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The story behind 'Bliss', Windows XP's famous default wallpaper
Endorse Graph: A browser plugin that allows people who are signed in with their Linkedin, Github, Stack Overflow, Medical-Sites, etc... to endorse the content of a web page.
This is the only service in this space I could find: https://starthq.com/apps/crondash

It doesn't actually run the job but could be used to trigger them.

I think the idea could work if you could write the tasks as snippets of JS, think IFTT/Zapier but with a code editor.
Maciej was banned, though, and left immediately when that happened, like many reasonable people would.

Mistakes happen. I don't think there's much drama to mine here.
As long as you're aware of the SEO issues it shouldn't be a problem. Whether or not SEO matters in your case depends on what kind of app/website you're building.
> "though I don't think that not-offering them 10% of your company is undervaluing them."

I didn't say anything about 10% ;)

This may or may not be what you're suggesting, but I've seen this time and time again in NYC - find someone with talent making $45K in the Midwest and dazzle them with visions of the Big City and... $80K. I've heard of the same things happening in SF as well.

These guys never stay put, once they're in your local talent pool the recruiters will set upon them like sharks. It'll be a few months at most before someone comes in with a price adjustment on your engineer's services.

In this market, with a supply this short, any arbitrage opportunity is going to be highly temporary.
My friends has started a startup around this, feel free to visit germ.io
OpenSMTPD, OpenNTPD and OpenSSH are avail for other platforms. They will strip OpenSSL down to essentials, spend months auditing what's left then when satisfied it is reliable software porting to other platforms can begin. It's only been a week
Wow! I actually would love this. Kinda like an IDE for cooking? Uhmm... would definitely use.
Use the source, Luke.

I'm not usually one to trot out that line, but I've found it is the simplest way to figure out what's going on. Most subsystems are pretty straight forward. The only really hairy place is the scheduler. That's after mucking with most of the device model, ARM specific bits, and networking stack.
This interview took part when the economy in the UK and USA had hit the skids, while the USSR's economy was chugging along like gangbusters. In fact, a significant number of English and west European workers moved to the USSR to work since there was a labor shortage. American firms went there as well.

Whatever the economists were talking about, the US had just started to change to an incredibly centralized, semi-planned economy based on military spending as well as things like the NSF. The US is still like this, the military budget is over half a trillion a year, and the brass has been publicly begging Congress for decades now to not make so useless tanks and such. It is a job and research program, it in/directly financed the transistor and IC and microprocessor, it created the Internet and so forth.

Under Stalin the USSR's economy was doing great. Khrushchev made a lot of changes, and problems began cropping up (bread shortages, less capital spending etc.)

You can't make a comparison with the US as an unplanned economy, since this was the beginning to changing it to a semi-planned economy with a (conservatively) $600 billion a year "military" budget. You can't say Stalin's economic policies failed, as they were successful under himself, and Khrushchev majorly changed them in the same way FDR changed the US policies.

Also the price argument is tautological and not falsifiable. Something is valuable because something is valuable. Let us say that Bitcoin is a giant Ponzi scheme (which it is), a $6 billion bogus market cap of worthless hashes. In fact it was a $14 billion market cap four months ago, now $6 billion. Is all the equipment buys, and wasted electricity and so forth a rational allocation of capital? Couldn't it be better used to make something useful? Well it's a rational allocation because of the price which makes it rational which points to the price. It's a circular, tautological, unfalsifiable argument. When Bitcoin's market cap crashes below $1 billion, and then lower, the price argument you mention won't have its defenders admit they're wrong because it is tautological.
afaik, airbnb requests that the travelers pay using fiat money, not labor.
A newsletter advertising network.
And I'm sure you are wrong.
I only see a Validation option(not Revocation), which has 2 more options on how to check OCSP, and those are both checked using the defaults.
The correct path on my OS is Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Validation -> OCSP options(both checked)
The TVs aren't "Smart" for the consumers. They are "Smart" for the producers/advertisers/etc that want to data mine your television consumption (now including various streaming services).
As said it should be pluggable. Yes you will still need seed fingerprints for a few independent plugins (like the CA list of today), and you still need to trust or vet the browser itself (also like today).

The point is that once this seed trust has been established, which ideally would need to happen only once in your lifetime (given proper sync/backup facilities), you gain actual control over who you want to delegate your trust to, if at all. On a site-per-site basis.

If an american, a chinese and an EU database independently agree on a fingerprint for a site then that would be an actual trust indicator. Very much unlike the perpetually compromised zoo of certificate authorities of today.

And obviously once there's a market for plugins you'd quickly see plugins going far beyond what we get to know today (read: essentially nothing). There could be subscription-based plugins providing detailed information about the remote party, down to credit ratings, company history, you name it.
You're overestimating TorrentFreak's commitment to investigative journalism.
So it seems I need to post some links to official documentation.

