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I think Amazon is smart enough to know that they can't give anybody short shrift.

The only reason they're the leading computing platform is trust. Trust is the biggest factor in a platform decision, and they'd be foolish to put all their other business at risk for a temporary advantage in one small slice. Especially since they are still making money on every Zencoder job.
Ah, I feel like I have been scooped. I have been working on the same thing. Except mine is a scatter plot with all 4,500 jobs at once, so use Chrome. No fancy searching yet. Check it out at

http://labs.radiantmachines.com/al/
Interesting little story. Did your grandfather say anything about how the people out in the wilderness reacted?
I do self-censor myself each time I post a bug, to see if it has security implications!

Most don't - it's similar to software in that regard. I'm already used to doing that self-censorship for software, so guess it is natural.
The Worst Advantages
Context: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/28/jody-sherman-ecomom-founder...
The winning projects from Hack Jersey
The Day the iPad Became the Mac
To be completely honest, I'm cheating. I considered doing a full mechanical clock but I'm going the micro controller and stepper motor route. There are a couple of reasons for this. First and foremost, I don't really have the space for a workshop. Nor, do I have any machinist training. However considering, you can order wooden clock kits on the internet that's probably not the big deal it seems.

Given that I'm cheating, I've vastly reduced the knowledge I need. My mechanical bits should be understandable to any reasonably bright person. The electronics can be gleaned through the howtos on Sparkfun and Ada Fruit.

All that said, basic clock operation doesn't seem to be anything that complicated. The hard parts come in when you want accuracy and run time. There are a couple of clock repair sites around the internet. A common theme seems to be managing wear and lubrication over there years so the tiny amount of power provided is enough.
Well.. from the article : "across his shoulders". I can't even imagine.
Also, enterprise sales usually are corrupt, big contracts mean to throw moneay at the people in charge of the decission.

Another point, is that usually each company have diferent processes, and it's quite difficult to make a one-size-fits-all (as in facebook/twitter/google). Intranets, and biz software usually need people to make custom modifications on each company. Usually the people in charge of this changes are not as competent as the ones who write mainstream software and you end with a lot of crap, which is almost impossible to stop due to the fact that there are very few good programmers around to make custom changes to every company in the world.
Putting Users in Control of Plugins
Yes it's beta and yes it's what's expected, but the hedge fund industry has historically claimed that returns are coming from alpha (investor skill) rather than beta (riskiness). There's the claim now that they are picking the right kind of beta to attempt to justify what papers are finding, but the outperformance that is exhibited by some hedge fund managers doesn't usually persist, suggesting that their selection of the particular risks were not a result of their skill.

If the returns are actually from "dumb" beta, then the hedge fund fees are not appropriate for what you're getting. You're getting market returns appropriate for the amount of risk that's being taken, rather than outperforming, and then losing most of that to fees. Yes, exposure to beta can be a smart choice, but it can be done without excessive fees.

>Where hedge funds play a role in investment management is when individuals can select hedge fund managers they believe will outperform

Yes, this is the common refrain in mutual funds too: Buy the top performing managers, not the average fund. But the research shows that hedge funds that outpeform do not persist in outperforming. This suggests that the managers are not being particularly skilled in their selection of risk. Most fund of funds do not perform significantly better either -- there's little evidence that hedge funds are providing investors real value. Hedge funds are a status symbol for the wealthy, not a smart investment.
Endurance hunting is rarely a straight line race. Here is an example of a route for one of those hunts (it's from my first link):
http://www.jstor.org/literatum/publisher/jstor/journals/cont...

As you can see, even though the overall distance is 25.1 km, the straight line distance between the start and finish is less than a mile.
Heh. Indeed. The chicken-and-egg thing being, "If people like tall or attractive people, and that causes confidence or assertiveness, when tall or attractive people are promoted, is that because other people like them, or because they are confident and assertive?"
Link-bait title for a mildly interesting study. I'm not surprised at the results, anyone with real sales/biz dev experience will tell you that listening and asking the right questions are the way to sell people, not "hustling" and being overly salesy/pushy - http://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Neil-Rackham/dp/007051113...

