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With the normal family deductions take home would be $20K in New Jersey. Chinese nanny is $1600/m. Mortgage on $600K house is $3000/m. No insurance fees for a derm. They are in high demand and insurance is covered by the practice. There is also property tax, which is very high in NJ. Probably like $20K a year somewhere nice like Princeton. I was too generous with the savings rate but it's still over $10K a month, not $4k. Plus, there's still your husband's salary.

Anyway, that wasn't really my point. My point was that the $400K band is also a lot of upper middle class jobs like medicine, where people shop at Costco and drive Toyotas.
I'd recommend adding an email to your profile so we can contact you.
Roku's have a Plex app ('channel' in Roku marketing speak) which is a pretty easy way to getting any container streamed to the box.

I still prefer my Boxee box, which can probably best be described as VLC the hardware device.
>However, if you buy a new tv, they have most of these built in apps to stream movies already.

Not if you buy a cheaper TV.

None of the top 5 best-selling TVs at Amazon have internet streaming built in: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172659/ref=...
I'm pretty minimalist when it comes to add-on usage, but until Chrome's font rendering stops being dogshit compared to other browsers on Windows -- particularly with East Asian fonts -- I'm sticking with Firefox.
even though I did try chromium I never changed from Firefox from the time I got my first computer! and never will. I <3 stability of Firefox
If it is the same setup as the Roku 2 line, yes you do need to run a Plex server.
You should also post to Open Radar, which is for that exact purpose.

http://www.openradar.me/
I need my trees. But yes, side over top is such a vast improvement.

Hell, I remember when tabbed browsing was all new and stuff. Thanks, Opera (though I never actually used you).
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We need a Grails plugin that automatically creates a sitemap at defined intervals, and leaves it in a publicly accessible place for Google (and other search engines) to access. The only plugins that we found are compatible with Grails versions 1.3.x, not any of the 2.x.x releases.
I don't follow your second point. In what situation would one be offered this position when they do not already own the expensive car, and after accepting it, how would they be coerced into buying such a car in order to keep their job?
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Exactly. Ever since I got one of those lil' white Macbooks in 2006 I've been so happy to be able to simply search for files with Spotlight and find them instantly, something Windows had never given me the ability to do.
If you read the article it was a "temporary" but probably at least long-term install. There was an issue with calling it permanent. But read the article, it talks about it. :)
So in short both methods = lower disease.

Let's review the approaches:

- EU relies on natures own mechanism along with responsible farming and vaccination
- US relies on energy intensive washing, coating with a chemical spray and constant refrigeration

Hmm...
Whoa, you weren't kidding:
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/city-o...
Agreed, thats a very high CPM rate.
He even states that of the 2M page views only $4000 is generated from ads.
As am I. In my sample app its faster to write the feature and the tests and run those then to spin everything up and see it working. I have had the same experience in large Java applications as well.
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In most situations your home is a liability, not an asset.
Now, this is not to disparage the scene in any way... I mean, what they did and do is awesome, and Scream Tracker 3 (and later Impulse Tracker) was a large part of my teenage years.

But ultimately, graphics routines are a completely different beast than finding weaknesses in a security system that you don't own. Many programmers on here, given a bit of guidance and some gfx/sound guys, could put together a respectable demo. I don't think the same about something like Stuxnet.
Or perl regexps for that matter.
Cool to see my jQuery tag widget[1] in use here :)

[1] http://aehlke.github.com/tag-it/
This could be what he's referring to https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/01/28/privacy-day-2013/

It could also just be overall common sense: a nonprofit vs a company built on data. Who would you expect to care more about keeping your data yours?
"until probably 100 or 144" - ugh. That's 10 and 12. I hope he 's wrong about that and schools aren't that bad where he lives. In Germany we've had to memorize squares for numbers 1 to 20 and 25, which gives you the roots of 1, 4, ..., 100, 121, ..., 400, 625. For every other number beetween these, you can estimate the root with two decimal places pretty well.
Actually, Chrome has multi-session support built in. Try clicking on the head icon in the top right corner (on OS X) and click "New User". You'll get a new context with it's own cookies, cache, window etc. that you can switch to anytime.
Currently, I develop in Clozure and SBCL alongside, and it's true that SBCL compilation speed (and memory consumption) can be prohibitive at times, but in return it may give up to 3-4 times execution speed increase. So it's a real trade-off worth considering. We now use CCL for interactive development and SBCL on the server.
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Chrome comes bundled with Flash and a proprietary PDF renderer; proprietary plugins, especially Flash, have historically been a rich source of privacy and security problems.

