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I was very sad when they took away my workspaces as a grid. I used the crap out of that concept, but for some reason they decided I would work better with a linear organization, which is just annoying as fuck and not at all true. I'm a visual/spatial thinker, things just belong "below" or "above" or whatever. I've been working this way since my first linux install in 1998, and until Lion my mac was OK with me working that way too.

I guess apple knows best though. Thanks for making it easier for me despite the part where it seems harder. You sure do know so much! /sarcasm on that last paragraph.
The downside of living in SF with a good salary is that everybody has a good salary.

It's more that having a good salary in SF doesn't necessarily level up your quality of life compared to someone with a bad salary. In some ways, it might make it worse. Three bartenders splitting an apartment in the Mission are likely having a better time than three Twitter employees splitting an apartment in the Mission.
One bit of conventional wisdom that I find interesting is the belief that what was responsible for American prosperity post-WWII was the fact that Europe was devastated and the U.S. was the undisputed industrial superpower. To the extent that theory is true (and I'm not saying it is or not, I don't have enough of a grounding in economics to say)--doesn't that suggest that the rational course of American policy should be to bomb India and China instead of trading with them? People trot out this idea all the time, but nobody really thinks through the implication...

My point isn't that the U.S. should be imperialist. I don't think it should be. There are lots of good, practical reasons to not just go around bombing everyone, namely that it's an expensive game of "king of the hill" in the long run. But in my mind the idea that we have some greater moral obligation to humanity is not one of those reasons. The American government is instituted to secure the prosperity of Americans. That is the beginning and end of the purpose of its existence. The only moral obligations binding upon it are those that reflect the will of its constituency. If the U.S. refrains from imperialism the only reason it should do so is because Americans want to be peaceful, not out of concern for the well being of non-Americans.

It should be noted that, China doesn't subscribe to any such silly notions. If they thought they could get away with bombing us to cripple our infrastructure and that doing so would increase their own prosperity, the Chinese government would do it in a heartbeat.
My experience in Delhi is that there is too much people in a very small place.

You see chaos everywhere, in the roads, children playing around electricity cables(non insulated, working cables), so much people living in trash...

If I were to live there for extended periods of time, I will get crazy. It is like living in a beehive.
It's not US only. I've had access to it for a while now.
> Speaking as a web developer, I can tell you that I am perfectly able to transition to making desktop apps, I just have no incentive to. There are fewer and fewer desktop apps out there, so it's not a great use of my time to learn those skills.

Funny that you speak of it as a dead market, when A) The skill cross-over between desktop and mobile is direct, B) There's a huge amount of unfulfilled demand for mobile developers, and C) There's an enormously underserved desktop market (see also: Spotify, Netflix, HBO Go).

> Back to the Spotify player, the web client makes far more sense than a desktop one to me. All the music is stored in the cloud, so why do I have to download a desktop client on every machine I use to access it? It seems horribly backward to me.

Running a full fledged browser, with the resulting poor application UX, for a lightweight task as music streaming, seems horribly backwards to me.

All I want when music is streaming is a miniplayer, not a web browser. It should work with the play/pause/skip buttons on my keyboard/headphones, support airplay streaming, be able to integrate with my music library, and otherwise fit in nicely to my desktop/mobile experience.

If I worked for Spotify, Hulu, Netflix, or HBO (Go) (which I wouldn't, because they're myopically web-focused), I'd be beating the war drums to provide better, more engaging user experiences via native applications for not just mobile, but desktop too.

Unfortunately, it winds up being a catch 22. They build technological monocultures (web-focused), can't hire for alternative platforms, contract out the mobile development, and then the web developers use their political positioning to try to turn everything into a bad shell around a web rendering view. The users lose.
When these coordinates are correct, i doubt he has something better to do: http://goo.gl/maps/hSz7r
This is Virginia Tech... not Haymarket, Virginia.

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A tip: use it with VMWare Fusion and not VirtualBox. It is the best.

Sorry I don't have any tutorial but it is not so hard to use.
The pattern also seems like it would be an impediment to performance. The JIT would have to do a lot more work to optimize the function, as well as parse code that isn't really required. So even if the end-result machine code after JIT was performed was the same, the compiler itself would have a much harder time getting there. This can be an issue on mobile devices that are CPU constrained where you want the page to load as fast as possible.
I have seen this kind of behavior going on in India for so many years. There are countless cases of where rich people would push poor people on bikes off the road and into ditches with their cars.

I'm convinced that this stems from the religious caste system which has now become the monetary class system in these new times.

