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Sony.. just ugh.

I couldn't tell you how big of a Sony fan I was - TVs, cd players, PS 1-3.

Then they removed my ability to run Linux on my PS3. They stopped caring about giving the PS3 any new functionality that wasn't for plus members.

Blu-rays that I bought stopped working in that system, or took forever to load because the blu-rays started downloading massive new commercials to play for me before the movie started.

That was the breaking point for me.

What happened to Japan's electronic giants? I can't speak for all of them but Sony started blatantly chasing money. I get that companies exist to make money but, for crying out loud, don't make it so obvious that you're only out for money.
The early-bird option is already selling like hot cakes.
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Indeed. But with a futures market, they will be able to speculate in both directions. Futhermore, businessmen who rely on the BTC <--> USD price will be able to buy futures, and be able to settle down on a future spot price on BTC.

IE: A business expects to get say 10 BTC in 30 days... but wants the money in USD. So he wants to buy a contract to sell 10 BTC 30 days from now. It can even be in the form of call / put options.

A vibrant speculative community will provide these businessmen with contracts. And then everyone benefits. Speculators will begin to add value to the market. As opposed to now, where all of them seem to be relying on the greater fool theory.
I stumbled across the book yesterday in this post on Lambda the Ultimate's "Getting Started Page."

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/492#comment-3799

Van Straaten suggests the first few chapters.
> quite solid support for it.

Constituting?
Ask HN: From Florida to SF gainfully unemployed for 2 months
I was considering a move from Florida to SF and was wondering if you know anyone that has done it? The Florida market is OK with several big business IT firms. But I have followed SF and have visited recently, the energy is totally different for software. That is where I want to be. I sent out some job requests and got luke warm responses. Most companies didn't response. Once again, if I move to SF, I will be really motivated to find a position.

I am a big IT Enterprise Java developer that has been unemployed for the past 2 months. All of the jobs here just don't interest me. I want to relocate to SF, get an apartment and continue the job search there.

* Me, I am 29, single, have about 7 years experience

* Unemployed 2 months, really looking to relocate

* I was able to secure tens of thousands after selling stock in my current company. I could survive in the city for 2 years without a position (60k saved up).

* I thought living in Oakland, getting a 1BR/Studio apartment for 900-1200k

* For the apartment, I saw some places near the Lake Merritt Bart, the West Oakland Bart

* The landlords seem to want paystubs or past employment. I would be unemployed but I could show 401k as assets also bank account balances. Would that still work for a 900+ apartment?

One concern is securing the apartment/housing. And my second concern is after I get there. How will IT employers see a developer professional that relocated unemployed? Also, most of my resume has Florida companies and Florida schools? Is that considered subpar in SF? I could connect with many companies in the Florida area and several IT recruiters in this area but wonder if I could connect with any once I get to SF/Oakland.

Who knows, maybe I will be a pioneer that relocated. The worst that could happen is I have to move back to the the network I am most familiar.

Do you have any thoughts? Doable?
"Buy on the rumour, sell on the news"
So ... they tested whether the participants have more energy on sugar rush or hungry. And the ones having fuel had more mental endurance. Surprise.

To actually test the glucose hypothesis you have to compare fast with same calorie intake of sugar/starch/fat/protein/ and see the results.

Currently it just means you make better decisions while not hungry.
Hmm... so the body somehow 'uses' this mysterious 'glucose' to produce 'energy'? This sounds like a major breakthrough in biological studies! </sarcasm>

"I think it’s important to build up routines, habits, and things you repeat on a daily or weekly basis so that you’re not wasting glucose or decision-making bandwidth..."

Seriously? This person clearly has no idea what 'glucose' is, or how the body metabolizes, stores, and uses sugars.
I used to work for EDS (now HP Enterprise Services) about 6 years ago sub-contracting for Xerox. Most of the systems they (Xerox) used for selling/maintenance (order processing, invoicing, etc) of printers were written in COBOL for the IBM System/360 mainframes (which I think were replaced by the System/Zs).
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Circuits.io is growing up – multi-layered PCBs and more
Ah yes. I'm getting myself in a muddle as WITCH was/is a relay-based dekatron computer. (how that all hangs together is beyond me. But it looked immense).
It is very useful to know about the lessons of those that came before so that you don't end up making the same mistakes. I'm not the OP, but if you don't care about theory at all, then I'm the one hoping I never end up where you are. I don't want to waste thoughts on trying to figure out the same damn problem that was solved 20 years ago. Yet, this is exactly what many programmers spend most of their time on.
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>Don't jump to conclusions. It's a dude with a big black backpack. There's hundreds of thousands of those in Boston. //

Yes, but are there not only a limited number who were at the bombed locations around the time of the Marathon. Identifying those - if the evidence about the bombs being in black bags is sound - gives you leads to investigate.

