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NSA slides laugh at Steve Jobs & Apple 1984 ad, label iPhone users as 'zombies'
Depends on who you're targeting (developers know how to make sense of types etc) and how well you translate the error info to human-readable error messages.

More information should allow you to produce better reporting. It's also not necessary to present all the information to your users, you can also make better error logs that users can send to the developers.
I'm in the weird position of a freelance audio engineer working mostly on a hobbyist basis. I have 5-6 customers and occasionally 4 or 5 invoices in a month, which means I can't use the free version of anything, but the next step up is designed for a full-time or nearly full-time professional and priced accordingly. I really couldn't justify more than $3 or $4 per month based on my revenue.

The only option for me seems to be Zoho Invoice.
Wherever it is, I'm very glad I don't live there.

Also, assuming the author does live there it seems a little hypocritical that he's criticising other's life choices.
Data Bits: Less Than One Percent of iOS App Developers Have Half of All Reviews
And Opera has years of experience with server-side rendering, even on iOS.
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I wonder if this originally got greenlighted as a "gaikai" player, gaikai being a competitor to onlive which sony bought and has promoting as part of the playstation 4.

As the article mentioned, ps4 games are supposed to allow remote play on a vita device, so this will actually be useful in my household where the tv with the ps4 is being occupied, but that seems like niche problem to solve.

Being able to add to the installed base of the Vita is a good thing for sony which will drive more game development, and if they can work out how not to cannibalize ps4 sales by offering gaikai direct (assuming it really works; color me skeptical that it will be a lag free experience), plus the video services like netflix, this may turn out to be a nice device for Sony.
[Edit: Never mind -- I completely misread the quote, as JumpCrisscross points out.]

I stopped reading here:

"But just over a decade ago, astronomers noticed that the most distant galaxies were accelerating away from us much faster than the ones nearby. In fact, the further they looked, the greater the acceleration seemed to be."

This was, in fact, noticed in 1917 by Vesto Slipher, derived from General Relativity by Georges Lemaitre in 1927, and further confirmed by Edwin Hubble in 1929, when it became known as Hubble's Law.
Show HN: Vinci, a web based simplified Photoshop with an API
Yup, never got all the hate, I finally got one recently and couldn't be happier...
Here's a direct app store link https://itunes.apple.com/app/coast/id674024845
Yeah, but you lost your job!!!
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Not quite. The comparison is between Outlook and GMail. And my point stands - the web was (and hence is) designed for hypertext, not applications.
>[S]omething that seems like it should be a simple hack made mostly of a handful of $1 components turns into a huge and expensive clown-car mess unless you already have a fully stocked workshop. People who tell you how easy this crap is are invariably people who already have a drawer full of every resistor, capacitor and relay known to man, instead of having to spend days waiting for the turnaround on ordering the components they need. So yeah, projects like this probably are simple and only a couple of bucks if you've already spent twenty grand building out your electronics workshop!

Sounds like a pretty good argument for hackerspaces.
Looks like it could be useful, but I can't find mention of the license on the website.
Sexism and gaming: PAX vobiscum
OwnCloud CTO on being hacked: 'So what?'
Hurrah, someone who cares about the actual policies. Nikcub has provided an excellent summary of the technical detail of the situation (which I will be relaying to many of my friends).

There is a huge amount of ignorance in Australia regarding broadband policy. I enjoy talking to people about the NBN, and I came to suspect that no-one in my sample payed any tax. Or they are just really bad at accounting.

Very, very few Australians would/should actually trade the cost of connecting their premise for the speed upgrade from ADSL2+ to fiber (edit: which is in the range of about $2k/person or $8k for a 4 person family unit according to the back of my nearest envelope). There aren't enough uses for speeds >=1MBps. A typical household is YouTube, Skype, gaming (and I don't think a fibre has any special implications on gaming that ADSL2+ doesn't have) and downloading stuff illegally.

There are more important research/infrastructure projects than a broadband network. Basically anything transit related for a country like Australia - the money could easily have gone into public transport.

I was stuck in a situation where I could only get dial-up speeds in a rental property. My theory was that Telstra (the local owner of all the network infrastructure) weren't going to invest in any upgrades that would be wiped out by federal spending - but the upgrade wasn't going to be for years. 12 months on mobile broadband is very, very unpleasant if you are a heavy Internet user. Speed of rollout is much more important, and the new policy can be enacted very, very quickly.

I live in a MDU now, as it happens, so the liberal policy is great news for me.
n+1

You never stop learning.
Sure, but it's got to be better than the error you get from JDBC, which will be 200 lines long and not bother to include the SQL being executed, nor the username nor the database, making it utterly useless to anyone.
How I am teaching a 9 year old to love programming
Ugh. Do they think everyone has 50" monitors?!

