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You can also charge for open source software.

Also, I believe if you find a free piece of open source software that is useful to you, one that comes free as in free beer, then you should be donating to the developer/s; even if its just enough to buy them a beer. Show the developer a little gratitude.
You can try HTMLDOC (http://htmldoc.rubyforge.org/) which is a wrapper around a C library (I believe) that does exactly this. I've used it before, it's pretty fast and stable and you don't have to worry about JVM.
That's a really bad argument. If password length is threatening to you, you have no business accepting passwords.

(Length also has almost nothing to do with SQL Injection, and you're plugging a raw password into an SQL query you're doing something very wrong anyways).
MTA could add value to NYC subway by:

* Adding a compass/direction indicator directly out of the subway exit. Frequently, I get out of the subway and my sense
of direction is off and street signs aren't much help.

* Make them safer to ride late at night.

* Get rid of the bible pushers yelling at everyone in the path between Port Authority and Times Square subway
Way wrong. Airlines are, by and large, not profitable at all, even counting in the various forms of subsidies they receive. By some estimates airlines as a whole have lost money since their inception. Even by the most optimistic estimates the industry has done poorly. I'd rather give my retirement funds to M.C. Hammer to manage than put it in airline stock.

Greyhound's last two decades have been very rocky, and they've been forced to stop service to many places in the last decade. Cruise lines hardly count as mass transit. They're just slowly-moving casinos. Nobody ever thinks "I need to get from Point A to Point B. Should I take a plane, or a Carnival cruise?"

Privately-owned transportation companies might actually be doing much worse than government-owned ones, at least in the USA, in the last decade. I'd love to see the actual numbers there.
As far as using forums as a pure form of promotion, I agree that you'll never see a real "return" on your time as measured by the numbers. I do, however, think that forums can still provide value. I may not be able build a critical mass of users by posting different threads, but its a great way to meet and learn from potential users. In the customer development model, I would place forum use under customer discovery and validation. Company building is out of the question here.
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As another scientist I have to strongly second this. Some things might take real work on your part to understand though. Even within different fields of mathematics there are difficulties in understanding (complaint about this: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion104.html).
One thing I want to see done is a good swordfighting game. The Wii hasn't achieved that yet, but some of the videos for Red Steel 2 show promise. Overall, it seems that even with good motion sensing for swinging the sword, footwork is still an integral part of the whole experience, which the Wii can't manage. So in this case, perhaps Project Natal will be the first to manage it?

Then again, perhaps rather than wait for a game to simulate it, it would be better to do the real thing instead.
> Some say car dependent suburbs are in large part a means for the middle class to self segregate from the underclass.

I'm starting to wonder if suburban zoning wasn't actually designed with segregation as its goal. It seems implausible that zoning laws chosen for other reasons would just happen to have negative effects that compound to result in such effective class stratification.
Sorry, would should be could.
In biomedicine, the National Library of Medicine has been taking steps in this direction. There are repositories for sequence, protein structure, and microarray data, for example, and many journals require that relevant data be deposited in these repositories as a condition of publication.

Efforts such as the Science Commons are also thinking about/working towards these sorts of solutions.
I think that quote holds less and less true over the years. It's not so much that there are huge numbers of people who need their PDEs solved, rather that those who do (aerospace, engines, circuits, oil, climate, defense, energy) really need them solved and are willing to pay for it.

One thing I enjoy about PDE solvers is that algorithmic improvements always pay off because every user is running the largest simulation they can on the most expensive hardware they can afford.
This is a really, really naive response. There isn't really anyone on the trading floor anymore. ECNs have taken over, and account for 97% to 100% of trading volume on any given day. No one trades from the floor anymore. So no, there's no group of people who are "the market" whom a reporter can poll for sentiment. You are completely and utterly wrong, and the only data you cite in support of your opinion is the fact that lesser outlets--outlets of the type that Ritholz has already said he files under "infotainment"--have glommed onto the same bogus explanation and run with it.

Ritholtz knows more than you will ever forget about what moves markets. He is spot-on, here.
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Did you mean increase gas taxes? When I look at the gas price breakdown where I am (Michigan, USA), I only see taxes, no subsidies.
http://www.michigangasprices.com/tax_info.aspx

Europe has much larger taxes on gas, diesel, and automobiles than in the US, which discourages car use and ownership.
This sounds vaguely familiar... like I just read an article with this advice, or something...
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> the history of how closures were invented does not support the idea that someone imagined what could be done with them and then invented them for that reason.

