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If I have 30 second charge time, any battery lasting longer than 2 hours on usage is fine.
The (tiny) AROS Development Fund does that:

http://www.power2people.org/funds/aros/
...wouldn't it be cool if we jammed this into our already overly-bloated standards document?"

I think C++ gets the most flack for being too complex and bloated. But when you compare it to Java and C#, C++11, the language (based on language specification word/page count), is smaller than Java and only a little bigger than C#. The C++11 standard library is much smaller than both the Java 7 SE and the .Net (FX only) libraries.

Source: http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/5c51/d30749f7-09d7-4266-bd57-d1d4461..., just after 15 minutes in. Or http://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3a%2f%..., slide 14 and 15 (see the top-right corner of slide 14 for the metrics used for the comparison (page/word count of the language specs). EDIT, for context: the speaker/author referenced is Herb Sutter, member of the C++ standisation committee, and one of the authors of the graphics proposal in question.
Why do people like auto-indentation? It's just extra work undoing it when it decides I need indents when I don't, plus the mental overhead of "will it autoindent here?" all the time. Pasting is the worst, especially when it decides that as some config starts with a comment, it should turn it all into comments.

:set formatoptions-=ro and :set noautoindent are the first lines in my vimrc.
This is good.... but I do worry slightly that I'd get in my car one day and find some feature I liked had mysteriously vanished overnight or been replaced by something I didn't like. On balance though...good :)
No, this is what they rely on. It is the basic "If you have nothing to hide, why are you hiding" line of questioning. It's especially used to search cars at traffic stops.

Correct:

"Am I being detained? Am I free to go?" (repeat until one gets an answer)

If free to go - leave
If not free to go - don't say another word

Don't consent to a search. Don't try to be nice. Don't believe any bullshit you are told:

"Look, we're trying to be nice here, if you don't want to be nice, we can take you down to the station."

"You know what happens if we have to call to wake up a judge at this hour to get a search warrant?"

"Ok, then we'll just wait here until the dogs come"

or the almost always used -

"Am I being arrested?" "Do you want to be?"

--

It's all bullshit and used to get verbal consent to searches and verbal answers to questions. You may feel like an asshole, especially if you really do have "nothing to hide". The cops will do their best to make you feel scared of what they will do if you don't cooperate. You may have a ton of privilege (perhaps you are a cis-gendered white man) and you feel that cashing it in and talking man-to-man in a nice way with the cops will get you on your way quicker. And it may. But one time, it may not, and you'll wish you hadn't talked. And of the larger overarching issue of living a police state with nominal checks and balances on what the cops can and can't do, it behooves us all to limit their power to their legal minimum as much as possible.
Open Source at sapo - MEO Cloud CLI
Work with good people. Work for yourself (own projects, freelance, consultancy). Use your experience to work smarter than the young ones (and your peers if you can). Take adequate downtime. Travel the world. Specialise in technologies you find interesting.

Seems to be working for me :)
I would argue the reverse. Talking to the cops in a nice way, letting them search your car because you have "nothing to hide" etc etc may help you in the short term, but it further erodes all of our rights in the long term, and makes us all less safe and more subject to the whims of a police-industrial complex that it out of control.
Vanishingly small. That's entirely the point.
Back when Xohm was still a thing (and still only in Baltimore), I did the trick of ordering a Xohm modem and using a billing address in Baltimore while physically using the device in Dallas. The IP and reverse DNS showed I was connecting to a Sprint 4G-enabled tower well before Dallas was supposed to have service.

It was screamingly fast. I think I topped out at 65Mbps down and 40Mbps up. It's amazing how fast the network goes with no other load.
Most public defenders (I only worked with San Diego and LA once) are pretty good, though overworked. Public defender positions in San Diego especially are very competitive, and you often get top notch lawyers. Federal Defender positions are VERY competitive, and you often get top graduates from prestigious law schools. This may not be true everywhere, I only practiced law in South California.

