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my secret hobby: applying for jobs
| "these companies don't notice that in this way, the good people a driven away, and only the desperate will apply."this. one of the reasons i chose my last employer (sap, or more specifically, sap research) was their no bullshit, yet very thorough, recruitment process.compare that with my 0a very, very, well known softw... | these companies don't notice that in this way, the good people a driven away, and only the desperate will apply.it's a catch-22. without this process, every man 8 his dog will apply for the job causing the company to have to filter through literally hundreds of applications in order to find appropriate candidates. tho... |
my secret hobby: applying for jobs
| these companies don't notice that in this way, the good people a driven away, and only the desperate will apply.it's a catch-22. without this process, every man 8 his dog will apply for the job causing the company to have to filter through literally hundreds of applications in order to find appropriate candidates. tho... | for some reason this story reminds me of one of the arabian nights stories, which, in the translation i read, began:"know, my friends, when i was no more than eight years old, i had already cultivated the remarkable habit of telling one really big lie per year".i wonder if these hobbies could be combined? indulging in ... |
my secret hobby: applying for jobs
| for some reason this story reminds me of one of the arabian nights stories, which, in the translation i read, began:"know, my friends, when i was no more than eight years old, i had already cultivated the remarkable habit of telling one really big lie per year".i wonder if these hobbies could be combined? indulging in ... | i'm really happy where i'm contracting at the moment, but like to apply for challenging-looking roles. two big benefits here:a) if somewhere offers you a lot money, you can take that back to your current employer. i've had a 30% payrise from that before on my day rate.b) slightly bigger companies with big pockets are o... |
my secret hobby: applying for jobs
| i'm really happy where i'm contracting at the moment, but like to apply for challenging-looking roles. two big benefits here:a) if somewhere offers you a lot money, you can take that back to your current employer. i've had a 30% payrise from that before on my day rate.b) slightly bigger companies with big pockets are o... | interesting observations. as someone who has been in hiring positions over several years, the signal to noise ratio in recruiting consistently goes down. on-line recruiting used to be the domain of the talented. now that everyone is on-line, the professional job-searchers have more time on their hands.let's say the ... |
how we created the world's best low-latency video streaming system
| fortunately, there was a startup–which has requested not to be named–that saw the potential here. with a few features, x264 could be turned into the most powerful low-latency streaming platform in the world....videoconferencing? pah! i’m playing call of duty 4 over a live video stream!october 2009 seems a little lat... | you should get wowza to adopt this technology, the keyframe-less solution is a big step forward.what are the implications for automatic bandwidth adaptation?to do all this without touching the decoder, so staying within the standard is really impressive, it's funny how such constraints bring out the creativity. |
how we created the world's best low-latency video streaming system
| you should get wowza to adopt this technology, the keyframe-less solution is a big step forward.what are the implications for automatic bandwidth adaptation?to do all this without touching the decoder, so staying within the standard is really impressive, it's funny how such constraints bring out the creativity. | what would it take to write a windows driver that pretended to be a monitor but actually multiplexed to an actual monitor and a x264 stream? what kind of bounty would be required to get such a thing written? |
how we created the world's best low-latency video streaming system
| what would it take to write a windows driver that pretended to be a monitor but actually multiplexed to an actual monitor and a x264 stream? what kind of bounty would be required to get such a thing written? | will it play in flash, like <link> ? that would be awesome... |
how we created the world's best low-latency video streaming system
| will it play in flash, like <link> ? that would be awesome... | hmm.. boxee could use something like this. |
don't break the chain
some good advice that can apply to any aspiration | i found it works for running. after you have a two month streak going, you really don't want to miss a day. you find you make the rest of your life fit around it. | this principle is why many lisp hackers fail to make good web sites or applications. lisp programming can lead to days and weeks of fun programming, so that you break the chain of doing less-fun but important programming. sometimes the improvement users want most involves non-fun programming. you really have to push... |
don't break the chain
some good advice that can apply to any aspiration | this principle is why many lisp hackers fail to make good web sites or applications. lisp programming can lead to days and weeks of fun programming, so that you break the chain of doing less-fun but important programming. sometimes the improvement users want most involves non-fun programming. you really have to push... | i can imagine using multiple colors for various tasks on a single board. i might try this. i use something close to gtd, with a flat text file. i really need a pda though. |
don't break the chain
some good advice that can apply to any aspiration | i can imagine using multiple colors for various tasks on a single board. i might try this. i use something close to gtd, with a flat text file. i really need a pda though. | seinfeld kept telling the same jokes for years. |
don't break the chain
some good advice that can apply to any aspiration | seinfeld kept telling the same jokes for years. | it works. i used to do something similar for going to the gym |
fluid: a ui prototyping tool
| the tutorial is well done and fluid is very fun to use. i love how simple it is to setup simple transitions and "play" the app.dragging a page into the trashcan is inconsistent with deleting an element by hitting the trashcan button; it took me a bit of frustration to figure out. there's no way to figure out what the b... | 2 browser not currently supportedfirefox that is. |
fluid: a ui prototyping tool
| 2 browser not currently supportedfirefox that is. | nice. needs more snapping. i hate pixel-perfect aligning stuff by hand. |
fluid: a ui prototyping tool
| nice. needs more snapping. i hate pixel-perfect aligning stuff by hand. | i'm getting overwhelmed by all these nifty browser based prototyping tools coming out. very cool stuff, but it seems like the market is starting to get a little saturated |
fluid: a ui prototyping tool
| i'm getting overwhelmed by all these nifty browser based prototyping tools coming out. very cool stuff, but it seems like the market is starting to get a little saturated | 2 fluid: a clever ui prototyping tool** for mobile designs |
ask hn: news website without the 'silly news'?
