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If you read the edit:

In order to go see him right now I have to take a 14hr plane flight. Which means I would be staying a week, and I'm not sure I'm quite at that point yet.

Im guessing that's a fair thing; going to stay with someone for a week is pretty intense if you've only dated briefly.

(looks like the age old problem of not wanting to go too fast :))
I'm happy for them. I've thoroughly enjoyed using Vanilla for community based sites I've run. They get usability more than the mainstream PHP forums.
A) We like the toys.

B) We already get occasional shipping containers full of Chinese illegal aliens sneaking into the country. We don't want them to be armed and trained soldiers too.
Moreover, it seems to assume that being lucky is the same as being first. Providing examples of second-comers who were successful (VHS, DOS) is not a sufficient argument that luck doesn't matter in markets.

Interesting read, though.
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If by "posted to GoDaddy" you mean showed you a registration link?

No idea what you're talking about. I've been using AjaxWhois for years, there's nothing shady going on.
Intelligence may be changeable, but this is a truism: I can 'change' my intelligence by eating some paint chips or taking a baseball bat to my head.

What isn't suggested by 'many psychological studies' is that IQ can be reliably, long-term, and over general populations by any particular technique. And that's what everyone wants to exist and will read into a statement like that. So, based on the abstract, this study boils down to a good motivation technique.

(I say reliably because with 0.05 significance there will be many false results; long-term because short-term studies will show anything you want them to; and over general populations because there are small deprived groups in which one can easily boost IQ long-term - eg. children in the Balkans with iodine deficiencies.)

EDIT: Also note that the researchers point to increased grades - not increased IQ scores. If they have enough participation, time, and cooperation from these students to do all this teaching & motivating, then it is inexplicable - if they think they're actually boosting IQ - to have not given the students a quick hour-long IQ test; but this omission is quite understandable if they don't think their intervention is actually increasing anyone's IQ but their motivation.
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The other feature that I wish was possible is connecting two google voice accounts to one phone number. At first, I thought it was going to be a great solution for our kids; have a single number we give to our school, after school classes, pediatricians, etc that when you called it, it automatically would ring our home phone, my wife's cell, and my cell all at the same time. Unfortunately, you can only attach a phone to a single account, so my wife and I either both have to use it in only this one situation, or simply not use it at all for this situation.

I can see why they limit it because a phone number has a cost associated with it and you wouldn't want a user to have a 100 different voice accts, but I think this kind of usage would be pretty useful.
And what about this "lie" we tell our children: "You can be anything you want."

It's not that we think that they can actually do this, we just don't want them to limit themselves to any specific thing.
Coders at Work was very inspiring to me and also gave me the functional programming bug. It seemed like every one of the legends interviewed had something nice to say about Haskell (deserved IMO).

Founders at Work is also great but in some ways more of a business book. If you want to do a startup it is incredibly inspirational.

Another oldie but goodie is Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine.
http://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/03164...
#240 is pretty evil. I spent a lot of time trying thing that I thought would work, but didn't. Well done creating it.
Some of us are already dealing with that on some level ("Can't get a PPTP or IPSEC connection to your office? Might be because your cheap broadband provider blocks them. We know {ISPs 1,2,3} do").

Suddenly the web loses what makes it unique and innovative.

In the same way it lost every endpoint has an IP and can participate equally when NAT came along, and all traffic is equal when spam led to port 25 blocks.

Fast large content does now need some kind of dedicated CDN network which costs more, or in scientific/academic circles GRID and academic backbone connections. And who can compete on equal footing when serving content to more people costs more? We're all depending on the likes of Youtube to swallow hosting costs that we wouldn't want to or couldn't pay. When 100Mb connections are common in some countries and others struggle for 2Mb and others for reliable dialup.
Has Nassim Taleb Killed Black Scholes? (2007 post)
Where does this come from? The web page seemed to indicate that (a) IQ is malleable and (b) knowing this helps people get smarter. And this makes sense. I've had so many people in my life say "oh, don't bother explaining that to me, I can't learn it". I really hate that. The only thing stopping them is their own belief.

Do you think IQ is something fixed? That you can't continue learning and getting smarter?
I can't decide whether to put my solutions up. They're in Arc, so they might be useful for people learning the language, as there aren't many Arc-specific programs out there.
Generalize carfully is all I say.
They've also done similar research with athletes. When given athletes missed field goal kicks, they perceived the goal as being smaller. "Missed kicks make brain see smaller goal post" performed by researchers at Purdue i believe.
Or octopart (a YC firm).
Almost anything that humans seek to understand deeply and communicate effectively about results in useful jargon. The seduction community is a fascinating case of this.

