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' becomes--and stays--way more common than the "correct" usage '

OTOH, nearly each time there's a post with the incorrect usage, there's also a comment or two of correction.

Which begs the, er, which raises the question, how do you know when a certain usage has become more common? You can't just look at your own social circle (or HN, or whatever) and decide that's how everyone uses it.
Reminds me of this article on The Daily WTF, it's the same concept applied to database IDs: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-automated-curse-generato...
Language does change, but empirically these things don't seem to be decided by simple majorities. "Ain't" has been very common for centuries and is still seen as a solecism.

The threshold for change seems to be when people who know the correct form opt not to use it, because it seems too fussy. I would say that's happened now with trailing prepositions and split infinitives. We aren't near that threshold yet with "begging the question" though. We may never be, because it's still needed for its original meaning.
Simple is relative.. While it is simple enough for someone like myself to understand - my background in Computer Science and Mathematics places me in a position where it is indeed a simple explanation - I wonder just how many hn users would understand it, given that about half the articles posted here are business/marketing articles in nature, and therefore there are bound to be hn users that would not have as strong a mathematical background so as to make this explanation "simple".
I get the same thing, typically. I'm a starving college student (well, not really starving, but generally broke), and random gifts can't pay the rent.
I don't know about where you live, but in Australia skin cancer used to be a big killer (as far as I can remember). My grandfather had a few operations to remove bad skin, and I believe he was lucky.

There is the image of the bronzed aussie which comes from being outside without sun protection - (t) shirt, hat, sunscreen. These days in Australia it would be irresponsible to suggest that people play outside in Summer without adequate protection. Myself, I have been very badly sunburnt on two occasions (volcanic) and since endeavored not to have that happen again.

On the flip side, when it's not Summer or if you sun exposure is going to be minimal, why wear sunscreen? You need that vitamin D.

Local comment: here in Japan, it's the fashion for women to have pale skin. Plenty go around in summer with large parasols and probably lots of sunscreen. I worry about their vitamin D intake.
Well...

After listening a couple times, I'm pretty sure they're not actually the same set of notes. And even if they were, it's more likely coincidence than not: the musical effect Glass is going for relies on a particular progression which just happens to partially overlap a phrase Mahler once used.

Meanwhile, if you want soundtracks which shamelessly quote classical music...

* That awesome sequence in "The Matrix" where Neo's distracted by the woman in the red dress? The soundtrack gives you Rob D's "Clubbed to Death", but that's just the theme from Elgar's "Enigma" variations with a bass line.

* Listen to the score from "Gladiator". Then listen to "Mars" from Holst's "The Planets". In fact, this works with almost any action/war movie.

* Disney does it too: "Once Upon a Dream" from "Sleeping Beauty" is... well, a melody from "Sleeping Beauty" the ballet, by Tchaikovsky.

* A 1950's musical produced a hit song, "Stranger in Paradise". It's a melody from Alexander Borodin's opera "Prince Igor".

etc., etc.
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I have a /lot/ of Expos.
Wouldn't it make the click free for the advertiser?
Why not just a greasemonkey plugin?
Here's something that I am using (on Ubuntu FYI) - http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html

This is the Spranq Eco Font . It's a TTF font, designed with holes (invisible to the naked eye) that saves printer ink ... they claim 20% lesser ink, I havent benchmarked my usage.

The ecofont Pro is a software (rather than a font) that punches holes into any font of your choice - dunno about its compatibility with Linux/OpenOffice, so havent tried it.
This could be a 1980's Mac vs PC redux. Closed vs open platform. We know how that turned out. Android software/hardware is closing in fast. Who cares if Apple has 1000x more apps if the ones you actually spend 99% of the time using are on both platforms. At the moment background processes on the Android are really advantageous, although I imagine that will change before long. A locked down operating system is fighting against history. People will put up with that shit on their music player but not on a mobile os. Apple is either going to have to open up or they will be in for a slow burn.
The article is old, from when Java was new. His criticism was correct back then. Java didn't get generics until 8 years after it was introduced. (Java 1.5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history )
There are plenty.
Stockholm Syndrome.
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I think if you fail in the months between YC applications then you are doing it wrong.
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Yes, Wave has all the features, but seems focused on collaborative editing, rich media, send and synchronize individual keystrokes etc. - so I imagine a lot of the design decisions would be different.

I don't think I'm going to build it though - the type of forums I am interested in actually benefits from the perception that you have time to think through what you are saying.
Nash Equilibrium alone is not a simple concept for a normal person to understand.
Not having read Outliers, I can't really comment on the argument presented here. However, I found it rather... odd?... that he chose Martha's Vinyard as his example destination for a private pilot, who would need to "check the weather, ..., and decide whether the risks are a reasonable match for his or her skills and equipment", considering that there was a very famous plane crash under similar circumstances, of which I'm sure Greenspun is aware. It struck me in an odd way - I guess it just seems a bit callous to throw in such a veiled reference in an article about airliner crashes.
The misrepresentations in the first paragraph show that the writer's primary objective was to bash Gladwell and he doesn't seem to care much about the facts.