In any case, even a shitty attorney knows how to say "my client has no comments." But, a far more important question to ask is "Am I under arrest?" If the answer is anything other then "Yes," be nice, say goodbye, and walk away. Most people do not realize that they have this right. In most cases cops do not have the evidence sufficient to arrest you, but they will make you think you are under arrest, so they can fish out some "probable cause" out of you. You don't have the right to an attorney unless you are under arrest. This is why they will often also tell you that they are "just talking" because as long as they are "just talking" they do not have to provide you with a lawyer.

You will NEVER get a straight answer to the question "Am I under arrest?" Just listen to what they say, unless the very first word from their mouth is "YES", assume the answer is NO. They will say things like "we are just talking" or "you could be if you do not cooperate", or "we want to hear your side of the story before we decide to arrest you." All those answers translate to "we don't have the evidence to arrest you, but we would like to talk to you until you slip up, and we find an excuse to arrest you."
Like Napoleon mentions in a sibling comment, you're typically not asking for a percent of profit directly, but rather for a weekly rate which is at a substantial premium to $50 an hour. (I've billed at $30k for a week before and pitched successfully at $50k.) A $60k engagement for my typical client wouldn't represent 1% of their profits -- many of them spend more on sandwiches in any given year. (If lunch as a perk costs $3k per employee per year and you have 40 employees... yep.)

Yes, it is extremely important that you're pitching the right sort of clients and that you're proposing to do something which meaningfully impacts their business. My typical client towards the end of my career was a B2B SaaS company with $10 to $50 million in annual sales. Bringing me on was generally not their #1 activity in any given year -- after all, they all have dozens of full-time employees, so they can do lots of things in any given year -- but it was generally for an initiative with a fair amount of strategic importance on, typically, a product which everybody knew would make serious bank if the initiative worked out.

If you had come up to me and said "We're building an app and need an extra Rails programmer" I'd have said "Cool, I keep a list of folks I like. Let me hook you up with someone." rather than attempting to get that business. Like everybody else who is Good With Computers, I occasionally get pitched on "Hey my aunt has a catering business, maybe you should make her a website?" That will never, ever happen. By comparison, if you'd recently experimented with A/B testing a bit on your $X million a year SaaS product and had increased sales by 5%, I would be very, very interested in helping you find the next 5 to 15%.

If you're continuing to find very budget-sensitive clients, how are you prospecting for them? How are you qualifying them? How are you pitching them?

There are many ways to prospect for clients which will get you lots of crappy leads, like e.g. looking for gigs on Craigslist.

Qualifying clients is an art. You don't have to proceed directly to the "prying" questions like explicitly asking what the budget for a project is. Just ask basic getting-to-know-you questions like what their core line of business is and how many employees they have. If their core line of business is retailing Beanie Babies and they have two part-time employees it is unlikely they can afford professional services. If, on the other hand, they have two dozen engineers on staff, they probably can write any check you can currently envision asking for.

What are you selling them on? If you're selling them things that can get delivered by any other freelancer who speaks your language, stop doing that. Start only going after engagements which, assuming project success, meaningfully increase the revenues of their company. Get case studies about how you've done that previously. Make it mandatory that you build in metrics tracking into all your projects, so that your clients know the ROI you are getting (and so you can quote, in broad terms depending on the specifics of your relationship and legal commitments, the sort of ROI your projects have recently generated.)
You mentioned EventVue's excellent post-mortem already. But for anyone thinking of building a startup in that space, Josh Fraser (EventVue's co-founder)'s follow-up post is also a mandatory read: http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/10/26/a-few-words-about-eve... - since he posted that follow-up on his own blog, it would be worth linking both in the article.

And if anyone is thinking of building something in the event space, read both of these posts. And then read them again. Josh is 100% spot-on. Absolutely nothing has changed in this industry since he wrote this (the events industry moves at a glacial pace).
It would be very inconvenient having to recharge every 2 hours, even if it is just for 30 seconds. Your smartphone would be of no use in a trip to the beach, or climbing a mountain; and it would be very easy to forget about it quite often.

