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We wish you a 'not-foggy' weekend! ;)
Mostly fluff, non-actionable advice here. :-/
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17 year old iOS developer with a wide range of other skills.
I'm looking to take on some freelance work to add to my portfolio of work. I have previously worked with companies such as Mostly Serious and Treehouse mobile, as well as undertaking my own projects. Any offer would be fantastic, and you'd be helping a young developer get a start in the industry.
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There doesn't seem to be a hardware encoder and the CPU runs at 72MHz max. I'm not sure what kind of encoding you can perform with such limited resources. Not to mention there are no camera interface.

It has a USB bus however, so you might hook a smartcamera there if it's lightweight enough.

I'm not sure how much you can lift with it tho, I'm guessing not much.
I eat out a lot because I'm a terrible cook. Even given my lack of culinary skills, I never get salads or burgers because I can make that stuff at home.

That's why I am stingy as hell with software. I don't pay for anything because I know I could build it myself if I really needed it. It's worked well so far and it's a big reason why most of the $ I spend on software is for games.

But I'll be damned if I didn't read this and think "I'd pay a little bit of money for that."

I've been following Nathan's work here on HN for a while, and I think that son of a bitch finally got me. :)

Good luck, Nathan; I'm looking forward to see what comes out of CK.
You can do EB-1, EB-2 only if you first acquire a H-1B visa. Wrt which you wrote: "Acquiring a H1B visa to work in the United States is not hard. When, I (a foreign born student) graduated and applied for an H1B visa, it took ten days for it to get approved."

Actually, the difficulty varies from year to year and from company to company and from subfield to subfield. So yes, people do suffer from the status quo.

Just throwing this info here in the interest of completeness.
If they stop selling the Mac Pro they have lost many game developers for their platform, iMacs are nice and I have a couple but I still need a beast. A laptop doesn't cut it for much of the 3d work and production you need to launch games. Most game devs I know making cross platform including myself have a Mac Pro beast that runs OSX and Windows. This is needed.

I think this is a HUGE error on the part of Apple and makes me wonder if Steve Jobs wasn't just really good but absolutely horrid at picking CEOs. Or maybe they are updating the line like they mentioned in 2013 and these are the older ones.

I actually thought Apple would be smart and use their advantage to own desktop as well (which is a big market for them and not attractive to others). Most of the people I know that got Apple desktops/laptops get into their devices and vice versa. At a time when Windows loyalty is weak I think this is an error. Maybe I am skewed by the industry I am in but I need a big machine that runs OSX! I do tons of work on my iMacs and Mac Pro but wouldn't rely on just iMacs yet.

If iMacs are their biggest machines I suspect many game developers going Hackintosh and that is a HUGE missed opportunity. Sometimes you just need a tower that can expand big time.
how about a needle?
but isn't "xzvf" as easy to remember as "xkcd"? =P
I don't like church but I think that you only tell us a small subset of truth. So small it might not be so true anymore.

There was a list of (saints) names associated with certain dates, but I don't believe that parents would be universally forced to take the matching name.

And remember that in the countryside, most people were married (by their parents' choice) while still being minors by modern standards.
The traditional society is called traditional for a reason: it's not that you can't call your son with a random name, it's just this thought never occurs to you. You do what you're supposed to do by default.
> "Don't give this app location data"

Sure, that case is somewhat more simple, but that's rarely what most people actually want. What most people actually want is to sometimes hide their location from most things when it's sensitive and leave the phone and most apps free to know when it's not.

I think they need to actually support the types of location privacy preferences users are going to want if they want to do location privacy correctly.
Current Mac Pro. Not Mac Pro as a line forever
Get the HP Z820 or Dell T7600 / T5600. Theyre both very well engineered. I bought a Dell T5600 and I am amazed how quiet it is given that it has two eight core xeons and a graphics card. That being said the HP is available with liquid cooling and would be just as quiet.
They give you hardware that is capable of storing the advertised amount of data - they advertise it the same as any other vendor (nobody advertises "usable diskspace" unless there is a 59GB iPad out there).