The fully open-source build of Chrome (called Chromium) avoids that problem but is more difficult to install on some platforms.
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I could have sworn just a few months ago I read something on HN that the best way to get Apple to acutally fix a bug was to:

1. Submit to radar
2. Submit to open radar
3. Try to convince a developer evangelist on the inside your bug is worth attention
4. Go pimp your bug on social media

I thought it was all unnecessary legwork to get the attention of a company that should be more proactive, but the comments seemed to agree that it was the way to do things. Now that someone actually is doing just that the tide of opinion seems to have turned.
You can always try adding some type of affiliate plan to your page that has a product relative to your content.

When I was doing ad based revenue on my apps one thing we did was play around with different advertising providers. Play around with the audience who could view the ads. Placement, etc. Take a day or two and play with the ads to see which gives you the best result. Whichever placement, rotation, etc. gives you the better result is obviously the better long term choice revenue wise.

I'd like to know which site this is, seeing it always helps. I don't understand why most people ask questions but don't provide their website.
I would have described my work the same way, even if that's taking a bit of poetic license. I started developing in Aurora about six months ago to try out some of the new dev tools. The question of why is a surprisingly regular conversation with anyone who notices, starting anywhere from "Why don't you use Chrome" to "What the hell are you using this for?"
I totally agree with this sentiment. My parents would always attempt to answer any question, however absurd: What's this made of? wood. What's wood made of? Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen. What's Carbon made of? Protons and Neutrons. What's a Proton made of? It would stop at this point because they weren't Physicists and didn't know about Quarks and Gluons.

Following many of these experiences, I though it always appropriate to ask probing questions, and continue to ask them until I understood a problem or situation fully. This attitude continues to this day, though curbed in some social situations. I'm not sure whether this persistent character trait is correlated with my parents behaviour or caused by it.

I distinctly remember feeling quite angry during my first "adult" interactions with many of my friend's parents. Most had equal or greater education than my parents, yet when queried about aspect of their field that I knew they had deep knowledge of (eg. Ships engines from a Marine Engineer, Offshore tax havens from a Tax Accountant), they'd be very hesitant and often express "why do you ask so many damn questions?"

In hindsight, perhaps this result was in part due to my lack of social awareness and emotional intelligence, but I swear it's imbued their offspring with fundamentally different characteristics. My friend's that had parents such as these have tended to follow more qualitative pursuits (Musicians, writers, journalists) while those with parents similar to mine ended up in strongly quantitative fields (Engineering, Maths, Science).

Obviously my experience is a single sample from the distribution, yet I wonder if others have observed a correlation between their own or others parent's attitudes towards answering their children's thorny questions and life / career attitudes? Perhaps it simply comes down to genetics?
Oh, didn't realize you were asking about the UI specifically. I believe you would just set an environment variable of where you wanted the sound to go.

The part I liked was that you would start ESD and everything just worked.
Does anyone have a theory as to what may be causing this bug?
I have built numerous apps for the Roku box. The introduction of the Roku 3 does not bring any SDK updates, the biggest update for developers would be hardware improvements. SDK updates usually come when Roku do firmware upgrades, something they usually do mid-product cycles as well.
On my existing Roku 2 I've found apps misbehave unless I reboot the device. Even the FAQ for Vudu mentions rebooting due to memory issues. I found similar problems with a channel I tried the other weekend. Unfortunately the problem is that the channels misbehave in bizarre ways (eg Vudu will say there are network problems, the other channel I tried had random video corruption). Hopefully Roku can fix this and at least make channels crash when running out of memory.
Loved every word of that, great guy!

"The best things I did in my young years leading up to the early Apple computers were done because I had little money and had to think deeply to achieve the impossible."

On a side note, I think this is why more (and arguably better) hackers come out of Eastern Europe/Asia.
Putting the GNU tools on is pretty easy with Homebrew or MacPorts, though. Getting those is first thing I do when I set up a new Mac: grab Xcode, install the command line tools, get Homebrew, brew install coreutils, findutils, and gnu-sed.
Ask HN: Next generation of responsive templates, interaction with webcams?
Nowadays, we can see big changes in responsive templates and new requests to completing that, more smart and fast.

Well, now, we have good support of webcam API(s) in browser and JavaScript, so I think the next generation of responsive templates will have interaction with webcams. For example detecting the brightness of the environment and then change the background and text colors to something better to improve the readability of the page.

What you think?
I like Roku - They have been affordable from the beginning and allowed non-gamers like me to enjoy Netflix while the company blocks Linux.

The real ultimate feature that's missing here though - the one that no one else has and would make go out and buy 3-4 of these things is the ability to sync audio and video playback across multiple devices throughout my house.
Yeah it's not a developer feature but I'd love this too. It's just a good way of managing lots of tabs and developers do have lots of tabs open.