To say "Gladwell comes to the conclusion that foreigners are unsafe because they are ... foreign." and "If only everyone were American or Canadian, the world would be a better and safer place." is absurd.

It is true that Gladwell talked about low power-distance-index (PIDI) cultures and how pilots from low-PDI cultures were likely to act differently from pilots from high-PDI cultures. However, he didn't say that American pilots were superior to "foreigners". On the contrary, Gladwell mentions a study showing that countries like Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa etc. had a lower PDI than the US. He also mentioned a study showing that Jamaica, Singapore, Sweden, Denmark etc. cultures were better able to tolerate/manage ambiguity than America.

As for Canada, I don't think Gladwell even mentions Canada in that chapter.

It is funny that the guy should have written a whole post to attack Gladwell and started the post with a blatant misrepresentation of what Gladwell wrote
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Do you guys know if craigslist has any API where I can post to craigslist from a 3rd party website?
SparkFun $100 free-day - writing a script?
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=305

Essentially free $100 purchases (you pay shipping).. for the first 1,000 people. It's going to be a mad rush.

Just wondering what's ya'lls thoughts were for writing a script to make a purchase!
The nicest thing about Go is the handicap system. You can play with a kid, give the kid an appropriate handicap, and then you're free to play as well as you possibly can.

OK, it doesn't feel like the real game when I'm giving my barely 5 year old a 19 stone handicap on a 9x9 board. But some day...

Another thing that I like about Go are the other games you can play. I bought a second set of stones, split that into 6 groups, then spray painted them different colors. That lets me play Pente with up to 8 people.
The crazed mall crowds make me anxious too but I've learned to enjoy it. How often do you get to see humans in their native habitat?
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Maybe it's just me but the iStale sounds like a rather awful name. Regardless, it's still no clear if this will be Apple's tablet or some other product. Hopefully we all know this January.
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Unless they had severe space constraints, they should have used multiple words from an English lexicon rather than Markov chains, kind of like Amazon's payphrases.
It's really great Rack is used so heavily in the router, it really makes Rails more modular, and demonstrates the value of Rack.

I'm looking forward to some of the same ideas being applied to server-side JavaScript / JSGI.
> Discrimination against any group based on their sexual preferences is illogical.

I think you should consider weakening your statement slightly, since there exist sexual preferences outside of the broad category of "adult human".
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http://www.craigslist.org/about/bulk_posting_interface

Note there are only a very limited number of supported categories.
This is a ridiculous article. It's the same as saying that the airline industry is having a the rough time it currently has because people have to provide their bank account details when they book a flight as opposed to adding the booking fee to the ISP bill. On the Android Market, of course, you only have to provide your card details the first time you purchase something. I can't possibly believe that having to provide some means of payment deters any serious customer (that is, someone who's prepared to pay).

I'm an Android fan. I'd like to see Android getting better so criticism is more than welcome but how about focusing on the real weaknesses (there are a lot of them) as opposed to FUD and utter nonsense?
I'm pretty sure that Haskell typeclasses are also resolved at compile time. That's why you can't have a list containing different ordered types, for example (unless they can all be coerced to the same type).
> The dry adhesive technique uses micro-hairs and intramolecular (van der waals) forces to stick bot to wall.

It doesn't change the article much, but something went wrong there. Journalists, check what the keywords mean!
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On the other hand, if X% of all surfers make such uncharged clicks, then advertisers will be willing to bid about X% more per click that is charged. So it may not make that big of a difference, in the end, to the monies flowing through Google.
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As an adwords user, this is crappy. I do not want free untraceable clicks, and I don't think people should screw Google over.

Just like adblock, I believe that if you don't like something, don't use it. Don't hack it around into something else and just leech the stuff you want. That's hypocritical and dishonest.

Does it just take you to the 'display url'? If so, it's also pretty pointless - most people can type.
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Do you know what quality journalism is? I don't, I've never seen any. But I am willing to pay for a well researched piece about wether Barack Obama smokes in the White House.
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Various speeds of modems didn't really seem to make a huge difference for me. It wasn't until I went to a LAN party at a friend's house with cable. Since I could download music at 18kBps I could actually listen to it as it downloaded! That meant I didn't have to waste all that time downloading something I didn't like.

What would be next? Radio on the internet? video? The world changed for me that day.
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I see strong reasons to suspect numbers in excess of five figures per month.

I'm working on finding proof, but no offense Hacker News, when I find it, you might not see it. I didn't actually make that post to engage with HN or PG.

An attack on PG drives the presentation of the research because the blog post comes verbatim from a larger blog post which criticizes tech blogging in general and several tech bloggers specifically.

I piled on some research as I was going, and anticipate referring to it in the near future, so I copied and pasted that section into its own blog post. That got me hosting for free, and I don't have to remember where I left my research notes, since Google will remember it for me.

Since people are discussing it, though, you can see this blog post about content as an extension of my criticism of HN in 2008, which is that the registration requirement, and incentives of the karma systems, for all sites of this nature, make groupthink inevitable.

Sensationalistic presentation aside, my research indicates it may be possible to make a very significant income with very, very little upfront investment. My post points to plenty of evidence, also provides anecdotal evidence, and also tells you what to google if you would like to turn up more evidence (including evidence which Hacker News has already been discussing in the past).

