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People don't understand just how expensive computing used to be.

Here are some old issues of infoworld from the '80s.

(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aj4EAAAAMBAJ&printsec...)

Dot matrix printer, 63 lines per minute, 80 columns == $740 (cable an extra $35). ($750 adjusted to today is $2,000)

"Tape Solves Winchester Backup Crunch" - talks about the trouble of backup up 10 million bytes; about the drop from $20,000 to $3,000 making winchester technology available to the 'average advanced individual businessman". (1980 $3,000 = $8,300 in 2013).

(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0DAEAAAAMBAJ&printsec...)
Or maybe Hanlon's razor applies instead: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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This looks like a really nice abstraction of the API. Will have to have a play with it over the weekend and see what ideas I come up with....

You can play with their chat demo here:
http://cdn.peerjs.com/demo/chat.html

(Google Chrome 26.0.1403.0 or above is required)
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Very. I'm an inhouse recruiter myself however I used to work on the dark side as an agency recruiter. Contract work (particularly for rubyists) is still surpassing perm work.
I think when he says "wasting their time" he means that the time wasn't spent becoming a better engineer. If the end goal was to get a job then, no, they didn't waste their time. If the goal was to be the best engineer possible then perhaps they did.
Both Broder and Musk agree that the car showed 32 miles of range, and that the car had made it 51 miles. But he would have known, before he left Norwich, that the distance to Milford was 61 miles. How Broder reasonably expect he would get there?

Broder claims: "Tesla’s experts said that pumping in a little energy would help restore the power lost overnight as a result of the cold weather, and after an hour they cleared me to resume the trip to Milford."

In other words, it sounds like he thought that the 65 miles of range he lost overnight would be restored by charging it a little bit more at Norwich. He says he just couldn't make it to the next charging station by the time he realized this clearly wasn't going to work.
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Eagerly awaiting your responses to the other replies to your original post.
Any reason not to offer support for the video side of things? A lot of the issues in terms of client IDs and whatnot are the same. It would be nice to have a single library that can establish a connection and then send either video ir data or both...
I'm in a similar boat as you :) I'm from Slovenia and I've been searching for a full-time job from here. It really isn't a problem since most companies are doing phone/skype interviews these days. I'm actually coming to London today to do a couple of face-to-face interviews and I already have one offer. So really, the fact that you are in Italy shouldn't be a problem.

Look here for jobs: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ https://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=... http://workinstartups.com/job-board http://www.3-beards.com/jobs http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/ http://jobstractor.com/ linkedin ...

Also check out the monthly hiring thread here on HN (and you can use my bookmarklet to make it a bit easier :P https://github.com/janhancic/hnHiringFilter)

I can also hook you up with a good recruiter if you want (my email is in the profile).
There's a business opportunity there though - food and entertainment and lodging for the few hours to charge a car.
Portable-VirtualBox needs a new main developer
Paint.Net has many fewer features then Gimp, but the features it does have are fast, clean and simple to use (for reasonably small files). It's my go to tool on Windows for basic editing tasks.
"In what we’re putting down to a bout of Valentine’s Day confusion — or a desire to keep the launch quiet — Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison tells us that emails about the UK beta were sent out to some users “in error”. So, despite some employees confirming the UK launch, Collison claims it isn’t happening. We’re continuing to look into this."

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/14/stripe-uk-beta/
The 'can-do' attitude that the country is famous for does seem to be evaporating. Sure, it's still present on an individual level (witness the point of this site), but it seems that the idea of nation-building projects is gone, perhaps even considered evil by some in the current political climate. When faced with war in the 40s, the nation banded together and did amazing things never before seen. While today, when faced with impending financial doom, everyone's content to merely bitch about the politicians bickering. Roll up your sleeves and put some sweat equity into building the nation? That's a long gone notion in terms of the national psyche, it seems.

I dunno, I don't have particularly clear examples, but as an outsider, Americans used to have a reputation as having a real can-do attitude, but recently it seems to have... attenuated? More content to fiddle while Rome burns?
Damnit. Nice, I was working on something similar. ;)
Django can be easily adapted to write static pages using the template api and writing to a file. Works well for me.
Bit of an extreme solution to "don't know what to get your gf for Valentines Day"
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PG, do you ever sleep ; )
This might be the case "out of the box", but it's very simple to go multithreaded on the Cedar stack and avoid this issue (provided that your app is threadsafe, of course).

You can do this pretty easily with a Procfile and thin: bundle exec thin -p $PORT -e $RACK_ENV --threaded start

And then config.threadsafe! in the app

Regarding Rails app threadsafety, there are some gotchas around class-level configuration and certain gems, but by and large these issues are easily manageable if you watch out for them during app development.
There is nothing sadder than old computer hardware and what you paid for it.