I can only see the top 1/4 of the initial iPad image on my screen... and when I try to scroll down to see the rest of the image, it moves on to the next one. Useless.

Are there really people who just never use laptops?
Some actions are being taken against companies and some are being taken against citizens. There isn't just one class of victims in this fiasco.
IMHO what Godel's 'proof' boils down to is that if it is possible for God to exist, then God must exist. The discussion of possible worlds is an attempt to strictly formalize and make consistent the argument that it's possible for God to exist.
I agree, but how exactly does a company go about that? Fight the order? For all I know they already do that.
An interesting tidbit in the post is that DHS values each life at $6.5 million. Since most people do not have a net worth that high, and will never earn anywhere near that much in their lifetimes, it really makes me wonder where they get these numbers. While any loss of life is tragic, that loss rarely represents a financial loss of $6.5 million to the economy - even if you take earning potential into account.
Facebook Joins Industry in Petitioning Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
In Europe we had a rash of airplane hijackings in the 1970s and 1980s, onsequently there is plenty of institutional experience in how to deal with terrorism and aircraft.

We chose not to plump for the TSA groping squad. Neither should the US.
I guessed "tryst", but with a pun on RSS
OTOH, I've had decent luck improving the sound of a cheap ($15-20) pair of headphones with a mid-range USB DAC.
I'm not disagreeing with any of that, and I use "unfortunate" in the sympathetic sense of the word, i.e., that it's certainly unfortunate to get started -- and, from the sound of it, love -- a new job, only to have that job disappear 6 weeks later. That's unfortunate, regardless of whom it happens to, and regardless of how quickly the person (Ernie or otherwise) can recover from it.

I apologize if my post came off as harsh on Ernie. That wasn't the intent. But the reason I feel B doesn't follow from A is that there's kind of a missing intermediate step. The story I was hoping for was "A: the company went under," "B: Here's what I've learned from the situation," "C: Here's why I need these things from my next job." Instead, we sort of skip that middle section, and we're left without a lot of the wisdom and perspective I'm sure a guy as capable and introspective as Ernie could have given us.

"I don't know why you find points he has laid out as "strange" as well"

I don't find his requirements strange in the least. If anything, they feel perfectly rational. My issue is with the general structure of his post, not the particulars of it. By skipping the "middle step," he risks coming across a in way he probably didn't intend to.
No Plans For An Amazon Phone, PERIOD.
Lotteries (and insurance) allow one to trade first moment (expected value) for higher moments (variance and skewness). That someone with very little would try to increase his or her variance at the cost of a little bit of expected value makes sense. That someone with very much would trade some expected value for reducing his or her variance also maes sense.
All Nintendo needs is to be compatible with the Occulus Rift.
Ernie has built up a solid reputation through hard work, you can too! Then you get to be picky ;)
this looks about a million times better than the current logo

Even accepting that this is hyperbole, I think it reflects a disconnect between design aficionados and normal users.

The logos are pretty similar, and I'm skeptical that most people would have a preference either way.
Devops made easy
Lots of great sites exist to provide volunteer opportunities (VolunteerSmart, Catchafire, etc.), but they include:

- really big organizations and really big service firms

- a wide breadth of opportunities, including grunt labor, etc.

- heavy mediation and forced processes

- large project scopes

The Pro Bono attempts to narrow its focus to connecting non-profits needing assistance on concise, "one-off" projects with remote (or local) professional volunteers.

Would love feedback!
People on HN generally start off with a reasonable amount of respect from me - more so than Reddit or 4chan for instance. I've never seen anyone piss it away so rapidly before though.
I've had both good and bad experiences contracting.

Good Experiences:

* Variety of work. I've done contracting work from writing sophisticated parsers to financial computations to high-precision arithmetic libraries.

* The pay can often be better. Dollar for dollar, I've made as much as 75% more by contracts.

* If you're an excellent worker, you can develop many good connections.

* Contract work can sometimes lead to very good full-time positions. Sometimes known as "contract-to-hire", an employer might decide they want to keep you on board. (Unfortunately, your pay will almost surely decrease in exchange for stability.)

* Often you can work in the comfort of your own home on mostly your own time. Usually you're under no obligation to work a specific set of hours during the day at a specific location. All of my contract work has been remote.

Bad Experiences:

* Often don't feel a part of the company you're working for. Often feel excluded.

* Time tracking (if hourly based, which it often is) is annoying. Some services make this a lot easier, but it's still a pain to clock in and clock out every single time.

* Short to medium term contracting means you need to constantly be on the lookout for work. This, in turn, means you need to dedicate a good portion of your time applying for places and seeing who wants you.

* (In the USA) Have to deal with taxes. You might be getting paid $X but you must remember to reserve a portion of that to pay off later.

