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The speed of light is 300,000km/s. Even with a satellite 36,000 kms away, you could have round-trip latency of around 100ms. That's fine for communications.

The reason why news broadcasts have such horrible latency has more to do with compression windows for older video codecs than broadcast latency.
Yep, absolutely. We're experimenting with Minecraft. Improvements in culture and productivity are yet to be analyzed...
There are a few HNers who live in Louisville, myself included (want to grab a beer some time Ernie?). 1 major downside: probably 85+% of local programming jobs are .NET. Maybe another 10% are Java, 4% are Ruby, and the remaining 1% is hard to come by.

Working remote is awesome, I hope to do it again some day (Clojure or JavaScript for me, if anyone is hiring) but its very important that everyone is on the same table about expectations. You get into the habit of working long hours for a couple of reasons: first because you are home anyways and might not have anything else to do (not a terrible reason), and secondly because you want to show the company that you're working hard -- something that isn't an issue when working locally.

I've turned down a couple of good opportunities because I didn't want to relocate. Of all of the reasons to relocate to a new city, I think doing so for work is possibly the work reason. It's too easy to fall into a trap where work becomes your life.
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I currently have an S3 and this isn't the first serious exploit I've come across for it.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a serious secure phone? I don't need all the bells and whistles and don't install many apps. Mostly just email, text, and web browsing.
I beg to differ. I think this is an interpretation adapted to meet the requirements of modern times . Because the commonly held interpretation of the proverb, is very simply, what it means, that you got to discipline the child, by spanking[1].

IMHO, this(revised definition) is a catchup which the clergy (of various religions) play every now and then. Sometimes to meet the new discovery in science, or other times to meet the current human right guidelines.

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spare_the_rod_and_spoil_the_ch...
It depends on the resources available. If I were a CEO and the company was flush with cash, I'd just brute force it by hiring native developers across all platforms or farm it out to specialized native dev shops. If was a CEO of a smaller company tight on cash with a bunch of web developers, however, I'd go the HTML5 or hybrid route because it'd be the best utilization of my company's time and resources. This isn't a black and white issue.
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Apple's approach(no OEMs at all, known hardware) would mitigate the problem somewhat. But that doesn't stop lazy idiots from screwing up at Apple, and it doesn't work for anyone that's providing a general-purpose OS.

That's really about it. This is a kernel-level driver issue, caused by a lazy Samsung coder. Unfortunately, the drivers need that level of access, since they're used by Android to actually work. I'd say normal *nix kernel security practices should apply here, but that still doesn't stop lazy idiots...
The time to give honest feedback is before you seriously consider quitting.
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Thanks for the feedback - that's a very good point, as it to use openid.
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@MatthewPhillips drop me an e-mail at ernie@erniemiller.org. Definitely up to hang out... and I might know of a job for ya. ;)
Any tech company that doesn't want to hire remote workers will simply lose out on a pool of great talent that others will be smart enough to utilize.

Employers will avoid remote workers at their own loss.
It is now, and communication travels quickly now, but what about in the past?

Hell, we've had one in the past century (almost) - the aforementioned Tunguska event. And nobody got around to investigating it for two decades.

Today it would be big news. Last century, it was a mystery. If one had landed in the middle of Africa in 1700, would the Western world even hear about it?
"Give honest feedback" is the one that made me laugh out loud. If you, as an employer, have no idea what made the employee unhappy enough to want to leave, then you most likely didn't do your homework.

Exceptions exist, of course. For example, maybe you knew beforehand what was wrong but were either unable or unwilling to change it. Not much to do there, either.

All in all, "honest feedback" at the end of the relationship is a little too late.
All of these horrible impediments to business are why California has such a horrible economy and complete lack of entrepreneurialism compared to more conservatively run states like Alabama and Arkansas.

EDIT: Oh, and the cited professor is from Alaska, the only state in the US that actually practices literal redistribution (you get a check from the oil companies just for living there). I'm sure she doesn't see it that way, though.
Show HN: Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social'
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The word "among" makes it a pretty subjective thing.
The paper "Evaluating the Design of the R Language" [1] is a great read on this subject. A key figure they found (p. 17 end of top paragraph) is that in a realistic corpus of work, only 22% of compute time was spent in C/Fortran "kernels" as opposed to R code. So the effectiveness of the "two language" design is somewhat limited, even for scientific workloads where kernels like BLAS, FFTs, etc. apply (and there are many areas where they don't really).

[1] http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12.pdf
A friend of mine built this as an evening side-project and launched it about a year ago.