The word "couched" has an unmistakable ring of judgement, so that may get in the way of an objective assessment. Nevertheless, tc's post is framed as advice, not poetry. Appropriate nomenclature for the former will be very different than that for the latter.
> There is an important difference between starting a fight and finishing one.

Not really. The difference is usually in how you do it.
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This is a localized instantiation of a much larger debate about code vs. data. Yes, the same debate that Lisp people go on about. On the one hand you have people who think that data should be dead, and on the other you have people who think that code should be freely intermixed with the data, which has the advantage of simplifying some things and the penalty of letting you go quite deep down the rabbit hole if you're not disciplined about it.

The only special thing about CSS is that usually the people insisting that it should be dead data don't mind if you generate the dead data with code, but somehow CSS fundamentalism has taken hold and the claim is that you should never write anything but literal CSS. Once you see it in context you can tell this makes no sense. If you're going to make CSS a dead data language, then you are practically begging people to generate it with other technologies, because it's the only way to solve problems.

Frankly, I've about had it up to here with CSS fundamentalism. We're up to a decade of CSS people lecturing about how you should do this and not do that and sometimes do the other thing while all the while the "official" stuff barely works. Arguing against generating CSS is like arguing against generating HTML. If it works for you, do it.
HP to start marketing 3D Printers in partnership with Stratasys
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I was all excited until this:

Shiira 2.2 (for Mac OS X 10.4, Universal Binary) (released on 2007/7/18)
I think you'll see a wide variety of responses here and the only way to know for yourself is to try it. I used Dvorak for 10 years and it worked fairly well for me, though ctrl-c/v is clumsier because you can't do it with the left hand while mousing with the right.

I ended up going back to querty in order to revert to hunt and peck (painful) due to wrist issues. Now I continue with querty on a very low impact keyboard with a "pawing" approach. My typing is slower this way, but it appears that independent finger motion is what does me in.
Does anyone know of a single living soul that actually sat through the google wave introduction video?
Not to mention that a single book can be loaned multiple times over the year. So, if you have a pay per loan rate of £0.0629, it would only have be loaned 8 times over the year to match the rate of one sale (for the author). Not to mention that they probably get the royalty from the first sale as well (or maybe not as part of the pay per loan agreement - I have no idea).

So, the pay per loan rate is probably pretty good.
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That's an excellent equilibrium analysis, and I completely agree with it. In the short run, treating protectionism as constant, retaliatory trade restrictions will harm the US as well as China.

The only flaw in that reasoning is that it treats tariffs as being unchangeable. China and other countries have eliminated protectionist policies in response to retaliation. As far as I know, no coast has even become less rocky in response to a blockaded harbor.
thanks for the heads up.

good idea, I'll write something up and will post in 1-2 days
I found an old Phoenix (ver 0.1) binary a while back, super small and snappy. Didn't even have Add-on support then.
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If you were lying, then I think you would have a point. I am not in favor of deliberately lying even if you think the end result will be good.

But that is not an issue since there is currently good evidence that it is true that intelligence is malleable. What this shows is that it is very important for children (and indeed, all learners) to actually know this particular true fact.
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Single data point: I had not seen python.com before this, and have been programming in Python for a few years.

Somehow I also remember it's php.ne, not .com, even though I haven't visited that site so much lately.

But both of these were already an established internet brand when I started using them.
Maybe I've misunderstood your post, but what's preventing you from seeing the generated code in your browser?
This is a clause you have to be very careful with. I know of a case where Partner B made an offer to sell his shares at a low price in order to get Partner A's shares at a low price, what he didn't consider was that Partner A (who travels a lot, and whom was expected to spend a lot) actually had almost $200K in the bank and took the offer. Partner B had to beg and grovel to get the deal dumped.

Partner A needed a partner at the time more than he needed control of the company, so B got extremely lucky.
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What exactly happened doesn't seem to matter as what precedent it sets though.

Sounds like they're putting forth a "duration or location" standard for non-competes in GA. (As a Georgian, I'm ecstatic about that).
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While I can't find a link, my guess is that Vimeo has exclusive distribution rights with the labels.
Would the cloud version of my iTunes library mean that I was effectively downloaded data each time I played a song? That'll kill me data cap on my iPhone plan!
Camels and Rubber Duckies [2004]
[June 1996]

Edit: this comment score has ranged up to three or four points and back down to zero. Is it not relevant to point out that an article was published 14 years ago?
I use Colemak (http://colemak.com/), and I'm up to about 70 WPM (measured at typeracer.com, not anything more scientific). Unfortunately, I did no QWERTY tests before switching, so I can't compare, but I doubt I was significantly higher.

