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This would be a great opportunity to land a probe with some serious drilling equipment. I bet there's a lot of interesting material in that asteroid. I'm not sure changing the trajectory is a great idea though. Seems kind of risky. What if it breaks into smaller pieces? At least do it after it has passed the Earth this time around.
The thing that always gets me when trying to use either vim and emacs for IDE-like programming (and don't get me wrong...I have used vim for regular editing for years), is that someone says, "yeah, (vim|emacs) destroys all other editors and IDEs. You just need to install this list of 400 plugins, write some elisp to configure it, learn each of these 200 keystrokes, understand where the plugins overlap and contradict, and you're golden".

Versus, download Eclipse/Netbeans, open, and start coding.

I want to use vim as an IDE...I just don't have the time.
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Research: No rise of atmospheric Co2 fraction in past 160 years
Time Magazine: Top 10 of Everything 2009
Changes is linked from the 'release' submission which is already in the top slot. This one is a bit superfluous and would just split any discussion.
Politics is one of those fields where being a little better at it makes you better at a lot of things (e.g. making friends, making compromises, making deals). That's unlike being, e.g., a slightly better programmer (if you're not a programmer already) or being a slightly better lock-picker.
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It's only 350 metres wide. That'd be enough to seriously fuck up any large country on Earth without causing much damage, relatively, to other parts of the world. Anyway, you could keep the equipment on the rock, keep Apophis skimming Earth nice and close every few years, and have a permanent very big deterrent.
Here are some clickable links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

http://news.ycombinator.com/active

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

The FAQ (http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) listed in the footer also has a few more:

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc - Formatting rules

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - Guidelines
VOIP doesn't approach landline quality yet. it's got a long way to go. you can't make a phone call over VOIP if the power is out. landline telephone service will continue regardless of what the marketing people say. fuck AT&T!
Apophis is big enough to wipe out a large metropolitan area, but not much more than that, with plenty time to evacuate.

It could, however, excavate quite a crater that could become a very large water reservoir.

But I would prefer to do such major construction projects with nukes - the delivery time and positioning are much more controllable. Also, we have a whole lot of them sitting around and the freedom to use larger formats (they wouldn't have to ride on planes or missiles) could yield much cleaner ones too.

I suppose governments won't like the idea of civilians operating gigaton+ nukes, but that's something to be resolved between politicians and lobbyists.
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I upvoted you, but I am a bit biased ;)

Seriously though, if anyone is interested in learning about this, the best place to start is definitely the nVidia GPU Computing forums: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=62
I'm not comfortable with this. If something's going to die, than let it die, but don't get the government involved, legislating it's death.

AT&T has every right, I suppose, to attempt to maximize their profit by trying to get the FCC to use the power of government to change the playing field. I would hope the FCC isn't foolish enough to agree to it, however.

Unfortunately, government likes power. The FCC, having recently orchestrated the death of analog television, is probably feeling a bit cocky, that they have the duty to kill all the old technologies. The two cases are different though.

Analog television was not something that people's lives depended upon. It also was very obviously taking up bandwidth that was in finite supply. These things are not true for POTS. It's time will certainly come, but we're trying to move too quickly, for no reason, on the very flimsy premise that "more people could get broadband faster",
The idea is obviously to communicate to the people who are part of a broken marketing process exactly how their well-intentioned efforts to improve Microsoft's marketing are failing to work.

With the hope, obviously, of reforming the process.
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I thought the same thing as I posted them. I'll delete the other one since this links more directly to the interesting content.
Huh? In what way is this a "tragedy"? Lack of clean water and mosquito nets is a tragedy. The 2004 tsunami was a tragedy. I don't know if the OLPC is a worthy goal or not but I'm quite sure it's not a tragedy that children don't have access to computers and it's not a tragedy that someone is trying to make them available.
I think the biggest contribution of OLPC was to scare both hardware makers and Microsoft into creating netbooks. We wouldn't have netbooks today without OLPC. No one wanted to sell low end laptops because they wanted to maintain profit margins.

Perhaps OLPC will goad others into making great tablet PCs as well.
Thanks for making this also work in nodejs. I've tried Mustache and hamljs, and I'll have to give your code a whirl as well.

(btw: Is it possible to call within a namespace, i.e. pjs.DIV( .. ), as opposed to DIV(..) ? Your examples seem to export the tags and forEach as globals).
What the US can learn from Israel's low tech approach to airport screening.
> If I was being accused of argument ad hominem

Which you were, because you were attacking downvoters personally instead of their use of the downvote system.

> I would take that as an insult too that since it's a fallacy in thinking.