i'm looking for a "normal" website (i.e. not the drudge report) with normal news, minus all the sensationalist headlines.<p>i'm sick of the "common man's" approach on cnn and bbc, which are my primary two sources. i'm tired of polls asking "do you agree with the racist dec... | try the english version of al jazeera - <link>
i'm sure it won't be your primary source but it's usually worth a look. | on paper, it was always the economist. |
ask hn: news website without the 'silly news'?
i'm looking for a "normal" website (i.e. not the drudge report) with normal news, minus all the sensationalist headlines.<p>i'm sick of the "common man's" approach on cnn and bbc, which are my primary two sources. i'm tired of polls asking "do you agree with the racist dec... | on paper, it was always the economist. | what has been your experience with customizing google news? google will never have the fastest coverage of a breaking story like the balloon boy, because it is aggregating other people's content with a time lag, but i have tweaked my preferences a lot on google news to where i can rely on it for a lot of international ... |
ask hn: news website without the 'silly news'?
i'm looking for a "normal" website (i.e. not the drudge report) with normal news, minus all the sensationalist headlines.<p>i'm sick of the "common man's" approach on cnn and bbc, which are my primary two sources. i'm tired of polls asking "do you agree with the racist dec... | what has been your experience with customizing google news? google will never have the fastest coverage of a breaking story like the balloon boy, because it is aggregating other people's content with a time lag, but i have tweaked my preferences a lot on google news to where i can rely on it for a lot of international ... | i was thinking about starting a site like this (perhaps based on this source code). the only issue i thought of was that people would just have to accept that i was going to be the dictator in what goes in and what doesn't. with topics like politics that can cause a problem and also if i don't know enough about a given... |
ask hn: news website without the 'silly news'?
i'm looking for a "normal" website (i.e. not the drudge report) with normal news, minus all the sensationalist headlines.<p>i'm sick of the "common man's" approach on cnn and bbc, which are my primary two sources. i'm tired of polls asking "do you agree with the racist dec... | i was thinking about starting a site like this (perhaps based on this source code). the only issue i thought of was that people would just have to accept that i was going to be the dictator in what goes in and what doesn't. with topics like politics that can cause a problem and also if i don't know enough about a given... | btw, my fallback is global.nytimes.com - it doesn't have as much "news" as cnn/bbc but it does update fairly quickly and with less bull. |
game show problem (1990)
| i really only understood the monty hall problem intuitively when i sat down to write a simulation of it to convince someone else that the math (which had already convinced me) was actually correct. here's julia code for it: function monty_hall(switch::bool; n=3)
winner, guess = rand(1:n), rand(1:n)
revea... | what a shame that the title doesn't reveal what this is -- it's the original appearance of the monty hall problem, when marilyn vos savant answered the problem correctly, only to be criticized (wrongly) by any number of well-educate academics, like this one:"since you seem to enjoy coming straight to the point, i’... |
game show problem (1990)
| what a shame that the title doesn't reveal what this is -- it's the original appearance of the monty hall problem, when marilyn vos savant answered the problem correctly, only to be criticized (wrongly) by any number of well-educate academics, like this one:"since you seem to enjoy coming straight to the point, i’... | i finally got it! it's because whether the host has opened a door or not doesn't matter.you know from the start that one out of three doors has a car behind it, and his opening one of the remaining doors doesn't change it. he just shows you what you already know.when you select your door, you know there is a 1/3 chan... |
game show problem (1990)
| i finally got it! it's because whether the host has opened a door or not doesn't matter.you know from the start that one out of three doors has a car behind it, and his opening one of the remaining doors doesn't change it. he just shows you what you already know.when you select your door, you know there is a 1/3 chan... | understanding this problem means you can differentiate between the two scenarios below:(1) if the host reveals an empty door at random, your odds are 1/3 and you should switch.(2) if the host reveals a door at random that happens to be empty, your odds are 1/2 and it doesn't matter.the reason that so many people get co... |
game show problem (1990)
| understanding this problem means you can differentiate between the two scenarios below:(1) if the host reveals an empty door at random, your odds are 1/3 and you should switch.(2) if the host reveals a door at random that happens to be empty, your odds are 1/2 and it doesn't matter.the reason that so many people get co... | i find it easist to understand if you increase the number of doors. imagine you have to pick one of ten then the host removes eight wrong answers. |
why json will continue to push xml out of the picture
| i think this article has done a great job enumerating trends that show json is beating xml for data serialization applications. i think these points are evidence of a shift in thinking, but not the reason for shift itself.why json over xml? because people need data serialization format and xml is a markup language. j... | for me the single greatest selling point of json is that it's just so danged easy to go from json string to a usable map/list/dictionary in every language. most of the time you can get from a to b in one or two lines of code.xml always seemed like such a struggle by comparison. figuring out which parser(s) you've got i... |
why json will continue to push xml out of the picture
| for me the single greatest selling point of json is that it's just so danged easy to go from json string to a usable map/list/dictionary in every language. most of the time you can get from a to b in one or two lines of code.xml always seemed like such a struggle by comparison. figuring out which parser(s) you've got i... | could someone who knows a lot about these things tell me why json took such a long time to arrive?json, at its core, is essentially a hierarchy of maps and lists -- which seems a very intuitive and useful way to store data.xml on the other hand has always baffled me with its attributes and the redundant and verbose tag... |
why json will continue to push xml out of the picture