I'd recommend it. There are a few modifications I'd make, but overall it's quite nice. They've written programs to check finger travel distance, and it beats QWERTY and Dvorak. A reason to choose it over Dvorak is that it keeps WAZXCVB in the same place, so those common Ctrl-keys are just as easy to press.

There's several versions for Windows, including one that can be run off a flash drive, and work without installation (http://colemak.com/Windows), and Colemak is also built in to X on Linux.

Although depending what you're doing, switching to an alternate keyboard layout can be a problem. For example, if I were a sysadmin, going around to different computers and fixing them, it would be infeasible to switch, unless I put the time in to being able to context-switch my brain quickly, so I could touch-type both.
At first, looking at the scrollbar I thought you may have been harsh in your judgement "It's not that long" I said. But then I realized how closely packed the paragraphs were, how many sentences each had, and just how small the font was, I thought, "He has a point."

Then when I scrolled to the end for the heck of it and I saw the "1 2 3 4" links, I swore I'd come back and upvote you :)
> Free trade is all well and good when both partners are trading freely, but China is not doing that.

There's no need for the other partner to trade freely to make free trade from your side advantageous to you. Have you heard of the theory of comparative advantage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage) that explains why this works?

"The fundamental logic of free trade can be stated a number of different ways, but one particularly useful version - the one that James Mill stated even before Ricardo - is to say that international trade is really just a production technique, a way to produce importables indirectly by first producing exportables, then exchanging them. There will be gains to be had from this technique as long as world relative prices differ from domestic opportunity costs - regardless of the source of that difference. That is, it does not matter from the point of view of the national gains from trade whether other countries have different relative prices because they have different resources, different technologies, different tastes, different labor laws, or different environmental standards. All that matters is that they be different - then we can gain from trading with them." (http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/negot.html)
I use Google Voice as my primary personal number, and have had several folks tell me that it "rings and rings" (voicemail never picks up). And I would have to agree, their transcription is a joke.

All that said, its still a pretty damn good service for being free. But they have a lot of work to do before Voice is ready to be a part of their Google Apps offering.
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You bring up some interesting points. But, (I am not an expert in psychology), my understanding of the article is precisely that intelligence can be reliably increased in the long term.

EDIT: Also note that the researchers point to increased grades - not increased IQ scores.

You are quite correct, however one would hope that grades have at least some correalation with intelligence, but more importantly they are the measurable results in school. Being able to increase those measurable results is the primary goal, even if hypothetically intelligence did not go up.

I have been told that in weightlifting the first several stages do not increase the amount of muscles, but they help you call on that strength better so you can lift more and get tired more slowly. This increases your effective abilities even if you do not develop more actual muscle right away.

Similarly, if the ability to use their intelligence is increased hypotethically without actually increasing the intelligence itself, this is still a major improvement.
For the record, here's the response to that article: http://www.dvorak-keyboard.com/dvorak2.html
Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Sit4.Us
Hey everyone, I created a little webapp to make scheduling a babysitter easier and I'd love your input.

You can find it here: http://sit4.us

I got sick of calling around to a bunch of teenaged girls trying to find someone to babysit our kids so that I could take my wife out on Friday nights. I thought it would be much easier if I could just shoot an email out to all the people in our pool of babysitters and the first one to reply back that they can do it gets the job (and everyone else is notified that the gig has been taken). So that's basically what this app does, it's just a way to manage requesting a babysitter from within your personal network of babysitters.

Please let me know what you think, both about the site and about the idea in general. I don't really care that much if it doesn't become the next big thing (which I'm sure it won't), because it's already making my life easier just in the last week that I've been using it. Even if I'm the only one who ever uses it it's totally worth the $9 domain registration and 2 or so days of work it took to throw it together using Django.

Thanks in advance!

Mark
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I agree with pg. If your site is targeted to mainstream, as opposed to geeks or early adopters, you would have to fight really hard to go against default mind-share people will have for dot com. Remember, many people still don't know "what is a browser?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
Incidentally, I'm now glad that I'm not weird for reading the comments first, and the story second.

Or, at least, that I'm not alone.
That was actually the problem that first got me interested in math. The whole "roll several dice, take the top n" was a common trick we used in D&D games, and I wanted to know what the odds were of getting different outcomes, and how it varied by number of dice. I actually worked out the 4 dice version by hand before trying to get smarter about it. And eventually did.

