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Every thing worked OK for me when I signed up aside from what I mentioned in my other comment.
This is what happens when people who used to report on the news, think they are creating the news. Gillmor has an acute version of this disease, as is highly evident from his Gillmor Gang podcast.
How long is a typical freelancing gig?
Like how many hours typically do you get out of a gig? Also how many gigs do you do per week/month? Including rates maybe would be good too to put it in perspective.

I have a stable job right now and I'm wondering what I'm missing out on.
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If you like sports, join a Boston Ski & Sports Club league. You can also join a gym such as Cambridge Athletic Club. It has basketball and squash leagues.

Meetup.com has dozens of different groups of all sorts of interests. Also check out the Craigslist activities and events section. Going.com has more nightlife related events.
He is 100% in earnest. He's been raving on about this for months on his podcast.
I was actually considering picking up tending bar at nights if I get bored enough (I'm licensed), but I'll wait until I see how beat I am after work.
Let's see how twitter manages through the valley of the shadow of spam. Hello, /Dani|Erica|Loni|Heather[A-Z][1-9]{4}/! Thanks for following me. Uh, not.
Is it just me, or do most TechCrunch (+ family) feel like that lately?
Being around people all your own age is not a luxury, it's a trap. There are vast numbers of interesting people at all ages. Just surf around and let it happen to you - unless you have clinical social phobias or suchlike it'll take care of itself. You will sometimes be bored, demotivated, or lonely. This is the normal human condition.
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Yes, does anybody have data on latency and throughput of EBS "disks"?
I'm just waiting for Google to do billboards.
Feel free to decline, but would you mind sharing a few more details? How'd you go about finding the job? Did living in another country follow the job, or did you decide to go to another country and find whatever job you could? I think this is the sort of thing that everyone dreams about in the back of their mind, even if they never do it.
Any blogger who doesn't use RSS isn't worth reading, much less putting at the top of Hacker News.
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Thanks. Yes, that's true. I appreciate the information about Lua and an example of Mercurial - it was just the hotspot part. I guess the fairest guess is that a comment is voted up as a whole, based on all the things they add, not just the part that I happen to be concerned about. It seems a bit silly of me now, but I much appreciate your reply.
I'm on prgmr. Been there since December or so, and had no issues with it whatsoever. Ridiculously cheap for what I'm getting, too... $8 for 256 MB is unreal.
I must second the notion that amazon + prime gives me 85% of my online goods. Newegg is still better at most of the nuts and bolts computer hardware stuff but not by much. I was frequenting pricewatch but found it a waste of time to evaluate a new vendor for such a marginal price difference(am I going to get my parts, are they going to sell my credit card number, How long is it going to take for ground to get to me, etc....)

Overall happy with paying a bit(not much) more for a lot more convenience and speed.(newegg gets to me in a day if I purchase by noon to noon-thirty, amazon in two.)
Oh PLEASE. Inflammatory? the fact that YOU find it inflammatory is meaningless within the context of this discussion. Don't talk to me about admins not censoring content, I had MULTIPLE VALID RELEVANT NON COMMERCIAL LINKS deleted for (paraphrasing) not being a regular, that is EXACTLY what the admin conveyed to me when I called him on it, that part of his decision was based on the fact that I had never contributed anything, which is absolutely ludicrous. As to unsupported, go see for yourself! A user should not need to "understand how WP works" other than the obvious rules, such as no spam, no porn, no irrelevant content, etc, those are obvious, all those other little hoops, whatever they are I am not even interested, that you imply exist only serve to raise the bar for something that is supposedly there to be edited by anyone. Procedural protections? what are you talking about? What happened with my submissions was ALL the result of an arbitrary and completely unjustified decision by an admin.

Replying to your post as I have done has been a waste of time, I know exactly what I experienced there (I was SHOCKED when it happened) and discussing it here in great detail (as in, go to the admin's discussion page, and look for the exchange we had then, to copy and paste here) is absolutely meaningless, a waste of time, Wikipedia as it exists now is a complete waste of time, it's a complete failure, and it constitutes negative value, as I outlined in a previous post about this. I could give a hoot whether you take me seriously on this subject, it means nothing to me, I was replying to pg's comment.

Edit: since when do YOU decide what is becoming or unbecoming here?
That's what he is saying, but it is patently untrue. He says

If you’re not willing to constantly be in a state of pushing yourself to do more and learn more, then you’ve already reached your limit

I'm pretty happy with my current life (job: regular 9-5 software engineering, have done that for 5 years now). That doesn't mean I don't spend a lot of time on reading books in a wide variety of subjects, reading Hacker News, writing my thoughts and opinions here and in another major community I'm part of, thinking about options that would change the pattern of my life and, once in every while, choose for such an option. I don't need to be pushing myself to keep going forward and keep changing.