Most really interesting and disruptive inventions are at least partially accidental. Ideas rarely spring fully formed; instead they appear through cross-fertilization, recombination and serendipity.

Once the idea is there, we invent whatever models and languages are necessary to describe and implement it. That process can be comprehensive and all-at-once but more often is iterative and progressive. Even radical innovations that seem to spring fully formed did so after long gestation outside public view.
That improves the advertising, not the transportation. Google just posted 2 billion dollars in profits, and I don't remember noticing increased ads or ad space in any of their properties.
I prefer defining my own qesution and answer.

However, a mechanism for sites that use the standard questions is to manufacture a set of fictitious names and use those everywhere. e.g. Father's name - "Keyser Soze". First car make and model, "Millennium Falcon", etc.

There is the overhead of remembering these but that is not too hard with some thought and repeated use.
Such statements also come out of biologists discussing evolution. This is not, however, evidence that they aren't really doing science. Instead it is evidence that they've been burned out explaining basics over and over again to Creationists and want to get on with their lives.

However some do take the energy out for those explanations. One of the results of their energy is http://www.talkorigins.org/.

Hopefully some day someone will take the energy to do the same with climate science. Because as much as there is a lot of politics there, there is some real science there as well.
I'm always amazed at what people throw away in the 1st world...
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I think that your point about places like Philly and Baltimore being easy to rehabilitate in 15-20 years makes sense. But there are still large areas along the D.C. orange and red lines that are virtually unwalkable without putting your life in danger. For example, I used to live what would have been a 15-20 minute walk to the Vienna station on the D.C. Orange line, but to get there, most of the trip was next to fast roads, with no sidewalks, and a trip over two overpasses. I made that trip twice before giving up (and after almost getting hit by a handful of cars both times).

There are parts on the blue line that are pseudo-walkable once you get off the system, but places like Franconia-Springfield are death traps.

I do agree though that even those areas are better than they were when those stations were built. However, outside of a very limited "walkable" area of a couple of blocks in the best cases (like Dunn Loring or the Two Falls Church stations), you'd be hard pressed to live anywhere but immediately next to the station and not drive.

I really think that it's because most of the D.C. area grew up post-automobile and is designed as a vast urban sprawl. Things that might have a positive influence, like new lines on the system, have taken 30 years to get started on (Silver Line).

I'm however, happy to see new developments along that line, where those lessons have been learned and they are basically rebuilding parts of the urban infrastructure to make it more downtown, like Tyson's Corner and Reston.
It's true that the eye response is logarithmic to overall brightness, but that does not mean that you see something faint next to something bright nearly as easily if you make the bright thing ten times brighter.

The number of stars you can see at full moon is already very limited now. I'd guess that the limiting magnitude goes from 6 to 3.

I'm not sure it would have made a big difference for latitude determination. It's already readily available by measuring the noon height of the sun.

About using the moon, have you read the book "Longitude"? It's a really interesting book about the quest to measure longitude. To measure it, you essentially need a clock that is independent of local time. I doubt the rings would help there. While in principle you could use the phases of the moon, you need the time to an accuracy of at least tens of minutes to be useful, and that seems very difficult to accomplish with the Moon.
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Or I could just drive my own.
http://www.wejetset.com/magazine/2009/6/23/723/places_to_liv...
I chose a pretty easy to remember domain name for my game site - two words that describe what it does and are easy to spell. Yet most of the visitors I get (80% who are frequent repeat visitors) actually come from google by typing the domain name into the search.

So no, I think domain names are pretty much worthless. Google is the URL bar. Scary.
The downside is potential for groupthink, which was clearly in evidence in the run-up to the Iraq War, which The Economist cheered on alongside the rest of the mainstream media.
same here, i'm actually using an eeepc to read HN at the moment too and github is plenty fast.
I realize that, but the second one doesn't make sense without the context of the first :)
The author basically retracts his point here:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/01/wsj-another-view/
I wanted to launch a minimum viable product and wasn't planning on talking to a lawyer until I have better confirmation that the site is going to do well. But given that there are going to be tricky situations like this almost immediately, maybe it makes sense to talk to a lawyer first.

If I talk to a lawyer, incorporate, and get legal advice, it's going to cost me a few $K before I know whether the site has potential. But if I don't, I open myself up to liability issues. Neither one seems like a good option.
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The discussion on HN is not always interesting. I do not want to direct my readers to dull discussion.