You are free to take whatever you like as an insult, but if you take a fallacy in my thinking as an insult you're going to spend most of your life feeling insulted and that seems like a silly way to choose to live.

> I started the first two levels, somebody else followed up with another couple levels.

I see; I thought you were offering an exhaustive list rather than the beginnings of a list.

> People want to just use the downvote to be contrary without having to deal with the consequences of being contrary.

Can you back that up with anything? What 'consequences' should there be to downvoting things you don't want to see on a site built to be shaped by the voting of people who are present?
The deterrent wouldn't work. It would take ages to direct it to any target, but a much smaller time to neutralize it with a bomb.
I wonder if that strategy was considered during the cold war? I wouldn't be surprised.
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Middle Class: Forever Unhappy?
stop spamming...
Mobile Devices - not just the iPhone but think "What would software/hardware be like if you could carry your desktop machine everywhere - inside your pocket"
Could we have planes be rigged to release ether into the cabin to put everyone except the pilots to sleep in the event of a hijacking? It could be controlled by the ground, or by silent alarms that the pilots or flight attendants could hit.
The author didn't know how to use it's/its correctly.
What would you suggest for disk encryption? I was looking into PGP and Truecrypt for Mac OS X, but not sure if there are better alternatives?
Not a bad idea, but really didn't need to be 7 minutes long.

A while ago, I bought a box of page protectors, slipped a sheet of white paper in each and put them in 3 ring binders. Now I have dry erase sketch pads.

http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Archival-Protectors-UNV21125-...
Any justifications for that? You could have said the same thing 10 or 20 years ago, but it still hasn't come into great demand.
Never saw any video of him nor a live performance. But way back in college days, I spent part of one break hanging out in a loaner off campus apartment. The fellow had a pretty sweet (I guess the word would be) stereo set up with very good equipment and also with 4 speakers around the listening area. My friend put on a Hedges CD -- I'd never heard him before -- and it was a revelation.

Well worth a listen. Perhaps start with "Breakfast in the Field". "Aerial Boundaries" tries more techniques, but "Breakfast" is just that, a delicious meal in a perfect setting.

http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Field-Michael-Hedges/dp/B000... [link with no referrer huhu]

EDIT: (To parent post) Just noted your "Live" recommendation. I'll have to track that down.
You are quite right, the problem here is that the government has rules in place that prevents AT&T from closing down the network.

Personally I am inclined to tell them to go to hell after the NSA thing, but who knows.
In terms of mis-spent resources: i.e. opportunity costs. If the OLPC project is in fact a failure, consider how many mosquito nets could have been bought with the funds.*

* Yes, I know people / companies would not have donated the same amount of $ for a non-sexy cause.
Cell phone encryption-cracking guide draws ire
How we totally ignored our customers
Nine Startup Dreams and Industries Google Crushed in 2009
Ken Rockwell has a nice lesson about the Saturn V here: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/2009-07-1-new.htm
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Please fix the title, the submitted title is different from the actual article in a way that completely changes the meaning.
Your fake encrypted disks are so that you can't be forced to decrypt every disk, even under thermorectal cryptanalysis? Did you do that after reading about pre-commitment in game theory, and do you have a plan to avoid the flaw in pre-commitment strategies under asymmetric information exposed in Dr. Strangelove?
There would be nickel, iron and rock. I think our time would be better served building bomb shelters. I trust NASA's prediction far more than Russia's attempts at "diverting" it.
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+1 for Data mining, concurrency, FP.

Another one: HTML 5 and related.

This probably won't make as much of a splash as AJAX did a few years ago but some of the new things you will be able to do in a web browser present an opportunity to improve on older web apps: e.g. location and gravitation APIs, web sockets, multi-file uploads and drag-and-drop.

Biggest problem with HTML 5: it's going to be years before complete market penetration - but FF, Chome, and Safari all have much tighter upgrade cycles than IE. For intranet stuff or anywhere you have a reasonably captive user base, why not offer better features to your users if they upgrade?
Side benefit: it's much more fun to be coding for the future than for the past.
This article is really asking: Why haven't more designers become VCs and Angel Investors? He does a pretty nice job of answering this question.

I hire a lot of talented graphic design interns. We encourage them to think: "What skills can I learn to make myself more valuable?" The answer I always tell them is hacking. A suprisingly large amount of them don't know much about the hacker / startup world. They don't realize that being an awesome designer and an awesome developer could make them all-powerful.