That 'just happens': I bought a house that needed much manual labour to get it in a proper state, took up my old sports again, switched from commuting by train to travelling by car, have worked out two ideas for (series of) websites to conclude they wouldn't be worth it, keep seriously considering taking up a study, etc. Especially the last thing will have to wait until my girlfriend graduates and finds a job. That is an example of the way your life necessarily keeps changing, without putting any effort into it.
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I don't get this... Aren't TV ads controlled by the channel they're shown on? How is Google going to profit here?
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No, they aren't identical because as you say "one had some time go by". Most things are used, and with use, an object is changed. Secondly, "exactly the same methods" is questionable, depending on how old an object is. You can't just make things by exactly the same methods in many cases. And finally, there are entire civilizations that have been wiped out, so even an exact replica of something created by a member of such a society could not be recreated today. Good article though.
Google is acting as a broker, very much like with Adsense for Content. Websites "control the ads," but Google gets a cut when a Google brokered ad is run.
So my theory is this: unless you change something about yourself now, you’ll never change

Step 1: Apply the theory today, and change something about yourself: you have changed, theory checks out.

Step 2: Now apply the theory to a point one year in the past. You did not change yourself then, therefore you will never change. But you just changed something about yourself in Step 1. Contradiction.
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Thats kind of what i was thinking. Its just stating pretty much the obvious.

After time people will be where they are + experience, if based on their experience they do nothing different then they will be the same as they always were + money/family/debt and whatever else is accumilated over time.

If experience changes them then obviously things will be different based on the changes they make.
Advertisers can soon target their ads based on types of cars & ages of drivers.

For the most part, billboards are old tech that needs innovation. I would be surprised if Google added something as basic as time slicing for billboard ads... that way even smaller companies could afford a visible spot on the road.

Whoever links up old advertising with new advertising will make a boatload of cash.
Long-term, the entire antiquities trade as based on "authenticity" is doomed anyhow. It's all just atoms, and manufacturing will eventually defeat any useful detection method.

'Course, "long term" is still like 50 years away. But I would definitely suggest strongly against investing in antiquities if you're looking to invest on that timescale. This is merely the leading edge of what will become a pervasive problem, and devaluation will probably be ongoing even in the short/medium term. The same 3D printers that sometimes show up on HN will be getting sent to scam artists with motivation to cheat. Only the very high end of the market, populated by people who care enough to take increasingly paranoid security precautions, are going to have anything that holds anything like "value".

(Obviously, I'm speculating.)
From what I've seen of Cambridge, it should address your fears pretty well. Plus there's plenty of young, non-child rearing people at the TA office, even in our group. Just not the programmers, we're all geezers of one degree or another.

Alas, I'm not in Boston myself, in case that wasn't clear. I'll see you in IRC/Email and in person every 2-3 months. And I apologize in advance for the Green Line. At least you're going against the flow. And it's not really my fault.
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Look at the before picture. She had weird cheeks anyway.
One of Google's grand strategy is trying to be the ultimate middleman in advertising, whatever channel it is. I wouldn't be surprised if Google print ads come out. (However, Google just folded its radio operation, anyone knows why specifically? http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...)

From a brief look, it does seem to be a lot more convenient for advertisers. I bet many small and medium-sized businesses would start advertising on TV more because of this service.

Does this spell doom for ad agencies? I'd love to hear informed opinion on this. Is there a different implication between ad agencies that target small- and medium-sized business and Fortune 100 corporations?
AFAIK, in countries with an 'opt-in' policy, less than 50% is a registered donor.
I'd agree, except for all the reasons people gave below. Also, Slicehost is the only other service that provides RAM > 2GB. And EC2 offers more variety of configuration (higher CPU performance versions, larger RAM versions) than anyone else.

I really wish Slicehost or Linode or SoftLayer or someone would do something a little closer to what Amazon's doing, and provide some enterprise-level competition. I have clients who would love to move to Slicehost but probably can't, because of the disk space limit and other similar restrictions.
E-Cigarettes are good for the Environment
How often have you been driving down the road and you have seen someone flick their cigarette butt out their car window? Most people that flick their cigarette butts out their window don’t consider it to be littering. Wouldn’t it be nice to help the environment by smoking E-Cigarettes instead of making a mess with those smelly cigarette butts? I think some people don’t realize how valuable the invention of E-Cigs really are.