I always wondered why don't the poor just revolt, they're treated so badly, almost like slaves and everyday they lose more and more. They have their kids run over and police will do nothing about it because the rich will pay them off to make the case go away. It truly is sad.

The worst part is poor people will do the same to other poor people given the opportunity. We (Indians) have learned nothing from Gandhi on how to treat our fellow men.
Thank you for your comments!

I haven't decided not to sell or give away my devices. I've given away or sold all of my previous devices as I've upgraded to new ones.

I'd totally support biodegradable personal technologies! I think I read an article about tech that may eventually support that just the past week. I really think that eventually new models of AR tech may come out on a monthly or weekly basis, and by then we had better have biodegradable disposables.
Margret Thatcher is responsible for the entrenched class system... in India?
what about speech recognition?
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What do you want to be done to Thundebird? There are still security updates, aren't there? If they continue to update Thunderbird, maybe they make many changes that are controversial and a step backwards?

e.g. here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110904002532/http://weblogs.moz...

""It may turn out to be very difficult to support all three layouts (classic, wide, and vertical) without making each of them diverge further from each other, which is just an extra maintenance burden."

Then I propose dropping one or two of them and making the remaining one or two work as well as is humanely possible."
The article was a bit simplistic here, but I think the more fully fleshed out idea is act-as-hotspot initially. When the device is first powered on or a reset button is pressed, it acts as a hotspot to which you can connect a webbrowser but on first connect to its configuration interface you are prompted to configure the device to switch to connecting to your normal wifi router so you can continue to hit it with a web browser, but over your normal local network.

IMO, this is actually the best way (in terms of overall simplicity, no need for extra hardware, etc) to handle the situation in practice.
A piece on immigration as it relates to skilled labour with no mention of H-1B? If you aren't investigating the primary manner by which skilled foreign labour finds itself in the states, then you're never going to get a good answer to the question: "Do immigrant engineers depress [native] engineer wages?"

Of course, an H-1B visa is technically a non-immigrant visa, which goes a long way in investigating the question by itself. It's somewhat misleading to even call them "immigrant engineers" if most them are on a temporary visa that ties them to a sponsoring company and requires them to leave once time is up. This clouds the issue of supply and demand, as the labour pools are really quite different: foreign nationals who are tied to a specific company and are only permitted to reside for X years, versus natives who are free to work for any company and can live here indefinitely. It _is_ obvious that the native is going to be able to command a far higher salary than an H-1B that is stuck with his "sponsor."

Now, whether companies are pushing for more H1-B's because of this wage suppressing factor, or because there is an unresolvable shortage of native talent, is the million dollar question. And it's a question that, in my mind, is readily answered. Convert the H1-B into a full-on green card, wherein the skilled foreign labour is granted all of the rights and privileges of a native. If the shortage really is unresolvable --for whatever reason-- then companies still have all the skilled foreign labour they would need; the companies' staffing concerns are still addressed. And since the foreign national is permitted to live and work wherever he pleases (he is essentially identical to a native applicant at this point), the argument of wage suppression is significantly weakened, since the main argument is that there really _are_ natives willing and able to do the jobs but they're getting priced out of the market because they can't compete with locked-in H-1B holders.

The skilled immigrants win. The companies still get their skilled labour and win. If there really are natives ready and willing to do the jobs, then they too will win.
> The problem is with some of the foibles of the h1-b visa.

H1B worker here. I think what you describe is actually completely offset by the strong demand for engineers. The cost of a H1B, which is as you say $5K or so (though its the same to transfer), is tiny in comparison to salaries, and also relative to recruiter fees (which can often be $30K). The only common reason companies don't do H1Bs is the hassle, and even then it's not that big a deal for any funded or profitable company.

There is really no power over the H1B at the moment. There was during the bust following the dot com boom, and you'll always find unscrupulous employers, but I have literally zero worries about this. One employer did try to change the deal for me, but it took me literally 5 days to find a new job. In an economy like this, there is no danger.

However, that's not to say your fix wouldn't be welcome (esp if a bust comes around again). I don't see it happening though, given both the aims of the H1B and the green card programs.

A final correction: you're not allowed contract out H1B workers. That's not to say it doesn't happen, and there is one big company with a reputation for this (infosys? I dont remember), but your final line is hyperbole.
> All 10 are contract houses that specialize in out-sourcing. They bring people in, train them up and then send them back to work on the same programs remotely at local rates. These actions are totally against the stated principles of increasing the number of technically skilled workers in the US.

