ones closest to actually doing it, but users still prefer the native version, why?

One I think is a big reason is clearly visible in the video: scrolling physics are different. It's annoying and feels wrong and I think people notice even if they probably don't know how to describe it.

Maybe with this Sencha contest we'll see some good ones.
I've always remembered him being like that, and my parents corroborate this.
Apparently when he was a newborn/toddler, he would throw huge tantrums, was very hot-tempered, impossible to manage when he was sick, etc.

This leads me to further believe that his case his mostly genetic/physiological in nature.