When do you think hardware vendors should start specifying available disk space as part of their SKU? When it's less than 10%? 20%? Should this value include pre-installed applications?
Interesting thing, it recognized white queen correctly with diamonds on crown, but as black queen without diamonds and failed with only one diamond:

http://i45.tinypic.com/3535j4x.png — screenshot of variant with three diamonds.
Outlook.com, Office 365, other Microsoft sites down
FBI on official business doesn't qualify for one, I'm sure.
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Along these same lines, for LaTeX fans there is http://detexify.kirelabs.org/
Doesn't it boil down to not being able to modify the current power supplies to comply with EU regulations? I bet they would have a new design entirely coming out this year. The current design is 8 years old.
I have the previous gen iMac with the best graphics card config and Aperture flies compared to on any of my other machines. It's definitely up to the task.
It depends on your utilisation vs. idle time. EC2 is more expensive than most other virtual server providers, but they let you start up or shut down many servers within minutes, and bill hourly instead of monthly.

If your load requirements are mostly fixed and spread out evenly, alternatives including buying your own hardware may be cheaper.

If you do a lot of number crunching in short (hours or days) bursts, EC2 can be significantly cheaper, as you are not paying for the idle time. Of course, if the numerical computation is scalable across computers, it can be made bursty - instead of running one average server for a month, you could use 30 servers for a day and get the results faster for the same total cost.
Apple’s To-Do List
So far, it seems bits and pieces of Office365 are down, Outlook.com, Microsoft's CDN[1], and their support site[2]... and that's just what I'm aware of.

[1] http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/

[2] http://support.microsoft.com/
Is Google Docs' Revision History a Stable Long-Term Audit Trail?
I think this is about apple to cease shipping the _current_ Mac Pro to Europe.

If Apple had a new version of the Mac Pro around the corner, then they probably wouldn't bother release an update/redesign of the existing version in order to meet new EU laws.
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The new iMacs have gorgeous screens with great colour reproduction, so I imagine that's what's most important to a photographer. Specs are fine: up to 3.4GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, SSD/HDD Fusion drives, 2GB 680MX, and even with a custom config would still be cheaper than Mac Pro (though, naturally, much more expensive than building your own). The new MacBook Retinas are great for photography too and plenty beefy enough, though will probably need a supplementary external monitor.

On the subject of the Mac Pros themselves, speculation here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/17mzf5/apple_to_disco...

is that it's because they draw too much power when switched off but still plugged in. As for those worrying Apple's discontinuing Mac Pros they're on record as saying there are new ones coming, so this just means they're probably coming sooner rather than later:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/12/apple-spokesperson-confi...
Might want to edit your post (if you're still able) to include location and if you're accepting remote or H1B, etc.
This 'leak' will insure Apple clears out existing inventory quickly without dropping the price.
Nice point about the object loop. I would image though that the object would have relatively few properties whereas the number of DOM elements in the jQuery collection could vary dramatically based on the UI (think a long list of list items).
> HUGE error

Yeah those lost $0.5mm worth of sales are really going to kill Apple off.
There's some truth to that, and I don't pretend to have a solution to this difficult question. I remember from earlier posts that you are a lawyer yourself, so I don't need to give you examples of all the poorly drafted laws one comes across.

Do you think there's an ideal proportion of lawyers that should be involved in the legislative process?
I'm pretty much in the same boat - i've bought a pretty much pimped out mid-2009 17" MBP and as that is getting older, i've looked to maybe replace it with a newer one in the not-so-far future..

However, since i really enjoy having a 17" display (+27" via mini-Displayport) i can't quite see myself "downgrading" to a 15" machine once the current MBP is going to be replaced :(
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Those things are not exactly silent you know. Nor are they difficult to stop/intercept. Case in point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbnySBqioB0
seriously, social media participation will demonstrate how good of a communicator I am? I don't think I would hire based on that.
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Looking for good developers who might know Rails/PHP to help us sell more light bulbs online.
However, the employer also pays taxes from an employee's salary, bringing the actual tax rate closer to 50% - if not for those taxes, they could play the employee more in the first place.
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When thinking about these two options, responsive vs. not, I try to pull myself away from the developer or designer roles. If wearing either of those two hats one might be tempted to become an evangelist for responsive design because, among other things, it's an interesting challenge. Intellectually stimulating challenges do drive decisions sometimes.

What I do is put on a business hat and think in terms of actual benefits. An, in my not-so-humble opinion, responsive design doesn't really mean greater revenue. Here "responsive design" means a site where elements squeeze, move, re-align, collapse, etc. as you grab the sizing handle on your browser window and shrink or expand the browser canvas.

Why do I think this way?

www.ebay.com
www.craigslist.com
www.nytimes.com
www.latimes.com
www.ticketmaster.com
etc.