That said though, how you define yourself as "extroverted", "introverted", or an "ambivert" is questionable altogether.
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The Cost of Bad Data is the Illusion of Knowledge
The biggest bug for me in OS X is the lack of emphasis on backward compatibility. I can pick up a copy of Windows 8 today and it will still run SIMCITY.EXE from 1992. A month ago I had to upgrade my entire operating system (and lose a ton of customizations I had made) because the new XCode wouldn't run on my two year old Macbook.
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There's a show in France called 'Rendez-vous en terres inconnues' where they get celebrities to "isolated" tribes/groups (polar ring, deep jungle, desert, etc). Paradoxically, often, their lifestyle is not grown out of ignorance or isolation, they chose it. They do interact with our societies, but don't merge. The funniest part to me was how easy it was for them to catch up with us, like using a cellphone quickly became a mundane practical thing for emergencies, nothing was really difficult as far as I could see in the videos. Their children are really drawn to the 'modern' world though. Very sad that they're blinded by shiny things and desensitized to their own treasures.
The advice I got regarding stock market from a pro was to invest long term in the 3 indexes: "spiders" (S&P 500), "cubes" (Nasdaq 100) and "diamonds" (Dow Jones Industrial Average), seems solid, outperforming funds and without management fees.
I know you think you're being funny but all you're doing is displaying your ignorance for everyone to see.
There is a lot to complain about in OS X, but as a programmer I am not sure I would have picked the points he did.

Things like kqueue() support not being up to par with the other kqueue() providers, notably FreeBSD. kqueue() is considered so broken by libev for example that it just doesn't use it. The deprecation of OpenSSL (although I'm happy about that, but installing a secondary OpenSSL alongside the OS provided one can break things, so you have to install to a separate path and use include directives in your compile line, and or an alternate pkg-config path). The fact that a replacement libc++ now exists, but parts are still using the old stdlibc++ and the two can't be linked together if you use std::string for example, thus making it harder to use C++11 features. This is going to be an issue for a little bit, but hopefully that gets better. Outdated utilities or libraries make life more difficult, however a lot of that can be fixed with homebrew. Debugging USB issues is more difficult than it should be, this is especially an issue when attempting to figure out why a driver from a vendor crashes when you use certain USB to serial devices.

The new sandboxing requirement for apps while making everything a little more secure makes it more difficult to make certain types of apps ... slowly but surely new API's or permissions are being made available to fix those issues, or at least improve the pain points.
If one were being cynical, one might suggest that this was a way for Google to distract attention from it not paying UK tax (through loopholes):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-...
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Not only developers. They are also upending all intermediary businesses between manufacturers and consumers (inventory, shipping, etc).
That's forward compatibility, not backwards compatibility. Will the SimCity being released next month run on Windows 3.1? (Of course not, that's an intentionally extreme example, but you're fundamentally talking about two different things -- new app on old OS vs. old app on new OS).
The answer lies in between, ES6 borrows from python (as many other languages). I personally would love a coffeescript~ to be the one.
Oh, I didn't realize that the person who wrote that was female. It seemed to me that most people were just criticizing people who mock other's work.

On "white knights": is it not pretty sexist and also an ad hominem to accuse anyone who argues the point of a female to be a white knight?
In some states, there is no point to legal immigration any more :)

Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn just signed a law (with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's backing) giving illegal immigrants drivers licenses and car insurance.
I should state that there is nothing wrong with charging money for upgrades, especially if it motivates the developer to continuously improve the product.

And yes, you are right. Every bit counts, and I'm willing to pay for software that will help me. I just don't think it gets much better for me and ST.
False assumptions aside, perhaps said people are dreaming of the wrong thing.
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That's awesome.. it shows michael.org as available though, which it isn't :( got my hopes up!
In that sense it's never struck me as anything more than horoscopes for those who don't believe horoscopes.
The execution is spastic but the intent is correct: substantial portions of the Apple codebase are lipsticked pigs.

Mail.app is, to my mind, the single most flagrant troublemaker in small-biz use. But there are thousands of little cockroaches found all over the place and I can't stop seeing them anymore.
How did they tell their kids about the birds and the bees? Must have been very awkward as a teenager.
Even if I did buy a blu-ray of it, I would torrent it because:
a) I don't want to muck about with disks to watch things on my computer
b) I don't know how to rip it myself (and doing so is no less illegal than torrenting afaik)
For those in San Francisco, KQED is starting its own incubator for media start-ups: http://matter.vc/
You could definitely use a timing attack to isolate accounts still using the weak crypto, but the mitigation against that is the same as any time attack mitigation strategy: you configure your auth solution with a return time floor.

I don't see this scenario presenting any more risk from a timing attack vector than a bare implementation using weak crypto, and it offers a balance between having no option to upgrade your crypto algorithm, and an option that involves some trade off.
These seem to be job listings. It would be great to see the fill rate. Of job boards out there, Angellist is the best about showing salary/equity. The companies that they attract are very early stage though, so salaries are fairly low.
This article is dribble. Some of these are issues some are not. All of this is hyperbole and has little to with reality. Phrases like "can't copy" are a red herring, as copying is easy and reliable, HFS vs. ZFS, Etc etc. Very few, if any facts or evidence.
Even with a DIY Fusion setup, Disk Utility unhelpfully offering to wipe all your drives to fix a filesystem error points to a pretty major bug in Disk Utility's decision-making capabilities.
I think you are both missing the point. The author is trying to argue that Apple are removing features and "dumbing down" the OS, to make it easier for casual users to use it as an entertainment hub.
I used to say that "temporary is the state before permanent". Unfortunately, the crappier the initial code base is, the crappier the production code will be, unless you have a lot of free time to rewrite everything, which about nobody has.
Non PDF: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...
This has been true in most categories of devices for a long time. (Before things shook out and Samsung ascended, HTC and Motorola were leap frogging each other monthly with the "best" Android phone)
All the professionals I know like the MacBook Airs
increasingly.