| could someone who knows a lot about these things tell me why json took such a long time to arrive?json, at its core, is essentially a hierarchy of maps and lists -- which seems a very intuitive and useful way to store data.xml on the other hand has always baffled me with its attributes and the redundant and verbose tag... | well-written xml that was designed for humans instead of machines is much, much more easier to read than json. the primary reason is that unlike s-expressions or xml, there is no block-name. in json you loose valuable time figuring out the block context in a hierarchy since this isn't labelled.the only kind of json tha... |
why json will continue to push xml out of the picture
| well-written xml that was designed for humans instead of machines is much, much more easier to read than json. the primary reason is that unlike s-expressions or xml, there is no block-name. in json you loose valuable time figuring out the block context in a hierarchy since this isn't labelled.the only kind of json tha... | i don't foresee json ever replacing xml as a "full-blown successor" in the contexts where xml actually is useful: for marking up documents.as a general data storage format, xml is certainly going away. |
learn vim progressively
| damn, i've been using vim for almost a decade and didn't realize that /0term2 worked as a movement so you can do things like y2/foo and yank to the second occurrence of “foo” (to use the example from the tutorial).that's why i scan every beginner vim tutorial that comes across hn. i always learn something | here's a vim trick i only figured out fairly recently. everybody knows that % jumps between a bracket, brace or parenthesis and its matched pair, but what happens if you hit % while the cursor isn't on such a character? turns out, it searches forward until it finds such a character, then jumps to its matched pair.so fo... |
learn vim progressively
| here's a vim trick i only figured out fairly recently. everybody knows that % jumps between a bracket, brace or parenthesis and its matched pair, but what happens if you hit % while the cursor isn't on such a character? turns out, it searches forward until it finds such a character, then jumps to its matched pair.so fo... | nice tutorial—better than many.however, these kind of tutorials always fail to mention the number one way to learn vim: vimtutor
and :h usr_02.txt
those two (and successive pages in the user manual) will teach you practically everything about vim—and they're included right in vim. |
learn vim progressively
| nice tutorial—better than many.however, these kind of tutorials always fail to mention the number one way to learn vim: vimtutor
and :h usr_02.txt
those two (and successive pages in the user manual) will teach you practically everything about vim—and they're included right in vim. | don't do what this guy says! or at least don't stay in phase 1 for longer than a day. i've had used vim for a few years as a pico replacement, whenever i was on a remote computer on ssh. i picked up some really bad habit, like staying in insert mode all the time and using the arrow, home and end keys. i actually had to... |
learn vim progressively
| don't do what this guy says! or at least don't stay in phase 1 for longer than a day. i've had used vim for a few years as a pico replacement, whenever i was on a remote computer on ssh. i picked up some really bad habit, like staying in insert mode all the time and using the arrow, home and end keys. i actually had to... | actually "cw" doesn't change the current word.. it changes where the cursor is to the end of the word. something i tend to use a lot is: (| is the cursor) ciw (really change the current word. "fo|o bar" -2 "| bar"
ci" (change in between ": "test 12|34" -2 "|"
da" (delete in between " and the "": a"test 12|34"b -... |
show hn: hipaa compliant file storage
we (truevault), released our hipaa compliant file storage today. our blob store is not a cloud file backup service like box or dropbox but instead, it's meant to be integrated with healthcare mobile apps, web apps and wearable devices. during our beta period in december, early adop... | aws is also hippa compliant.<link> | first things first, and this is more for the edification of those commenting, not the group posting, the correct spelling is:h i p a athe acronym is the "health information portability and accountability act."again,h i p a ai can't stand how many people mis-spell it - it exemplifies the fact that really and t... |
show hn: hipaa compliant file storage
we (truevault), released our hipaa compliant file storage today. our blob store is not a cloud file backup service like box or dropbox but instead, it's meant to be integrated with healthcare mobile apps, web apps and wearable devices. during our beta period in december, early adop... | first things first, and this is more for the edification of those commenting, not the group posting, the correct spelling is:h i p a athe acronym is the "health information portability and accountability act."again,h i p a ai can't stand how many people mis-spell it - it exemplifies the fact that really and t... | awesome work! i have a nascent project in the healthcare space and i will definitely consider using this for all hippa related issues.one tidbit - will you have some kind of "hippa compliant" image that can be placed on partner sites using your api? sort of like the "secured by verisign" graphic t... |
show hn: hipaa compliant file storage
we (truevault), released our hipaa compliant file storage today. our blob store is not a cloud file backup service like box or dropbox but instead, it's meant to be integrated with healthcare mobile apps, web apps and wearable devices. during our beta period in december, early adop... | awesome work! i have a nascent project in the healthcare space and i will definitely consider using this for all hippa related issues.one tidbit - will you have some kind of "hippa compliant" image that can be placed on partner sites using your api? sort of like the "secured by verisign" graphic t... | per their site:
"example monthly cost:if webmd answers was a truevault customer, their monthly charge would only be $1,604. here's the breakdown: webmd answers has 5,036,000 questions, so that's 5,036,000 json documents stored . according to alexa, they have 1,042,705 page views a month, so that's 1,042,705 reque... |
show hn: hipaa compliant file storage
we (truevault), released our hipaa compliant file storage today. our blob store is not a cloud file backup service like box or dropbox but instead, it's meant to be integrated with healthcare mobile apps, web apps and wearable devices. during our beta period in december, early adop... | per their site:
"example monthly cost:if webmd answers was a truevault customer, their monthly charge would only be $1,604. here's the breakdown: webmd answers has 5,036,000 questions, so that's 5,036,000 json documents stored . according to alexa, they have 1,042,705 page views a month, so that's 1,042,705 reque... | how is truevault better than aws? |
google's new culture: perks are out. being grateful you have a job is in
| some day people will look back and pinpoint that the day the free snacks were taken away was the day that google started to be just like every other company... | article's rather disingenuous. google's perks list is still extensive - trimming services out of fiscal concern isn't the same thing as switching to a minimalistic "be glad we give you anything at all" approach.and how much of it's just pr from schmidt to avoid looking like they're out of touch with the current economi... |
google's new culture: perks are out. being grateful you have a job is in
| article's rather disingenuous. google's perks list is still extensive - trimming services out of fiscal concern isn't the same thing as switching to a minimalistic "be glad we give you anything at all" approach.and how much of it's just pr from schmidt to avoid looking like they're out of touch with the current economi... | "we decided to, for example, we significantly cut down all the snacks that had been available. [laughter]"sounds more like a joke to me. are google perks like the gourmet food really being cut? (i heard about the child care changes. it sounded like a reasonable change to me but not being a googler i wouldn't know and... |
google's new culture: perks are out. being grateful you have a job is in
| "we decided to, for example, we significantly cut down all the snacks that had been available. [laughter]"sounds more like a joke to me. are google perks like the gourmet food really being cut? (i heard about the child care changes. it sounded like a reasonable change to me but not being a googler i wouldn't know and... | after this, re-read:<link> at the text "(cue happy rat)". |
google's new culture: perks are out. being grateful you have a job is in
| after this, re-read:<link> at the text "(cue happy rat)". | interestingly, google's offered pay rates for system administrators when they've tried to recruit me have been industry standard--for austin, tx. but the jobs were in silicon valley. maybe other roles have higher pay scales, but i turned them down because i didn't think they were paying well, and i am only used to sa... |
much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010)
| most criticisms of banking as a whole are largely about the moral hazard issues. seeking out and creating lopsided risk that can be partially offloaded onto the public while the rewards to those risks can be captured by the bank.there is a fantastic web series called the "gervais principle: the office according t... | i find the whole banking world to be fascinating, much in the same way that i find the topic of cancer to be fascinating. both are extremely complex and yet fundamentally simple. don't get me wrong, i'd much rather have a bank than have cancer, i'm just saying that i love learning about how these complex systems work, ... |
much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010)
| i find the whole banking world to be fascinating, much in the same way that i find the topic of cancer to be fascinating. both are extremely complex and yet fundamentally simple. don't get me wrong, i'd much rather have a bank than have cancer, i'm just saying that i love learning about how these complex systems work, ... | this article seems to be making quite a few implicit assumptions that should be made more explicit:meanwhile, big banks also utilize many kinds of trading that aren’t in the service of their traditional clients. one is proprietary trading...there’s no social defense for this practice...implicit assumption: speculation ... |
much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010)
| this article seems to be making quite a few implicit assumptions that should be made more explicit:meanwhile, big banks also utilize many kinds of trading that aren’t in the service of their traditional clients. one is proprietary trading...there’s no social defense for this practice...implicit assumption: speculation ... | i'm afraid if we will start measuring people by their "social worthiness" we'd very quickly arrive to conclusions which most readers of the new yorker would be very reluctant to support. at least i hope they would. |
much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010)
| i'm afraid if we will start measuring people by their "social worthiness" we'd very quickly arrive to conclusions which most readers of the new yorker would be very reluctant to support. at least i hope they would. | money follows profits in the same way that water follows gravity - it flows into every nook and cranny it can find. the rules and regulations governing financial services are like the tanks and pipes through which water flows. if there's a (loop)hole, it will find it and drip through. if the rules that govern money are... |
xxxterm, a minimalist web browser
| if you like xxxterm but feel like it isn't quite your cup of tea, try one of these other similar alternate web browsers:- luakit: <link> my favourite in this list. just webkit + lightweight lua shell. infinitely customizable.- surf: <link> from the same people who created wmii and dwm- uzbl: <link> haven't had much luc... | is there a configuration for this browser, or another micro-browser, which has anti-tracking, anti-social, adblock and flashblock built in?would be cool to store the history outside of the browser, in a kind of standard format. im not sure if it is easy enough to extract firefox history from its sqlite3 db. it would al... |
xxxterm, a minimalist web browser
| is there a configuration for this browser, or another micro-browser, which has anti-tracking, anti-social, adblock and flashblock built in?would be cool to store the history outside of the browser, in a kind of standard format. im not sure if it is easy enough to extract firefox history from its sqlite3 db. it would al... | despite the name, xxxterm is not a cli web browser. if you clicked looking to browse the internet in your terminal, try w3m. it also has vi shortcuts. |
xxxterm, a minimalist web browser
| despite the name, xxxterm is not a cli web browser. if you clicked looking to browse the internet in your terminal, try w3m. it also has vi shortcuts. | for a browser that seems to be built with security and privacy as top priorities, it seems to be missing some obvious features. how do you allow first-party scripts and cookies while still blocking third-party scripts and cookies? does it support surrogate scripts like noscript does, to deal with sites that actively tr... |
xxxterm, a minimalist web browser