>but saying they may have found the guys responsible is incendiary and dangerous. //

It's also true. They may [huge huge caveat] have found the people.

Personally I think the only real way the public can help is to identify themselves and their family/friends in images that others have handed over or they've sent to the officials investigating (Boston FBI presumably).

I'm assuming that the office based enquiries are based on using available imagery to build a profile of all movements and to list people who may need to be interviewed. I poured over a few images (in one reddit thread) of the area of the bomb outside 671 Marathon Place and it was quite easy to spot certain people hanging around - what surprised me was that there wasn't already more imagery available. There must be many video feeds, CCTV and such in the area, eg from the shops at the bomb sites.
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You're surely right. I just searched on the brand name of the battery itself, and didn't even try to guess at the PCB/connector type, I'm not an RC guy.
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I was thinking of this one as I wrote that:

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Ask HN: How do I develop an appreciation for good design?
I am not asking "How do I become a designer?", nor "How do I do bits and pieces of design work?" but more about how I develop skills - "How do I know something is good design when I see it? What should I be looking out for? What makes a design good or bad?"

I'd really like recommendations for books or websites or whatnot, whether those are examples of good design (or poor design) or whether they're about the process.

For example: I can understand a designer buying many sets of cutlery to find the perfect set. What I can't quite get is how they pick one set over another apart from just "It feels great in the hand, is made from suitable materials, and doesn't cut my mouth when I eat".
Am I right in my (very limited) understanding that they derive their 'observables' (i.e. indicators that would prove we are inside a simulation) from the assumption that the space-time continuum is discretized in a certain way?

By the time we are actually able to perform a simulation on such a scale would the numerical method not have evolved as well and possibly produce totally different kinds of 'observables'?

I realise I am totally out of my depth here :).
> particularly its deflationary nature.

As far as I can tell, there's no real reason it has to stay deflationary.

At some point there could be a consensus that inflation would be good for bitcoin and they could patch the client to start increasing the new bitcoins per block.

tbh I don't know why it isn't inflationary, if it was you could remove/reduce transaction fees as miners would always have an incentive
That's a nice reference. Perhaps ironically, and definitely IMO, vanilla-js looks to be the simplest. Followed by jquery.
Yes, and they're having supply chain problems that are pushing back product launches.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/04/apple-inc-aapl-to-disappoin...
I don't think anyone does (and here's why). It takes quite a bit to be proficient as a hacker. You threw out the word "Intern". Even an intern has quite a history when you think it through. Many started tinkering in junior high or high school. Many have completed a BS In CS and then they are still only marginally ready to add value.
2007 or 2008 sounds about right for when the Alpha groups were shut down. My dad worked in the Alpha memory group and lost his job around then.
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>is there some sort of financial instrument a company could buy (or sell) which would incentivize them to take a longer-term view of their own performance?

I think restricted stock is basically that.
Not much to add to your analysis, since it's spot on.

I'd only like to add Sony's tendency for crippling devices, probably starting with the MiniDisc and continuing this fine tradition until today.

The underlying basis, of course, is the media division.

It's a shame really, when you look at Sony's past. Hell! The Walkman was an incredibly innovative device. While the iPod essentially was a repackaging of existing technologies (great repackaging, but still) Sony's Walkman was actually the invention of music on the go.

What a shame.
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Nah, the prevailing wisdom among old-timers on SR is that he's from Europe. There were obvious clues early on as to what country he's from, given that DPR was once a seller on the site.
Advertising & marketing strategies to women are usually implicitly negative and designed to tie their value/desirability/self-worth to the additive product being sold or an unattainable ideal that the product hopes to fulfill. This is the complete opposite of that. So, marketing and unscientific approach aside, I applaud it on that basis alone.
"We're too smart to be part of a witch hunt."
To me this is where targeting the niche really comes in. Instead of going for people searching for "how to build a website" I would go for "church websites" or the equivalent for the niche.

The templates would be pretty boiler plate, and really have room only for changing copy or maybe some very limited color scheme choices. The target customer wouldn't be someone that would want to customize their HTML or CSS. If a customer came with those requirements, I would quickly point them to Squarespace or another up market competitor since I couldn't meet their needs (at least initially).
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Getting the URL of an iframe’s parent
I see some opportunities for disruption, heh?
more backpacks
http://imgur.com/a/xPKgL
I find it comical that The Globe and Mail, an apparently reputable newspaper, linked to a Livestrong content-farmed post in one of their articles.