I cannot imagine working with an Air for a prolonged period doing anything requiring the keyboard, since it is not ergonomic at all.
There's a lot of misinformation and half-truths in this article. To pick one example, the filesystem: yes, we're sadly not using ZFS but that's in all likelihood due to licensing restrictions, not because Apple thinks HFS+ doesn't need replacing. What Apple has done is introduce CoreStorage, a "storage virtualisation system" (see link below), which beyond allowing new features to be added now (e.g. full disk encryption), will presumably allow easier migration to a new filesystem in future. And this was added in Lion.

http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/08/04/mac-osx-lion-corestorage...

As a self-described power user, I've found 10.8 to be a nice upgrade on 10.7 and worlds better than 10.6. That's not to say there aren't issues -- there are many, as there are with any OS -- but Apple currently isn't showing any sign of slowing down, with many of the issues I've experienced having been fixed in 10.8, while any power user is quite capable of disabling new consumer-facing features that don't benefit them (e.g. Launchpad, iCloud).

Edit: reading further, there's a better example -- the author's criticism of Fusion Drives. I quote "Bottom line: Fusion as-is and as supplied by Apple is OK (maybe, hard to say for sure in multi-drive systems). Other than that, messing around carries some ugly risks."

Not only are Apple's Fusion drives a new technology (and it's a relatively pioneering one at that, at least in the consumer space -- they're not HDDs with an SSD cache, but rather SSD/HDD hybrids that intelligently move data from one to the other), thus disproving the point that Apple isn't innovating on OS X anymore, but his criticisms apply when you're making your own Fusion drive, rather than buying a computer with a Fusion drive installed. This is something unsupported right now, especially since Fusion drives have only existed for several months, so although of course it should be fixed I don't think Apple deserves too much criticism for this.

Second edit: this is perhaps controversial, but I think it comes down to the difference between a power user and a dangerous user. Power users who have to get work done will generally stick to supported system configurations, or will be damn careful (and with full knowledge of what might happen if things go wrong) if doing anything unsupported. I don't think any "power user" would have a custom Fusion drive setup and then complain about Apple when something goes wrong. That's not to say all of the criticisms in the article are wrong, because they're not, and some are quite serious. But some things are definitely disingenuous too.
I'm just getting started also. I really like the spot pricing. Most sizes have never even come close to what you'd normally pay.
Senator Cornyn asked similar questions a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5080829

What is the protocol for questions like these? Are responses required? Are they made public? Do questions like these escalate or are these a formality, with genuine questioning done privately?
> I'd be really worried and slightly confused by Amazon took this step?

I'm not so sure I'd be worried. Amazon has certain advantages in the market. But they are not into handholding at all. I think you can easily out-compete them on ease of use, support, and community. You can also do much better marketing, and make much more interesting partnerships.

I also think Amazon's massive scale constrains them some; they can't be as flexible. In Zencoder's shoes, I'd be looking to see if I could get a pricing advantage through specialized hardware that covers my base computing load. I've see people drop their AWS bills by a factor of 10 when a good sysadmin designs a workload-specific setup.
This is absolutely amazing. This woman is more of a man than any man I know, living in some desolate valley for all of those years now absolutely ALONE? One word: Wow.
Ask HN:Master's degree in CS in Canada for international students.Scholarship.
Hey guys, I'm planning to get master's degree in computer science in Canada.

I want to know universities and fields of CS that are focused on by them.

It would be nice if someone will share his experience in applying to graduate or in getting scholarship.

Any help will be appreciated:)
Dog eats own tail to survive
> I think Amazon is smart enough to know that they can't give anybody short shrift.

Really? One example: When states threatened sales tax (before CA), they cut off retailers in those states.

They can and they have given people short shrift when it's in their business interest. To be fair, that just means they know how to increase sales by selecting who gets thrown to the lions, which is necessary in any business.
School District Dumps Online Textbooks Because Students Don't Have Broadband
Making music recommendations with care
Every user had its own unique idea about how the network should work and would only pay if changes were implemented.
Nothing. I'm in a bit of a pickle. I don't want to launch something that isn't going to succeed, but it's incredibly hard to predict if an idea is really worth doing. Any tips?
Whoa, interesting ... I'm particularly curious as to what performance improvements he will go over.