| for a browser that seems to be built with security and privacy as top priorities, it seems to be missing some obvious features. how do you allow first-party scripts and cookies while still blocking third-party scripts and cookies? does it support surrogate scripts like noscript does, to deal with sites that actively tr... | lynx. <link> this is the most minimal browser i've ever used. it doesn't even have javascript. a lot of the web isn't supported on it due to the lack of javascript support. |
former gm exec, bob lutz: fire the mbas and let the engineers run the show
| at the risk of sounding overly snarky, i don't think that gm's leadership is in any position to make recommendations on how to run a car company.and to get to his point, it's fluff. which engineers, exactly, will run the show? the ones with the marketing skills, the social influence, and business knowledge to get the j... | logically, they should fire the engineers and let lobbyists run the show. gm is in the business of government rent collecting, not cars. |
former gm exec, bob lutz: fire the mbas and let the engineers run the show
| logically, they should fire the engineers and let lobbyists run the show. gm is in the business of government rent collecting, not cars. | the only time apple ever lost the plot was when it put the m.b.a.s in charge.tim cook runs apple's operations, is widely credited as a supply chain genius, and has been acting ceo of the company since jobs started his latest medical leave. he received an mba from duke. |
former gm exec, bob lutz: fire the mbas and let the engineers run the show
| the only time apple ever lost the plot was when it put the m.b.a.s in charge.tim cook runs apple's operations, is widely credited as a supply chain genius, and has been acting ceo of the company since jobs started his latest medical leave. he received an mba from duke. | our company has been in business for 20+ years and our main policy is to never hire any mbas. has worked out great so far. |
former gm exec, bob lutz: fire the mbas and let the engineers run the show
| our company has been in business for 20+ years and our main policy is to never hire any mbas. has worked out great so far. | a counter argument to this was carlos ghosn's experience with nissan. he said that one of nissan's problems was engineers making cars for engineers, but that people did not want to buy.in reality creating, marketing and being successful with a product requires diverse perspectives.i think engineers beating up on mba's ... |
turn your ipad into a 3d controller
currently windows only with support for google sketchup and rhino. mac support coming in the next week.<p>here's some promo codes for the app store:<p>96k9347xttfk
9tfjm7y6ewk3
atyrlfrlxrfw
m7wfmkyr6743
xjwakak6yja3 | as someone who uses the unity game engine extensively, using my ipad for even the most basic zooming, panning, and orbiting would be useful. i look forward to support for additional 3d environments. i have yet to use an input system where movement in 3d space doesn't feel clunky; any alternative to the current mouse/ke... | awesome! what other software are you guys planning to support |
turn your ipad into a 3d controller
currently windows only with support for google sketchup and rhino. mac support coming in the next week.<p>here's some promo codes for the app store:<p>96k9347xttfk
9tfjm7y6ewk3
atyrlfrlxrfw
m7wfmkyr6743
xjwakak6yja3 | awesome! what other software are you guys planning to support | that looks goddamn awesome, great to see so much good stuff coming out of the velocity program in waterloo! |
turn your ipad into a 3d controller
currently windows only with support for google sketchup and rhino. mac support coming in the next week.<p>here's some promo codes for the app store:<p>96k9347xttfk
9tfjm7y6ewk3
atyrlfrlxrfw
m7wfmkyr6743
xjwakak6yja3 | that looks goddamn awesome, great to see so much good stuff coming out of the velocity program in waterloo! | very clever.wonder if an ipad on the other side of a keyboard to the mouse could be useful in photoshop too (somehow) - colour palette, brush selector, etc. while i'm at a computer, my ipad is sitting there doing nothing. |
turn your ipad into a 3d controller
currently windows only with support for google sketchup and rhino. mac support coming in the next week.<p>here's some promo codes for the app store:<p>96k9347xttfk
9tfjm7y6ewk3
atyrlfrlxrfw
m7wfmkyr6743
xjwakak6yja3 | very clever.wonder if an ipad on the other side of a keyboard to the mouse could be useful in photoshop too (somehow) - colour palette, brush selector, etc. while i'm at a computer, my ipad is sitting there doing nothing. | i don't do 3d work but i almost want to start because of the video on your site. seriously, that was a great presentation of what appears to be a great product. |
leaftlet - a lightweight javascript library for interactive maps
| i used a similar mapping library, <link> , around 4 years ago. it thought it was nice at the time. the documentation wasn't great, but there were decent examples and the support for gis standards like wms and wfs was solid. it looks like people have increasingly become dissatisfied with it and started working on altern... | looks great. has anyone compared this and the google maps api? i'm working on a gis project and we're going to do some stuff in js for the web so i'm very curious. |
leaftlet - a lightweight javascript library for interactive maps
| looks great. has anyone compared this and the google maps api? i'm working on a gis project and we're going to do some stuff in js for the web so i'm very curious. | i love that this uses openstreetmap instead of google maps, as i like being able to control all my own data and not be reliant upon megacorp (tm) for my site to function. at the same time, i've never seen an osm api that seemed both as useful and as simple as the google maps api, but this looks pretty nice.i may have t... |
leaftlet - a lightweight javascript library for interactive maps
| i love that this uses openstreetmap instead of google maps, as i like being able to control all my own data and not be reliant upon megacorp (tm) for my site to function. at the same time, i've never seen an osm api that seemed both as useful and as simple as the google maps api, but this looks pretty nice.i may have t... | for some reason the map travels behind my cursor as i drag it around. this would drive me away if i was looking for an alternative mapping library to google maps. |
leaftlet - a lightweight javascript library for interactive maps
| for some reason the map travels behind my cursor as i drag it around. this would drive me away if i was looking for an alternative mapping library to google maps. | tried the demo really quickly (mac os x 10.6/safari 5) but i got rendering errors without breaking a sweat:<link> on it breaking so easily i wouldn't consider this an an alternative to google maps quite yet. |
khan academy now supports tau