I've seen this a number of times at the company I work at.
Indeed. However it would be nice if it was a component that can be added on rather than just making an assumtion.
Same goes for the autoupdate i heard about a few weeks ago; Ask me first then go do stuff.
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I absolutely love Firebase. It's dead simple to setup and a pleasure to use.
I live in Manhattan in NYC and there are several things wrong with this school.

A huge draw to NYC for really smart people that this school wishes to draw is living and working in Manhattan, esp. the southern part (near Greenwich Village) where NYU is located also not far from Silicon Alley (Union Square) or Google (Chelsea). This part of the city is very multi-cultural and fun to live in and "very high value" for making contacts in the words of Richard Florida. Instead, they are going to put the school outside of Manhattan on a separate island (boring, boring, boring).

Second, Technion, the partner school has a very, very low tuition(e.g. a few thousand dollars equiv). This school will be charging $45K per year or so. Even in the US some of the best engineering schools (e.g. U. Illinois/Urbana) is less than $20K in state. By charging such a high tuition, the school will be selecting for high wealth families that can afford a $250K education. Instead, they should be charging tuitions along the lines of City University of New York (CUNY).
> If the job is relocatable

I've seen many, many, many corporations come to the conclusion that they are simply not able to manage resources abroad. They can barely handle them locally, let alone when there is many thousands of miles and a language barrier between them.
tldr: I wrote a JavaScript "virus" for our school's (unofficial) message board. I was banned for years. In a thread about that webcam, I made the above facetious apology.

Longer version: premium users of The Wolf Web were granted full html/javascript abilities. I probably never would have bothered to become premium, except every year the site hosted an Egg Hunt, which involves staying online as long as you can during a 24 hour period to claim "eggs" that are randomly assigned to you. The person who gets the most eggs wins premium status for a year. Two friends and I decided to win the competition by working in shifts and we indeed won. The fact that there were veteran users, some with over 50k posts, and we won with a new alias just added insult to injury.

While playing around with my newfound html abilities, I realized that I could write an auto-submitting form; I decided to write a virus. It was totally ugly; for technical reasons related to the payload, I wrote the entire thing on one line, used the shortest variable names possible, and it was pretty much untested. The way it worked is, when a premium user clicked on a thread with the payload, they would automatically submit a new thread with the payload included. I'm still proud of one feature: it would pull recent thread titles, so they would appear to be legitimate threads that had been bumped. I call it a virus, but it didn't do much besides spread for a few days before they disabled it. Anyway, all of my accounts were promptly banned. Somehow, I used some social engineering to convince an admin who had been away to unban me. It worked, but I never used the account.

Scheming, virus writing, social engineering. Definitely one of my finer moments. I documented some of the events here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.511920914339.213059...
If foreign-produced flaxseed oil costs 20% of US-produced flaxseed oil, and is imported in quantity, "What happens to the market clearing price of US-produced flaxseed oil?" is not a very difficult question. We do not need to adopt the counterfactual "Consider what would happen to flaxseed oil prices in an American city which banned foreign flaxseed oil. Why, they'd be a laughingstock! Flaxseed oil consumers would flee to other jurisdictions!"

That's an interesting speculative conclusion to a hypothetical policy that is not on the table nor will ever be considered in the United States. Back to the question: what happens when you import cheap flaxseed oil? Market prices go down, with very high confidence. Claims to the contrary would generally require fairly persuasive proof since they invert our understanding of how the world works.

(n.b. I don't particularly think my political opinions are relevant, in much the same way a physicist doesn't feel the need to mumble "Sorry to be a gravitationist" prior to suggesting that a banana pushed off a table will tend to accelerate towards the ground rather than hovering in midair, but to the extent I have them they're "Let the flaxseed oil flow" and to the extent I have economic interests in US-produced flaxseed oil I'd prefer it to be as cheap as possible since I'm a buyer more than I'm a seller.)
Electric Imp seems like a great solution (flash setup data from a smartphone to a light receiver on the device) but I wonder how they handle imposters. For example they brag about a connected door lock. If I was a bad guy I would go to the nearest window, and shine a bright light with the setup pattern through it hopefully reconfiguring the lock.

If they make it too hard to reconfigure the lock then it will increase the support load.
Do you mean how the man in the SUV threw over someone else's cart full of produce (likely his only source of income/livelihood), and then throwing a large heavy metallic object at him in a effort to physically harm him is NOT "Taking" (with a Capital T)?
Well, the term 'investment' generally implies a longer duration, say over the length of an industry cycle or so. I don't think a short trader would describe the positions as an 'investment,' for example.
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I dont have a job for you, but I have a lot of C++ and other programming books. I'd be happy to send you some if they would be useful.
Not sure about that, but Android 5.0 is rumored to use SE Linux (or SE Android I guess), which I believe is based on a more extensive permission model.
So, just to be perfectly clear: you don't believe that people have any moral obligation not to murder each other. But they do have a moral obligation to follow contracts (the government's contract to do what the people want).
Perhaps a better way to look at it is this- when I have a great job doing web development and see job listings all over the place for other rewarding web roles, where is my incentive to do desktop development- even if it's close to the (much more booming) mobile app space? The web is in no danger of dying or getting less popular any time too soon.