Tree tabs are the more conventional way of understanding lots of items (and tabs are hierarchical -- parent tabs are where you opened the current tab from).
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i don't understand what type of work gets done at home when one works for a retail company like best buy.

when i think of best buy, i think of people in blue shirts trying to sell me the latest widget. if i think harder, i can imagine people who have to get stuff on the store shelves and maybe managers who have to create reports or something.

what type of jobs are actually "work from home" jobs at retail stores?
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I have been growing up with hens next to home and I can confirm they are far from being stupid at all. On the contrary, they are sharp animals who recognize people (if a stranger walks in they would run way from them, but if a familiar face shows up they stay calm) and have distinct personalities. And when you catch them, they become extremely calm and can be touched just like a cat or a dog, and end up liking it in the end.

All the above you said about better eggs and feeding them kitchen scraps is entirely true. Basically they "recycle" almost everything. They eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, bread and all. No waste.

Plus, having hens is like having dinosaurs (direct descendants, apparently: https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_fr...).
I can't find any documentation stating if it plays from network shares? Samba? NFS? Currently, I have an external USB drive connected to my PlayOn! media player, but I'd like to move that to a computer so I don't have to swap the drive back and forth to copy new shows to the drive.

And the headphone jack on the remote is brilliant! I might buy one just for that feature alone.
I just want to point out one of the links on that page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

Absolutely hilarious and amazingly magical method of algorithmically computing square roots. It right shifts a floating point number to essentially divide the exponent component by 2. Then it uses a weird magic number trick to get the correct result. Awesome random programming trivia.
From a technical standpoint, the idea of basing a design on interactions with webcams is quite fascinating. You could even try and do facial recognition through that and see how far away somebody is from the monitor to adjust text-size for instance.

But it's hard to see that idea taking off for general usage.

The second somebody visits your website and sees "This website is requesting permission to access your webcam" they're going to be a bit freaked out about that and might be hesitant to interact with that site further.
“We understand technology and we understand education” stands out as just one of many hilarious claims in this article.

What News Corp. understands is the perversity of the American public school system. They understand how to market to a system that has traditional, too-close ties to a textbook publishing sector which uses public schools as a captive market.

And this was particularly Orwellian: 'If a child’s attention wanders, a stern “eyes on teacher” prompt pops up.' Because that's the way to make kids learn. Keep those eyes down, children.
Is it possible to get a list of webhosts, like all the domains and subdomains, stripped from the rest of the url?
simple

1. hide identity: they don't want people to find out who they are

2. avoid competition: they don't want others to copy their business
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Are you really that retarded? Payroll, HR, finance, the website, tech support for in-store systems, planning for growth, product selection, manufacture liaison, operations planning for distribution, legal...

Or are you under the impression that Best Buy stores appear out of nowhere, with stock selected and shipped from nowhere with no planning, with staff recruited and paid by nobody, no legal support, no tech support, and with some random blue-shirts making the website on their lunch hour?
Nice, I didn't realise the relationship between rotations and the matrix square root: multiplying a vector by the sqrt of the pi/2 rotation matrix rotates it by pi/4!
I got addicted to left-pane treeview bookmarks waaay back in my Opera days, imported into FF, still waiting on Chrome (sheesh). But at this point I doubt it would make a difference since the performance advantage has been pretty much erased. FF is fine -- what is Chrome's real advantage these days? Honest question...

And there's still not even a decent extension that does it, which seems really odd to me. Anyone know of one (left pane bookmarks that is)?
The Plex app for Roku may be what you're looking for, although you have to run Plex Media Server somewhere on your network.

http://plexapp.com/roku/
It's nice to have a blog post and video demonstrating the bug clearly. If I was confronted to this problem trying to save a file, I'd love to find it on Google.

I don't really care whether or not they call it embarrassing or use their own product as an example.
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Absolutely correct.
I think the big problem with webcams would be the browser permissions for using webcams and also the message that mentioned by you before.
In theory, Chrome sends your entire browsing history over to Google, since its unified omnibar doesn't distinguish between searching and typing in location. Firefox (and any browser that separates the location and search bar) doesn't have this problem.

To be frank I'm not sure how Google uses this information, but it does make me laugh when the whole Ubuntu Dash searches Amazon thing blew up. It's the same thing, really, yet nobody talks about Chrome at all.
Steve Wozniak or Mister Rogers? Wtf?
I find that making sure the foundation of an application is solid (I'm an API first kind of person) let's you get away with a lot less testing in the upper layers. This lets you move faster and experiment far more quickly than if you were built on quicksand.
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Sony's Google TV remotes are very well designed:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/8/2692223/sonys-next-generati...
Absolutely. I don't use much more than iTerm2, a web browser, emacs + various developer stuff, and Homebrew.