Also, an alternative to StickK is Beeminder, which is, in my opinion, a superior service.
It's not the rejection that bothers me, it will be what they end up accepting that will sting. Don't get me wrong, they have made some great selections in the past, but there were a lot that also seemed very weak. I may have been overconfident simply because of the thought, "Well hell, if they accepted that group, surely we'll be accepted."
If you use Ember correctly, you get a URL for each application state and can use the back button to your liking. The only downside that I can see here is that after going back, the site might take a while until it has fetched all the data (which is not the case for common web apps). Discourse suffers from that.
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A conflicting opinion:
The market used to be narrow where being Japanese made actually mattered.
Now flood that market with absolute cheap garbage from China and it bifurcates into mostly purchasing cheap garbage and "everything else is better but costs twice as much and it doesn't matter who makes it as long as its not China".

What I'm getting at is the fight shifted from Japan vs the world to China vs the world.
Willingness to pay is someone's valuation. That's not the real value. That's not the inherent value. The inherent value of BTC is nill, except as a speculative commodity.

I won't further comment on BTC since both sides are staunchly rooted in their positions.
Your perception of yourself vs. others
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This is a matter of self esteem. I know plenty of average looking women that think they're god's gift to men.
What's the problem with the marked cars driving the speed limit? If all the cars drive at the speed limit, that's good, right?

I always thought the speed limit was there as a speed limit. I've found that in Australia, speed limits are obeyed much more than in North America, where they seem to be suggestions or lower bounds on speed.
Many times in Canada I've been travelling in traffic that's doing 30 - 40 kph over the speed limit. That's enough to get your car confiscated in Western Australia!
Revisit your assumption

Globe and Mail is Canada's NYPost.
The price of the stock is near the $400 - a psychological pivot point. If it continues to decline in value and closes under $400, the stock will go into a freefall (or another selling period).

In the short term, Apple needs to come out with innovative, disruptive products that create a whole new market much like the iPad and iPhone. In the long term, they need a sustainable cash cow like Google's ads business.
I'm out of station on the 21st ! damn. Maybe next time. Love the initiative though !
From the answer:
"First know that Single-page apps are apps. They're not webpages."

This is an artificial dichotomy that aims to obscure architectural deficiencies and explain away usability problems.
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Would you happen to have a link to that? That sounds like an interesting read.
Used to be easier to do (ready-made script) in Linux than on Windows. (That is if wine was working.)

On Windows I think the official way is runnng it in a vm.
Well, Google used Angular to re-write DoubleClick, so that's a pretty good example of a large scale application using one of these frameworks in the wild.

Ember.js is being used in http://www.discourse.org

Anecdotally, my team and I are using Angular.js for our mobile offerings of http://kona.com and have been loving it.

I'm not sure why it would be any more difficult to build full-fledged web apps with these frameworks than it would be to use vanilla jQuery or Backbone. Our app has become quite complex and we're still loving Angular.js, for instance. And it's not simply about "getting rid of lines of code", it's also about structure and testability.

I can honestly say we haven't had to fight with angular yet but who knows what will happen down the line. For now, we're very happy.

> Seeing these comparisons I am increasingly getting the impression the discussion is dominated by people procrastinating from their projects

Not sure why this barb is necessary..
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I seem to have gone right-handed if it involves two hands or feet, but left-handed if it's only one. So I'm left-handed for tennis, but right-handed for baseball/cricket. I write left-handed, but with knife & fork I just go with the right-handed norm. A social adaptation I suppose.
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Sounds interesting, but I'd want to know what the estimates are for up/down bandwidth monthly. US data caps are common and tech like that could suck them up pretty quickly...
Ridiculous but successful startup pitches
The issue with the 2008 bubble is that it was in Mortgaged Backed securities (and related derivatives). The Stock Market crashed because when the MBSes crashed, big banks were unable to give loans out to businesses. Without loans, many businesses were unable to pay their employees, etc. etc.

The bubble was specifically in Credit Default Swaps, a derivative of the bond market. The problem here is that CDSes were untracked and unregulated. No one knew there was a bubble because there was no way to see the "fair price" of a CDS. Companies were making deals on CDSes in their backrooms, away from exchanges.

When all of the companies involved in CDSes failed (because people failed to pay their subprime mortgage loans), it killed the banking industry... even those unrelated to the bubble. When your business partner goes bankrupt, you're also in danger. Again: there were lots of factories who couldn't get a loan to pay their workers... because the bank they relied on died in the whole crisis.

This leads to factory closings, lots of people losing their job, and then a general Stock market crash.

But again, Stocks weren't the bubble in 2008. The Credit Default Swaps in the bond market was the problem.
> EDIT: While snarking about someone else's English you've made some errors yourself.