Of course, there are plenty of examples for responsive design. Amazon uses a mild form of it and it works well.

IF responsive design were critical to keeping or increasing interaction or revenue all major sites would be using it today. I think it might be safe to say that the vast majority of the top 500 sites use fixed designs.

This doesn't mean that you can't have one or two alternative CSS layouts for mobile viewing. That might be the smartest approach: one fixed design for desktop and one fixed design for small screens.

With this, if you have the traffic, you can A/B test and slowly optimize each fixed design to improve conversions. With responsive design you might have to optimize over a dozen layouts, which is a huge job.

Again, in the end, I think that considering the options from a business perspective can cut through the crud and cause one to focus on what really matters if you don't have a hobby site.
very excited for the lower S3 -> CloudFront prices. that change alone is going to save my site probably 25-35% on our CDN bandwidth charges.
Ask HN: What if there was Github for Legislation?
Imagine there's a 'master' branch of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that is controlled by the legislators. However, lawyers, legal educators and ordinary citizens can fork a copy, commit changes on their own branches, and then make a pull request to merge their proposed changes.

A Wikipedia style would NOT work, but perhaps a Github repository styled approach will. The master editor's role is not lost, but the assumption is you could write stronger legislation by drawing on the expertise of a broader range of people. The legislation would certainly be more human readable.

Thoughts/opinions?
No guaranteed, faithful audit trail is given by Google Docs. Logs are lost by Google because of (1) deleterious forced upgrades (2) forced space optimization (3) no downloadable backups preventing loss.

1. Revisions Deleted by Upgrade: Google Docs' last official upgrade did not save, nor migrate, old Revision History to their new version, resulting in total data loss and no alternative. http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/docs/Tsd-E-bzsh8

2. Automatic Revision Pruning: Docs deletes versions to save space, but you cannot control it, nor mark versions to save forever. http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

3. No Downloadable-Publishable Revision History: Contrasting Google Docs' promise to share our work, only you and people who can edit your document are able to view Revision History, making real public transparency/accountability/downloadability difficult if not impossible.

Google is known for their likeable Data Liberation Policy. but it severely misinforms people who do not know Revision History is not faithfully backed up.

I welcome Google to commit to never losing anything you share and write, and optionally allow others equal transparency to see everything we save (or tried...) and share.

So if Google Docs' deleterious behavior continues, people will continue to be disappointed if their archived data is unpredictably, untrackably, so very loseable.
I am working on a PhD with a focus on cryptography and secure multiparty computation, and I have nothing but bad things to say about Bitcoin. It has numerous technical shortcomings that other digital cash systems do not have.

Very 'Internet Tough Guy'. I'm extremely impressed by your insights.

Do you have any links to support your assertions?
Twitter's javascript app framework
Outlook.com works perfectly here, but I can't login to MSN or view http://status.live.com
It's all in the eye of the beholder: it looks like a cactus to me! In seriousness, if you do see something else, you're obviously old enough to appreciate the joke :)
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Thanks for your response. But my doubts are still there. From your response I understand that running a process on a computer would let you to 'emit' a limited amount of currency with a general cap of 21MM. I am not doubting of your words, just trying to make sense in my mind, but if that's true that means that earlier adopters can generate coins for free and hence easy money. If I have a big enough cluster of computers, I can then generate enough proof of work in a cheap manner. Is that true?
>For our new design, we decided to stick to a fixed grid of 980px.

Yep, this is what I've been doing for a while now. Looks great on desktops, and looks great on iPad devices and tablets.

Responsive sounds good on paper, but when your 1 person in a team of 2 startup, you can't afford to waste time like that building something truly flexible. Not worth the time investment.

Again: MEASURE your audience. If your mobile visitors are a small percentage, it ain't worth it. Let them pinch and zoom.
this is some lame wackness, cmon try harder next time.
I meant that every app would have to do this location data stripping. It's unlikely that apps would bother to do this - more out of an oversight than maliciousness. Having Apple do this would avoid the problem of apps forgetting to implement these types of checks.
It is constantly updated to the latest LLVM API. Ok, it is not promptly updated, but it is updated.
Bitten By Significant Whitespace
The amount also varies by the version of iOS installed, and if delta updates have been applied (they take up a lot more room, though I'm not sure why).
I'm not sure I see how you can connect to an irc server directly from the browser without some sort of proxy. You can't do TCP from js.