* Typically no benefits, like health insurance. This may be less of an issue outside of the USA.

* Not all employers are as nice as they seem. I have had my contract work terminated a month early because I finished a month ahead of time. They said I had no other work I could do to bill them for. Depending on where you live, a month of unexpected loss of life support can mean a lot. For me personally, it about drained what I saved up during the term.

* Short term contract work can sometimes look poor on your resume/CV. Even though any reasonable person understands what contract work is, seeing many companies on one's resume can often give the impression of lack of loyalty and lack of determination.

The Bottom Line

For me personally, I prefer full-time work, only because it is much more stable and I don't have to seek out work later. If you have significant delays between contract, and depending on where you live, your money supply starts depleting fast. While it's enticing to get paid, say, $6000 a month, if you have a 3 month delay between contracts, and each month you have $3000 in expenses, then your effective annual income is decreased by $9,000.
Look at elder care services for inspiration/ideas.

There are substantial existing business models around helping people stay out of a nursing home with just a little extra kick. Its basically the same problem, although the root cause of the mental bandwidth restriction is somewhat different.

I have several elderly relatives who went thru / are going thru this kind of assistance.

The middleman business model is pretty much like the daycare racket, charge the end users (sometimes, insurance co.) $50/hr, pay the grunt who provides the service minimum wage, and pocket the rest as long as you can. Use lots of govt regulation / red tape to keep out competition. One significant fraud case and you're outta business so sheltering assets / LLC structuring is a VERY big deal.

Customer service is an issue... say the minimum wage helper forgets or otherwise fails to get the car registered, who eats the ticket cost, excessive towing/impound fee which often is designed to exceed the cost of a normal person's car, pain and suffering lawsuit, etc.
Big macs aren't the healthiest food choice by far, but expensive whisky isn't that healthy either. You see a whole lot more posturing against the former than the latter. Why? Status signalling.
It doesn't take a grandmaster at chess to play the game. Just as well, there are varying levels of understanding and producing mathematics.

You think of language as a basic skill because you have taken it for granted your whole life, but the same kinds of mental abilities used for language are what is needed for mathematics. There are heaps of scientific evidence supporting this. [1]

Again, you are putting mathematics on a pillar because it's foreign to you, not because of any inherent difficulty in the subject itself. You're "acknowledging" a myth as fact.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Math-Gene-Mathematical-Thinking/dp...
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This reminds me of Paul Graham's essay "Good and Bad Procrastination." [1] Maybe he's a type-C procrastinator.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
Are you actually expressing confusion that the value of a life is higher than its discounted cash flow?
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At $499 that's squarely in AAA-console pricing territory, and Apple is not geared up to fight the PS4 and Xbox One... nor do they particularly want to.

I think there is a miscomprehension of the iOS gaming market, or casual gaming on mobiles in general. People don't play Angry Birds or Temple Run because they are fans of the games (in the same way you'd play Halo or Civilization), they do it to kill time.

Mobile games are intentional time-wasters for when you're standing in line, riding a bus, sitting in the doctor's office, etc. This is diametrically opposite to AAA-console gaming where users actively seek it out as something to do and dedicate time towards it. Platforms like the PS Vita straddle this weird middle ground - and it's arguable that Apple could potentially capture this middle ground also.

Either way, an AppleTV/Mac Mini fusion device wouldn't.
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You are using an extremist definition of sexism. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree; when this is the foundation I could never agree with you.

I think that this uncompromising attitude harms your cause rather than help it, though. I am a big proponent of equality of opportunity, fighting for it whenever I see gender discrimination in my regular circle. But this adversarial form of feminism makes otherwise compromising men dig in their heels, and you end up with a battle of the sexes rather than the possibility for change. I will never support a cause that claims that 50% of the world's population is exempt from the right to claim discrimination. Thankfully only part of the feminist movement has views that are this extreme.
So shall mark the beginning of a new age where people will let go of their shiny portable tracking devices and become more conscious of their privacy.

Oh wait, no it won't.
PHP documentation site redesign
A page about the pi calculus
Pentesting the human element
If you share 300Mbps with a pool of other customers, isn't the problem the cable provider only built 300Mbps to the local distribution hub?
> pure "startup" where your real product is more likely to be the company itself

What? How do you possibly consider built-to-flip companies to be the "pure" startups? Wikipedia defines a startup as "a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model" (emphasis mine)

The "pure" startups are companies that will last for decades or more and will actually change the world, such as SpaceX and Tesla. These companies live or die on the revenue they bring in. They are real companies, not some shell built on hype like you describe (barely better than a Ponzi scheme).

