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$100,000 is rich. Doesn't matter where you are.

Anyone who doesn't think $100k/yr is rich has never been poor… or even middle income. Sure, $100k/yr will only get you a small studio in Manhattan, but you're still rich. You live a life that someone who's making $30k can only imagine, you just decided to live in a relatively small place square footage wise. The closest most middle income people will ever get to the experience of being able to just walk down to the Guggenheim, or go out drinking fancy cocktails is watching someone else do it on TV. If they are lucky, they'll maybe get to experience that once in their life.

It's perplexing to me that people who are rich don't think they are just because they live in a small apartment. How you can be obtuse with respect to how he majority of people live? I see it all the time in New York and San Francisco. Single people making $100k pretending like they are somehow "middle class" because they live in a small apartment.
Hey guys,

Sorry about the typos in the site copy (we're fixing them now). (this is why we ask for feedback before launching) :). To answer questions:

1. Transcoding. We transcode the videos into h.264 and generate thumbnails. At the PRO level you can have as many outputs as you would like at as many resolutions / frame rates as you want.

2. We will host the videos on AWS for you for free as long as you maintain an account.

3. 5 mins

4. Always think of TokBox as a live streaming service (i.e. video chat) not so much a recording service. I know they allow you to record chats to a server, but it's not their focus and integration is a bit more involved as a result.

5. No. Unfortunately, WebRTC isn;t quite ready for primetime when it comes to recording. As soon as it is- we'll go 100% HTML.

6. The homepage has a recorder built in but the best way to play around is sign up for a free account and put a recorder in you site (no CC necessary to record up to 20 videos)

Thanks for the interest!
What a fascinating and scary concept, especially for all the kids who involve themselves in dos/ddos attacks for whatever the internet outrage is being pointed at.
That doesn't mean that availability of spectrum isn't a challenge, it just means it's a challenge that can be overcome by throwing money at the problem. You're taking about a complex multi-factor optimization problem. The fact that you can address a challenge, vis-a-vis a competitor, along one axis of the design space by moving along a different axis of the design space does not mean that there is no challenge.

If one competitor has more spectrum than another, it can support similar numbers of users at similar densities at lower capital costs. Alternatively, it can offer users higher speeds and higher capacity for similar capital investment.

See: http://gigaom.com/2012/05/14/atts-chicago-problem-why-lte-sl...

In other words, if AT&T and Verizon both have $1 billion to build cell sites/backhaul in Chicago, and Verizon has 20 MHz of spectrum and AT&T only has 10 MHz, then Verizon can support more users at higher speed and its service will be perceived as much better. Alternatively, it can spend less than $1 billion on capital costs and offer the same service level as AT&T at a lower price while maintaining similar profits.

Also, making cell sites smaller is not a magic bullet. It's just one axis along the design space. Inter-cell interference is not a trivial problem, and having more spectrum can allow you to go to a point in the network design space where you have to worry less about that problem.
Ask HN: How does Dropbox attract and steal talent from everywhere?
I've been noticing over the past year that Dropbox has this uncanny ability to get the best of the best to come work from them, whether from other companies (Facebook, Google, etc.), schools (friends from Stanford and MIT have picked Dropbox over other big names), or through acquisitions. How do they do this? It doesn't seem like you'd have the same kind of freedom as a developer as you might at a company like Google.
Of course, it's a moot point at this point in history.

Lots of productive professionals are probably willing to pay $8-10/hour to have their homes cleaned, meals cooked, and errands run. I certainly am.

The robots don't do that stuff yet. Yet there are millions of people who claim they can't find work. Something doesn't add up.
How do they do that scrolling over the bus image? That's pretty cool.
OK. Yes. Funny is orthogonal to "should X be permitted" or "should X be left alone".

My intent with that sentence was "funny has importance to people". I.e., crass jokes aren't simply empty words or accidents or mistakes, but that they were somewhat important to these who told the jokes and listened to them. Being able to tell a crude joke to a friend without worrying is a kind of freedom that (some?) people value and prohibiting that has a non-zero cost to society.
ADHD makes one very unfit for work, or not unfit. But it makes it harder.
A few minor issues: a b is a bit, a B is a byte.

A satoshi (not satochi) is 0.00000001 BTC, not 0.000000001 BTC.

Not sure where the $6,000/BTC comes from for $80b in annual transactions per 10m BTC, but consider velocity of money. A BTC can be spent multiple times in one year. Also consider that monetary base (raw currency) is not the same as a credit account, but you can spend either.

So in practice, you might only need 0.1 BTC per 1 BTC in annual transactions.
OAuth2 Ruby Client, For Box.com's V2 API
We've decided to open-source the client we built internally at Attachments.me, for Box's 2.0 API. I hope that others can find it useful :)
Not to mention asthma. I know of a few people who are disabled because they have asthma, and they are obese.
Text file, today at the top, copy that part at the end of the day and email it.
Blizzard new game
"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”

Self reliance, while not always possible, is always better as it empowers the individual and the state. I have never met a disabled person who enjoyed being helped.
It would be helpful to see a browser support list, with mobile browsers listed too.
No part of what you said is accurate.

