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> Instead Opera, Mozilla, Apple and Google are on a dysfunctional goosechase with VIDEO.

I'm sure you hope they're chasing wild geese, but from where I'm sitting, almost all Flash usage on the web, weighted by user volume, falls into two categories: that requiring video, and that which web browsers can already do pretty well without plug-ins. Thus once browsers have semi-decent video support, much of the need for Flash on the web will disappear.

If you're holding onto a lot of Adobe options, you might want to hope a little harder about that goose-chase thing. As for me, I'm betting on the browsers and genuinely open standards: so far, that duo has slowly crushed everything else.

Gotta love those disruptive technologies.
hopefully it'll make more money than the blairwitch project
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All offshore banks will of course let you deposit and withdraw money. Offshore banks normally also issue credit cards or debit cards to help you do so. A credit card or debit card from an offshore bank works just like any other credit or debit card.
I've got quite a lot of distractibility, but my office mate really does. He got connected with the work of Edward Hallowell, specifically "Driven to Distraction" ( http://www.amazon.com/isbn/dp/0684801280 ) and has since had his doc get him on ritalin. It's just been a few weeks, but he seems a lot more focused to me.

It's making me wonder if I need to talk to a doc about trying me on one of those meds. Doesn't seem like it's much of a risk, does it?

[I've struggled mightily to force myself to focus - to no avail - and know that I could be way more productive if the mind would obey better :/ ]
Well, maybe not everyone. My two favorite domestic carriers are Virgin America and JetBlue. If I can take one of them to wherever I'm going, I will. Now my liking them isn't based solely on their website design, however I invite you to check out http://www.jetblueairways.com/ and http://www.virginamerica.com/ and compare them to AA.com. The attention to design and customer experience that they show in real life, on the flights, is also exposed on their websites, imho.

They're also some of the few profitable US domestic airlines as far as I know.
he is a 4channer, malicious intent comes with the territory, but yeah waste of tax payer money, only reason its being prosecuted is because he hacked a celebrity.

hell it wasn't even hacking, all he did was figure out the answer to her "secret question"...I think it was "where did you go to school" or something simple like that
Is this sarcastic? According to Wikipedia, Blair Witch Project had gross revenues of nearly $250m as of 18 months ago.

The Blair Witch Project grossed $248,639,099 worldwide, against a $22,000 budget.[12] The film was featured in the Guinness Book of Records as having the highest profit-to-cost ratio of a motion picture ever, making back US$11,301.78 for every $1 spent.
It's been a long while since I read it, but Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance hits on some of the same issues.
Ubiquitous browser support so that the sign on interface is uniform and that phishing is impossible would go a long way for OpenID.
I realized that pretty much by now. I had a WTF moment earlier and wished I had spent those few hours I spent on this thread doing something else.

Lesson learned. Modded you up for the truth. Thank you :-)
3 is unclear (I didn't watch the video). What does change have to do with the top?
Reviews of Google from 1998 and 1999: positive, but not prescient.
I find it incredible someone could experience that twice in a week.

and survive to tell the story :)
I don't think he's arguing that business people don't make mistakes, just that they take a more holistic view of the various options to improve the bottom line, rather than just looking at one extremely narrow slice of a multi-billion-dollar multi-national company.

I would rather have "business people" running GM than someone who thinks that redesigning the GM website will solve all their woes...or any of their woes.
Reply once and ignore the rest.
Rant accepted.

Maybe my describing prior work experience as "necessary" was a bit of a hyperbole for all employment situations. I agree with everything you said and I also appreciate you talking about the counter-points to your arguments.

However, despite the feelings that prior experience is not always great criterion for selecting great employees, the reality remains that it's usually necessary for selecting adequate employees. For most grads an employer may be making an investment in the grad acquiring the skills they need on the job and if they have prior work experience that could help indicate that candidate is more likely to acquire said skills than another candidate with no work experience.

Since I am both a relatively recent grad (2007) and have also had a number of different types of jobs since I was about 14 I have a few observations:

* Many college students are grossly unprepared to face looking for a job. From resumes to professional courtesy it seems that many students just don't know where to start or what their prospective employers are looking for in candidates.

* Getting a job is basically a sales pitch. Your resume and interview has to convince the employer that you are right for the job. Those with poor presentation and preparation skills will suffer. Even if they are passionate and creative, if their resume doesn't convey this then they will probably be passed over for a position.

* Many recent grads are unwilling to accept a job in a different line of work than in their college concentrations.