Additionally, I often want to upvote links that don't have any discussion yet --- and perhaps won't ever.
> High Speed Rail between cities make a lot of sense, but what if the city you are arriving at does not have a public transportation? For example, what would be the point of a high speed rail between Dallas and Houston? How would you get around once you arrive?

You're right that this is an issue for those that might drive as an alternative. However, anyone who flies has the same issue of needing a car. In fact, it's often worse since airports are never in the city center, whereas train stations almost always are.
One thing not mentioned is what you're looking to avoid when you're conducting the UET.

When testing skin contact beware of:

* Rash

* Hypersensitivity (to touch or light)

When testing by contact with the lips and chewing beware of:

* Numbness or pain

* Spicy flavour, heat or burning sensation

* Any hint of a taste of almonds (as mentioned: Cyanide. Not a good idea)

This is by no means complete, the 'SAS Survival Guide' has some good info on this topic, though other parts of that book should be taken with a grain of salt...
Anil Dash: Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town
How is this different from Hadoop distributed file system?
Well first, and I mean this with minimal disrespect, but you clearly have a hero worship thing going here (see your last sentence). So you really have a bias of your own.

On your point, there are still people on the floor if you don't believe me turn on CNBC and you can see them. But even in a virtual floor it isn't like people don't keep in contact. The market lives and dies by social interactions and it always has. That's why the guy on his computer using e*trade isn't as effective as the guy in the brokerage house.

The point still remains that every news institution I can find reported this the same way (Dow drops because of Bank Regulation). So using it to attack the WSJ individually is ridiculous.
Everything in from East Falls Church on the orange line is walkable. It was car dealerships and gas stations 25 years ago. Silver spring on in on the red line is walkable.

My point about DC was more that the district itself has tons of ghetto that could easily be re-gentrified. The middle class left the row-houses in the 60s in many cities, they turned to ghetto, but this is not necessarily a permanent state of affairs.

To repeat, this is basically what has happened in NYC. The former ghetto inhabitants are now driving up the crime rate in northern Pennsylvania and other areas.
GPL is not a "type of copyright"; it's a license that derives its power from copyright. The same is true of pretty much any license that tries to limit what you can do -- which includes most open source licenses (BSD, MIT, Apache).

There are also open source "licenses" that essentially place the code in the public domain. These are the only ones that fit the article's description.
Water is more important than food. A person can go a long time without food, but will die without water in just a few days time.

I would observe what the local animals seem to be eating.

Another trick is to take a sample and rub a bit of it on of your skin. If it causes irritation, its probably bad.
Any idea what happens with domains registered by MarkMonitor? Is there a place they go before they "drop", or are the services in this article the only chance of getting these?
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You can't police the Internet! The DMCA covers a lot of the issues that you are mentioning. Talk to an attorney.
Historical note. Newton invented Calculus then carefully found other ways to regenerate the results he got that way. The language of Calculus that we have was separately invented by Leibniz. The subject of the first big priority dispute was whether Leibniz' invention of Calculus was independent, or was obtained from the traces of it left in the Principia.
Education is a lot more complex than most people understand it to be. Even within the field few people actually have any understanding of how the brain and learning interact. Everything from diet, to time of instruction, to setting, to materials, to methods, to testing is all important. A classic example of which is how do you build a useful test? Well if you want to know how much learning took place you need to test them both before and after instruction. But you also need to test people twice without instruction to see if the tests give information away. You need a mix of problem difficulty to find out if someone understands the basics and at the same time, to see if they understood the minor details. etc. You then need to look at the test not just in terms of overall score but also how well they did on each type of problem.

PS: Education might seem like a flaky field and much of the discussions are devoid of good science. At the same time there is a lot of great research that has been which has real and important implications.
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Not about survival as such, but the "Plants for a Future" project catalogues 7000 "rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses."

http://www.pfaf.org/
I'm sorry but this is bull. The man dislikes both sides but he disagrees with the right and thinks the left didn't go far enough. That's not the same thing.

In a slate profile (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/16/cassandras/inde...) he's listed as disliking the stimulus because it wasn't big enough and wanting the banking system nationalized. Without passing judgment on the merits of his philosophy the man is clearly a leftist.
The Boston Commons already has 1300 parking spaces under it. I don't know how many levels. See http://www.mccahome.com/bcg.html.
Is it just witty? or is syntactic sugar bad?
Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town
Don't bother.