The base OS is rock f-ing solid. All my unix stuff works flawlessly. Time spent f'ing around with drivers and random upgrade issues? Zero.

It even syncs with my phone (iPhone), which happens to work great!

Finder? Who gives a crap? That's what the terminal is for!
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This is huge if only because a LED bulb company finally put its warranty where its mouth is.

Every other bulb, ie. the expensive Phillips bulb, only gives a 3-4 year warranty

I'd definitely give this a try @ $10

It's also dimmer compatible which is a big plus for me with X10 control, CFL cannot dim.

If this bulb does not operate for 10 years (based on 6 hours per day / 7 days per week of normal consumer use) from date of purchase when used as directed, return the bulb [...] Cree will send you a replacement or at Cree’s option refund the original purchase price.

ps. you can use ebates.com to get a $5 off $50 Home Depot coupon and 3% cashback which will reduce the cost on these
Did Opera really bring us tabs first?

I remember using NetCaptor (an IE shell browser) long before Opera had tabs.

Maybe Opera popularized it first?
I'm not. I'm here because I find the scene fascinating and thoroughly enjoy the breadth of intelligent discussion on topics ranging from design to programming to personal productivity to social effects on tech to etc.

I think it's incredibly unwise to play the elitism card and try to drive people like myself away from HN. You risk suffocating the community and producing an echo chamber of certain discussion points, eventually reducing to stale repetition. It runs absolutely counter to the mandate of 'anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiousity'.

I've seen experts in niche topics wade in and provide fantastic insight and wisdom on information I'd never have thought to find here as it has nothing to do with startups and hacking. I've tried to contribute myself (e.g.: there was a discussion on spider's silk stopping a train and someone asked about the structure of the train, the designing of which is my day job) and hope that through doing so I can encourage others to return the favour.

The OP has experiences and insights directly related to the central pillar of HN. His sharing them through blog posts or HN comments can be to the benefit of the community. Rejecting them to fulfill some stupid sense of elitism for the 'true entrepreneurs' is daft.
$10 seems like actually a very good price for LED bulbs, especially if they work as advertised. Add in a 10yr warranty and it seems like a no brainer. Cree isn't a little startup or anything either, it's an established LED manufacturer.
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Maybe. I think it's a difficult point to argue either way. It's a power vs discipline thing; with great power comes great responsibility. Some people prefer to be prevented from doing stupid things, and some people prefer the power.

I normally find that whenever you are limited to a certain config format etc, you find a use case that makes you wish the limitation wasn't there, so you jump through stupid hoops to get the same functionality.

Rails has a thing called fixtures, which is basically some static yaml files for loading test data into your database. It didn't take long at all for tools like factory girl to come out, which replace the yaml for ruby.

Maybe that's why a lot of people who are drawn to ruby are also drawn to lisp.
There is a much more aggressive response that a service provider can give to a NSL:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

Some background:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/08/the-warrant-can...

We've been updating this since late 2005.
What if the questions being asked are more along the lines of, please give us the full account archive of everyone who's ever emailed an address in a .ir domain? Or, here is a semantic filter that you must apply to all mail that transits your system, hand over everything related to any account sending or receiving mail that it evaluates as a match.

Given the lack of transparency, and the fundamentally undemocratic nature of the National Security Letters infrastructure. It would be a good idea if we had a list of the sorts of things.

Personally, I'm comfortable with a few civil liberties being trampled in pursuit of loose nukes and engineered plagues; but I'm much less sympathetic to a policeman who wants updated intel on what a bunch of hippies are planning to write on their signs at the next Occupy protest.
Since the 3 is coming out, here are some ideas for the 4:

* Voice recognition from a mic on the box and/or in the remote with commands that are natural to speak in each language it supports

* Cheap subscribe per channel model for each channel currently provided via Cable, etc. with month-by-month contracts (for HBO, etc. so you can quit when the season is over)

* More quality control over the channels. Don't shut out the channels that can't hack it, but instead help them not fuck it up so much. Watch their content regularly

* Parental control via something other than having to type in a pin (maybe a "safe word" if doing voice recognition)

* Streaming games, with some free

* More streaming channels that don't require as much interaction but with cloud-powered DVR rewind, etc. and commercial skipping, maybe even as a paid feature per channel

* Optionally completely wireless except for power (the box is so small that it flops around with the HDMI cable)

* Make Pandora stream music videos :)
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