I shudder to think what I paid for my first portable PC (the size of a very large toaster), my first laptop and my first > 100 MB hard drive.

64Kbit of ram, cost $50/chip (bits, not bytes) and it needed an awful lot of them to populate a motherboard, cache chips were even more expensive.

For one project I hacked together a memory expansion that held a full page of data to be sent to a laser printer as a bitmap at 300 dpi, weeks of wire wrapping and a bill for the memory that you could easily buy a very nice car for. (But it did give me the ability to do grayscale printing when everybody else was still stuck with dithering :) ). Operating on an in-warranty $10K or so laser printer to be able to modulate the laser in real time as it lights up the drum is lots of fun.

387s, Weiteks, DSP boards, now FPGAs and GPUs and an endless lists of expensive goodies at the bleeding edge of computing (bleeding edge as far as ordinary mortals were concerned). I still have a bunch of Indys laying in the basement that I paid ~$10K a piece for, they're worth next to nothing now. The funnies bit about those computers is that today - a good 15 years later - I still use their keyboards, through a ps/2 to USB dongle. Those keyboards are both fantastic to type on and practically indestructible.

We bought a PDP-11 off NikHef for scrap in the 80's and used it to design electronics and route PCBs, it had cost a small fortune new.
Most media outlets are thick with this kind of skewed reporting. The only difference in this case is they did it in such a way that catching them at it was straightforward.

Meanwhile, the political stories in the NYT are just as bad; but not so easily refuted.
It's the sort of thing that backfires and is actively off-putting. At least for me.
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Al Qaeda is not a monolithic entity with a single soul. The senior figures certainly have more complex motives, but the junior figures are going to have simple motives similar to the swathes of young US southerners who signed up to defend their country. The GP was talking about 'terrorists' as individual people, not as a theory.
Does OpenDylan have the tool support that Apple offered? I vaguely remember the tools being half of the utility here.
This is pretty much the web app bundled in an app. Works almost the same except has some conveniences to assist with the lack of keyboard & mouse.
So you're saying he's driving it wrong.

Still a valid thing to criticize. Musk calls the Tesla "an electric car without compromises." Finding plugs and stringing extension cords at some random hotel in the woods so as not to get stranded is maybe a little bit of a compromise.
This would probably be less useful than the range, because it follows an exponential function correlated to temperature and battery condition. You could take the log of it, and add a factor for the temperature, and then... you'd have the range indicator they have now.
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>> Can you even do that in the UK? France?

Yes, totally. I live in a city of just shy of a million people in the UK, and I can see the countryside from my desk in the middle of it. It's a 15 minute walk out of town.

A big advantage of population density is that transportation is cheaper and you have less distance to travel to get out of the city - conversely in the US you have to drive through mile upon mile of suburban sprawl.

A further counter-argument is that there are plenty of countries far, far emptier than the US (Kaz, Ukraine, Belarus), which retain high-density minimal-sprawl cities due to having been built either before the advent of the car, or since, but with a view to retaining accessibility for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.

Russia is sprawly, but they don't really do suburbs, they do massive industrial complexes on city outskirts, and have population centralised.

Different strokes for different folks.
> Crerar said the family had not considered her Coke habit dangerous because the drink did not carry any health warnings.

What!? Are people really that dense? 2.2 gallons a day is, for the average person, a ridiculous amount of any beverage, even water. Assuming it's not diet Coke (which has its own set of problems) that's 1760kcal/day, 475g/day of sugar, on top of the 400mg/day of caffeine. It seems like a no-brainer that this would slowly kill you. It would just be a question of what got you first - the caffeine or the type II diabetes.
Is a torrent client for iOS finally possible with that? One that runs in the browser and will piss off apple.
An issue here which fascinates me is -- how closely do we expect any subjective narrative to match the facts?

I'd love to see an experiment where you ask ten people to drive a car for 300 miles and write a story about how their trip went; then compare what they wrote against actual instrumentation data. I would be fascinated to know what parts of their narrative are most likely to be incorrect / misreported.
A single link to a product being designed by Google, when the product in question (a Chromebook) uses the same product (Chrome) as it's primary interface is hardly 'ZOMG! Chrome is running the ads now!!!'.

http://media.tumblr.com/6d048ed2fd812e7352e7b07a8c959e80/tum...
Look at it again and tell me how many "links" to Google services and products do you see?
Reading up on the Milgram experiment [1] could provide some insight into how such a social dynamic can be maintained.

