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Ask HN: Good Basic Accounting Book for Entrepreneurs
I'm a engineer by training doing a start up. I find myself suddenly in charge of our companies books. We're extremely small and I'm managing alright with a single accounting class and Quickbooks software. Please recommend any blogs, books, or sites that can "upgrade" my accounting knowledge and keep our books straight for investors to come in.
Sadly no, MBP15 has also 6-bit TN display.
The eye can see lots more than 262,144 colors. What's the number, 10 mil? Quick googling gave varying results, depending on what's counted as a distinct color (e.g. differences in luminance).
But, there's a proper way to fail and a way not to fail.

I guess you can start your own company and make it fail however you like.
How to limit any method execution time in C#
How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1
It's a very impressive achievment, but I'm not sure I buy their motivation for doing the work. 70k vs 700k? It's a blink of an eye on today's Internet. Sounds more like a very bright engineer wanted to work on a cool project, then reverse reasoned his way back to this "smaller is faster" idea.
Yes, when next to similar colors - ie, smooth gradients will show banding.
Apple is just as bad as Microsoft.
I'm busy saving people that kick puppies. But RIGHT after that ... I'll join your cause.
Weeell we have 20,023 computers (that fluctuates a tad). That's probably about 30,000 cores in the end.

I cant iterate the whole lot - but I can cover a substantial portion more of the keyspace in 5 mins than most could in the 30hrs. I bet 5 minutes will easily get me damn close :)
Is there any technical documentation on mod_rails? I would like to read about the approach it takes, without having to dive into the source code. (I don't have any Ruby experience, and my Apache internals knowledge is probably dated.)
Indeed. It was just intended to be some good natured ribbing and also an expression of admiration of Zed's viral marketing skills.
Right on the money. Most people have no idea how difficult (and expensive) it is to acquire a decent non-TN LCD. And even when you find one, nobody ever gives the bit depth.

The reason the quality has been (and is) receding is because manufacturers have noticed that most people can't tell the difference between e.g. TN and IPS displays, so they produce the former, which are much cheaper. And better options are being phased out all the time; the two LCDs I have were phased out within a couple years. An S-IPS panel now costs at least $100 more than a same-size TN panel, and usually at much lower advertised contrast ratios, which further puts off consumers. Pretty much the only people who buy the good stuff now know their stuff, and we pay a premium because of it.
Another Security Tip For Twitter: Don’t Use "Password" As Your Password
Microsoft to Open Retail Stores - Compete Directly with Apple
Erlang dev offers bounty to improve his networking code
also, if you inadvertently obtain seeds (like, if your neighbor has Monsanto wheat and his grains blow into your fields) you have to kill your crop or pay Monsanto. reminds me of the RIAA's business model.
never mind then, my apologies
This must be a joke....
Yes. Google released an Eclipse plugin which helps you write setup the toolkit and start developing applications in no time. GWT also comes with an in build server which lets you test run your Client side code with complete debugging facilities of Eclipse/Java. I agree that Firebug is a good tool, but I just can't replace Eclipse with FF/Firebug.

The complete backend can be coded in Java. This of course you can debug even after you have compiled the entire front end of pure JS.

GWT also provides some useful data modeling techniques to exchange data between the server and client (basically an abstraction over AJAX).

I used to dislike the earlier versions of GWT because of its dependency on Java 1.2 and not being able to support the higher versions, but the current versions seamlessly compile Java 1.6 code and its awesome.
My specific point: people are "job-locked" by a desire to keep getting the compensation that their job provides. One form of compensation is medical insurance, another form is pay.

Is there any legitimate reason to single out medical insurance as a particular cause of job-lock, rather than pay, corporate gym membership, etc?
Are they moving in with Madoff, or what?

Why would you even say such a thing? Have you made attempts to contact them? If you have, please tell us about it. If this is your first attempt to find out, isn't it too harsh? Trash talking first and apologizing later is not cool. (I am assuming you'll apologize after you find out that there is nothing wrong, a likely scenario)

Isn't there enough strife in the world already?
This is why I use free software; software that works in my interests, instead of actively against it. I don't really understand why people would use software that intentionally limits their rights, but it makes me sad.

Amarok is vastly better than iTunes, if you are into that kind of thing. (I personally use xmms2 and a variety of perl scripts to control it, but I can see how that's not exactly suitable for everyone.)
Is the information on this statsheet available on a BSD license?
Yes but a 6 bit display accomplishes millions of colors through dithering, and your answer says nothing about whether that kind of dithering could fool the eye.

