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You're not the target audience (if you're the average HN reader, that is, don't actually know you personally.)

HBR gets a high price for its ads because its audience is older businesspeople (decision makers on high-priced services and products) who consider its content high-worth and authoritative (this attitude rubs off on the ads around the content.) Having a gating ad that scares away people who don't value the content enough to close it probably increases the price per ad more than enough to make up for the slightly decreased viewership of the ad.
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One could argue that it's safer to transport the materials without the added attention from armored escorts, but they're probably just avoiding the added costs.

They may actually be right to, though. The costs of an armored transport is higher than a regular truck transport by an order of magnitude. The costs of calling in the cavalry that one in a million time that the truck is hijacked is probably far lower than securing each transport.

That doesn't mean they shouldn't be using lojacks and panic buttons for the drivers though.
Nice list, will be referring back to this. Just a heads up the link to 'All About Monads' in the Haskell section is broken, think it should be http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/All_About_Monads
Aren't we a little over-extended already...
In particular, see the form at the bottom to request more resources:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vb2MkAr9JcHrp6myQ3oTxCyBv2c...
The place where this happened it about a thousand kilometers from the US border.

It is nowhere near the US, unless you somehow consider that all of Mexico should be monitored by DHS (and all of Canada too).
From a code maintainance point of view, how do you manage to keep this 'branch' in track with the main one ?
I mean, every patch made to the real firefox has to be carefully reviewed and backported to this multiprocess branch.
Is that a manual process ? Or can it be automated like that :

1) Check if new commit arrived on 'head'
2) Auto backport it to the multiprocess branch
3) Try a build + run tests. Everything looks good ? Keep it
4) Not goot ? Send an email to the multiprocess maintainer so that he has a look ?

Is there another way to do that ?
Are there any reports on how many Bitcoins it cost? I wonder if the price would fluctuate with the Bitcoin-USD exchange rate, and if so, which source are they using to get the rate.
Well, that can be worked around. In the windows world there are lots of laptop models that switch between low power integrated graphics and a high power GPU for gaming. Its not either or anymore. Its not 1998 anymore.
> It would be the most closely watched transport ever.

No. It would be one of thousands of such transports ocurring every year. A routine operation, not worth anyone's attention until the unexpected happened.
I was not aware of this book. Sounds fascinating. One of my favorite articles I've ever read was in an anthropological course that detailed some of these same findings cross culturally.

The title of the article is "Slumbers Unexplored Landscape" I'd link to it but what I've found is I believe behind a paywall. I'm employed at a university so sometimes I don't notice paywalls.
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If they didn't actually touch the stuff, probably yes.
Maybe you should think through what you are saying. If someone is stuck on iOS 5, which phone would they be using? A phone that's 4 years old (i.e. pre Gingerbread era)? Apple has done a pretty good job of allowing phones/tablets to be updated, with the iPad 1 being a big exception.

What Google is doing is helping but the ideal solution would be to have people be able to upgrade their mobile devices for at least 3 years. As much as I dislike Microsoft, if they provide a better upgrade path, they could become a much bigger player by making upgrades trivial for the 99.9%.
Ask HN: Entrepreneurs interested in escaping to Austin in Feb/Mar? 
I'd like to escape the winter in Chicago this year.

Looking to connect with like minded, location independent folk who would would be interested in sharing a hacker/entrepreneur house in Austin, TX for 6 weeks from Feb 1 to Mar 15.

Also conveniently coincides with SXSW in Austin.

edit: I guess contact information would help -- eric@rocketlease.com
I really don't get how OpenGL support for consoles became such a urban legend.

Anyone that cares about graphics programming on game consoles knows how broken or non existent such support is.
I am not convinced neither of your assumption about law irreducibility, nor of the seriousness of your conclusion. The law is in itself a solution to society's demands, each of which can have a more or less justified base. It just so happens that the current law system become exposed to abuse (along with the lack of proper maintenance that should have kept it simple and accessible). The article successfully exposes a blatant legal loophole and its exploits, with concrete examples (with consequences that were later felt in a way or another by all of us). Its a shame to just dismiss it, especially with such a vague stance like yours.
We also don't understand the mechanisms of a very large number of the drugs we use (e.g. anesthetics).
It looks like the guy having mark@facebook.com has an Adobe account !
I don't believe Co-60 is capable of activating (making radioactive) other materials to any significant degree, so the danger is really only from direct exposure to the source material. So you get irradiated, but you don't become radioactive. If they were handling the material directly, there's a chance they contaminated themselves and their clothing, which could be transmissible. (c.f. Goiânia incident "[The scrapyard owner's daughter] was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, and applying it to her body, showed it off to her mother. Dust from the powder fell on the sandwich she was consuming.")