Besides, even a built-to-flip company would be better off getting revenue than not. If the revenue numbers aren't high enough, keep building them higher, and don't tell them to potential acquirers until they are high enough to be impressive.

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So much depends on what your goals are/how speculative your venture is.

If you're in business to make a living and build up some sort of business in the traditional sense, selling your product at a profit is probably your top priority.

Alternatively, if you've got the backing and you're just going pure "startup" where your real product is more likely to be the company itself, there is some hazard in making the upside of your efforts tangible. With actual numbers, you risk your valuation being objectively quantified rather than via hype, pro-forma speculation or traffic. Far fewer of these projects succeed, but when they do, they are likely to be the ones making the news.
I think you missed the whole point, which is to not give these details directly to the user: if you were a crazy pervert you could already do that by sending them Postgres's generated error messages.

By having error details in a programmatic format, you can now generates messages which are actually useful and sensible to developers and/or end users if you wish to. Something which you could not do before.
Thanks for clarifying. I learned something new today.
JS on the client, and that's the important bit where all the crypto happens. Likely Java on the server, basically a drop-in servlet for any Tomcat, but still TBD.
I grok why you would want to replace VBA for Excel by Python. But once you've switched to an iPython way of working, your pretty much above and beyond the spreadsheet world?

iPython-way: Build or import nice functions, import them, get your (new) data, run your models and see nice graphs in iPython.

So what the niche is that this product focusses on? Empowering the finance-via-spreadsheet world where separate programmers are dying to be allowed to use Python instead of VBA?
Thank you for the candid and well-cited response!

> So, basically, if the risk of contracting and or having the illness is low, and if it doesn't needlessly endanger others (like MMR refusal for school-aged children) then I am going to take a good hard look at whether we really need the vaccine.

But there-in lies why I would label you anti-vaccine. If the risk of disease is relatively low, you decline vaccine's - regardless of whether or not they are safe (e.g. " Gardasil seem to have low efficacy WRT to the (possible) risks of the vaccine").

> Anti-vaccine means you don't allow yourself or your children to be vaccinated.

To me, and most medical professionals, Anti-vaccine means you default to declining a vaccine, which you seem to do, despite no evidence of harm from the vaccine, and good evidence for safety.
It's one thing to ask (which is very welcomed), but it's another thing to put your literal money where your mouth is. Where's the influx of capital to EFF and other entities challenging the US govt legally? Where's the funds going to legislative lobbying that's on par with other large industries?
Huh? No, I'm not saying that any of that is the result of a monumental effort at Microsoft. Most of that has been around for quite a while. I was just responding to the parent poster who pointed out that they hadn't noticed any integration between the different Microsoft products in the image at the top of the original post.

> The awful Microsoft Accounts just gives consumers one new and popular question to ask: how do I turn off Microsoft Accounts? That's literally the most asked question in regards to that piece of terrible functionality.

Needs citation. The only response I've seen from real people is roughly "Wow, cool!" when the see their lock screen picture and wallpaper sync automatically to a new machine when they log in for the first time.

> get rid of people like this

In case it wasn't clear to you, I don't work for Microsoft and haven't ever.
It's ending up either trust or tryst. Kind of like GIF vs. JIF. That said, we'd have probably half the mainstream press coverage without that name.
The ones who really get screwed are the ones who do work 60 hours per week but not at one job (so they don't get benefits from any). Unfortunately, they're not so very few.
The Covert NSA Agent Sitting Next to You
This visualized well enough the difference in sectors for the same year but not the difference between years. Might be nice that selecting one section will show a line graph indicating the change over the years for that sector.
The tone of the first paragraph was jarring. "Most professionals" are classist, judgmental pieces of shit? What?
That's it. No doctors needed. I just chatted to my doctor siblings about this over lunch ... they shot this idea out the water on the premise that it is indeed gimmicky and they wouldn't use it to make any substantial changes to patient treatment based on their results - they'll need "more reliable" testing. I could hardly get a word in! :-)

Except, I kept on saying, maybe the service is offered directly to people - without a doctor's consult.

Hell, what do I know! Nice to see innovation in fields other than information technology though.
The site is horribly broken for me in Firefox even after multiple reloads and after disabling AdBlock, cannot even read some text because scrolling stops at wrong places, some elements remains from previous pages...
"Chances are" implies that this is the most likely possibility. I think you may have meant to say, "it is possible".
From a cursory scan of the comments, it seems like there's a time element: $25 'soon' or $1000 'later'. I suppose which you'd take depends on how quickly you need the money, and whether you trust the $1000 plan to actually get finished.

For reference, I'm in the UK and have a 6Mbps connection, which I could upgrade if I thought it was worth paying more.
WJW: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/000/499/002/9bbefc6069c0...

A hand-drawn sketch of the planned UI would look less vaporwarey.