Another thing to keep in mind is that most people (most notably the soldiers) probably don't feel like they are being oppressed, or can even identify that they have a "shared enemy", i.e. the state. Revolutions are hard, and it's easy for us from more democratic countries to think of how they all should act united. As an example of that - imagine 300 years from now there are probably a lot of things that will be seen as obviously wrong with the world we are living in right now. Hindsight (or in the case of NK, a different perspective) is 20/20.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiments
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Being a good book - even the best book - is not the same as containing new and/or undiscovered insights.
A commonly repeated opinion in startupland is that an idea alone isn't worth very much, and it all comes down to execution.

Jeff Atwood has a nice writeup on http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/01/cultivate-teams-not...

Also, for the cost of an EU+US patent you can probably make a very good start on the actual product, beating your ripoffers by time instead of court.

To avoid someone else patenting it, prove that you had the idea before their patent was filed. I've heard of people doing this by writing it down in a letter and mailing it to themselves. The postal stamp works as a date.

Better, however, is to ditch stealth mode altogether, start blogging from the start. This may get you copycats, but probably also customers.
Thank you! How long did it take to get these interviews?
Want to help out? :)
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I think you need to wait to hear the NY Times response to the specific accusations from this blog post.
I don't really understand the difference between WebKit and Chromium. Is Chromium the browser implementation using WebKit?

I reported a bug to Chromium last year which was to do with using screen.availHeight in Windows. The value returned ignored the taskbar which made this setting unreliable. Using it to open new Windows meant the Window would fall behind the Taskbar.

Its still bugged. Since then people have periodically confirmed it. It doesn't surprise me that WebKit has the same problem with edge case's being ignored in the rush to add more functionality.

This does actually make me want to get in and fix some of things. Perhaps if some free time opens up I could make a difference here.
> Frankly, most of the time, size and power win the day. Oracle is still here. Microsoft is still here. Yahoo is still here.

Because in economy the "giants" are well adapted to the current set of rules and the rules change very slowly. Also, the "giants" have more to say when new rules get crafted.

I a "real war", you have no rules. That's why economical wars and other fights for power are not actually "wars". And this is a good thing! You wouldn't want to be part of a "real war". A "real war" doesn't even have the concept of "war crimes", these are facts judged afterwards by the winners (anything "goes", including killing millions in concentration camps and other mostruosities)! Thank god we didn't have any large-scale "real wars" in the last half of century, and pray neither us nor our children ever experience such thing!
it's london... we need excuses to talk to strangers.
A reviewer driving in circles at a charging station _without mentioning it in the article_ and all the other things mentioned here proves that the journalists left out facts in the article.
Anti-piracy group faces lawsuit for copying Pirate Bay site design
This, but Python hosting.
Codecademy down for database manteinance
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What makes a good Hack-a-thon?
Hi HN Community, I'm trying to organize a hack-a-thon for chi-town (that's Chicago :))and wanted to know what makes a good hack-a-thon? And what format would be the best to start with? I am the community leader of the Chicago Java Users Group, but this could be across any language/platform. Also, if you are in the area and know of someone who can sponsor (space/time/or volunteer) it would be great!

Thanks!
I'm sure OP could prefer the extra 10ms, but then everyone else who can deal with random dispatching right now has to pay a 10ms penalty because OP built his stuff on a technology that can deal with only one request at a time on a server, which boggles the mind to begin with.
Gots to love the companion image of the S in the snow. Subtle.
Potentially, but their Safari browsers don't support webRTC yet. There's also nothing you could do with the files once you had them, other than images.

I'd personally like to see them implement proper SVG support before they do too.
You should consider donating your glasses:
http://www.volunteerguide.org/minutes/service-projects/eyegl...
Don't forget http://hackerjobs.co.uk ;-)
A bit off of the main point, but

> Age? Sex? Location? That’s how predators started their hunt.

And how non-predators start their hunt (the same way that predators in the 1800s started their letters with "Dear Timmy").

It's a completely nonspecific starter question for anyone who is chatting with a stranger, and I wish the author were more careful with this.
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there are some Mac OS 8 and 9 images around; probably you'd have more luck trying to compile it under a VM booting one of those
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Tesla has a showroom and service center in Norway, and I believe there are 2 importers. Official Tesla and an independent importer.

Part of the popularity is price. Cars in Norway are heavily and progressively taxed on CO2 emission, horse powers and weight. This makes big strong cars extremely expensive, but normal cars are also relatively high taxed. EV's are exempted all those taxes, not just the one on CO2 emission.