<quote>The Delphi Language Guide describes the Delphi language as it is used in RAD Studio development tools. </quote>

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE6/en/Delphi_Langu...

<quote>Delphi is a high-level, compiled, strongly typed language that supports structured and object-oriented design. Based on Object Pascal, </quote>

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE6/en/Language_Ove...

The current language is based on Object Pascal, which is quite different from being Object Pascal, which was quite different back in the Turbo Pascal and early Delphi days.

I don't know Delphi and Turbo Pascal history from Wikipedia, I lived through it, from Turbo Pascal 3.0 up to Delphi version 3.
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Sometimes, I wonder if there really are cats and dogs messing around with computers...
Nice!

The other issue is what occupies people's hands. It's surprising for me to see how many tourists use traditional maps (though, on the flip side, one never knows when someone is looking at a map on their smartphone), and how many people don't ask passers-by questions in order to get help. A dedicated app would mean less happenstance intereaction while abroad but it would also help not waste time (and give more time for more sights to see).

Another HN commenter mentioned offline capability, in this sense it could be like Wikipedia's make an e-book function, where you'd get, in the case of my idea, the pertinent street view photos, together with the right info downloaded to your phone. For ex, "give me top 10 comments on the Mona Lisa, 5 levels deep and for the Moulin Rouge, which I'm more interested in, give me the top 20 comments, 10 levels deep."

If a 'chapter' is to be added while on your trip, because you heard about something new and cool, then all that's needed is a wifi connection to download the right info and add it to the multimedia 'book'.
Slightly off topic but look into witch (http://manytricks.com/witch/) for better OSX window switching. I have alt+tab configured to switch between windows on the current desktop that aren't hidden.
This sounds a lot like a home/urban oriented WWOFing (http://www.wwoof.net/) and a bit like CouchSurfing.
None of those are all volunteer organizations. There are plenty of old mostly volunteer organizations and a few large but short term ones. But, without a core of paid workers organizations don't last.
Valet anywhere? Valetanywhere.com
A guide to finding your meaning of life
I glanced at it when it made some news. I have the same problem with Discourse - unnecessary javascript just to view static text on the web.
"That was when it was still a private company!"

I don't see why there's any particular link between how widely distributed the ownership of a company is, and whether the infrastructure it is building holds potential for abuse and should be considered a matter of vital public interest. For the record, I think (with low confidence) that this is not true of Google and wasn't at the time, I just think this point is irrelevant.
I am a teacher and I have been involved with teacher training in the UK at College and University level.

If you have been working with others as a Web developer, you will have acquired coaching skills and the ability to explain technical information.

I would suggest that you start with small groups of people (4 to 6) in a local coffee bar gain experience as to the things they find difficult by using materials easily available in the appropriate language.

A couple of workshops will give you an idea of what you need to focus on.

Basically, start and iterate. I hope the OP posts their materials as I think this is a nice idea to start in other cities.
I really hate the format of arguments/debates in person. I feel like they would be a lot more rational if done through email or something, where one isn't expected to respond immediately as part of a conversation.

I'd like a website which facilitated debates, allowed debaters to branch off multiple threads of debate and close threads once they are settled (ideally until all threads are closed), backreference other threads, citation lists that get automatically aggregated, etc.
Yes, but on a different branch. CI runs tests then merges to master (or whatever branch triggers deployment) and pushes.
Curious what the HN crowd has done to find their passions and make important career and life decisions.
The two issues in the comments so far, iteration with index variable and assignment/destructuring without explicit let are both handled beautifully by CoffeeScript. At least Rust gets right "everything is an expression". One of the best things CoffeeScript "brought".
I guess you didn't read the article? He's saying there are no cases where it works. Making it completely pointless.
Tell me where in the world people did not live communistically prior to 10,000 years ago.

So according to you, the entire world lived under a system that required the oppression of others prior to 10,000 years ago, when everyone lived in migrating hunter-gatherer bands where all wealth was shared. This was a system that forced people to starve, according to you.
How about Phabricator- http://phabricator.org/
Huh, this actually looks nice!
How would you keep track of the ideas that have been implemented/are being worked on? User-submitted?
An app that shares the password of local wifi - e.g. for the coffee shop you are sitting in.

Perhaps neither practical nor legal, but something that would be useful when the barista is feeling snarky and you don't want to return a second time to ask for the wifi password.
I've worked for 2 large technology companies. The first was a big one down in Southern California and HR there was as you describe.

The other was a big one in San Francisco, and their HR was insanely powerful... for some reason. It was quite a shock to me but to a lot of others used to Bay Area startups they made it seem like the norm.