Running a full fledged browser, with the resulting poor application UX, for a lightweight task as music streaming, seems horribly backwards to me.

But that isn't why I'm running it. I have a web browser open every minute I'm using my computer, so it's already there. The browser is a multitasking application itself, so using it for music streaming fits in great. I haven't used the Spotify web player, but Rdio has been web-based from the start, and has been great.
Firefox Nightly, 23.0a1 (2013-04-13) is crashing a lot for me while I view these cams.

(I guess that's what I get for using Nightly >.<)
Ask HN: is it possible to make high quality movie really low cost?
Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to create high quality movie really low cost? I mean movie like "21 grams" or "Memento", something what does not need special effects.

Best regards,
Wiktor
Making the person demonstrate that it is more than an idea but an actual functioning implementation not just a couple of sketches and a vague description would be fantastic.
I was waiting to find a comment like this! I tend to agree. I suspect being born with less empathy and concern allows you to acquire more wealth and my real life experiences have supported it. At least in the US (India seems to have deeper structural challenges) Be interesting to dig deeper.
Would this be possible with Google Docs?
Really? This is possible without paying more than the cost of VMWare Fusion?

I'd love to switch to fusion (which would necessitate buying it), but I'm not going to pay more than the cost of fusion for the provider adapter for vagrant. Are there any free/open source ones about yet?
It's easy to use snark to dismiss someone's problem.

Why show the domain at all if you can hover over the links? For a minimalistic interface like HN you'd think there would be a reason for it. And if people are identifying content based on that URL, it's probably best to make it descriptive when subdomains have very different content.

Plus, many touchscreen devices don't have an easy way to see where a link is pointing to, even on devices with 'hover' functionality.
Show HN: Placety is live for download in (South) East Asia and Oceania
MIT - $42,050 - http://web.mit.edu/facts/tuition.html

Cal Tech - $38,084 - http://www.gradoffice.caltech.edu/documents/124-2012-13_esti...

CMU - $40,000 -http://www.cmu.edu/hub/tuition/graduate/index.html

Plus this is only a 1 year program, so the $250k tuition doesn't really apply.
>Suppose the city of San Francisco deported 10 percent of its computer programmers tomorrow and adopted a law saying that in the future no engineers born in other counties were allowed to move here. Would that lead to skyrocketing earnings for the remaining engineers? I seriously doubt it. I think it would destroy the San Francisco tech industry with some unfortunate knock-on effects a bit south in Silicon Valley.

I wonder if there is a name for this fallacy, because I see it all the time. A common example is "Well imagine what would happen to the economy if everyone became a vegan tomorrow!"

As a malicious device for derailing a discussion, it's pretty clever. It pivots the argument from "how would the world be different if Y instead of X?" to "how would the world be different if we instantly tried to switch from X to Y?"

Suppose you propose going to the grocery store. I say, no that's a terrible idea. Imagine if, in the next second, you were suddenly whisked away to the grocery store — the acceleration forces would liquify you! Obviously that would be a dumb thing to say, but you still see these "what if X overnight‽" arguments all over the place.
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Sounds like I'm going through a burn-out. I'm in my last academic year at uni, and for the past 6 months I worked almost continuously (with satisfying outcomes). However, what is left is preparing several exams and a couple of courseworks in less than a month, and right now I feel completely depleted. Can you, or somebody else, provide any advice?

Edit: As an invitation to discussion on the margin of the blog post, what happens when this lifecycle puts you in a position like mine? (i.e, the 4th phase occurs when critical responsibilities need to be fulfilled.) Wouldn't this be a problem with this lifecycle?
Unfortunately, this is quite an accurate article. I've only been to Delhi once, but in my parents' home city of Hyderabad, this behavior is commonplace. That being said, this article is being written from a feminist and classist perspective, so one should be careful when making generalizations about India. It's important to keep in mind everyone has an agenda, and this author has clearly delivered one.
I live in Ontario, which through some poor green power policies has really expensive power now. In response, I've reduced my power usage, plus I'm often in Germany for large periods of time. Now I'm starting to notice that the connection charge is on its way to dominating my power bill. I guess this is where the future is going.