| tau is clearer in some domains and pi is better in others. the mental overhead from switching between the two is too much, so just pick one already. and let the rest of us know, so we can go back to having a clear standard and not requiring the mental overhead of switching while studying different authors.oh yeah, we w... | the proponents of tau that cite the ubiquity of the 2pi factor in maths seem to forget that it's an exceedingly huge swath of knowledge and thus any notion of ubiquity might as well be moot, or totally dependent on the region of maths this person frequents. i wouldn't be surprised if there are some domains of maths whe... |
khan academy now supports tau
| the proponents of tau that cite the ubiquity of the 2pi factor in maths seem to forget that it's an exceedingly huge swath of knowledge and thus any notion of ubiquity might as well be moot, or totally dependent on the region of maths this person frequents. i wouldn't be surprised if there are some domains of maths whe... | this brought me back to khan where i previous did every math exercise, and i was a bit disappointed to see that not too much has changed with the instruction they offer. i keep wanting math exercises beyond elementary calc, but they just gave the same stuff a face lift.i'm guessing they're heads down getting the khan p... |
khan academy now supports tau
| this brought me back to khan where i previous did every math exercise, and i was a bit disappointed to see that not too much has changed with the instruction they offer. i keep wanting math exercises beyond elementary calc, but they just gave the same stuff a face lift.i'm guessing they're heads down getting the khan p... | i still find it hard to see any practical, hard benefits of switching to tau. perhaps you could argue that many things become "more natural" but at this point, pi is ingrained in mathematics, and it works perfectly well. i just can't imagine that switching to tau would allow us to reap any benefits that were previously... |
khan academy now supports tau
| i still find it hard to see any practical, hard benefits of switching to tau. perhaps you could argue that many things become "more natural" but at this point, pi is ingrained in mathematics, and it works perfectly well. i just can't imagine that switching to tau would allow us to reap any benefits that were previously... | just for answers? lame. it would be noteworthy if they had an option to replace instances of pi with tau in all the practice problems. |
do workplace wellness programs work? usually not
| just give me decent office space, flextime, and a sensible allowance for vacation, (self-directed) training and sabbaticals -- and, if you don't mind, a solid health insurance that doesn't deduct from my salary base in order to cover beyond the bare minimum -- please. that's all i need for "wellness." | > medium-to-large employers spent an average of $521 per employee on wellness programs last year, double the amount they spent five years ago . . .the question from me wouldn't be whether or not they work, but are they worth the time, money and effort that is put into these programs? |
do workplace wellness programs work? usually not
| > medium-to-large employers spent an average of $521 per employee on wellness programs last year, double the amount they spent five years ago . . .the question from me wouldn't be whether or not they work, but are they worth the time, money and effort that is put into these programs? | i wonder if the pepsico healthy living program directed people to consume fewer pepsico products. it seems awkward for them to either address or ignore. |
do workplace wellness programs work? usually not
| i wonder if the pepsico healthy living program directed people to consume fewer pepsico products. it seems awkward for them to either address or ignore. | i've always been told that wellness programs existed to obtain discounts from the insurance providers, akin to "honor roll" discounts with car insurance. as long as you have the bare minimum to qualify, you get a nice chunk of $$$ chopped off your rate.i get that plenty of rate modifiers have strong links to ... |
do workplace wellness programs work? usually not
| i've always been told that wellness programs existed to obtain discounts from the insurance providers, akin to "honor roll" discounts with car insurance. as long as you have the bare minimum to qualify, you get a nice chunk of $$$ chopped off your rate.i get that plenty of rate modifiers have strong links to ... | this article seems to confirm my pet theory that most programs promoting "wellness" are rarely effective because it doesn't involve true intrinsic motivation (it talks about extrinsic carrots and sticks). you need to want to do something that has a side effect of wellness. for example, i started playing baske... |
ask hn: do you want to learn about game design?
| ask hn: is this really an ask hn, or an attempt to disguise a garden-variety blog post as an ask hn just because ask hns tend to get upvoted a lot?one could easily rename any submission "x" as "ask hn: do you want to learn about x?" but it'd be a pretty cheap trick. | my experience as a veteran game programmer/designer is that few classes teach much of use.the reality is that game design is an art, not a science, and in general, like all arts, natural ability separates the good from the best.that being said, i wouldn't mind following along if i have time, to try and throw wrenches i... |
ask hn: do you want to learn about game design?
| my experience as a veteran game programmer/designer is that few classes teach much of use.the reality is that game design is an art, not a science, and in general, like all arts, natural ability separates the good from the best.that being said, i wouldn't mind following along if i have time, to try and throw wrenches i... | looks cool. i read a theory of fun and it was really insightful. i probably won't follow along with this class due to lack of time right now, though.i see you're organizing the class mostly through your blog. if you find that to be cumbersome, i've created a collaborative learning website that is designed for this k... |
ask hn: do you want to learn about game design?
| looks cool. i read a theory of fun and it was really insightful. i probably won't follow along with this class due to lack of time right now, though.i see you're organizing the class mostly through your blog. if you find that to be cumbersome, i've created a collaborative learning website that is designed for this k... | yes!it's been a long time since i've learned something not involving mathematics. game balance, game optimization, game physics etc. all involves mathematics. whereas game design probably has some mathematics laying around, i would suspect it would be much easier to grab than other mathematics in the area. |
ask hn: do you want to learn about game design?