I agree that battery life doesn't need to improve that much if we could recharge it in a dramatically more convenient way, but 30 seconds charge every few hours sounds insane to me.

Anyway, smartphones last way more than 2 hours unless the battery has been abused for years.
Schengen doesn't only include rich Western European countries, though, but quite a bit of economic differences. Bulgaria and Romania are both poorer than Mexico, and yet there's no wall keeping them out of Germany or Scandinavia. Poland was also quite poor when it joined, though it's now slightly wealthier than Mexico.
Also, as for the Apple devices, you only see the device itself. Never a shot of the UI. I have yet to see someone on TV use a Mac and interact 1:1 with the regular version of OSX that is installed on there.

Of course, MS can't do that with the surface cause it is so unremarkable so they just have to show the UI which is what makes it awkward as they really like to linger and make sure you really see that this is the original UI the device comes with.

When you see people using a Mac, for example on "Bones", you will just a custom created UI they interact with. I hear these are mostly flash animation that are supposed to look "techy" while not being boring. Which, incidentally is why things like tracking an IP or similar is looking to hilarious as it is done in the most graphical, bells and whistles kind of way. Even when they just send an email out in a scene they will use a custom animation instead of having the character really interact with OSX and use the standard mail client.
From the article:

> Stripe POSTs at a /tokens API endpoint over https, which means everything is encrypted including the query params
Java 1.7.0_51 breaks compatibility with Guava, Groovy, JClouds + more
Really? You never use (really use, not just have on standby) your phone for two hours or more between there being convenient charging options? Even with a 30 second charge I'd want much longer active life than that.

I'm not sure that I actually get with everything blaring (the quickest I uncharge my phone is when I have both radios going as I have a tablet using it as a tether) though it sometimes isn't so I carry an "emergency" battery charger with me when travelling.
Network can work pretty well at $10/BTC and at $10000/BTC. Bitcoin is "backed" in the same sense as gold: it's just unforgeable, divisible scarce asset which makes it a good collectible. If it has any value at all (in the eyes of some collectors), it can be used as a medium of exchange and can potentially acquire many more collectors willing to hold it in expectation that they can sell it any time for something else valuable.

USD is a collectible too, without any "backing". Some time ago USD was gold backed, meaning it was a promise to give you a certain amount of metal from the bank. Since 1972 (actually, for average Joe it all started even earlier, at Bretton Woods agreement) USD is officially not backed by gold. It's a pure collectible protected from forgery by law enforcement (both paper bills and banking transactions) and also protected from competing collectibles by various regulations and controls. As long as govt does not print dollars too quickly, it remains being a scarce asset which can be used as a collectible. Enforced requirement to pay taxes only works as long as dollars are demanded on the open market as a scarce collectible. If dollars are only needed as tokens to be purchased from govt with real goods (or bitcoins) to be paid back to it, then they have no meaning as money and it's going to be just a fancy way to pay taxes in something else.
Puffer machine - Explosives trace-detection portal machine
That's equivalent of patching a legacy code base and delaying the problem not exactly fixing the root cause.
We are looking into low-latency Dual-Full HD video streaming for the next Sky Drone FPV solution with real 3D Oculus Rift support :) 300Mbps would come handy
There are multiple problems with Gates's predition, but two of the biggest are these:

1. Growth in real economic wealth is very strongly tied to growth in real resource consumption. The master resource is energy, but numerous other resources are in tight supply, with a critical set being "bauxite whose production peaked in 1943), copper (1998), iron ore (1951), magnesium (1966), phosphate rock (1980), potash (1967), rare earth metals (1984), tin (1945), titanium (1964), and zinc (1969)" (from Richard Heinberg's The End of Growth[1])

I've explored the concept of decoupling in greater length using Wolfram+Alpha data to show the relationship between energy use and GDP for the G8 nations plus China, India, and Brazil, as well as global growth, in the periods of 2000 - 2010, 1990 - 2012, and 1980-2012 (not all data available for all periods, though the 2000 - 2010 data are complete for all nations analyzed). While there's some sign of very weak decoupling of energy and GDP growth, principally in Japan and the USA, for global GDP growth, there's a very strong relationship between GDP and energy usage, and both have been increasing. With limited exceptions, global per capita energy use has also been increasing.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1vlksg/economic...