* Some recent grads come across as pompous or condescending due to either too much exuberance or having a big fish in a small pond attitude. Like prior experience, academic success is not necessarily an indicator of being a great employee or easy to work with.

* Personally, many of the recent grads (and regular employees) I know who have a good work ethic have worked menial or unsatisfying jobs at some point. This may be a self-selection bias to do difficult or different things, but I still feel that those who have either humbled themselves working a hard job they didn't need financially or worked and excelled at an unsatisfying job to provide for themselves are usually more cooperative, more determined, and have all around better character. I do acknowledge that these qualities can certainly be found in those who have not worked jobs prior to graduating.

* Some people are just the clock-in clock-out types who simply are not passionate about their work and/or are unhappy with it, and for these types of people prior work experience is a good indicator of an acceptable but not necessarily a stellar employee. A passionate employee that loves their work is probably an outlier to whom the normal metrics of employee selection may not apply or who would far and above fulfill hiring criteria for prior experience.
I think you're remiss in not mentioning that UVA has very strong science and engineering programs.

(This is a bit surreal, as I did my undergrad at Virginia Tech, my Master's at W&M, and now my PhD back at Tech. I've never cared for the rivalries, but I didn't think I'd ever feel compelled to defend UVA to one of its own students.)
We used ImageMagick to manipulate images in Viaweb. So if it's still the best thing around now, 14 years later, it must be pretty good. Thanks!
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Virgin America isn't profitable yet, and JetBlue barely is.
He was surprisingly nasty about it, but I wouldn't bother fighting back. A lot of the people who voted up his comment didn't do it because they agreed with him so much as because they're worried you'll start a trend of people posting stuff trying to suck up to us. Which is actually a reasonable thing to worry about, considering that a significant number of HN users think they might one day apply to YC. So you were basically just unlucky.
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Yes! I knew there was something food-related in the name but could think of it. Thanks.
For me, things like the Altair, the Apple IIe and the Arduino were not what they could functionally do for my data or make "my life easier" ... it was what it did to me, personally.

I learned programming and it fundamentally changed my brain: I could issue commands programatically to a piece of hardware and it will do what I tell it to (to a fault).

The point of the Arduino (as seen in modern times) is to change a person's brain in fundamental ways about what computers, hardware and software are, how they interact and what they can do with it. It expands their minds and shows them possibilities and understanding not seen when one just views a piece of hardware as some mysterious entity.

As for what the Arduino can do for this end, it requires a community of dedicated and enthusiastic users as well as hardware and a (software) programmer. A group of people with a diverse set of interests, experiences and educations (artists to engineers and everything in between), the aim of ease-of-use, learning and understanding is required for this kind of excitement and interest.

There was a similar group for PCs but I found my community with the Apple IIe and LOGO for that was what the local user groups were using and what my middle school teacher taught me. Now, the "local" user group is the entire internet. Had I gone to a different school maybe there would have been an assembly community.
Yet another Amazon review bomb
My friend sent me this article this afternoon because I work with my hands. I dropped out of comp sci/engineering before I finished college because I decided I wanted to make 'real' things not just stare at a screen all day, or draft (on paper) as new engineering grads were expected to do back then.

Since then I use a computer as much as anyone running a business does, but the scope of what you can do with a computer these days is so much larger now.

I am programming now so I can hack on my homemade CNC machines which are in my opinion just magical.
Yes that's true, but even so, you can't fit all those characters into 8 bits, which is basically the point of that first section. Also, I don't see how mapping to the same codepoint would mean that Chinese has thousands of characters, while Japanese does not. They just share many of those thousands in common.
I'm generally a "natural health freak" (rest of my family says), but I have also seen (and teachers in my family testify, too) the impact on productivity for kids when on/off their meds (ritalin,etc).

I'd also say it's not inconceivable that there could be a huge chunk of today's children who have ADHD - way larger than a generation or two ago. For a similar (though not as prevalent) phenomenon, look at how autism has been ramping up in recent decades.
Reading the NYT with the new AIR-based reader is a pleasure. The fluid layout, typography, and especially the no-lag browsing, changes the experience to the point that I find myself starting up the reader every day -- and the NYT was not my source of news before the new reader.

There are many technology-oriented and societal reasons to prefer an "open" web. The fact is that the AIR-reader delivers today what is likely to appear in browsers over the next couple of years.
No, the New Altair is Lego Mindstorms http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-4494799-Mindstorms-NXT/dp/B000E4F...