| yes!it's been a long time since i've learned something not involving mathematics. game balance, game optimization, game physics etc. all involves mathematics. whereas game design probably has some mathematics laying around, i would suspect it would be much easier to grab than other mathematics in the area. | i know that lots of people here are interested in using game mechanics to increase their sites' stickiness for users. i thought that some of you might be interested in working together through a game design course to help understand why games work. |
show hn: my guild wars 2 data viz weekend experiment using d3 and svg filters
| as a design project it's cool. i think you did a good job and i don't mean to rain on your parade. but of course now i will. i think as a data visualization exercise, it's mostly what tufte would call "chart junk". the graphics don't aid into understanding, and actually sort of distract you from the point. it would be... | this looks nice! and i like the link between the rings and the bars.i'm a bit thick. it took me a few minutes to realise that the rings of the circle are independent. for example, there can be female humans, all the humans are not male.on the bar charts you start at 0% (which is good), but you don't finish at 100%, n... |
show hn: my guild wars 2 data viz weekend experiment using d3 and svg filters
| this looks nice! and i like the link between the rings and the bars.i'm a bit thick. it took me a few minutes to realise that the rings of the circle are independent. for example, there can be female humans, all the humans are not male.on the bar charts you start at 0% (which is good), but you don't finish at 100%, n... | very cool!gw2 is currently my favorite game and am really surprised to see it on hn frontpage.i'm astounded at the amount of data anet is making available. and, how cleanly and robustly they've done it - all in json.another bit you might want to play with is their tp (trading post) json data. these guys (<link>, source... |
show hn: my guild wars 2 data viz weekend experiment using d3 and svg filters
| very cool!gw2 is currently my favorite game and am really surprised to see it on hn frontpage.i'm astounded at the amount of data anet is making available. and, how cleanly and robustly they've done it - all in json.another bit you might want to play with is their tp (trading post) json data. these guys (<link>, source... | this is pretty rad. it reminds me of our designer (joe golike)'s master's project, visualizing the economy of wow, also built in d3:<link>
<link> |
show hn: my guild wars 2 data viz weekend experiment using d3 and svg filters
| this is pretty rad. it reminds me of our designer (joe golike)'s master's project, visualizing the economy of wow, also built in d3:<link>
<link> | it looks great, but i noticed that the black outline animation lags heavily behind the rest, which makes the site feel incredibly sluggish, even though it's probably only just the one animation that ruins the perception.great job all in all. |
show hn: slaverystories.org – memoirs from american slaves
| when i saw "slavery stories" - i did a double take - i thought someone was putting up a website to talk about modern day slavery stories.cnn has a good site up on this subject - estimated 20-30 million people work in forced labor around the world today.<link> fact that slavery persists to this day, despite th... | i was recently reading this book: <link> (title: when i was a slave: memoirs from the slave narrative collection)it contains interviews with slaves that were part of a public-works program geared towards writers/musicians and other white-collar workers during the great depression. it was a particularly fascinating tex... |
show hn: slaverystories.org – memoirs from american slaves
| i was recently reading this book: <link> (title: when i was a slave: memoirs from the slave narrative collection)it contains interviews with slaves that were part of a public-works program geared towards writers/musicians and other white-collar workers during the great depression. it was a particularly fascinating tex... | the site is well done and i look forward to checking it out.it does irritate me a bit when all of these slave stories always come out during black history month as if black peoples entire history consists of slavery and then the civil rights struggle. there are black poets, artists, inventors, scientists and intellectu... |
show hn: slaverystories.org – memoirs from american slaves
| the site is well done and i look forward to checking it out.it does irritate me a bit when all of these slave stories always come out during black history month as if black peoples entire history consists of slavery and then the civil rights struggle. there are black poets, artists, inventors, scientists and intellectu... | really like the site.i've been reading the narratives of enslaved people lately, starting with 12 years a slave, then incidents in the life of a slave girl, and started reading frederick douglass' narratives. harrowing reads.for anyone reading these narratives: it's easy to get caught up in the dynamic of blacks and wh... |
show hn: slaverystories.org – memoirs from american slaves
| really like the site.i've been reading the narratives of enslaved people lately, starting with 12 years a slave, then incidents in the life of a slave girl, and started reading frederick douglass' narratives. harrowing reads.for anyone reading these narratives: it's easy to get caught up in the dynamic of blacks and wh... | this is the best thing i've seen on hn in ages. and love that they're actively seeking submissions and additions through github. and lovely design, too. kudos all around! |
webdis: http + json api for redis
| memcache, for example, is explicitly not meant to be run with "public access", as it is not secured against attacks. i am pretty sure the same applies to redis.if my assumption is correct, i wonder why one should use a (potentially slower) http client or protocol in favor of the "native" protocol. | what is the primary practical benefit of this?it seems to simplify doing some really cool things, but i'm not sure what those things are... |
webdis: http + json api for redis
| what is the primary practical benefit of this?it seems to simplify doing some really cool things, but i'm not sure what those things are... | why the wacky set/get?
why not being restful and using http verbs? |
webdis: http + json api for redis
| why the wacky set/get?
why not being restful and using http verbs? | there's also bone which implements set, get, and keys over http(s). it also uses something similar to the amazon s3 request signatures for authentication.<link> |
webdis: http + json api for redis
| there's also bone which implements set, get, and keys over http(s). it also uses something similar to the amazon s3 request signatures for authentication.<link> | this is also called "couchdb." |
why i love recruiters
| i couldn't disagree with this more.recruiters are almost exclusively focussed on one thing alone: making commission. they're not necessarily bad people, but they are not interested in how polite you are, how long your response email is, or anything else than the information they require.sending long-winded emails thank... | i was in semi-searching mode. i had a very long commute i was unhappy with, and had every intention of putting some time and effort into finding the perfect situation. something close to home. something matching exactly the type of problems i wanted to solve. using exactly the tools and technologies i wanted to work wi... |
why i love recruiters
| i was in semi-searching mode. i had a very long commute i was unhappy with, and had every intention of putting some time and effort into finding the perfect situation. something close to home. something matching exactly the type of problems i wanted to solve. using exactly the tools and technologies i wanted to work wi... | i don't understand why more tech recruiters don't ruthlessly specialize and laser-focus on building a deep understanding of a particular niche when matching candidates and employers.i'm cto of a web and mobile development shop with about 20 employees. finding good frontend developers is really hard - to be a great fron... |
why i love recruiters
| i don't understand why more tech recruiters don't ruthlessly specialize and laser-focus on building a deep understanding of a particular niche when matching candidates and employers.i'm cto of a web and mobile development shop with about 20 employees. finding good frontend developers is really hard - to be a great fron... | ha ha! i love the responses! friendly, but at the same time politely telling them to do better research. they really can't complain :-) |
why i love recruiters
| ha ha! i love the responses! friendly, but at the same time politely telling them to do better research. they really can't complain :-) | talk about unrequitted empathy. |
ask hn: india == bad devs?