Obviously the guys opening the shielding and anyone in the vicinity of where that happened, where it was stored, or dumped is at risk, but it also sounds like the sources were encapsulated into pellets which makes incidental dust contamination much less of a problem than in previous incidents where it gets broken up and mixed with dirt, etc.
Ask HN:Friend is math/algorithmic genius, wants to learn programming. Resources?
I have a friend, who has an uncanny talent for anything mathematical. He can write formulas and functions to solve the most obscure math problems, and he has the mind of an algorithmic thinker that I and probably many wish they had. Think project Euler, he's really good at those types of problems.

He doesn't actually know any code, but I feel like he would be able to accomplish so many things with it. I've talked to him about it, and he's really interested, but he doesn't know where to start. Due to financial issues, he occasionally does not have Internet, but he does have a decent and functional computer to work with. What books/tutorials/resources should I give him so that he can put his mathematical and problem-solving talent to good use?
I don't see how, you're still having to calculate percentages at each break point. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems it's only saving you calculating the margin/padding. If you're using a tool to calculate the percentages for you such as http://semantic.gs/ I don't see how you couldn't do the same with less calculation and much less CSS.
I've only been here for a month but this is the second time it happens.
Because you don't need to understand the mechanism of a drug to have a strong understanding of the effects of a drug. Numerous widely proscribed psychiatric drugs have at best conjectured mechanisms of action.
I think it's A) a callback to the "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" book/concept. And B) trying to overcome the macho, ego mentality that they feel is driving professionals to sleep less.
> I suspect this kind of transportation is far more common than most people realize.

Yup. A few doors down from Rap Genius in prime-post-hipster Williamsburg, Brooklyn is Radiac, a radioactive waste transfer facility[1]. I remember a few years back Vice made an amusing video where they went up to their back door with a geiger counter that started clicking rapidly much to viewers' delight.

[1]: http://bit.ly/Iu3mH8
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More relevant questions:

- Why don't we stop subsidizing corn so much?

- Why don't we teach effective nutrition and cooking in school?

- Why don't we teach effective exercise, sports, and fitness in schools?

- If we can ban alcohol and tobacco sales to children, why not things like added sugar, hydrogenated oils, corn syrup, etc?

- If we can ban alcohol and tobacco advertising to children, why not products with added sugar, hydrogenated oils, corn syrup, etc?

- Why don't we limit advertising on fast and junk "food"?

- Why don't we provide healthy lunches to school children instead of using them to subsidize agricultural conglomerates for low quality food?

- Why don't we stop subsidizing fossil fuels so much so people would walk and ride bikes more?

- Why don't we align our medical system with prevention instead of expensive and risky cures?

You can come up with plenty more questions that would mostly obviate the need to wonder about obesity and wonder drugs to cure it. The overwhelming majority of people would benefit from changes in diet and exercise requiring no chemicals needing FDA approval. Fresh fruits and vegetables seasoned with fresh herbs and spices taste better than anything, at least to me, and it's hard to eat too much of them. Few feelings feel better than the exhaustion of even moderate exercise.

EDIT: reduced cynicism based on eli's welcome comment.
Now you can buy cars with Bitcoin: Lamborghini accepts the digital currency
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Cool, didn't know that! It's basically a degenerate pooled memory allocator. That one is a bit more clever in that it falls through to a proper malloc when it runs out of space. That's assuming, of course, that you have a proper malloc to fall through too.

Mine will eventually wrap around and clobber whatever's at 0x0. It assumes you have a very liberal page allocator in the background to handle page faults for whatever addresses you decide to point to and automatically wire them up to RAM.
The Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design is like the On Lisp of Haskell. It's a stunning, challenging intermediate FP programming book that focuses on how equational reasoning allows you to "automatically" move from unoptimized, unelegant, fragile code to optimal, beautiful code correctly.

I cannot recommend it enough.
I think you'd be shocked by how little we understand about the mechanism of action of a lot of the drugs out there.

The FDA's job is to ensure that approved drugs are (1) safe and (2) efficacious. Knowing the mechanism of action (MOA) of a drug can help further define the safety/efficacy parameters for a drug, but in it's absence you can still get a very good sense of the risk benefit analysis.

The best example of a lack of understanding of drug MOAs is Lyrica (epilepsy drug from Pfizer). The drug was designed to target the GABAase enzyme. It got approved and then several years later it was realized that the main MAO is the drug's impact on the glutamate neurotransmitter, an entirely different MOA.
It's interesting.

I don't see this as an employers pony show (and I'm both someone who looks for jobs as well as hires), I see it as looking for an equitable arrangement where someone interested in a job gets together with someone interested in hiring them. Both have a need and the aim is to mutually satisfy that in a way both parties find acceptable.