Expensive? Yes. Underpowered? Yes. Thriving community? Yes.
Read the reviews (there's a few hundred of them) and see the number of kids for whom this is their first intro into programming. It's an awesome piece of kit
Follow-up by a European regulatory agency on the study mentioned in the Time magazine article you kindly linked:

http://www.gencat.cat/salut/acsa/Du12/html/es/dir1592/dn1592...

There's some interesting discussion of statistical tests applied to the data.
I think that flows in both directions. Java was modeled after the way that corporations used C++ and much current usage of C++ is influenced by people coming from Java.
I guess it's all a matter of degree, but to me, the Arduino is less like the Altair, which was not very widely distributed compared to similar computers sold in later years, and more like the Apple II-- a great product, widely distributed, but not the first of a kind. I'd say the PIC 16F84 and a Picstart programmer are more like the Altair than the Arduino is.

I do agree, though, that having entry-level boards that are easy to use is a huge step up for the large class of people you mention.
It's a testament to the power of ___________ that the morality of the bombings is widely considered to be ambiguous.
Developing an Accessible Web 2.0 Widget Framework
From the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
My buddy just ordered the tickets online.
I just looked at the website lots of rocket launches as well.
Two Atlas 5's in June.
As one of the creators of Arduino (and currently its lead software developer), I'm happy to see such a lively discussion of the platform. I'd also love to hear any suggestions you might have for improving it.

I should note that we've done very little promotion ourselves, apart from teaching lots of people to use it in various workshops. Of course, we're happy that Make is such a fan.

One interesting feature of the platform that hasn't been mentioned here is the fact that the whole thing (hardware and software) is open-source. We've had lots of people take the Eagle (CAD) files and design their own custom variants, which creates a vibrant ecosystem.

Finally, if anyone wants to get involved and help make Arduino better, check out our developer pages at: http://code.google.com/p/arduino/
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just out of curiosity where do graphics libraries sit relative to these ?

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=4070

Are you planning to do another poll ?
As someone who's used both the Silverlight and AIR versions of the Times Reader (for the Mac), I can say that the AIR version works much better. The application is more responsive, the window can be any size, the text layout looks better, etc. Does anyone know if AIR offers technical advantages for this type of app, or did they just do a better job this time around?
complimentary video to add to this article:

http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...

(video is more than about "working with hands", but reminiscence of repeated manual work that many people enjoy)
Cairo bindings would be awesome for graphing, vector art, and fancy text (and a nice complement to a bitmap manipulation library like ImageMagick).
I suppose those are USA stats. I come from a place where Kumon is a household name. I never went to one, although when I learned about it from my friends in 5th grade, I was actually jealous that my parents didn't send me there.
this should be a lot of fun. they have a great space and i heard they have a whole line-up of awesome, top-notch people coming. not one to miss.
try raphael.js via http://raphaeljs.com/
Certainly impressive, but I take issue with the statement that this film cost $70 -- is the creator's time worthless? If this film grosses $140, I doubt he'll be jumping in joy over a 100% profit.
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I second Zonealarm and Firefox.

For me, its Vim, GNU Octave and Maxima, a few languages, Winsplit Revolution, and a few console tools (curl, mc, mplayer, unxutils, etc.,)
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If you haven't actually read this, please do. Such a powerful read. Intense, moving, and emotional. If you're having a tough time getting into it, skip to the 2nd picture.

But a must read. Don't just vote up, skim and move on.
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I think the "paying the bills" thing is pretty normal, at least within a certain class of folks. And it's something you can learn to work with.

I have all of my bills auto-paid. I've learned from experience -- having the power cut off, the phone cut off, the internet cut off -- that it just works better that way. I've never had a shortage of cash, but sometimes even opening the envelope with the bill inside seems oddly intimidating.

But again, you can work with that. Now everything is auto-paid; I don't even bother to open the bills. Nothing gets cut off anymore. I still get the odd annoying thing to deal with, and I've tried to get in the habbit of when there's something that I catch myself ignoring to open it immediately. I've also become a huge user of to-do tracking and set deadlines for myself -- having my daily checklist with past due things staring back at me in red works wonders. Everything goes in there. Mails to family, mails I need to respond to for business stuff (I have a hot key that creates a to-do list with a 24 hour deadline to answering a mail), stuff that needs to get done for a next release. It helps immensely.