2. The second major problem is that the so-called Demographic Transition which Gates and Hans Rosling like to trumpet is little more than a largely unexplained phenomenon observed in some but not all data series. Tom "Do the Math" Murphy, UCSD physics professor, has specifically looked at this with regards to oil states, and makes the observation that "surplus energy makes babies"[2]. This is significant for two reasons: it means that the demographic transition isn't being observed in all countries, and it means that population growth, and hence domestic energy consumption growth, is highest in the major oil exporting nations. Growing domestic consumption means reduced availability of energy for export markets -- a phenomenon known as the "export lands model". Other research suggests that the causality link between development rates and birth rates is less clear than popularly portrayed[3].

I could bore (or terrify) you with numerous other challenges: flat or falling agricultural productivity, EROEI deficiencies in virtually every non-fossil energy alternative, pandemics risks. There's a reason I don't get invited to parties much .... But I think these two will do.

While I have respect for some of Bill Gates's work (and I'm by no means an uncritical fan of his), his optimism here seems misplaced and founded on a very incomplete portrayal of the situation.

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Notes:

1. Sources: http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/ and http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/597/2/

2. "The Real Population Problem" http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-populat...

3. "Revisiting demographic transition: correlation and causation in the rate of development and fertility decline." http://www.iussp.org/sites/default/files/event_call_for_pape...
you get your one phone call

Is that actually how it works in the US? A judge in Canada recently lamented this as a "misconception brought on by watching too many Hollywood movies", and pointed out that (at least in Canada) you can make as many phone calls as you need in order to get a lawyer.
AMD has 10-16 core server CPUs that are very price competitive with Intel's Xeon performance. They generate more heat however, so they are not economic in datacenters for energy usage reasons, but they are ideal for getting the most powerful workstation possible.
Single core performance in CPU intensive applications really improved between Nehalem/SNB/IVB/Haswell actually. [1] is a benchmark of the Dolphin Emulator (mostly single threaded performance) on a variety of recent CPUs that shows this.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AunYlOAfGABxdFQ...
Passwords are bullshit and it is our failure as an industry: we should be moving away from passwords.
Ask HN:  What's the best email newsletter service?
I'm looking to send newsletters out to subscribers of my site - which service have worked best for you?
Can a designer ever be a true consultant?
The dictionary definition of consultant is:

"A person who gives professional advice or services to companies for a fee"

Does anyone have any experience with cutting out the latter part of the definition?

I'm currently studying some options, and exchanging my services for an hourly, daily, weekly or even per project basis is becoming less appealing. Maybe not less appealing, but I'm certainly interested in looking at other avenues to sell my expertise and experience.

Does anyone have any experience in making the jump from "Designer" to "Consultant"? Can a designer even be a true consultant, or will hands on design always be involved?
I'd love to hear about your experiences.

Thanks
Nathan
Tesla’s dream: Wirelessly powered devices that get their energy out of thin air
I never asked for references of police killing civilians, as I'm aware that this happens. I'm specifically interested in references of police killing civilians for requesting legal counsel, especially in the course of questioning.

If this isn't something that routinely happens, then it is not a significant danger to the life or liberty of the average citizen to request counsel while being interrogated.
And the fact is, Apple wouldn't really need to do that. I mean, how often have you seen scenes where the character was clearly using am iMac but the Apple logo was covered by a post-it or something?