With pretty much no effort, it got picked up by theNextWeb, RWW, BoingBoin and others: http://www.wifis.org/p/press

He only told me about it today and I haven't seen it on HN before, so I told him the Hacker News community would be a good place to get some feedback.

He hasn't tried monetising it yet, but I'm trying to convince him there is something there. In my mind it could be the 'AirBnB of WiFi networks'. What do you think?
Is the blog post the only direct documentation of what needs to change to upgrade to 1.0?

Details seem relatively scant. But maybe that's because response.json() is the only feature I'm using that changed...
Yes it does look a lot like Basecamp's. We had start with something. We are trying hard to make project history useful. Right now is just kind of a log in most PM apps (Blimp included). We feel it has potential to do more but haven't found how to make it happen. We'll keep at it.
That's the frustrating thing about threads like this. Employers list their expectations for what you should do for them, and they seem fairly common sense, but they dont have the common sense and self awareness to think about the situation from the other perspective.
I've paid a 10k GBP (~ $16k USD) deposit for an apartment with a cashiers check both mostly with 20 pound notes from the ATM outside the bank branch...(flatshare with only people new to the country, and most of us didn't have UK bank accounts set up or funded yet)
Ask HN: Share your favorite inspirational articles/video.
Which articles/blogs/videos/events/stories etc you found so inspirational that it changed your approach towards life/work? Share it with us.
Don't undervalue the effect of "unproductive" communication. It's usually what drives creativity.
If the company has a histoy of escorting people out the door you should not give notice. Everything listed in this article is professional courtesy. If the employer has earned it then by all means you should treat them right....there may be other reasons that you are leaving, but they are still good people. On the other hand if your previous employer treats departing empolyees poorly then they day you give notice is your last day. That is the double edged sword of having no employee protections in the US.
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And if everyone imitated California's approach to primary education, perhaps CA wouldn't rank almost-last any more!
I'm assuming that maps ad/datamining revenue is going to be significant on iOS.
Some sort of certification process before being allowed to ship customized builds would seem to do it. Or simply disallowing any custom builds at all: OS vendor builds all drivers, provides a list of supported hardware, and that's all you get to choose from.
Hi agentultra, I run a small team of developers and designers. Though we are 2 yrs old, we are still in the startup mode where we pull all nighters together and go out for drinks together. Maybe this is the reason i find being friendly with my colleagues ( i dont like the word employees very much) to be beneficial. I understand that your feedback comes from experience and experience is something one cant deny. I too have experienced similar things when i was working. But this is what is working for me. And I feel that this can work for most of us. I really appreciate your feedback
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Just want to add first of all that I generally read the ReadMe first.
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Besides that, what do you (zx2c4) think of Linux? Do you think it's a safe platform?

I think it still has a long way to go. _Most_ programs require root access to install; and even ones that don't need root still have access to all user files. This is a but of problem.

Contrast this with iOS, where every app has local storage and one app cannot read another's files/data. On Linux & Android the problem of data security (among others) is persistent.
I was willing to play along for a little while until I came across this:

> the small business failure rate is the highest in America at 69%

I then dismissed the entire article as a waste of time. More startups = more failures and that's actually a good thing. If you write something so fundamentally misinformed as if the policies are causing the higher failure rate, then your entire article is most probably bunk and full of similar non-sequitirs.
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Running different versions of Ruby on a single server requires a lot of attention to detail. I used to do it, but I didn't use an automated tool like RVM. RVM is great for switching environments, but it is unnecessary when all you need are a static set of environments that change infrequently. Check out ruby-build for this purpose.

In the end, I found the trouble of running two reliable Ruby environments in production did not offset well against the cost of either updating applications to work with the same Ruby version, or running separate virtualized environments at the OS layer. The time spent debugging and updating our environment was too great in comparison to the additional cost of upgrading our software to all run on Ruby 1.9.
Holly should be doing something other than economics.
"California is making great progress toward income equality by eliminating the ability of the middle and upper classes to build wealth, and thereby eradicating greed."

Besides the dubious idea that it's good to eliminate the ability for the middle class to build wealth, I can't say I've seen much evidence that there's more income equality in California than the US in general. And if she thinks tax policy can "eradicate greed", she doesn't even understand human psychology.

(Oh, hey, I think I've been trolled.)
It works for 37 signals. It shows you that companies that treat their devs as people (like 37 signals) instead of resources or head count can develop superior software and somehow have their people happy without the need to make fake enthusiasm.

I would say startups are probably most likely to be able to take advantage of this.