do you subconsciously assume that developers from places like india and china are "cheap" and "unskilled"?<p>anecdotal evidence: i got far more replies to whoishiring posts when i didn't list my location compared to when i did. sad, really. | short answer: depends where you're looking at.
long answer: in india, you'll find engineers dime a dozen. it service companies like infosys, accenture, etc. recruit the bulk of the students from the universities. they don't care which background you're from. a cs/it engineer is at the same footing as an electronics/me... | many indian developers choose their field based on parental and social pressure. i've been working with students in engineering colleges in india and a significant fraction say that they joined engineering just because their parents told them to and/or because they want high paying jobs. it's considered undignified in ... |
ask hn: india == bad devs?
do you subconsciously assume that developers from places like india and china are "cheap" and "unskilled"?<p>anecdotal evidence: i got far more replies to whoishiring posts when i didn't list my location compared to when i did. sad, really. | many indian developers choose their field based on parental and social pressure. i've been working with students in engineering colleges in india and a significant fraction say that they joined engineering just because their parents told them to and/or because they want high paying jobs. it's considered undignified in ... | this has the potential to blow up into a huge flamefest.short answer: no. absolutely not.a longer answer would probably explain that in my experience over 10 years in the industry, much of that working with naturalized indians as well as h1bs, i would say they are on par with anyone else in the industry, you have good ... |
ask hn: india == bad devs?
do you subconsciously assume that developers from places like india and china are "cheap" and "unskilled"?<p>anecdotal evidence: i got far more replies to whoishiring posts when i didn't list my location compared to when i did. sad, really. | this has the potential to blow up into a huge flamefest.short answer: no. absolutely not.a longer answer would probably explain that in my experience over 10 years in the industry, much of that working with naturalized indians as well as h1bs, i would say they are on par with anyone else in the industry, you have good ... | in the long run, such misguided stereotypes will intrinsically hurt and marginalize those who hold them.one of the joys of having worked and gone to school with diverse and often distributed sets of people is that i've been honored to know extraordinarily bright and productive individuals who are dissimilar along many ... |
ask hn: india == bad devs?
do you subconsciously assume that developers from places like india and china are "cheap" and "unskilled"?<p>anecdotal evidence: i got far more replies to whoishiring posts when i didn't list my location compared to when i did. sad, really. | in the long run, such misguided stereotypes will intrinsically hurt and marginalize those who hold them.one of the joys of having worked and gone to school with diverse and often distributed sets of people is that i've been honored to know extraordinarily bright and productive individuals who are dissimilar along many ... | this isn't from hn, but i've noticed an implicit bias against devs from south and southeast asia (can't speak for china). on my resume, i go by the shortened form of my first name, not "eksith" and that was a conscious decision after putting my full name resulted in very few calls and emails.i'm not sure if t... |
how to be the boss your team deserves: stop coding
| i'll preface this by saying that different companies have different management/team structures and expectations. so this draws from my own experience, and is likely a bit different than the op's situation.in my particular case, i'm a team lead, but not a manager. my manager is also the direct manager of everyone on my... | the two tasks aren't mutually exclusive. if you can only do one, then that's fine, there isn't anything wrong with that. but leadership has nothing to do with a title, so if you weren't leading before you took a leadership role, then of course you're going to struggle. |
how to be the boss your team deserves: stop coding
| the two tasks aren't mutually exclusive. if you can only do one, then that's fine, there isn't anything wrong with that. but leadership has nothing to do with a title, so if you weren't leading before you took a leadership role, then of course you're going to struggle. | this has been one of the hardest moves to make. i love how you captured how difficult and scary it can be to make a move like this.great article. |
how to be the boss your team deserves: stop coding
| this has been one of the hardest moves to make. i love how you captured how difficult and scary it can be to make a move like this.great article. | summary: if you're leading a development team, stop coding and focus on being a great boss! |
how to be the boss your team deserves: stop coding
| summary: if you're leading a development team, stop coding and focus on being a great boss! | > and over the next 4 years i would _loose_ the “junior” prefix |
google uncloaks once-secret server
| while searching for the actual battery patent, i ran across the modular data center patent: <link>8printsec=a... and also this power supply research paper abstract: <link> was also surprised at some of the patents awarded. while the claims were very specific, the ideas were very generic, such as mobile payments via ce... | this server appears to be from 2005; it looks like google is still keeping some secrets. |
google uncloaks once-secret server
| this server appears to be from 2005; it looks like google is still keeping some secrets. | i don't see how they can patent battery per motherboard design. isn't that how laptops work?otoh, this design makes a lot of sense. one of the biggest failure mode for rack-wise failure i've seen is human error from maintenance crews: trip over or unplug the wrong a power cord (i've seen this happen twice already from ... |
google uncloaks once-secret server
| i don't see how they can patent battery per motherboard design. isn't that how laptops work?otoh, this design makes a lot of sense. one of the biggest failure mode for rack-wise failure i've seen is human error from maintenance crews: trip over or unplug the wrong a power cord (i've seen this happen twice already from ... | i don't understand: how can one battery per server be more efficient than a big, shared battery for all of them? |
google uncloaks once-secret server
| i don't understand: how can one battery per server be more efficient than a big, shared battery for all of them? | see how the hard drives are mounted back-to-back? i'm guessing that is designed to cancel the mechanical noise by putting the drives 180deg out of phase from each other, extending the life of the drives.i believe that is patented (by avid?) and that might be why google was cagey about releasing specs. |
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