I've been working on a little html5 game engine myself. It lets you use sprites in a retained mode like API, while still giving you an immediate mode interface to manage the game logic. It's still pretty early, need to do more work on some samples and documentation, but there are some docs there in the wiki :)

https://github.com/joelmartinez/flatredball-js
Forward compatibility for the software, backward compatibility for the OS. Nitpicking, but still.
http://obacon.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/mother-memory-celloph...

In an NPR interview someone mentioned that right after the words 'mother' and 'memory', in 1940 "the American public voted 'cellophane' as the third most beautiful word in the English language". Cellophane revolutionized food storage, and the gentleman in the OP recognized its usefulness.
A really interesting and well written read. Whilst the author admits to being a little sentimental about the company, he appears to have had a long term relationship with Boeing. Thanks for posting.
Yeah, totally agree. That's consistent with what I'm saying here: the key is not how much experience you have, but how much have you learned from what you do have?
Just two weeks ago: "Google to build £1bn UK headquarters at London's King's Cross" http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/17/google-uk-h...
A cynical person would note that the UK government isn't upset that the loopholes are being used, since they've made no serious attempts to close them. They're upset that the loopholes are being used by the wrong companies.

If Apple or Google or Starbucks spent as much on UK lobbying as other multinationals, I doubt they'd be receiving any negative press.
This has nothing to do with immigration legal or otherwise. You are better off providing insurance to the illegals.
I like driving on roads when other drivers have car insurance. It lowers my rates, and in the event of an accident for which the other driver is liable I get money to fix my car.

Surely we can come up with a less brain-dead way of encouraging immigrants to participate in the legal process than intentionally making our own roads less safe? Perhaps by making that process simpler, with more tangible benefit for those taking part. The changes you cite are an example of that. This "War on Immigration" crap is motivated by armament and prison suppliers.
It's because I'm using ints for position data to allow fast look-ups of nearby objects in a very simple 2D environment. It's not about the speed of the same calculations between floats and ints (if that's what you were wondering).
Whilst I applaud the effort, I'm cynical.

I have three children at two good but different schools and my wife is a teacher. From observation, they will either be locked in the cupboard because the staff won't know what to do with them or are uninterested or are too lazy to adapt them to the curriculum, or they will be stolen or broken within the week.

This whilst cynical is probably realistic.

The only thing that has ever survived schools is the BBC micro because they weren't cool, were indestructible and you could screw them down.
I use Navicat Premium (which is multiple databases pg, mysql, sqlite). It's not as pretty as Sequel Pro, but it does the job well.

http://www.navicat.com/en/products/navicat_premium/premium_d...

Just pg:
http://www.navicat.com/en/products/navicat_pgsql/pgsql_detai...
I don't think it's sensationalist, but if it is, it certainly wasn't intentional
Exactly! Scale by a power of two and most of these surprises will go away.

0.1 is particularly problematic because it happens not to be exactly representable as an IEEE FP number, or even as a finite-length binary sequence (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.1+to+binary). So taking exact numbers and multiplying them by this scale factor will tend to produce inexact numbers, which when truncated, will cause surprises.

Even scaling by something closer to a power of two would be better (1/16 + 1/32 = 0.09375).
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I think the problem may be your lack of interest. As somebody who has used AWS a fair bit, I love those massive pages. It's easy for me to jump around, and being able to use in-browser search to rummage through the whole thing is great.
Ah, if KeePass v2 allows for synchronization, then that solves the big problem of people overwriting each other.

Although I would probably still suggest a solution that allows more granular access controls and doesn't require everyone to share the same password for logging in.
"At this point, there are only two outcomes that can help us: the government decides to alleviate debt at a certain percentage and claim it as a screw up, or, a more realistic system is put in place to allow people to pay off their debt."

That definitely makes it sound like you're looking for forgiveness of your debt.
New design platform gathers hundreds of signups in 24 hours
I actually forgot that Heroku had been bought out by Salesforce- but the point remains that before they sold, Amazon could have been tried competing in any buy out.

I can't quite believe Amazon has never acquired anyone, though- are there any high profile ones out there?
Open Letter to David Marcus, President of Paypal From a Pakistani
As opposed to laptops with ergo keyboards, such as ... ? I plug a Kinesis into my Mac laptop and it seems to work fine.
All I can say is that Jody was a great guy. My cofounder and I hung out with him one night about a year ago when he was in San Francisco, and he was one of the nicest and most genuine people I've ever met. Almost sold us on moving our startup to LA (he was living there at the time).

Totally shocking.
Swedish digital mailbox Kivra launches app and responsive web design for mobile