So I guess my point is that not all HR is alike and there is probably some truth to this HR negotiating business.
This doesn't explain identical behavior by all later devs. The most reasonable explanation is a common cause.
My first instinct in this situation (adding some automation to a printing press) would be to reach for a microcontroller. I always overlook how much can actually be done without one.
Wow, I guess that means they are biased. Luckily, academics in universities across the US, funded by grants by the Koch brothers ( http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/11/144280/koch-uni... ), are writing objective articles about history, economics, policy and other topics.
Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04
Hack Rifle
A mobile app to gamify recruitment. Users can win small amounts of credit by 1) referring friends(from phonebook) for a job 2) reviewing jobs to put them in the baskets of: not applicable, interested but not actively looking, interested and applying.This credit can be redeemed for non-cash items like: gift cards and coupons. Recruiters pay a fee(in-app payment) to post jobs. In return they get: 1) leads to candidates who applied and 2) profile summary of people who found the job interesting but did not apply or found it not applicable. For e.g: 10 applied(list of contact info), 15 found the job interesting but did not apply(of which: 70 % are web developers, 60 % have salaries more than 100k, 80 % are more than 5 years of exp. I have been working on a prototype but it still need to iron out a few wrinkles idea-wise.
Messaging Is A Winner-Take-Some Market
Its not much good, but what you're describing sounds like http://www.debate.org/
Discourage long, pointless meetings I imagine.
Waze but for supermarket prices.
Minimal Gmail interface
A major pain point in my life is house maintenance and repair. I really miss having a (good) landlord. That's what I want - a single point of contact to manage the upkeep of and fix any issues related to my home.

There's so much friction in the process of finding the various contractors needed to keep a home in good order. First you have to search on craigslist, angieslist, or google for contractors that service your area. Then you play phone tag with each. Then you schedule a time for each to come out and give an estimate, which can be a major interruption to your week. Then you schedule a time for the chosen contractor to actually complete the work. And then you cross your fingers that you chose well, because if you didn't, you'll have an even bigger headache on your hands.

Ideally I would pay a large monthly fee (500-1k) and absolutely everything would be covered. Regular maintenance would simply get done without requiring anything of me. My lawn would get cut when it needs it. My driveway would be cleared when it snows. My gutters would be cleaned as needed. My home would be cleaned twice a month. And so on. When ever anything else needs fixing, I'd have a single point of contact (an app, maybe) where I could open a ticket. I'd then be offered a selection of times when an expert could come fix the issue and after selecting a time that works for me, an expert would actually show up at that time and fix the problem. A little more friction could be removed if I could preselect times when it's acceptable for maintenance personnel to enter my home. Ideally I wouldn't even have to be home. The service would also have permission to deal with my insurance company as needed since that's also a major pain point. They'd cover anything not covered by the insurance. Or perhaps I could do away with my existing home insurance in favor of this full service home insurance company.

To begin the service, someone would have to perform a full home inspection to uncover preexisting issues which wouldn't be covered. The service could help take care of those issues but it'd have to be on an a la carte basis. Once the home was up to snuff, then the monthly fee would kick in and cover any new issues, as well as regular maintenance.

A simpler version of the idea, which wouldn't be as good but would have a lot less risk would be to offer maintenance only: lawn cutting, regular cleanings, ect... I'd still pay good money for that.
And I didn't say companies should recruit and under-value ;)

But to your point, yes bringing someone over, only to under pay them is only going to hurt you, as you said--the switching cost is nearly zero, and these days having stints on your resume that are 1-2 year at most, isn't a big deal.
Entrepreneurs reveal their failures en route to success
For someone of low access to capital, a dollar probably has substantially more use-value than the same value (less than 25 mg) of gold. The dollar can serve as insulation, can be burned for heat, can stuff a pillow... there's better substitutes for all these things, of course, but the values of these things are so far away from their use value it's amusing that we consider use value much at all. None of which undermines the point that "use as money" can give things value, of course.
When we first evaluated options, zip.js only supported IE9+ (and IE6-8 were still relevant browsers) while JSZip supports IE6+. In fact, the Base64 text box was introduced in http://oss.sheetjs.com/js-xlsx/ specifically to test IE6-9 (which do not support the HTML5 File API)
That $1MM in stock is probably spread out over many (many) years of staying with the company. Golden handcuffs can be quite dangerous in sabotaging brilliant people's careers and making them settle for mediocrity.
Related: http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/

It's not just css, but uses NASA data and does super accurate simulation, like predict-the-solar-eclipse-date kind of accurate...
> Up until now, I have been using spreadsheets for this kind of thing. That works fine for charting, but not much else.

Historical archives! http://i.imgur.com/RsB99dN.png that's one thing that's always kept me off of services, not being able to export my workouts, so I made sure you can do it in CSV, Markdown, and bbCode (individual, date ranges, and all workouts).