Instead, allow for car-based mass transit, by allowing far cheaper taxi cab medallions and issuing as many as people will pay for.

WHY is the cost of a taxi cab medallion in NYC $750K?

Instead sell them for say $1200/year renewable yearly. Allow pricing to fall or rise based on the market, provided they are within a range (e.g. no less than 50 cents and no more than $3 per unit of distance traveled).
Ask HN: How do you manage passwords for a group/organization
Small group of 5 people. We're in different locations and we create a lot of web accounts, hosting, service, etc. Thinking of using something like SplashID and pointing to a data file on a shared DropBox. Is there a better way?
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So ING direct only lets you use numbers? Is there more authentication steps than just a login / pin combo?
Absolutely. I love the Economist in its way, but just for once I'd like to see them write an article where they admit that they don't have any idea what should be done.
I was worried about the apparent onslaught of communism until I got to this:

San Francisco’s new policy requires city departments to consider open source software equally with commercial products when purchasing new software.

Seems like a reasonable policy. Although a better policy would be to consider all solutions on their fitness (open or closed) and demand open formats and protocols. Busting data lock-in would significantly improve competition and available choices.
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As a relatively young person living in a city, I'd appreciate public transportation being available all night. I don't think the ridership would be high enough for it to be profitable, though. You'd also have to deal with the problem of it becoming a de facto homeless shelter.
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4 week long passes cost $29 less than month long pass?
This data is also based on visitors to w3schools.com, which certainly isn't a typical demographic of US or world visitors.
I appreciate all of the data they include (even if most of it is processed using their proprietary metrics), but their articles aren't so great. They seem to take the attitude that articles are just filler - they rerun articles pretty regularly. But their data is extensive and relevant.
Here you go:

* http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5930862&page=1

* http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/nov/21/news/chi-crai...

* http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/11/business/fi-craigsli...

It's the opposite of what was talked about above. They aren't using Craigslist to figure out when people won't be home, they are using it to lure people to a particular place to rob them (and make sure that they will have cash on them).
Before Dropbox our files were stored on our individual desktop computers. My work had to be done at the office because we did not have laptops. With Dropbox, I could work on all the same stuff from home I just had to install the software on my home computer. There are obviously other solutions...like a laptop...but for us, dropbox was simple and worked well.
It only states that CL implementations are also buggy and slow :)
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Password formulas. Something like:

first 3 letters of the main group location + last three letters of the site's domain name (not extension) + a constant (gHqW2#).
We tested git and hg at Loopt:

While both were faster than SVN (often much faster), they have huge disk footprints compared to an SVN working copy. In our case, the SVN working copy was ~1GB, and both the git and hg repositories were over 20GB. That matters when you have an 80GB SSD.

Also, since neither git nor hg let you check out a subset of the repository, we'd have been forced to break things up into lots of smaller, separate repositories, a prospect we dread.

Admittedly, we do some stuff that is questionable, like storing images and libraries, but we like keeping all the content the code uses and the code itself together.

For some newer, more isolated projects, like our mobile code bases (iPhone, Android, etc), we use git and love it. But for our 4 year old server with over 100 projects, we couldn't realistically make the switch.
Actually, the NIH has already done this with many recent grants. Everyone funded through certain grants has to make their data available in dbGAP (genotype and phenotype), sometimes even pre-publication (which is raising some feathers).

Point 1 will always be true when people share methods and/or data pre-publication. If point 2 cannot be discerned with currently available methods (and I would argue that it can), then we are in a world of trouble.
The HN title is different enough from the actual title to mean almost completely the opposite.
Thanks. An interesting story.

About your last paragraph: What's so special about closures? They have been in lambda-calculus for ages. And lambda-calculus just formalizes mathematicial function application and abstraction. (OK, I guess most mathematicians are not aware of lexical scoping. But it springs naturally from alpha equivalence, a notion that every mathematician agrees with intuitively.)

Of course coming up with the mathematical ideas and notations in the first place wasn't easy. But closures pre-date computers. The computer scientists `just' had to find ways to implement them effectively.
The relevant question is not really whether mass transit is subsidized, it's whether it's more subsidized than competing transit options. Given that streets are a massive taxpayer funded subsidy to drivers (most of that cost is NOT paid by vehicle-specific taxes), it's not clear to me that the subsidies to mass transit are larger. Anyone have such numbers?
$89/month is in New York. $15/week is in Boston.