BTW, this post makes me want to move to Louisville and join Ernie :) (not really, Chicago is really nice).
Maybe people that make this argument only care about supporting one (or two) platforms.
Considerably more dead on both sides than during the non-violent revolutions.

Just think, if you'd given the Egyptian's guns that could have been a bloodbath too.
Meanwhile, in the UK, most people rarely if ever handle the 50 pound notes that are in circulation - I've only seen perhaps a handful of them in the 12 years I've lived in London.
Just gave it a try. It has the same use case as github issues, at least for programming projects. That said, I think you should focus on non-programmers.
None work that well with $250 worth of hardware and Windows, unless you're considering a Chromebook, which only has to run the browser, pretty much.
"eat a bullet?" What does that even mean? Come on, is it asking too much for even a semi-professional article here? The reg is a tabloid that's bascially blogspam. HN can do better.
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We can see there's a potential downside to giving honest feedback - is there any upside, from the employee's perspective?
To the commenters preceding me: The piece is sarcastic. Read it again.
It's possible. But look at this: "Several weeks into his new junior high school, Michael began exhibiting increasingly odd and threatening behaviors at school. We decided to transfer him to the district’s most restrictive behavioral program"

Something changed with the new school, something that set her son off with regularity. The answer is the district's most restrictive behavioral program. The child may be an asshole and a violent psychopath, but the mother doesn't ask if there's perhaps anything wrong at the new school. There may well be, and the fact that she does not mention that possibility raises a red flag for me.
As unpopular a suggestion as this may be, Blackberry's are very secure particularly if you enable some of the more advanced security features such as secure memory and full device encryption. A lot of research has been undertaken at my University into this recently and very little progress has been made.

The obvious downside is that the App eco system is still very poor compared to both iOS and Android and the UI leaves a lot to be desired. It depends really on whether you favour security over usability.
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Just a random suggestion: What I would want is a "system" to replace any snacks I eat with fresh fruits. Meaning, I want the same level of convenience.

I want it organic, sliced, and delivered twice per week. I know that this sounds like a logistical nightmare, but that would be something with a crystal clear positioning.
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I've a similar requirement in a dissimilar scenario.

I'm an architect and work in an enterprise environment that's obsessed at the minute (to put it mildly) with Agile. A typical project will use Pivotal to capture requirements, track progress and manage changes.

Project plans are non-existent, and a vague project schedule is done in Excel to convince the project sponsor to authorize the work.

The result is big surprise all around when release one is unusable because the hipster tech doesn't integrate with Active Directory, the awesome server push engine doesn't resolve clients behind NAT, and a change to a business rule requires two weeks' refactoring.

The team has talent, but they lack direction. What I need is something that a). captures high level requirements, b). does some basic risk management (plan, track, control) and c). does some stakeholder management so that the team knows whom in the organisation to ask about things like hosting.
This just isn't true. I've gone through plenty of meetings where I've talked to my boss or manager to try and find out the specs of my current project. This is work.
Hi kjackson2012, what happened with you was unfortunate and i am particularly happy that you were right the first time around. I cannot speak for all the employers. But my views would resonate with the people who want to create a good working environment for their colleagues. if you are quitting because you got a better offer, i might want to match it or negotiate but in the end i will be happy for you. But if you are leaving because of something I did wrong i would want to know. If i dont improve, i wont be able to retain good people and that is crucial for small entrepreneurs like me.
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Congrats on a solid idea/execution combo. I suppose we need to support UK startups as much as we do our local suppliers. Fingers crossed I think you might even manage to win over the British luddites and naysayers with this blend of old and new!

Design-wise I can only say that it matches the expectations of consumers in the demographic pretty much spot on. And I like it :)

Would be good to follow your progress so will stick to Twitter for now, but in-depth blog posts would be welcome if you find time.
Came here to say the same thing - I want to see what's local to me first without having to sign up.

Also, living in a village in West Sussex, I have a selection of local farm shops and independent butchers within a 4 mile radius so I am not sure what I'd get out of this service - and since I can't see without giving up my personal details, it looks like I'll never know.
hi, i just commented here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4932876
>Also, the LHC hiring protocol for students must have a attractiveness clause. ;)

Almost anyone can look like that with some decent lighting, makeup, hair and wardrobe etc. That and the body-language of self confidence are all it takes. Editing out all the shots where you look weird helps too. Celebrities and the like are almost universally unremarkable-looking when not at work.

Don't tell the entertainment or cosmetics industries I let you in on that little secret though, or I might end up in the back of van. Sometimes it seems like the whole of western society is built on people being kept in the dark about this fact.
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Nevertheless, these kind of predictions require further study.