If you want to give it a whirl here's an invite code w/o needing to wait - https://thesquatrack.com/register?c=nn5z3za84d
How to put online courses on your resume
Here's what I want: A cheap text ssh terminal with wifi,or cellular, nice keyboard hardware, with extremely long battery life (or solar powered), which i can just throw it in my car and forget it. Whenever I am away of my computer I can always log in to my cloud server and write codes or do some quick fixes.
That's part of the puzzle, but it's (AFAIK) mostly for code review and bug tracking. I'm very much interested in the build tooling & automated testing (& probably also deployment) pieces.
First time I ever even saw* one was when I was in my 30's and it was at a job I had. I saw a similar thread here on HN where some brits though it was old fashion and barbaric to use a kettle on the stovetop. Well, I grew up with those, though I don't own one myself. I just heat a cup of water in the microwave.

* - or conciously aware of seeing it. I might have seen it and it was just background noise.
Hey, I created a little meteor app today just for this. http://thoughts.meteor.com/
I am writing a blog post to cover all aspects of my journey. As summary, started with MoaiSDK, ended up with Xcode,Obj-C and Cocos2d. http://www.raywenderlich.com is great start for newbies. Thanks for your interest.
Examining the Threat of Easter Eggs
I suggest you pick up books on Rhetoric, the art of persuasive speaking. There exist some people who will win any argument regardless of how sound their logic is.
Show HN: Idea Sunday App
I created a little meteor application last night for idea sunday for some real time thought sharing

http://thoughts.meteor.com/
Why didn't he compare it to the Greifer laying on the table?
The myoeletric device he compared the 3 printed one to was the cosmetic hand.
The workhorse is the Greifer, which is a much better device for working and handling than the cosmetic hand.
The API's aren't changing... they are keeping API compat. Sure you won't be able to change the PRNG anymore ... but that isn't that big of a deal.

This isn't about confirming to their personal style, this is about cleaning the code up so that auditing it is possible.
Semantic product review. Object-oriented product review if you will.

Refer to specific aspects of a product and make semantic statements about them.

Endorse what you agree with instead of repeating it.

Basically, no blank text box waiting to be filled witohut the reviewer's own unique way to format thoughts.
I've been sitting on this gem for a while. I present to you: The Bruce Wayne Gap Year.

Wealthy people with desires to become Batman can more-or-less do so.

First they sign a waiver and an NDA, removing any liability from the Bruce Wayne Gap Year company. Then they'll pay the company tens of thousands of dollars to pay for what is to come.

They'll be put into a real criminal gang [1], and taken around the world getting involved in all sorts of illegal [2] activities.

Sooner or later they'll be subtly led to the Himalayas, where they'll join a monastery, lead a simple life of celibacy and minimalism and slowly learn to meditate and fully understand themselves and their body.

After a while, they'll be groomed by a man [3] claiming to be working for a mysterious and powerful leader of a guild of assassins, and taught all kinds of martial arts over months and months, culminating in a complex battle which determines their eligibility. At that point, they will be asked to do something their morals will not allow (this will be determined in a psychological screening), and end up betraying and destroying [4] the guild.

Then they return home, better for the experience.

It can't fail. A friend of mine also suggested it be re-implemented for all sorts of action hero/film type situations. James Bond, Die Hard, Rambo, etc. It's essentially a very expensive, realistic roleplaying experience.

[1]: Actually, very highly paid and well-trained actors. We don't tell them that though.

[2]: Mostly not illegal, but they're made to believe that these things are illegal. Some things will be borderline (they may accidentally end up threatening people who are not part of the ruse, for example), hence the NDA.

[3]: Also an actor. A very good, very well paid actor. Possibly we'll just get Liam Neeson, and he'll act so well that he'll convince them that he's not Liam Neeson.

[4]: Not really. The martial artists will never be allowed to be worse than the client, and will also be stunt-trained and capable of faking death.
Do you need any permission from government for hacking around with a rifle ?
There you go. Weren't LG smart TVs found to phone home the file names of media you play on it off your own external storage? No thanks.
If you have the time to help build it, there's one being built here co-op style: https://assemblymade.com/party-box
> That's why I claim that online revocation checking is useless - because it doesn't stop attacks.

Doesn't mean there are "no" cases where it works. It just means any attacker dedicated enough can work around the CRLs.

I don't see any reason why one should throw the baby with the water. In this case, I just see Chrome guilty of FUD and hiding behind an intractable problem to justify their incorrect position.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem if you want to convince yourself the problem is intractable.
Stalin referred to his Western supporters as "useful idiots".
A real time JavaScript webm encoder based on a canvas hack
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0672329468/
> The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

> Sorry about that.

Sorry about you, BBC.
As if coffeescript originated the features... We don't have iteration with index variable because it's seen as extraneous and unnecessary. If you aren't using iterators, you're paying for unnecessary bounds checks (LLVM often can't optimize them out). The explicit let mostly comes from the ML heritage and want for nice pattern matching.
New Tax Bug Bites Tech Companies