Financial transactions may be conducted in any currency. If they must be reported on your income tax return, they must be reported in both the currency used and USD (if different). You can own a bank account in a foreign currency; there is simply more paperwork involved for the customer and the bank.
Ask HN: Will the value of dot com domains rise or fall?
I am negotiating to acquire some premium domains and would like some perspectives. When I see articles like this one (
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/seattle-area-startup-raised-100m-series-financing/) it makes me think dot coms will become less valuable. The company in the article is just one of the few major players trying to become a registrar for custom domain names.

But then other people with lots of experience in the space ('domainers') seem to be in agreement that this will only make the value of dot coms rise.

What do you think?
HTML DRM consists of two parts. The first part is EME (extended media extension) that defines the API how a browser interacts with the CDM (the actual implementation of the DRM)

The EME is what is being standardized. The CDM is what is up to the platform provider (or any plug-in provider) to implement, such as Google, Sony, Microsoft etc.

There are a couple problems with this.

1) The actual DRM functionality will not help keep people from having to deploy on flash/silverlight because the technology is ladden with proprietary licenses and NDAs. Ordinary web developers will not be able to make use of "HTML DRM"

2) Since the CDM requires to do some user specific encryption/restriction, the CDM will be able to uniquely identify each web user regardless of privacy settings, cookie blockers etc. You will not have control over what the CDM does, it will sacrifice your privacy on the web, absolutely. This is a supercookie on steroids.

3) Due to the CDM having to be provided by third parties as a proprietary blob, this will make it harder to support the DRM on free/libre/speech/beer implementations such as Firefox, Linux etc.

4) It will decrease compatibility of video on the web by fracturing already fractured video support (the codec wars) into the even more fractured DRM format wars.

5) Because the CDM is a proprietary blob, there is no scrutiny, code review and control over what it does. Fiascos such as Sonys rootkits and a host of security exploits in shoddily written proprietary DRM blobs are inevitable.

6) Companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple will use the DRM to gain leverage over their competitors by intentionally denying them compatibility to consume videos of services they created.

7) Companies like Netflix, Amazon etc. will use the DRM to gain leverage over their competitors by denying them the ability to produce videos compatible with their DRM implementation.

8) And finally DRM will be used by everybody implementing it to rise the barrier of entry for companies in the entire market, as well as to exclude innovation.
There is something to be said for the novelty of giving out socks. I might even say that many people don't notice tshirts due to "banner blindness," they tune out the myriad logos on shirts and don't form a lasting impression.

I would definitely remember the company giving out wacky socks, especially if they were wearable (in terms of material quality).
Would love to see some pictures of the 'data centre'
> Also, half of your rebuttals are inaccurate and half are not comparable in the slightest.

Sounds comparable to me.

> A lot of the Chinese i've spoken to do not even know this happened, and the other half refuse to see it as a problem.

There's a fair bit of obliviousness in the US as well.

> There is no suppression of readily available information (blocked search queries, etc).

Wikileaks? Alteration of Google Earth & Maps.

(Powerful National Government) * (Military Industrial Complex) = (Some Unsavory Stuff Goes On)

It's pretty universal.
To be honest, in the last few days, most of HN has already been /h/wtf
Previous technology based labor disruptions have been countered largely by economic expansions. At least until recently economic expansion required labor. If a new technology put people out of work, there was another growing area to get work in.

But we have kind of hit a tipping point though. Both in technology getting more efficient at automating even difficult work. As well as economic growth at least domestically is no longer as strong as it has been in the past.
"all you get for your efforts are customers which do not tolerate the occasional freak event" <- spot on.

Said another way: companies' customers are a reflection how the company behaves. If you want customers who are a pain to deal with, who threaten to switch at any unmet whim, and who will step all over you as a vendor, then by all means go ahead and step all over your competition to get those customers. A company that acts like a jerk is going to have customers who are jerks and who wants to deal with that.

But if you want customers that are fans and proponents and evangelists for your company - then act in those positive ways yourself.
She was fired for being totally clueless about the medium in which she claimed expertise. Your job is to make negative things go away quietly and to amplify the positive, not the opposite.
Or they are in an area with more disabled people.
It was nice of them to post a list of customers so I know which web services to avoid. Now I have another reason to recommend against Posthaven.
I love this point of view. If every business person thought like this, and could visualize far enough down the road to see the effects their actions have, capitalism wouldn't have a bad reputation. :-)
5 Reasons NYC is the New Technology Capital of the World
Ability to just see all programming and science posts and not, say, finance/VC or political/latest geek soap opera ones.
I use a dedicated e-mail for every account I create anywhere (servicename-foo@domain.com).