There's the money quote. Quite literally.

There are all sorts of people who see the path to Mars littered with bags of money and are quite happy to insert themselves into the path.
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Linux can be made reasonably safe. Grsec, PaX, seccomp, hardened toolchain... I'm fine with Linux.
So the "more rigorous requirements for OEMs" is "no OEMs at all"? Seems a little like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Besides, part of the point of Android is having an OS which allows for companies like Samsung to build their own variants.

Also, the problem isn't unknown hardware (as you would suggest by saying they should use "known hardware"). If it was an issue where they unknowingly left the hardware in some strange debugging state so that userland could query the it for restricted information, then it would be an issue with unknown hardware. In this case they directly and intentionally provided unprotected access to all of memory. That's just bad engineering.
I agree that California has some great policies that other states should follow - but it's somewhat troubling that this article highlights some of the more negative aspects of CA:

> Implementing these taxes nation-wide would ensure the U.S. has the same air quality as Los Angeles.

California still has among the worst Air Quality ratings in the US [1]. Isn't it worth calling out that California needs to improve in this area? For instance, better public transit?

> California has the highest paid teachers in the U.S. and by focusing on teacher pay rather than student achievement (students rank 48th in math and 49th in reading), they have the best teachers in the country.

This hardly seems like a reason for California to pat itself on the back. If we are ranked so low in math & reading, what is the metric we're using to evaluate our teachers and determine that they're the "best in the country"?

[1] http://www.stateoftheair.org/2012/states/california/los-ange...
Relevant discussion on the same topic from last week:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4901148

A worthy and commendable initiative. Chipped in what I could.

I had meant to follow this up last week, but it slipped my mind. So, thanks for posting this again. :-]
But how do they know how much energy a bit requires?
Wow, thanks everyone for the helpful insights! I will definitely need to clear the air with him; over beers, of course. Thanks
I think the point is that you have nothing to gain and everything to lose by giving honest feedback. I assumed my last company would want to know my boss was sleeping with my teammate and using company funds inappropriately, but they just spent a bunch of money on consultants to cover it up. Yay!
It is also worth pointing out that you can fly to DC and NYC in under 2 hours from Louisville. You can fly to Chicago and get there before you took off thanks to the time change. So you have access to pretty much any of the "best" of those things listed here in about 3 hours including the time it takes you to drive to the airport, get through security and board.
Why is learning to be an architect hard? Why is learning to be a lawyer hard?

Because it's f*cking complicated!!!
Because it's satire. She's making an example out of California.
Ask HN: Crowdfunding aggregator for suporters' projects. Would you use it?
Crowdfunding aggregator for supporters/backers to share investments from across platforms and have them all in one place. It would also let supporters follow others and see what they are investing in or search according to project criteria to discover new projects and investors/supporters.

It would help projects get initial buzz and/or the last funds needed by letting them reach investors who typically invest in the project's sector.

So to recap:

- Platforms and projects get exposed to more users who typically invest

- Investors can see what projects other people they know and respect are investing in

- Projects can make a push to get either initial buzz or the last funds needed by targeting and reaching investors who are most likely to invest in their project

Note: "investor" refers to a crowdfunding projects backer/supporter who receives perks in exchange for their donation, not equity.

Would you use it?
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Ask HN: Ethics behind getting offers to figure out your "market value"?
What are your guys thoughts on interviewing / receiving offers from other companies to help establish a better sense of "market value"?

Would you give a different answer if you were not actively looking vs looking?

What are some other ways at establishing "market value"? Having used Glassdoor.com, how accurate is this?
Myself, @jfedor[0], and a few like-minded others are usually at the Grale on Fridays around 4-ish. Consider yourselves (+ any other locals in the thread) invited.

[0] http://twitter.com/jfedor
For now this is an unbalanced situation.

Agreed. I was just trying to point out that there are at least a few talented folks on "our side".
Sorry but this comes off as really pompous. Essentially what you're saying is that I am so good, you will be hired on your terms.

If you had gone in with the mind set, "I want to work locally, and relocating isn't something that works for me." I can respect that, but when you say I wont locate for YOU, comes off as saying, hey I make the decisions not you. Or an attention grabbing title for a post.

For a full time employee, remote work is like a long distance relationship, more often than not, they just do not work. Heck contract remote work is already difficult as is.
Just to be clear, Mars does have an atmosphere. It's pretty thin, but it's real enough to provide protection against micrometeorites and some of the radiation.

It ain't gonna stop a school-bus sized meteorite, though.