Some base prices:
Tesla model S 85kWH: 106 250,- USD

Mercedes Benz E 300 4MATIC (252 horsepower): 138 178,- USD

If you want something with similar horsepower:

Mercedes Benz E 500 4M (408 hp) 225 339,- USD

Audi S6 (414 hp): 236 910,- USD

(1USD to 5.6NOK conversion)

I think outfitting an Audi S6 or MB E class from base to acceptable level of accessories would be much more expensive than with the Tesla Model S

Also, electric cars can use the bus line and skip traffic where available
Why we need to talk about female speakers in search
I think school should take up as little time as possible, so that kids are free to do things on their own. Since boarding schools are 100% all the time, I don't like that idea at all.
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Those are Chrome apps. The ad is above the icons.
I think this is an old post, there is no year mentioned: "Jamie wrote this on Feb 14"

None of his points are valid in 2013.
For his first recharge, he charged the car to 90%. During the second Supercharge, despite almost running out of energy on the prior leg, he deliberately stopped charging at 72%. On the third leg, where he claimed the car ran out of energy, he stopped charging at 28%. Despite narrowly making each leg, he charged less and less each time. Why would anyone do that?

Time constraints? Maybe he had a meeting to get to (simulated)? Arguably, people who can afford to drive around in a $100K electric car probably set the meeting starts by their arrival.
I love the Gimp.

I never ever try to say it's comparable to Photoshop.

Really, there's a whole bunch of stuff which is trivially easy in photoshop and not so much in Gimp.
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Those are Chrome apps. The ad is above the icons. I had the same ad on my Chrome 'new tab' screen.

Yeah, but they are GOOGLE Apps for Chrome. Others have Chrome apps too, no?
Depends, some companies responded in matter of hours, some in a couple of days. Some didn't respond at all (or they will eventually). So after that we usually setup a quick phone chat the same or next day. And if all went well we continued from there.

You really should first decide when you'll be moving. If it's in 3 months then I think it's a bit too soon to start searching. But once you do start searching things should start moving rather quickly. Just make sure you'll have the time to answer all those emails and calls :) And try to send a large batch of applications at once so you can have as many interviews at once when you'll come to London (it's not really cost effective to come just for one interview).
let's assume a long-term New York Times veteran lied in the paper, intentionally

If anything, I think that some veteran reporters get full of themselves and become unafraid of slanting things according to their biases as they get older. Look at the trouble Dan Rather got into at the end of his career because he was determined to sink George W. Bush.
Not really. The default mode is to be skeptical today of anyone online, and that there is no need to provide this information in an online conversation.
9 Reasons to Root Your Android Device
To root or not to root? That is the question. Rooting your Android device definitely pushes you up a level or two in your geekdom. It requires a certain level of commitment, at least a little savvy, and even a modicum of risk. So, why would you want to bother?

We've got nine good reasons for ya.
Awesome New Tab Page is a sweet one, with a programmable widget system anyone can add to. (I guess Google will do something similar and official at some point.)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-new-tab-pa...
You are certainly right that it becomes an M/G/1 model and thus that M/M/1 and M/D/1 will give reasonable approximations. The reason that it's an M/?/1 model is partly what you're saying, but also partly because the random assignment of the incoming requests acts as a random filter on a Poisson process. Poisson processes are just defined by not having history, and the random filter is not history-dependent either, so the output from the filter -- the input to any node -- is still a Poisson process.

What's interesting to me here is: Suppose rather than doing this with a random variable, you do it with a summing filter, a simple counter:

on request r:
node[n].handle(r)
n = (n + 1) % node.length

That's a really simple solution but it should tend to average out the Poisson input, which gives you something closer to a D/G/1 problem.
Apologies, I didn't realise that a more detailed version had been posted at an earlier date.

Thank you for sharing the in depth link.
> I think it's quite obvious that it's better to watch a recorded lecture than to see the teacher perform the same lecture years after year.

Ah, actually, it's not.

For instance, a number of studies unequivocally showed that an infant learns nothing in front of an televised education program. A young child cannot learn a language from a visual recording, but somehow can if the child sees the same thing live. Somehow the screen seems to screen of the magic.

As we get older and learn to focus our attention ourselves, this becomes less important. But direct human contact, even through a mere lecture, still counts. So my guess is that while mechanised teaching (not just videos —we' have computers for Omega's sake!) has certainly great potential, merely replacing the teacher by a computer, even part time, is probably not optimal.
Well, it's not an actual product, it's a method to do something faster. I want to develop a demo and publish it on my blog, but want the idea to remain free.
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My build process
Linux can now run on UEFI Windows 8 PCs
Yeah, like Amazon, Mint, Tumblr or Wikipedia!
US researchers have give lab rats "sixth sense" using an implant in their brains
Basically a bullshitproof search engine - feedback?
This is Whichairline, probably the first air travel search engine with the underlying principle - «Down with sh%&#y flight offers!». I'd be brilliant to get some feedback so that we know our enthusiasm for our website isn't exaggerated. There's a couple of nice ideas there e.g. graphic representation of search results and Quality Line and more features in the pipeline. Feedback would really help us choose which route to go down.
Cheers
Slawomir Budziak
WhichAirline
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