Worldwide, smokers toss at least 4.5 trillion cigarette butts each year, accounting for 38% of worldwide debris. I guess that it doesn’t seem like a lot when it’s just one cigarette butt. Cigarette butts are the most common debris item collected over seas. During the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup, in 2007 there were 1,971,551 cigarette filters, cigar tips, and tobacco packaging.

Even though individually, cigarette butts are small, they take up a large volume of space. If a person smokes a pack-and-a half a day, they will consume more than 10,000 cigarettes in a year. This number of cigarette butts will fill a volume of five liters.

Just how harmful are these discarded cigarettes butts? The average cigarette butt contains numerous chemicals which may be considered a health hazard. They are made of synthetic polymer cellulose acetate and never degrade. They only break apart after roughly 12 years. Within an hour of contact with water, cigarette butts can begin leaching chemicals such as cadmium, lead and arsenic into the marine environment.

Looking at the byproduct of smoking, it appears that there are toxins in everything. The cigarette smoke is bad for the smoker and anyone that is close enough to inhale the second hand smoke. The cigarette butts are harmful to environment and to wildlife. This is all because a smoker needs to get their nicotine fix. By using an electronic cigarette, a smoker will be able to get their nicotine without making the Mother Nature pay for their messy habit.
I don't think so. What happens today is this: Let's say you have a business and want to advertise on TV. You approach an advertising agency, who usually deals with the whole chain. They'll write a script, hire the production company, and they'll contact the TV to know when to display the ad and how much it costs.

What Google will do is just the third part. We'll probably see Google TV Ads being used by ad agencies to manage their clients TV schedules.

Large companies advertising on the internet already hire an ad agency to deal with their AdWords campaigns, because they'll write the ad text/create the image/flash, and they have the market research, and they probably designed the landing page anyway.

Ad agencies love Google AdWords, they'll probably love TV Ads too. It's a tool to better manage TV ads scheduling...

Edit: Let's say you're a small business and want to advertise on TV. You still need to actually make the ad, and while this is doable with friends, a cam and a notebook, it's much easier to just hire a production company. Check the technical requirements for Google TV Ads, it's full of tech lingo. After recording the ad, you could take the video and manage the scheduling using AdWords, though.
Is it strange or just me feel that way? How can a commercial entity buy open-source product? The founder can easily start a new free branch of this product because it is GPLed. Then, what is the 1 billion deal of MySQL all about?
8-O Excuse the long comment, but...

I'm a producer on a scrappy little TV show (local, trying to expand). This is startling, because I just finished work on a business plan today and our business model is produce show, sell ad spots direct to likely candidates, and buy airtime to increase reach.

I'm really not sure how I feel about this. I may be able to use it (particularly to use the pricing estimates to reverse-engineer the viewership revenue possibilities for TV show in the genre I'm producing, as well as to identify which slots are most effective - Nielsen already produces such data, but it costs a fortune), but it's also very tough on me as a producer because I don't have a network deal of any kind; furthermore it makes me much more dependent on a network owner while cutting me out of the loop completely as a content creator, strongly reinforcing the position of the distributor (not unlike how your iPhone app doesn't exist for commercial purposes if you're not in the app store). I applaud Google for automating the ad-buying process, and I presume that due to their sheer size they'll be able to secure very good terms and make profits on relatively small margins. But our existing plan of generating maybe $2m/yr in direct sponsorship sales 2 years from now is probably in the toilet, because if I were an advertiser it would probably be vastly simpler to just use this new tool and have a dashboard with analytics and so forth than to do special deals with niche content providers (like us).

It's not going to disrupt the TV/advertising business overnight, of course, but this is going to be the talk of the industry over the next 72 hours. I have to say I feel like I just got sucker-punched. It doesn't help that my boss is an old-school ad guy who finds Google docs mysterious.

(Strangely, the 'ad creation marketplace' (hook up with a producer/camera team) goes to a dead link. Mini-fail, there.)
grep -c "^<segph\(ault\|one\)>" channel.log

Anyone know why all the syntax is escaped there?
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Anyone able to take a look inside? All I get is "Thank you for your interest in Google TV Ads. This account is not eligible to create TV campaigns".
Exactly. The 11th thing twitter is not is immune to spammers.
I'm predicting a long line of "Can you trust X with your password" link bait posts.

As was mentioned last time if someone is downloading your passwords you have bigger problems to worry about than the way you store your passwords.
Re: #11, yeah, totally. The solution to information overload is to overload yourself on Twitter instead?