Since all colors on a LCD screen are dithered between red, green, and blue anyway, and the human eye has no trouble handling that, the question is whether a higher level dithering would be similarly undetectable.
In case you need reassuring:

"The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010."
A Tolerance For Crumbs
Why do they need to take a stand one way or the other? The Singularity Hub informs about advancements and progression toward the Singularity; their mission doesn't involve taking sides on controversial topics.

They raised the questions -- you can decide for yourself, right?
Situations when you need all 8 bits of color resolution:

-- performing color matching against a sample - fabric, print, etc
-- soft-proofing for print output (spot colors)
-- when performing any color/contrast adjustments on photographs or art that have fine color/value gradients. A common example is a grey sweep backdrop--zoom in past a certain point and you can see visible banding

That said, anyone doing prepress on a laptop is stupid. Get thee to a color booth and a 10-bit LUT Eizo (or even better to your cache of discontinued Sony Artisans you keep in a closet somewhere and replace as they age).
Yes, your experience will be different from that of most end users. But it will be minimally biased - you won't be baking in the settings that sound good on one set of cheap speakers but which would sound like total ass on other ones where cost has been saved in other ways.

For example, many hifi and computer speakers come with some kind of bass boost. If I edit something using speakers like that there will be little or no bass on speakers which don't have that 'feature'. Or if I go in the other direction and finish on speakers that sound rather thin, the result will be an unmerciful honking noise on anything with a bass boost. Using a pair of (moderately) expensive speakers means I can split the difference, and know that while it will never sound as good as I'd like on consumer speakers, it will never sound too awful either.

If you still don't think it matters, watch some short films or videos on YouTube. Then take even a modest Hollywood movie and notice how vastly, enormously better it sounds. Obsessing over sound and color seems trivial to those who don't have to work on content, but the very fact that most people take these things for granted is what fuels that obsession: because people are so sensitive they notice very quickly if the quality is off, even if they can't articulate why.
So if TechCrunch paid someone to break into computer systems and steal those documents that would be illegal. Seems like they could choose to help twitter identify who did break in and gained unauthorized access to their computer systems. Clearly TechCrunch is advancing someone's agenda who wants to harm Twitter given the description of the information that was provided to them.
Bill Gates puts Feynman lectures online
They are otherwise indisposed at the moment. I'd cut 'em some slack for the next couple weeks when it comes to responding to emails and such.
So I'm somewhat confused with the article's suggestion that:

"The only solution is to transform debt into equity across all sectors, in an organised and systematic way. Instead of sending hate mail to near-insolvent homeowners, banks should reach out to borrowers and offer lower interest payments in exchange for equity."

As I understand it, most that will walk away from their homes are upside down, meaning they owe more on the property than it is worth. That is also the reason that they're unable to refinance.

So the authors suggest that the bank lower the interest on the loan in exchange for equity which the homeowner has none of?
I thought that the 13" inch Macbook Pro had the 6 bit display while the others had 8 bit :-/

If the entire MBP line has 6 bit displays, then why complain?

I am a bit concerned of Apple's false advertising though. So my 2006-ish 17 Macbook Pro is not able to display millions of colors? That is sad...
Someone should check to see if they changed the password to 12345.
One that I think would qualify for HN is their set from last August on the Large Hadron Collider:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_co...
Thin and Passenger -- to be fair Thin is essentially mongrel + rack... picked up after Zed decided to stop maintaining mongrel.
He seemed to have very specific requirements, doing a bit of research isn't out of the question. I knew about the color situation (and don't care!), it has been well publicized.

A class action law suit about this issue was filed last year, it's not exactly breaking news.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11348
What's really interesting is who this hurts -- iTunes on OSX users who may have purchased music from the iTunes music store.

Windows users have a number of really useful and viable options to iTunes for managing their music. OSX users... don't. If I were still on Windows, I probably wouldn't have been using my Pre with iTunes to begin with. Unfortunately for me, I switched to a Mac not long ago, so I'm stuck with iTunes and a whole bunch of crap alternatives for managing my media library.

Great job, Apple, I'm so happy to be a Mac user.
PayPal makes good
definitely, explore it, you'll find hacks you won't believe. You can double my income tax if all the money goes to another project like this, perhaps a mission to Mars.
Perhaps so, but based in Britain (London, to be precise).
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
We should ask Steve Yegge about this :) he is on the edge of this real world and if he says yes we will have to learn new axioms as we did in high school
This is a fairly lame article. There are a lot of good posts comparing the two but this is a waste of time to click on.
London's rubbish to be tagged and tracked with RFID
Since when does an apology get down voted?
Apollo 11 (that landed in the moon) has a very small size compared to the rocket that was launched from the earth.