Paying someone who isn't sold on a job and a company to come in for a day seems to me to be the wrong solution to the problem. The persons questions and doubts can almost certainly be addressed (or not) in a far more time efficient way at which point they're in a situation where they can work out whether a day is a good use of their time. The real question seems to me to be how can we get it so that day, if they choose to attend the interview, is a good use of their time, rather than paying them because there's a high chance it's being wasted.

We can value someone's time by paying for it, or by doing what we can to make it time well spent. I think we should try to do the second one rather than the first.
Ask HN: What is the most efficient way to learn mobile app development?
I have experience in ANSI C, C++, .NET (C++ and C#) but no JAVA, and to some extent I'm familiar with PHP and MySQL. I would like to write a mobile app (preferably for Android) and therefore I'm wondering - how do I start quickly? Any tutorials, online courses you can recommend?
Only doing what you're good at seems at odd with running a start-up, where almost by definition you need to fight through stuff you don't like or excel in.

If you're persistent you will eventually get to "design" your own job, but that's some years down the road. If you want to concentrate on the things you are good at today, look for a nice 9-to-5 job at a company that matches your values and don't look back.
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Schroedinger's lojackers?
I am pretty sure _quasimodo's point was, idiots or not, it's barbaric to celebrate someone else's slow and painful death. Regardless of whether said person is civilized or not.
I'm always fascinated by images from NK, bit of a shame in this case that the captions are plastered in the middle of them.
It feels a lot like the style of regulation in the Western world, which is usually "just do a good job and we will worry about things that slip through the cracks when they do." In a basically lawful society you don't need to put armed guards on every dangerous thing.

Still, tracking hardware is a lot cheaper than it was 10 or 20 years ago. I work in that industry and there is a lot of competition so no one should have to go without.
Not sure why you are so cynical. It seems like there's pretty clear progressive movement on several issues. I never thought I'd see a black president in my lifetime.
I thought the author brought up some good points regarding Bitcoin and it's value beyond a speculative currency but he's wrong in some regards, especially the acceptance where in Boston we have several restaurants and services that accept Bitcoin.

My personal opinion is Bitcoin has it's uses but it's been turned into a quasi investment program and is more of a stock market than a currency.
No this is not correct. Their bodies will not be radioactive (unless they ingested the cobalt!) after getting dosed by this source.

People get irradiated by similar sources of radiation everyday for cancer therapies without becoming radioactive.
Not sure why we need this. Without plugins (flash, java, silverlight) , firefox IS pretty stabled.
Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
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There are many drugs where this is true. Antidepressants, especially.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacology_of_antidepressants
It's hard to make judgement without all the facts. Perhaps they were blackmailed into doing it, perhaps they were evil, greedy, disadvantaged in life... who knows.
I'm wondering if he was allowed to travel individually or as part of a group (which is controlled by NK).

If anyone is interested, here is a great documentary which I say a few days back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oULO3i5Xra0
"...like grindr, except for getting drunk instead of getting laid."
Well, effectively, it means that banks are disallowed from treating it like a currency. So, you could still trade a house for bitcoins, just as you could eggs, in theory, but what you can't do (again, same as eggs) is go to the bank to take out a loan in bitcoin to buy the house.

You also can't make payments on a loan with bitcoin, store bitcoin in the bank or expect to accumulate interest (by the bank, disregarding proof-of-stake-type currencies), etc.
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I was honestly expecting it to point out that lack of sleep kills your testosterone levels (it didn't). As it turns out, "real" men really do get sleep.
No, the poster is setting up the same tired argument that is raised since the iPod came out: it's not a USB media device out of the box. That is by design, and likely for reasons other than to "restrict our freedomz!". I don't want to use a file manager to organize my music, I'll take an iPod/iPhone, please. You may feel differently, so you might want to take a look at the fine music players on the market. Or just suck it up and install the app on your iPhone.
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At-root in Sass 3.3 changes the game and makes life way easier
Everywhere else technical people get spit on. Look at how Obama's CTO just had to be an economics grad from Harvard. It's just inconceivable to those people that you'd pick somebody who has real technical chops.

I definitely agree that Google is tone deaf, G+ is lame, and all that, but the real reason people don't understand people is that people don't have empathy for other people who are different from themselves.
Yep. And why the FUCK was the transport container open-able by these jokers? From TFA:

"The cobalt-60 was found, removed from its casing, in a rural area near the town of Hueypoxtla about 25 miles from where the truck was stolen."
You might not feel bad, but do you let out a cheer and fist pump and yell "ANOTHER CRIMINAL GONE YEAH!"?
Glib and GTK+ remained ABI stable for the whole of 2.x afaik.
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Why it is bright only in middle and dark else where?
We're lucky that, as Bruce Schneier frequently points out with respect to airline hijackings, there really aren't as many terrible people out there wanting to indiscriminately kill hundreds or thousands as we all fear there are.
People were using hoses and lists for things that they should have used an app server for (myself included). As another commentor mentioned, they are meant for interop with legacy systems. That option will remain, but we are likely to deprecate their use for app-servy-thing.