I think the fact that this research does not seem to excite the Hacker News user base demonstrates the groupthink that I warned about in 2008. I believe whoever posted this on Hacker News showed a group of would-be entrepreneurs signs of lucrative opportunity, and that group chose to only discuss footnotes and grammar in response.

Re grammar, "raises the question" is the correct usage. The footnotes argument is invalid, however. This is an excerpt from a larger post which argues PG's footnoted decision was a bad decision.

That's all I got time for. Thanks for reading.
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Split infinitives were never wrong to begin with. The farcical objections to them began in the late 19th century, crested in the 20th, and have subsided in the 21st. Some modern style guides even recommend them!
I can't tell if these names are for girls, boys or both.
Skipping the article, but care to point out some of the more glaring actual android issues?
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They're a technology company with 50-100 technical employees. As far as I know, they're rolling in money.
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While this is very cool, people have been using this for years.
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Did you see the point below about $15/mo in Redmond for 30mbps/Unlimited. (When you are paying 10x as much for a service it can leave a bitter taste in your mouth)

That being said - I am getting tempted to suck-up my disdain for Telstra/BP and sign up for 30mbps cable.
just came here to point out that bernoulli's principle has nothing to do with how airplane wings actually make planes fly.
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Or draw them in memory and sum the pixels in (inverted) greyscale?
The trailing preposition is different because it was always good Old English and only recently proscribed. And what did we ever ban something our ancestors were so loyal to for?
$1.4Bn divided to 100,000 users of clickbank over 10 years doesn't sound like a lot to me. If I'm doing my math correctly that's about $100 per month per average marketer.

And that's just the average - not the median.
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I thought the same thing, but Wikipedia reports that although in Old English some verbs were formed with "to" (I didn't even know that) splitting them was never done.
Ask HN:  How did you get started in hacking/programming?
A second question is: What are some things you wished you knew before you started getting into programming?

I'm just starting, but I guess as a girl who majored in the social sciences, I don't have as many friends interested in computers. A very nice person from the Boston Lisp meet-up tipped me off to Felleisen et al. "How to Design Programs", as well as their paper comparing their text to the standard "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs."
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There are certainly points I see you could improve on, but generally I like the things I see in the video (but the video really is a bit too long, and not best quality; a Getting Started link would have worked much better I think...). I think I can make it translatable, although it will take some time and it won't be worth to quit a job and get it running (more of a side task).

Completely aside of that, I'm based in the Netherlands so just taking it over and running on probably won't do it, it will more be like a great codebase to start with. Talking about that, you could think of making it OpenSource for small community needs; I think many people would be keen to jump on that and improve things a lot.

I have added my LinkedIn and Facebook profiles to my HN profile, so you will be able to contact me personally if you like.
> I can't possibly believe that having to provide some means of payment deters any serious customer (that is, someone who's prepared to pay).

The phenomenon of users giving up somewhere after cilcking "buy" is called "cart abandonment". Rates of 50-70% are common.

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007156

I think you are under the impression that consumers make irrevocable buying decisions after careful consideration, and then see the process through to the end. That isn't even true of major purchases like cars or homes, let alone lifestyle purchases like smartphone apps. Anything can deter that sort of purchase, even the inconvenience of getting up to find the credit card.

The step of entering payment instrument information is one of the big pain points. A lot of people have already gone through that wih Amazon and iTunes, not so much for Google Checkout. There could be a plausible case that Google can leapfrog the competition by using ISP billing.
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There was a talk by Yehuda Katz where he predicted that most plugins that modify the router in Rails 2.3 will either be unnecessary in Rails 3 or reduced from 200 lines to 2.

With what I've seen so far this seems to be absolutely the case and shows how much one can gain from switching to a clean architecture.
Well, in fact I wish I've known earlier about the books you were recommended: "How to Design Programs" and "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs." I found them just a year ago.

However, I was very young when I started programming, so I probably wouldn't have understood those books - partly for intellectual reasons, and mostly because I'm not a native english speaker.

There was another thing that helped me a lot when I was a beginner: I attended a few "advanced computer courses" in some kind of "youth center", where I had the luck to be taught by really engaged computer freaks. They not only taught me knowledge, they also showed to me how much fun that is - even when digging on assembler level.
his theories are overly simplistic

Sure; he is basically writing popular science, for which conceptual simplicity is a key requirement.

some of the things he studies ... [are] very important and well done research could have wide ranging positive influence.

Sure, but there is no shortage of real social science research on the topics Gladwell writes about -- in fact, much of his writing takes the form of summarizing and selecting from the actual research done in the field. This research is rarely presented in a way that is interesting or approachable to the general public -- but you're free to go read a more rigorous discussion if you want to. Apparently most people are content with Gladwell.

Gladwell proves himself as not a scientist

Gladwell is absolutely not a scientist, but I don't think he is trying to be one, or would claim to be one.
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To paraphrase one of the Senecas (can't remember whether the elder or younger), "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_imputation might fix the issue of corporation tax vs. individual tax
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