Can someone explain to me, how it got the sufficient energy to escape from the moon gravity? (photo35)

photo32: is there wind in the moon?
I think there are number of good places to get technical information, we started the Bootstrapper Breakfasts because practical business advice was harder to come by for technology startups.

One of the benefits of the Bootstrappers Breakfasts (http://www.bootstrapperbreakfast.com) are that they allow bootstrapping entrepreneurs to compare notes on operational issues. They are not meant to take the place of advisory boards or establishing other business relationships, but especially for smaller firms who are bootstrapping they are an opportunity to get advice from peers. We have folks attending who are doing their first startup and some who are on their fifth (the best approach can change over time, and what were good ideas for CD-ROM packaged software designed for customer PC or datacenter may be less powerful for SaaS/Cloud/iPhone platforms).

The first breakfast was in October 2005, we now run six times a month in Silicon Valley. There is no charge beyond the cost of your breakfast.
Calibrating the display will give you accuracy, ie the colors match those in real life. It doesn't help with precision, which is how narrow the distribution is. (That said, we're not strictly talking about that here, since there's no randomness in the colors, just an inability to reproduce small enough changes.)

But I agree with the other comment, on a laptop I care more about things looking nice, ie no dither or banding, rather than about accurate color reproduction.
Sorry, but this is Pravda. You may as well be posting articles from the Weekly World News. Flagged.
Chemistry Comes Alive
This sounds suspiciously similar to the plot of a recently released FPS.
I'm no color expert but even I could tell the terrible banding issues with gradients on a MacBook's screen. It's extremely apparent as soon as you throw a smooth gradient on screen.
Berkeley Ventures’ new YC Style incubator breaks from summer program model
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes
Always-on internet?! The creators are out of touch with reality.
It's very easy to demonstrate that someone posting fake advertising is being knowingly deceptive, and being deceptive in this fashion is what's against the law. It's harder to demonstrate that the other kinds of speech you mentioned are the consequence of malice rather than ignorance.
Twitter hacked by old technique -- again
Software Development Life Cycle [SDLC]
Also, cheap components have a ridiculous degree of variance. As a designer you need your work to look/sound the same on all of the tools you use. That shade of blue should not look blue-er on one monitor in your studio.
"If the update is a tenth of the size, we can push ten times as many per unit of bandwidth. We have enough users that this means more users will be protected earlier."
I've got bets on "god" - I mean, it worked for that organisation in that hackers movie right?
The App Store needs a "Unfiltered Internet Content" rating
>>It's called a MacBook Pro and is marketed at more demanding users, i.e. professionals

Which "professionals"? 8bit color is important to pretty much one professional group: graphic artists/designers (maybe two, if you include people doing video work). For the vast majority of people - "professional" or otherwise - 6bit vs. 8bit color doesn't matter. It looks good, it's fast, it runs what they want. Those are the things that matter.

As a developer, I consider myself a "professional", and my life is fine with 6bit color. My roommate is a screenwriting "professional" and they're fine with 6bit color. Presumably an 8bit color display would cost more, and hence would reduce the number of people who could afford the machine, at the expense of pleasing one small market segment.

Bottom line is that if a feature (any feature) was important enough for me that it would make or break my decision to buy the underlying system, I'd explicitly confirm its existence (in a way more rigorous than "millions and millions", which sounds like marketing-speak), and I'd get reviews from my peers who would have the same interests. In this case, the author did neither.
Apple deserves MUCH more rap and lawsuits than they currently get. They make amazing products, but that should be independent of their business practices
> This is why audio monitors ... don't "sound as good" to the untrained ear.

I've never understood this, myself. If it was mixed on monitors, and made to sound good on monitors, then shouldn't it sound best when replayed on monitors?
The "multiplying changing numbers" analogy made me think of "integrating really is just calculating the average", ie integrating f(x)dx is like taking the average of f(x) and multiplying by the size of the interval.
Ask HN: Best places to advertise online
Anyone got suggestions on the best places to advertise and why, facebook, stumbleupon...etc
I would have taken my refund and used it to pay a notebook repair tech (perhaps an Apple one, off-the-job) to swap out my 6-bit display for an 8-bit one.
I stopped reading after "Everyone knows that building the perfect body takes years of hard work and an iron will. Everyone except Tim Ferriss."
While it's certainly true, at least in my experience, that Passenger is both easier to set up and demands fewer system resources than a Mongrel cluster, there's a third vital factor: Passenger works just fine with Ruby 1.9, whereas Mongrel doesn't. This, ultimately, was the reason I switched.