I don't recall the reasons for all of the accounts, but I often create quick one-offs e.g. when to share photos from a mobile/tablet without linking it to my main account. Most of the accounts haven't been in use for years.
> Dart's VM isn't Chrome-only

I meant that dart is chrome-only in practice. I don't know of any other browser vendor that bundles the dart vm, including the few browsers based on chromium like rockmelt or 360.

> However, I think that even if initial reaction might have been better with such a response, Google clearly did the right thing by being up front about their vision.

I can appreciate Google's directness regarding Dart's intention. However, from a web developer's perspective, Dart's multiple backends is very unappealing. I hesitate to adopt even a language like clojurescript or coffeescript because of debugging barriers and potential bugs in the language's crevices (though these problems are diminishing with things like source map support).
> Here is a guy who offers to do it if he get's paid a minimum amount.

I'm sure Andrew would work on this even if the kickstarter had failed - he built South without one after all :)

But having a funded project helps in many ways. It frees him from the distraction of contract work, proves that a lot of people really care about the issue, and finally is a thank-you-donation for the work on Django in the past and the future.
We totally exist in real life. My e-mail address as a kid was programmingprincess. ^_^ I no longer wear so much pink, but I still happily occupy both sides of the "girlie girl"/"techie girl" divide - and in fact, I've found that most women in tech I know don't fall under the socially awkward/fugly/geeky stereotype... if I sat a bunch of women from my office down in a room and you had to pick out the developers from say, the designers, QA, PMs, HR folk, etc - I'm not sure if you could. I think this dichotomy is enforced more by the media than it is by real life.
doesn't record audio?
Security hole allows Apple passwords to be reset with only email, date of birth
No way to read what is almost certainly just pure text or text and images without enabling scripting on an random, unknown website...
I imagine it would looks something like this: http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/004209/original/...
Let's assume you're right that we should have a basic income system, where every citizen receives a fixed amount. The money for that can partly come from cutting existing welfare systems, but we'll likely also need new revenue for it.

Coincidentally, the "fee-and-dividend" plan proposed by James Hansen calls for taxing carbon emissions by the ton, and distributing all the money to citizens, equal amount per capita.

That sounds a lot like basic income. Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone here.
So we need to encourage more Germans to jaywalk?
Or maybe they should've trusted him more given he has a good track record. Quite frankly, I don't think it's an isolated incident given what I've heard from other stellar designers who have left Facebook.
7 points why I hate startups
It appears that the account in question hasn't actually edited any articles, only talk pages and his own user page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Arturo_at_BP&...
Oh no. Poor injured people might be getting money. Stop them!
FWIW, I've worked on projects where we "blacklist" embedded fonts on certain combinations of OS+Browser -- particularly chrome on older versions of windows.

Based on the user string, we would serve up a version of the HTML that didn't request the embedded font, and then those users would see Arial instead of, for example, Proxima Nova.

Super-annoying to have to deal with. But it works.
We've decided to open-source the client we built internally at Attachments.me for Box's version 2 API. I hope that others find it useful :)
>Can you imagine living on $20K, $30K, $40K, a year?

Yes, because I have done it every year for the past decade. Having lived in several large metropolitan areas, I don't consider myself poor or even struggling.
Building an Internal Social Network Your Company Loves
So you have to submit them daily? Would you mind posting it here or sending it to me at davidsmit at google's email service?
Some examples of Java-based non-Android open source projects that are very widely used:

http://www.jboss.org/projects
http://projects.apache.org/indexes/quick.html
It's more complicated than that. Just to give you an example, everything you mentioned is a service that would, ideally, be consumed locally.

Consider where the money to pay the plumber comes from. Will hundreds of people from other towns call on that plumber? Or on their own plumbers?

What I'm trying to say is that at some point, someone, not necessarily the plumber, but someone has to bring money into the town.
I can't even begin to describe how worthless I think most coding interviews are.

Here's a contrived problem, that will never come up in our work. Now solve it by writing your code by hand without a compiler or any other tools that you would use in real life.

I understand that these questions are often about seeing how you think and how you solve problems. Throwing annoyances like writing code on a whiteboard into a high pressure situation doesn't help that at all.
That's a pretty handy shift in perspective.
Thanks for pointing out the bug with the filtering. I appreciate it and will fix it right away! Airbnb is amazing and I totally agree with you that we need a verification tool. That is something I have been looking into but in the mean time I thought it would be good just to get the site out there. I don't have tons of time so I have to pick and choose which features to add carefully so it all makes sense. If you have any other suggestions I'd love to hear them.
> For what it's worth, I didn't tell her to shut up.