Either way, with the in-progress plugin model, many of these niceties can be easily brought back into any installation, should they be moved out.
I think it is an attempt at a different arrangement. Instead of text framed around the images thus making the images the size of quarter the screen, it is the opposite. You get the pictures on all available area, and the text box is partially transparent. I like it.
I think you're underestimating the Apple marketing machine. Members of my family who hate to open up their computer were asking me questions about iOS 7 before it came out. Apple does a really good job at marketing the latest version. Android basically never mentions it because of 1) the fragmentation but 2) Google doesn't have any control of the hardware so they focus on pushing out app updates rather than OS updates.
Can confirm; I'm a developer on the Cloud SQL team, which is in the same Product Area as GCE. When it says "Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure" it means it. The VMs run in the same data centers on the same hardware as other Google projects.
It'd be even cooler if there were deeper zoom levels which linked in images specifically of a particular object. Say I find and zoom in on the Horse Head Nebula I get to images of that specific object.
because of the condescending tone of "We are talking about México?", Mexico is the 2nd destination of US exports and the 3rd source of US imports, also is the 10th economy in the world by PPP GDP, also Mexico has facilities for enriching uranium, so I suppose that a Country like that must have regulations about radioactive material disposal.
> The node js addition is to leverage the speed of v8 engine that impacts only the view building time and not much else(I could be wrong though)

V8 and Spidermonkey are on par in the way we are using them. Node/V8 just gives us a little more flexibility and less C code to wrangle so we can make the view server better faster :)
This chart spells horrible things for all web developers.

Legacy Android brwosers will become the next IE6 in terms of joy drained from our lives.
Bitcoin isn't portable (you can't carry it, try using it without the internet).

All regular currencies are fungible and its super-questionable that BTC is divisible (the network can't handle more then what, a million transactions per second? What's the use of a currency that splits into microscopic sizes if you can't make lots of micropayments with it).
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This is exciting, congratulations! I just booked my first Homejoy appointment for tomorrow morning--super excited to see the results :)
In a previous loss of Co-60 in Mexico (back in 1983), the material ended up being melted with recycled steel into rebar and used in all sorts of construction, until it was discovered largely by accident when a delivery truck carrying contaminated materials set off an alarm at Los Alamos[1]

It's also interesting that the Chenobyl Disaster was first detected in the West 2 days after the event, when detectors at a nuclear power station in sweden tripped their thresholds, and nobody could find a local explanation for the numbers[2].

[1] http://www.window.state.tx.us/border/ch09/cobalto.html

[2] http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull283/...
This is an interesting issue. If you're morbidly obese, a 5-10% reduction in weight could add up to significant LBs/KGs lost. So it would seem to me like this would be a great way to jumpstart and re-enforce the other aspects of weight loss. Many people give up because they don't see results fast enough.

So much of weight loss is mis-understood, but a lot of it boils down to convenience, will power (choosing to resist going through McDonalds drive thru), food choices (i.e. I don't know how to cook, and no healthy options are affordable and quick).

I am a firm believer that weight loss is 75+% diet, and the rest exercise (disclaimer: I lost 30lbs [17% bodyweight] doing the 4 hour body diet).
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A lot of this depends on the type of organization. Some organizations are very top-down, with corporate metrics and P&L flowing down a hierarchy. In firms like this, the approach your boss mentioned works very well. As long as everyone is working to make things happen up their management chain, the organization survives. The nice thing is people tend to have control over what they're accountable for. The down side is teamwork is not incentivised.

Some organizations are very much about cross-organizational teamwork. The bosses have very broad spans of control, and they expect their underlings to work things out between each other. These cultures promote teamwork. The downside is accountability sometimes gets lost.

What's interesting is both types of firms sound similar from the outside. Everyone talks about the importance of teamwork. Once you get inside, or see how they work, you realize it's not always that way.

A couple examples... In general banks generally support the "As long as you hit your # and you make your boss look good, you're ok" mindset. Some firms (Goldman Sachs - like them or not) do find a way to cooperate, and bring the entire breadth of the firm to their customers. Others are much more of a "Every desk for themselves" mindset.

Some consulting firms tend to be good about bringing the best experts from around the world to solve problems. (McKinsey for example, again like them or not) Others are very local office driven, with everyone worrying about their own P&Ls.