Coincidentally, I ran up an article on shifting my server to Ruby 1.9 earlier today. It might be of interest to anyone considering it.

http://extralogical.net/2009/07/ruby-one-niner/
MacBook screens have been crap for as long as I can remember, since the days when they were selling PowerBooks and iBooks, long before the first iPod.

I have no idea why the "demanding" Apple audience let's them get away with that but the panels on these things have always had lower contrast and (sometimes ridiculously) lower viewing angles than comparable notebooks, e.g. the sony vaios.

I've done plenty side-by-side comparisons and both problems are fairly obvious even to the untrained eye. For example the RGB color #fefefe is generally indistinguishable from white on MacBook displays. Some of our designers refer to them as WashyBooks and spend time to make sure their palettes are "WashyBook safe".
<sarcasm>Save IE6</sarcasm>
Just as soon as I finish up the ¨Save the Ebola¨ campaign, I'm there!
If I have two monitors side-by-side, one 8-bit and one 6-bit, I'm pretty sure I could see the difference (just like, as an audio engineer, I can clearly hear the difference between high end monitors and consumer speakers). The question is...how do I know, if I don't know? You know?

I have multiple monitors, but the only one that I knew was 8-bit (a high end Viewsonic intended for designers, and from a time when specs were easy to find and very clear and generally accurate, at least on high end devices) has long since left the stable as it was only 19". I'm certain the differences are subtle, as they are in good consumer speakers vs. good studio monitors. But, it'd be nice to know if what I'm working with is altering my perception of things. Particularly as I've just done several thousand dollars worth of design work for print on my new laptop which may or may not have an accurate display. It's just nice to know what I'm dealing with is all.
Also check out Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach for a mathematically rigorous course in infinitesimal calculus. I think it is much more intuitive than typical limit calculus.

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html
They might make it out as an advantage for the customer, but what they really mean is "fewer, smaller CDN servers." A YouTube video, say, might be requested quite a few times in a day/hour/minute, but when a web browser notices it has an update, they all try to update, all at once. A 10x reduction in size is going to help a bit with handling that peak load.
Because the United States conquered the world. I'm just disappointed there was no cool end sequence.
This is not accurate because it does not take sea level into account.

First, when plates drift they also move up and down.

But also, wouldn't the center of gravity of the earth change if all the land was in one place? Wouldn't that shift water to cover a lot of the land?
They always say that. Don't know why, but every time there is a settlement a clause like this is part of it. Even for things way more obviously bad than this.
I wonder if this means EngineYard and other Rails hosts will start using/supporting it.
I stopped reading after "Tim Ferriss"
Make the questions look easy.
It doesn't look like this has ANYTHING to do with Mongrel, Apache, or HTTP at all!

He had ridiculous memory leaks from ActiveRecord/Rails under the older 'stable' version of Ruby he was using with Mongrel. When he switched to Passenger, which uses a patched/forked version of Ruby (the hilariously named "Ruby Enterprise Edition"), his Rails memory leak went away.
There are 8bit portable displays, you know, and Apple should be a company that uses them, especially when they are generally known for great quality products, but instead, they went with the cheaper option, a lower bit display.

Translation: I am unhappy that Apple made a business decision to use a cheaper component that won't affect most users of the machine, but negatively affects my particular use of it.

More broadly, in this day and age I'd also be skeptical of the author's notion that the word "Pro" means it's explicitly designed for "professionals" as opposed to normal people. Look at most advertising - the word has come to mean nothing more than high-end consumer grade. For the most part, if something is made explicitly for professionals in a certain field it will rely on industry-specific promotions/reviews and knowledge to make itself known, as opposed to outright advertising. This is similar to the frequent use of the word "exclusive" in reference to availability - if it was really exclusive, it wouldn't be advertised.

And even if I'm wrong about those two points, when did "professional" come to mean "digital art professional"?
mod_rails/Phusion Passenger is indeed awesome - getting set up on production was a cinch, and no babysitting has been required at all... it just works.

If you use it, consider turning on global queueing for extra special goodness: http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/10/29/phusion-passenger-now-with...

Docs:
http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20latest...

EDIT: (Using with Apache, no experience using nginx)
Because most people don't understand what globalization really means. Globalization is world peace.

But we're not there as long as hundreds of thousands of people are suffering for multiple lifetimes in North Korean prison camps. Odd universe, this one we live in.
Sure, but show me where Apple defines "Pro" as "Pro for a graphic artist"?
http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache...

You probably want to have a look at the appendices.