These patterns are far too normal, especially among gifted folk for me to be willing to call them an illness and my feeling is that medicating people for these things represses some of the responsibility to build coping mechanisms that people have traditionally used to deal with this sort of thing since time immemorial. They also change your personality. If I weren't so restless when doing stuff I find boring, maybe I wouldn't have done as many interesting things? Maybe I'd still be working in a standard 9-to-5?

Surely there were smart people that had to overcome difficulty focusing before the intervention of amphetamines.
> Affirmative action for the unintelligent is unlikely to lead to wonderful economic success on any scale.

Yeah, so? "Affirmative action" (I call it society's obligation to care for the unfortunate) for blind, crippled, veterans, mentally retarded, etc is also unlikely to lead to an economic success.

Why don't we just round up all the "burdens" on smart, successful, beautiful people and kill them. They're limiting society's economic success! And as we all know money is the most important consideration in any decision.
NYU?
Am I the only person who looks at the first table and wonders who was the lone first-year student in 2008 who didn't own a computer?
The people saying it is "evil" are complaining about the mistakes that get made -- they are calling it ineffective.
I'm always curious how they tabulate costs for this kind of movie. Why exactly were the crow bar and drinks included in the $70, and everything else not? The video camera, or the editing software, or the computer he edited on, or the time of the creator and actors, or even the actors make up and costumes, all cost money, it's just that they were donated or already owned.

If he just recalculated some of the expenses I'd imagine it could also be $0 or several thousand.
There is no evidence of censorship as apple's policy. The evidence points to some faulty cogs in the machine and some lack of having a clear policy.
It helps when you have friends just coming off the X-Men 3 production: "Most of the zombie make-up in the make-up artists' cases was inherited from other movies."
I own a coffee shop near Florida State, I would call it pretty near 50/50 Mac vs. Windows.

I am pretty sure freshmen are required to have a laptop and the Mac bundle deals at the computer store are pretty irresistible.

According to http://www.fsucs.com/ the Apple bundles are cheaper than Dell or Sony which are the only other options.

So Apple is discounting for students, looking to snare them for life.

Also this is posted "Due to circumstances beyond our control, all Apple orders may experience a significant delay."

Can't make'em fast enough!
It looks like the author is aware of the similarity. His book this was adapted from is titled "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work", no doubt a reference to the latter part of the title of Pirsig's novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values".
I know someone like that (high IQ/ADD, diagnosed by a psychologist) who refuses treatment. I think this person would benefit a lot from treatment but I have been unsuccessful in getting my point across. Any suggestions?
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Ask HN: Good idea to save journalism?
I just had this thought. Journalism is about bringing answers to people. Right now, journalism makes money through advertising, so they have to find the questions everyone wants or the ideas that are so new, people don't know to ask the questions.

But there are lots of valuable answers to questions that aren't asked by the masses. For example, I want to know everything there is about a particular competitor or business leader. A journalist could go do the research and compile an article that answers my question.

Would this end-to-end journalism, where individuals or companies have questions they are willing to pay to be answered help journalists provide their information in a more valuable way?

Is this being done already? I know you can pay for reports from companies like Gartner, Forrester, etc. Perhaps bringing that business model to the individual journalist could help...

I don't know if this is even the right forum for figuring this sort of thing out, but I know the topic of saving journalism has been in the air around here. Thoughts?
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Your startup is certainly impressive, but I take issue with the statement that you only need $20000/year to develop it -- is your time worthless? If your startup makes $120000 in its first year, I doubt you'll be jumping in joy over a 200%-500% profit.
It's a testament to the power of history being written by the winners that the morality of the bombings is widely considered to be ambiguous.
not sarcastic, I'd just like to have something for $70 break the record
And some people work for a startup and are starting their own hacker spaces. ;)
The problem that journalism is facing is that their market is over saturated. You can get the same news from thousands of sources
Those small grocery stores aren't the same as a supermarket, and the supermarkets listed aren't really in Trenton. For some reason some of them are listed as such, but if you look at the map they're a bit off elsewhere. We don't consider that part of Trenton--one of those is in Hamilton, for example. Trenton's last supermarket closed back awhile ago and it's an obstruction to food access often-mentioned by non-profits in the area.

I'm not sure about rent. In states south from NJ those rents are high for suburban areas, for housing in much worse shape (chipping lead paint, etc). You're right in terms of staying within New Jersey--those are low in a state with very expensive housing (and everything else), but considering both health and the pay people get in the poor areas receive I'm not sure if it's a fair comparison. In my own experience, the suburban poor do seem to be better off than the urban poor (and I think it all trumps rural poverty)--and I love cities, so I really wish that weren't the case.