In those cases, Apple is clearly not paying to have their merch being used and the show clearly didn't get approval to "officially" use the Apple logo which is why they had to cover it. But, in the end, it is still clear that this thing they use is an iMac.
if every tech company did this the world would be a better place
Well, no, a mentally "retarded" person is not expected to develop further. They're behind, but nobody thinks they'll catch up. "Stunted" would be a more accurate term than "retarded"; the latter is just a euphemism.
Clever Algorithms [2009] [pdf]
Maybe he was just under the impression that files on the desktop were not in the hard drive.

I just fired up sheepsaver to check: in the olden days of mac the desktop appeared to be the root of the filesystem, so the hard drive was just one level inside the desktop.
Woman calls police for help. Was tased and pepper sprayed.

http://www.popehat.com/2010/07/12/i-found-my-third-grade-tea...
I find it equally annoying to request for money, but not be transparent about it. Equally annoying is that when a request is made, you're considered an annoyance.

Deliver an OS has no relation to financial capabilities.
and use what authenticators?
LogMeIn Free ends today
In the Schengen Zone, you can just drive across the border, there might be a flag at the border to tell you when you've crossed (or more importantly) a sign telling you the new road traffic laws.

And of course citizens of both countries can live and work in each other for as long as they like. Can't see the USA & Mexico doing that.
Two Dropboxes are better than one
IP theft? Is that like BGP hijacking?
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Thanks!
I think the existence of this wall is justified by economical reasons. The affluence of the western world is based on the fact that we can buy products built with the cheapest labour, say in China; but the cheapest labour can't come and compete with us for jobs they would do at a fraction of the cost.

I know I'm oversimplifying, but I think it's abhorrent that strict immigration policies go hand in hand with free trade. If you allow goods to move freely you have to allow the workforce to move as well.
It's still a little unclear: It says that it is a POST, but the URL in the box above contains the card details. Further, the bit of text you quote goes on to say:

> ...including the query params. These params include the card number, expiration date, and CVC

The URL they give as an example is:

https://api.stripe.com/v1/tokens?email=foo%40example.com&pay... &card[exp_month]=4&card[exp_year]=2014&card[name]=foo%40example.com&key=pk_test_6pRNASCoBOKtIshFeQd4XMUh&callback=sjsonp1390180955159&_method=POST

So are these params in the URL, or not?
And even in the GMail case there could be lots of throwaways. Bank accounts usually not, but passwords to those don't leak very often.
That's still something that

a) you need to remember to do (my phone currently lives in my pocket at work when not in active use) and to undo - i.e. pick it up again when you wander off

b) needs you to be near your desk at some point. I can often be away from any power source for many hours at a time - more than long enough to drain an average smartphone's battery with reasonable use.
Said it true. Google just wants everyone to spend money on Adwords. Hope someone will break their monopoly in Search Market.

DuckDuckGo are you listening me?
Another thing 'we' here in the EU don't really get; if you watched even ONE cop show from the US, you know that you ONLY utter ONE thing when you get arrested/detained/whatever: 'lawyer'. And nothing else. So why, in the same cop shows and real life, do people start blabbing?
The only thing I would add to this is don't be a dick, you don't want them to have an excuse to arrest you. Ask in a nice and polite voice "Am I under arrest?" If the verbal answer from the police is anything but a short and clear "Yes," tell the cop "I understand your answer to mean that No, I am not under arrest. I am terminating this conversation and I am going to leave now." This doesn't apply to traffic stops for speeding or something like that, in those cases being nice will get you far. But if you are suspected of a real crime, for god sakes, keep your mouth shot, and if you are not under arrest, leave ASAP.
I know, but it seemed such a ridiculous request. It's a really weak attack on their argument that it's in your personal interest to cooperate with police. It drew the attention to something that wasn't really up for debate and looked more like a troll than anything. Also, these events aren't something that everyone is aware of, so it's more for the public attention than your own.

Basically I was just asking for you to say what you just did.