I realize you did. And I'm not suggesting you are a bad person or anything. =)

> And I'm sorry, but if you know that a park is dangerous because a bunch of drunken teenagers

I'm sorry, but hyperbole can be too ridiculous. Tossing in additional conditions to suit your point is silly, and is really not worth my time.
supports video + audio
No, it's not. Bitcoin is simply another currency. Governments have been dealing with that for hundreds of years.

Bitcoin's fatal flaw is that it is not anonymous. It's even less anonymous than cash. Given enough justification, governments can and will develop systems for tracking bitcoin flows, the same way they already have systems for tracking the flow of paper cash.
Excellent incisive post.
Perhaps also desk work?
I thought T-Mob just got a major spectrum influx due to the failed merger, plus they bought some from Verizon last year. And they're doing that merger w/ MobilePCS.
That would be awesome. I fooled around with it and failed. I created a user with S3 full access (I have nothing else using S3) and it complains that access is denied.
"She reported them to convention staff and that was the right thing to do."

She reported them to convention staff and that was an option available to her more as a technicality than anything else. I doubt that those guys were being unreasonably obnoxious. The right thing to do was inform and educate and apply some degree of proportional response. This woman didn't want to create change, she wanted to guarantee hits to her blog by destroying someone else without due cause.
Interesting how well this aligns with http://paulgraham.com/identity.html. You basically seem to be saying that you are more trusting of people who follow pg's advice in that essay, and I'm inclined to agree with you on that particular point.
Is 1GB really requred for personal use? I thought about buying 256/512 VPS exclusively for GitLab, don't you think it will be enough for personal projects?

Maybe someone who has the knowledge can write tutorial about configuring GL to run on average VPS?
Our online chats in visual form
It's not optimal? Why, what would you remove? I can't see anything further you could take away without starting to detract from the content, so it seems pretty much optimal to me.
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The basic income might sound like a far-left idea to some, but it is supported by some ardent capitalists including Milton Friedman. He specifically supported its implementation in the form of a "negative income tax" which would replace the current welfare system. The reason for his support was that it was a more efficient redistributive system, as it avoided the perverse incentives of means-based welfare.
Consistently throughout this thread you go off into a legal discussion when that's not what anyone is trying to talk about. We're talking about sexism. The question is whether or not the joke was sexist. The answer is that it was not. Jokes of sexual nature are inappropriate and unprofessional. That is obvious, and everyone agrees. They are not, however, inherently sexist.
Am I the only one who doesn't care about watches?
I am curious: How does one program while blind? Obviously it's just as easy in your brain, but what is the process for reading and writing code?
Well you could use the usual Photoshop, illustrator .... But also check PaintCode it's a mac only app that helps create vector based UI (in objective-c) for iOs only.

Love to have something similar for Android (no sencha) 'cause the UI for android can be a serious pain.

Basically PaintCode can import svg and photoshop layers and convert them into objective c code. Which can be easily reused, and reconfigured for any new resolution that may come out.

It's not perfect but it's pretty neat http://www.paintcodeapp.com/
Hi, I'm the lead Square Dashboard engineer at Square, and the one who wrote that blog post a year ago on building our app in Ember and D3.

I'll say that after a year's worth of experience with Ember, we've gotten much better at it, but we've still had to add our own components (e.g., a validation framework) or fork off what components and use + fix them before they're completely production ready. We accepted these tasks as a cost of living on the bleeding edge, but admittedly given the rapid pace that the API has changed in the past year, we've acculumated a bit of necessary tech debt.

W.r.t. Ember Data, that wasn't a consideration for us, as the component didn't exist when we were building Dashboard. That said, we chose to integrate with ED in one of our more recent features, and while I'd be lying if I said there weren't any pain, what we took away were learnings about how our non-ED models related to each other and informed subsequent refactors that made the overall app better.
I buy music on bandcamp all the time, yet I could pirate it. It's often more convenient.

Can't explain that!
Writing code by hand reveals far more than you give it credit for. Someone omits a semicolon? Bam, conversation about semicolons or ASI.

It's not about the fanciest solution. And anyone who does it that way is foolish. It's the purest test of Language facility, and a really good springboard for all kinds of questions.

Downvoters: have you actually tried to hire someone?
Last year, I started using Posterous, both as blogger and developer.

As a blogger it worked fine.

As a developer it was terribly supported. The API was fine, but the implementations were often terribly flawed. Tags could not be deleted. Posts entered with markup could not be retrieved as markup. It was almost impossible to connect to an engineer at Posterous who cared.

I do hope Posthaven succeeds. I encourage you to have an API. I encourage you to treat your external developers with the respect Posterous was unable to show.
Let me give you one reason to stop this bullshit: No Ember code is replaceable, can work together / integrate with any modern JavaScript code like over 30.000 NPM modules. It is the North Korea of the JavaScript world.
I'm getting a popup on the homepage saying "Please upgrade your account"