I do believe that the "unread posts" model for RSS readers is counter-productive, and is taking RSS as a consumer technology with it, but it's not dead yet.
I think this was meant as a poke at the previous article, not a serious critique of HN's security.
Well I have my 'who cares' password, my 'like this site' password and my 'involves money' password(s). Strangely, my HN password isn't the same one I use for my bank account.
Seriously, enough with these threads already. The passwords aren't encrypted, he cries about it, they are encrypted, he cries about it. It's a news site, we're not controlling access to nuclear weapons here.
Security on Hacker News is good enough. But, it would be kind of nice to have salted hashes and an absurdly expensive hashing algorithm. We are meant to be hackers after all.

A standard, or even a rationally conservative, approach seems more fit for Innocuous News.
As long as HackerNews hashes my password with a semi-modern algorithm, I'm fine. Storing in plaintext / something that can be decrypted is not cool, but sha1 is alright by me.
Anybody who practices Buddhism understands why that is false.

Nobody is the same day after day. Small changes around us change us. Eventually, those small changes lead to what we consider maturity and experience. But even when considering from moment to moment, we are not the same.

We know that from the practitioners of the Zen school, who believe in instantaneous enlightenment. They acknowledge that revelations of thought can occur at once. We also know that major happenings can also change somebody drastically.

But if that's what you want to believe, so be it. I'm most certainly not going to stop you.
Another real advantage is that you can mix generic Xen instances with custom dedicated hardware (for specialized problems) -- all on the same, fast private net.

I've pushed a lot of backend bits between different server lots there, and my private vlan was solid, minus acceptable hiccups.
Google or Microsoft to acquire BlackArrow.tv in 5, 4, 3... [if this takes off]

Edit: Disclaimer - no relationship with Blackarrow whatsoever, just an interested observer
When I saw that Mafia Wars was one of the most popular games on Facebook, I went to check it out, and before long thought "Wow, this is just like forumwarz except with mafia." Apparently html rpgs are now a viable genre.

Have you ever considered making more games that are essentially gameplay clones of forumwarz but with different themes? That seems to be a lot of what Zynga has done with their facebook games - Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, Zombie Wars, etc. Also have you considered social network integration yourself. I hate to suggest such un-innovative strategies but it might work.
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How about the fact that Hacker News doesn't have rss?
And one thing that is interesting about this is that Google is a superset of twitter, and twitter could never be a superset of Google. Google can more easily index twitter's content than twitter could index the rest of the internet.
It's not nearly consistent as 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. First, I don't sleep on a consistent schedule. Some nights I sleep 3 hours, sometimes 10. Usual is closer to 5. These hours of sleep may or may not actually occur at night.

Second is that I'm not consulting, so "billable" and "work" aren't the same thing.

Yesterday I spent:

- 1 hour in a meeting with a potential customer

- 2 hours traveling there and back on the subway, during which I read work-related research papers

- 1.5 hours talking with my co-founder about stuff we've got coming up on the horizon

- 1 hour reading and answering mails

- 9 hours, from around 6:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., coding with a break in there for cooking dinner

I then woke back up this morning at 7:30 a.m. and am about to get back to that code, after my morning routine of checking mail and news. :-)
This stream-of-consciousness style of writing is a sure sign of a fluff piece.

Narrative is not a convincing argument, and two pages filled with "this is so" statements do not interest me.
Simple answer: No.

Complex Answer: It depends. If it's compromised, what do I lose? If the answer is an email account, then it's an 'Aww shucks'. That's why I have backups of my address books.

However, if it's "Bank Account Numbers", it's a bit more critical. I do shield myself from that eventuality by using 'more public accounts' with limited funds. PayPal has its own bank, and a whole 5$ more than my balance needs for them. I simply and deliver the money I want them to have.

And sometimes, I could care less if somebody "hacked my account". I'm thinking about news sites and other sites that demand logins to read or post or download files (phpbb).
I have been using this feed for as long as I've known about HN. I can count the number of times I've been to the HN front page on one hand.

http://news.ycombinator.com/rss
Which is exactly what Monty has done: http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB

However, MySql is also sold under a commercial license. Furthermore, MySql support was offered by Sun since they bought it, generating some income. Whether that is worth 1 billion I don't want to speculate.
Google helps you do the first and second part too:

Ad Creation Marketplace
http://services.google.com/marketplace/overview/index.html
More as I get it - I think I have a case to apply (see other comment on this thread)
But an unsalted hash is only better than plaintext if the attacker doesn't know enough/care enough to use a rainbow table. At that point, why do you care if it was hashed or not?
You should not trust anyone with your password.
no, they're mostly controlled by the cable service provider or local broadcast affiliate (who, naturally, take more than half their content from the network provider).