So when I saw Project Euler I dusted off the problem, and tried to set up a variant that was about the right level of difficulty for a Project Euler problem. :-)
A well done scientific hoax called "water marbles"
Clickable link: http://sit4.us
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Great post! did you forget YUI?
Bizarrely no one chose to mention one of the "tales" i have heard for why QWERTYUIOP is the top row: you can spell TYPEWRITER using these letters, which was a neat demonstration for potential buyers, back when the name for this new technology was up for grabs...
What're your thoughts on .IO domain names? e.g. http://braintrust.io
Haml is literally a one-to-one relationship with HTML tags, so there's almost zero mental overhead. If anything, the tight relationship between indentation of HAML and outputted HTML makes it far easier to debug things, and I haven't had to debug a pesky missing closing tag bug in eons.

Sass is slightly more difficult, but by default in development mode it outputs comments describing which Sass rules generated the CSS you're looking at, so it's not too difficult to go back - and it's a far simpler language than whatever you're coding your app in.

Honestly, I don't see it as being any different than (as you point out) translating the outputted HTML/CSS back into ERB/PHP/etc, or as difficult as trying to trace output backwards through your codepath.
They call it a 'small pool', but it's still around four hundred million addresses. (Although that has echoes of Asimov's Last Question - "Carefully husbanded, as directed by the Cosmic AC, the energy that is even yet left in all the Universe will last for billions of years.").

Are any of you planning IPv6 migration helping businesses?
I'm a bit irked by the conclusion here:
"Apparently the typewriter example is of such importance to many writers because it can so easily persuade people that an interventionist technology policy is necessary. How else to explain its continued use in this literature? Since an interventionist technology policy is no more likely to benefit consumers than are the myriad other government interventions in the market, we should not be surprised that good examples are largely fictional."

I don't see how you can infer that because the basis for an argument of government intervention by some writers is flawed, that government intervention is flawed. Regardless of whether or not government intervention is the right idea, it seems strange for a magazine based on reason to make the claim : "A → ~B" is true,
But A is false, therefore B is true.
I always do... and if there are many comments then I'll open the link in another tab and flip between them. Seriously, the comments are why I check HN first and Techmeme/other news second.

I think in another post it turned out that majority of HNers here do the same.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention (or refute if need be) one of the "tales" i have heard for why QWERTYUIOP is the top row:
you can spell TYPEWRITER using these letters, which was a neat demonstration for potential buyers, back when the name for this new technology was up for grabs...
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So why are you hesitating? If your programming is good you will only help other people and may get some useful exposure in the community in the process.

If your programming is bad, (hypothetically) you will likely get people to give you good pointers so that you are better next time.

Either way, I see no reason not to, and the fact you are using Arc just increases the importance of helping people to follow along behind you.
I tried to limit my research to jquery components only. The list at the end of the post if far from completeness. But yes, I forgot it :-(
And now reading this will make you smarter in the future, because you will believe you can become smarter, hence you will.
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I have no need for babysitters, so I can't comment too much on the idea. However, I think you could make it more general (usable for types of jobs other than babysitting) fairly easily too and then it might be more useful to a larger number of people--although I know that's not necessarily what you're going for.

One minor UI nitpick: the hover effect on the navigation links is very difficult to see on some monitors. I'd make it less subtle.
I think you should read this: http://kickingbear.com/blog/archives/67

It's a shift that we tech people need to be aware of. People are getting far more than 99c of value out of goofy little fun or even one-time-use apps. How much value is there in something that you can show to your kid, your partner, your friend, your potential love interest and make them laugh! I know much of it's not particularly appealing from a computer science / software engineering standpoint. But from a human standpoint, this is fascinating and wonderful.

There's room for (somewhat) sophisticated productivity apps and the like on phones, but there is also a big, big market for stuff that's just fun! Unless human nature changes in 6-12 months (either users decide they don't want fun little novelty apps or developers decide they don't want to make the money from selling them) I think the App Store is rather unlikely to become "unused".
And she has edited her post to say that she is coming to him.
I wonder if Automattic would ever buy them. When you think about it, all of those people with blogs need forums.
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Six months of using Scala and Lift
If you decide to look for another domain, someone posted a pretty cool app to Ycombinator called nxdom.com it is worth taking a look.

In my personal experience, I say go for a few domains and direct them to an alpha of your site with no branding. Then ask your alpha testers what they prefer, and if they can remember your url. There are some popular .net sites boingboing is the first thing that comes to my mind.
I've always thought of a domain squatter as someone who holds domains for the sole purpose of selling them (and maybe selling generic ads on them while they wait for a buyer). I'm not saying that's all bad, but it can be a little annoying.