This holds particularly true when thinking about this article's final point regarding "me-too products".
Wow, way to fuck up the headline

No rise in the atmospheric fraction of CO2 - i.e. as we add more, carbon sinks are continuing to pull the same percentage out of the atmosphere as they did previously, according to this new study

The total amount in the atmosphere is still skyrocketing and many scientists question how long the oceans can continue absorbing the CO2(which is causing them to acidify)
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BVP has a designer in residence.
CSM Reviews Climate Change Cover-up
I'll admin I'm being lazy, but does anyone have a greesemonkey script to add these to the top?
Webapps. The rise of the webapps will herald a new era for analytics and reporting. There's gold in them thar logs!
Ask HN: Ask for money before having a prototype?
What are the chances of getting money before having a working prototype? In other words, having the idea only.
> Which is a general policy that ensures you'll never see a joke here (screamingly funny or not).

Apart from it being untrue, (you can find some unfunny jokes in my comment history that escaped downvotes for instance), it's a good thing that there are some places where every topic or thread doesn't collapse into a witty-retort-fest.

> The downvote surpresses the desire of people to even want to try

And thus HN people collectively adjust the shape of HN to taste.

> who'd rather police a message forum than actually contribute something useful or interesting

What you've just said is that because jokes are frowned upon, nobody will contribute anything useful or interesting. I don't think that follows, and the knowledge that if you post something, the reply is unlikely to be a one line attempt at humour encourages longer more thoughtful comments.

> Maybe that's the goal, I don't know. But it makes for boring reading and conversation.

No, it makes for very interesting reading and occasional actual conversation rather than banter.

> The opportunity to have some interesting discourse on that topic is now dead.

Dead here. You could post it at reddit and see what happens. You seem to be present at HN, so presumably you like it, yet only be in favour of downvoting spam and offensive stuff. If you do that, it's not HN anymore it's a general news aggregator. It can't be at the same time about a restricted set of ideas and topics selected by the votes of the people who are here, and also open to everyone to comment anything on any topic, that's contradictory.

> I perfectly understand your desire to seek out interesting and relevant discussion to your particular areas of interest. If something doesn't fit your areas of interest, feel free to not participate, don't penalize us that do want to participate.

Or, you could find somewhere else where LOLprogrammers comics are relevant, and don't penalize 'us' who don't want to participate by trying to change here so that is relevant here as well.

Given that not-everything is OK here, there will be people who don't fit in, don't like what is posted and don't like what is excluded. If that's not what you want, the choices are to find or start somewhere else where the limited subset of things more aligns with you, or to break open every niche and limited site until everywhere has everything as an allowed topic.

I'm not trying to say that everything I like should be allowed and you should go away, I'm trying to say that people who are present are shaping HN with votes and sometimes I agree and sometimes I don't and if and when I disagree more than agree it will be time for me to change or leave. Until then I throw my votes into the mix as well and see what happens.

> Yes, I absolutely agree with you

You so don't, you've argued against everything he said.

> a small group who enjoy spending their time in a self-selected echo chamber

Isn't that inherent the very nature of a group that can't discuss everything?
You can run this app from an emulator such as vMac, which is awesome since Apple has released System 6 and 7 as freeware on their website.
Right. So you guys are purists who refuse to use imperative constructs even when they're objectively simpler, either because (1) you see hidden costs the rest of us don't or (2) you're wrong.

Isn't that the point of this whole argument?
This is why Apple denied Google Latitude from the App Store
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There is good that will come from OLPC even if OLPC as an organization were to vanish tomorrow.

PixelQi.com (spinoff from former CTO of OLPC) has developed a high-resolution LCD technology that will compete with e-Ink; since it uses mainstream LCD manufacturing the economies of scale will mean it will be much cheaper to produce an 11" e-reader.

Assuming PixelQI succeeds, this means even more e-readers for less money, and and an increase in whatever you perceive the benefits of e-readers to be (such as less paper waste, or better use of time).

The Sugar project http://www.sugarlabs.org/ is the software side of OLPC, able to be run from USB sticks on any old PC you have lying around; a P3-700 or higher is still pretty snappy. I know of several test implementations using it, for real, in schools (there are still bugs to work out until it can be deployed widely).
Mobile costs are still too high for landlines to disappear (either as per call costs or as monthly fees).

I think it's mainly because of competition issues (oligopoly) but I don't know the market that well. The second we are able to turn mobile lines into REAL dumb pipes, you'll see the end of most landlines.
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But it's not "imperfect". It's 0. It's not one way in the slightest.

If I turn the lights off in my house and you can't see me through an open window will you tell me the open window is a one way window?

Imperfect implies say, 49% of light goes one way and 51% goes the other. Such a mirror does not exist.