I invite you to locate one.

>> And "a particular criteria" must be "a particular criterion."

> No. In context the author should have said "particular criteria". The password must match a list of elements, not a single element.

That's not a correction, it's an alternative. Continuing the theme, your second "correction" isn't a correction, it's an editorial comment.

> I'm not sure why you're so hung up on "enforced" either.

Because it's grammatically incorrect in the context? "Forced" is not "enforced." They refer to different things. "The burglar enforced his way into my house."

> It's at least an almost correct word choice.

Ah ... almost correct. Thanks for the clarification. But you prefaced it by claiming I had made some errors.
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> Basically once you learn Angular you are an Angular programmer from then on

Kind of like "once you learn Rails you are a Rails programmer from then on"?

I agree that if you're doing nothing but fight with a framework it's probably not a good choice for you. Correct me if I'm wrong but you sound like someone who isn't a big fan of opinionated frameworks in the first place.
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Japan suffered economic slump. Where people used to dump old electronics to buy new versions (there's a Japanese word to describe the perfectly good trash that people used to collect to furnish their homes) they had to stop because they just couldn't afford to do that any longer.
It does seem that the author favors CanJS perhaps, but I thought his comparison was fair overall and he did note areas that CanJS falls short of Ember/Angular. I would suspect that if he were to break down his experence with the various frameworks, you would find CanJS taking up a much larger share than the other frameworks.
Good observation. I hate photos of myself, because when I hold the camera, the lens is so close that it distorted my face shape.

When I step back from a mirror (or don't wear my contacts), I think I look good. but up close I see patchy hair, blemishes, color variation, etc...
That's because it's not generally a requirement for single-page applications. The idea of a single-page app is to make it feel like a desktop application, not to make it highly linkable (which is why it was stupid for Twitter and Gawker to go the single-app route). But yes, it is incredibly trivial to support it using these frameworks.
There are three main phone/tablet OS's out there from Apple, Microsoft, and Google which are all US companies. The real question though is why did Google have to step in with Android vs Samsung / Sony / LG etc already having a high quality OS? They had been making quality feature phones for a while, but somehow never made the jump and said the hardware if fast enough for something close to a desktop OS.
Thanks for the tip about the IRC channel, didn't realise there was one out there. I assume it's on freenode?

But for most, hitting up an IRC channel is a barrier to entry they just won't have the enthusiasm to overcome. Such advice should be front and center, easy to access, up to date and canonical.
One of the factors-of-two comes from computing the first input block of the two SHA's in the HMAC calculation and re-using this. This optimization in HMAC was underdocumented, but it ought to have been used by PBKDF2 implementations.

The other factor-of-two, i.e., the 1-bit attack, comes from skipping the generation of the CBC mode IV and only generating 1 output block (160 bits) of PBKDF2 output for the key and using a later ciphertext block to check the candidate password. This saves the attacker half of the PBKDF2 work factor.

This is a weakness in PBKDF2 when used to generate key material longer than the underlying hash function output length. RFC 2898 explicitly endorses deriving multiple keys in the manner 1Password used it:

For instance, one might derive a
set of keys with a single application of a key derivation function,
rather than derive each key with a separate application of the
function. The keys in the set would be obtained as substrings of the
output of the key derivation function. This approach might be
employed as part of key establishment in a session-oriented protocol.

... without mentioning the fact that some of the derived keys would impose more work factor than others.
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Thank you for sharing that. That was a fantastic short film.
I am not sure about how well DTrace works on Fedora. What Oracle is shipping with Oracle Linux is not compatible with GPL licensing (read CDDL) and hence can't be included as it is by other Linux distributions. Having said, I will try the fedora 18 package when I get a chance and reply back here. But in the meanwhile, for best results - please try it on one of the OSes I mentioned in blog post.

Also, just to double check you are running those commands with sudo right? dtrace won't work without root access.

Also forgot to mention, I am using DTrace that ships with Mountain Lion and DTrace api version is - Sun D 1.6.2.
The approaches are not mutually exclusive.
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DTrace requires support from the kernel to work. It started out in Solaris, then was ported to FreeBSD (which is why it's in Mac OS X). I don't think it's supported by Linux in general, but it appears that Oracle ported DTrace to Oracle Linux just recently: https://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/030113-oracle-ports-d...

If you want to give DTrace a try, you could try PC-BSD (the desktop version of FreeBSD) -- there are preinstalled images for VMWare, VirtualBox, etc., and live USB images if you prefer: http://www.pcbsd.org/en/download.html
"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

- Alice in Wonderland
Dove has a big tent that includes skinny and fat people, which is nice, but they still tell women that their skin is ugly.
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