And please remember the context (although I think the poster was embarrassed and deleted his original comment), we are talking about making black colors on metal, and he was wondering if it's because it's a one way mirror.
I think the general (IT level) programmer community doesn't require more processing power to do their jobs than they would have had on a single core desktop in 1999, anyhow.
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Did he miss intrinsic motivation? VC seems less related to what designers like to do and think about.

People often do tech work in order to build big things and make money, and VCs are right there in that game. Many engineers and programmers I've known speak of people who made a lot of money in the industry, and sometimes reference how they did things.

I don't recall that mindset in designers. They've far more often been pointing at some (anonymous) beautiful work or speaking about how great somebody's body of work is.. but personal profit isn't amongst the qualities mentioned. Market success is pretty rare too, and usually more related to the "clients don't know what they need, have no taste, are creatively barren, and have to be worked on/around" theme.

From my experience, I'd expect designers to be far more likely to end in groups supporting the arts rather than groups investing in tech.
You people on Hacker News need to figure something out about me. I don't address the obvious objections, because they're obvious. I just solve them and move on. This objection is so easy to solve it's not worth talking about.
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You have it backwards. The government is preventing POTS from dying.

AT&T wants the government to relax the rules so POTS can die or not die based on market forces.
I am surprised that a company would like to phase out a product which is still giving it some revenue. I am no expert but even after cutting the maintenance cost and other invisible overheads, Ma Bell's networks are still giving profit to AT&T.
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unless you are friends with the investor, and he just helps you out because he feels obligated since you are his friend.

The 5-6 months you'd spend chasing funding are much better spent coding a prototype/final product
As a graphic designer, I hope to be an exception to this observation. Just give me a few years.

On a less personal note, it's pretty rare that you will find a designer who is also interested in tech startups or business in general. As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time reading industry blogs and such, you simply don't see that much cross over between the two. Which is surprising considering how business-minded a good designer has to be, both in the way they understand and interpret their client's problems, and in the inevitable challenges that come with running your own shop.
The biggest problem with current design schools is that they completely focus on print design. When I was studying for my bachelor in design there weren't any interactive design course until the 4th year.

It was also the only web design course that year.

And it focused entirely on Flash.

Is it really such a big surprise that when designers graduate most of them go into print? The ones that do go into web design has this Flash baggage they need to overcome and forget. For proof of this just take a look at print designer's portfolios, they are mostly made in Flash and have terrible UX.
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2002 called, they want your comment back. No seriously, semantic web has been talked about for a long time. People don't understand it, don't care and don't see how it will make them money.
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I got these from looking through the Arc 3.1 source.

http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors shows the most popular colors of the top bar.

http://news.ycombinator.com/welcome prints "Welcome to Hacker News, <username>".

/vote is the page that votes go to

http://news.ycombinator.com/submit is, trivially, where you can submit pages

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink is /submit where you can only submit links; no text. However, the page still says you can put text in.

/item is the permalink to a comment or submission (or internal message, in case of comments/questions to YC applicants).

/edit lets you edit a comment

/reply submits a comment as a reply to a submission or prior comment

/submitted?id=<name> lets you see the submissions by user name.

/rss is the rss feed

http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments is the latest comments on HN.

Those are, as far as I can tell, the publically accessible pages that haven't been mentioned elsewhere on this submission. There are some admin-only ones, like /badsites and /editors.
Thanks for the review.

To make it more useful, you should show your data, i.e. link to the images you used, so that outside experts can point out any pathological cases.

For example, did any of the car pictures contain foliage? Did any of the tree pictures have vehicles in them, etc. etc.

Also, it's "wndchrm", not "whnchrm".
The FCC regulates almost all aspects of local exchange carriers. The entire business is so mired in regulation that it would be legally impossible to let it naturally die. Really, the FCC's main responsibility isn't to legislate its death, but to un-legislate the necessity of its existence.
There is no evidence at all that an alternative OS is going to hit off in any significant way. Netbooks are popular cos they run Windows XP. I expect it to stay that way.

Android is a gamble.

Data Mining will make a lot of money for the person who can explain his data mining app in one sentence without ever using the words data or mining.
Given the type of rhetoric coming from Perminov, I suspect that the driving force behind this announcement is merely resurgent Russian nationalism, if not an explicit political directive to distract Russians from the economy, the continuing failures of the military's new submarine-launched balistic missile program, and the destruction of civil society.
Mobile Devices is a good and safe bet. Particularly cross-platform stuff. Fragmentation is not going to occur, everyone knows what is at stake and nobody wants it to happen.